Grace, Life, Glory

Where are we going to look at Ephesians 321 and actually build off of that as we've done more than once you know the church needs to be together and one of the reasons we need to be together as we need to sing his praises together. You just can't really define it.

Can you just does something for you there's a strengthening and the Bible says in admonishing a teaching element in their tube at some my goodness, how it helps me appreciate brother Tom Clay in all of his minions all of his helpers who serve in our faithful and got us to worship our God together. We think we looked at this five years ago and I have repackaged it, so I never can leave anything along that I would look at it again. Ephesians 321 is really a theme verse.

Maybe the theme verse for grace like Church of the show, but more important than that, based on my understanding of the total biblical truth. I think it could be God's theme verse. It focuses in on it. It's it's anchored on the central truth of what God's up to and what God is about to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus forever and ever. Amen. That's what God's up to these up to glorifying his name through his son Jesus to the building of his church for time and eternity forever and ever and we get to get in on that. I call this doctrine that central to this verse and central to what we are and central to the church in general grace life glory.

Grace life glory.

This doctrine is unchangeable and what I mean by that.

You can't alter it or you cannot forsake it without forsaking God forsaking the truth.

It's not something you can toy with you Macon mess around little bit with how you do the Lord's supper in a number of other things but if you miss the truth of grace and life.

For God's glory. You miss everything. It's essential. It's also historical to discard this doctrine would be to forsake our forefathers and I mean particularly our Baptist forefathers note expands further than that. And I'll tell you more about this in a few moments, but particularly those who were called the Baptist beginning in a formal way.

500 years ago. They live to proclaim this doctrine of grace and life. For God's glory and they died by the thousands and thousands and thousands rather than deny this doctrine of the grace of God brings life builds his church and brings in glory. So this doctrine really defines something more than any other doctrine. We proudly display on our two marquees out front. The little phrase a church committed to historic Baptist doctrine. That means that historic foundational Bible truth of salvation comes to man by the grace of God and grace alone on grace which changes us in verse new life in us. Therefore, then and only then making us candidates for baptism and membership in God works all of that glorify himself. Grace life and glory. Ellis introduced what I'm going to say this morning by first defining the word grace grace defined simply means favor, God's favor to us and we often add the phrase his unmerited favor. By the way, since we are all sinners. Any favor, God shows us is truly unmerited undeserved favor that we talk about common grace, we use a lot in our church very purposefully common grace is that goodness of God to all mankind. Equally well I shouldn't say equally but generally God brings the sunshine on the just and the unjust.

God brings rain on the crops of the wicked and the good God gives us air to breathe in the pleasures of children in and the blessings of marriage life and all the known and all we could go these graces these gifts. This unmerited goodness.

God bestows on all mankind. But common grace as wonderful as it is as amazing as it is, is limited. It's limited only to time. It doesn't last for eternity. That's where we come to what we call saving grace. Or sometimes it's called redeeming grace and that's God's favor. He bestows on those the purposes to say God's good to all mankind there but there is that unique and special goodness.

He gives to those he is purpose and to say this includes those doctrines of God's choosing God's electing God's predestinate eating God's calling God's ceiling God's justifying God's sanctifying and then glorifying his all.

So Gillis reminder since grace is a favor, God gives those who have no merit in themselves and grace is grace because no compensation is required to receive it. If you hear that no work, no merit, no achievement, no cost nothing. If you had any of that to it. It's no longer grace.

Aren't you glad God is not like you and I is completely un-salt. You did not come into this world and say how you know I've got get some good understanding of things.

I have some inherited virtue and I think I'm going to seek this God and see if he might show me some grace. No you don't. Grace comes to you, but I've asked as the initiative of God himself.

You did not seek it, or look for it comes un-salt. It comes undeserved. It's a pure charity if you will.

Grace is extended to objects who altogether have no attractiveness that caused it to be extended. God didn't look that insane, but they're so precious I'm there so love Lambert extend my grace to them. Quite the contrary, the Bible teaches absolutely the opposite. The Bible teaches our very nature is so abhorrent and anti-God that we are by nature the children of wrath. Ephesians ship to.

But that's the way God is Romans 11 six reminds us, but if it is of grace. It is no longer on the basis of works otherwise grace is no longer grace. It can't be bought, earned or worn by the creature now still a wave introduction let's talk let's hone in on little more carefully saving grace our redeeming grace with her mother such a disgrace that this this unmerited favor, God extends to those he purpose is to save his first of all its eternal is not something God came up with in time is not something God develop because things played out on earth in a way, he wasn't expecting them to play out. This is part of the eternal nature of God. Second Timothy 19 reminds us, who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but in other words, instead of any human worker merit or achievement, you could do but according to his own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity. This part of God to give this wonderful favor to save us is something that existed in the heart of God before time began before man's sin.

During that epoch when there was only God the father, God the son and God the Holy Spirit. They were if you will, losing with grace. Grace is not only eternal but saving grace is free. Romans 324 being justified as a gift by his grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus again. Romans 11 six reminds us if it involves works on your part on man's part in any way.

And grace is no longer grace its eternal it's free. And thirdly introducing saving grace.

It is sovereign. If it's of God. It has to be sovereign. I remember David Miller tongue-in-cheek reminded me not too many years ago that the phrase sovereign grace is redundant if it's God's grace is God's sovereign because God cannot not be sovereign, but I like to use it for emphasis.

It's sovereign. Hebrews 416 let therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Grace reigns on the throne.

That's because it is sovereign and the one who sits on the throne, who has to grace is sovereign. Sovereign is the idea that it is God's perfect and righteous prerogative and totally proper that he acts on his own will.

Outside of the influence of any other God chooses to do as God chooses and no outside influence can affect that Sears sovereignty grace is on the throne and grace is dispensed by sovereign decree brothers and sisters. Grace is not as it were, on the Walmart shopping rack to be examined and handled by us and chosen by us, if it suits us no graces on the throne of the universe and he dismissed old wind and on whom the perfect beautiful sovereign one chooses and is pleased to do so. Saving grace this remind ourselves that all men are born unrepentant and unbelieving, as rebels against God. All men are fully and absolutely deserving of eternal condemnation and is the sovereign one who sits on the throne, who in his own loving business dispensers common grace to all this common grace is an expression of his love and his goodness. Even on the most undeserving and any of these, no listening any person who has ever lived under common grace, who will repent of sin and embrace Jesus Christ by faith will be eternally say did you hear me any man any woman any boy, any girl any senior adult of any age under common grace will repent of their sin and place their faith in Jesus Christ, God will forgive their sin and make them his job, but none will God son stands with arms outreach and pierced blood. He marks in his hands and a gaping wound in his side in male prints also in his feet and men look and go their own way not to excuse me, none will choose Nandu choose all their own to come to him so therefore God exercises his divine right is sovereign and extends saving grace to some of these undeserving unrepentant unbelieving rebels, which bestows on them spiritual and eternal blessings which manifests the love and goodness of God.

This is what unfolds in the Ephesians in chapter 1 and beginning in chapter 2, precept upon precept truth upon truth glory upon glory. Paul writes to the Ephesian church unfolding with this loving sovereign God of grace has done to save his own children, and then you get to Ephesians chapter 2 verse 10 he comes to this crescendo and he says for we are his workmanship, the great scholars tell us. Literally, it should say yes workmanship we are. It makes us his children is workmanship. We are created by us know in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them will that's my introduction. This grace of God. This great common grace for all mankind.

And then this unique special saving grace that existed eternally in the heart and mind of God that that is is dispensed in about the sovereignty of this one who sits on the throne. Now to my outline I grace existed eternally in the heart and mind of God.

We fit on this. Let's elaborate on it.

It's an attribute of God. The a in the outline.

It's a part of who he is he sick God is God. God is not what we think him to be a can you just stop right there and preach to yourself for a moment, have you learned to talk to yourself and not listen to yourself. God is who God says he is not who you feel the all to be so we come to church and we sent it to the preaching of the word are we have our Bible study and God unveils something of himself, and we thank all while I never thought of God that way and God's us will thank you. Appreciate you receiving what I say about myself is that of imposing only your idolatrous assumptions of you all. God is who God is and his attributes as qualities.

You might say are not separate from his essential nature, but they emanate from his essential nature.

In other words, grace is extended because grace existed a part of who God is. He's just that kind of a God.

It's a part of his essential essence or nature and grace existed eternally in the heart and mind of God before it was ever displayed in the world through his son Jesus Christ.

Let me just give you real quickly. Several parts of this attribute of grace. First of all, as we said it's a part of his essence is a part of the very nature of who he is. As the holy God is a part of what makes up the beauty and the glory of him, the one true God, but grace is also his desire. It includes that he desires to reach out to and bring this favorite unworthy sinners and love. It includes his wisdom. In other words, he has the omniscience the wisdom to prepare a plan whereby the grace would be extended to us and save us. It includes the wheel.

The initiative to inner initiate the plan and it includes God's power that he has the power listen to me to effectually execute what he initiate that right there is a glory that right there security of the believer that got theirs once saved always saved. That right there is perseverance of the saints that he has the power and the moderate to effectually conclude what he set out to perform.

Aren't you glad that he is such a glorious God that it is very hard in nature before he created anything or anyone. There was this part of him that wanted to get labor to those who are most undeserving kind, unworthy, and unholy before him and that he has no wisdom to put a plan together and he has the power to execute. It didn't performed perfectly. Talk about security or salvation will bill Stafford you say uncle saved his pitiful and it is.

It's a wonder beyond wonders well it existed eternally in the heart and mind of God we thought, but it's an attribute of God and secondly, let's talk about grace be in the Council of the Godhead grace and this is beyond our comprehension of God the father and God the son and God the Holy Spirit conferred together about the glories of grace and how they're going to administer it and bless the children through it. Ephesians 1 versus three and four. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places.

This is in the Council of the Godhead verse four just as he chose us in the him before the foundation of the world that we would be holy and blameless before him in love. He chose us in him that is through the person and the works. The merits of his son, that we would be.

Not that we might be. Not that we possibly could be, but that we would be holy and blameless before him in love.

This was the heart of the Godhead concerning grace for the children before time even began. 50 different texts tell us these following truths in grace, he chose us in grace, he foreknew us. These are Bible words and grace.

He elected us in grace.

He predestined us in grace, he called us in grace.

He justified us in grace.

He sanctified us and in grace he glorified us all coming out of the mind and the Council of the Godhead. Grace saving grace Willis go to II. Not only this grace existed eternally in the heart and mind of God. Secondly, this grace is manifested by the sun and applied by the spirit that's God's plan. Jesus comes as the captain of grace to demonstrate it before all he came. If you will, out of eternity and step in the time that first Christmas morning so I enter outline manifested by the sun, the son of God in grace, the son of God was qualified.

He had the qualification.

First of all, that is, as God the father said I have to have one to fulfill this office of grace called the Christ. This one who would be the Savior sent from God to save the children.

One has to be fully qualified and course he was sinless and righteous. He was God incarnate, he had the qualification. Secondly, the incarnation skews me. He became man he had become one of us to save us. And thirdly, he went to the cross in his crucifixion, where he substituted in our place and where he satisfied the wrath of God that was against the children and then fourthly his resurrection he was raised by the system for our justification. If you will to show forth that the penalties been paid not listen. Now the children because of grace manifested through the person work of Christ. Now the children can stand before God justified.

That is, as if they had never seen grace but through the merit and work of Christ, manifested by the sun and today he faithfully is the intercession are is in intercession at the right hand of the father on behalf of the children summarizing way to say this.

John 117 for the law was given through Moses, grace and truth come through Jesus Christ, who you will line up with Moses and try to keep the law or just dive into the rivers of Jesus and his grace. That's a great place to be. That's a great place to live is a great place to be found.

Well first of all we said it's grace manifested by the sun. But secondly, it's grace applied by the spirit were grace is manifested and exercised in the person and work of Jesus Christ. Listen now grace is extended and applied by God the Holy Spirit is manifested and exercised by Christ is extended and applied to us by the person of the Holy Spirit. You could summarize it this way. The father is the fountain of grace. The sun is the channel of grace and the spirit is the bestower of grace. One of the songwriter wrote this grace grace God's grace, amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me it's grace upon grace upon grace upon grace. This unmerited favor, God poured out toward us. Ephesians 25 reminds us that there there is this regenerating this life-giving work of the spirit. Even we were dead in our transgressions, he made us alive together with Christ by grace you been saved.

Christ brings us to life for the agency.

The third person of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit in Ephesians 113. This ceiling work in him you also, after listening to the message of the truth, the gospel of your salvation, and this has to happen. Having also believed this is where our Baptist forefathers were so accurate because they said there must be evidence that you are now a true believer before will baptize you see that something our Presbyterians.

Many Protestant forefathers left off.

They got grace pretty good but they didn't get this thing of the new life in the chain they were missing it by doing that is the spirit the ceiling of the spirit, if you will. One what you think of the ceiling of the spirit is that it seals the deal. He comes into your life and it is his witness in the evidence of his working in your life that that gives you the final seal and security.

I am one of God. Don't you dare listen to me. Don't you dare say well you know God's sovereign in all of this in its God chooses an God election God predestined just the Bible teaches all that I will not shirk back one Yoda from preaching. Listen to me. You cannot know your godchild and wish you yourself have turned to Christ in faith the Holy Spirit of God is bearing witness to that change.

We teach we preach and experiential religion is not just some head knowledge is knowledge from some words in the book. It's an actual experience called the new birth, so the regenerating work of the spirit, the ceiling work the thick spirit and also grace is applied to the Holy Spirit in a sanctifying work. Second Thessalonians 213 reminds us we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the spirit and faith in the truth and grace. When the gospel is preached, the spirit applies the gospel in saving power to the soul.

He brings life to the spiritually dead, he conquers our rebellion and melts our hearts are fictions begin return to love God and want to please God. He opens our blind eyes and above and beyond all else.

He cleanses us from all sin and defilement. AWP quotes GS Bishop, in his book on the attributes of God. Here's what Pete quotes as he quotes the ship. Grace is a provision for men who are so fallen they cannot reach the bar of justice so corrupt they cannot change their own natures so averse to God. They cannot turn to him so blind they cannot see him and so death that they cannot hear him and so dead that he himself must open their grace and lift them to resurrection.

That's what the grace of God the Holy Spirit.he imparts this new life. You see, my friends, God's autobiographies, God the father is the king of grace, God the son, Jesus Christ is the Prince of grace and God the Holy Spirit is the ambassadorial grace.

It's all about grace.

III grace produces spiritual life is elaborate on this with you. Don't let's talk about a little bit more and let me remind you that this is the element that separates our forefathers from both the Roman Catholic state churches of ancient Europe and the Protestant Presbyterian state churches of a strict euro, the, the Catholic churches of ancient root Europe like today miss grace altogether. I miss grace completely installing this religious sacramental works system of salvation. And then, though I I steam them and I've learned from their writings and I believe the brothers in Christ, far, far too many of our Protestant and Presbyterian forefathers who had their own state churches in ancient Europe would teach grace and election, but they would sprinkle babies just like the Catholics would and I begin to quickly lose the evidence of the impartation of new life, but our Baptist forefathers got it right. They believed in grace they believed in the same gospel there, Presbyterian, and Protestant friends believe but they said we are not going accommodate sprinkling into state churches are sprinkling and any churches you must show you have the new life you must be old enough to testify and bear witness that there's been repentance developing your heart and faith in Jesus Christ and then and only then will we baptize you, you understand something, folks that had not been practiced for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years except maybe in a little tiny offshoot group here and there and I do believe there's a lot of faithful groups. History doesn't even know about.

Most of them were trying to practice true grace life religion if you will. True Bible grace life religion is this element of the spirit are grace rather produces spiritual life.

Ephesians 25 again reminders even when we were dead in our transgressions, he made us alive together with Christ while we are declared just in our relation to the law by grace. The worker braced us far more than that. It also transforms us individually by imparting spiritual life. Second Corinthians 517 if anyone is in Christ, he's a new creature. Our new creation the old things are passed away behold all things are become new. Life is bestowed by the Spirit. This is the key element of true religion that so often myth. I don't care if you can write a thousand sound theology books on all the glories of the doctrines of grace do you hold do you embrace that when the gospel comes to a person and their truly converted.

They are carrying different therefore as our Baptist forefathers would teach only VN are they candidates for believers baptism and church membership, sprinkling of babies is to no avail, and of no effect. John 521 Jesus said, just as the father raises the dead and gives them life.

Even so, the son also gives life to whom he wishes I've never done it but I need to do some expositions in Ezekiel know the old narrative of Ezekiel 37 where you got these drive all dry bones scattered everywhere drive small life nation just drop Ezekiel 37, three he said to me, Son of Man can these bones live and I answered the Lord God, you know, you know, folks, that's our heritage. That's Bible doctrine God can take the spiritual dry bones, then were baptized become part of his church. Grace that gives life builds the church of the glory of God. That's about as foundational a Baptist doctrine is there is. Well, the inward evidences of new life and I'll just be brief here.

There is what I call repentance. Our primary repentance. First of all primary repentance is that repentance from looking to are counting on anything other than Christ to forgive you and save you a person has to start there because almost everyone is looking to something instead of Christ and then secondary repentance is that continual repentance, but the spirit of God taught by the word of God. God brings up to your heart and mind as you go through life in your continually confessing and refitting of all the shortcomings and sins and transgressions in our lives so inwardly we start becoming these three panthers and inwardly we start rejoicing in God we find this new love for God the father, we find this new affection and clinging a longing and loving of God the son, Jesus, Christ, we begin to see a beauty in him in a loving him in the wisdom in him and we enjoy in him begin to find a new love for God's word. I remember after I was converted that not driving my car back to college.

I begin reading my Bible and couldn't stop reading it happen. I knew life life came in me.

And then of course a new love for God's people and that is a true local church you're just drawn to it.

And then there's outward evidences, this can't just be bottled up its loss is over and our lifestyle. The fruits of the spirit begin to increasingly be shown our life, love, joy, peace, patient kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. We never arrive at those doing the ghost begin to be manifest in the new life comes in always a reforming lifestyle Roman for last point, the glory of God. This is all for the glory of God. Ephesians 321 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen concert on doing all this so that people might marvel over what kind of God I am and what I can perform. Look at these people.

I'm building look at this new creation on developing this church made up.

Now all these local churches must bear down for just a moment before I close on John 1227 through 30. All right. John 1227 230 Jesus is just beginning to unfold before the disciples what's coming for him in the cross and and we get this glimpse into the turmoil of his struggle. At this point.

Verse 27 he says now my soul has become troubled, and what shall I say father, save me from this hour, but for this purpose I came to this hour and we don't know exactly came getting careful, trying to decide the motives behind these, but is he not saying I don't want to go to this point of violent separation from you.

My father and bearing the same guilt of all the children are the department. I don't want to do that by heavenly father understand that way back. They are way way way back there way way way back there way back there in eternity past and the Council of the Godhead leasing father you in the determined and decided we would show this grace, this one you some plan that unfolded as God the father and God the son and God the Holy Spirit looked at the our visit how we can fix this mess now thousand times no God's plan was sent old.

How he would work it all before the first speck of dust was created by the active Annunciation of his voice, Jesus said it's for this power that even came to earth.

This is good stuff. Folks, this is good stuff. Verse 28.

Father, let's get on with it. Here's what it's all about, glorify your name. The voice came out of heaven. I preferred this verse many times but I just can't get over you. Got number if you have money preaching more voice came out of heaven. I have both glorified it, and cannot just give a Southern middle Tennessee applicant five translation here soon you go to bed I'm going glorified again my dear son, met with Lisa's glorify your name. It's includes God the son, Jesus, son, you know, we set all this up far glory for executing all this plaintiff son, you're doing it perfectly just exactly what ought to be done for our door yacht glorified our name and were going glorified s'more. Are you listening to me. How shall I say this in the balanced.

Your salvation has more to do with God's desire to glorify his own name and God's desire to save you from hell mojitos desire to do that. Don't misunderstand, he does but that does not compare with God's desire to glorify his name through the grace he saves you with Tom.

Clay gets up and leaves the songs and some of these grand truths begin to resonate in your heart and mind and you sing the Jesus with the compassion with the joy without sweetness with the treasuring with an adoring that you didn't quite have before you begin the grass. These things in God's is that I'm looking for you to adore me for who I am and what I can verse 28.

Again, John 12 other glorify your name to the voice came and I have and I both glorified it, and I will glorified again.

Verse 29 so the crowd of people who stood by and heard it were saying that it thundered other single an angel spoke to him. Jesus said, this voice has not come for my sake but for yours words mean the father know what it's about. Were trying to get you up to speed, mean the father know it's all about us at all about our glory were trying to get to there though, and I've been trying to get there. I can try to get there for 40 years.

It's all about his glory. He gets grace that made my get I didn't get to live or baptize become part of a true church functions together until eternity for his glory, and then for his glory and eternity over school grace life. Lori now next Sunday. I challenge you to bring a very special Christmas love offering what we bring the Christmas love offering because it's good to retire the debt. Yes, that is good but there's more than that. This is more than a team spirit of looking we can do together. That's not all wrong, but it's deeper than that, we come to bring our Christmas love offering that we might save money on interest. Yes, that's good. But there's more than that. Can I remind you that God don't have any shortage of funds is also be glorified in the way you give the funds he's given you my… Troubled about this thing retire the debt segment on interest. Of course, yes, but more than that. What we need to retire this debt so we can get more money for missions that will happen. Yes that's good but there's more than that Christlike Church of the shows grasp of fresh that God has called us to be about something bigger than ourselves.

We are invited by God to get to know what God is doing in the world were invited to be on mission with God, and let's remind ourselves of fresh that you and eyes, grace, laughter to the shoals in 2020 are part of a continuum where links in a long long chain of God's glorious purposes. In 1525 in Switzerland, a godless rebel who was gloriously converted. His name is Conrad Grable and he began to study his Bible. He begin to learn the doctrines of grace life and glory. The doctrines of the church and he was troubled that though some were beginning in the Reformation of those days to teach that salvation is by grace through faith alone there very troubled that after that, they kind of put in the background and I still attended the state run church and they still sprinkle their babies and they still took of the old Roman dish Catholic mass, Conrad Grable minute with a man called Felix Manson Switzerland in 1525 and said, this bothers me wildly not go while not being fully biblical in the church that were living in joining and practicing somehow their conversations.

They said well you know the church anywhere that's baptizing only people who truly show they have new life in Christ. True believers. Conrad lifted Felix and things look. Conrad said that one a month or shall I say also say it. Conrad looked at Felix and said I don't know the grace life church anywhere. All we've got is these old Catholic systems and then the Protestants got some Dr. rabbit they're still there, still practicing the oldest baby sprinkling system so famous with the Conrad Conrad looked at Felix over at Felix's house one night.

1525. Tell you what, Conrad.

You baptize me by immersing as a believer in Jesus Christ and I baptize you farmers as a believer in Jesus Christ and I did this for six records that hadn't been done thousand thousand 200 300 years, and there without even really realizing it day constituted the first organized Baptist Church in Switzerland. Well this went over like a lead balloon with the civil and church authorities. They were considered outlaws and there was a civil eating rendered that they could no longer teach or baptize plaintiff into Conrad Preaching in history records over the next several months. He had 500 people who came to faith in Christ and after about hearing the gospel of grace believing and having the new life evidenced in them.

They were then baptized, became a part of that congregation will Conrad Grable was arrested put in prison by the state church authorities. He somehow escaped the priest for several more months and then he died of the plague, but after Grable's death and the next few dozen years church historian recorded that more Baptist were martyred in those years, and Christians were martyred in the first three centuries of Christianity is recorded in the New Testament. Baptist by the probably tens of thousands one because they held the doctrine of grace life and glory. So when we bring our Christmas love offering this Sunday is next Sunday. We actually are saying to our forefathers.

You did not die in vain. The strong Bible doctrine. You live to proclaim and died rather than deny.

We embraced and supported today. 500 years later. Looking forward to seeing Felix Manson Conrad Grable in heaven one day and yet in the end of it all. We bring the Christmas love offering to the honor and glory of God. After all, it is God who extended this grace to Conrad Grable and Felix Manson to all of us that changed us by giving us new life which made us true and the only true and rightful candidates for baptism and church membership in which God is doing all of that all four years. Glory. If you look at our our letterhead stationary at the church assist the doctrines of grace the life of the spirit of the glory of God.

Race life Lord your given to more than just an organization are Christian thing you're giving to something bigger than this retirement event will give us one more step in taking the baton, Conrad, and Felix handed off to their next generation and were going handed off to another Lord God grace life glory and I say resoundingly with stalwart conviction on these things.

We stand we will never change