Colossians Chapter One vs. 19-29

Now let's turn back to Colossians
1. Verse 19 and 20, look at it with
me. For it pleased the Father, it
pleased the Father, that in Christ should all fullness dwell. And having made peace through
the blood of his cross, by him, by Christ, to reconcile all things
unto himself, unto God. By Christ, I say, whether they
be things in earth or things in heaven. Now our scripture
begins with this statement. It pleased the Father. Turn with
me to Psalms 115. The first time I came across
this scripture in Psalms 115, it inspired a message in my David, in Psalm 115, writes these
words. Look at verse 1 through 3. Not
unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory
for thy mercy and for thy true sake. Wherefore should the heathen
say, Where is your God? Where is your God? Now what did
David answer? Here are the heathen who worship
their idols and their statues, and their graven images. They
said, Here is our God, David. Our God is on the pedestal where
we put him. Our God is on the shelf where
we placed him. Our God is there in the temple
where we worship him. Where is your God, David? Tell
us where your God is and describe him to us. Now listen to the
next verse. David said, Our God is in the heavens, and he hath
done whatsoever he hath pleased. And when I looked at that, God
does what he pleases. When David described his God,
he said, our God's in the heavens and he does what he pleases.
He does what he pleases, he says in Psalms 135, in the heavens
and the earth and under the earth. And I got the concordance down
and I started looking up this phrase, it pleased God. And it was a revelation to me.
Let me take you to about five scriptures where it begins this
way. He had pleased God. Now David said, our God's in
the heavens, the true and living God. When the heathen says, where's
your God? What would you answer? Down in
the church? Where's your God? Our God is
in the heavens. What's he like? He's a sovereign
God. He does what he pleases. Turn
to Psalm 100, no, 1 Samuel. Turn to 1 Samuel first. 1 Samuel 12. Now, here's where
I found it first mentioned. This one phrase, it pleased the
Lord. It pleased the Lord. Now, he
does what he pleases. And what I wanted to find out,
and I was desperately sincere in this, I wanted to find out
what it pleased God to do. Now, David said he does what
he pleases. In 1 Samuel 12, verse 22, listen,
For the Lord will not forsake his people, For his great namesake,
it pleased the Lord to make you his people. It pleased God to
make you his people. We didn't love God. He loved
us. That's what John said in 1 John
4.10. He said herein is love, not that we love God. He loved
us. We didn't choose God. He chose
us. That's what our Master said to
his disciples in John 15.16. He said, you didn't choose me.
I chose you. And then we didn't seek God. That's what Paul said
in Romans chapter 3, there's none that seeketh after God.
He sought us. It didn't please us to become
his people. It pleased him to make us his
people. He chose us. He set his affections
upon us. He set his everlasting love upon
us. It pleased him to make you his
people. All right, now turn with me to
our text in Colossians 1. And here's the next time I ran
across this, it pleased God, in Colossians 1, verse 19. Now, having chose us, God put
his love upon us, that's so. We can't deny that. We didn't
set our affections on him, he set his affections on us. Having
chose us, God couldn't accept us in ourselves like we were.
God couldn't walk with us because we were sinners. We had no righteousness. God's justice and God's holiness
would not let him associate with us. Even though he set his affections
upon us, even though God chose us, there's no way that God could
love us as we were. He couldn't love us in our sinful,
rebellious condition. So he chose us in Christ. He made Christ our surety. He
made Christ our representative. And he viewed us and he chose
us and he loved us in his Son. Look at Colossians 1 verse 19.
It pleased the Father, it was in his good pleasure, it was
in his divine purpose, that in Christ Not in you and me, not
in the church, not even in the Bible, not in the doctrine. In
Christ should all fullness dwell. The Lord Jesus Christ as our
representative contained all of the fullness of God. Turn
to Romans chapter 5. Let's look at this. Romans 5
verse 17. Now, in Romans 5 verse 17 it
says this. By one man's offense," that's
Adam, and Adam was the federal head of the whole human race.
Adam was the representative of every man. God never created
one man, he created Adam. You and I came from the loins
of Adam. We came out of Adam. God created
Adam, and the whole human race was created when God created
Adam. And Adam stood for us, and it says, By one man's offense,
death reigned. Verse 18, Therefore by the offense
of one, judgment came upon all men to condemnation. And verse
19 says, As by one man's disobedience, many were made sinners. Now then,
Christ came down here as our representative, the federal head
of a spiritual race. God considered all natural men
in Adam, he considers all spiritual men in Christ. And as Adam's
transgression was imputed to us, Christ's obedience was imputed
to us. As Adam's rebellion was imputed
and charged to the whole human race, those who stood in him,
those whom he represented, Even so, the merits of Christ and
the obedience of Christ and the righteousness of Christ was imputed
to those for whom he stood. Now look at Romans 5, 19. For
as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so, or
even so, by the obedience of one, by the obedience of one,
that's Christ, shall all who are in him, many, be made righteous. In Adam we died, in Christ we
are made alive. And it pleased the Father that
in Christ should this representation be, should this fullness be. Now the third time I found this
was in Isaiah 53. Now watch this, let me make this
statement right here. When God chose us, when we were
sinners, it says but God commended his love toward us in that while
we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. God chose us while we
were sinners, and God made Christ our representative, and Christ
obeyed the law, but still God's justice has got to be satisfied.
God's law was honored by Christ's obedience, and God's justice
was honored and satisfied by Christ's death. Look at Isaiah
53, verse 10. Isaiah 53.10. It pleased the
Lord to booze him. It pleased the Lord to make you
his people. It pleased the Lord to make Christ
your representative, to make Christ your surety, to put all
the fullness of the Godhead and all the fullness of redemption
in Christ. In Christ he is made unto us,
Christ is made unto us, wisdom, righteousness, sanctification
and redemption. But still, we've got to have
a substitute on a cross. We've got to have a sacrifice.
Because sin demands death. The soul that's finished shall
die. So Christ went to the cross and it pleased the Father to
bruise him. Thou shalt make his soul an offering
for sin. Now then, but still, It pleased
God to make us his people, it pleased God to make Christ our
surety, it pleased God to send him to the cross, but still,
though God is reconciled, I'm still an enemy. A work's been
done for me, now a work's got to be done in me. You see what
I'm saying? God's not going to take a rebel
to heaven. God's not going to save you and
leave you in rebellion. God's not just going to write
your name in the book of life and leave you down here hating
his law and hating his word and hating his sovereignty and hating
his purpose, hating his people. No, sir. God's going to make
you a willing disciple. God's going to make you a loving
son. So turn with me to Galatians 1.15. Now then, Paul was solid
Tarsus. He was Saul of Tarsus. He was
a rebel, a religious rebel, but a rebel, and most religious people
are rebels, and most rebels are religious. But Saul was a rebel. But he was God's child. God had
made him his people, his son. He had made Christ Saul's surety.
He had crucified Saul's sacrifice and Savior, but Saul was still
running around here cursing God, and cursing God, who is Jesus
Christ, cursing the church. So what God had to do? He had
to break Saul. He had to bring him down in the
dust. He had to reveal Christ to him. He had to bring him to
the place to love Christ. So Paul wrote this, Galatians
1.15, when it pleased God, when it pleased God, who separated
me from my mother's womb and called me by his grace, it pleased
him to do what? to reveal his Son in me." Now,
brethren, we'll get into this in a few moments. Christ is not
only revealed to a man, he's revealed in a man. He's not only
revealed to the mind. Salvation is not mental acceptance
of some doctrine. Salvation is not mental agreement
with some facts, for the devil would be saved. He believes and
trembles. But salvation is when it pleases
when God takes one of those whom it pleased to make his people.
For whom Christ is the surety and for whom Christ died, when
it pleases God to stop that rebel on his road to Damascus and bring
him down in the dust of sorrow and repentance and faith, he
reveals Christ in him to his heart. Christ in you, that's
the hope of glory. And Christ becomes his King. Christ becomes his Lord. Christ becomes his life. He's
revealed in that person. It pleased God to do it, though.
God. Now, how does God do it? God doesn't deal with everybody
like He did Saul of Tarsus. Turn to 1 Corinthians 1. God is the God of the end, but
He's the God of the means, too. God has determined what's going
to happen, but He's determined how it's going to happen. And
it says in 1 Corinthians 1, verse 21, It says, after that, in the wisdom
of God, the world by wisdom knew not God. No man by natural wisdom
is going to find the mystery of the gospel, the mystery which
is hid from ages and generations, the mystery which is hid from
those whom the God of this world has blinded, the mystery which
is hid from the wise and prudent. No man is going to, by natural
wisdom, find out what's happened on the cross, what happened in
the garden, what happens in a sinner when God saves him. What's this?
It pleased God. There you have it again. by the
foolishness of preaching to save them that believe." It pleased
God to make you his people. It pleased God to make Christ
your surety, your representative. It pleased God to send him to
a cross to die for your sins. It pleased God one day on your
road of rebellion to stop you and reveal Christ to your heart.
You may have been ten years old, you may have been thirty years
old, you may have been fifty years old, but God saves men
when he will. He saves men when he can bring
them to the end of themselves and bring them totally to submit
to his Son. And it takes you, Saul of Tarsus
was about 40 years old when God saved him, religious all his
life. But Saul says, when it pleased
God. Now Saul wasn't, he didn't miss
the boat because some evangelist didn't come to his church when
he was in the junior department. Saul was called and had Christ
revealed in him when it pleased God. That's what Scripture says.
And I'm willing to wait. I'm willing to preach. We must
be faithful in preaching because it pleased God by the foolishness
of preaching to save them that believe. Nobody has ever or ever
will be saved without hearing the gospel. Because Christ is
the gospel. You can't be saved without the
gospel. That's foolishness. Christ is the gospel. A man cannot
trust an unrevealed Christ. A man cannot believe what he's
never heard. And he can't hear without a preacher. And it pleased
God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. Now
turn back to Colossians 1. And it says in verse 21, and
you, that's me and you. He's writing to this church at
Colossae. who were at one turn alienated. Now, that's a strong
word. You know what an alien is, don't
you? We were not only aliens, that's foreigners. We didn't
belong. We weren't citizens. We were
aliens. We were strangers, not only from
the commonwealth of Israel, not only from the covenant promises,
but we were actually alienated from God. We were separated from
him who is the fountain of life. There was a time when we were
separated and alienated and strangers from the God of this world, the
God of the universe. We were gods to ourselves. That's what we were. We were
strangers to God. We were not subject in our hearts
and minds to his government. Turn to Psalm 58. You say, when
did that happen? Look at Psalm 58. I'll show you.
In the 58th Psalm, verse 3, here's what had happened. Listen. The
wicked are estranged. Do you know what estranged means?
Separated. Divided. Alienated. We are estranged from the womb. We go astray as soon as we are
born. Astray from whom? From God. And
you who are alienated. You know the signs on the back
of the car. Smile, God loves you. That's
misleading. And if I stand up and tell this
world, God is your father, and you have a relationship with
God, and you're in the kingdom of God, I'm misleading them.
Because the scripture says that we are aliens. We are strangers. We are separated from the fountain
of life, from God. We are walking alone. We're gods
unto ourselves. That's what every sinner is,
out of Christ. And not only that, but he says, you're not only
alienated, you're enemies. Enemies. And you know where that
enmity is? It's in the mind. That's where
it is. It's in the mind. We're enemies of God's purpose. We're enemies of God's prophetess.
What does the poet write? I'm the captain of my soul. I'm
the master of my fate. That's not so. That's not so. That's what we think. Because
we're enemies, and that enmity is in the mind. It says you're
enemies in your minds. You're enemies of God's Son.
You're enemies of God's covenant. You're enemies of God's atonement.
You're enemies against God's way of salvation. You're enemies
of God's people. You're enemies of God's worship,
and that enmity is in the mind. The mind is the chief source
of our hatred. Paul wrote in Romans 8.7, the
natural mind, the carnal mind is enmity. He didn't say it at
enmity. I had a preacher correct me on
that one time, and I thanked him for it. I said, the natural
mind's at enmity with God. He came up to me at service and
said, would you quote that Romans 8.7 again? I said, the natural
mind is at enmity. He said, that ain't in there.
It ain't in there. The natural mind is enmity. It is enmity. It lies secret
and dormant, but it will reveal itself. It did in the garden.
It did in the garden. Adam said, We'll be like God.
It did at the cross. It reveals itself. Look, it's
in your mind, and it's revealed by your wicked works. You hanged
his son on a tree. And think about this, think of
the grace of God, the love of God. It says in verse 21, And
you who were in that shape, strangers, foreigners, aliens, enemies,
who by your wicked works, devised in your wicked minds, nailed
God's son to a cross, yet you hath he now reconciled. He's reconciled you. Brethren,
I've got a little article coming out in the Bulletin Sunday on
murmuring and grumbling. I'm shooting it myself as well
as all of us. Brethren, when I stop to think
about what we have in Christ, I've got no right to murmur about
anything. God reached down in the dunghill
and picked up the meanest maggot there and washed him in the blood
of Christ and made him his son. And that little old maggot now
that's the son of God run around and find fault with God's providence.
Isn't that awful? He ought to have left me in the
cesspool. That's where he ought to have left me. He ought to
have left me on the dunghill. There are three things that I
use. Now things don't always go good for me. I have my bad
days. I had a tough time today down
at that rest home when I left my dad, standing there looking
like a little boy. He can't even talk now, hardly.
His mind's just about gone, wanting to go home, wanting me to take
him out of that place, and left him patting his feet and waving
like a little kid. That's hard to take. And I lost
a son, he's 21 years old, and somebody ought to try that sometime.
That's a pretty tough valley to go through. And I could name
a lot of other things, but I remember that there are three things that
keep me from murmuring against God's providence. You know what
they are? The first thing is this. The mercy of Christ, my
Lord. I have everything for which to
be thankful. Everything. When I stop to think
what He's done for me. What He's done for me. I don't
deserve it and you don't either. By all rights I ought to be in
hell. But instead of being in hell, my name's in the book of
life. You think about that. My sins are pardoned. He's reconciled you, you dirty
foreigner. He's reconciled you, you sorry
rebel. God has made you his son. Now you think about that. And
the second thing that keeps me from murmuring is this. I know
everything God does is on purpose for my good. God picked out this
road for me to walk. And there's some bars, and there's
some stones, and there's some hard places, and there's some
dark places, and there's some rainy places, and there's some
discouraging places, but God put me on this road, and he put
me on the road he wants me to walk. And whatever happens to
me, it's on purpose for my good and his glory, and I don't care
what it is. Now, I'm not indifferent to it, but I'm just as simply
saying, God put me on this road. and I'm not going to murmur about
it. I'm going to walk it by his grace, and I'm going to say,
whatever happens tomorrow, that's in the purpose and plan of God,
and I'll just be thankful about you. I'm going to quit murmuring.
I'm going to quit finding fault. I don't care if the building
falls in. God made it fall. He could have held it up. He's
strong enough. If he wipes out my whole family
tomorrow, I'll say, Because that's the road he put me on. How about
you? And I'll tell you the third reason why I'm going to quit
this murmuring is this. I hadn't suffered at all, and
you hadn't either. We don't know what suffering
is. We don't know what trials are. We've never known anything
about the torture of the wrath. We've never known anything about
the fires of Smithfield and martyrdom. We don't know anything about
prison. We don't know anything about persecution. We don't know
anything about real slander. We've never felt the whip. We've
never felt the sword. We've never been hungry a day
in our lives. We've never thirsted. We've never
had any of those difficulties. We've got everything our way.
We live on the shady side of the hill. And yet there's more
grumbling than there is rejoicing, and I'm tired of it, aren't you? I'm tired of hearing people that
have been blessed more than any people on the face of the earth
find fault with God Almighty. Now let's straighten up and act
like Christians. and thank God and quit murmuring
and finding fault and complaining, and let's get out here tomorrow
and praise the Lord. We've got enough to praise him
for. We've got nothing to gripe with. I haven't suffered at all.
There's no difficulty befalling me at all. Job lost his whole
family, his reputation, his health, his riches, his home, everything. And he went down to the temple
and worshiped the Lord. Eli raised two sons, and God
killed both of them. And he said, well, it's the Lord,
let him do what he will. We have a little briar comes
along, disturbs our status quo, and we gripe and grumble and
murmur, and God ought to send fiery serpents down and chew
us up. And that's mean, but that's so. That's so. He's reconciled you, you think
about it. He didn't have to, but he did.
Verse 22, look at this. How'd he do it? Listen to it.
He did it in the body of his flesh. That's how he did it.
You hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh. He came down
here in a human body, and he knew what it was to suffer. He
knew what it was to hunger. He knew what it was to weep.
He knew what it was to be tempted and tried, be laughed at and
be stoned and be nailed to a cross. He knew what it was. And he didn't
have any sins. He did it for me and you. He
was bearing my old wicked sin. He was bearing my old rotten
rebellion. He was bearing all of my transgression
in his body. And even the Father turned His
back on him. He said, My God, not you. You
know what he said on the cross? Why have you forsaken me? My
disciples have quit me, my best friends have left me, my brothers
and sisters have all gone, the whole Roman government's against
me, the whole Sanhedrin's against me, the whole world's against
me, and then it turned black and God turned his back on him.
Now then, now then, nobody's ever been that alone. Even the
martyrs who died in the fires at Smithfield had God with them.
But our Lord was alone. And that's the only time he ever
cried out. He said, My God, why hast thou forsaken me? In the body of his flesh, how
did he do it? Through death. He reconciled
you, you alien, you enemy. He reconciled you in the body
of his flesh through death. of the awful cursed tree, he
reconciled you. That ought to send us home tonight,
weeping in our hearts, crying out to God, O God, forgive me
when I pine, I've got Christ, the world is mine. Watch this,
bless the Lord to present you holy. holy. With his spotless robe of righteousness
on, I am as holy as the Holy One." You stop and think about
that. You who were an alien, a foreigner, he reconciled you
to God, and he did it in the body of his flesh. He did it
through death. He did it, and he presents you
before whom? Before the Father! Holy! Holy! Holy! The next time some
Pentecostal comes to you and says he got the baptism of the
Holy Ghost and that made him holy, you tell him he missed
it. He missed it. When the Lord Jesus Christ reconciled
me to God, he made me holy. In the body of his flesh, through
death, he made me holy. He made me holy. He's my sanctification. He's my righteousness. He's my
redemption. In Christ there's no condemnation. Get off my back, guilt. I am
without blame. Look at that next verse. Unblameable. No thought, no sin. That's right. And I am unreprovable. I do not
stand before the bar of any man's judgment. or any demon's judgment,
I'm unreprovable. Who can lay anything to the charge
of God's elect?" Look at these next three words, "...in his
sight." And ain't that what counts? Well, I know in the sight of
a lot of folks I'm not unblameable, and that's so. In the sight of
a lot of people on this earth, I'm not unreprovable, and they
got to, they got to, they got to They've got some reason to
feel that way, but I'll tell you this, when Christ my Lord
reconciled me to God, it's what it says right here. You who were
an alien, were an alien, an enemy, he reconciled you in the body
of his flesh through death to present you, same old rebel,
holy, unblameable, unreprovable in his sight. In his sight. Now you want me to grumble tomorrow?
No, sir. I'm on cloud nine, I'm walking
with the King. I'm a son of God. On the books
of glory, there's not a charge under my name. In the sight of
the Heavenly Father, I'm holy, unblameable, unapprovable. In his sight. And he's the one
that's going to judge me. Now watch verse 23. It says, If you continue in the
faith, ground it and settle. Now, brethren, this verse here,
Hedge, is about this glorious doctrine of free justification.
Some people want to take hold of that doctrine of free justification
and say, We're saved without the law to live like outlaws. Some people who want to take
that doctrine of free justification say, We're saved from hell to
live like hell. That's not so. He says He's made
you holy, unblameable, unreprovable, if you continue in the gospel.
If you continue in the faith, grounded and settled, and be
not moved away from the hope of the gospel. We're not justified
by an act of God, whether we ever believe or not. We're not
justified by an act of God, whether we follow Christ or not. We're
not justified by an act of God, whether we ever hold to Christ
or not. We're not justified by an act
of God whether we repent and believe or not. We're justified
by an act of God, but in that act of God he grants repentance
and faith. He grants a continual state of
repentance and a continual state of confession and a continual
state of faith. Our part in the Lamb's Book of
Life is evidenced by three things. Three things, our part in the
gospel. Number one, we hear it. Christ said, My sheep will hear
my voice. You'll hear the gospel. Secondly, we'll believe it. God
has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification
of the Spirit and what? Belief of the truth. We'll believe
it. And thirdly, we'll continue in
it. John said if they had been of
us, they would have stayed with us. The fact that they departed
from us is evident. They never were of us. It's evident. We'll hear it, we'll believe
it, and we'll continue in it. We'll continue in it. I said
Sunday night, some of you may not have been here Sunday night,
I said this Sunday night, Charlie, that a man's attitude towards
salvation depends on three things. First, how he got it. What it
is he's got, and thirdly, how it affects him. If God saves
you, you're saved eternally. What it is, is it just a profession
or is it life? Is it just church membership
or is it a union with Christ? What it is. How has it affected
you? Has it made you miserable or
made you happy? Is it something you're glad you
have or is it something you wish you could have without paying
much attention to? You see what I'm saying? if you
continue in the faith. Now let's move along quickly
here. He said down in the end of verse 23, I, Paul, am made
a minister. As soon as he mentions the fact
he's a minister, he says this, I rejoice in my sufferings for
you. Now that goes back to what I
was talking about a while ago. If God Almighty can send me through
a trial to make me a better preacher, I ought to rejoice in it. If God can put me through a severe
trial, and Henry, you just came through one in January, and if
God will take that and make you a more understanding, compassionate,
dedicated minister of the gospel, it's well worth it. Be worth
two or three more just like it. That's what Paul's talking about.
I rejoice in my sufferings for you. I rejoice because God has
put me over here. He wrote this epistle while he
was in prison. And the wrath of God Almighty,
the wrath of God, the judgment of God, which these evil men, these evil
men, bring not the wrath of God, but the wrath of Satan and the
wrath of the kingdom of evil, just descended on Paul. They
put him in prison, they mistreated him, they did everything they
could against him, but he said, I rejoice. I endure all things for the elect's
sake." I'm glad it happened. Read on. I'm glad it happened. What he's saying here, he says,
I'm just filling up that which is behind of the afflictions
of Christ. You know what he's saying here?
I've got a little help on this. It says this. He says here in
King James, I rejoice in my sufferings for you. I fill up that which
is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh. for his
body's sake, which is the church, for the church's sake." Now here's
what he's saying. Paul was going to die shortly after this, and
he knew it. He said, the time of my departure is at hand. But
Paul said this, God ordained for me a certain road to walk,
a testimony to establish, a people to whom I should preach, a place
to preach, burdens to be borne, trials to endure. I have about
filled up the cup, that's what he says. I've about completed
the journey, I've about endured all the trials, the conflicts
are about over, and I've endured all of them for the sake of those
to whom God sent me." That's what he's saying there. I've
endured them all for his body's sake, which is the church whereof
or whereunto or to whom I am made a minister, according to
the dispensation of God, which is given to me for you to fulfill
the word of God or to fully preach the word of God, and then he
says, and I want to close with this, he said, even the mystery,
mystery. Now this is something that's
hard for folks to understand, but the mystery here is the gospel.
The mystery is the gospel. It's revealed in the word of
God, but the gospel to the natural
man is not understood. It's a mystery. When you talk
about what happened in the Garden, when you talk about the doctrine
of the Trinity, when you talk about the union of two natures
in Christ, the God-man, when you talk about him honoring the
law and satisfying justice and imputing righteousness, when
you talk about how God can be just and justifier, when you
talk about the resurrection, when you talk about the union
of the Church with Christ, when you talk about the coming of
Christ and the resurrection and eternal life, Those are mysteries. And these mysteries were contained
in the prophecies, but they couldn't see it. These mysteries were
contained in the types, in the tabernacle, in the sacrifices,
in the altar, but they were unknown to men. And these mysteries are
all right here in the book. I asked Peggy last night, she'd
made a profession Sunday night of Christ as her Savior, and
I said, what, in these past years, what have you heard? You've been
to church all your life, what have you heard? What doctrine
have you heard? What gospel have you heard? But
you really never heard anything, did you? Never heard anything. Until a few weeks ago. Boom,
there it is. What, you were hearing preachers
and you were looking right at the Bible? But our Lord said
these things are hid. He said if our gospel be hid,
it is hid to them who are lost. But one day God revealed, and
look here, he said, this mystery, verse 26, this mystery of the
gospel, how God saves sinners, is hid from ages and generations,
but now it's made manifest to all men. Now that's not what
it says, is it? You know what it says? It says
made manifest to whom? To his saints. To his saints. Now he said, if you be the Christ,
tell us, he said, I told you. And you didn't believe me. You
didn't believe me because you're not of my sheep. My sheep hear
my voice, and I know them." And he said, this mystery is revealed,
it is manifested to the same. The mystery of the gospel. Brethren,
I tell you the fact that God, get this song done if you would,
the fact that God has done all that for us, When he announces
this next number, when we're singing it, our hearts ought
to bubble. The hair ought to stand up on
the back of our neck with, holy, me holy, unblameable, unapprovable,
reconciled to God. I can take the world on tomorrow.
Can't you? What a gift. And this mystery,
which folks, smarter than I am by many measures, they've never
seen it, but God's taken this old simple country boy. and taught
him the gospel, and showed him the glory of Christ, the glory
of Christ. I'm somebody special. I'm somebody
special to God. You think you haven't got a friend
in the world. David said, when my mother and father forsake
me, I'm somebody special to God. I'm somebody special. I'm so
special. He sent his son down here to
die for me. That's how special I am. I couldn't believe you said this
to all the police.

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