Let's turn back to Acts chapter
24. We'll pick up here in this chapter. I titled this message, This I
Confess. There is no salvation apart from
confessing Christ. Paul said in Romans 10, In verse
9, if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and
believe in thine heart that God raised him from the dead, thou
shalt be saved. History confesses his existence. History confesses that a man
named Jesus Christ lived, but that's not salvation. You could ask probably about
anyone you've run into in this country. If they believe that
Jesus Christ existed, that he lived, they'd tell you yes. But Paul says, and believe in
thine heart that God raised him from the dead. Is he alive now? Is he alive now? Where is he
now? That God raised him from the
dead. Peter tells us, over in 1 Peter, he tells us that if we suffer
for righteousness' sake, for confessing Christ, believing
in our heart that God raised Him from the dead and confessing
Him, and if we suffer for righteousness' sake to rejoice, he says rejoice,
because the power of God rests on you. He said if we suffer
wrongfully, to take it patiently, we will see this in this chapter.
Paul suffering wrongfully, being accused of things he didn't do
or say. Peter said you take it patiently
because this is well pleasing to God. Now I want us to look
at a few verses in this chapter. I'm not going to deal with this
whole chapter. I really wanted to save the latter part of this
chapter and do it by itself. Paul stands before Felix here
and he's accused. His accusers come and they charge
him. We'll look at this. Then Paul gives his defense. And then Paul stands before Felix
again and then he stands and he accuses Felix. The prisoner, in turn, becomes
the judge, and the judge becomes the prisoner. But we'll look
at that next week, when he reasoned of righteousness, temperance,
and judgment. But here, in these first few
verses, Ananias, the high priest, hires a slick lawyer, Tertullus. That's what he does. He goes
out and he hires a slick lawyer. I think he has realized by now
that he's no match for Paul. I'm sure he's realized that.
So he goes and hires this orator, this man who is very good at
speaking. And he hires him to speak against
Paul. And he comes and he speaks. And
he speaks like the religion of our day. The first thing he does is that he brags on the flesh.
Notice how he, here in verse 2, when he was called for Tertullus,
this great orator, he began to accuse Paul, but first notice
what he says. Seeing that by thee we enjoy
great quietness, and that very worthy deeds are done unto this
nation by thy providence, we accept it always, and in all
places, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness. He wasn't thankful. That man was a tyrant. You read
the history of Felix. He was a tyrant. He was not a
good man. But he bragged on the flesh,
and that's what the religion of our day does. It exhausts
the flesh. You see these big crowds. You
hear this Joel Osteen down in Texas. He's just a religious
psychologist. That's all he is. And he brags
on the flesh, and I'm telling you, they just flock to hear
that. Flock to hear it. And then he appeals to Felix's
ego. The first thing he does is reach
for his ego. And he gets it. And then he turns and he lies
on God's servant. And he says, we have found this
man a pestilent, a pest. We have found this man to be
a pest. That's the way believers are regarded, really. That's
the way the preachers of the gospel are regarded as pests.
We say, go away. He said he's a troublemaker. This man is a troublemaker. God's
servants are not troublemakers. They're peacemakers. Blessed
are the peacemakers. They're peacemakers. Paul says
over in 2 Corinthians, be ye reconciled to God. That's not
a troublemaker. It doesn't sound like a troublemaker,
does it? Be ye reconciled to God. They are truth-tellers. Trouble
comes. You know when trouble comes?
Trouble comes, it comes in when rebels meet the truth. That's
when trouble comes. When rebels meet the truth. When
they are confronted with the gospel. When darkness is confronted
with light. Darkness hates the light. It
rebels every time. And then he charged him, he says here, he's a mover of
sedition. I look this up. This means conduct
or language inciting rebellion against the authority of a state
or other lawful governments. He says he's inciting the Jews
everywhere throughout the world against the Roman government.
And that's death. That means death to anyone they
find like that. And so he charged him with this
thing of sedition. He's telling Felix, this man
here is trying to turn everyone against you, Felix. The gospel
is not doing that. God's preacher is not doing that.
Not at all. The gospel does not turn men
and women against God-ordained authority. It doesn't. It doesn't
do that. The gospel makes sinners. Now,
it does this. The gospel makes sinners be model
citizens. The gospel makes workers be model
workers. It makes husbands be model husbands,
and it makes wives be model wives, and children be model children,
if they believe it. The gospel doesn't set the people
against God-ordained authority. Not at all. The gospel doesn't
do that. Trouble comes when men and women refuse to obey the
gospel. That's when trouble comes. That inborn enmity comes out
against God. I read you over in a psalm, give
unto him the glory that is due unto his name. That's when rebellion
comes out. When rebels are confronted with
God's glory and they're not going to do it. They do not, they do
not want to give God the glory that's due unto his name. Not
at all. And then here's another charge
against Paul. He is a ringleader. He's the
ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes. Those Christians, those pests. He said, Felix, he's the ringleader
of those Christians, those Christ followers, those people who are
following Jesus of Nazareth. When he calls him the ringleader
of the Nazarene, he's talking about believers. Well, that's
a good charge. He's a ringleader of those believers. Then he charged him. He said
he went about to profane the temple. You know, back in verse
21, verse 29, they supposed... Well, you get in trouble when
you start that stuff, don't you? Assume and have supposed. They
supposed that he had brought a Gentile into the temple. And
he was profaning the temple. They supposed that. Their imagination
got carried away with them because he had a Gentile with him. And
they started, no doubt, they probably sat in around and said,
I bet he took him in the temple. Before it was over, they said,
he took him in the temple. You know how stories get stretched
and stretched until they believe a lie to be the truth. So they
charged him with profaning the temple. They had no evidence
of this. So Paul speaks now in verses
10 through 16. And he acknowledges to Felix,
he says, you've been a governor a long time. You've been a governor
of this nation a long time. He doesn't stroke his ego, does
he? He doesn't do what Tertullus did. He doesn't go through this
flowery speech to Felix to try to get Felix to get over on his
side like Tartullus did. He just says, I know you've been
a governor here for a long time. And you know a lot of our customs
and you know what's going on among our people. And I'm glad
to be able to talk to you because you know what's going on. And
Paul says, I did not go into the temple to dispute. I didn't go there to dispute.
We don't come here to dispute, do we? I don't take the pulpit with
the intention of disputing. I take the pulpit with the intention
of preaching Christ. That Christ would be glorified.
That He would be lifted up. And you, the sheep, would be
fed and edified. Paul said, I didn't go into the
temple and dispute or cause trouble with any man. They caused the
trouble. They came after me. I just quietly went into the
temple. They found out I was in there and they came after
me. I didn't do these things, none
of these things. But this I confess. Paul's not going to hold back.
He's not going to take the edge off. He's not going to take the
edge off in order to slip out of this situation. As far as
Felix is concerned, those Jews are concerned, his life's on
the line. But Paul knows that. He knows
better. Because the Lord stood by him and told him, you're going
to go to Rome. You're going to go to Rome and preach just like
you did to Jerusalem. But Paul says this, this I confess. He was not ashamed. Paul was
not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ. He was not ashamed to
confess Christ. He was not ashamed of what he
believed and who he believed. Not ashamed of it. He confessed him. No person is
saved who does not confess the truth, who does not confess Christ
before men, no matter what it costs. Now I want us to notice
here what he confessed. He said, after the way, which
they call heresy, so worship. That's the way I worship. That's
the one I worship. The way they call heresy. They
say, Paul, you're a heretic. What you're saying is heresy.
It's not true. He says, so worship I the God
of my fathers. Believing faith. Believing all things which are
written in the law and in the promise. The way which they call
heresy. Which is that? Grace alone. Grace alone. We just sang that
free grace. They call that heresy. He said
these religious leaders, and at that time it was the Jews,
they call this way heresy. The Greeks call it foolishness.
That's what Paul said over to the Corinthians. Grace alone
to sinners out of every nation, every tongue, every tribe, and
every kindred. They said that's heresy. Christ alone. Christ alone plus
absolutely nothing. He's all the hope I have. He's all my salvation. Oh, if
our kids could learn this. If there's anything that these
little children need to learn growing up, as they sit under
this ministry, is that it's Christ alone. You need Christ alone. Everything that we need to stand
before God, we have in Christ alone. We have it in Him alone. Eternal life is had in Christ
alone. It's not Christ plus my obedience
or plus this or plus that. It's Christ alone. It's not our
law keeping. They were so, you know, they
were so ingrained in them. Keeping the ceremonies and the
law and just ingrained in them. And then Paul comes along preaching
the gospel and says, that's over with. You never were saved by
it anyway, to start with. You were never saved by it because
you never did keep the law. No man's ever kept the law of
Christ. No man. So it's not in our law keeping.
It's not in keeping these ceremonies or rituals. He said it's in Jesus
Christ alone. After the way which they call
heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers. Forgiveness of
sins through the blood of God's Son alone, atonement by His blood
alone, that's what they call heresy. That righteousness, that justifying
righteousness, is that righteousness which Jesus Christ brought out
by His Obedience? He said that's the way they call
heresy, and that's the way I worship God. The way they call heresy
is the way I worship the God of our fathers. They call this
heresy. Grace alone, Christ alone, His
blood alone, His righteousness alone, they call it heresy. He
said, but I'll confess. Felix, I confess this. I believe
this. This is the way I worship God.
This is the one through whom I worship God. This I confess.
I'm not backing down from this. I don't deny this." Ringleader
of the Christ followers. Yeah, he said, I don't deny that.
I'll tell you this, we have no righteousness of our own. And
he deals with this when he speaks to Felix over there in verse
25. And he reasoned of righteousness,
the lack of it, you don't have it, Felix. This man stood before this governor
and he looks at him in the face and he says, you're the one,
you don't have any righteousness and you need it. We all need
it. If we're going to be saved, we
must have a righteousness that God accepts. And that righteousness
is His Son. It's His Son. All ours is filthy
rag, God said. Sinners are saved by the righteousness
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Aren't you glad of that? Really? You might do one thing today
that you think is right, but you'll do a thousand things that
just blows it. You'll just blow it. Adam did by one act of disobedience. One act. All it took was one.
It didn't take many acts. It was just one. And he was in
a perfect garden. He himself was perfect, innocent.
He didn't know any sin. Never been involved with it. And failed. And here we are born
in sin and shaven in iniquity. And to think you can actually
do something that's right that's righteous, I mean absolutely
righteous, not on our standards, on God's standards. God measures
by His standards, not ours. Now in our day, in our day, see
they call this way heresy. It's Christ alone, grace alone,
and it's still the same in our day, still the same. But when
we stand and preach that man is totally, absolutely, 100%
depraved, they say, that's heresy. He's not that dead. They think
because a man can reason, that he can think, that he can talk
and communicate, that he can do the same with God. He can't do it. He cannot do
that because he does not have the life of God in him. When
a man is born of God, he has the life of God in his soul.
And it's not until then that we can communicate, that we can
call upon and praise God in spirit and in truth. Until that happens,
you can't do it. You've got a fleshly life, you
have life, but it's fleshly life. It's not spiritual life. It's
not spiritual life at all. That's what fools men. And that's
what religion plays on that. Until a man is born again, he's
lost. He's dead. Dead in trespasses
and sins. People don't understand what
dead means. Now, if you tell somebody dead or has died, they
understand that. But when you talk to them about
being dead before God, spiritually dead, they don't seem to comprehend
it. You know why? Because they're dead. Because
they're dead. Dead people don't comprehend
anything, do they? Then when you tell them that
God chose a people in Christ before the world began. Unconditional. Unconditional life. He chose
them because He chose them. He willed to choose them. He
loved to choose them. Even so, Father, it seems good
on the outside. I can't give you an explanation. That's why
God chose whom he chose. Even so, Father, it seemed good
in thy sight. Even the Lord didn't give any other explanation than
that. It was good in his sight. But the world calls that heresy.
The religious world calls that heresy. And the intellectual
world calls it foolishness. And then they call this heresy,
particular redemption, that Christ died for the elect. That's so. I asked a man one time, he was
wanting to argue with me over it. I said, just tell me who
died on that cross? Who died on the cross? Tell me
what happened there? Did he satisfy God's law or did
he not satisfy God's law? If he satisfied God's law concerning
everyone, then everyone is saved. Isn't that common sense? Now if he's satisfied God's law
on behalf of some, then some are going to be saved. But I tell you this, nobody wants
to be saved unless God saves them. Nobody wants to go to,
nobody wants to be with God, and everybody wants to go to
heaven, they think of it as an eternal vacation. That's the way heaven
is pictured, it's like we won't have to work again. We won't
grow old, we won't have pains and aches. Anybody's got enough
sense of coming out of the rain wants that. Anybody wants that. But nobody
wants God. Nobody wants to be made like
Him again. And that salvation needs to be
made one with God. That union was severed in the
garden, as far as man is concerned. But we have that union and that
oneness again in Christ. We have it in Him. But if God
hadn't chosen us, we wouldn't have it in Him. The branch can't
pick itself up off the ground and put itself into the vine.
It can't do it. Darkness will never love light
because light always runs off darkness. And it always reveals
what's in the darkness. Unless God makes us children
of light, we will never want Him. We'll never desire Him.
We'll never come to Him. Never. And the world calls that heresy.
The religious world says that's heresy. Everybody has a chance. God gives everybody a chance. I'm sure glad that's not so. No, He's made sure. He's made
sure that heaven's going to be populated with people just like
His Son. And when we stand before Him,
no one's going to say, let me tell you what I did. I did this, I did that, I accepted
Him. No, you didn't. He accepted you. He has made
us accepted in the Beloved. That's what it says in Ephesians
1. He made us accepted. Yes, we received Him. He enabled
us to. He gave us the grace to, the
faith to, and the life to, and the heart to. He did it. He did
it up. They call what we call irresistible
grace heresy. I tell you what, if God by His
grace ever calls a man, that man will come. That man will
be saved. Before I heard the Gospel and
came down to 13th Street. I was going to a place that would
drag people down the aisle. Some of you may have come from
those places, I don't know, but they'd go back and they'd just
drag people down the aisle. Don't you want to be saved? Don't
you want to? And they'd get them down there. Some of them were
tough enough to hang out with, hold out, but they'd usually
get them down front and they'd get a confession out of them,
and they'd last a little while, then they'd be gone. Some of
them lasted a little longer while, Grace, I tell you what, Grace
said to get out of the way. Like that woman with
the issue of blood. Weak, frail. She had it for many years. She
had grown worse. She was none the better, but
rather grew worse. She made her way through that
crowd. She pushed her way through that crowd. and touched the hem
of his garment. You know why? Because the grace
of God called her. The grace of God made her to
hear. If you read over Mark, that incident,
she heard of him. She didn't see a miracle. This
woman didn't see a miracle. She heard of him. And when she
heard of him, she heard of him in power. And that power that
go with the Word of God drew her to the Lord Jesus Christ. Irresistible. I know with this
flesh now, we have this flesh with us, and there's still some
struggle there all the time, and will always be until we lay
it in the grave. You show me a sinner in need
of mercy, God's made him know it. God's called him by grace. You don't have to beg Him to
come down an aisle. I promise you, you don't have to beg Him
to come down an aisle. You don't have to beg Him to do something.
You don't have to beg Him to accept Jesus as His personal
Savior. Just tell Him. Just stand and
tell Him who the Savior is. God will do that. God will draw
Him. God will bring Him. He'll draw Him. I heard a man some years ago
preaching on television, Jimmy Swacker, who it was, and we'll
see where that ministry went to. But I heard him preaching
on television, this has been some years ago, probably 20 years
ago, and he preached on five damnable doctrines. That was
the title of his message, just what I preached to you. He preached
on five damnable doctrines. And that's when I was preaching
up at that Emily Norfolk Church there in Green. They called me
and asked me to come up there. And I went up the next Sunday
and I preached five doctrines of truth. And they ran me off. That's just why I preach to you
this morning. They ran me off. They called
me back. They called me and asked me not to come back. They said,
we don't need you to come back here anymore. I preached there
about seven or eight times. But here's an interesting, and
I believe I've told you this before, but here's an interesting
situation with that. I preached the gospel to them.
And there was a man that was crippled. He was a cripple in
a wheelchair. People had to bring him in and
take him home. And he said, I've been listening to Henry Mahan.
And he said, I believe that message. I believe that gospel. I said,
I believe that. And the night they told me not
to come back, they also told me he passed away. I got to preach to one of God's
children. For a little while. For a little
while. Well, these are not five damnable
doctrines. These are five glorious doctrines
of truth. And this perseverance of the
saints. I know people that said, no,
you can be saved and you can be lost. You can be saved and
you can be lost. That's like taking a daisy. You
love me, you love me not. You love me. You ever do that
when you was young? Well, you better hope you don't
run out of daisies. You better get you an extra daisy there
so you can make sure it's a lovely, lovely. These are five glorious doctrines
of truth. The way which they call heresy.
So worship I the God of my fathers. And we do too. Abraham, Isaac,
Jacob. We can call them what? We can
call them our fathers. Abraham is called the father
of the faithful. All who are saved are guilty
of believing that God chose us and Christ died for us and the
Holy Spirit regenerates us. We're born of God. We're guilty
of believing that. Yes, I am. I'm guilty of believing
that. We're guilty of believing Christ
alone for all we need. I'm guilty of that. We're guilty
of believing that Christ has made unto us wisdom, righteousness,
sanctification, and redemption. We're guilty of that. I want
to be guilty of that. Oh, that I could be charged with
this. We're guilty of believing all
that's written in the Law and the Prophets. You know what we're
guilty of? You know what we are really guilty
of? Believing God. Paul said, I believe all that's
written in the Law. I believe the Word of God. I'm guilty of
believing God. Felix, I confess, I'm guilty of this. And what
they charge me of, I'm not guilty. But I'll tell you what I am guilty
of. This is what I'm guilty of. Paul is saying,
I'm not introducing some strange doctrine. I'm only telling you
what's written. That's all I'm doing. I'm just
preaching what's written. And he says in verse 15, and
I'll wind this up, And have hope toward God, which they themselves
also allow. They allow this, the resurrection
of the dead, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead,
both of the just and unjust. This was the theme of the Apostle's
message. Christ is risen. Thou shalt believe
in thine heart that God raised him from the dead. And I believe
he's speaking here of the bodily resurrection of Christ. You know,
I think about everyone believes the soul is eternal. Most all
people believe that the soul is going to live forever. The
resurrection he's talking about here, of the just and the unjust,
is of the body. Not just the soul. But soul and
body. That God's going to raise. He's
saying that Christ was risen from the dead. He said, touch
me. A spirit doesn't have flesh and
bones. It's real. It's a body. He said
there's going to be a resurrection. of the dead, of the just and
the unjust, and it's going to be of the soul and the body.
Job said this. Look over in Job 19. Job 19,
verse 25. Now Job said this thousands of
years ago. And he's saying the same thing
we are saying today. In verse 25, Job 19, For I know
that my Redeemer liveth now. He said, My Redeemer liveth now.
That was thousands of years ago. And that he shall stand at the
latter day upon the earth. And he did. He came into this
world. And though after my skin were
destroyed this body, yet in my flesh. It's not like we're a, what do
they call those things? I've seen, we went to Disney
World and they have a projection of, you can see an image of something. What do they call that? Hologram. We're not holograms. It's not
like you can reach and put your arm through us. You can see them,
how they make TV movies. It's a real body. I mean a real
body made up of skin and bones. Flesh. In my flesh. I'll see God. Whom I shall see for myself.
And listen, in mine eyes, these eyes, not these old fleshly eyes,
but God's going to give us a new body. We know that. I'll show
you that in a minute. A new body. And I'll behold Him, and not
another, till my reign be consumed within me. I'm dying. I'm going
to go to the grave, but in my flesh I'm going to see God. I'm
going to be raised from the dead. My Redeemer liveth. He's going
to stand upon the earth in the latter days. And He's going to
raise this body out of the ground. We've buried some people over
the years. Some loved ones. They are with the Lord. Their
bodies are in the ground. But there's coming a day when
that person is going to be united with a glorified body. But it's
going to be this body. without seeing it. I talk about things I can't comprehend,
but I know it's so. Look over in 1 Corinthians 15.
This is a wonderful chapter. 1 Corinthians 15, look here in
verse 35. I don't just read this whole
chapter because we don't have time. But some man will say,
how are the dead raised up and with what body do they come? And Paul says, thou fool, that
which thou sowest is not quickened except it die. It has to die
first. And that which thou sowest, thou
sowest not that body that shall be but bare grain, it may be
wheat or whatever it is you sow, but God gives it a body as it
is pleased him to every seed his own body. All flesh is not
the same flesh, but there is one kind of flesh of men, another
flesh of beasts, another of fish, and another of birds. There are
also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial, but the glory of
the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon,
and another glory of the stars. One star differs from another
star in glory. So also is the resurrection of
the dead. It is sown in corruption. This body of corruption right
here is going back to the grave. For thus thou art, and to thus
thou shalt return. But it's raised, this body. It's what Paul's talking about
when he's talking about the resurrection of the dead. He's talking about
the resurrection of the soul and the body. It's raised incorruptible
with no sin. Can you imagine that? Never to age again. Never to
have pain and suffering, but never have the impulse of sin.
Never have that sinful impulse or anything like that. It's raised
incorruptible. It's sown in dishonor. It's raised
in glory. Oh, how glorious these bodies
are going to be when the Lord raises them. It's sown in weakness. That's why I died. It's raised
in power. It is sown a natural body. That's
what this is. This right here you're looking
at is a natural body. And it's raised a spiritual body.
There's a natural body and there's a spiritual body. And so it is
written, the first man Adam was made a living soul and the last
Adam was made a quickening spirit. How be it that was not first,
which is spiritual, but that which is natural. And afterwards,
this is what we are going to get, afterwards, that which is
spiritual. The first man is of the earth
earthly, the second man is the Lord from heaven. We're going
to be just like him. We're going to have a glorified body, a real body. But let me show
you something else over here in Matthew chapter 5. He says He's going to raise the
just and the unjust. They're going to have a body
too. They also shall have a body.
Look in Matthew 5. You have heard... Let me see
if I've got the right one. You have heard that it was said
by them of old times, Thou shalt not commit adultery. But I say
unto you that whosoever looks on a woman to lust after her
hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. And
if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from
thee. For it is profitable for thee
that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole
body shall be cast into hell. And if thy right hand offend
thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee. For it is profitable
for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy
whole body should be cast into hell. Now look over in Matthew
chapter 10. Matthew chapter 10 and verse 28. And fear not them which kill
the body, but are not able to kill the soul, but rather fear
which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. We are going to be raised, the
believers are going to be raised with an incorruptible body. But those who are unjust, they're
going to be raised in that body, this body that we've lived in.
I believe it's going to be cast into hell under eternal torment. It's not just going to be a spirit
floating around, it's going to be in the body. When that rich
man lifted up his eyes in hell, and he said, send Lazarus to
dip his finger in water and cool what? Dip my tongue. He said, for I am tormented in
these flames. That's sobering stuff. That's
sobering stuff. But Paul says here, and I close,
Paul says, herein do I exercise myself to have always a conscience
void of offense toward God and toward men. Paul is saying to
Felix that I live in a conscious effort before
God, according to the gospel, to walk according to the gospel
that God has set forth in the He said, I walk with a conscience.
Conscience, conscientious, is what I'm trying to say. Conscientious
of my walk and conduct before God. And that I introduce nothing
of what's revealed in the gospel. Paul introduced nothing. You
know, the elders, they had the tradition of the elders. They kept that as much as they
kept anything God gave them. Paul didn't introduce anything.
any tradition. This is all of God. And he says,
I have a good conscience about this. And not only have I done
this before God, but also before men. Paul never went around trying
to stir up trouble. He never did that. Paul never
shuns to declare the whole counsel of God. He never held back. He
never did. He kept back nothing, he told
the church. He kept back nothing that was
profitable to them. He said, Herein do I exercise
myself daily, daily. It's not something we do on Sunday
or Wednesday. Daily, he said, I exercise myself
to conscientiously to walk before God in my conduct and in my thoughts
and before men. He said, I consciously do this. Paul was guilty of nothing. He
was guilty of none of those charges that were brought against him.
And really, that should be, and better be, the way it is with
every believer. They can't charge you with anything
but lies. They can lie on you. They can
charge you with lying on you, but they can't make it stick.
That's how our conduct and conversation ought to be. That's what Paul
said. Paul said, that's the way my
conversation and conduct has been. That's the way it is. But this I confess. I do confess
this. I'm guilty of believing God.
I'm guilty of worshiping God after the way which they call
heresy. I'm guilty of it. That's so. He never denied that,
did he? He didn't water down the gospel or try to take the
edge off of it or try to get along in order to save his neck. He said, I am guilty of this.
I believe God.