verses, alright? I Corinthians chapter 1 tonight, find if you would please verse number 30, verse number 30. I saved this verse on purpose because there are words, great Bible words, great Bible themes that every Christian ought to know in their life that's in this verse. And we're going to spend some time probably tonight And next Wednesday, working our way through these final two verses, I think I've prepared seven messages, but I've probably preached about fourteen times out of chapter one. And so it's been very, very helpful. We're taking our time. We're going to take a break at the end of May because the kids will be back in here and while we're teaching through this, it may not resonate with them. And so I'm going to this summer do a little bit lighter study. And we're going to talk about living smart out of the book of Proverbs and that way I can bring the kids into the message on those Wednesday nights and really speak to them as well as us adults. You know, if you put the cookies on the bottom shelf, all of us can get to them. Isn't that right? And so that's what we want to try to do. And then we'll be right back in I Corinthians if the Lord doesn't come by the end of summer. How about that? Is that good? And we'll get right back into our study and hopefully finish it up. in the coming year. Verse number 30, "...but of Him," that's talking about God the Father, "...but of Him are ye in Christ Jesus." It is God through the Spirit who has placed every believer in Christ Jesus. who of God is maiden to us. This is God's wisdom, God's plan in salvation, who has made into us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. that according as it is written, he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord." Paul's reminding them again to stop glorying in self and start glorying in the Savior. Because they were glorying in the wrong thing. He's continuing the theme of wisdom that he's going to begin back in chapter 1 verse 17. The sickness, the lack of health in the Corinthian church was a result of following the wrong wisdom. They were following a worldly wisdom rather than a heavenly wisdom. The wisdom of the cross. And so in verse number 30, Paul's reminding them of who they are and what they are in Christ. Notice that phrase, if you would please, by way of introduction, in Christ Jesus. You're going to find that phrase used time and time again in Paul's writings. It talks about the spiritual location of every child of God, of every believer. They were geographically located in Corinth, but now watch this. They're spiritually located in Christ Jesus. Right now, we as believers are geographically located in King, North Carolina. That's a wonderful thing. but it's quite something else to be located in Christ Jesus. Isn't that right? Spiritually. It speaks of our oneness with Him, that there is a oneness between us and Christ. We are in Him. He is in us. Remember, the Corinthian church is a fractured church. It's sick. It's not healthy. They're divided into little groups. They're divided into little cliques. They're glorying in men. They're following men rather than following the Lord. And let me just say something. The oneness that they shared in Christ was to be lived out through the local body of believers. And let me just say that to us tonight. The oneness that we share in Christ, that we are one in Him, we are connected to Christ, we're connected to one another as a part of His body, and therefore that oneness that's true of us in Christ ought to be reflected in the unity of a local church. And when that unity isn't there, I can promise you that's a sick church. It's not healthy. It's in a danger zone. And so it's important to have that oneness. And notice he goes on to say in our text, who of God is maiden to us. So He's maiden to us wisdom. Now watch this. Christ is maiden to us wisdom. What that means is He is our wisdom. Jesus is wisdom personified. If you want to know what wisdom is, look at Jesus. That's where you'll find it. It's in Him. Let me give you a couple of verses. Colossians chapter 2. I put some in your notes. Some will turn to. But Colossians chapter 2 verse 3, In whom, talking about Christ, are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. It is hidden from the world, but made known to you. We'll see that in chapter 2. The hidden mystery that's in Christ. And you're going to see that when we get there. Paul's going to expand that. And then notice, if you would, in verse number 30, here that wisdom that flows out of Christ is going to be seen in the fact that He's made into us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. Write down in your notes, this is what we call an ordered sequence. Okay? Now that's important. I'm not just throwing something out there. This is extremely important. We not only see this in Bible writing, okay? And what we would call, it would be found in the Greco-Roman world in their literature. It's found in literature today. It's in biblical literature. It's an ordered sequence. You say, preacher, what does that mean? That means the first word in the sequence is the most important word. Now that's not minimizing the other three. But this is the most important word. And so everything that follows is going to flow back to or refer back to that first word. Let me give you a little understanding of that. The Declaration of Independence. You're going to find a phrase in there talking about that we have some self-evident truths and the desire for life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That's an ordered sequence. And so, watch this. Liberty and the pursuit of happiness flow out of life. You see, you can't have liberty and you can't pursue happiness if you don't have life. You see what I'm saying? They flow out of life. So life, liberty, and by the way, the pursuit of happiness is not what you... in the Declaration of Independence, that's not like going on vacation and being happy or things in life that make you happy. No, what that is, is being able to choose your own direction and end in life without a monarch, a dictator telling you what to do. It's living in freedom, the pursuit of happiness in life. of pursuing life at your own ends and living with individual freedom. That's what it means. And it flows out of the life that we've been given, physical life we've been given by God. Okay? Which these are unalienable rights that have been given to us. It's what our forefathers would say. So we bring that back into Scripture and here's what he's saying. That righteousness and sanctification and redemption flow out of the wisdom of God in Christ through His cross. Are you catching that? You don't get the wisdom of Christ apart from the wisdom of the cross. And what He's saying is that everything that's going to flow out of the cross is the wisdom of God at work in our life. in planning redemption, and executing our salvation, and bringing it to completion in our lives. And that's exactly what you're seeing in this verse. Because here's what you're going to find. This verse is going to take care of your past, it's going to take care of your present, and it's going to take care of your future. Let's look at it and we'll get as far as we can. Are you ready? Because God in His infinite wisdom has given to us in Christ everything we need for this life and the life to come. It's bound up in these words. First of all, we're going to look at the wisdom of God, Christ's wisdom in us, the past work of righteousness. Notice what he said. He's made into us wisdom and righteousness. I want you to look at that little word, righteousness, and whether you write it down in your notes, or I'm marking my Bible for memory, but if I want to understand the Bible word righteousness, what I need to do is underline the word right. That's what I need to do. Because that's going to help me to understand what this word means. Righteousness has to do with being right. Being right with God. You see, we're born wrong with God, and we need to be made right with God. Are you following me? Alright? And through God's wisdom, Christ is made into us righteousness, or to put it another way, Christ, in Christ, we are made right with God. Now, this is what we would call imputed righteousness. I told you it was me doing Bible studies. You're going to have to put your thinking cap on with me. Alright? If you check out, you're going to get lost. You better stay with me. Alright? No pop quizzes, though, and no final exams. How about that? But notice he's talking about an imputed righteousness. Now you say, preacher, what does imputed mean? Well, you do this on a regular basis when you make money transactions in your bank, whether you put money in your account or take money out of your account. It's an accounting word. It's imputing something. It has to do with deposits or having something credited to your account or something removed from your account, but mainly the crediting. And so when you make a deposit into your bank account, it's imputed, it's credited to your account so that it shows on your bank statement you have that amount of money in your checking account, savings account, or whatever account that you have. And so we have an account in heaven. And if you're saved, God has imputed to your account righteousness. You know why? Because we're unrighteous in ourselves. Every one of us are spiritually bankrupt before God. We have no righteousness of our own. We are not righteous. We are unrighteous. Let me give you a verse for that. Romans 3.10, As it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one. Now let me just stop and say something. That doesn't mean that there may not be some right things in your life. It doesn't mean that. It doesn't mean that you can't do some right things, or there might be some right things about you. What it's saying is, you don't have any righteousness. You see, none of the right things about us make us right with God. Because there's nothing you and I can do to make ourselves right with God. We have to be made right with God. Let me give you a verse for that. Isaiah 64 verse 6. Is that in your notes? Alright, let's look at it. But we are all as an unclean thing." Now that phrase, unclean thing, deals with the uncleanness of a leper, which was socially outcast in Israel. Now you say, well preacher, that's ugly. They were socially outcast. Wait a minute. God in the Old Testament, a lot of what you read in Leviticus and Deuteronomy, are actually health laws that we medical doctors and scientists learned way later that God's saying, listen, leprosy is a highly contagious fatal disease and to keep it from infecting the entire group of people you have to socially remove them from outside the camp so that they don't infect everybody else. And so there was an uncleanness there. Alright? And so that's what he's talking about. He's using the physical uncleanness of a leper to picture the spiritual uncleanness of every sinner. Alright? And he goes on to say, "...and all our righteousnesses." are as filthy rags, the rags of a leper. And we all do fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away." Righteousnesses are the best things that we can do. Good things that we can do. Right things that we can do. And God said, let me just help you understand something. At our very core, we are fallen creatures. We are depraved because we are part of Adam's race who has fallen into sin. We are born sinners, and therefore even the good things we do are like the rags of a leper. They cannot make us right with God. And so, he's telling us that we're unrighteous. By the way, if our righteousnesses are filthy, what must our sins look like? If the good I can do is still like the rags of a leper, what about my bad? You see, every one of us at best falls short of the demands of a holy God. Every one of us has missed the mark. We've fallen short of God's standard perfection in Christ Jesus. That's what Romans 3.23 means when it says, "...for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." But now wait a minute. God has remedied that. He's made a way in Christ through His wisdom for unrighteous people to be made righteous so that we can live in His presence. So that we can have a right relationship with the Holy God. And so Christ, here's the wisdom of God, what man couldn't do in His wisdom, God has done in His wisdom or through wisdom. He, through Christ, has made it possible for the unrighteous to be made righteous. For those who are not right with God to be made right with God. And so there's a great transaction that takes place. I think this one may not be in your notes. 2 Corinthians 5 verse 21. It is. Okay. So she put everything. She made it too easy for you. I wouldn't have put it there. I'd have made you turn. It's good to turn in our Bible some, but I give you so many verses that we'll never get through a study if I didn't give you some of the verses in your notes. I had to turn there because it's not in my notes. That means if I didn't write it in my notes, we were supposed to turn there. And I didn't give that memo to Christian. Look at your notes. I'm going to look at my Bible. Here's what the Bible said. For he hath made him to be sin for us. That's what we talked about at the cross when God placed our sin on Christ. We talked about that last two weeks when Jesus said, I thirst and it is finished. And during those three hours of darkness, God laid our sin on Christ and there He paid the penalty for every human being's sin that ever lived or ever will live. So in your notes, number one, Christ became sin for us. There's the transaction. So here's what happened. There was a transaction. God... I'm using a Bible for a new convert here. Imagine that's our sin. Everybody see that there in the back? That's our sin. It's on to us. And then at the cross, God transferred it. He imputed it to Christ. Jesus didn't become a sinner. No, He's the substitute for the sinner. He bore our sin. Okay? Now imagine now the next praise. Look at verse 21 again. I think I lost my place while I was giving illustration there and I apologize for that. "...who knew no sin..." There it is. "...that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him." So at the cross and the wisdom of God, there was a great transaction. placed or imputed our sin to Christ's account, and when we believe He paid for it in full, and when we receive the payment He made by faith for our sins, God imputes Christ's righteousness to His account, to our account. And I'm now right with God. I was unrighteous, but now I'm righteous. Does that make sense? And all that took place the moment you got saved. Isn't that wonderful? That's the doctrine of imputation. We're right with God. We're going to use another term for this. All right, you ready? You can jot it down in your notes. That is God's work of justification. Okay? Justification where declared righteous before God. God as the judge of all the universe, the moment a person believes on His Son for salvation, drops the gavel in heaven and declares them righteous. And they're forever righteous. Okay? Can't be ever undone. Once you're made righteous before God, you can't be made unrighteous. It's a forever transaction. Isn't that a blessing? We're justified, declared righteous. Is Romans 10.10 in your notes? For with the heart, Romans 10, 9, that thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus shall believe in thine heart that God has raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. We jump down to verse 13. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. We miss a wonderful verse in our soul winning if we're not careful. Because, see, the first thing I do when I'm showing someone how to be saved is I help them understand they're not righteous. There's none righteous, no, not one. I talk about that word right. We're not right with God. We're sinners. I go through the fact that we're sinners. There's a penalty for sin. Then I talk about Jesus being the remedy for sin. Romans 10, 9. But how am I made right with God? How do I become right with God? How am I saved? Alright, watch this. Look at verse 10. There it is. The moment I believe under righteousness, I'm made right with God. So it's by faith. And with the mouth, confession is made into salvation. Verse 13, For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Now watch this, alright? The calling doesn't save me. Believing does. The calling is only voicing the faith of the heart. That's all it's doing. By the way, do you know of anybody in the Bible that got saved and didn't pray? How about Cornelius? There's no indication that Cornelius ever prayed. He just believed. While Peter was still preaching, the Holy Ghost fell on him. You don't have to pray to be saved. But you can be. But it's not the prayer that saves us. It's the faith that the prayer voices that saves us. We're saved by faith, by believing. You see what I'm saying? I've had people tell me, say, Preacher, I really believe that I was saved when I got up out of my seat to come to the altar. There was a response of the heart, the will to believe on Christ at that moment. You follow what I'm saying? Now, I still lead people to call on the Lord. And you say, Preacher, why do you do that? And I do that because it clarifies in them their act of believing. It clarified in me the act of believing when I called on the Lord. Are you following what I'm saying? Have I confused anybody tonight? Raise your hand. Okay, good. Either you're not willing to tell me that or everybody's confused and nobody... And so in the moment we call on the Lord, we're made righteous, and we're cleansed of our unrighteous, and we're clothed in Christ's righteousness. We become righteous in Him. Isn't that wonderful? That's a wonderful transaction. And so it takes care of your past. It deals with the penalty of sin. And the moment you're saved, the penalty of sin is forever dealt with. It's a judicial thing where God, the righteous judge, declares anyone and everyone who believes on His Son righteous in Him. Where you were wrong with Me, you are now right with Me. That is the wisdom of the cross. That's what that is. And that's what he's telling them. Number two, we're going to move to the next tonight. This is probably as far as we're going to get. We're not going to finish all of point two. I promise you that. But if we can get through the first part of it, I think we can finish all of it next week. So now we know that Christ made us wisdom, which translates into righteousness. He's our righteousness, and now He's our sanctification. One takes care of my past, and now we're going to talk about the present work of sanctification. See, these are Bible words every Christian needs to understand. And so let me sort of help you understand a little. I'm going to give you a little contrast here. I don't know if this is in your notes or not, but righteousness takes care of my past, sanctification takes care of my present. Okay? Righteousness takes care of my past. Sanctification takes care of the present. Righteousness saves us or we're saved from the penalty of sin. Hell is not in my future. Hell is not in your future. I don't care what the devil says. I don't care what anybody else says. You believed on Christ. Hell is not in your future. There is now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. I don't always feel saved. That don't mean I'm not saved. You can't live by your feelings. You live by faith. Right? What the Bible says. Alright? Sanctification. Now watch this. Saves us. I'm going to give you a couple words here. Is saving us from the power, the pollution, the domination of sin in our daily lives? Are you following me? So I am saved from the penalty of sin. I am right now and you are right now being saved, delivered, because that's what saved means. It means to be delivered. I mean rescued from the power of sin in my daily life, in your daily life. It's the process by which God makes us holy. conforms us to the image of His Son. Sanctification, the very word, means to be holy, to be made holy, to be set apart. It has the idea of being set apart from the world, from sin, unto God. Alright? And anything that's been set apart unto God is holy unto the Lord. Are you with me? Okay? Here's where I want you to hone in. Here's where you've got to lean in. There are three tenses to sanctification. Just like there are three tenses to salvation. Past, present, future. I am saved. Penalty of sin. I'm being saved. That is sanctification from the power of sin, domination of sin, the pollution of sin. I will be saved from the very presence of sin. justification, sanctification, glorification. Alright? There are three tenses to sanctification. First of all, there's what we call in our notes, positional sanctification. The moment you're saved, you were set apart unto God. Look back in chapter 1. Look at verse number 2. Are you ready? Notice what he says here. "...unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them which are sanctified..." Is that present tense or past tense? Are you all with me? Is everybody awake? Past. The E-D on the end makes it what? Past. All right. Y'all got to help me. Okay? Sanctified in Christ. You just don't want to get it wrong. I get it. I understand. I'm with you. In Christ Jesus. Watch this next phrase. Called to be saints. If you're saved, you're what? You're a saint. Right? Okay? And so that's positional. The moment we're saved, we're set apart unto God, we're holy unto the Lord. Now, wait a minute. I may not be holy in my life, but I'm holy in my position. I may not be holy in my practice, but I'm holy in my position before the Lord. I have been set apart from the world unto God as a special possession. I belong to the Lord. You belong to the Lord. We are His saints. Okay? So we're called to be saints. We've been sanctified. But now there's what we call progressive sanctification. This is something that's ongoing. This is present tense. And when we'll talk about this, we're going to spend the lion's share of our time. This is that I'm being set apart. I don't have a lot of time. I don't have any young people in here because I like to call young people up here because they don't feel like they're put on the spot as bad as adults do. You know what I'm saying? No adult wants me to call you up here and use you as an illustration. Okay? I get that. Alright? But let's imagine that the piano is the world. No, no, no. Let's do it differently. Okay? Because the organ's dead. It's been dead for years. We just leave it up here to look symmetrical. Okay? So that's the world. Okay? Everybody with me? Here's the world. Alright? Here's God, the piano. It's alive. He's the living God. Are you following me? So, y'all are going to stay with me, right? So, the moment we're saved, I am set apart, positionally speaking, past tense. This happens the moment we're saved. I'm set apart from the world. Give me a minute. Unto God. I am holy unto the Lord. I am one of His saints. That is my position before God. Are you following me? This is true of every Christian. Even carnal Christians like the church at Corinth. The Christian that's not living like a Christian, who's genuinely saved, is holy unto the Lord. That means they belong to God, even though they don't act like they belong to God. That's what we're called to be saints. That's who we are. It's what we are. No longer a sinner. We're a saint. Now, progressive. This is what God's doing. That's my position. Here's the practice. So God is at work in every Christian's life to daily set me apart from the world unto himself in my walk, my daily life, how I live. It's becoming holy in practice, not just position. And so every day of our lives we ought to be a little more like Jesus. Watch this. You see, every day of our lives, every year that we live as Christians, I need to be further and further in my daily life away from the world, set apart from the world unto God. And if you're not seeing the change and the growth, then you're not being what you should be as a child of God. If you can't see you're a little different this year than you were last year spiritually, then you're not letting God work in your life like He wants to work in your life. It's just a fact. We can regress. Nobody's static. You're either becoming more set apart unto God in your practice or less set apart unto God. Let me show you a verse. Is I Thessalonians 4.3 in your notes? No. Everybody's going to have to turn with me. And if you don't find it, that's okay. Just jot it down. You can look at it when you get home. Look at I Thessalonians 4. It's to the right. I Thessalonians 4, because I want you to see it in the Bible. And I want you to find verse number three. I hear people... Okay, I love testimonies. Y'all love testimonies? I love them. Now here's what I don't love. I don't love testimonies that flaunt people's sin before they got saved. I don't care anything about that. That's why I left camp meeting a long time ago. Now I'm not going to preach in a camp meeting and I'm going to invite somebody to go with me, but anyway, I left that long time ago because all people do is want to get up and talk about what they used to be and almost glory in what they were before God saved them. I don't care what you were before God saved you. I care about what you are right now. Because that's under the blood. That's gone. You follow me? And I know some preacher is going to listen to this and they're going to hate me for it. I don't care. Okay? I'm old enough now. I've got to where I don't care. Alright? And I don't even know what I'm thinking about because I was thinking about not caring. Oh, here it is. I remember it. Okay? And I don't have some timers. I just lost my train of thought. So stay with me. I'm going to go a little bit past eight if I keep running rabbit trails, okay? But they get up and here's what they say. I hear this, and I hate it. Well, just pray that I'll do the Lord's will. I'll do the Lord's will. Let me tell you what His will is. Are you ready? Are you ready? Here it is. Look what He says. 1 Thessalonians 4 verse 3, For this is the will of God. If you're wondering what God's will is, here it is. For this is the will of God, even your sanctification." And then he talks about that you abstain from fornication, and you possess your vessel and sanctification and honor, and talking about not being like the Gentiles and living like the world, and being like the world is. When somebody says, I pray I do God's will, I want to say, be sanctified! And then you're doing God's will. And if you'll start there, He'll show you the rest. That's it. This is God's will for every Christian. For me to be less and less of who I am by nature. and more and more of what I am and who I am in His Son. That is the wisdom of God at work in our lives every day as believers. And a spiritual Christian is a growing Christian. It doesn't mean that they're a super saint. It doesn't mean that they've reached a place that they sin no more. It doesn't mean that they never fail. But what it means is that they're making incremental, gradual progress of being more and more and more of who they ought to be in Jesus Christ. as we live in obedience. And I'm going to tell you how to do that as we work our way through this text. That's progressive sanctification. I didn't mean to get so fired up. I'm supposed to be teaching the Bible. And then perfect sanctification. Now preacher, what is perfect sanctification? That's when you're forever set apart into God. So I am set apart. I'm a saint. I've been sanctified. I'm holy unto the Lord. That's my position. I am being sanctified. That's what God's doing in our lives as believers. He's at work in us, changing us, making us holy in our daily lives, conforming us to the image of His Son. But now wait a minute, there's coming a day at the rapture. There's coming a day when Jesus comes. There's coming a day when we're forever in His presence. There's coming a day when we're going to be in reality, not just position, not just practice, but in total personal Reality. I'm going to be in His presence and I'm going to be perfectly. And Christian, you're going to be perfectly set apart unto God. Preacher, what does that mean? That means I am now perfectly holy. I am saved to sin no more at all. And never again will I break the heart of God. Never again will I fail. Never again will sin taint me. But that's not going to happen until we get to heaven. And this side of heaven will never arrive. There's always another step in our Christian lives. I don't care if you've been saved for 60 years, 70 years, 100 years. I don't care. You haven't arrived and I haven't arrived. And if Paul hadn't arrived, none of us have arrived. And we won't arrive till we get to heaven. And that is what we call perfect sanctification. I'm going to show you a verse. I know this one's not in your notes because I just wrote it in mine. She didn't see it. Look at 1 John 3 and verse number 2. And I'm going to close with this. We're done. Look at I John 3, verse 2. It's been a pretty good Bible study tonight. Let me tell you what this is. Listen, you're getting the meat of the Word. You say, Preacher, I want the meat. Well, here it is. You're getting it. I want the deep things of God. Here we go. This is it. Well, I want to know what the ten toes of Daniel's beast was. That's not the deep things of God. This is the deep things of God. Look at chapter 3 verse 2. Beloved, now are we the sons of God. Isn't that a blessing? And it doth not yet appear what we shall be. We don't know what we're going to look like when we get to heaven. Somebody says, I think we're going to be 33 years old just like Jesus when He died and rose again. Well, I hope we are. Wouldn't that be wonderful? But it doesn't matter. We don't know what we're going to be. Listen, if John didn't know what he was going to be, and the apostles didn't know, then you and I don't know and nobody else knows. How about that? But here's what we do know. We know that when He shall appear, the Lord Jesus, we're going to be like Him. We shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. Preacher, what's perfect sanctification? It's when we're forever like Him. Because what God's wanting to do is make you more like Him today. Now, let me just qualify this. Give me two minutes and I'm done. 8.05. All right, here we go. And I know you are. I'm just saying that. I can preach as long as I want to. But I am sensitive to that fact because I want you to come back next week. I don't want anybody to think, well, man, the preacher's preaching forever. I'm not getting enough sleep. I've got to get up at 4 a.m. and go to work. And he don't have to get up at 4 a.m. and you're right unless I go to the hospital. I don't get up at 4 a.m. Now I do know the sun comes up gradually and doesn't pop in the sky. I am up before the sun comes up. But not at 4 a.m. So let me tell you what being like Him is not. It's not being like Him physically. That doesn't mean that everybody in heaven is going to look like a little Jesus. We're not going to be turned into little Jesus. That's not what that is. We're not like Him personally. Now, I need to explain that because I couldn't think of another word personally. What that means is you're not going to be God-like. You're not going to be able to do miracles, know everything. Do you know you're still going to be taught in heaven? And Jesus is our teacher. Isn't that something? We're going to still be learning about Him in heaven. Because there's things these finite minds can't understand about God. Are you following me? So we won't be like Him personally. We're not going to have the attributes of deity. We're not going to be God-like. So preacher, when he says we're going to be like Him, what does that mean? We're like Him morally. Jesus is perfect. There's nothing that can live in heaven that's not perfect. And so when we step into the city of heaven, we're perfect. When we get to this last word, redemption, that's what that's all about. I have been redeemed, but now wait a minute. Can I blow you mine and let you think? I'm going to be redeemed. And we'll talk about that in the next lesson. How about that? The wisdom of God in Christ is made into us wisdom and sanctification. This is God at work in our lives on a regular basis and we need to be cooperating with our God. Amen? Let's stand to our feet tonight.