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The Lord's Prayer, Part 1

John 17:1-3
Paul Mahan November, 12 2017 Audio
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This is the Lord's prayer. The prayer He taught His disciples to pray is the disciple's prayer. This is the Lord's prayer; this is the Great High Priest's prayer just before going into the Holy of Holies. The salvation of God's people depends upon this prayer.

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God is good. The Lord is He. Throughout His vast domain, He
is all. All in all, the Lord, Jehovah,
evermore shall reign. He is all, all in all. Through earth and heaven, one
song shall ring from grateful hearts. This anthem's spring,
a rising sand. John 17. Prayer. His life is what it is. It's
proof of life. True prayer. It's the breath. Prayer is the breath of faith. It's what it is. It's the life
of God in a human being that causes him to commune with God. Call on the Lord. Talk to Him. Speak to Him. Cry unto Him. Our Lord Jesus Christ, his whole
life was prayer. He never, never broke communion
with the Father. He lived by faith as a man, completely,
like us, in a body. But he never broke fellowship,
always in constant communion with the Father, His life. This
is the Lord's Prayer. The prayer that's often called
the Lord's Prayer is the one He gave His disciples. Our Father
which art in heaven, hallowed. That's the disciple's prayer.
This is the Lord Jesus Christ's prayer. This is His high priestly
prayer. This is the prayer of the great
high priest before he goes into the holy of holies with his own
precious blood to offer up for the forgiveness of his people's
sin, to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. God must hear this. This is the prayer of which all
the incense that was ever burned in the temple and the tabernacles
before the holy of holy represent. This is the prayer of prayers.
There are many great prayers. Moses' prayer. Moses' song. Hannah's prayer. Elijah's prayer. Ezra, Nehemiah, Daniel's prayer. Great prayers. This is the prayer. The prayer of prayer. This is
our salvation. This prayer is our salvation.
This prayer is our peace. This prayer is our comfort. This
prayer is our assurance. This is our faith. All that Christ
says here is the faith of God's people. Our salvation is completely
upon what Christ says here about Himself, about God. Look at it. Verse 1, these words spake Jesus
and then lifted up his eyes to heaven. What that is saying is
the words he just spake. Three chapters, 14, 15, 16. These words, words of God, he
said, the words that I speak unto you are not my own but the
Father which sent me. Words of life, Peter said, these
are words of life, we hang on them. Our Lord said, these things
have I spoken unto you that in me you might have peace. Words
of peace. Words of life. These words. His
words to us of the Father. He gave us words
from the Father to us that the Father sent. But now He's going
to pray to the Father of us. About us. We get to, you know,
the greatest prayers are perhaps private prayers, secret prayers,
prayers that are not recorded. But God, we must hear this prayer. It's not recorded in the other
three Gospels, is it? But he prayed it, they heard
it, and now we have it. These words spake the Lord and
lifted up his eyes. We don't lift our eyes when we
pray, do we? We bow our heads. Why? Because we're full of sin. Because
we're full of shame, aren't we? He lifted up his eyes. He had
no sin. He had no shame. He lifted up
his eyes, equal to the Father, could look eye to eye with God. The publican in the temple would
not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven. But our Lord did,
being without sin, without shame. He lifted up his eyes. And he
cried, he said, Father, this is the second person of
the Godhead, this Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost, but these
three are one. One in essence, one in power, one in glory, one. And yet, the second person was
given a body. In the volume of the book it's
written of him, a body hast thou prepared me. Lo, I come, in the
volume of the book it is written of me, a body hast thou prepared
me to do thy will. The second person, the eternal
Son, equal with the Father, became a man. He became flesh. It became him to take upon him
the likeness of sinful flesh to do this work. of redemption,
of salvation. He says, Father, this is the
only begotten of the Father. This is the only begotten of
the Father. But He's the firstborn among
many creatures who are all begotten through Him, of the Father. He
says, Father, verse 1, the hour has come Now many hours, many time periods,
many eras, many periods of time that have taken place, this is
the hour. This is the hour of which all
time is measured. This is what all things in the
past pointed to, this hour, and what all things in the future
look back upon, this hour. His finest hour. This is, as
it were, the sun at its zenith, at its peak, high noon. Our Lord literally hung on the
cross at high noon, but it was dark over all the land. The hour has come. He said, this
is the hour for which I came. Remember when he said, what shall
I say? Father, deliver me from this hour? No, for this hour
came I into this world. He spent 33 years on this earth,
but this hour, this time in which he would go to Calvary's tree
and hang there, as a substitute, as a sacrifice, as a sin offering,
as a curse for His people. This is His finest hour. For this hour, Father glorify,
the hour has come, glorify Thy Son, He said, that Thy Son also
may glorify Thee. Glorify Thy Son that I may glorify
Thee. Man wants glory, doesn't he? Man is full of vain glory, fancies
himself to have some kind of glory. But man wants glory, wants
power for himself. Well, the Son of God came, and
He's saying to the Father, here, Father, glorify Me for this reason,
that I may glorify Thee. This is the Son, as it were,
giving all glory and honor to the Father. What a Son! What
if a son whose father passed away lived the rest of his life
for the glory and the honor and the praise of his father? Wouldn't
that be some son? That's exactly what he did. He's
also saying here, give me the strength, give me the power.
Let me endure this. He lived by faith. Like us, calling on God for all
strength, for all ability. And he said, give me the strength,
give me the power, enable me to endure this. Remember, he
went to the garden right after this and he said, if it be possible,
let this cup pass from me. I'm going to die right here in
the garden at the thought of being made sin. What he's saying
is, give me the strength, to do what I must do for thy glory,
for thy glory." Oh, may God open eyes that are
closed right now to see His glory. What did Moses pray? Show me
your glory. What is God's glory? Christ in
Him crucified. All the goodness, all the mercy,
all the grace, the salvation of God as seen in the Lord Jesus
Christ. Glorify thy son that thy son
also may glorify thee. Verse 2, as thou hast given him
power over all flesh. As thou hast given him power
over all flesh. Power. In Colossians 1, and our
Lord said this twice. He said, all authority is given
unto me in heaven and earth. John said it, the forerunner.
He says, the Father loved with the Son and has given all things
into His hand. And all the apostles write of
this, and all who know Him know this, that He who is the image
of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature, by Him were
all things created. that are in heaven and in earth,
visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions, principalities
or powers, all things were created by Him and for Him. And He's
before all things, and by Him all things can sit. He's the
head over all principality and power, as thou hast given Him
power over all flesh. He's going to tell us in a minute
what life eternal is. It's to know Him. This is the
Jesus Christ of Scripture. This is the true Son of God who
has power over all flesh. It must be so. It must be so
for Him. If you know anything about the
work that He came to do, He must have all power. Because the powers,
as it were, of principalities, of darkness, the ruin, are against
this work, are trying to foil this work. He must have power
over all in order to accomplish this work. He must have authority
over everything that moves, everything, every event, every circuit, everything. He must be in absolute control
of all things, because why he came was to bring everything
to pass, to bring his people into his kingdom, which all principalities
and powers are trying to stop. I'm here to tell you, he said,
I have all power. And if he's purposed to save
you, do you see? Do you see that our salvation is
completely dependent on Jesus Christ having all power? That if this other Jesus who
wants to and can, who tried and failed, he's standing outside,
can't get in unless you let him, if you must. He has no power. Christ said all power. Over all
flesh. Read on. That he should give
eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. That he should
give eternal life. Raise the dead, the dead in sin. Give. He doesn't say offer, does
he? He doesn't say that he should
offer life to as many as will accept it. No! That he should give eternal life,
that he should bestow life. You see, this life is according
to the working of his mighty power. Like he raised Lazarus
from the dead. He must raise us from the dead.
In John chapter 5, our Lord has already said this. He said, "...the
Father hath given the Son, the hour is coming, and now is when
the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that
hear shall live. As the Father hath life in Himself,
so hath He given to the Son to have life in Himself." That He
should give eternal life. That He should give it. has said,
it takes all power to control, to manipulate all things in bringing
so many sons to glory. All right, to whom does he give
this eternal life? Verse two, as thou has given
him, Christ, power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life,
bestow it to as many as thou has given him. that he should give eternal life
to as many as thou hast given him. He's talking about election. He's talking about election according
to the foreknowledge of God. Isn't it? Someone says, there
you go again. No! This is what the Son of God
says. Chosen by God the Father, given
to Christ in a covenant This is His glory! This is His glory! that they were given to the Son
of God in a covenant before the world began, like sheep. Go to
John 10 very quickly with me. John 10. Most know these verses,
but we need to look at them. John 10, like sheep given to
a shepherd. You know who this is speaking
here? This is Jehovah-Rah. You know that name? That's the
Lord, our Shepherd. in Ezekiel 34, isn't it? I am
the Good Shepherd. Didn't He say that? Who's that
speaking? Jesus Christ. God manifest in
the flesh. This is the Good, the Great,
the Chief Shepherd. John 10, verse 25 says, He said
to some men, I told you, they said, if you be the Christ, tell
us plainly. It's life eternal to know that
He's Christ. And they all know that. They'll
find it out. They'll know it plainly. Read
on. Christ said, I told you and you
believe not. The works that I do in my Father's
name, they bear witness of me. But you believe not because you're
not of my sheep. As I said unto you, my sheep,
hear my voice, my sheep, and I know them. And they know me.
They follow me. And I give unto them eternal
life. You see that? I give unto them eternal life.
And they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them
out of my hand. My Father which gave them me. He gave them to me. He's greater
than all, and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's
hand. I and my Father are one. Go back to his prayer in John
17. Who does he give this eternal
life? To as many as God chose, to the elect of God, given to
Christ in a covenant. And all the sheep know, all sheep
know, and praise God for his sovereign electing grace. All sheep know that. Goats say,
but, but, Sheep bow. Sheep believe. Sheep praise Him to high heaven
for His sovereign electing grace. No ifs, ands, and buts about
it. They praise Him. They glorify Him. If they use
a but, it's this. But God. I rejected Him. But God chose me in Christ before
the foundation of the world and gave Him to me. And this is all
my salvation? Had He not chosen me, I would
still reject Him, hands down. This is His glory, not to the
praise of the glory of my choice, to praise of the glory of His
choice. They all know that. All sheep
know this, no exception. They're all taught of the Father
and they praise Him for this. They know that He should give
eternal life to as many as thou hast given Him. How many? How
many? Well, Scripture says no man can
number them. But the foundation of God standeth
sure, the Lord knoweth them that are His. Does He have the stars
numbered? Does He? Seems insignificant,
doesn't it? Stars? He telleth the stars. He calleth them by name. He numbers
them. How much more? His people. Huh? The hairs of your head are
numbered. That's pretty insignificant,
isn't it? No. Because that's who God is. As
many as thou hast given Him. As many. How many? A great multitude. Which no man can number, but
He has them numbered. lest anybody say it's not fair.
Brethren, here's what God's people know, here's what God's people
say from the bottom of their heart, that He should give eternal
life to any His amazing grace, let alone many. Right? How can it be? This is what every
single chosen, elect son of God says from the bottom of their
heart. How can it be that God should love a soul like me? They don't demand it. In fact,
when they first hear it, they can't believe it. As many as thou hast given Him. that He should give. But somebody
says, but the Scripture says, as many as received Him. Isn't
that what John 1, 12 says? As many as received Him. Read
the rest of it. It doesn't stop there, does it?
Hell and hope. There's no period there. It says, which were born,
not of flesh, not of the will of the flesh, not of blood, not
of the will of the flesh, not of the will of man, but of God. as many as received Him. They're
vessels of mercy prepared unto glory. Vessels of mercy. I wish I had a cup, an empty
cup. You know what a vessel is? It's
a nothing. It's an empty nothing. If I had
a glass here, I'd show it to you. A vessel does nothing. It receives what's poured into
it. There's a difference between
receiving and accepting. If the glass can't say, I ain't
going to take that. Oh yes, you are. Receive. Salvation is a passive
thing. It's not an active thing on your
part. It's an active thing on God's
part. And He takes this Of His fullness have we all received. Empty vessels. Received life. Received breath. Received sight. Received ear. Received. Passive. Received righteousness. Passive. Who gets the glory there? The
giver, not the receiver? Is that clear? All right. He says, "...thou
hast given him power over all flesh that he should give." It's
his to give. "...eternal life to as many as
thou hast given him." Christ did not come to make salvation
possible. He came to save. His people. He didn't come to make an offer.
He came to make an atonement. He didn't come to make a partial
payment and you pay the rest. He came to pay it all. He didn't come to offer life.
You don't offer life to dead people. He came to give it. I
am come that they might have life, he said. When he came to
Lazarus' tomb that day, he came to give life to Lazarus. Who did he give life to? The
one he chose to come for. All right. Now he said, and this
is life eternal. This is it. There's no clearer,
no more concise definition of what it is to be saved in all
the Bible. There's no clearer, more concise
definition of eternal life in all the Bible, and it's from
the mouth of the Son of God Himself. This is life eternal. This is
it. Verse 3, "...that they might
know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast
sent." This is life eternal. This is life given. This is life
bestowed. This is life created. This is
the working of His mighty power to know the only true God and
Jesus Christ whom thou hast seen. Go with me to Matthew 11. Matthew 11. You must see this. These are the words of Christ.
Matthew 11. Now, to know Him is not to know
about Him. To know Him doesn't mean you
believe in His existence. To know Him is not a mere head
knowledge. Two plus two is four. To know
Him, what this is speaking of, is a relationship with Him. for
him to reveal himself to you. It's a union with him. It's a
communion with him. The first use of the word know
is Adam knew his wife Eve. It's the same exact thing. When
Adam came and the two became one, he knew his wife Eve. And life came out of that. They
became one. That wasn't, well, I'm Adam,
I'm Adam, you're Eve, hello, nice to meet you. It's they became
one. a union. Matthew 11 says in verse 27, all things are delivered
unto me of my Father and no man knoweth the Son but the Father
neither knoweth any man the Father save the Son and he to whomsoever
the Son will reveal him. Paul wrote in Galatians 1, God
who separated me from my mother's womb, called me by His grace,
when it pleased God to reveal His Son to me, in me. Christ in you, the hope of glory. Real life. Isaiah 43, go over to Isaiah
43. It's for God to reveal Christ,
not just to your head, but in your heart, in you, to know the
only true God and Jesus Christ whom he has sent. Look at it,
Isaiah 43. Look at this, Isaiah 43, verse
one. But now saith the Lord that created
thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, fear not, I have
redeemed thee. I have called thee by thy name,
thou art mine." Does that sound familiar? It's the same voice. What did Christ say? They're
mine. Verse 3, I'm the Lord thy God,
the Holy One of Israel, thy Savior. I gave Egypt for thy ransom,
Ethiopia and Saba for thee. I gave men for thy life, verse
4. In other words, I pass them by. I use them. I use them. Like Egypt, like Pharaoh, like
all those. Use them all for my people, to
bring my people into the promised land. They're not mine, but mine,
that he gave me are mine, and I use people. Is that okay? That's what he said. Read on. Verse 5, he says, Fear not, I
am with thee. I will bring thy seed from the
west and gather thee from the west. I will say to the north,
give up, and to the south, keep not back. Bring my sons from
afar, my daughters from the end of the earth. Everyone is called
by my name. I have created him. That's the
new birth. born of God. I have created Him
for my glory. I have born Him. Yea, I have
made Him. Who are they? Well, they're blind
people that have eyes. They're deaf people that have
ears. Verse 10, You're my witnesses, saith the Lord, my servant whom
I have chosen, that you may know and believe
me and understand that I am He. Here it is, here's life eternal,
that you'll know there's no God formed. You don't make Him God. Make Jesus Lord. That's what
you thought before when you were dead in religion. Now He came
to show you and make you know no God's formed. He is God. I, verse 11, am the Lord beside
me. There is no Savior. Look at this.
He declares the end from the beginning. I have declared and
have saved. Or they're not saved yet. Oh,
yes, they are. Dictum factum. Said, done. I've declared it. It's going
to happen. I've spoken. It'll come to pass.
I've purposed it. I'll do it. I have declared and
have saved. Oh my, you know there's no strange
God among you. You're my witnesses, saith the
Lord, that I am God. This is life eternal, that they
might know thee the only true God. Let me give you three witnesses,
okay? Three witnesses. At the mouth
of two or three witnesses, a thing is established. Deuteronomy 32,
quickly turn there. I hope somebody in here Never
seen this thing, but Deuteronomy 32. Let's hear from the mouth
of Moses, the mouth of Isaiah, and the mouth of Daniel, who
God is. Deuteronomy 32, verse 39. You
have it? Verse 37, look at this. God will
say, where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted? Verse 39, but see now that I,
even I am he, and there is no God, little G-O-D, with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound
and I heal. Neither is there any that can
deliver out of my hand. All right, that's Moses. Listen
to Isaiah. Isaiah chapter 45. Go over there. Isaiah 45. Let's hear Isaiah. Moses told us. Now Isaiah says,
Isaiah 45 verse 5. You have it? I am the Lord, there
is none else. There is no God beside me. I
girded thee, though thou hast not known me, that they may know. From the rising of the sun, from
east to the west, there's none beside me. I am the Lord, and
there is none else. I form the light, create darkness. I make peace and create evil. I, the Lord, do all these things.
Verse 9, woe unto him that striveth with his maker. Let the pot sherds
strive with the pot sherds of the earth. But shall the clay
say to him that fashioneth, what maketh thou of thy work? He hath
no hand. Let's listen to Daniel. Go over
to the book of Daniel chapter 4. Daniel chapter 4. This is
marvelous. At the mouth of two or three
witnesses. This is life eternal to know
the only true God. And Jesus cried. Daniel 4. Look
at it. There was a mighty king named
Nebuchadnezzar. He found out. He thought he was
in charge of something. Verse 17, you have it, Daniel
4, 17, this matter is by the decree of the watchers, that's
God's prophets and word, and the demand by the word of the
Holy One to the intent that the living may know that the Most
High ruleth in the kingdom of men and giveth it to whomsoever
He will, and setteth up over it the basest of men. Well, that
ought to give us much comfort right now, shouldn't it? Look
at chapter, or look at verse 35. Nebuchadnezzar found this
out. Verse 34, Nebuchadnezzar, who
thought he did some things and owned some things, at the end
of days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and
mine understanding returned unto me. And I blessed the Most High,
and I praised and honored him that liveth forever, whose dominion
is an everlasting dominion. His kingdom is from generation
to generation, and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing. And he doeth according to his
will. That's free will then. He doeth
according to his will in the army of heaven and among the
inhabitants of the earth and none can stay his hand or even question
what he does, what doest thou. This is life eternal, that they
might know thee, the only true God. You see, Salvation is to
be born of God, by the Word of God, given eyes to see, ears
to hear, a heart to know, become acquainted with God. Listen to
this. Now, people all over say they
know God. But what they say about God tells
me they don't know God. Listen to this. In the beginning,
God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without
form and void and darkness. But God said, Oh, I sure wish you'd let me
be God. God said, Let there be light. And there was light. Who's going
to stop that? They tell me that all that they
say about God tells me they don't know God. Let Jesus. Let God. God said, let there be light. There was not. And go on and
on through that chapter, it says, and God said, let us make man. Does he make himself? He just said, you're my people
whom I have formed for myself. Isn't it? Is this doctrine? This
is who God is. And buddy, if it's just doctrine
you know, you won't die, you won't go, you won't be martyred
for it. But if it's God that you know, and defend, and declare,
and love His glory, you go to the stake and be burned for it. And you'll tell people, you'll
tell them the truth. You don't know God. You don't
know God. This is life eternal. Isn't that
what Christ said? To know the only true God. What
do you know when you finally find out who God is? What happens?
What's the first thing that happens? Fear. It's the first thing. Guilt. Conviction. If you're naked,
the Word of God comes and the discernment of thought and the
intents of the heart when He gives life. Naked! Ashamed! Guilt! Fear! Like a child that's born. When
your child was born, it came out naked. Light! They were in darkness, weren't
they? They came out naked. The first thing they feel is
pain! Light! Fear. What do they do? They cry. This is what happens when you're
born of God. Fear. Naked. Shame. Guilt. God be merciful. Yes, without exception. God be
merciful to me, the sinner. Have mercy on me, O God, according
to thy love and kindness, according to the multitude of thy tender
mercy. Blot out my transgression. Wash me throughly from iniquity.
Against thee and thee only have I sinned. I've lived all my life
without any thought of God. Didn't thank you. Didn't praise
you. Rejected you. Rejected your son. God be merciful. Amen. He reveals Jesus Christ whom
he sent. The sent one. Why is he sent? What's he sent to do? Matthew
1.21 says, Call his name Jesus. That's his
name. What does it mean? What does
it mean? Jehovah saves. God our Savior, that's what His
name means, for He shall save. Not him and them, He shall save
His people. Oh, that the Father giveth me,
those thou hast given me. Well, from what? From their sins. This is life eternal. This is
what every single child of God, born of God, born of His Spirit,
born of His Word, they come to know God reveals Himself to them. They fear God. They worship God. They fall before God and ask
for mercy. And God reveals to them the Son
of God because no man really knows God but through the Son.
and the Son of God who's come that they might have life, the
Son of God who came to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself,
the One that was sent, of whom all the Scriptures speak, the
sent One, the woman's seed, the Passover lamb, the smitten rock, the sent One. He's sent to do
what? Make you happy and wealthy and
all? No, to put away sin. To be made
sin. Sent. That's why He was sent.
All of God's people know why Jesus Christ came. There's not
one exception to this. They know that Christ came to
be made the propitiation for our sin. All of people know. They have to have a lamb. They
all know this. There's no exception. Like Isaac said to his father,
Father, here's the wood, here's the fire, where's the lamb for
a barn? They all know this. They've all heard it. They all
rejoice. It gives them peace. My son,
God will provide Himself a lamb for a burnt off friend, a substitute,
a sacrifice. I think myself just happy to
keep saying these same things. Some of you are smiling. This
is life eternal. Eternal means forever. What is
everybody going to be doing in heaven? They're going to be eternally
praising Him that loved us and washed us from what? From what? Our sins. And this is how you know them.
This is how you know the elect. They're sinners. They come to worship God and
call on God and to sing His praises and to read His Word and to hear
somebody preach about the sacrifice for sin. Oh, they mourn over sin. They
confess their sins. They cry unto the Lord for forgiveness
of sin. They want to be free from the
penalty of sin. They want to be free from the
power of sin that they feel in bondage to. They want to be free
someday forever from the presence of sin. They want to be with
Him, the Righteous One. It's the life of God and the
soul of a man. Christ created in them a new creature who loves
holiness, loves righteousness, loves the truth, knows the truth,
believes the truth, defends the truth, like Christ is in it for
His glory. This new man in every son of
God, born of God, this new man is in this for His glory. Dare not share the glory. This is life eternal. You know
this is the only time that Christ called himself Jesus Christ. Do you know that? The only time
in scripture where it's Christ said, I am Jesus Christ. Christ. He said often, I'm the
son of man. Son of man. He said, I am. He
said that they might know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus
Christ. Do you remember when He came
to His disciples one day? And He said, whom do men say
that I am? And they said, well, some say you're one of the prophets,
some say you're John the Baptist, some say you're this, some say
you're that. He said, whom do you say that I am? And Simon Peter said, we believe,
we're sure, that Thou art the Christ. The Son of the Living God. The
Christ, that means the Messiah. The Christ, that means the Anointed
One. There's only one. The Just One. The Christ, that
means that prophet of whom Moses spoke. That priest, that Great
High Priest, after the order of Melchizedek. That King, the
Son of David, who reigned forever, of whom Isaiah wrote, His government
there shall be no end. That's what they said. Thou art
that Christ. the Son of the Living God. We
didn't make you so, God did. We believe, no, we're sure that
thou art the Christ. What did He say? Flesh and blood didn't reveal
that to you, but my Father which is in heaven. And He said, I
chose you, that you might know me. You have life. You have life. Does this give you peace? Does
it give you hope? Does this give you some assurance
that you are a son of God, chosen of God? This is the only way
you know. There's no big E on you. Not that you can see. God does. But, you know, we can
be fooled, but no, no, no, no. Those that trust Christ, that
know Christ, that believe Christ, that know who He is, that know
who God is, know what salvation is, that love His salvation,
that love His glory, that love His Son, love His redemption,
love His blood, love His righteousness, insist upon it, defend it to
the day, they're born of God. This is life. And He's their
life. Not part of it. Anyone that says
Jesus Christ is a part of my life doesn't have life. Christ is our life. He said, I was dead before I
knew Him. Now I have life. Oh, may the
Lord reveal Himself to someone who doesn't know Him is my earnest
heartfelt prayer. Alright, Brother John, you come.
Lead us in a closing hymn.
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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