The Mercies of the Everlasting Covenant

In Isaiah 55-3, the prophet wrote,
Incline your ear and come unto me, here and your soul shall
live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure
mercies of David. Now there was an old covenant,
And that old covenant said, this do and live. That old covenant
failed because man didn't do and died. That old covenant failed
because man did not keep God's commandments. And we have broken
that covenant, we have broken that law, and that old covenant
has nothing for us, not anything at all, except condemnation. The old covenant, which once
said, This do and live, now says, The soul that sinneth, it shall
surely die. The wages of sin is death, so
no need to look back to it, no need to bring it up, because
that old covenant is rolled up and cast aside as a useless thing. and no hope can be attached to
it. But God says, I'll make with
you a new covenant, an everlasting covenant, a covenant not of works
but a covenant of pure grace, a covenant not made with the
worthy but the unworthy, a covenant that's unconditional. The conditions
have all been fulfilled by our great Redeemer and our great
surety. It is an everlasting covenant
that cannot and will not be revoked. It is a covenant with no ifs,
no ands, no buts, and no maybes. It's a covenant that's ordered,
David said, in all things and sure. And then it's a covenant
that is unbelievable, unchangeable, and invaluable. And he tells
us that this covenant will bring with it even the sure mercies
of David. Now tonight, I want us to look
at some of those sure mercies. I hate to tell you how many there
are, but I'm going to be brief on each one. But there are ten
of them. We turn to Jeremiah chapter 31
for the first one. He says, I'll make with you an
everlasting covenant, a covenant of grace, an unconditional covenant,
an everlasting covenant, a covenant that is ordered in all things
and sure, an unbelievable, unchangeable, immutable, invaluable covenant
that brings with it all of the sure mercies of David. Now here
they are. The first one is found in Jeremiah
31, verse 34. And they shall teach no more
every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know
the Lord, for they shall all know me. There's the first tender
mercy. There's the first sure mercy
of David and of the covenant of grace is a saving knowledge
of the Lord God. Now, brethren, I'm going to make
three statements here, and you listen to them. First of all,
eternal life is to know God. Our Lord said in John 17, 3,
this is eternal life, that they might know thee the only true
God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. Eternal life is to
know God. A man who does not know God does
not have eternal life, and a man who does not have eternal life
does not know God. That was Paul's prayer in the
book of Philippians. He prayed, O that I may know
him, that I may know him and the power of his resurrection.
Now the second statement is this. Men by nature do not know God. There are men in the pulpit preaching
tonight who do not know God. There are people in the pews
tonight who do not know God. They know about Him. They know
of Him. They know His name. They do not know Him. Christ
said, This is eternal life, that they might know Thee, the only
true God. And the illustrious, glorious
apostle Paul prayed that I may know God. And the men by nature do not
know God. Christ said to the Pharisees,
the religious rulers of Israel, you don't know me and you don't
know my father. If you had known me, you should
have known my father also. Men today read the Bible, but
they don't know God. Men today hear preachers, but
they do not know God. Men today attend to religious
ceremonies and gatherings, but they do not know God. Everybody
who uses the name God does not know God. Turn to Psalms 103. I was in a meeting one time,
and they asked me to read some Scripture. Brother Barnard was
there in the meeting, and I got up and read some Scripture. And
after I went back and sat down by him, I read the Scripture
and led in prayer, and I read Psalms 103. I went back and sat
down by Roth, he still had his Bible open to that passage that
I'd read. He leaned over and whispered
to me, he said, did you ever get a good look at verse 7? I
said, not really, I'll be honest with you, never really have.
He said, look at it again. He hath made known his ways unto
Moses, his acts to the children of Israel. All God revealed to
Israel was his acts. Judgment, acts of power, acts
of miracles, mercies, all his acts. But he called Moses aside
and privately, secretly, intimately revealed his ways to Moses. Now there are people who say
that they see God in nature, but they don't know God. They
see his His creative acts, his acts of power. See God in the
sunshine, see God in the lightning, see God in the storm, see God
in the snow. You can do all that and not know
God. Israel saw the sea part. Israel saw the pillar of fire,
and the cloud by day, and the manifold, and the quail, and
the water from the rock, but they didn't know God. But Moses
knew God. Because God made known to Israel
only his acts. He made known to Moses his ways. Moses knew the ways of God. Moses knew the will of God. Moses
intimately, personally walked with and knew God. Israel didn't
know it. People today, you say, well,
God's real to me. Maybe God's acts are real to
you, but God's not real to you. You know God, you have eternal
life. And he said, this is one of the marks of the covenant.
They're going to know me. The people who are recipients
of this mercy are going to know me. They're not just going to
see my acts. They're going to know my ways.
They're going to know that I'm a sovereign God, an almighty
God. They're going to know I'm a righteous
God, a just God. They're going to know I'm holy.
They're going to know I'm loved. They're going to know my mercies.
They're going to know my will. They're going to know me. Now
verse 33, here's another, Jeremiah 31, 33. And God says, This shall
be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after
those days, saith the Lord. I will put my law in their inward
parts, and I'll write it in their hearts. Now when Moses came down
from that mountain, he had in his arms tables of stone, Ten
Commandments written on tables of stone, written by the divine
hand. He brought them down from that
mountain, and he crushed them at his feet because the people
had violated them. Those Ten Commandments written
on stone really, as far as the hearts of the people and the
spirits of the people, were utterly useless. It wouldn't do us any
good, it wouldn't help us to have these original tables of
stone right down here in front of this church. All in the world
they would do is condemn us, because you can write them, you
can read them, you can preach them, you can memorize them,
and it'll do you no good until they're taken off those tables
of stone and written in our hearts. God says, in this covenant of
mercy, in this covenant of grace, I'm going to do more than write
my law on tables of stone. I'm going to write my law on
the hearts of my people, and I'm going to bring them to love
my law. When God's law becomes more than
a commandment, more than a duty, more than a responsibility, more
than a warning, but when God's law becomes a part of my nature, then God's law will be effective.
Commanding a man to do what he hates, requiring a man to do
what he does not want to do, is useless. But when the law
of God becomes a part of my own principle, When it becomes a
part of my own nature, then I will delight to do that which I am
commanded to do. You cannot legislate morality,
even the Lord God can't do it. You cannot legislate love, even
the Lord God cannot do it successfully. But he said, this is going to
be the difference. I'm not going to write my law
on tables of stone and hand them to people and say, this is your
duty. These are my requirements. These
are my statutes. Fulfill them. He says, I'm going
to do more than that. I'm going to write my law on
their hearts, and they're going to have a nature that loves my
law and loves my statutes and my
commandments. And my law will become not only
my principles, but their principle. My law will become not only my
goal, but their goal. I'll write it on their hearts.
Now the third thing, the third sure mercy of David, the third
blessing of the covenant is found in verse 34. He says down the last line in
verse 34 of Jeremiah 31, And I will forgive their iniquity,
and I will remember their sin no more." In other words, God's
going to give every one of those in the New Covenant a free pardon. Now brethren, I want us to look
at that statement again. I will forgive their iniquity,
I will remember their sin no more. We are so full of self,
every one of us, here on out there, we are so full of vengeance,
we're so full of grudges, we're so unwilling, we're so unable
to forgive people their trespasses and their sin that we can't comprehend
or understand the impact of this great mercy right here. God says,
I will forgive and I will remember their sin no more. Take all of
our sins from Adam's fall and rebellion to the crucifixion
of God's Son, all of my sins in which I participated by imputation,
by representation, all my sins from my birth past, present,
future, to my death, and God says of them, I'll forgive them,
and what's more, I won't even remember them. But Lord, this man did so-and-so,
I don't remember that. But Lord, this man said so-and-so,
I don't remember that. But Lord, he thought this, I
don't remember that. I will remember their sin no
more. You know why we don't understand
that? Because it's so completely foreign
to the human nature. Wouldn't it be wonderful, instead
of going back and digging up the past and digging into the
past and coming up with the faults and failures of others, that
we could really so forgive that if somebody mentioned these things,
we'd say, well, I don't even remember that. I don't even remember
that. Our problem is remembering something
good a fellow did. We can remember something bad
he did. We can't remember the good that he did until he's dead. Boy, we can remember him then.
When he's laid out here as a corpse in the casket, we remember all
the tender words he spoke and all the miles he walked and all
the kind words he said and all the wonderful deeds he did as
long as he's living. We remember only the bad. We
are an unforgiving people. And Jeremiah writes here, this
is one of the marks of the covenant of grace. God says, I'll forgive
their sins and I'll remember them no more. And blessed is
the man to whom God will not charge sin. Blessed is the man to whom God
will not charge sin. Alright, the fourth, sure mercy,
and I'm going to ask you to turn to Jeremiah 32 now. Jeremiah
32, verse 38. The fourth, tender mercy, sure
mercy of David, Jeremiah 32, 38. God says, He's talking about
that covenant again, and He says in verse 38 of Jeremiah 32, listen
to this, "...they shall be my people, I'll be their God." Now
God's going to give me a saving knowledge of Him, not just His
acts, but His ways. God's going to give me a saving,
going to give me a free pardon. God's going to give me a free
pardon, absolutely free pardon. God's going to write His law
in my heart, make me love His law. And then fourthly, He's
going to give me reconciliation. The enemy, reconciled. The wandering
son, reconciled. The alien reconciler. Now, can
we embrace what's contained in this statement here? I'll be
their God and they'll be my people. Well, we know something of the
kinship of America. We're all Americans here. But
God says, my people are a holy nation. So it's more than that
kinship. This thing, this reconciliation,
this relationship with God in the Covenant is more than just
a national thing. Well, we know something of the
relationship of a family. Mother, father, brother, sister,
husband, wife, son, daughter. Well, the Scripture says we're
God's family. He's not ashamed to call us brethren.
But it's more than that. We know something of a kinship
in a church. But God says we're His church.
And Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it, but it's
more than that. We know something of the relationship we have to
ourselves as a body. We have a head and we have a
human body. And the Scripture says we're His body, members
in particular, but it's more than that. I think this relationship,
they'll be my people and I'll be their God, is found in John
17 again. I want you to turn there, John
17. This reconciliation, this relationship with God in Christ,
what's this? John 17, verse 23. Christ is praying this high priestly
prayer. He says, Father, I in them, and thou in me, that
they may be perfect in one, that the world may know that thou
hast sent me, and hast loved me, as thou hast loved them.
I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfect, made perfect
in one." In other words, God is everything, and in God we
have everything. We are in God. The only way that
I can be destroyed is to destroy God. That's how close I've been
reconciled, how closely I've been reconciled to God through
the death of His Son. I am one with Christ. I in them,
and thou in me. Look back at verse 21 of this
same chapter, that they all may be one as thou, Father, art in
me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us. So the fourth covenant mercy
is a reconciliation that is so permanent and so personal that
I am actually in Christ one with God. Now Jeremiah 32 verse 39. Now
watch this. And I will give them one heart
and one way that they may fear me forever. The fifth mercy,
tender mercy of David, is true godliness. And we're talking
about this covenant of grace. God gives us a true knowledge
of him. God writes his law on our hearts
and gives us a true holiness. God sends Christ to the cross
and gives us a true forgiveness. I'll remember their sins no more. He makes us one with Him in such
a way that we have a true relationship, reconciliation. Now then, this
fifth mercy is true godliness. This is something, believe me,
I'm telling you the truth, only eternity will bear out what I'm
saying, Most people don't have the faintest idea of what true
godliness is. I will give them one heart, one
way, that they may fear me forever. True godliness is not Calvinism. True godliness is not correct
doctrine. True doctrine is not proper church
government. observance of baptism in the
Lord's Supper. True godliness is not regular
devotions and prayers. True godliness is not systematic
giving. True godliness is not outward
moral behavior. True godliness is three things
listed right here. True godliness. And it would
bear well for every one of us to give some thought to this.
I'll be there, there'll be my people, and I'll be their God,
and I'll give them one heart. One heart. The heart has to do
with the affections. The heart has to do with love.
You turn to 1 John 4, and John forcefully and emphatically deals
with it right here in 1 John 4. This is what we're talking
about. 1 John chapter 4. And this is something that every
child of God, every believer, seeks and pursues like he seeks
God. He seeks faith, he seeks humility,
and he seeks this right here. 1 John 4, 7, Beloved, let us
love one another, for love is of God, and every one that loveth
is born of God, and knoweth God, and he that loveth not knoweth
not God, for God is love. In this was manifested the love
of God toward us, because it God sent His only begotten Son
into the world, that we may live through Him. Herein is love,
not that we love God, but that He loved us. and sent his son
to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved
us, we ought also to love one another. No man has seen God
at any time. If we love one another, God dwells
in us, and his love is perfected in us. That's the first mark
of godliness, his love. Hereby, Christ said, men shall
know you're my disciples. This is the way they can tell.
you love one another. I want to treat you as I want
to be treated. I want to forgive you as I am
forgiven. I want to show mercy as I have
received mercy. A stranger to this grace is a
stranger to God, and a stranger to godliness. Whatever moral
perfections he may profess, whatever moral laws he may follow, Whatever
religious doctrines he may believe, he is a stranger to godliness
if he is not one heart with God and with God's people. One heart. I'll give them one heart. One
heart. Secondly, one way. What are we
talking about here? What is the way of the believer?
It's the glory of God. The Apostle said, whatever you
do in word or deed, you do it not for the glory of self, You
do it not for self-praise, you do it not for self-possessions,
you do it not for self-glory. Whatever you do in word or deed,
you do it for the glory of God, for the greater glory of God.
For the greater glory of God. That's the one way of every belief.
What he does, what he desires, is for the greater glory of God. Whether it's his failure or his
success, whether it's his suffering or his accomplishments, he does
it for the greater glory of God. And if he does not have in his
mind and heart the greater glory of God, he doesn't know anything
about godliness. He's a stranger to this covenant.
You say, I don't know anything about the greater glory of God.
Then we'd better study it. Because even the gospel is the
gospel of his glory. Even the gospel is the gospel
of His glory. The death of Christ was for the
glory of the Father that the Savior prayed in Gethsemane.
Now, Father, glorify Thy name. Some people think that Christ
died only to save His people from sin. He did that, but He
did it for the glory of God. Now, Father, glorify Thy name. Glorify Thy name with the glory
which I had with Thee before the world was. And the third
mark of godliness, it's one heart, it's one way, and it's to fear
God, that they might fear me all their days. That's what he
said. What is the fear of the Lord?
It is a sincere awe. It is a deep, sincere reverence. for God, for His Word, for His
house, for His message, for His people. It is an awareness of
His power, an awareness of His person, an awareness of His glory. It is to tremble in His presence. It is to stand humble and broken
before Him. It's to fear the Lord. And that's
godliness. That's godliness. Now the sixth sure mercy of David
is Jeremiah 32, 40. Jeremiah 32, 40. Listen to this. This is the sixth tender mercy. I'll make an everlasting covenant
with them. Oh boy, listen. I will not turn
away from them to do them good. I'll put my fear in their hearts
and they won't turn away from me." The next time somebody wants
to debate with you about once in grace, always in grace, read
them that verse right there. Read them that verse. God says,
I'm going to make an everlasting covenant with them. I will not
turn away from them. That's God's Word. That's the
Lord speaking. It's not this perseverance. It's this preservation. I will
not turn away from them. And listen, he goes on there.
There are two locks on the door of grace. Here they are. I won't
turn away from them and they won't depart from me. There it
is. There's the two locks on the
door of grace. Our Lord Jesus said, My sheep
hear my voice, I give them eternal life, they'll never perish, nobody
can pluck them out of my hand. My Father which gave them these
greater than all, no man is able to pluck them out of his hand."
Paul wrote, nothing can separate me from the love of God, which
is in Christ. And here he says, in the mercies
of David, the covenant mercies, God said, I will not turn away
from them, and I'll put my fear in their hearts, I'll write my
law on their hearts, and I'll guarantee you they won't depart
from me. There it is. Oh, people who are not in the
covenant of grace, they'll get religion today and lose it tomorrow.
They'll walk the aisle today and they'll walk back out the
aisle tomorrow. But people who have had a work of God's saving
knowledge, the law of God written on their hearts, the fear of
the Lord, true holiness, true godliness, He said, I won't turn
away from them and they won't turn away from me. And then,
let's go to Ezekiel now. He's still talking about this
everlasting covenant throughout Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel 36,
Ezekiel 36, 25. Ezekiel 36, 25. And he says here
in Ezekiel 36, 25, Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, And you shall be clean. Isn't
that wonderful? Clean. C-L-E-A-N. Clean. Clean from all your filthiness. From all your idols will I cleanse
you. Your envy and jealousy and malice
and hatred and lust and idolatry. Maliciousness. All of these things. God said I'll cleanse you from
all your filthiness. There's not a one of us here
tonight who will be honest with ourselves and honest with God.
There's not a one of us who feels clean, do you? You feel spiritually
clean? You know, you come in from work
and you run a hot shower or a hot tub bath and get in and soak
and soak and soak and soak and get out and dry and you feel
so clean. Do you ever feel that way in
here? Our secret thoughts make us ashamed, huh, don't they?
You don't feel clean in your thoughts, do you? Do you ever
really? You're a stranger to God if you do. Our hasty words
that we've uttered. We've uttered words hastily,
we've spoken without thinking, and later on it makes us feel
so dirty. We shouldn't have said that.
And our attitudes, we fly off the handle, we get angry, And
our attitudes, if we're really children of God, make us feel
so dirty. And the things we've done and
said ought to humiliate us. But God says, you know what I'm
going to do? I'm going to clean you, cleanse
you. You'll be clean. Clean. Christ said to the disciples,
you're clean through the word I've spoken to you. Look at Ephesians
5. Let's turn over there a minute.
Ephesians chapter 5. Verse 25, Ephesians 5, 25, listen
to this, 25 and 26. Husbands, love your wives, even
as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it, that
he might sanctify and cleanse it, cleanse it with the washing
of the water. The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth
us. Brethren, I don't feel so clean,
but thank God I am." Huh? That's what he's saying. I'll
sprinkle water, clean water on you and you'll be clean from
all your filthiness, from all your idols, idols of lust, idols
of drink. I'll cleanse you. And then the
8th. Look at Ezekiel 36, verse 26. The 8th, the sure mercy of David. And he says, a new heart will
I give you. I won't give you a new heart.
You're not going to be the same person. Now, when a man gets
in this area here, this is when he realizes that salvation, this
work here, is totally of the Lord. You say, well, I don't
have that true Godliness. I don't have that new way, that
heart of love and that fear of the Lord. Well, I'm sorry, it's
not something I can give you, you can give yourself. God says
a new heart, I'll give you. When a man gets in this area,
he realizes salvation is of the Lord, totally of the Lord, wholly
of the Lord. That's when he cries, Lord, you
saved me and I perished. Maybe some of us have never really
been shut up to salvation is of the Lord, like Jonah was in
the depths of the sea. Jonah was a pretty religious
fellow before he got down there in that fish. But it took God
shutting him up to his own inability, imprisoned in the belly of the
fish, to realize that salvation is of the Lord. Now we can convince
a man that he's sinned, that's not hard to do. We can make a
man think on heaven and hell, that's not hard to do. We can
offer a man a way of escape. We can persuade a man to make
a religious profession. We can give a man rules and laws
by which to live. Only God can give him a new heart. Look at it again, verse 26, "...a
new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit, a right spirit,
will I put within you, and I'll take away that stony heart, that
divided heart, that double heart, that unforgiving heart, that
hating heart, I'll take it out of your flesh." I'll give you
a heart of flesh. I'll do it, God said. Can the Ethiopian change his
skin? No, sir. Can the leper change his spot?
No, sir. And neither can a man that's
accustomed, who has a heart of evil, do good. He can't do it. But God can give him a new heart,
and a new nature, and a new spirit, and that's the work of God. And then verse 31. Now here's
an enigma, paradox, sure mercies of David. And verse 31, I'll
make you hate yourself, not other people, yourself. Then shall
ye remember your own evil ways, when I give you a new heart,
and your doings that were not good, and you shall loathe yourselves
in your own sight for your iniquities and your abominations. When I read this verse here,
I said, you know, Isaiah was one that God included in the
New Covenant because Isaiah said, I'm a man of unclean lips. Job was in this covenant. Job
says, I hate myself. Paul was in this covenant. He
said, O wretched man that I am. David was in this covenant. David
said, my sins are ever before me. And I said to myself, you in
that covenant? I don't know. Then shall you
remember your own evil ways and your doings that were not good,
and you'll loathe yourself. Any of you all hate yourself?
Nah. No, I love myself. A man's not saved because he
feels saved. A saved man is never satisfied. You shall loathe yourselves in
your own sight, your iniquities and your abominations. That's nine up. And the tenth
one is found in Psalms 89. Psalms 89. You see, this sings a whole lot
more than coming down here and shaking the preacher's hand. These dishonest preachers of
today don't have the courage to tell folks that. If we just
tell people the truth, there'd be some folks not so quick to
make professions, not so quick to claim to be saved, not so
quick to get this thing signed, sealed and delivered and go to
seeking God the rest of their days. That's the reason the old
songwriter says, Here I raise mine Ebenezer, hither by thy
help I am come, I hope by thy good pleasure safely to arrive
at home. That's the reason the old timers
never sit around and If Barnard had switched their bubblegum
from one jar to another and said, I'm eternally saved, they were
seeking the Lord. They were trying to find some
evidence of regeneration in their own hearts. They were looking not for their
assurance to find their name on the church rule book. They
were looking not for assurance to see if they believed the proper
doctrine. They were looking not for assurance
to make sure they walked the right path. They were looking
for some evidence of regeneration in their hearts. That's where
they were looking for. Am I his or am I not? That's
what John Newton said. Do I love the Lord or no? Do
I? Do I really love God? Do I love
His people? Are there any evidences of saving
grace in my life? I know the doctrine. People in
hell know the doctrines. I go to church on Sunday. People
in hell went to church on Sunday. I give more than ten percent
of my income. People in hell gave more than
ten percent of their income. I've been baptized by a Martian.
I've preached the gospel. People in hell preach the gospel.
They stood at the judgment and said, we cast out devils in your
name, and we built churches and did many wonderful works. And
he said, I never knew you. Get rid of them. These people look for evidences. Are there any evidences that
I'm a saved man? Are there any evidences that
God lives in me? Are there any evidences that
my body is the temple of the Holy Ghost? Are there any evidences
that I'm a new creature? No? Then I'm not one. Then I'm
not one. Because these are the tender
mercies of David. These are the mercies of the
covenant. a knowledge of God, free part,
true godliness, true holiness, the fear of the Lord, a new heart,
a hatred for myself, a loathing of myself. And then in Psalms
89, God promises us, along with this covenant, a rod of discipline. A rod of discipline. It goes
with the covenant. In Psalms 89 verse 30, if his
children forsake my law, go back to verse 28, my mercy will I
keep for him forever, my covenant shall stand fast with him. His
seed also will I make to endure forever, and his throne is the
days of heaven. But if his children forsake my
law, and walk not in my judgment, If they break my statutes and
keep not my commandments, then will I visit their transgressions
with the rod, their iniquities with stripes. Nevertheless, my
lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him. They'll suffer
my faithfulness to fail, my covenant I will not break. I'll whip him,
but I won't break my covenant, God said. I won't alter the thing
that's gone out of my lip. Once have I sworn by my holiness
I won't lie to David. I'm going to keep my covenant.
But God says, I'm going to visit them with the rod of discipline.
I'm going to chastise them if they walk, if they break my statutes
and walk not in my judgment. Now, what are you talking about,
preacher? Here's what I'm talking about, two things. Almighty God does
not sit around waiting for one of us to sin. That way, he'd
have to whip us every day. In fact, he'd have to whip us
every hour. In fact, he'd have to whip us
every minute. In fact, he'd have to whip us every second. God
doesn't sit around waiting on us to make a mistake so he can
punish us. Our sins were punished in Christ.
God's patient. He's merciful to us. He knows
our frame, the Scripture says, that we're dust. But this Scripture's
talking about this. This Scripture has to do with
a deliberate departing from God's Word, from God's law, from God's
way. When a true child of God persist
in a direction of departure from what he knows is contrary to
God's way and contrary to God's law. If he is a part of this
covenant, if he's a part of this mercies of David, after warning
and exhortation, he will not return to God, he will not bow
to God's will. God says, I'll visit him with
the rod and I'll chastise him with many stripes." So with the
covenant, he said, but I won't forget my covenant. I won't break
my covenant. I won't alter the thing that's
gone out of my lip. But if my child persists in departing
from me, and from my will, and from my way, I'll bring him back. And I'll bring him back with
a rod. And I'll bring him back with stripes. Our Father in Heaven, we thank Thee for Thy Word. Thy Word is sharper than a two-edged
sword, cutting, piercing beyond these human ears into
our hearts, into our thoughts. Make it to be a double-edged
sword to me and to all Thy people here tonight. Thy word is a hammer
that breaks and crushes human pride and human self-righteousness
and human confidence, and puts us down in the dust at Thy feet.

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