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Henry Mahan

Crucified With Christ - Nevertheless I Live

Galatians 2:20-21
Henry Mahan • December, 4 1988 • Audio
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Henry T. Mahan Tape Ministry
Zebulon Baptist Church
6088 Zebulon Highway
Pikeville, KY 41501
Tom Harding, Pastor

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When the Pharisees and the Roman soldiers and the
people had nailed the Redeemer, our Lord Jesus Christ, to the
cross, Matthew wrote that, sitting down,
they watched him there. And don't you often wonder what
was going through the minds of these people who were sitting
there watching him suffer and bleed and die? They had some
reservations about who he was. In fact, they'd had a lot of
division concerning him. Some said he was the Christ.
Others said, well, Christ doesn't come out of Nazareth. Christ
would come from the city of David, Bethlehem. And then they knew something
about the miracles that he had performed. Somebody said one
time, Ken, has it ever been heard since the beginning of the world
that a man has given sight to the blind? And didn't he raise
the dead? And yet they crucified him, and
sitting down they watched him. They watched him. But what was it to them? What
were they thinking? What were they considering? Jeremiah
wrote these words, words of our Lord. Is it nothing
to you, all ye that pass by? Is it nothing to you? Behold
and see if there is any sorrow like unto my sorrow. which is
done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day
of his fierce anger." I can't speak for others. I don't
know what others are thinking as they sit and watch him there.
But by the grace of God, I can tell you how I view the cross
of Jesus Christ. I can tell you what I see in
the cross of Jesus Christ. First of all, I see in his death,
I see, and this is by the grace of God, I was careful to say
that, not any human wisdom on my part. But by the grace of
God, I see in that one hanging on the cross, The fulfillment,
great things are here now, the fulfillment of God's very first
promise to fallen Adam. When Adam had sinned and plunged
the whole human race into depravity and death and darkness, when
Satan had tempted Adam and Eve had been deceived, but Adam willfully
went into this thing, knowing what he was doing. and chose
the evil in preference to good. God said, I, the Lord God, will do this.
I'll put enmity between thee, Satan, and the woman's seed. And thou shalt bruise his heel,
but he will bruise thy head. And as I said, this was millenniums
before. This was back right after darkness
fell upon the earth, right after death and judgment and sin had
bested man. And God said something is going
to take place in the future, something climactic, momentous,
beyond description, when the seed of woman, and that's who
that is on that cross, that's the seed of woman. A virgin shall
conceive and bring forth a child without the aid of a man. That
holy thing shall be called the Son of God. And at that moment
I see that seed of woman, the only seed of woman that's ever
existed on this earth. And I see him, his heel bruised,
his lower nature, his human flesh battered. His visage marred just
no other man. battered and beaten and bleeding
and bruised. But I see the victory. I see
him crushing by his death all the power of Satan. Satan met
Christ and was defeated. He met me and won. He met you
and won. He met our father Adam and won.
But he met my Lord and Christ put him out of business. That's
what's happening. That's what I see, Cecil. God is a covenant God, and God
said, My word will not return unto thee void, it shall accomplish
that whereunto I sent it, and that which pleases me. And he
said, The seed of woman will destroy all evil, and that's
what he did on the cross. I see that. It's remarkable.
Well, I'll tell you, I see something else as I sit and watch him there. Even the rulers of the Jews were
running around saying, well, you know, he saved others himself,
he can't save, come on down from the cross and we'll believe you.
Yeah, let's see if Elias will have me. He saved the Son of
God, let's see if God will have me. Real smart men, you know. But smart men, made wise by the
Spirit of God, are sitting there in silence and they're watching.
And they see something, they see secondly, I see secondly.
I see in the death of that man the fulfillment, get it now,
the cancellation, the putting away of every Old Testament picture,
every Old Testament sacrifice, and every Old Testament title.
That's right. You talk about how many lambs
have been slain, how much blood has been shed, how many priests
have come and gone, temple and a tabernacle, how many sacrifices,
how many atonements. Think of the millions of sacrifices. Think of all the Sabbath days
and all the 613 laws carried out, all the turtledoves and
pigeons and all these things. And I see in him, I see in him
my Passover. No more slaying of the lambs.
I see in him, my high priest, no more coming to God through
the high priest of old, or priest of any fleshly relationship. I see in him my atonement, no
more entering within the veil, no more blood on the mercy seat.
I see in him the doing away of all these types and pictures
and patterns, not destroying them, but fulfilling them. He
said, I didn't come to destroy the law. I didn't come to destroy
the Sabbath, destroy circumcision, destroy the tithe, destroy the
priesthood, destroy the mercy seat, destroy the ark, destroy
the tabernacle. I came to fulfill it. He is my
mercy seat. He is my priest. He is my atonement. He is my sacrifice. He is my
Sabbath. Christ is. And I see right there,
she's gone, the covenant of works. All of the Mosaic law, all of
the Levitical law, away with it! He's fulfilled it. I will not be brought back under
it, and I will attempt to bring no one back under it. Would we put on the backs of
our children a burden that we could never bear? As Moses lifted
up the serpent and the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be
lifted up. And I sit there, and I watch
him, and I see God did what he said he'd do. He sent to seed
a woman, and he conquered Satan, and put away every enemy, and
the last enemy, someday that will be destroyed is death. And
I see God did what he said he'd do. He said, I'll raise up unto
you a prophet like unto Moses, him you shall hear. I'll raise
up a priest, not like Abram, but after Melchizedek. forever
a priest of God. I raise up a king to sit on the
throne of David. This is Jesus. He's the king.
He's the king. But I sit there and I see something
else. I see something else. I see in his death. Now, who
is this? This is the Son of God. This
is the infinitely, immutably holy Son of God. The one who's
never sinned, who can say, which of you convinced me of sin? In
whom there was no evil. I see in his death a display
as nowhere else in the Bible or in human history. I see a
display of the character of God. You want to know who God is?
Go to the cross. Go to the cross. I see the holiness
and justice of God revealed in the death of his Son as nowhere
else. He spared not his own Son. Now, Jesus Christ is the Son
of God. He started not rightly to be
equal with God. By him were all things made,
for him were all things made, by him all things consist. In
him there is all preeminence. He is the head of the church,
the body. He's the Beloved Son, he's the Father's Son, in whom
God is well pleased. And yet on that cross, as the
federal head and representative of all believers, he had no sin,
but he took our sins in his body on the tree. He was made sin
who knew no sin for us. And he had no sin of his own.
The sin that Christ bore, that sin was there by imputation. Now, you want to know how holy
God is? Even bearing the sins of another, suffering under sins
that were not his own, bearing the guilt and shame and filth
of his people, Almighty God killed him. Killed him. his undiluted judgment and wrath,
is there any sorrow like unto my sorrow, watch it, which is
done unto me wherewith almighty God has afflicted me in the day
of his fierce anger." See what I'm saying? We would
have voted them out of commission. Or even the flood. But if you
want to see the holiness and the justice and the righteousness
of a holy God, you go to Calvary. And there dies one who doesn't
deserve to die. because he's made sin for us. If God spared not his own son,
how shall he not with him freely give us all things? But yes,
that's true, but this is too. How shall he not damn and condemn
all who despise his son? Oh yeah, I see that. has nowhere
else the holiness of God, the incomprehensible holiness of
God. And any time the bird of the
air flies through your mind and drops a little doubt about whether
God will punish sin, just turn back to Calvary. Turn back to
Calvary. If ever the fleeting thought
passes through your mind, Oh, you know, maybe this business
of sovereign grace and substitution, maybe the preacher carries it
too far. Raise your head and look at Calvary and tell me if
the preacher carries it too far. My God, why hast thou forsaken
me? Well, I'll never cry that if
I'm in him. If I'm not in him, I deserve to cry. Thirdly, fourthly,
I see as I sit and watch him there. And Peter said he's a
just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. But fourthly,
I see as I sit and watch Christ on the cross. God help us, I
see not only a manifestation of his holiness, but I see as
nowhere else in the death of Christ, I see a manifestation
of God's love. Oh, God's soul love. Can you
understand it? No, sir, I can't. Oh, love of
God, how rich, how pure, how measureless, how strong it shall
forevermore endure the saints and angels of the love of God. I said, for a righteous man,
a religious man, for a self-righteous, pious man, some might die. Not
many. Probably wouldn't. But for a
good man, some would dare to die. For a man, you know, that's
polite and kind and respectable. But God commended his love toward
us in that while we were sinners, enemies, Christ died for us.
Now, that's love. Greater love hath no man than
this. that he lay down his life for his friends. I was eating
a meal with a dear lady up in Pennsylvania years ago. She told
me a story that touched my heart so deeply. I said, I asked her if her parents
were living. She said, mother is. But my dad
gave his life for me. I said, how was that? She said,
my dad was a physician, a very well-known physician. And she said, we went to the
beach, mother and dad and I. He had a heart problem. But we
went to the beach, and I was out swimming, and I got too far
out, and I got in real trouble. And my dad saw me. And he came running out and swam
to me and wrapped his arms around me and brought me to the shore. And when he put me on the shore,
she said he fell over dead. He knew that he probably wouldn't
survive that, but he came after me because he loved me. And he
died and I lived. And I'll tell you, that's what
I see at Calvary. I see love, indescribable love. everlasting, infinite, unexplainable
love, the Lord Jesus Christ dying not for his daughter, but for
his enemies. Now, we become his daughters
and sons by his grace, and in his everlasting covenant of grace,
we were given to him as sons and daughters. But when he died,
there wasn't much daughter and son in us, was there? In fact, we were standing down
there hollering, and spitting upon him. Now, that's
love. Don't you wish we knew something
about that love? Would there, God, we could demonstrate
it? You love one another as I've
loved you, he said. And then fifthly, I see in his
death, as I sit and watch him there, I actually see in his
death I actually see this, my friend. I don't see it in this
water. I have enough judgment to know
that water can't wash away sins. I know that. I don't have any
problem with it. Do you? Take me into the pool
a hundred times and it won't change my soul or my heart or
my record. And I'm not foolish enough to
think we can put wafers and wine or unleavened bread and wine
on this table and distribute it, and distribute cleansing.
I'm smarter than that. And I'm not foolish enough to
think that the law and the keeping thereof can put away my sins.
The law, by the law, is the knowledge of sin. I'm not foolish enough
to think, well, I can say, well, God, I won't do it again. I can
tell Mama that, and Mama will pat me on the head, but God won't. Because he knows I will. And he knows the only reason
I don't is he's put a hedge around me. It's not my fault, it's his. Isn't that right? And I'm not
stupid enough to think that any brand of religion, I hear these
Catholics, Protestants, and Jews, and Baptists, and Camelots, and
all the rest of them say, our church is the church. The Lord's
church is the church. And if you come down here and
pray the sinner's prayer, you'll go to heaven. That's a lie. And
I know it. I'm smarter than that. I know that sin, sin, sin, sin
is our enemy. Sin has separated us from God. Sin is charged against us, and God's
going to punish sin. He will in no wise, no wise,
clear the guilty. So as I sit there, I see where
sins are put away. I can see, I can see how sin
can be put away. Sin can be put away by the efficacious
blood of the Son of God. That's the way. God says without
the shedding of blood, there's no remission. But through the
shedding of His blood, not how much He shed, who shed it? Not
how long he suffered, who suffered? There is the unlimited, infinite
Son of God, who by his one sacrifice put away sin forever. By his
one offering perfected forever them that are sanctified. Richard,
he can do it. I can't. You can't. The law can't.
He can do it. Mike, he can do it. Of course,
he died. can condemn me. It's Christ that
died. That's what I see. It's Christ
that died. He was wounded for my transgressions. He was bruised for my iniquities.
The chastisement of our peace was upon him by his stripes.
I'm healed. God is content to look on him. in my place instead and receive
his obedience and his righteousness and his sacrifice and his one
offering to satisfy all that law, justice demands of me. That's substitution. I don't
know why preachers don't preach that. I don't know why they've
gone into the decision business. I can't explain it. I don't know. Why, they insinuate in any way
that what I do can appease a holy God. Nobody else has been able
to appease him. Nobody else has ever been able
to. All the Jews with their sacrifices and laws and Sabbath days and
sacraments and all these things never could satisfy God. He said,
I'm sick of your burnt offerings and your feast days and your
holy days. When you lift your hands to me, I'm not going to
hear you away with it. And then we come along with our
little 1988 version of religion, you know. We walk the aisle,
we burn our candles, we build our temples, we put our spires
and steeples up to heaven. We close our preacher in some
silly-looking robe. The Pope wears a dunce hat, you
know, and goes around sprinkling water and waving his hands and
crossing all this junk. And we, you think a holy, righteous,
eternal God has any regard towards that trash? It's nonsense. Nonsense. I'll take you to where
God's satisfied. I'll take you to where God's
justice and holiness is appeased and met. Full and complete. I'll take you to Calvary. I'll
take you to Calvary. You come on to Calvary with me.
We'll meet God. That's the mercy seat there. That's the mercy seat. That's
where the Shekinah glory is. And third, in the sixth place,
I see in his death something else. I want you to turn to Galatians
chapter 2. I see something there. In his death, I see my death. I want you to
hear me just for a few more minutes, carefully. I see my death. I sit there and I watch all this
that's transpired, and I see all these things in his death,
but I see something else. I see my death. But Paul said in Galatians 2.20,
I am crucified with Christ. When he died, I died. Nevertheless,
I live. Yet not I, but Christ liveth
in me, and the life which I now live in this flesh I live by
the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself
for me." When he died, I died. How, preacher? Well, first of all, I died to
the curse of the law. It's like a man who's guilty
of a crime. And when the debt's paid, when
he's hanged or when he's electrocuted, the law has no more claim on
him. You know, if a man commits murder or kidnapping and they
sentence him to die and they put him in an electric chair
and pull the switch, he's dead. He's dead to the law. He's dead
to the curse. He's dead to the penalty. He's
dead to the condemnation. Is that not right? So when Christ
died, there's therefore now no condemnation. to them who are
in Christ Jesus. They are dead to the law, they
are dead to the curse, they are dead to the condemnation, they
are dead to the law as a covenant, they are dead to the penalty,
they are dead. The law has no further claim on me. I am married
to another. But secondly, we are dead to the world. Paul
said, turn to Galatians 6, verse 14. God forbid that I should
glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ by whom the
world is crucified unto me and unto the world. There's another
sense now. When Christ died, I died. Every judgment, every
requirement met. I'm dead to the law, but I'm
dead to the world. Well, preacher, how can we be
dead to the world when we live in this world? When we work in
this world, when we walk in this world, how can we be dead to
the world? Let me see if I can illustrate it. A young man asked
an old, old preacher that question, that same question many, many
years ago. He came to him and said, What
does the scripture mean when it says we are dead to the world?
We are crucified to the world and the world is crucified to
us who believe on Christ. The old preacher looked at him
and said, Well, do you remember the certain brother here in the
Church that died some months or years ago. He said, oh, yes.
But he said he's buried right out there in the church cemetery. So I'll tell you what you do.
You go out there to where Brother Smith is buried, and you stand
over his grave, and you just talk to him very badly, just
telling him things you didn't like about him and didn't agree
with about him, and you're glad he's dead. And the boy said,
He won't hear me. And the preacher said, you go
do what I said. Go out there at that man's grave, Brother
Smith's grave, and just bawl him out. So the boy went out
there, and that's why he came back. And the pastor said, what
did he say? He said, Pastor, he didn't say
anything. He's dead. He's dead. He said, now go out
there and beg on him. Really laud him and praise him
and honor him and brag on him and tell him all the good things
you knew about him and heard about him. Just praise him to
the heavens. So the boy went out there and
stood there like a fool and he told him all those things. He
came back in and the pastor said, What did he say? And the young
man said, Pastor, he didn't say anything. He's dead. He's dead. I didn't affect him when I cursed
him. I didn't affect him when I praised him. He's dead. Oh,
he said, I see what you mean. We're dead to this world. We're
dead to its honors and to its curses. For example, what are
the people of this world to the believer? Well, frankly, I neither
admire them nor fear them. How about you? I mean the general
people of this world. I neither admire them nor do
I fear them. They're space fellers. That's
right. What are they to me? Christ said
don't fear them that kill the body. You fear him that cast
you body and soul in there. What are the people of this world?
What are the honors of this world? Their applause means nothing
and their hatred means nothing. Does it? Because you're dead. You're dead with Christ. If you
weren't dead with Christ, you'd be concerned about their admiration
or their rejection. But you don't care. This world
is not your home, this is not your life. You're a pilgrim,
you're sojourner, you're passing through. You're just meeting
expenses until you wind up in glory. That's right. That's right, John. You're just
meeting expenses. All that hard work you're doing, the people
you deal with and their contrarian, you're just meeting expenses
until you go to glory. And you don't admire the people
you deal with, and you don't fear them. They don't make any difference,
to be perfectly frank. And whether they beg on you or
curse you, what difference does it make that God loves you? It's
what he thinks, it's not what they think. I don't stand or
fall before the tribunal of human flesh. I stand or fall in Christ. What difference does it make?
Our kinfolks don't believe what I believe." Well, so what? Who are they? They're fodder
for the fires of hell, that's what they are, unless they come
to bow to Christ. That's not too hard, is it? But
you're dead to this world. What about the riches of this
world? That's the fancy of fools, people
who give themselves and give their time and lives and everything
in them to gain a little more of this world's possessions,
that's the fancy and folly of fools, having food and rain what
they're with to be content. Isn't that right? God keep me
from riches lest I forget you, and keep me from poverty lest
I steal, and feed me with that which is convenient, and I'll
praise and rejoice on my road to glory. Well, I'm fighting for a higher
position. I'm fighting for more, a bigger
this, that, and the other. I'm just going after it! Well, if you'll go to the cross
and you can see that there's the riches of God, there's the
treasures of glory, Calvary, and you can sit down and be content
to feed on his love. I'll tell you something else.
the people of this world, the honors of this world, the riches
of this world, the religion of this world. You know there's
a lot of pressure in religion today? Oh yeah, peer pressure,
religious traditions and ceremonies. But y'all people out 13th Street,
you don't do this and you don't have this and you don't have
that and you don't have the other. The religious traditions and
ceremonies and all these things. What are these things? I'll tell
you this, when I sit at Calvary, and see the death of Christ and
the fulfillment of all these so-called requirements, I'm satisfied
that the law and the ceremony and the Sabbath and all these
things are met in Him. And it means nothing to me. Let
them play their games. God's not impressed. Let them
go through their motions. Let them count their numbers.
Let them build their organizations and denominations. Let them brag.
There's my boasting in the cross. There's my glory in Calvary. There's my wisdom, there's my
righteousness, there's my sanctification, there's my Sabbath, there's my
redemption, there it all is in Christ. I'm complete in Him. Huh? I'm dead. Well, don't mess with
me. I'm dead. Don't try to impress
me. Don't try to coerce me. I'm dead. I'm not interested in what you
are or what you have. I'm dead. I'm interested in walking
with him and having food convenient for me and living in glory. Now watch this. Nevertheless,
I live. Now watch this. He said, I'm
crucified with Christ. Let me give you this. Nevertheless,
I live. I live. I live. Now what does this mean? Let
me see if I can help. I'm dead, but I live, yeah? This life that
we're talking about, he's talking about here, I live. I live, not
I, but Christ liveth in me, in the life which I now live in
the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved
me and gave himself for me. What is this? Well, this is not
a natural religious life. This is not a life of just morality
and separation. This is not just a peculiar behavior
and conduct and conversation that uses certain words like
praise the Lord or hallelujah or blessed Jesus or something
like that. It's not just a life involved
with other people with common interests and common doctrine
and common theology. That's what our religion is,
Dan. Yeah, it's peculiar, and it's strange, and it's different,
and they dress alike, and wear their hair alike, and talk alike,
and walk alike, and hold their Bibles alike, you know, and buy
cars alike, and all this sort of thing. They have a religious
life. But when Paul says, I died with
Christ, and now I live. He's not talking about another
form of natural life, another form of human life, another strange
and different form of life. He's talking about living under
God, a spiritual life. Paul is saying, I was born, now
I see. He's saying, I was dead, now
I live. He is saying I was an alien,
now I'm a son. He's saying I was in bondage,
now I'm free. I'm free. He's saying I was under
a sentence of eternal death, and now I have eternal life. I know God. I didn't know God. It's not I know a new circle
of friends. who don't drink and curse and
smoke. That's not it. This new life,
I know God. I know God. And I know Jesus
Christ whom he had sent. And I have a new spirit. I have
a new attitude. I'm a new person. I'm a new creature
in Christ. I live. You see what I'm saying? I live. I didn't join the church. I was joined in a living union
with Christ. Things are really different.
I don't profess to be different. I am! I don't claim to be a child
of God. I am! I don't profess to be born again.
I is! The right man said. See what
I'm saying? I really am. I really am. I died. Well, I died to you.
and all your cohorts, and all your honors, pleasures, and riches,
I'm dead to you. And I live. And yet not I, it's not just
a different me. It's a brand new creature. I
really live, brother. I really live. And this life
that I live, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved
me, gave himself for me, and who lives in me. And what is
it in Jesus Christ that we can live upon and lean upon? Well,
faith lives upon his name. In the name of Jesus of Nazareth,
I say, rise up and walk. His name has all power. His name
is all I need. Whatsoever ye ask the Father
in my name, life, forgiveness, pardon, he'll give you. Because
my name carries a lot of weight up there. Take your banker's name to God
and see how much. Or take your mama's name to God
and see if that'll move him. Take your preacher's name to
God. I hear Brother Mahan, God. I tell you, take the Lord Jesus'
name and see if that'll move heaven and earth. I live on his name. Secondly,
I live by his blood. Come into the holy of holies.
How? By his blood. his blood. I live upon his fullness,
in him dwelleth all the fullness, all I need find in him. I live
upon his righteousness, with his spotless garments on, I'm
as holy as he is. I look good in Christ's righteousness.
I don't look like much in mine. You can shoot it full of holes,
can't you? I'm shamed of it, too. But I tell you, I look good
in his beauty. And then I can live and lean
upon his intercession. He prays for me. And then you
know why? I can live on his word. Oh, how
I love this book, don't you? I believe I love it more than
I ever have. Turn to Matthew 9. Let me show you a little story
and I'll quit. I believe it's, to me, the green
pastures. It's to me the children's bread,
it's to me the foundation of my faith, to me it's meat and
drink. I love thy law, God. I delight
in it. Matthew 9, let me just show you
a story here. Verse 27, you got it? Matthew
9, 27. This is good, real good. And Jesus had been in the home
of Jairus and raised his daughter. In verse 27, when Jesus departed,
thence two blind men followed him. These are men in darkness,
blind, and they followed him. And they kept crying, saying,
Thou Son of David, Messiah, have mercy on us. Thou Son of David,
have mercy on us. And the Lord never even heeded
them. He never even looked their way. He never stopped. He never
spoke. He never paid any attention to them. And he went into a house,
and the blind men were brought to him, or came to him. Some
way, somebody brought them. And Jesus was in the house then,
and he sat there, and he looked at them, and he said, Do you
really believe that I'm able to do this? Do you? And they
said, Yea, Lord. Well, he touched their eyes and
said, according to your faith, being under you. And I ask you
this morning, and I know the world's rushing by and they're
trying to shoot you down as you pass by and they're giving you
instant religion, but our Lord Jesus, all that hullabaloo out
there, he didn't even stop. Jesus, have mercy on us, son
of David! He went into the house and sat
down. And then they came in. And he looked at them and said,
do you really believe? Do you? Do you really believe? Do you
believe this? Father, I believe it. Consciously, sanely, by God's
grace, without all that out yonder, all this psychological pressure,
just sit down and count the cards. Do you believe it? Do you believe
this message? I do. I do. Well, he said, according
to your faith, be it unto you. That's where it all is, according
to your faith, be it unto you. If thou canst believe, He's able
to save to the uttermost, He's able to do all that He promised,
He's able to keep that which I've committed, He's able to
keep us from falling, He's able to present us faultless before
His throne with exceeding glory, He's able to raise my vile body
and subdue all things to Himself. I believe, you believe that I'm
able to do this. Do you? All you need. Yea, Lord. And that's not walking around,
telling a preacher that. That's telling Him that, Yea,
Lord. You know I believe. Help my unbelief. Give me grace. Alright. Mike, let's sing that
last hymn. Number 201.
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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