Chapter 2 of the Epistle to the Hebrews,
beginning with verse 10.
For it became him for whom all things,
or for whom are all things, and by
whom are all things, in bringing many sons
unto glory, to make the captain of their
salvation perfect through suffering.
For both he that sanctifieth and they who
are sanctified are all of one.
For which cause is not ashamed to call
them brethren, saying, I will declare thy name
unto my brethren.
In the midst of the church will I
sing praise unto thee.
And when I begin, I will put my
trust in him, and again behold I and
the children which God hath given me.
Now, we'll have to break off right there,
and we're going this morning to try to
let the Holy Spirit speak to us about
these things that are eternal, having to do,
as we note in verse 9, with Jesus,
who was made a little lower than the
angels, in order that he might undergo the
suffering of death, and was later crowned with
glory and honor.
This one is the one of whom the
Holy Spirit is speaking, and he begins by
saying, It became him.
That is God.
It became God, for whom are all things,
and by whom are all things.
Now, you only have to read that far,
and if your spirit is in a good
mood, and your life is right, you will
begin to take off immediately.
It is amazing how the apostles and psalmists
are able to lift us in two or
three lines of print from the confused, busy,
and complex world into the very heavens themselves.
For whom are all things, he says, and
by whom are all things.
And immediately we're looking at God.
We're beholding God.
We're seeing our Heavenly Father, and we're seeing
that it is for whom, he's the one
for whom all things were made, and by
whom all things were made.
And then says the man of God speaking
in the Spirit, It became him.
Now, you see, while God is sovereign and
answers to no man for his conduct, and
will not stand before the bar of any
human judgment, yet God has made man a
reasonable being, and it would not conform to
man's reasoning mind to be always confronted with
unreasonable things.
Therefore, God frequently shows his reasons for things,
not because he in his sovereignty is answerable
to you and me, but because he chooses
to do it, having honored us by making
us in his image.
So it says it became him.
Now he's going to show us here how
it could be.
This great truth of Christ's incarnation, and this
condescension of the second person of the Trinity,
this suffering of death, this has to be
justified before man's reason.
Not that man can ever get to God
to make God answer to him.
That is beyond all thought.
God will answer to nobody.
God is amenable to none, and all men
are answerable to God.
And yet God says now, into all that
I have done here it becomes me.
It's the old word for meaning, it's appropriate,
it's the right thing, it's the fit and
becoming thing.
I am perfectly happy to have God do
things that I can understand.
I am joyfully willing that God should fly
the plane for me, that he should run
the machine for me, that he should portion
out my life for me, that he should
make my plans for me.
I am perfectly willing that he should do
all that, because he knows how and I
don't, he has the power and I haven't.
But being made in God's image, I repeat,
I have a mind that must know why
a thing was done, or at least know
that it was not unreasonable, and so it
became him.
It is necessary to my peace of soul
that I know that whatever God did, God
did well.
It is necessary to my intellectual balance that
I understand that what God did, God did
rightly.
It is necessary to moral health that I
rise in the morning and know that however
things come out, it will be all right.
They will either be good and favorable to
me, or they will be unfavorable.
If they are good and favorable to me,
then it will be by the grace of
God.
If they are unfavorable to me, then it
will be the discipline of God upon me.
So in either way, it will be all
right.
Paul said, If I live, that will be
all right.
If I go to be with the Lord,
that will be all right.
I have my choice, I don't mind telling
you, that I would rather go and be
with the Lord.
But in either case, it will be all
right.
It is necessary that we have that kind
of faith and that we do not depend
upon the things that we see.
We are never to lean on anything.
Occasionally you will see a man leaning up
against a building.
It always makes me smile.
I suppose he is resting himself, but the
building doesn't need it, and he is wasting
a lot of time there.
But we lean against things.
We are not to lean on anything or
try to figure anything out.
I want to carefully warn you away from
trying to figure out the ways of God.
There are two kinds of people among Christians,
or there are many kinds, but I have
in mind two kinds now.
The ones who are at least one of
these kinds, they are the people who are
always telling you that they have an informed
source.
They say, There is no news on this
yet, but we have it from an informed
source that they are going to do so
and so.
Well, there are those who imagine themselves to
be in a position where they can have
a private line to God's purposes.
And if somebody falls down and breaks his
leg, they immediately raise their eyebrows and say,
I knew it.
I knew that he had discipline coming.
They didn't know it at all.
They are just little mean people who didn't
like the fellow, and they are glad he
broke his leg.
But they are pious enough that they want
to try to find a good reason for
that, you see.
Don't try that, my friend.
Don't try it.
Because if the neighbor next door breaks his
leg, and you say it's because he wasn't
attending church, it's because he didn't tithe, or
because he wasn't keeping up in prayer, what
do you do when you break yours?
You see, it will be a bit embarrassing.
So I'd suggest that you leave it to
the Lord, and don't try to figure out
the ways of God, because the ways of
God are beyond finding out.
Though I say again and repeat that God
sometimes, because he honors us with intelligence, reports
to our intelligence and says, it becomes me
to do this, now don't worry about it,
I'm doing it the right way.
I believe this.
I live this way, and I believe that
God is doing it the right way.
Shall not the judge of the whole earth
do right, said Abraham?
How did Abraham find that out?
Now, if a man had said that in
the seventeenth century or the twentieth century, he'd
have had several thousand years of biblical revelation
behind him.
He'd have had all the preaching of the
great preachers and the teaching of the great
reformers.
He'd have had the apostles, and he'd have
had the coming of Christ to the world,
and he'd have had the prophets and the
psalmists and Moses.
If he'd spoken in the nineteenth century or
the eighteenth century, we could have said, oh,
he's figured that out.
The judge of the whole earth is going
to do right.
But it was Abraham that said, it shall
not the judge of the whole earth do
right, and he didn't have one line of
written scripture.
He'd never heard one hymn sung.
He'd never heard a sermon in his life.
He had never been to a prayer meeting,
never one.
He'd never attended a conference, and here heard
them move in seconds.
He had never been anywhere among the children
of God.
He had come from a heathen home in
Ur of the Chaldees, and suddenly it bursts
upon him, God's got to do right.
The judge of the whole earth can't be
wrong.
And that became a strong pillar in the
life of the man Abraham.
We must answer the question, shall not the
judge of the whole earth do right with
the radiant?
Yes, the judge of the earth will do
right.
Now, I have said in my series on
the attributes that the source of most evil
is a low opinion of God.
Back here in the book of Psalms that
comes out, he says, You saw a thief,
and you consented with him, and you gave
your mouth to evil, and your tongue framed
deceit, and you sat and spoke against your
brother, and you slandered your mother's son, and
because I kept silent, you thought I was
altogether such a one as thyself.
We always try to make God in our
image and pull him down to our side.
I am sure that there are many, many
deacons who would conceive of God as a
particularly large and very intelligent and good deacon,
and they try to make God think like
them.
My brothers and sisters, it is my business
not to try to make God think like
me, but to try in prayer and penitence
to think like God.
For God made me in his image, I
can't make him in mine.
Now, I have got to remember that God's
treatment of the world and God's treatment of
the Church and God's treatment of me is,
I have got to have a blanket acceptance
of God, I must accept God by a
blanket acceptance, I must say to my heart,
now, don't you try to edit God.
You let God stand as he is, and
whatever he does becomes him.
Whatever he does, that's right that he should
do it, it's becoming to God that he
should be that way.
And don't you try to change it, and
the peace of heart, I say, comes, and
growth and spiritual strength, when we remember that
everything that God does is going to be
done in a manner perfectly wise, so that
there is no mistake possible, and perfectly fully,
so there is no wrong possible, and perfectly
good, so there is no unkindness possible, and
perfectly just, so there is no unfairness possible,
and perfectly strong, so there is no weakness
nor failure possible.
Now, this we've got to take as the
basis.
This is what you build on.
You don't build on sand, you've got to
get down below the sand to the bedrock.
Let's say the city of New York is
built on one great piece of rock, one
solid rock, bedrock, and to get down they
have to blast and chisel through rock to
get down.
It's a good thing it is, because a
high concentration of population and with all those
tall buildings towering into the clouds, it sure
would push down any weak foundation can't push
down rock.
And God is the rock.
These things about God, they are the rock
upon which we stand.
When it says that the Son of God
became a little lower than the angels, that
became God.
That was a just right thing to do.
When it said that he suffered in death,
that was a good right thing to do.
And we cry with the angels, the judge
of the whole world is bound to do
right.
And when God allowed him to, by the
grace of God, take death for every man,
that was a right thing.
Nobody can find fault with that.
That became God.
It was a just thing to do, so
there was no injustice possible.
It was a holy thing, so there was
no unholiness possible.
And it was a good thing, so there
was no unkindness there.
Now that we've got to believe.
So salvation is the infinitely wise plan of
God, carried through in perfect goodness, with flawless
precision, to an infinitely efficacious consummation.
That sounds like jargon, and it is.
But I'll try to break that down and
say simply that God, being infinitely wise, has
a plan for us.
And that plan is being carried out by
God in perfect goodness.
There are no little bits of malice, no
little edge of malice.
I read the other day, I don't remember
where, I don't try anymore to remember where
I read things, I just read here and
there and try to remember where it all
came from.
It would drive me crazy trying to remember
it afterwards, so I just get it.
This man was talking about Christians, and he
talked about the exquisite malice of the people
of God.
I don't like that, and I wish it
didn't have to be said, but I suppose
that I have never been anywhere where I
have seen finer malice than I have seen
in churches among Christian people.
And we have a way of disguising it.
We have a way, a sinner, you know,
he'll flip his cigarette into the gutter, and
in great rumbling, loud and noisy curse words,
he'll tell you about the man.
We Christians are too nice for that.
We wouldn't be caught doing such an impossibly
terrible thing.
So we lower our voices, and in a
pious tone we skin him without his ever
knowing his head being taken loose from his
body.
And all he has to do is shake,
and it drops off.
We've done him in.
We've skinned him good, and we've done it
in the most perfect way, and everybody but
God thinks that we are very fine people.
But it's exquisite malice.
We've got to be away from this.
Everything God does is perfectly good, and he
does it flawlessly.
There is no flaw in what God does.
And there is a consummation that is the
end of the thing, the end of which
we are driving, the chief end of the
thing.
We are going to arrive at that one
of these times.
Now it says, It became him in bringing
many sons unto glory.
I want you to notice here that the
effective operation of Christ's work is twofold.
It's bringing sinners unto salvation and sons unto
glory.
And there we have it again, go ye
into all the world and disciple all nations,
teaching them that they are to observe all
my commandments.
After their baptism, teach them and instruct them.
That is, you go out into the world
and you make a convert, that's bringing a
sinner to salvation.
Then you bring him into the Church and
instruct him for a few years, and that's
helping to bring sons unto glory.
God does it by his word, he does
it by his discipline, he does it by
chastisement, he does it by prayer, he does
it by the fellowship of the Saints, he
does it in many ways.
But God is bringing many sons unto glory.
When you got converted, that wasn't it.
You didn't get a diploma there, saying that
this man, having met all requirements, is now
being granted this diploma.
You didn't get it that way.
When you got converted, you were born.
You were a sinner made a Christian.
You became a son.
But you weren't a completed son, you weren't
a finished son.
You were just a son, you were just
beginning.
And the Lord took you there to lead
you unto glory.
There is a distorted view about conversion, and
then he expressed the exclusiveness of anything else.
There is nothing else that matters, but regeneration
is the beginning of a new life, and
wherever there is a life, there is growth.
And where there is no longer any growth,
the life is beginning to die out.
As long as we are young and on
our way up, we are growing.
We grow.
You grow till when you start growing, you
start down.
I don't like anybody doesn't like to hear
that.
I know that.
We don't like to hear it.
We like to think that we are being
renewed day by day, but we are in
a measure.
But in another measure, we are not.
So that regeneration is the beginning of a
life, and sanctification is the development of that
life by the Holy Ghost, by the blood,
by the word, by faith, by prayer, by
discipline, by hard work, by much, much tribulation,
that life must be developed.
We must be fed.
Peter said that we are to put away
all the little child diseases and take the
sincere milk of the word.
A fellow told me one time, as little
as I like to hear Greek quoted in
a sermon, but a fellow told me one
time that he had never been able to
understand the meaning of the original word for
sincere.
The sincere milk of the word.
He said, What did he mean by the
sincere milk of the word?
The electricographers didn't help him much, and the
Greek experts.
So he said once he was traveling in
Europe, and he went into Greece, and in
the city of Athens he saw a milk
truck coming down the street.
And there was a sign in Greek, of
course, painted on the milk truck.
And it simply said two words, sincere milk.
Only the Greek word for sincere is what
Peter used in his Bible.
He said, I see it now.
I hadn't seen it before.
I never saw it until now.
It means pure milk, that's all.
Simple, wasn't it?
It's not strange to take a man that
long to find that out.
But the Lord is good to him and
let him know that when Peter said sincere
milk, he meant pure milk.
You don't feed babies milk that the flies
have fallen into.
You don't feed babies milk that have sat
around in the sun until it's blinky.
And you use that word blinky here.
Blinky is a good word in the country
for not being real sour, but just being
nasty.
Not real sour.
And not thick and clabberish, but just turning
so that it's got a bad disposition.
You don't feed that kind of milk to
babies.
You feed them sincere milk, pure milk.
Milk that is not diluted, that nobody's run
a hose into the can and diluted it.
Nobody's put anything else in.
It's just pure milk.
So you're supposed to take that pure milk
of the word and let feed on it
and drink it.
One time I put myself on a diet.
I shouldn't do it.
I don't believe in self-medication, though I
practice it all the time.
But I put myself on a diet of
nothing but milk.
I said, I'm going to just go on
a milk diet.
And under this thinned down, apologetic skin milk,
this was real grade A.
And I drank six quarts a day.
Six quarts a day.
I warmed it too.
That makes some of you sick, but I
thought I could do better, but it warmed.
And I warmed it two quarts for breakfast,
two for lunch, and two for dinner.
And no dessert and nothing else.
And I preached constantly, went to conventions and
had them give it to me there, went
to NIAC and had them give it to
me there while I was there for a
week of meetings.
And every place I went and while I
was at home, two quarts of milk per
meal.
And when it was all over, I'd put
on fifteen pounds and never felt better in
my life.
Now, don't you try that, because some of
you don't want to put on fifteen pounds,
and you're feeling all right as it is.
I'm just telling you that milk is a
good food, and the scripture says you to
take the sincere milk of the word, and
if you take it, you will grow.
Babies grow with milk.
And this is why we're regenerated, that we
might grow, bringing many sons unto glory.
Christians are not finished products.
They're God's sons in process.
They're not finished products.
A man looks at his year-old baby
and thinks he's wonderful.
But if he looks the same when he's
three years old, he's worried about him.
And if he looks the same when he's
five years old, he knows something's tragically wrong.
So when God looks at a new Christian
and hears him saying, hears him saying, Abba,
Father, God is pleased.
But if five years later he's not got
beyond Abba, Father, I'm sure the heart of
God's concerned.
And if after fifteen years of hanging around
a church he's only able to say, Abba,
Father, I'm sure that the Holy Ghost is
grieved and heavy.
God wants us to grow.
He wants us to develop and mature.
It isn't our size, it's our maturity that
matters.
So we are sons in process.
We're buildings being put up, we're pictures being
painted.
We're sons growing to maturity.
Now, he said in order to do this,
he made the captain of their salvation perfect.
The sons are an army and they're being
led by a captain, and at least we'll
retain that figure, though the translators are not
sure what the figure is.
They differ among themselves, but it's all the
same.
The leader of our salvation was made perfect
through suffering.
Now, you say, would the Lord Jesus Christ
have to be perfect?
Was not he born perfect?
Was not he God of God and Light
of Light, begotten, not created?
Was not it said of him, that holy
thing that shall be born of thee shall
be called the Son of God?
Yes, he was all that, and he was
more than we could ever say.
He is so much that we can only
sing, as the young lady did reverently, O
sweet wonder, Jesus the Son of God.
He's all that.
But as a man, he had to be
perfected.
Now, what does it mean?
It doesn't mean he had to be made
morally perfect.
It does when it's talking about us, but
it doesn't when it's talking about him.
It means completing his manhood.
He had to be made perfect in completion
of manhood.
The thing has to be tried.
Nothing is good till it's tried.
Nothing is perfect till it's tried.
A child that would be brought up in
a nursery till he's twenty-one years old
would not be perfected, even though through the
wonders of science and proper diet and balance
and air conditioning, he might be an example
of all that's beautiful in manhood.
Strong and healthy and vigorous, but he'd be
a long way from being a man.
He'd be a cream puff.
He wouldn't be a man.
Imagine inducting him into the Canadian Army or
Navy.
He'd die before midnight.
Because you know, you've got to have more
than simply growth, you have to have trial.
The oak tree that grows on the hill,
stands the storm year in and year out,
becomes tough.
Its grain becomes deep and strong because it's
got the wind and the rain and the
lightning and the storm and the tempest to
perfect it.
So Jesus Christ, our Lord, though pure to
the point where he was holy and harmless
and undefiled and separate from sinners and higher
than the highest heaven, yet he could not
have been the Christ if he had merely
been a hothouse perfect man.
He had to be more than that.
He had to undergo all possible human experiences.
The tempest had to break over him the
same as it over his disciples.
Storms had to sweep down on him.
He had to be hungry as his disciples
were.
He had to suffer as they suffered and
be cursed as they were cursed and driven
out as they were driven out, hated as
they were hated.
He had to walk till he was tired
and lie down and sleep.
He had to rise in the morning and
know the unpleasantness of getting going after a
night's sleep.
He had to know all that.
He had to undergo it all.
Nothing touches his brethren, but he felt it.
So there is a perfect kinship of experience
with Jesus Christ, our Lord, a perfect kinship
of experience.
I have often wondered how kings and presidents
and men in authority in high places who
never came up the hard way, have often
wondered how they understand their people at all.
I wonder.
A man like Lincoln knew his people, but
a man like Jack Kennedy, born with a
silver spoon, I don't know how he knows
his people at all.
How does he know?
He doesn't know how a farm boy in
Pennsylvania would do, but Jesus knew how his
people did because he was one of them.
He was born in a stable and brought
up in a carpenter's shop and played with
the little boys on the back lots, helped
his father when he was old enough, listened
to the preaching of John, was baptized, filled
with the Holy Ghost, and went out and
labored among men, slept under the trees at
night, and had not where to lay his
head, but sometimes hungered.
He knew all about that.
He had the perfect kinship of experience, no
talking down.
I used to bristle up to my Adam's
apple when Franklin F.
D.
Roosevelt used to talk down to us.
The age of the common man.
Indeed, common man.
Us common fellows out there in the Midwest
and in the steel centers and in the
coal mine centers, what did he know about
us?
Common man.
Jesus knew about us.
He came where we were.
There never was a coal mine where any
of his people ever went in.
He didn't go in.
There never was a blast furnace that he
didn't stand before with his people.
There never was anything that suffered he didn't
suffer.
There never was a tear shed that he
didn't feel.
He perfectly knew his people.
When Jesus came to the world, he didn't
come down slumming to the world, consciously superior
to the world.
He came clear down to the world.
That's why he was not born in a
palace.
That's why he was born in a stable.
The Lord wanted everybody to know, I'm one
of you.
I belong to you.
Notice what it says here, both he that
sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all
of one.
So he's not ashamed to call them brethren.
All of one.
We're one with him.
He says, I'll declare thy name unto my
brethren.
I like sometimes in reverent moods to kneel
and remind myself that he's my brother at
the right hand of the father.
Now, about that suffering, making Christ perfect through
suffering.
Father, there are some things you will never
know until you've suffered.
I wish I didn't have to say this.
I wish that, and I don't wish it
either.
No, forgive me, Lord, I don't wish it.
But I have an edgy feeling sometimes that
I wish I didn't have to say the
truth always.
It'd be wonderful to stand up here and
quote nice things to you all and send
you out all in a glow of a
good feeling.
And you'd shake my hand and say, that
was wonderful, I feel so much better.
But the truth is, the truth is that
you're going to have to know that there
are some things you can't know until you
suffer.
I heard last night a delightful program after
I went to bed.
I heard a delightful program.
I don't know, we don't have anything like
that in the United States.
They just don't have them.
You never hear them.
This was absolutely delightful.
There was some fellow who was explaining about
cliches and jargon, and that's my long suit,
you know.
I can use more cliches in one sermon
than any man you ever heard.
And he was talking about them.
He was talking about how governments and scientists
and professional men habitually use language, and nobody
knows what they're talking about.
And then he was trying to straighten out
the language.
And he said, for instance, during the war,
he said the English foreign office, or war
departments it must have been, used to issue
communiques for the people to read, and would
say, the British army, after attaining its objective,
has moved to prepared positions.
And other such expressions.
And he said, everybody shrugged and went their
way.
They said, well, things are going all right
with us.
What they were doing was retreating.
But they didn't say so.
They said, Churchill got up and said, the
news is bad from France.
He said, then everybody knew.
That's all.
He took those.
He said, well, we're to tell anybody this
is it.
The news is bad from France.
And the whole British nation awoke and said,
wow, what's the matter?
We've got to do something here.
But as long as they were just hearing
jargon issued by generals, they didn't know a
thing about it.
I hear sermons on the air.
I don't know what the fellow meant.
I'm sure he meant, probably meant something.
I used to, when I was a boy,
occasionally go to hear a sermon.
And strangely, I had no background at all,
but I liked to hear a sermon.
But I never heard one I understood.
They always talked about family life and church
life and community life.
Well, I didn't have the remotest idea what
they meant.
They meant something, but I didn't know what.
And then I got to hearing preachers who
said it, and then I began to get
help.
Well, I want to say it now, and
I want to say it bluntly, that there
are some imperfections you'll never lose until you've
suffered.
There are some truths you will never know
until you've suffered, either in your heart or
in your body or both.
And there are some mysteries you'll never understand
until you've carried the cross and fallen under
it.
So we might as well brace ourselves.
If we imagine that Christianity is a playing
ground, we're all wrong.
It's not.
It's a battleground.
It's a field where men work and a
battleground where men fight.
It's a long highway where men walk, not
ride.
And we might as well face up to
that.
But there is grace.
Thank God there is plenty of grace, grace
enough for everybody, and he never suffers anybody
to suffer or be tempted above what they
are able to bear.
And with every temptation he makes a way
of escape, and as long as there is
a way of escape, we don't have to
worry about the rest.
So remember, Christ is not ashamed to suffer,
and he's not ashamed of you, and he's
not ashamed of you when you're suffering.
You may be sometimes wimps and whimper under
it and feel ashamed of yourself, but he's
not ashamed of you.
He knows what you're going through, he went
through it.
He knows what you're suffering, he suffered it.
And so he made the captain of our
salvation perfect through suffering.
Over in the book of Revelation there's a
passage.
You know, I skip the 2nd and 3rd
chapters.
Here's a little passage I want to read
to you.
This was written, and I think that this
refers to the time of the ten persecutions.
2.10. Fear none of those things which
thou shalt suffer.
Behold, the devil shall cast some of you
into prison, that ye may be tried, and
ye shall have tribulation ten days.
Be thou faithful unto death, and I will
give thee a crown of life.
Fear none of those things which thou shalt
suffer.
I have lived long, become an old man,
said Mark Twain, and I have suffered many
things, and had many troubles, most of which
never came to pass.
And he's right about that.
Most of our troubles don't come to pass.
We suffer from fearing they'll come to pass.
So we can cut down on the intensity
of our fearing by not fearing.
For God will make those temptations and tribulations
which we suffer, they'll make them precious for
us, the crown of life.
No, the devil is allowed to get to
us, he's not allowed, finally, to harm us.
So God is waiting now to bring sons
unto glory.
Are you concerned, my brother and sister?
Are you concerned to be a growing Christian?
Are you concerned to be a maturing Christian?
Do you know what it means to sing,
I long, O, I long to be holy,
conformed to his will and his word.
I want to be gentle and Christlike.
I want to be just like my Lord.
Or help me to be holy, O Father
of light.
Sin-burdened and lowly I bow in thy
sight.
How can a stained conscience dare look on
thy face, even though in thy presence thou
grant me a place?
Help me to be holy.
If I thought that even twenty percent of
the church people at Avenue Road were honestly
longing to be holy, I would be a
happy man.
I would be a gratified man.
I hope that I've underestimated, I hope more.
Honestly want to be brought unto glory, or
cooperating with Christ in bringing sons unto glory,
seeking to know God, not willing to pay
any price to know him.
To mount, to rise, to mature, to grow,
to become strong.
This ought to be the beating yearning heart
of the church.
Oh, to be like the Blessed Redeemer!
That ought to be the watchword of the
Church, for he is trying to bring sons
unto glory.
And he'll do it some way.
Let's cooperate with him so that doing of
it will cost us less time and less
suffering and less trouble.
For the more we cooperate, the less we
have to suffer.
But all of us will have to suffer
in some measure.
And this becomes God.
So let's not blame God or complain.
This becomes God.
Shall not a holy God do right?
He does right.
Circumstances being what they are, hell being what
it is and where it is, we being
who we are and what we are, and
heaven being what it is, God is right
in bringing many sons unto glory to perfect
our leader Jesus Christ and us through suffering.
Amen.