This morning, we're gonna be
in the book of Galatians, in the sixth chapter, Galatians
six. In this chapter, we're gonna
find that Paul is going to further his point by saying, if you desire
a law, I'm gonna give you one. I'll give you a law. If you desire
a law, I'll give you one, and it's the law of love. That's
what he describes in this chapter. We're this law of love is where
God's elect are made to love him and made to love one another. In Corinthians, it says having
our hearts knit together in love. Well, how is that by the love
that the Lord bestows on his people? This is all because,
and we know this to be true, it's all because He first loved
us. We love Him because He first loved us, but none of us would
have loved Him if He hadn't loved us first. We love Him because
He first loved us. He's the one that bestowed it
freely by His grace. Therefore, we love Him, those
that are His. We love Him and we love His people. Let's read this together. Relations
6, 1 through 5. Brethren, if a man be overtaken
in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such in one in the spirit
of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear
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 his own
work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone and
not in another. For every man shall bear his
own burden." In chapter five, Paul has said love is the fulfillment
of the law. Love is given freely by grace. I haven't told you the title.
I guess I should probably do that. Title of the message is
two burdens. Two burdens. The one burden that we have is
the burden that our Lord gives us whenever we are made to see
him. And interestingly enough, we
don't think it as a burden. We don't think it as a burden.
It's the burden of love that we have one towards another and
towards him. The other burden is the burden of the law. Do
you remember Paul said that you desire to be under the law? Do
you hear the law? If you're desiring to be under
it, you're under the curse of the law, the burden of the law,
and you can't keep it. You can't keep it. That's the
problem. So our burden is the same burden that the Lord described
whenever he said, come unto me, all you that are labored and
are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you
and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly of heart, and you shall
find rest to your soul, for my yoke is easy and my burden is
light. Why is his burden light? Because
the work's done. The yoke represents work. Two
oxen would be put together, and it would normally be an older
one and a younger one, or two older ones, and the older one
would lead the younger one and make him follow him. That's what
the Lord's saying, come unto me, come unto me. And so the
burden of the Lord is light. Why is it light? Well, because
the work is finished. All the work is finished. The
law has been fulfilled. Justice has been satisfied. God's
judgment has been assuaged. His wrath's been assuaged. It's
all gone for the believer. Now, the labor that we have is
the labor of love, the burden of love, and it's light. It's
a light burden. Remember the children of Israel,
think about this, they were going out gathering bread that fell
from the sky. Can you imagine how we are by
nature? The Lord's feeding them from
the sky. It's falling from that they didn't have to do anything
but just go pick it up. And yet they say, we loathe this lot
bred. They were complaining over the
little bit of responsibility that they had. And my intention
is to make certain by the time this message is finished to establish
that Christ is the end of the law for righteousness, first
and foremost. But what He tells us to do is to love one another,
to love one another. And He gives us everything He
requires. If He requires it of us, He gives
it to us. So He gives us that love in our heart, one towards
another and towards Him. But the children of Israel, that
little bit of effort they had to put forth, they were murmuring
over that. It's not a burden to the Lord's people to serve
one another, to pray for one another. We're going to go through
these and we'll see that's what all this is meaning, carrying
one another burden. That's just praying for one another, isn't it? What's
our motivation? Well, it's no longer, well, what
do I get out of it? It's no, how can I serve? How
can I help? How can I be there for you whenever you need me
to be? And that's what the Lord puts in the heart of his people
towards each other. This love is what constrains
the Lord's people. This love is what constrains
the Lord's people. It's the same love that Christ had for his
father and the father for his son. It's perfect love. Perfect love. How do I know that it's perfect
love? Because he's the source of it. He's the source. He's
the one, if he's the source, it has to be perfect because
he's perfect. Anything that comes from him
is perfect and it's freely bestowed to the Lord's people. Scripture
says, faith worketh by love. What does that mean? Well, if
the Lord's given you faith, then you're going to love your brethren
and you're going to love the Lord. As a matter of fact, John
said it this way, you know that you pass from death unto life
because you love the brethren. This is what the Lord does and
it's miraculous to us. There'd be a time in our life
when we knew people that were, when we didn't know the gospel
and perhaps Now, you meet people when you
don't know the gospel, and there's not the love that God gives you
towards your brethren there, because you don't have that love
yet. But remember at conference, whenever people come from all
over the country, you meet them, you start talking to them, and
the Spirit bears witness, that's my brother, that's my sister,
and your hearts are knit together because of this common faith.
the common blood, the common grace that the Lord has shared
with both of you. And how rejoicing or how joyous
that is to be able to rejoice with brethren that you don't
even know. How is that possible? That's the love that the Lord
says he sheds it abroad in our heart. And that is the burden.
I'm calling it a burden because the other one, because the Lord
said my yoke is easy and my burden is light. But we don't count
it as a burden, do we, to love? No, we don't. Now, to the contrary
of that, to the contrary, there is no greater burden that someone
can bear than approaching the law for righteousness or for
evidence of salvation. as part or as evidence of salvation.
There's no greater burden that someone can bear. Why? Because
that work will never be finished. It'll never be fulfilled. Christ
Jesus is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that
believeth. If we go to the law, we are renouncing the salvations
by grace alone. We're saying that I can do something
to please God. I can do something to earn favor
with God. Or did you know that there's
nothing you can do in this life to change your reward in heaven. Nothing, nothing you can do.
Meaning, and I'll give you the example that the Lord gave to,
as a parable, he said, the rich man went out and he hired servants
to go work in the field in the morning and they went out and
they agreed for a penny. Then at lunchtime, he went and got
some more and they went out. And then later on, there was
like an hour left to work and he got more and they come out.
Well, at the end of the day, guess how much they got paid? They
all got paid the same, didn't they? It paid exactly the same. Why? Because God's no respecter
of person. The reward is Christ Jesus. That's
the reward to his people. That's who we desire. The thief
on the cross gets the same reward as Apostle Paul does. The thief
on the cross gets the same reward as Abraham does or Adam did or
any believer. It's amazing that all things
that are good that the Lord gives are found in the person and work
of the Lord Jesus. They're not found in what we
do, but what he has done. And he is the reward. He is the
reward. So going to the law for sanctification,
which so many people do, they go to law thinking that they're
getting better. So they have morals, they have outward showings,
they think they're getting better, and they call it progressive
sanctification. It's not true. The Holy Spirit sanctified the
Lord's people. He calls them out of darkness
into his marvelous light. That sanctification is a once and
done process. It's not continual. We're made to be sanctified. We're made to be justified. We're
made redeemed. We're made to be, well, saved
by his grace. If we approach the law, whether
for the moral, the civil, or the ceremonial, and you can take
every single preacher that preaches works, and every single work
that they give out to do as evidence or as part of salvation falls
under the moral, the civil, or the ceremonial law. Every one
of them falls under one of those categories. So if a man's preaching
that, It's just a burden to the people. All that the law can
do is just expose sin. All the law can do can just show
that we are naked without a covering, that we're sinful, that we're
unholy, that we're not good enough, that everything we do is corrupt
and it's tainted. Everything that we are is sinful
from the top of our head to the bottom of our feet. This is what
the law gives. And so Paul is still declaring the same thing
to these Galatians right here. He's telling them, that there's
the law that we have. If you want a law, here it is.
It's the law of love. If you want to carry a burden,
carry that burden. Don't carry the burden of the
law of the Ten Commandments and all the other commandments in
the Old Testament. That's not the law that the believer lives
by as our standard of life. What is our standard of life?
Well, Christ is, but the standard of living that we're instructed
to live by is love, is love. And it comes naturally for the
believer. It's not something that we have to try to do. Otherwise
we would boast, look how much I love you. I'm really good at
loving you. No, that's not, that's not what
it's about, is it? It's not what it's about. It's just the same
with the Lord. When it said we love him because
he first loved us, we love the brethren because he first loved
us as well. That's, he gets all the glory in this. This is, this
is another message about how God provides everything he requires
for his people. Everything he requires. All the law can do is render the doer a sinner,
a failure, a liar, and a thief, trying to rob God of his glory,
one without hope. Yet there's those who believe
this, live for their hope. There are false churches. They're
ministers of darkness, not light. They're wolves in sheep's clothing.
They act like that they're telling good news, but it's not good
news. They're putting people in bondage, in bondage, by putting
them under the law. Now, I will say this, and this
is important, because as we declare all this, you say, well, I've
never heard a church actually say that they're saved by their
works. Well, you won't. Satan's much more sneaky than
that. They're not gonna come out and say, well, you're saved
by works. No, they're gonna say you're
saved by grace, But, and there's where the works come in, which
completely negates the grace altogether, doesn't it? So what
does it look like in false churches when they preach? Well, some
might say we're saved by grace, but only if we keep the law.
And that's what they were saying here in the book of Galatians.
That's what we've learned going through this book of Galatians, is that they
were telling the people, yeah, you're saved by grace, but you
have to keep the law as either evidence or part of that salvation. Paul says, no, Christ is the
end of the law. Christ is the end of the law. Another way they might say it
is we're justified by grace but must keep the law as part or
evidence of sanctification. That's what a lot of churches
say. And they do that by their morality, their moral living,
their lifestyle. And they look at each other and
they compare each other to self. And the sad part is, as you compare
two sinners together, you're just going to see sinners. I
mean, there's nothing to compare, is there? We're not getting better. No, the truth of the matter is,
is we're getting worse. Is it not true that you loathe
your sin more now than you first did when you came to the knowledge
of the truth, that you despise yourself because you're like,
Lord, I don't want to do these things that I'm doing. I don't
mean to do these things that I'm doing. Have mercy on me,
the sinner. That's the truth of it, isn't it? See, all these things that men
say that are twisting the truth, they rob God of His glory, the
glory that He wrought by Himself in the work of salvation for
His elected bride. They take His glory away, they
rob Him of it. It does something to say, and
you can always tell it, if you wanna know the simplest way that
you can tell it, is it would say, look at me. Anything that says, look at me,
is not saying, look to him, come unto him, believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ. Lord didn't say, look at Peter,
look at Peter's good works. No, he said, come unto me. Peter
was walked on water for a brief time. We don't know how long
exactly, but he sunk. Why? He took his eyes off of Christ.
The Lord says, look to me, look to me. Those that preach look to me,
they're not ministers of peace, they're ministers of confusion.
You can't preach grace and preach works combined, you can't. Now we're gonna take the Lord's
table this morning. And somebody might say, well, is that a work?
Somebody might say, well, is baptism a work? Well, it can
be made a work. You better believe that. But
these ordinances are something that the Lord has commanded us
to do. And the reason that we take them
is in remembrance of him. We're confessing his body and
his blood is our only hope of our righteousness. We're confessing
him. And it's the same thing with baptism as we're confessing
that our only hope is that we were buried with him in baptism
and raised again with him to live a new life. That's why we're
baptized. It's an outward expression of an inward change. It's not
to accomplish an inward change, neither of these. Those are the
two ordinance that we do use, but they could be made of work.
They could be made of work. They could actually, people can
latch onto those things as their salvation, as part of their salvation.
Okay, I was saved and I was baptized and they put them together like
that really cemented it that I did that. No, that's just a
confession of what the Lord has already done. That's what all
that means. That's what all that means. Now
others put different inferences on different things. It says,
look at me. And they say, and I get how the baptism could look
like, look at me, but that's not, it's just what the Lord
said. The Lord said suffer to be so, John. The Lord was baptized.
It's not look at me, it's look at what Christ has done in me.
That's what it is. It's not pointing to self. As
a matter of fact, it's embarrassing. to the flesh, get in front of
everybody and get dunked in a tank. It's embarrassing, but it's a
confession. It's a confession. These ministers
that preach any type of work as part or evidence of salvation,
they're not ministers of peace. They're not ministers of good.
They're ministers of evil. They're ministers of confusion.
They're ministers of darkness. But they call their darkness
light, and people believe it because they're still in darkness.
This is what Paul's trying to get across to the Galatians,
is that their message here, their message to everything that he
said prior, he's like, do you not remember when I was with
you, what I said? What did you push? He said, who hath bewitched
you? Remember him saying that? Who
hath bewitched you, that you would believe this lie? Meaning,
who put you under a spell? Literally, that's what that means. This is why Paul called it being
entangled again with the yoke of bondage. By definition they're
anti-Christ. I don't know how many of you
were in false religion at one time but there was a movie book
set that came out left behind, I don't remember if you remember
that one or not, a bunch of movies or whatever else. But it had the Antichrist
as like one particular being that was going to rule and reign
over the earth and do this and that. The Antichrist spirit's
alive and well right now, right now. The men that stand in the
pulpit and says Jesus loves everybody, God died for everybody, everybody
can be saved, all you have to do is let God have his way and
ask him to come into your heart. They're Antichrist. They're anti-God,
they're anti-gospel. Lord Jesus Christ died for his
people and successfully redeemed them on the cross of Calvary
by the sacrifice of himself, by the blood that he shed, put
away their sin. How do we know we were justified? Because the
Lord resurrected him three days later, whenever he was buried
in the tomb. This is the good news to the Lord's people is
that the burden that we now carry is not the burden of working
for our salvation or laboring unto salvation, but it's looking
to Christ who is our salvation. And we don't consider that to
be a burden, do we? This yoke's easy, this burden's
light, this burden's light. Now those that succumb to the
lie of this anti-Christ spirit, they don't have the spirit of
love. And you know, if you know anybody that's religious, you'll
be able to relate to this. If you know somebody that's religious,
you'll be able to relate to this. I know several people that are
really religious. They have a self-righteousness about them. They have an arrogant
spirit about them. They have pride about them. Look at me. That's the spirit
that they carry. That's not the spirit of love.
You'll never hear, well, you might, I say never. Gotta be
careful using that word, don't I? It's unlikely that you would
hear a believer say, look at me. Unlikely. Why? Because Christ is made all unto
the Lord's people. We say, look to him. We don't
compare our sin to others. We're too embarrassed to let
people know our sin. We don't want to see if we're
getting better, we know that we're getting worse. Our good deeds
don't erase our bad deeds. We're not fooled by the lies
of Satan. We know how bad we are. The Lord
showed us the mirror. We've seen the mirror. We didn't
know exactly what we are by nature. We're dead dog depraved sinners. And therefore we don't look at
somebody else and say, well, I, Glad I'm not as bad as that
one. I'm glad I didn't. I would never do something like
that. I would remind you that David committed adultery and
murder both. It's still man after God's own art. It's all by grace,
brethren. It's all by grace. If it's not,
it's all by works. Why would the Lord Jesus Christ
have to die if it's all by works? Think about that. If it was all
by works, We could save ourself. Is that not true? We could save
ourself. But the Lord Jesus Christ, he says it's clearly the reason
that he had to die was because we could not save ourself. That's
why he was talking about it in Isaiah when he says, fear not
Jacob, I have redeemed you, I've called you, I've bought you,
you're mine. That was the Lord that did that.
It wasn't you and I that saved ourselves, we've been bought
with a price. No work that we could do could ever satisfy God. That's why I quote the verse
so often, not by works of righteousness, which we have done, but according
to his mercy, he saved us. Last thing I'll say about those
who are self-righteous is that some of us were the same way
at one time. That's the hardest truth to say, but it's true. It's true. How do I know so much
about it? Because I was one at one time. When the Lord shows
you that you're a sinner, you don't have any pride anymore
about what you are. You're ashamed. You're ashamed
of yourself. You're ashamed of your sin. That's
why that publican couldn't lift up his eyes to heaven. He was
ashamed of himself, what he was. He loathed himself and he beat
upon his breast. He said, Lord, have mercy on
me. I have a heart condition. And the only way I don't, I'm
not gonna give you my heart, you're gonna have to give me
a new heart. This heart's deceitful above all things and desperately
wicked. I need a new heart. That's what he was implying there,
wasn't it? Lord, you're gonna have to do
that. Well, how's he gonna do it? By grace, by grace alone. Now here in Galatians, Paul has
given us the solution for lawmongering and man-made religion. Very clearly,
preach the gospel. Preach the gospel of God's free
and sovereign grace. You can't preach God high enough
and you can't preach man low enough. I heard a preacher say
that one time, I don't remember who it was. But it's true, isn't
it? You can't preach God high enough
and you can't preach man low enough. Preach the gospel. Preach the
truth. Christ is the end of the law because he fulfilled it.
Preach that it's not by works that we've done, but by grace
alone. Preach that he saved his people from their sin. Don't preach that you do the
work. Preach the righteous work of the Lamb of God. That's what
we preach. This is how we combat the law-mongering and the man-made
religion. sit up here for the entire time
and just talk about what not to do and how bad others are.
We tell the truth about the other churches and the lie that way
we know, but we tell the truth. The truth is this, Christ Jesus
came to save sinners. Christ Jesus came to save those
who were sick. Those that are healthy, they
need not a physician, but they that are sick. Those that are
well, they don't need a doctor. And likewise, they that are righteous,
they don't need righteousness. But the Lord came to call sinners,
not the righteous, to repentance by his grace. We preach that it's not by our
doing, but by his doing that saved his people from their sin.
The message is simple. The blood of Christ is still
sufficient. The work of Christ still accomplished salvation
for his people, period. The simplicity of the gospel
is this, it is finished. The work that the Lord was given
of his father is finished. All of God's people are redeemed.
And in the fullness of time, when it comes to pass, I love
when the scripture says, and it came to pass, and it came to
pass, the Lord purposes all things, doesn't he? In the fullness of
time, it'll come to pass, the Lord's gonna let us know about
it. He'll show us that he saved us all by his grace, by calling
us out of darkness into his light. Christ is enough, brethren. Our
input, our contribution in any way makes void, makes void, makes
us void of being the recipient of grace. That's what it does.
If we add to or take away, we're making void salvation by grace
for us. Now I told you we're going to
go through these verses and I want to do that. And thankfully we
have enough time. So look at Galatians chapter
six, one at what Paul's saying. We'll go through these brethren.
If a man be overtaken in fault, you, which are spiritual restore
such in one in the spirit of meekness, considering myself,
lest they all, lest I'll also be tempted. He says, first you
who are spiritual, who's spiritual, I know some people that would
actually say that they live spiritual lives. That's impossible because
we're in the flesh. That's impossible. You're not
going to see something spiritual on the outside of you. I mean,
you won't see it because The things which the Lord requires
of His people, the good works that the Lord requires of His
people, He's ordained us to good works. We're not to say that
we don't have good works, but we never look to them as evidence
or as part of our salvation, or we would brag. We would say,
look at the work I've done, look at what I'm doing, and we would
point to ourself. But the Lord's made it where
we can't see it. We can't see it, the works that the Lord has
ordained us to. You who are spiritual are the
ones that are looking to Christ as all your wisdom, all your
righteousness, all your sanctification, and all your redemption. That's
the ones that are spiritual. You're no longer looking to self. You're
no longer seeking justification by the law. You're seeking your
justification by the one who justified you, the Lord Jesus
Christ. Those are the ones that are spiritual. So they that are
spiritual, if you see one fall or overtaken into fault, restore
such a one in the spirit of meekness. Well, how do we restore our brethren?
Somebody said, well, I don't think I've ever done that before.
How do we restore our brethren? By telling them the good news
of the gospel. By pointing them to the one that
saved them by his grace. By reminding them that the blood
is efficient. This is how we restore our brethren.
We don't talk down to them. We don't condescend them. We
don't, you ever heard of the expression getting churched?
Is that a thing up here? I'm from Tennessee, forgive me.
So what that means is, when you get churched, they literally
are like, you're out of here. You're gone. You can't come back. You're churched. Well, there
were some times that it wouldn't be as bad, so you would only
be churched for like a, like you were suspended, like four
weeks or something, you know what I mean? That's where they
would do this. They would do this. And I'm laughing because it was all
about them saying, you're not living your life the way that
I'm living mine. And therefore, you need to get
your life together. And they would say, I live spiritual,
you don't. That's the whole point I'm making.
They were talking down, that's the complete opposite of what
he's talking about here. He's talking about when you see
your brethren down, your brethren down, we don't make them push
them down farther. We try to build them up in love.
There is nothing better than to tell your brother and sister
the good news of the gospel whenever they are discouraged. Remember,
it's finished. Remember, somebody calls you
up and they're discouraged about something that happened that
day? Point them to Christ. Point them to Christ. That's
how we restore our brethren. That's how we restore our brethren.
We don't draw attention to self. We don't say, well, I would never
do that. We point them to Christ, don't we? Well, number two, he
says here, verse two, oh, and we're gonna come back to that
considering thyself, lest also be tempted, because it's brought
back up later on. But verse two says, bear ye one
another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. We're reminded of our Lord by Paul, by the inspiration of the
Spirit here, to bear one another's burdens. How do we bear one another's
burdens? Prayer. We pray for one another. As often
as the Lord reminds you, if you have nothing else to pray for,
pray for me. I need your prayer. And pray for each other, that
the Lord would keep his hand upon us, keep the gospel here. Don't take it for granted because
there's churches that's fallen away from the truth. There's
preachers that's been taken away from the truth that you would
have listened to years ago and they were preaching the gospel
and now they don't. Lord, don't let that happen to us. Keep us. Pray, that's how we bear one
another's burdens. We pray for one another. We pray
knowing His will will be done, but we make our requests and
petitions made known unto Him by His command, and we look to
the Lord Jesus Christ to order and provide all things, knowing
He's our wisdom. Now we're gonna go back to verse
one and read that last verse. part of the sentence here, considering
thyself lest thou also be tempted. Now, look in verse three and
four, for if a man think himself to be something when he is nothing,
he deceiveth himself. Let every man prove his own work
and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone and not in another. He's saying if we think too highly
of ourself, we deceive ourself. The moment we start looking to
self as any part of our salvation or for evidence of our salvation,
we're deceiving ourself. We're thinking too highly of
ourself. I said earlier that God can't be preached high enough
and man can't be preached low enough. And that's the truth
of it. We're dead dog sinners. Dead dog sinners. The Lord has
to make us see our sin, loathe our sin, or we will be lifted
up in pride. We're mercy beggars. And what
does a beggar do when he or she finds a good supply of bread?
Tells his friends, don't he? Tells his friends that are beggars
also. So I'm just a mercy beggar telling a bunch of mercy beggars
who the mercy giver is. That's what I'm doing, what I'm
trying to do. Paul's saying, don't examine,
don't look down on others, but examine yourself. See if you're
clinging to anything. You remember when Paul talked
about, let's see, he didn't say, maybe he did say examine yourself
to see what, so that's what it was. See if you be in the faith.
He's not saying, see if you can see some outward evidences of
being in the faith. He's literally saying, you know,
look inward. Are you looking to anything else as your righteousness?
Are you looking to anything else as your sanctification? Are you
looking to anything else but your justification with the Lord
Jesus Christ and his finished work? That's what Paul's saying
here. Don't be lifted up in pride thinking
you're something when you're nothing. You're a sinner saved
by grace alone, period. That makes us all the same, doesn't
it? That's why he said with God there is no different, Jew nor
Greek, bond nor free. None of that matters. in but
all or all in all in Christ, Christ is all in all. That's
the good news of the gospel. See if you're clinging to anything,
but Christ is all your wisdom. All your righteousness is don't
deceive yourself. We're not getting better. We're getting worse.
I think I've said that three times in this message. But that's
the truth. That's the truth. Without him, That our great substitute,
we're bearing the burden of the law. We're bearing the burden
of the law unto certain death. Now lastly, look at verse five. Verse five says, for every man
shall bear his own burden. Two ways this could be interpreted.
A lot of times it's true in scripture. One way is that a man bears his
own burden without putting his burden on others. That could
be one way that you could interpret this, but the greater one, The
greater one is that this is a declaration. You will bear your own burden.
And you're going to see in the next. If you look down just two
verses, verse seven, be not deceived, God is not mocked. I've titled
the second hour of message, God is not mocked. And this is the
whole point here. And this is where the title for this message
came, is the two burdens. Every man will bear his own burden. Whether it's the burden that
you go to the law for righteousness, you're gonna bear that burden.
Or if the Lord has saved you by his grace and given you love
in your heart towards him and towards your brethren, you're
gonna bear that. burden. That's the two difference. That's
the two, that's the two burdens here. And every man will bear
it. There are only two. There's not many, many burdens.
There's only two burdens. That's it. Either you're bearing
love unto the Lord by grace alone, or you're bearing death basically
by the law. And the Lord is the one that
makes the difference. Good news is, is if he did indeed,
she was in mercy, chose us in the covenant of grace to redeem
us by his own blood, he will keep us by his power. He will
keep us by his power, looking unto him. We're saved by grace,
we're kept by his power by grace. It's all of grace. It's all of
grace. He called us out of darkness
into his light. Then I love that we're given his love. God commended
his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died
for us. And when he commended it to us,
he also not only just proved it on the cross of Calvary, but
he shed it abroad in our hearts. When we're birthed into his family,
we're birthed with love and our heart towards God and towards
his people. And it's a gift. We get no glory in this. I'm
trying to repeat myself so many times because I don't want anybody
to misunderstand what I'm saying here. The love that we have is
a God gift by grace alone. It's God's gift by grace alone. These are the two burdens, brethren,
the burden of the law and the burden of love. And I'm thankful
that the Lord's people have the burden of love, and I don't believe
we consider it a burden. The Lord said my yoke is easy
and my burden is light. My burden's light. Let's pray.
Father, we ask that you would bless this according to your
will, to our understanding. In Christ's name, amen. Let's
take a break.