God Giveth the Increase

I'd like for you to turn back
in your Bibles to 1 Corinthians 3, because that will serve as
a text for the message. But before getting to the main
part of our message today, I want to make two or three comments. The fool has said in his heart,
no God for me. No God for me. And ever since the fall, sinful
men have tried to do away with God. This sin of ignoring God
crops up everywhere in the most subtle and deceitful fashions. I'm going to just give you two
examples. God acts in a certain way in nature. There's nothing
so ordered perfectly as nature. God has ordered it. In him we live and move and have
our being. In him all things consist. All right? Because God acts in
a certain way, then men call his method of action a law. They call it the law of gravity. They call it the law of nature. They call it the law of seasons.
Men speak as if these laws were forces in and of themselves. God is gravity. The seasons, God orders them. God paints the trees, God sends
the cold, God sends the spring, God sends the warm air, God sends
the sunshine. These are not laws in and of
themselves, these are not powers in and of themselves, but this
is man's way of doing away with God, talking about the law of
nature. Have you done it? I have. I say
if a man violates the laws of nature, he's in for it. Who is nature? You see, that's
a subtle way of doing away with God. Now don't, don't think that
I'm taking this thing too far because Satan is a crafty and
subtle one who deceived one many times more brilliant than we
are. And God is banished from his own universe and replaced
by idols called natural laws. Turn to the book of Job. This
will be a blessing to you. Let's go to the, and God spoke
to Job about this. In Job chapter 38, and you'll
receive a blessing if you'll read this afternoon, Job 38,
39, and 40. Then the Lord answered Job out
of the whirlwind and said, Job 38, 2, Who is this that darkeneth
counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a
man, for I will demand of thee, and answerest thou me. Where
were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you
have understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof,
if you know? Who hath stretched the line upon
it? Whereupon are the foundations of the earth fastened? Who laid
the cornerstone thereof? When the morning stars sang together
and all the sons of God shouted for joy, who shut up the sea
with doors when it broke forth as if it had issued out of the
womb? When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and the thick
darkness a swaddling-band for it, and break up for it my decreed
place, and set bars and doors, and said, Hitherto shalt thou
come, but no further, and here shalt thou proud waves be stayed. Look at verse 28. Hath the rain
a father? Who hath begotten the drops of
dew? Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven,
who hath gendered it?" Huh? These are laws of nature. No,
sir, these are God's acts. It's just a subtle way of doing
away with God. Now, let's go on. I'll tell you
another way. Every one of us have been guilty
of this right here. The heart's deceitful and desperately
wicked, and God, as we studied in our Sunday school class this
morning, is a jealous God, and He will not share His glory.
And while we're trying to figure out whether it's right or wrong
to go to the picture show, we're sinning desperately and deeply
against a holy God by taking away from him, by robbing him
of his glory. People who won't dare go to a
dance or a picture show will rob a holy God of his glory. And they'll talk about the laws
of nature. and the laws of seas, and the
law of gravity, and the law of this, that, and the other. There
is no law but that which is of God. He's the first cause of
all things. Now watch this. Take the area
of providence. Instead of seeing the hand of
God everywhere in all things, you and I and our neighbors talk
about good luck and bad luck. That's right. Oh, we sure had
good luck today. Well, I hate my neighbors had
nothing but bad luck. Boy, he got the breaks. That
fella really got the breaks. He just happened to be in the
right place at the right time. How easily we forget. Now this,
let me tell you this, you see that's a very simple thing. God's
in simple things. And if we don't straighten out
the little things, it's a sense we won't give any attention to
the big things. And I'll tell you this, how easily
we forget that God is everywhere and God is in all things and
God is doing as he will, when he will, with whom he will. And
we're worshiping the idols of second causes instead of worshiping
the living God. Now you turn to 1 Samuel 2. And
these old warriors of God in the Old Testament, they didn't
talk like we do, as luck would have it. What a terrible accident. You see, these are things we
use all the time. They're so ingrained in us from
our evil nature that we don't ascribe to God the glory for
all things. In 1 Samuel 2, Hannah did, look
at verse 6, she said in her prayer, the Lord killeth, the Lord maketh
alive. He bringeth down to the grave
and bringeth up, the Lord maketh poor and the Lord maketh rich. No luck or bad luck or good luck
or any other kind of luck involved in this thing, it's God's hand,
that's right. He bringeth low, and he lifteth
up, he raiseth up the poor out of the dust, he lifteth up the
beggar from the dunghill to set them among princes, and to make
them inherit the throne of glory for the pillars of the earth
are the Lord's, and he set the world upon them. He will keep
the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness,
for by strength shall no man prevail." Better learn that.
Isaiah chapter 46 Isaiah chapter 46 verse 9 It says remember The
former things of old I'm God. I am God the laws of nature not
God. I'm God I'm God This world is not left
into the in the hands of blind faith. I am God And there's none
else. I am God. There's none like me.
I declare the end from the beginning. And from ancient times of things
that are not yet done, saying my counsel shall stand, I will
do all my pleasure. Calling a ravenous bird from
the east, the man that executes my counsel from a far country,
yea, I've spoken it. I will also bring it to pass.
I've purposed it. I'll also do it. Preacher, don't you believe in
luck? No, sir, I do not. Nor do I believe in chance, nor
do I believe in fate, nor do I believe in the breaks of the
game. I believe in God, totally and completely, and I believe
he's the first cause of all things. There are second causes. But
everything that takes place in this world today, ever has or
ever will, creatively, providentially, historically, or spiritually,
God's the first cause of it. He worketh all things after the
counsel of his own will. You say, where does that leave
us? It leaves us right here. Our lives are governed by chance
or by God, but not by both. And I believe so completely in
the sovereign control of God over all things that I believe
the specks of dust in a ray of sunshine are on a charted course
in the plan and purpose of Almighty God. And when they strike the
ground, all the forces of hell couldn't move them one inch further. Our lives are governed by chance
or by God, but not by both. We're in the hands of blind fate
or in the hands of a living God, but not both. Our success or
failure is determined by luck or by God, but not by both. Now
choose you this day, as the prophet of old said, whom you will serve
and whom you will crown as God, the idols of second causes, the idols of man's imagination,
or the living God, who said, I work all things after the counsel
of my own will. There can't be two gods. No man
can serve two masters. Either let God be God, or let's
crown some other god. Now thirdly, another subtle way
And there are thousands of them. You can sit and come up with
them as well as I can. But here's another now in our
text, 1 Corinthians 3. Even in the church, Paul found
brethren forgetting God and forgetting their Savior, the one who is
sovereign, omnipotent, almighty. King of kings and Lord of lords,
all hail the power of Jesus' name, let angels prostrate fall. Bring forth, O oil, to iodine
and crown him Lord of all. All authority, he said, is given
unto me in heaven and earth. I have all power over all flesh." But here Paul said in the Church
they are in their high esteem for Church leaders. Instead of
saying we're all the disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ. We're
all children of God they have divided themselves into parties
and divisions and Groups and They're steaming
the flesh The second causes that's right. He said in verse 4 one
of you said I am a Paul. I Paul founded the church. Paul is the great writer. Paul
is the great missionary. Paul is an apostle. Paul is this,
that. We are Paul. We are followers
of Paul. We believe Paul's writing. Another
says, I am of Apollos. It's not that I don't really
like Paul, but Apollos is just a better preacher than Paul.
Apollos is more eloquent. Paul is a little overbearing. Turn back to chapter 1, verse
12. Peter even had his followers. Now this I say, every one of
you says, I'm of Paul, I'm of Paulus. Somebody else says, well,
I'm of Cephas. I'm of Simon Peter. We're followers of Peter. He
was the bold apostle. Others say, I'm of James, I'm
of John, and then amazingly, some of them, a fourth party
declared very powerfully, we are of Christ. We are of Christ. We are brethren.
We are of Christ. Even the name of the Savior was
used in their divisions. This is a subtle way of crowning
and worshipping second causes. Flesh. That's right. And the
Apostle warns the people, warns them against forgetting that
all things are of God. Look at these verses. First of
all, verse 5. Who is Paul, he says? Who is
Paul? Who is Apollos? Just ministers
by whom you heard the gospel and believed, but the Lord is
the one who gave to every man his gift, his ability, his ministry,
and even to you faith. Look at verse 6. I have planted,
I've sown the seed, Apollos watered, but it's God who gave the increase. Paul didn't have anything to
do with the new birth, with regeneration, with faith, with repentance,
with life, with the increase. Apollos didn't have anything
to do with it. God gave it. These are all second causes.
Paul is a second cause. Apollos is a second, a third,
a fourth cause. God is the first cause. This
is what I'm saying. The sun shines and warms the
earth, but who makes it shine? The stars give light by night,
but who gives them the light? God is the first cause of all
things. Verse 7, he says, I am nothing,
neither is he that planteth anything. Apollos is nothing, he that watereth
is nothing. God gives the increase. God is
all things and everything. Verse 9, we're only laborers,
we're only farmhands, you're God's farm, we're only laborers,
you're God's building. Some huge, beautiful building
is built, fabulous building. You don't pick out the fella
that, with sweat running down his back, dug the footer and
pull him aside and say, you sure built a beautiful building there,
fella. No, he didn't build that building. A mind was behind it,
the architect. We're just laborers, you see.
That's all he said. We're just laborers. We're on
your God's farm, your God's building. He selects the stones. He lays
the foundation. He's the builder of the living
temple of which Christ is the foundation. If you'll learn what
I'm trying to preach this morning, You learn how to worship because
there's only one place that a man will worship. I'm not talking
about worship. I'm not talking about playing
church or playing religion or counting heads and bragging on
what we're doing for God. I'm talking about worship. And
that's at the throne of an almighty, sovereign, eternal, omnipotent,
immutable, infallible God. There ain't but one place a man
finds comfort. If you leave this church this
morning and have a head-on collision down here, and your wife or child
is badly injured, taken to the hospital, not one place that
you can find any comfort. And that's God does all things
well. He does it when he will, to whom
he will, and for what purpose it pleases him. And he's wise
in all that he does. If you go home and you get a
telegram that Your aged mother has gone on to be with the Lord.
You're not going to scream and yell and stomp and rant and find
fault with God's providence. If you know God, you're going
to bow your head and say, thank you, Lord, appreciate you letting
me have it long as you did. And this is your will. If your business bankrupts tomorrow,
that's right. You need to cuss the men who
beat you out of the dollar or the dime. Those are all second
causes. You need to find fault with the
folks that wouldn't pay you what they owed you. Those are all
second causes. If you're God's child, you go
to one source. God did it. God did it. Old David, even when he was thrown
out of Jerusalem and left the kingdom, and a fellow along the
roadside cursed him and swore at him, And one of his faithful
men said, Let me cut his head off, David. David said, No, you
don't. Let him alone. God sent him to curse me. God
sent him. This is all of the Lord. I'll
be back. All this is of the Lord. We don't
believe in luck, chance, fate, breaks, or anything else if you
believe in God. Now, I'm telling you the truth. If you get hold of what I'm talking
about, you'll not only learn to worship, you'll not only learn
where comfort is found, rest and comfort and peace, but you'll
find salvation. Because salvation is of the Lord.
It's the Lordship of Christ that enables him to save. He can save,
not only because of what he did, but who he is. He has the power
to save. Grace flows from his lips. His arm is not shortened that
he cannot save. You see that? His hand is not short that he
cannot save. He's able to save to the uttermost
them that come to God by him. He's able. He's able. He's not a poor, frustrated,
defeated, disappointed little Jesus boy sitting up there hoping
somebody will let him save them. No, sir. He's the conquering
king. He's the victorious sacrifice. He's the reigning priest. He
saves whom he will. He shows mercy to whom he will.
That's right. Lord, if you will, you can make
me whole. Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom. Where
the word of the King is, there's power. He's able to save. He's able
to keep. He's able to change my vile body
until it's like unto his glorious blood. He's able. Now one of
these days they're going to put your body in the grave and it's
going back to the dust from whence it came, ashes to ashes and dust
to dust. Who can put it back together
again? Only Him who has all authority,
all power. He's going to put it back together
again and make it like His glorious body. It takes a sovereign, immutable
King to do that. Now here's our message, four
points, those four verses. First of all, who is Paul? Verse
5, that's what he says. Who is Paul? When we run around here worshiping
these second causes and human instruments, who is Paul? Well,
first of all, he's a man, and that's all. Now we must speak
to our day. Turn to Acts 10. We must speak
to our day. There's people who would be critical
of us when we speak to our day, but we must speak to our day. That is our ministry. And our
day has just witnessed a man being crowned in Rome who said
he is the successor of the Apostle Peter who was the first Pope.
And at the crowning of that man with all the glitter and gold
and triumphant pageantry and coronation, etc., etc., people
knelt in front of him, cardinals and bishops and people, and kissed
his ring and did reverence, and even our president called him,
Your Holiness. Well, you read Acts chapter 10.
Let's see what the first Pope said. Verse 25, And as Peter
was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet,
and worshipped him. And Peter took him up, saying,
Stand up! I am myself also a man. That's all. That's all. Any man who receives
reverence, worship or will permit himself to be called your holiness
is a reprobate of the worst sort. That's right. He's a reprobate of the worst
sort. He's a deceiver of men's souls. A con man who will take your
money is bad enough, but a man who will rob you of your soul
is a reprobate. Only a man, that's all Paul is,
only a man. And I'll tell you this, you turn
to James 5, 17, only a man with like passions. The true servants of God don't
claim to be anything but mere men. That's right. James 5, verse 17 says, talking
about Elias, was a man subject to like passions as we are. That's
right, a man. That's all he is, a man, and
he's a man subject to like passions as you are. Turn to Ecclesiastes
7 verse 20. Look at this verse, Ecclesiastes
7 verse 20. It would do well for this question
to be settled by both preacher and people. In Ecclesiastes chapter
7 verse 20, there is not a just man upon earth. There is not a just man upon
earth that doeth good and sinneth not. That's right. Thirdly, who is Paul? He's a man. Secondly, he's a
man of like passions as you are. He is a man who has obtained
mercy. He said that over and over again.
We don't have time to read. You can read that in 1 Timothy
1, 12 through 16. Twice he said, I obtained mercy. I didn't earn it. I didn't buy
it. I didn't merit it. I obtained
it. I wouldn't want to hear a perfect
minister. I wouldn't waste my time going to hear it. Because
he couldn't understand me. He couldn't have anything for
me. He couldn't pity me. He couldn't sympathize with me.
He couldn't understand me. He couldn't be identified with
me. He couldn't have any association with me. He couldn't know anything
of my need. That's the reason God ministers
to his people through men. Who is Paul? He's a man. He's
a man subject to like passions. He's a man who obtained mercy.
And he's a man who is a servant. Not a lord. Not a master. Call
no man master. One is your master. Call no man
father. It'd embarrass me if one of my
congregation passed a Catholic priest on the street and called
him Father Sound and Brass or whatever their names are. That'd
embarrass me. He's not even a father by nature,
let alone a father by grace. Whose father is he? I'm a father
more than he is. I've got four children and three
grandchildren. We're not lords, we're not masters,
we're not fathers, we're servants. Look, who is Paul? Who is Apollos?
Ministers! By whom you believe. The Lord
employs human instruments and human service to work his eternal
designs and purposes. It pleased God by the foolishness
of preaching to save them that believe. But God Almighty gave to every
man. Now the Lord didn't tell his
disciples, after he arose from the grave, sit still and watch
the Holy Spirit save sinners. Sit still now and watch God. Salvation of the Lord. Now you
just sit there while God saves his people. No, sir. He says
you go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
You go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them and
teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded
you. God uses human instruments. God appoints the servant by whom
you believe and God enables you to believe. But it's all of God. So verse 5, who is Paul? Who
is Apollos? They're instruments in the hands
of God. They're servants in the hands of God. They're means in the hands of
a sovereign God to work his counsel and purpose. That's all we are.
That's all you are. He worketh all things after the
counsel of his own will. But I'm glad to be there. Aren't
you? Oh, to be used of God in any
way that seemeth good in his sight is an honor above all honors. Secondly, he said in verse 6,
I have planted, Apollos watered, God gave the increase. This is
what we're saying, God gave the increase. Let's worship God.
Let's praise God. Let's magnify the name of our
God. Let's look to God. Look unto
me and be ye saved, for I am God, he said. There's none else.
I am God. There's so much here. This is
like a potluck supper. You really don't know where to
start. But Paul says in verse 6, I have planted. Yes, I have. I have planted. It's God's Word,
but I preached it. It's God's gospel, but I preached
it. Paul said, I have planted. I did what God called me to do.
And I did what God sent me to do. I preached His Word. Fruit won't grow where seed's
not sown. Now you know that, and I do too.
How shall they call on him whom they've not believed? And how
shall they believe in him of whom they've not heard? And how
shall they hear without a preacher? So Paul said, I have planted.
What did you plant, Paul? I've planted the seed of God's
Word. Let any charge be brought against
us but one. I couldn't take that. Any charge,
alright, any charge but one. Let any charge be leveled against
us but one, and that is that we don't preach the gospel. I
wouldn't want that, would you? Woe is unto me if I preach not
the gospel. It doesn't matter what men say.
They called our Savior a blasphemer. They called him the king of devils. They called him a winebibber.
They called him a gluttonous man. They called him everything
they could think of, a friend of publicans and harlots and
sinners. preach to them the gospel. I'm determined to know nothing
among you save Jesus Christ and him crucified. Oh, how I love
to preach the gospel, the gospel of God's glory, the gospel of
God's grace, how God can be just and justify the ungodly. how
that God can be righteous and holy and show mercy to such sinful
creatures, how that Christ came down here in human flesh and
dwelt among us, obeyed the law for us, went to the cross and
bore our guilt and shame and sin and died and was buried and
rose again and ascended to the right hand of the Father where
he reigneth as our mediator. And we can come to God by him.
I love that gospel. I've planted, Paul said. I've
planted. Apollos has watered. I didn't do it all, Paul said.
Now listen to this. He didn't say, I've planted and
I've watered and I've done this. He said, I've planted. Apollos
watered. I didn't do it all. There's a
divine division of labor. Don and I talked about this yesterday.
Every believer is a minister of Christ. Every believer has
a ministry. There's a divine division of
labor. No man has all the gifts. Some men are blessed with more
gifts than others, but God gives gifts as it pleases him. And all the people of God, of
ministries of God, it's not my ministry, it's God's ministry
and our ministry. I planted, Apollos watered. Look at verse 8. He that planteth
and he that watereth are one. They've got one purpose, they've
got one goal, they're one in spirit, they're one in Christ,
they're one in object. They're not seeking their glory,
they're seeking Christ's glory. I tremble when I see the competitive
spirit among what we call churches today. I'm embarrassed to call
them churches. Competitive spirit between ministers,
and I hesitate to call them ministers. Paul said, who is Paul? Who is Apollos? God is the one
who gets the glory. I planted. Apollos is watered. Somebody else has done something
else. It's God that gave the increase. If God doesn't build
a house, they labor in vain that build it. My seed is planted,
but it's planted in vain unless God gives it life. Our watering with prayers and
tears and intercession is all in vain unless God makes it live. We haven't done a thing when
we've done all that we can do. We're still unprofitable servants. What is our goal? If it's not
the glory of Christ, God have mercy on us and he won't. You teach your class. What's
your motive? When you sing, Mike, you ladies
and the rest, what's your motive? When I preach, when we pray,
Our Lord warned us. He said, when you pray, be not
like those that like to pray in the street corners that they
may be seen of men. They have their reward. When
men see them, that's it. Gotta deal with them later. When
you give, don't sound a trumpet in front of you to get recognition.
When you fast, wash your face. Comb your hair. Don't try to
appear overly righteous, overly pious. Don't attract attention
to your religion. Because when you do, you have
your reward. That's it. You're doing it for that purpose
anyway. And when God deals with you, he'll deal with you as a
hypocrite. And he deals with harlots more
gingerly than he does hypocrites. What I'm saying is true. What
I'm saying may not be understood and it may not be accepted by
the average person, but it's so. What I'm saying is so because
Christ said it. This is what they couldn't understand,
the religious people. They had a corner on God and
they got all cleaned up and fixed up and dressed up and walked
around with a pious look and folded hands and their eyes looking
up towards the sky doing their fasting and their prayers and
their giving and their alms and so forth and appearing righteous.
And God Almighty said, you're a generation of snakes. You're
full of extortion and excess. You're doing your works to be
seen of men. God looks on the heart. Whatever
you do in word or deed, you better do it for the glory of God or
get out of the business. And this is what I'm saying.
The best thing that could happen to the United States of America
is for every religious person who does not know what it means
to bow before and submit to and to seek the glory of a sovereign
God to get out of business. The best thing that could happen,
close them all down and hear some John the Baptist walking
the streets saying, behold the Lamb of God. Instead of behold
our big fine building, the finest one in town, behold our steeple
that reaches higher than anybody's. Behold our colleges and our seminaries
and our hospitals. and our orphanages, and behold
our missionaries on the field, and behold the crowds we have
on Sunday, and behold our buses going up and down the street,
and behold our television, behold the Lamb of God." That's all
he had to say. Who are you? I'm nobody. That's what he said. I'm a voice. Are you the Christ? I'm not fit
to tie his shoes. Behold the Lamb. Don't be looking
to me, John said. You look to me, you'll look into
the pit of hell. You look to him. All right, look
at verse 8. Verse 9, verse 7 is where I want
you to go. So neither is he that planted
anything. Oh, this is tough. This is tough. I wish this wasn't here, don't
you? Neither is he that planted anything. That's so hard on the
flesh. That's so contrary to natural
flesh. What do you mean, I'm nobody?
I'm nothing? I've been to this church when
they said, yeah. I hear nothing. We're to love one another and
we're to... Watch this now. I can't explain this. I just
know it's so. John, we're to esteem one another. We're to
hold one another in the deepest respect. That's right. We're to have love for one another
and respect for one another. We're to hold one another in
the deepest respect. And we're to provide for those
who labor among us. And the elder who labors in the
Word is worthy of double honor. But we're still nothing. For without him, and here's why,
without him we can do nothing. All of our gifts are borrowed
and none of them produced. All good seed comes from God's
greenery. We cannot preach or teach without
his grace. Our sermons are vain words without
his Spirit. Do not make much of us, for we
are unprofitable servants. God give it the increase. I want
you to turn to 2 Corinthians 12. Listen to Paul here. 2 Corinthians
12. 2 Corinthians 12, verse 11. Listen. He says, I've become
a fool. 2 Corinthians 12, 11. I've become
a fool in glowing, but you've compelled me. Paul had to defend
his apostleship. You know, the Bible tells us
to obey them that have the rule over thee, as those that watch
for your soul, as those who must give an account. And there's
a proper respect to be paid to our leaders, our elders, our
ministers. They're to be listened to, their
faith followed. They're to be provided for, they're
to be held in esteem and respect. And that's what Paul's saying.
You've compelled me, he said, I ought to have been commended
of you. You're the one that ought to
talk about what I've done, my faithfulness and loyalty to the
gospel and the preaching of the gospel. But you force me to defend
my position. You force me," he said, to defend
my apostleship. You force me to exercise authority. For in nothing am I behind the
very chiefest apostle, though I be nothing. I tell you, the man that figured
out that preachers don't have to do anything, sure messed that
up, didn't he? How'd you like to preach on that
a little while? I'm nothing. But yet, I'm not
behind the chiefest apostle. And this is a hard lesson to
learn. It's a hard lesson for the flesh
to learn. It starts up here and it goes on out there. We're to
esteem one another, we're to love one another, we're to respect
one another, we're to pray for one another, we're to submit
to God's chain of command, the husband is the head of the home,
the parents over the children, the minister, the elders, the
deacons, the leaders, God has placed the men of guilt in the
church and so forth, but yet we're all just nothing before
Him, because He is all things. He giveth the increase. All right,
I close. Verse 9, He says, we're laborers together with God. The
preacher and the teachers of Scripture, witnesses, we labor
together. We labor together. We've got
one master. But those to whom we labor are
God's farm. I'm just a plow boy. It's God's
farm. He pinched it in. He chose it.
He owns it. He shows me where to plow, where
to plant, where to water. He causes the seed to grow. You're
God's building. You're God's building. You belong
to the Lord. You're His. He loved you and He bought you
with His own blood. You're God's building. You're
God's farm. We're just laborers, that's all.
He gives the increase. I tell you what, believing, believing
God has given to me assurance, confidence. It's given me peace. It's given me great joy. It is
giving, day by day, more patience and more rest. But I find this
is the only, He is the only place where you can find any of those
things. Somebody said one time, if you give me a place to put
my lever or crying bar, give me a place stationary enough,
I can move the world. And that's true. If you find
a place stationary enough, and the only place I've found that
is immovable and stationary is the infallible, sovereign, almighty,
Unchangeable purpose of God Almighty in Christ Jesus and if you can
put Put the lever there put the wedge there You can move the
world you can move your obstacles and you can move your stumbling
blocks You can move your trial and you can move all these things,
but you can rest there Don you have a number don't you what
do you?

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