Radio Broadcast Tuesday 03/04/2025

Classic Christianity – Book of Romans P59 (03-04-25)

Grace is NOT Grace Unless it Is a FREE Gift From God!

~ “For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast.” Ephesians 2:8,9

There is No such thing as cheap Grace. If Grace is not a free gift from God, then it is NOT Grace. Satan would have you believe that you need to work to earn Grace, even if it is just a tiny little bit of yourself, by you asking for forgiveness by God, then it depends on your asking for forgiveness by God to merit out Grace. And that right there is a lie. For Grace is given and Grace is received. Grace is NOT earned. Grace cannot be bought with even a little bit from us. Both Catholics and Protestants teach the Lie of asking for forgiveness by God in order to get more Grace, as though it is merited out for the asking. How much sense does that make? Do we push God’s buttons to get more Grace? Do we put our requests into God for the forgiveness vending machine by plopping in your requests to God to forgive you of this sin or that sin? Heaven forbid. No way! Jesus gave us all forgiveness at the cross, and He didn’t ask anyone, it was God’s gift to give, and He gave of HIMSELF, death on the cross for OUR sins. And that forgiveness is received in His Life. You cannot earn it, you cannot request it. You cannot plead with God to do it for you. He did it once for ALL, for ALL your sins at the cross, for ALL time, for ALL people, so that in Him, we might become the righteousness of God. Accept Jesus and His completed forgiveness at the cross and He will come to give you His Life through the Holy Spirit who will take up residence in your Life for ever and ever. He will constantly teach you TRUTH. And a reminder, Jesus is NEVER going to the cross ever again. “For without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.” So start proclaiming it loud and clear, “God was in Christ Jesus, reconciling the world to Himself, and is no longer counting anyone’s sins against them!”

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And a certain ruler asked Him, saying, “Good Teacher, having done what, will I inherit eternal life?”
And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good, except God alone.

~ “Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.” 1 John 5:12

~ Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; the one believing in Me, even if he should die, he will live. And everyone living and believing in Me shall never die, to the age. Do you believe this?” John 11:25,26
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We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves. Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. For even Christ did not please Himself, but as it is written: “The insults of those who insult You have fallen on Me.” For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

Now may the God who gives endurance and encouragement grant you harmony with one another in Christ Jesus, so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring glory to God. For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs, so that the Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy. As it is written:

“Therefore I will praise You among the Gentiles;

I will sing hymns to Your name.”

Again, it says:

“Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people.”

And again:

“Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles,

and extol Him, all you peoples.”

And once more, Isaiah says:

“The Root of Jesse will appear,

One who will arise to rule over the Gentiles;

in Him the Gentiles will put their hope.”

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, brimming with knowledge, and able to instruct one another. However, I have written you a bold reminder on some points, because of the grace God has given me to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Therefore I exult in Christ Jesus in my service to God. I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed, by the power of signs and wonders, and by the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.

In this way I have aspired to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation. Rather, as it is written:

“Those who were not told about Him will see,

and those who have not heard will understand.”

That is why I have often been hindered from coming to you.

But now that there are no further opportunities for me in these regions, and since I have longed for many years to visit you, I hope to see you on my way to Spain. And after I have enjoyed your company for a while, you can equip me for my journey.

Now, however, I am on my way to Jerusalem to serve the saints there. For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem. They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual blessings, they are obligated to minister to them with material blessings.

So after I have completed this service and have safely delivered this bounty to them, I will set off to Spain by way of you. I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.

Now I urge you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in my struggle by praying to God for me. Pray that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service in Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints there, so that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and together with you be refreshed.

The God of peace be with all of you. Amen. Romans 15:1-33

Pray to God:

Do you really want to know the WHOLE Truth of what is going on today?

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7

Lord Jesus, teach me the truth of the world today and give me the wisdom to know the truth and identify the lies of the devil. Thank you God.”

~ “And guys, how many times do we hear all you guys just preach cheap grace, as if Grace could cost a penny. This is what Paul preached. Paul didn’t preach the law. He preached the law to the lost, because that’s who the law was for, is the lost. But he preached grace, and that’s what he said, I my life, I consider it worth nothing to me. The only thing I’m concerned about is completing the task of testifying to the gospel of God’s grace, the gospel of his grace, the gospel of God’s mercy, of his kindness, of His goodness. To us, we had no option, folks, except to extend grace to us, because there’s not a one of us who could work hard enough to find ourselves acceptable in the sight of God. There’s no one that can clean yourself up and make yourself good enough to be acceptable in the sight of God, he had no option except to say, I have one goal, and that’s to testify to the gospel of God’s grace. And there’s many people who just don’t under want to understand this. They still want to say, Yeah, but there is no buts in grace. He’s not a billy goat. It’s just grace. Now what you do with that grace is up to you, but don’t negate the grace of God because of your preconceived notions about the grace of God. The grace of God doesn’t free you to go live like the devil. It frees you to be led into a path of righteousness. That’s what Titus says, is it not? It’s the grace of God that teaches us to say what? No to unrighteousness and to live self controlled, upright lives in this present generation, while we wait for the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. It isn’t the law of God that teaches you to say no to unrighteousness. The Law of God shows you you are unrighteous. Grace teaches you how to say no to it. How long does it take the grace of God to teach you and me to say no to all unrighteousness? As long as it takes. For me, over 70 years. How about for you? When Will God finish teaching you to say no to unrighteousness? When you’ve been taught, that’s when he’ll quit teaching you. And when you’ve been taught, then you’ll say grace taught me that until that you’re not taught, until that His provision will be there every day of your life. He will never stop teaching you. He’ll never stop being there for you. He’ll never stop his work of teaching you to say no to unrighteousness. Never will he ever stop that. He’ll never stop it till the day you die and you’re absent from the body and present with the Lord.” ~ Bob George

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And so when you read these things, you realize that he says, I consider my life worth nothing to me. Paul is saying, I know this danger is up ahead of me, but I consider my life worth nothing to me, If only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me, the task of testifying the gospel of God’s grace, and basically to the Gentile world, but also to the Hebrews, but basically to the Gentiles. Paul is saying, I’m not worried about my life here. The only thing that I’m concerned about at all is that this race that I’m in, I’ll be able to finish it. That’s all I’m concerned about. What happens after that? What happens in the meantime is irrelevant to me. I just want to finish the task. I want to finish the race that he said, finish the race that. And what is the task testifying to the gospel of God’s grace.

And guys, how many times do we hear all you guys just preach cheap grace, as if Grace could cost a penny. This is what Paul preached. Paul didn’t preach the law. He preached the law to the lost, because that’s who the law was for, is the lost. But he preached grace, and that’s what he said, I my life, I consider it worth nothing to me. The only thing I’m concerned about is completing the task of testifying to the gospel of God’s grace, the gospel of his grace, the gospel of God’s mercy, of his kindness, of His goodness. To us, we had no option, folks, except to extend grace to us, because there’s not a one of us who could work hard enough to find ourselves acceptable in the sight of God. There’s no one that can clean yourself up and make yourself good enough to be acceptable in the sight of God, he had no option except to say, I have one goal, and that’s to testify to the gospel of God’s grace. And there’s many people who just don’t under want to understand this. They still want to say, Yeah, but there is no buts in grace. He’s not a billy goat. It’s just grace. Now what you do with that grace is up to you, but don’t negate the grace of God because of your preconceived notions about the grace of God. The grace of God doesn’t free you to go live like the devil. It frees you to be led into a path of righteousness. That’s what Titus says, is it not? It’s the grace of God that teaches us to say what? No to unrighteousness and to live self controlled, upright lives in this present generation, while we wait for the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. It isn’t the law of God that teaches you to say no to unrighteousness. The Law of God shows you you are unrighteous. Grace teaches you how to say no to it. How long does it take the grace of God to teach you and me to say no to all unrighteousness? As long as it takes. For me, over 70 years. How about for you? When Will God finish teaching you to say no to unrighteousness? When you’ve been taught, that’s when he’ll quit teaching you. And when you’ve been taught, then you’ll say grace taught me that until that you’re not taught, until that His provision will be there every day of your life. He will never stop teaching you. He’ll never stop being there for you. He’ll never stop his work of teaching you to say no to unrighteousness. Never will he ever stop that. He’ll never stop it till the day you die and you’re absent from the body and present with the Lord.

nd then this flesh of ours, that’s our conflict point, will be disappeared, gone, and we’ll be in his presence, seeing him as he is, and become like him. That’s going to be a good day. It real good day when we can shed this flesh of ours, where it says, Even all nature groans for its redemption, and you and I struggle. Do we not in this body of ours, we struggle between right and wrong? Do we not? We know what right and wrong is, but do we not struggle with it, folks? And you see, you can get down and say, Well, I don’t commit adultery and I don’t steal and I don’t do those things, and we only get about three that we probably don’t do. And we just think we’re really good, and we forget about all the rest of it, coveting, lying, all of the things that we do every day in one form or another, and we get real proud about the things that we don’t do. Of course, we ignore the things that we do, but we get real proud over these things, and we and we kind of got our little categories, well, I’m really good in this and this and this, and we won’t talk about these. But the issue is, folks, that God doesn’t look at sin that way. He looks at sin as sin and there’s no numerical value on it. Sin is sin. And so I know people who have really in their life never done any of the biggies. They really haven’t. They’ve been they’ve been good in that respect. Now I don’t know a whole bunch of people like that, but I do know people like that. It. But yet, you talk to them, and if they know the Lord, do you, are they sitting there saying, I’m righteous? No, they said, huh, I got a thought life. I sometimes think evil things about people. I’m unforgiving sometimes. I’m jealous, I’m vindictive. I want to get even. You ever felt that way? I want to get even. I don’t get mad. I get even. All of those things. Those are all attitudes of the heart. Those are sinful attitudes that God has to work on us, does he not? And how long is he going to be working on us, teaching us to say no to these things? Until we’re taught, and until we’re absent from the body and present with the Lord.

So the Apostle Paul was saying here, guys, I only got one task, and that’s to teach and to testify the truth of this gospel of God’s marvelous grace toward us. And he said, now that I know that none of you among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom will ever see me again. He’s saying, this is the last time that you’ll look upon me on this earth. You’ll never see me again. And therefore, I declare to you today that I’m innocent of the blood of all men. Nobody can say you didn’t go tell people, for I have not hesitated to proclaim to you the whole will of God. And he’s saying I didn’t testify to you just the cross of Jesus. I testified to you the whole counsel of God. I taught you life. I taught you what Jesus did at the cross. I taught you the meaning of the resurrection. I taught you the meaning of Jesus going to be with his Father and sending you His Spirit to live in you. I’ve taught you the fullness of the gospel of Christ, Jesus. I’ve taught you things on how to live, on what is right and wrong in the way to live your life. I’ve taught you all these things, and I said, keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, be shepherds of the Church of God, which he bought with his own blood, you and I have been purchased. We’re in Christ, Jesus. We’ve been bought back from Satan. We’ve been bought back out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins, his blood paid for us to be who we are today. And I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. And he isn’t talking about foxes. He’s talking about people that he refers to as savage wolves, people who want to come in to destroy your freedom. There are always people who want to destroy your freedom and folks, again, Satan uses anger and fear to keep us away from the grace of God that Paul came to proclaim. And the only thing that Satan wants is for you not to understand the grace of God, and the way he does that. He puts you back under pieces of the law. And the law brings fear, and fear has to do with punishment, and a man who fears cannot be perfected in love. And so the only thing the old bigot, major weapon that Satan has towards you and me is to put fear in our hearts, and that keeps us away from the perfect love of God, and He does that every day. Paul refers to him as a savage Wolf. He said, even from your own number, men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them. And that is true to this very day, people will come in among your numbers, and they will begin to arise and distort the truth of the goodness of God in order to draw people away from the grace of God and to get them becoming followers of themselves.

And that happens, and it has happened, and it’ll continue to happen if you don’t watch out for the wolves. They’re always out there, always out there with your traditions, always out there with our little things that you need to be doing. They’re always there to try to pull you away from the joy of the grace of God. So it says, Be on your guard. Is that admonishment for us today, to be on our guard? Absolutely. I want to tell you, folks, when you come to Christ, and even as a new Christian, I will guarantee you you’re going to come in contact with people who are going to want to try to pull you away from just the simplicity that is found in Christ. They’re going to tell you that you need some kind of a gift in order to be holy. They’re going to tell you you need to speak in tongues in order to be filled with the Spirit. They’re going to tell you you need to be slain in the spirit in order to get up. You’re going to hear every kind of nonsensical thing in the world from some of the biggest television people in the world, that if you sit and listen to them, you’re going to go down a primrose path to Nowhere, because it’s not biblical. And if it isn’t in here, folks, it isn’t there. But you’ve got people out there wanting to draw you make converts out of you make tongue speakers out of you, make healers, out of you, make anything out of you, except a person who walks by faith in Christ. And there’s nothing wrong with the things I’m saying. I’m saying it’s the emphasis. You don’t put your emphasis on a gift. You put it on the giver. But that never happened. Says, Oh no, it’s a no. It is not on the giver. It’s on the gift. You know, I sat around talking about my gift, my spiritual gift, and all of y’all be teachers, because that’s my gift. And I know God loves me to bear you, but if you had my gift, you’d be okay, isn’t that nonsense? And so folks, we have to start thinking soberly. You don’t come to Christ to get giddy. You come to Christ. He said, to be sober minded, to think soberly and to think correctly. You can’t think soberly when you’re thinking giddily. There’s such a word. And that’s why he says, to get your mind where it belongs. Get your mind focused on the author. Get your mind focused on the giver. If there’s something down here, that’s fine, but that’s not the big deal. The big deal is Him.

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And there’s your problem, folks, is the emphasis, the emphasis you see, the Christian world knows as an example, Jesus was raised from the dead, but we don’t put an emphasis there. We put the emphasis on the cross, even though Paul said, without the resurrection, we’re to be pitied, of all people and are still in our sins. But we put the emphasis in wrong place. So we put the emphasis on what we’re doing instead of what he has done. And the minute you do that, you’re off. Are you not? And so he’s saying, You got to be on guard, guys. You got to guard your mind. And he said, remember that for three years, I never stopped warning each of you, day and night with tears. And a lot of times when you warn people, they get mad at you. But now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace. Here again, the word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance, inheritance among all those who are sanctified. Now again, guys sanctified does not mean you walk around with your Bible under your arm, with your head tilted and looking sick at your stomach. That is not what it means to be sanctified. The word sanctified is a very practical word it means to be used for the intelligent purpose for which God created you. That light bulb is being sanctified right now. It’s being used to create light in this room. If you have a wrist watch on and you’re looking to see what time it is which some of you I’ve seen doing, you are sanctifying your watch. You’re using it for the purpose for which it was created. You got shoes on, I’m grateful for that, and you’re sanctifying your shoes. You’re using them for the intent for which they were manufactured. That’s what Sanctification means. It doesn’t mean to walk around acting holy. It means to be who you are. If you’ve gone to medical school and have your degree, what do you do? Go be a doctor, then what are you doing, sanctifying yourself. You’re you’re doing what you were educated to do.

So he’s saying here, I commit to you, to God and to the word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance, inheritance among all of those who are set apart. Now, what sets us apart as Christians? What is it that sets us apart? First of all, who we’re in dwelt by, and that’s Jesus. Does that set you apart from the people who aren’t indwelt with Jesus? Absolutely. Then when you know the Word of God, does that set you apart from the world? The world doesn’t think like you. Am I right or wrong? And if the world ever starts thinking like you, you better check it out what you’re thinking, because I’ll guarantee you you’re not. You’re not thinking the thoughts of God, if the world and you are thinking alike. So you’re going to think different. Why are you going to think different? Because you know what truth is. Where did you learn it? From a Hebrew, from the Apostle Paul, from Peter, from the Word of God. Isn’t that great? And they taught us what truth is over and against error. And so we know what truth is. We can’t always obey truth. Can we, or do all of you obey truth 100%? I don’t think so. But we know what it is, don’t we? And that’s why, when you don’t obey truth, the Spirit of God lives in you, saying, uh oh, how many have ever had that? Lord said, Bob, what’d you do that for? You know? Or why are you thinking this? I mean, because what you do is a result of what you’re thinking. Why are you thinking with these dumb thoughts when I’ve given you my very mind inside of you, that you have the mind of Christ living in you, why are you thinking with your own mind when you could be thinking with mine? You know, it doesn’t make sense, does it? But do we do it? Do we? Yeah, that’s why he calls his sheep dumbest animal on the face of the earth. The leader goes walks over a cliff. They’ll just go walk right after him. We’re the same way, and that’s why he’s guarding us all the time. Be on your guard. You’ve got to guard folks. We have to guard our minds, because Satan is always there. Is he not bombarding our minds with error? You can’t watch television without finding out exactly what Satan is thinking, because most of it, it’s bombarding your mind with error. And if you don’t know what truth is, that’s the only thing you got to grab a hold of, is error, because you got to think something. And so we get our heads full of error, and then God has to come in and push all of that stuff out so the as you become a Christian, and you begin to renew your mind, which is what he says, Don’t be conformed to the world, but transformed by the renewing of the mind. The renewing of the mind is taking in truth, and when you take in truth, it pushes out the error. You suddenly realize, I cannot believe this and this.

When I first came to understand the grace of God. And I can remember Ed Hecht, and I because I was teaching this to the group of people in Bible study, and and all of a sudden I would hear him say something that was just dumb. And I’d say, Ed, did you hear what you just said? And he had looked and said, Yeah, that isn’t truth. Is it? No, it isn’t. And I felt so good about myself. Then about 10 minutes later, he’d said, you hear what you just said, Bob? And because I had a lot of legalistic not a lot of legalism, but I had legalism. And I had legalistic thoughts, some legalistic thoughts that came from my teaching in the denomination, and they were still there. They hadn’t been pushed out yet. And you know, guys, when you’re not really thinking, you’re just talking, you know how that goes.

I always think of a story that my dad told my dad was an attorney in Indiana, and people from Indiana are funny anyway, and you got some characters there. Maybe I’m one of them, I don’t know, but there was a lawyer there that they used to meet every Wednesday for lunch. All the lawyers would get together and just have fun together. And there was this one lawyer who had a brother who was, in fact, they were, they were two brothers at had a brother that was kind of simple minded, and he used to show up for the luncheons too. He loved to be around everybody. And so happened to my dad was going to have a trial against these two brothers, and so this kind of simple minded guy was sitting there, and he’s talking, and he said, you know, Franklin, he said, you don’t have a chance of winning that trial, Franklin, my dad, my dad said, Well, that’s interesting. Why do you say that? Well, he said, it’s real simple. And he said there’s two of them, only one of you. Dad said, Well, what’s that got to do with it? Oh he said that’s very simple. He said, When clams up and talking, Jeb sitting there thinking. And when Jeb is up at talking, Clem sitting there thinking, but when you’re up at talking, there ain’t nobody thinking. So that’s kind of the way we are. We talk a lot of times, and maybe there isn’t anybody thinking.

But you know, when you’re really not thinking and you’re talking, you just drag up what you’ve been taught. And that’s exactly that’s why you can hear guys ministers who really have started getting a real good grasp on the grace of God, but they still got a bunch of garbage in there. And we’ll preach about a 20 minute marvelous message on Grace, one of the best you’ve ever heard, and then negate it in last five minutes. Have you ever heard that? All they’re doing is just digging up their old teaching? And they’ve thought through part of it, but they didn’t think through the last part of it. So they just rely upon what they rely upon. And so I’ve told people, and I said, You’ve got to squeeze, like you squeeze all the tooth paste out of a tube. You’ve got to squeeze it all out. And I think that’s what God’s in the process of doing, is just squeezing out the law that’s in there and the error that’s in your head. He just has to squeeze that out until there’s nothing left. That takes time, but that’s his goal for you and me, is to push out the error so that we can be sanctified, set apart by what we know to be true and proponents of what we know to be true.

So he says, Be on guard. Remember that for three years, I never stopped warning each of you, day and night with tears, and now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified. I have not coveted anyone’s silver or gold or clothing. You yourself know that these hands of mine have supplied my own needs and the needs of my companions, and in everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work, we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus himself when he said it’s more blessed to give than to receive.

Now, folks, there again, Jesus said it’s more blessed to give than to receive. We kind of have a philosophy. It’s more blessed to receive than to give, don’t we, and we talk about what all of God has done for us and this type of thing. But are we givers and and I’m not talking about just financial givers. Are we givers of ourselves to people? Do we reach out to help people. Do? Do we have that attitude that if somebody’s in trouble or go to them to help them, that if I know that somebody’s hurting, do I want to be a comfort to them? And I know a lot of people like that that have been given that gift of servitude, and if you and I will observe them and watch them, we will learn from them how to use that gift. We may not have that gift, but the reason God gives gifts to the body of Christ is to encourage the body of Christ and so that we can learn from one another. You may not have the gift of teaching, but if you listen to someone who does, you will learn how to teach the Word of God to others. Even though you may not have the gift, you will be able to communicate it. I may not have the gift of giving, but if I will observe someone with the gift of giving and watch the faithfulness of God in their lives as they are giving, I can begin to look at that and say, I think I can step out a little bit in faith and become a giver. If I see someone who has the gift of encouragement, and that’s the opposite of having someone with the gift of discouragement, that I can watch people with the gift of encouragement and see the benefit of their gift to the body of Christ, to see how this person with this gift of encouragement, what it does to the body, and how it builds up the body and it makes people feel good, and begin to say, you know, I need to learn from that person, because all of those gifts are necessary. And the reason God gives a special gift to each and every one of you is to use that for the purpose of the body being able to observe you, not only be blessed by you, but observe you and learn how to function with that gift. And so it’s an attitude of reaching out to people, of when a person is hurting, hurt with them. And a lot of times, God uses experiences that we have to bring compassion. Many of you have been through terrible trials and tribulations in your life. Am I right or wrong on that you’ve been through things, and we’ve been through things that we hope nobody knows about except God, and we’ve been through things that we’re ashamed of. Am I right or wrong? Can’t can? Is there anyone in here that’s never done anything to be ashamed of? No hands. I guess that puts us all. I think we all can catch I think we can all put Bob. Did you have some? Did you have somebody except, except George? Pointing at George, yeah, but we all are in that category. And the issue is we can either look at that like a woe is me, or we can look at that is God has built compassion in me. Some of you have been through some terrible crisis with the death of loved ones, or whatever it might be, and you’ve been comforted by the grace of God. Why did he do that? Well, number one, he wanted to comfort you, but number two, he doesn’t want you to stop there. He wants you to be a comfort to others who are going through the same problems as you’ve gone through. Because who’s going to be in a better position to reach out with that kind of comfort than someone who’s been through it.

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