There is a statement in 1 Corinthians
3.21 that's absolutely astounding. Were it not written in the book
of God, it could not be believed. But it is written, all things
are yours. And that's my subject this morning.
All things are yours. Read the rest of the text with
me. Verse 21. Therefore let no man glory in
men, for all things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas,
that is Peter, or the world or life or death or things present,
or things to come, all are yours. And ye are Christ,
and Christ is God's. Now first, let's pause for a
minute to think about the people to whom the Holy Spirit makes
this promise. All things are yours. It's a promise that judged by
the light of instruction given from pulpits and seminaries and
textbooks on theology and church order is made to the most unlikely
of people. This promise is made to God's
saints at Corinth. God's saints at Corinth. Corinthian believers. I have
occasionally, not often, occasionally seen church signs that I look
at and I think, why on earth did anybody name the church like
that? I've forgotten where it was now,
but there's someplace I've driven by recently where the name of
the church is Corinthian Baptist Church. I believe I'd about soon
name it anything else. Corinthian saints. Now there's
much for our instruction and comfort just in the fact that
this promise is given to these Corinthians. Throughout this
epistle we see sovereign grace or sin abounding. Everywhere
in these chapters we see the boundless grace of God flowing
like a mighty, unstoppable river from the throne of God to these
poor, needy sinners. The Corinthians were a people
given up entirely to lewdness of every description by nature,
profligate, licentious, base, vile to the extreme. There was
perhaps no society in the ancient Gentile world, so corrupt as
the Corinthians. And yet there was in Corinth
a band of men and women, chosen, redeemed, and called by the grace
of God in Christ, objects of Jehovah's eternal love, who had
been distinguished from all other people by his distinguishing
grace. Look at chapter 6, verse 9. Know ye not that the unrighteous
shall not inherit the kingdom of God? I realize it's not politically
correct, but this was before the days of political correctness.
Paul describes what unrighteousness is. Be not deceived. I'm talking about fornicators.
Nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate. nor abusers of
themselves of mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards,
nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of
God. Can anyone here read that black catalog of crimes against
God, and crimes against others, and crimes against yourself,
and not blush with shame before God? What I have read identifies me. It identifies that which is the
mark of my life from the beginning of my days. Here we're reminded once more
of our own natural depravity, of the corruption of our hearts,
and of the vileness by which our lives are marked. But the
text goes on to say, and such were some of you. But you are
washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the
name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. And so
we rejoice to be reminded too of God's goodness and grace and
mercy given to such sinners as we are in Christ Jesus. This
great God of ours now turns our hearts as he lays us low in the
dust before him to look upon his throne with gratitude and
praise. And such were some of you. These Corinthians were exactly
like us, and we are exactly as they were, both before God saved
them and after God saved them. Such were some of you. Look at what they were and what
they are. Remember what you are by nature,
what God's done for you by grace. And you would be astonished to
think these are the same people. They were filthy. horribly filthy. Now they're washed and cleaned
before God without sin, purged of all guilt through the precious
sin-atoning blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. The apostle tells
us concerning these Corinthians that they were depraved. Oh,
how depraved! But now they're sanctified. made to be partakers of the divine
nature, as pure, as spotless, as sinless as the Lord Jesus
Christ himself. They were condemned, but now
they're justified. Justified in the name of the
Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. What does that mean,
justified? We have been hearing it defined
clearly for us as Lynch has gone through the book of Galatians
in his current study on Sunday mornings. But this word justified
is often thought to mean, well, it means that we are no longer
condemned before the law. We have been acquitted of guilt
before the law. And certainly it is that. We
often use the little cliche, just as if I had never sinned. And certainly it is that, but
it is much, much more than that. To be justified by God and to
be justified before God is not only to be cleared of all sin,
acquitted of all charges, but it is to be made right at law. It is to be made right before
God. right in the eyes of God's law,
so that now through the blood and righteousness of the Lord
Jesus Christ, sinners believing on Christ are told by God Almighty
that they stand before Him, you and I, stand before God right
now, fulfilling, meeting, and satisfying every demand of God's
holy law. both the righteous obedience
required in the law and the righteous satisfaction of the law in the
punishment of sin. And that can only be done through
Christ our substitute. To be justified, you who have
ever done any printing, you will remember the days when you couldn't
get things to look like that real easy. Before the days of
computers, I'd write out bullets and articles and Shelby would
type them. And then she would take a ruler, lay it down the
side here, and she would measure the number of letters, and she'd
go back and type them again, giving spaces, and it's called
justifying the right-hand margin. That means you make this margin
exactly the same as this margin. Here is God's holy law. And the Son of God has made us
to measure it exactly. You got that? That's what it
is to be justified. To be justified is to be declared
by God himself to be fair, all fair, without fault and without
blame before his holy throne. This is how the book of Revelation
describes God's people. In their mouth was found no guile,
for they are without fault before the throne of God. And yet, while
all of this is gloriously true, and our hearts rejoice to know
it, God's saints are never without spot in their own eyes. Far from it. And we're never
without spot in the eyes of others. Thank God he does not behold
iniquity in Jacob, or sin in Israel, but others do. Others do. And we do. With Job
we cry continually, Behold, I am vile. With Paul we are incessantly
compelled to acknowledge, O wretched man that I am. Sage-setters we
are. But sinners we are still, and
the scriptures never let us forget it. Our own experience will never
let us forget it. The Apostle Paul, writing by
divine inspiration, while constantly reminding these Corinthians of
their sainthood by grace, constantly reminded them also of what they
are and were by nature. Now, if ever we learn this in
reality, I know we've got it pretty good here. I know we do.
But if ever we learn this in reality, If ever God really teaches
us this, if it becomes something more than accurate sound theology,
accurate sound doctrine, if it becomes something God stamps
on our hearts in reality, I am yet vile before him. Then it'll take a little bit
of starch out of us, and it'll cause us to be a little more
tender and kind and forbearing, and patient, and forgiving with
one another. Turn over to Ephesians 4. Hold
your hands here in 1 Corinthians. We're going to come right back. This is one of the most tender,
instructive passages in all the Bible. Ephesians 4.32. Now I very often preach to you
and give you the milk of election and predestination, the sweet
milk of everlasting love, the sweet, sweet milk of particular
redemption. But now this is strong meat. This is strong meat. Here's the
deep things of God. Hey, these are the deep things.
These things are hard for us to get hold of. Verse 32, Ephesians
4. Be ye kind one to another, tender
hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake
hath forgiven you. Now there's the measure of forgiveness. There it is. What should I forgive? Even as God, for Christ's sake,
hath forgiven you. How often should I? Even as God,
for Christ's sake, hath forgiven you. On what condition? Even
as God, for Christ's sake, hath forgiven you. Be ye followers
of God, imitators of God, as dear children. Walk in love. Now back in Corinthians. The
Galatian churches were perhaps more corrupt in doctrine. that
the church at Corinth was more corrupt in practice than any
of the churches of the apostolic age. And yet we read these epistles
to the Corinthians and to the Galatians, inspired epistles,
I remind you, and we do not find a word, not even a hint to those
who are taught of God that because these other brethren are somehow disobedient, doctrinally errant,
morally less than desirable, then the thing for you good,
well-taught, well-instructed, upright folks to do is to disassociate
yourself with them. Not a hint of that anywhere in
the epistles. And yet that's so common in our
day. And I call your attention to it because it is a common
practice. There are many who are very quick
to abandon a local church, to abandon the fellowship of God's
saints, because they are too good. They're too pure. Some years ago, I was preaching
up in northern Michigan. As a matter of fact, I was preaching
where Brother Jim Byrd is pastoring now. And this fellow came down
from Canada, met him, and I had corresponded with him a little
bit, didn't really realize who he was or where he lived. The
man had moved his family. Up into the sticks and the mountains
in Canada, you couldn't hardly get there anyway, except by boat
or plane. And didn't live, I mean, live
miles and miles and miles from anybody. Didn't see a living
soul, except when he come to Bible conference, and oh, he
was so spiritual. And I asked him, I said, what
on earth are you doing living up there? He said, well, I don't
want our family to be corrupted by the people. Oh, what about
you? the corruption of your self-righteousness?
And I spoke to them just like that. You see, this pretense
of piety is really a self-serving, self-righteous, haughty attitude.
Believers labor to help one another, especially when they need help. Will you hear me? Especially
when they need help. When they're weak, they need
somebody to lean on. When they're fallen, they need
somebody to pick them up. Now, that doesn't mean you give approval
to errant doctrine. That doesn't mean that you give
approval to corrupt ways, not by any means. What it does mean
is that you be kind one to another, forgiving one another, even as
God, for Christ's sake, forgave you. Hold your hands there in
1 Corinthians again, look at Galatians chapter 6. Paul writes to these Corinthians.
Now listen to what I'm talking about. Go through and mark what
these chapters in 1 Corinthians deal with. Here are people loved
of God, chosen in eternity, redeemed at Calvary, called by the grace
of God, men and women who believe God just like you. In chapters
1, 2, and 3, Paul deals with nothing but carnal strife. In
chapter 4, he deals with the fact that they judged him, God's servant, to be a false
prophet. I could spend a few hours talking
about that. I hear young, wet behind the
ears fellows that haven't hardly been dry from baptism pointing
their fingers at some fellows saying he's a false prophet.
Don't you talk like that to me. Not about one of God's servants.
A false prophet. How come? Because he didn't say
shibboleth just like you think he ought to? False prophet. Chapter 5, one of the most honored
men in the congregation, one of the fellows Lifted up high,
living in incest with his father's wife. Chapter 6, he deals with
these Corinthians, been going to law, suing each other. Suing
each other. Chapter 7, the Corinthians, these
good folks. This is the kind of consistency
religion produces. These folks who were Constantly
involved in strife and division. These folks where they weaken
a fellow's incest. These folks who charge a faithful
apostle as being a false prophet. These folks who go to law with
one another. They talked about practicing
asceticism. Live in celibacy. Do away with
this evil thing and that evil thing. Don't touch this, don't
touch that, and you'll be holy. Chapters 8 and 9, they were niggardly
in their giving. Needs arose. And if anybody was
looking, they'd figure out some way to slip a little something
in the offering plate so you could see that they gave something.
But if they could figure out a way to get a $2 bill and water
it up and make it look like a $20 bill, they'd do it, niggardly
in giving. Chapter 10, again, Paul deals with strife and calls
them to unity in Christ. In chapter 11. These fine, fine
Corinthians came to the Lord's table and abused it, made it
to be a party for the indulgence of their own lust. Chapter 12
comes back to strife. deals with real gifts, strife
about gifts. Chapter 13, he urges them to
walk in brotherly love after the example that Christ himself
gives. In chapter 14, they had strife about tongues and prophecy
because this fellow had this gift and the other one didn't.
They even started pretending to have gifts they didn't have.
In chapter 15, Paul deals with their questions concerning the
resurrection. These are serious things. These are not things
to be winked at. These are not things to just
look at and say, well, that doesn't matter. These are serious issues. Chapter
16, he calls them to liberality and steadfastness in faith and
sincerity in love. But still, all through these
16 chapters, he writes to them as brethren. He begins the epistle,
calling them saints of God. sanctified, justified, redeemed,
and called in Christ. In chapter 3, when he begins
to come down hard on this thing of division and strife, he says,
and I brethren. And he wasn't faking it. He wasn't
talking out both sides of his mouth. He was sincere and honest. He looked upon men and women
who trusted Christ as his brethren and dealt with them as such.
Now look in Galatians 6. Brethren, brethren, if any man
be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore
such a one in the spirit of meekness. When your brother falls, bend
over, get down on your knees, stretch out your hands, and pick
him up. He deserves it. I always suspected
that. You better stop and consider
something else. Considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens,
and so fulfill the law of Christ. When a brother gets sick, when a brother has family trouble, when a brother loses his job,
you hurt for him, you love him, and you bear their burdens. But
this is something else. When your brother is overcome
with a fault, you pick him up. And carry him. He's your brother.
He's your brother. I love the story. Young boy had
a crippled brother. And everywhere they went, he'd
pick his brother up and carry him. And one day, he was carrying
his brother. His brother was getting a little
bit bigger. He had him on his back, carrying him. And some
fellow was watching him. And he saw him struggling a little
bit. And he said to him, said, son? Are you alright?" And he said,
of course I am. He said, well, isn't your brother a little heavy
for you to be carrying like that? Or isn't that boy a little heavy
for you to be carrying like that? He said, oh no sir, he's not
heavy, he's my brother. He's not heavy, he's my brother.
He's my brother. And so fulfill the law of Christ. That's what he's talking about.
Alright, back here in 1 Corinthians. This word of grace. In 1 Corinthians
3.21, this promise, this promise of immeasurable bounty is addressed
to sinners saved by God's free grace in Christ. Let us ever
be mindful of that fact. And be mindful that that's exactly
what you and I are. We are sinners saved by God's
free grace in Christ. who maketh thee to differ from
another. The only difference between David
Burge and Don Fortner and anybody in hell is the difference God
in his grace has made. That's the only difference. That's
the only difference. Well but I, no difference. But I did, no
difference. You may comb your hair a little
different than the other And you may have sense enough to
put on a little deodorant and perfume and make yourself smell a little
bit better than the other fella. But there's not one speck of difference
between you and me. And the vilest reprobate woman
or man who ever walked topside of God's earth. Not one speck. Except what difference God made
by his grace. Who maketh it different from
another? What hast thou that thou didst not receive? Now if
thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not
received it? All right now, look at verse
21. To these poor believing sinners,
the apostle Paul, the Spirit of God says, all things are yours. This Corinthian church was divided
into cliques, and their cliques were divided into cliques. In
the chapter 3, Paul has been addressing their divisions, their
strife about preachers. They were, like most folks, great
followers of men, and false prophets love that. False prophets love
for men to exalt them, and they love to exalt themselves. They
promote themselves. Put my name up in lights. I want
you to see who I am. God's servants exalt Christ and
promote one another. God's servants are not competitors,
but co-laborers in the master's vineyard. One plants, another
waters, but God gives the increase. And therefore Paul says, let
no man glory in me, for all things are yours. Now coming from this
man Paul, This sounds a little strange. Did he not say in Philippians
3, I have suffered the loss of all things? And now he says,
all things are yours. Yet both statements are true.
You see, the moment we begin to experience the possession
of all things by grace in Christ, then all old things are swept
away forever. And as Paul says in 2 Corinthians
6, 9, having nothing, we possess all things. Having nothing, we
possess all things. Having nothing in this world
to meet my soul's needs, I have all things in Christ. All things
are yours. Brother Don, just how far does
the Holy Spirit intend for us to carry that statement? Let
me see if I can tell you. Look up to heaven. And measure the distance between
you and God Almighty on His throne. And everything between here and
there. And everything around His throne. All things are yours. Look down
to Him. And measure the distance between
here and there. All things that come from there
to here. And all things that go from here
to there. All things are yours. Look back
to the past. All things are yours. Look forward
to the future. All things are yours. Look around
the globe. North, south, east, and west.
Scan the whole universe. All things are yours. Now, that's a little more than
I can preach in one sermon. So let's limit ourselves just
to what the Spirit of God says in this text. He says all things
are yours and the first thing he's talking about is gospel
preachers. He says whether Paul or Apollos
or Cephas, all things are yours. He's talking here about preachers. And there was need for that because
comparisons are commonly made between preachers and preachers.
One is praised and another is criticized. One is admired and
another is despised. And nothing could be more shameful.
Faithful gospel preachers, all of them. All of them. Doesn't matter where they serve.
Faithful gospel preachers, all of them, are yours. Yours. They are ascension gifts of Christ
to his church. Turn to Ephesians 4 for a second. Now Paul is quoting here from
Psalm 68. I'll read you the text he's quoting.
Psalm 68 verse 18, Thou hast ascended on high, Thou hast laid
captivity captive, Thou hast received gifts for men, yea,
for the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell among
them. Blessed be the Lord, who daily
loatheth us with benefits. Now look at Ephesians 4a, Wherefore
he saith when he ascended up on high, he laid captivity captive,
and gave gifts to men. He ascended up in heaven? Have
he finished the work of redemption for us? And he gave gifts to
his church that the Lord God might dwell among them and daily
loads them with benefits. All right, look at verse 11.
Here are the gifts. He gave some apostles and some
prophets, some evangelists, some pastors, some teachers. And here's
why he gave them. For the perfecting of the saints. For the work of the service. for the work of the ministry,
for the edifying of the body of Christ. God sends preachers
with his word to his people, and he prepares each one for
the place and the people and the sphere of work in which he
has purposed to use them exactly according to his will. Some are
pioneers, missionaries blazing a path. Others are settled pastors
overseeing and tending the flock. Some oversee and tend very large
flocks. Some oversee and tend very small
flocks. But they are all God's gifts
to you. Look at chapter 3, 1 Corinthians
verse 5. Ministers by whom you believe. Oh, what a gift. Now it's not wrong to prefer
one man's ministry to another's. There's nothing wrong with that. I'm pretty well convinced my
wife prefers me to other men, and there's nothing wrong with
that. That's as it should be. I like to think you prefer me
to other preachers. That's as it should be. And I
want to exercise such ministry as you want such preference.
But what is wrong is this. It is wrong to allow preferences
to degenerate into discord and division. It is wrong to allow
preferences to keep you from hearing the gospel from the lips
of another. Let us take great care, take
great care, that we always honor, never speak or act disrespectfully,
or speak or act in such a way as to cause others to think disrespectfully
of God's servants. I can't stress this sufficiently.
I can't stress it enough. I sometimes hear preachers themselves
talking, among other people, about preachers. And when I get
them aside, I reprove them for it. I reprove them for it. You're not going to hear me speak
evil of God's servants. None of them. None of them. You're
not going to hear me in my household do it. And you're not going to
hear me in this pulpit do it. And you're not going to hear
me in general conversation do it. Why? They're God's servants.
They labor in the word. They're men by whom God speaks
to me. Men by whom you believe. Men
by whom God sends his word to heal and to edify and to strengthen
and build up his people. Look at 1 Thessalonians 5. First
Thessalonians 5. Tonight, you're going to get
to hear Brother Larry Criss preach. Tuesday night, Brother Bruce
Crabtree. And sometimes folks say, well, I'll go to church
tonight, the pastor's not going to be preaching. Don't ever say
that to anybody. Don't even think it. And sure
don't do it. As a matter of fact, and I'm
as honest as I can be, when Ron, Larry, Lindsey, one of these
other men come in to preach to you, if you're going to abstinence
yourself, abstinence yourself while I'm here. Not while those
fellows are here. No, no. These are God's servants
by whom you believe. Gifts of God to you for your
benefit. Now look at 1 Thessalonians 5
verse 12. We beseech you, brethren, To know them which labor among
you. The pastor's worth his salt,
he labors in the word and in doctrine. And are over you. Over you in the Lord. Not over
you as tyrants with a whip over your head. Over you because God's
put them over you like a husband in his house. And admonish you. And to esteem them very highly
in love for their work's sake. For their work's sake. Brother
Lance Heller, here during conference, just my soul, esteem that man. Esteem that man. How come? Why
don't you go try doing what he's doing? For their work's sake. For their work's sake. Brother
Lindsey stands up here every Sunday morning and labors to
instruct you in the Word. Esteem him highly. For what sake? Laboring in the word for you.
Laboring for you. I was talking to one of my pastor
friends just yesterday. He was disturbed folks don't
come to church. I said to him, I don't understand
it. It's the basest of all reasons. It's the very least of all reasons
to come. The very poorest reason on this
earth for you to come be here in services. But you ought to
come just because you respect the man who labors for your soul,
if no other reason. I have a dear wife who prepares
meals for me real regular, real regular. And it's kindly expected. It's just kindly expected when
she has fired up a pan full of chicken and fixed mashed potatoes
and gravy and homemade biscuits and cans of green beans and got
them out and fixed them for me. It's kindly expected that I'd
be there to eat. Well, I didn't feel like coming.
Tried that two or three times with her. Just tried two or three
times. Well, I didn't want chicken tonight. Try it two or three times. Just
try it. And yet, the gospel of God's
grace and the preaching of the gospel, treating more contemptible,
that's shameful. That's shameful. All right, move
on. 1 Corinthians chapter 3, verse
22. Paul says, all things are yours,
whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world. The world? Surely he didn't mean to say
that. I think he did. I think he did. We are separated
from the world that lieth in wickedness by the grace of God.
We are commanded of God, love not the world. We are constantly
urged not to entangle ourselves with the affairs of this world,
to avoid the ways of the world, and to live for the world to
come. And yet our text declares the world is ours. All the world, all that the world
contains, all that transpires in this world is for God's glory
and our good. If the question is raised, why
do the wicked live? Why does God put up with that? Why does God allow that? Why
do ungodly prosper? Why? Well, the answer must be
given for our sake. For our sake. According to the
prophecy given by Noah, Ham must forever serve Shem and Japheth. The wicked are God's sword by
which he cuts the cords that bind us to the earth. The wicked
are God's hammer to smash our hard hearts and break all our
fair designs of earthly ease. They are God's chisel with which
he breaks off the rough edges of his diamonds. They are God's
rasp and sandpaper by which he polishes the jewels of his electing
love. Thomas Bradbury made this statement. I read it the other night. I
guess Thursday, Friday night, I don't remember. And I laughed
out loud and called Shelby in. I said, listen to this. He said,
why do the tares grow together with the wheat? to keep the wheat
warm. That's all. That's all. Wondrous
mystery this is. And wondrously delightful to
our souls, our heavenly father graciously puts all creation
under contribution for the good of his church and kingdom. This
is what the psalmist said. Fire and hail, snow and vapors,
stormy wind fulfilling his word. The fire that consumed their
enemies protected Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the fiery furnace.
The water that protected Israel and formed a wall and bulwark
for their salvation drowned the Egyptians. In Joshua's day, hail
stones defeated the armies of Canaan. Hail and lice, locusts,
all plagued Egypt, flies and fogs, plagued the Egyptians,
used of God to deliver his people. The Lord God included in his
covenant promises to his people that he would make even the beast
of the field, the fowls of heaven, and the creeping things of the
earth to be in league with you. There's a story told during the
days of the Scottish covenanters and the persecutions they endured
of one preacher who was being hounded and chased by the Queen's
forces. And this preacher darted into
a cave. And there he hid. And just a
little while, just a little while, A spider came and built a nest
over the mouth of the cave. Shortly after that, the Queen's
soldiers arrived looking off their horses and looking here
and there and everywhere. And a soldier leaned over and
looked in the cave and said, nobody in there spiders webs
over top of the cave. And there he stayed. And every
day, as luck would have it, A hen would come into that cave and
lay her eggs right there for his breakfast every morning and
did it for a week while he hid from the Queen's forces. God
Almighty, our Heavenly Father, is never at a loss for a means
to shelter, protect, and provide for his people in this world. All things are yours, the world. Look at it again. This present
world is yours. The world to come is yours. All
things are yours. Life. This mortal state of existence?
Yeah. This miserable, fleeting, tortured
life? Yeah. This life that must soon
cease? Yeah. It's yours. Yours. But more than that, That life
that's ours in union with Christ. Eternal life promised before
the world began. Life purchased by Emmanuel, shed
blood, life given by the power of God's Holy Spirit. Life is
yours. Life is yours. All life is yours. Or death. Death? Are you afraid of it? If you're
in Christ, you have no reason to be. There are those who all
their lifetime are subject to bondage because of the fear of
death, and well, they should be. But for you, my blood-washed
brother, my white-robed sister, death is the gateway to glory. Our Lord Jesus has abolished
death and brought life and immortality to life through the gospel. The
sting of death is sin, and the end of sin is death. In the death
of our Lord Jesus, sting is gone because he put away sin, the
sting of death. His death for us is the death
of death for us. So that he declares, he that
liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Since his death is
ours, death is ours. The death of God's saints is
yours. The day is coming when your pastor
will die. That's all right. That's yours
too. That's yours too. Your dearest companion will die. That's yours too. Your body will
die. That's yours too. Are you beginning
to see the fullness of this promise? All things are yours. Things
present. Things present. They may not be pleasant, but
things present are yours. They may not be pleasant, but
they're right. They may not be pleasant, but they are all by
the will of our God, and they're brought to pass by the hand of
our God for our good and for His glory. All things are yours,
things present, pleasant and unpleasant, prosperous and adverse,
strength and weakness, wins and losses, triumphs and defeats.
Pains and joys, wealth and poverty, sickness and health, life and
death, all are yours. But it goes on. Look at it. Things
to come. Things to come. Tomorrow is yours.