This morning I would like to speak out of the book of Ephesians
chapter 4. Ephesians chapter 4. Before we begin, let's go to
the Lord in prayer. Our Father, we are indeed thankful
for this precious time to meet together. And Lord, for the blessing
of assembling ourselves in your presence. And we realize that
this is a time of soberness, a time of great opportunity,
and we ask you to bless it. Bless it to our hearing. Bless
it to our understanding. Lord, may we be edified in what
we hear. Bless the Word. Honor yourself. We thank you for this time, for
Christ's sake. Ephesians chapter 4, I'm deviating from what we normally
do, which is take both messages and services and look in the
book of Revelation. I plan to look in the second
service in the book of Revelation and pick up in chapter 9 where
we left off. But I'd like to deal with a passage
of Scripture this morning that I'm convinced the Lord has laid
upon my heart this past week. I dealt with looking and seeking
and striving after the message of this passage. I heard Brother
Henry Mahan say one day, he said, are not coming together and just
looking for a message. He said they are looking and
listening for God's message. What is God's message today? I think of that often. And I prepare and ask and think. There are 66 books. In this Bible,
in each of those books, there are multiple passages, verses. Doctrinally speaking, we can
set forth and bring a Calvinistic message. But God's message, I
want to hear from Him. I want to know, what does God
have to say? What does He have to say to me? I'd like to deal
with a passage this morning that I've never spoken of. Ephesians
chapter 4. And the verse that I'd like to
actually look at, not begin reading there, but come up to it, is
verse 30. Ephesians 4.30. And Paul says, And grieve not
the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of
redemption. Now, I thought on that and asked
the Lord for some understanding in it. I asked Him to speak to
my heart. Now, this morning, I'm not going
to, I know how we will sometime, we'll go 20 minutes, 25 minutes
the first message and then take the regular service. If I go
over on this first message, I'll probably make it up on the back
side, maybe not preach as long out of Revelation 9. But I'd
like to deal with this passage. It's been so heavy on my heart,
and I really, this morning, I just don't want to be governed by
a clock. We'll stay here the right amount
of time, and we'll eat on time. But I want to deal with this.
I want to just give you a little bit of my thought process, and
then I want to deal with the passage. As I began to think on this passage,
and grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby you are sealed
until the day or unto the day of redemption. As I began to
think on that passage, the first thing I did was looked up the
word grieve. That seems to me to be where
we should start. If it is going to be a passage
that says, ìgrieve not the Holy Spirit of God,î then I want to
know what does it mean. The word actually means ìto distressî
or ìto make heavy.î That seems to fit what I would
think the word ìgrieveî would be, and therefore I continued to think on distressing
or making heavy the Spirit of God. I know that in every believer
there are two natures in a believer. I know that. I am convinced of
that. Romans chapter 7 bears that out. Paul says, And he's speaking of himself
in me. This is the way I am in me, that
is, in my flesh, that is, in that old nature, in that old
man, that old man born in Adam, the way that I came forth from
my mother's womb speaking lies in me. There dwells no good thing. I know that. I know that. No good thing. There's not one
thing that is in the old man that is good. Nothing. Nothing. I cannot, I can't think
a good thought. I can't say a good thing. I can't
think a good thing. I can't intend a good thing.
I just, there's nothing about me in my old man that does good. I know that. It can't be reformed. It can't be cleaned up. It can't
turn over a new leaf. It's just not good. There is in me, that is in my
flesh, there dwells no good thing. Now, on the other hand, I know
there's another nature that's in a believer. Now, this is a
new nature. This is a nature that's born
from above. This is a nature that is given
by Almighty God. It is imparted. That means it's
put within you. The Lord said, I will give you
a new heart. I'll give you a new spirit. I
will place within you. Now, the Scripture speaks of
being born again. Born from above. Now, this is
not something that you or I have the ability to do. I cannot. If it was left up to me to birth
myself or to create myself, number one, there was nothing there
to will it. I mean, when there's nothing
there yet, humanly speaking, How do I create something when
there's nothing there? I mean, there has to be something
there to say, I think I'm going to create myself. Something's
got to start. So I couldn't create my first
self, my human self, and being dead in trespasses and sins,
then I don't have the ability to create a new self. I don't have that. It's just
not there. I'm dead in trespasses and sins. So now I've got two natures that
I'm dealing with. I've got an old nature that cannot
do anything but rebel against God. Can't do anything but sin
against God. And I've got a new nature that
is born from above. And this new nature, the Scripture
says in 1 John, sinneth not. Why? Because his seed remaineth
in him. All right, now, I think we've
established that we've got two natures. We've got an old nature
that cannot do anything but sin. There dwells no good thing in
me. But, Paul says, but with my mind. That is my new mind. New man. New creature. Created
in Christ Jesus. That new nature does nothing
but love God, obey God. He says, with my mind, I serve,
I bow to the law of God. Now, you've got two natures on
the opposite extremes, and they don't deviate. Neither one of
them deviates. That old nature never does anything
good, and that new nature never does anything but obey God. Black and white, no gray areas. Now, I will tell you this, there
are some struggles that we do have, definitely. And we war,
and I mean, that old nature strives against the new nature, one against
the other. And as far as your understanding
of it, you see both sides of them. As Paul says, I see in
me there dwells no good thing. Well, the question arose in my
mind, grieve not the Spirit of God. Just about everything I could
read on that gave this interpretation. It's when we think evil thoughts,
it's when we do bad things, the Spirit of God is disappointed,
grieved. Well, my thought process continued
this way. Well, there's an old nature that's
not going to do anything but that. I'll never do anything. If the Spirit of God is considering
and looking at me, in the person of Adam, that old man that does
nothing but rebel against God. Well, then I'll never do anything
but grieve him because there's none good. No, not one. If he's then looking at that
nature that does nothing but rebel against God, and I shall
grieve him continually in that nature, then what about my new
nature wherein dwells righteousness? As Romans 8 says, there is therefore
now no condemnation to them that be in Christ Jesus. So the more
I looked at this passage, the greater perplexed I became. How, number one, is the Spirit
of God looking at me? How does He look at every believer?
I'll tell you exactly how he does. He looks at them in Christ. Then what does it mean to grieve
not the Spirit of God? I've heard that passage. I've heard it quoted. But I want
to know what it means. I want to know. If Paul the Apostle,
under the inspiration of the Spirit of God, wrote down, ìAnd
grieve not the Spirit of God, whereby youíre sealed unto the
day of redemption.î Donít you want to know what that means?
I do. The first thing that we must
do whenever weíre considering a passage of Scripture is look
at it in the context in which it was written. If you'll read
what it says before and what it says after, you'll have a
much better understanding. If you try to isolate a passage
of Scripture and just say, that passage of Scripture right there,
taken in its context by itself, means so-and-so, and you do not
consider what was said before and what was after, more than
likely, more than likely, you'll miss it on what it actually means.
Judas went out and hanged himself. Does that mean that's what you're
supposed to do? You say, well, it's scriptural. Well, yes, it's
scriptural. But what did it say before that
and what did it say after that? Why did he do that? What did
he do? Let us look this morning at a
passage of Scripture that I believe the Lord has laid on my heart
to set forth, and may we learn, may we be edified. I need to
know. I need to know. I know this,
that of all things that can be said of a believer, here's one
thing that I absolutely know is so about a believer. I know
that a believer is obedient Christ. I know he is. John 10.27 says,
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them. I know them eternally,
I know them effectually, I know them personally, and they follow
me. It means they accompany me. are joined to me as a disciple. They follow me. John 17, 6 says,
I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me
out of the world. Thine they were, and thou gavest
them me, and they have kept thy word. Now you ask a believer,
have you kept the word of God? Have you kept? And they say, I do hunger after Him. I do long
for Him. I do. I know I do. They've kept Thy Word. What does
it mean, they've kept Thy Word? It means this, they have attended
to it carefully. They've guarded it. This is a
precious Word. Is this not? Is this the Gospel
of Christ? The Gospel of free grace? Is
that not a precious word? Guarded to. In the time of adversity,
in the time of trial, in the time of the chastening of the
Lord, whenever God's merciful hand of His goodness and His
love, His grace and His compassion There are places of believer
in a situation where they're going to have to trust Him. They're
going to have to wait on Him. They're going to have to believe
Him. Is not the Word of God all your hope? It is. It kept Your Word. It guarded Your Word. They stood
on Him. The believer is obedient because
Almighty God is the source and the power of that obedience. That's why they're obedient.
They've kept Your Word. Why? Because God's kept them.
God's maintained them. Hebrews 12, 2, looking unto Jesus,
the author and the finisher of our faith. who for the joy that
was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and
is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." Kept it. Why? Because He's faithful to
keep them. You listen to this command, Philippians
chapter 2. Turn with me there, Philippians
chapter 2. Just turn over about two or three
pages over from Ephesians to Philippians chapter 2, verse
12 and 13. Paul says, Wherefore my beloved,
as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now
much, and now in my, let me start over. Wherefore
my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence
only, but now much more in my absence. Work out your own salvation
with fear and trembling. Now, wherefore, my beloved, as
you've always obeyed, that is to say that you've always hearkened
to God's command. A believer does. It hearkens. Not as in my presence only, but
now much more in my absence. Work out your own salvation with
fear and trembling. Now there's a thought-provoking
passage. Work out your own salvation. Well, I know that we're saved
by grace, not by works of righteousness. What does it mean to work out
your own salvation? What sense are we to work out? Obviously, we are. Obviously,
that scripture is not placed there and is meaningless. What
does it mean, work out? Listen to this Scripture, 1 Thessalonians
1, 3, "...remembering without ceasing your work of faith, labor of love, and patience of
hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of God and our Father."
Remembering your work of faith. You see, my interpretation of
what work is that is acceptable before Almighty God, and what
God's revelation of what He accepts concerning a good work. Now,
that's a good work, the work of faith. Galatians 5, 6 says,
For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision,
but faith that worketh by love, by the love of God to you. Faith
is given unto you to believe. Now, a believer is the first
one that's going to admit, I'll tell you, I cannot do anything
that will please the Lord. If I believe Him this morning,
it's because God's given me a heart to believe Him. It's because
the Lord has laid upon my heart trust in Him, believe in Him. Work out! Work out! We work out our salvation. That's
scriptural language. We work out or we manifest it
out. It's manifested out in time. Let me say it like that. You
understand that terminology? Work it out. Manifest it out. It's a delivering forth. It's
an evidencing of. It becomes seen as we've looked
at in the book of Acts. And Barnabas, he saw the grace
of God. He saw it. As I've said before,
a believer sees the grace of God. He sees the evidence of
the grace of God. He sees it. He knows it. He perceives
it. He detects it. Not that that
person is doing anything, of himself and by himself to be
able to accomplish what the believer sees in others, the evidence
of God working in them to will and do His good pleasure. Work
out, manifest out, manifest out your own salvation. Work it out by faith, by faith. and labor of love. Listen to
this, with fear and trembling. Work out your own salvation with
fear and trembling. Fear. Reverence toward God. Reverence. We come this morning
in reverence before Him, before God Almighty. This is absolutely
a blessed Precious, precious time. We don't come this morning
just, you know, as I heard some neighbors I had in Franklin.
He said, you know, well, are we going to do church today?
Like, you know, are we going to do Wal-Mart? Are we going
to just...? We come here in reverence. And
trembling, trembling, that Word This is the definition of trembling.
The anxiety of one who distrusts his ability completely to meet
all the requirements. Trembling. That's the way a believer
works out. He manifests out his own salvation
with fear and trembling. Work it out. Look at Luke chapter
8 and verse 18. Here's a precious precious passage of Scripture.
The Lord speaking. Well, let's read verse 16 to
18. Luke 8, 16. No man, when he hath lighted
a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed, but
setting it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may
see the light, the manifestation, of what He is. I've said this
so many times and I believe it's so. A believer speaks like a
believer and they act like a believer. I see it. Is there an old nature
in them? Absolutely. Absolutely. But I
will tell you this, they speak and act like a believer because
there's a new nature there. No man lighted a candle covereth
it with a vessel. Verse 17, nothing is secret. that shall not be made manifest,
neither anything hid that shall not be known and come abroad.
Take heed, therefore, how you hear. For whosoever hath, to
him shall be given, and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken
even that which he seemeth to have." If you have a margin there
on your Bible, mine says, or thinketh that he hath. Take heed
how you hear. When I come this morning, when
we come together this morning, take heed. Take heed how you
hear. Is there a work? Absolutely. John 6.29 says, Jesus answered
and said unto them, This is the work of God. that you believe
on Him whom He has sent. God's work. This is the work
of God. This is the work of God. This
is the work of God. This is God's work. What is God's
work? Here it is. Here's the manifestation
of it, that you believe on Him whom He has sent. That's God's
work, not your work. The manifestation of it is faith. But the accomplishment of that
verse is found still in Philippians chapter 2 verse 13. For it is God, Paul had just
said in verse 12, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,
for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of
His good pleasure. There's the work. God Almighty. Every command. command for obedience
and acceptance before God is met and accomplished by the Lord
Jesus Christ Himself. 1 Thessalonians 5, 24, Faithful
is he that calleth you who also will do it. Now, knowing all
of that that I've said, and this is the reason why I said we'll
just change our order of service this morning. Turn with me now
and let's look at Ephesians chapter 4 and find out what is the context
of grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, distress not the Holy
Spirit of God. Now, that's a command that every
believer would truly desire to obey. Distress not the Holy Spirit
of God. But you remember what he commands,
he accomplishes. Remember that. This verse, as
I said a while ago, is found right in the middle between two
verses that shed great light on the meaning of this passage
of Scripture. And we interpret Scripture by
Scripture. We interpret Scripture. And that
Scripture must always be taken into context. You remember me
telling you one time, if somebody comes up to you and tries to
take a Scripture and use a Scripture and says that this Scripture
proves man's ability to do or man's free will or something.
As I've always said, you take that Scripture, you put it up
on a pole, and if you can knock that Scripture off by another
Scripture that absolutely, definitely can refute what they say that
Scripture is saying, then that Scripture doesn't mean what they
said it means. Okay? I'll give you an example. John
3.16. Somebody says, for God so loved the world that He gave. They say, now that proves, that
absolutely proves that God Almighty loves everybody without distinction
and Almighty God's desire is that everybody is going to be
saved and everybody that will accept the offer that He's given
them, that that proves that God loves every man without distinction.
Proves it. All right, well, I'm going to
just set it up on a pole now. Okay. John 17, 9. The Lord says, I pray for those
men that you've given me out of the world. I don't pray for
the world, but I pray for those that you've given me. Are you
telling me then that the Lord, who you say, desires everybody
to be saved, are you telling me that He's not going to pray
for them? He's not going to pray for them. Who's he going to pray
for? I'm going to pray for those that you've given me out of the
world. Well then, your interpretation has got some holes in it. If
I knock that off, now, grieve not the Spirit of God. Let's look at verse 29. Verse
29, and let no corrupt communication Proceed out of your mouth, but
that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister
grace unto the hearers." Paul the Apostle has been speaking
to the church. He is speaking to the believers. He is speaking to God's people
at the church of Ephesus. And he is giving them some instruction
whenever their in the midst, whenever they're together, whenever
they're assembling together in worship, whenever they're congregating
together. He said this is some instruction. Let me give you some. Let no
corrupt, that is rotten and worthless is what that means. Let no corrupt
communication, doctrine, preaching proceed out of your mouth, which
actually is from the heart. Matthew 7, 17, the Lord speaking,
says, even so, every good tree. Now that word, good, right there,
means good in character. The reason I'm saying that, because
listen to the whole passage. So every good tree bringeth forth
good fruit. You'd think, well, those two
words mean exactly the same. They don't. They're different
words. Two different words for good.
The first one means good in character. Meaning this, that which Almighty
God has created is a man. Well, the Scripture says, in
Barnabas, he was a good man. He was a good man. Well, I thought
Paul says that there is none good. That is, in themselves
there is not. From Adam. Every good tree, every
good tree in character created in Christ Jesus. Every good tree
in character bringeth forth Good fruit. That word is worthy. Worthy
fruit. That's what it means. Worthy
from above. That which God accepts. Every
good tree in character brings forth good fruit. But
a corrupt tree, a rotten and worthless tree, bringeth forth
evil or hurtful fruit. Hurtful. So in Ephesians 4.29,
the apostle Paul exhorts the believers, first of all, don't
speak that which doctrinally is worthless and rotten. A believer
is not going to do that. He's not going to. He's not. A believer, if God's got a new
heart, If God has given a new heart to a believer, he's not
going to speak doctrinally that which is rotten. He's going to
speak that which is profitable concerning the Lord Jesus Christ. He's not going to speak that
which is worthless and evil. You cannot claim to be a believer
and set forth worthless or rotten Doctrine. It just won't happen. It just won't happen. You tell
me that a man is a believer, a woman is a believer, and he's
going to sit down and he's going to speak worthless, rotten doctrine. The goodness of man, the inherent
goodness of man, and the free will of man, the ability to please
God based on his own ability. Is he going to do that? No. Why?
Because he cannot. He just can't. God's seed remains
in him. Stand up here and try to tell
men with conviction and claim to be a believing preacher. If Donnie gets up and starts
preaching free will, something's wrong. I'm wrong. It won't happen. Why? God's given him a new heart. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 9.16,
For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of for
necessity is laid upon me, yea, woe is unto me if I preach not
the gospel. Woe, what the woe of God is on
me. Remember that angel that cried,
woe, woe, woe in the book of Revelation? Woe is unto me. Listen, Jeremiah, and I'm telling
you this is the heart not only of every gospel preacher, but
it's the heart of every believer. Jeremiah 29, For then I said,
I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in my heart
as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with
forbearing, and I could not stay." I couldn't stop. Why? Because God Almighty had
put a heart in me that had a heart for Him. And I loved him and
I want to. Paul says in verse 29, let no
evil communication proceed out of your mouth but that which
is good to the use of edifying. That which is good, profitable
to the use, to the requirement of edifying. Now what does edifying
mean? You say edifying. Here's what
it means. It means the building of a structure. Edifying. The building of a structure. Promoting another's growth in
the understanding of the grace of God. Grow in grace? Well, obviously, God's grace
is God's grace, and God's grace doesn't grow in the essence of
it, but your understanding of it. gross. You grow in the knowledge
of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, that it may minister,
that it may give, that it may bestow grace unto the hearers. Now, Paul is saying to the believers,
when you come, when you're here, when you're coming together, speak that which is profitable.
We come together and we learn. We fellowship. This is some of
the only times we ever see each other. But when we come together,
not that which is corrupt, unprofitable. Don't do that. Look at 1 Corinthians
14.6. 1 Corinthians. 1426. How is it then, brethren, when
you come together, every one of you hath a psalm, a doctrine,
a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation, Let all
things be done unto edifying. We're respectful people. God's
people are respectful. You'll be charged and accused.
Well, I tell you what, you guys just take this thing just too
far. You just, you know, you all are just too, you know, loosen
up a little bit. You know, let it all hang out.
Let it rip, you know. Let's just have a good time.
No. No. There's a time and a place for
everything. And this is not the time and
not the place for foolishness and disrespect. We've come together
today in the presence of Almighty God, respectfully. Paul says, when you come together,
we don't all come together and and all sing just whatever we
decide we want to sing, and we don't all get up and everybody
start preaching whatever they want to preach, or we don't all
stand up and pray at the same time. There's not confusion within
the body of Christ. That's what he's saying. Let
it be done to edifying. That's verse 29. putrid, rotten, unprofitable
communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is
good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace to
the hearers." We've come together today for this purpose. I want to hear what God's got
to say. And the Lord has established that we come together in the
unity of the faith. And we come together respectfully.
Saved by grace through faith, we believe Him. And when we come
together, we come together to hear. And Paul says then, "...and
grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby you are sealed unto
the day of redemption." Cease from grieving. Cease from grieving
or do not have the habit of grieving. What does he mean? Just exactly
what he just said before. Coming together. Distress not
the spirit that moves in the midst of his people. The Spirit
of God is the one that speaks of Christ. I don't know exactly
what you've gone through this week. I know some things of some
that's gone through this week. And for that I am so thankful
that Almighty God has been pleased to show mercy, compassion, and
has been pleased to manifest His will in granting grace and
a heart of thankfulness. I don't know what you've gone
through, but I tell you this, this morning coming together,
I'm thankful. that we've got a time that we
can come together. And this is not the time for
foolishness and frivolity. All of you know me. Some of you
have known me longer than others. And there's not a person in this
room, I'm telling you. I can say this without even a
thought. There's nobody in this room that
has more fun picking and having fun than me. I love it. I enjoy
it. I'll pick at you, and you pick
at me, and we'll all have fun. There's a time and a place for
everything. And this is not the time and place. Grieve not the
Holy Spirit of God, the movement, the direction, the teaching. In this context, the Apostle
is speaking to the church and to the believers. Grieve not. Ephesians 4.3 says, endeavoring
to keep the unity in the bond of peace. How is that? Well, now verse
31. Let all bitterness and wrath
and anger and clamor and evil speaking be put away from you
with all malice. Let all sharpness, bitterness
is what it means. Sharpness and offensiveness in
speech. I really, when we come together,
I know somebody's gotten their feelings hurt or somebody's done
something. I understand that. I understand that. Strive. Strive
to not grieve. Mate, listen. You're looking
at the one that is the most guilty. Right here. Really right here.
Let all bitterness and wrath That word wrath means outburst
of indignation. It's not the place to air out
our differences. It's not it. It's not it. And anger. I was wondering, what's
the difference in wrath and anger? That word wrath means the outburst
of indignation. There's no problem. This is not
the time to, you know, let's just get it on out. We're going
to get in the back of the room right here, and let's just get
it over with right now. I've got a problem. That's wrath. Outbursts of indignation. Anger
means a view to take revenge. Well, I know she's sitting over
there, and I know she's sitting over there all pious and all
this kind of stuff. But I know, you know, I'm going to get you. Oh, may God teach me, settle
me down. And evil speaking, slander against
God Almighty and others, and put away from you with all malice,
all troublesome, injurious, destructive ways. Verse 32, And be kind one
to another, tenderhearted forgiving one another even as God, for
Christ's sake, hath forgiven you." Be kind. Useful. Useful is what that word
means. Useful. There's nothing that just puts
away just that spirit of, you know, like a kind word, you know. Useful. Useful. concerning God's grace, concerning
God's Spirit, concerning God's Word, God's mind. Be kind one
to another, tenderhearted, sympathetic. Sympathetic. Sympathetic. If you want to know how quickly
you can be sympathetic towards someone else, Just try to put
yourself in their shoes for one moment and ask yourself this,
how would you feel, what would you say if you were going through
exactly what they're going through? You want to know how quickly?
You put yourself in their position right now and ask yourself this,
if you heard that report, what would you do? How would you feel?
kind, useful, sympathetic, forgiving one another, gracious to one
another, even as God, for Christ's sake, hath forgiven you. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of
God. Boy, I tell you, whenever we
come together, I think, you know, we've got just Oh, just a few
minutes here, really. I mean, relatively speaking.
We don't have that long. And when we come together, let
me ask you this. Pray for me. Pray for me. I said before, I'm not just a
doctrinal message. I've heard enough messages. I've
heard enough preaching to where I could pretty well just, you
know, coldly That's what I'm saying. You know what I'm talking
about. Just, you know, Mitch, you've heard your dad preach
long enough. I mean, you know, doctrinal,
Calvinistic doctrinally, but is it the doctrinal, cold doctrine? Is that what you want to hear?
Or do you want to hear what does God Almighty have to say to me?
I want to know what God's got to say to me today. I call my son periodically. And I'll tell you this, I'll
bet you anything, Gabe's not concerned about what I told him
five years ago. He's not finding peace and comfort. Well, my dad called me five years
ago and we talked about stuff like this. What does he have to say to me
today? I want to know what he's got to say to me. the Holy Spirit
of God, the Spirit of God's Spirit, endeavoring to keep the unity,
the bond, peace. Be kind one to another. Be sympathetic
one to another. Tenderhearted. Forgiving one
another as God, for Christ's sake, has forgiven you. Well,
I hope that was helpful to you. It was to me. I needed to hear
it. I needed to see it. And the Lord speak to my heart
about it.