We'll be in James chapter 1 again
tonight, and I'll read to you our text. Chapter 1, verse 13. Let no man say when he is tempted,
I am tempted of God. For God cannot be tempted with
evil, neither tempteth he any man, but every man is tempted
when he's drawn away, turned away. Turned away from who? Turned away from God, of his
own lust and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived,
it bringeth forth sin. And sin, when it is finished,
bringeth forth death. Do not err, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect
gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights,
with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of
his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should
be a kind of first fruits of his creatures." The end of everything that God
does for the believer is to bring his children to the feet of the
Lord Jesus Christ. For those that are given faith
to believe, Christ is the end of the law. Christ, we come to
the end of the law and there's Christ. He's our righteousness,
the Lord our righteousness. When that great day of our Lord
comes, the end for every man, believer and unbeliever, will
be at the name of Christ Jesus. Every knee will bow and every
tongue will confess that he's Lord to the glory of God the
Father. And so it is when God gives trials, when he sends a
trial, it's to bring the believer to the feet of Christ to turn
us from ourselves, to cast all our care on Christ Jesus, for
he is truly the one who careth for us. The songwriter said,
when through fiery trials thy pathway shall lie, my grace all
sufficient shall be thy supply. The flame shall not hurt thee,
I only design, thy dross to consume and thy gold to refine. When
James says there in verse 4, let patience have her perfect
work, he's simply saying, wait until God has brought you to
the feet of Christ. When you're brought to the feet
of Christ, the end of the trial will be that you will behold
him with the eye of faith and behold that in him, you're perfect
and entire, complete, wanting nothing. In verse 5, when he
says, if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God. If you're
one he's everlastingly loved, then the end of the trial will
be when God has turned us from all else, from our wavering,
from our looking to ourselves while we pretend we're trying
to trust God. And he once again makes Christ
Jesus wisdom. He's our wisdom. Let me get you
to do something. Cross your eyes. I'll do it with
you. So we cross your eyes. You see
what you see when you cross your eyes? Everything's blurry. And
the reason is, is because you're looking in two different directions.
When we ask God, but we're trying to look at God, and look at ourselves,
everything's blurry. Just like when you cross your
eyes. That's why he says, ask believing, ask trusting him.
You remember when Peter walked on the water and the Lord said,
come to me. Peter's walking on the water.
He was fine as long as he was looking at Christ. But when he
started trying to look at Christ and look at the water, he began
to sink down. We must continually, continually
be made to know we don't have any sufficiency in ourselves. The gold that he's going to refine
is not something that is ours, of us, it's that he's the object,
he's the treasure, and our sufficiency is of him. So James says, count
it all joy when you fall into these trials and rejoice because
God's faithful to continually bring the rich man of our flesh,
the rich man of our self strength and self-wisdom and self-doing
and this selfish man of the flesh. He's continually faithful to
bring that man down and to renew day by day that inner man of
the heart, that poor man that needs to be renewed by his grace.
But then in the midst of trials, in the midst of trials, we far
too often attempt to cast the blame of our rebellion on somebody
else. And most of the time we'll even
go so far as to say that our intentions and everything we
were doing or whatever when we weren't patiently waiting, when
we were asking God but with the lips but in our hearts we really
were looking to all the waves. When we're really feeding that
rich man of the flesh rather than putting off that old man
and trusting God alone, we'll far too often say that what we
were doing, our intentions, were for the glory of God. We like
to dress up our rebellion so that it looks like we're serving
God. Well, James says, let no man
say when he is tempted, I'm tempted of God. I'm turned away because
God turned me. No way. God cannot be tempted
with evil, neither tempteth He any man. Let's lay the error
and the truth side by side here. Look at verse 13. He says, Let
no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God. For God
cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth He any man.
Now look at verse 17. Every good gift and every perfect
gift is from above. He doesn't give evil things and
turn, give you evil things. Every good gift, every perfect
gift is from above. If you stand fast, it's going
to be because He made you stand fast. And it comes down from
the Father of lights. He's not turned and He's not
tempted with evil, neither tempteth He any man to evil. With Him,
there's no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Look back
at verse 14. But every man is tempted when
he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed. Look at verse 18.
Of His own will. God's own will. You see the difference?
We're drawn away when it's our will and our lust, our desire
to have, and we're turned away. But of His will, He begat us
with the word of truth. Look at verse 15. Then when our
lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin, and sin, when it's
finished, bringeth forth death. Look at verse 18. He of his own
will begat us with the word of truth, and he didn't bring forth
death. He brought forth fruits, a new creature, a new creation.
So we have here two beginnings and two endings. One is of man,
the other is of God. One is the lust of man, the other
is the will of God. One is the deceit of man, the
other is the word of truth. Man brings forth death, God brings
forth life. Now, let's go to the beginning
of sin. Go back to Genesis chapter 3.
Genesis chapter 3. And let's see this, let's see
this laid out in the scripture. Let's read the account of the
fall. This is the first trial. This is the first trial, and
here we see man left to himself, and we see what man will do if
left to himself. Genesis 3-1, Now the serpent
was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God
had made, and he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said you
shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said
unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of
the garden, but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst
of the garden, God hath said you shall not eat of it, neither
shall you touch it, lest you die. And the serpent said unto
the woman, You shall not surely die, for God doth know that in
the day ye eat thereof. Then your eyes shall be opened,
and ye shall be as God's knowing. There's a key word, knowing.
It's going to give you knowledge to do this. You'll know good
and evil. And when the woman saw that the
tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the eyes and
a tree to be desired to make one wise. Where did God, where
did the Spirit teach us here? If any man lack wisdom, where
is it going to be found? But turning to ourselves, she
saw this was a tree to make one wise and she took the fruit thereof
and she ate it. She gave it to her husband with
her and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were open and they
knew that they were naked. See the knowledge they got? They
were naked before. And it says they were not ashamed.
They weren't confused. They didn't see any evil in being
naked. But now there's confusion. Now there's shame. And they saw
their nakedness. And it says, and they sewed fig
leaves together. and made themselves aprons. Not
only did they see their sin, but you think about it, before
sin entered in, and man sinned, there was no evil to know, except
for Satan. There was no evil in man. But
now when they took and disobeyed, turned from God to themselves,
now they realized the evil. It's here. It's in them. They
see it. But now they're confused, their
shame, shamefulness of face. And now this confusion causes
them to try to start covering it, working something to cover
it themselves. They sewed fig leaves together
and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the
Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And they
ran up to him and hugged up to him. No. Adam and his wife hid
themselves from the presence of God in the midst of the trees. And when the Lord called them,
he said, Where art thou? He said, I heard thy voice in
the garden. I was afraid because I was naked and I hid myself.
And he said, Who told thee thou was naked? Hast thou eaten of
the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not
eat? Have you turned from me to yourself? Have you turned
from the wisdom to vain wisdom? Have you turned from truth to
a lie?" And the man said, the woman whom thou gavest to be
with me, she gave me of the tree and I did eat. See the first
thing he did? He justified his rebellion by
blaming God. He justified his rebellion by
putting the blame on somebody else. Well, let's look back now. Let me ask you some questions. In that very first trial, if
we could call it the first trial, who turned from God rather than
patiently waiting on God? Man did. Who lusted after his
own wisdom rather than bowing to the all-wise God? Man did. Who became rich in his own self-righteous
works? Man did. God didn't do it. Man did it. James says, let no
man say when he's tempted, I'm tempted of God. But God cannot
be tempted with evil, neither tempteth He any man with evil,
but every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust
and enticed. What did turning from God to
man result in? What did it result in? They heard
the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of
the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence
of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. You know, The trees of the garden appeared
to be a good place to hide themselves from God. Man in our day will
take the things of God, the oracles of God, just like they took those
fig leaves and changed the use of these things, just like they
changed the use of those fig leaves that were given to shade
the fruit of the tree. And he'll change, he'll try to
robe himself in the words of God, in the things God says.
Just like Adam tried to clothe himself in those fig leaves.
And just like Adam tried to hide himself in the midst of those
trees, man will try to hide himself in the midst of God's people.
They're called trees of righteousness, planted by the water of life,
God's people are. And many a person will try to
hide themselves with fig leaves of changing what God's word says
and hide themselves amongst God's people. And what happened when
he did that? James says, When lust hath conceived,
it brings forth sin, and sin, when it's finished, brings forth
death. It says God drove out the man. Turning from God resulted
in separation from God. What does God say? Your sins
have separated you from your God. Wherefore, as by one man
sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed
upon all men, for that all have sin. And when we hear, there's
none righteous. When we hear that there's not
one who's righteous, when we hear that there's none who has
any wisdom, who understands God, who seeks God, when we hear that
all men without exception are gone out of the way, out of the
way, the way is God, the way is Christ Jesus, the way the
truth and the life. All men's gone out of the way
and become unprofitable. There's none good. There's none
that do good. Not a one. But we'll hear that.
And when the natural man hears the word of truth, he must be
born of God. He must ask God. He must patiently
wait on God to say. He must flee to the all-wise
God. We manifest the deceit of the
heart by saying, no God. That's not me. That's not the case with me.
James says, if any of you lack wisdom, do we lack wisdom? That's what you know, when God
sends a trial, he sends the trial. And he sanctifies that trial
to the hearts of his people to teach his people. And we don't
have any wisdom. We don't have any wisdom. We
need God to make Christ our wisdom. So the fall of man results in
man calling bitter, sweet, and that which is really sweet, bitter.
Listen to this, turn over to James 3 verse 14. James 3 verse
14. He says, If you have bitter envying
and strife in your hearts, glory not and lie not against the truth.
This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual,
devilish. For where envying and strife
is, there is confusion in every evil work. You know, this wisdom
that we get by the natural birth, by our first birth, this wisdom
we have as we come into this earth, it's envious of God's
glory. It's envious of the glory that
belongs to God. And that word envy means bitter
rivalry. There's bitter rivalry between
God with man against God and against man. It says here that
it results in strife. It's striving against God and
striving against man. It says it's sensual. That means
it's natural. It's the heart of all men born
in Adam. This is the natural wisdom. It's
devilish. It's the product of man turning
from God to Satan and heeding his words as being the word of
truth. And the result of man's wisdom is confusion in every
evil work. What happened with Adam and Eve?
They were confused. That's what sin is. It's confusion
in every evil work. There's a way that seems right
unto man, but the end is the ways of death. So that's. That's what James said, that
this turning from God in the midst of trial, not asking God
to be our wisdom, to make Christ wisdom unto us, but feeding that
rich man, turning from him. This is wisdom that's from below. It's not wisdom from above. Now,
the beginning of life. Here's the second thing. Verse
16, James 1, 16. Here's the beginning of life.
Now let's look at this. Do not err, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect
gift is from above and cometh down from the Father of lights,
with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. In
the beginning, God. Now you think about this. In
the beginning, God. Every good gift and every perfect
gift is from above, is from God. When in the first creation of
heavens and earth, everything that God made, what did he say
about it? It's good. It's good. Every good and every perfect
gift is from God. The curse that's upon this earth,
the curse that's upon this world is the result of man turning
from God. They didn't come from God. With
man is only variableness and only turning. But the reason
God didn't destroy Adam, and the reason God didn't end all
mankind when Adam sinned in the garden, is because He's God the
Father of lights. And with Him is no variableness,
and with Him is no shadow of turning. God didn't destroy this
earth because before the beginning, as we know it, was the Word of
Truth. There was something before the
beginning as we know the beginning, as we know the beginning of time.
John 1.1 says, let me get you to turn there, John 1.1. I want
you to see how that though we sin, it won't change God, it
won't turn God. John 1.1, in the beginning was
the Word. This is before Genesis 1-1. In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was
in the beginning with God. Now then we come to creation.
All things that were made by Him, all things were made by
Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made.
In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. You're
familiar with Ephesians chapter one. I won't get you to turn
there, but God chose a people in Christ Jesus, the word. And in that covenant word, he
blessed his children with all spiritual blessings in heavenly
places, in Christ, all spiritual blessings. That means all of
them. That means in the mind and purpose
of God, everything God would make His people in the end, God
made His people when He put them in Christ before He ever, before
the beginning came about. And you know where He did that?
In the Word. The Word who was with God, the
Word who was in the beginning. He did it according as He chose
His people and put them in Christ before He ever founded the world.
that they should be holy and without blame before Him in love,
having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus
Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,
to the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He hath made
us accepted in the Beloved. All this took place beforehand. So when man turned, and man turned
away from God and brought forth death, There was no variableness,
neither shadow of turning with God, because in Christ Jesus,
his people have always been before him holy and without blame in
Christ, in the beloved, in the one that God put them in. And
that's why we read in Malachi 3, 6. He said, I am the Lord. I change not. Therefore, ye sons
of Jacob are not consumed. You want to call somebody a son
of a blankety-blank, call him a son of Jacob. That's what we
all are, sons of Jacob, supplanters, tricksters, sons of Jacob. But because God doesn't change,
therefore the sons of Jacob were not consumed. That's his true
spiritual seed. That's his children he determined
to save. God is the father of lights with
whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. The way God
created the first creation is the way God makes his children,
recreates his children, births his children again so that we
can behold this wisdom and this truth and this unchanging almighty
God that we serve. How did he do that in the beginning,
in that first creation of heaven and earth? How did he do it?
God said, He did it with a word. He did
it with a word. God said, let there be light,
and there was light. James says here, now you remember
that. You remember that. In the midst
of all the trials, in the midst of everything that you're, when
you're talking to your brethren about Christ, And the trial really
is the believer, the believer who sees men turning and hears
men say things contrary and turns this way and that way. James
is saying, remember how you started, remember how you began, how you
started in this thing. And don't turn, don't turn. He says, of his own will begat
he us with the word of truth. The word of truth is Christ Jesus,
the son of God. The word of truth is the gospel
we preach and the gospel word is the living word because it
proclaims Christ the living word. God is the father of lights of
his own will. He comes to dead sinners and
he rebirths us with the word. He does so with the word of truth.
It's called the ministry of righteousness. The ministry of righteousness. It's called that because in the
gospel, the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to
faith. It has to be by revelation, by
Him speaking the Word and saying, let there be light, that we behold
He is light. And we have the light. True righteousness is revealed
by God. We behold that God's law, the
rightness of God, the rightness of who God is, is that For Him
to save us, He has got to save us in a manner that is absolutely
in perfect harmony with His holiness. He gave His word in the garden. And He said, if you eat this
fruit, you will die. And Adam ate that fruit. And
when Adam ate that fruit, every one of those chosen children
of God that he put in Christ before he ever made anything,
Every one of them fail in, in Adam as their representative
and being birthed of Adam in natural generation, they all
came forth just like Adam. Sinners in his image, in Adam's
image, you read where it says, and they begat Seth. He begat
him after his image, not after the image of God, after the image
of Adam. and it came forth a sinner, and it came forth speaking lies,
and it came forth dead, and in order for God to save that elect
child, that child has got to die. He's died spiritually, he's separated
from God, he's cut off, but the wrath of God has got to be poured
out on him, the eternal wrath of God, and that sinner's got
to be put out of God's presence. Forever. And for God to remain merciful.
If he's going to be merciful and uphold the word that he promised
before he made anything, the word to his son, that he would
give this people to his son and he would raise his son and make
his son the first begotten, the first born of many brethren.
If he's going to be merciful to us sinners, How's that going
to be that this just God is going to be merciful and He's yet going
to still be right and still be righteous? In the gospel, the righteousness
of God, the rightness of God, the faithfulness of God, the
holiness of God, the glory of God is revealed. When God makes a sinner to see
the faithfulness of his son, the rightness of his son who
suffered death for all those given him, he honored that law. He magnified that law in precept
and in penalty. And we read one man's disobedience
as by one man's disobedience, many were made sinners. Everybody
he represented was made a sinner. And so by the obedience of one,
Christ Jesus, everybody He represented is made righteous. The Father of light creates light
and He creates life and dead sinners the same way He created
life and light in the beginning, in the first creation. He removes
the veil of darkness. When the Spirit of the Lord enters
into dead sinners, turn with me to 2 Corinthians. Chapter
3. In verse 18, he's speaking of
those who are born of the Spirit of God. He says, Verse 17, now
the Lord is that spirit, and where the spirit of the Lord
is, there's liberty. The veil's taken off. The blindness
is taken away, and there's light. But we all, now watch this, with
open face, Moses had that face veiled, and just like our hearts
were veiled. We couldn't see to the end of
the law. We couldn't see what this whole word is bringing us
to the end of. We couldn't see that the whole
end of every word of God is Christ Jesus the Lord. We couldn't see
that. But when he shines this light with open face, we behold
as in a glass the glory of the Lord, like looking into a mirror. You know, James calls it here
later on. He says, this perfect law of
liberty, this perfect word of the perfect liberty, the accomplished
liberty, the accomplished salvation we have in Christ. It's like
a man beholding his face in a glass, in a mirror. Well, when God shines
this light, He says, we with open face behold as in a glass,
the glory of the Lord. And we're changed into the same
image from glory to glory, even as by the spirit of the Lord.
Now you get the get the gist of this now. Can you imagine
looking into a mirror hanging on your wall? And you're looking
there and you're looking at all your old wrinkles. I got all
these wrinkles around my eyes. I'm looking at them, you know,
they just seem to get more and more every day. I'm looking at
them and looking at my face. And then I behold somebody else's
face looking back at me. And the one I behold looking
back at me, I'm changed into his image. I'm changed into who
He is. So that when I look in this mirror,
when I see Him, as I see Him, as I see who He is, where He
is, what God thinks of Him, I see myself because I see me when
I look in His face. I've been changed into His image. Now look at this, chapter 4,
look down at verse 4. We were blinded by the God of
this world. We didn't believe. But look now,
but something happened. The light of the glorious gospel
of Christ. Who is he? He's the image of
God. He's the express image of God.
It shined in unto us. This glory, he's the father of
lights. It shined in unto us the gospel of Christ. It shined
into us and we saw his face and we're changed into the same image.
Look at verse six. For God, who commanded the light
to shine out of darkness, how did he do that? With a word,
God said, let there be light. There was light as we heard the
gospel of this Righteousness of God manifest in Christ Jesus. God, who commanded the light
to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts to give
the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, where? In the
face of Jesus Christ. Now let me go back to 1 Corinthians
chapter 1. Go back there with 1 Corinthians
chapter 1. What does it mean? What did we behold when we looked
into this perfect law of liberty, this perfect word of redemption
accomplished, of Christ having perfectly fulfilled the law on
our behalf, in every dot and dash to where now it's completely,
perfectly fulfilled. I perfectly, completely fulfilled
the law. What do we behold when we look
into the face of Christ and we behold that all my sin has been
dealt with, it's been put away, and I've been made the righteousness
of God in Christ? What do we behold when we look
into this face of Christ Jesus in this mirror of the gospel,
by this light of Christ? What do we behold? Verse 30. Of Him. Of God. Are ye in Christ Jesus? Who of
God is made unto us? Wisdom. Do you lack wisdom? If you come to the end of this
trial by God's grace, and you ask God, God I need wisdom. He's
going to make you look into this mirror again. And instead of
seeing Mr. Clay just full of wisdom and
just bright and shining and just got all the wisdom in the world.
He's going to make me to behold Christ as your wisdom. Instead
of me beholding my righteousness, looking at myself and beholding,
looking in this mirror and by seeing some kind of righteousness
I've done, which is no righteousness at all. You know who I'm going
to see? Christ is my righteousness. Instead of looking into this
mirror and beholding the glory of God in the face of Christ
Jesus, instead of looking into it and seeing that, well now,
you've done real good, Clay. You've separated yourself and
you've made yourself holy now. You know what I'm going to say?
Christ is my sanctification. He's my separation. He's my holiness. You know, we're to follow peace
with all men and holiness without which no man shall see God. Huh? Where do you see God? In the
face of Christ Jesus. What do you see when you see
Christ Jesus? You see your holiness. He's my holiness. And I see God
when I see Christ and when I see Christ, I see God. And when I
see Christ, he says with open face, he makes us to behold.
There you are. There you are. And when I look
into this perfect law of liberty, and instead of seeing, well,
Clay, you've pulled yourself up by your bootstraps now, and
everything you've done, you've freed yourself, you've made yourself
righteous, you've freed yourself from under that dominion of sin,
from under that law, from under that veil, you've got yourself
out now, clear of that, and made yourself free. That's not what
I behold at all. I look into this mirror and when
I see Christ's face, I behold, there's my redemption. He bought
me. I was a debtor. I was in debt
and had no, nothing to pay with. He's my kinsman because he was
my brother before I ever knew he was my brother, my elder brother. He's my, he's my kinsman redeemer. He's the one who's bought me
when I couldn't pay. When I had nothing to pay with,
he bought me. He freed me. He separated me. Where the spirit of the Lord
is, there's liberty. Christ said, if I make you free,
you'll be free indeed. Now, why is it that way? Why
is it that way? That according as it is written,
he that glorieth, What do we see when we look? He gives us
the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus. So that now when I glory, instead
of looking in that mirror and beholding my natural face and
patting myself on the back, I look in that mirror and I behold my
wisdom, my righteousness, my sanctification, my redemption,
I behold that God in sovereign electing grace put me there.
I behold that God in sovereign irresistible grace spoke life
into me. Christ entered in. He gave me
the spirit of liberty and took the veil off and recreated me
after the image of God. And my glory now is in God. He did the whole thing. He put
me in Christ, Christ accomplished the work, and He made Christ
everything to me. So that he that glories now,
now glories in the Lord. Now man's will, and man's way,
and man's turning brings forth fruit unto death. But God brings
forth living fruit. He brings forth new creatures,
a new creation, created in righteousness and true holiness. Isn't that
what He said? Now remember this brethren, in
the midst of this trial, how are you going to be delivered
from it? What's going to be the end? What's
the purpose of it? To remember that of His own will
begat He us with the word of truth that we should be a kind
of first fruits of His creation. Choice fruits of His creation.
And we're going to behold in this brethren, that he's going
to, just like he freed us from that, that trial that we fell
into in Adam and by our own sin and rebellion against God, when
he first came in that first hour and saved us out of that, that,
that sin and death. Now in this trial here, that's
how I'm going to be saved. That's my way. He's my wisdom.
He's the one, that's how my inner man's gonna be renewed. That's
how I'm gonna be brought to rejoice. I love this. Notice this here,
and I'll close, but it's almost like, you remember
those movies they used to have years ago? I forget what there's
a title for, how they do, AJ probably knows. There's a title
for these where they show you the very end of the movie first.
And then the whole movie starts somewhere way back in time and
brings you right up to that scene you saw at the very beginning
of the movie. That's kind of what James does here. He says
in verse 12, Blessed is the man that endures temptation, for
when he's tried, he shall receive the crown of life which the Lord
hath promised to them that love him. There's the end scene right
there. And then we go back through the
whole thing here, through everything he said. He said, and he begat
us of his own will through the word of truth that we should
be of kind of first fruits of his creatures. And then what's
going to be the end? What was the end of that trial?
And what's going to be the end of every lesser trial? We're going to receive the crown,
the reward, the reward of life. Christ alive, which the Lord
hath promised. He begat us with the word of
truth. That's the word of promise. Do you think now that he's given
us that and he's brought us into this word of truth, this word
of promise, that he's promised, that he promised way back there
before he ever started the creation, when he promised it in the word.
Think he's not going to live on that promise? If he spared not his own son,
but delivered him up, how shall he not with him freely give us
all things? All things. So let's be swift
to hear his word. Swift to hear his word. What's
the opposite of that? And let's be slow to speak, speak
against his word. Slow to be angry, angry against
his word. The wrath of God didn't accomplish
anything. The wrath of man didn't ever
accomplish anything, did it? We saw what had happened when
we turned from him, turned from him, turned from him. But receive
the engrafted word which is able to save your souls. It's the word of truth, the word
of truth saved. I pray God to give us grace to
do that.