How All God's Children Should View Themselves

Introduction

I. Our Covenantal Relationship (vss. 1-2; Eph. 2:1-10; Rom. 4:17)

Jeshurun = Perfect or Righteous one

II. Our Covenantal Blessing (vss. 3-4; Jn. 7:38-39)

Water is a symbol and picture of the Holy Spirit.

III. Our Covenantal Response (vs. 5; 1 Cor. 12:3; Acts 2; Ez. 36:25-27)

The promise always precedes the performance.

Conclusion

Repentance (Rom. 8:8-14)

Faith (Deut. 32:15)

Thankfulness (2 Cor. 8:5)

"I am the Lord's; He has an incontestable right to rule me, and I submit to Him, to all His commands, to all His disposal. I am, and will be, His only, His wholly, His for ever, I will be for His interests, will be for His praise; living and dying I will be His.'' —Matthew Henry