Look at our text, Ephesians 4,
verse 1. I therefore, Paul says, as the
prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the
vocation with which you are called. Now, let me, and the title is
A Worthy Walk, and that's the subject. That's what Paul's talking
about all the way down through here. Throughout the remainder
of this book, he talks about our walk, or that means our conduct
before Him and in this world. Let me say this, okay? You know
this. You've heard me preach too many
times. You know the Word. You know the truth. We're saved
by grace. We're not saved by work. You
know that. You know that. Good works don't save us. Good
works don't make us. more acceptable with God, not
at all. Christ saves him, you know that.
It's his good work that saves us. We are unworthy sinners. We all know, and we all say,
worthy is the lamb that was slain to receive all honor and glory.
We're accepted in the beloved. You know that, don't you? Our
works don't make us accepted at all. Not at all. We're accepted
and beloved. Period. Every true child of God knows
that. From the scriptures and experience that we're unworthy.
And even if we did, all that was required of us were still
unprofitable servants. We all know that. We know that. In our own eyes, in our own estimation,
we are unworthy. We'll never be anything but unworthy. Is that right? But not in God's
eyes. Not in God's eyes. You know that?
He wrote a whole chapter, Hebrews 11, about people that walked
in this world, by faith, and laid down their lives for the
cause of Christ. And He said, the world is not
worthy of them. That's what God said. And in
the Revelation, He talks about those who were worthy. So, did you hear what I said? How I prefaced all that, okay? I don't want to have to say that.
Again and again and again. This is not about earning heaven. Oh no. It's about glorifying
our Lord. That's what we want to do. That's
what we want to do. Every child of God wants, desires
to walk worthy of being called a son of God. Don't you? It's like a child who has a loving
parent, you don't want to bring reproach on their name, do you? You don't. If you love them,
you esteem them. Sons of God, that's our calling.
The vocation is the calling. That's what that means. Sons
of God, behold what manner of love the Father should bestow
upon us. We should be called sons of God.
Jacob never got over that. God called him Jacob will change your name to
a prince. I know Jacob never called himself
Israel. I know he didn't. He could never
think of himself as a prince. I know he thought like us. I'm
just a pauper. I'm just a beggar that's been
taken off the dunghill to sit among princes. Now all these
fellows are princes and princesses. Is that what you think about
your brother? I'm not worthy of being associated
with them. But every child that God wants
and desires to walk worthy of His calling. And we all fear
bringing reproach on our Lord. That's what David said. He said,
I fear this. I fear bringing reproach. And
we bring reproach upon our Lord by our attitude, our actions,
our behavior, our speech, and our conduct. Our walk. That's
the walk we do. Listen to David. I did the work
for you. I looked up many scriptures for
you. And David said these things by
the Spirit. And someone may say, well, that's
Christ talking. Well, it's both. Quite often, You'd think, that's got to be
Christ talking. Well, David wrote it. Listen
to this. He said in Psalm 26, he said,
I've walked in mine integrity. I've trusted in the Lord. He
said, thy loving kindness is before my eyes, and I've walked
in thy truth. That's what he said. Verse 11,
he said, as for me, I will walk in mine integrity. Redeem me. Be merciful unto them. That's
David. Yes, it's Lord. But David, Christ
in him is saving us. Right? A new man. Listen to this. David said this. He said, Psalm
56 verse 13, he says, Thou hast delivered my soul from death.
Wilt thou not deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk
before God in the light of the living? That's how I want to
walk, he said, before God. Remember what he said to Abraham
when he first called him? Walk before me. That is, conscious
that you're in my sight. You're my son. Walk like him. Didn't he say that? Is that what
you want? Sure it is. Sure it is. You know
we cannot without Him. Without Him we can do nothing.
But this is the believer's desire, isn't it? Listen to this. David
said this. Psalm 86 verse 11. He said, Teach
me thy way, O Lord, I will walk in thy truth. Unite my heart
to fear thy name. Teach me thy way. That's what
we just sang, didn't we? David said that. Listen to this.
Psalm 101 verse 2. I will behave myself wisely. I will walk within my house with
a perfect hour. That's David. He said that. Listen
to this. Psalm 116. Over and over again. Over and over. Psalm 116, verses
8 and 9. David said this. Thou hast delivered
my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from
falling. I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living.
A couple more, okay? Listen to this. Blessed are the
undefiled in the way who walk in the law of the Lord. Listen
to this. Psalm 143, verse 8. This is just
a fraction of the scripture. Psalm 143, verse 8. He says,
cause me to hear thy loving kindness in the morning. For in thee do
I trust, cause me to know the way wherein I should walk. I lift up my soul unto thee. Is that your desire? Is that your desire? Now look
at our text. It is a desire. If that's not
your desire, you're not the child of God. The child of God who
has the love of God in his heart, they want to glorify their Lord. Paul even said over in 1 Thessalonians,
he said, I beseech you brethren, exhort you by the Lord Jesus
Christ you've received of us how you ought to walk and to
please God. Didn't he say that? That's what
every believer wants. We know without faith It's impossible
to please God. Nobody outside of Christ can
possibly please God. No. God is angry with them. Do
you hear me? Have I said anything that wasn't
God's Word? No, no, no. Alright. Paul was in prison. He said,
I'm the prisoner of the Lord. In chapter 3 verse 1, I'm the
prisoner of Jesus Christ. Now Paul was put in prison for
what reason? Falsely. unjustly for preaching the truth, for
the cause of Christ. He literally laid down his life
for Christ's sake. Do you not think that God was
pleased with that man? Christ put him there and he knew
it. He put him in prison. He said in one verse, he said,
my tribulations are for your glory. you might see Christ's
glory and you might hear the gospel and we have the gospel
because Paul was put in prison because Paul was treated unjustly
just like our Lord and boy did Paul witness a good profession
before others did I want to walk like this man I want to have
this man's family he even said this time and time again he said
you follow me Now you know good and well Paul's not telling us
to look to him and trust in him and follow him and he's our supreme
example. Not at all. And yet the Lord gave him such
God-given faith, Christ-like, Christ in him, the hope of glory.
He said, you follow me. You have me as an example how
to walk. He said that. He told young Timothy, you be
an example and walk. that's what he said about every
preacher being an example in faith and charity and speech
and conversation and on and on and on. Spirit and that thing.
I don't want that. I don't want that position. I
don't want to be an example. I'm unworthy of that. But he
said, do it anyway. You've been placed in that. So I want to walk in faith like
Paul did. I want to, if I'm put in prison,
I want to witness a good profession before others, don't you? Our
Lord witnessed a good profession before Pontius Pilate. And Paul
did too. This is how you know Christ really
was in him. And this man glorified God, didn't
he? In his bonds. Let's look at Philippians 3. This is so good. Philippians
3. We all love Philippians 3. And
you know, he just renounced everything he was, his Jewish heritage,
and his Phariseeism, and his learning, and he renounced himself. He did. And he said, this is
the one thing I want. Verse 14, I press toward the
mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Paul, aren't you called? Well, here he is. This is the mark I'm pressing
towards, pressing matters. Verse 15, and let us therefore,
let us therefore as many as be perfect, mature, be thus minded.
In other words, there's no other pressing matter but this. There's
nothing more pressing. There's nothing more consuming
than this. There's nothing more needful
than this. That's what Paul said. The older you get, the more you
need to understand that. The more we need to grow in that
understanding. There's one thing, one thing
that matters. It's the one thing that matters
for our children. It's the one thing that matters
for us. It's the one thing that matters for this church. It's
the one thing that matters for every human being. Don't be minding
no crying. Don't cry. That's growing up
in the faith. Nothing else matters. Read on. He said, verse 16, Nevertheless,
whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same route.
Let us mind the same thing. Brethren, be followers of me,
and mark them that walk like me. You have us for an example.
Many walk, I have told you often, till you weep them. They are
enemies of the cross. Their God is their belly. See that? I want to walk like Christ. I
want to walk worthy. I want to walk like Paul the
Apostle. Now our Lord is worthy to be believed
and trusted in Him. Our Lord is worthy for us to
walk in honor and integrity and glorify Him. Isn't He worthy
of that? He's worthy. of the best that we have. It's not good enough. The best
we have is not good enough. But He's worthy of it. This is
a worthy walk. This is a worthy endeavor. He
said, I want you to endeavor to keep the unity of the Spirit.
I want you to endeavor to walk like that. Endeavor by His grace. Alright? So He's worthy. That's
why. All through the scripture, we
just read through the Old Testament, and all through the New Testament,
especially the Epistle, the child of God is exhorted to walk in
this way, by faith. Walk in faith, not science. Walk with God, not the world,
right? I'm going to go ahead and make
this statement. You see, we hope, we, you know, we want to be the
friend of the public and the sinners like our Lord. But we
can't have fellowship with them, a constant companionship with
them, because cleanliness doesn't rub off. Dirt does. Right? They're not going to get cleaned
by you. They'll get cleaned by Christ. You're not going to be
clean by watching you either. You're going to be clean by looking
to Christ. Dirt rubs off. So we're told
to walk with God. We're told to walk in love. We're
told to walk before Him, conscious of Him in His sight. We're told to walk circumspectly.
We're told to walk in wisdom toward them that are without.
Paul even said this, try not to offend anybody. Why? Because we don't want anything
we do or say in any way to keep somebody from coming to hear
this Gospel. If we do something that brings
reproach on our Lord, it's just like you act like and look like
the rest of the world isn't going to say there's nothing to your
religion. Right? That's what it means to walk
in wisdom. Don't give Him no offense at anything. Let the
ministry be not blamed. Okay? You need this? I'm not teaching this because
I've mastered it. I'm teaching it because I need
it. I'm teaching it because it's God's Word. I'm teaching it. Because He told me to. He said,
let every man who ministers teach the people. Now, look at Ephesians 2. You
know this and you love it, don't you? Don't you love Ephesians?
Don't you love Ephesians 2a? By grace are you saved through
faith. Do you like Ephesians 210? We all know what Ephesians
2a says now. We can quote it backwards and
forwards. For by grace are you saved. Thank God. Everything
is by grace. We just read how that whatever
we do is a grace of God. If we do anything, it's God that
worketh in us. What's the will do? Read on. By grace are you saved
through faith, and even that's not a sin. It's not free will. It's not free choice. It's not
man's decision. It's God's choice. It's His will. It's His grace. Salvation is
the work of God. It's a gift of God. It's not
of works. He said he wasn't going to say that again. Well, I don't
have to. He solved it. It's not of works lest any man
should boast. Paul said that in Philippians
3. He said if anybody could boast, I could. And he went on to say, God forbid
that I should boast saving the death of my Lord Jesus Christ. Verse 10, we're His workmanship.
A new creature. It's His work like everything
is. Creation. God's the creator and He created
everything. Nothing helped Him. Everything
was created by the Word of His power. And we are His creation. Created in Christ Jesus, what
for? Everybody say it with me. Three
words. Unto good works. I didn't hear you. Unto good
works. That's why God saves us. For His glory. And we who were
worthless, no good, corrupt, lived only for ourselves in all
things. He finally makes us do something
worthwhile. Right? what you're doing he's
worthy of it it was a time you wouldn't give god credit for
nothing you wouldn't give god the glory for nothing you wouldn't
thank god for anything you took it all you took all the glory
full of pride oh he's worthy to be praised
worthy to be glorified so and it says Read on in Ephesians
2, 10, which God hath before ordained that we should walk
in them. You see that? So, I love Ephesians
2. I love Ephesians 1. I love Ephesians
4, don't you? 5, tells husbands how to be husbands. Well, I'm the sorriest husband
ever lived. Don't ask my wife. I really do. It's taken me all
this time to learn anything about being a husband. Isn't that what
you say, John? You've been married longer than
me. Ed, y'all been married 100 years. You know, we got to love them
like Christ loved the church. Oh, my. Now, your wife, Jeanette,
you will say that he does, don't you? You say she's nodding her
head vigorously like that. Ed's going this way. And that's what you ought to
think about yourself. But that's what others ought to think about
you. That's what you want us to do. Matthew 5. Go with me
to Matthew 5. We don't do these things like
the Pharisee. We don't do anything. God forbid
we do anything beseen of men. That's what Pharisees do to them.
But now listen to what our Lord said. Matthew 5. This is what our Lord said. Now
who's he talking to? Believers. He says in verse 16,
let your light. What is that? That's Christ.
That's the gospel. That's the truth. So shine before men. We
just read, Paul said, speaking the truth in love. Before men
that they may see your good works and do what? Pat you on the back. Call you a good Christian. Glorifying Father. Buddy, I'm telling you, if you're
as much a trophy of grace as I am, and I know you are, we
all are, men see you do anything, anything, they've got to know
God did it. You understand? Like that blind
man, the Lord healed. That's him. He's different. God had to have done that. It
can't be him. It can't be him. It is. It is. Those disciples, you know,
they took knowledge. Well, these fellows have been
with the Lord. I've known Simon Peter all my life. That's not him. That's somebody
else. Let me glorify the Lord. Right? You know, this growth in grace,
I listened to a brother preach on that recently, a new man we'd
never heard preached before. We were so thrilled with his
preaching. And he preached on growing in
grace, and he talked about growing in grace, and he handled it so well, didn't
he? It's wonderful. Grace, we're going to see in
a minute, humility, but the graces, God love, joy, peace, graces,
joy, peace, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance,
these things grow. These things grow. Love, do you
need your love to grow? Sure you do. Peace, you want more peace? Joy and long suffering, you want
to be more long suffering, more patient? Need to grow, don't
it? How's it grow? By the grace of
God. By the word of God. You can't
make it grow. You and I can't make it grow.
No matter what we do. You know, if you could grow hair,
I'd have grown it a long time ago. I can't grow one. Not one. You can't add one cubit
to your stature. If I could be six foot tall,
I'd have been there a long time ago. But you can't. Who must
make us grow? He's the only one that can. And
so without Him we can do nothing, so we call on Him for this stuff.
We can grit our teeth, we can try our best, but without Him,
mm-mm. All right? Because it's God that
works within you. So, now go to our text here, and here I
was going to use an illustration that when you're born, As a child,
a child is absolutely complete. It's a complete child. It has
all its faculties, right? It has all its fingers and toes. It's not going to grow one more
finger. It's not going to grow one more toe. Complete. A complete
child. If that child dies, it's a little
man. It died a man. If you're the
youngest believer in Christ, The weakest believer in Christ
is complete in Him. Holy, righteous, accepted, unblameable,
unreprovable in God's eye. If that babe in faith dies, they're
just as much saved and they're going to be at the right hand
of God just like Moses. Why? Because they're all saved
for Christ's sake. But a little babe, if he lives
very long, grows. Doesn't he? They grow. In maturity. In understanding. In faith and
honor of Him. And this is what we're talking
about. So he says in verse 1, I beseech
you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith you are called. I beseech you. I implore you. I earnestly exhort you as sons
of God. as Christians. And I've said
it so many times, don't you hate that you almost hate to use that
word. Don't you hate that? I hate that. Don't you hate that? Because men and women have so
abused it. Because everybody and his brother and his mother
calls themselves a Christian. I hate that. I really do. But it's a blessed name. It's
a blessed term. I don't want to be ashamed of
it. I'm ashamed of what men are and
do that call themselves Christian. I don't want to be ashamed of
Christ. Walk worthy in a manner befitting
a son of God in everything you do. Your conduct. He even said whether you eat
or drink, do it to the glory of God. He's worthy. All right, here it is. Here's
the wall. Verse 2. First of all, here it is. In
lowliness and meekness. Walk lowly, humbly, and in meekness. Submission to our God. Wasn't that our Lord as a man
on this earth? Didn't He say, we just saw this
in Matthew 11. Take my yoke upon you and learn
of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you'll find rest
for yourself." He didn't. Learn of me. Learn of me. I'm meek and lowly. A yoke. We saw that. It's a yoke of service
isn't it? Christ didn't. He who was served
by angels came down to this earth and his whole life served others,
took upon himself the form of a servant, a lowly servant. And how low did he go? He bent
down and washed his disciples' feet. He before whose feet, he
to whom every knee shall bow and everyone will fall at his
feet, fell it the dirty, stinking feet of sinners and washed them. Isn't that something? Lowliness and humility. Lowliness and meekness. There's
nothing more beautiful than humility. You know that? What's the opposite
of humility? Pride. There's nothing uglier. God hates it more than anything. Not one human being has one reason
to have one ounce of pride. Not one. And yet mankind is full
of it. Let that not be so among us. Let it not be named one time. Let us walk before our God as
the lowliest, most unworthy, undeserving sinner on the topside
of God's earth. You know that? Pride glorifies
self. It dishonors God. Humility glorifies God. It dishonors
self. We need to walk and talk like
people that are completely beholden to God for everything. And we
don't know anything. We can't do anything. We are
nothing. It's all by the grace of God.
We need to let that be clearly known and seen in all we say
and do. Right? All lowliness, low in
all ways. What do we have that we have
not received? We, of all people, know that.
The world doesn't know that. They don't believe that. They
don't believe it for a minute. We do. We know it. We're not
even sufficient of ourselves to think anything right. Why
should we be lowly? Because we are. Why should a
worm be lowly? Because he is. You know, if we think we're something
when we're what? Nothing. We deceive ourselves.
You've seen that illustration. Brother Donnie used it again
in Arkansas. He's the first one I heard Saul
do it, but I've showed you many times. See that? Three zeros. How much
is it? How much is it? Zero. Nothing. Okay, hold on. Let's
put some more on it. All right, now I'm in it. How much
is it? Put a bunch of zeros together, what do you got? Zero. All right. It's always going to, I don't
care if you put three zillion zeros, they're all a bunch of
zeros. Nothing. Worth nothing. But you put them in one. You put one before them and in
them. Now what are they worth? God and Christ paid for him with
his own precious blood. But we never think of ourselves.
Whether we're worth to God, we can't. We can't understand why
Christ would die for us. And the only thing we're worthy,
worth to God, is that he'll go and get glory out of us some
way. You know that? All our lives
we lived with no glory to God, but glorifying ourselves. He
said, I'm going to save this fellow, and he's going to give
me glory. He's going to sanctify me before
this generation. And if he did, he's going to
do it now. I'm going to get glory out of him, in life and in death. And he's got to do it, doesn't
he? And he gets all the glory. But we never think of ourselves
as anything but a big nothing. So he says, walk in lowliness,
because that's what we are, and meekness. And then he says, and
especially, brethren, I don't know whether the last time you've
read 2 Timothy 3, it describes the last days of perilous times,
the day we live in more fully, more completely, more clearly
than any other generation. It starts with lovers of self,
proud, heady, high-minded, bolsters. There's never been a generation
so talkative, so proud. Everybody talks about what they
can do, and nobody does anything. All these social media where
everybody's big talker, everybody's talk, talk, talk. Ain't nobody
walking the walk. Ain't nobody doing nothing. and people believe say what you
want especially before this proud
generation we need to walk I tell you this he that walketh
in pride God's able to obey and he will Isaiah 23 he said God
hath purposed it to stain the pride of all glory and to bring
into contempt all the honorable of the earth. That which is highly
esteemed among men is an abomination to God. And Isaiah 2 said, he
said, every lofty look of man is coming down. Mark it down, young people, old
people. A proud look, you're coming down
one way or another. especially his people. It's the
ugliest, most uncalled for thing of all in God's people. Pray. And boy, he knows how to
abase you. And he will. He'll bring you
down. And it'll be painful. But we'll be needful. We'll be
needful. So especially before this proud
generation, we need to walk in humility. Long-suffering. Look at this. Verse 2. With long-suffering. What does that mean? Love suffereth
long. That's what it said. Our Lord
one time said to his disciples, how long must I suffer with you? It basically means, how long
have I got to put up with you? How long do I have to put up
with you? How long did it? till he left here, through eternity,
through all our lives. Love suffereth long, beareth
all things, endureth all things, never faints, never quits. Love puts up with. What all do
you put up with in your children? Mom, don't answer that. She's not allowed to give her
testimony. Tell the truth on me. Fact is, she's forgotten. She doesn't remember any of that.
Isn't that our Lord, our sin and iniquity? I remember no more. It's all coming back to me. And
we say to the Lord, oh, remember not the sins of my youth. And
I didn't even say that to my mother. Oh, I might grow up. So, long
suffering. Oh, He suffered so long with
us. He suffered all our lives, our entire lives. And our Lord,
as a man, suffered. Oh, did He suffer? Christ suffered.
Shame, reproach. It says this, The reproaches of them that reproach
Thee fell on Me. Oh, how he suffered long, a lifetime. Contempt, ridicule, despise,
rejected, reviled. When he was reviled, he reviled
not again. Committed himself to him that
judges righteously. Why did he do that? For his great
love wherewith he loved us. Love, suffering. What do I suffer? for him. I'm no William Tyndall. But I want to be. Don't you? I want to be. Forbearing, verse 2. with all
lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one
another in love. Forbearing means not to come
down hard on. Not bear down on. To let up. Lighten up. Go easy. Go easy on. It's kindness. Tenderness. Tender heart. We just read that.
Go easy on. Oh, he's gone so easy on us. He hath not dealt with us according
to our sin. Our light affliction. Hasn't
he gone easy on us? Oh, my. Gone easy on us. Don't come down hard on anyone
remembering yourselves. It says that, let me read it
to you, in Titus. The whole book of Titus is about
truth after godliness. Good word. What grace teaches
you. You've read it, haven't you?
He said, we were one time foolish. He said, speak no evil of no
man. Be no brawler, but gentle. Showing
meekness unto all men. For we ourselves, We're foolish,
disobedient, deceived, serving divers' lusts, pleasures, living
in malice, envy, hateful, hating one another. But, but God, after
the kindness and love of our God and our Savior, oh, if not
by works of righteousness we have done, according to His mercy
He saved us and washed us by regeneration and renewing of
the Holy Ghost. That's the motive in it. That's
the example. Christ, I'm forbearing. Let up. Lighten up. Go easy on
him. Well, look what he did. Look
what you've done. Well, look how they hurt me.
Look how you hurt him. Let up. You know, with the same
measure you meet if he made it to you back home. With the merciful, He'll
do what? Show Himself merciful. Do you
need forgiveness? Do you need a lot of forgiveness?
He says, show it. Didn't He? He said, if you don't, He won't
forgive you. That's what He said. Now who doesn't need this? And
I need it worse. I need it worse than anybody.
Hmm. Because I'm supposed to lead
by example. So read on. It says, long suffering, forbearing
one another, how? In love. Isn't that the key? Isn't that the key to it all? Love. Love. The love of God shed
abroad in our hearts. If it is, then we'll love God. We'll love others. By this shall
all men know, you're my disciples. If you have love, one to another. Peter said, see that you love
one another with a pure heart, fervently, as brothers. As brothers. You remember, I
love the story of Abraham. He took Lot in and nurtured him
as a son, didn't he? He loved him. Lot owed everything
he had to Abraham, didn't he? Well, there was a falling out,
and Abraham said, let there be no strife between us. We're brothers.
He said, you take whatever you want. Didn't he? You take whatever
you want. I'll take the rest. Let's not
have any strife here. That is a man of God. That's a Christ-like man. That's
a peacemaker. And that's the next thing he
says, endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit and the bond
of peace. Endeavoring takes effort. Blessed are the peacemakers,
not the peacetakers, right? Turn to James 3, James chapter
3 in closing, okay? James chapter 3. It says, blessed
are the peacemakers, not the peacetakers. Somebody says, But
I forgive you. I might forgive you if you, you
know, if you act right. Hold on. Peacemaker. Peacemaker. Striving together.
Unity. I'm going to deal with that more
in the next study. The unity of the spirit and the
bond of peace. Now here's what James writes.
In closing, he said this in James chapter 3. He says in verse 17. Go back to verse 13. This is
what Paul has been saying. He was a wise man and dude with
knowledge among you. Let him show out of a good conversation
our life. His works with meekness of wisdom. Wisdom from above. Christ said,
I'm meek. You be meek. That's wisdom. If
you have bitter envy, strife in your hearts, don't be proud
of it. Glory to God. Lie not against
the truth. That's a lie against the truth.
That's hypocrisy. That wisdom, so-called, descendeth
not from above. That's earthly. That's sensual.
That's deadly. One time Paul said, are you not carnal if you
have strife among yourselves? Verse 16, where envy and strife
is, is confusion, unquietness. Every evil work, every bad work
will follow that. But now, here's the wisdom that's
from above. What we've just been hearing
is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated,
full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness
is sown in peace of them that make peace." Oh, my. Endeavoring to keep the
unity of the spirit and the bond of peace. Our brother prayed
for the church tonight back in the study. He said, I love what
he said, he said, Lord, we need this place. We thank God for
this place. These people and me, thank God
for me. We need this place. We need this
gospel. He said, may you keep this place
open for years to come. Pray for it. Read Psalm 122 when
you go home. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
In its peace, you'll have peace. Pray for your brethren. Pray
for this church. Endeavor. Strive for unity. Alright, stand with me.