This is the Chancellor's Program. At his home going in November 1997, Dr. Bob Jones, Jr. left a legacy of lifelong ministry to students as Chancellor and former President of Bob Jones University. He also left a wealth of recorded sermons which we now present on the Chancellor's Program. Today, we present a message delivered at a Sunday morning worship service held on the campus, July 10th, 1988. Today's message is titled, Six Separations Stressed in the Word of God. It's a strange thing how movements go, as it were, in waves. There'll be a time of great revival will come in. There hasn't been a great revival that shook this nation since the 1920s. Oh, we've seen little spots of revival here and there. Churches revived, and hearts revived, and homes revived. There's been nothing that's shaken the nation as it was shaken back in the 20s just after the First World War. We had a strong emphasis on separation. Now people are beginning to back off. It's strange how necessary certain things are to the health and well-being of the church and the people of God. You preserve the purity of your water source by keeping filth out of the water supply. You contaminate good food if you mingle it with spoiled food. And so in spiritual realms there must be the same separation between that which is good and that which is bad. And God recommends and commends and commands such separation. It's all through the Word of God. I want us to look this morning at six separations that are stressed in the Word of God. Six things that God asks that we observe in separating ourselves from those things which will do harm to us and to others. And as we look at these things, I hope our hearts will be open to consider them very carefully. The first separation of all is the separation from sin to Christ. We call that the new birth. We call it that because that's what the Word of God declares it to be. A time when a man comes to the Lord Jesus Christ, confesses his sin, and claims the mercy and grace of the Savior and accepts the gift of salvation. My friend, a Christian is not like a worldly man. He may live like a worldly man, he may act sometimes like a worldly man, but there's a difference. In God's sight, he's become a child of God and no longer an enemy of the God of heaven. It's a wonderful thing that we can preach a gospel that brings men to salvation. The necessity of the new birth, how stressed it is. It's the difference between heaven and hell, life and death, success and failure, joy or eternal sorrow. You must be born again. And when God saves a man, that man is called out to become a child of God by faith. The very word church means called out ones, the ecclesia, those who are called apart, who are set apart, who are separated, who are marked by the mark of the Holy Spirit of God in their lives. Unfortunately today I think some people make a profession who've never had an experience. I don't think that's unique, however, to this generation. That's always been the case. There are more people who profess than people who possess. But it's a shame that it should be so. Somehow young people can grow up in a church and take it for granted because they're in a church, brought up in a church, sons and daughters of church people, that their salvation is taken care of. But this must be a matter settled individually. Nobody can make the decision for somebody else, but every Christian should be burdened to bring others to the decision, to the Lord Jesus Christ. It's not simply a decision to live a better life. Sometimes in the preaching we hear today we get that impression. to make a decision for Christ, that is, to vote for Christ against the devil, to speak a good word for Christ against the world that condemns him. But that's not salvation. Salvation is a personal experience by the Holy Spirit of God through faith when I recognize my need, my sinfulness, my uncleanness of heart, my inability to do anything about it. knowing that reformation will not change me and will take no account of my past whatsoever. And though if I could in myself live from this day forward as if I had never sinned, nonetheless the sin is there until it's blotted out by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. And until a man is born again, he's burdened down with sin, though his life may be lived in a respectable fashion, Though he may have tried to change his ways from evil to what he basically thinks is good, he's nonetheless a sinner, unregenerated, dead in trespass and in sin. So the first separation that must come to any man is this separation from sin to the Savior. The recognition of his sinful condition and the acceptance of the grace and mercy which is in Jesus Christ which gives a man new life, new nature, makes him a new creation in Jesus Christ. My friend, our churches are filled with unconverted people, and there can be no great revival in the church while this is the case. God's people should be marked by the mark of the Holy Spirit of God in His regenerating power in the life. And a man who claims salvation but who does not have any evidence, no fruit of the Spirit in his life, I seriously doubt if he has it. I think sometimes we take it for granted that most of the people we preach to are saved people, but oftentimes there are unsaved people among them in great numbers. We need a strong emphasis upon the gospel. But, my friend, the gospel is not enough. The gospel regenerates a man, but the church needs to be taught sound doctrine from the Word of God. You cannot have a sound church without sound doctrine. and a man who is not taught in the Word of God, though he may have as a little child come to the Lord Jesus and received Him, however by faith he has come to know Jesus Christ, nonetheless needs to be taught from the Word of God what God's will and what God's purpose is. And that brings us to the second of these separations. This is the separation from self to the Savior. That is, it's the occasion when a man comes and says to the Lord Jesus, I want your will in my life, I do not want any longer to walk in my own way. Now there are those who preach that this is simultaneous with conversion. Well, in some cases it may be, but it's not generally so. This lordship salvation is a damnable heresy. It leaves no room for growth in grace, And there's many a man who comes and receives Christ because God's Holy Spirit points out to him his sinfulness and his need, and he sees the Savior lifted up and he trusts the Savior. But he knows nothing about the teaching of the Word of God on surrender to the Lord, making Him more than Savior, making Him the Lord and King of the life. This is the important separation that must be made. And when this is once and for all settled with God, when a man comes to the place where he no longer seeks his will but God's will, when he surrenders himself completely, giving up self and receiving the Saviour now as his Lord. That is, putting all the changes and all the vicissitudes and all the plans and all the ambitions of life into the hands of the Saviour. When that comes, naturally all these other separations will follow upon it. There can be no further separation until there's, first of all, this separation unto God. God called us out of the world, God called us into his marvelous light, from darkness to the shine of the gospel. God called us out of our sins into himself. But that's not enough. There must be, if there's to be victory in our hearts and rejoicing in the church and power in the household of faith, there must be this willingness to let the Lord Jesus have his way completely and fully. Men say, how can I know the will of God? Well, the Bible makes it very clear. If any man will do the will of God, he shall know of the doctrine. That is, he'll be taught how to do it. All it takes is a surrender of the will. We give up our sins when we come to Christ. We turn from sin to the cross. But there has to be more than that. There has to be a turning from ourselves to the Savior, from our wishes to His will, from our desires to His perfect peace. to the sense that I no longer run my life, I no longer rule my life, when we can say with the apostle, nonetheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. If you've never made that surrender, friend, none of these others can follow, because self will rise up in rebellion against the demands of separation that the Word of God places upon us. No man can of himself have victory until that victory comes through complete surrender to the Lord Jesus. We are so afraid to lay down our wills. We think we turn from our own wishes, we turn in a sense to defeat. That to surrender to Christ means to be defeated. It's not true. There is no victory like the victory that comes of surrender of the sword to the Savior. And when I, in my own heart and in my own life, Willingly and completely say, here am I, Lord, take me. That's the beginning of a life of victory. Now let me make one thing clear. This is not a one-time separation. It must come again and again and again. But the initial separation is the will given over. But Paul knew what that was. He said, I die daily. The old man tries to come down off the cross and reassert himself. and rebellion lifts its ugly head against the crown of King Jesus. It happens over and over and over. It happens constantly. Listen, no wonder the word of God speaks of a warfare, the Christian warfare. It's a constant warfare, but it's a warfare primarily with oneself. The worst enemy we have is the enemy within. You remember the Lord Jesus Christ said on one occasion, the prince of this world hath nothing in me. He had no fallen nature. He could not sin. He could not yield to temptation and he proved that in the temptation. He couldn't have fallen because he's the sinless son of God. But every man has in himself a fallen nature. I wish I could preach complete taking away of the old nature. It would be wonderful if I could believe that I could be so completely sanctified that there was no root of sin in me, no tendency to sin, and no desire to turn away from the things of God, no temptation to the world and the lust of the flesh. It would be wonderful to have that. But my friend, if we had that, there'd be no warfare to fight, and we'd become effete Christians. It's this constant warfare against oneself. They're standing against the assaults of Satan, who would lay hold of the gate of the citadel, which is opened by the enemy within, the all-nature that's within. It would be wonderful to believe in total sanctification. I've known some people who claimed it, good people, but if you just questioned their doctrine, they proved they didn't have it. They'd lose their temple pretty quick. And they'd show that they were not entirely sanctified. But they don't have to do that to show you the Word of God shows you that. If we say we have no sin, the truth is not in us. We are born in sin. We are conceived in iniquity. And when we are born again, we are born of the Spirit. We are born into life eternal. But that does not take care of the old nature except to give to us the power to subdue it and to keep it under by the power of the Lord Jesus Christ and through the strength of the indwelling Holy Spirit. But my friend, you relax for a moment And you'll find yourself turning back to the old way. No wonder we need to feed on the Word of God daily. No wonder we need to spend time in prayer. No wonder we must exercise ourselves unto godliness. Oh, what an emphasis today is put upon athletics. Sunday afternoon, all the news media is giving over to athletic programs and skills and all kinds of things that titillate the flesh and emphasize the strength and overcoming power of the flesh. But my friend, what we need is to exercise ourselves unto godliness, and that comes as we work for the Lord Jesus Christ, as we strive in the Word of God to become a master of the Word of God, that the Word of God may master us. Until a man is master of the Lord Jesus Christ, he never has this power that God wants him to have. And then in the third place, we need to turn from Babel to the Book. We still live in the shatter of the Tower of Babel these days. how many voices we hear on all sides offering advice, telling us what to do, speaking out with the authority of men and men's opinions when only we need the authority of the Word of God and the clear truth of this book. In Romans, Paul tells us, Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause division and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you have learned, and avoid them. That is, you are to take careful note of those who would lead you astray contrary to the doctrine of the Word. There is no sound doctrine except the doctrine of this book. There are only two kinds of doctrine, the sound doctrine and doctrine of demons. If it isn't in line with this book, it's of Satan. If it isn't true to this Word, it's a false doctrine. But how many men go astray today after false doctrines and the devices of men and the cunning words that hide truth beneath webs of falsehood. We must stand by the word of God. Timothy tells us in his first epistle, chapter 6, if any man teach otherwise and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, he's proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and stripes of words. Whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men, of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness, from such withdraw thyself." How much strange teaching we have in these days. How many peculiar philosophies are uttered abroad. Men saying, after all, let's get together in order that getting together we may accomplish the will of God. My friend, God's people who love the word and who stand on the word and who believe the word and who have separated themselves to the will and purpose of God, those men can stand together because they stand on the word. John tells us if a man comes and brings any other doctrine, we'll slam the door in his face. We're not to say God bless you to him. How much strange and unnecessary and foolish advice God's people. Men are identified with the doctrine. If the doctrine's good, they're identified with truth. If the doctrine's bad, they're identified with evil. But while men may be identified with the doctrine, men are marked by their conduct, and the world can see in their conduct what kind of doctrine they have. Now, therefore, we must separate ourselves from men who may be saved, but who are darkened in their doctrine and disorderly in their direction. That is, if a man's doctrine is unscriptural, we cannot walk with him because we cannot agree with him, and two cannot walk together unless they're going in the same way. I get so sick sometimes of these people who say, in effect, let's all get together and go in our own different directions. How can you get together with a man who's walking in the opposite way? You may pass him on the way, but you'll never be going in the direction he's going and you can't walk together. Be like Siamese twins that are divided in where they want to go. One pulls this way and one pulls that way. It'd be a terrible thing to be a Siamese twin and have to defer constantly to the other self that's attached to your body. But my friend, the Christian is attached. He's a part of the body of Christ who's ahead of that body, the church. And when we walk with him, he makes the decisions because he's the head. We don't need to go to other sources for our advice. I'll say more about that in a moment. So we must sometimes separate ourselves from brethren who walk disorderly. There was a man who said, a prominent man some years ago, that that means a man who's walking in drunkenness and uncleanness and that kind of open and avowed sin. Well, that's not what the word says. A man who's disorderly is a man who does not live according to orders. It does not mean necessarily that he's a rioter, that he's a villain in the sense that he goes about trying to destroy other people, that he's a rapist or a murderer, that he's a drunkard. No, no, not at all. But a man who walks disorderly is a man who does not walk according to the pathway lined in the marching orders which we have in the Word of God. It's exactly the same thing that Paul speaks of when he compares the Christian life to the race, a man has to run according to the rules. For if a man doesn't run according to the rules, he's not crowned unless he run it properly, that is, in according to the orders. So it is in our Christian life. We have to walk according to the orders of God. And when we turn aside because some man says, look, this will accomplish some good, let's go along with it. We are listening to the voice of the devil, though the man may have his collar backwards and be a bishop when he speaks. My friend, a man can be a bishop and be a child of the devil. A man can be a great evangelist and be an instrument of Satan. You have to go the way that God lays out for you to go. You have no right to walk with a man that's disorderly. You have to avoid him. He may not be a lost man. He may simply be a foolish and rebellious Christian. He may be a man untaught in the Word of God. He may be a man whose pride has led him astray. He may be born again, but that man is no safe guide to others, and he's no safe preacher because he preaches falsehood for truth. That man, though he may take the name of the Lord Jesus upon him, and though he may in his heart have had an experience with Christ, is nonetheless to be avoided. But there's another separation that goes further than that. That's the separation from the foes of the gospel to those who are faithful to the gospel. Now, in Ephesians, the fifth chapter, the eleventh verse, we have this, And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. Second John tells us, if there come any unto you and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God's speed, for he that bid it him God's speed is partaker of his evil deeds. Now to distinguish between someone who is simply an untaught or rebellious brother and a man who is unsaved takes a great deal of discernment. And Christians have to beware of saying, that man cannot be saved because what he's preaching is contrary to the word of God. I cannot understand how a saved man will deliberately teach something that the Word of God condemns. I can't understand how it can be. But I cannot understand how a son of the household will go out and disgrace the house of which he's a son. It doesn't seem possible, but it happens nonetheless. But we have no business to set ourselves up to say who is saved and who isn't if they make profession of salvation. Now we can easily say that a man who denies the cross and the blood of Calvary, who scoffs at the gospel, that man cannot be saved, because we are saved by grace through faith. But a man who professes to believe the gospel, to preach the gospel, to go out and declare the gospel, who talks about the blood of Christ, that man, I cannot say he's not saved, though I can say that his life is such that I can have serious doubts about it, but I'm not the judge of his salvation. God looketh on the heart. All we can do is to look on the outward appearance. Sometimes the outward appearance may be divergent to the heart attitude, but the heart has become corrupt if it speaks corrupt words. So we need discernment. Believe not every spirit, the apostle tells us, but try the spirits, that is, test the spirits, whether they be of God, because many false prophets are gone out into the world. In other words, it's up to us to test. Now, how do you test something? Well, if you want to test something in a laboratory, you do it by putting something else into it and seeing how it reacts. You put in one substance, it'll react a certain way if it is a certain thing. If not, it'll react in another way. Now, we use the Word of God as our litmus paper to test, as the chemicals we use, as the solvents that determine truth. We take the Word of God and we try. And when we find that a man's doctrine is contrary to the word of God, we must avoid him, whether he's saved or not. Some separation, and separation of this kind, is demanding. We can hope that they return, but seldom does a man come back to the truth when he preaches falsehood. Now, what does Paul say in the book of Titus? This witness is true. Therefore, rebuke them sharply." Who's he talking about? He's talking about the Cretans, the people from Crete. They're unruly deceivers, he tells us. They're teaching things they ought not teach. That's the way he describes them. Rebuke them sharply that they may be sound in the faith. These people, possibly born again, are doing things they ought not to do. They're teaching unsound doctrine. He says, rebuke them and rebuke them sharply that perhaps they'll return again to the faith. But if they do not return, we find in the same book, third chapter, what we should do. The man that is an heretic after the first and second admonition, reject. Put him aside, cast him off, separate fully. Now our time's going by. There's another separation every Christian needs to make, and that's separation from the world to the wilderness. To go to Christ without the camp bearing his reproach. We need to be willing to be regarded as the off-scouring of the earth. That's what the world calls us, and that's how the world regards us. And we have to be willing to accept that rebuke. If we try to please the world, we can never please Jesus. For this world is at enmity with God, and the natural mind is at war with the truth of God's Word. We are to walk not in the counsel of the ungodly if we are righteous. You know, we give entirely too much attention to books written by new evangelicals and liberals. Almost every so-called Christian bookstore is full of junk literature with men's philosophies and men's getties. I don't think in these days any man ought to write a how-to book. All how-to books tell us how to disobey the Word of God and how to avoid the Word of God and how to think ourselves wise and make ourselves fools. These how-to books are a damnable thing. I wrote one once years ago on how to improve your preaching. I've never practiced it, but I wrote it. But all the same, I wish I had given the book another title. The word how-to on a title turns me off quicker than anything else. Men's advice on what to do and how to do it. You don't need the advice of men who are in rebellion and disobedience to God's Word. All you need is the advice of the Word of God itself. You don't need some man to tell you how to live a Christian life. God's Word tells you how to live a Christian life. And if you don't understand it, go to a godly brother who does understand it and let him explain it to you. But don't be ruled by the men, by the decisions that men make and the opinions that men offer. He doesn't stand in the way of sinners. Now, a man may stand in the way of sinners without actually going in their direction for a while. He may stand until he gets his balance. And if he continues to stand there, he'll sort of follow the crowd. You don't even want to stand in the place where the sinners go by. Wait a minute, that doesn't mean you don't go to sinners with the gospel, not at all. But when you see the direction that sinners are heading, you don't stand in the road they take. You stay clear even of the road in which they walk. You can walk along the side of the road for a while and call them to turn, turn aside and take a new road and turn back. But you don't stand in the road of the sinners. If you do, you will eventually be going in their direction, and you're headed in the wrong direction when you stand in the road and watch where they go. Or you can watch from the sidelines. You don't need to read the newspapers today to know the world's in a mess. But on every hand there's evidence of sin and depravity and declension and falling away, immorality in high places and religious circles, all kinds of confusion condoned by men who call themselves Christians sometimes. I understand that one man who calls himself a fundamentalist, but who's far from it, recently advised a church to forgive a man who was involved in immorality. Pastor, let him continue in the church. Well, my friend, the Bible gives a different advice. The man who's the shepherd of the flock has to be above reproaches as a deacon. And God's word is clear in that manner. And a man whose life has been lived constantly in open sin, tried to keep covered, but the church knew about it. promised to quit and he kept on. That man ought to be out of the church, he ought to be out of the ministry. The word of God is clear on that. So you don't walk in the counsel of the ungodly nor stand in the way of sinners, nor do you sit yourself down in the seat of the scornful. The passage which was read from Jeremiah emphasizes that fact to us today. I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced. Why is that rejoice, then? He means he didn't rejoice and enjoy the things the mockers enjoyed. He didn't rejoice over their attacks upon truth, their assaults against the Word of God and against the Savior of the world. He didn't rejoice in that kind of thing because he wasn't in that assembly. He wasn't sitting there joining with them in their mockery. This is the age of ridicule. You listen to the news, you read the papers, see how fundamentalism has become a bad word today. How men make fun of those who stand for the truth, who depict them as backward and far from knowledge, as ignorant and foolish men. Oh, how much mockery resounds. He doesn't sit in the seat of the scornful. Now, there are certain things we must not seek. I hope you'll note these carefully. In the first place, we cannot seek the world's approval of our style. If our style is the Christian style, it'll be different from the style of the world. I'm not talking now about the style of dress, though that's a matter that enters into it. Christians ought not to look like sinners, and Christian ladies ought to look like Christian ladies, and Christian men ought to look like Christian men. There's too much adaptation of the world's customs and styles and manners, but that's not what I mean here. We cannot expect the world to approve of our lifestyle. What does the book of the Ephesians tell us? They think it's strange that you run not to the same excessive riots with them, and they speak evil of you because you don't. My friend, when the world speaks evil of you because you're not like the world, you can thank God and rejoice because you have a good reward in heaven. It's a terrible thing to try to expect the ungodly to approve your lifestyle. Now, you may set them an example of good scholarship, and we need good scholarship on the part of Christians, but it must be soundly biblical-based scholarship. You may set them a good example of industry and of honesty and of all of that sort of thing, but you need to expect them to approve. They'll say you're trying to show yourself off, that you're a hypocrite, that you're putting on, that you don't really believe what you're saying and you're not really what you live outwardly. You can't expect their approval. You can't accept their advice on moral and spiritual matters. The ungodly have no good advice on spiritual matters, certainly. These things are foolishness to them. They cannot discern them, the Bible tells us. You can't go to a man who has no eyesight and ask him to describe a sunset. If he's born blind and is continued in blindness, he has no ability to describe a sunset. He's never seen a sunset. How can you expect a man who has no spiritual life, who's dead in sin, to advise you on matters of morality and on spirituality? You can't expect the world to approve of your attitude toward sin, which should be one of rebellion against sin. They cannot understand your attitude toward holiness and a life lived for God. They're going to be enemies of yours, there's going to be animosity between you and them, though the animosity is on their part, because you love scriptural truth and you seek to honor God and they don't. You've got to turn from gimmicks to the gospel. We have gone crazy on all kinds of things today, signs and miracles and wonders and all kinds of schemes to get people into the church. We're going to have a contest. I suppose a Sunday school contest once a year doesn't do any harm. Get out some young kids that wouldn't come otherwise. But this business of putting $5 bills under a bus seat so if you sit on the lucky seat you'll get $5 on your way to Sunday school. All this cheating of the gospel. My friend, God never told sinners to go to church anyway. Get that straight. God, no way in the word of God tells you to go to church if you're a sinner. God commands the church to go to the sinners. You ought to go into the highways and the hedges and compel them to come in. You ought to go out as a minister of the gospel, as a bearer of the light, as a preacher of the truth, lame in awe or ordained. You ought to go to the lost and you get them into church to make a profession of faith, to walk down an aisle to go into the baptistry, to join with God's saints. God never told sinners to come to church. We can invite them. We can try to bring them. But you can't expect ungodly people to go have the Gospels preached and enjoy it unless somebody goes out and gets them and brings them in. But the methods should be Christian methods and biblical methods and not the schemes of men. We need to get away from the emphasis on gifts and emotions and feeling to a proclamation of the cross. We need to turn from psychology to soul winning. We need to get back to the great essentials of the faith as they're emphasized in the Word of God. We need to get away from some of these dangerous follies into a full proclamation of the cross, an emphasis on the blood of Jesus Christ that cleanses from all sin. We need to lift up that precious blood that's going to be the theme of heavenly music and the burden of the songs of the glorified saints. We need to get back to the emphasis that all Scripture is given by inspiration of God. We need to turn from license back to liberty. That license which takes in everything and accepts it and says, because I'm a Christian, I can do what I please. I'm saved. I'm under the blood. I'm not bound by the book. What a philosophy that is abroad today. We need to turn back from this false license, which is a satanic thing, to the liberty which is ours in Christ Jesus. For when the Son has made us free, we are free indeed. And all the separation is not just a separation from, it's a separation unto. From that which is evil to that which is good. The Bible tells us of those who turned to God from idols. They didn't just turn away from idols. They turned to God to serve the living and true God and to wait for His Son from heaven. And that's what all our separation is. Not simply negative, but very positive. The positive stand for that which God has commanded and that which will bring rejoicing in glory and make our own hearts sane. Let us pray. We take it for granted here that most people who've come are saved people. There may be somebody here today that's not saved. You may have grown up in a church. You may have come from a Christian home, but you have no assurance of your own salvation. You've never had a time when you met the Lord Jesus and claimed him as your own, recognizing your need and acknowledging yourself as a sinner. We'd like to see you get saved this morning. I wonder if there's somebody here like that who'll say, Dr. Bob, I'm afraid I'm not saved. I'm not sure of it, but I don't want to be lost. I don't want to die unsaved. I need salvation. I need the assurance of salvation. I need that certainty that brings with it victory. Please pray for me. There's a need in my heart along this line. I'd like you to pray for me in the closing prayer. If you say that, just slip your hand up for a moment. Just put it up and take it down again. Just let us see it. We're not trying to embarrass you. We're not going to ask you to stand up. We're not going to do anything to point you out. But if there's somebody here that needs needs salvation, needs assurance of eternal life, we'd like to pray for you. Perhaps there are those here today who need to watch their lives on some of these points, who need to make some of the separations we've emphasized here. We're going to pray for you now, too, as we close. Our Heavenly Father, if there's anybody here today unsaved, may you not go out unsaved. What a joy to be a Christian, and what a tragedy to be a sinner, to go out into the fire that's not quenched to the place of darkness and terrors, when one can be a Christian and can be taken by the Holy Spirit of God into the very presence of God Himself to rejoice forever in the place that He's prepared for those that love Him. May nobody go out unsaved. And if there are those here, Lord, who need to settle some matters in their lives, who've listened too much to what the world has to say and are too much concerned about the world's opinion, who've held back something from God because of a lack in their lives, of the victory which can come, and that victory can only come in surrender. We pray Thee that Thou will give them grace to settle these matters in the light of Thy Word by the power of the Holy Spirit and to the glory of the eternal God. We pray it in the name of our Savior. Amen. You've heard a message by Dr. Bob Jones, Jr., who during the latter part of his life served as Chancellor of Bob Jones University. This message was recorded at a Sunday morning worship service held on July 10, 1988. Listen each week at this time for the Chancellor's Program, sponsored by Bob Jones University.