Sin Carries In It Its Own Misery.

Husbands Are Not Christ. But They Are Called To Be Like Him. And The Specific Point Of Likeness Is The Husband's Readiness To Suffer For His Wife's Good Without Threatening Or Abusing Her. This Includes Suffering To Protect Her From Any Outside Forces That Would Harm Her, As Well As Suffering Disappointments Of Abuses Even From Her. This Kind Of Love Is Possible Because Christ Died For Both Husband And Wife. Their Sins Are Forgiven. Neither Needs To Make The Other Suffer For Sins. Christ Has Borne That Suffering. Now As Two Sinful And Forgiven People We Can Return Good For Evil.

We Have Brought Nothing Into The World, So We Cannot Take Anything Out Of It Either.' There Are No U-hauls Behind Hearses.

God Will Not Turn Away From Doing You Good. He Will Keep On Doing Good. He Doesn't Do Good To His Children Sometimes And Bad To Them Other Times. He Keeps On Doing Good And He Never Will Stop Doing Good For Ten Thousand Ages Of Ages. When Things Are Going Bad That Does Not Mean God Has Stopped Doing Good. It Means He Is Shifting Things Around To Get Them In Place For More Good, If You Will Go On Loving Him.

Preaching Is The Pastor's Main Work, And Preaching Is Heart Work, Not Just Mental Work.

So Saving Grace, Converting Grace, For Augustine, Is God's Giving Us A Sovereign Joy In God That Triumphs Over All Other Joys And Therefore Sways The Will. The Will Is Free To Move Toward Whatever It Delights In Most Fully, But It Is Not Within The Power Of Our Will To Determine What That Sovereign Joy Will Be.