Viewing Sin In a Differant Light

Q: What does the Bible say about viewing sin in light of God's law?

The Bible teaches that viewing sin in light of God's law reveals our true condition and leads to self-awareness and repentance. Viewing sin through the lens of God's holy law is crucial for understanding the depth of our transgressions and our need for repentance. As Paul states in Romans 7:7, 'I had not known sin, but by the law.' When we encounter God's law, it exposes our failures and reveals that we cannot meet His standards on our own. This acknowledgment strips away our false sense of security provided by comparing ourselves to others, leading to true conviction and an understanding of our need for salvation through Christ. Only by recognizing we're helpless in our sin can we truly appreciate God's grace.

Q: How do we know God's love is greater than our sin?

God's infinite love is demonstrated through His grace in calling us despite our unworthiness, as expressed in Isaiah 43. Isaiah 43 poignantly illustrates God's boundless love for His people, stating, 'I have called thee by name, thou art mine.' This declaration emphasizes that God, in His infinite love, actively chooses individuals who are undeserving, showcasing grace rather than human merit. It reflects how God ransomed His people, giving up even the mighty nations for their sake. Acknowledging this truth leads believers to grasp the overwhelming contrast between our sinfulness and God's grace, fostering a deep appreciation for Christ's sacrifice as the ultimate expression of divine love.

Q: Why is recognizing our sin important for Christians?

Recognizing our sin is essential as it brings humility, fosters repentance, and deepens our appreciation of Christ's sacrifice. Acknowledging our sin serves multiple critical functions in the believer's life. Firstly, it cultivates humility, prompting us to recognize that we are not worthy by our own deeds but are entirely reliant on God's grace. Secondly, it fosters genuine repentance, as true acknowledgment of our wrongdoings leads to a contrite heart seeking forgiveness. This awareness shifts our focus from a self-serving comparison against others to a profound understanding of what Christ accomplished on the cross. Learning to view our sins in light of God’s mercy urges us to honor Him in our thoughts, actions, and worship, cultivating spiritual growth and maturity.

Q: How can we honor God according to this sermon?

We honor God by believing His word, reverencing His name, and living a life that reflects His grace. Honoring God encompasses several vital actions that affirm our faith and relationship with Him. Firstly, it includes truly believing His word, as faith is foundational to our relationship with God. Secondly, reverencing His name and acknowledging His holiness in our lives is paramount. We must also confess Christ, aligning ourselves with His teachings and sharing the gospel. Moreover, we ought to honor Him through our worship and the manner in which we endure trials, demonstrating trust in His sovereign will. Ultimately, a genuine commitment to glorifying God should permeate our efforts, thoughts, and expressions of gratitude, reflecting lives transformed by His grace.

Now, there are many, many lights in which we can view
ourselves and our sins. And our understanding of ourselves
and of our sins depends to a great extent on the light in which
we look at them. Now, first of all, they're those
who view themselves and their sins in the light of their fellow
creatures, fellow mortals. I was listening to a sports announcer,
maybe some of you heard this, but it applies right here at
this particular point. He was describing a certain baseball
player who I'm sure is a fine young man. He's from Alabama. He's got to have that going fine.
But the announcer, these were his exact words. This man is
perfect. This man is so good. It's unbelievable, he said. He
doesn't drink. He doesn't smoke. He doesn't
curse. He doesn't swear. He is as good
as you can get. Now, what is this but viewing
our sins and ourselves in the light of our fellow mortals?
We pick up a book, a biography, say a biography of Horatio Bonar
or John Wesley or one of these great old men of the past, and
we read about their dedication and their sacrifice and their
prayer life and their understanding and their power And we shake
our heads and we regret that we just don't have that understanding
and that dedication and that sacrifice. But then we serve
our consciences by looking at someone really bad. And we say,
well, at least we believe the doctrines of God, at least we
haven't given full vent to our passions and our sins like some. In other words, we come to this
conclusion by viewing our fellow mortals. I'm not as good as some,
but I'm not as bad as others. And that's the light in which
many people view their sin. That's the light in which many
people view themselves. They're confined to that particular
understanding of themselves and their sin. This man who was making
the remarks about the athlete, he was sincere. He really meant
that. He really meant that this particular
man, because he did not do what some other mortals then he was
perfect, and I think he used that word perfect. But he was
viewing the man and viewing himself and the man's sins and his sins
in the light of comparison, comparing himself with others and ourselves
with others. Now, secondly, there are those
who view themselves and their sins, I should say ourselves
and our sins, in the light of death and judgment. They fear
death. they fear judgment. Well, to
a degree. The young people look at death and judgment, but they
look at it as something far away. They look at it as something
really that couldn't happen to me at this particular time. I've
got plenty of time to get right with God, and I intend someday,
fully intend, to get right with God. I don't intend to continue
as I am right now. And in the middle age, they entertain
some thoughts of the day of death and the day of judgment, they
began to show some interest in a refuge, in a relationship with
God, through the Church or through good works or something of that
nature. And then older people, well, all old people go to heaven. That's the general opinion. even
heard of an old person that didn't go to meet God, or go to be with
God, or go to receive his reward, or something of that nature. All old people go to heaven.
So they come to the point of indifference about this whole
thing, waiting to go to be with God. Thirdly, there are some
people who view themselves and their sins, and this is good. And this is where the Holy Spirit
really starts conversion. This thing of comparing myself
with fellow mortals, there's no conversion in that. There's
no conviction in that. This thing of being afraid to
die, there's no conversion there. There's no conviction there.
This thing of being afraid of eternity, who's out there and
what's out there, there's no conviction there. But there are
some people who really and truly view themselves and their sins
in the light of God's awesome holy law. Now, that's the starting
point, and I say that's the starting point. We look at God's holy
law. This is where the Holy Spirit
begins conviction. We look at God's holy law. The
Holy Spirit takes us to Sinai. He takes us to judgment. He takes
us to the place of stripping, to the place where we're slain,
like the Apostle Paul. Turn to Romans 7, and listen
to Paul here. In Romans 7, Paul met the law
of God. in the hands of the Holy Spirit,
and it slew him. He met the law of God in the
hands of the Holy Spirit, and it stripped him. He met the law
of God in the hands of the Holy Spirit, and it knocked all his
religious foundations out from under him. He said in Romans
7, verse 7, What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known
sin, but by the law. I had not known lust. Except
the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. Verse 9, I was alive
without the law before the law came. But when the law came,
when the commandment came, sin was exposed and I died. It slew me. I met the law of
God and it killed me. I met the law of God in the hands
of the Holy Spirit and it slew me. It stripped me. It knocked all my foundations
out from under me. It laid me bare in the dust at
the feet of Christ. I viewed my sin and myself in
the light of God's holy law, not comparing myself with Mike
or with Cecil or with Dick or with someone else, comparing
myself with this person and saying, well, I'm not as bad as this
one, I'm not as good as that one, but I'm not as bad as this
one. That's not the Holy Spirit's work. And it's not to tremble
and say, look, I'm getting wrinkled, I'm getting gray, I'm getting
old, I'm going to die, I'd better go to church. I'd better start
reading the Bible. That's not the Holy Spirit conviction.
The Holy Spirit conviction and that godly sorrow that leads
to repentance is when I view my sin in the light of God's
law. When I view myself and my attitude
and my words and my thoughts and my life in the light of God's
holy law. And I'm able to say with David,
against thee and thee only have I sinned. Sin is against God. Fourthly, some people go a step
further and they view themselves by God's grace and their sin
in the light of Christ's interpretation of the law. Turn to Matthew 5. Matthew 5. Our Lord is speaking
to the Pharisees and he interprets the law. There are so many people
who do not understand the extent of the law, nor the exceeding
sinfulness of sin. I feel pretty comfortable this
morning because I haven't killed anybody this week. And I look
back over the week, and I haven't committed adultery this week.
And I look back over the week, and I haven't stolen anything
this week. And I look back over the week,
and my language has been cleaned up pretty good. I haven't taken
God's name in vain. And I look back over the week,
and I haven't, I've been pretty satisfied. Of course, everything's
gone my way. I've had, you know, made good
money this week, and business has been good, and I really haven't
coveted anything. I've been sort of content with
what I have. Well, I've done pretty good with
the law of God. Wait a minute, Christ said, and
I hadn't thrown a mad fit this week, temperament's been pretty
even. I haven't thrown anything through
the window or kicked the car or anything like that. Well,
let's see, Matthew 5, verse 21. You've heard it said by them
of old times, thou shalt not kill. And whosoever shall kill
shall be in danger of the judgment. But I say unto you," Christ said,
"...whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall
be in danger of the judgment. Whosoever shall say to his brother,
Vain fellow, shall be in danger of the counsel. But whosoever
shall say, Thou fool, shalt be in danger of hell fire." Look
at verse 27. You've heard it said by them
of old times, Thou shalt not commit adultery. But I say unto
you, whosoever looketh on a woman, or a person, to lust, to desire,
after her hath committed adultery already with her in his heart. Verse 38, you've heard it said
by them of old time, Eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
I say unto you, resist not evil. Whosoever shall smite thee on
the right cheek, turn the other. Any man that take away you, sue
you at law, and do you dirty, and take away your coat, give
him your cloak. who shall compel you to go a mile, go two. Give
to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow, turn
not away. You've heard it said, Thou shalt love thine neighbor,
and hate thine enemies. I say, love your enemies, bless them
that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them
that despise you." Some folks have seen their sins in that
light, that spiritual growth. That spiritual growth, there
you're coming into progressive sanctification. Not just when
we see our sins as the Holy Spirit brings us to Sinai's mountain
with its awful thundering and lightning and holiness and power,
but when we come to the words of our Master, who opens our
hearts and lets us see the thoughts and the intent and the pride
and the attitude and the motive those things that are there that
are part of us. We see sin in that light. But turn to Isaiah 43. I'm going
to let us look at ourselves and sin this morning in a different
light. I hope I'm not of those who compare
themselves with others. I believe if we were honest,
we'd come up on the short end of it if we did compare, if we
compared it very closely, because if we don't know them, we do
know ourselves. I hope I'm not of those who my only regard for
God is that I might die. My only delight in God and concern
about religious things is there's going to be a judgment. I hope
I've been to Sinai. I hope I've condemned myself.
I hope I've died, been slain by the law, and I hope that daily
God keeps bringing me to the cross and to Christ, and I can
interpret sin in the light of his revelation. But here's a
different light. Somebody said, all of the light
that ever falls upon our natures and our sins that make them to
be so sinful and us to appear so unworthy, fades into nothingness when we
are privileged to view ourselves and our sins, not in the light
of law, but in the light of God's infinite love. Nothing makes me appear so sinful
and so insufficient and so undeserving and so unworthy as when I see
myself under the searchlight Not of God's law, but of God's
love. Now, see if I can make good on
that. Let's look first of all at verse
1, Isaiah 43, verse 1. Listen to the Lord here, Isaiah
43, verse 1. The last line, I have called
thee by name, and thou art mine. I've called thee. Now, I'm not
a stranger to the call of God. Most of you are not. We're not
strangers to the sound of his voice. When Art was praying a moment
ago, my heart thrilled at the words that he said about understanding
who I am and what Christ has done, understanding the gospel. By God's grace, he has revealed
to me the gospel to you. Thank God for that. I'm no stranger
to his voice. He who separated me from my mother's
womb and called me by his grace, I'm no stranger to that call.
I've heard that voice. I've heard his word, I've heard
his gospel, I've heard his Holy Spirit call, and you have too.
We're no strangers to that voice. He said, I have called thee by
name. It was his grace that went down there into the land of Canaan,
the land of curse, and found that unwanted infant. polluted
in his blood, loathsome in his person, and washed him and clothed
him and anointed him and decked him. It was his grace that did
that for me. It was his grace that sent to Lodibar the place
of no bread and no pasture and fetched this lame son of Adam
and brought him home and made him a prince. It was his grace. It was his grace that stopped
that blasphemer on the road to Damascus and made him a believer. It was his grace that stopped
under the tree and called my name and said, Come down, I must
abide at thy house. He called me. He said, I have
called you by name. I have called you. He called
me out of darkness into his marvelous light. He called me out of the
grave. into the life of Jesus Christ. Redeemed, I redeemed
you, he said, I called you. Redeemed, how I love to proclaim
it, redeemed by the blood of the Lamb, redeemed and so happy
in Christ, his child forever I am. I called you by name, not
by your old name, enemy, ungodly, alien, foreigner, stranger, sinner,
not by that name, I called you by a new name. Son of God. Henceforth I call you not servants,
but sons. I've called you." Isn't that
beautiful? I've called you. Not because
of anything I saw in you, or anything I expected out of you,
or anything I hoped to make of you. I called you by name. I redeemed you. I loved you. I made you mine. Unworthy, undeserving. Isn't that beautiful? Turn to
verse 22 and let me show you the contrast. That's viewing
ourselves in the light of his love. Listen to verse 22. But thou hast not called upon
me, but thou hast not called upon
me. I don't know whether you fit
in here or not, but I do. In most of our cases we've called
upon God. Yes, I have called upon God,
but little. What about your prayer life?
I don't wish to judge you, I wish to judge myself. I wish you to
judge yourself. God says, I've called you by
name, but you haven't called upon me. If we think back over
this week and think about we haven't pitched a man-fit and
we haven't stolen a watermill, but have we prayed have we called upon God? What
about our praise? Somebody says, well, I just don't
have the words to pray. You don't seem to find it difficult
to find words to bless somebody out. Somebody says, well, I just
don't, I'm just not a man of words. I don't know about that. I expect you said some pretty
strong words a lot of times, and a lot of them. What about
praising God? We're quick to call on him in
time of trouble, but of what value is this if we forget him
in time of prosperity? What about our witness to others?
What about this week? Have we talked to anybody about
the things of Christ? I know that a gospel conversation
is not always easy to initiate, but how many opportunities we
could have had? to speak a word for Christ if
we're taking advantage of it. Now, you think about that. Let's don't think about ourselves
in the light of Sinai's awful law. Let's don't even think about
ourselves in the light of our Lord's interpretation, that it
not only reaches the actions but the attitude, not only the
manners but the motive. Let's view our our sins and ourselves
in the light of his love. I called you. I went where you were. I found
you dead in trespasses and sin. I found you unworthy, undeserving,
unclean. I called you, but you haven't
called on me." Turn back to Isaiah 43, verse
2. Let's look at something else.
Number 2, you haven't called on me. In verse 2, he said, when you
pass through the waters, the waters of trouble. You know,
trouble and trial in the scriptures is compared to deep water or
troubled water. The wicked man's heart is like
the troubled sea. And our Lord has calmed the waves. Peace be still. He says, when
you pass through the waters, I'll be with you. I've been with
you. And through the rivers, they're
not going to overflow you. When you walk through the fiery
trials, they're not going to burn you. The flames are not
going to kindle upon you. I'm going to be with you. Boy, he has, hasn't he? When
through fiery trials my pathway shall lie, his grace all-sufficient
shall be my supply. Isn't that beautiful? Yes, it
is. Thank God for it. Fear not, I
am with thee, O be not dismayed, I am thy God, I'll still give
thee aid, I'll strengthen thee, help thee, cause thee to stand,
Upheld by my sovereign, omnipotent hand. When has my God ever left
me alone? When has he ever departed from
me? He said he'd give his angels
charge over me, lest I dash my foot against a stone. He said
the hairs of my head are numbered. He said, don't be worried about
what you're going to eat, what you're going to drink, what you're
going to wear. Consider the sparrows. Not a one of them falls to the
earth without your father. Look at the lilies of the field.
Solomon never saw the day that he was as beautiful as they are,
yet I say unto you that today they are, and tomorrow they're
cast into the oven. If God so takes care of the lilies
of the field and the sparrows, will he not take care of you?
We expect it of him. I'll be with you. I'll be with
you. Isn't that beautiful? I'll be
with you. No matter how deep the water,
no matter how fiery the trial, I'll be with you. Verse 23. Let's look at the other side
of this. Verse 22. You haven't called
on me, and you've been, watch it now, you've been weary of
me. I read that to someone this week.
And they frowned and said, Isn't that a dreadful word, weary of
the Lord? That's heartless. You've become
weary of me. Have you? The time was when the
scripture was so vital, so pulsating, so important, so refreshing,
you just feasted on this word. What happened? It's not that way now. I've been
with some of you 26 years. I can see a difference. I remember the time when you
just thirsted for what you could find between the pages of this
book. How vital it was to you, how
refreshing, how precious. It was more important than anything
in the world. What happened? God tells you
what happened. You've grown weary of him. The
time was when prayer and praise came so spontaneously, like breath. Thank God. If you got up in the
morning, you thanked God for a new day. If you walked outside
and it was raining, you thanked God for the rain. If the sun
was shining, you breathed the breath of God's air and thanked
him for the sunshine. Whatever happened during the
day, you just were thrilled with the presence of the Lord. Isn't
it good to be alive? Isn't it good to know Christ? The time was when the preaching
of the Word was the high point of the week. You'd travel for
miles to hear God's Word preached. Now the sermons are too long,
they're too boring, they're too repetitious, or they're too something
else. What happened? I'll tell you
what happened. Right here in verse 22, you've
grown weary of him. That's right, weary of him and
the things pertaining to him. Now you examine your sins, not
in the light of Sinai, and not even in the light of attitude
and motive, but you examine your sins in the light of God's infinite
love. I've been with you. Every time
you pull your car out of the garage, I'm watching over you. Every time you drive down that
highway, I'm watching over you. I'm watching over your children,
watching over your wife. I'm taking care of you. I'm with
you always. I never leave you. You go through
the deep water, I go with you. You go through the fire, I go
with you. But you're weary of me. That's sin. That's wicked. Sinning against law isn't one-tenth,
one-ten-millionth as evil as sinning against law. Sinning
against law. Look at verse 3, Isaiah 43 verse
3, I'm the Lord thy God, only one of Israel thy Savior, I gave
Egypt for your ransom, I gave Ethiopia and Saba, Israel, you
little old peanut country. Why, God's saying two things
here, I passed by others and chose you. Egypt, Egypt was a
rich, mighty nation. Ethiopia, Sheba, were great and
powerful and mighty. What was Israel? Nothing! Nothing! God said, I passed by them and
I chose you. Isn't it amazing? God chose nothing! There are great men in this world,
according to the flesh. There are mighty men in this
world. There are men of rank and renown, and yet God's passed
them by. And in Jollipane he came and
chose you. He passed by the great and the mighty, passed by Egypt
with all its gold and silver and pyramids and monuments and
all these things, passed by Ethiopia with its diamonds. And there he came and picked
you out, right off the dunghill. And I gave a ransom for you. He said, I gave Egypt and Ethiopia
and Cebu to ransom you. Boy, he gave more than that to
ransom us. He gave his Son. God so loved
the world, he gave his Son. He emptied heaven of its unspeakable
jewel, its unspeakable gift. He emptied heaven of its chief
glory, his Son. I sent him down here into this
cursed, wretched, sinful, dark, filthy, guilty world. And he
walked this earth in the flesh and obeyed the law in my stead
and died on the cross for my sins and was buried and rose
again. God Almighty passed by the great and the mighty and
chose me and then by the blood of his Son he ransomed me. He
gave himself. He gave everything. God so loved, he gave. Let's
see about us now. Verse 23. You hadn't called on me, and
you've grown weary of me, and you haven't bought me the small
cattle of your burnt offering, little old kid or lamb. You hadn't
even bought me the small cattle. I hear people arguing about whether
to tie or not to tie. That's foolish talk. Waste of
time. Waste of time. Everything I've
got belongs to him, not just a piece of it. That's my trouble,
God said. I ransomed you, I emptied heaven's
glory for you, I gave everything for you. I gave Egypt and Ethiopia
and Cebu for you, to redeem you, to ransom you. I passed by others
and chose you, and you bring me a little old pittance and
small cattle. I wonder, I wonder, I wonder
just how little of ourselves we have given out of gratitude
and praise to God Almighty. Let me ask you, could the word
sacrifice be connected with anything at all in your relationship to
God? I know his sacrifice, but I'm
talking about you. I'm talking about me. I'm talking
about our time. How much time do you give to
the kingdom of God a week, to your spiritual welfare, to None
of my business, I know it, but it will be some of your business
some day. How much effort? We'll sacrifice,
we'll save, we'll do anything to put a son through college.
What would you do to put a missionary on the field? Think about it. We'll sacrifice and save and
obligate ourselves for a large percentage of our monthly salary
to buy a beautiful home and a fine car. Just exactly how much are
you willing to give for the preaching of the gospel? We'll sacrifice to have the luxuries
and comforts that we think we can't live without, but God's
kingdom can suffice with our leftovers. He says, gave everything for
you. Gave everything for you. You have not even brought me
the small cattle. And then last of all, he says
over here, this is what I'm saying, we all shape up pretty good and
we start looking at ourselves compared to others. We all shape
up pretty good when we think about the holy law, you know.
I hear these preachers preaching on the law as the rule of life.
Not one of them can keep it. I don't know why in the world
they want to rule. It's so impossible. And even Christ's interpretation.
But my problem, my problem, and I believe the problem of most
of you, is viewing myself and my sin and my ingratitude in
the light of his total, absolute, infinite, everlasting love for
me. How much he's done for me. And
then I start deciding what part belongs to him. And then I regard and consider
when the people of God are met together to preach the word,
to worship God, and I had rather be someplace else. I don't care
how important it is. There's something wrong with
it. And verse 4, you were precious
in my sight, and you've been honored. Oh, how I've honored
you! I've honored you with sonship,
I've made you my son. I've honored you with fellowship,
with me and my people, what a privilege God has given us to fellowship
with one another. To walk through the door and
these folks take you by the hand, and, hi, brother, I tell you,
that's something. That's something. We've been
honored with station. We've seated in Christ. We've
been honored with glory, the very glory of the Son of God.
has come down upon us, we're healed. Let's look at verse 23
and see what we've done. He said, You haven't brought
to me the small cattle, neither have you honored me with our
sacrifice. You haven't honored me. How does
one honor God? How does a person honor God? Well, let me give you quickly
six things, and this will be brief, and I'll close. First
of all, it's to believe his word. What shall we do that we might
work the works of God? This is the work of God, that
you believe on him whom God has sent. It's to believe the gospel.
I believe, I honor God when I believe his word. That way, you, Ronnie
Gregg, if you tell me something, and that you're going to do tomorrow,
And I believe you and expect it of you, I've honored you.
I've honored your worth. I've respected your worth. If
I doubt you, I've dishonored you. If I say, well, he won't
do that. He said he would, but he won't.
That's dishonoring. That's not respectful. We honor
God by believing him. Secondly, we honor God by reverencing
his name. Holy and reverent is his name.
How holy is the name of our God. Our Lord and Master. He said,
you call me Lord, you say, well, for so I am. I am the Lord. We honor God by reverencing his
name. Thirdly, we honor God by confessing
his Son. Turn to John 5. I want you to
look at this. John 5, by confessing his Son. John 5, verse 23. That all men
should honor the Son. Even as they honor the Father,
he that honoreth not the Son honoreth not the Father. Fourthly, it is to honor him
not with my lips. Turn to Matthew 15.8. Look at
this right here. This is the verse I'm talking
about. Not with my lips. He said, These people draw nigh
unto me with their mouths, and they honor me with their lips.
It's not just to go around singing, Oh, how I love Jesus and these
things. It's not just, but their heart
is far from me. It's to honor him with good thoughts
in my heart about him, about his purpose, about his providence,
about his grace, about his word. It's to honor him with my thoughts
in my heart. And then fourth, fifthly, it
is to bow to his will. bow to his will, thy will be
done." Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is
in heaven. God's will be done. He said,
don't say, don't say I'm going to the city and abide there a
year and do business and get gains. Say, the Lord willing,
I'm going. We could cultivate that. If it's
in here, I believe it would come out. And I don't mean just to
get in the habit of saying, the Lord willing, the Lord willing,
the Lord willing, but actually to bring ourselves to the place
where we really believe that it's only his will that shall
be done. And we're in subjection to that
will, the Lord willing. And then in the next place, turn
to 1 Peter 1.7. To honor God is to endure trial
as a submissive son. is to endure trial as a submissive
son, bearing a good witness for the glory of Christ. In 1 Peter
1, verse 7, that the trial of your faith, being much more precious
than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire,
might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing
of our Lord Jesus Christ. I'll tell you, when we view ourselves
and our sins in the light of his infinite love, what wretched
creatures! Let's do something about it.
What ungrateful, unthankful creatures! How unworthy of such love! worthy
of God's wrath, how can I call myself God's son? He said, I've
called you, but you haven't called me. And I'm with you, and you've
grown weary of me, and I gave everything to ransom you, and
you won't even bring me the small cattle. And I've honored you.
What honor have I put upon you? Have you honored me? I'm Father
in Heaven. We come before the broken, contrite,
convicted, our ungodly, that anyone should
grow weary of such love, that anyone should grow weary of such
mercy and such grace, such infinite love. How selfish and greedy
and covetous we are to take those things that are not ours, but
that are all thine, and give unto us as stewards of thy grace
and of thy mercy, and keep them for ourselves, and use them only
for our comforts and our satisfaction, and to forget thy grace and thy
mercy and thy love to us. Thou who hast honored us, what
holy, solemn honor Thou hast conferred upon us, and yet we
have not honoured Thee. O God, we pray that Thy Holy
Spirit would awaken our hearts and reveal to us our sins, and
bring us to say, Lord, forgive us, show mercy, and grant that
we may be more like our Lord with each passing day. to give
thee the glory and the praise that's due unto thy matchless
name, for Christ's sake we pray. Amen.

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