He is the life of Israel, He
is the life of Israel. God's righteousness shall not
fail, God's righteousness shall not fail. All right, I want you to open
your Bibles now to Philippians chapter three. Philippians chapter three, which
is a very, very familiar portion of scripture to nearly everyone
in here. Philippians chapter three, one
of my favorite passages. Philippians three. Just a word
of background on this. The Apostle Paul wrote this under
inspiration of the Holy Spirit. This is God's Word. But he used
the Apostle Paul to write this, and Paul was writing this from
prison. He was in prison. And this is
not too long before he was beheaded. before they cut his head off
for preaching the gospel. So these are truly the dying
words of a dying man. It makes it pretty important,
doesn't it? We ought to pay close attention. He says, finally,
finally. It's all said and done. Finally,
he said, my brethren, speaking to believers, my brethren, rejoice
in the Lord. Rejoice in the person of the
Lord Jesus Christ and his work. Rejoice in him. Let him be your
cause for rejoicing. Many people get excited over think they have much joy and
happiness in many things. Family, friends, and things of
this world, people in religion rejoice over their experience
or their denomination, their church, their this and that.
But he says believers rejoice in him. And that's what believers
do. They rejoice in the Lord Jesus
Christ. He is their cause for rejoicing. Rejoice in the Lord. Paul reminds
us that over and over again, doesn't he? In another place,
not far after that, he says, Rejoice in the Lord always and
again, I say. Rejoice. Finally. In the end. Now Paul had lost everything.
He's sitting in a prison cell. He's about to have his head cut
off. And everybody's left him, what's he going to rejoice in?
The Lord. As Brother Scott said, if Christ
is all you've got, then he's all. And so he says here, rejoice
in the Lord. And he says, to write the same things to you,
to me, indeed, of a truth is not grievous. To write the same
things to you. The apostle wrote many letters,
you can count on that, that he did not write just one letter
to the people of Philippi or the people of Thessalonica, but
this is all the Lord saw fit to record, all that was needed,
right? Evidently he wrote them several times. He preached to
them. So he says to write the same
thing. I wrote you before, or I preached
to you before, and now here I am writing you again, and I don't
know what I'm going to say. It's just the same thing I already
said. He said, to me, indeed, the truth is not grievous. Not
grievous to me, it's not tiresome to me. You'd think if anybody
would get tired of telling the same old thing, it's the fellow
that keeps telling it. Right? Paul said, it's not grievous
to me. You know. What you've heard a sovereign
grace preacher once you've heard about. And any gospel preacher
you've heard he sounds like all the rest. Well they're all preaching
the same one same message right Paul said I'm determined. In
his letter to the Corinthians he said I've determined By God's
grace, he calls me to see Christ as
all, and so I'm determined not to know anything else, not to
preach anything else, not to be taken up with anything or
anyone else save Jesus Christ and him crucified. So he says
here to write the same thing, not read it. Brother Williams
here said, when he asked the text for tonight, he said, I've
heard that priest over a hundred times. He said, and he had a
deal. He said, but every time I think
I hear something new, I enjoy it each time even more. So Paul says, it's not grievous
to me. And you know, that's one proof
that the gospel is the gospel. That the word of God has indeed
been revealed to you. is that you can hear the same
thing. I mean, same thing. I mean, same words, Debra. We're
going to say, I'm going to say, when Brother Bruce Crafter gets
up here, when Brother Charles Tenzing gets up here, when Todd
Nyberg gets up here, Henry Mahan's going to be here, by the way.
Not this Sunday, but the next one. He's going to say the same
thing. That's where I got what I got. Same thing. I'm going to tell the same old
illustration. But one proof that it is indeed
the gospel of God is you can hear it over and over and over
again, and it's still brand new. Same message, but it's news.
It's good news. It's like it's brand new, almost. That's proof, isn't it? To those
whom the gospel has not been revealed, they'll tire of it
eventually. Right, y'all? They'll get tired
of it. It will cease to be good news, and they'll go looking
for some new thing. But Paul says to write the same
thing. To me, indeed, it's not great. And he says, for you, it's safe. It's safe. It's salvation. Salvation is safe. All right.
So he says, he gives a warning here, verse 2. A parting word
of warning here. Beware of dogs. Now, he's not saying watch out
for Doberman Pinscher. The dogs he's talking about here
are in pulpits. I want you to look at it with
me. Isaiah chapter 56. And I get a kick out of this
every time I read it. Isaiah 56. Beware of dogs. Dogs. What kind of dogs is he
talking about here? Well, they wear collars. I don't know where collars, clerical
collars, they call them. But look here in Isaiah 56, and
this is where he got it. In verse 10, he says, His watchmen
are blind, or those who are supposed to be God's watchmen, or preachers,
or prophets. They're blind. They can't see.
They don't see the glory of God in the face of Christ, or they'd
preach him, wouldn't they? Someone made that comment tonight.
If a man's really seen Christ, Christ is all he'll preach, won't
he? That's exactly right, buddy. Didn't Peter say, We can't help
but speak the things we want? Seen and heard. Well, what did he say? Peter
said, We beheld his glory. John says, that which we've seen,
who? Life, Christ. Man's seen Christ, he'll be totally
taken up with him from then on and he'll be his message. Right? Well, they're blind. They haven't
seen his glory. If a man could devote a whole
hour on abortion, he has not seen the glory of Christ. Why
not, you know, why not just say in one short sentence, abortion's
wrong, and then go on to preach Christ? Isn't that enough said? Well, his watchmen are blind,
they're all ignorant. Didn't Christ look at those Pharisees
and say, you do err in not knowing the scripture? Didn't he? You don't know the scripture.
Why, they can quote whole books of it. They knew the Bible. You can quote the whole Bible
if you will, but if you don't see Christ in it, you don't know
the Bible. Right? Anyway, of the Word which speaks
of Christ. They're all, look at this, here
it is, this is where it got, they're dumb dogs. You wonder
what that DD behind a man's name means? That's what it means,
right there. That's where it came from. You
believe that? It did. John didn't have it behind his
name. Peter didn't have it behind his name. Paul didn't have it
behind his name. Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew,
uh-uh. They didn't have it behind their
name. Isaiah didn't have it behind his name, uh-uh. Abel may have. I know there's some men, some
fairly good men who had it, but they were wrong. Right? D.D.? Supposed to be Doctor of
Divinity? There's one great physician.
I like what Brother Terry Worthen at one time said, and somebody
jokingly called him Dr. Worthen. He said, Doctor? He
said, I'm not even a good practical nurse. Don't call me Doctor. Don't call me Reverend. Didn't
we read there in Psalm 111, verse 9, whose name is Reverend? His
name. Holy and reverend is his name.
Don't call me holy. Don't call any man holy. Don't
call any man father. Don't call any man reverend.
Certainly don't call any woman reverend. Holy and reverend is
his name. Nobody is to be revered but Christ. We're all just sinful flesh.
Holy and reverend. Dumb dogs. That's what Paul said. Beware of them. And that we're
collars and have that initial behind and beware. You say you're not from. All
these that beware of all I read all beware of the evil workers
who's that that's the drug pushers that's the drug dealers that's
the the harlots and so forth well those are evil workers and
I don't condone that sort of thing and I'm against them too
and I think we ought to well As our worker, but that's not
the evil worker that he talking about here. Do you remember over
in Matthew seven, where the Lord said, not everyone that says
unto me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven. He said,
many will say unto you that day, the Lord hath not prophesied
in thy name. cast out devils in thy name,
and done many wonderful works in thy name, in the name of Jesus.
Prophesied, cast out devils, done a lot of good works in the
name of Jesus. Didn't he say that? Many will
say that, and he will say, depart from me, ye what? Workers of
iniquity. How could you call preaching
in Jesus' name and casting out devils in Jesus' name and prophesying
and doing wonderful works in Jesus' name? How could you call
it evil work? I didn't. Christ did. But how
we could is Christ said they come in their own names. They come in their own names.
They got their name splashed everywhere, you know, just the
headlines everywhere. It's obvious. A man come in his
own name. He's an evil worker. He does
it for filthy lucre, for his own name, not for the glory of
God. When John the Baptist came, they
asked him his name. He wouldn't even tell them his
name, would he? They asked him for his credentials.
He said, I'm just a voice. Isn't he? Now there's a man,
and Christ said there's never been a man greater than John
the Baptist. Beware of these evil workers.
Read on. Beware of the concision. Excuse me. Now, concision here,
he's talking about circumcision of the Jews. The Jews that looked
religious. They acted religious. They talked
religious. Beware of it, he said. that why
did that that's what the Lord said that why they all they look
good on the outside and he said within their full of extortion
and excess. That's the word that's the words
of the Lord himself. Concision. You know. And I say this. Emphatically. And without apology. that anybody who has to flaunt
their Christianity, or has to put all this stuff all over themselves
to show people that they're a believer, they're not. That's no different than making
bog your phylactery, like the Lord said of the Pharisees. You know what that the blackberries
were to show what holy man they were they they wore scripture
verses. That's what they do they have
little bracelets and things that full of scripture verses that
they and warm on their head and the holier you were the more
you had these things on you. I'd like like we've said bumper
stickers all over cars or t-shirts and all that stuff. The more that stuff you do on
the outside Christ came Son of God. How are we going to know he's
the Son of God? Just listen to it. Just observe him. Wear a
sign. Wasn't running around telling
everybody, was he? Huh? Oh, no. All right, so he said,
beware of this concision. And now listen to this. Circumcision,
this is important. Over in the Book of Romans, Romans
chapter And Galatians chapter five, or
verse three here, he says, we're the circumcision. He talks about
circumcision. Now this right here will tell
you that religion, true religion, is not outward. True religion
is not seen, per se, but it's hidden. It's on the inside. Circumcision
was a hidden thing. Nobody knew you were circumcised. Who knew it? Who knew who God's people were? God did. They didn't go around
flaunting their circumcision. Did they? No. And Romans and
Galatians both say circumcisions of the heart. It's an inward thing, and this
is what Paul says here in verse three, all right? He gives three
marks, three marks of true believers, true Christians, true disciples. Three marks right here, all right?
This is it. Three marks. He said, now we
are the circumcision. We are the true people of God. Circumcision was just a mark
or a sign that they were God's people, OK? We are the true circumcision,
the true people of God, he said, all right, number one, which
worship God in the spirit. We worship God in the spirit,
or that is, from the heart, with the aid of the Holy Spirit. Doesn't
the scripture say God is not worshiped with men's hands? What
characterizes worship, so-called worship today? in twentieth-century
religion, huh? It's just more and more and more
and more of this. What? Flesh. The true people of God worship
God from the heart, in spirit. And our Lord said, in truth,
didn't he? In spirit and in truth. You can't
worship God apart from the gospel. Right? In truth. Christ is truth. You can't worship God. You can't
speak to God. You won't be spoken to by God. You can't come into God's presence
apart from Christ, apart from the gospel, without blood. You can't worship God outside
the truth. Nobody in America is worshiping
God if the gospel is not being preached. Right? And the more gospel you've got,
the less all this stuff you've got. I'd love to think about this.
Our Lord said, an evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign,
an outward show. Now doesn't that characterize
today? An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign. We said no sign will be given,
except for a sign of the prophet Jonah. David said now, David prayed
in Psalm 119, he said, Open my eyes, open my eyes, that I might
behold, or that I might see, that I might see and behold wondrous things
from thy Lord, from thy Word. See, the world's going after
things. We don't walk by sight, we walk
by faith. Where's faith come from? The
Word. And David and all the sons of
God, people after God's own heart, they get excited about the Word. They worship God through the
Word. And read the next line. Here's
the next thing, all right? He's already told us this, hasn't
he? Worship God in spirit, the true believers, true people of
God, don't need all this outward stuff. Don't need all this outward
stuff. Don't have crosses and all that.
Why? We don't worship a piece of wood. We don't worship a cross. Do you remember when, who was
it that found that brazen serpent? Hezekiah, one of those old fellas,
found the brazen serpent. That was, you know. And the people,
somebody found it, and the people were worshiping that thing. Remember? You remember that story? The
people were worshiping that thing. Oh my, Moses had this. A religious
relic. Kind of like the Shroud of Turin
or the Ark of Noah's Ark or something that they'd been trying to find
all those years, you know. Well, in the scriptures, it says
they found, actually found that brazen serpent. You know what
that fellow, who was it that did that? Somebody, help me.
I forget. Doesn't matter, does it? He was God's man. A true man. You know what he did? He ground
that thing to powder. Stood on the grill and stomped
on it. He said, Nahushkin, Nahushkin. That's what he called it. Nahushkin. What does that mean? A worthless
piece of brass. That's what he called. Well,
worship crosses, pictures of Wild Bill Hickok. We worship
a living Lord, a person. Someone said the less you have
on the inside, the more you have to have on the outside. The more Christ you have on the
inside, you don't need nothing at all but Christ crucified,
right? You don't need... As a matter
of fact, all that just obscures him, doesn't it? Get that out
of here. Preacher, get out from behind that. Take that thing
off. You don't look like a man, you
look like a woman. Worship God in the spirit, rejoice
in Christ Jesus. That's the second sign. They
rejoice in Christ Jesus. Not their works, not their profession of religion,
not their denomination, not their church, but in Christ. They worship, they rejoice in
Christ. They rejoice in Him, who He is.
They can't get enough of Him. being told who he is and what
he's done, his person and his work. Oh, if you really love somebody,
you never get tired of hearing about them. They rejoice in Christ
Jesus. And thirdly, he says they have
no confidence in the flesh, no confidence in the flesh, none
whatsoever. They place no confidence at all
in anything that has to do with this flesh. We love that hymn
by John Newton, is it? Feelings come, feelings go. Martin Luther wrote that. Martin Luther wrote that. Feelings
come, feelings go. Feelings are deceiving. He said,
My hope is in the Son of God. Nothing and no one else is worth
believing. That characterizes religion today.
Everybody's looking for a feeling, aren't they? Some new feeling,
a good feeling. Drugs will give you a feeling.
Right? Drugs will give you a feeling. And most people that have had
some kind of religious experience, you know, it's all based on feeling. They play the organ while the
organ plays softly. You remember me telling you about
that play that Hannah and I went to the other day? And while these
women were giving their impassioned performances, you know, behind
them, you know what was going on while they were doing it?
Soft music. Play on your emotions. It's a
racket now. They know. They can manipulate.
Soft music. Now, don't anybody move. And people get just overcome
with emotion. Emotion, feeling. And they run
down the aisle crying, you know. And they kneel down at the mourner's
bench. And something happens. Something happens. You ask them
later on, what did the preacher preach? They say, I don't have
the foggiest notion, but I felt something. That's what you're
basing your salvation on? You felt something? Yeah, it
happened. It's real. I know it's real. Something happened, all right.
Doesn't mean God did it. Doesn't mean it's of God. As
a matter of fact, I know it's not if the gospel wasn't there.
If Christ wasn't preached, I know God's Spirit wasn't there. Right? Feelings. Feelings. Feelings. People, salvation is to trust
Jesus Christ, period. I dare not trust the sweetest
brain, but wholly lean on the Lord Jesus' name. On Christ the
solid rock I stand. His oath, His covenant, His blood
support me. You know, what about when my
feelings go? What about when I'm not feeling
real religious? Am I lost? You mean if I feel real religious,
I'm safe? If I don't feel religious, I'm lost? If I have great faith, I'm saved.
If I don't, I'm lost. Is that it? No! Christ sits at the right hand
of God interceding for me. Therefore, I'm saved no matter
what I feel. No confidence in the flesh, but
none whatsoever. And don't put any confidence
in people. Don't lean on the arm of the
flesh, he warns us over and over again. Oh, don't do it. All your confidence is in Christ.
All right, let's read on. So, and Paul says, now, they
do, they have a lot of confidence in their flesh. And he said,
if anybody were to, could have some confidence in their flesh,
Paul says, I more. I could have a whole lot more
confidence in anybody. Read it here, he says, Though
I might also have confidence in the flesh, if any other man
thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh,
I more. Now here's his genealogy here, verse 5. I circumcised
the eighth day of the stock of Israel. There's not a person
in America today that could trace their genealogy back to Israel. The tribe of Benjamin. I'm a
Jew, he said, through and through. One of God's people. Read on. He said, a Hebrew of
Hebrews. My daddy was a Hebrew. My daddy's
daddy was a Hebrew. My daddy's daddy's daddy was
a Hebrew. I can trace my lineage back to Abraham. I'm a Hebrew. Like some like to say I'm a Baptist. And I can trace my, you know,
baptism all the way back to John. Do you know that there are people
that, that, you know, that say, yes, sir, landmark Baptist, they're
called. They believe that you need to be able to trace your
lineage all the way back to John the Baptist. But you had to have
been baptized by a Baptist who was a Baptist, a Baptist, a Baptist
from John the Baptist. You believe that? It's so. Well,
Paul's bragging here like a fool. He says, I, I, Hebrew, Hebrew.
We don't have such in the law as far as. Touching the law he said I quote. I had a doctor I had one of the.
All that I. Owns another day. That's what
I read on here says members. Six, concerning zeal. Oh, there's
lots of people zealous for what they believe. He said, I went
out and just absolutely laid hold on people and put them in
jail. Talking about zealous, talking
about winning people for Jesus. He said, I put them in jail.
That's zealous, isn't it? Touching the righteousness which
is in the law? Blameless. Paul was one of these fellas,
Deborah, that if you If you saw him, you could smell him a mile
away. You could smell his self-righteousness
a mile away. You know, one of these holier-than-thou,
never, you know, never, never seen a born, born a Christian. That's him. But he said, but what things
used to be gained to me. And you know, there's great gain
in religion. Oh, yes, sir. More money in religion now than
ever. Well, Terry Bradshaw, you remember quarterback Terry Bradshaw?
Remember when he dabbled in religious music for a while? He actually
said that. He said, there's lots of money
to be made in religious music. There is this great gain to be
had. Great gain. Great gain, he said. Paul moved
right on up the religious ladder and corporate ladder. But he
said, what things were gained to me, those I counted loss.
That was all a waste of time. All my past was a waste of time. Loss, read on. It ain't doubtless. Without a doubt, I count all
things but loss. Worthless, useless, a waste of
time. Since I've come to know and had
revealed to me the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus
my Lord. All these programs, all these
social things, all these agendas, all these topics, all these,
you know, all such a waste of time since I've heard Christ,
since I've seen him. Excellency of the knowledge of
Christ Jesus my Lord. For whom, he said, I suffered
the loss of all things. I'll tell you what, if a man
is up in the ranks of religion and God reveals the gospel to
him, he'll lose all that. He'll lose all that. Like Brother
Greg Elmquist, you know. Big, big-time pastor of a big-time
church, so to speak, you know. Over a million dollars worth
of property, hundreds and hundreds of people in attendance, and
God revealed the gospel to him. Now he's meeting in a hotel room. Lost his $75,000 a year salary,
and he's purchasing it, and he's paid for a car. He's driving
a 19, what is it he drives? A little boy. It's a piece of
junk. I don't know what it is, but
he bought it wrecked and built it. Suffered the loss of all things.
But what did he say? Oh, it's just dung anyway. Discounted
the dung, that I may win Christ. That I may win Christ. Pretty
good trade, guess me, dung for pearls. Would you trade in a
pile of manure for a pearl? Any day. Any day. Some woman, you remember that,
don't you? Some woman said to me after the message said, oh,
but you forgot to say how much we have to give up for Christ.
I said, you mean dung? You want me to talk a little
bit about dung? For Pearl? That I may win Christ. Christ
is the prize. according to how you see the
prize is what it's worth. Paul said, I have one thing I
want. Didn't David say that? One thing I desire. And that's
what I want to seek out. The beauty of the Lord. Read
on. And be found in him, oh, in that day. In that day of judgment,
when all stand before the all-seeing eye of God, who looks right through
to the soul, I want to be wearing something. Don't you? Huh? I want to be wearing something
that he can't see through. that righteous road with Christ. Not having mine own righteousness,
he said, which is of the law, my works that he sees right through,
the evil motive, but that which is through the faith of Christ,
the righteousness which is of God, which God puts on us, that
Christ worked out and simply gives it to us by faith. Oh, Paul said that I may know
him, that I may know him. I want to know him better. I
want to grow in grace and the knowledge of Christ Jesus my
Lord. And he says in the power of his
resurrection, what it meant when it says in
Hebrews that he delivered them who all their lifetime were subject
to this fear of death. He said, I've come back to the
grave, don't be afraid. And read on, and the fellowship
of his sufferings, the fellowship of his sufferings. Brother Greg,
I'll bring him up again, and I'll hurry. He said, you know,
out of all those hundreds and maybe even thousands of people
that we used to meet together with and all that, he said, I
used to get so sick of all the phoniness And all the outward
pies, talk and religious, when you knew, you know, smiling,
I love you, brother, and they didn't mean a word of it. You
know, all that put-on stuff, poniness. He said, when the Lord
revealed the gospel to me, and I met true believers, everybody was real, he said.
He said, you know, the truth that'll set you free, too. Freedom
of worship. not so concerned about all this. And you know, and people, people
that have gone through tribulation together, now they can fellowship
together. Right? Everybody in here, any
believer, every believer who comes to know the gospel suffers
persecution for it. You go where you work, or you
go to your family, and you tell them the truth, the gospel, and
they get angry at you, and they fight you. They fight against
it and all that, and you feel its alienation, its persecution. But then when you come to the
family of God, John, and you come to those who have suffered
this same persecution, the fellowship of His suffering, And it is sweet,
isn't it? It's sweet. They're being made
conformable unto his death. Oh my, I want to be like Christ.
Made conformable unto his death. Read on, and I'll close. And
he says, if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection
of the dead. That old song we used to sing when the roll is
called up yonder, you know. Well, I don't know if they're
going to call a roll. I don't know that. I don't know
where they got that. But if it is, I want to be found
under the letter C. Don't you? If they did call my
name, I want the Lord Jesus Christ
to say, here, for me. Don't you? If by any means, I want to attain
unto the resurrection. I want to be in that moment.
I really do. When the roll is called, I want
to be back, found in Christ. Read on. He said, it's not as
though I had already attained. That's the reason I'm talking
like this, he said. I'm not already there yet. I'm not already perfect,
but this is what I do. This is one thing I do. I follow
after. I'm a follower, a disciple of
Christ. He said, if that I may apprehend, I want to lay hold.
There it is again, right? I want to lay hold on that for
which also I'm apprehended of Christ Jesus. This gospel has
laid hold on me. Boy, I want to lay hold on it
and hold fast the beginning of my confidence, steadfast to the
end. Why are we in Christ? Why is
anybody in Christ? Because they were apprehended.
That's the whole message in itself. They were apprehended. Almighty
love arrests that man. That's their salvation. That
criminal, that thief, that robber arrests him. arrested, apprehended
of Jesus Christ. Brethren, read on. I count not
myself apprehended, to have apprehended. Not there yet, but this is what
I do. This one thing. This is the one thing that I
truly want. Forgetting those things which
are behind. Forget yesterday's religion. Forget your baptism.
Forget your profession of faith. As I've said before, if you've
got your baptism written in your Bible, scribble it out. Don't
trust that. Put no confidence in that profession,
but in the person. And he said, I forget those things
which are behind and reach forth unto those things which are before.
What things, Paul? Well, I'm pressing toward the
mark for the prize, and here it is, here's the prize, the
high calling of God in Christ Jesus. A high calling of God. Some of
you men are hunters, aren't you? You look through that scope.
If you were a real hunter, you wouldn't have a scope. But some
of you do. And you look through and you've
got the crosshairs. You've got that animal in the
crosshairs or looking down the bead. Well, you've got a mark
on that thing, don't you? You set that thing on the mark
and you said, that is what I want. You wait, or you press, or you
stalk, or whatever. That's what you want. And Paul
said, He's who I want. That's the mark. And so I'm pressing. Salvation's a pressing matter. Salvation's a pressing matter.
Our Lord said, Since the John and the prophets, the gospel
of the king have been preached, and men press into it. Press into it. Kingdom of Heaven suffered violence.
He said, the violent take it by force. Like that woman with
the issue of blood. She ended up to the point, Brother
Joe, where all she could do was crawl. She said, I got to get
to him. I said, I got to get to him.
I tried everything and it didn't fail. I got to get to Christ.
He's the only one that can help me. She crawled through that
mass and laid hold on the hem of his garment. It's not an almost persuaded,
it's not tomorrow I'll do it, it's today. It's a pressing matter.
It's a pressing matter. Oh, this prize of the high calling.
If you see the prize, you'll pray it. If you see the prize,
you'll pray it. So he says in closing, let us
therefore, as many as be perfect or mature, or have this knowledge
God has put the knowledge of the truth in you, who Christ
is, and your desperate need of him. Be thus minded, single-minded,
Christ-minded, Christ on your mind. Be thus minded, and if
in anything, if there's anything that's taken you away, or whatever,
if in anything you'd be otherwise minded, oh, may God reveal this
unto you. May he put Christ in your sights.
Christ does His work. Christ in the cross. He prays. Not there yet. Not there yet. Far away. Not there yet. All right, stand
with me. Our Heavenly Father, we thank
You for this precious book that arrests our hearts, our minds,
we do pray that that's what you do with it, that you'll take
this word, and if in anything we be otherwise minded, you,
O God, might reveal it unto us, and truly set our affection on
things above where Christ sits. This is our prayer, and we pray
all that's been said and done for your glory and the good of
your people. In Christ's name, amen.