Well, in Isaiah chapter 40, what
a blessing that's been. We've been in chapter 40 for
a good while now. Verse 29 tonight. It started, if you remember, it
seemed like six months ago when we were in Isaiah for some reason
for various reasons we haven't had our Sunday night study in
a while but we began this part of it in verse 27 and God asks
his people this question why do you say oh Jacob that word
that name Jacob is always precious to us isn't it because I remember
when God called him, thou worm, Jacob. But I also remember when
he said, fear not, Jacob, you're mine. And I will undertake for
you. I will take care of you. I will
watch over you. Don't be afraid. You're mine.
So when I see that word, that name Jacob, I think of myself
being a worm, but being God's worm. And why do you say, O Israel,
my way is hid from the Lord and my judgment is passed over from
my God? They're not saying, if you see
the context of this chapter, they're not saying God doesn't
see so I can get away with things. That's in the scriptures too.
That's what evil men by nature say. God's not, you know, I've
gotten away with things before so I can do what I want. God
doesn't see. But what Israel is saying here, my way is hid
from the Lord. What they're saying is I'm in trouble and he doesn't
care. He doesn't see. He's not concerned. He's not
paying attention. Just like those disciples on
the ship when they said, why don't you care that we perish? My judgment is passed over from
my God. Nothing's fair. not treated right, and God's
just letting it go. But then he says, don't you know
who I am? Verse 28. And remember how this chapter
starts. Comfort my people. Time after time throughout the
book of Isaiah, he tells Isaiah to speak to these various cities
and say, woe unto you, woe unto you, woe unto you. And we saw
it was always the same reasons, it was pride and idolatry. Because they forgot God and because
they schemed against and opposed God. And so how does God show us that
he is paying attention? And how does he comfort his people
when we are in trouble? And we're in trouble on the inside
a lot more than we ever are on the outside, aren't we? We think
we're in trouble. But here's the thing about it,
if you think you're in trouble, then you're in trouble, aren't
you? In here. Even if it's not true. But when we are in trouble, when
we're troubled, when we're anxious, when we're afraid, The way that
he comforts us is, behold your God. And here he says, haven't you
known, haven't you heard that the everlasting God, when we
looked at all these, the Lord, the everlasting God, your problems
are for just a little while, God is everlasting. And because
he is, so are you, your eternal soul. We're going to be, we're
going to spend, when we've been there 10,000 years, bright shining
as the sun, we've no less days to see Him. What are our problems
now going to seem like then, 10,000 years from now? You see
what he's saying about the everlasting God? The Lord. We saw that this
morning, didn't we? And that would be enough if we
had any idea who He was, wouldn't it? Just say, it's the Lord.
It's the Lord. When they were afraid at another
time in the ship, they saw Him coming. They thought it was a
ghost and of course there's a big storm. And what did He say to
them? Don't be afraid. It is I. It
is I. The One who calms the seas. The
Lord. The Sovereign. The One who does
as He pleases, when He pleases, with whom He pleases. And loves
you. We saw that in the beginning
of the chapter. I can't preach the whole chapter again. But
he says, speak comfortably to my people and tell them this,
the war is over. The war between them and God
is over with. Because they have received of
the Lord's hand double for all of their sins. God's already
punished all their sins sufficiently in Christ Jesus. Well, and so
he identifies himself. He says, behold your God. Remember
who, haven't you heard? Have I been so long with you?
Have we preached the gospel for all these years and you still
think God doesn't care? That your troubles are big and
that God's just letting them? No, He's the everlasting God,
the Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth. What is it
you need? He made it. He owns it. And He gives it to whom He pleases.
And he says, fear not little flock, it is your father's good
pleasure to give you the kingdom. What do you lack? He fainteth
not, neither is weary. There's no searching of his understanding. If you think that God doesn't
care, then you just don't understand the way he works. Do you think
that's possible? That maybe we just can't figure
out why God does things the way he does? But do we trust him? It is the Lord, let him do what
seemeth him good. He giveth power to the faint.
This is where we are now, verse 21. He giveth power to the faint
and to them that have no might. He increaseth strength. The prophet's
about to tell us that all those who believe on Christ that wait
on him shall renew their strength. Almost sounds like, you know,
that's something we need to do, you know, no? The reason we're
able to renew our strength is because He gives us some strength.
He gives power to the faint. And to them that have no might. Not to those that just have a
little bit. As long as you've got a little bit. As long as
you have a little bit of your own resources. The woman with
the issue of blood had to spend everything she had before she
went to Christ. And you will too. We will too.
As long as we have some weakness, some strength of our own, some
resource of our own, we're going to Keep trying to do things on
our own, aren't we? And when we run out and we're
flat on our face, we're going to cry. And that's what he gives. He gives strength to those who
have none. Absolutely none. God doesn't give sinners a hand.
He doesn't give you a helping hand. He doesn't meet anybody
halfway. He saves utterly. He saves to the uttermost. Not a cooperative effort. When we were yet without strength
in due time, Christ did what we couldn't do. He accomplished
everything by dying. The power of God of the salvation
is Him dying. We think of death as, you know,
a tragedy. His death is the victory. Verse 30, even the youth shall
faint and be weary. Now listen, he's saying now,
you're in trouble and you think you don't have anywhere to turn. You think God has turned his
back on you. Look who I am and find your strength in me because
you're going to need it. You're going to need me. Even
the youth. I don't care how strong you are. You're going to faint. You're going to be weary. The
young men shall utterly, utterly, utterly. The flesh profiteth
how much? No thing. We are going to utterly fail
in ourselves. So we might as well just get
to looking to Him now. Just get to looking to Him now.
Your flesh, my flesh, all flesh, profiteth absolutely nothing. Paul said to the Galatians in
Galatians 3,1, O foolish Galatians, who have bewitched you, that
you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ
hath been evidently set forth crucified among you. That's the
truth we obey, right? Christ has been set forth before
you, crucified. That's the truth that they weren't
obeying. And what was the result of them not obeying it? This
only what I learned of you, received you the spirit by the works of
the law or by the hearing of faith. Did God save you because
of something you did or came up with? Or did he do it by giving
you faith in his son, Jesus Christ, who has been evidently set forth,
crucified among you? Are you that foolish? This is now, the word is profitable
for what? Reproof, rebuke, instruction
in righteousness. This is part of the rebuke part.
Are you so foolish having begun in the spirit? Are you now made
perfect by the flesh? Do you need him less today than
you did when you first believed or more? The word use in the verse 30
is used to show that even the most capable man in his best state is altogether
vanity. In your prime, you're nothing. Is that alright? If this one
is your God, then that's alright. Verse 31, but they that wait
upon the Lord, they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their
strength. They shall mount up with wings
as eagles. They shall run and not be weary.
They shall walk and not faint. These folks here,
the ones who are waiting upon the Lord, who are hanging upon
his mercy, We've mentioned this a lot of times before. And I'm
sure one of those times you will probably hear, if not all of
them. But let me say it again. Waiting on the Lord is not just
biding your time, looking at your watch. Well, we're just
waiting on the Lord to do... It means to utterly depend upon
Him. My soul waiteth upon Thee. I'm hanging all my hopes upon
You. Those folks do five things. They
wait. They renew. They mount up. They run. And they walk. We depend upon Him. That is so
contrary to the flesh. You don't like to depend on anybody. It's okay sometimes to take a
little help. That's why, you know, people
say that's what God wants. He just wants to help you, you
know. He wants to help your life. You don't have any life without
Him. He don't help anybody. If you
see that word in the scripture, it means save. That's what it
means. But just in fleshly things, we'll
take a little help every once in a while and even that we end
up regretting a lot of times because we just do things our
way or the highway and we just feel like, you know, we're just
going to do it ourselves. We sure enough don't want to
just completely depend on somebody. And sure enough, when you do
depend on somebody in this world, you're probably going to regret
it. Believers can depend upon one another to a great extent
for a great many things and it's a great blessing. But we utterly depend upon God,
upon Christ for everything that's important. We look to Him eagerly and expectantly. That's what waiting is, it's
the hope in Him. And the reason that we do The reason we wait on him is
because he's given us the strength It takes a lot of strength verse
29. He give us strength strength
to do what to wait It takes a lot of strength to do nothing, you
know that The hardest thing in the world for this flesh to do
is nothing Just wait on him stand still and to see the salvation
of the Lord. It's going to take strength of
God to do that. He's given us power and strength
in Christ. John 1.11 says, He came unto
His own, and His own received Him not. But as many as received
Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God. even
to them that believe on his name, which were born not of blood."
It don't happen that way. My children won't be saved. They won't be sons of God because
they were born from somebody that's a son of God, or I was,
or back however far you want to go. It doesn't happen that
way. It's not by blood. The Lord may be pleased to save
your whole family, but every one of them is going to have
to be saved by grace, not by blood. Nor of the will of the flesh.
Not because you made a decision to be saved. Not because you
made a decision to do anything or not to do anything. Nor of
the will of man. We're not going to get anybody
saved. But of God. Born of God. And you had just
exactly as much to do with your second birth as you did with
your first one. Absolutely nothing. And then they renew their strength. They renew their strength. The
word renew is important here. It means to change or to change
out. To exchange for something better. It means to substitute. So what are these ones in this
verse doing then? They abandon their strength for
something better. His strength. They renew, they change out their
strength. Isn't that what Paul was doing
in Philippians chapter 2 and 3? He utterly renounced himself
and everything that he had ever been, done, or could do. and
said, I must win Christ. He was renewing his strength.
He was saying, my strength is nothing. I have none. I abandon
my strength and I receive his. Their strength is substituted
with real strength. We have to get to God. That's
the problem with sinners. You see, we're alienated from
God. We were banished from the Garden of Eden. Your sins have
separated between you and your God. There is a great gulf fixed
between those in glory and those who wake up in hell being in
torment. That great gulf exists right
now. There's a great gulf between
you and God. You just haven't experienced
the full brunt of that yet. But we've got to get to God.
How is that going to happen? We're alienated from God. We're
separated by our sins from God. We are by nature enmity against
God. How will we get to God? Christ
also hath once suffered for sins that just for the unjust that
he might bring us to God. when you renew your strength.
And it happens over and over. The word renew implies a repetitive
thing. And we're always doing that,
aren't we? We're always saying, wait a minute, what am I doing?
Like Paul said, am I really that stupid? Have I begun in the spirit
and now I'm going to finish in the flesh? Stop it. And we renew our strength. Once
again, we abandon it. The flesh, that flesh which profiteth
nothing. And we acknowledge once again
that Christ is our strength. I can do all things through Christ
which strengthens me. He died the just for the unjust
that he might bring us to God being put to death in the flesh
but quickened by the spirit. Christ is our strength. What
the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh,
God sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and
for sin condemned sin in the flesh. The law was powerless. It's just like that Levite that
walked past the man that was in the ditch dying. He had fallen
among thieves and they had They'd wounded him mortally and he's
laying there bleeding out and the Levite passes by and he looked
at him. The Pharisee didn't even look
at him. Doesn't say in the script. Didn't even look at him. He don't
care. Religion doesn't care anything about you. They just want your
money. Don't care whether you live or
die. But the Levite, the law, it looked at him. But when the
law of God looks at you, it can't have anything to do with you.
Not to help you. It's not going to help you. The
law can only condemn you. The law can only show how bad
a condition you're in. But what the law could not do
and that it was powerless to your flesh because of you. There's
nothing wrong with God's law. There's something wrong with
you and therefore the law can't help you. But God sent his son. if we could speak with the tongues
of men and of angels it would just be sounding brass
and tinkling cymbal unless God sheds abroad his love somehow
in our hearts that we might say this in such
a way not because of just the manner in which we say it but
in such a way that it's God speaking and not me God sent His Son to do everything. When we were without strength,
when we could accomplish nothing, He accomplished everything by
shedding His precious blood for our sins. And even as believers in this
life, We had to get to God. Well, He
brought us to God. He's our strength. We got to
exchange any strength that we feel like we have to get to God.
Just forget it. And own Him as your strength.
Own Him as the one that brings sinners to God. You can't come.
You can't come to Him. He's going to have to draw you. And then as believers in this
life, what in the world are you going to do for yourself? Our Lord said, I thank you, Father,
that you've hidden these things from the wise and the prudent
and revealed them unto babies. That's what we are. We can't
do a single thing for ourselves. How are we going to overcome
this flesh? How are we going to obey anything that God exhorts
us or commands us to do? How are we going to overcome
any trouble? The smallest thing comes, and
it's the end of the world. And it would be, if it was up
to us. Paul said in 2 Corinthians 12.8,
For this thing I have sought the Lord thrice, that it might
depart from me. Have you ever done that, Lord?
Take it away. Take it away. He said unto me, my grace. If we have nothing but His grace,
is that enough? He said it is. My grace is sufficient. And I know some people that are
hurting. And they're beseeching the Lord. to take it away. And we're begging
God with him. And I don't know whether he will
or not, but I know this. His grace is enough. And he said, my strength is made
perfect. in your weakness. And then Paul what are you going to say to that?
Paul said most gladly therefore while I rather glory in my infirmities
that the power of Christ may rest upon me. That's what it is to renew your
strength right there. I don't have any, don't need
any, don't want any. I need his power to rest upon
me. Therefore, I take pleasure in
my infirmities and reproaches and necessities and persecutions. And Paul had been through more
of them than we ever probably will be. And distresses for Christ's sake.
For when I am weak, then I'm strong. If you renew your strength, if
you're waiting on Him, you can say that. You can say that honestly and
truthfully. When I'm weak, then I'm strong. And I tell you this, the weaker
we get in this flesh, the stronger we get. We have a commission from the
Lord Himself that we are utterly insufficient
for. We're going to have to renew our strength, aren't we? We're
going to have to change it out for something better. How shall
we not grow weary in this ministry? How shall we accomplish anything
for our Savior? Paul said in 2 Corinthians 2.16,
to the one we're the saver of death unto death, and to the
other the saver of life unto life, and who is sufficient for
these things? And then a little bit later in
the context, he answered his own question. He said, not that
we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves,
but our sufficiency is of God. They that wait on Him renew their
strength, because He is their strength. And then they mount
up with wings as eagles. Those that wait on the Lord,
those who can say the Lord is my strength, can fly. They can fly. Those that can fly are free. Flying is a symbol of freedom,
isn't it? You have freed yourself from
the bonds of this earth. A bird just naturally does that
in a physical sense. It can just, on a whim, flap
its wings and free itself from the bonds of gravity and the
things of this earth. When we spiritually, we're bound
to this earth, aren't we? We're bound to this flesh. Paul
said in Romans 7, we're prisoners of this flesh, sold under sin. But those that wait on God are
also free. They can fly. Once we were bound
by the dominion and the power of sin, these bonds that hold
others to this world, to this earth, to this flesh, even yet. But by God's grace, being one
of these ones that waits on Him because He shut us up to Him.
That's why we wait on Him. That's why we have His strength
because He gave it to us. That's why we have faith in Him
and hope in Him because He gave it to us. We saw that. But we
have cast off the bonds of this flesh to a great degree, haven't
we? I believe. I believe. Lord, help my unbelief,
but God help me. I believe on Christ. Don't you? Do you believe? Do you believe
on the Son of God? You can fly. That's something
you could never do before. I love Him. I trust Him. I rest in Him. I can do things
that I could never do before. I'm not utterly bound and dominated
by this flesh anymore. I can stretch out my wings and
I can escape to some extent the bonds of this flesh. I still can't fly without restraint. There are still limits because
of my sin, my sinful nature. The limits of this flesh. But
this earth is not my only habitation now. I can fly up into heaven
a little bit now. How about you? You talk about wonderful. You
talk about wonderful. I'm a citizen of heaven as well
as earth. Those that fly are free, but
they also have a different perspective on things, don't they? A bird,
he doesn't see things the same way we do when he's flying. You
go up in an airplane and you look down on the city and the
clouds, nothing looks like it does from
down here, does it? Those who mount up with wings
as eagles. We don't see things the way we
used to. We don't see things the way everybody else does.
Not anymore. Bless God, we don't. We can see things, and you think
about the magnitude of this. We can see things at least a
little bit more like God sees them. Let this mind be in you, which
was also in Christ Jesus. What mind? He took upon him the
form of a servant, even though he thought it not robbery to
be equal with God. He came down here to serve. Can
we think that way? Can we come down a little bit
because of who he is and what he's done for us? I don't see things exactly the
same way as I used to with regard to that. I used to think I was
the king of the world and everybody else was just here to serve me.
You think people don't feel that way? Have you talked to any of
them lately that think that way? I don't see things that way anymore.
Paul said, we reckon that if the Lord Jesus Christ, and I'm
paraphrasing, you know this scripture though. I reckon that if he died
for all, then all were dead. And that we, for whom he died,
we ought not to henceforth live unto ourselves. We ought not
to be so stinking selfish. You reckon? I didn't used to see things that
way. But now, by God's grace, I reckon things differently. Because of Christ. You know why this world is crucified
unto me and I unto this world? He said, God forbid that I should
glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. By whom? By whom? Whom? The crucified
Son of God. By Him, this world is crucified
to me and I unto this world. I don't see this world the way
I used to. I don't see myself the way I used to. I don't see
anything the way I used to. I don't see problems, afflictions,
troubles the way I used to. I don't see sin like I used to. Paul said, when the law, the
truth of God's law came home to my heart, sin revived and
I died. The old me that ever thought,
and we used to think it, didn't we? We used to think, boy, we're
going to do something for God. We're going to go to church,
we're going to read our Bible, we're going to tithe, we're going to do these
things and God's going to be happy with it. is dead. How about you? I still
want to, I want to please God, but I know now that I can't.
I can't. I'm just going to do things a
little bit differently now because he deserves it the best I can,
but I can't present anything I do before God. It's all sin. That's something that you just
can't see from the ground. You're going to have to fly to
see that. Sin, he said, became exceeding sinful. You can't see
that from the ground, from this flesh alone. We can say by the grace of God,
I know who God is. I know God. I know him whom to
know is life eternal. I have an understanding. He's
given me an understanding of who He is and His holiness and
power and His grace. I see now how God can be just
and justify a sinner like me. You can't see that from this
flesh. You've got to fly. I see the things of God not from
a fleshly perspective of what's in it for me. It's not all about can I go to
heaven when I die, you know. Now everything has something
to do with the honor and glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. Do
we see things like that? You've got to see from above to see that, and by His grace
I see that now. I see it dimly. Bless God, I don't see anything
the way I used to. Not from the same perspective. As a believer, I see my own life
from a completely different angle now. A glorious perspective of
God's sovereign and loving providence. I used to think all the time,
why me? I used to be, and I'm still a worrywart. Y'all know
that. But now I know, I wish I knew it a lot better. But I
know that all things work together for good. You got to see them
from above to know that, don't you? They all work together for good
to them that love God, to those who are the called according
to His purpose. I see every trouble and every
pain and every tear from a different perspective now. The Lord has
given me strength and might And I have mounted up. And I can see a lot more than
I ever saw. And I see everything different. And then they run. They run. Let me read you a passage of
scripture. Hebrews 12.1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed
about with so great a cloud of witnesses Let us lay aside every
weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us
run with patience, with endurance. Let us run without tiring. Let
us run with everything we have. The race that is set before us,
looking unto Jesus. Looking to the finish line. Looking
to the goal. Looking to what it means to win. What's the definition of winning?
The definition of success to a runner? Finish. What is the definition of winning?
Of success to a believer? To quote from Philippians again
there, Paul said, I must win him. I must be found in him. And to make sure that happens, and as evidence that that has
happened, God causes us to run. to Christ. Paul said, I press toward the
mark for the prize of the high calling of God. It's in Christ.
When here in Hebrews, he said, looking unto Jesus, the author
and the finisher of our faith, he's the start line and he's
the finish line. He's the reason we're able to
run at all. He's the reason why we run. He's
who we run for, to obtain, to get to. The author and finisher
of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him. Think
about the context of that. I've never seen this before in
my life. I don't know how many times I've heard and read that
verse of scripture. We're running to Him. Why? For
the joy that's set before us. Because look who we're running
to. He ran too. And you know what
the joy, you know what He was running for? For the joy that was set before
Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right
hand of the throne of God. Consider Him that endured, as
you're running, as you're running for the joy that's set before
you, which is Him, Consider him that ran for you, that endured
such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest you be
wearied. How are we not going to quit?
How are we not going to give up? It looks like we ought to
just give up, doesn't it? No. Don't be weary in your mind. Consider him. Consider what he
endured. Consider what he accomplished.
Consider what he did. For the joy that was set before We run. Not looking to win ourselves
in this flesh, but looking at Him. We're looking at Him who
already won. He ran the race. He really is
the one that ran the race. He endured all contradiction
and Paul said in another place, you
haven't yet resisted unto blood, you haven't really suffered.
He did. He ran in spite of... He endured the cross. The shame
of the cross, of being separated and punished by his own father. Something that we can never even
fathom. So here's the lesson here. We
don't run the race in order to win the race. He already won
the race. We run the race to win him. We're not going to win the race.
We're going to win him. That's the big win right there.
That's the win. And I wrote down here Philippians
3, 8-14. That's what I've been quoting from all night. So y'all
just remember that and read that. That passage of scripture, I
can't get away from it even if I wanted to and I don't want
to. Oh, that's beautiful. Paul said, let us lay aside every
weight and run the course as before. That's what Paul's doing
in Philippians 3. What were his weights? What were
the things that hindered him? His righteousness. Being in Hebrew of the Hebrew
is touching the law, being blameless, being a keeper of the law in
his own mind and in the minds of others. All of his religious
heritage, all of his good work, those were the weights. And he
said, cast them off and run. Run to Christ. I used to be able
to run like the wind. I was the fastest
one on my football team in 1981. That wasn't saying much because
we were all pretty slow, but I was the fastest slow one there.
In Deer Park, Texas. The Deer Park Deer. And now I can't really run at
all. I couldn't run to those doors back there. Without falling
over. But as we grow older in the Lord
Jesus Christ, we can run better. We run better and better. Maybe
just a little bit better. But we never get tired. They
run and they don't faint. It doesn't make us tired to run
to Him, does it? It makes us even stronger. It's
not like this flesh. The more we run, the faster we
run to Him, the closer we get to Him. Our salvation is nearer
than when we believed, isn't it? And what is our salvation
if it's not Him? We're getting closer and closer,
aren't we? And the closer we get, we're not getting tired.
Don't be weary. These ones run. If you're waiting
on Him, if all your hope and trust is in Him, you run and
you don't faint. You just get stronger. We don't get tired of striving to
apprehend Him. As Paul put it there in that
passage in Philippians 3, he said, I must apprehend the one
that apprehended me. That's what we're doing. And
then we walk. We walk. This word, walk, there,
it means to come and go. To come and go. And I thought about this verse
in Matthew chapter 8. We just saw this recently, the
story in Luke, that Luke's account of this. The centurion said to
the Lord, I'm not worthy that thou shouldest come under my
roof, but speak the word only and my servant shall be healed.
For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. And
I say to this man, go, and he goeth, and to another come, and
he cometh, and to my servant do this, and he doeth it. What
does it mean to walk? To come and go. At who's bidding?
The Master. That's what it is to walk. We're
running to Him now. We're running to Him. For salvation in every sense
of the word. But knowing that we have Him,
we walk. When He says go, we go. When
He says come, we come. When He says do this, God help
us. We do it, don't we? We do it
not to be saved, but because we're saved. Not to please God,
but because we please God in Christ. The Lord says go. The Lord said
go, didn't He? He said go and preach. And here
we are. Here we are. That's the walk. That's the walk. One day, he said to us, come. We did. It wasn't a suggestion,
was it? It was a command. Lazarus, come. Come. And just like him, Just
like Lazarus, dead, stinking nasty dead, we came anyway. That's the walk now, that's the
beginning of the walk there, when he first says come. That
was interesting when I saw that, to walk, it means to come and
go. And we did, we came. And we go,
it is bidding. What is the Believer's Walk?
There's a lot about that in religion, you know. We want to, you know,
talk about the Believer's Walk. You know what the Believer's
Walk is? Whatever He says. Whatever He
does, wherever He goes, following Him. Following right behind Him. We don't take our orders
from anybody else. You know, people say, or they,
I've had people say to me, why don't you do this, why don't
you do that, why don't you all do that down there, because he
didn't tell me to. That's why. I'm sure that, you know, each
other, we think about, sometimes we mind our own business and
sometimes we don't. We think about even those that
we love, our brothers and sisters in Christ. Why in the world are
they doing that? You know what? We're all going to stand or fall
to our own master, aren't we? To our own master. You show it to me right here.
Why don't we have the Lord's table, you know, on Sunday morning. That would be a lot more convenient.
Show it to me right in here and we'll do it. We'll start doing
it. We'll just put this up and next Sunday morning we'll do
this then. Show it to me right here. And that's what we'll do. That's the walk of the believer
right there. What he's told us to do is follow
him. Follow him. What did he do? Always
those things that please God. Oh, they walk. Now, don't ever get the idea, though,
that we are sufficient of ourselves. We read this a while ago, to
do anything of ourselves. Our sufficiency is of God. And
Christ is all of our righteousness. Everything we do is flawed and
full of sin. We do it for the wrong reasons,
usually, and even when we don't, we don't do it the way He deserves
it to be done. Not even close. So we do it, but Lord help our
not doing it. We believe, Lord help our unbelief.
We walk, Lord help our stumbling. Help our stumbling, but give
us grace to walk. Amen. Let's be dismissed and
would you and