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Henry Mahan

Eternal Redemption

Hebrews 9:12
Henry Mahan • January, 2 1977 • Audio
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Dr. A.J. Gordon was pastor of
the Church of the Open Door in Boston for many, many years. He gave one of the most beautiful
illustrations of redemption that I have ever read or heard. He said he was out walking down
the street one day, And he met one of his little Sunday school
boys, one of the children that attended his Sunday school. And
the little fellow had in his hand a homemade birdcage. And in that birdcage he had two
little brown field birds. Dr. Gordon said, I stopped him
and I said, son, where did you get the birds? And he said, I
trapped them. He said, son, what are you going
to do with those little birds? Dr. Gordon said the little birds
were sitting in that cage, frightened, cringing in the corner. He felt
so sorry for them, he pitied them, said he almost loved those
little birds. What are you going to do with
the little birds? The boy said, well, I'm going to play with
them. I guess when I get tired of playing
with them, I'll feed them to the cat." Dr. Gordon said, Well, son, he said,
Would you like to sell those birds? He said, Preacher, who
would want them? They can't sing. They're not
pretty. There's plenty of them out there
in the woods. All a fellow would have to do
is just go out and trap himself. Well, he said, Son, I'd like
to have them. Well, preacher, you don't want these old birds.
Yeah, I do, son, I want those birds right there. Well, there's
plenty more, I know that, but I want those two birds right
there, and I'm willing to pay for them if you're willing to
sell them. Well, the boy said, I guess I'll sell them. You want
to buy the cage, too? Yes, I think I'll take the cage,
too. I'll just take all of it. How
much you want? Well, I'll tell you what, preacher,
you can have birds, cage and all for two dollars. Dr. Gordon said he reached in his
pocket, got out two one-dollar bills, which was a lot of money
back in those days, but he was willing, so he paid for them.
And after he paid for them, the boy hand them the bird's cage
and all to the preacher, and he stood there holding them in
his hand, and the little fellow went off down the street, turned
the corner, and Dr. Gordon said after he'd gone completely
out of sight, I unwired the door. and I opened it and I held it
up to the sky and I said, now little birds, I loved you and
I bought you and I'm going to set you free because you're mine. And he said about that time one
of those little birds caught sight of that open door and he
just flew right out and right behind him the other one and
he said he stood and watched them as they disappeared from
sight, free. delivered, redeemed, redeemed. He said, I could almost hear
them singing as they were going through the air, redeemed, redeemed,
set free. He said, as I watched those little
birds fly out, having been purchased, paid for, and delivered, I thought,
that's the way Christ set me free. I was a prisoner, not of
Satan, I was a prisoner of God's justice and God's law. We never
were the prisoners of Satan. Perhaps influenced by him, perhaps
motivated by his principles, but not his prisoners. We were
prisoners of God's justice and of God's law, having broken the
holy law of God. We were enslaved in bondage,
in prison to the broken law. It was God's justice that demanded
of us death. And he said, the Lord Jesus met
justice walking across the heavens. And he said, justice, what are
you going to do with those sinners? And justice says, I'm going to
punish them. They've been found guilty, they've
been sentenced, they've been imprisoned, they're waiting execution. The Lord Jesus said, well, I
love them and I want to buy them. What will it take to buy them?
Lord, you don't want these old sinners. They're no good. There
are plenty more out there. Why, you can't have the stones
raise up children to Abraham. The Lord said, I love them. I want them. Well, Lord, I'll
tell you what it'll take. It'll take the silver of your
sweat and the gold of your blood to buy these sinners. Without
the shedding of blood, there's no remission, no redemption.
So Christ came, that's what it says here in verse 12 of Hebrews
9. Christ came, verse 11, Christ
being come, a high priest of good things to come, by greater
and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is
to say, not of this building, neither by the blood of goats
and calves, but by His own blood, by His own blood. He entered
in once into the holy place and obtained eternal redemption.
He bought it. He ransomed us. He paid for it
by his own blood once. He obtained eternal redemption
for us. And I want us to look at this
redemption under three headings today. Number one, redeemed by
blood. Number two, redeemed by the Spirit. Number three, redeemed by power. And when I get through with this
message, there's no reason why anyone here should not know the
way of life, the way of salvation, the way of redemption. Turn first
of all to Ephesians 1, verse 7. We are redeemed by Christ,
redeemed from sin, redeemed from iniquity, redeemed from all transgressions,
purchased ransom from the justice and holiness of God. And first
of all, we have this redemption, verse 7, Ephesians 1, in whom
we have redemption through His blood. Through His blood, the
forgiveness of sin. Now, you know the story. Man
sinned against God. Man took sides with Satan in
his war on God. The sin of Lucifer became the
sin of man created in God's own image. Did you ever read what
Satan's sin was? Have you ever studied the sin
of Satan, the sin of Lucifer, the cause of his fall? Turn to Isaiah chapter 14. I want you to look at this. Isaiah
14. And this is man's sin. The sin
of Satan, the sin of Lucifer, he was the son of the morning,
he was a powerful angel, he was one of the leaders in glory in
heaven, but he sinned, he fell. What was his sin? Isaiah 14,
verse 12. Look at it. How art thou fallen
from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning? How art thou cast
down to the ground, which did weaken the nations? For thou
hast said in thine heart." Now that's where sin starts. It's
in the heart. It's in the heart. Out of the
heart proceeds evil thoughts, blasphemies and so forth. Keep
thy heart out of the issues of life. This is where sin starts. This is the root of sin, the
source of sin, even in an angel. Even in a power like Lucifer,
thou hast said in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven. Now note this. How many times
these two words are used in describing Satan's sin. I will. Now watch
it. I will ascend into heaven. I
will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will set also
upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the north. I
will ascend above the heights of the clouds. I will be like
God. You know, the very basis of sin,
the very foundation of sin is pitting our wills against the
will of God. That's it. I will. I will. The essence of sin is I will. The essence of holiness is thy
will. Thy will be done on earth as
it is in heaven. Christ prayed and gets him in
his garden. Nevertheless, not my will, but
thy will be done. Satan's sin was, I will be like
God. I will. And man's sin the same
way. Turn with me to Isaiah 1 verse
2 through 6. And here is a scripture which
describes our extremely sinful condition as a result of that
fall. In Isaiah chapter 1 beginning
with verse, Isaiah 1 beginning with verse 2. Hear, O heavens,
and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath spoken. I've nourished
and brought up children, they've rebelled against me, their wills,
not my will. The ox knows his owner, the ash
knows his master's crib, even the animals know their owners,
even the animals come to their master's house to eat, even the
animals have respect for their masters, but Israel does not
know, my people does not consider. Ah, sinful nation, a people laden
with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corruptors.
They have forsaken the Lord. They have provoked the Holy One
of Israel to anger. They have gone away backwards.
Why should you be stricken anymore? You will revolt more and more.
The whole head is sick. The whole heart faints. From
the sole of the foot, even to the head, there's no soundness
in it but wounds and bruises and putrefying sores that have
not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. The heart, deceitful, desperately
wicked. The mind, enmity against God. The will, Christ said, you will
not come to me that you might have life. The imagination, God
said only evil continually. Feet, walking in paths of iniquity. Hands, swift to shed blood. Affections, without natural affection. That's man's condition. We are
fallen, fallen creatures, sinful creatures, evil creatures. Now
here are four questions. Will God be pleased to redeem
Will he? Well, we know this. He wasn't
pleased to redeem the angels. Turn to Jude 6. There's only one chapter to Jude. Look at verse 6. These angels,
we don't know how many fell. I've heard different folks guess.
But Lucifer led a rebellion in heaven. He said, I will be like
God. I will not have this one to reign
over me. I will exalt my throne above
the stars of God. And when he fell, with him a
large portion of the heavenly hosts fell. Now, will they be
redeemed according to the Scripture? No. Will their sins be put away
according to God's Word? No. Now listen to Jude verse
6. And the angels which kept not
their first estate or principality, but left their own habitation
he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the
judgment of that great name." They are reserved for judgment. Turn to Hebrews 2. Now here's
another verse that tells us that God will not redeem the angels,
but he will be pleased to redeem men. In Hebrews 2, verse 16. For verily, talking about Christ
in his redemptive work, in his redemptive offices, for verily
he took not on him the nature of angels. He didn't do it. Now,
if the angels sin, they need a Savior. If the angels fail,
they need a Redeemer. If the angels rebel against God,
they need someone to satisfy God's righteousness and God's
justice. They have no one. For Christ took not on him the
nature of angels, but he did take on him the seed of Abraham. Yes. Will God redeem fallen men? Yes, he will. Yes, he will. Turn to Ephesians 1. In Ephesians
1, verse 3, blessed be the God and Father. of our Lord Jesus
Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly
places in Christ, according as he hath chosen us in Christ before
the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without
blame before him in love, having predestinated us under the adoption
of children by Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure
of his own will. to the praise of the glory of
his grace wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved."
Now the angels fell. Satan's sin, I will be like God. I will exalt my throne above
the stars of God. I will not have God reign over
me. I'll be my own God. And he fell. And with him a multitude of the
heavenly hosts fell. And God was not pleased to redeem
them. God has reserved them. That's
what Scripture says. And I cannot, as Paul said, speak
in particular on that subject. I know little about it. I just
know what that verse says. God has reserved them. He took
not on him the nature of angels. Man fell in the same way. Satan
came to Adam and Eve. And said, Hath God said, Ye shall
not eat of the trees of the garden? And he said, We may eat of all
the trees of the garden, but of the tree of good and evil
we may not eat, lest we die. Satan said, You'll not die. You'll
be like God. What was his saying? I will be
like God. I don't need God's direction.
I'm not dependent upon God. I will exalt myself above God. He said, Adam and Eve, you will
be like God. Don't you want to be like God?
Don't you want to be above God? Don't you want to be free from
all authority, be your own king, your own God? And that was the
basis on which that fruit was eaten. Now, God has been pleased. Whatsoever God pleased, that
did He in heaven and earth and seas and all deep places. It
says here, according to the good pleasure of His own will, He's
passed by the angels. And He chose a people. He chose
to redeem a people. He chose to redeem them according
to the good pleasure of His own will. Samuel, over in 1 Samuel,
the Scripture said, it pleased God to make you His people. In
the book of Colossians, it said, it pleased God that in Christ
should your all-fullness dwell, your redemption dwell in Christ.
Isaiah wrote, it pleased God to bruise him in our place. Paul
said, it pleased God to reveal his Son to us, and it pleased
him by the foolishness of priests. Now, will God redeem fallen men? Yes, the Scripture says He will.
Here's the second question. But will Christ undertake our
redemption? Will He? He's very God of very
God. His holiness is infinite. His
glory is eternal. Angels veil their faces before
Him. Is it possible that He will condescend
to become a man? Now, what it costs to redeem
us would be for Christ to come down here to this earth and be
numbered with the transgressors, be one of them, be identified
with fallen creatures, be despised, rejected, scorned, ridiculed,
suffer and die. Will he take upon himself? The
Scripture says God will redeem fallen men. But the question
is, will the only one who can accomplish that redemption, will
he do it? Well, yes, he did. Scripture
says, there were in the same country shepherds keeping their
flocks by night. And the angel of the Lord appeared
unto them, and the glory of God shone round about them. And the
angel said to the shepherds, Fear not, we bring you good tidings
of great joy. unto you is born this day in
the city of David a Savior, who is none other than Christ the
Lord." The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. In the fullness
of time, God sent His Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
to redeem them that were born under the law. All right, that's
the second question. Now the third one. But will Christ,
but will Christ, fulfill all that justice demands. We got
a price on our heads. The soul that's finished shall
die. That's what Scripture says. The wrath of God must fall on
the ungodly. God said, I will in no wise clear
the guilty. Without the shedding of blood,
there's no remission. He has undertaken to be our Redeemer,
but he has got to go through hell to redeem us. And it did. It started that night
in Gethsemane's garden. As the clouds of sin that rose
up from the garden of Eden descended upon him in the garden of Gethsemane,
he cried out, My soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death. If
it be thy will, let this cup pass from me. And he sweat as
it were great drops of blood. And then Judas came and betrayed
him with that kiss of treason. And then Peter denied him, and
then the soldiers roughly arrested him and took him into the hall
of the soldiers, and there they mocked him and ridiculed him
and spat upon him, lacerated his back, pressed the crown of
thorns into his brow. He suffered. Then he came before
Pilate to be sentenced to death and led out yonder outside the
city wall. He was nailed to a cross between
two thieves. And there he suffered under the
desertion of his father, the wrath of Almighty God, bearing
our sins and our guilt. He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquity.
The chastisement of our peace was upon him. By his stripes
we're healed. Now, the fourth question. Will
God redeem fallen creatures? Yes, he will. Yes, he will. He promised that he would. Will
Christ condemn sin to become our surety? Yes, he did. He came
to this earth. He came to this earth. The word
was made flesh and dwelt among us. He was numbered with the
transgressors. Will he fulfill all that the law of God demands?
Yes, he did. Will he endure the terrible hell
of our sins on the cross? Yes, he did. Now, here's the
fourth question. Will the Father accept it? Will
the Father accept the redemption which Christ has purchased? Take
him down from the tree. He's dead now. His body's dead.
The spirit's gone. He's dead like any other man.
Wrap him in a winding sheet and put him over yonder in that tomb.
Now everything's quiet and the questions come. Is justice satisfied? Are we redeemed? Did Christ accomplish
the work? Are we accepted by the Father?
Is God's holy law honored? Is God's holy justice satisfied? Is it? On the morning of the third day,
we find out it is. For the Father set two seals
upon His work. Number one, He arose from the
tomb. He arose from the tomb. And secondly,
he ascended to the Father. Go out yonder and stand on that
mountain and watch as he ascends to the Father. And you see him
go to the right hand of majesty. The right hand is the hand of
power, the hand of acceptance, the hand of love. And Christ
is seated. And watch Ephesians 2, verse
6. It says, and he raised us up
together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ.
We are redeemed. His cross is our cross. His death is our death. His grave is our grave. His resurrection is our resurrection. His glory is our glory. His inheritance
is our inheritance. His eternal praise and honor
is also shared by all for whom he suffered, redeemed by the
blood, redeemed by the blood. In Christ, we are accepted. In Christ, we are forgiven. In
Christ, according to this Bible, we are unblameable, unreprovable,
and holy. He is able by his sacrifice to
present us before his Father in the very presence of the majesty
of glory and holiness without fault, redeemed. All right, the
second point now, quickly. We are redeemed not only by blood,
but we are redeemed by power, or by the Spirit. Those who are
redeemed by the Savior's blood must be redeemed by the power
of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit of God finds us just
like other men. Now go back to Ephesians 2. Ephesians
chapter 2. And you hath he quickened who
were dead in trespasses and sin, wherein in time past you walked
according to the course of this world. according to the prince
of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the
children of disobedience, among whom also we all had our conversation
in times past in the lust of our flesh, fulfilling the desires
or wills of the flesh and of the mind, and we were by nature
children of wrath just like others. God finds his people fond of
darkness. He finds them dead to God. He
finds them sitting in rebellion. He finds them blind to the Savior's
beauty. He finds them deaf to the voice
of love. But if Christ has bought them,
he shall have them. If Christ Jesus has redeemed
them, he shall have what he paid for. If Christ Jesus has ransomed
his children, they are his. The price is too great and it's
too precious to be paid in vain. He shall have them. Isaiah 53, 11 and 12. You need
to look at this verse over here. Isaiah 53. Now you know this
is that great gospel of the Old Testament. This is the story
of substitution. This is the story of redemption. This is the story of Christ taking
our place and bearing for us all that justice demanded and
that the law required. And in verse 11, or verse 10,
"...it pleased the Lord to bruise him. He hath put him to grief,
when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall
see his seed, he shall prolong his days," now watch this line
here, "...and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his
hand. He shall see of the travail of
his soul, and shall be satisfied." By his knowledge shall my righteous
servant justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities."
What are you saying, Preacher? Here's what I'm saying. That
if Christ redeemed us, he shall have us. All that my Father giveth
me shall come to me. This is the will of him that
sent me, that of all which he hath given me I'll lose nothing.
But I'll raise it up at the last day. Christ hath redeemed us
and he shall have what he paid for. Christ Jesus hath ransomed
us and we're his. The price is too precious and
too great to fail. Now some of them he finds in
false religion, wrapped up in tradition and custom like Saul
of Tarsus. Some of them are indwelt with
evil spirits. like the man in the tombs, or
Mary Magdalene, out of whom he cast seven devils. Some of them
are found in the clutches of evil gain, like Zacchaeus. Some
of them are found on the threshold of death and hell, like the thief
on the cross. But wherever they are, and whoever
they are for whom he died and suffered, and whom he redeemed,
Turn to John 10. He says, They shall hear my voice,
and they shall follow me. John 10, verse 27. My sheep hear
my voice. I know them, they follow me,
I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither
shall any man pluck them out of my hand. Two marks of a child
of God. He's branded as a sheep in two
places. His ear and his foot. He will
hear the voice of the Savior and he will follow his master. We shall be redeemed by the power
of God's Spirit. Now then, thirdly, redemption. Now I want you to listen carefully. Ephesians chapter 2 verse 8 says
this, For by grace have you been saved. Now that's the correct
translation of Ephesians 2a. For by grace have you been saved
through faith, that not of yourselves, it's the gift of God. We have
been saved. We were saved back yonder in
the council halls of eternity when God the Father in his eternal
purpose gave us to the Son. For God declares those things
which are not as though they already were. We were saved,
redeemed on Calvary's cross when Christ actually paid the price,
and we changed hands from justice to love. We were redeemed that day when
the Holy Spirit came and called us to faith in Christ, and we
trusted Him. We're justified by faith. We're
justified by God. We're justified by the blood.
We're justified by faith. And the power of God which redeems
us, keeps us. 1 Corinthians 1.18 says this,
To them who are perishing, the preaching of the cross is foolishness.
To those who are being saved, it's the power of God. Now I
want to be perfectly clear in what I'm saying. I don't want
to be misunderstood. I believe this with all my heart.
I do not believe that repentance is an isolated act. I do not believe that faith is
an isolated act. I do not believe that people
repent and believe and have an experience and they're saved
whether they continue with Christ or not, whether they continue
to love the gospel or not, whether they continue to worship Christ
or not. whether they grow in grace or
not, I do not believe that. I do not believe a trip down
the aisle and a shake of the preacher's hand and a trip into
the baptismal waters and your name being recorded on a church
roll will save your soul. I do not believe that. We are of the household of Christ
if we continue in the faith. And if a man does not continue
in the faith, he is not in the faith. If a man does not keep
on repenting and keep on believing and keep on seeking the Lord
and keep on walking with Christ, he never did know Christ. Now,
that's what the Scripture teaches. We have been saved, but we are
being saved. And I reject with all my heart
this sort of thing that says that if you believe on Christ,
You're eternally secure no matter whether you continue to trust
Him or continue to love Him or continue to walk with Him or
continue to believe on Him. It's just not true. We are being saved. We are being
redeemed. We are growing in grace and in
the knowledge of Jesus Christ. Now, when a baby is born into
this world, When a baby is born, when we trust Christ, when we
believe, we are complete in Him. We are complete, that's right.
We are made sufficient, we are meat, the scripture says, to
inherit the saints of light. When a baby is born, comes forth
from its mother's womb, that baby is complete. If it doesn't
have ten toes, it never will have ten toes. If it doesn't
have two legs, it never will have two. If it doesn't right
then have two arms, it never will have two. It will never
grow one. Everything that child has, it'll have. And whatever
it don't have, it'll never have. You see what I'm saying? But
it's an infant. It's a dependent infant. It's a babe. It must be helped. It must be
assisted. It must be taken care of till
it's able to take care of itself. Those arms that it has can't
feed itself now, but someday it will. Those legs that that
baby has cannot support itself, cannot support the baby, but
someday it will. And those eyes and ears and mouth
will develop so that that child can take care of himself. But
he has everything right now. You see what I'm saying? When
a person is born into God's family, he's born of the Holy Spirit,
he's a babe in Christ. He's a little tender infant in
Christ. But he has love, he has joy,
he has peace, he has humility, he has the fruit of the Spirit,
he has all of these graces. But they're not very strong.
But they're there. The same love he'll have in heavens,
the love he has when he's born again. But it'll be intensified. It'll be matured, it'll be developed.
The same joy, the same peace, the same gentleness, the same
temperance, the same goodness, the same grace he has when he's
born again. He has every one of those things. But he grows. And just like you
mothers and dads feed your children, that's what we're doing here
with the Word of God. We're feeding God's sheep. and their babes
in Christ, and as they're fed Sunday after Sunday, and Wednesday,
and during the week, and as they study the Word, they grow, take
as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the Word, that
you may what? Grow thereby. You want to love
people more? Eat the Word. You want to have
a more gracious, forgiving spirit? Then feed upon the Word of God.
See how God forgave you. See how grace forgave you. See
how God showed mercy to you. Do you want to have more joy
in the Lord? Come to the table of the Lord.
Feed upon the Spirit. Feed upon the Word. Feed upon
the things God's given you that this body of grace may develop. Now then, 51 years ago, I was
an infant. I couldn't help myself. My mother
and dad had to care for me. But they're dead now, and they're
gone. I can take care of myself. And I'm saying that God, when
He saves His people, when they're born again as babes in Christ,
I have to help take care of them, and you do, who are mature in
grace. But you showed me a baby that
never does grow and never does develop. I'll show you a baby
that's born dead. It doesn't have any life. Anything
that's got life grows. You can't hold it back. It's
going to grow. You can't stop it. We're being
saved. And someday as God has saved
you and you grow in grace, you're 20 years old in Christ. You ought
to be a fully developed, mature child of God, a father in Christ
Jesus. You ought not be a baby. Something
wrong if you're still a baby. Something wrong if you're still
a baby. We're being saved. But now turn to Romans 13.11.
I'll let you go in a minute, but this is necessary here. Romans 13.11. And that knowing the time, that
now it is high time to wake out of sleep, for now is our salvation
nearer than when we believed. You know, as old L.R. Shelton used to say, get hold
of the pew there, we're going to jump a creek. I'm not saved
yet. And neither are you. And neither
are you. My salvation is a whole lot nearer,
though, It was 30 years ago. It's a lot nearer. Because Jesus
Christ not only redeemed my soul, he redeemed my body. He redeemed
my body. Turn to Romans 8.23. Look at
this. Romans 8.23. And not only they Talking about the creation, groaning,
waiting for the revelation of God's children. Not only that,
we ourselves, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even
we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the redemption, the
adoption, that is, namely, the redemption of our bodies, we're
waiting. That old body is going to be sewn, withered, wrinkled,
shriveled, dead, and God's going to raise it a new body. That
body's going to be sown in shame, God's going to raise it in glory.
Nothing that old Adam gave me is going to be left. Nothing.
Nothing. Sin? Not going to sin anymore. Pain? Not going to hurt anymore.
Tears? Not going to cry anymore. Sorrow?
No more sorrow. Old age? Never grow old. My redemption's nearer than when
I believed. When I can read my title clear
to mansions in the sky, I'll bid farewell to every tear and
wipe my weeping eyes. When I shall bathe my weary soul
in seas of heavenly rest and not a wave of trouble roll across
my peaceful breast, then I'll say, I'm saved. I'm saved. I have been saved. I am being
saved. I was redeemed by blood. I am
being redeemed by the Spirit, and someday by the power of God,
I'm going to come out of the grave, and at that time I'll
be just like Christ, and my redemption will be complete, redeemed by
power. Our Father, we thank Thee for
every promise of the book, the precious blood of Christ. To
you that believe, He's precious. the precious promises of thy
word. O Lord, make them rich and real
to every one of us, the blessed promises of redemption. Use this message for thy glory
and thy purpose and the good of thy people. For Christ's sake
I pray, amen. Brother Don, we'll ask you to
lead us in a song. Number 228. 228. Stand, please. My faith has found a resting
place, not in device nor creed. I trust the ever-living One,
His wounds for me shall bleed. I need no other argument, I need
no other plea. It is enough that Jesus died,
and that He died for me. Enough for me that Jesus said,
this is my fear and doubt. A simple soul, I come to Him,
He'll never cast me out. I need no other argument, I need
no other plea. It is enough that Jesus died
and that he died for me.
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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