And let's start reading in verse 8 to the end of the chapter and finish up chapter 4 this evening. We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honorable, but we are despised. Even under this present hour, we both hunger and thirst and are naked and are buffeted and have no certain dwelling place. In labor, working with our own hands, being reviled, we bless. Being persecuted, we suffer. Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world and are the offscouring of all things under this day. I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons, I warn you. For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, ye have not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me. For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ. as I teach everywhere in every church. Now some are puffed up as though I would not come to you, but I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know not the speech of them that are puffed up, but the powers. For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. What will you? Shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness? Well, Paul might get my text, the one that I'm going to use for the title of my message this evening, there in verse 14. I write about these things to shame you, but to warn you. Not to shame you, but to warn you. Now, these Corinthians should have been ashamed. Should have been ashamed. They were acting carnal, they were acting fleshly, they had divisions, they had schisms. They debated and argued over their positions that they had with preachers and who was the best in that. And they were full of pride. Full of pride. That's what they said. Now you're full. We don't need you, Paul. We don't need you apostles. We're full. We don't need your instruction. We don't need your help. We're full. And Paul says, and he tells them, I wish that you were reigning. You're rich. You reign as kings without us. And you know what he's saying was, it's as if Christ has come and you're reigning as kings with him now, and I would that you was reigning, and we'd reign with you. We'd be able to reign with you. I wish this thing was over and we'd be able to reign with you. But oh, they were rich. They thought they were rich in gifts and in knowledge, grace, but by their actions they proved that they were children in understanding. They were children in understanding. Look over with me in Romans, chapter 12, in verse 3, just a moment. And Paul said that over in 1 Corinthians 14, How be ye men in malice and yet children in understanding? How are you children in understanding? And he says this, and he says, Now you are a fool, you are rich, you reign with kings without us. For I say through the grace given unto me, To every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith." Now, I'll tell you, a fellow that thinks more highly among himself than he ought to think, he's in trouble. That's why Paul asks, who made you to differ? What gift do you have that God didn't give you? What knowledge do you have that God didn't teach you? What gift do you have in grace that God didn't give you? What do you have that God didn't give you? Well, here's how the apostle comes over here and says, now here you are, you've got all this wealth, you've got all these things, and you don't need us. You don't need anybody. You're glorying in your wisdom, you're glorying in your power, you're glorying in your gifts. And he says, but let me tell you how his apostles are regarded. He says in verse 9, For I thank God that I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last as it were appointed unto death, for we are made a spectacle unto the world unto angels. And he says, You know, here you are, God set you up, and you look so well and so rich and so, doing so well. But he said, What about us? How do you regard us? He says, God seemed to set us forth as last. You know, you seem to be first, and we seem to be last. You seem to set yourselves above us, and we're behind you. That's what he's saying here. And he says, God has put us on exhibition. He's put us on exhibition. Let us be a spectacle to you. And you know how many times did that happen. You know, and you go through the book of Acts, and the Lord said, right there where Dirk read the night, He says, you know what? Your master is with publicans and sinners. That was a derogatory statement that they made of our master. And that's what they said about Paul here. It says, you know, Peter and John, when they were preaching, and they healed that lame man, what did they do? They brought him before the Sanhedrin. They brought him before all them people. Says, you got to quit preaching this man. You got to quit teaching this man. And if you do it again, we're going to beat you. We're going to put you in jail. So they were put last. Everybody else before, these apostles were put last. And oh, beloved, and Paul says this, you know, he says, we're treated as appointed unto death. Watch what happens over here in the book of Acts, in verse 22. You remember when Paul was put in chains. And then when he was put in the Philippian jail. That's what he's saying for us. You know, everybody's saying, if you was a good preacher, Paul, and if you had some wisdom, and you don't know how to preach the gospel, you wouldn't have all this trouble. That's why we're rich and you're poor. That's why we're reigning and you're suffering. And what they're saying is it's your message, you know, it's your message. And that's why Paul said, you know, if I had yet preached the cross and did not preach the cross, I would not suffer persecution. And here in Acts 22, look what happens here in verse 21. You all remember the story where he was preaching here and he's brought before the Jewish council. And he's telling him how God called him to preach the gospel, and how he set him forth to be a preacher, and what he's going to do with him. And then he said unto me, Depart, for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow, from the earth is not fit that he should live. And as they cried out and cast off their clothes and threw dust in the air. That's what Paul says, you know. That's what they're saying to him. Paul, what in the world is the matter? And that's why I said, you think you've got everything, we don't have anything. You know everything, we know nothing. You fool, here we are, we're being treated as men appointed unto death. And that's why he says, and we're made a spectacle. We're made a spectacle. That word spectacle means we're like a theater. People are watching us like in a theater, like you go to see a show, and he says, the world's watching us. And he says, not only the world, but the angels are watching us. And men are watching us, and we're just theater to them. Somebody to observe, somebody that's putting on the show, somebody that's a spectacle. And when we look at you, we see nothing that impresses us, see no power, see no glory, and that's what they said about our Master. There's no beauty about it that we should desire, and that's what they said. They told about Paul one time, his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is contemptible. Well, 13 books of the New Testament. And yet it says, boy, his bodily presence is weak, and I'd rather hear anybody preaches him. That's what they said. And we're made a spectacle, a theater. A theater. And then he says here in verse 10, you know, we're even regarded as fools. But I tell you, we are fools for Christ's sake. For Christ's sake. And what he means here, because of our commitment to Christ, our devotion to Christ, and our devotion to the gospel of Christ crucified, people say, you're fools. You're fools. All you've got to do is just cut your message off a little bit. And that's what he goes on to say about you. But you're wise in Christ. But you're wise in Christ. You know how to preach the gospel, and you know how to be accepted of men. You know what it takes to use philosophy and human wisdom. And you know how you gain favor with the world, and you're not persecuted. Nobody said anything ill about you. He said, I'm a fool for Christ's sake, but you're wise in Christ. And that's what people regard you as, you know, what in the world's the matter with you that you make so much of Christ, so much of the gospel, so much of Christ crucified? Why do you make so much of the substitution or death of Christ? Why do you make so much of the redemption of Christ for his elect, for his only people? Why do you make much of that, Paul? Said, if you'd stop that, how many people you reckon got up this morning, preached on predestination in their churches? How many preachers you reckon get up and would say anything about electing greats? How many people get up and tell folks that God says your words and you're grasshoppers? And how many preachers would get up and say, I'm nothing, I'm nobody. And that's what Paul would say about himself, I'm nothing, I'm nobody. I'm the chiefest of apostles, yet I am nothing. I'm least and less of all the saints. But not only the preachers, and that's what he said here, says, you know, you're wise in Christ. They did not only feel good about themselves, but they want everybody else to feel good about themselves. And that's why Paul says here, you know, and then he says, look what he says, goes on to say, and we're weak. We are weak in our body. We're weak in influence. We have no influence with anybody. We're weak in worldly goods. We're weak in fame. But always says, you're strong. You're strong. You have property. You have earthly credentials. You have friends in high places. You have influence. And then he says, you're honorable. You're honored among men. You're honored for your learning. You're honored for your riches. You're honored for your successes. But look what he has said. We're held in contempt. We're despised. Folks bragging on you and belittling us. You're audible. You've got influence. You've got credentials in there saying, well, who is this? So what will this babbler say? What will this babbler say? We're held in contempt and despised of men. You know, we were back in the study talking this evening about different things that's put on bulletin boards at churches. And all we've ever used here are scriptures, except in the summer during our conference, we put our conference up. And there's folks, two or three people, told me that, you know, a time ago, said, oh, that's that church that always puts the first scripture up on the bulletin board. And when I was in the newspaper, you know, they say, read your Bible at the end of the thing. Read your Bible. And a fellow told me, he says, you think nobody reads the Bible but you? And that's what he says here. It's the gospel that makes men offensive. And so they got to find some other reason other than the gospel. And then look what he says here. Even under this present hour, right now, what's going on in our lives as apostles, as God set us forth to be a spectacle, appointed us to death, and I mean, Paul says, we die daily. He says, you know, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been delivered under the lions. Alexander the coppersmith done me much evil. Demuth has forsaken us. Love this present evil world. Nobody cares for the things of Christ save Timothy. So, I mean, Paul knows what it was to suffer. But he said, even under this present hour, right now, we both hunger and thirst. are naked and are buffeted and have no certain dwelling place. Now, what he's saying here is right now, going on under this present hour, you have all these blessings, you have all this wealth, you have all these gifts and all this knowledge, and you're bragging about it, and wouldn't you ought to be ashamed? And here he says, and here we are, in your estimation, he writes this to cord their pride and to warn them against the approval of the world. And he gives a true picture of the way God, the world, regards those who are devoted to the Lord Jesus Christ. He says, we both hunger and are thirst right now. Huh? And ain't that what he said in his gospel and his people? You know, we've gone hungry and thirsty. Let me show you, look over here, what he said in Luke 6 about how people regard the Lord Jesus Christ people, and our Lord himself. Luke 6.22, I believe it is. Oh, he says, we're hungry and thirsty even now. We've gone hungry and thirsty. Look what he says here, our Lord did in verse 622, Blessed are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil for the son of man's sake. Well, that's what they were doing with them. How did they do John and Peter and James? I've got a list. I should have wrote it out tonight and printed it out tonight and brought it to you, how all the apostles, how they all died. But here he says, when me and Sareb separate you from their company and say, cast out your name as somebody's evil. And then he goes on here, rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven. In the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets. That's the way they treated the prophets. You look back at how they treated the prophets. And there's woe unto you that are rich. For you have received your consolation, that's what Paul's saying here about them. Woe unto you that are full, you shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now, for you shall weep. Woe unto you, and men shall speak well of you, for so did their fathers to the false prophets." And that's what he said. And our Lord Jesus says, you know, He says, the world hated me before it ever hated you. And you know why they hated Christ? It wasn't because of His person. He didn't look different than anybody else. It was the things that he said that offended him. It was his message. They understood clearly what he said. You know, when he said that in John chapter 8, he says, Know the truth, and the truth will set you free. The first thing they said was, We ain't never been in bondage to anybody. He said, You're of your father the devil, and not only are you of your father the devil, but the works of your father, that's what you're going to do. And when he stood that first day and he's preaching, he says, you know, there were many with us in Israel in the time of Elijah, but Elijah was only sent to one. Many sent lepers in Syria in the time of Elijah, and he was only sent to Naaman. And boy, they thought, boy, this fellow's good at preaching, until he got down to the electing grace of God and God doing something for Gentiles, and he, they got fighting back and wanted to throw him off a hill. And he says, if they'd done this to the master, What will they do to you? And he says, they'll hate you. And they don't hate us for our person. People, you know, they like us for who we are. But when they find out, when they find out, and men and women find out what you really truly believe, and you won't budge from it, we'll not back up a hair's breadth. And you've got family members, you've got husbands, you've got wives, you've got children, you've got neighbors, that they utterly despise the fact that you believe in God's elect in grace. And they hate you for the message. They despise the message because the message puts them and everybody else on the outside and shuts them up to Christ. And people don't want to be shut up to Christ. And that's what Paul's doing to these Corinthians. They don't want to be shut up to salvation, being in one person, in one way, one righteousness, one justification, being accepted in the beloved. They want their works. They want their will. They want their experience. They want their good feeling. They want to feel good about it. They don't want to be sinners. If I had a nickel for every time, and I know everybody else has went through this too, Henry's went through it, Don's went through it, every preacher that's ever preached. I'm telling you, beloved, if you had a nickel for every time somebody says, told you, I don't believe that. And like this morning, how many times have people said, you know, you don't want to let a person get saved if they wanted to. How can you get anybody saved if you ain't got an offer? Y'all believe ain't nobody saved but just a few aren't you? Ain't nobody saved in this whole county but just a few. I'm tired of hearing that. And that's what Paul's saying here. You're rich. And that's what they look at us. They look at us and say, them poor, pitiful, blinded, deluded, simple-minded people believe in something like that. Do you remember that article I had in the Bulletin last week by Daniel Parks on, you know, the Cannell line? He gave him a verse of Scripture. He said, that's a verse of Scripture for you fellas that believe that way. He said, we don't have that in Oxford. In other words, we don't take this. We just don't believe that. That don't fit in with our doctrine. Beloved, I'm telling you, if there's any part of this Bible that don't fit in with our theology, then our theology is wrong. And that's so Paul goes on here to say now in verse 11, even under this present hour, we both hunger and thirst and are naked and are buffeted and have no certain dwelling place. He said, well, we've gone hungry and we've gone thirsty. And he says, we have few clothes. We're scorched and we're beaten. And oh, how many times did he get beaten. Oh, how many times. And he says, you know, he said, we don't have a place in this world. We call home. You know how many years Paul's been in prison, in chains? He said, you know, wouldn't that be something to have no place to call? But his master, that's what he said. He didn't have no place to lay his head. So he's keeping good cutting here, Paul is. And then he goes on to say here in verse 11, and he's showing his shame in these people, trying to shame these people. You've got all this, and then consider us apostles. God set us forth last. He made you first, us last. And he says, and we labor, working with our own hands. Can you imagine an apostle have to work with his own hands to make a living? It seemed like the churches and all the saints of God would have just bent over backwards to take care of this man. He said, you know, God has used you. You've heard the gospel through you. And we love you. We love the things that God's used you to do. And oh, my, how you've been committed to Christ. It seemed like they would have just brought stuff and said, Here, here's you some clothes. Here's you some food. Here's you some money. Don't worry about a thing. We'll take care of you. No, we have to work with our own hands to make a living. Oh, my. And then being reviled, we bless. You know, that's what our Master said. He says, when you're cursed, bless. And that's what he says. When we're reviled, when we're reviled, when people send awful things to us and about us, curse us and ridicule us, you know what we do? We bless them. We bless them. And then he goes on to say, And being persecuted, we suffer it. We suffer it. We just take it. And then he says there in verse 13, being defamed, we entreat. That word defamed means being slandered. Being slandered. And how many times was he slandered by men? How many times do you find him slandered in the book of Acts. Being slandered, what he says, what does he say here? We entreat, we answer timely, we answer softly, we answer tenderly. And then look what he says, and we are made as the filth of the world. He says, you know what? He said, here we are. You're wise in Christ, you're strong in Christ, you're rich in Christ, you've got everything, and you don't understand these divisions, you don't understand these chisms, you don't understand this carnality that you're in, you think you're rich and all that. And he says, and here we are. We are made as the filth of the world. The filth of the world. Garbage. That word filth means garbage. Nobody likes filth. If you had filth in your house, you'd go and clean it up, wouldn't you? You can't stand filth. And that's what he says here. We're considered filth. Filth. Garbage. Huh? And the filth of this world. That's what they thought about the Master. We got rid of him. We'll never have to worry about him again. And that's what you said about Paul. And then he goes on to say this. And all the off-scouring. That off-scouring means, you know, the top that you scoop off the top? The scum that's on top. You know, he gets you some fresh pork and all that, you know, or beef, that old scum comes up. He said, that's what we are, the off-scouring. That's what people regard us as, scum. And then he says, but you know, in verse 14, here's the reason. I wrote these things to you, and I'm saying these things to you. I write not these things to shame you, though you should be ashamed. You should be embarrassed. You should be humiliated. You should be on your face before God, saying, I'm sorry for my carnality. I'm sorry that I ever thought I was anything. I'm sorry that we ever had a division. I'm sorry that I was responsible for any schism that took place among us. I'm sorry that I ever had any business causing any trouble among the saints. I'm sorry that I ever said anything about you a preacher. That's what they should have been doing. But he said, I didn't write these things to shame you. But look how he says. But as my beloved sons, my beloved sons, you talk about gracious, my beloved sons, I warn you. That's why I'm writing this. I warn you. I don't want you to be like this. Oh my, but as my beloved sons, I warn you of worldly wisdom. I warn you of spiritual pride. I warn you of trusting a ministry of other men that comes along to deceive you. And I warn you not to treat the ministry of the apostles with such little regard. I warn you. Look with me in Galatians 3, just a moment. You know, I warn you about these things. And I tell you, beloved, that we need... I want God to warn me. When I'm going, and I've told the men this, we've talked about this several times, if a man's going to go wrong, he's not going to do it all at once. He's not going to do it in a very blatant way. He's going to do it in degrees. He's going to be led astray in degrees. And that's why Paul said, I don't want to shame you, but you're going the wrong direction. I want to warn you about it. And he says here in chapter 3, verse 1, all foolish Galatians who hath bewitched you, who hath beguiled you, who hath come along and enticed your mind in such a way that you should not obey the truth. You've had the truth set before you before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth crucified among you. The gospel's been preached to you. And this only would I learn of you, receive you the Spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith. When somebody came preaching law to you, did God give you the Holy Spirit when you heard the law preached? Or when he came preaching the gospel, was your faith come to you by hearing? Are you so foolish, having begun in the Spirit? Are you now made perfect by the flesh? And that's what he's saying. I've warned you here. Look in Galatians 6 and verse 3. I warn you here. My beloved sons, you're my beloved sons. I'm not mad at you. I love you. And I'm warning you. I'm not trying to shame you, but to warn you. And he said here in verse 3, For if a man thinks himself to be something when he's nothing, you know what nothing is? Zero. It's a donut hole. Zero, zero, zero. Nothing. When he is nothing, he deceives himself. And so that's why Paul says, I warn you. Now, back over here in our text. And he says here in verse 15, and he uses this astronomical number to to show that you may have all these teachers, but you know how many teachers you may have. But though you have 10,000 instructors in Christ, though you think, boy, we got more people than we know to teach us. All of you are teaching. He showed them one place. Every one of you has a psalm. Every one of you has a prophecy. Every one of you has a psalm. Every one of you has got something to say. He told them one time. And he says, though you have 10,000 instructors in Christ, And you have many, many preachers and many, many teachers. Some are true and some are false. But he says, you don't have many fathers. Not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, and I want you to understand, for in Christ Jesus, you have one spiritual father. For in Christ Jesus, by the power of Christ, by the glory of Christ, through the message of Christ, In the hand of Christ as a servant of Christ, by His word, by His power, by His grace, I have begotten you." How? Through the gospel. The gospel. The gospel is the power of God unto salvation. The gospel is what God uses to save His people. The gospel is the Word of God. Paul says, you know, our gospel And Peter said it like this, he says, you know, he said, when you heard the gospel, he said, the gospel of Yosef, which gospel we preached unto you, it come in incorruptible seed. Oh, beloved, and that's what he says, you're begotten through the gospel. And that's why we're so dead set and so strict and so interested in nothing but the gospel. That's why we ask folks. We don't ask them, how long have you understood grace? We ask them, how long have you known Christ? When did you hear the gospel? I read it this morning. He said, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. There comes a day when the gospel becomes your gospel, and it becomes the gospel of your salvation. There's people that sit and hear it, and yet they never hear it. They see, but they never see. They hear, but they never hear. And one day there's somebody says, well, you know, I finally heard it. I finally seen what happened there. And gospel becomes the gospel of the earth. It's gospel that saved me. It was the power of God to me. It brought righteousness to me. It brought Christ to me. I've seen Christ bearing my sin. It becomes good news to you. And he goes on to say here in verse 16, Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me. I urge you, I implore you, not to depart from what I taught you. Not to depart from what I taught you. Abide in this doctrine of Christ that I begot you by. Don't follow those who would draw you away. Don't follow those that cause divisions among you. Follow me as I follow Christ. Look what he said over here in chapter 11 and verse 1. It says the same thing. He told them over in Philippians, he says, follow me. Follow me. That's why he says, you know what manner of man I was among you. You know what my teaching was among you. He says in chapter 11, verse 1, be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. as I am of Christ. So follow me, I urge you, I beseech you, be ye followers of me. And then he says here in verse 17, for this cause, back over in 1 Corinthians 4, for this cause have I sent unto you, Timothy, because I love you, because I care for your spiritual good, because I begot you through the gospel, you're my beloved sons, I sent Timothy, and I'll tell you something about Timothy. He's my beloved son. I'm a father. I mean, we got this relationship as like a father and a son. And Paul had no natural children. And he took Timothy, and old Timothy took him in when he was a young man, and he loved him, and he cherished him, and he cared for him. And him and Paul had this special relationship, and he called him his son, my beloved son. And all this was the most glorious thing that he could say about him, who is faithful in the Lord. I'm not going to send any Jake Blake preacher over there to you. I'm not going to just send anybody. Anybody don't care for the things of Christ like me and Timothy does. And he says, and he's faithful in the Lord. He's faithful to Christ. Faithful to His Word. Faithful to be a steward of the grace of God. Ain't that what Paul says? Let a man account as such as ministers of Christ, as faithful. Faithful. And all he said, he's faithful as a steward of the grace of God. And then he goes on to say, and he who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ. When he gets there, you know what he's going to do? He's not going to chastise you, embarrass you. He's going to bring to your remembrance. What's he going to remind them of? And how many times you say, you know, I say these things to bring you into remembrance, to cause you to remember? My goodness, we'll hear some say, boy, I'll never forget that. And you won't get to the car and it'll be gone. And those are spiritual things. And he goes on here saying, "...who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways." What ways? Which being Christ. Not just my ways, but ways which be in Christ. Huh? Oh, my ways of preaching, my way of preaching the doctrine and the manner of life I had among you, and the love that I carried for you, and the patience I bore towards you, He's going to put you in remembrance of my ways which be in Christ. And He's going to remind you that the faith and the life and the hope and the righteousness and everything I've preached to you is all in Christ Jesus the Lord. And then he goes on, he says, and he's going to remind you of my ways with being Christ as I teach everywhere in every church. I don't have a different message for a different place. No. I don't have a different message for a different place. And then he goes on to say here, now watch this. Now, some are puffed up as though I would not come to you. And what does he mean? Now, some are conceited, some are arrogant, some are puffed up. You ever see anybody puffed up? You feel them get hurt, you know, and they just realize... That's why he said, they're puffed up with pride, conceit and arrogance. And they're puffed up over their gifts and their position in the church. They're thanking and hoping that I will not come and hold them accountable for the trouble they cause among the saints of God there. He's there hoping that I will not come and hold them accountable for their pride. But watch what he says. But I will come, if the Lord will. And I'll get there pretty quick, too. It won't be very long before I'll get there. And if the Lord will, and watch what he says, and I'll know, and I will know, not the speech. Words is easy come by. Soft speech is easy come by. Talk is cheap, is what the apostles say. He said, I know not what men are saying. I won't care for their arrogance and their conceit. He said, I want to know the power. Is God on them? Is God using them? Is the power of Christ upon them? Is these men preaching the gospel of the grace of God? And what they're doing, is it for the glory of God? Is it for the good of the church? Is it for the conversion of sinners? Is that what these fellows are interested in? Because if not, talk is cheap. I want to know the power. That's why he says, you know, he says, they have a form of godliness, but deny the power thereof. Because that's what he says, the kingdom of God is not just in word. Not just in word. He says it's in power. It comes with such power to the mind, to the understanding, to the heart, to the soul, to change men, change women. And then he says, and what will you? What do you prefer? That's what he says. Which do you prefer? What will you? Shall I come unto you with a rod? Shall I come unto you just like a father with a rod of correction? Shall I come unto you as an apostle of Christ and the great rod of instruction and authority to set things straight in the church? Is that what you want me to do? Or would you prefer that I come in love and come in the spirit of meekness? Or shall I come as a father in love and meekness? And he says that because I know you'll have things in order when I get there. I won't have to say things straight. Oh, my. Then he goes on here to say one reason they're puffed up, one of the things that they're puffed up about. But oh, my. The wisdom that God gave this man is incredible. Absolutely incredible how God used him. And how he regarded himself. This family is dead.