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1 John 1
Paul Mahan September, 11 2002 Audio
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1 John

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Thank you. All right, let's read
verse 3 here. 1 John 1 verse 3. That which
we have seen and heard declare we unto you. John is talking
about himself and his fellow apostles. He's talking about
the Lord Jesus Christ. He's talking about what he heard
from him. He's talking about the gospel.
And he says, that which we have seen and heard declare we unto
you that ye also may have fellowship with us. And truly, of a truth,
our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. Our fellowship. That struck me. Some time ago, as I read, Howard
Fellowship, and down in verse 7, he says, if we walk in the
light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another. This little group of believers
has something very, very special. It's very, very special. It's very precious. It's very rare that we have here,
and that's a fact. I've been many places, and others
who come here experience the same thing. We
have a very, very special and precious thing here. We have
a very close relationship, a fellowship. We do. This is truly a family. It really is a family of brothers
and sisters in the Lord Jesus Christ. And it is rare in this stuff. It really is. And we need to
guard it. We need to guard it. We need
to protect it. We need to nurture it. Do whatever we can to nurture
it, to build it up, to help it along, to ensure that it continues. Don't we? special decision to
let nothing and no one do anything to damage what we have here.
Now we can't do anything really about other people. So what we need to do is not
let ourselves be damaged by God's grace. Do everything we can. We need to do everything we can
to to promote this, to unify, to unite, to cement these relationships,
because it's that special, this fellowship that we have. Now,
John said, what we saw and heard, we want to declare unto you that
you might have this fellowship. He's talking about Christ, he's
talking about the gospel, and this is where we got our fellowship. This is where it came from. This
is how it all started. That's why we're here. We wouldn't
even know each other if it wasn't for this gospel. Well, we might
know each other, might not even speak, though. The gospel is what started here,
and that's what That's what it's all centered around. We're here,
aren't we? And all we do when we get together
here is preach and hear and rejoice in the gospel. No, that's it.
That's the center of our fellowship. And our fellowship together,
our relationship, what we have here, will continue as long as this gospel continues. It will. It will continue as
long as this is what we've centered around. As long as it keeps coming
from this pulpit and you keep coming to hear it. This is what
maintains this fact sheet. The gospel is what maintains
it. The gospel is what really causes
it to grow. It started with the gospel, it
centers around the gospel, and it's maintained by the gospel,
this fellowship. He said, truly, our fellowship
is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. We're here
because we have the same Father. Every time we meet, it's Father's
Day. Never mothers, but always fathers. We always meet together to honor
the father, don't we? And the son. We're here because,
see, our fellowship truly is with the father. He's the one
that brought us here under the same roof together and put us
in the family. He's the one that chose us. And God the Son is the one who
redeemed us. Our fellowship is with the Father
and with the Son. God the Son is the one who redeemed
us. And God the Holy Spirit is not being slighted or left out
here. We know that God the Holy Spirit
is the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Christ. God the Holy Spirit
is the one who makes us conscious of Father and Son. So God the
Holy Spirit is the one who brought us here. You understand? He's the one who rounded us up
and brought us here, sent by the Father to bring us to Christ. All right? I love Ephesians 2, 1, "...and
you hath he quickened." Who? Well, God, the Son, the Holy
Spirit. These three are one. They're
all together in this thing of salvation. "...and you hath he,"
God, the Father, quickened, quickened by the Holy Spirit, regenerated,
and raised us up together with Christ, brought us to Christ.
There was a time when everyone in here had no real interest
in God and in Christ. We had religion, but no real
heart's interest in God and in Christ. We were religious for
whatever reason. Some of us weren't religious.
We were just, well. There was a time when we had
no interest in God or Christ, but God. You see, truly our fellowship
is with the Father, but God. He's rich in mercy, for His great
love for which He loved us and quickened us again. Now we have
an interest in the Father. Now we have an interest in the
Son of Man. Now we have an interest. in the gospel. There was a time
when we would have had no fellowship with each other. As I said, some
of you may have known one another. Did you know any of these people
before you started coming here? No? Glad they didn't know you. Did anybody here know one another? Nancy, do you know John? Anybody know each other before
here? and have any real fellowship.
I mean, before you came here, there was no friendship, nothing
to do with each other. If it weren't for the gospel
now, we probably wouldn't. We all come from different backgrounds
and we have different personalities, don't we? And if it weren't for the gospel,
We probably wouldn't have anything to do with one another, but God,
who is rich in mercy, has quickened us together. We're in this thing together.
He's brought us together and united our hearts in love for
the gospel, in love for one another, and we have a precious thing
here. Now, those personality differences
They don't matter, do they? Huh? We love Henry anyway. And vice versa. Those past differences,
you know, or different backgrounds, who cares? Huh? We're all trying
to forget all that, really. We have this fellowship. And
the fact is, really, now we're all being, bashing the like. We're becoming more and more
alike. That's what the gospel does. It's conforming us to the image
of one person. So that in the end, we're all
going to be just alike. Same mind, same heart, same everything. Same likes and dislikes. That's
right. It's getting pretty much that
way now. Uh-huh. Stan and I not only look alike,
but We have the same likes and dislikes
and mind and thought on things about the world and the truth
and we're brothers. My flesh and blood brothers are
nothing alike except in our meanness. My old man, that old mayhem meanness,
we got that alike and I'm trying to be done with that. Those standing out here, man,
we're just alike. And the older we grow together,
the more we'll be just alike. And all those other things, I
don't know. As long as we stay together,
hear the gospel. Fellowship. Go over to Acts chapter 27. I
want to illustrate this thing, fellowship. Acts chapter 27. Again, this is not my style of
preaching, and I hope I don't ramble. Why do you think I preach
verse by verse? Because I don't ramble. Scripture
holds you know and holds your feet to the ground, you know,
and you have to stay with it. I wish more preachers would do
that. Acts chapter 27, fellowship. This is what it means, fellows
in the same ship. Some of us have been boating
together, haven't we? That's what fellowship is. Fellowships,
all aboard one boat. The difference being that it'd
be like all of us in the same ship, and we are. Our God, our
We're in Christ. We're in Christ's ark, just like
Noah and all his family and the animals. And we're all on board
one ship. They were fellows in the same
ship, weren't they? And we're all in Christ, and
we're in the body. We're members of the body. Christ,
the head, is in glory, but his body, his lower part, is on the
earth, is it not? And we're members of his body,
and members one another, all together in the ship, in the
Ark of Christ Jesus. Our destination, when you're
in the same ship together, You're going to go in the same place,
aren't you? If you get on board a ship, a
train, or whatever it is, you check out the destination number. And if that's where you want
to go, you're dealing with us here, aren't you? Now, if that's where you're going
to go, if you're on that ship. And so it is. That if we're in
Christ, we're going to go where he is. We're going to go where
he said his people would be. I will, Father, I will, for they
be with me where I am, to behold my glory. That's where we are.
That's where we all are. That's where we're headed. We're
in Christ, where our destination is Christ, to the Father, glory,
bound for glory, And our hope is this. All our
hope is, and all our safety and our assurance, and our very salvation
depends on this ship. How are we going to make it? If the boat makes it. Right? If the ship makes it. Christ is our ark. Let me say,
if we're in Christ, if we're in Christ. Look at this story
in Acts 27. I love this. This is a story
of the Apostle Paul, who was a prisoner at this time. They
put him on a ship with several others, prisoners, and this is
where the ship wrecked. Chapter 27, verse 22. Now they were in danger after
a big storm. Verse 20. Verse 20. Neither sun
nor star for many days appeared, no small tempest. Huge storm
laid on us. All hope that we should be saved
was taken away. Now that's where we begin this
journey. The Lord brings us to the point
of no hope. or without hope, without God
in this world. But I've got you in Christ. He puts you in Christ. Now look
at verse 21. After long absence, Paul stood
forth in the midst of them. Everybody on the ship heard a
preacher. And he said, Sirs, you should have hearkened unto
me, not of loose from creed, but of gainless heart and love.
But now I exhort you to be of good cheer, be of good cheer.
There shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship." You're going to be safe on board
this ship, but the ship is going to be, it's going to sink. What a picture
of the gospel that is, huh? Can you hear it? Can you see
the picture in that? How that Christ, we live because Christ
was crucified. We live because Christ died.
We live, we're saved because Christ was punished for us. Look down at verse 31. Oh, I
love this. Verse 31, Paul said to the...
Now, they all wanted to abandon ship. Things really got bad,
and they wanted to abandon ship. But Paul said, he reminded us,
he said in verse 31, to the centurion and to the sultan, except these
abide in the ship, we cannot be saved. Stay on the ship. Your safety
is in the ship. Stay here. If you leave it, You
can't swim. The sea is too rough. It's too
deep. You can't swim. It's too long.
It's too far off the shore. You can't do fishing. Stay on
the ship. God told me, God promised, stay
on the ship and you're safe. So, here we are. Fellows in the
same ship. If the boat makes it, then you're
good. They're weak people on that,
aboard that ship. They're strong. They're young.
They're old. All of their safety is in the
ship. And so it is with us, in Christ,
all of us. And when you're on board a ship,
fellows in the same ship are doing one thing. Serving the ship. They're serving
the ship. If you don't serve the ship,
they'll throw you overboard. Serving the ship, meet me, you
want to play, don't you? Serving the ship. Look over Romans
12, Romans chapter 12 with me. Paul writes of this, I'd like
to read Romans chapter 12. You know, it's in our great interest
that this, you know, I'm using this interchangeably, this title,
Christ is the Ark of Sainthood. We're safe in here. We don't
maintain him. He maintains us. Right? Okay. That man was Turkish. This fellowship
that we enjoy, this body of believers that we have, the gospel, is
something we maintain. It's something we serve. We serve
each other. This is the body. The body is
the church, and we serve the body. We can't do anything for
or against Christ. The head, he's in heaven, right?
He said, follow her where you must be. We can't do anything for or against
Christ, but how we serve him is we serve one another. And
how we serve the ship, the spell ship, is to maintain this, what
we have here, the church. All right? It's in our interest
if this church continues. Isn't it? Especially those of
you who have lived it. But it's in our personal interest.
We can't live without the Scouts. We can't live without it. The
humans won't live without this gospel. They need it. So it's
in our interest that this gospel be maintained, that this fellowship
be nurtured and maintained. You know, ship. Anybody in here been on a ship?
You been on a ship? Every member of the ship's got
something to do with it. Whatever, no matter how small
the task, it's not a small task if it's in service to the ship.
If it's a fellow that's, you ever wonder why they scrub the
decks and all? You ever wonder why they scrub
the decks and all? Because if those decks get slick,
if they don't scrub those decks, man, they get algae and everything
on them, and they get slick and they're dangerous, and you follow
them. So they scrub them every day. Every day. You ever wonder
why they polish the brass and all that? Because those things
won't work if you don't keep them polished. But oil them,
and maintain the sails, and all that. It's all important, is
it not? Who's most important? The fellow, the look out, or
the fellow down there cooking the food? If you like to look at it, you'll
say it's crooked. If you like to cook and you can't
see a thing, you'll say it's a look at it. Don't you? And
on and on it goes, and on and on it goes. You ask a fellow
who starts washing the sails and they've been seen by a tailor
or whatever he's called. So I'm glad somebody's willing
to be seen. Romans chapter 12, verse 4 through
8, Paul says, we have many members in one body, and all members
have not the same author. So we, being many, have one body
in Christ, every member one of another, all in this thing together,
fellowship. Having been gifts, gifts according
to the grace that's given us, according to whatever it is God's
given us to do, whether preaching, let's preach, according to the
portion of faith, minister, let's minister, whatever it is you
have to do. ministry. Teaching, teach. Who's more important, the ladies
teaching our children or me? I was taught, my lady, when I
was a kid. Paul, in his letter to Timothy,
said, I'm so thankful for Lois and Eunice, your mother and your
brother, Timothy, who taught you the gospel. Huh? Who's Lord,
brother? It's all the same. It's all the
same. Read on. Teaching? Teach. Do it. No, you're
not capable. No, man, you're not capable of
doing that. Read on. I'm not either. Before I ever
preached my first sermon, I've never made a public speech in
my life. Not even in school. I cut class
that day. I'm serious. I'm just like you. I just woke up. I called Smith if I thought about
standing up in front of people. Think about Moses. He's out there
20 years, him and she. They're both preaching Moses. You can't put two words together.
All I can say for 40 years is come, go, know, and shoot. He said, who made man's man?
Who made man's man? I'll be with you soon. I thought about the apostles
the other day. I was out talking to somebody. After the Lord said
He knows the apostles out by two, Fisher, James and John,
they'd been in boats for years. They'd grown up fishing. That's
all they knew. They'd go to school. They'd take
speech classes. They didn't know how to be idiots.
I mean, really. They didn't know these things. And the Lord one day said, OK,
James, John, y'all go to Capernaum in Perth. Go. Wait. You go with us. And I walked off. I'm done. I bet you Johnny said to John,
you go first. John goes, you go first. You're over. Where are we going? Who's going? Is the light going
to be there when we get there? Is there going to be a crowd?
What are we going to say? Just tell them what we can do
for them. And they preached, didn't they? They did the best
they could. They're the best. Folks, hey,
keep it excited, and that's your passion. That's your passion? That's all right. Just be with Him. Just be with
Him, in His presence. That's what he wrote when he
was with me. He said, let us not forsake the silver in ourselves
together, as the man I tell you, but exhort one another. That's
so much more that you see that I approach it. Don't get on the
ship. Stay on the ship, you stay on the ship, you die. Keep the
kids on the ship. I don't know how to describe
the day. Scrub him to death. It's important.
Read it. Give it, let him do it. He doesn't
have any place to place you. I like to read those old... I still read them. I've read
all of Ian Forster's Admiral Hornblower, all of RFO's series,
and the Pops, not me, my old son Alexander Kent's. He's a
newer version of that, and I read a lot of those. And when they
used to send those big titered ships out, you can't believe
the stores that they had to buy to put them in. You can't believe
it. It took months to load a ship. What about those aircraft carriers
with 3,000 people in them? They're whole cities. You don't have the money it takes
to maintain them. You don't have the food and all
that. You need to give it. Let him
do it with simplicity, that is, live a little bit. He's for a good cause, isn't
he? You have a rival interested in
you? Families. Oh, the families. He loves his young families,
doesn't he? Families, the same thing. That
is, rule it, do it with diligence. That's how it is now. And then
we'd go out to eat, and I'd go in some other time, and I'd say,
ask me something, and he'd say, I'm going to make a decision.
You do it. And I'd go to eat, and he'd say,
no, you do it. We need a Roman angel that will
give it to us. We need to show up mercifully
and cheerfully, and on and on and on we go. 1 Corinthians 12, 1 Corinthians
12. Same subject to the church. All those for the Romans, and
then we've got 2 Corinthians. What do you want? Same thing.
We have the same name. We have the same Easter song.
And the same interest could be, at this very moment, as I speak,
someone else is speaking right now in the presence of another
one, another one. There's a church everywhere.
First Corinthians 12, verse 12, Paul says, "...as a body is one,
and as many members, all members of that one body, being many
of one body, so also is Christ." And by one spirit, we're all
baptized in one body. Back when I used to Again, in these old sailing vessels,
particularly in rural towns, they used to, it's called transcription. They didn't ask, well they did
ask the volunteers, I forget what it was, and if you didn't
volunteer, they took you. a conscription that's
called, uh, I have to get from there. Anyway, they were out
to get you. They took you, and they took
you. It's Lord, Lord, Majesty, Lord, Majesty. And, uh, so we leave it. The
Lord, uh, has to bring us to, has to call us, has to bring
us in front. Uh, we're baptized into one body,
Jew, Gentile, Corn holly, burnt penny. That's what Henry said, corn
holly. And they're all been made to drink into one spirit. The
body's not one limb, but it's many. And you know the rest of
this. If the foot said, I'm not the
hand, I'm not, then I'm not in the body, I'm not the foot. Which
is most important? Which is more important than
the hand? Which would you rather be with? But which would you
have to do it? I mean it. What about a little
help? I think about that. You never got a chance.
You never had a chance. You have to know. That's something. When you do
that, you know. The ears? No. There's nothing
in the body of the ears. There's no ear. Any breath? You have to do it. Any member
of your body has to do it? No. What about your liver? You don't have to do that. What about your liver? Liver? No. Salivary? Salivary. Salivary. Look at a patient's
throat. No. A patient's chest or throat.
And so it is in the body of God, every limb of the body. Can you
think of one person in this room right here, that you'd like to
receive to be baptized? Look around. Think about it. Give me a thought. Old John's
not here tonight. What do you think? No. There's
not a blessing out there, and I'm dying first, I think. That's a good point. After about
8 miles north, and around the side, there's somebody. A body,
that's it. But somebody goes and grabs it
by the hand, and that's what they say. That's another story.
But John's not here. He lives in the mountains. It's not the
same. People in the mountains don't
respect him. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. I haven't done it. This, uh, Ephesians 4, verse
16, somewhere it's talking about, uh, the, the church, the body,
some room, the whole body, secretly joined, sometimes the whole body
is secretly joined together, compacted, By that, with every
joint supplied, according to this, the sexual working to the
measure of every part makes increases of the value of the interference
of the child. Now do you understand what this is? If one person over here wants
to meet me, for those of you here who would like to speak
to me, If one person is not good enough, and that's unfairly so,
their job is to have to get slack. Right? Our bodies are pulled
together. That's who's working in America
at every point. That's the increase of the body
at any time, it's what you love. One person out of so many is
very famous, if that's the case. Right? That's their right. Imagine that. As I told you before,
this is one time you can fight every time. This is one time you can make
a buck fifty bucks a week. And if you think it's pretty
bad, that's all right, that's all right. But that's Peter there, not David. All right, he says, he says,
truly, our fellowship is with the Fathers. He writes this down.
He says, truly, our fellowship is with the Fathers and your
son. Truly. Now, there can be no true fellowship
unless it's in the Gospel. There's a real thing going on
there. That's a fact. You know? That's not the reason. Because life on earth is never
a free or bad life. It's a hell, not a free life.
So how are you going to deal with this stuff? Well, if you
look over here, you can, you can look around this area, you
can go, you can find bits and pieces. You know? And there can be no true fellowship
unless it's in the gospel. And true gospel is when the Father
loves the child first. First and foremost, I've understood
my passion while I'm doing this, that you don't, you don't build
a church on programs, and activities, and playing games, and learning
personality. You don't try to defend everybody
with claims of guilt and mental impairment. No. No. It's dangerous business to
have some principles that they have to go back to. You know? I've never been successful. And some of you, even those folks
that can't be here, I don't know if this is my passion, but if
I don't keep my eyes on it, I can feel that I am very stressed. I'm not looking for judgment. I'm not looking for judgment
in this process. I'm not looking for judgment
in that process. Now, look at this one box. Look at this one box. Look at this box. And people don't find love as
fast like you do. You know, wishing a man, or loving
a man. You don't love people in this
kingdom. You don't entertain in this kingdom. I don't want you to hate me for
now, but that's not what you think about when you think about
me. Okay, let's move on. One thing
is time-consuming. And, uh, what I tell you guys,
when somebody, let's start with this as a starting point. Manualization. Then you have that, you know,
the man with the fan in his hand, the man with the fan, the fan,
the fan, the father. Who did I say that he was with
the father? No servant. He says that we loved him a lot,
that he is in the line. What's the line? The line of
the gospel. The line of the gospel. How could
he love the Lord if he didn't know his name? That's when you
have fetishism. That's why I have fetishism.
In fact, that's what he wrote. That's why I have fetishism. I have fetishism through the
gospel. It's the same way I have love of the gospel. It's the
same way fetishism is love of the gospel. Very strange. Very strange. Very strange. So, The truth is, I've sat up
here for years, Mr. Bass, and said what we live for,
essentially, is to say first time in my life, the past, what
else? What else? The past. Remember that, Mr. Bass. Remember
that once, and do that. Remember that once. And I said, what's that better
gift than to put the person in love with Christ, with love with
His Son? They didn't care if they were
in love or not. They didn't care if they were in the gospel. They
didn't care. They don't come here for it. It's strange, though, that they
come to the gospel. The Lord won't say, come here
to the gospel. No, no, no. That is just weird. He read it to me. He read it
to me. But to start with, from day four,
he said, be of your joys to Joy and Augustine and Joy and Luna.
Joy and Luna. We sat there and sat and watched
each other in that house. And what a wonderful couple. Could you think of a better name? He was an outsider until the Lord noticed him. And here's what he sees. He looks
around. He's sitting in a chair in the
middle of all the people in front of him. He's laughing. He's laughing.
He's laughing. He's laughing. He's laughing. He's laughing. He's laughing. He's laughing. He's laughing.
He's laughing. That's all right? Yes. It's coming
in, isn't it? That's it. See you next time.
And I was looking around, and I was sitting over in the corner
because I had looked around before and just been thinking about
whether it's what he thinks or not. And of course, the next
thing is, when does all this come to the doctor's office?
I was just so glad thinking about the doctor's office, and I was
like, that was, that was, I don't know. He got through the process. What I can say is that football
has not been very successful in the U.S. And this camp has the greatest
fan support in any interest in our country. And I think it's
a great thing. People just really support it.
Thank you, sir. Look, sit down. I've been going
for several years now. And, uh, when they win a game,
it's like they won the Super Bowl. It's like the other night, last
Friday night, we beat the Netherlands in a game, and we had our last
two times. I remember that. Anyway, thirty
minutes after the beginning of the work, the stage was filled
with people. What happened next? The team,
they're all over the world sweating their sweat, thinking they're
going to get to the end. They're going to get to the end. Lots
of the people were sweating, having a straight run-up. Cheers
and the joy of singing. It's so happy. It's a change
in balance. with the Lord. I am united in
one cause and something victorious and something alive and support
and give the time, the money, and the effort to you. And if I'm happy, you just don't
know me. That's what happens to you. I've got some good guys. They've
got doctors after doctors. One day I made this observation
in town. I said, you know, the cruelest
thing is, people are hanging around after me. If they really
did kill me, they're hanging around. I can't get rid of them.
I have to cut them in half. I don't know what to tell you. People really enjoy something,
enjoy my music. So I became a member of a part
of a religious movement, which is... I don't know what to call it. I don't know what to call
it. I don't know what to call it. We're thinking, let's just, it's
going to be tough, it's going to be difficult. We don't need to either, but
they're going to love it, and we're going to love Jesus. Now,
who said that we're going to be really bad? We have to servitude, let's just
servitude. And with the Father, he said,
with the Father, That's who Father Genevieve started with, and that's
who we've got to keep moving it around. Senator Graham has
worked with him about any term, and with each other. It began
in Augusta, it's here now in Augusta, it's maintained by Augusta. We all need this stuff. Now,
if you're a person sharing this with your loved ones today, you're
a starter person. That's the way it is. God loves
me. God keeps me. God does not talk
about my life. You don't have to worry about
that. You know what we're going to
talk about, what we're going to talk about. This is our church.
So we're going to talk just a little bit about it. We're going to
talk family fellowship. Maybe all of us have thought
about this, about family fellowship. Check here, you can close the
Philippians chapter one. You know the way this changes? And if you look at it, this is
a good, fast, and slow part to it. It is. And I was proud of
him for so long. This is all in the name of passion.
But, uh, I was saving for someone. I, I, I, I think we were camping
out, just sitting there, just having a great time. And, uh,
it was John, John Baker. Uh, I leaned over to John and
said, I was just so glad. I was just so glad to not have
written with him. This is so good. You know, maybe
some of us haven't done anything. We don't know, but it's not so
hard. It's nothing. You've got to ask,
what is it that you're missing? There's no freedom. There's nothing
but self-righteous judges who make you a thing that's not real,
that's not action. You can't leave yourself. That's not the way it is, I think. That's what makes family interesting. And, you know, if you have a
family, you have to have a heart. I didn't have a heart. You can be free, freedom, liberty,
the blessing of liberty, freedom that we enjoy as Christ. Hello,
freedom. David, remember David when he was born
in Alex? When he stepped right up to the
top of the highest rock of the mountain, I said, you can't do
that. He said, I can't do that, I'm
a man. Let me tell you some kind of
a joke that I would like to teach you if it isn't so much laughing. All right, let's read this. Let's go. Philippians, Philippians
chapter one, verses three through five. I thank my God upon every
ministry, always and every day of mine,
for you are ever, every astronomy, making requests, Well, out of
duty, but with joy, because I love you. So you're a fellow here
in the gospel, from the very first day. It's, it's, it's, it's great. But, you know, who said there
was no such thing? Who was it that said that? Never been there a time in the
world. All right, let's see, I'm assuming
that all those in here, I think you know what it is, 187. Let's
read the past. You've got to sit back, because you're going
to do it. You're going to do it. I'm going to teach you. 187. Turn over there. 187. It's
not standard. Let's see what life has in store,
our hearts in prison now. But there's no fear, our spirits
good and mild, with life to bear us now. Before I fall asleep,
before I wake up, I feel God's love, I think God's love, I can't
pretend I can't. We share our beautiful world,
our beautiful earth and land. And our strength for each other
grows, but there are times when tears When we have come this
far, it is not the worst thing. But we shall see if Jesus is
God and come to be again.
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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