Let's open this morning's service
with a hymn from our Spiral hymn book, number 22, For the Glory
of His Grace, number 22. Let's all stand together. Ruined by the fall, Adam's sin
defiles us all. By our deed, as by our birth,
we deserve the law's great curse. Helpless, hopeless, sinners we,
never can our souls retreat. But the blessed Son of God Came
as man in flesh and blood He fulfilled the law's demands And
in death stretched out his hands On the cross of Calvary Christ
redeemed and set us free In the time which God had set, the Spirit
came for His elect to regenerate and call from the ruin of the
fall. By His power and by His grace,
we were born for God's own praise. Now your purpose we fulfill,
Saved according to your will. Sing this song of joyful praise,
For the glory of your grace. Blessed, holy, triune God, Hear
our praise through Christ our Lord. Please be seated. Good morning. We're going to
be in Acts chapter 24, the first hour this morning, if you'd like
to open your Bibles with me. Acts chapter 24. Let's go to the Lord in prayer
and ask His blessings on our time together. Our gracious, glorious Heavenly
Father, What we just offered in song
is the hope of our hearts, and we thank you that you've put
that desire in our hearts to worship you, to praise you, for
you to manifest your grace and glory to us and to show us more
of thy dear son and his accomplished work of redemption to give us
hope in Christ and Lord that you would cause us in these hours
to set our affections on things above where Christ is seated
at thy right hand. Lord, we confess to you that
our attention and our affections and our interests have been so
often distracted from you to the things of this world. We
thank you for this time we can gather together and open your
word We pray that you would open the windows of heaven, pray that
you would come down and visit with us and speak to our hearts,
save our souls. We ask it in Christ's name, amen. We looked a couple of Sundays
ago at Acts chapter 24, verse 14, Paul's confession. And I'd like to pick up there
and, And I hope that what we see in the words of the Apostle
Paul before the governor of Rome by the name of Felix will be
our words, that this will be our confession, that this will
be our hope, and that this will be our exercise. If you'll notice
in these three verses, beginning in verse 14, He says, but this
I confess unto thee that after the way which they call heresy,
so worshiped by the God of my fathers, having believed all
which are written in the scriptures, in the law and in the prophets.
I want us to begin by considering what is written in the scriptures
and by the law and by the prophets and ask ourselves, is this my
confession? Is this my confession? And then
verse 15, and have hope towards God, which they themselves also
allow, that there be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just
and of the unjust. Is this my hope? Resurrection
from the dead. And then in verse 16, and herein
do I exercise myself. To have always a conscience void
of offense toward God and toward man. Is this my exercise? I've titled this message, My
Confession, My Hope, and My Exercise. This is the substance, the end,
and the fruit of faith. The substance of faith. is Christ
and all that the scriptures have to say about him. The end of
faith, the end of faith is the resurrection from the dead. We'll
not need faith when we see him as he is. We look through glass
darkly now. God has given us the spirit of
faith so that we can set our affections on Christ and where
we can see through the eye of faith things that we cannot physically
see now. But one day, when we see him
as he is, and we're made like him, we won't need faith. That's how the Lord ends 1 Corinthians
chapter 13. Faith, hope, and charity, or
faith, hope, and love. And the greatest of these is
love. In glory, we'll not need faith. Faith will be our sight. We won't need hope in heaven.
Hope will be our experience. The one thing that will last
for all eternity will be love, a true, true love for Christ. And so my confession, my hope, and
my exercise I believe all that is written
in the law and in the prophets. Turn back with me to John chapter
five. John chapter five. Look at verse 45 in John chapter
five. Do not think that I accuse you
to the father. These speaking to these self-righteous,
legalistic Pharisees who are calling themselves the disciples
of Moses and looking to their law-keeping, their obedience
for the hope of their salvation. And he says to them, do not think
that I will accuse you to the father. There is one that accuseth
you, even Moses, in whom you trust. No need for me to accuse
you. You're accusing yourself. By
your words, you shall be justified. And by your words, you shall
be condemned. These Pharisees were accused by their own confession. Now, Paul in his confession says,
I believe all that is written in the scriptures by the law
and the prophets. He wasn't saying like these Pharisees,
I believe that my salvation is determined by my law keeping.
He's saying, I believe what the law was saying about Christ.
Look at verse 46. For had you believed Moses, had
you really understood what it was that Moses was saying in
the law, then you would believe me. For he wrote of me." That's
pretty simple. That's pretty simple. Moses was
writing about Christ. And so when Paul makes his confession
and he says, I believe all that was written by Moses, the law,
and by the prophets, I believe who it is they were pointing
to as the object of my faith. He is my confession. Moses himself, was the deliverer
of God's people from Egypt. And so it is, the Lord Jesus
Christ has gone into the very pits of hell and he's brought
his people out of the bondage of sin. Moses was the lawgiver. And so it is, the Lord Jesus
Christ gives us his law in order to show us his glory. The law
was never intended as a means of salvation. The law was intended
to make sin utterly sinful. The law was intended to reveal
the excellency and the perfection of the Lord Jesus Christ. So
when we look at the law, we see our Moses. That's what the Lord
told the children of Israel. I will send another unto Israel
like unto thee. He was speaking to Moses. a lawgiver
and a deliverer. And that's what Paul's giving
confession to in Acts chapter 24. I believe what Moses will
say. My hope is not in my law keeping. My hope is in the only
one who ever was able to keep the law of God. He is my righteousness. He is my salvation. He is my
justification before God. That was Paul's confession. And
I asked myself, is that my confession? Do I believe all that is written
in the law and in the prophets about Christ? You remember when
that lawyer asked the Lord, what is the greatest commandment of
all? And the Lord said to love the Lord your God with all of
your heart and all of your mind and all of your soul. And implied
in that is all of the time. Although that's not said there,
that's what the law requires. We have moments in our walk of
faith when the Lord draws us into his bosom and he lavishes
us with his love and his mercy and we rejoice in those moments.
But even in those moments, we're bearing the burden of our flesh
and our sin. But here's a picture of the Lord
Jesus Christ who loved his Father with all of his heart, and all
of his mind, and all of his soul, all of the time. I believe all
that is written in the law and in the prophets. The Lord Jesus
Christ is my confession. Those glimpses that I have are
quickly faded into fleshly and worldly living and thinking.
But he never had that. The Lord Jesus Christ never needed
to have a vacation. He never needed to have a reprieve. He never needed a change of scenery. He received all of his sustenance
from his fellowship with the Father. And that's the agony
of the cross. What the Lord was praying in
the Garden of Gethsemane when he said, Father, if there be
any way this cup can pass from me, let it be. For all eternity,
the Lord Jesus Christ had had perfect union with his father.
And he knew that when he bore the sins of his people, that
he was going to suffer the rejection of his father, the forsaking
of his father. And he cried out on the cross,
my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? You and I can't
enter into that. We can believe it if God's given
us faith to believe it. But we can go periods of time
without any thoughts about God and it doesn't bother us much. But when the Lord was cut off
from the land of the living, that's what the scripture says,
he was cut off from the land of the living. He lived in fellowship
with his father and he was cut off when the father saw our sin
on him. That's what the law required. It was the law of God that held
the Lord Jesus Christ to the cross. And that law had to be
satisfied. Justice had to be fulfilled.
And that's what Christ did for us. And that's what Paul's saying.
I believe all that is written in the scriptures by the law
and by the prophets. My hope is in the law keeper. My hope is in the law giver. My hope for deliverance is in
my Moses who left the glories of heaven and came into this
world and delivered me from the bondage of my sin. Matthew 5, verse 17, the Lord
said, think not that I came to destroy the law and the prophets. I came not to destroy them, but
to fulfill them. When Paul said, my confession
is that I believe all that's written in the scriptures by
the law and the prophets, I believe that Christ came not to destroy
the law and the prophets, but to fulfill everything that the
law required and everything the prophets promised, the Lord Jesus
Christ fulfilled them. That is my confession. Romans chapter three, verse 21
says, but now, but now, Now that Christ has come, the righteousness
of God without the law is manifested by the law and the prophets. The righteousness of God. How
are we going to have righteousness with God? Not by the law. but
by that one who is manifested, who is made known by all the
law and the prophets, the lawgiver and the law keeper. The Lord, you remember the passage
in Isaiah chapter six, one of the prophets, Probably if we
think about the prophets of God, Isaiah would be a premier, if
you will, prophet who gave us as much of the gospel as any
of the prophets gave us. And, you know, they, well, we
could say a lot about that, but in Isaiah chapter six, Isaiah
said, I saw the Lord high and lifted up. And then our Lord
tells us in John chapter 12, He says this, these things said
Isaiah when he saw my glory and spoke with me. When Isaiah saw, that was the
Lord Jesus Christ that Isaiah saw high and lifted up sitting
upon his throne. So Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel,
all the prophets, all the prophets, point to the Lord Jesus Christ.
First Peter chapter one, verse 10 says, the prophets searched
diligently and prophesied of the grace that should come unto
you. Searching what or what manner
of time the spirit of Christ, which was in them did signify. So we see Moses, Paul saying,
my confession is I believe everything the law says about him. And my confession is I believe
everything the prophets say about him. They searched diligently
by the spirit of Christ that was in them. They understood
that they were speaking of the Messiah. God, who at sundry times
and in divers' manners spake to our fathers by the prophets,
has spoken unto us now by his only Son, the fullness of his
glory. There's, turn with me to Romans chapter,
you're there in Acts, turn to Romans chapter one, Romans chapter
one. Look with me at verse one, Paul,
a servant of Jesus Christ called to be an apostle separated unto
the gospel of God, which he had promised afore by his prophets
in the holy scriptures concerning his son, Jesus Christ, our Lord,
which was made of the seed of David, according to the flesh
and declared to be the son of God with power, according to
the spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead. Paul
begins this letter to the Romans by declaring, this is the one
that the prophet spoke of. That's what Andrew said to Nathanael. We have found the Messiah, the
one that Moses spoke of, the one the prophet spoke of, Jesus
of Nazareth. That's Paul's confession. And
that's every believer's confession. Accused me of heresy, if you
like, but I believe what the Bible says about Christ, about
who he is, and about what he would accomplish when he came
and died for the sins of his people. He is my confession,
and he is my hope. In Acts chapter 10, when Peter
is preaching to Cornelius, The summary of his message after
he preached Christ, the summary of his message before the Holy
Spirit fell on Cornelius and his household was this, to him,
give all the prophets witness. To him, give all the prophets
witness. In the volume of the book, it is written of me. My
confession is Christ and the revelation that God has made
of him in all of scripture. through the law and through the
prophets. My hope is the resurrection. Go back with me to our text. My confession, my hope, and my
exercise. My hope is toward God. Not hoping anywhere, but my hope
is toward God. and the fulfillment of his promises,
the resurrection from the dead, the Lord Jesus Christ defeated
death. That's our hope. He's the firstborn,
the scripture says, among many brethren. And that's not talking
about his physical birth. That's talking about his resurrection.
He's born from the dead and the firstborn among many brethren.
And because he was raised from the dead, so our hope is in the
resurrection from the dead, when this mortal body will be made
immortal and this corruptible flesh will be made incorruptible. And when we see him as he is,
we're made like him. What other hope is there? We
put our hopes in the things of this world only to have them
disappointed. We have a hope that does not
disappoint, a hope that is toward God, a hope that is sure and
steadfast based on the promises of God who cannot lie. This is
our hope. I mean, we have hope for temporal
things. We have hope for our lives and
hope for our children and hope for our grandchildren. You know,
but those hopes sometimes don't go the way we hope they would. This hope will. This hope cannot
disappoint. Look what Peter said. Turn with
me to 1 Peter. 1 Peter chapter 1. First Peter chapter one, and
we'll begin reading at verse three. Blessed be the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant
mercy hath begotten us again into a lively hope by the resurrection
of Jesus Christ from the dead to an inheritance. incorruptible,
undefiled, that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, who
are kept now by the power of God through faith unto salvation,
ready to be revealed on the last time. Scripture says those who are
found in Christ have no fear of the second death. We're all
gonna die once physically, but the second death, is being cast
into the lake of fire out of the presence of God. And those
that are found in Christ because of the hope that we have in the
resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ and his promises, we fear
not the second death. It's been said, those who are
born twice only die once. Those who are born once die twice. We have no fear of the second
death. Our hope is in Christ and perfect love casteth out
fear. We love him. He loved us. He loves us and reveals himself
to us. And he is our hope in that resurrection. I love what our Lord said in
John chapter 11 to Martha, when she said, Lord, if you had been
here, my brother would not have died. But I know that whatever
you ask of the father now, he'll give it to you. And I know that
my brother will raise again in the resurrection. And the Lord
said, Martha, I am the resurrection and the life. He that believeth
in me, though he die yet, shall he live. And he that liveth and
believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? And what did Martha say? Yea, Lord, I believe that thou
art the Christ. that was to come into the world.
I believe that thou art the promised Messiah, the one that the law
and the prophets pointed to. You are my hope." And the Lord
said, I am the resurrection. The gospel is not a program to
be practiced. It's not a plan to be followed.
The gospel is a person. We don't hang the hopes of our
salvation on the sovereignty of God. We hang the hopes of
our salvation on a God who is sovereign. We don't hang the
hopes of our eternal life on the doctrine of the resurrection,
but on Christ who said, I am the resurrection. I am the life. I am your life. Oh, what hope
and comfort the Lord gives us when he draws us to himself. That was Paul's confession. My
hope is in the resurrection because he was raised. This hope will
not disappoint. He opened the grave. He destroyed
the works of the devil. He defeated death by his resurrection
and by his death. Older we get, the more we realize
the truth of what a vapor this life is. I read a cute statement recently,
it said, don't worry too much about getting older, don't last
long. And you know, that's a lot of truth to that. The older you
get young people, the more you're going to realize the truth of
that. You don't last long. Life don't last long. But we have a Christ who's conquered
death. Paul said, this is my confession.
All that the law and prophets say about him, this is my hope. he raised from the dead. And
in his resurrection, when he died, his life is my life. His death is my death. His resurrection
is my resurrection. His ascension into glory is my
ascension. And the Bible even says that
all those for whom Christ died are seated with him in heavenly
places right now. Right now. You know, Our presence
in heaven right now is more real than our presence sitting in
this building is right now. If I can put it that way. There's
more substance to it. It's eternal. It's eternal. Paul said, this is my hope. This is my hope. And we'll go
to the third point, my exercise. the fruit of my faith, if you
will. And John put it like this in
1 John 3, verse 1. He said, behold, and that word
behold means pay special attention to this. Give your undivided
attention to this. Behold, what manner of love the
Father hath bestowed upon us. Upon a worm like me, that God
would love me? That's amazing. You know, the
world, and particularly the religious world, is under the impression
that God loves everybody, and it wouldn't be fair for him not
to love everybody. And the child of God said, behold,
what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon me? That he
would love me? That Christ would die for me?
It's amazing. That we should be called the
sons of God? Therefore the world knoweth us
not because it knew him not. We really are strangers and pilgrims
in this world. And the longer we live in this
world, the more we realize how at odds we are with this world. This world is not our home. And
the next verse goes on to say, beloved now, now, right now,
we are the sons of God and it doth not appear what we shall
be. But we know that when he shall
appear, we shall be made like him for we shall see him as he
is. And everyone that haveth this
hope purify himself. So the fruit of faith is the exercise of the conscience
toward God and toward man. That's what Paul said. This is
my exercise. My confession is all that the
law and the prophets say about Christ. My hope is in the eternal
life that the Lord Jesus Christ won for me by his resurrection. And now my exercise is to have
a clear conscience, to be void. Go back with me to our text.
Let me make sure we're quoting that properly. Acts 24. Acts 24, verse 16. And herein
do I exercise myself. to always have a conscience void
of offense toward God and toward man. If Christ is my confession
and my hope is eternal life, then my exercise will be to have
a conscience void of offense, first toward God and then toward
man. Now there's a big difference
in those two, big difference in those two. And let me begin
by saying this, what Paul's saying is I don't want to add offense
when it comes to my relationship with men. I don't want to add
offense to the gospel. The gospel is offensive. The
gospel just by itself offends the pride of man in that it declares
to him that you have no will in this thing. And that offends
man's pride. What do you mean? I don't have,
I got a free will. I can do what I want to do. No,
you can't. Well, yeah, you can do what you want to do. The problem
is you won't want to come to Christ until he gives you a new
nature. You've got no interest in the
things of God. Your will is in bondage to your nature. You're
dead in your trespasses and sins. It is not of him that willeth
nor of him that runneth, but of God, the show of mercy. So
the gospel offends man's pride because he thinks he can do what
he wants to do. And he can come to God whenever
he decides he wants to come to God. The gospel offends the dignity
of man and that it strips him of his righteousness. It says
to him, you have nothing to offer God. You have nothing that's
acceptable to him. Not your prayers, not your works,
not your knowledge, not your life, not anything you offer
to God for your salvation, the best thing that you could possibly
do. And you're going to go to hell
for it. And that offends man. Man believes
he's got something good that he can offer to God. And the
gospel is an offense to man. So what's Paul talking about
when he says, I exercise myself to be void of offense toward
God and toward man. The gospel offends the intellect
of man. Man thinks he's smart, doesn't
he? Oh, Donnie and I were talking about this this week. We've discovered
a few things in the past few generations, but don't think
that early man was ignorant. No, we are not evolving. We are devolving. Can you imagine
how smart you'd be if you lived to be 900 years old? How many
things you'd figure out in this world? How much time you'd have
to think about the things of God and the things of truth?
Early man was not some ignorant Neanderthal living in a cave.
He was Adam's most intelligent man ever made. And we've been
devolving ever since him. But man thinks he's smart, doesn't
he? He thinks he's so smart, he's so intelligent. And the
gospel offends the intellect of man because it says to him,
you can't figure this one out. No amount of study, no amount
of knowledge, no amount of degrees is going to give you any advantage
or benefit in thinking this one through. God's going to have
to make himself known to you. The gospel is offensive to the
pride, to the dignity, to the intellect, to the honor of man. Man honors himself and the gospel
declares him to be a dead dog sinner. You're just a sinner,
a worm. Oh, how offensive. Believer,
you're not offended by any of this, are you? You're thankful
not to have any righteousness because if you had to offer up
your righteousness before God, you'd be in trouble, wouldn't
you? You're thankful to have a righteousness that's credited
to your account by one who is righteous. And you're thankful
the Lord arrested you and revealed Christ to you. And it's natural
man cannot receive the things of the spirit. They have to be
spiritually discerned. The gospel doesn't offend the
believer, but offends the unbeliever. It offends the unbeliever status
in this world. You know, everybody thinks themselves
to be at least above average. And you know, everybody's got
in their own mind some sort of pecking order that they fit into
with other men. And what's the gospel do? It
puts you at the bottom of the pile. It makes you to be the
chief of all sinners. How offensive is that? The natural
man's offended by the gospel. But here Paul says, I exercise
my conscience. myself to have a conscience void
of offense toward God and toward man. How's my conscience going
to be void of offense toward God? How's your conscience? I'm talking about your conscience.
How's your conscience going to be void of any offense toward
God? God knows every thought that's
ever passed through your brain. He'd do it before you thought
it. How are you gonna have a conscience that's void of offense toward
God? How's that possible? Well, 1 John chapter four. Let's turn
there, I want you to see this. 1 John chapter four. Look at me, verse 17. Herein
is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day
of judgment. How am I gonna stand in the presence
of a holy God and be bold and confident? Herein, herein is
our love made perfect. Herein shall we have boldness
to stand in the presence of a God who knows everything we've ever
thought. Because as he is, so are we. How does a believer exercise
his conscience to be void of offense toward God? By looking
to Christ. Lord, if you don't, the Bible
says we have the mind of Christ. Father, if you don't, if you
don't look to his mind, he loved, you remember we talked about,
he loved the Lord with all of his heart, all of his mind, all
of his soul, all the time. And when we are found in him,
not having our own righteousness, which is of the law, but that
righteousness, which is by the faithfulness of the Lord Jesus
Christ, then the mind of Christ becomes our lack of offense toward
God. We exercise ourselves by laboring
to enter into his rest. We exercise ourselves by looking
to Christ. For as he is, so are we in this
world. The disciple said, Lord, we'll
follow you to death. And the Lord said, oh, I have
a baptism to be baptized with that you know not of. Oh Lord,
we're willing. We're willing to be baptized
in the baptism that you're baptized with. We're willing to drink
of the cup that you're gonna drink from. And they thought
he was talking about, you know, being a martyr and they were
gonna follow him into martyrdom. And he said, and I shall. I shall. be baptized with the baptism
that I'm baptized with and I shall drink of the cup that I drink
of. He was talking about our mystical spiritual union with
him when he went to the cross and we died when he died. And we drank of those bitter
dregs of God's wrath in Christ on Calvary's cross so that all
of our sin has been put away and all those evil thoughts and
everything, all our sin has been covered by the blood of Christ.
buried in the depths of the sea, separated from us as far as the
East is from the West. That's how we exercise ourselves
to be void of offense toward God. You think you're going to
be void of offense towards God by trying to, you know, improve
your life? And I'm gonna get myself in a
place where God's not gonna find any fault in me? Well, there's
only one place that can be, and that's to be in Christ. And in
Christ, God finds no fault. There is now therefore no condemnation
to them that are in Christ Jesus. What hope? This is the believer's
exercise. Our confession is all that the
law and the prophets have to say about Christ. Our hope is
the resurrection from the dead. Our hope is not in the things
of this world. Our hope is in the next. It's going to be eternal. This life is so short. And our
exercise is to have our conscience void of offense toward God and
toward man. Here's what John said in 1 John
chapter three, verse nine, whosoever is born of God doth not commit
sin, for he cannot sin because his seed is in him. How are you doing on that one? Only if you look to Christ, you
have a conscience avoidable fence. If I'm looking to Christ, I have
no sin, no sin before God. Somebody hears that and they
say, well, that that's just going to lead to lawless, licentious
living. No, it won't. No, it won't. It's the only, only power you've
got against sin that there is. looking in faith to the Lord
Jesus Christ for all of your righteousness before God. Now,
being void of offense towards man's another thing. Having your
conscience void of offense towards man, that's the believer's exercise. It means that you don't become
a stumbling block. You don't live your life in such
a way as to be ashamed to the gospel before men. God knows
our hearts, but we're talking about now having a conscience
void of offense towards man. I don't want to... Turn with me to 1 Peter. 1 Peter
3. Verse 16. having a good conscience that
whereas they speak evil of you as of evil doers. And that's
those who hear what we believe, they say, these people must be
living horrible lives. They believe the way they live
doesn't have anything to do with their salvation. Well, that would
lead me to live like I want it. And the child of God says, oh,
I wish I could live like I want it. I wish I could. But they speak evil of us, verse
16, as evildoers, that they may be ashamed that falsely accuse
you for your good conversation in Christ, in Christ. So again, to be void of offense
in our conscience toward God and toward man still comes back
to Christ, doesn't it? We look in faith to Christ, Lord,
restrain me, restrain me. Don't let my life be a stumbling
block and a shame to the gospel. That's my exercise throughout
all of life. You're there in first Peter,
look at chapter four, chapter four, verse one. For as much
then as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves
likewise with the same mind, for he that hath suffered in
the flesh hath ceased from sin, that he no longer should live
the rest of his time in the flesh to the lust of men, but to the
will of God. For the time past of our life
may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles when
we walked in lasciviousness and lust and excess of wine and rivalry
and banqueting and abominable idolatries wherein they think
it strange that you run not with them to the same excess of riots
speaking evil of you. It was a time we could have lived
like that and been fine, but now. No. And the men look at us and think,
well, you just trying to be superior? No, no, no. No, we're exercising
our conscience to be void of offense toward God and toward
man. That's our life. And that's a
daily exercise, isn't it? In one place, Paul said to Timothy,
he said, bodily exercise profiteth little. And what he's talking,
that word little doesn't mean it has a little profit on our
bodies. It means it only lasts for a little space of time. And
you exercise, it lasts about two or three days, doesn't it?
And if you don't do it again, you're going to lose what you got. So
bodily exercise profiteth just for a little while. But spiritual
exercise. The exercise of your conscience
to be bored of offense toward God and toward man, that leads
to eternal life. That's forever. That's forever. My confession, my hope, and my
exercise, the substance of my faith, the end of my faith, and
the fruit of my faith. That's what Paul's, Paul's speaking
for every child of God. Is this your exercise? Is this
your hope? Is your confession? By God's
grace, he called himself at one place, he called himself a pattern
for everyone that believeth. So when Paul's speaking, he's
speaking for each one of us. This is our pattern for life,
isn't it? All right, let's take a break. Okay.