This is not going to be my text, but it has a lot to do with it. So if you will turn with me to Ephesians chapter 4. Ephesians chapter 4. Paul sometimes wrote when he wasn't in prison, and sometimes he wrote when he was in prison. This particular letter he wrote in prison, so that you can better understand this first verse.

Now, he's not going to say, I'm the prisoner of Rome, because he knew who sat on the throne. And he said, I therefore the prisoner of the Lord. beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation wherewith you're called. What's he talking about vocation? Well, you know what a vocation is. He's a carpenter. He's a plumber. Well, he's called all of us into his ministry. Not all to the same office or in the same way, but we're all involved in his ministry. We're his church. And it's a vocation. And to do these things with all lowliness and meekness and long-suffering, forbearing one another. That means putting up with. Forbearing one another in love. Endeavoring. Here's what we're endeavoring to do, to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace. Want us all to see these things and the oneness of them, which is what I'm going to be preaching about this morning, the simplicity of Christ.

And so now he gives us a list. Here's everything involved in the ministry. Now listen to this. There's one body, one spirit, even as you're called in one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who's above all and through all and in you all. But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Wherefore he saith when he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive and gave gifts to men. Now he that ascended Who is it but the he that also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? And he that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens that he might fill all things." He's talking about Christ. And when he ascended, when he rose from the dead, the angels came and escorted him and he ascended up into glory.

He gave some apostles. and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastor-teachers. That's not pastors and teachers. It's pastor-teachers. And here's why I did it. For the perfecting of the saints. How are we made perfect in Christ? It's for the perfecting of the saints. It's for the work of the ministry. It's for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man, which is Christ, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. That we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the slight of men and cunning craftiness whereby they lie and wait to deceive. But speaking the truth in love may grow up into him in all things which is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that whichever joint supplieth." Your body works in harmony, don't it? There's no useless organs in there. They all have a purpose, and they all work in harmony. And even so it is in the body of Christ. He's set us apart to do certain things. Every part maketh increase of the body unto the edification of itself in love.

And this I say therefore and testify in the Lord, verse 17, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their minds.

having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance which is in them because of the blindness of their heart, who being past feeling have given themselves over to lasciviousness to work all uncleanness with greediness.

But you not so learn Christ, if so be you heard him and have been taught by him as the truth is in him, that you put off concerning the former behavior of conversation, the old man. Who's that? That's the one that was born. Mine was December 10, 1949. That's when my old man was born. The old man. You put off this old man. He's corrupt according to deceitful lusts.

Be renewed in the spirit of your mind. Is preaching important? Well, you can't be renewed in the spirit of your mind without it. You're not just going to sit around in the lounge chair and one day God's going to open up your head and pour in all this truth. It don't work that way. Faith cometh by hearing, hearing by the word of God. And that you put on the new man. Who's that? That's Christ. That's the new man. who's after God, created in righteousness and true holiness.

This is God come into the flesh. Wherefore, putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. Be angry, but sin not. Don't let the sun go down on your wrath. Neither give place to the devil. He works in religion, don't he? Well, don't give him no place. Real easy for somebody you love to come up to you and start talking spiritual things. It's just absolute nonsense. But you'll find a place for them because you love them. Don't do it. Don't do it. Give no place to the devil.

Let him that stole steal no more. Rather let him labor. working with his hands the thing which is good that he may have to give to him that needeth. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearers. That's what we want. And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you're sealed unto the day of redemption.

Let all bitterness and anger and wrath and clamor. Clamor, that's that multitude. That's the lynch mob out there yelling and working up a big thing. That's clamor. And evil speaking, let it all be put away from you with all malice. And be ye kind one to another. Oh, that we could learn to be kind. Just be kind, kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ's sake, has forgiven you.

May the Lord add his blessing to the reading of his word.

All right, if you will, turn with me to 2 Corinthians chapter 11. Verses 3 and 4 will serve as my text. I want to say some things to you. I have many people in mind concerning the message that I just taught out of Joshua. But for the most part, I have you in mind.

I want you to think, many of you young people are going to be graduating pretty soon. You're going to meet somebody, maybe get married. I want you to understand the importance of a church. I don't care how big the opportunity, I don't care how beautiful the picture out there is, you be sure there's a church there. Because if there's not, it's just gilead. That's all it is, just grass. which is grace.

I wanted to say that, and as the pastor of this assembly, and as a preacher of the gospel, I have but one goal, and that is to set before you the only hope there is for the salvation of your soul. That's my number one goal. I want God to be glorified, and he's glorified in the preaching of his gospel. Because it sits before men, his son. It sits before men, his purpose.

And I know also, after teaching that message that I just taught out of Joshua, I'm going to have a lot of people and a lot of calls and texts and people saying, well, you didn't preach Christ. You're preaching salvation in the church. You're preaching salvation in this, that, and the other. Well, let me tell you something. You can't separate his church from him. You can't do it. And that's what I want to preach to you here in 2 Corinthians 11. I want to show you this oneness. The oneness.

And men and women come here for all sorts of reasons, but whatever the reason, they're here for a short time. And what I say to them in the allotted minutes that I have may be the only words they ever hear concerning the salvation of their souls. Now, I'm going to tell you something. You can't hear this just anywhere. I know you think you can. Think I can go down to the First Baptist Church and hear it. You're not going to hear this. No, sir. They wouldn't let me in the front door. I guarantee you. You're not going to hear this anywhere except where God has established a gospel church. And then that's all you're going to hear.

And then some of you have made a profession of faith, and you've publicly confessed Christ in believers' baptism. The first order of salvation is bowing to the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ. We bow to him, submit to him. The second order of business is to obey his command, which is to be baptized. That's the first commandment to his children. and be baptized, isn't it? Isn't that what it says? And that baptism declares a union with Christ. It's our hope. I don't have any hope apart from that, do you? If God doesn't see me as being one with his son, whom he's provided as my savior, if he don't see me as one with him, I'm a goner. I don't care what I do. How much I preach, how much I sacrifice, how much I give, how much I talk, it don't make any difference. Salvation is union with Christ. It declares a union with Christ. It's men, women, boy, girl submitting to the ordinance of Christ and from their hearts saying, Christ is my Lord, my Savior, my husband, my hope, my strength. my provision. When he died, I died. When he was buried, I was buried. And when God raised him from the dead, he raised me. And when he ascended up into glory, I ascended with him. And when he sat down, I sat down with him. You can read about it in Ephesians chapter 2.

Salvation's union with Christ. As marriage is a union between a man and a woman. And even so, there's a time when the old writers referred to this union of faith as a vital union. You're not going to be saved without faith. It's not going to happen. It's a vow. It's a marriage vow. It's a heart embracing the object of its love.

Now, I said all this as sort of an introduction to my subject this morning, the simplicity of Christ. In the first three verses of our text, the Apostle Paul gives us three things to prepare us for this message. Verse one, he gives us the Apostle's confession. Verse two, he gives us the Apostle's motive. And in verse 3, he gives us the apostles' fear. Do preachers fear? Yes, they do. Yes, they do. His confession, verse 1, is that we might bear with him a little in his folly. What on earth is he talking about? What's the minister's folly? It's his weakness. It's the limitations of his flesh. We're all so prone to hear this preacher or that one in favor of one above another. We all do. Well, let me tell you something. Jesus Christ was a preacher. He was a preacher. Luke chapter 4, verses 18 and 19. He was ordained a preacher. He said in John 3, 23, what he has seen and heard, that he testified. He wasn't testifying about something he read or something somebody said. He's testifying of what he was there. He saw these things. He was a part of these things. What he testifies, he saw.

So we're talking about a perfect man with a perfect understanding, and was God come into the flesh, and he preached to men, and men walked away in unbelief. In unbelief. And men will, I don't care who you are, I don't care if you're Charles Spurgeon, I don't care who you are, men are gonna hear you and walk away from you. They walked away from Christ, who's the perfect preacher.

But I'm talking from the preacher's standpoint. I know somewhat of my limitations and my weaknesses, my inability. Somebody said one time, that man can't even conjugate a verb. I don't even know what that means. And don't care. Don't care. I just got one thing in mind trying to point you to Christ. And maybe it's best that I don't know all those things. I think they just cloud the issues, don't you, sometimes? Just get it said.

Listen to this. Our Lord said to the well-educated, Bible-taught, moral, living men of His days, the Pharisees, He said, I say unto you that you've seen me and believe not. Oh, what a statement. What a statement. And oh, what seeming folly for a fallen son of Adam to take divine matters into their hands and try to set such glorious things before men. You see my folly now? I said in my study, and I look at things so far beyond my understanding that I could spend the rest of the day talking about it. It's higher than the heavens. What can you do? Deeper than hell, what can you know? Oh, broader than the earth.

Brother Mahan said one time, it's like God takes you up to Mount Everest and says, here's a pair of tennis shoes, climb. Huh? Takes you over to that great North Atlantic and sets you there on the beach and gives you a rowboat and cross it. Huh? He said, if you would just bear with me a little bit in my volley. I know my weakness. I know. Paul, he talked, he had all sorts of bodily deformities that the Lord gave on him lest he be puffed up beyond measure for the things that he knew. He called him up to the third heaven and taught him personally. How puffed up would you get? Huh? You'd have a head bigger than a weather balloon. But he gave him certain infirmities, and Paul prayed that they'd be taken away, and he prayed for the right reason. And the Lord said, my grace is sufficient.

But what seeming folly for a fallen son of Adam to take these divine matters and try to set such glorious things before men. Oh, how we struggle and fail miserably. Yet in what seems to be utter foolishness, the Holy Spirit conveys his gospel to men, and it becomes effectual in their hearts. They overlook the deformities. They overlook the weaknesses. They hear from God.

You know, the Holy Spirit tells us over in Romans chapter 8 that we don't even know what to pray for. We don't know how to pray. He said, your truest prayers are from the Holy Spirit that takes these groanings and utterings and makes them known to God. We can't get it into words, Larry. I've tried. Can't do it. I know the simple thing. Thank you for your provisions. Thank you for the day. Thank you for my marriage. Thank you for all these things that you've done. I tell you to get right down to the heart of it, you just sit there and you don't know what to say. But the Holy Spirit does, and he intercedes on your behalf, and he causes desires and groanings within. Oh, how I want to know this, how I want to be a part of it, how I want to experience it. The heart does that, and God hears it. Oh, my soul. What folly. And so I beg of you this morning to bear with me a little in my folly.

And then in verse 2 of our text, Paul lays before the church his motive. He said, I'm jealous. I'm jealous over you, with a godly jealousy. What was he jealous about? He said, for I have espoused you to one husband. Who's that? That's Christ. Who did he espouse? His bride. I've espoused you to one husband. The head of the body, your strength, your love, your hope, your assurance, your comfort, your life, So what was his intention? Verse 2, look at the last line. That I may present you a chaste virgin to Christ. Where are you going to find one of them? Huh? Where are you going to find one of them? Somebody who hadn't polluted themselves in spirit or deed. I tell you where you're going to find her, in God's electing grace, that's where you're going to find her. By God's eternal provision, by the work of Christ and the inward work of the Holy Ghost.

And then thirdly, Paul tells us his fear. What do preachers fear? as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety. So your mind should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ." Everything that's in Christ is one. Everything that's in Christ is one. He said, I'm jealous of you. I don't want somebody comes in here and starts singing another song. I'm going to tell him to stop. Why? Because I've espoused you to one husband, Christ. I've not espoused you to the church or anything else. I've told you as faithful as I can be that Christ is your salvation. There's no other way to come to God except through him. Christ is all.

This word simplicity means oneness, and Paul is defining the believer's hope, his faith, and his confidence. In the passage I read to you in Ephesians, he said there's just one body. That's his church. That's his elect. You call him what you want to, his sheep. He's the great shepherd, isn't he? His elect. Boy, that'll raise the hair on people's necks. Tell him that. Don't bother me if you call him sheep. Call him that all day long. Call him his elect. Oh. His bride. There's one body. Now, watch this. There's one spirit. One spirit. He's the revealer of truth. He's the holy comforter. He takes these things of Christ and shows them to you in such a way that it comforts your soul. It's effectual. I don't know how many times I heard about salvation, it didn't comfort me at all. But I remember the time that he made those words known to me and it comforted my heart. Oh, I wept for hours. Not being sorry, but in happiness. Couldn't believe that the Lord of this universe was pleased to send his spirit, God the spirit, to comfort this poor sinner's heart.

The spirit of God, it says, when he's come, this is what Christ said about the spirit. When the spirit's come, he won't speak of himself. Are you listening? Christ said he's going to take the things of mine. He's going to take my blood, my sacrifice, my title, my offices. He's going to take the things of mine, and he's going to show them to you. You ain't going to find them. Oh, I'll just read my Bible. That's what a man told me one time. I never heard anything so ridiculous in all my life. He said, I'm going to go home this weekend and read the Bible. You better take a little more time When I come back Monday, he said, we're going to talk. I said, OK. He didn't have anything to say come Monday.

I fear less by any means as the serpent. That old serpent, he's still around. He tried to eliminate Christ, tried to kill Christ, but he failed. And now he'll settle by robbing him of his glory if he can, causing him to fail in his purpose, luring his beautiful bride into his chambers. That's what he wants to do.

The intention of God's ambassador, his preacher, be he pastor or evangelist, is to espouse you to one husband. to Christ and to show you this oneness of his ministry. It's oneness, it's one. I can preach the church as his body and still preach the gospel because apart from it being one with him, what's the purpose in it? No different than anybody else.

The word simplicity means oneness. He's not talking about the simple gospel. I've heard men do this. I've heard television evangelists do this. It's just a simple gospel. A, B, C. 1, 2, 3. Down the Roman road you go. The simple gospel. It's not simple. Paul said, great is the mystery of godliness. God come into the flesh. Does that sound simple to you? The wisdom of God, Paul said, in a mystery, in a mystery. He's not talking about the simple gospel. He's talking about the oneness of this great gospel.

And he begins to define his hope over here, and he talks about there's one body, there's one spirit. Christ in you. And we're called in one hope of our calling. That's Christ in you. That's our hope. It's Christ or eternal damnation. That's just how simple it is. Christ or curse. And if God the Father draws a sinner to Christ, he'll use the means he's ordained to do it. He'll make it effectual by his spirit. And that man will be taught, and he'll turn to Christ. That's what he'll do. You can read about it in John chapter 6, verses 37 through 45.

He's called us in one hope of our calling. One Lord. Listen to this. Not me and Jesus got a good thing going. One Lord. Lord. That word don't even ring a bell in this society, does it? We don't know nothing about that. One Lord, one sovereign, everything he says he does, does what he pleases. Scripture calls him the blessed and only potentate, king of kings and Lord of lords. One sitting at the right hand of God, actually governing all things by the word of his power. And God gave to His Son power over all flesh. Why? Doesn't God have all power? Yeah, He does. He gave it to His Son. Why? To give eternal life to as many as the Father gave to Him. That's what He said. That's pretty plain, isn't it?

One Lord. Now watch this. One faith. Oh, we're all just spokes in a wheel. No, we're not. We're not. We're all going to the same place. No, we're not. One faith, saving faith. Repenting faith, eternal faith, loving faith, effectual faith, resting faith, transforming faith, God-pleasing faith. Without faith, it's impossible to please God.

One faith. Now watch this. One baptism. Pouring, sprinkling, or burial. Can't be all three. I've seen men, so-called priests in churches, take a cup of water, stand a person up, and pour that cup of water over their head and call it baptism. I've seen others. In my ignorance, I took my oldest daughter to a Lutheran church. And there, as a tiny baby, they sprinkled her with water and called that baptism. That's not baptism. Pouring a cup of water is not baptism. Baptism is burial. Burial. Bible says in Romans 6, 4, we are buried with him in baptism. I don't care how intellectual you are, you can't explain how you can bury somebody with sprinkling water on their head. Can't do it. Sprinkle somebody beneath the water. Have to be buried.

And then listen to this. There's just one God. You listen to men talk and I'm telling you what, if you know God and you listen to people talk at funeral homes, that's not the same God. They're not talking about the same God. Their God makes mistakes. He tries to do what men won't let him. That's a different God. Isn't it not? There's one God and he's the father of all. Father of, who's he talking about all? All that he's a father of. He's the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ and making provision for us and adopting us in his son, he becomes our father. He's our father through Christ. He's the father of God's elect. And there's just one Father of all who's above all, through all, and in you all. He's Abba Father to his elect, Father, Father, oh my. And he's our Father's word begotten of him in Christ. promised of God as was Isaac by the intervention of God. At this time, I'll come and she'll have a son. When's the church going to have a son? When he comes. When he comes.

All right, so what is this oneness, this simplicity that Paul feared they'd be removed from? Well, let me just give you as many things as I can in the time allotted. You got a pencil, jot them down. Talking about his oneness. I don't care what I preach on. I can preach on fallen men, but I can't preach on apart from Christ. He convinces you of your sin by your unbelief in him.

First of all, Christ is the only mediator between God and me. 1 Timothy 2, verse 5. One mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. The chief meaning of the title has to do with mediating peace between God and His elect. He has to mediate a peace. We're separated from God. We're sinners. A peace has to be made, and that peace is made in Christ. He is our peace. But this mediation comprehends everything else in the process. Creation, providence, as well as salvation. What's the whole creation waiting on? The manifestation of the sons of God. He's the mediator. It incorporates creation, does it not? All things made for him. Without a creation, how's he going to redeem a sinner?

Secondly, Jesus Christ is the only acceptable sacrifice for sins. Oh, you better learn this lesson, because I've been down that road where you try to do this, that, and the other, and give this, that, and the other, and try to make amends with God. It ain't going to work. Oh, just give God your heart.

He don't want it. He don't want it. Fact is, he said, I'm going to take away that stony heart. I'm going to get rid of it all together. And I'm going to give you a new heart, one heart. Huh? Oh, my soul. He's the one. He's the only acceptable sacrifice for sins.

Those old priests flooded the earth with their animal sacrifices. We talked about that a while ago. Millions upon millions of animals slain on the altar. They flooded the earth with their sacrifices. And that's not to mention the calves and goats and other pigeons and doves and all of this. And Paul wrote in Hebrews chapter 10, that every priest standeth daily, every day, and offering oftentimes the same sacrifice that can never take away sins. It was just a picture, just a symbol, if you will, a figure, he said, for the time then present.

But this man, talking about Jesus Christ, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God, expecting that his enemies would be made his footstool. Why did he sit down? Because his work was done. A priest who has work don't sit down. That's what he just said. They stand every day, all day. He finished his work that the Father gave him to do, and he sat down, he accomplished the redemptive will of God and perfected forever them that he sanctified.

Thirdly, he's the only righteousness there is for chosen sinners. Boy, there, that woman is righteous. What do you mean? Well, she gives of her income. She attends church every Sunday. She gives to the poor. On and on, you know the list. All our righteousnesses, all of them, are as filthy rags before God. I ain't talking about how men see it. I respect it. You want to give to the poor, I'm all for it. I'll help you. But that's not a righteousness before God. There's only one righteousness. for chosen centers. As our federal head and representative, he came into this flesh, came into union. I'm talking about God Almighty, who's everywhere present, reigns over all things, creator of all things. He come into this flesh, come into a union with those he intended to save, and lived the life that you and I could never live. perfectly obedient, in perfect love, continuous, never a flaw, never a hiccup, never a weak moment. That's my righteousness. Huh? That's my righteousness. Scripture said he's the end of the law. That means the highest expectation of the law. Everything that that law could possibly demand, he did it. He's the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believed.

Let me show you something over in Galatians chapter 1. See here how Paul refers to the gospel as a person. Galatians chapter 1 verse 6. I marvel that you're so soon removed from him that called you. Talking about a person, didn't he? Called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel. The gospel's a person, the Lord Jesus Christ. It's all about him. Verse 13, Paul said, when it pleased God who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by His grace to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the heathen. Acts 13, 38, he said, be it known unto you, therefore, men and brethren. He just quoted half the Old Testament. And he said, be it known unto you, brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins, and by him all that believe are justified from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

And number five, Jesus Christ is the one revelation of God. Turn with me to Matthew chapter 11. This chapter, he's upbraiding the certain cities where God confirmed his son as his son and as his spokesman with miracles and wonders and signs which God did by him in their midst, these cities. And he's pronouncing a woe on these places. Woe unto you, Chorazin. Woe unto you, Bethsaida. He's pronouncing a woe on these cities And as he pronounced a woe at the end of these things because of their unbelief, and in spite of what they seen and heard, he gives thanks unto the Father for hiding these things from the wise and prudent and revealing them unto babe. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight. Now watch this, verse 27. All things are delivered unto me of my Father. What do you leave out? Nothing. What do you mean by all things, Caleb? All things. And no man knoweth the Son save the Father, neither knoweth any man the Father save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. There's no hope of any man coming to a saving knowledge of God except as God reveals Himself in His Son.

What does that involve? Oh man, it involves His eternal calling, His offices, His condescension as a man, His death on the cross, His present reign and glory. Comprehends all things.

Salvation begins with a revelation of Christ, and not as this cursed earth season, but as he is revealed by the Holy Ghost in the gospel. Paul very pointedly calls it in Romans 1, the gospel of God. It's his gospel.

Sixthly, Christ is the one hope for chosen sinners. There is no other hope. You know, what men call hope is what one pastor defined as, I hope, I hope, I hope. You know, hope it don't rain next week. Probably will. That's not a good hope, is it? But our hope is based on the word of God, the purpose of God, the son of God, all these things. And I know that He's the one hope for chosen sinners.

And I know that volumes of books have been written on this subject. But when it's all boiled down, what is the believer's hope? Christ in you, the hope of glory. He's the new mind, the new man, the new hope, the new covenant, the new understanding, the new way. And Paul said to the Galatians, where these legalists had come in and disrupted them and was pulling them away from the truth, he said, I prevail in birth again till Christ be formed in you.

Number seven, Christ is our mode of walk. As you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him. Well, we need a little law. I'm sorry, there is no little law. Actually, there's no law at all. Christ is our sovereign. He's the law. I don't need that law. I have him. As you've received him, so walk in him. Same way. Just an old poor sinner can't help himself. Everything he needs, he looks to God for. That's how we walk. Same way. Ain't you thankful that you can't walk with God by yourself and that you can walk with God in Him?

What if you yourself, by your own works, had to walk with a perfect and holy God? Love Him with a perfect love. Obey Him with a perfect obedience. Follow Him without swerving. Obey Him without question. Well, I tell you, I've been there and tried to do that, and it's a miserable experience. Christ is our motor walk.

And number eight, concerning the simplicity of Christ, he's to set our attitude toward one another. Be kind one to another, forgiving one another, forbearing one another, even as God, for Christ's sake, hath forgiven you. That's our attitude. Oh, I just can't. I can't forgive that man. I look at him and my blood starts to boil. I can't even think about forgiveness. Well, here's the problem. Take him out of the picture. Just take him out of the picture. Now put Christ in the picture. Because we are what we are in Christ, are we not? I don't care what you do to me, I ought to be able to forgive you. Not seven times, but seven times 70. And I ought to be able to do it without a lot of labor on my part. I ought to just be able to simply think, what has God forgiven me of? And if all my hope is in Him, then He's what I need to see in my brothers. I need to see Christ. Yes, you're forgiven. Our forgiveness is in Christ. Everything obnoxious, worldly, and sinful that I've ever done or ever will do is forgiven in Christ. And unless I have a double standard, the same thing goes for my brother. You just have this one consideration for one another, and it's in Christ.

And I'll stop with this, constraint. He said, it is the love of God that constraineth us. As a preacher of God, Paul learned what every minister of God learned. Christ is all. He's all. Christ said, I'm the true vine, and my father's the husband man. And every branch that beareth not fruit in me, every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away. And every branch that bears fruit, he purges it. He'll clip a few things off of it. Cuts off everything that doesn't assist in bringing forth fruit. I am the vine, he said, you are the branches. He that abideth in me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. For without me, you can do nothing.

What is this fruit? It's love, it's faith, repentance, fruits. Herein is my father glorified that you bear much fruit and so shall you be my disciples.