You know, the scriptures say
we have this treasure in jars of clay. And we who preach, we
see the treasure, but we feel the clay. I was sitting there
as Brother Thomas was preaching. I listened to him and looked
over my notes. The treasure was very clear, but now that I'm
standing up here, I can all feel the clay. But the Lord made water
come out of a rock. cause the light to shine out
of darkness, you might do it again. If you open your Bibles
to Galatians chapter 4, I want to say, speak on a subject. The
truth is we do only have one subject. And that's what's good about
these conferences. All the men are preaching the same thing.
You've just got one message, really. A fellow in our church,
you know him, Albert Baker, a few years after I'd been there in
Rock Valley, and we'd had a few guest preachers come in by then.
He confided in me, he says, you know, he says, first time you
went away, we're going to have a guest preacher here. I said,
I didn't know what to think. Because he's used to this, being
in a church where every time a new preacher came in, there's
a new message. Everybody had something new to bring, new to
say. And he said, I'm kind of worried about what we're going
to get. And he said, you know, every fellow you brought in here
just said the same thing. I said, well, they'll all speak
with one lip. And having found the right note, we just keep
playing it over and over. But Paul says here in Galatians
chapter 4 verse 19, my little children, of whom I prevail in
birth again until Christ be formed in you. And that's our subject,
Christ formed in you. Now, salvation is a grand work.
My brother pointed these out. I'm going to just repeat what
he said in a little bit different words. But salvation is a glorious
thing. And that's why I know that what
we normally hear being preached by fellows that call themselves
gospel preachers, that they're not preaching God's gospel because
what they hold forth isn't all that good. is not worthy of God. But the gospel is glorious, characteristic
of the God who made it. This is the God who said, let
light shine out of darkness, I would expect that his gospel
would bear the same kind of character. He spoke and it was, he commanded
it stood firm. By the word of His mouth, He
made everything that is. And if He can do such a thing
as that, I think He can come up with a gospel better than
the pitiful thing we hear preached regularly from the pulpits of
this country. But it's grand and glorious things. It's grand
and glorious because of the depths to which it goes to rescue sinners. You hear a gospel that makes
you become something besides a plain old sinner before God
can save you. A gospel that says, well, God's
done all He can. Now you've got to do something
else. You've got to reach up some before He can get you. Well,
just leave that gospel alone. It's not a glorious gospel. It's
not the gospel of the glory of the blessed God. It's the gospel
of glorious sinners saved by the pitiful God. No, but look
at what He goes for. Paul says, you see, you're calling
an election breath. Look what God got. Oh my, he scraped the bottom
of the barrel. He went to the dregs. He didn't
take the fine wine off the top of the cask, but he went where
nobody else would go. And he dredged up the worst. Well, I'm not the worst. Too
bad, then. Because Paul said, God, Christ
Jesus came to the world to save sinners, of which I am the chief.
And every sinner he's ever saved has been the chief. Oh, he goes to great debts. But
this gospel is glorious also because of the great heights
to which it takes these sinners from the debts. I'm weary of the gospel if the
only thing it has to offer is heaven. Have you ever noticed that? That
the gospel that is preached in most of your pulpits offers heaven
as the great reward, and Jesus Christ is what you've got to
tolerate to get there. They treat sinners like they're
the beautiful prom queen who just, for some reason, she can't
get in to the prom unless she's willing to go in with the nerd.
The only guy left to ask her, you know, well, you're going
to have to go in with this goofball over here. Now once you get in,
you can dance with who you want. The only way to get in is to
go in with him. I love when one of the old preachers from a couple
of hundred years ago said, he flipped that right on its head.
He said, well, who wouldn't want to go to heaven if Christ is
the way? You see, heaven is not what makes
Christ glorious. Christ is what makes heaven glorious. And if Christ ain't there, I
don't want to go. But you know, heaven is a wonderful
place to go, and the way there is just wonderful. It's Christ. But the gospel doesn't just take
us someplace. Remember that guy, a fellow wrote
a book called, or pamphlet, Predestined to Hell? No, you know, because
he's trying to come out against Calvinists and all this kind
of stuff. Well, friends, it's not predestined to heaven either.
Do you know predestination isn't about where you are? It's about
what you are. It's not predetermining your
destination, it's predetermining your destiny. The destiny of
the elect of God is to be like Christ. And they read the book of Revelation,
and they read about golden streets and pearly gates, and they get
all wild about that, and think they're going to have their mansion
with the columns out front, you know, and with a two- or three-car
garage. And if you're a good Christian,
you get a single car. If you're a really good Christian,
you get a double-car garage. And if you're one of them super-fellas,
you get a triple-car garage with a balcony out the back. And they'll even go and say,
well, I want my little cabin over in the corner. You know,
that's the way they pretend like they're humble. What it proves
is I haven't got a clue on what that whole thing is about. Christ is the glory of heaven,
and being like Him. You know, the Lord prayed there,
and He's praying for His people, and He's praying the best blessings
on them He can think of. He says, I would, Father, that
those which You have given Me would be with Me where I am. The only reason for going to
heaven is to be with Christ. and that they may behold my glory."
And John says that when we behold His glory, we're going to be
made like Him. Oh, think of what you were and
what you are, and then think of what you shall be as much
as you're able to grasp that, and you'll have something of
the glory of God's gospel and His salvation. Talk about a great
salvation, Tom. There's a great salvation. We
dress up all kind for Sunday. We're kidding everybody. We put
on clothes not to impress God, to impress each other. But we
know what we are, don't we? No deceit in a believer. And then this gospel's glory
is because of the many marvelous works of grace that God performs
that come between the depths where he found us and the heights
where he takes us. All of it is God's work. Scriptures
say, He that began a good work in you, will perfect it. He started
it, he's going to get it done. It says, God's grace, all the
works shall crown through everlasting days. It lays the first and topmost
stone, and well deserves the praise. And I could only approve
on those lines by one thing, not only the first and the last,
but every stone in between. It laid the first stone of electing
love, and it laid the topmost stone of making us like Christ
Jesus and glorifying us, and it laid all those stones in between
of redemption and regeneration and preservation. Indeed, we
shall be trophies of the grace of God, because nothing else
had anything to do with our salvation. Oh, this is a great salvation.
And you know, when we stand back and look at this thing as it's
revealed in the Scriptures, it looks so neat and orderly. And
we can wrap our minds around it to some degree. I mean, we
can get our doctrines lined up and we can say, well, this happens
and then this happens and then this happens and it's all nice
and we can put it in our book and stick it up on the shelf
and everything is so good. The trouble is the experience
of it is not nearly as neat and orderly as the theology of it
is. We believe in election. Have
any of you ever seen it? You ever see it happen? We weren't
there, were we? We believe in redemption. Not
one of us saw it happen. And we can have our theology
of redemption, but I'll tell you, the men who stood there
and watched it happen didn't know what was going on. We believe
in the regenerating work of the Spirit. And we try to tell people what
it's going to be like. And yet it's not the same way
for any two believers. All men try to say, well, you
know, if God will ever open your eyes, you're going to see this,
that, and the other. Well, sooner or later. Some people, there's regeneration
and they jump up and down, and God just seems to set them free
all at once. And others, oh, there's life
in them. But there's this long process. In fact, for all of
us, it's a lifelong process. Regeneration isn't, but conversion
is. It's not so neat and orderly
as our theology makes it out to be. It's messy. And sometimes
we stand in serious doubt, and Paul did. He said, I don't know,
I've got some hope, but I'm not sure about you, all my
dear children. It's like I'm trying to give
birth to you all over again. And my heart is not going to
be at peace about this until I see Christ formed in you. We often see little evidence
that any work of God's grace has begun in somebody or ourselves,
much less that that work has been finished. Paul sets before us this verse
of scripture, and he draws three illustrations. from conception, gestation, childbirth,
parenting. This whole business of the creation
of new life. And he doesn't reverse order.
He starts out saying, My dear children, that's part of my folks
ought to have been born. And you know, he had hope for
them that indeed that was the case. They had been born. Then
he says, I travail. Now wait a minute. You don't
Over children that haven't been born. I know children that haven't
been born a lot of work. But it's not childbirth all over
again. And then he says, all that Christ performed in you.
And there he changes the metaphor just a little bit. And he talks
about the process of gestation. Now that was a mystery to them
back then. They knew how that started. And they knew how they
hoped it would end. But they didn't have these ultrasound
machines back then. They didn't know what was going
on inside that woman. They had a woman be married and
they'd want children. They'd be intimate. She'd get late. Ooh, a little hope. Maybe a child.
And the later she got, the more hope there was. And then her
stomach would get a little bit bigger. Oh, I think something's
going on. And she'd feel a kick. And she'd
get big, but I'll tell you, nobody rested. Nobody was sure until
there was a live, healthy baby born. Because they didn't know
what was in there for sure. And you know, we have preached the gospel.
That's the intimacy. You're born again of the seed
of God. The Word of God. There's been
the intimacy of gospel preaching. And there's been some indication
maybe that there was some conception that went on. And we got some
hope. But Paul says, I'm not going
to rest. I'm not going to be at ease until
I see Christ formed in you. Paul's love for these people
and his concern for their eternal well-being would not allow him
to write them off, even though it looked like maybe this was
going to be a miscarriage. That's what he was saying. I'm
afraid that this isn't going to come to term. There's something
wrong. But he wouldn't write them off.
He didn't say, well, you know, God chose them, it will all work
out. He didn't say, Christ died for them, it's going to be okay.
We must never, ever despise the means. simply because we understand
the end. You know, it says, He that began
a good work in you will perfect it till the day of Christ. And
then Paul says in Ephesians that he ordained pastors and teachers
for the perfecting of the saints. Let no man called to ministry
think that he can shirk the responsibility. of that labor, that travail that
goes on, even after people have professed the name of Christ.
Well, that's all well and good. We may think that a conception
has taken place and we've got hope, but I tell you, there's
work yet to be done. There's labors yet to be done. And let no member of the church
despise the man God has sent, as though you don't need him.
You say, well, God's all I need. That's true. How do you think
God's going to come to you? Well, I don't have to go to church.
Well, if you're dead, you don't. Isn't that so? If you didn't need a pastor,
why God send you one? I know, as I said, we're just
clay vessels, but God put a treasure in there. Don't you want the
treasure? And you just have to tolerate the fact that the only
way the treasure comes is in the clay vessel. You ain't going
to get it without that. And I'm not trying to exalt this,
I'm saying this for your good that you not despise the vessel
by which God brings His treasure to you. You want to be perfected? You're going to have to tolerate
that imperfect vessel through which God brings you that which
truly perfects you. Right now at this moment, if
you're going to hear the gospel, you're going to have to put up
with me. Because at this moment, I'm the man that God sent the
preacher to. That doesn't exalt me, it's just a fact. It's the
way it is. Paul had a great hope for them,
but that hope had been put in doubt by their willingness to
follow the Judaizers. He said, I want Christ to be
formed in you. Like a doctor who has concern
over the pregnancy of one of his patients, Paul worried that
the beginnings of faith in these Galatians would prove fruitless
in the end. that the pregnancy would be aborted
or be a miscarriage or a stillbirth. He said, I fear that I have wasted
my labor. What would ease his mind? He
could see Christ in men. He could see Christ formed in
men. These words give us some insight into the nature and process
of salvation. My wife gave me a watch because
there's no clock on the back wall. And I was looking for it
a minute ago and couldn't find it. And you'll be glad if I do.
Because he said we could stay here all day. And I said, well,
good. There's so much I couldn't end
up going over and I lose track of time. So you'll be glad I
got that thing so you're not here forever. But it shows us, gives us some
insight into the nature and the process of salvation. You know,
salvation is not finished, and aren't you glad? Aren't you glad? When our Lord said it's finished,
His work was finished. There's more work to be done.
There's the work of the Spirit of God and calling. There's the
work of the ministry. Paul says, I finish up the sufferings
of Christ. Not the sufferings that put away
our sins, but there's labor to do. And anybody that preaches
the gospel will tell you there's some suffering that goes on,
some suffering of soul and travail of soul in it, some suffering
of persecutions and war. These things go on. And they
are part of that process. of salvation, because salvation
encompasses all the work of God, from finding us like we are to
making us like Christ. And it ain't going to be done
until it's done. So it's a process. And to paraphrase
Paul, he says, I'm in travail until I can see sufficient spiritual
maturity in you to be confident that truly you have been born
of God. Now, let's note these things about salvation revealed
in what Paul says. First of all, salvation is the
impartation of life. It's the giving of life. It's
not simply the reforming of what is already there, but a beginning
of something that was not there until that point. He didn't say, well, I hope you
get better. Can't wait until you're reformed.
And I don't mean that theologically. I just mean, you know, he talked
about birth. You know, when a child is conceived
within a woman, you know, they keep saying, well, a woman can
do with her body what she wants. Well, fine, but that ain't her
body. That's somebody else's body in there now. That's somebody
new. And when we are born again by
the Spirit of God, somebody new that wasn't there before is now
there. There is a spiritual nature. Now, it's not a full-blown person.
Man was created flesh and spirit. When he sinned, the spirit died
and the flesh started dying. And salvation, it begins with
a regeneration of that dead spirit. And it's going to finish up with
the regeneration of its flesh. It's two resurrections. Born again is the resurrection
of the spirit. And that which we normally call the resurrection
is the resurrection of the flesh. We're going to be made spirit
and body like the Lord Jesus Christ. And the spirit, if you're
born again, it's already been done to the spirit. God's not
improving on what's already there. He started something brand new.
He imparted life to that which is dead. He gave existence to
that which was not there before. People aren't born spiritually
alive, and as long as they don't kill themselves by some kind
of sin along the way, they'll stay alive. It's not as though
people are spiritually alive, but because of their sin, they're
going to be executed at the Day of Judgment. They are born spiritually
dead, incapable of understanding the spiritual thing. They see the things of God. Why?
He can't hear them. He doesn't understand them. Why?
He doesn't have that faculty, that nature which can commune
with God. My dog's got a nature like mine
in some things, but not in everything. He can understand the tone of
my voice, but he can't understand my words. And you know, the natural man,
he knows there's a God. That's pretty obvious. The flesh
can know some things about God, His eternal power and Godhead.
He's the Creator. They can know all those things,
but they can't know God. That's right. No, we've got to be spiritually
born. We've got to be made spiritually alive. Our Lord said, you must
be born again. For you've never seen the Kingdom
of God, by that He means to perceive it. You don't become born again
by understanding the kingdom of God, it's the other way around.
You don't become born again by believing, it's the other way
around. Because you can't enter into the kingdom of God. The
Lord's preached to me in my youth and that's heaven. The kingdom
of God is not heaven. Heaven is part of the kingdom
of God, but it's not the same thing. Have you believed? You've
entered the kingdom of God. And it's because you were born
again. But this life does not spring into being fully formed. When you were conceived in your
mother's womb, she didn't even know it happened yet and you
didn't. And you weren't ready to come
out yet. It's going to take some time.
You know often, spiritual life, nobody else knows about it except
the one who made it. And even when that baby comes
forth, now you think about this, when a baby comes forth from
a woman, he looks at it, but it's fully human. There's a human
form in that woman that comes out, but you know something?
It's not done. In fact, it's not done until
it's about 25 years old out of the womb. Now you're going to
look at that baby and say, well, I ain't going to believe your
lie until you can talk. That baby there at his mother's
breast, and he suckles there taking in the nourishment. You've
got to say, I want you to describe that milk to me. I'll tell you one thing that
baby knows. He knows it's what he needs, and he knows where
he can get it. And it keeps him alive and makes
him grow. And before long he'll begin to
talk. And he'll say things he doesn't fully understand and
cannot define. In fact, I ask you this. You
all talk and you understand words. But I bet you most of the words
that you use, if I said define that word for me, you couldn't
do it. We use the word is all the time. Define that for me.
We know it intuitively because that's how you learn language.
The hardest way to try to learn a language is to get a dictionary
in that language and memorize the definitions. You know how
you learn a language? You sit around it. You listen
to people talk it. And before long, you gain the
sense of it. And you begin to use it, even
though you don't have the ability to give a dictionary definition
of it. You see, people don't spring to spiritual life fully
formed. They still got to learn. I've been preaching the gospel
25 or so years, something like that. I'm still learning. And
the more I speak it, the more I can give definition to some
of these words I've been using and kind of understanding all
along, but I'm still learning. And when I die, or when the Lord
comes back, I'm going to find out there's a whole lot more
to learn yet. I'm going to have a better teacher, at least a
better visible one. But it doesn't come into this
world fully formed, and we dare not lay upon infants the responsibility
of being adults. And we dare not cast doubt upon
the life of an embryo. I realize maybe it's in doubt,
but don't speak with any certainties about it. This description of maturing
is called Christ formed in you, not Christ personally. Why? Because Christ doesn't need to
be formed. That's already happened to him. He's already conceived
and gone through the full process. He's glorified. No, it means
that may there be a new person in you that's like the Lord Jesus
Christ. And we're going to find out what
that means in a minute. It's simpler than you think and much more glorious
than you probably think. The goal and perfection of our
salvation is that we be like Christ. We are predestined to
be conformed to the image of his Son. That's what Paul's talking
about. I want to see some evidence that
that's happening. To have Christ formed in us is
to, spiritually speaking, have the mind of Christ firmly settled
in our hearts. And what is that mind? People
say, well, that you would be loving. like Jesus Christ is.
Well, it's related, but that's not what he's talking about,
I don't believe. It's to be kind and to have concern for the poor.
Well, I think that if this mind that he's talking about is in
there, that will eventually grow up as a fruit. But there's something
much more basic, I believe, that Paul's talking about here, that
it's Christ being formed in you, and it lies at the very foundation
of what salvation is about. in chapter 3, verse 26. We'll
read a few verses here. Galatians chapter 3, verse 26. For ye are all the children of
God by faith in Christ Jesus. Now skip down to chapter 4, verse
4. But when the fullness of time
was 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. Wherefore thou art no more a
slave, but a son. And if a son, then an heir of
God, through Christ. What is Christ formed in you? It's the heart and mind of a
son. It's ceasing to relate to God
like a slave under his master, beginning to relate to God as
a son before his Father. Jesus Christ, the Son of God,
by nature and by birth, made himself a slave under the law
that we who were born slaves might be made sons. He was born
under the law and made of a woman, just like you and me, so that
we might be born of God. What's Christ formed in you?
Being a son. And to lay aside this stupidity
of working to gain the inheritance. Oh, how hard that is. I can put
on the morality, friends, but it is just so hard to act like
a son. It's so hard to believe that despite all my sins, the
Father pities me. He no longer is going to send
me to hell for my sin. He looks on my sins and if we
can put it... He feels sorry for him. He says,
oh, that boy of mine. He's hurting himself again. And he looks on all my failings
and he says, well, he's but dust. It shouldn't surprise me he acts
kind of dusty. Oh, but what do we do? We act
like children born of an abusive father. It doesn't matter what
we do, we're scared to come in his presence. We figure he's
going to beat us up. He's going to lay into us. I guess it's suitable that this
be preached on Father's Day. We all have an idealistic image
of fathers. And some of us try to meet it,
but we know how very short we fall of it. But here's a father
who is what a father should be. Yes, sometimes He deals with
us in harshness, but it's a loving harshness because it's what we
need. But you know, the Lord never punishes His people. He
disciplines them. He chastens them. You say, what's
the difference? Well, the first part of punishment is punitive.
God never exacts a penalty from His people. Why? If you fathers want to learn
how to be a good father, watch God. See how God deals with his. He never unleashes his fury on
his children. If there's any regrets I have in
raising my kids, and there's plenty, plenty. Oh, I despise
every time I reacted to them with the fury of an offended
judge, my children. Oh, if we could just learn to
be the children of God. I love my dad. He was such a
great man. Well, he still is. He's not dead.
He's still alive. We'll visit him in a couple of
days if he lives that much longer. And I don't think my father ever,
ever laid into me out of righteous indignation. He always did what
he thought was right for me. And my Heavenly Father does even
better. And my Father, though I didn't want to get whippeds,
even when I did wrong, I was never afraid to face Him. Even if I knew I was going to
get whipped, I wasn't afraid of Him, because I knew He wouldn't beat
me. Neither should we ever be afraid
of our Heavenly Father. We reverence Him. We stand in
awe of Him. But we need never tremble like
a criminal in his presence. That's what these Galatians were
starting to do. Because them lawmongers had come in. And they
started making them into slaves. And they started being afraid.
Oh, I haven't done enough today. I haven't worked hard enough.
There won't be any food for me at the table. Because I am just
some worthless slave who didn't do good enough. Is that how you
want to live, after the weak and beggarly elements of the
life of a slave, or would you like to live like a son? Even if you just made a royal
mess of the day. You made it a royal mess because
you're royalty, you're the son of the king. And you eat at the king's table,
regardless of what the day may have been. And Paul says, I tremble
for you, I prevail for you, I'm worried about you until I see
you start acting like a son. Now, how does a man become a
son? Well, in some respects, the same way, Jesus Christ came
to this world. Look over here at Luke chapter
1. He did in verse 34. The angel
is talking to Mary and says, You're going to have a child.
And Mary, whatever else you may say about her, she had been a
good Jewish girl. She was a virgin. And she thinks
just like everybody else would. You know, every other virgin
would think if somebody said, You're going to have a kid. Verse
34, How shall this be seen? I know not a man. She said, The
means for this happening hasn't happened. How is it going to
happen? Here's the first thing about
a child of God being born. No man's got anything to do with
it. It's not going to be by anything natural. It's going to be a supernatural
work going on. All us preachers standing up
here, we don't conceive anybody. We don't. And the angel answered
and said to her, verse 35, the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee.
That's how this thing gets started. The Holy Spirit of God comes
on a man. This seed of the Word of God,
while it is preached by men, is just dead until the Spirit
of God makes it the living seed of God. And the Spirit of God
takes that, and He implants it in a person. He brews over that deep of a
man's heart, and He puts life in there. It says, "...the power
of the highest shall overshadow thee." That's the only power
that will do this, the power of God. Therefore also that holy thing
which shall be born of thee, the result of this is something
holy. It's not an admixture of some good things in with the
old. It's not just cleaner sewer water. There's something brand
new born, and it's holy and righteous like the God who made it. That
new nature within a believer, it may not be perfected yet,
that is, it may not be mature, but there's no flaw in it. That
seed conceived within a woman, it doesn't look like a man. But
I'll tell you, it's 100% human right then. Everything it takes
to be a mature person is there right then. All that's necessary
is some time. A child doesn't become more human
in the womb. Starts out a human and stays
human the whole process. And we're going to be made like
the Son of God, and this process has started within the heart,
and I'll tell you, it's full Son of God in there. It just
needs some maturing time. And then it says, that holy thing
which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. And when the Spirit of God brings
life into the heart of one of his elect, I know he's not the
Son of God like Jesus Christ is, but he is a Son of God. and respects his humanity, he
is like the Son of God. What's that going to result in?
Turn back to Galatians 5. Verse 22. But the fruit of the
Spirit, the fruit of the power of the Most High, overshadowing
The fruit of Christ being formed in you, which is what the Spirit
of God does, is love. Here's where we start acting
like it. Oh, you love your family, don't you? You ever notice that? You'll put up with things out
of your family. You won't put up with anybody else. And the sons of God love the
other sons of God. They just do. They don't fight
and bicker and squabble all the time. Or if they do, they get
over it. Lot joy. Where am I happiest? Among the other sons of God.
I'm so happy here this weekend. I'm with others in whom Christ
has been formed. And just as God's Spirit bears
witness with our spirits, so through Him our spirits bear
witness to one another that we are the children of God. And
all our family reunions are good things. There's joy in that. People say there's going to be
a family reunion. There is one. Every Sunday, get together with
them and you'll find your joy among them. Joy, peace. There's peace in a good family,
isn't there? We don't always do what we think
one another ought to do, but we get together and there's peace
among us. Long-suffering. Yeah, there's some putting up
with each other to do. Spiritually, Christ has formed in us, but
His flesh, there's nothing done to that yet. So we've got to
tolerate the clay pot while we enjoy the treasure. Gentleness. You're easy with your family,
aren't you? You ever nervous how you can be so tolerant with
your kids? Something gets tore up, you know, and you're all
mad. Who did that? How's your boy? Oh, okay. Son, don't do that anymore. All
are gentle among the people of God. Goodness, don't you like
to be good to others? Faith, faithfulness, meekness, temperance. There's not any law against any
of those things. And it flows naturally from those
in whom Christ is formed, in whom there is sonship. You get
a bunch of slaves together. Watch out. Watch out. It's going to be war, because
they're all trying to be the top slave. They're all trying
to be the steward in charge of all the other slaves. The sons,
you see, they're already the firstborn, so none of us have
anything to fight for anymore. And we're all heirs. We're all going to get the same
thing. Nothing to fight for or fight over. all that Christ performed
in us, we'd act like sons. Lord bless you.