Covenant Mercies

And I'm going to read verses
20 and 21 for my text. Now the God of peace that brought
again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of
the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant make you perfect in every good
work to do his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing
in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and
ever. Amen. Preachers who preach the gospel
of redeeming grace who preach the gospel of the grace of God
with authority, who hold out to the chief of sinners a hope
of forgiveness, a hope of eternal life, preachers who acquainted
with the way that God redeems sinners because they're acquainted
with what's in the sinner, and they're acquainted with the attributes
of God, his holiness, his justice, his righteousness, his sovereignty,
his love, and his mercy, who are acquainted with the flesh
and its inabilities and frailties. Preachers who hold out to these
sinners a hope of communion with that God. know something about
covenant mercies. Covenant mercies. They understand
this scripture which I have read to you about the blood of the
eternal covenant. And sinners who are aware of
God's sovereignty, God's power, God's might, God's holiness,
sinners who have been made conscious of the awesome righteousness
of God Almighty, the exceeding sinfulness of sin, not this outward
branch-plucking, but the root-cutting effect of the law of God, who
are aware of their own hardness of heart and inability, and God's commandment to believe
in their inability to do so And God Almighty's demand for repentance
and their unwillingness to do so will be made to rejoice if
they ever understand the possibility of there being for them covenant
mercies. Covenant mercies. And believers who have been taught
of God, and Christ said those are the only ones who come to
me, those who are taught of God. No man, he said, can come to
me except my Father which sent me draw him. You can come to
the Church, there's no problem there. You can come to the theology,
you can come to the creed, to the catechism, there's no problem
there. If you've got any intelligence at all, you can read writing,
you can make professions, you can join up, You can pick you
out of church that preaches what you want to hear. You can pick
your gospel that's suitable to your case, and you can join up. No problem there. You can come
to the church. You can come to religion. But
no man can come to me, Christ said, except my Father which
sent me drawing him. And they shall all be taught
of God, as it is written in the scripture, taught of God. And the believer who has been
taught of God in the solemn quietness of his own heart, who has been
taught of God, the grace of God as it is in Christ Jesus, who
has been taught of God the things of Christ, finds his assurance,
finds his confidence, finds his hope, Not in the frailties of
his flesh, not in the experiences which he has gone through, not
in the visions he's seen and the dreams he's dreamed. He finds
his confidence and assurance in his delight and desire in
covenant mercies. That's so. If you'll turn with me to 2 Samuel
23, and this is all we've got to go by is this book. In 2 Samuel 23, here is a man,
a man whom I know knew God, a man
whom I know walked with God. He didn't say he did, he did.
God said he did. A man who was a man after God's
own heart. David, the shepherd who got the victory over the
enemies of his sheep. David, the giant killer, who
walked forth in the midst of battle when all of the armies
of Israel quaked in fear. David, who stood before Saul's
throne with the head of the nine-foot giant in his David the conqueror, the king,
David the sweet psalmist, who wrote the most precious book
in the Bible, found his assurance, not in his faithfulness, not
in himself, not in his strength, not in his position, he found
his confidence and his assurance in the fact that God Almighty
made a covenant with him. Listen to 2 Samuel 23, verse
1. Now, these are the last words
of David. Men don't lie on their deathbed.
They lie when they've got something to gain, not when they've got
an eternity to face. There were countries years ago
that used to accept without question any man's testimony if it came
from his deathbed. And these are the last words
of David, David the son of Jesse, David the man who was raised
up on high, David the anointed of the God of Jacob, David the
sweet psalmist of Israel. What did he say? He said in verse
5, Although my house be not so with God, and it wasn't, and
it wasn't, yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant. Ordered in all things, ensure,
this is my salvation, and this is all my desire, although he
make it not to go." That's a deathbed testimony there that gives the
glory where? Puts it where? Where it belongs,
on the head of God. We listen to people on their
deathbeds in their sentimental, emotional way, I've made my peace
with God. I did this and I did that. Son, meet Mother in Heaven now.
Mother is going to Heaven because Mother has been a good girl,
and she joined the Church, and she served the Lord, and you
meet her in Heaven. Son, your old daddy served the
Lord all the days of his life, and he is going to be with the
Lord because he joined the Church and was baptized. David said,
Although my house be not so with God, yet he hath made with me
an everlasting covenant. And this is my hope, this is
my salvation. God was pleased in his grace
to remember me. God was pleased in his grace
to include me in his covenant. And that's my salvation, and
that's my desire. All right, turn to Genesis 9,
Genesis 9. I want you to listen to this.
Noah, where does a man find strength to build an ark to escape a flood
that he's never seen. Where does a man find the grace
to bear the mocking and ridicule and cruel accusations of a generation
of God-haters and lawbreakers and persecutors for 120 years
while he prepared for a rain that nobody had ever seen? How
does a man find the grace to stand against the whole world and walk alone. I'll tell you
how. Genesis 9, verse 8, God said,
Noah, God spake to Noah and his sons, and he said, And I, behold,
I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed, and
with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl and
the cattle of the beast of the earth with you, for all that
go out of the ark to every beast of the earth, and I'll establish
my covenant with you." That's where. That's where. For I'll tell you, when the days
got so dark, old Noah couldn't see the sun, he could believe
in God's covenant mercies. In the days when old Noah felt
like the whole world was against him, He was standing all alone. He could remember God's covenant
mercies. I'll establish my covenant with
you. God who cannot lie, God who cannot
fail, God whose promises are always precious promises and
judgments assured. Turn with me to Genesis 12. How
can a 75-year-old man? leave his home, his father, his
friends, his family, his country, 75 years old, and walk out in
the midst of a howling wilderness and a desert plain and start
from land that he didn't even know where it was. Covenant mercies. How can a hundred-year-old man
who never had a son, who never had an heir, A hundred years
old, whose wife was past the days of bearing children, how
in the world can such a man have confidence that one day from
his own loins would come forth a son that would beget a son
that would beget a son that would bring into this world a daughter
who would produce the Son of God? Covenant mercies. hundred and fifteen-year-old
man, taken only son, whom he loved dearly, to the top of a
mountain and raise a knife to plunge in his heart to offer
him up as a sacrifice to God, not knowing why. Genesis 12,
verse 1, God said, get out of your country, and
from your kindred, and from your Father's house, the land I'll
show you, and I'll make a great nation of thee, and I'll bless
thee, and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing,
and I'll bless them that bless them you, and curse him that
curseth you, and in thee shall all the families of the earth
be blessed." That's my covenant. Turn to Genesis 17, verse 2. Listen to this, Genesis 17, verse
2. And I'll make, when Abraham was
ninety years old and nine, ninety-nine years old, God appeared to him
and said, I'm the Almighty, God, walk before me and be thou perfect
or sincere and upright, and I'll make my covenant with you between
me and thee, and I'll multiply thee exceedingly. That's my promise.
That's my promise. Abraham, like David, Abraham,
like Moses, didn't operate on impulse. He didn't operate on
feeling or experience. These men did not walk by impression. These men walked and lived and
fought and suffered and died and built, believing in God's
covenant mercies. Turn to Exodus 5. Here is a beautiful
story, Exodus 5. This, I'll tell you, I don't
know anything that touched me any more than when I read this
verse here. Israel had been down in Egypt
400 years, was that how long, Cecil? 400 years down there,
I think, in slavery. God was going to deliver raised
up Moses. You know how his mother hid him
in the bulrushes, and Pharaoh's daughter found him and nursed
him and brought him up. He went to the universities of
Egypt and was schooled in the best, the son of Pharaoh's daughter.
He had a compassion for his people, the Israelites. He knew they
were his people. He knew who his mother was and his sister. He rebelled against Pharaoh's
persecution of the Israelites, and he rose up to do something
about it with his strength. He killed an Egyptian. He was
going to defend the Israelites with his fists. He killed an
Egyptian, and not only did the Israelites turn against him,
but Pharaoh turned against him, and he had to flee. A failure. He went out there 80 years old.
He was out there on the back side of the desert. He had been
taking care of sheep 35 or 40 years. of failure. God came to him and
said, Moses, go down in Egypt and bring my people out. I'll
be with you. So he and Aaron went down there
into Egypt. He walked right into Pharaoh's
palace, and God said, Let my people go. And Pharaoh said,
Who's God that I should obey him? And Moses said, You better
let God's people go. I'm down here to deliver them.
I'll show you a few signs. He threw down his rod and it
became a serpent, and you know the story. Well, instead of letting
the people go, Pharaoh just made it harder on them. They had to
make bricks now without straw. Pharaoh's men went out and whipped
the Israelites because they couldn't produce as many bricks as they
produced before, and before they had straw. Now they didn't even
have straw. And these people were suffering under the lash
of Pharaoh's whip. They were having to make bricks
without straw. And Moses came down there among them, and they
said, Now you've messed it up. You've come down here, and before
you came, at least we had straw for the bricks, but now we don't
even have straw. Why don't you go back where you
came from? And Moses, verse 22, Exodus 5, look at it. And Moses
returned to the Lord and said, Wherefore hast thou so evil and
treated this people? Why is it that you sent me down
here? Why did you send me? I came down
here encouraged, I came down here feeling like you sent me,
I came down here to deliver these people, and all I've done is
mess them up. Look at verse 23. For since I
came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he's done evil to these
people. He hadn't delivered them at all.
You ever felt that way? Man, you read God's Word here
and said, Go preach the gospel to every Christian. You went
out and started preaching it and people laughed at you. And you
read God's Word and how God said, Pray, and I'll send you things
you didn't even ask for. You prayed and didn't get nothing.
And God said, Go out here and be my witness, and Judea and
Samaria and the uttermost parts of the earth, and I'll bless
you. You went out there and all you
got was you struck out and failed and came home defeated. He didn't
say when he'd give you the victory, he just said he would. He didn't
say that you'd be a successful witness, he said you'd be a witness.
He just might do you like he did the prophet of old. He said,
you go down and preach these people, preach my word to them,
they're not going to But that's not your business. Your business
is to preach to them. I have people who get offended
sometimes when I preach, but that's not my business. My business
is to preach. And if my message is the Savior
of life unto life to you, praise God. If it's the Savior of condemnation
and death to you, praise God. Lord, why did you send me? Read
chapter 6. Then the Lord said, Now shalt
thou see what I'll do to Pharaoh, for with a strong hand shall
he let them go, and with a strong hand he'll drive them out of
the land." God said, Moses, I am the Lord. Don't you forget it. I wish we could learn that. I
wish these Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and Catholics
and the whole shooting match would learn who God is. They
don't know. They think they are. I am the Lord. And I appeared
to Abraham, to Isaac, and Jacob by the name of God Almighty."
That's the only way he can appear. If you think you'll bring men to
knowledge of Christ through the preaching of error, you're dead
wrong. It can't be done. They'll worship a God, but not
the God of the Bible. You can't call on one in whom
you haven't believed, and you can't believe in one of whom
you haven't heard. And you preach to men another
Jesus and another God, and they'll go to hell. You can hang on to
your little religious profession and swear on a stack of Bibles
you'll go into heaven and you'll hear God Almighty. That's who
he says he is. I'm God Almighty! My name is
Jehovah! And I have, look at verse 4,
I've established my covenant with them. to give them the land
of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were
strangers. Verse 7, I'll take you to me
for a people, and I'll be to you a God. And you shall know
that I am the Lord God, which bringeth you out from under the
burdens of the Egyptians. And Moses went out from the presence
of the Lord, my friend, confident, assured, why? Believing in covenant mercies.
That's where it all is. That's where it all is. My covenant,
God says, be fulfilled. My covenant. I ask you tonight,
will God Almighty forgive sin? Will he? Will he? I feel like you are a preacher,
how do you know? Will God Almighty justify the ungodly? That's me
and that's you, ungodly. You don't have to be a murderer
to be ungodly, just be without God and you're ungodly. Just
have the wrong God and you're ungodly. Will there be a people
in glory? Tell mother I'll be there. Will
you please tell me on what basis I'll tell your mother you'll
be there? I don't know whether you'll be
there or not. And no use me telling your mother a lie, is there?
On what basis will you be there? How do you know you'll be there,
huh? How do you know you'll be there? Tell Mother I'll be there. When the rose called up yonder,
we sang, I'll be there. How do you know? On what basis? God doesn't know you anything
or me either. Is there hope? Is there help for a sinner like
you and me? How do you know? I tell you how I know, and this
is the only way I know, covenant mercies. You turn with me to
Hebrews 8. Now, you listen to that, Hebrews
8. It's not based on feeling. That's
a mighty poor foundation to build anything on. It's not based on
experience. It's based on the blessed word
of the living God who cannot fail. Hebrews 8, listen to it. Verse 8, Hebrews 8, verse 8.
He says, for finding fault with them, he said, Behold, the days
come, saith the Lord, when I'll make a new covenant with the
house of Israel, with the house of Judah, not according to the
covenant 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. This is the covenant I'll make
with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord. I'll
put my law in their minds, and I'll write my law in their hearts. And I'll be to them a God, and
they shall be to me a people. And they shall not teach every
man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the
Lord, for all shall know me from the least to the greatest. I'll
be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins, and their iniquities,
while I remember no more." In this he saith a new covenant. he hath made the first old, now
that which decayeth and waxeth old is already vanished away."
Paul called it in verse 6, a better covenant. Paul called it in verse
8, a new covenant. Paul called it in our text, Hebrews
13, an everlasting covenant. It's not by merit, it's not by
righteousness, it's not by power, it's not by strength, it's according
to God's covenant mercies. I'll tell you, if we could learn
something about covenant mercies, it might give us the confidence
of David, who could say, This is my salvation, this is my desire,
although I see very little fruits of it, very little effect of
it. God made with me a covenant. This would give us the strength
of Noah, the confidence of Noah, the assurance of Noah, who could
go out looking for God Almighty to fulfill all his word for 120
years without one token, without one evidence, except he believed
God's covenant. And Abraham, through all the
adversity, through all of the sorrow and through all of the
heartache, believed in God's covenant. and Moses, God's choice
servant, who believed God's covenant. Too much religion today, and
you know what I'm talking about, is based on feeling. If the feeling's
not there, the confidence is not there. It's based on personal
behavior and personal faithfulness and personal strength and personal
dedication and personal growth and personal victory, not on
the personal reign of Christ. In Hebrews 13, here is that blessed
benediction. Paul prayed for the Church, the
God of peace, that brought again, verse 20, from the dead our Lord
Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood
of the eternal covenant, make you perfect. There are four things
I want to give you just briefly here. in which I believe, this covenant
which gives me confidence, this covenant which gives me assurance.
There are four things about it, and I'll give them to you briefly.
Number one, the names of this covenant. Secondly, the seal
of this covenant. Thirdly, the fulfillment of this
covenant, and fourthly, the results of this covenant. Covenant mercies,
that's my hope. Now, you can be swayed any way
you want to. If you want to depend upon feeling
or experience or impression or things about you, you're in trouble
because the heart is deceitful and desperately wicked and all
the forces of evil that are about us. But if you can find some
place to put your feet in a place that will not change, that cannot
change, that's as sure and certain as the throne of God, then everything
else can be swept from around you, and as long as that foot
is on that rock, you can't be moved. You can't be moved. Now, here they are. Look at Hebrews
13, verse 20. First of all, the names of the
covenant. He says, the God of peace. The God of peace, under
the old covenant of works, is the God of wrath. He is the God
of vengeance, he is the God of strict justice, who said, I will
not clear the guilty. The soul that sinneth, it shall
surely die. Sin, when it is finished, bringeth
forth death. God, under the old covenant of works, is the God
of wrath and judgment. But because of Christ, he is
unto us a God of peace. Because of Christ, he is a God
of peace in the deepest sense. Listen to the scripture. Therefore,
being justified by faith, we have what? Peace with God. He
made peace by the blood of his cross. Because God Almighty's
law has been honored, his justice has been satisfied, the payment
for our sins has been fully paid, we have been redeemed, God is
at peace with us. We have peace with God. He's
the God of peace. That's who's the God of this
covenant, he's the God of peace. When Noah's ark came out of that
flood, there was a rainbow. across the sky. And God said
to Noah, this is a token of my covenant. You see that rainbow,
Noah? I don't guess there had ever
been a rainbow, had there? That was the first one. But God put
that multicolored, beautiful rainbow across the sky. And you
know what he said to Noah? He said, that rainbow is a token
that I'll never, never, never, never, ever destroy the world
by water again. That's what the rainbow is. It's
a token or evidence of God's covenant promise to Noah. And
I'll tell you this, when Christ died on that cross, there was
a rainbow of peace, and a rainbow of grace, and a rainbow of certainty. that all for whom he suffered
on that cross would never bear their sins again, if paid for. God Almighty's judgment cannot
twice demand, first at my bleeding, sure at his hand, and then again
at mine. The world was cleansed, the world
was destroyed, the water was over, and at Calvary the debt
is paid. And God to us, because of Christ,
is a God of peace. All right, look at this next
name here in the covenant. God of peace that brought again
from the dead our Lord Jesus, the shepherd of the sheep." Now,
my friends, in the covenant, we are the sheep, right? The
Lord Jesus is the shepherd. You don't make a covenant with
sheep. No, you don't make a covenant
with sheep. You can't make a covenant with sheep. You make a covenant
with the shepherd. on the health of the sheep. And
as sheep we've gone astray, but we belong to Christ, and the
Father has made a covenant with the Shepherd on our behalf. And
Jesus Christ the Shepherd said, I am the Good Shepherd, I give
my life for the sheep. I am the Great Shepherd. His
resurrection and his return to glory make him the Great Shepherd. And he said of his return, When
the chief shepherd shall appear, then shall you appear with him
in glory. The covenant which is my hope,
my salvation, and my desire is between the God of peace and
the shepherd of the sheep. It was made with me. It was made
with him on my behalf, and I'm in him. And all of God's covenant
promises to me are sure because they are sure to Christ. See,
that's the names of the covenant. This covenant in which I believe,
this covenant of which Paul is speaking, this covenant, the
everlasting covenant, which gives us confidence and assurance just
as much as David and Noah and Moses and Abraham. This covenant
was made between the God of peace. And that peace was made at Calvary
and the shepherd of the sheep. The seal of that covenant is the blood
of Christ. When men in old times made covenants,
there was usually a ceremony to bind the agreement. Here are
two kings representing two nations, and they shake hands in a ceremony
and agree on a covenant, a contract. And that is written out and then
it's signed and the seal is put on it. And that seal is the agreement
under the King's signature. Well, when our Heavenly Father
made a covenant on our behalf with the Redeemer, The seal of
that covenant, the covenant was sealed, true and firm, in the
blood of Christ. Listen to this, the God of peace
that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd
of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant. That blood of Christ confirmed
that covenant. That blood of Christ fulfilled
that covenant. That blood of Christ turned that
covenant into a testament. What he wills to be ours is ours
because he died. And that covenant is made by
his blood an everlasting agreement because of the infinite efficacy
of his blood. What do you mean, infinite efficacy
of his blood? I mean because his blood hath
everlasting power. Thirdly, quickly, the fulfillment
of that covenant. Look at it. The God of peace, who made with
Christ an eternal covenant on your behalf, sealed by his blood,
fulfilled by his blood, confirmed by his blood, make you perfect. Make you perfect. Burdened that
old wall couldn't make me perfect. Walking all the church aisles
in the United States and shaking hands with all the hotshot evangelists
won't make me perfect. Striving to be baptized with
the Holy Ghost and speak in tongues won't make me perfect. Going
to the mission fields as a missionary won't make me perfect. All these things do is reveal
my imperfections, my guilt, my sin. But the new covenant in
the blood of Christ speaks on this wise, he hath perfected
forever by one offering. them that are sanctified." The
blood of Christ makes you perfect. Paul wrote to the Colossians,
we are unblameable, unreprovable. Jude said he is able to present
you faultless before his presence with exceeding glory, make you
perfect, read on, in every good work, to do his will. Don't you wish you could do the
will of God? Our Shepherd did the will of
God. He said, Not my will, but thy will be done. Our Shepherd
did the will of God. He said, I come, it's written
in the book, to do thy will. Our Shepherd said, I delight
to do thy will. He humbled himself and became
obedient unto death, even the death of the cross, to do God's
will. You see how shaky your religious
assurance is going to be if you depend upon yourself to do God's
will? But if you depend upon him, the
shepherd of the sheep, who signed the covenant in your name with
his blood, if you depend on him, he's already done God's will.
Do you see what I'm saying? Look at this, working in you. Not for you only, but in you. Not about you, but in you. Now,
there's so much hypocrisy in religion, so much superficiality
in religion. Oh, how we cry for a deep heart
work, a heart work, working in you, both to will and to do his
good pleasure. Working in you, that which is
well-pleasing, not in the sight of men. In his sight, we act
and live and walk and talk as if people were going to be our
judges. They're not. God is. God is. And he says, the God
of peace, because of Christ. And that great shepherd of the
sheep who signed this covenant as my representative, as my covenant
head, who sealed it with his blood, he can make you perfect. He can make you perfect to do
his will, working in you, perfecting your every good work, to do his
will, working in you, in you, in your heart, and in your motive,
and in your thoughts, and in your mind, and in your personality,
and in your character, and in your attitude, working in you. that which is well-pleasing in
his sight. If we could graduate beyond that
heaven and hell religion, if we could graduate beyond that
rules and regulation religion, if we could graduate beyond that
superficiality, that outward piety and holiness, and come
to that place where Almighty God in a secret work of grace
has worked in us, in us, that which is world-pleasing
in his sight. The religious world has never
spoken well of God's people. They call the Master a wine-bibber,
a glutton, a blasphemer. Huh? That's right. Because they didn't know anything
about what was inside. They judged him by whether or
not he washed his hands before he ate. They judged him by how
far he walked on their Sabbath day. They judged him by whether
he picked corn on the Sabbath day. They judged him by whether
he ate in a place that served drinks with publicans and harlots
and sinners. They judged him by the company
he kept. They didn't know a thing about what was inside, because
they didn't have anything inside. That's the reason. But God works
in you, makes you perfect in every good work to do his will,
working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight. Look at the results of that covenant,
to whom be glory, to whom be glory for ever and ever. If there is anything in the world
that will make a man praise God, It's the knowledge that God,
in a covenant of grace, made with his Redeemer, has included
him. If there's anything in the world
that will make a man praise God, it's to know that in spite of
his frailty and failure, in spite of his sin, and in spite of his
guilt, and in spite of his inability, that God's made a covenant with
his Redeemer. Think about it. God Almighty
in grace has been pleased to not leave me to myself to die
in my sins, but he has entered into a solemn agreement with
his blessed Son to redeem a people, and he has included me. And in
love and mercy he sent that Son into this world in the fullness
of time. And Christ took my place before
the law and did God's will, and before the justice of God, and
died to satisfy it. And the Holy Ghost came in time
and shook me out of my lethargy and indifference, and my religion
and my tradition and my church play. And he said, Hey, God's
not interested in the way you part your hair. The issue between
you and God is not that you stole a watermelon. That ain't the
issue. The issue between you and God is not that you went
to a picture show. That's not the issue. You're playing games.
The issue between you and God is a dead soul and a rebellious
heart and a wicked mind. The issue between you and God
is you want your will and he's going to have his will. The issue
between you and God is a deep-seated rebellion against God's authority
and holiness and sovereignty. That's your problem. But God
Almighty has been pleased to take out of you that old stony
heart and give you a heart of flesh. God Almighty has been
pleased to take out of you that old religious double heart and
give you a single heart that's fixed on his graves. God Almighty
has been pleased to raise you from a condition of spiritual
death and give you life. God Almighty has been pleased
to call you from the grave and make you one of his own. Praise
God from whom all blessings flow. Can you believe it? Can you receive
it? Can you rest in it? If you can,
you'll say with Paul, to whom be glory. forever and forever. The glory is his. The preacher gets the glory.
He won your soul to Jesus. So that ought to give him a special
star in his crown. You gave up a whole lot for Jesus. Don't you forget that now. You
sure gave up a whole lot for Jesus, didn't you? I tell you
this, he gave up a whole lot for me, but I've never given
up anything. All I've ever done is receive,
receive, receive, receive. A charge to keep have I, a God
to glorify, who gave his Son my soul to save and make it fit
for the sky. These eyes shall see him in that
day, the Christ who died for me, and all my rising bones shall
say, Lord, who is like unto thee? When all thy mercies, O my God,
my rising soul surveys, transported with that view, I'll be lost
in wonder, love, and praise, and through all eternity to thee
a grateful song I'll raise. But, O my God, eternity is too
short to utter half thy praise. That's my hope. Covenant mercies. And I hope
when I come to the end of life's way and my eyes are being closed
slowly in death, that I'll be able to say, like David, whom
I know knew God, Although it be not so, with my house God
has made with me an eternal covenant. And he made it with one who could
do it and keep it and fulfill it and confirm it and seal it
and make it last. He made it with my representative.
Satan, see my lawyer. If you've got anything with which
to charge me, see my attorney. He's my advocate, Jesus Christ. He pleads my cause. Who can lay
anything to the charge of God's elect? Who is he that condemneth? Christ died, yea, rather is risen
again, who is even at the right hand of God, who makes intercession
for me. That's my hope. Covenant mercies. And that hope is as sure as God's
promise. Our Father, thank thee for the
word, the promise. When all around my soul gives
way, he then is all my hope and stay.

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