As you know, I preached for our
friends in Princeton, New Jersey, Friday night and Saturday morning.
And the work there is going so, so very, very well. I can't tell
you how thankful I am that God raised up that work when he did,
raised up Brother Clay Curtis for that work as he did. He's
doing a great job. The Lord's blessings on the work
are manifest in so many, many ways. You pray for them. Clay
is ministering within the shadow of Princeton University where
so much good has been done in the past and so much evil in
the present. God's doing much good in the
shadow of that place now. But the Northeast is a seedbed
for legalism and intellectualism. And somehow the two things seem
to run side by side all the time. At least most legalists think
they're intellectual where there are not. And there are all kinds
of reformed churches all over the Northeast, liberal and otherwise,
Christian reformed and Dutch reformed and Netherlands reformed
and Protestant reformed and Presbyterian reformed and reformed Baptist,
the worst of the bunch. Wherever you see the word reformed,
Mark it down with rare exception, and I do know of a few, but with
rare exception, the word means legality to the extreme. Legalism. Horrid, horrid, horrid legalism. Legalism that would make Pharisees
look like libertarians. Legalism that would make fundamentalists
look like liberals. Legalism. Not only teaching concerning
law, God's law given in the Old Testament, but law and bondage
invented by men and pressed on others in the form of religious
creeds and confessions of faith. And the legalism is horribly
evil. Brother Don, legalism is a strong
term. That means people are teaching
salvation by works. You understand it exactly right.
You understand it exactly right. They are teaching salvation at
some point. At some point. by your works
and it is horribly evil, horribly evil. Let me begin my message
with a story that sort of inspired the message. Well, it really
did. I believe it was used of God to inspire the message. Six
or seven years ago, first time I was in Princeton, I met a man
by the name of Jaime Santamaria and Santamaria, proper pronunciation
I just found out, his wife Sharon and their family. Jaime is a
Cuban refugee. His father was a successful surgeon
in Cuba, man of some considerable importance in the nation. He
had established a medical, not a medical, a pharmaceutical company
that was quite successful, taken over by the government of course.
The Bay of Pigs in 1961 altered their lives forever. If I can
tell this story without, with too much emotion, I believe it
will be helpful to you. I want you to remember it. Hyman
was 13 in 1961. I met his mother back six or
seven years ago as well. She's 92 now. She was at services
Friday night. His father has long been gone.
But they left their lived well, lived very well, and took just
what they could get in suitcases, packed up to try to get papers
to get out of Cuba for fear of their lives. And his father took
the family, and they're waiting in Havana, As they're going up
to Havana, it's during the Bay of Pigs and tanks stopping folks
all along the way. But they got to this place where
they're sharing a bathroom with other folks and they're living
in one room, sitting there hoping to get out of the country. But
the papers should have come through and they hadn't come through.
They had been stuck there for a few days and they're getting
very fearful. His father is getting real concerned.
And finally one night, one evening before they had supper, his father
said, we haven't believed God like we should. Let's pray. And he got the family down and
began to pray. And each of the children prayed. And Mama prayed. And his father
prayed. When he said amen, there's a
knock at the door. And the papers were ready. And
the next day, they went down to the U.S. Embassy, got all
the papers, but still, they could be called back at any time. The
Cubans were not allowing anyone of any importance, anyone who
had held any kind of political office or any kind of power and
influence to leave the country. And Jaime's father was concerned
for his family, and he said they could still find us. And so he
kept low until time for the leave and got on the plane and got
the family all situated, and he said, started praying, told
the family, said, let's pray God will take care of things
so they can still get us, they can still make this plane turn
around. But it wasn't just any plane.
It wasn't a Cuban plane. It wasn't a plane sympathetic
to Cuba. They took off knowing that they
could be called back at any time if they thought there was someone
on the plane shouldn't escape. And Jaime said they, when the
wheels tucked up under the belly of that plane, the pilot came
on and he said in Spanish, ladies and gentlemen, You're now on
Dutch territory." They were on KLM Airlines. He said, you're
free and you're not going back to Cuba. And when he did, I mean, he said
the whole airline, the whole plane full of folks just stood
up and shouted, thank God we're free. Thank God we're free. Well, that's blessed, blessed,
blessed freedom in the experience of it. Somehow, not one of us
here can relate to that story as we should relate to it because
we were born free and we've lived free all our lives and we haven't
a proper appreciation of freedom. But there is a freedom indescribably
better than that. from a bondage horribly worse
than any bondage that can be brought by communism. I want
to talk to you about that freedom, that liberty, that glorious liberty
that our God gives us in Christ. Turn to Galatians chapter 5. Galatians chapter 5. Verse 1. Stand fast, therefore, in the
liberty, liberty. Stand fast, therefore, in the
liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled
again with the yoke of bondage. Verse 13, for brethren, ye have
been called unto liberty. You have been called unto liberty. Only use not liberty for an occasion
to the flesh, that is, for the pampering and the lust of the
flesh, but by love with this liberty into which you've been
called, serve one another. Now look at Romans chapter 8.
Romans chapter 8. We'll be looking at a little
bit of scripture tonight. The Apostle Paul the converted Pharisee,
the converted legalist, writes more about this liberty that's
ours in Christ, this freedom that's ours by the Spirit of
God. He writes more about it than
any other inspired writer writes about it, perhaps because he
knew more about the bondage and did more to promote the bondage
than any others. Here in Romans 8, verse 16, The
Apostle says, the Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit
that we're the children of God. The Spirit comes, gives you faith
in Christ, causing you to cry, Abba, Father, and by the gift
of faith bears witness with your spirit that you're one of God's
elect, that you've been chosen of God, redeemed by Christ, and
now called by his Spirit. And if children than heirs, heirs
of God and joint heirs with Christ, if so be that we suffer with
him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the
sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared
with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest
expectation, what a word, the earnest expectation of the creature
waiteth, waiteth, standing on tiptoe, anxiously waiting, for
the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was
made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who has
subjected the same in hope, because the creature itself shall be
delivered from the bondage of corruption. That is, this creation
shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption. You remember what
he's talking about? Genesis chapter 3, God said the
earth will be cursed for your sake. The ground on which you
live is going to bring forth nothing but thorns and briars
and thistles and you're going to have to spend your day planting
and toiling in this earth with the sweat of your brow to get
beans out of the ground. The earth is cursed because of
man's sin and the things that man has done in rebellion against
God. But this earth shall not always
be cursed. God's gonna make all things new
soon. And it shall be delivered from
the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons
of God. What an expectation. The glorious
liberty of the sons of God. This 21st verse speaks both the
bondage and liberty. The bondage of corruption and
the glorious liberty of the sons of God. The bondage of corruption
is that bondage in which some of you sit here tonight. It is the bondage of sin and
death. The bondage that sin has brought
upon fallen man. It's the bondage of nature. The
bondage that makes all men miserable slaves and prisoners by nature. The bondage of corruption spoken
of here is the forerunner of eternal bondage, of the everlasting
torment of hell's bondage. And unless God intervenes, you
will suffer that bondage in its utter extremity forever in hell. All who live in the dungeon of
sensuality and corruption. are the willing bond slaves of
Jesus Christ. I'm sorry, the bond slaves of
Satan. The willing bond slaves of Satan.
Bondage to sin and custom and tradition. And the more one is
in this bondage and enwrapped in this bondage, held in chains
of bondage, the more he pretends to be free. Have you noticed? Surely you have noticed. The
last 10 years, how many folks expressed their freedom by putting
tattoos all over their bodies? Don't want to be like everybody
else. Oh, is that right? Or you have one rebel boy at
school starts wearing an earring, and then a bunch of rebels start
wearing earrings, and then let's put two on. Now we're real rebels. Let's watch them show their liberty
again. We're different. We'll put two in as well. Men
are subject to bondage and willingly enslave themselves to fashion
and opinion and the thoughts of men, especially in religion. The bondage of corruption holds
multitudes in abject servitude to fashion and style and social
approval and to religion. It's the bondage of sin. This
bondage of sin is often manifest by bondage of law. We love law. That's the nature of humanity.
We're all rebels, but we all love law. I can't tell you how
many times I've had folks write to me, editors with regard to
books published and say, don't you think we ought to give some
kind of rule? I had a suggestion when the Church of God first
came out years ago, and I was telling folks, we don't teach
folks to tithe. We don't want folks to tithe. Don't abondon the law. He said,
well, don't you think you ought to give some kind of rule? Less
folks give too much. And I thought about it for about
two seconds and wrote back. And I said, if I ever face that
problem, I'll come up with a rule. We want rules. Rules. We love to be told what to do.
We love to be told what's right. We love to be told how far to
walk and how far not to walk. We love to be told what to wear
and what not to wear. What to eat, what not to eat.
It's just the nature of humanity. We love bondage while we hate
law. We love it. We love to be told,
but we love to disobey. We love to be given rules because
we love to break them. The fact is we love rebellion.
The bondage of social acceptance and approval runs through religion
just as it does everywhere else. The bondage is seen in religious
customs as much as their obedience or pretended obedience to the
law given by Moses on Mount Sinai. or to religious traditions and
religious superstitions. The Lord Jesus, the Son of God,
came into this world specifically to deliver God's elect from the
bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons
of God. Salvation, then, is deliverance
from bondage. It is deliverance from bondage. Deliverance from the bondage
of sin and death. Deliverance from the bondage
of the law. Deliverance from the fear of
death. Deliverance from all the evil consequences of sin. Deliverance into liberty. The glorious liberty of the sons
of God. Let me show you three things
and I'll be done. Number one, Christ is the great
liberator. Number two, the liberty he gives
is the glorious liberty of the sons of God. And number three,
there is liberty yet to be experienced. liberty yet to be experienced,
for which little can be said, for little is known, but it is
the greatest liberty yet. First, Jesus Christ alone is
the liberator of men. No one ever comes to enjoy true
liberty before God, true liberty of heart and mind, true liberty
in his soul until he's set free by the merit of Christ's blood.
And yet there is much that passes for liberty that is nothing but
a false liberty. Much that passes for liberty
that is nothing but a form of bondage. A religious profession
many people think of as liberty. Multitudes are so naive and gullible
that they think a mere profession of religion is liberty from the
curse of the law, liberty from the wrath of God. They think
they are free because they profess to be free. Like the Jews, you
remember in our Lord's day, in John chapter 8, they said, don't
tell us we're in bondage, we have Abraham our father. And
they were in bondage at the time. They were in bondage to the Romans.
They said, since we say we're free, we're free. They were still
in bondage. And multitudes today, once they
make a profession of religion, talked into saying they believe
in Jesus when they don't know who he is, talked into saying
they trust Christ and have no idea what faith is, they're told,
now you're free. And so they presume that they're
free from the curse, and free from sin, and free from the law,
and free from death. Another form of bondage that
men call liberty is self-righteousness. The fact is, many a man grows
weary of his evil ways and seeks freedom from the evil he brought
on himself by religious reformation. Some of you live in the midst
of folks who were once smokers and they quit. Don't light up
around them. They're torture. They're torture. Just forget it. Just forget it
because they're miserable and they'll tell you quickly how
horrible a thing you're doing. They're kind of like reformed
prostitutes. They get on a soapbox and they want to make everybody
else think they're really good. They're really good. So it is
with religious self-righteousness. Really, most of what passes for
Christianity, most of what passes for Christianity, is nothing
on this earth but religious reformation. It's just a change of habits,
a change of talk, a change of dress, a change of where you
can be found on Sunday morning, nothing else. And then there
is another form of religious bondage called antinomianism. Antinomianism is that religious
notion that since we're saved by grace, it doesn't matter how
we live. Since we're saved by grace, character
and conduct count for nothing. Now, there was a time when I
could say I've never heard tell the folks who said such things,
but I have now. I have. I've seen and heard and
corresponded with and talked to folks who literally profess
to believe, since I trust Jesus, I can do any evil thing I want
to do and there are no consequences for it. Now, that's antinomianism. That is against law. That is against rule. That is
against God. It's impossible to preach the
gospel of God's free grace and not be accused of being an antinomian. I've endured the slander since
I first started preaching. 17, 18 years, I guess, 17, 18
years old, first time somebody said you're an antinomian. Well,
I don't pay any attention to it. I used to, oh, I just cringe
at somebody saying that. And then I realized that folks
said that about the Lord Jesus, and they said it about the Apostle
Paul, and they've been saying about folks who preach free grace
throughout the ages. In fact, I don't know of anyone
who preached free grace that people didn't say, he's an antinomian.
They do it all the time. Because they cannot refute the
doctrine, they seek to sully the name of the one preaching
the doctrine. Antinomianism is horrid. But
when you go somewhere and you hear somebody say, well, you
folks are antinomians, don't pay any attention to it. Don't
even try to answer the fool. Let them go on thinking what
they want to. Now, having said that, I want you to see what
this liberty is that Christ gives turn to John chapter 8 John the
8th chapter We'll be back here the Lord willing
a couple of weeks on Sunday morning John chapter 8 verse 32 Our Lord Jesus says you shall
know the truth and the truth shall make you free You shall
know the truth the gospel, Christ, who is the truth, and the truth
shall make you free. They answered him, we be Abraham's
seed, and we're never in bondage to any man. These folks who are
in bondage to the Romans right now. How sayest thou, ye shall
be made free? Jesus answers them, verily, verily,
I say unto you, whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. And
the servant abideth not in the house forever, but the son abideth
ever. If the son therefore shall make
you free, you shall be free indeed. The apostle Paul said, we haven't
received the spirit of bondage again to fear. We who are born
of God haven't received the spirit of bondage again to fear. How many religious people do
you know? who do not live in a spirit of bondage with fear.
Always afraid. Always fearful. But we who are
born of God have not received the spirit of bondage again to
fear. But ye have received the spirit of adoption whereby we
cry, Abba, Father. Because ye are sons, God has
sent forth the spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying,
Abba, Father. Stand fast, therefore, in the
liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free. True liberty, the
liberty of grace, this liberty of life and peace in Christ is
obtained only by the authority and the power of God's Son, only
by His gift of the Spirit. Only the Son can make you free. Let me see if I can apply our
Lord's reference here. During the days of our Lord's
earthly ministry, there was a custom among Greeks and Romans When
a man died, if he had slaves and left those slaves to his
son, the slaves became the property of his eldest son. If the son
then said, I proclaim these slaves left to me by my father, free
men, those slaves were forever free. They were forever free,
made free by the son. And so it is that you and I brought
to Jesus Christ, given to Christ by his Father, the Son of God
says, I proclaim you free. The Lord Jesus purchased this
freedom for us. He purchased it for us with his
blood when he redeemed us from the curse of the law. Turn to
Isaiah 63, 61 rather, and I'll show you how he proclaims it.
Isaiah 61, verse 1. In Luke chapter 4, the Lord Jesus
said, Isaiah 61 is talking about me. The spirit of the Lord God
is upon me because he has anointed me to preach good tidings unto
the meek. He has sent me to bind up the
brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening
of the prison to them that are bound, to proclaim the acceptable
year of the Lord and the day of the vengeance of our God,
to comfort all that mourn. to appoint unto them that mourn
in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for
mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness,
that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting
of the Lord, that he might be glorified. The Lord Jesus comes
and proclaims to chosen sinners in the day of his grace the liberty
he has accomplished. the liberty that he gives freely
and unconditionally, liberty for sinners such as us. However,
the Lord Jesus is more than a proclaimer of liberty. He effectually brings
the liberty. We're seeing it frequently. He
breaks the power of canceled sin. He sets the prisoner free. His blood can make the foulest
clean. His blood avails for me. And the instrument by which He
proclaims this liberty effectually to the hearts of His people is
the gospel of His grace. You shall know the truth, and
the truth shall make you free. Now, let me say something about
the correlation between faith and liberty. Turn to Galatians
chapter 4. Galatians chapter 4. Paul tells us plainly that the
law was not given for a righteous man. Is that what the book says?
That's what it says anyway. The law was not given for a righteous
man, but for the unrighteous. It was not given so that Billy
McCormick wouldn't go home tonight and take a butcher knife and
slit Molly's throat. It wasn't given for you. You're
not inclined to do that. He loves the girl. It was given
to restrain the fellow who might. It was given as a terror, threatening
the man, do this and die. The law was not given for a righteous
man, but for the sinner, for the unrighteous, who needs it
to protect us from them. The law, however, is that which
held us in bondage with fear as unrighteous men until faith
in Christ. Until God brought us to the blessed
faith of Jesus Christ, our Redeemer, brought us to maturity in faith. In the Old Testament, a man,
an eldest son, had the birthright given him. It was his when he
was born. He's the eldest son. But he did
not become lord over his father's house until he reached maturity. Until then, he was under tutors
and governors. He was under servants. Servants
in the house could take the boy out to the woodshed and beat
the lord out of him and had the father's approval. Servants told
the boy where to go and what to do. Once the boy reaches maturity,
once he reaches adulthood, the servant becomes his property. And he doesn't even think about
taking him to the woodshed. He's his property. See if I can
illustrate it for you. Many of you met my good friend,
Brother Bob Spencer. He was my sixth grade school
teacher. I hadn't seen him in 30 years and ran into him 10
years ago, maybe a little more now, down at North Wilkesboro,
North Carolina. I'm sorry, I ran into him about
20 years ago now. I forgot how old he was. But
anyway, I hadn't seen him in years, and I saw him. He hadn't
changed a bit. I stuck out my hand. I said,
you won't remember me, but my name's Don Fortner. He said,
oh, I remember you. And we got to be good friends.
Do you know that man used to beat me? I mean, he beat me. He beat me like most folks couldn't
get by with it. If they were your parents these
days, he beat me, made me hurt. And he had every right to do
so. I didn't even have to ask my
folks if he had the right. I knew if I asked, I was going
to get another one. He had every right to do so under law and
from my parents. But, you know, it's been a long
time since even he's even thought about beating me. If he were
to pull out his whip, I'd feed it to him. He got no right, no
authority. I'm not afraid of him. I'm not
a boy anymore. And we who are born of God had
been brought into sonship. And now the law does not hold
us under its rule, but the law has become our possession in
Christ. Galatians chapter four, verse
one. Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth
nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all, but is under
tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
Even so, we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements
of the world. What a strange way to talk about
the ordinances of the law in the Old Testament. Elsewhere,
he calls them carnal ordinances. These were fleshly things. These
were fleshly things that were given to us to be seen by the
fleshly eye to control fleshly behavior. But when the fullness
of time was come, God sent forth his son, made of a woman, made
under the law to redeem them that were under the law, that
we might receive the adoption of sons. And because you are
sons, God has sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts,
crying, Abba, Father. Back up here, you were Lord over
all. You were a son. But until the
time appointed of your father, you would differ nothing from
a servant. And then God sends his spirit, the spirit of his
son into your heart, crying, Abba, father, because your sons,
so that you lift your heart to God in heaven and call him your
father. Read on. Wherefore, wherefore,
thou art no more a servant, but a son. And if a son, then an
heir through Jesus Christ. The moment the sinner believes
on the Son of God, he's free. The moment you believe, oh, will
you now trust the Son of God? Will you now believe on the Son
of God? The moment the sinner believes
He's free from all curse and guilt and condemnation and fear
of the law because he's in Christ the Lord. There is therefore
now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. Free. Free. Free from the curse of
the law. Free from the yoke of the law. Free from the horrid, horrid
covenant of the law. Free from any obligation to the
law. Free from any motivation by the
law. Free from any rule of the law. But rather we are ruled by the
love of Christ that constrains us. ruled by faith in Jesus Christ,
our Redeemer. So many times folks will say
stupid things. They only say them when it comes
to talking about religion and the gospel. Well, Brother Don,
if you don't think there's any sense in which people should
be ruled by rules and laws and the commandments, then what you're
saying is that folks can go out and live like they want to. Well, let me give you an answer
to that. Let me give you an answer to that. You can write it down, and you
can publish it worldwide and sign my name to it. If you love Christ, just do whatever
you want to. It'll be all right. If you love Christ, just do whatever
you want to. It'll be all right. I said that
in Australia, 1989, I think it was, we were down there. A bunch
of legalists gathered around and they had heard what a vile
antinomian I am, how we promote all kinds of evil things and
licentiousness. And he said to me, he said, does
that mean your wife can do anything she wants to? I said, well, of
course it does. She loves me. She can do whatever
she wants to. She can sleep with anybody she
wants to. Yes, she loves me, she can. You mean no rules? No. We don't live that way in my
house, do you? Do you? My soul, I pity you if you do.
No. We live in our household loving
each other. Loving each other. I've just
got the one daughter, you know, Now, when she was growing up,
we had some rules. Actually, we just had one. I'm
right. That's the only rule. You do
what I say. Didn't you discuss things? No.
When I wanted to, we did, but that was the rule. I'm right.
Well, didn't you consult her? I didn't ask her if she wanted
to move here when we moved down here. No. No, we're moving. I'm paying the bills. I'm feeding
you and clothing you. You're going with me. Going to
college? They're young adults. Now, maybe,
but as long as I'm feeding and clothing, you're going to do
what I say. Going to do what I say. And then she got married. Now, I just love her and expect
her to love me, and we get along pretty good. And I haven't told
her what to do about anything in more than 15 years. How come? Because she's grown. I don't
pay the bills anymore. I'm not responsible anymore.
She's not under my dominion anymore. But then the relationship, it's
the best it's ever been. Everything she does now, I know
she does just because she wants to. She doesn't have to do anything. She doesn't have to call me.
She doesn't have to send me a birthday card. She doesn't have to do
something because she's expecting to get something out of me. Anything
she does, She does just because she wants to. That's the rule by which God's
people live. The love of Christ constraineth
us. Religious traditions don't pay any attention to them. Well,
don't you think it'd be good to just practice the law to show
folks that we love the Lord? No, no, it's horribly evil. It's
horribly evil. We're forbidden to do so. Read
the second chapter of Colossians. The apostle writing by inspiration
said, don't keep Sabbath days. Don't keep holy days. These things are but a show of
will worship. Don't do it. Don't be brought
into bondage to these things. It's wrong. We live by the faith
of Jesus Christ, our Redeemer. We have lots of traditions and
customs in religion. I was raised down south, down
where I was raised in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Do you know almost
everybody I knew all my life used tobacco? Preachers too. Almost everybody. Oh, and preachers
didn't dare say anything about it. Man, that's where everything
came from. Everything. It's called Winston-Salem, North
Carolina. But we didn't go mixed bathing.
Now, for you folks who don't know what that means, that means
boys and girls didn't get to go to the swimming pool together.
No. And we didn't wear shorts. Shorts? Christians? Diane knows what
I'm talking about. You weren't raised that way.
No, no. Oh, my soul. Just the thought,
you can feel the blisters on your behind. No, no, no. But we also didn't drink wine. And we didn't think about drinking
beer. No, that was evil. And we didn't go to the picture
show. No. When I got to be about 18 years
old, just a year or so after God saved me, I met up with some
folks from up above part of the country, you know, somewhere
above the Mason-Dixon line or thereabouts, up in that refined
northern section where folks were smarter and more educated.
And I found out they went mixed bathing. Boys and girls swam in the same
swimming pool at church camp. I'm going to move north. They used alcohol, but they didn't
smoke. And buddy, it was hell to pay
if you did. They didn't smoke, and they didn't
chew, and they didn't spit where they didn't chew. No, sir, because
that was evil. I found out that for most people,
holiness was very much a regional thing. Very much a regional thing. It was holy if you lived in the
north to wear shorts, but if you lived in the south, it was
unholy. It was holy in the north. If you didn't smoke in the south,
it was all right to smoke. Let me tell you something. Those things have nothing to
do with Christianity. Nothing to do. with Christianity. Nothing to do with Christianity. Christianity is liberty in Christ
the Lord. It's family life. It's sweet. It's blessed. It's joyful. And this liberty we have now I can't tell you how delightful
it is for one who's been in bondage. But Merle, this is nothing compared
to the liberty awaiting us. Now we're free from the dominion
of sin and the guilt of sin and the bondage of sin and the fear
of death. In the world to come when God
makes all things new, we will be free from the being of sin. From all the evil consequences
of sin. No more strife. No more war. No more hurt feelings. No more
injuries done or injuries experienced. no more sickness, no more sorrow,
no more pain, no more death, because there'll be no more curse
and no more sin. Larry Brown, for God gets done
with this thing called His creation and wraps all things up for us
in the glorious liberty of the sons of God He will have, by
the hand of His grace, completely removed the slime of the serpent
from His creation. And all that shall be known of
sin, all that shall be remembered of sin, all that we shall hold
in our thoughts of evil shall be the remembrance of sweet,
complete deliverance by free grace in the blood of God's dear
Son. That's called liberty. Liberty. Believe on the Son of God, and
right now, you're on Canaan territory. You're in the territory of the
New Jerusalem. You're free. and you will never
be returned to bondage. God give you liberty in Christ
Jesus. Amen.