Good evening. I can go a little beyond 180
degrees. That's okay. If you will, turn
in your Bibles to Philemon. If you find Hebrews, look left
one page. It hits small, 25 verses. My
Bible hits all on one page. I want to thank you all for having
me. I hope I'm not as nervous tonight
as I was last week. time we met. I've had some experiences
between then. I went to the zoo, and I went
on a bushwalk. And if you want to hear those
stories, I'll take a fee in private. There's something to hear. Finally,
I want to tell you a little bit about this story. It's about
a man by the name of Onesimus. And Paul dictated this. And to
Philemon, he's the other character, and it's about a man named Onesimus. This is about 2,000 years ago.
Me and Onesimus have a lot in common. Different part of the
world, different language, different two millennia between us. Me
and you have something in common. You and Onesimus have something
in common. I hope I can tell you the story
of what this short letter is of Philemon, to Philemon, And
I want to tell you what happened to old Nesmus. I want to tell
you what happened to me. And then I want to see why. We looked
the other night at who the Lord is, who he is. He thunders marvelously. Everything he does is marvelous.
And what he's done here, what he did to old Nesmus, what he's
done for you and I is marvelous. Marvelous. Marvelous. Paul's
writing to Philemon as he wrote several of his letters from prison. He wrote from prison. He says
back in Acts, Paul dwelt two whole years in this hired house.
He was on house arrest and received all that came unto him. And he
did something while he was there. He was preaching. Preaching. What'd he preach? Onesimus had
heard him preach. In Colossae, Philemon had heard
him preach. He was preaching the kingdom
of God and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus
Christ with all confidence. He didn't say I think a whole
lot. Well, you know, now it might be. He knew the Lord and with
all confidence he told them, whoever would listen, all that
came about the Lord Jesus Christ, who he was and what he did. And
it said no man forbidding him. It pleased the Lord to allow
Paul to preach and write from Rome, from that Roman prison.
And so one of the letters he wrote was to Philemon. It says
there in verse one, Paul wrote from, Paul was writing from prison,
preaching from prison. In the states, they like to go
preach at the prisons. It might do good if it was in
prison preaching. Maybe you may have a little bit of a different
attitude, huh? But Paul writes from prison here in verse one. Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ,
He was in prison, but he wasn't in Rome's prison, he wasn't in
Caesar's prison. The Lord had him there. A prisoner
of Jesus Christ and Timothy, our brother. Timothy was there
with him when he wrote it. Unto Philemon, our dearly beloved
and fellow laborer. Philemon was a wealthy man, we'll
see in a second. He had, of those at that time,
he was wealthy. He had a large house and servants.
Onesimus was one of the servants. And he was beloved, dearly beloved.
People loved him there in Colossae. And he was a fellow laborer.
He preached. He preached. When their pastor went out of
town, he covered for him. He filled in for him. It says
in verse two, and our beloved Athia, that was Philemon's wife. Our kippus, our fellow soldier,
that's the pastor there in Colossae, and to the church in thy house. He's writing it to everybody
in Colossae. Paul had been there in Colossae before preaching,
and Philemon had heard this apostle preach the same thing he was
preaching for prison, Christ and him crucified, and the Lord
worked in Philemon and saved him. And then Paul saved him,
he baptized him, and he taught him, trained him up. And the
Lord gifted that man to preach and he opened his home at a church
in thy house. We're in a church in Angus' house
today, ain't we? That's what we call it back home,
a church house. I grew up in the country. But this thing's
happened there in his house. And Paul's addressing all those,
all the saints, all the brethren in Colossians. He has something
to tell them. He says in verse three, grace to you. And peace. Grace and peace. I want that for you. You know
that? Your brothers and sisters, our
fellow laborers in San Diego and throughout the world, they
want that for you. They want grace to go to you. And peace. What comes with grace?
Peace comes with grace. The Lord speaks to you. Where's
that found? Where's peace found? Where's
grace found? From God our Father and the Lord
Jesus Christ. That's my desire for you. That
was Paul's desire for those of Colossae. That's your desire
too, isn't it? Grace and peace in Christ. This isn't a frequent book we
look to, is it, Philemon? Somebody has a real deep philosophical
doctrinal question. So let's turn to Philemon. You
have trouble in your marriage. Oh, what do I do? Let's turn
to Philemon and look. Oh, my faith's so weak. We don't look
to Philemon, do we? It's the same. Good, good book,
isn't it? Look here in verse four. I thank
my God, making mention of Thee always in my prayers. I pray
for you, Father Laman. hearing of thy love and faith. Thy love and faith, what thou
hast towards the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints. Is anything
different for you? Is anything different? The love
and faith the Lord gave you. Our Lord came to this earth and
he said, this is how all men are gonna know that you are my
disciples. He said, if you got your doctrine down, Pat. No,
he didn't say that, did he? If you go feed the poor. No. He said, I've heard of your love
and faith, I know it. And you've had that towards the
Lord and towards all saints. All of them, they have the same
Lord you have. We have one love between us, don't we? One faith,
one birth, one salvation. That the communication of thy
faith, verse six, may become effectual by the acknowledging
of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus. Christ dwells in you and you
know any good thing you do, opening up your home and praying for
saints around the world, Philemon, you know that that's the Lord
doing it in you, abiding in you, don't you? Verse seven, for we
have great joy and consolation in thy love. We know about your
love and we're thankful because the bowels of the saints are
refreshed by thee. The new man and the brethren
here, there, me and Timothy, those brethren there, others,
They're refreshed by you, brother. My brother. Paul's writing a
fileamon. He's writing a pardon letter.
A pardon letter for Onesimus. Paul's pinned it, it's about
on Nesmus, it's 2 Philemon. And he begins this with seven
verses. Isn't that a good way to begin? What's he doing? He's
telling his prayers. He prays for you. I hope if I
ever have to handle something tremendously hard with me and
another brother or sister, and I have to deal with something
that's heavy and hard, and we're gonna grind to be fitly framed
together, wouldn't it be good to pray first? I got something
against you, you got something against me. Now, as two sinners
saved by grace, let's sit down and pray to God first. That's
a good way to start it. That's a good way. I want to
tell you what happened. There was this man, Philemon,
he owned a servant. He owned a servant, and Onesimus
did something wrong. He wronged his master. He wronged
his owner. That's where he was first. They
were in good graces, everything was fine, and there was a fall.
Something happened, and there's not a lot we know, and that's
good. That applies to me, it applies to him, it applies to
you, darling. It applies to all of us. Something happened. Onesimus
willfully and purposefully did something wrong. He sinned, and
he thought, well, I'll do something good. That's iniquity. He said,
I'll fix this. I'm gonna run away. I'm going
to run away. He grew up in Philemon's home.
Philemon was a good master. He was faithful. And he made
those that he was in charge of, just like Abraham was good at
ruling his house. He said, you work for me. You're
my servants. You're going to go to church
with me on Sunday. My friend Paul's coming. He's going to
preach. What was the best thing he could have done to that servant?
Make him go sit underneath the gospel. That's loving somebody,
isn't it? Put them under the sound of the
gospel. And Philemon did this, and on Esmos, he heard Paul preach,
he heard Philemon preach, heard those other men come and preach,
and it just went in one ear out the other. That stony heart was
never broken. A tear was never shed. He just
heard preaching. I did that for a lot of years,
from birth. I heard the preaching of the
gospel, and it just bounced off, like a goat's head. It just hit
and bounced off. Onesimus heard all this, and
he ran away. And we don't know exactly where
he went or how long it took, but I know there's 2,100 kilometers
between Colossae and Rome. That's a long way now, especially
then. And through the Lord's providence
that controls all things, this mighty God, everything obeys
His will and His command, he moved Onesimus away from his
master that he willfully sinned against and set him right in
Rome, up to a prison house. He went from a church house to
a prison house. And there in Rome, desperate, probably hungry,
he said, ah, I know that fella. He's familiar, I'm gonna go talk
to Paul. He went to Paul, this man he'd met before. And Paul
preached, that's what he said in Acts, wasn't it? He was preaching
the Lord Jesus Christ, the kingdom of God. And Onesimus heard something. God saved him. God saved him. And he said, Paul, I had it made. I can't go back. I've sinned
against my master. Does any of this sound familiar
to you? I can't go back. What do I do?
What do I do? Save me. Help me. Be merciful
to me, Paul. What do I do? You're wise. What
do I do? So Paul writes a letter. to his
master Philemon. And he says there in verse eight,
wherefore though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee
that which is convenient, Paul tells Philemon, I'm an apostle
and we are commanded by our Lord to love one another, aren't we?
And in his position that God put him in, he could say, hey,
knock it off Philemon, you take the servant back. Verse nine, yet for love's sake.
I can make you, I have that authority, but for love's sake, I rather
beseech thee, being such as one as Paul the aged, and now also
prisoner of Jesus Christ, I've been humbled a little bit. Days
have done that, months have done that, time's done it, and being
locked up in prison's done it. I could make you, Philemon, and
just say, do it, and I know you'd do it. but I beseech you for
love's sake. That's wisdom, isn't it? That's
a humbled heart. I beseech thee for my son, Onesimus. Onesimus
was saved. Paul preached to him. That's
what John said to all my children, my little children. I told the
brethren in San Diego, most of them's old enough to be my parents,
and I said, my little children. They laugh at me. I love you,
I look after you. And Paul says, this is my son,
Onesimus. I preached to him. Lord saved
him under my ministry. I've forgotten him in my bonds.
He was bound in prison while he preached, yeah. But he was
Christ's prisoner. That burden of the Lord was laid
on him. I must preach the gospel. What, am I gonna preach something
else? Ain't nothing else worth preaching. I must preach this. I'm bound to preach the gospel.
The time passed, it's so necessary. Unprofitable to you. Unprofitable,
that's true. He was a servant and you lost
profit. You lost money after this man.
But now, now he's profitable. And he's profitable to thee and
to me. Before that sin and that iniquity,
it was completely unprofitable, but now he's been begotten. Life's
in him. He's my son, in the gospel sense,
and he's profitable to me. He's profitable to you, Onesimus.
Onesimus is profitable. whom I have sent again, I'm gonna
send him to you. Thou therefore receive him, that
is, mine own bowels. What's inside of me, that new
man, Philemon, you have a new man in you, I have a new man
in me, there's a new creation, we have the same father, of that
incorruptible seed. And just as much as you would
receive me, that seed's in him, that one that offended you, that
one that sinned against you, that new incorruptible seed's
in him, I'm gonna send him to you, and you take him just like
you take him me. Verse 13, whom I would have retained
with me, in that thy stead he might have ministered unto me
in the bonds of the gospel. Now I love him, and I'd have
kept him. What'd Onesimus do? I don't know. He probably, maybe
he got the cups ready when they had the Lord's table, or he took
the trash out after, or he swept the floors in front of the hired
house. I don't know what he did, but
he was a help to Paul. Tell you what a big thing was, when Paul
got up to preach, he looked out there and said, Onesimus, I can
preach till the cows come in tonight. And if I'm just looking
at plastic and a roof, what good is that going to do anybody?
If the Lord gives a voice, he gives ears to hear it. And he
said he was here to hear. He prayed for me. That's the
best thing we can do as believers, pray for one another. Beseech
the Lord for one another. And he said, I'd have loved to
kept him here. I'm in my bonds of the gospel, and I'd have been
happy to have him. Now here's that humble apostle.
He says in verse 14, but without thy mind would I do nothing. I'd love to keep him. I'll just
tell you what happened. That's good news, isn't it? But
I'm gonna send him back to you, and if you ain't willing, without
your mind, without your approval, I don't want anything to do with
him. That thy benefits should not be, as it were, necessity.
but willingly. I want you to do it willingly,
out of love, for love's sake, not necessity. That's a sad thing
when a wife is submissive to her husband, and she'll grit
her teeth and say, okay, I'll do it. You give me a glass of
water, fine. You know what, don't get that
glass of water. They may put some other water in there. Do you want a glass of water?
Then go get it. I want to have a lovesick. Don't you? He did.
He said, without your mind, I'll do nothing. I don't want to be
for necessity, but willingly, willingly. For perhaps he therefore
departed for a season. Think of this. Maybe he left
all this bad things. He greatly offended you. That
you should receive him forever. Not for a season, not for seven
years, forever. Now, not as a servant. but above
a servant, a brother, beloved. He left as a servant, as a piece
of property. Now, he's kin. He's kin, especially to me. But how much more unto thee?
He's been precious to me. I gotta preach to him, Lord,
save him. But how much more unto you, Philemon? Boy, what a story
that is, a prodigal son. Both in the flesh, it'd be good.
You'll love having him, and in the Lord, as your brother. If
thou count me, therefore, a partner, if we're one, Receive him as
myself. If he had wronged thee, or oweth
thee aught." You get that? Well, which one was it? Onessus
had been there for a couple of years with Paul. Which one was
it? Did he wrong him, or did he owe him money? Paul didn't
know. Isn't that precious? Angus, I've done something terrible.
Kevin, I don't want to hear it. The answer is Christ and Him
crucified. No, it was real bad. Keep it to yourself. It doesn't
matter. What's the solution? Moses said, Lord, they're going
to kill me. They're taking up stones. They're going to kill
me. He said, go smite the rock. Go give them Christ and Him crucified
waters. Paul didn't know what on earth. And he said, it doesn't
matter what he's done. If you count me as a partner,
receive him as myself. But he's wronged thee, or oath
thee ought. Put that on mine account. Put it on my account. He didn't
say put it in my account. A whole lot of people preach
about bank accounts. Being taken out and all that's garbage. He
said put it on my account. That's the same verbiage over
in John six. You believe on the Son of God. Believe on Jesus Christ. That
means you made one will. You put it on my account. These
wrongs you're owed thee all, you put it on my account. I,
Paul, have written it with my own hand. I will repent. I've sworn an oath, I've stuck
my hand, that's on a handshake. My hand's done this. Albeit I
do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.
Don't you forget, Philemon, how much God's forgiven you. I've
preached to you, I know what he's done in you. You know how
much you've been forgiven. Keep that in mind. Yea, brother,
let me have joy of thee in the Lord, refresh my bowels in the
Lord, having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto you. I
knew you was going to do this, knowing that thou wilt also do
more than I say. I've asked you to just take him
back and accept him as a brother. Don't hit him. Don't make him
sit outside. You can come to church, that's
it. Keep your mouth shut. No, accept him. And I know you'll
do way more than that. Way more than that. The Lord
came to King Abimelech, the king of the Philistines, after he
had Sarah. They took her and Abraham said, you tell them you're
my sister. And the Lord visited Abimelech at night. God spoke.
The voice of the Lord came to Abimelech and he said, I'm gonna
kill you if you don't take her back. And he convicted him of
sin. And he told him, the only reason
you haven't touched her, that you say you're righteous, is
because I didn't let it happen. I'm righteous. He said, now you
go restore him his wife. Take Sarah back to Abraham. And
Abimelech came and brought Sarah, and 1,000 pieces of silver, and
camels, and servants. Lord's people generous, ain't
they? What have you been given? Everything. Everything. He said,
I know you'll do more. Verse 22, but withal, prepare
me also a lodging. Paul's in prison, but he said,
you get me a room ready. For I trust that through your
prayers I shall be given to you. Sheep want to be with sheep.
Paul's desire was to be with his brothers and sisters. My
desire is to be with my brothers and sisters. I wanted to come
here and see you and get to know you. Let you know you have brethren
that pray for you like Paul and Timothy did. He said, I want to come to you,
and if you pray for it, I believe the Lord will honor it, and I'll
get to come to you, but you go ahead and get me a room ready.
It says in verse 23, he said, there's Saluthi, Epaphras, my
fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, Marcus, that's John Mark, Barnabas'
brother, or son, nephew, Aristarchus, Demas, ah, Demas was still preaching
wasn't he? Every time I read that, I know several people that used
to preach the gospel. Lord, keep me. Lord, keep me preaching to
you. Don't let me go. Lucas, that's
Luke, my fellow laborers, greet them. The grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ be with your spirit. Be with that new man in you. Amen. Amen. That's what happened. That's
what happened. That's intercession, isn't it?
That's something. It's three main characters. Paul
recorded a letter to Philemon about Onesimus. Oh, what a wonderful
thing. If all we get is an instruction
on how to forgive and argue, we ain't got nothing. We ain't
got nothing, do we? We would see Jesus. Our Lord
Jesus Christ has mentioned in these 25 verses 11 times. There's only 14 sentences, if
you look it out. 14 sentences, and 10 of those
sentences, the Lord Jesus Christ is mentioned. Who do you think
this is about? That's wonderful, isn't it? That
is wonderful. That's an experience I've had
personally. You probably have. This is about
the Lord Jesus Christ, isn't it? I want to look through this
again real quick. There's a footnote at the end
if you have a marginal reference Bible. The footnote at the end
says written from Rome to Philemon by Onesimus. Onesimus wrote this. He penned
it. Paul was blind. He couldn't see.
He said, look what a big letter I've wrote you. It doesn't mean
it's long. He couldn't see nothing. This letter's this tall. The
Lord blinded him, gave a little bit of sight back. Onesimus wrote
this. He wrote it and he carried it
to Philemon. His own pardon letter and every ink that come out of
that quill on that piece of paper. Onesimus wronged you. I did. He was unprofitable. I was unprofitable,
that's right. He didn't lie, did he? He didn't
lie. But God saved him, that's right.
Same vows, it's in him, it's in me now. That's right, that's
me, that's me. And if you take him back, he'll
be profitable, he'll be a brother. That's right, I will be. But
it's on you and it's for love's sake, not out of necessity. I
don't want it out of necessity. Do you want this to be a legal
transaction? A fool doesn't wanna go to hell. A fool wants to go
to heaven. A fool wants to be out from underneath
the law. You want speed limits? No. I want speed limits. That's anybody. I want this for
love's sake. For love's sake. Onesimus pen
this. Let's look at this one more time,
quickly. About the Lord Jesus Christ. There's three characters here.
This is the son, represented by Paul, speaking to his father,
Philemon. about an Onesimus, a seminary.
This is what our Lord Jesus Christ intercedes for us to the Father
that we've offended on our behalf. You ready for this? Verse 10.
I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds,
in my covenant of grace, I've given life to this sheep. He's
mine. My incorruptible seed's in him
now. which in time past to thee was unprofitable. There was a
time he was profitable. We was in the garden, wasn't
we? That pleased the Lord to make it that way. And there was
a fall. There was a fall. Now we're all unprofitable. There's
none righteous. No, not one. There's none righteous. Well, what about grandma? No,
not one. There's none that seeketh after
God. Well, my neighbors. No, none. It was unprofitable. But now, I was unprofitable. But because of him, because God
gave life, now I'm profitable to thee and me. Because they're
one, aren't they? Father and the Son are one. Whom
I have sent again, I'm gonna send them to you. Thou therefore
receive him, that is, mine own bowels. We're received in the
beloved. You know what scriptures tell us? We're received in Christ. Whom I would have retained with
me, Lord, I would have them where I am, where I am that there may
be there also. I want them with me. That in
thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel,
but without thy mind would I do nothing. Didn't our Lord say,
not my will, but thy will be done? Because their will's won. That thy benefit should not be,
as it were, necessity, not a cold, stoic, Dead letter doctrine,
legal, ugh, scary. God that just happens to check
the block, because that's what's right. Well, this happens to
do. No, he's holy. What he does is right, but willingly. Willingly. That covenant of grace
before time, I love. He chose a people to put them
in his son, make them just like him, that did not deserve it.
That's grace. You can't be gracious if you
earned it. That's called a wage. Or perhaps therefore, verse 15,
departed for a season. Why are we here? Hasn't mankind
been asking that question a long time? Why are we on this earth?
Why? Why did Adam fall in the garden?
Why didn't the Lord just kill everything right then and burn
it up? Why? Why, why, why? Like little
children, eh? Maybe we departed for a season
that thou shouldest receive him forever. Onesimus is going to
die. Philemon is going to die. Paul
is going to die. We can't receive him forever, can we? Gifts and
calling of God are without repentance. If he gives life, there's life
there. I was gonna wait till tomorrow morning, I can't. There's
a painting hanging up there in your old church house. A stump
and a tree coming out of it. I got an old lime tree and we
planted it three years ago and it didn't grow. And it just,
the leaves turned to leather. It didn't die, it wouldn't turn
brown and kill over, but it didn't grow. And we dug these big holes
and I was gonna put an avocado tree in there. I mean, it's a
huge hole, about five foot cross, five foot deep. My friend was
there helping me. He said, let's put this in that
hole. And I said, nah, I'd rather put an avocado tree in there.
He said, ah, there's life in it. Well, he had helped me. And
I thought, well, I'll do it. As soon as it dies, I'll throw it over
the hill. And that tree's about this tall now. I mean, in the
season. In the season. And I sent him a picture. I said,
you know what? I said, where God wants life, you can't stop
it. And where he doesn't, you can't
make it. We can't do that. We'll be with Him forever. Where
He gives life, it grows and He'll be forever. Not now as a servant,
verse 16, but above a servant. I ought to be a doorkeeper in
my Lord's house. To wash the feet of those that come into
my Lord's house. That'd be good, wouldn't it? Like that prodigal
son. I'll go back and be a servant at my father's house. Because
them servants eat better than these pigs do. I'll be with Him. But no, better than that, a brother
beloved. Your family. Especially to me. but how much more unto thee,
both in the flesh and in the Lord, in you. If thou count me
therefore a partner, if we are one, Father, receive him as myself. Unity. Twos become one. We are one with our Lord. That's
unfathomable. That's unfathomable. unthinkable,
unimaginable. We can go into the Lord's presence
that we've offended. We can come boldly to His throne
of grace. What if we do something else?
Is that for everybody or for the kind of good? There's a big
banner on a big goat barn close to us that says, we don't accept
no perfect people allowed. Really? Yeah, I bet. Verse 18, if he hath wronged
thee, we have, haven't we? We wronged the Father. Or oweth
thee aught. Oh, what we owe him. We've robbed
him of his glory. We didn't believe him. Had no
morals, had no integrity. Just unprofitable. He says, you
put that on my account. I know somebody, they said, I
can't go to services, I can't worship God, I can't, because
I'm too bad. No, you're too self-righteous. That's it, that's true. You don't
think, you think that you're, you know how deep sin goes, and
you don't think Christ is able to save you. What if you've done
something after the Lord saved you? He says, if they've wronged
you, or if they owe you, it don't matter. And he saves his people
and he gives them life, it don't matter. You can't undo it. What God's done, you can't undo.
He said, you put that all on my account. You make me one with
it. He was made his feminine noun. He was made sin. He was
made his bride. That's what a feminine noun is.
And we were made him. Can you explain that? I can't.
Nobody can. Can you do it? You sure can.
I can. If you was in jail, there's probably a court, you probably
paid some judge, and I could go sit in jail for you. I can't
take your guilt. I might be able to take your
prison sentence, I can't take your guilt. But God, what's impossible with
man is possible with God, isn't it? He said, I, Paul, have written
it with mine own hand. I will repay it. All that the
Father giveth me shall come to me, and in that cometh to me,
I will no wise cast them out. He said, yea, brother, let me
have joy in thee and the Lord, refresh my bowels in the Lord,
having confidence in thy obedience, I wrote unto thee. knowing that
that will also do more than I say, exceedingly abundant, more than
anything we think or ask. The Lord is merciful and gracious
to those he loves, to those unfaithful servants that his son stood as
a surety for, above and beyond. And they're new every day. His
mercies are new every morning. And he said, but withal, prepare
me a lodging also, for I trust that through your prayers I shall
be given to you. So he says, Father, I return to you. And
he told his people, he said, I go to prepare a place for you.
There'll be lodging. What's that place gonna be like?
I don't care. Do you? What if it's got tile or carpet?
Who cares? I'll be with him, no matter if
it's in a tent or a mansion. I'll be with him. Our Lord, our
substitute, this is a letter he wrote to his father for us.
And you know what we bring? Roll it up. Here come Onesimus,
and just like Jacob, Rebecca, as a picture of the Holy Spirit,
spoke to Jacob. She said, you gonna dress like your brother?
You gonna smell like your brother? You gonna look like your brother?
You gonna bring the venison that your brother makes? And you go
in and you say, remember that time I sold, he sold his birthright
for a bowl of lentils? No, she said, keep your mouth
shut. You say what I tell you to say. We come to our Father
only in the name and the merit and the word of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Here's my pardon letter. Nothing else. Nothing else. Onesimus
did that, didn't he? How do you think they got along
after? You think Onesimus and Philemon did okay? That's just
worldly stuff, isn't it? Because the intercession of our
Lord and our God, we that sinned against a holy God willfully,
knowingly, and then thought we could cover it up and cover ourselves
with figs and do something right and run away, go hide underneath
a fig tree. Our Lord's made intercession
for us, and now it's rightful in love. Just and in love, we
can come into his presence. Oh, that's something. That's
precious to those that have that pardon letter, and I tell anybody
that don't, only come in that, and don't you dare come in any
other way. Thank you for your time, I appreciate you.