Alright, brethren, let's turn
to 1 Corinthians chapter 16. 1 Corinthians 16. Lord willing, this will be our
last message in 1 Corinthians. Verse 23, The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with you. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with you. Now that's our subject, the grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now the Apostle Paul didn't have
any ability to give grace to anybody, nor does any other man. We cannot bestow grace. No sinner has the ability to
bestow grace. but we do ask Him who alone can
bestow grace, we ask Christ to do so. And that's our prayer
for one another. And you remember now, this is
the word that Christ gave Paul to speak for him to write. So he's writing what Christ gave
him to write. So there's no sinner that can
bless another sinner with grace, but this is what Christ would
have us desire For our brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with you. Christ had him write that. This
is what Christ is teaching you and me to pray for, for one another
and to desire for one another. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with you. Now what does that mean, that
the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you? Well, I want to
look at three things tonight that it teaches us, that we can
learn, that is the grace of our Lord. First of all, the grace
of the Lord be with you in making you to know you're accepted in
Him. To make you to know Him and make
you to know you're accepted in Him. There are a lot of folks
who know about the grace of God. There's a lot of folks who know
about the grace of God. When you read a scripture that
teaches us that the Lord's name is Jesus for He shall save His
people from our sins, it's pretty obvious that salvation is by
the free unmerited favor of God. It's grace. Because Christ came
forth to save sinners. So grace There's got to be something
given freely because He came to save sinners. And it says
there He came to save His people. That tells you that His people
became His people by grace because they were sinners. There wasn't
anything in them to commend them to God. They became His people
by His grace. And the fact that they're sinners
tells us salvation is by grace because we couldn't do anything
to save ourselves. So it has to be, salvation has
to be by grace. There's another thing you see
in Scripture where you see that Christ passed by many and then
He called out some. He didn't call out everybody.
And we see it in this day. He doesn't call out everybody.
He calls some and teaches them who He is, what He's done. And
so it's obvious by who He calls out that salvation is by grace.
Grace chooses whom grace will choose. God said, I'll choose
whom I will choose. I'll have mercy on whom I will
have mercy. And so He has mercy on those
He's pleased to show mercy to and others He passes by. He leaves
them alone. So that shows you salvation is
by grace. It's by grace. The only way we
were redeemed and justified and made righteous is by grace. The
only way that Christ came and did that for His particular people
is by grace. And the only way we know it is
by grace. Now that's doctrine that's understandable,
it's logical, and you can understand that doctrine. But it's one thing
and it's a great difference to know the doctrine of the grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ and to have the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ upon you. When the grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ is upon you, that's when you're made to know that it was
God my Father who chose me freely by grace. It's my Father in heaven
before the foundation of the world. He chose me. I'm made
to know He chose me. And I'm made to know that it
wasn't because of anything in me because by grace, with the
grace of the Lord Jesus Christ upon you, you're made to know
you are the sinner. You are that helpless sinner
that has no room to boast and no room to poke out your chest
and no room to think anything good of yourself. or any ability
in yourself. And He teaches you this. That's
what happens when His grace is upon you. When His grace is truly
with you, you know you're the sinner. You know, God my Father
chose me by His grace. And when His grace is upon us,
when He has the grace of the Lord with us, it's upon us and
it teaches us that Christ truly came and saved me from my sins.
That He justified me on that cross and He made me righteous
on that cross. It's a personal thing. And you,
when His grace is with you, you know that the only way I know
this, the only way I believe on Him and put no confidence
in my flesh, rejoice only in Christ, is because God the Holy
Spirit is the life within me. Christ has been formed in me
and that life that I live now, I live by the faith of the Son
of God. That's who lives in me. And this
is knowing Him, knowing Him and knowing that this thing of grace
is not a system of doctrine to argue and defend and to fight
with folks over. It's an operation that God performs
whereby He saves to the uttermost. And when you've been made to
see you are in the uttermost depths of sin, and made to see
that He saved you, this thing becomes about a living God, a
living Father, His living Son, the living Spirit of God, and
a sinner saved all together because God chose to do so. and did everything
necessary to do so. It's all together different than
just knowing doctrine. You hear Him say to you personally
this right here, Come now, let us reason together, saith the
Lord, though your sins be like scarlet, they shall be white
as snow. Have you heard Him say that to
you? That's to call you personally and say to you personally, Your
sins are as scarlet, but they shall be white as snow. And He
says, I, even I, am He that hath blotted out thy transgressions.
Did He do it for my sake, Lord? No. He says, I did it for mine
own sake. I did it for mine own sake and
I will not remember thy sins. When He speaks personally to
us, that's when He teaches us this thing is not just for your
sake. It's not just for the sake of the sinner. The sinner is
not the end all be all of salvation. God did it for His sake. God
did it to declare His glory, make His righteousness known.
It's about God. It's about His Son. And He speaks
to you personally and He says, I have blotted out as a thick
cloud thy transgressions, and as a cloud thy sins. Return unto
Me, for I have redeemed thee. And when He says that, effectually,
to you in the heart, you will return to Him. Because it comes
as a word from the living Almighty God. Come to Me. I have redeemed
you. And then He teaches you, you
are complete in the Lord Jesus Christ. There's no more offering
for sin. There's no more reason to try
to keep offering sacrifices to appease God. He purges the conscience
from dead works, making you know that there is no more sin. It's
blotted out. God says, I don't remember it.
And He teaches you by that, that you are complete in Christ. And
when he does that, it stops being just doctrine. And this is what the grace of
the Lord Jesus Christ does when He is with His child. It makes
you to know, I am complete in Christ. I really am complete
in Christ. I have acceptance with God in
Christ. So on one hand, when Paul says,
the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all, he is saying,
I pray that He would continue by His grace to make you see
that He chose you by grace, redeemed you by grace, called you by grace
and by grace you stand complete in Christ so that you don't fight
and go out and try to turn from Him and do your own work. You
rest in Him and you follow Him and you can't be turned aside.
That's what it is to have the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
with us. Now the second thing here I want to point out is to have the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ with us is to have His constant keeping hand upon
us. To have His constant keeping
hand upon us. Paul is saying, I pray that the
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ will be with you all, keeping
you, correcting you, keeping you, and never let you go. And we need that because we go
through times, we go through seasons where we leave our first
love. We leave our first love. That's
what the Lord came and told the church at Ephesus. Do you remember
that? He said, you've left your first
love. They've done a lot of things that He commended them for. They hated false doctrine. They
had done much to spread the gospel. They had done much to stand for
Christ. But He said, I have something
against you. You've left your first love. You've left your
first love. That first love that we have
for our eternal husband. That first love is newly wed
love. When you're newly married to
Christ. And it's all... He's so new in
everything He's done for you. He was first in our hearts. He
was first in our lives and everything else was a distant second when
He closed. Our thoughts were always on Him.
We loved to read His Word. We didn't just go and study His
Word to work out some doctrines, so we got our doctrine down and
okay. No, we loved to hear about Him. We loved to read His Word.
We loved to read about Him. And we loved to hear His Word
preached. We loved to hear Him preached in the Gospel. We loved
to sing His praises. And we loved to pour out our
hearts to Him. He was that friend that sticks closer than a brother.
When my mother and my father forsake me, Lord, You'll take
me up. This was Him, that first love we had for Him. And we loved
His people. They were the nearest thing to
Him. And we did whatever we could
do for His people. because we love Him. That first
love, that first love in those first days, in those first hours
and years and seasons of love, that first love, newlywed love,
sweetheart love, honeymoon love, that first love. But Christ says
to us when He said to them in Ephesus turn and do the first
works. He is telling us first love requires
work. If you're going to maintain first
love, it's going to require some effort. It's going to require
some effort. Brother Rob, you were absolutely
right what you read there. That's what I'm trying to point
out. He keeps us by His grace. But did you notice the verse
just right before that, Andrew? He did say, keep yourself in
the love of God. Keep yourself in the love of
God. He's going to constrain His people and He's not going
to lose any of His people. But when He does, He's going
to make you keep yourself in the love of God. But He gives
us room and we see what we'll do. We become complacent about
love, about the love we have to our husband. We take for granted
that He knows we love Him. We take for granted that He loves
us. And when our lives become so busy and the world starts
stealing our affection, we start thinking that career really has
got me to where I'm at. We start thinking that I really
have lifted myself up to where I'm at now. And all these different
things we start to imagine and boast in and our affection has
been stolen away from him. And did you know that our husband
is a jealous husband? He is a very jealous husband.
He said this, The angel that communed with me, Zechariah said,
he said unto me, Cry thou saying, thus saith the Lord of hosts,
I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
That's the first commandment. Have no other gods before me
because I am a jealous God. He will not share his affection
and the praise and the glory that's due to Him with anybody
else. And that's what we... When our
affection starts being set on this world, on something in this
world, that's exactly what we're doing. We're worshiping an idol.
We're praising ourselves. We're praising this world. We're
praising different things in this world. And He's a jealous
God. He said, I won't have that. I just won't have that. And so
we need the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ to be with us, to
correct us and to keep us. We need that. And that's how
He does so, by grace. By grace. We can see how the
Lord corrects His people and keeps His people by how He corrected
and kept His apostles when He walked this earth. He never used
the whip of the law anytime with His apostles. And He never did
it towards anybody that was brought to Him or that came to Him. Law came by Moses, but grace
and truth came by our Lord Jesus Christ. Grace and truth. And we need to understand this. About three or four places I've
been to, the last three or four places I've been to, I've ended
up talking with somebody, if not with the whole group, about
some of the various churches they came out of and all the
different kinds of discipline that went on in those places.
And it's, you all have experienced some of that. You were in some
of those places. But the things that I've heard is, you know,
the fruit inspectors, they come around and they come to your
house and they want to inspect you and they want to inspect
you. everything about you and expect you book shelves and everything
and looking for something. Looking for something. One man
told me that one of the elders in their congregation told him
that he makes it a point that he is going to discipline somebody
every month. Somebody is going to be disciplined
by him every month. To do that, you got to go hunting
for something. That's not what grace does. Grace
doesn't do that. Grace doesn't uncover sin. What
does love do? What does Scripture say love
does? Love covers a multitude of sin. And they told me about
how they would bring sinners before their councils, before
a host of elders. And they would require them to
obey certain church traditions and church creeds and then threaten. Threatened with punishment, threatened
with excommunication. And I believe that all that stuff
they make you go through to get your name on a church roll is
so that when you get ready to leave, you have a vested interest
and you don't want to leave because it was too hard to get in. And
so you don't want to be kicked out. Fraternities do the same
thing. It's called hazing. They do the
exact same thing. So you won't want to get out. You spent too much time trying
to get in. And then they put them on these long probationary
periods, you know, and watch them. None of that. Our Lord never did any of that.
He's the head of the church. He never did any of that. Nothing
like that. When they brought that woman
caught in adultery to Him, He didn't condemn her. He didn't
pull out the law and say, now you see what the law says, thou
shalt not commit adultery. He didn't do that. He said, he that's without sin
among you, let him first cast a stone at her. That would be a good verse for
folks on these disciplinary committees, the fruit inspectors. And one
by one, their conscience was pricked and they left. They walked
out. And then He turned to that woman. You know what He said
to her? When He had lifted up Himself,
He saw none but the woman. And He said unto her, Woman,
where are those thine accusers? Hath no man condemned thee? She
said, No man, Lord. Jesus said unto her, Neither
do I condemn thee. Neither do I condemn thee. Go
and sin no more. He said, Go, don't do it again.
Don't do it again. But he didn't condemn her. He
didn't condemn her. When the apostles argued over
who would be the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, that seemed
like something that needs some discipline, don't it? Here they
are arguing who's going to be greater than the other one in
heaven, in the place where the whole work of grace is to make
us all one in Christ, one with each other, so that there's none
better than the other. And how did Christ discipline
them and correct them? He did it by grace. You know
what He did? He used what He had just done in washing their
feet to remind them of what He did for them. He took off His
robe and bowed down. He took off His glory and came
to this earth and He He washed their feet. He got down low at
their feet and washed the dust off their feet. Christ came down
to the dust where we are and He washed us with His blood by
being made one with us, down lowly at our feet. A servant
is what He became for His people. And by that, by showing them
that, He reminded them this is what grace does. Grace is willing
to wash the feet of the other. Willing to take the lowest place
in humility and love. And to cover the sins of the
other. And to restore the other. Not
to condemn and break them and scourge them. That's what religion
did to Christ on the cross. That's not what grace does. And
when He did that to them, it broke their heart. They saw,
they understood because grace is the great discipliner of those
who have experienced grace. Grace is what breaks your heart.
Grace is what brings you to want to follow Him. And then you remember
when the Apostle Peter denied Him, not once, but three times. Cussed and denied Him three times. Did Christ excommunicate him?
Did He kick him out of the church then? No, He converted him. He taught him by grace and He
went to him where he was and He told him, now you go forth
and you feed My sheep with what you've learned from this. We
know what Peter learned from him. Peter wrote his epistle
at the end of that first epistle. He said, every one of you humble
yourselves before the other one. and cast all your care on Christ
because He cares for you. And the only way you'll resist
Satan that goes about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour,
the only way you're going to resist him is by faith in the
Lord Jesus, humbled down at His feet. He learned that by experience. Grace taught him that. Grace
taught him that. Then when it comes to offenses,
when somebody offends you. The Lord gave three steps to
take. You know, go to them first. And
then take somebody else with you that's a witness that can
bear witness to the fact. And then carry it before the
church. These three steps were not to make you run out and quickly
say, now can I get past these first two real quick so I can
get the church involved in this and we can all condemn this person.
No, those steps take a lot of time. And that's the point. Be very, very, careful, be very,
very hesitant and slow to bring an accusation against a brother. Take time and pray and go slowly
about it and seek the grace of the Lord to be with him and turn
it. And right after that, in case
we don't get the point, he told Peter, forgive without limit.
That's the better way, just forgive and forgive without limit. So
our Lord didn't, He didn't He didn't correct His people the
way Reformed churches do. They think they know everything
about the sovereign grace. If they knew so much about sovereign
grace, you'd think they'd trust the hand of the sovereign God
of grace. Preach Him. Preach Him. Preach
Him. He'll do the correcting. Preach
Him, preach His precious blood and Him going to that cross and
bearing the reproach of illegal religion and bearing their whips
and their scourging and their saying, we have a law and He
must be crucified. Preach that, how He bore that
for us. That will break the heart. It
is hard to be in that spot doing that when you are preaching that
those who crucified Christ were doing that very thing. And that will break the heart
and you have to do less of this discipline mess that folks call. It's not even discipline. It's
the flesh. It's the lust of the flesh is
what it is. Fueling the lust of the flesh.
So when Christ comes to us, when we've left our first love, He
comes to us and He speaks to us. He speaks kindly to us and
He does it through His preacher. He does it through His gospel.
In Jeremiah 2.2, He said to Jeremiah, Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem
and say, Thus saith the Lord, I remember thee. I remember the
kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals when I first
called you, how you loved me, sang unto me, was delighted with
me, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land
that was not sown, where I provided everything for you?" And he said,
now, thus saith the Lord, what iniquity have your fathers found
in me that made them go far from me? What is it that made them walk
after vanity and become vain? Did they find some fault in me,
he said? You see, that's how the Lord Jesus deals with us.
Have I been a husband not worthy of your love?
Have I been a husband that caused you to want to take me for granted? And the Lord Jesus reminds us
as He does that, that His love never diminishes for us. It never
diminishes for us. When we didn't love Him, He loved
us. He said, since thou was precious in my sight. We didn't even have
a sight of Him. His sight wasn't based on our
sight. And Him thinking we were precious wasn't based on us loving
Him. He said, since you were precious
in my sight, thou has been honorable and I've loved thee. I've given
men for thee and people for thy life. And He said, and when you
were in your sin and rebellion and you hated Me and you took
My name in vain upon your lips, in your vain religion, He said,
I love thee with an everlasting love. It couldn't be broken. It couldn't be diminished in
one regard. I love thee with an everlasting
love and therefore in loving kindness have I drawn thee. And
He says to us, as He said in Revelation 3.9, Behold, I will
make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews,
which say they are My people, which say they are the elect
of God. I will make them which say they
are and are not, but do lie. Behold, I will make them to come
and worship before Thy feet, and to know that I have loved
thee. I have loved thee. And by His
grace being with us, when He speaks that word, He does it
affectionately in our hearts. And He says, now you've left
your first love, remember therefore from whence thou art fallen,
and repent. That means stop doing this that's
taken your affection off of me. Repent from that. And do the
first works. Do the things you did when you
first loved Me. That's what He said. And then,
as it was at the first, our hearts rekindled with His love. And
we love Him. And we have that first love again. Because His grace has been with
us. We repent from complacency and we repent from taking His
love for granted because His grace has been with us. And He's
dealt with us in grace. And He's turned us by grace.
And He's not left us to ourselves by grace. So you see what Don't
we need that? We not only need to have His
grace be with us in that He makes us to know we're complete in
Him and saved by Him, we need His grace with us to keep us
always looking to Him and trusting Him and to do it by grace. And
then here's the last thing I want you to see. Lastly, the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ being with you means May He by His grace produce gracious
fruit in you. May He produce gracious fruit
in you. None of us is ever going to have
the fullness of grace that Christ had or that He has now. None
of us. But the Scripture says, of His
fullness have all we receive. Grace for grace. That means He
gives us all grace. He gives grace in different measures
to each of His children and different gifts to each of His children.
But it's given as He will. And everything we have, we got
it from Christ by His grace. I say this to you all the time
from Philippians 1.11. We're filled with the fruits
of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ. We don't have any
room to boast in any fruits in us. They're by Jesus Christ unto
the praise and glory of God. We don't all have the same measure,
but we all have some. Now go over to Galatians 5 and
look at verse 2. Galatians 5, I'm sorry, verse
22. It says here, the fruit of the Spirit
is love. You know, over and over in the
Scriptures, The Lord used Paul to exhort the churches to grow
in love for one another. See that you abound in love for
one another. Grow in love for one another.
That seems to be very important to our heavenly husband, doesn't
it? Not only that we abound in love
toward him, but we do so by abounding in love toward our brethren,
his people. So seek to grow in that. He says
joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness. These all go together. When you have joy and you have
peace in the Lord, it will help you be more long-suffering and
be more gentle and be good. Seek to grow in these things.
Faith, meekness, temperance, that's fruit. Seek to grow in
faith. I want to grow in faith. I want
to trust the Lord more and more. And with that, you know what
comes? Meekness. Because meekness is, it's not
this trying to be all humble and acting humble before men.
Meekness is depending entirely upon the Lord so that you're
humble before Him. It may come across to men as
you being humble before them. Sometimes not. Moses was the
meekest man on the face of this earth, the Scripture says. And
Korah didn't think he was meek at all. Korah thought, this man
won't even compromise with me. But it was because he wouldn't
compromise God. That's why. That's meekness,
to look to God and trust God. Grow in meekness and as we grow
in faith, trust in Him and we grow Humble, meek before Him
will grow in self-control, which is what temperance is. Paul said
to the Thessalonians, he said, We beseech you, brethren, and
exhort you by the Lord Jesus, this is by the Lord, this is
the grace of the Lord being with you, to send a man and say, we
exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as you have received of
us how you ought to walk and to please God, We don't please
God in order to be saved. We don't please God to earn salvation. But how we walk does please God,
if we walk how He tells us to walk. You've perceived of us
how you ought to walk and to please God, so we exhort you
that you would abound more and more. Remember Paul said, it's
not like I've already arrived. I haven't already... I'm pressing
toward the mark. arrived. And He said there, talking
about love, He told them there, we beseech you brethren that
you increase more and more in love. Look at 2 Peter 1. 2 Peter 1. What I'm talking about here is the
grace of the Lord causing you to have this desire to grow in
these graces He's already given. He has to give these graces.
That's what it is to have His grace with you. And then to grow
in this grace is to have His grace with you. Look here, 2
Peter 1, 5. It says here, besides this, giving
all diligence, giving all diligence, that means being diligent about
it, seeking this diligently. Add to your faith virtue, and
to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance
patience, and to patience godliness, and to godliness brotherly kindness,
and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you
and abound, not just if they be in you, they are in all God's
people, anybody that has a new nature, given by God, this is
in you. Because this is all the fruit
of Christ being in you. But He says not just have it
in you, but abound, grow in it. He says if you do that, it makes
you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the
knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Not that you're going to know
Him by these things, but I mean that's like saying in the faith.
in the knowledge of Christ, in what Christ has done for you
to make you not be barren, to be fruitful. But he that lacketh
these things is blind, and he cannot see afar off. He's forgotten
that he was purged from his old sins. That's what he professed.
And he's forgotten it. Wherefore, the rather, brethren,
give diligence to make your calling and election sure, Make certain
you've been called and elected, for if you do these things, you
shall never fall. Now, how will we grow in this
grace, in these graces that He's given us by grace? How are we
going to grow in them? Well, first of all, back in 1
Peter 2, it's going to be by His grace keeping us hungry for
the Word. That's number one. Look here. At the end of chapter 1 and verse
25, he said, "...the word of the Lord endureth forever, and
this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. Wherefore, laying aside all malice,
and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
as newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the word, that you may
grow thereby." He's going to have to His grace is with us
when He gives us a hunger for the Word. That's how you're going
to grow. He said in Ephesians 4, speaking the truth in love,
that's the preaching of the Gospel, that we may grow up into Him
who is the Head, even Christ, in all things. And then He's
going to make us grow in the knowledge of Him. Go to 2 Peter
3. It's not just any preaching,
it's not just any reading of the Word, It's finding and seeing
and beholding Christ and growing in the knowledge of Him. We don't
learn things by going back to Moses. We don't learn and grow
in these fruits by going to the law. We learn these by looking
to Christ and seeing what He did for us. Mainly we learn it
by how He, when He walked this earth, the things He did, the
things He said in the face of enemies and in the face of those
that loved Him. what He did on Calvary's cross.
You see everything, all these fruits, you see them right there
on display and what He was doing and how He answered people, what
He said. That's where you learn these things. So look here, 2
Peter 3.18. He says to us there, grow in
grace and this is how you grow in grace. Grow in grace in the
knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. You see, God is so wise. By grace
He produces this fruit in us, and then by grace He teaches
us to grow in grace, and He makes us want to grow in grace. That's
grace. It's grace that sent this message
to say, seek to grow in grace. That's grace being with you to
send a message to say, now you seek to grow in grace. By grace
you have been given this grace, now you seek to grow in grace.
And then in that, by His grace being upon you, what does He
make you do? Makes you flee to Him. Because that's where the
grace, that's where we're going to receive the grace and be grown
in grace. It's from Him. Everything that
He does is to bring you to Him. Everything. So when He's telling
you, to do their growth is by going to His Word, by hearing
His Gospel preached, by fleeing to Him in the Word and in that
Gospel and hearing Him and seeing Him and believing on Him. See,
He's always making you go to Him. And there's one other thing
He does, by His grace. Go to Hebrews 6. We'll close
with this. He not only makes you go to hear
His Gospel and then go home and study what you've heard and look
into the Word, but it makes you come to Him personally where
He is now. Look here, Hebrews 6.14. Where is the word where it says,
seeing we have a great high priest? First chapter 4 verse 14. Seeing
then we have a great high priest that has passed into the heavens,
Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For
we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling
of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we
are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly
unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find
grace to help in time of need." When is the time of need? All
the time. It's all the time. So the grace
of God being with you, this is not all it is, but three things
it is. Number one, Having Him by His
grace teach you you are complete in Him. Everything is by grace.
He is teaching you the gospel more and more to know you are
complete in Him, accepted in Him, so you can rest in Him. Number two, love. Our love, leaving
that first love is the number one cause of every problem we
have in our walk with God. Every one of them. And He comes
and He turns you back to Him That's to have His grace with
you, to keep you by grace, and to keep you ever looking to Him
by grace. And thirdly, is to have a desire
to grow in these graces He's given. And that's all by His
grace. And He does it by making you
come to His Word, hear His gospel, and flee to Him at His throne
of grace. That would be a good thing to
have, wouldn't it? That kind of grace that keeps you ever
coming to Him in every way. That's what grace does. Alright,
brethren.