so I guess it's time. Good to
see everybody out this morning. Remember those who requested
prayer. Add Trish Tramper to the prayer list. She took a fall
this week and has also been found to have a lump in her breast
and cirrhosis of the liver. So she's having a hard time.
So remember her in your prayers. Seek the Lord's help for them.
Also remember the other folks who've lost loved ones. And I
have an idea. Since Thursday is Thanksgiving,
and next Sunday is the last Sunday of the month, we usually have
the Lord's Table, which we will have. I was thinking, since we're probably
going to get to the borderline of gluttony on Thursday, that
it might be wise not to have dinner next Sunday, just have
regular service and the Lord's Table, and then we'll dismiss
next Sunday. So you eat all you want on Thanksgiving. And you
can rest on Sundays, so that'll be good. All right, that's the
plan. Other than that, I can't think of any. Now, Cynthia's
having a birthday this week. I ain't going to ask how old. She's old. Did you say something about? Oh,
that's dirt. That's dirt. I know the feeling, honey. I'm
never going to reach as old as him. No. You see, you were eight when
I come up here, right? You were? Probably seven. Six or seven. We all looked different back
then, didn't we? Let's begin our worship service. Worship
service hymn number 129. At the cross. Alas, indeed, my
Savior bleeds. Would he devote that sacred head
for such a worm as I? At the cross, at the cross where
I first saw the light, and the burden of my heart rolled away. It was there by grace I received
my sight, and now I am happy all the day. For crimes that I have done He
groaned upon the tree Amazing pity, grace unknown And love
beyond degree At the cross, at the cross Where I first saw the
light ? And the burden of my heart rolled away ? It was there
by faith I received my sight ? And now I am happy all the
day ? Well might the sun in darkness hide ? And shine his glories
in When Christ, the mighty Maker, died, Poor man, the creatures
sinned. At the cross, at the cross, where
I first saw the light, And the burden of my heart rolled away,
It was there by grace I received my sight, and now I am happy
all the day. But drops of grief can never
repay the debt of love I owe. Lord, I give myself away, it
is all that I can do. At the cross, at the cross, where
I first saw the light, and the burden of my heart rolled away,
it was there by And now I am happy all the day. After scripture reading and prayer,
we'll sing hymn number 63. Take the name of Jesus with you.
If you have your Bibles, turn to Romans the fifth chapter,
Romans chapter five. We begin reading with verse 12.
The title of my message is Opposites Defined. Romans chapter 5 and verse 12
says, For as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by
sin, and so death passed upon all men for that all had sinned. For until the law, sin was in
the world, but sin is not imputed where there is no law. Nevertheless,
death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that did not sin
after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is a figure
of him that was to come. But not as the offense, so also
is the free gift. Where through the offense of
one, many be dead, much more the grace of God and the gift
of grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, has abounded unto
many. And not as it was by one that
sinned, so is the gift. For the judgment was by one to
condemnation, but the free gift is of many offenses under justification. For if by one man's offense death
reign by one, much more they which receive abundance of grace
and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus
Christ. Therefore, as by the offense
of one judgment came upon all men unto condemnation, even so
by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto
justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience
many were made sinners, and by the obedience of one shall many
be made righteous. Moreover, the law entered that
the offense might abound, but where sin abounded, grace did
much more abound. that as sin hath reigned unto
death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal
life by Jesus Christ our Lord. Let us pray. Our Father, we bless
you and thank you for great grace and great mercy. We're thankful
for these words, for what we lost in Adam. We gain much more
in Jesus Christ. We thank you for the richness
of the mercy that is ours every day, the forgiveness of sins. We thank you, Father, that you
have done so mightily on our behalf, have entered into the
realm of sinful men, walked among them without sin, and died in
the room instead. And you have made your Son to
be under them wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.
They stand before you accepted in the beloved, adopted by Jesus
Christ, born again into your kingdom. We do praise you for
it. You did it all, and we're thankful. Pray for those who are sick,
those who are going through trials and tribulations, those who've
lost loved ones. We pray you'd be attentive, give
them tender mercies, contender kindnesses in their hearts and
minds for these things that they've lost. We pray for those who are
sick, pray especially for Ms. Tramper. She's been diagnosed
with these elements. We pray that the Lord be with
her and that you would cause her to look to Christ in all
things. Help us, Lord, this day as we gather here that you might
be pleased to cause us to worship you in spirit and in truth. uphold
me with your gospel. We pray in Christ's name, amen. Hymn number 63, take the name
of Jesus with you. Take the name of Jesus with you,
child of sorrow and of woe. It will joy and comfort give
you Take it then wherever you go Precious name, oh how sweet
The joy of Him Precious name, oh how sweet ? Hope of earth and joy of heaven
? Take the name of Jesus ever ? As a shield from every stare
? If temptations round you gather ? Breathe that holy name in prayer
? Precious name hope of earth and joy of heaven
precious name oh how sweet hope of earth and joy of heaven oh
the precious How it fills our souls with joy
When His loving arms receive us And His songs our tongues
implore Precious name, O how sweet Hope of earth and joy of
heaven precious name, oh how sweet, hope of earth and joy
of heaven. At the name of Jesus bowing,
falling prostrate at his feet, kings of kings in heaven when
our journey is complete. Precious name, oh, how sweet. Hope of earth and joy of heaven. Precious name, oh, how sweet. Hope of earth and joy of heaven. I ask Stan and Steve to receive
the officer's amulet, please. Let us pray. Our Father in heaven,
we bless you and thank you for mercy and grace through Jesus
Christ the Lord. We thank you that what we have,
we have because we have received it. Let us not boast as if we've
not received it. We thank you for the unspeakable
gift of Jesus Christ to your children, and with him we know
you have freely given them all things. Help us now as we render
to Thee that which You've given us. Let us do so with joy in
our hearts. We pray in Christ's name. Amen. so so Before we begin the message,
I want to read the same text to you from the amplified version
of the Bible, which makes it a little easier to understand.
Beginning with verse 12. It says, Therefore, as sin came
into the world through one man, and death as the result of sin,
so death passed to all men, no one being able to stop it or
escape its power. because all men sin. To be sure,
sin was in the world before ever the law was given, but sin is
not charged to men's account where there is no law to transgress.
Yet, death held sway from Adam to Moses, the lawgiver, even
over those who did not themselves transgress a positive command
as Adam did. Adam was a type, a prefigure
of the one who was to come. In reverse, the former destructive
the latter saving. But God's free gift is not at
all to be compared to the trespass. His grace is out of all proportion
to the fall of man. For if man died through one man's
falling away, his lapse, his offense, much more profusely
did God's grace and the free gift that comes through the undeserved
favor of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound and overflow to and for
the benefit of many. Nor is the free gift at all to
be compared to the effect of that one man's sin, for the sentence
following the trespass of one man brought condemnation, whereas
the free gift following the many transgressions brings justification,
an act of righteousness. For if because of one man's trespass,
lapse, or offense, death reign through that one, much more surely
will those who receive God's overflowing grace, his unmerited
favor, and the free gift of righteousness, putting them in the right standing
with himself, reign as kings in life through the one Jesus
Christ, the Messiah, the anointed one. Well then, as one man's
trespass, one man's false step and falling away led to condemnation
for all men, So, one man's act of righteousness leads to acquittal
and right standing with God and life for all men. For just as
one man's disobedience, failing to hear, heedlessness, and carelessness,
the many were constituted sinners, so by one man's obedience, the
many will be constituted righteous, made acceptable to God, brought
into the right standing with Him. But then law came in only
to expand and increase the trespass, making it more apparent and exciting
opposition. But where sin increased and abounded,
grace, God's unmerited favor, has surpassed it and increased
the more and superabounded. So that just as sin has reigned
in death, so grace, His unearned and undeserved favor might reign
also through righteousness, right standing with God, which issues
an eternal life through Jesus Christ the Messiah, the anointed
of the Lord our God. Now what we have in this text
are comparisons and contrasts. You have opposites defined in
this text between what happened because of Adam and what happened
because of Christ. There's an illustration that
I've used many times. There's an illustration that
uses a grammatical tool, contrast. And that is, why do they display
diamonds on black velvet? They display diamonds on black
velvet because if you displayed a diamond on a white sheet of
paper, it wouldn't look like much. But the contrast between
the black velvet and the brilliance of the diamond makes that diamond
more brilliant. The illustration is that the
glory of that diamond of grace is most perfectly displayed against
the backdrop of the blackness of our sin. The tool of contrast
shows that grace and sin are not different by degree, but
they are different in essence. They are different in essence
and are dissimilar altogether. There is no likeness between
sin and grace or sin and righteousness. When one thing is contrasted
with another, it is to distinguish one from the other as being diametrically
opposite of the thing. Comparison, however, is used
as a grammatical tool to show difference, but is done only
to show difference in degree, or likeness, or even similarity. When contrast is used to show
a difference, it's used to define dissimilarity or even opposition.
A good example of both tools being used is found in what we
read in Romans chapter 5. Paul in verse 14 compares Adam
to Christ. He says, Nevertheless, death
reigned from Adam to Moses, even those that did not sin after
the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is a figure of him that was
to come. So Adam was a figure of the Lord
Jesus Christ. He says Adam was a figure of
him who was to come. The subject being addressed is
imputation. by representation. Imputation
by representation. Christ is like Adam in this respect. Just as Adam did something and
it was charged to all whom he represented, likewise Christ
did something and it was charged to all whom he represented. So
it is imputation by representation. Their likeness was their federal
headship, but that is where their likeness ends. That is the comparison. That is the comparison of Christ
and Adam. What follows, however, in the
remainder of the chapter, verses 15 through 21, is contrast between
the results of what Adam did and the results of what Christ
did. What follows is a contrast about
Christ and Adam, but to the dissimilarities of the results of their respective
representations In contrast that Paul uses, he also uses comparisons,
the reason that overall he is setting forth the fact of imputation
by representation, but is also revealing that the result of
the work of the two representatives had totally opposite results. Adam represented us in one way,
Christ represented His people in another way, and the results
of those were total opposites. Total opposites. The result of
what Adam did was opposite of the result of what Christ did.
That's what he's saying in those verses. I know it weighs a word
in English and it takes a while to get to it. Both of these tools
of grammar are designed to define. Comparison and contrast. That's
what's set forth in this chapter. I said all that to introduce
the subject of the message this hour. I want us to look at opposites
of grace. Opposites of grace. Grace is
set in contrast with several things in the Word of God. We
will consider four ways in which grace is defined by contrast
in this message. Look over at John chapter 1. John chapter 1 and verse 17 says
this, For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came
by Jesus Christ. There you have a contrast. The
law was given by Moses, but the opposite, grace and truth, came
by Jesus Christ. In the matter of origin, grace
is set forth as the opposite of law. It is contrasted to the
law. One came by Moses, the other
by Christ, and being opposite, one does not accomplish what
the other does. They are opposites. The results are different. Neither
may one be used to accomplish the other. You can't use law
to accomplish grace, and you can't use grace to keep the law. You can't do it. The two are
mutually exclusive from one another. As to what these accomplish,
there are many contrasts. The law makes demands that must
be obeyed. Grace declares that all demands
have been fully obeyed by the Lord Jesus Christ. That's a big
difference, isn't it? The law condemns. Scripture saith,
whosoever is under the law, back in chapter 3 of Romans, verse
19, it says, Now we know that whatsoever things the law saith,
it saith to them that are under the law, that every mouth might
be stopped, and the whole world become guilty before God. The
law condemns. That's all it can do. As I've
said before, the way the law works, is it comes into you who
are condemned because you believe not. He that believeth not is
condemned already. You who come forth from the womb,
speaking lies as soon as you are born, drinking iniquity like
water, you who hate God by nature, are on death row. You're not
hanging on some thread and swinging back and forth between good and
evil where you're going to make a choice about it. You're dead
in trespasses and sins. You're standing before God as
you were born, condemned in this world. So you're already on death
row. In fact, you are in the gas chamber. You're there, you're
sitting there. They're about to put the cyanide
gas and tablets in the little capsule things and you're gonna
die soon. What the law does, it doesn't come in and say, now
if you'll be better, I'll take care of you. If you'll be better,
this won't happen to you. The law doesn't say that. You're
already condemned. Where? Before the law. You're condemned
before the law. So what does the law say? This
is the reason why we're gonna kill you. and He gives the reasons
for all of your transgressions. This is what the Law, the Law
condemns, but that is not what Grace does. Grace saves. Scripture says by Grace you are
saved. Ephesians chapter 5, verse 2
and verse 5. The Law promises blessings conditioned
upon your obedience if you are under the Old Covenant which
you are unable to render. Nobody ever did. The reason why
that Law was given, why that Covenant was made was to show
that the very best of men could not do what God commanded. They were disobedient, and that's
what it showed. That's why it was set aside, and it was set
aside by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. So the law promised
blessings under that old covenant for your obedience, but grace
doesn't promise you anything. Grace bestows blessings based
upon the obedience that is fully rendered by someone whom you've
never met, save by faith. That is the Lord Jesus Christ.
The law requires a righteousness that man cannot produce. It is
holy and just and good. We are the failure. It is not.
It is not. It is holy, just, and good. It
requires a righteousness and you cannot produce it to any
degree. But grace provides that righteousness
without the input and the assistance of any man. save for the Lord
Jesus Christ. That is what it says in Romans
chapter 5 verses 5 through 8. First Timothy 1 verse 15 makes
it clear that this is how it works. Grace and law are opposites. And if you are under the law,
you are not under grace. And if you are under grace, you
are not under the law. Grace and law are opposites.
They are not co-laborers in the salvation of the elect. Look
at Romans chapter 5 and verse 20. It says, Moreover, the law
entered that the offense might abound, but where sin abounded,
grace did much more abound, that as sin hath reigned unto death,
even so grace reigned through righteousness into eternal life
by Jesus Christ. Here grace is contrasted with
sin in the realm and power in which it operates. There is a
comparison here of these two things in that they were both
declared to abound by comparison where sin abounded, grace did
more abound or super abound. The comparative degree is to
which grace could surpass sin in abounding in that the results
of abounding grace overcame the results of abounding sin. That's
simple, isn't it? Sin hath abounded, grace has
abounded more. That's pretty simple. There is
a contrast of these two things also. First, in the matter of
length of reign, sin is said to have reigned, to have reigned,
suggesting that it no longer does. Whereas grace is suggested
to reign without end unto eternal life. There is a big difference
there. Sin's reign has an end. And don't
forget, it does say sin reigned unto death. You don't control
sin. You don't control anything, but
you certainly don't control sin. Until God does something for
you, sin controls you. It reigns over you. It's your
sovereign. It's your sovereign until God
unseats it and puts himself in its place. The major contrast
of grace and sin is in the realm in which these two operate. Sin
operated in a temporal realm. The law was added That is what
it says. That means it was not always
there nor is it eternal. It was added. Here it says it
entered. That means it came from somewhere
and entered here. It was not always there. It entered
there. Sin operated in a temporal realm. In a temporal realm that resulted
in death and will be finally finished in the second death
which is the death of death. sin has an end and unto sin hath
reign unto death to which it has to go there's where sin goes
it goes to death that's what it says in in james chapter one
the reign of sin is ended with death and for the child of god
it's ended with the death of christ the death of jesus christ
over in daniel chapter nine when it talks about the coming of
the messiah and what He is going to do when He gets here. In Daniel chapter 9 verse 24
it says, 70 weeks are determined
upon the people that are upon the Holy City to finish transgression,
to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity,
and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision of
the prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy. That is what was going
to happen when the Messiah came. That is what happened when He
came. He put an end to sin. He finished transgression. He
made reconciliation for our crooked inequity and He brought in an
everlasting righteousness which is imputed to His people. This
is as far as sin can take you. How far can sin take you? To
the grave. That's all it can take you. Take you to the grave.
That's where it ends up. But by contrast, grace is said
to reign through righteousness or in the realm of righteousness
unto the end that it does not end. This reign of righteousness never
ends. It's the never-ending kingdom of the Son of God unto eternal
life. Sin reigns unto. Grace reigns
through. and unto. Sin, when it's finished,
brings forth death. Grace, when it's finished, provided
perfect righteousness, brings forth eternal life. These things
are diametrically opposed. Sin is in man. Grace is in God. Sin is an abysmal pit to which
man fell without any hope of recovering himself. Grace reaches
into that pit, that bottomless hole, and by sovereign power
extricates the sinner and brings him to the heights of glory.
He takes the maggot from the dumb hill and sets him among
princes and clothes him in the righteousness garments of salvation. Sin came by Adam. Grace came
by Jesus Christ. Sin was put on Christ. Grace
was put on men. There is the difference. Look
at Ephesians chapter 2. Ephesians chapter 2 and verses
8 and 9 says this, you are familiar with this, I bet you could quote
it, For by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of
yourselves. It is a gift of God, not of works,
lest any man should boast. Here grace is contrasted to works,
specifically in reference to the salvation of the elect, which
is what chapter 1 and the first part of chapter two all the way
up to verse nine is talking about even verse ten. So it is contrasted
to works. You will not find man's work
involved at all in the salvation recorded in verses one through
fourteen in chapter one. It is all of God. It is God,
Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. You never have anything to do.
All of this is done to you and for you. Salvation is not accomplished
by the works of the creature, but holy by the grace of God. Salvation by grace completely
disallows, disallows and discounts works as having anything to do
with salvation. God has saved us and He has called
us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to
His own purpose and grace which was given us in Jesus Christ
before the world began. not according to our works. Salvation
by grace and salvation by works of men are polar opposites. They're polar opposites to each
other. They cannot get along. They cannot mix. People have
often said, Are you a reformer? No, I'm not a reformer because
most reformers have something to do with the law and their
salvation. I say unequivocally, I have nothing to do with the
law and my salvation. Nothing! Christ took care of
the law for me, but the law is dead to me, and I'm dead to the
law, and I'm dead by the law. How come I'm dead by the law?
Because the law must find grounds upon which it can accuse. It
must find transgression. The law was added because of
transgression. It must find transgression. And if I don't have any transgression
because my sins have been put away by the Lord Jesus Christ,
then the law says, Jim James has got to go free. Ain't nothing
wrong with him. I am dead to the law by the law. by the law. Salvation by grace
and salvation by works are total opposites. They cannot mix on
any level to any degree concerning any aspect of salvation. Paul
speaking in reference to the election in Romans chapter 11
made it very clear. Look over Romans chapter 11.
My Bible's falling apart. I had
to get out the Scotch tape. Romans chapter 11 says this, verse 6, and if by grace then
is no more of works, otherwise grace is no more grace. But if
it be of works, then it is no more grace, otherwise work is
no more work. Now that's just, you can't hardly
get any plainer than that. If it's by grace it can't be
by works. If it's by works it can't be
by grace. And that's just a solid, profound
statement that he makes. Salvation by works glorifies
man. Salvation by grace glorifies
God. There was a man named Paul who
was a worker for God. To doubt that, you don't know
his history. He was a member of the Sanhedrin. He was married, probably had
children. was given letters from the Sanhedrin
to go out and destroy the name of Jesus Christ and wipe his
name from the face of the earth and he was about the business
of doing it. Putting believers in jail who followed that way,
which he called that way. Killing them. He was on the road
going to do his business, working for God. Zealous. One heck of a guy. Militant. And then Christ met him on the
road to Damascus, and a bright light shone. He said, Saul, Saul,
why persecutest thou me? Isn't it hard for thee to kick
against the bridge? And cast down into the dust, and blinded
Paul said, Lord, what would you have me do? What? He's talking
to the one he used to hate just minutes ago, seconds ago. Seconds
ago. He says, you know, if you're
talking about works, If you want to compare your works
to my works as a human being, I'll stand up against anybody
on the top side of God's earth. He said, if you have confidence
in your flesh, I have more confidence in you and more reason to have
confidence in the flesh. I was a Hebrew of Hebrews. Circumcised
the eighth day, keeping the law before I even knew what the law
was. Touched the law, I was a Pharisee. Touched the law, I was blameless.
I kept the law of God. I didn't steal, didn't kill,
didn't cover no man's wife. I did all that. You know what
all that was? You know what all of that was? A pile of manure. And that's what your works are.
A pile of manure. And if you want to hand manure
to God, go ahead. But I'm going to approach Him
in the blood of Jesus Christ. That's where the grace is. That's
where the grace is. You see, you're calling, brethren,
not many wise, not many noble, but God has called the foolish
things of the world, the stupid things, the useless things of
this world. Why? So that if you are indeed saved,
you can only say, it couldn't have had anything to do with
me. You'll have no confidence in the flesh. Romans chapter
4, verses four and five. Now to him that worketh is the
reward not reckoned of grace but of death, but to him that
worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly,
his faith is counted for righteousness. Here grace is contrasted to what
most people believe about themselves, that they have merit. It is contrasted to merit, human
merit. The thing which man has merited
is earned by the labor of his hands. Now, if you've worked
hard for what you've earned, you've earned it and you deserve to
have it. There ain't nothing wrong with that. It's earned
by the labor of his hands and by the thoughts and intents of
his heart, but the very best plans of men and devices of men
are just different ways to die because they mean nothing in
eternal salvation. We've all come short of the glory
of God. The wages of sin, which is anything outside of grace,
the wages of sin is death. The wages of sin is death. All that man does, thinks, endeavors
to do, are just numerous and various avenues to the graveyard
and subsequent eternal death. Man cannot do a good thing. The
wise man wrote in Ecclesiastes 7.20, there is not a good man
on earth that doeth good and sinneth not. Even a believer
who is made righteous by God cannot attribute anything good
he might do except that that good thing was wrought in him
by God. That's what the child of God
does. He knows there are works. He knows He does works. He doesn't
know exactly what they are, but He's willing to stand as God
has ordained Him to stand. And He brings those works before
God, but what does He say? Accept me on the basis of these
things? No. Look at John chapter 3. Here
our Lord is talking to Nicodemus, who's a man who knows all there
is to know about works. He said, Pharisee, a well-grown
man, a man of honor, a man of principle, a man of moral rectitude. Our Lord is speaking to him and
he says this in verse 18, he that believeth on him is not
condemned, John chapter 3, but he that believeth not is condemned
already because he has not believed on the name of the only begotten
Son. This is the condemnation you see. Light has come into
the world and men love darkness rather than light because their
deeds are evil. Now who's he talking to? He's talking to a
fellow that came to him by night, in the dark. There has to be
an application there. And everyone that doeth evil
hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds
be reproved. But he that doeth truth comes to the light, that
his deeds may be made manifest, that God did it. That they were
wrought by God. That they were wrought by God. Man can merit nothing but what
his sinful, wretched soul affords him in the marketplace of condemnation.
Grace is the unmerited favor of God conditioned upon the perfect
merit of the Lord Jesus Christ. This grace justifies the sinner
freely without cause. You are justified freely, it
says in Romans Chapter 3 by Grace. Freely means without a cause
in the sinner. Freely. Human merit is nothing. It is nothing. It is empty and
void of any value in the matter of salvation whether at the beginning,
the middle or the end. Spurgeon said, Add a man up to
zero, you've gone too high. Human merit is not even vanity. Human merit aspires to vanity. Vanity might be a goal of human
merit. The weight of nothing is beyond
the reach of human merit. He's lighter than vanity, you
see. Man is a liar. He's a liar, we know that, but
he's a liar. We're false. And we're lighter
than nothing. Lighter than vanity. The highest
realm that human merit may reach, the highest realm that human
merit may reach is emptiness. That's the highest it can go.
emptiness. Grace makes a sinner, however,
to sit in heavenly places in Jesus Christ. Wages are earned. Grace is bestowed. Grace is given. For the law was
given by Moses But grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. Moreover,
the law entered that the offense might abound, but grace, but
where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. And as sin
hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through
righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. For
by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves.
It's the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.
Now to him that worketh, this is the reward not reckoned of
grace, but of debt. but to him that worketh not,
but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly." His faith is counted
for righteousness. There are comparisons between
Christ and Adam, but there are also contrasts, and as to the
results of what they did, nothing but contrasts. Father, bless
us to understand and pray in Christ's name. Amen.