Ephesians chapter 2, the Apostle
Paul tells us here in Ephesians who does the saving and why. Ephesians 2, look at verse 8,
which most everyone in here could quote, I'm sure. He says, By
grace are you saved. By grace are you saved, by sovereign
electing, predestinating, calling, justifying, keeping, saving grace. By sovereign grace are you saved. Aren't you glad? Salvation is
by God's sovereign grace, not of works. It's by grace. By grace
are you saved through faith. All who believe are saved. All who believe, and aren't you
glad that that's not of yourself? It's the gift of God. Aren't
you glad that all who believe do so according to the working
of his mighty power? Aren't you glad it wasn't up
to you to believe, to accept Jesus, to do this and to do that,
but he called you by his grace? He gave you this repentance and
this faith by his grace. Aren't you glad? Salvation is
by grace. Aren't you glad? Every sinner is glad that salvation
is 100 percent by grace. All right, read on. By grace,
you say, it is the gift of God and faith, not of works, lest
any man should boast. For we are his workmanship. It
is God that worketh in us both the will and the do of his good
pleasure. Aren't you glad? We are his workmanship. created
in Christ Jesus unto good works." Back in chapter 1, it says, "...he
hath predestinated us unto the adoption of children." It says
it twice, "...having predestinated us, in whom we have obtained
an inheritance being predestinated." That word means that God has
predetermined that we will be like his son. God has chosen a people out of
this mass of damnable creatures to make them just like his Son. Aren't you glad? Huh? David said, I'll be satisfied
when I awake with his likeness. Didn't he? Aren't you glad that God has
determined that we're going to be just like Christ? My pastor
said, well, no, he didn't say it here, he said it in Iceland
recently. They asked Spurgeon what, if
he could have one thing, what would it be? And Spurgeon said,
perfect holiness. To be absolutely without sin. That means like Christ, doesn't
it? Well, aren't you glad that God has determined that that's
what we're going to be like? That's who we're going to be
like. Aren't you glad? That's what every child of God
wants, longs for. They not only want to have their
sins forgiven, they want to be done with them. They want to
be done with them. Not only, say, Jeanette, from
the penalty of sin, but from the presence of sin. That's what it means to have
the mind of Christ. That's what it means to think
like God. Think like Christ. It's the hate, iniquity, and
love righteousness. Is that right? That's the mind
of God. Ralph Barnard, I've quoted this
so many times. Ralph Barnard said this. He said, Salvation. Salvation is God Almighty reproducing
the character of Jesus Christ in a human being. That's the
new birth. Christ being formed in you. That's what that means. Old Brother
Ross said it in profound words. Salvation is God Almighty reproducing
the character of Jesus Christ in a human being. A new creature
created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God hath ordained
that we should walk in. That's what I want. That's what
I want. Not just saving us from hell.
Nobody wants to go to hell, does he? You'd ask a rogue on the
street if he wants to be punished forever. Oh, no! Goodness, no! You want to be happy forever.
Why, yes! And therefore, these preachers
promise them heaven. and happiness and joy and no
more tears. Well, everybody wants that. Well,
what differs? Who maketh us to differ? What
makes us to differ? What makes the child of God differ
from the fellow who is just trying to get out of hell? Because to
be like Christ is what they want. To be with Christ. Christ is
heaven to us. And salvation is not being saved
from hell. Salvation is being fit for heaven.
He said, we're being made meat to be partakers. Fit. Fit it up. We're getting fitted.
He got a robe on us, a ring on us, shot us with shoes,
dared us with a girdle, and gave us a new heart. and a new nature, fitting for
heaven, making us like Christ. And when we lay down this body
that plagues us, when we lay down this mortal frame, we will
be like him. Isn't that what the scripture
says? We will be like him. The more problems I face in myself,
and the more I hate myself. Now, that's as it should be.
The older I get, the more I go on in this thing, the more problems
I see you facing, the struggles that we have, and so on. The
more I want to press you and I to faith in Christ, faith in
Christ is is our entrance to glory, faith
in Christ. By faith, you say, by faith,
we're justified by faith. Therefore, being justified by
faith, we have peace with God. Believe, and you shall have eternal
life. And the older I get, the more
I want to press us to act like him. Faith in Christ and conduct becoming
to this faith. Isn't that what Paul and Peter
and James and all the apostles do throughout their epistles?
Don't they? Huh? Remember Peter and the boys? Oh, Deborah, they were just up
and down like little children, weren't they? And Christ kept
saying, How long must I bear it with you? Oh, ye of little
faith. And little faith saves. It's not the strength of faith.
It's the object. But he kept saying, grow up. And then that's what Peter and
the boys said later on, after they started writing the epistles,
put on the new man, didn't they? Be perfect. Grow up. And so on. And the older I get, the more
I want to look to Christ. and look like Christ. How about
you? If you're a child of God, you
do. If any man be in Christ, he what? He's going to be a new creature.
Is that what it says? If any man be in Christ, he what? One little two-letter word. What
does it say? If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things have passed away.
Behold, behold, think about it, all things become dead. That's
it, that's so. That's a fact. That's a fact. Now, that's a fact. You know, there are times when
I act me as a snake. That's my wife. And I deplore that, and I hate
that in myself, and I repent over it later on. And I hope
I try to make it up to her. But do I act like that every
day, all day long? Am I mean as a snake by nature
all day, every day? No, I don't mean as a snake, son.
I am dead as a new man. Isn't that right? A new man, a new
man created in the one image of Jesus Christ. He now lives,
and bless God, he has the upper hand. Greater is he that is in you.
Who's that? Christ in me. Nevertheless, it's
not I, but Christ that liveth in me. I'm not taking the glory.
It had nothing to do with the new birth. He gets all the glory. But this
new man created in the image of Christ now lives, and it becomes
evidence. It becomes evident. This new
creature becomes evident to everybody. As I think it was Barnard said,
even the old hound dog knows something different. The old
hound dog knows, you quit kicking it. That's what the proverb says. A man that obtained mercy, he's
merciful to his beasts. He remembers, I was a beast,
God didn't kick me. It becomes evident to everybody
around him. You remember that illustration
of that little girl who asked her daddy, he said, Daddy, how
big was the Lord Jesus as a man? How big was he? And he said,
Honey, I don't know. I guess he was about my size,
about an average man, 5'9", 5'10", 160 pounds or so, and she said, She said, then if Jesus Christ
was in me, he'd stick out, wouldn't he? That's right. That's like, and my pastor says
this all the time, you don't have to go around saying, I'm
a Christian, I'm a Christian, I'm a Christian, wear a bumper
sticker, lapel pin, it'll leak out on you. They'll find out. You'll be like those disciples
of old. Didn't they say that? Your speech
betrays you. You know what they said about
Peter and Nancy? That little girl said, I know you're one
of his disciples. You talk like him. Your speech
betrays you. Some old, some pagan fellows
took note that they'd been with him. You look like him. You walk
like him. You talk like him. You act like
him. You're one of his, aren't you? And though you may deny
it at times, may not act like it at times, you are. You are
the new creature. And everybody will see him and
take note. And you'll know it. You'll know
it. Wait a minute, preacher, what
do you mean, you'll know it? Listen to the scripture. Paul said, Know ye not your own
selves, how that Christ be in you, except ye be a reprobate Unless
you're just such a wicked, deceitful, mind-void of judgment that you've
got yourself fooled. That's what he said then. Now
people, I'm not what I want to be. I'm not what I want to be, not
by that much. I'm not what I'm going to be.
I'm not even close. what I'm going to be. I'm not
what I ought to be. But thank God. Not what I used to be. Can you say that? He said sin
shall not have dominion over you. You don't live for it. The old man, not a child of wrath
even as others anymore, he put on the mercies of God and the
bowels and the fruit of the Spirit now dwells there. Is that right?
I hope so. Honey, I hope so. I hope I exhibit
a little bit. Not like I ought to. But I hope
it's there. If it's not there, I'm not in
Christ. Aren't you glad salvation is
by grace? Aren't you glad? Aren't you glad that he's predetermined
that you're going to be just like Christ? Aren't you glad
that he that hath begun a good work in you will perform it,
he'll perfect it, he'll finish it until the day of Jesus Christ,
that someday you are going to wake with his likeness? Is that
your heart's desire more than anything else? Not only then,
but now. Now, now, mortify the old man, be done
with this Paul Mahan, this wretch, and be like Christ. Is that what
you want now? Well, Paul said in Ephesians
4, look over here, Ephesians 4, he said this in verse 1, he
says, Now, we just went all we went
through six chapters in one message. We showed him coverage, Stan.
Do you remember how the first four chapters? Their first three
chapters, anyway, Paul talks about this work of God. Electing,
predestinating, calling, justifying work of God. That's salvations
of the Lord. And any hints of it there in
chapter two, this unto good works. predetermined that we're going
to be like Christ, and so Paul says here in chapter four, verse
one, he says, I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech
you that you walk worthy of the vocation of the life that you
now have been called to. Walk worthy. Verse two, he says,
with all, now look, every verse, Paul just He just repeats himself
in every epistle. He just repeats himself. With
all lowliness, see that? Lowliness and meekness, long-suffering,
forbearing one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity
of the Spirit and the bond of peace. I'll right now turn to
Philippians. Philippians. I know that may
sound like a long introduction, but that's part of my text. Philippians
2. Turn over there. In every epistle, it's the same. Every epistle, Paul calls us
to faith in Christ and the conduct of Christ. Paul calls us to faith in Christ
and the conduct of Christ. I don't want to be guilty of
preaching one to the exclusion of the other. I want to preach
the whole counsel of God. The one is proof of the other.
You can't have one without the other. Right? You can't have
one without the other. Jane, we just went through Jane.
You can't have faith without one. You can't. It's an impossibility. Well, Philippians 2, look at
chapter 1. It sounds like a broken record. Yeah, it is. This is the record.
There's only one record. It says the same thing. Chapter
1, verse 27, Paul says, "...let your conversation," that means
life, "...be as it becometh the gospel of Christ." Remember,
he said, the vocation here called. The same thing, act like, live
like that which becometh the gospel
of Christ. Now in chapter 2, verse 1, he
says this. He says, if there be, if there
be, if there truly is any consolation in Christ, if you've truly been
called by Christ, if you truly have faith in Christ, if you
truly have hope in Christ, if that's true, read on, if any
comfort of love If you feel that love of God toward you, if you
have that love of God shed abroad in your own heart for him, for
his gospel, for his people, if it's truly there, if there truly
be this consolation, this hope in Christ, this love for God,
for Christ, his gospel, and shed abroad in your heart for his
people, you know it's there. Peter, do you love me? I don't
know. I'm just not sure. Lord, you know I did. Yes, I
did. If there be, if it's there, any
comfort of love, verse 2, any fellowship of the Spirit. He
said that in Ephesians 4, in the unity of the Spirit. Fellowship
around the gospel of Christ, which the Holy Spirit unites
the hearts of God's people closer than family. It's so. Closer than family. Is that there? If that be that, if there be
any fellowship of the Spirit, this unity of the Spirit around
the things of Christ, if any bowels and mercy, any inward
feeling. Bowels mean inward man. If inside
of you, you have, you hope in his mercy. Bowels of mercy you've
felt, you've been the object of, it makes you exceedingly
glad. The mercy of God. Bowels, you're
filled with the mercy of God. And feel mercy toward God's people. Feel that same mercy. Bowels
and mercy. Verse 2. Fulfill ye my joy. that you be like-minded. Think
alike. Fulfill ye my joy. That you be
like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord and
one mind. Now, like-minded, like who? Like
whose mind? That you be like-minded. Well,
Paul in Philippians, look at Philippians 1. Verse 3, I thank my God upon
every remembrance of you. Every time I think of you, oh,
I thank my God for you. In every prayer of mine for you,
I pray for you, making requests with joy. I'm filled with joy
for this fellowship, for this family, for my brethren in the
Lord. From the very first day I met
you, I fell in love with you by God's grace. And you're my
family. It's me, verse 7, it's me for
me to thank this of you. Have you in my heart?" He said, I want you to be like-minded.
Paul genuinely felt that way, didn't he? Like-minded. So he's
saying, like me, yes. Isn't he, Henry? Yes. But that's not principally whose
mind he's talking about. Nevertheless, he could say that,
didn't he? He could say, oh, I hope you
love me like I love you. That's what he's saying. How
could he say that? Because he had somebody in him.
He had a mind like somebody else. Is that right, Joe? All we can say is he was the
most Christ-like man we've ever known. Now, read on. Fulfill my joy. Oh, I rejoice
in my heart that you were like-minded and had the same love, being
at one Love Christ, the gospel, love me of one accord, that is,
one mind, the same things in mind, worship of God, the glory
of God, good of the Church, not your own things. He says, don't do anything. Let nothing be done through strife
or vainglory. What he's saying is don't fight
or be selfish. Don't fight. Let nothing be done
through strife. Don't ever bicker. What is it
you hate in your... I'll ask someone who has... I
have an only child. She never bickered with her sibling.
Never any sibling rivalry. Deborah, those two children growing
up, when they were growing up, what is it that you absolutely
hated worse than anything else? When they quarreled among one
another. That's the reason you whipped them both. You whipped
them both. You didn't know who was guilty,
but you knew they're both guilty. They're bound to be. They wouldn't
be fighting. And God hates it, too. Whether
it be among husband and wife. or brother and sister in Christ,
or brother and brother, he despises it. Discord among brethren, he
despises it. And the fruit of righteousness
is sown in peace by them that make peace. Blessed are the peacemakers,
they shall be called the children of God, the sons of God, peacemakers.
David said, I am for peace, they are for war. That's a child of God. Christ-like
man or woman. Well, he said, don't fight. Let nothing be done through strife
or vainglory. You know why we strive? Vainglory. Why do we fight? Vainglory. How could she do this to me,
the big M.E., you know? Why? She's offended Me, of all
people, me! Who's this me you're talking
about? Isn't that right? Then why don't
we fight? We wouldn't have any trouble. If we really believed
we were the chief of sinners, less than the least, not fit
to be called a disciple of Christ, could anything or anybody offend
us? Huh? No, sir. No, sir. And so for this reason,
Paul says, look at this. In lowliness of mind, verse 3,
I hope every eye is on it. In lowliness of mind. What's
that mean, lowliness of mind? It means to think low thoughts
of yourself. What does that mean? Lowliness
of mind. It's to think right thoughts
of ourselves, because that's what we are, lowly. You know, humility should not
come hard to us. It shouldn't come. A worm should
have no problem being humble, should it, huh? If a worm starts
thinking he's something, well, he's just a worm. He's deceiving
himself, isn't he? But worms do, don't they? Worms
wear certain hats or wear their clothes a certain way. Worms,
you know, don't go where bad worms go and don't do things
bad worms do, and so they think, I'm a good worm. You're a worm,
not a good worm, but you're just a worm. Lowliness of mind. Look at this. Lowliness of mind.
Let each esteem other not equal. He doesn't say equal. As the average man says, well,
I'm as good as the next man. What's that say? There's none
good better than the other. Let each
esteem other better than themselves. Better than themselves. Not equal,
better. You know, he says, In lowliness
of mind, and that's the title of this message. If you heard this saying, this
is modern religious philosophy for you. This is how ignorant
these ignorances are. They say, before God can love
you, you've got to love yourself. You ever heard that? That's the
philosophy today. That's what preachers are preaching
toward. That's the whole emphasis. Make people feel like they're
worth something, like God needs them. Before God can love you, before
you accept the love of God, you've got to love yourself. Robert Shuler, and I hope I never
mention that name again from this bullpen. I'm not going to
mention the G word again, the BG word in here again, and I
hope I never say this one again, but Robert Shuler one time said
this. It was in a magazine. He said
the first Reformation, you know Martin Luther and the Reformers,
was brought about, he said, the first Reformation was brought
about by preaching the sinfulness of man. He said the next one
is going to be brought about by preaching man's worth. That's
what he said. God loves you. God needs you.
God wants you. Won't you accept the love of
God? You've got to love yourself. Oh, no. It's a lie to hell. God loves those who hate themselves. That's right. God loves those
who hate themselves. He said, He that exalteth himself
is able to face, but he that humbleth himself is not going
to be exalted. Old Brother Don Bell always talks
about being lower than a snake's belly. He talks about, I feel lower
than a snake's belly. Well, you can't get no lower
than that, can you? Lower than a snake's belly. Well,
let me say about somebody that's that low, that's that low, there's
no place else to look but up there. Well, look here at verse 4. Look
not every man on his own things, own rights, worth. This is what
brings strife. He violated my rights. What rights? We're criminals. Aren't we Mark? We're criminals. Modern theology
is about like modern justice system. Criminals got rights.
Not in God's court. Not in God's justice. Criminals
have no rights. Nothing do to us but the wages
of sin. Isn't that right? I have my rights,
my worth, my needs." Look not on your own things, what you
think you've got coming to you, but every man also on the things
of others. Look on the things of others.
Think about their rights, their needs. Verse 5, he says, Let this mind
be in you, be like-minded. Let this mind be in you, in all
loneliness of mind. Read on now. Come on, don't leave
me now. Let this mind be in you, which
was in Christ Jesus. Now, now we're going to get to
the supreme example. Now, let this mind be in you,
which was also in Christ Jesus. Who? Look at this, verse 6. Who? Being in the form of God. Who's God, is what he said. He's
God. And thought it not robbery to
be equal with God. Everything he said was God, and
everything he said on this earth. He said it like he was God, didn't
he? He is God. Men talk about Jesus said this,
Jesus said that. I've got a problem with that.
I've got a real problem with that. They talk like just another
man, and what he said was just some good things like any other
good man said. No, this is God speaking! And
we say, the Lord Jesus Christ said this. Now, Jesus said, Jesus
said, be like Jesus. What would Jesus do? Don't get mad, preacher. Oh,
Elijah did, didn't he? He said, The Lord Jesus Christ
said this and said that, did this and did that. Let this mind be in you which
was also in Christ. Think like this. Think like Christ.
Now, Paul is going to give Christ as the supreme example here. He is going to preach the gospel.
Paul is going to tell us about the work of Christ in these next
few days. And he's going to tell us about
the example of Christ, the work of Christ, and the personality
of Christ. I love this. I'll tell you preaching
works this morning. No! No, I'm not. I'm preaching
what our Lord Jesus Christ did for us and does to us and in
us and is, what He is, what He's like, and what I want to be like.
What He says to do. Whenever he says, dude, I want
to do it, even at the risk of somebody saying he preached worse.
Well, God hath before ordained that we should walk in it. So
if he's ordained me, that's the way I want to walk. All right, let this mind be in
you. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.
Read on. Who is God? Verse 7, But made
himself of no reputation. Made himself of no reputation.
Men aspire to greatness, don't they? Most men and women aspire
to greatness, to have a name, to be somebody. Christ had a name which is above
every name, and aspired to nothingness. Now, there's a great man. Men demand respect, don't they?
They try to force it on people. Owe me, pay me what I do, respect
me, I'm somebody. Christ aspired to be despised
and rejected among men. That's what he aspired to. There's a great man who says he despised the shame.
He didn't think anything of it. That's what Hebrews 12 wants.
Who despised the shame, endured the cross, thought nothing of
the shame. They called him a blasphemer.
They called him Beelzebub, didn't they? He wasn't any of those
things. This is God. And they called
him names like that. It didn't faze him. Why? He took my place. I'm the blasphemer. I'm the son
of Beelzebub. I'm the nothing to nobody, the
scum of the earth. I'm the scum dweller, sinner. And he was me. And he aspired
to be me. And now I aspire to be him. You
see that? Look at this. We can't enter
into these verses. I can't enter into these verses.
Look at verse 7. It says, verse 7, He took upon him the form
of a servant made in the likeness of men. There's no illustration. There's no illustration that
would suffice. made in the likeness of men. There's no illustration to compare
that to. Me becoming a worm, it doesn't suffice. Me being a servant, that doesn't
suffice. You know, we don't understand.
God, the scripture says, that the angels and the cherubs and
the seraphs and everything for twenty-four hours a day serve
him. Everything. Everyone. Everything
that writhes or wriggles, that breathes, and walks, and moves,
and talks, and even any of the animals serves Him. He's God. Everything serves Him.
God washed their stinking feet. Stinking feet. He whose feet
we shall bow before came down and washed my stinking feet.
When Peter got a hold of that one day, he said, Don't wash
my feet. You don't bow and kneel at my
feet." He did. The fashion of a man, the habit
of a man, that's what fashion, the habit, the clothing of a
man, he took upon flesh. Christ, read on, I'm losing you,
verse 8, it says, and he humbled himself. He humbled himself. We don't have to humble ourselves.
We're already that way, you see. We exalt ourselves, but we are
humble. We're nothing. We're lowly. We're
nothing. He made himself lowly, of no reputation. We don't have
a reputation to lose. We don't have a reputation to
lose. Christ did. Among angels and cherubs and
separatists, the Prince of God became nothing. and became obedient,
it says, obedient unto death, even the death of the cross,
obedient to death. Get a hold of this, John David.
He became obedient to death. Death was something he submitted
to. Death was something he voluntarily submitted to. Death is not something
we obey. It's what's done to us, he said.
Death is what we're due. Death is what we've earned. Death
is what God said the soul that's in it must die. Well, he never
sinned. The righteous man must live.
He was the righteous man. But he submitted to it. He willingly,
voluntarily submitted. We don't want to die, per se,
do we? The natural man doesn't want to die. He fights it, fights
it, fights it, doesn't he? The natural man fights it. People
don't want to die. They hang on to this with their
last breath, don't they? Hang on to this life. Christ
said he submitted to it. He didn't have to. He didn't
have to die. Why'd he do it? He's my substitute, that's why.
Because I must die. I must die. He agreed to die. He volunteered for it, that I
might live. that I might live. And Christ
then came back from the grave, he said, He that believeth on
me shall never die now. Be in good cheer, I've overcome
the grave, death. Even the death of the cross,
he said. He's obedient, even unto death, he obeyed it, submitted
to it, even the death of the cross. Worst punishment known
to man. Save for the off-scour of the
earth, the worst, the most heinous. So you take this Unabomber, this
Oklahoma bomber, you take the worst serial killer that ever,
you take them all, wrap them up into one, that's who they
crucify. That's who they crucify, the worst of the worst. That's what Christ did. He who deserved the best. the
worst of the worst. Hell is what he took. Hell is
our due. Christ took my hell. He who knew
no sin was made sin, that we might be made the righteousness
of God in him, imputed and imparted. He who deserved heaven took my
hell, that this old hagin might go to heaven. Wherefore, he says
in verse 9, wherefore, because he did all this, because he did
all this, because he took the form of a servant, do we want
to be exalted? Wherefore, because he did this,
he took upon him the form of a servant. Verse 9, God hath
highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every
name. In the name of Jesus, every knee should bow. Things in heaven things in earth and things under
the earth, heaven, earth, and hell, that every tongue should
confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the
Father." Do we see what greatness is in
God's eyes? Do we see what greatness is? It's
the becoming of nothing, of nobody. A servant. A servant. He that is least in
the kingdom of God, he says, shall be what? Greatest. Greatest. And God hath highly
exalted him. So, now look at verse 12. You
ever wonder what he's saying here in verse 12? He says, Wherefore,
my beloved, as you have always obeyed, believe the truth in
front of me and my presence, but now much more I'm gone. Work
out your own salvation with fear and trembling. Now, Debra, in
the context here, what's he been talking about? He's not changing context here.
Let this mind be in you. Work out your own salvation.
Nancy, how do you work out your own salvation with fear and trembling
before God, in light of what he just said? He said, Let this
mind be in you. If there be any consolation in
Christ, comfort and fellowship of the Spirit, bowels of mercy,
be like-minded. Don't be full of strife and vainglory,
lowliness of mind, esteeming others. Look not on your own
things, but every man on the other thing. Let this mind be
in you who was great and became nothing, became a servant. All
right, work out your own salvation. What's he mean? He didn't change
a subject. Look, saying this, if I really
believe Christ, if I really love Christ, if I'm really a child of God,
this mind will be in there. I'll think low thoughts of myself.
I'll think high thoughts of others. I'll not only want to be, I will
be a servant to others. Isn't that right? Work it out. We'll say, I don't
know if this mind will work it out. He said, work it out, find
out. Oh, and then say, Lord, let this
mind be in me, which was also in Christ Jesus. Let this mind
be in me, which was also in Christ Jesus. Let me be a servant. We
studied Abraham this morning. Abraham was a servant of God,
it says. Servant of God. How do you know?
Three men came to visit him. Three men came to visit him.
Oh, he said, let me wash your feet and fix you something to
eat. Didn't he? Servant of God. How do we serve? Did you read
the article in the Bulletin this morning? That's my concluding comments. Christ said, Inasmuch as ye have
done it unto the least of one of these, my brethren, ye have
done it to me. How do we serve God? How do we serve Christ?
Serve his people. Serve his people. Verse 14 says,
Do it without murmuring, disputing. Well, I'll do it, but I don't
have to like it. Oh, yes, you do, too. God loveth a cheerful giver,
or else he won't accept it. do it without murmuring or disputing.
Say, it's my reason, we'll serve it. What more can I do? The reason
I don't, per se, ask people to do too many things. I'm waiting
on them to ask me.