Now, would you open your Bibles
with me to the book of Romans chapter 7. Romans chapter 7. Now the title
of the message this morning is the fruit of being in Christ. The fruit of being in Christ. The past several messages I've
been talking about good works. And I've used a passage in 2
Timothy chapter 3, the last two verses of that passage, verses
16 and 17, as sort of a base text for all these messages that
I'm preaching on this subject of good works. Dealing now with
what are good works. Let me read that passage in 2
Timothy 3 to you. Our text is Romans 7. We'll look
at that in just a moment. In verse 16, he says, all Scripture
is given by inspiration of God, that is, God-breathed, inspired,
the inspired Word of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for
reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,
that the man of God, that is, the sinner saved by grace, the
man or woman who is in Christ, that is what that is talking
about. We are talking about the fruit of being in Christ, the
man of God. The woman of God is a person
who's in Christ. That the man of God may be perfect,
may be complete, and that's the reaching of a goal that can only
be reached by the grace of God, and thoroughly furnished unto
all good works. And so in these messages, what
I'm seeking for myself and for you is that we who are in Christ
might be thoroughly furnished under all good works. Well, one
of the things you have to understand about good, you know, if we're
going to be thoroughly furnished, equipped under all good works,
we have to know what good works are. And last week I dealt with
this issue about good works. What are they? Well, first of
all, they're the work of God for us and in us. the work of
god for us and innocence that spent some time dealing with
that and and you know the basic the basic uh... premise of all
that and and goal of it when we understand that is this is
that if if there's anything good that comes from us that that
god works for us and in us we we can't take credit for that We can't take credit for it.
We must glorify and honor God. Thank you, Lord. God gets all
the credit in that area. And so we can't take credit for
it. Now, that goes against our nature, doesn't it? I mean, we
say, well, if I don't get credit for it, why do it? You wouldn't
act that way in your job, would you? If I don't get that paycheck,
why do it? And I'm with you on that one.
But see, we're not talking about your job. You know, Christ spoke
a parable of laborers. You know, one started early in
the day, one started later, one started at the end, and they
all got the same pay. Well, what was he teaching there?
Communism? No. Was he teaching economics? No. He was using that parable
as establishing how man stands in relation to God. When it comes
to our relationship with God, you take the word earn, E-A-R-N. When it comes to our relationship
with God, take the word earn and throw it out of your dictionary.
That's basically what he's saying. We're not wage earners from God. We're mercy beggars. That's what
he was teaching there. He wasn't using that to set up
a system of economics to say, well, we shouldn't gripe if we
work harder and don't get as much pay. No. He was using that
to illustrate a sinner's relationship with God. That when it comes
to our relationship with God and salvation, We don't earn
from God. It's not of debt. It's of grace,
grace, grace, grace. Mercy. His mercy endures forever. But when it comes to these good
works, it's what God does for us and in us. And here's the
second thing that I want us to look at. The good works of a
believer are the fruit of our union with Christ. the fruit
of being in Christ. Now look at Romans chapter 7,
look at verse 4. And I want to show you a couple
of scriptures on this, and I hope it won't be too long this morning.
I think this is just a simple subject. You know, it's like
any other subject, gospel subject, in its simplicity, it's amazing. It's simple. It's easy to understand,
but it's impossible for the natural man to receive. Because the natural
man receives not the things of the Spirit of Christ. But look
at verse 4 of Romans chapter 7. Now when we talk about being
in Christ, we're talking about union with Christ. There's a
union from eternity, chosen in Christ. There's a union at the
cross, redeemed in Christ. That's what this is talking about
here. And then there's a union in the new birth. being in Christ
by faith by the Holy Spirit giving us the life of Christ imparting
life to our souls giving us a new heart look at verse 4 he says
wherefore my brethren you also are become dead to the law by
the body of Christ now that is the ground of salvation right
there we became dead we who are in Christ that's our justification
right there When Christ died on that cross, that's his body
there, you know, we become dead to them. He died under the curse
of the law being made a curse for us. Now, your works, your
efforts, your response, your view, your experience had absolutely
nothing to do with that. You weren't there except in one
way. He, if you're in him now, he
was your representative. He was your substitute. He was
your surety. He took your debt. You weren't
even born yet. I wasn't born yet. Many of the
saints of God were already dead by this time. But Christ died
for all the sins of all His sheep. That was His work exclusively
alone without you and without me. He walked the winepress alone. Hebrews chapter one says, by
himself, he what? Purged our sins. That means cleansed. Purged, like burning away. How
did he do it? By his blood, by his death on
the cross. And we become dead to the law. That is the law's curse. The
law cannot curse us because it cursed Christ in our place. Our
sins were charged to him. He was made sin. And we were
made the righteousness of God in Him. We have a righteousness
that answered the demands of the laws. The law cannot condemn
us. There is therefore now no condemnation in Christ. And the
sins of God's elect cannot be charged to them. Who shall lay
anything to the charge of God's elect? The law cannot charge
me with my sins in the court of God's justice. Am I a sinner? Yes. But I am not chargeable. No sir. Because they were charged
to Christ. He took my debt. He paid the
debt in full and gave me his righteousness. And that's what
that's saying. I'm dead to the law. Now that
doesn't mean I have the liberty to go out and be immoral. That
doesn't mean that at all. It simply means that I cannot
be condemned. I'm justified in God's sight.
God declares it so, that makes it real. And I'm not guilty in
God's sight. Now, he says, verse 4, Wherefore,
my brethren, you become dead to the law by the body of Christ,
that or in order that you should be married to another. Now, we're
married to Christ. When do we become married to
Christ? Well, I believe you can take the symbols there and go
different ways. But here's what he's talking
about here. He's talking about the new birth. He's talking about
our union with Christ when the Holy Spirit comes and raises
us from the dead spiritually. That's regeneration. and conversion. Under the preaching of the gospel,
he brings us to Christ. I'm united to him before the
foundation of the world because God chose me in him and conditioned
all my salvation on him. I'm united to him at the cross
because he's my substitute and surety. But in time, as the fruit
of his death, I will be united to him by faith, God-given faith. I'll see Him in His glory as
my Savior. I'll see my sins and my depravity,
but I'll see His righteousness and holiness. And I'll be submitted
to Him, you see, married to another. Now look at it, even Him who
is raised from the dead, Christ was raised from the dead because
He established righteousness that demands life. And look here,
in order that we should what? Look at it, bring forth fruit
unto God. Now there's the fruit. What is
that fruit unto God? Well, it's our worship. It's
our praises. It's our love. It's our obedience. It's all those things that God
does for us and in us that we can't take credit for. But that's
okay. Why would we want credit for
it? He's the Savior. Isn't that right? He gave me
everything which I don't deserve and kept back everything which
I've earned, which is damnation. He's the king of kings. He's the one who holds my next
breath in his hand. Why would I want credit for it?
Ascribe unto him glory, the glory due unto his name. There's no
glory due unto my name or your name. And that fruit unto God
is everything that a believer is in the walk of faith and obedience
as guided and motivated by Christ. But now let's look at the whole
thing here. Look at verse 5. Now he says, for when we were
in the flesh. Now that's when we were unbelievers.
Now if you're an unbeliever, you're in the flesh right now.
You say, well I'm not doing anything fleshly. Oh yes you are. In fact,
everything you do is fleshly. See, to do something in the flesh
doesn't mean to do something that men call immoral all the
time. Now, that is fleshly. But anything
outside of Christ is of the flesh. Paul spoke of it in his past
life as Saul of Tarsus when he was trying to keep the law. He
said that was having confidence in the flesh. Cain, when he brought
the works of his hands to God as an offering, he was doing
something fleshly. Those false preachers in Matthew
7, 21, when they were casting out demons and preaching in his
name, they were doing something fleshly. Why? Because they thought
that was their righteousness, not Christ. You see, if I think
my preaching is my righteousness before God, I'm up here preaching
in the flesh. I'm serious now. I may say right
things. That's how serious this thing
is. And unbelievers in the flesh, and he says, for when we were
in the flesh, when we were unbelievers, unregenerate, the motions or
the passions of sins which were by the law, now think about Saul
of Tarsus again. What was his passion? There are
people whose passion it is to cheat everybody they can cheat.
That's sin, isn't it? There's people whose passion
is to get all they can do no matter how they get it. There's
passions. There's sexual passions that
are sinful. There's greed. There's immorality. All those are sin. But what was
Saul of Tarsus? What was his passion? Huh? To keep the law. to be a pillar of society trying
to work his righteousness before God that was his passion well
that was the passions of sins the motions of sins which were
by the law and he says did work in our members to bring forth
what now look at it there fruit unto death now that's the works
of an unbeliever it's fruit unto death it's going to lead to death
it's going to earn him death Fruit unto God is the work of
God in us and for us, that is the fruit of our union with Christ
that gives glory to God, that honors Him. But fruit unto death
is the works of an unbeliever, whether they be religious works,
or whether they be immoral works but look at verse six he says
but now we're delivered from the law that is we're not cursed
we're not condemned that being dead wherein we were held that
we should serve in newness of spirit now that reaches to the
motive and that's another thing about a good work a good work
is a work of God that is motivated in us by love not law By grace,
not greed. By gratitude. You see, that's
the motive of a good work. It's grace, it's love. The love
of Christ constrains me, Paul says. What keeps me fighting
the fight of faith? What keeps me warring the warfare
of the flesh and the spirit? It's not because I'm trying to
earn my way into God's favor. That's a mercenary, you see. That's not a servant of God.
That's a hireling. It's not because I want to get
a better, bigger mansion than you in heaven. That's greed. Heard a fellow say one time,
he said he wanted to be the sheriff in heaven. And I thought, why
would you need a sheriff? There's no sin. No sin there, Terry. Won't need
a sheriff. But think about it now. That's
why men naturally think, you see. It's grace and gratitude
and love. And He says that we should serve
in newness of spirit. That's the newness of spirit.
That's the attitude, the motive that God puts within His people
through the knowledge of Christ that wells up the love of God,
how the Holy Spirit sheds abroad in our hearts the love of God
that motivates us to do what's right in the sight of God under
the praise of the glory of His grace. And not in oldness of
the letter. That's legalism. Oldness of the
letter. Now let me give you a couple
of scriptures here. First of all, just look across the page
since we're already there. Romans chapter 6. Now what I'm
saying, this good works are the fruit of a believer's union with
Christ. And that's what that verse teaches.
But you know, when Paul, in this book of Romans, you know, he
had given one of the greatest descriptions of the reality of
God's grace and salvation in the first five chapters of the
book of Romans that you'll find in the Bible. I mean, it's all
through the Bible, obviously. It's a book of grace. But you
know, for a systematic view of it, like a step one, step two,
step three, read Romans, you know, it's kind of like an annotated
Bible, like a little Bible in itself. And he'd shown there
that salvation is not by the works of men, and even good works. You know, men without Christ
can do no good works, but even our good works after salvation
cannot save us. They cannot make us good or make
us righteous. That's not what they're for.
Good works are not done in and through a believer in order to
attain or maintain salvation. They're done to give glory to
God. Isn't that right? They're done as a testimony of
the grace and the goodness and the love and the power of Christ.
Now, if you're sitting there and you say, well, that's not
good enough for me, what does that say about you? Well, if
I were to say that, what would it say about me? You see, that's
what we talk about works at judgment. It's not what our works do for
us, it's what they say about us. That's the key, isn't it? But Paul had said grace and righteousness
come through Christ, not by our works. Well, the first objection
that comes up against that by the natural man is, well, then
why do it? Why live under God at all? Why
try to do good works? Why be obedient at all? Let's
just go out and sin as much as we want to. It's every man for
himself. It's like the guy, you know,
we sing that song, free from the law, oh happy condition,
Jesus hath bled and there is remission. Some guy changed that
and he said, free from the law, oh happy condition, Jesus hath
bled and I'm going fishing. Why worship at all? You know,
in other words, what is the natural man when he hears these things?
He's simply saying, well, you're removing everything that motivates
me, that inspires me. And the answer to that is yes.
Everything that dishonors God that motivates you. In other
words, the only motive you have for obedience is Is fear of legal
punishment or promise of mercenary reward? That dishonors God. What
motivates me? You see, we need to think about
this. And that's why he says there, look at Romans 6 and verse
1, what shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that
grace may abound? is the fact that my obedience
doesn't save me or keep me safe or earn me a bigger mansion in
heaven. Does that remove every motive I have to do it? If it
does, that tells you I'm an unbeliever. That's really what it's saying.
In other words, unless I get the motive of the law, the legal,
or the greed, then I can't obey. What does that say? That tells
me you haven't been married to Christ yet. So he says in verse
2, God forbid, how shall we that are dead to sin? How are we dead
to sin? Do you have to fight sin? Is there a warfare within you?
That doesn't sound like it's too dead to me. How are we dead
to sin? We're dead to sin's penalty.
That's what he's talking about. The wages of sin is death. I'm dead to that. Christ took
that from me on the cross. How shall we who are dead to
sin live any longer therein? Verse 3, know you not that so
many of us as we're baptized, that literally means placed into,
that's not talking about water baptism now. That's another subject. That's a confession. This is
being placed into Christ, we're baptized, placed into his death.
When he died, I died. When he was buried, I was buried.
When he arose again, I arose again. Therefore, we're buried
with him by baptism into death, by being placed into his death.
That means he died for me. That like as Christ was raised
up from the dead by the glory of the Father, So we also should
walk in newness of life. There's the purpose. There's
the fruit of it. Walking in newness of life. That's that newness
of the Spirit. That's bringing forth fruit unto God. That's
good works. That's why he died. He didn't
die to give me an excuse to sin. I don't need an excuse to sin.
I'm already there. How about you? He died that I
might walk in newness of life. What is that newness of life?
That's the fruit of being in Christ. That's the motive of
grace and love and gratitude. And look at verse five. He says,
for if we've been planted together in the likeness of his death,
if we died with him, We shall also be in the likeness of His
resurrection. That's the newness of life. That's
the life of Christ within us. That's Christ in us by His Spirit
and by His Word working in us and through us to glorify and
honor God. You see that? Well, look down
at verse 17 of Romans 6. You see, and one thing we see
here in the Scripture that this thing about grace It is not just
a doctrine we claim to believe. It is a doctrine. And again,
I always tell you this. Don't be among those who put
down right doctrine. Don't do that. The Bible doesn't
do that. Show me where it does that. I
asked a fellow that one time. Show me one scripture where the
truth of God's doctrine is even put in a negative light and it's
not. Now, there are people who claim to believe it who really
don't. Now, they're put in a negative light. but not the truth. So,
but it's more than just a doctrine we profess. It's a power by which
we live. The grace of God. It's the Holy
Spirit within us, empowering us, making us think according
to God's Word. Because we don't do it naturally.
And he says, look at verse 17, he says, but God bethink that
you were the servants of sin. Now a servant of sin is an unbeliever.
It can be a religious unbeliever or an immoral unbeliever, but
he's still a servant of sin. If you're not serving Christ
in the newness of the Spirit, in newness of life, you're a
servant of sin. And he says, but you have obeyed
from the heart, the mind, the affections, the will, the inner
man, all right, the new heart. That form of doctrine, that word
form is an interesting word. It's like a stamp. It's like
an indelible stamp. In other words, it's put there
and can't be removed. That form of doctrine, teaching, which
was delivered you, well, it was preached to you, but you know
what that phrase, which was delivered you, literally means? You might
have that in your concordance, I don't know. Well, I've got
it in mine and he notices. It says, where to you were delivered.
It's the doctrine you were delivered to. In other words, God brought
you here to sit under this doctrine, this teaching. Now how can I
stand up here and put it down if God brought me under it? And this doctrine that identifies
him and distinguishes him and tells me about my sin identifies
Christ as the God in human flesh. I wouldn't know Christ is the
God-man apart from the doctrine of Christ. Would you? I mean,
would you figure that one out on your own? I wouldn't. You
know, Nicodemus came to him. He said, well, nobody could do
the things that you do except he were sent of God. Oh, we might
have figured out, well, he's got something special about him.
He was sent of God. But to say that he's God in human
flesh, how would we know that apart from this doctrine, this
teaching? The only way I know that is God
said it, and I believe it. So this is what it is. Now, He
says that form of doctrine, the doctrine of His person. Unto
us a child is born. Unto us a son is given. Government
shall be upon His shoulders. The Lord our righteousness. His
name shall be called Jesus, for He shall save His people from
their sins. His name shall be called Emmanuel,
which being interpreted, God with us. That's amazing, isn't
it? This form of doctrine, the doctrine
of His cross, His redemptive work, what He did, He accomplished
the salvation of His people. Not only did He accomplish it,
He secured it. By His death, He'll bear much
fruit. That's His people. Which you were delivered to.
Now look at verse 18. Being then made free from sin.
That's liberated. How? The power of sin to keep
me from looking to Christ. God the Holy Spirit brought me
to Christ. And then you became what? Servants
of righteousness, servants of Christ. Now look down at verse
20. He says, For when you were servants
of sin, you were free from righteousness. You were not in a state or standing
of righteousness, had none. Verse 21, What fruit had you
then in those things whereof you are now ashamed? Now think
about Saul of Tarsus again. When Saul of Tarsus was an unbeliever,
He was doing his best to keep the law to be saved. Isn't that
right? He wasn't ashamed of that at
all then, was he? He was proud of it. Think about
people today who think salvation at some way, at some standard,
or some way, or some degree is by their works. They're proud
of it. They'll testify of it. And if
they don't do it, they'll let somebody else do it. Won't they? Look at my accomplishments. All
I know is with God's help. But they're still proud of it.
But when you see, when God the Holy Spirit brings you to see
your sin, and brings you to see the glory of Christ, you know
what happens? Then you become ashamed of that. Just like Saul,
he said, that which was gain, I count it all but loss. That
which I thought was so sweet-smelling to God and pleasing to God, I
now count it all but dung. I'm ashamed of it. I repent of
it. He says, for the end of those
things is death. But, verse 22, but now being made free from
sin and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto holiness
and the end everlasting life. He says, for you see the wages
of sin is death. That's what you earn. but the
gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Good works
are the fruit of our union with Christ. Let me show you another
passage on that, John 15. Turn over to John 15. Brother
Aaron read this. I don't have time to go through
all this, this whole passage, but I want you to see something
here. This will help you. This is what good works are.
They're the fruit of being in Christ. They're not the product
of my goodness or my will. Now, I have a will to do good
works, but I also have a will to please myself. And there's
a fight there. The only reason I have a will,
a desire to do good works is because God put it there. That's
what regeneration and conversion is about. It didn't come naturally.
And the only reason it stays there is because God keeps it
there. And that's so. But look here,
John 15. He says, I am, this is one of
the I am passages. Christ said, I am the true vine.
And my father is the husband. He says in verse two, every branch
in me. Now remember, we're talking about
how good works are the fruit of being in Christ. Every branch
in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away. And every branch
that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more
fruit. Now that's talking about the
worship, the praise, the obedience of a believer. Now this verse,
I won't go into all the details of it. He said, every branch
in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away. Who's he talking
about there? Well, there's a lot of speculation
on that. Some people say, some scholars believe he's talking
about the nation Israel. And of course, the nation Israel,
they were God's people in a ceremonial way, in a civil way, national
way under the old covenant, and they didn't bear fruit, and they
were taken away. Some people use verses like this
and then later on they use a couple other verses in this passage
to say, well, here he's talking about a sinner who's saved and
then they don't bear fruit and then they lose their salvation.
Well, the bearing of fruit comes from where? It doesn't come from
you, does it? It comes from the vine. Is that right? So it can't be
that. It can't be that, well, their
staying saved was conditioned on their bearing fruit because
the only way I bear fruit is through the vine. Somebody says,
well, you do something to stop up the channel. Well, where do
you get that from? You didn't get it from Genesis
to Revelation. You got that from old pastor
so-and-so somewhere. That's not what the Bible teaches.
Some people say, well, he's talking about a believer who for some
reason doesn't bear fruit and the Lord takes him out of the
world. We do see an example of God taking his people out of
the world in Corinth when they were misusing the Lord's supper.
He said some of them even died because of it. But I don't believe
any of those things is what he's talking about here. First of
all, the language is kind of confusing because when you read
it, he says, he takes them away. That phrase, takes them away,
you know what it literally means? It means he gathers them up.
It means he takes them up. He bears them away. When he talks
about a false professor who ends up being damned forever, he says
here, he says down here in verse 6, he says, he casts them forth.
They're thrown out. There he is talking about a false
professor, but I'll get to that in just a minute. He says, I
throw them away. But this word, take away, means
literally to gather up, to bear up. Who's he talking about? Every branch in me that beareth
not fruit, he gathers up. You know who he's talking about?
He's talking about God's elect who have yet to be born again. He's talking about His people,
His lost sheep out there in the wilderness who've yet to be gathered
into the fold. They're in Him. They've been
in Him from the foundation of the world. Chosen in Him, given
to Him. Their salvation conditioned on
Him. He died for them. But they've yet to be gathered
up by the Savior into the fold to where they bear fruit. They're
still unbelievers. And that's what he's talking
about. I believe every branch in me, he says, united to me
that beareth not fruit, he gathers them up. He's going to bring
the lost sheep into the fold. He's going to send his spirit
to bring them under the preaching of the gospel, and he's going
to bring them to spiritual life. He's going to regenerate them
and convert them, and they're going to bear fruit. And then
he says, every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth, prunes it. That's the trials of life that
believers go through. And what's the purpose of that
purging, that trial? That it may bring forth more
fruit. You know what that end up, it always ends up being?
We get closer to Christ. We look to Him more. We see His
glory more. We grow in grace and in knowledge
of Christ. Now look at verse three. Now
you may agree with me on that or not, but that's what the word
means. It means to gather them up. Now later on, he talks about
casting dead branches away. But look, he says in verse three,
now you are clean through the word. That's regeneration and
conversion, which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me and I in
you. As the branch cannot bear fruit
of itself, except it abide in the vine. You can't bear fruit
without Christ. No more can you except you abide
in me. I am the vine, you are the branches.
He that abideth in me and I in him, the same bringeth forth
much fruit. For without me you can do nothing. Literally, you might have that
in your concordance. Severed from Christ, you can do nothing.
Why? Because he's the vine. You're
the branch. The fruit comes from the vine. You see, that's what he's talking
about there. Without me, you can do nothing. You can't bear fruit. We don't
produce fruit. He does. We just bear it. He's
the power. He's the glory. He's the goodness. And then he says, now, if a man
abide not in me... Now, here he's talking about
a false professor who claims to believe in Christ. If a man
abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch and withered. Now,
notice up there in verse 2, they're taken away and bear fruit. Here
they're cast forth as a branch and they wither and men gather
them and cast them into the fire and they're burned. That's a
false professor. Verse 7, if you abide in me and
my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will and it shall
be done unto you. Now that's not making God a genie
in a bottle. That's bringing our will into
subjection to his will. And he says in verse 8, herein
is my Father glorified. Now, did you notice the language
here? See, we read over these things
like they're... Don't miss this. Herein is my Father glorified
that you bear much fruit. The fruit glorifies the Father.
Doesn't glorify you or me. So shall you be my disciples.
You see that? Over in Galatians 5 that I read,
in the first of our service. It speaks of the fruit of the
spirit. The fruit of the spirit is love,
joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness. Against
such there is no law. There's no law against those
things. And then he says, but if you be Christ, if you belong
to him, You see, that fruit of the Spirit is the fruit of our
union with Christ, being possessed by Christ and our possessing
Him. Let me read you this, Psalm 1,
1 through 3. Listen to this. He says, Blessed
is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor
stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.
But his delight is in the law of the Lord. Now, the only way
we're going to delight in the law of the Lord is if we see
that law fulfilled in Christ. But he says, and in his law doth
he meditate day and night, and he shall be like a tree planted
by the rivers of water that brings forth his fruit in his season. His leaf also shall not wither,
and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. That's the fruit of
our union with Christ. Without me, you can do nothing,
he says. Severed from Christ, there's no such thing as good
works in the Bible. Now if we're going to be furnished,
equipped and all that, we need to understand that it's the work
that God does for us and in us and it's the fruit of our union
with Christ. Without Him, we can do nothing. And those works is they're motivated
by grace and love and gratitude to glorify our Heavenly Father.
To show His goodness, not our own. To show His power, not our
own. To show forth His righteousness,
not our own. That's what they are. Okay. Let's
sing as our closing hymn, hymn number 204, Turn Your Eyes Upon
Jesus, 204.