True Christianity

Q: What does the Bible say about true Christians?

True Christians are ones who have genuinely come to God through Christ, recognizing Him as their Savior. According to Hebrews 7:25, a true Christian is someone who has come to God, not merely through words or outward actions, but in heart and affection. This coming to God signifies a deep, personal relationship with Him through Jesus Christ. It moves beyond simply belonging to a church or adhering to religious practices; instead, it is about recognizing God as the sovereign Lord of all, who exercises providence over every aspect of life. True Christians derive their identity and purpose from this relationship, understanding that their lives, prayers, and faith stem from a genuine encounter with God.

Q: How do we know Christ's intercession is effective?

Christ's intercession is effective because He is our eternal High Priest, ever living to make intercession for believers. In Hebrews 7:25, it is stated that Christ is able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him as He lives to intercede for them. This means that Christ's role as our intercessor is not temporary but constant, affirming His ongoing commitment to stand before God on our behalf. The effectiveness of His intercession lies not in our merits but in His righteousness; He presents His own sacrifice and merits to the Father, ensuring that we are accepted. This assurance allows believers to face life's challenges and trials, knowing that they are upheld by Christ's powerful intercession.

Q: Why is it important for Christians to heed God's warnings?

Heeding God's warnings is crucial because they guide believers away from sin and towards a deeper relationship with Him. Christians are called to heed the warnings found throughout Scripture as these admonitions are God's means of guiding His people. In Matthew 15:7-8, Jesus warns about the dangers of hypocrisy and outward religiosity, urging believers to focus on genuine heart devotion. Similarly, in 2 Peter 2:20-22, believers are cautioned against returning to a life of sin after knowing the truth. Such warnings, when taken to heart, lead to spiritual growth, deeper fellowship with God, and genuine repentance. Ignoring these crucial messages can result in spiritual complacency and distance from God, which is why they must be treated seriously.

Q: How does God's sovereignty relate to salvation?

God's sovereignty ensures that salvation is initiated and completed by His grace alone, not by human effort. The doctrine of God's sovereignty in salvation emphasizes that He is the ultimate authority and director of all things, including the salvation of His elect. Scriptures like Romans 8:30 highlight that those whom God foreknew, He predestined, called, justified, and glorified. This underscores that salvation is a work of God, and believers cannot take credit for it. It reassures Christians that their faith and perseverance are not based on their own strength but rather on God's will and purpose, which guarantees their secure position in Christ. Understanding God's sovereignty gives us confidence in His unwavering commitment to complete the work He has begun in those who believe.

Our text tonight is Hebrews 7,
verse 25. Wherefore he is able also to
save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing
he ever liveth to make intercession for them. we need to personally get acquainted
with not only the promises of God's Word, but with the warnings
of God's Word. Now the type of message which
I've prepared for this congregation tonight is one that usually is
preached and heard and disregarded. But this is typical of 20th century
religion. It's like the song that Mike
was just singing. Beautifully done. Beautifully
presented. And the last verse, a beautiful
verse. But the rest of them, they didn't crucify my Lord. We crucified the Lord. They didn't
nail him to a tree. We nailed him to a tree. They
didn't pierce his side. The same way that we write songs,
we interpret Scripture as bystanders. And we're not bystanders. We
are involved. When they cried, Crucify Him,
my voice was the loudest voice of all. What about yours? The
Roman soldier who drove those nails into his hands represented
me and you. He represented every son of Adam. And we're bystanders. We do that
when we preach messages, when we read God's Word, when we sing
about this gospel of grace. We need to get involved. When
God says something to me and he's saying it to me, When God
speaks to sons of Adam, He's talking to me and to you. He's
not talking to the wind. He's not talking to the crowd.
He's not talking to the mob. He's talking to individuals.
One dear old black preacher said, My people are going to hell because
they're so generous. And the person who heard him
said, How can a man go to hell for being too generous? He said,
They give my sermons to somebody else. They never take them for
themselves. I think when I preach, I ought
to preach as a dying man to dying men. And if the messages that
I preach cannot be personally applied, I ought not preach them.
I'm a hypocrite, I'm a Pharisee. When I preach a message, if there's
an elder in this congregation who cannot hear it as if he were
the only one here, he's a hypocrite, he's a Pharisee, he's When I
preach a message, a person that's been here twenty years, if he
can't hear it as a little child who needs the warning, who needs
the correction, who needs the rebuke, who needs the reproof,
he needs to come to the cross and there to be made anew. Because
Christ said, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God
as a little child shall not enter therein. We're not just preaching
sermons. We're not up here just filling
in the space. We're not up here just taking
some time allotted. We're up here trying to deliver
a message to a person. Are you that person? Now, we
need to get acquainted with the warnings of God's Word and make
them personal. God warns in His Word four groups
of people. First of all, He warns the wicked.
He says, I've made you a watchman. You warn the wicked for me. When
I say to the wicked man, Thou shalt surely die, if you don't
warn him, I'll require his blood at your hands. But if you warn
him and he dies in his sins, you're free from his blood. As
I live, saith the Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the
wicked, but that the wicked turn from his wicked ways. Turn ye,
O house of Israel, why will you die? Turn with me to the book
of Jude and listen to this warning. And this warning comes from the
lips of our Lord. In Jude, there's only one chapter,
verse 14 and 15. Look at it. And Enoch, also the
seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Enoch's talking
to people. Behold the Lord coming. Christ
is coming. When you read that, can you visualize
Him coming? With ten thousands of His saints,
He's coming to execute judgment upon all and to convince all
that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which
they've ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which
ungodly sinners have spoken against Him. These are murmurers, they're
complainers, they walk after their own lust with their mouths,
speaking great swelling words, having men's persons and admiration
because of advantage. The Lord's coming, and he's going
to execute judgment. His sword is in his hand. And
John wrote in Revelation, I saw a great white throne, and him
that sat upon it from whom the heavens and the earth fled away,
and I saw gathered before him Men of all nations, small and
great, the sea gave up the dead, death and hell gave up the dead,
and all men appeared before him to be judged out of those things
written in the books according to their works." That's serious. God warns the wicked. We're not
playing games. God is warning the wicked. And
I need to hear those words. And God is warning the religious.
Turn to Matthew 15, the second group. Our Lord is warning the
religious in Matthew 15, verse 7. You hypocrites. And we're
in a religious day. We're in a religious nation.
We're in a religious state. We're in a religious area. This
is a religious area. This is the Bible Belt. And our
Lord Jesus Christ came to this earth He came to a religious
nation, a religious people. He came to his own, the people
of the covenant, the people of the promise, the people of Abraham,
and they received him not. They received religion, but not
Christ. They received theology, but not
Christ. They received orthodoxy and ordinances
and rituals, but not Christ. They were slaves to tradition
and custom and ceremony, but they wanted no part of Christ.
And he warned them. He said, you hypocrites, well
did Isaiah prophesy of you saying, verse 8, Matthew 15, these people
draw down to me with their mouth, and they honor me with their
lips. It's Jesus this and Jesus that. It's sweet Jesus and blessed
Jesus and precious Jesus, but their heart is far from me. That's religion. That's our day. They draw nigh unto me with their
lips and with their mouths, but their hearts are far from me. Look at verse 14, Matthew chapter
23. Matthew 23, verse 14. Listen to this. This is our day. Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! You devour widows' houses You're
sharp, shrewd, conniving, greedy businessmen, and for a pretense
you make long prayers. Therefore you shall receive the
greater damnation. Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees,
you hypocrites! You compass sea and land to make
one proselyte. You're out trying to win souls.
You knock on doors and go all over the city and drag people
in. preach him a sermon, and drag him down the aisle to make
a proselyte to your religion, to your denomination. And when
he is made a proselyte to your religion, he is twofold more
the child of hell than you are." That's a warning. Look at verse
27, "...warned you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, you are
like unto whited sepulchres, you appear beautiful outwardly,
but are within full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness. Even so, ye also outwardly appear
righteous unto men." You're so pious and righteous and religious
on the outside. People think you're something.
But on the inside, you're full of hypocrisy and iniquity. That's a warning. He's not warning the wind, he's
warning people. He's warning religious people,
he's warning church people. And the third group he warns,
turn to 2 Peter chapter 2, he warns the professors of Christ. You say, but I'm not just religious,
I believe in Jesus. I believe Christ died on the
cross and was buried and rose again. I believe in God's sovereignty. I believe in God's purpose in
grace. I believe the gospel. I believe
in free grace. Listen to 2 Peter 2 verse 20. For if after they have escaped
the pollutions of the world, not through religion, through
the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, not through custom, through
the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, not through denominationalism,
not through church ordinances. They've escaped the pollutions
of the world. They are different people, whether
outwardly or inwardly, but through the knowledge of the Lord Jesus
Christ, and they again, they are again entangled therein and
overcome. The latter end is worse with
them than the beginning For it had been better for them not
to have known the gospel, not to have known the redemptive
work of Christ, not to have known the true way of righteousness,
than after they had known it, to turn from that holy commandment
delivered unto them. It is happened unto them, according
to the true proverb, the dog is turned to his own vomit again,
and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. Had
these people escaped, they weren't scribes and Pharisees, they were
gospel believers. They were what we call New Testament
Christians. They had a New Testament church.
They were fundamental, missionary, and all the other orthodoxy that
goes along with it. But they left this message and
left this gospel and turned back to the old way. And our Lord
said their latter end is worse than the beginning. It would
have been better had they never heard the gospel than to have
traveled with it. Turn to 1 Corinthians 10. These
are warnings. He's talking to me. He's talking
to you. Every individual here In 1 Corinthians
10, verse 12, these are personal warnings. 1 Corinthians 10, 12,
"...wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth." I think I stand. I think I stand on the rock,
Christ Jesus, don't you? I think I stand on the firm foundation,
proven tribe, the chief cornerstone. I think I stand on the rock of
ages. Well, that's He talking to me
then. You think you stand? He's talking to you. Listen to
what it says. Let him that thinketh, he standeth, take heed, lest
he fall. God warns the wicked, but he
not only warns the wicked, he warns the religious with solemn
warnings And he not only warns the religious, he warns the professor
of Christ and of the gospel. And the man who thinketh, he
standeth. And then listen to this. The
fourth group of people whom our Lord solemnly warns is the true
believer. The man who is called by the
Spirit, the man who is sealed by the Holy Spirit, the man who
is by grace, by faith, by purpose, united and joined to Christ. Turn to 2 Peter chapter 1. Listen
to this. 2 Peter chapter 1, verse 10 and
11. And listen to the way Paul starts
it. Brethren, that's saved people,
that's redeemed people, that's my brother in Christ. Don't you
get complacent, don't you get presumptuous, don't you hide
in a refuge that says, I never can, I never can be broken off. The natural branches were, and
you were grafted in. Wherefore the rather brethren
give diligence to make your calling and election sure. But if you
do these things, you shall never fall, for so an entrance shall
be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom
of our Lord Jesus Christ." Get busy! It's a task that needs
constant care. Give diligence to make your calling
and election sure. 2 Corinthians 13, the Apostle
Paul said this, 2 Corinthians 13, verse 5. Listen to it. Examine
yourselves whether you be in the faith. Could you really, could I really,
could I give myself a really sincere, careful examination?
Do I dare question whether or not I'm redeemed? He tells me to. Examine yourselves. We must not be busy examining
other folks. The only person whom we can justly
examine is ourselves. Examine yourselves, whether you
be in the faith. Prove your own self. Prove yourself. How? By the Word of God. Know
you not your own selves, how that Christ, Jesus Christ, is
in you, except you be reprobates? And then when we come to the
Lord's table, Paul tells us again, let a man examine himself, and
so let him eat. Now these are warnings, and these
warnings are given because there's so much shame and so much hypocrisy
and so much counterfeit in religion. I know there's shame and hypocrisy
and counterfeit in every area of life, no question about that.
But I believe there's more in religion than any other realm. Just plain old sham and hypocrisy
and counterfeit. I don't want to be a counterfeit.
The heart of man is deceitful and desperately wicked. Men are
sent strong delusions so that they'll believe a lie and be
damned for believing it. And the Apostle Paul, when he
was Saul of Tarsus, thought he did God a favor when he killed
Stephen. one of God's greatest servants,
he thought he did God a favor. He was so blind and so deceived
that while he was persecuting Christ himself and persecuting
Christ's church, he thought he was serving God. I want us to look tonight at
three things from this verse that I've chosen as the text.
First of all, a description of a true Christian. a description
of a true Christian according to the Bible. And secondly, the
work of Christ for every true Christian. And then thirdly,
the assurance of the true Christian. Now first of all, look at the
text again, Hebrews 7, verse 25. And let's take this personally,
all right? I had a young man come to me
one time and He had been my friend for many years, and I made a
reference to something in the message, and after the service
was over, he was angry. He walked up and said, were you
preaching to me? Well, I hope I'm preaching to
you. I hope so. I'm preaching to me. Would you
permit me to preach to you? When you become so perfect that
you don't need rebuke, and you don't need reproving, and you
don't need correction, and you don't need instruction, go somewhere
else. Let's look at the Scripture here
and see a description of true Christians. He says in Hebrews
7 verse 25, Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost
that come unto God by him. Here is the description of a
true Christian. He has come to God. He has come
to God. That's quite a difference between
the way the Holy Spirit describes a Christian and the way that
man describes a Christian, isn't it? Somebody says, what's a Christian? Well, he's a person that lives
in a Christian nation. Or someone else says, well, a
Christian is a person who lives a good life. Well, a Christian
is a person who belongs to the church. Well, a Christian is
a person who's made a religious profession. Well, a Christian
is a person who believes certain truths. But the Holy Spirit says
here, Christian, the man who is saved, is the man who has
come to God. He has come to God. This world to the Christian is
God's world. In him we live and move and have
our being. The heavens to the Christian
declare the glory of God. The trees and the rivers and
the streams and the mountains and the flowers are made by God. This is God's world. This is
my Father's world. The Christian has come to the
God who controls all things by his power and by his wisdom,
and the Christian is glad. All events of life are God's
providence. He doesn't use words like luck. And I don't think that's a slip-up
with many of us. I think we say it because that's
what we mean. We don't know the God of providence. We know the
God of fate and the God of chance and the God of luck. That's our
common references when events of life occur, we had good luck. Christian doesn't talk that way.
Because he does not depend upon luck and chance and blind fate,
he's in God's hands. All the events of life are ordered
by his Lord, by his Master. He's come to God. Really he's
come to God, not just by words or with his lips, he's come to
God in his heart. He recognizes the hand of God,
and the will of God, and the wisdom of God, and the power
of God, and the providence of God, and he says with Samuel,
well it's the Lord, let him do what he will. He's come to God. The Bible to him is not a book
of religion, it's God's Word. Prayer to him is not a ritual,
it's not a good luck charm. Somebody says, well I believe
in prayer. I don't. I believe in God. Prayer is just
the instrument, it's just the way that I get to God. There's
no power in prayer, the power is in God. And prayer with a
believer is not a ritual, it's communion with the living God.
In this Word God speaks to him, and in prayer he speaks to God.
And the church is not a social club. The church is a place where
he meets God, and where he meets God's people, and where God's
Word is preached, and where God's glory is revealed. His soul,
his body, his family, his position, his desires, all belong to God. He's come to God. In reality,
he's come to God. In heart, he's come to God. In
affection, he's come to God. In desire, he has come to God. And David said, I love those that
love thee. Turn to 1 John, chapter 1. Listen
to this. 1 John, chapter 1. Verse 3, John's
talking about the Master, and he says in 1 John 1, 3, "...that
which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that you
also may have fellowship with us. And truly our fellowship
is with the Father and with His Son." God is an ever-present
help in time of trouble. God's not a power, only He's
a person. God's not a myth. He's the master,
and I've come to God." That's the description of a true Christian.
He has come to God. His name yields the richest perfume. Sweeter than music, His voice,
His presence, disperses my gloom and makes all within me rejoice. I would, were He always thus
now, have nothing to wish or to fear. No mortal so happy as
I, my summer would last all the year. Content with beholding
his face, my awe to his pleasure resigned. No changes of season
or place would make any change in my mind. While blessed with
a sense of his love, a palace, a toy, would appear, and prisons
would palaces prove if Jesus had dwelt with me there. Have
you come to God? The true Christian, the Holy
Spirit says, has come to God, but he has come to God in a particular
way. He has come to God in a certain
way. He has come to God by Christ. He comes not to God by his own
righteousness. He knows their filthy rags. He
knows all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. He
comes not to God presenting his good deeds. By the deeds of the
law shall no flesh be justified. He comes not to God hoping to
be accepted by the burning candles and the crosses and the rituals.
All of these things can do nothing for my soul. He comes to God
by Christ. Other foundation can no man lay
than that which is laid, Christ the Lord. None other name unto
heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved, but Christ
the Lord, who said, I am the way, the truth, and the life,
of whom God said, He is our wisdom, righteousness, sanctification,
and redemption. He has come to God, but He has
come to God by Christ. Turn to Hebrews 10. Let me show
you a verse here. Hebrews, the tenth chapter. Verse
19, having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest,
the presence of God by the blood of Jesus, by a new and a living
way, which he hath consecrated for us through the veil, that
is to say, his flesh. Yes, I've come to God. Have you
come to God? How did you come to God? I'm
doing the best I can, preacher. You'll never get there. Maybe
that's why God's not real. God only reveals himself in Christ. Read that poem on the back of
the bulletin. Who is God? Christ said, He that
hath seen me hath seen the Father. He that honoureth me honoureth
him that sent me. He that knoweth not the Son knoweth
not the Father. All Christians have come to God,
and they've come to God by Christ. Christ is the old way. All who
have come to God have come by the cross of Christ. Moses wrote
of me, he said. I don't like to hear people talk.
I heard a man on television today talk about the old Bible. There
is no old Bible and new Bible. There's just one Bible. So many people think that people
were saved before the cross one way and after the cross another
way. Christ tore this down when he said, Abraham saw my day and
was glad. Moses wrote of me. That rock
was Christ. Christ is our Passover. That's
what the scripture says. Who was Isaiah looking to? The
law, when he wrote, he was wounded for our transgressions. He was
bruised for our iniquities. By his stripes we are healed.
What's he talking about there? The law of Moses? He's talking
about the blood of Christ. Christ is the old way, Christ
is the tried way. Apostles, prophets, martyrs,
reformers, all have found in him a sure foundation. And he's
the good way. For it meets the need of every
bankrupt, fallen, helpless sinner. Though your sins be as scarlet,
I'll make them white as snow. So they'd be red like crimson,
I'll make them as wool. What is a Christian? Well, our
text says he is one who has come to God. In reality, he has come
to God. In vital living union, he has
come to God. God is not a sermon. God is not
a rule. God is not a law. God is not
just a way. God is his life. When Christ,
who is our life, shall appear, then shall we appear with Him
in glory. Christ is His family. Christ is His ambition to be
like Him. David said, I'll be satisfied
when I wake with His likeness. Christ's will is His will. Christ's
family is His family. Christ's glory is His goal. He's come to God by Christ. All
right, let's look at the second thing now, the work of Christ
for every true Christian. It says here, "...wherefore he
is able to save them to the uttermost that come to God by him." And
here's the work of Christ for all true believers, "...seeing
he ever liveth to make intercession for them." Christ's work for
the believer really is threefold. I started to say twofold, but
it's threefold. Before the world was ever created,
before Adam fell, Christ was the surety of an eternal covenant. If Jesus Christ had not been
the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, when Adam fell,
Adam and the world would have been totally destroyed. If Christ
had not been the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world,
the moment that sin entered this world, everything about it would
have been destroyed, totally destroyed. But God viewed fallen
man in Christ. God viewed his people who were
to be born and who were to come upon this earth. He viewed them
in Christ. He was our surety. He stood for
us. He was the chief and first elect. He was the firstborn among many
brethren. God's wrath and judgment was
held back because of the coming king who was to sacrifice himself. That's his work for us in eternity. And then also on the cross in
making substitution. He who knew no sin was made sin
for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Christ died for sinners. 1 Peter 3 verse 18 said the just
died for the unjust that he might bring us to God. So the work
that he did for us was in atonement, in substitution, in satisfaction. And then there's a work he's
doing for us right now, and that's the work of intercession. He
ever liveth. to make intercession for them. He's our Mediator. The Scripture
says there's one God and one Mediator between God and men.
Now you men here from the steel mill know something about a Mediator.
When the contract comes up in August or whenever it comes up,
there'll be management, there'll be labor, there'll be a Mediator
trying to reconcile the two who are in disagreement. And Jesus
Christ is the one mediator between God and men. He is presenting
not our merits to the Father, but His merits. He says, Father,
be reconciled to them for my sake. Father, forgive them for
my sake. Father, accept them for my sake.
Here are my wounds in my hands and in my feet and in my side. He intercedes. He's our mediator. He's our advocate. He's our intercessor. He says, Peter, I've prayed for
you. Satan hath desired thee that
he might sift thee as wheat, but I've prayed for you. Christ
prays for us daily. He obtains for us fresh supplies
of mercy and fresh supplies of grace and every provision of
His love. I need daily grace for daily
necessities, and so do you, and I get those through my intercessor. He is our High Priest. He carries
our name on His heart, and ever before the Father, as the great
High Priest of old, carried the names of Israel on His breast
near His heart. He makes Our sacrifices of love
and faith and praise acceptable, and he's our coming king. He
said, I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare
a place, I'll come back and receive you unto myself, that where I
am there, ye may be also. And beloved, now are we the sons
of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be, but when he
shall appear, there is a work yet to be done for us. We'll
be like him. for we shall see him and be just
like him." So actually, fourfold is the work of Christ for the
believer. He's the man who's come to God by Christ, and Christ
stood for us, died for us, intercedes for us, and is coming for us. And when he comes again, he's
going to make us just like himself. Now last of all, let's look at
the text again. Hebrews 7, verse 25, He's able to save them to the
uttermost that come to God by Him. Not those that come to the
church, those that come to God. Not by their good deeds and merit
and self-righteousness, by Him. He's able to save them to the
uttermost. I need assurance. Someone told
me this morning after the message That message gave me great assurance
and comfort. I needed it, and I need it too. It's no easy journey. There are
trials to endure, there are enemies to encounter, there are crosses
to bear, there's a faith to keep, there's a war to wage. We know
that we're not alone. Christ said, I'll never leave
you, I'll never forsake you. Cast all your cares upon him,
he cares for you. And Paul wrote over here in the
book of Romans, chapter 8, verse 35, "...who shall separate me
from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress,
or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril assured?
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long,
we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. Yet nay, in all these
things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. I
am persuaded that neither death nor life nor angels, nor principalities,
nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height,
nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us
from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. He
is able to save me, notwithstanding all my past sins. Who can lay
anything to the charge of God's elect? Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died. He's
able to save me to the uttermost, notwithstanding all my present
weaknesses. My little children, these things
I write unto you that you sin not. But if any man sin, we have
an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And
His blood doesn't say His blood cleansed us, it says His blood
cleanseth us. from all sin, he is able to save
me to the uttermost, notwithstanding all my temptations, notwithstanding old age and death. Yea, though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death, I'll fear no evil, with heart
with me. He's able to save me, notwithstanding
judgment, for there is therefore now no condemnation to them who
are in Christ. Yeah, that's my assurance. It's not that's my assurance,
it's he's my assurance. Wherefore, those that come to
God by him, he ever lives to make intercession for them, and
he's able to save them to the uttermost. notwithstanding all
their sin, notwithstanding all their infirmities, notwithstanding
all their temptation, notwithstanding old age, loss of memory, notwithstanding death, the decay
of the body, the seemingly victory of the grave, notwithstanding
the great white throne judgment, notwithstanding the eons of eternity,
He is able to save. He is able. Our Father in Heaven, give us such a personal hunger
and thirst for righteousness and for a living, vital union
with Thee in Christ. that we'll become totally involved
in this book, totally involved in this message, totally involved
in this faith of Jesus Christ the Lord. Give us a spirit that can be
broken, a heart that is contrite, a will that is in submission
to thy will, bring us down low in the dust, and make us children,
willing and able to be taught. Smitten by the Spirit, broken
by the Spirit, crushed by the Holy Spirit, poor in spirit. For the gospel is preached to
the poor in spirit, who have nothing, are nothing, know nothing.
reveal Christ to our hearts. Let us be so shut up to Christ
that we might grow in grace and in the knowledge of him, for
it is in his glorious

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