Thank you, Robin and John. Go back, go to
1 Peter now, 1 Peter chapter 3. Some of you have expressed What a blessing these studies
in 1 Peter are, have been. They have been to me, and a great
help to me. And I remind you of what Peter
said he was writing about in this whole epistle. He said,
I'm writing to testify that this is the true grace of God wherein
you stand. And we've been looking at the
true grace of God. by saying this is the sovereign,
electing grace of God. That's where he started, the
electing grace of God. He said we're kept by the power
of God, the keeping grace of God, the redeeming grace of God,
the leading, guiding, directing, restraining, constraining, saving
grace of God. By grace are you saved. By grace
are you saved. Not of works, lest any man should
boast. And I'm going to say this one time, I'm not going to say
it again, okay? And for the sake of someone who may tune this
in in the midst of these studies. What Peter's writing to the saints,
he's writing to those who've been saved by the grace of God,
and he's exhorting them to adorn the doctrine of God's grace and
exhorting and saying that grace, true grace, is something that's
seen in God's peoples. And the grace of God, like in
Ephesians 2, he said, by grace you're saved through faith. And that's not of yourself, it's
a gift of God. Not of work, lest any man should
vote, but his workmanship. But, he said, we're created in
Christ Jesus unto good works. This is what the grace of God
does. It saves us from our sin, the
reigning power of sin. And remember what he wrote to,
Paul wrote in Titus, he said, the grace of God that brings
salvation teaches us to deny ungodliness and worldly lust
that we should live, teaches us to live soberly, righteously. You remember, Peter said, sober,
be sober, three times in his letter. Teaches us to not be
taken up with the things of this world, as servants of the Most
High God, live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world,
looking for that blessed hope, waiting, looking for, remember,
you see, where strangers and pilgrims passing through? So this is what he's writing
about, all right? He's writing to the to the saints
and the faithful brethren in Christ Jesus, chosen of God,
saved by the grace of God. And when God puts, here's what
I was going to say to somebody picking up right in the middle
of this. We're not talking about Establishing a righteousness
to be accepted by God. We're not talking about doing
works in order for God to approve of us and accept us. No, no,
no. But what God does in His people. when he creates a new creature
in Christ Jesus, unsuited one, that glorifies God, that glorifies
His amazing grace to take a no-good sinner and make a saint out of
him. To take someone in whose flesh dwelleth no good thing
and yet bring some good things out of him. That takes the grace
of God. And he exhorts it throughout
these passages. Now, remember he's writing in
verse, chapter 2, He's talking to servants, remember? We're
servants of God, he said. Servants one of another. He said,
be subject to your masters and all things. And he writes to
wives, remember? He said, be in subjection, submission,
and so on and so forth. And then he writes to husbands
to dwell with the wives. And finally, verse 8, here's
where we left off. Finally. All of you, he said. Be all of
one mind, having compassion one of another. Love as brethren. Be pitiful. Be courteous. Not rendering evil for evil,
or railing for railing, but contrarywise, opposite. Blessing. Knowing that
ye are there unto called. This is what you're called to
do. It's why you were saved. Save you from being like that.
and that you should inherit a blessing. So it says, be all of you of
one mind. What mind? We're going to look
at several scriptures, okay? Look at Romans 12. Romans chapter
12. Romans 12. Be all of one mind. Think the same thoughts, the
same will and purpose. Look at Romans
chapter 12. He says in verse 2, Be not conformed
to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. God's people think differently
than the world, as they should. God is not in all the thoughts
of the people of this world. But oh, may he be in all our
thoughts about everything. Be not conformed to this world,
but transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove
what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Look down at verse 10. Verse
9, abhor that which is evil. Let love be without dissimulation.
Abhor that which is evil. Cleave to that which is good.
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love.
See, these men are saying the same thing. All the apostles
are saying the same thing. Where did they get all this?
They got it from the Lord. If all that the Lord said and
did was written in books, the world couldn't contain the books,
John said. And the Lord taught them for
three and a half years, Thirteen, fifteen hours a day, walking
and talking to them, saying many things. He said one time, many
things to say unto you, but you're not able to bury them right now.
But he said things, and they wrote these epistles and expounded
on those things and further developed those things, and this is it.
This is the things that He told them to tell us, all right? Verse 10, brotherly love. That's what Peter just said.
In honor, preferring one another. Down in verse, look at this,
verse 14. Bless them which persecute you.
Bless and curse not. Rejoice with them that rejoice.
Weep with them that weep. Be of the same mind, one toward
another. Mind, not high thing. Condescend
to men of lowly state. Be not wise in your own conceit. So, all right, look at Ephesians
chapter 4. He says, Be of one mind. Ephesians
4. Family, brethren, all of you,
everyone, be of one mind. All of you, one mind. Look at
this, verse, chapter 4, verse 1. Walk worthy. I beseech you. Remember Peter said that? Dearly
beloved brethren, I beseech you, walk worthy of the vocation wherewith
you are called. That's a believer, that's a disciple,
son of God. With all lowliness, that's the
lowliness of mind, meekness with long-suffering for bearing one
another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit
and the bond of peace. That's what Peter's going to
go on to exhort us to. So there's one body, one. When
you have one mind, you're one in everything. You're one body.
You're one person. You're one Spirit, Holy Spirit,
even as you're called. One hope of your calling. One
Lord, one faith, one Baptist, one God, one Father of all. We're
one. We have one hope, don't we? One purpose. God's Lord. The
good of God's people. Look at Philippians 2. We're
going to talk about the mind, be of one mind. Let this mind be of you. Philippians
chapter 2, look at this, in verse 2. Philippians 2, 2, "...fulfill
ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love of one mind. Let nothing be done through strife
or vainglory." That's the world, isn't it? That describes the
world, full of strife and vain glory or pride, but in lowliness
of mind. Let each esteem other better
than themselves. He's going to tell us to be courteous.
That's what that means. Look not every man on his own
things, but every man also on the things of others. This was
the mind of Christ. Let this mind be in you, which
was also in Christ Jesus. He never thought of himself.
Never. Always thinking of things of
others. He said, Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me. I
am meek and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your soul.
All right, go back to our text, 1 Peter. So it's be all of one
mind, having compassion one of another. Compassion. That means
to suffer with. We ought to be able to enter
into the sufferings of one another, shouldn't we? We're just alike.
We go through the same afflictions. We have the same problems, don't
we? We have the same struggles in
this world. We have the same troubles. We
have the same enemies. We're in the same family. We're brethren. He says, be full
of compassion. Suffer with. Over in 1 Corinthians
12, he talked about the body. He said, if one member suffers,
the whole body suffers. If one of your members suffer,
have a sore toe, your whole body suffers with it. That's what
he's saying. And our Lord, and the motive
in all this, the reason for all this, is as Christ had compassion on
us. Listen to this. We have a high
priest who's touched with a fever of impermanence. He was tempted
in all points like as we are. Psalm 103 says, The Lord pitieth
his children. He's full of compassion. It says
in Hebrews 5 verse 2, He can have compassion on the ignorant
and on them that are out of the way, for that he himself also
is compassed with infirmity. How much more should we? The
Lord have compassion on us. Have compassion one of another.
Verse 8 in our text. Love as brethren. Love as brethren. Loving the brethren. You know
how often this is written? How many times this is spoken
of? Look, 1 John chapter 3 with me. 1 John. Chapter 3. You know, this is the mark, a
mark, of the true child of God. Love. He that is born of God
loves as Christ loved. Look at 1 John 3, verse 14. It says, We know that we have
passed from death unto life because we love the brethren. He that
loveth not his brother abideth in death. Our Lord said in his
Sermon on the Mount, He said, if you love them that love you,
even the heathen do that. He's not talking about it. See,
this born-again child of God is not born of blood. This is
not kin. But this is a supernatural, all
flesh loves its own flesh, but this is a supernatural work of
the grace of God to cause two people that are not related to
love one another like brethren. That takes the grace of God.
To not be a respecter of person, meaning my kin and my family,
but rather loving, The disciples were married men, most of them.
You know that? Peter was a married man. You
know that. You know good and well several
more of them were married. Did they have children? You know
they did. You know they did. Do you ever
hear them mention them? They never mentioned their wives
or their families. Ever. Did they love them? Of
course they did. But not more than. This is proof. They said, Lord,
we've left everybody for You. Fine. They loved the Lord Jesus
Christ and His people. They gave themselves. One family. One family. Look at 1 John chapter
5. Look at this. Let's see, 1 John 3, looking down at verse
23. Now, this is His commandment,
1 John 3, 23. This is His commandment, that
we should believe on the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and
love one another as He gave us commandment. And He went on to
say, if you don't love your brother, you don't know God. It's that
serious. So love as brethren. You know, I've told you so many
times, and you know how it is with kinfolk. You know, you love
one another no matter what. You might get mad at one another.
I'm sure you did. That's flesh. But you never quit a brother.
No, no, no. This is a love that's thicker
and closer than a kin. Much closer. Love is brethren.
Look at verse 8. Be pitiful. Be pitiful. Full of pity. James said the
Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy. That means to look with
pity on, to look with compassion, to look with kindness, to look
with sorrow, to feel for. You know, most people, I'm not
speaking of you, Most people have more pity on animals than
they do their fellow human beings. Oh, God's people. The Lord is
very pitiful. Oh, as a father, pity of these
children. And I remind you what we are
by nature. I remind you what we were when
the Lord came for us. We weren't worth pitying. We
were to be blamed, and yet the Lord had pity on us. Be pitiful. Be full of pity. Full of pity. If you want pity
from the Lord, our Lord says you be pitiful. If you want mercy
from the Lord, you be merciful. Look at the next line. Be courteous.
That means considerate. Preferring one another. We read
that, didn't we? Preferring one another. Courteous. Considerate. Caring for and considering the
other person more than yourself. We talk about common courtesies,
don't we? The common courtesies of life.
If someone speaks to you, you speak to them back. If someone
does something for you, you thank them. We try to teach our daughter
and our grandchildren to be courteous, to be considerate, to speak to
people, to acknowledge people. And if someone does something
for you, to be thankful, no matter what it is. That's courtesy. The opposite of that is rude,
inconsiderate, disrespectful. This is the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ, isn't it? Lovely, courteous, kind. The common courtesies are to
speak to, to thank. You speak to those that you love,
don't you? You give preference to those you love and respect.
Courteous, you think of a man, you think of chivalry, opening
the door for seeing husbands that you know, walking out ahead
of their wives, and don't give your wife a thought. She's back
there, quite often, young men, she's back there with a stroller
and a diaper bag and this bag and that bag, and you just pull.
That's self, isn't it? That's discourtesy. Be courteous,
be kind. Speak to one another. It's a
hurtful thing if people don't speak to you. Huh? Speak to one
another. Paul one time said to the Ephesians,
he said, that which you've both seen and heard and learned of
me and seen me do, you do. I go around and speak to every
one of you, don't I? Yes, I do. Why? I'm not doing my duty because
I'm glad to see you and I want to speak to you. That's love.
That's common courtesy. If somebody does something for
you, you thank them. You acknowledge it. You appreciate
it. We don't deserve a cup of cold
water. But he said you will receive
a disciple's reward. Be courteous. Considerate. Read on. Verse 9. Not rendering
evil for evil or railing for railing. Contrarywise, the opposite,
blessing. You remember verse 23 of chapter
2? Look at this. When our Lord was reviled, he
reviled not again. He suffered, he threatened not,
but committed himself to him that judges righteously. Not
rendering evil for evil, railing for railing. There's nothing
more ugly, is there? Nothing uglier, is there, than
a knock-down, drag-out, verbal, it's awful. I've all done it,
I guess. It's awful, isn't it? Terrible.
Get caught out of that. Railing for railing. Rendering evil for evil. Look at Matthew 5. Our Lord said
this more fully in Matthew 5. This is where Peter got that.
Look at Matthew 5. He said, Be perfect. Be mature.
Be like your Heavenly Father is with you and with His enemies. Matthew 5. It says in verse I
say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do
good to them that hate you, pray for them which despitefully use
you and persecute you." Boy, that's difficult. Oh, it's difficult. But it's
not impossible. Our Lord doesn't tell us to do
what He doesn't have the grace to give us to do it with. Stretch
out your hand. Oh Lord, this is impossible.
With man it is impossible, but not with God. He giveth more
grace. Verse 45, that you may be the
children of your Father which is in heaven. He makes his Son
to rise on the evil, on the good, and sends rain on the unjust. Psalm 145, it says his tender
mercies are over all his work. If you love them, verse 46, that
love you, what reward have you? The publicans do the same. If
you salute your brethren only, if you speak to your family only,
what do you more than others? That's what the publicans do.
Be like your Father. Be perfect. Be mature. Be complete. Be like your Lord. So that's
what he's saying to you. Don't render evil for evil, railing
for railing. The contrary lies. Blessing.
And our Lord, in His great wisdom, said, A soft answer turneth away
wrath. Where no wood is, where no fuel
is, the fire will go out. Revenge has no end if you keep
it up. Just end it. Retaliation knows
no end. So, bless them. Bless them that
curse you. He says you've been called called
out of that and called to a blessing. Oh, the Lord has blessed us in
choosing us and putting us in Christ and sending Christ to
die for us and save us from our sins and send the Holy Spirit
to lead us and guide us and instruct us how blessed we are to be hearing
this right now. And we're called to inherit a
blessing and we're called to be a blessing. We're called to
be a blessing. Our Lord said in Matthew 5, he
said, six, you're the salt of the earth. That the salt's lost
its savor. And the savor of salt is this
right here. So he says, you've been called. Remember that? In chapter 2,
chapter 1. Called. Alright, now look at
verse 10. He that will love life, He that
will love life and see good days. Let him refrain his tongue from
evil, his lips that they speak no guile. Let him eschew evil
and do good. Let him seek peace and ensue
it. He that will love life. What's
he talking about here? He's talking about life more
abundant. Talking about the life of Christ. One time our Lord said, if you
love your life, you'll lose it. Meaning, in this world, you love
this world, and you want to make a life for yourself here, and
this is all you care about, and you just live your life, and
you live for this world. That's your life. He said you'll
lose it. But if you lose your life, you'll save it. What Peter's
saying here is this life of faith, this life of Christ, Christ in
you. This is life more abundant. This
is peace. He says the kingdom of heaven
is not in meat and drink, but in righteousness and peace and
joy. Does that sound good to you? Does that sound like the life
you love? I wanted to name this, and maybe
I will name it this, the good life. This is the good life. When people talk about, he's
living the good life, what they mean is he's got a mansion, he's
got several cars, he's retired, not a good job, he's retired,
and he's got all these things, and yeah, he may die tomorrow
if he doesn't know Christ. That's all going to rise up in
the judgment. That's not living the good life. Christ didn't
have... Did he live the good life? content,
peace, joy. He was even headed to the cross
and it said, for the joy, said the boy. Gave him good pleasure to go
to the cross, to lay down his life for his friend. Greater
love hath no man than this. Lay his life down. He gave his
life for his friend. That's living a good life. He says it's more blessed to
give than to receive. It's more blessed to serve than
being served. It's more blessed to be a servant. This is the blessed life. Good life. Live a good life.
You will love life and see good days. We don't have many days.
Man, this morning, there's only a few days in it. A few days.
Teach us to number our days, Moses said, that we might apply
our hearts to wisdom. What's that? Christ. To look
to Him and observe Him and walk as He walks. Observe Him. Oh, my. Good days. We don't have many
days. Let's spend them wisely, huh? Spend them wisely. Not on ourselves. You know, most
people, we talk about loving life, most people are miserable. Most human beings
are miserable. Even the rich are miserable.
You know that so, don't you? Can never get enough. Why? Two
reasons. Sin and self. And they go together. The way
of the transgressor is hard. Sin, God says, is no peace for
the wicked. They're going to try to have
pleasure in this world, and they can't get it. Sin and unrighteousness. There is no pleasure to be found
there. The Lord won't let it happen. And self. You can't serve yourself and
be happy. No, sir. Our Lord was happy. He gave Himself for it. He said, You come up to Me, deny
yourself and follow Me, and you'll be a happy man. You'll be a blessed
man, blessed woman. This is the good life. This is the good life. That's
the life I want to live, don't you? And He says, We'll see some
good days. We don't have many left. Spend
them on somebody else. Let him refrain, look at this,
oh my, want to see some good data? Refrain your tongue. James wrote a lot about this,
didn't he? He looked at it and he said, oh, what a great matter,
little fire kindleth. Oh my, he says this tongue is
a dangerous thing. It's the cause of most of our
pain and strife and division, isn't it? Oh, boy. Oh, but just keep our tongue
from evil. Evil. You know, evil. You know
what this mouth was made for? When God made man, He gave him
a mouth. Why? To fill it full of food? No. No. To talk to God. gave him a tongue and a speech
and a voice to talk to God, to commune with God, to praise God,
to thank God for grace to come out of his lips. That's what
this mouth was created for. And sin came along and now Romans
3 says all that comes out of this mouth by nature is cursing
and bitterness. Their throats are as an open
sepulchre, the poison of acid upon their lips. That's what
made it my name. Listen to it, listen, listen. Oh, let not that be so about
these mouths and these tongues, our lips, God's people. He's
called us to save us from that. He called us to redeem our mouths
and our tongues. Murmuring and complaining is
evil. That's evil. Cursing and bitterness is evil.
That's evil. It's evil. Don't do it. Gossip,
slander, talk, backbiting, whispering, criticism, judgment of our brother. Our Lord said it's evil. And
he hates it. He hates it. Him that soweth
discord, God hates it. Don't do it. Don't do it. And called to bless occurred.
Refrain, you want to see some good days? And Lord, refrain
your tongue from evil and your lips that they speak no guile. I want to be like Nathanael.
No, I want to be better than that. I want to be like Christ.
It said over, it said this, Peter says this three times. Is this
important? Chapter 2, verse 1, he says,
Lay aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisy. Guile is
looking and saying one way and then you turn around and you backbite. Have you ever felt
that way about somebody? You talk to them and you smile
and you think, they just don't mean that. And you feel like
they're slandering you behind their back. Oh, it's horrible.
It's a horrible feeling. It's guile. Our Lord didn't have
any of that. No guile. No guile. No guile was found in his mouth.
And he tells us, let it not be found in your mouth. Speak no
guile. Verse 11, let him eschew evil
and do good. Look at Job chapter 1. Do you
love the book of Job? Do you love the story of Job?
Do you know that Ezekiel talked
about three men in the earth, three men that lived on this
earth, three of the finest men to ever live on this earth? Do
you know who they were? Noah, Daniel and Job. He talked about them three times
in one chapter. He said, they lived on this earth,
fine men, righteous men. Noah, Daniel, and Job. Look at what the Lord said of
Job. Look at verse 8. The Lord said to Satan, Hast
thou considered my servant Job? There is none like him in the
earth. Now, we've preached on this,
haven't we? And what a picture of our Lord
Job is. He's a good type of our Lord
Jesus Christ, and we looked at him as such. But Job is also
a man. He's just a man. Saved by grace. A sinner saved by grace. Oh,
what the Lord gave him, great grace did. He said there's nobody
like him. I've known some like that. I've
known some in here like that. Salt of the earth. Our Lord said
in Hebrews 11 of His saints, all of those in Hebrews 11, He
said the world's not worth it. That's what He said. The world's not
worth it. Look at verse 8. He says there's
none like Him in the earth. He says He's a perfect, a complete,
an upright man, Christ-like man, an upright man, one that feareth
God. That's where it starts. And escheweth
evil. He departs from it. He runs from
it like Joseph. He goes the other way. He suppresses
it. Rick, I want to be like that,
don't you? Let him eschew evil. And do good. Do good in our text. It says
do good. Do good. The preacher of the Scripture
says, none doeth good, no, not one. No, the natural man cannot. And the Lord one time, the rich
young ruler came to him and said, good master. And he said, why
call us thou may good? There's none good but God. Then
why does he tell us to do good if we can't do good? Two men, the Lord plainly said
in the New Testament, are good men. Joseph of Arimathea and
Barnabas said, they're good men. I know some good men. Some sitting
in here, good women. When Christ is in a person, in
our flesh dwelleth no good thing. Paul said, I know that in me,
that is. That is, in my flesh dwelleth
no good thing. There's not a just man on the
earth that doeth good and sinneth not by nature. But now when God
creates a new creature in Christ Jesus in a person, he creates
a good man. Your dad was a good man, wasn't
he? Huh? And don't anybody say he
wasn't. Huh? Here sits in here some good
men, some good women. We're not giving glory to them,
we're giving glory to the grace of God that makes somebody like
that. Do good. Do good. Do good. We're doing a good work
here. I love this. I hope you love
this. This is good. Psalm 92 says it's
a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord. Good thing. Do good. Do good. You know what
doing good is. Whatever it is, do it. Do it.
Do good. Verse 11. And seek peace and ensue it. David wrote that. Psalm 34. Pursue it. Seek peace. Be a peacemaker. Our Lord said they're the children
of God. And pursue it. Pursue it, go
after it, because the fruit of righteousness, oh, the blessed
fruit, love, joy, gentleness, goodness, the fruit of righteousness. Look at James 3 quickly. James
3. I'm in a hurry, but this is so good. But the fruit of righteousness,
you see, is sung in peace of them that make it, and that pursue
it, those that go after it. Look at James 3. Look at verse... Oh, you remember we just looked
at this. Verse 16, where envy and strife
is, there's confusion. It frustrates the grace of God.
It's not supposed to be. And every evil work, anything
can happen. Whereas in men strive, in men.
But the wisdom that's from above, that is Christ, that Christ in
you, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated,
full of mercy and good fruit, without partiality, without hypocrisy
or guile. And the fruit of righteousness
is sown in peace of them that make it. You want peace? Our
Lord said, Make it. Our Lord came to make peace for
us. He did it. Oh, how did He do
it? How did He make peace for us? He laid down His life for
us. And He says to us, you do the
same. You do the same. Make peace.
Now they'll walk all over me. Let them do it. And pray for
them. Forgive them. Because that's
what we did to Him. That's what we did to Him. Alright,
go back to our text. And he says the eyes of the Lord,
you see, are over the righteous. They're over the righteous. His
ears are open unto their prayers. Who are the righteous? Well,
we know that those in Christ are righteous. We have the righteousness
of Christ imputed to us, don't we? But, and, I shouldn't say
but, and, here's what John said in 1 John 3, little children,
let no man deceive you. He that doeth righteousness,
he is righteous, even as he is right. He said, in this the children
of God are manifest, but children of the devil, whosoever doeth
not righteousness, not of God, neither is he that loveth his
brethren. As He is, so are they in this
world. They do what's right. They do right. I'm not trying
to discourage anybody. That's why this is written, to
encourage us, to exhort us to do these things. Don't look for
these things in yourself. Don't look to these things. Don't
try to find the assurance in them. If you do think, look,
I have made some progress. You need to start all over again. Nevertheless, we can see it in
others, can't we? We can see it. There's a righteous man. He does
what's right. But it's not him, it's Christ
that dwelt within him. Isn't it? Huh? He's an old sinner
saved by grace, but the grace of God came down with power and
glory and the Holy Spirit and made him into a new creature.
And he does what's right. He'll do what's right. So he tells us, the eyes of the
Lord are over the righteous, his ears are under their prayer,
but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil. It's against them. Oh boy. And then he goes on to say, who
will harm you anyway if you be followers of that which is good? Now the next, I quit. I close.
I quit. The next, he's going to talk
about suffering, and we have been talking about that, being
persecuted for righteousness' sake. He's going to use Noah
as an example. But he tells us that we're to
live in this world as Christ lived, peaceful, gentle, easy
to be treated, merciful, gracious, and kind, the salt of the earth,
and so on and so forth. And he says, Most of the time,
you won't be harmed for doing what's right. Most of the time. But if you do, wonderful. That's okay. The Lord will take
care of you. His eyes, His ears are over the
righteous. He knows. He sees the oppression
of His people. He sees the wrongdoing of His
people that they go through. He sees that. But he takes care
of them. The angel of the Lord campeth
around about them. But he tells us, don't return
it. Don't be like them. Don't do
what they do. You've been called out of that
to be a blessing, to inherit a blessing, to be His people,
to the glory of God. Okay. Stand with me. Our Lord, how we thank you. Thank
you for your Word. It is a lamp under our feet,
a light under our path. Oh, my, it's the lights of the
knowledge of the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ and glory of
God in the face of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is the way wherein
we should walk. Oh, my Lord. It is your power. It is your voice. It is your
instructive spirit. to teach us and lead us and guide
us and restrain us. It restrains us, Lord. O Lord,
hide these things in our heart. O Lord, plant these things in
our heart, we pray. Let no iniquity have dominion
over us, but rather let us be servants of righteousness. Let
us be servants of our God. Let us be light in a dark world
and testimony to Thy sovereign saving grace. O Lord, we come
far short of this, Your glory. We come far short. We pray that
You will continue to mold and make and conform us to His blessed
image for Thy glory, for Thy glory. Make us servants of Thine
and servants of one another, for Christ's sake. It is in His
name we pray. Amen. Thank you very much.