I would love to tell you how spiritual I am, but in reality, it is Christ who is my life, and the life I now live, I live by the faith of the Son of God. My flesh profits nothing, but it is the Spirit that gives life. So many men are so afraid to be transparent, and yet if any man boast, his boast should be in the Lord. I believe this morning that God allows us to be reminded of the weakness of the flesh lest we be proud, arrogant in our pride, often acting like we are more than we really are. I don’t know about you. But I am what I am by the grace of God, and it is all about Him who called me and quickens me to life. Without Him, I can do nothing. Oh yes! That is exactly where I am. Many days I wake up excited to be awake, and yet God brings reminders, so that we are not proud and arrogant in our own nasty self. Flesh will always be flesh, but it is the Holy Spirit that quickens us to truth. No wonder we read, “Without me, ye can do nothing.” John 15:5 What is Christ talking about in these verses. We must have a connection to Christ, by the Holy Spirit.

Listen to these verses. “Every branch in me that bears not fruit, he takes away, and every branch that bears fruit, he purges it, that it may bring forth much fruit.” We are not what we are by ourselves. We are what we are by the grace of God, and it is God that quickens us to truth and orders our steps, as we follow Him. He is the one that leads us in paths of righteousness, for His names sake. He is not afraid to remind us! Listen to verse 7 this morning: “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” I want to ask you this morning this important question. “Who shall separate you from the love of Christ?” Romans 8:35 Someone’s opinion of you, or that fact that ye can do nothing without Him, that has any eternal value, is that what keeps you from going forward? So many begin in the spirit, but end up walking in the flesh. “The flesh profits nothing, but it is the Spirit that gives life.” So many spend so much time trying adjust their flesh, only because they have not been taught to be quickened by the Holy Spirit of God. Forget your flesh as I have to do in these wee hours of the day. I cast off the works of darkness, and I put on the light, and I begin my walk with a statement. “I am what I am by the grace of God, and Lord, I know I can do nothing without you!” God is never afraid to humble us in His presence. Why? Because humility is greater than pride. Pride comes before a fall, but humility keeps us in the grace of God, going forward one step at a time. By the Spirit of God Paul asks the question! “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ; shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, “For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death nor life, (interesting that he includes life which we have not without him), nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come. Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Amen!