When we cover ourselves over in our grief, there is a blackness that comes with it, a bending over that comes with it, a bowing over, and a brokenness that comes with it.

But when Jesus becomes our covering in our grief, the healing goes down because we're not doing anything to guard ourselves from the ministry

of the comfort or what if

and the I want to talk about what it means for our sins to be his to cover.

And we just pour them out to him.

And we're turned from our sins.

And he says they're completely covered.

I want to say this to you, can I promise you that no one will ever know?

Because some of you are thinking that.

I want to believe that him covering it means that no one will ever find out that I did that.

I pray that they don't.

He can certainly do that. If we're obedient to him, he could do anything.

But I do want to say this to you. When he has covered them with his own hand, if others try to expose what he has his hand over, they're going to deal with

the hand of God. Do you understand what I'm saying? Because he has covered it. So I'm not saying,

but can I promise you it's never going to come out? No, no, but I can tell you this,

that whoever is trying to expose it is going, in order to expose it,

have to lift up the hand of God from over it.

I need somebody to think that's a pretty big deal because it's a pretty big deal.

And he knows their hearts.

And he knows what is the best and healthiest and most glorifying thing to happen.

I'm not saying they're going to get smacked.

I'm simply saying that we've agreeably and completely covered,

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