Pastor, teacher, and author Adrian Rogers has introduced people all over the world to the love of Jesus Christ,

and has impacted untold numbers of lives by presenting profound truth, simply stated.

Thanks for joining us for this message. Here's Adrian Rogers.

I want you to take God's Word, the Bible, and I want you to find 1 Peter chapter 1, and I'm

going to begin reading in verse 22. 1 Peter chapter 1. We began in just a moment in verse 22.

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit unto

unfeigned love of the brethren, see that you love one another with a pure heart, fervently,

being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth

forever, for all flesh is as grass, and the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the glory of man as the flower of grass.

The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away.

But the word of the Lord endureth forever.

And this is the word by which the gospel is preached unto you. And then going right on into chapter two,

wherefore laying aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and all evil speakings, as newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the word that you may grow thereby.

There has not been a man who has been called into the ministry, but what feels inadequate,

and when others hear that he has been called, they think him unworthy.

I can remember being in my bedroom with a window open when my dad and another man sat on our patio,

and my dad told that man, a man that I respected and admired very much, that Adrian wants to be a preacher, a minister. I can remember that man saying

as though it were yesterday, he'll never do it. He'll never do it. He won't make it. Well,

I want to tell you, had not the Lord God put it into my heart, that would have greatly discouraged me.

But I thank God that there was a voice that told me that God had called me, and I would, by his

grace, be adequate. I found the other day something. That's very interesting. It's an imaginary

story. It's about a personnel management,

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