And as I share with my heart, I want to thank Pastor Daniel. God gave him a vision. I was sitting back there a minute ago and I was thinking, there's three things I know. I know God called me in salvation, about right there, somewhere about right there. About 45 years ago, September the 23rd, 1979, And the Holy Spirit of God revealed to me Christ and the finished work of Calvary. I was unworthy and a fault with pride to yield myself and humble myself to receive that. God gave grace. The second thing is about right over there where God showed me that the pastor that was to be here would be one that would teach us to pray. And I know God has called Pastor Daniel to this church. Satan will wrestle with you sometimes, and listen, he wants to bring confusion, he wants to bring a doubt, he wants to bring all kinds of, but I know what God showed me, and I know how my pastor, with the passion of all of his heart, has sought to fill that. That's his burden, that's his vision, Brother Richie. Can we take on that vision of prayer for these other pastors, these other churches, these other ministries, and ours, what God's given us? Can we take on such a privilege to intercede with purpose, with a plan, with something that God's given us deep in our soul that'll be probably against everything of your flesh? but to be faithful to it, to be found faithful. It's required of God that a steward be found faithful. And God called me to preach. And I don't understand, I failed in that music because it's studied to show thyself approved unto God, a workman needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. And so part of what I want to deal with tonight is the course of sin. I want to deal with the course of sin within, the course of sin without, and the course of sin won. Where's the victory over this thing? So you pray for me. And Brother Keith, if you would, you pray for us right now. Dear Heavenly Father, I thank you, Lord God, that you can touch us. And God, you can take that God, which is unworthy, and make it worthy. You can take that Lord God that's unable and enable it. God, you can do all things and I can do all things through Christ who strengthened me. God, I pray tonight. God, hide me behind the cross of Calvary. Exalt the Lord Jesus Christ who is worthy and only worthy of all our praise and honor and God deserving of all glory. So I pray, Lord God. Take us, Lord. Use us, Lord God, for your glory. Touch your people, God. Instruct, encourage, enlighten, dear God. Give wisdom, Lord God. Give knowledge, give wisdom, give understanding, Lord God. That, Lord God, that we might not be taken by Satan and his deception. but that Jesus would give us victory in our lives and we would walk in the Spirit. We give you praise, honor, and glory for what you do now in the holy name, the glorious name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. And so, the course of sin in James, Sometime back, God began to reveal this to me. One of the greatest things as far as what it helped me with is Pastor Daniel preaching to us about the trinity of man. Man's spirit, man's soul, man's body. And when that opened up to me, it opened up to me a lot of the things of a battle within, the battle without. And so one of the biggest things we battle with is forgiveness. Forgiveness, Brother E.G. And I was thinking about it. Forgiving others is, I've got it down here, forgiving others is one of the most Christ-like things you can do. Forgive you. Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. And to have the sin of unforgiveness is one of the most ungodly things you can do or be. Unforgiving. And so, having said that, Forgiveness starts with a choice. God chose to forgive us, Brother Richard. God made the choice. God chose us out. God's done the choosing to forgive us, and he works in us, and we have a choice, a choice. I found out some years or a year or so ago that I could choose to forgive, but I needed God to work in me the ability to forgive from the heart. God requires us to forgive from the heart. It's a work of Christ. Only Jesus can truly forgive sin and he'll work it in you to be able to do that. But I get to thinking about what is the total scope of learning? It's a three part. You must acquire facts, knowledge. You must be studious. You must learn. You must study to show thyself approved unto God, a word that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But there is then that wisdom. You can have all the book learning. My mind goes to a young man when I was in high school. He had the, listen, it's like he had a photographic memory. The boy was a genius. but he had no common sense whatsoever. It was pitiful. People laughed and joked, and I'm looking at him going, it's pitiful. No wisdom, no application. To be able to discern, what do I do with what I know? The third is understanding. And so, wanna deal with this thing of wisdom, Proverbs 4 verse 5, and I'm gonna get into James, but there's some things laying it here. Wow, it's already 7.50. Wisdom. Proverbs 4.5, get wisdom, get understanding, forget it not, neither decline thy words from my mouth. Forsake her not, she shall preserve thee. Love her, she shall keep thee. Her, God has personified wisdom here. I don't know that you can't take the book of Proverbs, the book of wisdom, and see that God has personified wisdom all the way through chapter 31. But then it's about those different individuals that he's writing about too. So we find here, Proverbs 4, 7. Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom, and with all thy getting, get understanding. Proverbs 16, 16, how much better is it to get wisdom than gold, to get understanding rather than chosen, to be chosen than silver? Wherefore, is there a price in the hand of a fool? 17, verse 16, Proverbs. Wherefore, is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it? And I got to search, do I desire to get wisdom, the wisdom of God? As we look into the book of James, if any man like wisdom let him ask of God, it giveth to all men liberty, and upbraideth not. And it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like the wave of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed. Let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord. Faith is a very important thing. And that faith is worked in us by the word of God. The Word of God is quick and powerful, sharper than any tooth, edge, or sword, piercing in the dividing asunder of the soul and spirit. It is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. James 3.13 said, Who is a wise man endeared with knowledge among you? Let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter envying and strife in your heart, glory not, lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion in every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, And while hypocrisy and the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace to them that make peace, is there not a vast difference between the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of God? Amen, amen, amen. There's a vast difference between the love of God and the love of this world, which is nothing more than lust. So with the course of sin within, we look at James chapter one in verse 12. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation, for when he is tied, he shall receive the crown of life which the Lord hath promised unto them that love him. Do I love God? Do you love God? I would say I did. I would say I love my wife. Do I love my wife? Does what I do declare I love her or does it declare Jimmy is full of self and he loves himself and he loves what his wife does for him and so it's all about Jimmy. Is it all about Jimmy when it comes to God? Do I love God? I can't know without God's help. He said if you love me keep my commandments. John 14, 15. And John 14, 21. He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me. And he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him. Jesus is the incarnate Word. Do I love Him? I've come to the conclusion I love the Lord Jesus as much as I love the Word of God. And if I don't love the Word, I hate it. but I don't love Him. It doesn't matter if it's black ink, black and red ink, on white paper, or if it's on a computer. We're not talking about this. We're talking about the incarnate Word, the living Word of God, the Word of God that the Spirit of God moves on and moves in the depths of our spirit and quickens us and makes us alive in Christ Jesus. 2 Corinthians 12 verse 9, and he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee, for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, I will glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 2 Corinthians 4, 7, but we have this treasure in earthen vessels. that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us. 2 Corinthians 12, 9. And he said unto me, my grace is sufficient. Now, I'm repeating myself. Sorry, I've got it down twice. What is it God's working in us? How is it the power of God that is in us that works? It is the fact that God, Jesus said, it is expedient that I go away. If I go right away, the comforter cannot The Holy Spirit cannot be seen, but he didn't go away and he didn't come again. He didn't raise from the dead. He didn't send the Holy Spirit to infill us and to empower us that it is, and I'm getting ahead of myself and this is worthy of repeating and I probably will towards the lice, but in case I don't get there, I got it in here. I want Christ to be exalted tonight. Hide us behind the cross of Calvary. I remember what I was reading from Adrian Rogers the other day, and he was talking about this in a devotional. He said, we need to do less for Jesus and let Jesus do more through us. Through us. Jesus said, let no man's, James 1.13, let no man say when he is tempted, I'm tempted of God, for God cannot be tempted with evil. The word tempted here has to do with endeavor, scrutinize, entice, disciple, prove, tempt. am tempted of God. Let no man say that he is tempted of God, for God cannot be tempted with evil. The word for evil has to do with depravity, being depraved. It has to do with being injurious, bad, evil, harm, ill, nuisance, wicked. It says that neither tempteth he any man. Yet God will allow us to be tested, tempted. for the proving of our faith, for the exercise of our faith. God let Job be tempted. Job was tempted. Job was tested. Have you considered my servant Job? I was listening to a message and I don't know how much I listened to the man. I had some issues with him later on. some serious issues really, but when it come to pride he was helping me to realize Job was tested because Job had spiritual pride. I had never seen that before. He helped me to see that in Job. And Job was humbled before God. And Satan was used to humble Job before God. And Job chose to humble himself. And the man states the statement here that he said, God will not humble you. You must humble yourself. But God will work circumstances by which you will humble yourself. You will choose to humble yourself. Nebuchadnezzar chose to humble himself. And God is merciful that he would choose to work on our lives so that we'd humble ourselves before God, that he may exalt us in due time. And so we find here, Neither tempteth he any man, but every man is tempted by his heart. Every man is tempted when he is drawn. The word for drawn here is to be dragged forth, to entice, to draw away. So he is tossed and he's drawn away of his own lust, that's a longing, especially that has to do with being forbidden, that inconcubitancy, or concupiscence, that desire, that fleshly desire that is in us, that is of that Adamic nature, that inward man. And so we find here the old man, and when lust is conceived, conceived, grasped, to seize, to conceive, We have thought, you know, we've thought about it and we planned it and now it takes control of us. You know, when the thought comes across my mind, do we let the word of God judge the thought and put it good and godly or demonic, devilish, deceptive, ungodly. Where do we put it? Where do we place it? Where do we judge this? We're to judge those things as they come into our mind, bringing every thought into the activity of Christ. And so we find here that there's that course of sin taking place in us. And that word for conceive is to catch, to help, to take. The soul makes a choice to yield to that desire of the flesh. to bring forth sin, sin, the offense, that part which I have chosen to do that is short of the glory of God, wherein God has created me to glorify Him, and yet I've chosen something that pertains to satisfy the flesh, that which is forbidden, that which is ungodly. And so it brings forth death. and death when it is and sin when it is finished it brings forth death and James speaks of death being separation separated and it separates us from God it'll separate families it'll separate all of these things I've got to move on do not err my beloved brethren every good and perfect gift comes down from the Father above and cometh cometh down from above every good and perfect gift is from above and cometh down from the father of lotses who is no variable to be the shadow of turning of his own we will beget he us with a word of truth that we should be a kind of first fruits of the of his creatures the heart jeremiah 17 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. Who can know it? I, the Lord, search the heart. I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings. And God, through His Word, will give me discernment of what is driving me, what is steering me. Is this of my flesh? Is this of my soul? Is this of the Spirit? Is this of the Spirit of God? What is speaking to me? If I don't know God's Word, I won't know. As I was reading and studying this, I thought about the Lord Jesus as He was tempted. And Satan began to take the Word of God and try to get Jesus to misuse the Word and satisfy His flesh. And Jesus took the Word, being the very Word, and took the Word and refuted the devil. Brother Rich, I was asking you the other day about the seed and the seed of God. We're born again, not a corruptible seed, but an incorruptible Word of God that liveth in the body forever. So what is Satan's seed? Is Satan's seed the lie, the deception? So which one are we gonna be? What's going to be engrafted into my heart? The Word of God divinely discerned by the Spirit of God. The letter killeth, but it is the Spirit that giveth life, and we must walk in the Spirit. We must learn to yield to the Spirit of God moving in us, moving on us. And so, Proverbs 29.4, the thought of foolishness is sin, and the scorner is an abomination to men. The word for that foolishness is folly. It comes down through there, as I looked in Webster's dictionary for the foolishness, it comes down, we can observe obscured act, not highly criminal, an act which is inconsistent with the dictates of reason. But then his third definition came a little different there. It said, an obscured act that is highly sinful, any conduct contrary to the laws of God and man, sin, scandalous crimes, that which violates moral precepts dishonors the offender. Sikkim wrought folly in Israel. Genesis 34, and Achan wrote Philae in Israel, Joshua 7. They brought a repercussion. The physical law says that every action has an opposite but equal reaction. I was talking with a man today this morning, and he said, the laws of the physical laws are not necessarily true to the laws of the spiritual laws. And I said, yeah. And we got to talking about it and said, you know, the sins of the fathers are visited to the third and fourth generation. But to 1,000 generations to them that are righteous, God bestows those things. Brother Richie, that's not an opposite but equal reaction. Praise God, I'll take what God's going to do. Hallelujah to the glory of God. If we can learn to obey the Spirit, But when David, we find here and there, that's the course within. If we, through the depravity of our heart, the temptation of lust comes and we're tempted and we let our mind think and ponder on these things, that's gonna come to the point where it gets a place to be enticed. The temptation and the opportunity comes together, and we will not stand against our flesh. He said, flee youthful flesh. He didn't say to resist it. Flee it. But that's the course within. The course without, I want to look, and I was thinking about Brother Richie's Sunday school lesson the other day. The other week, we was talking about the fact that the choices of others can bring such repercussions to you. It comes down on you. And Joseph, how that his brother's choices, what they done to Joseph and what they put him through. But God allowed that for it was the course, that course that actually brought Joseph to the preparation of 20 years of this stuff or somewhere in there that brought Joseph to the place that he could be the leader God intended for him to be and had put in his heart. Listen, our course is tough sometimes. And so as we look at the same with David and Bathsheba, then I've got to hurry. David. tells of the story starting here in 2 Samuel 10 verses 18 and 19, tells us David's story where they had conquered the Caesareans. And then in 2 Samuel 11, then David, he stays at home. Because you see, if the Syrians are not going to help the Ammonites, then the Ammonites are probably going to be easy to take. I mean, you don't have the Syrians as their helper. They've lost their ally. And so he sends Joab down to destroy the Ammonites, and Joab destroys them, and David's at home, and he's taking it easy, and he's rested there at his home, and he comes up on top of his roof there, and he looks out in the evening, and there's Bathsheba bathing on top of that, and he looks, and he lusts, and then he lies. And he continues to do the things that are there. And as we think about those things, David had sent his messengers and he took her, it says. And that has to do with, it says here, except bring by, carry away, drawn, fetched. He sent for her. He took her into his house, he had laid with her. There's some things that's crossed my mind because of some other things. And when I think about Proverbs 31, King Elimeo and the prophecy that his mother gave unto him and how she counseled her son not to drink, drink because it would pervert the discernment of the king. I wondered if David had gotten drunk. I wondered if he got Bathsheba drunk. I know he got Uriah drunk. Drunkenness. has to do and tied in with perversion, sexual perversion of all kinds. And so we find a tie there. Listen, you won't find anything justified drinking to me. I hate it with a passion. It is the opposite of the Holy Spirit. You don't need it if you've got the Holy Spirit. And so David begins to do what Proverbs 28, 13. He that covereth his sins shall not prosper, but whosoever confesses for the sake of them David begins to cover his sin because he sends to Joab and has Uriah sent to him and when he tries to get Uriah then to go home, spend the night with your wife, enjoy yourself, go back to the battle. Uriah's an honorable soldier and he would not do that when his fellow soldiers are out there so he lays at the gate, the king's gate. And then King David gets him drunk, and he's still so honorable that even when he's been gotten drunk, he will not. And David writes Uriah's death sentence and sends it by his own hand to Joab, to have Joab to send him down to the battle and to withdraw, and the Ammonites kill Uriah, and he's killed by the sword by David's servant, Joab. And it comes back. And David is covering his sin. You see, sin is a seed. And if you cover a seed, you know what it's gonna do? It's gonna germinate. There gonna be more of them things come up. Don't cover your sin. Confess it. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Confess it early. Confess it early. But David has covered his sins. And so he has Uriah put to death. And so Bathsheba has told David she's with child. And so now it continues on. And David then, after Bathsheba has mourned for her husband, takes Bathsheba unto him to wife. to cover up his sins. And when the child is born, God sends Nathan the prophet, a man of God, to confront David with his sin. And David then is given the parable of the ewe lamb in the house, precious. And David then judges this act and let him be put to death and repay fourfold. Thou art the man. Have you ever wondered, who was the wayfaring man? that the rich man presenting David, who was the wayfaring man? I asked the Lord, I tell you what I believe it is. I believe it's David's old nature. I believe he was a stranger to David for a long time. But David fed that old flesh, that old sin nature. He had been abandoned. That old nature. And so judgment is pronounced on David. 2 Samuel 12, 9, Wherefore thou hast despised the commandments of the Lord to do evil in his sight. Thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with a sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. Now therefore the sword shall not depart from thine house, because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. Thus saith the Lord. Behold, I will rise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them to thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of the sun. Thou didst it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun. And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, the Lord hath put away thy sin, thou shalt not die. How be it because this deed. How be it? Because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemy of the Lord to blaspheme the child that is born unto thee shall surely die. And we find the first thing that happens in judgment of David, in the repercussions of David's sin, of him reaping what he has sowed. Be not deceived, God is not mocked. For whatsoever man soweth, that shall he also reap. If he soweth unto the flesh, will of the flesh reap corruption. But if he soweth unto the Spirit, will of the Spirit reap life everlasting. David was a man after God's own heart, but this was a sin, a heinous sin, a sin that brought more and more sins. And David buried them, covered them, and then there must come judgment. And though David got forgiveness of the sin, it did not eradicate the repercussions of that sin. I want you to get understanding tonight. A child dies, Absalom's born, The city that Joe Abbott went to besiege, where Uriah was killed, is taken. We find that what begins in chapter 13 is what Nathan the prophet had prophesied begins to take place. You've got the story of Amnon and Tamar. And Amnon rusted after his sister Tamar, his half-sister. Absalom's full sister. Amnon is great. This is making him sick. He is so full. Jonadab is Amnon's first cousin, David's brother's son. And Jonadab, he asks what's bothering Amnon and he tells him. And Jonadab tells him how to get what he wants. If you need something to let you see what pornography will do, study Jonadab. He's the spirit of pornography. He's not your friend. He'll destroy everything about you. Everything holy and everything good. But it ended up Jonadab told him what to do, and he plays sick. And he gets David to send Tamar in, and he rapes his half-sister. Now he hates her with a greater hatred than which he's loved her. And David does not judge Amnon, and Absalom gets bitter against his father. And he plans, and he waits two years to put his brother to death. And he gets Amnon drunk, and the children of David drunk and turns his servants on Amnon like David turned his servant Joab on Uriah, the reaping of what you sow. Absalom gets bitter, he leaves, he hides, he leaves for I think two years if I'm correct there. And Joab gets David to bring him back and then there's that thing and then there's a conspiracy set up then. And Abraham begins to lay this conspiracy against David to take the kingdom. And he gets Ahithophel involved with it. Who's Ahithophel? Ahithophel is the grandfather of Bathsheba. And Ahithophel is bitter at David because of how he's done Bathsheba and what he's done to Uriah and these godly... He's bitter. He's lost confidence in David. Absalom's lost confidence in David because of the sin that is there. But they rise up their hand against David. You better not raise your hand up against God's man. I don't care what he's done. He is God's anointing and you better keep your mouth off of him. You better keep your hands off of him. You let God deal with the man of God. You intercede for him. You pray for him. You hold him up. God has to work some things in our heart to get us to where we understand or we'll become an Ahithophel, or we'll become an Absalom, and they were hanged on a tree, one as he rode fleeing from David, and the other when he had seen the counsel was not taken, he put his house in order, and he committed suicide, and he hanged himself, and cursed is every man that hangeth upon a tree. Time's getting gone. The understanding. David had sinned, but he didn't understand. He realized that he had sinned, and he got wisdom, and he confessed his sin, and we have Psalms 51 to help us see how to repent. Thank God for it. But listen to this one. 2 Samuel 18.33. And the king was much moved, and went up into the chamber over the gate, and wept as he went up. Thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom, would God have died for thee? O my son Absalom, my son, my son. David finally seen the course of his sin. And he got understanding. But he got it too late. And it's run his course. And he covered his sin. But through in this then of the course of sin one, Romans 7, 24. O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then, with the mind, I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh, the law of sin. What is the battle? We'll say, what is the battle? The battle is, will you walk in the spirit or will you walk in carnality? Will you walk in the fullness of what God's given us or you walk in carnality? Now, I studied and I prepared and I prepared and I ran out of time like we are bound with time. What is the so great salvation, Brother Richie, that God has given to us? Hebrews teaches us that God had given Jesus a body, a body that was prepared for me. And Jesus, in a human body, lived perfect, fulfilled all of the law, to the tee, to the dot and the dot, to the fill of the tee, to fulfill every prophecy prophesied of him, he fulfilled it to the full. And then he laid down his life, not just any laying down, he would, He became obedient unto the death, even the death of the cross, the multiple death of the cross, to suffer in the flesh, but to suffer in the spirit. And his soul cried out unto God for us. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Jesus knows what it is to feel forsaken of the Father. He knows what you feel. He knows what I feel when I feel like, God, I have so sinned against you. How can I come before your presence? But he, praise God, he, through the blood and atonement of Christ, has made atonement to where we can come boldly before the throne of grace, and we can find mercy and grace to help in time of need, and we are a needy, needy, needy person, people. And we can find help in Christ Jesus. He is our victory. He is our captain. But we must study to show ourself approved of God. You're gonna have to know the Word of God if you're gonna be victorious. For it is through the Word, the sword of the Spirit, as the Word of God takes the Word of God. and brings to enlightenment our spirit that has been quickened by Christ. And the blood of Christ has cleansed us from all sin. According to Hebrews, I believe my sins are gone in Christ Jesus through the blood of atonement, Brother Richie. They're gone. Now I do face in this flesh and by my soul a battle. So in my spirit, I have been quickened and the Holy Spirit has come in and I will not be judged in the spirit because Christ took my judgment to the full. I'm saved, I'm delivered, I'm filled by the Holy Spirit of promise and the Holy Spirit is working in me to work God's sanctification in my soul. The place of decision, that place of wrestling, will I do this or will I do that? and we need God's Word to give us discernment. We don't need to move hastily. If we don't have peace, that it is the Spirit of God. How does God work? Paul said that love is the fulfilling of the law. Am I doing what I'm doing because I love Jesus and because I love you? Am I doing what I'm doing? I don't know. I would tell you yes. But that's stinking rotten pride a lot of times. But I battle with this pride of wanting to please you. To have you come up and say, wow, what a message. The greatest ever, I have ever been in that done something to me, Brother Richie, is when a lady who knew the Word of God, and God put me a preacher, and when I finished, she said, oh, I was thinking back, what a Savior, what a salvation. Oh, God, what it done for me. He is to be lifted up, and He alone is to be lifted up. For wretched is me. For I am a man of unclean lips, and dwell among a people of unclean lips. But it is the word of God that is powerful, quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword. And I would normally not speak as I speak right now, guarding my lips. But there's the phrase of this world that would say, we've come to kick butt. No. Jesus came to bust head. To bust head. You can try to kick the devil out, but if you'll let Jesus bust his head, a man that's been in a battle and he got a concussion ain't coming back so swiftly. And we need to let Jesus work in our heart and their soul and the love of God so fill us that we die to self. Brother Richie, I wish it was where I could crucify myself, but I've got to let God work through the spirit that I'll be crucified under this flesh. And I'll be crucified in the world and the world under me. And that the word that works in me is Christ working through me to fulfill that. And for God to do good works, not to get me to heaven, but to bring glory to our Father. For he's predestined us unto good works. That the Lord Jesus Christ and the word of God and the power that God receive all glory for it is the power of God. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, the Holy Spirit of God, that the excellency of the power of God, that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us. And he said unto me, thy grace is sufficient for thee, for my strength is made perfect in weakness, Most gladly, therefore, will I rather glory in my infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon me. As those disciples were persecuted and told not to preach and teach in this name, shall we obey God or man? But that religious crowd took notice that they were ignorant and unlearned men. but they've been with Jesus. What is that? That is your prayer life. That is your intimacy with a thrice holy God, which Jesus made capable on the cross of Calvary. And we have that great of salvation. I'm closing. God has given us so great salvation, but how shall we escape if we neglect to utilize what He's given us in Christ Jesus. I don't want to stand before the judgment seat of Christ and see all the things. I know I will because I've done lived so much of my life. But from this day forward, may Christ have the victory in me. And it's this closing prayer. Dear Heavenly Father, we bow our knee before Thee. We thank You for the truth of the Word. I pray, Lord God, work in us,