when you turn to 1st Corinthians
1st Corinthians chapter 4 verse 7 will be our text in just
a moment I want to share something with you that I read before we
get into the message this is a article written by Brother
Joe Terrell, Pastor Joe Terrell, he wrote the hymn we sang in
your bulletin today. But this was in Marvin Stoniger's
bulletin from last Sunday. I think I've used this article.
I believe I'll use it again. But Joe wrote, one of the old
preachers is reported to have said, I'll preach as one who
may never preach again, as a dying man to dying men. If I'm not
mistaken, Richard Baxter said that. Joe wrote, how solemn a
thought that is to those who are charged with preaching. Let
us not tickle the ears of dying men with trifles of earthly issues
and vain religion. But does this principle not apply
in some way to the man who listens? Ought we not say every time we
come to worship, I listen as one who may never hear again?
as a dying man among dying men. God grant us the same seriousness
in hearing as we expect in preaching. And this is my own footnote to
that. Ask God to do both those things
for us today, for the preacher and the hearer. May he grant
a blessing. Make his word effectual for us
all. In 1 Corinthians chapter 4, verse
7, Paul asks three questions, three questions, all dealing
with the same issue, but three questions. These Corinthians,
puffed up they were, proud. Paul uses that expression, you're
puffed up. And he tries to bring them back
into focus, for them to be focused on Christ. You've got your eyes
off Christ. You're looking at men, and you
should be looking to Christ. The first question is the only
one we want to deal with. For who maketh thee to differ
from another? And notice, from another is in
italics. That means it wasn't in the original.
So it reads, actually, who maketh thee to differ? Who made you
to differ? And notice, the verse begins
with that little three-letter word, four. That takes us back to the previous
verses. What's four there for? Well,
look at verse six. And these things, brethren, I
have in a figure transferred to myself in a polis. for your sakes that ye might
learn in us not to think of men above that which is written."
Don't give us credit for what God has done for you. Don't say
it was Cephas, Peter, or Apollos, that eloquent orator, or Paul. Paul wasn't crucified for you,
it says in chapter 1. So you see the context of this
question. It is written, not to think of
men above that which is written. Thank God for every gospel preacher,
but don't give them credit for what God alone can do. That no
one should be puffed up, proud, prideful for one preacher against
another. When Paul uses that expression,
I have transferred, brethren, in a figure to myself and Apollos,
what he's talking about is what he said in chapter one. Look
there, if you will. In chapter 1, Paul uses the figure
of he and Apollos being farmers or gardeners. But he said, you're
God's garden. We're just workers together with
God. But look, this is what he's referring to there in verse 6
of chapter 4. In chapter 1, verse 4. For while one said, I am of Paul,
and this is exactly what they were doing, and another, I am
of Apollos, are ye not carnal? Who then is Paul? And who is
Apollos? But ministers, by whom ye believed,
even as the Lord gave to every man. How shall they hear without
a preacher? How shall he preach, except they
be sinned? Verse 6, I have planted, Apollos
watered. But God, God gave the increase. God gave the increase. So then
neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth, but
God that giveth the increase. Now he that planteth and he that
watereth are one. And every man shall receive his
own reward according to his own labor. For we are laborers together
with God. Ye are God's husbandry, not mine,
not Apollos. Ye are God's building." So that,
I think, gives us a better understanding of Paul's question in our text.
Because they had forgotten. Forgotten. Who made you It wasn't Apollos or Paul or
Cephas. God distinguished you. This is
what Paul reminds them of. And that's really how the verse
should read. Who distinguished you? That's the word. You don't
have anything that you haven't received. You don't receive grace
from any other source. It doesn't come from any other
origin except through by the God of all grace. The grace of
God that brings salvation. And the conduit, the conduit. If you go in the back and get
a drink, hit that button, the water comes through. It's coming
through pipes. Grace comes through Jesus Christ,
the needy sinners. There's only one conduit. There's
only one channel. There's only one way. There's
only one door to God. There's not many. There's only
one, the Lord Jesus Christ. For the law was given by Moses,
but grace and truth, where does it come from? How do sinners
receive grace? Grace and truth come by Jesus
Christ. That makes Paul's words to them
more understandable, more reasonable. Look again, if you will, at chapter
1. I'm sorry, chapter 1. Look what Paul said there at
verse 29. Let's back up to verse 26. Again, he reminds them, you don't
have a reason to be proud. For ye see your calling brethren,
how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not
many noble are called, not many, some, but not very many. But
God, but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to
confound the wise. And God hath chosen the weak
things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.
And base things of the world, that's us, that's his people,
and things which are despised hath God chosen, yea, and things
which are not to bring to naught things that are. Why? That no
flesh should glory in his presence like this church was doing. Verse
30, but of him are ye in Christ Jesus who of God is made unto
us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. And notice what Paul goes on
to say, so then, if that's so, if that's so, verse 31, that
according as it is written, he that glorieth, let him glory
in the Lord. Glory in the Lord. He's the one
saved you. He's the one called you. He's
the one's kept you up to this very moment. Don't give me credit
for that, Paul says. If you glory, don't glory in
men. Don't glory in a preacher. Don't glory in yourself. Don't
glory in a church. Glory in this, that God Almighty
has distinguished you. Verse 31 is taken from Jeremiah. Jeremiah chapter 9 verses 23
and 24, where Paul says there in verse 31, as it is written,
he's referring to Jeremiah 9 and 23 and verse 24. Thus saith the Lord, let not
the wise man glory in his wisdom. Neither let the mighty man glory
in his might. Let not the rich man glory in
his riches, but let him that glorieth glory in this, that
he understandeth and knoweth me, my soul. Now there's glory
ground. That will give you all the elbow
room you can possibly need. You're safe in glorying in the
Lord Jesus Christ and nothing else. Paul said, God forbid that
I should glory like these religionists that are troubling you. in his
epistle to the Galatians. He said, they want a glory in
the flesh. But Paul said, God forbid that I join them. God
forbid that I should glory save in the cross of the Lord Jesus
Christ. You can glory there all you want
and never think about overdoing it. You can't. That's impossible. But let him glory in this, that
he understandeth and knoweth me, for I am the Lord. Glory in that. You know the Lord. God has revealed himself to you. Glory in that. Ah, so that's
something. The Lord which exercises loving
kindness and judgment and righteousness in the earth, for in these things
I delight, saith the Lord. Now that brings us to our text,
the first question of verse 7 in chapter 4 of 1 Corinthians. For
who maketh you to differ? Who maketh you to differ? Who
made the difference? And the title of my message is
this. Think about that. Think about that. Who made you
to differ? As we've already noted, the root
of the problem, they had a lot of issues. I mean, you read this
chapter, there wasn't another church as messed up as this one. Man, they were doing horrible
things, getting drunk at the Lord's Supper. I mean, just all
kinds of things. But the reason for Each and every
problem can be traced to one source. The root was this, pride. It was pride. That's why Paul
deals with it at the very outset. It was pride. And the antidote
for pride is grace. The antidote for pride, the best
medicine for pride is the experience of God's grace. Billy was talking
about this earlier. Grace brings you down. Grace
will humble you. Only grace can. And grace remembered. That'll keep us in check too
long. That's what Paul was asking these questions for. What? Who's
distinguished you? I looked on free grace. I knew
I had preached from this text before. But I looked on free
grace. I couldn't remember when. But
I preached from this text to you in August of 2010, again
in March of 2013, and the last time September of 2014. Nearly five
years. So, unless you can tell me that
you no longer have a problem with pride, anybody, then it's
time for us to remember these things again. Nobody's gotten
beyond that, have they? This issue, this problem with
a proud heart, I haven't either. I haven't either. Pride, someone
said, is a wicked weed that will grow anywhere. grow anywhere
and it flourishes here in the pulpit. Pride of race, you've
heard this. Pride of race, black power, white
power, blah, blah, blah. Pride of race, pride of place.
I'm from the north, I'm from the south. Pride of face, hmm,
can't wait till tomorrow, I get better looking every day. Pride
of face, but the most groundless one of all is this. The most
groundless one of all is this, pride of grace. That's a contradiction
in terms. Proud of grace? It don't click. It don't jive. Proud of unmerited
favor? That's what grace means, doesn't
it? It means God's unmerited favor. That means there's nothing
Larry Criss ever did or ever will do that merited God's favor. There was no reason in me why
God should save me. There were plenty of reasons
why he should damn me, but there's no reason that he should save
me. The reason must be only in himself because he was pleased
to do so. So again, you see, these Corinthians,
any believer, have no grounds to be boastful, to be proud.
I remember years ago standing on the parking lot of a church.
Some members of that church were telling me they wanted to enlighten
me about what they believed concerning who they were. And they kept
talking about a Baptist bride. Have you ever heard that expression?
Now, they meant this by it. It may have other meanings in
this religious world. But they said, they traced their
roots all the way back to John the Baptist. They said he was
the first Baptist. I think he was given that name because he
baptized. He immersed. But they said they traced their
roots back to him. And I said, well, how about those
of us who don't believe that? They said, well, when we get
to heaven, You'll be a guest, but we're going to be the guest
of honor. The Baptist bride. And I told
them, you keep saying bride, but I keep hearing pride. Pride,
pride. I said that's, I wasn't invited
back after that. It's Baptist pride that they
were talking about. The Baptists don't give grace.
Baptists can't save a sinner. I want to read you just a brief
excerpt from a message that Charles Spurgeon preached in 1855. Isn't
this an evidence of God's everlasting gospel? The gospel is always
relevant. That's why you can pick up a
message of a man who's been dead for hundreds of years or longer
and read it And it's still relevant because he didn't deal with social
issues or politics. He preached the gospel that God
sent him to preach. And it's always, well, relevant.
That's why I think Mr. Spurgeon is read so much today. But his message was delivered
the first year that he became pastor. I think he was about
21 years old. Of New Park Street pulpit. He
was there for six years, then they built the tabernacle and
moved in there. But during his first year as
their pastor, he preached a message that stirred up a hornet's nest.
Because you understand, when Spurgeon first came to London,
it was a fashionable gospel. Fashionable gospel. People were
paying preachers to tell them what they want to hear. Don't
tell us what we need to hear, tell us what we want to hear.
And Spurgeon came along preaching salvation through faith alone,
in Christ alone, by grace alone. They ridiculed him in newspapers,
made characters of him, cartoons. Spurgeon said when the first
few years he was there, if another pastor seen him on the street,
they would cross the street to keep from passing him. Didn't
even want to speak to him. Well, the title of Mr. Spurgeon's message, you'll see
why it stirred up a hornet's nest, was this, Free Will, a
Slave. How about that? Free will a slave. That's a sacred cow. And his
text was this, John 5 and 40, and ye will not come to me that
you might have life. Now, I know we're not in England.
And I know this is not New Park Street pulpit. And I know I'm
certainly not Charles Spurgeon. But I'll tell you this. When
the same gospel is preached, plainly, simply, clearly, the
same thing happens today. It'll stir up a hornet's nest
among the religious folk. It did with me. About, oh, I
don't know, I was probably in my twenties, not as young as
Mr. Spurgeon, but I preached a message at a free-will Baptist
church. That's another story, I'll tell
you about it sometime if you're interested. God had taught me
the gospel. I went into the pulpit and I
preached it. A couple nights later at a men's meeting, the
pastor of that church said, let me give you an example of how
we have to be careful not to be misunderstood. He said, like
the message Larry preached Sunday morning. He said, in 35 years
of being pastor, I've never gotten so many phone calls from people
who were downright mad, angry about what Larry said. They misunderstood
him. No, they didn't. No, they didn't. And I was shown the door not
long after that, and I gladly went. No, when that glorious
gospel that concerns God's Son, the Lord Jesus Christ is preached
and clearly declared without a debate. No, the gospel is not
up for debate. You know, when God's Word says
something and you tell me, but this is what I think, keep it
to yourself. It doesn't matter. It doesn't
matter. It's what thus saith the Lord.
When that message that declares salvation is all His doing, it'll
stir up a hornet's nest. The natural man, the naturally
religious man, he's no different than he ever was. He hates that
message if confronted with it. If confronted with it, he'll
hate it. For example, preach from a text like this, Romans
9 verse 16. It's not. It's not. Now, the
religious world all around us says it is, it is. But God's
Word says no, it's not, speaking of salvation. So then it is not
of him that willeth. Could words be plainer? It's
not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God
that showeth mercy. And people, you know, say, well,
if you deny that, you think God saves people against their will.
You've never heard me say that. I don't believe that. But I know
they become willing only when God grants them grace and makes
them willing. Or a text like this, it's very
familiar. For by grace are you saved through
faith, and that not of yourselves, it's the gift of God, not of
works, lest any man should boast. Here's another one. Be not thou
therefore, Paul writing to Timothy, be not therefore ashamed of the
testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner. Remember what
Paul said in his first epistle, chapter 1? He said, Timothy,
I'm not ashamed of the gospel. I'm in prison for preaching the
gospel. And he said, I'm not ashamed. I'm not ashamed. I've
not had a change of heart. I don't have any regrets. I'm
going to be delivered, and my head's probably going to be severed
from my body. That's probably how Paul died,
because he was a Roman citizen. They couldn't crucify him. But
he said, Timothy, I don't have any regrets. I've kept this glorious
gospel that God Almighty committed to my trust. Now Timothy, I want
you to do the same thing. Don't you be ashamed of me or
the testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ. Me a prisoner. Timothy, don't you be ashamed
to identify with those men who preach this glorious gospel.
Now there are some people I don't want to be identified with. like
these health, wealth, lying hucksters. Don't associate your pastor's
name with them. Please don't. Or this church. Don't do it. Oh, but concerning
that gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, yes, by His grace. I
want to identify with every man, and I love every man, that preaches
that glorious gospel. Paul told Timothy, you do the
same. because he had saved us and called
us with the holy calling, not according to our works, but according
to his own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ
Jesus before the world began. Who made you the different? I didn't forget about Spurgeon's
sermon. Here's just an excerpt from it. He said, can you imagine
a free will prayer In his message, he said, no,
no. A sinner on his knees seeking
mercy? He just can't pray that way. He said, can you imagine
this? Such a prayer. Lord, I thank
you that I'm not as other men. I was born with a glorious free
will. I was born with power by which I can turn to thee of myself.
I have improved my grace. If everybody had done the same
with their grace that I have, they might all be saved. Lord,
I know that you do not make us willing if we are not willing
ourselves. You gave grace to everybody.
Some did not improve it, but I did. There are many that will
go to hell as much bought with the blood of Christ as I was.
They had as much of the Holy Ghost given them. They had as
good a chance and were as much blessed as I am. It was not by
grace that made us to differ. I know it did a great deal, but
I turned the point. I made use of what was given
me and others did not. That is the difference between
them and me." I think Spurgeon, if I'm not mistaken, went on
to say in that message That would be the prayer of a devil, a demon,
because nobody else in their right mind would utter that.
Got an easy outline. Three things. Look at this first
question in verse 7 of 1 Corinthians 4, and you have my outline in
your bulletin today. That's what prompted this message
as I was preparing that. But the first question is who?
The second one is who made? And the third thing is who made
you? First, who? Who? And that was the thing Paul
was driving at, reminding them, wanting them to remember. And
if they did so, Paul knew that they would no longer be puffed
up. They would come down before the
throne of God's grace and say, of Him, and through Him, and
to Him be glory forever and ever. Amen. Notice first, though, Paul
doesn't say, He doesn't imply, he doesn't think for a moment
that a believer is not different. That wasn't the issue. He knew
they were by the grace of God. Every believer is. His question
to them was, who made the difference? That was the question. Religion
says that a man can become a Christian and never experience any change. Every church I'm aware of around
us, that's what they teach. But God's Word says that's just
not true. Religion can make people act
strange. I mean, they can do flip-flops
over pews. They can talk in some jibber-jabberish and say it's
the work of God. They can act real strange. I've
seen women dress strange. They get religion and dress funny,
throw away their makeup. They'd have been better off to
keep it on. But, you know, wear great big long dresses, cover
up everything but their eyeballs and say they're holy, they're
pleasing God. No, no, no. No, that's a stench in God's
nostrils. No, religion makes people act strange, but only
grace can make them a stranger in this present world. Is that
not right? Pilgrims and strangers. Listen
to what our Lord said in John chapter 15, verses 18 and 19,
before he went to the garden where he was arrested. He told
his disciples, if the world hates you, you know that it hated me
before it hated you. If you were of the world, the
world would love his own. But because you're not of the
world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the
world hateth you. What a difference. John 17, in
his higher priestly prayer, he prays to his heavenly father
and says, I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated
them, because they are not of the world." If you walk hand
in hand with the world, you won't have a problem. You won't have
any persecution, but you have serious reason to doubt that
you've ever experienced the grace of God. That was Paul's point.
I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but
that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of
the world, even as I am not of the world. 1 John chapter 1. I'm sure John was thinking about
these words of our Lord that were spoken to him and to other
disciples that night when he wrote his epistle. 1 John chapter
1 verses 5 and 6. This then is the message which
we have heard of him and declare unto you that God is light and
in him is no darkness at all. If we say we had fellowship with
him and walk in darkness, we're lying. We're lying. If we say we walk in Him and
we walk, we walk. Not that we just step out of
line once in a while, but we walk. It's the way of our life. We walk in darkness. We lie. We lie and do not the truth. Ouch! Ouch! That's what John
said. Chapter 2 of 1 John, verse 15. Love not the world, neither the
things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the
love of the Father is not in him. We're going to move on.
But I just want to point that out because there is an ever-growing,
God-dishonoring teaching today that says a person can experience
God's true grace without a corresponding change in their heart and a manifestation
of that grace in their life. A person can be saved and live
like they always did. How dishonoring. How dishonoring
that is to the Lord Jesus Christ and the triune God. Salvation
is not as easy as ABC. It's not, is it? No, it's a miracle. I think it was Brother Henry
that said something like this. You can no longer experience
God's grace, or no more rather, experience God's grace and have the change of a new
nature then you can come back from some place where you've
never been. It's just not possible. God's Word, God's Word does it
not. It describes salvation in many,
many different metaphors and types and illustrations. But
it describes salvation as a spiritual resurrection. Man, that's no
small thing, is it? It says it's a new creation.
If any man be in Christ, he's a new creature, a new creation. There's something implanted in
Him, the very nature of Christ, that's not of this world. It's
a work from God Almighty on high. It describes salvation as being
translated out of darkness into the kingdom of His Son, the Lord
Jesus Christ. Now that takes a miracle. That
takes a miracle. A miracle that only God Himself
can perform. Again, referring to the bulletin.
these few lines. It took a miracle to put the
world in place. Of course it did. Folks say it
was a big bang, whatever. It took a miracle to hang the
stars in space. But when God saved my soul, it
took a great miracle, greater than when He created the heavens
and the earth. There was nothing opposing Him. Oh, but I said,
I will not come to you, I will not bow to you, I will not repent.
But God said, oh, yes, you will. Yes, you will. But when God saved
my soul, cleansed and made me whole, it took a miracle of God's
love and grace. And God forbid that I should
ever say otherwise. God forbid that I should ever
belittle that glorious salvation that He was pleased to bestow
upon this unworthy sinner. Remember what our Lord said to
Ezekiel when He took him to that valley of dead, dry bones. He
said, Ezekiel, can these bones live? Can you imagine Ezekiel
saying what most preachers say today? Well, sure, Father. Sure,
God. They can live. That's easy. I'll
just ask them to take the first step, and then you'll take all
the rest. No. Ezekiel 37, you know how
it went. God said, Ezekiel. Ezekiel told
him, thou knowest. I don't know. Can they live?
God, you know. You know. I don't. And throughout
the remainder of that chapter, or a good portion of it, God
says, I will. I will. I will. I'll raise them
up. I'll cause my spirit to go into
them. I'll breathe upon them. I'll
give them life. And I will bring them up out
of the grave so they will all know that I'm the Lord God that
did all that. Think about that. And that's
exactly what Paul says in Ephesians chapter 2. You had He quicken,
who were dead, dead, just like Ezekiel's vision of dead, dry
bones. They could do nothing. They couldn't
wiggle, they couldn't move, they couldn't desire, they couldn't
pray, they couldn't repent, they couldn't believe. They will not
and they could not come to God until God Almighty gave them
a new heart. That's exactly what the scriptures
say. Most people say, well, when you believe, you're born again.
That's exactly opposite of what God's words teach us. You're
born again in order to believe. That's what God told Ezekiel. Think about that. Here's the
second question. Who made? Who made? God, by his constraining grace,
makes sinners willing. in the day of his power. Is that
not what we read in Psalm 110 verse 3? And every sinner, every
sinner, I have no doubt about this, that God has made us willing
don't have a problem with that. Those who are working their way
to heaven, those who are trying to rather weave their own robe
of righteousness they think that will present them before a holy
God accepted, they don't like to hear that. Oh, the best thing
that can happen to them is someone kicks those spiritual props out
from under them and they fall before the Lord Jesus Christ
begging for mercy. Oh, sinners that have been constrained
by His mighty grace to come to Christ, they're thankful that
it's not of Him that will. They don't have a quarrel with
that because they know otherwise. If God had never done that to
them, if God had left you alone and me alone, child of God, we
would still be lost. We'd still be lost. That's exactly
right. God, by His grace, makes a difference. Grace makes sinners, or rather,
makes saints out of sinners. Grace makes unbelievers, believers. Or none would believe. Grace
makes sinners repent. Sorrow for sin, or they never
would. They never would. Listen to what
the Lord Jesus Christ said. And He was talking to religious
folks. I say unto you, that you also have seen me, and you believe
not." John 6, 36. Oh, but then the Lord says, all
that the Father giveth me shall come to me, and him that cometh
unto me I will in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven,
not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me. And
this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which
he hath given me I should lose nothing, but raise it up again
at the last day. He sounds mighty sure of himself,
doesn't he? Doesn't he? And you know why? Because he
said after that, Father, you've given me power over all flesh,
that I should give eternal life to as many as thou has given
me. Oh, aren't you glad? Aren't you
thankful? Aren't you thankful that God
in his grace didn't leave you where you were. God in His grace
distinguished you. He made you to differ. Thank
God that He does so. And He does so not against your
will, but no one's ever been saved against their will. But
God makes them willing. Gives them, someone said, a new
willer. I like the way the hymn expresses
it. Grace first inscribed to my name
in God's eternal book. It was grace that gave me to
the Lamb who all my sorrows took. Grace taught my heart to pray
and made the tears overflow. It is grace that's kept me to
this day and will not let me go. I thank God for his free
grace in Jesus Christ. Grace is always, always 100%
successful. Why wouldn't it be? Why wouldn't
it be? Again, I ask, are you not happy? Do you not rejoice to know that
grace reigns? If it doesn't reign, we don't
have a hope. Grace abounds over our sin. Oh, so thankful that salvation
is of the Lord. You know why salvation is of
the Lord? Nobody else can save. Nobody else can do it except
the Lord. And here's the last question.
Who made you? Who made you? Can you imagine
if somehow you could ask that question to everybody that went
to a church in Sylacauga this morning? Who made you? Who made you different? Oh, the
many answers you would receive. Some would say, I made a decision.
That's what did it. I went forward at the invitation.
I knelt at an old-fashioned altar and prayed through. I opened
my heart. That's a favorite. I opened my
heart and let the Lord Jesus come in. Oh no, no, no. I've heard of self-made men in
sports, in business, but there's no such thing in the kingdom
of God. There's no such thing as a self-made believer. The Pharisee was a religionist.
He was a self-made prideful religionist. I'm glad I'm not like other men.
Oh, but that other man, that other man, he was made so by
God's grace. Oh Lord have mercy, have mercy
upon me the sinner, the sinner. Look at verse 4 of chapter 1
and we'll wrap this up. Verse 4 is Paul introduces his
letter, his epistle. Look what he says in verse 4
of chapter 1. I thank my God always on your behalf. Why Paul? For, for the grace of God which
is given you by Jesus Christ. I read one commentator who said
that in those days if you wanted to insult somebody, you wanted
to insult them, you know what you would call them? The Corinthian.
You act like the Corinthian. But look at verse 8. God, the Lord Jesus Christ, who
shall also confirm you unto the end that ye may be blameless
in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. From being called by
grace until that day that he presents me blameless before
the throne of a holy God and every step of the way in between,
grace alone has made me to differ. Remember what Paul said, and
such were some adulterous, infeminate, abusers. Such were some of you,
but you're washed, you're sanctified, you're justified in the name
of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of His grace. Think about
that. One final question. If all that is so, that I am
what I am by the grace of God, that only grace has made me to
differ, so what? So what? So this, not unto us,
O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy
mercy and for thy truth's sake. Oh, let thy grace inspire my
soul with strength divine. May all my powers to thee aspire,
and all my days be thine. Saved by grace alone, this is
all my plea. Jesus died for all his own, and
Jesus died for me. He distinguished me. He made
me the different. Thank God. Think about that.
Think about that. Amen. Amen. God bless you.