Seperated Unto the Gospel

Well, turn with me now to Romans
chapter 1, if you will. I hope it's not too trying to
listen to my voice this morning. I've had a difficult week. We had a good meeting in Houston,
but I got in front of an air-conditioned vent and preached every night,
and by the time Thursday night rolled around, I was having a
struggle. But it's better now, for which
I'm thankful. In Romans 1, verse 1, the first
word, Paul. Do you see any significance there?
Anything that's being taught? Paul. Paul. Not Reverend Paul,
not Bishop Paul, not Archbishop Paul, not Dr. Paul, not even
the Apostle Paul, but just Paul. Someone said years ago, the only
man who ever really deserved a title, refused to take it. The only man who ever really
deserved a religious title, and that was Paul, refused to take
one. He shunned the praise and recognition
of the flesh. I wonder if this is what our
Lord is talking about in John chapter 5. Turn over there just
a moment. We have so much of this today.
In John 5, verse 44, our Lord says, look at it, how can you
believe which receive honor one of another, and seek not the
honor that comes from God only? They said, John, talking to John
the Baptist, who are you? Who are you? And when I think
of all the answers he could have given to that question, he could
have said, I was supernaturally conceived and born. He could
have said I was born to my parents when they were both very, very
old. He could have said I'm a special
forerunner of the Messiah. He could have said I've been
filled with the Holy Ghost from my mother's womb. He could have
said I'm some great man of God. You see people advertised that
way today, man of God. He could have said the Savior
spoke of me and said None greater, born of woman, than John the
Baptist. But when these people asked, John, who are you? John
replied, I am a voice in the wilderness. I am a voice in the
wilderness. And Paul begins this epistle
here with just this simple word, Paul. I noticed something else
over in the book of James, too, I thought was worthy of being
mentioned here. James chapter 5. I want you to
read this and see if you see the same thing that I saw, and
on the subject we're on. Now, Paul, a man who shunned
titles, shunned recognition, human praise, he just said, I'm
Paul. I'm Paul. Actually, he said,
I'm not worthy to be called an apostle. I'm less than the least
of the saints. I'm the chief of sinners. But
look at this, James 5, verse 17. Look at it. Elias was a man. subject to like passions as we
are. And he prayed earnestly that
it might not rain. And it rained not on the earth
but a space of three years and six months. What do I see there?
Dare we admit this? Elias was a man. He was a prophet of God, but
he was a man. He was a man of faith, but he
was a man. He was one who believed God, but he was a man. He was
a leader of the people, but he was a man. Dare we admit that? Elias was a man. Let me show you something else.
The other night Brother Shanks was reading the scripture. Turn
to Revelation 22. He was reading the scripture
out in Houston before I preached. And he read Revelation chapter
22. And he read verse 8 and 9. And as he read this chapter,
my eyes kept going back to verses 8 and 9 of Revelation 22. Even
the angel of God refused recognition. Even the angel of God refused
praise. Now look at this, Revelation
22, verse 8. And I, John, saw these things,
and heard them. And when I had heard and seen,
I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel, which
showed me these things. Then said he unto me, See thou
do it not, for I am thy fellow-servant, and are thy brethren the prophets,
and are them which keep the sayings of this book. Worship God, only
God. Praise God, only God. Honor God, only God. We need to learn that. Turn back,
if you will, to Romans 1 now. Let's go on with our message.
Paul. And there's significance there.
That's important. Paul. And then the second statement
he makes, a bond slave. That's what that word servant
is. It's a bond slave. And it comes from over in Exodus
21, 1 through 6, when a Hebrew servant or a Hebrew slave served
in a home. And you jot that reference down,
I'm not going to read it, we don't have time, Exodus 21, 1
through 6. But when a Hebrew slave served
in a home for six years, the seventh year he was allowed to
go out, the door had to be opened, he had to be set free. He went
out a free man, with no obligations to that home or to that master
or to that place where he'd been serving. He was a free man. If
he says, I don't want to be free, I don't want to leave my master,
I don't want to leave my master's house, I want to be a servant,
I want to be a slave, then he says, they'll take him to the
priest, to the door of the temple, and they're to bore his ear with
an awl. And I suppose he wore something
in that ear, I don't know, but they bored his ear. And from
that time on, from that time on, he was a bondservant. That is, he was there because
he wanted to be. He was a willing, loving, submissive
bondservant. He was a servant, but he was
a willing servant. He was a slave, But he was a
willing slave. He was there because he wanted
to be there. And this is what Paul is saying about his relationship
with Christ. Paul was a servant of Christ.
But he was a willing servant. He was not held against his will.
God doesn't do anything for us against our will. He makes us
willing. God does not force us to obey
him, to love him, to worship him, to serve him, to come to
his house, to love the gospel, to walk in holiness. God enables
us to walk to do those things. And this is what Paul is saying.
Just Paul. Paul, a bondservant, a willing,
loving bondservant. Back during the Civil War, There
was a great old preacher in the South, a Baptist preacher, by
the name of M.T. Martin. Some of you will recognize
that name. Brother A.D. Muse, who used to
pastor in Louisville, Kentucky at Harts Harbor, and who visited
here a couple of times, and some of you knew him, his old friend
was T.T. Martin. T.T. Martin was a writer
and a preacher, but M.T. Martin was T.T. Martin's daddy.
And he was one of the great old evangelists of 1860 and 1870,
and he literally saved the Baptist work in Mississippi after the
Civil War. The Civil War brought poverty
and devastation and hunger and want, and the schools were closing. And that old man traveled on
horseback all over the state of Mississippi, preaching, raising
money, for the Baptist work in Mississippi, the Baptist colleges.
And he literally, by God's grace, as a means of God's grace, as
a human instrument, kept Mississippi Baptist College alive. And many churches, he supplied
their needs. He kept them in operation. And when he died, they buried
the old man. Without fanfare, as old brother
Mews used to say, they buried him under a sobbing pine tree
on a hill in Mississippi. And they put up a little tombstone,
and on that tombstone is written, M.T. Martin. It gives the date
of his birth and the date of his death, and then in quotations,
a bond slave of Jesus Christ. And that's all. That's all. And that's what Paul is saying
here. Oh, I wish we could do away with
titles and honor and praise and recognition and these arms of
the flesh that we're so prone to lean upon. Human distinctions. Somebody said, Don, is one worm
bragging on another worm, and that's about the size of it.
One worm bragging on another worm. Human distinctions. We're
all sinners saved by God's grace. If Elias was a man of like passions,
Who are we? If John was a voice, who are
we? And if this great preacher of
the gospel here is only Paul, why in the world would I want
to be Dr. Mahan? Paul, a bond slave. Notice the
next line, called, called, called to be an apostle. Brethren, whatever
I have, whatever I'll ever have. Whatever I am and whatever I'll
ever be, whatever I know and whatever I shall ever be taught,
is not the result of my flesh or my wisdom. It's because God
called me. God called me. Called to be an
apostle, whatever I am. Paul said, I'm an apostle, but
I was called to be an apostle. I'm a child of God. I was called
to be a child of God. I'm a believer in Christ. I was
called to be a believer. Turn to Romans 8, if you will,
and let's look at this, Romans 8. I was called. I'm not an apostle
by nature, I'm not a believer by nature, I'm not a child of
God by nature, I'm a child of wrath by nature, I'm ignorant
by nature, I'm spiritually blind by nature, I'm dead by nature,
but I'm called, called out of darkness to his marvelous light. Abraham, get thee out of thy
father's house. God called him out. His father's
house was a house of idolatry. His father's house was a house
of pagan heathenism. Did you know that? Abraham and
his father were not worshipers of God when God called him. They
were idolaters. Abraham, get thee out! Out! Out! God called him out! To a land
I'll show thee. Zacchaeus! Come on down. God called him down. Come on
down out of the world of scheming and cheating and all these things that you're
given. You say, come on down, Zacchaeus, come on down. Matthew,
leave the seat of customs. Leave this fashion of life that
you live. Come on, Matthew, follow me. Samaritan woman, come out. Come out of the world of pleasure.
entertainment and flesh and follow me. Romans chapter 8, listen
to this, verse 28, we know that all things work together for
good to them who love God, to them who are called according
to his purpose. Those are the same folks. Those
who love God are those who are called to love God. Those who
are called according to his purpose, those are the folks that love
God. And it says, for whom he did foreknow, foreordain, he
also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that
he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, whom
he did predestinate, them he called. And whom he called, he justified,
and whom he justified, he glorified. Call, not just call out of something,
but call to be something. We're called to be saints. That's
what Scripture says. I'm called to be a saint. A peculiar people. A righteous
people. Called to be holy. Called to
be sons of God. Special people. And called unto
glory. Someday a glorified people. Well,
Paul, a bondslave, a bondservant, a willing, loving bondservant
of Jesus Christ. Not seeking the praise of men,
but the praise of the Lord. If I seek the praise of men,
I'm not the servant of Christ. You can put that down. I may
claim to be, but I'm not. If I seek titles and fame and
recognition and honor for myself, I'm not the servant of Christ.
And call to be an apostle. Call to be a particular, peculiar,
special people. And separate it. While we were
down in Louisiana a few days ago, on our way to Houston, we
stopped and visited with my sister and her husband. And they have
what they call cutting horses. Now, I'm not an authority on
a cutting horse. In fact, six months ago, I didn't
even know what one was. But anyway, they had cutting
horses and they took us down to the farm and gave us a demonstration. And I saw something as I watched
that horse cut. And what a cutting horse is,
a cutting horse is a specially trained horse. You have a whole
herd of cattle here, Black Angus or Jersey or Holstein or whatever
they are, and they want to stay together. They won't be separated. It won't be one over yonder and
one over yonder and one over yonder. They'll be together.
And that cutting horse, they'll designate a certain bull in there,
a calf. And that cutting horse is to
get that calf, cut him out of the herd, separate him from the
herd. Just separate. And he'll try
to get back. He'll do his best to get back.
He'll try every trick in the book to get back. And what that
cutting horse has to do is keep him out. separate him, cut him
out of the herd. And you'll see a real battle
between that horse and that calf. That calf will stand around and
he'll look, and then he'll dart this way, and when he does, that
horse will dart that way, and he'll dart this way, and the
horse will dart that way. It's a battle between that calf to
get back to that herd, and that horse is going to keep him out,
separated from all the rest. Turn with me to the book of Acts,
chapter 13. The Lord Jesus Christ said to the Church here in Acts
13, verse 2, listen, and I thought about this verse and the one
I read a moment ago from Romans as I watched that horse cut out
that calf and separate him from the rest of the herd. Separate
him. In Acts 13, 2, as they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy
Ghost said, separate me, cut out of the herd, Barnabas and
Saul, for the work wherein do I call them. Separate them. Separate them for one purpose.
And that's what Paul said over here in Romans 1, I'm separated,
I'm cut out unto the gospel of God. This occupies my thoughts,
occupies my desires, occupies my ambition, the gospel of Jesus
Christ. I tell you, I'd like to be, wouldn't
you? Separated unto the gospel. You
know, we have a tendency to want to be conformed to those about
us. It's a great temptation. It's
just like as I watched that cave. He didn't want to be different.
He didn't want to be out there by himself. The rest of the herd
was over here, and it looked like they were enjoying themselves
a whole lot more than he was enjoying himself. And he didn't
want to be different. He didn't want to stay out there.
He wanted back. And what a temptation it is. Our Lord separates us
unto himself. He calls us a sanctified, a set-apart
people, a separated people, a different, a peculiar people. He cuts us
out of the herd of this world. And I'll tell you, it takes the
Spirit of God to keep us out too, doesn't it? Because the
natural flesh wants to be like everybody else. We want to dress
like them, we want to talk like them, we want to live like them.
We don't like to be different. And this is one of the reasons
the church has lost its power, whatever power it had. In this
day, is it the distinctions, the distinctives are gone. The gospel, the difference is
not there. We're trying to be like the rest. And this is what the church has
done. They bring in the entertainers. You can be a movie star and still
be a Christian. You don't have to change your
way of living or change your way of thinking or change your way of
talking or change your way of conducting yourself or your conversation. You can be a great high-pressure
lawyer. You can be a conniving businessman. You can be a politician. You
see, it's just one big old herd. But Paul, watch this, Paul said,
I am a servant, I am a bond-slave of Jesus Christ. And I've been
cut out. I've been separated. I've been
made different, peculiar, cut out of the herd. I'm separated
to the gospel. That's my life. Jesus Christ
is my life. He's not a phase, he's not a
fad. He's my life. He's my life. Separated unto the gospel. I
want to know the gospel. I believe I told them the other
night out in Houston, I believe there are three things that occupy
my thinking, my thoughts more than any other three things.
I want to know the gospel. Not a gospel, not some gospel,
but the gospel. The gospel. And I want to be
saved by that gospel. I want to know Christ. not know
about him. I want to know him. This is what
Paul is saying in Philippians 3. I've been religious, he said. I've had the ceremonies. I've
had the heritage. I've had the doctrine. But oh,
that I count these things but rubbish that I may win Christ
and be found in him, that I may know him and the power of his
resurrected life. Now, the Bible insinuates that
if we come to know Christ, These other things will lose their
appeal. The Bible seems to indicate that if a person is in Christ,
he's a new creature. And these other things lose their
attraction. And Christ becomes uppermost.
He becomes the supreme person, the preeminent one in our thinking. Cut into the believer's mind,
you'll find thoughts of Christ. Cut into his heart, you'll find
affection for Christ. cut into his will and you'll
find a desire to do the will of Christ. And I want to preach
the gospel. I want to preach the gospel that
God blesses, that changes men's lives, that brings people into
a vital living union with Christ. I want to be separated, like
Paul, to the gospel. Different. Different. Not like this world, not conformed
to the practices and the fashion of this world which passeth away.
This is what so many people have tried to do in organizing these
religious cults and communes and things
like that. This is what they're shooting
for, a different life. But they're shooting for it in
materialism and physical fellowship rather than in Christ. This is
what the Shakers were trying to do down in Kentucky when they
formed that little town. They were trying to get away
from the world by getting out of the world. and grouping together with people
of like minds or like impressions or convictions or principles.
But Christ is missing, a union with Christ. The way that a person
is separated from the world is not to move up on a mountain. It's not to find somebody as
weird as I am, or as strange as I am, or who's tired of riding
in a car and wants to ride in a buggy. or has had an unhappy
marriage and wants everybody to be unhappy. But this thing
of being separated unto the gospel is to be separated unto a person.
It's to come to a living, vital union with Christ. That's what Paul is talking about
here. That's separated unto the gospel.
It's not separated unto a way of life, but to a person. It's not separated under a certain
way of doing things, but separated under a person. Separate the
gospel is Christ. Christ is the gospel. And if
Christ reigns in my heart, the world cannot reign. If my thoughts are upon Him,
then my thoughts will not be upon the flesh. If my desire is to please Him,
then I'll not seek to please myself. If he is my righteousness,
I'll not go about trying to establish a righteousness. If he is my
hope for acceptance with God, I will not be trying myself to
establish a righteousness that will make me acceptable to God.
If Christ reigns in my heart, then his principles and his commandments
and his law will reign in my heart, and I'll treat others
as Christ would treat them, separated unto the gospel. This is how
a man can work in the world and yet be different. Christ said,
you're not of the world as I am not of the world. Not that he
worked in the cart and the shop, and he went to their weddings,
and he went to their feasts, and the sinners gathered about
him, and the publicans and the harlots, but he was different.
Different in spirit, different in attitude, different in conversation. He was different. He was not
of the world. Separate unto the gospel. Let
me give you this briefly. Three things here that I want
to point out in closing. This gospel to which Paul is
separated, first of all, is the gospel of God. It's the gospel
of his grace. He planned it, he executed it,
he applied it, he sustains it, he perfects it. It's the gospel
of his righteousness. He said, I will in no wise clear
the guilty. The soul that sinneth, it shall
surely die. But God has found a way to be both righteous and
merciful. He has found a way to be both
gracious and just. Turn to Daniel, over to the book
of Daniel. I want to give you this, and
then you can go home this afternoon and look at it again. But the
book of Daniel, I don't know whether I've ever given this.
I did years ago, but not lately. But there was a king called Darius. King Darius, Daniel chapter 6.
Turn over there and just put a mark there, and when you get
home you can read about it later. But let me tell you the story.
I'm going to read two verses. Darius was king over the realm,
and he had three presidents under him. And he had 120 princes.
This was the governing body. There was the king, and then
there were three presidents. And then there were 120 princes.
One of these presidents was Daniel. And Daniel was a man of integrity.
He was a man of honesty. He was a man of principle, a
man of faith. He believed God. And Darius knew
that. Although Darius and all these
other fellows were unbelievers, they were heathen. About all
the average person knows about Daniel is he got thrown in the
lion's den. About this man Darius is he put him there. But there's
a whole lot more to it than that. The gospel is preached here in
Daniel 6. Darius thought a lot of Daniel. Daniel was his favorite
person in the kingdom. Now remember this, Daniel was
a man of faith and godliness and prayer. And these other fellows
were jealous of him. They were extremely jealous.
And so they came up with this idea. They came to the king one
day and they said, O king, live forever and all of these other
salutations. They said, we've got a good idea.
We want you to sign this paper. Now, what we've written on this
paper is a resolution honoring you. Now, King Darius, on this
paper, it says that for 30 days no man in the kingdom, or woman
or child, shall offer a prayer to any god or ask a petition
of any man except the king. For 30 days. Boy, he thought
that was good. You see, that's that praise of
men. We like that honor. We like that acclaim. And he
said, how's that again? They said, now for 30 days, you're
going to be the only person in the kingdom to which any man
will pray or which any man will ask a petition. So he got out
whatever they used then, and he signed it according to the
law of the Medes and Persians. Boy, these fellows rolled that
up, and they headed for Daniel's house because they knew good
and well, Charlie, that man would be praying. And they got to Daniel's
house, and sure enough, there he was by the window praying.
And they grabbed that thing, they had it. And the punishment,
if any man prayed or asked a petition of any man for 30 days other
than the king, was to be thrown in the lion's den. And so they
brought it to the king, and they said, King, look at verse 13. They said, King, that Daniel,
which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardless
not be your king, nor the decree that you sign, But he's praying
down there three times a day. And then the king, when he heard
these words, he was sore displeased with himself. And he set his
heart on Daniel to deliver him, and he labored till the going
down of the sun to deliver him. And then these men assembled
to the king and said, Verse 15, that the law of the Medes and
the Persians is that no decree nor statute which the king establisheth
can be changed. That's the law of the Medes and
the Persians. Here the king was walking the floor. He had made
a law, he had signed it, that any man who prayed or offered
a petition to anyone besides himself for 30 days would be
thrown in the lion's den. He signed it, and it couldn't
be altered, it couldn't be changed. It was the law of the Medes and
the Persians. And he walked the floor, the scripture says here,
till the sun went down, trying to figure out a way not to throw
Daniel in the lion's den. He wrestled with it and struggled
with it, but this was Darius's dilemma. There was no way out.
The law had to be satisfied. And you say, what is that teaching,
Preacher? God Almighty has a law, and that law says the soul that
sinneth, it shall die. That law says the wages of sin
is death. Now, God Almighty, I'm going
to show you this tonight in the message, even the mercy of God
cannot put away sin without a suitable sacrifice. That's right. Even God cannot forgive sin. Just like King Darius says, no
way he could keep Daniel out of that lion's den. No way, though
he wanted to. No way. And keep his law? Well, from then on, suppose he
had let Daniel escape. Anything he signed would have
been torn up. Anything he signed would have been thrown to the
wind. Anything he signed, any law he made, keep your law any
more, your law doesn't mean a thing. And God's law means something.
God is righteous, and his law will be kept, and sin will be
punished. But thank God he sent his Son
to take our place. And Christ obeyed the law, and
Christ fulfilled the law, and Christ satisfied God's justice,
and Christ bore our sins in his body on the tree. And Christ
enables God, like King Darius. to be just and justifier, to
be king and yet to be deliverer, to be the lawmaker and yet to
be the sin forgiver. You see that? That's what that
book just shows. So this gospel, Paul was separated
to the gospel. Look at verse 2. It's the gospel
of the prophets. We have no new gospel. We have
no new way of life. We have no new way of salvation.
Moses rose of me, Christ said. He says in verse 2, separate
to the gospel of God, the gospel of his grace, his glory, his
righteousness, which he promised, or by his prophets in the Holy
Scriptures. If you go through the Bible,
you'll find in the book of Genesis the Lord Jesus Christ. You'll
find him first as the woman's seed. You'll find him also as
Abel's offering. You will find him as Abraham's
ram all the way through. You go into Exodus and you will
find him as the Passover lamb. You will find the Lord Jesus
Christ as the lamb slain and his blood put on the doorpost
and the lintel. In Leviticus, you will find the Lord Jesus
as the great atonement, the blood on the mercy seat. In Numbers,
you will find him the brazen serpent lifted up. In Deuteronomy,
the city of refuge. In Joshua, Rahab's scarlet line. In Judges, the angel of the Lord.
In Ruth, you'll see him as the one who has the right to redeem.
In the six books of Kings, Chronicles, Samuel, and Kings, you'll find
him as God's king. In the book of Psalms, you'll
find him as the shepherd, Job, my redeemer, Esther, the provider
of the people, Jeremiah, the great restorer, Proverbs, the
wisdom of God, all the way through the scripture, Isaiah, the substitute,
Jeremiah, the fountain, and the branch. It's no new gospel that
we preach. It's the gospel which God promised
the poor by the prophets in the Holy Scripture. They died looking
for the coming of Christ by faith. And you and I live looking back
to the Christ who came. All right, last of all, verse
3, it is the gospel concerning his son. Paul said, I'm a servant,
I'm a bond slave, I'm called, I'm separated to the gospel of
God. It's no new gospel, but it's the gospel concerning his
son. For God so loved the world, he
gave his only begotten son, Jesus. He said to Joseph, call his name
Jesus, call his name Jesus, Savior Joshua, for he shall save his
people from their sins. Jesus Christ, art thou the Christ,
the Son of the living God, art thou the Christ, or do we look
for another?" You go tell John what you've seen. When the woman
at the well said, we know that when the Christ has come, he'll
tell us all things. I am he. I am he. Christ our
Lord. Thomas summed it up, my Lord
and my God, which was made of the seed of David. Look at that.
He was made of the seed of David. The Lord himself shall give you
a sign, a virgin shall conceive and bring forth a son." He was
made of the seed of David. A child is born, a son is given. A child is born, the seed of
David, a son is given, declared to be the son of God with power. He said in John chapter 5, John
the Baptist bore witness of me. The works that I do, they bear
witness of me. The Father himself hath borne
witness of me, and the Scriptures bear witness of me, declared
to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness.
And God gave full proof when he raised him from the dead.
In closing, I want to read Colossians chapter 1. Will you turn there
with me? Colossians, the first chapter. beginning, if you will,
with verse 12, Colossians 1, verse 12, separated to the gospel. Colossians 1, verse 12, giving
thanks unto the Father which hath made us meet, or sufficient,
to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, who hath
delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated
us into the kingdom of his dear in whom we have redemption through
his blood, even the forgiveness of sins, who is the image of
the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature. For by him
were all things created that are in heaven, that are in earth,
visible, invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities
or powers. All things were created by him
and for him, and he's before all things, and by him all things
consist, and he's the head of the body, the Church. who is
the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things
he might have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that
in him should all foolish dwell, and having made peace through
the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto
himself. By him, I say, whether they be
things in earth or things in heaven, and you that were sometime
alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked work, yet now
hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to
present you holy and unblameable and unreprovable in his sight,
if you continue in the faith. Grounded and settled, and be
not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you have
heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under
heaven, whereof I, Paul, have made a ministry." for the gospel of Christ, we
give thee thanks for this good news, these glad tidings that
have been brought to us from the beginning, that first announcement
in the Garden of Eden, and all of the pictures and symbols and
types and prophecies and promises in the Old Testament, and finally
our Lord's personal visit to this earth. Bowl of our bowl
and flesh of our flesh, He obeyed Thy perfect law, went to the
cross of Calvary as a perfect sacrifice, a perfect sin offering,
the Lamb without blemish or spot, yea, the Lamb of God to take
away our sins. And at Thy right hand He intercedes
now, He prays for us that our faith fail not. We thank Thee
for Christ, our hope, our refuge, our strength. We thank Thee for
Thy Holy Spirit who has brought the knowledge of Christ to our
hearts We thank Thee, O Father, for every mercy and every grace
from Thy bountiful hand. Make this gospel real to all
who are in this congregation, and, O Lord, may it be said of
each one of us, we separate unto the gospel. I am crucified with
Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth
in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the
faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for
me. Blessing the service tonight
according to thy will, may all things through this day be for
the glory of our Lord and the good of his own. In his name
we pray, amen.

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