All right, let's direct our attention
tonight to Leviticus chapter 20. And let's all be prayerful
that the Lord will open the scriptures up to our hearts and our understanding
tonight as we go through this passage or part of it. Look at
verse seven. of Leviticus chapter 20, and
I want to read just a couple of verses here to start off with. Now, the first two words in Leviticus
20 and verse 7 are the title of my message. It says, Sanctify
yourselves, therefore, and be ye holy. For I am the Lord your
God, and you shall keep my statutes and do them. I am the Lord which
sanctify you." Now, at first reading, if you're like me, when
you read something like that, especially those first two words,
sanctify yourselves, it might sound a little perplexing or
confusing or almost a little scary because I know my immediate
reaction to something like that is to first say, well, wait a
minute now, we can't sanctify ourselves. Our salvation, including
our sanctification, is of the Lord. But you have to remember
the context of what this whole passage is about, and what this
word sanctify really means. We've spoken of the word holy.
He says, sanctify yourselves, therefore, and be ye holy. And
many times when we see the word holy, And I've often said, well,
it's true that true believers, sinners saved by the grace of
God, ought to strive for moral purity in every aspect and area
of their lives. We should. We know that we're
still plagued with the presence of sin, the influence of sin,
the contamination of sin. And listen to me now, we will
never rise above that in this life. Now, we cannot do it. The Bible says we can't. We're
perfect in Christ. We're holy as we'll ever be in
Him. We're righteous as we'll ever
be in Him, but not yet in ourselves. And forms of sinless perfectionism
are as old as Adam after the fall. Did you know that? People
coming along, preaching some way, some form of sinless perfectionism. And it's as old as Adam after
the fall. makes it very plain that we cannot
rise above this situation in this life, that we are sinners
saved by the grace of God. Our completeness is in Christ. Now, one day we will be perfect,
sinlessly, spotlessly in ourselves, subjectively in our hearts, in
our minds, in our affections, in our wills, in our desires,
in our thoughts, in our motives. But that's the day that we'll
all be glorified together with Him and live in that world where
sin cannot be tolerated. That world, that righteousness
and that holiness that will exist in Him in glory. But the word
holy here has to do with separation. Be ye separate. And it's the
same thing with the word sanctified. He's talking about that which
distinguishes God's people from the world. Now, that's what Leviticus
18, Leviticus 19, and Leviticus 20 are all about. What is it
that separates us from the world? Well, obviously, as I said last
week, the main thing that separates us, the ground of it, the mainstay
of our separation is simply and purely the grace of God in Christ. Isn't that right? I mean, there's
no difference between us and the worst rebels on earth but
the grace of God. We know that. The blood of Christ
and His righteousness. But God works in us by His Spirit
and through His Word to distinguish us in ways that evidence His
grace. In ways that are the fruit of
His grace. The results of His grace. And
that's what He's talking about in Leviticus 18, 19, and 20.
Now, the psalm that I read opening sort of states it out in one
verse there when he says there in verse four or verse three,
rather. And this is the key, he says,
but know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself. Now we know by nature there's
no one godly among men. So if there's anyone who is godly,
they've been made so by the grace and the power and the goodness
and the mercy of God in Christ. But God has set that one apart
for himself. He set him apart in divine election,
sovereign electing grace before the foundation of the world.
He set him apart at the cross on Calvary when he was redeemed
and justified by Christ. And he sets him apart by his
Spirit in the new birth and calls him out of the world and into
the fold. And he says, the Lord will hear
when I call unto him. And then he says in verse four,
stand in all. Now that means worship and reverence
God. Stand in all of this grace of
God himself. You know, this is an awesome
thing. And sometimes we get so complacent about it, don't we?
We sometimes just think of it as, well, it's just something
we hear all the time. But you know, this is an awesome
thing. Somebody mentioned about the crowd being down Wednesday
night, and I said, well, down in number, but not in spirit.
But, you know, I got to thinking about this. We ought to be amazed
that anybody wants to hear this message. That anybody wants to
hear it. Ought to be amazed that I want
it. I'm amazed I want to hear it. But that's the truth. Stand
in awe. And then he says, and sin not.
Now, that's our goal. That's our goal. Can God command
anything less? Can God say, well, today just
do about 50%? Well, he can't do that. You know
why? Because he's holy. And that's our goal. And then
he says, he says, commune with your own heart upon your bed
and be still. Now that's the issue. When we
determine in ourselves not to sin, we all fall short. But our
stillness and our peace and our assurance is not within ourselves.
It's Christ and Him crucified. Well, look back at Leviticus
20. Look at verse 8. He says, And you shall keep my
statutes and do them. Now that's not works salvation
there. A lot of people take it for that.
They say in the Old Testament they had to work for their salvation
based on commands like that. But the statutes that God mentions
are His law given to Moses on Sinai, which was given to expose
their sin and drive them to Christ for salvation. There's no statute. Now listen to me. There is no
statute, there's no ordinance, there's no command in the Ten
Commandments or in the ceremonial law that commands a sinner to
work or to obey in order to be saved. You know, the Ten Commandments
doesn't tell you to keep the Ten Commandments and be saved.
No, sir. Because the Ten Commandments
is not a way of salvation. Never has been, never will be.
In fact, if you can keep the Ten Commandments, let me tell
you, you don't need to be saved. So why would it say keep them
to be saved? If you fall short of them, you
need salvation and you can't keep them. So there's no law
in the Old Testament that ever told any sinner to work and to
obey and to keep the law to be saved. Paul said it in Galatians
chapter 3. He said the law was our schoolmaster
to lead us under Christ. But look on in verse 8. He says,
I am the Lord which sanctify you. Now there's the power. There's
the grace, you see. Sanctify yourselves, not by your
own power. The Lord commands Israel. Now,
here's what he's doing here in these chapters. He's commanding
Israel to walk before him in the land of Canaan. He was directing
them to the land of Canaan. Now, we know that this generation
did not enter in, but at this time they were being directed
to the land of Canaan. And he's saying, when you get
into the land of Canaan and you take possession of that promised
land, that land that I'll give you, God said, you walk before
me. That's what he's saying. You
walk before me as children of God, as a holy, a separate and
a consecrated people. Distinguished and separate from
the others in the land of Canaan, the world. They'd been marked
out. They'd been separated from the
world. How? By sovereign election. God chose Israel. He didn't choose
any other nation. He said, I didn't choose the
Hittites, the Amalekites, the Amorites. I chose you. And he
told them in Deuteronomy chapter 7, he said, I didn't choose you
because you were good. I didn't choose you because you
were great. I didn't choose you because you were rich or powerful.
It had nothing to do with it. He said, in fact, compared to
the others, you were the worst. But he said, I chose you. Now,
why did God choose them and not another? It seemed good in his
sight. Sovereignly, they were marked
out and separated by special redemption of power. God delivered
them out of Egypt. He brought them out by power. And we see that great picture
of Christ in the blood of the Passover, and that's when he
brought him out. God marked them out and He separated
them right there. They came out of Egypt. And then
God marked them out and separated them by effectual calling. He
called them through Moses and through His Word. He commanded
them. He directed them. And then He
marked them out and separated them from the world by merciful
preservation. If you read the history of it,
we have in the book of Exodus, you'll know. that the moment
they got out of Egypt, if left to themselves, they would have
destroyed themselves, wouldn't they? But God preserved them. Now here we see in Israel, the
nation Israel under the old covenant, a type of spiritual Israel, the
church of the Lord Jesus Christ, all whom God chose from the foundation
of the world out of every tribe and nation. And we too have been
commanded by the Lord God to walk before Him in this world
as a holy people, as a separated people, not made holy by our
works. All that would represent is the
vain attempts of the religious world. That wouldn't separate
us from the world. That would just bring us right in line with
the world. Did you know that? You see, that
doesn't separate God's people. In Ephesians chapter 4 and verse
1, Paul wrote to the Ephesian church, walk worthy of the vocation
wherewith you are called. That's the same thing here, sanctify
yourself. Brother Ron read it in Ephesians
chapter 5 when Paul wrote in verse 1, be ye therefore followers
of God as dear children. Not in order to become dear children,
but because you are dear children. In other words, seek to live
up to your standing and your position in the household and
family of your father who loves you. and gave himself for you,
who keeps you and provides for you and preserves you. And he
goes on, he says, and walk in love as Christ also hath loved
us and hath given himself for an offering and a sacrifice to
God for a sweet-smelling savor. What he's saying there is this.
We're not trying to earn God's pleasure and God's satisfaction. We're walking in the power and
the grace of that satisfaction and pleasure already earned by
Christ. That's what we're doing. Now,
that's what separates God's people from the world. You see, we're
not working in order to attain. We've already attained in Christ
our standing before God. Paul mentions in Philippians
3 what we haven't attained. We have not already attained
sinless perfection in ourselves, but we've already attained complete
salvation in Christ. We've already attained a perfect
standing before God in Him. We've quoted this verse several
times in these messages, Romans 12 and verse 2, where he says,
Be not conformed to this world, but be you transformed by the
renewing of your mind, that you may be living proof of what is
good. That's really what that verse
is saying. That you as an individual, a sinner saved by grace, a saint,
that means a sanctified sinner, that you may be living proof
of what is good, living proof of what is acceptable, living
proof of what is perfect, living proof of what is the will of
God. That's what we're to be. Now, this separateness is the
result of God's grace and power in Christ. It's not our works. It's not works of the flesh and
religion done in pride. And when he says back in verse
seven of Leviticus 20, sanctify yourselves, that's what he means.
Now, you know, a lot of times we see that word sanctify, we
think of cleansing, don't we? Well, as to our standing before
God, we are cleansed by the blood of Christ. 1 John 1 verse 7 says,
if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship
one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us
from all sin. It goes on in verse 9 to say,
if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive
us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Now,
what cleanses us? Our confession? No, He'd already
said it in verse 7, the blood of Christ. Your confession doesn't
cleanse you. Are you to confess your sins?
Yes. Any sinner who's come to God and pled for mercy at the
mercy seat is confessing his sins, all of his sins, even his
secret sins, the ones he doesn't even know about. But it's not
our confession that cleanses us. That's what that's what the
Catholic Church would like you to know and other people to confession
is good for the soul. Yes, it is. But it does not cleanse
the soul. The blood of Christ cleanses
the soul. You see the difference? That's
what sets us apart. There's a difference. That's
a difference of grace. We can't cleanse ourselves in
the sight of God. That's right. Behold, he put
of no trust in his saints. The heavens are not clean in
his sight. Now, if God is so holy that he
doesn't put any trust in his saints, the ones whom he has
sanctified, and if the heavens are not clean in his sight, what
could we do to cleanse ourselves? My friend, we must look to Christ
and him alone. As to our hearts, we're cleansed
by the blood of Christ. The Spirit of God in the new
birth cleanses our hearts, our consciences, how? By giving us
a saving view of Christ and Him crucified. For by one offering,
He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. The Bible
speaks of the church, that Christ sanctify and cleanse it by the
washing of water by the word. The new birth is called sanctification
of the Spirit and belief of the truth. And yet here, we're commanded
to sanctify ourselves. 2 Corinthians 7 and verse 1,
listen to this, he says, having therefore these promises, dearly
beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh
and spirit. James chapter 4 and verse 8,
listen to this one, draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh
to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, purify your hearts,
ye double minded. Now, how do we do that? We do
it by looking to Christ for our cleansing. That's exactly how
we do it. Should we seek to be holy and
perfect? Yes. This word sanctify here
in the Old Testament has several connotations. It means to consecrate. It means to prepare. Prepare
yourself. It means to dedicate. To be dedicated
to something. Well, what are we to be dedicated
to? Well, he says it. Sanctify yourselves, therefore,
and be holy. For I am the Lord your God. Dedicated to God. His glory. His truth. His way. And it means to be hallowed.
To be holy. To be sanctified. To be separate.
To be set apart. And separate. All of this, you
see, according to God's Word. It means to show oneself blessed. Oh, we've been so blessed by
God. How are we going to show that? By worshipping Him, studying
His Word, His truth, loving it, walking by His Word and His love.
It's one who's been graced. Think about that. We've been
graced. That's grace in action. You see, grace is more than just
a doctrine to us. Even sovereign grace. I mean,
it's a way of life. It's our whole lives. Grace.
It's to have been a recipient of mercy. That's one who's sanctified. To show ourselves as children
of a holy God, but also a gracious God. And it's for us to show
ourselves as disciples of Christ, resting in Him and devoted to
Him. Look back at Leviticus chapter 19. Now, you know, he gives this
list. of commandments whereby they
are to separate themselves. If you look at verse 30, 32, he mentions, thou shalt rise
up before the hoary head and honor the face of the old man
and fear thy God. I am the Lord. God's people are
to separate themselves in their respect and regard for the elderly. That's what that means. That's
a simple command. There's nothing complicated about
this. Respect for your elders, and
especially those elders in the faith who are to be the leaders
of the church. You know, I think about modern
religion today. You know, everything in modern religion is revolving
around the youth, youth programs, youth centers, contemporary services,
which are nothing but entertainment because it's boring to the youth
to hear the gospel preached. And that just bores them. And
we wouldn't want to do that to little Johnny, would we? We just
wouldn't want to bore little Susie. And so what do we do? We dumb it down. That's what
we do now. We dumb it down and we make it
palatable so that it's exciting and the church ends up being
more like Disney World than it does worship. And you know, in
the Bible, Old Testament and New, it's just the opposite.
The church revolves around the elderly, the elders in the faith,
the wisdom. the experience of those who have
been through it, who have learned, who have been tested and tried
over the years. And the youth are to follow the
elderly, those leaders of the church, and respect those who
are older and wiser in the faith. But you see how this world's
got it upside down. Well, what separates us from
the world? What are we going to do? Get a drum set and a bunch
of electric guitars and start dancing and all that? Maybe that'll
keep them interested. Oh, it'll keep them interested,
but it'll do nothing for their souls. Nothing. It's pitiful. Look at verse 33. Now, here in verse 33, he speaks
of love for the stranger. Love God and love our neighbor.
That's what he's talking about. If a stranger sojourn within
your land, you shall not vex him or trouble him or oppress
him. You know, it was common in that day, some stranger comes
along, they either robbed him or they killed him. But here
he says, don't don't trouble him, don't oppress him, he says,
but the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be as unto you
one born among you. That's one who becomes a citizen
of the nation and receives the God of Israel. And he says, And
thou shalt love him as thyself, for you were strangers in the
land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God. Remember, you were
a stranger at one time. Remember, God put you as a stranger
in a strange land down in Egypt. And what did God do to you? He
sent you a friend named Moses. And that's the way we were in
this world. We were strangers in a strange land. What did God
do? He sent us a friend. You preached about our friend.
The Lord Jesus Christ, the friend of sinners, the friend of strangers. And so he says, that's to set
you apart. Look at verse 35. Now here he's talking about treating
others with fairness, with justice. He says, you shall do no unrighteousness
in judgment. He's mainly talking about civil
magistrates there when they judge. But it's talking about everyday
life in meat yard, in weight or in measure. You're not to
defraud. You're not to cheat. You're not
to steal. Just balance, as he says in verse 36. Equity and
justice. This is the way the people of
God are to live. With justice. And he says, just
weights and a just ephah and a just hen shall you have. This
has to do with the weights and measures by which they bartered
and exchanged goods. In other words, not to be like
the butcher puts his thumb on the scale. That's what he's talking
about. He says why? I am the Lord your
God which brought you out of the land of Egypt. Therefore
shall you observe all my statutes and all my judgments and do them.
I am the Lord. You know, justice, judgment,
mercy. These are all things that should
characterize and separate the people of God. Look over at Matthew
chapter 23. I want to show you something.
You know, religion without truth. Religion without justice, religion
without mercy. is nothing but hypocrisy. Now,
we know religion without Christ is idolatry. Religion without
grace is sham religion. But look here at verse 23 of
Matthew 23, speaking to the Pharisees, the scribes, and our Lord says,
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you pay tithe
of mint and anise and cumin Now, they were diligent to pay their
tithes in religion. They were diligent to give and
go through the religious ceremonies. But he says, you have omitted
the weightier matters of the law. You've omitted the most
important part. What is that? Judgment. That's
to do right. That's to deal justly. Mercy. Blessed are the merciful, the
Scripture says. Have mercy on those who are less
well off, those who are sick and afflicted, those who are
poor, and faith, faithfulness to God. You've omitted that. These ought you to have done
and not to leave the other undone. When God commands these religious
ceremonies and statutes and practices, you're not to leave them undone.
But He says you're to take care of the most important part, judgment,
mercy. and faith. And he says, why? Because I'm the Lord, your God.
I'm the Lord, your God, who brought you out of Egypt. You know, all
of this, look, look back at Leviticus 20. Now, you know, God is showing
Israel here that he alone has the right to set the standard
of right and wrong and to tell us what to do and what not to
do. That's right. Preachers, I know, get lifted
up and they think they have that right, but they don't. Any preacher
tells you what to do and what not to do, if he can't say thus
saith the Lord, then you better stay away from him. All God's
laws are wise. Sometimes we can act so foolishly.
All God's laws are good. Sometimes we can act so selfishly.
All God's laws have their origin in him, his very nature. I am
the Lord God, he said. Obedience to Him and our treatment
of one another is to be grounded in His unconditional mercy and
love and grace towards us in Christ. Now, look at this. Look at these first few verses
of Leviticus 20. He says, And the Lord spake unto
Moses, saying again, Thou shalt say to the children of Israel.
Verse 1 of Leviticus 20. Verse 2 now. Whosoever he be
of the children of Israel, of the strangers that sojourn in
Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech." Now, that
seed there means his children. Now, Molech was a common, popular
idol among the Canaanites. And what Molech was, according
to the historians, was this. This was an image built by men. And it was an image of red, hot,
glowing brass. The metal itself was hot. And
to appease this idol, people laid their living children in
his arms and watched as this idol of fire consumed their own
children. Now that's what most historians
agree that this Molech was, giving their children as sacrifices
to an idol. And you know, we know the depths
of the depravity of man, that were it not for God's grace,
how far we can go. But you would think, you'd see,
from our limited point of view, you'd say, well, how in the world
could a child of Israel do something like that? But some of them did
it. Some of them did it. Times of desperation, times of
doubt and unbelief, and then just out and out idolatry. But
here God says, anybody who gives his seed, his child to Molech,
now listen to it, it says in verse 2, he shall surely be put
to death, the people of the Lord shall stone him with stones.
Now that was God's judicial judgment against idolatry in the land
of Canaan. Now this wasn't vigilante justice,
this wasn't mob justice here now. Don't get, you know, if
you looked over and you thought, well that guy's an idolater,
I'm going to hit him in the head with a rock. No, that's not what
he's saying at all. These people, there's other scriptures that
say how they are to be brought up before the civil magistrates,
they're to be accused, their guilt was to be proven with two
or three witnesses, and then that sentence was to be carried
out. But they were to be stoned. The penalty for idolatry is death. Now, of course, that's a picture
of those who die in unbelief. Those who die without Christ,
who die as idolaters, what's going to happen? It's going to
be eternal death. You see, that's what he's showing. This is the
picture that God's giving them, the illustration in their lives. And he says in verse 3, now listen
to this, he says, I will set my face against that man and
will cut him off from among his people. In other words, they're
not part of the nation. See, their citizenship in the
nation is gone. You see, our citizenship in this
nation of spiritual Israel is linked with Christ. And without
Christ, we have no citizenship in the spiritual nation. And
so he says, because he had given up his seed, his children, unto
Molech. And listen, here's the problem.
He says, to defile my sanctuary and to profane my name. Did you
see that? That's what happens. To defile
the sanctuary. That means when they come to
worship. They're worshiping, but their worship is defilement.
And to profane his holy name. That is, when they call upon
the name of God. When they pray unto God, they're
defiling his name. And he says, now look here, now
look at verse four. He says, he says, and if the people of
the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth
his seed unto Molech and kill him not, then I will set my face
against that man and against his family and will cut him off.
And all that go a-whoring after him to commit whoredom with Molech
from among their people." What he's saying there is if the people
ignore it or turn a deaf ear to it or a blind eye to it and
allow it to go on, God will be against them. It's not to be
tolerated. You see, God was serious about
this. And this was the issue, you see. Think about this. This
Molech, this idol, who was nothing. But the concoction and the creation
of man, the fire of Molech had to be kept hot by man's efforts,
which shows you that it could be extinguished and one day it
would be, it will go out completely. Just like idolatry and false
religion, that fire has to be kept hot by man's works. And
that tells you it's not going to last. It has no eternal value. And pretty soon it's going to
go out all the way. And there's such a great contrast
here between this idol and the great God Jehovah. You see, God
is a just God who will punish sin, and He must be appeased.
But He's a God of love and mercy and grace. Molech's arms were
held out like this, they say, and they were hot, and the child
would be laid in his arms to be burned up. Aren't you glad
that the arms of our great God and Savior aren't like that?
His everlasting arms of mercy take up little children, not
to burn them up, but to bless them and to save them. And I'm
going to tell you something, that's not what we deserve, is
it? Rather than casting us into the fiery pit of hell so that
we could have the spear and took all the fire of God's holy wrath
and justice into his own soul for us. He was burned up. We were not, so that we wouldn't
have to be. And Molech, he required satisfaction
from the people of Israel. But our God, rather than requiring
satisfaction from us, our God has made satisfaction for us. And that's where we need to camp.
That, in its essence, is the difference between Jehovah, the
true and living God, and Molech, the idol, the dead God. Molech
is nothing. Christ is everything. And that's
why we see there's no true God apart from Christ. There's no
worshipping, no seeing, no knowing the true and living God. Moloch
did nothing for his worshippers without their contribution. It
was their children. Christ did everything for us
with no contribution from us. Moloch makes his worshippers
pay and pay dearly. Sounds like false religion today,
doesn't it? They pay, and they pay dearly. Christ paid it all. All the debt I owe. Sin had left
a crimson stain. He washed it white as snow. See
the difference? Those who choose Molech over
Jehovah proved themselves to be enemies of God. And by their
worship, they defiled His sanctuary. They stood in the house of God,
calling themselves the people of God while worshiping another
God. And their worship was nothing
but an utter expression of contempt for God. Their choice of Moloch
as their God is the constant defiling of Jehovah's name. And
rather than worship God in his true character, they make a God
without character of any kind. A God that's nothing. And they
call him God. And they prefer, think about
this, this is man by nature, this is us by nature, apart from
the grace of God. We prefer burning tortures of
an idol that must be appeased to the sweet expressions of mercy
and grace that come from God in Christ. That's us by nature,
isn't it? Well, God executed judgment and
just wrath against those who refused to worship him, but who
worshiped Moloch. But also against those who denied
this heresy, maybe because of friends or family, maybe somebody's
friend, somebody's brother, somebody's sister went over and gave their
children to Moloch and they turned a deaf ear, whatever. Maybe they
didn't personally worship Moloch at all. Maybe they even frowned
upon it, but they allowed it to go on without God's just judgment
against sin. Well, let me tell you something.
Our God is a jealous God, and he will not share his glory,
even with your brother or your sister or your mama or your daddy.
He's a just God. Look at verse 6. He says, And
the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits and
after wizards, we dealt with that last week, to go a whoring
after them, I will even set my face against that soul and will
cut him off from among the people. That has to do with With the
occult, people talk about witchcraft and wicca, anything in a religious
vein. As I said last week, that's not
talking about children's fantasies and stories like Harry Potter
and all. That's talking about religion. The occult. False religion. That's meant
to deceive. A familiar spirit. A lying spirit.
Those who speak not according to the word of God. And so he
says, sanctify yourselves. Now, separate yourselves from
that. He calls on them to do this. Separate yourselves, sanctify
yourselves, therefore, from all of this idolatry. He says, and
be ye holy, be ye separate. He says, for I am the Lord God,
Lord your God, and you shall keep my statutes. Don't worship
Moloch, worship God. Don't worship idols, worship
the living God. Sinner, don't turn to to anything
but Christ and Him crucified. That's what he's saying. And
he says, I am the Lord which sanctify you. Oh, we're so thankful
for God's power and grace, aren't we? Think about this. You know,
the rest of that chapter deals with the depravity of man. And
when you read it, some of it may be distasteful to you. But
let me tell you something. The only reason it's distasteful
to you is because of the grace of God in Christ. That's right. The only reason we're not wallowing
in the mire and the muck and the mud with all of them is the
grace of God in Christ. And that's it. All right.