The Blessed New Covenant Standard — Zac Poonen

The Privilege of the New Covenant

So, let me ask you this morning, as the blind man reaches for the white cane, when he gets up, did you reach out for the Lord Jesus this morning, saying, I want to walk with you Lord every, every single day, every single moment?

I thought of what the Lord has provided for those he loves. And that, I mentioned the first day how in the Old Testament, they didn't see that. I just want to share some things of how the New Covenant, we are blessed in a way that people in the Old Covenant were not.

In other words, if this was a bunch of Jewish people sitting here and Moses or any of the great prophets speaking to them, a lot of things that we could say, which they couldn't tell them. And sometimes we don't realize the privilege we have of what we experience.

It's like many people who've been in CFC, Bangalore or one of the CFC good churches for some years, when they are transferred somewhere else, or they have to go some other place for say a year or two, and they go to some other church, then they realize what a difference there is between what they've experienced in a New Covenant church and some other place.

Many of our children who've grown up in CFC, I sometimes wish when they grow up that they go spend one or two years in some other church, because I find many of them are not really thankful and grateful for what they receive.

I've known of young men who've grown up here, thoroughly ungrateful after all that they've received. Maybe they don't have eyes to see. And very often we don't compare ourselves with what there was under the Old Covenant.

We should be so immensely grateful to the Lord for what he's done for us. So many things, you know, man's got a habit of taking things for granted. Just like children take their parents for granted. Let them leave home and go and stay in some college hostel for one year.

They'll come back really appreciating their home and their parents, even if their parents are not rich. I believe that thankfulness is one of the great safeguards or protection against backsliding. If you don't want to backslide, develop one habit.

Mark my words, one habit of being thankful to the Lord and thankful to your brothers and sisters, I guarantee you will not backslide. All backsliding comes when people are not appreciative of what the Lord has done for them, not appreciative of the church or the elders or their parents.

Thankfulness as Protection Against Backsliding

It's the easiest way to backslide. And I'll show you that from scripture. I like to show everything from scripture so that people don't think this is Zak Poonen's idea. Turn to Romans chapter 1. In Romans chapter 1 we see of a backsliding that goes on from verse 21 to 32.

And think of some of the things that happens. It says in the last part of verse 21, Romans 1 21, their foolish heart is darkened and verse 22, they think they are wise but they are fools. Instead of worshipping the incorruptible God, verse 23, they worship animals and images of animals.

And so God gave them up to the lust of their heart. And instead of worshipping God, they worship human beings. And then they have unnatural sex, verse 26, women with women, men with men. They abandon, verse 27, the natural function.

These are all signs of backsliding, going down, away from God. Men committing, men with men, indecent acts, verse 27. A lot of people ask these days, is there anything wrong in that? Well, better you read Romans 1 27 or you believe what the world says.

And they did not acknowledge God anymore, so God gave them up. God gave them up. Three times, verse 24, God gave them up. Verse 26, God gave them up. Verse 28, God gave them up. And finally they end up as slanderers, verse 30, haters of God and wicked, full of wickedness, verse 29, and evil and murder, etc.

But where did it all begin? What is the first step in that backsliding? Verse 21, they did not honor God as God and give him thanks. Never forget that. The first step downwards is when you stop being grateful to God, for first of all, for giving your life.

Like there's a saying in the world that when something bad happens to you, don't ask yourself, why me? If you have not asked the same question when something good happens to you, when something good happens to you, do you ask, Lord, why me?

So many other people are not getting it. You don't ask when something good happens, then don't ask when something bad happens. We should be surprised when something good happens to us. We don't deserve it.

A grateful person is amazed at God's goodness all the time. Learn to be thankful, my brothers and sisters, to God. Learn to be thankful to your parents, children. It's not easy to provide for family's needs in these days.

Your parents work hard. Learn to appreciate them, be thankful to them. Take a piece of paper on their birthday and write a thank you note to them. Once a year, is that difficult? To write half a page once a year to each of your dad and mom, to thank them on their birthday.

I hope all of you children know your parents' birthdays. Do you know your parents' birthdays, children? When is your mummy's birthday? When is your daddy's birthday? If not, I'm going to ask you tomorrow.

You better find out within the next 24 hours and keep a note of that date and say, I'm going to write a little note to my dad and mom on their birthday. Even it's one line, don't waste 20 rupees buying a card and all that.

They throw it in the trash can after that. Take an ordinary piece of paper and write, I still have with me the little notes my children wrote when they were three, four years old. Spelling is all wrong and the C is written the other way, not this way.

It's okay, I preserved them. I'm not looking at the spelling, I'm looking at their heart. Where? They didn't go and buy expensive cards. We didn't have money for that. Some scrap of paper or some old card which is inside all torn out and right inside.

Thank you very much daddy for all that. It's really a good thing and also not only to your dad and mom, go on from there, take a piece of paper and write a thank you note to your brothers and sisters in your own family.

I'm not telling you to do it for everybody else. You don't have to go first cousin, second cousin. No, no, no, don't go that far. Just your own family. Learn to be thankful and express it. Go and hug your dad and mom on their birthday, they'll be surprised.

They won't get a heart attack, they'll be surprised but they'll say, what happened to my son? I never have seen it in 15 years, all of a sudden he comes and hugs me. Learn to hug your dad and mom. Be thankful, it's an expression of thankfulness and hug your children and parents also.

Greet your children on their birthday. You don't have to buy expensive cakes or ice creams or anything. Many of you can't afford it but have a little celebration and it's really something, you know, it makes a lot of difference.

It brings the family bond together. See, my children are all grown up. We never cease to greet one another on our birthdays. Even today, I think if I remember right, I greet my children and grandchildren and I've got 17 grandchildren and I've got four sons and four daughters.

That means the ones they married are my daughters. They are not daughters-in-law because I'm not under law, I finished with law long ago. I'm under grace. So they are my daughters. So I got four sons, four daughters and 17 grandchildren.

That itself is 25 and I got a wife that's 26 and I never forget any one of their birthdays even though I'm nearly 70. I'm going to be 79 in a few days. Why can't you people do that? You develop the habit of thankfulness.

I sometimes write a note on a new year to some person whom I'm not corresponding with regularly but some old friend of mine who I remember once writing to someone saying, I remember brother, I was there in your town and I couldn't get a cab and you drove me about 40 -50 miles somewhere in your car.

I haven't forgotten it. I know it happened 20 years ago or more but I haven't forgotten it. I just want to thank you for it. He just gave me a car ride 25 years ago when in some place I had to go urgently and I couldn't get a cab or he didn't have the money.

I haven't forgotten it. Be thankful for people who have done little things for you. That shows you're growing in grace. I'll tell you, I don't want to be a backslider. I don't even go to, I don't want to go to the second step of backsliding.

I don't even want and that way, the way I avoid that is by never going to the first step of being unthankful. So I hope you've learned one thing even if you forget everything else in this conference. Remember one thing, the mark of a godly man is he's thankful for small things.

I've learned to say thank you to somebody who brings me a glass of water. I'll tell you why. Because Jesus said, if someone gives one of my disciple a cup of cold water, he will not lose his reward, right?

Imagine in the day of judgment, the Lord calling up somebody and saying, ah you gave my servant Peter a cup of water 2 ,000 years ago. Here's your reward. I was surprised. I gave a cup of water to Peter somewhere 2 ,000 years ago and here I get a reward.

Does Jesus take note of a cup of water? Have you read that verse that he will not lose his reward? Yeah, I think it's Matthew 10, end of the chapter, I think. But it's something to, when you get something, be thankful.

Jesus is thankful for somebody who gave a cup of water. And I'll tell you, I know why he was, he said that to his apostles particularly and they were preachers and I know that the most important thing a preacher requires when he's finished preaching is water.

Because his mouth gets dry and some people get dry quicker than others. So, be thankful for small things. Don't just assume. It shows how big you are. I often use this example, if a cabinet minister is walking down the road and he drops his handkerchief and his separate secretary picks it up and gives it to him, he just takes it, puts it in his pocket.

But if a beggar in front of you is walking down the road and he drops something and you are humble enough to pick it up and give it to that beggar, what will the beggar, will the beggar ignore it? He'll be surprised.

A well-dressed man like you, picking up his handkerchief and giving it to him, he'll be so thankful. You know why? Because the cabinet minister has got very high thoughts about himself. He doesn't have to say thank you to anybody.

The beggar is so low in the social level that he knows that everybody is superior to him. That's why he gives thanks and there in that illustration, you can understand why you are so unthankful. One reason, you got very high thoughts about yourself even though you think you don't.

You can think you're a very humble person. Test it out. Are you thankful? Are you thankful for your wife? Maybe she's brought a cup of tea early in the morning for 20 years. We're so unthankful. We take things, if there's a little bit of salt, too much or too less, that we are quick to complain in the food to your wife.

But what about the things she does? Do you ever give thanks? Dear brothers and sisters, there'll be much better family relationships if we learn to give thanks. I don't know whether the Old Testament people had that, but it's one of the things that Jesus came and taught us to be thankful, to be thankful for everyone around us.

It's a great mark of a godly person. I hope we will all develop it. And let me show you an example from Luke chapter. We read in chapter 17 about 10 lepers and they, you know, lepers were supposed to always stand at a distance because leprosy was very infectious.

The Ten Lepers and the Call to Give Thanks

And so, in the olden days, they had to stay outside the city. But Jesus would often go outside the city to love these lepers and heal them and bless them. So, this must have happened outside the city because as he was entering a village, verse 12, 10 lepers stood at a distance far away and shouted out, Jesus master, have mercy on us because they knew other lepers had been healed.

And he saw them and he said, go and show yourself to the priests. And as they were going, they were cleansed. And one of them, when he saw he had been healed, turned back and with the same loud voice with which he cried out in prayer, I mean, they had gone away, maybe they'd gone a half a mile.

You got to walk back half a mile to see Jesus again. He walked back that half a mile and he shouted out, thank you Lord for healing me. The same loud voice with which he cried out for mercy. You know, that means what that teaches us is with the same fervency with which you pray, Lord heal my dying child or give me a job or give me a house.

Lord, I'm in the soup here. Please get me out of this situation. And the fervently with which you pray, with that fervency, we have to give thanks. That's what I learned from a leper. I tell you, I learned a lot of things from these insignificant people in the Bible, like a thief on the cross, murderer.

Can you learn something from them? Yes, to take the blame completely. Many, many so-called CFC believers need to learn this lesson from the thief on the cross. I say, before you go to the foot of the cross of Jesus, go to the foot of the cross of the thief and learn to take the blame 100 instead of blaming others.

Lord, I'm guilty. That's what took him to paradise. Adam said, I'm not guilty. My wife, that's what kicked him out of paradise. You can be kicked out of paradise or go into paradise. There's a contrast between Adam who blamed his wife and the thief on the cross.

He didn't blame his parents for bringing him up badly. He said, it's me. 100 me, Lord. I deserve hell. I'm good for nothing. I am the criminal. And Jesus said, really? You can come to paradise. Paradise is made for such people, not to live perfect lives, but to take the blame.

That's equally important like giving thanks, take the blame. So this leper came back and he fell on his face, giving thanks to him. And he was a Samaritan. See, why does it say he was a Samaritan? You know, whenever you read Samaritan in the gospels, that was like the lowest class of society in India, in the villages, the lowest class of society in many poor villages, more in the north India, are those who carry the dry toilet latrines outside the city and dump it from the rich people's homes and they carry it on their head and clean it out and bring it back every day.

It's the scavengers, the people who do the lowest jobs, the people who, you know, corporation of are told to go into the sewage line to clean it up. That's the lowest level of society. The Jews looked down on the Samaritans because they were not pure Jews.

They were mixed up when the Assyrians captured Israel. Many of them married the Jews in that mixture where they were called Samaritans because Samaria was the capital of that part of Israel. And so the Jews hated and despised the Samaritans so much that whenever they walked the straight, the straight road from Jerusalem to Galilee was through Samaria, but they wouldn't go through there.

They would take the longer route and walk many more hours because they did not want to go through Samaria, you know, like some high class people don't even want the shadow of a low-cost person to be upon them in our villages.

No Christian should ever be like that. But this Samaritan, Jesus was saying this despised low-cost person was more thankful than all those Jewish lepers. Very often that is the case. God has chosen the poor of the world, rich in faith.

If you check up all the believers in CFC churches, and there are a few thousands of them, now I've seen most of them. I've seen one thing, the vast majority, maybe 80 are not upper class, highly educated intellectual people.

No, those are all in the other dead churches. God has chosen the poor of the world, rich in faith. Like Paul told the Corinthians, there are not many rich among you. There are a few, not many people in high position.

There are a few to show, that also is needed, to show that it's not only because you're poor that you are spiritual, that there are people in very high positions who are also spiritually minded. People are very rich, who are also spiritually minded, to show that it doesn't make a difference.

If everybody were poor, that wouldn't be manifested. But when God can put a few extremely rich people, and extremely capable people, and very high positions mingling equally with everybody else, that's a testimony to Christ.

So that's exactly what we've experienced in CFC. But 80 are like Samaritans. I praise God, and you'll find heaven is populated with such people. That's why in Romans 12 it says, learn to mingle with ordinary people.

I often tell people in CFC, a lot of them are high class. I say, learn to mingle with the poor brothers and sisters who come from Tamil Nadu. How much do you fellowship with them? You have an opportunity.

You're going to be with them in heaven for eternity. So this with the Samaritans, and Jesus, listen to this. Jesus said, verse 17, weren't that 10 people cleansed? Where are the other 9? Can you imagine this?

Can you imagine Jesus saying, why aren't you coming and saying thank you to me? Do you ever say that? You think he's a very proud person who expects other people to come and say thank you to him. I don't go around saying to people, why didn't you say thank you to me?

But I would teach a little child. My little boy learned to say thank you. That's how Jesus treated these people, for their good. Why do you teach your children to say I'm sorry? Why do you teach your children to say thank you?

That's a very good habit. And Jesus was teaching them that thankfulness is good for you. It's not because I'm standing up here like a Maharaja saying you got to thank me. No, it's good for you folks. Where are these nine people?

They have missed something. This man came back and Jesus said, stand up. You know, before that, verse 18, when you give thanks for something somebody did for you, this is an ordinary physical healing that somebody got.

It's called in verse 18, giving glory to God. You know, want to know how to give glory to God? First step, thank you Lord for forgiving my sin. Do you know you are giving glory to God when you say that?

See, this man came and said, thank you Lord for healing me. Jesus said he's giving glory to God. Some of you have wondered, how can I give glory to God? You learned something today. Just say, thank you.

Thank you for healing me. Haven't many of you been healed from flu and fever and cold and cough? I myself was down for two weeks with a really bad cough. But I want to say thank you Lord for healing me so that I can be here and speak.

I want to be thankful for little things. Learn to be thankful. It's a way of giving glory to God when you say thank you to the Lord. And then more than that, you see, God always rewards those who have a thankful heart.

Jesus said to them, stand up. In verse 19, he told this one man, your faith has saved you. That's what it says in my margin, saved you. What did you get till now? Healing. But because you became thankful, what did you get?

Salvation. One leper got healing plus salvation. Nine lepers got healing. Can you learn something from that? That guy went to heaven, the other nine may have gone to hell. See the difference that thankfulness makes.

Your faith has saved you. The other nine got healing. So these are lessons we learn about the importance of giving thanks to God. So in the new covenant, we have to be so thankful to God that God has given us so many blessings that people in the old covenant didn't have.

Cleansing, Justification, and Christ as Righteousness

For example, it says in Hebrews chapter 9 that the blood of Jesus Christ is better than the blood of bulls and goats. We know that in the old testament, they used to put the blood of a bull or a goat to symbolize what would one day be the blood of Jesus.

But it says in Hebrews chapter 9 that about the blood of goats, verse 13, Hebrews 9, 13, the blood of goats and bulls only externally sanctified their flesh, their physical body. But the blood of Christ, verse 14, will cleanse your conscience.

The cleansing of the conscience was never possible under the old covenant. You know sin was only covered in the old covenant. Blessed is the man whose sin is covered. Forgiven in the sense it was covered.

Psalm 32 it says blessed is the man whose sin is covered. You can look it up whenever you get time. Psalm 32. It's like if all the sins are written here on a piece of paper and you cover it with a sheet.

Okay, you can't see it. That's how old covenant forgiveness was. The blood of bulls and goats covered. When you lift it up, you can see it there. But the blood of Jesus is like taking a wet rag and wiping it all out.

It's gone. You can't see it anymore. Do you know the difference between being covered and being cleansed? We are cleansed. But the devil still likes to come and remind you. You remember what you did 10 years ago?

You remember that terrible thing? And he reminds you of the worst sins you've committed in your life. And in the old testament, they were constantly harassed by that. It says there was a constant reminder in the old testament of sins that were committed.

Because they were reminded, reminded, reminded, like you read in Hebrews. But in the new testament, you don't have to allow the devil to remind you if you know that the blood of Jesus has cleansed your conscience.

Not only cleansed your conscience, but it says in Romans 5 .9 that through the blood of Christ, I have been, is this great word called justified. Romans 5 .9, justified. Justified means more than forgiven.

For many years, I said justified was just as if I'd never sinned. And some years ago, I was listening to a message by my son Sandeep. And he was saying justified means more than being that the sin is as if you've never sinned.

It means being actually declared righteous. And I said, hey, that's right. It's wonderful. We can learn things from our children. Justified means more than just being as if I'd never sinned. More than that.

If I'd never sinned, that doesn't mean I have the righteousness of Christ. I've never sinned. But justified means I'm justified with the righteousness of Christ upon me, which is a million times more than just as if I'd never sinned.

So don't think of justified as just as if I'd never sinned. Great. That itself would have been great. But declared righteous with the righteousness of Christ. Christ himself is my righteousness. It's not that Christ is there and he gives me his righteousness.

No, no, no, no, no. It says in 1 Corinthians 1 that and verse 30, Christ himself is my righteousness. Now that's different from Christ giving me his righteousness. Christ himself is my righteousness. And that is the meaning of going to God in prayer and praying in the name of Jesus.

So I hope you understand a little bit now what it means to pray in the name of Jesus. I'm saying, Lord, I've got no ability to come to you in my own name. Even if I'm being faithful for the last 50 years, I cannot come in my own name.

It is in the name of Jesus. That's why we pray in the name of Jesus in our prayer. Next time you pray in the name of Jesus, remember this. It's not just a convenient way to end the prayer and say Amen.

I'm saying, Lord, everything I prayed today, I'm coming with no merit of mine. My merit, I'll get nothing. Because I'm coming with Christ as my righteousness. It's almost as though, almost like Jesus himself asking the father for something.

And Jesus said to his father once, I know that you always hear me. You read in John 11 at the father, I know you always hear me. And think that in the new covenant, I can be like that. If my conscience is clear, that means everything I know to be wrong, I've confessed.

If I have to ask forgiveness from somebody, I've asked forgiveness. If I had to set something right, I've set it right. And I don't delay it. I, the main question I ask married couples is, have you, do you forgive one another?

Never go to bed angry. Forgive one another and be quick to ask forgiveness. And most married couples are honest and say, well, brother Zach, I don't ask immediately. And most of them are very humble. They say, my partner asks more quickly than I do.

I've never heard a married couple say, I ask quicker than my husband. Thank God. He's better than me. It's a wonderful thing when I hear a married couple in CFC who understood the truth so much, that they judge themselves, that they value the other person as more spiritual than themselves.

But be quick. So, what I tell them is, this time gap between doing something wrong, knowing you've done something wrong and asking forgiveness, if it's one hour, reduce it, reduce it till it becomes zero.

And as soon as you're aware you did something wrong, clear your conscience. Because then when you pray in the name of Jesus, God hears, because your conscience is clear. Psalm 66 verse 18 says, if there's sin in your heart, the Lord will not hear you.

That's like you dial a number on the phone and God doesn't pick up the phone. He says, oh, it's that guy. He hasn't asked forgiveness from somebody. I'm not even going to pick up the phone. Do you know that I believe that more than 95 of prayers that Christians pray are not heard by God?

I'm sure that a lot of prayers that many of you have prayed, God never heard it and he will not hear it because there's somebody you have to ask forgiveness from or there's somebody you have to forgive.

It is so important. And then we can come with as Christ as my righteousness before God. Do you know in the Old Testament, it was not like that. You know the New Testament standard, Matthew 6 and verse 14 and 15.

Please turn with me to Matthew 6 and verse 14 and 15. If, two ifs, capital if, if you forgive others, your heavenly father will forgive you. You say, hey, I thought if I confess my sins, my heavenly father will forgive me.

Yes, you have to confess your sin, but you've also got to forgive others. And to emphasize that, verse 15, if you don't forgive others, your heavenly father will not forgive you. I mean, that is not necessary to say that, but Jesus repeated it so that there's no doubt in your mind.

Forgiveness, Fellowship, and New Covenant Responsibility

If you don't forgive, that means if there's one human being anywhere in the world, one person who did some terrible thing to me 25 years ago, or who scandalized my daughter or my children in some bad way many years ago, I haven't, I've got a grudge against that person till today, who cheated me of some money years ago, made me, got into some terrible loss, told a sort of lies against me in the office, made me lose my job.

And then my family and I suffered so much. The Lord says, forgive. Well, you have a choice, otherwise you won't be forgiven. Brother, sister, the wisest thing is to forgive. There are people who have ulcers in their stomach because they haven't forgiven.

The people who live with migraine, constant headaches because they haven't forgiven somebody. Sleepless nights because they haven't forgiven somebody. That harmed you 25 years ago, but he's still harming you by making you sleepless at night today.

Look at the power he's got on your mind. Can't you get rid of him by forgiving him? Very important. It was not like this in the Old Testament. I'll give you an example. Turn with me to 1 Kings. In the first book of Kings, you read about the time when David was dying.

And when he was dying, he called his son Solomon and told him some wonderful things. It's like 1 Kings chapter 2, he called Solomon and said, be strong, verse 2, show yourself to be a man, verse 3, 1 Kings chapter 2, verse 3, keep the charge of the Lord, walk in His ways, keep His commandments, His ordinances, His testimonies, according to all that the Lord, the law of Moses, then you'll succeed.

So that the Lord will carry out His promise which He spoke concerning me. And if your sons are careful in their way, that there will not lack of man on the throne of Israel. Your descendants will always be kings of Israel.

If he had stopped there and said that's it, Solomon, God bless you. And if the next verse was verse 10, then David slept, that would have been great. But it was not like that. He said something more. It's like I say, you make a first class chicken curry, and then you put a dead lizard inside it, stir it nicely.

You say, what in the world? If you saw your wife doing that and say, are you crazy? That first class chicken curry, you're going to put a dead lizard at the end of it? Here's the dead lizard that David put at the end of his advice to Solomon.

Now you know Joab, that is, Zeruiah is David's sister, by the way, my nephew, my sister Zeruiah's son, you know what he did? He killed a couple of people and in the time of peace, he shed blood. So you must make sure that he's a gray haired man today, but don't let his gray hair go down to hell in peace.

Kill him. And then you know, this other man was kind to me. So you please be kind to him, to the sons of Barzillai. They were kind to me. And when I was running away, they helped me be kind to him. But then you know, this other guy called Shimei, verse 8, he's the one who cursed me when Absalom chased me from the throne.

And I was going down to Mahanaim and this chap came and cursed me with a violent curse. He called him all types of bad names. You read that in 2 Samuel 15, 16 and all. And then when Absalom was killed and David was coming back, Shimei came and met him and said, oh David, please forgive me.

I'm so sorry that I cursed you. You read that also in 2 Samuel. And I'm really sorry. And David said, okay, I swear by the Lord, I forgive you. You're not put to death. You will not be put to death for cursing the king.

He says that when he came down to me at Jordan and apologized, I swore to him I will not put him to death. But Solomon, you did not make that promise. Remember? I made that promise. He was a legalist.

You must not spare that guy. Even though I said outwardly, I've forgiven you. Oh, I couldn't get over the fact that one day he cursed me. Do you forgive people like that? You say to them in their face, yeah, you're forgiven.

But you can't get away that bitterness in your heart against that person. And you pass on that bitterness to your children, to other family members, when you sit around the dining table, tell them the tales about Shimei and others who did wrong to you and pollute those poor minds.

Their minds were pure till you went and told them all the stories of people who hurt you. What? I mean, are you doing the work of the devil or what? Their innocent minds are being polluted. Who's dying?

That's not the work of the Holy Spirit. You know how many believers are agents of Satan? When they sit around the dining table of the family, the things they tell. Remember Joab? Remember Shimei? And some bold son may say, but dad, you forgave him.

I remember you told, yeah, that's okay. But we can't just get rid of it like that. Parents, so-called believing parents sitting in CFC, maybe even preaching and destroying their children at home. That's why your children don't grow up to follow the Lord.

You have polluted them at home with all your gossip. And so he tells him, look at the way he puts it. He doesn't just say kill him. He says that gray hair must be, have blood on it. Verse nine, and let him go to hell, but with blood on his gray hair, kill him.

What's the next word? And David died. That's the next. Not even one minute for him to repent of that statement. You never know when death comes. You haven't forgiven somebody and you're in a road accident and you die.

Where are you going to go? David slept. Now let me ask you a question. Is David in heaven today? That's a tough question. Think of the times when Jesus spoke about himself as the son of David. I'll tell you when a six month old baby dirties his underwear or diapers, it's not serious.

It's not a big crime, but if a 20 year old son spoils his underwear with, he passes tools in his underwear, that's pretty serious. David was a baby. Old covenant people were babies. They were permitted to dirty their diapers, sleep with dirty diapers.

It was overlooked because they were under the old covenant. You read Galatians chapter three and chapter four, the old covenant people were children. The new covenant people are adult sons and daughters.