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Joe Terrell

Christ Formed In You

Galatians 4:19-20
Joe Terrell January, 28 2012 Audio
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2012 Rescue CA Conference

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You can be opening your Bibles
to Galatians chapter 4. I sure am enjoying myself. I
do not mean that I myself am the object of my enjoyment. I'm actually enjoying you. But
you know what I mean by that. I've spoken to a few of you individually,
usually comes up this is my first time to be farther west than
Mount Rushmore which it's coming from the east Mount Rushmore
is just a little bit farther than halfway across the United
States so I have just about doubled my span of the United States
of America coming out here and Bonnie and I actually flew out
Monday and we spent a day looking around Sacramento and then a
day or an evening or a morning looking around San Francisco.
And you all probably know this, but don't try to drive there. There's a reason they have trolley
cars. And then we came back this way.
And you know, when I go to preach places that I've never been,
we usually try to take a few days and look around. But my
favorite part of any trip like this is the time when I gather
with other believers, hear the Word, or preach it, or some of
both, and talk about it afterwards, talk about it beforehand. In
the middle of all that, eat some good food. And that's why I say
I'm enjoying myself. And I want to thank you for having
me here. And if I forget to say that again
tomorrow, you can remember I said it tonight. Your hospitality
is so nice. You take such good care of us. And we feel like we're living
in the lap of luxury. Now last night, as he pointed
out, I preached on the ministries of law and grace,
and distinguished between those two, and made the point that
there is no way to be under law and under grace at the same time.
Unfortunately, that seems to be our bent. And when I say our
bent, I mean the bent of those that profess Christ. If only
unbelievers had that tendency, the scripture never would have
addressed the issue because it would have been useless. I mean,
there's no use saying things to dead people. The whole book of Galatians is
dedicated to correcting that error. of trying to set one foot
in each of the two basic covenants by which a man may relate to
God. It just can't be done. And if
you allow even the least of the principles of the covenant of
the law to enter in to your way of relating to God, In time,
it'll be all law. The Apostle said, a little leaven
leavens the whole law. And it is always among the real
churches of the Lord Jesus Christ, if Satan desires to enter in
and cause havoc, He doesn't have to drag people
into drunkenness, though he's done it. I say he's done it,
I don't know that we need any help from him in doing that,
but I'll assume he has his hand in that. He doesn't have to drag
them into any of the various transgressions of the law. He will be much more successful
And he has destroyed more congregations by an introduction of the righteousness
of the law than ever he did by introduction of transgressions
of the law. Paul says in Galatians chapter
4 verse 19, My little children of whom I travail in birth again,
Until Christ is formed in you, I desire to be present with you
now and to change my tone, for I stand in doubt of you." Now,
I was raised in conservative fundamentalism. That's my upbringing. Until I was actually in my first
year of Bible school, Coming up on 19 years old, I never heard
anything about the doctrines of the sovereignty of God and
the sovereignty of His grace. Our church didn't preach against
them. It said nothing about them at
all. It avoided the subject altogether, as near as my experience was
concerned. I was raised in fundamentalism,
and therefore I was taught as nearly all modern fundamentalists. I say modern, that was quite
a while ago. We're talking 40 years. But I assume it's still
the same with those that go by the tag fundamentalism. It is
their belief, and they will stand in doubt of a person's salvation
if that person is caught in some notable sin. Just let them be found drunk.
Let them be caught in the wrong bed. Let them be caught in theft
or uttering a vile word, and a question mark will be put on
their salvation. And I remember how surprising
it was when I heard Brother Mahan make this point, that in all
the churches, that Paul wrote to, the only one he ever expressed
doubt about was the church that was being good. So far as I know, I cannot recall
Paul, despite the troubles in Corinth, ever saying to them,
I stand in doubt of you. I mean, they had some serious
doctrinal errors. Some denied the resurrection.
He just corrected them. Colossians? He didn't say that,
though they were having some serious troubles there. Galatians? That place where godliness was
so important, as they defined godliness. where they had been
overtaken, so to speak, by a program of improvement. There, Paul says,
I stand in doubt with you. I really have a serious fear,
he says, that the labor I put into you has produced nothing
of any value. And I can't think of anything
that would be more troubling to a preacher of the gospel than
to go and preach the gospel, see something get started, seeming
to be established, seeming to be thriving, and then go on somewhere
else to begin another work and then receive news. It makes you
wonder, whoa, maybe nothing happened there after all. Now the Gospel of the Scriptures
is a grand and glorious thing. It is. It's grand and glorious
because it was designed and carried out by a grand and glorious God. Do you know why the Gospels that
you see, and we put that word in quotes, those Gospels which
Paul says really aren't Gospels, do you know why they're so weak? Because they have a weak God
backing them up. They have a God who can't. You
know, often the question comes up, well, can an Arminian be
saved? I think that's the wrong question.
The question is, can the Arminians God save? That's the question. And all you need to do is ask
the Arminian. Because what does he say? God wants to save you,
but He can't. And I want to tell you, no matter
what they put after that, because they are saying He can't unless...
It doesn't matter what they put. As soon as they said He can't,
they describe their God. He can't. If He can't save you,
just like you are, He can't save you. That's just the fact of
it. Because you can't change what you are. Therefore, if the Arminian, and
here's the essence of Arminianism, a man's got to make himself different
than what he is for God to save him. Man's got to make the first
change. And so, no matter what change
it is you require of him, which would enable his God to save
him, it's impossible for him to make that change. Therefore,
it's impossible for God to save him. The Armenian God cannot
save people like you and me. I remember my parents used to
say, when you want a loan, the first thing you have to do is
prove you don't need it. And for the Armenian God, in
order to get his salvation, the first thing you have to do is
prove you don't need it. But we have a glorious gospel
because it was designed by a glorious God who does not need Yamal will
not accept any help when it comes to saving his people. It's a
grand and glorious gospel when you consider the sort of people
that it saves. Now it is one thing, if you're
a doctor, it's one thing to say such and such came in with a
cold. And I told him to take aspirin
and rest for several days, and he got better. Well, not much
of a disease doesn't take much of a doctor, does it? Bring in
a dead man. And if a doctor can bring him
back, now there is some kind of doctor. There is some kind
of medicine. And therefore, when we realize
the sort of person that this gospel is capable of saving,
it proves how grand and glorious it is. It is a gospel designed
specifically for the salvation of the chiefs of sinners. Now,
Paul said, Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners,
of whom I am the chief. And I don't think he said that
just to sound humble. I don't think he said that as
some exaggeration or just trying to make a point. I think that
he honestly believed that he was the worst man that ever lived. And he had a reason to say so. I mean, he made an argument for
it. He said, I was a blasphemer and I was a murderer and I was
just as bad as anybody can be. In fact, I was so bad, God saved
me just to prove he could do it. And to prove to anybody else
he can save them too. Because if he can save me, he
can save anybody. So I believe that Paul was convinced
that he was the chief of sinners. And I likewise believe that every
other believer would argue with him about that point. For every
other believer would say, sorry Paul, I am the chief of sinners. As the old phrase goes, All chiefs,
no brains. We're all chiefs and sinners.
But the gospel is glorious because it doesn't look for the righteous.
It doesn't look for the barely needy or just needs a little
boost, a leg up. It scrapes until it gets to the
bottom of the barrel. It scrapes to the bottom of the
barrel of moral corruption. The very ones that the religious
world would write off and say, God won't save him. And then God does. In the very
place where it is said, you are not the people of God, there
shall they be called the people of God. And you know what else it does?
You know, we're pretty fond of saying God, you know, quoting
the Lord, we say, I didn't come for the righteous, didn't come
to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance, and that's true.
But you know what? I find that no matter how corrupt
we are, we're still among the righteous. You see, it's not
as though the world is divided into the morally corrupt and
the self-righteous. Everybody's morally corrupt, and everybody
is self-righteous. And there are some who, like
that Pharisee, stand and pray, God, I thank you I'm not like
other men, and God still saves them. Part of His saving is convincing
them, yes, you are like other men, but He still saves them. And you say, well, God doesn't
save the self-righteous. Who wrote this book? Paul. You sometimes wonder if that
wasn't the Pharisee that stood and prayed. But whether, I mean, he was a
Pharisee after all. And if that wasn't the particular
Pharisee the Lord was talking about, I'm sure Paul did that
kind of thing. Oh, God saves the very worst
of people. And thirdly, it is a grand and
glorious gospel When you consider the heights to which it takes
these people, it saves. In Romans 8, verse 29, it says
that we are predestined to be conformed to the image of His
Son. It is a pitiful gospel that has
heaven for its goal. Now, you think about that. It's
a pitiful gospel that has heaven for its goal. You know, when
the Bible talks about us being predestined, it's not so much
talking about a predetermined of our destination. It's talking
about a predetermination of our destiny. It's not so much talking
about where we'll be, but what we'll be. The gospel takes those who are
as unlike Christ as can be. and makes them just like Him. Now, do not get me wrong. I'm
not acting as though heaven is a bad place or that I don't want
to go there. But if God were to take you to
heaven right now as you are, you would be miserable. The Scriptures say God's got
to make us fit to be inheritors with the saints in life. We've
got to be made capable of enjoying heaven before He takes us there. Moreover, the heaven of heaven
is Christ. And I know that in some respects
we know Him. But we will never be able to
know Him as we desire to know Him until we are like Him. You know, we got a little dog
named Ziggy, and we really like our dog because he really likes
us. And you know, my dog knows some
things about me, but its ability to know me is limited by the
fact it's a dog and not a human being. I can know Ziggy fully. Ziggy can know me in a very limited
way. You'd have to make Ziggy into
a human to know me. And God will have to make us
like Christ before we'll know Him even as we are known. And
brethren, that's the glory of it. That there will come a time
when everyone chosen by grace, redeemed by grace, called by
grace, and who is called for His grace shall receive the fullness
of that grace to be able to appreciate all that grace and be united
completely to the fountain of that grace and know Him even
as He knows us. That's heaven. That's the real
heaven. God finds the very worst and
makes them like the very best. Now when it comes to describing
salvation doctrinally, we can make it all neat and tidy. We somewhat understand the beginning,
we're sinners. And we understand the end, sort
of, will be made like Christ. And we can fit that all real
nice into our minds and make up a good theology to support
it, and bring scriptures to bear to support it. It's the middle
that gets confusing. It's the life of a believer in
this world. I can fully understand being
a rebel against God in this world. And I can fully understand, I
shouldn't say fully, but have some grasp, anyway, of what it
would be like to be a believer in heaven. What I cannot seem
to get my head wrapped around and fully appreciate is what
is it like to be a believer in this world? You want to say,
well, aren't you one of them? Well, yeah, I am, but it's confusing.
It's confusing. It's not so easy to put it in
a pattern. People try to. They know their
own experience and they try to say everybody's got to have an
experience just like that one. And they'll actually make a law
out of it. Well, when I got saved, I mean, I just felt the love
of God go through me. And I, you know, and if that
didn't happen to you, then you must not be saved. I remember hearing, this was
actually back in my days of free willism, but I thought it was
a pretty good illustration, even though I don't know whether the
guy preached the gospel or not. But he was telling a story, and
that this woman had come forward, as is customary in those churches,
in a place where he had preached and wanted to talk to him. So
they went, of course, into a private room, and she was saying, I want
to be saved. He said, OK. Have you asked the
Lord to save you? Yes, I have. Well, did he save
you? She says, I don't know. And he said, well, don't you
believe the promise? He said, well, yeah, but I didn't feel
anything and nothing seemed to happen. He said, what do you
mean? He said, well, I read the Bible that when Paul was, you
know, when the Lord saved Paul, that he saw a light. And I said,
I like what this preacher said at this point. He said, well,
there's a light. Will that do? I tell you, so far as I know,
Paul's the only one that had that kind of experience. Nathaniel
had a different one. Peter had a different one. And
the way that we travel through our lives and the way that we
experience grace in our life is going to be different for
each of us. Don't make a law out of grace. Don't come up with a pattern
that you experienced and try to force that on everyone else. This middle part of being a believer
in this world can be confusing. We know that
all of it, beginning, middle, and end, is of God's grace. We know that much. Whenever,
however it happens, and however it progresses, in every stage,
in every step, at every moment, it is the grace of God which
we could say is a combination of the will and power of God
that's causing it to come to pass. From that which happened before
the world began all the way until what shall occur when the world
is no more and everything in between is entirely a matter
of God's purpose and God's power bringing to pass His will. In
the song of salvation, there is not one stanza, not one line,
not one word of the human will and human power and human righteousness
and human merit. God's grace, all the works shall
crown Through everlasting days, it lays the first and topmost
stone and well deserves the praise. And brethren, when we say it's
grace that did it, what we're really saying is it's God that
did it. It's God that did it. When we look at the panorama
of the gospel and the scriptures, It seems neat and tidy, but our
experience of it is messy. There is no sensory experience
that we can look for and say, because of this I know that I
am saved. When God chose us, we weren't
there to see it. When Christ died, we weren't
there. And even those that were there
didn't know what was happening. Only one realized what was happening. That one thief. Eleven disciples,
the Lord's mother, several other women all standing there looking
at it, and they didn't know what was happening. In fact, they
did not really understand it until the Lord had been gone
for about 40 days. They were apostles, but they
were required to be taught by the Holy Spirit what all of those
events actually meant. Paul says here, and he's using
the illustration, three illustrations surrounding parents and their
children. He refers to it in three ways,
going backwards in time. He says, my little children,
we're in Galatians 4.19, my little children. Now, Paul had not given
them the new birth. He wasn't claiming that. He called
them that simply because they were the fruit of his ministry
among them. It was an endearing term. While
he had doubts of them, and he's proven it's just doubts, because
he still calls them, my little children. My little children. And then he backs up in time,
he says, I travail in birth again. Now they
were as dear to him as little toddlers in the home. And yet
he backs up, he said, but it's like I'm having to go through
the process of giving birth to you again. I'm in travail. You know, preachers
of the gospel cannot be cold about people's response to the
gospel. We believe in the absolute sovereignty
of God. So did Paul. He's the one who
wrote Romans 9, that you were talking about. He knows all about
that. He knows all about Jacob, have I loved, he saw, have I
hated. He knows all about, it's not of him that wills or of him
that runs, but God that shows mercy. He knows all about that. And it broke his heart to think
that these people who had professed faith under his ministry might
turn out to have been stillbirths. So much so, he couldn't, and
I don't know where he was when he wrote this, but he couldn't
say, well, whatever will be, will be. If God wants to save
them, they'll be saved. Oh, I don't know, it's just like
his heart was so broken. And you know how emotional stresses
affect your body? He says, I feel like I'm in prevail
here. He was travailing, I'm sure,
in prayer. He was travailing in emotional
distress on their behalf. And enough that he wrote this
letter, and evidently, he wrote it with his own hand. Normally,
Paul, who tradition says couldn't see very well, he dictated his
letters so that somebody could write them legibly. But this
one, he says, You see what large letter I've written, and it's
really not that long a letter compared to others he's written.
So most people, many people anyway, think he wrote big letters because
that's the only way he could write. He painstakingly went
and wrote this book personally because he was worried about
it. And he says, "...and I stand in doubt of you," excuse me,
he says, I mean, "...for veil and birth again till Christ be
formed in you." He steps back one more step in this business
of parents and children, to gestation, to the process of pregnancy.
Now remember, we're talking 2,000 years ago. And the formation
of a child within the womb was a great mystery. David said,
you knit me together in the secret places. Nowadays, a woman thinks
she's pregnant, and they give a test, say, yeah, you're pregnant.
Come back in a couple of weeks, we'll take a picture. And they can see right in there.
They can even do it 3D now. And it's almost, and I'm on Facebook
now. I mean, people will post them
as though they're family pictures. But that wasn't the way back
then. A woman would become pregnant, and once it was evident she was,
they had absolutely no idea. They hoped that it would result
in a live, fully formed baby. But there was no way for them
to know until it happened. They didn't have any instruments
to check. They didn't even have a stethoscope
to see if there was a heartbeat. All they could do is wait and
see if that child would be formed in them. Paul says, I'm in doubt
of you and I'm not going to be comforted about you until I can
tell that Christ has been formed in you. Now there's four gospel principles
illustrated by what Paul has said. And we'll look at each
of them. First of all, that salvation
is the impartation of life. It's not simply a change of destination. It's an actual impartation of
a life that wasn't there before. Secondly, that this life does
not spring into existence fully matured. And thirdly, that the
description of this maturing is Christ formed in you. And
then we'll look at an illustration of it and what this Christ formed
in you means. Now, this salvation is an impartation
of spiritual life. It's not an improvement of the
life we have. How subtle Satan is to introduce
a change in terminology which eventually results in a change
of theology I remember when I was a child, they talked about Christ
coming in your heart. That wasn't a scriptural statement,
but it's better than what they've come up with now. I need Christ
in my life. No, you don't need Christ in
your life. Because He's already there. You need life. Christ did not
come to fix the life you have. He came to give you one you didn't
have. Can you imagine someone standing
in Lazarus' tomb and saying, would you invite Christ into
your life? Lazarus, you don't have any life. You don't have
a life for Christ to come into. We're dead in our trespasses
and sins. Judicially dead. And we are spiritually
dead. Now when God made man, man is
a unique creature. In all of God's creation, near
as I can tell, man was made for a specific purpose. And that
purpose was fellowship with God. God made all creation. On the sixth day, he made the
land animals. And I don't know how long he
took to do that, but it happened during the sixth day. And then
sometime in the sixth day, he said, let us make man in our
image. Now, what did he mean when he
said in our image? Oh, there's been a lot of debate
about that. And I remember my Bible school days, they'd say,
well, it's man's ability at language. Because God speaks and man speaks. And man's the only creature of
God that speaks. Then they found out that there are some animals,
the higher primates, that are capable of symbolic communication. They are not as sophisticated
as ours, hopefully not nearly as crude as ours can be, but
they are capable of making sounds and communicating with one another
by them. And then some say, well, it's creativity. You see, God's
the creator and we bear his image in our creative abilities. And
then they found out that there are animals other than man that
can create things. They can make tools. They even
do artwork. And you say, well, I can't imagine
what kind of ugly stuff an animal would make. Well, I've seen some
animal artwork that's better than some human artwork, I'd
say. So I think they're capable of
it. I think it's really much simpler than that if we want
to know what the image of God in man is. But our Lord spoke
to that woman in the well. He said this, God is spirit. And when God created man, it
says He formed him out of the dust of the ground. And I take
that quite literally. That God was there, our Lord
Jesus, the Word, the Creator of all things, through whom everything
was created. He was there. It says the voice
of the Lord God walked in the garden. It didn't say it floated
around as some kind of disembodied light. Our Lord was there. I don't know what form He took. But it was a form, and he formed
man as a potter would take clay and form a pot. And when he was done forming
man, all he had was the highest animal that he had made so far,
the most intelligent. But he did something for the
man that we find no record of for anybody else. He says, and
he breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became
a living soul. And I picture it this way, I
can see as it were a divine mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Now you know when someone drowns
and they have no breath in them, they will breathe into that person. And what a wonderful picture
of what God did there. Something from the lifeguard
that belonged to the lifeguard was breathed into that drowned
person. And God breathed an essence similar
to His into us. Man became partakers of the divine
nature. He didn't become a God. He didn't
get a little piece of God. But God is Spirit, and God breathed
Spirit into man. Now, I don't know what Spirit
is, but I know what it does. Spirit is that which gives us
a commonality with God that enables us to know Him, fellowship with
Him, and love Him. And so He made man that way and
then made a woman with that same ability. And that man and that
woman fellowshiped with God. And they knew God even as they
were young. Their bodies began a process
of dying that took a long time to finish. But our Lord says
in the day that you eat of it you'll die. And spiritually on
that day they died. And you know how they proved it?
They became fools about God. They thought they could hide
from God. They suddenly thought that they
could put on some fig leaves and God wouldn't know that they
were naked. They became spiritual morons
because they were spiritually dead. And that's why, brethren,
the natural man who is spiritually dead does not receive the things
of the Spirit of God. They're foolishnessing him. He
can't know them. Why? They're spiritually understood
and he's spiritually dead. You can teach him the doctrines
and he can learn to recite them back just like a parrot can learn
to recite back the words you teach him. He doesn't understand
what they mean. When God begins the work of salvation
in a believer, I shouldn't say in a believer, in a sinner, the
first thing he does is restore him to spiritual life. Because
until he does, not even gospel preaching is going to do him
any good. Now I know there's a mystery here. He does it by
gospel preaching. God does it by preaching of his
word through the gospel. Nonetheless, the gospel will
be ineffective until he's alive. It's like you can shine a light
in a blind man's eyes and you can make it bright as a sun.
He's not going to see until his eyes are fixed. Well, that's
how it starts. We must be born again. This life
does not spring forth fully formed. When there is conception within
the womb of a woman, that which is conceived is 100% human, but it's not fully formed. In
fact, in all reality, it's not fully formed until it's about
25 years old. What we call birth is simply
that point at which it's achieved enough maturity that it can breathe
and its heart can beat on its own. But you aren't done maturing
until you're about 25 years old and then it's pretty much downhill
from there on. But never was there a time when we
became more human. The moment there was conception,
that's a human. And within that conception is
everything necessary to make a fully formed human being. When life is conceived, one of
God's elect is not fully true, but is fully, fully a child of
God. And it isn't going to become
any more a child of God than it is a devil. And this Victorian
is described as Christ formed in you. He does not mean Christ
personally formed in you. Why? Because, and I'm not denying
that Christ is in us. He is in us. But he can grow
in us. Christ is fully formed. And what
he says, he comes in fully formed. He's not talking about Christ
personally. He's talking about a new person
that's like Christ. Remember? And it's already begun
to work. A new person like Him. And a
new life is conceived in the heart of a believer. When that
new spiritual life comes forth, It's a life by Christ, just not
fully formed. Now what is it then, to have
Christ formed in you? I suppose most people would think,
well that means to live and act like Jesus did when he's very
kind, to be nice, and let you go through all those things.
Do you know something? By which we all did act more
like Christ did. I wish I loved like he loved
when he was here. I wish I loved God like he loved
God. I wish I preached like he preached. I wish I was dedicated like he
was dedicated. That's not what he's talking
about. Remember this whole business
is based on the idea of parents and children. The essence of
having the mind of Christ settled in you is to have the mind of
a child, a son, instead of a slave. What were these Galatians doing?
They were trying to relate to God like slaves do. How does
a slave live in a house? A slave lives in a house by the
labor of his own hands. And he only eats if he works. is a man without regard for what
he does. The prodigal son comes home and
recites in his mind, Father, I sinned against heaven and against
you. I'm not worthy to be called your son. Let me be one of your
servants. And you can hear him reciting that little scripture
over and over again as he's going back to the Father's house, because
he knows what a son to be. And here's the wonderful thing,
the Father never let him say. He let him tell as much as was
the truth. Father, I sinned against heaven and you, and I'm not worthy
to be called your son. That was all true. He never did
let the son say, let me be a servant. He said, you go get a robe, and
you get some shoes, and you get a ring. My son is home. You want to know what it is to
live under grace? It's to live as a son, not as
a slave. is to live in the confidence
of his acceptance. The Virgin said that the legalist
has for his goal what the believer has as his starting point, acceptance
with God. Now, what does it mean to live
as a son? Let me read you just a few verses
and we'll wrap this up. Galatians chapter 3, verse 26. We are all sons and children
of God by faith in Christ Jesus. In Galatians chapter 4 verse
4, For when the fullness of time was come, God sent forth his
Son, made of a woman, maker of the law, to redeem them that
were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. Now we think of adoption as a
process by which someone who is not biologically related to
the family is brought into the family. But the Bible will do
of adoption is only this, to receive the full rights of such
children. That's what adoption is. Now,
our Lord was the Son of God. How did He relate to the Father? In Mark 14, verse 36, He's pointing
to the Garden of Gethsemane. He says two things that characterize
the child's attitude towards His Father. He said, Father,
I know that You can do all things. All the confidence that Christ
had in His Father. And we have Christ formed in
us, and we have similar confidence. Father, I know you can do everything. However, not my will, but your
will. Submission is a characteristic
of a son. And it's submission based on
that confidence. To have enough confidence in God, and His love, and His competence
to say however you want it. Now here's what I like, but if
that doesn't work, if that's not the best way, you're the
wayfather. But it's all based on that confidence
that I'm a son, not a flesh. How does this happen? How do
we become sons? The angel came to Mary and said, I don't know a man." And the angel said, well, the
power of the Holy Spirit will come over you. The power of the
Holy Spirit will come over you. And that whole thing which is
formed in you will be the son of the Most High. And that's how we're made into
children of God. Not by the work of man. The Holy
Spirit comes upon us. And He does a divine work in
us. And a holy thing is formed in us. And it's called the Son
of God. I reply, there's a sonship Christ
has so we don't have. What we do is share a sonship
with Him. Because He has called His Son
that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. You can never know the law if
you want to. What a miserable life. All that
Christ be formed in us. And that we learn to say to Adam
and Paul, you can do anything. You can do anything. I trust
you. Do what you do.
Joe Terrell
About Joe Terrell

Joe Terrell (February 28, 1955 — April 22, 2024) was pastor of Grace Community Church in Rock Valley, IA.

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