Romans chapter 1. Romans the
first chapter. Paul. Just Paul. Not Reverend Paul, not Dr. Paul,
not even Apostle Paul, just Paul. Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ. That beats reverend or doctor,
all the pieces. Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ. God make me that. A servant of
Jesus Christ. Called to be an apostle. A servant of Jesus Christ far
more important than this. A servant of Jesus Christ before
this. A servant of Jesus Christ alone
can be this. Called to be an apostle. A messenger of God to you. Separated unto the gospel. Separated by God from my mother's
womb. Separated by God's providence.
Separated by the experience of grace. Separated by the determination
of my heart. Separated unto the gospel. Separated from every other care.
From every other concern. from every other thing that might
occupy a man's mind or a man's heart, separated unto the gospel. God give me grace so to separate
myself. The gospel of God, that defines
it. Not just any message of good
news, but the message of good news which is of God. That is
the gospel that God reveals, the gospel that is all about
God, which he had promised afore by his prophets in the Holy Scriptures. This gospel, which is of God,
is that gospel that's spoken of throughout all the Old Testament
scriptures by all the prophets. It is the same message as that
which was delivered by Moses in the first five books of the
Old Testament. The same message delivered by
those men who spoke as God's prophets like Samuel and others,
like Isaiah and Jeremiah. Those men who witnessed the hand
of God and recorded the historic events and gave us understanding
in the meaning of those things. All the Old Testament is about
this gospel. It is the revelation of this
gospel, which is of God. Now read it. It's concerning
his son. concerning his son. The gospel,
oh how I wish I could get folks to understand this, is all about
God's son. It's not about you. It's not
about me. It's not about church. It's not
about church dogma and church creeds. It's not about history.
It's not about philosophy. It's not about morality. It is
about his son, Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ, our Lord. Jesus, the Savior, who is the
Christ, the Messiah promised in all the scriptures, who is
our master, our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according
to the flesh. Jesus Christ, God's son, the
Messiah, the master. He was made in time in human
flesh. He took on himself our nature
and he walked on this earth in our nature according to the seed
of David. So that when they would look
down the genealogy records that were kept in the temple, the
folks who thought maybe, well, This man, Jesus of Nazareth,
boy, he sure looks like he might have all the credentials. And
if they bothered to go look at the genealogical records, they'd
find out, tracing all the way back to David, is this man. Is this man. No Jew today, no
physical seed of Abraham, really knows for sure that he's even
a Jew. They don't know for sure. How
can you say that? Because all the genealogical
records were destroyed with the temple. There are none. So that
as far as any genealogical record is concerned, there's no record
of those things at all. But there was in our Lord's day,
when the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the scribes fussed and argued,
raised every objection they could against our Savior's claims to
be the Messiah, the Son of God, they never one time questioned
his genealogy. Not one time because it was held
beyond repute It was held in such a way that it could not
possibly be denied. He is made of the seed of david
according to the flesh He wasn't just made He wasn't just made
in the flesh But when he came in the flesh he came in the house
of david through the seed of david read up and declared to
be Made manifest, he was the son of God with power, according
to the spirit of holiness. I wonder why Paul uses that word,
the spirit of holiness, when he's talking about the resurrection
of the Lord Jesus. because the Son of God could
not have been resurrected from the dead had he not fulfilled
all things he came here to fulfill, had he not fulfilled all obedience
to the Father. But not only that, when he was
laid in the tomb, he went into the tomb as one who was himself
made to be sin for us. And had he not put sin away,
he could not have come out of the tomb with no sin. But the
scripture declares that he was sanctified or justified in the
spirit. When he was raised up from the
dead, he who bore our sins in his body on the tree, raised
up by the spirit of holiness, is justified from all things
as our substitute. Read on. He is declared then
to be the son of God with power according to the spirit of holiness
by the resurrection from the dead. Jesus Christ came forth
from the two. He arose from the dead. I know
folks like to steal. Try to argue that and they think
they're smart and intellectual, brainy folks because us poor
peons, we are duped by religious superstition and believe in the
resurrection. Well, Alan, there's never been
an event in history more well-established by eyewitnesses than the resurrection
of Christ from the dead. To deny it is to deny anything
that's historic that you haven't seen yourself. He was declared
to be the son of God with power by the spirit of holiness when
he came out of the tomb raised from the dead By whom that is
by Christ Jesus We have received grace and apostleship He received
gifts for me and yea for the rebellious also that the Lord
God might dwell among them We've received these gifts of grace
as God's messengers for obedience to the faith among all nations. We've received these gifts of
grace to preach the gospel to you in every nation so that many
women everywhere chosen of God might be called out of darkness
into his marvelous light. Those who were scattered may
now be gathered in by the preaching of the gospel for his name. for the honor and glory and majesty
of the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, our Lord, who
was raised from the dead. Read on. Among whom are ye also
the called of Jesus Christ. The called. That's my subject
this morning. There are some people in this
world who are described here by God the Holy Spirit as thee
called. They are often described in the
book of God as thee called, not merely as called, but as thee
called. For you see, there are multitudes,
untold millions of people who live upon the face of God's earth
who never have any call at all. None at all. None at all. Somebody
said, well, they're called by nature. You're not called by
nature. You're rendered excuseless by nature, but you're not called
by nature. You're not called by watching the stars shine or
watching the sun shine. You're not called by watching
the river flow between the mountains. You're not called by riding the
rapids. You're not called by fishing. You're not called by
your conscience. No, that's not it. Those things
render a man without excuse because God has given you such light
that you're made to know by nature that God is, that God is righteous,
that God is powerful, and you shall meet him one day in judgment.
But that's no call of God. Nobody has ever been converted
by nature Romans chapters 1 and 2 declare that you're without
excused by nature without excuse by creation there's light in
nature and light in creation light in your conscience to damn
you but none to save you and multitudes multiplied millions
Have never heard a man preach the gospel of God's grace Multiplied through the ages of history and
today have never heard a man preach the gospel of God's grace.
Multitudes, multitudes, I'm not just talking about Africa, New
Guinea, and India, and China. Multitudes living in the United
States of America in 2009 have never been called by the sound
of the gospel. They've never heard the word
preached. They've never heard a man declare
the truth of God in the power of God's spirit as you're privileged
to hear it all the time. Never. But then there are many
who are called by what's described by the theologians as a general
call or an outward call. It is the call of the gospel.
We preach the gospel to men. And as we preach the gospel to
men in any crowd, whether it's a few or many, we call all to
repentance. We call all to believe on the
Son of God. I call you right now, come to
Christ. Oh, God help you. Oh, may God
be pleased sweetly now to force you into the arms of the Redeemer.
We call sinners believe on the Son of God with this promise
given in God's Word. He that believeth on the Son
of God hath everlasting life. God help you now to believe and
if you can believe Christ right where you sit, it's because God
has given you life in Jesus Christ the Lord. But it'll take a heapsight
more than me calling you. It'll take a heapsight more than
you hearing the voice of this preacher to give you faith in
Christ. It'll take a heapsight more than
you being raised in a good Christian home to be converted. It'll take
a heapsight more than you being taught the catechism and confession
of faith of any church to get you to believe on the son of
God. It takes another call. It takes
the internal, effectual, irresistible call of God the Holy Spirit by
which he brings forth faith in the Son. It is this call of God
the Holy Spirit that comes to sinners by the gospel, by which
God the Spirit, giving life to the dead sinners, quickening
the dead sinner by the power of the Word of God, causing them
to be born again of His Word. The Spirit of God causes sinners
to believe on the side. It's sweet, omnipotent. irresistible call of grace. Because God the Spirit takes
the word preached and he causes the sinner to have Christ made
known in him. And if ever you know him, you
believe him. Oh, if ever you see him, you'll
trust him. I sometimes get talking about my
wife, and I'll tell folks about my admiration for her and love
for her, and folks wonder, why you talk about her like that?
And they'll slip into my room or be in my room, look over my
shoulder and see a picture thrown on the computer. Oh, now I see. Now I see. Little do they know. All they saw was the physical
feature of the woman. But if you knew her, oh, if you
knew her, listen to me. If you knew my Redeemer, if you
could see Him, if you could hear His voice, if you could know
His heart, You would follow Him with all your heart and believe
on Him with all your heart. And I can't make you to see Him.
I can't make you to know Him. But if God the Holy Spirit will
speak through these stammering lips of clay to your heart before
you leave here today, you will know Him and you will see Him
and you will trust Him. I want to talk to you now about
the call. The Apostle Paul speaks of our
calling in many ways in the Scripture. It's called a holy calling, a
high calling of God, the calling of God, your calling, heavenly
calling. It's described in many ways by
men when they talk about it. I've already referred to it as
an irresistible call, an omnipotent call, the call of God. John Gill
suggested, I like this, he said, he said, Christ stands in the
gospel ministry at the door of men's hearts and knocks and calls. Having the key of the house of
David, he opens the heart by the power of his grace and lets
himself in. In this way and by this means,
the spirit and his graces are received and men are called.
both to grace and to glory by the gospel. Now, that's considerably
different than the picture you have when you have that silly
picture of supposed to be Jesus standing at your heart's door
knocking. He has the key and he lets himself in. And when
he lets himself in, he brings his welcome with it. You're delighted
to have him. He calls you by the revelation
of himself in you by the gospel. Turn to 1 Peter 2, verse 9. Let me show you seven ways in
which this call is described and explained in Holy Scripture.
1 Peter 2, verse 9. Here's the first. The Apostle Peter says here,
ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, and holy nation,
a peculiar people. That you should show forth the
praises of him who hath called you out of darkness Into his
marvelous light And genesis 1 we read In the
beginning god created the heavens and the earth and the earth was
More literally the earth became Without form and void and darkness
was upon the face of the deep God created the heavens and the
earth, and then something happened. I don't know what. Some kind
of catastrophe. Maybe the fall of Satan. I don't
know. Maybe the fall of the angels who lost their first estate.
I don't know. But something happened to God's original creation, and
it became a mass of confusion, empty and void, under judgment,
and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of
God moved upon the waters. And God said, let there be light,
and there was light. That's exactly what happened
with you who are born of God. I remember when Bobby Estes used
to come sit right where you're sitting right now. And he was
just as nice then as he is now, but the difference was he'd walk
out and smile and say, hello, good to see you, and be just
as confused as he was when he walked in. He didn't have a clue
what was going on. Just confused. Confused by all
the babble and darkness in his heart and the babble and darkness
going on around him. Until God said, let there be
light. And then you see. And then you
see. Brother Donnie Bell was telling
about his father-in-law. I remember when Mary's mother
was still living in His father-in-law came to church occasionally,
didn't come much, but he's a nice fella. He'd always come sit right
where Shelby's sitting right now. He'd get up and go out,
get up and go out. And Donnie was talking about
this out in California a couple of weeks ago. He said, I was
preaching one morning and got done preaching with singing that
old man in his 70s. He got done singing the last
verse. He said, Donnie, I said, I see. Oh, God make you to see. To see
the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Until God makes
you see, there's nothing but darkness in you. We were called
out of darkness into his marvelous light. Called from utter chaos,
utter confusion, having no understanding of anything spiritual. No understanding
of anything in this book. Oh, now, some folks think they
do. Some folks think they got it all figured out. Some folks
can recite the text and the chapters and the verses. They can recite
creeds and confessions. And they can tell you the history
of the Bible and don't have a clue what it says. They don't have
a clue what it says. But you who are called are called
out of darkness into the light. of the knowledge of the glory
of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Now you see how it is that God
can save sinners through the sacrifice of his son. You see
how it is that sinners can be made righteous before God without
any effort on their part. You see how it is that sinners
can be accepted of God though they are themselves unacceptable
by themselves or any other man. Accepted in Christ Jesus the
beloved. turn to Galatians chapter 5 Galatians
5 verse 13 I'll just touch on this and come
back to it tonight the Lord willing for brethren ye have been called
unto liberty called unto liberty. Have you ever been in jail? Don't raise your hand. I don't
need to know. Ever been arrested? I have. I have. I remember the first
time I went to jail. I was scared to death. And I
was only there for a couple of hours. I was locked away in a
cell. Scared to death. Horrified. Tucked away down in the basement
of a, this is out in the county, out in Davidson County, North
Carolina. I was, the jail was underneath the jailer's house,
the sheriff's house, and it was a dungeon. I mean, literally
a dungeon. They had steel bars and a dirt
floor, and there was water running through the basement. And there
I am, you think, well, they don't have such jails as that now.
They might not now, but they did in 1965. I was in it. I was in it. And then I had to
call mom. That was worse. But being in
jail, you're locked up and you can't get out and there's nowhere
to go. And when you're set free, I can
still smell the fresh air. Oh, nothing like liberty. for one who's been captive. I've been captive in darkness,
in bondage, in sin, under the curse of the law, held in chains
of darkness from which I could not shake myself, in bondage
from which I could not free myself, in darkness from which I could
not escape. And then, God the Spirit caused me to see and to believe
on the Son of God. To look away to the substitute. To look from myself to one altogether
obedient to God in my stead. And looking to Christ, I'm free. I love the picture that's given
by John Bunyan in Pilgrim's Progress. The pilgrim has got a heavy,
heavy burden on his back, a heavy load on his back from which he
can get no relief, and he has gone to this place and that. He has gone to Mount Sinai, and
he's gone to Jerusalem, and he's gone to this person and that.
And finally, he comes to these two sisters. Charity and prudence. And they said, we can't tell
you how to get rid of your burden. But right across over there,
beyond the wicket gate, is the house of evangelist, speaking
of John Gifford, the pastor of the local church. He said he
can tell you where to go to get rid of your burden. And so Bunyan
goes and knocks at Wicket Gate and speaks to Evangelist. And
Evangelist tells him to go to the Hill Calvary and look for
the Lamb of God. And Bunyan said, I went over
to the Hill Calvary. And as I made my way up the hill,
I looked and saw one hanging on a tree. And no sooner did
I look, then my burden fell off my back the burden of my sin
and my guilt and rolled down the hill into the abyss of a
place called forgetfulness and God took away my guilt and
my sin and now I'm free you brethren who are called of God have been
called into liberty no longer in bondage no longer under the
law, no longer under the curse of the law, no longer threatened
by the law, no longer controlled and inspired and motivated by
the law, no longer terrified by the law, the call to liberty,
liberty in Christ Jesus, the glorious liberty of the sons
of God. Third, 1 Corinthians chapter
3 verse 9, We've been called out of darkness
into light and out of bondage into liberty. And here in verse
nine of first Corinthians chapter one, we're told God is faithful
by whom ye were called into the fellowship of his son, Jesus
Christ, our Lord. Ron, we've been called by God
into the sweet fellowship of his son. God calls his people,
all of his people, to abandon the world for Christ. Those who
are called of God are called to forsake family and friend. Like Abraham, we're called to
follow Christ, leaving everything else behind. We've been called
and we're constantly called by our God to love not the world,
neither the things that are in the world. Don't love the riches
of this world or the recognition of this world or the religion
of this world. We've been called out of the
world into the fellowship of God's dear son. Having said that,
let me hasten to say this. Called like no people have been
called by signs and wonders and miracles incomparable like the
children of Israel out of Egypt, called not to be unequally yoked
together with the unbelieving, called to freedom in life in
Christ Jesus. But the sacrifice of these things
is no sacrifice at all. Turn to the book of Deuteronomy
for a moment. Deuteronomy chapter 7, verse 2. When the Lord thy God shall deliver
them before thee, thou shalt smite them and utterly destroy
them, speaking of the heathen. Thou shalt make no covenant with
them, nor show mercy unto them. Don't do it. Don't do it. I just
read an article last night when I got home. I could hardly believe
it. And then again, it wasn't hardly
Surprising. British religious newspaper,
I get every month, had an article and I was very interested because
an article on Cuba and religion in Cuba and what they call reformed
religion in Cuba. And the very last paragraph of
the article, the babbling idiot said, and I plan to write to
him and say so, the babbling idiot said, Now, having said
all that, we're very thankful for the influence of our Pentecostal
brethren and their contribution to the gospel. We don't have
any Pentecostal brethren, and they make no contribution to
the gospel. They're opposed to the gospel. Well, what do these
fellows do? What's wrong with that? They're
trying to make a covenant with the heathen. And a covenant with
the heathen. I mean by that, Larry, Arminian
will-worshippers. I mean by that, any who do not
worship our God, they're trying to make a covenant with the heathen.
Now watch what happens. Verse 3, Deuteronomy chapter
6. I'm sorry, chapter 7. Deuteronomy
chapter 7, verse 3. Neither shalt thou make marriages
with them. Thy daughter thou shalt not give
unto his son. Nor his daughter shalt thou take
unto thy son. And here's the reason. For they
will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other
gods. So will the anger of the Lord
be kindled against you and destroy thee suddenly. But thus shall
you deal with them. You shall destroy their altars
and break down their images and cut down their groves and burn
their graven images with fire. For thou art and holy people
under the Lord thy God. The Lord thy God has chosen thee
to be a special people unto himself above all people that are upon
the face of the earth. Verse 25. The graven images of
their God shall you burn with fire. Thou shalt not desire the
silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee,
lest thou be snared therein, for it is an abomination to the
Lord thy God. Neither shalt thou bring an abomination
into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like the abomination,
like it, that thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly
abhor it, for it is a cursed thing. It's much the same thing
Paul speaks of in 1 Corinthians, or 2 Corinthians, chapter 6,
and verse 7, speaking of us being not unequally yoked together
with unbelievers. We dare not. There's no fellowship between
Christ and Belial, no fellowship between light and darkness. God
says continually, come out from among her, come out of Babylon,
be separate, lest you be partaker of her sins and of her judgment. Brother Don, it's what a sacrifice. Oh, no, no, no. We're called
to abandon these things, totally to abandon them. But this call
brings us into a union and fellowship beyond description and beyond
compare. We're now given access to and
communion with God the Father and God the Son and God the Spirit. We're now given communion and
access to this gracious standing wherein we stand before God as
the sons of God in fellowship with God's saints in heaven and
God's saints on earth, even with the angels of God. We've come
to the General Assembly, the Church of the Firstborn, whose
names are written in heaven, and to the spirits of just men
made perfect, to an innumerable company of angels. We've come
to the Church of God. In the house of God, it's open
to us. The Lord's table is open to us.
The throne of God is open to us. And now we walk in communion
with God. Look in 1 Corinthians chapter
7, verse 15. Here's the fourth thing. Paul is here talking about the
husband or the wife who's married to an unbeliever. If the unbelieving
depart, let him depart. Let him depart. I never read
or heard anything John Wesley ever said that was worth repeating
except one. And I'm going to repeat it. The
only ever heard that he read or that he stated or wrote, this
is worth repeating. His wife was a witch. And if
you want to, you spell that with a B. His wife was a witch. She
would stand out where you're sitting now and throw tomatoes
at him while he was preaching. She'd be out in the crowd and
mocking. She must have been pretty good size. I'd have killed her.
But she'd stand out there and mock him while he was preaching.
And finally, after the old man got to be an old man, she left
him. And they had started the Methodist denomination in the
Methodist Church, which is just a little bit slightly lower form
of Anglicanism. But she, Wesley's friends urged
him to take her back, go see if you can't get her back. Go,
oh, you can't let this happen. It's going to be devastating.
And Wesley said, I didn't ask her to leave, but I am not about
to ask her to come home. If the unbelieving will depart,
let them depart. How come? A brother or sister
is not in bondage. They've left you. You're no longer
married to them in such cases. But God hath called us to peace. To peace. Oh. Merle, that's just about the
sweetest word in the English language, isn't it? Peace. I was raised in a house where
there was no peace. I don't know that we ever enjoyed
a peaceful day in my house growing up. Not one. And now for 40 years, I've been
living in a house of peace. You think for a minute I'd go
back to that other one? Not on your life. not on your
life. And that's nothing compared to
this. Bob, God's called us to peace. Peace from the inside
out. The peace of God reigning in
our hearts. Peace because there's no guilt. No guilt. We were driving down
the road the day before yesterday One of the ladies said, with
the state troopers all over the place, must have been one of
them killed up in New York or something. There were state troopers
from all over the state, New Jersey and other parts of the
country, just up in the Northeast there. And one lady said, said,
boy, when my husband's driving, if he sees a car that looks like
a police car, he just automatically puts on brakes. Doesn't matter
if you're doing five miles under the speed limit, just automatically
puts on brakes. Said, I don't know why. I said, I do. Guilt. Guilt. You might not be breaking
the law right now, but you might because it's the habit. And she
just put on brakes from guilt. Always afraid of getting caught. I lived for nearly 17 years afraid
of God catching me and taking me to hell. Afraid. Terrified. Will you listen to
this preacher? Will you dare listen to me? I'm
no longer afraid of God. Because I don't have any guilt
before God. I don't have any sin before God. Christ took it away. We've been called to peace. called
to peace with God and peace in our souls and peace in this world
and peace among ourselves with our brethren called to peace. Peace, peace, wonderful peace. Number five, look at first Thessalonians
four verse seven. And I've got to spend just a
minute here, but I want you to hear what I've got to say. 1
Thessalonians chapter 4, verse 7. God hath not called us to
uncleanness, but unto holiness. Now, there are some folks who call
themselves and love to brag about being reformed. who are worse
legalist than fundamentalist ever dreamed of being. Well,
you shouldn't use that term. OK. They are horribly worse legalist
than fundamentalist ever dreamed to be. They invent laws and try
to put God's people under the yoke of the law. And then they
add like the Pharisees of old traditions to their laws. And
if you don't obey those things, you're not being holy. God hath called us to holiness. That's not what God called us
to. God called us to holiness. To holiness. There's a hymn in
our hymn book. If somebody ever says, let's
stand up and sing it, everybody say no at one time. Take time
to be holy. That'd be a pretty good trick
if you could do it. Holy. Well, what does this mean
then, God hath called us to holiness? Not holy works. You can't perform
holy works. Now, Anne, I've got your attention. You don't have any idea when
I tell you this, it doesn't matter how you live, do you? It does
matter. You don't have any idea when
I say this, well, if you want to go out and live like hell,
go out and live like hell. I've never suggested that. I've never
thought that. As far as I know, none of you
have ever imagined that. but you're not under rules and
regulations and you're not gonna get any here. Not gonna get any
here. God's called us to holiness.
He's called us out of a life of horrid uncleanness into a
life of perfect holiness. And that holiness is not a holiness
we produce. It is a holiness produced in
us. The man who enters into glory,
the woman who enters into glory must have not only a clean record,
but a clean character. In free justification, we are
made clean before God's law. When Christ is formed in us and
we're made partakers of the divine nature, created in righteousness
and true holiness, then we are made to have a new man in us
that is holy. and that holy thing which is
born of God can not sin. God hath called us not to uncleanness,
but unto holiness. Number six, Galatians chapter
one, verse six. I marvel that ye are so soon
removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ. Oh, may God do that for you.
We've been called by the grace of Christ. We've been called
by the instrumentality of the gospel of the grace of Christ.
We've been called into the blessed experience of the grace of Christ. And we've been called to be partakers
of and to enjoy All the blessings of the grace of Christ, all the
grace there is in Christ, all the grace that flows from the
bounteous reservoir of God's own heart of goodness to his
people called to the grace of Christ. And one more look in
chapter two of First Thessalonians. We've been called out of darkness
into light, out of bondage into liberty. out of the world into
the fellowship with God, out of turmoil into peace, out of
uncleanness into holiness, out from under the curse of God's
law into the grace of Christ. And we've been called out of
the kingdom of this world. Into God's kingdom of glory in
Christ. First Thessalonians 2, 12. That
you should walk worthy of God. Walk worthy of God. Is that an impossible admonition
or is that an admonition that we ought to strive after continually?
It is both. It's an impossible admonition
for anybody walking on this earth, even by faith in Christ. But
it is an admonition for which we should strive. It means, David
Coleman, that we walk in this world as men and women who've
been saved by God's free grace. Walk worthy of the name you wear
so as to bring no reproach upon it, so as to in no way dishonor
God before men. When Faith was a little girl,
and you've heard me say this a thousand times, and you'll
hear it another thousand if I'm here another 30 years. We used
to send her out, and I used to say something to her almost every
time she walked out the door, when she was going out with kids
or going out to social events. I'd say, honey, don't forget
who you are and whose you are. Don't forget who you are and
whose you are. Because everything you say and
everything you do has a reflection not just on you, but on your
mother and on your father and on this house. So don't forget
who you are and whose you are. You heard that, didn't you, children
of God? I'm going to send you out these doors now in just a
little bit to go out to meet this world. Don't forget who
you are and whose you are. Ye should walk worthy of God
who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory. I'm glory bound. I am a man bound for heaven. I'm a man who'd been called of
God to his kingdom and his glory to an inheritance incorruptible
and undefiled that fadeth not away. Oh God, give me grace to
live in this world like a man for whom this world has nothing.
Give me grace to live in this world as a man who lives for
another world. Give me grace to live in this
world as one who's called to possess the kingdom and the glory. that Jesus Christ the Lord possesses
as my surety, mediator, and substitute. Amen.