Let's take our Bibles and turn
with me to the book of 1 Corinthians. 1 Corinthians chapter 3. 1 Corinthians 3. I'd like to look
at verses 16 to the end of the chapter, but coming up to that
point, the last time we considered this passage, The Apostle Paul
had said that as a wise master builder lays a foundation for
a building that's going to be built, he said that he had, as
one, a wise master builder, had laid the foundation of the Gospel
there in Corinth. Paul the apostle was used of
God to set forth the truth of the grace of God in the Lord
Jesus Christ only. The salvation was by grace, through
faith. It was not of themselves, it
was not of their works, because they just boasted it. I've done
this, I've done this." Paul said, if that foundation is laid, let's
be careful, he said, how a man builds on that foundation. This is what we're doing today.
We're building upon the foundation of the apostles and the prophets.
God taught these men the truth. He taught them the truth of the
grace of God. And we build on it. Now, the
Apostle Paul says, if any man, you know, build, he said in verse
12, upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood,
hay, stubble. If any man builds. Now, I'm going
to show you in a minute. I'll get right to it. I won't
labor this because I want to get to verse 16. The men that he's talking about
are faithful gospel preachers. He's not talking about false
prophets. He's not talking about men that preach salvation by
works. He's talking about men that preach
salvation by the grace of God. He said, if any man builds on
that foundation, gold and silver and precious stones, What does
he mean? He said if a man comes and takes
and preaches the consistency of God's sovereign grace, grace
from above, grace unearned, grace unmerited, grace, if any man
builds on that foundation, He said that man is going to stay
because that's what God ordained would be the means by which God
would call out His elect. It's going to stay and that man
is going to receive a reward. Now I know that God's people,
when they stand before God, saved by the grace of God, apart from
any works that they've done, They're going to have a reward.
They're going to hear him say, well done. A good and faithful
servant. Enter in. Enter in. But there's
a reward right now for every faithful gospel preacher. He has a reward right now. Paul said in 1 Corinthians, we're
going through the book of 1 Corinthians and then, Lord willing, 2 Corinthians.
But over in 1 Corinthians 9, 18, I'll read this. Here is the
reward of a faithful gospel preacher. He says that when I preach the
gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge that
I abuse not my power in the gospel." What he's saying is this. He
said, my reward of preaching the gospel is that I have been
privileged by the grace of God as a gospel preacher to freely
preach the truth as the Spirit of God has taught that truth
to men, to me, to God's people, and he said, I'm free from the
guilt of being accused of preaching this gospel strictly for monetary
gains. It's not a job. It's not a job. It's a calling. I'm a steward. A steward. of God's heritage. We'll look, Lord will in 1 Corinthians
chapter 4, you know, starts talking about stewards, you know, trustees. Somebody's a trustee or something,
you've entrusted something to them and they're to be responsible,
faithful. And Paul said, here's my reward,
that God's given me a heart to preach and I'm, I'm not doing
this for the reward of it. God's preachers are. I mean,
they're worthy of their hire, no doubt about that. But they're
not... I didn't go in this for the money.
God calls His preachers. He says, so if any man preaches
gold and silver and precious stones, it'll remain, and he'll
have a reward. The latter part of verse 12 says,
wood, hay, or stubble. If he preaches wood, hay, or
stubble. Now, the reason that I want to
say what I'm going to say, That wood, hay, or stubble, look
in your Bible, 1 Corinthians chapter 3, it says in the latter
part of verse 12, wood, hay, stubble, if any man's work shall
be, every man's work shall be made manifest, the day shall
declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire, and the
fire shall try every man's work what sort it is. If any man's
work abide, that is that gold, silver, precious stone, which
he hath built, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall
be burned, he shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved,
yet so as by fire." Now, this is the reason I was saying, he's
talking about faithful preachers. I mean gospel preachers. But
what is this wood, hay, and stubble? It's not that these men are not
They're not preaching works religion. I mean, they're not. If they
were, then God hadn't taught them. But if these men, in the
preaching of the gospel, and we have to be so careful. Every man that stands in a pulpit
has got an old man living in him. And we're all tempted, if
we're not careful, we start getting off just a little bit. We start getting into ceremony
or temporal matters and I have no, I'm not for anything that
is immoral, unjust, but these temporal issues, This contemporary
stuff of today. Problems of today. That's not
the issue. The issue is not, you know, these
social matters and this, that and the other. It's things that
begin to enter in with the message of truth. These men are going
to be saved, but they're going to suffer loss. The Scriptures sets forth that
his work shall be burned and he shall, verse 15, suffer loss. He himself shall be saved, yet
so as by fire. And the thing is, it's like a
man's in a house, and his house is on fire, and he gets out. But the house is burnt up. He's going to suffer loss. There's times that we've seen
by God's hand of affliction. Men that are not careful to be
good stewards of the gospel, they suffer loss. Now, I wish
I could tell you the depth of that. Is it loss of reputation? Is it loss of their calling or
something? I heard Brother Henry say one
time, a man that's, a faithful man been preaching. If he's caught
in a scandal or, you know, and don't ever think that anybody
is above that. I mean, let's just go back and
look at the life of Peter or David. Don't ever think that
somebody's beyond. Oh, that never happened to me.
Well, you better be careful. Be careful. Don't ever say something,
wouldn't it? But for the grace of God, it
won't. But if something happens, It's just, it's scandalous. It
just, whatever it is, I won't even go into illustrations. I'll
let you leave that to your own mind. Just scandalous stuff. Things that just were not the
consistency of preaching the gospel. And they let things enter
in to their ministry that were just inappropriate. Stuff like
that. I heard Brother Henry say, get
out of the ministry. Get out. Don't, don't. Get out. A man will be saved
if he was one of God's elect. He'll be saved, but so as by
fire. He's going to suffer. He's going
to go through some difficult times. So, Paul is talking. He's talking to these people,
these believers in Corinth. And he's telling them. He's warning
them about the consistency of what is preached and consistency
of what you hear. If you can't back it up with
this word right here, then don't say it. If you can't prove it
by the Word of God, let it go. Then I'll start right here in
verse 16. No ye not. Now he's talking to the church.
So here's what I'm going to do. I'm talking to Katie Baptist
Church. Another minister standing, he's
talking to the congregation over which he pastors. I'm talking
to this congregation. Paul was talking to a congregation
there. Know ye not that ye are the temple
of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? He had told them in verse 9.
He said, you're God's husbandry. You're God's building. And this
is the reason why God's preachers need to be so careful, careful
whoever comes. If someone comes and stands in
this pulpit, I would be so guarded. I mean, I'd want to know. I want
to know who I'm dealing with. I want to know. You see, that's just a piece
of wood. Got some stuff on it, things like that. Know this is
a place that God's raised up. And to stand in this pulpit,
to read scriptures, lead singing, whatever. Just, we want to be
careful. Why? Because Paul says, do you
not realize who you're talking to? Do you not realize The seriousness
of who's sitting here, you say, well, it's just sinners saved
by the grace of God. I'll go along with you there.
But this is God's temple. Those who have been called out
of darkness, given light in Christ, know you not that you're the
temple of God. and that the Spirit of God dwells
in you? Do you realize that whenever
you stand before God's heritage, that these are they? That the
Lord Jesus Christ eternally stood as surety? That it was for the
sheep that He laid down His life? He shed His blood. He said, this
is my body which is broken For you. For whom did He die? He laid down His life for those
that the Father had given Him before the foundation of the
world. Who did He pray for? In John 17, 9, who did He pray
for in His high priestly prayer? He said, I pray not for the world.
I want to tell you something. I pray not for the world. but
I pray for those that you've given me out of the world." He
prays in particular. Paul said, you realize, Peter
says in 1 Peter 2.5, Ye also as lively stones, your
living stones, built up a spiritual house, holy priesthood to offer
up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ, not on
our merit, What merit do I have? I can't even pray. I don't even
know what to pray. I can't even keep my mind consistent
long enough to feel as though that I've said anything speaking
unto the Lord without wandering. You're looking at a frail creature,
but when I'm standing and speaking to the heritage of God, be careful
Marvin, be careful. When you stand in this pulpit
to preach, you take what this word's got to say and you say
what God has to say, and nothing else. Don't you add anything
to it? Don't you take from it? This
is God's building. It's not an ordinary building.
You say, well, this is the church. This church, you know, it was
built. This church is not this wood
and stone. This is just a building. I'm
thankful for it. But it's a place that Almighty
God has raised up over 60 years ago. And with all of the Anger
and everything else, toward where God's raised up the truth, God's
kept it here. Paul said, Ephesians 2.19, you're
therefore no more strangers, foreigners, but your fellow citizens
with the saints. and of the household of God,
and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone in whom all
the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in
the Lord." There's not one believer in this congregation that's not
absolutely essential to the building up of this assembly. There's
a place that God's put everyone fitly, just perfect, you know. When the stones of the temple
of Solomon, when they were put together, you know how many stones
they cut on sight? None of them. They cut them off
sight, didn't they, Neil? Cut them off sight, brought them
together, and when they put them together, perfect. Perfect. Angles, perfect. He
said, you're a holy temple in the Lord. Now, verse 17, now,
if any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy,
for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. If any man,
my margin right here says destroy, and the word, it means to mar,
to harm, to hurt. I mean, somebody to be able to
destroy this building, this is God's building. You're not, in
the sense of us thinking destroy, we're going to obliterate it,
put it out of existence. No, this is God's temple. But if any man hurts that temple,
causes harm to that temple, to God's people, causes divisions
among God's people, him will God harm, hurt, or truly destroy. For the temple of God is holy. I mean, it's holy. I mean, we're
standing together. And again, you know me well enough
to know what I'm saying. Not in ourselves, not because
we've done something, or we've been faithful. But by the shed blood of the
Lord Jesus Christ, having put away the guilt of his people,
those for whom he died, You know, people say, well, he died for
everybody. Well, the only problem with that
is that that's not what the Lord said. He said, I lay down my
life for the sheep. Well, isn't everybody a sheep?
Well, obviously there were some Pharisees that were there and
John 10. Read John 10. Read John 10 and see what the
Lord said. A bunch of Pharisees came to
him and said, well, why don't you just be plain with us and
quit beating around the bush? He said, I've been plain with
you. I told you. But he said, here's the reason
you don't believe. We've read this. Turn over to
John 10 again. I just, I can't pass this up. John 10. John 10. Verse 15 is where he said, as
the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father. I lay down
my life for the sheep. Are there sheep? I have. They're
not of this fold. They're not Jews. Them also I
must bring. And listen to this concerning
whether or not they're going to hear him. They shall hear
my voice. There shall be one fold, one
shepherd. Therefore does my father love
me because I laid down my life that I may take it again So he
laid down his life for the sheep now then over in verse 22 of
John 10 It was Jeru it was in at Jerusalem feast of the dedication.
It was winter Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's port.
Then came the Jews round about him and said unto him, How long
dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us
plainly. Jesus answered them, I told you,
and you believe not. The works that I do in my Father's
name, they bear witness of me. But ye believe not, because ye
are not of my sheep. as I said unto you, My sheep
hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me, and I give
unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall
any man pluck them out of My hand." So when the Lord said,
He said, I lay down My life for the sheep, that means He laid down His life
for the sheep. And when He told those Pharisees, those Jews,
He said, the reason you don't believe is because you're not
My sheep. You know what we're going to
do? We're going to either bow to God's word or we're going
to perish. That's just the way it is. I
don't want to disbelieve God. I don't. And I don't want to
take what somebody has told me all my life. Again, I grew up
in false religion and I truly believe they were sincere. But
that's not what God said. And let God be true, and you
let me be a liar. But God's true. When I stand before Him, I'm
going to tell you something. It don't matter what somebody
else told me. When He says, depart from Me,
you workers of iniquity, I never knew you. Do you know what the
end result is? I'm going to perish. If any man defile the temple
of God. Him will God destroy. The temple
of God is holy, bought with the blood of Christ and robed in
His righteousness. Which temple you are. I tell
you, the temple of God, the church, God's people cannot be injured
with the sowing of discord or with admittance of error or without
punishment from God. You can't do it. So I say, well,
you know, Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves,
but rather give place unto wrath, for it is written, Vengeance
is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord. Verse 18, 1 Corinthians
3, Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth
to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may
be wise. Don't concern him The uselessness
and worthlessness of this carnal reasoning of trying to add anything
except what God has to say. This is why I mean when we stand
up, don't deviate. Don't deviate from what God has... Let no man deceive himself. thinking
that there's something else can be laid upon the foundation of
Christ. If any man among you seemeth
to be wise in this world, thinking himself wiser than God, wise in this world, conceited,
self-righteous, self-centered, free will, works-oriented, false
doctrine. Let him become a fool, that is,
renouncing his own wisdom and bowing to the wisdom of God as
it's revealed in the Holy Scriptures. Renouncing all your self-righteousness,
being convinced, The only righteousness I've got that will stand before
God, that God will accept, is Christ's. What have we ever done that God
will accept? Nothing. Nothing. You're looking
at the biggest maggot in this place. Not worthy. Especially not worthy
to stand in this pulpit. God Almighty has been pleased
to take an earthen vessel and put the treasure of the gospel
in it and preach to his heritage. That's
grace. Let no man deceive himself. If
any man among you seemeth to be wise, let him become a fool,
that he may be wise." Not that my renouncing of the world's
wisdom is what made me wise. But what it is, the Spirit of
God that teaches, gives man or woman a new heart to set forth. Salvation was not of me. It was
by grace. Verse 19, For the wisdom of this
world is foolishness with God, for it is written, He taketh
the wise in their own craftiness. The wisdom of this world. What
do you mean? It means what the world says.
In opposition to this book. The wisdom of this world concerning
how God justifies a sinner. Concerning how God saves His
people. How does God save His people?
Well, I'll tell you what Scripture says how He does it. Before the
foundation of the world, He chose to do it. That's what it says. Ephesians 1.4, 2 Thessalonians
3.13, 14. God purposed it. Christ procured
it at Calvary. He paid the debt. that was owed
to the broken law of God. When Adam sinned against God
in the garden, let me tell you what, we all did. Why? We were
in Adam's loins. And what he did, we did. Hell,
I'd have never done that. Yes, you did. What do you mean
you never would? You did. And then Christ, in procuring
it, He paid the debt. that I and every one of God's
elect owed to the broken law of God. What was the debt? What
was the debt owed to the justice of God's law? What was the debt?
Death. The soul that sinneth is going to die. Now listen,
let me tell you something. If Christ died on the cross for
everybody, then why are there people in hell? If He paid the debt for everybody,
why are there people in hell today? You say, well, I don't
know if there is. Well, I can tell you for sure there's one
that I know of for sure, two that I know of for sure. Judas,
who went to his own place, and a rich man. They lifted up his
eyes out of hell and said, I'm in torment. I know of two of
them for sure. Well, if Christ died for them
and paid their debt, why are they there? Well, you said, well,
it was because they didn't. Be careful. Be careful. Because the next words out of
your mouth is going to make salvation dependent on you. It's going
to be by works. Be careful. Well, I mean, God
paid the debt for everybody, but a man has to be careful.
Because the next words out of your mouth is going to be works.
And it's not by works of righteousness that we've done. Christ paid
the debt of His people. He put away the guilt. There
is therefore now, Romans 8.1, no condemnation to them which
be in Christ Jesus. There's no condemnation. What
if they haven't been born yet? There's no condemnation to them
which be in Christ Jesus. How long have they been in Christ?
From before the foundation of the world. You mean there's no condemnation
for those that's not even been born yet? Not if they be in Christ. And in time, the Spirit of God
moves mysteriously and gets them under the sound of the gospel.
The gospel of God's grace. And a preacher preaches the message. Here's what he's doing. All I'm
doing is repeating what God said. I didn't come up with this. This
is the gospel of God. This is the gospel of Christ.
I'm just telling you what God said. That's the only thing worth
saying anyway. And the Spirit of God takes that
message and power and comes and He imparts life. And the Spirit of God says, this
is the truth. And that person says, this is
the truth. And they say, I don't believe in salvation by works
anymore. I believe salvation by the grace of God. I believe
that Almighty God taught me this and keeps me right here. That's
salvation by grace, apart from anything that I can do. for the
wisdom of this world's foolishness with God. For it is written,
he taketh the wise in their own craftiness. For it's written,
where was that written? Well, Job 15, 5 to 12 to 13. He disappointeth the devices
of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. He taketh the wise in their own
craftiness, and the counsel of the Froward is carried headlong. That is, he catches the so-called
wise in their own trickiness. And the counsel of the schemers
is brought to a quick end. It's written. He takes them and
he thwarts their efforts. Therefore, no, no, no, no, no.
Verse 20. And again, the Lord knoweth the
thoughts of the wise, their vain. The Lord knoweth the thoughts
of the deceitfulness of men by nature. And He just, He's going
to bring it in time, well, in the day of judgment to an end.
What's going to happen? All the books are going to be
open. There's going to come a day when Everything is going to be
known. The books are going to be open. Everyone that was chosen in Christ
before the foundation of the world, who has been found in
the book, the book of life himself, that's just biblical terminology
that I'm not going to change. I don't want to change it. I
won't change it. They're found written in Christ.
When were they written in Christ? Before the foundation of the
world, what scripture says. That's when all the names were
entered. I thought they were entered whenever
they gave their heart to Jesus. It's not what the scripture says. They were written from before
the foundation of the world. And the books of man's works
are going to be open. And the book, all found written
in the book, Done. Done. Finished. Well done. Everything
that he did was charged to them. Well done. And the books will
be open for all found not written in the book. And they're going
to be judged, Jared, out of their works. Can you imagine How would
you like to have God judge you based on that prayer you prayed
this morning? How would you like to be judged
on how consistently we've heard the gospel this morning and rejoiced
in it? Wouldn't you hate to? I'd hate to be judged. on the
manner in which I've preached this gospel with my thoughts
and my fleeting thoughts. His Word is not going to pass
away. But I'm talking about in my ability to be able to preach
it. I don't want God to judge me like that. Scripture says in verse 20, The
Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, their vain. Therefore let no man glory in
men, for all things are yours. Now, therefore, concerning everything
that has been said prior to this building on the foundation of
Christ, therefore, let no man glory in men. You know, we glory in that in
which we trust. That's what we glory in. We glory
in what we trust. Don't put any confidence in what
men have to say apart from these scriptures. Don't be looking
to this man, that man as your spiritual leader, lifting up
one, I'm going to show you this in the next verse, over another. Why? Because for all things are
yours. All things are yours. Now you
listen to me, believer. I would have never been able
to come up with this statement. I would have never known this.
How would I know this? How would any of us know this
unless God had revealed it? But this is what the scripture
says. All things are yours. You that are in Christ, know
Christ. All things are yours. All things
have been made and designed for the building up and the sustaining
of the church. Working together for good. All
things work together for good to them that love God, to them
who are thee called. according to His purpose. Let
me read you this verse out of Colossians. Colossians 1.16. For by Him, that is by the Lord
Jesus Christ, were all things created that are in heaven, that
are in earth, visible, invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions
or principalities or powers, all things were created by Him
and for Him. All things made by Him, whatever it was,
thrones, dominions, principalities, all things. So nothing is excluded. All things, I would assume, means
all things have been made for Him, by Him and for Him. Now, being the Lord Jesus Christ's
heritage, his body, being vitally in union with him. He having marvelously and mysteriously
joined himself as the husband of the bride. Do you know the little bit that I got, which is not much.
Do you know, humanly speaking, do you know who it belongs to? Glenda. If anything happens to me, I've
got a will, and if anything happens to me, you know what? It won't
go to anybody else in here. It'll go to her. Everything that
I have is hers. Everything that is Christ's... Now, I can back this up. We're
heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. Is that right? Yes.
Now, everything that He has is ours. What about within the church? I thought about this. What about
tares among the wheat? Well, here's what Scripture says.
There must be heresies among you that they which are approved
may be manifest among you. 1 Corinthians. So you mean to
tell me that things in this world that are not bowing to the Lord Jesus Christ
is ours? The Apostle Paul said they are
under the inspiration of God's Spirit. Tears among the weeds. How about trials and tribulations? All things are yours. The Scripture says, wherein you
greatly rejoice though now for a season, if need be you're in
heaviness through manifold temptations. What are those manifold temptations,
the trials and tribulations that we're going through? What is
that for? That the trial of your faith,
the proving of your faith, that you believe God. Being more precious than of gold
that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found under
praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.
All things are yours. Now, will He withhold any good
thing from them that walk uprightly? All things are yours. Whether Paul, or Apollos, or
Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present,
or things to come, all are yours. You remember back a few verses
before, there were some of them say, well, I'm of Paul. I'm of
Apollos. Well, I'm of Christ. I don't
go with any preacher in particular. I'm of all. Paul says, these
men that God has called, They're servants of God, men that God
Almighty has called and qualified to preach. And these men that
have been called of God for the building up of God's temple,
bringing it into a state of being manifested, they have one calling,
to preach the gospel. Now, whether it's Paul or Apollos
or Cephas, I like Paul. Well, I like Peter. I like Apollos. I like Henry. Now, I understand
that thinking. I mean, there's, you know, I
enjoy. There's just maybe some men that
I enjoy hearing, you know. But if they're preaching the
gospel, God called them. and they're needful. Every one
of them. Every one of them. Over 60 years ago, God raised
up a man. His name was Scott Richardson. God raised up Scott Richardson.
And Almighty God gifted that man, gave him a manner, his characteristics,
demeanor. And in the good providence of
God, God removed him and raised up a Marvin Stoniker. Now let
me tell you the difference between me and Scott as far as our mannerisms
and stuff. Our mannerisms, characteristics. Two different men. Same message. But there was a time in which
God Almighty was pleased to put a Scott Richardson right here,
and he was yours. Still is. But then God raised
up a Marvin, and he's yours. Two different men. Same message,
two different men. Oh, I like Apollos. I like Cephas. I like, you know, Paul. I like
every gospel preacher. that God raises up, consistent
with these scriptures right here. They're yours. And they're all
different. I'm not Todd. I'm not Henry. They're not me. They're different. God has given them. But they're
yours. They're yours. God Almighty has
given them to you. So see first Paul, life, This
life that you live in right now, this is yours. You were born
in this world according to God's will and God's purpose. This
life that He's given us is but a vapor. Go out on these cold
mornings, just exhale. Notice that vapor. How long did
it take to dissipate? That's how long you got. But
the Lord has allowed us right now in this life those that He's
everlastingly loved, to know Him, and be thankful for the
temporal blessings. I'm so thankful we'd be here. I'm thankful we had something
to eat, and we had something to wear, and have a warm building,
life, death. It's yours. It's appointed unto
man once to die. You're appointed unto death for
God's glory. And may we, by the grace of God,
be found dying in the faith, Dying in that death that's precious,
precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints. That's precious. Are things present? Those things, whether they seem
to be good or evil, they're ours. Whatever they are, whatever good,
you know, trying, He orders the steps of His people, guides us
by His Word, and He put us here. Right now, things present. Why weren't we all born 150 years
ago? Every one of us. Why? Because
this is when God was pleased to put us here. This is it. 1
Corinthians 12, but now hath God set the members, every one
of them in the bodies that pleased Him. Things to come. They're yours. In my Father's
house, there's many mansions. If it were not so, I'd have told
you. I go and prepare a place for you. It's yours. There's
a place in glory for God's people. If I go and prepare a place for
you, I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I
am, there you may be also. Why? Because you're heirs of
God. It doesn't appear yet what we're going to have, what we're
going to be, but we know this, when we see Him, we're going
to be like Him. What does that mean? We'll be like Him. All things are yours, verse 23,
and you're Christ's. You're Christ's in electing grace. God gave His people to Him. You're Christ's by redeeming
grace. He bought you. He paid for you. You're not your own. You're bought
with a price. And you're Christ's because in
the day of His power, He gave you a heart to bow to Him and
say, Lord, receive me. Come to me. He said, He that
cometh from me, I'm not going to cast Him out. You're Christ's
and Christ is God's. May the Lord bless His Word for
Christ's sake. Amen.