Alright, brethren, Philippians
chapter 4, Paul begins in verse 21, and he says, Salute every
saint in Christ Jesus. Salute means to pull to oneself. That's what it means. They embraced. And he says, Embrace every saint
in Christ Jesus. Embrace them as being one with
you in Christ, by Christ, and for Christ's sake. Embrace them.
Salute them. Those God has called to faith
in Christ are saints in Christ Jesus. You see there? Salute
every saint in Christ Jesus. That's what we are by God's grace.
Saints in Christ Jesus. Scripture tells us that God the
Father sanctified us in divine election when He chose whom He
would in the Lord Jesus Christ. He separated us from everybody
else in the world in Christ Jesus and He told us in Ephesians 1
that according as He chose us in Him, that we should be holy
and without blame before Him in love. And when He chose His
people in Christ, in Christ, God's people were holy and without
blame and have always been holy and without blame in Christ.
Yes, we fell. We were plunged into sin, but
from eternity by God sanctifying us, the Father, we've been holy
and without blame in Christ. That's the only reason He didn't
destroy this world when we fell in Adam. And then Christ came. We saw this morning in Isaiah
45. The Lord said, it's useless to
strive with your maker. And he said, I will send forth
my son, like he sent forth Cyrus. And he said, and he shall deliver
my captives. That's what Christ did. He came
and redeemed his people from the captivity of the curse and
condemnation of the law. by His one offering at Calvary.
He sanctified us. Hebrews 10 says, He said, Lo,
I come to do Thy will, O God, Thy law is within my heart. And
He said, By the witch will, we are sanctified through the offering
of the body of Christ Jesus one time. By one offering, He's perfected
forever them that are sanctified. As Isaac Watts, as we heard him
in that hymn, we are as pure as God is pure, in Him by Christ
Jesus, with Christ dwelling in us. And that's the third thing.
The Lord said, not only will Christ come and deliver my captives,
He said, He'll build my city. And we saw in Ephesians 2, God
said, you're fellow citizens with the saints, because Christ
came and redeemed us, that He might reconcile us to God in
one body, by the cross, and He sent the Holy Spirit into our
hearts through the preaching of the gospel. So we are fellow
citizens with the saints, and we are built up on the foundation
of the apostles. He called out His apostles from
among the Jews first, and sent them forth with the gospel. Then
He sent Paul to the elect Gentiles, just like God said He would in
Isaiah 45. And Christ has been calling out His people and the
Spirit of God sanctifies us in the heart when a new man is created,
when Christ is formed in us in the holiness of Christ so that
we turn away from ourselves and all our works and we trust Christ
alone to be all our righteousness and wisdom and sanctification
and redemption. Sanctified, saints in the Lord
Jesus Christ. Saints in the Lord Jesus Christ.
And so, Paul not only wanted the Philippians to greet every
saint in Christ for him, he let them know, the brethren that
are with me greet you. He said here, the brethren that
are with me greet you. Now, we come to one of my favorite
verses in all of the Scripture. Speaking of the brethren with
him, Paul said, verse 22, all the saints salute you, chiefly
they that are of Caesar's household. That's what God said He's going
to do in Isaiah 45. That's what He's still doing.
That's what He did with you that believe Him. That's what He said
He'd do. In this one verse, we can learn
so much about our God and our Savior and His salvation. But
I want to show you three things. I'll show you three things. First
of all, we learn that God our Father has elect in places we
least expect Him to be. He has elect in places we least
expect Him to be. God had elect in Rome and Caesar's
household. Nothing about us, absolutely
nothing about us is a determining factor in God's electing grace. Nothing about us. While dead
in sins we used all of these things I'm about to talk about,
we used all these things to exalt ourselves over others and despised
others, trusting within ourselves that we were righteous. Every
one of us did this. Every one of us. It's just fallen
sinful nature. But none of these things made
us God's elect. Not our nation, that didn't make
us God's elect. Paul said in Romans 9, they are
not all Israel which are of Israel. Even those that were born in
the nation Israel, that didn't make them God's elect. They're
not all Israel which are of Israel. Our text speaks of some of God's
elect Gentiles in Rome, Italy. Not our earthly father. Not who
our blood relations were. That didn't make us God's elect. He said, neither because they're
the seed of Abraham are they all children. Abraham had Isaac,
he had Ishmael. Isaac was a chosen child of God.
But it wasn't because of Abraham. It was because of God's grace.
Rebecca and Isaac had twins. She had twins in her
womb. It didn't matter who their mother
and father was. It was of God's electing grace that chose one
and passed by the other. And it's not any of our works
that make us God's child of grace. It said of Jacob and Esau, the
two having done neither good or evil, that the purpose of
God according to election might stand. What is that? It's not
of him that willeth. Listen to me carefully. You and
me and no sinner on this planet are saved by our will. We're
not saved by our will. We're saved by God's will. We're
saved by Christ fulfilling the will of God. We're saved by God's
will, not our will. Not of him that willeth, but
of God that calleth. And it began in eternity when
God called us His own children by electing grace in Christ Jesus.
We experience it in our experience when He calls us and makes us
to know, you're my child, I've redeemed you, I've loved you
for everlasting, and I shall save you to the end. God chose whom He would by His
grace alone. And our God has had an elect
remnant in every age. In every age, Adam was his elect. That's why he came to Adam and
sought him in the garden and Adam was running from him. Called
him out, stripped him of his fig leaves, slew a lamb in his
place and covered him in the coats of those skins. In every
age, God's had an elect and in every country from among all
people throughout the world. We get in these arguments over
race. Your race don't have one thing
to do with who you, if you saved or not. And John saw him sing a new song,
saying, Christ is worthy to take the book and open the seals thereof,
for thou was slain. Thou was slain. Thou has redeemed
us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and
people and nation. God our Father has elected where
we least expect them, brethren, where we least expect them. Now
you remember, when you encounter somebody who If you get an opportunity
to speak the gospel to them and they object, don't be high-minded. Don't think that you know something
and you got a leg up on somebody. Paul said, be not high-minded
but fear. The only way you believe is by the grace of God. That's
the only way. They may be God's elect. They
may be beloved of God. They may be a true child of Abraham
like you turned out to be. So speak the word, be patient,
pray to God to bless it, trust Him to bless it. Scripture says
only the special people of God, only the elect, are those that
God saves. But here's what it says of every
one of us. Here's what it says of every one of us. God hath
concluded them all, all His elect. He's concluded them all in unbelief
that He might have mercy upon all. you're going to be saved,
you'll be saved by mercy. That's true of elect Jews and
Gentiles. Secondly, we learn we can trust our sovereign Savior
is able, now this is so vital, we learn from this one verse
that our sovereign Savior, Christ our Head, our Redeemer, Head
of the Church, He's able, He's able to overrule the sins and
the errors in judgment of his preacher and teach his people
the gospel through that preacher and save his people and teach
his people about Christ in the process as he saves his preacher
and corrects his preacher. How do you get that out of this
verse? How did Paul end up in Rome? How did this begin? Well, back in Acts 21, Paul went
to Jerusalem to bring a gift from God's elect Gentiles to
the elect that had been called out from among the Jews, to the
church of Jerusalem. And while he's in Jerusalem,
James and him were talking. James is a Jew, Paul was a Jew,
but he's the preacher to the Gentiles. James said in Acts 21-21, he
said, well Acts 20-20, he said, Thou seest, brother, how many
thousands of Jews there are which believe, and they are all zealous
of the law. Sell us of the law. And they
informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews, which are among
the Gentiles, to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to
circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs. What
is it therefore? The multitude must needs come
together. He said, we're going to have
one of the biggest assemblies here that we've ever had. He
said, if it all come together here, you're going to have a
big platform to preach. And he said, and they'll hear
it, because they're going to hear you come. But James didn't say, so stand
up, preach Christ, and crucify to them. That's not what he asked
him to do. He said, What is it therefore?
He said, Do therefore this that we say to thee. We have four
men which have a vow on them. Them take, and purify thyself
with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave
their heads, and all may know that these things whereof they
were informed concerning thee are nothing, but that thou thyself
also walkest orderly and keep the law. And it says, And then
Paul took the men, verse 26, Then Paul took the men, and the
next day, purifying himself with them, entered into the temple
to signify the accomplishing of the days of purification,
so that an offering should be offered for every one of them.
And almost seven days go by. Paul does this. He comes under a Jewish vow,
under a legal vow, because these men can't pay their debt. And
he's going to be at charges on their behalf. And James says,
and that will show all the people that you really walk under the
law and orderly according to the law. And this will bring
them all together. We'll all be in harmony. This
is the same Apostle Paul. And Paul did this. This is the
same Apostle Paul who faithfully, boldly rebuked the Apostle Peter
and said to him, when he got up from that table with the Gentiles
and walked over and sat down at the table with the Jews because
he saw James and these other Jews approaching. This is the
same Paul that told him, you are not walking uprightly according
to the truth of the gospel. And you're leading others away
from the gospel to dissimilate and follow after what you're
doing. Same Paul. This is the same Paul
who boldly stood up to the Judaizers when they came down and told
the Gentile believers that except you be circumcised and come under
the law, you cannot be saved. Paul said, we didn't withstand
them for a minute. Same Paul. And yet he did what
James suggested. Brethren, I don't know if you
realize this, that is A very, very grievous sin that Paul committed. It was a rank denial of Christ. It was not walking uprightly
according to the truth of the gospel. Christ was already made
under the law. Christ came and he paid all the
debt his people owed. He took the charges that we owed
and paid everything His people owed. Everything that was pictured
in that vow and pictured in that law, everything about it was
given by God to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ. And by His blood,
by His righteousness, Christ fulfilled that type. He's the
end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believe it.
He fulfilled it. It would have been better for
Paul to stand up and declare this very thing to that multitude
and preach Christ and Him crucified and the accomplishment that He
accomplished for His people and declare to them, therefore, God's
people who have been called by Christ Jesus are not under the
law, you're under grace. This would have been the thing
to declare to them. We don't walk because we're compelled
by men. We don't walk because we're compelled
by law, by threats of law and promises of reward. We do what
we do in honor to our Savior because He's given us a love
for the Redeemer. And seeing what He's done for
us and how He's made us righteous and holy and complete in Him,
we're constrained by His love for us. That's why we live unto
Him, not by law. If we could see how evil Paul's
sin was, then we would see the grace of God magnified to the
highest right here. This was worse than murder. This
was worse than what David did when he committed adultery with
Bathsheba and then killed her husband. When Peter moved from that Gentile
table, Paul said, you walk not uprightly according to the truth
of the gospel. That's what Paul did that day. But see, God our Father chose
the Apostle Paul by grace. Christ Jesus had come and worked
out a perfect righteousness for Paul. He'd been born of the Spirit
of God. There was a new man in Paul created
in the perfect holiness of our Lord Jesus Christ. What Paul
was doing was just a weakness of his His new man was weak and
his old man was strong. And though he did what he did,
we see the sovereign, unchangeable love and grace of God in what
Christ did for Paul. Christ is the righteousness and
holiness of His people, and He is the sanctifier who first separated
us into His holiness and who is able to keep us separated
into His holiness, even when we do something as foolish as
what Paul did. And we do a lot of foolishness like Paul did. Christ is able to overrule the
sins, and this was a terrible error in judgment, But He's able
to overrule the sins and the errors of judgment in His preacher,
as well as in His people, and to teach every one of us in the
process. So our sovereign Lord did that. He didn't permit that offering
to be made. When those seven days were almost
finished, It tells us here in Acts 21, just the Jews were stirred
up. They saw him and they grabbed
him. It says, verse 27, When the seven
days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they
saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people and laid hands
on him, crying out, Men of Israel, help! This is a man that teaches
all men everywhere against the people and the law and this place,
and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and has polluted
this holy place. They had seen him before, they
thought. And it says in verse 30, all the city was moved and
the people ran together and they took Paul and drew him out of
the temple. Now look at this, and for with the doors were shut. Who did that? Christ did that.
We saw it in Isaiah 45. He said, I create peace and I
create evil. That was wicked unbelieving Jews
that drug him out of that temple and went accusing him of preaching
against the law and everything they had confidence in, their
holy place and the law. And the Lord slammed the doors
shut to the temple. He didn't let him offer that
offering. He slammed the door shut because Christ is the one
door into God's presence. You don't come through the law,
you come through faith in the Lord Jesus. He shut the door
because Christ already fulfilled everything that was typified
in that offering and perfected His people forever. Paid all
the debt we owe. So the unbelieving Jews, they
take Paul out and they bind him. And they beat him. They almost
killed him. But Christ stopped them. You know what He did? He
gave Paul a platform, and there's all this angry multitude standing
before him. And Paul did what he should have
done the first time. He preached Christ to them. He
preached Christ to them. Is God able to overrule the errors
and sins of his people? That's what he did with Paul.
Paul declared how he had once persecuted this way, persecuted
God's saints unto death, delivering men and women to prison. He said,
but he told them how Christ interrupted him on the road to Damascus and
put him face down in the dirt and spoke to him in power and
for the first time he bowed to Christ and said, what will thou
have me to do? He preached that to them. Then
the Lord Jesus used men to deliver Paul to the Jewish council. They
take him to the Jewish council now. And what did he do there?
He preached Christ to them. And then as he lay in prison,
go to Acts 23, as he lay in prison that night beaten, bruised, probably
mourning over what he had done, verse 11 says, and the night
following, Acts 23, 11, the night following, the Lord stood by
him. The Lord is always standing by
his people. Oh, the night followed, the Lord
stood by him. And he said, be of good cheer, Paul. That's not what the Pharisees
would have said if you disobeyed them. That's not what they'd
have said. That's what Christ says to his people. Why? He's
the righteousness of his people. God says for his sake, I remember
your sin no more. Christ already bore the sin power
committed at Jerusalem and put it away before God. Now Christ
comes to him in mercy and says, be a good cheer ball. Now watch. And he don't even mention what
Paul did in trying to make that vow. He says, as you have testified
of me in Jerusalem, as you preach the gospel of me faithfully in
Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome. You see
that? Christ didn't even regard what
he, Christ just regarded what Christ worked in him, where Christ
lifted him up and gave him a platform and he preached Christ to the
people. He said, you faithfully testified of me, now you're gonna
do it at Rome too. More than 40 of the unbelieving
Jews at that time. They were so zealous for the
law and they're such holy men, such righteous men. They bound
themselves with an oath that they would not eat or drink anything
until they assassinated Paul. That's holy men, isn't it? We're
not going to eat or drink anything until we kill this man for preaching
Christ. So the Lord used Paul's nephew
to tell him And then he sent the nephew to the Roman guard.
And his little nephew runs into the Roman guard. And so the Romans... Paul couldn't have worked this
out. He couldn't have done this on his own. He had to make tents
just to get from one town to the other. But the Lord provided
200 Roman soldiers and footed the bill to deliver Paul safely
to Caesarea. Armed guard. They surrounded him and carried
him safely to Caesarea. What did he do when he got there?
He preached to the governor. And he preached to King Agrippa. And then he preached to more
of the Jews. You know who did that? The Lord did that. The
Lord Jesus did all that. Paul told them there in Acts
26, 21, he said, for these causes the Jews caught me in the temple
and went about to kill me. Having therefore obtained help
of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both the small
and great, saying none of the things and those which the prophets
and Moses did say should come, that Christ should suffer, that
he should be the first that should rise from the dead and should
show light unto the people and to the Gentiles. And so Paul
appealed to Caesar, the highest ruler in the land. He appealed
to Caesar. So they loaded him on a ship,
put him on a ship, paved the way to bring him to Rome. And
the Lord sent a hurricane. He sent a hurricane while he
was on that ship. Paul stood up, look at Acts 27.
Now, I'm trying to show you the Lord's able to overrule the sin
of his preacher and use him to preach the gospel and teach his
people in the process. He's teaching me and you right
now through Paul, how Paul sinned and how the Lord overruled it
and taught him. He's teaching me and you right
now what Christ is able to do. And he did that the whole way
everywhere Paul went while it was happening. Paul preaching
the gospel. Now look here, he's on this ship,
the Lord sent the hurricane in Acts 27, 22. And Paul stood up
and he said, And I exhort you to be of good cheer, for there
shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship. For there stood by me There He
is again standing by Paul. The Lord is standing by His people.
The Lord stood by me this night, the angel of God, whose I am
and whom I serve, saying, Fear not, Paul, thou must be brought
before Caesar. You can't die, Paul. You've got
to be brought to Caesar. You must be. And lo, God hath
given thee all them that sell with thee. Wherefore, sirs, be
of good cheer, for I believe God that it should be, even as
it was told me." But here's what else Christ told him. He told
him, how be it? We must be cast upon a certain
island. Before we get to Caesar, we've
got to be cast on a certain island. And so Christ shipwrecked Paul
on that island where he healed a man. And what did he do? Preach
the gospel to him. Some barbarians. Christ used
those barbarians to load Paul and the men with everything they
needed for the rest of their trip. Load them up. What did
Paul tell us? When he's writing a Philippian
letter, he's in jail at Rome and he said, My God shall supply
all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Paul learned that all through
his life, but he learned it on that barbarian island too, Malta,
because the Lord used him to just load him up with everything
he needed for the rest of that trip. And the Lord delivered
Paul to Caesar in Rome in Acts 28.23. I want you to turn over
there, Acts 28.23. And when they had appointed him
a day, There came many to him into his lodging, to whom he
expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning
Jesus, both out of the law of Moses and out of the prophets
from morning to evening. And some believed the things
which were spoken, and some believed not. And among those that heard
the gospel, there was a man named Onesimus, who was God's elect,
who had robbed Philemon and he fled. And he ran to Rome to get
away. And the Lord led him right there
to Paul. And he heard Paul preach the gospel and God saved him.
Paul sent him back and said, Now receive him. He is a servant
of the Lord now. But Christ doing all of that
with Paul and delivering him to preach in Rome, Paul was able
to write in Philippians 4.22, All the saints salute you chiefly
They that are of Caesar's household. Christ is our sovereign savior,
brethren. He's the head of his church.
He is as really in the presence of His people as He was when
He walked this earth. He's that present with His people
right now. He said, I'll never leave you and I'll never forsake
you. We see Him standing by Paul over and over and over and over.
He's the one that slammed them doors shut when He let Paul off
that offering. I tell you, He'll let you go
so far to show you that in your flesh dwells no good thing, but
then He's slamming the door shut on it. And He'll teach you, He's
your Savior in the process, and He'll use you to tell other people,
this is my God whom I serve. He's serving me, keeping me,
preserving me, and I serve Him. That's how He's going to teach
you that this doctrine is not just theory. It's real. It's Christ Himself working it
in His people. He's going to teach you this
doctrine. And then how are you going to learn not to touch a
hot stove? When you touch a hot stove, and He's going to save
you from that and heal you from that, and He's going to keep
you coming back teaching whoever listens to you and saying, Christ
is the only Savior. He's the head. He's the sovereign.
He's the righteousness. He's the wisdom. He's the light.
He's the truth. He's the bread. He's the Jehovah
Rapha, the Lord that healeth thee. He's Jehovah Sidkenu, the
Lord our righteous. He's everything His people need,
and there is no other. There's no other God but Him. We can learn a lot more from
this. We could look, there's a lot more to learn from this.
But lastly, we learn Christ is able to bring the gospel to his
lost sheep and make it effectual in their hearts. Before the foundation
of the world, when God elected his people in Christ, God also
predestinated his people. to the very moment he would send
them the gospel and they would hear the gospel preached and
the spirit of God would regenerate them and they would experience
the adoption of children. He predestinated that and he
did it so that Christ might get all the glory. That's why he
did it. For whom he did for know. Them
he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his
son, that his son might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called. He does
the calling. Them he called, them he also
justified. And whom he justified, them he
also glorified. What are you going to say to
them? If God's for you, there ain't a soul that can be against
you. Just look at Paul. Christ knows where his lost sheep
are. Even among the unbelieving Jews and the unbelieving Gentiles,
He knows right where His sheep are. Even if they are on a barbarian
island, He knows where His sheep are. And He is able to shipwreck
His preacher there if He has to, so He will preach the gospel
to them. You must be cast on a certain
island, even if they are a runaway slave.
running away with their master's goods and they think they've
succeeded and they've gotten away with it, the Lord ought
to direct them straight to His gospel preacher and He'll make
them hear the gospel and He'll save them. Even if they're born
in a wealthy, wealthy Roman Caesar's household, a Gentile that never
had the law, never had the Word of God, never even heard the
gospel. God's able to deliver his paw
there and tell him, you must preach the gospel right here.
I got some people here. Oh, listen, in Christ, when he
sends his preacher to his lost sheep, he always accomplishes his will
through his word. He always accomplishes it. Isaiah
55.10. Isaiah 55, 10, he said, Just
like the rain comes down and the snow from heaven and returns
not hither, but waters the earth and makes it bring forth in bud
that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater.
So shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth. It shall
not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which
I please. It shall prosper in the thing
whereto I send it. For you shall go out with joy,
and you shall be led forth with peace. That's the word of our
Lord. Why is it? Why is it that this
strong delusion has come over men where man has become so proud
and arrogant that he thinks he can control the climate? Why?
to deny that very word right there. God said, I send the snow,
I send the rain, it accomplishes my purpose, it gives seed to
the sower and bread to the eater, and it never fails because it's
a picture, I made it to picture my word that never fails but
accomplishes my purpose. That's why the devil has been
permitted to put in the heart of men this foolishness, the
audacity of it. I'm not here to talk politics,
but I'm just saying to you, I want you to see, I don't worry about
any of that stuff. Let the partridge travel the
partridge. Why? Because God has, he's based his covenant on the
fact you can't break the covenant with the day and the night, so
you can't break my covenant with my elect people. He said, as
the rain comes down and the snow and waters accomplish my purpose,
he said, so my word does. He created all things. Christ
created all things by Him and for Him were they created. Our
Lord didn't walk along and look at illustrations and pick up
a corn or wheat and say, see how that corn or wheat falls
in the ground and it must die and it brings forth fruit. That
pictures me. He didn't just find something
after the fact that pictures Him. He made it to picture Him.
He made a corn, a piece of corn to fall in the ground, a corn
of wheat fall in the ground and have to be broken and crushed
and fall into the earth and die before life can come up out of
it. Because that's what Christ did for His people. He's the
seed that came down into this earth and went to the cross and
was broken in the place where He went from Him. Life comes,
divine, and His people are branches in the vine. The same reason
I'll tell you why he sent him there. Remember he said, he's
talking to some Jewish folks and he said, other sheep I have
which are not of this fold. I have some elect not of this
Jewish fold. He said, them also I must bring
and they shall hear my voice and there shall be one fold and
one shepherd. Why must he bring them? Why must
He bring all His people? Why must His Word not return
void? Because He entered covenant with the Father that He would
bring every one of God's elect to the Father and present us
to Him without spot and without blemish, unreprovable in His
sight. He promised that. And not only
that, He came and laid down His life and justified His people
and God's holy justice has been satisfied and His holy character
and justice demands they must be called out of darkness into
His light. And that's why He says He will not fail till He
has set judgment in the earth. He's done it at the cross, He's
going to do it in the hearts of His people. Even so, at this present time,
there's a remnant according to the election of grace, and if
it's by grace, it's no more works, otherwise grace is no more grace.
The only reason this world is held in store right now is what
Peter told in 2 Peter 3 verse 9. He said, The Lord is not slack
concerning His promise, as some men count slackness, but He is
longsuffering to usward, to His elect, to those Christ's redeemed,
not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
And so therefore, he said, you account that the longsuffering
of God shall end in the salvation of all His people. God's will
can't be frustrated. God will see to it that His elect
shall hear the gospel. They'll be granted repentance
and faith to believe on Him. Christ said, All that the Father
giveth me shall come to me, and him that cometh to me I will
in no wise cast out. What a word! All the saints salute
you, chiefly they that are of Caesar's household. Listen, God
has a remnant all over this world. Places you don't know, you never
expect. If you get the opportunity to speak the Gospel to them,
speak the Gospel. Be patient. Don't get all haughty and arrogant
if they don't believe. You couldn't believe either.
Only by God's grace. Just keep being patient, speaking
the Word. As a preacher, you learn this. You can't make anybody
believe anything. You preach, preach, preach. One
day, folks act like they never heard a word you said. Only the
Lord can make the Word affect you. Just keep preaching the
Gospel. Number two, trust Christ to rule over the sins of His
preacher and the sins of His people and teach you in the process. I had a preacher tell me that
one time. I was fighting fault with my pastor and he came and
he said, ìYou believe your Savior is sovereign?î I said, ìI do.î
He said, ìWhy donít you trust your pastor to Him?î I never
thought of that. That would be a good idea, just
trust my Lord. And speak the Word knowing that
it never returns to Him void. It shall accomplish what He sends
it to accomplish. That's our redeemer, brother.
Alright, Brother Greg.