I hear the Savior say, Thy strength
indeed is small, Child of weakness, watch and pray, Blind in me,
fine all in all. He that paid it all, all to Him
I owe Sin had left a crimson stain, he washed it white as
snow. For nothing good have I Where by thy grace to claim My
garments are washed white In the blood of Calv'ry's Lamb Jesus
paid it all All to Him I owe Sin had left a crimson stain
He washed it white as snow For now indeed I find, thy power
and thine alone Can change the lavish cloths and melt the heart
of stone. All to him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain. He washed it white with fast
snow. I am now complete in Him, my
rope is righteousness, O sheltered near His side, I am divinely
blest. Jesus paid it all, all to Him
I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white, the snow. And when before the throne I
stand in hymn complete, Jesus died my soul to save, my lips
shall still repeat. Jesus paid it all, all to Him
I owe, Sin had left a crimson stain. He washed it white as
snow. He washed it white as snow. It's nice to see you all. You
all know Todd and Lynn have left on vacation and are being reunited
with Aubrey, and I hope the word refreshes them. And be prayerful
for one another, be prayerful for them, and perhaps the Lord
be pleased to bring them back here to continue to lead us.
I remember saying when Todd went to Cleveland for surgery, you
know, how much I coveted his leadership, and that's never
changed. I'm so thankful for him. And we have a pastor whose
faith we can follow. He's so faithful. And I'm thankful,
Lord, for that. And Don, having said that, I'm
thankful, Lord, for your faithfulness too. And we're just tickled to
death that when he chooses to leave us, that we have you to
come over from time to time and preach Christ to us. Thank you. Thank you, brother. I appreciate so much what Claire
just said concerning your pastor. I've known him since he was just
a boy. He's proved himself so faithful,
and you're so blessed of God to have him. Don't forget that. And I'm thankful that God's allowed
me to be with you again. I believe I have a message that
for some of you, Perhaps some of you who are young, who have
just begun this pilgrimage of faith in Christ, will be something
you will think, well, I wonder why those things are on his mind. Some of you won't have any question. You'll identify with every word.
We'll be turning, if you will, to the Song of Solomon, Chapter
6. Back in the book of Genesis,
when Rebekah found two nations struggling in her womb, she asked,
Why am I thus? And she went to inquire of the
Lord. I don't know that may be the
passage that inspired John Newton to write a hymn that we seldom
see in hymn books today. Perhaps it's better used in private
than in public worship. John Newton, who wrote Amazing
Grace, How Sweet the Sound that Saved a Wretch Like Me, wrote
this hymn. "'Tis a point I long to know. Oft it causes anxious thought.
Do I love the Lord or no? Am I His or am I not? If I love, why am I thus? Why this dull and lifeless frame? Hardly sure can they be worse
who have never heard his name. Could my heart so hard remain
prayer, a task and burden prove? Every trifle give me pain. if
I knew a Savior's love? When I turn my eyes within, all
is dark and vain and wild, filled with unbelief and sin. Can I
deem myself His child? If I pray or hear or read, sin
is mixed with all I do. You that love the Lord, Tell
me, is it thus with you? Yet I mourn my stubborn will,
find my sin a grief and thrall. Should I grieve for what I feel
if I did not love it all? Could I joy his saints to meet,
choose the ways I once abhorred, find at times the promise sweet
if I did not love the Lord? Lord, decide this doubtful case. thou who art thy people's son,
shine upon thy work of grace, if it be indeed begun. Why am I thus?" Paul expressed
Newton's thoughts in Romans chapter seven this way, "'I know that
in me,' that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing.' The
evil which I would not that I do, when I would do good, evil is
present with me. Why? It doesn't have to be that way.
God could change it like that, were he determined to do so.
Why am I thus? Why is sin so prominent in my
nature? Why is evil always present with
me? Why is there a constant warfare
in my soul? These are questions I'm frequently
asked by others. These are questions I frequently
ask myself. And the Word of God supplies
us with a simple and utterly profound answer. That which is
born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit
is spirit. And we're the compound of both,
flesh and spirit. It's as simple and profound as
that. All true believers, all true believers are people with
two diametrically opposing natures with which we live day after
day, 24 hours a day, all the time, flesh and spirit. And these two natures are constantly
at war with one another. We do not live after the flesh,
and we do not walk in the flesh. Romans chapter 8 makes that abundantly
clear. Yet those who walk in the Spirit
and do not fulfill the lust of the flesh can never escape those
lusts. We will never be free from this
body of death and sin until we have dropped this physical body
in death. Now, lest I forget to state any
of these things, I want you to get this, and I suggest that
Find some way to remember it. Painful as this is, and if you know God and I do,
it's painful. Painful as this fact is, it's
best for us. It's best for us. If it weren't
best, it wouldn't be this way. It's best for us. While we live
in this world, that we live in this condition, and I'll give
you three reasons and maybe a few more before I'm done. Number
one, we must never, never, never, never forget. The only difference
between you and anybody out of hell, the only difference between you
And the most reprobate characters walking the earth, or who have
ever walked the earth, is the difference God has made by His
free grace. The only difference. The difference
He made by His grace in election, in redemption, in regeneration,
and in preservation, and in daily providence. The only difference.
Who maketh thee to differ from another? That dear lady sitting
right there, I adore her. I admire her more than anybody
walking on this earth. She has the heart of every harlot
and her husband the heart of every rapist. That's just fact. If you haven't
learned that about yourself yet, you're in for a rude awakening
one of these days. That's just fact. And the only
difference is the difference grace has made. Number two, we
must never, never, never forget our only acceptance with God, our only redemption, our only
righteousness, our only salvation is Christ the Lord. I read something earlier in the
week, I guess yesterday or Sunday evening, I can't remember. One
of the old writers said, you will search through this book
from Genesis through Revelation and you will never find a word
about trusting the blood or trusting the righteousness. I hear preachers
fight and squabble about it all the time. But you'll never find
one mention of anybody trusting blood or trusting righteousness. We don't trust facts or things. We trust a personal Savior. His name is Christ the Lord. And that's our only hope, our
only salvation, our only redemption, our only righteousness. Our only
acceptance with God. Number three, we must never, never, never be
content to live as we are. Not now. Content with Him. Content with His providence.
Content with His purpose. content with His doing so that
we murmur not at our God, but never content with life as it
is. We look not at things which are
seen, but things which are unseen. Things which are seen are temporal,
but things which are unseen are eternal. And we press toward
the mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ
Jesus. And we groan within ourselves,
waiting for the change that soon shall come. But we will be forever
done with sin, forever done with the curse, forever done with
weeping. Now, let's look here at Song
of Solomon chapter 6, beginning at verse 11. and inquire of the Lord, why
am I thus? Here the Spirit of God teaches
us about this conflict that rages in our souls. In these verses,
our Lord speaks to His Church, Representative the Bride here,
not in her time of shame, not as in chapter 5, where she's
sleeping in carnal indifference and ease. But rather, here he
speaks to his church in her very best condition. He's speaking
to Clare Sheridan in the best state you're in in this world,
in the very best condition we're in. He speaks to her here as
his church. who has begun again to enjoy
the blessed fellowship of his revelation of himself. And Christ
has now returned to him. The breach that she had made
because of her indifference and her neglect, he has healed by
his grace. And there's now sweet renewing
of love and fellowship. In verse 11, the Lord Jesus speaks
to his beloved bride, his church, And he says, though I had hidden
myself from you and withdrawn myself for time and gave you
no comfort, even then I had my eye on you. Even then I was watching
over my garden with tenderness, love, and care. Though you didn't
see me, though you didn't know I was around, I will never leave
the apple of my eye. I'll never forsake the work of
my hands. He says, I went down into the
garden of nuts. to see the fruits of the valley.
Isn't it amazing how utterly contradictory the religious jargon
of the age is to the revelation of God's Word? You know, in the
Scriptures, almost always you find God's church in the valley.
Folks saying, I'm living on the mountain underneath the starry
sky. You are not. No, the air up there is dizzy.
You don't profit by it. Valley is a fruitful place. And that's the reason God leaves
us in our valleys, is I'll go down and see the fruits of the
valleys to see whether the vine flourished and the pomegranates
budded. In verse 12, our Savior tells
us how that he was overcome by the broken, aching hearts of
His people. And how anxiously He returns to His people who
cried for Him. She said, I'll seek Him. I'll
seek. If you find Him, tell Him I'm
sick of love. The Savior is still speaking. Wherever I was aware,
my soul made me like the chariots of a minidim. It's as though
He said, I could hide myself no longer. I could withdraw myself
from you no longer. I could see you live no longer
without the sweet enjoyment of my presence. He says, my love
for you compels me with irresistible force ever to return to you. If you have a marginal translation
in your Bible, look at it. He said, my soul set me on the
chariots of my willing people. As I'm drawn now to you by my
great love for you, and almost before I realized it, I'm running
again to you, speaking as one full of compassion. And not just,
I say, compassion of theory, but passion of heart. He said,
I run to you. Run to you, my willing people."
Willing people? These who said, I put off my
coat, how shall I put it on? These who said, don't bother
me now, I'm too wrapped up in other things, I don't need to
be concerning myself with you. But His people are made willing
as soon as He recurs. My God, how hard How cold, how
stony, how indifferent is this heart of mine to my Redeemer,
that even when I know it, I can't change it, except He run to me
and graciously calls me to run to Him. You remember when Joseph
had brought his brethren down to Egypt. as he spoke to them. He's the one who brought them
there. They're totally ignorant of whose presence they're standing
in. He's the one who brought them there, and he brought them
there by secret manipulation of the affairs of their lives.
But he brought them there. And as they stood and talked,
talking about their crimes against him, his heart broke within him
and he cries and says, I am Joseph, forgive me. That's a pretty good
picture of what I'm talking about. Our Redeemer comes to us and
with burning passion in His soul, He runs to us and makes us then
willing to run to Him. Oh, we ought to be a willing
people, seeking Him always in faith and love and hope. And
if we seek Him, He will return to us on chariots of love. Our Lord will return to us, though,
because of His own free grace and free love and free mercy
and covenant faithfulness. And it is His having returned
to us that causes us always to turn to Him. Look at verse 13.
The Lord Jesus Having returned to his beloved, his church, courtesan,
he woos her heart and urges her to return to him. Return, return,
O Shulamite, return, return, that we may look upon thee. Solomon
shows his bride here by divine direction. This man who writes
this blessed love song, writing about Christ in his church, it's
not about Solomon and the Shulamite. It's not about Solomon and his
bride. It's about Christ, our Solomon,
and his Salima, his Shulamite, his bride in his church. He names
her Shulamite. The word really should be translated
Salima. The Hebrew word is the feminine
of Solomon. And the Lord Jesus Christ has
so thoroughly made us one with himself that he has given us
his name. He's our Solomon. We're his Solomon. And we gladly take our husband's
name. Hold your hands here and turn to Jeremiah, chapter 23.
Let me show you. I'm sure your pastor has shown
you this many times. This will be a good look at it. All of you know our daughter,
Faith, and her husband, Doug. All her life, growing up, as
she got into her teen years, I talked to her about various
things. And, of course, just about that time, it was beginning
to get to be a bit of a trend in our society, I guess imported
from Europe or from California or somewhere. that women would
get married and retain their father's name. And I talked to
her, and I talked to her plainly. I said, don't you ever do any
man the dishonor of marrying him and keeping my name, or doing
me the dishonor of marrying him and keeping my name. You see,
marriage for a woman is a woman finding her identity and her
completion in a man. And you young ladies who aren't
married, don't you even think about bringing on yourself the
misery of a life of marriage until you find a man in whom
you find your completion as a person and your identity as a person. Man, that's out of step with
the times. Good. I've been out of step with the
times all my life and plan to keep it that way. Plan to keep
it that way. Well, you mean a woman's supposed
to find her identity in her husband? The only reason for the existence
of marriage is to show us a picture of Christ in his church. and
to raise up the seed of God's elect in the age in which people
live. And we find our completion nowhere
but in Him. We find our identity nowhere
but in Him. Our total individuality is in
Him. It's in Him. Look at Jeremiah
23, verse 6. We take our husband's name gladly,
and we are honored that he's given us his name. Because when
he gives us his name, he gives us himself. Did you get that? Right when he gave you his name,
he gave you himself. All himself. Jeremiah 23, verse
6. In those days Judah shall be
saved, and Israel shall dwell safely. And this is the name
whereby He, the Lord Jesus, our Redeemer, shall be called, the
Lord our Righteousness. Turn to chapter 33, verse 16. Almost identical words, talking
about the same time and the same people, but talking about these
people in a slightly different way. Jeremiah 33, verse 16. In those days shall Judah be
saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely. And this is the name,
watch it now, wherewith she shall be called, Jehovah's Attendant,
the Lord our righteousness. Now listen, and listen carefully.
As He is, so are we in this world. When above the Don, you better
be careful there. I don't want to. Now, you don't want to go
overboard. Oh, I wish I could. How far can
you carry that? Just as far as it can be carried
and you haven't yet begun to scratch the surface. All that
Jesus Christ, the God-man, mediator, our covenant surety is, we are
in Him exactly. Exactly. Back here in the Song
of Solomon, this name, Solomon, Shulamite. You remember when
David went into Bathsheba, She conceived a child after the death
of their first adulterous child. He went in to her, and God gave
them a son, and David said, Honey, let's call his name Solomon.
Let's call him Peace. God's put away our sin. And Nathan
came and said, Call him Jedediah, beloved of the Lord. And this
Jedediah, Solomon, whose name is Peace, speaks to his bride
and says, I call you now Salima, beloved of the Lord as I am. I call you now Salima. Perfection is the word. Perfection. You mean he? He looks at us and
declares us perfect? Does he really? Does he really
declare us perfect? Brother Don, that can't be. That's
just so contrary to experience. Experience has got nothing to
do with God's grace except the experience of it. Can you get
a hold of that? He calls us perfect. It'll do
you good sometime to read the Song of Solomon, these eight
chapters, and just go through and mark or write down every
word our Lord Jesus uses to describe His church. He looks at Mike
Carver and says, Thou art all fair, my love, my dove, my undefiled. There's no spot in thee. Now
Jen might look at him and see a lot of spots. And you might look at him and
see a lot of spots. But not his Redeemer, his God
and his Savior. You get that? with his spotless garment sewed,
holy as the Holy One. The Lord God says, walk before
me and be as good as you can. Nowhere. He says, walk before
me and be thou perfect. And the command he gives is that
which he graciously accomplishes. He has made us perfection in
himself. He says, walk before me and be
ye holy, as I, the Lord your God, am holy. Now that's a felt
command. Walk before me and be holy as
I am holy. But that which He demands, He
fulfills. And He's made us holiness. That holiness without which no
man shall see the Lord. This name Shulamite, or Solomon,
also means peace. Therefore, being justified by
faith, we have peace with God. Peace with God. Looking on God's
dear Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, I see in Him, in His obedience,
in His death, in His life at the right hand of the Father
everlastingly, I see in Him All that God can or will ever require
of my soul, and that is peace deep in my soul by faith in Him. Faith He's given me. Faith in
Him, I have peace. Peace has been made for us with
God, and now that He's called us by His grace and revealed
Himself in us, the warfare is ending. God has sheathed His
sword in the Savior's heart, and we have sheathed our swords
against God in the same place. God says, fury is not in me. I spent my life terrified, terrified of God's
furious wrath, terrified, until Christ revealed himself in me. And I'm going to tell you something.
Either I'm telling you the truth, or I'm lying to you. There's
no two alternatives. I'm no longer terrified of God. I fear Him. I reverence Him.
I hope I honor Him. I worship Him. But I'm not afraid
of Him. I'm not afraid of Him. I no longer
look upon Him as a strange judge who has reason to be angry with
me, but as a reconciled Father whose debt He has, by the sacrifice
of His Son, completely His fury is not in me." Our Lord
graciously calls us to return. Return, return, return. A fourth time He says, return,
O Solomon. Oh, how willing He is that we
walk with Him in sweet communion. Return that we, Father, Son,
and Holy Spirit, may look upon Return, and we will look upon
you and show ourselves gracious to you. I will show my face again. I'll look upon you in love, in
forgiveness, in kindness, in tender mercies. I'll look upon
you in pleasantness, delight, and satisfaction. But then in
the second part of verse 11, look at it. Verse 13, we hear
the bride, the church, God's people speaking. Convinced of
her own sin, full of shame, she confesses her frustration with
herself. She thinks that there's no beauty
in her, nothing in her that he could want to see. What will
you see in Solomon? What will you see in the Shulamite?
As it were, the company of two armies. Oh, my beloved, there's nothing
in me but conflict and confusion. In my heart, in my soul, in the
core of my being are two natures at war. If you look on me, you'll
see nothing but a raging battle, good fighting evil, and light
contending with darkness. I'm not worth looking upon. I
am a house divided against itself, certain to fall. Is there something
in that language you can identify with? Brother Don, I constantly struggle
with my lust, my corruptions, my passions. I recently heard a preacher Who
knows better, but we get in the habit of saying things, don't
pay any attention to it. He said, the old preacher said, you can't
keep the birds from flying through the trees, you keep them building
their nest there. Problem is, this is where he hatched. The lust, the corruptions, the
evil, they didn't come from out yonder. They come from in here. They come from in here. Oh, how
well we know it. You see, all God's elect experience
inward conflicts between flesh and spirit continually. We are two people in reality,
old man and you, flesh and spirit, that which is righteous and that
which is wicked, that which is born of the flesh and that which
is born of God. And this is just a fact of life,
these conflicts every believer has to deal with. Life in Christ
is not a life full of sweets, alone. It's not all joy and peace. Faith
in Christ brings us into bitter conflict and bitter warfare. With the world and the devil,
yes. But I have a bigger problem. And that bigger problem is the
one you're looking at right now. You are God's children. I know
what I'm talking about. The struggles between flesh and
spirit are evident all the time to those who experience them.
to the unbelieving, to the unregenerate, to the religionist who knows
nothing about these things. Everything I've got to say to
you, everything I've said already is just a paradox. We see traces
of this conflict throughout the Song of Solomon. As you read
the poetic books, particularly Sobs and Song of Solomon, understand
what God is allowing us to do. He allows us to see believing
men and women. He allows us to see this man
David, particularly, that man whom God calls the man after
his own heart, and this man Solomon, the son of David, who represents
throughout the Scriptures prophetically Christ sitting on His throne,
building His house, a house of peace. And we're allowed now
to go with these men into their closets. And hear them say things that
we want to say but we're scared to death to say. Describing their inmost conflicts. Their inmost soul's desire. And we're allowed to see the
day-by-day experience of such men. And the day-by-day experience
of God's church in this world. It is a continual, continual
struggle with our flesh and our iniquity and our sin. And this is the way God has arranged
it. This church says, I am black.
But come then. I'm black. That's my nature.
But you've made me beautiful. He speaks and says, I sleep. Not the sleep of death, but a
sleep of deadness. But my heart waketh because of
the voice of my beloved." David, you remember he, in his palace
one day, and he's considering the way life has been. And if you think you've got family
trouble, read David's history. And he looked at his neighbor,
the towel head, fellow worshiping some stump god, and there he sits. Every Thanksgiving
day, every son and daughter and all the grandchildren and great-grandchildren
come home and sit down at the table and everything's delightful.
Never had a day of sickness in his life. Never had anybody in
his family to cause him any shame in his life. Never had any pain
in his life. His eyes bug out with fatness,
he's so rich. Everything going well. And David
looked at that man, and then looked at himself, and he said,
What's the use in serving God? Read the 73rd Psalm. He said,
My steps are well-nigh slept, because I was envious at the
prosperity of the wicked. He said, I've washed my hands
in innocence. Nothing to be gained by worshiping
God. He said, I would have said that.
lest I offend against the generation of thy children." And then I
went into the house of God. It's a good place to learn. Then understood I their end. So by God, I was as a beast before
Him. I thought like a beast. I acted
like a beast. My heart was the heart of a beast
before you, groveling after nothing, but time and sense, forgetting
my God. Who have I in heaven but Thee?
There is none upon earth that I desire beside Thee." Paul speaks
of this warfare in Romans 7. In Galatians 5, it says, Walk
in the Spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
The flesh lusteth against the Spirit, the Spirit against the
flesh. Never be any truce between them. These two are contrary
one to the other, so that you cannot do the things you would.
But if you're led in the Spirit, you're not under the law. Turn
to 1 John chapter 3. We all have a corrupt nature
within us that can do nothing but sin. We have also a righteous nature,
if we're born of God, which would draw us into perfect conformity
and union with Christ. And between these two, there
never can be peace. 1 John 3, verse 7. Let no man deceive you. He that
doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. Now,
there, I can tell who God's people are. They're the ones who do
righteousness. Show me one, would you? Show me one. Oh, brother Don,
I do righteousness. When? Name it. This is not talking about two
different people. Read the context and read it
carefully right through the fourth chapter, and you'll discover
it's talking about two natures in one man. He that committeth
sin is of the devil. Well, there you go. God's people
don't sin. Which one? For the devil sinneth from the
beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested. that
he might destroy the works of the devil. Now watch this. Whosoever
is born of God doth not commit sin. Wow. Ever. Not possible. Not possible. How come? For his seed remaineth
in him, and he Cannot sin. Now, I know traditionally, folks
who have backed away from this, they say, what that means is
that the believer does not commit sin in the habit of his life.
That doesn't help me in it. I'm sorry I commit sin in the
habit of my life. Everything I do, I do with these
filtered hands. If I reach into a blazing fire
and pull you out of it and save your life, That may be a fairly
good thing to do, but I did it with these hands. And I'm going
to dirty things with these hands. Sin is the biggest thing I do.
I pray. I read the Word. I try to worship
God. I try to believe in it. And everything
is dirtied with sin. It's totally contrary to the
experience of every living human being. to suggest he doesn't
continually sin. Which of you quit this second? Tell me, is there anybody who
does not continually commit sin? Raise your hand and you can get
up here and preach. I'll sit down and shut up. No,
not a one. But that which is born of God
does not sin, and can not sin, because it's born of God. You
see, in Tomsula, there's an old man called Adam. And all he can do is sin. And there's a new man called
Christ. And all he can do is righteousness. And the two will never be at
peace. You need any proof of that? No. No. Prone to wander, Lord, I
feel it. Prone to leave the God I love. Here is my heart. Oh, take and
seal it. seal it for thy courts above. And this is best. I'll give you two reasons, two
more reasons. As we recognize what we are by
nature, We are constrained by free grace
to look away from ourselves to Christ. If I turn my eyes within,
all is dark and vain and wild, filled with unbelief and sin. Can I deem myself God's child? Not if I turn my eyes within.
That's the problem. People talk about having trouble
with assurance. And then I hear fellows say,
I don't have any trouble with assurance. I do. I do. Every time I turn
my eyes within, looking for anything, looking for anything. Which of
you ever had any question? When first God saved you by His
grace, when you first looked to Christ, When you first
believed on Him, when you first were allowed and enabled by God's
Spirit to trust Jesus Christ as your Savior, which of you
walked home and said, Well, boy, I hope I'm saved now, but I don't
know. I don't know whether I can hang on or hold out or do good
enough. Anybody? Which of you went home covered
with a shirt? Well, no, not then. But before you got in bed that
night, you started to grow up. Well, started to swell. There's
a difference. And started to think yourself
something when you're nothing. And started looking to yourself.
And started to have trouble. As ye therefore have received
Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him. Some of you are sitting
here. without Christ, full of sin and corruption, darkness
and death. Look away to the Savior and live
forever. Go home tonight a new preacher
in Christ. How many times do you wish you
could push the rewind button and start all over? You can't, but He can. He can. I can't forget my sin, but He
can and He has. I live as an entirely new creature in
Christ. All my crimes He's blotted out. They're gone. All things are
to come near. He declares my name to be Jehovah-Centennial,
the Lord, our righteousness. He declares me to be the righteousness
of God in Him. Well, that's the way God sees
it. If God sees it that way, that's the way it is. That's the way it is. You know,
I don't see it that way. That don't matter. If God sees
it that way, that's the way it is. And I walk with this blessed,
sweet confidence that with Him having expunged my guilt, having
expunged my crimes, having blotted out my transgressions, having
put away my sin, having made me the righteousness of God in
Him, there is no possibility that I can ever study the record
again. Blessed is that man to whom the
Lord will not impute sin. And living as we do, we ought
to learn each to esteem other better than themselves. Better
than themselves. You see, I know a little bit
about what I am by nature. A little bit. And that convinces
me that Rich Burns in Christ, he's perfect, sinless, holy,
righteous, complete. And I ought to always see my
brethren that way. And this is going to come to
a blessing again. Oh, what an end, one of these days. I will bid farewell forever to
sin and awake in His likeness and spend eternity looking back
through this experience of grace. and sing to God, be the glory,
great things he hath done. Amen.