Salvation & Glory

Q: What does the Bible say about salvation?

The Bible emphasizes that salvation means being saved from sin, death, and the wrath of God through Jesus Christ. Salvation, as described in Scripture, primarily involves being rescued from the wrath of God and the grip of sin. 1 Peter 1:9-11 emphasizes that salvation is essential for all humanity, as it signifies being saved from not only our sins but also from the evil of the current world. It is through Jesus Christ that we find deliverance from these destructive forces, which aligns with the grace of God that calls us to repentance and faith in Him.

Q: How do we know election is true?

Election is rooted in Scripture, notably in Ephesians 1, affirming God's sovereignty in choosing His people. The doctrine of election is scripturally grounded, particularly in Ephesians 1, where Paul articulates that God chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world. This idea of election is not merely a human decision but rather His divine purpose and foreknowledge. Acts 17 and other references highlight that God’s call to His chosen people is central to understanding our salvation. The assurance found in election is synonymous with the message of sovereign grace, where God actively chooses and saves His people according to His will, not based on any foreseen merit or choice on our part.

Q: Why is grace important for Christians?

Grace is fundamental for salvation, as it underscores that we are saved not by our works but through God's unmerited favor in Christ. Grace is vital in the Christian faith as it highlights God's unmerited favor towards sinful humanity. In 1 Peter 1:2, grace is presented not just as an offer but as an act of God’s will toward His people. It is by grace we are saved through faith, which itself is a gift from God (Ephesians 2:8-9). This truth liberates Christians from the burden of trying to earn salvation through works, encouraging a reliance on God's mercy and the finished work of Christ. Moreover, it fosters a deep sense of gratitude and humility in believers, knowing that their standing before God is solely based on God’s grace, not on their own righteousness.

Q: What does being born again mean?

Being born again refers to a spiritual rebirth, where an individual is renewed by the Holy Spirit to enter God's kingdom. Being born again is a transformative experience that signifies a spiritual rebirth, as articulated in John 3 and echoed in 1 Peter 1:23. This rebirth is not a result of human decision or effort, but is entirely the work of God through the Holy Spirit. It signifies moving from spiritual death to life, indicating a change of heart and mind towards God. The term emphasizes that just as we have no control over our physical birth, we have no control over our spiritual rebirth; it is solely the divine initiative of God to regenerate our hearts by His sovereign will, enabling us to put our faith in Christ.

Q: Why is the resurrection of Jesus significant?

The resurrection of Jesus is central to Christian faith as it confirms His victory over sin and death. The resurrection of Jesus is foundational to Christianity, serving as the cornerstone of our faith. 1 Peter 1:3 affirms the resurrection as the source of our living hope. Without the resurrection, Christ's sacrificial death would lack significance, as it is His triumph over death that assures believers of their own future resurrection. It validates Jesus' identity as the Son of God and demonstrates that His sacrifice is accepted by the Father, providing assurance of salvation to all who believe. Furthermore, the resurrection empowers Christians to live in the knowledge that they are not bound by sin or death, but have new life in Christ through God's grace.

Go back to 1 Peter 1. We sang that hymn. You notice the word glory is throughout that hymn. That's why we chose that. Glory, glory, glory, glory. The title, the subject of this message, salvation and glory, or the glory that should follow. We don't have enough time to deal with the glory that shall follow.

So we're gonna do that Wednesday night. Gonna try to. I mentioned a while back that I'd like to bring a message or talk about thoughts on eternity. And Brother Ron asked me a week or so after that, I'd like to hear that. So hopefully that'll be Wednesday night, the glory. Glory is a person. It's a place, it's a thing. The glorious things of our God. So we're gonna deal more fully, hope to, with that. But look at 1 Peter 1. I thought of several titles for this message. It could be to the stranger scattered or to the elect strangers or grace and peace. Abundant mercy multiplied. Blessed be our God. Born of God. Our reservation in heaven. And on and on it goes.

But the title and the subject is salvation. Salvation. Do you need saving? Most of the world does not. Salvation, that the scriptures talks about, means to be saved from wrath. The wrath of God. That's what the scriptures say. Which most of the world doesn't believe. It means to be saved from sin. It means to be saved from the God of this world, being held captive by him. Most of the world doesn't, they don't believe that.

You do, don't you? You know it because the scriptures tells it and you know it from experience. If you were, if you are saved, it means to be saved from this world. This world is, the scriptures calls it this present evil world, that's what it's called.

And most of the world doesn't believe it's evil, and I just talked to a fellow on the phone, he said, I believe there's some good people out there. I said, the Bible does not say that. It says there's none good, not one. But it's to be saved from this world that gets a hold of us, and you don't want to leave it. The world thinks the world's just fine.

We just need to kind of straighten it up a little bit. It's to be saved from death. Saved from worry, doubt, fear. Saved from fears and tears. And God's people need saving every day. That's why we call on the Savior. Lord, save us. Save us from our sin, from ourself, from this world, from this God of this world, from unbelief, from fears, and on and on it goes. This is written to God's people. Look at verse one. Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, and a stranger scattered, in verse two, calls him the elect. Elect, scattered, stranger. This is to the elect.

What do we say to the world that doesn't believe? What do we say to men and women who do not believe God, who do not bow to God, who do not believe Jesus Christ, who do not need Him, who do not worship Him? We say repent or perish. That's what we say. We don't say God loves you and Jesus died for you. No, no, no, no, no. We say repent. The kingdom of heaven, Jesus Christ, is at hand. He's coming. Repent. Come, believe, bow, follow the Lord Jesus Christ. So this is to God's people.

Peter, an apostle, that is a messenger of Jesus Christ. God chose, called, sent messengers to preach the word. They were prophets, apostles, evangelists, Pastors and teachers, they're all called of God. They're all sent of God. They're all given the same message. And that message is Christ and Him crucified. It's the message of God's sovereign mercy and grace and electing love in Jesus Christ. They all have this. Peter sounds just like Paul in Ephesians 1. Why? It's the same message. He was sent by the same Lord. And so am I. That's how you know.

To the scattered strangers, strangers scattered throughout Ponton. God's people in the scriptures are called strangers. Just a couple of books back in Hebrew, he talks about strangers and pilgrims wandering through the earth, meaning this is not our home. This is not our home.

We're passing through. We're sojourning. He said, pass the time of your sojourning. You're just passing through. Just passing through. And it's not long. We're not here very long. And we've got our hearts and our minds and our affections set on things above, a heavenly city, where our Lord and our Savior and the bride's husband is. We just sang that song. You know what that means. The bride, I was not her garment. Scattered strangers, scattered all over. You know, the church throughout the time was scattered everywhere. The early church in Acts was persecuted for the truth's sake.

The Jews and those moral and religious and self-righteous people that thought they kept the law, the Ten Commandments, and believed the Bible and believed God, they really didn't. Because when Christ came, they rejected him and despised him and killed him. And all those who believe on Christ alone, they reject them. They say in Psalm 2, let's cast these little bands asunder. We don't need these people. And in Jerusalem, there were people that believed Christ and persecution came and they were scattered all over the world.

Scattered because of this persecution and then what they did they went preaching this gospel Like a milkweed pod Ever break open a milkweed pod and blow it huh you crush it and blow it The wind takes it where where the wind listeth and the gospel goes wherever God sends it And so are they that are born of the Spirit of God. It's not man's decision. And the Word of God is incorruptible seed. And it goes where God sends it.

But the church is scattered in most towns in America, big and little. You will find so-called churches all clumped together, just like up here on Main Street. There's three of them, just all clumped together. They believe the same thing. The church does not. They're outside the camp. They're scattered. Literally, you'll find that religion all clumped together. They've got the best lots in town, the best view, but they don't have the gospel. The church is scattered because of persecution. Get these people out of town. Don't sell them prime real estate. But God will build his church on the side of a hill. And his sheep, he'll call them in. Outside the camp, scattered strangers, strangers to the world. They have strange doctrine.

They actually believe God is God. doing all things, not what man lets him, that's not God. They actually believe that God does the choosing, God does the saving, God does the working, that man does nothing. That without him, man can do nothing. And if man does anything, it's God that work within them. That's the God of the Bible. And God's people actually believe God is God.

And that's strange doctrine to this world. Paul came to Mars Hill in Acts 17, and they had plaques and statues and monuments to all sorts of gods, just like all these denominations everywhere. And he found a plaque that said, to the unknown God, he said, that's who I'm going to preach to you, the gods you don't know. Strange God, strange doctrine, strange to the world.

Peter said, they think it's strange that you don't keep running with them. Can't do it. Can't do it. We're in the world, not of it anymore. We were in religion, not of it anymore. We can't run with them, can't walk with them, can't worship with them. Different God.

Isn't that right? It's so. All of you, many of you were in Religion. You didn't know God, did you? Didn't know God. Strangers to yourself. Something strange has happened to you. You can't figure yourself out. Strange. You got two people in you. Two people. Are you one of these strangers? And like Hebrew 11 says, they embrace the truth. And they're looking for Another place for Christ to have.

Elect. Verse two. Elect. According to the foreknowledge of God. Foreknowledge means foreordination. It means predestination. It means, look at verse 20. Who barely was foreordained. It's the exact same word as foreknowledge. Here's what religion said. That's what they all say. Try to explain away election. Try to explain it away. Here's what they say. God looked down through time, the telescope of time, to see who would believe. What does Ephesians 2, 8 say? By grace you save through faith. What's the rest of it? Not of yourself. It's the gift of God. And verse 19 of chapter 1 says, who you believe according to the working of His mighty power. It is God that worketh in us both the will and do of His good pleasure to believe. Faith is a gift of God. It's the work of God. No one will believe unless God says, believe. It's not your choice. It's not your decision. It's not something you decide to do, a decision you make.

It was a decision that God made before the world began. Look down at verse 20. It says, who verily was foreordained Christ, foreordained, God's people were too, before the foundation of the world, before God made the world, but revealed in these last times for you who by Him Do believe in God. Is that clear?

I don't know if you're doing this. If most of the religious world was in here, they'd be going, I don't like that. You may not like it, but it's true. God's people don't just like it, they love it. They know if God hadn't chosen them, they wouldn't be here. In the revelation it says, they that are with him are called chosen and faithful.

Elect. We have some visitors in here this morning. Not anybody that hadn't been here before, but still. Should you preach election to new people? Are you serious? This is God's word. Far from apologizing or trying to explain it, I'm going to declare it. This is His glory. If God hadn't chosen someone, nobody would be saved. Right? My father, one time, we preached on the TV for years. Forty years.

And he preached the message on election, which this is what Christ called his people, didn't it? That's what Christ called them, the elect. He'll send his angels to gather his elect. In Luke 18, the parable of the woman who kept praying, shall not God avenge his very elect? This book begins with it and ends with it. The next to last verse says the church elect of God sends its greeting. It's what Christ called his people.

Why? Because he's the one that chose them. He's the elect of God. They were chosen in him. Isaiah 42. Well, my father preached this message on election. And there was a couple who just lost their only son. An older man, son. And they were heartbroken and grieved. And my parents know that feeling. They lost their firstborn son and their daughter.

Who did that? God did. Job said that, didn't he? That's what the scripture said, the Lord gave, the Lord take it away. He said, I kill, I make a life. That's the God of the Bible. There is no comfort, there is no peace in a God who's a bystander in the affairs of man, and Satan's having his way, and man's having his way. Why do you need a God like that? Let's pray to Satan, ask him to quit bothering us. Let's just plead with man, and that's what religion, don't you make your decision, make your decision. Let's plead with God that he'll have mercy on rebels. He will, he does.

Anyway, my father preached this message, and there was this couple listening for the first time ever on this message on election, and they wrote to him and told him about their son dying and how grieved they were and mad at God and on and on it went.

And they told him that God had revealed himself to them through this message. The God of the Bible. And they quit being mad at God and bowed to God. And believe this God, and believe Christ. And my dad said to me later, he said, if I was gonna preach a message to someone who'd never heard the gospel before, it might not have been, probably wouldn't have been on election. But the fact is, this is what distinguishes the God of the Bible from this God today. The God today's running for election. And you have to vote for him. That's not the God of the Bible. That's what they say across the board, don't they? God voted for you, the devil voted against you, you cast the deciding vote.

I'm not going to hit the pulpit once today. I'm telling you, that's so blasphemous. That's lying on God. That's lying to people. That's telling them the decision of salvation of them getting all the way to eternal glory is based on their decision, not on the decision of God, not on the blood of Jesus Christ, not on the righteousness of Jesus Christ, not on the work of the Holy Spirit, not being born again. It's your silly little decision. That's not the truth. And everybody believes that'd be damned. And everybody preaches as a false preacher. That's a fact.

Elect. Bless God. That's what Paul began Ephesians with. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ, according as he hath chosen us in him, predestinated us in him, accepted us, redeemed us. Who did what? God did it all. We did the sending, God did the choosing, the saving. Christ did the, the Holy Spirit did the bringing. And when we get the, if we get the glory, we're gonna be singing unto him that loved us. And washed us. And chose us. And called us. If it'd been left up to us, we would've been damned.

Is that you? Do you believe that? You must be one of the elect. Must be one of the elect. That's what this sanctification of the Spirit is. See that, verse two? Elect according to the foreknowledge, foreordination, forethought, purpose. Purpose, God does all things on purpose. And that purpose was in Christ before the world began. God says, as I thought it, so shall it be. I purposed it, I'll bring it to pass.

Sanctification of spirit is kind of like a cutting horse. Some of you horse people in here. Got a bunch of horse people in here. You ever seen a cutting horse? Huh? All right, you got some cows in a pen, or calves, And a bunch of them, they're all just alike. They're not coming to you. Are they? Are they going to come to you? Come here, little cow. Come here. They're running from you, aren't you? Well, how are you going to get them to come to you? Well, that cowboy or a girl, that wouldn't be chauvinisty. That cowboy or cowgirl puts his eye, sets his purpose on one of those.

And he gets his rope, and that's his gospel. We're drawn with cords. Cords of what? A man, Christ. All right? And that horse, that cowboy, sets his eye, and that cow's trying to get away. Huh? You got a good one. My aunt had a world champion cutting horse. One the world champion too. All right? If it's good enough, that cow ain't getting away. Then what do you do? Good little cow. You tie him up. Now what are you going to do? Huh? You get a brandy now.

Hot. Fire. Fire. And you take that with your initials, with the letters of your kingdom, or your ponderosa, your ranch. Ranch. And you take that burning iron, it hurts and it's pain. What are you saying? You're mine from now on. Mine. Does that cow, did that cow have anything to do with that? He's running. anything, he had to rope and tie it and put that brand on. And that distinguishes. And God takes a E. No, a C. Christ, you're mine. Mine. And when it's all over, you're glad. You're glad. You don't want to run wild. You'll destroy yourself. Isn't that right? Sanctification of the Spirit. Does that make sense? It makes good sense.

Unto obedience and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Verse 2. That is, we are partakers of the obedience of Jesus Christ. The reason God accepts people into his holy presence is because of Jesus Christ, 100%. He obeyed the Father perfectly. It's his obedience. It's called righteousness. I'm preaching so simple, the smallest child could understand it. This is our Bible class. Okay? We're not accepted by God. God doesn't receive us because we're good boys and girls. We're all bad. Ain't none of us worth saving. If you let us go from now on, we'll be aliens.

And it's still in there, pretty much. All right, we're saved because Jesus Christ came down to this earth and kept the law of God perfectly. It's gotta be kept in heart, in thought, in word, in deed, perfectly. Leviticus 22, 21 says it shall be perfect to be accepted. We're imperfect, far from it. We've come far short.

Jesus Christ, perfect. holy, unblameable, unrepentant, came down here, kept the law, God was well pleased with his son, said so out loud. Only human being God ever said, I'm well pleased. This is my son, I'm well pleased. God is highly displeased with the whole human race. And even his people do things that displease him. Then how, why does God, for Christ's sake, for Christ's sake.

Do you understand that? It is not your righteousness. It's not you turning over a new leaf. That's what Adam and Eve tried to do. Cover up with leaves. It won't cover. They wither. It's a perfect robe of righteousness, a covering that Christ worked out when he was on this earth. You understand that? That's as clear as I can make it. It's the obedience and the blood of Christ.

You see, if righteousness come by the law, Christ died in vain. If you be circumcised, Christ profits you nothing. How are sins forgiven? One way, the blood. The soul that sins must surely die, but there's no remission of sin without the shedding of blood. The life of the flesh is in the blood. The soul that sins will surely die. And God made Christ to be sin. He poured out his soul unto death. His blood was shed for the remission of the sins of God's people. Salvation is the blood of Jesus Christ applied to your sinful soul.

And it's not what you do with the blood. No, no, no, no, no. It's not in our hands. In the Old Testament, the high priest took the blood into the Holy of Holies and poured it on the mercy seat for God's chosen people. Not the whole world, God's chosen people.

He had their names on his breastplate and on his shoulders. That's election. And he went and poured that blood on that mercy seat, covering the broken law. Atoning, covering their sins, forgiving their sins, redeeming them, atoning them for God's people. It wasn't in the hands of the people, was it, John? It was in the hands of the high priest. And that's what Jesus Christ did. By his own precious blood, having obtained eternal redemption, went into the Holy of Holies.

Am I getting too complicated? But you've heard this thousands of times, Teresa. You're still smiling. Elect. This is a foreign language to the world. You know, isn't it? Like when our Lord spoke in that Syriac, you know, Talitha Kuma. I'm not speaking in tongues. Our Lord said that.

And it's a language that the world doesn't understand. And these silly Pentecostal preachers making it up. They're babbling idiots. They're making that up. But the gospel, the truth, is a language that they're not preaching and the world doesn't understand it.

But you do. God is giving you this language of what? Of salvation. Look at verse 2. It says grace unto you, not won't you, what are you going to do with this grace? And say that grace unto you. Grace is not an offer. It's an act. Act of God. It's not what you do with what God did. It's what God does with you. It's what Christ did for you. It's what the Holy Spirit does to you and in you and for you. Grace is unto you. And peace. We have peace with God. This book says God's angry with the wicked every day.

Doesn't that say that? Do you feel wicked? I do, at times. You ever have wicked thoughts, wicked actions, wicked words? Anybody? Everybody in here ought to raise their hand. Well, why isn't God angry with us if he's not? It's for Christ's sake. We know that, don't we, Todd? We know that. Absolute fact. Peace. Christ made peace. How? How? Somebody say it out loud. By the blood of his cross. That's what it said. He is our pain. And you hear these false preachers say he made his peace with God. Every dying mother's son That's what they all say. He made his peace with God.

That's not what this book says. And God's elect, no. They know. I'm getting, this is real plain. It's not up to us. If you offend me, it's not up to you to accept. It's up to me to forgive you. Right? It's completely up to God. He made peace, he made peace by the blood of his cross. And it'd be multiplied.

Verse three, oh, blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy, hmm, mercy means not getting what you deserve. You know that? Grace means getting what you don't deserve. Heavenly favor that you you shouldn't be getting this you shouldn't have this but he's going I'm gonna give to You don't deserve it and mercy is not getting what we do sir. Here's what you deserve Here's what the scripture said the soul that sent us shall surely die the wages of sin is death Like a wild dog, biting the hand, growling and barking, and that's mankind by nature. That was me. Was that you? Oh, yeah. Well, what happened? But God. Born again, quickened by the Word of God. God said, wild dog, no more.

Bow, sit, lie down, roll over. Speak! Ask. Call. Mercy. Granted. He won't do it. Let's see. Ropes and ties and branches. That's mine. He's going to repent. He's going to call. She's going to call. Brother Stephen, that's our hope in it. For us and those we have a burden for. It really is. So we call on him, Lord, rope and time. They ain't coming. Don't we? And he does. Elihu preached that message, said, God does this often. I got a room full of people right now he did this for. They didn't deserve it. Did we? Did we, Patrick? Didn't deserve it? I mean, why? Me? The whole world's saying when bad things happen, they say, why me? God's elect say when good things like this happen, why me?

It's not when bad things happen to good people. No, no, no, it's the other way around. It's when the grace and mercy and goodness of God happens to bad people. Oh, blessed be God. The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, abundant mercy. This wild ass's coat preaching to you, his prodigal son preaching to you, didn't want anything to do with this running. Mmm, God had mercy on me and is still having mercy on me. Abundant mercy. And His mercies are new every morning.

If they weren't, I'd run right now, as fast as I could, back to this world, and you'd see my name, you'd see my picture in the post office. Yes, you would. Yes, you would. But, God, Gotta get to at least verse five, don't we? Says in verse three that he's giving us this lively hope. This is real, it's lively. It's living, why? Because we've got a living Lord, the resurrection of Jesus Christ. We've got a living Lord. We don't have pictures of our Lord in Mary's arms. That's not in the Bible. She never had held his body. No, she did not. That's blasphemy. We don't have pictures of crosses and of Christ hanging on that cross.

He's not there anymore. He's sitting on a throne, reigning and ruling. He said, go, go, come, do, do, stop, stop, do this, do that. With a word of his power, no, yes, go, do. That's Jesus Christ. He's not outside your door. He is seated on the circle of the earth, reigning and ruling, expecting his enemies to come to his feet. He said, every knee will bow. That's the Jesus Christ description.

And if he's merciful to you and to me, he will say, bow sinner, believe sinner, come sinner, believe sinner. Yes, he will, and you will. And you'll be so glad that he made you do that. Oh, God doesn't make us to. He maketh me to lie down in the green pasture. If left to our will, we will not come. But God.

That's what this begotten again, born again. That means you're born in the flesh the first time. You gotta be born on this earth, flesh and blood. You gotta be born from above. Did you have anything to do with your first birth? Did you? Anybody in here say to your mother and father, I accept you as my personal father and mother. Did anybody help your mother out?

That she couldn't have you unless you cooperated. You didn't cooperate. Kara, did Sawyer cooperate? He's wanting to stay in there. Fighting. You gave birth to him. The father planted his seed. Does that child get any credit? No. Nor does man. It's God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit's the one that brings this birth to pass. Like the midwife, like the doctor. You're fighting and kicking. God says, you're coming. Born from above.

The Lord told Nicodemus, that Pharisee, that preacher, you know, didn't know God. He said, are you a master, a teacher, an Ishmael, and you don't know these things? Huh? He said, how, Nicodemus, I can't understand. How can a man, can we get in the womb a second time?

Nicodemus, God's got to do this, just like your parents gave birth to you. Look down at verse 23, it says of these people being born again, not of corruptible seed, that is a seed of man or incorruptible by the word of God. What I'm doing right now, preaching the word, preaching Christ. It's how God gives new birth.

And I haven't asked anybody to do anything of it. And I'm not going to. And no preacher does. No preacher stands up and begs people to do anything. He just declares who God is, who Christ is, what man is, what the truth is, and he stands back like Peter did at Pentecost and watches God work. This is the power of God. It's not the preacher's power. It's not his convincing power. It's not his charisma. It's not the choir singing a hundred verses. It's not this or not that.

It's the spirit of God, the gospel of God, the power of God, the will of God, the purpose of God. It's the glory of God. He's going to get all the glory for it. Not the soul winner, not the preacher, not the person who made the decision. It's God's glory.

And the world argues, but if I believe that, I would, if you believe that, you'd believe that. And God's got to make you believe it. Well, then why preach? Because God said so. Because God said like to Ezekiel in that graveyard, Ezekiel the prophet went out to that graveyard. I got to lift my voice up. Scripture says so. Ezekiel went out to that graveyard and all these dead bones. He said they were dead and very dry. They cannot live. They will not live. And the Lord said to Ezekiel, Ezekiel, can these bones live?

Not if I have anything to do with it. That you know. And so the Lord said, preach. Just preach, yes. And he did. Thus saith the Lord. And the spirit of God moved. You know where that old song, the hip bone connected to the thigh bone, the thigh bone connected, that's where that came from. And they all came together. And these dead, dry bones, people been dead a long time, those dead and trespassing sin a long time, lived. stood up on their feet, giving God all the glory. They were dead.

I did it. Can anything be plainer? Where am I? Look at verse four and I quit. Four and five. See, we've got an inheritance, God's people. Incorruptible. No slick lawyer can take it away. No slick preacher. No, no, no, no. Names written in the Lamb's Book of Life, sealed, undefiled. Fate is not a way reserved in heaven for you. For you who what? Who keep on keeping on. Is that what it said? There's a comma.

It says, for you who are kept by the power of God. You were saved by the power of God. You believe by the power of God. You repent by the power of God. You came, you keep coming by the power of God. You were made willing by the power of God, by the gospel of God, by Christ himself, the power of God. And you will keep coming, you will keep believing, you will keep calling, you will keep asking until it's, until Christ comes, until he's revealed by the power of God.

Aren't you glad salvation's by power? Yes, power. That reservation in heaven, I thought, that'll lead into the next message. It said in verse five, kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation. That's what we've been talking about. Salvation of your soul, ready to be revealed. It's almost over. I like to say it's all over but the shouting. And by Wednesday night, we're gonna talk about no more pain, no more sin, No more tears. No more death. No more sorrow. No more temptation. And that's my next mission. But this reservation in heaven, there's a reservation for that.

Someone recently went to one of these concerts and told me about it. And I went to see this gal. I wouldn't pay you $5 to, I wouldn't, she'd have to pay me once. Anyway, the standing room only, the crowd sold out, you know, waiting around the block to, if you got enough money, you can buy some really expensive seats and sit down front and see this person that probably wouldn't give you the time of day if they saw you on the street. And are waiting to sit and watch and hear this sinful, wretched, God-hating person who just happens to have some talent that God gave them. Well, God's people have a reservation. Have a seat reserved. And you didn't pay for it. And it's priceless. Are you ready for this? No, you're not.

We're gonna sit in glory. Christ said, I will that they be with me where I am, on the, where? On the front row. And behold his glory. I've been trying to talk about it. Can't, hadn't been there. You hadn't seen it either. Just wait, this interests you. a reservation, a seat reserved, and hear his voice, and see his face, and sing in that choir. Woo! That'll make you get happy. Come back Wednesday and we'll keep talking about this. What do you say? All right. Number 449.

Salvation & Glory

What does the Bible say about salvation?

How do we know election is true?

Why is grace important for Christians?

What does being born again mean?

Why is the resurrection of Jesus significant?

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Salvation & Glory

What does the Bible say about salvation?

How do we know election is true?

Why is grace important for Christians?

What does being born again mean?

Why is the resurrection of Jesus significant?

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