We Are the Lord's — Leonard Ravenhill

We Are the Lord's

Paul to the Romans chapter 14. I woke up yesterday morning and after a little meditation this strange thought came to my mind, perhaps you've never thought of it, but I wondered if Satan had made any New Year's resolutions.

And after I thought of that I made up my mind that if he had, he hadn't got one good one for me. And he hasn't got one good one for you. If he made any New Year's resolutions it was to harass us, tempt us, try us, set up every roadblock he can on the on the way to the spiritual heights.

And as far as in his power bring us discouragement and doubt and everything that's on the dark side of life. Well I thought that for a few minutes and then I suddenly tossed the bedclothes off one side and ran into my office.

Living as the Lord's Possession

Because this word came to my mind out of this 14th chapter in the epistle to the Romans. Verse 8, for whether we live we live unto the Lord and whether we die we die unto the Lord. Whether we live therefore or die we are the Lord's.

Now there's nothing profound about that is there? Yes there is. Because you see it doesn't say we were the Lord's. It doesn't say we shall be when we die. It says right now in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation with all the forces of hell against us we are the Lord's.

And I think when you do get up in the morning whatever time whether it's six or twelve or three or I don't know but whenever you get up I'd suggest what someone told to me about forty years ago that you lean your elbows on the windowsills of heaven and gaze upon the Lord and then with that vision in your heart go forth to meet the day and serve notice on the devil that whatever's coming up the road I am the Lord's.

Don't you forget it, I won't forget it and I won't let anybody else forget it. I'm the Lord's, He's redeemed me. I am according to His word His peculiar possession. Now if I'd stopped there and said I'm peculiar you'd have all nodded your heads but I went on and finished the text.

I am His peculiar possession. Now I don't know how or why men rate the Word of God as they do but you know there are some people, Campbell Morgan for instance, Dr. G. Campbell Morgan said the epistle of the Romans to the Romans is doctrinally to the New Testament what your spine is to your body.

It holds the whole of the New Testament together. It's not perfectly true but others say well it's the Mount Everest of spiritual revelation. Somebody has said very daringly that every revival since Pentecost has found its source, has risen out of a newly discovered truth that's been hidden there in the book of the Revelation.

Martin Luther did not invent the doctrine of justification, it had been smothered over with false doctrine and he found it and he propagated it. And the second side of the coin was that Wesley rediscovered the doctrine of sanctification.

Sanctification and the School of Silence

Now there are some who try to write that off and say well sanctification just means separate for a holy use, that's not true. The disciples were already separated for a holy use, they'd given up business careers, they'd given up fame and fortune and home.

And yet he says wait until ye be endued with power from on high. Jesus is praying for them who have left all and followed him, sanctified and through thy truth, thy word is truth, it means more than that.

But it was not an invention of John Wesley's, it was a rediscovered truth. Now the scripture here begins in the first verse, him that is weak in faith. I personally don't think that could ever be applied to the Apostle Paul, he seems to me to be a Samson in every area, intellectually, morally, spiritually.

I don't think there was a weak spot in his armor. You see, he had the privilege of going again to the famous university where God takes his great men, the school of silence. Moses was there 40 years, I don't know whether he flunked his lessons and had to stay there that long, but he was there for, now that's a pretty long time.

And there were quite a number of others. After all his heroic achievements, shutting up heaven, all the other things, God says to his servant, Elijah, go hide thyself. I think very often we overlook the fact that God was shaping his own son, Jesus Christ, for 30 years.

I don't know when Jesus became conscious of his ministry, nobody does. Some people say, well, when he was 12 years of age and went to the temple, well that could be it. He did say, wish ye not that I must be about my father's business.

But if so, then from 12 until he was 30 years of age, there was that blank period in his life when he preached, as far as we know, his preaching was nil and he did no miracle, and he just waited in obedience to his father.

And then again you get the Apostle Paul saying the same thing that when God revealed himself to him, he sent him into the wilderness. Maybe for about three and a half years. But you see, there's a discussion here and not only a discussion, there's some disagreement.

Christian Liberty, Faith, and Legalism

Paul is writing to the church in Rome. I don't know what kind of a church it was. I would imagine in a great cosmopolitan city like that, they had a thousand problems. But you discover in here, in the immediate surrounding of the text I've given you, that we are the Lords, that there's dissension about meats and about drinking and about keeping of certain days.

A danger of hanging on to legalism. Now, what you notice here, in this 14th, pardon me, 14th chapter verse 1 he says this, him that is weak in faith. You notice that? Not everybody has the same measure of faith.

If you go back to the previous chapter, verse 6 in chapter 12, he says at the end of it, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith. You see, faith is one of two things, only two, that are a gift of the Spirit and a fruit of the Spirit.

The fruits of the Spirit are what? Love, joy, peace, gentleness, goodness, meekness, temperance and faith. And he gave to one the gift of faith. And you remember perhaps that Paul writing to the Thessalonians says, I pray night and day exceedingly, that I may see your face and get you all healed, so you'll all be happy and have plenty of work and come to church and pay your tithes.

He doesn't say that, he says, I pray night and day, not for a lost world here, I'm praying night and day that I may see your face and supply that which is lacking in your faith. And then he begins the second epistle to the Thessalonians, the first chapter about verse 3, and he says, I'm rejoicing because your faith growth exceedingly.

Faith That Works Through Obedience

I've said often to young people when I'm talking to them, my muscles are hard to find, because I've never felt trees, I've never done anything with bars and lifting weights, and so my muscles are not developed.

Well you might say, Sandow, he was once the strongest man in the world, that's a wonderful thing on building your body, how to put 2 inches on your biceps, 4 inches on your chest, 6 inches on your calves, build yourself up.

Hey, you read this book, I'm going away for 2 years, read it, I'll be back. The man comes back and I say, hey, I've got your book here, take it with you. He says, Ravenel, I don't think your chest's an inch bigger than good night, your arms are not, you don't look a bit different.

I say, no, I've never read a more stupid book in your life, in my life. You've read it through? Read it, I've memorized it. I can tell you what's in chapter 3, chapter 5, chapter 7. As a matter of fact, every night when I finish work, I put my feet up on a chair and I take a bottle of coke and a bag of Fritos, and I've read it and memorized it.

He says, you have? I say, yes. And you've done all the exercise? You didn't tell me to do the exercise, you said, read the book, it'll change your life. Now that's what we expect about reading the Bible, isn't it?

Just read it, you'll become a saint, you won't, you might become more dumb than you've been. He that doeth, huh? Not just hearing, but doing the will of God, doing the word of God. You see, we've got so afraid of works that we think, man, it's almost sinful to talk about works.

All right, you're talking about faith, read the 4th chapter of Romans, isn't it all about that wonderful man, Abraham was such a giant in faith. Yes, it is. And you say he was justified by faith. Yes, he was, if you read what Paul says.

No, he wasn't, if you read what James says. He says, Abraham was justified by works. If your faith doesn't work, why in the world should anybody believe you? Faith without works is dead. I had a friend, had a motorcycle, it was always breaking down, and he said to me, boy, I don't know what to call this thing, I keep kicking the tires, it won't go.

I said, well, call it faith. He said, why? Because if it's without works, it just wouldn't go. Well, a lot of people have an experience like that. It's faith, but it has no works. Now, I'm not going to regiment the works that you have to do, or anyone else.

But you know, we always think of faith as something so dazzling. You know, through faith they subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness. Oh, that's an exciting chapter, Hebrews 11, isn't it? How many millions of people, of God's people on this earth right now, do you think walk every week by faith in a situation that may be as dark as hell, it's not spectacular, there's no showmanship about it.

It's just solid obedience, and sometimes blind obedience. Let me give you an example. Here's a young lady whose daddy's pretty wealthy, and she's just got her hair all nice, and done all the things that ladies do, and she's going there into this gorgeous tent where she lives, and a man comes along and says, hey, just a minute, and he starts talking to her, and she runs in and says, daddy, I'm going to get married.

You're going to, what? Well, the prince I've always dreamed of, he's sent for me, and he's very wealthy, and I'm going. Oh, come sweetheart, sit down, I mean, I know you're getting older, but you sit down, let's talk.

Now, who is this man? Which man? Well, first of all, the man that told you to go with him, do you know him? No. Oh. And who's the man you're going to marry, do you know him? No. Oh. Do you know where he lives?

No. Is he unemployed? I don't know. Oh, we just swallow it. Rebecca got her a camel and she followed it. Would you have done it? You said no, good for you. This young lady said no. She's already got her man tied up anyhow, but, what would you do?

No, we swallow it. You see, if it said lightning came from heaven and paralyzed her arm, and said, if you'll obey me, when you get to the tent of your loved one, your arm will be restored, she would have gone.

But no dove descended upon her. The earth didn't swallow up that part of the land that she owned in her daddy's estate. Her darling girl just said, alright. I don't know why I feel like this, but, you know what, I've got real faith.

I really believe this is an answer to prayer, I really believe I should go with you. And she sets off on the journey, she says, I'm not going to ask you how many days we have to travel, I'm not going to ask you if the man is tall, if he's blond, if he's rich, if he's poor.

No, no, no. Of course he did show her, after she agreed to go, he showed her a few gifts. That wouldn't satisfy most of us, would it? If somebody came along and said, look, I'll give you a check for a hundred thousand dollars, it's a down payment, and my master sent it for you.

You see, faith can be just as unspectacular as that. It just walks in complete quiet confidence that this is the will of God for me. Now, he's talking here again, as we get on in this story, he's talking here about the weak and about the strong, he that eateth and he that doesn't eat, and he that despises the man that doesn't eat, and he that criticizes the man that does eat.

Food, Conscience, and Christian Liberty

Oh my! This isn't an isolated instance. You see, it says there are some, in verse 2 it says, one believeth he may eat all things, another who is weak eateth herbs. Not herb, not our herb, herbs. He eateth herbs, we say in England.

We put an H on it, you don't, but that's what it is. He that eateth herbs. Now, man never ate meat until after the fall. There are lots of Christians who won't eat meat, they just categorize us with cannibals.

What in the world do you eat dead cows for, dead horses, dead chickens? The sustaining power to Adam in his earliest days, chapter 1 of Genesis makes it quite clear, God says, I've given you herbs for meat.

Some of the healthiest people in the world are vegetarians. They've balanced out their diet. Now, I'm not saying either here or there. But I'm saying this, that there were some who insisted that, if you're going to be really spiritual, you just have to eat herbs.

Don't eat meat. You don't eat anything with blood. You see, further in the chapter you'll discover, it says that they were observing certain days, and some were not observing it. Now, I'm convinced in my own mind, that if we obeyed the dietary laws of the Old Testament, we'd be ten times healthier than we are.

Particularly if you start doing that with your children when they're young. I think we still have a book, I hope we have. None of these diseases, we have it. You should read it. I still believe that swine's flesh, I eat a bit now and again, but I still believe that swine's flesh, crabs, lobster, all that stuff that God has said, as not to be eaten in the Old Testament, we'd be a thousand times healthier if we didn't eat it.

Because God never said anything in vain. Now, it doesn't mean that by keeping those laws, you're more righteous than somebody else. You know, sometimes we despise, I heard preachers say, Oh, you forget the Pharisees.

Self-righteous bunch that they were. Jesus didn't beat them up for being self-righteous in that sense. They weren't beaten up for being self-righteous, they were beaten up for living on their self-righteousness, and believing it made them independent of some of the things of God.

What's wrong with being righteous? What's wrong with being right? Here's a big fine fellow going up into church. Okay, the scripture says, two men went up into the temple to pray. That's alright, I wish more went up to the temple.

The big one went up to the front, he always wanted attention. And he not only went up to the temple and up to the front, he lifted his eyes to heaven, and he lifted up his voice to heaven, and he let everybody in the synagogue know, Father, here I am, once again, finest specimen you have on earth.

Lord, two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee, the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, Lord, I thank thee that I am not as other men are. Well, I thank God for that every day.

I'm glad I'm not in jail. I'm glad I'm not a sex pervert. I'm glad I'm not a victim of lady nicotine, or tobacco, or vice. There are some things I'm mighty proud and thankful to God I'm not in. I thank God I'm not as other men are.

Extortioners? Man, life would be a lot easier for us if there were less extortion around. Putting wrong prices on some of the land that's been sold and it's faked and so forth. Not only extortioners, unjust.

There's nobody works for me, can say that I extract too much from it. Fine. And this is what he said, I'm not an extortioner, unjust, not an adulterer, that's more than a lot of preachers can say right now and deacons.

What's wrong with being right? The thing was, he thought it made him stand head and shoulders above everybody else, but no, no, no, it did not do that at all. But Jesus says, accept your righteousness, exceed, go beyond the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees, you're in trouble.

Judging Others and the Limits of Liberty

Now some people have seized all of this chapter to do just what they like. It says very clearly here, but notice, let's read it from verse 3. Let not him which eateth despise him that eateth not, and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth, for God hath received him.

Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? To his own master he standeth or falleth. Now that text has helped me a thousand times in my life. It's one of my key quotes. To his own master he stands or falls.

If that man doesn't have light on that thing that I have, well God will do it and I'm not going to hammer him to his own master, he standeth or falleth. The context says that there are some days that seem to others.

Verse 5, one man esteemeth another day, one day above another, another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. Right, we've got liberty to do as we like. If you want to spend and do as you like on the Sabbath day, it's up to you.

It says so in this, it doesn't say anything of the kind. Now I guarantee if we opened a bookshop on Sundays and said, look you can buy and sell and come here. I guarantee half the churches in town would raid us for it.

They'd say, you're breaking the Sabbath? You don't buy and sell on Sundays? This is wrong. And the same people who condemn us, would stop as they go out to Mayfields and pick up sugar and butter and all the other things that they didn't have to have, they could have got yesterday.

But you see we strain at naps and swallow camels. It says that one man esteemeth another day. Alright, now look up verse 6. It explains the whole thing. He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord.

And he that regardeth not the day to the Lord, he does not regard it. You see what he's saying? If I keep this day, I'm not keeping it because legalistically I think I'm more holy. I'm keeping it because there's only one commandment in which God says remember.

And that's remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. God laid heavy penalties on Israel because they broke the Sabbath. Isaiah 58 I think it is or 59 says, that you're to withdraw your foot from the Sabbath from doing your pleasure on my holy day.

If I regard this day, I regard it as unto the Lord. The other man does not regard it and so he does not regard it unto the Lord. It isn't that he has a right to do what he likes. But the very fact he disregards it, he's not disregarding it because the church says so.

He's not disregarding it because of a certain legal institution. He's disregarding it unto God. He's telling God you're not having your way in my life. I'll do as I like on this day. Now, when I was a kid people used to talk about Salvatarianism.

We lived maybe a mile and a half from church. My father and mother would not put their foot on a streetcar on a Sunday if you crowned them. And I can remember going, you know in England you wear little short trousers up here.

Boy, when I got to church my knees were this color, with the frost. They used to look at my dad with his long trousers on and think, yeah, your knees are covered, I'm shivering. And I'd sit with my hands like this, oh.

And my legs would be wet because we didn't have rubber boots in those days. Oh, we'd be soaking wet. But I never rebelled against it. It was a discipline in my life. We were taught that you observe the Sabbath day.

Well, you say some scripture makes it clear you can do certain things on a Sabbath day. Somebody said to a man who kept the Sabbath, well, there's nothing wrong in pulling your ox out of the pit on the Sabbath day, is there?

He said, no, unless it fell in on Saturday. It's amazing how many things are convenient on a Sabbath day, isn't it? I noticed where a preacher said he's going to write to some of these drug companies that sell, you know, these magic things that will cure you.

He said, I want to tell you something, they only work Mondays through Fridays. They don't work Sunday. Everybody gets a cold on Sunday. Can't go to church today, I've got a cold. Oh, they'll have a cold Monday, but they'll go.

But how convenient it is. Well, it doesn't matter much. No, no, no. Look, if somebody stayed here out of this fellowship today for any other reason than that God himself told them to, they shortchanged God, not me.

I've preached to you the best I know how, if there's only two here. You won't have me. First, you'll shortchange God. Secondly, you'll shortchange yourself. Because if God wants you here, he had something for you.

And if you miss it, you won't pick it up next time you come to church. No, sir, that won't happen. But you see, they have become bound. Oh, it's not the only time. You remember Paul asked to talk to young Timothy because they're putting him under pressure about eating and drinking.

And Paul writing to the Corinthians says in chapter 8, verse 8. But meat commendeth us not to God. If it did, some of us would be standing well, wouldn't we? But meat commendeth us not to God. Neither if we eat are we better, neither if we eat not are we the worse.

But he that taketh less by any means, this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to them that are weak. Now again, there are things you could do perhaps. And you say, it wouldn't trouble me. But that's not the secret of living before God.

You see, Paul says some things are lawful, but they're not expedient. Paul says, look, if eating meat causes another brother to be offended, I won't eat meat as long as I live. Now that guy's pretty desperate about guiding another man in spirit.

I don't want to become an offense in anything. Somebody says, well, I went to see a certain movie. Somebody else says, I've heard them say, well, I never go to a movie house because it might be a stumbling block.

Somebody else may see me and do this and that. Well, you can't live in bondage to everybody. Sure, you can't live in bondage to anybody. But you see, if I begin to get a little disturbed in this, that I'm spending too much money on that or too much time on that or too much something, well, let me take care because I might become a stumbling block to a weaker brother.

It's not how it affects me, it's how it affects somebody else in the body that I'm concerned about. And so, perhaps you remember, but Paul says later on, right into the Corinthians, Whatsoever ye do in word or in deed do all.

Boy, that's a big word. I spoke on it once, I don't know what I said. But one young man, reputedly one of the most brilliant men in America today, it got through to him, and he sent me a piece of walnut, just about five by five, I think, and all it has on is A-L-L, all.

I have it on the wall in my office, I think. And he said, that got through to me, all. Isn't it? No. You try and read the New Testament without that word in, it's a strange book. Things work together for good.

No, no, no, all things. What? Now listen, Paul was never in the jam I'm in now. He'd never have written that. No, and you were never in the jam he was in ten thousand times either. I'd rather go for it that Paul had more trouble, and perplexity, and persecution, and heaviness, and despondency, and difficulties, and all the bunch of us put together.

But he said, all things work together. Our brother was praying earlier, in the first part when we were praying as a bed, and he was saying that even Madeleine Mary, the very fact she mentions Jesus Christ, disturbs some people.

Carter said a silly thing in the Playboy magazine, but he let the whole world know the standard of Jesus Christ on a man who thinks about a woman and lusts after her. The world didn't know it. And preachers didn't say it anymore.

So, I nearly said a dumb man, no. A man said it, in a silly situation, and the whole world began to ask questions. Isn't this the secret of it all? After all, read this chapter. It says in verse 6, He that regardeth the day, regardeth it, what?

Unto the Lord. Right after that, he says, He that eateth, eateth to the Lord. He that giveth thanks. And he that eateth not unto the Lord, eateth not, and giveth God not thanks. So whatever I do in word or in deed, in my actions, I do it as unto Him.

Spiritual Self-Examination and Discipline

Again, the question is at the end of every day. I don't know if you take stock of yourself. I've often said if women jumped on the scales, as much to see how much they're increasing in spirituality as they do on the scales.

Oh, I've gained half an ounce. Oh, it's a tragedy. Oh, I've gained half an ounce. Oh, I'll have to watch this. I'll have to cut this. But what if we all stood on the scales every day and measured ourselves and weighed ourselves spiritually?

You know, it's so easy to be hard on others and generous on yourself. Because you understand yourself, at least you think you do, I doubt it, if any of us do. But we think we understand ourselves, we don't understand the other person.

And as Shakespeare once said, It's always easier to bear the other man's toothache. You don't have it. But notice this, again now verse 7, he says, You know, sometimes we think the only way to straighten children out is with thundering at them.

Shouting this, do that, don't do that. Oh, I can remember one time in my life I wondered where my mother got all the donuts from. Not if they'd been donuts, I'd have been as big as a barrel. It was, don't this, and don't that, and don't the other.

And then one day she took me and I had a real counseling session, it did me a world of good. You know, my dad and mum never knew how many times I watched them. They didn't know how often I opened the bedroom door when I, we, we, we, I slept up on the second loft and they didn't know how often I listened to what was going on downstairs either.

There's nothing ever to be ashamed of. You see, the scripture again says, we are his workmanship. Again, I ask you, what's your goal for this year? You know, some people are killing themselves to try and get the world saved.

And I was reminded today of, somebody came in the office when I was with Dave Wilkerson and said certain things, and Dave says, Brother, look, I want to tell you something. I can't get the whole world saved, but I'll do as much as I can for the Lord.

There's not much I can do the size of this world. But wait a minute, what is the first purpose of God in your life? You're redeemed, what's his purpose? Oh, Acts 1 .8, that's service, service. No, no, no, no, you missed it, Brother.

Well, I remember a group who used to say every time they testified, oh, it's tough, but you know, I'm hanging on, I'm hanging on, I'm going to make it, I'm going to make it. You're going to make heaven anyhow.

You may get there blistered and bruised and baffled and bewildered, but Brother, you're going to make it if you're redeemed. He didn't save you to go to heaven, he didn't save you to be a witness. What did he save me for?

That I may be conformed to the image of his Son, that's what for. I hadn't read Malachi to the last part of it for a while, I read it this morning, I read it yesterday. Do you know what he says? It's beautiful, made me feel so precious.

He says, he's going to take care of me and count me when he makes up his jewels. Isn't that nice? You may be nobody else's jewel, but you're his jewel anyhow. When he makes up his jewels? The Queen of England came to the bicentenary meeting, I was going to say, celebration in July.

Holiness Under Pressure

And I saw a picture of her the other day, we were waiting I think for a little thing done on the car. I picked up the magazine, it showed her in her royal robes and it said, the most illustrious visitor to our shores in 1976, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth.

She had a gorgeous crown on. It had something round the edge, plastic, oh no, pardon me. What was it, cotton wool? No, no, no. Do you know what she had? She had a little strip of ermine about an inch wide.

Just round her crown. Because ermines aren't as big as cows. They're not even as big as rats. It's one of the slenderest, little, most precious thing. And do you know how they catch them? They wait till they run out to eat.

And then they take a lot of dirt and slime and they smear it over the hole that the ermine has to go in. And as soon as that ermine comes, it won't go in. It won't soil itself. It's not easy to catch it.

You can sit there with a net and just pounce it on the little thing, you've got it. It won't defile itself. Remember three Hebrew children would not defile themselves with the king's meat. We're precious in his sight, sure.

But everything that makes up his crown and in his kingdom is precious. Why, the word of God says we're redeemed with precious blood. In Scotland they have an old sheepskin. And when the king said that the preachers were to do this and do that, they rebelled against it.

And every man, as they stretched the sheepskin out on the table, he had to sign it. Some men slit their own fingers and wrote with their own blood. They put their names there. They still have it in Scotland.

There isn't a bank in the world could buy it. It's the most precious thing in Scotland. Why, it's signed with the blood of those covenanters. Who not only covenanted but did die for the sake of Christ.

I understand there's a little piece of a girl's dress. Maybe worth a dollar. Maybe not worth that up in Washington or in Smithsonian Museum. And there's a brown stain on it. Why is it there? Is it worth something?

No, no, no, no. Queen wore it. I don't know the name of the girl who did. But as they carried Abram Lincoln out of that theater when he had been shot, his blood soiled the dress of the little girl. It's a national treasure.

Why? No good. Can't do anything with it. You couldn't take it out and use the blood for something. It's no good for a child. Bad. It's symbolic of something. Possibly the greatest man that America ever had in the eyes of some people.

A little guy that I remember as a boy seeing a picture of him lying on his tummy with a shovel and a piece of a charcoal stick trying to write. Your boy won't have to do that. Your girl, you'll have to buy them a calculator to go to school before long.

They're not even teaching them to reckon in some schools now. You have to take compulsory. You have to take a calculator. So when we were in a place a while ago, the machine broke down and the girl just sat on the counter.

My wife said, well, could we go please? We're on the road. Could we? Can't do anything. Machine's broken down. My wife said, well, can't you reckon it up? I mean, I can reckon it. No, I'm not reckoning it up.

It wasn't that she couldn't. I think she wouldn't. I think it was she couldn't. Oh, you know. Nobody, nobody, nobody. And I don't care what class of it. You can put it in the spiritual realm, the spiritual realm, the psychological realm, the mental realm.

The man that has it easy never makes it. Life is a battle from A to Z. It was for the Son of God, wasn't it? Every time you feel having a raw deal, read, what does it say in Hebrews? He, he, he, the spotless, holy Son of God learned obedience by what?

By the things that he suffered. Suffered? Oh, that doesn't mean somebody chops your ear off. But you see, it's pressures, it's difficulties. It's the challenge that comes. This is a text we need to remember.