Reverence for God — Paul van Engelenhoven

Worship to him who sits on the throne of heaven. Now, to get and understand Psalm 99 and the seriousness of blasphemy, I want to take you to a story in the book of Leviticus that describes the history of the death of an unknown man.

The Blasphemer in Leviticus 24

Leviticus 20, verses 10, verses 11 to 17. If you have your Bibles, please turn with me to Leviticus chapter 24. Actually, I'll start in verse 10. Now, an Israelite woman's son, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the people of Israel, and the Israelite woman's son and a man of Israel fought in the camp, and the Israelite woman's son blasphemed the name and cursed.

Then they brought him to Moses, his mother's name was Shalomith, the daughter of Debre and the tribe of Dan. They put him in custody till the will of the Lord should be clear to them. Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, bring out of the camp the one who cursed, and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head.

That is, they bring the condemnation upon him for what entered into their ears. And let all the congregation stone him, and speak to the people of Israel, saying, whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.

Whoever blasphemes the name of the Lord shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him, the sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the name shall be put to death. This is a traumatic story, isn't it, about this young man.

We never read his name. We don't know who he is. And the reason why is that his name is not worthy to be recorded. He is not worthy to be remembered. Because he misused the name, that you notice it's rare that the Bible uses this word, the name, to identify that in the same sentence of a blasphemer, you're not gonna bring the name of God even to a close proximity, even in the text.

In other words, this man was so filthy, so vile, and so horribly sinful, that his name was not to be written down, unless anyone should honor him by his name. And when he sins, it's not gonna say the name of God, because his sin is so horrifying.

As a result, the boy is stoned. His name is to be forgotten, and not just executed somewhere in a dark corner. No, he is to be publicly executed outside, a way so that his name will forever be forgotten, that he will only be known as the son of that woman.

And she is named. This is the seriousness of the honor of the name of the Lord. You see, he is not, in the story, he is not going against God, or going up on a mountain, and trying to curse God. No, this is a man that, in a fight with somebody else, misuses the name of God.

He takes the name of God lightly, and as a result, he is to be stoned to death. His name is to be eradicated, so that no one will ever remember his name. Now, there are many today who misuse the name of God.

It's all around. And they are not stoned. We don't see stones flying from heaven, or the servants of God going around, stoning everyone who misuses God's name in vain. And so, they seem to go free, as God lowered his standards, his blasphemy, no longer a great sin.

Well, make no mistake about it, they are marked by God. Because this stoning is only a prophecy of the judgment that will fall on those who blaspheme God's name. Those who misuse God's name are marked by God, and in a way, they're living dead men.

They're on their way to judgment, to stand before God, and be judged by God's eternal stoning. Arguably, the greatest sin in all the Bible is the sin of blasphemy. Using the name of God in vain. Now, it is my purpose and intention to show you today why this is so terrible.

And I could go into what the name means in Hebrew, that it describes the character, or describes the being of God, and that's why it's terrible, and all those things. But then I would just be able to persuade your mind.

I want you to be persuaded in your heart. You see, you're very persuaded in your heart that I should not misuse the name of your spouse. Right, man? If I were misusing your spouse's name, or if I was making fun of your spouse in front of you, you would be ready to pick up a stone.

You would say, my wife's honor you do not put on the line. How much more God's name? How much more the God who created us, who formed us, who sent his son to die for us, and ushered the eternal judgment in himself on the cross.

Worship Rather Than Blasphemy

Well, if we rightly understand Psalm 99, we will hate blasphemy the way God does. What is the opposite of blasphemy? What's the opposite of blasphemy? It's worship, it's praise, right? For us, it's not enough not to blaspheme, right?

As Christians, we're not just silent people. We're not like the rocks, or the trees, or the stones, or the mountains, or the hills, or the valleys. It's not enough to be quiet. We must not only not blaspheme, we must come to the other side, as the New Testament reveals, we must live a life of worship to God, walking in front of God in holiness, in reverence, in love, in fear.

Walking with God, like Enoch. Oh, I wish that we would know more about Enoch. For Enoch walked with God, and he was no more, for God took him. That's the life we are to live. And so, if we understand this as followers of Jesus Christ, to say we shouldn't abuse the name of God, if we stop there, we've fallen short, isn't it?

We must live a life in which our hearts, our minds, our lips are praising God. That with Paul, we can say, I worship my Lord from my spirit, from the bottom of my heart. I sing my life is constant praise to God.

I do all things for God, because he is worthy. I wake up in the morning, and I get out of my bed, because I can live another day for the glory of God. That's the life, isn't it? That is to keep the commandment.

You see, if we look at how Jesus Christ fulfilled this commandment, it wasn't that he just abused God's name. He did whatever God desired, in every way. That's the footsteps that we follow, by grace, through faith.

And so, what I want to lead you through tonight is five points, and they're these. Reverence for his majesty. Reverence for his justice. Reverence for his transcendency. Reverence for his nearness. And reverence for his holiness.

Now, I'm not a native speaker, and so I might pick the wrong words, sometimes, in my bullet points. But by the word reverence, what I really mean is that mixture of fear, love, joy, carefulness, holiness in the heart, by which we walk in worship before God.

Right, this way that Christ walked on the earth. And the reason why I picked these topics is because these come forth in Psalm 99. And the reason why I want to bring these forward is because these are just a few highlights that we could go on and on, and I could preach till my dying day with reverence for, fill in the blank.

I could go into reverence for, and name everything of God the Father, and of God the Son, and of God the Holy Spirit, and then I could do reverence for, and do the Trinity, and all their wonderful attributes, and what they have done, and reverence for the actions that they've done, and reverence for the promises he has made.

I can fill the entire Bible, or I can preach on the entire Bible with reverence for, because ultimately from Genesis to Revelation, everything is coming to us, so that we might have reverence for God, that we might love God, walk with God, fear God, worship God, praise God.

Reverence for God's Majesty

And so let us begin with reverence for his majesty. Please open your Bibles to Psalm 99. We'll look at the first three verses. This is what it says. The Lord reigns, let the peoples tremble. He sits enthroned upon the cherubim.

Let the earth quake. The Lord is great in Zion. He is exalted over all the peoples. Let them praise your great and awesome name. Holy is he. The psalmist opens our eyes, so that we can see things that our natural eyes cannot see.

You may have seen part of the funeral of Queen Elizabeth, and you see a little bit of earthly majesty. You see men standing in reverence and fear before an earthly regent, an earthly king or queen. But these words that the psalmist brings to us is far greater, isn't it?

Because if you, doesn't matter what king you are, doesn't matter if you were Caesar himself, the earth did not begin to shake before you. The mountains wouldn't tremble because you're just a man made out of the dust of the earth.

You're just a piece of this earth made out of dust. But what we see here is the eternal God seated upon his throne. Now, I want to read it to you in another way, and I don't mean to add to the scripture.

I just want you to see a reality. We could read it this way. Today, the Lord reigns. Let the people tremble. Today, he sits enthroned upon the cherubim. Let the earth quake. Today, the Lord is great in Zion.

Today, he is exalted over all the peoples. Therefore, let them praise your great and awesome name, for holy is he. He is right now seated on the throne. He is right now worthy that all the nations tremble before him and worship him from the bottom of their hearts.

He is seated right now and sees with his eyes us sitting here this night. This is not something of 2 ,000 years ago. This is eternal. In a billion years, he still sits above the cherubim. His sovereignty rules over all the people of the earth.

All our lives are in his hands. He can decide the very beats of our heart, and when it stops, the pressure of our blood, the ability to breathe oxygen is taken up, and our blood system is decided by him, and he can stop it at any moment.

He is majestic. There is nothing that is outside his control. Before him, or below him, are the cherubim, those fiery angels before whom we would quake, and fall in reverence and fear, and yet before God, they cover their eyes, and cover their feet, and say, holy, holy, holy.

All the nations belong to him, and it says in Isaiah, they are but a drop in a bucket. All the majesty, all the pomp, all the anxiety that you have listened to on the news this week, or what if the Democrats are gonna do this, or the Republicans, or Russia, or China, or Korea, Ukraine, all the news you get is a little drop in a bucket.

You wouldn't even notice it if you would see God. You would have to look carefully in comparison to God, and look on the vastness of heaven, and look for a bucket somewhere hidden in the vastness of heaven, and on that bucket, there's hanging a little drop on the edge, and you realize that's all the nations of the earth.

Do you grasp the majesty of God? I think if the smallest angel, the least of the least, the lowest rank of angels, or wherever these things are organized, if one of those would walk in here and live among us, we would all fall in love with that angel, and say nothing more perfect has ever been made like this.

Our no human eyes have ever behold something so beautiful, something so glorious, something so delightful, and something so beautiful. When you enter into heaven, the angels are simply the servants of God.

They are but a dim reflection. You know, if you love small things, I used to walk to school, and in the Netherlands, we have the dew coming up, and then the sun coming through, and sometimes you would see these beautiful, intricate spiderwebs, and then the dew would be upon it, and it would be just filled with all these little tiny drops, and then the sun would shine through, and when you look carefully, it beams with brilliant light in all these single drops, and you look at it, and you say, wow, this is beautiful.

It's made by God, and he can make an infinite number of them, but all these things, and all the glory, and the beauty of the things that our eyes long for, and love for, is but a reflection of God, but the backside of his glory, of his majesty.

However you can fill your heart, let's say we would sponsor you to become the most delightful, or the most happy person on earth, and we would all gather our money together, come up with the most wild and wonderful ideas, send you across the world, and in super luxury, buy a plane for you, make you travel the world, and see all the beautiful sights of heaven.

You would never have to work. You would be in absolute comfort all the days of your life. We'd guarantee your future until you die. We'd guarantee the best of everything, and you would enjoy that until you're 120, still in good health.

When you are done, you have but seen the outskirts of the shadow of the reflection of God's glory. We don't understand the majesty of God. We don't understand the majesty of the one to whom we pray so easily.

In the morning, we wake up, and we say, Heavenly Father, walk with us today and help us, not realizing that our voice enters into the deepest side of heaven, where God sits upon the throne, where God himself receives our prayers with his very own ears, and his heart is stirred with love and responds to our prayers.

Oh, that we could see a little bit of his majesty more every day. You see, my prayers, when I pray for you, I always pray this, that you would see God more, and I always add myself to it. And me too, Lord, that together we would see God more.

That was Paul's desire, wasn't it? That together we would see the length and the breadth and height and the depth of the love of God. That together, as we all run as much as we can to see the glory of God as much as we can, and we fill our eyes and our mind and our hearts with the glory of God, and then we share it, and then together we get this vast landscape of the love of God.

That's my hope, that we grow in that. That every week we speak to each other, we see more of the love of God. Our hearts are stirred up more. Not to see if we can argue with one another, or can define something more precisely, or sure, that's important, but to love God.

It's key to love God. Therefore, if we see that and we taste, if you have tasted that the Lord is good, why would we ever blaspheme this holy name? Which brings me to my second point. I realize that my time is gonna be short, so stay on board as we go through.

Reverence for God's Justice

Reverence for his justice, Psalm 99, verses three to five. Let them praise your great and awesome name. Beloved, the word awesome here means awesome. Not the way that we use it, awesome. A hamburger is not awesome.

A sports player is not awesome. He's just a sports player, it's a piece of meat. But God is awesome. Where if you would come into his presence, you would stand in awe. You would stand and your mouth would drop and just stand in awe.

And if God would not supernaturally strengthen you, you would stand there in awe for a million years and your body would be as revitalized as it ever could be. Because you would see something of his glory.

Well, let's go on. And praise your great name, an awesome name, holy as he. The king in his might loves justice. You have established equity. You have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob or in Israel.

Exalt the Lord, our God. Worship at his footstool. Holy is he. The second reason for praise to God is that the psalmist notes is his justice. God is a justice loving God. In this world, many of our leaders and the peoples in high places lose their respect and their reverence for their office by injustice.

Injustice. We soon find out that even the most respectable human beings are but people and faulty ones at that. And the great political game of our day is to cover up your past as much as you can so that nobody finds out who you truly are.

That the wickedness that rules in even the hearts of the most respectable people in our day is what takes them, shows them that they are like us. People that are unjust and in need of God's power. But not so with God.

He is perfectly just. His character, his actions, all his thoughts and doings are perfectly just. There's never anything that God does or does not say that is not perfectly just. There's nothing dishonorable in God.

All of us will look at God, hear his words, see his action for a billion upon billions upon billions of years for all eternity and never in all eternity will we see anything that is wrong. Can you grasp that with your mind?

Can you draw a line that has no end in your mind? We cannot understand it. We've never seen it except in the Lord Jesus Christ. But even if the apostles wrote down the life of Jesus that there was no sin in him, soon as it was written on paper and Jesus was gone, we don't understand it anymore, is it?

We've never seen one who is truly just. There's so much talk about justice in every way and I'm all for justice. But at the end of the day, we're like little ants trying to decide what justice is as we walk around in a little cup.

The only time that we can truly see and find justice is if we come to God. And the only way that we can truly reflect that justice is when we look at God and he transforms our hearts and it opens our hearts that we walk in justice.

We must speak with this name in the deepest reverence because there has never been anything unjust in him. Oh, that there would be a leader. Let me take it back. That there would be one hour of pure justice in the world in every way.

Wouldn't that be glorious? Every hour, there is wickedness going on in every city in the world. There is injustice in the homes, there's injustice on the streets. There's injustice everywhere. And maybe you're part of that.

And maybe you need to have a full drink of seeing the justice of God so that you're reflecting in this mirror so that you can see what you do to your husband. Or your wife. How you treat your spouse. How you treat your parents or your children.

Reverence for God's Transcendence

How you treat your neighbors or the people of this world. Oh, that we could see the majesty of his justice. Thirdly, reverence for his transcendency. Exalt the Lord our God. Worship at his footstool. Holy is he.

The Lord our God is above the heavens. He is above all. The earth is but his footstool. The entire earth with all its complexities before God is as simple as a wooden toy hammer to us. There's nothing complicated about it.

He fully understands this. He fully sees and knows everything. He's not like us and bigger, like us and better, like us and stronger, like us and wiser. He is altogether different. He's God. And we're but the reflection of his glory.

He is transcendent. He is God that created the one who brought matter and time into existence. Try to wrap your mind around that. The God who created time. Who created existence. You cannot grasp it. It's like an ant trying to understand a math test for a human being.

All he can do is walk on it and see black ink. It's beyond us. He is unlike anything we have ever seen or anything we have ever understood. We consider gold and diamonds as valuable but he created the world with one word.

We consider the galaxies to be enormous in size. He holds them in his hand. We consider the sand of the sea as numerous or numerous but he knows its position of every grain of sand and the history of where it ever has been.

If you see a dust flying when the sun comes in through the window and you see a spectacle of dust, he has seen that speck of dust for 6 ,000 years and he can tell you where it was on what millisecond anywhere through its history.

He knows every thought you've ever thought. He knows even the intentions of your thoughts that never came to the forefront of your mind. Do you grasp? If you grasp this, you can come forward and take over because I can't.

All I can do is wonder. I've said this before but even mankind with all its wisdom has not made one blade of grass. And even if man could make one blade of grass, God would raise the bar and says, okay, make it out of nothing.

He is transcendent. He can make matter and it's not a trick. He can make a cow with a word. Can you make something with your words? I can ask you something but I cannot make anything with my words. All I can do with my words is destroy you.

I can destroy things. I can destroy your heart with my words but I cannot create. But God, oh our God, to him, to us we think, oh the cherubim and their glory and their might. What a glorious sight a cherubim would be.

To God, a cherubim and earthworm are pretty much alike. He created the one as well as the other. For God, it's as easy to create an earthworm and create a cherubim that can kill 100, what was it, 40 some thousand men in a night.

For him, it's as easy to create a rock as to create an entire nation. That's why Jesus says, or that's why it says in the Bible, out of the rocks he can bring forth praise. God is transcendent and it's the greatest privilege for us tonight here to speak about God and to hear about God, to receive God's words and to say that we want to follow God and we believe God and we pray to God.

Oh, how dark is the sin of blasphemy. I think if God would not restrain the angels, every one of your coworkers who was ever blasphemed would die as quick as the blade of a cherubim could fly. Can you imagine the fierce anger of the angels of God towards those who blaspheme his holy name?

They have loved their God for at least 6 ,000 years. How much do you think they would get angry if they see you blaspheme his holy name? And yet God restrains his anger. Perhaps many of us have been blasphemers in our words, have misused the name of God.

God stood his angels back and he says, wait. And the angel says, good, you're gonna strike him down? That Paul there deserves the fiery strike of the almighty. God says, no, I'm gonna send my son to die and receive that strike that he deserves so that Paul can go free.

Reverence for God's Nearness and Prayer

Oh, let us draw near to him in reverence. Then reverence for his nearness. Verse six and seven, in the pillars of the clouds, he spoke to them. They kept his testimonies and the statues that he gave to them.

I'm sorry, I forgot six. Moses and Aaron were among his priests. Samuel also among those who called upon his name. They called to the Lord and he answered them. They called to the Lord and he answered them.

Do you grasp this? The God who we've just described as this amazing God who knows all things, who has all things in his hands, these dust worms called to him and he answered them. Not only that, he went in front of them.

He walked and marched them through the desert. When this man, Moses and Aaron, Moses whose blood, the blood of this Egyptian has just dried up as it had been dripping from his hand as he murdered this man.

Moses who stood against God and says, I don't wanna go. I don't wanna speak to you. Well, I'll let you do miracles. I still don't want it. Let somebody else go. This Moses said, God, can you help? And God stood up from his throne and stepped in to help.

The God who formed the heavens and the earth stepped into the life of Moses. And even when Moses says, I wanna see you. Show me your glory. We think, wow, what a reference, what a pure motivation. And God loved it.

But if you think about it, does God really have to show up when an earthworm stands and say, I would like you to walk by me. God did, he showed Moses his glory. You know why? Because this transcendent God is a loving God who loves to come near to his people.

He loves to come near to his people. He loves it when you and I pray, speak to God. He loves to answer our prayers. I can give you many verses. This is not once in a hidden corner in scripture. This is in many verses.

The Bible almost constantly says, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray. Why is that? Because God wants you to come near to him so that he come near to you. If you look in the mirror and you say, well, I'm not much to look at or I'm getting old.

Who cares about me? Or maybe you're at the end of your life and you had dreams where you're young and you thought I'm gonna do all these things and by the end of life, you realize I didn't really accomplish anything of what I thought I would accomplish.

You're depressed. You look at your life and you say it's useless. It's pretty much nothing. Realize that God listens to your prayers. I'd rather be able to pray than to be the president of the United States.

It is a greater privilege to pray in the name of Jesus Christ than to rule the most powerful nation in human history. It is greater honor when an old, weary body sits down or comes down to his or her knees and say, God, help me to pray.

And the earth with its nations that should tremble before God are in a way set aside and God listens to that person. God is a God who comes near. Oh, that we would grasp the privilege of prayer, not just the possibilities, I mean, they're endless, but just the privilege that we would speak more to God than to other human beings.

Try to spend a week speaking more to God than speaking to other human beings. You don't speak that much to other people unless your job is continuous talking. But even then, spend a week, more time talking to God and to other people, and you'll find yourself after that week more joyful, more strengthened, more glowing with his glory than you can ever imagine right now.

Yet why do we not take that privilege if the transcendent God comes near? You see, I often, the most frightening thing of a service for me is to pray, and yet it's the most glorious. Because what I realize is when I pray, it doesn't matter whether I'm fluent or not or whether I make mistakes or not or whether my mind is fuzzy or not, but we draw near to the throne of God.

Reverence for God's Holiness

That's privilege, that's glorious. Well, let me move on quick to point five, reverence for his holiness, which brings me to the last point. In verses three, six, and nine, the description keeps coming back, for God is holy.

God is holy. God is holy. That's the refrain, if you will. He is holy in his majesty. He is holy in his justice. He is holy in his transcendency. He is holy in his nearness. Because of his majesty, he is holy.

Because of his justice, he is holy. Because of his transcendency, he is holy. Because of his near, he is holy. Holy. He is the one by whom all things were created, for whom all things were created, and to whom all things were created.

He is separate from us. He is different from this fallen world. He is holy. And in the Bible, if you're a Christian this evening, you are called holy, saints, belonging to the holiness of God. You do not belong to this world.

Your eyesight will never be satisfied in this world. You see, we invite people to come to Christ, and we say, you receive incredible riches from Christ, and we're true, but usually what we forget to say is, you'll lose your appetite for anything in this world.

The things you used to love no longer gives you joy. The pleasure you used to have, the things you used to watch and would make you relax now just makes you restless. You no longer love the things of this world, but you love the things of God.

You receive holy appetites, which simply means the appetite that God has becomes your appetite, and now you walk with him. But time fails me to lay out the fullness of his holiness. Let me just bring it back to this.

Why was the blasphemy of the young man worthy of this terrible death by stoning? The answer is this, because God is holy, and those who walk before God must be holy. Why were the sons of Aaron struck down with fire from heaven?

Because those who draw near to God, who present God, must treat him as holy. Why did a man die? Because he touched the ark, because even the ark of God is holy. You see, every sin that we commit is blasphemy, because you and I were made to reflect God's glory and God's name on earth, and everything you do that insults his name is blasphemy.

When you lie, you're blaspheming God's holy name, because what you're representing is, I am created in the image of God, and God is a liar. If you gossip, you're blaspheming. If you're unkind and unloving and unforgiving and bitter, you're blaspheming the name of God.

You see, this touches everything. It's not for nothing that James says, if you break one commandment, you break the entire law. Now, if that's true, is there any hope? You see, if I said it tonight, we don't blaspheme anymore, that means don't use the name of God in vain.

All of us would pump our chest and walk out and say, got that one down. At least, I hope so. If you are actually misusing the name of God in vain, with your words, doesn't matter if you hit your finger or not, if you actually do that, you should really look into your own heart if you even know the Lord.

But that's not what blasphemy, that's not the totality of blasphemy. So how can we live in a way that we don't blaspheme God's name? Is it by not doing anything wrong? To look at our lives and to take one step at a time and think, making sure we don't do anything wrong and then take another step and then think, not sure do anything wrong.

When somebody says to us, we take 10 minutes to process the question and then respond after 10 minutes, making sure that in our attention, in our thoughts and in our hearts, there's nothing wrong in our response to whatever conversation, that'd be impossible.

Holiness Through Union With Christ

What we need is to worship God from the heart. In a way, we need the heart of God in us not to blaspheme his name. We need not just Christ in front of us, we need Christ in us so that when we've suddenly overtaken by stress or anxiety or pain, we respond as Christ responds.

That's what Christ promises. That's what it means to live by faith. Now, how does that happen? Well, first of all, when somebody comes to Christ, he receives a new heart. He is circumcised of heart. So the foundation is laced of Christ living in the heart but then we must grow in degrees of holiness.

We must go holier and holier and holier and holier. How do we do that? Well, the people in Galatians thought, okay, we start with Christ and then we try to do really hard and then we get better and better.

We got the foundation. We got a good example. We got the foundation of Christ and now we're gonna do really hard. We're gonna squint our eyes and press with all our minds and then we're gonna produce fruits.

That's what most people do. So you and I are tempted to do, to try to do it in our own strength. It'll never work. So long you look in the mirror, the more spots you will find that need to be washed but you'll never find the water that actually washes it away.

The Bible tells us a much better way, a higher road. It's this, 2 Corinthians 3 .18. And we all with unveiled face beholding the glory of the Lord. In other words, you look away from the mirror and you look to heaven.

You see Christ seated on the right hand side of God. Are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit. Are being transformed into the same image.

Are you doing the transforming or is it done to you? It's done to you. The only action here is the beginning. Beholding the glory of the Lord. You see that? Are being transformed. If you say, I have such a difficult heart that I'm wrestling with.

You'll never win. Your heart will outmaneuver your best strategies. I can give you 10 steps that may have worked in some way in my heart but as soon as you hit, you whack them all, it will pop out another way.

You can clean the outside by yourself but you cannot clean the inside. And so the way of the gospel is this. You look to Christ. And as your eyes are fixed upon Christ, the Holy Spirit is transforming you.

Renewing your mind. Renewing your heart. Making you more like Christ every day. It's the opposite of the Pharisees. See, the Pharisees looked at the law without God or without Christ. They look at the law and they try to, okay, there's a spot here and they take their dirty hands and they try to rub it here.

Now all of you who care about clean clothes, if you take a spot out with dirty hands, what kids like to do, it makes it worse. Right, instead of a little dot, now it's a big smear. The dot is gone because it's covered in the smear.

It's when you do it by your own strength. I no longer should be proud. No longer should be arrogant. But in your heart, it's boiling up and boiling up. And every time you think, don't be arrogant, it's raging through and you don't show it.

But oh, if somebody crosses you off in traffic and there's no other Christian around and it's not Sunday morning or afternoon, boom, you explode like a bomb. But if you look at Christ, he will transform you from one degree of glory to the next and then to the next and then to the next.