As we are seated together, we are turning our attention to verses 6 and 7 of Song of Solomon 8. And our delightful job this evening is to get a sight of the heart of Christ. And we have it referred to there quite directly in our text, set me as a seal upon thine heart, that is the heart of Jesus Christ. And our need therefore is for the Holy Spirit to bring us and to show us the glorious things of Christ For surely the mere words of man cannot avail to bring communion with Christ, but yet the foolishness of preaching is the very thing that Christ has promised to bless to that end. In our text we have basically two things. One is a petition to Christ, and the other is the reasons that are given for it. And let's make that our simple outline this evening. First we'll consider the petition, and then we'll consider the reasons that are given. We have a petition unto Christ, which comes, as I'll remind you, in the context of present enjoyment of the Lord Jesus Christ, being supported by Him. His left hand should be under my head, and His right hand should embrace me. communion with Christ, which yet is a thing in this life that needs to be jealously guarded and kept, which many things can tend to interrupt. And also, we have a prayer that is in the context of waiting for Christ's coming, because in the final verse we beseech our Beloved to make haste and to be like a roe or a young heart upon the mountains of spices, and so in a condition of present enjoyment of Christ, but yet waiting for His coming. What is the petition, and indeed the great and high and all-encompassing petition of the Bride of Christ as a whole and of the believing soul individually? It is this, set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm. And this is a petition which is surely authored by the Holy Spirit in the text, given by God-breathed words, and it's also a petition that the Holy Spirit has to frame and to quicken and move within our hearts. It is one of the Spirit's unutterable groanings. There's more contained in these words than we can well express, but yet it is my duty to do something towards opening and applying them to you. There are at least four aspects of this petition unto the Lord Jesus Christ, and here the believing soul asks for something that's in the first place Personal. It's very personal. Notice the word me. Set me as a seal upon thine heart. As a seal upon thine arm. And then also the word seal reinforces our awareness that we're to ask Christ for something that is highly personal. because a seal is a mark that no one else can imitate. And we see various kings like Ahab and Ahasuerus and they have a ring which conveys their seal. And in those cases, Jezebel takes, she writes letters in the name of Ahab and she seals them with the seal of Ahab. And so this seal of Ahab was certifying that what was written was coming in the name and with the authority of Ahab himself. It was something that couldn't be knocked off or imitated. And the same is true when we read about Judah. In that sad chapter of his life, when he went into a woman whom he took to be a harlot, but in that context, she, Tamar, asked Judah to give to her his signet. And there we have the same word that's here translated seal. And that signet of Judah was, we don't know what it was exactly, but it had some kind of mark or design or engraving upon it which identified it as belonging to Judah and to no one else. And so that later on when it is produced and brought forth, it's unmistakable. that here's the evidence that Judah had given his personal seal unto Tamar. And so, we ought to ask Christ for that which is most highly personal. Set me as a seal upon thine heart. It is as if to say, let me and all of my needs and my necessities make a unique impression and mark upon thy heart, O Savior, so that I will be there in an indelible and unmistakable impression upon your heart. And this is what every poor sinner should be seeking, should be asking and seeking and knocking. O Christ, give unto me a special room and place in your care and affections. So we should ask something that's highly personal. We should ask for something that is very intimate. Here in these words we ask for a place in Christ's innermost and most tender affections, in the seed of his life, because if you think about your physical heart, It continually, in an unseen way, is pumping and moving the lifeblood through your body. And so the heart is the fountain of life to beseech the Savior and to say, set me as a seal upon thine heart. It is to say, let your heart beat for me. Let the wellspring of all your dealings towards me be that of love. Let all your actions towards this poor sinner be governed and regulated by love. And where there is affection, there is protection, because We say, set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm. So if we're in the seat of Christ's affections, then we will also be under the protection of his mighty arm. The same arm that moves the galaxies will be engaged to protect and support us if we are lodged in the affections of the Savior. We're asking for something that is intimate, We're asking here for something that is inviolable, because a seal has to do with making something tamper-proof. In the examples that I mentioned, the seal of Ahab was employed to be impressed upon this letter that was sent in his name, so that no one could get in there and change it. The word seal has to do with shutting something up. It appears earlier in this Song of Solomon chapter 4 verse 12, a description of the bride as a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. That is shut in and hand in. so that no one can get in there and tamper with that spring. Well, the same is true also now when we should ask and seek of the Savior. Set me as a seal. That is, give me an indelible and an inviolable place in your heart and in your affections. We use the word set. Set me as a seal. Put me. Lodge me. cause me to abide permanently there in your heart and upon your arm. It is not as if by our petitions that we ever cause in any way that the Savior should begin to love us. No, no. Because actually it is His eternal love that brings it about that we even ask at all. But yet He's pleased when we ask. Our prayers are a means. And so we ought to ask. Give me a permanent, inviolable place in the seed of your affections. Let nothing separate me from the love of Christ, neither tribulation, nor distress, nor persecution, nor famine, nor nakedness, nor peril, nor sore. And as we've gone through this Song of Solomon, we've seen the ups and downs of a life of communion with Christ on the part of, indeed, a true believer. There's the neglect of chapter 5 and the sleepiness. at the advances of Christ and the consequent desertion and the withdrawing away of Christ. They're experienced, we've seen in the Word, and we know it from experience too, that there are ups and downs in a life of walking with Christ. There is a danger of stirring up and awaking Our beloved and interrupting and grieving the Holy Spirit. There's a danger of it. At times we're more watchful against it. At times, other times, less watchful against it. And this is the need that we have to seek this inviolable, unbreakable connection with Christ and why we ought to ask. to be set as a seal upon His heart. We ask for something inviolable. We ask for something that is also visible. And this would especially become obvious when you think about the idea of a seal set upon an arm, which is in an open place of the body. And actually we have an expression in English, we say that some people wear their heart on their sleeve. This is exactly the kind of language that's being employed. Set me as a seal upon thine heart, in your inward seat of affections, and then upon your arm, on your sleeve, to be worn for all the world, indeed, to see that you love me. And when we think about the biblical idea of a seal, we recognize there's references to the sealing of the Spirit. There's references to sacraments, which are seals, like Romans 4, circumcision, Old Testament sacraments called a seal. The same is true of our New Testament sacraments, that they are seals, that they serve to confirm. So this petition is a petition to the Savior to confirm to me your love. And this is what every believing soul should seek and indeed does in one measure or another. Seek not only Is it desirable to be in the affections of Christ but to know that I am in his affections and to see myself as worn as a seal upon his heart and upon his arm? So we ought to ask for something that is personal, intimate, inviolable, and visible in this petition unto the Savior. Let me try to open this up to you a little bit more. and point out some scenes, if you will, where in this setting of the believer upon the heart and arm of Christ is accomplished. So one of the scenes is the typology of the Old Testament. So the garments of Aaron are described in Exodus 28. And we read there about Cygnus. and the engravings of a signet. And in Exodus 28, at verse nine, we begin to read about two stones. And on these stones are engraven the names of the children of Israel. And then verse 11, with the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet or a seal. Shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel. The children of Israel and Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord upon his two shoulders for a memorial. So if not exactly the arm of Aaron, at least his shoulder, which is a place of strength and of prominent display. And so Israel was literally engraven like a seal or set like a seal upon the shoulders of Aaron for him to bear them up, typically speaking, with his strength. And then also the names of Israel were set upon the heart of Aaron, because then there were the four rows of jewels on the brass plate. And verse 21 tells us, and the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, 12, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet or seal. Every one with his name shall they be according to the 12 tribes. So Israel was set like a seal upon the heart of Aaron. And verse 29 goes on to say, And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place for memorial before the Lord continually. When we look at the Old Testament typology, we see that happening. The Lord's people sat as a seal upon the shoulder and upon the heart of the high priest. We can get little glimpses of this in human experience. I remember my father telling me, as a pastor, he said, I bear people on my heart. That was his way of describing a life of prayer for the people under his care. And that, in turn, is just a very small glimpse of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. Aaron is a priest, and the pastor and his intercession are but faint reflections of Jesus Christ Himself bearing the people on His heart. So when we look at Old Testament typology, we see We see something of this, of the believer set as a seal upon Christ's heart and arm. And when we keep thinking, another scene is the cross. And in effect, the petition of the penitent thief was a petition to be set upon the heart and arm of the Lord Jesus Christ, because he prayed, Lord, remember me when Thou comest into Thy kingdom. And that was a petition to be not forgotten but remembered, to be engraven. He was begging the Savior not to forget him when he would come into his glory at which he foresaw by faith after the cross that Christ would not then in his glory forget this poor sinner. It was as much as to say, set me as a seal upon thine heart. And if I have a place in Christ's heart and affections, then surely His arm will be engaged for me and He will somehow deliver me from this miserable predicament where I've brought myself by my Sin. At the cross, there we see a sinner, as it were, pressing this petition, set me as a seal upon thine heart. And at the cross, the Savior says, doesn't he, that his heart was melted like wax. within his bowels. His heart was melted under the heat of God's anger, but melted in his affections towards his people. That poor sinner found success in his petition. Lord, remember me. And we don't live in that moment. where the penitent thief lived. We don't live in the very hour in which Christ is being crucified, but yet in all of our use of this petition, we should look by faith and fix our faith upon a crucified Savior whose heart is soft, towards poor sinners who call upon Him. When we look by faith to a crucified sinner, a crucified Savior of sinners, then the deepest grief and burden of the heart is taken away. How can I have a place in the heart and affections of Christ being such a great sinner as I am? Well, the answer is that it was for sinners that He came, and we see that most of all at the cross. That's one of the scenes I would have you to remember when we think of praying, Set me as a seal upon thy heart, the scene of the cross. Another scene, To keep in mind is the scene that is presently now in heaven. Jesus as our great High Priest, Hebrews 4, He has passed through the heavens and we have not a High Priest which cannot be touched. with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who was tempted in every way, like as we are, and yet without sin." So Christ still, presently now, has a soft and tender heart towards His people. He, in all our afflictions, He is afflicted. He is the angel of God's presence who is with the people in the wilderness. And this should quicken us to use this petition. Because something actually happens when we use this petition in faith. Because when we consider the Lord Jesus Christ in His Godhead, He's eternal. His love is eternal. And it would be blasphemous for us to think that by our praying we could cause Christ to begin to love us, perish the thought. However, when we consider Christ in His manhood, that He presently now has the heart of a man beating within His bosom at the right hand of God in heaven. And so when we come to Him with petitions like this, remember me, Lord, Pity me. Let me, with all my needs and necessities, find a place in your affections and answer to our prayers. He hears. His bowels are moved towards his people. He hears our cries. He presents our needs before the Father in heaven. Is this part of your life of faith, to seek Christ in this way? Set me as a seal upon thine arm. This is a petition that Christ answers. This is the greatest, deepest desire of the soul of a believer, to have an exceedingly great nearness to Christ. to have a special place in His heart, and to know that I have a special place in His heart, to see myself, as it were, as a seal upon His heart and upon His arm, that I might be confirmed in a sense of His love to me. Moses prayed this way when the Lord was talking about just sending the people up with an angel and he wasn't going to go himself. And Moses said, how shall it be known? How shall we know? that I and this people have found favor in thy sight if you don't go with us. And he succeeded in this petition. And the Lord said, surely my presence shall go with you. And so we ought to pray in this way to Christ. Here we are below. We're encompassed about by many infirmities and we have many daily outbreakings of sin. How shall it be known that we are favored by thee? Oh, set me as a seal upon thine heart. Make me to know Thy love, O Savior. Bless to me Thy Word to that end. Bless to me the seals, my baptism, and my partaking of the Lord's Supper, that it might be sealed to me, that I am my Beloved's, and my Beloved is mine. Here is a petition for the Savior. Do you seek Him in this way? Indeed, it's a suitable petition for every poor sinner. And it is indeed a petition that's proper to the believer. But yet, if you're here and you're outside of Christ, in a sense, this is exactly what you should pray as well. Oh, Savior, receive me. I come, I bring my... I come unto thee. Receive me and set me as a seal upon thine heart. So we have a petition to Christ. And then in the second place, we have the reasons for this petition. The second part of verse 6 and in verse 7. As I would outline them to you this evening, these reasons for this petition are four in number. All of them are centered upon love. Love is strong as death. Jealousy is love flaming forth. And then, many waters cannot quench love. If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would be utterly contempt. So, all of these four reasons for the petition are centered on love. And perhaps a question arises in your mind, whose love is it that we're talking about and that's been given as the reason for this petition. There are two options, which is, it could be referring to Christ's love to the believer, Or it could be referring to the believer's love to Christ. Now the Holy Spirit has not chosen to tell us, to specify one or the other. So by my logic, if the Spirit hasn't specified which one, that also hasn't excluded either one. That they're both here. that both the love of Christ for His people and the love of His people for Him are both here, and the one begets the other. The love of Christ is first, and the love of the believer answers back. So, the idea behind it is this. This great love that is described here has this sense to it. It's because Christ's love is so great because it is as strong as death, and so on. That's why we're bold to make this petition to Him. Savior, because You have such love, therefore manifest that love to me. Set me as a seal upon Thine heart. And then, on the other side, this strong love of Christ begets strong love in the believer. And this is a reason for the petition too. Because thy Spirit has kindled love in my own heart, I can't bear to be without a sense of your love. We'll consider then four things about this love. First of all, strong love. Strong love. 4. Love is strong as death. Jealousy is cruel as the grave. So the love of Christ is a strong love. And it was indeed by this strong love for His people that He says that He has a baptism to be baptized with. And how am I straightened until it be accomplished? It was love that propelled Him forwards all the way to suffer and to die for His people. With desire He desired to eat the Passover with His disciples before He suffered. And so His desire to be with them propelled Him forwards unto the cross of suffering. And again, He loved Lazarus. He whom thou lovest is sick. And He came and found Lazarus whom He loved, though temporarily under the power of death. And what did he do? He wept at Lazarus's tomb and he groaned in himself. And the word that's used there describes that he snorted in himself. He expressed deep inward anger and indignation. Namely, against death, he saw the enemy. He faced up against death in the grave, and he was in indignation against death, which had claimed for a time Lazarus, whom he loved. And so by his indignation against death, he's propelled forwards towards the cross, His love was strong as death, His jealousy for Lazarus and for all His people. He would not bear to be without them. He could not bear to have the grave claim them. His love is strong as death. He went forward to face death and to go even unto the grave. Christ's love is a strong love, and that's why we should be bold to pray, Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm. And then, answering the love of Christ is the love of the believer, which is, yes, it's very weak and it's partial and inconstant, but nonetheless, the love of the believer to Christ is a strong love, because the believer, having tasted of the love of Christ, is constrained again to love Christ in return. And the love of the believer back to Christ is a love that is as strong as death, and a jealousy that is as cruel as the grave. That's because the believer's affections are set upon things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. And the believer, through his luck, his constrained love back to Christ, is like one who is dead to this world and buried to this world, willing to endure death and to go through the grave, because by death I'll be conveyed to the presence of my Beloved. Do you have love for Jesus Christ? It's strong love that leads to this petition, and the way to get strong love kindled is by beholding the strong love of Christ Himself. So strong love, but also vehement love, is described. The coals thereof, that is the coals of love, or the sparks or flashes or lightnings of love, are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame." So the burning strength of love is described. Some would even render this phrase, vehement flame, as the flame of Jehovah, which is possible. And so Christ has a vehement love for His people. And perhaps you know that the term seraphim for angels refers to burning ones. Well, Christ is preeminently and infinitely far. above the seraphim, who are burning ones, in His glowing hot love to His people. And His love glowed nowhere more than when He went to the cross, because He was aflame with zeal to God and aflame with love to His people. when through the eternal Spirit He once offered up Himself to God, a sacrifice to satisfy God's justice, His active love, glowing white hot, because of the flaming, vehement love of Christ. Therefore we should be bold to pray, Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm, And whoever has experienced this vehement love of Christ will experience a love back to Christ as well. And if you ask any godly person, they'll be quick to tell you, You know, my love is very weak and very cold, and that's true. But nonetheless, there is a wholehearted love there to Christ that is a vehement flame. And why is that? It's because it's from the Holy Spirit. Christ ascended to heaven. He sent down His Holy Spirit. There appeared upon the heads of His disciples clove and tongues as of fire. And what did the early church do? But it spread like wildfire. It went forth with zeal in the preaching of the Gospel, burning hot in single-hearted affection unto Christ and His cause in the first love of the Christian era. Oh, what value there is in recovering the first love, because there is, you know, where people who keep fireplaces might perhaps keep some coals in the fireplace overnight, burning under the embers, and in the morning they can be stoked up again into fire. So at times it's like that with the believer, that the flame becomes dormant and receded, but still the coals are there. And so we ought through the Holy Spirit and through a sight of Christ's flaming love to us, we ought to blow air upon the coals until they flame forth afresh. Vehement love to Christ. is the source of this petition. Because vehement love can't bear to be put off or to be at a distance. Because love desires union, it desires nearness with the beloved. Where there's true love to Christ, there will be a desire to be close to Christ. There will be a prayer, set me as a seal upon thine heart. Not because I think I deserve this, but rather because I can't bear pray for anything less than this. So there's vehement love and there is unquenchable love. This flame, this coal of love, it cannot be put out by waters. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. That's one of the most wonderful things about the love of Christ, is that it is an unquenchable love. So think of all that the Savior endured when He was going to the cross for us. Psalm 69, he says, the waters come in unto my soul. And in Psalm 18, he says, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. And so he had wave after wave after wave of sorrow and grief coming in upon him. And he was put to the test. Did he love his people enough to keep on going, to keep on pressing into the mounting up waves? Would the troubles quench his love to the point where he would say, enough! I'm out of here. This is too high a cost to pay." Not whatsoever. He loved, having loved his own, he loved them to the end. His love kept glowing hot amidst the waters poured in and poured in upon it. And think about the love of Christ now. It is still this flame which many waters cannot quench. So think of Him. And now He's gone away into heaven, and He's at the right hand of God, and He has poured out His Holy Spirit, He's carrying on through His Spirit, His work upon the face of the earth. And think, believer, how many times it's as if you take a bucket of cold water and you go and you dump it on those hot coals. If you were grilling out on your charcoal grill and you got the coals nice and hot and someone came along with a bucket of water and splashed it right all over the coals, the fire would go out, wouldn't it? Well, that's what we do by sin. Here Christ has heated up His love towards us, and here we come with a bucket of ungrateful, cold sin, and it's like we dump it on the fire. But here's the amazing thing, and it's well for us that it's this way, that the love of Christ is a flame that cannot be doused, and that cannot be quenched, which keeps on burning. Praise God that it is so. Why should we have confidence to pray, set me as a seal upon thine heart? It's because Christ's love is a flame that many waters cannot quench. And amazingly, Because Christ's love is this way, also the love of the believer back to Christ is also an unquenchable love. And yes, anyone who loves Christ will say, oh, how little I love Him, and how easily my affection towards Him is cooled, and all of that is true. But nonetheless, underneath of that there is a real work of the Holy Spirit, which we can't deny, lest we be false witnesses against God. Dear Christian friend, dear brother, sister, can't you testify that the Holy Spirit has kindled an unquenchable love within my heart? And we sang Psalm 42 on the Lord's Day. All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. The difficulties of the Christian life mount up and, as it were, Satan's sitting back and licking his lips and seeing, you know, will the love of this professed Christian be quenched by all the troubles that he's experiencing in the way of following Christ? But wonder of wonders, just like we sing in Psalm 42, we experience God's waves and billows going over us, but there's no one that we want more than God. Our soul thirsts for God as the heart pants for the streams of water. A love Is there not, believer, a love in your heart back to Christ that no difficulty can quench, that keeps sparking back into life, because the Holy Spirit comes upon and quickens you? And through that unquenchable love back to Christ, you can't bear to be far from Him. You're begging Him for the manifestation of His love back unto you. An unquenchable love. And then fourthly, an unbuyable love in the latter part of verse 7. If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contempt, or that is, despised. Being despised, it would be despised. And that's true of the love of Christ. The love of Christ is a love that cannot be bought, as we considered in John 10, just on the Lord's Day. He's the Good Shepherd who gives His life for the sheep. He's not the hireling who's in it for the money. He's not the salaryman. His love did not begin towards His sheep because it was bought by anything. He was not moved or induced from anything outside of Himself, not from anything in you, not from anything that would be in you or was foreseen that it would be in you later on. But it was purely from Himself. Christ's love began as an unbought, unhired love. And still, Christ's love to His people is a love that cannot be bought off or bribed away. So the greatest trickster in the universe came personally unto our Savior to try to bribe Him away. from what the Father had sent Him for, coming there in the desert when He was weak, fasting 40 days. And what's one of the temptations? But the devil showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in the twinkling of an eye, in a moment of time, all these will be yours if you all bow down and worship Me. Can the Savior be bought off? Can the devil, the trickster, come to the Savior and offer Him all the substance of His house? It's a lying promise anyways, because the world doesn't belong to the devil. But nonetheless, all of it is offered unto the Savior. Can He be bribed away? instead of loving your people unto going to the cross for them and dying for them, will you come and have all the glory and riches of the kingdoms of this world?" And the offer was utterly despised and contemned. Praise God! A love that could not be bought off. Why should that be? Because, believer, you know that you, and you'll be ready to confess, I'm an unprofitable servant, that the love of Christ was not set upon you because of what great revenues you would bring to Him. No, but despite who you are, He has an unbuyable love to you. And because of that, you should boldly ask Him the petition we've considered. Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm. Christ's unbuyable love and then the love of the believer back to Christ is also an unbuyable love. And you will be ready, a believer, to confess just how fickle your love is, and how many things can, as it were, like a golden ball thrown alongside the path, can distract you from Christ. You'll be ready to say, how wandering I am. But yet, while that's true, there's another thing that's true, which is that there's a deep work of the Holy Spirit, and there has been formed within you a root and principle of love to Jesus Christ, which is wholehearted and which can't be bought away. And you can see clearly, in your clear moments, you can see with the Apostle Paul in Philippians 3 that you count everything as loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ. And whatever you lose for Him, you count it to be all loss and dung if you may be found in Christ. not having your own righteousness, and so on. So, to you, believer, it's true. If someone would come along and say, I'll give you all the substance of my house if you'll just give up this love for Jesus Christ, Perhaps it can take the form of, you know, we think for men. You know, what if there's someone who comes along and he says, you know, I'm gonna promote you. I'm gonna make you tops in my house, in my business. I'm gonna give you all this. Everything I have is gonna be under your control. and you're going to have the position of honor. But there's just one thing, you have to give up Christ, or maybe you have to give up fellowship with Christ on His day, and you have to transgress the Sabbath. I'll give you everything in my house if you'll just give up this obsessive love for Jesus Christ. Believer, you're able to say, by the grace of God, I utterly despise that. All the wealth of your house, you can take it and it can rot with you. I will not give up my love for Jesus Christ. Or perhaps for A girl who's here this evening, what if someday there's a smooth guy who comes along and he has his life all put together and he's got riches and he says, come on, marry me and I'll give you everything in my house. It's all going to be yours. You need to know that around here we're not going to have any of this radical devotion to Christ stuff. We're going to be done with warm love to Jesus Christ. Well, the wonderful thing is that a believer in our Lord Jesus Christ There's also one who loves Christ supremely. You'll hear that offer, and by the grace of God, you'll say, I utterly despise that. You can take it, Mr. so-called perfect, and you can rot along with all the substance of your house. I will not give up the love for Jesus Christ that the Spirit has put within my heart. Where there's this kind of love to Christ, There's a great desire to be near to Him, exceedingly near to Him, to have the love of Christ manifested. Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm. This is the bottom line for the Christian. A desire to have the love of Christ manifested, and a love back to Christ that is strong, strong as death. that carries me all the way to the grave and indeed makes me ready to go across that river of death that I might see the Savior's face. May the Lord bless us, to us this evening, in giving us a sight of the heart of Christ. If in the Old Testament And the church could pray in this way, set me as a seal upon thine heart. Then how much more should we do so now? Now that he's come in the flesh and he's gone for us all the way to the cross and after he died, what did they do? But they took a spear and they pierced it through his side as it were a window open to his heart. And forthwith came there out blood and water. The heart of the Savior towards sinners is now that much the more manifest. Will you not then come? and seek Him, saying, Set me as a seal upon thine heart." May the Lord bless these things to us.