Okay, Philippians chapter 1.
My text will be taken from verse 6. You see it? Philippians 1,
6. Paul said, I'm confident, confident,
being persuaded and confident of this very thing. Now his confidence
of their salvation was not in them. It was in God's purpose
to work salvation in them through Christ. That He, that is God
Almighty, who hath begun a good work in you, He will get it done. He will perform it. He will perfect
it. He will complete it until the
day our blessed Savior comes to receive us to Himself, where
we might truly worship Him without any hindrance of the flesh, truly
worship Him in spirit and in truth, and truly sing the song
of the redeemed Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive
all honor, glory, and blessing. And sing unto Him who loved us
and washed us from our sin in His own blood. To Him be all
the honor and glory both now and forever." Now, as you look
at this writing that Paul writes back to these believers in Philippi,
the church in Philippi had a very small, meager beginning. This church at Philippi that
flourished, God prospered and blessed the preaching of the
gospel. It started with a group of women down by the creek side
seeking God's will in the matter of salvation. And you know what?
God sent them a gospel preacher named the Apostle Paul. And God
blessed him to preach the gospel to those women. And one is mentioned
there, Lydia. She heard the gospel, God opened
her heart, saved her by His glorious and mighty grace, and she confessed
the Lord Jesus in believers' baptism, not only her but her
household, and she said to Paul, you come home with me, I want
to hear more of this gospel of God's grace. Later there in this
same city of Philippi, Paul was arrested and beaten and imprisoned. because of the gospel, because
of the preaching of the gospel, yet God ordered that and overruled
the wickedness of men to the salvation of a jail keeper. There
in Philippi, I remember the story how Paul and Silas sang praises
to God at midnight and he caused a great earthquake and the jailer
was alarmed and he sprang in and Paul told to him, to believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ. What must I do to be saved? He
asked, and Paul said, you don't need to do anything. Believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. Notice in this same chapter,
Philippians 1 verse 12, he said, I would you understand, I want
you to know this and understand this, brethren, that the thing
which happened unto me has fallen out. just as God planned it,
just exactly as God ordained it, had fallen out rather to
the furtherance of the gospel. Me being beaten and persecuted
for the gospel, that was for the furtherance of the gospel.
Being in prison and being sent to Rome and being executed at
one point, two years later, He said, these things are not a
hindrance to God's purpose, it all is fulfilling God's purpose.
It's the furtherance of the gospel. of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now
there's a scripture in the book of Zechariah, don't turn there,
but Zechariah 4.10 says this, despise not the day of small
things. When God undertakes to begin
a gospel ministry in a community or in the hearts of his people,
none can stay his hand. Now I don't know what's going
to happen here in Kingsport, but the Lord has blessed us together
these Year and a half, two years going on, two years that we have
this fall will be two years. God has blessed us together in
this gospel ministry and God may be pleased to raise up many
ministries here. As he did in Philippi, he writes
to the bishops and deacons. There was many who were called
to Christ in faith and also called to preach the gospel. Despise
not today a small thing. When God undertakes to do a work
of grace in the community and in the hearts of His people,
none can stay His hand. He will do according to His will
in the army of heaven and among the habitants of this earth,
and none can stay His hand. None can stop His purpose or
saying to Him, Lord God Almighty, what are You doing? Now Paul, as he writes this letter
back to these believers, He's in prison at Rome. Imprisoned
again for the gospel. But he always refers to himself
as the prisoner of Jesus Christ. For example, look up just a page
in the last chapter of Ephesians, chapter 6. Ephesians chapter
6, verse 20. He said, For which I am an ambassador
in bonds. And notice the reference there.
He says, I'm in chains. I am God the ambassador, and
yet I'm in a chain. But I'm in bonds for the cause
of God and truth, that I may speak boldly as I ought to speak." He was the prisoner of the Lord
Jesus Christ, and he refers to this often. Now, I want you to
find Philippians chapter 1, and let's look at verse 3, and then
I'll work my way down to verse 6, and they give you four points.
found in verse 6. Philippians 1, verse 3. Now,
as he's sitting in prison and he's rolling through his mind
the experiences of the time when he came to Philippi, the time
he preached the gospel there in Philippi, and the times when
God blessed them together, around the gospel. And he says, as I
think about you, I thank God. I thank my God every time I think
about you. Precious memory. These believers
were a monument to the grace of God. He said, I preached to
Paulus Water, but it's God who gives the increase. Notice, he
recognizes that their salvation is all of God. And he says, I
thank God for you. You see, it's not of him that
willeth nor of him that runneth, but it's God that shows mercy. I thank my God upon every remembrance
of you. Now look at verse 4. Philippians
1, 4, "...always in every prayer of mine." Every prayer. Every time he prayed, he thought
of them. "...always in every prayer of mine, for you are making
requests and doing it joyfully. Joyfully. Praying for one another
is a delight. Turn over here to Philippians
chapter 4 verse 6. Praying for one another is a
delight. You remember what Samuel said in his day, God forbid I
should sin against the Lord and ceasing to pray for you? It's a delight to pray for one
another. God will have us cry unto Him. He says here in Philippians
chapter 4, look at verse 6. Be careful for nothing. That
is, over anxiety. Don't be anxious about things,
but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving,
let your request be made known unto God. He would have us cry
unto Him, and let our request be made known unto Him. And we
make our request unto God with joy, with joy. Notice, and it's
a joy of faith. In Philippians chapter 1 verse
25, And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and
continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith. There is a joy in believing the
gospel of God's grace. There is a great joy and comfort
in believing Christ and resting in Him. And this is the theme
of this whole epistle. Turn one page over to Philippians
chapter 3 verse 1. Finally, my brethren, he says,
rejoice in the Lord. Finally, my brethren, look at
Philippians chapter 3 verse 3, for we are the true Israel That's
what he's talking about there. The truly regenerated Israel,
circumcision, which worship God in the Spirit and rejoice in
Christ Jesus and we have no confidence. No confidence in the flesh. None
whatsoever. Philippians chapter 4. Look at
verse 4 this time. Philippians 4.4. You see, there's
a joy in faith. We joy in God to our Lord Jesus
Christ. Notice, if you will, Philippians
4.4. Rejoice in the Lord always. You see that? Rejoice in the
Lord always. And again, I say, I say, rejoice
in Him. Rejoice in Him. There is a joy
believing the gospel. Now, back to a text, our text.
Look at verse 5. He says, I pray for you, I make
requests with joy for you, and then he mentions this, for your
fellowship, for your fellowship in the gospel. There is a sweet
family relationship in the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. You
see, we are one body. He is the head. We are the body. We are members one of another. And there is a sweet communion
and fellowship in this Gospel. And He says it's from the first
day until right now. There is a beginning in that
fellowship when we meet one another and rejoice with one another
around the Gospel. But you know, there will never
be an end to it. It's an eternal joy, an eternal fellowship we
have with one another in Christ Jesus from the first day until
now. We thank God for you. We remember
you, we pray for you, and we thank God for this fellowship.
You know what fellowship is? Fellows in the same ship. It's fellows in the same shape,
sinners saved by God's grace. Now, look at verse 6, and here's
my text. Verse 6, being confident, being
persuaded. Now, who persuaded Paul? Who
persuaded Paul concerning their salvation? Well, he knew that
their salvation was of God. Being confident of this very
thing, that God who saved you, God who has begun this good work
in you, He'll get it done. He'll get it done until He calls
us home to glory. He'll keep working on us. That
which begins in grace will end in glory. That which begins in
grace, that would be a good title for this message. That which
begins in grace will end in glory. God who hath begun a good work
in you. Paul gives thanks unto God for
their salvation. He says, I am and you are. Sinner
saved by God's grace, justified by Christ Jesus, all of grace
alone. He was fully persuaded like Abraham,
that which God had begun, God would finish. Being fully persuaded,
all that God has promised, He is able to perform all things. He performs all things for me.
God is able to save His people to the uttermost, all that come
to God by Him. His confidence of their salvation,
Didn't rest in their ability. We just read. We have no confidence
in the flesh. His confidence of their salvation
rested rather in the mighty power of God to save. God is almighty
to save. You hath He quickened who were
dead in trespasses and in sin. Our confidence and our persuasion
of salvation flows from our confidence in our great God. Doesn't it? In our great and mighty God,
God whose purpose cannot fail. It says that explicitly in Isaiah
42, verse 4. The Lord Jesus Christ, He cannot
fail, will not be discouraged. Our confidence of salvation is
in our great God whose purpose cannot fail, whose will cannot,
His will, God's will cannot be frustrated. He said, I've spoken
it, I bring it to pass, I've purposed it, I will do it. He
works all things after the counsel of His own will to the praise
of the glory of His grace. Now, there's four points I want
to bring from this message here in Philippians 1-6. Here's the
first one found in this verse. First of all, whose work is it? Who is this work of salvation?
Whose work is it? Whose work is it? Being confident
of this very thing that He who hath begun this good work. Whose work is it? It's God's
work. Salvation is all of God's doing, all of God's purpose.
Now, I don't know how many of you here are baseball fans. I
like baseball. My boys play baseball. And I
grew up listening to baseball, Major League Baseball. But there's
a team in Cincinnati. You heard of them? I think they're
called the Reds. But I used to live and work in
Ohio when I was a young man. And I used to listen to their
radio, the radio broadcast of the ballgame all the time. And
there was an old announcer on that radio network who called
Cincinnati Reds ballgames. His name was Joe Nuxaw. Do you
remember Joe? You're probably too far south
to appreciate this. If I told this up north, it would
be interesting. But he had this saying when a
Pete Rose or a Johnny Bench came up to the plate. And those old-timers
that had been around baseball a long time, they could tell
by the sound of the bat when it hits the ball, they could
tell just almost every time whether that ball was out of the park
or in the park. But he had this saying, old Joe
Nuxall, he said when he heard the crack of that bat and he
knew it was a home run, he said, that's a no-doubter. That's a
no-doubter. And my friend, that's what we
say about salvation by the grace of God. It's a no-doubter. It's a home run hit by the Lord
Jesus Christ. It's a home run. Matter of fact,
it's a grand slam. It cleared the bases. It won
the game for God's people. This is a no-doubter. Salvation
is of the Lord. It's God who saved us and called
us with a holy calling, not according to our words, but according to
God's own purpose and grace, given us in Christ before the
foundation of the world. It's a no-doubter. Some of you
young people would say, maybe use this expression, it's a no-brainer. You don't have to think about
it. It's just so, isn't it? Salvation's of the Lord. Whose
work is it? It's God's work. God's work. The very nature of the work,
from the very nature of the work, we must conclude that it's His
doing. As a matter of fact, it says
that in Psalm 118. This is the Lord's doing and
it's marvelous in our eyes. It's marvelous. You see, salvation
is by the Father choosing a people unto salvation. He said, We are
bound to give thanks to God for you, brethren, because God hath
from the beginning chosen you to salvation. You see, He did
all the choosing. Our Lord said to His disciples,
You didn't choose Me. I've chosen you. When He called
those brethren who were out fishing, James and John and Peter and
Andrew, they were out mending their nets. They were out casting
their nets. And the Lord walked up to them
and said, Follow me, I'll make you fishers of men." And they
dropped their nets and they followed the Lord Jesus Christ. You see,
it's the Father's choosing. He chose us by the very nature
and character of salvation. We have to say that it's all
of His doing, His work, His purpose, His grace. The Father choosing
us, the Son redeeming us in whom we have redemption. We're not
redeemed with corruptible things, are we? We're not redeemed by
the efforts of our puny hands. They're all sinful. We are redeemed
with the precious blood of Christ. He's the Lamb without spot. He's
the Lamb without blemish. He's the Lamb foreordained before
the foundation of the world, but was in these last times manifest
for you who put away our sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
You see the very nature of the work. We must conclude that salvation
is all of God. It's His work. The Father choosing
us, the Son redeeming us. How about the Holy Spirit? It's
the Spirit that quickeneth. The flesh profiteth how much?
Zero. Nothing. Nada. Negative. All flesh is grass. The Holy
Spirit quickens us. It's His work. It's His business.
You have to be quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins. How dead? Graveyard dead. That's
pretty dead, isn't it? Graveyard dead. Cold. Cold. Dead. Stinking dead. There you go. Dead and rotten. Dead and stinking. That's dead. God quickens the dead. You see,
by the very nature of the work, we know that salvation is all
of God's purpose in the choosing, the Son in redeeming, and the
Holy Spirit in quickening. God's more than a mighty orator
beseeching men. He's a mighty operator quickening
the hearts of dead men to life. He sees God's work. It's His
doing. It's His doing. Whose work of
salvation is it? It's not ours, it's His. Our
Lord said this explicitly over and over in the Gospel of John,
at least six or seven references, you can look it up. But in John
chapter 4, He said, I came to do the Father's work. He said,
that's my will, that's my meat to do the Father's work. In John
17, he prayed, Father, I finished the work you gave me to do. And
then on Calvary 3, the culmination of it, he said, it is done. It's
finished. It's finished. Sin is put away.
You see, we are His workmanship. Turn back to Ephesians there.
Turn over to Ephesians chapter 2. We are His workmanship. Ephesians 2. Look what it says
in verse 10. But we are His workmanship. We are His workmanship, created
in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained
that we should walk in them. We are His workmanship. He operated
on us. He made us a new creature. in
Christ Jesus. As a matter of fact, Paul said
that if any man be in Christ, he's a new creation, a new creature. Old things are passed away and
behold, all things have become new. Now, whose work is it? His work. Salvation of the Lord. Secondly, what kind of work is
it? What kind of work is it? Look at the text again. It says
there it's a good work. It's a good work. It's a good
work. Whatever God does is good. Good. Whatsoever the Lord does,
it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it. Nothing
can be taken from it. God does it that men should fear
before Him. That's Ecclesiastes 3.14. A close, not exact, but pretty
close what that says. What kind of work is it? It's
a good work. It's a perfect work. It's an eternal work of God.
This work of God works nothing but good. Works nothing but good. In our soul, in our heart, in
our mind, in our body, He works in us nothing but which is good
in His sight. Three things. He brings us from
total ruin to a right standing in Christ Jesus. To righteousness
in Christ. So much so that we say this.
Turn to Philippians chapter 3. So much so that we can say this,
as Paul says here. Paul had a lot of religious experience
in his background, didn't he? He had a lot of things that he
went through, and you can read verses 4 down through verse 6. But the bottom line is this,
verse 7, what things were gained to me? He thought all his religious
Exercise of the past recommended him to God, but when God unhorsed
him and put him in the dust, and the law of God stripped him
and slew him and killed him, he said, those things, now I
count all of them loss for Christ. Not gain, loss. Yea, doubtless,
I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge
of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I've suffered the loss of
all things, and I do count them but dung. You know what dung
is, don't you? manure. It's bovine, what is
it old Norman Schwarzkopf said? You remember that general in
the first Gulf War? He called it bovine scatology,
BS. All things but done that I may
win Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness
which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of
Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith. He says to
win Christ and be found In Him, He brings us from ruin to righteousness
in Christ. Having that righteousness given
to us. And that is the Lord Jesus Christ
Himself. Himself. He is the Lord our righteousness. He brings us from total ruin
to righteousness in Christ. He brings us from total darkness
to light. Turn just a couple pages over
to Colossians chapter 1. Colossians chapter 1. Look what
it says right here. Colossians chapter 1 verse 12.
giving thanks unto the Father, who hath made us meet fit, is
the word there, to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints
in Christ, who delivered us from the power of darkness, translated
us into the kingdom of God's dear Son, in whom we have redemption
through His blood, the forgiveness of sins. And this is all to His
grace, all to His glory. He delivered us. He delivered
us from the power of darkness and translated us into the kingdom
of His dear Son. He did this. It's a good work.
It's His work and it's a good work. When God created all things,
commands the light to shine out of darkness, you remember? In
Genesis 1-31, He said, It's very good. And when God does a work
of grace in the sinner's heart, you know what He says? It's good. It's a very good work. And He
brings us from death to life. He brings us from death to life. And Adam all died, right? In Christ, all shall be made
alive in Christ Jesus, being one with Him. He is life. He
is salvation. Thirdly, whose work is it? Got the first point. Whose work
is it? His work. Secondly, what kind of work is
it? It's a good work. Thirdly, where does this good
work of salvation go on? Where does it begin? Look what
it says in the text. God who hath begun a good work
in you, in you. Turn over to Colossians chapter
1 again and find verse 25, 26 and 27, Colossians 1. God does
this work of grace in you. Salvations of the Lord in its
application, not only of its accomplishment, execution, but
its application, sustaining power. Colossians 1 verse 25, wherefore
I am made a minister according to the dispensation of God, which
is given to me for you to fulfill or to fully preach the word of
God, even the mystery which had been hid from ages and from generations,
but now is made manifest to the saints. That's sovereign grace. It's manifested to his people,
to whom God would make known. Verse 27, to whom God would make
known. What is the riches of His glory
of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope
of glory." Christ in you, the hope of glory. You see, God has
done a mighty work of salvation for us as the representative
man, living that life of obedience under the law, perfectly obeying
the law of God. fully satisfying every precept
of that law of God. He said, I didn't come to destroy
the law, I came to honor the law. He has done a mighty work
of salvation for us in His life. He paid the debt of obedience
that I owe. He paid that. And in His death,
He paid the debt of my punishment. He paid it to the full, putting
away our sin by the sacrifice of Himself, bearing our sin in
His own body on the tree. He has done a mighty work of
grace for us, hasn't He? in Christ crucified. But my friend,
there must be that work of grace done in us. In us. Christ in you. The hope of glory. Now, Paul writes about this,
if you'll turn back a few pages to Galatians chapter 1. Christ
in you. Christ in you. You in Christ
and Christ in you. That is the hope of glory. Galatians
chapter 1. Galatians 1. God. Watch this. Galatians 1, look
at verse 15, "...but when it pleased God, who separated me
from my mother's womb, and called me by His grace to reveal His
Son in me." It's a revelation of Christ in you. He's hid these
things from the wise and prudent and revealed Himself unto His
children, unto His babe. He revealed His Son in me that
I may preach Him among the heathen. Immediately I conferred not.
I conferred not. Didn't need to with flesh and
blood. There must be that work of grace done within us. Within
us. Now turn back to Philippians
and look at this verse here. Philippians chapter 2. Philippians
chapter 2 this time. We're talking about this work
of grace that God does in us. Who begins the work? He does.
Whose work is it? It's His work. What kind of work
is it? It's a good work. Where does
it go on? In us. In us. Notice Philippians 2.
Look at verse 12. Wherefore, my beloved, as you've
always obeyed, not in my presence only, but now much more in my
absence, work out this salvation. Work out your own salvation with
fear and trembling. Some fool will look at that and
take it out of its content and out of the whole scheme of Scripture
and say, well, you know, the Scripture says we've got to work
out salvation. We work out our own. That's not what he's saying
here. Work about and employ yourself in the things that accompany
salvation. What are the things that accompany
salvation? Love, faith, joy, peace, these things. Work about
these things that God has worked in you. You can't work out what's
not been worked in. Now look at the next verse. For
it is God which worketh in you, both to will and to do of His
good pleasure." A lot of times if we just read another verse,
it helps us a whole lot to understand what's being said here. So salvation
is God doing the work of grace. Our salvation, in the experience
of it, in the conviction of it, in the joy of it, it's God working
in you by His sovereign purpose and His sovereign grace. Now,
lastly is this. Lastly is this. Here's the fourth
point. The work of salvation that is
begun in the hearts of His people will be finished, will be performed,
will be perfected, will be carried on until He returns to receive
us to Himself. It will go on. Look what it says.
He does this work of grace in you and He will perform it. He will perfect it. He will carry
on. He won't begin a work and then
stop. He doesn't begin a work in us
and then leave us. He said, I'll never leave you,
I'll never forsake you. He begins that work and it's
carried on till He makes us just like the Lord Jesus Christ, glorified
together with Him. Now notice what He says over
here in Philippians chapter 3, look at verse 20. He says, for
our conversation, now He's not talking here about talking, He's
talking here about our citizenship. Our citizenship being made an
heir of God and a joint heir with Christ. Our conversation,
our citizenship is in heaven. From whence also we look for
the Savior, the Lord Jesus, who shall change our vile body, that
it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body according to
the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto
Himself." David said, I'll really be satisfied when I awake with
His likeness. You remember that? He's going
to change His vile body. He's going to give us a new body,
like unto His glorious body, and make us just like Christ.
That's what predestination's all about. That's what predestination's
all about. He's mentioned four times in
the Bible, and each time it's mentioned, it's talking about
that He's going to make us and He's predestinated us to be just
like Christ. I tell you, that's a glorious,
glorious truth. Who doesn't want to be predestinated
to be just like the Lord Jesus Christ? And this is what He's
going to do in us, and perfectly conform us to the image of the
Lord Jesus Christ. He has begun this work of grace,
and I want you to turn over here to 2 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians
chapter 1. He has begun this work of grace
in us, and my friend, He's going to finish it. He's going to finish
it up. He's going to wind it up. And
He's going to make us just like Christ, glorified, in that glorified
body, just like Him, to the praise of the glory of His grace. Now
look what he says here in 2 Corinthians chapter 1, verse 9. But we had the sentence of death
in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in
God who raiseth the dead, who delivered us, He had delivered
us from so great a death, and He doth deliver, He is delivering
us right now, in whom we trust, He will yet deliver us one day. He's going to really deliver
us one day, completely, totally free from sin, free from the
presence of sin. He's delivered us from the power
of sin, but He's going to deliver us from the presence of sin.
Turn back over here to Romans, Romans chapter 13. Paul says
this in verse 11, For now is our salvation nearer
than when we believed. You see that, Romans 13, 11.
And that now, that knowing the time, that now it is high time
to wake out and sleep, for now our salvation is nearer than
when we believed." Oh, we're getting closer to home. God who
has begun this work, He's going to finish it. He's going to finish
it. That's the point. Now, listen to this. If God does
not complete that which He has begun in us, what does that say
of His promise? If He doesn't finish the work
that He begins in us, what does it say of His promise? His promise
is this, I give them eternal life and they'll never perish.
His promise is this, all that the Father hath given to me,
they'll come to me and those that come to me I will in no
wise cast out. What does it say of His promise
if He doesn't finish the work that He started in us? He will.
If God does not complete the work which He has begun in us,
what does it say of His purpose? Can his purpose fail? Can his
purpose be frustrated? Can I change God's purpose? Not
at all. He works all things after the counsel of His own wise and
holy will. Let's read that, Ephesians 1,
verse 11, because there's something in there I want you to see. His
purpose, His purpose. If He doesn't begin that which
He starts, what does it say of His purpose? Look what it says
here, Ephesians 1, 11. in whom also we have obtained
an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him,
who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will."
We have obtained an inheritance by free grace, being predestinated
according to his glorious purpose. If God does not complete that
work which he has begun, what does it say of his promise? What
does it say of his purpose? What does it say of his power?
His power is almighty, it's not weak and frustrated. God has
all power in heaven and in earth, and He will see to it. He said, The Father hath given
me power over all flesh, that I should give eternal life to
as many as the Father hath given me. If He doesn't begin, if He
doesn't finish His work, He has begun in us, what does it say
of His promise? What does it say of His purpose?
What does it say of His power? He has all power. What does it
say of His love? Can He love us and then lose
us? No, not at all. He said, I've loved them with
an everlasting love. Therefore, with loving kindness,
I'll draw them to Myself. Hearing His love, not that we
loved Him, but He loved us and sent His Son to be the sacrifice
for our sin. If he does not complete this
work, he begins in this. What does this say of his intercession?
He ever lives to intercede for us. And my friend, his intercession
avails for me greatly. When we sin, we have an advocate
with the Father. Preacher, you sin all the time.
Don't want to. I like to quit, but I can't,
because I've got this old rotten flesh that hangs about me. And I say with Paul, oh, wretched
man that I am. But when I sin, don't want to,
but I do, more than I want to. But when you sin, we have an
advocate with the Father. Jesus Christ, He's my righteousness. He's my intercessor. Who shall anything to the charge
of God delect, huh? It is God who justifies. Who
can condemn me? Christ has already died, paid
my debt 100% and set me free. You see, my friend, and I repeat
that statement, thank God, that which begins in grace will end
in glory. Mark it down. He says in John
chapter 6, let's close by reading this, John chapter 6, Verse 37,
I quoted a part of this a while ago. John 6, 37. He says this. He said, I won't lose a one of
them. Did you ever read that scripture over in Hebrews 2,
where he talks about all those for whom Christ died, He has
sanctified His church, His brethren, and then He calls them His children,
and then He said, behold, I am the children. They're all here. Not a one of them is missing.
This is what he says here in John chapter 6. Look at verse
37, "...all that the Father giveth me shall come to me, and him
that cometh to me I will in no wise, no way cast out. For I
came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will
of him that sent me. And this is the will of him that
sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose,
well, maybe some of them." No, I lose nothing. All that the
Father had given to Christ, He's a surety, He's a guarantor, He's
a mediator of those covenant people, and He paid their debt,
He saved them. I should lose nothing, nothing,
but raise it up again at the last day. That which begins in
grace will end in glory, and this is the will of Him that
sent me, that everyone which seeth the Son, that seeth the
Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life, and I
will raise him up at the last day." Mark it. Put it down. Write it in stone. None for whom
Christ died can perish. That which begins in grace will
end in glory.