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Henry Mahan

Let Him Glory In the Lord

2 Corinthians 10:17-18
Henry Mahan • May, 15 1988 • Audio
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Now, they came to John the Baptist, and they said, Are you the Christ?
And he said, I'm not. They said, Are you that prophet?
He said, I'm not. Well, they said, Who are you?
Who are you? And John replied, I'm just a
voice, that's all I am. I'm just a voice in the wilderness,
crying, prepare ye the way of the Lord. And I was sitting there thinking
before I stepped up here to preach on this awesome subject tonight. that I'd much rather be sitting
right there listening honestly to this message or if it were possible for people
to not at all know who the preacher is and just record it and let
everybody hear a voice. Because this business of pride
and human glory is subtle. Oh! It's ugly and it's subtle. And Satan is a master craftsman. He enters in, in that area, and
I see it, and you recognize it. and it's so difficult to deal
with. But let's try, let's look at
it, 2 Corinthians 10, 2 Corinthians 10. There are two verses that I want
to read, 2 Corinthians 10, verse 17. And this is, I don't know how to emphasize
the importance of this subject, I just don't know how. Perhaps
maybe the Holy Spirit will. Perhaps. But verse 17 of 2 Corinthians
10, But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. For not he that commended himself
is approved, But whom the Lord commended. It got nothing to
do with what you think. It's what he thinks. It's got
nothing to do with what you claim. It's what he says. It's not he
that commended himself. But whom the Lord commended.
So he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. Now here's
the first question. And I want to make this plain
to me and to you. What are we talking about when
we say glorying in something? What is it to glory in something
or someone? What is it to glory? Now, do
you know? Well, here's what I believe it is. First of all, to glory
in something or someone is to honor, to exalt, to put that
something or someone on a kind of pedestal, wouldn't you say
that's the first thing? It's to give that person or that
thing a position of honor. All right, second, to glory in
something or someone is to rejoice in it and to boast of it. To boast or to rejoice in it,
to take delight in that something or someone. He that delighteth,
let him delight in the Lord. He that rejoiceth, let him rejoice
in the Lord. He that exalteth anything or
anyone, let him exalt the Lord. He that honoreth anything, let
him honor the Lord. So that's what it means to glow.
Thirdly, it is to find for myself a genuine personal satisfaction
in that thing. If I glory in something, honor,
exalt it, delight in it, I find some satisfaction in it. And
I find some joy in that thing. To the point, to the point of
giving it, it or him, personal priority, even to the sacrifice of my life. in an object is the glory of
that person or that thing. Now that's what it means to glory
in something. That's the reason he says here,
he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. Now there's several things that
I covet. I've made these statements to
you before. There's several things that I covet, several things
that I need in this journey and on this journey. in my relationship
with Christ. There's several things we need.
Like the Lord Jesus said to the disciples, I've got lots of things
to say to you yet, but you're not able to bear them. We've
got some growing to do. There's some things I need, I
personally need. And things I covet, because like
David said, we are definitely poor and needy creatures. He
kept, he said that, what, two or three times, but I am poor
and needy. I am poor and needy. I'm poor and needy. But you know,
if I were to single out any one area, any one thing that might
help adjust the other areas, it would be this right here.
The most vital area, vital to my spiritual well-being, would
be right here. He that glorieth, let him glory
in the Lord. I really believe that. That's
how important I believe it is. If I could, if that particular
area, if I could If I could sincerely, honestly, in my heart, honor,
exalt, rejoice, delight, boast, take great satisfaction and joy
only in Christ, my Lord. These other areas would fall
in place. Really believe they would. Read it again, read the
text. But he that glorieth, let him
glory in the Lord. For not he that commendeth himself
is approved. And there's an awful lot of folks
who are commending themselves. Awful lot of folks. We hear this,
we see it everywhere. We're exposed to it all the time.
Boasting of their piety, of their performances, of their profession,
of their place in the kingdom of God. Boasting, exalting in
that, glowing in that. But it says it's not he that
commended himself, that's approved, that's accepted. To be accepted
of God is my, is all that I need, and it's not he that boasteth
of what he is or who he is or what he believes. That's accepted
or approved. It's whom the Lord commended.
It's whom the Lord accepted. So whom has he accepted? Has
he accepted me? Has he approved of me? Has the
Lord called me? It's whom the Lord appointed.
Now listen to this. Let me give you four or five
things here that I think are so important. There's really
no miracle in making a man religious. That seems to be what's going
on today, in our day, in the name of trying to make people
religious, trying to get professions out of people. There's no miracle
in making a person religious. I think most people are religious
by nature. I believe we are religious creatures, we're superstitious
creatures, we're emotional creatures. We have a fear, Barnard said
one time, of not only what's out yonder, but maybe who's out
yonder. So people are religious. There's no problem in making
a man religious. Paul said they have a zeal for
God. They desire life after death.
They seek a happy hunting ground. So there's no miracle in making
a man religious. To bring him to the place where
he commends himself. That he approves himself. But
here's the miracle. The miracle is not in making
a man religious. It's in making him righteous
before God. Righteous. Now that's the miracle.
Righteous. Like I was talking about this
morning. Righteous before the law. Righteous in the sight of
God. Accepted in the beloved. Approved
of God. Now, if a man comes to that knowledge
and that understanding and to that place, then he will glory
in the Lord. Let me show you that. Isaiah
chapter 45. Now here, so this thing This
thing of glorying in the Lord is not a work to be done, it's
the result of a work done. Did you get that? He says, let
him that gloryeth, glory in the Lord. Well, it's not something
I can do at all until he does something for me. And when he
does this for me, I'll glory in him. I will. Look at Isaiah 45 verse 24. Listen. Surely, certainly, no
question about it, shall one say, In the Lord have our righteousness
and strength. Even to him shall men come. And
all that are incensed against him, they're going to be ashamed.
But in the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified,
and they shall glory. See what I'm saying, men? There's
no problem making a man religious. But he's not approved, he's not
accepted, and he can't glory in the Lord. He'll glory in his
religion. He'll glory in his piety, his profession, his position,
his attainments, or whatever. But if God ever makes him righteous
in Christ, if he ever sees himself positionally in Christ, as justified,
sanctified, and holy in Christ, he'll glory in the Lord. He will. Alright, here's the second thing.
And this is going on today and I don't guess humanly speaking
it's all bad. You know, Alcoholics Anonymous, that's a good organization. That's
a good organization now, it really is. And I'm glad it exists for
the benefit. One of the worst things in the
world, I guess, you know, humanly speaking. is to be a drunk, you
know, to alcoholic. And if someone can rescue him
and get him out of it and off of it, then wonderful, wonderful. Some child will have a better
daddy. And drugs, it's just, it's something that there was
a friend of mine called me from out west. And this person said,
We have a dear friend whose son is on drugs. He's a senior in
high school and he's on drugs, desperately on drugs, dangerously
on drugs. And we need to, he needs help
and we need to get to a preacher, a sovereign grace preacher who
believes the gospel who will talk to him. And I said to my, now you listen
to me, don't leave me now. And I said to this person, don't
limit his help to a sovereign grace preacher who believes the
gospel. I believe the gospel, I'm a sovereign
grace preacher, but I don't know beans about drugs. And I doubt
very seriously if I could help a drug addict. I point him to
Christ and God will help him, God will save him, God will redeem
him. But this boy's not interested in the gospel. So I said to this
person, consult someone who knows that business. And we'll talk
to him about Christ later. Or at the same time. But don't
shy away from an organization or a person or a doctor or somebody
who can help that boy physically. I'd be delighted to see him off
drugs. You see what I'm trying to say? And I thank God for these organizations,
but let me tell you something, to reform a man, that's not too
difficult. There's no miracle in reforming,
the miracle's in regeneration. That's what needs to happen to
us. You know, I think most drunks would prefer to be sober if they
had their way. I think most harlots would prefer
to be pure. I really do. I think most thieves
would prefer to have their needs met another way. If they could
get it, you know, if they could be rich without stealing, they'd
be glad to be rich. But the miracle lies in regeneration,
and this is where it is. This is when a man glorifies
God. And this is why we can glorify God, is because God has given
us a new heart and a new nature. There's the miracle. There's
the miracle. Turn to John 1. John chapter
1. And that's when a man will glorify
God. when he's regenerated, not when
he's reformed. And I know a lot of drunks have
turned over a new leaf, and they say, well, praise the Lord, praise
the Lord. But I notice a whole lot of self and flesh in this
thing. I used to be that, and I used to be that, and now I'm
this, and I whipped it, and you can too, and this sort of thing.
But oh, when a person is regenerated by the Holy Spirit, and the miracle
of the new birth takes place, he'll glorify God. He'll glorify
God. Look at John 1 verse 12. But
as many as received him, to them gave he the power to become sons
of God, even to them that believe on his name, which were born,
they were born begotten, not of blood, not of the will of
the flesh, not of the will of man, had nothing to do with it.
They were born of God. And the word was made flesh and
dwelt among us, and we beheld what? His glory. His glory, the
glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and
truth. That's when a person can glorify
God, is when he knows that his life is a miracle of God's love
and grace, a miracle. You know, I've used this illustration
before, but oh, that we could get hold of it. When our Lord,
when Lazarus died, Lazarus died, and our Lord came back to Bethany. He stayed away all those days
so that Lazarus would be dead and in the grave four days. And
he came back, and they came and told Martha, the Lord is here.
The Lord has come. And she ran out to meet him.
And she began to talk about different things. She said, now, if you'd
have been here, my brother wouldn't have died. I believe that. And secondly, she said, but even
now, I believe whatever you ask God, he'll give you. And our
Lord said, well, Martha, your brother will rise again. Your
brother will rise again. She said, I believe he'll rise
again in the resurrection. He said, Martha, I'm the resurrection,
and I'm the life. He that believeth on me, though
he were dead, yet shall he live. Now, do you believe this? Now
here's the question, do you believe this? I'm the resurrection, Christ
in you, that's the hope of glory. Christ regenerated, quickened
in you. Thirdly, listen to this, and
that's when we glory. In other words, when a man comes
to see the Lord, our righteousness, He'll say, in the Lord have our
righteousness and your glory. When a man realizes that his
very life is not a religious profession, his life is Christ,
sovereignly, freely, graciously, mercifully given by an act of
God, your glory. And then thirdly, there's no
miracle in forming a religious refuge, no miracle at all. Thousands have said, we have
a covenant with death, and with hell are we in agreement. We're
not afraid to die. We're not afraid of going to
hell. When the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it won't
come unto us. We've made lies our refuge, and
under falsehood have we hid ourselves. There's no miracle in forming
a religious refuge. People have them all over the
country. Their church membership is a refuge. Baptism, an ordinance
is a refuge. An experience is a refuge. There
are a lot of refuges. But the miracle is in bringing
a man to Christ, the only real refuge. And the only hiding place. And that's when a man will truly
glory. Turn to Galatians 6.14. Let me show you that. Here's
the Apostle Paul speaking. Galatians 6.14. When he finds
the true refuge. The true refuge. Tell you this.
John read Isaiah 53, and it says of Isaiah, when he saw his glory,
he spake of him. When he saw his glory, he spake
of him. And here Paul says the same thing
in Galatians 6 verse 14, listen, but God forbid that I should
glory Well, let's go back two verses. He talks about these
other, these false preachers. He said, "...as many as desire
to make a fair show in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised,
only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of
Christ. For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the
law, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may
glory in your flesh, and glory in numbers, and glory in accomplishments,
and glory in all these things. But God forbid that I should
glory." saving the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. That's my
refuge. That's my ransom. That's my hiding
place, Christ Jesus. All right, fourthly, there's no miracle in learning
doctrine. No miracle at all in learning doctrine. You know,
some of the most vicious, vicious, hypocritical men who've ever
lived. Some of the most vicious men
who've ever lived have been orthodox theologians. Some of the most
vicious men in human history have been orthodox theologians.
That's exactly right. More crimes have been committed
by religionists in the name of the church, in the name of God,
in the name of religion than any other single group of people. That's so. You read Foxe's Book of Martyrs
sometime, read about the history of back in the days of the Reformation,
the Middle Ages. I mean crimes in the name of
the church, in the name of orthodoxy. There's no miracle in learning
doctrine. There's no miracle in making a man religious. There's
no miracle in establishing a hiding place. There's no miracle in
Reformation, there's no miracle in learning doctrine. The miracle
is not in learning doctrine, it's learning Christ. It's having Christ revealed to
the heart. Paul said of the church at Galatia, he said, I literally
travail like a woman in birth pains till Christ be formed,
Christ be formed in you. Turn to Galatians 1. Let me show
you something here. You see, I love dearly, I love
dearly orthodoxy. I love it. I love doctrine. I
love the study of doctrine. I love the systematic theology.
I love the men who can put things together. I love those writings. I delight when a man preaches
on tulip. I love these things. But I believe
a man can logically in his mind learn these truths and not learn
the truth. And I've heard men preach these
doctrines. and preach them systematically
and preach them in order and preach them plainly and courageously
and boldly. But men who by their attitude
and conduct and even by their messages revealed that they didn't
know Christ himself. And I've said so often, you don't
arrive at Christ by learning his doctrine. You come to Christ and then you
learn his doctrine. You arrive at doctrine through
Christ. That's right. And this is what, listen to what
Paul says. See if you notice one little word in this statement.
Galatians 1 15. Well, when it pleased God, and
that's God's sovereignty. We believe that. Who separated
me from my mother's womb. That's election. No question
about that. And called me by His grace. There's
the effectual call. of the Holy Spirit. See, we've
got sovereignty, we've got election, we've got the effectual call.
But here it is, to reveal his Son in me, in me. To reveal his Son in me. Not to me, in me. A man can know
about Christ and not know him. A man can even believe some truth
about Christ and not know him. But when he knows him, when he
knows him, He'll glorify Him. And what I'm saying is this business
of glorying in the Lord is not a work that I strive to do. It's the result of a work that
God has done in me. When God brings me to see Christ
my righteousness, not just to look at a perfect obedience that
He worked out, a finished work, they call it trusting the finished
work, that scares me. I'm trusting him who finished
the work. Salvation is not a work, it's
a person. You see what I'm trying to say? He's my Lord. Doctrine is not my Lord, the
church is not my Lord, the law is not my Lord, he's my Lord.
Christ is my Lord. And this thing of then glorifying
him, glorying in the Lord. It's not something I strive to
do, it's something that will be the result of a work God has
done in me. If I ever, with spiritual eyes,
can see Christ as the full righteousness, my full righteousness before
God, man, I'll glory in Him. I'll glory in Him. If I ever
see Him as the refuge from the storm where I can safely hide
and be delivered from the scourge of God's wrath that passes through,
I'll glory in Him. If I ever see Him as my resurrection,
and see Him as my life, and see Him as my redeemer, I'll glory
in Him. It'll be a natural response to
glory in Him if I ever see Him as He is. It'll be the response. We'll show you that in Ephesians
1. Just turn around. This is the response. This is the results. I know people wonder, well, why
don't you put more pressure on folks to make me see, after you
preach, call on somebody to do something. There's a temptation, because I like to see something
happen. But I tell you, if God ever does something in a man's
heart, something will happen. It's like trying to Get all that steam in a boiler
and it's got to have an escape valve. He's got to tell somebody.
He's got to say something. He's got to praise God. He's
got to glorify Christ. He's got to unite with God's
church. He's got to identify with God's people. He can't stay
away. He's got to go where there's praise in his Lord. Got to. It's the results of a work. And
what we do if we're not careful in religion, we get people to
say, it's like And I don't know whether you feel this way or
not, when I see those fellas gather all those people down
front, then they say, now pray after me, our Father in heaven,
our Father in heaven, be merciful to me, be merciful. You're telling
him what to say. You're telling him how to glorify
God. If he had that spirit of God in him, he'd glorify God. If he ever saw Christ as his
only righteousness and deliverer and ransom and atonement, he'd
glorify him. I know he'd do it. I just know
he would. Couldn't keep from it. Peter
said, I can't help but speak what I've seen and heard. And
you know, Jeremiah said, was it Jeremiah who said, I'm not
going to speak anymore? He said, it was like a fire that
burned in my belly. I'm just not going to say anything.
David said the same thing. I'm just, I'm going to shut my
mouth. He said, I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it. I just
couldn't do it. And I'm saying that this thing
of glorifying God, giving God the honor and the praise and
the glory and the exaltation, is not something I strive to
do and determine to do and say I'm going to do. It's something,
bless God, I will do if I ever see him as he is and what he's
done for me. It won't be a rehearsal. It won't
be a dress rehearsal. It'll be the real thing. Look
at Ephesians 1. Verse 3, verse 3, blessed be
the God and Father. of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in the heavenlies in
Christ, according as he chose us in him before the foundation
of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before
him, in love having predestinated us to the adoption of children
by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
to the praise of the glory of his grace. There is that glory.
There is that praise. He just kept bubbling out of
this man as he saw what God had done. He just kept bubbling.
And listen to verse 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,
that we should be to the praise of his glory who first trusted
in Christ. Turn to Jeremiah. Here's a scripture
I want to show you before I get through. Jeremiah 9. Jeremiah
9. I see if this is not so. A man
of glory, delight, takes satisfaction and honor. That which he really knows and
has experienced. Yes, he will. That's which is
important. Now look at verse 23 of Jeremiah 9. Thus saith
the Lord, let not the wise man glory in his wisdom. But wait
a minute now. I expect the wise man to glory
in his wisdom. He's going to. He's going to
glory in his wisdom. Every person that has worked
hard and gotten degrees and credentials and gone to school and gotten
honors and recognition, He studied, he studied hard, he worked hard. Physicians and lawyers and psychologists
and philosophers, these men, they're going to glory in their
wisdom. I expect them to. They're going to glory in their
wisdom until the Holy Spirit teaches them that their wisdom
is foolishness, and then they'll stop glorying in it. That's what'll
happen. He's going to. He can't help
it. Every man's got to glory in something, and if that's all
he's got, he'll glory in it, until he sees that Christ is
our wisdom. And once, I tell you, once our
so-called wisdom is put in the light of his wisdom, there ain't
much to glory in. Hide it. Hide it. See what I'm saying? If that's
all he's got, he's got nothing to compare it with, he's gonna
glory in it. But oh my, when the wisdom of
Christ, how God can be just and justified, how God in his eternal
purpose, from the foundation of the world, satisfied his law
and justice and righteousness and holiness and created all
things for the glory of Christ, and my so-called little puny
wisdom just gets smaller and smaller and smaller. And I realize
I don't know nothing. I'm astounded at the wisdom of
my God. You see why I wish that a voice
could preach this and not me? He that thinks he knows something,
he doesn't know anything. And that's when a man will stop
glorying in his wisdom when he sees Christ, the wisdom of God.
Read that next line. Neither let the mighty man glory
in his might. Yes, he will, too. And he's going
to. You ever turn your television
on and watch these muscular fellas? Oh, boy. You talk about something. And I like to watch these little
banana republic dictators and officers with all their medals,
you know. They've never been in a battle. But they just walk
like this, you know, all those medals, those hats with the scrambled
eggs, you know, and they're walking around with their flags and banners.
That's all they've ever done is parade. But they are proud. They're mighty
men. Mighty men. They're going to glory in that.
They're going to glory in it. There's just one way they'll
stop glorying. Any man will stop glorying in
his strength, in his might, in his influence, in his power,
his power over people. You know when he'll stop? When
he sees who has the real power. When he sees his weakness, when
he sees that this breath, that's the last one, that all God has
to do is just speak and he don't breathe anymore. Just speak and
he doesn't stand anymore, he crumbles. Just speak and he doesn't
see anymore. Not even speak, just will it. And that's how frail I am. God
teach me how frail I am. And I tell you, when you see
that every breath is by his power and by his permission. You only
breathe by his permission. You only live by his permission.
You only exist by his permission. You'll stop blowing. You'll stop
strutting. You stop claiming your influence
and your power and who you know and how much you can do. You
can turn this, that and the other and folks jump, yeah. I tell
you who makes people jump. That's right. Oh, I tell you, Spurgeon said
that, he told that experience about his school teacher. Spurgeon said the man to whom
he owed all of the credit for his early training. He went to some type of academy
as a youth. And this man was his teacher
all these years, his tutor, his headmaster. That's what they
use it. And he said, I stood in his front
yard and watched them police have to go in forcibly. This
brilliant, brilliant man. and handcuff him and drag him
off the porch in front of his neighbors and take him to an
insane asylum. My teacher, he said, the man,
his mind snapped like that. He was gone. And they drug him
off, slobbering with his hands handcuffed behind him, screaming
and yelling and raving and ranting. And that made an impression on
that man, how quickly things can change. Do you realize that? But when we do, we'll stop boasting.
But this man's going to glory in his wisdom. He's going to
glory in his might till he sees who wisdom is and where might
really is. God will save him. Shuler said on the television
on that interview, some of you saw it, he said, I believe in
the sovereignty of God. No, he doesn't. He'd change his
ways if he did. He'd change his strutting. He'd
change his emphasis. If he believed the sovereignty
of God, he'd preach the word of God. And I tell you, when
he's going to start glorying God is when he really sees God.
Look at the next line, let not the rich man glory in his riches.
But he will, and he's got to, because he's got nothing else
to glory in. But let me show you something. Oh, I'll tell
you this. When he sees what Moses saw,
Moses down there in Egypt with his rings and his, I'm sure he
wore one of these gold chains with the medallion, you know.
The emperor's son, Pharaoh's son, strutting around with that
gold thing around his head and that headdress and shield and
all these things, proud horses, living in the biggest mansion
in Egypt and glorying in it until he saw that the reproaches of
Christ were greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, and he
left Egypt with a shepherd's staff and a coat on his back. Jim, that's when he stopped glowing,
when he saw. I'll tell you, the rich man will
stop glowing in his riches when he sees that even the reproach
of the Lord Jesus Christ gives greater riches than all this
world. That's right. And the same, I expect the legalist
to glory in his righteousness. I expect the religionist to glory
in his morality. That's all he's got. I expect
them to until they're taught that all flesh is grace. And when you learn that all flesh
is grace and all the wisdom of man as the flower of the field
that faded, you stop glorying. You don't glory in grace. And that's when it'll stop. Same
thing goes for people that glory in their family trees. I go around,
people got their family trees up, you know. Personal beauty,
natural gifts, talents, all these things. Who maketh thee to differ?
But here's the cure for vain glory, and I'll quit on this.
Look at verse 24. But let him that glorieth glory
in this. This is that regeneration and
righteousness and new birth that he understands. And John said,
thank God he has come and given us an understanding, an understanding,
and revealed to us the true God and his son Jesus Christ. I understand,
listen, and he knows me. Now watch this, that I am the
Lord, and watch this now, and I exercise loving kindness. I'll be merciful to whom I will
be merciful. I'll be gracious to whom I will
be gracious. David said blot out my transgressions according
to thy what? Loving kindness. I'm going to
exercise loving kindness. I'm going to be merciful to somebody.
Lord let it be me. Read on, and I exercise judgment That's what you read. I'll take
you to Calvary. There's his judgment. I exercise
judgment. Our sins will be judged. Our
sins will be judged. God will not clear the guilty. He spared not his own son. I'll
exercise judgment. I'll execute it. Judgment. Christ
died for our sins. Somebody said this in a message
not long ago, here or somewhere, that there was death in every
home in Egypt. Somebody objected. No, there
wasn't any death in the home of the Israelites. Oh yeah, there
was a lamb died. A lamb died. God's going to exercise
judgment. And thirdly, and I'm going to
exercise righteousness. And we're going to have a righteousness.
A perfect righteousness. Now you understand that? Do you
know that? And in these things, God says,
these are the things in which I delight. Any strains there? None of our
accomplishments? None of our great ability and
our great... These are the things in which
God delights. Loving kindness. His loving kindness. Oh, how great. His judgment upon
Christ for our sin and His righteousness fulfilled by and through His
Son in His Son. And in these things I delight,
saith the Lord. I want a glory in those things. glory in him,
rejoicing in him. Well, I hope we've learned something. I believe I have. He that gloryeth,
let him glory in the Lord. For not he that commendeth himself
is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth. All right, Mike,
come lead us in a closing hymn, if you will.
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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