As far as Scripture reading this
morning, I read this to you last week in the book of Galatians.
Galatians chapter 6. I want to read it again and I'm
going to move on to another couple of verses. And we'll preach from
verses 15 and 16 this morning. But let's read the chapter again. Galatians chapter 6. Brethren, if a man be overtaken
in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit
of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens,
and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if a man think himself to
be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every man prove his own
work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and
not in another. For every man shall bear his
own burden, that is, the burden of knowing, whether he is called
of God. Nobody else can tell you that
but God. Every man shall bear his own
burden. Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto
him that teacheth in all good things. This man's given his
life to the ministry, given his life to the study. Support him. That's what it's telling you
here. Communicate to him. Be not deceived. God is not mocked. For whatsoever a man soweth,
that shall he also reap, for he that soweth to his flesh.
That is, if you take your income, you take the things that God
has given you in this world, and you spend those things on
things that give you pleasure in the flesh, then your flesh
is going to reap the benefits of it. If I buy me a big lazy
boy chair and crank back, I'm going to enjoy the benefits of
it. But if I support this man that's teaching me, this man
called of God, and help to enable him to teach me, then I'm going
to benefit spiritually. You see what he's saying here?
Now this is true also in another respect. Talking about your works,
you're going to reap what you sow. You're going to reap what you
sow if you're not in Christ. If you're not in Christ. God's not
mocked. Whatsoever man soweth, that shall
he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh,
shall the flesh reap corruption. He that soweth to the Spirit,
shall the Spirit reap life everlasting. Let us not be weary in well-doing,
for in due season we shall reap if we think not. As we therefore
have opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto
them who are of the household of faith. You see how large a
letter I've written unto you with my own hand. As many as
desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they constrain you
to be circumcised, only lest they should suffer persecution
for the cross of Christ. For neither they themselves who
are circumcised keep the law, but desire to have you circumcised
that they may glory in your flesh. But God forbid that I should
glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the
world is crucified unto me and I unto the world. That was last
week's message, a double crucifixion. Now here's my text for this week.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision,
but a new creature. And as many as walk according
to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel
of God. From henceforth let no man trouble
me, for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus Christ. I cannot imagine these apostles
and what they must have looked like with the scars from their
persecution. I just can't. His eyes were something. He would, in his own language,
he would turn men stoned just by looking at him, the way he
looked. And being whipped and beaten
with rods and These cat-or-ninetails, they had glass and metal on them
and they just ripped the flesh. I just can't imagine what they
must have looked like. But he says here, don't trouble
me. Don't come to me talking about
I'm not a true disciple of Christ. Don't question me anymore. I
bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus. And he said,
brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. Galatians chapter 6. I want to talk to you this morning
on a subject that most of us have thought about at some time
in our lives and should be even now asking questions and seeking
to know the answer. Who is the Israel of God? Israelites, nationally, are in
the news. Things are going on in the Middle
East. They have for centuries gone
on in the Middle East. And the question arises in men's
minds, Who is the Israel of God? The Holy Scriptures have much
to say about Israel. God calls them His people. His people. You mean some are
not His people? That's exactly what He's saying.
Israel is called His people. His chosen. mine elect, he called
them. But when his anger was stirred,
he slayed thousands within that nation. Though promises were made to
their seed, yet their seed were manifest as evildoers and enemies
of God. And when the promised Messiah
appeared, they would not receive him, but rather crucified the
Lord of Glory. So now the question comes, who
then is true Israel? Turn with me first of all to
Romans chapter 9. Here in Galatians chapter 6,
he said, Peace be upon the Israel of God. And that's my subject
this morning. Who is the Israel of God? And
there's six marks of the Israel of God. In Romans chapter 9,
the apostle Paul is bearing his heart before God concerning his
people, whom he calls in verse 4, Israelites. Paul was an Israelite
of the tribe of Benjamin. And he says this of Israelites,
to whom pertaineth the adoption. God talked about an adoption.
Adopting them. These are my sons. These are
my people. Their heirs. To whom pertaineth
the adoption. Uncircumcised heathens. Adopted
of God. Abraham called out of idolatry
and ignorance. And not only is the adoption,
not only does that pertain to Israel, but also the glory. God manifested his glory to who? Israel. Nobody else. Nobody else. Israel. Who saw
the Shekinah glory of God in the tabernacle? Israel. Didn't
it? God followed them in a cloud
while Pharaoh chased them. Who saw it? They did. It was
darkness and a storm to Egypt, but it was light to them. The glory pertained to Israel. They saw the glory of God. Here's
this massive, over a million people, and they're going through
this wilderness, and it's dry. There's no well out there. There's
no water out there. And the little bit of water they
found was so bitter you couldn't drink it. So God took a big rock,
a huge rock, Moses smote it with his rod, and water came out of
the rock. And the Bible said the rock followed
him. It followed him. Everywhere they went, here's
this rock. It just appeared. They camped, here's a rock. Water's
flowing out of it. Millions of cattle and sheep
and whatever they had, all this. Here's water. Need a drink? There's water coming out. And
he said, and that rock was Christ. To Israel pertained the glory,
all the glory, all the glory of God that was manifested to
and upon Israel. He said, stand still, Israel,
and see the salvation of the Lord. And they watched a sea
part in the middle. How wide did it part? Wide enough
for a million people to go across. Did it wade through the mud?
No. No, the wind blew and dried the mud up. They went across
on dry ground in the middle of the sea, water towering up on
both sides of them. Then they got to the other side
and they turned around and looked and here comes Pharaoh and all
his army through the sea and he causes the waters to come
in and destroy them all. The glory. You see what I'm saying? The glory. And then he says this. The covenants. All the covenants. God made a covenant with Abraham,
didn't he? And Isaac. And Jacob. God made covenants. He's a covenant
God. The blood of Christ shed on the
cross is called the blood of the everlasting covenant. God
made a covenant. David, the man after God's own
heart, his last words in this world was, although it be not
so with my house, yet hath he made with me an everlasting covenant,
ordered in all things and sure, this is all my salvation, all
my desire. The covenants pertain to Israel
and the giving of the law. Not just ten commandments, but
the ceremonial law, the priesthood that typified Christ. and the
salvation that he would accomplish. And then he goes on and he says,
here's something else about Israel, the service of God. Nobody else
had a priesthood that was servant to God except Israel. Israel
had a high priest, entered into that tabernacle one time a year,
went beyond that veil with the blood and made atonement for
the soul. Israel. All the service, the common priesthood,
a whole tribe of men set aside for nothing but doing
service for God. A holy priesthood, he calls it.
And then all the promises, great and precious promises of life
and peace and prosperity, all given to Israel. And I'll tell you something else
about Israel. This is where all the spiritual fathers came from.
Israel. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses,
Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, and on and on it goes. And then
think about this. We're talking about Israel. Here's
Paul and he's praying for his kinsmen who are Israelites. What's
he praying? Praying that God would save them. He said, but they're Israelites. God, all of the promises, the
covenants, everything, the service of God, the glory of God, all
these things, Israel. Of whom is the Father's, and
of whom, concerning the flesh, Christ came. He was a gift, wasn't
he? He was a gift. Israelites, Jews,
sons of Jacob. But when Christ came, they rejected
the Son of God and crucified, Peter said, the Lord of glory. Now, stay here with me. Romans
9, verse 6. What doesn't that make the Word
of God of known effect? Listen to what he says. Not as
though the word of God hath taken none effect, for they are not
all Israel the nation, which are of Israel the man. God called Jacob Israel a prince,
didn't he? Well, they're not all Israel
the nation, the people that God's talking about, who are of Israel
the man. Neither because they are the
seed of Abraham are they all children, but in Isaac shall
thy seed be called." Are you listening? That is, they which
are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of
God. I read that to one man, he said,
yeah, but just in case, I'm going to be friendly to These are not... Can words get any clearer than
that? These are not the children of
God, but the children of the promise as Isaac was. That's counted for the seed. Isaac was a son of promise. At
this time God said, I'll come and Sarah shall have a son. And
then when Isaac's wife, Rebekah, conceived, God said, she's got
twins in her womb. One of them is going to be called
Esau, and the other is going to be called Jacob. Jacob by
love, Esau by hate. He said that to her before they
was ever born, and before either one of them ever did any good
or evil. Why would God say such a thing? Why would He say such
a thing? that the purpose of God according
to election might stand not of works, but of him that cometh. That's why he said it. And he
said, therefore was it written, Jacob have I loved Esau, have
I hated? Now there's lots of reasons why
he hated Esau. Every reason in the world. But
find me a reason why he loved Jacob. Jacob was a heel-grasper. It wasn't. He was always trying
to work things out. But God loved him. God loved
him. The Israel of God is a people
chosen of God out of every nation, tribe, tongue, and people under
heaven. Spiritual Israel. The election
of God in Christ has made both Jew and Gentile believers one. He said, in him, that middle
wall of partition is taken down. In the Old Testament, there was
a division between Gentile and Jew. Jews were ordered to slay
the Gentile, not to marry them, not to be friendly to them. But the election of God in Christ
has made both Jew and Gentile believers one, and that middle
wall of petition broken down. Christ reconciled both unto God
in one body on the cross. And so peace is preached to both
them that were afar off and them that were nigh. To those who
had the scriptures and the prophets and all of these advantages that
they had. The gospel came, was preached
to them, but it was also preached to the Gentiles. Look over here at Romans chapter
2. Turn back a few pages there. Romans chapter 2. Look down at verse 28. For he is not a Jew which is
one outwardly, neither is that circumcision
which is outward in the flesh. He is a Jew which is one inwardly,
and circumcision is that of the heart and the spirit, and not
in the letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God. In Christ, Galatians 3.28, look
at that with me. Our text is in chapter 6, but
turn back to Galatians chapter 3, look at this with me. We're talking about being in
Christ. That's what we're talking about.
Who's the true Israel of God? In Christ there is neither Jew,
chapter 3, verse 28, there is neither Jew nor Greek, there
is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female, for
you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you be Christ, Then are
you Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise. And look back at verse 16 of
Galatians 3. Now to Abraham and his seed were
the promises made. He saith not unto seeds as of
many, but unto thy seed which is Christ. There is a true Israel of God
and all the blessings purposed of God and purchased by Christ
has been given to them and is being given to them even now
and shall be to the end of time manifest for them and in them. They're blessed forever. When
did he do that? Before the foundation of the
world. Read it in Ephesians chapter 1. He has blessed us with all
spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. All of them. Everything that He talks about
in the Scriptures as a blessing, He's blessed us with those things
and those things are secured in Christ. But there's a problem. How do
poor ignorant sinners know the true Israel of God? My nephew
asked me that. He wasn't a churchgoer. His parents
didn't carry him off to any kind of a church growing up. And he
said, I've heard some things that your dad said. He loved
my dad. He was a grandfather to his grandkids
in the truest sense. And they all loved him. But he
didn't know God either. But that's the only light they
had, and then that was just one time of year thing when they
come to visit. So how does a man who don't, he don't know these
things, I don't know what you're talking about, a lot of you here
may be hearing me this morning saying, well I haven't even thought
about that before, where'd that come from? Oh, that's where he
was at. And he said, how am I supposed
to know? This guy says I'm of God. This
one says I'm of God. This one says I'm of God. And
they're all preaching God. They're all preaching Christ.
All talking about the cross and salvation and blood and all this. How am I supposed to know who? That's a good question. And I
told him this, you never will but for the grace of God. You
never will. You never will. How do poor ignorant sinners
know the true Israel of God? How can I know a true body of
believers from a deceived body of professors? There's many ways
to identify them, but for time's sake, let me give you six marks
of the true Israel of God. And I encourage you to jot these
things down, examine what I'm saying in the Word of God. Here's
the first mark of spiritual Israel. I come into a building, saw something
on the sign, somebody recommended them, whatever. I go in, I say,
damn man, stand up for me. What am I looking for? How am
I going to know if this is the true Israel of God or just a
church full of false professors? Here's the first mark. They all
believe in and on Jesus Christ. All of them. To believe in Christ
is to understand the prophecies concerning His office as the
Christ. You can't believe in something
unless you know what the something is. And he talks about that. Where is it? Romans chapter 10.
Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord will be saved.
But how are you going to call on Him in whom you have not believed? How are you going to believe
in Him of whom you have not heard? And how are you going to hear
that preacher? To believe in Christ is to understand
the prophecies concerning that office as the Christ. Over in
John chapter 4 and verse 1, the apostle writes, Hereby know ye
the Spirit of God. Every spirit that confesseth
that Jesus Christ is come into the flesh is of God. God's Christ
must condescend from glory and become a man. He has to dwell
in this world as a man. The whole Bible teaches that. Galatians 4.4 says, But when
the fullness of the time was come, What time? The time prophesied of His coming.
Who's coming? The Christ. The time purposed
of God for His Son to come into the world. When the fullness
of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman,
made under the law. Why? To redeem them that were
under the law. How can another redeem you by
himself going under the law unless he's a representative man? Being in union with his people,
he assumed flesh and blood. He took not on him the seed of
angels, the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham. He's
coming here to redeem. How'd he do it? As a representative
man. Why did he do it? That we might
receive the adoption of sons. A young lady foretold by God as
a virgin, conceived and brought forth a son. Called in Genesis,
the woman seed, the promise seed, the root and offspring of David,
the Messiah, the Redeemer of Israel, and all the promises
of God are promised in Him. And the Israel of God believes
that Jesus of Nazareth is the promised Messiah, the Christ
of God. As the serpent, he said, was
raised up in the wilderness, even so the Son of Man must be
lifted up that whosoever believeth, now listen, in Him. In Him. Understands why He's
being raised up. Whosoever believeth in him should
not perish, but have everlasting life. Jesus said to Martha, she
said, I know he's going to live in resurrection. He said, Martha,
I am the resurrection. I'm the resurrection and the
life. He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall
he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in me, will never
die. Believest thou this? The Israel of God believes in
the Christ of God, and they also believe on Christ. Here's these men. They were impressed
with him. They heard him speak. They saw
his miracles. They were very impressed with
him. And they said, what shall we do that we might work the
works of God? They wanted to raise the dead. They wanted to change the elements
from water to wine. They wanted to take a few fishes
and loaves and feed five. What can we do to work the works
of God? Jesus answered them. This is
in John 6 verse 22. Jesus answered and said unto
them, This is the work of God, that you believe on Him. whom he hath sent." To believe
on Christ is to rest your soul upon Him. I believe in Him. I understand
what He did, who He is, why He came. I believe in Him. I understand
what that office that Christ is talking about. But it ain't
going to do me any good unless I believe on Him. To believe on Christ is to rest
your soul upon Him, to commit all that you have to Him. He
alone is sufficient to save your soul. To believe on Christ is
to enter into His rest. Listen to this. Come unto me,
all you that labor and heavy laden, and I'll give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly
in heart, and you shall find rest unto your soul. That's what
it means to believe on Christ. Believe on Him. Rest in Him. And the Israel of God believe
both in and on the Lord Jesus Christ. Second, the Israel of
God are all teachable. I don't get it, Preacher. They're
all teachable. I can teach you math. Gary can
teach you woodworking. timber. Some of you other... Walter teaches about making a
tire. He'll tell you things you never heard of. Try to teach something spiritual
to an unbeliever. It's an impossibility, isn't
it? Absolutely, I don't care. You can stack scripture up on
them like cold wood. Just put it all around them and
bury them in scripture. It don't make it one big deal.
Well, I think What on earth has that got to do with anything?
Your thoughts are not my thoughts, God said. You can't teach them anything.
God has to make them teachable. Go into any church, true church,
I'm talking about the true Israel of God, a group of men and women
called of God, taught of God. Go into that church and I'll
show you a group of people teachable. You can teach them. They shall
all be taught of God. Have God teach through His appointed
means. Paul said, I know your election
of God over here. 1 Thessalonians 1. I know your
election of God. What does he say? My gospel. He's just a man like
me. Preach the gospel. My gospel
came not unto you in word only. It came unto you in the Holy
Ghost and it came unto you in power. Now listen, and you become
followers of us and the Lord. In other words, you accounted
us God's servants and you listened to us. Teachable. Teachable. In Colossians 1, 12, Paul gives
thanks to the Father. who hath made us meet, that is,
given us the ability to be partakers of the inheritance of saints
in light, that is, enlightened saints. He made us teachable. Oh, he preached and the gospel
hit its mark, lodged in the heart, answered the questions, gave
them strong assurance. and they become followers. And they received it in much
affliction. That's another thing to talk about. Everything I talk
to you is contrary to everything that everybody's saying around
you. Go out and talk to them. Listen to what I've got to say.
Take any point of my message. Go hear any church up and down
the land. Go in there and talk to the pastor
and make that statement and ask him what he thinks about it. They'll attempt to intimidate,
gang say, smear the message, and yet these people in spite
of it were still teachable. They're still teachable. He that
hath ears to hear, let him hear. Let him hear. The Israel of God
are teachable. You cannot teach an unconverted
man anything. Because there's none that understandeth
and none that seeketh after God. And then the third mark of the
Israel of God, a body of true believers, is that they assemble
together to be edified by the means ordained of God. They're
going there to learn. They're not going there to brag
on their works. They're not going there for a
job opportunity. They're not going there to improve
their social skills. They're going there to be taught
of God. And most every so-called church
assembles together, meets on Sundays and Wednesdays, and most
every professing body of people have a speaker, a song leader. They pray to one they call God
and Father. So how do we differ from them? Our business is edification.
Edification. I'm not so concerned with how
you feel when you leave here, I'm concerned with what you know.
What did you hear? If I could just get one scripture
to lodge in that head, just one. Oh, my soul. Our business is
edification. And Paul said, if I pray, I'm
going to pray with the Spirit and I'll pray with the understanding.
I'll sing with the Spirit, I'll sing with the understanding.
And in the church, he said, I'd rather speak five words with
my understanding than I might teach others than 10,000 words
in an unknown tongue. That never becomes as clear to
me as it did when I was down in Yucatan, out in the jungle,
out in Pueblo, two interpreters. I was speaking in an unknown
tongue, English. And one interpreted in Spanish,
and one interpreted into mine, and everybody in there heard
what I had to say. He said, God's not the author
of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. And then the fourth mark of a
true Israel of God is that they all walk after the same rule. In Christ Jesus, Galatians 6,
15, and 16, neither circumcision availeth anything or uncircumcision,
but a new creature And as many as walk according to this rule.
What rule? The rule of regeneration. The
rule of revelation. The rule of God's power being
manifested in the heart. This is the way, the truth, the
life. As many as walk according to
this rule, peace be upon them and upon the Israel of God. And
the rule is the rule of Christ crucified, salvation by grace,
substitution, representation. The rule is gratitude and love. The love of God constraineth
us, Paul said. Salvation leaves men indebted
to God. They're not looking for a reward.
They're in His debt. Salvation leaves them secure
in Christ. Secure in Him. It leaves them
inspired and motivated. If God'll save me, is there another
out there He won't save? Huh? If He scraped the bottom
of the barrel and saved my soul, He'll save anybody. That's what
Paul said. He saved me first. I was at the
bottom of the barrel. I was a Pharisee of the Pharisees.
I persecuted the church. I killed people over my religion. And God saved me first as an
example to you. Telling you that if he'll save
me, who won't he save? Where's the sinner he won't save?
I read a wonderful article, Pastor's dead now, Brother Maurice Montgomery,
and he wrote an article and David published it in his bulletin.
And I was reading it this morning for the second time, The Making
of a Sinner. That was the article. Only God
can make a man a sinner. All His sheep obey Him. Beware
of any person who professes Christ and walks contrary to His rule.
He said, to whom you yield yourself servants to obey, His servants
you are to whom you obey, whether of sin under death or obedience under righteousness.
Believers are not kept in line by threats of punishment. They're kept in line by love
and gratitude. And then fifthly, a true mark
of the Israel of God is their perseverance. What do I mean by that? I mean
they're being saved. That's what I'm saying. They're
all reaching out to apprehend that for which they were apprehended. Reaching forth under those things
which are before them. Striving for the power to know
something of the power of a resurrected life. God's people are not satisfied
with themselves. Beware of any man who is full
of himself. Believers know and understand
what sin is and what it's done and what it is doing in them.
Paul Christ, he was an old man. This wasn't a novice. This was
an old man, experienced, been through persecution, survived
all these things, and now he's talking to them about this very
issue of that sin that's in him. And after he says all these things,
he cries in Romans 7, O wretched man that I am. Not that I used to be. That I
am. Who shall deliver me from the
body of this death? And here's the summation of that. Romans 7 verse 25, with the mind,
that is the mind of Christ, I myself serve the law of God. I see that law honored, fulfilled
to its highest end. With the mind, I serve the law. I see justice satisfied in Christ. He paid the bill, fully paid
it, satisfied God. With the mind of Christ, I serve
the law. But with the flesh, this old
man, I serve the law of sin. That's all it can do, is sin.
It sins in holy things. There was an offering under the
law of God called sins of the holy things. A sin in your prayers
this morning. Sin in my prayers. Sin in my
preaching. Sin. Sin is everywhere. Sin. Sin.
Sin. With a pledge, I serve the law. But not with a mind. Not with
a mind. Not with a mind of Christ. Oh,
with a mind of Christ, I serve the law. I'm not afraid of that
law. That law is exalted and honored.
That law actually is a part of my assurance. That law says all
my debt's been paid. Who shall lay anything to the
charge of God's elect? God justified. How did He justify? In Christ. Really by His grace. I read one time that a saint
is a man with a corpse chained to him and he has to drag that
dead body with him every step he lives. Paul longed for deliverance from
that body of death and then the sixth mark of the true Israel
of God is that they love one another. In John 4, verse 8, the Holy
Ghost tells us, He that loveth not knoweth not God. Write it down. Write it down. How does God reveal or manifest
His love for us and to us? How do we know that? Let me just
briefly, I'm just going to read them to you. I'm going to give
you five things and then I'll close. God manifested his love
for us in his divine purpose for us and for our sin. He made full provision for us. He chose us in Christ before
the foundation of the world. You read it in Ephesians chapter
1. according as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation
of the world, that we should be holy, without blame, before
Him in love. That's not talking about your
love for Him. It's talking about His love for you. You got little
grandkids. You look at those little grandkids
and you love them. And boy, they'll do some things
sometime just or fight, you just want to jerk that belt off and
wire them out. Here they are. But you don't
quit loving them. He chose us in Christ before
the foundation of the world and secured his love for us in Christ. And that's what he says in Romans
8. What's going to change that? Anything? Things past, things
present, things to come. What's going to change it? Persecution? What's going to change it? Nothing
shall be able to separate you from the love of God which is
in Christ Jesus the Lord. God manifested His love for us
in His divine purpose to save us from our sins. God's purpose is not something
we see in its beginning, but rather something He reveals to
us in time. I had feelings for my wife before
she ever knew it. I had feelings for her mom before
she ever knew it. God has feelings for his people
long before they ever know it. And he manifested those. Christ
died over 2,000 years ago. And he said herein he commended
his love for us. Christ died for us when we did
sinners. Way back down on that cross.
But we didn't know anything about it. But in time he reveals it
to you, don't he? He talks about that little baby
cast out over there in Ezekiel. He's talking about his church.
Talking about his lit. She's cast out. He said, I saw
you. Huh? He didn't tell her that
when she was laying out there with her navel not cut. She was
a babbling baby. She didn't know anything. But in time. Now she's all dressed
up and got the jewels. Perfect through His comeliness.
He said, when I saw you, I saw you in your blood. Oh, you filthy. You filthy. You laying out there
unsalted, unswallowed. You just laying out there in
the sand. Wasn't nothing pretty about it. Rejected, cast out. Nobody wanted you. Now listen. But it was the time of love.
Now what did he say? All myself. He manifest this purpose in his
love. He manifest that in time. Thirdly, God manifested his love
for us in a divine union. He said we were by nature children
of wrath even as others. who is rich in mercy, and for
His great love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in
trespasses and sins, quickened us to gather with Christ, made
us one. Made us one. When He looks on His Son, He
looks on us. As He sees His Son, He sees us.
The fact is the Scripture said He raised us up with Him and
seated us with Him in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. We're
seated in Him victorious right now. Right now. And then fourthly, God manifested
His love for us when He sent His Son to die in our room and
stood on the cross, commended His love. And fifthly, God manifested
His love for us in divine preservation, sanctified by God the Father,
preserved in Jesus Christ and called. Nothing can separate
you from the love of God. And then lastly, God manifests
His love in His calling. He secures us in a divine union
with His Son, commends His love in His substitutionary death,
that in the ages to come, He might show the exceeding riches
of His grace and His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. I've loved thee with an everlasting
love. She didn't know anything at all
about my feelings for her until one day I told her, I said, I
love you. I love you. God ever said that to you? Huh? Poor sinner. All you can think about is judgment.
All you can think about is separation from God, eternal hell, all of
these things. God said, wait a minute. I love
you. I've always loved you. I make
full provision for you. I'm gonna save yourself.