For our scripture reading this
morning, turn with me to 1 John chapter 5. I don't know if you've ever studied
this epistle, but it is a wonderful epistle for believers to look
at and just be motivated all around. It has so many wonderful
statements in it. 1 John 5, beginning with verse
1. Whosoever believeth that Jesus
is the Christ is born of God. And every one that loveth him
that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. By this we know that we love
the children of God, When we love God and keep His commandments,
how do I know when I love His children? Because I get all wimpy-eyed
and filled with passion, that's not what He says. I know if I love His children
by this. We know that we love the children
of God when we love God and keep His commandments. For this is
the love of God, that we keep His commandments, and His commandments
are not grievous. For whatsoever is born of God
overcometh the world, and this is the victory that overcometh
the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the
world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
This is He that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ,
not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit
that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. For there
are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word,
and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one. And there are
three that beareth witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water,
and the blood, and these three agree in one. If we receive the
witness of men, the witness of God is greater, for this is the
witness of God which he has testified of his Son. He that believeth
on the Son of God hath a witness in himself. He that believeth
not God hath made him a liar, because he believeth not the
record that God gave of his Son. And this is the record that God
hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
He that hath the Son hath life. He that hath not the Son of God
hath not life. These things have I written unto
you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that you may
know that you have eternal life, and that you may believe on the
name of the Son of God. And this is the confidence that
we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will,
he heareth us. And if we know that he heareth
us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that
we desired of him. If any man see his brother sin
a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give
him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto
death. I do not say that he shall pray
for it. All unrighteousness is sin, and
there is a sin not unto death. We know, and here's going to
be my text this morning, these three verses. We know that whosoever
is born of God sinneth not, but he that is begotten of God keepeth
himself, and that wicked one toucheth Him not. And we know
that we are a God in the whole world, lieth in wickedness. And we know that the Son of God
has come and has given us an understanding that we may know Him that is
true, that we are in Him that is true, even in His Son, Jesus
Christ. This is the true God and eternal
life. Little children, keep yourselves
from idols. And when a man preaches another
Jesus other than this, he's an idolater. And so are those that
follow him. It's another Jesus. I invite you this morning to
turn back with me to 1 John Chapter 5. I want to preach this morning
on three amazing declarations. Things I never heard when I was
in religion and I was in a long time. Never heard these things. And I cannot help but think back
when I was a young married man trying to find some semblance
of the life and peace my father seemed to have. He was the closest
thing I knew back then concerning what I heard about a Christian
life. And I was raised by him in his
house, heard him pray, saw his faithfulness to the church, his
willingness to help others, and so forth. He was a hard worker,
a good provider, paid his bills, faithful to the church, loved
his family, ready to help anyone who needed help. He was an honorable
man, and so said everybody I knew in that town, including my teachers.
He had a reputation there, being an honorable man. And one day,
the God of all grace and mercy began to work in my head and
in my heart, raising questions. A lot of times that's where it
starts. We see something, we read something, we hear something. Began to raise questions. I needed
answers. Reading without knowing very
much, yet realizing somehow that something was missing. something
I wasn't understanding, something I wasn't hearing. And then in
God's gracious providence, he allowed me to hear his gospel.
And then I realized that I didn't even know the question, let alone
the answers. I'd been asking the wrong questions. The gospel of God's sovereign
grace in Christ that salvation was an act of mercy and not reward. All my life they had me working
for a reward. They told me I was sending lumber
up and the Lord was building my house. I didn't realize He
was the house. It's the gospel of God's sovereign
grace. What's that mean? That means
He gives it to whom He wills. I'll be gracious to whom I will
be gracious. The good news is that He will
be gracious. Huh? I heard that salvation was an
act of mercy and not reward. That salvation is by grace and
not by works. I don't know how many times he
tells us that. Over and over and over. Not of works. Why? Lest any man should boast. He'd stand up in glory. Boast. Well, one thing I can say, how
many times have I heard people say that in the church? I've
not always done the right thing, but one thing I can say. No,
you're not even going to have one thing to say. He's going
to say it all. I heard that salvation was according
to the purpose of God and not the will of man. It's God's purpose
to save sinners. That's why he created this earth.
He's going to manifest his glory and the salvation of sinners
through the person and work of his Son. Brother Mahan, an old evangelist,
Ralph Barnard told him, he said, He screamed it out. Henry said
he just blew the back doors open with it. Purpose! God is the God of purpose. Everything he does, he does on
purpose. And not the will of man. That
righteousness is freely given to believers by the merit of
another. I've never heard such a thing. Freely given. All have sinned
and come short of the glory of God, being justified freely by
His grace through the redemption that's in Christ Jesus, whom
God set forth to be the propitiation for our sins through faith in
His blood. What's that talking about? Confidence
in His blood, that His blood put away my sin. His death satisfied
God's justice. Abraham believed God, and it
was counted to him for righteousness. And it was not written for his
sake alone concerning God's imputation of righteousness, but for us
also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised
up Jesus our Lord from the dead. And add to this his substitution. He was delivered for our offenses,
raised again for our justification. I heard that salvation was all
together in a person. It wasn't in a system. I was raised in a system. You
do this, you do that. I was raised with a plan. The plan of salvation. Salvation
is not a plan. Huh? Oh no, it's an ordained thing. God declared it. Salvation is
going to be in myself. It's in a person. It's not about coming to the
front. It's not about dedicating this and that and rededicating.
It's about Jesus Christ, who he is. Who is this man? Why did he come? What did he
do? Where is he now? It's all together in a person
and having accomplished our redemption he ascended back into glory receiving
all power over all flesh to give eternal life to as many as his
father gave to him. Who are they? I ain't got a clue.
But I do know this. Everyone that the father gave
to the son is going to come to the son. Why? Because they're
going to be drawn by the father who gave them to him. Read John
chapter 6 and see if that's not what we see. They began to murmur. He said,
don't murmur. No man can. That has to do with ability,
right? No man can come to me except my Father draw him. It's
written in the prophets, they shall all be taught of God. Every
man therefore that heareth. Heareth what? From God. He comes
to his son. Who's going to come? All those
given to Him by the Father. They're going to be drawn, they're
going to be taught, and they're going to come to Christ. All the means in place, servants
ordained, churches established, the Word of God complete. And
then He sends the Holy Ghost on top of that to make their
ministries effectual and victorious. There's nothing left to chance.
What a hearing! Nothing left to chance or circumstance. God's going to save his people.
He ain't going to try to save them. God's done all he can do
and it's all up to you. I never heard such a thing. Tommy
rock, that's what that is. Junk. Antichrist religion, that's
what it is. Trying to get folks down an aisle.
Trying to fill up the queue. Trying to keep their job. Oh, we're going to have to do
something with this man Jesus. Because if we let Him go, we're
going to lose our jobs. That's why they don't want you
preaching in their churches. Oh, I heard this too. I never
heard this before in my life. I was so despaired. I couldn't
do anything to save myself. Every time I'd read the Word
of God, I'd just be so convicted. Listen to this. It's God that
worketh in you. Huh? Let every man work out his
own salvation. Oh, I had that thrown at me a
hundred times, but they never read me the next verse. Let every man work out his own
salvation with fear and trembling. For it's the Lord that worketh
in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure. Boy, that
makes a difference, doesn't it? I heard a man talk about election.
Never heard the word. I didn't know who was running
for office. Election. What in the world is election?
Oh, God chose the people. All I'd ever heard was free will.
See how many times free will is written in the New Testament,
and see how many times election appears in the New Testament. I heard about an eternal covenant
of grace. I heard about predestination,
having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus
Christ Himself. Why? According to His good pleasure. According to the pleasure of
His will. I heard about God's purpose of grace in Christ, and
that it is the reason for creation, it is the reason for providence,
reason for preservation. Oh, what glorious revelations
and gracious treasures of knowledge God has given to this man. I
weep when I think about it. I'm overwhelmed. Why? Why is God saying this to me? Why is He revealing these things
to me? Here's a man on television. Here's
a man with an education. He's an orator. Why is He giving
these things to me? Because He will. That's why. Same reason I give things to
my kids, because I can. Well, I don't like it. I don't
care. I'm going to give what I want
to give to my children. That's what God says. And all of this He's done for
me and in me according to the riches of His grace and the good
pleasure of his will. And oh, wouldn't it be something
if somebody here today would be given eyes to see what he's
never saw before. I tell you, when the Lord opened
my heart and my eyes to see, and for me to understand, it's
like somebody turned the light on in the room. I've been groping
around in darkness, calling it light. All of a sudden, he turns the
light on. Oh, what a difference. How I long to see the face of
a sinner light up when God commands his light to shine in his heart.
Oh, man. I tell you, that old face is
all hung down. Boy, those eyes will sparkle
and you'll light up. I see. Can you imagine? Old blind boy of the mass sitting
on that Filthy, stinking blanket, all those times. Listening to
them talk about that aquamarine water and the clouds and that
blue sky and all this. He didn't have a clue what they
was talking about. Huh? I listened to men talk about
the love of God and the salvation of God and all these things and
they didn't have a clue what they was talking about. But boy,
when God opened his eyes, nobody could describe the sea and the
sky like a blind ball of mass. I guarantee you he could tell
you every detail of it. His eyes, his sight was precious
to him and all of a sudden when God opens your heart that's the
way it's going to be. All of a sudden these things
become precious. They're not just words. They're
not just somebody talking. They're real. I can see them. All this he did for me. and in
me. Oh, how long to see the face
of a sinner light up. What does he shine when he shines
his light in your heart? The light of the glory of God
in the face of Jesus Christ. And having this treasure in an
earthen vessel, it'll leave no doubt that the power and glory
of such a thing will be of God and not of me. If He allows you
to see, it's not going to be me, it's going to be Him. I have
a message this morning from God, and my message is a message of
grace and mercy, of love and kindness, of full acceptance
with God in Christ. Can you even imagine such a thing?
Go home and look in the mirror and say, God has accepted me
wholly. Can you even imagine dying? in this world. All life, everything's
gone. Now I'm dead. And I wake up,
and I'm entering into glory, and here's God with His arms
out saying, well done, my good and faithful servant. And I go,
oh, you can't even look yourself in the mirror and say it. And
yet that's exactly what it is when God opens that heart and
those eyes to hear His gospel and see His glory. Full acceptance
with God. God's not angry. God's not at
war with me. He's not threatening me. You know, I gave you that illustration
one time about the adoption agency. And he got
those little kids and took them out there and here's this great
big mansion. And they walk in and he tells the guy that's bringing
them in, he says, what are we going to call him? This woman,
Abba Father. That's what she's going to call
him. Can you even imagine thinking about God as your Father? Loving
you like you've never been loved. Providing for you like you've
never been provided for. Teaching you. Even in your rebellion
and even in... Oh, my soul. Having this treasure and earthen
vessel, it'll leave no doubt in your mind it wasn't me, it
was God. It was God. This is a message of grace and
mercy, love and kindness, full acceptance with God in Christ.
And my message will be taken here from 1 John 5. verses 18
through 20. And in these verses, the Holy
Ghost inspires the Apostle of God to make three amazing declarations. Only a believer can say these
things and really mean it from their heart. These are amazing,
absolutely amazing declarations. They're clearly made known to
chosen sinners, and what I pray He'll make known to us this very
day. First of all, in verse 18, He
said, and we know. It's not something we're tossing
around. Not something we're thinking
about. It's something we know. And we know that whosoever is
born of God sinneth not. But he that is begotten of God
keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. Now I'd like for you to turn
back to the beginning of the epistle of 1 John. Go back to
chapter 1. I want to show you something
before I get into this. 1 John chapter 1, let me start
up here in verse 6. If we say, now he just got through
telling them, God is light. And in him is no darkness at
all. If you know anything about God, it's light. It's light. Now watch this. If we say we
have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie. We lie and do not the truth.
And the darkness he's talking about is earthly reasoning, false
religion, fleshly principles, vain philosophy. I could go on
and on. People talk about man not being
totally depraved. He still has a spark in him.
If you blow on it long enough, you can make a fire. Man with a mind willing and capable
to seek and understand spiritual things, means and ways left to
the sinner to describe for himself, he walks in darkness. Well, he's
wrong on a couple of things. If he is, he's wrong on everything. If we say we have fellowship
with him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth.
But if we walk in the light, as he is the light, we have fellowship
one with another. As many times as I told you this,
could you tell me what fellowship is? Fellers in the same ship. That's fellowship. We have fellowship,
one with another. And the blood of Jesus Christ,
his Son, cleanseth us from all sin. If we say we had no sin,
we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess
our sins, he's faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and
cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned,
we make him a liar and his word is not in us. The only way it
can be said of the sinner who believes on the Lord Jesus Christ
that he sinneth not, it's for this man to be made aware of
his union with the Lord Jesus Christ. In Christ is no sin. Christ in you. Isn't that it? That's what's born. This flesh
ain't reborn yet. This flesh is going back to the
dust. This flesh is going back to the
ground. What's gone into glory? That
new man. That new man. What's he going
to be? Just like his son. Just like
him. I know that when we shall see
Him, we'll be just like Him. To be born of God is for Christ
to be formed in you. Paul said, I prevail in birth
again until Christ be formed in you, talking to the Galatians. Christ in you, the hope of glory. The new man, put on the new man. He didn't say be a new man or
reform the old man. What is that? Put on the new
man. Who's that? That's Christ. That's Christ. That new man, which is our hope
and which is born within, sinneth not. You and I are sinners. Paul cried
unto God, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from
the body of this death? And here's the only answer there
is, I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. There's no other
answer. My hope then is Christ that is
my life. Isn't that what Paul said? Christ
is my life. My life is hid with Christ in
God. It's secured there, preserved
there, kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation,
ready to be revealed in the last day. That wicked one cannot touch
the believer whose life is hid in Christ because Christ is out
of his reach. My hope is already victorious.
My hope is sitting at the right hand of God. Do what you will
to me. You can't touch my life. My life
is in glory. Souls keep themselves preserved
in faith, and that faith Keeps them being preserved by God Himself. We're kept by the power of God
through faith. Where we get faith, God gave
it to us. And he that began a good work in you will perform it under
the day of Jesus Christ. We're not of them that draw back
under perdition. We're of them who believe to
the saving of the soul. Whosoever is of God sinneth not. All right? Here's the second
amazing declaration. That's an amazing declaration
if you know anything about sin. We know that we're born of God. Huh? What a thing. Listen to this, 1 John 5, 19.
We know that we are of God and the whole world lieth in wickedness. Takes a little while to get hold
of that, don't it? Huh? Because I know some people
that are pretty good. No, you don't. There's none good
but God. But they seem pretty good, don't
they? As far as men go. Well, first of all, how do we
know that we are of God? Because we come to Christ. There's no other reason. We come
to Christ. We didn't come to a plan or a
decision or to the front. We came to a person, the Lord
Jesus Christ. And we know that we are of God
because we heard the gospel, have been enabled to distinguish
the difference between it and all the other gospels, and come to rest in Christ. And
we know we are of God because we love the brethren. Why do
we love them? Because we're begotten by the
same God. Listen to this. John said no
man has seen God at any time. His presence has been made known
by a burning bush that wasn't consumed. Moses saw that. He saw the glory of Christ being
took down into the cleft of a rock, but he never saw God. God manifested His presence by
a fiery pillar and a cloud during the day. by darkness that could
even be felt by a Savior, whose name is Emmanuel, God with us. But no man's ever seen God. He's
invisible. And who's Christ? He is the image,
not issue, of the invisible God. Is he not? Only thing you know
about God is what you know in Christ. He's God come into the
flesh. Now watch this. If we love one
another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in
us. Whoa! You need to chew on that for
a little bit. Only a perfect love would give
His only begotten Son to save a wretch like me. He goes on
to say, herein is love, not that we love God, but that He loved
us and sent His Son to be a propitiation for our sins. There is only one
true love, and it is a perfect and holy love, and a love for
which we can never be separated. When he talks about that love
being perfected in you, he's talking about your sense of what
it is. It's a perfect love. God's love
is a perfect love. You can't be separated from it.
He makes no mistakes about it. He don't love somebody that he
shouldn't have and then get rid of them sometime along the way. And call it backsliding. only a perfect love would give
his only begotten son to save a sinner. This perfect and holy love, a
love from which you can't be separated, he said, is in Christ
Jesus. I just cannot imagine a bumper
sticker on the ark, and these people are The water is just
bubbling up out of the ground and coming down to where you
couldn't even see your hand in front of you, and it's just a
deluge. And the ark lifts up off the
ground, and here's these grounding centers all outside, desperate,
banging on the ark. And here's a little bumper sticker
that says, smile, God loves you. And I've told our folks a hundred
times, I said, these people who say God loves everybody, I said,
go home and tell your wife, I love you just like all the other women.
Try that on. You won't get very far. And you
won't get very far with the Lord with that saying either. His love is particular. And those
He loves, He allows them to know it. He said, I know we are of God. in the whole world, life and
wickedness. The problem here is that our
thinking is so foreign to God when it comes to sin. You say,
well, I just don't know what sin is. Go look in the mirror.
Huh? That's sin. That's sin. You want to see what sin is?
Sin is you. That's sin. And that's why we
don't know anything about it. It's been normal to us. It's
all we've ever known. We were born in it. We went astray
as soon as we'd be born speaking lies, crying for no reason. It's so foreign when you start
talking about sin. I don't hate God. No, not in
your mind and I as you don't. But what does God say about it?
The carnal mind is enmity, hostility toward God, not subject to the
law of God, neither they can be. Our thinking is so foreign to
God, we call evil good and good evil. That's what God said through
his prophet Isaiah. We put darkness for light and
light for darkness, and we call bitter sweet and sweet bitter. I've been told many times how
evil my gospel is and me for preaching it. The whole world is ignorant of
God. They don't understand. Christ
said to the Pharisees, you neither know me nor my Father. He said,
I'm saying unto you that you saw me. The promised Messiah,
God Almighty, come into human flesh. I'm standing here talking
to you and you're looking at me and you don't know who I am. But you're on the council. Huh? You're a Pharisee, you graduated,
you got your degree and it's hanging on the wall. And not
only that, you've been elected to the high council. Huh? Boy, I'm somebody now. No, you
don't even know who Christ is. You don't know anything. You're
a father of the devil. That's what he told them. Our
mind is so foreign to God. Sin entered, he said, by a federal
head. The beginning of all mankind.
Sin entered and death passed. Who did it pass on? All men. All men. spiritual death, a carnal
mind. We have before proved, Paul said,
that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin. What's that mean?
Submersed. Huh? Nothing sticking out. Well,
got one finger. No. No, you're under sin, all
of you. Your mouth, your ears, your thinking,
your brain, your heart, it's all under sin. Submersed. And it's a prison in which we're
born and live out our days. Oh, but what about man's free
will? You're free to go anywhere you
want in the prison. Anywhere you want. Want that
book over in the corner? Go get it. But you ain't coming out
of that prison unless God intervenes. That which is flesh is flesh.
That which is spirit is spirit. And you were by nature, talking
about that death, children of wrath even as others, but God,
who rich in mercy for that great love wherewith he loved us, even
when we were dead in trespasses and sin, hath quickened us together
with Christ. What's that mean? Made us one
with him. And when he died, we died. And when he rose, we rose.
And when he ascended up into glory, we went up with him. And
when he sat down, I can just picture the father's arms around
him. This is my well-beloved son. We sat with him. And we're
seated up there right now. That's what it means to be quick
and together. We made one. What are you saying, preacher? I'm
saying that the whole world lies in wickedness. That's what I'm
saying. And there's no way out except the sovereign Lord of
glory intervenes. The good news is that he's purposed
to intervene. Who for? I don't know. He calls
them his elect. He calls them God's Israel. He
calls them the true Jews. He calls them his people. And he calls them his sons and
his daughters. And what a personal experience.
Paul said, I know that in me dwelleth no good thing. In me. I'm a member of the world. Am
I not? But here in verse 19, John's
talking about what believers know, and what believers know
is revealed by the Holy Spirit through the preaching of the
Gospel. And what the Spirit reveals is effectual. He writes these
things, he said, in our minds and upon our hearts. And his
teaching, when it comes in power, is irresistible. And they receive
these things, they know these things. They know them to be
so. Whosoever is born of God sinneth
not, he sinneth not. And that which is born in him
resides in glory, and the wicked one can't touch him. He can't
touch it. And he said, I know we are of
God and the whole world of life and wickedness. And these two
things have never entered into the thinking of natural men,
and never will. A man without sin, think about
this, no thought of it. If you're without sin, because
the thought of foolishness is sin. And when he says, he sinneth
not, what's he saying? He's saying there's no thought
of sin. I can't imagine, can you? What a glorious thing, a
man without sin, no thought of it, no motive for it, no will
to do it, no drawing toward it. He that's born of God sinneth
not. He that hath this hope in him, John said, purifieth himself,
even as he's pure. How does he do that? He purifies
the way he thinks. He purifies the way he believes.
How? He purifies himself in his doctrine
and in his hope. There is no other. That's progressive
sanctification. Throw it out. Get rid of it.
Junk. Paul took his and threw it on
the dunghill. That's where it needs to be. Knowing God and knowing the the
true condition of this world. And then here's the third thing,
and I'll hurry. John said that every believer knows this. We
know that the Son of God has come, and in that coming hath
given us an understanding that we may know Him that's true.
That's how we know. We know who God is through Jesus
Christ, and God sent Him just for that reason. Now watch this,
this is even more amazing. This just keeps going up. And
we are in Him that's true. Oh, what a revelation. Could
it be? Could it be that this vile sin,
that God Almighty put Him in His Son? Could it be? There's no hope if He didn't.
How does a man get in Christ? Of God are ye in Christ Jesus,
who of God is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification,
and redemption. God put me in there. God fused
me into one with his Son. How'd he do it? I don't know.
It's of God. Somebody was arguing the other
day, oh, it's been quite a while ago, it got to be this great
big issue about Christ being made sin. How's He made sin? I don't know. How am I made righteous? I don't know. God did it. It's
the work of God. You can't explain the work of
God. And you don't need a God you can explain. He's God. That's why we worship Him. That's
why we bow to Him. That's why we hope in Him. He's
God. infinitely above us. And that's what I told that man.
He said, I don't understand what you're saying about him being
made sin. And I said, well, if he wasn't made sin for me, then
I cannot be made the righteousness of God in him. Otherwise, the
whole character of God falls. He can't condemn the righteous
And he can't justify the wicked. But in Christ, in Christ, who
was made sin for me, that I might be made the righteousness of
God in him. Well, I don't like it. Well,
take it up with God. He's the one who said it. Oh, Son of God, it comes. and given us an understanding
that we may know Him as true, that we are in Him as true. And
the reason we know these things is because God has purposed for
us to know them, and therefore sent His Son. He chose us in
eternal election, ordained the means, arranged His providence,
sent His servants. We are plainly instructed. And
Christ said, My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they
follow Me. And I give unto them eternal life. What in the world
is eternal life? Huh? That when we dance on our toes
and look like some kind of little fairy woman flying through the
air, waving. What is eternal life? It's to
know God. And we know that the Son of God
has come and given us an understanding that we may know Him. That's
eternal life. And Christ said just before He
died in His high priestly prayer, He said, Father, glorify me. Glorify Yourself in my death
on this cross. I want You to glorify Yourself.
That I might give eternal life to as many as Thou hast given
me. And this is eternal life. that they might know Thee, the
only true God, and Jesus Christ whom He sent. That's how we're
going to know God. We know God by what He's done
for sinners. That's how He's purposed to do
it. There's no other way that God could manifest His love. Is there? He said some might die for a
pretty good guy, you know, for a righteous man, and some might
even die for a pretty good man. But God commended His love for
us while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Well, you
want to know something about the love of God? Look to the
cross and get some understanding about who He's dying for, who
He's suffering for. Why the Lord of glory who created
this world with a word lay on that Christ without an answer,
without any resistance whatsoever. He was given over to the will
of the people. Who made that happen? The people?
God did. God did. I'd like for him to go to the
gym for our closing hymn. So stand, please. Let's turn
to hymn number 393. Hymn number 393 for our closing
hymn, and we'll sing, Take My Life and Let It Be. Take my life and let it be, number
393. Take my life and let it be, consecrated Lord to Thee.