Election (part 7) - Making Your Election More Sure [2 Peter 1]

Well before we start this morning, thank you Lewis for preaching while I was gone and for Dan going down to Hartford. It was just a real joy to be able to travel and then know that the family of God is taken care of by Men who know their Bible, so thank you.

Probably the highlight of the Shepherds Conference was sitting next to Dave Jeffries During the Masters Chorale and watching Naomi come out and then having Dave just sit there years ago Dave went to the Shepherds Conference, and he'll probably tell you the story and he said Lord if someday Naomi could just be in that choir and so.

Fast forward two or three years Naomi walks out, and I was really not feeling well that day. And I thought I've got to come for my friend Dave just to experience Vicariously through Dave what it would be like to have my daughter in the Masters Chorale.

And so name Naomi came out. It was just a wonderful time of ministry and Dave began to cry and then I began to cry and I looked next to me and then Steve Cooley began to cry. And it was lovely. Just to see the goodness of God.

We have a world that's crumbling around us and God is faithful and good to his people. He's given us the best gift salvation Christ Jesus. And he'll certainly give us the other ones as well. Steve Lawson will be here in just a few weeks and in my opinion if John MacArthur were to die today Steve Lawson is the man who would replace him and we have some new Advertisements that are coming out.

That Tiffany did a great job on and they're they say how big is your God? And I thought forget Steve Lawson conference that may never come but today's sermon will surely come and it says on the right hand side how big is your God.

A Variety of adjectives, and I thought that is today's sermon. We are preaching this morning and in a series seven or eight weeks on the doctrine of election that show forth God as immense powerful awesome immeasurable great infinite colossal vast Unabounding abundant limitless Unfathomable Astonishing Magnificent, here's my favorite one stupefying Overwhelming wonderful amazing and the list goes on.

This doctrine today that God is exalted in his sovereign selection of people. Gives him all the glory. Charles Spurgeon said I do not hesitate to say that next to the doctrine of the crucifixion and resurrection of our blessed Lord.

No doctrine had such prominence in the early Christian Church as the doctrine of the election of grace. This is just what people want to think about and talk about because it is so wonderful to get our eyes on the God.

With whom we have to do some may say well, you know, I've had enough of this series. This is a part seven now in this doctrine and I think I've heard enough and I don't want to hear any more. This sermons for you today.

For those that are finished with the doctrine of election and think that they've you know had enough of it. This is directly for you. Of course, it's for everyone but I want to just show you that you cannot exhaust this doctrine because it is tied together with the nature and character of God.

Some say I could never love a God who would pick and choose Beloved. I'm sorry. This is the God that's in the Bible. Revelation is clear the book not the book of Revelation. But the revelation from God from Genesis to Revelation that God sits on a throne and if we are prejudiced against this.

It is our problem and not God's problem. I could go about it. This way is Destiny in your hands after you die is destiny in your hands after salvation is destiny in your hands while you're on earth. We know the answers of those questions.

So why is it so weird or particular if I ask this question is destiny in your hands before you were born? We've been going through a series and it's called 20 questions on election. We should be done before 2010 and we're just working our way through this.

I'm gonna just go through the first few questions quickly to give you an overview. I don't want to spend too much time review today and today. We're specifically going to focus on how to know your elect for sure how to make your election that certain in God's eyes.

More assured in your own heart. In other words God in his word has been so kind to us to let us know that we can have our election. That's objective in his mind very assured even though it's subjective in our heart.

We can know for sure that we're elect. But before we get into that final question of today we just go through the first several 20 questions that will help us with the biblical doctrine of Election sovereign election and these have pretty much been from Ephesians 1.

You don't have to write these down. I'll just quickly go through them. They're on the tapes. I met somebody in California and they said we've listened on the internet up to election part 6. Are we caught up?

I said you're caught up. Number one do you view election as something for mature Christians only? Every one of these is set up in such a way so that I'm trying to anticipate the objections that are commonly out there.

Election isn't just for mature Christians. It's for every Christian from Ephesians 1 every Christian needs to know about God's sovereign hand. Number two, do you think election stifles praise the answer to that?

We saw in Ephesians 1 it doesn't Stifle praise it elicits praise to the praise of the glory of his what grace. Number three, do you think that all Christians believe in election? Certainly, they all do.

If you believe the Bible you believe in election. It just depends if is it a man-centered view of election that God elects based on something that the person will think do say or believe art is election that finds its counsels and only rationale in the triune God before time begins.

Which leads me to number four. I've already answered it. When do you believe election took place? We found out from Ephesians chapter 1 that it is before Genesis 1. It is before time before matter before space before angels.

Number five, do you believe election is based on a person's faith? We answered that could not be true because it is based on God's working people respond in faith. Number six, do you view election is unloving that can't be either because Ephesians 1 says in love he what? predestined us and we certainly when we see Jesus heal a Person of a physical disease and he doesn't heal everyone else.

We never say oh how unloving God could have chosen to save everyone. But he just chose to save some and he has under no obligation to save anyone else and it's just amazing. They would save any number seven in your opinion is election impersonal and sterile.

It's kind of clinical. It's for maybe seminary, but for no one else. Ephesians 1 says he adopted us as what sons how could adoption be impersonal? Number eight in your view is election grace based. Is Election based on God's grace or is it based on something that we would do and we know it's grace based.

Number nine. Do you believe in unbelievers will is totally free that is to say? God won't do anything first until the unbeliever does something and that unbelievers free from sin free from Satan free from Influences of the world, of course, we don't believe that we needed to have God come and rescue us of his free will.

Do you believe election inhibits evangelism? The answer is no it helps us with evangelism and I did some research 25 years after the time John Calvin began preaching this doctrine. There were 2 ,000 places of worship with a half million worshipers in France alone.

Number 11, do you realize that election does not eliminate human responsibility? Men are responsible. God is sovereign. We embrace both because the scriptures teach both Number 12. Did you know that it's a sign of maturity not to force mental closure on all doctrines?

In other words, there are some things that are so wide we can't get around them so tall. We can't get over them and we just have to say Lord. Even though I'd like to tie this knot very tightly and Logically, there are some things I just can't figure out.

I'm blown away that you could be sovereign and men are responsible and I will accept both without force forcing mental closure. Number 13, we're getting close to being caught up. Do you know that grasping depravity unlocks the doctrine of election?

In other words when we understand how depraved people are God must intervene. God is the one who is the initiator of salvation. Sociologist Robert Bella said one of our current psychological gurus says that 98 of Americans are dysfunctional.

He almost got it, right. 100 would have been correct and that dysfunction is due to sin and we need someone to save us to rescue us because we've fallen. And we can't get up. John Gerstner said of unbelievers.

There's always room for Deprovement. There's always room for deprovement. So humbling and and we need to be humbled and we'll know then God has to rescue us. It's like Churchill talking about Clement Attlee.

Churchill said in his very Churchill Ian way Clement Attlee is a very humble man. Of course, he has a lot to be humble about. He went on to say we are dependent on the work of another for our salvation.

Romans 5 says just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin and so death spread to all men because all Sin at the end of the day the difference between one person's salvation and another's is not lying within themselves.

It lies in God alone. Number 14 last one to review. Do you believe the non-elect will ever desire salvation if God elects people? Then what about people that want to go to heaven, but they're not elect.

Friends, they don't want to go to hell, but they'll never desire the holiness of God in heaven. Mark this clearly in your minds. God does not cause unbelievers to disbelieve. They do that on their own.

Election Does Not Promote Sinful Living

And now number 15 does election promote sinful living. This is new. Does election promote sinful living after all if God chooses us? We just run around and do whatever we want are on the other hand. Who cares if God has chosen us it is.

I think it was a Doris day case or a sera who's saying that? If she didn't sing it she should have. Whatever will be will be fatalistic live it up. This kind of promotes spiritual laziness. I mean, we don't have to do anything.

Do we have God is the one who's sovereign but even an inkling from Ephesians 1 we see that Election has a moral aim in view. It has an end desire. There's a bullseye over there that God is shooting at with the bow and arrow of election and that bullseye is Holy living by his people and let's for the remainder of the time open our Bibles to 2nd Peter chapter 1 and find that out contrary to our Naturalistic logic almost in a counterintuitive way God uses election to spur us on to holy living.

It's like a goad. To help us to be holy. Far from being morally debilitating. This is a morally elevating doctrine. The doctrine of election promotes holy living not sinful living. Second Peter is a book that talks about how to live in the midst of sin.

How to live in the midst of a doctrine. That's false. Propagated by false teachers. What do you tell people who are living in a horrible situation with false teachers everywhere? And Peter answers that question if you zoom into chapter 1 verse 10 to start this is the tie-in with election.

Therefore brethren be all the more diligent to make certain about his calling. And what? Choosing you electing you be diligent to make certain about his calling and choosing you for as long as you practice these things.

You will never stumble. Peter is saying if you do these things. You will authenticate you will validate you will prove certain of your election true or false. God knows who's elect true true or false.

Peter writing for the Spirit of God wants to make you know if you're elect if you are elect. That's amazing. That's true. God wants us assure of our confidence that we are a child of God and Doesn't that make sense as he's writing to these people with all the false teachers everywhere.

Peter wants them to know for sure. They're going to heaven that there's glory waiting that God has has gifted them With this gift of eternal life. And he wants a sure-footed belief in the doctrine of God has chosen me because it's going to affect the way they live.

When I was growing up my grandmother gave me a stuffed mountain goat head and I lugged that mountain goat head to college and back. I don't know the 15 years. I went to college. Deciding on my major back and forth and the bad thing about the mountain goat head is I couldn't see the feet and here.

Basically Peter is trying to focus our minds on the sure-footedness of Knowing that in whatever situation you're in if you are elect. It will change the way you deal with God with others and the world to know for sure that you're going to heaven.

God wants you to have full assurance. God is not up in heaven thinking. You know what I chose them. But I never want them to know if I did or not. He could have done that but he didn't. God is wanting us to have a valid stamp as it were to know that we've been chosen by him.

Sometimes if I give a $20 bill to someone at a Supermarket they get out a yellow Marker a highlighter almost and what do they do with that highlighter? That's right. And so here is is almost the the holy lifestyle that the Christian lives is the authenticator Highlighter of the validity of that $20 spiritual bill called election.

This is the warranty deed and if you see in verse 11, so wonderful. This is a whole sermon on its own for in this way the entrance into eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be Abundantly supplied to you and Peter just starts stacking these words up.

Our kids don't play Legos anymore. But they used to and so you stack Legos one on top of another and with the Greek language He's just stacking up a bunch of words. So you realize God is wanting me to know for sure that I'll have Glorification that I'll be in heaven that it will be abundantly supplied full entrance into eternal heaven full assurance.

Who wouldn't want that? Do you you want to know for sure you're going to heaven. I do. But it's interesting. If you go back to verse 10 to have this assurance. We need to bank certain that we practice what these things.

We've got to be certain that we practice these things. That's the question of the hour today. What are these things if you want to have full assurance that you're going to heaven if you want to have full?

Confidence that God has chosen you then you need to practice these things. What are these things? Well, let's find out instead of going back to verse 10. Let's go all the way back to chapter 1 verse 1 who wants to jump into verse 10 when we have the riches of verses 1 Through 9 to go through first 2nd Peter chapter 1 verses 1 through about 11.

We'll go through this morning period. If I can look at how this starts, I I'm gonna make a little wager on the side. You're gonna love this passage so much that you're gonna have to go home and read chapters 2 and chapter 3 today.

This book is awesome this book to use the phrase the growing up rocks. This is one of those books when you start to read it. You just think the riches of this feast. We went out to dinner the other night Bill and Lil and it was a major feast sometimes.

Go out to restaurants and I'm not very impressed. I was very very impressed and I just sat back and just the next food item would come and the next food item. And it was one of those things where you just think this is so tasty every taste bud I wanted on all the different bitters and sweets and and it helped that they were pain.

I know that but it was really good and this is a banquet. This is one of those passages where you just think that God would give me something like this. I want to take this to that desert island because 2nd Peter is wonderful.

Chapter 1 verse 1 Simon Peter. Literally Simon means a little Samuel. God has heard Simon Peter a bondservant and apostle of Jesus. Not just a sent-out one, but I've got full authority from Christ Jesus.

Here's the recipients to those who have received a faith of the same kind of as ours. By the righteousness of God and Savior God our Savior Jesus Christ. Peter said I'm an apostle. I'm sending out this letter to you and these people that receive the letter are those who have received faith.

I can't go any faster because that whole phrase who have received faith is actually packed full of Wonderful meaning in the original language. It means to receive and it suggests that you get something by the casting of lots.

It's used in Luke chapter 1 this way now. It happened that while he was performing his priestly service before God in the appointed order of his division. According to the custom of the priestly office He was chosen by lot to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense as this Person this priest was chosen by lot to minister to God God.

So to gives out his faith by divine lot. The lot of faith in 2nd Peter is cast by God it is appointed are chosen by God's sovereign decree to give these people faith. Peter says it's the same kind of faith as ours.

By the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ again extolling the divinity of Jesus Christ the deity of Christ Jesus. Then he says in verse 2 I I Prayed this for you BBC this week. Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

He says I want you to have grace and peace multiplied towards you and it's not just wrote paradigm intellectual knowledge. But knowledge that would really help you with your fellowship with God fellowship with his word.

And then he says in verse 3 Notice I don't see anything about us so far what we're supposed to do or anything. It's just a a front-end loading of the goodness of God his what he's done. Seen that his divine power has granted to us Everything pertaining to life and godliness.

God has given our bestowed same word where he he bestows the body of Jesus to Joseph. Then it says through the true knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and Excellence God has given us everything.

We need false teachers sinful area Persecution. God has done it all. Everything we need everything. To what degree. Oh, this is amazing verse 4 for by these he has granted to us his precious and Magnificent promises you can just hear the trumpet of praise in Order that by them these magnificent promises you might become partakers of the divine nature.

Having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust. These great promises these precious promises make us partakers fellowshippers koinonia people with God shares. We don't become gods, but he uses this philosophical vocabulary of these Greeks in that area to say you know what you don't become divine gods.

But you become having a divine nature by sharing with these great promises. It's a provision of God. Now if I look at verses 1 2 3 and 4 I'm not central. Men aren't central women aren't central. Peter's readers aren't central.

Everything is God. God's righteousness saves. Knowing him his divine power true knowledge comes through him precious and magnificent promises through him. It's all the safety and security of God. Can God lose a Christian?

People always ask well, can I lose my salvation? Well, can Christ lose a Christian? And he's setting that up this objective side of assurance now. He moves this subjective side and here we're coming to our passage today verse 5.

Now for this very reason also Applying all diligence in your faith supply and then he lists those things that we have already determined as these things. He says I want you to for this very reason. Supply all these things.

Why. Because if you look down in verse 8 for if these qualities and I'm gonna preach all those qualities in 5 6 and 7. And just a second for if these qualities are yours and are increasing they render you neither useless Nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

When these things are in our lives and they're increasing we are fruitful and we are useful. These words can be used of laziness. They can be used of unemployment. They can be used of for a lot of things.

God wants people to diligently pursue holiness. And then in verse 9 it says. For he who lacks these qualities is blind. Are short-sighted. He's talking spiritually here having forgotten his purification from his former sins now these days.

When I bring a book up to my eyes Closely, I cannot read here anymore. I'm kind of doing this trombone action. How about you? My opiate is a condition. I've read this week of the eye in which parallel rays are focused in front of the retina.

Nearsighted people can see what's in front of them, but they can't see farther away. Peter is saying this remember that God saved you remember his great promises. Remember how wonderful he is if you are too myopic and too focused on everything in front of you.

Your portfolio your job your life your kids your things Materialism, etc, etc without seeing far away without seeing what God has done. Then you are going to become useless and fruitless. It's almost like a spiritual Alzheimer's disease that he doesn't want us to forget how great God is and Therefore he says here's how you remember how great God is.

By action by doing by becoming holy and what we'll do for the remaining of our remainder of our time today is look at seven Assurance builders that will remind you that you are elect. If you're not elect you need to repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.

But if you are elect, this is a way you can know you're saved. Lots of people struggle with assurance. This will help you with your assurance and help you to know that your election is sure. False teachers are running around telling you one thing Peter says, but I've got the real truth.

I personally as a pastor want to experience greater assurance and here he gives us this very reason. But I have to tell you it's not going to be found at on the lazy boy recliner. It's just a perfect name for that.

Isn't it? I've got my lazy boy. Just yesterday college football on how long I'm a college football college basketball all day. There it is. I Know more about college basketball now than I have all year.

I Just felt kind of weird at the end of the night. It's fine to watch college basketball. But that's when I feel the weirdest is when I just forget about my life my family all these issues. And I just get sidetracked.

I get the spiritual myopia and Paul says a Peter says a Paul would say it. He says it in Philippians chapter 2 work out your salvation with fear and trembling. Here's the Christian life. And if you want to know if you're a Christian chosen by God then act Christian Lee but it's gonna be Energy filled you see the text in verse 5 2nd Peter 1 5 for this very reason also who we are in Christ apply all the diligence.

Make every effort be zealous about it be eager be in a hurry. There's an urgency. There's a a haste no delay. And so people come to me all the time as a pastor and they'll say pastor, I don't know if I'm a Christian.

Well, this is gonna be my new counseling for you for those that just say I'm wondering if I'm a Christian or not. But I'm stagnant and I'm sterile and I don't do anything for the kingdom. Then God is purposely giving you those feelings.

So you get a move on. But I I don't want those feelings here. He says apply all diligence. Put forth every effort and then it's not just effort. Do you see what the passage says put forth every effort in your faith supply these things?

Without faith, it's impossible to please God, but note very carefully. It doesn't say supply your faith. You don't come up with your faith. Faith is God-given faith is a gift from God. Yes, you believe but it is a divine gift.

It is given you are never instructed to supply your faith. And he says okay now with diligence and in faith. Here's what I want you to supply in your life. I can't even go any farther before I I see that word supply.

Let me tell you the Greek word for supply and you tell me if you recognize the English word. I So long just the middle Corrigo Choreography, that's what that word is in all your face. And all your face in all your faith.

This is microphones messing up again. Everything every time I make a mistake. I'm gonna blame the microphone this microphone that you gave me. When it comes to making sure that you're chosen in your elect Christians act like little Christ and Peter's just trying to spur them along and he's saying I want you to diligently with all effort in Faith supply as a chorus master as a choreographer would all these details.

Back in those days chorus leaders took on the job of all the expenses of the chorus to the point of extravagance and basically what Peter is saying is if the king gives you a house and Says I want you to decorate the house and furnish the house in what manner would you furnish that house?

Brownfolding chairs that say BBC on the back. Or would you try to furnish that house to the best of your ability with enthusiasm? How fast would you do it? How well would you do it? To what degree would you do it?

And for us as we furnish out this house that God has given us as it were Spiritual salvation as the furnishing increases the house begins to feel more like a what? home and So as God says you're one of mine.

I've called you. I've drawn you. I've had my son die for you. You're one of mine. My children act like me and as we begin to do that our assurance does what it goes up and These are the seven assurance builders that we'll find in the rest of 2nd Peter chapter 1 verses 5 6 7.

So here's the outline assurance builders that you are elect 7 Home furnishings as it were to show that you are elect and I'll tell you right out at the beginning. Not one of them is a neon e on your forehead.

Not one of them. These are internal. It's not a how-to list. It's not what to do its character and then how to treat other people. By the way, I have every one of these. I could use them for Christ. Jesus would be a good resume for him as well.

Assurance that you're elect number one in your life in your walk supply moral excellence right up to verse 5. 2nd Peter chapter 1 verse 5 for this very reason also applying all diligence in your faith supply with extravagance moral excellence.

He just starts off with a bang. You'd have to be up and out moral energy activity vigor energy. In classical Greek this word was used of God-given ability to perform heroic deeds. This is a dynamic active force.

Rise and shine up an atom the Puritans used to say, you know what? You're not feeling good. Here's our one remedy for all your maladies. Quote be up and about end quote. Be up and about. Thomas Brooks went on to say if that would recover assurance then sit now sit not down discouraged.

But be up and doing we were made to worship God. We were made to love our neighbor. So be up and about doing that is basically what he's saying with virtue not with lethargy, I Think it's the Marines that say we get more done by nine o 'clock than the rest of the world gets done all day.

That's the army army strong zeal. Not idly by my father would come downstairs most every week and say son your room is not going to be cleaned by Osmosis. It's exactly right if you want assurance God tells you in his goodness.

This is the means these are the means to assurance. Election never changes. But how you experience election God has given you the means to have a full Confident assurance and it is done through first of all you with extravagance.

Furnishing that household of faith with moral energy and excellence and vigor. Lloyd Jones says that is something you and I are called to do. In other words We must not recline on beds of ease and wait for something to move and disturb us.

This word is also used of something That does what it was made to do. You make a car cars made to go fast. Make a ball. It's meant to be bounced. You make it bored. It's meant to be surfed. There are a variety of things like that here.

God makes you he gives you new life, and you're made to please him and to work. Again, this doesn't earn our salvation, but this validates what God has already done validates said I'd like to do that, but kind of more boring routine mundane life.

One of the best things you could do is find somebody here in the church who serves all the time and just start hanging out. With them hang out with servers. It's amazing. I watch even young people. I watch a Gladman and Bernard.

I don't have to ask them to serve. I don't have to ask them to do things. I don't have to say well if you could do this or that they're just doing it and I would imagine if you ask those Two young men do they have good assurance when they're serving the answer is yes.

This is a zeal and verve for the Lord Passion spiritual caffeine if you will. Number two. If you'd like to have good assurance in your soul knowing that you've been elect by God. There are many ways to do it, but Peter gives us these seven number one supply moral virtue or excellence.

Not only that number two supply knowledge see that in verse 5. The outline just found right there in our passage 2nd Peter chapter 1 verse 5. Experience our election as sure and certain by not only supplying moral excellence, but in your moral excellence.

Knowledge, this is not just intellectual knowledge, which is fine. But this is knowledge that is more Wisdom oriented its practical application of knowledge. I just think how this is so logical. Peter says I want you to be up and Adam so you're running around but you don't have anything to do or think about.

I'm just busy. I have excellence. I have moral energy. I'm just running around. I figured it all out. I don't know how much I can walk around before this thing falls off and you're just moving. But he's he's applying that movement towards a direction and that direction is a a knowledge that you learn, but then you practically Apply it in the life of the church.

Our energy is governed by What we know. This could include discernment practical knowledge. Experiential knowledge. We're not just doing things to be busy doing things just randomly. We're doing things with knowledge.

Ignorance certainly isn't bliss and when it comes to your own assurance. We want to be busy, but we want to be busy doing things with Intellectual knowledge from God then lived out practically in the life of the church.

See I'd like to do that. I Need some help. Well, one of the things that I'd like you to do is find out. Find an older saint around here a wiser saint and live with them for a little bit that is to say You could be so bold as to say well, you know what?

I'd love to come over some night and just hang out for a while. Titus chapter 2 older women teaching Younger women. Titus 2 older men teaching younger men. There's something that we have at the church and that's good and we've got a lot of people with a lot of knowledge.

But we need to kind of grow a little bit and we have some faithful saints here that tend to have gray hair. Who just live that out and they've seen trials come and go and they know what the scripture teaches and they lived it out.

And that's one of the best things you could do is to hang out with older Christians. It's one of the reasons why I don't want to have some kind of Rock-and-roll circus here for music because if we have a rock-and-roll circus lots of things happen.

The main thing that happens is tons of young people show up and all the old ones leave. Because the old ones just cannot stand windmill guitars and stuff like that. You just watch Energetic music that's just rock-and-roll coffeehouse sound the old ones leave.

To push your envelopes a little bit. I'd rather have the young ones leave than the old ones because I need the old ones to disciple the young ones to care more about The Word of God than to feeling led by the Spirit because of the bass Vibrations of the guitar and that's a different sermon.

Okay, I'm holding myself Together if you want rock-and-roll music go out to your car and crank stuff crank striper up to volume 11 and rock out. What do I care? This is the church and the church has her own kind of music and this is church music.

Music that assists the singing not drowns it out. Well back to the older wiser Saints find someone find somebody older than you in whatever area. Frankly these days we have moms and dads who don't even train children how to make their beds or to cook food or do you?

Know make laundry and it's not your own fault necessarily. But if you're someone who can't even do their own laundry or cook bread or anything else grab a lady and say. You know what? You don't even need to teach me the hypostatic Union, but I'd love to learn how to make bread.

I Love Lewis's mother. She's got all these 20 year old kids following her. They're called It's mrs. Joy Brown and they're called brownies because they follow mrs. Brown and all the brownies run around 20.

They don't know anything about life and she says now you come here I'm gonna teach you to make bread and when you get married and you get mad at your husband I want you to make bread. Because you can need out all your frustrations number one and then number two.

You can present the one that you're mad at a gift in love love one another love your enemies that kind of thing I said to Maxine all the time. You don't even have to teach theology just teach people to make that awesome pie of yours.

We've got to keep moving. I Want to know that I'm chosen of God. I struggle with it. Subjective in God's eyes. And he's given us the wonderful means to know not just moral excellence not just knowledge, but number three.