I haven't heard that song in
a long time. I think that's a blessing. Turn back to James chapter 2,
please. I'd like to read verse 23 again. And the Scripture was fulfilled. Now you can write this down. The Scripture will always be
fulfilled. what God says will always come to pass. The Scripture. Aren't you thankful for the Scripture?
God has given us a book, His Word. And the Scripture was fulfilled,
which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto
him for righteousness. And he was called the friend
of God. I initially wanted to prepare
a message on Abraham the friend of God, and I wanted to deal
with being a friend of God, what that means. But we'll hold off
until next week on that, because tonight I want to speak on how
one becomes. the friend of God. That's interesting,
isn't it? How is it that God could look
at me and say, He's my friend? Now, wouldn't it be something
if we could leave here tonight knowing that we are God's friend
and why we are God's friend. God is, I wish I knew how to
say this the right way, I use the word, God is holy. When Isaiah saw the Lord and
he saw the seraphims flying around the throne, what were they saying?
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God of hosts. The whole earth
is full of His glory. God's holiness. Now what does
holiness mean? About the best thing I can think
of is He's altogether different from me and you. That's what God's holiness means.
He's not like us. He's of two pure eyes. to behold
iniquity. He hates sin. He's not going
to give in on this. He's not going
to settle. He will only have fellowship.
He will only have friends who are just like himself. That's who God is. And he will
not settle. Turn with me for a moment to
Psalm 24. Hold your finger there in James.
We'll get back there. Psalm 24, verse 3. Who, I want you to look
at this, Psalm 24, verse 3. Who shall ascend into the hill
of the Lord? Or who shall stand in his holy
place? Now I want you to think about
that, standing before God. standing in his holy place. Well,
here's who will do that. Verse 4, He that hath clean hands,
and a pure heart, who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity,
nor sworn deceitfully, he shall receive the blessing from the
Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation. Now
that's the only person that's going to stand in his holy place.
Someone with clean hands. of pure heart, who's never lifted
up his soul to vanity, and has never sworn deceitfully. Turn back a few pages to Psalm
15. Same question is asked, verse
1. Lord, who shall abide in thy
tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and
worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart, he that
backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbor,
nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor, in whose eyes a
vile person is condemned, but he honoureth him that feareth
the Lord, He that sweareth to his own hurt and changes not,
he that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against
the innocent, he that doeth these things shall never be moved. Now, God is holy and he will
not have friends who are not exactly like we just read about. Now where does that leave me? Where does that leave you? God
demands this. He won't settle. He won't negotiate
for me or you to be his friend. We're going to have to be like
this. Now, if this is not a description,
these two Psalms of me personally, I'm not God's friend. I am God's
enemy. Now let that settle in. If somebody's
going to be God's friend, if they're going to stand in His
holy hill, they're going to have to be just like this. Now, Abraham was God's friend. We know he was, don't we? Abraham
was God's friend, and these two Psalms are a perfect description
of Abraham. How? because righteousness was
imputed to him. That's how he attained this state
of being a friend with God. Because righteousness, absolute
perfect righteousness, was imputed to him. Now who is the Old Testament
saint that is most spoken of in the New Testament? Abraham. By far. Abraham. He's called the friend of God. God calls him that. Don't you
want God to call you? He's my friend. She's my friend. Oh, how I covet that. Well, I
know Abraham was the friend of God. It was through his seed
that Christ would come. He was the first Jew. He was
the father of the faithful and the saved are called children
of Abraham. You remember when the Lord saves
Achaeus and he said in as much this day salvation has come to
this house in as much as he also is a son of Abraham. And if you and I are saved, if
we are ever to be friends of God, it'll be because we are
sons of Abraham. Now let's go back to Genesis
15 where James quotes, Abraham believed God that was counted
to him for righteousness. Go back to Genesis 15. Now, verse 6. said of Abraham, and he believed
in the Lord. And he, the Lord, counted it
to him for righteousness. Now that is what James quotes.
That is quoted three times in the New Testament. Romans chapter
4, verse 3. Galatians chapter 3, verse 6.
And James chapter 2, verse 23. And every time it's quoted like
this, Abraham believed in the Lord and it was imputed to him
for righteousness. Now let's look at this chapter,
Genesis chapter 15. After these things, verse 1, Abraham had been through a lot.
And he was going to go through a whole lot more, even when he
was an old man. And you can just expect it. The
Lord is going to put you and me through a lot. And I'm glad
I don't know what it is, aren't you? After these things, the
Word of the Lord, the Lord Jesus Christ. In the beginning was
the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. After
these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision,
saying, Fear not, Abram, I am thy shield, and thy exceeding
great reward. Now Abraham was afraid when the
Lord appeared to him, and you would be too if the Lord appeared
to you. He was scared. I understand that. And the Lord
says, Fear not. He says, I'm your shield. Now,
what's a shield for? A shield blows off, or wards
off the blows of the enemy. You hold up a shield, the arrows
come at you, it falls off. That's the cross. Christ was
my shield. On Calvary's tree, when I was
in Him, He took the blows for me, just like a shield does.
He said, I'm thy shield, and I am thy exceeding great reward. What's a believer's reward? Christ
himself. I am my beloved and my beloved
is mine. I love that him when I stand
before thy throne dressed in beauty not mine. When I see thee
as thou art, love thee with unsetting heart, then Lord shall I fully
know. But not till then how much I
owe. To think of the Lord being the
believer's reward. That lets you know that the Lord's
record of grace is not a bed, doesn't it? If He's the reward,
to be eternally united to Him, to be complete in Him, to be
accepted in the Beloved, to be redeemed in Him, chosen in Him,
to be predestinated, to be conformed to His image. Now look at the
language. After these things the word of
the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram, I am
thy shield and thy exceeding great reward. And I'll tell you
a word I'm glad is not in there after that. If. If. I am these things if you do this
or don't do that. Doesn't say anything like that
at all. Now this is grace. I am. thy shield, and I am thy
exceeding great reward. We just heard in that song, all
that I have is Jesus. That's all I have and that's
all I want and that's all I need. I like it being that way. That's
all any believer has. You don't add anything to him.
What would you add to him that would make it better? I don't
know of anything I loathe much more than people talking about
higher rewards in heaven, like there's something you could do
to add to his righteousness to make it better for you. Well,
that's ridiculous. I am thy shield and thy exceeding
great reward. Verse 2, And Abram said, Lord God, what
wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless? And the steward of
my house is this Eliezer of Damascus. I don't have any heirs. What
will you give me, seeing I have no one to give it to? Abraham's wife was barren. She
had already gone through menopause, and he didn't have any children.
All he had was this servant. Verse 3, And Abram said, Behold,
to me thou hast given no seed, and, lo, one born in my house
is mine heir. And behold, the word of the Lord
came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir, this servant
born in your house, but he that shall come forth out of thine
own bowels shall be thine heir. Now remember, Abraham didn't
have any children. He was an old man. Sarah was
barren. Sarah had gone through menopause.
Humanly speaking, what chance did they have of having children?
zilch, humanly speaking. But this isn't humanly speaking,
is it? This is God speaking. With God, nothing shall be impossible. Verse 5, And he brought him forth
abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars that
thou be able to number them. And he said unto him, so shall
thy seed be. You're going to have so many people that you're going to produce
that are going to be your heirs more than the stars of heaven.
And you think about this, nations came out of him. Supposedly, I hate using the
great religions of the world because the only religion there
is is the gospel, but you think of Muslim and the Jewish religion
and Christianity all claim Abraham. All the nations that came out
of him and what this is really talking about though is his spiritual
children. If I am a child of God, I'm a
son of Abraham. I'm of the seed of Abraham. And
that's what he's talking about is his spiritual children. They're
sons and daughters of Abraham sitting in here tonight. True
children of Abraham. That's a glorious thing to think
about, isn't it? Children of Abraham. Verse 6. And he believed in the Lord. Now, he didn't have any evidence.
He couldn't look at Sarah. She's still barren. All he had
was what God said. That's it. No physical evidence. Just what God said. Now, my dear friends, that's
what faith is. It's believing what God has said. It's not believing in God. The
debtor believes in God. It's believing what God has said. And what God has said is in this
book. This book claims to be the Word
of God, the inspired, infallible Word of God. And if I'm a believer,
I believe what God has said in His Word. I believe that God
will do what He said He would do, and I believe that God has
done what He said He has done. I believe God if I have faith. He believed God and it was imputed
to him for righteousness. Now, he, and this is what is
so amazing, he believed in the Lord and he, the Lord, counted
it to him for righteousness. Now what in the world does that
mean? If you and I can understand what
that means, that means God's taught us the gospel. He believed
in the Lord and the Lord counted it to him for righteousness. Now, this one Hebrew word is translated
by 18 different words. in the Old Testament. Same Hebrew
word, but this gives us some idea of what it means when it
says he believed in the Lord and the Lord counted it to him
for righteousness. It's translated account. It's
translated considered. The Lord considered him as righteous.
It's counted as conceive, as cunning work. I like that. The Lord's cunning work is to
make him righteous. It's translated devise, esteem,
he esteemed him as righteous. It's translated imagined, impute,
invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon, regard, and think. That one word is translated by
all those different words to give us some idea of what it
means when the Lord counted Abraham as righteous. Now in the New
Testament, this verse is quoted directly three times. And all
three times is quoted like this, Abraham believed the Lord and
it was imputed to him for righteousness. Now what does that mean? Now this doctrine, if you want
to call it a doctrine, it's the gospel, it's the truth. is like,
I guess, every other doctrine, one of the most misunderstood
and tortured doctrines in the Word of God. Very few people
understand what this really means. May God be our teacher, and I'll
tell you what, you and I won't understand what it means unless
God teaches us. I can't teach myself, I can't
teach you. I can give the truth, but the only way you and I will
ever understand it is if the Spirit of God takes this and
reveals Himself and His gospel through this passage of Scripture.
This is not something you and I can figure out. May God be
our teacher as we consider how I can be righteous. And it's
only as I am righteous, actually righteous before God, really
righteous before God, that God's going to count me His friend.
The only people who are his friends are those whom he has imputed
righteousness to. I've heard the term all my life,
imputed righteousness. I've even used it. Imputed righteousness. We're justified by an imputed
righteousness. John Bunyan even wrote a book
entitled Justification by an Imputed Righteousness. And you
know, as soon as we use that kind of language, we go wrong. Imputation is never used as an
adjective. Imputed righteousness. Like there's
some other kind of righteousness. Understand, beloved, there's
only one righteousness, and that's the righteousness of God. David said, I've made mention
of thy righteousness, even thine only. The only righteousness
there is, is the righteousness of God. And if you're righteous,
it's because you have the righteousness of God. This is the only righteousness
there is. And when I talk about an imputed
righteousness, it's almost like, well, there's this kind of righteousness
and that kind of righteousness. No, this word imputation is always
used as a verb. Righteousness imputed. All the difference in the world.
Not imputed righteousness, but righteousness imputed. Now, here's what most believe.
regarding this thing of righteousness imputed. Everybody uses the term,
Baptist, Catholic, Presbyterian, whatever. Religious people use
the term, and here is what religious people mean by this term. God,
because of the cross of Christ, God views Christians as legally
righteous, and they have a correct legal standing before God even
though they're not actually righteous because of the imputation. Now
let me repeat that. Everybody uses this. Baptists,
Catholics, Methodists, Presbyterians, Church of Christ, Christian Church,
everybody uses this term. The reason we can be counted
righteous is because of the cross. On the cross, God treated Christ
as if he were guilty. Though we know he wasn't, but
God treated him as though he was guilty. And because of that,
that's why he poured his wrath out on him. And because of that,
God can treat us as if we're not guilty, even though we really
know we really are. Now, is that a fair representation
of what most people believe with regard to imputation? God, because
of the cross, He treated Christ as if He were guilty. Your sin
was charged to Him. He was treated as though He were
guilty, even though we know He was not. And now, because of
that, you can be treated as not guilty, even though you know
and I know deep down we are guilty. Turn with me for a moment to
Proverbs chapter 17. Verse 15, He that justifieth the wicked,
and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination
to the Lord. Now, if God treats me as though
I'm not guilty, even though I really am, God's not just. If God treats Christ as though
he were guilty, even though he's really not, God's not just. And that lets me know that imputation
is not what most religious people think it is. I'm thankful. You know, I can't get any comfort.
You've heard that term, justification is just as if I never sinned.
That doesn't do me any good at all. Not at all. It makes me
still scared, but I did. I did. Imputation is not God
treating me as if. Now let me give you, well first,
what would you think of an earthly judge who treated people who
were guilty as if they were not. He'd get impeached, wouldn't
he? What if he treated people as not guilty, even though they
were? He'd get impeached. We would not accept this out
of an earthly judge. Now, what I'd like to do right
now is give you the 12 different ways that one Greek word, translated
imputed, is brought out in the New Testament. I believe this
will help us to understand. this thing of imputation. And
then we're going to see what the Bible, how this happens in
just a moment. But here, number one, it's translated,
account. Let a man so account of us as
stewards of the mysteries of God. Now, why is a man to account, excuse me, as stewards of the
mysteries of God? Because he was a steward of the
mystery of God. It wasn't as if, He were a steward of the
mysteries of God. He was a steward of the mysteries
of God. If I'm accounted righteous by
God, it's because I am righteous before God. Altogether righteous. It is translated, conclude. Therefore we conclude that a
man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. God concludes
me as righteous. How come? Because I'm righteous. It's translated count. Paul said,
I count not myself to have apprehended. Now why did Paul count not himself
to have apprehended? Because he hadn't. He hadn't. And if I'm counted righteous,
it's because I am righteous. That's what this means. If righteousness
is imputed to me, that means I am righteous. It doesn't mean it's like I'm
righteous, or I have a legal righteous standing before God.
It means I, in my person, am righteous. Someone God can call
my friend. It's translated charge. I pray
that this might not be laid to their charge, not imputed to
them. It's translated as esteem. If
any esteem is something to be unclean to him, it is unclean.
Now if I'm esteemed by God to be righteous, it's because I
am righteous. I wish the Lord would give us grace to get hold
of this. To really believe that God's completely satisfied with
me and sees me as perfectly righteous without sin, never having sinned.
Nothing to feel guilty about. Perfect in God's sight. It's
translated number. He was numbered with the transgressors. This is a numerical calculation.
Yeah, I love math. It's exact. That's what I love
about it. It's exact. You don't have to
guess. This isn't philosophy. This is math. Reasoned. They reasoned with
themselves. This is logic. If I'm righteous,
He treats me as such. That's the logic of it. It's
translated, Reckon. Romans 6.11 says, Reckon yourselves
to be dead indeed to sin, but alive unto God through the Lord
Jesus Christ. Now, why am I to reckon myself
to be dead to sin? Because I am dead to sin. Sin
has nothing to say to me. It's been put away. It's been
blotted out. I have perfect righteousness
before God. It's translated, suppose. 2 Corinthians
11 5, I suppose that I'm not a wit behind the chiefest apostles.
Now, why did he suppose that? Because he wasn't. Because he
wasn't. Think. Translated, not that we're
sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves. I like
this. It's actually translated, despised.
Now, in what context was that? Demetrius, the silversmith, was
upset. He made idols. He made gods. And Paul said, there are no gods
made with hands. And he had him thrown into jail.
And he was upset. And he said, if there's no gods
made with hands, then Diana will be despised, imputed to be nothing. Imputed to be nothing. Well, she was nothing, wasn't
she? She wasn't real. And then we
have the word imputed. Abraham believed God and it was
imputed to him for righteousness. Now let me ask you a question.
Does that mean the act of faith is what is imputed as righteousness? Because I believe, it's my act
of faith, God accepts that as righteousness. No. You know better than that. Everybody that has any spiritual
light at all knows better than that. You know, it almost sounds
like that when you read it. He believed God and it was counted
to him for righteousness. But remember, whatever you look
at, you've got to throw the whole Bible at it. And you've got to
see what it looks like in light of all the other scriptures.
Now, turn with me for a moment to Romans chapter 4. Romans chapter 4. Beginning in verse 1, this whole chapter is devoted
to Genesis chapter 15. What shall we say then that Abraham
our father as pertaining to the flesh hath found? For if Abraham
were justified by works, he'd have whereof the glory, but not
before God For what saith the scripture, Abraham believed God,
and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Now, to him that
worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. If you
are saved by your works, that means God is paying you. He owes
you salvation. But, to him that worketh not,
but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted
for righteousness. Now here's what that means. Even
as David also describeth the blessedness of the man unto whom
God imputeth righteousness without works, saying, Blessed are they
whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed
is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. Now, here's what
my hope is. Here's what your hope is. It's
the only hope anybody has. The only hope you have is for
God to not impute your sin to you. That's it. And the only hope
you have is for God to take the righteousness of His Son and
impute it to you. Turn with me to 2 Corinthians
chapter 5. Verse 17, Therefore, if any man
be in Christ, he is a new creation, a new creature, something that
was not there before. Old things are passed away. Behold,
all things are become new. Hold on for a minute. I'm saved. I'm totally different. I don't
have the same wicked desires and same evil passions. I've
been delivered from that because I'm saved. God's done something
for me. You expect me to believe that?
I don't. Not even for a second. Not even
for a second. You have the same wicked nature
that you've always had. And it hadn't improved a bit,
and it's not become less. It's still there. So what's he talking about? Old
things have passed away. Behold, all things have become
new. I've got a new standing before God's law. That old standing
of guilty is gone. It's passed away. I've got a
new standing. I've got a new heart that I used
to didn't have. A heart that loves God, a heart
that believes, a heart that repents. I've got something that wasn't
there before. All things have become new. And all, verse 18,
and all things are of God. who hath reconciled us to himself
by Jesus Christ. That reconciliation has already
taken place and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation
to wit that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself. How? Not imputing their trespasses
unto them. not charging them with them,
and he's committed to us the word of reconciliation. Now then,
we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you
by us. We pray you in Christ's stead,
be ye reconciled to God, for he hath made him sin. You notice that to be is in italics. That means the translators put
it there. You can read it better without
it. For he hath made him sin. Now I don't even know what to
say about that other than read it and say that's exactly what
it means. He made him sin. The sins of God's elect were
taken from them and made his. You want to know what sin is?
Look to the cross. There it is. For he hath made
him sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made. What? What? The righteousness of God. Now this is every believer. The
righteousness of God. Are you saying that you're the
righteousness of God? Yes, I am. Yes, I am. That's what this book declares. Turn with me for a moment to
Jeremiah chapter 23. Now this is how Abraham became God's friend. He had a righteousness that wasn't
like God's. It was the righteousness of God. In Jeremiah chapter 23, verse
6, In his days, Jews shall be saved,
and Israel shall dwell safely, and this is his name, the name
of the Lord Jesus, whereby he shall be called the Lord our
righteousness. Now look in Jeremiah chapter
33. Verse 16, In those days Judah
shall be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely. And this
is the name wherewith she shall be called, the church, every
believer, the Lord our righteousness. Now remember that man that we
read about in Psalm 24 and Psalm 15 that never swore deceitfully,
had clean hands and a pure heart, never lifted up his soul to vanity? That's this man. That's Abraham. That's everyone who believes
the gospel. Turn with me for a moment to
Psalm 18. Psalm 18. Verse 20. The Lord rewarded me
according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of
my hands hath he recompensed me. Now who's speaking? The Lord. You know that. The Lord. But you know who else
is speaking? Every believer. Every single
one of them. Let's go on reading. For I have
kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from
my God. For all his judgments were before me, and I did not
put away his statutes from me. I was also upright before him,
I kept myself from mine iniquity. Therefore hath the Lord recompensed
me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of
my hands, in his eyesight." Now his eyesight, I love thinking,
He's the only one who sees, really. Me and you, we don't see. We
don't see. I mean, everything is in the
dark with us. You don't see what's in me. I
don't see what's in you. But the Lord sees. And he sees the
cleanness and the righteousness of every believer because they
have his righteousness. Now, that's how Abraham could
become the friend of God. Now, let's close by looking back
at Genesis 15 for a moment. And he, verse 6, believed in
the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteousness. And he
said unto him, I am the Lord that brought us thee out of Ur
of the Chaldees, to give thee this land, to inherit it. And
he said, this is Abraham again, Lord God, whereby shall I know
that I shall inherit it? Now that almost sounds like unbelief,
doesn't it? God says, I'm going to give it to you. And Abraham
says, how can I know? How can I know? And the Lord
doesn't rebuke him for it. But look what he says, verse
9. Here's how you can know. He said, take me a heifer of
three years old. Now, I think that's interesting
the way he says that. He doesn't say take a heifer of three years old.
He said, take it from me. Now what Abraham is going to
learn is that I know that the reason God is satisfied with
me is because he's satisfied with the sacrifice of Christ.
And however satisfied God is with the sacrifice of Christ,
that's how satisfied he is with me. That's how I know I'm going
to get all of this. Because of God's satisfaction
with the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. Is God looking
for anything more? Is God looking for anything more? No. He said, when I see the blood,
I will pass over you. How can I know? Well, here's
how you know. He said, take me in a heifer
of three years old, a she-goat of three years old, and a ram
of three years old, and a turtle dove, and a young pigeon. And
he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and
laid each piece one against another. This was for sacrifice. But the
birds divided he not. And when the fowls came down
upon the carcasses, Abraham drove them away. This is where the
vultures will always attack. The sacrifice of Christ. That's
where the vultures will always attack. They'll call into question
the accomplishments of his death. Now, let me give you four words
regarding the blood of Christ that I hope can be screwed into
our hearts and minds and consciences. The blood of Christ is precious. Precious to God. precious to
the believer of infinite merit. The blood of Christ can make
you without sin before God. The blood of Christ is particular. He died for the elect. He died for His sheep. He said, I lay down my life for
the sheep. For a preacher to say that Jesus
Christ shed his blood for all men without exception, that preacher
betrays the fact that he doesn't know the gospel and he's a false
prophet. Because that's taken away the
meaning of the death of Christ. Christ laid down his life for
the sheep. That sacrifice is successful. It's successful. Whatever he
intended to do, he did. It really redeemed, and that
sacrifice is sufficient to satisfy God and to satisfy the believer. Verse 12, And when the sun was
going down, now because Abraham was a friend of God, friends
confide in one another, and God lets him know what he's going
to do. Verse 12, And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep
fell upon Abram, and lo and horror of great darkness fell upon him.
And he said unto Abraham, Know of a surety that thy seed shall
be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve
them, and they shall afflict them four hundred years. And
also that nation whom they shall serve will I judge, and afterwards
shall they come out with great substance. talking about the
children of Israel in Egypt. And thou shalt go to thy fathers
in peace, thou shalt be buried in a good old age. But in the
fourth generation they shall come hither again for the iniquity
of the Amorites is not yet full. And it came to pass that when
the sun went down and it was dark, you remember those sacrificial
animals laid out, The sun went down. It was dark. Behold, a
smoking furnace and a burning lamp passed between those pieces. Smoking. Why? Because they were
being consumed. That's God's acceptance of the
sacrifice. A burning lamp. Light. The only
light we have is the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. But
what a light it is. What a light He is. In the same
day, the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, In thy seed
have I given this land from the river of Egypt unto the great
river, the river Euphrates, the Canaanites, and the Canaanites,
and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites,
and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites,
and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites,
and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites,
and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites,
and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites,
and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites, and the Canaanites Lord, we ask in Christ's name
that we might be found in him, that his righteousness might
be imputed to us by you. We ask that we might be thy friends. Lord, give us grace to love you
more, to love one another more. Forgive us of our sins. Lord,
how we thank you for the forgiveness of sins. Bless these words for
Christ. We got Matt.