It's a bit too cool in here. You wouldn't tell me if it was.
All right, let's go to Psalm 112. Psalm 112. Psalm 111 speaks of the works
of the Lord, and Psalm 112 speaks of the glory of the Lord upon
His people, what His works in His people results in. We looked
at it down to verse 4. Now let's look at Psalm 112,
verse 5. A good man showeth favor, the
word is grace, and he lendeth. This is pure charity. He lendeth. those that would ask Him, those
that would borrow of Him. He gives freely, not expecting
any interest, not for usury, simply to give to those in need.
He will guide His affairs with discretion, judgment, spiritual
discernment. Verse 9, He hath dispersed, He
hath given to the poor, His righteousness endureth forever. His horn should
be exalted with honor. Now, faithful preaching declares
the gospel of Christ and him crucified according to the scriptures
every message, in every message. There's always somebody in the
congregation who doesn't know Christ, who hasn't heard with
spiritual ears. These messages are recorded.
They'll be listened to, you know, tomorrow and years from now.
And there'll be people that hear these messages that have never
heard the gospel. And then for those who have heard
it, we only want to hear of Christ and Him crucified. We want to
hear about Him. So Christ and Him crucified must
be preached. If the Lord blesses the word
to the heart of His people, it's going to be the message that
gives Christ all the glory, the message that declares salvation
is all of Him, that abases the sinner, makes us see our need
of Christ. So when we preach on a the work of the Lord and
a believer like we're going to see here today. We want to show
three things. First of all, we want to show
that none of these works are works by whereby we can be saved. They're not works whereby we're
looking for salvation in these works. By nature, all are fallen
sinners. It's like John Newton said, sins
mixed with all we do. Sin's mixed with all we do. We
have a sin nature. So we can't look to our works
for salvation. And then secondly, we want to
always declare how that Christ is our perfection in whatever
it is we're looking at. Whatever the work is, we want
to see how Christ is our righteousness, how he's the perfection of his
people in it. This is what thrills the heart
of the believer. We want to see that every good
work spoken of in scripture, Christ is the righteousness.
He's the one who performed it in perfection and put away all
the sin of his people for not doing it in perfection. He's
our righteousness in it. And then thirdly, those born
of the Spirit, when they hear this twofold message, all flesh
is grass and Christ is our righteousness, then we're constrained in our
heart by the Spirit. to willingly want to obey what
this word says and delight in it, want to do it. We give God
the glory for any good work a believer does. That's how believers want
it. We know we're sinners saved by God's grace. We know Christ
is all our righteousness and we're constrained by his spirit
to believe and follow Christ, to thank him and praise him and
give him all the glory for any good thing that he enables us
to do. So that's what we want to look
at today. The first thing I want you to see here is when we hear
this word concerning a good man, we must remember that by nature
there is none good but God. It says there, verse 5, a good
man showeth favor and lendeth. I know that relatively speaking,
speaking, you know, comparing sinner to sinner, there may be
some that are a little nicer and what you might consider a
good man compared to another sinner. But not before God, not
in the eyes of God. God declares in his word that
among the fallen sons of Adam, like as we come into this world
the first time, there's none good. There's none good. By Adam's one transgression,
everybody became guilty. He represented the whole, all
his offspring. He's the first head. And we all
became guilty. And then being born of his sin
nature, we come forth with a sin nature, corrupt. And our will
is in bondage to our nature. The things we did, if they were
good in themselves, they weren't done from a good motive. They
were done for self. not to exalt the Lord. This is
what Paul worked to from Romans 1 to Romans 2. Romans 1, he showed
the world and all the vile sin of the world. Romans 2, he said,
and to the religious world, to the Pharisees, he said, you're
no different. He said, when you judge the world, you're guilty
and you condemn yourself because you do the same thing in heart. So he concluded Jew and Gentile,
there's no difference in us by nature. There's none righteous,
no, not one. There's none that understandeth.
There's none that seeketh after God. They're all gone out of
the way. They're together become unprofitable. There's none that
doeth good. No, not one. Not one. That rich young ruler, let's
look at Matthew 19. Matthew 19. A rich young ruler
came to our Lord Jesus, and he only regarded the Lord Jesus
as a teacher, a master, a rabbi. and he only regarded him as a
man. So he came calling him a good man, a good teacher, a good master. He said in Matthew 19, 16, Behold,
one came and said to him, Good master, what good thing shall
I do that I may have eternal life? And the Lord said to him,
Why callest thou me good? There's none good but one, that's
God. In other words, if I'm only a
man, why are you calling me good? There's none good but one, that's
God. Christ is good. He's God in human flesh. He's
the God-man, the last Adam sent to represent his people. He's
the preeminent good man. But Christ knew this man's heart
was corrupt. He knew this man had been born
from above. He knew this man's heart. He
knows the heart of all men. And he knew this man was covetous. Not only was he covetous for
his temporal riches. He owned a lot of possessions.
Not only was he covetous for that, we can tell from what he
said, he was covetous of having the glory that belongs to Christ
only. He was covetous of robbing Christ
of his glory, of being the only righteousness of his people,
being the only fulfiller of the law. So the Lord gave him a word
to expose his heart. Look at verse 17. He said, But
if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. He said,
Unto him which Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, thou shalt
not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear
false witness, honour thy father and thy mother, and thou shalt
love thy neighbour as thyself. The young man said to him, All
these things have I kept from my youth up, what like I yet? Now the Lord's going to show
him he's a guilty sinner. And how is he going to do this?
He's going to expose his heart to him. He said, if thou wilt
be perfect, go, sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and
thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come and follow me. The only
way he could do this is if he believed Christ was his treasure.
If Christ was all his righteousness, If Christ was all his provision,
providing everything for him, and he trusted Christ and knew
Christ was providing all for him, he could have left all and
followed him. But this exposed his heart. What
his heart really was, covetous. Covetous for the glory that belonged
to Christ, for fulfilling the law for his people, putting away
our sin. Covetous for his temporal possession. He was a sinner. Our Lord exposed it. Verse 22,
when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful
for he had great possessions. It's not just his carnal possessions
that were his great possession. It was his religious works too.
Then said Jesus to his disciples, Verily I say to you, that a rich
man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of God. And again I say
unto you, it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle
than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. Now be sure
to understand this. It's not just rich in possessions. A man who thinks he's rich in
his righteousnesses, rich by his good works, rich by his deeds,
He can't let them go. He can't deny himself. He can't
confess, I'm a guilty sinner. I need Christ to be my only righteousness. Christ exposed this in this man's
heart in verse 25. Now watch this. When his disciples
heard, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, who then can
be saved? But Jesus beheld and said to
them, with men, this is impossible. You see, Christ is talking about
more than just Cardinal Richard. He's talking about something
that's utterly impossible with man. But with God, all things
are possible. Then answered Peter, said to
him, Behold, we've forsaken all and followed thee. What shall
we have therefore? They had forsaken all. They left
their occupations. They left everything that was
livelihood to them and followed Christ. Some left family, some
left loved ones. How could they do that? Look
at this. Jesus said to them, here's the
spiritual riches we have in Christ right here. Now listen. Verily
I say unto you that ye which have followed me In the regeneration,
when the Son of Man shall sit in the throne of His glory, you
also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of
Israel. And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren,
or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands,
for my name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold and shall inherit
everlasting life. And many that are first shall
be last, and the last shall be first. We saw from Psalm 112
how that Christ is the preeminent blessed man. He's the upright.
He's the seed. His house, His spiritual seed,
His children are blessed with spiritual wealth and riches.
That's what Christ just declared. He's blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in Him, blessed us with righteousness in Him, acceptance
with God in Him. And not only that, He's blessed
us with a multitude of spiritual seed and of spiritual mothers
and fathers and spiritual children right now. And then eternal life. We're going to behold Christ
sitting in the throne of his glory one day. Eternal life. See, this man didn't believe
Christ. He could not leave. He couldn't deny his works as
having saved him. He couldn't give up his carnal
riches. That was his life. Those works
in his possession. But Christ is saying, when he's
given you faith, you'll leave it all for him, for him, because
he's blessed you in that way. The poor widow who spent her
life as a helpmate to her husband as he preached the gospel, She's
left alone, she's a widow now, but by the spirit of God, she's
got a multitude of sons and daughters. Saved by the grace of God through
her husband preaching that he regenerates, she got spiritual
sons and daughters, congregations all over the world to help provide
for her. That's what Christ is talking
about. We've got much more following Christ. But by nature, none are
good. We've got to be taught that.
We've got to be taught this is not of us. It's entirely of the
Lord. Now secondly, let's look, Christ
is the preeminent good man. He said back in Psalm 112, 5,
a good man showeth favor, he shows grace, and he lendeth.
He will guide his affairs with discretion. Christ is the good
man. He's the preeminent good man.
He showeth continual, ongoing favor. He shows grace and compassion
and pity, and he lendeth. This is even, this is even takes
more grace on the part of the poor. They have to be given more
grace because to lend is one who, he's come and asked and
confess he's poor and he needs to borrow. He needs to be given.
And Christ lendeth. He giveth freely. He giveth freely,
not for usury, not for gain. He gives freely to his poor,
bankrupt, needy people. And he guides his affairs with
discretion, with judgment. I quoted Isaiah 11 last time,
and it said that the Spirit of God would make him of quick understanding
in the fear of the Lord. And it said, He'll not judge
after the sight of the eyes, neither reprove after the hearing
of the ears. But with righteousness shall he judge the poor. He'll
reprove with equity for the meek of the earth. Righteousness should
be the girdle of his loins. Faithfulness the girdle of his
reins. That's what we just saw him do. When that rich young
ruler came to him, he didn't judge after the sight of the
eye. To the natural sight, that man appeared to be rich in good
works. But he knew his heart. And he had guided his affairs
with discretion. He said, you like one thing.
That one thing was Christ. He said, sell everything you
have, give it to the poor and follow me. And by that he showed
the man hadn't become poor yet. The man hadn't been made to see
his utter poverty yet. That's the discretion Christ
had. That's the judgment wherewith he judges his house. Our Lord
Jesus laid down His life and He gave all spiritual blessings
to His people through His blood and His righteousness. Look down
at verse 9. He hath dispersed. He hath given
to the poor. His righteousness endureth forever. His horns shall be exalted with
honor. 2 Corinthians, let's go over there.
Paul quoted this and he applied this to the Lord providing for
us. And we need to see it as what
our Lord Jesus has done for us first. This is what He did for
us in Christ His Son. 2 Corinthians chapter 9 and verse
8. Paul quoted from our psalm. He
said in verse 8, God's able to make all grace abound toward
you that ye always having all sufficiency in all things may
abound to every good work. Verse 9, here's our psalm as
it is written, He hath dispersed abroad. He hath given to the
poor. His righteousness remaineth forever. Now watch this. He quotes
another place. He that ministereth seed to the
sower, both ministers bread for your food and multiplies your
seed sown. and increase the fruits of your
righteousness so that we're enriched in everything to all bountifulness
which causes through us thanksgiving to God. Mark that. We're going
to come back to that verse in just a moment. Our Lord Jesus
through God the Father, through our Lord Jesus has dispersed
abroad. He's given to the poor. We saw
back in Psalm 111 it said Verse five, he's given meat to
them that fear him. He will ever be mindful of his
covenant. This is what we saw this morning. He's keeping his
people. He's ever keeping his people.
He's provided us everything and he's keeping us. We see in the
next Psalm, Psalm 113. He raises up the poor out of
the dust. He lifts the needy out of the
dunghill. This is where He finds us poor
and He's dispersed to us. He's given to the poor. This
is His abundant favor and grace. This is God's discretion and
judgment to give to His people freely in Christ Jesus. He's
not given to one or two of His people. He's given to each of
His people. And He's cheerfully given in abundance. He's liberally
given to each of His people. And these blessings He's given
us, first and foremost, above all, are spiritual blessings,
brethren. God the Father gave us spiritual
blessings in Christ by His election of grace. Remember what Paul
said in Ephesians 1? Blessed be God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with all spiritual
blessings. That doesn't leave one out. All
spiritual blessings. He gave them to us freely by
grace according as he chose us in Christ before the foundation
of the world that we should be holy without playing before him
in love. It was by his free favor. He
lendeth freely, free favor. Christ came as the good man and
He gave His own blood. He walked under the law and went
to the cross and gave His own blood unto death to make all
God's select rich in righteousness. He gave it all to us. Paul said
there in 2 Corinthians 8 and 9, you know the grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ. He was rich, rich, rich. Yet for our sakes He became poor,
the least. that he might, through his poverty,
make us rich. And God, our Father, and his
Son, Christ Jesus, by his free favor, sent the Holy Spirit to
make us see we're poor and bankrupt. The rich young ruler didn't see
that about himself. He made you see you're poor and
bankrupt so that, by his grace, you know the pride we have and
how proudful we are about coming to ask somebody, I need to borrow
from you. He brings you to come to Him
to ask all of Him, to ask for Him to lend all to you, to give
all to you because you're the poor and destitute. And that's
what the Spirit of God blessed us to be able to do that. And
we never stopped doing it. In fact, all His providence. We'll be looking at how He keeps
His people. And all His providence and everything He's working together
is His gift to us. He's continually giving to us,
showing us our need, and showing us His provision, and showing
us how that we need Him constantly. He's working all things together
for good to them that love God, to them who are called according
to His purpose. Is that not a gift? That's a
gift of God to work everything in providence just for you who
are His. Verse 9, Psalm 112, 9 says, His
righteousness endureth forever. Christ's righteousness by which
He made His people righteous, it endures forever. He is our
righteousness. He's alive and endures forever.
And He keeps us remembering Him and His righteousness forever.
Look over there at Psalm 111. His work is honorable and glorious
and His righteousness endureth forever. He's made His wonderful
works to be remembered. He's going to keep us remembering
Him and keep us knowing Him. And He never ceases to provide
for us in righteousness forever. And verse 9 says, His horn should
be exalted with honor. God the Father exalted the Lord
Jesus Christ to His right hand. He's pleased with Him. He exalts
Him in honor through the gospel that He sends forth to be preached.
He keeps exalting Him in honor. And He exalts Him in the hearts
of His people so that we see Christ high and lifted up. And
in the last day, He is going to exalt Him in honor because
every knee and every tongue, every knee is going to bow and
every tongue is going to confess to His honor, the honor due to
Him. And in all our temporal needs, everything you and I need,
This is what the rich young ruler didn't get. If he knew this,
if he knew Christ is all is right, if you see how God spared not
his only son, but gave him to die for you, then you know he'll
provide everything else for you. That's his prized possession.
That's his chief glory. That's his son. He gave him.
He'll give you a loaf of bread if you need it. Now he's not
going to give you what you want, but he will give you what you
need. And if we know this, and we know that he's ministering
seed to the sower, the one that ministers seed to the sower,
he's ministering bread for your food, he's multiplying your seed,
so on, he's increasing your fruits of righteousness. This is the
point of it, brethren. Who maketh thee to differ from
another? What do you have that you didn't
receive? You know what that word receive
means? He's saying, what do you have that wasn't freely given
to you? Everything was given to us. All
things in nature, all things in grace, all things in time,
all things in eternity, all is the free gift of God's grace.
So there's none good by nature, nobody. But Christ is the good
man preeminently who came and did all this for his people.
And then lastly, by the Spirit of God creating us anew, Christ
makes each believer a good man. He makes each believing child
a good man. The Holy Spirit gives us faith
in Christ, and God the Father imputes to the believer what
Christ has made us, the righteousness of God in Him. That's as good
as it gets. He imputes to you what He's made
you, the righteousness of God in Him. And when Christ is formed
in a sinner, there is a new man created in Christ's righteousness
and true holiness by the incorruptible seed, in whom is no sin and can't
sin, cannot sin. That doesn't mean you can't sin
in your flesh, that means you can't sin in that new man that's
of him. And that's why Paul made the distinction when he was,
as a regenerated believer, he's talking about his old man, he's
talking about his new man, and he said, I know that in me that
is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing. But because Christ, the
good man, abode in him, in the new man, that sinner in whom
Christ dwells is made a good man. He's made a good man. If Christ be in you, the body's
dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness. And knowing that Christ is our
life, knowing that our eternal riches are in heaven, knowing
He has and shall provide, He's provided all spiritual blessings,
knowing He shall provide all temporal blessings for us, and
Christ being our wisdom. A good man shows favor and lendeth,
and he guides his affairs with discretion. He has spiritual
judgment. He has spiritual discernment.
He has Christ for his wisdom. It's by Christ continually showing
us favor, continually showing us grace and compassion and pity,
He makes the good man continually show grace and compassion and
pity. By His continual lending to us,
He makes us see, continually see, you and I and our flesh
deserve nothing from our Lord, not one thing. There's enough
sin in every thought we have at any given moment to reject
us entirely if this thing was not entirely of his grace. And
he keeps you knowing that. Sometimes he lets you see it
a lot better than other times. But it keeps you knowing everything
he gives you is his favor, it's his grace, and that keeps you
being gracious. Keeps you being gracious. And
God's able to make all grace abound towards you. That you
have all sufficiency in all things and may abound to this good work
of giving to others. He makes you to know he's providing
your temporal riches. Those riches are not your riches.
Your riches are in heaven. He's providing everything. How
many times have you, you know, you get some kind of windfall
and you think, well, now you sit and the Lord just took it
away as fast as he brought it. You remember the, remember the,
uh, when they, the Lord delivered them and they, they started building
the Lord's house and they stopped building the Lord's house, but
they just kept building their houses. And the Lord just blew
up on it. It made the crops fail. He said,
you're putting your money in bags with holes. Who put the
holes in the bags? God did. He said, go build my
house. And when they went and built
his house, he said, now look, there's wine in the vat. There's
corn in the barn. Lord's ruling it all. He's the
one that is our treasure. And by His free favor, by His
free dispersing to us so abundantly, by Christ being our wisdom, He
makes us guide our affairs with discretion, with judgment. He
makes us willing. This is your judgment right here.
You see somebody that needs something? And used to our judgment was
this, well, I just don't, I don't have enough I can give them.
I don't have but 500,000 in my savings. I don't have enough
I could give them. I used to bear judgment. You
know, I got this expense and that expense and this other expense
coming. I just can't help them. Can't help you. Now your judgment
it is. God is my father. He owns everything
that exists. He gave his son for me. He will
provide everything I need and he tells me Help the poor. Help the needy. I'm providing
for you. Help them. That's your judgment
now. That's your judgment now. And the Lord doesn't regard what
you give, the amount you give. This is something, this used
to be our judgment too. Well, I just don't have enough
to give, so it's really not going to make that big a difference,
so I just won't give it. It's not what you don't have,
it's what you have. And the Lord's not basing what
we've done for anybody based on how much we gave. He's basing
it on how much you have left over. Nobody knows how much anybody
gives. Our treasury don't know how much
anybody gives. She don't know how much they got left over.
The Lord looked at the Pharisees. They were bringing all and putting
in big chunks of money into the treasury. And the Lord said,
they give enough. They're abundance. They weren't
pinching them, they had a lot left over. That widow walked
up there and gave two mites and that's all she had. Lord said
she gave everything she had. You see how the Lord measures
this thing of being favorable? He doesn't measure it by, you
know, and somebody will see that poor widow and their judgment,
the carnal man's judgment, well, that ain't smart. She's not being,
she's not using discretion. Oh, she had more discretion than
all them Pharisees put together. She knew who her riches were.
She knew who was providing for her and he provided for her.
She's right there with him right now. She didn't have to walk
while she walked this earth, and she didn't walk when she
left this earth. He provided for her. That's the
discretion he gives his people. That's the discretion he gives
his people. People will see somebody that's poor, and they're giving,
and they'll use this judgment. Well, if they wouldn't give so
much, they wouldn't be so poor. And they're happy. They're cheerful.
They're generous. And they just always have something
to give. There's an old man. Down in Arkansas, I was with
the Lord now. I've been with the Lord since the early 90s. But he used to say, he used to
say, those that are cheerful and just give, he said, they
just always have to give. Where's the joy? Where's the
cheer? Where's it from? It's knowing
I got everything in my Lord. He's providing everything. Think
of how filthy money is. Think how filthy it is. Literal
piece of money. Think how dirty and nasty it
is. We treat that like it is pure,
like it's life. Our Lord said, freely you have
received, freely give, freely give. We do what God commands
from a willing heart because we greatly delight in his commandments. And we're not doing it from a
mercenary spirit. We're not doing it to indebt
God to us. That's how some use this. Some,
you know, make this out to be an investment. That's not it. This is a willing heart. This
is a cheerful, wants to help. And most of all, it's not just
temporal things we're wanting to give. We're giving the gospel.
That's the true riches. But because of his free favor
and giving everything to us, God regards and God remembers
the works of his children. We're not doing it to indebt
God. That's a mercenary spirit. But
God does remember. He hath dispersed, he hath given
to the poor. His righteousness endureth forever. His righteousness endureth forever.
God remembers it. Listen, Hebrews 16, God is not
unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which you've
showed toward his name and that you've ministered to the saints
and do minister. He makes it, that's a righteous
deed, he calls it, and he makes it to be remembered forever.
He promises to each of his children in verse nine, his horn, he's
talking to you, his horn, that's your strength, that's your person,
shall be exalted with honor. One, God shall continue to strengthen
you in your heart and keep you. He'll make you cheerful. He'll
make you generous. He'll make you because He keeps
showing you what He's done for you. He keeps showing you seated
there at God's right hand. He keeps setting your affection
where He is. This is what he did for Hannah. Hannah said,
My heart rejoiceth in the Lord. My horn is exalted in the Lord. My mouth is enlarged over my
enemies because I rejoice in thy salvation. That's the first
thing. It's in the heart. He exalts
you, makes you see you've been exalted in Christ and honor,
seated there with him. And he lifts your heart up to
behold him. Gives you strength inwardly to
rejoice in him. Two, brethren for whom you provide
will exalt you. They'll exalt you in prayer to
God. Paul said he boasted of his brethren to his other brethren.
There's nothing wrong with bragging on your brethren. You're bragging
on what God worked in them. Paul did that many times. He
said, I'm not ashamed of doing it. But here's what the exalting
is. God, through what you've done
to help somebody, God blesses them to make them exalt you to
God and pray for you and thank God for you. Go back over there
to 2 Corinthians 9. That's the greatest kind of honor
you could be given, is somebody going to God and thanking God
for you. And look at this, 2 Corinthians 9, 11. He said, You're enriched
in everything to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving
to God. I love this picture. God gives
everything to us. He gives you the heart. He gives
you the understanding, the discretion to behold Christ as all your
wisdom, all your righteousness, all your sanctification, your
redemption, your riches. He's providing everything for
you temporally. He gives you the substance. He
gives you the privilege and the poor needy brother to give to.
He does it all. And then what happens? Turns
around and all involved give thanks to God. Give back to God. He gave it to us, give it back
to him at Thanksgiving. Look at this. Causes through
us thanksgiving to God for the administration of this service.
You give in helping not only supplies the want of the saints
and not only provides for them, it's abundant also with many
thanksgivings to God. While by the experiment of this
ministration, while you go through with this, they're glorifying
God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ. They're
exalting God, they're glorifying Him, they're glorifying Christ,
and they're exalting you to God, saying, God, thank you for this
brethren, what you worked in it. for your professed subjection
to the gospel of Christ, for your liberal distribution unto
them and to all, and by their prayer for you, which long after
you for the exceeding grace of God in you. Thanks be to God
for his unspeakable guilt. Christ is his unspeakable gift,
and this whole administration is an unspeakable gift. You get
it? God gave everything to you, and
he brings those involved to give all back to God in thanksgiving.
That's an unspeakable gift. That's an unspeakable gift. And
in due time, you might not be exalted and honored in this world.
That poor widow wasn't. He's not talking about exalting
you and giving you Colonel honors, but in due time Just what our
Lord said in due time you will receive you'll be exalted in
that you'll have brethren in this world They'll help you they'll
they'll take look after you when you get me But here in the end
Christ our righteousness promise he's gonna exalt us to eternal
life He gonna exalt you to behold him seated in the throne of his
glory and be with him forever That's God's promise Let us not
be weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we
faint not." You keep trusting Him. You keep seeing all your
treasure is Christ, all the spiritual blessings you have in Him. You
keep believing Him and trusting Him. You keep depending on Him
to provide every temporal thing you need in this life. He will.
And whatever you can do to send this gospel seed forth to needy,
poor, bankrupt sinners, do it. And whatever you can do to help
one another and anybody in need with your carnal possession,
help them. Help them. God won't let you
be a debtor to him. He will provide. And if you believe
him, if you believe him, you can do what that rich young ruler
couldn't do. He couldn't part with his good works, he couldn't
part with his carnal riches, because that was his life. But
if Christ is your life, parting with the temporal possessions,
that'll be the easiest thing in the world. If we've really
parted with our works, if we've parted from our works and denied
ourself and taken up our cross following Him, temporal possessions
are a piece of cake. But it's usually that covetous
spirit that's manifest, just like he did that rich young ruler
to show man ain't really givin' up his works either. But you
that know him, trust him. He made you forsake it all for
him. You know he's provided. He is, and he shall. All right,
I pray he'll bless that. All right, Brother Griffin.