Great Sermon! brother Clay preached about what a GREAT SAVIOR we have come to know that is ours. HE is GREAT from everlasting, and HE is please to quicken and convert that we may receive, by faith, the good news of the Gospel that His Father has chosen to rescue and save us before we come forth from our mother's womb. Whosoever knows this agrees and confesses that it is not by human invention, or study; nor is it contagious but because GOD has purposed from the beginning to save a people, and we have the joy of out salvation when HE lets's us in on it. That's the Gospel of my salvation. Is it yours?
Great Sermon! Great message brother John.
Commend Zechariah 3:1-4 ... brother John did a good work here.
"The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan; even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?"
Great Sermon! Great message, and comforted assurance that "to us" has He purposed eternal life in His Son Jesus Christ, and had He not given us this life which is and was in His Son, when we were set apart and preserved in election. We must be predestinated, from the beginning, to life by the Spirit and belief in Gospel. If I believe then, He made me believe in His Son. And, if I believe in His Son then, He must have revealed Him to me in the Gospel through the eyes of faith given to me in the new birth. Help us Lord to trust You throughout this journey in the valley of death until the end!
This goes so well with "I will not believe" message.
Great Sermon! Thomas did not believe Jesus was the Christ but that Christ had risen from the dead. Jews were placing their trust in a resurrected natural or physical kingdom of David. Thomas had the grave clothes of the religion he was born into, as we all do. But, our Lord was gracious as well as strengthen Thomas, as He did the (2) on the road at Emmaus, Peter, as well as the rest; and as He does for us today every time we hear the Gospel. (read: J14:26, J15:26, J16:7, J16:13, J7:20-21 + J20:29). Great message brother John.