We who are the called of Christ
Jesus, Jews and Gentiles, male and female, we who are not under
the mosaic law, we who have no part in the ceremonies and sacrifices,
we who have no temple, we who have no mercy seat here on this
earth, no holy of holies here, No priesthood here. We have such
a high priest, but we do have a high priest. A family here in the Church lost a dear loved one up at Our Lady, not at Bellefonte,
but St. Mary's in Huntington. He died
at the hospital there in Huntington, St. Mary's. The family was there
in the room, and the nurse came in and said, Would you like for
me to send for a priest? And the young son of the dear
friend who died said, No, thank you. We have a high priest. That's what I'm talking about.
We have. a high priest. Such a high priest. And look what it says about him,
verse 1. We have such a high priest, who
is set on the right hand of the throne of the majesty in heaven. He describes him over here in
chapter 7, the last few verses, this such a high priest. He's described and set forth
here in chapter Look over there at verse 24. He is an unchangeable
priesthood. Read verse 24. But this man,
because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. That's
the first thing about our high priest. He's always been our
high priest. If he had to die more than once
or go into the Holy of Holies more than once, he'd have to
go in there a million times since the foundation of the He has
an unchangeable priesthood. Then verse 25, contrary to these
Old Testament priests, he is able also to save. They couldn't
save, their sacrifices could never put away sin. But he is
able to save to the uttermost them that come to God by him. And he ever liveth to make intercession
for us. He's always there in the presence
of the Father. His very presence is our intercession. The Lord Jesus doesn't have to
continually pray for us. His very presence there guarantees
our salvation and God's satisfaction. He's present. And then verse
26, this high priest is holy. He's perfectly holy. It says
in verse 26, for such a high priest, we have such a high priest,
became us who's holy, harmless, undefiled. You notice when Brother
Dan was reading, he talked about the Old Testament high priest
having to make sacrifice for his own sins, as well as the
sins of the people. But not our high priest. He's
holy. He not only Our high priest,
he didn't have to wear holiness to the Lord on his miter. He
is holiness to the Lord. He's holy, undefiled, separate
from sinners. He's higher than the heavens.
And then verse 27, he doesn't live daily as those high priests
offer up sacrifice, first for his own sin, then for the people.
This he did once. One sacrifice, by one offering,
he perfected forever them that are sanctified. And then verse
28, he's the only high priest ever made with an oath. And this
was the oath of God. We have such a high priest. That
word, such. We have such a high priest. The
law maketh men high priest which have infirmities, but the word
of the oath, the word of God, swore by himself. He could swear
by no greater which was since the law. And our high priest
is none other than the Son, the Son of God, think of it, who
is consecrated forevermore. And verse 1 says of Hebrews 8,
Now the things which we have spoken, this is the substance,
this is the main point. We have such a high priest who
is, he doesn't minister in a temple made with hands, he sat on the
right hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens. Christ
doesn't enter the holy place made with hands, but heaven itself. Now then, I want you to look
at this little three-letter word. He is set on the right hand of
the throne of the majesty in the heavens. Our high priest
is set. Now, four questions. By whom
is he set? And the second question is when.
When was he set? And the third question is, where
is this now that he is set? And the fourth question is, why?
For what purpose is he set? Turn to Psalm 2, and I'll tell
you by whom he is set at the right hand of the Majesty. Psalm
2. By whom? Now listen to this. Let's just read the first few
verses of Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage and the
people imagine a vain thing, the kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel to gather against the Lord and against
his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, let
us cast away their cords from us? He that sitteth in the heavens
shall live. The Lord shall have them in derision.
Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in
his sore displeasure. Yet have I set my king upon my
holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree. The
Lord hath set him to me, thou art my son. This day have I begotten
thee." Who set him that? God did. When? We have to turn to Hebrews 1
and we'll find out when God set him at his right hand as our
high priest forever. In Hebrews chapter 1 verse 3,
this is describing such a high priest. Verse 3, Hebrews 1. Who being the brightness of his
glory, expressed image of his person, upholding all things
by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our
sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty of God. Who sat
him there? God said, I did. When? When he
had successfully, sufficiently, effectually put away our sins,
paid our debt, he sat down, having finished his work. Now where
is he sat? He sat at the right hand of the
throne of the majesty in heaven. And that's not so much the place,
right hand. It means several things. It means three things particularly.
It's the position that he holds. I don't try to visualize in my
mind God the Father and at his right hand God the Son. and over here the Holy Spirit.
God is three that by record in heaven, the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Ghost, these three are one, one God. But when he
says he's at the right hand of the majesty in the heavens, the
main emphasis here is the oneness of God, the oneness of God and
the Son, and the acceptance of the Son, the right hand is acceptance
and the next thing about the right hand is the power the power
of the son he's given to him all authority in heaven and earth
he has all power over all flesh so our such a high priest is
set by god when he had finished his work at on in the position
of authority and power and acceptance. Do you see that? That's what
that's saying. He said. It doesn't do us any good to
try to visualize things in heaven. Paul went to heaven. He went
to the third heaven. And he came back and he said,
I heard things it's not even possible for me to put in words.
I'm not even going to try. And so I'm not even going to
try. But I do know this keeps saying, he sat at the right hand
of the majesty. And the right hand is positionally
He has all power, all authority, acceptance and oneness with the
Father. And in him we are there, seated
with him in the heavenlies. And that brings me to why and
for what purpose. Well, Hebrews 6, Hebrews chapter
6, verse 20, Hebrews 6, 20. I read this this morning, verse
19 and 20. which hope we have as an anchor
of the soul, sure and steadfast, which entereth into that within
the veil, whither the forerunner is for us entered." That's the
purpose for which he's set at the right hand of God, for us.
For us. He has entered for us. And that's what it says in, let
me just turn here If you can keep it on turning, but Romans
8, listen to this, Romans 8.34, it says, Who is he that condemneth? It's Christ that died, rather
it's risen again, who's at the right hand of God, who also makes
intercession for us. That's why he's there, for us. We have such a high priest. who
is set on the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the
heavens, are us." That's what he says. And Ephesians 2, this
fits right in here, I just must read it, Ephesians 2, verse 4. But God, who is rich in mercy,
for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were
dead in sin hath quickened us together with Christ, by grace
are you saved, and hath lifted us up, raised us up together,
together with Christ, and made us sit together in heavenly places
in Christ, in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come he might
show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward
us, for us. Christ Jesus. This is the psalm
of the things I've spoken. We have a high place. And he
sat at the right hand of the majesty in the heavens for us. And then verse 2, he says he's
a minister of the sanctuary, he's a minister of the true tabernacle,
which the Lord pitched to not man. When I think of the tabernacle,
every time I read that word, my mind goes back to the Old
Testament. And I think of that old tabernacle
in the wilderness, the badger skin tabernacle, which Moses
pitched. Everywhere they went, they pitched
that tabernacle. With its covering, badger skin, and ram skin dyed
red, and the wool, and the linen. And within that tabernacle, the
Holy of Holies with the mercy seat and the ark and out here
the showbread and the candlestick and the incense and the two veils. I think about that tabernacle.
But that's all gone. I think of the blood sacrifices
and the Holy of Holies and the mercy seat. That's all gone.
It's finished. It's taken away. It's fulfilled
by Christ. And now Christ Jesus He's a minister, not in that
tabernacle. He's a minister of the holy things,
in the holy place, but the true tabernacle. And what is that
true tabernacle? It's the one which the Lord pitched,
not Moses. It's the true tabernacle. It's
the tabernacle the Lord pitched. And then secondly, he's the true
light. John said he's the true light.
This tabernacle doesn't need a candle or a lamp. He's the
true light. And then he ministers in righteousness
and true holiness. He doesn't need a mitre which
says, Holiness to the Lord, because he himself is holy, harmless
and undefiled. And this is not a picture of
the grace of God. This is the true grace of God. Our high priest is a minister
of the sanctuary in the true tabernacle. which God pitched,
of the true light, which is himself, true holiness, his righteousness,
and true grace, which is eternal. This is the true grace of God. The Son of God hath come and
given us an understanding that we may know him that is true,
the true tabernacle, the true light, true holiness, the true
grace of God, and we're in him that's true, even in his Son,
Jesus Christ, and this is the true God. This is eternal life. And anything else going under
these names and operating in this vein is sham and counterfeit. This is the true God, and this
is eternal life. True tabernacle, true light,
true holiness, true grace. This is such a high priest. Now
look at verse 3. And he says, For every high priest
is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices. Wherefore it is necessary
that this man have somewhat also to offer. You know, we sing that
song about Top Lady. One verse says, In my hands no
price I bring. But no Old Testament priest could
say that. Every high priest, it says here,
is ordained to God to offer gifts and sacrifices. Gifts and sacrifices. That goes all the way back. Let
me read you a verse. I read every once in a while
here, Psalm 96. And I had meant to stop and dwell
on it a little bit, because it gives the wrong impression if
I don't, but I haven't. But here in Psalm 96, verse 7,
verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7,
verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7,
verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7,
verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7,
verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7,
verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7,
verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7,
verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7,
verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7, verse 7,
verse 7 That's like when Isaac and Abraham
were walking up the mountain, and Isaac said to his father,
where's the lamb? Where's the offering? You can't
go before God without an offering. Without the shedding of blood,
there's no remission. But it says here that this man,
our Lord Jesus Christ, just like those Old Testament priests,
has to have an offering. If he's going to represent us
to God the Father, he's got to have somewhat to offer. Have
the remission of sins. To put away sin. Those Old Testament
priests, they had peace offerings, they had burn offerings, they
had sin offerings, they had trespass offerings, they had atonement
offerings. They never went to God without an offering. Without
the blood. Even when a woman and man married,
they had an offering. When their child was born, they
brought another offering. When he was twelve years old,
they brought another offering to him, always with something in
their hands, a blood sacrifice. So Jesus, our great high priest,
is going to come before a just and holy God on our behalf as
our representative and high priest. He's got to have somewhat to
offer. Without the shedding of blood
there is no... Now, as God the Son, he has nothing to offer
pertaining to man. Think of it, as God the Son,
he's God the Son, he has nothing to offer pertaining to man. And if he's only a man, if he's
only a man, these priests on earth today, they're only men,
they have nothing to offer, nothing to offer that would satisfy God. In other words, all those offerings
that the Old Testament priests brought never satisfied God.
Let me show you that in Hebrews 10. Never. God was never pleased in those
offerings. Verse 3 of Hebrews 10. In those
sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
It's not possible. that the blood of bulls and goats
should take away sin. Wherefore, when he cometh into
the world, he said, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not.
There are six in burnt offerings and sacrifice for sin. God's
never had any pleasure. But they didn't come without
them. Our high priest thought an offer. As God the Son, he
has nothing pertaining to men to offer. If he's only a man,
he'd just offer for his own sins. But if he's the God-man, there
he's the God-man. Hebrews 9 tells us, look at Hebrews
9, verse 11. But Christ being come, Hebrews
9, 11, here it is. But Christ being come, and high
priest of good things to come, by greater, more perfect tabernacle,
not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building,
neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood. He entered once into the holy
place, into the presence of God, having obtained eternal redemption
for us. He had an offering. And now,
in my hands, no price I bring. Come without money! That's what
Isaiah said. Come without price! Come and
buy wine and milk without money, without price. In my hand no
price I bring." He came with a price. He had somewhat to offer,
somewhat to offer. It says here in verse 4, if he
were on the earth, if he's only a man, if he's only a man, if
he's just on the earth, he wouldn't even be a priest, seeing that
there are priests that offer gifts according to the law. What
do you mean he wouldn't have been a priest? Well, look back at verse 14,
chapter 7. It is evident that our Lord sprang
out of the tribe of Judah. You see, Jacob had twelve sons. And the tribe of Levi, the sons
of Levi, they were the priests. The tribe of Judah, that was
the kingly tribe. That was David's tribe, Solomon's
tribe. And the scepter shall not depart
from Judah till Shallo comes. But the priest, every high priest
was a son of Avon, came out of the tribe of Levi. So if Jesus
of Nazareth is only a man, he's not even a priest. He sprang
out of the tribe of Judah, of which the tribe of Moses spake
nothing concerning the priesthood. But he's the king priest. He's the only one that ever held
all three offices, our prophet, priest, and king. That's what
verse 4 is saying. If he were of the earth, he wouldn't
be a priest. Seeing that that priest that
offered gifts according to the law, who served under the example
and shadow of heavenly things, Moses was admonished of God when
he was about to make the tabernacle. See, he said, you make everything
according to the pattern I showed you on the mountain. The priest
came out of Levi. And you make it just like I told
you. Every sacrifice. One time, King Uzziah tried to
usurp the office of priest, and God killed him, made him a leper.
And anybody that tried to usurp that office, God destroyed them.
But now, verse 6, this God-man, our great heart, such a priest,
oh, such a priest. God raised up a special type,
Melchizedek. But now, verse 6, listen, he
hath obtained a more excellent ministry. He's more excellent than Moses,
more excellent than Abraham, more excellent than angels. By
how much also he's a mediator of a better covenant, a better
covenant established upon better promises. This is the everlasting
covenant we're talking about. Turn to Hebrews 13. That's the
covenant we're talking about, the covenant back yonder. Spurgeon one time in a message
tried to paraphrase the counsels of God, counsels of God and the attributes
of God. He said, God is love, grace,
just, righteous, holy. And God said, let us make man
in our own image. And God's holiness said, man
will have to be put under a law, a law of holiness, a law of obedience,
a law of submission. And justice said, well, if he
breaks that law, he'll have to die. said he will break the law and
then love spoke up and said but God is love God is just and God
is holy but God is love and love desires and must be expressed
and God is merciful and God must save and so then the question
arose well how How can God be just and justify the rebel? How can God be righteous and
put away the sins of this human race? How can God Almighty both
show justice and mercy, righteousness and love? Where can those attributes
meet? so that God can have a kingdom
of holy men and righteous men and perfect men. How? And I love Jesus' faith. Like Judah of old, he said, Father,
I'll be surety, Father. I'll assume the responsibility.
This is before the foundation of the world. Christ is the surety
of the everlasting covenant. He was the shepherd of the sheep
of the everlasting covenant. Something happened back there,
before the foundation of the world, in the council of God. God said, let us make man. But
man is going to follow. But how is God going to save
him? How can God be God, just and holy and righteous, and make
man a part of his kingdom? Christ spoke. He said, I'll assume
full responsibility. My father, I'll go to the earth.
I'll become a man. And what the first man couldn't
do, I will, I can do. What the first man wouldn't do,
I will do. The first man had no holiness.
I'll have a perfect holiness. The first man just died for his
own rebellion. I'll die for their rebellion.
And I'll bring them all home. And the father gave him the people.
And he assumed that responsibility. And that's what he says over
there in 1 Corinthians 15. In 1 Corinthians 15, verse 24,
this is what he's talking about here. Then cometh the end, 1
Corinthians 15, 24, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom
to God. Who? The Lord Jesus. Delivered
up the kingdom for which he assumed all responsibility, back in the
council halls of eternity. which was laid upon him, which
was committed to his trust. He will deliver that kingdom
to the Father, God, even the Father, when he shall have put
down all the world, all authority and all power. For he must reign
until he has put all enemies under his feet, and the last
enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For he that put all
things under his feet, but when he says all things are put under
him, it is manifest that he is accepted which put them there.
That's the Father. And when all things shall be
subdued unto him, unto Christ, then shall the Son also himself
be subject unto him that put all things under him." When did
he put them under him? When did he make him the lamb slain for
the foundation of the world? When did he make him the shirt
in the everlasting covenant? What task, when did he give him
this, I finished the work you gave me to do? When did he give
him that work? What work was it? I come not to do my will,
but the will of him that sent me." What is that will? This
is the will of God, that of all which he hath given me, I'll
lose nothing but raise it up at the last day. That high priest that I'm talking
about, verse 6, he hath obtained from the Father a more excellent
ministry, by which he is the mediator, he is the surety, he
is the guarantor of a better covenant established on better
promises. that first covenant. Look at
verse 7. If that first covenant had been
faultless, there would have been no place found for the second.
What was that first covenant? The Mosaic covenant, the covenant
made with Abraham and Moses and Israel. Let me show you what
that covenant is. The first covenant was made with
Israel. This everlasting covenant was made with Christ. The Father
put all things under him. The one made with made with Christ
on my behalf. The first covenant came through
Moses. The law came through Moses, not
by Moses, through Moses. Grace and truth came by Jesus
Christ. The laws of that first covenant
were written on stone. The laws of this everlasting
covenant were written on the heart. The mediator of that first
covenant were men. The sacrifice was animal blood.
The mediator of the second covenant is God Almighty in human flesh. And the sacrifice is his blood.
The promises of that other covenant was land and prosperity and deliverance
from their enemies, material, physical possessions. The promises
of this everlasting covenant is glory and life. an eternal
joy. The glory which you gave me I've
given them, and the love whereby you love me you love them. And
I pray that all those you gave me will be with me where I am
to behold my glory." That's the blessings of that second covenant.
That first covenant was faulty. That's what it said. If it hadn't
been faulty, it would still be here. But it was faulty. Why
was it faulty? It couldn't make men holy. There
has never been a law given that can make a man holy, and its
sacrifices could never please God. But Jesus Christ King chose
us in Christ that we should be holy and without blame before
him, in love, predestinating us to the joyful blessings of
children. And Jesus Christ, by one offering,
one sacrifice, has perfected forever them that are sanctified. That's the covenant. And it was
made with Christ, it was ratified by the death of our testator, and you'll see that it's carried
out. Verse 8, finding fault with them,
he said, Behold, the days are coming when I'll make a new covenant. That doesn't mean God's going
to make it, I'm going to reveal a new covenant. I'll give you
three reasons why it's called a new covenant. It's called a
new covenant because it's newly revealed. The first covenant
had to be revealed first. The everlasting covenant Let's
read about it over in Hebrews 13. I told you to turn over there
and I got an outlander somewhere and I didn't read it. In Hebrews
13.20, the God of peace that brought again from the dead our
Lord Jesus Christ, that great shepherd of the sheep, he brought
him from the dead through the blood of the everlasting covenant. It's the first covenant, it's
the everlasting covenant, but it's called the new covenant
because the other one had to be revealed first. Why? Why did
you have to have the first covenant? Well, the second covenant, the
first covenant, the new covenant, was not revealed until the new
existed. You know how that makes sense?
It was made before man fell, but it wasn't revealed until
after he fell. The new had to be established.
And that's what God was doing with the law. Turn to Galatians,
let me show you this, in Galatians chapter 3. Galatians 3, this
is talking about Israel, Galatians 3 verse 22. But the scriptures had concluded all under sin,
that the promise by faith of Christ might be given to them
that believe. But before faith came, we were
kept under the law, shut up to faith, which yet after would
be revealed. Wherefore, the law was our schoolmaster
to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. Israel was under that law to
shut them up to Christ. The law wasn't given to save,
it was given to reveal sin. to reveal our shortcomings. And that's the way the everlasting
covenant is there in the mind and purpose and heart of God,
but it's not revealed until the need is established. And even
so, the whole Old Testament is establishing a need, a need shutting
us up to Christ, shutting us up to his grace, his blood, his
righteousness, his redemption. And that's true of us right now.
We're all born Armenians, we're all born free-willers, we're
all born religious, we're all born emotionally unstable, we're
all born knowing there's a God but not knowing anything about
him. And before he's going to reveal to us our Savior, he's
going to reveal to us our inability to save ourselves. Before God's
going to reveal to us our great high priest, we're going to be
weaned from all these other high priests. Before God reveals to
us who is our salvation and our hope, he's going to destroy all
our other hope. So you can't, even though my
salvation was established and ordered and finished before I
was ever born, I didn't find it out until I was 24 years old.
I've been playing church all those years. Playing church. Playing religion. Playing God. And then one day, God stripped
me, and broke me, and killed me, and shut me up. And I found
out about that everlasting covenant. And it was new. It was brand
new. It was a new doctrine. I'd never heard that before.
It was only new to me. It wasn't new to him. It wasn't
new in time. You see what I'm trying to say?
Before Adam's sin, there was a covenant But Adam, what would
Adam have thought if God came to him and said, now I'm going
to save you. Save me from what? I'm not even dead. But when he
was dead, he found out what God was going to save him from. And
the first covenant has to shut us up. That's what he said over
Angeles, was shut up to Christ. Shut up to Christ. And some of
you think, well, I wish God would take a shortcut and just shut
me up good and all. He's just going to have to do
it in his own time. I have folks come and sit and
they want to get this all straightened out right now, but I tell you
it's a process. It's a process. It has to be
destroyed. It has to be. It's natural flesh. Turn to 2 Corinthians 5 verse
17. Listen to this. 2 Corinthians 5 verse 17. This is the new man. This is
what God does. This is called a new covenant
because it's newly revealed, and it's called a new covenant
because it makes all things new. In 2 Corinthians 5, verse 17,
Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things
are passed away, and all things become new. And all these new
things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ,
and hath given us the ministry of reconciliation. That refers to us, we're new.
It's a new covenant because it makes us new. Justification,
righteousness, sanctification, redemption, that's new. New heart,
new nature, new family, new direction, new person. That's why it's called
a new covenant, makes all things new. And I tell you this, it refers to a new heaven and
a new earth. It turned to 2 Peter. You'll
be interested in this, 2 Peter chapter 3. This new covenant
is called new because it's newly revealed and then it makes all
things new in the people and also in the heaven and earth.
In 2 Peter 3 verse 12, looking far and hastening unto the coming
of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be
dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat. Nevertheless,
according to his promise, we look for a new heaven and a new
earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." It's going to be a new heaven
and a new earth. A new covenant. Watch this verse here in Isaiah.
I want you to turn to Isaiah 65. and verse 17. I want everybody to find this. Isaiah
65, 17. Behold, I create new heavens
and a new earth, and the former shall not be remembered, nor
come into mind. This is a new covenant. Old is the counsel of God, but
newly revealed when there is a need, when there is a need
to meet that need. Secondly, when this covenant
is in operation by the Spirit of God, the Word of God in a
man's heart, it makes him a new creature, new. And everything old God is going
to destroy will be brand new, new creature, new heart, new
spirit, new nature, new. God's not going to change and
take an old bottle and put wine in an old bottle, no, and put
patches on old garments. Everything's new. Everything
about me, the new man, is new. And this earth, God's going to
make a new earth. And when you walk on it, you
won't recognize it. You won't find one place you
knew before. Not one. I make all things new. It's not
even going to be remembered nor come to mind. Why new heaven? Because sin visited that. That's right. I saw Satan fall from heaven.
Christ said, New heaven, new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. And Isaiah 66, one verse over,
verse 22 or 23. For as the new heavens and new
earth which I will make shall remain before me, saith the Lord,
so shall your seed and your name remain. It shall come to pass
that from one new man to another, from one Sabbath to another,
shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord." What
a wonderful time, right there. Then the last word, and I'll
quit. Why is this called a new covenant? New to reveal, makes
all things new in regard to us, in regard to heaven, in regard
to earth, but it's a new covenant because it'll always be new. It'll never be replaced. It'll
never be replaced. It's forever and ever. Let me
read you a scripture in Revelation 22. This new covenant is forever. forever and forever, Revelation
22, verses 1 through 5. And he showed me a pure river
of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne
of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of
it, on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which
bare twelve manner of fruit, and yielded her fruit every month.
And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations,
and there shall be no more But the throne of God and of the
Lamb shall be in it, and his servants shall serve him, and
they shall see his face, and his name shall be in their foreheads.
There shall be no night there, and there shall be no candle,
neither light of the sun, for the Lord God giveth them light,
and they shall reign forever and forever." Forever and forever. Forever new. Never grow old. All right, I hope that was a
blessing to you.