I was in a meeting recently,
and a friend gave me a sermon to read by Mr. John Newton, whom
I have regarded for many years to be one of the greatest preachers
who ever lived. I prefer two preachers as far
as their messages and thoughts are concerned. That's Charles
Haddon Spurgeon and John Newton. above all preachers. I think
they are two of the best preachers and the best writers. And this
particular message by Newton contains six things that believers
will do. I could call this message that,
six things a believer will do, or I could call it by my own
title, Show Me Faith. Show Me Faith. Now when I read
something like this in my studies or away somewhere else, and it
blesses me, it blesses my heart, it meets my need, my very first
thoughts are to share these things with you. And I pass these along
to you this morning. I've got to lay a foundation
to build up to them, but in a few moments I'm going to give you
six things a believer will do, and I'd like for you to jot them
down somewhere. These are some of those special high points. Like we
go through life and through our ministry, Jim, and there's certain
sermons you can remember above all others, or certain books
you've read, or certain statements. And these are six things a believer
will do. But now, like I said, I've got
to lay a foundation. But let me say this. In this
business of preaching, and our bulletin we put out this morning,
and this worship service, we need to review. We need to often
review. And you fellas who preach in
other places, there'll be four of our men out next Sunday preaching.
And we need often, I do and you do, to renew or review. Review our motives. Review our
objectives and our goals. It's so human, it's so natural,
it's so easy to lose sight of the true goal. And what I want
to know, I want to know and I want to experience myself personally,
the will of God, the word of God, and the way of God. And
that's what I want for you. And that's the reason I'm giving
you these things, these six things that I read and studied and had
applied to my own heart. They're so profitable, so rich,
so true to the Word of God, so glorifying to the Lord God, and
so profitable to us. Now turn back to Romans 3, and
as I say, I'm going to give you a few introductory remarks, and
then give you these six things. In Romans 3, what Paul has been
doing in chapter 1 and 2, he has been showing the evil of
human nature. The evil of human nature. both
in the pagan Gentiles and the religious Jews. He comes to the
conclusion in verse 9, Romans 3, look at it, verse 9. What
then? Are we better than they? He's
been talking about pagan Gentiles. Pagan, heathen, naked, dancing
around a fire, whoop-de-doo, crazy, idol-worshiping Gentiles. That's what he's been talking
about. Now he says, we Jews, we temple dwellers, We circumcise
us, we Sabbath keepers, we religious. Are we any better than the pagan
heathen? That's what he's saying, Bob.
That's exactly what he's saying. Are we any better than they? No, in
no way. That's what Paul, in chapter
1 and 2, he's been going back here to, you'd have to read,
you'll have to read chapter 1 and see what he's talking about.
Covenant breakers, parent haters, abusers of themselves, homosexual,
drunkards, worship snakes, dance naked around a fire, cut themselves. Those are Gentiles. Then he comes
to the Jew and he says, Are you any better than they? Nope. In
no way. For we have both, we have before,
look, proved, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that both Jew and
Gentile, they're all under sin. They're under the dominion of
sin. It just takes a different course. It just takes a different
direction. Sin is sin, whether it's out
by a jungle fire naked or whether it's sitting around a fireplace
in a $150,000 home clothed in a satin smoking jacket, it's
still sin. That's what he said. You're all
under the dominion of sin. Under the guilt of sin, guilty. under the curse of sin. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. He said in verse
10, an unrighteous, unrighteous. No, you're not. That fellow down
there that's religious and goes to church and carries his Bible
and says, praise the Lord and hallelujah, have a breath and
doesn't drink or smoke or curse or dance or gamble or play cards
or go to church or cast dice. He doesn't go to the places of
the world or cast dice. He's just clean as a hound's
tooth, ties his money fast. He's not righteous either. Not
one. None that understandeth, none
that seeketh after God. That dear lady with her hair
all fixed up and no makeup and long sleeves and apron and old
Mother Hubbard dress that smiles all the time, she's not righteous
either. That's right. Not righteous either. That preacher
who pounds the desk and talks about what people ought to do,
and how ungodly is the government, and how ungodly is the Constitution,
how ungodly is this, that, and the other, and how ungodly are
the beer drinkers and the Sabbath breakers, he's not righteous
either. In an excited God, there's not any difference between him
and a witch doctor in Africa, in the heart. That's what he's
saying. Is that too cold and cruel and harsh? But that's so. All gone out of the way. Look
at verse 19. We know that what things whoever
the law saith, it saith to them that under the law that every
mouth may be stopped. Just don't talk any more about
your holiness and righteousness and goodness and your works and
your just goodness. Don't talk purity and holier
than thou. Just stop it. Let your mouth
be stopped and all the world become what? Guilty, guilty,
guilty, guilty before God all night. Just guilty. And that
being so, now this is so important, if you don't learn this, you
don't learn anything. Verse 20, his second conclusion,
he says, Therefore, because this is so, therefore by the deeds
of the law there shall no flesh be justified, sanctified, delivered,
saved in God's sight. Now you take that, we just go
over there to the heathen hot-and-tots, you know, that got ten wives,
and drinks that old white lightening, and won't work, and laying around
with his pot belly, doing what the witch doctor says, and stealing
everything he can get his hands on, stealing his neighbor's chickens,
and cursing, blaspheming, rolling out of his mouth every breath.
And the most vile, wicked abusers of themselves with mankind, he's
not going to be justified by what he does. in God's sight. He's not going to do it. He's
dirty, filthy, guilty, vile, a lawbreaker in God's sight.
But this preacher standing here this morning, who claims to be a son of God,
claims to be a child of God, is not going to be justified
by what he does either. That's right. You look over everything
I've ever done in my life, you've ever done in your life, good
or bad, commendable or not commendable. Everything we've ever, every
sermon we've ever preached, prayer we've ever prayed, Bible passages
you've ever read, Sunday school class we've ever taught, dime
we've ever gave, mile we've ever walked for Jesus, ain't worth
a plump nickel in God's sight, as far as justification is concerned. That's what that's saying. Therefore, because of this Because
of this dominion of sin, and guilt of sin, and curse of sin,
and presence of sin, and reign of sin, and because we ourselves
are sin, the natural mind is enmity against God. God's not
going to take notice of anything anybody does, good or bad, because
there's nothing good in us. In the flesh, no man can please
God. In the flesh dwelleth no good thing. Therefore, because
of the condition of the heart, Therefore, because of the relationship
with Adam, therefore, because of the principle and reigning
power of sin, Therefore, because we're flesh, we're not spirit,
we're flesh, therefore, by any religious deeds, by being baptized,
or joining the church, or making a profession, or praying the
sinner's prayer, or giving your tithe, or keeping the Sabbath,
or witnessing, or winning the soul, or cleaning up your life,
or quitting your drinking, or doing, by the deeds of the Lord,
ain't nobody going to be justified in God's sight, save sanctified,
delivered, or going to heaven in God's sight. Paul, there's
only one thing the law can do, and that's show you your sin. There's no mercy in the law.
There's no forgiveness in the law. There's not but one thing.
You can read the law till you're blue in the face, and the law
won't do one thing for you except show you what a wretch you are.
And Paul said, if you really come to see the law, you'll die.
It'll kill you. He said, I thought I was alive
before I met the law of God. He'd been reading it all his
life, but he'd never read it. He'd been hearing it all his
life, but he'd never heard it. He'd been seeing it all his life,
but he'd never seen it. And he said, when the law came,
when I really saw what the law said and commanded, I died. I just literally died. I died. Oh, but here's the next
thing Paul shows us, but he says, right now, bless God now, for
that heathen hot-and-tot and that heathen preacher, for that
pagan Gentile and that religious Israelite, right now, the holiness,
the righteousness, the perfection of God Almighty is manifested,
made known, made clear. Here it is. Without that law,
It's manifested. It's being witnessed by the law.
It's the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ. Do you see that? It's, I jotted
these, it's the very righteousness of God. It's without any work
on our part. It's witnessed. He said, let
everything be witnessed by the mouth of two or three witnesses.
It's witnessed by the prophets, the word of God, and it's for
everybody who will believe it. Now watch verse four. And this
righteousness literally, actually cleans up, pardons, washes, justifies,
sanctifies, actually justifies that sinner and justifies that
holy God. Look at verse 24, being justified
freely. Being, what does justified mean?
Not guilty. Thoroughly purified. Thoroughly
cleansed. throughly cleansed, thoroughly
pardoned. Their sins are remembered being
justified, and it's free. It's totally free. And it's by
His grace, and it's through the redemption that's in Christ.
It's all out of us, and away from us, and out of ourselves.
There's a whole message right there. And he says, being. We
are already justified. You don't come down here to get
justified. You're justified at Calvary. Being already justified,
and justified means totally clear, and it's free. He said, why do
you spend money for that which is not milk and meat and drink? Oh, everyone, come to the water.
Buy wine, milk, come, without price, without money. It's free,
and it's by His grace. And it's through Christ. And
it's through the redemption. You know what redemption is?
It's buying something back, paying the full price, and it's mine
if I pay the price. Now, the sinner's justified.
Look at the next verse, 26. But this work of Christ not only
justifies the sinner, but it justifies God. To declare, I
say at this time, God's righteousness, that He might be just and the
justifier of them that believe on Jesus Christ. Christ so fully
satisfied God's law and justice that He enabled God to look on
and accept and pardon a wretch like me without compromising
His principles, without compromising His holiness. In other words,
when God hears them, You know, we're such wretches. We're such
low-down wretches. Spiritually, that's right now.
I don't care how commendable others think you are or you think
you are, when God sees you, He sees a leper-covered wretch,
inwardly and outwardly. And for God to receive us and
to love us and to embrace us and to be united with us, How's
he going to do that without compromising something, you know? If you run
with somebody that's a low-down rat, you've got to compromise
somewhere. Isn't that right? You've got
to compromise. Well, God can run with us and be associated
with us without compromising, because in Christ we're as holy
as He is. See that, John? That's what this is saying. that
Christ not only cleanses and pardons and redeems the sinner,
makes him holy, but He makes him so holy that God doesn't
have to compromise His holiness or come down at all to identify
with us. He stays right where He is because
Christ brought us up. He didn't bring God down, He
brought us up. Oh, my soul, a poet wrote this,
Oh, my soul, with wonder tale, The Lord Jesus has done all things
well, and through His atoning blood I have eternal peace with
a holy God. Justice, mercy, truth, and love. Hear those? Justice, mercy, truth, and love.
Every attribute of God joined in Christ to make this peace
secure, and it will, and it shall, and it must endure. Isn't that
good? All right, my text, verse 28.
Therefore, here he comes again. Therefore, I conclude that a
man is justified, free, pardoned, sanctified, safe, watch it, by
faith, without the deeds of the law. You say, How do you explain that
in the light of James 2.21? Turn over to James 2.21. James
2.21. I want you to turn there. This is important. And here's
what I'm doing now. I'm taking my Bible, and I've
folded it. Like, here's James 2.21 over
here, and here's Romans 3.28 over here. I can look at both
of them at almost the same time. You got them? 328 and James 221. I want you to
fix this so you can see them both almost at the same time.
Now look over here at Paul in Romans 328. Therefore we conclude
that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Now, James 221. Was not Abraham our father justified
by works? The Bible is so confusing, as
some people say. You know, I've told you so often,
when you're reading the Scripture, interpreting the Scripture, find
out who's talking. Find out to whom he's talking.
And find out what he's talking about. What he's talking about. Now, what's Paul talking about?
Paul's talking to pagan, sinful, wretched, depraved sons of Adam,
both among Gentiles and Jews. And he's talking about being
justified before God. You know, justified in His sight. By the deeds of the law shall
no flesh be justified in his sight. He said, All is sin in
the sight of God. The soul is sin as it should
be. So Paul's talking about the justification of the soul before
God. What's James talking about? Well,
read just above what he says. Verse 18, verse 17. Faith without works, faith if
it hath not works is dead, being alone. Yeah, a man may say, thou
hast faith, I have works. Show me your faith without your
works. James is from Missouri. Two words
that tell you what James is talking about. Show me. Show me. Show me your faith. God's not
saying, show me your faith. God knows your heart. God knows
your heart. James doesn't know you are. James
is a man. James can only see what you say and what you do.
So what James is talking about here, he's saying, he's saying
this, that this faith in God that does not have an outward
evidence and an outward conduct is not real faith. Paul is talking
about how the soul is justified before God by faith. James is
talking about how your claim to justification is justified
before me. That's what he's saying. That's
the difference between those two passages. Paul's talking
about the justification of the soul before God. We're saved
by Christ. We're saved by faith. We're saved
apart from anything we do. Grace in the soul, grace in the
heart, Christ's blood and righteousness. James is saying over here, if
that's really happened to you, if you have grace in your heart,
you'll have grace in your tongue. He's saying if you have grace
in your heart, you'll have grace in your walk. He's saying if
God's shown mercy to you, you'll show mercy to others. He's saying
if God has really forgiven you, you'll really forgive others.
He's saying if God has been generous with you, you'll be generous.
He was saying, if you really love Christ, you'll love His
Word. He said, if you really love Christ, you'll love His
people. That's what James is saying. And he's saying, show
me now. Show me now. Show me. And that brings me to
the sixth thing that a believer will do. You say, this is the
show-me thing. I get, I get, I'm like you, I
get tired of people talking about grace who are not gracious. I really do. I get tired of people
preaching grace that manifest no grace. Just manifest no grace, and that's
the reason James is saying that, and I'm saying the same thing.
I wouldn't for a minute preach a sermon like this without going
back and saying that we're saved before God by grace alone. By
grace alone. But I do know this. Grace in
the heart will produce grace in the life. Christ in the heart
will be revealed in the life. That's right. And here are six
things a believer will do. Number one, you can write them
down as I give them to you. A believer will so trust the
Lord Jesus Christ, so trust the Lord Jesus Christ, as to renounce
every other ground of confidence. Now that's so. I don't have a
doubt about that, Charlie. I'll give it again. A believer
will so trust the Lord Jesus Christ, trust Christ, as to renounce,
privately and publicly, inward and outward, every other ground
of confidence. Now, I made a profession when
I was nine years old, like half this congregation. I renounce
it, publicly and privately. I'm not saved by that little
silly decision I made when I was nine years old. I went to preacher
school and studied to preach, like Paul. I count that but loss
for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ. I've pastored a church
for 35 years. I've given you heart in heart
and in sincerity the best I have, just the best I can do. I've
made a lot of mistakes, but they've been head mistakes, not heart
mistakes. I've given you everything I've got for the glory of Christ. I count it, but don't. I've preached
at least, who knows, I mean thousands of sermons. I spent, I mean,
a thousand hours. I counted but lost. I'm telling
you the truth. I don't put a nickel's worth.
I'm no more saved because of that than if I'd never opened
my mouth and said Jesus publicly. I believe that, Charlie. I renounced
my background, my heritage. I renounced my profession. In
1950, Barnard came along, and I heard the Gospel of Grace,
and I believed it and started preaching it. I renounced even
that experience. It's nothing. It's right now,
at the right hand of God, I have an Advocate. I really believe
that. I believe that. I believe that.
I believe you get, you go down here on Front Street and Ashton
and find me the raggedest, dirtiest, filthiest, vilest wretch that
ever lived. And I'll tell you in God's sight,
without Christ, he and I are twins. Siamese twins. I believe
that. And that's what this book says.
I renounce it. One man told me in Grand Rapids,
said, I can still feel the drops of water on my brow they put
there when I was a babe. I deny it, and I renounce it,
and I call it a lie. That's right. That's right. I don't care what
your background is. I don't care what you've done. I don't care what you've memorized. You better renounce it. God'll
damn you for it someday. You better renounce it. But listen
to me. Christ is my hope. Secondly,
a believer will glory. A believer will glory only in
Christ's righteousness. I'm talking about His holiness.
And acknowledge that mine is filthy rags. A believer will glory only, only,
underscore only, in Christ's righteousness and acknowledge
that his, right now, is filthy rags. Now, boy, I know this make
a lot of legalist and Reformed Baptist choke, gag, but I'm telling
you this. We all do faith as a leaf, and
our righteousnesses are in His sight filthy rags, filthy, dirty
rags. Christ is our righteousness.
Now, you better, you better face this. The Bible talks about the
Lord, our righteousness. And the old Jews, we're not,
we're not a half a mile behind them going about to establish
their own righteousness. And God said that's ignorance.
They have not submitted. Submitted. Submitted. You know what submit means? To
submit to someone? They have not submitted themselves
to the righteousness of God. And when you submit, you hold
nothing in reservation. Can you do it? Well, man, I've tried. You know,
I'm not what I used to be. I hope I'm not what I used to
be either. But I can improve a thousandfold. I'll still be
sub-zero in God's sight. That's my problem. I may make
a lot of strides where you're concerned and I'm concerned,
but I started out too low. I still haven't reached par with
God. Wretched creature. And if I can attain to the righteousness
of the scribes and Pharisees, that's not enough, he said. All
right, thirdly, a believer will rejoice in the cross of substitution. A believer will rejoice in the
cross of substitution. When I say the cross, I don't
mean the block of wood. Now, you know that. I'm talking
about the truth. the ignominious death of our Lord. I'm afraid
that preachers and people are guilty of saying too little of
the cross, the blood, the death of Christ. I want to hear about
the blood of Christ. I told my Sunday school class,
I hope we don't get so dignified here and so educated and so,
you know, I don't know, all of us were raised by the hair of
our head, you know. We grew up, some of you grew
up in Boyd County. I grew up in Shelby County. We
moved to town. We got us a nice house. We run around with a better class
of people. You know what I'm talking about.
We get well-dressed and well-heeled and well-educated. I know where you came from. I
know where you came from. I know what you are, with all
that veneer stripped off, the wiggling maggot. And I'll tell
you, I want the blood that cleanses the soul. I want to hear about
the love and mercy of God that makes a man whole. And you know
something? Don't do it, don't do it while
I'm preaching, but I went to a, I went to a Christmas celebration
the other night, and the pastor and I were sitting there, and
they had a little booklet of Christmas carols, nothing but
Christmas carols. Oh, Come All Ye Faithful, Hark
the Herald, Came Upon a Midnight Clear, Silent Night, you know,
all the recognized Christmas carols. We'd go caroling and
singing. And I got to sitting there looking at that book that
Brother Tom Smith and I did, and looking at those Christmas
carols. I read every one of them, every verse. while he was singing
them. And do you know what I found?
No cross. Check them out. No blood. No
atonement. No redemption. No Calvary. It's
just not there. The Virgin is. And the baby is. But the cross ain't there. I
told the pastor, I said, it almost seemed like a conspiracy. to get rid of the cross, the
offense of the cross. Now, you read them. And I'm saying
that who knows how important, how glorious is the incarnation
of our Lord, unspeakably glorious. But wait a minute. I'm not saved
by His birth. I'm saved by His death. That's right. I'm not washed
and clothed in His swaddling clothes. I'm clothed in His righteousness. by which he perfected, which
he perfected by his death. Now don't get angry with me.
You just read those Christmas carols. And the pagan world,
like Brother Jerry Shepherd told us down in Pikeville department
store, they got a Jesus doll now. People want a God they can
handle and see and manipulate and kiss and do what they, they
know nothing of the great, Holy God who must be justified by
sacrifice, and that sacrifice is the blood of His Son. You
know, a lot of times we talk about what's wrong with our newspapers,
but something in the papers yesterday on the editorial page of Opinion
by Mike McAnus, a nationally syndicated columnist, did you
read that thing? That's great. I want you, yesterday's
paper, Saturday's paper, Ask Me an Opinion, you get it and
read it. It sounds like an old Sovereign Grace preacher preaching.
That man got a hold of the truth. He said, why doesn't God just
forgive sin? He's loving and forgiving. He
said, He's holy too, and He can't forgive sin without a sacrifice.
I thought, where in the world did you get that? He got it from
someone. And I love the babe in Bethlehem's
manger, but I'm redeemed by the Christ of Calvary. And when you
sing about the babe, you better sing about the sacrifice. And
it's just not that. It's just not that. And a believer's
going to rejoice in substitution because he was wounded for our
transgression. All right, here's the fourth
thing. A believer will love Christ supremely. He'll love Christ
supremely. Now watch this. And so order
his life. Now this goes with it. He'll
love Christ supremely. And so order his life. as to
avoid commitments that stand in competition with
his Lord. A believer will love Christ supremely
and so order his life as to avoid commitments that stand in competition
with his Lord. That's marriage out of Christ.
That's business partnerships out of Christ. That's making
those things. Now, if Paul said, are you already
married? Remain so. Are you saved a slave? Don't
despise your status. Are you saved a man here on this
job? Don't despise your status. What
I'm saying, as a believer, avoids any future further commitments.
You see what I'm saying? That will hinder his relationship
with Christ or be in competition with Christ. I'm talking about
further commitments. Where God found me and where
I am, I have responsibilities and duties to fulfill. In other
words, I just take this marriage thing like a woman is married
to a man who doesn't know God or love God, and God saves her,
don't leave him. Somebody says, well, she ought
to divorce that and go out and marry her first. I say, no. Now, if
you don't, don't. You can't straighten that situation
out. A man is a murderer when God saves him. He can't resurrect
his victim. Stay where you are. if God enables
you to make the best of what you have. But don't go out and
make another foolish, stupid commitment that will foul you
up for the rest of your life. You see what I'm saying? Christ is supreme. What fellowship
does light have with darkness? Here, I've got a brother in the
church here, and we're going to business together. Fine, we'll
get along fine. But I'm a believer, and I go
out here, and I go into hog-killing business with some reprobate,
some Armenian freewill. We're going to have trouble,
because that's light and darkness, if I am light. See what I'm saying? Don't. Avoid commitment, socially,
politically, religiously, economically, mentally, anyway, That will be
in competition with Jesus Christ. That just makes sense to me,
doesn't it to you? That just makes sense. That's
just biblical, and it makes common sense. Two can't walk together
if they're not agreed. One of them is going to fight.
And you can just bet your boots it'll be the one that doesn't
know God. He's going to make your life miserable. I want to
say to people sometimes when they do that, you ask for it.
I told you, and you asked for it. Now just take it. And then the fifth thing, a believer
will make continual application to Christ daily. Continual application. A believer will make continual
application to Christ daily. My friends, faith is not an isolated
act. I get so weary of people talking
about when they were saved. When you were saved is not as
important as who saved you. And if you're saved, when you're
saved means nothing. You don't prove anything by a
day or an experience or a feeling. It's Christ. I come to whom coming,
to whom coming, to whom coming. I like what John Newton said,
if I hadn't loved you before, let me start right now. Christ
is my righteousness, my hope, my love. Everything right now,
right now, right now, I keep coming. Today's grace won't do
for tomorrow. Grace, the bread of life, is
like the manna. You don't store it up. It's fresh
every day. Fresh every day. Fresh every
day. And I come to Christ daily. And you older people, us older
people, I kind of quit saying you older people. It's you young
people. You're supposed to do like this
when you talk to the young people. That's the older people. Now,
let me tell you, I've heard them say, well, I used to be active
in the church. I used to admit to service. But
you know, I've gotten older. Well, you need less grace today
than you did then. I used to read, oh, I was a student
of the Word. I used to read the Word. You
mean you need it less now? I need it more somehow. Don't
you, Richard? Eddie, you need it? We ain't the oldest ones
here, but we're creeping up on our... I need it daily. I'll
need him when I'm 80 like I needed him when I was 20. More. Getting
closer home. All right, six, listen to this.
A believer will obey the Lord's precepts. Yes, he will. He'll obey the
Lord's precepts. Wait a minute now. Not in order
to gain his favor. Don't you for a minute try to
bribe God. Don't you pull a Jacob. Say,
I'll do this if you'll do that. A believer will obey the Lord's
precept not in order to gain his favor, but because he loves
the Lord Jesus. That's it. That's the whole ball
of wax right there. That's why. That's why he does
what he does. That's why he loves his family
and his wife and his children. That's why he worships the Lord.
That's why he helps his neighbor. That's why he witnesses for Christ. That's why he loves the Savior. That's it, Mike. He does. He loves the Savior. Christ said,
if you love me, you'll keep my commandments. Now, here's the
way I feel after all these years of preaching. I'm going to let
these fellas terrorize me and withheld. But they're not going
to get anything done. I'm going to let them motivate
men with rewards, but they're not going to get anything done
either. But I'm going to tell everybody listening to me about
a wonderful, loving, redeeming Savior, a wonderful lover, eternally
so, who's gracious and kind and merciful to sinners. And I believe
if they ever, Bob, fall in love with Him, that they'll love him and walk
with him. They'll still be around. They'll
still be around. You see, it's pretty cold. It's pretty cold to hang around
a doctrine, but it's pretty warm to hang around a lover. That's
right. Who loves you and you love him.
That's pretty warm. But doctrine is so cold. It's
like Scott says, like a dog walking through dry leaves. But how warm
and comforting is the person of Christ. knowing He cares,
and I care because He cares. Oh, and I hope that'll bless
you. Now, you understand now why I said when I read that,
I thought of you? Because it was a blessing to me, and I thought
it would be also to you. Mike, come and lead us in that
song, Jesus, Lover of My Soul. Let me to, it's what? 352. It's 352.