Romans 16. We'll be looking at
the verses 25 through 27 this evening. I want to ask you, Paul
says here, this is my gospel. He says that twice throughout
the scripture. He says it once in Timothy and once here. He
says, my gospel. Isn't that the Lord's gospel?
Of course it's the Lord's gospel, but it's my gospel. Why did Paul
say it was his gospel? Because that's what the Lord
used to save him. That's what brought him to the
feet of Christ. Paul was a religious man. Oh,
he had all kinds of religion just coming out of him. Oh, he
could quote scripture all day long, tell you all about it,
tell you the dates, tell you the history of all these things.
And then you know what happened? God saved him out of all that
wickedness. and all that blasphemy. And he
said, that's my gospel. The Lord gave it to me. And this
was the gospel that Paul was charged with to go out into the
world and preach. He said, oh, woe unto me if I
preach not the gospel. This is what the Lord put in
his hand to do. Not to go out baptizing folks.
He said, I didn't come baptized. I came to preach. I didn't come
singing. I came to preach. Guess what? That's how God saved sinners.
Now did Paul baptize them? Sure he did. Did he sing with
them? Did he lead singing if nobody showed up? Of course he
did. That wasn't his main goal. His main goal was to preach.
Preach the gospel. The primacy of preaching. We
ought to get back to that in this nation. We're getting down
to where it's going to be 30 second things you flip through
on your phone in your pajamas. Get back to singing and all those
other things that entertain the flesh and the mind we can get
into. He preached his gospel. And that's the gospel He has
forever. That's an everlasting gospel. It's not something temporary
that He was given. The Lord gifted Him and gave
Him for a season. That's an everlasting gospel
because it comes of an everlasting God that everlastingly loved
His people. I'm going to ask you today, ask
myself. I've got to put myself in my shoes. Makes it easier
on those that's tender-hearted to see me ask questions to you.
Is my gospel THE gospel? There's only one. There's not
multiple options. There's not multiple sects. That's
not possible. There's either life in Christ,
in the gospel, or there's death. That's it. There ain't no halfway. You ain't got one foot in one,
one foot in the other. You either have the gospel or
no gospel. There's not another. Paul told
us that plainly in Galatians 1. And so I ask myself, is my
gospel The gospel. You ask yourself, is your gospel
the gospel? Everybody's got a gospel. Did
you know that? Everybody has good news. Everybody has glad
tidings. What does that manifest? Well, not everybody goes to church.
Well, maybe it ain't church. Maybe it's my family. I just
love seeing my, I love my children. I love seeing y'all come through
the door. I'm proud of you. I want to tell people about you,
but that's all I have in this world. People make that their
gospel, their charity, their Work their employment. That's
what makes brings them happiness. That's what brings them glad
tidings That's the good news to them. Everybody's got a gospel
But as our gospel the gospel Paul's was and he tells us here
plainly he started Romans out giving us the gospel preaching
who Christ is, who God is, who man is, and how God saves sinners
through the blood of Christ. Him laying down His life for
His people. And that satisfactory payment, that propitiation, that
Christ was in this flesh as the God-man. He was made a man. There was a day He came to this
earth. He wasn't here, and then He was.
He was made a man, but He was declared God. He's always been
God. And then there was a day that
he said, this is God. John the Baptist said, there he comes.
I don't deserve to take his shoes off. And then there was a day
in our hearts and regeneration when the Holy Spirit comes to
us and declares Christ in our hearts. Now all of a sudden that's
not a gospel. That's not a theology. This isn't
just let me laminate a piece of paper and I can check this
off every morning and memorize some things. That's a person.
A person came to us. A person was revealed in us. And it was declared in our hearts.
That's God. I know Him. He came to me. He declared Himself to me. Paul
says here in verse 25, Romans 16-25, Now to Him that is of
power to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching
of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery
which was kept secret since the world began but now is made manifest
by the scriptures of the prophets according to the commandment
of the everlasting God made known to all nations for the obedience
of faith to God only wise. Be glory through Jesus Christ
forever. Amen." Who's he speaking of? He says here in verse 25, Who's
Paul talking about? The same one Jude was. The only
true God. The only wise God, our Savior.
He says there in verse 27, to God only wise. That's who he's
talking about. God only wise is of power. He has the power to establish
you. That's what I try my best to
over 250 times in this pulpit to declare God is able. He has the power to establish
you. The wise God. Not man. Not our
doing. Not our establishment. Him. God's only wise and He is of
power to establish you. That's what Paul's writing. Why
would God need to establish people? Why would He need to establish
us? Can't we do that ourselves? Of course not. We're just mush. We're without form and void,
just like the earth was when the Lord created it. We can't
establish ourselves. We must be established, because
in our natural birth, from that seed of Adam, from our fall in
the garden, our fall in conception, our fall, the first words out
of our mouth, crying and lying to our mothers. We didn't need
to change diaper. We didn't need fed. We just wanted
somebody to pick us up. We cried. That's lying. That's
deceit. A day-old baby. From all that
fall, everything we are, all through us, as our brother said
that day when our Lord wept, that was me. He had to bear me.
Oh, well, if that don't get you, nothing will. For the grace of
God in Christ Jesus and His face and His blood towards His people. Oh, what a God we have. What
a salvation we have. But we're fallen. What we truly
are, we are enemies with the God that created us. And every
fiber in our body, we think we're doing right, it's all bad. Everything
in it. 1 Thessalonians 3. We need to have our hearts established
because we can't. We can't do it. 1 Thessalonians
3. Verse 12. And the Lord make you to increase
and abound in love one towards another, towards all men, even
as we do towards you. He's praying that the Lord make
you grow in love towards your neighbors, towards your enemies,
towards your brethren. We can't do that, can we? We
can't make our love get bigger and stronger and be able to use
it more. The Lord has to do that. What's
all that going to do? If we grow in love and grow in
and compassion towards one another. Belief in Christ and loving our
brethren, loving Him. What's the end state of that?
Look at verse 13. To the end, He may establish
your hearts. unblameable in holiness before
God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ
with all His saints. There's a heart work has to be
done. Ain't no cleaning up outside the cup. Ain't no holy livin's
going to get you into heaven or get you right for heaven.
God in His love has to display His love in you. He has to do
a heart work to make you unblameable in holiness before God. Because
you have to be holy to be in His presence. That heart needs
to be established. He has to make it alive. It has to be born of God. Heart work has to take place.
We need that Word that He has to establish us. It's by His
command, God establishes the heart of His people. David wrote
in Psalm 119, Establish thy word unto thy servant who is devoted
to thy fear, who is devoted to thy honor, those that are yours. Lord, you have to establish your
Word in my heart. He has to do it. And he does
that by his word. By his word. Turn over a little
bit to 2 Thessalonians 2. We need to establish all these
good works that we have. We think that we do wonderful
things. There's things I do I'm proud of. What a shame. What
a shame. I did pretty good at that. Whether
it's cutting grass or giving to somebody that needs a bag
of groceries down at the grocery store. I think I helped somebody
out. The Lord has to establish my works. Anything any man is
ever going to do that's good, God has to establish it. Look
here in 2 Thessalonians 2 verse 16. Now our Lord Jesus Christ Himself
And God, even our Father, which hath loved us and hath given
us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, through
the gospel, through the preaching of the gospel to our hearts,
says, comfort your hearts, that's the only place comfort can be
found, and establish you in every good word and work. Every word
that comes out of my mouth that's going to be established in holiness
and righteousness, serving my God and serving my brethren,
God has to establish it. any good work that my hands do,
that my ears do of listening to somebody. Come cry to me. I'll try to keep my mouth shut.
I won't give no advice. You just let it out. I'll listen
with you. I'll cry with you. For me to
do something like that, God has to establish it. That's not of
our hand. It's not our doing. Look at chapter
3. He's got to keep us from evil.
So many people, I grew up with people, I feel so sorry for them.
They think they're soldiers for Christ and they're going to battle
Satan. You ain't going to do it. How
long has he been around? A lot longer than you. I can't battle traffic, much
less the Lord's devil. Well, I'm going to keep myself
from bad works. I want to. I don't want to sin against my God or
cause another drop of blood be shed for my Redeemer. I have
no desire to do that. That's foolishness. But He has
to keep me from that evil. He has to be the one that does
it. Look here in 2 Thessalonians 3 verse 2. And that we may be delivered
from unreasonable and wicked men, for all men have not faith. Even those that have faith, we
seem unreasonable and wicked most of the time, don't we? But
the Lord is faithful, who shall establish you and keep you from
evil. If the Lord can keep me from
the evil one, if he can keep me from hell for eternity, a
wretch like me, do you think he's going to get me through
tomorrow? Do you think he can get me through something as government
that he established put to me? If they change the speed limits
back to 55, do you think I'm going to be okay? They make me
wear seatbelts and shoes and t-shirts inside of places and
businesses. Do you think God's going to keep me? Whatever evil
thing we do, that was the evil back in the 80s in West Virginia
and Kentucky. They make you wear shoes going
into a restaurant? That's socialism. Y'all laughing. That's what's
in our day. Do you think God can keep me
from the evil of this world and the evil to come and the evil
that's in me? He establishes His people. He has to do it.
That's the gospel. Salvation's of the Lord. All
of it. Every bit of it. Everything's
of Him. Paul said in our text, "...now to Him that is of power
to establish you according to my gospel." That was the theme
of Paul's gospel. God is of power to establish
sinners. To establish sinners. 2 Corinthians
chapter 4. It seems pretty plain, don't
it, when we look at these scriptures? When we look at it in context,
we say, well, it's right there. It's in black and white. It's
in English. You can pick it up and read it. Isn't that just
plain? It's hid from some people, though. It's hid. They don't
have eyes to see it. They don't have ears to hear
the gospel. They don't have hearts to understand the gospel. Look
here at 2 Corinthians 4, verse 3. But if our gospel be hid,
it is hid to them that are lost. in whom the God of this world
hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light
of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should
shine unto them. For we preach not ourselves,
but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants, for
His sake, for Jesus' sake. For God, who commanded the light
to shine out of the darkness, hath shined in our hearts." That's
what Genesis 1 was, day 1. God said, let there be light,
and there was light. That's what happens in the preaching of the
gospel. God uses this frail jawbone to speak to a sinner and say,
let there be light. And there's light. There's life
in them. There's Christ dwelling in them. For God who commanded
the light to shine out of darkness has shined in our hearts to give
the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face
of Jesus Christ. This whole good news, this whole
gospel that's mine is concerning. It's all wrapped up in Christ. the Son of God, the God-man.
But we have this treasure, we have this gospel in earthen vessel,
that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us. That's my gospel, that's Paul's
gospel. This ain't nothing. Who gets a glory? What do we
do? I kept the evil way. No, you
didn't. That's plain, isn't it? I had faith. No, you didn't.
God gave that to you. It's His faith. Why did I smoke? No, you didn't. I had good work.
No, you didn't. I read this book and I understood it. No, you
didn't. God had to do it for His people. 1 Corinthians 2. You can leave a marker there
in 1 Corinthians. We'll be back in just a minute. I'll try not to turn
you to death this morning. 1 Corinthians 2, verse 1. And I, brethren, When I came
to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring
unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know
anything among you, save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. And
I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling. And
my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's
wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power. the Lord's power, that your faith
should not stand in the wisdom of men but in the power of God."
I've said this several times. If Paul came here, if the Lord
raised him, he came to preach to us, boy, we'd have a packed
house and I bet half of them would leave when they saw him.
His points may not be in a good order. This meal he's prepared
for you might be burnt toast. He fumbles his words and But
it wasn't the man. It wasn't what he was saying.
It wasn't how he was saying it. It was the power of God through
the preaching of Christ. That's what's important. That
our faith may not be in the man that talked to us, putting some
man on a pedestal, like Brother Erskine we read the other day.
Not looking to hear that man speak, looking to hear God speak.
Looking for a word from God to your heart. And that power, that
that's not of us and it's not of a man that comes to town preaching
it, It's who he's preaching. That's where the power is and
that's where the faith is and our faith should not stand in
the wisdom of men. Where does it stand? In the power of God.
Boy, now you've got assurance. Now you've got assurance. This
gospel, it saves people and it keeps them saved. That's perseverance. That's comfort and rest. Oh,
I don't know if I'm faithful enough. It ain't your faith. Outwardly, I ain't living like
I ought to live. It ain't your outward living. I don't think
on the Lord enough. I don't read the scriptures enough.
I don't do this. I don't do that. I should do
this. I do too much of that. Our security isn't... Brother
Todd was on an airplane one time. The man next to him was scared
to death. I mean, he was trembling. And he said, ain't you afraid?
And he said, you know, me being afraid has no impact whatsoever
on this plane flying or crashing. My assurance, the Lord gives
His people assurance because it's Christ. When we look to
Him, we have assurance. And when we look to His power,
the power of God, we have assurance. But when I look to my power and
my ability and my doing, oh, it gets let down, doesn't it?
Thankfully, in this Gospel, the Gospel of Christ, our assurance
and our fears and trembling has no impact on His power. And back in our text here in
Romans 16, Left a page. Romans 16. Paul says in verse
25, Now unto him that is of power to establish you according to
my gospel. This is my gospel to you now.
This is gospel given to me to you. Gospel is not a message
that glorifies my ability to do anything. Man's ability. It's
not a message that glorifies a church's ability to do anything. You come to us and we'll train
you right up. Nope. Our gospel glorifies the person
of God and Jesus Christ. The spirit quickens and the flesh
profit us nothing. That's what the Lord told us
in John 6. The gospel is concerning the works of the triune God in
Christ who alone is of power to establish. God fulfilled the
law. Our flesh could not do it. He's
of the power to come and fulfill the law for his people. He was
up to power to, in complete justice and complete holiness, take my
sin and the guilt of it. Not just a transactional accounting
process to transfer my sin to Him. He took it. He took the
guilt as fully as His righteousness and His holiness was put in me.
God has power to do that. Man doesn't. He bore the wrath
of God. God bore the wrath of God for
us, in my stead, as my substitute. And He satisfied God's justice. And the whole time, declaring
God just while He was justifying those who believed. Those He
gave a heart to believe. And He ascended. Our proof is
He rose. We have an empty tomb and He's
seated in His throne on high as our prophet, our priest, and
our king forever interceding for us. My gospel is the God of power
to establish you. I'm not telling you to be concerned
about earthly things. I'm not telling you to put your
confidence in the flesh or the glory in others. Don't look at
other men. I'm telling you to seek those
things which are above. Set your mind on the Lord who
is seated in the heavens. Look to Him. Turn over to Galatians
chapter 6. Galatians chapter 6. So many others do that. They
tell you to look to the flesh and look to men and look to outward
things and not to look to the Lord. Galatians 6 verse 12. As many as desire to make a fair
show in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised. Only less
they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. It hurt
their feelings. It hurt their pride. That's the persecution
they would suffer. For neither they themselves who
are circumcised keep the law, but desire to have you circumcised
that they may glory in your flesh. What's that mean? If I could
talk you into coming to church. I was the one that told them
about Jesus. I was the one who told them about
baptism. I talked them into it. The Lord used me to do it. That
was me. They'd have pride in that. They'd
glory in what outwardly happens in this flesh. Verse 14, But
God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord
Jesus Christ, except in the cross of Christ, by whom the world
is crucified to me and I unto the world. I am dead to this
world. Kevin, I'm mad at you because of what you said. Don't affect me. I hate that
for you. I wish you wouldn't upset, but this is the Lord's
Word. I'm crucified to this world and it's crucified to me. It's
dead to me and I'm dead to it. They look at me and say, that
boy is dead in a doornail. He don't know what he's talking
about. That's no theologian up there. Verse 15, for in Christ Jesus
neither circumcision availeth anything nor uncircumcision,
but a new creature Power has to happen. Light has to come
on in the heart. A new creature has to be made.
There has to be a new birth. And as many as walk according
to this rule, that God is the only one with the power to establish
you, peace be on them and mercy and upon the Israel of God. Upon
His people. And you know what? There will
be peace. If we can shed this world and just thank the Lord's
power, thank everything He's given in this world, every molecule
He's controlled from the time He made molecules to the point
He brought me to see Christ and knowing He'll keep me until the
day I'm made just like Him in glory. His power to establish
us, His power to keep us, His power to save His people. What
are you worried about? But I can look to Him. That's
assurance. That's comfort. My brother Maurice
always used to say, go sit underneath the shade tree and eat a ham
sandwich. Go have a piece of cake. We're about to go eat.
Go sit down and eat. Have a good time. Enjoy your
brethren. Love them. The Lord's kept us.
The Lord's saved us. That's peace. Peace in Christ,
isn't it? How does God work His power to
establish? He works it through the preaching of the gospel.
Paul told us in Romans 16. It says, Now to Him that is a
power to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching
of Jesus Christ. The means that the God of all
power, the God of the universe, the God of heaven and earth,
of everything, He chose to use. The means He chose to use is
foolishness to everybody else, but unto us which are saved.
It's the power of God unto salvation. He chose preaching. He's going
to take a clay pot that He made That's a clay pot. That's what
I'm going to use to honor. And he's going to take this clay
pot, same as any other clay pot, but it's his water in it. He
takes that water, he pours it out as he sees fit. He waters,
he plants, he grows with it. That's still just a clay pot.
Why can't I just go get my own water? I'll make my own cisterns.
I'll bundle it up. I'll take that big old lump of
gold and cover it up with a napkin, keep it for myself. Ain't going
to happen. Or to say they use broken cisterns that hold no
water. 1 Corinthians 1. 1 Corinthians
1.18. It says, for the preaching of
the cross is to them that perish foolishness. You mean a man stands
up every week and tells you the same thing over and over and
over again every time he gets up there? Something about this
Christ and this cross? Can't you learn something better?
Can't you learn something that's how to walk in this world? We
get that. Let's ascend above. It's foolishness,
isn't it? But unto us which are saved,
it's the power of God. That's His power. If the Lord
lets me see Christ and rejoice in Him today, the power of God
is what it took for that to happen. Look down at verse 22. For the
Jews require a sign. The religious person needs to
see something. I've got to see some fruit. I need to see you
quit drinking and smoking and cussing. I've got to see something.
And the Greeks seek after wisdom. That's the Gnostics. The intellectuals. Oh, we need some wisdom, don't
we? But we preach Christ crucified unto the Jews a stumbling block
and unto the Greeks foolishness, but unto them which are called,
both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom
of God. Christ is the wisdom of God and
the power of God. What a thing. The saving gospel
message is not about outward works, outward dress, folks seeing
you pray and hearing you say some fancy words, what you eat,
what you don't eat, what you wear, what you say. It's about
Christ, the Lord's wisdom and sending himself as a lamb. and
the power that was in that blood. That's what it is. What it accomplished.
Who he is and what he did. It's not about knowledge. How
smart someone is. Oh, they can debate the doctrines
of grace. I did that and I was graveyard dead. I was an apologetic. I could go to a task with them.
Them boys would come around in white shirts and black ties by
the door. Oh, here they come. That's better
than watching a movie. That's better than TV. It's not about what they can
debate. It's not about knowing all the dates, what happened
in church history, or all the parts of the tabernacle. It's
about knowing Christ, about knowing a person. Not about a person,
knowing a person. A man can memorize and truly
appreciate every brick in that wall of the city of refuge. Tell
you all about it. Well, that clay come from this
part of the quarry, and this hay come from that place over
there, that field over there. Tell you everything about every
brick in the wall, and never go into that city. Tell you everything
there is to know about Christ and never enter into the person
of Christ. That's what Paul was telling Timothy. He said they're
ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of truth.
Who's the truth? Never able to come to know Christ.
That's not what he's talking about. Now back in our text.
What's going to happen when Christ is preached in power to His people? God establishes through the gospel,
in power by divine revelation, He gives this mystery. He reveals
the mystery of this gospel that's ours, that's given to us by the
blood of Christ. He reveals that mystery. It says
in verse 25, Now to Him that is a power to establish you according
to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to
the revelation of the mystery. which was kept secret since the
world began, but now is made manifest, and by the scriptures
of the prophets according to the commandment of the everlasting
God made known to all nations for the obedience of faith."
Those Greeks that must have knowledge, those Gnostics. If a man can
fully understand the mystery of God, of salvation, I know
everything there is to know, you don't need faith, do you? You don't need faith. I know
everything. I don't need to believe in something I don't understand.
I don't need to believe God I know everything about. That's not
possible, is it? That's not a gospel. That's not
a gospel. A man can fully understand all the workings of his gospel.
If somebody can tell you every little jot and tittle of everything
of his gospel, that's not a gospel. That's not the gospel. If a person's
gospel can find salvation outside of preaching of the person and
work of Christ, if they can come to know God outside the preaching
of Christ and Him crucified, it's not the gospel. If a person's
good news is that they can be faithful without the power of
God, they have their own faith, their own understanding, it's
not the gospel. It's a false gospel. Let's turn
to Ephesians 1 real quick. I'll try to hurry up. Ephesians
chapter 1. God ordained this before the
world began. This revelation of the mystery
of the gospel. He said in 1 Corinthians 2 saying,
We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom
which God ordained before the world unto our glory, unto our
salvation. This gospel is mysterious. Paul
writes here in Ephesians 1 verse 9, "...having made known unto
us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure which he
hath purposed in himself." Why did the Lord do that? Why did
the Lord make this mysterious? Why did he make the brazen serpent
and the Passover lamb? Why didn't he make it where everybody
could understand that? That's according to his own will. He
purposed that in himself. I don't know. That's how He chose
to do it. That was the wisest way to do
it, to show His power. Verse 10, that in the dispensation
of the fullness of times, He might gather together in one
all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are in
earth, even in Him. It pleased the Lord to establish
His people in His power that each and every one of them will
hear the gospel, be drawn to the Redeemer. They'll come to
Him. and forever be in Him and be
one with Him. To be made one with Christ. That's
the end state. That's salvation. Heaven's a
person. To be one with that person. He
is our inheritance. That's who it is. Not a place.
Not a thing. Not a parachute from a worse
alternative. It's a person. What will the
result of this preaching be? We receive all that benefit,
Christ our inheritance, and God receives all the glory for it.
Look here at verse 11. And whom also we have obtained
an inheritance being predestinated according to the purpose of Him
who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will,
that we should be to the praise of His glory who first trusted
in Christ. God the Father said, this is
my faithful servant, mine elect. He trusted Him first. Who's going
to trust Him next? His people will. You're going
to trust Christ for every bit of this gospel, every bit of
this power, every bit of this establishing. The Lord's going
to make sure of it. He's going to come to His people
in power, in the preaching of the Word, and you'll lay all
your trust, not in this body, not in people, not in things
of this world, but on Him, on Christ. Let's look back at our
text. I'll close. It says in verse 25, Now unto
him that is of the power to establish you according to my gospel and
the preaching of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of
the mystery which was kept secret since the world began, kept secret
our whole lives until God revealed himself in us, but now is made
manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to
the commandment of everlasting God, made known to all nations
for the obedience of faith." When the Lord does a work in
us, we're going to have an obedience of faith. What's our obedience
of faith? It's to believe on and in Christ's
obedience as all your obedience. Everything that's required of
me, as we were talking earlier, me and Thomas. I'm starting to
see absolutely everything. Weeping for my brethren, as Bob
preached to us this morning. I know I should weep for people
walking up and down these streets. Look at them, just walking this
world not knowing God. I know what's coming. I know
who can satisfy a holy God for a sinner. I want to tell them,
I don't weep for them. My Master did. stood abroad in
Jerusalem and he wept for Him. Everything at all required of
me, any obedience, any faith fulfilled in Him. You know what
that does? Not in show, not fake, not pretend. The Lord makes that
effectual in the heart. Somebody loves the Lord for what
He's did for them, for Him first loving us. I want to be obedient
in faith. I want to. I want to serve the
Lord. I want to obey His holy law.
I want to walk in this world upright. And people say, where
do you go church? Well, tell them. It gives us
a heart to love, doesn't it? A heart to praise Him. Because
it's not praising ourselves. Look here in verse 27. Here's
the result of that, that obedient faith and the power of God establishing
us. The preaching of Christ in our
hearts. To God only wise be glory through Jesus Christ forever. Amen. When the Lord does a work
in somebody, Through my gospel. Is that your gospel? Through His gospel that He gave
to me is my gospel. I put it in my hand to give it
to others. When the Lord does a work in somebody, you say,
you know what, I ain't got no wisdom. I didn't know what I
was talking about all that time. All those years I argued with
people. I didn't know what I was talking about. God's wise. God's
the only wisdom there is. Christ is our wisdom. And you'll
say, glory through Jesus Christ forevermore. That's our song. We'll sing that forever. We can't even know what forever
looks like, but it'll be praising His glory. Worship Him in the
land. The rightful King of Kings. Amen.