Episode Transcript
It's 10 o'clock, and our text this morning is found in Job chapter 5.
Job chapter 5.
I'm glad you all are with us and thankful for those who tune in online as well.
I think some of you may have remembered that I had a long standing prayer request for myself.
And that was to have a different shift than I worked.
I had been working the shift that ended at 6 a. m. on Sunday morning.
And that caused me to look like a zombie and probably act like one most of the time up here, whatever that looks like And God answered that request, and I was able to get a different shift.
I still work nights, but I go to work Sunday nights. and work through Tuesday or Wednesday, depending on which week it is.
So I still get to come to church Wednesday nights, and when I come here Sunday, I've got all the vim and vigor you would expect of your Sunday school teacher.
In Job chapter 5, we were in the second half of verse 11, looking again at the word safety.
And so I want to reread that verse, which, if you recall, was part of a sentence that began in verse 8.
In fact, I'll just read verses 8.
Through eleven, before we continue looking at this word safety.
In verse eight, Eliphaz said, I would seek unto God And unto God would I commit my cause, which doeth great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number.
Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth water upon the fields, to set up on high those that be low.
That those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
And as I said at the end of our last lesson, The Hebrew word for safety is normally translated as the word salvation in the Old Testament.
And we were about to look at how salvation or safety, and those words again are interchangeable here About how salvation could be either physical or spiritual, perhaps some other ways as well.
But those two I wanted to look at primarily.
In the Old Testament, you would see the physical salvation when God delivered the children of Israel from their enemies. namely the Philistines and sometimes the Amalekites, the Egyptians.
But all of those were nations made of people who were visible enemies. and they were constantly warring against Israel.
In 1 Chronicles 16, verse 5, there's a verse from a Psalm that David wrote.
And that verse says, And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, there's our word, and gather us together.
And deliver us from the heathen that we may give thanks to thy holy name and glory in thy praise.
Now the heathen were all the nations, also called the Gentiles.
Generally, the heathen were without God.
They had gods of their own.
They worshiped false gods.
But whatever their case, they were.
They did not honor the God of the Bible.
They didn't worship the God of Israel.
And because they didn't worship the God of Israel, they didn't honor his people.
They had no respect for the children of Israel any more than they did another Gentile nation with whom they warred.
And when the children of Israel sinned, God would turn those Gentile nations loose to do what they had always had in their hearts to do.
Those Gentile nations saw Israel as a place to conquer, not to coexist.
And that's, I believe, one of the mistakes.
That these nations, including ours, have made in allowing all manner of illegal aliens, particularly those of Muslim persuasion.
To come into the country unfettered and just do and live where they want to.
I read yesterday that in England and in Wales, The most common name for a baby boy is Muhammad.
That tells you a whole lot about who is proliferating in that country.
And so as it was then, so it is now, the enemy of God's people, regardless of where we are in the world, the enemy does not desire to coexist with us.
They desire to conquer us.
And that's what they're doing little by little.
You look at England, Wales, Germany, France.
Countries that once would have never stood for such a thing, and boy, they just opened the doors, and now they're in trouble and they're having a hard time getting out of it.
And I don't think they will get out of it.
But once the children of Israel repented, they would trust in God to save them from that earthly enemy.
An enemy from which they themselves could not deliver themselves.
This is physical salvation.
And in that physical salvation, God exalts his people to safety.
They're in the low position of being slaves, being Tributaries, meaning they have to send a certain amount of money and perhaps labor to these Gentile countries.
And that's a low place for God's people.
That's never the place where God intended for his people to be.
But we've put ourselves there.
They put themselves there because of sin.
Now, in the case of a person who is in mourning, and that's what our text there in Job says, that he exalts those who are in mourning.
A person in mourning in the Old Testament would often be seen in sackcloth and ashes, wearing sackcloth, putting ashes on their head, and we looked at that.
At least a couple of weeks ago, I believe.
And for that person in mourning, they're in a low place, and salvation from that mourning.
Keeps mourning from swallowing up the one who is mourning.
The mourner.
You know, I've seen a few cases, perhaps you have too, where A man and woman are married for most of their lives, married for 60, 70, maybe even longer, but 60 or 70 years.
And when one of the spouses died, the other one was not far behind.
Morning swallowed them up.
I had a partner in Highway Patrol whose grandmother passed away, and she had been married to his grandfather for Just about as long as anybody could remember.
And as soon as she passed away, he was right behind her.
He stopped eating.
He didn't want to live anymore.
He just wanted to go.
And let's be honest, sometimes a mourning person even wishes that he or she were also dead.
As they grieve the passing of their loved ones, sometimes those thoughts go through their mind.
In his right mind, or in her right mind, they wouldn't wish to be dead.
If you caught them on a good, they say, No, I'm thankful to be here.
But because the mourner is in a very low place.
He has to realize that only God can exalt him to safety.
And you have to put your trust in God.
You know, I don't know how people do it without God.
I don't know how people mourn without God.
Everybody in here is mourning somebody they've lost, whether you've lost them recently, whether you've lost them years ago.
The little hole never completely heals up, does it?
But you have God and His Word.
And if your trust is in Him, He's already exalted you to a place of safety because He's given you hope beyond the grave.
Not only for the loved one who died in Christ, but also for yourself.
And Job is definitely a person in mourning.
He's physically and emotionally spent.
And he has only God to lean on, even though his friend.
His friends have gathered around him, and for the first seven days they did good, didn't they?
They just kept their mouths shut and sat there with him.
And even his friend Eliphaz has failed to comfort Job and has misapplied these truthful statements about God to Job, saying, well, this must be the case with you, at least that's the implication.
Job's own wife told him to curse God and die.
Do you see what she did there?
She saw Job in mourning She saw him in a low place, far from safety.
And rather than telling her to plead or telling him to plead his cause to God, that God would lift him up From his mourning.
She said, Just curse God and die.
She wanted mourning to swallow Job up.
By cursing God and dying the death that would surely result from cursing God.
Friend, I'll tell you this, and I don't care what your therapist says, you don't have a right to be angry with God.
I have heard people say, Well, my therapist told me it was okay to be upset with God.
No, it's not.
Has God done anything unrighteous ever?
No, the very breath that you drew to make that statement, he gave you.
Sin's our enemy, not God, not God's mercy.
Death is our enemy, but from death, God gives life.
He's the only one who can do that.
Those which mourn may be exalted to safety, and that includes every one of us in here.
Now, the spiritual aspect of the word safety or salvation, let's look at that.
Spiritually, salvation is seen when God delivers his people from the penalty and the power and even the very presence of sin one day.
Now let's stop right there and think about salvation, safety.
Salvation means to deliver.
So when someone is saved, he's delivered from something.
The problem with the majority of mankind is this, and it always has been.
First of all, they don't believe in the God of the Bible.
And I say that because many people will mention God's name in their daily conversations.
Often you hear it taken in vain.
I remember a man who used to take the Lord's name in vain around me a lot.
And I asked him, I was in a private conversation with him, and I asked him, I said, You realize that's not God's fault what happened?
He said, What do you mean?
I said, You just took God's name in vain because you were angry about this situation that happened to you.
And he said, I didn't realize I did it.
It had become so commonplace for him, he didn't even realize he did it.
It was just as common as saying A and in The in his conversations.
Some people will even ask God to help them when they're sick.
They don't want anything to do with God most of the year, but when they're sick or they have a loved one who's sick, they'll say, Praying for my friend, praying for my daddy, praying for this or that.
But when you ask such a person, Who may mention God in his conversation, who may even go to church?
When you ask him if he's good enough to go to heaven when he dies, his pride will tell you that he thinks he is.
He may say, Well, I haven't done anything bad enough to be rejected by God.
That's for the murderers and the rapists and the robbers.
And that means he doesn't really understand or know God.
He has no concept of the judgment of God.
Such a person doesn't believe he has any sin from which he must be delivered.
And therefore, he doesn't understand salvation.
Early in our evangelistic teaching here, we teach and you learn.
From God's word, that sinners are cursed by the penalty of sin.
Sin has brought a curse upon every one of us, and that penalty is death and eternal separation from God.
And there's no recovery from either one of them for the one who dies in his sins.
And so we learn early that we must be saved, delivered.
We must be put in a place of safety.
From the penalty of sin.
And in learning that and embracing it, we acknowledge that we must be delivered from the penalty of sin.
Nobody is exempt from the penalty of sin.
So everyone needs to be delivered from it in order to be accepted by God.
Because salvation is a deliverance.
In Colossians chapter 1, verses 12 through 14.
Colossians 1, 12 through 14, Paul wrote, Giving thanks unto the Father.
Which hath made us meet or fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, who hath delivered us.
From the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son, in whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins.
Now when Eliphaz spoke this wonderful truth that God exalts to safety those that mourn, that he delivers from the low place to the high place those that mourn.
There was much more in that saying than just comfort for those who have experienced the death of a loved one.
There is a physical death, we all must die.
Nobody, even the atheist, argues with that.
Nobody argues with that.
And the deaths of Job's children and his servants were just such deaths.
But from the darkness of death, God has delivered us through the resurrection of His Son Jesus.
When Jesus died, He went to that grave, He went to what we know as a low place.
And from that low place in the grave, Jesus was highly exalted to the safety of his father's right hand.
And those who believe in him await that same deliverance from the grave.
Just like Jesus was raised again, so shall we who believe in him be raised again.
I can't think of any better news.
There is none that is better than that.
But while Christians remain on earth, we have another enemy.
From which we need to be saved.
And it's the power of sin.
We've been saved from the penalty of sin.
That's a done deal.
Don't live the rest of your life trying to be saved from the penalty of sin because if you've already put your faith in Jesus' finished work, you're delivered from it.
It's a done deal.
And where people get mixed up is they say, you know, this one sin keeps coming up in my mind.
I keep feeling the temptation, and sometimes I slip and I do it, and I hate it.
Does that mean I'm not saved?
Nope.
You're saved from the penalty of sin, but it's from the power of sin that you struggle daily.
But you know, God saves us from the power of sin as well.
As long as we're in our flesh, the power of sin is going to be a constant foe for us.
It's for you right now, and it's just like it is me.
You're still subject to it.
And that's one reason God gave us His Spirit.
Because without his spirit, you cannot be victorious in your daily life over sin.
You just can't do it.
You'll give in to it, you'll find reasons to do it.
Romans chapter 6, verses 11 through 13.
Romans 6, verses 11 through 13.
Likewise, reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Let not sin therefore reign.
In your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lust thereof.
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 unto God.
Because Jesus died and rose again.
We have his Spirit to help us reckon ourselves dead to sin, to not let sin reign, R-E-I-G-N, rule.
In our mortal bodies, that's our flesh, and to help us to yield ourselves unto God.
Brother Roloff used to say, some of you old timers have heard of him.
He's been dead a long time now.
But Brother Oloff used to say that in the morning he had to walk Lester into the grave and Jesus out the other side before he could begin his day.
That's a very good description of what we have to do daily.
You know why he did that?
It wasn't because Brother Olaf wasn't saved, he was.
It was because he knew that the power of sin was an enemy his flesh would encounter every day he woke up.
And because of God's Spirit, he was able to walk himself into the grave and Jesus out the other side.
That's the only way he could do that.
And Jesus gave us his spirit to help us reckon ourselves dead to sin.
That's the truth.
We base that on his resurrection, the ability to reckon ourselves dead to sin.
To not let sin rain in our mortal bodies.
Now, when it rains in your mortal bodies, that means it has the preference.
You say, you know, I'd actually rather do that.
Well, a Christian wouldn't rather sin.
That's a good question to ask yourself if you say, Well, you know, I'm having doubts.
Would you rather sin or would you rather do that which is right?
Now, if you say, I'd just rather sin, it's just a lot more fun than there are some other problems that you have going all the way back to your salvation because It's not because you're saved by works.
It's not because you stay saved by doing good works.
It's because the change that God makes in you when His Spirit moves into you, when you believe on His Son.
You have the power that you need, and sin cannot reign over you.
It just can't do it.
It can influence you.
But the power of sin is something from which we have to be delivered.
We don't have to be held hostage by the power of sin.
Even though it often wins the battle over the flesh, every time you are in the low place of the power of sin, you remember that God will exalt you to safety.
As you yield to him and you're in obedience to his word.
Did you know that being in obedience to God's word is a place of safety?
It certainly is.
It doesn't just feel good, it is good.
And while we've been delivered from the penalty of sin, And while we are being delivered from the power of sin as we yield to God by His Spirit, one day all this trouble is going to be over.
Because we are going to be delivered from the very presence of sin.
And that's the day that I'm looking forward to the very most.
Is when I don't have to wake up and walk Andy into the grave and Jesus out the other side every day because of my flesh.
When I die, my flesh will never see sin again.
It'll never sin again.
I'll be raised one day in the likeness of my Savior.
And exalted to a place of safety, safety from the very presence of sin.
Can you imagine never again being in the low place that sin puts you, but being exalted in the person of Jesus Christ for all eternity?
You know, sin wearies me.
It makes me tired of myself.
I don't get tired of your sin.
I'm so busy being tired of my own.
It wearies me.
It wearies you.
Preaching against sin is not fun, it's necessary.
But it reminds me, you know, when I study for these messages, there's a lot of time for self-reflection.
That's what God's word does.
It's like a mirror shining it right back at me.
I'm not thinking about well, I'll see who I can whose toes I can step on today.
Mine are bleeding from being stepped on by God's word.
And preaching against sin reminds me how sinful I am.
It reminds me how this cursed world has nothing lasting that is good.
I enjoy Hutchins barbecue, Brother Luke, but I know the next day I'll be hungry again, and I probably won't want that barbecue.
I'll want something else.
As good as it was, I'll get tired of it and want something else.
I'll have a good time fishing and every once in a while catch my limit.
And about number 10 fish on the filet board, I wish I hadn't caught all of them.
Tired of cleaning them.
Even the best things in this world, the best earthly things, have an expiration date, and we grow tired of them.
The riches of this world, because of that, the riches of this world are a low place that I mourn because of what materialism and the love of money has done to mankind.
If you ever want to see what somebody's character is made of, deal with them financially.
Some of you already are saying amen.
You know exactly what I'm talking about.
I'm ready to be exalted from this place.
I'm thankful for every day that I live, and until that day, by God's grace, I'm going to keep on telling others how God will exalt the mourner to the place of safety.
Now let's look at verse 12.
Continuing to speak about God, Eliphaz says, He disappointeth the devices of the crafty.
God does what?
It says he disappoints.
Now our current definition of the word disappoint, the way we use it, would never apply to God.
When we think of someone disappointing us, we think of that person letting us down.
Failing us in some way.
Maybe failing to keep a promise or an appointment.
And while I'm right there, this came to mind.
When we don't see somebody in church, it is disappointing.
But when that person sends a text message to the pastor or gives him a call, writes a note.
And says, I'm not going to be there because I'm in Illinois this week on a job.
Or a friend of mine passed away and I'm going to his funeral.
Or I'm sick and I don't want to get anyone else sick, then that lessens our burden a little bit.
But do you know, and I've asked Brother Fulton this before, a long time ago, I said, you know, I can't imagine not being here without telling you first.
The only way that'll happen is if I'm dead, and then I hope my wife will call and say, Brother Andy won't be teaching today.
Because I don't want to ever disappoint my pastor.
I don't want him to ever wonder, well, where's Andy?
I want him to know if I'm not there and why.
But I asked him one time, I said, do most church members tell you when they're not going to be there?
And he said, no, they don't.
He said, it just leaves me wondering.
So stir that in your milk and drink it and see what that does for you.
But that's not what it means in our text.
That's why you need to study the original languages with your concordance.
You don't have to know a word of Hebrew or Greek.
If you read English, you take a concordance.
And you look at what that word meant in the original language, and if you don't know how to use a concordance, Please tell me after Sunday school I will be happy to show you, very quickly, how you can use one on your phone.
On the internet, or if you have the old-fashioned Strong or Young's Concordance, you probably already know how to use it if you have one of those.
But it'll enrich your study.
That was one of the things when Brother Doug began feeling led to preach God's word.
I said, man, use your concordance.
It'll really help you stay away from a lot of errors about what you think the word means.
And if we hadn't done that for the word disappoint, what would we have thought?
Well, God disappoints people the way we think of it, and He doesn't, because that's not what the word means.
It'll keep you from a lot of errors that have invaded the churches. who assume that our use of certain words today is the same as it was 500 years ago when these Bibles were translated into that King James style of English.
So in the Old Testament, the word disappointeth is also translated as the word break, make void, defeat, and other words just like that.
So, you can take any of those words that I just mentioned and replace the word disappointeth with them in this verse.
It could read: He breaks the devices of the crafty.
Or he defeats the devices of the crafty.
Now that makes a whole lot more sense.
When we try to reconcile how God could disappoint anyone or anything.
Just before Joshua died in Judges chapter 2, God said this to the children of Israel in verse 1.
It's Judges chapter 2, verse 1, if you're writing that down.
God said, And an angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt. and have brought you unto the land which I swear unto your fathers.
And I said, I will never break my covenant with you.
Now, in that verse, I underline the words will never break, because the words will and break are translated from the same Hebrew word as disappointeth.
What's God saying?
He's saying, I'll never disappoint my covenant with you.
But the devices of the crafty, God will disappoint.
He will break them.
He'll make them void.
He'll defeat them.
As the Creator over all things, God has the authority Over all things, over all people, over what we call the laws of nature.
Those are God's laws.
The laws of nature belong to God.
They were developed by God.
One of them is what keeps you sitting down in that chair instead of floating off into the rafters up here.
There's nothing that God cannot disappoint.
Now that we understand what the word disappoint means, nothing he cannot break or defeat.
Gravity, inertia, momentum, heat, cold.
Anything that has to do with physics, everything that man has attempted to master, God created all of those.
It's amazing that many of the scientists who are so well versed in these things that I mention They can talk way above our heads, except for Carlos, because he's a rocket scientist.
But they can talk way over our heads about all of those things.
And yet, many of them don't believe in God at all.
They believe those laws, and they are laws.
What does a law have to have?
It has to have a lawmaker, doesn't it?
Somebody to make the law.
They believe they just happen.
If God breaks it, it's broken.
If God disappoints it, it's disappointed.
And what does he disappoint in our text?
It says, the devices of the crafty.
Now, a device.
Is a thought or an intention.
So it's a little different than you may think of it today.
It's a thought or an intention.
When you devise something, the thing you devised is a device.
And that device here is a thought.
So to learn about those devices, let's first see who the crafty are.
And the Hebrew word for crafty is first seen in Genesis chapter 3 and verse 1.
Where it says, Now the serpent was more subtle, that's the same word, crafty, than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.
And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden.
Now, this could read: the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field.
And we know that the serpent was the embodiment, the manifestation of the devil.
Now, not every use of this Hebrew word for subtle or crafty is in the sense of describing an evil person.
The word's also translated as prudent, as prudent.
Kind of like the way bless and curse are from the same Hebrew word.
This one is also from the same Hebrew word.
In fact, it's used as prudent many times in the Proverbs, and we've studied quite a few of those during our Wednesday night service.
An example is Proverbs 14 and verse 15, Proverbs 14 and verse 15, which says the simple Believeth every word, but the prudent man looketh well to his going.
So here the prudent man is crafty in a good way.
A prudent man and the crafty, subtle serpent have something in common.
They're both filled with some kind of wisdom.
The difference is, those who are like the serpent are filled with the wrong kind of wisdom.
I'm going to show you that.
In Ezekiel chapter 28, there's what we call a double reference to the prince of Tyrus, an earthly figure, earthly person, and Satan.
So it refers to him, and you'll see if you read that chapter what I'm talking about.
But in verse 17 of Ezekiel 28, God says this to Satan.
Through the prophet, he said, Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty.
Now, this is when Satan was Lucifer in heaven.
Thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness.
I will cast thee to the ground.
I will lay thee before kings.
That they may behold thee.
Now, what was the difference between Satan's wisdom and Solomon's wisdom?
Satan's wisdom was corrupted.
The wisdom he had as Lucifer, the anointed cherub, was beyond what we could imagine or perceive.
It wasn't that Lucifer was without intelligence, without wisdom.
In fact, to the contrary, he was the most intelligent of all the creatures.
He went from crafty in a good way to crafty in a bad way.
So, when God disappoints the devices of the crafty, What he's doing is keeping the evil thoughts of their hearts from taking root.
Because we learned that that word device means a thought or intention.
God interdicts their evil works by cutting them off at the thought level.
Now, this side of glory, we will never know.
How many times God has disappointed the devices of the crafty?
We know what the devices of the crafty are because the Bible tells us plainly.
What we don't know is when those devices are taking shape in the hearts of evil men.
We have to wait until those devices turn into evil works.
And yes, God permits evil things to take place because of the curse of sin.
But he also, even in the face of that, God also restrains other evil things from taking place according to his divine plan for us.
There were four sports cars who caught up with us this morning in a hurry out here on FM 90.
And I bet they were running a hundred miles an hour before they came up behind me.
Well, God disappointed their devices.
It had one of them run into me, I wouldn't be here talking, or I might be sitting in a chair with my leg propped up.
So we never know how many times God intercedes on our behalf by disappointing the devices of the crafty.
The word translated as devices means the same thing in the Hebrew as it does in the Greek.
I want to read to you something from 2 Corinthians 2, verses 10 through 11.
Going back to the original crafty one, Satan, it's important that we recognize his devices.
2 Corinthians 2, verses 10 through 11, Paul wrote, To whom ye forgive anything.
I forgive also.
For if I forgave anything, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ.
Lest Satan should get an advantage of us, for we are not ignorant of his devices.
Same word is in the Greek word and the Hebrew word are different, but they mean the same thing.
Paul said Satan had devices.
So, this verse doesn't list all of them, but let's look at the one device he does list, and that device is a lack of forgiveness.
Paul said he forgave whomever the Corinthians forgave because he didn't want Satan to get an advantage.
So Satan tries to influence Christians to be unforgiving.
He doesn't have to work on lost people.
They're already unforgiving.
He has to work on Christians.
And I'll tell you what: unforgiveness is one thing that I have struggled with before.
Maybe some of you have.
There was once a person in my life who had done some things that were terrible.
Some of those things made me angry enough to want to kill him.
And I thank God he disappointed my devices.
He nipped it in the bud.
And over the years, when I thought about that person, I found myself becoming very angry inside.
And I never wanted to see that person again, and I still don't.
I'm afraid of what I might say or do or what might happen, so it's better to not trust my flesh.
However, in that same breath, I felt conviction in my heart about having a spirit of unforgiveness.
You know, unforgiveness is easier to preach against when you're not at war with it.
And a dear pastor gave me an old cassette tape.
Shouldn't have to say old cassette tape because if it's a cassette tape, it's old.
And it had a lesson on there about forgiveness by a pastor named R.
T.
Kendall.
And my pastor intended for me to listen to that message because I had an issue. with a former pastor who had done some hurtful things to a member of my family.
But what my pastor at that time didn't realize is that I had a much deeper entrenched problem with unforgiveness related to someone he'd never known about.
And as I listened to that tape, Brother Kendall said something that God used to bring a wave of relief over me.
He said, You may forgive someone without ever having to see that person again.
And his case in point was that there are people who have hurt you and who have died.
And you have to forgive that person for something they did while they were alive.
You certainly can't go to them and say, I forgive you for the evil thing you did to me.
It'd be impossible.
And I never realized up until then that I'd be able to forgive someone without seeing him in person and telling him to his face.
And even Paul might not be able to see the people whom the Corinthians forgave, but whom he forgave anyway, in the person of Christ.
When God moves in us to forgive another person, we're reminded that Jesus forgave us.
Even those who spat upon him and mocked him.
And beat him because on the cross he said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.
Jesus was not ignorant of Satan's devices.
And with forgiveness, Jesus disappointed the devices of the crafty.
God disappoints the devices of the crafty.
And we'll stop right there because time has failed us.
Father, thank you so much for all who've gathered and all who've watched online.
Thank you for your word and for how your Spirit teaches us when we apply ourselves to your word.
Help us now to meditate upon it and to use these truths in our daily walk that we may be stronger Christians.
In Jesus' name, amen.
