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Ärende: A Covenant He Remembers
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From: "Bob Hoffman" <bhoffman@fmlynet.org>

A Covenant He Remembers
Faith's Checkbook

October 1

A Covenant He Remembers

"He hath given meat unto them that fear Him: He will ever be mindful of His
Covenant" (Psalm 111:5).

Those who fear God need not fear want. Through all these long years the LORD
has always found meat for His own children, whether they have been in the
wilderness, or by the brook Cherith, or in captivity, or in the midst of
famine. Hitherto the LORD has given us day by day our daily bread, and we doubt
not that He will continue to feed us till we want no more.

As to the higher and greater blessings of the covenant of grace, He will never
cease to supply them as our case demands. He is mindful that He made the
covenant and never acts as if He regretted it. He is mindful of it when we
provoke Him to destroy us. He is mindful to love us, keep us, and comfort us,
even as He engaged to do. He is mindful of every jot and tittle of His
engagements, never suffering one of His words to fall to the ground.

We are sadly unmindful of our God, but He is graciously mindful of us. He
cannot forget His Son who is the surety of the covenant, nor His Holy Spirit
who actively carries out the covenant, nor His own honor, which is bound up
with the covenant. Hence the foundation of God standeth sure, and no believer
shall lose his divine inheritance, which is his by a covenant of salt.

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719 8.7. J. HART
Loved and Saved Freely. Rev. 1. 5, 6; Matt. 9. 12

1 Come, ye Christians, sing the praises Of your condescending God;
Come and hymn the holy Jesus,
Who has washed us in his blood.
We are poor, and weak, and silly,
And to every evil prone;
Yet our Jesus loves us freely,
And receives us for his own.

2 Though we're mean in man's opinion, He has made us priests and kings;
Power, and glory, and dominion,
To the Lamb the sinner sings.
Leprous souls, unsound and filthy,
Come before him as you are:
'Tis the sick man, not the healthy,
Needs the good Physician's care.

3 O beware of fondly thinking
God accepts thee for thy tears;
Are the shipwrecked saved by sinking? Can the ruined rise by fears?
O beware of trust ill-grounded;
'Tis but fancied faith at most,
To be cured, and not be wounded;
To be saved before you're lost.

4 No big words of ready talkers,
No dry doctrine will suffice;
Broken hearts, and humble walkers,
These are dear in Jesus' eyes.
Tinkling sounds of disputation,
Naked knowledge, all are vain;
Every soul that gains salvation
Must and shall be born again.

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