John 15, let's read verses 12
through 27. John 15, verses 12 through 27. This is my commandment, that
ye love one another as I have loved you. Greater love hath
no man than this. that a man lay down his life
for his friends. Ye are my friends, if you do
whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants,
for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth, but I have called
you friends. For all things that I have heard
of my Father I have made known unto you. Ye have not chosen
me, but I have chosen you and ordained you. that ye should
go and bring forth fruit, and your fruit should remain, that
whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give
it you. These things I command you, that
ye love one another. If the world hate you, you know
that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world,
the world would love his own. But because you are not of the
world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the
world hateth you. Remember the word that I said
unto you, the servant is not greater than his Lord. If they
have persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they have
kept my saying, they will keep yours also. All these things
will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know
not him that sent me. If I had not come and spoken
unto them, they had not had sin. But now they have no cloak, no
excuse, no covering for their sin. He that hateth me, hateth
my father also. If I had not done among them
the works which none other man did, had not had sin, but now
have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. But this
cometh to pass, that the word that might be fulfilled that
is written in their law, they hated me without a cause. But when the comforters come,
whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of
truth, which proceedeth from the Father, He shall testify
of me, and ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been
with me from the beginning." Now, the Lord is speaking, as
we've seen clearly, that the Lord is speaking to His true
disciples. His true disciples. Judas is
gone, and there's just eleven true disciples in this room,
this upper room, and He's speaking to them. His true disciples.
He's speaking to His true disciples then and now, because these things
are written for our learning. And they're blessed words of
comfort and joy to His true disciples. This is not for everybody. This
is not for the world. He plainly makes a difference,
doesn't He, between His chosen and the world here. The Lord
spoke more about the world than anybody. I forget how many times,
forty-some times in the book of John alone, where He clearly
describes the difference between the world and His people. All right? Blessed words of comfort. Comfort for His disciples who
will need comfort. Who will need comfort from Him,
knowing that He is their God, that He is our Savior, and we
belong to Him because we need comfort, because He said, you're
going to be hated. That's why. Blessed words of
comfort. He said, you shall be hated of
all men, Jew, Gentile, rich, poor, young, old, for my sake,
that is, for Christ's sake, for the truth's sake, name sake,
who He is, not just Jesus, but the Lord Jesus, God manifest
in the flesh, for my sake. Now, someone may argue, and people
always do. He's just talking about the disciples
who were going out as pioneer missionaries with the gospel
into a foreign hostile world had not heard the gospel yet."
Now, that's not true. The prophets preached the same
gospel, didn't they? Yes, they did. But someone argued,
but he's just talking to the apostles who were going out into
a hostile world with the gospel. But now, men and women everywhere
have heard the gospel and now there are so very many who know
and love the Lord believe in Jesus, so to speak, and love
the Bible and love the Lord. That's not what this book says. That's not what the Lord says.
In fact, he said in the last days many false prophets shall
arise and deceive many. He said they will turn away their
ears from the truth and the fables. Paul and Peter both wrote in
their The monumental epistles, Ephesians and Thessalonians and
Peter in his first and second, he said, persecutions and afflictions
await those who stand for the truth's sake. They await all
true believers. Peter said, in the last days,
scoffers and mockers shall come. Our Lord himself said, as in
the days of Noah. has in the days of Noah, so shall
the coming of the Son of Man be." So you see, and our Lord
Himself said this amazing, fearful and examining verse. He said, when the Son of Man
cometh, shall he find faith on the earth. Meaning, it's so rare
and so hard to find. that you have to really search
to find Him. Now that does away with any talk of a worldwide
revival, doesn't it? So no, He's talking not only
to His disciples then, but disciples now. And some of you, if not
all, true believers, have experienced some sort of affliction or persecution
or hatred for the truth's sake, just for the truth's sake, just
for telling people. Going home to your parents, to
your children, your brothers, your sisters, or going to work,
or wherever, at the school, or wherever it is, and you just
tell them the truth. You want men and women to know
the truth. The truth about God. The truth
about man. The truth about salvation. You
just tell them the truth. And our Lord said, you will be
hated, because the natural man receiveth not the love of the
truth. The natural man receiveth not
the things of God, their foolishness to him." Scripture says, I'm
quoting Scripture, "...neither can he know them." The carnal
mind, Romans 8, 7, is enmity against God. The natural man
doesn't love the God of the Bible. He loves the God of his imagination.
He loves the God the way he thinks he ought to be. He loves himself.
He loves sin. He loves this world. All of these
things are the opposite of God. All right, there's much said
here about friends and enemies. Our Lord says much here about
love and hatred. And the first, we've got three
points. There's words of blessed comfort to His people. There's
a command. And thirdly, there's a conclusion.
All right, the blessed comfort, verses 15 and 16. Speaking to
His disciples who believe Him, really do believe every word
that proceedeth from his mouth." Verse 15, "'Henceforth I call
you not servants, for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth.
But I have called you friends for all things that I have heard
of my Father I have made known unto you. Ye have not chosen
me, but I have chosen you and ordained you that ye should go
and bring forth fruit. and that your fruit should remain,
that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he
may give it to you." All right? He calls them friends. He calls
his people, those who believe him, truly believe him, trust
him, he calls them friends. Now that's an endearing and special
term, isn't it? Friend. A friend is someone,
the definition, is this, it's a person who's attached to another
person by feelings of affection or personal regard. Someone who's
on good terms with another, not hostile, but friendly, a companion,
a close confidant. And that's exactly what he said
there, wasn't it? I call you friends. Now, who
made friends? Who was the one that reconciled? Reconcile means to be made friendly. Who is the one? Man is the enemy
of God by nature. But the scripture says Christ
came to reconcile us to God. Not everyone, because everyone's
not reconciled, but His people. Did He not say, look at verse
16, you have not chosen me, but I chose you. We usually don't
choose our friends, do we? When you're young, you go off
to school and friends just happen. They just, I don't know, somehow
you get in with this one or that one and they just stay your friends
all the way through school. You didn't choose them. They
didn't choose you. It just happened. You find some areas of similarities
or something in common and you become friends until... and then
the Lord saves you. And you lose all those friends.
They were never your true friends. Then who becomes your friend?
God's people. But our Lord chose His friends,
didn't He? He said, you didn't choose me.
I chose you. He chose His friend. Who did
He choose to have as His friend? Well, the Pharisees said this
in derision of Him. The Pharisees. The religious
leaders, high-muckety-muck, you know, so to speak, in religion,
those that were the leaders of Jewish religion, they said, he's
a friend of publicans and sinners. And, boy, publicans and sinners,
they love that, don't they? That they look down on him because
he chose as his friend. This is who he chose as his friend.
If you're going to be his friend, if you are his friend, you think
of yourself as a publican, as a sinner, don't you? You say
with Zacchaeus, who's a publican, he said, I'm not worthy
for the Lord to come into my house. You say as that publican
that went in the temple, two men went in the temple, a publican
and a Pharisee, Pharisee said, oh, I thank you God, I'm not
like other men. And the public and all he could
do, he sat at the back and wouldn't even raise his eyes, as he just
looked down and pounded on his breast saying, God be merciful
to me, the sinner. Will God have anything to do
with me? I'm such a sinner. Yes, that's who he chose. That's who he chose. That's who
he came to save. He didn't come to call the righteous.
He didn't come to save good people. He came to save bad people. To
make bad people good. But he chose sinners. Sinners.
He could say with Paul, I am the chief of sinners. Here's
good words of comfort. You're his friend. He made you
his friend. And he said here, a friend is
one to whom you tell intimate things. A friend is one to whom
you make known your mind, your will, your heart. You pour out
your heart. You open your mind to this friend. And that's exactly what the Lord
said to them and to us. I've made known to you. Look
at Psalm 147 very quickly. I've made known to you these
secrets that have been kept hidden. He's hid these things. Remember
before this, our Lord rejoiced that the Pharisees did not understand. Yes, he did. He rejoiced that
they did not understand. He said, I thank thee, Father,
Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from
the wise and the prudent. Blinded their mind. God had.
Christ had. And read Isaiah 6 for yourself. But he makes these things known
to his chosen. He said, Jacob have I loved,
and Esau have I hated. He chose Jacob, who is a type
of his people. Verse 19 of Psalm 147. You have it? Psalm 147, 19. He showeth his word unto Jacob,
his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. He hath not dealt
so with any nation. And as for his judgments, they
have not known them. Praise the Lord. Oh, I am the Lord, I change not,
therefore you sons of Jacob. If you can take your place with
an old Jacob, he calls you friend. And oh, what can be said about
a friend? Proverbs 17 says, a brother is born for adversity,
and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. This is it. A friend loveth at
all times. And a brother is born for adversity. And to have friends, he said,
you must show yourself friendly. That's Proverbs 17, 17, Proverbs
13, 1. But Christ is that friend that
sticketh closer than a brother. And one who was born for adversity. Ours. who loveth at all times."
He is that friend that loveth at all times. A true friend never
stops loving their friend. A true friend. True love never
quits. Didn't he say, greater love hath
no man than this that a man lay down his life for? Who? His friends. Not family. Nearly everyone will
do that. Everyone will lay down their
life for their blood kin. But this love that is supernatural,
that is only of God, makes someone love their brethren in Christ,
and calls them friends, even above their own blood kin. That's how, you know, John wrote
a whole book about it. He said, by this shall all men
know you're my designer. Not because you're a good husband
or a good wife, but because you love the brethren. And it's genuine,
it's not this fake, phony stuff that's in religion today, I love
you brother, and then turn your back, they turn their back and
you cut them up. Our Lord is the one who loveth
at all times. It's said in John 13, it says,
having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto
the end. And he laid down his life, not
for the world, Christ said, I don't lay down my life for the world,
I lay down my life for the sheep. Christ died for his sheep, whom
he calls friends. What a blessed thing, huh? To
be called a friend of God. Abraham was called that, wasn't
he? Moses was called that. And so are all of his people.
Alright, here's a command. We've already looked at this
several times, but in the face of the hatred that we'll experience. He says in verse 14, you're my
friends, if you do whatsoever I command you, if you do, if
you do, if you do. And we've looked at that in a
whole message, didn't we? To keep his commandments, to
do his bidding. Well, what is his principal command
for his disciples among themselves? Huh? Look how many times he says
this. He shouldn't have to command
us, should he? Well, apparently he does. Verse 10. Verse 9. As the Father hath loved
me, so have I loved you. Continue ye in my love. If you
keep my commandment, you shall abide in my love, even as I have
kept my Father's commandment and abide in his love. Verse
12. This is my commandment, that
you love one another. How? As I have loved you. And the only way, you know, we
will love to any degree like our Lord loved, is to keep in
mind His love for us. To always be thinking about how
He loves us. That in turn, and it's the only
thing that will make you truly love like that. If you realize
that He loves you in spite of all of your sinfulness, In spite
of your unfaithfulness to Him, in spite of your ingratitude
to Him, in spite of all that you've done to Him, He loves
you. That and that only will make you love that way. The only
thing, the law won't do it, but I'm supposed to love Him, so
I'll love Him. Look at verse 17, these things I command
you, That you love one another. That
you love one another. This is a necessary command,
isn't it? It's for His glory. Verse 8. Verse 8. Remember, He
said, Herein is My Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, so shall
ye be My disciples. What's the first fruit? Love. He said, bear much fruit. Love
much. Who loves much? Who does the
Scripture say loves much? Loves the Lord, loves His salvation,
loves His Word, loves His mercy, loves His people, loves His gospel,
loves His worship. Who is it that loves much? Our
Lord said it, to whom much is forgiven, they'll love much. He was speaking of Mary Magdalene,
out of whom He cast seven devils, who was forgiven all of her iniquities. She lived a life of ill repute,
looked down upon, despised. She didn't have very many friends.
She didn't have very many friends. Her only friends were those who
wanted to use her and amuse her, wanted her body. And the Lord
came along. The Lord came along, her true
friend, and told her, I've loved you with an everlasting love.
And he drew her with cords of love, cords of a man. showed
her her sinful self, brought her to His feet where she asked
Him for mercy, sued for mercy, and He frankly freely and forever
forgave her all her sins. He said, Woman, where are thine
accusers? Doth no man accuse thee? And
she looked up, the Lord cleared out all of her accusers, all
of the witnesses against her. Though true, He cleared them
all out. There was no who shall lay anything the charge of God's
elect. This is God who alone can justify. The Lord Jesus Christ, and He
cleared all her accusers out. All those who could bear witness
against her sin cleared them out until it was just her and
him. And he raised her up and said,
does no man accuse thee? No man, Lord. He said, neither
do I. If you're a sinner, that's good
news. This gospel is only for sinners.
But go and sin no more. Don't do it again. Did she? Probably not in that extent that
she did. But was she still a sinner? Yes,
she was. But the Lord gives a command,
don't do it. These things I write unto you,
John said, 1 John 2, 1, that you sin not. Keep His commandments. They're not grievous and they're
good for us. and they're good for everybody
else. But, and, if any man sin, you have an advocate. To whom
the Lord loves, He chastens for those sin. But this is for His
glory, you see. It's for His glory. The Lord
alone can and will create this love, the love of God, the true
love of God that's shed abroad in the heart of a child of God
that will lay down their life for the brethren, for his friend,
this is for his glory. A Lord alone can do this. Lay
down their life for the gospel's sake. You read Hebrews 11, of
all those who laid down their lives for the truth's sake. God is the only one that can
make someone love the truth more than their own lives. In fact,
the scripture says, they love not their lives unto death. Our
Lord said that. He that loveth his life shall
lose it. But he that hateth Lot, hateth
himself, hateth the sin in this world like Lot is vexed and wants
out, he'll save it. These things are for his glory,
this command to love one another for his glory, and it's for our
good and for our comfort, because he's saying to them, you're going
out to face a hostile world. This is not a world that loves
God. This is not a world that loves the truth. This is a world
that hates the truth. and hates those that tell it.
Every single prophet was killed, except Elijah. The Lord raised
him up. Moses. But they all were killed
and He said, you're going out and they're going to kill you,
all of you, but John. You're going to need these words
of comfort and you're going to need each other. You're going
to need each other. You're going to need a place
to come where the strife ends. So put away all, this is why
Peter said, put off all of these things, not only fornication
and all of this thing that the Gentiles do, well, not as they
do, but he said, put off also these things, anger, wrath, malice. And he went on to say, love each
other. Why? We need to quit striving. This needs to be the place where
you strive together for the faith of the gospel. where you strive
together, building, not tearing down and breaking down, but building
up one another on this most holy thing. We need this. This place needs
to be an oasis of love. And I hate to use terms like
that because religion uses them, but it's true. It's still true
in it. Not going to throw the baby out
with the bathwater, though men abuse and misuse things, we're
not going to quit using them. The church is a place, there's
tares, there's wheat, I mean, there's tares among the wheat,
and there's goats among the sheep, and our Lord said there must
be heresies among you. That's division. He said there
must be. That they which are approved might be made manifest.
That the true people of God might be clearly known. That is, the
peacemakers. Those who truly love. Those who
are truly striving together and building up one another. Those
who are merciful and gracious and kind like our Lord. All right? He started by saying,
go back to our text in John 15. In verse 16 and 17, he said,
you have not chosen me, I have chosen you to bring forth fruit.
And he said in verse 17, love one another. This is the first
fruit. Oh my, it will overcome. So many
things love will do and so many things love will not do. 1 Corinthians
13. Love will speak no evil. Love
thinketh no evil. Love will bear all things. Love
will cover all things. How important is love? We need to be loved like this,
and we need to be loved like this. For His glory, our good,
and the good of one another. Because, he said, verse 18, the
world is going to hate you. If the world hated you, you know
that it hated me before it hated you. Now why, how could the world
hate Jesus Christ? The altogether lovely Son of
God. The only truly holy man to ever
live. He who is love, God is love,
and Christ is the embodiment, the fullness of the Godhead bodily,
the personification of love, of mercy, of grace. It says,
grace poured from His lips, full of compassion, ready to pardon,
went about doing good, holy, harmless, separate from sinners,
undefiled, not like us, haters, violent, envious, jealous? No. The opposite of all that. How? How? Why would anybody hate
the blessed, lovely, pure Son of God? Why? Because of what He said about
man, and what He said about God, and what He said about salvation.
He didn't say anything good about man. Not like these false prophets
that go around saying, God loves you, God loves you, God loves
you. He didn't say that. He said to a Jew named Nicodemus
in private, the Jews who said, it's us, we're the people of
God and the whole world, the whole world is lost. And our
Lord said, no, God so loved the world. Now, you need to read that in
conjunction with 1 John 2.15, where our Lord said, if any man
loved the world, the love of the Father is not in him. Now,
which is it? He's telling that Jew, God doesn't
just love Jews. I didn't come to just save Jews.
I came to save Jew and Gentile. In fact, I have a people out
of every tribe, nation, tongue under heaven. I have a sheep
out of every tribe, nation, tongue, and every... they're my seed,
they're my children, they're God's children, I've come for
them." Now everyone is not, because he clearly said to some Pharisees,
you're of your father, the devil. Scripture clearly says that they're
people of the seed of the evil one. But Christ's seed, he has
a people out of the world. And he said that to these disciples.
He said, you're not of the world. I've chosen you out of the world. Whoever God loves, He chose out of the world to bring them
out of the world, to bring the love of the world out of them,
to bring the love of sin out of them, to make them love God
as He did, make them love the truth. Now, He said in verse
18, right after He said, I chose you, now the world is going to
hate you. Verse 19, if you're of the world,
the world would love his own, but you're not of the world,
but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world
hateth you. The chosen ones. Go to... I don't have time, but let me
see here. Look with me at Luke chapter
4. Yeah, Luke chapter 4. I'm running out of time. Right
after he said, I've chosen you, and he said, the world's going
to hate you. Why? Because he chose them out of
the world. They're not of the world. If they were of the world,
the world would love them. John said, they are of the world,
speaking of Antichrist and those that follow him. He said, and
they speak of the world, and the world careth them. They speak
of the world. It's a health and wealth gospel.
It's a gospel without offense. It's a gospel that says God loves
every single person in the world, no matter how evil, no matter
how wicked, no matter how they live. God loves them all. He
loves Adolf Hitler the same as he does Paul the Apostle. There's
no offense in that. Oh, it's fine. I like that. There's
nothing wrong with that. But the offense of the gospel
is this particular electing love. Do you see how that right after
he said, I've chosen you, he said, now the world's going to
hate you. All right, they loved Jesus of Nazareth. They loved
Joseph and Mary's son, the carpenter, the helper, the healer, until... until he opened his mouth and
started preaching God's sovereign election of the people. This
is where it started. Look at it. Luke 4, verse 22. He came to his hometown of Nazareth. He opened the book, and after
he read the scriptures, they just said, oh my, what gracious
words proceeded out of his mouth. They said, oh, this is Joseph's
son. Isn't he a fine boy? Hasn't he
grown up to be a fine young man? Oh, we remember him. He fixed
a chair for me. He fixed a table for me. He built a house for me. No carpenter
better than him. What a fine young man he is. He said unto them, you will surely
say unto me, verse 23, this proverb, physician, heal thyself. Whatsoever
we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.
In other words, perform some miracles. He said, verily I say
unto you, no prophet is accepted in his own country. True of every single one. And
this is his country. He came out of Nazareth. But
I tell you of a truth. He said, I'm going to tell you
the truth. Here's where the truth starts. With God's sovereign
choice of the people. That's where salvation started.
You know that? That's where this whole thing started. In the mind,
the purpose of God. Isn't it wonderful? That God
would choose any of this fallen race? Read on. I tell you of a truth. There
were many widows in Israel in the days of Elias when the heaven
was shut up. Three years and six months, great
famine was throughout the land. But under none of them, no Israelites,
no Jewish women, widows, none of them was Elias sent save under
Sarepta, a city of Sidon. That's a Gentile, under a woman
that was a widow, a Gentile widow. In other words, God said, or
Christ said, God sent Elijah to a Gentile woman to save her
and her house and passed by all of those Jewish widows, all of
them, and chose that one woman to save her. I know one woman
that loves sovereign election, the widow of Sarept. Read on. Verse 27, and many lepers were
in Israel in the time of Eliseus, or Elisha, another prophet, the
successor of Elijah, the prophet. Many lepers in Israel in the
time of Elisha the prophet, but none of them was cleansed saving
Naaman, the Syrian, a pagan, heathen, soldier, a no good,
worthless soldier. But God sent that leprous soldier
to the house of Elisha, the servant of God, and God made him clean. Now look what happened. What
he's saying is, I save whom I will. Like God said to Moses on the
mount, the Lord will show mercy on whom he will show mercy. Isn't
this the truth you first hear when you hear the gospel? The
truth of who God is, what man is. He's not worth saving. He
doesn't deserve a chance to be saved. He deserves hell. And salvation is not by chance
anyway. It's by choice. Not yours. God's. Because He
gets the glory. Read on. When they heard these
things, they were filled with wrath. What? What did He say,
Tom? He told the truth. Didn't He? He just told the truth. No, he don't like that. And they rose up and thrust him
out of the city and led him to the brow of the hill to cast
him down. But no, no man can take his life
from him. He passed through the midst of
them. His time was not yet done. And they would take him later
on only because God would deliver him up to them as a substitute
for his people. His people. But this is where
this whole... Writers used to call it scheme,
or plan, or purpose of salvation started with the sovereign electing
love and mercy of choice of God upon a particular people. Who
are they? I don't know. But I know how they're revealed
when it's all said and done. I know how they're revealed when
a man stands up and preaches this. They don't buck it. They don't
hate it. You find me a saved person in
the scriptures that doesn't know that God chose them. You find
me one in the scriptures that actually thinks they chose God,
and I'll show you a person that's not saved. Because they all say,
thank you, Lord. If you hadn't chosen me, I would
not have chosen you. If you hadn't come to me, I would
not have come to you. If you had not sent the gospel
to me, I'd have never heard it. If you hadn't, by your Holy Spirit,
convicted me of my sin, I'd still be in it. If you hadn't come
and saved me and washed me in your blood, there's no way I
could save myself. If you hadn't done it all, I
would yet be in my sin. Thank you, Lord, for doing it.
Salvation is of the Lord in its origination and its application
and its glorification. Salvation is of the Lord. The
Lord thought it. Jesus Christ bought it, and the Holy Spirit
brought it. Salvation is up to the Lord. Election by the Father,
redemption by the Son, and regeneration by the Holy Spirit. You and I
have nothing to do with it. What do you think about that? You must be chosen. Alright,
now you go out and you tell people that. Just tell them the truth. And you'll see the veins pop
up in their necks. You see them clench their fists, get a white
knuckle. I see it in preaching all the time. I don't like that. Why? You don't like God's glory? You don't like the truth about
man? This is the truth. You know yourself,
you know it's the truth, don't you? And the Lord said, and I'd like
to close with this conclusion, in chapter 15, He said, But they're going to do this
to you as they did it to me. It's not you they hate, it's
me they hate. Didn't he say that? It's not you they hate, it's
me. It's the God of the Bible. And he said in verse 26, when
the comfort has come, I'll send unto you from the Father the
Spirit of truth. He'll proceed from the Father.
He'll testify of me in the next chapter. of the Spirit of God
and what He does for the people of God. And He convinces them,
and nobody can convince them otherwise. And He bears witness
with our spirit. And the world just continues
to hate it, and hate it, and hate it, and hate the truth.
And we love it more, and more, and more, and more, and more.
We're convinced more, and more, and more, and more. He shows
us Scripture, after Scripture, after Scripture, after Scripture,
after Scripture. On every page, on every line, don't we see the
truth? The truth. of who God is, of what man is,
and where salvation is found, don't we? And he keeps bearing
witness with our spirit. And one of those witnesses is
persecution. Persecution. And he told this
to the Thessalonians. Paul wrote to the Thessalonians.
He said, I know you're elect of God. 1 Thessalonians 1. I
know you're elect of God because you received the Word of God
with persecution. God chose you to love and believe
the truth. And then you go out and went
out to tell it to others, and you were persecuted for. That's
consolation. That should be a comfort to us.
We don't want people to hate the truth. We want people to
believe the truth. That's why we're on the radio. That's why we keep
preaching. That's why we go to tell them that. But our Lord
said, don't marvel if they hate you for it. And in my next message, I want
to talk something about Preaching the truth in love, but... Did
I act mad at anybody this morning? No, just... Men all over the
world believe in a lie. And oh, how blessed we are. You
must be chosen if you love the truth. Okay.