We begin reading here in Hebrews
10.32. But call to remembrance the former
days in which after you were illuminated, ye endured a great
fight of afflictions, partly whilst you were made a gazing-stop,
both by reproaches and afflictions, and partly whilst you became
companions of them that were so used or so treated. For ye
had compassion of me and my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling
of your goods." When a sinner is called out by God, they begin
enduring a great fight, a great fight of afflictions. And it
goes on throughout our lives, as long as we're in this flesh,
it's going to be a fight of affliction for a believer. Paul, I think
here, writing this, says, after you were illuminated, because
his encouragement here is that towards those who had heard something
of the gospel of Christ and professed to believe Christ, and he's encouraging
them to persevere and to continue. But he uses the word illuminated,
I believe, because he didn't know who believed God and who
didn't. The proof is in persevering and continuing in the faith.
And these folks here were made a gazing stock before those who
hated the Lord Jesus Christ. They were set up, as it were,
on a stage. That's what the word implies
there, like entertainment almost, to be laughed at and mocked at.
Those who had rejected Christ had crucified or thought they
by themselves, according to their own will and purpose, had crucified
the Lord. And they did exactly what was
in their heart to do, but it was by the determinate counsel
and foreknowledge of God that they did what they did. But those
folks sort of set themselves up and said, why are you going
after this one? Why are you trusting this Lord
Jesus, or this man Jesus of Nazareth? Why are you trusting him? We've
had the law We've had our, you know, you know your mother and
your father, you know what they believed. You know how they were
saved. They were saved under the preaching
of this law. You know what your great-grandfather
believed. He believed Moses' law was the way of salvation.
Why are you going off after this one called Jesus? That's, that's
the pressure they put on these folks. And it was a great, they
were made a gazing style. They were made a spectacle before
the whole world. by those who didn't believe on
christ by those who were worse been according to the tradition
of the father's just goes this calls the father's did secondly
these brethren suffered but sorrow over their bro uh... brothers
and sisters who were treated the same way the apostle paul
says here that they had so much compassion of him when he was
cast in the prison that they sympathize with him and they
they joyfully uh... gave of themselves to confident
what would cause a sinner, a believing sinner, to continue steadfast
when encountering opposition like this, when something that
is opposing us so much like this. We have opposition within our
hearts, our old nature, wanting to put our hand to the work and
wanting to save ourselves. There is that old nature there
that wars against the new constantly. But we also have warrings without
where we're constantly mocked and said, you need to be under
the law. You need to go back to ceremonialism. You need to go back to legalism.
They don't call it that. It's very subtle in our day,
but that's the same thing that happens. But what would cause
a wretched sinner who has these warrings within and without,
what would cause them to keep going in the faith and continue
in the faith and continue Steadfast trust in Christ. Well, look here
in verse 34. This is what I want to talk to
you about this morning. It says, Knowing in yourselves
that you have in heaven a better and enduring substance. That's
what I want to talk about this morning, is the enduring substance. That's the title of our message,
the enduring substance. Now, the writer here is primarily
talking about casting away the confidence and going back to
the law. He's talking about going back
to the ceremonial worship. But there's nothing on this earth
that's going to endure. There's no substance on this
earth that will endure. If you will, look with me at
Matthew 6. Matthew 6. And look at verse 19. This was the Lord's words. to
those that he spoke to here in the day when he walked this earth.
He said, Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth
and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth
nor rust doth corrupt, where thieves do not break through
nor steal. For where your treasure There
will your heart be also. Look here now, the light of the
body is the eye. If therefore thine eye be single. Single for what? That's the same
word that's used over there where Paul said, I fear lest you be
turned away from the simplicity that's in Christ. That you be
deceived as the serpent beguiled Eve in the garden. That's the
same word. Single. The singleness that's
in Christ. In Him alone. Because if our
eye is full of the light of Christ, the whole body will be light.
But if your eye be evil, if it's partly set on Christ and partly
set on the flesh, partly set on our works, or our way, or
our wisdom, or our pride, or our high-mindedness, all these
things, the body will be full of darkness too. The body will
be full of darkness. And if the light that is in thee
that you think is light is really darkness, how great is that darkness?
The reason I point that out to you, brethren, is because the
enmity of the carnal heart hates God as much today as men did
in the days of these Hebrew brethren. There's no difference. The main
difference is this, is that in our day, Satan doesn't work like
he did in their day. It's not as blatant as it was
in their day. It's very subtle, very careful. They imprison and beat saints. Nobody's being beat today for
trusting Christ. But one thing I see is with the
world today, it seems like that there's so many jobs out there
that have to do with entertainment, have to do with with sports and
movies and politics. And there's big paying jobs.
There's jobs that pay more in our day than there ever has been
in history. And why would you want to work
a menial job? Why would you want to work menial
labor if you could go out and get in a job like that and make
big money and have a nice home and nice cars and fine clothes
and live in refinement and culture and enjoy those, why wouldn't
you do those things? And we're constantly inundated
in our day with this as being, this is where your substance
is. This is where you're going to have some assurance that things
are going to go your way if you go and pursue your dreams and
make these things happen and get wealth in these things. But these are positions, listen
to me now, I want you to hear me and AJ was talking about this
the other night. These are positions that take your time seven days
a week. They take up your time constantly. And these are positions that's
going to promote a love for self. We don't need any more help with
that. We don't need any more help with that. But that's what
they do and they make us covetous. They make us boastful. They make
us more proud because of what we've achieved. Nobody in this
day and time, nobody wants to go to a class reunion from their
high school and say, well, I just sweep floors for a living. Everybody
wants to go back and have some big feather in their cap that
they've accomplished. That's the pride of our heart.
That's our natural heart. These positions of influence
and power, it's high-pressure jobs, too. And there's so much
pressure that you stop being peacemakers, and they make you
peacebreakers. You become high-minded. You become
heady. You become proud. You become
boastful. You think that your way is the
way. And it'll cause you to be ruthless. They used to always,
I was telling AJ, they used to always tell us, you know, that
was the constant thing they would tell us in Nashville was there's
75,000 people in this city wanting your job. And when somebody's
telling you that, they're not telling you that because they're
telling you you have some assurance in your job, in your position. They're telling you because if
you don't produce, we got plenty of people. You're just like changing
a shirt. We don't care about you. We got
somebody else waiting in the wings. And when that happens,
but all the while, you know, that puts pressure on you and
it makes you do whatever you got to do to succeed. And you
get on that treadmill and get to running and your mind and
your body and your soul and everything is encompassed with it because
we're constantly told everywhere that that's where our substance
is. That's where our substance is. That's not true. That's not
where our substance is. Not for a believer. This world
might as well get all they can. Because if they don't trust Christ,
this is it. This is as good as it gets. But
I'll tell you what a good job would be. A good job. I don't
care what it's doing. But a good job would be a job
where it provides you with a living to where you can afford the things
you need. You need. Not necessarily what
you want. What you need. And it will allow
you to consistently worship Christ. That's a good job. I don't care
what it is. I don't care if the world looks
at it and thinks it's somebody or if they look down their nose
on it. It don't matter. That's a good job if you can
just afford what you need and worship Christ. That's the important
thing. And then all the folks too, and
I see this so much in our day, is that everybody has taken on
a form of religion. There's nobody that's not righteous
or religious because nobody's a sinner everybody's and everybody
wants to let everybody know about it you know if you if you if
you give something to somebody they gonna put it all over the
TV screen that you can give you an award for it you know that's
that is your reward that's it you got it because you're not
getting anything from God for it you did it to be seen a man
that's your reward and this form of religion It's
convenience. It's a religion of convenience.
That's all it is. That is all in the world it is.
Because it soothes the conscience. That's what it does. It makes
a man feel a little bit better about running after the world
if he reads this book every now and then. Or if he attends a
worship service every now and then. He doesn't take into consideration
that the whole time he's there, sitting there listening, all
he's thinking about is his obligations and his money and what he's got
to be doing next and this move and that move, just so he's there. It's a form of religion. It's
a form of religion. The hope of a Christ who cannot
save, but by the consent of the sinner, it can be stolen by thieves. That hope can be stolen by thieves.
That's a corrupted hope. It's going to be devoured by
that moth of the sinful flesh. It's going to rust. When this
flesh fades, it's going to fade away like an old, rusted junk
car, because it's not worth anything. It's just not worth anything.
But look here. Know in yourselves that you have
in Heaven a better and enduring substance. A better and enduring
substance. I want to care about this enduring
substance. You know why I think, in our
day, I think that morality preaching passes for the gospel because
we're so immoral. And that it passes for the gospel
because parents believe their children would be better off
to hear a message that would try to curb them from being sexually
immoral than to hear a message about Christ putting away the
sin of His people. But the reason we think that
and the reason we look at morality preaching as being the gospel
is because we hadn't heard Christ preached unapologetically in
years. But this is the substance that's
in heaven. It's Christ. It's described to
us in Scripture as a house, a city, a kingdom built on a solid foundation. It's built by God. Christ is
God. The Lord Jesus Christ is God,
the Son of God, and the foundation of the believer. The substance
of the believer is enduring because it's built by Him. It's founded
by Him on the blood of Christ and it can't be shaken. It can't
be shaken. Lasting riches, the treasure
of this inheritance is to be with our Redeemer. It's better.
It's better than anything else. And it endures when nothing else
endures. And nothing else does endure.
It's a celestial substance. It's a substance that can't be
seen with the natural eye. And I know that comes across
to the carnal heart, to the natural heart as being some mystical
thing. But it's what's real. It is what is real. God's going
to shake the heavens and the earth. And everything that hasn't
been planted by Him, that isn't founded upon His Son, it's going
to be removed. It's going to melt away with
a fervent heat. And the only thing that is going
to remain is what Christ has built. What He has established. Those whom He has made righteous. That is our substance. It can't
be spoiled. It can't be taken away because
Christ is that substance. He bought it with His own blood.
This is an inheritance that He has guaranteed His people. It
won't decay. It won't fade away. You remember
the rich young ruler. He came to the Lord Jesus Christ,
and talk about three strikes against
you. He was rich, he was young, and he was a ruler. That meant
he was religious. He was a ruler, considered a
teacher, a scribe, a ruler of some sort. And he came to the
Lord and said, what must I do that I might inherit eternal
life, that I might work the works of God? What do I need to do?
And the Lord Jesus Christ met him right where his problem was. And he said, you know the commandments. And he said, I've kept them all
from my youth up. That was his hope. That was his
substance. That his old wrinkling flesh, well, he was young. It probably wasn't wrinkling
that much yet. But he had all his confidence in his flesh.
Not knowing that when my hope, my experience of my flesh and
what I've done, when it goes away, so does all my work go
with it. So does all my hope go with it.
But he said, I've done those things from my youth up. And
the Lord said, you just lack one thing, one thing. The Lord
knew the man's heart. He said, you lack one thing,
one thing only. And he told that man, he said,
If you want to be perfect, if thou wilt be perfect, if that's
your heart's desire, he said, go and sell that thou hast and
give to the poor and thou shalt have treasure in heaven and come
and follow me. That's what we're going to have
to do. That's exactly what a believer has to do. We have to sell everything. We have to be ready to provide
everything we've got is a fellow believer by God's grace, by Him
giving us that heart. Because we've left everything.
This is not my substance. I'm following Christ and He's
my all. But that man went away sorrowful.
He went away sorrowful. You know why? Because it said
he had many riches. What did the Lord say? Where
a man's treasure is. That's where his heart's going
to be. Wherever his treasure is, that's where his heart's
going to be. This fellow thought that if he gave up his riches,
his material possession, it would mean giving up his life, it would
mean giving up his youth, his vitality, because that's where
all his comfort was, was in his riches. And following Christ
would surely mean he'd have to give up his robe, he'd have to
give up his self-ascribed wisdom, he'd have to give up his self-ascribed
position of thinking, I've done everything that needs to be done.
He had to confess I haven't done anything. I'm a sinner. Oh, but
the substance He would have had if He just bowed to Christ. But He couldn't. He couldn't
do it. That's what these things will do. This stuff that's not
enduring substance, it will eat away at us and take us and corrupt
us even more, just like this rich young ruler. to where we
walk away sorrowful. I'm not going to do that. I'm
not going to bow to cry. I'm not going to have this man
reign over me. If it means giving up my riches, I'm not doing it.
I've known some vagabonds, according to this world's standard of success,
who are rich beyond measure in the riches of Christ's glory.
And I've known some millionaires who would, at this day and time
right now, sit by themselves at home with their books because
they will not listen to a man. Will not listen to a man. Take
that book, that dead prophet, read him. You get to a part where
it rebukes you a little bit, you skip right over it. He's
in your control. But that man is standing and
preaching the same message. If he's God's man, if he's God's
messenger, the message is going to rebuke us at times. I can
remember sitting and hearing my pastor preach I'd just be
sitting there thinking, man, how does he know what's going
on? How does he know the problem I'm having? How does he know
it? And I may not have been there for a month. I'm trying to write songs. I
might not have even been there. And yet I walk in, I think, he's
put a tail on me. He said somebody followed me
around. That God's Word does that. It
just goes where God sends it. And it's God that does it. It's
God that does it. But these things, a man or woman,
young or old, rich or poor, it doesn't matter brethren. It's
this. Those riches. You know why the
love of money is the root of all evil? Because it's the love
of feeling self-sufficient. It's the love of feeling like
I'm my own man. I got everything. I can control
everything. It's self what it is. That's
what it is. And that's the thing. So it doesn't
matter if it's a man, woman, young, old, rich or poor. And
I've also known some folks that didn't have a lot according to
the riches of this world who would have not parted with this
world just like this rich young ruler would because they thought
that was their enduring substance. Anybody who's set on the world,
whose obligation is the world, it's just a fulfillment of the
lust of the flesh. It's just a lust of the eyes
and the pride of life. That's all it is. It's sin. Anybody swayed by the influence
of this world, who has the confidence in their religious works, they
don't have the confidence. The confidence is Christ. He's
the confidence. You remember Mary and Martha. And there's Martha, and she's,
I mean, Martha's doing a nice thing. She's waiting on her guests,
and she's trying to be a good host, and she's running about,
cumbered about with much serving. We have a problem justifying
ourselves. And usually, if whatever it is
that we're setting our hearts' affection on in this life is
something that's good, a good thing, that maybe benefits people,
whatever it is. We have a tendency to justify
ourselves by saying, well, if I'm not doing this, look at all
the people I won't be helping. But Martha was up there and she
was saying, I'm just trying to help all my guests and wait on
all my guests. And the Lord said, Mary has found
that one thing needful. She found Christ and she just
sat down at His feet. She's not worried about all the
rest of the stuff, Martha. It's nice that you want to be
serving people. That's good. But if you miss
Christ, you've missed it all. He's our confidence. He's our enduring substance.
Let me show you some things here in verse 35. Cast not away, therefore,
your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. Cast it
not away. Well, Clay, you don't understand
my situation. You don't understand. I'm young
and I've got the rest of my life. I've been there. I've been there. I've got a bunch of friends that
don't, you know, I'd just rather be with them. I've been there.
I know what you mean. Well, I've got so many obligations. I've been on that treadmill.
I know what you mean. I don't want to become a fool
and glorying in anything. I know, brethren. I was thinking
about this. I mentioned Thursday night about
going from $600 a year property taxes to $5,000 a year property
taxes. I had a $120,000 mortgage. My
house payment was $600 less for a much nicer house than where
I'm living now. But my confidence is not in my
bank account. My confidence is not in you.
I love you and I appreciate you. I think you've been so kind and
gracious to each other and to me and my family. But my confidence
is this. My Lord, my Savior is seated
at the right hand of God. And He moves everything. I mean absolutely everything
according to His good pleasure. He turns the heart of my enemies
just whichever way He wants to turn it. He hedges me about as
a consuming fire. Nobody can get to me. He has
promised that wherever two or three are gathered in His name,
He'll be there in the midst of them. And I believe He's got
people here. And I believe as long as He's
got some people here, I can come here with full assurance and
full confidence that He'll provide. that He'll provide. My confidence
is this, that He's going to use me to teach you and call out
some of your children. That keeps me going. I understand
what it is to give up things. That's my point. I understand
that. I know what it is to give it up, but we haven't given up
anything. That's where we've got to come
to. God's got to bring us to the place where we see that in
turning from our false religion and turning from our wisdom and
our way and our understanding of things and making our boast
of God and what we know and how we've come to these grand understandings
of things. We've got to leave all that behind.
You know the one thing that Ruth had when Naomi told her to go
and lay down at the feet of that man on the threshing floor of
Boaz? You know what the one thing she had? She had a good reputation. A good reputation. And here's
this woman telling her, go lay down at the feet of a man in
the threshing floor. What are folks going to say about
me? It don't matter. It don't matter. Go lay down
at his feet. He's your near kinsman. Bow down
at his feet. It does not matter. It don't
matter what I think about you. It don't matter what Family members
think about you, don't matter what extended family thinks about
you, all that matters. We've got to give up our reputation.
We've got to give up everything. Go to Him. He's our confidence. I know what it is to justify
myself. I do it every day. I know what
it is to have a heart set on the world. I know how a heart
can deceive you into thinking It's good to make merchandise
of our own souls. I know how it is. God has to
keep me from it every hour. Every hour. If He let me go for
a minute... Y'all show up here on Sunday
and where in the world is Clay? He's gone. I'm telling you. That's the truth. But by God's
grace, the believer understands something. A little bit. He gets
a little bit of what Christ means when He says, Sell that you have. sell everything you got and give
alms and provide yourself bags which wax not old a treasure
in the heavens that faileth not where no thief approaches no
moth's gonna corrupt it that's what that's what the writer means
here when it says cast not away therefore your confidence where's
your confidence where is it where's your confident i know a little
bit about the believer knows a little bit about what it is
to know that we have an earthly house. If our earthly house of
this tabernacle is dissolved, we have the building of God.
We have a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. So cast not away therefore your
confidence. Where is it? Where is your confidence?
Paul said to the Colossians, they wanted a return to these
beggarly elements. They wanted a return to doing
things to be seen of men. They wanted their religion to
be something that is carnal, that folks could look at. and
know they're being religious, and know they're doing a lot.
And Paul said this, set your affection on things above, not
on things on the earth. For you're dead. Are you? Are
you? Are we dead? We're dead to this
world. We're dead to the praise and
we're dead to the criticism. We're just dead to this world.
Is your life hid with Christ in God? Where's Christ? Where is He? He's in heaven. He's seated at God's right hand.
He's our enduring substance. Seated at the right hand of God.
When Christ, who is our life, is He our life? Is He your life?
If He's my life, it's going to be evident, brethren. We're going
to look here in our message today how Paul's teaching us a man
is not justified by works. But James said a man is justified
by works. Two different things, though.
Two different audiences. Paul's talking to folks who want
to be who wanted to have righteousness by what they do. James is talking
to folks who are claiming to believe God, but may show no
evidence of it. You know what evidence is going
to be? A man is going to consistently be at the feet of Christ, continually. Where Christ is preached, he'll
be there. Where God is set forth in His
glory, that's where the man wants to be. The treasurer is Christ. His
affection is set on things above. That same man that is worshipping
and manifesting by his consistency, that his works or his confidence
is in Christ, that same man, he will worship God when he is
on his own. He will want to read anything
he can that worships Christ, that man or that woman. He will
want to listen to messages that is glorifying setting forth Christ
and Him crucified. Because Christ is His all. And
there is His confidence. And I tell you this, the person
that does it, don't. I said the person that doesn't
consistently prove by their consistency that they love Christ and that
He has the preeminence, they are not worshipping Christ at
home alone either. They don't. They can make out
like they are. You cannot fool a believer. You
cannot fool the Spirit of God. You can't lie to the Spirit of
God. If He is our enduring substance, if Christ is all our confidence,
brethren, we're going to be worshipping Him every waking hour that we
have and setting up a lot of times at night thinking about
Him when we're not worshipping or when we're not awake, fully
awake. Cast not away therefore your
confidence. And this confidence in Christ
has great recompense of reward. Great recompense of reward. Look
with me over there at 2 Timothy 4.8. 2 Timothy 4.8. Henceforth there is laid up for
me a crown of righteousness, a crown of righteousness, which
the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day, and
not to me only, but unto all them also that love His appearing. Do thy diligence to come shortly
unto me." Now look at what Paul says right here. has forsaken me. Having loved
this present world, he has departed unto Thessalonica. He is gone. He was there, but he is gone. Why did he leave? Because his
heart was not set on things above. His heart was set on things of
this earth. And he left. He just left. Cast away his confidence. Cast
it all away. God has robed His people in the
righteousness of Christ. Do you trust Him? Do you believe
on Christ? If your confidence and your hope
is Him, if He truly is your life, brethren, listen, death has no more claim
on you. None. Sin can't be laid to your
charge. Nothing but eternal righteousness. Not as if you're righteous. You're
righteous. You're righteous. You know what? If I have that
confidence, if I have that assurance, if I have it because Christ is
all to me, He is all my hope and my stay, He is He is the
one in whom my sin's been put away. It's His righteousness. It's the faithfulness of Christ
that has made me the very righteousness of God. If that's the case, brethren,
if that's the case, the person whose heart's been full, I tell
you what, a young man, a young man who has all this peer pressure
from his buddies, when God saves him and he's able to tell him,
I'm not running with you anymore, fellas. or a woman who is out
in the world working, and she's got all these obligations and
is supposed to be at this place and that place, and it's interfering
with her worship, I guarantee you, I'm not going to be there.
I'm not going to be there. She'll only do it, or he'll only
do it because his confidence is Christ. And he knows Christ
can take the heart of that person he's talking to and make them
go. Bow down. You're going to do what my child
says you're going to do. Well, I believe we could probably
meet together another time. We'll work around your schedule.
We don't want to interfere with your worship of the Lord. See
if it happens. And if it doesn't, the Lord will
provide. The Lord will provide. 1 John 3 says, Beloved, now are
we the sons of God. Sons of God. How much do you
love your son? How willing are you to protect
your child, your son? How willing are you to do that?
You won't let anything happen to him if you can do it. If it means jumping in front
of a moving vehicle to do it. I was going to tell you what
happened to Will yesterday, but his grandma might listen to this.
If it means jumping out in front of a car that's about to run
over him, you do it. How much more do you think God
would do it for His own son? And for those that He'd love?
His children. That's right. That's right. Brethren, when it says we're
more than conquerors, when it says we're more than conquerors,
what's more than a conqueror? Somebody that's conquered everything
has conquered everything. What could be more than a conqueror?
You're sons of God. You're daughters of God. You're
children of God. That's being more than a conqueror.
Isn't that right? I don't want to hurt you. I want you to be set on Christ. We have an inheritance, incorruptible,
undefiled, that fadeth not away, that's reserved in heaven. Look
over at 2 Corinthians 4.8. I'll finish up here. 2 Corinthians
4a. As long as we are in this world,
we are going to have trouble. But we are not going to look
to our own hand to save us. We are not going to look to our
own religious works to give us confidence and acceptance with
God. We are not going to let this world overcome us and influence
us and turn us every which way. But we are going to wait like
the Apostle Paul did. Look here at what he said in
verse 8. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed. We're perplexed, but we're not
in despair. We're persecuted, but we're not
forsaken. We're cast down, but not destroyed. Look down at verse 14. Knowing
that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also
by Jesus and shall present us with you. for all things are
for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving
of many redound to the glory of God. For which cause we faint
not, but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man, the
spiritual man, the man created by the Holy Spirit of God is
renewed day by day. And here is what that brings
a man to say. For our light affliction, if
you read about what all Paul endured, beaten, shipwrecked,
mocked. He said, But our light affliction
is just for a moment, and it worketh for us a far more exceeding
and eternal weight of glory, while we look not at the things
which are seen, but the things which are not seen. For the things
which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not
seen, that is what is eternal. Now let's read our text one more
time. Hebrews 10.34 Knowing this, brethren, knowing
yourselves, that ye have in heaven a better and enduring substance,
cast not away, therefore, your confidence, which hath great
recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience,
to continue steadfast, that after you've done the will of God,
after you've continued steadfast in the faith, you might receive
the promise, all this substance we've been talking about, for
yet a little while. And He, there He is, that's the
substance, He that shall come will come and will not tarry. Brethren, I want you to Set your heart
and your affection on Christ Jesus the Lord. We've got two
natures. We've got a nature that loves
this world. A believer that has a nature that loves this world
has a nature that loves Christ. And we're saved by God's grace
and we're kept and preserved by God's grace. And I'll tell
you the one that will have the most influence on us between
those two natures. is the one that we are feeding
the most. The one we are giving the most attention to. If we
are giving attention to the old man by heaping up the lust of
this flesh from this world, that man is going to have, he is going
to rear up at every venture until God puts him back down and renews
the new man day by day. That new man, stay on Christ.
Think on things of God. Sing His songs. Songs that honor
Him and glorify Him. And trust Him. And you'll find
the more you do, the more you will. And the more you will,
the more you do. He said, the man that walks in
the light I've given him, I give him more light. That's just how
it is for a believer. That's just how it is. So I want
you to know that enduring substance.