Brethren, let's turn in our Bibles
to 2 Corinthians chapter 3. Our subject tonight is the commendation
of able ministers. The commendation of able ministers. Now let's begin reading in verse
1. 2 Corinthians 3 verse 1. Paul says, Do we begin again
to commend ourselves? Or need we, as some others, epistles
of commendation to you? Do we need, as some, letters
of recommendation to you? Or letters of commendation from
you? Now God's preacher, he does not
need to commend himself to the Lord's people. Nor does he commend
himself to the Lord's people. Not God's true preacher. He doesn't
commend himself. And Paul did not need a letter
of recommendation to the Corinthians. Nor did he need a letter of recommendation
from the Corinthians. Now, some do require this. Some, he says there, require
letters of recommendation. And some are impressed only with
such things. Now the some that Paul speaks
of here are the false preachers and their followers that he spoke
of back up in 2 Corinthians 2.17. And when he said there that there
are many who corrupt the Word of God, the some here who require
letters of recommendation are the same as the many who corrupt
the Word of God. And they were those that came
into Corinth, false preachers. They were natural Jews. They
were natural sons of Abraham. Look over at chapter 11 and verse
21. I'll show you how we know this.
Chapter 11 and verse 21. Paul said these were things that
these false preachers commended themselves using. And Paul is using those things
that they used to commend themselves. And Paul says here in verse 22,
Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of
Abraham? So am I. You see, these were
false preachers who were natural sons of Abraham, natural Jews,
natural Israelites. And they came there giving lip
service to salvation by Christ through faith in Christ, apart
from our works. That's what they claimed they
were preaching, but they were corrupting the Word of God. And
they did so by declaring it necessary that believers keep the old covenant
law in order to be saved. We hear that a lot in our day. You believe you're saved by grace,
but you've got to keep the old covenant law. Well, when men
make it a necessity that a believer must do something in order to
be saved in addition to Christ, that is preaching the letter
that killeth. rather than the Spirit that giveth
life. That's why Paul's going to say
in our text, he's going to say that we're able ministers of
the New Testament, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter killeth, but the
Spirit giveth life. It quickens. But since these
men were natural, depraved sinners, whose hope was their works, then
their message was works. Because they had a hope in their
works, the message they preached was the message of works. And
all natural men do the same thing. They look for outward signs of
obedience. Outward signs of works and religious activity. They do this because they don't
have the Spirit of God working in them. So you have to have
something outward. Paul calls it later, glorying
in appearance. They look at things at the outward
and they glory in those things. They need sermons preached in
the enticing words of man's wisdom. Why do you think preachers preach
and they don't just stick to the Word of God and say what
God's Word says? They'll read a verse and then
they just go off and preach It's things that don't even sound
like they got it out of the Word of God. Because they have to
do that to keep natural men interested. Because the Spirit of God's not
working. And those same kinds of folks, those same naturally
religious folks, they are very impressed and require letters
of recommendation for the preachers. Now when I'm flying sometimes,
You know, somebody will be sitting next to me and they'll ask me
what I do, and I'll tell them. And the first question, almost
every single time, the first question they ask is, where did
you go to seminary? That's almost always the first
question, where did you go to seminary? And all, most all natural
churches, that's what I'm calling them, natural. They require their preachers
to have letters behind their name. They don't want you to
have a master or a doctorate from some seminary. They require
it. It's a must. And they like you
to have letters of recommendation from men, preferably famous men. The more popular, the more famous,
the better. Because they're oppressed with
those kinds of things. But it's God now who commends
his preachers to his people. It's God who commends His preacher
to His people and He does it in a way that only God can do
it. Now here's what we found, verse 2. Paul says, you are our
epistle. written in our hearts, known
and read of all men, forasmuch as you are manifestly declared
to be the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not
with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in tables
of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart. And such trust
have we through Christ toward God, Not that we are sufficient
of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our sufficiency
is of God, who also hath made us able ministers of the New
Testament, of the New Covenant. Not of the letter, but of the
Spirit, for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life. Now
here's what we're going to look at. This is what Paul is saying.
Through Christ commends his preachers to his people by the Holy Spirit
writing the gospel in our hearts as we preach Christ. God commends
his preachers to his people by the Holy Spirit writing the gospel
on your heart as you hear his preachers preach the gospel.
That's what happens. Now, first of all, I want to
begin with this verse 6 where Paul ends there. It's God who
makes his ministers. He said there, who also has made
us able ministers of the new covenant. Now, education is useful
for a preacher. You need to be able to read and
write. You need to be able to... It's
helpful to make an outline and it's helpful to know how to speak.
Those things are helpful. But no seminary, absolutely no
seminary has ever made a preacher of God. No seminary ever made
a preacher of God. Most of the ones I know of, I
don't know of any I would recommend because most are teaching false
doctrine and most are teaching false methods that aren't scriptural.
So I wouldn't recommend a seminary to anybody. But here's, sticking
with our text, here's the point I'm making. It's God only, God
only that makes His ministers. God only. He said here, God made
us able ministers. Look over at 2 Corinthians 5.
I'm sorry, turn to 2 Corinthians 5 and look at verse 18. Now Paul's speaking of himself
and he's speaking of his fellow ministers here. Now listen to
what he says. All things are of God. What do
you have that you didn't receive? All things are of God who hath
reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ. and hath given to us
the ministry of reconciliation." God gave this ministry to His
preachers. "...to wit, that God was in Christ,
reconciling the world of His elect unto Himself, not imputing
their trespasses unto them, and hath committed unto us the word
of reconciliation." The gospel of reconciliation has been committed
to God's preacher. Now then, we are ambassadors
for Christ. You know what an ambassador does
when he goes into a foreign country? An ambassador goes to that country
and speaks the word of the president. They don't go speak their own
word, they go speak what the president sent them to speak.
And we're ambassadors for Christ. We don't come speaking what we
will, we come speaking what God will. what Christ would have
us to speak, as though God did beseech you by us. We pray you
in Christ's stead be you reconciled to God. You see, I'm here declaring
the gospel to you as the ambassador of Christ. I am speaking to you
in the place of Christ. And the words that I'm speaking
are Christ's words. I'm not going to speak my words.
I'm going to tell you what my The captain tells me to preach
to you. And that's what Paul said, God
did this. He made us ministers. God makes
His ministers able ministers of the new covenant. And He does
it by working effectually in the heart of the one He'll use
to be a preacher. He saves us, He quickens us,
He calls us, He works in the heart just like He's going to
do in the hearts of His people. He does it by His power and His
grace. And he makes his preacher faithful to Christ. He has to
do that first. The preacher has to be made faithful
to Christ. And then he puts him in the ministry. Go to 1 Timothy chapter 1. 1 Timothy chapter 1 and verse
12. Paul says, I thank Christ Jesus
our Lord who hath enabled me He made me faithful. He made me an able minister of
Christ, Paul said. And for that, or because of that,
because of that which Christ did, enabling me to be faithful,
He counted me faithful. You see, that word is impute.
And when God imputes something, it's because that's what He's
made you. He said, Christ enabled me. Christ
made me faithful. And because of that, He counted
me faithful. And He put me into the ministry. See who did it? Paul didn't just
decide one day, I'm going to be a preacher for Christ. And
so he went to seminary and all that. No. He was in a seminary.
He was going to the school of Gamaliel, a Pharisee. And Christ arrested him. and
taught him the gospel and made him faithful and then put him
in the ministry. He said, I was made a minister
according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by
the effectual working of His power. Peter said, If any man
minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth. that God in all things may be
glorified through Christ Jesus to whom be praise and dominion
forever and ever. He gives the ability. Paul said,
I labored, striving according to His working which worketh
in me mightily. You see, the preachers first
got to be made to experience the power and grace and be taught
the gospel of Christ before He ever talk about it. Now get this,
and get this and be sure to understand this. Our text is telling us
God only makes His ministers to be ministers of the new everlasting
covenant of grace. Look at there, He says in verse
6, God made us able ministers of the New Testament. Not of
the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter killeth, but the
Spirit giveth life. Now, what does that mean to be
a preacher of that new everlasting covenant of grace? What does
that mean? Well, it means God's preacher
has been given spiritual discernment to know Christ and to know that
Christ put an end to the old covenant of works. He put an
end to it. And that Christ by Himself, by
His blood, established, entirely established, He fulfilled every
covenant obligation for His people. So that it's finished, it's done,
and all the promises of God in that covenant are to His child,
yes and amen, in Christ. Because Christ established it.
We were required to keep the law perfectly. Christ did it.
Christ did it for His people. And He is the only righteousness
that God will receive. You see, you can't preach the
everlasting covenant without being given spiritual discernment
to know Christ is the covenant. God said, I'll give you for a
covenant of the people. Everything's fulfilled in Christ
and by Christ. And so his minister is going
to preach who? He's going to preach Christ.
Go over to 2 Corinthians 4.13 and look there. We having the same spirit of
faith, according as it is written, I believed and therefore have
I spoken. He's quoting the psalm. He said,
we also believe and therefore speak. knowing that he which
raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise us up also by Jesus and
shall present us with you. Look down at verse 16. For which
cause we faint not, but though our outward man perish, yet the
inward man is renewed day by day. Go back to 1 Corinthians
chapter 2. I want you to read this now with
me and listen. Hear Paul as a minister of Christ
speaking about the ministers of Christ. Hear what it says
here, 1 Corinthians 2, 9. As it is written, I hath not
seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man
the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him. The reason
we love Him is because God has prepared all these things for
us and given us a new heart. Everything we have, He prepared. God prepared it. And it never
entered our heart, never entered our minds, the things God hath
prepared for His people. Verse 10, But God hath revealed
them unto us, His preachers, by His Spirit. Look down at verse
12, Now we have received, not the Spirit of the world, but
the Spirit which is of God, that we may know the things that are
freely given to us of God. We know we were freely chosen
by God, not based on anything in us, good or evil. We know
we were freely redeemed from the curse of the law, by Christ
through His blood. We know we're freely given a
perfect righteousness in Christ, perfect holiness by Christ dwelling
in us. We know these things freely given
to us. We know we're freely justified
through His blood, freely kept, and we'll be freely presented
to God without fault by Christ. All of this is done by Christ.
We know the things God has freely given to us. So what do we do? Verse 13. Which things also we
speak. Which things also we speak. Not
in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost
teaches according to the Scriptures. Comparing spiritual things with
spiritual. Why don't all men, why don't
all preachers do that? But the natural man, including
natural preachers, they receive not the things of the Spirit
of God, for their foolishness unto him, neither can he know
them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual
discerneth all things, yet he himself is discerned of no man.
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Back up there, he's
referring to what he said earlier, I didn't read it just now, but
he said, no man knows the mind of a man except the spirit that's
in that man. And he says, now we've received
the spirit of God, that we might know the things freely given
us of God. He says, for who's known the mind of the Lord that
the Lord might instruct him? And he answers, we have the mind
of Christ. We are taught the things of God
by the Spirit of God. And so that means we speak it.
We speak what we do know. Paul is going to look back at
chapter 3. Look at verse 12. Seeing then
we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech. We use great
boldness of speech. Well, you don't want to tell
somebody that God elected a people and that's the only people Christ
died for. Why don't I want to say that? That's the message
that Christ is going to bless and that He's going to call out
His sheep with. Why would I want to hide that from somebody? Why
wouldn't I speak that boldly? The only reason I wouldn't is
if I didn't have this hope. But I have it. Therefore, we
speak. We speak. It means Christ is
the only message we preach. He says there in chapter 4 and
verse 5, we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord and
ourselves, your servants, your ministers. That's what a minister
is for Christ's sake. Now the only way to preach the
new everlasting covenant of grace is by preaching the mediator
of it. It's the only way. You can't preach the everlasting
covenant of grace without preaching Christ who's the mediator. You
can't preach the everlasting covenant without declaring Christ
fulfilled it all for His people. Hebrews 9.15 says, For this cause
He is the mediator of the New Testament, that by means of death,
for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the First Testament,
that is, dying for the sins of His people, which were imputed
to us because Adam, under that first covenant of works, plunged
us into sin. So Christ came and He died for
the sins of His people, for the transgressions that were committed
under that first covenant, so that they which are called might
receive the promise of eternal inheritance. You think God's
going to make that promise and go back on it? No, because it's
all yes and amen because Christ did it for His people. He said,
He taketh away that first old covenant of works that He may
establish the second. For by one offering He hath perfected
forever them that are sanctified. He gave us His table and you
know what we celebrate in His table? Remember what He said
the blood represents? This is the New Testament. This is the everlasting covenant
of grace. Signed, sealed and delivered.
Established fully. Nothing left to be done. in my
blood. Why? Because all things are purged
by blood and our sins have been purged by His blood. God cannot
and will not go back on His promise. So God makes His ministers And
God makes His ministers preach Christ only. So now if you hear
a preacher preaching, and he's not preaching Christ, he's mingling
law and grace, he's preaching morality, he's preaching the
Word, he's not telling the truth about Christ. Know this. Don't
doubt this. Know this for a fact. He's not
the minister of God. God didn't make him. He made
himself. He's not the minister of Christ.
Now, secondly, God commends His preacher to His people. He makes
His minister and then He commends His minister to His people. Look
at verse 4. Paul said, Need we, as some others,
epistles of commendation to you or from you? I'm sorry, verse
1. Need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you or from
you? Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read
of all men, forasmuch as you are manifestly declared to be
the epistle of Christ. Christ was the writer, ministered
by us. We were just a pen in Christ's
hand that wrote the letter, Paul said. But you were written by
Christ. And he says, written not with
ink, but with the spirit of the living God, not in tables of
stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart. Christ writes the
letter of recommendation for His preacher. Christ does that. Christ writes the letter of recommendation
for His preacher. And you know where He writes
it? He writes it in the heart of His people. He writes the
everlasting covenant of grace on the heart of His people. He
said, you are our epistle. written in our hearts. Paul said
in his first letter, If I be not an apostle unto others, yea,
doubtless I am to you. Without doubt I am an apostle
to you. For the seal of my apostleship are ye in the Lord. If anybody wants a letter of
recommendation from me, what makes somebody to know? How am
I going to know you are a true preacher sent of Christ? There's
a letter of recommendation right there. There's a letter of recommendation.
There's a letter of recommendation. God is saved through the preaching
of the gospel, through my ministry. He says here, Christ makes it
known. He makes it known that He alone
has made His child an epistle by His preacher. Christ makes
it known. He says, you are known and read of all men. for as much
as you're manifestly, you're openly, clearly declared to be
the epistle of Christ ministered by us. If you want to see what
Christ does to make it so openly manifest, go to 1 Thessalonians. You know, people... I read a
lot on this when I was preparing this, and you get to a word like
that, where it says you're an epistle. And boy, boy, these
preachers that corrupt the Word of God, they jump all over that. and start preaching morality
about how you need to live just such a way so everybody looks
at you and sees you so holy and all that. Well, look here what
the Word of God says. This is how Christ did it, right
here in Thessalonica, verse 4. Knowing, brethren, beloved, your
election of God. We know you were chosen of God,
Paul said. 1 Thessalonians chapter 1 verse
4. How do you know that, Paul? For
our gospel came unto you not in word only, but also in power,
and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance. As you know what
manner of men we were among you for your sake. And ye became
followers of us and of the Lord. Here's the first thing Christ
is going to do. He's going to make it known by making His child
a follower of Christ and of His people. He's going to make his
child leave whoever he was following before and follow Christ and
his preacher and his people. That's going to ruffle some feathers. That's going to make it known
that something's happened when you leave your former companions
and follow Christ and join with his people. And he says here,
having received the Word in much affliction. Christ makes it known
by making His child receive the Gospel even though he's got all
this affliction from adversaries who's telling him, don't believe
that. And even though his own flesh, his own sinful self is
telling him, don't believe that. Yet he receives that Word in
much affliction. That's the work of God. That's
the work of Christ making you His epistle. He said, and you
received it with joy of the Holy Ghost. What used to make you
mad and angry when you read it, now you rejoice. There's a difference
that's been made. Verse 7, he says, So that you
were examples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia. For
from you sounded out the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia
and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God where
it is spread abroad, so that we may not speak anything. What
did Paul say? We're always triumphant in Christ
because He makes us a sweet savor of Christ in every place where
we speak. Paul said that's what happened
to those believers at Thessalonica. He said Christ proved to everybody
that you were His epistle because everywhere you went, you gloried
only in Christ. You spoke only of what Christ
had done and gave Christ all the glory and gave yourself none. He says here, Verse 9, They themselves
show of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how you
turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God. He makes
it known by making His child turn from all our self-made idols. Everything we worshipped before,
He turned you from it and makes you to begin to delightfully
serve the true and living God. That's all. Something only He
can do. And look at this last thing.
And to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the
dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. See,
He doesn't make His child go on working, trying to obtain
acceptance and trying to obtain righteousness or to make Himself
holy and more holy and more holy. He gives His child rest so that... You know what we're doing now?
We're just waiting on Christ to come again. Because He has
already delivered us from the wrath to come. And we know that.
So we're waiting on it. That's the life of faith. Waiting
on Christ. When you're waiting on somebody,
what do you do? You can come back here and look right outside
across the street. There's a bus stop. When people
are waiting for the bus, you know what they're doing? Nothing.
They're just sitting there waiting. We're not trying to build a bus.
We're not trying to make it get here quicker. We're not trying
to make sure the bus will stop for us and make sure the bus
sees that. We know it's coming. It's going to be right there.
It's going to stop right there. All we're doing is waiting on it.
That's all we're doing with Christ. He's done it all. And you know
Christ promised this in Isaiah 52, 6. He said, My people shall
know My name. They shall know in that day that
I am He that does speak. Behold it is I. He said, How
beautiful are the mountains or the feet of Him that brings good
tidings, that publishes peace, that brings good tidings of good,
that publishes salvation, that says in design, Thy God reigneth. Thy watchman shall lift up the
voice, with Christ the voice. Together shall they sing, for
they shall see eye to eye. Christ and His ministers are
in perfect accord, perfect agreement. They see eye to eye whenever
the Lord shall bring again Zion. Christ said, you're going to
know it's me that's speaking. That's how He commends His preacher
to His people, by speaking in their hearts. And nothing of
this, no part of this is outward. At all. It's all spiritual. Every
bit of it. He said there, written not with
ink, but with the Spirit of the living God. Not on tables of
stone, but in fleshly soft tables of the newly created heart. That's
where this Word is written. So this is how He demonstrates
the power of the Holy Spirit to make our faith stand, not
in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. This is how
He does it. He sends an earthen vessel who preaches. Some men leave saying, I don't
even know, he don't even have any letters to commend him. Others,
Christ makes them hear it in their heart. And they realize,
this is Christ speaking to me. This is really a minister of
Christ. And they are welded together
so that they can't be separated. Now let me show you this one
last thing very quickly. By this work being of Christ,
it makes us trust God for all sufficiency. By this work being
of Christ, it makes us trust Him for all sufficiency. Paul
said in verse 4, And such trust have we... He's talking about
how that, you know, He made us able ministers. He sent us and
He made you an epistle. Christ did all of this and He
says, And such trust we have. through Christ toward God. He's saying that He's going to
keep doing this. He's going to do it for the rest
of His lost sheep. This is our trust we have toward God through
Christ. Not that we are sufficient of
ourselves to think anything as of ourselves. We can't think
any of this was done by us or of us. We can't think anything
as of ourselves. But our sufficiency is of God.
I say this to you a lot. Why is it some people hear the
Gospel and they are planted under the sound of the preaching of
the Gospel and they are here with us every week, week in and week
out, and others have come and gone? Why is it? By experiencing
the power and the grace of God through Christ Jesus, by experiencing
Him making us His minister, I experienced that power and grace by Him making
me His minister. You've experienced it by Him
commending His minister to you in your heart. You've experienced
it by Christ making you His epistle through this gospel. And by experiencing
that power and that grace to save through His gospel, it makes
us trust God. to provide us all sufficiency
for our own salvation and also in that He's going to do the
same thing for His lost sheep and call them out through this
same gospel. It makes us trust God to do this
through Christ and give all sufficiency for it. That's what it makes
you do. It's the power by which God makes us receive the gospel
that will determine whether or not we're going to trust God
rather than ourselves and preach Christ according to this book.
It's how we've received that mercy from Him that's going to
determine how we're going to preach this Word in truth and
wait on Him to do the work. That's why men don't do it. Man
hasn't received that mercy the same way you've received it.
Look over at 2 Corinthians 4.1. Paul goes off explaining some
things about the covenant. We're going to look at that next
week. But then when he finishes up now, he's relating this back
to the same text we were looking at tonight. We have this trust
through Christ toward God, not that we're sufficient, but all
our sufficiencies of God. He says in verse 1, Therefore,
seeing we have this ministry, He's saying this next word, as,
means the same manner as we have received mercy. By the same way
as we have received mercy, we faint not. By the same power
and grace as we receive mercy, we faint not. What does he mean
by we don't faint? He says there, we've renounced
the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, not
handling the Word of God deceitfully. Now watch this, he's going to
say the exact same thing he just said in our text. But by manifestation
of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in
the sight of God. That's another way of saying,
We simply preach the truth and Christ makes you His epistle.
He writes the letter of recommendation for us by writing it on your
heart and commending us to you by the truth of the gospel. And
he says, verse 5, For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus
the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. What
makes us do so? for God who commanded the light
to shine out of darkness has shined in our hearts to give
the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face
of Jesus Christ. We experienced this. We experienced
being made an epistle of Christ. We experienced being sent forth
to preach the gospel by Christ. We experienced Him making making
a letter of recommendation by writing it in the hearts of those
that heard us preach. We've experienced this. You've
experienced this. And I've experienced this. God
made the light to shine and made us to behold Christ. And so what's
the result of that? That's how we receive mercy.
So we just preach Christ. Look, and we know this. We have
no sufficiency in ourselves. We have this treasure in an earthen
vessel. We're just the ink pen. Ink pen has to be filled up with
ink. Christ fills us with the ink. And Christ picks up the
ink pen and he writes with it on the hearts of his people.
He uses his minister to preach, fills him up with the gospel,
preaches him, and then writes the word on the heart of his
people. And he says that the excellency of the power may be
of God, not of us. That's what he's saying in our
text. It's Christ who makes the difference and those who preach
Christ only. That's why they preach Christ
only. He makes us His minister, He makes us His epistles, He
commends His able ministers to His people and His people to
us, and we believe He'll continue to do it for His lost sheep as
He has done for us. Such trust have we through Christ
toward God. So, now get this last statement.
By believing, and preaching the gospel of Christ in spirit and
in truth, by believing this gospel and declaring it in spirit and
in truth, not trying to smooth the edges off, not trying to
take the offense out of it, believing this gospel and preaching this
gospel according to the Word of God. You know what we are
declaring? To people, to everybody that's
here, we're manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ.
And what we're declaring to people is that we have no sufficiency
in ourselves at all. But all our sufficiency is of
God. And when you hear a man stand
up and he doesn't preach the truth, he doesn't preach Christ
from every scripture. He goes to some of these scriptures
and instead of preaching Christ, he just preaches the letter.
He just tells you do and don't, do and don't, be moral, do this
and don't do that. He doesn't preach Christ from
it. He doesn't shut you up to Christ and make you to know you
can't do one thing to please God. He's got to do it all. And by that, by not preaching
Christ, he's declaring he's got some sufficiency in himself and
all his sufficiency don't come from God. That's what He's saying
loud and clear. But that man who preaches Christ
according to this Word, we're declaring to everybody, we don't
have any sufficiency. It's all of God. I pray now He'll make each of
us a letter of recommendation. Make the world know, His people
know, Christ did this. We didn't have anything to do
with it. Christ did it. He's our Savior, not us. Alright,
brother.