We have a hymn in the back of
our book which is just glorious, isn't it? Verse number 48. Betwixt Jesus and the chosen
race subsists a bond of sovereign grace, that hell with its infernal
train can never dissolve nor rend in twain. This sacred bond
shall never break, though earth should to her centre shake. Rest
doubting saint assured of this, for God has pledged His holiness. He swore that once the deed was
done, it was settled by the Great Three One. Christ was appointed
to redeem all that the Father loved in Him. Hail, sacred union,
firm and strong, How great thy grace, how sweet the song, That
rebel worms should ever be One with incarnate deity. One in the tomb, one when he
rose, One when he triumphed over his foes, One when in heaven
he took his seat, While seraphs sang at hell's defeat. Blessed by the wisdom and the
grace, the eternal love and faithfulness that's in the gospel scheme revealed,
and is by God the spirit sealed. So wrote our brother John Kemp
a long time ago. Perfectly true then, wonderfully
true today. Thank you, Cole. It's good for
us to be reminded. again and again of the Gospel. I love what Romans 4 says about,
in one very simple brief sentence, it gives us, in verse 25 at the
end of Romans 4, gives us the glorious Gospel. He was delivered
Why was he delivered? He was delivered to death, he
was delivered to the Gentiles, he was delivered to the Jews,
he was delivered into the hands of sinful men. He was delivered
by God the Father, he was delivered by his own choosing. He set his face like a flint
to go to Jerusalem. That's why he came. He was delivered
for our offences. and was raised again for our
justification. In fact the word for there means
because. He was raised because of our
justification. To be justified is to be justified
in the very courts of God as being one who has no sin. purged completely by God Himself. It's God's declaration about
God's work. God's work is an ongoing work.
As Cole was speaking to us, I was thinking of the cry of the psalmist. in Psalm 68, he says, Thy God
has commanded thy strength. Then he turns around and says,
God has commanded strength, Psalm 68 verse 28. The psalmist turns around, as
the saints of God do, don't they? Strengthen, O God, that which
you have wrought for us. Strengthen what you have worked
out for us. Bring us again into remembrance
of your dear and precious Son. I wanted to look this morning
at Galatians chapter 4 and verse 19. As we begin our journey in Galatians,
again after a little break, I just thought it was just lovely to
have laid out before us the heart's desire of all of God's servants. It's the heart's desire and prayer
for God's people, for what they see. "'My little children,' says
Paul, Galatians 4.19, "'of whom I travail in birth again.'" He's
saying he's like a woman about to give birth to a child. He's
in travail. in birth again until Christ be
formed in you. Let's pray. Our Heavenly Father, we do thank
you again that you speak through your word. You speak truth, Heavenly
Father. It is called the word of truth.
And you exhort your word above all of your creation. We pray,
Heavenly Father, that you might again, by your grace, and the mercies that You have
shown us. And because we come to You not in any strength or
any ability, anything that we have or can and ever will do,
Heavenly Father, we come to You entirely on the basis of the
finished work of Your dear and precious Son, that You might
strengthen the work that You have brought in us, that You,
Heavenly Father, might take us to Your Word again and You might
speak to the hearts of your people. Speak comfort to them. We do
pray for those who are away from us and again we pray for Simon
and his family and for Simon's mum in what seems to be the last
weeks or so of this sickness of hers. We thank you, Heavenly
Father, that our Lord Jesus conquered and defeated death. And there
is now no death for the children of God, but just a glorious transfer
from this world into the very presence of Him and the angels
and all the saints of God. Today, said our Lord Jesus, as
He lay dying on that cross, today, He said to that thief, who had
nothing to do but put a simple faith and trust in the one hanging
there beside him. Today, promised our Lord Jesus,
you will be with me in paradise. What a word, what a word from
our God and our Creator at that time. May He speak to our hearts
again this morning, our Father, for we pray in His name and for
His glory amongst us. Amen. Paul's in a travail, isn't he? He is, as a woman, going through
the pains of childbirth. And the reason is very simple,
isn't it? That these people that he had
once laboured in preaching the Gospel to, had simply turned
back. Turn back to the law. Turn back
to the works of the flesh. Turn back away from the Lord
Jesus. They are looking at their works
and you cannot look at your works and the Lord Jesus at the same
time. You can't look in two places. You get cross-eyed and dizzy
and stumble and fall. The Gospel is about Him and Him
alone. To mix anything with Him, and
especially to think that you can somehow honour God by putting
yourself back under the law, is to show several things. It's to show that you haven't
met Him. And if you haven't met Him, you haven't met yourself. If you think that with these
hands you can do things which somehow can add to or enhance
the work, the finished and perfect and accepted work of the Lord
Jesus, you know nothing of the plague of your own heart. This is a weekend where the Lord
Jesus' death and resurrection He's spoken much of around this
world. Paul had just two things he wanted
to speak to people in 1 Corinthians. He just says, I sought to know
two things amongst you, Jesus Christ and Him crucified. in any of our discussions with
people, in any religion whatsoever, if the Lord would grant us the
opportunity just to speak about those four words, and just speak
about them as the scriptures speak about them. That's all
that we need to do. See, Paul spoke about the Lord
Jesus Christ, didn't he? Paul begins his letter by saying,
Paul, an apostle, not of men, neither by men, but by Jesus
Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead. And
all the brethren are with me. So Paul is part of a group of
people called brethren. And he writes under the churches
of Galatia, And then he just gives a beautiful summary of
the Gospel he preached. He wishes for grace to be up
to you, grace be to you, and he wishes for them to have peace
from God the Father and peace from our Lord Jesus Christ. And
then he describes this great work of redemption, this great
work of ransoming us from the pit of hell. He gave Himself
for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil world
according to the will of God and our Father. To whom be glory. That's where all the glory lies,
isn't it? He gave Himself for us. He gave Himself in body, soul
and spirit. He gave His time. He gave His
labours. He gave His blood. He gave His
life. He gave His all as a price for
our ransom. He paid the price of our salvation. with the warm lifeblood of his
heart. Eternal love moved the heart
of the Lord Jesus Christ to come to earth, a crown for a cross, that robe
of divine majesty for the garment of our nature, and eventually
taking on himself the leprosy of our sin, the infinite love
of the Lord. We have in the cross and in the
resurrection and exaltation of our Lord Jesus, we have the most
significant demonstration of the holiness of God. If you want to see how holy God
is, you go to the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ and see the
sufferings and the death of God's one and only beloved Son. The
cross of Calvary shows God's hatred and punishment of sin
in a way that no other judgement on all the earth, all of the
universe, could ever show. God found our sins, the sins
of the Church, upon Christ, its surety, its substitute and its
saviour, and the wrath of God was poured out upon Him without
measure. God finding the sins of His people
laid upon Himself, upon His Son. He emptied upon the Holy Soul
of our Lord Jesus Christ all of the wrath that was due their
transgressions. So you go to Calvary to learn
how holy God is. You go to Calvary and you learn
what a monstrous thing sin is. Go to Calvary and you know how
God is bound. God must punish sins and He will
punish sins. He'll either punish them in the
substitute or He'll punish them in the people forever and ever. But He will punish sins. It's
guaranteed. And we see again the sword of
divine justice. That flaming and flashing sword
pierced the very heart of our Lord Jesus Christ. And we see,
we see what love for sinners, what extraordinary love for sinners. He gave his Son. His Son gave
himself. The love of God. Paul, as a redeemed sinner, knows
what it's like to trifle under law-keeping. He knows what it
is to meet God. He knows the glorious liberty
of the Gospel, that all of Paul's righteousness is nothing but
filthy rags, and all of the Lord Jesus' righteousness is His. Paul had one great desire in
life, wasn't it, that I may know him and the power of his resurrection
and the fellowship of him suffering being conformable unto his death. My little children, he was made
a minister and he was led by God the Spirit into these places
to preach this Jesus. This Jesus, His Jesus, the Jesus
who had saved him, the Jesus who, as he describes it, doesn't
he? when it pleased God, who separated
me from my mother's womb and called me by His grace, when
it pleased God to reveal His Son in me, and the result of
the Son being revealed in Him, that He might preach Him, that
I might preach Him among the heathen. Simon's mum, when she
proclaimed the Gospel so wonderfully to Simon a week ago, was also
very anxious and very willing to proclaim the Gospel to her
husband and to Simon's sisters. The Gospel doesn't rest. easily in the hearts of people
that God saves. There's an anxiousness, isn't
it? My little children. He'd earlier called them brethren.
He took them at their word. They claim to be Christians. He has these affectionate words
of a father for his children. Paul really hopes that they are
Paul's children. are his children in the faith.
But he's in travail, isn't he? He says, I'm in labour pains,
I'm in birth pains. He describes himself in 1 Thessalonians
as a nursing mother, nurtures her own children. He talks about
himself being as a father, exhorting and comforting and charging them
to live faithfully before the Lord. For a woman in childbirth,
I can't speak personally of it, but many of you here can, for
a woman in travail, there is one thing that matters. All the
pain, all the trouble is worthwhile and almost forgotten in an instant
when she holds her baby in her arms. Paul's concern for these
people was for them and not for himself. Now he's labouring again,
he's in travail again, because they have deserted the Gospel,
they've been led astray, they've been led to look at the works
of their flesh, they've been led to have their gaze taken
off the Lord Jesus that we've just been speaking of. And then
he makes this remarkable statement. until Christ be formed in you."
It's an extraordinary thing, isn't it? The New Testament describes
the children of God as elect 40-something times. It's a wonderful
biblical expression, the elect of God, the chosen of God, the
called out and separated ones of God. But the most common expression
in all of the New Testament to describe a believer is someone
who is in Him, in Him, and He in them, until Christ be formed
in you. That word form describes the
reality, isn't it? The same word is used in that
well-known verse in Philippians, verses in Philippians chapter
2, isn't it? Where Paul describes the Lord
Jesus. He was in the form of God, verse
6, who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be
equal with God, but made himself of no reputation and took upon
him the form, the same word as we have in Galatians 4, the form
of a servant and was made in the likeness of men. You see,
he took on the form of God. He did not think it was robbery,
verse 6. to be equal with God, being in the form of God, it
describes a reality, doesn't it? He was in the form of God
because he was God. He was in the form of a servant
because he really was a servant. Christ formed in you, Christ
in you, the hope of glory. How does Christ come to take
up residence? What a remarkable statement. It's all through the scriptures.
If you ask me how to explain it, I'm not even going to try. Is it true? It's true because
God said it. It's true because it is the reality
of God's children. How does this happen? Well, it's
a very simple process from a human point of view. There is one way
people are begotten of God and that is through the preaching
of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. People wonder why we're
so dogmatic about the Gospel that we declare. and so passionate
about this Gospel and so deeply, deeply troubled about any Gospel
which isn't. this Gospel. It's because this
is how you are born again. 1 Corinthians 4.15, in Christ
Jesus I have begotten you, born you again through the Gospel. Paul's not declaring that he
did it himself. It's God taking the words, God taking the declaration
of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and making that declaration spirit
and life, taking up residence in someone. James describes it,
doesn't he? Of his own will begat he us with
the word of truth. It's another description of the
Gospel, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. If you turn to 1 Peter we'll
just look briefly at those remarkable declarations of Peter in verse
22 of chapter 1. So the resurrection and the cross
of the Lord Jesus bears fruit in this world. It always is bearing fruit. Peter
describes, he says to these believers, in verse 21, to go back to who?
By Him. By Him do you believe in God. that raised him up from the dead
and gave him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God."
1 Peter 1 verse 21, that your faith and hope, that's the result
of it, your faith and your hope might be in God. Verse 22, seeing
you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through
the Spirit. until unfeigned love of the brethren,
see that you love one another with a pure heart fervently,
being born again, verse 23, being born again, not of corruptible
seed, but of incorruptible by the word of God, which liveth
and abideth forever. for all flesh is grass and all
the glory of man is as the flower of the grass. The grass withereth
and the flower thereof falleth away, but the word of the Lord
endureth forever." And this is the word which by the Gospel,
by the Gospel is preached unto you. The word of God is preached
to you through the Gospel. It's a living word, it's an active
word, it's life and spirit. And here we have the heart's
desire laid out before us in this verse back in Galatians
4.19. My little children of whom I
travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you. This
is the heart's desire of every true servant of the Lord. This is the burden that's laid
upon them. As Paul described it, he says,
necessity is laid upon him. It wasn't something he set out
to do when he was on his road to Damascus, the last thing he
ever had in his mind, that he'd end up being a preacher of the
Gospel. But necessity is laid upon him. The false teachers who had led
these Galatians astray They wanted to lead them back to Moses, back
to Mount Sinai, to take from them that form of Christ, to
have them follow them that they can boast in their flesh. The antidote. is to proclaim
the Gospel, and again and again in these verses Paul proclaims
the Gospel of the Lord Jesus. It's a glorious thing, isn't
it, to behold Him, to behold the Lord Jesus in all of those
personal glories of His activities on this earth, in all of those
glories of His relationship, His relationship as God the Son
with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. to examine him and
to look again at him in all the glories of those offices that
he took upon himself. A glorious shepherd, a great
shepherd. To look at him again and see
him as the God-man mediator, crowned with many crowns, says
Revelation 19, he's crowned with glory and honor. because of his
triumph in redemption. We've got to keep remembering
that the Lord Jesus went to the cross as a triumphant saviour
of his people. I love how Colossians chapter
2 describes his work on this weekend. And you, being dead in your sins
and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has quickened together
with him. He's made you alive together
with Him, having forgiven you all your trespasses, and He's
blotted out the handwriting of ordinances which was against
us, the law. He's blotted it out. He's erased
that law that was against us, which was contrary to us. He
took it out of the way. He took it to the cross. It says
He nailed it to the cross. And having spoiled principalities
and powers, He made a show of them openly, triumphing over
them in it." A triumph it was. He's crowned. He's crowned in
the hearts, in the lives of every single redeemed sinner. They
are His jewels. They are His bride. He did it
all for them and He descends in power to give into the hearts
of sinners through the preaching of the Gospel the light of the
knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. The light of the knowledge of
the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. You go to 2
Corinthians chapter 4 and just look at that verse with me, verse
6. It's remarkable. I wanted to
speak this morning as much as I can in the time allowed about
Christ in you, to talk about that remarkable, remarkable promise
of the Gospel, that remarkable reality for God's people that
God Himself The Holy God takes up residence in His people. Look
at verse 6 again with me of chapter 4 of 2 Corinthians. For God,
who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in
our heart to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of
God in the face of Jesus Christ. Just look at it again. and take
out that parenthetical comment because it's describing God,
isn't it? The first words of God were that
command for light to shine out of darkness. So the words can
be bracketed, can't they? And we can read it. For God has
shined in our hearts. God shines in our hearts. When God shines in our hearts,
He gives the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face
of Jesus Christ. It is sovereign grace. Sovereign Grace, Awakening Grace,
Regenerating Grace, Redeeming Grace, Justifying Grace, Sanctifying
Grace, Glorifying Grace, and it's all Him. It's all in Him. I want to talk about what Paul
was referring to in Galatians when he says, Christ formed in
you. Christ formed in you. Paul prayed for the Ephesians
that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith. This is a theme that is so common
in the scriptures. that it runs and shines like
a golden sunbeam throughout the Word of God. I'm just going to
go to some of the references, you will no doubt know more of
them, but let's just look at some of them. The Lord Jesus
said, in John 6, verse 53, he says,
Verily, verily, I say unto you, except you eat the flesh of the
Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. Whosoever
eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath, hath, hath now
and has forever eternal life, and I will raise him up at the
last day. For my flesh is meat indeed,
and my blood is drink indeed. And then this remarkable statement
from our Lord Jesus Christ. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh
my blood dwelleth in me and I in him. He dwells. He dwells in
us. He prayed on that last night
in the presence of his apostles. in John 17, 20. He prayed for
us, didn't he? He prayed for us here, right
now. He says in verse 20 of John 17,
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall
believe on Me through their word, that they may all be one, as
Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may
be one in Us, that the world may believe that Thou hast sent
Me. And the glory which Thou gavest
Me I have given them, that they may be one. even as we are one,
I in them, I in them, and Thou in me, that they may be made
perfect in one, and that the world may know that Thou hast
sent me, and hast loved them as Thou hast loved me. What a remarkable prayer from
our Lord Jesus Christ. What a remarkable answered prayer
from our Lord Jesus Christ. Christ in you, the hope of glory. But to go back to Galatians,
there are those verses that I love so much in Galatians chapter
2. Paul's desire for these Galatians
is the desire that he has for himself, isn't it? For through
the law I am dead to the law that I might live under God,
Galatians 2.19. And then he describes this union
that Cole talked about, this union which brings communion
into the hearts of God's people. I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live. Yet not
I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live in
the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved
me and gave himself for me. Everything the Lord Jesus did
was a public act and a representative act. He did it with His people. He went to the cross with His
people. He went to the tomb with His
people. He rose with them. He was exalted
with them. We are seated with Him now, with
Him. Why do you believe the Gospel? It's Christ living in you that
gives you the life and the faith to believe in. Why do you love
God? It's Christ living in us that
gives us. It's the faith of the Son of
God. It's the faith of the Son of
God. It's not my faith in Him. It's His faith. He was faithful. What remarkable faith the Lord
Jesus showed. At every point in his earthly
life, he simply trusted his Father. He simply trusted his Father. He simply trusted the Word of
God. Satan came to him and said, will
you prove it to me? Again, three times he came, will
you prove it to me? If you are the Son of God, will
you prove it to me? And the Lord Jesus rested his
life at the beginning of his ministry and rested his security
and his safety simply on the Word of God. He trusted what
God had said. Did he have the power to do all
of that? Of course he had the power. But he came as a servant. In our stead, in our room, had
to believe God 100% on the cross. He just believed God. He just trusted Him. See, that's
my life of faith, brothers and sisters. I live, says Paul, I
live. I repent, I believe, I try in
all sorts of ways to love Him. But it's He who energises that,
it's He who creates that, it's He who sustains that. It's Christ
living in us. I wonder Paul has this one desire
for them, isn't he? He's in travail, he's in agony,
until he can see Christ in them. them coming back and simply joining
with Him and resting all of their souls' salvation upon the work
of the Lord Jesus Christ. There is this glorious union,
this extraordinary union that describes the relationship, the
remarkable relationship between the Lord Jesus and all His people. When he prayed that prayer in
John 17, he wasn't praying with some sort of wishful hope, wasn't
he? He says in verse 20 of John 17,
he says, I don't pray for these alone, I'm not praying for these
that are here with me, these 11, but for them which also,
just read the next word, It doesn't say, might believe, they shall
believe. The word will be preached, they
shall believe. Christ formed in us. Christ, the head of the body,
his church. He took upon Himself our nature
that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in all things
that behooved Him to be made like His brethren. And He suffered
being tempted, being able to succor, to be able to nurture
them that are tempted. See, Christ formed in you It's
just another description of salvation. It is to be saved. What it is to be the new creature. It is to be the new man, as Peter
described it. It is to be a partaker of the
divine nature. In Colossians chapter 1 we have
that verse that we look to so often. In Colossians chapter
1 Paul describes it as a mystery. It's a mystery which has been
hid from ages past, verse 26 of Colossians 1, and from generations,
but is now made manifest to the saints. The mystery was hidden
for thousands of years and now it's made manifest to the saints.
to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory
of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope
of glory. The hope of glory is Christ in
you. So eternal life is knowing God
the Father and knowing the Lord Jesus Christ. Not just knowing
about them. Not just some religious activity
of laws and ordinances and ceremonies. It's not just some form of morality
and laws and commandments. It's not some religious profession,
decisions and baptisms and creeds and so on and so forth. Eternal
life is the life of Christ, the presence of Christ, the spirit
and mind of Christ, and the very glory of Christ, begotten, created
and formed in us. It's something that believers
know. And Paul knows if Christ is formed
in them, then Christ, no matter where they wander and how deeply
they stumble, Christ will draw them back to Paul and his brethren
and his gospel. It's something, this glorious
union, this glorious communion is something that believers know. It's something you know. The
Lord prayed or spoke to the disciples in John 14.20. He says, that
day, that day of new birth, that day of resurrection, that day
when that light shines into the hearts of people, you shall know
that I am in my Father. You'll know these things because
God will teach you. I am in my Father and you in
me. and I in you." All of the elect children of God are in
Christ and He is in them. There is this union, this glorious
union that we love to talk about. This union between the Lord Jesus
Christ is pictured in so many ways. A bride and her husband,
a shepherd and his sheep, the vine and the branches, a building
fitly framed together." You see, it's an eternal union. It's a
union that's based on eternal covenant promises. And it's a
living union, and it's a vital union. It's essential to the
glory of God, and it's essential to the peace and comfort of God's
people. Christ in you, the hope of glory. It's a union in which our Lord
Jesus Christ is the head and we are the body. He's the head
because that's His appointment by the Father as our surety. He put Himself, He put Himself,
He bound Himself to those the Father had given Him. He bound
Himself as representing Her in all aspects. He undertook, didn't
He, to do all for her. He undertook to suffer all for
her. And such is the intimacy and
closeness of that union that all He did, they did. All He did, they did. All He
suffered, they suffered in Him. Did the Lord Jesus Christ obey
the law of God? Did he obey it perfectly, openly,
physically and from his heart? Did he love God with all of his
heart, all of his soul, all of his mind, all of his strength?
Did he love his neighbour as himself? See, that's our righteousness,
isn't it? It's not just a legal righteousness,
we have the very righteousness of God. But the righteous requirements
of the law are fulfilled in us. We obeyed when He obeyed. When the Lord Jesus Christ was
crucified, Paul says in Galatians 2, we were crucified with Him. Did the Lord Jesus rise from
the dead? They rose with Him. All that
the head does, the body does as well. They triumphantly rose with Him
and they triumphantly reign with Him. He's the head of the body
because of all of those promised engagements from eternity, but
He's the head of the body because He took on our nature. There
is a union. so close and so intimate between
the Lord Jesus and His Bride. It's as close as the natural
union between our heads and our body. The head of the body is
the source of all life and it gives all energy and action. It's the fullness of Him that
filleth all in all. He was in every sense a human
as we are. He was touched with the feelings
of our infirmities. He was tempted in all points
as we are. He undertook and he participated
in all that constitutes us being human but without sin. So all that the body feels even
now, All that the body feels and suffers, the head feels and
suffers. All that the body wants and has
need of, the head is aware of it. The Lord Jesus has a fullness
to meet all of our necessities. It pleased the Father that in
Him should all fullness dwell, and of His fullness, of this
fullness, we receive grace for grace. The riches that are in
Christ Jesus, what riches of glory and grace and sustaining,
energising, life-giving presence He has with us. As I said the
other night, it's not the trials that we go through, it's the
presence of the Lord in those trials. He comforts us in our
trials that we might comfort others. All grace, infinite grace,
inexhaustible grace, unsearchable riches, All life, all of our
life is Him. All of our strength is Him. Our
nourishment comes from Him who is our Head. He supports all. He is a glorious, everlasting,
unchangeable, eternal sustainer of all of His people. He says,
because I live, you also shall live. As Shulamite said in the
Song of Solomon, my beloved is mine and I am his. Christ is formed in you. There are wondrous things that
happen. Christ has formed in us. He will
never, ever leave, never, never forsake His bride that He loved. He loved her so much to go to
the cross. Will He not sustain her in the
midst of the trials of this life? And He will sustain His people
in faithfulness to His Gospel. He will not lose a one. His body, His glorious body will
be perfect, spotless, unblameable, presented to His Father with
exceeding joy. Christ formed in you. It's a challenging The thing
to contemplate, it's the question that Paul was asking these Galatians. It's the question that Paul was
asking those Corinthians. The question is simply answered
in one word, isn't it? One word, faith. Paul says to
the Corinthians, examine yourselves. whether you be in the faith. Prove your own selves. Know you
are not your own selves, how Jesus Christ is in you. Accept you be reprobates. Has he come? Taken up residence. and worked in your heart, a love
for Him, a simple trust in Him as He's revealed in His Word.
You see, for the Galatians, Paul had one hope, didn't he? He had
one agony, and he had one hope. If Christ is living in them,
No matter what the false shepherd's cunningly devised plans are,
Christ will bring his own home to him. He is the good shepherd. He is the great shepherd. He is the sustaining and caring
and nurturing shepherd. None will be lost, ever. Let's
pray.