Alright brethren, let's go back
now to Galatians chapter 2. I was going to try to get into
chapter 3, but I just kept coming back to this text. I really want us to try to get
everything we can out of this. He says in verse 18, If I build again the things which
I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. He's saying the whole old covenant
law, given at Sinai, been done away. It was nailed to the cross. He took it out of our way. He
fulfilled it. We're not under any old covenant
law of Sinai. If I bring that law back in as
a necessity, if I began to accuse and condemn
and to bring myself or others back under the law for righteousness
or for sanctification, for justifying righteousness or sanctifying
righteousness, for acceptance with God or for rewards in heaven. If I make that a necessity, any
aspect of salvation, even as a rule of life in the way that
this world calls the law rule of life. If I do that, then I'm making
myself a transgressor. When you get over and you hear
Paul talk about the flesh and the sins of the flesh, If you
read the context, he's talking about what we're doing when we're
abiding and devouring with law. He says, if you walk in the Spirit,
you won't fulfill that lust. He says, if I go back to that
law, I make myself a transgressor, building again the wall of partition,
that middle wall of Sinai, for a justifying righteousness or
sanctifying righteousness or to excuse and accuse and all
the things that the law does. And I'm making myself a transgressor. And he gives the reason that's
so. Now here's the reason this is so. And this is true for you,
believer, and for your brethren. For all believers sanctified
in Christ. This is true. Look at this, verse
19. For I, through the law, am dead to the law. Dead to the
law. To go back and build that up
again, to dig up that law is like trying to go back and dig
up the first husband. Because I'm dead to the law.
That I might live unto God. That I might live to God, to
Christ, to my God, my Savior. And then he declares how He's
dead through the law, to the law, and he says the same thing
and just in a little different words. This is how I'm dead to
the law. I'm crucified with Christ. And
here's how I live under God. Nevertheless, I live, yet not
I, but Christ liveth in me. That's how I, through the law,
am dead to the law. I'm crucified with Christ. I am crucified with Christ. How do I live? Christ liveth
in me. Well, how do you live the rest
of your life? What's your rule that you live
by? The life which I now live in
the flesh, in this physical body, I live by the faith of the Son
of God, by His faithfulness, who loved me and gave Himself
for me. Here's what he said, true believers are dead to the
law of works that were given at Sinai. We're dead to that
old covenant law given at Sinai because we were crucified with
Christ. Every one of his elect, you that
have been born of him, we are crucified with Christ. So we're
dead to the law entirely. And we now live because Christ
lives in us. And we live our life by Christ
faithfully working in us. That's how we live our life,
by Christ working in us. And he keeps us walking by faith,
looking to Christ, resting in Christ, that's what Christ, he
keeps you looking to him, walking by faith. And he constrains us,
he motivates us by his love, loved us and gave himself for
us. That's our motive. That's our
heart. That's how we're, instead of
being compelled, like Peter was compelling those men to live
under law, we're constrained by the love of Christ. The old
covenant at Sinai said, do and live. That's the law of sin and
death. Not because there was anything
wrong with God's law. but because we are the sin and
the death. The law was given just to make
us see we're the sinner, we're dead by nature. But the new covenant
of grace, that everlasting covenant of grace is the law of the spirit
of life in Christ Jesus. It's the spirit of life in Christ
Jesus, that spirit in you that gives you life in Christ Jesus.
That's an entirely new law, that's a new principle, a new rule that
we're under. And it's under this covenant
that we live. We live by Christ, and we live
to Christ. Now, let me ask a couple of questions,
and I'm gonna spend a little time on the doctrine of this,
but I wanna get to just some examples, some illustrations
of this. But how are true believers dead to the law? Now how are
we dead to the law? He said, I through the law am
dead to the law. I am crucified with Christ. God gave one law in the garden.
Now I want you to think of that. When you think of the law, I
want us to get a proper thinking of the law. God gave one law
in the garden, just one. And of course, Adam broke it.
And so all Adam's children became dead in trespassing and sins,
we became guilty. And so God gave the law at Sinai
to show us our guilt, to show us that transgression of that
law. Now, he did it to declare us
all guilty. He's gonna make this effectual
in his people, show us all we're guilty. Show us we're under the
curse, that we're destined for death. That's what the law says,
the soul that sins must die. Everybody that is a child of
Adam is destined to die under the curse of the law. Everybody
is. We all sinned in Adam, just like every other child of Adam,
all God's elect sinned in Adam. And the law given at Sinai was
to show how greatly we sinned in Adam. And when you look at
it this way, and I'm saying this because religion likes to divide
the law. You all have heard it. And they
divide the law into the moral and ceremonial and civil. And
they say we're not under the ceremonial and the civil, we're
under the moral. But here's what I don't think
any of us really get. And that one transgression in
the garden, we broke the moral law that God gave at Mount Sinai,
we broke the ceremonial law that God gave at Mount Sinai, and
we broke the civil law that God gave at Mount Sinai. We broke
the whole law. Every bit of it. We never lived in righteousness
before God morally. None of us ever have. We never
worship God in righteousness as the ceremonial law typifies. We never worship God in a right
way. And we've never obeyed civil
law in righteousness. We haven't. To break once, to
break the whole law. And we broke it in Adam. But
in ourselves, we've broken the whole law. We have. But the law
given at Sinai not only declares we're guilty and that we must
die, it also declares Christ is its fulfillment. It's showing us when you have
spiritual discernment, you go to that law, now you see more
about Christ and how he's the fulfillment of it. That's how
when we, like we're going through Exodus and when we go and look
at Exodus, we're seeing how Christ is the fulfillment of that law.
So when Paul says, I through the law am dead to the law, it's
because Christ fulfilled the whole law. The whole laws, moral,
ceremonial, and civil. The law given at Sinai, he fulfilled
the whole thing. And all God's elect were crucified
in him. We were in him. He redeemed us
from the curse that Adam put us under. We were crucified under the law. Now think about it like this,
Christ fulfilled the ceremonial law. He's the fulfillment of
every shadow and type of that law. So through the law, through
him fulfilling all those types of the ceremony, he took that
ceremony out of the way for us. He took it out of the way. We're
dead to that whole old covenant of ceremonial works. We're dead
to that. Now, with Christ formed in us,
with Christ as our life, now what do we do? We're alive to
God, we're under the everlasting covenant of grace, and so we
live to Christ. We see Christ as our high priest. We see Christ as our lamb. We
see Christ as our mercy seeker. Christ is the true tabernacle. Everything we see in that ceremonial
law now, we see Christ in it, and we see he's those things
to us. He's our high priest. That's
how come we have access to God. He's at God's right hand. He
ever lives to make intercession for us. He's in the holiest of
holies, and he's our lamb, the blood by which we're accepted.
So now we see that ceremonial law was fulfilled in him. He
fulfilled the civil law that was given at Sinai. He came and
made himself under that civil law of Israel that was given
at Sinai and walked under that law perfectly. And you remember
what God said about him? The government, that's what the
civil law was, it's the government. The government's on his shoulder.
He fulfilled that civil law too. We broke that civil law. We've
broken every law. And he fulfilled that. And so
now that we're alive to God, we see Christ as our king and
we're in his kingdom. Not in physical national Israel,
we're in heavenly Israel. We're in spiritual Israel. We
have Christ as our king and we're his servants. made righteous
by our king, and we're under his rule. Whatever our gracious
king teaches us and commands us, that's what we do because
we're under his rule. He's the civil rule of his kingdom. And then Christ fulfilled the
moral law, the Ten Commandments. Christ is the righteousness of
the moral law. Think of it this way. Paul said
that law is holy, just, and good. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
only man that ever walked this earth that is as holy, just,
and good as God's law. He is the righteousness of the
law. And he came, and when he was
crucified, he didn't walk and have to fulfill the law. He just
was his nature. He's righteousness. And so when
he goes to the love of it, the righteousness of it, it's love,
and he manifests that love by laying down his life for us. He died for us, for you and I
who are Gentiles, he's redeeming us from the curse of that one
law we broke in Adam. For the Jews, he's redeeming
them from the curse of that whole law given at Sinai. But in that
law at Sinai, we see all the transgression we committed in
that one law. We didn't walk before God morally,
we broke the moral law in Adam. We did not worship God aright. The
ceremonial law that showed you how to worship, we broke that
law. And civil law, we rebelled against God's very government.
in the garden when we broke that law. So Christ showed the righteous
love of the law by taking all the sin of his elect and laying
down his life and justified us. And when he was crucified on
that cross, we were crucified. We were in him. Go over to Romans
6 and let's look at this again. Romans chapter 6. Verse 6 says, knowing this, that
our old man is crucified with him. What does that mean? The
body of sin is destroyed. Now you remember Paul said, if
I build again the things I destroyed? If I go back to the law, I'm
trying to bring back my body of sin. That's what I'm doing.
That's why I'm transgressing. I'm bringing back the body of
sin that I said was destroyed at Calvary. And I'm saying that
I'm gonna do something about it by going back to the law.
And I understand this, brethren. It's not just you going back
and trying to live under the law. This is the transgression
we commit if we start taking each other to task. That's going back to law. And look what he says, that old
body of sin is destroyed that henceforth we should not serve
sin. And he's gonna show you what
he means by serving sin. He that's dead is justified from
sin. That's what he means when he
says the law won't have dominion over you. The law cannot condemn
you, you're justified. And that's the only way a man's
gonna live unto God is when he's dead to the law. You can't live
to God till you're dead to the law. Now, if we're dead with
Christ, we believe we shall also live with him, knowing that Christ
being raised from the dead dies no more. Death has no more dominion
over him. Why not? He's righteous. Sin
brings death. Righteousness is life. So death has no more dominion
over him, for in that he died, he died unto sin once. In that
he lives, where does he live? Unto God. What did Paul say? I'm dead to the law that I might
live unto God. He's living unto God. Christ
lives unto God. So he says, likewise, you impute
that ye also yourselves are dead indeed unto sin. That's you and
your brethren that trust him. They're dead to sin, dead to
the law, dead to it. The law looks at our brethren,
it looks at us and our brethren and says, I've executed everything
I can execute on them. I've poured out as much justice
as I can pour out on them. They're dead, they died. But we're alive unto God through
Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in
your mortal body that you should obey it in the lust thereof. And if you're reading the context
and you stay with the context, Paul's talking about the same
thing he's talking about in Galatians. Judging and condemning and compelling
with law. Being self-righteous judges and
trying to make ourselves righteous and holy by law. That's a lust of the flesh that's
building up that which we said was destroyed. Now, back in our
text, Galatians 2, with Christ formed in us, we are alive to
God. He says, verse 20, I'm crucified
with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth
in me. The only way we can be alive
to God is if we're dead to the law, we have to be God couldn't
have anything to do with us because we were unrighteous. We couldn't be alive to him.
He couldn't have anything to do with us. All he could do to
us was kill us because he's righteous. So now we're crucified with Christ. The only way we can be alive
to God is be the righteousness of God. Christ is our life. That means he's our righteousness.
Christ is our righteousness, he's our life. I live, yet not
I, but Christ liveth in me. Go back to Romans 8 and look
here, Romans chapter 8. Christ delivered us from the
law of sin and death by the law of the spirit of life in Christ
Jesus. When he entered in, We were made alive, that's when
he taught us we're dead to the law and we're alive to God. And
here's what the result is, verse one, there's therefore now no
condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus who walk not
after the flesh but after the spirit. Now law wasn't made for
a righteous man and he's saying there, you can't be condemned
by the law. You cannot be condemned by it.
Look. who walk not after the flesh.
Paul is saying, I'm not walking after the flesh, I'm dead to
the law. I'm not walking after the flesh, but I'm walking after
the spirit. That's what he's teaching them
in Galatians. For the law of the spirit of life in Christ
Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. I'm dead
to the law of sin and death. Death has no more dominion. The
law has no more dominion. You're justified, believer. No
condemnation. And Christ in you is the law
of the spirit of life in Christ that's freed you. He's taken
us, now here's what I was trying to get to you in Colossians.
He's taken us out of the realm of the flesh. Christ said if
you were of the world, the world would love its own. You're not
of the world. As you were born into this world
the first time you were, you were a child of Adam, a fleshly
man. But being born of God, you're
not in the flesh anymore, believer. We don't get this. We don't get
how fully this is so. You're not in the flesh. You're
in the Spirit. Look, Romans 8, and look at verse
9. You're not in the flesh, but
in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.
If Spirit of Christ is in you, you're not in the Spirit. God
says you're not in the flesh, you're in the Spirit. And look
here, I said life and righteousness are one. If Christ be in you,
the body's dead because of sin. Nothing's been done to the body,
but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. Righteousness
and life are the same thing. and the Spirit is in you and
you're alive because now you're righteous before God. And so,
it means there's no law against us. There is no law against us. Do you get that? If there's no
condemnation, and if you're righteous, there's no law against you, believer. It means before God's judgment
seat, we cannot break the law. We're eternally righteous, eternally
alive by Christ's death and by Christ's life. Romans 8.33, what
does he say there? Who shall lay anything to the
charge of God's elect? It's God to justify them. Who
is he that condemneth? It's Christ that died, yea rather
that's risen again, who's even at the right hand of God, who
also makes intercession for us. When Peter got up from that table
that day, and you could just hear somebody in our day, I could
just hear somebody in our day say, well, I don't believe that
we're under the law, I don't believe we're justified or made
holy by the law, but by The Lord said don't eat pork, so obviously
pork's probably not good for you. God said don't eat it, so
it's probably not good for you. So we just don't eat it just
because it's the law. And we're not putting any religious,
spiritual, justifying, sanctifying credit to it. We just not eat
pork for that reason. Men say things like that to go
back under the law. Well, we know that we're, you
know, we don't do this or that, but we're just doing this because
it helps us to, you know, to think on Christ. No, no, by getting
up and going from that table, Peter was condemning those Gentile
believers. He was laying a charge to them.
He was saying, that they weren't as righteous as he was because
he was over there observing that ceremonial law. That's why it
was such an offense. Brethren, we're dead. Judgment's been poured out. Law's
been satisfied. God is satisfied. God is satisfied. Now, when we go to the old covenant
law, We behold Christ, who's our life. We see Christ, who's
our righteousness, by whom we live. Now, that's why we delight
in the law after the inward man. When I look at the Ten Commandments
now, I see how holy and how just and how good Christ is. that I see how holy, just, and
good he is. And I also see, because the law's
my friend, and the law says the same of me as it says of him,
I see in that law how holy, just, and good Christ has made me. I don't see anything good in
my flesh, nothing. But I see Christ. I see Him. He's given the law perfect obedience
for us. He's brought in His righteousness,
and it's really our righteousness. He declares we've kept every
precept, we've never broken one, and Christ has put away our sin,
and so we have this eternal standing before God. To bring a believer back under
obligation to the law is to call Christ the minister of sin. It's
to make myself a transgressor because Christ already yielded
perfect obedience by his death and took it out of the way. Took it out of the way. Now, I wanna talk now and show
you a few examples to help us understand what it means to be
dead to the law and alive to Christ. Well, one, a dead man
has no relationships. A dead man has no relationships.
And a man who's dead to the law has no relationship between himself
and the old covenant law. He doesn't have a relationship.
The relationship's dissolved. And that's what Paul said in
Romans 7. He said the law's like a first husband who's died. And now we're lawfully married
to Christ. We're in a new relationship.
He's our husband. We're lawfully married to him.
We look to Him for everything and any fruit we produce, Christ
produces it. The Lord doesn't produce it,
our flesh doesn't produce it, other men compel and you don't
produce it, Christ produces it. So what should we do for one
another? Go to Christ and ask Christ to help our brethren and
to fill our brethren with fruits of righteousness. He's the one,
he's the husband, the holy one of Israel, the redeemer, your
maker. Well, in death, there's no care,
there's no concern, there's no doing. Ecclesiastes 9.10 says,
there's no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in
the grave whether thou goest. All that ceases when you die.
The man that's dead to the law has no more care, he has no more
concern about the works of the law that we had when we were
trying to be righteous or holy by it. Do you even look at the
law that way now? Not unless I'm in my flesh and
under some sort of legal conviction do I go to the law for that reason.
But when the Spirit has got me looking to Christ, I don't even
go to the law for that reason. I'm dead to it. for that. Completely dead to it. Now we
live to Christ who justified us. Now we mind the things of
the Spirit. We walk after Him with our affections
set on Christ. We're led of the Spirit. We have our affection on Him.
We look to Christ, who's our life. We're waiting on the hope
of righteousness by faith. He's gonna come and raise us
completely perfect, conformed to Him. That's what we're waiting
on. We're not worried and threatened and concerned that we gotta do
something else to the law. That's what religion is telling
folks. In death, there's no hope. Ecclesiastes 9.4 says, to all
the living there's hope, but there's no hope to the dead. being dead to the law, we have
no hope, we have no expectation from the law that by our works
we're gonna receive anything. We don't have that expectation
from law. There's no hope that God's gonna
pardon us because of some obedience to the law. There's no hope that
we've been good to our neighbor and we've been just in our dealings
with men and so therefore God's gonna, he gonna pay me back.
That's not our hope. We look to Christ. He's our hope. Our hope is entered into God's
right hand as a forerunner to show us this is where you're
coming to. I'm bringing you in here, that's where our hope is.
We're alive to God and we hope in Him. In death, there's no
works to make you tired and weary and there's nothing that you
fear that's gonna terrify you. There the wicked cease from troubling,
and there the weary be at rest, Job said. Those who are alive
to the law, they work, they're weary, they're trying to obtain
life by their works, and that's tiresome. They've never done
enough. They weary themselves in the
greatness of their way, Isaiah said. They try to make brick
without straw. But when we're dead to the law,
The weary are at rest. We cease from that. He said,
coming to me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, I'll give
you rest. We rest from those works now. We're not weary and heavy laden,
and we're not afraid in terror of that legal slavish fear. In death there are no senses.
The seeing eye, the hearing ear, the smell, the touch, all that's
gone in death. We don't see the lightnings of
Sinai anymore. We don't hear the thunder of
Sinai roaring like they did that day when he gave the law. We
don't feel the terror of the law. We don't taste the bitter
dregs of the cup of the wrath of God because now we've been
made alive. We've seen we're dead to the
law. We've been crucified with Christ.
He drank the dregs of that cup. He put that fire out for us on
Sinai. Now we've not come to that mountain. We've come to Mount Zion to the
city of the living God. You see, we're dead to it. Some things that a man has in
common when he dies, that's what we have in common with the law
now. We're dead to it. Well, how do we live then? Now
people want to take you back to Sinai, but you've got to live
by law. We live by grace. When you get
to the end of this book, Paul's gonna say, God forbid that I
glory save in the cross of Christ by whom the world's crucified
to me and I unto the world. And what we're gonna see there
is he's talking about the law, the rudiments of the world. I've
been crucified to it, it's crucified to me. And he said, as many as
walk according to this rule. This is the rule we're under.
The cross is our rule of life. Christ crucifies our rule of
life. Christ risens our rule of life. Christ is our rule of
life. Look here, I live, yet not I,
but Christ liveth in me. Could you do anything to give
yourself life? But when Christ entered in, you were alive. Can
you stop being alive? Can't do anything about it. Christ
lives in you, and you got life. Well, how you gonna walk in this
world? How you gonna subdue your flesh?
Could you put your flesh down? Could you make yourself believe
the gospel? You couldn't do it, could you?
Who made you believe the gospel? Christ in you. Why can't you just stop sinning?
You look at men outwardly, and there's a lot of men that are
irreligious that never darken the door of a church, and they
seem to appear not to sin outwardly. But they do, because they're
not dead to the law. The only way you can stop sinning
is to be dead to the law. And the only one that can make
you know that is Christ coming in and making you know you're
dead to the law and putting love in your heart so that now you
do what you do out of love. And it's not as much about what
you do outside as what's going on inside, why you do what you
do. Christ is our life. I live by
the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for
me. Christ is formed in us and we live by Christ our life. It
was impossible to make ourselves godly. You can't make yourself
godly by the works of the law. You have to be created and made
godly by Christ being formed in you. We're totally passive
in it. He makes us godly. He puts a
new spirit in. We're created into a sanctified,
holy state when Christ, the Holy One, is formed in us. And then
we're married to Christ, our husband, and he produces the
fruit. He produces the fruit. He gets
the glory for producing the fruit in his bride. He does. We don't
do it. We can't do it on our own. He
does it. The tree of Adam can't bear good
fruit. Our flesh is sin, the true vine
is the good tree. And it's Christ formed in you
that makes the tree good, and then the fruit comes from the
vine. And the Spirit of God's Son in us, we're born into a
state of adoption. We're adopted, and that's the
only way that we can walk as children of God, as dear children
of God. In the life we live, we live
by Christ faithfully working in us, making us do his good
pleasure. Instead now of going to the letter
of the law, we go to Christ. That's the difference in bringing
somebody back on the law and bringing them to Christ. We go
to Christ, we behold his pattern and we follow him. When we look
at the letter of the law, we're looking to see Christ and what
he did and how he fulfilled this and we look to Christ the pattern
and follow the pattern. Christ is the giver, the maintainer,
the sustainer of our life, and he's the one that makes us walk
in paths of righteousness for his namesake. If he wasn't the
only one that made you do this, he wouldn't get all the glory
for it, and he does. He's the bread, our life. We'd
die if he didn't feed us. He's the medicine of our life.
When we're sick, we don't go to the Lord to try to heal ourselves.
What do we do? If I can just touch the hem of
His garment, I'll be all. We go to Him. We seek to be healed
by the balm of Gilead. We want to be under the wings
of the Son of Righteousness. That's where our healing is.
It's called living in the spirit. And that's what Paul's telling
them here. Y'all trying to go back to the law. You're biting
and devouring one another. You're accusing one another.
You're judging one another. Don't you know that broke his
heart after he had preached Christ to them and Christ and him crucified
been evidently set free? set forth before them, crucified
among them, and then they're doing that, they're turning back
to that, that broke his heart. That made him feel like all his
preaching was in vain. He said, if we live in the spirit,
walk in the spirit. What does he mean? The psalmist
said, teach me to do thy will, thou art my God, thy spirit is
good, lead me into the land of uprightness. The Spirit subdues the old nature
so we don't fulfill the lust of the flesh, Paul said. The
Spirit restrains the power of sin in our flesh. We're comforted
by the Comforter, the Spirit. We live in dependence upon Christ,
upon dependence upon the Spirit of God. His grace, he said, is
sufficient for you. You ever been really in a spot
where you just, you're so weak, so weak, to where you could testify
and say, I can tell you His grace is sufficient. We can look over
our life and realize it because I don't think any of us would
say we were here if it wasn't for his grace keeping us believing
him. But his grace really is sufficient. He's the one who has to sustain
us. Without him, he said, we can
do nothing. He works in us both to well and
to do of his good pleasure. Here's some other illustration.
He's the head, we're the body. What makes your finger wiggle?
The head makes your finger wiggle. What makes you as a member of
Christ do what he'd have to do? The head makes you do it. It's
living to God as our heavenly father and we as his children.
It's sitting at the feet of Christ our king, our lawgiver, hanging
on his every word. He enlightens us so that we walk
as children of light. It's His grace when He's gracious
to you. And He works grace in another
brother. He uses a brother to be gracious
to you. And you see His grace in action. And you're experiencing the grace
of God. You know what it makes you do?
Be gracious. It's all from Him. Forgiven by
God for Christ's sake. Most of the reason people don't
forgive is they don't really need to be forgiven. When you
need to be forgiven, I'll tell you what you'll do to everybody
that needs forgiveness. You'll forgive them. That's just
fact. A man that won't forgive don't
really think he needs to be forgiven. That's just how it is. You forgive
when you see you're such a wretched, nothing, nobody, maggot of a
person, and yet God, for Christ's sakes, forgiven you? That's what
makes us forgive. He makes you see he's your peace
with God. And you know what the result
is? You want to be a peacemaker. You don't want trouble, you want
peace. You want to try to affect peace.
You want to be a peacemaker. Where's that come from? Christ
our peace. So you get what I'm saying. Everything
is of him. It's all of him. And here's the
last thing I'll say to you. By Christ living up in us, we
believe we're dead to the law. And by Him living in us, we do
what we do. And this is the whole of it right
here. Our life has the Spirit of God
for the power of it. That's our power, it's the Spirit
of God. The Word of God is the rule of this life. The whole
Word of God, whatever He says is so. The love of God is the
motive for our life. And the glory of God is the end
of our life for what we do. That's the rule we're under.
The power of the spirit, the word of God for the rule, the
love of God for the motive, the glory of God for the ultimate
end. And that's where he brings us.
That's why we don't go back to the law to try to compel and
yoke and we go to the law to see Christ. and He constrains
us and we follow Him. I pray that. I know I'm not saying
it like I want to say it, but I pray the Lord to bless it.
He make you hear it. Let's go to the Lord in prayer.
Father, thank you for this word. We pray that you bless it to
us now. Make it truly effectual, make
us hear it, make us live it. For Christ's sake, in His name
we ask it, amen.