Till Christ be Formed In You

The greatest mistake that I can make is to assume that I am a child
of God and neglect a course of self-examination
always and a continual seeking of the Lord. David said, as the heart panteth
for the water brook, so panteth my soul after thee, the living
God. This was a man whom we know knew
God, and yet he was seeking the Lord. The Apostle Paul, in the
Scripture I read a few moments ago, writer of Scripture, founder
of churches, chosen vessel, supernaturally appointed God appeared to him,
an apostle, sent of God, and yet here he is saying, oh, that
I may win Christ and be found in Him, that I may know Him and
the power of His resurrection, if by any means I might attain
unto the resurrection of the day. I count not myself to have
apprehended, neither am already perfect, but I forget that which
is behind, and I press, press forward toward the prize of the
high calling of Christ Jesus, my Lord. Oh, that I might, by
some means, attain unto the resurrection of the dead. We read scriptures
like these. The heart is deceitful, desperately
wicked. Who can know it? And are we guilty
of saying, but not my heart? I know I'm saved. We read scriptures
like this. Who hath believed our report?
We respond readily. I believe it. To whom is the
power, the arm of the Lord revealed? Certainly to me. I'm deeply religious. I'm so devout. God's power has
been revealed to me. I know that I'm saved. We read
scriptures like these. Paul said, I fear. I fear lest
Satan beguile you. He's crafty and subtle. And he
certainly got next to some folks a lot smarter than we are. I
fear lest Satan beguile you from the simplicity of Christ and
deceive you. Well, others may be deceived,
but I'm not deceived. We're quite confident of that.
And then the people at the great judgment who will cry, Lord,
we preached in your name, cast out devils in your name, did
many wonderful works. And they heard him say, depart
from me, ye workers of iniquity. Now there's just no way, there's
just no way that I'll hear these words. Are we sure of that? Are
we quite confident of that? I've had an experience. I'll
tell you my experience. It's an unusual experience. I've
joined the church. I've been baptized. I've been
faithful through the years. I've preached. I've taught Sunday
school. I know doctrine. I've made my
decision for Jesus. I'm energetic. I'm heaven-bound. Well, you know, this has always
impressed me, driving down the highway or standing out in a
field, looking up at the sky at night, millions of And occasionally
you'll see one that's brighter than all the others. And it's
more active than all the others. It's streaking across the sky.
It's bright, it's energetic, it's active, it's more noticeable. In fact, as you look towards
the sky, if you see one of these stars, you won't see anything
else but that star. And for a little while it burns
brightly, but it's a falling star. And it soon burns out and
disappears, and it's not there anymore. And a lot of times that happens
in religious experiences and religious activities and religious
knowledge. It burns so brightly, and it's
so energetic, and it's so active, and it's so noticeable. And that
individual, for example, the minister, or the leaders in the
church will just stand out for a little while, or a long while,
just like those falling stars, and they're so brilliant and
bright and unusual, and everybody notices them, in fact, to the
exclusion of everybody else. But then they're gone. And the
place thereof knows them no more. Now, religious experience is
good. We're going to get into this
in a few moments. Religious knowledge is not to be lightly regarded. Religious activities, wonderful,
but they can be very deceptive. The Pharisees were experts in
these fields. They were men of zeal. Paul described
them over here, zeal, wide knowledge, morality, blameless. These men
were experts at all of these things, experience, knowledge,
activities, but these religious experiences can be refuges which
not only protect us from the world, but also keep us from
the gospel. Did you know that? Our Lord said,
you come from sea and land to make a proselyte to your religion,
and after you've made him, he's twofold more the child of hell
than you are. Why? Because at one time he had
no refuge, now he's got a refuge. And that refuge protects him
from the world, but it also shields him from the gospel. And while
the world cannot accuse him or the world cannot get to him,
neither can the gospel, because he's got a religious experience,
he's got a religious refuge, he's got religious knowledge.
And the gospel can't get to him. Our Lord said of the Pharisees,
you won't enter the kingdom of God and you won't suffer others
to enter either. You stand outside the door of
the synagogue protecting it from the gospel. Insincerity to... People used to die without dope.
I'm not real old, but I can remember when people, my uncle, I remember
an uncle who died. And he died in the home. And
I was in the living room when he was dying in the bedroom.
He was dying. And he was dying a bad death. He was an unbeliever. He was a rebel. He was a hater
of God. And he screamed. He talked about
seeing things on the wall and in the corners. He talked about
protecting him from the flames of hell. All of these things
he talked about. He saw these things. He felt
them. It was real. Nobody dies like that anymore.
And we, I guess, should be grateful. We should be thankful that we
have powerful injections of dope and morphine that deadens the
pain. And it does. It deadens the pain.
A man doesn't hurt. But he doesn't know he's dying
either. In other words, you bring a person into the hospital and
they're ill, very ill, and you start giving them that dope and
keeping them out of it, and they don't feel any pain. The disease
is there and the hurt is there, but they don't feel it. But also,
they don't know they're dying either. They do not know they're
dying. And our religious experience
just might be a satanic shot of morphine. And we don't feel
the pain of doubt and the pain of fear and the pain of conviction
and the pain of concern. But we don't know we're dead
either. We don't know we're lost. We don't know that we don't know
God. We've been doped up on religion. And we say like those in Laodicea,
I'm rich and increased with goods, I don't need anything. God says
you're naked and you're miserable and you're poor and you're blind
and you have need of everything, but you don't know it. Isaiah
28, 15 says we made a covenant with hell and with death, we're
in agreement and we've got a refuge. God says it's a refuge of lies,
but it's still a refuge. I hope I never am permitted by
Almighty God to ever fall into a rut of presumption, this overconfidence,
presumptions. I know I'm saved. I know I'm
saved. I know I'm a child of God. I
know this, I know that. We can know something. Assurance
is great as long as it's not presumption. But where there's
true assurance, there will not be presumption. where there's
a true reliance on Christ and a true confidence in a Christ
and a true resting in Christ, there will not be that presumption,
that confidence that is not of God. Our Lord was sitting
around the table with his disciples. There was the beloved John who
leaned on the breast of our Lord. There was Peter and James and
all the rest of them. They were sitting around at the
Last Supper. And our Lord dropped this word in the midst of them. One of you, one of you is going
to betray me. One of you. And you know that
the Scripture says every one of them spoke up and said, Lord,
is it I? I hope none of us, I hope nobody
here has graduated beyond that point. Lord, is it I? If he were to stand here tonight
and say, This is a beloved church and a great church and a blessed
church and a wonderful fellowship of believers, but out of this
church, five people are going to fall away from the
grace of God and fall away from the profession of Christ and
fall away from eternal joys and be perishing in hell. I wonder,
I wonder how many of us would ask, Or how many of us would raise
up and start looking around and say, well, let's see, five. Let's
see now, so-and-so is bound to be one of the heroes. And so-and-so,
you know how we are, don't you? But not the disciples. Lord,
is it I? Is it I? That's what I believe
Paul had in mind when he wrote Galatians 4, verse 19. Galatians
4, verse 19. He said here in Galatians 4,
verse 19, my little children, of whom I prevail in birth again,
again, until Christ is born in you." Brethren, the end of all true
preaching is not just to get decisions, it's not just to report
successful services and engagements and conferences and revivals. It's not just to say we've been
here now ten years and we've got a hundred more than we had
last year and fifty dollars more offering than we had last year
and twenty-five baptisms. That's not the end of preaching.
The end of all true preaching is to bring the individual center,
and that's the preacher and the singers and the those that play
the instruments and the officers and the teachers and all the
people, that's to bring each and every sinner to the feet
of Christ in repentance, true repentance, in saving faith. The end and goal of all true
preaching is to perfect, by the grace of God, a living, personal,
vital union between the sinner and his Savior. Salvation is
much more than getting religion It's much more than living right.
It's much more than believing in God. In fact, James says,
you believe in God, you do well. The devil believes in Trimble.
He's a theologian. He's a minister of righteousness.
He's an angel of life. He's a deceiver. He's an adversary. He's an accuser of the brethren.
He's an evil one, and yet he is a spiritual being. You believe
in God? You do well. The devil believes
and trembles. Now, I looked through the book
of John. I'd like for you to turn there
with me. And I've picked out, and I'll give them to you briefly,
I've picked out eight things that I think are descriptive
of true salvation. And I want, as I'm preaching
tonight, talking to you, to myself, I want us each one, Paul said,
let a man examine himself, whether he's in the faith, Examine himself. Now, don't examine
your experience or your doctrinal position or your morality or
your consecration or your devotion. Examine yourself, your heart. Is Christ formed in the... First
of all, in John 1, 12, But as many as received him, to them
gave he power, or the right, or the privilege to become the
sons of God. Now, salvation is more than a
profession. Salvation is to receive a person.
A person. Now, it's perfectly true that
the work of salvation lies first and mainly in our Lord receiving
us. Not in us receiving Him, but
in Him receiving us. We know that. The Bible teaches
that. First of all, He received us
from the hand of the Father and became our servant. He prays,
as many as thou hast given me, all that the Father giveth me
will come to me. So He received us from the hand of the Father
and became our surety. He received our nature. In the
fullness of time, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made
in the likeness of sinful flesh, to redeem them that were in the
flesh. He received our nature and became our representative.
And then He received our sins. He was numbered with the transgressors
and He became our substitute. And then he received us as we
were drawn to him by the Holy Spirit's power, as we were taught
by the Spirit. Every man that's taught of the
Father cometh to me. No man can come to me except
my Father drawing. And he that is taught of God
will come to Christ. So he receives us, that's true.
It is also true that the believing sinner consciously, intelligently,
willingly, lovingly does receive Christ. It's an act on the part
of the sinner who's constrained by the grace of God and made
willing by the grace of God, but he does receive Christ. Turn
to Romans chapter 10. Listen to Paul describe this.
In Romans chapter 10, verse 9, he says that If thou shalt confess
with thy mouth," now the Holy Spirit's not going to confess
Christ for you, you're going to confess Him with your mouth,
"...and believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from
the dead, thou shalt be saved." Your heart, your mouth. "...For
with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with
the mouth confession is made unto salvation." There's going
to come a time, if you ever become a son of God, a child of God,
there's going to come a time when constrained and operated
on by the Holy Spirit, wooed and drawn to the Spirit of God,
taught by the Word of God, you're going to intelligently and consciously
and willingly sit down before God. This is not going to be
a psychological persuasion on the part of some high-pressure
preacher, some big-shot evangelist, some high-pressure religious
worker that's hit town trying to see how many decisions he
can get. But this is going to be in the quietness of your own
closet, in the quietness of your own heart, in your own life.
You're going to sit down and say, Lord, my life's a mess,
I'm a mess, and I'm going to continue to be a mess unless
you do something for me. Lord, my only hope is that Christ
Jesus will be my Savior and my Lord. I receive Him. I intelligently and willingly
right now receive Him as my Prophet to reveal You unto me. He that
hath seen me hath seen the Father. Lord, I receive Christ as my
Prophet. I receive Christ as my Priest,
my Atonement, my Mediator, everything to be had in Him, wisdom, righteousness,
sanctification, and redemption. And I receive Him as my King.
Where He pardons, He reigns. If I cannot bow to Him as my
Lord, it's idle for me to talk about Him being my Savior. And
there will come a time when that person will, in his own heart,
receive Christ. I receive Christ. It may be over
a period of time that God deals with you, but our Lord never
discouraged people from sitting down counting the cost. I'd much
rather you go home from the service and look at the Word of God,
and read it again, and examine your own heart, and see if these
things be so, and communicate with God yourself. Whatever decisions
made, let us not influence that decision. Let it be one between
you and the Savior, and then come back and tell us about it. Secondly, turn to John 3. Salvation
is not a profession, it's a person. Secondly, salvation is not a
decision, it's a birth. It's not a decision, it's more
than making a decision. Salvation is a divine birth.
Our Lord said in John 3.3, Jesus answered and said, Verily, verily,
I say unto you, except a man be born again, or born from above, he cannot
see the kingdom of God. Now, sons of God are born of
the Spirit. They're born of the Word of God.
It's a divine conception. It's divine regeneration in which
we actually receive into ourselves a divine nature. Now, changing
my name won't make me God's son. I can call myself a Christian,
but that won't make me God's son any more than changing my
name next week to Henry Smith will make me Mr. Smith's son.
I'm not going to become Mr. Smith's son because I call myself
Henry Smith. The only way I can be Mr. Smith's
son is for Mr. Smith to give me life and to
be my father and to begat me. And I cannot change my dress
and become a child of God. That won't make me a son of God.
To change the way I dress, any more than dressing like an Indian,
will make me an Indian. I can put on an Indian suit and
Indian feathers and paint my face red and stand before you
and say, now I'm an Indian. I'm dressed like an Indian. You
may be dressed like an Indian, but you're not an Indian. Why
am I not an Indian? You weren't born an Indian. Changing
my language won't make me a son of God. I hear people say, well,
I've changed my ways. That won't make you a son of
God. Any more than my learning Spanish will make me a Mexican.
I wish I could speak Spanish. We'll start to say give most
anything, but not most anything, but I'd just like to speak Spanish.
So I'd go to Mexico and preach to those people. But I could
learn Spanish fluently and go down there and say, now I'm a
Mexican. No, you're not a Mexican. You're a gringo. You're born
a gringo and you'll die a gringo. And I say unto you that people
who are saved are born of God. It's a birth from above. Turn
back to John 1 a moment. It says here in John 1, verse
13, those who received them became sons of God, quiet. Verse 13
says they were born, not of blood, not of family inheritance, that
was your natural birth, that which is born of the flesh is
flesh, that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit, nor of
the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but born of
God, by His grace, through His Word. His Word is the seed. His Word is the seed. By His
grace, by the power of His Spirit through the seed of the Word,
I am regenerated and have put within me a divine nature. It's an infant nature, it's a
babe in Christ, and it's a weak nature, it's a failing nature,
it's a falling nature, it's a stumbling nature. It has to grow, it has
to mature, it has to be fed. You know, when our Lord raised
that young girl from the dead, Jairus' daughter, He said, May
it arise, and she arose. You know the first thing He said?
Give her something to eat. And I'll tell you, when we're
born of God, we need to feed on the Word, desire the sincere
milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby. But salvation is
a birth. Now thirdly, turn to John 4,
verse 14. Christ said, Whosoever drinketh,
of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst, but the
water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing
up into everlasting life." Look at John 7, verse 38, almost the
same thing he says over here. In John 7, 38, our Lord said,
He that believeth on me, as the Scripture has said, out of his
belly, out of his innermost being, shall flow rivers of living water. Now, thirdly, salvation is not
a profession, it's a person. It's not just a decision, it's
a birth. And salvation is not a doctrine. We can be fundamentally
lost. We can be orthodox and be unsafe. We can be theologians and be
in the bitterness of despair. Because salvation is more than
a doctrine, it's a refreshing living experience. It's an indwelling
Christ. All you need to do is look at
Saul of Tarsus and you'll see this perfectly exemplified. He was brought up in a religious
home. He was catechized. He was indoctrinated. He was
astute of the Scripture. He was zealous for orthodoxy.
He was zealous for the defense of religion. He was intolerant
with those who disagreed with him, whether it was on theology
or doctrine or morality or whatever, he was an intolerant person.
But he was lost and without Christ. We must not neglect the study
of God's Word, the teaching of the Word of God. Our Lord says,
study to show yourself approved unto God of workmen that need
it not to be ashamed. But a right knowledge of Christ
is not a doctrine. It's not fundamentalism or orthodoxy
or holding the right belief on everything. It is a heart work. Not just a head work, but a heart
work. The joy of the Lord is a heart experience. The peace
at passive understanding is a heart experience. The love for Christ
and the brethren is a heart experience. No way that you can make that
appear. The growth in grace is a heart
experience. Growth in knowledge is something
else. Growth in grace is a heart experience. Forgiveness and mercy
and gentleness and kindness and grace, these are heart fruits. And oh, God deliver us from being
intolerant theologians and doctrinalists. give us that well of living water
that not only quenches our thirst and satisfies us personally,
but God is able to cause it to overflow unto others. And then
salvation fourthly, turn to John 5, verse 25. Salvation fourthly
is more than an association. Salvation is a resurrection. John 5, verse 25, "...verily,
verily, I say unto you, the hour is coming, and now when the dead
shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall
live. The language of religious people
is so revealing and so distressing. But I do expect them to know
the elementary, primary, foundational, basic truths of salvation. How
is it between you and the Lord? Well, preacher, I've been a church
member 25 years. That reveals an awful lot. How
is it between you and the Savior? Well, I joined the church when
I was 14 years old. Oh, I hadn't always lived it,
preacher, But I believe the Lord. I've walked the way. Salvation is not an association
with a church. Salvation is not an association
with a denomination. Salvation is not an association
with a doctrine. I'm a Calvinist, or I'm an Armenian,
or I'm a this, I'm a that, I'm the other. You know, we can have
association if we're all buried in the same cemetery. We can
be closely associated if we're all dead buried in the same field.
But salvation is a resurrection from the dead. You who were dead
in sin, he hath quickened, he hath made alive, he hath given
the life of God, eternal life, divine life. How is it between
you and the Lord? He lives in here. He lives in
here. He walks with me and talks with
me along life's narrow way, and the joys we share, as we carry
them, none other can ever know. I find in Him much joy. He's
my hope. He's my Redeemer. He's my Savior. He's my Lord. I trust Him. I live in Him. My delight is
to praise Him. My joy is to hear somebody talk
about Him. Why is it people won't use the
name Christ, except to swear? Fifthly, in John 6, verse 53,
salvation is more than a form. Salvation is more than a form.
And we were talking this afternoon, some of us after lunch, about
shouting in church or reservation in church and these things. Salvation
is not a form. It's not a form. I don't care
for the shouting. I just feel like I can't preach
and somebody's screaming. I don't care for, in fact, actually,
I really personally, I feel in the presence of the Lord, I feel
most unworthy. I don't feel like shouting, I
feel like moaning. I feel like groaning. I feel
like praying and asking for His grace and His help and His mercy.
I feel like John who fell at His feet is a dead man. Or Isaiah
who cried, woe is me. Or Jonah who said, or Job who
said, I put my hand on my mouth, I've talked too much now, I need
to listen. I've heard of you, now I see you, I hate myself." But salvation is not form. Whether
we sing three songs in a special and have a message, or whether
we sing one song and have a message, or whether we stand and preach,
or sit and preach, or kneel, or whatever, salvation is not
a form, it's feeding on a person. Look at John chapter 6, verse
53. Jesus said unto them, "'Verily,
verily, I say unto you, except you eat the flesh, of the Son
of Man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoso
eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life,
and I'll raise him up at the last day." Now, I'm not surprised
that people don't understand these They didn't understand
them when he spoke to them. In fact, some of them said up
here in verse 52, look at verse 52, the Jews strove among themselves
saying, how can this man give us his flesh to eat? They didn't
understand it either. And the only way you can understand
this language is to have a new man within you whose appetite
sends him to Christ. The only way you can understand
this language is to have a new man in you who thirsts for Christ. Like this old man thirsts for
water. How thirsty you get for a drink of water. I remember
one time, used to put ice in this up here. I remember one
time it was hot before we got these air conditioners and everything.
This building was hot. Respiration was pouring off me.
They had a big glass of ice water, just full of ice up here. And
every once in a while, I'd stop and take a drink of it. And the
minute I looked down, I forget who it was, but one of our little
boys was sitting down there, and his tongue was just hanging
out. He was watching me shaking his head. He wanted a drink of
that water so bad. He knew what it was to want water. And you know what it is to want
food. Don't you? You've got a nature that hungers
for a big steak and french fries or baked potatoes. You've got
a nature, a human nature that just thirsts for water. You know,
when they talk about that carbon pet being out here in this river.
I never had one drink of water so bad in my life, so they told
us not to drink it. That's when coffee gets tasting
good, when it's four dollars a pint. You get to wanting something,
you know, and just got to have it. Well, when you get a new
man, a new nature, that new nature can only be satisfied with this
word right here. with feeding on Christ. That
nature wants wisdom, and Christ is that wisdom. That nature hungers
for comfort, and Christ is that comfort. That nature hungers
for fellowship, and He is our fellowship. And that nature hungers
for strength in time of weakness, and He is our strength. That's
the only way I know to explain it. It's to feed on Christ. And
people who don't have that nature, whose natures are satisfied with
the husk of this world, and the locus of this world, and the
flesh, and all their nature. They're miserable sitting here
while I'm preaching. I can read this word, and they
begin to twist, and to get miserable, and look at their watch, you
know, and want to go. They're just not hungry. But
some of you know what it is to want this book, and to want fellowship
with Christ, to grieve when you're out of fellowship with Him. That's
what it is to eat His flesh and drink His blood. I'm thirsty,
come to the water and drink. I'm hungry, eat that which is
good and let thy soul delight itself in that. I'm poor, come
buy wine and milk without money, without pride. I'm weary, come
unto me, I'll give you rest. I'm under a heavy burden, cast
your burden on Him, He cares for you. I'm guilty, though your
sins be as scarlet, I'll make them white as snow. I'm bound
in captivity. If the Son will make you free,
you'll be free indeed. I'm old and life is nearly done
in my Father's house of many men. Everything my new nature
needs, I find in Christ. And that's what it is, is to
feed on Christ. Now, in the sixth place, quickly,
turn to John 7. Salvation is more than seeking
heaven. There's no man in his right mind
who wouldn't like to go to heaven. There's no man in his right mind
who's not concerned about his security and deliverance from
hell and from the wrath of God and eternal rest and eternal
joy. Now, I'll tell you, salvation is seeking his glory. Look at
John 7, 18. He that speaketh of himself seeketh
his own glory. But he that seeketh his glory
that sent him, the same is true and no unrighteousness is in
him. We need to, oh, I need this, you need this, every one of us
who name the name of Christ. We rejoice in deliverance from
the penalty and the power and the practice and the presence
of sin. We know that everything we've got is by His grace. But
I'm telling you this, the people of God seek the glory of Christ. Whatever you do in word or deed,
you do it why? For His glory. that no flesh
should glory in his presence. Let not the rich man glory in
his riches, nor the wise man glory in his wisdom, nor the
strong man glory in his strength, but he that glorieth, let him
glory in this, that he knows me, and that I am the Lord."
Salvation is not just seeking heaven. A man is a fool not to
want to go to heaven. But salvation is seeking heaven
for his glory. You see what I'm saying? Paul
always talked about For me to live is Christ, and to die is
gain. And I have a desire to depart
and be with Christ, which is far better, seeking His glory,
not just a selfish gain. And then in the seventh place,
John 15, salvation is more than an isolated commitment. Brother
Barnard used to say this, faith is not an isolated act. Repentance
is not an isolated act. I've heard people give testimony
like this. I was born the first time in
1926. I was born the second time in 1944. And that's supposed
to fix it up. I've heard them talk like this.
On February the 25th, 1961, I accepted Jesus as my Savior, and that's
supposed to be it? Or like this, we had a revival
in our little church back 20 years ago, and 15 people were
saved, and I was one of them. That's supposed to be it. Perhaps
and perhaps not. Our Lord said this in John 15,
verse 5, listen to it, I am the vine, you are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I
in him. The same bringeth forth much
fruit. Without me you can do nothing. If a man abide not in
me, he'll be cast forth as a branch and withered and cast into the
fire. So salvation is not just making
a profession of faith. It's not just I repented and
I believed and I accepted Jesus. Salvation is abiding in Christ. Christ is the Son over his house,
whose house we are, if we hold fast the profession of our faith
all the way to the end. That's so. John said they went
out from us, but they never were of us. If they had been of us,
this would have been the characteristic. They would have remained with
us. I'm not preaching for decisions. I'm preaching for abiding branches. Because anybody can get decisions,
but only God can create abiding branches. And I want that more
than anything. Rather than talking about how
many souls we had saved in 1977, when the year 2000 rolls around
and we're in glory by God's grace, I'd like to say it was a good
year. It was a good year. God's people are abiding in Christ. And then in closing, John 17,
verse 3. John 17, 3. And this is eternal
life. This is it. And this is life
eternal. It's more than knowing a creed.
That they might know thee, the only true God. That's salvation,
to know God. Not knowing a creed, it's knowing
God. This is the knowledge which dwells
in the heart, and this knowledge, when it dwells in the heart,
influences the attitude and the conduct and the life and the
conversation of the individual. I know God. To know God the Father,
His sovereignty, His holiness, His grace, His truth, I know
God. And Jesus Christ whom He has
sent. I know Him as the Son of God. I know Him as the Divine
Son of God. I know Him as the Redeemer. I
know his love to sinners. I know his mediatorial office.
I know his eternal glory. And J.C. Rouse said, these are
the two grand foundations of saving religion on which a man
can plant his feet and have confidence and assurance. I know God. I know Christ Himself. And in
God's grace and Christ's atonement, I have confidence and I have
hope. Our Father in Heaven, we humbly and sincerely pray
that we shall not be found in a false refuge, deceived and
deceiving, hiding ourselves in falsehood
on a bed that's too short, trying to hide under cover that's too
narrow. O God, we pray Thee that Thou would reveal to each of
our hearts our sinfulness, unworthiness, inability, reveal Christ to us,
O that we may know Him, that we may win Christ and be found
in Him, not having our own righteousness, that we may attain by Thy grace
unto the resurrection of the dead. O God, give to us that
unspeakable gift, eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord. and
keep us unto Him who is able to keep
us from falling. To Him be the glory and the praise
forever and ever. For it's in His name, and we
trust and pray for His glory that we pray these things and
that we seek His face for His glory. Amen.

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