Alright brethren, let's go to
2 Corinthians. We'll begin reading in verse
4. Let me say this before I begin.
This has to do with that person, that incestuous person that had
to be disciplined that Paul wrote about in the first letter. And
this now is after this man has repented. And Paul is writing
now the second letter. He says, verse 4, Out of much
affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote unto you with many tears,
not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love
which I have more abundantly unto you. But if any have caused
grief, he hath not grieved me. But in part, he's grieved you
all. And I say this that I may not
overcharge or overburden the offender. I'm giving you the
interpretation of that verse there. Sufficient to such a man
is this punishment, this censure which is inflicted of many. so
that contrary-wise you ought rather to forgive him and comfort
him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch
sorrow. Wherefore I beseech you that
you would confirm your love toward him. For to this end also did
I write that I might know the proof of you whether you be obedient
in all things. To whom you forgive anything,
I forgive also. For if I forgave anything, to
whom I forgave it for your sakes, for forgave I it in the person
of Christ, or in the sight of Christ. Lest Satan should get
an advantage of us, for we are not ignorant of his devices. Now, the Lord Jesus Christ fulfilled
the law and the prophets. He said He came to fulfill the
Law and the Prophets. That means to fill full everything
in the Law and everything in the Prophets. And one such prophecy
that Christ fulfills is Jeremiah 3.15. And it says, I will give
you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with
knowledge and understanding. The Apostle Paul was one of those
pastors. The Apostle Paul had been given
a new heart and in him dwelled our Lord Jesus Christ. The spirit
of Christ was in the Apostle Paul so that his new heart was
the heart of Christ. His spirit was the spirit of
Christ. And so when we look here now at what the Apostle Paul
wrote, we have to remember he is writing by God. He is writing
being moved by God the Holy Spirit. So what we are seeing here, and
this is what I want us to get, when we see the spirit of Paul
that he had toward brethren, we behold Christ's heart toward
his believing people. When we see Paul's heart toward
his brethren, we see Christ's heart toward his believing people,
particularly as it involves rebuke and forgiveness. Our focus is not Paul here. Our
focus is Christ. Our focus is Christ's heart.
His heart in rebuking and his heart in forgiving his people. A lot of things happened this
week that sort of I was coming to this passage next, but the
things that happened got me thinking on this. I was talking with a
dear brother who was telling me about what goes on, what went
on in a reformed church he was in, in the name of church discipline. They build an entire church and
doctrine around discipline. And what took place here with
this man and Paul had to deal with this was an exception. It
wasn't the rule. It was an exception. It's the
only place you find it in scripture. And Paul's heart in this thing
was so much different than what you hear and what you've experienced.
Most of you have come out of that. And I want us to see Christ's
heart as we look at Paul. Now first of all concerning rebuke.
Christ's rebuke. We saw rebuke this morning in
Moses. And I thought this went right
along with our first message. Christ's rebuke is not to cause
His erring child sorrow. It's not to cause us worldly
sorrow. It's to manifest to us His abundant
love for us. Paul says in verse 4, Out of
much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many
tears. Not that you should be grieved,
sorrowed, but that you might know the love which I have more
abundantly unto you. The sins of the Corinthians,
the saints at Corinth, caused Paul much affliction and anguish
of heart. It was not a light thing to him.
It caused him much affliction and anguish of heart. You know,
when your children obey you, that rejoices your heart. When
they disobey you, that causes you anguish of heart. That causes
you trouble in your heart. And that's what it was for Paul
as he ministered. He loved the Corinthians like
you would love your children. And when they disobeyed and he
saw them walking in error, it grieved him at his heart. Now
brethren, when we look at Paul, we see something of the Spirit
of Christ dwelling in Paul. We see something of the heart
of Christ towards his people and towards our disobedience.
You know, when our Lord Jesus walked this earth, the scripture
says he was grieved at the hardness of the heart of the Pharisees.
Those Pharisees were not God's elect. And if he was grieved
at the hardness of the heart of those that were not his elect,
how much more towards you and I who are. He looked upon Jerusalem
and Scripture says He wept over it. Over those who had not repented
and had rejected Him. If He did that over people who
proved that they were not God's chosen people, how much more
over those who are? The Scripture speaks often about
God in terms that we can understand that human terms and Ephesians
4 tells us, grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. After God gave His only begotten
Son, do you realize sin is so offensive to God? Sin is so abhorrent
to God that He gave His only begotten Son to put away the
sin of His people. And when our Lord Jesus Christ
came forth, He he hated sin so much and he's so holy hates sin
so much he was willing to present himself to God to be made sin
for his people so that he might make his people the righteousness
of God in him. This we're talking about what
the great length it took to put away the sin of His people. And
when sin was found on His Son, God is so holy and so righteous
and hates sin so much, He would not spare His own Son. Do you
think you're going to be able to stand before God without Christ
and God's going to spare you? You think there's something that's
going to make up for the fact that you were conceived in sin
and that you came forth speaking lies from your mother's womb
and that all you've ever done is breathe out lies and sin against
God? Well, I don't believe that's
how I am. That's sin because you're denying what God says
about you. We think we'll be able to stand before God without
Christ if Christ Himself was not spared when sin was found
on Him. But that shows you, brethren, how God hates sin. Do we think then that when you
and I disobey our Lord Jesus Christ, that the Lord, our righteousness,
is going to look upon our unrighteousness and our base ingratitude for
all that He's done with complacency? And not be displeased at all
by what we've done? Of course not. Of course not. Now what I said to you this morning,
I say to you again, we're not talking about being brought before
the judgment seat of God and being condemned because of our
sin. Whom Christ has redeemed by His
blood, no sin will ever be charged to them again so as to condemn
them. But we're talking about God keeping
us looking to Christ and not trusting ourselves. That's what
we're talking about here. And so when we turn to ourselves,
it's not pleasing to our Lord. But this is the thing to understand. Due to His precious blood and
due to His everlasting love, our gracious Redeemer never rebukes
us. He never chastens us to simply
cause us sorrow. That's not why He does it. You
know, we'll get We'll get sideways at somebody because of something
they've done to offend us, which is not nearly what we've done
to offend Christ. But our rebuke is not godly rebuke. It's to make them sorrowful.
Well, that's not how Christ rebukes. Turn over with me to chapter
7, 2 Corinthians chapter 7, and look at verse 9. 2 Corinthians 7 and verse 9. Now
I rejoice, Paul said, not that you were made sorry, but that
you sorrowed to repentance. For you were made sorry after
a godly manner. You see that? That you might receive damage
by us or from us in nothing. You see that? They were made
sorry, but the godly manner was they weren't damaged by it. They
weren't harmed by it at all. For godly sorrow worketh repentance
to salvation not to be repented of, but the sorrow of the world
worketh death. If a brother or sister falls
into sin or error, it might wound them to have to speak a word
of rebuke to them about whatever the error is.
But that's being loving to them and being faithful to them. Proverbs
27.5 says open rebuke. You know, none of us want to
have an open rebuke. That is embarrassing to be openly
rebuked. The Scripture does say openly
rebuked at times. But listen to this word. Open
rebuke is better than secret love. Faithful are the wounds
of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. The person,
the father, who sees his child rebelling against him and not
obeying him and rebelling against authority and not obeying authority
and showing disrespect to teachers and police officers and everybody
in authority, and he doesn't correct that child? That's not
love. That's not faithfulness. Love
and faithfulness is to correct the child, to chasten the child.
Now, but to rebuke in anger? to rebuke harshly, to rebuke
spitefully simply to cause sorrow? That is not loving and that's
not faithful. That's not godly rebuke. That's
devilish is what that is. How could I dare cause damage
to somebody for whom Christ died? Christ the Lord He came here
and He went to that cross and He willingly bore separation
from God. He willingly gave His body to
be broken. He gave His blood to be shed. For without the shedding of blood,
there is no remission of sin. He gave His life for His particular
people. With their names on His heart,
He laid down His life to put away our sin. How could I possibly
do damage to one of His children for whom He died? How could I
do that? How could I speak and rebuke
them and cause them sorrow when He did so much to redeem them
from their sin? When our Lord rebukes, He doesn't
rebuke like that. He only causes enough sorrow
to bring us to repentance and cast our care on Him. It's not
to damage us. It's not to cause us worldly
sorrow, that works death. And that's not His mission. His
mission is to turn us to Him. And this is what He's doing.
This is why He's doing it. This is what Christ's motive
is in everything He's doing when it comes to rebuke. Verse 4,
that you might know the love which I have more abundantly
unto you. You know about the love of God.
This world goes around talking about the love of God. God is
love. He is love. God is love. And God loves in the Lord Jesus
Christ only. Who shall separate us from the
love of God which is in Christ Jesus, the scripture said. God
doesn't love rebels. God doesn't love those in hell. And God's love never changes.
The scripture says His love is unchangeable. And it's unchanging. He said, I've loved my people
with an everlasting love. That means it never changes.
So those people in hell are not people that He loved while they
were living and then started hating them when they died. He
loves everlastingly. You see, God's not running around
behind second causes and trying to correct everything so that
He can get you to believe Him. God is the first cause of everything. God set His love on a particular
people simply because He would. Because He's God and He can do
what He will. And God, Ephesians 1 says, He
blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places
in Christ according as He chose us in Christ before the foundation
of the world. That's where his love was, in
Christ. He loved his son and he loved his people in his son.
He put his people in his son. So that when Adam sinned in the
garden as the first head and representative and so all his
family, all the human race died in him. We sinned in him. It
didn't affect at all God's love toward those he had put in Christ.
And so Christ came to be the last Adam for that particular
people that God gave to Him. And Christ loved us. He came
forth not to make us, not to start loving us. God sent His
Son because He did love His people. And Christ laid down His life
because He did love His people. And He redeemed His people from
all iniquity because He loved us from everlasting. And that
love never changes at all. Jesus Christ the same yesterday,
today, and forever. There's no change with God. The
gifts that come down from God are without variableness or shadow
of turning. Those God's love He's always
loved. And that love's in Christ. And His motive and His end purpose
in rebuking His child is not to hurt us. It's to show us the
abundance of that never-ending, never-changing love He has for
us. That is why He rebukes His children. Now brethren, with one another
and in our home, if we have to rebuke a dear brother or sister,
then we are to do that in a way, not to cause them sorrow, not
simply to fulfill the lust of our flesh to spitefully get at
them, Not to make them sorrowful, but that they might know Christ's
abundant love for them through our abundant love for them. That's
the purpose. That's the purpose. Or else,
we have not rebuked after a godly manner. We've been devilish in
what we've done. Fleshly, carnal. Now here's the
second thing I want you to see concerning forgiveness. When
Christ has brought us to repentance, He makes certain that we know
He has forgiven us. When He brings us to repentance,
in love, reveals the abundance of His love to us, He makes certain
we know He has forgiven us. Our all-knowing God does not
overburden His child. He doesn't overcharge you and
overburden his child. Look here at verse 5. Paul said,
if any have caused grief, he won't even mention the man's
name. He doesn't want to embarrass him. There is no point in doing
it. He just needs to make a point about how he has forgotten it.
So he doesn't even bring the man's name up or any of the offenders.
He doesn't bring their name up. He says, if any have caused grief,
that is sorrow, He's not grieved me. Now Paul just said he wrote
with much anguish of heart. What's he saying here? He's saying,
I don't remember it anymore. It's not. That's what he's saying. If any has grieved anybody, it's
not me. I haven't been grieved. I haven't
been grieved. He says, but in measure, and
the word here is in measure, He's grieved you all. But he
says, I'm tempering this, and while I'm saying this, that I
might not overcharge, that I might not overburden this offending
brother, or these offending brethren. And that's the focus here, that
I might not overburden, that I might not overcharge. I don't
want to lay too heavy a load on them. You see, Paul is, he's
probably speaking about that incestuous man, and you know,
That is, like I said, that's a rare thing. That is the exception. That's not the rule. But the
church, the call, here's when you have to actually do what
they call discipline. Here's when you have to actually
correct somebody. This man's sin was open And it was so distracting
that when they came in to sit down to hear the gospel preach,
they couldn't focus on hearing the gospel preach because this
man was right there in their midst. I've been in a congregation
before where there was problems to where you couldn't focus on
the message because of the problems. And that was the case with this
individual here. And there were some others that
were supporting him and saying, we're saved by grace. He ought
to be able to live like this. But it was causing a distraction.
And it was also out in the community who was bringing reproach upon
the doctrine of Christ and upon the church. And so this was such
a severe thing that this man had to be told, you cannot come
here and assemble with us until you've corrected this behavior
and this is stopped. In 30 years, I think I've seen
that happen once or maybe twice. Why not more? Places where I've
been, they preach Christ. And when you preach Christ, He
does the rebuking for whatever gets to that. And you just don't
have that problem. But if your message and your
focus is on discipline, and you're not preaching Christ, you'll
have to discipline all the time. Because Christ won't bless that
word, that's why. And in fact, that ain't even
a church. He said, I'm going to send pastors after my heart
that's going to teach you in knowledge and understanding.
God doesn't send liars and He don't bless lies and He ain't
involved in any of that mess. I wish we'd quit pretending and
candy coating this. Satan is doing everything he
can to corrupt this world as fast and as hard and as quick
as he can. Why not be that blunt about the
truth and speak the truth and tell people that's not even a
godly church? God's not even a part of that.
That's a synagogue of Satan and that's what Scriptures call it.
Why don't you start telling the truth to people? But this thing of discipline
and all, this thing, it wasn't to drive the man away. That wasn't
the purpose. You know, this is a hospital
for sick people, for sinners to come to the great physician.
What kind of hospital would it be if you said, now, we'll let
you in here, but if we find out you're sick, you can't come here
no more. Well, this is a place for sinners.
This is the best place for a sinner to be because we're hearing of
Christ the physician. But the problem is when a person
is at a point where they're making it so the rest can't hear the
gospel, then they have to step aside till they get things straightened
out. And then they can come back. But if it's distracting everybody
else, we all got to hear it. You see what I'm saying? So that
was a rare thing and it was neat. But he and all those others involved,
they had caused Paul a lot of sorrow. But now they've repented
and so Paul says, they have not grieved me at all. They have
not grieved me at all. He didn't go on with it and overburden
them with it and make them feel guilty about it and make them
feel like they'd never be able to make it up to Paul for what
he'd done. said they hadn't grieved me at all. Don't we all have enough burden?
Don't you have enough burden? Mothers, our wives, faithful
wives are keepers of the home. That means they're keepers of
the home even if they work outside the home. They keep the home. They teach the children. They
clothe the children. They feed the children. They
take care of our clothes and all the things in the home, in
addition to whatever they do outside of the home. And then
you've got fathers, husbands and fathers who are responsible
to be the head of the house and to provide. That's a burden. And to make sure you have a job,
make sure you bring it home enough to survive and provide for the
family and do whatever needs to be done outside around the
house and things that are, you know, if I have time to teach
the children and have them under the gospel. When you have children,
you have to obey everybody. Try to please everybody. And
then you got believers with our sins. Burden them. We know them. We see them and
we are burdened by them. And so when it comes to how somebody
has grieved me, when he's sorry and he's repented from it, I'm
not to overburden him. Doesn't he already have enough
burden? I'm going to put more of a load on him and walk around
morose and sulking and act like you're going to have to really
do a lot to make it up to me because I'm so cussed special.
Are you really that special? Am I really that special? If I am tempted to overburden
or overcharge my brother, let me remember this. My Lord could
burden me down a whole lot more with my sin than what He does. Turn to Psalm 103.10. just made you know how offensive
our sin is to Him. Do you know what a burden that
would put on us? We wouldn't be able to bear up under it if
He just revealed to you how offensive sin is. We don't know how offensive
it is. We just see it a little bit.
And that burdens us. But if we knew how offensive
our sin is. Look at Psalm 103.10. What's
the Lord done to us in this thing of burdening us? He hath not
dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us according to
our iniquities. For as the heaven is high above
the earth, so great is His mercy toward them that fear Him. Like
as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that
fear Him. For He knoweth our frame, He
remembereth where we are dust. So what should I do? What should
I do with my offending brother? Should I keep bringing it up
and keep burdening him with it or should I just forget it? Well,
Paul said, if a man is overtaken in a fault, you which are spiritual,
restore such a one in the spirit of meekness. You see, if I'm
pretending I'm restoring him, but at the same time I'm trying
to make him feel guilty and put more burden on him because he's
grieved me so, I am not doing that in the spirit of meekness.
I am doing that in the spirit of pride, thinking I am somebody. He said, Restore such one in
the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted,
bear ye one another's burden, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Bear one another's burden, and so do for them what Christ did
for you. Take the burden and bear it.
You see, Paul's not necessarily saying that he had forgotten
it. You and I, it's hard for us to
forget something when we've been offended and we're being pretentious
and self-righteous if we act like, well, I can forget it.
You probably can't forget it. But you just bear it. Just bear it and don't bring
it up again rather than putting it on your brother. Christ's
boy hours away. He bore ours away. Not only does
Christ not overburden us now, go back to 2 Corinthians 2. When
He has brought us to repentance, He makes us know that He has
taken all our burden and put it away before God and forgiven
us and He comforts us and He confirms His love to us. Look here in verse 6. Paul said,
this is why I didn't overburden him. Sufficient to such a man
is this punishment which was inflicted of many. He's already
been, he already knows that the brethren were displeased with
him. He knows God was displeased with him. He knows he had to,
he couldn't have, hear the gospel for a while. He couldn't be in
the service for a while. That's enough punishment, Paul
said. Now watch. So contrary wise, You ought rather
to forgive him and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should
be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. Wherefore, I beseech
you that you would confirm your love toward him. For to this
end also did I write, this was my end purpose, that I might
know the proof of you, whether you be obedient in all things.
You see, this is as much obedience As anything else, to forgive,
and comfort, and to love our brethren, those that have offended
us, that's obedience. He says, to whom you forgive
anything, I forgive also. For if I forgave anything, to
whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of
Christ, or for the sake of Christ, or in the sight of Christ. How
fully has God forgiven us for the sake of Christ? How fully
has He forgiven you that you that He has caused to be willing
to cast your care on Christ and give Him all the glory for every
aspect of your salvation, declaring Him the author and finisher.
You come to Him declaring you're guilty, you're a sinner, you
cannot do one thing to present yourself to God, you're entirely
trusting Christ to save you. And you that have done that,
how fully has our Lord Jesus Christ made it known to you that
you're forgiven? He said in Hebrews 10, 17, God
says, their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. That is forgiveness, isn't it? God says, I will not remember
them anymore. Well, how fully does He comfort
us? How fully does He comfort us? He said to his preachers
in Isaiah 40 verse 2, Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, to
my people. Speak ye comfortably to them.
And here is the comfort. He says, Cry unto her that her
warfare is accomplished. Cry unto her and tell her there
remains nothing else for you to do to defeat all your enemies. Christ has done it all and your
warfare is accomplished. It's absolutely accomplished.
And He says, And tell her she's received of the Lord's hand double
for all her sins. Not only has He taken your sins
away, that's one thing. Not only will He not remember
your sins anymore because Christ purged our sins forever, but
He's also robed us in the righteousness of Christ so that we are complete
in Him. as righteous and holy as God
is righteous and holy. That is how righteous and holy
a sinner has to be to come into God's presence. We have to be
as righteous and holy as God is. And that is what Christ has
done for His people. He has put away our sin and He
has made us righteous and holy. And He has made it eternally
so. We will never fall again. Because everything the last Adam
did, he did as the eternal God. So it can't be undone. It can't
be undone. God will not charge one for whom
Christ died. It would be unjust for him to
do so. If you were proven not guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt,
it would be unjust for you to be charged again with that crime
and sentenced to death because of it. And God will not sentence,
He will not charge or sentence one for whom Christ died, because
Christ put our sin away, and not only that, He made us the
righteousness of God. That's comfort, isn't it? And
then how fully does He confirm His love to us? Romans 5.5 says,
through these trials and these tribulations, the love of God
is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given
unto us. It is an internal thing. It is
a heart thing. And He makes it effectual by
the Holy Spirit. And what does He teach you when
He fills your heart with love? I have loved thee with an everlasting
love, therefore in loving kindness have I drawn you. He does not
just draw you in the first hour when we sin and fall into error. He is drawing us by bringing
us to repent and bringing us back to Him. And when he has
done that work, he confirms his love to us, the abundance of
his love to us, and he says, I have loved you with an everlasting
love. That is why I have chastened
you and brought you back to my feet. So if my holy God has done that
to me, and if he has done this to my offending brother, for
the sake of Christ, how can I do anything less to my brother? How can I do anything less? You know, that's the thing that
makes a pleasant marriage. You know, a marriage is hard. A marriage is work. A marriage
involves a lot of hills and valleys and things that go on. And it's
not always just boxes of chocolate all the time. It's trouble. But
when you have trouble, the thing that makes it so strong for brethren,
for believers, for husband and wife who are sanctified by God
is this. You keep thinking, if Christ
did everything He's done for her, how can I do anything less? I can't go on walking around
like I'm somebody. I can't go on trying to put a
fence on her and make her feel overly burdened. I can't do that.
Christ didn't do that to me. He didn't do that to her. And
if I do that to her, I'm doing that to Christ. That's how one
he is with his people. That's what makes true forgiveness
and true love and true comfort between a husband and a wife.
That's why it's so important for believers to marry believers.
An unbeliever won't know a thing about that. He'll go on thinking,
I'm somebody, you ought to bow to me and feel terrible about
what you've done to somebody so high and lofty as myself.
You want somebody who knows he's a worm and knows Christ is all
so that he'll see, he'll treat you like he would Christ. Now
if we're not doing that to our spouse or we're not doing that
to our children or we're not doing that to our brethren, shame
on us. Shame on us. We need to, we need
to correct our attitude and our spirit and and treat them like
Christ treats us. Now, it is best for my own safety
and it is best for the safety of the whole church. Why is that?
Verse 11, lest Satan should get an advantage of us for we are
not ignorant of his devices. If I speak harshly to cause grief,
and I will not forget, and I overburden my brother, and I will not forgive,
and I will not comfort him, and I will not confirm my love to
him, Satan has already taken advantage and he will take further
advantage of me. The devil would love to drive
a convicted sinner to despair and persuade him that there is
no more forgiveness with God. Do I want to be used by Satan
to do that to my brother? To drive him to overmuch sorrow
so that he don't think he can ever be forgiven again? Do I
want to do that to my wife or my child or my brethren? Satan would love to prompt you
to, those that are loved little, who know little of what it is
to be loved, and so they love little, he would love to prompt
them to walk around and be all, morose and unloving and rigid
and irreconcilable, because that casts a horrible light on Christ
that we claim to believe. Now Satan would love that. He would love to deform the likeness
of Christ into a Pharisee. He would love that. If he can
make us look on our repentant brother with cold suspicion,
there will be joy over that. Not in heaven, but in hell. And He loves for our tempers
to be on edge, and for every movement to be full of friction,
and everywhere to arouse suspicion. That's what Satan loves. Christ prayed for His church
that they might all be one in Him, because when we're one in
Him, we're in the refuge. And the Lord Satan can't touch
us. Resist Him steadfast in the faith. Look to Christ, follow
Christ, walk after Christ, do as Christ has done to you. Satan
can't touch you. He can't touch you. If he's forgiven
you much, then you forgive much. If Christ has forgiven you much,
forgive much. If Christ has loved you much,
you love much. If Christ has comforted you much,
you comfort much. You see, it's not here in the
church room that that's going to be manifest. I used to hear Brother Henry
and other ones say, you know, if you want to find out what
a man's really like, live with him. That's where you find out
what the truth is. How am I at home? How am I with
my wife and my children? How am I with... That shows if I've really been
loved much, and forgiven much, and comforted much. Do I love
much? Do I forgive much? Do I comfort
much? If you find yourself growing cold, I'll tell you what you
do. Remember his broken body. You think on that broken body.
You think on him bearing the lashes and the whips of God's
eternal wrath and justice. And you think of him willingly
being pierced. We're willingly pouring out His
blood to purge our sin. And you think on that a while. Before we ever say a word of
rebuke, when we find ourselves cold and not being able to forgive,
think on that a while. If we're His, we won't be able
to go on in that. If we're His, it'll break our
heart. And we'll go to that loved one
and we'll be the one then repenting, pouring out our heart asking
for forgiveness. I pray God to make us loving
and if we have to rebuke, make us forgive, make us love, make
us comfort. That's what Christ done to us.
Now let's come now, let's remember Him. And as we remember Him,
let's go forth from here and treat our offending brothers
and sisters like Christ has treated us. Alright, Brother Kevin, you
and Brother Adam.