I invite you this morning to
turn with me in your Bibles to Titus chapter 2. I want to attempt this morning
to answer this question, what does grace teach? What does grace teach? And we invite folks to come here
hear the gospel. And they said, why over there? What do you all believe? What
do you all teach? We teach grace. What does grace
teach? Ain't that the next question?
So that's what I want to try to answer this morning. Almost
without exception, they all ask, what does your church teach?
What do you believe that's so different from everybody else? And you can go into long explanations
of these things with men. This is always going to be the
question. Why would I want to drive way out there in the middle
of nowhere to go to a church service when there's a church
on every corner? That's what my boss asked me.
Why do you want to move all the way to Arkansas? There's churches
all over here needing pastors. There's one on every corner.
Why do you want to go all the way down to Arkansas? So you
can go into all these long explanations of things, but eventually this
is where you're going to land. Grace. Grace. All of the religions of this
world fall under one of these two headings, works or grace. You are one or the other. You
are not both. You are one or the other. In Romans chapter
11, the apostle Paul talks about divine election, divine election. Natural Israel was undeniably
God's chosen people. Have you ever ran into anybody
who disputed the nation of Israel as being God's elect? I never
have. I never have. You can talk to
men and women who go to church and men and women who don't go
to church, and whenever the name Israel is mentioned, that's God's
chosen people. That's the first thing it is.
Have no problem whatsoever. But when you make that application
to spiritual Israel, they go up in flames. They absolutely
go up in flames. So here in Romans chapter 11,
the Apostle Paul talks about divine election. And as natural
Israel was undeniably God's chosen people, even so, he said, there
is a remnant at this present time according to the election
of grace. Now watch this, Romans 11 verse
6, And if by grace, then is it no more of works, otherwise grace
is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is
it no more grace, otherwise work is no more work. Grace and works
are opposites. They're opposites. They're like
oil and water. They will not mix. They cannot
and will not mix. There is no common ground. There
is no place of mutual interest between works and grace. I've had religious men sit around
for hours, and I know what they're trying to do. They're trying
to find common ground, but there is no common ground. There is
no common ground. If it be of grace, Then is it
no more of works. Now if it's no more of works,
there's no common ground. Is that true? I believe that's
a true statement. And all of the religions of this
world rest their hope based all they believe and do all that
they do on one of these two principles, works or grace. Now the titles
can change. The name on the front door can
change. It can have grace on it or it might not have grace
on it. But what determines whether or not it's grace is the principles,
the foundation principles by which this church believes, grace
or works. All of the religions of this
world fall under one of these two headings. Now, in order for
grace to teach, grace must first appear. I want you to think about
that statement for just a minute. In order for grace to teach,
grace must appear. It's not common to men. Men know
nothing of grace. You and I know nothing of grace.
Grace is not inherent to us. Grace must be given us. Grace
came by Jesus Christ. Ain't that what it says? We're
not gracious. We don't know anything about
grace. We don't know anything at all about grace. There must
be grace introduced because this world is void of it. It has no
concept of it. They've never experienced it.
So then, when I talk to a man who is void of grace, what do
I tell him? Well, I can't appeal to him.
I can't appeal to something in him. I can't appeal to his reason. I can't appeal to his understanding.
So what do I appeal to? I appeal to the only place where
grace can be seen, the Lord Jesus Christ. I can't appeal to Him. I might as well talk to that
wall. It's void of grace. It don't know anything about
grace and I can stand here and present arguments and go through
the scriptures and read scriptures. Daylight to dark. The wall is
just going to stand there like it's standing there now and that's
what natural man does. I don't care. You can heap up
reasons around him. Heap up scriptures. You can bury
him in the scriptures. And he'll still say, yeah, but,
yeah, but, and go back to his works. You understand what I'm
saying? In order for grace to teach,
grace must first appear. And I can't appear within or
without because grace can only be found in God. Moses said to
the Lord, he said, show me your glory. Now I want you to think
about what the Lord said here. He said, I will be gracious. He didn't say, I'll show grace,
although He does. He didn't say, I'll give grace,
although He will. He said, I will be gracious. And in that day, He was. He was. Grace and truth came by Jesus
Christ appearing to men in the person of a man, taking upon
himself human flesh, a nature of a man. He said, I will be
gracious. I will show grace. I will show
mercy. I'll be gracious. When the Word
was made flesh and dwelt among us, it was said of him that he
was full of grace and truth. It says the law came by Moses,
but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. And to learn grace and
to be taught grace, I must see it manifested in the person and
work of Christ. That's the only place you can
see it. Now just forget these other things. Just get them out
of your vocabulary. If you've got them in a notebook,
rip them out and throw them away. They have no count to you. They
have no help to you. You're talking to your sons and
daughters and neighbors and friends about salvation by grace. Forget those things. Go to Christ. Here's grace. Right here's grace.
Find me works here. Huh? This is all grace. What work did you do to bring
Christ down from glory? Can't find one. What work did
you do to make his work beneficial? What work can you add to his
work to make it sufficient? Nothing. All grace. You see what
I'm saying? All grace. All those principal
foundation points of false religion disappear when you take them
where grace is. Don't apply it to me. I just
make a fool of myself applying to him. applying to him. So to learn grace and to be taught
grace, I must see it manifested in the person and work of Christ.
You can't learn grace by definition. You can learn Calvinism in the
dictionary. I looked it up. It will tell
you what it is. Point for point, it will tell
you, right? Just about any dictionary. Just look it up. You want to
learn Calvinism, you don't need a Bible. Buy your dictionary.
You want to learn grace, you're going to have to have a Bible.
And then you're going to have to have somebody take that Bible,
open it up, and show you where that grace is. It's all together
in Christ. It's in Christ. By grace, listen
to this, 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. And if any part of salvation
rests in the free will and works of men, then salvation's not
of grace, it's of works. How do I know if it's churches?
Well, they're part grace. You can't be part grace. You're
either all grace or you're all works. Not even your faith, Paul said,
can be of works. Religion has faith altogether
of works, your decisions, your commitment. Paul said here,
not even faith, that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God. Not even
your understanding, not even your will, not of him that willeth,
nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy. And
those who receive Christ are given a new birth, and this new
birth, according to John's Gospels, not of blood, nor of the will
of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. Listen to
this, John 1.13. That was John 1.13. Listen to James, "...of his own
will begat he us with the word of truth." Of his own will. That's grace. That's grace. "...being born again, not of
corruptible seed, but incorruptible by the word of God. And this
is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you." Here's
one I quote to you all the time, 2 Timothy 1.9. God has saved
us and called us with a 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. We're going
to talk about grace. We're going to be taught of grace.
This church stands for grace. We preach grace. You can't do
it apart from preaching Christ, because that's where that grace
was given. That's where that grace was manifested. We shut up to grace. Shut up
to the grace of God in divine election. It's an election of
grace, Paul said. Shut up to grace by irreversible
fall in the garden. Did you know that even the fall
was by the grace of God? If it wasn't for the fall, there
wouldn't be any redemption. If it wasn't for the fall, we'd
have no concept of grace. The fall was necessary. We shut
up to grace by an irreversible fall in the garden. Shut up to
grace by an eternal purpose of grace. Shut up to grace by a
divine incarnation. The Word was made flesh and dwelt
among us. Shut up to grace by a holy representative. If salvation is not altogether
of grace, then we need no representative. We need no substitute. All of
these things. Shut us up to grace. Shut up
to grace by divine resurrection. Shut up to grace, listen to this,
by an outpouring of the Holy Spirit of God. Shut up to grace
by heavenly calling. He called me by His grace, Paul
said. When it pleased God who separated
me from my mother's womb and called me by His grace. Shut
up to a final resurrection from the grave. Anybody here think
they've got a good work that's going to get them out of that
tomb? That body's rotted and went back to the dust? All of
grace. All of grace. The gospel is the
gospel of God's sovereign grace. It declares the free grace of
God in an eternal mediator. It declares the free grace of
God from eternity to eternity. And the way of salvation is the
way of grace, and Christ said, I am the way. I am the way. Are we clear? There is no gospel
except the gospel of God's sovereign grace, and that grace is all
together in that man, Jesus Christ. You want to learn grace? Go to
him. Go to him. That's the only place you can
see it. I want to be clear on that before
we get to our text here in Titus. Now, turn with me to Titus chapter
2. The way of salvation is the way
of grace, and you cannot trace out the appointment, the purpose,
the coming, the living, the dying, the resurrection of Christ and
not see grace. But when you do, when you do
see it, when you do, when you do hear it, When you do, when
you do experience this grace of God in your heart, this grace
teaches. It teaches. You don't just land
up here like an old saying, like an old wives' tale. Things about
the garden, you folks garden a lot of you, and you got these
little rhymes that your mothers and grandmothers taught you,
something, something, something, and it does this, and you know,
like snakes, red and yellow killer feller, you know, and you got
these little rhymes, and you remember these things about your
garden and different things. That's not how this comes. This
grace comes in the heart. It comes through an experiential
knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's not just seeing what happened
in terms of explanation and definitions, but it's a rejoicing in those
things and an embracing of those things in the person of Christ.
It's an experience of grace. Now watch this. Titus chapter
2 verse 11, For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath
appeared to all men. Now there's no way that you can
take that literally and apply it to all men, because there's
a lot of men to whom this grace has not appeared. It doesn't
appear in creation, and it doesn't appear in your conscience. It
appears in the Lord Jesus Christ. So what he's talking about here
is all types of men. He's talking about Jews and Gentiles,
just like he does in all the other books. And he's talking
about the Gospels. That's what he's talking about.
The grace of God that bringeth salvation has appeared unto all
men, teaching us. It didn't teach all the men to
hurt it, but it taught some. It taught those who experienced
it. You see that? Teaching us. that denying ungodliness
and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and
godly in this present world, looking for that blessed hope
and the glorious appearing of our great God and our Savior,
Jesus Christ. Now, what does the grace of God
in the redemptive work of Jesus Christ teach those who receive
Him? That's my question this morning.
I want to give you five things, and I'm going to do my best to
stay right here with the text. I may give you some scripture
references, but all my points are right here in my text. First
of all, he said, the grace of God that brings salvation teaches
us to deny ungodliness. Now what in the world is he talking
about? Does anybody here even have a clue what that says? What
in the world is he talking about? This grace teaches me to deny
ungodliness. Well, I'm going to tell you this,
the scope of ungodliness is as broad as this world. We could
stand here from daylight to dark and get up tomorrow and start
again talking about ungodliness. But ungodliness is the lack of
God's presence and power in a man. That's what ungodliness is. There's
no God in him. He's ungodly. He's ungodly. It's the real man. It's the fallen
man, it's the blind man, left to his emptiness and ignorance.
It's any thought or concept of God contrary to his revelation
of himself in Christ Jesus. I don't care what it is. The churches across our land
have a God that will do all kinds of things. Totally contrary. If you look in this book for
the God that they talk about, you'll never find it. You just
close your eyes sometime, turn on a, I don't care who he is,
I don't care what faith he's from, turn him on, close your
eyes, and listen to what he's saying. And listen with this
in mind, he's describing his God. Now let me go see if I can
find that God in the scripture. You can't find him. He ain't
in there. He ain't in there. It's any thought,
any concept of God contrary to the revelation of Himself in
Christ Jesus the Lord. And strictly speaking, it's anything
contrary to the character of God. It's ungodliness. In the days of Noah, the Lord
looked upon this world and summed up what He saw. Now I told you,
ungodliness, the scope of it, broad as this world. And here's
the God of glory. And he looks down on this world,
and here's how he summed up what he saw. Listen to this. Every
imagination of the thoughts of man's heart is only evil continually. It does not have a right thought
of me anywhere in his heart. ever thought of the imagination
of his heart is only evil continually. Now there was religious folks
on this world at that time too. There was churches and synagogues
and all kinds of religious statues and gods and things all over
this world. But the imagination of man's
heart, including Noah and including his sons, only evil continually. But it said, Noah found grace. That's what we have to find in
the eyes of the Lord. Ungodliness springs from vain
imagination. It imagines itself being worthy
to be loved, worthy to be saved, worthy of preservation. Think
about that. I don't deserve to die. Why me? Huh? Why me? Why is this happening
to me? Because you're worthy of it.
Huh? That's right. It's appointed
unto man once to die, but this world imagines itself being worthy
to be loved of God, worthy to be saved, worthy of preservation. It imagines the eternal, immutable
God, subject to change. Why would he change? Is there
some fault in it? Something he didn't know? Why
would he change? It imagines the Holy God being
able to wink at sin and forgive sin without satisfaction. Our
preacher in the church I grew up in had a little blackboard
up here that he taught, used to teach at different things.
He'd put words and what they meant and stuff on there. And
he'd go there and he'd write one, two, three, put a slash
through there and make five, you know. It's actually sins
being written down in the books of God. You come down this aisle
and ask God to forgive you of your sins and you take that eraser
and just erase them away. That's evil imaginations. That's ungodliness. Ungodliness. Being able to wink at sin and
forgive sin without satisfaction. It imagines God looking on the
half-hearted works of men and calling them righteous. Those
Pharisees believed that God looked on their obedience and their
keeping of those ceremonies and the things that they did. And
look how obvious, like the woman that they took in adultery in
the very act, they set her up. They knew where she was going
to be and who was going to be with her and when they were going
to be there. And they went and got her and brought her out and
threw her down naked at the Lord's feet. Even knowing, even as obvious
as those faults and things are, they thought, they looked at
their works and believed that God thought they were righteous.
They called, Isaiah said, all our righteousnesses are as filthy
rags. It imagines God's omnipotence
being subject to the will of man. It imagines the will and
purpose of God being subject to chance and circumstance. But
what if? What if? I hear that. I hear it all the time. I hear
it all the time. Yeah, but what about this and
what about that? There are no whatabouts with
God. All the whatabouts are with you and me. There are no whatabouts
with Him. He's omnipotent. He does according to His will.
And this ungodly heart imagines the living God to be fallible.
I was talking with a man at work one time. He told me, he said,
even God makes mistakes. I said, where did you get that
from? Well, he didn't know. He put man in the garden expecting
him to be righteous and serving. I said, did he? At the root, now listen to me,
at the root of ungodliness is idolatry. There is no God in
him. No God in him. He told them, he said, You thought
I was altogether such a one as thyself, but I will reprove thee
and set them in order before thine eyes. Grace teaches men,
chosen men, redeemed men, regenerated men, that God is God and everything
else is idolatry. Huh? Don't you know that? Any
man in whom the grace of God has entered and God has set up
his abode and taught him the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ,
he knows that any other concept of God is idolatry. And if he
don't, he's still in his sins. He's still in his sins. Secondly,
grace teaches the believer to deny worldly lusts. Now this
has to do with the appetite of the flesh, the appetite of these
men who have not God in them. In Romans 8, 5 it says, For they
that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh. That's
what they're going to do. That's all they're going to do,
and that's what they're going to do until they die. But they that are after the spirit,
the things of the spirit. Listen to this, Romans 6.15,
what then? Shall we sin? Those of us who
come to know God, who have received Christ Jesus the Lord, who have
been saved and regenerated, what are we going to do? Sin? Because
we are not under the law but under grace? Is that what you
are saying, Paul? He said, God forbid. Know you not that to
whom you yield yourself servants to obey, his servants you are
to whom you obey, whether of sin unto death or obedience unto
righteousness, one way or the other. Anything a person puts
before God in true worship is his God. That's his God. Now, I heard this and I could
fill up a catalog with things. I'll let you make the application.
The Bible actually calls our covetousness idolatry. Did you know that? Over in Colossians
chapter 3 verse 5, he said covetousness, which is idolatry. And then in 1 John chapter 2
verses 15 and 16, we're plainly told that there's nothing in
this world, nothing in it. Name it. Write it down. See it
on TV. See it in the catalogs. Look
at it when you go up and down the road. There is nothing in
this world, he said, of the Father. Nothing here. Nothing here. And to love this world is to
love something alien to God. All right, thirdly, the grace
of God that brings faith and life to our soul teaches us to
live Soberly. Now, it may in some way have
an application, but this is not talking about being void of alcohol
and drugs. That's not what this Word is
talking about. We're not to be drunkards. Scriptures plainly
teach you that the drunkard is not going to enter into heaven.
It ain't going to happen. He can justify himself all he
wants to. He ain't going. But although
it might have an application to this, that is not what he
is talking about here. Turn with me to Romans chapter
13. What he is talking about here
is an awareness, an awareness. Paul describes faith and regeneration
as being delivered from the power of darkness and being translated
into the kingdom of his dear son. In Ephesians 1 he calls
it receiving the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge
of Christ. He said the eyes of your understanding
being enlightened. And then here in Romans 13, look
at verse 11. And that knowing the time, that
now it is high time to awake out of sleep, For now is our
salvation nearer than when we first believed. The night is
far spent, the day is at hand. Let us therefore cast off the
works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Let
us walk honestly as in the day, not in rioting and drunkenness,
not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying." There
is an awareness in a believer. He understands that the living
God is God, that He does not tolerate sin, will not tolerate
sin. You know the old patriarchs were
known by this, they feared God. That's what this is talking about.
This is talking about waking out of that religious sleep.
Waking out of this worldly, fleshly sleep that we're in and recognizing
that God is God. He sits on His throne, He's accomplishing
His will and purpose, and there's a day of judgment at hand. And
I mean right around the corner. Right around the corner. Awake,
He said. Believers awake. Grace teaches
him to be awake, alert. He's looking. He don't fall asleep
in the corner. He's looking. He's looking. Oh, the grace of God in Christ
manifests sobriety of mind. I tell you, the first time I
learned anything at all about the living God, it shot me down
to my shoes. You're talking about alert. Man,
these things were just flippant to me. They were just flipping
things. They were just things like singing
a song and clapping your hands. I thought that's what you went
to church for. I thought that's what the whole thing was. It
was just a good feeling. You come there and the man got
up and talked to you, encouraged you a little bit, and you left
there with a good feeling and you're clapping your hands and
feeling good. Woo, first time I come to see anything at all
about the living God, it shot me down my shoes. Man, I left
that place sober. Judge, man, I just, no expression
on my face whatsoever. Awake, he said. And then, fourthly,
the grace of God, set in its proper light by the gospel of
Christ, teaches us to live righteously. Now, folks have a problem with
this. How can a fallen, corrupt, sinful
man live righteously? How can he do that? We are all
under sin, Jew and Gentile. None righteous, no not one. The
law shut our mouth on the subject, brought us guilty before God.
All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. How then
can a man live righteous before God? Turn with me to Romans chapter
7. Back in Romans 3, Paul tells
us that now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested,
being witnessed by the law and the prophets, told about it,
told about it back under that mosaic law, pictured it, typified
it. All the prophets talked about
it. even the righteousness of God
which is by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ unto all and
upon all them that believe. Believers are dead to the law.
The law slew us in Christ, poured out the wrath of God on us due
to our sins, and in Christ the law has been satisfied and we
no longer stand accountable to it. The righteous obedience of
Christ is our righteousness, and apart from faith, it's impossible
to please God. Are you with me? All right, now
let's look here in Romans chapter 7 and see if we can get some
understanding of what he's talking about. Paul said, For I know
that in me, that is, in my flesh, what I have received from my
mother and father, what I have inherited from my father Adam,
in my flesh, he said. Now listen, dwelleth no good
thing. We're going to waste our time
if we look for it. I remember when Jesse was wrestling
with these things and he called and talked to me. I said, Jesse,
you're looking in an empty box. I kept telling him, oh no, you're
looking in an empty box. In this flesh dwelleth no good
thing. Nothing. Not a good thought. Not a good motive. Nothing good. There's none good but God. In
the light of those perfections, there is nothing good in my place.
Everything I have received from my parents by birth and nature
and by way of the first man, Adam, is altogether sinful. Now
listen to what he says here next. To will is present. How did that
get there? If there is nothing good, how
did this will get to be there? My people shall be willing, he
said in the day of my power. This man has had an experience
of grace. He's had an intervention of God.
The grace of God come and begin to teach him some things. And
to will is present. But how to perform that which
is good, I don't find. I can't do it. I want it. Don't
you want to be like Christ? Wouldn't you like to just walk
one day in your life, one day without an evil thought, without
an evil motive, loving God with all your heart, soul, mind, and
strength? Loving your neighbor as yourself,
not saying a harsh word to anyone? Don't you want that? Who wouldn't
want it? Wouldn't you like to have one
day in your life when you please God and knew it? God was pleased
with you, loved you, found no fault in you. Don't you want
that? Can you find it in yourself?
That's what he said. To will is praise. I want it,
but I can't find it. I can't find it. Now think about this statement.
is the character of perfection, no flaws, no blemishes, no spots. And by regeneration in faith,
I have a desire to be like Him. The will is present with me,
but how to perform that which is good I find not in my flesh. For the good, verse 19, that
I would, I do not. But the evil that I would not,
that's what I do. Now if I do that I would not,
it's no more I that do it, But sin dwelleth in me. It's not
the willing eye, it's the eye of the flesh. You see that? I find in a law, he's talking
about a principle, that when I would do good, evil is present
with me. For I delight in the law of God
after the inward man. But I see another law of my members,
warring against the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity
of the law of sin which is in my members. I wanted to trust
God, but I didn't. I wanted to believe God without
ever a hint of doubt, but I doubt all the time. I wanted to live a life that
never brought any disgrace to my master, but I fear I disgrace
him all the time. He wanted to always have his
mind stayed on the Word of God and His promises. He wanted to
always be thankful in all things, but his flesh could not produce
what his heart desired. Where then is this righteous
walk? Huh? Where is it at? Did God just give us a will and
leave us there? Oh, Paul said when he thought
about it, he said, Oh, wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver
me from the body of this death? Surely this is what death is.
Surely this is what sin is. I can't do what I would do. He
said, I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then, with
the mind. What's he talking about? He's
talking about faith. With the mind. With that enlightened
mind. with that willing mind, that
subjective mind, that mind that understands the righteousness
of God and in whom that righteousness is accomplished. I look at Him
and I see His righteousness as my own. In the mind, He said,
I serve the law of God righteously. I've honored it, I've exalted
it, I've satisfied it in Christ. You see that? With the mind,
I serve the law of God. But with the flesh, the law of
sin. The law of sin. He said in Galatians
2, verse 20, I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live,
yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. And the life which I now
live in the flesh, I live by the faithfulness of the Son of
God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate."
Now listen, the grace of God. For if righteousness come by
the law, Christ died in vain. He's my righteousness, John.
That's how I walk. That's how I walk. Grace teaches
us to deny ungodly ideas and concepts concerning the Godhead. We see God for who He is, as
He is, as He declares Himself to be. And we deny worldly lusts,
ambitions, and appetites. And we live soberly in a regenerated
light of awareness, awakened, seeing things as they really
are. And then to live righteously, walking before the law of God,
justified and righteous in Christ. And then last of all, he said
this grace teaches us to walk godly. Ooh, I looked at that
for a long time. Godly. You know what godliness is? God in you. Listen to this scripture. Great
is the mystery of godliness. God was manifest in the flesh. You want to know what godliness
is? There it is in that man, the Lord Jesus Christ. Godliness. You want to understand the mystery
of this thing? There it is. In that man, the
Lord Jesus Christ. To live godly is to have God
in you, Christ in you, the hope of glory. And by the Spirit of
God, isn't that what the Sunday School lesson is all about? I'll
send you the Comforter and He will dwell with you. forever. That's godliness. What does godliness
do? Same as ungodliness. All those
ungodly effects came because God was not present in you. That's ungodliness. Without any
intervention of God, without His presence in you, you're just
going to do what fallen men do. That's what you're going to do.
But with the presence of God in you, you're going to be godly. That's right. And the tenor of
your life is going to be to godliness. If God dwelleth in you... Paul,
how many times did Paul tell them, don't you know that your
body is a temple to the Holy Spirit of God? Don't you understand
that? Now you might go over to your
house and throw a drunken brawl, but you didn't go in the temple
and do it. Huh? He said, God dwelleth in
you. Now you going to use this thing
like a bar? You're going to misuse this body
and just make it do whatever you want it to do? Don't you
know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit of God? Or treat it that way, shouldn't
we? Huh? Godliness. Live Godliness. What's going to teach you to
do that? Grace. Grace. You can't do it. It takes sovereign I'm not hearing it anywhere else.
I'm just not. When I do, I'll go visit with
them and fellowship with them. But until I do, I'm going to
stay right here, and I'm going to keep right on crying what
I'm crying, pointing me into Christ. Grace. Grace. Father, take the message this
morning. Use it for Thy name's honor and glory. Manifest that
grace. Be pleased to do it today for
Christ's sake. Amen.