begin in verse one, Galatians
chapter six, and I just want to read the first five verses.
Galatians chapter six, and beginning in verse one. Brethren, if a
man be overtaken in a fault, you which are spiritual, restore
such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou
also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens,
and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if a man think himself to
be something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let
every man prove, examine his own work, and then shall he have
rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. For every man
shall bear his own burden. The church of the Lord Jesus
Christ in this world is most certainly the greatest miracle
that you could see. I believe the church is a much
greater miracle of grace than the creation is, a greater manifestation
of the power of God than creation is. You consider who makes up
the church. I look at you this morning and
you consider who you are, who you were. What's the church made
up of? Not angels. And the church is
most certainly not made up of people who were born holy and
lived without sin. The church, for the most part,
well, for the whole, is made up of those who were dead in
trespasses and sins. Men who were ignorant of God,
ignorant of Jesus Christ, ignorant of the way of salvation, ignorant
of themselves, deceived by Satan, deceived by their own heart,
deceived by sin, and that's who makes up the church. The Lord
calls us and quickens us. He gives us life, but oh, what
we were. And I could prove that this morning
by several scriptures, couldn't I? Ephesians 2 is one of the
best scriptures to prove that by. You have be quickened who
were dead in trespasses and sins. And in the time past, how did
you live? How did you walk? According to the course of this
world. And boy, I tell you what, from
one spectrum to the next, that covers a lot of territory, doesn't
it? Self-righteousness on this side, open and profane sins on
this side. And Paul said to the Thessalonians,
you turn to God from idols. What a miracle. And that's who
the church is made up at. Look at the church if you want
to see a miracle of grace. But we don't stop there. Look
at the church now, after 2,000 years. Look at this little church
here at Newcastle, Indiana. Sovereign Grace Church. And for 2,000 years, isn't it
been amazing that the church has not been stomped out? Not
been overcome? Because what are we still? And we have a devil that tempts
us. We have a world that allures us. We have a flesh that is weak. And yet we continue, don't we?
Isn't that a miracle of grace? It's a miracle of grace that
the church continues to this day. Sometimes when we think of this,
we think what a miracle it is that we haven't destroyed ourselves. Not just what is without that
we face as a church and as individual believers, What we face within. That's what the Apostle Paul
is talking about here. How people like us, year after
year after year, with different personalities, different cultures,
different interests, different backgrounds, different positions
in life, can come here year after year. be in the poor centers
that we are, and yet maintain fellowship one with another,
and keep the unity of the Spirit in the bonds of peace. Now that's
a miracle. And not bite and devour and destroy
each other. I think that's a miracle. You
see a man and woman get married and live in the same house, live
Year after year, sleeping in the same bed, eating at the same
table. That's a miracle, isn't it? Well,
it's a miracle, too, when we continue and when the Church
of the Lord Jesus Christ continues year after year and century after
century. We're so susceptible as individual
believers to fall, to offend, to fail, to bring reproach, on
one another, hurt, break one another's heart, and there's not a just man upon
earth that doeth good and sinneth not. And we're talking about
saved people, Brother Glenn. How many times have I had to
go to some of you and confess that I had failed, confess that
I had erred, Confess that I had said something or did something.
You as individual or you as a body. Your pastor had failed. That's
what the Apostle Paul here is talking about in this chapter. There's times when we fall. Sometimes the fall is in secret. Sometimes we're overtaken in
a fall and it's done in secret. We confess in secret. We obtain
mercy in secret and it stays secret just between us and the
Lord. But what happens when it's open?
What happens when it's known? What happens when I fall before
all of you? And then how do we handle that? That's what the Apostle Paul
is going to teach us here in these first few verses of chapter
6. How does the man who is in fault
deal with his fault. Notice this. I like this. The
Apostle Paul doesn't name the fault, does he? I like that. I think probably if he named
all of the faults, we'd have a pretty big Bible to pack around
with. And every time we failed, every time we got caught up in
a fault, we'd have to run over there. It'd have to be in alphabetical
order just to find it. But I've said this so often,
the Bible gives us principles, and principles sometimes are
much better for us than drawn-out details. We can apply the principle. What is the fault? Well, he doesn't
say, but the one in fault knows what it is. He knows he's been
overtaken in a fault. He's aware of it. This word fault,
the word fault, it takes in a wide variety of things. Webster says it's unintentional
error all the way to willful transgression. Unintentional
errors. It's something that he didn't
mean to do. It's something that tripped him
up unawares. Or it's something that he actually
did knowing that he shouldn't have did it. It's a fault. How does he handle this fault?
James tells us. Listen to James chapter 5 and
verse 16. Confess your faults one to another. Come clean with them. The Apostle
Paul here is assuming That the man has not hid his fault. He
knows it, and he not only knows it, but he's acknowledged it.
He's owned it as his. And he's been honest about it.
He's been open about it. And he says, here, church, is
what I've done. Here, Clarence, is what I've
done. I've been tripped up, and I've done this, and I've done
that. He confesses his fault one to another. Whatever it is. Make it plain. Whatever you're
guilty of. If it's something that's done
openly and others know about it and you have to confess it,
I tell you it's been my experience. To be just as thorough in the
confession of it as you can be. And that's tough, ain't it? That's
tough. It's tough. I said back in one
of her Bible studies the other night, it's easy to say, boy,
I'm the worst sinner in this world. I can almost brag about
that. But let me get down to something
particular that I've done, something that I've said that's hurt you,
something that I've said that's offended. I've really done something
in particular. Let me come clean with that.
That's more difficult, isn't it? But James said, here's what
we must do. confess, admit, acknowledge your
fault one to another. And then he made another statement
in the very same verse, pray one for another that you may
be healed. It's been such a fault that it's
wounded. It's wounded, no doubt, the one
that's been overtaken, but it's possibly wounded those that have
seen the person fall. So pray for one another that
you may be healed. I tell you, confession is part
of the medicine applied to the wound, isn't it? It's part of
the medication. I know we confess to the Lord
first before we confess to one another. We confess to Him and
He forgives it, doesn't He? And then we confess to one another. How do we deal with our brother's
fault? And Paul tells us here, doesn't
he? Here's the way we deal with it in verse one. If a man be
overtaken in a fault, you which are spiritual, restore such a
one in the spirit of meekness. Restore. Restore. Restore what? Well, whatever the fault had
taken away. You know, it may be a lack of
confidence now. Did you ever lose confidence
in somebody that failed? Restore your confidence in him. Has he confessed it? Then restore. And be careful to not say, I'm
going to wait a while. I'm going to watch that fella
and see how he acts from here on out. If he confesses, then restore your confidence.
Were you grieved with him? Maybe even offended with him? Then do this. Restore your affection
to him. Did he hurt your feelings? Then
freely forgive him. Restore whatever his fault took
away from you concerning him. Restore him. Maybe he's sorrowful. Maybe he's
broken. Maybe he's hurting. He needs
comforts restored to him. Take whatever steps that's necessary
to restore comfort that his fall has lost him. And I tell you,
I tell you, my dad, just before you whipped me, he used to say,
this is going to hurt me as bad as it's going to hurt you. I
don't think that ever happened. But I tell you something, there
are times when our falls, when our being overtaken in a fall
can hurt our brothers and sisters. More than it hurts us. And knowing that, knowing that
I've confessed to the Lord and He's forgiven me, that's all
clear between me and Him, but knowing the brothers and sisters
are hurting, that hurts me. That hurts me. Knowing what I've
done to you, that I've grieved you, that makes me sorrowful. So when you come to me and say,
Bruce, really, all is forgiven, it's okay, dear brother. Don't
worry anything else about it. It's fine. And you give me a
hug, what does that do? That comforts me. It restores
to me the comfort of my heart, knowing how you feel about me. You nurses here, you know how
you treat a wound. How you treat somebody's wound
is just as important as what you put on it sometimes. It's not just restoring somebody,
but he said restore them in the spirit of meekness. Well, don't be harsh about it.
Don't be mean about it. Don't be a matter of fact about
it. But do it in the spirit of meekness. The person is wounded. What do you do with a wound?
You just grab an old butter knife and dip it in a bunch of ointment
and splatter it on there? Why, no. You have to be careful
with a wound, don't you? You have to put some solution
on it and make sure you get all the old dried blood and any foreign
matter, but you've got to be careful. It's a wound. And how
you treat a wound goes a long way, and it's healing. And if
someone has been overtaken in a fault and is wounded, then
how you treat them may go a long ways in how quickly they heal
and how truly they heal. And notice how he says it here,
you which are spiritual, you which are spiritual, restore
such a one in the spirit of me. What is it to be spiritual? What
is a spiritual person? Well, we've seen them. We've
met spiritual people. We run into them sometimes at
the grocery store, don't we? Or down at the Walmart or some
sporting event we're at. We all know the spiritual people.
Praise God! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Is that a spiritual person? Not
really, is it? No. What is a spiritual person?
You know, Paul gives us, I think, when we study it out in this
book, a very good definition of what a spiritual person is.
Let me quote some passages in this book. that teaches what
a spiritual person is. Listen to chapter 3, verses 2
and 3. This only would I learn of you. Received you the Spirit by the
works of the law or by the hearing of faith? Have you received the
Spirit? How did you receive the Spirit?
By what you did or what you heard? And he went on to say, having
begun in the Spirit, Are you now made perfect by the flesh?
How did you begin your Christian journey? You heard from the Lord,
didn't you? You heard His Word. And you began
in the Spirit. This is not anything to do with
the flesh. This journey begins in the Spirit. It's a new birth, isn't it? If a man's not born again, believe
me, He's not spiritual. If He didn't begin His journey
in the Spirit, then He's not spiritual. In chapter 4, verse
6, He said this, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into
your hearts, crying, Father, Father. What is a spiritual person? He's a person who, in the depths
of his soul, has this holy fellowship, this holy union with God as His
Father. And it's a closer union than
a man has with his earthly dad. Father, Father. That's a spiritual
man. Chapter 5 and verse 16. This
I say then, walk in the Spirit. And you shall not fulfill the
lust of the flesh. Who is a spiritual man? He's
a man that walks in the Spirit of Christ. Walking in the Spirit. Listen to verse 18 of chapter
5. If you be led of the Spirit, then you're not under the law. He's a man that's led. Led out
of himself. Led out of self-trust. Led away
from seeking the applause and the praise of men. Led away from
a world of pleasure. He's led to Christ. Led to look
to Christ. He's led by the Spirit. It's
in chapter 5, verse 22. The fruit of the Spirit is love,
joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. What is it to be a spiritual
man? It's to be possessed of these fruits. And listen to chapter
5, verse 25. If you live in the Spirit, if
you're alive in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Are you a spiritual person? That's
the way we can tell. And I tell you, if you're here
this morning and you're a spiritual person, you know you're in a
warfare. One of the ways you know that
you're a spiritual person You're in a warfare. Look what he said
in chapter 5 and verse 17. The flesh lusteth. It wars against
the spirit. And the spirit against the flesh. And these are contrary the one
to the other. So that you cannot do the things
that you would. There's a warfare. You've got
two people within you. You've got this old flesh with
His old nature. You've got this new creature
with the Spirit upholding Him, warring through Him. And these
two will never be reconciled, the flesh and the Spirit. They're
at enmity. They argue. They debate. They fight. They lust against
each other. Let me give you some hints as
to how you know you're in a warfare. Number one, it has a stripping
effect upon you. Oh, wretched man that I am. Why did he make that statement?
Why would a man say that and think that about himself? Well,
he had just made this statement. When I would do good, evil is
present with me. Good cannot have its way. because
it's hindered by this evil. Evil cannot have its perfect
way because it's hindered by this good. You cannot do what
you would. You cannot do perfectly good,
but you can't do perfectly evil either. You're in a battle. And I tell you what, it has a
stripping effect. If you're in a warfare, you're
being taught by this warfare to live by faith, not by sight
and by feelings. I tell you, when the Lord first
saves us, we're on cloud nine, at least for a while. And one
of the reasons we are, we're living by feelings. And we feel
good. But when this warfare begins,
what does it do? It brings us down to reality,
doesn't it? And then try to live by your
feelings. Because this warfare is going
on. You're in the midst of a battle. You can't trust your feelings.
How do you walk then? The Lord teaches us to walk by
faith. The just shall live by faith. Number three, it encourages us
to hope and wait for a complete salvation. He said here in chapter
5, verse 5, we through the Spirit, through the Spirit's help and
His aid, we wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. There's a work going on. We're
righteous in Christ as righteous as we'll ever be in Him. With
His perfect garments on, we're as near to God as God's own Son. But the work's not completed
on this old body. He's going to be righteous too.
That's what we're waiting for. And I'm telling you, this warfare,
this warfare stirs up this hope. This hope to be saved at last. This warfare encourages an attitude
of thanksgiving to God. Who shall deliver me from this
body of death? I thank God through the Lord
Jesus Christ. Oh, thankfulness. Thankful. Aren't you amazed at yourself
that you've continued to this day? That your poor old frame
is held up? That you've held up mentally
after war and day after day and decade after decade, you're in
the midst of this battle? Oh, I thank God. Thank God for
it through Christ Jesus. This warfare within makes us
more sympathetic to our brothers. and our sisters in Christ. Because
it teaches us there's only one way to endure, and that's through
the grace of Christ Himself. That's through His grace. Be
strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And it brings us to see and feel
our utter bankruptcy. Look here in chapter 6 and verse
3. Are you spiritual? Are you spiritual? Do you have the Spirit of God's
own Son in your heart? Are you in a warfare? Then this
warfare has brought you here to feel this way about yourself.
Look in verse 3. If a man thinks himself to be
something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. I mean, not just poor, but bankrupt,
nothing. What are we without Christ's
grace? Nothing. Nothing. I'm what I am by the
grace of God. Well, what are you apart from
it? Nothing. Nothing. What can we do without Christ? Nothing. Without me, you can
do nothing. We can't even come to Christ
until He come fetches us. We're lost sheep, and He has
to come and get us. We can't know anything apart
from what Christ teaches us. Nothing. Nothing. Not one single
truth of God can we know in our heart. We get a bunch of notions
in our head, but the natural man receiveth not the things
of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them. Nothing apart
from Him teaching us. And what can receive? What can
we receive apart from what He's given us? A man can receive nothing
except it be given to him from heaven. Brothers and sisters,
are we bankrupt or what? Are we bankrupt sinners? And
Paul says here in verse 1, Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault,
ye which are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness. Look at this, considering yourself. Considering yourself. What kind
of person are you? Are you a bankrupt sinner? Are
you utter weakness yourself? If you have any problems restoring
a dear brother or sister who has fallen, then consider yourself,
lest you also be tempted. I'm telling you, this warfare
teaches us something about ourselves. We're spiritual and we're in
a warfare. And we're nothing. We're nothing. We're nothing. I remember a few
years ago, Jimmy Swagger was preaching on TV. And he was praying. Here's what
he said. He said, Now, Lord, listen. This
is not a private. This is not a private coming
before you. This is General Schweiker. Can you believe that? Can you
believe that? Is he a spiritual man? Did he
begin in the Spirit? Is he having this warfare? Has
it humbled him? Has it brought him to see himself
as nothing? I think he finally, well, we
found out, he probably didn't, I don't even think he's in the
service. Before you even get a rank, you've
got to be enlisted in the captain's army. Consider yourself, lest you also
be tempted. Poor Lot was tempted. He looked
at those wells of water, and he was tempted, and he chose
the plains. He was tempted then, I may be
tempted tomorrow. King David looked at Bathsheba
and he was tempted and fell. That was King David then, it
may be me tempted tomorrow. The Apostle Peter saw the mouth
and face of that poor maid as a lion and was tempted to deny
the Master, and did, and failed. I may be tempted tomorrow. Paul said, Consider yourself.
There is no sin that any man has ever committed, but that
every man is capable of committing it, if God leaves him to himself. Consider thyself. When my office used to be down
here at church, just every once in a while I'd get a phone call.
And without them telling me what denomination they were, speaking
to them just a couple of minutes or so, I can tell they were some
kind of Reformed. Because Reformed is big on discipline. And in a very short conversation
that would always come up, Pastor Crabtree, what do you folks do
about discipline? Well, I tell you, if somebody
falls into sin and they love it, ain't much you can do about
it. If someone, a member of the church,
is living in sin and that's the pattern of their life and they
love it, there's not much you can do about it. But I have noticed
those people usually don't stay around you very long. Usually
you don't have to do anything but preach to them. Very seldom
you have to approach them. But what do we do when a poor
little sheep, a lamb of Christ, falls into the mud? He's not like that old hog Laurie
told us about. That old hog falls in there,
man, he lays there. He walks there. But you let a
little sheep fall in there. Buddy, he gets out of there.
What do we do when a sheep gets in the mud? We help him wash it off. What
do we do when a poor little sheep falls? We restore him. We help
him up. That's how we handle discipline. You take these fellows, I'm sorry
to say, that have to be watched every day, and they want the
pastor and the elders and the committees to get together and
write a rule book for them to live by. They've got problems. They've
got problems. We've got a spirit to guide us,
have we not? We've got a Word to direct us. Verse 2, look what he says in
verse 2. He first says, Restore him because
you need to consider yourself. He fell today. He got overtaken
today, but it may be you tomorrow. And then he gives them this to
happen. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law
of Christ. You can look at this in two ways.
Bear you one another's burdens. There are burdens that we can
bear, help to bear. There's times when we can get
under the load with our brothers and sisters, at least part of
it. Things that we can do to take the load off of somebody
else. Boy, this is a wide range of things, isn't it? Spiritual
things and carnal things. I remember a few days ago, this
went unnoticed, naturally. Gail had a little party for the
girls, a little tea party. I hope I don't embarrass Miranda
by telling this, but Miranda called Gellie and said, Gellie,
I'm going by and clean the church for you. Gellie was busy with
the little kids and the tea party. He said, well, what's that? That's
burying somebody's burden. That's what that is. I remember
the big pile of dirt we had out back. I remember, the clerks
came in one day and said, Matt, every time you looked up back
there, just aggravated. It just grieved me to death too.
It was grieving me to death. I didn't have time to do anything
about it. Clerks kept saying, when you get time, we need to
do something about that. I never could get time. But he called
me one day. And he said, I'll fix that. He went and rented a tractor
and leveled it down. You talk about a burden going off of me. Burden? You want another's burden?
It may not seem like much, but I'm telling you that's a lot.
Me and Brother Larry was down at Wayne's and Colleen's putting
in some plug-ins, and we knew we was going to be there a long
day. And Larry's knees already swelling up on him, but I'd have
to carry him anyway. But we were getting tired. Terrence
and Jalen showed up. And then Brother Glenn. They
called Brother Glenn. He brought us down to the park. We got the
job done that day. Man, what a burden! It's a thrill
to be there, Wayne, to spend it with you and Colleen. What
a burden! You know what I'm talking about.
There are all sorts of burdens that we can get under and have... I don't know what all they are.
There are sometimes spiritual burdens, inward burdens. that
we can get under and bear and help. Somebody's sick and just
go on and visit them and spend some time and let them talk and
maybe have prayer with them and bear the burden. Bear you one
another's burden. That's the law of Christ, isn't
it? Boy, did He do it. Man, He did it. He wore Himself
out, didn't He? Bearing other people's burden.
Lord, the hungry. Who's going to feed them a multitude
like this? Well, let's go into town. We don't have much, but
we'll spend what we've got. No, wait a minute. I'll do it.
I'll feed them. Lord, there's all kinds of people
here with infirmities that need to be healed. I'll bear them,
bring them here. And what about that tremendous
burden upon Calvary's tree, brothers and sisters? and burn our sin
in His own body on the tree. What a burden that was. That's
a burden we can't bear. I can't bear your sins. I can't
bear my own. Only He can do that. And how
gladly He did. And that's the law of Christ.
Lord, here's a mountain of sins that's going to crush my soul
down into hell. Here, I've got them. I've got
them all. I'll bear them. It's a weight that's going to
crush my heart. It's a weight that's going to
send the blood from my veins through my skin. It's a weight
that's going to make me groan underneath its load. But I'll
bear it. That's my law. That's the way
I am. But this word here means also
something else. Not only bear ye one another's
burden, But bear with one another. We have infirmities. We have
weights. And we have to bear with one
another's weights and infirmities. And I think that's what keeps
the church united together. If we get to the point where
we can't bear with one another's infirmities, we can't continue
to meet in fellowship, can we? Because all of us has them. I
don't have very many, I realize that. I can't see that I do,
but I bet you see them, don't you? Look how the Lord Jesus bore
with the infirmities of those people. He had people, His own
people, His own people, that weren't as grateful to Him as
they should have been. They weren't His understanding
of Him. They slept while He suffered in the garden. He was talking
about going to the cross, and they wanted to sit on the throne
beside of Him. And look how many helped that
finally forsook Him. Where were those multitudes when
others were crying, crucify, crucify? Where were those people
that He healed, cast devils out of, and the thousands that He
fed? Where were those ungrateful people? And you know something? He never did, never did gather
his little flock together and say, I'm going to wash my hands
of you fellows. I've just bore with you as long
as I can bear with you. I've had it with you. He never
did say that, did he? He bore not only their infirmities,
but he bore with their infirmities. And when he was ready to go back
up to heaven, He got his little band of disciples together and
said, now listen to me. This commandment I give unto
you, that you love others as I loved you. And how did he love
you? How did he love them? By bearing
their burdens. By bearing with their infirmities.
And brothers and sisters, that kind of love will cover a multitude
of sins. And that kind of love will restore
a dear brother or sister when they've been overtaken in a fault. That's the Law of Christ. People
talk about the Law of Moses. I wish we could dwell more on
the Law of Christ, don't you? Verses 4 and 5, and we'll close
with this. But let every man prove, that
word means to examine, let every man examine his own work. And then shall he have rejoicing
in himself alone and not in another. Let every man examine his own
work. Prove your own work. Stop examining
everybody else's and prove your own work. Prove your own motives
before God. See, if your heart is truly gracious
and humble before God, who are we to set in judgment on another
man's servant? To his own master he stands or
falls. Stop trying to make yourself look good by exposing the weaknesses
of others. These Pharisees wouldn't restore
anybody. Do you know what they used men's
weaknesses for? to prop up their own goodness.
Yeah, you let somebody fall around a Pharisee, they'll bring you
up in exposure and say, look at this fallen sinner. We're
nothing like them. Lord, here's a woman taken in
adultery in the Barriac. Let's stone her and compare it
to her. We are so good. They didn't prove their own worth,
did they? They built up their glory and their confidence on
the backs of poor fallen creatures. I'm not like that publican. That's
all they ever said. They didn't prove their own work.
They didn't prove their own standing before God. They always had to
go pick somebody that was worse than they were and say, Oh God,
I thank you. Then I'm not like that sorry
thing. You must accept me because I'm not as bad as him. I'm not
like that publica. Well, I don't think I'm as bad
morally as those Boston bombers. Do you? I ain't a Charles Manson. I mean, compared to Charles Manson,
I'm a pretty good man. I think so. But how do I stack up when I
stand before a perfect Lord? How do I measure up when I stand
before His holy law that is spiritual and just and good? That's different there, isn't
it? Prove yourself. It's a source of great joy when
a man can say, my conscience is clear with God. and have God to bear witness
to it. It's a source of great joy when a man says, I'm walking
in the light that God has given me and can have God to bear witness
to that statement. Listen to what the Apostle Paul
said in II Corinthians 112. My rejoicing is this. Now, he
had rejoicing in his heart. And here's that rejoicing. It's
this. the testimony of my conscience. Well, conscience is a precious
thing, isn't it? That in simplicity and godly
sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, I have
had my conversation, my manner of living in this world. I've
lived before God in simplicity and godly sincerity. God knows it. Man, that will
make you rejoice, won't it? It doesn't matter what other
people think of us, how other people treat us, what other people
say about us. What makes the difference is
what God knows about us. What is my standing before Him? And boy, when you find that out,
And as you live there, I tell you, you'll have rejoicing in
your heart then. You won't have to build up your
confidence on the back of some fallen brother or sister. You
won't have to be looking at some poor sinner to make yourself
look good. You know you're standing before
God, and you know He knows. But Paul went on here in verse
5 to say this, but every man's going to have to bear this burden
himself. This is a burden that nobody can bear for you. This
proving, this examining yourself before the Lord, this is something
you're going to have to prove for yourself. The clearing of your conscience
and the keeping it clear before God is between you and God. Prove your own self. how that Christ is in you. Nobody
can prove that for you. You're going to have to prove
that for yourself. Nobody else can repent for you.
Nobody else can believe for you. Nobody else can know Christ for
you. Nobody else can walk for you.
You've got to do that yourself. Nobody else is going to stand
before the Lord in judgment for you. You'll have to stand there
for yourself. Every man will give account of
himself to God. That's a burden we're going to
have to bear for ourselves, isn't it? Such things are a burden that
you and I, every man, let every man prove his own worth. And
boy, as we do, we can have rejoicing in our own hearts. In our own
hearts. God bless His Word. Let's pray.