The heading in my Bible there
on Hebrews 1 says, the Son is God's revelation. That's what
Lord William will look at tonight here in John chapter 3, if you
will turn there. What God must reveal in His people. He must do those things. We just
sang, go into a world that is dying. and proclaim the Lord's
perfect salvation. That's a perfect salvation. I
wish I could just sit down for two or three hours and just dwell
on that. He saves to the uttermost. Where's that? That's from complete
utter death to complete utter Him. All the way. That's a perfect salvation. He
saved 89% of the world. Perfect. That means perfect corruption
must come from that too. That's who He had to save. If
the Lord gives me the opportunity and the ability to consistently,
as He upholds it, stand before a world that's dying and tell
them all flesh is grass. Everything about mankind born
of Adam is nothing. Christ is all. He is perfect. He's holy. And the only way we
are to satisfy the Father that we offended, the Holy God, each
of us personally and perfectly offend, is through His Son, being
put in Him, being made one with Him. And if I can get a bullhorn,
if I can get a satellite TV channel and my own private jet and fly
around the world and tell everybody underneath the sun that, I can
say it to Tom Blue in the face, and God the Holy Spirit has to
make it effectual in the hearts of His people. And He will. No
doubt about it. There's a whole lot about me
I have no confidence in. The Lord's going to save His
people. I can say that to the grave.
I can testify, as we'll see here in a minute, I can be a martyr
to that. I'll go to the grave saying that. He will. He will.
John chapter 3, let's look at verse 1. There was a man of the
Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. The same came to
Jesus by night and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou
art a teacher come from God. For no man can do these miracles
that thou doest except God be with him. We've seen some stuff.
I've watched you. Jesus answered and said unto
him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again,
he cannot see the kingdom of God. And Nicodemus saith unto
him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter? Can
he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born?
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man
be born of water, That's the Word and of the Spirit. He cannot enter into the Kingdom
of God. That which is born of the flesh
is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee. Who's he saying that to? Whoever
reads it. Or when I said unto thee, Ye
must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth,
and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it
cometh, and whether it goeth. So is every one that is born
of the Spirit. Remember in this chapter, as
we go through it, all the way through verse 21, our Lord's
speaking to a man. He's speaking to Nicodemus. That's
17 verses we have in talking to Nicodemus. I started counting
them as I was sitting there, and I got to word 200, and then
I lost count. So it's about 300 words. What if He'd come to us and speak
300 words to us? Wouldn't that be precious to
us? But He's speaking to a man, and this man, He's either middle-aged
or older. This isn't a young man. This
is a seasoned man. He's a member of the Sanhedrin.
At the age of 30, he was brought forth for his showing, just like
many others were. And they said, we like this one.
We can do something with him. They made him go to school, learn
some things. And after doing all those things,
just as Paul did, sitting under great teachers, studying the
Scriptures, memorizing the Scriptures, teaching people, whipping people,
correcting them. Oh no, it says this. You missed
a word. And I said, you know what? We're going to put him
on that Sanhedrin. He's going to be in the high seats of the
synagogue. He was educated, outwardly moral.
You saw him down the street, you probably couldn't pick on
him too bad, could you? He was a student of the Old Testament. He was a teacher and a ruler
of them. He was an expert in the Law of
Moses. This man stood up in front of other people and told them,
instructed them out of God's Word. What a frightening thing. I'm terrified. I wrote on the
top of my notes today, get out of the way. I hope I ain't in
the way. It's a scary, frightening thing. But we want to notice
the change of His approaching. He said, Lord, I see some things.
I know some things. And the Lord said, you can't
enter into the Kingdom of God's seat. Nobody's going to see the Kingdom
of God unless they be born again. He said, well, how can you enter?
He said, you can't enter unless the Word comes to you and the
Spirit comes to you, unless He does something. Now He's asking
sincerity. How can these things be? How
can these things be? When Christ gives life, He doesn't
give part life. He gives eternal life. Man can
give a life. We can have children, can't we?
And the second that child's born, it's dying. It's corrupting.
It's getting worse. It may physically grow, but death
begins birth. That's all we can give. When
Christ gives faith, it's not a lame faith that can't save.
It's not a faith that needs something else. It's smaller than a mustard
seed, but it's His faith. It's saving faith. If a man chooses
to believe, you know what, that makes logical sense, I'm going
to believe in it. If he chooses to do that, he can choose not
to. If someone, through emotionalism and trickery and tactics and
sorcery or whatever you want to call it, can convince somebody
to believe on God, you're pigeonholed. If I can talk you into it, another
man can talk you out of it. When Christ gives faith, it is
faith. And it fails not. When Christ gives repentance,
it's not half-hearted. Man can feel bad about things.
I can feel guilty. I have a whole lot of guilt.
I feel guilty about a whole lot of things. And it seems to grow
every day. The more I'm alive, the more
guilty I feel. And that's just... that could
be anybody, couldn't it? When God gives repentance, He
breaks a heart. He shatters it. broken and contrite
heart what He gives. And it's effectual. Outside of
the working of God the Holy Spirit in somebody, man just rebels. That's all we do. It may look
like Nicodemus. We may be in a highfalutin society
of religion and it's rebellion against God is all it is. In
the power of God, when He comes to His children, they bow to
the Lordship of Christ. Every one of them. They all do.
They may look different. They may not say the same words.
They may not be from the same part of the world, from the same
generation, but they bow to a person. They bow to Him and they bow
to Him in all things. It's complete. Believe Him completely. Here's
the last words of Nicodemus until we get over to John chapter 7.
John 3 verse 9. John 3 verse 9. Nicodemus answered
and said unto Him, How can these things be? He went from seeing
some things and telling what he knew, he went to a mocking
the Lord and confusion, and now he wants to learn something.
I believe he's earnest. This is a sincere question. How
can things be? How can these things be? He's
not argumentative. He's not boasting. He's not standing
in his own knowledge. He asks the Lord, how can these
things be? How can these things be? His
birth wasn't accepted. He had to be born again. Born from above. How can this
be? His work ethic. His zeal. Paul talked about their
zeal, didn't he? He was earnest. He worked harder
than I worked. His zeal wasn't accepted. You'd
call him a strong zeal, couldn't you? It must be of the water
and of the Spirit. Entering a person and giving
them life. Not fleshly birth, but born of
the Spirit. How can this be? Lord, tell me,
how can this be? And the Spirit moves like the
wind. That's God's sovereign grace in electing a people. Of
His own will begat He us, the Scriptures say. How can this
be? I want to know about them things. I want to hear it over
and over and over. I've heard it my whole life.
I want to hear it some more. As long as I'm on this earth breathing,
I hope the Lord keeps me and I hear that over and over and
over. I know very young children in this world that can answer
these questions. Do you know that? Here is this
mighty man, a member of the Sanhedrin, and he says, Lord, how can this
be? I've heard some small children out of the mouth of babes. How
can a person be born again? God's got to want to do it, and
He does it. Salvation to the Lord. That ain't
complicated. Christ puts him in his place
one more time though. His high office in religion that
Nicodemus held, that wasn't accepted either. Look here in verse 10.
Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel? And knowest not these things?
Aren't you a teacher? Aren't you a theologian? And you don't know these things?
Does that seem harsh to you? Here's a man that has a different
attitude. He's got a teachable attitude now. And Christ asks,
as plainly as it could be put, you're a master of the Jews and
you don't know this? That's your daily occupation
and you don't know this? Our walk in this world, while
we're on this earth, believers don't soon forget what we are.
We don't soon forget that miry pit that the Lord saved us out
of. There's a constant reminder. We remember that pit he saved
us from. We remember through trials, him
stirring up our pure minds in us, remembrance of him, who he
is, who we are. But we look in the mirror. We
live with ourselves. We walk in this world in our
own place. We know what we are, don't we?
It doesn't change. Verse 10 says, Jesus answered,
saying to him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these
things? Natural logic would think he
does know these things, wouldn't it? He read the Scriptures over
and over again. He taught them. He was sincere.
He had that zeal. And he walked so well outwardly.
But he did not know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven. He
didn't know the mysteries of the kingdom. Something more than
just education, something more than morality, something more
than sincerity. Catch that? Something more than
sincerity was needed to enter into those mysteries. God had
to reveal them to him. Revelation had to take place. That takes a clean out of our
hands, doesn't it? Every bit of it. Turn over to 1 Corinthians
chapter 2. A few books over. 1 Corinthians 2. 1 Corinthians 2, verse 7. We speak
the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which
God ordained before the world unto our glory, which none of
the princes of this world knew. Not the secular leaders, not
the kings, not the governors. They didn't know that. But not
the religious leaders either. It's the same lump. There's only two vessels made.
You know that? There's a vessel of honor and a vessel of dishonor.
Every one of them comes from clay and God makes a difference. Those religious leaders didn't
know this either. Nicodemus was one of them. Which
none of the princes of the world knew, for if they had known it,
they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. Nicodemus'
natural seeing, his natural hearing, his natural intellect, it was
unable to enter into this mystery of salvation in Christ, who He
is. How He saved His people according
to the Scriptures. Those Scriptures He held on to
so well, didn't He? Verse 9, But as it is written,
I hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the
heart of a man the things which God hath prepared for them that
love Him. God prepared. You can't reveal
something unless it's there. Do you know that? I've had a
handkerchief over at glass and I revealed the cup. That's because
it was there. I just took the handkerchief
off. God has to take calluses, cataracts off our eyes like He
did with Paul. We're blinded by birth. He has to give us something.
How can any man be saved? How can these things be? That's
what we're asking. Here's how, verse 10. But God
hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit. For the Spirit searches
all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth
the things of a man, save the spirit of the man which is in
him? I don't know what's inside of you. I don't know what's inside
of anybody. And my heart fools me. Fool myself. I lie to myself more than I lie
to anybody else, I think. even so the things of God knoweth
no man but the Spirit of God." Now we have received Speaking
to believers, now we've received not the spirit of the world,
but the spirit which is of God, that we might know the things
that are freely given to us of God. What's freely given to His
people? Life's given to them, faith's
given to them, mercy's given to them, repentance is given
to them, His righteousness is given to us. It's free to us,
coming at a great cost. His blood's what's shed for all
those things to come to us, but it's freely given to us at no
cost. Come take, eat, drink, Buy without price. Freely given. In Christ. Verse 13, Which things
also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth,
but which the Holy Ghost teacheth, comparing spiritual things with
spiritual things. Not in the words which man's
wisdom teacheth. I don't want to get in the way.
That's my desire. There's things I see the Lord
made evident to me and illustrations are poor because they're from
this earth. But I don't want my thoughts and my tactics to
get in the way. Man's efforts to put the Word of God in a modern
language, trying to make it easier, more palatable. Let's dumb this
down a little bit. Let's put it in layman's terms
so it's more understandable. The tactics we use all around
this nation, around this world on children. tactics, puppets,
all kinds of things. We use our wisdom to teach men
and women and children things that aren't profitable instead
of using the word of God. Tell people what He said. Man's
nothing. Christ is all. Bow to Him. Bow
to Him. Tell them plainly. Only a person
can understand that in the heart The only way we can understand
in the heart the things of God is by revelation, and He has
to do it. He has to reveal them to us. We just tell what the
Word of God says, if the Lord gives us the understanding. We just tell what we know, we
tell what we've seen the Lord do, and we tell what we've experienced
in our own hearts, what He's done for us, where He found us,
what we are. He became us. He had to. And because He did, we are accepted
of the Father. Justice demands it. Justice demands
it. And just witness. I just saw
it. That's all that happened. I was standing there. Back in
our text. This is what the Lord told Nicodemus
to. Verse 11. John 3, 11. Verily, verily, I
say unto you, we speak that we do know. and testify that we
have seen." Who's the we He's speaking of? Is that the three
that bear record in heaven? Is that the three that bear record
on earth? Yes, it is. But it's also all that's in Christ. His disciples there with Him.
Those apostles, what did they tell? They told what they saw. They told what they knew. We
speak what we do know. Christ said, My words are them
of Him that sent Me. And he testifies. The word testify,
that's the same root word we get the word murder. You tell
it and you're ready to die by it. That's not a circumstantial
evidence, is it? That's not one of them hired
professional witnesses we can hire in our own courts nowadays.
Get a professional witness in here. We can just pay him. You're
ready to die for it. He was with the Father and He
willingly came down to die for His people and to testify in
their hearts that He did it. You think of the times our Lord
gave parables on this earth. What a witness He gave us. He
said, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a mustard seed. That
wasn't speculation. That's a first-hand account.
He knows. More than any other man has ever
known. He knows and He told us. First-hand witness. I want to
tell what He said. Brother Don told some young people
one time, told me, nobody cares what you think. Nobody cares
what you've got to say. What's God say? What's He say? The problem's not with Christ
being the witness. The problem's not with those
disciples being the witness. The problem's not with God's
witness in our day. People have problems with me
and they take it out on me and I get mad. That's my instinct.
I like being mad. I'm good at it. But quickly he
turns my mind. He ain't mad at me. I'm mad at
him, ain't I? I'm mad at him. Him is his word. The problem's not with the witness.
The problem's not with the one speaking here. But where's the
problem? It says there at the end of verse
11, and ye receive not our witness. That's the problem. I've heard
so many people say, we know the scriptures say X, Y, and Z, but they don't receive it. They say,
I know we're free from the law, but. I know we don't have to
be circumcised, but. I know we don't have to keep
a Sabbath, but. I know God puts a new heart in His people, but
they don't receive it. I know we're secure forever.
But. How could you say but to that?
Any of those. I don't want to. That's why I
have to have it. John said in chapter 1, he came
unto his own and his own received him not. Christ spoke this to
the Pharisees. He said, search the Scriptures.
I read you Bibles. For in them you think you have
eternal life. Not in finding Christ in the
Scriptures, but in arguing and debating and getting a hierarchy
and pecking order out. I know more than you do. For
in them you think you have eternal life and they are they which
testify of me. Told them plainly. And you will
not come to me that you may have life. Turn over to 1 John 5. 1 John chapter 5. There in verse 8, it says, And
there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, the water,
that's the Word, and the blood. And these three agree in one. If we receive the witness of
men, the witness of God is greater. Do you know how quick we are
to receive the witness of men over nonsense? I mean, off the
wall stuff. People say, I was abducted by
this. Really? Chupacabra. We're fools at the drop of a
hat, ain't we? We'll bite on anything dangled
in front of us. But if we receive the witness of men, here's a
promise. Here's God's Word. The witness
of God is greater. Let God be true in every man
of our. What does he say? For this is the witness of God,
which he hath testified of his Son. He that believeth on the
Son of God hath the witness in himself. If you believe on Christ,
and that's every bit of it on you. What's on Him? Everything. on Him, because you're in Him.
That's because you already have a witness. He gave you life.
He gave you faith. And you say, yep, it comes from Him, too.
I put all that on Him, too. He that believeth not God hath
made Him a liar, because he believeth not the record that God gave
of His Son. And this is the record that God hath given to us eternal
life. He gave His people eternal life,
and this life is in His Son. Eternal life is God putting a
sinner in Christ. It's all His work. We witness
this. We watch it happen in our lives.
The Lord reveals Himself to us, and that's what we tell other
people. There's not a life that's possible. Christ is the life.
Tell it boldly. Christ is not a way. He's the
way. He's not a truth. It's not just
truths about Him. He's the truth. Any doctrine we can devise from
the truth of Christ is just small bites we can ingest because we're
so simple and dumb. He's the truth. The whole of
Him. And salvation's in Him. Every bit of it. I'm back in
our text here in John 3, verse 12. He speaks to Nicodemus and says,
if I've told you earthly things and you believe not, how shall
you believe if I tell you of heavenly things? He says, how
can these things be so? He says, I've told you earthly
things and you didn't believe them. How am I going to speak to you about
spiritual things? What earthly things is he speaking of? Is
Christ speaking of? Nicodemus wasn't unfamiliar with
the Scriptures. He'd read the Old Testament more
times than I have. Christ told us in the Scriptures.
As He gave it through God the Holy Ghost to Moses and the men
of old to write the Scriptures, He gave that to us. He told us
these things. Nicodemus knew about the fall
in the garden. He knew Adam fell. He knew that God had wrath against
sin. He knew about Sodom and Gomorrah.
He knew about Noah. When the Lord looked down from
heaven and said, there's no good thoughts in them. They're completely
corrupt. He knew he had to get an ark,
and God sealed him in that ark. He knew all about the tabernacle.
He knew all about the high priest. He knew about the Holy of Holies.
He knew about the mercy seat, that inside of it had that broken
law, and the only way God would meet with him is to put blood
on it. Those are things that took place
on the earth. Those are pictures and types and shadows of Christ's
coming on this earth. He gave it to us to read. They
were still in physical practice of it. All the prophecies of
Isaiah, he read those. They knew this. It wasn't just
Nicodemus, all of them knew it. Herod, on the birth of Christ,
he demanded, he demanded of the scribes and the chief priests,
he said, where should Christ be born? And they immediately
said Bethlehem. What tribe is he from? Judah.
Christ asked those Pharisees. He said, what think ye of Christ? Whose son is he? They didn't
hesitate. David. We know these things, don't we?
That's just what happened physically in this earth. He said, I've told you earthly
things and you believe not. How shall you believe if I tell
you of heavenly things? Here's four earthly things that
take place physically that are heavenly revealed. God has to
reveal them. And it's right here in chapter
3. All these things the Lord just told Nicodemus. It happens
here, but it's spiritually revealed. First one. Natural men do not
have spiritual life. We come into this world spiritually
dead. We don't have no life in us. Christ said in verse 3, John
3.3, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of
heaven. You can't see it. You can't hear it. You can't
believe it. You can't follow it. You can't be a witness of
these things. You can't tell nobody about a
place you hadn't revealed to you. All are dead in trespasses
and sins. We must be born again. For a
person to truly know that in their heart, privately, not what
they'll write on a confession of faith when they're alone in
their closet, for that to be like, I'm dead. I died in the
garden. I sinned against God. I have
no hope. God revealed that to them. Not a false confession
of sin to know you are sin. You're the problem. God revealed
that to you. Second, natural man cannot make
themselves born again. We can't birth ourselves. Nicodemus
asks there in verse 4, can I enter the second time? The Lord says
there in verse 5, except a man be born of water and of the Spirit,
he cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. We have a complete lack
of power, a total inability to save ourselves. That has to be
revealed. God has to reveal that to His
people. If a person truly knows that in their heart, I'm dead. I can't do nothing. I can't enter. I can't do nothing. God revealed
that to them. If it's in truth, He revealed
it. Man's dead spiritually, he can't birth himself, and he has
no authority or sovereignty to demand of God to give him life. Demand of God to make his elect
child. I've heard men foolishly force
that. If God can only save some people,
I can make myself one of them. No. You don't have that authority. We're not sovereign These sovereign
citizens run around, they get tased too, don't they? You think
that little taser does something, imagine the God who created lightning.
He's the sovereign. It says in verse 8, The wind
bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof,
but canst not tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth. You
can't demand of the wind to do what you want it to do and when
you want it to blow. I want you to blow east, I want
you to blow tomorrow. It ain't going to happen. God
is the sovereign of the universe, and we do not bend His arm to
our will. But we can beg Him for mercy.
We can come to Him and pray for His presence to be with us. We
can seek a word from Him. Lord, speak, like you prayed
this evening. Speak to us tonight. Give us a word, Lord. You've
promised it. You've gathered us here. Be with
us. And all who come earnestly begging, dead dog sinners that
can't save themselves and they have no sovereignty come to him
begging for mercy every one of them. Get it? Totally. Fully. But we can't command it. We can beg for it, but we can't
demand it, can we? Know in our true place as the creature and
not the creator the humility of a broken heart. A true broken
and contrite heart. That's the Lord's prerogative.
It's His privilege and it's His choice to reveal that in a person.
It's all of His doing. Fourthly, natural man cannot
ascend to heaven and figure these things out on his own. Verse
13 says, "...and no man hath ascended up to heaven." Outside
of the Christ. being born of His incorruptible
seed, outside of Him giving ears to hear His Word, outside of
being given life, being quickened by the Holy Spirit, outside of
being given faith to believe that He is. He's everything He
says He is. You cannot sort this out by any
means. You ain't gonna figure it out.
You're not gonna ascend into heaven and figure it out. That leaves
us with all flesh as grass, only to fade and wither. That's all
mankind is. Notice, too, it doesn't say that
no man has ever entered into heaven. No man has ascended up. Several have entered, haven't
they? A whole multitude have already. Enoch's entered, Elijah's
entered, Moses, Abraham, all the saints of old. They're already
in the Lord's presence. They're with Him now in glory.
How did they enter the kingdom? They didn't ascend. It says only
one ascended. Who's that? But God. And we hear all the bad stuff
about us. Man's inability, all we're dead, all throughout the
scriptures. But God, who's rich in mercy. But God. Look here,
verse 13. And no man hath ascended up to
heaven, but He, but God, but He that came down from heaven,
the Son of Man which is in heaven. That is mysterious, isn't it?
Earthly and spiritually, that's mysterious. But He that came
down from heaven, the Son of Man which is in heaven, He says
He's in heaven and He's talking to Nicodemus. How can He be here
and in heaven? Who's the one that can ascend?
Who's the one that can give life and give faith and preserve forever?
It's God. That's who He is. That's assurance. That's a sure, solid hope. That's
comfort. Who is it that can save His people
and shall save His people? It's God. To the sinner who cannot
give life to themselves, that's wonderful news. That's who does
it. Paul wrote to Timothy and said,
without controversy, great is the mystery of Godliness. God
was manifest in the flesh, made like we are, justified in the
Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on
in the world. Sinners believe Him. To us, that's
mysterious, isn't it? And received up into glory. That's
where He is now. Nicodemus is well-versed in the
books of Moses. And like our Lord speaks to fishermen
about fish, He comes to farmers and talks to them about seeds
and planting corn, doesn't He? He speaks to Nicodemus about
Moses. He reveals Himself in what Nicodemus is most familiar
with. God comes to where His people are when He reveals Himself. He speaks to us where we can
understand. And boy, I'm thankful for that. He says in verse 14, And as Moses
lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the
Son of Man be lifted up. We'll look at this more next
week. But the people chided Moses because it was plain bread. We're
starving to death. All we got is these little tiny
white balls of bread. It's plain. Tired of it. Ain't you got something
else? That's what's going on there, Dad. Every week you get
up there, Kevin, and you say that man ain't nothing but sin,
can't save himself, and Christ is all. Bow to Him. I'm tired
of that. Tell us something different.
So they went after Moses. They chided him, whipped him,
beat him. Moses looked like he was going to kill him. And God sent serpents
to bite every one of them. And a whole bunch of them died.
And He said, you make a serpent out of brass. Lift it high up. Christ was made like we are.
There's no venom in Him, was there? There was no sin in Him.
He was lifted up on a cross at Calvary. And if you look to Him,
you'll live. Well, if I'm blind, look to Him
and live. Well, if I can't hear, well,
if my neck's broken and I hit on it down like that, close your
eyes and look to Him and live. Look to Him. And He must be lifted
up. We'll look at this more next week. But God, who was on earth
and in heaven, this God-man who was able to ascend. This is why
he's telling Nicodemus, we know He's already ascended. We know
He's risen on high. We know He's received of the
Father. We know He's seated at His right hand, ruling and reigning,
making intercession for His people. He must be lifted up. And verse
15 says that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but
have eternal life. Christ told that. a member of
the Sanhedrin. He was working in his heart.
I don't know what was going on in Nicodemus' heart. I know what
goes on in mine when I read it. Whosoever. Nicodemus, that includes
you. We'll see you next week. That's pretty offensive, Nicodemus,
to his co-workers. That includes you, Nicodemus.
You listen to the sound of my voice. That includes you. Whosoever. Whosoever believes in the Son
of Man. who is both God the Son and the Son of God, should not
perish. To believe His Word, to believe
His person, to believe His accomplished salvation, to believe His ability,
to believe His worth, His power, and any attribute we can come
up with, that we can list, to believe that He is who He says
He is. They shall not perish and they
have eternal life. What a promise. That's a promise. That's something to stand on.
That's a whole lot better than what I'd have to say. I can't
give words like that. He can. That's who we bow to. That's who we want to be with,
be conformed to, be with for eternity. Amen.