Turn with me now to Philippians,
the third chapter. I want to talk to you for a little
while this morning on this subject, what is gain
and what is loss. Paul talked about forgetting.
He said, this one thing I do, forgetting those things which
are behind. There were some things that Paul
said were lost, and there were other things that Paul said were
gained. Some things he wanted to hold
on to. Some things he pressed toward.
Some things he struggled to attain. Other things he turned loose. I'm going to skip over the negatives
of the chapter back here where he talks about the dogs and the
concision. I think everybody in here is
aware of who that is. The Judaizers. I don't have to
go back to the book of Acts and Galatians and that and show you
these things. These are all negative things.
He's talking about men who come and want to mix works and grace. That's who these dogs are. He
calls them dogs because they nipped at his heels all the time.
Everywhere he went, like a little pack of dogs, nipping and biting
and causing problems. If you go to the book of Romans,
I'm just going to read it to you. The Holy Spirit defines
grace. Now, regardless of what it is
he is talking about here, he pauses. Now, what he is talking
about is an election of grace. But he pauses here, and by the
Holy Spirit of God, he preserves here a definition of grace. And
here is what he says in Romans 11, 6. If by grace, then is it
no more works, otherwise grace is no more grace. So if you talk about works, he
said, if it be of works, then is it no more of grace. Otherwise,
work is no more work. If you work for something, you
earn your wages and a man pays you for what you did. But if
a man just walks up and hands you something, he'd give it to
you. That's grace. That's grace. For no reason. Just hands it to you. That's
grace. There is no gray area. There
is no undefined place, no point of compromise, works or grace.
Now, let's begin here in verse 3. Paul said, We are the circumcision. That's what these men were. They
were trying to promote circumcision. They were trying to carry over
or reform that old Jewish religion that they had been ingrained
in since they were children. They wanted to make a place for
the law and the ceremonies and the types and all those things
that they did. They wanted to have a place for
it. Actually, the most difficult thing for a Jew- now, I just
want you to try to put yourself in their place. The most difficult
thing for that Jew was the concept that everything in his history,
Everything in his past, all of his sacrifices, the rabbi, the
synagogues, everything in his past, the temple, the sacrifices,
the kingdoms, David, Solomon, all these men, were of no benefit
whatsoever except as they pictured Christ. He couldn't have that. He couldn't
have. And neither can the average religious
person today. I don't care what the religion
is. I don't care what it is. It doesn't matter. It doesn't
matter if it has a name. You go in there and you begin
to tell them that no matter what you do, God's not going to accept
it. It's just foolishness. The only
thing God accepts is what Christ did. And He'll accept you on
that basis. No other basis. You see what
I'm saying? They couldn't get over that.
That was the stone of stumbling. When Jesus Christ came, he was
the stone of stumbling. He's the head of the corners
of God's church, but he's a stone of stumbling to them. And they
couldn't get over it. They just couldn't get over it. And so here in verse 3, he said,
We are the circumcision, which worship God in the Spirit, rejoice
in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. Now,
here's three more. of a true believer. You look
around and folks question, well, I don't know if that man's really
a believer or not. Well, here's three marks. Here's
three marks. You see, God is spirit. He said
they worship God in the spirit. What's he talking about? I could
name you a hundred Pentecostals in my past that I've been associated
with, ran into, come up against, whatever you want to call it.
But I can look back over years and years and years and every
one of these people called worshiping God in the spirit running around
the room. Or playing the guitar and the drums and working up
some kind of an excitement and getting a good feeling or coming
into the church and there's candlelight and all that type of stuff, and
you just get in this feeling, you get in this aura that comes
on you, and they call that worship. They call that worshiping God
in the Spirit. Now, let me tell you something. What this is talking about here
is the revelation of God by the Spirit in the person and work
of Christ. Everything else is idolatry. Write it down. I don't care how good it makes
you feel. The Spirit of God never calls attention to himself. Never. Never. He does not teach or instruct
apart from the person and work of Christ. You can read that
for yourself over in John 16, verses 8 through 14. He tells
you, when I'm gone, I'm going to send again the Comforter,
the Holy Spirit of God. When He's come, here's what He's
going to do. Here's what He's going to do. And He names it.
He puts it up there. Number one, here's what He's
going to do. He's going to convince of sin. Number two, He's going
to convince of good. Number three, He's going to convince
of righteousness. These things. Here's what He's
going to do. Here's what He's going to do. When the Spirit
of truth has come, verse 14, truth has come, he will guide
you into all truth, for he shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever
he shall hear, that shall he speak. He shall glorify me, that's
what Christ said, for he shall receive of mine and show it unto
you. Here's how you worship God. When
God unlocks the mystery of the Scriptures and points you to
that glory I talked about in the Sunday School lesson this
morning, when He opens your eyes to see that in His face, then
you worship God. That's worshiping God. And he
said, this is how believers worship God. They worship Him in spirit
and they worship Him in truth. The true God. You can't worship
God in ignorance. Paul told those folks on Mars
Hill, he said, whom you ignorantly worship. You can't worship him
in ignorance. There's nothing to worship. Nothing
to worship. You've got to know him, who he
is. You can't call on his name if you don't know his name. You
can't even be upset at his name unless you know his name. Wasn't
anybody upset until these men of God come along and said, here's
the true God, then they got upset. You can't get upset in your ignorance. You just go on in your ignorance
at peace. It's when somebody stands up
and tells you the truth, that's when you get angry. That's when
you get upset. True worshipers worship God in
the Spirit. Paul prayed over here, listen
to this, over in Ephesians 1 verse 17. He said that the God of our
Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the
spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him. That's
where you're going to learn about God. It's a revelation. And the revelation comes in the
person of Christ. And when he does, We can worship
God. Secondly, he said true believers
rejoice in Christ Jesus. They don't rejoice in a music
program. We're not going to hire a man
to come here and be a musical director and hire a piano player
and hire all that stuff done. We're not going to get into that.
We don't rejoice in that. We don't rejoice in that. I used
to. I don't rejoice in that anymore.
I don't care if she plays out of key or we sing out of key.
I don't care. It didn't say make a pretty noise unto the Lord.
It said make a joyful noise. We rejoice in Christ Jesus. We
rejoice in Christ Jesus. We don't rejoice when some entertainer
works up some kind of an emotional excitement. We don't rejoice
in men's experiences and in their faithfulness Church history and
all that type of thing. We don't rejoice in arguments
and debates. Some men do. Some men are happy
to argue. I knew one up there in the church
in Danville. He lived for that. He'd bait
them. He'd get on the Internet and
bait them with things that he knew they were going to challenge
just so he could get engaged in an argument. We rejoice in
Christ Jesus. That's where we rejoice. What
have you gotten that you haven't received? You got something you
haven't received? And if you received it, why do
you act like you didn't? That's what arguments and debates
are about, is to try to elevate yourself a little bit above this
man. So you find you somebody, and
usually you won't find somebody that you can win an argument
with. If this guy knows too much, you'll back off. You won't get
anything to say. Why do you do that? Because you're
trying to elevate yourself. You're trying to get yourself
up in the air. We rejoice in Christ. We rejoice
in Him. When you find, if you find, yourself an outcast of God, is
that what Paul said? He said, you remember this over
at Ephesians 2. Remember where you come from.
You were Gentiles. The Old Testament didn't have
anything save you. God never said a word. He ignored
you for 4,000 years. He never said a word. Let your ancestors dance around
bears and statues and fires and offer their kids sacrifices. He just passed you by. You remember
who you are and where God found you. You was a heathen. You was
a heathen. Ignored and despised. He was
like that little girl over there in Ezekiel, is it? Ezekiel 16,
that you were telling me about. You were reading that outcast,
that baby laying there in its blood. Somebody didn't even want
it. Didn't even want it. Just throwed
it out there in the sand. They didn't salt it. They didn't
clean it off. They didn't do anything for it.
They just threw it out there in the sand and went on. That's
where God found you. in the sand in your blood. That's
where he found you. That's where he found you, ignored,
despised. And God picked you up in his
arms and he cleaned you off and he takes you and pulls you into
his bosom. I tell you, you don't see yourself
above anybody anymore. You just lay your head on his
breast like John did and love him. I'm so weary of hearing folks
rejoicing in things that have no bearing on life, that have
no root of love, that show no signs of grace. Christ is the
Son over His own house. I read it to you last week over
in Hebrew. He's the Son over His own house,
whose house are we if we hold fast to confidence in the what?
Rejoicing of the hope. Can you rejoice in that hope? I can't rejoice in that hope. I don't have a righteousness
apart from His, but I've got one in Him. I've got to face a holy law of
God. I tell you, sometimes you read
through the book of Hebrews and you see something about the Word
of God, the Word of God. If that doesn't scare you, you've
passed being saved. You've passed. You're a reprobate. Nothing, nothing that's not made
open and exposed to the eyes of God. This Word can see so
deep in it. Let me read it for you. I'm just
going to stop and turn over here to the book of Hebrews. I want
to read this for you. Don't separate the Word of God from God. This is His Word. This is His Word. Listen to this,
verse 12, Hebrews chapter 4. For the word of God is quick
and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing
even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the
joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of
the heart. Neither is there any creature
that is not manifest in his sight, but all things are naked and
open under the eyes of him with whom we have to do." I don't
scare you, you're beyond scary. Russell, he can tell before I
open my mouth what my heart is set on. He can tell before I
take that check and lay it in the offering plate or in the
box or wherever you put it. He can tell the intent of my
heart. And I tell you, we run and we
do these little things and we just feel so proud because we
did it. Can you imagine what God sees
when He looks in and sees the intent of the heart? I tell you, I rejoice in Christ. He can take these worthless things
that I do. I mean, at your best, they're
half-hearted, ain't they? Come on now. Tell the truth.
They're half-hearted. And He can take those half-hearted
things and make them acceptable to God. Those old Jews, they
brought them sacrifices, and you know after 10,000 of these
things, they was half-hearted. And they brought them up, and
they gave them to the priest. And the priest took them in,
and God accepted them out of the hands of the priest. That's
what we do. That's what we do. That's why
we rejoice in Him. And I'll tell you this, believers
don't run around with their head in the sand. They rejoice. They
rejoice. And then listen to this. Here's
the third mark of a believer, of a true believer. He's got
no confidence in the flesh. Nothing. No confidence. They look inside and find nothing. It's just an empty sack. They can't find anything in which
to glory, nothing in which to hope, nothing in which to boast,
just death, corruption, infinite evil. Now, I hope you'll hear
me. It's never measured. You haven't
even begun to perceive the depths of your depravity. I don't care. What is the worst evil thing
that you could imagine? Satan? You're no different from
him. Sin is sin, isn't it? What did
he tell those Pharisees? He said, you call God your father. He said, if God was your father,
you wouldn't hate me. He said, I'll tell you who your
father is, the devil. And the works of your father
you will do. You're just like him. Just like
him. And so am I. So am I. I'm telling you, it's just an
empty sack. We haven't begun to plumb those
depths of human depravity. And I'll tell you why. Because
God in His providence and by the power of His Spirit keeps
us from being as evil as we could be. He holds you back. I'll give
you a couple examples. Marriage. God instituted marriage. But now you take that man, you
take him out of that marriage, away from his children, away
from his community where people see him, out of his turk, and
you put him in a uniform, and you hand him a gun, and you teach
him how to fight, and you take him over in that jungle and you
turn him loose. You've got a different man on your hands. And I'm telling
you something I know. I've been there and been brought
back. And I'm telling you, when they come back, they have to
stage you back down. They can't just bring you back
and turn you loose in society. You kill somebody. They've got
to get you back down where you can live among men again. The
Holy Spirit of God, He restrains men by all kinds of means to
keep you from being as evil as you could be. And every now and
then, he'll turn one loose and he'll do something and, boy,
we'll stand back and, whew, I can't believe anybody could do that.
Oh, that's you, but by the grace of God. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you'd be the serial killer.
You'd be the rapist. You'd be that man that you, whoever
he is, whatever that thought is, that you just can't even
bear to think, that's you, but by the grace of God. A true believer has no confidence
in the flesh. Now, listen to this. Paul said
in Philippians 3, verse 4, ìThough I might also have confidence
in the flesh.î Now, listen to what he says, ìIf any other man
thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh,î
he said, ìI got more.î The apostle Paul had everything,
everything. that a religious man could desire. Russell, he could speak in tongues.
Isn't that what he said? He said, I can speak in tongues
more than you all. That's what he said. He had the
gift of healing. He could heal. All good. He raised
the dead. One fellow fell out of the window
listening to him preach and it cured him. And Paul went over
there and raised him back to life and went on to preach till
morning. This man had a life. He said,
touching the righteousness which is of the law. People talk about
keeping the law. Paul said, I was blameless. You
could go back in my history, you can't find one spot, one
blemish in my righteousness. He tithed of everything he owned. He attended every time the door
was open. He had zeal. He went out and
persecuted the church. His zeal wasn't one that just
sat back and said, well, I hope things work out. No, he was on
the front line. He was right out there holding
a coat, stone. He was down there seeking papers
so he could go out and kill some more of them, for God's safety. He had everything religion wants. Read it. There's a whole description
over here. Lots of religions talk about
covenants. He had the covenant. He was circumcised
the eighth day after the commandment of God. He had parents that were
believers. They come out and picked him
up, took him down according to the law and had him circumcised.
He had the heritage. Some folks believe in a heritage
and a bloodline salvation. They want to go back and trace
their roots. He had the roots. He said, I'm a Hebrew of the
Hebrews of the tribe of Benjamin. He had everything religion desires
to have, I'm telling you. He had it. He was schooled under Gamaliel,
one of the smartest, most brilliant teachers that the Jewish people
ever had. Gamaliel. Paul said it at his
feet, learn from him. He attained the highest position
in the church. He was a Pharisee of the Pharisees.
He wasn't just a Pharisee. He was the hope of the Pharisees. He was the Bill Graham of the
Pharisees. There he was, up on top. I'm telling you, everything that
religion desires to have, Paul had it. We talk about wanting
it and getting it and all that. We did for years in our church.
He had it. He had it. You know what he said
about it? He said, this is loss. Huh? All of it? All of it. Loss? What on earth? This man, I mean, he was dedicated
to God as a baby. Raised in the strictness of the
Jewish religion. found a zeal in his heart to
go after it, become a member of it, become a man of integrity
in it, established his zeal and so on by what he did. And one
day this man met the Lord Jesus Christ, and all these things,
he just took them and went like that. It's lost. It's gone. It's
done, he said. I don't have to explain to you
what that is. Now, wait a minute. When he threw
his down, he threw his mom's down, didn't he? Huh? Come on. When he threw his righteousness
down, he threw his aunt's righteousness down. He threw his friend's righteousness
down. He threw his best friend's righteousness
down. He threw the whole outfit down.
He said it's all loss. It's just loss. It's just lost. Listen to this over here in Romans
2, verse 28. He said, He's not a Jew which
is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward
in the flesh, but he's a Jew which is one inwardly, and circumcision
is that of the heart in the Spirit and not in the letter, whose
praise is not of men but of God. That's what Paul was. That's
what he learned. And when he learned it, he turned
to looks. He just let go. He just let go. What on earth can cause a man
or woman to do that? Huh? My daddy, he was a Nazarene. He was raised in the Nazarene
religion. And I tell you, He's a monarch
in our family. He really is. He was a patriarch. With sixty-some grandchildren
and great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren, there's not a one of them who
wasn't at his funeral who just bawled and cried because they
loved him. He was in every sense of the
word a true father. But he was so ingrained in that
Nazarene religion, and when I come home and told him that I heard
the Gospel and that I believed the Lord opened my heart. He
got so mad, I thought he was going to hit me. He wasn't mad. He was upset. We couldn't even
talk. I mean, this man had read and
studied the Bible long before I was born. We had nine children. I was the last of the nine. And
so when I'd talk, he'd just bury me in Scripture and I'd have
to go home and sort it all out. This and that, and then I'd come
back and talk again. Well, he'd just bury me again, and I'd go
back and find the answers to that and bring them back, and
this went on. Pretty soon, we couldn't even talk. And one day, God opened his heart. John, he was 75 years old. Being raised, and I'm talking
about raised in it from the time he was a child. Engrained in
him. He thought it. He lived it. Before
his family. He walked the walk. He didn't
just talk the talk. He turned her loose. What's going
to cause a man to do that, Russell? He saw the glory of Christ. That's what Paul said. He didn't
just count it lost. He counted it lost for Christ. You see, salvation is for sinners.
That's where we get messed up. Salvation is for sinners. Vile,
putrid, unclean, hopeless, helpless, defiled sinners. Until you can
see yourself the leper, you're not going to seek cleansing.
You might want to join the club, but you're not going to seek
cleansing. You're not going to beg for mercy until you see yourself
guilty. Just men don't beg for mercy.
Just men stand up and say, I'm just. Guilty men bow down and
cry for mercy. Those two old men left in the
city under siege, starving to death, they said, I'll tell you
what we're going to do. He said, I don't know, but I've
heard these kings of Israel, They're merciful and gracious
men. He said, so here's what we're going to do. We're going
to make a hangman's noose and we're going to put it around
our neck. You can read about it. Pull that rope up. And they both of them come out
with a rope on their neck coming out. Guilty. Guilty. Threw themselves
on their mercy. Guilty. Salvation is for sinners. A believer is a man or a woman
whose eyes have been opened to see his inability and sin. They
know what they are, and they know how they got there. And
they know they can't get out. They can't work their way out,
they can't climb their way out, and they can't talk their way
out. There's only one way out, and that's for God to come down
and lift you out. And if He don't, you're going
to die in your sin. You are going to stand before
God in your sins. I don't care what you have done. He tells you over here, the Lord
Jesus Christ tells you Himself what men are going to plead in
the judgment. Have not we preached in thy name,
and did many wonderful works in thy name, and cast out devils
in thy name, and give of ourselves to you, sacrificed our lives? He said, depart from me, I never
knew you. He said, Depart from Me, you workers of iniquity. I never knew you. Oh, salvation is for sinners. All we have when we come to Christ
is an empty clay pot, and we beg Him to fill it. Everything we hope for, everything
we desire, We see promised in the Word of God everything we
want but cannot even attempt to take. We bring it and lay
it down at His feet and say, Lord, if You will. Do you know
that leper that came and worshipped Him and fell down at His feet
was forbidden by the law of God to come to Him? The leper had
to stay outside the camp. He could not have anything to
do Especially with a man like Jesus Christ, the priest of God. He couldn't have anything to
do with it. All he could do was cover his mouth outside the cave.
He was forbidden from worship, from sacrifice and everything. That leper came and worshipped
him and fell down at his feet and he said, Lord, if you will,
you can. You can. It's for sinners. Oh, Paul had all the credentials.
He had all those things. He could tell you his family
tree and all those kinds of things. But one day God showed him the
emptiness of it. He showed him it was all defiled.
It was just all defiled. It was all unclean. All unclean. He had all these things. And I'll tell you what it's kind
of like. He said this. Let's look here at verse 7. Philippians
3. He said, What things were gained
to me, those I counted lost for Christ. Now, you go down here
to the bank. You put your paycheck in there.
And then tomorrow you go rent some equipment out and they give
you some money. You go down and put that in an account. Next
day you make some more transactions, you put that in the account,
and then you go on a little bit further and somebody dies and
you get a little bit of inheritance and you put that in the bank
and you get feeling pretty good. I've got some pretty good security
now built up in there. And then you get your statement
that says zero balance. Everything that you hoped was
in there was worthless. Now that's what Paul's talking
about. He's telling you that we're going to have to give an
account before God. Here's the account, he said.
All these things, he said, I counted them again. I put them, he said,
you think you've got some confidence? Here's some confidence. And he
told you what he did. He had more than any other man.
But one day, God showed him the account. Zero balance. Zero balance. And he said, I
saw what it was. It's just loss. Just loss. All these things that were gained,
he said, his heritage, his zeal, all these things, they're just
loss. Just loss. All the glitter. All the glamour.
He saw Christ and it just blowed up into a thousand pieces. I
remember one time we were I was working with the young people
in this little church, and we had a car wash. And this was
a little tiny church. It was about the size of this,
just a little church. And there was, what, maybe about
five people in there, young people I was working with. So we decided
we was going to earn some money for the church, do some remodeling
on the church, so we had a car wash. And we weren't expecting
very many people. Well, these older folks in the
church, they wanted to promote what I was doing, so they just
went out and told everybody. There was about 20 cars came
over the house. We was hand washing these cars.
And I'll tell you, we worked for about 10 hours, 11 hours
straight, washing cars and drying them and waxing them and doing
things to them. And we got all done. And later on that evening, I
mean, we would just give out. Later on that evening, we was
in there having a Bible study in the house, and we was talking
about this very thing. Talking about this very thing.
And my wife was worn out, and she looked over there, and she
said, you mean all we did today was for nothing? All for nothing. That's what
Paul said. Think about what he sacrificed
in his life. Nothing. Just loss. Just loss. All the glitter and glamour of
religion was blown into a thousand pieces. Suddenly everything he
thought he had was gone. But what he had when these things
were gone was everything. It's everything. He said, Yea,
doubtless, and I count all things but lost for the excellency of
the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. What would you trade
this morning for that knowledge and for that glory that you see
and that voice you hear? What would you trade? What good thing have you got?
What good thing is it that you're trying to hold on to that you
wouldn't throw down for that knowledge and that glory? So you're going to throw it down
if you come to Him. You're going to throw her down. What did he see? What in the world did this man
see? He saw one thing. He saw that holy thing that God
put in that womb of the virgin. He saw that holy thing. Being in Him, everything God
ever promised and purposed to be done, He saw it in Him. He
saw in Him the pearl of great price. In that illustration the
Lord gave of that man who found the pearl, what was it he was
required to give? What did he give? Everything. That's what the merchant told
him it was going to cost, everything. But when everything costs nothing,
everything is worth nothing, then you buy without money and
without price, don't you? And that's what Isaiah said.
Buy it without money and without price. There was a time when Paul thought
his seed was everything. They were just like them Jews
of old. We've got Abraham to our father.
We have Moses to our father. We have God to our father. They
just went on and on and on talking about them being the seed and
the circumcision and all them things. They could just never
get over it. Here's this same man, the same man who defended
this to the death. Here's this same man, John, after
he saw the glory. And listen to him talk over here
on Galatians 3. Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises
made, he saith not, and to seeds as of many, but as of one, and
to thy seed, which is Christ." Boy, he knew something about
circumcision now. God operated on his heart. He believed in elections. He
believed God chose Israel, separated them from every other nation
in the world. And that's what made his ancestry
so important to him. If he couldn't prove his ties
to Israel, he couldn't prove his election. That's what makes
religious people so angry today about election, because it destroys
their tie with God. Without a universal redemption,
they've got no tie, they've got no connection. Well, the reason
for that is this. You read Romans chapter 9 and
see if this ain't the reason. He said, I told them, I told
them beforehand that you might know that the purpose of God
according to election might stand. It's not of works, but of him
that calleth. It was said to her, the elders
have served the younger. As it's written, Jacob have I
loved, Esau have I hated. This thing's of God. It ain't
of you. You don't have a connection.
He's the connection. You have Him, you've got everything
God has for sinners. And then when you find Him and
go to Him, you'll find out everything you've got is just dung. That's
all it is. That's what Paul's talking about
here. That's what he talks about all through this book of Philippians.
Those things which I counted gain. All those things. What
have you got this morning? What have I got this morning
that I count gain? Let me turn it loose by the grace
of God. Let me throw it down. And when
you do, you're going to say this, don't just throw it down today.
Paul said, now, he said, here's what I do. Here's what God did
for me. I counted those things but lost.
But he said, don't you get the idea that I've already obtained
this thing. This thing sat out there before
me. And he said, I press, I press toward that. That's what I want.
What he has is what I want. I want to sit where he sits.
Spiritually, that's where I'm at. Seated with him at the right
hand of God. But I'm not there in body yet.
Paul said, I ain't got this thing yet. This thing ain't over yet.
I'm pressing toward the mark for the prize of the higher calling
of God in Christ. And he said, here's what I do.
I forget those things which are behind. I don't know a whole lot about
this church, but I know any church I've ever been into has a history.
It's a history. Let me tell you where your history,
why they call it history, it's behind. It's behind. I'm going to tell you what to
do with it. He said, those things which are behind, he said, I
count them but loss. Loss. Turn it loose. Turn it
loose. Good, bad, or indifferent. Turn
it loose. Now let's get our eyes focused
on that goal and press toward that mark. That's where the love's
at. That's where the grace is at.
That's where the mercy's at. This is the end of the whole
purpose and counsel of God. Right there. Let's go that direction.