Sweet home of the happy and free Where heaven and earth are so weary How beautiful heaven must be And heaven, no drooping nor pining No wishing for elsewhere to be God's light is forever there shining How beautiful heaven must be How beautiful heaven must be Sweet home of the happy and free Fair haven of rest for the weary How beautiful heaven must be Pure waters of life there are flowing, and all who will drink may be free. Rare jewels of splendor are glowing, how beautiful heaven must be. How beautiful heaven must be Sweet home of the happy and free Fair haven of rest for the weary How beautiful heaven must be The angels so sweetly are singing, Up there by the beautiful sea. Sweet clouds from their gold harps are ringing, How beautiful heaven must be. How beautiful heaven must be! Sweet home of the happy and free! Dear haven of red for the weary! How beautiful heaven must be! On the Romans chapter 8 deals with the Christian in relation to the future. And what we've discussed thus far in this chapter is that the carnal mind is enmity against God, and the carnal mind is not subject to the law of God and can't be. And they in the flesh cannot please God, talking about unsaved people, But Paul also makes it clear that even saved people that live after the flesh can't please God. You see that? Now that's what you need to get because that's confusing to a lot of people. The reason so many people are so confused about salvation, eternal salvation, is they don't know how to make a distinction between that that God saves and that that God discards. Now the flesh is not saved, and we're gonna see that tonight, at least not yet, see? Your spirit is saved. And like I've said, a saved person is a person with a dead body and a live spirit. An unsaved person has a dead spirit and a live body. And these Church of God and all these people running around saying, you know, you got to live it. Now, you know, let me tell you something, I don't mean to be critical on that, but you know, you take somebody like that that says, you know, you got to live it. You know what they really are? And I'm just gonna shoot it straight. Somebody that says you got to live it to be saved are nothing but a bunch of self-righteous, ignorant, low-down religious people that have no knowledge of what it took to keep their soul out of hell. Can you imagine something that God don't have nothing to do with, God give up, God said you can't please God in it, thinking they gonna live in this flesh, a standard that will please God good enough to get them to heaven. Now can you imagine that if you know the Bible? Now if you're ignorant, you don't know what I'm talking about. I mean these people think that salvation is something that they do and all this, you know. I know one of these fellas here a while back. I reckon he's trying to do right. I feel sorry for the folks that want to do right and don't know how. and can't learn how, you know, really. But this fella, he come up to me one time, it's been several months ago, and he said, the preacher said, I went to the altar the other night, and God took my cigarettes away from me. He said, that's the only thing between me and God is them cigarettes. I said, boy, you must be close. Boy, you must really have it made. And he said, but the Lord took them things away from me. I know right then, I was finished with them from now on. I saw him a few months later still sucking on them. You see? See, he was gonna please God in the flesh. See? Now, folks, you can quit, you can quit, I'm not, I don't do smoking, you know that, but you can quit smoking, you can quit cussing, and you can quit all your old dirty low-down deeds. If your heart ain't right, you ain't done nothing. That's where religionists comes in and try to perfect salvation in something that God don't have nothing to do with. See? The Bible said that in the flesh cannot please God. You see that? And so what Paul is trying to reveal here in this chapter, in the first few verses here, is that the thing that makes the difference in a Christian and an unsafe person is the spirit of life that's in him through Jesus Christ. You see that? And he says in verse 11, I want to start there tonight, that's kind of an introduction I reckon. But he said in verse 11, but if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, Now you know what that spirit is, don't you? That's in Romans 1, 4. That's the spirit of wholeness. Amen? He says, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his spirit that dwelleth in you. Alright, now notice that. Now, anything else It's like an unsaved person with a live body and a dead spirit. Now this is the future of every Christian. You see? I told you that chapter 8 is the death of a Christian in relation to the future. And that's the outlook of your future if you're saved. Amen? One day, One day, someday, and like M. R. D. Hahn put on his tombstone, if you go around and say it, it says, perhaps today. You know, he's still preaching even though he's been dead all these years. But even that, one day, the spirit of God that dwells, and that's the spirit of life, that dwells in you, one day is gonna raise your mortal, your mortuary death, you see? And this is not talking about whether you're dead and buried in the grave or walking, talking, living, breathing. It's talking about your body's dead no matter what condition you're in. As far as God's concerned, amen? As far as God's concerned, you're dead and buried. Amen? As far as your body. And what you do in your religion and what you do in your denomination and what you're doing in the flesh don't mean one little thing in either way to God because God ain't associated with it. The Bible said God's the God of the living and not the God of the dead. And your body's dead and God ain't the God of that thing. If you say you have a spirit in you that dwells in you with the spirit of God the spirit of wholeness And that is the spirit of life and that what that is your hope and that is your only hope and if you don't have that spirit You don't have no hope no matter what you do. Don't do how you live. Don't live go to church Don't go to church talking to shoot bubblegum. No matter what you do. It don't make no difference. Amen Well people could get that you know And notice how Paul addressed this thing in verse 12, therefore brethren, notice how he addressed it to the Christian. And notice something else about this thing real close now, verse 12. Therefore brethren, we are deaded not to the flesh to live after the flesh. And notice how clear that reading is, you see how clear that is? Notice up there again in verse four. Verse four, which will match this verse, it says, that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit. Now, you see how clear those two verses are? And like we told you so many times, the things that are real important are real clear. There may be some things in the Bible you don't understand, but if you understand and believe what's clear, you'll be all right. I don't worry about the things I don't understand. What worries me are the things I do understand I'm guilty of. See, that's what bothers me. So we're not debted to the flesh. Amen? I mean, you say, well, I don't understand that. In other words, it's like this. You don't owe your flesh nothing. Because your flesh is a dead corpse that was taking you to hell with it for the spirit of life coming and spiritually circumcised you. If you'd have stayed in the flesh and never been saved by the spirit of God and that spirit of life never come in you and spiritually circumcised you, your flesh would have carried you on down to hell for your sin. Now you better get that. And you don't owe your flesh nothing. All right, verse 13. for if notice the condition there now for if you live after the flesh all right so you get saved you still want to go back and live after that old flesh a lot of people do it's all right don't mean don't mean no devil you know we got liberty we didn't do what we want to that's what they say that's what they say that's not what the Bible says The Bible says, for if you live after the flesh, you shall die. Now that's talking about a physical death. In other words, if you get saved, and the Spirit of God comes in you, and spiritually circumcises you, and separates your eternal soul, and gives your spirit life, and cuts you loose from that old body of sin, that old mortal flesh that's going to the ground, the worms going to eat you, if you go back and forsake the things of God, and live after that old flesh, If you're saved, now I didn't say if you joined the church and got baptized, talked in tongues, went to confession, none of that junk. I said if you're saved, you stand a great chance of meeting an early death. But if you're through the Spirit, through the spirit and like I told you this morning in preaching that you can't be what God wants you to be and you can't do what God wants you to do and you can't stand how God wants you to stand without the power of God and the power of God is found in the spirit of God that dwells in you see that and that's why you ought to be filled with the spirit like I preached this morning all right but if you're through the spirit That's how you do it. Not through your denomination. Nothing to do with it. I mean, get off that stuff. But if you're through the Spirit, do mortify the deeds of the body. Mortify, what does that mean? That means get rid of them. Amen? I mean, you have a body that's dead, and what the Bible is saying for you here is to put the deeds of that body down. See put the deeds of that body down and that'll match back in chapter Romans chapter 6 verse 11 verse 12 We discuss all that and in Romans chapter 6 deal with the death of a Christian in relation to sin You see that? Now, you read verses like this, and I believe that verse is just the truth in the rest of them in the Bible, and yet you see people that go to church, profess to be saved, and they have no conviction, no standards, they don't see nothing wrong with nothing, they do everything according to what they want to, the way they want to, when they get ready to, and nothing ever happens. What I notice is talking about saved people. I'm not saying a person will never live in no way but the energy of the flesh. He'll never live no other way. He'll never live in the spirit of God because he don't have it. See? So if a man or a woman is unsaved and just a member of the church, they're no different from a man or a woman that's unsaved down here in the bar Saturday night. They still live after the same thing. And that's why you see so many church people get away with so many things. A lot of them just not see. Said you're judging. Oh, yeah. I am I reckon I am but the Bible's heated spiritual judge to all things Amen, I got a book to judge things by right And I believe the book for I do anything or anybody else All right. Now look at verse 14 now This is counting the thing kind of changes now and it says for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Now this leadership is in an absolute sense. In other words, what it means is like the Holy Spirit taking you along. Amen? It's like your daily life. It's the Holy Spirit taking you along in your daily life, leading everything you do and controlling everything you do and directing you in everything you do. And not you going out here and saying, well, I think I'll do this. And somebody says, well, the preacher says this, or the Bible says, well, I don't care what that Bible says. I mean, I like it that way. There's nothing wrong. That's the way I want to do it. You see? It's talking about somebody that's being led and directed by the Spirit of God into life. Amen? And that's evidence. That's good evidence. That's sound evidence that you saved by the Spirit of God. Amen? Notice in verse 15 Romans chapter 8 verse 15 For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear But you have received the spirit of adoption Whereby we cry Abba you're a Jew. Amen Abba is a Hebrew word see that And notice that thing the Bible says, when you got saved you didn't receive the spirit of bondage. Huh? Now let me show you something here, it's real clear and I want you to try to get this. Every unsaved person lives in a spirit of bondage. They're in bondage to sin, they're in bondage to the flesh, they're in bondage to the laws, they're in bondage to a lot of things. A bunch of Jews one time, Jesus told them, said, you don't know the truth, the truth will make you free. And they said, we'd be Abraham's seed, we were never in bondage to no man. And while they were telling Jesus, they was never in bondage. They was in bondage to religion. They was in bondage to wrong. They was in bondage to sin. See? And didn't know that. Now what the Bible is saying here is this. When you got saved, and the Spirit of God led you along, that's not bondage of fear. Let me show you a reference on that, one that we've used numbers of times, and it's found in the book of Hebrews, chapter two, Hebrews chapter two. And listen to it, Hebrews chapter two, and verse 14, it says, For as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same, that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil. See? Now every unsaved person was under that power. Matter of fact, before the cross, every person was under the power of death, and the devil had the power of death. You see that? But then look in verse 15, and delivered them, all right, who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. Now before the cross, every person was in fear of bondage because you were in bondage to death and the devil held you in that bondage. Amen? Nobody knew anything about life before Jesus died on the cross. alright now the Bible is saying here in Romans 8 verse 15 but you haven't received the spirit of bondage again to fear but you've received the spirit of adoption now you know what adoption means? how many know what it means? it means son placed now when you got saved you were spiritually took out of one place and put in another Amen. You was took out of one family, the family of the devil, and put in the family of God. You see that? Alright. And when you got saved, when you put in another family, you got a different language. You see that? Because this different family puts you going in a different direction. You see that? and that different direction gave you a new language so you cry Abba all right now verse 16 the spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God you see that that's how you know you're saved You are adopted into a new family. I heard a little story one time. It's real good. It goes right along. This little boy went to school, and these other little boys got around and got a joke and said, you are adopted. That's not your real mom and daddy. And he kind of got upset, you know. And he said, I'm not. And he knew he was. You know how kids are. And then four or five more got around and said, you are adopted too. We all know you are. That's not your real mom and daddy. Little boy up there said, yeah, but my mom and dad love me more than yours do. And they said, what do you mean? He said, well, they had to take you. I was picked out of a whole bunch of them. So that's a pretty good thing. See, God picked you out of a whole bunch. Amen. So that's pretty good. All right, so look there in verse 16. Is that what it was? Verse 16. The Spirit itself. I know it's that word, the Spirit itself. It's the same as down in verse 26. The Bible says, Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities, for we know not what we should pray for, but the Spirit itself. this is supposed to have been an era in the King James Bible this is supposed to have been a time when the spirit is called it and a lot of people have said that King James Bible is wrong because the spirit is not an it the spirit is a person all right now let me show you something in Luke chapter 1 verse 35 Jesus is called a thing amen and back in Genesis chapter 3 verse 15 we mentioned that a promise of the coming line the Bible said it shall bruised our head talking about the coming of Christ all right now look at this thing real close folks I'm not a scholar you know that I'm just an old dumb it bleeds the Bible but I know this there's the context there is not the Holy Ghost it's the Spirit Spirit all through this chapter the Spirit Now the word spirit in the Greek is a neuter word. It's not masculine or feminine. It's a neuter word. Amen? And so when you speak of the spirit as far as the work is proper to say it or whatever. Amen? Now back in John chapter 14, 15, 16 when Jesus talked about the personality of the Holy Ghost he said him and he. Amen? But when he mentioned the work, just the spirit by itself alone as it stands in relation to his work is proper to say it. You see? Now what these people are doing to tell you that's wrong, this is people that's rejecting authority so that they can establish their own authority. that's their purpose behind all that you say but the the Greek word in spirit is a needle word and When you speak of the work of the spirit, it's not improper to say it and like I said the subject here It's a spirit all the way through. All right All right verse 17 and if children Well, you've been adopted. So you must be a child. That's what you adopt. Amen and if children then ears ears of God and joint ears with Christ if so be that we suffer with him that we may be also glorified together. You see? Now look at what this tells us. This goes right on into the second coming of Christ. You see that? The second coming of Christ. And the law says you can't disown or disinherit an adopted child. So if we're adopted, we get we in, amen? We in, we got just as good as there. So we got something coming, amen? We get part of the inheritance. But notice here, this inheritance is if, the Bible says if, it's conditioned. All right, what's that condition? Condition is if we suffer with him. All right, now you got two kind of inheritance. Listen, you got one kind of inheritance, that's Shua. I'm gonna show you what it is. Take your Bible and turn to 2 Peter. Everybody that's saved has this. 2 Peter chapter one. 2 Peter chapter one. Maybe it's 1st Peter, let me see. 1st Peter. 1st Peter chapter 1, page 13 and 11. Alright, listen to this. If you're saved, you have this. 1st Peter chapter 4 I meant chapter 1 and verse 3 1st Peter 1 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Which hath according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead to an inheritance now you got this coming incorruptible man didn't build it amen undefiled amen and that fadeth not away it don't it don't it don't wear out it don't burn out it lasts forever it's eternal and where is it it's reserved it's waiting for you whereabouts not in earth Heaven for you now every saved person has that inheritance coming all right But there's another inheritance that you can lose Are you with me here? And that's let's see what that one is and let's let's look let's take a Bible turn to 2nd Timothy 2nd Timothy chapter 2 2nd Timothy chapter 2 Now let me let me say something here Well, you won't get confused. I've told you but numbers of time before. And you folks, you know, you come here Sunday after Sunday, what few of you come, and you've been coming, you know, about two years, and you've got more Bible here in two years than most churches get in 25 years. And maybe I'm trying to cram too much on you at one time, but stay with me in the Scripture. Just follow me in the Bible, and listen, because one of the most confusing things today among people, they can't make a distinction between salvation, that's free grace, and an inheritance that you earn after you get saved. You see? And if you don't have free salvation, don't work for nothing, honey, you ain't gonna get nothing but hell, amen? And the harder you work, the more hell you get. But if you're saved, know you're saved, you got something to look forward to. Amen? And you live right, you got more and more to look forward to, amen? Now, I wanna show you what the Bible says about this millennial inheritance. Now the millennial heresy, when Christ comes back to this earth, set up a kingdom on this earth, and rules the world out of Jerusalem, and to save people, if you earn that, you'll be rulers over cities. That's what Luke says. All right? I don't know who will get to rule over more haven. I hope it ain't me. But like I said, let me go on and throw this in too, I haven't gone this far. I don't believe there'll be too many from the last 25 years that'll get a millennial inheritance. I don't believe nobody. What a TV gonna get no millennial inheritance now you say I preach y'all bad, but yeah I know that's what you think. Oh, you probably got one, but that's alright Let me get a second Timothy chapter 2 second Timothy chapter 2 and notice verse 10 The Bible said, Therefore I endure all things for the likesake, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. Now notice that more than being saved and just escaping hell, amen? The Bible says there that you might obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. You see that? I mean, there's more to getting saved than just knowing you're not going to hell. All right? And look what it is. Verse 11. It's a fateful saying. There's something faithful there now before listen to me when I read the Bible And I come across some sense of faithful saying I pay close attention that I pay more attention that and I do a lot of other verses All right, and says it's a faithful saying for if we be dead with him We shall also live with him. That's what we've been studying about Romans 6 and what about what was done about Romans chapter 8 now? All right If we suffer, there's a condition, see? If we suffer, you know, I mean, if we are, like a lot of these fellows, they're suffering real bad, they only get $500 a week, and a car to drive, and a house to live in, all expenses paid, and, you know, I mean, I'm sure, I mean, they're suffering bad, amen? I mean, if we suffer, we shall also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us. Now, all people take that verse, if you deny him, you know, he'll deny you, you know. What's the denying talking about? He'll deny you a millennial inheritance. Do I not do nobody getting saved or staying saved? Can't you see that? And yet they'll take verses like this, you know, and they'll try to make that thing, you can lose your salvation, see? If you go out here and deny him, he'll deny you and you'll go to hell. Not talking about that at all. Not at all, it's not talking about that, see? All right. Let me prove it to you, let me prove it to you. Look at the next verse, verse 13. If we believe not, you see that? Now, suppose you get saved, okay? And somewhere down the road, you lose your mind. And you don't even know God. What happens to you? His father said he's still faithful, see? You still ain't going to hell. You see that? I mean, he abides faithful, he cannot deny himself. You see that? I mean, if you ever get in, honey, you can't get out. You see that? Well, a lot of people can't go that route because they put too much stock in the flesh and base too many things on the flesh. But the more I read the Bible, the more I believe. But just keep the flesh out of it and let God have his way and let the Bible be right and everything else be wrong and go from there and I believe you can come out pretty good. All right, one more place, Colossians chapter 3. Colossians 3 verse 24. Colossians 3 verse 24. We'll start at verse 23 to put it together here. Talking about save people again. Alright. None to do with nobody getting saved. None to do with nobody staying saved. Colossians 3 verse 23. And whatsoever you do, do it heartedly as to the Lord and not in the men. all right verse 24 knowing that of the Lord you shall receive the reward you say the millennial inheritance is a reward amen it's an earned reward It ain't something you got just because you went to church every Sunday. It's something that you did for God. It's earned. Now the one in 1 Peter 1 verse 4 is not earned. Every saved person has that. That's one of the fringe benefits of getting saved, amen? That's a heavenly inheritance. You see? But we're talking now about a millennial inheritance and it's an earned reward and it's conditioned on this. Alright, you shall receive the reward of the inheritance Why? For you serve the Lord Christ You see that? Huh? And then of course the next verse Paul Tells that God's no respect a person and as far as earning reward No matter who you are or who you knew or how close you was to the preacher how much you get nothing to do with it Alright Alright back to Romans 8 Romans chapter 8 Romans 8 verse 17. So verse 17, when Paul talks about here the spirit that's in us, and what we have, then he goes right on into the second coming of Christ, when they say people be glorified with Christ, those that earn this inheritance. All right? Look at verse 18. Romans 8.18. For I reckon, there's that sudden expression we mentioned over there in chapter 6. For I reckon that the suffering of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. How about that? In other words, Paul is saying that what you're going through now can't be compared with what you're going to get for it later. now let me just give you something else on that we discussed this all but let me give you a review here tonight uh second corinthians chapter four second corinthians chapter four now i review a lot of verses because things you ought to learn And that's how you learn, repetitious, over and over. And there's some things in the Bible, a few verses, and a few things that you can apply to your life, practical, that you ought to know. Amen? And this is one of those things that you ought to constantly be reminded of, especially when the devil tells you, well, you're wasting your time, it ain't worth it, and you're a fool to go over to that church Sunday after Sunday and lose all your friends, and everybody turns on you, and all this stuff, you know, like he does. 2 Corinthians chapter four. Verse 17, it's on page 1233. For our light afflictions, which is but for a moment, and that moment is 70 years, working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. That's what the same thing back in Romans. It's saying that what we go through here now, You can't even compare with what it's going to be worth later on. And what Paul is saying here is, our line of afflictions, but for a moment here, has a much more weight up there in glory for what we've done. Amen? Verse 18. While we look not at the things which are seen, Alright? But at the things which are not seen, for the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal. Then you ought to set your goals on things you don't see. Amen? And what do you don't see? You don't see heaven. You don't see the Lord. You ain't seen your new body yet. Hmm? Notice Paul is saying this, in plain words, he's saying, when you see what you get, for what little you done, it's gonna be hard to believe. Amen? Now listen folks, I believe that works the other way around too. Amen? I mean, if you gonna get a great deal more up there for a little bit you done here, You listening? How much greater hail is a man gonna get for what he done here in this world when he directed Christ? Huh? I believe it'll work just as good one way or another. I mean the Bible said in Revelation 20, don't forget, they would judge every man according to their works. See? You'll be judged by your works and your works will be services rendered to God after you got saved. And the things that you do for God after you get saved and go through the fire and come out on the other side, you're gonna get a reward for them. Amen? And if you, I'll just illustrate, say you got a dollar's worth here, up there it might be a million dollars worth. I'm just dealing in value, I'm not dealing with money. There'd be no money up there, you know that. You know, all that stuff. I want you to see that because you see people if people could ever understand this thing never get this thing right that There's more to being saved than just knowing you ain't going to hell in Kenyon Church every Sunday. You see that there's more to it than that All right notice first 19 Romans 8 19 Father Earnest expectation in other words Are you expecting something What are you expecting? Look at verse 19. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God. You see? And notice that word is creature. It's not creation like it's ever changed in all these new Bibles. You see it? That word is creature. See? Notice down in verse 23, "...and not only they, but ourselves also have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves grow within ourselves, waiting for the..." That ain't the verse I wanted. Verse 21, what I wanted. "...because the creature itself..." You see that? The creature. You see? In other words, it's not talking about you getting right, but it's talking about the creature, the animals getting right, too. See that? Now, somebody says, how do you know that? You don't know that for sure. Well, let's just see if I do. Go back to Isaiah. Isaiah 11. Let's see if we're right on that. Nevermind the scholars. Let's see what the Bible says All right, Isaiah 11 page 723 You got it verse 6 Isaiah 11 6 the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, huh? Huh? Can you imagine that you know why wolf will eat a lamb? There's a curse on him, huh? Let me tell you something. We ain't got this far in John yet, but you remember when Jesus had a crown of thorns on his head? What did God curse the world with in Genesis 3? Thorns and thistles. He not only bore the curse for your sin, he bore the curse for the creation. Amen? And here comes back, folks, everything's going to get right. See? And this is talking about the animal life. I mean, when Christ comes back, there'll be no curse. A wolf and a lamb will play together. Amen? They don't do it now. All right, the Bible says in verse 6, the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fattening together, and a little child shall lead them. Huh? How many of you ever seen a little child leading a big old wild lion around? Huh? Have you ever seen that? Verse 7, And the cow and the bear shall feed. The young one shall lie down together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the suckling child, the baby that ain't weaned from his mama, shall play over the hole of an ass. Ass is one of the most deadly snakes in the world, and a little suckling baby can play over its hole and not do anything to worry about. Huh? How do I know I'm right? Got a Bible. Amen. All right, now look, the Bible says in verse 19, we're waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God. In other words, the animals are waiting for Christians to get right. You see that? Now you've been saved, but you don't, you hadn't been, you hadn't got your new body yet. Amen. You see? I mean, you haven't been manifested yet. You see? The Bible says, now we are the sons of God, and it doth not appear what we shall be like. Amen? I mean, we haven't appeared in our true role yet. You see? You see right now, if you're saved, you're a prince in disguise as a beggar. Amen? I mean, you haven't been manifested yet. Your true role hasn't come up yet, see? But when he appears, when Jesus Christ appears, the Bible says we're going to be like him, and that's what the animals are waiting for, see? Now you talk about liberation, boy, that's liberation, ain't it? Everybody, they want to be liberated. You know? Well, they're going to be liberated. Amen? Alright, verse 20. Romans 8, 20. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willing, but by reason of him who had subjected the same in hope." In other words, you didn't ask to be born. You was not made subject to vanity or on your free will. You just came into it. You see that? But you're going to be delivered from it. I notice verse 21. Because the creature itself All souls shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption unto the glorious liberty of the children of God. You see? Not only animals, but the brute creature in man, that old nature we've been talking about now for chapter 7 and chapter 8. And the Bible says shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption. You listen? Now what is the bondage of corruption that holds you today? Hmm? What is it? Do you know? It's your flesh. Amen? And the Bible says you're going to be delivered from that thing. You see? And you're going to be delivered from that thing in the liberty of the children of God. You see? In verse 22, for we know that the whole creation, there's the word, groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. You know, the whole creation, not just the animals, but the vegetarian life, the mineral life, the nature, the whole creation is going to get right. You see that?