Christ liveth in me. Is that just a sweet, pretty
song of emotional expression, or is it truth? Does the Son of God actually
live in us? Open your Bibles with me to 2
Peter chapter one, and we'll see. The gospel of God is a wondrous
mystery, wondrous beyond expression, revealing things that can only
be known by divine revelation in the experience of grace through
faith in Christ. Things that cannot be explained
upon any human, reasonable, logical terms. They can only be explained
as they're revealed in Holy Scripture. And those things most vital to
the gospel of God's grace are the most wondrous aspects of
the gospel. The scriptures speak plainly
of the divine Trinity. There are three that by record
in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost. And these
three are one. Three distinct persons within
one Godhead is the Lord our God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Each of the persons individual,
but one God. perfectly, really, and truly
one. All the benedictions of grace
are spoken in the name of the Holy Trinity, telling us plainly
that there is no grace apart from the gift of the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Ghost. The scriptures speak plainly
about the incarnation of our Redeemer. Brother Lindsey just
read back in our office, back in my office, John chapter one. Read about the witness of John
the Baptist, but in the early part of that chapter, we're told
that Jesus Christ, God's son, the God man, our mediator, is
the word of God. The word of God. God stepped
into human flesh and said, this is what I am. The man, Christ Jesus, is that
one by whom, in whom, and through whom God makes himself known
to men. The Word, who is God, was made
flesh and dwelt among us. Jesus Christ really is a man. in all the details of humanity,
just as much a man as anyone sitting in this auditorium, sin
alone accepted. He was a real man. I shouldn't
use that term. He is a real man, a real man. And yet that man is himself the
infinite, eternal, incomprehensible God. There's no explaining that. But everybody who's born of God
knows it. Everybody who's born of God has been taught it. Our
Lord Jesus Christ, the holy son of God, who knew no sin, did
no sin, and could not sin. That one who is the virgin born
son of merit, that one who came into this world without the aid
of a man, with no corruption of nature, of heart, no defilement
of any kind, that holy one was made sin for us. so thoroughly, so completely
made sin for us, that the holy Lord God, in the execution of
strict justice, poured out his wrath upon his darling son in
the stead of sinners, when his son was made sin, so that he
who is God, who cannot die, died in our room instead, as the God-man
our substitute, and satisfied all the wondrous justice of God. But of all the wonders revealed
in the gospel, commonly known to all who are born again. And
those are things every believer knows. You may not be able to
express it in words or defend it in a theological way. That's
irrelevant. That's irrelevant. But as you
hear it, you say, that's it. That's it. Every believer knows
those things. Those who deny them are not yet
taught of God and have not been born of God. The scriptures are
abundantly clear. Here's another thing. Everyone
who is born of God and taught of God knows. He knows by divine
revelation. He knows by the experience of
grace. He knows it because he reads
it in the book of God. You who are born of God, you
who have been regenerated by the spirit of God, you who believe
on the son of God are made partakers of the divine nature. Now that's
my subject this evening. I've been wallowing around in
the first chapter of 2 Peter for weeks now. And as I started
making preparations for the message today, as last week, I just couldn't
get away from this chapter. And I tried to preach from this
portion Wednesday night over at Todd's Road. I'm going to
make another stab at it tonight. If you will hold your Bibles
open, I pray God, the Holy Spirit will speak by his word to your
heart as I endeavor to declare to you that which is plainly
revealed here. Now, as we look at these first
12 verses of 2 Peter chapter 1, I want to call your attention
to something at the beginning. I've already said to you, the
things that are most profound mysteries of the gospel, the
most wondrous, inexplainable things revealed in the gospel
are commonly known. They're commonly known among
God's people. Three times in this one chapter,
the apostle Peter writes by divine inspiration in verses 12, 13,
and 15, and tells us that he's not telling us anything uncommon. He's not telling us anything
that is not commonly known among God's saints, but rather, he
said, I'm just putting you in remembrance of the present truth. I'm just putting you in remembrance
of things you know. I'm putting you in remembrance
of things you've experienced. Let's begin in verse one. Simon
Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that
have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness
of God and our Savior, Jesus Christ. And the very opening
words of this chapter tell us that Peter is addressing God's
elect. He's talking to men and women
who have been born of God, men and women who know the Lord Jesus
Christ, those who have obtained like precious faith with Him. Now, that doesn't mean that I'm
not talking to you who are yet without Christ. Indeed, I pray
that as I describe for you the great privileges and blessings
of God's elect in Christ Jesus, you might be persuaded this very
hour to believe on the Son of God and that you may be made
partakers of the divine nature by his grace. Now, notice how
Peter describes himself, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ. As I have told you repeatedly
and must keep telling you repeatedly, there are no apostles or prophets
in our day. Those who claim to have that
office and those gifts are charlatans. There's no such thing. But the
word apostle simply means messenger. And every man called, gifted
and sent of God to preach the gospel is the servant and messenger
of Jesus Christ. The messenger, the messenger
of Christ. I've been doing this a while
now. Almost all of my adult life, endeavoring to serve God and
his church as his messenger. And I've listened with puzzling
curiosity. To many men who have this particular
calling and gift from God say, I wouldn't wish this on anybody.
I wouldn't wish it on anybody who isn't called to it. But let
me assure you, I count it my life's highest honor and greatest
privilege and heaviest responsibility to stand before you and open
this book as the servant of God and the messenger of Jesus Christ
to your son. I wouldn't trade places with
anybody for anything in the world. Nobody. Nobody. I was not given
a son, as you all know. I have one grandson. I have been
praying for him since before he came into this world that
God might be pleased to save him and that God might be pleased
to make of him a preacher of the gospel. Oh, nothing more
honorable to a man than to be called and sent of God with his
word in the authority and power of his spirit to preach the gospel
of his grace. I beg of God that he will do
that for my grandson. If he would do it, and that meant
that Will packs up, moves to New Guinea, or moves to Africa,
or moves to Australia, and I never see him on this earth again,
I couldn't be happier, couldn't be more thankful. What a great
privilege. What a high honor. What a great
calling. What an awesome responsibility. What an awesome responsibility. Here, Peter speaks of God's saints
as a people who have obtained like precious faith with us. God's servants, God's messengers
are men just like you. who have the same faith you have,
and they have it by the same source as you have it. We have
faith in Christ, and we have obtained the gift of God by the
power and grace of his spirit, just like you. And the faith
of God's elect is one. God's people all believe the
same thing. God's people all believe the
same gospel. God's people all worship the
same savior. And the faith we possess as believers,
we have obtained by the gift and operation of God. It is called
precious faith. because it brings us into the
experimental union of grace with a precious savior and brings
to us all the precious promises of God and prepares us for a
precious inheritance in heavenly glory. How precious are thy thoughts
unto me, O God. How great is the sum of them. We've obtained this gift of faith,
this precious, precious faith. through the righteousness of
God and our Savior, Jesus Christ. That is to say, this faith has
been bestowed upon us as the redemption gift of our Lord Jesus
Christ. I just reminded the men in the
office before we came out here, just as Lindsay was finishing
this morning, that just outstanding message he brought to us in the
first hour of our worship services this morning. He said, caught
our attention to the marginal translation in Exodus 8, the
difference the Lord puts between Israel and Egypt. In the marginal
translation, a more accurate translation would be the redemption
he puts between Israel and Egypt. That which distinguishes God's
elect from all others in the world is that we are redeemed
with the precious blood of Jesus Christ. And as the result of
his blood and righteousness, God gives us faith in his darling
son. And the object of our faith is
Christ himself. what glorious righteousness we
have in and with him by the gift of God's grace. Now look at verse
two. Grace and peace be multiplied
unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. This The benediction that Peter
gives by inspiration is much more than an affectionate wish
or a tender desire on Peter's part for God's people. This benediction
of grace is written by divine inspiration. As you read the
benedictions, the blessings given in scripture in this format,
read them not as things that maybe will come to pass, but
as assurances from God the Holy Ghost. This is certain. If you have been made to have
this precious faith of God's elect, grace and peace will be
multiplied to you. and everything connected with
grace and peace, everything connected with God's salvation, everything
connected with righteousness, everything connected with eternal
life is through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. Everything about the knowledge
of God is through the knowledge of Jesus Christ, our Lord. As you grow in the grace and
knowledge of our Redeemer, you grow in grace and in peace. We have this assurance, and some
of God's people have struggles with peace. Surely if I had more grace, I
would have more peace. As you grow in the knowledge
of Christ, grace and peace are multiplied to you. The peace
of a comfortable, sweet, gentling knowledge of Jesus Christ, our
Lord. Now, some of you may not have
experienced this, When I was a young man, even back in those
days, nobody really thought that I would possibly get this pretty
blonde to go out with me very long, let alone marry me at last.
And I had a problem with jealousy. When we started dating, y'all
don't need to tell anybody this, she's older than I am. She was
in college. I was in high school. And I hadn't been saved long
enough to know that you're not supposed to jack a fella's jaw.
and as a fellow who was giving her more attention than I wanted.
And I wasn't comfortable with it, because I didn't want anybody
to nudge in between me and her. I found out where he was, and
I went to the dormitory where he was staying, and I said to
him in the midst of a bunch of other fellows, you either leave
Shelby Peters alone, or if I hear of it again, I'll throw you out
this window. And I would have. But as time went on, I got more
comfortable. And I have her kind of like Barney
Fife said he had Thelma Lou right here in my hip pocket, you know.
Got her right where I want her. So that since then, all of our
adult life, wherever we go, nobody imagines that we go together.
And fellas will walk up with her standing right beside me
and flirt with her and try to pick her up and I just kind of
smile at them. I don't even think about popping one of the jaws.
How come? Because of the peace, of the blessed, secure relationship
we have. When first the Lord Jesus reveals
his grace in you, many things continue to trouble you. Many
things continue to confuse you and you wonder about this peace. And as you grow in the grace
and knowledge of our Redeemer, you grow in peace. Now that doesn't mean you don't
experience pain and heartache. I said to Lynn Nibus, she's sitting
right there, Wednesday night, I remember many years ago when
I was called to come see Brother Todd and they were all convinced
if I wanted to see him, I needed to see him that day because he
was dying. And Lynn was sitting on the side of the bed, and she
was terribly disturbed, as any woman would be, in great pain. And what will Aubrey and I do? What will Aubrey and I do? I
won't ever forget the words. What will Aubrey and I do? And
now they've been through some experiences of God's grace. And
she sees her husband sick and hurting and in bad health. still has the same pain, the
same pain, but peace. This is God's doing, and he does
right. This is God, our Savior. Grace and peace be multiplied
to you. Isn't that a wonderful word?
Never subtracted, only multiplied. Never divided, only multiplied
through the knowledge of God and our Savior. Oh God, ever
increase our knowledge of Him who is our Savior that we may
walk on this earth in peace. Now, look on, verse three. According
as, according as, The faith we possess, the grace and peace
we experience in Christ, the knowledge we have of Christ,
all are according as his divine power hath given us all things
that pertain to life and godliness. What a vast gift. What all is
included in that gift? Let me ask a question easier
to answer. What's not included? By this grace, God has given
us all things that pertain to life and godliness. By the call
of his spirit giving us life and giving us faith in Christ,
he has given us all things pertaining to life and godliness in this
present world and in the world to come. Not only that, but he
has called us to virtue while we live in this world. We who
once were without virtue, incapable of doing rights, have been called
to life of virtue, a life of doing right, of doing righteousness
by the Spirit of God. Before you cry out, heresy, that's
damning heresy, that's works, let's read the book of God and
see what it says. Turn over to 1 John chapter 3. 1 John chapter
3. Look at verse 7. Now as you read this
portion of scripture, you're bound to ask yourself, which
one am I? And the answer is, if you're
born of God, both. First John chapter three, verse
seven. Little children, let no man deceive you. He that doeth righteousness. One of the great advantages of
the King James translation is the old Elizabethan English translation
of verb tenses. This word doeth, E-T-H, that's
always an indication of a linear verb tense. Something that begins
and just keeps up. Something that not just present
is, but it has begun and it just keeps on. He that doeth righteousness,
always righteousness, nothing but righteousness, even as he
is righteous. That one who does righteousness
is righteous, even as Christ is righteous. Verse eight. He
that commiteth sin, that doesn't mean habitually commit sin. That's
not what it means. He that begins sinning and just
keeps on sinning, and that's all he ever does. He that commits sin all the time
is of the devil, for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For
this purpose, the Son of God was manifested, that he might
destroy the works of the devil. Whosoever is born of God, now
read what the scripture says, doth not commit sin. Mark, that doesn't read, does
not habitually commit sin. Doesn't read that way in the
English, and it doesn't read that way in the Greek. It reads
just exactly as you have it in your Bible. Whosoever is born
of God doth not commit sin. How can that be? For his seed
remaineth in him, and he can not sin, because he's born of
God. Now John explains the whole thing
in verse 10. In this the children of God are
manifest, and the children of the devil. Whosoever doeth not
righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his
brother. God manifests the distinction
between that which is born of God and that which is of the
devil. All that you are by nature through
the sin and fall of our father Adam, all that we are in our
natural being is of the devil as the result of Satan's temptation
in the garden, as a result of our fall in the garden. It never
does anything but sin. All that you are in the new birth,
All that that new man in you, the seed of God that's born of
God cannot sin, but only does righteousness. But which one
am I? Both. So that everything we do,
as I keep trying to stress to you, in this body of flesh is
marred by sin because these two natures reside in us. Perhaps
you ask, Brother Don, how can any of us be said to do righteousness?
Sin's mixed with all we do. You're exactly right. In fact,
we can't do anything but sin. But by God's wondrous grace,
he's put a new nature in us, a new man created in righteousness
and true holiness, a new man that cannot sin. A new man that
can do nothing but righteousness. That new man is Jesus Christ
himself. I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless,
I live. Yet not I, but the life which
I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God
who loved me and gave himself for me. Look at verse four. whereby,
that is by these promises of God given to us in Christ Jesus,
by the call of God, whereby are given to us exceeding great and
precious promises, that by these you might be partakers of the
divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the
world through lust. Partakers of the divine nature. Those are bold words, startling
words, but there they stand. By these, you are made partakers
of the divine nature. That seems so strange to our
ears. We're so reluctant to make such
statements, and yet it is the teaching of the entire New Testament
and the experience of every saved sinner. Sinners saved by the
grace of God in the new birth receive into their spirits a
real communication of life from God. I've told you before, some
years ago, I was reading a biography of George Whitefield. He asserted that he came to know
God, was given faith in Christ, born again by God's spirit, after
reading a pamphlet that was written 400 years ago. It was written
by a fellow by the name of Henry Scroggill, called The Life of
God in the Soul of Man. I just had to get it and read
it. And so I found a copy of it on the internet, downloaded
it, and converted it to text, and oh, it's outstanding. It's outstanding. The life of
God in the soul of man. That's what the new birth is. God steps in. God steps in. God steps in. And there's a new man created
in you in righteousness and true holiness. That new man is God
our Savior. What else does the new birth
mean? What else do our Lord's frequent
declarations that he dwells in us and we in him? As the branch
in the vine, as members in the body, what else can those things
mean? What else does he that is joined to the Lord is one
spirit? What else does it mean? In some
very real sense, The purpose of God in sending his son into
this world, the very purpose of God the son becoming a man
in the incarnation is that we poor, sinful, weak, limited,
ignorant preachers of the dust as we are might be lifted up
into this wondrous union. being made partakers of the divine
nature. That's God's end in the whole
of the gospel. Read the scriptures carefully.
The first four verses of this first chapter of 2 Peter is one
sentence. In these four verses, in this
one magnificent sentence, Peter declares the wonder of the new
birth, the glorious work of regeneration. By the call of God, the Holy
Ghost, God bestows those great and precious promises of his
grace, making us partakers of the divine nature. The promises
which have resulted in us being born again are the promises of
God given before the world began, the promise of eternal life,
which God, who cannot lie, made in his own being before the world
was. This is the promise of God's
grace experienced in the new birth. We're made partakers of
the divine nature. Peter is telling us that when
the Lord God raises a sinner from death to life by the power
and grace of his spirit, when he sprinkles our consciences
and our hearts with clean water, his grace puts a new spirit in
us. He makes us new creatures in Christ. When the sinner is
born again by omnipotent grace, he is made, look at the text,
verse four, partaker of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption
that is in the world through lust. Wow, that's grace. He in whom and with whom we were
made accepted with God before the world began comes in time
and takes up residence in us. He says, I will come into you
and suck with you and you with me. He is married to us and we
are married to him. Now, lest there be any confusion
in your minds, and I'm sure there's not, I hate to even raise the
confusion of others that others raise, but I must. Let me tell
you what this does not mean. It does not mean that we become
partakers of the divine essence. That is that we become little
gods. It does not mean that we become possessors of divine attributes,
that we now have all the attributes of God's eternality, infinity,
omniscience, omnipotence, and so on. Nothing could be further
from the truth. So, Pastor, what do those words
mean? This word partakers commonly
is translated fellowshipers, or having fellowship with, but
that's not to be understood as being the only way in which the
word is used. The poorest way I can think of
to study scriptures. Now, I hope you'll hear this
because this is the most common way I know men and women study
scriptures. Let's do a word study. Let's
do a word study. And you get your concordance
and your partakers. Now let's find everywhere in
the scriptures where that word is used. And you make the word
to mean the very same thing everywhere it's used. There can't be a worse
way to study scripture. You study scripture in its context,
and the meaning of words are determined by the way the words
are used. The meaning of the very same
word is determined by the way the word is used. Commonly, the
word partakers is translated in scripture, fellowship with,
or fellowshipers with. something having a union of a
common commonality in experience. Here, the word specifically means
exactly what it does in Hebrews 2, when the apostle tells us
that Christ took part of our nature. What did he do? He became the possessor of humanity,
so that he became all that we are. It means exactly the same
thing as Paul means in 1 Corinthians when he says that we are partakers
of the Lord's sufferings and of the consolation of the gospel
that follows our Lord's suffering. What does that mean? We are possessors
of the benefits of the sufferings of Christ, possessors of his
merit, possessors of his worth. Here, Paul or Peter tells us
by the Spirit of God that we are made to be possessors of
the divine nature. Being born of God, possessors
of the divine nature. It's well described for us by
our Lord Jesus as he describes the holy violence of his grace.
He says, how can a man spoil a man's house? except first he
bind the strong man and cast him out and then he takes his
goods. This is what happens when God
saves a sinner. The Lord Jesus Christ knocks
down all the barriers and he comes in and he binds the strong
man. and he cast him out, and he takes
possession of that man's house. And when that other man returns,
he finds his house clean and garnished, and there's no admittance
for him. Satan is cast out. And the first
thing you know, the first time you know what's happened, Christ
is already on his throne in your heart. You find yourself believing
him because of the blessed violence of his grace. To be partakers
of the divine nature is to have Christ himself formed in you. Christ formed in you, which gives
you the hope of glory. We have hope of everlasting glory
because Christ is in us. Now, the basis of our hope is
what our Lord did 2,000 years ago. The basis of our hope is
what our God did before the world began. But the hope itself arises
from us being made partakers of the divine nature. You have
no reason to be suspicious that maybe you might, after all, get
to heaven when everything's over unless you're born of God and
believe on his side. When Christ comes in you, you
find yourself believing him. You just can't help it. This
is what makes us fit for heaven. Fit to be partakers of the inheritance
of the saints in life. B.B. Caldwell put it this way.
He said, without it, heaven would be hell. If an unregenerate person
should go to heaven without being born again, without this divine
nature, heaven would be hell to him. And not only that, he
would make heaven itself hell for everybody else. Partakers
of the divine nature, that's what God gives us in the new
birth. We're married to Christ, married
to him. And those who are married are
of the same nature. They're the same nature. Now,
I know we live in this wonderfully intelligent 21st century in which
educated men and women debate about whether or not a man can
marry his dog. Wonderfully intelligent 21st
century. Well, you can't. You got to be
of the same nature to be married. But marriage is just a picture
of a marriage that can't even be imagined. For this cause,
Adam said to his wife Eve, shall a man leave his father and his
mother and shall be joined to his wife. And they too shall
be one flesh. Now, I know a good many of you
who've been living together as husband and wife for a long time.
And Shelby and I will soon be married for 48 years. And this
may be scary to you, but we think alike. I mean, we'll start to
say something and both of us say exactly the same thing at
exactly the same time in response to something or just out of the
blue. It's astounding. Scares her to death. It scares
her to death. But no danger of anybody ever
mistaking that woman for Don Fortner or this man for Shelby
Fortner. We are just different. We're
just different. We're two individual people. And if I should drop dead before
I get in bed tonight and she gets married tomorrow, that's
perfectly all right. That's perfectly all right. This
union ends with death. But Paul uses all of that to
say, I'm not talking about a husband and wife. I'm not talking about
the marriage of a man and woman. I'm talking about Christ and
his church. These two are one. This is a mystery. The more I
study it, the bigger it gets and the more delightful. We who
are gods are as really and truly one with Jesus Christ as He is
with the Father and the Father is with Him. Distinct persons,
but one. Distinct persons, but one. One with God, my Savior. I in them and thou in me, that
they may be made perfect in one, even as we are one. Wondrous
mystery. Who can understand it? Nobody.
It's beyond the reach of my mind, but it is not beyond the reach
of my heart. This is precisely the teaching
of the entire volume of Holy Scripture. Christ liveth in me. Oh, what a salvation this, that
Christ liveth in me. Greater is he that is in you
than he that is in the world. Christ lives in us. How sweet, how blessed the word
of God is. After telling us what God has
done for us in the new birth, back here in 2 Peter 1. In verses
five through nine, Peter admonishes us Beside this, giving all diligence,
add to your faith virtue, and to virtue, knowledge, and to
knowledge, temperance, and to temperance, patience, and to
patience, godliness, and to godliness, brotherly kindness, and to brotherly
kindness, charity. For if these things be in you
and abound, if these things be in you and abound, they make
you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the
knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things
is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that
he was purged from his old sins. These additions to faith are
not works of the flesh, but rather the fruit of the Spirit flowing
from faith in Jesus Christ, our Lord, so that we are neither
barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of Christ. He's chosen
us that we may bring forth fruit and that our fruit may abound.
Now, look at verse 10. Let me remind you and stir up
your remembrance of one more obvious thing in which we ought
to delight as those who've been made partakers of the divine
nature. Wherefore the rather brethren give diligence to make
your calling and election sure. How can I do that? How can I
be sure I've been called of God? How can I be sure that God chose
me before the foundation of the world? There's one way. Faith
is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not
seen. He that believeth that Jesus
is the Christ is born of God. Now this I know, men, run wild with and let folks say
what they want to, but I'm telling you what I know to be so. The whole of my assurance is
the testimony of God. Not how I feel, not how I act,
not my emotions, not my thinking, The whole of my assurance is
the testimony of God in his word. He that believeth that Jesus
of Nazareth actually accomplished everything that God said the
Messiah would accomplish. He that believeth that Jesus
is the Christ, he's born of God. He's born of God. There are a
lot of things I question about me. But of this I'm certain, Jesus
of Nazareth is the Christ, and I hang the whole of my soul on
that blessed revelation of grace. And by these things I know that
God called me, and Christ redeemed me, and God chose me, else I
could not believe the testimony of God. I'd stand back like other
folks do and say, well prove it to me. No, I believe God. Read on. For if you do these
things, you shall never fall. Held in his grip. For so an entrance
shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting
kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. What? What? Believe in Christ. Believe in
Christ. God will in the last day when
we stand before the great white throne, give us an abundant entrance
into his kingdom and glory. We shall enter into heaven's
glory and take possession of heaven's glory as the rightful
heirs of eternal life through the blood and righteousness of
Christ, Christ in you, the hope of glory, verse 12. Wherefore,
I will not be negligent. I'm gonna stay by my stuff. To
put you always in remembrance. To put you always in remembrance. I don't want you to ever forget
this. I don't want you to ever forget this. I was talking to
the man back in the office a little bit ago. Wouldn't it be wonderful
when you leave this world to have full consciousness so that
you do everything going around you? Ah, would to God I might
die with this on my heart. Though you know them and be established
in the present truth. What is that? Ah, there's a lot
to come. But for now, this is enough. Christ liveth in me. Oh, what a salvation this. Christ
liveth in me. You who are gods have been made
partakers of the divine nature. That means you have eternal life
and you shall never perish and soon You're going to walk into
heaven in the glory of Jesus Christ, our Redeemer. Amen.