I invite you to turn back with
me now to Romans chapter five. I want to use Romans chapter
five and verses one through three and talk to you for just a little
bit about accessible grace. Accessible grace. Well, if God is sovereign, And
he worketh all things after the counsel of his own will. And
we who have obtained an inheritance have obtained it being predestinated
according to him who worketh all things after the counsel
of his own will. Then how is grace accessible? Grace is there, you can't deny
grace. Grace is on every page of the
book. It's ridiculous to try to say, well, grace is just something
that Reformed men came up with. No. No, it's not. It's in the
testimony of God. It's mentioned some 27 times
in the New Testament. So if everything is by grace
and everything is in grace, how does a man get into that grace?
Is that grace accessible? Grace is there. Grace is there. Well, in order to talk about
these things, I want to recap just a few things that Paul had
established in the first four chapters of this book. Our text
beginning with a therefore. And you remember what I told
you? When you see a therefore, find out what it's there for.
And that's what I want to do. I want to go back on these four
chapters and just mention a few things so that you have a clear
head concerning this grace and its accessibility. In chapter
one, the apostle tells us very clearly that the gospel of Christ
is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes. Now, are there exceptions? No. No, everyone that believes. The power of God unto salvation. What power enables a man to believe
is set forth in the means that God has ordained. He doesn't
leave us back here to speculate on things, to speculate, well,
how does God save sinners? You know, is he gonna save some
this way and some this way and some another way? That's what
men set around with natural intelligence and reason out. We're spokes
in a wheel, you've all heard that. Anybody that's ever tried
to witness the gospels heard that. We're all just spokes.
All roads lead to Rome, you know. I'm not trying to get to Rome,
I'm trying to get to God. And there's just one way. One
way, no man cometh unto the Father, he said, but by me. The gospel, the gospel of Christ. Paul said, with everything that's
in me, I'm ready to preach the gospel to you that are in Rome
also. The very center of the Gentile
world, the very center of a a dictatorship, he said, I'm ready to preach
the gospel to you too. That'd be like saying, with everything
in me, I'm ready to go to Washington, D.C. and preach the gospel. Same
thing, same thing. These were the rulers of the
world at the time, Rome. And then he tells us why. Why
is the gospel of God's sovereign grace, the gospel of Jesus Christ,
why is it the power of God unto salvation? How is it the power
of God unto salvation? Well, he tells you. Therein is
the righteousness of God revealed. Where's a man gonna find out
about the righteousness of God? You went to church for years,
but you didn't know anything about the righteousness of God.
until you heard it. Therein is the righteousness
of God revealed. That's where you learn it. When he talks about a revelation,
he's not talking about a dream that you get out on the river.
He's talking about understanding the truth and how this understanding
comes to you. It's revealed to you through
the gospel. Through the gospel. Therein,
he says, is the righteousness of God revealed. And it's revealed,
now listen to me, faith to faith. What in the world does that mean?
That means I get a little peace now, and tomorrow I get a little
more. Just like that manna, you got
enough for that day on that day, and then you had to go gather
it up again. And then you had to go gather it up again. And
then you had to go gather it up again. This righteousness
of God is revealed faith to faith. As it is written, the just shall
live by faith. By faith. Therein is the righteousness
of God revealed. And the righteous God will not
justify any man without a perfect righteousness. Mark that down. He will not justify any man without
a perfect righteousness. Listen to what he says in Galatians
3.10. He said, Cursed is everyone who continueth not in all things
written in the book of the law to do. Do you see any possibility
in that statement for salvation? No. No. And this is so for Jew or Gentile.
To be justified by God, a person must have a perfect righteousness.
It must be perfect to be accepted. That's what the scripture said.
And then in chapter two, He proves, well a little bit of chapter
one and all of chapter two and some of chapter three. He proves
that all men, both Jew and Gentile, both religious and heathen, they're
all under sin. All under sin. It can't be justified
without a perfect righteousness and you don't have one and you
don't have any possibility of having one. All have sinned and come short
of the glory of God. He said, I before proved. When
did he do that? Chapter one, chapter two. Chapter
three, he said, I before proved. Both Jew and Gentile, they're
all under sin. The Gentiles, for ignoring the light of conscience
and creation, worshiping the gods of their own imaginations,
like unto a man like Pharaoh, Pharaoh wasn't just a leader,
he believed himself to be God. They worshiped God like unto
men, and like unto birds, four-footed beasts, and creeping things. So they ignored that, and they
didn't know the true and living God. And then in chapter three,
verse 20, he said, therefore, by the deeds of the law, there
shall no flesh be justified in his sight, for by the law is
the knowledge of sin. If you go to the law hoping to
be saved, here's what the law's gonna keep telling you. You're
a sinner. You're a sinner. Guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty. You go out here and run a stop
sign, Man writes you a ticket, you go down to the courthouse.
You don't go down there hoping to be justified. You got a ticket
already telling you that you're condemned. You just go down there
to find out how much the fine is or how many days you have
served. You don't go down there hoping for salvation. That's
the law. You don't go to the law for salvation. When you come before the law,
you're guilty. You're guilty. By the deeds of the law, there
shall no flesh be justified in his sight, for by the law is
the knowledge of sin. Now watch this, Romans 3.21.
But now, the righteousness of God without the law. What part of the law? All of
it. Well, we have certain things
in the law we have to keep. Oh, no you don't. No, you don't. This righteousness is without
the law. Think about that. Without the
law. And it's manifested being witnessed
by the law and the prophets. The law itself sent this before
you. That's what Paul said. even the
righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ, unto
all and upon all that believe, for all have sinned and come
short of the glory of God. It is the gospel of Christ that
reveals the righteousness of God, of which Christ is the author
and the finisher. He alone fulfilled it, accomplished
it, manifested it, and made it honorable. He exalted the law
and made it honorable. It is therefore by his faithfulness
that it exists, and faith in him that is imputed to you, that
righteousness. Romans 3 verse 24. We're gonna get to this in just
a minute, but here's my subject. He's talking about justification
over there, chapter five. And now we're talking about this
righteousness. And listen to what he says. Verse 24, Romans
three. Being justified freely by his
grace, through the redemption that's in Christ Jesus, whom
God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood. Now
what in the world is he talking about? that his blood is sufficient. That's what he's talking about.
Faith in his blood. He set him forth to be a propitiation. When did he do that? Back yonder
in the lawn. All those sacrificial lambs. That's what them were. He was
setting forth Christ as the propitiation. Christ is the lamb. When John
the Baptist saw him coming down the trail, he didn't say, behold,
there's the Christ. He said, behold, the lamb. The
lamb, this is the lamb of which all those other lambs pointed.
This is the lamb, the true lamb. God set him forth to be a propitiation
through faith in his blood. Now listen, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that
are past. Uh-oh. just our past sins. No, he's talking about the Old
Testament saints when God set forth Christ under the Old Testament
under that law. He's talking about how were them
men saved? Same way you are, faith in Christ.
They understood what that lamb meant. That lamb pointed to the
coming Redeemer. And that's why they receive remission
of sins that are past. Now listen, through the forbearance
of God, God waited. for the manifestation of Christ.
There was no possibility that Christ wasn't coming. He's coming. Sins of Old Testament saints
going all the way back to Adam and all justified by the redemption,
by that redemptive righteousness of Christ who was yet to come. And I'll tell you how you know
that. Verse 26, the very next verse. Listen to this. To declare,
I say at this time, That was then, and he's gonna declare
at this time his righteousness, that he might be just and the
justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Well, what's that mean? If God justifies you, what's
he talking about? He's saying that you had no sin. He's not saying that I'm gonna
wipe all your sins away. He's saying you had no sin. That's
justification. Who is he that condemneth? It's
God that justifies. Where's the sin? Where's it at? Ain't no sin. Well, he's a sinner. What happened to his sin? It
was all charged to Christ. All charged. When did he charge
my sin to Christ? Way back yonder in the covenant
of grace. He chose us, now listen, in Christ. Why? That we might be holy. You ain't holy. Oh, my soul. Go and look at yourself in the
mirror and say, there's a holy man. You can't do it. You can't
do it. But you are in Christ. And that's
why God chose you in him, that you might be holy. Listen, without
blame. Ain't anybody in here that I
can't find something to blame on. And there's nobody in here
can't find something to blame on me. But I'm without blame if I'm
in Christ. That I might be holy without
blame. Now listen, before him in love. That's not talking about your
love for him. I'm talking about he chose you in Christ that you
might always be before him being loved. That's what he's talking
about. Never a time when he quit loving
you. Because he saw you in Christ. And that's where he put you.
And that's where he gonna find you. And the gospel is about
you finding yourself where God already found you. That's what
the gospel is. And then in chapter four, Paul
illustrates all that he said before. He illustrates it in
this man called Abraham. Why would he do that? Because
Abraham's the father of faith. God singled him out, and he used
him as an example of faith. And he used him more than he
did anybody else. He used Abraham. Romans 4.16,
and he tells us this. Therefore, it is of faith that
it might be by grace. There's no other way for it to
be. If it's not of grace, then it has to be of works. And faith
is of no, what do you need faith for if it's gonna be by works?
It'll be by works. Well, what does faith do? Faith
lays hold of Christ. That's what faith does. Therefore
it is of faith that it might be by grace to the end the promise
might be sure to all the seed. Not to that only which is of
the law, not to just Jews, but to that also which is of the
faith of Abraham who's the father of us all. Abraham was a Gentile. He worked in his daddy's idol
shop. He made idols. Abraham wasn't
born a holy man. You're not a worshiper. And God
found him and revealed himself with it and established his covenant
with him just like he does all believers. He believed God. That's what
the scripture said. And listen, it was counted to
him for righteousness. My soul. All right, so what is the heart
of this justification of Christ? It's charged to them who believe
on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, Romans 4.25. This is coming down where almost
to my text. Romans 4.25, Jesus our Lord from
the dead who was delivered for our offenses. and was raised
again for our justification. God delivered him for our offenses. When you think of the Lord Jesus
Christ, do you think of him being delivered? That's what it says. He was delivered for our, how
was he delivered? Providentially? Prophetically? actually in time, providentially. He was delivered. Delivered. Listen to this, Acts 2, 23. Him
being delivered by the determinate counsel of God, the determinate
counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken and by wicked
hands have crucified and slain. Their crucifixion and slaying
of the Lord Jesus Christ was second hand. He was delivered
by the determinate counsel of God. Acts 4, 27. Of a truth against thy holy child
Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate,
with the Gentiles and all the people of Israel, were gathered
together to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined
before to be done. He was delivered. Delivered. Who delivered him? God did. God did. Man couldn't deliver
him. They come to get him, that big
lynch mob. And they had torches and swords
and clubs, and here they come, a lynch mob, and they're coming
to get the Lord. They said, who are you? He said,
I am. And they fell backward on the
ground. They couldn't do it. They was gonna throw him off
the brow of the hill one day. Another big lynch mob come up
there, they gonna just throw him off the cliff. He walked
right through their midst and they couldn't touch him. Couldn't touch him. He was delivered. Pilate said, do you desire to
be a king? And he wouldn't answer him. And he said, listen, don't you
know I have power to crucify you or set you free? He said,
you don't have any power at all except my father gave it to you.
That's all, the only power you have is what God gave you. That's
all you got. He was deliberate. He bore our sins in his own body
on the tree. Why was he delivered? For our
offenses, that's what it says. For our offenses. He died the
just for the unjust that he might bring us to God. Once, listen
to the scriptures now, once in the end of the world hath he
appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. God hath made him to be sin for
us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of
God in him. And then listen to this. He told
the Jews, he said, the good shepherd, which was himself, giveth his
life for the sheep. For the sheep. Now let's look at my text. Having
said all of that, look at my text. Therefore, Romans 5 verse
1. Based on all that he had said,
Being, see that word? Being. What's that mean? That
means his state of being. It means what's going on right
now. What things truly are. Being
justified. A clear standing. Examined and
found to be perfectly righteous. No flaws, no blemishes. The scripture said unreprovable
before God. Are you with me? Being justified. Not hoping to be. Not maybe I
might be. Being. Being. Who's he talking to? He's talking
to his church. Being justified. By faith, the faith of God's
elect, the common faith, like precious faith, the scripture
says. Faith given to us as the gift of God's grace. Faith given
to show the exceeding riches of his grace and his kindness
toward us through Christ Jesus. His workmanship, his workmanship,
not our doing. We have peace with God. What's that worth? What's that
worth? God could snatch you out of the
world in the next two seconds. I was sitting in a pew just like
you are, and this old fella come in on a cane. He had to be up
close to 90, Winston, just about your age, come in there on a
cane. He was the old founding pastor
This was a free will Baptist church, ungodly church. I didn't
know him better. And that pastor came through
the door, that old man, he was the founding pastor. And the
young pastor looked back there and recognized him, said this
is brother so and so. And him and his wife sat down
right in front of Kathy and I. And he said, how's things between
you and the Lord? And that old man went to throw
up two fingers like that. God killed him dead in a wedge.
His head hit the pew. He was dead as soon as he hit
the pew. I don't have to tell you, I didn't
go back to no more free will Baptist churches after that.
You're going to show his familiarity to God. What's it worth knowing
that you have peace with God? Huh? He could snatch you out
of this world so fast, you ain't got time for a thought. You don't
have time for anything. Boom, massive heart attack, he
died. He died. We have peace with God, being
justified. Christ justified us. God pronounced
us through, how do we know God justified us? He raised him from
the dead. He was delivered for our offenses,
raised for our justification. By faith, we have peace with
God, fellowship, reconciliation, favor. He's no longer our enemy. He's our father. What's that
worth? Our father sent his son into
the world. That's what the scripture says.
Your father. Read it over in 1 John 4. Our Father sent his Son into
this world to redeem a people for the glory of his name. And
he accomplished this redemption that we might receive the adoption
of sons. And because you're sons, God
has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying,
Abba, Father. We look at the cross and we see
the Son of God in the body of a man dying in our room instead. justly satisfy the wrath of God. Bearing our sin, suffering our
anguish, the Lord, listen to me, the Lord, the one who redeemed
him, the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. God said, for the transgression
of my people was he stricken. And we see his death not as a
victim of a cruel dictator, but as the gift of a loving father
Abraham, take your son up on this mountain. Offering up. Offering up. Mm. Gonna be tough, wouldn't
it? That's exactly what God did with
his son. We don't see his death as being
a victim of a cruel God, but as the gift of a loving father. And if I'm His, and He's truly
given me faith, I have peace with God. Not based on my attitude, based on His accomplished work,
I have peace with God. Now, I'm gonna tell you something.
I was talking to Brian about this thing of righteousness and
self-righteousness, and I said, just suppose there's a room in
here, and it's totally black. You couldn't see your hand in
front of you. You've all been in places like caves or something.
It's dark. You can't see anything. And you
strike a match. And in this room, there's serpents,
scorpions, all kinds of things. But you don't know it. It's dark.
And you strike a match. And boy, right away, you see
the big... Now, I see the serpent. I see
the serpent. I see the scorpion. So, I go over there and kill
the serpent. He's gone. And I kill the scorpion. And then I go over there, and
there's an oil lamp hanging down. And I light that. Uh-oh. This
place is full of poisonous spiders. So I get that light down, and
I start looking around. And it's unbelievable what's
in that room. Filthy room full of just like
being inside a tomb. Dead men's bones, all kind of
corruption, all around in that room. This is what happens when
the Lord sends the light of his gospel. You see the big things
right up front, because that light's still kind of weak. But
the more light comes in, the more you see. And that's why
Paul was a sinner. He said that, unto me who am
blessed and the least of all saints, he said, is this grace
given? But he got a little older, and
then that statement got a little deeper. And now he says, at the
end of his life, he said, oh, wretched man that I am. This light begins to come into
that darkness, and you start to see something about this evil.
I started to tell you about that a while ago. I was talking to
my neighbor, and he was telling me about all the evils in this
world. And I said, You know, that's all true. That's all true.
It's very true. But I said, you haven't seen
anything till you see in here. What you're seeing out there,
when the Lord shows you that's what you are, that's a whole
nother ball game then. Why? Bunch of old queers. Ain't no difference in men. All of that potential's in you.
It's in every sinner. Every sinner. We're sinners.
But through this justification, I have peace with God. I have
peace with Him. Even though this wickedness,
it just gets worse, Winston. The older you get, the worse
it gets. Now you start to see corruption in your prayers, and
corruption in your attitude, and corruption in your walk.
Nothing in you, no good in you, none good, no not one, none righteous. But I still have peace. And I
have peace with God in my Lord Jesus Christ. Because God delivered
him. He delivered him from my offenses
and he raised him again for my justification. You see what,
I want you to feel the impact here of what Paul said. Romans 5, 1, the last part. We
have these things through our Lord Jesus Christ. You can't
have them apart from Him, but in Him you have these things.
He's the way, He's the truth, He's the life. No man cometh
unto the Father but by Him. No man knoweth the Father save
the Son, and He to whom the Son will reveal it. And how do we know He accomplished
it? How do we know God accepted His work. He raised him from
the dead. He raised him from the dead. You know, we're worried about
what happens when I die. What happens when I die? Well,
I've got a good hope he's gonna raise me from the dead. You know
why? He raised my Lord from the dead. That's right. And everybody, when he raised
our Lord from the dead, he justified all his elect. And when he comes
again, he's gonna raise everybody that was raised in him. And you
read Ephesians 2. And he'll tell you something
about the glory of his grace. When he raised Christ up, it
says he raised us up with him. When he seated Christ in glory,
he seated us with him. Isn't that what he says? And
that's how it's gonna be. That's how it's gonna be. We
have peace with God. He was raised for our justification.
And keep in mind now, he's talking to his church, to his elect,
to his people. And they, though some were not
even born as yet, some hadn't experienced anything yet, yet
they're justified and raised up with our Lord and seated with
him in full honors at the right hand of God. And as I said before, faith is
not the cause of our justification. It's God letting you in on it.
That's what it is. And having stated that by eternal
union we were raised up and seated with him in glory, he says, by
grace, now listen, ye are saved. Ye are saved. And then having
said why, that in the days to come he's gonna show us this,
now he said by grace are you saved through faith. God let you in on it, he showed
you that. He showed you that. And all for
whom Christ died shall receive the gift of faith, no exceptions.
God has a man that he's ordained, set apart from all eternity for
this time and this particular people. And he's gonna come to
them, he's gonna preach to them, and they're gonna believe. That's
just so. That's just so. You can argue
all day long, but you're gonna be arguing with God, because
that's what he said. That's what he said. God hath
chosen us unto salvation from the beginning through sanctification
of the spirit and belief of the truth, whereunto he called you
by our gospel. But you say, and listen to this,
Paul said, that not of yourselves. That base not of yourselves.
Now wait a minute, preacher. You said man's commanded to believe. Yes, I did, he is. He's commanded
to believe. And some have believed, and they're
recorded in Holy Scripture to have believed, like Abraham.
Abraham believed God, that's what it says. So when he believes,
is this not a work that he does? Oh yeah, it is. but read the
next verse there in Ephesians chapter two. It's not a work
of himself, for we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto
good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk
in them. Every one of his elect are gonna be enabled to believe,
repent, worship God, pray, all of these things that this world
can't do. They can't. They can't do them. Paul told the Philippians, he
said, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. Woo. For it God who worketh in you. both the will and the do of His
good pleasure. So where are we? We, or as I
said before, His people, are justified freely by His grace
through the redemption that's in Christ Jesus our Lord. And
this has been revealed to us through the gospel of Jesus Christ.
And we've received it by faith and have peace with God. Now
here's the fourth thing. Romans chapter five verse two.
By whom, talking about Christ, by his meritorious work and power,
we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand. Oh my soul, the man who stands
in grace has it all, does he not? By grace are you saved through
faith. By grace you are saved through
your union in the Lord Jesus Christ. Our election is an election
of grace. That's what he says. Even today,
there's a remnant. There's a remnant according to
his election of grace. And if it be by grace, there's
no more works. Otherwise, grace is no more grace.
Everything that God has for sinners comes to Him by way of grace
and this gift of faith that God gives us and our Lord Jesus Christ
and His accomplished work gives us access into that grace. I went to Sylacauga, Alabama
and a friend of mine had died up in Danville and I wanted to
go to his funeral so I went up there and then I went to Sylacauga
and then I come home. Brian graciously volunteered
to take care of my dog and see after my house, and so I gave
him a key to my house. Everything that I, and I'm not
rich, but everything I have that's of any value is in my house. Everything. And I gave him a
key. You know what that key did? It
gave him access. access into my home. When he gives a man faith, Winston,
he gives him access. Access to his grace. And he comes
in that grace, and he stands in that grace. And he's bewildered
by that grace. He's overcome by that grace.
Oh, my soul, everything God has, comes to Him through grace, and
I'm standing in grace. I'm not standing in works. I'm
not standing in the law. I'm not standing in my old nature.
I'm standing in grace. You think of the wonder of that
statement. Oh. We have access into this
grace. What grace? The grace of knowledge
and understanding. The grace of faith and repentance.
The grace of submission and trust. The grace of commitment and service. Everything God has for sinners
flows to the sinner by the grace of God. And grace and truth came
down with Jesus Christ. It came through him. I'm no longer bound by my own
nature of sin or the influence of Satan or any of those things.
I have access into this grace wherein I stand. And standing
in this grace, he tells us in verse 3, we can rejoice in hope. He tells us that in verse 2.
Standing in this grace, we rejoice in hope, a hope with a foundation. I stand and rejoice in hope of
the glory of God, not his essential glory, but that glory which he
promised us for all eternity, the glory of heaven, that glorious
rest of Christ, to be with him, to stand in his presence, unhindered,
to know as we are known. He's talking about that glory
of everlasting happiness And not only this, but he tells
us in verse three, we rejoice in hope, we got all of that.
Now he says, we rejoice even in tribulations. Huh? We rejoice in tribulations. How
we gonna do that? Because we know it's sin of God. We know it's sin of God. knowing that tribulation worketh
patience, and patience experience, and experience hope. And hope
maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in
our heart. What's he talking about? He's talking about that
man who's tried, and God delivers him, and then he's tried again,
and God delivers him, and he's tried again, and God delivers
him. And each time when God delivers him, the love of God is shed
abroad in his heart. And he's experiencing these things.
And so he gains patience. The next trial comes along, he's
more patient. He wakes on God's hand to deliver
him. And again, the love of God shed
abroad in his heart. I told this story years ago.
I was just a young boy, I think maybe first or second grade.
I wasn't very old at all. And we were on a school bus,
me and my buddy. He come back and slid over in
the seat beside me, and he whispered in my ear, and he said, we're
rich. And I said, what do you mean
we're rich? And he had this little brown paper sack, a little lunch
sack, and he opened it up, and it had money in it. He said,
I found this. Wow. So after school, we met
up. divvied the money up. I don't
know how much was in there, not very much, but to us it was a
lot. So we ran down to the little
Western Auto store and went in there. I bought a bunch of cowboy
stuff, guns, had it all. So here I come home from school
and mom sitting there watching me
come in and sit down. She looked over there and she
said, Where'd you get all that at? Oh, I bought it. I bought it. Where'd you get
any money? I didn't give you no money. Where'd
you get the money? Oh, a friend of mine gave me some money for
my birthday. She said, your birthday's not
for another two months. Where did you get the money?
And I said, well, my friend found it. And she said, where did he
find it? I said, on a school bus. She started making phone calls
and one of the cheerleaders, they were raising money for cheerleader
uniforms or whatever. She had some money in a bag and
she dropped the money on the floor and he found it. Well now,
I got to go back to the Western Auto Store and tell him what
I did and give the thing back and I had to go over to the cheerleader's
dad and tell him what I did. And we went over, and I don't
know if they made all this stuff up. I don't think so, though.
I think this just happened. And I returned the money and
apologized to the man. And that man, boy, he started
laying a law down to me. Now, you imagine, I'm just a
little fella. And this big old burly guy, and he just, boy,
he's laying a law down to me, ought to have you put in jail,
and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And man, big tears began to well
up. My dad took his hand and pushed
me around behind him. And he said, whatever he owes
you, put it on my account. Charge it to me. Whatever punishment you got lined
up, you punish me. He's had enough. He's had enough. That's what Paul's talking about
here. These tribulations is trouble. The love of God is shed abroad
in your heart. Little fella, I didn't know anything
about love. Boy, I learned something about it that day. I learned
something about it. We rejoice in tribulations. They work with patience and patience
experience. And when this experience is all
done, the love of God shall be brought in your heart by the
Holy Ghost. You see that even in trouble,
he still loves you. He still loves you. Ain't not
gonna let anything happen to you. You're his. You're his. Oh my soul, I wish we could learn
that. All right, we're not gonna have
any more songs or anything. I'll dismiss the service.