Verse 10, For in that he died,
he died unto sin once, and in that he liveth, he lives unto
God. Now won't you stay with me right
here. Here we have the same declaration concerning our Lord and Savior
as we have in verse 2 concerning the believer. Now will you look
at that? Look at verse 10 first. In that he died, he died unto
sin. Christ died unto sin. What does
verse 2 say? God forbid, how shall we that
are dead to sin live any longer therein? Christ died to sin.
We died to sin. Now then, stay with me and listen.
Whatever the expression signifies in verse 10, it signifies in
verse 2, doesn't it? Huh? Christ died to sin. We died to sin. It says in verse
10, he died to sin. Death hath no more dominion over
him. He died to sin. He lives under God. Verse 2 says,
we died to sin. We don't live any more in sin.
We live under God. So whatever it means about Christ
means about me, doesn't it? He died to sin. He lives to God. I died to sin. That's why I live
to God. Let's see what it means. Most of the Methodist writers
and other what we call free will writers say that we died to the
power of sin. That's what they say verse 2
is. We died to the power of sin. Well, Christ never felt the power
of sin. Christ couldn't die to the power
of sin because he never felt the power of sin. Christ felt
the guilt of sin The guilt of our sins was upon
him. He was numbered with the transgressors.
He died to the guilt of sin. To the guilt of our sins, which
he took upon himself. That's right, isn't it? Christ
died to the guilt of sin. And we, dying with Christ, died
to sin precisely in the same way he died to it. He died to
the guilt of sin. Death hath no more dominion.
Sin hath no more dominion. No condemnation. He's free from
sin. He that's dead is free justified. Our dying with Christ brings
us into an entirely different state from that in which we formerly
were in, in respect to our relationship with God. Having been delivered
from sin's guilt, being dead to it, we are in consequence
delivered from its reigning power. I want to read you something
that William Romaine wrote, verse 11, on verse 11. Likewise reckon
ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin. Same way, same
way Christ died to sin. under the guilt of sin, he died
to sin's guilt one time, to sin's condemning power, and death hath
no more dominion over him. Likewise, reckon yourselves to
be dead in the same way, but alive unto God. Now, I want you
to listen to this. It won't take but a minute to read it, but
it's important. True spiritual mortification And that's what
we're after, aren't we? Mortify therefore your members
which are upon the earth, and so forth. True spiritual mortification
does not consist in sin not being in you. To deny that would be
to make God a liar. To deny that would be to deceive
yourself. True spiritual mortification
is not in sin being crucified daily. There must be something
more than this to establish a perfect peace in your conscience. And
that is the testimony of God concerning the body of sin. God
has provided for your perfect deliverance from sin in Christ. Everything needful for that purpose
was finished by Christ on that cross. He was your surety. Your
sins were crucified with him. They were put to death when he
died. He was your covenant head. He was your legal representative.
The law has no more right to condemn you than it has to condemn
him. Justice is bound to deal with
you as it has dealt with your risen Savior. You are dead to
sin. If you don't see this, if you
don't see this complete mortification in Christ and Christ alone, sin
is going to reign in you. sin's going to have its way with
you. No sin can be crucified either
in heart or life until it's first pardoned in the conscience. If it's not pardoned in the conscience,
if our hearts condemn us, there will be want of faith to receive
the strength and power of Christ by whom alone it can be crucified. If sin is not mortified in its
guilt, it will never be subdued in its power. If the believer
does not see his perfect deadness in Christ, he will open a wide
door to unbelief. If he does not see his completeness
in Christ and Christ alone, he will leave room for self-righteousness,
legalism, and personal merit. That's the most dangerous position
a man can be in. Now in this second half of Romans
6, the Apostle is exhorting believers to live agreeably to the holy
nature which they have, and to live agreeably to the design
of the gospel. Those two things, this is the
object of the verses which I read this evening. Two things are
pointed out all the way through this last half of Romans 6. That we should live agreeably
to the holy nature which God has given us, and that we should
live in a consistent manner with the design of the gospel. Now
we know that those who are justified are sanctified. You cannot be
sanctified unless you're justified, and you cannot be justified if
you're not sanctified. Christ lives in every believer.
He said, if any man have not the Spirit of God, he's none
of his. As many as are led by the Spirit
of God are the sons of God. If we're sons of God, we're led
by the Spirit of God. if we're led by the Spirit of
God, we're sons of God. The Holy Spirit has given to
every believer a new nature, a new heart, a heart that loves
God and a heart that loves God's law. Every believer loves God. Every believer loves God's law.
And yet God is pleased to allow us to act with Him in sanctification. If you'll turn to Philippians
chapter 2, now this is important here to lay a foundation for
what I'm going to be teaching. In the first part of Romans 6,
Paul has proved that the doctrine of justification by faith does
not lead to sin. It's the foundation for holiness.
And in the last half of this chapter, there are two things
We don't want to try to get any more than those two things. We
are exhorted to live agreeably to the holy nature which we have.
And we're exhorted to live consistent with the design of the gospel.
And every man who's justified is sanctified. No question about
that. There's no such thing as carnal
Christians. They're Christians who act carnally.
But there's no such thing as carnal Christians. There's no
such thing as a man who has received Christ as his Savior, but not
as his Lord. There's no such thing as a believer
who does not have the Holy Spirit. If any man have not the Spirit
of Christ, he doesn't belong to Christ. There's no such thing
as a man who's a son of God who is not led by the Spirit of God.
But God Almighty has been pleased to allow us to work, to act with
Him in sanctification. Now, Philippians 2, verse 12.
Paul says, Wherefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not
as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work
out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God
that worketh in you, both to will and to do of his good pleasure. It's God that works in you. to
enable you to want to do His good pleasure and enable you
to do His good pleasure. It is God who works in you both
to will and to do of His good pleasure. Do all things without
murmuring and disputing that you may be blameless and harmless,
the sons of God, without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and
perverse nation among whom you shine as lights in the world.
holding forth the word of life, that I may rejoice in the day
of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain."
Now these exhortations which follow, beginning with verse
12, are outward means which God employs to effect His holy purpose. These verses which follow are
outward means. God is pleased to use means to
affect our righteousness and holiness. In verse 12, let not
sin, therefore, reign in your mortal body. Now since Christ
reigns in the believer's heart, sin should not reign and shall
not reign. Sin is always pictured as a king,
a reigning power. Sin rules in the world, but it
does not rule in the believer. Sin is king in the world, but
it's not king in the believer. Christ is king. Sin cannot be
king where Christ is king. We're dead to sin, but sin's
not dead in the believer. It struggles. It makes war. It tries us. but it cannot dominate,
it cannot control, it cannot reign, because Christ reigns,
and a man cannot serve two masters. Now John Gill had this to say,
the lusts of this body are many, and flesh has great strength,
and are said to be obeyed when we make provisions for these
things, without struggle and without opposition. Robert Haldane
had this to say, Sin is still a force in the believer to be
reckoned with, but it is not a force to be obeyed. It is not
a force to be allowed to reign. Sin must be and will be by the
believer constantly resisted. Augustine had this to say, The
apostle does not say that in believers there is no sin. While
they are in their mortal bodies, sin shall be present, but sin
shall not reign in the believer. That's what Paul is saying in
verse 12. Let not sin therefore reign in
your mortal bodies, that you should obey it in the lust thereof. It is to be resisted. Now verse
13. Let's read the King James Version,
then I want to read another version. Neither yield ye your members
as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin, but yield yourselves
unto God as those that are alive from the dead and your members
as instruments of righteousness under God. Now see if this helps. This is the same verse from the
Amplified Version. Do not continue offering or yielding
your bodily members to sin as tools of wickedness, but offer
and yield yourselves to God as though you have been raised from
the dead to perpetual life, and yield your bodily members to
God, presenting them as tools of righteousness." Now here's
what he's saying. Those who employ the organs or
the members of the body, that's the eyes, and the ears, and the
tongue, and the hands, and the heart, and the thoughts, and
the mind, and the affections, any member of the body. Those who employ these members
in performing the works of the flesh and doing the will of the
flesh, they are presenting their bodies to sin as servants to
a sovereign. That's what we're doing. When
we allow our tongues and our eyes and our hands and our feet
and our hearts and our minds and our thoughts, when we allow
these members to do the works of the flesh continually, then
we are yielding our members to sin as a servant to a sovereign. Now what Paul is saying here
is, don't yield your members as tools of wickedness to sin,
but yield them to God. Now here's what I think he's
saying. Our hearts, instead of harboring grudges and malice
and envy, do not yield to these things. Rather, yield your hearts
to God that they may be filled with grace and kindness and mercy
and love. Your thoughts, let not your thoughts
dwell on covetousness, materialism, the lust of the flesh, and the
pride of life. But let your thoughts dwell on
things which are pure, and honest, and holy, and of good report. Yield that member, your mind,
and your intelligence, and your imagination, yield that member
to God. Don't yield it to be a servant
of sin, yield it to be a servant of righteousness. Our tongues,
they should not be employed in slander, criticism, gossip, and
finding fault, but let our tongues be employed in witnessing, in
gratitude, in praise unto God. Our ears and our eyes, instead
of tuned to the world's music, let's tune our ears and our eyes
to God's Spirit and to God's Word and to God's minister. Our hands and our feet should
be employed in serving not self, but serving others. And you can
keep on going to all of the parts of the body. And what he's saying
there is, do not yield your members as tools of wickedness, but offer
and yield yourselves to God and your members as tools of holiness. Now verse 14, For sin shall not
have dominion over you. Now, no truth is more certain
than this. Sin shall not have dominion. Dominion is power, reigning power,
controlling power. There's no truth more certain
than this. God's faithfulness and God's
glory are pledged to prevent sin from having dominion over
his kingdom and over his people. In the heart of the believer,
sin has been dethroned. And Christ has been enthroned. We are in the kingdom of our
Lord where sin does not reign. We are in the kingdom of Christ
where He reigns. Sin shall not have dominion over
you. It shall not. There is no way
for sin to dethrone Christ. For you are not under the law.
Now what does that mean? We were under the law. When Adam
stood on this earth, we were under the law in Adam as a covenant
of works, and we fell. We're no longer under the law
as a covenant of works. We were under the law as a curse. Cursed is everyone that continueth
not in all things written in the law to do them. We were under
the condemning power of the law because of our sins, but in Christ
We're no longer under the law. The law has been fulfilled for
us in him. We're not under the law to be
condemned. We're not under the law to be
cursed. We're not under the law to be
justified. We're not under the law to be
sanctified. We're not under the law. We're
under grace. We are reconciled unto God. We are partakers of God's favor
in Christ We have God's grace, and it operates in every believer. Now John Gill said this, I think
it's quite good. The believer is not under law,
that is, under the curse and condemnation of the law, but
he's under a covenant of grace, and in that covenant of grace
he has all the blessings afforded in Christ. Under the covenant
of grace, we are taught to deny ungodliness. Under the covenant
of grace, we have brought unto us justification, pardon, and
peace. Under the covenant of grace,
as a reigning principle in the soul, holiness rules. And holiness is not the results
of law. Holiness is the results of grace. Those who walk under the law
in fear and dread have nothing but their own strength in order
to their obedience, and sin will finally win." In other words,
he's saying those who walk under the law as a covenant have nothing
but their own strength to provide them with a righteousness, and
they cannot win. Sin is going to win. But those
who walk in Christ are furnished unto good works by the Spirit
of God who dwells in them, and Christ shall reign. We are not
under the law, we are under the grace of God. Now verse 15, what
then? Shall we sin because we are not
under the law, but under grace? God forbid. Now these are my
comments on this verse. And I think they're down in the
language that all of us can understand. Verse 14, and reading all of
the old writers, Gill, Haldane, Augustine, Spurgeon, emphatically
declares that the believer is not under law as a curse, they're
not under the law as to guilt, not under the law as a sovereign,
not under the law as a condemning power, not under the law, but
under the grace of God. Somebody says, well, shall we
sin because we're not under law, but under grace? The man who
proposes, or woman, that since we're not under the law, but
under grace, that we go ahead and sin, reveals his or her total
lack of understanding of the grace of God in regeneration. The man who proposes that since
we're not under the law, we don't have a rule book to direct our
path and direct our walk, we're not under the condemning forces
and power of the law, but we're totally under a kingdom of grace
and under a rule of love, that we go ahead and sin That person
reveals his total lack of understanding of the grace of God. He's totally
void of the grace of God, and a total stranger to the new birth,
and a complete alien to regeneration. Now here's the reason. Before
a person is converted, before a person is regenerated, before
an individual meets Christ, he loves evil. He loves it. He not only loves it, but he
hates holiness, and he hates God. Before a person is regenerated,
he loves himself supremely and hates other people. He uses other
people. When they fit into his pattern
and into his purpose and into his plan, he will shower his
affections on them. When they do not fit into his
purpose and his plan, he reveals his contempt. Before a person
is regenerated, he hates holiness and loves evil, he loves darkness,
he loves sin. And he'll look for every excuse
to please himself, and to please his flesh, and to please his
greed, and he'll hurt anyone to gain his will. Now that's before man's saved. He covets sin, he loves sin,
he looks for sin, he makes provisions for sin. After a man is saved,
after he's regenerated, after he's born again, after he's brought
into the family of God and under the grace of God, he doesn't
love sin. He hates sin. And he loves God. And he loves truth and he hates
lies. He loves honesty and hates dishonesty. He loves light and he hates darkness. He knows that sin is in him,
and he wrestles with it because he wants to be like Christ. He cries with the Apostle Paul,
O wretched man that I am. When he fails, he grieves over
it. When he falls, he mourns because
of it. He's not looking for an excuse
to sin, he's looking for strength to avoid sin. So when a person
comes to me and says, well, since we're under grace and not under
the law, then let's sin. Anybody who's looking for an
excuse to sin doesn't know God. The believer is looking for a
reason to avoid sin, not to get into it. He's looking for a way
out of it, not a way in it. The believer is looking for a
way to be justified by God, not to justify himself. And so therefore
I say, anyone who makes a statement like that, if I believe that
we were saved by grace alone, then I do what I please. You
might as well. I believe people do what they
please. I really do. I believe the believer is pleased
to serve God, and the unbeliever is pleased to serve himself.
I believe everybody is doing what he pleases, for one reason
or the other. So Paul says, what shall we say?
Shall we sin because we're not under the law but under grace?
God forbid. That's an atrocious idea. Now
verse 16. I want you to listen carefully
to this. I got a lot of help on this. Don't you know, and he's dealing
with the same verse now, going back to verse 15. Don't you know
that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants
you are? His servants you are. Whoever
you obey, he's your master. If you obey sin unto death, sin's
your master. If you obey righteousness and
grace unto holiness, then grace is your master. Now here's what
he's saying. This is a good way to determine
whether or not you've been born again. This is a good way to
determine whether or not you've been saved. Don't you know, Paul
is saying, paraphrasing it, don't you know that if you continually
yield yourselves to sin, you continually give yourselves to
ungodliness, you continue to delight in the flesh, that's
a good sign that sin, not Christ, is your master. That's a good
sign, he said. For whoever you yield yourselves
servants to obey his servants, you are. to whom you obey, whether
you obey sin unto death, or whether you obey obedience unto righteousness. He's your master. The tenor of your life reveals
your master. You know, you hear people say,
well, by their fruit you shall know them. Well, our Lord, when
he said that in Matthew chapter 7, was talking about false prophets. He wasn't talking about you to
look with a microscope at everybody's life and determine whether or
not they're saved. He's talking about false prophets and their
converts. You can determine whether or
not a man is a true or a false prophet for the people who are
supposed to have been saved under his ministry. That's what Christ
is saying. But really and truly, the tenor
of your life does reveal your master. What do you enjoy? What
do you really want? What direction are you really
continually going? Either Christ is your master
or sin is your master, and it's revealed in your attitude. That's
what he says. To whom you yield yourselves
servants to obey, he's your master. If you continually yield to sin,
If that's your life, if that's the tenor of your life, if that's
the direction of your life, the lust of the flesh, the lust of
the mind, the pride of life, then sin's your master. But if
you're walking with Christ and your attitude toward Christ is
one where you love righteousness and love holiness and love truth
and love the beauty of God, then Christ is your master. Verse
17, But God be thanked. you were the servant of sin.
You were in slavery to sin. You were in bondage to sin. But
you have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was
delivered unto you. Thank God, Paul says, you've
been delivered from the bondage of sin. You've really been delivered.
The shackles of sin have been broken. Just as a person would
be thankful to his delivery from slavery if a man came down and
took a person right out of slavery, right out of bondage, and broke
the fetters and the shackles and set him free, he'd be ever
grateful to his deliverer. Well, God has delivered us from
our slave master. We were the servants of sin.
We delighted in iniquity. We bowed to that old cruel taskmaster,
but we have obeyed the gospel. That form of doctrine here is
the gospel of Jesus Christ, which was delivered unto you." Turn
to II Thessalonians 2. Thanks be unto God, he says,
that you were the servant of sin. And who delivered you? The Lord did. The Lord did. We're thanking Him for it. II
Thessalonians 2.13 says we're bound to give thanks always to
God for you. Brethren, beloved of the Lord,
because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through
sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth. Thanks
be unto God. You were the servant of sin,
but you have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which
was delivered. Being then, now watch this, made
free from sin. The strangest thing And I check
this very carefully, and you who have Greek concordances at
home and can check the word, I want you to do it. But this
word, made free from sin, F-R-E-E-E, being then made free from sin,
you became the servants of righteousness. Now this is not hard at all.
Back in verse The word free is used. He that is dead is freed
from sin. Verse 18 it's used, being then
made free from sin. Verse 20 it's used, you were
free from righteousness. And in verse 22 it's used, but
now being made free from sin. The strange thing is, verse 7
is one Greek word, and verse 18, 20, and 22 is a totally another
Greek word. And the one in verse 7 is the
word which means justified. Now look it up when you get home
if you have a concordance. It means declared innocent. That's
what the word means in verse 7. It's justified. Now here's
what he's saying in verse 7. For he that is dead is justified
from sin. Declared not guilty. Declared
totally innocent. When Christ died on the cross,
we died with him. and we were justified from all
sin, declared not guilty, as if we had no sin at all. Our record is as clean and as
pure and as spotless and as holy as the record of Christ, justified
from all sin. Now, verse 18. The word free
in verse 18 means this, and it's a totally different word, but
yet it's translated free. The word free in verse 18 is
liberated liberated, or unrestrained, or a sentence as a citizen, not
a slave. That's what it means. So then,
being then liberated from sin. In other words, we've been liberated
from the servitude of sin, from the actual control of sin. We've
been set free. That man outside of Christ is
under the slavery of sin. Sin's his master. Sin operating
in his life and in his heart, he can't refrain from sin because
he's a slave. He's not a free citizen. He's
not liberated. He's under the control of sin.
Sin controls his eyes and sin controls his heart. Sin controls
his hands. Sin controls his ears. Sin controls
his thoughts. Sin controls his mind. Sin controls
his affection. He's a slave. But when Christ
redeemed us, he set us free from that slavery, from that dominion,
from that servitude. He actually not only justified
us by his death and legally gave us a clean slate, but he actually
liberated us from a power that once reigned. And I'm saying
that everybody who's saved has been liberated from sin. I'm not saying that he has no
sin, you know better than that. But I'm saying he no longer delights
in it. I'm not saying that he has no
sin. Sin is our enemy. But sin is not our master. And the hole which sin had on
us in our days before regeneration has been broken. Christ has liberated
us. That's what that word means.
And you fellows check it. And see if I'm not telling you
the truth. liberated, set free, unrestrained, we are now citizens,
not a slave. And so these preachers can march
folks down the aisle and shake their hands and say, now you're
justified. But brother, if that man's not
liberated, he's not justified. If something hasn't taken place
in him, whereby he's liberated from a controlling power, from
a controlling appetite, from a controlling evil force. If
he's not, if signs are not revealed that he's been liberated, then
he hasn't been justified. Now you just read this 6th chapter
over and over again, and it just says, Sin shall not have dominion
over you. It doesn't say it shouldn't.
Sin shall not have dominion over you. Sin shall not reign over
you. Sin shall not reign in your mortal
body. Being made free from sin. These are statements. If any
man have not the Spirit of Christ, he doesn't belong to Him. As
many as are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God. These
are statements. They're not what ought to be.
They're what are. And so we are free. That's what
that word is. We've been liberated from the
control of sin, from the servitude of sin. Sure, it's there. You know it's there, and I know
it's there, but it's not false. Sure, it's a force that must
be contended with, and it's an enemy that must be fought, and
it's an ugly thing that rears its head up in the dearest of
God's children, but it is not a power that reigns. We've been liberated. We've been
set free from the control of sin. And if we haven't been freed
from sin, then we're not Christ. And look it there. Being then
made free from sin, you became the servants of somebody else,
the Son of God. He's your King. That's what Barnett
used to declare all the time. He said the gateway to the Kingdom
of God is the Lordship of Jesus Christ. If thou shalt confess
with thy mouth Jesus to be Lord, is Christ your Lord? You say,
sin's not your Lord. If you say Christ is your Lord,
If Christ is not your Lord, sin is your Lord. And if sin is your
Lord, Christ is not your Lord. If thou shalt confess with thy
mouth Jesus to be Lord, no man can call him Lord but by the
Holy Ghost. And so we have become servants
of righteousness. Now then, verse 19, I speak after
the manner of men. What's he saying? He said, I'm
speaking to you in familiar human terms. I'm illustrating spiritual
truth, Paul says, by taking illustrations from everyday life which you
understand. I speak after the matter of men
because of the infirmity of your flesh or because of the weakness
of your spiritual understanding. due to human corruption. We all
are mighty weak in spiritual understanding. The wisest man
here and the wisest woman tonight here in this building is dull
in apprehending the things of the Spirit, aren't we? We're
awful dull. And so Paul says, I'm going to
speak in familiar human terms. I'm going to use illustrations
that you'll understand. Christ did. He used parables.
Now here he goes. For as you have yielded your
members, the parts of your body, servants to uncleanness and to
iniquity unto iniquity, in the past what did you do? You cheerfully
yielded your body to uncleanness, spiritual uncleanness and physical
uncleanness. He says now, just as you in the
past yielded up your mind to evil thoughts and yielded up
your tongue to wicked words and yielded up your affections to
wicked evil deeds, even now yield your members to God as servants
to righteousness. under holiness, put forth an
effort, put forth an effort, and actually yield your members
under holiness, under righteousness. Verse 20, For when you were the
servants of sin, here's that word again, you were free from
righteousness. When you were the servants of
sin, you had nothing to do with righteousness. Righteousness
was your enemy. And you wanted nothing to do
with it. You were free from righteousness. You were totally the servant
and slave of sin. You didn't belong to righteousness
at all. Well, what benefit, he said,
when you were free from righteousness and you were the servant of sin,
what fruit did you have in those things where you're now ashamed?
Now you're ashamed of it, aren't you? But he said, go back and
think about it. What benefit did sin render to
you? Back when you yielded your members
to unrighteousness and you said, well, I'm having a real good
time. Did you really have a good time? What benefit did it render
to you? What good did sin ever bring
into your life? What good did evil ever bring
into your life? What good did hatred and malice
and lust and evil, what good did it ever bring into your life?
Why, he said, none. For the end of those things,
the results of those things, the goal of those things is death.
Sin, when it's finished, bringeth forth death. Sin always ruins
where it reigns. But now, verse 22, but now, being
made free from sin, liberated, delivered, and now having become
servants to God, You have your fruit under holiness. Now that you're servants of God,
set free from sin, you don't want anything to do with sin,
you've been liberated from sin, from the power of sin, you have
the fruit of the Spirit. What is it? You have peace that
you never had before. I've heard people say, well,
if there wasn't a heaven, I'd want to be a Christian. Well,
there's some merit in that. There's some merit in that. You
have a peace that you've never known. There's no peace in sin.
Christ is the only one who can give peace. You have a joy that
you didn't know. There's pleasure in sin for a
season, but there's pleasure in Christ for eternity. You have
a security that you never had. You have friends that you never
had. You have a joy that you never had. You have a confidence
that you never had. You have a love that you never
had. And not only do you have those fruits right now, but the
end of the whole thing is eternal life, which you never had before. Now Paul said when you were the
servants of sin, when you were free from righteousness, when
you were doing things that you're ashamed of now, what fruit did
you have? Unhappiness? Unrest? The heart of the wicked man is
like the raging sea. But now that you know Christ,
now that you've been liberated from sin, now that you've become
servants of God, you have your fruit under holiness. Peace,
joy, kindness, faith, humility, love, and faith. For the wages
of sin, the wages of sin is death. But the gift of God is eternal
life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Our Father, we are so thankful
for this precious book. As we stand before the holy word
of the living God, we're made to tremble. tremble because of
our lack of wisdom, our ignorance, tremble because we have such
little life, tremble because we feel so