Let's turn to 1 Corinthians chapter
7. The Lord Jesus assures everyone
that He has called that if we rest in Him, believe Him, trust
Him, and obey Him, serve Him in this life, spreading His gospel,
loving, caring for one another, He promises He will take care
of everything else that concerns us outwardly. That makes it pretty simple for
a believer. Believe on Christ, serve Him,
and He'll take care of everything else. Paul has been declaring that
when we are saved by Christ, it diminishes the importance
of our outward earthly station in life. Have you found that to be so?
When God saved you, the things that were once so important to
you, those outward carnal things, your jobs and your you know,
the things that we... the cares of this life. They become not so important. They don't come... they cease
to be the all-important thing. The world teaches you to fight
and to claw to better yourself in this life. Paul here speaking
by the Spirit of God, essentially tells us, trust Christ and serve
Him and Christ will take care of everything else. Now, He does this by using two
very opposite extremes. Two outward earthly vocations,
stations in life that are two opposite and extreme stations
in life. He uses that of a slave and that
of a master. a slave who's bound, and a master
who's free. Both are here called by the Lord. And listen to what he says to
each one. Verse 21, he says, Are thou called being a servant?
Thou called being a slave? Care not for it. But if thou
mayest be made free, use it rather. He's saying, don't be troubled
by it, don't be anxious to be free from it, continue to serve
your earthly master faithfully." And he says, but if a servant
has an opportunity to lawfully be free, he should avail himself
of that opportunity. And then he says in verse 22,
for he that is called in the Lord being a servant is the Lord's
free man. Likewise, also, He that's called
being free, that is being a master, being free, he's Christ's servant. See, both these men are called.
One's called being a servant, one's called being free. But
they both belong to Christ. He says, verse 23, you're bought
with a price. Be not the servants of men, And
he says, Brethren... Now here's his point. He's made
two or three times. Makes it again here. He says,
Brethren, let every man wherein he is called therein abide with
God. Therein abide with God. Now, in verse 22, he says, He
that's called in the Lord. Now, all God's true saints have
this common. We're all called. We didn't call
ourselves, only God called us. And He called us with an irresistible
call. Paul said at the end of Ephesians
1, he called it the exceeding greatness of His power to us
who believe. According to the power by which
He raised our Lord Jesus from the dead and raised Him to sit
at His own right hand. Men want to cavil and question
how a glorified God-man could ascend up into the clouds. Well,
he tells us it's by the exceeding greatness of God's power. And
it's the same power that called you and me to life and faith
in Christ. You don't resist that call, it's
irresistible. That's the mighty voice of God.
And he says there in verse 22, he says this also, we're called
in the Lord. or into the Lord. See that? We're called in the Lord. Christ
found us dead in trespasses and in sins. And He called us into
the Lord. We were without God in the world. He called us, now we're in the
Spirit with Christ in you and you in Christ. See, that call
makes a great change in His people. Now, according to the flesh,
according to our outward flesh, according to our outward station
in life, we may still be Jew or Gentile, we still may be rich
or poor, you know, male or female, we might be bound, we might be
free. But since we've been called into
the Lord, That's not the important thing. That's not the lasting
thing. The all-important thing and the
lasting thing is that we're all one in Christ. There's neither
Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian,
bond nor free. But Christ is all and in all. Now God's saints are called from
different kindreds. We're called from different classes. We're called from different nations.
But when we're called into the Lord, Peter said this, you're
a chosen generation. You're a chosen race. You're
a chosen kindred. That's what it means. What class
are we now? We're a royal priesthood. We're
king priests. Royal priests. And what nation
are we of now? A holy nation. A holy nation. We're a peculiar people that
we should show forth the praises of Him that called us out of
darkness into His marvelous light. Paul said our conversation means
our citizenship is in heaven from which we look for Christ,
God our Savior to appear. Our citizenship is in heaven.
Now that doesn't change fleshly wise. You know, we've got people
here from all different kindreds, all different tongues. We've
got people here from different classes and what have you. But
in Christ, that's not the important thing. That's not the lasting
thing. We're one in Christ. One in Him. Now, whatever our vocation or
our station is in the flesh, this is the point he's making
here, it's not important, it's not lasting. Christ calls us
into Christ. Now, to show this to us, to show
that our true spiritual vocation is so much greater than anything
outward in the flesh, he uses these two opposite I'm calling
them vocations for lack of a better word. One's a slave, one's a
free man. One's a slave, one's a master.
And the point is this, whatever our station in the flesh, God's
saints are Christ's free men. We're the servants of Christ
and not the servants of men. Now if we can get this principle,
this rule of faith, As it applies to these opposite extremes, then
you can apply this same principle to any station in life. Wherever
you are when God calls you, you can apply it to any station in
life. Are you with me? Are you with me? Alright, first
of all, God's saint is a free man. Look there now in verse
22. He says, He that's called in
the Lord, Being a servant is the Lord's free man. Now let's
just look at this spiritually first. The Pharaoh we've been
studying about knew Joseph and he was very good to Israel, to
the children of Israel. But after that Pharaoh, there
arose a Pharaoh who did not know Joseph. And he took the children
of Israel and made them slaves. and he made their life bitter
with hard bondage. Well, that's what you and I were
in our natural born state. We were born into this world,
not free born, we were born into this world slaves. When Adam
sinned in the garden and we sinned in him, we became under the curse
of the law. We became guilty before God,
before the law of God. And then we were conceived of
Adam's corrupt seed so that we were conceived in sin and so
we came forth from our mother's womb speaking lies. Now, in that
situation, we were as bound as if you put a man in chains and
put him in a prison and locked the door and threw away the key.
We couldn't free ourselves. We love sin. We chose sin, we
delighted in sin, and we didn't want to be freed from sin. That's
where we were. We were slaves. Not only slaves
to the law of God under the curse of the law, we were slaves to
our flesh. We couldn't free ourselves from
ourselves. Who freed us? Christ freed us. Go over to John
chapter 8. John chapter 8. Our Lord says here, He's speaking
to some Jews that believed on Him, at least outwardly. And
He said in verse 31, If you continue in My Word, if you continue in
My Word, then are you My disciples indeed. And you shall know the
truth, and the truth shall make you free. And they answered him, We were
Abraham's seed. We're never in bondage to any
man. How sayest thou you shall be made free? And Jesus answered
them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin
is the servant of sin. Whoever commits sin is the servant
of sin. That's where we were. That's
what we were. We were just servants of sin. And he says there, the
servant does not abide in the house forever. We're going to
die. You're going to die. You're not
going to abide in that master's house forever. You're going to
die. But, he says, the son abideth
forever. Christ is eternal. He abides forever. If the Son,
therefore, shall make you free, you shall be free indeed. Our liberty is due to the finished
work of Christ on Calvary's tree. He became a bondman for us. He became a servant for us. He took our chains and He took
our prison. that He might give all God's
elect His liberty, His freedom. And so God raised Him. He raised
Him from the dead and set Him at His own right hand and He's
so pleased with Christ, He gave Christ the glory of coming to
us through this gospel and setting us free from the prison of our
flesh. He said over there in Isaiah, I've given you for a
covenant. Speaking of the Son, speaking
of Christ, God the Father said, I've given you for a covenant
to the people so that you might go forth and say to them that
are in prison, come forth. And to those that are in the
darkness, show yourselves. That's how we're going to be
set free from the prison is Christ comes forth and He breaks the
door down. He opens the door and frees you
out of your sin. And that call, when He calls
us, that call is called in Galatians, He says, you've been called unto
liberty. Called unto liberty. It was through
the gospel, like we just saw there. He said, if you continue
in My Word, My Word, you'll know the truth and the truth shall
make you free. The truth is Christ. The truth is Christ, so therefore
His gospel, His Word is truth. because it's concerning Him.
And when He comes forth in that gospel as it's being preached,
and the Spirit enters into a dead sinner, into the dead bodies,
He gives life and He gives liberty. Look over at 2 Corinthians 3,
look at verse 17. It says there, Now the Lord is
that Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord
is, there's liberty. And we all, with open face, beholding
as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same
image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
That's how we have life. That's how we have life in us. The life enters. Christ the life,
the Spirit of the Lord, enters in and we have life. And from
the moment you know that truth, He teaches you the gospel. The
moment you know the truth of this gospel, He makes you free. Do you remember that first freedom?
Man, I can remember seeing my sin and I can remember seeing
my inability and just dead, my deadness, my need. And I remember
reading 1 Corinthians 1.30. I heard my preacher preach from
that. And I sat there and read that.
Of Him are you in Christ. Who of God is made unto us wisdom,
and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption. And according
as it is written, He that glories, let him glory in the Lord. And
the doors opened up. And I was free. I realized Christ
is all, my salvation. I was free. I was free. And it's been that way ever since.
He'll show you your sin. He'll show you your inability.
And He'll show you Christ in such a way that you feel like
you've just been freed all over again. Been freed. The Spirit of Christ has entered
in. So our liberty is in Christ and it's by Christ. Paul said
in Galatians, our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus. Now, what does all that mean?
We got liberty. What does that mean? Well, we're
free men. That's what it means. We belong
to Christ. We're free men now and we belong
to Christ. Look at verse 22 again. He that's
called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's free man. He's the Lord's free man. There's
a union. There's always been a union between
God's elect and Christ from eternity since He gave us to Christ. We've
had that mystical union with Him. But now that Christ has
entered in us and done this work not only for us but in us, there's
a union between a believer and Christ that's an unbreakable
union. It's a union of everlasting life. It's a union of everlasting righteousness. It's a union of eternal redemption.
It's a union of everlasting glory with Him and an eternal inheritance. It will never be changed at all. Nothing can change it. We're
going to go, Lord willing, we're going in May, and we're going
to go to England, and I'm supposed to preach at a conference over
there. And while we're there, we're not very far from Bedford,
and we're going to try to go there where John Bunyan was in
prison. And there's a tour there you
can go on, and I want to go see that prison where he was. It's
just a little room there where he was. But as I was working
on this, I got to thinking about that. And I was thinking, how
long he spent in prison. But, you know, they could bind
him with chains. They could lock the door. They
could leave him there to die. He's still Christ's free man.
A man can't change what Christ has done. I can't change what
He's done for me. I like that. My sin can't change
it. And no other man can change it
either. So whatever we are in our earthly vocation, that's
not the all-important thing. You know, we live in a country
where you ask somebody who they are, one of the first things
they're going to tell you is what they do for a living. Is
that who you are? What you do for a living? I'm
Christ's free man. That's who I am. That's who you
are, who believe Him. You're Christ's free man. And
you could be a slave or you could be working the most menial job
at the lowest level of that occupation. You're still Christ's free man.
Christ's free man. So look here, let's go to...
I tell you what, let's wait. We'll go over here in just a
minute. I'm going to apply both of these at the same time. Alright,
now secondly, God's saint is Christ's servant. He says there in verse 22, likewise
also, he that is called. He is called being free. That
is, the man who is the opposite of the servant. He is a master. He is free. But he is Christ's
servant. He is Christ's servant. And that
is so of you and me who have been made free by Christ. We
are Christ's servant. We're Christ's servant. It sounds
like a contradiction. But it's not a contradiction
at all. When you say that to be Christ's free man is to be
Christ's servant. But that's not a contradiction.
To be His servant is to be free. To be free is to be His servant.
He freed us from being servants of sin. That's what He freed
us from. being servants of sin. Our liberty, our redemption is
being freed from being the servants of sin. So when He's done that
for us now, would we be so brazen then to say, now He's given me
this liberty, He's freed me from sin. Christ did this for me,
laid down His life for me to do this for me. So now I'm free
to sin. I don't even make sense, does
it? I don't even make sense. I heard
an awful statement by somebody one time that claimed to believe
sovereign grace. And they were talking to a younger
person, a younger believer, who had stumbled into sin. And this older person said, he
said, that's why Christ died for us. It's okay to sin. That's why Christ died for us.
And that's totally different from what Paul said. The apostle
Paul said this, he said, you've been called unto liberty, but
use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve
one another. Today it's common to hear the
word liberal and liberalism and liberty, you know, people always
talk about that and talk about tolerance, you know. Today's
tolerance is the most intolerant thing there is. I'll tell you
what it is. The man whose heart is in bondage
and sin, the man who's yet under the curse of the law, that man
can't stand, he can't tolerate to hear the name of God mentioned,
much less be under the yoke of our Redeemer. That's not liberty. That's tolerance
of sin is what that is. It's not but intolerance of God
and His Word and His way. But that's not what the believer,
how we walk. We've been called now and we
trust the Lord as all our salvation. He's our righteousness. And Christ
in you is your sanctification. That's how you're made holy.
Called into the Lord. separated and kept from the evil
by Christ being in you and dwelling in you and ministering unto you
and keeping you. And He that's begun a good work
in you will perform it to the day of our Lord. He's not going
to lose any of His people. And now that He's done that for
us and called us, He's given us a new heart and a new desire. And that new heart and that new
will is to honor Him. To honor Him. to bring honor
to His name, to serve Him and honor Him. We're righteous in
Christ and we're alive unto God, and that's why we will feel this
way. That's why. Look with me at Romans
6. Romans 6. We're under grace. We're not
under the law at all now. And here's what grace does. Listen
to this now. Romans 6 and verse 15. What then? Shall we sin because we're not
under the law but under grace? God forbid. Know ye not that
to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants
you are to whom you obey? Whether of sin unto death or
of obedience unto righteousness. But God be thanked. God did this. God be thanked. You were the
servants of sin. but you have obeyed from the
heart that form of doctrine which was delivered to you. Being then
made free from sin, you became the servants of righteousness."
He says, I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity
of your flesh. He said, I'm using this illustration
of slave so that you can get this, so we can understand this.
He's saying, but For as you've yielded your members servants
to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now yield
your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. For when you were
the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness. What
fruit had you then and those things were of your now shame?
We never brought forth any fruit, brethren. Everything that we
called godliness, if we were religious, when we were dead
in sin, everything we called godliness was dead free. It was
just boasting in ourselves and boasting in what we thought we
had done and all that. That's all it was. It was dead.
And so was our sin. In the end of those things, he
said, there is death. But now, but now, being made
free from sin and become servants to God, You have your fruit unto
holiness and the end everlasting life, because the wages of sin
is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus
Christ our Lord. We're servants to Christ now,
brethren. You see, He's freed us from sin,
He's freed us from death, He's freed us from the curse, He's
freed us from condemnation. So we're not under the law, we're
under grace. That means now we're serving Christ. We have liberty
to serve Christ. Liberty to serve Christ. We're
serving Him in gratitude because of everything He's done for us.
That's what we mean the love of Christ constrains us. Gratitude
for what He's done for us. I can't pay to Him all I owe
to Him for what He's done for me. Lay down my life for Him? I mean, I still wouldn't have
laid down my life in comparison to how He laid down His life
for me. The only reason we're Christ
willing servants is because He freed us from that yoke of the
law. and freed us from our dead flesh and called us into Him. That's the only way. The only
way we're servants is because He freed us from that legal bondage
and from the spiritual bondage of our flesh and He gave us a
righteous, perfect, complete standing in Christ Jesus and
He gave us a new heart with a new will to honor Him and follow
Him. Otherwise, we'd still be the
servants of sin. You see, we owe Him service even
for making us servants. We'll be the first ones to confess
to anybody that in our flesh dwells no good thing. Our sins
mix with everything we do. And we don't have anything to
boast in because if we do serve Christ, it's all to the praise
of His grace. Every bit of it. You know, when
a servant is under a master, that master provides everything
for the servant. And the Lord uses this illustration
of a master and a servant to show us that very thing. He provides
everything for us as His servants. And He's a good master. He's
a good master. And He provides everything for
us. He closes us within and without
in righteousness and holiness. We don't have to worry anymore,
brethren. We don't have to be concerned
or anxious about being accepted of God. Is Christ seated at God's
right hand? That's where He's seated. That's
where we are. And we're accepted in Christ.
We're righteous and holy. by Christ and with Christ dwelling
in us. We're accepted of God. He provided
that for us. He fed us the living bread through
His gospel and He continues to feed us the living bread. He's
going to see to it His people have the gospel. That's the main
thing David was talking about when he said, I've been young
and now I'm old and I've never seen the righteous forsaken or
his seed begging bread. He's not going to let you starve
and He's not going to let us go without the spiritual bread. Because He's the bread. He's
going to see to it that we have the bread. He keeps us separated
from the evil by His Word. You know, we were servants inside
the prison and the gates of hell had us locked in trying to keep
Christ out. But did those gates of hell prevail
against the church? No. Christ came and broke those
gates down and snatched us out of that prison. And now He is
keeping us from the evil. He got us in His hands so that
no one is going to harm us anymore. We dwell in His house and we
get all our strength from Him. We are in the household of God.
I tell you what, there are some names in this world Some people
that are some households that are some... You think of their
name and you just think of wealth and riches. Rockefeller, Morgan,
Carnegie, these names and Vanderbilt. You just think of just... Those
are names everybody knows. Well, we're members of the household
of God. That trumps all the richest men
in this world combined, brethren. And all our strength is Christ.
I do all things through Christ who strengthens me, Paul said.
We dwell in His house. We spread His gospel as He bids
us to do it. That's how we obey Him. But we
only do that as He gives us the Word to speak, and He opens the
way for us to go, and He opens the heart into which the Word
goes. We can't do any of that. I can't get a message. I can
tell you this. I can't get a message to preach
to you unless Christ gives me the message. That's not just... That's so, brethren. I've got
notes prepared from ever since I've been here. And I've got
notes prepared that I've never preached before. But you can
take notes and look at them sometimes and they're just ink on paper. That's it. You couldn't preach
Him if you wanted to preach Him. And you sit sometimes and you
wrestle with some scripture and you think, this is what I'm supposed
to preach on, and you work on it, work on it, work on it. After
a while you realize, this ain't what I'm supposed to preach on.
Why? I got nothing. He ain't giving
it to me. You come back to that same scripture
a little later, sometime a week or two or a month or a year or
whatever later, opens up just like it's dynamite. That's Christ doing that. And
just by that same way, we can't even go forward and spread this
gospel unless He opens the door for us to do it. But He says
He will, because that's what He's called us to do. We love
one another, we forgive one another, we try to provide for one another,
but we can't do that unless He produces that fruit in your heart
and in mine. You know what your heart is and
what your old fleshly heart is. And I do too. He gives you that
heart to forgive and love. So whatever we do, we say this
and we say it with all honesty. Not unto us, O Lord, not unto
us, but unto Thy name give glory for Thy mercy and for Thy truth's
sake. It's all of Him. You see what
I'm saying? When I say we're servants, I'm not talking about
it like this world talks about it. I'm not talking about bragging
about all we've done for Jesus. No. We're talking about even
if we serve Him, we're still talking about everything He's
done for us. So if you have a position where you're a servant under
men, or if you're over men, let's see what the Scripture says about
it. Go over Colossians 3. I was going to give this to you
in the other point, but I'll read them both to you right here.
They're right together. Colossians 3. And look at verse 22. Servants, obey in all things
your masters according to the flesh, not with our service as
men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God. And whatsoever you do, do it
heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men. knowing that of
the Lord you shall receive the reward of the inheritance." That's
our reward, is the inheritance. For you serve the Lord Christ. You see that? Yeah, you're a
servant having served under a man, but he says, but you're really
serving Christ. You're really serving Christ.
But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he
hath done. And there's no respect of persons.
for masters here. Masters, give unto your servants
that which is just and equal, knowing... This is a believing
master he's talking to. Because this is the only way
you could say this to a believing master. Knowing you also have
a master in heaven. What kind of master is he? He's
a good master. He's a kind master. He's a generous
master. He's a just master. He said,
now you be that kind of master. So you see what I'm saying? We
don't, thankfully, by God's grace and power now, we don't have
slavery in this country. We don't have masters and slaves.
But if you take those principles he's teaching there, just with
a slave and a master, something that extreme, what he's saying
is, don't worry about the outward. You serve Christ faithfully,
Christ will take care of the rest. Doesn't that make life
simple? That makes it simple. Let me
show you one more thing, lastly. Why do we serve Christ? Now back
in our text, why do we serve Christ? You're bought with a price. Be
not ye the servants of men. You're bought with a price. The
price has been paid, previous ownership's dissolved, and we're
under new ownership now. Christ is our master. And what
a price he paid, brethren. The justice of God demanded that
we die. But Christ is going to have all
God's elect, all His bride, His church. And so He came forth
and He laid down His life and shed His own life's blood for
His people. He took the sin, the shame that
we are, and was numbered with the transgressors And He laid
down His life and spilled His blood to put away our sin. You just think about that. If
somebody you knew... Now a man, an earthly man, we
can't take somebody's sin, we can't have their sin laid on
us, and we can't... We can't become that person so
as to satisfy justice by our death. But if you have somebody
who just, you know, you hear every now and then of somebody
who needs an organ or something and somebody gives their organ
and that person basically ends up giving their life for somebody
else or something. That hits home with you. You
think about that and you think that is a great sacrifice to
make. But our Redeemer bought us with
a price infinitely greater than if it was just somebody else.
He took the sin of all God's elect and He suffered separation
from God for His people and poured out His blood till He gave up
the ghost. He laid down His life. You weren't
redeemed with corruptible things like silver and gold. You were
redeemed with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without spot,
without blemish. So He says, be not the servants
of men. You bought for Christ and bought
by Christ by that great price He paid. So He says, now you're
His servant. So don't be the servants of men.
Now, you see, it's another way of saying what we just read.
Whatsoever you do, do it heartily as to the Lord and not to men. We serve men. Paul said in another
place, I've become the servant unto all men. But, I'm doing
it heartily as to the Lord and not to men. See what he's saying?
And let me say just a couple of words on this. Be not servants
of men's customs. Parents work long hours and spend
little time with their family and run from one sport to the
next and never have time for God. They want the children to have
what the others have, slaves to this world's custom. Be Christ's
free men, have less stuff and more time for Christ and for
family. Be not servants of men's pleasures.
Today's men are lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God. But
if you're Christ's free man, there are pleasures at His right
hand which are forevermore. These are pleasures of sin for
a season. Those are pleasures forevermore.
Be not servants to men's opinions. Popular opinion rules a lot of
men. You know who tells us what to
think? God does. You want to be an independent
thinker, a real maverick independent thinker? Get your thinking from
God and not from this world and you'll be an independent thinker
from this world. You want to be not servants of
men's vain religion. We're not going back into that
bondage ever again. We don't call any men Lord. We
don't have any men calling us any lofty titles. We got one
master and that's our Lord Jesus Christ. I was listening to this
man tell this story about when he was in Mormonism. Oh, that's
an awful... That's a cult. It's just awful.
It's just awful. The Jesus they worship is not
even... He's not even close to the Lord
we worship. Not at all. And this boy was
somewhere knocking on doors, you know, and he went into a
man's house and this man preached the gospel to him. And he came
to the end of that, he called his mom, his mom, dad, brothers,
sisters, all of them was Mormons. And he called his mom and said,
it's over for me, I'm out of that. And he was supposed to
get up at the end of that trip. for these so-called priests and
tell everybody, all this big assembly, tell them all what
he had learned while he was on his mission trip, knocking on
doors out there, you know. And he got up in front of all
those people and he said, this is what I learned while I was
on my trip. The only thing I need and all I need is Christ Jesus
the Lord. You know, there Jesus didn't
even atone for all sins, just for some sins. Don't you know
that shocked Him when He got upset there? He said it was just
a bunch of stone faces staring back at Him. He said, here's
the Scripture that got me. He said, the Scripture in Hebrews
7, where He said, He's able to save unto the uttermost all them
that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever lives to make intercession
for us. He said, I read that, and a little
while later I read, He perfected forever them that are sanctified.
And He said, and God just, He opened a prison. He opened a
prison. So stand fast, therefore, in
the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, and don't be
entangled again with that yoke of bondage. Now here's what we've
seen. I'm going to sum it up with this.
Whatever station in life, whatever vocation, whatever occupation,
whatever state you're in, remember it's not our outward standing,
our outward circumstances that is important. It's our inward
spiritual calling that is of preeminent importance. Abide
with God wherever you are. That's how he ends there. He
says, if you're in a certain calling, you stay there until
God moves you and abide with God there. That's what he's telling
you. Serve Christ. Do it as unto Christ. Why? Because when Christ sanctifies
this Word to you and this communion you have with Him to your heart.
It's sweet and it's good. It don't matter what you're doing.
It don't matter what your job is, what your position is. He
makes it good, whatever it is. And your Master, you're going
to stand or fall to your Master. Stand or fall to your Master.
And you shall be held up because He's able to make you stand.
Amen.