Please open your Bibles again
to Ephesians chapter 5. Ephesians chapter 5. As we go through the book of
Ephesians, I want to look today at verses 8 through 10. We're
going to walk up to getting there. We're going to walk to where
we're going. Paul writes by the Holy Spirit
there in Ephesians chapter 5 verse 1, Be ye therefore followers
of God as dear children. The word followers is where we
get the word imitators. Imitate your father as dear children
imitate their father. Not that following him makes
us his children, but because we are His children were to imitate
God, to follow Him. Verse 2 tells us here what to
do to follow God and what it is that made us children. It
says, "...and walk in love." That's following Him. "...walk
in love, as Christ also hath loved us and hath given Himself
for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savor."
He hath given, past tense, the work is done. That eternal act
of love is finished. The substitution and the satisfaction
is complete forever. He's a sweet-smelling savor,
a propitiation. Verse 3, but fornication and
all uncleanness and covetousness, let it not be once named among
you as becometh saints. neither filthiness, nor foolish
talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient, but rather giving
of things. For this ye know, that no whoremonger,
nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath
any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no
man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things cometh
the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore
partakers with them." That's what we looked at last week,
the children of God. As children of God, don't be
partakers, those that fornicate, uncleanness, covetousness. Physically,
in this flesh, don't do it. But that won't take away that
work of salvation Christ brought in your heart. It won't take
away the childhood, the inheritance of Him. He worked in His people. We remember though that spiritually
that fornication, that's ignoring the covenants of God altogether.
That's the fool saying, no God, saying it in their heart. Uncleanness,
that's acting like you're observing that framework of God. There
is a covenant, but it's all adultery. It's unclean. It's perversion. Observing that framework of a
covenant, but there's no covenant of grace. It's a covenant of
works. Telling people they have to do something. The Lord calls
that uncleanness and covetousness, to desire to have that freedom
to wonder from God's promises, to wonder from His sovereignty
in saving His children, even for a moment, to wonder from
that persecution that comes with us, that reproach that comes
with it. You notice all the religions in the world, boy, they're just
happy and hunky-dory together, ain't they? They may disagree
a little bit, but they go along to get along. Everybody underneath
the sun. Persecution comes to those that
believe God. God of the Bible. It says in
verse 8, for you are sometimes darkness, but now are you light
in the Lord. Walk as children of light. And
Paul continues this train of thought in verse 10, but you'll
notice here in verse 9, there's a parenthesis. Now remember last
time we talked about how Paul always bookends these instructions,
these precepts. Remember, he gives us instruction
how to walk as believers in this world. He begins with Christ.
Who gave His life for us. He shed His blood for us. And
He ends with Christ. Who gave His life for His people.
Ever reminding us of Christ and these instructions and these
precepts. Christ is the start of everything for a believer.
He is where our life begins in this world and spiritual. He's
the beginning of salvation in us. He's the beginning of our
faith. our rest and our peace. He is our glory. He's our motivation
for any of these walks that the believers are instructed to walk
in and He's the culmination of that walk. Heaven ain't a place,
it's a person. A lot of people are going to be
real disappointed. Like I've told you a hundred times, any person
in their sane mind doesn't want to go to hell. They want to go
to heaven. They want to avoid the flames.
They want to avoid the pain, the destruction, the wrath of
God that they know in their heart is coming for violating His holy
law, for offending a holy God. But they have no interest in
the person that is heaven. The one that saved them from
that wrath and destruction. The one that bore their sins.
They don't want nothing to do with Him. They just want a golden
parachute, don't they? Christ is the beginning, the
continuance and the culmination of the life of the believer.
It says in verse 9, for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness
and righteousness and truth. Boy, we like to talk about our
fruit, don't we? Natural man just says, look at all these
apples and pears and plums that I did. I did this. Oh, look what
I did. John Gill gave a wonderful illustration
of what they're talking about here, the spiritual fruit. He
said, the believer is the tree, Christ is the root, and the Holy
Spirit is the sap that flows from the root up through the
tree, nourishing the tree, sustaining the tree, and the fruit is the
good works, grown by the grace of God and the Spirit of God.
That's the fruit. We were in darkness. We were
darkness. But now light. Now children. We had no fruit in darkness.
There's no sun there. The light of the Lord wasn't
on us. But after being born again in this newness of life, we're
given the fruit of the Spirit. And we should, we ought, out
of that debt of love that we just sang about, we ought to
walk after those things. We ought to diligently seek after
those things. What are these fruits of the Spirit that a child
of God walks in? and walks through goodness, righteousness,
and truth. What is that? All three of these things, write
this down. This is one of two big points I got today. All three
of these things are the same thing. All three Christ. He's goodness, He's righteousness,
and He's truth. I want to look at these three
things briefly, and then I want to look at what is acceptable
to God. That's the title of my message,
Acceptable Unto God, and how we need to prove what is not
acceptable unto God, what is not fruit. Turn over to Romans
chapter 3 there and mark your place for a second. Romans chapter 3. Man, those born of Adam are not
goodness. Scripture says flesh, none do
good, no, not one. This flesh is corrupted. Just
because we don't fornicate, we don't commit acts of uncleanness,
we don't covet outwardly by God's grace, we think we're good. We
think we walk in this world, I haven't robbed nobody. I never
robbed a bank. Never killed a bunch of kittens
or whatever. I'm good. I'm a good person. No, we're
not. Scriptures say we're not. And men and women are no righteousness. There's no acts of a holy nature
because in our nature we don't have a holy nature. We're not
born into this world with a holy nature. Isaiah said our righteousness
are filthy rags. If I were to use the modern vernacular
for that, they'd be headlines in the newspapers. That's a strong
statement. None good. None that seeketh
after righteousness. We don't even tell the truth.
Say, well, I didn't lie to my boss. I don't lie to my kids.
We don't tell the truth concerning godly things, concerning spiritual
things, because we don't have life in us unless he gives it
to us. We come forth from the womb speaking lies. Our mouths
are open sepulchers spewing lies about man and about the world
and about God. We say, well you ain't that bad.
That's a lie. It's spewing lies. God loves
everybody. It's a lie. Nowhere in these
scriptures does it say that. God wants to do something. Let
God. What foolishness. That's not
a God at all. That's speaking lies. That's
what we come into this world as small children do. As babies. And as we grow, we just get stronger
in it. Look here, Romans 3, verse 9.
What then? Are we better than they? We were
darkness. We weren't just in darkness.
We were darkness. I wish people could get a hold
of that. We were darkness. And now we're children of light.
Are we better? Because we're the saints of God? Because God
was gracious to us? Are we better than they? No,
and no wise. For we have before proved, both
Jew and Gentile, that all are under sin. As it is written,
there is none righteous, no, not one. There is none that understandeth.
There is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of
the way. They are all together become
unprofitable. There is none that doeth good,
no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulcher, they tell
lies. With their tongues they have used deceit. The poison
of Asp is under their lips, whose mouth is full of cursing and
bitterness." That doesn't sound too fruitful, does it? with their tongues they've used
deceit. We use the word prestige. I just learned this the other
day. We know what prestige is, right? You got a little prestige.
Fix your jacket, son. Make sure you tie it straight.
The original Latin word comes from deceit. Man wants to be prestigious and
he ain't nothing but deceitful. That's all we are. This old nature
is nothing but evil because our nature is sin. That's what our
heart is. Is Christ really the fruit of
the Spirit in His people? Is He really all goodness? Is
He really all righteousness? Is He really all truth and only
Him? Stay there in Romans chapter
3. Goodness. Christ is the good and faithful
servant of His Father. He came to save His people. They shall call His name Jesus,
because He shall save His people. Greater love has no man than
this, that He lay down His life for His friends. Christ shed
His blood for His friends. His blood washed away their sin. He made His people His righteousness. honoring and glorifying the Father
throughout, in the whole process, completely faithful to the Father. What goodness! What goodness
that is! He is righteousness. He is the
righteousness of God to everyone that believeth. He was made our
sin that we would be made His righteousness. He imputed righteousness
to us. He accounted. That's an accounting
term. Impute is, you go to a grocery store and you say, how many green
beans do I have? One, two, three, four, five. And in that ledger
you impute five cans of green beans. You tell what's there.
For His people, the cross went to that cross. He imputed, He
accounted because it was there, the righteousness of God in them.
So when God the Father looks at His people, those put in Christ
before the foundation of the world, He says, My good and faithful
servant, you're righteous. You have acts of a holy nature
because there's a holy nature in you. Well done. We're made the noun righteousness
as He was made the noun sin for us, me. Because this imputation But the act he did, the Lord
says in Isaiah, his name shall be called the Lord our righteousness. Now you go over just a few chapters
and it says, speaking of Israel, her name, this is the name with
wherewith she shall be called. That's his bride. The Lord our
righteousness. That's our surname. That's the
last name of the believers that he put into. He imputed that
name to us. He accounts it where it is, where
he laid it. And then truth. Not just to speak
truth. Everything Christ said was truth.
We know that. A man walking down the street,
somebody living underneath a tent downtown underneath a bridge
will tell you that. Christ spoke truth. He is the truth. He is the truth. He said, I am
the way, the truth and the life. He is the Word. The Word of God.
The Word was with God and the Word was God. The Word came down
from heaven. Look here in verse 21, Romans
3 if you're still there, verse 21. But now the righteousness
of God without the laws manifested, being witnessed by the law and
the prophets, even the righteousness of God which is by the faith
of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe, for
there is no difference, every one by the faith of." There's
no difference. Same faith, it's faith of Christ.
For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, being
justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is
in Christ Jesus, whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation
through faith in His blood to declare His righteousness for
the remission of sins that are passed. Through the forbearance
of God to declare, I say at this time, His righteousness that
He might be just and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. You know what bearing good spiritual
fruit is. It ain't going down to the homeless
shelter at a soup kitchen and feeding folks. It ain't passing
out Bibles at a motel. Good spiritual fruit, producing
fruit, is casting all of your care, casting all of your hope,
and casting all of your trust on Christ alone, and I mean fully. laying it at his feet, coming
to him with a broken and contrite heart. Lord, I have no heart.
It's shattered. I'm contrite. I bow to you alone. That's a sweet-smelling peach. That's fruit. The Lord has to
produce that. Christ has to be the root of
that, and the Holy Spirit has to be the sap that provides it,
that nourishes it. has to take place. We give so
much lip service, don't we? There's a sovereign God in heaven.
If I put a new roof on my house and a storm came and I went to
the window and I was like, oh man, I hope that roof, you think
the roof's going to leak? No, we got it, we got it. No,
we got a brand new roof. That roof's going to stay. That roof's going to
stay. It ain't going to leak. Let me go out the back window and
look. You think I trust that roof if he was over visiting? We trust in a sovereign God that
controls heaven and earth and all things in it? Or do we wring
our hands at the window? Do we come with spiritual fruit
of our own hand? Look at all this good I did.
Or do we come bowing to Christ Jesus alone, the Lord Jesus Christ? Oh, just our Savior, our Lord.
In fact, there are texts here in Ephesians 5. Verse 8, For ye were sometimes
darkness, but now are ye the light of the Lord. Walk as children
of light. For the fruit of the Spirit is
in all goodness and righteousness and truth. The fruit of the Spirit
said Christ. Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. What
is goodness, righteousness and truth? Christ alone is. What
is proved to be acceptable unto the Lord? Same answer. Christ alone is. That's my second
big point. He's goodness, righteousness,
and truth, and he is acceptable to the Lord. Proving what is
acceptable. Solomon wrote, Solomon was the
wisest man born of Adam. He never walked this earth. Solomon
said, the lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but
the mouth of the wicked speak fraud. They speak lies. The lips
of the righteousness know what is acceptable. The lips of those
made righteous. The lips of the children of God
know what is acceptable. We do not say, well if I work
hard outwardly and I do good things, then I'll be a child
of God. If I read my Bible every day and I really pray real hard
in the temple, just like that Pharisee, then I'll be a child
of God. If I really love well, God will accept me. No. The lips
of the righteous declare, Christ is accepted of the Father. He
is risen. It was finished and we have an
empty tomb to look to. Christ is accepted by the Father
and we are in Him, we're accepted in Him and because of Him. Now
in Ephesians 1.6 it says, to the praise of the glory of His
grace wherein He hath made us accepted in the Beloved, in our
Lord. Without His favor, we have no
acceptance. Without His Spirit, we have no
life. Without His blood, we have no hope. And without Him, we
have nothing. Nothing. But with Him, in Him,
and through Him, we have all things. And through Christ working
in His child, we produce some things that the Lord says is
acceptable unto Him. If I was going to have to do
something, something's going to happen in me, and the Lord's
going to do a work in me, and something's going to come out,
would I want that accepted by God? I'd want it to be acceptable,
wouldn't you? That's just logical, isn't it?
Abraham believed God and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Righteousness was imputed to
Abraham because he believed God. It was imputed to him for righteousness.
Where did Abraham get the faith to believe God? Well, faith is
a gift of God, isn't it? Freely given. Christ gave His
faith to Abraham. Christ worked that faith in Abraham
because he that begun a good work in you is faithful to perform
it. He works it in you. And Christ counted that faith.
He imputed that faith. He gave it to Abraham. Worked
by God in him. It was his possession. It was
counted as Abraham's. Imagine that. It's his. It's his possession. Is that
good? Saving sinners. People that were
enemies of God. Cursing them. Just like those
two thieves on the cross. Casting it right back in his teeth. The
Lord laid down His life for them. He died for the ungodly. That's
good, isn't it? Is that righteous? Is the Father
still just even though sinners were justified? In Christ He
is. That's true righteousness right
there. That's an act of a holy nature. Is it true? That's the
only way a sinner born of Adam will ever have true faith, they'll
ever believe, they'll ever be born again and regenerated, they'll
ever see glory, is if Christ in an act of goodness, an act
of graciousness, gives a sinner His Spirit and He gives Himself
to that sinner. Then it is forever true to be
so. And from the Word of God, of
a God that cannot lie. That's a covenant of grace. That's
from eternity to eternity. Christ makes his sheep acceptable
to the Father. I'd like to get on a loudspeaker
to the world. Christ makes his people acceptable
to the Father. Is that acceptable to you? The
prayer is preaching for a verdict. Are you okay with that or do
you want to do something? Is that an offense to you? That's
an offense to the gospel. That's an offense to the cross.
Christ finished it. The work's done. You okay with that? God
says that's how it has to be. Let's see what God says is acceptable
to Him. Turn over to Romans chapter 12. Romans chapter 12, verse 1. I beseech you, therefore, brethren,
by the mercies of God, that ye present your body as a living
sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable
service. And be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed
by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that
good and acceptable and perfect will of God. What are we to present
our bodies. Is that to give our lives in
this world. As Ralph used to say, I give
myself over to you lock, stock, and barrel. That's the whole
of me. To give our bodies as a living
sacrifice to God. That's reasonable. So many people
say, I'm living for God. Oh, I presented my body as sacrifice
to Him. I stood out in the hot sun. They
won't present their bodies to a church door, will they? They
won't present their bodies in service. Isn't it reasonable
to present ourselves to the reading of His Word, the singing of His
name, and the preaching of Christ and Him crucified? If we won't
present ourselves three times a week for three hours a week
in a place of worship, that's how deluded we are. We think,
well, I'm living for Him all week, all the time. It would be good, as we'll shortly
see, if we could guard the time that the Lord set aside for His
worship and for His instruction. If we could present ourselves
to that. If we see all that Christ has
done for us, all that He bore, That we are what I truly am.
I am darkness. And we can present ourselves
for three hours a week to His worship service. Not only is
that reasonable, He says it's acceptable of God. That's acceptable. Worship His Son with His saints.
Turn over to Romans 14. The Lord will be here Wednesday,
but we'll get a preview this morning. Romans 14, verse 14. Romans 14, 14. I know and am
persuaded by the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of itself,
but to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. If thy brother be grieved with
thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably? Destroy not him with
thy meat for whom Christ died. Let not then your good be evil
spoken of, for the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but
righteousness. and peace, and the joy of the
Holy Ghost. For he that is in these things,
serveth Christ, is acceptable to God, and approved of men."
Our Lord said, it's not that which goes into a mouth that
defiles a man, it's what comes out. It's what's in the heart
that defiles him. And as we're looking through Romans 14 here,
he gives two examples of dealing with weaker and stronger brethren.
That's the meat and the days that we observe. Paul told the
church at Corinth, he said, I can eat any meat I want to eat. You
want a pulled pork sandwich? Have at it. He said he can even
eat the meat used in the worship of idols. It means nothing to me. He said,
I serve the true and living God. He made that meat. I can eat
it. There's a text here saying, if a younger brother comes to
you and says, don't eat that, a religious organization cooked
that meat. False religion, bake that pie. Don't you buy that. It's saying
don't break that brother down by telling him how weak they
are. Don't hurt them, don't destroy them, don't wound them. You just
say, you're right. And you throw that piece of pie
away. Even though you have the liberty to eat it, You can eat
that meat from a temple. You can eat a pie from a church
down the road. If it offends your brethren,
just throw it away. Don't tell them you're throwing
it away because I have liberty to eat this, but because of you
I'm going to throw it away. Just hush and say, you're right. Throw
it away. That's acceptable of the Lord. That's serving Christ
by serving the brethren in love and compassion and in understanding.
at all costs, do things to make peace with one another, that
strengthen one another. Presenting ourselves to the service
and the totality of us and serving Christ and serving the brethren
with understanding and love. Both of those are acceptable.
Turn to Philippians chapter 4. Philippians chapter 4. Verse 18, but I have all and abound. I am full, having received of
Ephroditus the things which were sent from you, an odor of a sweet
smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God. Paul was commenting on the gift
that was given to him, the sin of this church. And he says that
is acceptable and well-pleasing to God. What's our example for
that? What fruit is laying there? Be generous to each other. Be
giving to one another. If you have a brother or sister
that's in need, take care of that person and look after them. Look to them. That's acceptable
of God. And you know how quickly our mind goes to financial things,
doesn't it? It goes right to our wallet. If your brother's in need of
patience, be patient to him. If your brother's in need of
grace, they've done something to offend you, be gracious to
them. That's giving, isn't it? As the
Lord gave us grace, give your brother and sister grace. They need to have the grace given
to them and the love of throwing your pie away that you bought
at Goat Barn. Throw the pie away. Look after
them. Are they in need of prayer? Do
we give our prayers for our brethren? Turn over to 1 Timothy chapter
2. We present our bodies, we serve
the Lord and His people, and we give generously to those around
us. And we pray for them. 1 Timothy
chapter 2, verse 1. First Timothy 2.1, I exhort therefore
that first of all supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving
of thanks be made for all men. Is that just for the brethren? Made for all men, for kings,
and for all that are in authority. that we may lead a quiet and
peaceable life in all goodliness and honesty. For it is good and
acceptable in the sight of God our Savior." Pray for your brethren,
pray for your family that's around you, and pray for this government
that's over top of us. Pray for those that curse you,
for all of them. Pray for the missionaries, pray
for me. Pray for the men that get up here and read the scriptures
to you. Mothers and grandmothers, So many times, pray for them.
A lot of times them little children and grandchildren will ask you
a hard question at the grocery store. Like standing in line,
isn't it? Pray you're all given the words
to answer them. Pray for our leaders, whether you voted for
them or not, that we can continue to lead a peaceful life, that
we can continue to enjoy the worship of God, a place to present
ourselves without persecution. without having heads on pikes.
True persecution. One more and then I'll let off
of you. 1 Peter chapter 2. It's acceptable to God for us
to present ourselves, serve the Lord, to give ourselves totally
and to pray for our brethren and all men. 1 Peter 2 verse
19. 1 Peter 2 verse 19. For this is thankworthy, if a
man for conscience towards God endure grief, suffering wrongly. For what glory is it, if when
ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently."
If you've done something wrong and you're getting what's coming
to you, you take it patiently. That's no glory in that. But
if when you do well and suffer for it, you take it patiently,
this is acceptable with God. When we endure grief and suffering
that we did not bring on ourselves, take it patiently. Take it patiently. Have you ever experienced someone
just grieving you for something you did not do? In a conscience towards God,
you who are a child of God, that were darkness and now have the
light of God shining in you, knowing His loving hand that
sent that person to you, that sent that trial to you, bear
it patiently. Bear it patiently. This is acceptable.
But we remember, Christ is what's acceptable. Christ is what's
acceptable. Verse 21, 1 Peter 2, 21. For
even here unto you were called, because Christ also suffered
for us, leaving us an example that you should follow in his
steps, who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth,
who when he was reviled, reviled not again. And when he suffered,
he threatened not, but committed himself to him that judges righteously. He committed himself to the Father
that sent him, that ordained this before time. who has all
himself bare our sin in his body on the tree." You talk about
grief that was not earned. Our sin laid on him and his body
on the tree, that we being dead to sin should live unto righteousness
by whose stripes you were healed. For you were a sheep going astray,
but are now returned to the shepherd and bishops of your soul. All
this took place. We were sheep running as hard
as we could for the wood line. After that was accomplished,
that shepherd, that bishop of our souls, come to His sheep,
grabbed a hold of us, the Spirit abounded towards us, and He brought
us right back into the fold, right back to His feet. Now back
in our text, I'll let you go. Ephesians 5, verse 9. Ephesians 5, 9. For the fruit of the Spirit is
in all goodness and righteousness and truth, proving what is acceptable
unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the
unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." Reproving
what is not of Christ. Those who don't give, pray, serve,
present themselves, are patient, That needs reproving. Those who
don't see Christ as all goodness, righteousness, and truth, that
needs reproving, doesn't it? Now, boy, what do we do? We get
our swords out, and we get our shield out, and we're ready to
march up and down the streets, ain't we? That's what we need to do.
Look up in verse 8. For ye were sometimes darkness. Is that the unfruitful works
of darkness that need reproved? Is it everybody else out there? Or is it this guy? That's the
two natures inside of a man. The Lord does the work. There's
a new birth that takes place inside of him. The incorruptible
seed comes to that ground, bringing forth that tree that crosses
the root of, and the God of the Holy Spirit is that sap that
nourishes it to produce fruit. But it's housed in this dirt
and this clay that's made of Adam. This flesh still walks
with us. There's two natures born in us.
People deny that, and that's because they ain't experienced
two natures. It happens. Paul said that there's a war
raging inside of me all the time. Boy, how quick I am to look at
everybody else. You know what? You ought to be giving your time.
You ought to be giving your prayers. You ought to be doing this. They
need to be doing that. They need to be coming to service. I need to be coming to service.
I need to give my time, my prayers, my all to Him. Verse 12, for
it is a shame to even speak of those things which are done of
them in secret. Boy, it's a shame. Would I stand
up and tell you everything I thought today? Would you have your minds
put up on a big overhead projector? That's a shame, isn't it? what's
on the secrets inside of his head. But all things that are
reproved are made manifest by the light. For whatsoever doth
make manifest is light. My sin's reproved, it's Christ
doing it. He's the one that reproves it. Wherefore he saith, Awake
thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall
give thee light. He is our only hope. Christ coming
to a graveyard dead sinner and saying, Awake! Live! That's our only hope for Him
to give us life. Verse 15. See then that ye walk
circumspectly. Walk diligently. How do we walk
diligently? Towards Christ. Not as fools,
not coming in your own merit. Oh, I got my own fruit. Oh, that
stinketh. Not as a fool, but as wise in
the blood of Christ alone. Redeeming the time because the
days are evil. That's it. Redeeming the time.
Be urgent about it. Today's the day of salvation.
Come to Him while He's near. Run to His feet. Run to Him. Bow to Him. And keep coming to
Him. Christ is saving His people.
That doesn't mean we came once and everything's good. I can
go about my business. About living the way I want to.
We come to Him daily. His mercies are new every morning.
Why? Because it needs to be new every morning. I wake up in His
flesh every day and I'm a sinner when I wake up. I need to keep
coming to Him. I pray we can redeem the time.
Awaken the Spirit and see the fruit of the Spirit. The one
thing that is needful, that accepted sacrifice, Christ our Lord. I pray we can see Him. Amen.
Let's pray together.