00:00:49.940the point once more is this that christ has passed through death on our behalf before us
00:00:58.580but he is also emmanuel god with us who promises to come alongside his people as we go through the
00:01:06.740river of death ourselves and when he does like the levitical priest he will not be struggling
00:01:13.760He will not be swaying. He will not falter or stumble, but rather his feet, as he holds in his hands the covenant of grace, his feet will be surely and firmly planted on dry, solid ground.
00:01:33.160this speaks to the security it speaks to the inevitability it speaks to the firmness
00:01:41.600to the finality the assuredness of the covenant of grace that the covenant of grace is not merely
00:01:50.540sufficient to help us in our sanctification during the time of our life but when we need
00:01:59.160christ in his covenant the most at the moment of our death the covenant of grace does not then
00:02:06.380begin to wane but rather it shores up all the stronger and when we pass through that moment of
00:02:15.120dying christ is there and christ is not wavering christ is not certain christ is firm he is true
00:02:24.720and he remains the same holding in his hand the promise of the covenant of grace with us
00:02:31.940Emmanuel as we pass through the river of death if Christ was to leave us or forsake us he would
00:02:41.700have already done so as David once said the Lord had been faithful to him so many times after time
00:02:51.260after time, that at a certain point in David's life, he finally decided to merely call a spade
00:02:58.940a spade. And he said, having seen thus far the faithfulness of the Lord, surely goodness and
00:03:06.480mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.