What Do We Mean By the Word Saved?

Now the greatest word in this
Bible is the word God. It has no rival. It contains all things. The eternal Trinity, Creator
and creation. God is holy. God is love, God
is truth. Let His name be spoken with the
greatest reverence and awe and fear, for holy and reverent is
His name. I was thinking last night how
seldom in my life have I heard a message on the subject who
is God. How seldom do preachers bring
messages, sermons, on the subject of God. Who is God? His holiness,
His majesty, His power, His greatness, His sovereignty. Most messages
are about men. Most messages are about the nobility
of men rather than the nobility of God. The dignity of man instead
of God's sovereignty and God's majesty and God's power. The
greatest word in this Bible is God. The greatest word in the
universe is God. Praise God from whom all blessings
flow. Praise Him, all creatures here
below. Praise God, Father, Son, and
Holy Spirit. Holy and reverent is his name. There's no greater word than
the word God. All that it is and all that it
contains and all that it implies, God. Well, the blackest word
in this Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, the blackest word,
the darkest word, is the word sin. By sin came death. It is sin that darkened man's
character. It is sin that killed man's soul. It is sin that separated us from
God and from good and from holiness. It's sin that marred and destroyed
creation. All that is good is God and all
that is bad and all that is evil and all that is dark comes from
sin. There's no blacker word. There's
no darker word. than the word sin. Sin. Sin visited God's universe. Sin visited God's paradise. Sin visited God's creation. Sin visited God's sons. And sin nailed Christ to the
cross. It is sin that opens the grave. It is God Almighty that can give
the victory. Well, the saddest word in this
Bible The saddest word in this Bible
is the word, depart from me. In your wildest imagination,
in your darkest nightmare, can you think of any word more horrible,
any word more hopeless than at that great day to stand before
the living God and hear Him, hear Him say, Depart from me. I never knew you. Depart from
me. I never knew you. I can't think
of a sadder word. I can't think of a greater word
than God and all that it is and all that it contains. I cannot
think of a blacker word than the word sin. It's sin that brought
blackness and death and darkness. And I can't think of a, I can't
think of a sadder word, a more hopeless word, than to hear God
say, Depart! Depart! I never knew you. What would you say is the most
precious word in this Bible, the sweetest word? I say the
sweetest word in all the Bible is the name Jesus Christ. Jesus, oh, how sweet the name. Jesus, every day the same. Jesus, let all saints proclaim
His worthy name. That's the sweetest word in the
Bible, the word Jesus. What the hand is to the lute,
what the breath is to the flute, what is fragrance to the smell,
what is the spring to the whale, what is the flower to the bee?
That's Jesus Christ to me. What the mother is to the child,
what the compass in pathless wild, what is all to trouble
wave, what is ransom to the slave, what is water to the sea? Well,
that's Jesus Christ to me. That's the sweetest word. Somebody
says the sweetest word is the word mother. I do not believe
it. The sweetest word is the word
love. I do not believe it. The sweetest
word is Jesus Christ. Peter said, He to them that believe,
He is precious. For David said, When my mother
and father forsake me, then the Lord will take me up. And our
Lord said, He that cometh to me must come loving less than
me, his mother, father, husband, wife, brother, sister, yea, his
own life also. He has no rival. The sweetest
word in the Bible is Jesus Christ. He has no rival. Where he has
a rival, he does not exist. Where he has a rival, he does
not live. Where he has a rival, he does
not reign. where he has a rival he does
not abide. The sweetest one. My subject
today is the happiest word in the Bible. The happiest word
in the Bible is the word S-A-V-E-D, saved. For to be saved is to
be forgiven of all sins. Happy is the man to whom God
will not charge sin. That's what the Bible says. Happy,
is the man to whom God will not charge sin. For in Christ we
have redemption, the forgiveness of sin." There's no happier state
than to be forgiven. Thy sins be forgiven thee. To be saved from sin is to have
peace with God. I hear people continually talking
about being nervous. They're nervous because they
don't have peace with God. Therefore, being justified by
faith, we have peace with God. My peace I give unto you, Christ
said. Let not your heart be nervous,
troubled. We have peace with God. To be
saved is to have peace. Entering into His rest, ceasing
from our labor, ceasing from our work, entering into a quietness
of spirit, which the hymn writer called blessed quietness. To
be saved is to be free, free. If the Son shall make you free,
you shall be free indeed. Not profess to be free, free. Not claim to be free, free. Not
sit in the prison of servitude to self-righteousness and sing
of your freedom, but actually to be out there free from it.
To be in Christ, to be saved, is to be free. Christ hath redeemed
us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. We
are free from the law, O happy condition. Jesus has died and
there's remission. To be saved is to be free from
condemnation. There is no condemnation to them
who are in Christ. Paul said, Who can condemn me? Who can lay anything to my charge?
I challenge heaven, earth, and hell to sit in condemnation on
one for whom Christ died. To be saved is to have eternal
life. This is the record God has given
us, eternal life. This is God's promise, God's
gift. This is the record right here.
And this life is in His Son, and he that hath the Son hath
life. To be saved is to have the Spirit
of God. If any man have not the Spirit
of God, he's none of His. Saved. Not claimed to be, saved. Not professed to be, saved by His power divine. Saved to
new life. Not just an outward life, not
a veneer of religion, saved to new life sublime. Life now is
sweet. Life is sweet. Life now is sweet. And my joy is complete joy, for I'm saved. I'm saved. I'm saved. That's the happiest word in the
world. to be realized, to be experienced, of which one actually partakes. You call me Lord with your lips,
Christ said, but your hearts are far from me. If your hearts
are ever saved by power divine to new life sublime, life will
be sweet. And if life is not sweet, you're
not saved. My joy is complete, and if it's
not, I don't know God, for I'm saved. I'm saved. The Bible talks about being saved
with difficulty. It talks about being saved by
faith. It talks about being saved by
hope. It talks about being saved by
losing. I want to look at all four of
those briefly. First of all, in 1 Peter 4. Verse
18. I'm going to be quite blunt with
you this morning. I'm going to be quite frank and
quite honest. I do not believe that most professors
of religion are S-A-V-E-D. I don't believe it. Because life is not sweet. Joy
is not complete. I do not believe that most people
who claim to know God have ever met him. I do not believe it.
I think the religious world is the same as it was when Christ
came, in name only, in doctrine only, in deed only, in word only,
not in truth. And my greatest burden and my
deepest ambition and heartfelt desire, like Paul said, for my
brethren, is that they might be saved. Brethren, he said, my heart's
desire and my prayer to God for Israel is that they might be
saved. He cried to the church at Galatia,
O I travail till Christ be formed in you. In 1 Peter 4, verse 18, look
at this verse carefully. And if the righteous scarcely
be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? If the
righteous scarcely be saved. Preacher, what does the word
scarcely mean? Well, first of all, it doesn't
mean that there's any uncertainty about the salvation of God's
people, we're complete in Christ. Christ gives us a complete salvation,
a full salvation. We're complete in Him. There's
nothing lacking in Christ. There's nothing that Christ does
not supply. He supplies unto us wisdom, righteousness,
sanctification, and redemption. It's all in Him. It doesn't mean
there's any uncertainty about our salvation. who are the redeemed
of Christ. Second, the word scarcely does
not mean barely get to heaven, if the righteous barely be saved. It doesn't mean that at all,
for the Scripture tells us that a full entrance, a full entrance
is provided in Christ. We shall sweep through to glory. We shall sweep through the glory
in full array, clothed in His righteousness victorious. You
know what it means? The word scarcely here means
with difficulty. With difficulty. That's the word. If the righteous, those who know
God, those who really believe God, those who walk with God,
those in whom God lives, Those to whom the kingdom of God is
of utmost importance. Those to whom a relationship
with God is the supreme object of their affections, if they
with difficulty be saved. If they with difficulty be saved. Where shall the man who is careless
and indifferent, where shall he appear? What is this difficulty? First of all, the difficulty
lay with God. Do you know it wasn't easy for
God to save your soul? Do you know it wasn't easy for
God to make you whole? We talk about the simple plan
of salvation. I'd like to know what's simple
about it. Job cried, how can man be just with God? Job cried, how can he be clean
that's born of a woman? Here are questions that would
baffle angels and baffle cherubims and seraphims. Here are questions
that will baffle the wisest of men. How can God be just and
justify the ungodly? Every attribute must be honored. Every attribute must be exalted. How can God show mercy at the
expense of His holiness? How can God show grace at the
expense of His righteousness? When Mr. Spurgeon was only twenty
years of age, when he pastored the New Park Street Baptist Church,
of which John Gill and John Rippon were pastors, There was an old
Irishman by the name of Pat who came to him one Sunday after
the service and said, Mr. Spurgeon, I'm a great sinner. I would like to know how that
God can justify and forgive me of my sins and still be a holy
God, a just God. How can God not punish me? How
can God not send me to hell? I'm worthy of hell. I deserve
hell. I ought to be punished. If God
punishes anybody, he ought to punish me. How can he take me
to glory and justify me?" Mr. Spurgeon said, "'You're not a
member of this church, are you?' He said, "'No, sir.'" He said,
"'What are you?' He said, "'I'm a Catholic.'" He said, "'Why
don't you go ask your priest?' And old Pat replied, I asked
him, but I wasn't satisfied with his answer. And now I'm asking
you. And Mr. Spurgeon said, Well,
Pat, let me give you an illustration. Suppose there's an Irishman that
has committed a murder. He deserves to be hanged. He's
already been sentenced and tried, tried and sentenced, and is awaiting
execution. Now, Pat, suppose if it were
possible I could go to the Queen And I could say to her, Queen
Victoria, old Pat the Irishman is guilty of murder. I'm not. Old Pat's in jail. I'm not. Old
Pat's going to be hanged. I'm not. Can I take his place? And suppose the Queen would permit
me to take your place, if it were possible. And I take your
place, and they hang me in your place and in your stead. Now
Pat, suppose the magistrate comes to you a little later and says,
Pat, we're going to hang you for murder. What would you say?
Pat would say, you're not going to hang me. That gentleman's
already taken my place, and that gentleman's already taken my
sentence and died for me. You can't hang two men for the
same crime. And Mr. Spurgeon said, Pat, that
is the gospel. And that's how God can be just
and justify you. Jesus Christ, who was innocent
and holy and without sin, came down here and took Pat's place
and was nailed to the cross for Pat's sin. and took Pat's condemnation
and Pat's judgment and died in Pat's place. He was wounded for
our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. By his strife we're healed. Now,
Pat, God will not send to hell two men for the same sins. Christ has borne your hell and
died for your sins, and God can now be just and justify the ungodly. God can now be righteous. and
set Pat free. Just like the Queen could now
be righteous and set free a guilty man because another man died
in his place. If the righteous be saved with
difficulty, the difficulty lay with God. His justice had to
be honored. His law had to be honored. The
debt had to be paid. All right, the second difficulty
was our lack of will. Now here's a problem. You will
not come to me that you might have life, Christ said. We read
a moment ago in John 3, men love darkness rather than light because
their deeds are evil. The scripture says men are lovers
of themselves more than God. This thing of salvation involves
an act of the will. Whosoever will, let him take
the water of life. Men must be made willing. God
never saves a man against his will or apart from his will.
That sinner must be willing to love Christ, willing to receive
Christ, willing to come to Christ, willing to bow to Christ. When
God had Noah build the ark before the flood came, he said to Noah,
Noah come into the ark. He didn't pick him up and put
him in. He didn't drag him in. He didn't
force him in. He said, come in. And Noah willingly
came into the ark. And men who are saved willingly
bow to the scepter of Christ. They willingly bow to the Lordship
of Christ. They willingly receive Christ. They willingly trust Christ. They willingly commit their souls
to Christ. They do it coming to Him willingly. Do you see that? Anybody who
wills to be saved or wants to be saved can be saved. But who's willing? And who wants
to? Our wills are stubborn things. We love sin. We love darkness. There's none that seeketh after
God. There's none that understand
it. All we like sheep have gone astray. We've turned everyone
to his own way. Where is the man, woman, boy
or girl who is willing to bow to God's way? To God's way. Lord, thy will be done. That takes the power of God's
Spirit. Salvation is more than a decision.
It's a supernatural work of regeneration. It takes the power of God to
make a man willing. It takes the power of God. Oh, we might get men to decide
today to do God's will, but what about tomorrow? We may get a
man today willing to accept Christ, but what about tomorrow? next
week, next month, next year. We may, under the high pressure
of evangelism or the emotion of religion, get a person to
make a religious commitment in this service, but what about
tonight, tomorrow, Tuesday, next week, next month? We may get his legs to perform
a duty, even his mouth to perform a work, even his hands to perform
a work, but who's going to capture his heart? Who's going to capture
his will? Who's going to make him submissive
in soul to God, huh? He's a rebel in here. We can't do that. God has to
do it. Who can make a rebel a willing slave? Who can make a rebel,
a submissive servant, only the power of God? That's the difficulty
of salvation. You can get men to join your
churches, nothing to it. You can get men to agree to go
to heaven, nothing to it. You can get men to agree to believe
your doctrine, if it's a logical doctrine, nothing to it. But
only God can break a heart. Only God can break a heart. I
heard a story about the little boy. One day his mother said
to him, Johnny, sit down. He just kept standing there.
She said, sit down. And he did. And under his voice
he said, I'm sitting down on the outside, but I'm standing
up on the inside. And that's the way the heart
of man is. That's the way the will of man
is. He's sitting down on the outside. He's playing religion
on the outside. He's playing church. He's singing
hymns on the outside. And he's doing good works on
the outside, but on the inside he's a rebel. And only God can
conquer that inward rebellious soul. That's the difficulty. That's the difficulty. The difficulty
is with our flesh. Our Lord said to Peter, turn
to Luke chapter 22. Let me show you something here.
Luke chapter 22, verse 31. This is amazing, watch it. After
three and a half years with the Lord, after three and a half
years of preaching, after three and a half years of walking with
the Master, our Lord said, Peter, verse thirty-one, Lord said,
Simon, Satan hath desired to have you that he may sift you
as wheat, but I prayed for you that your faith fail not, and
when you are converted, strengthen your brethren. Now you know if a preacher stood
before his board of deacons or elders or Sunday school teachers
or choir members or leaders in the church and people who have
been in the church for three or four years and said, fellow,
when you're converted, when you're converted, God will use you to
be a blessing to somebody else. What do you mean, Peter? I'm
already converted. Are you? Are you? The Lord said, Peter, when you're
converted, when you're converted, I'm already converted. in profession
or experience. In outward profession or inward
experience, which are you converted? If the righteous with difficulty
be saved. Now you can talk with this presumption
if you want to, that's your business. But I'm saying if Christ is not
being formed in you, you haven't been converted. You haven't been
saved. If the righteous be saved with
difficulty, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? All right,
look at the second word now in Luke chapter 7. In Luke 7, verse
50. Listen to this. Luke 7, 50. And he said to the woman, Thy
faith hath saved thee. Saved by faith. Thy faith hath
saved thee. You know, one old man said, one
great preacher of the past said this, when I read this story
in the Bible, it's not one on which I can preach very well.
For really, I'd rather not preach about it, I'd rather weep over
it. Now here's the picture. Our Lord
had been invited to a religious man's home, a man called Simon
the Pharisee. And he'd come into the home.
The custom in those days when a man came to your home, people,
they didn't have paved streets and sidewalks. They walked on
dust and dirt and sand. They wore sandals. You know what
they wore, robes and sandals. And when a man came into your
home, if you had invited him as a guest, the first thing at
the door, a servant met him and washed his feet in cool water
and dried them and then put an oil on his feet, an ointment.
And he came in and after that ritual was completed, the man
of the house or the host or the hostess would embrace the person
who came in, let them know their welcome. And then they escorted
him over to a place where they reclined to eat. The table was
in the middle, and people reclined out from the table. They didn't
sit in chairs like we do around the table, but they reclined
on pillows all around the table. And this man, Simon, being an
important man, he had his guests out here. Christ was one of them.
They were around the table reclining, and he was sitting over with
some of his exclusive friends in a separate place, the uppermost
seat. That's what they chose, these
religious Pharisees. And Christ was lying over here
on the pillars. He was eating. He was a guest
in this man's home. Well, when he came in, the man
didn't give him any water to wash his feet. He didn't anoint
his feet. He greeted him with no kiss.
Christ was a was from the other side of the tracks, as far as
this fellow was concerned. It was beneath his dignity to
perform these services for such a low person as Jesus Christ. But he wanted to talk to him,
he wanted to observe him, so he invited him to eat, and Christ
came to eat with him. And while he was there, the door opened,
and I'm sure when that door opened, everybody's eyes went that way,
and in that door stood a woman of the streets whom they all
knew, a prostitute. And everything, I'm sure, got
quiet. And she braved the stares of those men and the stares of
that religious ruler, Simon. And she came quietly and then
fell on her knees and came up behind Jesus Christ. And there
his feet were out there, dusty, tired, weary, and she began to
cry. She began to weep, and her tears
just streamed down over his feet as she kissed his feet and held
them in her hands, weeping. And she saw that the tears were
falling on the dust of his feet, and they were just making little
rivlets across his feet through the dust, and so she unplatted
her hair. Harlots wore their hair plaited
then. She unplaited that long hair,
the glory of woman, and dried his feet with those hairs. They're
treasures. She dried his feet, the dust
and the dirt and the stain and the tears. And she had with her
a bottle of precious ointment, and when she dried his feet,
she poured that ointment over his feet and rubbed the ointment
in, and then dried them again with her hair. weeping, weeping with such compassion
as to cover his feet with tears. She cried and wept in humility. Her object was to get to Christ. Her tears fell on Christ. Her
tresses were a towel for His feet. Her faith was humble. Her faith was reverent. Her faith
was loving. Her faith was submissive. And
Christ turned to her and he said, Woman, thy faith hath made thee
whole. Thy faith. Do we know anything about that
kind of broken spirit? We're such proud people, we're
such arrogant people, we're such haughty people. Where would you
be seated at that feast? Would you be seated up here in
the important place? Where would you actually be?
Considering your present attitude, considering your present spirit,
considering your present relationship with God Almighty, considering
your present religion, mine too, I think, where would I be seated?
Maybe I'd be out there on the street. I don't know whether
I'd even be in the feast or not. Or perhaps I'd be seated up there
as the leader, the main character in this little drama. Maybe I'd be seated up there
looking down my nose at this woman, critical of her profession,
or critical of her life, or critical of her presence. What in the
world is she doing here? Where would I be? Or maybe I
would be with that fellow. Maybe I'd be seated there at
his table Maybe I wouldn't be down here with this carpenter,
this man that's got calluses on his hands that works for a
living. Maybe I wouldn't be around there
with the fishermen and these disciples that came in with him,
that crowd that run with him. Maybe I wouldn't be there. Would
I? You know where I'd like to be? I know where the blessing
was. It wasn't up there. It wasn't
over there. And it wasn't around here. The
blessing was down there at the feet. That's where the mercy
was. There's where the grace was.
There's where the peace was. There's where the forgiveness
fell. That's where God's grace fell, right down there. That's
where I'd like to be. And by God's grace, that's where
I'm gonna be. If it takes the daily killing
of this flesh, and the crucifixion of this flesh, and the disowning
of this flesh, and the abasement of this flesh, whatever it takes,
that's where by God's grace I'm going to be, weeping over my
sins. Paul said, I am less than the
least of all the saints. Have we ever felt that? I am the chief of sinners. I'm
not fit," he said, to be an apostle. I tell you, the attitude of this
religious world is so contrary to God's Word and contrary to
real grace, it's tragic. It is absolutely tragic. We're
striving for acceptance. We're going about to establish
a righteousness. We're seeking to build a profession. We're looking for knowledge,
ever learning and never coming to knowledge of the truth. We're
climbing the ladder of holiness. And the blessings down there
at his feet. We've graduated from that place.
And then we became, we graduated from repentance and submission
and contrition and crying and weeping. We graduated from that
and moved up here beside Jesus. Me and Jesus, we got a good thing
going. We sat for a while at the table
with Him, and then now we graduated and we're up yonder in the upper
seats. We don't even sit down here anymore.
We've graduated to the place where we can look down on folks
and judge them and be critical of them and find fault with them.
But that's where the blessing is. Christ never gave a thing
to Simon, but he turned to that woman and said, your faith, your
faith, faith that has broken you, faith that has smitten you,
faith that has brought you down in the dust of humility to kiss
the sun, your faith that made you whole. God saves sinners. sinners. And nobody's going to
be saved till he either becomes a sinner, becomes a sinner, or
discovers his sin. All right, the third scripture,
now Romans 8, I've got to quit, I've got to hurry, time's gone.
Romans 8, verse 24, it says we're saved by hope. Hope. Now, the world uses this word,
hope, in this way, I hope it rains. I hope it doesn't rain. I hope he gets well. I hope the
fruit trees don't get killed. Well, this is not really hope
at all. This is a wish. This is a desire. I hope. Hope, this is not, the word is
wrongly used. It's just not even supposed to
be used that way. I hope it rains. The word you
should use is, I wish it rains. I desire reign, but hope, the
word hope must be always based on reasons and expectation, or
it's not hope. I have a good hope. You mean
by that that you have a reason for that hope. And this is the
way that we're saved by hope. We hope to be forgiven. We hope
to have life. We hope to be resurrected with
Him. We hope to reign with Christ
because we've got a reason for that, and here's the reason.
God's Word says so. That's the first reason. God's
Word says so. He that believeth on the Son
hath life. Secondly, Christ's death is sufficient. My hope is based on God's Word. My hope is based on Christ's
death. Thirdly, Christ arose. And if
Christ be risen, then you and I have hope of resurrection.
You see? So we're saved by hope. Hope
that is based not only on desire, but hope that is based on reason
and expectation. Saved by hope. The Word of God is our reason.
The righteousness of Christ is our reason. The death of Christ
is our reason. And the resurrection of Christ
is our reason. So we have a good hope based
on those things. Now the fourth. Matthew 16. Matthew
16, verse 25. We're saved by losing. We're saved by losing. Now this
is important, and I want you to look at it. Matthew 16, 25,
and I'll let you go in a moment. Then said Jesus unto his disciples,
If any man will come after me, let him deny himself take up
his cross and follow me. Listen. For whosoever shall save
his life will lose it. And whosoever shall lose his
life for my sake shall find it. What does he say? Listen. Whosoever
is desirous of saving himself from the offense of the cross,
from the reproach of the gospel, from the offense of identification
with God's people and Jesus Christ, whosoever is desirous of delivering
himself from the consequences of faith, from the offense of
the cross, by forsaking the gospel and denying Jesus Christ, will
lose his life. He'll lose his life. Whosoever
is desirous of saving himself from trouble, saving himself
from trial, saving himself from the difficulties of the gospel,
by departing from the will of God, will lose his life. Whosoever shall set his affections
on the world with its ambitions, and with its vanities, and with
its glories, and with its fleshly satisfying objects, and deliver
his life from suffering for Christ's sake, will lose his life. But
he said whosoever shall lose his life in the gospel, in whatever
trial God calls him to bear, who is willing to endure the
shame, the reproach, the heartache associated with a faithful testimony,
whosoever is willing to endure the offense of the cross and
to give himself, not for his own satisfaction, but for Christ's
glory and the good of others. Whosoever is willing for his
life to be immersed in this will of God, in this kingdom of God,
in this program of God, to honor and glorify Jesus Christ, he'll save his life. Now let's face it, our greatest
enemy is S-E-L-F, self. That's our greatest enemy. That's
who we consider That's who we think about. That's who welfare
we are concerned with. Self. We feel sorry for ourselves. We provide for ourselves. Our interest is not Christ and
his glory. Our compassion and affection
is not upon others, their welfare, their well-being, their happiness.
The glory of Jesus Christ, it's S-E-L-F. Now if you continue
to bow to that idol, if you continue to worship at the shrine of that
idol of self, you'll lose your life. But whosoever shall lose
his life, the glory of Christ is my chief concern. The witness
of the gospel is my chief concern. It's the object of myâ€”whatever
shame I must endure, whatever apologies I must make, whatever
submission I must perform, whatever humility God's pleased to bring
me through, I'm concerned for one thing, the glory of Jesus
Christ, and the happiness of others, and the testimony and
gospel of the Son of God. Now you lose your life in that
way and you'll save it. One great old missionary, I forget
his name, but I remember reading about him. He left this country
when he was a young man, he and his wife, and they labored overseas
on the mission field for forty years. And when he returned to
this country, he left over there on the foreign field, buried
his wife and all three of his sons. And he came back to this
country to finish out his days alone, having retired from missionary
work, his health broken, living alone. And this was the comment
which he wrote in a book entitled Experiences of Those Who Knew
God. He wrote these words, If I had
my life to live all over again. For the glory of God, I'd walk
the same path, I'd weep the same tears, I'd visit the same cemeteries,
for all that I have lost shall be gained eternally in God's
kingdom. All that I've lost shall be gained
eternally in God's kingdom. If I save my life, I'm going
to lose it. If I preserve it, if I keep it,
if I protect it with my self-interest in mind, I'm going to lose it.
But if I can possibly, by the grace of God, bring it with all
that it is and put it as it were on God's altar and say, All right,
God, you do with me what you will, whatever you will, but
make me thy servant.

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