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Bruce Crabtree

Grace must teach us

Titus 2:11-15
Bruce Crabtree August, 31 2016 Audio
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the book of Titus chapter 2. If you want to turn there, the
book of Titus chapter 2, and let's begin reading in verse
11. For the grace of God that bringeth
salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that denying
ungodliness and worldly lust, we should live soberly, righteously,
and godly in this present world. looking for that blessed hope
in the glorious appearance of the great God and Savior, Jesus
Christ, who gave Himself for us that He might redeem us from
all iniquity and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous
of good works. These things speak and exhort
and rebuke with all authority, that no man despise thee." The
last time that we met together, we looked at verse 11, the grace
of God that bringeth salvation. And I think that we proved from
Scriptures last time, I hope at least we did, that every aspect
of salvation is of the Lord. From election to redemption, Christ coming
and obtaining redemption, to the Spirit coming to us and calling
us and regenerating us, keeping us, our perseverance in the faith,
And glorification at last, no matter what aspect of salvation
we consider, it's of grace. The grace of God brings salvation,
not of works, lest any man should boast. Salvation is of the Lord. I think we looked at that last
time and proved that. And we also looked about this
grace that it shined into the hearts of all kinds of people. The grace of God that bringeth
salvation hath shined unto the hearts. It's appeared. It's shined
unto the hearts of all kinds of people. The Lord has saved
all kinds of people, hasn't He? He saved old and young, women
and men, and ignorant and learned, kings and paupers and slaves
and masters. He just saved all kinds of people.
And that was Paul's meaning here that we looked at in verse In
the Old Testament, for the most part, God was saving only Jews. He dealt with the Jewish nation
from their father Abraham. The Gentiles were led away into
darkness and worshipped devils. But in the New Testament, He
set the Jewish nation aside as a whole and turned to the Gentile
nation. And for the last 2,000 years,
He's been saving the Gentiles by His grace. And not only saving
the Gentiles, but He's saving all kinds of Gentiles of all
nations. That wonderful promise that God
made to Abraham all the way back in Genesis chapter 15 that said,
In thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed. And that's what the Lord's doing
now. And that's very encouraging, isn't it? That should be very
encouraging for you and I to witness, to hand out tracts,
to give messages, to use every means available to us, because
God is saving all kinds of people. And if He's saving all kinds
of people, it may be that clerk down at the local hardware store
that you gave a tract to. It may be the waitress down at
the local restaurant that you had an opportunity just to witness
of the Lord's saving grace to. How encouraging that is to know
that the grace of God has brought salvation for all kinds of people. And we got proof of that now.
You know, when the Apostle Paul wrote this, he had some proof
because slaves were being saved, masters were being saved. But
we have almost 2,000 years of proof now. Look at the people. of every walk of life, the Lord
is saved. Look at you. Look at you. Most of us here in this congregation,
even though we're just common people, we're different, aren't we? We
come from different cultures, different backgrounds, and different
learnings and all of that, but one thing that's brought us together
is the gospel. The Lord has come to us in His
grace and saved us and brought us together with other people.
The grace of God has brought salvation to all kinds of people. But I want you to notice the
order here, and I think it's very important here in verse
11 and verse 12. He says, first of all, before
he ever says anything about teaching us how to live, he says in verse
11, the grace of God that bringeth salvation. have appeared. Then in verse 11, teaching us
that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts. Isn't this a good
order? Doesn't this teach us what is
taught in other places in the scripture? Grace doesn't begin
by teaching us how to live. Grace comes to us first and saves
us, doesn't it? Grace doesn't come to us and
say something like this. Now listen. You need to get your
act together. You need to live better. You
need to deny ungodliness and worldly lust. And you need to
start living soberly and righteously. Grace doesn't do that, does it?
God doesn't do that. Why doesn't He do that? Because
He knows better. He's wiser than that. He knows
that there's something more important than fruit He knows that first
of all, the tree must be made good. A bad tree cannot bring
forth good fruit. So God doesn't come to a person
and say, listen, you need to start living right. You need
to start doing better. And once you do better, you'll
get better. And the better you do, the better you get. That's
law, isn't it? That's works. I was watching
that Campbell. Watch his name. Glen Camel. I was watching a documentary
on Glen Camel. His brother is a Church of Christ
preacher. And Glen had been on drugs, and
he'd been on alcohol, and his marriage had broke up, and he'd
married again. His life was a mess. And he went to his brother to
talk to his brother. And this is what his brother
said. I heard him say this. He said,
Well, I told him, Are you ready to straighten up your life? Are
you ready now to to get a better life. He said, yeah, I am. So
he said, I took him down to the river and baptized him. He was
Church of Christ, of course. So I took him down and baptized
him. Well, what's wrong with that? You say, Bruce, everybody
should be concerned about living a better life. But before we
live a better life, we must be saved from the old life. That's the whole problem with
that. We don't start out by being taught to deny ungodliness and
worldly lust and live soberly and righteously. First of all,
the grace of God comes to us and saves us. It comes to us
and makes the tree good. God knows if we're going to live
righteously and soberly, then we must be made good. Because
He said, make the tree good, And is fruit good? Are the tree
corrupt and the fruit corrupt? Because an evil tree cannot bring
forth good fruit. And a tree is known, but its
fruit isn't. So the grace of God comes to us and does not
teach us how to live, but I tell you what the grace of God does.
It comes and teaches us our need to be saved by Jesus Christ. I want you to look over at a
place that's very familiar in John chapter 6. and verse 44
and verse 45. This is what I'm saying here.
Look at this. John chapter 6, this very familiar
scripture. One of the things I'm very concerned
about as I teach, I'm very concerned about this, that I don't want
to give somebody the false impression that you've got to begin to do
something. to be saved. Even we're talking about turning
to morality. I'm talking about before we do
anything in a way of moral living, we've got to be saved. We must
come to Christ. We must be saved by Him. And I'm saying there's nothing
else to be done before the new birth. Anything before that is
sinful. The grace of God must come to
us and save us from our sins before He teaches us how to live.
This is the starting point. Look here in chapter 6 and in
verse 44. Look at this. No man can come
to Me, the Lord Jesus says, except the Father which hath sent Me
draw him and I will raise him up at the last day. It is written
in the prophets, They shall be all taught of God. Every man,
therefore, that hath heard and hath learned of the Father, he
cometh unto me." When God teaches a person, it is not, first and
foremost, how you should live. When God teaches us, it's our
need to be saved from sin, from the penalty of sin, from the
guilt of sin, from the power of sin, from the love of sin,
and sin's end. Now that's something, brothers
and sisters, when we're taught that. When we're taught that. It's one thing to get knowledge
in our heads. But it's another thing to know
our need of Christ in our hearts. And the way God brings us to
Christ is by teaching us our need of Christ. You notice what
he said there? Every man that hath heard of
the Father, he learneth of the Father, he cometh to me. He comes to me to be saved by
me. And only God can affectionately
teach a man his need of salvation by Jesus Christ. That it's in
Him and that it's by Him and that it's for the sake of the
Lord Jesus Christ. It's God that has to teach us
that. This word here in our text over
in Titus, teaching us, teaching us, it's not talking about being
taught by the preacher or by even reading the Bible on your
own or reading religious books on your own, although God uses
these means. We know that. But you know something?
Means without God teaching us will not mean anything to us.
We can sit under the ministry, a good ministry, a sound ministry,
but if God doesn't teach by that ministry, the heart, you know
it will do us no good. Whatever means He's pleased to
use, it's God that must teach the heart. Every man who hath
heard and learned of the Father, He cometh unto me. I tell you,
He's a good teacher, ain't He? He's a good teacher. You know
why He's a good teacher? Because He teaches the heart.
And we'll see that in just a few minutes. Whatever means God is pleased
to use, If it's the spoken word, if it's the written word, whatever
it means, it's only God that can truly teach the heart. And
this word teach, the grace of God teaches us, means more than
being taught a bunch of facts or just imparting knowledge. The Bible says some men are ever
learning. and never able to come to the
knowledge of the truth. It's not just a bunch of facts
in our head. It's not filling our heads with
knowledge. You know sometimes knowledge
puffs up, doesn't it? It just puffs people up. The
more knowledge they get, the more puffed up they get in pride.
This is not what this means. To be taught is not just filling
the head full of knowledge. The word itself means to educate. to instruct, to train, to discipline,
to chasten. Boy, when we teach our children,
we try to instruct them and we try to form a character within
them. We're so limited, aren't we? I look back on when I was
young, a dad trying to raise my kids up, and I was so limited. myself to teach my children.
We're limited to the means. We're limited to desire, ability
in ourselves to teach our own children. But you know God is
not limited. He is not limited. Man, He can
teach a man. He's not limited in material.
He's not limited in time. He's not limited in desire. He
can teach a man. And when He teaches a man, it's
effectual. Did you notice this word here
in chapter 6 in verse 44 and 45? Every man that hath heard and
learned of the Father, He cometh. Every man, every one that He
teaches cometh to Christ. You and I are always teaching
our children and others, but we're always teaching outward
means. We try to form a person's character
by teaching them. That's what we try to do to our
children, isn't it? We try to instill principles
within them, but we're so limited because we teach by eye gate
and ear gate. We can't get past those two gates.
We can't get to heart gate, can we? Wouldn't it be wonderful?
Somebody suggested this one time and I thought, wouldn't this
be wonderful with our children? If we could take the heart out
and we could shape it and form it, you could take the heart
out and there's the intellect. There's the understanding. And
you say, well, no wonder this child's been acting so stupid.
No wonder he's been making all these silly decisions. Look how
dark his understanding is. And you could put in light. You
could put in knowledge. You could put in understanding.
And it would just straighten the whole person out as far as
the intellect. They would say, well, I'm not
going to do that. That's stupid. Plump stupid. And then while
you have the heart out, you could see the desires. And you say,
well, right, here's the problem. I've been trying to get them
to love school. I've been trying to get them
to love their homework. And I can't get them to. Here's what I'm
going to do. I'm going to work with their
desires and their affections, and I'm going to teach them,
here's what you need to love. Here's what you need to like.
Here's what you need to hate. You teach the girls, the teenage
girls, don't you like boys? Wouldn't you do that? Stay away
from the boys. That'll get you in trouble. Boy,
if you could do that, if you could put that in their hearts,
then they'd go back and they'd love the good and they'd hate
the evil. And then you'd look at the heart and there's the
will. And boy, they're so stubborn. We was watching Little Lily,
and they drove all the way down here from Wisconsin this afternoon,
and bless her heart, she had just wore out. She had just wore
out. She had reached for the candy
jar, and Carl wouldn't let her have it, and boy, she had just
throw her a fit. You could see that little rebellious
will, I want that candy, I want that candy. Wouldn't it be amazing
if you could just get your teenager, your baby's heart out, and just
put a submissive will in there. We can't do that, can we? We're
limited. We're teached from afar, from
outside, but you know God can do that. He can do that. What is our problem anyway? First
of all, our problem is our understanding is darkened. Let me show you
that. I want you to hold John 6, but
look over here in Ephesians chapter 4. Here's our whole problem. with us. Our first problem is
this and Paul tells us in Ephesians chapter 4 and look in verse 17. Ephesians chapter 4 and verse
17. This I say therefore and testify
in the Lord that you henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk
in the vanity of their minds having the understanding darkened
and being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance
that is in them because of the blindness of their hearts. That's our problem, isn't it?
That's our problem. We're blind. We're ignorant. We're alienated from the life
of God because of this ignorance and blindness. What do we need? We need our eyes open, don't
we? That's one of the ways the Scripture
talks about the Lord will open the blind eyes and unstop the
ears. And that simply means that He
is going to form the heart, give light to the understanding. Look
back over in chapter 1 and look in verse 17 of chapter 1. Look
how He says it here. The Apostle Paul says this in
chapter 1 of Ephesians. that the God of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit
of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of
your understanding being enlightened, that you may know what is the
hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His
inheritance in the saints." What does God do to the understanding?
He enlightens it. He gets to that heart. And He
shines. He shines into that heart. They that sat in darkness saw
a great light. That's the first thing that He
does. But what about our affections? He just doesn't stop with giving
understanding. If we just had understanding
of our need of Christ, we'd never come to Christ. The Lord teaches
the whole heart. So He has to teach the desires.
That's one of our problems, is that we love darkness rather
than light. That's why men won't come to
Christ. I asked a man one time, I said, Bob, I said, why won't
you come to Christ? And he said, it's obvious, ain't
it? I don't want to. I don't want to. I don't have
a desire to. What does God have to do? He
has to work. He has to work with that heart
to change the desires. And then what about the will?
What about the will? The will's a stubborn thing,
isn't it? It won't come. It won't come. But you know what
the Scripture says? It'll come in the day of His
power. When He makes it willing to come, He has power over the
will, doesn't He? It's God who works in us to will
and to do of His good pleasure. So that text that I read to you
there, God teaching us in John 6, verse 44, God draws us by
teaching us. He draws us by teaching us. When
we hear and learn of God, we come to Christ. And we come to
Christ with all the heart. We can't come to Christ with
a third of our hearts or half of our hearts. When you seek
me with all your heart, you'll find me. God has to teach the
whole heart. And when He teaches the heart,
He forms the heart. He makes it pliable. Every aspect
of the heart is being taught. The intellect, the desires, the
will. He teaches the whole heart. Teaching us is not just filling
our heads with knowledge. Men can learn doctrine. That's
easy. It's easy to learn doctrine.
If anyone read the Bible and was honest, you'd come up with
certain conclusions. One was that man is depraved.
Another one is there is salvation in the Son of God. We can learn
these things by just reading the Bible. But when it says that
He teaches us, it is not just stuff in our head full of knowledge.
Down inside our uttermost souls we have this conviction that
I am a sinner and Christ is my only hope of being saved. And
I come to Him knowing that. I come to Him feeling that, desiring
that. And I come to Him willingly to
save me. And why would I do that? I never
desired that before. I didn't know to do that before.
I surely never will to do that before. Here is why I finally
came to Christ. God taught me. And that's why
you come, isn't it? He taught you. He taught you. Knowing that Jesus Christ, the
Son of God, is the only Savior of sinners is not something we
heard simply from a preacher or read from a book. But that
knowledge has shined into our hearts with the deepest conviction. And therefore we come. We come. God teaches our desires, doesn't
He? The changing of our desires is included in God's teaching. We desire something now we've
never desired before. We desire something now we've
never desired before. One thing that keeps people from
coming to Christ, I don't desire Him. There's beauty in Him but
men don't desire Him. One man says, I've married a
wife and I can't come. That's not your problem, buddy.
Your problem is this. You don't want to come. I've
bought some oxen. I've got to go try them. I can't
come. That's not your problem. Your problem is you don't desire
to come. If you desired to come, you'd come. Ain't that right?
That's right. David said, Lord, whom have I
in heaven but you? And there is none upon earth
that I desire beside you. None. You're my desire. And when a man has this desire,
it's because God has took his heart out and found that place
in the heart where his affections is located. And He's put that
desire in there to come and be saved. One thing we know that
you can't force people. We can't even force ourselves,
can we, to do anything. If we're going to do anything,
I tell you what's going to have to take place first. God's going
to have to teach us. And in that teaching, He teaches
the desires. One thing have I desired of the
Lord, and that will I seek after. I have a desire to depart and
to be with Christ, which is far better. I'll tell you one of
the saddest things. is to watch people get tired
of professing Christ. That's the saddest thing. And
there's nothing you can do about it. We've all seen it. I'm just
tired. Tired of going to church. Tired
of reading. Tired of praying. I'm just tired. And you can't
talk to them because that desire, that desire takes God, doesn't
it? It takes God to put that desire
in there and it takes God to keep it there, the desire. Teaching
our will. Teaching our will. If we can't
be saved by Christ if we're not willing, and we can if we're
not willing. God never saved any man apart
from His will, did He? You will not come to Me, so you
ain't going to be saved unless God makes you willing. If we
must come to Christ willingly, then God must teach the will.
He must teach us to bow and surrender. So in Titus chapter 2 and verse
12, when the Apostle is saying here, God is teaching us that
denying ungodliness and worldly lust, that we should live soberly
and righteously and godly in this present world. He means
that God is farming our hearts to that end. He is shaping our
thinking about these things. He is changing the way you used
to think. He's working in your thought
life. Haven't you changed the way you used to think about ungodliness? Haven't you changed the way you
used to think about righteousness? Yourself and God and this world? He's changing the way you think. That's our problem, isn't it?
The way we think. Sin has warped us. And God is
changing that. And that's what Paul is saying
here. Now we're seeing things in a different light. He's fashioning
our desires to have a distaste for ungodliness and worldly lusts
and a love for these other things. And He's secretly subduing our
wills to act accordingly. And you know living such a life
can't be forced. You can't force that. You cannot
force someone to deny ungodliness and worldly lust and live soberly. You can't even force yourself
to do it. The Christian life cannot be lived by force. It
can't do it. The only way the Christian life
can be lived is by God working in us. That's the only way it
can be lived. Working with our intellect, working
with our desires, working with our will, framing and farming
our hearts to think properly about things, ungodliness and
worldly lust. Some people are under such a
spiritual strain, their religion has made them miserable. I was
talking with my son. We know this couple, a religious
couple, and I was telling him that about him and he said, you
know, he said, that couple, he's a pastor and she's his wife,
he said, you know that couple acts to me like they're mad all
the time. And they're the hatefulest people. He's a pastor and they're
the hatefulest people nobody can get along with. They're miserable. And I think it's simply this,
there are four sinners, I've got to pray, doggone it.
I've got to love them people. I don't do it. I've got to. I've got to go to church. I've
got to preach. I've got to do this. I've got
to be friendly. My poor dad was a free will Baptist
pastor. And I watched him struggle all
of my young life. We couldn't do anything as a
family. The girls never could wear pants. Man, it was a sin
against God that they ever caught him in a pair of pants. We just
couldn't do anything. We was under such a burden. And
he was miserable and made the whole family miserable. And when
my mom got sick and died, man, he turned loose the reins of
his lust and he went wild. He had been holding all that
in for all those years and he was miserable. He was forcing
himself. It's like bringing an old sow.
One of them pot-bellied pigs. And it was just supposed to get
about a foot high. And that thing got about 400
pounds. She just overfed it and she tucked
it in her house and kept it in her house. You'd go in the house
and have it laid in the closet. Strangest looking thing. But
I'll tell you what you could do. And you could have done this. She never did do it. Never did
give it a bath that I know of. But I'll tell you what you could
have done. You could have kept that old sow in that house and bathed
that old sow every day. You could have put powder and
perfume on her and put a ribbon around her neck. And you could
have named her Lily or whatever you wanted to name her, maybe
a pretty name. But you know something? As soon as she saw that door
open and there was a mud hole outside, she had head to it.
You know why? She's a sow. She's a hog. She
has that nature. And this teaching means that
God is not just forcing us to live the Christian life. He's
come to us from the beginning and He's taught us. He's forming
our hearts. He's putting in us to live the
way that's pleasing to Him and pleasing to me and pleasing to
you. Do you love the Christian life?
Are you miserable? Are you just waiting for a chance
somewhere to get out? You're not, are you? God is forming
your heart. He's giving you grace. He's teaching
you by His grace. He's not just instructing you.
He's putting a desire in your heart. He's working to subdue
and inflame your will. He's doing all of that. That's
what it means to be taught of God. Augustine used to say, Give
us grace, Lord. Give us grace and demand what
you will. Don't demand anything of us before
grace. But when you give us grace, demand
what you will, we can do it then, can't we? We can do it. The grace
of God teaches us. I feel sorry for people trying
to live the Christian life. I tried that. Without being a
Christian, you can't do it. It's God which worketh in you,
taught of God. I'll quickly hurry up. I want
you to read another place right quick. I want you to turn over
to Isaiah quickly. Isaiah chapter 54 and verse 13,
right quick. Because this is the place where
the Lord Jesus quoted in John 6.45. They shall all be taught
of God. This is where He quoted that. Look at this. This is the very
Scripture our Lord Jesus quoted. I'm amazed at the amount of Scripture
that he quoted when he was upon this earth. He just always quoted
Scripture. And when he said, They shall all be taught of God,
every man that hearth and learns of the Father comes to me, this
is the Scripture he quoted in Isaiah 54, verse 13. Look at
this right quickly. And all thy children shall be
taught of the Lord, and great shall be the peace of thy children. all thy children shall be taught
of the Lord." Boy, there's no exception, is there? There is
no exception. Everybody here tonight that's
a Christian, you have been taught of God. That's a humbling thing,
isn't it? Because boy, there's nothing
that makes a man so proud as to have his head full of knowledge.
And to tell somebody you're ignorant of spiritual things and God has
to teach you. God has to teach you. That is
a humbling thing, but it is a true thing, and there are no exceptions. All thy children shall be taught
of God. And you know man is ignorant.
Man is ignorant. There is a wonderful Savior,
is there not? He is fairer than the children of men. But the
natural man sees no beauty in Him that he should desire Him.
Therefore, he has to be taught of God. Sin is killing humanity. Hell has enlarged itself and
yet a man goes on loving his sins. So he has to be taught
of God. And this, he said, all thy children
shall be taught of the Lord. Of the Lord. God is the teacher. He is the one that has to teach
us if we are taught spiritual things. He teaches us that hidden
wisdom, doesn't He? The hidden wisdom. God who commanded
the light to shine out of darkness hath shined in our hearts. And that's true with every Christian.
God hath shined in your heart. It's not the pastor that shines
into your heart. God may use His message, but
I tell you, it's God that does the shining. And therefore, salvation
is to all kinds of men when God shines into their hearts. And
when He shines into your heart, you know you'll just never forget
it. You'll never forget it. I love this. All thy children
shall be taught of the Lord. I love His shalls, don't you?
It's a good work that God has begun. They shall be taught of
the Lord. All that the Father gives to
me shall come to me." And why? Because the Father teaches them.
They shall come. You know this is the good work
that Paul was talking about that had begun in our hearts. This
is that good work. Being confident of this very
thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you. This is that
good work. It's teaching as we've been talking
about tonight, informing the heart, making the heart new,
new desires, new loves, new light, a new will, a new creature. That's God's work. And here's
something that's so encouraging. No matter how things are going
in your life, and no matter how down you may be in carrying these
burdens, and in this awful circumstance, here's a comforting thing. This
is the work that He will never quit. He began by teaching you,
and He'll never quit teaching you. Sometimes, sometimes, sometimes
it's not very pleasant. It's not very pleasant when I
was growing up, because there's a few times my dad laid the rod
on my backside, and boy, that hurt. And the Lord is going to
teach His people, and sometimes that teaching means discipline,
and sometimes He lays the rod on our back, and that's grievous,
but that's teaching. And once the Lord begins in our
heart, He's going to carry that work on. And the best thing you
and I can do is this, pray to that end. Teach me, Lord. Teach me. Teach me Thy way, O
Lord. Teach me Thy way. Search me,
Lord, and know me. Lead me in the way everlasting.
We should pray to that end. And you know something? We should
submit to Him in His teaching. Don't grieve the Holy Spirit.
We have an unction from the Holy One, and He is our Teacher. Don't grieve the blessed Holy
Spirit. And the end, notice quickly and
lastly, the end, if you're in chapter 54 and verse 13, all
thy children shall be taught of the Lord, and great shall
be the peace of thy children. What is this teaching? What's
the end of this teaching? It's peace, isn't it? It's peace. When the Lord convicts us of
sin and when He makes us feel our need of being saved and we
come to the Lord We're miserable. I know the Lord
deals with us a little bit different, but I tell you, when I was under
conviction, I was miserable. I was like that poor woman in
Luke 7 that came to the Lord, and she was behind Him weeping.
And the Lord said, Woman, your sins, which are many, are forgiven
you. And here's what He said, Your faith has saved thee. Go
in peace. When God teaches a person their
need of Christ, the end of that is to give the person peace.
If He's teaching us of our need of Christ, He's not going to
destroy us. He's going to give us peace.
And then, as we live our life denying ungodliness and worldly
lusting, laying aside the weights and the sins, which doth easily
beset us, looking unto Jesus, you know what the end of that
is? Peace. It's always peace. In this world you'll have tribulation.
Be of good cheer. I've overcome the world. Be at
peace. Peace. And I'm telling you at the end
of this life, at the end of this life, there's going to be peace. Mark
the perfect man, David said, didn't he? Behold the upright. The end of that man is peace.
You look at that man that's been taught of the Lord. He's lived
as God has taught him and worked effectually in him, denying ungodliness
and worldly lusts and living soberly and righteously and godly. Mark the end of that man. Look
at him as he lays on his deathbed. He may be struggling in some
pain. He may have some regrets of his life. But I tell you,
the end of that godly man is peace. Mark the upright. Behold him. Look at him. The
end of that man is peace. Peace. The world's wanting peace,
ain't it? Give us peace. But you know there
is but one avenue of peace. You've got to be taught of God. That's it, isn't it?
Bruce Crabtree
About Bruce Crabtree
Bruce Crabtree is the pastor of Sovereign Grace Church just outside Indianapolis in New Castle, Indiana.
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