We're going to be looking at
several different passages today, not one particular passage. But
I had a conversation with a couple
of young men while I was gone to training. These are a couple
of guys that I know from the internet and have talked with. and everything. And we had some
good conversations about a few things. And just some of the
stuff that we talked about kind of spurred my thinking about
a few things. And I was thinking about stuff
to bring forth today. And I got to thinking about,
you know, why, what is it? Why do we meet whenever we come
together? You know, why do we meet here?
And what's the message that we are to have whenever we meet
here? And, you know, there's a lot of misconception about
why the people of God gather on the Lord's day. I probably could ask, you know,
10 people and 10 people have 10 different reasons on why you
go to church. For some, Sunday is a evangelistic
day. This is where we try to get as
many people as we can to meet down at the church, quote unquote
church, and we get them saved. They think that this is the place
where we have this big crusade to win the loss, that all these
people are dying, and unless somebody reaches out and grabs
them and brings them into the church and gets them preached
to, then they're going to be lost forever in the depths of
hell. For others, the meeting on Sunday
is a time for social posturing. you know, to be esteemed within
their community, to meet, you know, maybe other esteemed members
of the community, go to that church, and so they go to hobnob.
And I know that's sad to say that. It's sad to say that people
would use the church, and I use that term loosely there, use
the term church there to be a place for hobnobbers. The truth is
that's what happens in a lot of places. I've seen it and experienced
by myself that to be true. And so they come and they give
themselves a somewhat free conscience that they've done their duty
to religion. I know all of us probably understand
what I mean by this, but there are the religious who have a
shell of religion, but their heart, that's just not their
heart. Jesus even said it, you honor me with your lips, but
your heart is far from me. You're nice on the outside, but
inside you're dead. And these people, they have to
come and they have to give their alms, so to speak, in the daylight
so everyone can see, so that they can go away and feel like
they've done their duty to religion. And so that's another way that
people view the meeting of God's people whenever they meet. But there's also another group,
and this is probably one that flies under the radar the most,
but it's probably the most prominent that's out there, I would say.
And this is the people who seem to really have a desire for God.
These are the people that carry their Bibles to the meeting house.
These are the people who desire to be instructed and taught what
to do and what not to do. These are people that have their
ears filled with the admonition to go forth and accomplish. So they come expecting to be
preached to, expecting to be motivated, expected to be given
a charge to go out and do for Jesus. And that would probably
be the majority of what we see in today's modern Christianity,
modern church environment. Tell me what I need to do and
let me get out and get it done. I want to know. Tell me what
the Bible says. Tell me what my duty is. And
then let me get at it. And get going and get after it. But is this what the gathering
of the church is about? Is this why we meet? Is that
why we come together? Many of the day come and go from
church to church. They seek all those things that
comfort them. We've seen it here. We've seen
people come. We've seen people go. They're looking for something
to bring them comfort, whether it be a place where their kids
can be entertained. Maybe they come just because
we use the King James Bible. And I think that that's the reason
that they ought to be here. Maybe they see that we homeschool
our kids and think that that's something that's going to be
adamantly preached here and so they come and want to come because
they're homeschoolers or something like that. Maybe we're a small group and
they want to stay within a small group and they like small groups. There's all kinds of reasons
why people come, but a lot of times they come to find comfort. Those who come to get comfort,
they find it in those things. But the problem with that is
whenever they come to find those things, and they try to find
it within a church, they soon realize that it doesn't satisfy. They soon realize that, or especially
if they come to a church like here, they may find out that
we're not about entertaining. We're not about large numbers. We're not just out there to rope
in as many people as we can rope in just to get a large crowd
of people. We're not about telling people
how they ought to be. That's the Holy Spirit and the
Word of God. We tell them what the Bible says,
but we're not here to give them charges and a list of things
to go accomplish in the name of Jesus. And so they find that
the things that comforted them, when they don't find that, when
their ears aren't tickled, when they don't feel like they're
getting what they want, then they go away. They leave. And so they come to participate.
Some come and participate more than others. They give service
and time. They leave, go back home. They
go back into the world knowing that they've pleased God, been
giving their marching orders. They've left it all at the altar,
so to speak. I don't know if you have heard
that terminology. That was terminology I heard
growing up. Come and leave it all at the altar. We've been
blessed by God, we've been recharged for another week. And so they find themselves churches
that again, they tickle their ears and they give them the comfort
that they desire. Matter of fact, a whole movement
of churches sprung up several years ago called the Secret Sensitive
Movement. And that was their main deal,
is let's canvas what everybody thinks, and then let's organize
and build the church to a program that fits those needs and speaks
to those needs so that everyone feels comfortable when they come
to church. You know, even whenever I was
an Arminian going to church, I never wanted to go to church
to be comforted. I always wanted to go and get my toes stepped
on. But see, that's exactly what I'm saying here. That was a comfort
to me. I felt comfortable being preached to so that I would be
convicted and then go out and perform better. See, even my
admirable one point gave way to you know, a legalistic outcome. While yes, I wanna be here strong
preaching about sin, strong preaching against, you know, not being
useful in the kingdom and all that kind of stuff. You know,
I wanted to hear that, but yet it was so that it would keep
me motivated to keep up my works for the Lord. The more I heard
strong, convicting preaching, the more that kept me charged
up, the more that I would produce throughout the week after I left
the services. So whenever the message or the environment's
not right for them to be comforted, They leave in search for another
place to hang their hat. Some even stumble into a true
church meeting that is meeting in spirit and in truth around
God's word, preaching the word of God. But whenever the message
of grace is preached, whenever the gospel is proclaimed, you
begin to hear the cries of, well, why do you keep beating that
dead horse? It's always about sovereignty. It's always about
predestination. It's always about election. It's
always about the atonement. It's always about irresistible grace. Why do you
keep beating that dead horse preacher? Don't you have anything
else in your handbag that you can pull out? My grandpa used
to call them candy sticks. Don't you have any other candy
sticks? That's your only candy stick that you got is about Calvinism. I think everyone here can attest
to the fact and not only me, but everyone here. We don't talk
about Calvinism hardly ever here unless it's in the context of
talking about Calvinism that someone has mentioned or is proclaiming
or something to that effect. We don't push that as anything
here. But we hear these cries. People
that come in, they have, and I pray that's what they have
when they come here, they have the word of God. They have the
truth being told, the gospel being preached. I pray that's
what they hear, but you hear these things, you know, it's
the same thing over and over again. And you begin to hear people
say, well, you know, tell us something new. Tell us something
that we could go do. Tell us how to live. That's kind
of the new thing nowadays. Just give us life application.
We want some life application. What must, and it's an age old
question, it goes back clear to Jesus' time, what must we
do to do the works of God? We want to know. You're the preacher,
you're supposed to tell us that, right? You're the church, you're
supposed to be proclaiming that, right? You're supposed to be
telling us how we're supposed to be and giving us a list of
things to do to keep us busy. They want anything but the same
old sovereign grace rhetoric. That's basically what it comes
down to. So my question is, are we beating a dead horse? when
we continually proclaim the gospel in its various forms? Is it just a candy stick? Well, I know one thing. I know
that whenever we preach and study and especially when some of the
other brothers have things to add to or mention or preach,
we come from several vantage points. We cover passages of
scripture and we unfold what the Bible says, not about what
our ideas about things say. And I think that's very important
whenever you are looking for a church, is that you find one
where whoever is the pastor, the preacher there, and the men
that are teaching in that atmosphere, that they are proclaiming what
the Bible says. and not what seminaries say,
not what systematic theologies or these little moniker groups,
Calvinist, high Calvinist, low Calvinist, these guys, whatever
you might be, they're not proclaiming systems, they're opening up the
scripture and they're honestly preaching what is there before
them. And in doing so, and I will say
this, in doing so, there will be times as you're preaching. Especially if you're doing it
over an extended period of time, like here, you know, that I've
preached something and then the Lord has brought me into a better
understanding of things to where what I preached back then wasn't
right. And is that preacher, is that
pastor, is that church, not just the preacher or pastor, is that
church willing to put away traditions and follow what the Word of God
says and bend what they believe, bend all that stuff to what the
Scriptures say and not to tradition. Can they change because of what
they understand and learn more fully as the Lord grows them
in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ and the
salvation that He's brought us? But see, what we find ourselves
in, in today's society, is we find people that they want to
find something that ultimately comforts them. And what comforts
them, if you're like me, and I imagine like everybody here,
what comforts you is your comfort zone that you don't ever want
to get out of, right? We like to be in our little comfort
zone. I don't like to get out of this
going out for two weeks and have to sit with people I don't know,
talking with people and being on a plane. I mean, these things
get me out of my comfort zone. I like to be at home. I like
to be around the people. I like to be at my job doing the things
that I'm doing. But to get out and do other stuff, you know,
going back to school, well, I found out this week, I couldn't be
one of those guys that went back to school and finishes education.
I'll tell you that. I'm too old and my mind ain't
there no more to just be able to study and do that kind of
stuff anymore. But anyway, you know, that gets
us out of our comfort zone. We want to stay where we're comfortable.
And most of the time, what makes us comfortable is our traditions.
I mean, even now today, I think back when I hear my family talking
or whenever I listen to messages that my grandfather preached,
you know, years ago or something like that. You know, even that
sometimes is kind of like, you know, your little kid blanket
that you have. You know, you listen to that and you somewhat
find a little bit of comfort in going back to that, what I
knew, you know, even though I know that some of that's wrong. There's
a comfort in going back to what comforts us. But brethren, it's
not about what comforts us. It's about the proclamation of
the truth. We are to proclaim the truth of God, and we're to
proclaim it without any restraints, without any inhibitions. We are
to come to the Word of God, and we are to say, if this is what
the Word of God says, thus saith the Lord, and that's what we
proclaim. And if it's popular, And people
like it? Well, number one, we probably
ought to reevaluate because if a lot of people are liking it,
something's wrong because not too many people are going to
like the truth. But if we see God give an increase and bring
people and they enjoy the word of God and we have time of unity
and fellowship, what a wonderful thing. But if God doesn't see
fit to do that and just leave us with who we have here for
another 25, 30 years or however long, so be it. That's his church. But that doesn't change, and
it shouldn't change, how whenever we meet together, what we're
here for. That never changed. See, if the
purpose of the meeting of the people of God is subjective,
then it's always going to be different. It's always going
to be changing with the winds and the waves of this world and
all the tides of popularity and all the whims of the fashions
and the fads of today. And so, what is the meeting of
the brethren about? Well, to me it seems like there's
three elements that we find throughout the Scriptures and basically
within those three, there's subdivisions that can go off of that, but
there seems to be three things that is there. We come to worship
God. That is ultimately the first
and foremost thing. It is our time to publicly gather
together as a church to lift up and extol and worship our
God. That's the main purpose. The
other is the edification of the saints, the building up of the
saints. Whether it's through the preaching of the Word of
God or through the gifts of those within the church, as we exercise
those gifts, as we serve and love one another, and we bear
with one another our burdens, that builds us up, not only in
the most holy faith, but it also builds us up in an experiential
way. It builds us up in our life. It gives us peace. It gives us
comfort. It gives us help in time of need. These things are physical, outwardly
things that can be built up. But also we come to build up
not only spiritual things, but inward things, emotional things.
A lot of people like to disassociate that kind of stuff with the Christian
life, you know. But brethren, I tell you, we
are emotional people. And what we know and what we understand
and what we learn and what we experience stirs our emotions. And emotion is part of that.
Now, we shouldn't base our things off of emotion. It should be
off the word of God. But brethren, don't think that, you know, there's
not going to be sadness. There's not going to be heartache.
There's not going to be a time where I'm let down. There's going
to be a time when one of you guys are going to let me down,
and I'm going to let you down. And we're going to feel that.
We're going to be discouraged. We're going to be joyful. We're
going to be happy. We're going to be excited. And so those are
emotional things. And whenever we come together
as a brother and sister in Christ, as we meet here together, those
joys become each other's joys. We rejoice with those who rejoice,
and we weep with those who weep. And so that time of coming together
is for the edification of the saints, and that basically kind
of goes in with the third part, the fellowship of the saints.
We're here to build each other up through the gifts and the
preaching and the teaching and the exhortation, but we're also
here for the fellowship with each other. And I believe that
those three things is what we find throughout the
scripture and underneath those can come a lot of different things.
Like underneath edification, we can put preaching, we can
put teaching, we can put instruction, we can put rebuke, reprove, we
can put those things underneath there under the worship of God.
We can put praying and singing and rejoicing in the Lord. telling
of His mighty works, telling of His glory, expressing what
He's done for us. And then the fellowship of the
brethren is where we are just there for each other. We're together.
And so there's a lot of things that can fall underneath those
three headings. But I want us to look at a few things at these
headings. In Philippians 3, in verse 3,
we find a passage of Scripture Ephesians 3, verse 3, it says, For we are
the circumcision which worship God in the Spirit and rejoice
in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh. So what's our worship? Philippians 3, verse 3. Did I
say something else? Oh, I'm sorry. Philippians. Philippians 3, verse 3. I told you I'd let you down. Ephesians chapter 3 verse 3 says,
For we are the circumcision which worship God in the Spirit and
rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh. Now what's that speaking of?
For we are the circumcision Are we still under those Abramic
law of circumcising our children? You know, I mean, that goes on.
I mean, boys are circumcised nowadays when they're born. But
generally, generally, it has nothing to do with religious
things, okay? But are we still beholden to
do it? Is that talking about, no. Is it saying that we're Jews? That we are Israelites in the
flesh? No, it says, for we are the circumcision. We are the ones who are the children
of God. It's an identifier. Okay, circumcision
was given to Abraham as a sign that he had been given faith
in the righteousness of Christ. And so he was to do that, but
there were people within his camp, within his families, all
that stuff that they may have not expressed that, but they
were to give, they were to perform that action on them, okay? Whether they were or whether
they weren't, as long as they were in his household, within
his family, underneath his care, whatever, he was to circumcise
that person. And so there was a ritual that
the Lord had given to them as a type and a shadow and a sign,
and it is not carried out today. We do not continue those things
today. Whenever we talk about circumcision, especially whenever
we look in the New Testament, we find out that the circumcision
is no more the circumcision of the outward flesh, it's the circumcision
of the heart. This is an actual work of the
Holy Spirit in the new birth. Whenever we are born again, the
flesh is cut away and the spirit is there and it is the revealing
of the spiritual life and not the fleshly life. It is the fact
that we are spiritually born, and that's what the circumcision
means. We are those who have been spiritually circumcised. We have been born from above. And so it's talking about the
children of God, and this talks about the spiritual Israel, not
the physical or fleshly Israel. It's talking about the spiritual
Israel. And he's saying here, we are the circumcision, not
the ones who follow all the laws that were given and all the rituals
and the rites, religious ceremonies. No, the ones who are the circumcision
are the ones who worship God in the spirit, not in the outward
flesh, that worship God in the spirit. And they rejoice in Christ. and have no confidence in our
flesh. See, at that time when all this
was being written and coming out of the Judaic system that
had amalgamated into what it was from what God had set it
up in the beginning, coming out of that, it was all about what
you did in the flesh. Those religious priests and scribes
and Pharisees and all like that, They were all about what the
outward appearance was and not what was inside. That's why one
could stand there next to the one who was crying out, God be
merciful on me, a sinner, but yet he's sitting there saying,
God, I'm glad I'm not like that guy right there. And so we worship
God in the spirit. You know, I thought about that
this week We worship God in the spirit. The Bible mentions that
in two or three different ways in a few different verses, but
those who worship him in spirit and in truth. We worship God
in spirit. It's not about the physical thing. Giving alms. That's important. Supporting the ministry. That's
important, but that's not what it's about. Service to one another,
that's important, but that's not what it's about. See, those things doesn't get
us anything. Those things doesn't keep us,
and those things surely isn't going to make us any more holier
than we are now. Matter of fact, those things
aren't gonna happen unless God himself does it in us and through
us. It's Him who works in us to will.
All of our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. We have no good
works, only He does. And only whenever He performs
that. Anything that He does not perform is a work of my flesh,
and it profits nothing. So any kind of worship that we
do, that is not a worship in the spirit, See, we can come
to church. We can open our Bibles. We can
recite memory verses. We can stand up and preach a
sermon. We can sing a song. We can sing a special. We can
play an instrument. We can write a book. We can invite
a group of people from way down yonder. We can go over to another
country on a banana boat and give out tracts. We can lash
our back with Cat of nine tails, we can climb up stairways on
our bare knees until they bleed to death. We can do all these
things, brethren, and still not worship God in spirit. See, a good orator can gather
information and oritate. That's a word. An author can
gather stuff, and we've got tables full of stuff that I've written,
Brother Larry's written. We can write things. We can go
out and tell people about church. But the worship of God comes
from in here. And it comes in here because we have been moved
on by God for what he has done. And it compels us to worship
him for what he is, who he is. I was talking with that young
man this week that I went to school with, and we were talking
about the creation, and he asked me why I couldn't believe it.
I said, because I look around and I see all this stuff. I see
all this. I'm looking out, and we see,
you know, the fog and the haze coming in, and then the beautiful
scenery poking up out of that. And we see all these things.
I said, I look at that, and it's beautiful. And I know that just
didn't happen by chance. I know somebody created this.
And if somebody created this, then that means they are the
creator. And if they are the creator, that means I'm also
created. And if I'm created and somebody
created me, the person that created me is way above me because he
made me. And if he has made me, then he's
obviously God. And if he is God and he's made
all this, He ought to be worshipped for what He's done. And I said, in Romans chapter
1, the Bible makes that very clear. That the whole world,
all of nature, shows forth God's handiwork. And points to the
fact that He should be worshipped. And so whenever we come together,
one of the things we do is we come together to worship, and
there should be no external thing to keep us from doing that. See
these people that come and say we can't worship because you
don't have the right amount of people. We can't come and worship because
you don't have the right amount of children. We don't come and
worship because you don't have a gymnasium, because you don't
have a rock band, you don't have flickering lights, you don't
have suits, you don't have ties, you don't have whatever the case
might be. If they can't worship in spirit
because of something external, then they're not worshiping in
spirit, they're worshiping in the flesh. They're worshiping
on the external. It's about external things. I
can't worship unless the song is at least this beats per measure. Too much electric guitar and
there needs to be more banjo, okay? We laugh, we really laugh about
that, but that happens. It's happening everywhere. We
who worship, we who are the circumcision, which worship God, we worship
in the spirit. See, it first and foremost comes
from a life that has been born from above, who's been given
spiritual eyes to see their depravity and their need for God. And when given that grace, that
grace is so overwhelming and that everlasting love that has
been given before the foundation of the world was given to us.
We're overwhelmed with overcoming joy that just wants to reach
out and worship the God who has made us and has saved us. It says, "...and rejoice in Christ
Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh." We don't rejoice
in Buddha or Joseph Smith or all these other false gods and
messengers. We rejoice in Christ Jesus and
have confidence in what our flesh can do for Him? No, we have no
confidence in the flesh. I have absolutely no confidence
in the flesh. No confidence in the flesh to
get me saved. No confidence in the flesh to
keep me saved. No confidence in the flesh that
I can even serve the Lord to His approval. I have no confidence
in my flesh that it can do nothing. I know that in me dwells no good
thing. And whenever the Holy Spirit
of God teaches us that, the only thing left for us to look at
is the only confidence I have then is Christ. Because if I
can't do anything, and nobody can do anything for me, my hope
is built on nothing less. than Jesus' blood and righteousness. I dare not trust the sweetest
frame, but wholly lean on Jesus' name. On Christ the solid rock
I stand. All other ground is sinking sand." That wasn't in my notes, but
the Lord brought it together, didn't he? For we are the circumcision which
worship God in the spirit and are joyous in Christ Jesus and
have no confidence in the flesh. Turn with me if you would to
John chapter four. Probably sure you guys knew I'd probably hit
that one. John chapter four. We'll read this and we'll take
a quick break and then we'll come back. and the live stream
will stop, and then we'll start it back up here at the second
half. John chapter 4, look with me now. Verse 21, it says, Jesus said
unto her, this is the woman at the well, the woman of Samaria.
He said, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh when ye shall neither
in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem worship the Father. You worship
you know not what, We know what we worship for salvation is of
the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now
is, when the true worshiper shall worship the Father in spirit
and in truth, for the Father seeketh such to worship Him.
God is a spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him
spirit and in truth so here again we see that those who worship
God worship him in spirit and in truth okay they worship him
in spirit we just talked about this is what God puts within
our heart it rises to His glory and exaltation, but it also says
here, and he's added here, that we worship Him in spirit and
in truth. There's a right way to worship
God, and there is a right truth about this God in how we are
to worship Him. If we come in here and we worship
Him, and we worship Him for being a, you know, a purple three-eyed
monster, and just keep insistently, we worship the great three-eyed
monster, we worship the great three-eyed monster, when there
is no place in Scripture that says that He's a three-eyed monster,
well, we're not worshiping Him in truth, are we? Everyone says,
well, that's pretty silly. It's no more silly than coming
in and saying, we worship a God who is not sovereign. It's no
more silly than coming in and saying, we worship a God who
gives us free will. We worship a God who gives us
the reins and control of our destiny. We worship a God who
does not control sin and evil. See, it's no more silly than
that. But yet there are people all over the place, and some
of them are very, very right on the gospel. But yet, to them,
God is atrocious to have even purposed sin and evil. I posted it on our Facebook site,
but Brother Larry had a talk-shoe with Brother Edward Hendry of
a study that he did on Can't remember the actual title, but
it's about evil, the origins of sin and evil. And I was pleased
to hear the message. And what Brother Ed said, I agree
with it. It seems to be of the truth on
what he said. And I thought it was very, Very
good. A lot of what he said was some
of the same things that I've done in our study on that back
during the Doctrines of Grace series. But there was a few things
that he mentioned and brought up that really stuck with me.
And one is when someone denies that God has purposed and is
controlling all the sin and evil in the world. When someone denies
that and says that he is unrighteous, if they claim him to be sinful
because he's the author of sin now or whatever, if they claim
him to be unrighteous, then that's the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.
They're claiming that God is doing something unrighteous.
And that's a very serious thing. And there's a lot of people who
profess Christ and even profess the gospel that we preach, but
yet say that God is unrighteous for purposing and controlling
and using sin and evil to accomplish his purposes and glorify himself. And so that was something that
Brother Ed brought up that I had never thought about, And I think
that he's correct on that. So if we're proclaiming that
God, are we proclaiming and worshiping God in truth? Well, no, we're
not. We're worshiping God in an untruth. And so what does this mean? It
means, well, it's not just about your feelings. There's some doctrine
involved, right? And it's not just about doctrine. There has to be some true spirit
worship. It isn't just coming, and let
me tell you how much I learned in the scriptures this week,
brethren, to come and lay down my education
upon you. No, see, it isn't about that.
It isn't about you coming and we debating doctrinal things.
See, we worship God in spirit and in truth. See, one, if I
worship God in spirit, I'm going to want to dig in and learn what
this says about Him, right? This is the truth. What it says
about Him. But on the other hand, if I'm
studying the Word of God, this Word of God ought to be compelling
me and pressing me and motivating me and bringing me to a worshipful
spirit, that whenever I see the God of this Scripture, I cry
out, holy, holy, holy, that I cry out, hallelujah, praise the Lord,
glory be to His name. Or whatever your hallelujah phrase
is, I guess. Worthy. I started a couple days
ago, I'm starting a study on the word worthy and kind of looking
to see where it goes. I was kind of surprised that
out of all the scriptures where worthy is found, there's only
like three or four that actually have reference to God or Christ. It was kind of strange, I thought.
But anyway, that's for another week at some point. So we worship
in spirit and we worship in truth. We have to have truth to know
and to see the God that we are worshiping, but yet we also,
if we don't have the spirit with us coming from the truth, it
just doesn't work together. We're either gonna be over here
worshiping in the spirit, and if you're not careful, that can
get away from you. And we could be worshiping not
according to the truth. Or you can come over here, and
it can become dead, cold doctrine, and that's it. And all we do
is we come and learn. All we come and do is recite. All we come and do is debate
or whatever, and there is nothing that is motivating us. And, you
know, and it's not, it's not, and I'm not talking about the
preacher motivating you, you know, I've seen that and I've
done that. And I, you know, I don't have
anything against the preacher whenever the spirit excites him. And, you know, he gets wound
up as he's preaching that happens, you know, that happens. I'm not
talking about man, boy, tell you what, he got me motivated.
He was stomping and snorting and spitting and, you know, That's not what I'm talking about.
I'm saying our spirit is motivated because of the truth that is
confirming what is being taught to us in our heart. All right,
we'll stop right there for a little bit and take a break. And we'll
come back in after we're done here and we'll look at... Oh,
absolutely. I'm sorry. Yeah. When you were
talking, I was thinking about how to take
command of this balance between doctrine and spirit. And I'd
like to just read this. And I think that also you would
concur. Be careful saying what you would
concur with, but it's not just in the assembly. It's in our
daily lives. Oh yeah. Absolutely. This is in kind of whatever we
do. Whatever we do, we do all for
the glory of God, whether it be making coffee, reading our
Bible, or filling our car up with gas. We are His people,
His blood-bought children, and this heritage shall never pass. Sometimes our daily tasks seem
mundane, that's for sure. But God's people rest in the
love of Christ. They are eternally secure. So
remember, whatever you do and wherever you go, if you're one
of God's sheep, He wants you to know that He will never leave
you or forsake you, regardless of where you are or what task
you're doing. His Holy Spirit will comfort
you and always be willing to be back to the fold of His eternal
love, having been given to Him by His Father from His throne
up above. Amen. And so I think that's what
you're saying. Wherever we're at, whatever we're
doing, wherever God places us, we give God all the glory. The
verse that jumps to my mind is, whether you eat or drink, whatever
you do, do all through the glory of God. Amen, brother. Alright,
we'll take a quick break and then we'll come back in and look
at a few more things.