Let's open our Bibles to the
Gospel of Leviticus, the 21st chapter. The title of my message
is God's Priest and God's Priest. God's Priest, plural, and God's
Priest, singular. This 21st chapter of Leviticus
is about Aaron and his sons, those men who made up the Aaronic
priesthood in the Old Testament. The fact is, we know there are
no priests today who minister in the sanctuary of our God,
who serve in the tabernacle and offer sacrifices at God's altar. But the scriptures tell us plainly
that all God's people are priests. 1 Peter 2, verses 5 and 9 speak
of us as a holy priesthood and a royal priesthood. Priests are
men, women, the priestly family, who do business all the time
in the holy place, who live upon things of the tabernacle and
the temple, the things of God, who have access to God directly. That's what we are, priests under
God. And our Lord Jesus Christ is
our only high priest, our only mediating priest, our only priest
by whom we have access to God our Savior. And the scriptures
clearly teach us and show us that the Aaronic priesthood,
Aaron and his sons, have reference to God's servants who preach
the gospel of his grace. Yes, there are no priests today
And yet, if we come to God and have our sins forgiven and find
acceptance with God, if we would be saved, we must have an altar,
a sacrifice, and a priest. We must have an altar which God
Almighty has appointed. Christ is that altar. We must
have a sacrifice which God himself has accepted. Christ is that
sacrifice. And we must have a priest anointed
by God and accepted of God. And our Lord Jesus Christ is
that priest, our great high priest. He is our Melchizedek, our ever-living
high priest, touched with the feeling of our infirmities. who
also maketh intercession for us, who is able to save to the
uttermost all who come to God by him. And coming to God by
faith in Christ, we are priests before God. Believers are men
and women who live continually upon the things of God, in the
company of God, and do business at the throne of God. We're priests
who offer sacrifices to God acceptable by Christ Jesus the Lord. Sacrifices
of prayer, praise and thanksgiving, gifts and offerings. In fact,
our Lord says, if a man will offer so much as a cup of cold
water in the name of a disciple, he'll not lose his reward. God
now accepteth thy works, Solomon tells us, so that as God's priest,
We are in the totality of our lives, people serving God, and
God accepts the totality of our lives as sacrifices to himself. And God's servants, those men
who preach the gospel, though we have no mediating priestly
function, though we are in no sense priests between God and
man, be sure you understand me, pastor, preacher, missionary.
We are not men who have priestly functions as mediators between
God and men. Yet we are also represented by
Aaron and his sons and by the Levitical priesthood of the Old
Testament. Let me again be crystal clear. Gospel preachers, pastors
are not priests. I know that most preachers try
to get people to use them as priests. They conduct what they
call counseling ministries. That's so rather than doing business
with God, you could come do business with them and they'll teach you
how to come and do business with God. God's servants are not such. Our only mediator, the only mediator
between God and men is the man, Christ Jesus. And yet, in the
New Testament, if you want to turn there for just a minute,
turn to 1 Corinthians 9 and 1 Corinthians chapter 4. In the New Testament,
God the Holy Ghost uses the laws given in the Old Testament to
illustrate the work of gospel preachers, to enforce the pastor's
required separation of himself unto the gospel exclusively.
It is the pastor's responsibility every pastor's responsibility
to separate himself entirely, exclusively to the work of preaching
the gospel. And it is the responsibility
of God's churches to maintain their pastors and missionaries
in the work of the gospel. As you know, when the land of
Canaan was divided by Joshua to the tribes of Israel, nothing
was given to the priestly tribe of Levi. No inheritance was given
to them. This was done by divine commandment. Because those who served in the
house of God and served the people of God serving him in his house
were to be maintained by the holy things sacrificed to God
by his people. That's what the scriptures teach
and teach explicitly. The apostle Paul, by divine inspiration,
shows us that those facts revealed right here in Leviticus 21 and
throughout the Old Testament scriptures, those facts were
meant to teach us that God has ordained that those who preach
the gospel are to live by the gospel. Those who serve your
souls are to be provided for and maintained in their livelihood
by you whom they serve. Look at 1 Corinthians 9, verse
13. Do you not know that they which
minister about the holy things live of the things of the temple,
and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?
Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel
should live of the gospel. First Timothy chapter five, verse
17. This is what that means. Let
the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor.
Who are those elders who rule well? Those elders who rule well
the house of God. It is a pastor's responsibility
to rule the church of God just as a husband rules his house,
not by intimidation and force, but by the word of God and the
will of God, loving the people of God and serving them. It's
his responsibility. It's my responsibility to sail
this ship. That's my responsibility. I won't
relinquish it to anyone. Not for a second until I relinquish
it altogether. It's my responsibility. And it is the responsibility
of every pastor, of every local church where he is, to do the
same. I just spoke to some friends out in San Diego. I am serving
as their pastor until they get one. And I said to one of the
brethren yesterday, we talked for a good while, I said, when
God gives you a pastor now, I want you to understand something,
you won't be hearing from me. I won't be calling you and talking
and just chatting about stuff. And there's a reason for that.
I won't interfere with your pastor's work. I won't even let it appear
that there's a way in which I wish to influence you as pastor. It
will not happen. It will not happen. It is the
responsibility of every pastor to rule the house of God, even
as a man rules his own house. Who is he who rules well the
house of God? Especially they who labor in
the word and doctrine. I know we've got things turned
around just backwards in our generation. Everybody thinks
a pastor is a good social mixer. He's a fellow who is in the country
club, and he's in this club, and in that club, and he leads
this organization, leads that organization, and he spends his
morning sipping tea and coffee with old women, and going to
the hospital in the afternoons, and chasing ambulances, and visiting
folks, and this, that, and the other. That's exactly what a
pastor does not do. That's what a pastor does not
do. I love you, your families. I love people. I enjoy being
with people. I never turned down an invitation to be with you
at any time, but I'm not going to spend my days and nights wasted
for nothing. It is my responsibility to spend
my days and nights laboring in the word, this word, in the doctrine
of the Son of God, to have for you a word from God when I come
to this place. That's the responsibility of
a pastor. Every local church needs a pastor,
not two, three, or 20, one. Every believer needs a pastor,
not two, three, or twenty, one pastor. One pastor who is God's
messenger to you, to teach you the things of God. But I like
to listen to all the men. Yeah, you like to listen to what
you want to. You'd like to listen to what you want to. Let's see,
there's a sermon on this subject, one on that subject. Ah, no,
I don't want to listen to that one, I want to listen to this
here. That's the way you do it, because we're all inclined to take what
we want. And you say, well, I want to
talk to Brother Todd, Brother Don, Brother Curtis, and Brother
Darthin. I want to talk to Brother Gabe.
I want to talk to all the preachers and get their opinion about it.
I'll tell you what you're doing. I'll tell you what you're doing. What
do you think? What do you think? What do you think? What do you
think I ought to do? And then you pick and choose what you
like about all and throw everything else away. Every believer, every
congregation needs a messenger from God to be his teacher. And it is my responsibility,
as long as God keeps me in this place, to exercise that responsibility,
laboring in the word and doctrine for you. For the scripture saith,
thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn and
the laborer is worthy of his reward. Now with those things
in mind, let's go back to Leviticus 21 and just hold your Bibles
open and see what God teaches us about God's priest and God's
priest in these 24 verses. The chapter begins with that
little word and. And that immediately takes us
back to the preceding chapter and the last verse of that chapter.
A man also, or a woman, that hath the familiar spirit, or
that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death. They shall stone
them with stones, their blood shall be upon them. In chapters
19 and 20, the Lord frequently and specifically warns us never
to consult with wizards, witches, and the like. Never to seek counsel
at the hands of palm readers, soothsayers, astrological interpreters. Let me put that in shoe leather
so you can get it. If you're gods, if you believe
on the son of God, you don't have any business going seeking
counsel from psychologists, psychiatrists, and psychics. And I'll be honest
with you, I would just as likely send you to a psychic as I would
to a psychologist. Just because the whole basis
of it is contrary to scripture. God's people are to seek direction
at God's hand by the mouth of God's servant in his house. God's
people are to seek direction at God's hand by the mouth of
God's servant in his house. I don't do personal counseling. I just don't do it. I don't mean
by that you're not welcome to come to me and talk to me about
anything you are. I'll give you any advice I can give you about
anything. The folks have problems and they will have marital counseling
and family counseling and all that stuff. I don't do it. I don't do it. I do it right
here. You come and listen to me preach three times a week,
I promise you, you will get all the counsel I've got to give
right here, right here. But people had the idea that
if they come and talk to you privately, you wouldn't dare
say to them same thing in private, you say folks in public, some
of you might have tried. You will get exactly the same
counsel. God's people are to seek direction at God's hand
by God's mouth through his servants in his house. So in this 21st
chapter, the Lord God tells us what kind of man his servants
must be. Leviticus 21 is in many ways the Old Testament equivalent
of Titus chapter one. Just listen to this. God's servants
are not counselors. I didn't come here tonight to
give you something to consider. I came here tonight, I believe,
with a message for you to hear. God's servants are not counselors,
they're preachers. They're preachers. They're preachers. Listen to what Paul says the
preacher must be. If any be blameless, the husband
of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot
or unruly, What's that talking about? That's putting an onerous
burden on a man's back. If you can't bear the burden,
don't try it. God's servants are to live blamelessly
before men. That doesn't mean their neighbors
aren't gonna cuss them, they will. That doesn't mean folks
are gonna like them, they may not. That means they live uprightly
with men. For a bishop must be blameless
as the steward of God, not self-willed. not soon angry, not given to
wine, not hot-tempered, not a drunk, no striker, not one who lashes
out and strikes back, not given to filthy lucre, not a man who's
seeking wealth, but a lover of hospitality, a lover of good
men, sober, just, wholly tempered. holding fast the faithful word
which he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine
both to exhort and convince the gainsayers. All right, let me
show you three things in these 24 verses. Number one, we must
never forget that we belong to God. I speak this to you who
are God's holy priesthood and I speak it especially to your
pastor and to any man who dares to stand in this place and speak
in God's name to immortal souls. We must never forget that we
belong to God. That's the message of verses
1 through 9. We who are saved by God's amazing free grace in
Christ are the sons and daughters of God Almighty. Let us never
forget whose we are. And we who are God's servants
as preachers of the gospel must never forget who we are and whose
we are. To you and me, God has given
us the treasure of his grace. God has given us the treasure
of his grace. This treasure we have in earthen
vessels, but this treasure is such weight. is of such magnitude,
is of such value, that it must be always first and foremost
in our hearts, our minds, and our lives. Let us ever live as
men and women separated to God. and let God's servants, gospel
preachers, ever live as Aaron's sons lived, separated to God,
utterly devoted to the cause of Christ, the gospel of God,
and the glory of God. Verse one, and the Lord said
unto Moses, speak unto the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say unto
them, there shall none be defiled for the dead among them. but
for his kin that is near unto him, that is, for his mother
and for his father and for his son and for his daughter and
for his brother, and for his sister, a virgin, that is nigh
unto him, which hath had no husband, for her he may be defiled. But
he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people
to profane himself. Long and short of that is this,
if a man touched a dead body, he was ceremonially defiled.
And the Lord God says to Aaron's sons, you are not to defile yourselves
by the dead. And he makes exceptions, exceptions
for their closest family, because they too are just men. And the
reason he gives for this is you are chief among the people. The word is a guardian of the
people, a guardian of the people. The Old Testament describes God's
servants in the picture as doorkeepers, doorkeepers. The psalmist said,
I'd rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God, a doorkeeper. A doorkeeper is one who lets
in the things that ought to be let in and shuts out the things
that ought to be shut out. Lets in the people that ought
to be allowed in and shuts out the people that ought not to
be allowed in. That's what God's servants are as preachers of
the gospel. And by the preaching of the gospel,
keep the doors of God's house. The word chief man among us,
guardians of God's people. We're guardians of the people.
And you and I, as believers, are guardians of God's people. Guardians. Cain raised an objection
that men often raise and seem to think it's a noble thing.
Am I my brother's keeper? Yes, you are. You most definitely
are. You're responsible to watch out
for your brother. Responsible to care for your
brother. I don't mean by that in the sense that reformed legalists
talk, you're responsible to go check up on your brother, see
how he's living. I mean you take care of him. I mean you take
care of him. See to it he's properly fed.
Take care of him by example and by word. And our Lord here gives
an exception for those tender, close people in the family. If
one of Aaron's sons lost one of his own family, he was then
permitted to mourn like any other man. But he wasn't to mourn like
some heathen, folks. act like barbarians. We'll look
at that in just a little bit. But at the same time, he wasn't
expected to act if his brother died, if his sister died, if
his mother died, if his father died, if his son died. He wasn't
expected to act as if his cat had died. He wasn't expected
to act like nothing had happened. He's given permission then to
mourn and show grief with regard to that one that he's lost. Our
Lord, you remember, wept at Lazarus too. I find that delightful. Why? Because Mary and Martha
were weeping. They were hurt, and that which
hurt them affected him. The Lord made particular allowance
for expressions of tenderness, care, and love of the priest
to his own family. We often feel guilty and beat
ourselves up because we are more concerned about our own family
than we are others. And I acknowledge I have trouble
with that. Would to God I could learn to
pray for your children the way I pray for mine. And care for
your children the way I care for mine. But that's a weakness
of flesh. that I don't believe is possible
for us to overcome in this body of flesh. And yet, concern for
God's family doesn't make men and women indifferent toward
their own, and it shouldn't. Grace makes us more diligent
in all tender relationships and responsibilities. Grace does
not weaken natural affection, it intensifies it. So that that
man, that woman who's born of God, those who know God have
an intensified affection and care for those dear to them.
There's something else here. The priest was not permitted
to mourn for any but his own immediate family. Not to touch
the body of the dead, follow the casket out to the grave,
not to do that. For any except his own immediate
family. And thereby he teaches us, Moses does, that we ought
not display greater regard or tenderness for some of God's
people than we do for others. You treat them all alike. Treat
them all alike. Well, I like Lindsey better than
I like Rex. I like Mark better than I like
Jimmy. Treat them alike. Treat them alike. That's so with
regard to every member of the congregation. We need to learn
it. Let there be no cliques in the
house of God. And the pastor must be pastor
to all, the weak and the strong. In fact, the weak need him more. He must be pastor to the most
devoted and to the most wavering. He's inclined to give more attention
to the most devoted, the most wavering needing more. He must
be pastor to those who are most pleasing and to those who are
most displeasing. He's inclined, he's inclined
to give most of his time and attention to folks who please
him. The folks who don't need him more. The same is true of
you. Andrew Bonar, in his commentary,
expressed this brief word of prayer. Lord, keep us from selfish
joys. Teach us to live for others and
for you. Oh God, teach us to live for
others and for you. Look at verses five and six.
They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall
they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings
in their flesh. They shall be holy under their
God and not profane the name of their God for the offerings
of the Lord made by fire and the bread of their God they do
offer, therefore they shall be holy. The heathen, the barbarians,
folks who don't know God, religious idiots, imbeciles, make cuttings
and tattoo themselves and shave their head and shave their beard
in different shapes. I'm talking about here in this
time setting in which this is given. And God tells Moses, you
tell Aaron and his sons, don't behave like that. Don't behave
like that. These are God's people, God's
servants. And when difficulty comes, when
heartache comes, when trial comes, when bereavement comes. Yes,
we know the sorrow, and the sorrow is to be expressed properly,
properly. How do you express sorrow properly?
As a believer. As a believer, you don't act
like a mad man. Don't act like a mad woman. Act
as though God's been cruel and mean, and you're now angry at
God. You simply walk before God with uprightness. Weep, yes. Sorrow, yes. But not like folks
who have no God. Not like folks who cut themselves
and mutilate themselves because of the dead, as if they were
showing some kind of superstitious thing. Even when we mourn the
loss of a loved one, or experience those things that in this sin-cursed
world cause grief and pain. We're not to be like the heathen,
but rather men and women who bow to the will of God, acknowledging
the goodness and the wisdom of God, and do so in such a way
that people understand I may not know what this man knows. I may not know what this woman
knows. I may not understand what they
believe, but I'm gonna tell you something. He believes God. She believes God. I may not agree
with them, but that's somebody who believes God. I have no respect
whatever for the works religion of the Amish folks who displayed
this, but I have great respect for what they did. You remember
a few years ago in Pennsylvania when that fellow came in and
murdered those school children? They came in, shoved over the
schoolhouse, planted grass, and never said a word to anybody.
Didn't give any word to the media. Didn't give any interviews. Nothing.
Recognizing this is God's doing. This is God's doing. You mean
they didn't weep? They weren't broken hearted? Go home with them and find out.
They weren't about to act like folks who didn't believe God.
I'm saying to you, men and women of God, Don't act like people
who don't believe God, but as people who do. Walk before God
with faith. Gospel preachers, pastors, elders,
teachers, those who are employed in the service of Christ publicly
are doubly bound to abstain from the appearance of evil in these
matters. We are the king's attendants in his palace. cupbearers at
his table, representatives of our God to his people. I try to behave before you, you
who are dearer to me than any people in the world. I try to
behave before you and before the people around whom I live.
As a man who believes God in a way that honors God, I'm the
king's servant. I ought to act like it. I know
people think it's a stuffed shirt on my part, but I try my best. to dress in such a manner, no
matter what I'm doing, that if you introduce me to somebody,
doesn't matter whether he's your lone caravan or your lawyer,
you're not ashamed to call me your pastor. I take it seriously. Every aspect of life, we must
take seriously. We're God's people. We ought
to live like it. Like those priests of old, We
stand before God's people as men sent of God to point sinners
to Christ's all-sufficient effectual sacrifice, declaring to men and
women that since Christ has redeemed us, since he has put away our
sins and reconciled us to God, God is for us and God's blessing
is upon us. God is for us and God's blessing
is upon us. Did you hear me? God is for us
and God's blessing is upon us. He as much blesses us in the
taking of a child as in the giving of a child. He as much blesses
his people in the taking of a wife as in the giving of a wife. He
as much blesses in the taking of a husband as in the giving
of a husband. God is for us and in all things
he blesses us. Would to God I can't believe
what I just said to you. And would to God I could live
like a man who hath believed what I just said to you. God
is for us, never against us. He gave his son for us, never
will he be against us, but rather deals with us in grace and mercy
and wisdom. Look at verse seven. They shall
not take a wife that is a whore or profane Neither shall they
take a woman put away from her husband, for he is holy unto
his God. Thou shalt sanctify him therefore,
for he offereth the bread of thy God. He shall be holy unto
thee, for I, the Lord which sanctified thee, am holy. The priests of
Israel were not allowed to marry any woman who was unchaste or
divorced. Clearly, this is not a law to
be literally enforced upon men today, any more than Sabbath
laws or animal sacrifice laws are to be enforced in our day.
This applies neither to believers in general nor to those who serve
as gospel preachers in a literal way. The spirit of the law points
to and teaches something far higher. The priest was typical
of our Savior, the Lord Jesus. in all his public acts. He points
us to our great high priest, even in his choice of a bride.
The Lord Jesus took care that the priest set forth another
priest. Our Savior's bride, you see,
is without spot or wrinkle, undefiled, the choice of her that bear her. That wasn't always the case. By nature, we're all like Hosea's
wife, Gomer, a people of ill repute, profane and whores. Oh, preacher, folks don't use
that word these days. I'm a little disgusted when people think they're
godlier than God. That's the word, and that's what
we were by nature. But the Lord Jesus, by his grace,
has made us his holy bride and calls us his chaste virgin in
Revelation 14.4. Because he hateth putting away,
the priest must not marry a divorced woman. Our blessed Savior is
God who hateth putting away. He chose us for eternity. There must be nothing even to
hint to his bride that she might possibly be driven from him. He says to his priest, you don't
marry a whore or a profane woman, only a chaste one. And our Lord
Jesus Christ espoused us to himself as chaste virgin to him. and by his grace has made us
his own chaste virgin so that we walk before him in uprightness
and he will never put us away. Certainly there's an application
here also to the gospel preacher, the man who stands before God's
people to lead them in the knowledge and worship of God. We are God's
servants for his namesake, For the honor of the gospel, our
whole lives are to be devoted to God our Savior. Our whole lives devoted to the
cause of God our Savior, even our families. Yes, that's true
concerning you. who are God's people, God's holy
priesthood, God's royal priesthood. Yes, that's true concerning you,
but in a much more weighty sense, it's my responsibility. I say to every pastor, every
young man who thinks he might want to be a pastor, if you're
not prepared to give up The ambitions of wealth and honor and prosperity
and riches and comfortable life, don't pretend to be a preacher. Don't pretend. It's just pretense. Just pretense. Turn over 1 Timothy 4. I'm not
going to go any further than this, but I want to wrap up with
this. We'll come back to this another time, Lord Willett. I have a greater responsibility
because God's given me greater privileges than you. I know pastors
are just men. The one talking to you is more
just man than any of you ever know. Just flesh, sinful, vile, corrupt
flesh. It must not be lifted up on a
pedestal. And yet, this man is responsible with a great responsibility. I have this honor. God's given
me the treasure of his grace to preach in this generation.
That makes me a man of weighty responsibility. 1 Timothy 4,
verse 12. Let no man despise thy youth.
I started preaching when I was 21 years, started pastoring when
I was 21 years old. And I was a young man. I've had a lot of
young men since then, I've helped along in the ministry, and I
tell them, if you're going to be a pastor, you gotta act like
a man, an old man. You gotta act like a man, an
old man. And don't sit around and talk
like little boys do. Let no man despise thy youth.
You gotta dress like an old man. Cut your hair like an old man.
I don't wanna do that. Well, go do what you wanna do
then, but don't do this. But be thou an example of believers. Set the way for folks by the
way you live, in word, in conversation, in your manner of life, in charity,
generosity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. Till I come, you who
are God's servants, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to
doctrine. What's a pastor supposed to do?
Read, exhort, study, pray, preach. That's it. Read, exhort, study,
pray, preach. That's all, that's all. Neglect
not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy
with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. Meditate upon
these things. When you're not studying, When
you're not praying, when you're driving down the road, when you're
out mowing your yard, meditate on these things. Now, what's
this next word? Give thyself wholly to them. Entirely. Entirely. Not long after I came to Danville,
a fellow I went to school with, matter of fact, I started to say, the last time
I had a fist fight was with him. It wasn't, I had one after that,
a couple of them after that. But we were teenagers in high
school, junior high school together, got in a scrape one day over
a girl, and played football together. And I hadn't seen him in years. I got a call one day, and he
showed up out here in the parking lot. Wanted to know if he'd come
out and see me. He was involved in some kind of business, making
a lot of money. He said, I'd like for you to go to work for
me, Don. I said, I'm not interested. He said, but man, I can show
you how to make $50,000 a year. This work is almost time. I said,
Steve, I'm not interested. You're not interested in making
$50,000 a year? I'm not interested in working another job. Not interested. This is back in 19, what was
it, 80, 81? Not interested. How come? I've
got something much more important to do. Something much more important
to do. It's called study and preach. It's called pastoring a people.
Give thyself wholly to them, that thy profiting may appear
to all. Take heed to thyself and to the
doctrine. Continue in them. For in doing
this, thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee. Verse
nine. And the daughter of any priest,
if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her
father, she shall be burnt with fire. Having faithful children that
are not accused of rioting or unruly is the way the pastor
must rule his house, govern his family for the glory of God and
the good of God's people. If I give myself wholly to this
business, if God puts you in this work, any of you, my brethren,
give yourself wholly to this business, Understanding that
no demand is too great. No sacrifice is too costly. No work is insignificant. And no work is too difficult. None. We are to sanctify ourselves
to our God. To seek his honor in everything. Right down to the way we raise
our children. and everything, and everything.
So that whatever it takes for my family for me to do this work,
that's all right. That's all right. Your daughter
didn't get to do that. She didn't get to go here. That's
all right. That's all right. I hope she
understands. Nothing would be different tomorrow
if I was starting all over. Nothing. Nothing. How come? This is the most reasonable thing
in the world. If you consider that the Lord
Jesus Christ, as our great high priest, sanctified himself, consecrated
himself entirely to the will and glory of God for the saving
of our souls. I beseech you, therefore, brethren,
by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living
sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto the Lord, which is your reasonable
service. Most reasonable thing on this
earth for Mark Henson to do is give himself every day totally
to Christ. Most reasonable thing on this
earth. The most reasonable thing on this earth for Ruth Wall to
do is give herself every day from morning to night totally
to Christ, the service of his kingdom and his people. Can you
think of something more reasonable for you to do? Anybody? Anybody? This is just
reasonable for reasonable men. who know the living God. Amen.