Our text tonight is Romans chapter six. In my judgment, the greatest chapter in the New Testament for God's people. Romans chapter six. We've been enjoying your Florida sunshine today. Bit of exercise. Good fellowship. No coffee. This text tonight on the subject of deliverance. I drink tea. All right. Shall we pray? Father, we are glad for the word of God. We thank thee for its truth, for its wonderful truth. May the Holy Spirit give it to us tonight as we bow before thee, as we bow around this wonderful word. We ask, Father, to give us understanding. Thou has promised that thy Spirit would take the things of Christ and show them unto us. We claim this ministry tonight in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. We started last night together discussing the subject of grieving not the Spirit and asked God to search our hearts through His Word that we might be spiritually prepared for this weekend of Bible study. We saw this morning quench not the Spirit, that we are not to resist the Holy Spirit of God. We are not to say no, but like Abraham, to obey. That whatever God has for us to do, that we open our hearts to the Word of God and by His grace walk in the light of that Word. We turn tonight to what Dr. Chaffer has called the third condition of the Spirit's life, and this is walk in the Spirit. Grieve not the Spirit. Quench not the Spirit, walk in the Spirit. Say them with me. Grieve not the Spirit, quench not the Spirit, walk in the Spirit. Again, grieve not the Spirit, quench not the Spirit, walk in the Spirit. God's way of wonderful, triumphant Christian living. As a preparation for this third term, we begin with Romans chapter six, verse one. What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? This is the question that we believers are to face as we now have passed from death unto life. And I trust every one of us here tonight knows this and experience. You've been saved. You've been transformed by the grace of God. You know that in your own life. Now that you're a Christian, ask Paul, shall we go on and live the way we did before we were converted? Is there to be any difference now that I'm a Christian? And he answers in verse two in two words, as strong and negative as there is in the Greek New Testament, God forbid. So often the preachers who preach grace have been accused of preaching license. This is the Apostle Paul. Here's one of the great proofs in the New Testament that the grace of God allows no license to sin. That's his point. Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? And he says, God forbid. And then he explains, How shall we that are dead or died to sin live any longer therein? He now presents to us our position in Christ, in verses one through ten. We shall see the practice in verse eleven and following. But here our wonderful position. And his emphasis in this context is that we died. to sin. Here's an historical fact. It took place nineteen hundred years ago. We died to sin. I remember my college days in Houghton and used to try to play basketball. And I got an infected toe out of it. And so this particular weekend, after a weekend of ministry, near my home, I decided to stay home with mother and get my toe fixed. Nobody like mama, you know, at a time like that. So I stayed home and And about midnight the telephone rang and my mother answered the phone and it was for me. It was from that red-headed gal that I had proposed to. And now my dear wife. And she was at the Moody Bible Institute. She hadn't heard of Southeastern Bible College yet. That's a commercial. And my mother went to the foot of the stairs and yelled and no answer. She went to the landing and yelled and no answer. She knocked on my door and no answer. And she came into my bedroom and shook me like this before I would respond. I was what they call dead to the world. No response. That's our term here. Except very literally. Paul says that in Christ we die. Die. With reference to sin. That God looks at us in Christ and sees us not responding to sin. to state it positively in the preceding chapters, justified, declared righteous, freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. So Paul asks, how shall we that died to sin live any longer therein? And he now amplifies his answer, verses three and four. Know ye not that so many of us, as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death. that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk, here's our term, walk in newness of life. We are introduced now to a second term that's exceedingly important in our text, baptism into Jesus Christ. Some people, when they see the word baptism, all they can see is the Jordan flowing. And the Bible does teach water baptism for believers. Indeed it does. But the context here is spiritual victory. The context here is a spiritual verity, not a ritualistic one. And because in verse three he speaks of our baptism into Jesus Christ, into a person, I conclude then that he's talking about the baptizing ministry of God the Holy Spirit. Not water here at all. Other times he speaks of the baptism by blood and baptism of fire. Here's the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Let me take time to define for us the baptizing work of the Holy Spirit. This is such a nebulous term these days and defined in such various ways. Let's define it by the Bible, shall we? Here's one such place. And let's define Romans six three as baptizing of the believer into the person of Christ. It's a union. Don't confuse it with the filling of the Spirit. Don't speak of it as some experience subsequent to salvation. Acts chapter eleven tells us that this happens at the moment of saving faith. We believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Here now this baptism of the Spirit creates a union with our Lord Jesus Christ. Turn with me, leave your finger here now, and turn with me to First Corinthians twelve, thirteen. And you'll see the other half of the definition, the other facet of the truth. First Corinthians twelve, thirteen. Beginning with verse twelve, says Paul, for as the body is one, and hath many members, this is our human body, and all members of that one body being many are one body, so also is Christ. Here's one body. Many members, hands, feet, liver, gizzard, members of one body. Verse thirteen, for by one Spirit, God the Holy Spirit, are we all, notice, and he's writing to a carnal church when he says this, not people who've had some second experience, not people who've had some work of grace. He's not writing to people who've met certain conditions for a certain experience. He says, by one spirit, are we all? What? Baptize into what? One body. All right, here's the second half of our definition. The first half, the baptizing of the spirit into the person of Christ. Here, the baptism into the body of Christ. the church. This is the biblical doctrine of the baptizing work of the Spirit. Now the result is a union. A union. Oh, I'll never forget my wedding day, I tell you. I heard that music sound. Boy, that funeral march, I mean, wedding march started. And this is it. My days of freedom were over. I thought, didn't realize that being married was just really freedom, you know. So you folks get with it. All right. Boy, it was wonderful. And I remember I stood there in the presence of God and his people before the servant of his. And we stood there and pledged our vows to each other. And two people, two people became one. The union. That's what Paul says in Ephesians five. I speak concerning Christ and his church. Union. Same illustration in John fifteen with the vine and the branches. Our Lord says, I am the vine and ye are what? branches, abide in me, and I in you, the same bringeth forth much fruit. Union, union, the life of the vine flowing into the branch and through the branch to produce fruit, the fruit of the Spirit of God. All right, we're illustrating from the Word of God that a union took place the moment you trusted Christ as your Savior. Now what did that union accomplish? Verse three and verse four again, Romans six. Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into what? his death. Therefore we are what? Buried with him by baptism to death, that like as Christ was what? Raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so should we also what? Walk in newness of life. All right. This union provided sharing, our sharing in his death, in his burial, and in his resurrection. What's that mean? In our very context, our union with him and death means that when he died, he died to deal with that sin nature within us. He breaks the power of cancel sin. Finish it. You know what that is? He sets the prisoner free. Why did Jesus Christ die? First Corinthians says he died for our sins. Plural. The specifics, the particular sins we commit. This text says, He died with reference to my sin nature, the root of sin, the principle of sin, the flesh, as Paul calls it in Romans seven and Galatians five. He died to deal with that too. See, that's wonderful. I don't know how it is with you, or I do know, because I read the same book you read. That old sin nature would then like to give us fits at times. See? Jesus Christ died to deal with that sin nature. Jesus Christ died to give victory over that sin nature. That's what Paul means here when he says we shared in his death. Burial, the proof of his death. And then he says that Jesus Christ was raised and we also were raised to walk in newness of life. There's a brand new kind of life for a Christian because he's united to the risen living Son of God. Most people have the idea that they live for Christ. That's not the language of Scripture. To me to live? Yes, Christ. That's the difference between the finite and the infinite. Between the creature and the creator. Between a human feet of clay. To the infinite God of heaven and earth. Not I but Christ liveth where? In me. a newness of life, a new quality of life. So Paul says, verse five, for if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection. Now I want you to notice Paul as he moves through these verses that he keeps bringing us from death to life. Death to life. Death to life. Paul, a lot of people are talking about dying all the time. Paul, I'm talking about living. Watch him now. Verse six, knowing this, that our old man, that's that old fellow before we were converted. that old man literally was crucified with Christ, that the body, the human body of ours, as the instrument of sin is what the concept is. Body is the instrument of sin. That old sin nature expresses itself through our tongues, through our minds, our hearts, our attitudes, through our hands, and so on. All right, the body of the instrument of sin might be not destroyed. Your body and mind is very much alive, not destroyed. The word is better translated, rendered inactive. Say that's what we want, that that sin principle within shall be inactive, shall be rendered idle. I'll never forget the first time I went to London, Ontario, to be interviewed by the London Bible Institute, and for me to look them over. And we came out of an alumni meeting one night, and the dean took me to his car, and we got in the car, and he turned on the ignition, and the motor started, and he threw it into gear, and we just sat there. Behind the bushes were a bunch of students having a great time. They'd raised up one of the wheels. Rendered idle. Rendered idle. Rendered idle. That's the word here. This sin nature, this sin nature rendered idle, say that's exactly what we want day by day, isn't it? that it does not express itself, that it doesn't affect my thoughts and my attitudes, my words and my actions, but rather the lid beyond it is a concept I like to use controlled by God the Holy Spirit. That henceforth, he concludes verse six, we should not serve sin. And every earnest Christian here tonight longs for this and experience twenty-four hours a day, isn't that right? That you have not served sin. For he that is dead, is justified from sin. Now notice how he moves. If we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. He's not talking about physical resurrection here. This is not the context at all. He's talking about our having died on the cross with him. Now he says we're going to live with him. And he illustrates with our Lord himself, verses nine and ten, knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more, death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died, here's our term, unto sin once, but in that he liveth, finish it. He liveth unto God. And that's your heart tonight, if you love the Lord. No longer serve sin, live under God. No longer serve sin, live under God. One is a negative, the other is a positive. The one prepares for the other. Paul says the key to this is that we died with Christ in reference to that sin nature. We rose with Christ. We were raised with Him to a new kind of life. This is our position in Christ. He turns now to our practice. Some people choose to use the language standing and state, and this does it well. One is what we are in Christ and the other is what we become and experience. One can be a mother and not be motherly. One can be a father and not be fatherly. One can be the president of a bank but not presider with a bank. Play golf every afternoon. I guess in Florida you go fishing, don't you? As well as play golf. All right? You can be a manager without managing. You see, one is position and the other is experience. Now Paul in verses one to ten has been telling us our marvelous position in Christ. All that we have because we are in Him. Guide with Him. raise with him anewness of light. Now Paul says, let me put it into shoe leather for you. Verse eleven, likewise, having just made reference to our Lord, he says, Likewise, reckon ye also yourselves to be what? Dead, indeed unto sin, but what? Alive unto God, how? You Jesus Christ our Lord. Now, here's the death. Here's the life again. Reckon. There are three words I wanted to take away with us tonight. Three words. On the how. The practical, down to earth, how a victorious Christian living. The first word is in verse eleven. Reckon. Reckon. Reckon. I held a meeting in Louisiana, as they call it over there, some years ago. And I stayed in the home of a dear brother for a week, and he kept saying, I reckon. I reckon. How did this thing go today? Well, pretty good, I reckon, he's saying. Think it'll rain tomorrow? Well, I don't think so, I reckon. Now, what was he saying? I saw him some days later, and he got the word out of his vocabulary altogether. But he meant, I suppose so. I think so. Well, you know, probability, this will be the case. But that's not our word here. The word reckon here means count as true. Count as true. Here's something, then, to be believed. What is it? Count as true that ye yourselves died to sin. and that you're alive under God. Count it true. Count it true. Now we must pause a moment to make a very careful and refined distinction in this verse. And it seems that the more pious you're supposed to be, the more nebulous your nomenclature on the spiritual life. Let's be biblical. Let's stick to the book. People tell us that we ought to die daily. Now where'd you find that verse? Tell me what chapter in what book? First Corinthians... Fifteen. Which first Corinthians fifteen on? Physical resurrection. He's not talking about spiritual victory in first Corinthians fifteen. He's talking about this body being sown and this body being raised. So don't ever go to the statement, I die daily for spiritual victory. He's taken it out of its context. The logicians call it the fallacy of accent. You have robbed it of its content. You tell, I was listening to a preacher not long ago. And he took as his text, John chapter twelve, except a corn of wheat, fall to the ground and die and abide alone. And then throughout the sermon, from somewhere between twenty-five and fifty times, I didn't count them, but he said now, die. Die. Die. I said die. I sat there and cringe. I was already dead. What did your text say? Reckon yourselves to be dying daily. No, it does not. Reckon yourselves to crucify yourself. It doesn't say that either. What does it say? Reckon yourselves to be dead and what? Alive. Did you know there's quite a difference between dying and being dead? Quite a difference. Mrs. Wayne Nelson, known to some of you here in our evening school of Birmingham, has a son by the name of Wayne. His dear wife was on a deathbed and I slipped over at about six thirty one night on a Thursday night and prayed with Mrs. Nelson's son and his dear wife was so ill that he did not invite me into her room. But we stood there in the hall and prayed and tried to get his eyes on the Lord and look to him. He had four children in the home. Friday I slipped over again and prayed with him and he invited me in and I just said a word to his dear wife and prayed with her. She'd been led to Christ just recently. And then went off for the weekend for preaching and Monday I got back and they said that Mrs. Nelson Jr. almost died. And so after chapel I rushed over to the hospital and just as I walked in they said to me, Mrs. Nelson has just died. So I walked into the room where young Wayne was standing beside his dear wife and he was rubbing her forehead. No response. Dead. Thursday she was dying. Friday she was dying. Over the weekend she was dying. But now she was dead. Now Christian. Stop this language of dying. Unscriptural. And you confuse people, they don't know what to do. If I were to ask you tonight, tell me how to die, what would you tell me? Would you start here? An inch it off? Would you start here or here or here? When you start to think of it, we don't have language to tell a Christian how to die, do we? The reason is he's already died. The funeral already took place. And he's already been raised again. Don't you miss that. Suppose you're saying, spend all your time dying, my dear sister. Don't spend all your time dying, my dear brother. He says, reckon on the fact that you already died and you're now alive. That's New Testament living. That's New Testament living. I was with a dear brother up to America's Keswick in New Jersey some summers ago. Brother Ralph Kuiper, known to some of you. And he was preaching on this text and he said, If I ever become a pastor again, I'm going to have a drop dead Sunday for all those who are dying daily. I've never forgotten. Oh, do you see it? So quit trying to die. Start living. The death already took place. It's historical. When Jesus Christ died on the cross, you've been raised with him. Now live on that plane of being alive under God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Now the point of this verse eleven is to share with us the glorious truth of God's provision. Wonderful provision. Paul says you can live a triumphant Christian life because of the marvelous provision of our death and our resurrection with our blessed Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Now reckon it to be so. Reckon it to be so. Reckon it to be so. I say then in the light of this. The first step in triumphant Christian living is not doing something, it is believing something. Believe. Reckon yourselves to be dead, indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Reckon it to be so. I remember one time going to a city mission in Dallas, Texas. I knelt beside a dear old fellow and And I said, Friend, if you'll trust the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior tonight, he can deliver you from this bondage of drink. He said, I tried that. It doesn't work, preacher. He was saying there is not deliverance. He was saying there is not power through Jesus Christ our Lord in his death and resurrection to be delivered. But God's word declares tonight, Reckon yourselves to be dead, indeed unto sin. But alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Told it to be so. In the light of this I therefore can say to you, my dear Christian brethren tonight, that through the Lord Jesus Christ there is victory over sin, over any sin, over any temptation, over any bondage, over any attack of the world, the flesh, and the devil from now until Jesus comes. That's what that says. That's the best news you've heard today, eh? Boy, and that's exactly what Paul said. Reckon yourselves will be dead and eat unto sin, but alive unto God. All right. The first word was what? Reckon. Reckoning says, here's God's marvelous provision. In two words, it says, I can, by the grace of God. I can. Live a triumphant, victorious Christian life by the grace of God. I can. There's a second word in verses twelve and thirteen. Let not sin, therefore, reign in your mortal body. that she should obey it to the lust thereof. Paul says in light of the wonderful fact that what Jesus Christ accomplished in his death and resurrection, let not sin therefore reign. It need no longer reign as king in your body. Verse thirteen, neither yield ye your members, your hands, your feet, your tongue, your eyes, your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin, but yield yourselves unto God as those that are dying daily. as those that are crucifying themselves. Oh, no. As those that are born alive from the dead. Do you see how Paul deals with us now on resurrection grounds? Those that are alive from the dead. And your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. The second word is yield. What was the first one? Reckon. The second one is yield. Reckoning says, I can, by the grace of God, Yielding says, I will by the grace of God. I will. I will. This is a purpose. Reckoning is God's provision. Yielding is here my purpose. Here is a premise for my life, if you please. A premise to live under God. Just as we saw in our Lord in verse ten, in that he liveth, he liveth under God. now united with him in his death and resurrection. It's my purpose. It's my decision, says Paul. And I exhort you, I exhort you with the same purpose that you heal yourselves unto God. I said this morning, and I repeat tonight for those of us who were not here, that I have to say, it's my opinion, it's only that, but I have to say, my opinion is I've gone among God's children. I fear that the majority of us at least have never fully, completely yielded ourselves unto God. I really believe that. Ian Thomas uses the language availability. You see, God doesn't force. He doesn't demand. He constrains. And he wants us voluntarily, in view of the death and resurrection of our Lord, he wants us voluntarily to present ourselves unto God. That's the word, the same word of Romans twelve one. I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God that you want. Present your bodies. Present. The Lord Jesus is within, as we've already seen tonight. His spirit is within. Our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit. He's there. He wants to live through us. But for him to do this, we must allow him to do it. We yield ourselves a little. If these members of our bodies are to be sanctified, are to be controlled, we must permit this control. If my tongue is to utter his praise, that tongue must be yielded to God. If these hands are to do his service, these hands must be presented to God. If these feet are to walk in his service, these feet must be presented to God. So I yield. I yield. It's a point sense here. It's a light about face, if you please. I yield myself and the God. Have you done that? There's a progress of truth here. I first reckon. I first believe it's true, this marvelous provision. I see it in the Word. I accept it as truth. I accept it as truth for my own heart. But all the provision in the world can be there, and I not enter in. The second step of yieldedness is presenting myself or making myself available to God the Holy Spirit within to produce Jesus Christ, namely to walk in newness of life. It's my yielding. It's my saying, Lord, this is my purpose. This is the premise I lay for my life, to live unto Him who died for me and rose again. Lord, here I am. Here I am. Here I am. Now some of us I can hear say, well, preacher, I've done that many times and I'm still defeated. I've been in a meeting such as this and a public invitation has been given and I've walked the sawdust trail and I'm old enough to have actually walked the sawdust trail. and done it many times and I meant business and I said, Lord, here's my life. Go back home from a Bible conference and come back the next year and the preacher preached at me again and I knew I was backslidden. I knew I hadn't walked with God and I'd failed him throughout the year so I'd walked the thought of trail again. Lord, here's my life. And perhaps many of us here tonight have done the same kind of thing, at least in heart and in spirit. What's the trouble? Why didn't we go on? Why wasn't it a daily experience? I believe that brings us to the third word we want to take with us tonight is found in chapter eight as we saw it in chapter six but now in the shoe leather approach of our daily experience Romans eight the reason we're jumping chapter seven is that he's contrasting all this with the law which is not our concern this evening Romans eight verse two through verse four for the law of the spirit this is what we're talking about this new law not the law of Moses of chapter seven the law of the spirit what is that law of the spirit Paul tells us it's life in Christ Jesus This hath set me free. Here's Paul's testimony. Set me free from the law of sin and death. Or of what the law, the law of Moses, that is, could not do. And it was weak through the flesh. God sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh. And for sin, judge sin in the flesh. He's reviewing chapter six. To this end, verse four. Or with this result, that the righteousness, the righteous requirement of the law might be what? fulfilled. Where? In us. Why, that's our heart's desire. God's righteousness. God's righteousness of character. Righteousness of conduct. God's righteousness fulfilled in us. Who do what? Walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit. Here's our third word. Walk. What was the first one? Reckon. What's the second one? Yele. Here's the third one. Walk. Walk. Reckon. Yield. Walk. Walk. He says, if I walk not after the flesh but after the spirit, all God's righteous requirements will be fulfilled in me. Say, that's a tremendous problem. Now, I've tried to teach some of this before in this congregation to walk, and I have to do this to my own students just every so often, so I'm going to take the privilege of the night of of going after it again. Is that all right? All you folks, you've been walking longer than I have, many of you. But you remember how it was when you learned to walk? Walking is a profound occupation, isn't it? I tried it today and Brother Willie came along picking up. And I voluntarily got in the car. All right. That's walking. Well, you folks who came in with a cane, if any of you did tonight, you know that walking is depending. Walking is D-Pending. One of our students broke his foot on the basketball court the other day. Walking is D-Pending. He's using crutches now, and it snowed in Birmingham. Only happens once or twice a year, and sometimes not at all. And he had some fun walking up and down those mountain sides on the campus. You can't stand still southeast and either go forward or backwards, brother. Up or down. All right. He had learned the hard way that walking is D-Pending. Give me a biblical term for depending. Trusting. Thus the word faith. Here's the essence of victorious Christian living. Here's the key to victorious Christian living. It's too simple. You're going to stumble over it tonight if you're not careful. Walk. Remember Galatians five, sixteen? Walk in the Spirit and what? He shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Walk. Walk. Walk. Walk. Walking is defending. Walking then is faith. Walking then is relying. Walking then is trusting. The Spirit of God is with us. And when I trust Him, hear it, when I trust Him, the righteousness of God's law is fulfilled in us. When I walk. When I walk. There's something else about walking I want us to see tonight. There isn't a chair here, I'd illustrate for you. Maybe I can anyway. Is this walking? If I weren't over thirty-nine, I'd jump for you. But that's not walking either, is it? Is this walking? No. This is walking. What are we trying to say? Walking is something that's continuous. Maybe we're getting to the heart of our problems. That the reason I am not continually victorious over the world, the flesh, and the devil is because I do not continually depend upon God the Holy Spirit. We come to a week of conference like this and go home rejoicing on the mountaintop of God's having spoken to our hearts through His words, and then we get back home and get them a normal routine of things. And look, right back where I started. Why? For they're meant to be, not for a moment. Because I failed to yield when I was at conference? No, I did. What's my problem? Didn't keep on walking. You see, I can't walk and stand still. I can't walk and sit down. I can't walk and jump. And some people want a special experience to get them over lots of hurdles, of daily responsibility, of depending upon God. No, walking is just what it is. Continually depending upon God the Holy Spirit. And as long as I continually depend, he says, the righteousness of God's law is what? Fulfilled. There's a third thing about walking. Grab the side of your seat now. This is so profound you may not get it the first time. It's one step at a time. That's right, isn't it? And that's life. Stop to think of it. One second at a time, one minute at a time, one day at a time. One temptation at a time. One opportunity to witness at a time. One opportunity to express my love to my neighbor at a time. One opportunity to serve my Lord at a time. Some of us are so put together that we want to solve next year's problems today. The fish in under the day is evil thereof. Remember? Hmm? Walking is one step at a time. Profoundly simple, beloved. We don't take two steps, we don't take three, we take one. We continually depend upon the Holy Spirit. Another thing about walking, Walking is active, not passive. I'm going to let you go in a few moments and let you walk. But you're going to make up your own mind to stand up out of that chair and get up and walk out that door. Or stand in fellowships and chats together. You don't sit down and go through some spiritual or mental gymnastics in order to do it. You get up and walk. Don't misjudge me as carnal here now. I may be that, but this truth is biblical. What are we saying? At a given split second when a tempter comes my way, I at that split second cast myself upon God anew for that temptation, that problem. I actively take the initiative. I don't sit back piously and wait for the lightning to strike. I walk. I walk. I take a step. Lord, I need your help. Lord, I claim your grace. Lord, help me right now. Peter on the water. Lord save me. Hmm? That's positive, not negative. And it's positive, not negative. And I mean by that. It's a positive step of faith. With the result is the outliving of an indwelling Christ. If walking in a new kind of life altogether. Kind of nuts, my brother. Walking in a new quality of life. The life of the risen Son of God. You talk to some people, I don't do this and I don't do that and I don't do this and I don't do that. Thank God you don't do things that are contrary to the word. But life is more than not doing things. Life is positively approaching the grace of God and letting Jesus Christ actually live in us and through us. I've talked to lots of people, talk about all things they don't do, but they don't talk about leading anybody to Christ. See? Come on in Egypt. Never got into Canaan. Hmm? I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't. Thank God you don't. But what do you do now, friend? You by faith claim His wonderful grace and take your steps of faith in Canaan. Joshua one every place that the soul of your footsteps upon shall be yours. That's walking by faith. Walking by faith. Walking by faith. So God says walk. Walk in the spirit. Walk in love. Walk in the light. Walk. Where is the location? Where is your call? Walk. Walk. Walk. Walk. Walk. What are you saying? So quit seeking all kinds of spiritual gymnastics. Quit diverting from the clear, simple, direct teaching of the book. Come right back to the Word of God. Come right back to the statements of the Word. And you'll find wonderful victory through Jesus Christ our Lord. What's the first word? Reckon. What's the second word? What's the third word? Walk. When I reckon I count on God's provision, I say I can by His grace. When I yield, I express the purpose of my heart, I say I will by His grace. When I walk, I move out, I practice. And I say I do by His grace. Beloved, this will work. It will work for you, the park of the ponds, wherever you're going, wherever you're coming from, wherever you're headed. It'll work from now to Jesus comes. Reckon, yield. What's your problem? Your problem may be mine, may be different from mine, but the basic problems are the same as this all nature within expressing itself. Here's victory. Here's triumph through Jesus Christ our Lord. Shall we pray? We pray again, our Father, that the Holy Spirit shall give us thy truth. That we shall not stumble over its simplicity. But tonight, and from now till our Lord comes, we shall indeed walk in the Spirit and not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Make these days a wonderful victory and triumph in Christ. We claim this in Jesus' name. Amen. So we just sing the first three stanzas of number ninety-nine. I've tried in vain a thousand ways, my fears to quell, my hopes to raise. But what I need, the Bible said, is ever only peace. Number nine, the first three stanzas.