Is God My God?

Q: What does the Bible say about God being my God?

The Bible emphasizes that God desires a personal relationship, stating, 'I will be their God, and they shall be my people' (Exodus 29:45-46). In Exodus 29:45-46, God asserts, 'I will dwell among the children of Israel and will be their God.' This illustrates a profound personal relationship that is established through faith. The personal possessive pronoun 'their' signifies that while God is indeed the Creator and sovereign of all, He enters into a unique covenant relationship with His chosen people. Similarly, Hebrews 8:10 reassures believers that God will be their God, showing how this relationship is rooted in His promise and grace.

Q: How do we know that God is my God?

We know God is our God through faith, which provides the evidence of our relationship with Him (Hebrews 11:1). The assurance that God is our God is founded on faith. Hebrews 11:1 states, 'Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.' This means that our belief in God’s promises confirms our relationship with Him. Additionally, reliance on God's grace based on what He has done through Christ is crucial; it affirms that we are saved not by our works but by His purpose and grace. As a result, our faith, which looks to Christ, is the evidence that we belong to Him and that He is indeed our God.

Q: Why is knowing God is my God important for Christians?

Knowing God as our God assures us of His presence, support, and the eternal promises He has for His people. Understanding that God is personally our God is foundational to our faith and assurance. In Romans 8:31, it is affirmed, 'If God be for us, who can be against us?' This promise highlights that with God on our side, we have His constant support, protection, and guidance. For Christians, this relationship with God assures us of His sovereignty, grace, and continuous presence in our lives, enabling us to live in peace and confidence amidst trials. Additionally, it confirms that we are part of a covenant community where God dwells among His people and sanctifies them by His glory.

Q: What does it mean for God to be my God?

For God to be my God means that I have a personal relationship with Him, characterized by His love, protection, and promises. To have God as 'my God' signifies a deep, personal relationship rooted in His grace and mercy. It portrays God’s loving commitment to His people and His active engagement in their lives. In Romans 8:28, it states that 'all things work together for good to them that love God,' indicating that we are under His providential care. Moreover, having God as my God implies being part of the community of believers, redeemed and sanctified through the blood of Christ. As expressed in Psalm 23, the acknowledgment of God as my shepherd provides assurance that He provides, guides, and protects those who belong to Him.

Would you turn to Exodus 29? While you're turning there, we're
going to have a workday here on Saturday. And I'm not going
to be here. But that was not purposeful. We're going to move the pews
into Fellowship Hall, and we're going to meet there while they're
enlarging the auditorium. I don't know how long it'll be,
a month, six weeks, two months at the most, surely, maybe shorter,
I don't know. So if the men could help do that
also, please take all your Bibles, blankets, stools, et cetera,
with you tonight as we're going to move the pews and we need
to get those out of the way. Also, could some of you men put
the tables and chairs up that were used for Bible school after
the service tonight. Exodus 29. I want to read verses 45 and verse 46. And I will dwell among the children
of Israel and will be their God. And they shall know that I am
the Lord their God, that brought them forth out of the land of
Egypt, that I may dwell among them. I am the Lord their God. Now, I've entitled this message,
Is God My God? is god my god now what is the
slang that is used more than any other slang in our day i hear it constantly oh my god
oh my god i mean godless wicked people use the term so Easily
it's taking the name of the Lord in vain, but that seems to be
the most popular phrase of our day It's it's on so many Sentences
of so many people regarding so many subjects. Oh my god. Oh
my god Is he? Is he Now three times in that
passage of scripture, I just read the Lord identifies himself
as the Lord their God Personal possessive pronoun there
is used. I am the Lord their God. There indicates possession. I am the Lord their God. I am the God that belongs to
them. This speaks of something special,
a very special relationship. I am the Lord their God. Now, God is everybody's creator. We know that. He's everybody's
king. He's everybody's ruler. But he is not everybody's God
in the sense that he's talking about here. I think of what David
said in Psalm 23 when he said, The Lord is my shepherd. And because my shepherd is the
Lord, I shall not want. Now he's not everybody's shepherd
in that sense, is he? He is only shepherd to his people. Turn with me for a moment to
Hebrews chapter 8. Is God my God? Hebrews chapter 8, beginning
in verse 10. For this is the covenant that
I'll make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord.
I'll put my laws into their mind. And write them in their hearts,
and I will be to them a God. And they shall be to me a people. And they shall not teach every
man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the
Lord, for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins
and iniquities will I remember no more. I'll be to them a God,
where this God is my God. is God, my God. What is it to have God as your
God? What does that mean? Well, turn with me to Romans
8. Brian read this back in the study, and this passage of Scripture,
I always find, by the grace of God, by the grace of God, only
when He enables me, I might read it and don't get anything out
of it and just go on to the next page. I realize that. Apart from
the grace of God, I won't get anything out of it. But I find
this passage of Scripture absolutely thrilling. That's how beautiful
this passage is. Look in verse 31. Now this is
what it is to have God as your God. What shall we then say to
these things if God be for us? That's what happens when God
is your God. That means God is for you. That means God is acting
in your behalf. That means God is on your side. Yeah, you're on His side, but
He's on your side. That's what I want. I want God
to be my God. If God be for us, who can be
against us? Now, you look at this passage
of Scripture in verse 28 of this same chapter. And we know that all things work
together for good to them that love God, to them who are the
called according to His purpose. He's for us in His purpose. For whom He did foreknow, Not
what he foreknew, whom he foreknew. Big difference. You believe God
knows everything? Of course I do. But that's not
what this is talking about. This is talking about people
whom he did foreknow, whom he did forelove. He also did predestinate. He predetermined everything that
they would be conformed to the image. of His Son, that He might
be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, whom He did predestinate,
them He also called. And whom He called, them He also
justified. And whom He justified, them He
also glorified." Now that's in the past tense. Understand this
passage of Scripture I just read. It's not prophetic. It's not
talking about something that's going to happen. It's talking
about something that's already happened. I've actually been
glorified in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. I love how
Paul reacts to this. He said, what shall we then say
to these things? I mean, this is great stuff.
Foreknowledge, God's purpose, God's predestination, God's justification,
God's calling, God's glorification. This is great stuff that every
believer has. Now what are we going to say
to these things? If God be for us. Who can be against us? Go on reading. He that spared
not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall
he not? How shall he not? I love what
that says. How shall he not with him also
freely give us all things? You see, if he has spared not
his own son, he must freely give us all things. Who shall lay anything to the
charge of God's elect? It's God that justifieth. Who
is he that can condemn? It's Christ that died, yea, rather
that's risen again, who's even at the right hand of God, who
also maketh intercession for us. Now, what I love about that
passage of Scripture is there's nothing I need to do. It's all
His work. I love that. If God be for me,
and this is, I want God to be for me, don't you? I want God
to be my God. I mean, where He owns me as one of His, and I
own Him as my God. I am my Beloved's, and my Beloved
is mine. And that's a wonderful place
to be, isn't it? He identifies Himself as the Lord, their God. Now, to have Him as your God,
acting for you, what else could you possibly need? Now let's go back to our text
in Exodus 29. Exodus 29. Let's begin in verse 38. And this is speaking of the morning
and evening sacrifices. This is how God is our God. Now this is that, verse 38, Exodus
29, now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar, two
lambs of the first year, day by day, continually. The one lamb thou shalt offer
in the morning, and the other lamb thou shalt offer at evening. And with the one lamb, a tenth
deal of flour, mingled with the fourth part of an hen of beaten
oil, And a fourth part of a hen of wine for a drink offering.
And the other lamb thou shalt offer even, and shalt do thereto
according to the meat offering of the morning, and according
to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savor, an offering
made by fire unto the Lord. This shall be a continual burnt
offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation before the Lord, where I will meet you to
speak unto you, unto thee. Now these verses speak of the
morning and evening sacrifices. And they were to be offered every
morning and every evening. The priest would go into the
tabernacle, into the courtyard where that brazen altar was.
Every day they would offer sacrifice in the morning and a sacrifice
in the evening. Now there were three things involved
in each of these sacrifices. There was a lamb There was a
meat offering and there was a drink offering. And all three of these
are significant and we can learn how God is our God through these
three offerings. First, there was the lamb that
was to be slain every morning and every evening. And look what
verse 41 says, and the other lamb thou shalt offer it even
and shalt do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning
and according to the drink offering thereof for a sweet savor. a savor of rest, a savor of satisfaction,
an offering made by fire unto the Lord. Now, you'll remember
that Passover lamb. God said regarding that Passover
lamb, when I see the blood, not when you see the blood, when
I see the blood, I will pass over you. And the blood of the
lamb, the blood of the morning and evening lamb, the blood of
the Passover lamb, the blood of the lamb on the day of atonement,
whatever we're talking about the blood of the lamb, it was
a sweet savor to God, a savor of incense, a sweet smell, a
smell of rest, a smell of satisfaction. Now, I want you to think about
what the blood of the lamb does, the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And this is wonderful to think about this. First of all, the
blood of Jesus Christ actually puts away my sin. Now once in the end of the world
hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And here's what's so wonderful
about this. My sins put away. Sins I haven't even committed
yet, that I'm going to commit tomorrow. And I say that to my
shame. They've been put away. They've been wiped out. That's
what he did. He put away sin by the sacrifice
of himself. What does the blood of Christ
do? The blood of Christ sanctifies us perfectly. Listen to this scripture, Hebrews
10, verse 10. By the witch will, we are sanctified
through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. We are sanctified. We have been
sanctified. This is in the perfect tense.
It can't be added to. It's perfectly completed, never
to be repeated. I am actually sanctified. The
blood of Christ makes me holy. Holy. I can call myself holy
without it being an act of presumption. Without it being wrong, without
it being irreverent, without it being self-righteous, the
blood of Jesus Christ actually makes everybody he died for holy
and unblameable and unreprovable in the very sight of God. That's
what the blood of Christ does. The blood of Christ satisfies
the justice of God. Can you see why it's a sweet-smelling
savor? It pleads the Lord. It didn't mean God got some kind
of masochistic pleasure out of bruising the Lord Jesus Christ,
or He got some kind of pleasure out of His pain. It means He
found complete satisfaction in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Justice is satisfied. He's not looking for anything
else. And I'm not looking for anything else either. Complete
in the blood of Christ. Complete in the person of the
Lord Jesus Christ. The blood of Christ gives us
boldness. Listen to this scripture. boldness to enter into the holiest,
into the very presence of the Holy God by the blood of Jesus. That's what the blood of Christ
does. You know I can, God is my God. I can come into His presence
and know I'm accepted of Him. He embraces me, I embrace Him
through the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. I have boldness
to come into His presence. Now I've got that boldness whether
I feel it or not, it's still mine. You know, sometimes I feel
bold as I just feel like I'm his child. Sometimes I just feel
so far away. And you know what I mean when
I say that. But whether I feel far away or whether I feel bold,
I still have that boldness however I feel because that boldness
is through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. The blood of Christ is the subject
of the eternities. Christ is the lamb slain from
the very foundation of the world. And God's people have never been
viewed independently of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. And
it's going to be the song of heaven, worthy is the lamb that
was slain. Now, indeed, this blood is precious
blood. And God found it to be a sweet
savor. He said he's satisfied. Smells
good. And this is what is glorious
to me. I smell good to God. That's what the blood of the
Lord Jesus Christ does to me. It makes me a sweet savor. The
blood makes every believer smell good to God. I love what Jacob
said in Genesis 35. He said to his boys, he said,
you've made me to stink in the presence of the inhabitants of
this land. And I know what he felt like.
You know, the psalmist said, my wounds stink and are corrupt. I have some understanding of
that. But do you know that I actually, every believer actually smells
good through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Isn't that
wonderful? That's how God is my God, through the blood of
Christ. But there was also a meat offering.
flour mingled with beaten oil. Now this represents the work
of the Holy Spirit. And this is just as important and just
as essential to salvation as the work of the Son and the work
of the Father. The work of God the Holy Spirit. I can't be saved
without the work of God the Holy Spirit. This bread mingled with
oil. It's unleavened bread You know
what that represents in the New Testament? The unleavened bread
of sincerity and truth. Oil always represents the work
of the Holy Spirit. Now for God to be my God, He
has to do something in me. And this is the work of the Spirit
of God in me. This bread mingled with oil,
the work of the Spirit of Christ. Now that's what believes. I know
it's not my flesh, my old nature that believes. It's the new nature
that He's given me. That's the nature that loves
God. I don't God love her. I love Him as He's revealed in
His words. And do I feel good about my love? No, as a matter
of fact, I know I ought to love Him a whole lot more than I do.
And as a matter of fact, if I start thinking about my love, I start feeling
bad about it because I know I ought to love Him more. But I tell
you what, the love I have is the work of His grace in me.
I know that. It didn't come from my flesh.
It's the work of God the Holy Spirit in me. This is what perseveres
the new man, this life before God. This is just as essential
in the salvation of the sinner as the work of the Father in
election and the work of the Son in redemption. You see, salvation
is the work of the Father, the work of the Son, and the work
of the Holy Spirit. The work of the Son is God's
work for you. The work of the Holy Spirit is His work in you. Now, for God to be my God, I'm
going to have to have a nature that He can have fellowship with.
And I have that in the new birth. the God of glory. You know, David said, what is
man that thou art mindful of him? I understand him asking
that. What is man that you'd be mindful
of him? But he's more than mindful of
us. He actually has fellowship with his people. Fellowship. with the living God. Now for
me to have fellowship with Him, first I'm going to have to be
perfectly righteous and I'm going to have to have a nature that can commune
with Him. That's what's given in the new birth. And look what
happens next, the drink offering. He talked about the meat offering
and the drink offering. That was to take place, you would
take a fourth of a hint of wine, I don't know how much that is,
but you were to pour it out on the altar. It's called the drink offering.
Now this is the result of the sacrifice, the work of Christ
for us, And the result of the meat offering, the work of Christ
in us, the drink offering is used twice in the New Testament,
and this gives us some idea as to what it meant. Now turn with
me to Philippians chapter 2. Hold your finger there in Exodus
29. Philippians chapter 2, verse 17. Yea, and if I be offered Upon
the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice
with you all." Now, my marginal reference says, if I be poured
out as a drink offering. Paul knew he was going to die,
and he was going to be poured out as a drink offering. Now
turn to 2 Timothy chapter 4. 2 Timothy chapter 4, verse 6. For I am now ready to be offered,
and that word offered, once again, is poured out like a drink offering. I'm ready to be offered, poured
out completely, and the time of my departure is at hand. Now, what this drink offering
has reference to is a response to the gospel. I pour myself out to Him. I don't hold anything back by
His grace. I pour myself out to Him. Here am I, O Lord. I present
myself to Him." It's what Paul was talking about when he said,
present your bodies a living sacrifice. I beseech you by the
mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice. acceptable unto God, which is
your reasonable service. It's the only thing that's reasonable.
The drink offering is my response to the gospel. Love so amazing,
so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all. That's the only response there
is to the gospel. Lord, here am I. I know in and
of myself I'm nothing, but here I am. I present myself to you. And that's what that drink offering
is. It's a pouring of yourself out to the Lord. It's in response
to the gospel. Now, if Christ has put away my
sin, if the Holy Spirit has given me life, I will offer myself
up as a drink offering to the Lord, pouring everything out
consecrated, consecrated to Him. That's what happens when God
saves a sinner. They become followers, disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now back to our text in Exodus
29. Now this shall be a continual
burnt offering. This offering of the lamb, the
meat, which represents the meat offering, which represents the
work of the Spirit of God. The drink offering, which is our
response to His work in us. This shall be a continual burnt
offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation before the Lord. This is going to happen
at the altar every morning, every day, continually, where I'll
meet you to speak there unto thee. Now, I want you to notice
this phrase, the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
I don't think I've ever noticed this before. We've been, this
is my 13th or 14th message on the tabernacle. I've got probably
4 or 5 to go, I don't know. Every one of these messages,
the things that's hit me, this tabernacle is the Lord Jesus
Christ. I mean every aspect of it is
the Lord Jesus Christ. You take the materials, the colors
of it, purple is royalty, white is righteousness, scarlet is
blood, blue is altogether heavenly. You think of the silver sockets,
His Atonement, the boards made of gold and wood, His Deity,
His Humanity, Christ our altar, Christ our sanctification, all
this, it is Christ, isn't it? I mean this is the most beautiful
picture of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. But yet what is the
Tabernacle called here? It is not called the Tabernacle
of the Lord God of Israel. It is not called the Tabernacle
of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is called the Tabernacle of
the Congregation. Yes, that tabernacle is Christ.
The tabernacle is me because I'm united to the Lord Jesus
Christ. All that tabernacle says is Christ
can't be separated from His people. Isn't that a wonderful thought?
He cannot be separated from His people. I've never been separated
from Him. Now, He was separated by God
from God on the cross for a time, but I've never been separated
from Him. I've always been united to him
and that tabernacle is the tabernacle of the congregation. Union with
the Lord Jesus Christ. It's Christ himself and it's
the tabernacle of the congregation. Now let's go on reading. He says,
there shall be a continual burnt offering, verse 42, throughout
your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation
before the Lord where I will meet you To speak there unto
you. You know where God meets with
us? In the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's where He
meets with me. And that blood, the blood of
Christ, it's always powerful. It's always fresh. It's always
new. It doesn't get old and stale. It doesn't become something of
the past. It's always in the present. A new and living way. A new freshly slaughtered and
living as opposed to a dead way. The blood of Christ is always
new. And that's why the Lord never gets tired of me. He never
gets tired of me. I get tired of myself. But He
never gets tired of me because the blood of Christ is always
new and powerful and fresh. And so He always sees me in that
smell of the sweet savor of the sacrifice of Christ. That's where
he meets with me, the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. Verse
43, and there I'll meet with the
children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory. Now you'll notice the word tabernacle
is in italics. He means the tabernacle And all
that is associated with it will be sanctified, set apart by my
glory. Now here's the New Testament
commentary on this. Hold your finger there and turn
to John 17. Verse 22, and the glory. which that gavest me now before
we go on reading you think of the glory that god gave to his
son there's no way it can even be described oh the glory that
god gave to his son because of his death on the cross now verse
twenty two the glory which thou gavest me i have given that they may be one even as
we are one I and them and thou and me that they may be made
perfect in one and the world may know that thou has sent me
and has loved them as thou has loved me now would you believe
that if it wasn't in the word of God that the same way that
God loves his son he loves his son That's hard to get hold of, isn't
it? Yet, our Lord says, the same
love that He has for me, that the Father has for me, He has
for every one of His people. That's the love every single
one of His people possess. Now, what does sanctify mean?
He said, I'll sanctify them by my glory. Now, that's a powerful
thought. As a matter of fact, I've never
even thought of this before, sanctified by His glory. What does sanctification
mean? means to take something common
and ordinary and set it apart for holy purposes. Every believer is sanctified. Every believer is a saint. I love calling myself Saint Todd
because I am Saint Todd. St. John there. You're St. John.
You talking about John the writer? No, I'm talking about St. John
Wamsley. Saint. Every believer is a saint. A
sanctified one. A saint of God. Now, there's
several things the scripture says we're sanctified by. We're
sanctified by union with Christ. That means we're set apart by
union with Christ. Hebrews 2.11 says, Both he that sanctifyeth
and they who are sanctified are all of one. For the which cause
he's not ashamed to call them brethren. He's not ashamed of
my name. He's not ashamed of me because
I'm perfect in Christ Jesus. I'm united to Him. We're sanctified
by the will of God. Hebrews 10.10 says, By the which
will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus
Christ once for all. I love thinking about the will
of God like this. The will of God is so supreme, it's so powerful
that when He wills it, it becomes past tense before it's even taken
place. That's what happens when God wills something. by the witch
will. They are sanctified. When were you sanctified? Whenever
God willed it. When was that? Going beyond me, I can't explain
that, but I was sanctified whenever God willed it. That's true of
every believer. That's how supreme His will is.
His will makes it past tense. even before it's taken place.
That's how certain it is. His will makes everything history
before it's even taken place. If it's history, it can't be
changed. It's already happened. That is the heritage every child
of God has. I'm sanctified by the will of
God. We're sanctified by the blood of Christ. Hebrews 10.10
says, by which will we are sanctified? Through the offering of the body
of Jesus Christ once for all. I'm sanctified by the blood of
Christ. I'm declared to be holy. We're sanctified by the Spirit
of God. 1 Corinthians 6.11 says you're sanctified by the Spirit
of God. We're sanctified by the truth.
Hearing the truth. Believing the truth. You know,
when you believe the truth, as simple as that act is, when you
believe the truth, you're holy brethren. Sanctified by the Spirit
of God. Our Lord said in John 17.17,
sanctify them through thy truth. Thy word is truth. And just believing the truth
sanctifies the soul. We're sanctified by faith. Acts
26, 18 says we're sanctified by the faith which is in me.
Sanctified by faith. And here we're said to be sanctified
by His glory. That's special, isn't it? sanctified
by his glory. If I'm a believer, I'm sanctified,
I'm set apart to be holy by the very glory of God. His glory
is given to me and we're sanctified by his glory. You know, that
makes every believer very special and very precious. I don't think there's anything
more ridiculous than clergy and lady. clergy and laity. Clergy is if you've got your
special believers and then you've got the lay believers, you know,
the laity. That's ridiculous. All of God's people are his clergy. All of God's people are his inheritance. The Lord's portion is his people.
Isn't that wonderful? You think of how blessed and
privileged we are that the Lord has done this for us. We're sanctified
by his glory. Now let's go back to our text.
The next is 29. Verse 44. And I will sanctify the tabernacle
of the congregation. There it is again. The tabernacle
of the congregation. And the altar I will sanctify
also both Aaron and his sons to minister to me in the priest's
office. I'll do this. I know this. Sanctification
is God's work. He said, I'll do this. I will
sanctify. Now, if he sanctifies you, that
means you're sanctified, right? If he sanctifies you, if he's
the one doing it, that means you are sanctified. He said,
I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation. I'll sanctify
the altar. That altar was so holy that anybody that came into
contact with it was declared by God to be holy. Now, that's
holy, isn't it? Anybody who touched it. You couldn't
defile it. It could only make you holy. Verse 45, And I will dwell among
the children of Israel, and will be their God. I dwell among them, they shall
be my habitation, Christ in you, the hope of glory, and I will
be their God, because he sanctifies me unto himself, he is now My
God. I don't mean my Creator. He's
that. But I'm talking about my God. I'm talking about being somebody
who's included in that promise. If God be for us, who can be
against us? The Lord's on my side. Therefore
I will not fear what man should do unto me. God is my God. The God of glory is my God. Verse 46, and they shall know
that I am the Lord their God. Now I know He is my God. How
do you know that? I mean, that could almost be
presumptuous. How can you know that God is
your God? He says they shall know that
I'm the Lord their God. How in the world can somebody
know that God is their God? I want to know that. Well, Hebrews
11, verse 1 says, Now faith is the substance of things hoped
for. That means the confidence of
things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Now, look
at me. Look at me. Can you tell I'm
justified by looking at me? Can you tell I'm holy by looking
at me? Can you tell I'm sanctified by
looking at me? No. I'm just an average Joe standing
up here looking at a bunch of other average Joes. You can't
look at somebody and say, well, they're holy. I don't have a
halo over my head. I don't have some glow coming from me. Well,
how do you know? Faith is the evidence of things
not seen. Now, I'm justified before God.
I'm sanctified. When God looks at me, he looks
at somebody without sin, perfect in his sight. What's the evidence
of that? I do believe the gospel. With
trembling hand, weak hand, I receive the gospel. I believe the gospel. You know, I really am, right
now while I'm talking to you, I am relying completely on the
Lord Jesus Christ as everything in my salvation. I'm relying
on him. I'm not looking anywhere else.
That faith is the evidence of things not seen. They shall know that I am the
Lord their God. And they'll know this, I'm the
Lord their God that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt.
Don't you know that God saved you? You know it doesn't have
anything to do with your works. You know you can't get any glory
in it. It's what He did. I know that as sure as I'm standing
here. He did it all. I can say that with such confidence
and such assurance. I know that if I'm saved, it's
because He saved me. Some of all of our, is theology
even a good word? He saved us. He did it all. And He called
us with a holy calling. Not according to our works, but
according to His own purpose and grace which was given us
in Christ Jesus before the world began. They shall know that I am the
Lord God that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that
I may dwell among them. I am the Lord their God. God. One time a lady came up to a
wise old preacher and said, I'm having trouble understanding
the doctrine of election. Can you give me some help on
it? He said, we'll see if this helps. He said, are you saved? She said, I believe I am. He said, Did you save yourself,
or did God save you? And she said, oh, God saved me. And he said, well, I got one
other question. Did he do it on purpose, or was it an accident? And she said, I see. I see. Salvation is what God
does. And they will know this, I am
the Lord their God. Now let's close by looking at
Psalm 23. The Lord is my shepherd. And because of that, I shall
not want. He maketh me to lie down in green
pastures. I'm not going to want rest. He
leads me beside the still waters, waters of quietness. I'm not
going to want peace. He restores my soul, and he does
it over and over again, but I'm not going to want restoration.
How many times do you need your soul restored? How many times?
I mean, billions. I mean, as many seconds as there
are in the day, it seems like I need my soul restored. But
I'm not going to want restoration, because he restoreth. My soul. He leads me in the path of righteousness
for his name's sake. I'm not going to want righteousness.
I'm not going to lack righteousness. I have righteousness. I have
the very righteousness of God. Yea, though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death, I'll fear no evil. I'm not going
to lack protection, for thou art with me. I'm not going to
lack his companionship. Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort
me. I'm not going to lack comfort.
that prepares the table before me in the presence of my enemies
i'm not gonna like any provision ballot notice my head with oil
my cup runs over and i'm not gonna like joy surely goodness
and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and uh... we in the house of the lord because my ship the Lord. Yes, God is my God. What a blessed privilege of grace
to be able to say that. Let's pray together.

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