In John 14, verse 19, Christ
said, Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more. The world seeth me no more. Now the world saw our Lord for
a little while. They saw Him. He was right here
on this earth, and they saw Him. And now they see Him no more.
They saw him as Joseph's son. They said, is not this the son
of Joseph? Why, we know him. His brothers
and sisters live right here in this town where he was raised.
Why, we know him. They saw him. They knew him.
They knew him as Joseph's son. Somebody else said, why, this
is the carpenter. We know him. He used to work
in this little shop down the street here with his father.
We know him. He's the carpenter. Others in
the larger cities saw him. They saw him as a preacher, a
powerful preacher. No man spake like this man. He
spake as one with authority. He didn't speak as the Pharisees
and the Sadducees. Others saw him as a healer. They
followed him. Master, do the mighty works here
that you did in Capernaum. Some saw him as a teacher. Nicodemus,
the religious leader, came to him and said, why, we know you're
a teacher come from God, an unusual man, a man of great brilliance. You've put to silence, the lawyers
said, you've put to silence the Sadducees and the Pharisees,
and I'm amazed, I'm impressed. Others saw him as a religious
maverick. Hey, they said, thou that destroyest
the temple in three days, rebuild it. Do this, do that. Some saw Him actually down that
cross. They saw Him with their eyes
down that cross. They were there when He died. But their whole vision of Christ
and their whole conception of Christ, their whole idea of Christ,
was Christ in the flesh. The neighbors all came around
when Mary brought him home, the little baby, the beautiful little
baby. They saw him, the women passed
him around from hand to hand, arm to arm. They saw him as a
lad running around the streets of Nazareth, saw him in the carpenter's
shop. They saw him when he began to
preach. They listened to him. They were amazed at his words.
They saw him go through life. They saw people hate him and
try to stone him and cast him out of the city. His ideas were
radical and unusual, but they were impressed. And then one
day thousands of them saw him down across, and they saw him
take him out, the procession go out to the cemetery, and they
saw him bury him, and they saw him no more. That's the end of
him. The man Jesus Christ is now dead. And he's now in the tomb, and
he's no more to them than an historical character. He is gone
as far as they're concerned. They were impressed with him.
And while he was here, he did great and wonderful things. Great
example, great teacher, great healer. For a little while, the
world saw me, and now the world sees me no more. But what's the
next line? But you see me. You see me."
Now here and there were a few people who saw him as the world
did not see him. Now these women, when Mary brought
this baby home, and they passed him around from arm to arm, and
you know how people do little babies when they see them. They'll
chuckle him under the chin, and they'll hold their little hands,
and they'll push their cheeks in. I bet babies get tired of
that. People poking their fingers in their faces, you know, and
squeezing. I see people squeeze a baby's
face so it just makes a whistle mouth, you know. And I'm sure
these women did that. They passed him around, they
poked around on him, played with him. But one day Mary and Joseph
took him to the temple. And they put him in the arms
of an old white-haired gentleman in the temple by the name of
Simeon. And while these other people
saw him, Simeon saw him as they had never seen him. Simeon took
one look at that child and then he lifted his eyes to heaven
and he said, Christ Jesus as the world and
all these friends and neighbors and relatives had not seen Him.
He saw Him. He saw His Godhead. He perceived
in this child the Deity. He perceived in this child God
Almighty. And then Simon Peter saw Him.
The Lord Jesus said, Whom do men say that I am? And Peter
said, Well, some say you're a great prophet, and some say you're
Elijah, and some say you're John the Baptist. He said, Peter,
whom do you say that I am? Peter said, Thou art the Christ.
Thou art the Christ. Peter perceived in this man,
Jesus of Nazareth, the Redeemer, the prophet of whom Moses had
written hundreds of years ago. He perceived in him the Messiah. He perceived in him his mission
to redeem Israel from their sins. He saw more than a man. He saw
the God-man. Thou art the Christ, the Son
of the living God. And then the thief on the cross.
Here was this man Jesus hanging on a cross. His visage marred
as no other man, hardly recognizable, just beaten and battered and
bruised and marred and hanging there, blood streaming and pumping
from his veins and his bones showing and people laughing at
him and mocking him and walking about the cross spitting at him.
And the sign pilot had put over his head, Jesus of Nazareth,
the King of the Jews, one thief looking at Him, cursing Him and
blaspheming Him and saying, if you be the Christ, save Thyself.
But one of those thieves saw something nobody else saw. The world saw Him and then saw
Him no more. And this thief looked at Him
and said, Lord, You're not going to stay dead. You're coming into
a kingdom. Remember me when thou comest
into thy kingdom." And our Lord said to him, today, thou shalt
be with me in paradise. Now, in a full and saving sense,
these people whom I have mentioned could say, we have seen the Lord. We have seen. Nobody else could
say that. They saw a man. They saw a man. But Simeon, and
Peter, and the thief on the cross, and a few others, whose eyes
were opened by God's power and God's grace, saw more than just
a man. They perceived His Godhead. They
discerned His mission, and they committed themselves to Him.
They saw the Lord. And when our Lord turned to them,
one day He was preaching. He had fed thousands of people,
and He was preaching to them, and He offended them. And they
turned and walked off, and all of the thousands of them just
walked off. I don't know why preachers today
are so concerned about the number of people who come to hear them
preach, and keeping their crowds, and having more Sunday after
Sunday and year after year. When our Lord preached, people
left Him. They walked away. And here thousands
left him. And he turned to the disciples
and he said to them, will you also go away? In order to keep our crowd, we'll
compromise our message, but not the Savior. He even invited his
own closest, dearest disciples to leave if they wanted to, but
this message was not going to be compromised. And they said,
Lord, to whom shall we go? This crowd sees only a man, but
we see more than a man. Thou hast the words of eternal
life, and we believe and are sure that Thou art the Christ,
the Son of the living God. Now then the world saw him, he
said, for a little while, and then they saw him no more, no
more. But he said, you see me. And
my friends, spiritual sight, now natural sight and natural
understanding depends upon bodily presence. But spiritual sight
does not depend upon bodily presence. And those who had seen Christ
spiritually after he died and was buried and rose again and
ascended back to the Father, they still saw him. They still
saw him. They still walked with Him. They
still talked with Him. That's what the girl sang about.
He will walk with me and talk with me. The Apostle Peter, James
and John, after Christ had ascended back to the Father, they still
walked with Him and talked with Him. Their spiritual sight did
not require bodily presence. They had seen what the others
had not seen. They still depended on His strength,
on His decisions, on His leadership, on His comfort. They still sought
His will and His glory. He was as real to them as He
was when He was here on this earth in the flesh. They had
seen the Lord. And so every true believer today
does not trust an historical character. He trusts a living
Lord. So every believer today does
not look to a martyred example. He walks with and talks with
and lives with a living Lord. That's so. For the Scripture
says, he that seeth the Son And how are we going to see Him?
I can't see Him with these eyes. And if I stand here tonight and
tell you I had a dream last night and the Lord came in the room
and appeared to me in bodily form, I'd be lying. You'd know
I'd be lying. He that seeth the Son and believeth
on Him. We're talking about seeing the
Son with eyes of faith, spiritual eyes. We're looking, the scripture
says, we're looking unto Jesus. We are looking right now unto
Jesus, who is the author and finisher of our faith. And someday
we're going to see him with these eyes, that's what Job said, whom
I shall see with my eyes. And we're going to be just like
him. Our first true spiritual sight of Christ brought us salvation. And our continual spiritual sight
of Christ maintains our salvation. And our sight of Him on His return
shall complete our salvation, for then we shall be like Him. Look at the next line now. And
we're getting into the heart of this thing now. He said, The
world saw me, but they see me no more. But you see me. Not have seen me, you see me. And this is written to you and
me as well as to these disciples. You see me. And watch this now. And here's why you see me. Because
I live, you shall live also. You shall live also. Now what life are we talking
about? I'm going to say three things
tonight, and these three things are so very, very, very important. Our Lord said, Because I live,
ye live. Live. And we're not talking about
existence. The disciples existed before
they met Christ. Christ didn't say, Because I
exist, ye exist. And the disciples would continue
to exist after Christ died on the cross. The life he's talking about here
is something far higher than even immortal existence. Before the Lord, before the disciples
met the Lord, they existed. After he died on the cross, they
still existed. If he were a phony and a fraud
and an imposter, they still exist. Because everybody's going to
live eternally. That's what scripture says. Some
shall rise again to eternal glory and some eternal
damnation. But everybody's going to live
always. But we're not talking about existence. We're talking
about something else. We're talking about some kind of life here.
All life is not the same life. Now listen just a moment. There
is vegetable life. Vegetable life. It grows. It
produces. You take a seed and plant it
and it grows up. That's vegetable life. No need
going into that. And then there's another form
of life. There's vegetable life and then there is animal life. Now animal life has existence.
It has appetite. It has feeling. It has certain
instincts. It's above vegetable life. Animal
life is above vegetable life. Vegetable life can't understand
animal life. It's above it. It's different.
And then there is mental life, which every human being possesses. It's far above animal life, as
animal life is above vegetable life. There is mental life, and
that is the ability Not only to feel, not only have appetites
and instincts, but the ability to think, and to judge, and to
invent, and the ability to will, to do that which animals cannot
do. And this is what we call natural
life. It's what the Bible refers to
as carnal life. Turn with me to 1 Corinthians
chapter 2. 1 Corinthians chapter 2. But now, wait a minute. Turn
to 1 Corinthians 2, and let me say something here. There is
another life that we're talking about that's as far above this
mental life as the mental life is above animal life, and as
the animal life is above plant life. And that is spiritual life. And all men don't have that.
All men have mental life, and that's above animal life, but
there's yet another life. And this mental life, plant life
cannot understand animal life. An animal life cannot understand
mental life. And you can't explain it to a
horse either. You can't explain to a horse
the difference between you and him. You can take your books
on mathematics and science and other things out to the barn
and try to teach that horse geography and he just can't comprehend.
He's not in the same world with you. He's got a life. But his
animal life, yours is mental life. He can't understand it.
He's a dumb animal. And this spiritual life the Bible
talks about, this life that Christ is talking about, because I live,
ye live, this everlasting life, this spiritual life, is as far
above that mental life as that mental life is above that animal
life. And the reason that carnal, natural men do not love the things
of God is because they're carnal, natural beings. Just like that horse cannot appreciate
a concert, a man with natural life cannot appreciate the gospel. And just like that horse cannot
appreciate a ball game because he doesn't have mental life,
he can't comprehend it, he can't understand it. He'll soon weary
of watching them run the bases. And even so a natural man cannot
understand spiritual things. Let me show you that, 1 Corinthians
2. It says in verse 9, But it is written, I have not seen,
nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things
which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed
them unto us by his Spirit. We're talking about spiritual
life now. For the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things
of God. What man knoweth the things of
a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? Even so the
things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we
have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit
which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely
given to us of God, which things also we speak, not in the words
which man's wisdom teacheth, mental knowledge, mental But
that which the Holy Ghost teacheth, comparing spiritual things with
spiritual, but the natural man, the mental life, the carnal life,
he receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, they're foolishness
to him. And neither can he know them,
neither can he understand them, because they're spiritually understood. Now he that is spiritual, he
that has this spiritual life, he that is born from above, he
understandeth all things, he judgeth all things, yet he himself
is understood or judged of no man. Now this spiritual life, what
is it? Four things about it. First of all, it's the life which
Adam lost in the garden. God said, Adam, in the day that
you eat, you die. In the day you eat, you die of
this particular fruit. Adam lived 900 years after that. But something happened. He died.
What died? Spiritual life died. Adam was
a body and a soul. He had mental life. He had carnal
life. He had natural life. He knew
how to plant seeds, and he knew how to prune trees. He knew how to work. He knew
all these natural things, but he lost spiritual life. He lost
this divine life. He lost it. And the Scripture
says, Death passed upon all men, for when Adam sinned, all men
sinned in Adam, and death passed upon all men. Spiritual death.
And that's when it talks about, in Ephesians 2, you hath he made
alive who were dead. Now, when you were saved, you
were dead. You say, well, what do you mean
dead? You were dead spiritually. You were alive. You had this
natural life. You had this mental life. You
had this ability to think and to judge and to feel and to invent. And this was all in a natural
realm. But the gospel meant nothing to you. Spiritual things were
not understood. Now, the natural man can understand
religion, but he can't understand spiritual things. He can understand
religion. He can understand how he can
earn his way to heaven by doing certain religious things, going
through certain religious motions. But he can't understand the wisdom
of God in the death of Christ, and the power of God in the death
of Christ, and the purpose of God in the death of Christ. He
cannot understand spiritual things. He has no appetite for them.
They're foolishness to him. That's what happened when Adam
died. He lost spiritual life. Secondly, what is spiritual life?
It's the life which Adam lost in the garden. It is the life
which Christ talks about when he says, He that believeth on
the Son hath life, and he that believeth not on the Son hath
not life. That's what it says, doesn't
it? In other words, everybody here
tonight who believes on Christ in a saving manner, who has been
begotten of God and who has been conceived of the Holy Spirit,
who has spiritual life, everybody here who believes on Christ has
that life. But everybody who doesn't believe
on Christ in a saving way, I'm not talking about in a historical
way, I'm talking about in a saving way, does not have life. You
say, I have life, cut me and I bleed, pinch me and I'll hurt.
I know you have physical life, you have natural life, you don't
have spiritual life. 1 John 5, 11 says, what's this? And this is the record. God hath
given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He that
hath the Son of God hath life. And he that hath not the Son
of God, he has natural life, he has mental life, he has physical
life, he's dead. He does not have spiritual life. That's what the Bible says, he's
dead. dead to God and dead to righteousness
and dead to all things spiritual. He may be a preacher. He may
be a deacon. He may be a Sunday school teacher.
He may be the finest moral specimen in the community. But all those things are easy
to understand. Men are religious by nature,
but they're not spiritual by nature. And this is life that
comes from above. It comes by a new birth. That's
Christ said to Nicodemus. Nicodemus came in to him. John
3, you know it well. You don't even need to turn there.
Nicodemus came in and he said, Master, we know your teacher
come from God. No man could do the things you
do except God be with him. Now here stood a man who was
well versed in the orthodox Jewish faith, who was religious. who believed in one God, who
went about the ceremonies of the temple. And Christ looked
at him and said, Nicodemus, you need to be born again. You need
to be born again. Now, when a man's born, he gets
life, doesn't he? What happens when a child is born? When a
doctor takes that infant that's born and slaps it, and it breathes,
It gives you something to think about here. When God created Adam, Adam had all of the natural faculties,
and then God breathed, breathed, breathed, and Adam became a living
person. living person. Breath is life. Without breath, when a man dies
and he breathes the last time, his spirit's gone and there's
a question whether anything is alive that does not have breath.
Breath is life. Breath is life. And without breath
There may be all the faculties, but not life. Not life. Adam received life when God breathed
on him. And Christ said, Nicodemus, you
got to be born again. Nicodemus said, how can I be
born again? They'll go back in my mother's
womb and be born. Christ said, now Nicodemus, that
which is born of the flesh is flesh. That's all it is. That's
natural life. That's physical life. That's
carnal life. But that which is born of what? The Spirit is Spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee,
Nicodemus, I've told you of earthly things and you don't understand
them. How are you going to understand if I tell you heavenly things?
You can't understand. Except a man be born again, he
cannot understand the kingdom of God. He cannot see the kingdom
of God. No way. Because he doesn't have
that kind of life. Just like a horse or a pig cannot
understand mental life, natural men cannot understand nor appreciate
spiritual life. That's so. Education can't give it. Environment
can't give it. Religion can't give it, only
God can give it. And he said to as many as received
him, you say, that's the way a man gets spiritual life, it's
believing on Christ, you're dead right. Now what does the next
verse say? As many as received him, to them
gave he power to become the sons of God, who were born, not of
the will of the flesh, not of the will of man, but born of
God. God gave them life, regeneration, the birth, the new life. There are four kinds of life.
Plant life, animal life, mental life, natural, physical, spiritual
life. And this spiritual life is salvation. And if a man doesn't have this,
he's not saved. If any man have not the spirit of Christ, he's
none of his. That's so. You must be born again. You've been born one time, and
when you were born the first time, you got natural instincts. When you're born a second time,
you get spiritual instincts, spiritual life, spiritual taste,
spiritual appetite. This spiritual life, to understand
it, you have to have it. You say, you're talking Greek
to me. Boy, I hope I'm not. If I am, it's because you're
a horse, a pig, and a dog. That's what Scripture says. Christ
said the dog goes back to his vomit, and the hog back to his
wallow. And Isaiah, one of the prophets,
said, you're dumb as an ox. In fact, dumber, because the
ox does know his owner. You're dumb as a donkey, or dumber,
because a donkey does know his master's crib, and you don't
know mine. My people don't know me, God
said. Now don't you say tonight, don't you dare say, I don't understand
what you're talking about, because the moment you say, you don't
understand what I'm talking about, is for you to confess that you've
got a religion without life. The moment you say you don't
understand what I'm talking about, and the moment any preacher who
hears this broadcast says, I don't believe what he's preaching,
you're confessing you don't know God. Because this life is the
life of God in the soul. It is as far above natural life
as natural life is above animal life. And to understand spiritual
life, you've got to have it. And as you cannot explain mental
life to a horse, you can't explain spiritual life to a natural man. The preaching of the cross is
what? To him, foolishness. You get that old horse and bring
him over here and say, now, X plus Y equals Z. Good, what's wrong
with the fellow? That's foolishness to that horse.
Even so, you pull a natural man by the bridle and get him to
church, you know. He goes to church because his
wife goes, or he goes to church because his boss goes, or he
goes to church because he feels like he ought to go, and you
get him in there and set him down and say to him, the blood
of Christ cleanseth us from all sin. That's foolishness. What happens when a man receives
this life? Now listen to me. What happens? Turn to Romans 8. A lot of things
happen. A lot of things happen. When
a man receives spiritual life, what happens? Romans 8, verse
5. They that are after the flesh,
they that are natural, carnal, mental life, They mind the things
of the flesh. That's what they're interested
in. Isn't that right? They're interested
in automobiles and houses and clothes and food and vacations
and jobs and fame and popularity and promotion. Boy, they're interested in those
things. They that are after the flesh, they mind the things of
the flesh. That's the world they live in.
That's what they talk, that's what they eat, that's what they
think, that's their area, that's where they live. They live there
because that's their natural men. They're born of the flesh
and that's what the flesh enjoys. That's their world. Read on. But they that are after the Spirit,
they mind, they're concerned about the things of the Spirit.
Not once a week, Not once a year. They continually,
that's the bent of their will and the tenor of their lives.
A natural man who has only natural life, who has only carnal life,
mental life, that's the area he walks in, that's the circle
he moves in, that's the atmosphere that he thinks and talks, that's
his life. He's a fleshly man. A spiritual
man walks in another area. and lives in another world. And
he's interested in, concerned about, vitally interested in
spiritual things. And to be carnally minded, to
be naturally minded is what? It's death. That's what it is. It's d-e-a-t-h, death. But to be spiritually minded
is life. You see what I'm saying? That's
what it is. And verse 7, the carnal mind
is enmity against God. It loves the world. And when this flesh crosses God's
will, God's mind, you know who wins out, don't you? I do. My flesh wins out. Because that's
the area I live in. That's what I'm concerned about.
The natural mind is enmity against God. It's not subject to the
law of God. Neither indeed can it be. So then they that are
in the flesh cannot please God. No way, no way can they please
God. No way. But you're not in the
flesh. What do you mean I'm not in the
flesh? That's not your tenor. That's not your life. That's
not your existence. You're in the Spirit. If so be
that Spirit of God dwells in you, if any man have not Spirit
of God, he's none of his. He hasn't been born again. If
he doesn't have this spiritual life, he doesn't belong to God.
I don't care what he does, he doesn't belong to God. This spiritual
life consists of two things. What happens when a man receives
this life? Listen. First of all, there's
union with God. A real living union with God. Now, death to the natural body
consists in the soul being separated from the body. That's what death
is. The soul separated from the body. If right now, if I had
a heart attack, if that's the way God took me and I dropped
down here and you came up and there's no breath, there's no
life, my soul's gone. I'm dead. So spiritual death
is the soul of man being separated from God, or God being separated
from the soul. When Adam sinned, God left him,
having not the Spirit of God. Now when a man is born again
and receives spiritual life, he is brought back into a vital
union with God. And that new spiritual life loves
God because it's God in him. And that new spiritual life thinks
on God and walks with God and makes us one with God. There's
a union with the Lord. Christ is not just a person I
believe in. He's a person in whom I live
and move and have my being. And He's one who lives in me.
We're one. We're partners. There's a marriage union. There's
a vital union. It's like a branch and a vine.
It's like a head and a body. Somebody said one time, a man
was talking, he said, let's not bring religion into this. Brethren,
a spiritual man, that's his life. It's his Lord. There's nothing
he can do without Christ being vitally connected with him, because
he's one with God. The second thing about this spiritual
life, it not only brings us into union with God, but it bears
fruit. It bears fruit of righteousness
and true holiness. In other words, what I'm saying
is this. The life of heaven, the life of heaven, the life
which we shall have in heaven, is already in a believer. Already. The moment we're regenerated,
We receive from God that self-same life that shall one day be perfectly
conformed to Christ. That self-same life that shall
enjoy his presence forever, we already have. And when John described
that life, he said, Whosoever is born of God does not commit
sin. For his seed remaineth in him,
and he cannot sin, he is born of God." That spiritual life,
that new nature, that divine nature cannot sin. It does not
sin. It does love God with all its
heart, soul, mind, and strength. In this, the children of God
are manifest and the children of the devil. Whosoever doeth
not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his
brother." Now that life, that spiritual
life, we'll conflict with, contend with, be at war with, that old
nature. But that divine nature is a real
living person. Now then, the last point is this. How do we account for the security
of this life? Christ said in our text, because
I live, ye live also. The reason is simply this. We
live because He lives. Christ as God is our life. Jesus Christ the Lord came down
here as man and fulfilled the law. And he offered a full atonement
for our sins. And he was buried and rose again
for our justification. And he sitteth at the right hand
of God. And he dieth no more, and death
hath no more dominion over him. And this life of Christ is communicated
to us. And he is the sole reason why
we live, because he lives. The sole reason. The past, present,
and future are all in Christ the Lord. Because He was holy,
I'm holy. Because He died, I'm pardoned. Because He arose, I shall rise. Because He is at God's right
hand, I am there. Because He lives, I live. And honesty and morality and
godliness and love and kindness and patience and faith, all these
are the fruits of that life, not the cause of that life. Now,
please remember this. You go out to an apple tree and
you see apples hanging on that tree. The fruit which that tree
bears does not give it life. The life which that tree has
gives it fruit. You see what I'm saying? And
you say, well, that man's a Christian because he goes to church. No,
sir. He goes to church because he's a Christian. That man is
honest in his dealings, and that man is a moral man, and that
woman is an honest woman, and that person reads the Bible and
prays and loves his neighbor. Therefore, he's a Christian. God's going to take him to heaven
because he does those things. No, sir. Good works are not the
cause of life, they're the results of life. We're not saved because of anything
we are or anything we do, and we do not remain saved because
of anything we are or anything we do. We're saved because Christ
died for us. He said, you live because I live. That's why you live. Today on TV I was watching a
preacher, and they're always wanting somebody to raise their
hand or come down front or do something because it means that
things are going on. But he got in a real emotional,
sentimental way, and I'm being critical. That's exactly what
I'm being. But he said, now I want everybody
in here, everybody in here, and there's a lot of people in there,
if you can say, by raising your hand. And don't raise your hand
if you can't say it. There's nothing, not a doubt or a fear
or a sin or a habit between me and God. Raise your hand." And
I thought to myself, Paul couldn't raise his hand on that proposition.
Because he said, the things that I would not do, I do. And the
things that I would do, I do them not. Oh, wretched man. He
couldn't say there's not a doubt, nor a fear, nor a sin. John Newton
couldn't say it. And yet these people all put
up their hands. Brethren, listen to this. One old Puritan wrote
this, Christ is not only the source of life, and the sole
cause of life, and the sufficient cause of life, But he's the abiding
cause of life. He said, yesterday I was exalted. I was in good fellowship with
God. I stood on the mountaintop. Peace flooded my soul. My heart
was glad and my spirit rejoiced and I could say, I live in Christ. Today, darkness has intervened. My trial is very great and my
burden is very heavy. I don't feel the motion of inner
life. I do not feel the holiness and the righteousness
I felt yesterday. But I do not conclude that life
is not there. Because my Lord said, because
he lives, I live. And I live whether I'm on the
mountaintop or in the valley. Because he lives. He lives. Spiritual life. Now the question
is, and every one of us need to search our heart, and we need
to give diligence to make our calling and election sure. Do
I have this life? Do I have this spiritual life?
Has it been begotten in me by the power of God through the
Word of God? Does Christ live in me? Our Father
in heaven, bless the message. Use it for thy glory. Let us
not perish in a false profession.