Let's turn in our Bibles, brethren,
to Matthew 15. Matthew chapter 15. I want to speak for a little while
this morning on the subject of the nature of sin. The nature
of sin. You're bombarded every day with
sin. You see, in this country and you see around the world,
Nations are legalizing sin that before was not legal, even among
men. And not only are they legalizing
certain sins, but they are strongly opposing men who do not agree
with those sins. If you speak about the Word of
God and what God's words say, they'll call you a hate monger.
They'll say that you're not being loving, and you're being a bigot,
and you're being a racist, and all sorts of hateful names they'll
label you with. But I want to show you something
about sin, the nature of sin. In a very simple outline, my
first point will be that all sin comes from the lust of the
human heart, the lust of the fallen heart. Number two, all
sin that's committed is committed by a choice, a deliberate choice. All sin. And then thirdly, I
want to show you the two ways that sinners are restrained from
doing what they otherwise would do from that sinful, polluted
heart. Alright, here's the first point.
All sin that men commit comes from the lust of the sinful heart. Every sin that men commit, it
starts, it has its origin in the heart of a man, in the lust
of the heart. Now let's look at Matthew 15,
verse 19. This is the Lord Jesus Christ
speaking. And He's showing us here that
no matter what sin it is, It all starts in the heart. Verse
19. Out of the heart. And when you
hear the word heart, it means the flesh, it means the sin nature,
it means that polluted seat of affections that's in a man. That
polluted sinful seat of affection that makes you do what you desire
to do. That's what he's talking about.
Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts. evil thoughts, murders,
adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile
a man. They all come from within you and me. They come from there
because when Adam... Adam didn't have sin in the garden,
but when he sinned in the garden, sin entered in. His nature became
defiled. And we got his nature being born
of Adam. So this is the nature we're born
with. This is the heart we're born
with. You know when you're a child, your lust consists of, you want
that Radler that your mother took from you. So you'll throw
a tantrum for it. The lust of your heart is you
want that lollipop that somebody has that you don't have. Those
kinds of lusts. But as you grow older, those
lusts become more evil. You become a teenager and all
of a sudden you're lusting for things you never lusted for before.
There's thoughts in your heart you didn't have before. It's evident token to you that
we're not getting better in our flesh, we're getting worse in
our flesh. I know of a man in Tennessee that was up in his
80's and he was in a home where they took care of him. And when
he died, I know the firefighters that had to go in and work on
him in his room. And they went in there to where
his room was. This man who everybody thought was just such a kind,
gentle, just a perfect old man. He'd just grown to put away all
his sin and was just such a kind, righteous man. He had the most
vile collection of pornography that you could imagine in his
room. Body-wise, way beyond acting on his lusts. But it's proof
that the lusts of the heart was just worse than ever. They're
still there. It's out of the heart that these
lusts come. Now, look over at James chapter
3. James chapter 3 and look at verse
14. We can't blame God for these
lusts. There's nobody to blame for these
lusts but us. James chapter 3 and verse 14. He says, if you have bitter envying
and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the
truth. This wisdom that men call wisdom,
this lust, this envy, this being sort of sarcastic in what he's
calling it here, these lusts descend not from above, they
didn't come from God, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife
is, there's confusion and every evil work." That's what we became
in the fall. You remember that picture in
the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth? And the
next verse says, shows us something happened. The world was without
form and void. It fell into confusion. That's
the picture here. When we fail, we fell into confusion
and to every evil work. And it says, verse 17, but the
wisdom that is from above, now there is some wisdom God gives.
There's a new nature God gives. There's a new heart God gives.
There's a new spirit God gives. A new man created within these
bodies of death when he comes and works in grace. And when
he gives wisdom from above, it's first pure. That means it's without
sin. It's holy. Anything God creates
is holy and righteous. That's why Paul made that exception
in Romans 7 when he said, I know that in me, he said, now wait
a minute, let me not charge God with folly. He said, that is
in my flesh. In that part of me that's of
Adam, there's nothing good. But now here, James says, but
that wisdom that comes from God that's in the new man, he's pure.
He's pure. Then peaceable, gentle, easy
to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality,
without hypocrisy. Now, here's what I want you to
get from this first point. Simply because you have lust
in your heart, you have these desires in your heart to do something
that God says is sinful. The world may say it's legal,
God says it's sinful. Well, just because you have these
desires in your heart And they may be so powerful that you feel
like you don't have a choice. But just because they're so powerful
in your heart and they come forth and you do them, you act upon
them, is that an excuse to simply say then, well, I was born this
way, I can't help it. It's just how I was, just how
I am. I'm born this way, I can't help
it that I'm this way. You're that way, I'm this way.
It's how I was born. I can't help it. Is that an excuse?
No. No, it's not. And I'm fixing
to make a point and show you, and I hope you'll get it. Alright,
here's the second thing. All acts of sin are a deliberate
choice. All acts of sin are a deliberate
choice. They're committed because the
sinner chooses to commit them. All of them. All of them. Alright,
James 1. James 1. Look at verse 13. I don't want
you to take my word for it. Look at God's Word. James 1.13. And you see, the Word of God
says this. This is why the world does not
want the Bible brought up. This is why the world wants religion,
true religion cast down. Because they hear this and they
know this is what God says and it pricks the conscience. It's no fun committing acts of
sin when there's religion nearby. The preacher comes around, he
just puts a damper on everything. He's a party pooper. That's why
folks don't call the preacher all the time and just talk and
carry on. That reminds me of my sin. He reminds me of my sin. Look here now. Verse 13. Let no man say when he is tempted,
I'm tempted of God. That is, when these lusts come
about, and you're tempted to do that which is evil. He says,
don't say that's God tempting you. For God cannot be tempted
with evil, neither tempteth He any man. God is sovereign. He does what He will, and He's
not moved by second causes. He does what He will. Now, a
lot of times, men that know something about sovereign grace will use
the excuse and blame God's sovereignty. Well, God's sovereign. If He
didn't want me doing this, He'd stop me. Don't blame God for
your sin. No, no. He's not the one that's
making you sin. No. Alright, look, verse 14. But every man is tempted when
he's drawn away. Drawn away from what? From God,
from truth, from that which God says is right. When he's drawn
away of his own lust. There it is, the heart. And he's
enticed. It's in his heart. He sees something
that entices that lust and makes that lust want to act. Like,
remember Eve, she saw this tree. A tree that was desired to make
one wise. And Eve lusted after it. She wanted that tree. She wanted
that fruit. Look, then when lust has conceived,
That means when it's brought forth its child now, its act,
it bringeth forth sin. It bringeth forth sin. The act
is committed now. You see, this is not of God,
He said. He said God's not making a man do this. The lust is in
his own heart. The enticement's in his own heart.
And so the conception is in his own heart. And it brings forth
sin, the act of sin from his own heart. It's His choice. Do you see this? He's doing it
because He wants to do it. It's a deliberate act. God didn't
say, Adam, take that fruit! Adam took the fruit. And we take
the fruit. God doesn't make you sin. You
sin because you want to and so do I. Now look here. Then when it's finished it brings
forth sin and sin when it's finished brings forth death. It always
brings forth death. It always brings forth death.
All sin brings forth death. Our bodies are dying because
we're sinning. We have lust in our heart and
we're sinning and we're killing our bodies. You can get on the
Whole30 diet and do it for the whole 365 if you want to. It ain't going to stop you from
dying because you're killing yourself. Our sins are killing
us. That's why we're growing more
decrepit and more wrinkled and we're just going to go back to
the dust. We're killing ourselves by our sins. Now there are some
acts of sin that are even much worse. God says your sin will
find you out. If you touch fire, you are going
to get burned. And the hotter the fire, the
worse you're going to get burned. And there are some sins that
will cause your body to hurt worse than other sins. And when
you start trying to stop that, it's going to hurt your body
more than you can understand. It's going to hurt you so badly
that you hardly can't stand it. Because that's what sin does. And some reprehense of your sin
will be so bad that you can't ever cure it. AIDS. venereal
diseases, things like that, nothing you can do about it. What I am saying to you is sin
is going to result in death. It is always going to result
in death. If you could see the end death and how bad it will
be from the very beginning, you would understand how bad that
is. And I am going to show you this.
Don't let me forget this. But everything that's good, verse
17, it comes down, the perfect gift comes down from above, it
comes from the Father of lights with whom's no variables in this,
neither shadow of turning. Now let me illustrate what I'm
showing you here now. You know this murderer that went
into the theater, the last one that went into the theater down
in Lafayette, Louisiana and he killed those people in that theater.
Well, that began with a lust in his heart. He began to think
about it. He began to lust after murder.
He wanted to murder. This was lust in the heart. Did
you just hear what Christ said? What comes out of the heart?
Murder. Just like adultery, just like fornication, just like homosexuality,
just like bisexuality, just like any kind of sin. Drunkenness,
whatever. Abusing prescription painkillers.
It all comes out of the lust of the heart. That's where it
comes from. And he thought about murder for
a while, and it got so strong in his heart that he said, I've
got to act on this. Deliberate choice. Drove from
the Alabama-Georgia line 500-something miles to Lafayette, Louisiana.
That, my friends, is a deliberate choice. Got him some disguises,
and they found in his hotel room so he could get away after he'd
done it, and nobody would know who he was. That's a deliberate
choice. Went into this theater, sat in
the back so no harm would come to him. That's a deliberate choice. And then started shooting people,
started killing people. And the only reason he didn't
escape was because when he went outside, he saw the police were
already there. And so he went back inside and
killed himself. That started in his heart. A
lust so strong he couldn't control it. A lust so strong he felt
like this is just what I have to do. I have no choice. And
so he did it. Now we see the immediate death that it caused.
Don't we? Murder is easy to see the immediate
death. Sin, when it has brought forth,
come forth in the act, it brings forth death. We see the immediate
death in that, right? Now let's take homosexuality
for example. Homosexuality, if the whole world
went into it, eventually the human race would die out because
we won't produce any more people. Eventually we'd get diseases
because God would see to it and we would come to where we would
just all be a bunch of... what would be left would be just
shriveled up to death. And then we'd all die. Now, if
you could just see that right now, as much as you can see that
murder right now, you'd see, oh, I see now, changing the natural
use to fit the lust of my heart is going to bring forth death.
It is an act of my choice, and it is going to bring forth death.
I see that now. Now, let me ask you something
else. Would we say, would we do this? Would we say, well,
now, That murderer, that was his choice. He had freedom of
choice. That was his choice. He had the
right to do that. He was born that way. That was his lust. He wanted
to do that. He couldn't help himself. That's
how he was born. You're that way. He was that way. We shouldn't
condemn him. We ought to pass a law and make
murder legal. And if you don't agree with it,
you ought to be condemned. No, you say, that's foolish.
That's hurting somebody else. So is every other sin, homosexuality
included. It's all hurting somebody else.
That's why it's sin. It's against God and it's against
man. It's against God, it's against a man's own person, and it's
against your fellow man. All sin is that way. And if you
could see the immediate death it brings forth, you'd see just
how bad it is. Scripture says, because God delays
judgment, Men's hearts say, well, this is all right. I'll just
go home with you. This won't hurt anybody. I'm
not hurting anybody else. I have the right to do this.
You have the right to go to hell. You have the right. And if you
go through life making excuses for the lust of your flesh and
the acts of sin that you deliberately choose to do, you will have nothing
but the right to hell. And that's where you'll go. That's
where you're going to end up. Alright now, what we see today then, Romans
1.24, let me go back there before we move on. Why do we see today
so much going on in the world like it is? And people condoning
it and it just appears like the world's gone crazy. Well, God
said in the end, in the end of the last of the last days, the
Lord said He's going to make The irreligious beast of the
world, he calls it a beast, using symbolic language, he said he's
going to make the irreligious beast and the false religious
beast, they're going to oppose each other for a little while.
Then they're going to unite and they're going to oppose God's
true people. What's going to happen is right now the whole
world's favoring homosexuality and legalizing marijuana and
just everything else. Let's just get free. We kill
babies and we let killers go free. Let's get this thing just
down to where everybody's free to do what you want to do. God's
out of it. Let's get him out of this thing. And that's where everything's
going. And what'll happen is churches
oppose it for a while, false religion oppose it for a while.
But you know, if you got a business and all your clients decide they
like this taste over here and they don't like the taste you're
serving anymore, then what you're going to have to do to stay in
business is start serving that taste they like so you can get
them back and you can stay in business. And that's what churches
will do. They got to keep that machine
of big business religion running. And so they will call it contemporary
worship. That means worship that fits
the contemporary age. God doesn't change. There's no
variableness, neither shadow of turning with God. His gospel
is the same from age to age. We don't change it. We just preach
it. But the false religion will change it. Isaiah called it variable. Variable changes of raiment,
changes of clothing. Well, that's what's happening. Why is this happening? Romans
1.24, God also gave them up to uncleanness. Now, did God put
uncleanness in them? Did God have to put something
in them to make them unclean, to give them up to this? Through
the lust of their own hearts. No, God just took the restraint
off. Let them do what was already there. The lust of their own
heart. This is shocking to some people.
I'm going to tell you this. The same man that is perfectly
bisexual, he could have lust of homosexuality in his heart
too. Just like a man who's got lust of drunkenness could have
lust of murder. He could have lust of... It's
what your heart's a cesspool. All God has to do is take the
restraint off. You will do what any other man
will do. Look here. He gave them up through the lust
of their own hearts to dishonor their own bodies between themselves,
who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshipped and
served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever.
Amen. That's why it's happening. We've worshipped man so long,
God has turned... Recently we've seen a huge falling
away. It's what God said you'd see.
You're going to see a falling away. You've seen a falling away.
Because we've worshipped ourselves for so long. For a hundred years
now, we've called it the prosperity of America. And what it is, is
the idol worship of you and me. And we've taken God out of it.
And we've just come to the point we are now. And God has turned
this nation over, and a lot of people over, all over the world.
And I'm very, I want to be very, very kind in what I'm saying because
I have believing friends who have homosexual children. And
they're so troubled by it and confused by it. I'm going to
show you, it doesn't necessarily mean God's turned everybody over
to reprobation that falls into homosexuality. Just like it doesn't
mean that He's turned a man over to reprobation because he's a
drunk. Let me show you this. Keep reading though. Verse 26,
For this cause, because we worshipped ourselves, God gave them up unto
vile affections. Now where do the vile affections
come from? Our heart. That's lust that Christ described
in the heart. Even their women did do what? They willfully, deliberately
committed an act. They changed the natural use
into that which is against nature. Do you see what I've been preaching
to you? It started in the heart, came into the act. Likewise also
the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burning their
lusts one toward another, men with men, working that which
is unseemly. And look, here's the death it brings forth, receiving
in themselves that recompense of their error which was fit,
which was me." What is that? Death, disease, which is going
to result in death. Even as they did not like to
retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate
mind. So they can't have God in their
knowledge. And all they'll do is those things which are not
convenient. And they'll take delight in them and they'll pride
themselves in them. Now, here's my third point. Turn over to
Psalm 76 and verse 10. What keeps us all from committing,
acting on the worst lusts in our hearts? If we all have these
lusts in our hearts, what keeps us from acting on these lusts
in our hearts? There's a two-fold restraint
that keeps us from acting on the lusts of our heart. There
is a two-fold constraint. Both of these restraints are
at the hand of God. One of them is just a restraint
on men. The other is the restraint of
God's grace. Now, first of all, the restraint
of His power. This is not grace, this is just
God restraining men. Psalm 76.10, The wrath of man shall praise
Thee. The remainder of wrath shalt
Thou restrain." I used the illustration Friday night when I preached
this to the young people. I used to have this football
field. It was one of those little electric games. It was a metal
football field. You set up your little football
players on each side, you know, and they had the little base
where you could kind of turn it to try to make them go the
way you wanted them to go. And when you turned it on, it
just made all kind of racket, vibrating metal, you know, and
those little pieces just shimmied all over that board. banged into
one another, and you'd kind of every now and then you might
see the running back make a little progress, you know, and it was
just a game. But all you had to do, if you
didn't want those players to move at all, you just set your
hand right down in front of them like that, and they could just
bang up against it like that, but they couldn't go anywhere.
They just held in place. That's what the restraining hand
of God is. He can hold you in place, and you can't do what
you'd like to do. That's what Paul said, you know,
in the believer there's two lusts. There's the lust of that new
man and the lust of that old fleshly man. And he said, but
by the Spirit of God, you can't do what you would. You can't
do what that fleshly man would do, because the Spirit of God's
got His hand on you. Now that's grace, but this here
we're talking about is just God's power. You see, whatever wrath
comes to pass, All this we see coming to pass in the world,
as bad as it is, as much as it troubles you, you can be comforted
in this. God's bringing glory to His name
from it. Or else it wouldn't be happening.
And He's going to bring good to His people or else it wouldn't
be happening. There must needs be heresies. There must needs
be these vile things going on in the world. No, no. There must
needs be all men be saved? No. Why? There must needs be
heresies. that those which are approved
may be made manifest. So that's how you see who God's
approved and who God hasn't approved of. Who God's restraining and
who God's not restraining. But whatever does not bring glory
to His name, He restrains it by His pure power, restrains
it. But also there's restraining grace. Now turn to 1 Corinthians
6. When God creates us anew, He
puts a new man in these bodies of death and He leaves that old
man there. He leaves that old sinful lustful
flesh there because He uses that to show you that you don't have
any power in your new man of you. All your power in your new
man is God in you, Christ in you. He's the one that's the
power and the life working in you. And God will let you fall
sometimes just enough to show you You're getting too big for
your britches. You don't have any power in you.
Your strength is Christ alone. Now look here. Paul is dealing
with the fact that there was fornication going on in the church
that was worse than what was going on outside the Gentile
world. And he was not just telling them that, you know, that's the
heart and you can't help it. He was telling them, no, that's
coming from your heart and it's a deliberate choice. Now stop
it. That's what he was saying to them. Now watch what he said,
verse 9. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit
the kingdom of God? Those who are given over to acts
of these unrighteous deeds, because they're given over to their unrighteous
heart, they are not going to inherit the kingdom of God. Be
not deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,
nor effeminate. Effeminate here is It's a male prostitute, a young
male prostitute kept for the purpose of an older male man,
effeminate. Nor abusers of themselves with
mankind. That's that pretty word, homosexuality,
that men give it. God says it's an abuse of man
against himself with mankind. Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor
drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners shall inherit the
kingdom of God. Hold on to your seat. And such
were some of you. You mean in the Corinthian church
God saved some male prostitutes? You mean in the Corinthian church
God saved some sodomites? Yes, He did. Yes, He did. And there were probably some
there Some of all of them who were guilty of all of these sins
in their hearts, they just didn't come forth in the act. But he's
saying here, these were acts. You were drunks, you were revilers,
you were extortioners, you were homosexual, all these things.
Such were some of you. What made them stop those acts,
those deliberate acts? But you're washed, verse 11.
But you're washed. The washing of regeneration.
God gave a new heart. And you're sanctified. You've
been set apart from those evil deeds. You've been set apart
now to where you've got a heart that hates that sin now. And
with God, motive is everything. You're going to fall into those
acts. But motive, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. And Lord,
get me away from it. Separate me from it. And He separated
His people. There's a new man there now that
cannot sin. It's created of God. That is
Christ in you and you in Christ. United with Christ. And He says
here, you're justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
All our sins, past, present and future are put away. Justified
by the Spirit of our God dwelling in you. Now watch what He says.
All things are lawful unto Me. That means I'm not under the
law of God at all. I'm not under the curse of the
law. I fulfilled the law, brethren. Every believer has totally fulfilled
the law. If you fulfilled the law, and I'm saying in Christ
alone, that means no sin can be laid to your charge. You're
righteous. You are the righteousness of
the law. So all things are lawful for me. The law wasn't made for
a righteous man. The law was made for a sinner.
All things are lawful to me, but now watch this. But all things
are not expedient. You see, the world can legalize
every sin that God forbids. They don't make it good for you.
They don't make it expedient for you. Now watch this. All things are lawful for me,
but I will not be brought under the power of any. I'm not going
to be brought under the power of it. I'm not going to be brought
to the point that I can't let it go. That's what he's saying.
Now watch this. Meat is for the belly and the
belly is for meat. God's going to destroy both it
and them. Now, here's what's more important. The body is not
for fornication, but for the Lord and the Lord for the body.
You know why God created you? You're a body believer. You know
why He gave you a new heart? Body and spirit. You know why
He did it? For the Lord. It's the Lord's. And the Lord
is for you. That's what he's saying. Just
like meat was made for your belly and your belly was made for meat,
this new creation's made for the Lord and the Lord's made
for this new creation. Now watch. God's raised up the
Lord and will also raise up us by His own power. Know ye not
that your bodies are the members of Christ? Now watch what he said. Shall
I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of
a harlot? God forbid. You look at your bodies, you
look at your fingers. That's Christ's finger. That's
Christ's hand. That's Christ's arm. These are
Christ's feet, His legs, His torso. This is Christ. You believers,
we should look at our bodies just that way. These are Christ's
bodies. Members of Christ. Members of
Christ. Am I going to take Christ's members
and use them for sinful acts? Look here. Verse 16, what? Know ye not that
he which is joined to a harlot is one body? The greatest picture
you have of the union we have in Christ is the husband and
the wife, the faithful union. And he says here, these sexual
sins, uniting yourself with a harlot, male-male, female-female, or
the opposite sex, out of marriage. He that's joined to a harlot
is one body. For two, He said, shall be one
flesh. I thought I was supposed to be one with the Lord. That's
what He's saying. He's saying, you're supposed
to be one with the Lord. Are you going to make yourself one with a whore? And that one
who's willing, both of them that are willing to do this, the male
and the female, are both parties of the same sex, they're a whore. That's all they are. It's all
whore. What folks used to pay You pay money to have a whore. You don't join yourself with
a whore. Verse 17, But he that is joined
unto the Lord is one spirit. Now watch what he says. Flee
fornication. Flee fornication. And you could
put every other sin there too. Every other act of sin It's bad
enough when you have it in the lust of your heart. That's sin
before God. When it comes forth in the deed, it's worse. Flee
it. Flee it before it becomes an
act. When it just becomes a thought, flee it. Flee it. Let me give
you an illustration of what sin is. I use a roadkill a lot because
it just is a gross thing to me. But you take a roadkill that's
been there for a long time. Oh, stinking, full of maggots,
just awful. I see some of you sitting there
just turning your stomach. You see, sin don't turn your
stomach like that. I can talk about sin, that don't
do that. Why? You're like a fish in water,
you don't even know what water is. You've been in sin from your
birth and you don't even know what it is until God makes you
know what it is. But here's what it is, it's just like, you see
it? There's that roadkill and you
lust after it, you're enticed for it. And so you just go and
pick it up and pull it to your breast and hug on it, kiss it,
take a bite of it, eat it, get those maggots all over you, all
in you, through and through. That's every sin that comes in
our heart that we commit. Now, what do we do when we see
a stinking, putrid piece of roadkill? We flee from it, don't we? That's
what he said too. Flee from it. When it comes up
in your heart, flee from it. Flee from it. Every sin that
a man doeth is without the body, but he that commiteth fornication
sinneth against his own body. This sexual sin is the worst
sin because it's of your own body. It takes advantage and
it demolishes, it does dishonor to that beautiful picture of
husband and wife which pictures Christ and His bride. Now watch. What? Know you not that your
body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which
you have of God, and you are not your own? For you're bought
with a price. What a price! Christ's precious
blood. God's only begotten Son bought
us. And we're His purchased possession.
Ephesians 1 says we're His purchased possession. He owns us. He bought
us. We're His. What? What's His? Look here. Therefore glorify
God in your body and in your thoughts, in your spirit. which
are God's. He bought you body and spirit. He owns it all. You see, when
I talk about the flesh, I'm not talking about your body. I'm
talking about that old nature. You see, your body is God's and
your spirit is God's. Now, He says, worship God and
glorify God with it. And if we do, you know who gets
the glory? God does. Because He restrained
us and He gave us the grace to honor Him in our bodies and in
our spirit. But when we sin, who gets the
glory for that? You and I do. We did it. We're the only one that can be
blamed. We're saved. God gets the grace. If we perish,
it's our own fault. Amen. Father, we thank You for Your
Word and we pray now that You'd make it truly take effect in
our hearts. Glorify Yourself through it.
Thank You, Lord. In Christ's name, Amen.