The more I know of myself, and the more I experience of
God's grace, the more I am constrained to confess what we just sang.
I am a child of sinful flesh, and I would wither like the grass. Unless you hold me by your hand,
temptation I cannot withstand. Turn with me, if you will, to
1 Corinthians chapter 15. Several months ago, down at Louisville,
I preached from this passage of Scripture and had intended
to bring you this message the following morning here, and just
simply felt led of God to do otherwise. And this past week I have been
working on it a good bit. Let's begin in verse 1, it's
1 Corinthians 15, and I'll be working my way down to our text. Moreover, brethren, I declare
unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also you have
received, and wherein ye stand." Now understand what the Holy
Spirit here declares by the Apostle Paul. There is but one gospel. Would to God I could get the
ear of this generation, particularly the ear of the multitudes who
vainly imagine that somehow they once believed a false gospel,
and that was salvation. But since they studied hard and
searched diligently and came up with the right answers and
the right theological system, now they've come to understand
the gospel more clearly. Please hear the book of God. God saves sinners by the gospel. And the gospel is the declaration
of that which we are about to see plainly set forth in the
word of God. And anything contrary to, anything
other than, That which Paul here states by inspiration to be the
gospel is not the gospel, but rather is a false gospel by which
men and women are damned. The gospel. The gospel is that
which I preach to you. I don't have anything else to
preach. Nothing else. Folks ask me, preachers often
ask me about this subject and that, this issue and that, this
question and that. I study lots of things, but I
leave my questions back yonder to study. When I come here before
you to preach to eternity-bound men and women, I have but one
message to declare, and that is the gospel of God's free grace. I had a preacher write to me
a while back They wanted to know if I had anything on church discipline.
They're going to preach on church discipline the next week. And
I wrote him back and I said, why don't you preach on something
the Bible talks about and you understand? Why talk about something
you don't understand to start with? Preach the gospel of God's
grace. Preach the message God sent us
to declare. It is the gospel wherein you stand. The gospel
wherein you who believe stand. not the gospel wherein you waver,
the gospel wherein you stand. Stand before God. God's people
are many women who have been made to stand. We bow before
his throne, but we stand in his grace. God's people are not many
women tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine, with
every slight of craftiness given by men. God's people are folks
who stand. Our Lord tells us plainly, God
has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love,
and of a sound mind, so that we stand. I stand in Christ,
in the gospel, and by the gospel redeemed. I stand in Christ,
in the gospel, and by the gospel justified. I stand in Christ,
in the gospel, and by the gospel accepted in the beloved. Wherein you stand sanctified,
justified, washed, accepted of God. Now look at verse 2. By
which also you are saved. Do you see that? How did God
save you? If you're saved, I know how he
saved you. He sent somebody to preach the gospel to you. He
sent somebody who crossed your paths in God's providence by
the word of the gospel. Faith comes by hearing and hearing
by the word of God. We are born again, not of corruptible
seed, but of incorruptible by the word of God, which lives
and abides forever, by which also you are saved. I abhor,
I can't tell you how I abhor the tendency of many to make
the knowledge of the gospel a system of works so that you folks set
in judgment want to judge you whether or not you've been saved,
whether you really haven't been saved at all by comparing your
experience with theirs. But please understand me. Please
understand me. God does not save sinners by
a false gospel. Sinners are damned by a false
gospel. God does not save sinners worshiping
a false Christ, a false God, or a false spirit. God does not
save sinners worshiping at some altar other than the altar that
he has made. God saves sinners by the gospel, by which also
you are saved. Now mark this next word. Mark
this next word. If. If you keep in memory that which
I preached unto you. The word keep in memory really
is this. If you hold fast. If you don't abandon it. If you
don't give it up. If you keep in memory. I try not to be pessimistic. I'm not a very pessimistic fellow.
And I take folks at their word. A man or woman professes faith
in Christ, wants to confess any believer's baptism, we gladly
receive them. Gladly, gladly rejoice in the
ordinance of God by which we confess faith in Christ. But folks ask, well, what happened
to so-and-so? Begin to fall by the wayside,
absent themselves from the house of God. Boy, they looked so good. They never knew it. They never knew it. They never
knew it. never experienced grace, never
knew the gospel. If you can forsake Christ, you
never had him. If you can leave the worship of God, you never
worshiped God. If you can abandon the gospel,
you never knew the gospel. What does John say? They went
out from us because they were not of us. If they had been of
us, they would remain with us to this day. God's people Hold
fast the gospel. Lord, to whom shall we go? They've got somewhere else to
go, but we ain't got anywhere else to go. To whom shall we
go? Thou hast the words of eternal
life. I've got no hope if I leave you.
I've got no refuge if I leave the only refuge. I hear folks say, I get, I just,
I grit my teeth and bite my tongue. Somebody comes along, some fellow's dating this gal
or some gal's dating this man. Such a fine Christian. They hate
God, but fine Christians. Good Christian girl. That means
they don't drink. What nonsense. God's people believe
the gospel and worship God. That's right. But what about
all the folks who've been here who are not here anymore? God's
people believe the gospel and worship God. But I heard old
Joe preach. He preached better than anybody
ever. God's people believe the gospel and worship God. They
don't let it go. Look at the next word. Unless
you have believed in vain. The fact is, Rex, most folks
who profess to believe believe in vain. What did our Lord tell us in
John's epitude? Many believed on him, but he
did not commit himself to them because he knew them. They believed. They received the facts. They
had a little emotional experience. They got scared of going to hell.
They had a profession of faith, but they believed in vain. Went
to the hospital. Doctor said, man, you're in bad
shape. So some ambulance-chasing preacher runs down there and
gets him to say, don't you believe in Jesus? I believe I will. I
got no other choice. And it gets better. Well, I got
that all taken care of. If I ever need you again, I'll
call you. They believed in vain. They believed in vain. Verse 3. For I delivered unto
you, first of all, that which I also received. And when Paul
says, I delivered unto you first of all, it's not merely this
is the first thing I preached to you and then we went on to
something else. He says, this is what I came preaching to you.
This is the preeminent, primary, essential thing that's the fabric
of everything I preached unto you. I delivered to you the whole
counsel of God, and all the counsel of God is Jesus Christ and Him
crucified. I delivered unto you, first of
all, that which I also received, how that Christ died for our
sins according to the Scriptures. All right, now look at this carefully. The gospel is a person. We preach a person. The preaching
of the gospel is the preaching of Jesus Christ and him crucified. Now, what's this word, how? For
you fellows who study the languages, I am fully aware that this little
word, how, was added by our translators. They were honest in dealing with
it. They put it in italics. I'm fully aware that there is
no corollary word for how in the Greek text. I'm fully aware
of that. But it was added for a reason,
a very, very good reason. You see, in translating from
one language to another, It is often necessary to add a word
here and there to give the proper sense of the passage that's being
translated. You add a word because it is
needful to make the passage read properly, to give the proper
sense of it. But sometimes the word is added
because it is absolutely essential to give the meaning of the passage,
not merely to make it read more smoothly, but to give the true
sense of the passage being translated. In this passage here in 1 Corinthians
15.3, the word how is added because this word is vital to what Paul
is declaring. This word is vital to the text
itself. It's not just added to make it
read more smoothly, it's added because this is the key to what
he's saying. The preaching of the gospel is
not, and I've said this so many times, I want you to hear me.
The preaching of the gospel is not just the declaration of the
fact that Jesus Christ lived, died for our sins, and was buried
and rose again. Now, how can you say that? How
can you say it? It's not just the fact that Christ
died for our sins according to the scriptures. Not just the
fact. If that's so, if you agree that the preaching of the gospel
is just telling men of the death, burial, and resurrection. What's
the gospel? Death, burial, and resurrection. Death, burial, and resurrection.
Death, burial, and resurrection. Every papist you know believes
the gospel. Every Mormon you know believes
the gospel. Every Adventist you know believes
the gospel. Every Jehovah Witness you know
believes the gospel. If that's all there is to the
gospel, for they all declare that Jesus died, was buried and
rose again the third day according to the scriptures. The preaching
of the gospel is not the bare declaration of those facts. For
every one of those groups that I have identified by name, All
of them preach the salvation is accomplished not by what Christ
did at Calvary, not by what God does in grace, but by what you
do with Christ, by what you do with His works, by what you do
with God's grace. That's not the gospel. That's
a false gospel. That's a false gospel. The preaching
of the gospel is more than that. The question that must be answered,
the issue that must be addressed, if we're going to be honest with
men in preaching the gospel, is this. How did the Lord Jesus
Christ die for our sins according to the scriptures? How did he
do that? How did he do it? H-O-W. That's the key. Number one. Christ
died for our sins. according to the Old Testament
scriptures. Now I know that's what Paul's
talking about because that's all he had. At the time he writes
this passage here in 1 Corinthians 15, the Old Testament scriptures
were the only scriptures that had been received, accepted,
and completed. The New Testament had not yet
been compiled. Paul was at this time writing
it. So he's telling us this, that Christ died according to
what the Old Testament says. Somebody said, well, that was
in the old Bible. Man, that's not the old Bible. That's the
Old Testament. Well, that's just part of the
Bible. That's for the Jews. No, that's for real Jews. That's
for God's people. And everything in this Old Testament,
that is the earlier revelation of the covenant, the earlier
revelation of our God, the earlier revelation of God's Word. That
which was written in the Old Testament was all about one who
was coming to die at Calvary. How did Christ die? According
to the Old Testament. He died as a sin-atoning sacrifice. Throughout the Old Testament,
the Lord God demanded of men, if they would come to Him, a
sacrifice. a sacrifice that must be slain,
a sacrifice upon whom sin must be ceremonially imputed, a sacrifice
bearing the sins of the one bringing it, a sacrifice with sin transferred
from the guilty to the innocent, a sacrifice slain by the hand
of God, a sacrifice consumed by divine wrath, a sacrifice
offered on God's altar. He died as a sin-atoning sacrifice. A sin atoning sacrifice that
was sacrificed at the place where God said he must be sacrificed.
At the time God said the sacrifice must be made. Sacrificed in exactly
the manner which God had prescribed. Our Lord Jesus, we're told by
the Apostle Peter, him being delivered by the determinant
counsel and foreknowledge of God. What did that do with him?
They did exactly what the Old Testament said they were going
to do. Judas sold him for 30 pieces of silver. Zechariah said
he would. He was betrayed by a friend.
The psalmist said he would be. The Pharisees, the religious
folks, everybody who was anybody turned thumbs down on him and
mocked him and derided him. He became the song of the drunkard.
Scripture said he would. They took him and numbered him
among transgressors. Scripture said they would. They
took him and hung him out on a cursed tree, pierced his hands
and his feet and his eyes. Scripture said they would. They
took him and killed him without a bone of his being broken. Scripture
said they would. They cast lots for his raiment.
Scripture said they would. Him being delivered by the determinate
counsel and foreknowledge of God. You have taken and with
your wicked will have crucified. Oh, that soldier took his spear
and rendered into the heart of the Son of God because of malice
against God Almighty. And did it because the Scripture
said, they pierced my side. He was sacrificed in exactly
the manner prescribed by God Almighty, in exactly the place
prescribed by God Almighty, at exactly the time prescribed by
God. He was sacrificed for a purpose,
to declare that God Almighty cannot be approached by any man. And no man can approach the holy
Lord God except upon the ground of justice satisfied, that He
might be a just God and a Savior. You see, salvation. is altogether
by grace. But, Ron, grace will never come
to a man except in a manner of justice." Now, in our courts,
if a man gets mercy, it's contrary to justice. If a man gets mercy,
which everybody gets these days, now, if you steal a man's money,
you might get justice. If you steal his wife and murder
his children, you'll get mercy. That's just the way the courts
work. And mercy is given at the sacrifice of justice, but not
with God. Mercy and truth are met together. Righteousness and peace have
kissed each other. And it was told throughout the
Old Testament, if a sinner comes to God, he can only come through
a blood sacrifice by which justice is demonstrated to be poured
out in wrath until justice is satisfied and the fire is gone. That's what Christ is. He is
a sacrifice. made to be sin for us, who was
delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of
God. Upon the sacrifice fell the wrath of God Almighty. The fire from heaven came down. And it consumed that sacrifice.
But here's the only sacrifice that ever consumed that fire.
And now the wrath of God The wrath of God. Oh, children of
God, hear me. Oh, needy sinner, hear me. The
wrath of God has been fully consumed and extinguished for us in that
sacrifice. This is what it says. There is
no fury in me. I deliver to you the gospel.
How that Christ died. How is it that he died? He died
exactly like the Old Testament said he would. He died in the
room instead of the person represented in the sacrifice. I don't see why that's so difficult
for folks to understand, except the fact that they're rebels. Folks have the notion that Jesus
sort of died arbitrarily for everybody, didn't really know
who he was dying for, didn't really know why he was dying,
he just sort of did it because he wanted to show you he loved
you. That doesn't make any sense at all, and it sure doesn't show
any love. Oh, but if Aaron comes bearing the names of the tribes
of the children of Israel and takes a Paschal lamb appointed
by God, And as he represents the whole nation of God's chosen,
he lays his hands on the head of that sacrifice. And thereby
imputes the sins of all that chosen nation upon the head of
that one goat, that one Passover victim. and presses upon that
one goat all the guilt of all the people. And while he's got
his hands there, he reaches and gets his knife and slits its
throat and catches the blood in the basin and takes it into
the holy place and sprinkles it on the mercy seat seven times. Who for? For those people. And
then it comes out when the day is over. Because the scapegoat
has already gone way off into no man's land. And the man who
carried him over there has come back. And now Aaron comes out
on the basis of the sacrifice made and the sin put away and
says to the same people, now the Lord will bless you. The
Lord will lift up His face upon you. The Lord will be gracious
unto you. The Lord will give you peace. And God said, I'll
do it. I'll do it. That's how Christ died. The Lord
Jesus Christ died as an effectual, sin-atoning substitute in the
rube instead of his people. And this sacrifice, always as
it is prophesied in the scriptures, always, always as it is prophesied
in the scriptures, accomplished exactly what it came to accomplish. Read Isaiah 53. He shall see
of the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied. For by his
knowledge, isn't that a strange way to put that? By his knowledge
shall my righteous servant justify many. Surely Isaiah meant to
say by knowledge of him, many will be justified. No. No. By his knowledge shall my righteous
servant justify many. The Lord Jesus said, I am the
good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his
life for the sheep. And what did he say about the
sheep? He said, I know them. I know them. And these sheep
for whom he died, he took his own blood's merit. And with his
own blood, he entered in once into the holy place and said,
Father, here is the sacrifice. They're justified. And by his
knowledge, he justified the many for whom he died. Look at verse
4. And that he was buried, and that
he rose again the third day, according to the Scriptures.
Once our Lord Jesus had died for our sins, according to the
Scriptures, he was buried, according to the prophecies of the Old
Testament. Buried. He wasn't some phantom. He was
buried. His body didn't fall into a trance.
He was buried. And precisely according to the
scriptures, as Jonah was in the heart of the earth for three
days and three nights, as Jonah was in the belly of the whale,
so shall the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth for three
days and three nights. His body was laid in the tomb. That dead corpse, oh, wonder
of wonders, that man in whom resides all the fullness of the
Godhead bodily, yonder he lays dead. Because buddy-duddy, justice
demanded you die, and die you must. die under the unmitigated
wrath of God Almighty. And dead means cast into the
grave, cast into hell itself, as it were. And God buries His
dead out of His sight. But the Scriptures prophesy.
Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell. Thou wilt not leave my
body, my flesh, in the grave. Neither wilt thou suffer thine
holy one to see corruption. How long does it take for corruption
to set in? How long does it take for the
flesh to begin to rot? Now, anyone with medical knowledge
at all will tell you that immediately it begins. But the manifestation
of the corruption of the buried corpse comes in four days. Remember, Martha said to the
Lord about her brother, said, Lord, Lazarus has been in the
grave four days already. We don't want to smell him. By
this time, he's stinking. So three days later, thou wilt
not suffer thine holy one to see corruption. He was raised
from the dead according to the scriptures. Raised because death
has no more power over him. Raised because justice has been
satisfied. Raised because sin that was imputed
to him has been put away. Raised because the reason why
he died no longer exists. Hear me now. Hear me. Jesus Christ
bore the sins of his people to the full satisfaction of justice. and buried them in the tomb of
infinite forgetfulness. And they are no more. And now
he's freed from sin. freed from guilt, freed from
obligation, freed from debt. Our debt, our sins, our guilt
that He took and made His own, He is now fully paid for, fully
satisfied, and He rises from the dead. But He didn't rise
alone any more than He died alone. Look at the Scriptures. Let me
see here. You turn to Isaiah 26 for just
a minute. Isaiah 26. Listen to how often the Scriptures
refer to our Lord's bodily resurrection. But it was not just a bodily
resurrection. When our Lord Jesus, now listen,
He is our federal head, He's our surety, He's our substitute,
He's our representative in all things. When He came into the
world and said, Lo, I come to do thy will, O my God, David
Burge did it for you. He did it in your room, in your
stead, you did it in Him. Came to do the will of God. When
he obeyed God in all the matters of holy obedience in all his
life, fulfilling all the requirements of righteousness, he didn't do
it for himself. Bobby did it for us. He did it
as a representative. When he died, satisfying the
justice of God to put away sin, it wasn't his sin. It was our
sins made to be his as a representative. When he was buried, we were buried
with him. And he's still our representative.
When He arose, we arose with Him. Now listen, the Scripture
tells us in Psalm 2, just listen to this, I will declare the decree
the Lord has said unto me, thou art my son, this day have I begotten
thee. Hebrews 1 says it's talking about
Christ. Psalm 16, thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither
wilt thou suffer thine holy one to seek corruption. Psalm 68,
verse 18, Thou hast ascended on high, Thou hast made captivity
captive, Thou hast received gifts for me, and yea, for the rebellious
also, that God the Holy Spirit might come on them, that the
Lord God might dwell on them. Ephesians 4 says it's talking
about Christ. The Lord said unto my Lord, set Thou on my right
hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool. Hebrews 10 says
it's talking about Christ. Now look here in Isaiah 26, verse
19. Watch it. Thy dead men. But Paul say, I am crucified
with Christ. And Lindsay quite literally,
he said, I was once and for all crucified with Christ. When the
Son of God died, I died in Him. Thy dead men shall live together
with my dead body shall they rise. Ephesians chapter 2, But
God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved
us even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together
with Christ. What? What? When Jesus Christ
lived and obeyed God as the representative of His people, all His chosen
lived and obeyed God to the full satisfaction of righteous obedience
and perfect holiness. When He died, we died in Him. When God poured out His wrath
on His Son, God poured out His wrath on me. When He was buried,
I was buried. And when He arose, I rose. When He sat down in glory, I
sat down in glory with Him. How that He was buried! How that
He arose again the third day according to the Scriptures.
Hosea says, after two days He will revive us. The third day
He will raise us up and we shall live in His sight. After two
days, He will revive. It doesn't mean He will come
and give us a little extra push in life. That's how we commonly
use the word. It means He'll come to the dead and cause the
dead to live. He will raise us up the third
day, and we will live in His sight. Now, look at Romans 4. Let's see if that's what happened.
Romans 4. The Lord Jesus Christ accomplished
something when he died. He accomplished something when
he died. He didn't make anything possible. He did it. He didn't
just provide for the possibility of something. He did it. Look
in Romans 4.25. He was delivered for our offenses. Now that word for, it means because
of. He wasn't delivered in order
for us to be Offenses he wasn't delivered in order for us to
be made sinners He was delivered because of our offenses that
had been imputed to him he was delivered to the hands of justice
because your sins were made to be his and He was raised again. Watch it now because of our justification
How did he rise from the dead? He rose from the dead as one
made free from sin, over whom sin and death can have no power. And Ron Wood, we are one with
him. We've been raised from the dead
with Him. Our experience of grace in the new birth is simply a
declaration that this was done for you. When the Lord Jesus
sends His Spirit to you in saving grace, He is simply bringing
you into the experience of what He accomplished as your substitute
when He ascended on high and obtained eternal redemption for
us. We are born again now by the
merit and efficacy and power of His blood and His grace. But
the work was finished when He said it's finished, when He ascended
up on high, when He led captivity captive, when He received gifts
for men. Now back in our text, 1 Corinthians
15, verses 5 through 9, Paul tells
us that the resurrection of Christ, It's an indisputable fact of
history. The whole world knows it. The whole world knows it. They celebrate it in pagan ways,
but the whole world celebrates it. The whole world is confused
about what it means. The whole world looks at it as
a sentimental, sloppy, emotional thing. Once a year, they talk
about it a little bit, put on special hats and wear pretty
flowers. But Paul says, this fact that Christ arose is an
indisputable fact of history. He was seen of Peter, then of
the 12, then of 500 brethren at one time. Most of them, he
said, are still alive. Go ask them. Indisputable fact. No recorded
fact in history more well-documented than this one. 500 men at one
time saw the same thing. 500 of them. Go ask them. And
then he was seen of James. He was seen of all the apostles.
And then he was seen of me. I've seen him. I've seen him. This may be what Paul referred
to in 2 Corinthians 12 when he talked about being as one dead. I don't know whether I'm dead
or not. I've seen the third heaven. I saw things I can't begin to
describe. Certainly he tells us in Galatians
that he was particularly taught in a supernatural way the gospel
by the lips of Christ himself But whatever the case he says
I saw it. I've seen him As one born out of the time Look like it's too late for me But bless God I've seen him And let me tell you something,
me too. Oh, I've never seen him with
a physical eye. I've never seen him with some kind of an ecstatic
vision. And if I had, I wouldn't tell
you about it. I've got better sense than that. I'm talking
to my superstitious religious aunt. I remember at Baptist Church
all her life, her grandchild. I hadn't even had time to tell
Shelby this. Her grandchild, little old bitty baby, never
saw her granddaddy. He died a few years ago, but
she sees him. He comes and visits her, talks
to her. I just sat and listened. I thought,
I don't see any point in even talking to you about this. He
comes and talks to her. What does he look like? Wearing
glasses? Somehow, I got a hunch if he's in glory, he ain't wearing
glasses. I just got a hunch, but I'm not talking about a physical
vision. I've seen the glory of God in
the face of Jesus Christ. Now, I see how God can be just
and justify us. Justice can demand no more than
Him who sits yonder in glory as my representative, having
satisfied the justice of God. And I'll tell you when I saw
it. When everybody in the whole world,
including me, had given up all hope that I might be born of
Him. as one born at a time. Well, Don's gone. You can forget
him. You can forget him. And I had utterly despaired of
myself. I had had religious experiences
like most folks. I don't know if I've ever told
you this or not. I know I've told you about being
talked into a profession of faith when I was seven years old, scared
to death of going to hell like everybody is seven years old
if they ever hear about it. Before I was eight years old,
or by the time I was eight years old, the church I was in, if
you can call it a church, Had me going around, we'd go out
to the, we used to call it the colored mission, colored church
out on the south side of Winston-Salem on Stadium Drive. I'd go out
there every Sunday afternoon and preach to black folks. And
they'd hoot and holler like I'd said something. By the time I
was nine years old, it was gone. And I didn't have any interest
in anything. Didn't have any interest to start with. Just talked into
religion, emotional experience, nothing else. And for the next seven and a
half years, hell seethed in my heart constantly. And hell broke loose on every
side. And when I began again to be
terrified of God's justice, I was terrified of his wrath.
And I'd try to make a bargain with God. I'd try to read my
Bible like I ought to and pray like I ought to and quit doing
things I ought not to do. Scared to death of going to hell. I started attending church. Wasn't interested really in what
was being said because I knew nothing had been said to me before. In God's good providence, I was
put in a class with some teenage boys listening to me teach the
gospel of God's free grace. And in my utter despair, I'd
gone to Sunday school so I could sit next to a pretty girl. I'd gone because the Son of God
had fixed a time and a place where He would come take up residence
in my heart. And I saw the glory of God in
a crucified substitute, who am less than the least of
all the apostles. Shoot. Ain't even fit to be called
one. Now, I'll preach my message another
time. I'll just give you my title and
quit. Look at verse 10. But by the grace of God, I am what I am. What are you, Don? A sinner. Just a sinner. but a sinner who trusts the Son
of God. A sinner forgiven of all sin. A sinner washed in the blood
of the Lamb. A sinner justified, sanctified, accepted. A sinner
kept by the power of God's grace. A sinner who's an heir of eternal
life. A sinner who's a child of God. And this is what I am by grace
alone. And this is my constant experience. I am what I am by the grace of
God. Bob, we're still here worshiping
Him. And we haven't forsaken the Gospel. Because He kept it,
that's all. And the grace that was bestowed
on me, look at it, verse 10. It was bestowed on me. And it wasn't bestowed on me
in vain. Sam, here I am. It wasn't an empty, meaningless
thing. It wasn't bestowed on me in vain. Because there you
are. God Almighty called you to. It
wasn't bestowed on me in vain. Because when God gets done, He's going to be glorified by
it. To the praise of the glory of His grace. By the grace of
God, I am what I am.