Grace — G.W. North

We'll turn to scripture anyway, and let the Lord speak to our hearts. In Peter, chiefly, I want to stay, perhaps all the time, in his two epistles really, but not to spend much time in the second, but just to remind you of what he says in the last verse of the second epistle.

Growing in Grace

I expect that you know this and could quote it, the last verse of Peter's second epistle, but grow in grace, and in the Lord, grow in grace. And what a marvellous thing this is, beloved. It's a wonderful way to end up a letter, isn't it?

And of course, really, I suppose that Peter had got to the place where he couldn't really think of much else but this great grace of God to him, and not only to him, but to us all. It's a wonderful thing, you know, to grow in grace, and of course, you can't grow out of it.

You know that, don't you? You get out of grace, and you won't grow. You can only grow in grace. Paul had to remind the Galatians, if you remember this, at the end of the third chapter, the second chapter, he had to remind them that they'd fallen from grace.

They'd fallen from grace. And of course, there'd be no growth. There'd only been a tremendous crash, and there'd been a smashing up of everything. And so I want to come with you then into this marvellous first letter of Peter, and it may surprise you to know that the word grace is used almost as much by Peter in this little epistle as anywhere else in any other book of the Bible.

There aren't many books in the Bible where the word grace, or its connoted words, are used more than in this lovely epistle. And I suppose also then, it may not surprise you either, that the word suffering is really the key word to the epistle.

The word suffering. I remember when I spent a time in Maidstone Jail, for conscience sake, this epistle was very wonderful to me, for I was suffering for conscience sake, a little more than conscience sake, but so far as the world was concerned, it was conscience sake, it was the direct word of God to me, and to me you can't speak opposites, but there it is.

And I knew what it was to be in this position. And God opened this epistle to me those years ago, and therefore it's been a precious one to me since. Grace. Are you surprised if you read a verse like this, say, in the fifth chapter of this first epistle?

Verse 10. The God of all grace. Amen. Well, that's right. If He's the God of grace, He's the God of all grace. And that's a wonderful thing. And He's all a God of grace. He's marvellous. The truth about grace, David, is that it's so wonderful, so many-hued, many-sided, it has heights, lengths, depths, and breadths, and it's applied to so many things, that these early men and women of God, they could speak like this, the God of all grace.

There was grace sufficient in God for everything. Amen. Everything, beloved, there's grace in God for everything. Not just everything that He has to do and say, but everything that happens to you, or what you have to do.

Oh, grace is a marvellous, marvellous quality in God. You know, it's rather stupid sometimes if we get over-analytical in our thinking and we isolate something like a word, like grace or righteousness or something else, and we go in for great analysis of it, and we set it out all beautifully for the mind, and then we turn to something else, and we analyse that as though that's something different, whereas there's nothing different about any of the characteristics of God.

They're all one thing, but it's only an application of the whole along one certain line. If you're going to talk about righteousness, you can't leave out love, you can't leave out grace, you can't leave out truth, you can't leave out anything.

Here's one of the tragedies of over-stimulation of the mind along the lines of mere teaching in college or school or university. It tends to do that sort of thing. God is a wonderful whole, and beloved, everything of God is poured into grace.

It's the application, the concentration of all God, all his love, all his power, everything. He's just simply wonderful. I know that hymn didn't get to the top of the pops because it was a hymn about grace, it simply was a tune caught on.

Amazing grace. But when it was written, beloved, it didn't have that tune because that tune is an American tune and it was written by an Englishman, very much an Englishman. And he didn't know that tune, it's just the tune that's caught on, that's all.

I only know it's an American tune, I'll tell you how I know some time ago when it was, my wife and I went for a holiday in Bournemouth, and you know that Bournemouth is a very wonderful place. They provide free entertainment, you can listen to the band.

And so we listened to a military band. They have some uses. Not to pep up armies, that's their wrong use, it's the wrong use of music. Any more than to pep up dancers, that's the wrong use of music too.

Tambourines are good enough for anybody to dance to, we'll ask Miriam, we'll see her one day. But the whole thing about it, beloved, is that he announced this, this bandmaster, he said he'd scoured everywhere and he'd discovered this was an American tune.

That's how I happened to know that. But the words were written by this great man of God, John Newton, who found out grace, so amazed him. I don't know whether it amazes you, I don't know whether you've really tasted, drank deeply, experienced richly of this great grace of God.

I wonder if you have. It's very hard for us to get out of our legalistic thinking. We just don't understand this great grace of God. Sometimes I wonder whether they understood more about it than the Old Testament.

Although if you, say, pick up a Young's or a Strong's Concordance, and you run down the references to grace, you'll find there are very few references to grace in the Old Testament. But even though there aren't many references to grace in the Old Testament, we're told these marvellous things about it.

Grace in the Old Testament and the Law

Moses, for instance, who wrote the first five books of the Bible, and was the man of law, and we call it the Mosaic law, it was he who said that Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Noah found grace.

And you may also remember that Moses wrote about himself. If now I have found grace in thy sight, he wrote. And it wasn't that grace didn't exist in God before the coming of the Lord Jesus, because we read in the New Testament that the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Because they didn't write much about it, it's simply because they were under a legal system. That's why. And everything in them was based on a law which spoke of equations, you see. Equality, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

That was the basis of it all. Always law. And I'm so thrilled, beloved, that I come under a different law. It's the law of our Lord Jesus Christ. If I take somebody's eye, then Jesus Christ would give me his.

You know, to replace that eye with. I haven't got to do anything about it. You get in what I'm saying to you. I don't mean literally knocking people's eyes out. But what I am trying to say is this. It isn't because the law has changed, it's because that Jesus Christ has fulfilled it.

So God doesn't say to me an eye for an eye now. He says, I've already got my eye, it's Jesus Christ. You see, that's why you haven't got to supply it. You understand that, don't you? It isn't the tooth for a tooth, I've already got my teeth now.

In Jesus Christ. Does that sound funny to you? I'm only speaking of the exact basis of equality. There must be equality. That's why Jesus Christ had to come. Pay the debt. Shed the blood. Cry his cries.

Oh, he just had to do it. He just had to do it. But you see, he hadn't come in the old days at all. But nevertheless, men here and there we read of in the scripture, they found grace. Why did they find it?

Because it was there to find. It was there to find. It was always there. But you see, in the New Testament, here's the great change. I haven't got to go searching to find grace. The New Testament, beloved of our Lord Jesus Christ, is a revelation of grace abundant, poured out without measure.

I haven't got to find it. It finds me. I haven't got to go seeking it out. It seeks out me. This is the marvel of the grace of God. Oh, beloved, what God wants us to do is to yield up to this glorious grace.

The Prophets Proclaimed Grace to Us

If we go into the first chapter of this epistle, I just want to move about on the use of the word. This is what we find. Let's start. Well, it's so difficult. You know, like so many of these great New Testament writers, Peter keeps going on and on and on and on.

He doesn't sort of finish at the sentence and then start off again. It's all one glorious outpouring of a mighty river that doesn't seem to know a lot about modern grammar. I'm ever so thrilled about that.

That lets me in or out, I don't quite know. It's all according to which viewpoint you take. But the whole tremendous truth is that he's speaking about salvation. Verse 9, the salvation of your souls. The end of the verse.

Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently who prophesied of the grace unto you. The words that should come are not in the original. They prophesied of the grace unto you. Isn't it blessed?

Well, I hope you've let all these great prophets prophesy unto you, have you? Have you ever let them prophesy to you? Peter says they prophesied to us. But it says they prophesied to Israel. Yeah, they prophesied to Israel all kinds of law and order and devastations and this, that and the other.

But they prophesied the grace unto us. I hope you've got that. They prophesied the grace unto us. Isn't that a tremendous and glorious thing? They prophesied of the grace unto us. Oh, searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow.

Unto whom it was revealed that not unto themselves but unto us they did minister the things which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven and the angels want to look into that.

The prophets and the angels, they're still searching. The angels too want to look into it. Amen. There are some things they're not even allowed to look into apparently. Isn't that a tremendous thing? This great secret, he said it had been hidden from ages and from generations whether it be generations of men or generations of angels it doesn't matter, this wonderful thing that God has done had been hidden, beloved.

The prophets prophesied about it. They didn't really understand what they were prophesying about. It was revealed unto them that they were prophesying to us. I reckon that when we see all these old prophets they'll be saying, my word what a people you are.

Behind all that I was saying to my own people I was talking to you. That's it. The important thing was not the local happening because it's happened and gone. Those generations have died. And the temporary outpourings of wrath or the dispersings or the scatterings or the punishings or the building of temples and knocking them over and all this kind of thing, beloved.

These have all been local, temporary, necessary. God was building up to the time when He should send His Son but they were speaking to us, beloved. Hallelujah. I hope you understand this. This is why the writers of the New Testament helped themselves so liberally to the writings of the Old Testament.

They take a bit here and they take a bit there and they weave them into a marvellous pattern of an unfolding of this great thing that was in the heart of God being poured out. Now it's grace, grace, grace.

For God has exacted the fullness of the demands of the law finally from Christ, His blessed Son. Now because the payment's all been made for us before ever we were born or before ever we sinned He's gracious to us.

He hasn't forsaken His righteousness. He hasn't turned His back to back up on the exactitude of the law. He fulfilled it all. Hallelujah. He got more in Jesus Christ than all the sinners of the world that have ever been have robbed Him of.

Yes. Amen. You take this to heart. God has been repaid in Christ for what Adam stole. Hallelujah. We don't understand, beloved, the glory of Jesus. We don't understand the wonderfulness of Christ. We don't see the glory of the sending of the Son.

We haven't comprehended it. It's beyond us because we can only think in proscribed terms in the mind. We cannot understand this wealth of love. We don't really take it in that He is God and that God was manifest in the flesh.

We subscribe to it with our tongues. We don't understand it. But oh, beloved, it's true. And we then are the publishers of the grace of God. Amen. I tried to think a while. I went aside for a little time, quiet this afternoon, and I tried to think of the immensity of this great word in the second chapter.

Christ's Sufferings as Our Example

Listen to this about the Lord Jesus Christ. And that there are at least two lovely things about Jesus Christ set forth. Many of them are here, but two lovely major things that are set forth about Jesus Christ in this epistle.

One, of course, you know, it's all included in this word, sufferings. When He testified beforehand in verse 11 of chapter 1, just to flick you back to get the connection, the sufferings of Christ. Now, there are at least two basic things about the sufferings of Jesus Christ.

One immediately springs to mind, and that is, of course, Calvary. But if we think of Calvary as the only sufferings of Jesus Christ, we're wrong. There were sufferings of Jesus Christ before He went to Calvary.

The suffering of temptation, the suffering of persecution, the suffering of this. And it's in this sense in which He's speaking in the second chapter. Here it is then, verse 21. Christ suffered for us, leaving us the example.

There are the sufferings of Christ, my example, as He lived the perfect, sinless, righteous, loving, gentle, oh, what can I say upon Him? This life of Jesus Christ that is summed up in the utterance of John Baptist in one way when looking at Him upon the second occasion when He called Him the Lamb of God, it said that He says, behold, looking at Him as He walked, He said, behold the Lamb of God, you see.

The day previously, He looked upon Him coming down into death in Jordan. Figuratively, Jesus Christ went down into death in Jordan and rose again in resurrection. That's what baptism always speaks of.

And there He was, the dying Lamb, the Lamb that died for the sin of the world. Oh, hallelujah. But then there was also the Lamb that walked. And I promise you this, that if you walk on this earth as you say you are a believer, you've got to walk as a Lamb.

It's no good you talking about Jesus and Calvary if you don't walk as a Lamb. And you'll have to suffer. And Jesus Christ in this, as it is an example, if I may make a reference back, I went to prison because I believed I should walk as a Lamb.

I don't believe Lambs pull triggers on guns or press buttons to drop bombs. I don't believe they do. You may. We won't quarrel about that. But I've got to be straight and honest with you. Before God. I believe it's all part of our Gospel.

But in verse 21, Here unto were ye called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example that you should follow his steps, who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth, who, when he was reviled, reviled not again.

When he suffered, he threatened not, but committed himself to him that judges righteously, who his own self bear our sins in his own body on the tree. As I say, this afternoon I got a silent one and I tried to think on my knees before the Lord what that meant.

Jesus bore our sins in his own body on the tree. When we hadn't even committed them. How could you do that, Lord? You bore my sins and I hadn't even committed them. In his own body. On the tree. I don't understand that.

I believe it, you know, foolishly enough in the eyes of men. I believe ever so many things I can't understand. There are lots of people who call themselves Christians will only believe the things they can understand.

I thought of this at the beginning of the meeting. You'll think I've got a stupid mind. It does all sorts of things, my mind. I trust it's always under the control of the Spirit. I'd love to think it always was.

But we sang that first hymn. I didn't choose it for this, though I did choose the first hymn. I just wanted to sing a hymn of love and worship to Jesus. And it says, At whose supreme command creation rose in form complete.

Do you believe that? You sure you do? You sure you aren't swayed by this tendency to evolution that's in the best Christian books, believed by conservatives? Are you sure you aren't swayed by these things?

Do you believe that creation rose in form complete? Well, I do. I stood there and I said, Lord, I believe that. I believe that. I believe that. Utterly, I believe it. I don't care what they say they dig out of the earth.

You can sort of write me off as a total loss, but I believe that. You see, I believe lots of things I don't understand. I don't understand. They say they dig out this, and they do that, and they do the other, and all this sort of thing.

Well, let them keep digging. They won't find any stars down there. If you look up, is the day star rising in your heart? That's what Peter talks about in his second epistle. The whole glorious thing about it, beloved, if you're prepared to be called a fool, you'll get on very well with the rest of the church.

The whole thing about it, beloved, is that you and I are called upon to believe these things. He did bear your sins in his body on the tree. Think of it. And you may think, well, there are some I'm going to yet haven't committed that I feel I'm going to.

You've got the wrong approach. You've got the wrong approach. Praise the name of the Lord. What a marvellous thing it is, beloved, to belong here in spiritual reality and utter truth. This grace of the Lord.

To yield to grace, beloved. Do you know what you'll do if you yield to grace? You'll change, utterly change. If you yield to grace, beloved, you'll think differently about everybody else in the world.

You will. If you yield to grace, if before you criticize another, you yield to grace, you'll not criticize another one in your life if we take up what the Lord has spoken to us tonight. Think of the grace of God to you.

Just think of it. Just think of it. And he doesn't talk condescendingly as though I've had to endure a terrible lot from you for the last ten years, my man. He doesn't talk like that. Though if you start to think, that's what you'll think.

That he's had to do. This is the wonder of it, isn't it? Do you believe this, beloved? Do you believe this? This great grace of God. Look at it, let's read these words again in the first chapter. He says, They prophesied of the grace that should come unto us searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify when it testified this Spirit of Christ was in them testifying to this.

He hadn't become a bodily Christ yet but the Spirit of Christ was there inspiring the prophets and testifying this this, this, this to tell them what or what manner of time oh, hallelujah what manner of time this was, beloved.

Eh? Why? What manner of time it ended ages and started a new age. It was the dividing of time. So that we speak about B .C. and A .D. What manner of time should this be? What is it He's talking about?

Glory be to the name of the Lord and the glory that should suffer that should follow grace followed by glory. Oh, praise God. Amen. Grace followed by glory. Hallelujah. And here's the wonder of it, beloved that this grace that God's given to us has come from Christ glorified.

Christ glorified. It's glorious grace that we've received. Isn't it? Glorious grace. That's why when you really receive grace it thrills you. When you really receive grace it's glory in you. When forgiveness really comes you don't sort of get up from your knees looking like a little goobrious.

I don't know what, not on the other. You're, you're. Oh, your face changes your tone changes your walk changes everything changes when the blessed spirit of God comes and applies this marvellous grace of Jesus Christ to you it goes right through your whole being.

You don't have to extort people to sort of buck up and look cheerful. Now you say you're a believer or something like that. And grace, beloved. It does it, it does it, it does it, beloved. This is the marvel of grace.

Grace is the doing power. Grace is, it's done. Grace is the breaking power. Grace is the freeing power. Grace is the loving power. Grace is, is everything. Don't you see? You don't slave along with tobacco plague in you and drug, drugs seeping through you.

You don't go along, can't break with this and can't break with that when grace this marvellous grace of the Lord Jesus Christ comes into your heart and into your life. This is what grace is. This is what it is.

Amen. Nobody has to apologise for grace. You can't continue your old life when grace has come to you in power. Why? It's so tremendous. It's grace all the way, look here in chapter 2. It says. If so be that you've tasted that the Lord is gracious, my hallelujah.

See, once you've got a taste of grace, beloved. What do you? What do you have more? Why, I had some jam for tea. I got a taste of it. I'm going to have a lot more. I tell you, I won't tell you what sort it is.

Amen, I don't care if no one else in our house eats it. There aren't many of us in our house these days. I'm going to eat it. I've had a taste of it beloved, glory be to God. I won't tell you what the flavour is or anything like that.

But you see, once you tasted, what do you say? More, more more, more. Isn't that it? Isn't that the truth? Well that's what's written in your Bible, it's all about tasting babies, tasting, that's what they say.

They don't say it, they say milk, milk milk, more, more, more. We're getting a surfeit of babies in the fellowship these days, hallelujah. They're always crying out for more. They've tasted. They've tasted, beloved.

They don't quite know what the taste is, but we do because when we're born again, we're born with all our faculties operative. Our understanding quickens. It's got to be filled up with a lot more. But never mind, beloved.

We know what we're on. Praise the name of the Lord. Have you tasted that the Lord is gracious? I've tasted that the Lord is gracious, beloved. I've tasted that the Lord is gracious. And when a man has tasted that the Lord is gracious he then becomes a proper preacher of the gospel.

And he can't preach it unless he's tasted that the Lord is gracious. Unless he can sort of fling up his arms and say Oh, it's all gone. Amen. Forgiveness and understanding on God's part is the very order of life.

That's what it is. Not license to sin again, but oh the glorious glorious concept of this gracious God that if I ask him for a crumb he'll give me the bread of heaven, everything. That's right, that's it, that's grace.

Glory be to God. If I ask him for milk, he says you can have a land flowing with it. Praise God, how about that? Praise God. That's what the Lord wants us to see. This abundance. Oh, hallelujah. I believe that one of the tricks of the enemy, beloved is to keep us from an understanding of what God means when he uses this word grace.

There is that which would make us use it as license for sin, saying it's alright, I can get forgiven, there is that which would do that, that's in the enemy. But there is that which keeps us from misunderstanding what it is in its truth to know the grace of God as it is.

This is the thing, the true grace of God, look at it in the fifth chapter. Here's old Peter speaking. He says, by Silvanus in verse twelve, a faithful brother unto you as I suppose I've written briefly exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God.

Wherein ye stand. Oh, beloved. Oh, glory. Of course, when you're a baby, you're carried and you taste that the Lord is gracious. But you've got to get up and stand in grace. Hallelujah. Glory, that's where I stand.

Standing in grace. Oh. Do you stand in grace? You don't stand in your own power, beloved, do you? No. You don't stand in your own gifts or abilities or accomplishments. Do you? You stand in grace. Amen.

Grace Grace Grace. Grace. Oh, if we could only shout it to everybody. They wouldn't understand if we did. They don't know what it means. And how shall they know without a preacher and how shall they preach unless they understand what they're talking about.

Hallelujah. Oh, it's so marvelous to be in this grace of God. Everything's in grace. He starts the epistle this way. We look at the end. We sometimes do things upside down and back to front. But here is the beginning of the epistle.

Standing in the True Grace of God

Listen, Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus Galatia Cappadocia Asia and Bithynia elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father through sanctification of the Spirit and to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ.

Grace unto you and peace be multiplied. Hallelujah. Oh, I'm one of the chosen ones. Amen, brother, grace to you. See. One of the chosen Chosen Grace to you. If anybody needs grace, it's the chosen of God.

They're the ones that need grace. Hallelujah, for He's chosen us for something, beloved I tell you, and the only way that we can be what He wants us to be and we've got to be what He wants us to be and I hope that everyone's saying I long to be what He wants me to be then you're needing grace and much peace.

Grace God. Grace be to you. Grace be to you. What for? You can be everything God wants you to be by grace. You can have everything God wants you to have by grace. You can achieve the highest by grace.

Nothing holding back from you by grace. Nothing. Grace is giving, giving. Why? Grace is not just giving so much as flowing. Oh, it's more than flowing, it's cascading. It's outpouring. That's grace. Grace.

Nobody can find an excuse to fall, nobody can find an excuse to sin, nobody can find an excuse to go back. Nobody can find an excuse not to have everything that God has for them because He's not cracking a whip.

He says grace, grace grace. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Oh, that some voice would tell me this all the day long. Oh, that in subliminal ways in the night a voice would speak it into my mind. Grace, grace, grace.

Have you understood what it's all about? It's God tearing Himself apart. It's God bleeding on a cross. It's God taking sin. It's God removing all the obstructions. It's God being more than I was going to say.

Yeah, because He became a man. And that's more than the devil thought He could ever be and do. It was the miracle of all miracles until Calvary that God became a man. Hallelujah. You see, God can do it.

So wonderful. You do know the grace of God, don't you? Grace is that which comes and whispers to you. Grace is that which comes and says I forgive you, it's all right. It's all right. Grace comes and says, have you fallen?

Let me pick you up. Grace is that which says. No, no, you don't deserve it. What you deserve is my love. Let me lift you up. The devil says, you deserve that. No, you don't. I reckoned that you deserved this.

Listen, I'm elect according to the foreknowledge of God. God knew what He wanted for me. Way back there in eternity I can be all that God wants me to be. I want to have all that God has to pour upon me.

That's it. It's grace which says. It's not the great big accusatory voice that says this. It's grace that says it. Listen, be holy. Be holy. Grace says I can be. Yes. Grace says I can be. Grace is more than I can think.

Listen, I've got to have this grace in such abundance. Yes, beloved. I'm looking now into the fourth chapter. And as I look into this great fourth chapter this is what I read. Verse ten. As every man hath received the gift even so minister the same one to another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

The Manifold Grace of God

Oh, manifold grace. Whatever does that mean? Don't quote the Greek to me because that won't tell me anymore. The manifold grace. His infinite resources. His showing of me something new when I thought that I'd come to an end.

His revelation of something more of His strength deeper takings into His pain into His sufferings for me an exposition to my heart of what Calvary means. When I think I need to know something more. When I've got to go on with the Lord and I've got to go on for He's left me an example that I've got to follow in His steps.

Grace comes. Just shows me how I care. Oh, grace the man. Have you received the gift? Because that's how the verse starts. It says as every man hath received the gift. What's the gift? I said we'd practically stay in Peter but we'll go, we'll just slip back to Paul, we'll see what Paul says, shall we?

This is in Romans chapter 5. Are you ready? To look down there then. In Romans 5 Not as by one that sinned, verse 16 so is the gift for the judgment was by one to condemnation but the free gift is of many offences under justification.

For if by one man's offence death reigned by one, much more they that receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by Jesus Christ. Wonderful. The gift of righteousness.

That's what or you've got it in the 6th chapter you've got the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord, that's the last verse of the next chapter these are wonderful things. Or if you go back again to Peter we could keep quoting these things but look here, it says above all things in verse 8 of chapter 4 have fervent love among yourselves, for love shall cover the multitude of sins.

Use hospitality one to another without grudging as every man hath received the gift. What's the gift you've received. Beloved eh? What's this connection with hospitality eh? Well don't you know that's what you've received from God hospitality.

Don't you know he's opened up everything he is, he's given you hospitality. What's hospitality. Well, hospitality is if I come to knock at your door and I look like an old tramp who hasn't shaved for 6 months and hasn't had a change of clothing for 6 years and no boots on my feet and got an old stick with a little sort of red spotted handkerchief tied on the back and I'm evidently under drugs and I tell you I've got no money and you say where did you get your drugs from then, and all the lot of it.

You see, that you open your day and say come in now blessed of the lord. Come on sit here, there's the best bed, would you like there to sleep in. You might advise me to take a bath first. I think that's reasonable.

That's what God does. He grants you hospitality but he says have a bath first. That's right, it's right. Sounds funny but it's right. Jesus said he that's had the bath that he's bathed needeth only to wash his feet.

That's what he said, that's right. Well that's the truth. You've received hospitality of the lord, you've received more than forgiveness, don't you see this, you've got everything God's got beloved everything son, all that I have is thine.

That's what the father said to the son all that I have is thine, have you received the gift. Don't you be so niggardly and so small and mean and narrow that all you want is just a little bit for the measure of what you give is the measure of what you've received, your attitude to me is your attitude to God what you do for me you do to God.