We were in a meeting somewhere,
and I urged a lost man to call upon
the Lord and ask the Lord to save him. And there was a very religious
fellow standing close behind me, and he said, the Bible says
God doesn't hear a sinner when he prays. Well, the Bible does say that.
You remember, we know that God heareth not sinners. But I turned
to him and I said, yes, the Bible says that, but do you know who
said it? An ignorant, dumb, blind man who had just had his sight
restored, didn't know a thing about God or the gospel. That's
who said it. So the Bible may say something,
but find out who says it. and what the condition were in
which God heard the thief on the cross, and he was a sinner.
God heard the public in the temple who said, God be merciful to
me, a sinner. And God heard you one day, didn't
He? And God still hears you, and
you're a sinner, saved by grace. So, you know, we've got to be
careful about finding out who's speaking. And secondly, find
out to whom he's speaking. Find out who he's talking to. Sometimes our Lord's speaking
to the Pharisees, and he speaks harshly. He calls them a generation
of snakes. Who hath warned you to flee from
the wrath to come? But he didn't speak that way
to the woman at the well. He said, if you'd ask me, I'd
give you living water. So to whom is he speaking? And
thirdly, what's the subject? What's the subject? And another
thing, you notice Brother Frank reading, he started in the middle
of a chapter, and he quit in the middle of another chapter.
Well, it's very important to remember that the Bible, when
it was written by These men of God, holy men of God, spake as
they were moved by the Holy Spirit. They didn't write this Bible
in chapters and verses. It's been translated that way,
and in some cases it's helpful. And in some cases, as you'll
see as I go along in this message, that it's quite harmful. Because chapter 20 is my text,
verse 1, and it begins with the word for. For. Now that's not the way you begin
a new thought or a message, for. When you use the word for, you
need to go back a little bit and see what is there for. So
let's go back a little ways in verse 16 of chapter 19. And there's a paragraph mark
there beside the 16, a P backwards, that's a paragraph, that's beginning
a subject, beginning with a new person here. And it says, Behold,
there came, one came and said unto him, Good master, what good
thing shall I do that I may have eternal life? Now, this young
man had an interest in eternal life. And he came to our Lord. He didn't recognize Christ as
God. He recognized Him only as a man,
a teacher, an important man, and he called Him good man. Now,
our Lord is dealing with this young man, and as you listen
to our Lord deal with him, the Lord asks questions and makes
statements, not to get information. He knew this young man. He knew
everything about him, and he knew his thoughts long before
he thought them. He knew everything about him
and in him and of him, and what he's doing, he's addressing this
young man to bring out of him these things. Let him state his
case. Allow him to tell publicly and
openly where he stands and where he's coming from. When he said
that, the Lord said to him, why do you call me good? Why do you call me good? That
is the first problem he has, is there is none good, no, not
one. The Lord looked down from heaven,
and this is in the Old Testament scriptures, which this young
man to which he had access, the Lord looked down from heaven
to see if there were any good. He found they had all gone out
of the way. They all together had become unprofitable. Man
at his best state is altogether vanity. So Christ is saying there's
none good but God. Now that ought to wind up this,
what good thing shall I do to inherit life? You see, he asks,
what good thing shall I do? You're a good master and I'm
a good man. That's what he's saying. We've got to destroy
this false foundation of self-righteousness. And that's where the Lord is
speaking. That's what he's speaking to.
Why do you call me good? None good but God. All right.
If you would enter into life by what you do, keep the law. Keep the commandments, this do
and live. Walk before God in perfection. And this young man, in his arrogance,
he said, Well, which? Which commandments? Somebody
said the Jews had a commandment for every day, 365 commandments. Besides the Ten Commandments,
they had 365 commandments. And they had the Levitical Law
and the Law of Moses. He said, which one? Which of
the commandments? And our Lord quotes the moral
law to him. This is the law the Apostle Paul
thought he kept until it came to him in its spiritual content.
This is the law our Lord interpreted when He said to those people,
you've heard it said by them of old times, thou shalt do no
murder, thou shalt not kill. I say unto you, to hate in your
heart is to be guilty of murder. You've heard it said by them
of old times, thou shalt not commit adultery. I say to lust
in your heart is to be guilty already of murder. And that's
what Saul of Tarsus discovered. He said, I was alive without
the law. blameless before the law. But
when the law came in its spiritual content and requirements, I died. It slew me. It killed me. It revealed my life outwardly
was moral and clean. Inwardly, it was corrupt. So the Lord puts this to this
young man. All right, he said, I shall do no murder. I shall
not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt
not bear false witness. Respect and honor your father
and your mother. Love your neighbors as yourself."
And I say the same thing if a man comes to me tonight and says,
what good thing shall I do to inherit life? Keep God's law
perfectly. In heart, in thought, motive,
word, deed, keep the law perfectly. Keep it perfectly. There's no
reason to send a man to hell who's perfect. That's the reason
we're not going to hell, because we're perfect in Christ. We're
righteous in Christ. And then the young man spoke
up and said, verse 20, All these have I kept from my youth up,
what lack I yet? I was sitting there when Frank
read that verse. You see, the Lord This young
man said, what good thing shall I do to inherit life? And the
Lord spelled it out to him. And he, in his self-righteousness,
justified himself. And he said, I keep that law.
And I follow that scripture over in Job. Turn over there just
a minute. Job chapter 9. I thought of this scripture,
and I jotted it down right beside his answer when he said, All
these have I kept from my youth up. I looked up that verse in
Job 9, verse 20, and he said, If I justify myself, my own mouth
would condemn me. And that's exactly what the Lord
let him do, condemn himself. Isn't that something? Read the
next line. If I say I'm perfect, my own mouth will prove me perverse. And you can see here, our master,
oh the wisdom of our master. Wish I had a little of his wisdom. He just let this man condemn himself. prove himself
to be perverse. All right, back to the text,
Matthew 19. Jesus said, now, if you would be perfect, if you
really would be perfect. And that's how, that's what a
man has to be to go to heaven, to inherit life. He's got to
be perfect. Who shall stand, who shall ascend unto the hill
of the Lord? Who shall stand in his holy place? He that is
perfect. Pure heart, who's never sinned, who's never spoken a
lie. I'll tell you a verse I thought
of then, it's written right there in your text, Matthew 5, verse
48. Here's the requirement, verse
48 of Matthew 5, Be ye therefore perfect, as your Father in heaven
is perfect. Would you be perfect? There stood
this young man in his pride and self-righteousness, and Christ
said, well, verse 21, if you would be perfect, go and sell
what you have. That's your major problem, the
world, materialism, pride. Go and sell what you have, and
give it to the poor, and you'll have treasure in heaven, and
here's the key, you come. And follow me. You come to me. Come unto me. I'll give you rest. Come unto me. But you can't bring
that bag and baggage with you. You've got to come to me. Empty. Empty. Come to me. Totally. Completely. Come to me. And you'll
find rest. And it says in verse 22, and
when the young man heard that, He went away sorrowful because
he did have great possessions. His love was in the world and
for the world. He really didn't want eternal
life that badly. He didn't want it. Then our Lord turned to his disciples
and he said, Verily I say unto you that a rich man shall hardly
enter into the kingdom of heaven And again I say unto you, it's
easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for
a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. It's impossible for a
man to serve two masters. Can't serve God and man. How
can a man inherit the world to come whose soul and heart and
mind is set on this world right here? And the disciples spoke up in
verse 25 when they heard it, and they were exceedingly amazed.
They said, well, who can be saved? And our Lord replied, He beheld
them and said to them, with me, and it's impossible. A man cannot
change his own heart. That's impossible. We're by nature,
by nature we love this world. By nature. We're bound to this
flesh. By nature, the flesh and the
world, materialism is our first love. And the only way a man
can love God supremely and firstly is for God to change his heart.
Isn't that right? So with men, it's impossible
to love Christ and cling to Christ and turn from this world and
its idols. But with God, All things are
possible. He can change a man. He can change
a man. Matthew sat at the receipt of
the customs, and the Lord came by and said, Matthew, follow
me. And he left all and followed him. Why Matthew did that? God did something for him. When
our Lord came by, James and John, sons of Zebedee, fishing in their
vocation. They evidently loved what they
were doing. And he said, follow me and I'll make you fishers
of men. And they left their father's nets and boats and followed him.
How could they do that? With me, it's impossible. With
God, all things are possible. He gave them a love for Christ.
That's what he's talking about. And that's when Peter said, listen,
verse 27. Then Peter answered and said,
Lord, behold, we have forsaken all. Now, these men didn't have
the wealth that that young man had. These men didn't have the
possessions that that young man had. These men didn't have all
the influence and power that that young man had. But what
they had, they left and followed him. We have forsaken all and
followed thee. What shall we have therefore? Or what reward? What's coming
to us? What are we going to gain by
doing that, leaving everything and following you? Peter presents
a question. Behold, we've left all. What
special place shall we have? What special reward shall we
have? What shall we have, having left
all and followed thee? And then our Lord answered. Listen
to this. He said unto them, Verily I say unto you, and he's speaking
here to these disciples. Verily I say unto you that ye
which have followed me in the regeneration," now listen, you
that have followed me in the regeneration, when the Son of
Man shall sit in the throne of his glory, you also shall sit
upon twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Now,
people have taken that and made it to mean what it does not mean.
This is certainly, number one, it's not talking about the grace
of regeneration. I notice the reference there
in the center of the Bible is to Titus 3, verse 5. Let's see
what Titus 3, 5 says. I read it this morning at the
beginning of the service. It's not by works of righteousness,
which we've done. But according to his mercy, he
saved us by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy
Spirit." I don't see how that refers to these twelve disciples
at all. These men, Peter is saying, Lord,
we've left everything. We've turned from the world and
from our old friends and companions and our old pursuits and our
old way of life, and we've left all and followed you. Now, what
special place shall we have? What reward? And here the translators
of the Bible take you back to the grace of regeneration by
the Holy Spirit. And the disciples don't have
anything to do with that. When a man is regenerated and
born again, the Spirit of God and the Word of God. Born from
above, born of the Spirit, born of the Word. The disciples didn't
have anything to do with that. And then other people have looked
at this and they put these disciples on twelve thrones. at the judgment
and have these disciples judging people, and that's absolutely
unheard of. Men are not going to judge men
in the judgment. The Scripture says, "...even
the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment to
the Son." We're going to stand before the judgment seat of Christ,
not the Apostle. Who are they to judge me? or
you. What is this regeneration? I'll
tell you what it is. Turn to Hebrews chapter 9. And
I'll tell you, Hebrews chapter 9. Another word for this regeneration
here is the reformation. And that's not talking about
Luther and Calvin, Zwingli and Hus. That's talking about when
the Messiah came. The day of the regeneration,
the day of the reformation is the day of the Lord when he came
to the earth and revealed himself and all glory was upon him. He was glorified by his death,
by his salvation, by his resurrection. Look at verse 8 of Hebrews 9. Talking about the high priest
going into the holy place. Verse 8 says, The Holy Ghost,
this signifying that the way into the holiest of all was not
yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing,
which was a figure for the time then present. That old tabernacle
was a picture, a figure, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices
that could not make him that did the service perfect as pertaining
to the conscience, And all of this tabernacle and these sacrifices
stood only in meats and drinks and divers washings and carnal
ordinances imposed on them until the time of reformation. These sacrifices and tabernacle
and pictures, Passover ceremonies, Sabbath day, were imposed on
Israel until when? The time of reformation. When
was that? When Christ came. They stopped
right there. No more Passover. No more lamb
slaying. No more high priest going to
the Holy of Holies. No more bloodshed. No more. The reformation, the
regeneration. And he's saying to these disciples,
you followed me in this regeneration. You followed me in this reformation. You followed me in this time
of revelation of the glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus. And he said, listen, you also
shall sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Did they? They certainly did. Those twelve
apostles, and Paul was the one that took Judas' place, they
judged Israel. They judged Israel doctrinally. They judged Israel practically. They had power over the believers,
over the church. They wrote the inspired word.
This Word judges us, and these men wrote it. These men, Matthew,
Mark, Luke, John, Peter, Paul, the rest of them, God gave them
special gifts to speak in other languages, to raise the dead,
to heal the sick. He accompanied their ministry
with the power of the Holy Ghost, and they literally judged Israel. Paul wrote to one church, and
he said, now get things straight, or I'll come down there. I can't
say things like that. I wouldn't dare say things like
that. But he did. He had that kind of power to
judge Israel. The word he spoke judged them,
judged them. They had special gifts and authority
to judge God's church and judge Israel. But now wait a minute.
In verse 29, he said, "...and everyone that hath forsaken houses
or brethren..." Now he's talking about you and me here. and any
other believer who forsakes all and follows Christ. Everyone
that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father,
or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for I prayed for our
missionaries who left their home and went to another country and
laboring among heathen people, for my name's sake, He shall
receive a hundredfold and shall inherit eternal life." Oh yes,
I tell you, all believers who turn from these natural things
and material things and worldly things for the gospel, they have
a hundredfold reward right here in this life. A hundredfold. Let me read you over here in
Mark 10. In Mark chapter 10, verses 29
and 30, a very similar but a little fuller reference to this. Mark 10, verse 28, "...then Peter
began to say unto them, Lo, we have left all and followed thee.
And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, no man
that hath left house, brethren, sisters, father, mother, wife,
or children, or lands, for my sake and the gospel's, he shall
receive a Hundredfold now at this time. Houses, we have a
lot of houses. You know, I think sometimes when
I read about these floods and hurricanes and tornadoes, and
I see people have nowhere to go. And it kind of shocks me a little
bit if a tornado tore down your house, you'd have plenty of places
to go. You've got all kinds of houses here. I wonder, where
are these people's friends? Where are their families? Where
are their loved ones? Where's their church? Where are
the people that love them? You see, we have... I've got
houses everywhere. I told Darshan, I said, let's
get in the car and just drive across the country and never
stay in a motel, just stay in people's houses that we know
all the way across the United States and eat at their table. I've got houses. I've got brethren. You say, your brother's dead.
My brothers aren't dead. My brothers are out here and
out yonder everywhere of the gospel. I've got sisters. I've got mothers. A lot of them
wouldn't claim to be my mother, you know, but they're my mothers.
And I've got children whom I've begotten in the gospel,
also called Timothy his son. His son, that's one of my sons
right there, stood up in red a while ago. Raised him from
a pup. And I guarantee you what he has
in his mind, if I need it, I guarantee you. And this is what he's saying,
he's saying, with persecution you're going to have troubles,
but in the world to come you have eternal life. Oh, we got
rewards, my goodness alas, am I talking about we're going to
go to heaven and get our reward? I've already got my rewards.
Rewards, plural. Houses, lands, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters,
food. I don't need anything. You don't
either. Everyone of you can say that.
Anything happens to one of you, sometimes people will call me
and say they don't have anything to eat, don't have any groceries,
and I think, where's their pastor? Where's their church? Nobody
here does without. But now look at verse 30. But
now, be careful. Peter asked a question. He said,
I've left everything and followed you. What's in it for me? That's
what he's asking. What's in it for me? Our Lord
told him, but he said, but many that are first shall be last,
and the last shall be first. Now listen to me. Let's beware
of a legal spirit. Talk about rewards for what we
do for God. Talking about rewards in heaven,
positions in the kingdom of God. These disciples have gone over
this. One of them said, Lord, let me sit on your right hand,
let my brother sit on your left hand. Who's going to be greatest
in the kingdom of heaven? Be careful, that's a legal spirit
based on merit, seeking rewards and positions in heaven, and
this kind of attitude denies the grace of God. It robs God
of His glory and it exalts the flesh. I say unto you, there
are no degrees of glory. There's no special recognition
in heaven of our works, our deeds, our sacrifices, or our gifts
to God. Rather, every voice in heaven
says unto him who loved us and washed us from our sins in his
own blood, unto him be the glory. That's right. You see, all of
his sheep were lost without hope, without help, and he found them. All of his sheep, no matter who
they are, were loved with the same love. All of his children
were chosen in Christ, redeemed by his blood, and called by his
Spirit in God's own time. I baptized a man here, do you
remember Clarence McConnell? 88 years old. 88 years old. That's
really in the eleventh hour, isn't it?
Son of God. All of God's sons adjoined heirs
with Christ all have the same wedding garment and the same crown. And all of them are going to
be perfectly conformed to the image of Jesus Christ and will
reign with Him in glory. How can you add anything to that? Tell me. I'm going to be like
Christ. And you're going to be like Christ.
And every person, whether they were saved at 10 years of age,
or old Clarence at 88, or the thief on the cross, or Saul of
Tarsus, they're going to be just like Christ. You can't add anything
to that. And that's when our Lord said
in chapter 20, Father, see who's speaking here. To whom is He
speaking? These disciples. What's the subject? Rewards in heaven. Position. place, power, pride, exaltation
of the flesh, fire. Let me tell you something. The
kingdom of heaven is like a man that is a householder. He went
out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard, six
o'clock in the morning. And when he agreed with the laborers
for a penny, now watch this, these are the only ones that
he agreed on a sum. The first ones he called, he
said, I'll pay you a penny. That was a lot of money probably
then. Pay you a Roman penny or whatever. And he sent them into
the vineyard. He went out about the third hour.
That's 9 a.m. That's a fourth of the day is
gone. This is when God saves people.
You see, Timothy from a child, knew the Holy Scriptures, able
to make him wise unto salvation. Some of you children here have
been faithful to the house of God, faithful to the services,
and perhaps you've known Christ a long time, like young Timothy,
from a 6 a.m. Now here, life is one-fourth
gone, a fourth a day. Twenty years old now. And he
saw them standing idle. You see, he found them all in
the same place, the marketplace, found them all doing the same
thing, nothing. Idle. And that's the way he found us.
He finds us all in the same place, in sin. And he finds us doing
what? Nothing. Nothing. Contributing nothing to God or
grace or good. Twenty years of age, he called
them. And he said to them, you go into
my vineyard and what's right? I'll give you. He always does
right. So they went. And he did the same thing about
6 hours. That's 12 noon. Half a light's
gone. 30, 40 years of age. Half gone. But he called them. And then
at the 9th hour, it's 3 o'clock in the afternoon, 3 fourths of
the day is gone. 60 years old. And he called them. And about
the eleventh hour, that's five o'clock, just one hour to sunset. It's just about over. He went
out and found others standing idle. He found them. They didn't find him. They weren't
looking for a job. They weren't doing anything.
They weren't making any effort at all. Just standing there. Just standing there. And he said,
why do you stand here? Why are you doing like you're
doing? Why are you acting like you're acting? Why are you so
trifling? They're born that way. They say unto him, because no
man's hired us. Well, you could find something
to do, couldn't you? You could whittle or something. Don't you
stand there. No, no man's hired us. He said,
you go to my vineyard and what's ripe, that's what you'll get. All right, that takes in about
all of us, doesn't it? Believers? Takes in about all of us. So
let's see what he did. So when the evening was come,
life is over, the Lord of the vineyards said to the steward,
call all the laity, send his angels and gather his elect from
the four quarters. Gather them like the sheaves.
Call the laborers and give them their hire, and tell what you
do. Get the fella that worked the
hardest, worked the longest, preached the longest. No. Get the one that was last. The last one. The weakest. The frailest. The one that doesn't
deserve anything. Get him. And pay him first. Put him out of 10. Oh, that's
hard on the flesh, isn't it? That's grace! Get the one, start
in the last, and when they came that were hired about the eleventh
hour, they received every man the same thing." See, all God
can do is give everything He's got. He gives us grace and love,
but He can't give a half a love, a half a loaf. If He gives Himself,
He gives all. So He gave them all the same.
And verse 10 said, when the first fellow that was like old Timothy,
you know, from a child, He thought he ought to receive more because
he worked longer. But he didn't get anything more
than the fellow that worked an hour. So when they received it,
they murmured, and that's what's going on today. What? I preached
from this very text in North Carolina one time. Pastor and
I are just such good friends, are now. He's no longer in North
Carolina, I preached this message in his church. And we went out
to get a hamburger at Shoney's, and on the way I noticed he was
off a choir. And I asked him what was wrong. He said, you and I have been
friends a long time. And I've never disagreed with
anything you've ever preached until tonight. I said, you disagree
with what I preached tonight? Yes. He said, I believe. The
people who serve God all their life and labor and give, they
just deserve a little more than the folks that hadn't done as
much. I said, in other words, you deserve
more. No, no, not me! Not me. Well, who are you talking
about then? It's always somebody else, you
know. See, grace can't claim more. He couldn't, he wanted to, but
he couldn't say he deserved it. He just couldn't do it. Because
his mouth would have proved him perverse. I said, well, you may
not agree with it, but it's so. They all received the same thing.
And these fellows that complained, they murmured against the good
man of the house. Who is the good? None good but
God. Be careful. Don't murmur against
the good man. Whatever he does is right. It's
right because he does it. That's right. Oh my. And I'm
saying, these last have wrought but one hour, and you made them
equal to us. Exactly. We are in Christ equal. We borne the burden and the heat
of the day, but he answered and said, friend, I did you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for
a penny? Don't you remember when I hired you at 6 o'clock? And
I said, would you come for a penny? And you said, yes. And I gave
you exactly what I promised. Always do. Now you take that,
thine is, and you go your way, and I'll give unto the first,
I'll give unto the last, the last will be first, and the first
will be last, even as unto thee. Now here's the question. Is it
not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? Is your eye
evil because mine's good? Ah boy, let me offer some observations
and I'll quit. Number one, those of us who were
brought to Christ early in life, much earlier than most people.
I've been preaching the gospel for 45 years. Was this not a
blessing? Isn't it better for me to spend
that 45 years with Christ than in prison? What, I'd rather spend
it in prison and be saved and I'm 70? No, thank God he blessed
me in an early conversion. Thank God, you young people,
thank God that he revealed Christ to you. Secondly, some people
here have gifts to serve our Lord and his kingdom and his
people like these apostles. They have gifts to preach and
teach and sing and serve God and pray. and help others, and
like all of you do, every one of you, you've got your own special
gift, your own part of the body of Christ where you've been a
blessing to others. And God gave you that gift. He
gave you that ability to use what you have. What you have,
He gave you to use for His glory. Some people give large gifts
to the ministry of this church, but God blessed them with the
means to give it. I heard a fellow one time complaining
about paying taxes. He said, you know, I had to pay
$25,000 in tax last year. The fellow behind him said, I
wish I could pay $25,000 in tax. I ain't never made that much. I don't pay in tax because I
don't make anything. That's what he was saying. I'd
sure love to pay that much because if you pay that much, you sure
got a lot left over. See what he's saying? So you
here who've been You've been blessed with much. You can give
much. But who gave you the much? Oh,
who makes you to differ? What do you have you didn't receive? So why should God reward me? Because I put a little more in
the offering than somebody else. He gave me more to give. Why
should God reward you for singing? He gave you your voice. You're
such a blessing to us. Such a blessing. But Terry doesn't
sing, and we're not going to have him up there singing. But he's doing what he's doing.
God gives you the gift, doesn't he? What are you bragging about? Where's boasting? He could take
it away from you, just quick as he gave it. Why would he reward
you for singing, and you for teaching? Me for preaching, when
he gave me the gift. It's disturbing to me to think
of any servant of Christ who would seek a higher place, a
higher seat, a brighter crown, a better position. Where is this
business, I'm less than the least of all the saints? That's good
talk, is it true? I'm the chief of sinners, that's
good talk, is it true? Well, it's true up there too. And then I ask this question.
This just kills us. What is our gift compared to
his unspeakable gift? Boy, that embarrasses me, doesn't
it? He gave himself. What is my sacrifice compared
to his sacrifice? He gave his life. I've never
resisted the blood. I never shed my blood in the
gospel. And what is my reward compared
to him who is my reward? Our Lord said, Abraham, I am
your reward. I am your great exceeding reward. I am your shield and your reward. Well, when I stand before his
throne, dressed in beauty not my own, when I see thee as thou
art and love thee with an unsinning heart, Then, Lord, shall I know,
not how much ye owe me, how much I owe. When this passing life
is over, and my days on earth shall be no more, and when I
stand with Christ in glory, looking over life's finished story, then,
Lord, shall I fully know, and not till then, how much I owe. Isn't that clear? I just can't,
to save my life, see how there can be any objections at all
by anyone who really knows who he is and what he was and what
God's done for us in Christ and profess to want anything by way
of recognition and praise for anything that we've done. Actually,
when we've done everything we ought to do, we're what? Unprofitable
servants.