Take your Bibles and turn back
with me to Galatians chapter 6. Galatians chapter 6. The last
time we were met together we started, let's look again at
verse 6. Begin there, it says, Let him that is taught in the
word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. The Apostle here is speaking
to you and I who have been taught by God. If you believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ, this is not something you learned naturally. This is not something you learned
academically. This is something that God, by
the power of His Spirit, gives you a new heart, a new nature
by which now you believe. You were taught of God. Jesus
said, no man cometh to me except the Father which has sent me.
Draw him as it is written. They are all taught of God. What a wonderful thing this is,
that we should keep this in view as we discuss the effects of
His grace, the effects of love in the heart of His people. This
is what motivates us. Is it not the love of Christ
that constraineth us from sin? It is. It's not the law, it's
the love of Christ. And this is the manifestation
of that love, is that we are taught of Him. How many are not
taught of Him? There are many who are not ever
going to be taught of God. And yet, by His grace, He has
sought us out and taught us. We believe that Jesus is the
Christ. You know, Simon said that. We
believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And
he said, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood
hath not revealed this unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
What a wonderful thing to be taught of God. And we went over
this. The means by which God teaches
is what? Preaching. Whosoever shall call
upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. We know this, how are
you going to call on Him in whom you've not heard? You can't call
on somebody you've never heard of. Well, how are you going to
hear about Him unless somebody tells you? A preacher. And how are they going to preach
except they be sent? The person that's telling you
of Christ has to himself know Christ. He has to be sent of
God to teach you and he does. And then what do you say? You
that believe. How beautiful are the feet of
them that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings
of good things. Glad tidings. Isn't salvation
by grace glad tidings? To a sinner, salvation by grace
is a good thing. And so we preach the gospel and
you are taught of God. And I went over several things.
You know, he said, then let us communicate unto them that teach.
Those that God uses to teach, he says, you should give unto
them their physical necessities so as they might continue to
preach the gospel to you. This is a gift of God to have
a man preach the gospel to you. It is a gift of God. He said
He gave gifts unto men. He ascended, led captivity captive,
and what did He do? He gave gifts unto men. Some
apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and what? Some pastors and teachers. Now,
apostles are the ones that wrote the book. Thank God for them. Prophets God gave like Philip
and others who were given special gifts of understanding and they
conveyed that these guys the apostles were true by the what
by their miracles and by their Wonders and then he gave evangelists
those who set up these churches Wonderful. I'm thankful for them
and then pastor teachers They're the same office for what for
the edifying of the Saints for the work of the ministry That's
what we are here for to serve by preaching to you the gospel
of Jesus Christ to edify you. And he says, let him that is taught. Are you
taught? What are you to do? Communicate unto them that teacheth
in all good things. Now, I want to explain the heart
of the apostle in this. Now consider this, that with
those people that fail, those people that were deceived, Some of them were maybe some
of those that were communicating the gospel, those who were preaching
the gospel. They might have been just as
duped as the others. And so now you've got these people,
now that these preachers who had been duped, they had been
duped just like everybody else, and now that they sought to be
restored, and you know what, some of these self-righteous
people, which is our nature, would say, man, I ain't giving
that guy, look what he did. I've seen this happen where some
of God's men have been duped, they've done some horrible things,
and then God convicts them, God restores them, and what? People
say, well, I ain't giving that guy. And so the apostle says, look,
if they've been restored, they're preaching the gospel, what do
you do? Do you withhold that communication from them? No,
if they're preaching the gospel, what do you do? You give unto
them. that they may continue to preach the gospel of Jesus
Christ. Now, let us look at this next
verse here. He says, Be not deceived. God
is not mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also
reap. We want to look closely at this
exhortation that follows the first one. Now the apostle here
desires full and complete honesty. As we consider the restoration
of our brother, as we consider giving of our heart to those
who God uses to teach us, to preach the gospel to us, listen,
there are many who profess to know Christ. There are many who
profess to preach Christ who truly believe that they are accepted
of God. And you listen to a man preaching
works religion. I'm going to tell you this, he
is very sincere. A man who preaches works religion,
a man who preaches that salvation is based on what Christ did,
and his obedience. That man really believes he is
going to be accepted of God. But in truth, they are liars,
and their religion and faith are vain." They are what? Deceived. Deceived. And those who are deceived, who
are they? They are they that believe salvation
is by the deeds of the law and by the works of the flesh in
some measure. Now like I said, each false religion
has either a greater or lesser amount of works that have to
be done. If you were to say attend the
Roman The Catholic Church, they have a great list of things. Great list of things. And you
may come to a little Baptist church and they may have one
thing. Decision. Free will. Your will. Whatever
the measure of work is, anyone who adds anything to the work
of Christ, that man's deceived. I don't care who he is. Paul
said this, if you be circumcised, previous chapter, if you be circumcised,
if you add circumcision, that's what they were doing in Galatians,
they were adding one thing. Paul said if you add this one
thing, Christ shall profit you nothing. Nothing. And so those who are deceived,
it is no wonder that they will oppose acts of meekness and love. Anyone who believes salvation
is by the works of the flesh or the deeds of the law, they
will oppose acts of meekness and kindness. They will always
oppose the support of the gospel out of love. Instead, all they
do is out of sense of duty. out of sense of a legalistic
bondage and not out of a heart of love. These men are deceived in that
they think that they are superior to those who are less than they
are. They have not yet achieved. And so when They see a brother
or supposed brother that's fallen, what do they do? They want to
press down on their guilt. They want to press down on their
misery rather than restore them. Why? They feel superior. That's
what works religion, makes the natural man feel superior. Think of the case of this man
Ahithophel. You remember who Ahithophel is?
David had a counselor, David the king, God's chosen king,
had a counselor and his name was Ahithophel. Now Ahithophel
was given such wisdom that the scripture says that when he spoke,
men thought it to be as the oracles of God. This man was so wise. But he happened to be the grandfather
of Bathsheba. So when David sinned, instead
of restoring David upon his repentance, instead of seeking to support
God's King, what did he do? He sought his destruction. Out of a sense of self-righteousness,
Ahithophel tied himself to Absalom. and sought the destruction of
David. Now listen, these two men, before
this happened, they went to the house of God together. They were
friends. Matter of fact, David wrote this
in one of the Psalms, he says, My own familiar friend hath lifted
up his heel against me. Which we know was prophetic concerning
Judas. So you see this man Ahithophel,
He had all the appearances of being a child of God. He went
with David. He supported David. Up until
when? Up until David offended him. And when David offended him,
what did he want to do? He didn't want to restore him. He wanted
to destroy him. And that's what self-righteousness
always does. It always seeks to set ourselves above others
and to put others under us. And you remember what happened
to Hithefeld, he died in his sins. Hithefeld was deceived. He was not a child of God. Though he had all the outward
appearances, it seemed. Who was the child of God? The
child of God was the sinner. The child of God was the sinner
who God restored to faith in Christ. And so those who are
deceived, listen, they will not communicate good to those who
preach the gospel. They will always have their eyes
and hearts set on the things of the world. Why? Because they
are deceived. They will always seek to please
the flesh. They do not seek the things that
edify the souls of men, which is what? What does God use to
save sinners? What is the means of scripture
that declares to us? It is the preaching of the gospel.
This is the means. And what does God say about those
who despise the means by which he saves his people? He said,
they that are perishing, they believe preaching is foolish.
It is foolishness unto them that perish, he says in 1 Corinthians
chapter 1. It's foolishness. But to us,
what is preaching? It is the power of God unto salvation
to everyone that believeth. And so what do these deceived
do? They make all kinds of excuses as why they cannot support the
ministry. They will always make excuses.
as to why they will not or cannot give of their time or their money. And listen, I know they feel
justified. They feel justified in doing
so. I'm sure that there are many
thousands of reasons as why not to give to those who preach the
gospel. If you look at me for any length
of time, if you were to follow me, I bet you'd find a thousand
reasons not to give to the ministry of this gospel. Problem is, you're
looking at me as the reason why you should give. Don't do that!
Don't do that. We give unto God who taught us. That's what we give for. We give
for the furtherance of this gospel that blesses us. So they'll find many reasons
as why not to give or forgive. Again, we're talking about two
different things. He said those who are spiritual, what are we
to do? Restore, not press down. What are we to do with this ministry? We are to give and support to
those who preach it, who declare the gospel. So those who are
deceived will always find many things to keep them from the
worship of God and the support of the ministry. But listen to
this, what he says, you may be deceived, but listen to this,
God is not mocked. God is not mocked. God is not deceived by vain words
and loveless professions of faith. He's not deceived. If you want
to deceive me, I'm easily deceived. I want to believe you believe.
I mean, I just do. I really want to give you every
benefit of the doubt so you can dupe me easy. That's fine. One
person you can't dupe is God. God's not mocked. Don't be deceived
in this. That word, another word for that
word mocked is disappointed. I'm often disappointed. And I'm
sure you are too. There's so many that I've seen
come and go through the years. I've seen some come in and I
am so excited. They're there and God seems to
be blessing and everything and poof, they're gone. And what
am I? I'm disappointed. I am. I'm heartbroken. I'm heartbroken
when people leave the gospel. It breaks my heart. But you know
who's not? God. Never disappointed. You realize that God is never
unhappy? You got that? He's just not. He's always content. Perfect. I think of John chapter 6. This
thought came to my office when I was sitting back there thinking
about this. John chapter 6. Remember when he fed those 5,000
and he left them there. He just got up and left. They
wanted to make him king, and he just took off. And they said,
where did he go? And they all got on ships, and
they went across the sea there of Galilee. They came on the
other side, and they said, Lord, why did you leave us? And he
began to preach the gospel. He said, listen, I'm going to
tell you why I left you. Let me preach the gospel to you.
And he does. And what do they do? They don't
like it. So what do they do? They leave. And I know this,
those disciples were disappointed. 5,000 men just came over there.
It seemed like a good start. Boy, we're getting this ministry
started now. Look at it, we got 5,000 men
in one time. And 5,000 men turned away and
walked away. And even, look at me, not just the 5,000 men, but
I'm talking about the 120 who were with him before that. There
was 120 disciples. And they left with the others. Was Jesus disappointed? Was he
discouraged? No. He said, I already told you,
no man can come to me except the Father which sent me. Well,
he reiterates to those disciples, so they're not discouraged. They
weren't my sheep. They weren't my sheep. Matter of fact, look at John
10. Look at John 10. Just so you know, he's never
discouraged. Look at this. He's preaching the gospel again,
telling them he's a good shepherd, and these guys won't believe.
Look at John chapter 10, in verse 24. Then came the Jews round
about him and said to him, How long dost thou make us to doubt?
If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. Jesus said, I already
told you. already told you. And what? You believe not. The
works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me,
but you believe not. Now why do they not believe?
Tell me why they don't believe. Because you are not of my sheep. Now it's not reversed. He did not say You're not my
sheep because you don't believe. You don't believe because you're
not my sheep. The world has it backwards. He got it right. I'm going to
go with his version. So God, when he is saying this,
God is not mocked. When men are deceived, God's not. Don't be deceived
about this. Listen to me. God's not mocked.
He's never disappointed. And so when men will not give
to the ministry of God's gospel, is God disappointed? No. Do you know how much God needs
the money of this world? I'm going to get very specific. Do you know how much God needs
your money? Do you know how much God needs
the good works and religious deeds of this world? You suppose
that helps him out? Do you know how much God needs
the missions and ministries of false religion? Not at all. He needs none of them. He says in Psalm 50, I will not
take a bullock out of thy house, nor he goat out of the fold.
Israel was bucking up against him, saying, I'm not going to
give. Well, God said, I ain't going to take anything from you. I see the wealthy, the false
religion of this world, and the total consumption of pampering
of the flesh. That's what they want to spend
their money on and things on. And God said, look, I'll just
let you keep it. I'm not going to take anything
from you. Listen, why? For every beast of the forest
is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills is mine. It's mine. That's why I'm not going to take
it from you, because it doesn't belong to you anyway. He says
in Jeremiah 27, I made the earth. Now who made the earth? I made
the earth. And listen, I didn't just make
the earth, I made man and beast upon the ground. And I did it
by my great power. I did it by my outstretched arms.
And listen, I have given it to whom it seemed good to me. You have what you have because
it seems good to God to give it to you. That's it. That's
it. All that men have in this world
are given of God is given and God gives it and takes it as
he pleases. God gives it and God takes it as he pleases. You know that all the riches
of false religion have no benefit upon the church. It's astounding to me to even
try to wrap my mind around the riches of false religion. I don't
know, one down the road in Louisville, they've got 120,000 members. It's astounding to me. You know
how much they benefit the Church, the real Church of God? You know
how much they benefit? Zero. They have no effect on the Church
of God. That's a pretty bold statement,
isn't it? Isn't it bold? You think I'd make that statement
without a scripture to tell you I wouldn't dare say something
like that unless God said it? Go to Jeremiah 23. Look at what
God said in Jeremiah 23 about false religion. Jeremiah chapter 23 and look
at verse 32. God's not for false religion. God's against it. He said, I am against them that
prophesy false dreams, saith the Lord, and do tell them, and
cause my people to err by their lies and by their lightness. You see how frivolous The false
religion is just frivolous. It's bendable. It's constantly
changing and fluctuating. Their traditions change with
the times and stuff. It's real light. It's lighter
than air. It's vanity, is what he's saying.
They're vanity. They're nothing. Yet I sent them not, nor commanded
them, therefore they shall not profit this people, what? At
all. And there's the whole point of
it, isn't it? I didn't say it. I'm just repeating it. Say it
the Lord. It is the Lord that says this.
They will not profit my people at all. So how much do they profit
the people of God? They don't. They don't have any
profit. And so let the covetous man keep
his wealth. Let the foolish man fulfill his
lust. instead of walking by faith in
Christ and serving Him. In other words, let them alone.
Let them alone. Jesus said the blind leading
the blind, what are they both going to do? Fall in the ditch. Leave them alone. In other words, don't try to extort
their money or their wealth or their influence. I don't need
their wealth. We don't need their influence. Why? God's not going
to use it. And why should we leave them
alone with their earthly things? Why? Because God's not mocked.
God's not disappointed by this. And here's the proof of it. Here's
the proof of it. For whatsoever man soweth, that
shall he also reap. It's without fail. Whatever that
man sows, he'll reap. It's a principle. It's a universal,
consistent principle. If a man sows to his flesh and
the things of the world, if he cleans to the works of his flesh,
to his obedience to the law, to fulfill the salvation of Christ,
what shall he reap? What is he going to reap? What
should he expect? What should he expect? Well,
look what he says, he said, they that sow to the flesh, go back
to your text, sorry, go back over there. He said, he that
sow it to the flesh shall. What? Of the flesh reap a certain
thing. Corruption. Corruption. And I like the way the apostle
is keeping to this matter of fruits and trees and sowing and
reaping. He's putting it all together
here. So he's saying this, whatever
a man sows, whatever kind of seed he sows, what should he
expect? He should expect the same kind
of fruit. If he sows wheat, what should
he expect? Wheat. If he sows a little amount, what
should he expect? A little return. If he sows a
good seed, what should he expect? Good fruit. So this principle
of sowing has to do with the kind of seed. It has to do with
the quality of the seed and the quantity of the seed. So whatever
a man sows of kind, he should expect the same kind. Whatever
quantity, he should expect the same quantity to be reaped. And
whatever quality of seed, he should expect the same kind of
quality of fruit. So if a man sows wheat, he would
not expect grapes. If he sows grapes, he would not
expect oranges. If he sows sparingly, he should
not expect a harvest bountiful. If he sows bad seed, he should
not expect good fruit. And so it is with spiritual things.
If a man sows to his flesh, if a man sows to his lust, will
he then reap the things of a spiritual nature? Does carnal things reap
spiritual things? No. You reap to a carnal thing,
you are to expect the same kind. Carnal. And what's wrong with
that? Well, everything carnal is cursed. Everything carnal
is cursed. If a man sows the seed of his
obedience to the law, what should he expect, a blessing or a curse?
If you try to obey the law, what should you expect, a blessing
or a curse? Cursed is everyone that continueth
not in all things written in the book of the law to do them.
Should you then receive a blessing by your obedience? No. you sow to the law, you're going
to reap something, a curse, not a blessing. And that man, whosoever
he is, will reap exactly what his fleshly religion deserves,
corruption. He that soweth to the flesh shall
reap the same kind, corruption. So then what do you sow? Are
you sowing to the flesh? Are you walking after the flesh?
Are you trusting in your flesh? Are you believing salvation is
a mixture of works and grace? Then don't be surprised to receive
hell. You sowed to it. What do you
expect? God said you would reap corruption.
God said you would reap corruption. Why should you be surprised? You shall reap exactly what is
sown, and have no one to blame but yourself. Now I want you to know this,
that our giving, and whether it's giving, or our restoring
of our brother, or whatever we do, that does not merit spiritual
life. That does not merit everlasting
life. Our giving and our sowing and
our restoring our brother is only a window to see into the
heart. The restoration of our brother
and the giving of the gospel are the outpouring of what has
been sown in our hearts. Again, if the Spirit has sown
the good seed, then what's going to come out? His fruit. His fruit. Why? Because it's
His seed. It's His seed. And so, like our loving our brethren
and our giving does not produce eternal life. That does not produce
something spiritual. It's just an outpouring of what's
already in it. Remember Ananias and Sapphira? Go to Acts chapter
5. Go to Acts chapter 5. I'll give
you an illustration of this. Two people that they pretty much
deceived the whole church but didn't deceive God. Now in the
previous chapter it talks about a man named Barnabas. Barnabas
was a wealthy man and the scripture says that the church, most of
the church at that time was made up of nothing but impoverished
people. Mostly impoverished people. And
the Lord laid it on Barnabas to sell everything he had. And Barnabas took the money that
he had and he laid it at the apostles' feet and said, Give
it out as you please to those that have need. So these two,
Ananias and Phirae, they see that. They see what prominence
now this man has in the church. And what do they want? They want
some prominence. They want to be in the higher
echelon of the church. So what did they do? Look at
this, a man named Ananias and his wife Sapphira, they sold
their possessions, but what did they do? They didn't do what
Barnabas did. They kept back a portion for themselves privately. They bought a certain part and
laid it at the apostles' feet And Peter asked him, he said,
Why has Satan filled thy heart to lie to the Holy Ghost and
keep back part of the price of the land? While it remained,
it was in thy, was it not thine own? And after it was sold, was
it not in thine own power? Why hast thou conceived this
thing in thine heart, that thou hast not lied unto men, but unto
God? You know what? He fell dead. Listen to what Peter said. He
said, look, when you had the property, it was yours. When
you sold the property, the money you had was yours. You could
have given a portion if you wanted to. You could have kept it all
for yourself. Whatever you wanted to do, it
was yours. What was the problem? They tried to deceive everybody.
They said, we're giving all. We're giving all. And they said,
here it is. Here's all. Peter said, why are
you lying to God? No big deal, you deceived everybody
in the church, but you didn't deceive God. And God killed both this man
and his wife. Why? Because God's not deceived.
And neither is God mocked by a vain show of false professors
who claim to love God, who claim to love the brethren, but don't
support the ministry and don't restore their fallen brother,
and those are just pretenders. Those are just pretenders. But oh the grace of God that
is given to us in Jesus Christ who walked not after the flesh
but after the spirit. Consider the grace of God that
is given to us. Consider the debt that we owe
to the grace of God. We sing that so often, a debtor
to mercy alone. Of covenant mercy I sing, nor
fear with thy righteousness on my person and offering to breathe. The terrors of law and of God
with me can have nothing to do. My Savior's obedience and blood
hide all my transgression from view. And so we who believe on Christ,
we who are taught of God, why do we communicate? Why do we
restore our brother? Why do we seek to follow in meekness
and love and charity? Why? Because of this, there is
therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.
This moves us to give, moves us to love. We don't do this out of sense
of duty Look, if you feel like it's a duty, don't do it. Don't
do it. God's people are moved by love.
God's people are moved by the love of Christ for them. Why do people give to the gospel?
Because they love the gospel. You don't love it, don't give
to it. Please don't. But you know what? God's people
are going to do. They're going to support it. They're going
to sow to it. They're going to give to it.
Why? Because this seed that we sow to, this seed that we give
to, is not our own, is it? This gospel is not our own. It's
God's gospel. It's God's message. It's God's
means by which He calls His elect. This is why we give to this.
This is why we support this. And so we who sow, look at what
he says, go back to your text here, read this with me. He that
soweth to the flesh, what is he going to reap? He's going
to reap the corruption of the flesh. But he that soweth to
the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. What do we sow but what we've
been given? I'm not sowing something that's
my own. The Word of God is the seed, isn't it? In the parable
of the sower, what's the seed? It's the Word of God. Peter says it is the incorruptible
seed. So as we sow this seed, and that's
what I do, when I preach Christ, I'm just sowing the seed. Listen,
is there any sinners here? I don't mean half sinners. I
mean sinners from the top of your head to the sole of your
foot with no hope in yourself. Anybody! Any sinner! Because
that's who Christ came to save. He came to save sinners. This
is an acceptable saying and worthy of all acceptation. Jesus Christ
came into the world to save sinners and Paul said, I'm the chief
one. Come to Christ. I told you that story about the
lifeboats. When Paul was on that ship and
he said, look, if one person gets off this ship, we all die. One person takes a lifeboat and
gets off this ship, we all perish. You know what the soldiers did?
They immediately went and cut the lifeboats. The hope of their lives rested
in that ship. The ship is Christ. And we've
cut all lifeboats. I don't have any other hope. Christ is all my hope. I don't have any other righteousness.
Christ is all my righteousness. I don't have any wisdom of my
own? Christ is all my wisdom. I'm not sanctifying myself. Christ
is all my sanctification. I'm not going to redeem myself.
Christ is all my redemption. I've cut all other hopes away. No other hope. Sink or swim,
I'm in Him. I'll either perish in Him or
I'll live in Him. But all's on Him. And what has
God promised everybody who's in Christ? God swears that they'll be saved.
You know who perished on that ship? Nobody. Just like God promised. This is the gospel, this is the
seed we sow. Christ is all. Christ is all.
Christ is all. I hope you get that in every
message I preach, that Christ is all. And what do we want to do with
this message? You want to keep this in? You want to keep it to yourself? Our Lord said you don't take
a candle and put it under a bushel. What do you do with a candle?
Put it in the highest place so that light fills the room. What
do we do with this seed that we've been given? We sow it.
We sow it at a venture. Knowing this, it is of the Spirit
and the Spirit will give us life everlasting. That's my hope. My hope is not in my sowing.
My hope is in the seed. My hope is in Christ. So I ask you this. Do you have
any confidence in the flesh? Any confidence whatsoever? I don't. I don't have any confidence in
this flesh. None whatsoever. Are you truly fully trusting
in Christ alone? No hope in any of your own obedience. Do you love the gospel of Jesus
Christ? Is there anything more needful
in this world? Listen to me, we're having elections
soon. You think that's the most needful thing? It's not. What sinners need is Christ. And God's people should have
a heart Because we know what it is to be a sinner. I know what it is to need grace. Would to God that He would save
many. And so, as we see the seed that
we give to, the seed that we sow to, it is good seed, isn't
it? It is good seed, it's the Word of God. Don't give to someone
sowing bad seed. Don't do that. What should we expect? If you
sow good seed, what are you going to get? Good harvest. Now you
sow little, what are you going to get? If you sow much, what
are you going to get? It's a principle that God said
this. And look, in all this, God's not mocked. And he's going to continue on
telling you this. Look, it's going to be tough. Sowing this
seed of the gospel is tough. It's going to cost you, isn't
it? Which one of you believers have
not suffered? We suffer. We suffer for the
furtherance of the gospel. And he says this, don't be weary
in well-doing. I know everything seems against
you, but we will reap. What? Life everlasting in due
season. When it's time, you'll get the
reward of it. And who gets the glory for it?
Christ. Christ. We'll deal with that
section next. May God add to blessing the reading
and studying of his word. I pray that God give us hearts
of love and desire that others come to Christ. I do. I long for this whole city
to come. I do. I pray that they would, if God
be gracious. Let's stand and be dismissed
in prayer. Our gracious Father, dismiss
us with Your mercy and grace and pour out Your Spirit in a
way that You would apply the Word. I pray You'd forgive me
of my sins even in the message. Father, I pray you would take
the word and effectually use it for the furtherance of your
gospel, for the comfort of your children, to know this, that
the seed that you've given us is good seed, and it will accomplish
what you send it to do, and that's give life to your people, faith
and love. I pray for this congregation
that you would instill love and unity and the Center of our love
and unity is not each other but Christ. I pray you do this for
your own glory in Jesus name.