If you'll turn back with me now
to Colossians chapter 1, I'm going to make my remarks
from verse 27. But in this chapter, Paul speaks
with an understanding that the church of the living God was
not in the narrow, limited confines of Abraham's seed. He no longer spoke in that direction.
That's how he was raised. That's how his mind was as a
child. That's how he focused his ministry
as a Pharisee. He viewed everything that God
intended to do through the narrow confines of the seed, the natural
seed of Abraham, Israel. But now he sees with a vision
as wide as the world. As wide as the world, every nation,
every tongue, every tribe, every people upon the face of the planet
will be gathered and stand before God's throne by the full, free,
redeeming grace of God in Christ. And he can stand in Ephesus and
speak to those Greeks, and he can He can go south of there
and preach to absolute heathen idolaters who knew nothing whatsoever
of the Bible, of the living God, who worshipped Diana and worshipped
this God and that God and some other God. And this was a great
mystery which had been hid from generations. I read that to you
just a few moments ago. Paul said, what I'm telling you,
what I'm preaching to you has been hidden, hidden of God for
generations. It's a great mystery. And as
far back as the beginning of the nation of Israel, no man
ever dared think that God's purpose of grace in the coming Redeemer
would reach as far as these heathen tribes and these Gentile nations
on this earth. No reason. None whatsoever to
believe that. This is a day of great light
and reformation and the whole system of worship had been changed. The whole system of worship was
being declared and changed. Christ has come and fulfilled
all the Old Testament types. He is the High Priest. We don't
need a High Priest. I don't need a Pope to represent
me in Rome. I have a High Priest. I don't
need a high priest to represent me down here at some cathedral.
I have a high priest who's seated in the heavens. He's the high priest of God after
the order of Melchizedek. That's what Paul said. He's not
going to stoop himself to be a priest like Aaron. Aaron was
just typical. He's a priest after the order
of Melchizedek who had neither beginning of days nor end of
time. that even the patriarch Abraham paid tithes to him, met
him on the way back from the battle of the king. And he ascended
and took the throne of the kingdom. He's our king. I don't need a
king. He's my king. I can obey the
magistrates. I can obey the powers that be,
like Paul talked about over there in Romans 13, that are ordained
of God because my king sits on the throne of glory and rules
over all the other kings. He's the king of kings. and Lord
of Lords. He's fulfilled these things.
He's the prophet of prophets, who alone has made unto us wisdom. He's the substitute and sacrifice
that atones for sin. He's the tabernacle made without
hands. He's the city of refuge. He's the scapegoat. He taketh
away the first, Paul said, that he might establish the second.
Now that's what Paul's subject here is in this chapter. That's
what he's talking about. He's made known this great mystery
to you. This was a mystery. No man had
even considered it before this time. Paul, along with the other apostles,
were part of that foundation upon which Christ was building
His church. He was speaking these things
to most for the first time. He taketh away the first that
he may establish the second. And so it is also when we consider
this nation of Israel. Israel stood as a type of the
church. Taken out of Mesopotamia, God took that old heathen idolater
named Abraham and by his natural seed separated a people to typify
the church of the living God. And he told him two great truths.
He told Abraham, he said, I'm going to build of you a nation.
And he did, didn't he? The nation of Israel. I'm going
to build of you a nation. And in that nation, I'm going
to bless all the families of the earth. And he did, didn't
he? He sure did. The clearest scripture I know
on this subject is over in Romans chapter 9. Romans chapter 9, beginning with
verse 6. where he said, Not as though
the word of God hath taken none effect when it spoke of natural
Israel. For they are not all Israel which
are of Israel, neither because they are the seed of Abraham
are they all children. But in Isaac shall thy seed be
called. That is, they which are the children
of the flesh, these are not the children of God, but the children
of the promise are counted. for the seed. And to demonstrate
this even clearer, he said to Rebekah, Jacob have I loved,
Esau have I hated. And he said it to establish the
purpose of God according to election. God has a people, a people that
is chosen out of every tribe and kindred and tongue and nation
under heaven, and they are spiritual Israel. This is a mystery. Now this generation, they believe
their eyes have been opened, and they believe that they understand
that salvation in the universal scope of things, and they see
the widening of salvation. They don't see it as still being
particular as far as spiritual Israel, but they do see that
widening of this thing of salvation not just applying to the children
of Israel. They see that. But they don't
see that God has chosen out of all these tribes and kindreds
and tongues and nations a spiritual people. Now, just try to wrap
your mind around this concept that everything you see, get
in the car and drive until you can't drive anymore. Everything
that you can see, everything that you hear, every act of providence,
every circumstance of time is arranged and brought to pass
to accomplish this end. God's going to save a people
for the glory of His name. That's what's going on. Well,
I just thought we was having a troublesome economy. I just
thought this was going on and that's going on. And I was listening
to a thing they had on there the other day about plagues of
locusts. Now they're worried about plagues
of locusts and all of this stuff that men worry about. That's
not what's going on. God's calling out a people. He's preserving all things and
doing all things a certain way in certain places to bring about
this end. Now that's what's going on. This
One who is before all things. That's what Paul talks about
in this chapter. This great God and Father of
this people that He's determined to save for the glory of His
name. This great God and Father. has
appointed this One who is before all things, the firstborn of
every creature. He's the firstborn from the dead.
He's the beginning of the church. He's the head of the church.
He is the beginning. Please God, in Him should all
fullness dwell. He's before all things, and by
Him all things consist. This One who's been appointed
head of the body. And to reconcile all men through
the blood of His cross has reconciled us who were alienated and enemies
in our minds by wicked work, who sent to us ministers. How shall they preach except
they be sent? He sent. Paul said, He sent me. Over and over and over, he tells
us. He sent me. He sent us ministers of the gospel
and created faith in us. and now engaged in our preservation
and protection. By him, a new age has begun,
an age of great light and great mysteries are being made known
to his saints. Great mysteries. The mystery
of iniquity. Isn't that what Paul talked about
over there in 2 Thessalonians 2? The mystery of iniquity, he
said, does already work. It's already here. It's a mystery. Men don't know that. You talk
to them about it, they'll look at you like you're from another
planet. You start talking about this invisible god of this world,
Satan, controlling all things and controlling all these things
that's going on out here, influencing all these churches and influencing
all the writers, news media and all that, scientists, teachers.
If he's not influencing these things, why are they all evil?
Why are they all against the things of God? I don't care what
it is. Schools, papers, politicians,
you name it. You name it. Opposed to it. There's a mystery, an iniquity
in the Scriptures called a mystery, and the mystery of the Gentiles.
That's something this generation hadn't even began to contemplate
until you bring it up to them, the mystery of the Gentiles and
the mystery of God's Spirit. I've never heard of anything
so mysterious as that in our day and proclaimed with such
superstition and foolish ideas of the Spirit of God. Can you
believe that God who created the world and who orders all
things? You look out there into space
and see all this order of creation and you see all the details and
all the knowledge and wisdom of God that you perceive in creation. Can you imagine Him trying to
manifest His glory by causing you to speak in a bunch of gibberish?
That's the most foolish thing I ever heard of in my life. That's
not how the Holy Spirit of God makes Himself known. He makes
Himself known by unraveling these mysteries, mysteries that man's
never even considered. How would you get your information? I have not seen or heard, neither
have entered into the heart of man the things that God hath
prepared for them that love him, but God hath revealed them unto
you by His Spirit. My soul, what the Spirit of God
has manifest Himself in unraveling these mysteries of this book.
I read men who are educated way beyond me, way beyond me, who
can't figure out the simplest things about these mysteries,
and yet God's been pleased to reveal them to me. That's His
Spirit, the Spirit of God. The natural man receives not
the things of the Spirit of God. That's why He's so ignorant.
We preach the wisdom of God in a mystery. This thing of salvation
and redemption is a mystery. It's a mystery. But this mystery
I want to talk about this morning is this mystery stated here in
Colossians 1, verse 27. Christ in you. Oh, think about
that. Christ in you. The hope of glory. Time will permit me. I want to
give you three things here in Colossians 1 that every God-called
preacher knows and all who are saved under his preaching are
going to learn. And the first thing is this,
down here in verse 27, to whom God will make known. That's who
has to make it known, God. God. I can stand up here and
preach. But if God don't give me the message and He don't take
that message and empower it and apply it to your heart, you're
not going to hear it. You're not going to hear it. Paul stood
up at Mars Hill and he preached and it said some heard him and
some rejected him and some said, we'll hear you again some other
time. That's the way it goes nearly every time I stand up
and preach. I get the same thing. I get the same thing. I want
to be just as clear as I can be here. This gospel of the Lord
Jesus Christ must be taught of God. Has to be. It has to be. The scribes and the Pharisees,
they saw the miracles of Christ. I can't perform those miracles,
but they did. They did. God confirmed their
ministry with signs and wonders and diverse miracles. Gifts of
the Holy Ghost. They could walk up, Paul, if
you look and trace Paul's footprints, I think is what they call it
in the maps in the back of the Bible, and it will show all these
little footprints going around where all he went. He went into,
I couldn't tell you how many different countries and different
languages, and he'd walk right in there and start speaking to
them in their own language. That's the gift of Tom. That's
divers gifts of the Holy Ghost. He was able to walk in there
and communicate these things of God to them in their own tongue. In their own tongue. Oh. To whom God will make known.
And it's got to be. He said they're all taught of
God. And these scribes and Pharisees,
they saw these miracles. They heard Christ preach. They
heard the preacher, the prince of preachers preach. Never a
man spake like this man. They heard him preach. They saw
God's miracles that attended his ministry. And he said, you've
seen me and you've seen the miracles, but you believe not. You believe
not. All that the Father giveth me
shall come to me, and him that cometh to me I will in no wise
cast out. And this coming is not a physical
coming. That's what I want you to hear
this morning. It's not a physical coming that
they did. They'd already done that and
still didn't have anything. This coming is a spiritual coming.
It's a coming to see and to know and to embrace and to rest in
the Lord Jesus Christ. When are you going to trust your
soul to Christ? When is a man going to rest his
soul in Christ? When is a man going to bow and
begin to see the glory of God in Christ? When is he going to
do all these things? When he's persuaded of the Scripture by
the Spirit of God that God was in Christ. When he sees the glory
of God in Christ, that's when he's going to do those things.
It's not a physical coming. It's a spiritual coming. And
it's a coming to see and to know and embrace and rest in the Lord
Jesus Christ. And they murmured at him. Why,
you foolish thing, you talking about being bread. I think it's
bread. Bread that comes down from heaven.
We got to eat your flesh and drink your blood. You're crazy. You're crazy. Listen to what
he tells me. John 6, 44. He said, don't murmur. No man can come to me. No man
can see these things. No man can understand these things.
No man can come to me except the Father which has sent me
draw him, and I'll raise him up at the last day. It's written
in the prophets, they shall all be taught of God. That's the
first thing I know. God is going to have to do the
teaching. Every man therefore that has heard, heard what? Heard
from God. That's right. Heard from God. Every man, therefore, that has
heard and has learned of the Father comes to me. That's what he does. He comes,
he sees, he understands, and he rests. It's what they call
in Scripture the common faith. Like, Peter said, like precious
faith. I preached fallen, ignorant,
unwilful, blinded men and women who must be taught of God." Well,
how does God teach men? Through men. Through men. God teaches men by the preaching
of the Gospel. Christ said to His disciples,
all power is given unto me in heaven and earth. Go ye therefore
and teach Now listen to this. Go ye therefore and teach all
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the
Son and of the Holy Ghost. Teach them to observe all things
whatsoever I have commanded you. And lo, I am with you always,
even unto the end of the world. Now you go preach. And he that
heareth you, heareth me. He that rejecteth you, rejecteth
me. That's what he told them. God
is not going to speak to you in some mysterious fashion in
your dreams and in experiences or in some kind of a good feeling. Bernard used to say, if you wanted
a good feeling, take warm honey and pour it down your back. You'll
get a good feeling. The God who teaches men teaches them through
men. That's how He does it. Through
men that He's ordained to preach His gospel. I'm going to give
you a couple of scriptures that I don't refer to very often. I want you to turn with me to
2 Timothy chapter 4. 2 Timothy chapter 4. And while
you are turning, I am going to read you something from Ephesians
chapter 4. In Ephesians 4 verse 11 it says,
And He, that is the ascended, glorified Christ, He gave some
apostles and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastor-teachers. Why did he do that? For the perfecting,
that is, the maturing of the saints, for the work of the ministry,
and for the edifying of the body of Christ. till we all come in
the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God
unto a mature man, a perfect man, unto the measure of the
stature of the fullness of Christ, that we henceforth be no more
children tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of
doctrine by the sleight of men cunning craftiness whereby they
lie and wait to deceive. But speaking the truth in love
may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ."
God gave them. They're His gifts to His church.
Now look here in 2 Timothy. Let's begin reading there in
verse 1. Timothy's a young pastor. He's a young preacher. Paul takes
him under his wing and he gives him this charge. I'm telling
you this is a solemn charge. Henry said this is a hard thing
for a young pastor to have put on him right up front. Now listen
to this. He said, I charge thee therefore before God and the
Lord Jesus Christ who shall judge the quick and the dead in his
appearing and his kingdom, preach the word. Be instant, in season,
out of season. Reprove, rebuke, exhort with
all long-suffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they
will not endure sound doctrine. But after their own lust shall
they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears." These men
will find no satisfaction in God's teacher. They'll find no
satisfaction in God's way and God's being. But they will not
submit themselves to his ministry. But they desire a multitude of
teachers, each saying something new and exciting, and each feeding
the appetites of men. That's why a lot of churches,
they left this whole governmental way of God of having a pastor,
and they went off to a presbytery. And they've got a whole bunch
of guys down here. And even those men can't agree
on what they believe. They are kind of like those philosophers
on Mars Hill. They want to tell and hear some
new thing. Verse 4, And they shall turn
away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
God teaches men. How does He teach them? He teaches
them through men. But not just through men, through
men whose ministry is attended by the Holy Spirit of God. Paul
told that church at Thessalonians, and I'm telling you, I know,
I don't feel one bit adequate to preach his gospel. And I know
without reservation, if God doesn't attend my words, I might as well
go out there and start preaching to the trees. God has to teach
these things. But God has ordained to teach
these things through men. And not only is He going to teach
them through men, but He's going to send His Spirit to attend
those men and attend that ministry. God has ordained the assembling
of the local church. You want to know where God is?
Where two or three are gathered together in His name. We pray and ask God, God, would
You teach us? Uh-huh. Yeah, I will. Where? Oh, I don't want that. I'm going
to do it this way. Do it that way. God's not in
it. God's not in it. I'm not talking about your personal
Bible readings and prayers. in your closet. I'm not talking
about those things. I'm talking about just finding
no necessity in the assembling of yourselves together to be
taught of God. I'm telling you, this is the
main way God teaches His children. That's what Paul's telling these
people. And there's going to come a day,
he told Timothy, where men are not going to endure this. They're
not going to follow this. They're going to go their own
way. We're living in it right now. We're living it. God Himself teaches men through
His ordained means of preaching and teaching and by the presence
and power of His Holy Spirit. You know there in 1 Corinthians
2, verse 14, where He talks about the natural man, He says, the
natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God.
Well, the preaching of the gospel is one of those things. He won't
receive that. He's not going to be shut up to that. You mean
to tell me I have to learn through a preacher? No, I ain't telling
you that. God's telling you that. He said,
how are you going to hear without one? If you don't hear, you can't
call on Him because you don't know who He is. It's still a
mystery to you, and the mystery has to be made known. The good
news is God's willing to make it known. Ain't that what Paul's
saying here? Sure it is. Listen to this. Even the mystery
which has been hid from ages and from generations, but is
now made manifest to His saints, to whom God would make known. He's going to make it known.
Where's He going to do it? He's going to do it to His saints. How's He going to do it? Through
His ministers. Through His ministers. And then
secondly, what do they preach? What is the tenor of the ministry?
What is the glass through which everything is viewed? What is
the central theme around which everything else is connected?
What does he labor to say? What is it that he looks so intent
for? It's Christ. Christ. That's what he sees. He sees
it in every page. He sees it in Genesis. He sees it in Exodus.
He sees it in Leviticus. He sees it in Numbers. He sees
it in Deuteronomy. He sees it in Joshua. He sees
it in the Kings and in the books of Samuel. He sees it all the
way in the Chronicles. He sees it all the way through
the Scriptures. He sees Christ. He preaches Christ. He goes out and he does the work
of an evangelist. In a few weeks, Lord willing,
I'm going to be out in San Diego, California preaching to a group
that's meeting there in a home, same as I do over here in Wichita
Falls. I pray that God will... I'm supposed
to speak to them four times. I've been praying that God will
give me four messages for that time and for that people. What am I going to preach? I
can tell you before I get there, I'm going to preach Christ. I'm
going to preach Christ. Unless I lose my mind sometime
between here and there, I'm going to preach Christ to them. Where
you going to preach from, I don't know yet. But I know what I'm
going to preach. I'm going to preach Christ. That's
the tenor of the gospel ministry. The riches of the glory of the
mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Now Paul said,
if our gospel be hid, If this mystery is still a mystery to
you, if this mystery is still a mystery to you, if our gospel
be hid, it's hid to the lost in whom the God of this world
hath blinded the minds of them lest they believe not. How does
he do that? Through antichrist religion.
That's how he does it. Antichrist religion. Oh, blinded
the minds of them that believe not, lest the light of the glorious
gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto
them. He said, we don't preach ourselves. We don't preach our
wills, our worthiness, our potential, our decisions, our feelings,
our understanding, or our station. We preach not ourselves, but
Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for his sake. For
God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has
shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of
the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. And we've got
this treasure, this heavenly treasure, in earthen vessels.
Why on earth would God do that? Why would He do that? So He'll
get all the glory. The glory of gospel preaching
is in the Lord Jesus Christ. It's in His face alone that the
glory of God is revealed. In Him alone is the eternal will
of God to save sinners mediated to me. The whole purpose of God
is trusted into His hands. He's the creator, sustainer,
the reason for everything that is to have a being. He's the
head of the body, the church. He's the power behind the preacher.
He's the message. of all true preaching. He's the
glory of all the mysteries and He's the hope of glory as His
glory is revealed in us by faith. Now what does that mean? Christ
in you, the hope of glory. What that means is that God has
shined in your heart the light of His glory. That's what that
means. And He has become your hope. That light has become your hope. His Son has become your hope.
I don't have any other hope. Christ in you is your hope of
glory. It means that you have nothing
else in which to hope. You still hoping in something
else? Huh? My soul. I preached predestination
to you this morning, and I showed you in the Scriptures where God
has purposed everything that is through His Son. I'm reading
it to you right here out of Colossians. He's the firstborn of every creature.
He's the hope of creation. He's the author of it. He's the
sustainer of it. It exists because of Him. His
purpose, His name is in it. It's stamped on everything created. He's the head of the body of
the church, the power behind the preacher, the message of
all true preaching, and the glory of all mysteries. And He's the
hope of glory, as that glory is revealed in us by faith. God shines in our heart the light
of His glory, and we walk in that light. That's what faith
is. It means it. In that empty black
hole we call the heart, God has established something contrary
to everything that's in there. Everything else that's in me
is contrary to this Christ in me. That's my hope. That's my
hope. The good that I would, I do not.
The things I would not do, that's the things that I do. You see
what I'm saying? Everything else in me is contrary
to this, but this hope. This hope is in harmony with
everything that God intends to do. Christ in you, the hope of
glory. I've just got one thing in me
that gives me hope and confidence and peace and joy, and that's
the person and work of Jesus Christ. Preachers don't act like
I should. If you did, you wouldn't need
a hope, would you? Huh? If you could follow the
law and all things and motive and thought and deed, if you
could do it, you wouldn't need a hope. That's what he told those
Pharisees. The well need not a physician.
The sick need a physician. Are you sick? Is everything in
there dark and black and empty? Then you need Christ. You need
Christ. Christ in you. And that brings
me to my third and final point. Christ in you, he said, the hope
of glory. In Romans chapter 8 verse 24,
Paul said, we're saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not
hope. For what a man seeth, why doth
he yet hope for it? Paul said, I haven't arrived
yet. We're talking about a man who
wrote half the New Testament. Not as though I'd already attained.
I press forward. I press toward the mark. There's
a mark out there. There's a hope out there, and
that hope is in me. That hope is what moves me. That
hope is why I walk the way I walk, why I do that. That's why I live
why I live. That's why I preach what I preach.
Christ in you, the hope, the hope of glory. He said, though
that outward man perish, yet that inward man is renewed day
by day, while we look not at the things which are seen, but
at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen
are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. I can't see God in me, but I've
got the hope. You see what I'm saying? I can't
see that meat. I've made the meat to be partakers
of the inheritance. I can't see it. But I've got
the hope. I've got the hope. I can't see
any glory at all in me. But I see the glory of Christ.
And that's my hope. That's the only hope of glory
I've got. Not in anything I've done. Back in Romans chapter 4, Paul
said to Abraham, the father of faith, before us, and he tells
us that Abraham believed God. Now listen to this. Here's the
God he believed. He believed God, who calleth
those things which be not as though they were. That's Abraham
God he believed in. God told him, you're going to
inherit Canaan. He never did inherit Canaan.
Huh? Never did. Never did. Jacob never did. Isaac never
did. We ain't got it. We're clear
over the book of Exodus. We ain't in Canaan yet. But God
called those things that are not as though they were. That's
the God Abraham believed in, and against hope. Now listen to this. This is Romans
4, verse 18. Who against hope believed in
hope that he might become the father of many nations. Talking
about the father of faith. He staggered not at the promise
of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory
to God. being fully persuaded that what
God had promised he was able to perform. That's that hope. Now, he said it wasn't written
for his sake alone, that God imputed this righteousness to
him for that, but for us also to whom it shall be imputed if
we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead. What is faith? Faith is seeing
the glory of God in Christ. seeing that glory to embrace
it, to embrace Him. If you embrace Him, you embrace
all that He accomplished. If you embrace Him, you embrace
the God who sent Him. If you embrace Him, you bow to
Him. You can't embrace a king as a
pauper. You have to embrace him as king,
don't you? You have to embrace him as he is. It's seeing the
glory of God in Christ and then walking according to what you
say. Men who say, I see, but walk some other way, don't see.
They don't see. Faith is seeing the glory of
God in Christ and then walking in that light. Well, we don't
all walk the light. We ain't all got the same amount
of light. Isn't that right? I don't have
the kind of light Paul had or John on the Isle of Patmos. And it's not just another hope,
but he calls it here the hope of glory. What's that mean? Brethren, if you had any idea,
if I had any idea, I'd be up here dancing and jumping and
shouting like a Pentecostal. It means to be sons of God and
joint heirs with Christ. You can't comprehend that, can
you? I can't either. But I tell you, just in the basic
thought of it comes more comfort and peace and joy and rest than
you'll ever get in religion. If you put all the religious
churches together, they couldn't give you that much peace and
satisfaction. To be a son of God. Because you are sons, Paul
said, God has sent forth his spirit into your heart, crying
Abba, Father. Abba, Father, of my soul. For God to be our Father. Think
what that means. Huh? Think what that means. I remember this old illustration
Brother Henry used to use years ago. I might not get it exactly
right because I'm just doing this off the cuff, but there
was a man back during the Civil War who he He was charged with a crime
that he didn't commit. And somehow, he had to get in
and see the President of the United States. He had to get
in and see Mr. Lincoln. And back in those days,
the White House was more accessible than it is today. And he went
up to the guards at the gate and told them what he wanted
and why he needed to be in there and so on. But they turned him
down, and now he's sat out on this bench, and he was just out
there weeping. And this little boy playing in the front yard
came over to him and said, Mr., why are you crying? What's the
trouble? And he said, well, I don't want
to get into everything, but he said, I've got to get in and
see the president. And he said, they've all told
me that I can't go in. And he said, well, I can get
you in. He said, you can get me in. He said, I can get you
in. Come on. Got him by the hand, walked right up there, walked
right between them two guards, walked right in there, walked
right past all the the protection of the President inside, walked
past all these politicians, walked right into the Oval Office, walked
right in where the President was and said, Dad, this man needs
to see you. The Son of God. I don't know
if you can get a hold of it. The Son of God, Russell, has
entered in to Heaven's glory itself and says, Father, These which thou hast given me,
give them what they need. We can enter right into the very
throne room of God, Paul said, and make our request. That's
what the Son has accomplished. That's what Paul said. Christ
in you. Have you got that hope in you?
Can you see that? Can you embrace Him? There's
nothing else to embrace. Embrace Him. Embrace Him. Because if you've got Him, you've
got it all. Well, I don't feel it. You don't need to feel it.
He doesn't tell you to feel it. He tells you to believe it. Believe
it. When you believe it, you'll feel
it. I guarantee it.