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Henry Mahan

Christ Is All

Colossians 3:9-11
Henry Mahan • September, 27 1992 • Audio
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What does the Bible say about the old and new man in believers?

The Bible teaches that believers have two natures: the old man, which is corrupt, and the new man, which is renewed in the image of Christ.

In Colossians 3:9-11, believers are instructed to put off the old man with its deeds and to put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of its Creator. This duality reflects the struggle within every believer, where the old nature represents our sinful, corrupted self, while the new man embodies our regenerated spirit in Christ, who empowers us to live in truth and righteousness. The old man cannot please God, whereas the new man is created to walk in holiness and true righteousness.

Colossians 3:9-11, Ephesians 4:21-24, Romans 7:18-25

How do we know that regeneration is essential for salvation?

Regeneration is essential as it represents the spiritual rebirth that enables a believer to partake in the divine nature and truly know God.

Regeneration is a foundational doctrine in the Reformed faith, highlighting that a spiritual rebirth is necessary for salvation. In Colossians 3:10, it is stated that the new man is renewed in knowledge after the image of the Creator. This renewal signifies a transformative work of God in the heart of a believer, enabling them to respond to God's grace and to live according to His will. Without this regeneration, a person remains dead in their sins and unable to seek or know God. This is echoed in John 3:3, where Christ teaches that one must be born again to see the Kingdom of God.

Colossians 3:10, John 3:3, 1 Peter 1:3

Why is understanding the two natures of man important for Christians?

Understanding the two natures—old and new—helps Christians recognize their ongoing struggle with sin and the necessity of living by the Spirit.

The doctrine of the two natures, as articulated in Romans 7, reveals the internal conflict every believer faces. The old man, which is corrupted by sin, continually wars against the new man created in righteousness. Recognizing this struggle allows Christians to identify the source of their temptations and failures, thus guiding them toward reliance on God's grace and the Holy Spirit for strength and victory. Furthermore, it affirms the necessity of moral vigilance and accountability within the Christian community as they strive to put off the old ways of life and embrace their identity in Christ. This understanding emphasizes that spiritual growth is a process and encourages believers to pursue holiness daily.

Romans 7:18-25, Galatians 5:16-17, Ephesians 4:22-24

What does it mean that 'Christ is all and in all'?

'Christ is all and in all' means that Jesus Christ is the source of life, wisdom, and righteousness for believers, encompassing all aspects of their existence.

The phrase 'Christ is all and in all' from Colossians 3:11 embodies the Reformed understanding of the centrality of Christ in the believer's life. In Him, we find our purpose, identity, and acceptance before God. This statement signifies that all distinctions based on ethnicity, social status, or individual achievement are rendered irrelevant in the light of Christ's redemptive work. It stresses that Christ's sufficiency is the foundation for a believer’s justification, sanctification, and ultimate hope in glory. Consequently, every aspect of a believer’s life—be it spiritual, emotional, or physical—is shaped and defined by the presence and work of Christ within them.

Colossians 3:11, Philippians 3:8-9, Ephesians 2:8-10

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My text is verses 9, 10, and
11, Colossians 3. Lie not one to another, seeing
that we have put off the old man with his deeds, and have
put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the
image of him that created him, this new man. where there's neither Greek nor
Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bond nor
free, but Christ is all and in all." Now, I'm going to make a bold statement
here, but if you listen carefully to me this morning, and this has been the way of
God through the centuries. If people hear from God, they're
going to hear through a man. God spake to our fathers by the
prophets, hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son. There was a man sent from God
whose name was John. He came preaching the Word of
Our Lord sent his disciples out with this command, he that heareth
you, heareth me. And he that rejected you, rejected
me, and him that sent me. So listen to this statement.
If you listen carefully to me this morning, you're going to
hear the very sum and substance of the gospel of God. the very
heart and essence of the gospel of God. I'm that confident of
this text, that in this text there is the very sum and substance
of what we call the gospel, the very heart and essence of the
message of God. And in hearing that and coming
to a knowledge of it, listen to what Peter said. and peace be multiplied unto
you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus Christ. Grace and peace to you, how? Through the knowledge of the
gospel, of the grace of God in Christ Jesus. Now listen, according
as his divine power I'm not saying that I can give
anybody a new heart or an ear to hear or an eye to see, but
he can. According to his divine power,
he has given unto us, now listen, all things, sum and substance,
heart and essence, all things that pertain to life and godliness. through the knowledge
of him that called you to glory." That's pretty clear, isn't it? Peter said that in beginning
his second epistle. He said, Grace and peace be to
you through the knowledge of God and of his Son. And according
to God's power he has given to and to me. All things that pertain
to life, everything that pertains to life, everything that pertains
to God is in this knowledge of God and of Christ, of God's mercy
in Christ, of God's gospel in Christ. All right, let's go to
my text now. Let's see what we can do with
it in the time we have. Colossians 3. It starts off in
a strange way, Colossians 3, 9. Don't lie to one another. Don't lie to one another. Now, we know that the book of
Colossians is written to Christians. It's written to believers. Is
that not true? Well, let me show you that. Turn back one page
to Colossians 1. This book is addressed to believers. Colossians 1, verse 1, Paul,
an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Timotheus,
that's Timothy, our brother, to the saints, and faithful brethren
in Christ Jesus, which are Colossians. Grace be unto you and peace from
God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. So this book is addressed
to believers. It's addressed to saints and
faithful. So why should these people of
God, these believers, these saints and faithful people, have to
be exhorted not to lie, to always tell the truth? That's what it
says there, lie not one to another. Isn't that right? Well, I'll
tell you why. Because the believer, the saints
of God, the faithful, every one of them have two natures. They
all have two natures. It's called here in verse 8 and
9. Now listen to verse 8 and 9, Colossians 3. But now you
also put off these things. Not only don't lie to one another,
but put off anger and wrath and malice, grudges, bad feelings,
blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Put those
things off. And don't lie to one another. See, you put off
the old man with his deeds. There's one nature, the old man
with his deeds. And put on the new man, which
is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created
it. There's an old man, there's a new man. And that old man has to be put
off, constantly put off, put down, mortified, mortified, crucified. Paul said, I die daily. It's
not a once-for-all thing. You don't just discard the old
man and be done with him. He's with you all the time. Hold the place there and turn
to Ephesians a moment. Let me show you another scripture
on this, Ephesians 4. Ephesians 4, let me start with
verse 21. Ephesians 4, 21. If so be that you've heard him,
Ephesians 4, 21 you have it, if so be that you've heard him,
that is Christ, and you've been taught by him, as the truth is
in Christ, that you put off concerning the former conversation, your
former behavior, the old man. which is corrupt, the old man
is corrupt, he didn't used to be, he is corrupt, according
to the deceitful lust, and be renewed in the spirit of your
mind, now watch, and that you put on the new man, which after
God is created, this new man is created in righteousness and
true holiness, wherefore put away lying. Speak every man truth
with his neighbor, for we're members one of another, we're
the same body. So that's the reason you ask
the question, this is written to believers. This scripture
is written by the Apostle Paul to believers. Why should believers
have to be exhorted to tell the truth, have to be exhorted to
watch what they say, have to be exhorted to watch how they
walk, watch how they live, be careful? Because they're two
natures. The believer has two natures.
One's called the old man, and one's called the new man. One's
called the old man, that which is, our Lord said, that which
is born of the flesh is flesh. And that which is born of the
spirit is spirit. And the old man was born in sin, which is
corrupt. But the new man, the scripture
talks about the new man and says he's renewed. He's restored. He's regenerated. He's created
by God. When you're born of your mother
and father, you're born of flesh. And in sin my mother conceived
me. I was brought forth from the
womb speaking lies. I was born with a fleshly nature,
a nature that loved darkness, loved sin, loved self. See, you don't have to teach
children. Here's a little baby, a year old, two years old, three
years old. You don't teach that child to
be selfish. But he is. He's got a mind complex. It's mine. It's mine. Well, you
didn't teach him that. He was brought up in a home where
parents are generous and kind and loving. But he has a mind
complex. Mine. He'll lie to you. If things don't
go his way, he'll make up something. There's just so many things that
tell us that we didn't teach our children to be that way.
And our fathers and mothers didn't teach us to be this way. We were
born this way. It's an old nature. And people
say the only difference between men and boys is the price of
their toys. Well, the only difference between
men and boys in this thing of sin is that they get a little
older and their sins get a little more dangerous. Their sins get a little more
costly. But that infant, and I don't care what people say,
this Bible teaches original sin. That's the only reason you can
count. Why do we have to have three workers in there? Sometimes
four. Because there's a bunch of wild
ones in there. That's right! They're yours! But you don't want them that
way, and you didn't teach them that way. You've used every method
you know to change their ways, but that's the way they were
born that way, and over to high school and other... That's their
way, the way of man. That's that old man, that old
nature. I'll show you this, turn to Matthew 16, I hold Colossians
3, I'm coming back, but turn to Matthew 16. I'm going to show
you this illustrated right here, right here in the same chapter,
almost in the same breath. I'm going to show you this old
man and this new man illustrated right here in Matthew 16, the
life of one of the God's greatest men, the Apostle Peter. Matthew 16, our Lord had asked
the disciples, whom do men say that I, the Son of Man am? You
remember? And they said, well, some say
you're John the Baptist, some say Elijah, some say one of the
four. And then in verse 15, he said to the disciples, but whom
say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and
said, Darth, the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus
answered him and said, Simon, Blessed art thou, Simon, son
of Jonah, for flesh and blood didn't reveal that to you, but
my Father which is in heaven. And I say to you, you're Peter,
a little stone, and upon this rock your confession, you're
the Christ, the Son of God. I'm going to build my church,
and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Listen,
friends, Peter is about as high as you can get right here, isn't
he? I mean, listen. Under God, what a beautiful picture. This man stood there and said,
you're the Christ, the Son of God. And our Lord Jesus said,
that's the testimony on which I'll build my church. You're
Peter, the little stone. I'll change your name from Simon
to Peter. Just a little while later, listen,
verse 21. From that time forth, Jesus began
to show unto his disciples how he must go to Jerusalem and suffer
many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes and
be killed and be raised from the dead. That's how we're going
to be saved. Then Peter, it didn't last long, did it? Peter took
him aside to rebuke him. Here's the old man, John, coming
out. Be it far from thee, Lord, This
shall not be. But he turned and said to Peter,
get behind me, Satan. He said, this spirit in you is
satanic. Now you get behind me, Satan.
You're a fence unto me. You savorest not the things that
be of God, but those things that be of men. That's us, right there. That's you. That new man, I know who Christ
is, I know who this word is. I delight to do thy will, O God. Thy law is within my heart. The Apostle Paul had a problem
with this. Turn to Romans 7, Romans chapter 7. But I'll tell
you, when I get to thinking my way, my goals, my aims, My delight
and desires, that old man rears his ugly head up and God has
to smite it. His word has to smite it, it
has to be put down. Listen to Paul in Romans 7, verse
18, I know, Romans 7, 18, I know that in me, that is in my flesh,
my old nature, that old man dwelleth no good thing. to will is present
with me, how to perform that which is perfect, that which
is good, none good but God, perfect, I find not. The good, the perfection
that I would, I do not, but the evil I would not, that's what
I do. Now, if I do that, I would not. It's no more I that do it,
but it's sin that dwelleth in me. It's not the new man. The
new man's created in Christ. The new man delights in the law
of God. Listen. I find then a law that when I
would do good, evil's present with me. I delight in the law
of God after the inward man, the renewed man, the regenerated
man, the new man, but I see another law in my members warring against
the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity to the law
of sin which is in my members, O wretched man that I am." Always
battling, always in conflict. Always grieving over something
I said, or something I did, or something I didn't do, or something
I didn't say. There's some feelings I've hurt,
or some example I didn't set. Grieving over it. Oh, wretched
man that I am. Who's going to deliver me from
this body of death? Well, I thank God through Jesus
Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I serve
the law of God, with the flesh the law of sin. Turn to Galatians
5 and listen to Paul here. It has to be an effort put forth. The old man is not automatically
mortified. He's not automatically crucified. He's not automatically put down. He has to be, and not once, but
he has to be constantly dealt with. You know, I hope nobody here,
I know you don't, but I hope nobody here has adopted any kind
of attitude, well, you know, I'm holier than others. It's
things I don't do that they do, and the things you do that they
don't do too. This is a state of mind. I'm
not talking about getting drunk. I'm not talking about stealing
somebody's wife. I'm not talking about holding
up a bank. I'm talking about what goes on in here. You see, the people of God are dealing with those things. We're not going to rob and steal
and commit adultery and be thieves
and murder and these things. But our problem is in the heart.
You see what I'm saying? It's the nature. It's desiring
to be perfect, to be like God, to be like Christ, and the inability
to do so and to be so. And that old nature, the things
we have trouble with is pride and anger. That's what I read
a while ago. Exaggeration, misrepresentation,
things of this nature. Now listen to Galatians 5 verse
17. Verse 16 says, This I say then,
walk in the Spirit. Walk in the Spirit, walk in the
Word of God, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh. There's
one way to put down this old man, and that is to encourage
the new man. There's one way to starve the
old man, that's feed the new man. Isn't that right? The more
you stay with the Word of God, the more, in other words, you've
got two natures. Now that's just so every believer
does. You've got a nature that loves God, loves His Word, wants
to be perfect. He has another nature that has
the same desires he used to have. So if I'm going to put down the
old man and put on the new man, discourage the old man, encourage
the old man, then my companions, if I run around with people that
appeal to this old man, then he's going to be encouraged.
If I find my fellowship with people who have loved the new
man and talk about things of God and live for God, then the
new man is going to be helped. You see what I'm saying? If I
read material that appeals to the old flesh, it's going to
excite the old flesh. You can't put him down that way.
Put off the old man. You can't put off the old man
by exposing him all the time to people and conversation and
material that excites him. But if you stay with people who
help the new man and listen to conversation that helps the new
man and read things that encourage the new man, then this guy suffers
and the new man is helped. That's common sense. It's not
only Scripture. It's just like your boys and
girls. You know, Brother Shanks, Brother Shanks used to have a
school, a Christian school out in Texas. He was principal, janitor,
charm of the board. He ran the whole thing. He was
principal of that Christian school. Had about 300 kids in that school.
I spoke to them two or three times, but a lot of them weren't
Christians either. They were troublesome boys and
girls. Anyway, Mother called him one day and she said, Brother
Shank, now enroll my boy in your school. And she said, don't you
let him get with the wrong crowd. He said, Mama, your boy is the
wrong crowd. The new man. That's what it says
here in Galatians 5.16, walk in the Spirit. Walk with the,
don't walk with the wrong crowd. Walk in the Spirit. And you won't
fulfill the lust of the flesh. Because the flesh lusteth against
the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh and these are contrary
one to the other. So you cannot do the things that
you would. The old man, the old nature is
ever present with us, but one day that old man is going to
die. Turn to 1 Corinthians 15. I'm going to show you the end
of the old man. The end of the old man. I've
been knowledgeable of the gospel for
41 years. 1950 I learned the gospel. I've been in this conflict of
flesh and spirit for that many years, and some of you have too. And
one day before long, I won't have this conflict anymore. I'm
going to be one man. That old man's going to die and
be buried, and I'll be a new creature, totally holy like Christ. That's what it says here in 1
Corinthians 15, 42. So also is the resurrection of
the dead. It's sown in corruption. It's
raised in incorruption. It's sown in dishonor. It's raised
in glory. It's sown in weakness. It's raised
in power. It's sown in a natural body.
It will be raised in a spiritual body. There is a natural body. There is a spiritual body. So
it is written, the first man, Adam, was made a living soul.
The last man was a quickening spirit. That's Christ. He gave
us new life. Howbeit that was not first which
is spiritual, that which is natural. In other words, I wasn't a new
man first, I was an old man first, and then I'm a new man. Adam
was first revealed, and then Christ was revealed. See that? So that which is natural was
first. Such are they also that are heavenly. But verse 47, the first man is
of the earth, earthy, the second man is the Lord from heaven.
Verse 48, as is the earthy, such are they that are earthy, as
is the heavenly, such are they that are heavenly. And as we
have borne the image of the earthy, I bear it real strong too, don't
you? We shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Now this I say,
brethren, flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Neither
does corruption inherit incorruption. But I'm going to show you a mystery.
We'll not all die, some are going to be living when Christ comes,
but we're all going to be changed. Well, now, if we don't have two
natures, why do we have to be changed? Why do we have to be changed?
In other words, if these people who talk about they're Christian,
but they don't sin, why doesn't God just take them on to heaven
without changing them? Well, they'd turn heaven into
hell, that's what they'd do, just like they'd turn their churches
into hell. Like churches, you see, so-called holiness churches
are the biggest battlegrounds before Armageddon. Because that kind of holiness
is not holiness. It's Reformed flesh, and there's
nothing as evil as Reformed flesh. There's a new man and an old
man. I've got a new man and an old man. If I die, the change
will come. But if I don't die, I've got
to be changed. will all be changed. In a moment,
in a twinkling of an eye, at the last trump of the trumpeter's
sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we
shall be changed. For this corruptible must put
on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when
this corruptible shall be put on incorruption, this mortal
shall be put on immortality. Then, and only then, will be
brought to pass the saying, death is swallowed up in victory. Now
death, where is your sting? Oh grave, where's your victory?
You see that? All right, here's another question
now for you. Is that settled? There are two
natures, old man, new man. Put off the old man, put on the
new man. Walk in the spirit, not in the
flesh. When you walk in the flesh and
with the flesh, you're going to encourage that old man. He's
going to excite him. If you walk in the grace of God,
in the word of God, with the people of God, you've got a better,
more strength to suppress these things. And they're going to
stay with you. This old nature, the body of
this death is going to stay with you. I read an illustration one
time how they used to punish criminals centuries ago. One of the inmates would die,
and they'd tie that dead body to a living man, just wrap him
around, tie him to that living man. He'd carry that old stinking,
decaying body of death around with him wherever he went. And I believe that's what Paul
was referring to, who shall deliver me from this body of death. I'm
carrying around with me an old nature, an old man. That's a
hindrance. You are too. the hindrance, and
one day you'll put it aside. Now how do you account, how do
you account for the fact that the old man is evil, corrupt,
and will perish, the new man is godly, holy, and truthful,
and yet they both live in the same person? How do you account
for that? Can you account for it? How do you account for the fact
that I am two people, and you are if you're saved, Paul said,
it's not I but sin that dwelleth in me. How do you account for
that? Well, I'll tell you how to account for it. The old man is you and
me. That's the way we were born.
That's Henry T. Mahan, born from John C. and Allie Mahan, August of 1926,
got a birth certificate, and that's me. I was born with that nature,
that flesh, and everything that I have right now, I was born
with it. That new man is from above. That new man is
the result of a second birth. Are you with me? The second birth. The first birth
is of the earth, earthly. The second birth is from heaven.
The first birth is of natural parents, produces a natural son,
flesh. The second birth is of God, called
regeneration. It's called here in our text,
verse 10, put on the new man which is renewed in the knowledge
after the image of him that created him. It was created. This new
man was created. in the image of him who created
him. Wait, when you create something,
you don't take something and straighten it out. It's all new,
isn't it? Creation is discovering. You
discover and you invent things if you put things together. If
you take this and this and this and this elements and put them
together, you make something. and you invent something, but
if you create what you can't do, only God can create, it's
out of nothing. So this old man, born of the
flesh, is an old man, old flesh. This new man is regenerated,
renewed, restored, created in Christ Jesus. This old man is
me. This new man is Christ. That's who this new man is. That's
the reason he can't sin, because it's Christ. Let me show you
that. Look at Colossians 1. Colossians 1, verse 27. To whom God would make known
what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles,
which is Christ in you. That's the hope of glory. Christ
in you. Paul said, I'm crucified with
Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I. But the life which
I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God.
Look at Colossians 3 verse 3. You're dead. Your life is healed
with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life shall
appear, then shall we appear with him in glory. Christ is
my life. Now let me show you something
here in my text. Verse 9. line up one to another, seeing
you put off the old man with his deeds, you put on the new
man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created
him, whether he's neither Greek nor Jew." Now, each one of these
words means something. This new man, this new man is neither Greek nor Jew, that
is, no external privilege. no external action, no external
differences, commend this man to God. This new man, this new man, in him, there's
no difference as to natural wisdom, natural wisdom and philosophy
and intellect. How brilliant a man is or how
lack of brilliance he has doesn't make any difference. There's
neither Greek nor Jew religion. Jew stands for religion, doesn't
it? The Jew stands for religion,
morality. So our human morality is not
going to commend us to God. Circumcision, what is circumcision? Well, it allowed a man to come
into the temple and sit at the table. It denoted him as being
religious, but that didn't make him acceptable to God. No uncircumcision. Here's a man who says, well,
I don't find my acceptance with God in what I do. I don't do
anything. Barbarian. Scythian. What is Scythian? Savage. Another word for barbarian. Well,
what about the people who have never heard the gospel? Then
they must be accepted. That doesn't commend them to
God. Bond nor free. I had a program last night on
the Civil War and the emancipation of the slaves, you know. I felt
sorry for the slaves and I felt hard towards the masters, but
that's not going to appease them to God. You see what I'm trying
to say? This new man, this old man, all
those things appeal to him. They make a difference. The old
man, all these things make a difference. Wisdom will take me somewhere.
Or religion will do something for me. Or circumcision, acceptance
with the right crowd will contribute something. Or uncircumcision
with the other crowd will. Or savage, or doesn't keep me
from knowing God. Bond or free, neither slave nor
the master. There's no respect of persons
with God. You see what I'm saying? He's
talking about this new man. But listen, in this new man,
Christ is all. Do you understand what I'm saying?
Christ is up. Now the old man, these things
are involved. Greek, Jew, American, English,
or African, or barbarian, or savage, or bond, or free, or
musician, dum-dum, or doctor, or lawyer, all these things,
we're so taken up with these things. But I tell you, in this
new man, in Christ Jesus, in the new man, in the new nature,
in the new creation, we're accepted, not for who we are, what we are,
what we're doing, we're accepted in the Beloved. It's Christ. Christ in me. If I have any holiness, it's
not I, it's Christ. If I have any grace or goodness,
I can take no credit. Who made you to differ? It's
Christ. If God looks at me and accepts me, he doesn't accept
me by the amount of offering I gave or didn't give. He accepts me because of the
faithfulness of Christ, the holiness of Christ, the blood of Christ.
Christ is all. We're dealing with two natures.
One's flesh and one's spirit, one's of the earth, other's of
heaven, one's rejected, one's accepted. One's going to perish,
be annihilated, the other's going to live in glory. And this old
flesh, this old man is concerned about a lot of old things. But
this new man is the gift of God, by the grace of God, it's by
the power of God, it's through the work of God, and it's Christ
Jesus. He's all and in all. In Christ is my wisdom. How do I know God? How does any
man know God? I'm not sure any of us know very
much about God. But at least I know the way to
God. I've never seen God. But if I
ever do, I know the only way I will is through Christ. No, I think most of the preachers
don't know God, and they talk a lot about God, and the more
they talk about Him, I think, the less they know of Him. But
I'll tell you how to know Him. And we know that the Son of God
has come and given us an understanding that we may know God. This is
the true God, and this is eternal life. That's what John wrote. Christ is my wisdom. Christ is
my righteousness. I want to show you one verse
of scripture that will be a blessing until you turn to Genesis chapter
27. This will, for you folks that love types and pictures,
if you better tie your shoelaces a little tighter, you might just
ascend right now when you read this. or hold on to the pew. Old Jacob, wasn't much to him,
was there? But he got the blessing. But
he got the blessing in another person's garment. It says here in Genesis 27, 15,
And Rebekah took the goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which
were with her in the house, and put it on Jacob. She took the goodly robe of Esau
and covered up old Jacob, and he went and got the blessing
in his brother's robe. And that's how I'm going to get
the blessing. In my brother's robe. The Father took the robe
of Christ's holiness and righteousness and put it on me. And that made
me accepted. That's it. My righteousness is
Christ. My acceptance is Christ. My peace
is Christ. My reward is Christ. My reward is Christ. You see that? Oh, I tell you. If Christ is all, then I ought
to set a high value on knowing Him. Secondly, I ought to make
sure that I know Him. And thirdly, I ought to be content
to know Him. And fourthly, I ought to find
a lot of rest in knowing it. Put off the old man. God's going
to put it off someday. Put on the new man, which is
created in the image of Him who created it. And in that new man,
there's none of this that matters. Christ is all. All right, Mike,
come lead us in that 206. Wonderful grace of Jesus, 206.
Henry Mahan
About Henry Mahan

Henry T. Mahan was born in Birmingham, Alabama in August 1926. He joined the United States Navy in 1944 and served as a signalman on an L.S.T. in the Pacific during World War II. In 1946, he married his wife Doris, and the Lord blessed them with four children.

At the age of 21, he entered the pastoral ministry and gained broad experience as a pastor, teacher, conference speaker, and evangelist. In 1950, through the preaching of evangelist Rolfe Barnard, God was pleased to establish Henry in sovereign free grace teaching. At that time, he was serving as an assistant pastor at Pollard Baptist Church (off of Blackburn ave.) in Ashland, Kentucky.

In 1955, Thirteenth Street Baptist Church was formed in Ashland, Kentucky, and Henry was called to be its pastor. He faithfully served that congregation for more than 50 years, continuing in the same message throughout his ministry. His preaching was centered on the Lord Jesus Christ and Him crucified, in full accord with the Scriptures. He consistently proclaimed God’s sovereign purpose in salvation and the glory of Christ in redeeming sinners through His blood and righteousness.

Henry T. Mahan also traveled widely, preaching in conferences and churches across the United States and beyond. His ministry was marked by a clear and unwavering emphasis on Christ, not the preacher, but the One preached. Those who heard him recognized that his sermons honored the Savior and exalted the name of the Lord Jesus Christ above all.

Henry T. Mahan served as pastor and teacher of Thirteenth Street Baptist Church in Ashland, Kentucky for over half a century. His life and ministry were devoted to proclaiming the sovereign grace of God and directing sinners to the finished work of Christ. He entered into the presence of the Lord in 2019, leaving behind a lasting testimony to the gospel he faithfully preached.

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