you you Well, welcome again to our Grace Baptist Ministries, an online ministry, as the pastor has mentioned here recently. You're now viewing that part of the ministry referred to as Sunday School. And I pray that each time we meet and you see these messages, that you and I are truly being schooled by the Lord God in the things of God. We want to continue this week from what we were doing last week. So today, power, love, and a sound mind part 2 and I want to begin today with a reading from our key scripture that was 2nd Timothy 1 7 and this is a literal translation it reads this way for the God there's only one true God the God of the Bible for the God has not given us The word us there is not a reference to everybody, folks. It's a reference to the elect of God, the people of God, those people who have received these things. For the God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. Now, the word translated fear in this particular text is seen only one time in the New Testament. And it is a fear demonstrated in timidity. And at its worst, it is seen in cowardice. God has not given his people that kind of spirit. It's at this point, again, I'd like to repeat the fact that the statement seen here that we've just read from the Holy Scripture is a verse addressed primarily to the man of God in the pulpit. In this case, it was Timothy, the Apostle Paul writing to Timothy. Nonetheless, we did learn as well that there is a secondary application for all of God's people to be included. in that very scripture that we just read. What is declared there is for God's men in the pulpit, and it's declared for all those who are truly born again. Now we saw that in part one of our message, and we'll see it again today. Primarily meant for the man of God, the Christian, You who are attending this message, listen up. It's for you as well. It's to be applied in your very own life. And I speak to you, Christians, just as the man in the pulpit today has not been given a spirit of timidity, certainly not a spirit of cowardice. When the enemies of Christ attempt to intimidate and frighten us, So for you, all true Christians are going to be given this Holy Spirit of God who enables us to withstand any evil attack with which we are assaulted. And folks, that's the way this life is. It comes out of the blue sometimes. You think everything is going just fine. and then all of a sudden someone is in your face accusing you and so on and so on. I think we've all been. This can happen in the line at Kroger's, right? In the line at the grocery store. Folks, there's a great difference between weakness and meekness. Christians are to be meek, but not to be weak. Meekness is gentle, but with Christians it is accompanied by power, love, and a sound mind. I pray that you heard that. We're to be gentle, folks. We're to be meek. But that meekness in the Christian is accompanied by power, love, and a sound mind. Now what we're going to do today is review these graces that we spoke of last week. Those graces bestowed upon the men who lead in the church. And of course the church is the body of true believers. These men who lead in preaching and teaching the holy scriptures. But we're going to do that again without forgetting these graces are given to all Christians. that they might be equipped to stand against the methods of evil spirits in the unseen realm of the demonic forces. I know that that is so foreign to the way 99%, maybe more, of the people in this world believe today. But that is exactly what's going on in this world. There's an unseen world of bad intentions towards the people of God. First, I want us to look again at some key verses, and we're going to be reading first about that grace given us by the Holy Spirit in the new birth, power, power. I read this last week. I'm gonna read it again. Very, very important. We need to be aware of these things. Paul the Apostle says this to the people of God, Now I read from the New King James Version here. Last week I made a bit of a tongue slip, a mistake. I said I read from the King James Version. Indeed, I read from the New King James Version, which I'm doing right now. Again, for this reason, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and on earth is named. Ooh, that's so important for you and I. As the people of God, we are part of the family of God. Part of that family is in heaven now in spirit with Christ, but there are those on earth that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might through his spirit in the inner man my goodness you couldn't have a much better explanation could you of the power of God than that that you would be strengthened with might with power through his spirit in your inner person that Christ might dwell in the hearts of you through faith, that you being rooted and grounded in love, power, love, and being able to comprehend with all the saints, every Christian is a saint, God would have all his people to comprehend these things. He's given us his written word and he's given us, God willing, gifted men to bring these things to you that we might understand them better. Being rooted and grounded in love may comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge. It passes understanding. that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Power and love filling us with all the fullness of God. Now to him, the Lord God himself, who is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above all that we ask or think, now listen to this, according to the power that works in us. Christian Christian Christian Me I need to look at myself in the mirror. I need to understand this better According to the power that works in us to him glory in the church by Jesus Christ to all generations forever and ever Amen Another revelation of that power that we did not look at last week is found in Ephesians 1, verses 19 and 20. I read from a literal translation concerning that verse. It is speaking of the exceeding, surpassing greatness of the power of Him. This is a reference to the Father, as we'll see. toward us. Did you hear that? The exceeding, surpassing greatness of the power of Him toward us. And may I again make note of the word us. That is not to everybody without exception, folks. It's to the people of God and the people of God only. It goes on to say this, those believing You see, we are continually believing those believing according to the working of the might of the strength of Him. Again, the power of God in us, in the being of the Holy Spirit of God. Listen further, which He, God the Father, worked in the Christ, having raised Him from dead. He was dead. The word D is not there. I like that translation. Having raised him from dead, he was dead, but God gave him life, his humanity. He gave him life. The power. in our primary application given to the men in the pulpit and then in our secondary application and the measure of that power given to Christians who attend to this preaching and this teaching comes from the power that raised Christ from the dead. Think about that. Ponder upon that. Folks, That is the power, the might that works in your soul today. If you're one of the people of God. There's no other way to put it. Christians are highly favored by God. They are created in, created spiritually in, united to Jesus, Christ. They have the power of God within their hearts and minds. They have a spirit. Now, this is not just the human spirit here, folks. They have a spirit, the Holy Spirit of love. What is the very first portion mentioned in the scriptures when it comes to the fruit of the spirit? It's love. Love. See, we're moving now from power to love. Now, I want to give you the words. I'm going to expand upon what I did last week in explaining to you from 1 Corinthians 13, the love chapter about this grace within us, this virtue within us referred to as love. And when you go through the scriptures, folks, you find out that for the true people of God, pretty much everything. All the graces work off of this love. They're motivated by this love, the love of God, which was shed abundantly upon us through the Holy Spirit when God birthed us again. This spirit of love is, now I'm going to that first Corinthians section, taking the words that describe it and going a little bit more fully, giving you a more full picture. Wouldn't you like to know more about this love that is within you? I would, I surely would. Love is patient. I think the King James says long-suffering, the word is patient. And it means long-tempered. See, it takes a long time. For the true Christian, if they will operate within the spirit of Christ, It takes a long time for that temper to be fired up because you have patience. You have patience. Love is kind. And as I explained to you from another message, which I wish everyone would listen to, kind means that you are exercising goodness. Kindness is goodness in action. And only the true people of God have any real goodness. Kindness in action motivated by God. It's not envious. We have a real problem with that as American Christians, with all of the wealth and things that people have in America, stuff. where we're, as Christians, not envious, we're not concerned about others that have more than we have. I pray that's true. That's a real problem, again. We may be prone to that. We need to guard against that. Love is not boastful I remember one time when I visited a woman was doing a visit from the church from a person who had come to the church and was sitting down with this lady and talking to her and she proclaimed she was a Christian and she said this I've related this to you before it's been quite a while since I have spoken of it she said you know I'm gonna have a high place in heaven I mean, literally, this is what the lady said to me, because I treat my fellow man very well. Oh my goodness. I just can't believe that the motivation there was one of glorifying the Lord Jesus Christ. I think that was true boasting about oneself. And my goodness, that's not a sign of a true Christian heart. I did not accuse the woman of anything. I did try to point out to her though, that Christ was the center of our lives. Love is not arrogant. Remember the scripture, pride goes before destruction. It's not arrogant. I think a lot of folks have a problem with that. And we may be Christians, and have that difficulty and have to guard against that. Love does not act in an unacceptable manner. Just think about that. And when we say acceptable, we mean acceptable to God. And we do have to be careful. We do have to be careful. We don't want to get into this, horrible so-called wokeness of our current situation where we would offend someone who thinks they're a woman when they're a man and we called them him. Well, I don't think you need to worry too much about that, but you do want to be sensitive to that. Maybe just stay away from it so that there won't be any argumentation going on. Love does not act in an unacceptable manner. Keep that mindful. Is not selfish. If you're a human being, you got a problem with that. If you're a human being, you have a problem with that. But love, the love of God is not selfish. It will cause you to think about others before you think about yourself. Is not easily provoked. I'm gonna spend a second here or two. Is not easily provoked. As Christians, you must be very careful if before God saved you, you were prone to being quick-tempered, having a short fuse before exploding. Well, you're looking at someone like that, folks. When you look at me, I have to be very, very careful in that area. And I need to war against that spirit. That's an evil spirit. That's not a spirit from God. It's the spirit now working in the sons of disobedience as we see in Ephesians 2, 2. You know, we read recently in 1 Corinthians 2, 12, we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit who is from God, a spirit of love. And what is that spirit again? It's the Holy Spirit. Now continuing here in 1 Corinthians chapter 13, love keeps not account of wrongs. I think I missed this one last week. I talked about a bag of tricks that we have and we might pull some wrongs out of it. I really think the scripture here means we're not keeping a scorecard against others listing their wrongs that they have done. We're not holding that against folks. We're not keeping an account of that. I pray we're not, so that we can get back at them at a later date when they may confront us. The Holy Spirit of love does not delight in unrighteousness. Of course it doesn't. But rejoices in the truth. The Spirit of love rejoices in the truth. You know, the truth can be a hard thing sometimes. But it rejoices in the truth. The spirit of love bears all things. As a roof bears under the snow right now, bears under the rain, the weight of such. You and I, folks, as Christians are built, we are built to bear the storms of this life. The scriptures make that clear in so many places. Love believes and has positive expectation. That's what the word hope means in the scripture. Love believes and has positive expectation concerning all things truthful. We rejoice in the truth. Love endures all things. Not only are we built to bear up under these storms of life, but we have the power to persevere to the end through this spirit. And last, but certainly not least, the spirit of love never fails. Now, you know, I love these words, these individual words, and I went back and I was like, what does that word fail mean? What does that involve? Very interesting. I would highly suggest to you to get one of these New Strong's Concordances. Look up these words. I mean, it expands your understanding of what God is saying to us. This word fails in the Greek literally means to fall to fall. The same Greek word is found in James chapter 5 verse 12 lest you fall into condemnation. So that gives you a sense of what we're talking about. You love never fails. You will never fall. into condemnation in the exercise of this spirit of love. Never going to fall into condemnation. The God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. Let's take a look a little more deeply into sound mind. for a real, and this is the way I put it, eye-opening and mind-opening look at this one Greek word, sound mind, two Greek words in our text, but one Greek word translated sound mind. I want to do this for you. I'm going to go to this Strong's Concordance and read from page 246 in the New Testament portion of it. There are six words. that have to do with this word, with these words, sound mind. And I'm gonna read just a touch from each one of those words. So you will get a more full picture, a more complete picture of what we're talking about when we're talking about a sound mind. Wouldn't you like to know better what the word sound mind means for you as a Christian? and how you can call upon that knowledge to help you when you are in a tight situation realizing you need to call upon your sound mind. Now the first word, I'm not gonna pronounce these words for you, I could do that, just take more time, but these words all sound a great deal alike, but they're different words. The first one, Be in right mind. That's what it means. Sober minded. In one's right mind. Temperate and self-controlled. Now this is what it means folks when you're in a right mind. The next word is a verb and it means to make of sound mind. See, that's what God has done to you and I. He has made us of a sound mind by giving us of his spirit. And in so doing then, to discipline or correct. You know, your mind can discipline you and correct you. It's where that comes from. through the Holy Spirit of God. This word denotes to be of sound mind, to recall to one's senses, restore one to his senses. Now, you and I get out of line. We need to be restored to a proper sense of what God would have us to do, to moderate, control, curb, disciple or discipline. to hold to his duty, hold one to his duty. Then we move to another word, and this is actually the word that we have in this particular text. It means discipline, self-control, sound mind, used one time in the New Testament in that text. Now we move to the last three words that are very, very closely related. with sound mind. You know, you and I leave the house this morning with sound mind, if we're Christian. And if we're with sound mind, we need to exercise that sound mind. Moderately or soberly suggests the exercise of that self-restraint that governs all passions and desires. enabling the believer to be conformed to the mind of Christ. Now, I don't know about you, but I want to be conformed to the mind of Christ. And God has given us a spirit enabling us to do that. The next to last word, soundness of mind, sanity, self-control, soberness, sobriety. This word has to do with having complete control over the passions and desires so that they are lawful and reasonable. Now, folks, that not only operates from the law of God, but within those laws that you and I are under here on this earth through the God-ordained power God gives to governments. A certain curtailment and regulation of passions. We need to have that. We need to have a regulation of our passions, folks, and that's worked through this sound mind. Both removing those that are improper and excessive and also arranging those that are necessary to the proper time and in moderation. I don't know about you, but goodness that is helpful to me. That this this is the word of God, you know, I mean this just the way that it is then lastly. The last word related safe or sound in mind. Self-controlled moderate as to opinion or passion discreet of set of of sound mind self-controlled. When I finished that, I was chomping at the bit to share that with you. And I hope that it has been of some help for you. When you look at the scripture that talks about God having given you a sound mind. Now there's another thing that this brought up to my heart, and I feel sure it was the Spirit of God, I have no doubt. You and I have to be able to relate to what I just read. As Christians, in our daily lives, the way we behave. Do those words, and I ask myself this question. I'm not looking to come after you. I ask myself, do those words describe me? Do they describe you? In our daily lives, in some positive measure. We're not perfect. We fail all the time. There's got to be some positive measure that these things affect you and I. The Holy Scriptures do demand of us, this is the Holy Scripture, to examine yourselves whether or not, excuse me, whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Examine yourselves. Test yourselves. Or do you yourselves not recognize? Don't you know? Can't you see? Concerning Jesus Christ in you. Those who have not the spirit of Christ are none of his. Do we recognize that in our own lives if whether at all you are reprobate folks? You know, it's either one or the other. There's no middle ground here. You're not partially a Christian and partially not a Christian. You know, you're a Christian or you are not a Christian, and we need to have that self-examination. A spirit of power, love, and a sound mind is found only in the being of the Holy Spirit of God. It's the self same spirit of Christ given to all God's elect in the new birth. God doesn't make any mistakes. And we're gonna look at that in a moment. The us of 2 Timothy 1, 7 are the elect of God. God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power and of love and of a sound mind. You know, there are people who profess to be Christians who read that text and say, God's given that to everybody. Well, just look around, folks. I mean, goodness, common sense will tell you that that's not even close to being true. And I would say this to you as a true Christian, thinking of you as a true Christian, fear not. Dear Christian, God intimately knows all of his elect and says so in this very letter that we've been looking at, 2 Timothy 2.19. The word of God says this, nonetheless, the firm foundation, this is a literal translation, the firm foundation of God stands having this The seal. Actually the word the is in that text. I mean, he's making a point here. This, the seal, Lord, as a name, knows the ones being his. Now that being his is overwhelmingly important. I think most of your scriptures say who are his. That's not the literal text. The ones being his. How important is that? You see, that's a word that's a present participle. And you know what that means? God's elect have always been in the present, in the mind of God, in time and eternity. That's the way he has known us, intimately known us. He's never, ever lost sight of one single person. people that are of his elect. God has made no mistakes as to whom he has given a spirit of power, love, and a sound mind. Gosh, I hope you heard that. He's made no mistakes when it comes to those who have a power, excuse me, a spirit of power, love, and a sound mind. They are specific They are the elect. And that is only reserved for those to whom he gave his son. And you can make another statement from that. Those are reserved to those to whom he gave his, excuse me, whom he gave to his son. We are given to Christ, Christ is given to us. And God knows every single one involved in that particular application. Christ himself verified that in his time on the earth when he presented himself as the sacrifice for the sins of these very same people. This is John chapter 37. John chapter 37. You know, I did the same thing. I wrote that down in my notes. It's a verse 37, but it's John chapter 6, verse 37. When we begin there, we're going to read through verse 40. And I'm reading from the New King James Version. Again, God the Father knows specifically the ones he gives to Christ, period. He hadn't lost track. You don't have to check his record. This is part of his being. All that the Father gives me will come to me. And the one who comes to me, I will by no means cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. This is the will of the Father who sent me, that of all he has given me, I should lose nothing. but should raise it up at the last day. And this is the will of Him who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes, sees the Son. Have you seen the Son? You haven't seen Him, but you've seen Him by faith, folks. You've seen Him by faith in your heart and in your mind. And that's the most important thing. Not the physical side, but that which is spiritual. Everyone who sees the son and believes in him may have everlasting life and I will Raise him up on the last Day Now we're going to be moving forward now to see from second semith timothy specific warning We stay in 2 Timothy again because, as I told you last week, we have so much that points us to why God has given us power, love, and a sound mind. We have a need, a real need there of the indwelling Holy Spirit of God and that supply. of power, love, and a sound mind. And this is what is going to enable us to endure the warfare that we are in the midst of in this present evil age. Whether you are a man of God preaching and teaching the Holy Scriptures, or if you are a true child of God following Christ wherever God has placed you. Under whoever's ministry God has placed you, humanly speaking, this following verse is meant for all of us. Whether or not you're in that pulpit or you're in that pew where God has placed you. 2 Timothy 3.12, literal translation. You know, the whole thing revolves around this. This whole message sort of revolves around this. Now, also, all the ones desiring or willing to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. Now, you can't run and hide from that one, folks. You can't avoid that in any way, shape, or form. And you don't know when that's gonna come upon you. And it comes upon us often as Christians. Folks, you've got to realize something, too. And I'm going to be reading a text from there. But speaking of the last times, you know, the last days, folks, we're more than 2,000 years beyond when that was written. So folks, we're, you know, goodness, we're closer to the end than they were 2,000 years ago. That's for sure. No doubt. about that. If you desire, if you're truly willing, in the heart of your hearts, in your minds, to live godly in Christ Jesus, get ready. Be ready. Constantly. You will be persecuted. You know what that word persecuted has to do with? Listen to this. This is something you need to realize. Shows the depth of that word. All Christians will be pursued. That's what persecution has to do with. It's talking about a pursuit by those with bad intentions, bad will. I've noticed this to be true in my own life, numbers of times, even when people don't know. you are a Christian, you will be hatefully treated for your good behavior. People don't have to know that. Like I said, you can be in the line at the grocery store and someone can jump all over you for doing what you thought was the right thing to do, maybe even trying to be helpful to them. And they spit in your face. You may be mocked as well as a person who has a holier-than-thou attitude when you are simply trying to do what is right. You and I may not be looking for trouble. I know I'm not looking for trouble. I've always really hated confrontation of any kind with people. I shouldn't say always. I mean since I've been a Christian. I've really not liked those times. But I'm going to tell you something. Though you're not looking for trouble, it's going to find you. It's going to find you because the unseen forces of this spirit world of darkness are pursuing you with a resentless, resentless, a relentless zeal to destroy you. First Peter 5.8 is not some fairy tale for you to look at and say, oh, that's interesting. First Peter 5.8, be sober. Now that word there means be free from intoxicants that will cloud your mind. You and I Folks need to be of sound mind. Be sober, be vigilant. In other words, watch out. Watch out, be alert. The adversary of you, and literally it's Diabolos, the diabolical one, the devil, prowls about as a lion seeking whom to devour. Remember I said they're gonna be looking for you? Trouble is looking for you, seeking to devour. Now the next verse, the very next verse after that, begins this way when referring to this diabolical force of evil, whom you should resist steadfast in the faith. When you and I are attacked unjustly by people with bad intentions, God has given you, God has given me a spirit of power to endure that spiritual, and it's intense, intense spiritual stress. As much as I hate that, intense spiritual stress, God has empowered me to be able to endure that, as painful as it may be at the time. He has also equipped us with a sound mind of his spirit, enabling us to understand just where that evil attack, that assault is coming from. In addition, such a mind, this sound mind, as we've seen, equips us with discipline and self-control to maintain a godly attitude. Now, that's the way it should be in the midst of a fiery trial. And these are fiery trials, are they not? Fiery trials. Oh, I've had people hollering at me, screaming at me, wanting to fight me. throwing punches at me, all kinds of things over just trying to be doing right. And then lastly, we've just mentioned this power. And this is not last, though. I talked about a sound mind, but I wanted to end this with love this time. When we are confronted by such folks, A spirit of love for those human beings who curse you. This comes from the Bible. A spirit of love for those people who curse you, who hate you, who despitefully use you and persecute you. That spirit of love for those people will prove your adoption as a child of God. Now, if you don't believe me, you need to turn to Matthew chapter five later. Matthew chapter five, verses 44 and 45, read those verses. Again, you're gonna have those who curse you, I've had that. Gonna have those who hate you, I've had that. Despitefully use you and persecute you. There's got to be, and there is. It's there. You know, Paul says to Timothy in there, stir up that gift that is within you. We need to stir up. That gift of love within us, it's there. God will work it in you. And that love for our enemies in those terrible, terrible situations, and I have had this happen specifically to me, during the assault, a peace that passes all understanding. And the exercise of that love. And you know, a most painful thing, and we're getting down towards closing now, a most painful thing is when we realize that we are confronted with these kinds of persecution. And folks, they may occur among professing Christians. They may occur among professing Christians. People who claim to be Christians, but come after us with bad, bad intentions. I'm going to read again from our keynote book, 2 Timothy. Again, I'm going to request that you just listen, please. Please just listen, because I'm going to be skipping about in chapters three. And I pray that these verses will show you and speak to your heart about your overwhelming need for a spirit of power and of love and of a sound mind. Paul says this to Timothy. Now, remember, we're applying this to the men of God. But we're applying this to all Christians as well, because you can see yourselves here, no matter what situation you are in in the church. But know this, that in the last days, remember we just spoke of that, perilous times will come. I don't know if we are in the absolute last days, but we may be. We may be. We're certainly moving closer. For men will be, listen now, lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control. brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure. Listen, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. Now listen, because folks, these are people who may claim to be Christians, having a form of godliness, but look what they deny. but denying its power. You see, I pray that what I'm teaching to you today, what I'm preaching to you today, is coming to you with power. As Paul said on several occasions, his preaching wasn't with words only, but with power and from the Holy Spirit. I pray that is occurring right now. and from such people turn away. Now that's said to men like myself that are doing this and it's said to everybody who's attending this message if you're a true Christian. If they're in the church, you need to turn away from them. They're not of God. But you, and here you Basically referring to Timothy. But you can see how you're going to be able to have this applied to you as well. But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned. Now, I would think that what he's saying there primarily is, I, Paul, the apostle, have taught them to you. But oh, friends, Paul knew this. It was the Spirit of God who was giving him utterance and giving Timothy understanding to receive what Paul was teaching. Paul goes on, I charge, therefore, in other words, he's giving Timothy an order made with love. I charge therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing in his kingdom. Preach the word. Be ready in season, out of season. Convince or convict, rebuke, exhort with all patience and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine. But according to their own desires, they have itching ears. They will heap up for themselves teachers, and they will turn away ears from the truth and be turned aside to fables. But you, be watchful. in all things endure afflictions. I think of a recent uprising in our own congregation when the pastor was confronted with all kind of allegation. I can remember one thing that I was moved on to do and did it almost immediately. when he appeared to almost be all alone. He wasn't, but where the word there says, be instant in season and out. I just walked up to him and I said, brother, you just need to continue preaching. You just go right on ahead doing what God called you to do. And he did. And it has been too much profit for the people hearing and for he himself. As with Timothy, as Timothy was exhorted to endure his own afflictions, all Christians must endure to the end. That is a fact. That is the truth. If we don't endure to the end, we won't be saved. We were never saved in the first place. The Christians must endure to the end. And I close with this. According to what we've heard now, dear Christian, for thee God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. We will endure to the end. Bless God. Thank you, Lord God. Praying for Christ's sake. Amen. It was a storm the builders refused. It was passed out, rejected, scorned and abused. Now that rock, which they would not own, Is laid down in Zion, the cheap cornerstone. salvation. Standing eternal through conflict and strife. Where could I find a firmer foundation than Jesus, the Rock of Life? Then churched and secure, Clothed in salvation, Spotless and pure, of hell shall all sail. Yes, they may threaten, but never prevail. Jesus, the rock of my salvation, standing Then Jesus, the rock of my life Then Jesus, the rock of my life