Spiritual Putting Off — Willie Mullan

It's done 71, please, 8 -7 -1, I've found a friend, oh, such a friend, he loved me ere I knew him. He drew me with the cords of love, and thus he bound me to him, and round my heart still closely twine those ties which nought can sever, for I am his, and he is mine, for ever and for ever.

Spiritual Putting Off in 1 Peter

8 -7 -1, please. God's portion this evening, we're at 5th Peter, and at the 2nd chapter, please. And you'll note this evening that we're doing three short, simple verses. 1st Peter, chapter 2, verses 1 to 3.

And I have it numbered 7 on the notes, but it should be number 8, and it wasn't the typist's mistake, it was mine. These go by so quickly, we've already had 7 messages on the 1st chapter. And these are three very special verses, I think, because there is a spiritual laying aside here, a spiritual putting off, I've put it on your notes.

Yes, certain things for the true believer must be made aside, all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speaking. Yes, there's a spiritual putting off here, in the 1st verse, and then there is a spiritual taking in here, in the 2nd one.

You see, as newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the Word, that she may grow thereby. And you can see quite clearly that there is a spiritual putting off, and a spiritual taking in. And it's all because of a spiritual experience.

If so be, and that's a translation of a Greek word, and it is translated in some of the manuscripts, and some of the translations. It's translated by the word sense. If so be is equal to sense. Sense ye have tasted.

You see, he's basing everything upon our experience. Since we have tasted that the Lord is gracious, then you should desire His gracious words. And, of course, the gracious Lord asks you to be as gracious as Himself.

Being Born Again and Putting Off the Old Life

Take away all malice, and so on. You'll notice that he begins this little paragraph with the word wherefore. And that word is turning us back through the past chapter. Making us think about the things that he has taught us.

And he says, wherefore, just because of obesity. And he's back to our spiritual experience. So it's a little paragraph of the reference up to Virginia, to our spiritual experience. And it has a reference up to the end, since he has tasted that the Lord is gracious, again through our spiritual experience.

You know, it's very interesting to just take the word wherefore and sing back quickly. Remember what we were at last, Tuesday. Verse 23, being born again. You know, just because you are born again, you should lay aside all malice and all guile.

You know, this would teach us at a glance that just because you're saved, and just because you're born again, and just because you have had so many blessings from God, you cannot live as your life, you know.

Some people talk to me about election and the grace of God. Things to think that because they are the elect, and because they were chosen of God and saved by grace, that you can live as your life. Well, this is absolutely different.

This is the very opposite. Just because you're born again, you should lay aside all malice and all guile. You know, it's great to go right back through the blessings. You remember what Peter said last week in the first chapter, in verse 22?

Sing, ye who have purified your souls. Well, if you've purified your soul at all, then there ought to be this, laying aside all malice and all guile. You remember he talked about redemption, that we're redeemed not with corruptible things, but with the precious blood of Christ.

Because you're born again, because you have purified your souls, because you're redeemed, then you ought to lay aside. This is exactly what he's saying. And you can take this up through the sweep of the chapter.

And there are so many things. You remember he talked about whom having not seen ye love. Yes, well, just because you're in love with Christ, you should lay aside. You remember he went on up and talked about having a lively hope, and being under the blood, and sanctified by the Spirit, and elect according to the full knowledge of God the Father.

Well, just because you're elect, and just because you're sanctified, and just because you're under the blood, friend, you should lay aside. Now, there's a danger in this, you see. An old saint said to me once, Willie, I want you to get the hold of this, that when he says you should lay aside all malice, it has the same weight as every commandment of the Ten Commandments.

It's just like saying thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not. It's just the same weight. I said, it is, but it's not the same thing, you know. I said, you know, if any young Christian picks this up, and takes it, and makes it a commandment for his old man to keep, he's on the wrong track.

Friend, this is not one of the Ten Commandments. They are the teachings of the law. This is the teachings of grace. That's different. And you must always have the difference. If you make this a commandment to put against your old man and ask him to keep it, he'd break it every day you live.

You see, the difference between the teachings of the law and the teachings of grace lies here. Of course, it has the same divine weight. It's God's Word. Ah, but when God gave the law, he gave them no health to keep it.

Ah, but when the teachings of grace come to those who are born again, they have the Holy Spirit within to help them. And you don't look to the old man to obey this. He won't obey. But your new man looks to the Holy Ghost to give you strength.

Then malice would dare to arise in your heart. That he will give you power to lay aside. Hope you've got that clear now. And don't be starting to make this book a law for your old man. Because you'll be going back into the old economy, and you'll find yourself in a muddle.

These are the teachings of grace. And the Holy Ghost is within you to help you to keep them. That is, if you look to him by faith. You know, I think that this is tremendous. I want you to see exactly what he's saying here.

He's saying, wherefore, just because you're born again and redeemed and all the rest of it in the past chapter, wherefore, laying aside all malice. You know, malice is a terrible thing, don't you know what it is?

Well, it's the spirit of thump, and it's ill will. And you don't want that spirit to be about you at all. Not if you're born again. You know, this is the very spirit that lifted the javelin in Saul, the first king of Israel's house, and smashed it into the wall, narrowly missing David.

It was malice. And you know, you've got an old nature inside you. And there are times when the old nature will begin to think like this. And immediately, you will need to ask the Holy Ghost to help you to lay it aside.

And if this is the only way it can be done, yes, it's malice. And this guile, this guile, of course, is just deceit, isn't it? That's all it is. It is double talk. And you know, the believer shouldn't be in this thing at all.

Oh, if you're troubled with this sort of thing, of trying to make a fuss, and being double-tongued all the time, ask the Holy Ghost to deliver you. Because you're supposed to get away from all this guile.

Hypocrisy in the Christian Life

Can't you see the preacher was a great preacher, wasn't he? He went on through the other chapter, you know, and he dealt with great doctrines like election, faith-predication, and revengeance, and inspiration, and regeneration.

And yet here he's gone through the practical things. Down through the practical things for believers. He said, well, for laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisy. Somebody said to me once, should this word be in here?

Surely a Christian is not a hypocrite. Oh, I said, I'm afraid sometimes he is. You think he is. He said, I thought it was just somebody who was pretending to be a Christian was a hypocrite. Oh no, I'm afraid it goes a little bit further than that.

Let me show you this, in case you have any queries in your mind. We have the letter to the Galatians. And we're at the second chapter. And Paul is writing this wonderful letter. And in the second chapter, at verse 11 he says,.

But when Peter was come to Antioch, I think we want to get that squared out in our mind, the geographical location. If you know the map of Palestine, and some of the teachers here be amused with me drawing it with my hand on this thing behind me here, I just draw the Jordan going down like that.

And right down here we have Judea, and then we have Samaria, and then we have Galilee. And you know, right the way beyond Galilee you will come to Damascus, and Damascus is in Syria for that. And if you go a little bit further into the Syrian desert, you will come to Antioch in Syria.

And you know when Paul got gloriously saved, he went away up to the little assembly in Antioch, and he was one of the ministers there. Quite a number of them were able to minister. And it was while he was there, you know, Peter came to Antioch, came from Jerusalem.

And I'm sure it was a great day for them at the little assembly when Peter came. I'm sure he was welcomed. And it says, verse 11,. But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.

Now I can assure anybody in this meeting, if Peter was the first pope, certainly Paul did no thing about it. Paul took no nonsense with him. He came up to Antioch, and I'm going to show you some of the things he was doing, and Paul wasn't going to let him do it.

It says,. But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. For before that certain came from James, that simply means before certain Jews came from James, who was down in Jerusalem, before that crowd came up, he did eat with the Gentiles.

Peter had the jolly good time, he went down to eat with the Gentiles. But when they were come, he withdrew and separated themselves, fearing them which were of the circumcision. You know, it's a terrible, shocking state of affairs when a man who is the leader in the assembly gets afraid of men.

It's a shocking affair. He cannot be a true shepherd at all. Here's Peter, he got scared of Jews. I heard a trick once, and it said this, Peter before Pentecost, he was afraid of the little maid. After Pentecost, he was never afraid again, it's a lie from hell.

A lot of nonsense, and then he starts to fight round the country, you know, when they want to make a lot of Pentecost. Oh, Pentecost, all right, but don't be making blabbers out of it. Oh, this is a long time after Pentecost, and he is to be blamed now, and he is afraid now, he's afraid of the Jews.

Yes, but it goes a bit further than that. It says, verse 13,. And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him, insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. Right, you take that big word home and have a look at it in the dictionary tomorrow, dissimulation.

Well, when you look at the dictionary, you'll find it's hypocrisy. That's what it is, the same word, just hypocrisy. This was a lot of hypocrisy. Peter was an old hypocrite here. That's what he was, a plain hypocrite.

Now, you're not to do that. If you can go and enjoy telling it to somebody, when nobody else is there, if they come and you look away, you're a hypocrite. I trust you've got the hold of that. Because that's what our country is being riddled with.

Old hypocrites. Yes, some of them can take the tapes that come from this church and sit all night and the next night looking at them. But if I turned up at the assembly, they wouldn't let me in. And I just think that's hypocrisy, that's all I think about that.

Envy, a Poison to the Inner Life

Yes. This is what Peter is trying to get over to them. Peter is saying, laicized, all malice and all guise and hypocrisies and envies. Oh, I think we could spend almost all night on this envy. You know, I think this is the most diabolical thing that can enter a human breath, this envy.

So many things about it. Let's have a look at the book of Proverbs for the moment. This great old writer in the book of Proverbs, he has some things to say. Proverbs chapter 14. Chapter 14, and it's the way down the chapter there, it's at verse 30.

Proverbs 14, verse 30. And how is the life of the flesh? I'm sure you would agree with that. You know, if you've ever had a cardiograph done, and you can see the old ticker ticking away there, and the little strokes going up and down, and you're watching the professor, when he has a look along it and says, you're okay, it's not a great relief.

Because the sound art is the life of the flesh. I want you to get this bit balanced against it. But envy is worse than heart trouble, you know. Envy is the roughness of the bones. Man, this envy. I tell you, if you don't watch it and don't ask the Spirit of God to take it away from you, it will get into your very bones.

It's not something that just gets into your mind, you know. And it's daunting for a minute, because it gets into your bones. Don't let it get in on your thoughts. See that it's laid aside. Yes, it's a horrible thing.

You know this, that it was envy that almost left the assembly of courage. Paul had to say, I can't speak unto you without the Spirit. You're yet carnal, whereof there is strife and envy. I have got into the assembly there.

You know, it was envy that put Joseph in the pitch, wasn't it? He is this brethren from envy. Scroll down and read. And remember when Pilate looked at Christ's face, all the time he knew, not for envy, but use of deliberative.

It's a horrible thing. It will get into your bones. It causes confusion and carnality in every assembly that it gets into. And I'll tell you, it can hurt the servants of God. I'll tell you this, that God seems to stand beside those who are envied.

I've seen it through life, you know. I don't base too much on what I see in life. I know that God stood by Joseph anyway. And although they envied him, and though they meant it for evil, God just turned the wheel round another way and he meant it for good.

And although it was for envy that the Jews delivered Christ, remember that it was then that the great atonement was accomplished. Yes, don't let this thing get into you. If you feel it in your soul, and if you're a human, you'll feel all these things.

Malice, and guile, and hypocrisy, and envy. And I'll shut your eyes and cling to heaven until it leaves you, and ask the Holy Ghost to deliver you. You've dropped a layer to the side, you know. And I want you to notice this.

Peter says, wherefore, laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisy, and envy, and all evil speaking. Oh, this is so easy, isn't it? You just get into a bunch somewhere, and somebody's tore apart in two seconds.

You know, evil speaking is a horrible thing, because it's the sort of device of the devils that has a three-way prong on it. You know, it hurts the person that you're speaking about, and it hurts the person that you're speaking to.

You have no right to inoculate that fellow with that other fellow. And it doesn't only hurt the person that you're speaking about, it doesn't hurt the person that you're speaking to, but it hurts the person that's speaking.

All wrong, it grieves the spirit, you know. Horrible thing, you know. Yes, you know, if you go through this book, I'll tell you this. This book teaches you that there's so much that needs to be put off.

So much that needs to be laid aside. Why, in Hebrews, we're taught to lay aside every weight. And then he differentiates between weights and sins. Every weight and a sin that doth so easily beset us. You know, some things are weights.

You remember the woman coming to the well, sitting on the well, and the Lord made himself known. Oh, how her heart rejoiced. And she went away, you know, to bring others. Ah, but she left the waterpot on the well.

She just left it. It's a weight. You know, if you've ever been to the Far East and stopped at a well and saw these waterpots. You know, they hold about five gallons of water. And a wee slip of a lash, you know.

She could just lift it like that and put it on her head and just walk away. There were two or three of us around the well once. I think Mr. Thorns was there. Not all of us could shift it. No, you can't do it, but she could do it.

But it's a weight, it's the same. But the woman was laying the hindrances away. Lay aside the weights. There are a whole lot of things you can do without, you know. Lay them aside. Sometimes I wonder if the sin that doth so easily beset us, if it's not unbelief coming behind Hebrews 11 when it's all safe.

Sometimes I think this persodon belief gets into the whole lot of us at times. You want to lay it aside? There's a putting off of the old man, you know. And all this malice and envy and jealousy and evil speaking and all the rest of it.

Yes, just because you were born again. Just because you have tasted that the Lord is gracious. You have asked the Holy Ghost to help you to live like a Christian. Passion made of grace for every day. It's a great little bit that he put in there.

Spiritual Appetite for the Word

And then he noticed taking in is a tremendous bit. He says, are new born babes, if I believe that these that he was writing to, these Jews who were scattered throughout Pontus and Galatia and Cappadocia, maybe they were not too long saved.

But then it doesn't go like that because some people who are quite a long time saved have still thought of babies in the spiritual family. And you know new born babes, you know when a new born babe comes into the home it's a tremendous affair.

And as it grows day by day it's still tremendous. You know there's so many things that this little thing has to be taught. Has to be taught to talk. You need to teach them to talk. Man, I've had some fun this last while back I can tell you.

You might see Granny wear a spectrum. Look an idiot's face and say, don't! Don't! I'll have a later view, but what the hell. Do the wee thing and that's what it's all about. And then when Granny is done, you know, you see Uncle coming along and says, look, look.

Oh dear me, he watches. And then you know, it not only has to be taught to talk, but to walk. You can see them sitting in the barn with a little walker. Oh I must imitate that. Then they teach it to count.

You can say, run, run, run. Sure the wee thing says to herself, what is she up now? Oh yes. But I'll tell you one thing that you don't need to teach it to do. You don't need to teach it to suck. Ah, nobody ever taught her to suck.

Oh whether it's breast or bottle, it can do it right away. It's not here, suck. It's not here, five minutes. So it knows all about it. Nobody ever taught a baby to suck. I wouldn't like that they had to teach it to suck.

What a bit of fun you would have then. Oh don't even think about it now. But you know, there's something in this newborn babe that just makes it desire the milk. You see, it just desires it. You just put the bottle in beside it and away it goes.

Yes. Now this is something that would typify the newborn belief. Then we had some newborn ones in this very meeting this evening. Jim, the way back there, wasn't saved at this time last week. But he's saved now and he's out tonight.

And he's getting food, you see. He's turning up for the food. Yes. You know, this tells me something about life. You know, there are so many things that happen when a fellow gets saved. You know, he loves the Lord.

He doesn't know very much, you know. He doesn't know anything about doctrines. When I start talking about annexion and sanctification and justification and constitution, he isn't that foggy if I give it to Tom the Boss.

He's just a newborn babe. Oh, I'll tell you this, he loves the Lord. You know, your personal life is wonderful. I can remember getting saved, you know. Oh yes, no shoes in my feet, no shirt in my back.

No tits to pin in the gut. And the next day it was a wet day. It was pouring rain. And I can remember walking, no shoes on, you know. Oh, but I was saved. I can remember walking through the rain and saying, Lord, I'm with you.

Blessed God, this is a new day. I'm with you. It was just him and I then. He didn't know anything about doctrines or brethren or doctrines. He just knew about the Lord. He saved me. And I was really in love with the Lord.

And I would never like to lose it, either. You know, there's a thing about the little newborn spiritual babe and it's as if he loved it. And then the Lord was telling Ananias about Paul. He says, Go and see him.

We have found him on the Damascus road. Behold, he prayeth. Somehow, when you're saved, you don't know much about it, but you can pray. You know, I have a great bunch of praying warriors here. And I'm so proud of them.

But I can remember when they stood up first in this meeting, you know, and prayed and couldn't do it, you know. A whole crowd of them did. Yes, just a word or two, you know. And they were stuck. Couldn't get on.

No, you couldn't stop them. Yes. It's wonderful, you know. I'll tell you this, friend. He prayeth. And I'll tell you this. He desireth. You get it? Newborn babe. He loveth the Lord. He prayeth. He desireth the Lord.

Yes, I'll tell you this. You know, the day that Andrew was found of Christ, man, he made a big line for Peter on finding his own dog at the drop of the rust. You know, he's teaching. It tells me about young believers, you know.

Why, when you can see them in love with the Lord, when you see them up to prayer meeting, behold, he prayeth. When you see him desiring the sincere merciful works, friend, this is the blessing of every babe.

This is it. He desireth the works. It's great to see a class like this tonight in this land at this time. My, they desire the works. We're here because we're saved. And I want you to get this, you know.

Growing Through the Word of God

There is not only the blessing of babies in this, but there's the wonder of the works. You know, this word is wonderful. You know, when you go back to the baby in the gut again, milk is wonderful. Every single bit of nutriment that a baby can need, it's found in the milk, just in the milk.

They don't need to make anything else. Just needs the milk. And God has seen to it that everything is in the milk. And it is absolutely looking for it at all times. Yes, and it's the theme of the words.

You know, this word is powerful. You see, I've taught this class that there's only one true interpretation of every phrase. Obviously, the phrase must have only one true interpretation. It's up to me to get down on my knees and find it.

You know, I know this, that after I've found the true interpretation, I know that the same phrase can be applied. There can be a thousand applications. Sometimes I preach the word here, and you know, God just takes it and applies it to us in a thousand different ways that I never dreamed of.

And that's the wonder of the works. You know, the blessing of a baby is that it just desires the milk. The wonder of the word is that there's everything in the word to meet every single need. And I'll tell you this, this is how they grow.

You know, believers need to grow. When Peter finishes these two letters, he finishes the second letter like this, but grow in grace. Oh, how we should be growing in grace day after day. I wonder how we've grown in the last years.

Have we grown in grace? Are we getting more mature and more proficient, more easy to get on with? Are we finding the victory notes are flaying aside, malice and envy and so on? We're not so easily disturbed now.

Are we growing in grace? I wonder, are we growing in the knowledge of the Lord? Do we know better tonight than last year? You know, it's all in knowing Him, isn't it? My, this is Christianity. If I were asked tonight, what is Christianity?

I would say it's knowing Christ. Now, I don't mean knowing about Christ. Oh, there are so many people who know about Christ, they're not there at all. No, it's not knowing about Him, it's knowing Him.

Can you talk to Him tonight? Do you know Him these days as your steps are from the floor? Do you feel that you're in Christ, that like as the mountains are round about Jerusalem so is the Lord round about His people?

Do you feel you're in Christ? Do you feel that your life is hid with Christ in God? Do you feel that nothing can touch you except the Lord allows it for His glory? Do you know Him? Know Him as your shepherd?

Are you sure He's leading you down the bathroom? Are you coming up out of the wilderness leaning on your beloved? Do you know Him as the supplier of all your needs? Friend, have you got to know Him? If you should grow in grace and in the knowledge and you should grow in the understanding of the times.

Oh, there was a tribe in Israel once you know who had understanding of the times. I wonder have we grown for that? Has God carried us deep down into the prophecies and do we know some of the things that are happening around us?

Have you grown since you believed? Well, if you desire this and see and look at the Word there is no doubt at all that you'll grow thereby. I want you to get the hold of this. You see, there is not only a spiritual pushing off in these verses and a spiritual taking in.

Tasting the Graciousness of Christ

But you know there is a spiritual experience here. I want you to get the hold of that, you know. If so be ye have tasted. And I'd rather have it like this. Think ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

You know, I don't think that there was ever a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ who knew more about the grace of the Lord Jesus than Peter. I know it's a big statement, but that's what I believe. You know, he had really tasted that the Lord was gracious.

I think the Lord was very gracious when he saved him at Beth Ababa. You know, the moment that Andrew got to know the Lord. You know, Andrew went right up country, right away to Galilee, brought Peter, brought him right to the Lord, down at Beth Ababa where John was baptizing.

And that day the Lord revealed himself to Peter. He was saved down there. That's where he met the Lord. You know, the Lord was very gracious to him. Yes, wasn't it a wonderful day the day he met the Lord?

Wouldn't it be gracious lifting a thing like me? Oh, there were thousands better looking in Ulster than certainly there were tens of thousands with more brains. Then, although I was down the mountain, had no body and nothing, yet in his grace he lifted me.

Yes, he was gracious to Peter on the day that he saved him. And then, you know, there came a day about six months later when the Lord left Judea and went up to Galilee and came wandering along the shore and there's two fish of men there.

And he said to them, follow me, I will make you fish of the men. And straightway they left the nets and followed him. You know, that was the day he called Peter into the Lord. And he was very gracious, you know.

Because this fellow didn't know anything. Some of the folks tell me you have to have a certain academic standard. It annoys me. Well, Peter had none. He was an unlearned, unlettered and ignorant man. The Holy Ghost said that.

I wouldn't dare to say it. That's what the Holy Ghost said. He's unlearned and ignorant. Good enough for the Lord, you know. The Lord took him up and made a great man out of him. And that was the day, you know, that the Lord in his grace called him.

Oh, when you think of what the Lord has done down through the years. How he's called one from here and one from there. And this one and that one. And you can see the size and shape of them when he calls them.

Why, there's no use whatsoever for anything. Oh, but he has beckoned them. Bless God, he made men and women out of them. Yes, he was very gracious to Peter the day he called him. You know, I think that day at Caesarea Philippi, when he looked round the whole bunch of them and he said, Whom say ye that I am?

It wasn't about instruction. Then Peter just stepped forward and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God. And the Lord looked at him, and I think he smiled. He said, Flesh and blood didn't reveal that to you.

He didn't get that in the truth. He had been talking to my father, which is necessary. No, I think it was very gracious of the Lord to commend them, wasn't it? I think it was very gracious. I think it was gracious of the Lord to save them.

I think it was gracious of the Lord to call them. I think it was gracious of the Lord to commend them. Then you remember that night when he denied the Lord with all his incursions. The Lord looked at him and he went out and wept bitterly.

He got away from the cause and he got stuck in some hedge somewhere and sat down and wept. And did he spend a day or two there? I think he did. And the resurrection morning, and nobody knows where it is or how it happened.

It just says, listen to the book. The Lord has risen indeed and hath appeared to Simon. You can't get the conversation. The Lord didn't record it. I think Peter was sitting quiet. He nearly laughed at it.

He brought it up. And there comes an arm around him, squeezing him. The Lord, the risen Lord. I think it was very gracious of the Lord to go and find him. Very gracious of the Lord to save them, wasn't it?

Very gracious of the Lord to call them. It was very gracious of the Lord to commend them. Very gracious of the Lord to appear to him on that morning. I'm sure for all eternity he'll never forget. Then you remember him sitting at the fire with the Lord.

Restoration, Pentecost, and Service

And the Lord restored them. Put them back into the work. They're gone. Get back to the job. Run and spoon about there with the books. Go and feed my lambs and feed my sheep. It was gracious of the Lord to restore them.

He's done that for a whole lot of us. Yes. Did he say, the Lord is gracious? Wasn't it gracious of the Lord to use them for the day of Pentecost? Oh, yes, there'd be some of the boys knocking around. They said, oh, don't use him.

They made a mess of it. Won't touch him anymore. But it was their same creatures that the Lord took up in the day of Pentecost. And it was gracious of the Lord to rebuke them. My, he would have got going around making a fool out of himself.

Only the Lord took him to task and that's great, didn't he? And wasn't it gracious of the Lord to take this big fish in hand? With these rough hands. Hands that didn't know much about writing. And write these two letters in the New Testament.

Wasn't it gracious? Oh, what the Lord can do. Friend, you've tasted all that, haven't you? Let's get it like this tonight now. You, you have tasted that the Lord is gracious. And because, because you're born again, because you're redeemed, because you're one of the elect, then there are two things that you must do every day you live.

Daily Reading and the Spirit of Grace

You must take that sincere look of the word. I wonder how many times you read this book every day. All right, really make it practical tonight. You look at every word in the telegraph. You watch all the times of the news and the TV.

Tell me how many times you've looked at that book today and how much you've read out of it and what you've found in it. Maybe this is your problem. You're not thinking at all. Now, just because you've tasted the grace of the Lord, and just because you're born again, and just because you're redeemed, friend, there is one thing that you've got to do every day you live.