(2006 Conference) 11. the Balance of Truth-2 (Bible Study) — Zac Poonen

Faith, Works, and the Life of Christ

In our study, the balance of truth, yesterday we considered what it means to be balanced in two areas. First of all, in relation to faith and works in the Christian life. There is a place for faith and there is a place for works and salvation, forgiveness of sins and the gift of the Holy Spirit, we saw was entirely by faith.

You can't do any works to receive those gifts. But after that, the Bible says that God's people must be zealous for good works. And then we also saw that we need to be, you know, just to come back to that, there are people who can be imbalanced here, where once they've accepted Christ, they know they're saved.

They don't realize the importance of allowing the life of Christ to come forth through them in a life of good works towards other people. The Bible says about Jesus that he went about doing good and delivering people who are oppressed by the devil.

That was his earthly life. And if you and I have really received that life, it will make us go around doing good and delivering people around us who are oppressed by the devil. For myself, that is the test of whether I have received the life of Christ.

The life of Christ has not changed. When he was on earth, he went about doing good. And if you receive that life, it will make you go around doing good. And the world around us is surrounded, we're surrounded by people who are oppressed by the devil in various ways.

And if we have the life of Christ, we will go around setting them free. If we don't have the life of Christ, we'll just sit back and say, my sins are all forgiven. I'm on my way to heaven and just deceive ourselves.

So there is a place for faith in words. We also saw that our love for God is tested by our love for our fellow human beings. A person says he loves God and he doesn't love his fellow human being, he doesn't really love God at all.

Grace and Truth in Jesus Christ

So today we want to look at another area where we need to be balanced. It says in John's Gospel chapter one, and that's the area of grace and truth. We read in John chapter one, verse 14, the word became flesh and dwelt among us.

And we saw his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. The glory of God is what he wanted Adam to have, and Adam missed it. And nobody ever could have it on earth till sin was removed.

And so the first person that manifested the glory of God in his life was Jesus Christ in whom there was no sin. And that glory, there was a balance in that glory of grace and truth. Both were necessary for the glory of God to be seen.

And Jesus came and died and has given us the Holy Spirit. Remember the two-fold gift with which we are to begin our Christian life? Forgiveness of sins and the gift of the Holy Spirit. Every Christian can have that the day he's converted.

And without these, he can't really progress. So the purpose of forgiveness of sins is to clean the vessel and the gift of the Holy Spirit is to fill the vessel with what? With the life of Jesus or the glory of God.

And if it is really there, it will be the same life that was seen in Jesus, the same glory that was seen in Jesus with a balance of grace and truth. We won't have it in the fullness that Jesus had, but a little bit, you know, just like a baby, its legs are not as long as the legs of a grown-up man, but his legs are equal in size.

And as that baby gets one year old, its legs become a little bigger, but both legs grow. When it becomes two years old, it's a little taller and both legs are still equal. All, I mean, 99 of the babies you see are not walking sideways in an imbalanced way.

They're walking normally. And as they grow taller, both legs grow normally. And that's the way from the time we are born again, grace and truth, we must grow in both these areas as we grow to the maturity there is in Christ.

It's not something that we finally attain to. We had to grow. You know, growth is something which the New Testament speaks about. I want to show you a verse in 1 Peter, in chapter 2. 1 Peter, chapter 2.

Many of us think of salvation only in terms of, oh, my sins are forgiven, I'm going to heaven. But have you ever seen this verse, 1 Peter, chapter 2, verse 1, where it says we must grow in respect to salvation?

How do you grow in respect to salvation? Now, many people, if they heard a word like that, growing in respect to salvation, they think it's a wrong teaching. You'd have to accuse Peter of wrong teaching and the Holy Spirit of wrong teaching.

Here it says about growing in respect to salvation. Because salvation is not just salvation from the judgment of God, that's over. We need to experience another salvation right now. And that is salvation from this Adamic nature that we've all inherited.

None of us have been saved completely from that. Even after we are born again, we have what the Bible calls the flesh, which is Adam's nature. And growing in salvation means being saved more and more from that Adam's nature is the opposite of grace and truth.

Or it is the counterfeit of grace and truth. We have to grow in respect of salvation means that we get more and more free from Adam's nature that has ruled us. And just like a baby growing, both our legs must grow together.

Speaking the Truth in Love

So, there must be graciousness in our life, kindness towards other people, gentleness. At the same time, there must be truth. The Bible speaks about speaking the truth in love. If you choose only one of these, it's easy.

If you decide, I'm just going to love people, I'm never going to tell them the truth. I think a lot of preachers are like that. They never tell people the truth. They say, oh, we just love them and not offend them.

Jesus wasn't like that. And then there are some other preachers who go to the other extreme who say, hey, fellas, I've got to hear the truth. They don't love them at all. They just keep on hammering away at people with some truth.

So, when we think of imbalance, my feeling is, I hope I'm wrong, but my feeling is that most of our elders preach truth without much love. I hope I'm wrong, but I fear that I'm right. So, if you recognize where your imbalance is, you need to work on the other side.

If one leg is shorter than the other, and you're walking sort of lopsided, you know which side, which leg needs to get longer. We shouldn't compromise on the truth, but we must speak it in love. At the same time, there may be a few people, I don't know, who want popularity, and so they tickle people's ears.

I don't think we have many like that in our midst, preachers like that, but in many churches and other churches, that's what happens. They don't want to lose people's offerings. They don't want the rich people to go away.

And usually the rich people are the most troublesome people in every church. I remember when we started meeting as a church 30 years ago, the first people to get offended and leave were the rich people, because we didn't hold back the truth.

We didn't hate them, but they got offended because they were treated like everybody else. And in most churches, rich people are not treated like everybody else. They are treated special. I never believed in treating any rich person special.

I couldn't care less who he is or where he is from. In God's eyes, a king and a beggar are the same. And to a servant of God, to a true servant of God, a king and a beggar are the same. They need to hear the truth, and very often when we preach the truth, it's the rich people who get offended and leave first.

Well, they're welcome to go. We never stopped any of them. We say, we don't wish you any evil. God bless you. Go where you are. I don't know what happened to them. But the point is this, it's not just in our speaking, but in our life.

There must be this balance, you know, like God is light and God is love. There must be purity and there must be love. So, it's a balance that there must be in our life all the time, like two legs growing up if we are to be balanced in the truth.

Jesus as the Friend of Sinners

Jesus, to use an illustration, you know, Jesus was so attractive to people, even to sinners. Even though he was the holiest man alive that ever walked on earth, with no sin in him, he never compromised on any sin.

There was absolutely no sin that he would tolerate, big or small. And yet some of the greatest sinners in his time, like the thief on the cross and the woman caught in adultery and demon-possessed women, came to him because he was the friend of sinners.

Imagine, the holiest person on earth was the friend of sinners. That is the balance. Whereas, it's possible for our church to be so holy that it doesn't attract sinners. And I believe this is an area where we need to judge ourselves.

A lot of our churches, not only ours, all churches, need to judge themselves to see whether we are clearly reflecting Christ. And you know, you can compare Jesus with the Pharisees. The Pharisees also had an outward emphasis on holiness.

And like I have said many times before, grace and truth, or truth and grace, truth and grace can be compared to the bones and flesh in our body. I don't mean what the Bible calls flesh, but this physical flesh that covers our bones.

Do we need bones in our body? Sure. If we didn't have bones, we'd just collapse. We wouldn't even be able to stand up. Of course, there's some advantage in not having bones because you can squeeze through any opening, whether the opening is square or circular or diamond-shaped or star-shaped.

Person without bones can just squeeze through. And there are Christians like that who can fit anywhere in any group because they don't have any bones. Among worldly people, they are worldly, and amongst religious people, they'll be religious, and in any denomination, they are okay because they don't have any convictions.

There are some Christians like that. It's not actually an advantage, it's a disadvantage. They have no value for truth. I remember years ago, I was invited, I was the only speaker to speak at a, they arranged special meetings for me somewhere, and just before I went there, they sent a letter to me one week before the meeting saying, Brother Zach, see this is an interdenominational meeting, so please don't speak on water baptism.

Can you imagine telling Peter that on the day of Pentecost, the first gospel message? He preached on water baptism, the very first gospel message. But I'll tell you this, you go to any gospel meeting in the world today, you'll never hear about water baptism, never.

If you hear one, let me know where it is. You can watch all the television programs, you'll never hear about water baptism. It's just silence, because it's not popular, because some people don't like to be baptized in water after they are born again, so all the preachers keep quiet about it.

Tell me if you ever heard a message on water baptism, it's rare, maybe one in a million. But Peter preached on water baptism, the very first gospel message. So they told me don't preach on water baptism, I said, well, I think you got the wrong man to be the speaker, I'm sorry, I can't come.

I won't come, if you tell me what to speak on, go and find somebody else. So they canceled the meeting, and they got so angry with me, they never invited me again. Of course, I never wanted to go there again.

But I've had a number of experiences like that. I say, if you're telling me to speak about, not to speak about the Iraq war or something like that, okay, that I'm willing to keep quiet on because it's not in the Bible.

Anybody can have their own views on it, is it right or wrong? But if you're telling me not to speak on something written in the New Testament, I say, brother, forget it, that's one of the bones in my body, are you telling me to take it out?

No, I don't want to lose even one bone in my body. Are you so convicted about truth? Now, I'll tell you something. There are bones in the body you can do without, supposing you lose a little finger, that doesn't incapacitate you for life.

But if God's made a little finger, you might as well have it. So personally, my attitude to the truth of God's Word has been, everything written in the New Testament is for me. I don't, okay, Old Testament, there are a lot of laws which are not for me, like don't eat pork, et cetera, I don't love pork in any case, but it's not, if somebody wants to eat it, he can eat it.

But anything written in the New Testament, particularly in the epistles and the teaching of Jesus, these are the two areas which are very important for me, the teaching of Jesus and the epistles. Why are the epistles important?

The Holy Spirit and the Authority of the Epistles

Because Jesus told his disciples in John chapter 16, I've got many more things to say to you. Let me show you that verse. It's important to understand that because John chapter 16, verse 12, I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.

You cannot bear them now means you are not able to grasp them now. Why are you not able to grasp them now? Because you don't have the Holy Spirit inside. Even if I explain it, you won't be able to understand.

Jesus was the world's best preacher. He says you can't understand it if you don't have the Holy Spirit. I can explain it, but you won't be able to grasp it. Because these things are not by cleverness, these things are by the revelation of the Spirit.

But when he, the Holy Spirit of truth has come on the day of Pentecost, he will guide you into all these wonderful truths which I want to tell you, which I can't tell you now. And what are those truths?

What you read in the epistles, Paul's epistles, Peter's epistles, James, Jude. Now why do I say that? Because some people say, hey, I only read what Jesus said. Well, the epistles are also what Jesus said.

Did you know that? According to this verse, if the apostles had the Holy Spirit, everything that he revealed to them in the epistles, he would have revealed to them then. The only reason he didn't reveal it to them was because they were not ready to receive it.

For example, the wonderful truths in Ephesians, your names were written in the book of life before the foundation of the world. Did Jesus ever tell his disciples that? They wouldn't have understood it.

But is it true or not? Of course it's true. But they understood it only after the day of Pentecost, or every spiritual blessing is ours in the heavenly places in Christ. Jesus never spoke about that, but he did speak about it in Ephesians.

This is part of this verse. I have many more things to say to you. You can partake of the divine nature, 2nd Peter 1 .4. Jesus wanted to say it, but they wouldn't have understood it. You go through all the epistles and the next time you read the epistles, remember these are the words of Jesus.

Unless you think these people were not inspired by the Holy Spirit, then of course you got a different Bible from mine. But there are Christians who say, well, that was Paul's opinion. Who said that sisters should cover their heads when they pray and prophesy?

Jesus. You say, where? 1 Corinthians 11. That wasn't Jesus you say, that was Paul. He didn't like women, the guy was not married, so he said all types of things. No sir, or no madam, that was Jesus. One of those things in John 16 .12, which he couldn't tell them then.

So, I have taken that attitude to all the letters in the epistles, to try and follow everything that's written there. That's why, for example, I don't wear any gold as decoration or ornaments, because I believe that that's what is written in 1 Peter 3 and 1 Timothy 2, and God doesn't want it, any of this gold and pearls and all that.

I don't judge other people who don't wear it, just like I go to churches where women don't cover their heads, I don't judge them, it's not my business. I am not the judge of anybody. But I want every bone in my body.

If someone likes to live without a little finger, that's up to them. But I'd like to obey everything. Some people have asked me, Brother Isaac, have you changed your view on ornaments? Never. I've had the same view on ornaments for the last 47 years and I've never changed my view.

Others may have changed their view, that's up to them, it's not my business, I'm not their judge, God is their judge. But I take God's, every word of God, exactly. Jesus said, if you disobey the least commandment and teach other people to disobey the least commandment, you will be the least in the kingdom of God.

So I'm never going to disobey the least commandment or teach other people to disobey the least commandment. I'm not going to judge them if they don't keep it, but I'm not going to disobey it and I'll never teach other people to disobey it.

I say take everything in the epistles and obey it. You'll never lose out by obeying it. So you can live with 9 or 10 bones missing in your body, sure. There are, you know, a lot of people who lost one hand and I don't know how many bones there are in this hand, minus so many bones, they still live.

So if you're only instead interested in survival, you don't need all of God's truth. You don't need all the bones. But if you're interested in being, manifesting the whole entire glory of God, you cannot say to Jesus, well, you didn't know what you were talking about when you wrote that in scripture.

If you want, you can say that and I'm not going to say it. And I can tell you this, everything that I have found in scripture, just like I told you yesterday, there may be certain things I do which you don't understand why I do it, but I've got a reason for it.

In the same way I say there are certain things that God has said in his word, which I may not understand the reason for it, but he's got a very good reason. So I realized that God must have had a very good reason why he wrote certain things in scripture because there are a lot of things which are not mentioned in scripture.

For example, scripture never tells us how many times we should have a bath, once a year or twice a day. So we never speak about that because that's not part of God's truth. That's up to you. There are a lot of things like that.

The New Testament never tells us how many children you should have, so we never talk about that. That's up to you, whether you have two or ten, that's up to you. So, but there are certain other things which are spoken in the New Testament, and if you read carefully, you will find them.

And you can skip over those passages because, hey, that's embarrassing, let's go to the next verse. Who's going to be the loser? You. So think about that, whether you are missing something of the glory of God by ignoring something in scripture.

You can't tell that other person to obey in water baptism if you disobey in some other area. He may not know the scriptures to point it out to you. That's the thing I felt. The fellow will ask me, is it necessary to be baptized in water to go to heaven?

I'll say no, it's not necessary. So why should I be baptized? Because it's written in God's word. But then he can point out something else written in God's word, hey, this is also written in God's word, why don't you obey this?

What will you say? If you hadn't seen it in scripture, okay. But if you have seen it, and you say, hey, well, I want to be a little bit like the world. Go ahead. But I want to tell you, it's my responsibility as a servant of God to tell you, there's something of the glory of God you'll miss.

If there's something you know to be in scripture, and you disobey it. If you don't know, and you disobey it, that's fine. But if you know it to be in scripture, and you disobey it, I can give it to you in writing, you will miss something of the glory of God, and you'll have some regret in eternity.

That applies to any scripture. And so I want all of God's truth. So Jesus, when he went for the baptism, John the Baptist said, Lord, I need to be baptized by you. And he said, no. Did Jesus need to be baptized?

No. It was a baptism of repentance. And Jesus stood in the queue, in the line with all the people, one by one, John is baptizing them, and Jesus also comes. I see his tremendous humility, standing there in the line with all the sinners, willing to be identified with them, even though there was not a spot of sin in him.

And he just comes up to John, just like all the others, he doesn't say, hey, you know who I am? No. But John recognizes, Lord, I can't baptize you. He says, do it. Because to fulfill all righteousness, I must do this.

Jesus was very exact. In any little thing, that is the glory of God. And I'll tell you something, God is tremendously delighted with any child of his who is very exact in obeying everything he finds in scripture.

Resisting Compromise in the Church

So I want to say to all of you, don't allow other people who have started compromising on scripture to lead you astray. Let the world compromise. Christendom, throughout history, if you read church history, you see churches started with great devotion to obey all of God's word.

After about 25 years, they all started compromising. 25 years is about the limit that most churches keep to what they originally held. And after that, they start compromising. And if you read church history, you will discover usually the leaders never compromised.

It was the second generation that started compromising. And it's something like the human body. Doctors say that your health, your physical ability, reaches a peak at the age of 25, and after that you're going down, less and less and less.

Something like that in a church too. So I see signs of that in different churches of ours. I want to say to those of you who are wholehearted and who want to please God and your only desire in life is to please Jesus Christ with all your heart, I would say to you, don't compromise.

If you don't see something in God's word, then forget it. But if you see something in God's word, never ask yourself, what are the others doing? I couldn't care less what the others are doing. What does the Holy Spirit say?

Doing God's Will According to Scripture

There's a lovely word written about Jesus in Hebrews chapter 10. It says in Hebrews chapter 10 that when Jesus came into the world, Jesus came into the world and he said, verse 5, sacrifice an offering you don't desire.

God doesn't want sacrifice and offering, but you gave me a body, and what am I supposed to do in this body? All of you can say that. God gave you a body through your mother's womb. What are you supposed to do in that body?

Behold, I have come, verse 7, Hebrews 10, in the scroll of the book, that is the Bible, it is written about me, to do your will, O God. So, God has given me a body, and I go into the book, God's word, and I see in this book what I'm supposed to do with my body, God's will.

Here I am, O God, in the scroll of the book, in every verse, it's written about me. I'm not here to judge another soul in the world. I'm not bothered whether they are obeying God's word or not. It is written about me, not us.

No, not us. It's written about me. Jesus couldn't care less whether the Pharisees were obeying God's word or not. It's written about me, and I, my father, have come to do your will. And even if everybody around me compromises and disobeys, I am going to obey you.

You take that attitude, you will follow Jesus. The glory of God will be seen in your life. Don't follow the other brothers and sisters, follow Jesus. That's why you need to study God's word. And don't use your reason, just do what God's word says.

Grace Covering Truth in Pastoral Ministry

Grace is the other side. Truth, you know, if we had only truth, we'd be a skeleton, and that's the problem with some people. It's all skeleton. There's a lot of churches like that. Hey, you got to do this, you got to do that, you got to do that.

You feel exactly like a skeleton coming to you. I mean, you don't feel exactly excited when you see a skeleton approaching you, even if it's got all the bones. That's how the Pharisees were, and sometimes we can preach truth like that, in such a way where we scare people.

Hey, why aren't you doing this? Why aren't you doing that? You know, sometimes we have had foolish sisters who, when some newcomer comes to the church, they say, hey, why are you wearing ornaments, or why are you wearing a puttu?

Yeah, they've just come for the first time. Don't drive them away. They haven't heard everything yet. You see, that's skeleton approach. That's wrong. Jesus never did that. No. On top of this truth, we must have grace.

Grace is the flesh. And you know how beautiful we become when flesh is over our bones, and how good-looking some of you are, because there's flesh on all your bones, and just think of one day when that flesh goes away from you, how ugly you will look, just skeleton.

That's truth without grace. So we must have truth with grace. We must speak the truth in love. Grace must cover the truth. That's why Jesus was attractive. When the woman of Samaria came, as soon as Jesus saw her, he knew this woman had five husbands.

The one he's living with now is not her husband. Did he start with that? He said, hey, you're the woman with five husbands, right? No. He said, give me some water. And like that, he started. And he wanted her to confess her sin and said, go and call your husband.

She said, I have no husband. He said, that's right. You've had five husbands. The one who speaks, the one who you live with is not your husband. Oh, she got embarrassed. So you know what people do when they're embarrassed?

They change the subject. Lord, this business about worship, you know, I had a question about worship. Can you please tell me about worship? Some people say we got to go to Jerusalem. Some people say we can worship here.

And Jesus didn't say, hey, hey, hey, don't change the subject. I was talking about your husband. That's how some of our believers today would have done. But not Jesus. There was a woman who was divorced five times.

Oh, the way a lot of Christians treat divorced people. Holy Christians, the way they treat divorced people is absolutely shameful. It's truth they stand for, but there's no grace in them. But Jesus, when he saw that she was embarrassed, he continued on the subject of worship.

I see something beautiful there. He won her. And after winning her, he used that five times divorced woman to win the whole city of Samaria. That's God's way. It's grace covered with truth. And I tell you, if we had more grace covering our truth, we would win a lot more people to our churches.

If our elder brothers who get up and preach had grace over their truth instead of hammering away, taking a hammer and hitting this fellow and that fellow on the head, we'd have had a lot more sinners converted.

We need grace with truth in our life and in our personal conversation also. When you go into a home, you're not there to set everything right in their home. You're not even there to set everything right in anybody's life.

Jesus will set it right. Many, many times. This has been my experience for 30 years. I see brothers. I see even elder brothers. I see many brothers and sisters. I see many things in their life I just don't agree with.

But I don't tell them that. It's not my business. I see something good that I can appreciate. Like Jesus, I may ask for a cup of water. And fellowship as much as possible. Lead them little by little to a godly life.

And let them get light themselves. Maybe two years later, I'm willing to wait two years. God's willing to wait two years. I don't even push a person to salvation. I mean, if a man says, well, I'm not ready to give up my sin.

I said, oh, you've got to kneel down right now and accept Christ. No, I never say that. God doesn't do it. Think of that rich young ruler who came to Jesus. And Jesus said, you know, you're a wonderful man.

But there's one thing lacking in your life. Jesus, you know what it says in that verse? Jesus looked at him and loved him. He said, boy, what potential for God's kingdom. But one thing missing. You love money too much.

Go, my dear young man, go and sell all that you have. Give it to the poor. You've got a terrible cancer. Get rid of it. He turned and went away. Jesus knew that that man was walking on the way to hell.

He never stopped him. He could have been an apostle. He could have been one of the 12 for all you know. But he walked away from that. I don't know where he is today. But if he finally did go to hell, go to him in hell today and ask him, was it worth it?

Rejecting that loving call of Jesus that day? And even if he was a compromiser who went to heaven, there are some compromisers who reach heaven, you ask him in heaven, okay, you finally go to heaven. What do you think?

Was it worth it? Oh, he said, don't make the mistake I made. I got here all right, but I got such regret that my life could have been so powerful and useful for God on earth. But I wasted it because I did not do one thing the Lord told me.

Jesus was gracious. That's how we must be. Grace with truth. Let's pursue that all our life. And in order to protect us while we are growing, God gives us other brothers and sisters in the church who balance us out.

Balanced Leadership in the Church and Home

You know, one may be, that's why the Bible says churches must always have at least two elders. Not one. One man show destroys everything. But two means one will balance the other. If, if, big capital I F.

If one strong elder brother is willing to accept that weaker elder brother as absolutely necessary for him. That is very difficult. I have seen churches even in our midst where there are two elder brothers according to the letter of the law.

They've got two elders, but it's only for namesake. One of the elders is very strong and there's nothing wrong in that provided he's willing to accept that he's imbalanced, that he needs the balance that comes from the other brother until he himself grows up in that area.

There are very few elder brothers like that. Thank God there are some, but the very few. Most of them feel, hey, I'm all right. I'm balanced. I'm okay. And this fellow, well, because Brother Zack says we got to have two elders.

Okay. I keep two elders, but he's just there to put his rubber stamp and I take all the decisions. Well, that's why your church is in such a pathetic state. That's why your church is in such a pathetic state.

And that's why you have so many problems in your church. Because you're not willing to recognize that you are imbalanced. You may be full of grace and that brother is the one God sent to you to bring a little more truth into your church.

Or you may be the one with all the bones, but not much flesh. And God brings him along to balance you out, but you won't accept him because you're the senior one. That's the tragedy in so many of our churches.

You know, God brings two people together. I've seen it happen again and again. God brings two people together. They are so opposite, perfectly matched to build a church. And one man dominates the other and destroys the church.

It can happen in a marriage. God, why do we need a husband and wife in a marriage? Why do we need a father and mother? Because children must see grace and truth. It would be terrible if both parents are strict or both parents are kind.

It's good that one is strict and one is grace and one is truth. That's how it should be. Romans 11, 22 says, look at the kindness and the severity of God. God is so kind and he's so strict. And he's a father.

A good father will be kind and he'll be strict. He will rebuke and he will encourage. So, that is the balance we need in a church. And that's the balance we need in our life. And that's the balance we need in our home.

But when we start out, we're not like that. When we start out, when we are young, we're full of zeal and we are all imbalanced. And so, we are given, you know, most of us get married by the time we're around 30 or so.

We're thoroughly imbalanced. So, God gives us a partner to balance us. And you're not a foolish husband just forcing your wife to be like yourself. There'll be a balance in your home. But if you are a foolish husband, just forcing your wife saying, ah, your opinion is not worth anything, you'll destroy your home and your children.

But if you'll value your wife and say, well, God's given her to me to balance this imbalanced wretch. God has given her to me to balance me out. Your children will be blessed. Yeah. So, I want you to recognize that.

The glory of God was seen in Jesus Christ. He was the only perfectly balanced man that walked on the earth. I'm sorry to say, my dear brother, you're not perfectly balanced. You better recognize that.