can put it up quite nicely? There we are. I wonder if this morning we may turn and read the epistles of the Corinthians the first letter of Paul, the church of Corinth, and we will read, if we may, just a verse or two out of the first chapter. One Corinthians chapter one. Now I have on my heart this morning that we might look together at this epistle as an epistle. Not just a verse from it, not just a poem from it, but as an epistle, as a letter. You know, I've persuaded this, that when the Apostle wrote the church in Corinth, and they received this letter, I've persuaded that they didn't sort of look at it and say, well, let's take a little word here, a little word there. I've persuaded they read it as a book. All they heard, they went back to it, that they said, this is important. Let's read it again. This is difficult. Oh, I can understand and say that. This is difficult. Let us ponder it again. But when they read it, they read it first as a book. Most days I receive a letter from my wife. What would you think of me if I sort of looked at the letter and said, well, let's have a look at the last one. I read it through. I don't know how many times I read it through, but I keep them anywhere else. And here the Apostle writes to the church at Corinth, and I get sometimes deterred, brethren. I get deterred that I meet some folk who know so much about so little. Or if you were to ask them to give an exposition of the thirteenth of one Corinthians, they would lift you in the rapture. And Lord, when you ask them, from now to the Muslim Book of Acts. And it's not quite so readily the answer is given. So I want you to look at the book. Now I have nothing new to say today. What I am understanding of this morning, I was told when first I was converted. I remember a little fellowship on which I was connected to the work of God and with which I am filled in fellowship. I remember gathering week by week in our Bible readings. And the elders, they were the first ordinary men. There was a hairheader. And a bricklayer. Or we had one professional man, who was a deadhead. He was always on the way around getting him. Because they were not fighting. I used to ask him how he got his living in the desert itself. You know, I remember it so well that they were gathered. And these men taught us. They taught us the word of God. And we were taught this. as you have been taught, so I mustn't use it there. The very, very bright, when you use the key verse of your little dream, it sums up its entire message. Without it, you'll never be able to bring to your memory, the general theme of it. And I remember there as a young Christian, being asked to read, as I'm going to ask you to read with me this morning, The closing verses of the first chapter. Verse twenty-eight, twenty-nine says, No flesh should glory in his presence. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us, wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. that according as it is written he that glories let him glory in the Lord may I read that verse again but of him are ye in Christ Jesus who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, that according as it is written, he that glorieth let him glory in the Lord. Now the Lord will add his blessing, I'm sure, to the reading of this verse. It was an American author. I know not who. But it was an American author who once said of the Apostles of the Corinthians that it is a very wonderful thing. to stand by the sides of the sea, and to look at and see, there is a sea, a ship. Tell him to find anything maybe more beautiful of man's creation, and to stand by the side of the sea, and to look at and see a ship as there itself is God. But there is something more. Something so awful that one shatters to think about it, when one stands by the flight of the sea, and looks at it and says, not the ship and the sea, but the sea and the ship. When the sea gets into a ship, the breath of tragedy that ever can happen, does happen. The sea becomes a grave. Sorrow is in its way. I think there's something thrilling, don't you? I think there's something thrilling about seeing a church in Corinth. That one? This cosmopolitan, wicked, vile, wretched city, and it was all that. And yet right in the center of Corinth there was a church. of all things in Corinth. Listen, it makes you feel you want to shout hallelujah. It makes you feel that you want to say a phrase in the words of the Lord Jesus, and the gates of hell shall us prevail against it. But if there's something wonderful about seeing Corinth with the church, a church in Corinth, something old about seeing Corinth in the church, that or his epistle was written. This epistle was written not because there was a church in Corinth, but because there was Corinth in the church. That somehow the world would sweep into the holiest of things. And the apostle receives news of what's happening in Corinth. And by the way, I take the right of the beginning of the book we have something brought before us that the Christian Church is at them yet, but it's there. And when the Apostle writes to the Church of Corinth, this grave letter, when he brings before them the great altar to all their homes, he tells them who it is who wrote to him and told him about the difficulties in the church. Reverend Titus I think this is an essential thing for us all to remember. That when a man raises criticism against another, that man must demand to take its stand. To say, I was the one that said it. You see, I think that the work of God too long to have any doubt about this, that quite frequently when people criticize other Christians, They never want those other Christians to know that they should come. And how quickly when someone comes and says something disparagingly against another, and I say to them, Oh, look at, come on, as it's going, we'll see it. That's on. We've got to put this matter right. They look at me and they think, well, you know, I heard it. Oh, you heard it? Well, who did you hear it from that I let go to him? Oh, well, uh, uh, uh, uh, How infrequently are we prepared to stand by our Christians? And the Apostle says, I have heard of the heist of Saul. He was prepared to make statements and tell who it was that told him. And I think this is important in the light of some of the things that we're going to listen to in a moment. Now you all know that this book divides itself into four parts. You are all aware of the fact, well I'm only telling you what you've learned in your Sunday schools and Bible classes, that first of all there is in the Church of God disunity. May I repeat that? There is in the Church of God disunity. There is in the Church of God disorder. There is in the Church of God disagreement. And as strange as it may seem, there is in the Church of God disbelief. Now, when we open those first four chapters of this wonderful epistle, you will remember that we have brought before us disunity. Disunity has come because of persons. There are those that stand up and say, I am Paul, and I am Paulus, and I am Peter. And if you please, some of them say, I am Christ. There is disunity because of pressure. Then there is disunity concerning power. Why, the Jews require a sign and the Greeks seek after wisdom. Why, they say, if we're going to progress in the things of God, then we must go after the wisdom of this seed. If we're going to progress in the things of God, then we must have signs. We must have miraculous things in our church order. And then there was disunity not only concerning persons and not only concerning power, but there was disunity concerning position. And when the apostle writes his fourth chapter, he speaks of some and he says, Some of you are Popper. Those who dare to say, now listen, we're the leaders here. Popper. Then you notice that there is not only disunity, but there was disorder. When we come to chapter five and chapter six, those tragic chapters in the epistles of the Corinthians, we point first in chapter five, molding. So black, so dark, one shudders the door. Molding, fornication. adult. When we come to chapter six, it's not moral sin, it's material sin. It's brother, taking brother to the wall. And here there is, in the Church of God, not only disunity, but there is disorder in the very Church of God. Then when we come to the major portion of this very wonderful epistle, as you know, commencing in verse or chapter seven, I'm running right through the seven chapters to chapter fourteen. Here we find disagreement. Do you know something, brother, sister? Don't come to me and tell me the Bible's an old-fashioned book. As I read the epistles of the Corinthians, I would think that it was written yesterday. William. I see all the disagreement that was found in the church at Corinth. I say with sorrow in my heart, and yet I must say it, because praise God there's an answer to it. I want to say that all the disagreement that are found in the seven chapters from chapter seven through forty, or eight chapters, every one of them, I see them in the world today. Now I go through them very quickly. Chapter seven is the tremendous disagreement concerning marriage. Chapter eight is the tremendous disagreement concerning meats, whether one should eat that which had been offered to idols. Chapter nine is the tremendous disagreement concerning maintenance. As to whether the man that preaches the gospel should live by the gospel. As to whether the oxen should be muscled when it churn out the core. When we come to chapter ten, it's the tremendous disagreement that causes murmuring. And there in that great tent verse, this is what the apostle says, neither murmur ye as some of them. when we come to chapter eleven of course it's the great chapter of the memorial feast right through the avenue of time there's been disagreement concerning this there's no need for me to go into it the church of god to this very day is divided right through the center on the matter of the memorial when we come indeed to chapter twelve it is a matter of membership disagreement but for those who are members of the body of Christ and when they became members of the body of Christ and is it possible having been a member to lose that membership when we come to chapter thirteen there's very little disagreement here and yet surely the whole chapter tells us there is the disagreement concerning motives I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not long Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, I have not love. Though I give my body to the poor, I have not love. Call our books and our motives and not our actions. When we come to chapter fourteen, as you know, it is the disagreement as indeed to the ministry in the church. As to whom ministers, and when he ministers, and what he ministers. I repeat what I say. You would almost think that the epistle to the Christians was written yesterday. When we come to chapter fifteen, and with your permission I am going to omit chapter sixteen, because chapter fifteen is the final exhortation and the greetings and salutation that's sent to those that he knew. While of course there is great truth, there is truth concerning the collection of the saints on the first day of the week. There is truth concerning our attitude to others. But the last chapter mainly deals with final exhortation and salutation. The final message of the Epistles of the Corinthians is found in chapter fifteen. And it is not disunity or disorder or disagreement, but the tragedy is this, it is disbelief. For you will remember in that great verse, he dared to say, How say, Father among you! there's no resurrection from the dead that in the church of God there are those who deny the resurrection members of the church here if you had any like that here I've got a feeling that you'd read them out but they were there there was disbelief in the church I say it is a rather it is a rather sober a testimony It would be if there wasn't an answer to it. And hallelujah, the Bible says, O blessed God in the verse that we were taught was the key verse to the entire epistle, is God's answer to it. For our disunity, Christ is made unto us wisdom. For our disorder, Christ is made unto us What is that? For our disagreement, Christ is made unto us, sanctification. For our disbelief, hallelujah, Christ is made unto us, redemption, that we shall receive the redemption of the body. So you notice, as in all things, and pertaining to his body, It's the answer to every problem that the church has to have. I told you the first day I was here, I had that one desire to present Christ to you. That's the only desire I have. I want to talk to you about Jesus Christ, and I want to say this, that for every one of us to have come to know that the Savior was to say, Christ is made unto us, He is made unto us wisdom. He's been made unto us righteousness. He's been made unto us sanctification. He's been made unto us redemption. This is our position in Christ that we have already been aspected in the Beloved. And the Apostle writes to the church at Corinth and says, if that is your position in Christ, what is your condition? All that our condition may coincide with our position. First of all, then, there was disunity in the church. And I pointed out to you that this disunity came, first of all, through person. You see, what had happened was this, very simply. There had come to the city of Corinth, this man that we call Saul Thomas, Now he was an academic of academics. He had been to the greatest university of his day and had sat at the feet of the greatest professors of his day. He boasted in the pamphlet, Gamaliel, of being his tutor. He was a man whose knowledge of the Old Testament was open to pass. whose ability and drawing from Old Testament types and shadows the things of God was so marked. And he comes into the city of Corinth, but there he stands and he preaches. As you know, over the years I have been much interested in discussions after the torn in the flesh of the Apostle man. There are many, of course, who have felt that he suffered with a form of blindness. And they told the verse indeed from Galatians, where he praises them that they would have plucked out their olives for him. Then, of course, there is equally as large a school of thought to have felt that it was not blindness that the apostle suffered with, but a form of epilepsy. Then he pulled them out by the beatings, the imprisonment, the tortures that he had to endure. When he spoke of the plan, when he could not speak with wonder, that his very person and his very speech were the sons of Philip. Now I know not what it was. I only know this, that he comes to Colin, but as he stands and sticks to them, and he looks into their face, some of them say, this is what? Oh, this man from God! And they believe. And they say, all of it. But you know there were some other Christians there in Corinth who said, Ah, yes, all is all right, you know, but the difficulty is he goes down too deep. He preaches over our heads. Now it only preaches where their heads ought to have been, but somehow their heads want to argue with it. He preaches over our heads. We don't understand him. And so they're told they're in for the city of Corinth, Apollos. The scripture says that he was an eloquent. Why, he had a voice like this. When he spoke, oh, wonder of him. You know, he never got to the ages. Never put them on the wrong train. Why, he don't go grab it. Every time he spoke, it was like music. And people said, oh, we can understand him. You've never been ashamed to ask anyone to come and hear that man. Why, you could ask anybody you like. Apollo for us! But you see, there were some in this church at Corinth who were afraid. They'd never learned the real right. And they listened to Apollos and they said, No. Swallow the dictionary. I can't understand those long words. Right. Do you remember the story that was told of the young minister who invited to his church on vacation? his theological professor to speak at the Sunday school anniversary. And the professor was known to use his very long words. And so the young minister said, Sir, sir, my boys and girls are not very clever. You will use simple words, won't you? The great boys stood at anniversary and read a portion from the Scripture and then said, now boys and girls, I would like to give you a summary of what we read. The young minister bought his coat-tail, and in one of those sort of sage whispers, said, they won't understand the meaning of the word summary. And the great divine looked around and said, Your minister tells me you have difficulty with the word summary. Let me explain it. A summary is, it is a, it is going to bring me synopsis. You know, that's the other sort of thing. He made simple summaries into abbreviated synopsis in the case. Paul! And some of the things said we can't understand it. We don't want Paul! He's too under our heads. We don't want Paul! He uses too many big words. And then suddenly there came into common fear. You know, he knocked the glass of water over sometimes. And he showed you that we did. And he passed his cross, and he passed the desks. And he had fire in his bones. Some of the saints said, that's the man for me. You can see he believes when he hopes for that. Why, that's the man for me. The tragedy was then. That instead of realizing that whether it was Paul or Paul's or Cephas, Instead of realizing that they were all servants of God and they had something for everyone, they began to divide. I of all, I of all, I of all. There were some who sunk so low they said, I of Christ. Oh no, please, please. I've heard all this incredibly. This was not someone, you know, who was sort of like, ah, ah, ah. I think you'll understand me. Sort of hypergrey. Hold up. We are gathered in the name of the Lord. We're not a bit of it. There were some people in college who've seen the way God virtues. There were some people in college who in the day of his flash have heard Christ. They've heard him speak. And they said, listen, what do we want to have a ministry for? We don't want to listen to Paul. We don't want to listen to Apollos. We don't want to listen to Cephas. We've heard Christ. Christ for us. Maybe if we would look around for modern Ken's plan, I say, with real love in my heart, they were the first graders. Folks would just try to listen to the Lord and didn't want to listen to anyway. And the tragedy was this, that they crawled over it. They took sides. It was in one church, if you please, not in the whole body, in one church. You will notice that, not just one minister over a church, but you will notice there came Paul and Apollos and Cephas. They all came to the church and they divided about men. The apostle writes and says this, Christ is made unto you wisdom. Don't you realize that you must be wise enough to realize that all are yours, whether poor, powerful, secret, things present, things to come, life, death, all are yours? The only thing that doesn't belong to you is yourself. You are Christ. Christ is God. All brothers and sisters, may I ask, is it not a fact that you and I need to realize that God has ministered from it for all sorts of people. Fool? Wouldn't it not be when you have a fool here? Apollos? Isn't it glorious when you have an apology? Seekers? Well, I should think it could be a bit uncomfortable, but nevertheless, it's good when you have a seeker here. Better than sisters, let's remember this, that they all belong to us. Whatever week's purpose, whatever weekend you come, may I ask, why do you come? Do you come that you might listen to brother so and so? Or do you come to listen to what the Lord has to say who brother so and so? What a different debate. All the Lord. You know how rich we are. You know what? All the Lord ignored. I was reading this very early this morning at the breakfast table we just asked the questioner to about it, but he said, All the Lord, All Christian ministry belongs to you when a poor or a part of the kingdom. By the way, I'm not much of a man in books. I must admit that the book grew in the back there. And I looked over it this morning and why? There are authors from every part of the Christian church. Or you? Or you? When a poor or a part of the kingdom. You know, that's one thing I love about our morning meeting book. I'm not very familiar with yours. I'm more familiar maybe, you know, the little flock or believers. But one of the things that tells me about our morning meeting book is to look up the ladder and see the names of the orders. Or there is even some there who wrote the cap. But all the orders. Oh, this is what we belong to us! We will donate this over! Let's accept what God already has for us. All that, whether, oh I think, is all of yours, whether life, isn't it lovely that life belongs to us? I don't know about you, but I want to enjoy life. I don't want to go about the things as long as the people in the black highland middle. Not me. Life belongs to me. Christ gave it to me. I have come that you might have life for me, that you might have it more abundantly. I say, all the doors, things present, things to come, life. Death. You know, early this morning, I was thinking about that. Death belongs to us. You know what I felt like in the room this morning? I felt like saying, Lord, you can have it back. I don't want it. Then suddenly, I will, I won't. Death belongs to me. Death belongs to me. I don't know what happened here during the years of war. But in my own country, you could go up and down to land and in different places, mostly grabs in the country, away from areas of vast population. You would see a barbed wire entanglement, and behind it, a prison camp. And in it, prisoners of war. Now we didn't want them. We had to kill them. We had to clone them. We had to send them to the castle, and we didn't want them. But listen, we would rather them belong to us. When they were free, the other side of no man's land with a gun in their hand where they could hurt us. Because they couldn't hurt us while they were there. Death belongs to a Christian, like a prisoner of war, belongs to those that have captured him. We don't want death. Well, don't you misunderstand me. I don't want to die. You remember the lovely story of Bishop Moore. You know. Great Bishop went to see his doctor. He was not very well. The doctor looked at him and said, Doctor, Bishop, Switzerland, Switzerland, said Bishop Moore. I haven't come to Switzerland for six months. I have too much to do. Well, may not be alive if I don't quit from under heaven. The great bishop said, well, if it's as bad as I can, I'll go with it. You know what I mean? He was wise. Of course he was wise. I used to say I've got three good reasons why I don't want to die. I have a wife and two children. See now I've got three grandchildren and son-in-law and a daughter, I don't know, tell a man who you don't have. I don't want to die! But I'm glad of this, sisters, that death belongs to me. Christ took the sin out of it and gave it to me, just that the prisoner of war belongs to those that capture him. And he cannot do the person that's captured him one bit of harm, although he doesn't want it. So I praise God, death can't do us any harm. It'll only take us into his presence. All of you, whether Paul or Apollos, I beg the wonder of it. Why is it that there's disunity among persons? Why is it we can't see that God has for us, in the assembly of his people, God has for us such a rich, mixed ministry? You know, in the ordinary things of life, I'll let you into a secret. I'm trying to lose a little question. You know, I thought, I'm so candid if I arise in your country, I'm afraid that there's a sin of love, a failure. But I'm very partial to eggs and bacon. You know, bacon cooked the way we cook in England, not shriveled up. There we are. But I'm very partial to eggs and bacon, but I'll let you into a secret. If you gave me eggs and bacon, to regret your dinner if he had slept for every day for a month, I'd get set up. Would you? I'm glad that in the Church of God, God's got a love in this. I want to bear witness to this, that over the years and our fellowship I've wettled to all sorts of men, some of the most eloquent, the most gentlemanly, some of the most crude. And yet from all of them I learnt something of Jesus. I'll oar, Lord. Don't it fall, like Persons. Let's see that he's made us wise, wise enough to receive from himself, to the hand of whosoever he will, what he had for us. And then, of course, there is disagreement not only about persons, but about power. We face this today in the church, don't we? Isn't that true? Take this today in the church. For there are those that say why the Greeks seek after wisdom and the Jews seek after a sign. But is not this just what's happening today? There are men and women trying to introduce into evangelism all sorts of things. I say this and say it kindly, but I must say it as an evangelist that sometimes you think you are going to a If this is what he says, that this is the source of all power, we preach Christ and him who is God. The right to die for our sin is still the attraction that the church offer us the men and women. We have nothing added to us. None of that. I believe that Jesus Christ can satisfy the hearts of young and old. I believe that presenting heights to men and women is the way of glory and blessing. Oh, you must forgive, please. You must forgive my stories, being English ones, or Scots, one will come. But I don't know much American money, do you think. But most of you, if you had, as I said to you, if you had a Scots-richer career, you heard the story that I learned of heaven. Where the heart of Blackthrope is Blackthrope's. Now, Glasgow Cross, of course, is just a great granite memorial. But to every person from that city, it means something. For at the base of Glasgow Cross, seven covenancers were primers of death for the sake of the Savior. Many of you men here, when you were boys, your best of all boys were worried. You'll be familiar with Glasgow Cross, but they circle around Glasgow Cross. But every boy in Glasgow knows Glasgow Cross. In the day just until a few years ago, when they had trains in Glasgow, you know, the entire front of the train, and on it was Glasgow Cross. Everyone knew Glasgow. The story is told of a wee lad that was walking down on our gravel street, the shopping street in Glasgow. And the peers were going back to us. And a great Scotch Christmas saw the wee lad. And tossing the road, he said, us laddie, what's the matter? And the wee boy, for it's clear, says, please, sir, I'm lost. You're not, ladded. Oh, didn't you worry that? Tell me. What's your name? The wee boy was up to that one. He'd hurry his mother away. If you do that again, I'll fetch a policeman. And he wasn't going to tell the policeman his name. Oh, sir, he said, I've got a kid in my name, said I'm lost. Jimmy, can you name that? And you're lost. What's up? Where did it get? Hey, we're up to that point. He looked for the top of things from where he stayed. For it's an under-the-chimberon stage for that loss. You don't know your names, and you don't know where you're staying. How much shall I do with you? To the tears became a smile when a green warrior was passing the great scotch-chman in his head. Other, you take me to the cross! I can't find my own great-hopeful mayor! Just a dirty old granite memorial that he knew his way home on Glasgow grounds. Brother, sister, I know the cross. But I don't apologize when I say it. center of the message of the Christian faith is sung up in the words that you sing so loud. All you need to go home on the way of the cross. There's no other way for this. Are they attached to the gates of the light? The way of the cross. The way of the cross. Oh, there may be disunity about persons, but when it comes to power, there should never be disunity. We preach Christ, and then crucify. Then there was disagreement about position. Disunity about position. Oh, dear. The apostle writes my court chapter, and he speaks of those that are not popped up. You know, sometimes we say to our shame, sometimes we say that this is true, isn't it? Now ask you a question. Have you ever known any brethren quarrel about who's going to do the most medial part in the fellowship? You know, in all the years I preached, in all the countries I'd visited, I'd never been to a church where anyone there quarrel about who was going to sweep it out. I thought you were turning to my heart. No, I won't let you do it. So never once. They never quarreled about the menial task. But sometimes in the church of God, they quarreled about who turned it ahead. Listen, Christ be made unto us with. Oh, if we are wise in Christ, if that be our position in him, It's like making art of vision, damn me. It's why you don't have to see that really, Reverend Luther, there's nothing wrong with that imposition. He that desires the offerers of a famous and elder desire the good work, not the vision, Oh, but you and I may grasp this. Christ is made of us. But indeed there is the story of disunity in the opening four chapters. When we come to chapter five and chapter six, it's the story of disorder. The moral sin of chapter five, I have nothing to say about it. Nothing's there. The material sin of chapter six, I may have something to say about that. I only want to say this. But every one of us who do a little job to about the hatch, you know, when I arrive home, I've got to sleep in a way so long, my wife has a lift, jobs to be done. And those of us who have, and when sometimes, you know, your hands are sort of made for love-hammers and six-inch nails, well, sometimes you hit your thumb. I look into a secret. I don't consciously know during the course of the day that I've got a thumb. You don't. I'm not walking down the path there. I don't consciously know I have a thumb, but when I hit it, I know I've got it there. I will say this, I know nothing about America really. In my own country, I just often come across the scene, the moulds in the chapter five. Occasionally, that I could count on the finger of the black hands in the fellowships with which I move, the number of folk that have had to visit the limbs because of all sin, and that's in twenty-eight years of gospel preaching. I don't think that when it does happen, it sticks out like a thumb. You feel you could go and crawl under the carpet. You feel you have to pray God's forgiveness. You wonder how ever it could happen. God has placed such an awful reverence upon family life. God has made marriage so holy. Any man named in the name of Christ would ever be to break it. But do whatever he was saying. Oh, I say, when that tongue sticks out when it's in heaven, I realize it. But it's there. Christ is made unto us, wrote. The seventh and sixth chapter of Talus of what happens in the Church of God in the way of discipline when this does happen. But really, that's not why it's there. The fifth chapter is not there to tell us what will happen, what we shall do as this happens. The fifth chapter is there to tell us that Christ is made unto us. Righteousness, but it should never happen. That's what it's there for. When we come to the sixth chapter, one tells three learn to speak, it's material, and it's rather taking part from the Lord. But may I repeat what I said? Never forget that it was not written just to tell us what we mustn't do. It tells us what we should do. Christ is made unto us righteousness that no brother should ever have to put his brother in the position where he could be taken to law. That's what it meant. You don't know. If you did know I would never mention. For some years ago, I and myself passed into a little town in our wetland. I called in to see a very dear friend of mine, a very, very pleasant man, who owned the garage. Oh, you don't call it what he called. Garage, it's a quote. Well, you know, credit card, but it's all cars, a garage. But you know, I went in to see my friend. When I walked into his office and sat back, he said, I'll stand back. He said, I want the king to give up his office. I'm the last man in the world to get people to fight on business. He told me that what had happened with that age, that three months before that had walked into his business, A man in a Christian town shipped some miles away from his little town. Well, I think some miles had to go nearly about ten miles and up. Of course, that's not quite. But this man came in, and there was a car there in the showroom. He looked at it, and he said, I'll have that car. Now, the salesman knew that he was a professional friend of the boss, and so, well, he'd let him test it. In the area of the boat, the account was sent in. a lot of pay. At the end of the second month, the account was sent in, and it was a pay. As the essence affirms, the man in charge to his office sent the account, and on the top of it, he read letters, and left Mrs. Pett, called proceeding for the payment. When the brother received the letter and sat down, he wrote, love was called for, let him go. So my friend, he wrote, saying, You've got me to go to court. Don't you know the false sense that brother must not take brother at all? Well, of course you were an elder in the meeting. Now, please, this man has not suddenly gone into difficulty. This man had the money to pay. The church was living on someone else's credit. So he said, Sam, why do I do that? I said, that's not the man asking for this. Did you know that this letter had been sent out? He said, personally, I did not know. The man in charge of my office feeds to this. He's my sales manager. He's in charge of my office. But I didn't want what happened. Because although I personally did not know what had been sent out, I had no longer. It was the man out before it was sent out. He told it. Oh. Well, would you mind if I asked for the letter? We should have been very clear. So as you take of the letter to the secretary, dear son, will your letter be put in the hands of the usual instruction, whatever. I notice that you have quoted the epistles of the Corinthians, saying brother must not take brother to law. As you have quoted it, you will abide by it. But the scripture that said brother must not take brother to law says he mustn't take brother to law because the church can decide. So by sending your account to the elders of your meeting and asking them to collect the money, he's got to check by the turn of those children. That's what the fifth chapter is about. It's about never putting your brother in a position where he ought to do that. That's what it is. And Christ is made unto us. righteousness, brethren, it's no good, you're saying, I trusted Jesus, I accepted him as my Savior, I made righteous in Christ, it's no good, you're saying that, and then living an unrighteous life. You were the man long ago who said, let me die the death of the righteous, you don't die the death of the righteous, and that you live the life of the righteous. Here was a man We have never learned that Christ was made under him righteousness and had translated into it. Oh, I said first of all, that there was disunity. I said there was disorder. Now, of course, we come to the great chapters that speak of disagreement. Oh, I haven't got time to take you right through them. We'd be here all the morning and afternoon. But let's get a general idea of what it's about. Christ is made unto us. Strength of vocation. Christ is the answer to this unity. Christ is the answer to this order. Christ is the answer to disagreement. There were those that were disagreeing about marriage. Should you be married? Should you not be married? What is the position in the church? Isaiah? It's quite modern, is it? Don't you every now and then open the newspaper and see that in the Church of Rome they're arguing about this very thing? Don't we find even today this great question is being raised again and again in a matter of merit? And there have been disagreements about it. And this is the answer. Christ is made unto us sanctification. Now don't let me quite admit that word, sanctification. You know what it means. It simply means to be set apart for the glory of God. And God looks at my life, and God looks at your life, and God says to you and me, Christ is made under you, set apart for the glory of God. And if it comes for the matter of marriage, don't you forget it for the glory of God. My children, there are brethren here today who say the right, I could not be where I am, I could not be what I do often for my life. I want you to understand, as all please are now, let's say a nice, flattering word about it. I left my wife when I married her thirty years ago, and I never mourn her than I did then. But I'm not talking about it. I find myself away from home, in the work that we both believe God has caught mitchin. I couldn't do it if she didn't agree with me. I reached a stand twenty years ago, one of years ago, a few years ago, and my daughter wanted to get married. I don't find a genius at me. She tagged me. Well, she was twenty-two. She had a girl. Like most guys, I didn't want anyone to take her away. What limit? I've heard it. I've heard it. Oh, a nice fellow. Did you ever ask me if she could have been married? And I said, well, what's the chance to wait a year, my dear? My daughter loved me and I loved her. And with absolute courtesy, because she's never been any sort of actor with any money, she looked at me and she said, Daddy, I don't believe you've got a right to offer me that. But wait a minute. And I didn't know what to say. And I looked at him and said, what do you mean I haven't done the last time? You've had it. And the tears ran down her face, and she saw it down, and she said, I never had it. Do you know what it means to be in the work of God? Is it away from your family? I couldn't be where I am if it wasn't for my wife. She's been father and mother to my children. With all our hearts we've loved them, She had to take both places. I thank God for my work. I believe that our marriage is in the glory of God. Do you have marriage in the glory of God? Whether the sister, please set apart for his glory. Lord, when it comes to the most intimate things of life, nothing can be more intimate. fellowships in marriage between a man and a woman? Is it for him? Do we say, Lord, I'm set aside for your glory. It's not my desire or my wish. It's what you want. That's the answer. That's the answer to the seventh chapter of Corinthians. The eighth chapter is meats, offering that which has been offered to, eating that which has been offered to idols. What can we do? Here is meat. It's been offered to idols. Can a Christian have it? Is it lawful for him to have it? Christ is made unto you sanctification, and if eating meat causes thy brother to stumble, stop eating them. And then, stop eating. Christ is made unto us, we're set apart from that source. And God's glory seen in the blessing of our fellow brethren and sisters in that, not in the understanding of them, but in the lecture, if it causes thy word of the Son, it says, Paul, I will meet thee. When we come to chapter nine, it's the matter of maintenance. A great touch. Oh, I say what things are taught today. Shall I let you know a secret? Twenty-eight years we trust with the Lord to provide our means. It's been a bad job, isn't it? You know, it's kind of a chariot and you think one of them.