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Paul Mahan

God's Good Work In Us

Philippians 1:6
Paul Mahan October, 27 2024 Audio
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Paul Mahan
Paul Mahan October, 27 2024 Audio
2024 Grace Baptist Church Lewisville Arkansas Conference
Pastor Darvin Pruitt

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Let me just repeat what these
men have already said, how grateful I am. I'm thankful to you for
everything you've done and all your hard work and the food and
the service is just, it's just wonderful. Just wonderful. The message has just been great. It was great. Everything about it.
Your pastor is so dear to Me, as he said, we go back a long
way, and it's hard to believe it's been that long. Life is
such a vapor of sleep. That's all Manny said. You go
to sleep, you're 18, you wake up, you're nearly 70 years old.
It's amazing, isn't it? We heard, to begin with, we heard
Brother Rick preach from that wonderful valley man reconciliation
of our Lord of us to the Father. We heard Brother Larry preach
from John 6 on Jesus came to them in those storms and trials
and He comes to us. We heard Brother Clay to preach
Psalm 132 on the glorious covenant promises of our Lord. It's just
wonderful. But the game, the Lord, the grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ has indeed been with us in Revelation
22. And then Luke 1.32, our great
Lord. It just doesn't get any better
than that, Brother David. Great subject. You said everything
could be said. So I'm just going to repeat everything
you said. It's just been great. It really
is. I mean that. Philippians chapter 1. Philippians
chapter 1. It truly does not get any better
than this. It does not. David said, I'd rather be a doorkeeper
in the house of God than dwell in the finest palace anywhere. Title, subject, is found in verse
6 of Philippians chapter 1. God's good work. in us, God's
good work of faith. Look at verse 6. Paul writes,
being confident, I'm certain of this, of this very thing,
that he which hath begun a good work in you, he will perform
it, he will finish it, until the day of Christ Jesus, Jesus
Christ, when Christ comes back. I remember my, I think I said
this last time I was here, I preached a message I think two years ago
from Hebrews 11 on faith. But I remember my pastor one
time standing up and announcing that he was going to preach on
the subject of faith. And I was a young man at the
time and it just didn't excite me. But faith, the word faith is
really just another word for eternal life, for the life of
God in the soul of man, for something that God has done to you. Faith
is not, and I'm going to keep saying this and these men will
say this, faith is not something you do, faith is who you look
to and who you believe and that's not of yourself, it's a gift
of God. Faith is not our work, it's God's
work in us according to the work of his mighty power. So when
we talk about faith, we're talking about something God has done
for us, given us this precious gift of faith. I remember a man
one time saying that he would like to change the punctuation
of Romans 5.1, that being justified by faith, we have peace with
God. He said, I'd like to put a comma
there. Not me. I like it just fine the way it
is. You see, if this is something God has done, And he gets all
the glory for it, doesn't he? Faith. Faith is God's Word. It's
God's Word. It's a miracle. Faith's a miracle.
Miracle. If anybody believes God, the
God of the Bible, if anybody really believes the Christ of
Scripture, if anybody really believes the truth, it's a miracle,
isn't it? It's a miracle of God's grace. God's grace. It's evidence. Hebrews says it's
the evidence of unseen things. You look at all those examples
of faith in Hebrews 11, of men and women doing these things. With man, that's impossible.
But it's God that worketh in us both the will and do these
things. You can't preach like that, Brother
David, unless God speaks through you. That was of the Lord, wasn't
it? His message and faith's evidence
God has done something. It's a precious gift. David said,
or Peter wrote, to those who have obtained like precious faith. That's a gift, a precious gift.
If you've been given this gift of precious faith, what a gift,
what a gift. Faith, scripture says things
like this, being justified by faith. We have peace with God.
It says we live by faith, doesn't it? It says we walk by faith.
So faith is, You can't please God without it. What pleases
God? What God says pleases Him, His
Son. I'm well pleased. So faith is
not something we do. It's not an act of the human
will. It's not a man's decision. It's not something we do. It's something God has done in
us. You understand? I know you do.
We're told to examine ourselves whether we be of the faith, in
the faith, doesn't it? It says, prove your own self.
Know ye not your own self? And here's the essence of faith.
How that Christ is in you. Except you be a reprobate. Isn't
that the faith, Brother Clay? Christ in you, isn't that the
hope of glory? That is this trust, this belief in Christ alone. That's, that's impossible for
a man, isn't it? But it's the work of God in every
single child of God. Christ in you, love for Him,
belief in Him, trust in Him. We all need to examine ourselves.
I hope everyone in here, young and old, will examine yourselves
whether this work has been done in you. If it has, if you can
say after this that I believe God has done this work in me,
rejoice. If you can't say it, ask Him.
Ask Him, and you'll receive it. It's because it's a gift. Do
I have this faith? Do I have this faith? It's something
God does in us. It's a good work. He said that
in verse 6. He said, He which hath begun
a good work in you. Can I say this without doing
damage to the tape? It's not only a good work, it's
a great work. It's the best thing that could possibly happen to
you. Now it's all in context. Let's
read this because every line, every verse speaks of this great
work of grace that God does in his people. Alright? Look how
it began. Paul and Timothy. Now hold up,
stop right there. Paul wasn't always Paul. Paul was a man named Saul. He was a Pharisee, a Hebrew of
Hebrew, a Pharisee. He was a zealous religionist,
but he didn't know God. He was a preacher, but he didn't
know God. That was my pastor, Henry Mayhem. He was just like
Saul of Tarsus. And he didn't know God. So Paul
wasn't always Paul, he was Saul. And he hated this way. What happened? God did a great work in him,
didn't He? Changed him from Saul to Paul. He was a chosen vessel
of the Lord. And God revealed himself, Christ
revealed himself in him. Not just to him, but in him.
So the Lord made him, turned him from Saul to Paul, the preacher
of the gospel. Timotheus. Timothy? Well, he's just another
young man in Lystra or Derby, where it was that Paul came and
preached the gospel. Just another young man, like
most young men in the world and of the world and, you know, striving
after the world, had his friends in the world, just like us. But God sent a preacher to him
named Paul, and the Gospels, the power of God and the salvation
and to everyone that believed in it. And the Lord gave Timothy
this great gift of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and made a
preacher out of him too. Timothy. Brother Darwin, most of you all
have only known Darwin one way. Isn't that right? A preacher,
a pastor. You weren't always a preacher
were you? You really don't want them to know what you, you're
glad they didn't know you back then. Same way with me. Right?
David? Clay? Clay and I were talking
at the table yesterday. He said, when I was growing up,
all I cared about was hunting and fishing. Right? Just typical Arkansas boy, razorback. David? Music, wasn't it? Clay?
Okay, music, wasn't it? How's your life? All those cars
and so forth, but God. Now, Clay, what do you really
care about now? Hunting and fishing? God's made
you a fisher of men. That's a miracle, isn't it? You
didn't apply for the job, did you? Paul and Timothy. And God did this work, you know,
he uses instruments. Preachers of the gospel, but
as David said, every one of us preach the gospel. Every one
of us witness them. And Timothy's mother, was it
Eunice? Was that his mother or Lois?
Eunice? Lois? Larry? Anyway, I got it written
down here somewhere. I wouldn't have to look. He was
a son of Eunice, who was a believer. the grandson of Lois, who was
a believer. What a great gift. That was your parent, Brother
Clay, your grandfather, mine. You know, both sides of my, both
sets of grandparent, maternal and paternal grandparents were
believers. My mother, you know my mother
and my father? Believers. What a gift. My grandmother's name was Mary.
Mary. I have fond memories of her. Godly believing parents and grandparents
raised me in the fear and admonition of the Lord. Man, what a gift.
God often saved whole houses, didn't he? Like Lydia did. My,
my. And a greater gift. So Paul and
Timothy. Paul and Timothy. What a story
they have. What a story I have. What a story
you have. The servants of Jesus Christ.
Once served self, now serving Him. His cause, His glory. That's
God's work, isn't it? To all the saints in Louisville. Let me get it right. I used to
say Louisburg. I said it for years until I found
out it's Louisville. Population 910. Where in the world is Louisville?
The world doesn't care anything about, the world doesn't know
what Louisville got done. He's got saints in Louisville. There's a saint in Louisville
named Russ, Saint Russ. Yeah, just as much as Simon Peter,
just as much as Paul, right? What's saint mean? Sanctified,
well, set apart. Chosen. Called. Justified. Glorified. Made a saint. Who
does that? Not the Pope in Rome. The Lord
Jesus. The most high potentate, the
Lord Jesus Christ. Makes saints out of people. Saint
really. Saint really. What a blessing. Sanctified one.
What a gift. In Christ Jesus. Set apart. Put
in Jesus' pride like that Ark of Noah. That's what it means
to be saved in. be put in Christ, be found in
Him. Paul says that in this very letter. To the saints at Louisville with
the bishops and deacons. We've got some bishops here.
You notice, fellas, that bishop is not capitalized. You know
what became before a bishop? Servant. There's no capitalization. It doesn't belong in front of
our names either. Bishops and deacons. You want to hear some more about
grace? Grace, marvelous, David quoted
that, marvelous, infinite, matchless grace, freely bestowed on all. And now we believe. Grace that
is what? Greater than all our sin. Grace. Grace. Every single epistle,
nearly every epistle Paul wrote, he wrote, Nearly every epistle
begins and ends with grace, doesn't it? Begins and ends. The last
verse in the Bible began that way, didn't it, Mr. Kennedy?
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. And when Zerubbabel,
the Lord Jesus Christ, lays a headstone on this whole work, when this
whole performance by him is completely finished, he's going to cry with
shouts unto grace, unto grace. by grace are you saved through
faith and that's great that's great it's God's work so he said
grace unto you and peace peace with God to all the saints from
the Lord Jesus Christ and God our Father in verse 3 look at
this he says I thank my God upon every remembrance of you I thank
my God Know what you said, David? My God. Is this God you've been
hearing this weekend? Is this your God? The God of
the Bible? The God who is God? Hmm? There's an election coming up,
isn't it? Everybody's real concerned about
it. Well, I'm not. I know who's going to be president.
You want me to tell you who? It doesn't really matter. But it's who my God is going
to put there. Exactly. And the election, we
all need to be really concerned about it. To give diligence to
make sure that this election is certain. It's that election
of a people. And this is how you know. This
is how you know if you're one of the elect. Because Paul said,
I know you're one of the elect of Thessalonians. Because he
said, our gospel came unto you. The gospel of the God of the
Bible. This is good news. Like that
election, you don't have to worry about it if you know that our
God reigns. It doesn't matter who's put in
that. Does it? I've lived through, you know,
first, Eisenhower was president when I was born, I think. Yeah,
11 or 12 of them. There's not a whole lot of difference,
there really is not. That our hope and our peace and
our comfort and our security, you know, we're concerned about
our children and their welfare, we're concerned about, you know,
this and that and the other, aren't we? Brothers and sisters,
really. The king's heart is in the hands
of the Lord. Not the rivers of water, he turneth it with it,
so ever he will. Our God is God. He really is
God. He's not running for election. He doesn't want to be God if
you let him be God. That's not the God of the Bible, does it?
This God is our God, isn't He? This is our hope, this is our
peace, this is our comfort. The Lord Jesus Christ, as He
says, He's made Himself. The Lord Jesus, that man that
walked this planet, is God. He really is God. Can I repeat
that? I better. He really is God. If He's not God, He's the biggest
imposter that's ever lived. He said, if you believe not that
I am, you'll die in your sin. Is it
important that you believe Jesus Christ is God? You don't know
God if you don't. He is God. This is life eternal
that they might know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ
whom he sent. God manifest in the flesh. That's
what it says. This God is our God. This is
the faith. We believe God is God. We believe
God's Word. We not only believe in God, we
believe God. We believe everything God said.
We believe everything that God has written in this book, the
whole record of God, of who He is, what He says about us, what
He says about His Son, what He says about salvation. This is
our faith. Really. The faith of God's elect,
the faith delivered to the saint, the faith of all the saints.
Oh, this is a great gift. I thank my God, he said. Now
look at this. He said, I thank my God upon
every remembrance of you. Do you thank God for his people?
Aren't you thankful for the church? Thankful to be a part of it?
There was a time when Gabe's got to go get a implant in his jaw. And there was a time I would
have rather had that done than sit in the pew and listen to
the gospel. And most people would. They'd rather go to the dentist
and get a root canal than come and sit and hear the gospel.
Can you think of anything you'd rather do now than be right here? With God's people? God's people
or your people? Are you like Ruth? Have you been,
you're a heathen, been fetched from the land of the heathen
To know who Christ is, and you say, like she said to Naomi,
you're God's my God. You're people my people. Where
you go, that's where I'm going. You say that? Don't you thank
God for God's people? We've got, you know, I live in
a country town, a rural town, and the people that the Lord
join me too there. In human ways, the way we grew
up and so forth, we're as different as daylight and dark. We got an old boy that he's gone,
gone to be with the Lord. He didn't pass away. He went
to be with the Lord. He was a farmer and he operated
a film station. He was born and raised in a place
called Corn Valley, Virginia. He wore bibbed overalls. There was a time when he wouldn't
have been my friend. Wes, he wouldn't have been my
friend. I was cool. I was a child of
the 60s and the 70s. I knew everything. My best friend. I'd go down when
the Lord put me there. I'd go down to his service station.
It was like an old general store. You had everything, oil cans
and nabs and all that, and a potbelly stove. And if nothing gave me
more pleasure than to sit around that potbelly stove by the fire
in the wintertime and just talk to him about the gospel. It made
us best friends. Oh, I thank God on every remembrance.
Always, in every prayer, if you pray at all, if you call on the
Lord, what a blessing, what a blessing.
There's a time you never gave God a thought. Now, you know,
God is not in all... Men have many thoughts and God's
not in any of them, Scripture said. But if God has done this
work in you, you can't go very long without thinking about it.
What a blessing. always in every prayer of mine
for you all, making requests with joy. Give me great joy for
your fellowship, your fellowship in the gospel. Where is our fellowship? What's this all about? Why did
we come here? The music's been great, and the
food's great, but is that why we came here? We came here for
one reason. We came here to hear the gospel.
is with the Father and with the Son around the fellowship of
Christ's suffering. This is what it is. The gospel
is our fellowship. This is how you know if God's
done a good work in you. If this is what you want to do,
is hear Christ and Him crucified. If this is what you want to do,
if this is the fellowship that gives you great joy, to hear
Christ over and over and over again. You never get tired. Paul
said in this Philippians 3, he said, to write the same things
to you, to me, is not grievous, but it's salvation. And you've
heard everything I'm about to say, have said, these men have
said, time and time again, haven't you? Is it grievous to you? You've heard these things
over and over again. Here's the thing about it. That
when God does this work in you, it gets better and better and
better. It gets sweeter and sweeter and sweeter. Christ becomes more...
It talks about precious faith. That means He is precious. That
His blood, His righteousness, His gospel become more and more
precious all the time. You don't want to hear anything
else. I've been eating the same food since I was a child. My
mother was a wonderful cook. And she fixed us roast beef and
taters, not potaters, taters. There's a difference. They're
better than potaters. Carrots and green beans with
ham in it, yes. Fat back in it. Sweet tea. Sweet tea, mind you. Full of
sugar. And I still love it to this day.
And my wife fixes it. Every time she fixes it, I think
that's the best meal I've ever had. I've had it 4,532 times. It just gets better. This is how you know if God's
done this work in you. Tell it again, preacher. Never get tired. Rahab the harlot. The Lord sent two preachers to
her. Now she's a harlot. Well, you're talking about a
good work done in her. The Lord sent two preachers, put the fear
of God in her. Tell her who Joshua was. The
conqueror. The king. The one reigning ruler
coming in to destroy. But he's a merciful man. He's
a gracious man. He's a savior to all that ask
him. Joshua, his very name means Jesus, doesn't it? It means Jesus
Christ. Sent these two men. What a gift.
And Rahab heard from these two men. She went up at night and
pleaded with those men for the salvation of her house and herself,
didn't she? You know you're coming in, we
know. Joshua reigns of rule. These men made a covenant promise
to her, didn't they, Clay? He said, here's the token. You
bind this scarlet line in your window. And when we see that line, we're
coming to get you. And we're going to take you always
to Joshua. You reckon she laid hold of that
scarlet line? By the way, you know where that
scarlet line was all the time? She didn't even know it. It was
in her house. They said, look at that scarlet
line. Where'd that come from? She belonged to the Lord. She'd
been predestined. Not the most popular word in
the world. She was elect. That's even less
popular. She was. She found out, didn't
she? Why me? She laid hold of that
scarlet line, tied it to that window. Well, one day, not soon
after that, not too long after that, somebody was standing out
there with a bunch of men outside the window blowing a trumpet,
loud and clear. Just blow it at one note. Well,
they're playing one note. I know what the key was. Somebody
tell me what key that trumpet was blown in. See? They're out
there blowing this trumpet. Just loud as they can blow it.
And her heart skipped a beat. Rahab said, that's the sound
of my redemption. That's the sound of my salvation.
The neighbors would say, what's that noise? Next day, same note,
loud and clear. Rahab said, isn't that wonderful? Neighbors said, we can't stand
this. And it went on for seven days.
And it happened just like these men said. Joshua sent word, went
in. They went up the scarlet line,
got her. and took her down to scarlet
land. And took her all the way back to where Joshua was. And you know what scripture said?
She's there right now. Is this gospel still sweet to
you? It grows more and more sweet. So much more as we see the day
approaching. That's what God does. Grievous? Oh no. Oh no. More and more wonderful. You
know, the Lord answers prayer, David. He really does. I prayed
for you this morning. I have to admit, I first prayed
for me. I really did. The Lord blessed me. And I thought,
let God bless David. And you know what? The Lord blessed
you. He blessed me through you. That's
how you know you've been blessed, Gabe, is when you're preaching
second. And you heard every word that
the man before you said. And you were blessed by it. That's
how you know the Lord blessed you. That's of God. No envy, no jealousy. It's an evil, it's a one awful
thing in it. Lord bless David. Oh, he did.
Have you ever heard a better message than that? What a great
Savior. What a great message. You don't
get tired of this. My pastor used to say, those
who get tired of this, God won't get tired of them. My spirit
will not always strive with me. And he said, like right before,
no, my spirit's not going to keep striving. What's the spirit
of God do? He doesn't make people talk like blooming idiots, like
this Pentecostal crap. He makes them talk about Jesus
Christ. A Spirit-filled congregation
is a Christ-filled congregation. A Spirit-filled preacher is a
Christ-preaching preacher. Oh, far from being tired of it.
Our fellowship's in the gospel. We don't have any fellowship.
We're not about fun and family and foolishness. It's the fellowship
of the gospel. That's what we do here. So he said, in verse 6, And I'm
confident of this. He hath begun a good work in
you. He hath begun a good work in
you. We'll perform it. We'll finish
it until the day of Jesus Christ. Oh, man. The most wonderful work
of God is his work of salvation. And Moses asked the Lord to show
him his glory. The Lord said, I'm going to make
all my goodness pass. What is all the goodness of God?
Well, the very word means gospel, doesn't it? Good news. Good. I will be gracious to whom I
will be gracious. The grace of God is in the Lord
Jesus Christ. I will be merciful. Sovereign
mercy. The most wonderful work of God
is his salvation for his people on Calvary's tree. What Christ
did on Calvary's tree for his people. putting away their sin by the
sacrifice of Himself. We never grow tired of that.
That's our salvation. And His work in us, this work
of faith, where we lay hold of Christ, where we believe God,
we believe His Word, we believe His Son, we look to Him, we trust
Him and Him alone. This is not an act of the human
will, it's an act of God's will. Paul said it's according to the
working of His mighty power. What a gift. It's making the
deaf to hear the voice of the Son of God, the blind to see
His glory, the lame to walk by faith. What a wonderful work
this is. The dead to live. If God has
done this for you, He'll finish it. If God has begun this work
in you, Christ finished the work on Calvary Street. He said it
is finished. It's worked for you. this work
engine. Paul said, we have been saved,
we are being saved, and we will yet be saved. And Paul said this,
he said, I haven't arrived yet. He said, to me, it's a pressing
matter. I'm not looking on yesterday's faith. I'm trusting Christ right
now. And I'm pressing toward the mark
for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. I want
to be, I want to give diligence to make my calling and my election
sure. I want to be found in Christ.
That's what all of God's people said. He will perform it. He will perform it. I liken this,
and when I preached this at home not too long ago, and I had to
completely rework it for here, but I called it faith's finality. But turn with me in closing to
1 Peter chapter 1. 1 Peter chapter 1. Faith's finality. Paul wrote, he that hath begun
a good work in you will perform it. Will perform it. Till the day of the Lord Jesus
Christ comes back. 1 Peter chapter 1. Over in Psalms it says that God
has performed all things for us. I will triumph in the work
of thy hand, for thou hast performed this work for me. It's His performance,
salvation. And it's like a wonderful, glorious work, a composition which God
is the author and the finisher of. Faith. He's the author and
the finisher of. He that hath once saved always
hath yes, if God doesn't. If you believe Christ now, what
a gracious, wonderful gift, great work God has done in you. And
if God has given you that faith, it will only grow stronger and
stronger. Yes, it will. And you will believe,
you will die in the faith. If God has given you this faith,
this true faith, you will die in the faith. We all worry about
that, don't we? I want to die in the faith. It's really more
important how you die, isn't it? I told our people for years,
I said, I'm not preparing you so much how to live, but how
to die. This work of faith is God's work
according to the working of His mighty power. It's a great performance
of our Lord that He worked for us and in us. In 1 Peter chapter
1, It says there, look at it with me, 1 Peter 1 verse 4. He
said, We have an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, that
fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept. Well, it begins just with elect,
doesn't it? Blessed be the God and the Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ. But we're kept by the power of
God. How's that? That's the gospel. The gospel's
the power of God. Faith cometh by hearing. We've
got to hear it. And we're kept by hearing that
gospel. Kept believing. Kept trusting. Kept looking to the Lord Jesus
Christ. Through faith unto salvation.
Ready to be revealed. It's ready to be revealed. We
see through a glass dimmer. We preach in part, don't we? But this thing is about over.
Faith is about to end. This is faith's finale, what
I'm getting at here, okay? Faith's about to end. Faith is
about to give way to sight. Hope's about to give way to possession. Faith's finale. The word finale is concerning
a musical movement, like an orchestration or something, and there's a conductor
that's doing all that. The finale is a concluding movement
of a musical composition and usually the finale is the great,
it builds up to a crescendo, you know. It starts low and it
gets high and what do you do when it's all over? If you've
enjoyed the music, if it's been a wonderful performance, what
does everybody do? They stand up, notice. What do
they do? They give a standing ovation. You just wait. Brother David
tried to say it, and I'm trying, but we can't. I hadn't seen,
you hadn't heard, really hadn't entered into our heart. This
faith's going to give way to sight. But until this, this is
earnest. He's made us to sit together
in a heavenly place and hear this heavenly trumpet sound.
And if it's music to your ear, You ain't heard nothing yet. And all this poor preaching is
about to give way to the preacher. Faith's finality. He talked about
standing ovation. Keep reading on. It says, verse
6, you greatly rejoice. Great, there it is, David. Greatly
rejoice in Him, in Christ, in so great a salvation. Though
for a season, if need be, you're in heaviness through manifold
temptation. And that's a gift. That's a gift
of God. Temptation, trials. Let the trial of your faith be
more precious than of gold. Gold it perisheth. Though it
be tried with fire, this faith is going to be found. unto praise
and honor and glory at the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ, whom
having not seen, you love. That's this work in you. You
haven't seen Him, but you have seen Him, that I think. Once
you didn't love Him, now you really do love Him. It's not
presumption. It's not pride to say you love
Him. No, you're not. To any man love not the Lord
Jesus Christ, let it be anathema. No, you're not your own self.
No, we don't love him like we want to, or like we ought to,
but... He asked Simon Peter one question day. Love is down there. And can't we say, Brother David,
can't we say, yea, Lord. He didn't have to stop and think
about it. Why? Because God put this work in. Oh, he said, Whom have you not
seen ye love, in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believe
him? Do you believe what these men
have been preaching? Do you believe this gospel? Do you really? I
mean, do you really? With your heart, not your head,
but with your heart, huh? Is this the hope of your heart,
of your soul? Is this your hope for your children?
Is this your hope of eternal life? Is it this gospel of Christ? Is it really? Do you really believe?
That's the work of God. And you rejoice with joy Unspeakable. Full of glory. That's glorious. A glorious work. You rejoice. I love the faith found out. I love that passage in Revelation
8. It says after the seventh seal,
that's the last seal, is open. There's silence in heaven for
the space of 30 minutes. You know why? Maybe it's figurative, I don't
know, but I like to think it's real. We're going to be in such
awe. We're going to be standing by
God's grace, going to stand side one another, same height. We're
going to be the same height. That's exactly right. We see
eye to eye spiritually right now, but same height, same head
hair. We're going to be standing there
and we're going to be looking at each other. Unspeakable. Now more than ever
in a time when there's very little silence. Isn't it going to be
wonderful? Finally some silence. No more all these voices. And
the next voice we're going to hear. Silence for 30 minutes
and then you know what's going to happen. Heaven's gonna erupt. And we're
gonna start singing and never stop. Won't that be wonderful? Has God done this work in you?
Do you look forward to that? Do you believe this gospel? Now,
does that sound good to you, people? Oh, I hope so. And I'm
confident if he's begun it, he's gonna finish it. And you're gonna
be with him, Lord. Oh, Lord bless you. Mm.
Paul Mahan
About Paul Mahan
Paul Mahan has been pastor of Central Baptist Church in Rocky Mount, Virginia since 1989; preaching the Gospel of God's Sovereign Grace.
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