I have entitled this message,
What Do You Feel Good About? What do you rejoice in? What makes you feel good? What
do you glory in? What are you personally proud
of? What do you feel good about. Now, in our text, Paul says our
rejoicing is this. That word is also translated
in the New Testament, our glory or our boasting. And Paul is
saying in that word, this is what we feel good about. You
know, everybody wants to feel good about something, don't they?
Everybody does. I want something to feel good
about. I want something in my life that
I can feel good about. You know, some people don't have
anything they feel good about. I realize that. But everybody
wants this. Everybody wants something to
feel good about. Now, Paul also warns us there
are things that we shouldn't feel good about. There are things
we're forbidden to glory. There are things we're forbidden
to rejoice in. There are things we're forbidden to have any pride. You know, he warned us about
those who glory in appearance and not in heart, and he warned
us about no fleshes to glory in God's presence. There are
things we shouldn't glory in or feel good about, but there
are things we should. Now, here Paul tells us what
he felt good about. what he gloried about. Look at
verse 12 again. Our rejoicing, what we boast
in, what we glory in, what we feel good about. And when he
speaks of our, he's talking about himself and he's talking about
every believer as well. This is what every believer rejoices
in. This is what every believer feels
good about, as it were. Let's read this verse again together.
Our rejoicing is this. The testimony of our conscience that in simplicity and godly
sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have
had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly, to Eward." Now, notice when he speaks of
these things that he glories in. that it had an effect on
his conversation, on his conduct, on his manner of life. He said,
Our glory is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity
and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace
of God, we've had our conversation, our conduct, our manner of life
in this world. This is the driving force, he
says, behind our behavior. And that's what the word conversation
means. It means behavior. As a matter
of fact, it's translated in First Timothy 315, how thou oughtest
to behave thyself. And this word conversation is
in the Bible a lot. It's made of two words, talked
about this in Sunday School class this morning, and it's made of
two words, which means turn back. Turn back, in other words, if
I go to a point, there's something that's going to cause me to turn
back and not go beyond that boundary and beyond that parameter. That's
what our conversation is. It's our manner of life. It's
our conduct. It's what keeps us. Now, understand
this. We don't believe any more than
we put into practice. Now, that's so. We don't believe
any more than we put into practice, and we don't put it into practice,
we don't believe it. You can just write that down. Paul says
these things that we rejoice in, these things that he mentions,
that's the driving force behind our conduct. This is how our
manner of life in this world has been determined by these
things that we rejoice in. Now, our rejoicing, our glory, our
boasting, what we feel good about is this. You know, this was a
Favorite word would be Apostle Paul. He used this word a whole
lot. Our rejoicing. What we feel good
about. What we boast in. What we glory
in. Now, one scripture that came
to my mind is where the disciples came to the Lord after the Lord
had sent them. And they said, Lord, even the
devils are subject to us through thy name. You're using us in
such a glorious way. We feel good about this. You
know what the Lord said? In this, glory not, but glory
rather that your names are written in the book of life. Turn with
me for a minute to 1 Corinthians 1. I want us to look at how Paul
used this word. 1 Corinthians 1. Verse 26. Paul says, For you see your calling,
brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many
mighty, not many noble, are called. But God hath chosen the foolish
things of the world to confound the wise. Well, I love the way
the Lord does things. You know, I read that passage
of scripture. I just love the way the Lord
does things. He had chosen the weak things of the world to confound
the things which are mighty, and the base things of the world,
and the things which are despised, if God chose it, yea, and the
things which are not, which are nothing, to bring to nothing
the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence,
or should boast, or feel good about anything in their flesh
in His presence, but Of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God
is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
that according as it's written, he that glorieth, let him glory
in the Lord." Now, here's something I can feel good about. Here's
something I can boast in and rejoice in and have some confidence
in, being in the Lord. He's my wisdom. He's my righteousness. Literally. He is my sanctification. He is my redemption. And I can
rejoice in it. I can feel good about that. I'm
proud of that. I'm personally proud, but I tell
you what, I'm proud to be saved by the Lord Jesus Christ. I'm
proud of the gospel. It can't be improved. It can't be made
any better. My state can't get any better
than that. I glory in that. Turn to 2 Corinthians 10. This gives us some idea of what
Paul means by this word. 2 Corinthians chapter 10, verse
17. For he that glorieth, if you're
going to rejoice, if you're going to boast in something, if you're
going to feel good about something, and that's what it means to feel
good about something. He that glorieth, let him glory where?
In the Lord. For not he that commendeth himself
is approved, but whom the Lord commended. Look in chapter 12
of 2 Corinthians. Now, Paul talks about in verse
one, it's not expedient for me, doubtless to glory. That's the
same word. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
I knew a man in Christ about 14 years ago, and he's talking
about when the Lord made himself known to him in an unusual way
and revealed the gospel to him. And this is where he got the
wisdom that he had. God appeared directly to him.
The Lord Jesus Christ taught Paul. He wasn't taught by man. He was taught by Christ himself.
And this is what he's referring to. I knew a man in Christ about
14 years ago, whether in the body I cannot tell or whether
out of the body I cannot tell. God knows such a one caught up
into the third heaven. And I knew such a man, whether
in the body or out of the body, I can't tell. God knows how that
he was caught up into paradise and he heard unspeakable words,
which is not lawful for a man to utter such a one. Well, I
glory, I glory in that, yet of myself. Not me. I will not glory, but in my infirmities. In my weakness, my sinful weakness
and helplessness. Now, how are you going to glory
in that, Paul? How is that something to be glory in? Because this
I know. That's the person Christ came
to save. The sinful, weak, helpless individual. Let's go on reading.
He says in verse 6, For though I would desire the glory, and
ye think of how the Lord blessed it, he said, I am not going to
be a fool, for I will say the truth. But now I forbear, lest
any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be,
or that he heareth of me, unless I should be exalted above measure
through the abundance of the revelations there was given to
me, a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet
me, lest I should be exalted above measure. For this thing
I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. He said
unto me, My grace is sufficient. For my strength is made perfect
in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, will
I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may
rest upon me." Look in Galatians chapter 6, verse 12. As many as desire to
make a fair show in the flesh, and that would pretty much sum
up man's religion, a fair show in the flesh. How good I can
look to you. As many as desire to make a fair
show in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised, only lest
they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. For
neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law, but
they desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh,
that they may feel good about the influence they've had over
you. Look, I've got that guy to keep the law. Oh, that's a
feather in my cap. But Paul says, God forbid that
I should glory. Now, you remember, he's just
talking about him being taken up into the third heaven. And all the things God did with
this man and through this man, he wrote 13 books in the Bible. He was a mighty apostle, and
yet he says, God forbid that I should glory, that I should
feel good about, that I should boast in, that I should have
confidence in anything save the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Paul says that's all I feel good
about. The cross of Christ, what he
accomplished. Look in Philippians chapter three. Verse three. For we are the circumcision,
we're the true believers, which worship God in the Spirit, by
the Holy Spirit. There's no worship of God without
the Holy Spirit. And we rejoice, we glory, that's
the word, we boast in Christ Jesus and have no confidence
in the flesh. Now, this gives us some idea
of what Paul meant by this word rejoicing or glorying or feeling
good about. And let me repeat, these are
things that only a believer can enter into, actually feeling
good about these things. Paul says, my rejoicing is this,
the testimony of my conscience that in simplicity, godly sincerity,
not with fleshly But by the grace of God, we've had our conversation
in this world. Now, if you're a believer, this
is you're rejoicing as well, just like Paul. Now, to some
degree, some enter into this more than others because there's
a growth in grace. But this is every believer's
testimony. This is this is what we rejoice
in. This is who we rejoice in. This
is who we feel good about. This is what we feel good about.
Now, the first thing. Paul says, he says, this is the
testimony of our conscience. I'm not lying about this. I'm
not making this up. This isn't just hot air. This
isn't just religious rhetoric. This is the truth. In simplicity. In simplicity, I've had my conversation
in this world. Now, Paul was not bragging about
this in a sinful, fleshly way. He was simply stating the fact
I have lived in simplicity. in this world. This is the rule
of my behavior. Simplicity. Now, what does simplicity
mean? What's he mean by that? We'll
turn over to 2 Corinthians chapter 11. Paul says in verse 2, for I'm
jealous over you with a godly jealousy. and intoleration for
rivals. For I have espoused you to one
husband, that I may present you a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means,
as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should
be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ Jesus." Now,
that word simplicity means the singleness, the oneliness. The wholeness, the oneness that
is in Christ Jesus. Now, I think I know something
about what Paul's talking about here. The singleness of Christ
and being corrupted from the singleness of Christ. I have
a very simple hope. Very simple. There's not two
things to be confused about. There's not two things to get
them in the wrong order. I have a very simple hope, and
that simple hope is that Christ died for me. That's the only hope I have.
I don't have anything to confuse this with. The only – listen
to me real carefully – the only hope that I have that I will
stand accepted before God, the only hope I have that my sins
are forgiven, the only hope that I have that I will stand holy
before God, is that Jesus Christ died for my sins. Now listen to me. I hate, and I can't say this
with sufficient... whatever it is I'm trying to...
I hate that doctrine that says that Jesus Christ can die for
you and you can end up in hell anyway. Because it takes away
the only hope that I have. If you tell me that Jesus Christ
can die for my sins, but there's something I need to do to make
what he did for me work, you take away the only hope that
I have. The only hope that I have is
that when he said it is finished, my salvation was finished. I
have no other hope. It's very simple. Very simple.
I have a very simple object of faith. Christ only. I'm not looking to my faith.
I'm not looking to my experience. I'm not looking to my knowledge.
I'm looking to Christ only. Nothing more. Nothing less. And nothing else. He is the only
object of my faith. I have a very simple righteousness. His only. I don't have a righteousness
that's like His or equal to His. That would mean there's two righteousnesses.
There's only one righteousness. That is the righteousness of
Jesus Christ. His obedience, His law-keeping,
His life before God is by righteousness. I have a very simple message. Nothing complicated about it.
Paul said in 1 Corinthians 2, verse 2, Not to know anything
among you, say Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Here's my message.
Who He is? He's Jesus Christ, the God-man,
the Son of God, the second person in the Trinity, the Christ, God's
prophet, God's priest, God's king. Our priest Christ crucified. He was crucified. Why was He
crucified? The sins of His people became His. What did He accomplish
by it? He put away the sins of everybody
that He died for. It's a very simple message. Nothing
else is even worth preaching. Every time I preach, that better
be the sum and substance of everything I say, or I'm not preaching the
gospel every single time. I have a simple motive. A very simple motive. There's
only one motive that's acceptable. It's glory. Any other motive
is a wrong motive in preaching. If my motive is to gain a following
or to build a church, that's an evil motive. The only motive
that's acceptable, there's only one motive, the glory, the exaltation
of the Lord Jesus Christ. And we can say regarding everything
we ask for, if it be for your glory. We have no other motive. I have a simple ground of assurance.
Now, I've got assurance that I'm saved. I've got assurance
that I'm going to heaven when I die. I have assurance. Thank God for that. And it's
not because I see something in myself. I don't have assurance
because, well, you're a preacher, because you've read the Bible
enough, or because you have enough good works. I have a simple ground
of assurance. Here's why I know I'll be in
heaven when I die. Because he said, it is finished. I don't need any other thing
for assurance. Isn't that wonderful? I have a simple aspiration. As
God is my witness, and I say that carefully, the testimony
of my conscience also is bearing witness with me just like Paul's
was. I have a simple aspiration. I have a simple goal. I have
a simple aim. It's to be found in Him. That's
it. That's my only goal. It's simply
to be found in the Lord Jesus Christ. When He shall come with
trumpet sound, oh, may I then in Him be found. That's all. That's my only goal. I want to
be found in the Lord Jesus Christ, so when I stand before God, Christ
stands and I'm in Him. That's my only goal. Simply to
be found in Him. I have a simple doctrine. Christ
is all. What does that make everything
else? Nothing. He is the sum and substance of
everything we believe. And this simplicity. Is seen
in my conversation in this world, and if it's not seen in my conversation
in this world, it's not really there. I'm just talking, but
it's not real. Now Paul said we've lived in
simplicity. Simple means single. One. You
know how our Lord said one thing is needful. Not two things. Not
three. Not one and a half. One thing
is needful. To sit at the feet of the Lord
Jesus Christ. That's the one thing needful.
Now I have, by the grace of God, every believer has, lived in
simplicity. Don't you love the simplicity
that's in Christ? Nothing to be confused about. Nothing to
even mess up the order of it. There's only one thing. One thing. David said, one thing have I
desired, and that will I seek after. Paul said, there's one
thing I do. One thing. Simplicity. Now, Next, he says in our text, this
is what we feel good about. First of all, simplicity. Don't
you feel good about the simplicity that's in Christ Jesus? I really
do. I feel good about this. I rejoice
in this. It's something that I'm proud
of. Simply to be found in the Lord
Jesus Christ. Now, the next thing he mentions
in our text in Second Corinthians, Chapter one, this is our rejoicing. This is what we feel good about.
Our conscience testifies that this is true, for our rejoicing
is this, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, we've had our
conversation in this world. I am sincere about this thing
of simplicity. In godly sincerity, the sincerity
that comes from God is literally what that means. Only God can
give this kind of sincerity. This sincerity is not found in
the natural land. It's a godly sincerity, it's a gift of God's
grace. Now, the word means transparent. Pure, that's what sincerity means,
transparent and pure. We don't say one thing and mean
another. We don't speak out of both sides of our mouth. There's
not another agenda we're trying to hide. We're out in the open.
We use great plainness of speech. We're not trying to hide it.
Transparent. Translucent. We're not trying
to bring anything in the back door. Now, in preaching. Oh, listen to me in preaching.
Sincerely, I preach the Word of God. I stand under this Word. I love the Word of God. And I'm
not trying to make the Word of God relevant to the modern man.
That's the most ridiculous thing that there ever was. This is
God's Word. We don't try to make it relevant.
We preach the word. And I believe what this world,
I'm not trying to bring anything in the back door. The Bible is
the word of God. God is who he says he is in his
word. He's absolutely sovereign. Men
are dead in sins. No way of saving themselves.
They completely lack the ability. The God whose God, before time
began, elected a people to salvation and they are saved. They must
be saved. They will be saved because God
chose them to be saved. They can't be anything but saved.
I don't try to water that down. Christ died for the elect. He
accomplished their salvation. God, the Holy Spirit's grace
is invincible and irresistible. Every one of these people will
persevere to the end. Don't try to bring anything in
the back door. This is the truth. We rejoice in it. That means our yea means yea
and our nay means nay. Look in the same chapter of 2
Corinthians chapter 1. Verse 17, When I therefore was
thus minded, did I use likeness? Or the things that I purposed,
do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should
be yea and nay, saying yes and no to the same thing? If Christ
died for you, Are you safe? Well, yes and no. Yes, you are
if you do something, but no, you might end up going to hell
if you don't do something to make what he did work. That's
yay, nay. That's all it is. He said, But as God is true,
verse 18, our word toward you was not yea and nay, for the
Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us,
even by me and Silvazus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him
was yea, for all the promises of God in him are yea, and in
him, amen, unto the glory of God by us. Look in verse 17 of
chapter 2, for we are not as many which corrupt the word of
God And that word corrupt there, it means pedal. It means huckster. It means to retail. You know,
I don't have anything to sell. I'm not trying to sell anything.
I'm not trying to get you to do anything. I'm just to declare
the word of God. He says, for we are not as many which corrupt
the word of God, but as of sincerity. But as of God and the sight of
God speak, we in Christ, only an insincere man will corrupt
the Word of God. Look over in 2 Corinthians 4. Therefore, seeing we had this
ministry and he talked about being an able minister of the
New Testament, the ministry of grace as we've received mercy,
we think not, but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty
or concealment. That's that's the opposite of
sincerity. Hiding something, not walking
in craftiness, using whatever means we need to make ourselves
nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation
of the truth. That's all we do. Manifestation
of the truth, declaring what God says. That's what commends
us. Paul says, in simplicity and
in godly sincerity, we've had our conversation in this world. I hate insincerity, don't you?
If somebody's insincere, You can't trust what they say. But
Paul said, that's not how we've had our conversation in this
world, but with simplicity and with godly sincerity. Now back
to our text in 2 Corinthians 1. He says, not with fleshly wisdom. Our conversation in this world
has not been one of fleshly wisdom, and we rejoice in this. We feel
good about this. We glory in this. Our conversation
in this world has not been one of fleshly wisdom. The ministry
God has given us to preach the gospel is not to be carried out
in fleshly wisdom. Now, what is fleshly wisdom?
Well, it's the wisdom of man as opposed to the wisdom of God. It's the kind of wisdom the natural
man exhibits. Wisdom guided by principles of
self-interest and expediency. That is fleshly wisdom. And indeed,
men have a kind of wisdom that makes them able to get the things
they want. Fleshly wisdom. Fleshly wisdom
is how the natural man gets what he wants. I think of what Paul
said. Here's an example. Look in 1
Corinthians 1. Would you turn with me now? Verse 17, For Christ sent me
not to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of
words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
Now, what that wisdom of words is, that's fleshly wisdom. That's
trying to make the gospel more palatable to the flesh, more
likely to be received. It's peddling something. It's
trying to sell something. And Paul said, I'm not trying
to sell anything. I'm not going to peddle away the truth with
wisdom of words, because when I do that, I neuter the gospel.
I take its power away. I make it to where it's of none
effect. Look what he says in chapter two, verse one, first
Corinthians. And I, brethren, when I came
to you, I came not with excellency of speech and rhetoric or of
wisdom declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined
not to know anything among you, said Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.
And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling,
and my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of
man's wisdom, plausible arguments that seemed to make sense, but
simply in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, just laying
out the truth, depending on the Holy Spirit, to make it known
that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in
the power of God." Now, Paul understood something about the
flesh and the wisdom of the flesh. You know, he said in Romans 7,
8, For I know that in me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good
thing. And he said in Philippians chapter
3, verse 3, For we are the circumcision which worship God in the spirit,
rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh. Turn with me for a moment to
Second Corinthians. Now, in our conversation in this world, this
is the way we conduct ourselves. This is the way we conduct the
ministry. Simplicity, godly sincerity, and not with fleshly wisdom.
Now, look what Paul says here in 2 Corinthians chapter 10. Sorry, not 11, 10. He says in
verse 1, Now I, Paul, myself, beseech you by the meekness and
gentleness of Christ. I think it's so glorious. The
meekness and gentleness of Christ, I beseech you. Who in presence
of base among you, but being absent and bold toward you, but
I beseech you that I may be bold when I'm present with that confidence
wherewith I think to be bold against some which think of us
as if we walked according to the flesh, the wisdom of the
flesh. For though we walk in the flesh,
We don't war after the flesh. We don't use any flesh in this
thing of the ministry. It's not the wisdom of the flesh.
It's not trying to sell something. He says in verse four, for the
weapons of our warfare are not carnal, fleshly, but mighty through
God to the pulling down of strongholds. Casting down imaginations, vain
reasonings, and every high thing that exalts itself against the
knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought
to the obedience of Christ. We don't use fleshly methods.
We don't depend on fleshly strength. We don't depend on fleshly ability
to persuade somebody. We simply preach the truth and
rely wholly upon the grace of God to do the work. Now listen
to me. I believe what I'm preaching
is the truth so much that I'm willing to preach it and leave
you alone with God. I feel no need to try to talk
you into anything because I know that's God's work. Back to our text, here's the
last thing he mentions. And this is what we feel good
about. This is what we glory in. This is what we rejoice in.
This is what we boast in. Our conscience bearing witness
that this is the truth, that in simplicity and godly sincerity,
not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we've had
our conversation in the world and more abundantly to use. Now,
I feel good about this. I glory in this. I rejoice in
this. I know That the simplicity I
have, that every believer has, it's the gift of God's grace.
It's not something I'm warping up. It's the gift of God's grace. And I'm relying on His grace
to give me this simplicity. I'm relying on His grace to give
me this sincerity. This is a godless sincerity.
It's above the strength and energy of the flesh. It's not something
a natural man can do. It's the gift of God. And I'm
relying on His grace to give that to me. And as far as fleshly
wisdom, I'm totally dependent upon the grace of God to deliver
me from using fleshly wisdom and going in that direction.
As a matter of fact, here's my rejoicing. Here's what I feel
good about. The grace of God. I feel good
about the grace of God. Now, what does the Bible mean
by the grace of God? Paul said this is how we've had
our conversation in this world. This is how we've conducted ourselves
in this world. This is what makes our boundaries
and parameters. The grace of God. What's the
Bible mean by the grace of God? It means one thing. It means
saving favor. Saving favor. If it doesn't save,
it's not grace. Grace alone chose me and put
me in the Lord Jesus Christ. By grace, ye are saved. Grace alone sent Christ to this
earth to save me. Grace alone took my sin and lifted
it off of me and put it on the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace alone
took His righteousness and placed it upon me so I stand before
God righteous. Grace alone. This doesn't have
anything to do with my works. I mean absolutely nothing. Grace
alone gave Christ to pay for all my sins. Grace only kept
me before I ever even received it. You know, I would have destroyed
myself if grace didn't... His grace was upon me from the
womb. Now, I didn't believe until He gave me grace to believe.
But there's grace before grace. Aren't you thankful for grace
before grace? Where would you be without grace before grace?
Grace alone caused me to hear the gospel and God crossed my
path. Grace only gave me spiritual
life. Grace only gave me faith. Grace
only gave me repentance. Grace only gave me a love for
the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace only. Salvations of the
Lord. Salvations by grace. I feel good
about that. If you give me any work that
I need to do in order to make His grace work for me, man, I
feel bad. I feel real bad. I just don't
have any peace. But you tell me that salvation
is all together in the Lord Jesus Christ. That it's God that worketh
in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Oh, I feel
good about that. I feel good about the grace of
the Lord Jesus Christ. Here's our task here on Earth.
Turn to Acts chapter 20. Verse 24. But none of these things move
me. What are you talking about? Look up in verse 22 and now behold,
I go bound in the spirit into Jerusalem, not knowing the things
that shall befall me there say that the Holy Ghost witnesses
in every city saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. But
none of these things move me. Neither count I my life dear
unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and
the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify
what? The gospel of the grace of God."
That's our purpose here in this life. Now, Paul said, and see
if you can enter into this, if you're a believer, you can. I
have no doubt about it. If you're a believer, you can.
By the grace of God, this is the testimony of my conscience.
This is what I feel good about. This is what I glory in. This
is what I rejoice in. This is what I boast in. This
is what I'm proud of. Simplicity. Simplicity. Christ only is all
my salvation. Can you feel good about that?
Can you rejoice in that? And sincerity. The opposite of
being two-faced, the opposite of being double. Sincerity. I don't have another agenda.
I'm not trying to break. I'm out in the open. Christ only. Simplicity. It takes a sincere
person to believe in the simplicity of Christ. Thirdly, not with
fleshly wisdom. Not with fleshly wisdom. I hate
the wisdom of the flesh, don't you? I mean, it's just it's deceitful. I love that scripture. The Lord
knows the thoughts of the wise that they're vain. And that's
so true. And we don't want to have anything
to do with fleshly wisdom, do we? We ask the Lord to keep us
from it. I don't want to do anything in the wisdom of the flesh. What
seems right to men? No, not with fleshly wisdom,
but by the grace of God, the saving favor I'm talking about
saving grace by the saving grace of God. We've had our conversation
in this world, and that's what we feel good about. May God give us all grace to
truly enter into that. And remember, we're going to
have a lunch together after the service and we won't have services
tonight, but we're going to have a enjoy a time of fellowship
together. Let's pray together.