This morning we're going to continue with our series of messages on the gospel. We preached a message on, they preached the gospel unto them, and we preached a message on the gospel of the grace of God, showing the importance of grace in the gospel. This morning we're going to preach on the gospel of God, emphasizing the gospel is of God. The gospel, basically, if you summed it up, is the life of Jesus Christ and His redemptive work. To believe the gospel is to believe Christ and to follow Him. To give you a few verses on the gospel, where it has the word gospel of God in it, Paul in Romans 1 says, Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God. And he said he was separated from his mother's womb in God's purpose and plan. Romans 15, 16 says that I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost. Second Corinthians 11, seven, Paul says, I have committed and have I committed an offense in abasing myself that you might be exalted because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely, freely. First Thessalonians 2.2 Paul says, but even after that we had suffered before and were shamefully entreated as you know at Philippi we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention. There was much contention back in the times of the New Testament when they were preaching the gospel because of the Jews who hated the gospel. In 1 Peter 4, 17, Peter says, For the time has come that judgment must begin at the house of God, and if it begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? that obey not the gospel of God. May we pray. Our gracious and loving fathers, we come before your presence with thanksgiving. We pray that you'll be with us this morning, open up the scriptures to our heart and mind, help us to rejoice in the gospel of God and be thankful for so great salvation. In Jesus' name, we do pray and give thanks, amen. I wanna say, first of all, that God is the author of the gospel. This is not man's gospel, it's God's gospel. His grace is the subject of the gospel. His brother David has preached many sermons in Ephesians. It's all about grace all the way through the book of Romans. It's about grace, the grace. If you separate grace from the gospel, there would be no gospel. The gospel is of the grace of God. That's why we preached the one sermon on the gospel of the grace of God. In His eternal purpose in the everlasting covenant, this morning As we look into the Word of God, we're going to be speaking about the everlasting covenant. Now it's important what you believe as believers. The Trinity is a very important doctrine. Believing in God the Father, believing in God the Son, and believing in God the Holy Spirit. There are some who teach that there is no eternal Son, there is no Holy Spirit. They only preach that the Father is God. But we know from teaching those scriptures that there's a Father, there's a Son, and there's a Holy Spirit, which makes up the Godhead, as it speaks about in the Word of God. Now in the Godhead, there's called the everlasting covenant between God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. We're going to see this this morning as we go through the scriptures. I pray that God would give us the knowledge to see this. In the Godhead, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. That's why it's called the Gospel of God. The Father had his part, The Son had His part and the Holy Spirit has His part in the gospel. That's why the gospel is a sure foundation. That's why the gospel is no yay and nay. It's sure. It's sure instead of fast. And as we look into the book of Hebrews 13 20, there's a text which uses the word everlasting covenant. He said, now the God of peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant. Now who made a covenant together? God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. We didn't exist back in eternity only in the purpose and mind of God. but there was God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit who made a covenant as we're going to see and as we go through this we'll see some of these things brought out. I want to give you an illustration out of the book of the Old Testament. There was wars going on and the Philistines were surrounding two men of God and beginning in chapter 6 and verse 15 of 2nd Kings it says, of the man of God was risen early and gone forth. Behold, and hosts come past the city, both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master, how shall we do? And he answered, fear not, for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. And we have to remind ourselves of that. If God be for us, who can be against us, brother Dave? We are on the winning side, no matter how dark it may seem at times, no matter what happens, even in this presidential race, we are still on the winning side, beloved. Fear not, for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. And Elisha prayed and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes that he may see. Now, Here's the beautiful part that I'm illustrating. Sometimes we need our eyes open also to see spiritual things. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots afar round about Elisha. See, Elisha saw that already. He could see it, but the young man couldn't. Here they were, and around them were chariots afar. That's why he wasn't afraid. And sometimes you and I, God has got us surrounded and protecting us and yet we have such fear. Human fear is natural to our frame that we are in but we need sometimes to pray for the Lord to open our eyes that we can see and believe and trust if God be for us who can be against us. We all need that. This brings us down to Paul's prayers. You know, Apostle Paul, when you're reading his epistles, he was a very spiritual man, well taught of God. He says in Ephesians 117, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened that you may know what is the hope of his calling and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance and the saints and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us who believe according to the working of his mighty power." We need a revelation of God. We need God, the Holy Spirit to open our minds to see the things in the scriptures. BROTHER DAVE NEEDS THAT AS HE STUDIES TO PREACH. BROTHER ROGER NEEDS THAT. I NEED IT. YOU NEED IT IN YOUR PERSONAL BIBLE STUDY AS BELIEVERS. YOU NEED TO PRAY FOR THE SPIRIT OF GOD TO OPEN UP YOUR EYES TO SEE THE GLORIOUS TRUTHS IN THE SCRIPTURES. PAUL SAYS IN COLOSSIANS 1-9, FOR THIS CAUSE WE ALSO, SINCE THE DAY WE HEARD OF IT, DO NOT CEASE TO PRAY FOR YOU AND DESIRE THAT YOU MIGHT BE FILLED WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF HIS WILL AND ALL WISDOM AND SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING. Now the statement always has an effect and the reason is that you might walk worthy of the Lord and to all pleasing being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. When you're praying for knowledge and for spiritual understanding it should be for one purpose that you can obey God, be obedient to the Lord. That you might walk worthy of the Lord and to all pleasing. The end of all knowledge is what? Conduct. We learn and we obey. There's no other way to be happy in Jesus but to trust and what? Obey. So Paul prayed for the believers back in Ephesians and the book of Colossians that God would give them some spiritual understanding. Now we're going to look at some verses that deal with the everlasting covenant. When I was studying this a few years ago as I was going through the New Testament, For a while, I went through the New Testament every month, every month, every month, every month, every month, I went through the New Testament. And when you do that, things just jump out at you. One time I read it, and boy, the book of Acts became so precious. Then another time I read it, 1 Corinthians, oh, it was just so beautiful. Then another book, God just seemed to impress different books as I was going through the New Testament. So I want to encourage you, be faithful in your study of God's Word. Now in Romans 8, 28, Verses 28-32, we have some statements. Paul says, And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to His purpose. Then we see a statement. For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called. Whom he called, them he also justified. Whom he justified, them he also glorified. Now all of those statements are in the past tense. In other words, it was from eternity. past it's good as done it's going back to that covenant everlasting covenant God predestinated that those he called he would justify whom he justified he would glorify and it says what shall we say to these things if God be for us who can be against us he that spared not his own son but delivered him up for us all how shall he not with him freely give us all things in the everlasting covenant God already had decreed our security Let's look at another verse. And you gotta think about the everlasting covenant between the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 2 Timothy 1.9 says, who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, we can't work our way to heaven. It's our responsibility as believers to come to the house of God, but we don't come to the house of God to earn salvation. We come to the house of God to be obedient to the Lord because we love him, not to earn salvation. but according to his own purpose, notice this, and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began. It started long before we ever had an existence in God's eternal purpose, beloved, in the everlasting covenant. We were given to Christ in God's purpose, as we're gonna see in the word of God, before the world began. Paul wants to make it very clear, we had nothing to do with it, brother Dave. Some people say, well, the Lord cast his vote and the devil cast his vote, now you've got to cast your vote. That's a lie. The gospel of God is strictly salvation, as Jonah cried out from the belly of the whale, is of the Lord. Salvation is of the Lord. And in the book of Hebrews, chapter 2, we're going to look at some verses that, again, gives us a view of eternity. God is showing you and I, here's a glimpse now of eternity. He says, for both he that sanctifyeth and they who are sanctified are all of one. For which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren. Now I'm gonna be dealing with this in a moment about our union with the Lord Jesus. We're one with Christ. And that's what he's emphasized in this verse. Verse 12, he says, saying, I would declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst of the church when I sing praise unto thee. And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, behold, I and the children which God has given me. When did he give them to Christ? in the everlasting covenant, as we just read in 2 Timothy 1.9, as we read in Romans 8, 28 through 32, God gave us to the Lord Jesus Christ, the children which God hath given me. He's talking about God the Father giving all of us to his Son, as we're gonna see. Again, if you read the Gospel of John, I'd like to encourage anyone here who's thinking about their soul or thinking about salvation, read the Gospel of John. It's the most simplest, the most beautifullest. It just magnifies salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ. But again now, we're gonna be seeing the everlasting covenant. Now, I don't know if you ever thought about this, but as I was doing my studies, I got to thinking, when did this happen? You stop and ask yourself that question, you say, you gotta go back to eternity. Now, listen to these verses. In John 6, verse 7, all that the Father giveth me shall come to me. Oh, when did he give them to Christ? In eternity. In the everlasting covenant, we were given to Christ. He goes on to say, And him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the Father's will, which he has sent me, that of all which he hath given me, I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. See how everything is taking place in time according to God's purpose and plan before the foundation of the world. It's no accident that you believe. It's no accident that I believe. It's all according to God's purpose. There was the day I had no concern about going to church or hearing the gospel or anything, but there came a day when God stopped me in my tracks and called me by His grace. And that's true of all of us who are believers in Jesus Christ. And it's all according to God's purpose, the gospel of God. HE'S THE ONE WHO'S THE AUTHOR OF SALVATION. GOD IS THE AUTHOR OF SALVATION. AND THIS IS THE WILL OF HIM THAT SENT ME THAT EVERYONE WHICH SEETH THE SUN AND BELIEVETH ON HIM MAY HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE AND I WILL RAISE HIM UP AT THE LAST DAY. THAT'S ALL DEALING AGAIN WITH THE EVERLASTING COVENANT. WHAT A BLESSING THAT IS TO SEE THAT. JESUS IS TALKING ABOUT GOING BACK TO ETERNITY. AND HERE'S THE FATHER'S PURPOSE. HERE'S GOD'S WILL. I'M NOT GONNA LOSE ANYONE. of my sheep. What a blessing that is. You know, sometimes we look at ourselves and we get discouraged because we're not as dedicated to the voice of the Lord. We're not as yielded as we should be. Sometimes we see our disobedience and sins of commission, sins of omission. We see our shortcomings. Oh, aren't you grateful for the grace of God? the grace of God. Oh, what a blessing it is that God today has provided our forgiveness, forgiveness for us. And in John chapter 10, a beautiful chapter, And the Father knoweth me, as the Father knoweth me, even so I know I the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep, and other sheep I have which are not of this fold, them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice, and there shall be one foal and one shepherd. The Father which gave them me, notice now he emphasizes in verse 29, my Father which gave them me. Now we're going back to eternity. That's where that took place. See sometimes we read and we don't ask ourself a question, what is he saying there? The Father which gave them me. When did he give them to Christ? In eternity. In eternity. What a blessing when you think about that. That we were given to Jesus Christ from eternity, Brother Roger. From eternity. What a blessing that is when you get a hold of that. He goes on to say, and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. What a blessing that is. And as we think about the everlasting covenant, we couldn't miss the high priestly prayer in John 17 when Christ was praying to his Father. He says in verse two, as thou has given him all power, given him power over all flesh that he should give eternal life to as many as thou has given him. Now Christ is talking to his Father. And as he's praying, he said about the glory which he had with the Father before the world was. He's going back to eternity again. So you've got to think from here to eternity. It's a blessing when you get a hold of that and you see what's really God is unfolding to you. He's giving us a glimpse of things that happen in eternity between the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit concerning our salvation, Brother Roger. What a blessing that is when you think about that. It makes us rejoice. And in verse four he says, I have glorified thee on the earth, I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. Remember when he cried out on the cross, what did he say? It's finished. Salvation was finished. We were bought with the blood of Jesus Christ, beloved. That's the reason we're forgiven. That's the reason we're cleansed. Not because we earn it, deserve it, because Christ died as our substitute. Hallelujah, what a Savior, we sing that song. He says in verse 9 of the same chapter, I pray for them, I pray not for the world, but for them which thou has given me, for they are thine. See how he keeps going back to eternity. Them which thou has given me, them which thou has given me. Beloved, we are divine property. The father had a purpose as we're going to see, the son has a purpose and the Holy Spirit has a purpose in our salvation. Ephesians Paul brings this out in the everlasting covenant verse 11 in chapter 3 he says according to the eternal purpose God has an eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord and in the book of Titus chapter 1 verse 2 he makes this statement and hope of eternal life which God that cannot lie promised before the world began who did he promise it to? He promised that God, the Son, as He died as our substitute, died for our salvation, that all of us will receive what? Eternal life. It was promised in the covenant. See, this goes back again to eternity. We go from time to eternity. One minute you can be in time, the next second, God's in eternity. See, God is not called in time as we are. Time is in God, but God is beyond time. I mean, that's beyond our comprehension, the greatness of our God. God never learns anything. He knows the end from the beginning, knows everything, everything about you, everything about me, before it ever happens, everything. Nothing is hid from God. But in this everlasting covenant, oh, what a blessing it is. Now we come down to, as we look to the Father. Remember I said the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. This is the gospel of God, referring to the gospel about the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We begin with the Father. Election is of the Father, Ephesians 1.4. according as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him in love." When were we chosen? Before the foundation of the world. When were we given to Christ in the everlasting covenant? Before the foundation of the world. Paul says in verse 33 of Romans 8, Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Paul says in Colossians 3.12, put on therefore as the elect of God, as the elect of God. We were chosen God the Father. We were given to Jesus Christ. This brings us now to the Son. The Son, I'm just giving you a little capsule, a little small portion of what the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, but enough to get your mind thinking of the greatness of the gospel. The gospel is about God the Father. and his election, the gospel by God the Son and his redemption. Notice in Ephesians chapter one in verse seven, it says, in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace. Redemption is through the blood of Jesus. We've been redeemed out of the slavery. We've been redeemed from sin, beloved. We all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. There's none that doeth righteous. No, not one. Every one of us was lost and undone. Christ redeemed us out of sin by his blood. Oh, what a Savior, what a Savior. According to the what? The riches of His grace, as we preach that message on the gospel of the grace of God. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 1.30, But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption. Now how do we get in Christ? Notice this verse now, 1 Corinthians 1.30, this is really, you've got to see this, But of Him is referring to God the Father. But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus. How did we get in Christ? God the Father put us in Christ. He gave us to Christ. We were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world. You see how the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, they're one purpose and one will. They each one are agreeing perfectly in the salvation of His people. FOR WHAT PURPOSE? VERSE 31, THAT ACCORDING AS IT IS WRITTEN, HE THAT GLORIETH, LET HIM GLORY IN THE LORD. BELOVED, WE WANT TO GIVE ALL THE PRAISE AS WE SUNG THE HYMN THIS MORNING, BROTHER DAVE. WE WANT TO GIVE GOD ALL THE GLORY. THE GLORY IS NOT TO DAVE OR ROGER OR ME OR ANY MINISTER OR ANY EVANGELIST. THE GLORY IS TO GOD THE FATHER AND THE SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR SO GREAT SALVATION. THERE'S WHERE ALL THE GLORY BELONGS TO GOD. God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Paul says in Romans 3, 24, being justified freely. That word in the Greek means without cause, without cause. Nothing in you, nothing in me. Force God to save you and I. It's all of God's sovereign grace, God's sovereign grace. Freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Paul said, neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, he entered into once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. He didn't go to obtain a part-time salvation, redemption. It's eternal. That means you're saved forever, brother Dave. Forever. You have a redemption that's going to keep you and take you all the way to glory, brother Roger. Hallelujah. safe and secure. Now that's just a few thoughts on it. There's much more that can be added to these thoughts. I'm just giving you a little foretaste. Now we're going to come to the application of the salvation by the Holy Spirit, His part in salvation. In 2 Thessalonians 3, Paul wrote under the inspiration of the Spirit, But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation. Yes, you are chosen to salvation. By who? By God the Father. You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, the Lord told his apostles. Chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth. Through the sanctification of the Spirit. That's the Holy Spirit's work in salvation. Paul says in Acts 13, 48, And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of the Lord. and as many as are ordained to eternal life believe. We are ordained to eternal life. I believe we have to be born again and quickened by the Holy Spirit of God, given that eternal life. And all of those whom He gives that believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. How do we know we're one of God's elect? Are you a believer? We can't look into the heaven and look in the last book of life and see any names written there. We can recognize God's elect by what? By their belief and faith and following the Lord Jesus Christ, brother Dave. That's the only way we can know. Believers, believers. It says when Jesus returns again, he's coming back to be admired and all of them that what? Believe. If you are a believer, you're an elect. Now, you may be an unbeliever and still be one of God's elect, God may not have brought you to salvation in your life as yet. Like Paul, Paul looked from all purposes when he was having the Christians, putting them in jail, imprisoning them, causing them to curse God and doing all those things. You said, boy, he's an unbeliever, he's a reprobate. Oh, he's a child of the devil. But see, God had a purpose for Paul. And in God's time, He called Paul personally when he appeared to Him on the road to Damascus. And Paul was never the same after that calling. Never. See, God has His timetable. Sometimes we want to rush it and get ahead of God, but God has His time. You know, we pray for our loved ones and we pray, I pray for my grandson and I pray for my daughter and I pray for others. But see, God has His timetable and it will be sure. He's never been late and He never will be late, brother Dave. He cannot be resisted. He cannot be denied. When He comes in power, as you're going to see, He will save His people. He saved them by election as a saving being chosen he saved them through the redemption of the Lord Jesus Christ and in his appointed time in time he calls them by his grace by his grace what a wonderful thought he says who also have made us able ministers of the New Testament, not of the letter, but of the spirit, for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. There's a quickening of the Holy Spirit where once we were dead, we're translated from the kingdom of darkness and we're translated into the kingdom of God, dear son. That's true of every born again child of God. We're taken from one kingdom and we're translated into another kingdom. Now that's not something that we do, That's something the Spirit of God does for us. We cannot do it. That's why we have to come humbly before God, like the publican who smote his breast and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner. I remember the day God called me. I seen my sins. I seen how wretched I was. I was a young man in my 20s, but God opened up my mind so I could see what a vile wretch I really was in myself. I didn't know what to do. I couldn't save myself, and I walked around, and I prayed about it, and I said, well, I just have to wait on the Lord to do it. And the Lord one day unveiled to my mind and gave me the heart to believe and put all my confidence in the Lord Jesus. What a wonderful Savior. He did that. I couldn't do it. And that's the way God does for all His children. The demonstration of the Spirit, it says in Zechariah, it says, Paul said also in 1 Corinthians 2, 4, "...and my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power." That's when the gospel, the written gospel, becomes effective, when it comes in the demonstration of power of the Holy Spirit of God to your soul, to your conscience, and to your heart. When you feel in your soul that you're a sinner and you feel your need of Jesus Christ, I need forgiveness, Lord. I'm a sinner. And God gives you that faith to call on the Lord and say, Lord, forgive me of my sins. That's the gift of God to give that to you. Zechariah says it like this. Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. Beloved, it is by the Spirit of the living God that we're born again. And here's a beautiful verse showing in Psalms 110, verse 3. How do we become willing? To be willing. Jesus said to those people, You will not come unto me. that you may have life. You will not. You don't have the will to come unto me. Well, how do they become willing? Here's the answer right here. Psalm 110, verse 3. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the day of God's power, the Holy Spirit, in the beauty of holiness. From the womb of the morning thou hast the dew of thy youth. But God's people shall be willing in the day of the power of the Holy Spirit. Oh, what a wonderful, wonderful Thought that is. There's one will in the Godhead in one purpose. There's no division between the Father and the Son. The Father don't will one thing and Jesus will something else. And then the Holy Spirit will something else. They're all in perfect consent and agreement in the purpose and mind of God. There's no division. Some teach today that God has two wills. He wills one thing here, and he wills something else over here, and he changes his mind here. Christ wills one thing that the Father didn't will. That's not the truth. There's no division in the Godhead. Notice what, in the book of Daniel, chapter four, verse 35, notice what it says here. And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing. All of us. There's basically 7 billion people, present tense, on the face of the earth. And this verse says all of the 7 billion people on the earth are reputed as nothing in the sight of God. That's how great God is beyond us. And he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth, and none can stay his hand or say unto him, What doest thou? Beloved, we should ask ourselves this question after Tuesday, no matter who's in office, whether God, we see Hillary Clinton put in or Trump put in, we should ask ourselves the question, what is God saying to America? as Dave mentioned earlier, to the one he puts in office. It could be a sign of future judgment coming upon the United States of America because of our sinfulness, abortions, and all this wickedness that we have in this country. We have declined as a nation. We have declined in our morals. We have declined in ethics. We have declined in everything. They're taking God out of everything. It's just wickedness. They're promoting sin. And God says, the nation, if it gets God, shall be turned into hell. Beloved judgment could be facing America sooner than we know. Not trying to scare anyone, but we are living in an age when we could be destroyed in just a moment. That's how serious this is. That's why this serving God is serious. Because life is serious, beloved. Paul says in Ephesians 1.11, in whom we have obtained an inheritance being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will. We can take courage in this. Though it's gonna be dark, though we may be fearful, though we worry, though we get stressed out, God's in control, brother Dave. Jesus said, don't fear him that can just kill the body, but fear him that can destroy both the body and the soul in Gehenna, in hell, or Hades. That's whom you to fear. Man can do one thing, man can pull out a gun and shoot you, you're dead, that's it, but he can't touch the soul. Fear God, fear the Lord. And one other thing about God's counsel and His will, here's what He said in Malachi 3.6, now remember this. For I am the Lord, I change not. God doesn't one day say one thing and the next day change His mind, brother Dave. He says, I change not, therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed. For what reason? FOR HIS GLORY, FOR HIS GLORY. EVERYTHING THAT GOD DOES IS FOR HIS GLORY. NOTICE REVELATION CHAPTER 4 VERSE 11 IT SAYS, THOU ART WORTHY O LORD TO RECEIVE GLORY AND HONOR AND POWER FOR THY HAS CREATED ALL THINGS AND FOR THY PLEASURE THEY ARE AND WERE CREATED. YOU AND I WERE CREATED FOR THE GLORY OF GOD NO MATTER WHAT. Every creature, everything that was created, was created for the honor and glory of God. Praise the Lord for that. That according as it is written, he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. If you are being faithful to God today, give God the glory. If someone you know falls by the wayside, a brother or a sister, get trapped in sin and Satan knocks them down, they get knocked down because of their own disobedience, pray for them. You know what Paul says? Considering thyself, at least you also be tempted. Let him that thinketh he stand, take heed, lest he fall. We are kept by God. If God doesn't keep us, we all would fall, Brother Roger. We're kept by God's grace. Just a few closing remarks. Under the New Covenant, God says, I will and they shall. I will and they shall. I'll just read you a couple of verses. Matthew 121, And she shall bring forth a son, and that shall call his name Jesus. For he shall save his people from their sins. Not that he might or try to, he shall. SAVE THEM FROM THEIR SINS, AS GOD SHALL. AND HE SAYS IN JOHN 6, 37, ALL THAT THE FATHER GIVETH ME SHALL COME TO ME. ALL OF THOSE IN THE COVENANT AND THE 11 LASTING COVENANT WERE GIVEN TO CHRIST. HE SAID, ALL OF THEM IS GOING TO COME TO ME. HALLELUJAH. NOT ONE OF THEM WILL BE LOST. HE GOES ON TO SAY, AND HIM THAT COMETH TO ME, I WILL KNOW WHY HE IS CAST OUT. BELOVED, YOU DON'T HAVE TO FEAR ABOUT BEING CAST OUT. THE LORD PROMISED YOU, YOU WOULD NOT BE. You'll never be cast out. Never. And notice this in John verse 39 of chapter 6. And this is the Father's will. Here we have our will. The Father's will which hath sent me that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing. Now the gospel of God is sure. The gospel of God is not a salvation that was provided for everyone and that if you will do your part in this and that, you will be saved. God says, all of those whom He gave to the Son, He said, I shall lose nothing. So his blood was shed for the purpose of saving his people and everyone he died for will be saved, Brother Roger. Everyone that he died for will be saved. There will be none lost. That's the encouragement. That's the encouragement of the doctrines of grace that we know that our salvation is secure and steadfast in the Lord Jesus Christ. But raise it up again at the last day. Oh, when that day comes, when the resurrection, I was thinking about the resurrection of the night at home. when all the graves, when that trumpet sounds, and all the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God. And those graves are opened and we are, our bodies are resurrected out of the body, our souls and our bodies are resurrected and changed to His glorious body and we're glorified and we meet the Lord in the air. I asked my son, I said, how could that be? There's a lot of things, you know, we read these, but you think about it sometimes and say, well, it's simple. To God, He created everything in the world. He has all power. There's nothing harder for God to raise a body out of the grave, bring the soul back to it and raise it up and we go up into heaven and ascend into heaven the way Christ did when He ascended up into heaven. Beloved, that's going to be a reality one day. Are you looking forward to that day? Amen, I'm looking forward to be resurrected and seeing Brother Al and his other brothers and sisters in the Lord resurrected. And if we're alive, we'll be changed and calling in a moment of eye and we all shall meet the Lord in the air, hallelujah. That's gonna be a jubilee day. Now, you're talking about shouting. You're talking about singing praises to God. When that multitude gets to glory and we start singing praises to the Lord as it says in Revelation, boy, I think all heaven's gonna ring. All the angels are just gonna set back and just, BE AMAZED WHEN THE SAINTS OF THE LORD SHALL SING UNTO THE KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS." That makes you want to shout. And in closing, our union with Jesus Christ before the world began. I'm just going to say a few things on this. Our union, we were one with Christ before we was ever born into this world in the purpose and mind of God. It says in Ephesians 1, 4, according as He had chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world. In other words, we were in Christ, in union with Christ, as we read in 1 Corinthians 1, 30 and 31, that we were put in Christ by God the Father. So in the purpose and mind of God, we're one with Jesus Christ. Remember, I read the verse over in Hebrews 2, He that sanctifyeth and they who are sanctified are all of one. We're one in Christ. The reason He came into the world, He loved us. He came to redeem His bride. He came to save His people. He came to save those who were one with Him, His body. What a great Savior we serve. Paul says in 2, 5 of Ephesians, and when we were dead in sins, have quickened us together with Christ. By grace are you saved. and has raised us up together and made us to sit together in heavenly places in Christ. So when Christ died, we died with Him in union with Him because we were chosen in Him. We were put in Him. When He arose out of the grave, we arose with Him. When He ascended, we ascended. Paul says in Ephesians 1-3, we sit in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. What a gospel. What a gospel. No wonder Paul says it's so great salvation, beloved. We should be rejoicing in the greatness of salvation that God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit has done everything needful for the salvation of His people. We are safe and secure. Who shall separate us? This is Roger's favorite verses here. Romans 8, 35 through 39. I'm not saying some of you don't have this too, but Roger enjoys preaching on this. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? A tribulation? No. Distress? No. Persecution or famine or neckiness or peril or sword? As it is written, for thy sake we are killed all the day long. We're as counted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that what? Loved us. God the Father, and God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. What did God say in the book of Jeremiah? I have loved thee with an everlasting love. And in closing, for I am persuaded, Paul says, 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, who? Christ Jesus our Lord. And I say let all the people of God say amen. What a great savior we have. May we pray. Our gracious Father, we thank you for so great salvation, provided by the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The gospel of God. We just praise your holy name. Dismiss us with your presence and we thank you for this message. May it ring in our hearts all week and may we rejoice in the God of our salvation. In Christ's name we give thanks. Amen. Does someone have a song in closing?