Alright brethren, Romans chapter
7. I want to pick up right where
we left off Sunday morning. I wanted to speak on newness of
spirit in my third point and just was able to speak briefly
on it, but I wanted to deal with it a little more in depth and
it's continued to be on my heart, so I want to pick up right where
we left off. Now, we saw Sunday that the Spirit
of our Lord declares that true believers are dead to the law
by the body of Christ. The reason is that we might be
married to Christ our husband. He said in Romans 7 verse 4,
Wherefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to the law by
the body of Christ, that you should be married to another.
even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring
forth fruit unto God. For when we were in the flesh,"
that's important, that phrase, when we were in the flesh, the
motions of sins which were by the law did work in our members
to bring forth fruit unto death. Let me ask you this question.
What is serving in the oldness of the letter? He's going to
say something about that in the next verse. What is that? What
is serving in the oldness of the letter? That's what he's
talking about here in verse 5. Any sinner that goes to this
book looking for things that he can do to justify himself
or to sanctify himself. that is to make himself righteous
or to make himself holy, is serving in the letter of the law. It doesn't matter if he is looking
at the Old Testament law, and he's looking at the Ten Commandments,
or if he's looking at something in the New Testament, some precept
he's found in the New Testament. If he's going to try to, with
the motive of trying to make himself righteous or holy, He's
serving in the oldness of the letter, in the letter of the
law, the letter of the Word. If he's going to indebt God to
save him or to earn a reward from God, that's his motive.
If he's going to find something to do to be seen of men, to earn
favor with men, that's serving in the oldness of the letter.
Whatever He produces that may appear good to men outwardly,
it's all fruit unto death. It's fruit unto death. But for
the saint that's born again of the Spirit, born again of God,
look at verse 6. But now we are delivered from
the law, that being dead wherein we were held, that we should
serve in newness of spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. Now that's our subject is newness
of spirit. I want to repeat something I
said Sunday. Newness of spirit is the spirit
of Christ in you. It's the spirit of Christ. It's the spirit of the Lord in
you. It's not of our flesh whatsoever. Our flesh has nothing to do with
newness of spirit. In those 40 days that Christ
walked this earth between arising from the grave and when He ascended
to the Father, He walked in newness of life. He walked in newness
of spirit, something this world had never before ever seen. That's how He walked. He told
Thomas, He said, reach hither thy hand. And he said, thrust
your hand in my side. Thrust your whole hand in my
side. That wound from that spear had
left a hole in his side. Reach hither thy hand in my side. His life was not by physical
blood. He was walking in newness of
spirit, newness of life. And when the Spirit of Him that
raised up Christ from the dead has quickened a sinner, and the
Spirit of Christ dwells in you. You have that same newness of
spirit. You have that same newness of
spirit. And it's the spirit of the Lord
Jesus himself abiding in you. That's newness of spirit. It's
the same kind of new life that Christ had after he arose from
the grave. and was walking his earth after
he arose. That's why he's called the first
born from the dead. He had raised others from the
physical death, but they were not walking in that same kind
of new life he was. When he arose, it was newness
of spirit, it was newness of life that this world had never
ever witnessed. That's what He gives to His people.
And our flesh has nothing to do with it. Everything we are
of Adam has nothing to do with it whatsoever. Now I want to
show you this and just kind of look a little here at a time
and look at some scriptures. Now first of all, newness of
spirit is being made one in spirit with the Lord Jesus. With the
Spirit of Christ in you, with Christ our husband. And this
is done in regeneration. He said there in verse four,
Christ went to the cross, laid down his life, put away our sin,
delivered us from the law, that you should be married to another,
even to him who is raised from the dead. See, that word's important
too, because we're talking about this newness of life. Newness
of life. He's raised from the dead. And
newness of life. and you're to be married to Him,
that we should bring forth fruit unto God. He said at the end
of verse 6 that we should serve in newness of spirit and not
in the oldness of the letter. Christ delivered His elect. When
He went to the cross, you know this, He accomplished redemption. He delivered us by His death. He really died. He really bore
our sin. He really came under the curse.
He submitted to death to have dominion over him. And he really
went into that grave. But brother, he didn't stay in
that grave. He put away sin. He completely, thoroughly put
away sin. He completely, thoroughly honored
God's holy law. And that's how he conquered death.
That's how he conquered the grave. Death had no claim on him, could
not hold him, because he put away sin, And the law could find
no fault with him. He was dead to the law. And by
him dying to the law and being dead to the law, so the law couldn't
say anything else to him, that sold his people. That's what
we saw Sunday. And he arose from the grave that
we should be born by him. Now, I want you to go to John
14, verse 19. John 14, 19. And hold your place here in John
14, but I want to show you this, and then I want to go back to
Romans 8. John 14, 19, at the very end, this is what he promised
his apostles that night, this is what he promised us. He said,
because I live, ye shall live also. That was his promise, because
I live, you shall live also. Now go to Romans 8, hold your
place there in John 14, and look at Romans 8. When the Lord Jesus
enters into us in spirit, and that's really what He does, He
is the life within us. Christ said, I'm the way, the
truth, and the life. and He's the life within us.
The new spirit given of God, a new spirit He said He would
give, and that new spirit given of God is the Spirit of Christ. It's the Spirit of God, the Spirit
of Christ, and that is newness of spirit, is to have Christ
in you, and thereby you have a new spirit. Verse 9, Romans
8, 9. You know, I said there it was
important to see when you were in the flesh, when you were in
the flesh. Now look here at Romans 8, 9.
But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that
the Spirit of God dwell in you. That what looks to me like I'm
in the flesh, Looks like you're in the flesh. Well, this is how
God sees it and how God says it is. And that's how it is,
brethren. You are not in the flesh. You are in the Spirit,
if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now, if any man
have not the Spirit of Christ, he's none of His. And if Christ
be in you, The body is dead because of sin. Your flesh has nothing
to do with this. The body is dead because of sin,
but the spirit is life because of righteousness. And what He
says there next is, one day He will raise this body. He will,
if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell
in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken
your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you. One day
you're going to have a new body by His Spirit. But right now,
in that new man, the Spirit is life. in you. Your body is dead
because of sin, but the Spirit is life because Christ is life. Christ is righteousness. And
He is in His people. He is the life within you. He
is the righteousness in His child. The Spirit of life is in you.
Sin is death. I have said this to you a lot
of times from that verse. Sin is death. Righteousness is
life. If you have eternal life, It's
because the Spirit of life is in you. Christ Jesus, the righteous
one, is in you. He sent us this gospel, and Christ
Jesus, the Word, Himself entered in. The Word of life. And He
spoke that Word, and He quickened us. Remember, He said, and go
back over with me, and let's look at John 6. John 6 and verse
63. While we're here, I want to show
you something. Look up there at verse 56. He said, He that eateth my flesh
and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent
me, and I live by the Father, Now get that, I live by the Father,
Christ said. So he that eateth me, even he
shall live by me. You see that? Now look down here
at verse 63. How do we have this life? How
do we believe? He said, it is the spirit that
quickeneth. The flesh profiteth nothing. Now get that, the flesh profiteth
nothing. The words that I speak unto you,
they are spirit and they are life. The words I speak unto
you. Now go back to John 14. Go back
to John 14. But Christ not only promised
us we would live, He said when we live by Him, He promised us
we're going to know that we're one with Him in spirit. He said we're going to know this.
Look here in John 14, 19. He said, because I live, you
shall live also. At that day, he's talking about
when you're regenerated, when the Spirit of the Lord comes
upon you, or is poured out. He said, at that day, you shall
know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. You are in my Father, or I am
in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. Remember
1 Corinthians 6.17, it said, He that is joined unto the Lord
is one spirit. He that is joined unto the Lord
is one spirit. Our text said, Christ accomplished
our redemption, and He arose from the grave, that you should
be married to another. It's pictured with a husband
and a wife. We, too, are one flesh. We, too, are one spirit. He that's
joined to the Lord is one spirit. Like a man and a woman become
one flesh, we, too, when you and Christ are joined together,
you're one spirit. You're one spirit. This is a
great mystery, Paul said. but I'm speaking concerning Christ
and the church, one with Christ, inseparably one with Christ.
He said, in that day, because I live, you shall live, and in
that day you're going to know The Father is in me, and I'm
in you, and you're in me. You're gonna know it. Go to John
17. John 17. I'm trying to show you what newness
of spirit is. It's being, having the spirit
of Christ in you and being one with Christ and one with the
Father. John 17, 19. He said, for their sakes I sanctify
myself. that they also might be sanctified
through the truth. In other words, He did everything
He did, separate and holy from sinners, perfect in His world,
went to the cross, accomplished redemption, that He might be
the truth by which we're sanctified. He sanctified us, and He's the
gospel by which we're going to be made to believe and be sanctified
in Spirit. He prayed in verse 20 that they
shall believe on Me. We're sanctified through faith
that's in Christ Jesus. But look at verse 21, that they
all may be one As thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that
they also may be one in us, that the world, he's talking about
his chosen, redeemed, regenerated people, that they may believe
that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest
me, I've given them, that they may be one, even as we're one. I in them, and thou in me, that
they may be made perfect in one. and that those that you chose
and are redeemed and are born of me, that they may know that
thou hast sent me, and hast loved them as thou hast loved me. Brethren,
now get this, the same as God and Christ are one, Well, with
the Spirit of Christ in you, this newness of spirit is the
Spirit of Christ in you, creating a new spirit in you, and you
are inseparably one now with the Father in Christ, with Christ
in you. That'll never be undone. That'll
never even diminish in the least bit. It is a done, accomplished
thing. It's pictured in the husband
and the wife. That's in the flesh, but you and Christ are one in
spirit, you that are born of it, inseparably one with Him. That's newness of spirit. That's
a great mystery, but it's been revealed in you, Christ said,
you're going to know it, and we rejoice that that's so. That
is so, that's newness of spirit. Now, the second thing I want
you to see here is all the fruit that is produced is of Christ
our husband, in spirit, in spirit and in truth. It's all of Christ
our husband in spirit and truth and it's by this union. Now,
by the Spirit of Christ dwelling in us, by Him dwelling in us,
in newness of spirit, He produces, first of all, the fruit of faith
and repentance. They go together, you can't separate
them, the fruit of faith and repentance. This is the first
thing He's gonna produce in His child, the first fruit. We couldn't
produce that. We couldn't produce, that's why
we were serving in the onus of the letter. We couldn't produce
faith and repentance. Hey, you look back up there at
Romans 6, and look. Verse 19, I speak after the manner
of men because of the infirmity of your flesh, as you have yielded
your members, servants, to uncleanness and to iniquity, even so now
yield your members, servants, to righteousness and to holiness.
For when you were the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness. What fruit had you then in those
things whereof you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is
death. That's all our life consisted
of was, back in verse 19, was uncleanness. That's the sins
we know are sins. Now we recognize this sin, and
iniquity unto iniquity, that's all our self-righteous sins that
came short of the glory of God and the righteousness He demands.
But when He gave you this new spirit, He made you ashamed of
all your sin. He made you ashamed of yourself
and everything about yourself and everything you had done,
whether it was this You know, what we recognize as sin, but
even those sins that you thought were righteousness. He makes
you ashamed of those, and He changes your mind completely
regarding yourself. For the first time, you see the
vileness of your sin, of your nature. and of all that comes
from your nature. He said in Romans 7, 5, when
we were in the flesh, the motions of sins which were by the law
did work in our memories to bring forth fruit unto death. That's
how we brought forth. And he's talking there about
that iniquity unto iniquity. All we did by going to the law
It looked good to men, maybe you were praised by a preacher
or something like that, but it was nothing but iniquity. It was nothing but sin. But we
couldn't see it, we didn't know it was sin, because we didn't
have this newness of spirit. All we were was sin. But now
when you're born of the Spirit, Paul said there in verse 9, Romans
7, 9, he said, I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment
came, sin revived and I died. And that's when you repented.
That's what happened. You really and truly, for the
first time, saw everything about yourself and everything about
what you had done was nothing but sin. And he, you know, this
thing of the world preaches of repentance and faith being a
one-time thing. Brethren, Sometimes we have to
be convicted again, and the Lord does this, and you feel this
same conviction of sin. And it's to keep you looking
to Christ, and not to yourself. But with that repentance that
he gave, the spirit of life entered, and he also gave us faith in
the Lord Jesus. They're together, they're like
a a sheet of paper, you know, two sides of the same sheet of
paper. You can't have one without the other. Christ said he was praying that
they might be given faith and he said, or made one to see him
that they may believe on me and believe that you've sent me.
He said that they might know that thou hast sent me and thou
hast loved them as thou hast loved me. This was what he prayed
for. This is what he interceded for. This is what he works in
his people. Look down now at Romans 8. This is what... I wish
I could say this. I just can't say this as plainly
as I want to say it. But by the Spirit of Christ,
by this new birth, brethren, He's made us know the two-fold
work that Christ has done for us and in us. And He's completely
delivered us by this work. He delivered us from the law
of sin and death of our old sin nature. It was under the law
of sin and death, our old sin nature. He delivered us from
it by this work He worked in us, by the Spirit of Christ coming
into us. And by it He made us behold,
He's delivered us from the law of sin and death by His work
on the cross, justifying us and sanctifying us. There's a work
done in you by which He frees you from the law of sin and death.
and makes you look out of yourself to Him on the cross, and there
you see He delivered you from the law of sin and death. One
is the deliverance from your sin nature, one is the deliverance
from the bondage and condemnation of the law. And here's the result,
verse 1. There's therefore now no condemnation
of them which are in Christ Jesus. who walk not after the flesh,
but after the Spirit, for the law of the Spirit of life in
Christ Jesus. That's this newness of Spirit.
It's the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. It has made me free from
the law of sin and death. for what the law cannot do, and
that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son
in the likeness of sinful flesh." Get what that means. In the holy
nature of a man, like unto His brethren, Christ comes in the
holy nature of a man, really a man, a holy man. like his brethren
were men. He came in the likeness of sinful
flesh and for sin, he was made sin for us and then justly he
was made a curse for us. And by that he condemned sin
in the flesh. It took a man. in the flesh,
like his brethren. It took a man to be holy before
God and then be fit to go and take the place of his people
and bear our sin and then bear the curse of God for us. And
by that, he condemned sin. He condemned it. that the righteousness
of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the
flesh, but after the spirit. In other words, he did this on
our behalf. He did this for us, that it might
be done. A man sinned and a man fell,
and men were being saved, and men were being justified, and
men were being holy. Elect chosen sinners. Therefore,
a man had to come and do it. And that man is the God-man,
therefore it's eternal. And so verse 10 says, And if
Christ be in you, the body's dead because of sin, but the
spirit's alive because of Christ's righteousness. You see that? Our dead sin nature has nothing
to do with this, brethren. We did not do anything. Christ justified us and He sanctified
us on the cross in His holy human nature, being made a sin and
being made a curse for us. And then He entered in in spirit
in the new birth and sanctified us so that we look outside of
ourselves to Him and we look completely from self and from
all our dead letter works and from all our sins. He mortified our flesh to just
be delivered from our sin nature. to be able to look to Him. I'm
not talking about He didn't take you out of your sin there, but
He freed you from the dominion of it so that now you can believe
Him. And I'll tell you something now,
that's the only way you're going to worship God. That's the only
way you serve God is if He has in the Spirit, in His new Spirit,
made Christ all your wisdom, all your righteousness, all your
holiness, and all your redemption. If He's not all in that new man,
and you're still, some part of you, you're trusting in. Hadn't
bowed to Him and you're not worshiping Him. You can't be married to,
can't be. John 4.23, if you can get there,
remember our Lord said this in John 4.23? This is a must now,
I'm telling you. He said, The hour cometh, and
now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit
and in truth. For the Father seeketh such to
worship Him. God is a spirit, and they that
worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. That
don't have a thing to do with you. You didn't do that. You
didn't work that. He worked that. I'm trying to
show you, Christ worked that. And so, because of this work
now, by Him making you look only to Him and have no other confidence
but Him. Paul said, we're the circumcision
which worship God in the Spirit. In that new Spirit He's given
you, by the Spirit of Christ being in you, we worship God
in the Spirit. That's where we worship Him,
in the Spirit. Rejoicing in Christ Jesus. It's not in us. It's in Christ
Jesus. And we have no confidence in
the flesh. Now, here's where men like to
jump to right off the bat. Now that we've said all that.
What does this make you do? What does this make you do? What's
the fruit that He produces in you? You got faith now? You see
your mind's changed by Christ? You got a new mind? the mind
of Christ so that that's what repentance is. You turn to Him
away from self and all your work. Now we're motivated by love in
the heart. Now God's our Father. Now Christ
is our everlasting Father. He's our Redeemer. He's our Beloved
now. And our heart's filled with His
love and we know we're one with Christ our Husband and one with
God our Father in Him. We know we're one in Him. He's
reconciled us and made us one in Him. He said, at that day
you will know, you shall know that I am in my Father and you
in me and I in you. As many as are led by the Spirit
of God, they are the sons of God. And He makes you know that. And God's looking on the heart
now. And the motive is love. That's
it. It's not law. It's love. Look at Romans 8, 15. For you've
not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, never at any time. If a man preaches and he tries
to make you fearful and tries to whip you and make you fearful,
as somebody that the Lord's done this work in, shame on him. Somebody
ought to take him out and string him up by his pinky toe. Shame
on him. Because you weren't given the
spirit again to fear. He didn't do this to bring you
in. He says, Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith the Lord.
You speak comfortably to Jerusalem. You declare to them their warfare
is accomplished. You have received the spirit
of adoption. Whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
This is newness of spirit, brethren. We even depend upon the Spirit
to make us call on the Father. Now, you're depending on the
Spirit of the Lord to mortify the flesh. He said there in Romans
8, verse 12, because all this is of the Spirit, brethren, Romans
8, 12, we're debtors not to this flesh to live after this flesh.
Now that includes immoral sin too, brethren. I read Romans
13 to you. No more walking in rioting and
drunkenness and strife and envy and living by the sword and trying
to make things happen with the world and all that. No more of
that. Put on Christ now. But it also includes this. We're
not trying to mortify this flesh by our flesh anymore. We know
now we depend on the Spirit. but we depend on the Lord as
our Father. So in all our troubles, we call
to Him now. We call. Before, we didn't pray. Paul prayed for the first time
when Christ saved him. Likewise, the Spirit, and here's
the thing, we don't even know how to pray as well. We're so
dependent on the Lord. Romans 8, 26, the Spirit also
helps our infirmities because we don't know what we should
pray for as we ought. But the Spirit itself maketh
intercession for us with groanings that cannot be uttered. This
is the point I'm trying to get to. Newness of spirit and true
worship and truly serving the Lord in newness of spirit rather
than the oneness of the letter. is utter dependence on the Lord.
Absolute dependence on the Lord. We depend on the Spirit to mortify
our flesh. So we call to the Father. We
depend on the Spirit to even help us to call on the Father.
Do you see how dependent we are on Him? Looking to Him alone
every day to keep us to the end. It's bowing to Him to save at
all times. This is newness of Spirit. Go
with me over to 2 Corinthians 5. Now we know something of our
sin nature. We didn't know that before. Now, as Paul said in
Romans 7, now we know in my flesh dwells nothing good. Evil is
present with me. We know our sin. But here's what
we know now. We know all God's elect died
in Christ. We didn't know that before. Now
we know that. We know they all died in Christ. We know they
all that's been born of God, they're alive under God now.
And we've been delivered from condemnation and now we know
true worship is in newness of the Spirit. We know that now.
We've experienced that now. And so to serve Christ in newness
of Spirit is to know no man after the flesh. Not looking on the
outward appearance. Not judging by the outward appearance.
Look here in 2 Corinthians 5.14. The love of Christ constraineth
us because we thus judge. If one died for all, then we're
all dead. That's what our text told us
Sunday. You become dead to the law by the body of Christ. Christ
died for all his elect. All his elect died. And that
he died for all that they which live should not henceforth live
unto themselves. That's all we were doing before.
Living to Moses, living to ourselves, living to our religion, living
to our work, our good deeds, looking in the mirror, blowing
smoke up our own skirt, thinking we was something. He said, but
now you're living to Him which died for you and rose again. Wherefore henceforth know we
no man after the flesh. You remember when Christ told
the Pharisees, He said, you judge after the flesh. He said, I judge
no man after the flesh. Christ said, I'm not looking
on the outward appearance. That's all you do. He said, I'm
not looking on that. I don't judge that way. Proverbs
16, 27 says this, an ungodly man diggeth up evil. And in his lips there's a burning
fire. He's digging, he's looking for something. Christ said, I
don't judge that way. And he told him, judge righteous
judgment. What's that? That's what Paul
just declared. In newness of spirit now, we
thus judge. We thus judge. That since Christ
died for all his people, all his people died. When I see my
brother sin, that old man I'm looking at has died under the
curse of the law and he's dead now. And if this brother is born
of the Spirit of God, there's a new spirit and Christ is in
him. And knowing that, I'm not going
to judge him after the outward appearance, after the flesh.
I'm going to commit him and this cause and this trouble and him
and everything to Christ the righteous judge and trust that
that's his master. He's able to make him stand.
Just like Noah's son did for the father, I'm going to turn
my back on his sin and love covereth all sin. We're not looking for
weakness and we're not looking for sins. We're not looking for
failures in our brethren. We're not ready to scorn and
condemn them. Knowing our own sins daily and knowing how God
has mercy on us and forgives us for the sake of Christ makes
you want to be merciful and forgiven. Knowing how He's had compassion
on you makes you want to be compassionate. Knowing all is of God, as Paul
said there in 2 Corinthians 5. Knowing it's all of God who reconciled
us to Himself by Christ Jesus. Knowing Christ is our Advocate
with the Father. Spirit of Christ just gave us
this newness of spirit. Knowing how many times He's mortified
my flesh and made me just cast sin out of the way and turn and
go the other way. Knowing He has the power to do
that. Knowing He keeps us believing on Christ. Knowing that He's
working in us to do the things that are pleasing in His sight.
Knowing you've experienced that. Now if you haven't experienced
it, you don't know what in the world I'm talking about. So you
can't be expected to do what I'm talking about. But if you've
experienced it, the power of Christ is going to make you treat
your brother that way. He's going to make you committed
to him. Newness of spirit lives to Christ. That's what living
to Christ is. It's worshiping Christ by going
to his throne of grace and praying for the fallen brother and for
the lost even. We're bowing and we're worshiping
Christ by casting all our care on Christ to help us in all our
daily needs and to help our brethren in all their daily needs. We're
begging Christ. When do you find that you pray
the most? When everything's great and you got everything you need
and everything's happy. Oh, you're just praying to him
all the time, aren't you? Or when you're in that narrow
straight and you just can't hardly lift your head up and you're
begging him just for the next step. We know Paul said this, and I
know what people say. People say, you act like a believer,
he don't do a thing. The Lord does it all. Well, that's
what the book says, Salvation of the Lord. That is what the
book says. But let me give you something
here. Go with me to John 14 again. I'm done. I'm just going to give
you this to go home with. Because I know what people will
answer. They'll say, you act like people are robots. Brother
Don used to say, no, robots got moving parts. We know Paul said, it's not I
that lives, but it's Christ that lives in me. He said, I didn't
do the work, it was the grace of God with me. That's what he
said. Where did Paul get that from? What made him say that?
That's the Spirit of Christ in Paul. That's what made him say
that. Look here, John 14.10. John 14.10. He said, Believest thou not that
I am in the Father, and the Father in me? You know, see, I've been
showing you, we're one with Christ now. He was the same when he
walked this earth. He was serving the Father. And
he said, Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father
in me? Listen now, the words that I speak to you, I speak
not of myself. But the Father that dwelleth
in me, he doeth the works. That's the same thing Paul said,
I don't live, it's Christ living in me. It's the grace of God
working in me. Well, when Christ walked this
earth serving the Father, He said, it's the Father speaking
in me. The works I'm doing, He's doing.
And you know what He goes on to say? He said, you see me do
all these works of raising the dead and giving the blind eyes
to see and the lame being able to leap like a deer? He said,
you see me doing all this? He said, because I'm going to
be in you and you're going to be in me. He said, the works
that I do, you're going to do greater works than these. You're
going to do greater works than that? Yeah. Yeah, all that was
just physical. Christ makes us preach this gospel,
and he gives spiritual life, and he gives spiritual eyes,
and he gives spiritual ears, and he makes you leap spiritually. He does all this in spirit. That's
a greater work than those physical works. This is all, brethren,
I'm saying to you, newness of spirit is the spirit of Christ
making us depend upon Christ as He did the Father. Depend on Him like He depended
on the Father. That's true worship. That's true
faith. That's true love. That's living
unto Him that loved us and gave Himself for us. That's serving
in newness of spirit. That's newness of spirit. I pray
the Lord make us truly, truly worship and serve him in newness
of spirit. That's what I desire above everything,
above everything else. I pray he bless that. All right,
Brother Greg.