Christian Life - a Battleground, the (Satan's Tactics) — Warren Wiersbe

The Christian Life as a Spiritual Battleground

You've discovered, I'm sure, in your Christian life that the Christian life is not a playground, it's a battleground. Before I was saved, according to Ephesians chapter 2, I walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.

Before I was saved, according to Ephesians 2, I walked in the lusts of the flesh. And those are the three enemies the Christian faces, the world and the flesh and the devil. We're seeing across America a tremendous satanic revival.

If we could have a spiritual revival of the dimensions of the satanic revival we're having, we'd win the world. I walked into a very prominent bookstore in Chicago some weeks ago and surveyed shelf after shelf after shelf of books about the occult.

You can walk down Wells Street or Michigan Avenue and meet people who are promoting Satanism. The Satan Church today is officially recognized. You won't do it, but if you did give a donation, it would be tax-deductible.

I think Satan has had more churches than those who have just officially been recognized, by the way. The Christian has to know how to handle this battle against the devil. I hear people say, here's a fellow going down Clark Street, he's reeling, he's drunk, the devil's got him.

That's the flesh. It's the flesh that makes a man lust. It's the flesh that makes a man drunk. I'm not defending the devil, but I do want to explain from the Word of God that Satan's tactics are far more subtle than that.

There are Christians in Chicago who are being taken in by Satan and don't know it. It's possible there are some Christians in Wichita who are being taken in by Satan and don't know it. So let's spend our time tonight, I trust profitably, in looking at the strategy of Satan.

In order to follow the strategy of Satan and learn how to defeat him, we're going to do it the easiest way possible. We're going to talk to four people in the Bible who had a personal encounter with Satan.

Interestingly enough, all four of them are in the Old Testament. Did you know that Satan is mentioned at work only four times in the entire Old Testament? He's there the whole time, don't misunderstand me.

But you're going to find four episodes in the Old Testament where Satan is dealing personally with somebody. I seriously doubt whether Satan has much to do with me. I'm not that important. He has some junior demon, I think, assigned to my frequency.

You remember in the book of Acts, the Apostle Paul was casting out demons and some Jewish men came along and thought they'd do the same thing. And so in trying to cast out this demon, they said to the man, in the name of Jesus whom Paul preaches, sort of a secondhand kind of a formula, in the name of Jesus whom Paul preaches, come out of him.

The demon spoke up and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know, who are you? That's rather interesting, they knew who Jesus was, obviously. And they knew who Paul was. I imagine out there in the satanic atmosphere where Satan and his armies rally, the name of Paul was cursed over and over again because Paul had invaded their territory.

If you start invading the devil's territory, the demons will get to know you. Now in the Old Testament, you're going to find four persons who had a personal encounter with Satan. If you're the kind of person who takes notes, the outline is going to run like this.

In each case, there was a target, a weapon, a purpose, and a defense. In each case, when Satan came to these persons, there was a target he was aiming at. There was a weapon he was using. There was a purpose he was seeking to achieve.

And thank God there's a defense that we can use against him. Now with the Lord's help tonight, and you must pray as you listen, with the Lord's help tonight, I want us to be able to go away recognizing the strategy of Satan.

You say, well, Pastor, are there only four tactics that he uses? There are four basic tactics that Satan uses. You say, I thought it was more complicated than that. No, men have made it more complicated.

Satan's Attack on Eve's Mind

But there are four basic tactics that Satan uses, and if you and I can grasp these, we'll be well on our way, with the Spirit's help, to having victory. Genesis chapter 3 is the first person we're going to meet in the person of Eve.

Genesis chapter 3. Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden. God has said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

The serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die, for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. Of course, you know the rest of the story.

The woman saw, and she desired, and she took, and their eyes were opened, but not quite the way she expected, and sin has now entered the human race. Now what was the target at which Satan was aiming?

Keep your place in Genesis 3, but turn back to 2 Corinthians chapter 11. The greatest commentary on the Old Testament is the New Testament. And so when you read your Old Testament scriptures, always trace your cross-references.

I meet many saints of God who have these beautiful cross-references in the middle of their page or on the edge of the page, and never use them. Now we're going to follow our cross-reference back to 2 Corinthians chapter 11 and verse 3.

Paul says, But I fear lest by any means as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. His target was her mind. Now, why in the world would Satan want to aim at my mind for this reason?

When God wants to communicate his truth to me, he communicates his truth through my mind. Why is it that many, many Christians have the idea that when you walk into the house of God, you take off your hat, you take your brain off with it, hang both of them up someplace, and come in and sit down?

The Bible was written for the mind as well as for the heart. God's truth must be taught to the mind. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy mind. One whole book in the New Testament is devoted to the mind, the book of Philippians.

Some eighteen times in that four-chapter letter, Paul talks about thinking, remembering, knowing, the mind, the mind, the mind. Your mind is important. A man said to me one day, he said, Pastor, when I pray, I just empty my mind.

I said, you do that, and Satan moves right in. God never asked anybody to empty his mind. We have all kinds of brethren. We have the United Brethren and the Plymouth Brethren, who rarely drive Plymouths.

They most often drive Cadillacs and Lincolns. We have the River Brethren, but Paul hit the nail on the head. Paul said the biggest denomination of all, the ignorant brethren. I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren.

And people say to me, oh, you know, I don't know my Bible. Why? We ought to know the Word of God. You say, well, I haven't got time. I talked to a young man yesterday who's a member of our church, teaches one of our Sunday school classes, was saved out of a cesspool of iniquity, has a job that would break my neck.

He's in construction and he's a supervisor in construction, which often means 14 hours a day work. He devotes two hours a day to the study of the Word of God. It's fantastic. He attacked her mind. Now, what was his weapon?

His weapon was lies. Now, Satan's a liar. Jesus tells us that over in John 8, 44. He said to that religious crowd, ye are of your father, the devil. He's a liar and he's a murderer. It's rather interesting.

God's truth brings life. The devil's lies bring death. You say, well, I'm sort of neutral. You can't be neutral. If a person doesn't believe truth, he ends up believing a lie. God has so constructed the human mind that if we do not accept truth, we end up accepting lies.

Now, his weapon lies. Notice how he does it. Go back to Genesis 3. He comes as the serpent using one of the beasts of the field. He never comes in his true guise. I stopped in a bookstore a couple of weeks ago.

I spent a lot of time going through bookstores. I love books and I want to see what people are reading, especially my young people. And here was a table stacked up with books on the occult, with pictures of Satan.

I'd fire the artist. Satan doesn't look like that. A horned, hideous creature with a tail and a pitchfork, that's ridiculous. That came out of the comic books. That didn't come out of the Bible. But Satan never comes in his true guise.

He always comes disguised as a masquerader. Notice what he does now. In verse one, he questions God's word. Yea, hath God said that's always the first step. The question mark. I can't help but think a question.

I don't like a serpent. Here's the question mark. Yea, hath God said thou shalt not commit adultery. Yea, hath God said it's wrong to cheat on an examination. Yea, hath God said you shouldn't gossip about your neighbor.

He questions God's word. Then the next step is he denies God's word. Verse four, ye shall not surely die. You see, if you listen to the question, you'll end up getting the denial. And Eve listened to the question.

He questioned God's word, then he denied God's word. And finally he substitutes his own lie. And his own lie is something rather interesting. In verse five, ye shall be as God's. Now, who can turn that down?

You see, Satan himself became the enemy of God because he wanted to be God. Back in Isaiah chapter 14, we have Lucifer, the light bearer. Lucifer, one of God's creatures. In fact, probably the highest of the angelic creatures.

He's called the anointed cherub that guardeth. And Lucifer said, I will, I will, I will, I will, I will be like the most high. And God said, oh no, you won't. Now, by the way, it's worth noting in verse five that this is the lie that is running the world today.

Back during World War II, Mr. Goebbels, who was Adolf Hitler's propaganda minister, said, if you tell a lie long enough and loud enough, people will believe it. And Satan has told this lie long enough and loud enough and people believe it.

What is the lie? That man is not a created being who has an obligation to his creator. Man is his own God and has no responsibility to a creator. Paul picks this up over in Romans 1 when he tells us about people who exchange the truth of God for the lie, not a lie, the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the creator.

I don't know about Wichita, but most of the people in Chicago are living for the creature and paying no attention to the creator. Consequently, our city is in trouble. So he questions God's word. He denies God's word.

Then he substitutes his lie. Now notice what Eve does. Eve falls for the trap. And in verse 2, she takes away from God's word. We may eat of the fruit. God didn't say you may eat. God said you may freely eat.

But she took that word freely out. Young people come to me and say, why is God so hard on us? We can't do this and we can't do that. We can't do something else. And I say, have you ever stopped to think of how good God's been to you?

Freely you have this and freely you have that. And she drops the word freely and takes away from God's word in verse 2. And in verse 3, she adds to God's word. Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it.

Now, we don't have any record in chapter 2 that God said they shouldn't touch it. I'm sure it was wrong to do that. But she's adding to God's word. She takes away from his graciousness. She drops the word freely.

And she adds to his judgment. Don't touch it. But worse than that, she changes God's word. It's bad enough to add to it and take away from it. She changes it. At the end of verse 3, she says, lest ye die.

And God didn't say, lest ye die. God said, ye shall surely die. But Satan's got her. My friend, once you and I question this book and begin to tamper with this book, Satan's got us. That's why he hates the Bible.

That's why he hates churches that preach the Bible. I was chatting with a fellow in Chicago not long ago who was describing to me the iniquitous kind of life he was living without any blushing or any shame, telling me the dirty life he was living and backing it up with scripture.

Backing it up with scripture. Satan had so gotten a hold of this fellow's mind that he could use the Bible to endorse his sin. His target, the mind, his weapon, lies. Now, what was his purpose? His purpose was to make Eve ignorant of God's will.

Ignorant of God's will. Now, friends, if you and I don't know the will of God, we're sunk. We're absolutely sunk. Here's a young couple establishing their home. If they don't know what the will of God is for the home, they're done for.

Here's a young man setting off for university or college. If he doesn't know the will of God for studying and learning, he's going to be in trouble. Here's an older couple coming to retirement. If they don't know what the Bible says about the way older people are supposed to live, and by the way, it does tell us a lot about how older people are supposed to live.

I'm studying up on it. I want to be ready. They're going to have problems. Here's a church seeking to serve the Lord. If they don't know what the Bible says about pastors and deacons and members and churches, they're going to have difficulty.

Your pastor has this experience, as all of us do. Folks come in to see you and they sit down and you pray and say, now what's your problem? They start to tell you this long, detailed problem that they have.

Some of these situations are like trying to unscramble an egg. And there they sit and tell you about it. And you stop them and you say, folks, I want to ask you a question. Do you two ever read the Bible?

No. Don't you day by day just read the Word of God and feed your soul? No. No, we don't do that. Well, no wonder you've got problems. No wonder. Satan wants to make us ignorant of God's will. I have a friend who thought he knew the will of God about something, took some very foolish steps, what he thought was faith, was presumption, almost wrecked his whole life.

You say, well, I don't pray about the will of God. You better. You better pray about the will of God. And here's where we find the will of God. In the Word of God. And if Satan can come along with lies and fill our mind with lies or even one good lie, quote, unquote, he's got us.

I've seen homes wrecked by one lie. I've seen Sunday school classes completely disrupted by one lie. Somebody in that class believes some lie about somebody else. It's very strange. People don't come to me with gossip.

You know why? I don't listen to it. Whenever folks come to me, I say, you got some witnesses? Do I have what? Do you have some witnesses? The Bible says in the mouth of two or three witnesses, let every word be.

No, I don't. Then shut up. You say you're rather, you're rather harsh. No, I'm scriptural. You want to wreck a church? You start some lies going around. Young people want to wreck your youth group? Just start some lies going.

Satan's the liar. His target, the mind, his weapon lies, his purpose to make us ignorant of God's will. Now, what is our defense? The inspired word of God. The inspired, infallible, inerrant word of God.

It's interesting that when Satan came to Jesus and tried to tempt him, Jesus didn't argue with him. He could have. Jesus Christ is the sum total of all of God's wisdom. He didn't argue with Satan. He just quoted scripture.

You're hungry for 40 days. A couple of weeks ago, I heard heaven announce, this is my beloved son, beloved son. This is what you call love? You're hungry? What kind of a father do you have? Why don't you turn these stones into bread?

Just bring that up to date. Oh, you're one of God's children? How come your wife's in the hospital with cancer? God loves you. How come your son lost his job? How come you had that auto accident? If God loves you, what are you doing hungry?

Now, why don't you just take a shortcut and turn those stones into bread? Now, Jesus didn't sit down and give Satan a long theological argument. He just simply said, it is written. And by the way, he didn't have to use a concordance to find the verse.

If the old serpent shows up on many of us and starts throwing something at us, there's a verse someplace, you know. Oh, no. He just said, it is written. Pulled out that sword. Man shall not live by bread alone.

Imagine using a verse from Deuteronomy to defeat the devil. I thought you were supposed to use the Gospel of John. Deuteronomy. He says, oh, you're going to quote the Bible. Two can play at that game.

Takes him up on top of the pinnacle of the temple and says, now, it says in the Bible. Satan can quote the Bible. A man came in to see me one day and proved to me from the Bible he was supposed to divorce his wife.

Isn't that interesting? Satan knows how to use the Bible. He said, now, the word of God says, if you cast, he's going to give his angels charge over you to keep you, period. He didn't put in all thy ways.

He left that out. Now, I want you to jump down. Let's see if God will do it. Jesus said, it is written. Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Deuteronomy. Then he gets him up and shows him all the kingdoms of the world.

He said, I can give this to you, period, just once. Just once. Not 50 times. Once. Bow down and worship me. And Jesus said, it is written. Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve.

And Satan said, I didn't say a word about service. Jesus said, wait a minute. Whoever you worship, you serve. How did Jesus defeat Satan? He said, well, he was God. Jesus did not defeat Satan in the power of deity.

Jesus defeated Satan with the same power available to us. Don't ever get the idea when you read the four gospels that Jesus accomplished what he did in a way different from our way. The Holy Spirit of God gave Jesus Christ the sword of the Spirit and energized him for battle.

He'll do the same thing for us. Don't ever sit back and say, well, I'm not God. I mean, he was God. His first words were, man shall not live. I'm not here as God, although I am God. Satan, I'm going to fight this battle the way every one of my followers is going to fight this battle.

With the Spirit of God, using the Word of God. By the way, do you spend time every day in God's Word? Have you got an artillery of good promises and precepts and principles from the Word of God you can take and use on the wicked one?

I hope so. Thy word have I hid in mine heart that I might not sin against thee. The inspired Word of God. Now, the second person we're going to visit tonight is a very well-known person. His name is Job.

Satan's Attack on Job's Body Through Suffering

Job is the second one over in Job chapters 1 and 2. He came to Eve, his target the mind, his weapon lies, his purpose to make her ignorant of God's Word, our defense the inspired Word of God. Now, Job, you know the story of Job.

Job was wealthy and godly and had a godly family. And unknown to him, totally unknown to him, up in heaven, there's a conversation. Now, Satan has access to heaven. Not until the middle of the tribulation will Satan be thrown out.

And so Satan comes up and God says, Where you been? Oh, he said, going to and fro upon the earth. Peter later on adds, seeking whom he may devour. And God says, Have you considered my servant Job? He says, You bet your life I've considered your servant Job.

I've had my eye on him. But I can't get my hands on him. You've hedged him about. You've protected him. And Satan said, I'll tell you one thing. If he loses what he's got, he'll curse you to your face.

He's what they call in the mission field a rice Christian. Sure, he's rich. He's got a great family. Why shouldn't he be religious? God says, All right. You can go to work, but you can't touch him. Aren't you glad that when God permits Satan to work, he sets the boundaries.

Whenever the Lord puts you through the furnace, he always keeps his hands on the thermostat. Don't ever worry about that. He knows how much we can take. He knows how much we can take. And so in one day's time, the stock market crashed.

Lost his flocks, lost his herds, lost his children. He didn't lose his wife, but the way she acted, maybe he'd have been better off if he had. I don't know. Can you imagine here, the dear man, his wife just falls apart.

Of course, he needed her later on because they were going to start all over again. He loses everything. What does he do? He says, Naked I came out of the womb. Anybody can say that. And naked I'm going to leave.

Anybody can say that. The Lord gave. The Lord has taken away. Anybody can say that. Blessed be the name of the Lord. It takes a saint to say that. Now, the next test was a little harder. Satan shows up in heaven and God says, I told you.

And imagine all the angels watching this drama. The angels are watching us today. They are learning through the church the ways of God. I wonder how much they're learning. I wonder. The angels are watching and God said, I told you.

That man, Job. Sterling character. Satan says, Sure. But skin for skin, all that a man hath he'll give for his life. Let me touch his body. God says, All right. But you can't take his life. And you know the story.

Job woke up itching one day. Before long, he was covered with a a noxious disease with running sores. He describes it in the book. His breath got so bad. Chlorophyll didn't even help at all. His breath got bad.

People stayed away from him. There he sat. Just just a complete bundle of misery. Now, what was Satan's target? His body. You say, You mean Satan attacks the believer's body? That's right. Why does Satan want to attack my body?

For several reasons. Number one, my body is God's temple. When God permits Satan to attack my body, he's attacking the temple of God. Secondly, my body is God's treasury. Over in 2 Corinthians chapter 4, Paul says we have this treasure in earthen vessels and God has deposited this treasury of grace in our bodies.

Satan fights us. But the main reason, my body is God's temple and my body is God's treasury. According to Romans chapter 6, my body is God's tool. Paul says in Romans 6, Yield the members of your body as instruments, tools or weapons of righteousness.

My hand can be doubled into a fist and I can hurt somebody or my hand can pick up a pen and I can write a letter and encourage a missionary. God can use my feet and my ears and my eyes and God says, I want your body as my tool and Satan says, I'll wreck that tool.

His target is the body. Now, what is his weapon? His weapon is suffering. Dear Christian friend, keep in mind that there are two kinds of suffering in the Bible. Please keep this in mind. Otherwise, you may get into discouragement and defeat.

There is correcting suffering and there is perfecting suffering. Now, correcting suffering is over in Hebrews chapter 12 where God chastens me to make me what He wants me to be. When Jonah ran away from God, God sent a storm and in that storm and in being thrown into the water and swallowed by the fish and then regurgitated again, in all of this experience, God was correcting Jonah.

But not all the storms of life are corrective. One day Jesus said to His disciples, I'll meet you on the other side of the lake. Remember that? And He went off and they got in the boat and halfway across, boy, a storm moved in like they'd never seen before and these seasoned fishermen were scared.

Now, why were they in that storm? Because they obeyed God. Jonah was in the storm because he disobeyed. There are times when God permits perfecting suffering to come and sometimes He'll allow Satan to do it.

A few years ago, I was rounding the curve of a very quiet little highway about three miles from our home when we were pastoring down in Covington, Kentucky and a drunken driver came around the bend so fast I didn't see him.

He was going about 90 miles an hour, ran right smack into me. He was killed instantly. Five more minutes, I would have been dead. And I'll never forget those weeks of recuperation. A week or so in the intensive care ward and then in the hospital and then at home.

And the chaplain of the hospital who did not happen to be a Christian believer, just a nice guy, said to me, boy, it's too bad this happened. Here you are a preacher and this happened to you. I thought, well, you poor blind fella.

I said, listen, I have learned more about the grace of God in this hospital than I ever learned in five years at seminary. Because when you go through it, you know it. I said, quite frankly, it's worth being within five minutes of death just to find out how real the whole thing is.

That's perfecting suffering. God knew I needed that just to help me grow. And that's what God was doing with Joel. His target, the body, his weapon, suffering, his purpose. Now, this is the important thing.

You say, boy, Pastor, where's me? I felt it in my body. There are dear saints of God who come to this church week after week whose bodies hurt. If they were sissies like some other people we know, they'd stay home.

They keep coming. And they pray and say, oh God, why? Why? Here I want to serve you and I want to do your will. Why? What is Satan's purpose? He wants to make us impatient with God's will. Now, Class, Job is mentioned only one time in the entire New Testament.

Anybody happen to know where it is? That's right, over in the book of James. Chapter 5. You know of the what? Patience of Job. Here's the book of Job with all these long chapters, some 40, 42 chapters.

And yet when the New Testament zeroes in on Job, it grabs one thing about him. Patience. Now, my friend, if the devil can make us impatient, he's got us. Remember the last time you got impatient with God's will, the mess you made out of things?

Did you ever go through your Bible and make a list of the people who lost their patience? Abraham got impatient one day, married the wrong woman, begat a son, and that boy's descendants have been given the Jewish people fits ever since.

Impatience. He got impatient one day, went down to Egypt, almost lost his wife, almost lost his life. Moses got impatient one day and killed a man and buried him. God had to put him over in the desert for 40 years, taking care of sheep.

Then he brought him back and put him to work. Well, again, one day, Moses got impatient and smote the rock, and he lost his ticket into the Promised Land. He had to wait till the Transfiguration to get there.

David got impatient one time, numbered the people, 70 ,000 people died. Peter got impatient one night, pulled out his sword, aimed for a man's throat, got his ear, and Jesus reached over and healed the ear.

It's a good thing. There would have been four crosses on Calvary. You see, impatience is evidence of unbelief. Back in the book of Isaiah, chapter 28, verse 16, the prophet says, He that believeth shall not make haste.

And when you find yourself getting nervously impetuous weight, impatience is an evidence of unbelief, and impatience is an evidence of immaturity. Little children are always impatient. When we were living in Covington, my family lives up in Hammond, Indiana.

It's a long trip from Covington to Hammond. We'd get in the car during vacation days to drive up to see Grandma and Grandpa. We'd stop at the first stoplight and my little Judy would say, Are we there?

I'd say, No. We've got six hours and 15 minutes more to go. I'll never make it. You see, a lot of people grow old who never grow up. And they're still just as impatient as children. Impatience is an evidence of immaturity.

That's why James chapter 1 says, Count it all joy when you're falling into various testings knowing that the trying of your faith works what? Patience. But let patience have her perfect work that you may be perfect, mature, wanting nothing.

Boy, if the devil can get a hold of an impatient Christian, he can wreck a church. He can blow up a home. He can split a Sunday school class. Because impatience is one of the works of the flesh. His target, the body, his weapon, suffering, his purpose to make me impatient with God's will.

What's my weapon? Now this is what blesses me. When he comes at my mind, I have the inspired word of God. When he comes at my body, I have the same thing Paul had, the imparted grace of God. One day Satan went to work on Paul.

And lest I should be exalted above measure, wrote the apostle, there was given unto me what a strange gift, there was given unto me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

He starts and stops the verse the same way. And for this thing, I besought the Lord. I just pray. I besought the Lord three times, just like Jesus in Gethsemane. Take it away! And God said, Paul, I'm not going to answer your prayer, but I am going to meet your need.

By the way, make a list someday of all the unanswered prayers in the Bible. Have you lived long enough to be thankful for unanswered prayer? Take it away! And God said, Paul, if I took that away, you'd be a flop.

Why? You've been up to the third heaven. And if you want to have great experiences like that, there's a price to pay. You get your hands out and God loads your hands with blessing. If he keeps on loading your hands with blessing, you know what will happen?

You'll fall flat on your face. So he puts some burdens on your back to kind of balance you. That's right. And Paul said, Lord, take it away! And God said, I won't do it. I want you to be the great apostle, Paul.

I'll tell you what I'm going to do. My grace is sufficient for thee. Then Paul changed his tune and said, Most gladly, therefore, will I rather glory in my infirmities, for when I'm weak, I'm strong. The imparted grace of God.

I'd love to linger on that, but I'll just drop this into your mind, into your heart. You were saved by grace. You have to live by grace. If you can explain what God is doing in your life, if you can explain what's happening in your life, God's not doing it.

That's right. If you can explain what happens in a church, God's not doing it. You say, well, we have a great church because we have... No, no. It's God who has to do it. God's grace. Why? What do we deserve?

We deserve hell. Grace. Aren't you glad He's the God of all grace? He's cornered the market on grace. The God of all grace. Suffering grace. My grace is sufficient for thee. Singing grace. Singing with grace in your heart.