All right, if you'll take your
Bibles and turn me to Galatians chapter 3. I was thinking about the message.
This is a message that is kind of close to home. We continually preach the gospel
of God's grace and God's people love it. God's people rejoice
in it. God's people are so thankful
for it. Recently had some people that have come in had trouble
with it and they were struggling and they said, you know, I, what
you say is true. I can't deny it. The word of
God says it. I can't deny what you're saying,
but I'm trying to have trouble. I have difficulty with it. And
this is in regards to the law. I don't, I know that God's people,
uh, they don't have any trouble with the law. We're not under
it. I don't have any trouble with the law. Law is fulfilled
in Christ. And so this has been kind of
a close to home thing. And I'm sure that you'll run
into people eventually that are just dismayed. They don't understand
the law and its purpose. And so I hope the Lord will be
gracious this morning and show us this. I've titled this message
Living by Faith. Living by faith. Let's take Galatians
3 and look at verse 10. We'll begin there. For as many as are of the works
of the law are under the curse, for it is written, cursed is
everyone that continueth not in all things written in the
book of the law to do them. But no man is justified by the
law in the sight of God. It is evident. For the just shall
live by faith, and the law is not of faith. But the man that
doeth them shall live in them. Christ hath redeemed us from
the curse of the law, being made a curse for us, for it is written,
cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree. That, this is why
he was cursed, this is why he suffered, in order that the blessing
of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ
that we, all of us, might receive the promise of the Spirit through
one way, faith, through faith. Now Paul, having set forth Abraham
already in this chapter, he'd set forth Abraham as God intended,
as an imminent type of every believer. Abraham's a type of
every one of us. This is why God calls him the
father of the faithful. Paul had proven this, that salvation
of Abraham was through faith. Abraham believed God, and what? was counted to him to righteousness. And Abraham believed. When did
Abraham believe? He believed before the law, didn't
he? Before the law. Even before his circumcision,
Abraham believed God. And that all are justified before
God by what? Faith in Christ. Through faith
in Christ, rather we're justified by the faith of Christ. That's
vitally important. I want you to see this as we're
going to go through this. It's the faith of Christ that
justifies us. It was the faithfulness of Jesus
Christ who came into the world and offered himself a sacrifice
to God. It was the faithfulness of Jesus
Christ in his obedience to the law that justified everyone he
represented. And then by the grace and power
of God through faith in Christ, which also we'll see is a gift
of God, we receive this righteousness. We receive this salvation. We are justified by the faith of Christ and his
righteousness is imputed to us who believe that we are blessed
with faithful Abraham. We are blessed even as Abraham
was. So in verse 10, the apostle now
turns back. And I want you to understand
this whole book of Galatians is dealing with those who profess
to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. They heard the apostle
Paul preach. They all gloried in it. They heard the message
of Christ. Come, drink of the water of life
freely. And they all rejoiced in it.
But some had crept into the church saying, well, salvation by faith
is good, you must believe, but now that you've believed, you
must turn to the law as a means to live. They said to circumcise,
this was their particular law that they wanted, today it's
the Ten Commandments, but it's the same, same principle. And
so Paul here in verse 10 he turns to all who would profess to be
justified by Christ and then turn to the law. He says to you who are looking
to the law to you who are looking to works of obedience. He says don't you know this that
you're under the full weight of the law. Look at that he says in verse
10. For as many as, I don't care who you are. I like the way Paul
speaks. He's not very respect, not respective of your person.
Don't care who you are in the congregation. Doesn't really
matter. If this is you, as many as are of the works of the law,
what are you? You are under the curse. Now, why are you under a curse?
You that want to be under the law, isn't the law good? Of course
the law is good. Nothing wrong with the law. You're
the problem. I'm the problem. The law is great as it is written. This is why it's true, as it
is written. I like when he says that because
this ends all debate. That's what Paul is writing this
for. He's saying it this way so this ends debate about the
matter. It is written, cursed is everyone
that continueth not in all things written in the book of the law
to do them. to do them. Now it is my intention,
I want to speak to anybody who wants to be under the law, anyone. This is speaking to you, to anybody
that wants, in any measure, now listen to me, in any measure,
whether small or great, one commandment or all of them. Don't you know this, that you
are under the law fully, completely, absolutely. to you who would
begin by faith in Christ and somehow finish this by legal
works. And this is, I'm sad to say,
I got my head down. I like preaching to my small
group that I have. I don't stick my head up much.
I don't look around and see what's going on around me. But when
you do, you'll find out that most religion have the law as
a rule of life. Most all Christian religion will
have the law in some measure, now some more, some less, but
all of them will have it as a rule of life. If that's so, if you
start by faith and you finish by law, listen to me, you're
under the law. You're not under grace. You're
under the curse of the law. As many as are of the works of
the law, you are under the full weight and responsibility. Now,
again, when I say law, I know this pops into my head. Ten commandments,
we're ingrained in that from our youth. This country has been,
you know, they'll throw that in our schools. When I was young,
you'd see it in school, ten commandments. And they think that's the law.
Well, in actuality, there are 613 commandments. That's only
ten of the 613. Anybody want to be under the
law, can you name 512? What's the 512th commandment? 486th commandment? You don't
even know. And so when he's saying this,
you are under the law, he said, curses everyone that continueth
not in what? All things written in the book
of the law to do them. You are cursed. James testifies
that if you are guilty of one point, you got all 612 and you
miss one. What did he say? You're guilty
of all of them. You're guilty of all of them. If you fail in
one point or miss one mark by one sinful thought, one sinful
motive, one sinful deed, you have failed. And the only thing the law can
do for you is curse you. That's all it can do. It cannot
help you. And so if you desire to be under
the law, listen to what Paul says twice in Galatians 5. Christ
shall profit you nothing. Nothing. It doesn't matter how sincere
you are about the law. And this is a lot of people say,
well, you know, we, I want to honor God. So, uh, you know,
I got to honor the law. You've already failed. You've
already failed to honor the law and your lip service doesn't
honor it. Your sincerity doesn't honor the law of God. So why in the world would anyone
profess to believe salvation is by grace? And then return to the law for
some measure to finish it. What you are saying is Christ's
work is not sufficient. That's what you're saying. To
return to the law you are testifying that Christ's work is not sufficient
in your righteousness. In your redemption? In your justification? Or listen to this, your sanctification,
because that's where most people will say, well, I'm justified
by Christ. I'm righteous by Christ. I'm
redeemed by Christ. But sanctification is a cooperative
effort. Oh, so you're saying his sanctification
is not sufficient, that you have to cooperate in this. That's
not what Hebrews 10 tells us, is it? Hebrews 10 says this,
that we were sanctified by the will of the Father. He said,
By the witch will you are sanctified. How? Through the offering of
the body of Christ. Now how many times were you sanctified?
Once for all. And now then he comes to those
that are sanctified by the will of the Father, sanctified by
the blood of Christ, and he sanctifies us the way he did Abraham, through
faith. He gives us a holy nature by which we are sanctified. And
so going back under the law does not sanctify you, does not help
you. And so we who have been blessed
by the grace and power of God to believe on Christ, we know
this emphatically, that by the deeds of the law shall no flesh
be justified in His sight. And I know that. That's a first
principle. When God comes to a sinner, He
makes him a sinner. He shows him who he is. And at
that moment, I know this, I cannot save myself. That's why I fled
to Him. I cannot save myself. And I saw
Him. And I saw how wonderful His salvation
is. And by grace and power of the
Spirit, I had no other option but to flee to Him. I fled to
him because he was the only way I could be justified. I couldn't
be justified by the works of the law. And Paul says this,
look, he said in verse 11, no man is justified by the law on
the side of God is what? It's evident. Isn't that evident
to you who really believe? It's evident to me. That's clear. It's unmistakable. I know this,
that by no means of that law am I ever going to obtain favor
with God, ever. Christ is not a stepping stone
and the law elevates me somehow into a greater position. That's
saying that Christ's position is less. No, to me it's evident. I'm not going to be justified
by the law. For, because this is why, this
is what we've been taught, the just shall live by faith. This is clearly seen that all
who are quickened by the Holy Spirit, all who live life, we live life
by faith in Jesus Christ. For God has told us this. It
is written. This should settle it again.
The law curses me. That settles it. Why? Because
God, it's written. Curses everyone and continues
not in all things written in the book of law to do them. That's
written. And so is this. The just shall
live by faith. The just shall live by faith.
This was written by the finger of God. Those that desire to be under
the law, they always ask me, well, if we're not to live under
the law, then how in the world are we going to live? Same way
Abraham lived. You know, according to them,
Abraham must have been a vile person because he didn't have
the law. He must have been a horrible man. He couldn't, must not have
been able to control himself because he didn't have a law
to live by. How did Abraham live? He lived by faith. How are we
to live? The same way Abraham lived, by
faith. We live by faith. The law cannot apply to our justification
before God on any level. It never did, it never has, and
it never will be the means of our justification. Why, for we
from birth could not obey it. And even now, we who are believers
in Christ confess that that's impossible for this flesh. Therefore, our justification
is not by carnal means. Have you ever thought about this?
The law is actually speaking about spiritual things. It's
not necessarily speaking carnal things. You could do, if it were
possible for you to do it, you could do all these things in
the flesh and still be guilty. Because the law is spiritual.
And the law is being spiritual is telling something carnal to
be spiritual. It's impossible. Can't do it.
Why Jesus said that which is born of flesh, what is it? It's
flesh. It's going to live flesh. It'll
die flesh. It must be put off. It cannot
attain to the spiritual things. But we who are believers, faith
is what? It's spiritual, isn't it? It's
a spiritual thing. It's a gift of God. It's a gift
of God. And so those who are justified
by faith, We will not turn back. We will not turn back. We often
have to fight this flesh because of this. We often have to put
off this old man because this old man. Believer, do you often
look for evidence? I mean, circumstances are dark,
times are bleak, maybe hell's failing, something's, everything's
going against you. The promises of God, you have
the promises of God, but everything seems to be going against it.
And you're looking for some assurance. I want to know that I know him. And so what does the flesh want
to do? Want to look at what we're doing. I say, well, am I reading
enough? Am I studying enough? You put
this, we got to put that off. That's what faith does. Faith
puts off these things. Faith lays hold of him. When
you can't see, I think it's in Isaiah, it says, you know, when
everything around you is in darkness, believer, he said, you that serve
the Lord, you that fear the Lord, are you in darkness? And there
is no light. What do you do in such times
of darkness, such times of sorrow, doubt? What does it tell you to do?
He said, trust in the name of the Lord. So what do we do, believers? How do we live? The just, those
who are justified, how are they going to live? They're going
to live by faith. The just shall live by faith
and we won't turn back. Hebrews 10 39 says now the just
shall live by faith. But if any man draw back, what
is he talking about? Drawing back to the law, drawing
back to his words, drawing back to his flesh to finish this matter
of salvation. God says my soul shall have no
pleasure in him. Paul said this, we are not of
them that draw back. One who are truly chosen of God
and redeemed by Christ. We're like the apostle. I tell
you, I don't understand a lot of times what the Lord's doing.
I just don't. I can't see it. Righteous suffer, the wicked
prosper. The gospel's rejected. What a
glorious gospel, free grace, and it's rejected? You gotta
be kidding me. I don't often understand what
God is doing, but I was like those apostles when they didn't
understand the Lord in John 6. They said, Lord, to whom shall
we go? I've got no place else to go.
I'm not going back there. There's only death there. I'm
staying with you. And that's how we live. We lay hold on Him. And by the grace and power of
the Spirit, we don't let go. We are not of them that turn
back to perdition, but of them that believe to the saving of
the soul. So the Apostle, he shows us this
wonderful justification has been accomplished by declaring to
us two things, the order of this accomplishment and then what
it means to live by faith, the order of this, how it was done.
He tells us how this justification was accomplished. If it's not
accomplished by the law, then how is it accomplished? I know
I can't stand before God unless I'm just, unless I'm righteous. Well, how is that possible? Well, first of all, our spiritual
life, our justification, our sanctification, our redemption,
our righteousness has nothing to do with the works of the law.
Look at the rhetorical question he asked him in verse 2 of chapter
3. He said, This only would I learn
of you. Received you the spirit by the works of the law? Did you walk around obeying the
law so much that God says, Hey, look at that guy. I'm going to
give him the Spirit. He's doing such a great job.
Is that how it came to you? Oh, no. That's a rhetorical question. No righteous, no person that
really knows grace, knows the grace of God would ever say that.
Did it come by that or by the hearing of faith? Well, we know
just from Romans 2 just what he said. Faith coming by hearing
and hearing by the Word of God. That's how faith came to us,
isn't it? The gospel was preached. The Spirit of God and power came
to us and gave us life and faith. That's how it happened. And so now he asks this question,
are you so foolish, you so ignorant, having begun in the Spirit, are
you now made perfect by the flesh? Is that how that works? Again,
it's a rhetorical question. No, it's not possible. No, no. And so then look at this in verse
12. Look at verse 12 then. And I want you to see how clear
this statement is. He's making a division here, a very distinct
division. The law is not of faith. The law is not of faith. This is clear. This is vitally
clear. The spiritual birth and the spiritual
walk of every believer is only by faith. But any man who takes
the law as his rule of life, what is it? It's not a faith.
It's not a faith. If you're walking by law, you're
not walking by faith. Why? The law is not a faith.
Now, at this point, the legalists will stomp their feet. They'll
rage. They'll get mad. They'll tell you that you are
against God. They'll tell you, you're not
going to honor the law of God. Have you? Ever? No. The legalists boast they
call us antinomian. But his railing does nothing
to change the word of God, nor does it change my mind concerning
this. The law is not a faith. The law is not a faith. If you're
under the law, you're not walking by what? Faith. If you're walking
by faith, you're not walking what? Under the law. These are
distinct things. Two distinct things. And so what the law says, notice
what the law says to do. The law is not of faith, but
the man that doeth them shall what? Live in them. Live in them. All who are under the law are
to do, perform labor continually, eternally under the whole law. You see, you don't get to pick
and choose which parts of the law you want to be under. This is religious
men do this. They pick and choose what they
perceive that they can obey. And then they try to put that
yoke on you. But the law says do. And you
must continually do everything. The man that doeth them, he must
continue to live in them. Is that joyful? It's hard for
me to even talk about this because it's just downer. But this is necessary because
men by nature desire to be under the law. And I can't for the
life of me understand why. This is the joy of living by
faith. Living by faith is trusting in
something that's done. Something that's finished. We trust looking to what Christ
has accomplished for us. What God purposed to give us.
Christ himself purchased it. He alone merited it. And by his grace and power, he
freely gives it. to every one of that believes. And so look now and see that
religion is all about doing blindly, imagining that they're going
to be accepted by God because of their zealous works, because
of their zeal, really because of their sincerity. And I don't
doubt their sincerity. They're really sincere. They're
really sincere. They think that their best efforts
are somehow going to give them access, better access to God
than you got. These vainly think the law, take
the law in pieces, taking what they perceive they can obey, but leave out what's not possible. I've often told men who's come
to me and saying, we need to be back under the law as a rule
of life. I said, well, you need to find
a high priest. You need to go. There's a mosque
over there. You got to knock that down. The
temple must be. If you're doing the law, you've
got to have sacrifices. This is why God put a mosque
over there, so it couldn't be done again. It's spitting in
the face of the Son of God to try to be back under that law.
It's saying His work is not sufficient. But all who take to do one thing
in the law must live in them, the apostle says. You must continually
be under its dominion. Cursed is everyone that continue
not in all things written in the book of the law to do them.
In other words, one cannot live under grace and then return to
the law. You cannot live by faith and
say you're living by law as well. You must live by one or the other. We cannot move from bondage to
freedom and freedom to bondage. Therefore, the apostle says to
all who truly believe, listen to this word, stand fast. I'm telling you, you're going
to be drawn away and tempted because your flesh is prone to
legalism. I mean, look at the apostle who
wrote this book. Remember when he was in Jerusalem? He was sitting
around James and those other guys and pretty soon they had
him shaving his head and offering a sacrifice. And he had offered
that sacrifice had God not arrested him. We're prone to these kinds
of things. We must stand fast in the liberty,
listen, wherewith Christ hath made us free, not being entangled
again with the yoke of bondage. See the great contrast in those
who live and stand fast in the perfect liberty of Christ and
those who live by the law. We live in Christ. My life is
hid with God in Christ. My total acceptance with God
is based on Jesus Christ. That's it. I add nothing to it. I can take nothing from it. Paul
says, I live by the faith of the Son of God. And what if he said, I live by
faith in the Son of God? How often have you looked at
your faith? Is it something to live by, your faith? Do you trust
in it, your faith? We don't have faith in our faith,
do we? Faith has an object. Faith is the, Christ is the object
of our faith. Therefore I live by the faith
of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. That's
my standing. That's my hope. And I continually
live by that standing and hope. That all our justification, all
our sanctification, all our redemption, isn't that what he tells us in
1 Corinthians chapter 1, that God has made Him, Christ, to
be what? All wisdom. Got any wisdom? Listen,
you know Christ. You have wisdom because He's
wisdom, isn't He? You have Him, you have wisdom.
Righteousness, who's your righteousness? Who's your sanctification? Who's
your redemption? All right, God made him to be
that. Why? That I should not glory.
I should not glory. Paul said this, but in 2 Corinthians
3, 18, he says, But we all with open face beholding in a glass
the glory of the Lord are changed into the same image. Don't you see what he's talking
about when this is an unsearchable mystery? Unsearchable riches
of Christ? You're not going to understand
this fully, are you? That God hath created in you
a nature in His own image. And when you look in the mirror,
is that what you see? I see sin. I see my need. I feel a conflict
within myself. Yet that does not change the
truth of what God has made me. James says, that which is born
of God sinneth not. And in the very first chapter
he said, if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves. The
truth is not in us. How can those two things be true?
Except God show us. We have two natures in one man.
Two natures in one man. A holy nature that cannot sin
and a sinful nature that cannot be holy. And these two are constantly
at struggle, war with one another. And so look now, you who see
your chains of sin and feel the just sentence of God's wrath,
listen to this. If the sun shall make you free,
what will you be? Free indeed. Free from what? Listen, I'm gonna give you three
things you're free from. If you're in Christ, this is three things
that Christ has totally made you free from. The guilt of sin. You are completely free from
sin's guilt. Now, I feel guilt. It's not what it means. I'm talking
about real guilt. Because I've never felt guilty
enough. Have you? I've never felt guilty enough. I confess it was my sin. I'm
guilty of it. But you know what he's done?
Christ has removed our guilt. How'd he do that? By being made
guilty. That's what it means when Christ
was made sin for us. Look what it says in that next
verse there. Look at that. Back to Galatians there. Look
at that next verse. He says in verse 13, For he hath
redeemed us from the curse of the law. Well, how'd he do that?
By being made a curse. See, God doesn't punish somebody
who's pretend innocent or pretend guilty. He can only punish the
guilty. God can't pretend. I know it's
what we like to do. We like to pretend. God doesn't
pretend. When God made him to bear our
sin in his own body, the mystery of it is that he was made guilty
for our sins. Yet he knew no sin, felt no sin,
thought no sin, did no sin while he was on the cross. As he was
made sin, he did no sin. He didn't feel our lusts or feel
none of that garbage. But I tell you this, before the
eyes of God, he was guilty. And God's wrath of that law poured
out on him. And when he was finished, he
told us, he told us what God, God was satisfied. He said, it
is finished. He shall see of the travail of
his soul and be what? Satisfied. Was he satisfied? Well, how do you know that? Well,
I know that because God raised him from the dead. God couldn't
raise him from the dead if there was any sin left. But there was
no sin left. That's why in Jeremiah the prophecy
is fulfilled. In that day shall the sins of
Israel be sought for and there shall be none. So you that believe in Jesus
Christ, where's your guilt? I like that when that woman was
put out that committed adultery and laid out before. He says, which of you convince it, which
of you is without sin, let him cast the first stone. They all
went away. And Jesus being left alone with the woman, he says,
who is he that condemneth thee? She said, no man, Lord. He said,
neither do I condemn me. Isn't this what he says in Romans
chapter eight, Romans chapter eight, he says, uh, Verse 23, who shall lay anything
to the charge of God's elect? Listen to who justified me. God. Now listen, I charge myself all
the time, don't you? Well, who are you to charge you?
Faith should understand this. Faith receives this. God justified
me. Who is he that condemneth? Well, if you can't charge me,
how can you condemn me? Who's he to condemn me? It's
Christ that died. Yea, rather is risen again. So we are free from the guilt
of sin. Secondly, you're free from the dominion of sin. Now,
how do you know you're free from the dominion of sin? Let me ask
you this. Do you believe? Now before, when you were under
the dominion of sin, could you believe? Jesus said, no man can
come to me except the Father which sent me draw him. You could
not believe. Until what? Until you were set
free. And when you were set free, you could believe. Matter of
fact, is there anything else you can do but believe? A woman came to our congregation.
I'll never forget it. It's one of the most wonderful
illustrations of faith I've ever heard. She said, I remember listening
to a message. She was listening to a message
on cassette tape. And she said, I knew this. Before I started
listening to that message, I would not believe. I did not believe. I didn't want to believe. But
somewhere in the middle of that message, I could not help but
believe. Why? Sin's dominion was removed. Life was given. Death no longer
reigned. Life reigned. Grace reigned in
the heart. And that's what we are. We're
free from the dominion of sin. We do believe. And if we could
not sin, we would long to not sin. But we know this, that one
day, our hope is this, that one day we'll be free from the very
presence of sin. This is what Christ did on the
cross. He removed our guilt. He removed
the dominion by the power of His grace. And now, one day,
He's going to remove sin altogether from us. When this body dies, what part
of you goes to glory? The part He made. The nature
He created. goes to be with the father. This
flesh falls to the earth and our hope is what? That one day
this body will be raised incorruptible undefiled like unto his glorious
body. This is what faith receives.
This is how we live. Continually looking to Jesus
Christ as all our hope, all our standing, all our righteousness,
all our sanctification, all our redemption. We look to him for
everything. Therefore, we are of faith. What
does he say? We are blessed with faithful
Abraham. We are blessed with faithful Abraham. We have the best and we will
not return to the law who can only curse us. We are now the
sons of God. We are now heirs of God, joint
heirs with Christ. We are now made the righteousness
of God in Christ. We are now fully and completely
perfectly justified by the faith of Jesus Christ. So Paul says
this, there is therefore now no condemnation. Now how can
you be under the law and have that? You can't. We who believe
have this. There is therefore now no condemnation. Now listen to this. There is
therefore now no condemnation. And now, right now, right now. You just keep doing this until
you die. There is therefore now no condemnation. Those are in Christ Jesus. Why? Because the law is fulfilled
in us. He tells us that in Romans 8.
The law is fulfilled. We have honored the law. Those
who prance around saying that we should be under the law, they've
never honored the law. We have honored the law. Where?
In the new man. It's complete. The law is fulfilled. It's satisfied. It has nothing
to say to us. We're not under it. Why then
would anyone want to return to the law? Why would anyone who has been
made free want to pick up the chains and put them back on?
Why? Do you think that somehow you're
going to honor God by doing that? No, you dishonor Christ in trying
to take on the law. And I'm going to quit here. The
question then remains, well, if all is done and faith is the
law that we live by, Are we to cease from doing good? Who in
the world ever said that? Only people who want to set up
straw men say something stupid like that. God forbid. Everyone who walks
by faith, we do good. The difference is motive. They do it to please God. We do it because God is pleased. They do it to merit the love
of God. We do it because of the love
of God. What constrains a man that lives
by faith? If he doesn't have the law to constrain him, what
constrains him? The love of Christ, Paul says,
constraineth When he gets to the end of Romans
12, I'm going through Romans now, and Romans 12 is a long
way from where I'm at. I'm just now in chapter 4. It
seems a long ways away. He spends 11 chapters talking
about the salvation by grace. And then he starts talking about
those who believe. And he says, let's read this
together. Look at Romans 12. And you see
this. You who walk by faith. I'm going to misquote it here. He says, after all I said concerning
the grace of God. He said, I beseech you therefore
brethren, by what standard? The mercies of God, that you present your bodies
a living sacrifice. It's what you said. We gladly
give everything. What are we given? Nothing. We've
actually given him nothing in giving everything. Paul said,
I count all things but dung that I might win Christ and be found
in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but the
righteousness which is by the faith, listen, of Jesus Christ. Not my own, his righteousness. This is what it is to live by
faith. It is to continually walk looking to Christ for everything.
You have needs? Faith looks to Christ for everything.
Faith doesn't look to self to merit anything. We can't. We won't. Why? Christ is sufficient. And for me to add anything to
Christ is to defile it. Isn't that true? You know, I
thought about this. You know the law never commanded
you to do good to the wicked? You know that? Remember the Good
Samaritan, that parable? Those priests passed by on the
other side. You know why they did that? They might have been
mean. They might have disliked this
guy or whatever. But the law, according to the
law, they couldn't go over there. They couldn't touch Him. They
couldn't do anything good for Him. They would defile themselves. Now who's the only one that could
do that? Christ's the only one that could do that. He's the
only one that can help the sinner and not defile himself. Christ is all to us who live
by faith. And so living by faith is not
complicated. It's very simple. You look to
Christ when? All times. For what? Everything. Never returning back to the law,
but just have one way to live, by faith. And what a glorious
object of faith he is. Is he not the most beautiful
thing that I of faith could ever see? Would you want to live by
anything else or anything less than Christ? Not me. I've got to have Him. If I don't
have Him, I don't have anything. I have Him. I have everything. I pray God will bless this to
you.