Sally and John, I remind you
that that's a scriptural hymn. Anybody has trouble with singing
that about power with men, power with thee, that's scriptural. I know modern religion likes
to talk about power. They like to talk about that
a lot. The world likes to talk about
being empowered. We have no power at all, no ability,
that's what it means. And it's a scriptural hymn to
ask the Lord to give us the will and the ability to do what He
tells us to do. Teach me to pray, that's what
the disciples asked the Lord, wasn't it? Teach us to pray,
and He did. And it says, it talks about our weakened will, and
our sinful nature, thou canst subdue." Boy, I want that, don't
you? But Jacob, the Lord wrestled with Jacob, and this is where
this comes from. And the angel of the Lord, our Lord Jesus Christ,
said, as a prince, thou hast power with God, And with me,
he prevailed. My prayer. So it's a scriptural
hymn, and that's why we sing it. 2 Peter 1, 2 Peter chapter
1. This is written to believers.
2 Peter 1, so much Harm is done
by men who apply God's Word to everyone without exception. It
does not apply to everyone. These epistles are written to
the churches, to God's people, believers, okay? That's who this
is to. Verse 1, he says, Simon Peter,
servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained
like precious faith with us. So that's who this is to. He
calls them the brethren in verse 10. So this is to those whom
God has given this precious gift of faith. Precious faith. Precious promises from our precious
Lord who redeemed us by His precious blood. Precious. Precious faith. Precious means
rare. It means valuable. It means vital. It means something. One of a
kind. And that's what he says, those who have obtained, not
attained, obtained a gift by grace are you saved through faith. And that's not of yourself. It's
a gift of God. Ephesians 1 says it's according
to the working of His mighty power. It takes the power of
God to make a person believe. You've got to be born of God.
The Lord of God to believe is precious. It's a precious thing. Precious faith. Now he's going
to talk about the whole subject here. Is precious faith and precious
promises given to us that we might escape corruption? Boy, I want to know something
about that. I not only want and need to hear
that Christ put away my sin, but I need help with this indwelling
sin. I need some help how to battle
this. Do you? There's help. There's
help. And the answer is quite simple,
actually. It's one word. Like everything. It's Him. We need help, don't
we? Well, he said, I am a very present
help in time of trouble. So prayer is the key to all this. Ask. Ask. But this is the subject. Precious faith and precious promises
given us that we might escape. Simon Peter at Pentecost, he
told the people whom God had convicted, and all of them were
believers. They believed, and they were
convicted of their sin, and they said, what shall we do? He told
them, repent and be baptized, everyone, for their remission
of sin. And he said, save yourselves from this untoward generation. So that's what this is about.
Now he's appealing to and instructing the new creature. Every believer
in here knows that there's two men within us. We know it from
Scripture and we know it by experience. There's a new creature created
in Christ Jesus, a new man. He loves the things of God. He
believes the truth. This is a new creature. And it
wasn't there years ago, before you heard the Gospel, which is
the power of God. You didn't, you had no thoughts
of God, no thoughts of cry, no need of cry, you'd had no faith,
you had no love for the brethren. It wasn't there. You had this
old man that's sinful and corrupt and worldly and vile. And he's there. And he's never
going to go away. He's going to be with us to the
day we die. But this new man now, our Lord
said this. Let me go ahead and give you
one of these precious promises. Our Lord said to his people,
sin shall not have dominion over you. No one did. So there I said that. That was
two pages later, but I couldn't wait to tell you. Precious promise. With that promise in mind, you
know, you won't give up the fight. All right. This is good. This
is helpful. It really is. I hope it will
help you. So he says, those who have obtained
like precious faith with us. What is faith? Well, faith is
to believe in God. Okay? Our Lord said to His disciples,
you believe in God. believe also in men. Now, everybody
says that they believe in God. Everybody. Most people, it's
their conception of God. God's people believe God as He
is, as He's described in God's Word. We believe, God's people
believe God is God. You hear them. You hear religion
today. You hear people, this mock faith say, let God be God.
Won't you let God be God? Make Him Lord. If you have to
make Him Lord, He's not Lord, is He? If you have to let Him
be God, He's not God? What's God make? Absolute, sovereign,
ruler and controller? What happens is, you're born
again and you find out He is God. Like Saul of Tarsus, you know. And these men talk about accepting
Jesus. Saul of Tarsus found out, didn't
he? He's the one who said, we're
the ones accepted in the beloved. Everything, everything. We believe
that God is God. We believe God. Faith means to
believe God. Believe God's Word. You believe
everything God says. Don't you? About Himself. About
man. About salvation. About everything. You believe God. You say, let
God be true in every man's life. No. That's faith. We believe
God. Faith is to believe Christ. Believe Christ. This is a record. God has given us eternal life,
and this life is in His Son. He that hath the Son hath life.
God has put all things in Jesus Christ. All power, all authority,
all salvation, all wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, redemption, everything. All acceptance, everything. He's
prophet, priest, king. He's all and in all. Do you believe
that? Do you believe that Jesus Christ is all? That means everything
else is nothing at all. That means you're nothing at
all. That's faith. That's faith. It's precious.
It's rare. It's valuable. It's a vital thing.
It's to hope and trust and have confidence in Christ alone. That's
faith. That's a gift. Look at verse
1. It says, Those who have obtained
this like, we believe, just alike. This is the faith of God's elect. All God's people. One Lord, one
faith. One God, one father of them all.
We all believe. It's like a family. It's raised
with one father. You all know the same father.
You don't have different conceptions of the same father. I've got
four children in my family. We all knew my father as he was.
Somebody comes up and says, oh yeah, he's my father too. Oh,
is he? Describe him. Well, he's got red hair, and
he's 6'5", and he weighs... No, no, no, no, no. That's not
my father. We all do my father. And he instructed
us the same way. So it is with all of God's people.
It's like... It's the faith delivered to the
saints, given to the saints. Same faith. Like precious faith
is precious, a precious gift. And Brother Bruce was preaching
on this, and he said, this is faith God's given me. He said,
you can't have it. I won't give it to you for nothing.
It's precious to me. I won't take anything for this.
How about you? Good way to put it, isn't it?
It's precious. It's a gift. Oh, through the
righteousness of God and our Savior Jesus Christ. Now, what
does that mean? Well, you know what that means.
You know how few people know what that means? You know how
few people care? You know how few preachers ever
mention the word righteousness? You know it's 500 times in the
Scripture? David said, deliver me of thy
righteousness. David said, I'll make mention
of thy righteousness and thine only. You know what that means. What is your righteousness? That
is your holiness and your acceptance with God, your claim to heaven. How is God going to let you in
His holy hill? Tell me, John, one word. Christ. Yes, any believer in here, and
they'll tell you. The righteousness of God, and
the margin, I love this, the margin says, of our God and Savior,
Jesus Christ. Well, is He God or is He the
Son of God? Yes. Our God and Savior. Black Thomas,
my God, my Lord, and my God. We believe that, don't we? He's
not missing God. He's bury God or bury God. So
grace to you. Grace. Verse 2. Grace and peace. All the apostles preached grace
and peace, didn't they? Grace. All the churches that
we're involved with have grace in their name, don't they? Pretty
much. Grace. Because that's salvation. God's way. Grace, grace and peace
be multiplied under you. Grace and peace. Oh, grace. Freely given. That's what grace
means, a gift. Multiplied. And peace, peace
with God. How? By the blood of Christ. Every
believer knows the reason we have peace with God, that God's
not angry with us, is Christ made peace by the blood of his
cross. The chastisement of our peace
was laid on him. By his stripes, he took our flogging. That's why we have peace with
God. The punishment, the wages of sin we earn is eternal damnation. Christ took it by His stripes. We know that. Few do. That's faith. It's been multiplied. Grace. Grace multiplied unto
you through the knowledge of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Grace multiplied. How much grace do you need? You
need grace. You need every grace tons. He's
called the God of all grace. We need the grace of repentance,
the grace of faith, the grace of wisdom, the grace of constraining
grace, restraining grace. We need it all, don't we? It comes from the God of all
grace, and He freely gives it, multiplies it. He upbraids not
when you seem to waste the grace He gave you. He doesn't upbraid.
You ask for more. And peace multiplied through
the knowledge of Him. There's peace. Now we'll keep
Him in perfect peace whose mind has stayed on Him, Jehovah, the
Rock of Ages. That's Isaiah 26. Perfect peace. My, my, I'd like to have perfect
peace all the time, wouldn't you? If you'd keep your mind
on Him, you would. Keep looking to Him. He'll raise
some peace multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God.
He's our God. Jesus Christ, our Lord. He is
Lord. Overall, He's our Lord. He's
the Lord, our Shepherd. He's the Lord, our Righteousness. He's the Lord, our everything,
peace. Now, verse 3 says, According
as His divine power is given unto us, all things that pertain
unto life And God has given us all things. I quoted that to
you in 1 John. This is the record that God has
given to us in eternal life. It's a gift, a free gift. And
the gifts and calling of God are what? Repentance. God doesn't change. He won't
take you back. That's good, isn't it? God has
given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He that believeth
on the Son hath life. He's given us this eternal life,
and God's in it. Now don't be afraid of that word,
and I hate that we don't love it. We ought to love that word.
And I'll explain it a little more in a little bit. But basically
what it means is the ability to live in a sinful world, to
live a life of faith in this sinful world and not be overcome
by it. And the Lord knows how to deliver
the godly from temptation and so forth. I'll talk a little more about
that in a minute. But you know, Noah, Enoch was
a godly man. He walked with God. Noah was
a godly man. He walked with God, not with
the Word. He condemned the Word. And God
has given us all things necessary for this living in this sinful
world without being overcome by it. All right, look at it. Verse
3. He's given unto us all things pertaining to life and God, and
once again, the knowledge of Him. that hath called us to glory
and virtue. The knowledge of Him. He's given
us all things through this faith, this knowledge of Him who hath
called us. This sounds a lot like Romans
8. For whom He did foreknow, He
did predestinate. Whom He predestinated, He called.
Whom He called, He justified. Whom He justified by faith, He
gave faith. Whom He justified, He glorified.
called us to glory, to behold His glory, to be with Him in
glory, and He did it by His glorious power and virtue. Because the
margin says that, He called us to glory or called us by glory. Which is, it's both. It's both,
by His glorious power and virtue. to the praise of the glory of
his grace. I love 2 Thessalonians 2, a bounding of thanks to God
for you, brethren, beloved Lord, because God hath from the beginning
chosen you to salvation through sanctification of spirit and
belief of the truth, whereunto he called you by our gospel to
what? I used to then quote it all in
a job, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
He said, Father, I will that they be with me where I am, that
they may behold my glory. And it's glory to behold Him
now, whom He justified, He glorified. We've already been glorified
by beholding His glory, and not totally and completely. So He's
called us to this glory by His glory and virtue and power. Whereby, verse 4, are given unto
us exceeding great and precious promises. Oh my, exceeding great
and precious promises. that by these you might be partakers
of the divine nature, escape the corruptions and the world
through love. Precious promises. Precious promises. Now, here's
a few, okay? Well, turn with me. 2 Corinthians
5. Turn over here. You know these,
but I want you to look at them. 2 Corinthians 5. And I'd already
told you, our Lord said, sins shall not have dominion over
you. 2 Corinthians 5, look at it. Listen to these precious
promises. 2 Corinthians 5, verse 17. You have it? Now if any man, therefore, if
any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. John said, but it doth
not yet appear what we shall be. He said, Brethren, behold,
now are we the sons of God. It doesn't yet appear, but we
are a new creature. Old things have passed away.
Behold, all things have become new. All things are of God. He's
reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ. And hath given us, apostles
and everybody who preaches this ministry of reconciliation, To
wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world, not just Jews, but
Gentiles, unto himself. Not impugning their trespasses. Who shall lay anything to the
charge of God's elect? God justifieth. Who is he that
condemneth? Christ doth. There is promise
at the promise. There is therefore now no condemnation
to them there in Christ. Did you hear that? Oh, he's committed unto us this
word of reconciliation. And now we're ambassadors for
Christ, as though God did beseech you by us. We pray you in Christ's
stead, be ye reconciled to God. For he, God, hath made him to
be sin for us. Him do no sin. That we might
be made the righteousness of God in him. That's a precious promise. Listen
to this, Romans 8. Turn there real quick. Romans
8. I was going to quote it for you, but I want you to read it
with me. Romans 8. You know, if you have
trouble finding some comfort, some hope in the Scriptures,
just turn to Romans 8. Start at verse 28 and just keep
reading. Now it says in verse 28, we know.
We know this. All things work together. I've
got to have surgery again? Yeah. All things work together. For good. And them that love
God. You do love God, don't you? Them who are the called. You
have heard the call, haven't you? Gospel call. Yeah. It's
all according to His purpose, you see. Someday He's going to
make it known. For whom He did foreknow, He
did predestinate. Everything about you has been
predetermined. Predestinate. Your destiny is predetermined.
I like that. The world hates that. I love
it. Everything. Predetermined. According to the determinate
will of God. Don't you like that? No other
God. All His work from the beginning of the world. I love that. I
love that. You can go to sleep. You don't
have to worry about anything. Verse 29, He predestinated to
be conformed to the image of His Son. I know I'm going to behold His
face in righteousness. And man, I want to be like Him.
I'll be satisfied when I awake with His likeness. I'll be satisfied
when I'm done with this fellow called me. Well, this is going
to happen. It's going to happen. And that old man will not have
dominion over you. That's a good promise. And he
said, in verse 30, whom he did predestinate, he called. Whom
he called, he justified. Even just by believing, it's
counted unto us as righteous. That's exactly right. Whom He
justified and glorified. What shall we say to these things?
If God be for us, who can be against us? What can be against
us? And then verse 32, he says, He
that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us.
So how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
We worry about little things. When God gave this great unspeakable
gift for our salvation, will He not freely give us everything
else? Oh, we have little faith. And
it goes on to say, Who is he that condemneth? Christ died.
Who shall lay anything in our charge? Who shall separate us
from the love of Christ? Don't you love this? He goes
on to say that death, life, angels, devils, doesn't matter. Not going
to separate us. No one, the Lord said, plucked
them out of my hand. Precious promises. Precious promises. We go back to our text. So many
exceeding precious promises are given us. that we might tell
us that we're partakers of the divine nature, and we shall,
we have, we do, and we shall escape corruption, destruction
in the world through lust. You know, all that's in the world,
John said, all that's in the world is the lust of the flesh,
the lust of the eyes, and the pride of the life. That's it.
Doesn't say that. But now, you know what's in us?
Love of God, love of truth, and love for others. Faith, hope,
and love now abides in us. It didn't before. All that was
in us, we were dead in trespasses and sin. All that was in us was
lust of flesh, lust of eyes, and pride of life. That was it.
But now, abideth faith, hope, and love. It wasn't there before. And love never faileth. God has
put this love in your heart. Love never faileth. The love of God, he said. What
God does is forever. Now, look at verse 5. So now
he says, beside this precious faith and this precious promise
and all, he said, give diligence. Now, you're going to struggle
with this, but I'm going to try to help you not struggle. All
right? Beside this, beside this, give
in all diligence. Add to your faith. And he gives
several things in. And what he's saying here is
down in verse 8, if these things are in you, you won't be barren
or unfruitful. Don't you feel most of the time
like you're barren and unfruitful? What do you need to do? Sure
we do. So he says, now give diligence. That means be earnest about this. That word means endeavor. Like
our Lord talked about striving to enter. Paul wrote we ought
to give the more earnest heed to these things. So he says,
add to your faith. Now, Christ said, which one of
you can add one cubit to his stature by taking thought? Can you make yourself do any
of these things? Can't you? I'm going to believe. It's a
gift. All of these things are gifts. How then can we ask God? James said you have not because
He has not. He's the one that must give us
this thing. So this is where it all comes
from, Him. All virtue. We're going to see
that. Verse 5, give all diligence,
add to your faith virtue. Virtue. Now the word here means
something different than before. Before that was power. It was
power. This virtue means manliness. It means valor. Act like a grown-up. Does that
sound familiar? Grow in grace. You remember our
message on that, the very last verse in 2 Peter? Grow in grace. Grow up. Be children in malice,
but be men and understand. Quit yourselves like men. Act
like you believe. I want that, don't you? Act like
you believe something. I want to be like Joshua and
Caleb, men of valor, virtue. And they went into the promised
land and spied the land. It was full of giants and full
of all things that could just kill them dead. And they came
back and said, It's ours. It's ours. Why? God said so. And ten others said, No, it will
kill us all. Joshua and Caleb said, No, God
can't lie. He's already promised to us.
I want to be like that. I want to be a man, a woman in
faith. Don't you? You want to be strong in the faith? Give me
virtue. Add to your faith virtue, knowledge. Now, we can't be strong
unless we ask Him, Lord, strengthen me. Give me strength. Give me
courage. Add to your faith virtue and
to virtue, knowledge. Knowledge. Oh, sometimes I think,
am I ever going to learn anything? It seems like we learn from our
mistakes, doesn't it? We make so many of them. After three years, the Lord said
to the disciples, are you yet without understanding? Remember
that? Do you still don't understand?
It was right after he fed the 5,000. And a little while later,
they needed some more food and they were all worried. They were
all worried about where it was going to come from. He said, Have you forgotten so
soon? How about us? Knowledge. Knowledge of Him. To fully trust
Him. If we really trusted Him, we'd
have such Peace? Unbelief is dishonor to our Lord. Dishonor. Oh, if we knew more of Him, if
we fully trusted Him, we'd have no doubts, we'd have no fears,
we'd have no worries, we'd be such an encouragement to one
another. Because unbelief rubs off. Ah, boy. Knowledge. I need knowledge to
know what to do and what not to do. Don't you? I love the
story of Jehoshaphat and all Israel were all gathered together
and they said, we don't know what to do. They said, our eyes
are upon thee. Good. And then Jehaziel came and said,
just stand still. You've called on the Lord and
the Lord's going to answer you. The battle's not yours. Stand still. You're not going to need to fight.
It's already over. I need to know what to do, what
not to do, when to speak, when not to speak. Don't you? Knowledge. How to walk, how to talk, how
to act, how to react, how to deal with people. I need knowledge.
Don't you? Where does it come from? Ask. And we look at Him, we look to
Him, we look at Him. He is wisdom, personified. Temperance,
look at the next set. Knowledge, temperance, add to
knowledge, temperance. Oh my, that means self-control.
Whew! Control over your... I wrote
down these three things. Your taste buds, your tongue,
and your temper. These three things, I think,
find things that rhyme, you know. Taste buds, appetites. Your tongue, attainment. Your temper. Proverbs 16 says
he that controls his temper is better than him that can win
a city. Self-control, appetites. You
know, these fleshly appetites are strong, aren't they? They're
difficult and almost impossible to tame. How then? How can you
be tempered? Lord, help. Subdue these things
in them. An appetite. The tongue, the
little member, it's hard to tame, isn't it? No man can. It says no man can. I know who
can. The only one who can. Ask, Lord,
let me set a watch over my lips, my tongue. Temper, our temper. Oh, man. The Lord was so calm. Nothing in the world bothered
Him. The disciples came to him and said, Lord, don't you know
that Pharisees were offended? He said, leave them alone. He's
down in the dirt riding with that woman. They're all hollering
at him and saying all manner of things at him. He's not even
listening. He's not listening. It will bother
him in the least. Boy, I want to be like that.
I hear things. You know, being hard of hearing
is good. Sometimes men will say, did you hear that? No. Good. It made you mad. Well, turn a
deaf ear. How? Temperance. Add to your temperance
patience. That's, oh my, patience. Patience. Where's patience come from? James
said, the trial of your faith worketh patience. It's a long
thing. It's a lifelong thing. This thing
of learning patience. Patience to wait on the Lord. Patience to endure things, trials,
and wait to let in. Judge nothing before it's time.
Patient with people. Our Lord is so patient with us,
isn't He? So patient. How many times does Scripture
say, wait on the Lord? Wait. Wait, I say. Wait, you'll
see. Wait. I'm just like Simon Peter. I confess my fault to you. You
didn't already know it. I'm impulsive. I'm impetuous.
I'm impatient. You say, let's go. No, let's
wait. Wait. Wait on the Lord. Patience. How many times do I say, wait,
wait, wait. To patience, godliness. There
it is. The word means piety, which means
consecration and devotion to God. Who doesn't want that? Well,
all of God's people are. You're either ungodly or godly.
Do you hear me? Scripture talks about the ungodly
and the godly. It talks about the righteous and the wicked.
It can't be both. You've got an old man that's
wicked, but this new man is righteous. He's holy. He's godly. What does
it mean ungodly? It means to be without God. Unkind? It means without kindness. Ungodly? No God. There was a
time we were without God, without Christ, without hope in this
world. Now, you believe God. You worship God. You love God. You walk with God. Oh, you moan
and you mourn over your But you do. You believe in God. That's
what our Lord said there to his disciples. You believe in God. He wasn't saying, do you believe
in God? He said, you believe in God. I know you do. Why? Because
Christ revealed him to them. And he has to believe. And you know, God's people, you're
here tonight to worship God. That's what it means to be godly. It's to have your affection set
on things above. And all God's people are godly. But, oh, to be like Paul, who
said, for me to live is Christ. I want to be... You remember
those three things? I want total commitment, total communion and
total conformity. Total commitment, total devotion,
total consecration. Lock, stock, and barrel. Mind,
body, soul, and strength. Totally given to Him, don't you? That's Godliness. Godliness, brotherly kindness.
Look at this. Godliness, brotherly kindness. Peter is the one that said love
has brethren. Love has brethren. Love like
brothers. Brothers, I had two brothers
and man we, every now and then we'd get, well my second brother
and I'd get in scraps. And Stephen, you and Sam, you
ever get in scraps? Oh, my. Deborah, you and Teresa,
it's Teresa's fault, I'm sure. But, okay, you're still together,
aren't you? You're still sisters? You still
love her, despite everything she did? Teresa says she didn't do a thing. Is anything going to separate
you? He says she's his sister. Oh, he loves his brother. They're
brothers and sisters. Nothing's going to change that.
It doesn't matter what. You're getting a scrap in the next day.
You forget it. You forget it. Brotherly kindness. You know, love is kind. Oh, how
kind our Lord is to us. We have a kind brother, don't
we? We have a kind brother. You've
heard that story about the young man who pulled up in a new car
at a friend's house. Pulled up in a new car and his
friend said, where'd you get that? He said, my big brother
gave me that. He said, really? He said, yeah,
he did. He said, man, I'd like to have
a brother like that. And the man said, I'd like to
be a brother like that. Wouldn't you? You remember Joseph? Wasn't he a kind brother? Oh
my, you know what all his brethren did to Joseph? And he was so
kind to them. He wept over those sorry fellas.
I want to be like that. You need that? You need to hear
this? Every one of us do. If you don't love like a brother,
you're not a brother. Right? He that loveth not, like
that, doesn't know God. Doesn't know God. My dad used
to, you know, we'd get in fusses and my dad just, doesn't matter
who was at fault, he'd whip us both. Our Lord. And add to brotherly kindness
charity. The fruit of the Spirit, as it
goes on to say, that you might not be barren and unfruitful,
that you might bear fruit. Herein is the Father glorified
that you bear much fruit. What's the first fruit of the
Spirit? Love. Peter ends, the last fruit, first
fruit, last. He saves the best for last. Now
by the faith, hope, and love, the greatest of these is love.
You know 1 Corinthians 13. Love. Charity. Oh my. Brethren, brethren,
herein is love. Behold what manner of love the
Father has bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons
of God. That's the only motive. That's
the only thing that will increase our love, isn't it? To see how
much He loved her. Oh, you read that in Ephesians
3, didn't you? We might know something of the
height, the length, the breadth, the depth, the love of Christ
that passes knowledge. If you know a little bit of that,
that will make you love more. See how He loved her. And so
he says, if these things be in you and abound and make you either
barren or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ, if so, you know, I don't want to be a worthless, fruitless member of the body. I don't want
to be salt that's lost its savor, do you? I don't want to be that
fig tree that the Lord says, just cut it down. Have you? Done with me. The Lord done with
me. He didn't like these things. He's forgotten. He's blind to
the will of God and the truth of God and to himself and the
whole purpose of God and cannot see afar off what this is all
about. God created us in Christ Jesus unto good work. He's forgotten. He's purged from his old sins.
Be done with that, he said. Give diligence. Make your calling
and election sure. If you do these things, you'll
never fall. Never fall away looking to Him. Oh, we fall. We fall to temptation. But He
says you give more diligence. You won't fall so easily. And
the entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the
everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Man,
that's who I want to be with and where I want to be. Don't
you? Lookin' under here. Look. Look. Okay, stay with me.