Let's open our Bibles tonight
to 1 John chapter 1. 1 John chapter 1. We'll begin reading at verse
1, and my text will be verse 3. That which was from the beginning,
which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which
we have looked upon, and our hands have handled of the word
of life. For the life was manifested,
and we have seen it, and bear witness, and show unto you that
eternal life which was with the Father, and was manifested unto
us. John's talking about Christ,
the Word, Christ whom they had seen with their eyes and handled
and gazed upon with admiration, worship, and faith. And then
he speaks about life, life manifested, eternal life manifested, which
we've seen and heard, this life. made manifest by the appearing
of Jesus Christ, our Lord, who is life, who has all life, and
who gives life. Verse three, that which we have
seen and heard, declare we unto you that you also may have fellowship
with us. And truly, our fellowship is
with the Father, and with his son, Jesus Christ. John's subject in this text is
fellowship with the Father and the Son. Who better than the
Apostle John, who leaned upon the Savior's breast as they sat
at the table at the last supper? Who better than John, the beloved
disciple, that one who calls himself by inspiration that disciple
whom Jesus loved. Who better than he to speak to
us about fellowship with the father and with his son. The word fellowship is a word
full of suggestiveness. It's pregnant with meaning. John
tells us that we who trust Christ We who are born of God, we who
have Christ revealed to us and in us, being born of God and
taught of God, we have fellowship with the Father and the Son. This word fellowship is suggestive
of many things, suggestive of the deepest most sublime, most
intimate, most tender aspects of our relationship with God,
the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit in the blessed Trinity.
The word is so meaningful that it's almost impossible really
to translate it, almost impossible to give it a full, complete translation. Our King James translators had
translated this same word that is here translated fellowship
in a number of ways in the New Testament. Sometimes it's translated
contribution. Sometimes it's translated distribution. Sometimes it's translated communication. Sometimes it's translated communion.
Here John translate or the word is translated fellowship. When
John says our fellowship is with the father and with his son,
Jesus Christ, this is his meaning. We who believe, we who are born
of God, are partakers, partners, and companions of the eternal
God. Partakers, partners, and companions
of the eternal God through the mediation of Jesus Christ, his
son, our savior. We often speak of the fellowship
of the brethren, fellowship with one another, fellowship as a
church. And we know something about this
blessed gift of grace. God has given us in this place
blessed, blessed fellowship. Now, please understand when we
speak of this fellowship, I'm not talking about just a good
time and good company. That's not what I'm talking about.
I don't get to see my family very often. That is my father's
son, my father's children. I'm the only son. I have three
sisters, one I haven't seen in a long time. And once a year,
when I go down to a priest, Brother Linwood Campbell down in North
Carolina, close enough by, we'll get together and have a good
time. catch up on news and catch up
one another's lives and our children's lives and we enjoy it. It's a
good, good time. We make arrangements, make special
effort to do it, spend two or three hours together. But that's
not what I'm talking about when I'm talking about fellowship.
That's not what I'm talking about. We, some of you fellows get together
and go fishing or go hunting and you have a good time. That's
not what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about a good
feeling. Fellowship is a communication of life. Fellowship is a partnership
in life. Fellowship is a companionship
of life. To be in blessed fellowship is
to be united in heart and purpose. God's given us blessed fellowship,
blessed fellowship. The fellowship is to rejoice
with one another and weep with one another. I don't need to
know everything about your lives. I don't pry into your private
lives. I don't wish to do so and no
pastor has any business trying to control the private lives
of people. I don't spend nearly as much
time in your company as I would enjoy. My responsibilities demand
otherwise. But I rejoice with you. when
you rejoice. Lindsay's grandson came in, Blake,
a few weeks ago, and somebody told me, I think maybe it might
have been his granddaddy, told me the fella had made a triple
play unassisted. Wow. That's something for five,
isn't it? That's something for five years.
You wouldn't have been bragging about that, would you? And you know, I was almost as
happy for him as I was when I told him about Will making tremendous
play. How come? Because he's happy. He's happy. Well, that's trivial. It is. The trivial and the deepest aspects
of lives in fellowship are affected by one another. We rejoice with
one another and we weep with one another. That which rejoices
one rejoices all. That which hurts one hurts all. That which is painful to one
is painful to all. That which is a burden to one
is a burden to all. It's called fellowship. We bear
one another's burdens, fulfilling the law of Christ. In a very
real sense, we have all things common. There's one body. and one spirit, even as you're
called in one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
one God and father of all, who is above all and through all
and in you all. That means we have fellowship
one with another. Paul writes to the Colossians
and to us and says, above all these things, put on charity,
which is the bond of perfectness. What a strange way to put things. Charity, which is the thing that
binds perfection together and gives it strength. And let the
peace of God rule in your hearts to the which also you're called
in one body and be you thankful. Our fellowship with each other. This blessed fellowship we enjoy
as a body of believers. This blessed fellowship we have
as one family in Christ Jesus is fellowship that depends upon
and arises from. It depends upon and arises from
this one thing. Our fellowship with the father
and with the son. Fellowship with God. I suppose that must have been
the richest, sweetest, most blessed aspect of life for our father
Adam and our mother Eve in the garden. Imagine God walked with
Adam and Adam walked with God like two friends walking together,
talking like two friends, just chatting. Like two friends chatting
about life and life's experience, chatting about the beauty of
the day and the beauty of the garden. Adam walked with God,
and God walked with Adam. Adam spoke with God as with his
familiar friend, and God spoke with Adam as with his familiar
friend, until something happened. Sin entered into the garden. Sin came into the paradise God
had made for Adam and Eve. And when sin entered in, the
fellowship was broken. God came one day walking in the
garden, just as he had done all days previously. Only now, Adam
and Eve are hiding from God. Friends don't hide from each
other. Adam had transgressed and he knew the fellowship was
broken. He knew the fellowship was broken
and he could not restore it. And so he's hiding from God.
And the Lord God, being angry with the fallen man, drove him
from the garden, expelled him from paradise and put a guard
of flaming swords to keep the tree of life. Your iniquities
have separated between you and God. Your sins have hid his face
from you. that he will not hear. That's
the problem with men in this world. Fellowship with God has
been broken by sin so that God's face is hidden from man and God
will not hear man. God will not speak to nor be
spoken to by man while this fellowship is broken. God is angry with
the wicked every day. And the wicked are angry with
God every day. Brother Rex read it just a little
bit ago in Romans chapter 8. We're told that because the carnal
mind is enmity against God, it is not subject to the law of
God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the
flesh cannot please God. And yet man, knowing that the
fellowship is broken, ever since God drove him from the garden,
has been trying to repair and restore the fellowship. Man keeps
striving for redemption. I suppose one of the most popular
words in the last two or three years I hear on the news media
is redemption and atonement. Hear folks talk about it all
the time. Mr. Cain and I I hope that all the
accusations are just typical political slander, but his name
has been slandered. And somebody said, whenever it
was, I heard news last time and said, well, we all believe in
redemption and we like to see redemption because people really
do think that they can redeem their own souls. People really
do think that man can restore the breach, that man can make
up the broken fellowship, that man can restore himself to God's
favor. And so they make effort after
effort after effort to restore the fellowship. Turn to Isaiah
chapter 28, Isaiah 28. You remember the first famous,
infamous I should say, portrayal of this is in Genesis chapter
11 when the children of Babel were attempting to build a tower
to heaven because they want to restore the fellowship. And men
always are attempting to build a tower to heaven. It is the
nature of man that has fallen, that seeks continually to restore
and repair the breach, to make up the difference between man
and God, to win God's favor and put himself back in a position
where that he has God on his side. And yet man can't do it. And every attempt, every attempt
produces nothing but a delusion and a false sense of fellowship
that will never satisfy the conscience. Look here in Isaiah 28 verse
14. Wherefore, hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men
that rule this people, which is in Jerusalem, because you
have said you have said now just pause a minute and let me put
this in every day walk around shoe leather. You've said my
mom and daddy baptized me as a baby, and I've been in church
all my life. Me and God, we got things settled all right. Now,
I've walked down the aisle, and I said the sinner's prayer, and
I was baptized, and I joined the church, and my fellowship's
made up with God, and I've made my peace with God. I remember one night during revival
meeting, I just had a Tremendous sense of God's presence and I've
never been the same sense. Everything's alright Fellowship
has been restored. All right. Let's see what it
says You have said We made a covenant with death We made a covenant with death
I know I've got to die I know I do every man's got to die and
I fixed it so I can die in peace and with hell We are at agreement. Hell is not going to bother me.
When the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall
not come unto us. When judgment comes, it won't
touch us. For we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood
have we hid ourselves. We've made a refuge, but it's
a refuge of lies. We've got a place of hiding,
but it's a place of falsehood. Look at verse 17. This is what
God says concerning your refuge of lies. Judgment will I lay
to the line and righteousness to the plummet. Now, Joe Blakely, this is what
God says about your refuge. It's what it says about Don Fortner's
refuge. I'm going to lay justice to the line. What's your refuge? Does it measure? in accordance
with God's strict, absolute, unbending, unbreakable justice
and truth. Does it? God says the soul that
sinneth it shall die. God says he will by no means
clear the guilty. God says judgment I will lay
to the line. And righteousness. I want to
drop it like a plummet ball. And we'll see how you measure
up. Righteousness. Not your best attempt. Not your
best effort. Not doing the best you can and
being as good as you can and as righteous as you can. God
demands perfect righteousness and complete satisfaction. Here's
the pivot. Will your refuge measure up?
Will your refuge Meet the standard of God's justice and God's righteousness. No, sir, it won't. Not unless
your refuge is Christ the Lord. Read on. And the hail shall sweep
away your refuge of lies and the water shall overflow the
hiding place and your covenant with death shall be disannulled
and your agreement with hell shall not stand. When the overflowing
scourge shall pass through, then shall you be trodden down by
it. From the time that it goeth forth, it shall take you. For
morning by morning shall it pass over, day by day, day by day,
not by day and by night. And it shall be for a vexation
only to understand the report. That is, your religion will be
your constant vexation. I had a friend ask me just the
other night, I got done preaching down at Kingsport, and he said,
he says, how do I, I run across these folks every day in my business. They come in and sit down and
talk and said, this place, this place around here is full of
charismatics and free willers. I said, how do you talk to them
about the religion? And I said to him, Earl, you
can't argue with a man's experience, but you might say to him, If
it gives you comfort and peace in your soul before God, hang
on to it. Excuse me. If it gives you comfort
and peace in your soul, not before men, before God, hang on to it. Hang on to it. Because your false
refuge, God's going to sweep away. You go home tonight with
your refuge. Every one of you. Go home tonight
with your refuge. Turn the lights out. Kiss your
wife, your husband goodbye. Put your children in the bed
and lay down and think about judgment and hell and eternity. About meeting God with the righteousness
at the plummet and justice at the line. Ask now, where's my
refuge? If it gives you comfort, I'd
hang on to it. But I'll tell you what you're
going to find with every false refuge. The bed is shorter than
that a man can stretch himself on it. And the covering narrower
than that he can wrap himself in it. You just can't warm yourself. You just can't stretch yourself. You just cannot find that comfort
and consolation in your refuge of lies that will speak peace
to your conscience. can't be done. Now look back
at verse 16. Therefore, thus saith the Lord
God, behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation stone, a tried stone,
a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation. He that believeth
shall not make haste. He that's built on this foundation
stone He that believeth on the Son of God shall not be ashamed. He shall not be put to shame.
He shall not be confused. He shall not be confounded. He
shall not make haste. Your refuge of lies will crumble.
Your covenant of death will be disannulled. But God says, I
lay in Zion a foundation stone, a foundation of mercy, hope,
and grace. He's a tried stone. Tried by
Satan, tried by devils, tried in Gethsemane, tried upon Calvary,
and tried by the souls of all his people through the ages.
He is a tried foundation stone. He is a sure foundation. And this precious cornerstone
and this sure foundation is Jesus Christ our Lord. All right, back
to our text. First John chapter 1 verse 3. being built on this foundation
that God himself has laid. Jesus Christ crucified, washed
in his blood and robed in his righteousness, united to him,
wed to him, one with him, having his life in us and us living
in him. We now have fellowship with the
father and with his son. Jesus Christ the Lord Jesus Christ
has brought fallen sinners into blessed fellowship with God and
Restored that which he took not away And be sure you don't miss
this John was inspired by God the Holy Spirit to write this
blessed epistle that ye also may have fellowship with us John
writes this epistle so that we might have fellowship with God
and with His Son and with all His people in His Son. He says
in verse 4, Have you ever stopped, Bob, to look at how many times
the Lord God commands us to rejoice? He commands us to rejoice. Rejoice
in the Lord always. Again, I say rejoice. Let your
moderation be known to all men. The Lord's at hand. Rejoice. He speaks of the joy of faith.
John says, these things we write unto you, that you may have fellowship
with the Father, and with his Son, and with us in his Son.
We do it that your joy may be full. Joy. Not pretense, not
the whoopee, giddy joy, not the stuff you have to fake. You turn
on the television, watch these religious fools smile like possums
eating briars, putting on a fake joy, pretending to be happy all
the time. Well, she lost her sister. Well,
bless the Lord, isn't that wonderful? No. No. Not pretense. Real abiding joy that the world
cannot take away. Real abiding joy that cannot
be destroyed by anything in time. Joy that's full. Joy in the Lord. That which John teaches us here
is a profound Stupendous, amazing fact of God's free grace. But amazing as it is, as mysterious
as it is, it is nonetheless true. John says, truly, we have fellowship
with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. He's telling
us that as believers, we have all things common with God Almighty
in Jesus Christ. We have all things common with
God Almighty in Jesus Christ. We have fellowship with the Father
and with the Son. We've turned everyone to his
own way. We all went astray in the fall of our father, Adam.
We went astray from our mother's womb, speaking lies. By nature,
our hearts are enmity against God. By nature, we're children
of wrath, even as others. And in holy justice, the most
high God has turned his face from our fallen race, proclaiming
the soul that sinneth it shall die. But it was the purpose of
Christ in coming into this world to undo all the fall for all
his people. To undo all the fall for all
his people. Christ came here the last Adam. to undo everything that was brought
to pass by the fall of the first Adam. Christ came here to restore
that which he took not away, to bring us into fellowship with
the Father. He does it by two marvelous works
of grace. First, by his sin-atoning sacrifice,
whereby he brings in everlasting righteousness and put away sin. And then by the application of
his blood to our hearts by his spirit in regeneration, when
the spirit of God calls the center, gives us life and faith in Christ,
sprinkling the conscience with the blood of Christ, our consciences
are reconciled to God and we are at peace with God. He is
our peace. Christ is our peace. Christ is
our peace. We who believe are no longer
strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints
and of the household of God. That which we lost in Adam, we
have regained by the obedience and death of Christ. Paradise
was lost in a representative man and paradise is regained
in a representative man. And look at this text. I'm going
to speak to you about these three things. I'll spend the bulk of
my time on the first deliberately. We have here an indescribable
blessing and a heartfelt desire and a wondrous declaration. Number one, I want to reverse
the order of our text. And I want to start with the
last phrase in the text. Truly our fellowship is with
the father and with his son, Jesus Christ. What an indescribable
blessing. Our Lord Jesus said, if a man
loved me, he will keep my words. My father will love him and we
will come unto him and make our abode with him. It is to this
fellowship that we've been called in God's saving grace. God is
faithful by whom you were called into the fellowship of his son,
Jesus Christ, our Lord. Every true believer Every sinner
who trusts Jesus Christ as Lord can say with confidence, has
every reason to say with confidence, truly, my fellowship is with
the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ. James Jordan, my
life and God's can't be separated. My life and Christ can't be separated. He's the head. I'm a member of
his body. You can't separate them and give
them two different lives. We are one with Christ Jesus,
the Lord. We walk together with God and
his son in communion, in agreement, in love. In order to have fellowship
with someone, there's got to be an agreement. an agreement,
a basic agreement. And we being born of God walk
in the light as he is in the light. And we are in agreement
with him. We're in agreement with God.
We read in the book about God's purpose, his decrees, his predestination. We see that God has ordained
and purposed and made all things for himself, yea, even the wicked
for the day of evil. We see in the book of God that
the Lord God Almighty has ordained Christ Jesus to be the head of
his church, the mediator of a new covenant, the representative
of a chosen race, and that God has purposed to save a people
in his son, and that that's what he's doing in this world. And
being in fellowship with God, our hearts are in full agreement.
In full agreement. He says, I will have mercy on
whom I will have mercy. And whom he will, he hardeneth.
And we say it's right for him to do so. We're in full agreement. Well, Brother Don, I know lots
of Christians who don't agree with those things. No, you don't.
No, you don't. You know, religious folks who
have built a refuge of lies for themselves who don't agree with
those things. God's people are in fellowship with God. They're
in fellowship with God. We don't object to God. We don't
object to God. Rebels object to God. Rebels
object to God because they hate God. Believers don't object to
God. We're in fellowship with him.
He says that he will be gracious to whom he will be gracious to
the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us
accepted in the beloved. And we rejoice to declare that
it's so. In the sight of the all knowing
God. I lift my hand to heaven. And
I say before God as his witness to you. that if I could alter
anything God Almighty has ordained from eternity, I wouldn't alter
one thing. Nothing. If I could change anything
God has purposed, I would change nothing. I'm in agreement with
God in all his purpose. I'm not one who lives with enmity
against God, but walk in the spirit believing God. God's purpose
in everything is his own glory. That's God's purpose, his glory. God's determined that no flesh
or glory in his presence. God's determined that no one
receive any honor, any praise, any power, any glory except his
son. God's purpose that and all who
are in fellowship with the father. and with his son, delight to
say not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name be
glory. For thine is the kingdom and
the power and the glory. We delight to say worthy is the
Lamb. Thou art worthy to receive praise
and honor and glory and might and power and dominion. For thou
hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every nation and
kindred and tribe and tongue. We say with David, let those
that love thy salvation say continually, let God be magnified. God has
ordained the salvation of sinners in a way that will magnify his
justice, honor his law and honor him, a way that he can be gracious
and yet continue to be God, a just God and a savior. And there's
only one way that can happen. That's by the substitutionary
sacrifice of his own dear son. Only by righteousness being fulfilled,
only by justice being satisfied, can God both fulfill his word
of law, the soul that sinneth it shall die, and his promise
of grace, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. God's
word of law is, I will by no means clear the guilty. His promise
of grace is, I will forgive iniquity, transgression, and sin. And by
these things, he showed Moses his glory. How can that be? Only by a sacrifice of infinite
worth, who is himself God, Jesus Christ, the God-man, living in
perfect obedience to God. Our Lord Jesus told us in the
Sermon on the Mount, if you have two coats and you're walking
down the street and you see your brother has none, well, you take
off one coat and give it to your brother. And our Lord Jesus fulfilled
the command. He had a coat of essential righteousness
as God. And he had a coat of righteousness
called the righteousness of God, which he brought in by his obedience.
And he comes to every center chosen by his grace and puts
on us his coat of righteousness, making us the righteousness of
God in him. But sin must be punished. And
Jesus Christ, our substitute, died under the wrath of God,
fully satisfying God's justice so that God Almighty finds my
sin on his son, and he says, Don Fortner must die. I will by no means clear the
guilty. And he slaughtered his son in
my stead and raised him again without sin. and gives me righteousness,
forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. And no one can charge
God with folly. No one can ask, is God now bending
over and breaking his own law? Has God abandoned his own justice? Oh, no. God satisfied his justice
and magnified his grace in the sacrifice of his son. I might
add that our hearts fully agree with God's display of his character
in the sacrifice of his son. He who is God our Savior has
redeemed us to God by his blood and we sing, oh, the love that
drew salvation's plan. Oh, the grace that brought it
down to man. Oh, the mighty gulf that God did span at Calvary. Not only that, we being in communion
with God, having fellowship with God, love the people of his choice. By this shall all men know that
you're my disciples, if you have love one for another. Believers
love each other. They love each other. Now, it's
silly that I should have to say this, but what the world calls
love is not love. I'm not talking about a show
of passion, though love may involve that. I'm not talking about saying
I love you, though love certainly involves that. I'm not talking
about all the things that men talk about about love. People
had the idea that a father who is stern doesn't love his children. Well, that's absurd. That's absurd. A father who lets his children
run wild doesn't love his children. He loves himself. They love themselves. What the world speaks of as love
is not love at all, it's selfishness. Believers love one another. They
love God's people. What's that mean? They're committed
to the welfare of God's church and God's kingdom. Committed
to it. Committed to it. Committed to
one another's good. Devoting themselves to one another.
A man and wife are married and they love each other. They love
each other. Shelby and I were married nearly
two years before we had our only child. And we loved each other,
I think, sort of, maybe. Well, of course we did. But then
a child was born in the family. And that object of mutual love
has for 40 years constantly drawn our hearts stronger in love for
one another. So it is with God's family. Those
who are born of God love God and love his people. We don't talk much about our
love either for God or for one another. We recognize that our
love is not worth mentioning. But we do love him. We love him
because he first loved us. Matter of fact, when you read
first John four 19, next time you read it, sit down and make
yourself a list. He's first in everything. We love him because
he first loved us. We choose him because he first
chose us. We come to him because he first
came to us. We devote ourselves to Him because
He first devoted Himself to us. We buy the pearl of great price
because He first bought us. In everything, He comes first.
But we do love Him because He first loved us. If we're partakers
of this fellowship, we're partakers of the divine nature. We've been
made new creatures in Christ. The life of God has been created
in our souls. No, we haven't become gods. No,
man has not become divine. But God, the Son, who is Christ,
our Redeemer, our mediator, that man who is God, we are made partakers
of the divine nature because Christ has come to live in us. And living in us, we live in
Him. And He brings to us the gift
of eternal life. When you read the New Testament,
you read about this eternal life. And sometimes you read about
everlasting life. But the same word is translated
eternal and everlasting. Well, were the translators confused?
Did they not know that the word means eternal? Did they not know
the word means everlasting? No, they weren't confused. They
knew exactly what they were doing. The life that we have as the
gift of God is eternal life. Merlin didn't begin when we believed. It didn't begin when we believed.
The life was in the sun. And the son set up as our surety
from everlasting from whenever he as our mediator had life from
the beginning. We had life in him that could
never be taken away. But we were born dead in trespasses
and in sins. And this life is given to us
in the experience of grace so that now from this day forward,
we live in everlasting life. This life manifest and brought
to light by the gospel through the appearing of our Lord Jesus
Christ. We have fellowship with the father and with his son,
Jesus Christ, a fellowship of life and have all things in common
with him. His Glory is our glory. The love wherewith the father
loved the son is the love wherewith he loves us. His righteousness
is our righteousness. His perfection is our perfection. His glory is our glory. His inheritance is our inheritance. Truly, we have fellowship with
the father. and with his son, Jesus Christ.
Now, as intended, I spent the bulk of my time talking to you
about that blessed, blessed gift. Let me express briefly my own
heartfelt desire, which John expresses here, that you may have fellowship
with us. Oh, that you may have fellowship
with us. I want you who hear my voice. Oh, I want for you. Fellowship
with God and with his son. I want to do everything I possibly
can. to destroy every refuge of lies
that you may build for yourself. I want to knock every prop you
have out from under you. I want to destroy every false
notion you have about salvation and life and eternity that you
may believe on the Son of God and have fellowship with us. Fellowship with God, with the
Father, and with his son, fellowship. I want you, Denise Ranere, to
have all things common with God. I want for your sons and daughters
that you be partners together with God, that you be partakers
of the life of God. Oh, may God graciously grant
you that life. And now let us take the appropriate
action to bring sinners into this fellowship. That which we
have seen and heard declare we unto you. Go tell your brethren what wondrous
things the Lord has done for you. Go tell sinners about God's
free grace in Jesus Christ. I don't urge you to argue with
folks about theology and doctrine. I would urge you, if you get
on the internet, ignore all the religious blog pages and all
that nonsense. But rather than spending your
time trying to prove some point of doctrine, go tell sinners
what God's done for you. This I know. Jesus Christ saves
sinners by His grace. There's never been a sinner to
come to Him seeking mercy. who didn't find mercy from him.
The Lord Jesus Christ, God's darling son, seated at the right
hand of the majesty on high, delights in mercy. He delights
to forgive iniquity, transgression, and sin. That's his pleasure.
The Lord Jesus Christ faithfully preserves all who trust him unto
everlasting glory. and all the riches of the love
and mercy and grace of God, all the riches of the bounty of God. Everything that God in heaven
can or will give to any man, he gives to every sinner who
trusts his son. You mean, Brother Don, I can
walk out of here tonight in fellowship with God and with His Son, having
everything in common with God and with His Son? Yes, you may,
if you believe on the Son of God. Amen.