1 Corinthians chapter 7. Now Paul begins here in verse
1 and he says, Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto
me. These were the saints at Corinth.
Saints at Corinth. They were being influenced in
a bad way by false preachers. But they still appealed to the
Apostle Paul with some questions. some questions concerning whether
it's better to marry or to be unmarried. And they had some
questions regarding the duties of a husband and a wife in marriage. Now, they were seeking how they
could best serve Christ. This is what they were doing.
They were seeking how they could best honor Christ. And every
answer Paul gives here, as we go through chapter 7, you'll
see this and you'll see it in our text tonight. Every answer
Paul gives has for its motive Christ in his honor. Everything
he says to him. So, we see from that, this is
for God's saints. Who are saints? Who are saints
of God? God's saints are those that know
they're sinners that can absolutely do nothing to save themselves.
That's who a saint is. He's such a sinner, he knows
he can't save himself. He needs God to save him. God
sanks glory in God the Father because He chose us in Christ
before the world began. God sanks glory in Christ the
Lord because He redeemed us from the curse of the law. God sanks
glory in God the Holy Spirit because we were dead in sins
and He regenerated us and gave us life and faith in Christ.
God sanks don't glory in the flesh. We don't put any confidence
in our flesh. Our glory is Christ. He's our
righteousness and He's our life. And so saints want to know how
we can best serve Christ. Saints order their lives around
Christ. They order their lives around
Christ. They order their lives around the worship of Christ.
That's what a saint of God does. They want to know what's the
best way in my life I can serve Him and not be distracted from
Him and avoid sin that would dishonor Him. And the reason
God's saints feel this way is because Christ really is our
life. He really is our life. We were
on the way over here and Will was telling me a story about
a friend of his at school that was asking him why Will had the
opinion he had on a certain subject. And Will said, because God says
it in the Scriptures. And the boy said, well, can you
give me another reason besides that? And he said, I don't have
another reason beside that. I don't need another reason beside
that. If there was 99,000 people standing on one side of a room
and every one of them were saying, this is right because we think
it's right, and there's one saint of God standing on the other
side of the room that said, but that's not what God says and
I'm siding with God. That saint would be right and
the 99,000 would be wrong. Don't believe everything you
hear in this world. Don't believe everything you hear. Now, when
it comes to the question of remaining unmarried or of marrying, of
which is the best, when it comes to questions concerning the duties
of husbands and wives to one another, the motive for God's
saints is to do whatever best honors the Lord Jesus Christ. That's the rule, and we do that
while avoiding anything that would bring dishonor on Christ.
There's no hard and fast rules or precepts given that says you
have to do this, you can't do that. There's a principle given
which is far better. There's a spirit given that's
far better that teaches you do what you do for the glory of
Christ. That'll stand fast in any situation
you face. That'll stand fast. Alright,
I've titled this Happily Unmarried, Happily Married. And that's basically
our two points. We have a word here to the unmarried
and then a word to the married. Now to the unmarried saints,
and this is important to know now, remember this is to saints.
Only God's saints can enter into this. This is for God's saints.
Should a child of God remain unmarried or should they marry?
Verse 1, the second part, he says, it is good for a man not
to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication,
let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her
own husband. Now, there are some people who
God gifts. He gives them a gift. It's a
gracious gift, a gift of grace. And God gives this gift of self-control. He gives the gift of temperance,
of continence, so that a person is able to avoid fornication.
He doesn't have those desires for fornication that can overcome
him. He's self-governed by God's grace
and God's power. And it's good for this person
that gifts given so that he can remain unmarried. Now that was
the case with Paul. That was the case with Paul.
Paul was not married. But it's not a requirement that
a believer remain unmarried. It's not a law that a believer
has to remain unmarried. There's no law saying they have
to marry. Only false teachers forbid marriage. Only false teachers
do that. Paul said that in 1 Timothy. I believe that days will come
when false teachers will arise and they'll forbid folks to marry.
That's a false teacher. And then it's important to know
this too. Remaining unmarried doesn't make you holy. And it
doesn't make you more holy than others to remain unmarried. You
know, so-called priests You know, they try to act like they're
holier than everybody else because they're not married. Monks and
what have you that live off to themselves in monasteries acting
like they're more holy because they're not married. It doesn't
make you more holy not to be married. Christ is our sanctification. Christ makes us holy. And when
Christ enters into you from the moment Christ dwells in your
heart, you're not more holy and not going to be more holy than
you are then. Christ is our holiness. He's our sanctification. This
word applies to saying to God's given the gift of temperance.
Along with the gift of a desire to serve Christ and honor Christ
more fully. Without having the... Because
you know, a husband or wife has responsibilities. A husband has
responsibilities of his wife, his children. You see, he gave
Paul this gift of temperance and Paul never had a wife so
he didn't have those responsibilities. So he could just devote all his
time and attention to serving the Lord. We'll see a word on
that later in this chapter when we get to it. But here's what
I want you to see now. But if God has not given you
that gift, and not everybody has it. Most people don't have
that gift. And if God hasn't given us that
gift, He says, nevertheless, to avoid fornication. Sex outside of marriage. To avoid
it. Let every man have his own wife. And every woman have her own
husband. Now look down at verse 6. Paul
says, but I speak this by permission and not of commandment. Now understand,
Paul is speaking by the Spirit of God. The Spirit of God gave
him permission to speak this. He's speaking inspired by the
Spirit of God. God the Holy Spirit gave him,
moved him to write, it's good not to touch a woman, not to
have those needs and not to be married and what have you. That's
good if you've been given those gifts. But this was not an express
command that Christ spoke. That's what he means. When Christ
walked this earth, He didn't expressly say, it's good for
a man not to touch a woman. He didn't expressly say that.
Paul said, but the Holy Spirit's moved me to write this and I
have this by permission that I can say this because it's true.
You understand that? So, He is speaking by the Spirit
of God, but this wasn't expressly commanded by Christ. Now look,
verse 7. The apostle was given that gift,
and he says this, I would that all men were even as myself. I would that all men were like
me, that they could serve Christ without any distraction like
I can. That's what he's talking about. And he says, but every
man hath his proper gift of God. One after this manner, another
after that. You see that? God gives gifts
according to His grace and different gifts to different one of His
saints. So He gives one after this man and another after that.
I say therefore to the unmarried and the widows. Now here's His
conclusion to the unmarried. Those that have never been married
and to the widows. Those whose husbands have died.
He says it is good for them if they abide even as I. That's
good. You'll have no distraction. You
won't have any of the responsibilities of this family. He says, but if they cannot contain,
if they cannot contain, let them marry, for it's better to marry
than to burn. That word contain. When preparing
themselves for big games, to compete in large events, athletes
would do what they called containing. What it meant was they would
abstain from food that wasn't good for them. They would abstain
from wine and liquor. They would abstain from sexual
indulgences. That's what the word means and
that's how it's being used here. And Paul says now, It's good
if you can abide, says Paul, but if you cannot contain, let
them marry, for it's better to marry than to burn. It's better
to marry than to burn in your lust, to be distracted by your
lust, and it's better to marry than to one day be cast out as
a fornicator and a whoremonger from God. Alright, now notice
here how much emphasis he put on avoiding fornication. That's
the point here, is to avoid fornication. Now, why did he do that? Well,
God instituted marriage as a picture of the union of Christ and His
bride. You know, Isaiah 54, 5, it says,
Thy maker, thy creator is thy husband. He's thy husband. The Lord of hosts is his name.
He's thy redeemer. He's the Holy One of Israel.
He's the God of the whole earth. He's our husband, the husband
of His bride, His church. God chose a people and gave them
to Him and that church, that bride makes up Christ's bride. Thy maker is thy husband. And
Christ saved His bride from this very awful spiritual sin. He saved His bride from fornication.
That's what he said. All our sins are committed against
Christ our husband. And all our sins are spiritually,
all our sins are fornication. We played the harlot against
Christ our husband. When we sinned in Adam, that's
what we did. We committed fornication against
him. We fell. And all our sins are spiritual
fornication against him. All our sins are against Christ
our husband. Now listen to this carefully.
Since marriage is the best picture of Christ and His bride, therefore
sex outside of marriage, fornication, is among the worst of sins before
God. It's denying this union that
God ordained to picture our need of Christ. That's what it's denying.
It's an example of a man saying, if that sin could speak, it's
like saying, I don't need Christ. I don't need Christ. I'm not
going to follow any institution of God. I'm not going to do anything
that honors Christ and glorifies Christ. And so it's such a wicked
sin because marriage, the opposite of marriage, and it's a picture
of Christ and His bride. Now, even though we sinned and
we were awful sinners, we were like Gomer. You know how the
Lord sent Hosea to Gomer? And she went away to her lovers
soon after they were married. She bore him some children. She
went back to her lovers. And yet after we sinned, after
we did that, Christ still came to this earth. He came to this
red light district that we live in. Just like he came to Corinth.
You know what the word Corinth means? It means harlots. Because that's what Corinth was
known for. Fornication. That's what it was
known for. You could put that name on this
world. Call this world Corinth. And yet God sent Paul to that
red light district called Corinth and he saved his bride out of
that. Christ saved his bride out of that. And he sent Christ
into this world and Christ saves his bride out of this world everywhere
that we are. All his people. He did it by
coming and living in all righteousness before God under the law. As
our representative head, in our room instead. This is our husband
doing this for us. Can you imagine that? Husbands, just think of the love, just
think of the unchanging everlasting love of Christ that he yet went
and loved his bride even after we betrayed Him, just utterly
betrayed Him in our sins. And yet he came. And he lived
as our representative. He lived in all righteousness
under the law. He avoided every sin, not just
fornication only. He avoided every sin. He fulfilled
all righteousness. He did that which was right because
that's what his heart was to do. He's the perfect man who
is God walking here as our head and our representative. The representative
of God's elect. And then our Lord Jesus Christ
went to that garden. Remember, He said, Oh, I'm pressed. I'm pressed. I'm sore pressed.
My soul is troubled. And He went to that garden. And
He went there, after He had been proven spotless and holy, He
went there to present Himself to God as the spotless Lamb of
God. And He gave Himself to God, laying
down His life, the just for the unjust. The Lord laid on Him
all the sin and shame of His elect. Scripture says, He hath
made Him sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made
the righteousness of God in Him. And so in our place on the cross,
there He stands in our room instead. He's so one with His people,
every child of God can say, that's me hanging on that cross. because
God viewed him as his people, as his offending people on that
cross. That's how, one, he made himself
with us and took our sin upon himself so that now justly God
poured out justice upon him. God made him to suffer all the
hell that his people deserved to suffer when he hung on that
cross. God made him to suffer separation from God. And he willingly
did it. He willingly did it. He hung
there bearing all the stripes that justice demanded be inflicted
upon an offender. And this was one who did no sin. He had our sin on him. That's
why God was just to do this. And yet he was holy, he was fulfilling
the law, he was satisfying justice for his people. And when he at
last had satisfied justice, he cried out and said, it is finished. And then he gave up the ghost. He commended his spirit to the
Father. And then our holy high priest,
our immaculate holy high priest, higher than the highest, ascended
to God and entered into the presence of God in the holiest of holies,
not with the blood of bulls and goats, but with his own blood,
having obtained eternal redemption for us. That's what he did for
his bride. And then he sends this gospel.
He sends a man like Paul. And this is why he gave Paul
the desire not to marry. Because he needed somebody to
write three-fourths of the New Testament. That man can't be
distracted. He needed somebody to establish
all these New Testament churches, and that man can't be distracted
with a family. He's got a family. He's got Christ, he's got God's
family, and he's got to give himself to it. And so he went
forth preaching the gospel, and through that gospel, Christ comes
in power in the Holy Spirit, and he robes his bride, inside
and out. He robes us with His righteousness
and His holiness. It's because Christ enters in
and makes Himself one with us in our experience of grace. And
we're one with Him. And then when He does that, He
says to you what Hosea said to Gomer. He said this. Listen to this. Hosea 3, verse
3. I said unto her, Thou shalt abide
for me many days. Thou shalt not play the harlot,
thou shalt not be for another man, so will I also be for thee."
He says, you're mine now and I'm yours and you won't be for
another. And He does this affectionately
in our hearts. This is what makes them say, now what's best for
us that we might honor Christ? What's going to be best for us
so we can serve Christ and honor Him and avoid anything that will
dishonor Him? Look over to Ephesians 5.25 and
hold your place in Ephesians 5. We're going to come back. Listen to this. Husbands, love
your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself
for it. Christ loved the church and gave
himself for it that he might sanctify and cleanse it. He might
cleanse us from our fornication. with the washing of water by
the Word, that he might present it to himself a glorious church,
not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should
be holy and without blemish." That's what Christ did. And so
Paul's desire for the Corinthians and his desire for all believers
is this. He said, I'm jealous over you
with a godly jealousy. because I've espoused you to
one husband, one husband, that I may present you a chaste virgin
to him." Not as a fornicator, a chaste virgin to him. And so,
he's saying here now, if God's given you this gift to where
you can avoid fornication, and you can serve Christ, and your
desire is to serve Christ, then don't let anybody tell you you
have to be married. It's just as honorable to serve
God unmarried if He's given you this gift, so you can avoid sex
outside of marriage and serve Him honorably. But if not, He
says to avoid fornication, you should get married. Listen to this scripture from
Hebrews 13, verse 4. Marriage is honorable in all,
and the bed is undefiled. Bed's undefiled. There's no such
thing as fornication between a husband and a wife. The bed
is undefiled. But whoremongers and adulterers,
God will judge. Those that are without. So that's
why it says, if you can abstain, do. If you've given that gift
by God. But, if not, then marry. Alright now, here's a word to
husbands and wives now. Verse 3. 1 Corinthians 7 and verse 3. He
says, let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence. That word benevolence means kindness,
goodwill, love, affection. And here it means union in the
marriage bed. Union in the marriage bed. And
he says likewise also the wife unto the husband. The wife hath
not power, that's the word's authority. She doesn't have authority
over her own body, but the husband. And likewise also, the husband
hath not power of his own body, but the wife. Defraud ye not
one the other. Do not rob ye one the other. Now, notice that word before
benevolence. It's do. Do benevolence. That means it's justly owed.
It's justly owed. Now, why is that? You know, when
you read this, a lot of people get all embarrassed and think,
well, this is talking about that marriage union in the bed between
a married couple and they think, oh, that's dirty or something.
No. This is to glorify Christ. That's why He calls it due benevolence. It's what's due. It's what's
due. It's justly due because God the Father ordained a husband
and wife to be one flesh. And it's due because God says
it is. And then number two, it's due
because husband and wife entered a covenant when they stood before
God and got married and made a vow. They entered into a covenant
with one another and before all their friends that they would
justly give this to one another. And so It's also justly owed
because in all of this, it typifies the Lord Jesus Christ and His
bride. It's so due that if it's not given, it's called robbery. It's called defrauding one another,
robbing one another of that which is their just due. Look over
at Genesis 2 just a minute. Let me see if I can show you
this in the scripture. You remember how God made a woman for Adam
in the garden? Genesis 2 in verse 21. Let me read, hold on, Genesis
2. Let me read verse 18. The Lord God said,
it's not good that the man should be alone. I will make him a help
meet for him. I will make him a help meet for
him. Alright, look down at verse 21.
And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and
he slept. And he took one of his ribs,
and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the rib which the
Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought
her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone
of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. Now pay attention to that
right there. This is God ordaining the first
marriage between a man and a woman, right here. And this is what
Adam said when God brought her and presented her to him. This
is like his marriage vow, like a covenant he made. He said,
this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall
be called woman because she was taken out of man. Therefore,
Now this is what marriage is all about. Therefore, for this
reason shall a man leave his father and his mother. That relationship
is severed as far as the mother and the father now telling the
son or daughter what to do. That relationship is severed.
And if you, because you think about it, if you tell your son
or daughter what to do and it goes opposite to what their spouse
He's thinking, and what they've been talking about, all that's
doing is creating, planting a seed of division. That's all that's
doing. So he's to leave his father and his mother. Now, look what's
this, and to cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh. Now turn it back to Ephesians
5. That is what Christ did to make his bride one flesh with
him. On that cross, God made Christ to enter into a deep sleep.
He laid down His life. He died on that cross. He died. Remember in Adam's side, He made
the woman and God allowed that centurion to come up there and
pierce His side and that water and that blood came out of His
side. That's showing you how His bride was made. His bride
was made by the water and the blood. Christ didn't, let me
tell you something, Christ didn't marry the harlot we were in Adam. Christ making us all together
new. He's married a chaste virgin that He made to be so. And He
did it through that wounded... He's being wounded for His people. And that was picturing that wounded
side, that blood and that water, that sanctification, that righteousness
of Christ. And then through this Gospel,
He draws us to Him just like God brought the bride and gave
her to Adam. And Christ makes the declaration,
this is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh. And so it's
for this reason that God ordained marriage. It pictures Christ.
Now look at Ephesians 5.28. This is where I should have read
Hosea to you. Because that's what Christ says
when He draws you. You will be for me and not another man and
I will be for you and not another woman. Now look here at Ephesians
5.28, So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. Just like that's your body. Just
like her body is your body. Just like your wife is your own
body. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever
yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it,
even as the Lord does the church." Now, listen, that's what he's
saying a man ought to do. He ought to nourish and cherish
a woman as his own body. Give her due benevolence as his
own body. What her needs are, that's his
needs. What she desires, that's what he desires. Whether he feels
like it or not, if that's what she desires, that's what he desires.
And it's to be to love her and to provide for her, to nourish
her and cherish her. Now look at this. He said, even
as the Lord the church. Now look at this. Watch this
now. Why was that written over there
in Genesis 2? Here's what it was talking about. For we are
members of Christ's body, of His flesh and of His bones. You see, that's what God was
picturing over there when He made Adam. For this cause shall
a man leave his father and his mother, and shall be joined unto
his wife, and they too shall be one flesh." This is a great
mystery, Paul says. But what I'm speaking about is
concerning Christ and the church. I'm talking to you more about
Christ and the church than I am a husband and a wife. We're bone
of His bone, and flesh of His flesh, and His body is one with
our body. We're one together. We're one
with each other. And he said, this is a great
mystery. You know, when Christ enters in, that's when the new
man is born. And really, the new man is Christ
in you. Well, is it Christ or is it a new man created in me?
Yep, that's what it is. How can you explain that? It's
a great mystery. Christ said, God in me and I
in you, that you might be made perfect in one. This is a great
mystery. He said, I'm speaking concerning
Christ and the church. That's what marriage pictures. That's
what marriage pictures. And he says there that two shall
be one flesh. We're one. So that's what you're
picturing with marriage when a couple is rendering due benevolence
to one another. That's the picture in the marriage
bed of being made one. He says there in verse 33, Nevertheless,
let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself,
and the wife see that she reverence her husband. See, Christ is brighter
one flesh, so He gives us our due, doesn't He? What's our just
due? Righteousness and holiness and
peace and reconciliation, life, preservation, Eternal glory. He's given us our due benevolence
because we're one with Him. He loves us as He loves Himself.
And His bride doesn't have authority over our body. Do we have authority
to say, well, I'm not going to give Christ the glory that's
due unto Him. I don't feel like it today. I'm not going to do
it today. You don't have that authority. Christ has authority
over your body. Not you. You're bought with a
price, Paul said. Glorify God in your body and
your spirit. And he says, and likewise, the
same picture goes with the husband and wife. The husband doesn't
have power over his body, but the wife. And the wife doesn't
have power over her body, but the husband. You see that? It's the picture of Christ and
His bride. Christ and His bride. We're a helpmeet to Christ. We're
serving Christ to glorify Christ in everything we do. Whatever
He needs, that's what He's working in us, and that's what we're
here to do. That's what we're here to do. So now listen, husband
and wife are one, even as Christ is bride of one. So my responsibility
as a husband is to love my wife as I love my own body, just like
Christ loves me. And her responsibility is to
love me as her own body, like Christ loves her. Now, the only
exception, there's one exception, there's just one exception, and
it's so that in her heart and in my heart, Christ might have
the preeminence. That's the one exception. Now
what he said, everything up to this, to the unmarried and to
the married, it was giving Christ all the glory. It was to do whatever
you could do to serve Christ better, avoiding fornication,
or to marry to avoid fornication, and that being a picture of Christ
and His bride. Everything he said up to this
point is to glorify Christ, and this is too. He's saying even
though you're one, and even though you're to love one another as
one, and you to come together in that conjugal union of holy
matrimony. He says, but there is an exception. He says here in verse 5, to fraud
you not one the other except it be with consent, with consent
from one another and it only for a time that you may give
yourselves, give yourself to fasting and prayer and then come
together again Why? So that Satan tempts you not
for your incontinency. You know what we're talking about
here. You know what that means. Now when he says fasting and
prayer, that stands for all worship and service to Christ. And what
he's saying here is, is we're to give one another consent for
a little time so that our spouse might give themselves to worship
and serve Christ. Whether it be in prayer or fasting
or whatever. There's been times I've been
gone from the house for over a week. That's by consent. She wants me to go and preach
Christ to people, and she wants Christ to be honored, and she
wants His people to be edified by Christ. That's with consent. But I don't stay gone. It's just
for a little time. Seems like a long time, over
a week. I'll return at the end of that. We're apart by consent,
but it's just for Christ and for Christ's glory working in
His people. That's what it's for. It's for
Christ. This is because as much as we're to love our spouse,
we're to love Christ more. That's what He's teaching us.
You understand that? Christ must have the preeminence
in all things. Now listen to this and this will
help you. to you who are married or getting married. Listen to
this. Husbands and wives love each other above all. Love each
other above all. But love Christ above each other. That's the secret to a happy
marriage. Love one another above all. but love Christ above each
other. And that's what he's saying here.
That's the only exception where you, for a little while, you
give yourself to Christ, to serve Him, worship Him, and then come
back together. But he says here now, this separation
is only for a little time. He says, come together again
that Satan tempts you not for your incontinency. See, Satan
is, the Scripture says, he goes about as a roaring lion seeking
whom he may devour. And if you haven't been given
the gift of temperance and continency and self-control, and you're
away from your wife for a long period of time, Satan could use
that against you. He could use that to tempt you
to commit fornication. And so he says, every sin that A man commits like that, it's
going to greatly hinder our union with Christ, I mean our worship
of Christ and our communion with Christ. Let me show you that
1 Peter 3, 7. Now look, 1 Peter 3, 7, and I
looked this up when I got here. I thought it might be the case. Our text, my marginal reference
gives this passage as the reference for this text. from our text. And then when I read this passage,
it gives our text as the marginal reference for this passage. So
they're saying the same thing. This is what he's saying, verse
7. 1 Peter 3, 7. Likewise, ye husbands, dwell
with them according to knowledge, that is, according to love, giving
due benevolence, giving honor unto the wife as unto the weaker
vessel. and as being heirs together of
the grace of life, and here's why, that your prayers be not
hindered." That your prayers be not hindered. You see, you're
going to have trouble worshiping God if you're living contrary
to God, if you're committing fornication and going against
what God says, going against your wife and all those things.
And so he says, don't let that even enter into the equation.
Don't even let that be a temptation that Satan brings up to you.
And he says, it's okay to part for a little while that you may
worship and serve Christ, but come back together again so that
Satan doesn't tempt you for your incontinency, for your refraining
from giving one another due benevolence. See what he's saying? Because
that's going to hinder your prayers. It's going to hinder your communion
with Christ. So you understand, get the point here. Everything
revolves around what honors Christ. So let me close. This is what
I want you to see. When it comes to the question
of remaining unmarried or of marrying, Or when it comes to
the duties of husband and wives, the motive for God's saints is
Christ and His love for us. That's our motive in everything.
Do whatever best honors the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what we
want to do. That's what we want to do. And
we want to do that while avoiding whatever will bring Christ dishonor. You know what that's called?
You know what Paul called that? Well, that doesn't look like
a rule of legal restraint. That doesn't look like a rule
of law that we're under. That looks like a divine principle
of grace. That's exactly what it is. You
know what Paul called it another place? Faith which works by love. We're working and we're doing
what we're doing in this world because of Christ's love for
us and what He's done for us. If that don't motivate us to
obey our Lord in the areas where He's given us the ability to
obey Him, if that doesn't move us to do so, nothing will. Nothing
will. Faith, which works, being constrained
by the love of Christ. All right, brethren.