For Yours Is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, Forever and Ever. Amen.
We will now look at the last sentence of the Lord’s Prayer. There was a request that we review the entire prayer in one sermon so we can understand everything in one message. We will do that next week after completing this last sentence. It closes with a glorious, eternal doxology—a praise to God. It is a marvelous praise.
There is a textual problem with this verse. A few Greek copies do not contain this last clause of the Lord’s Prayer, and some critics have noticed its omission by Luke. Some of the old Bible copies do not have this part, so some translations omit it. The New King James Version includes it, as it is a translation based on the old Textus Receptus. The New American Standard Bible places these words in brackets. The English Standard Version and New International Version omit this part of the verse altogether. Our beloved Tamil Bible includes it.
There is a debate still going on about whether it should be there or not, and the debate has not yet been closed. Many say yes, some say no. Instead of giving a lengthy explanation, I will say that it beautifully fits and, more so, is part of an Old Testament prayer. It is also mentioned with the same words in 1 Chronicles 29:11-12, when David prayed; and it is very much true. It is found as it is in the Syriac copy, the most ancient version of the New Testament—standing as it does in close harmony with the very first petitions of the prayer—and maintaining a strict analogy with the whole tenor of God’s Word, we feel no difficulty in accepting it as genuine. Moreover, if we think that our Lord gave us a pattern rather than a strict form, it cannot be wrong to add this doxology within the harmony of the same spirit. If we think He gave us a form to be repeated verbatim, then we ought not to add this doxology to it. So, we will leave it as it is.
Just thinking about what is in this phrase, it can seem like a mere mantra. I start like you on a Monday, thinking, “What is there?” But with thinking, meditating, and reading, it becomes so rich and marvelous. What a truly sublime and appropriate close to this marvelous prayer! It ends, as it began, with God. It opens by teaching us to love Him as a Father, and it closes by teaching us to adore Him as a King.
It is a very passionate and expressive statement, not a cold saying. These words are used when heaven is filled with adoration and worship, and when people want to praise God from the top of their being. It is a worshipful phrase. Oh, may the Holy Spirit grip these words in our souls so we echo them all our lives—all eternity—because it is an eternal doxology, the eternal song of every believer. It is applicable in every situation, so it is very important to recognize this. During our conversion, throughout our entire Christian life, and in our eternal praise in heaven, we will be recognizing and praising God for this. We should keep saying, “For Yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.”
Realizing this is true blessedness. Not realizing this is the cause of all our troubles in life. It’s not just about saying it with our lips, but deeply realizing it. This has to be the motive of our life in this world and for eternity. People who live for this will sing this song eternally in heaven. It is a glorious, glorious praise. “Thine is the kingdom, power, and glory.” Realizing this in a way will get us answers to all six petitions.
Kingdom
This robust and mighty pronouncement asserts that God both possesses all worlds and realms and rules over His vast kingdom. He is the sovereign king who exercises supreme and unlimited authority, with unrestricted dominion over an immense empire. This reign includes creation, providence, and redemption.
This world is His kingdom by creation, by providence, and by redemption. “Yours is the kingdom” by creation. “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof; the world and all those who live in it are His.” He created it, ordained its laws, appointed its seasons, sustains its existence, and supplies its sources of fertility. He rides upon the wind, flashes the lightning, rolls the thunder, controls the storm, and makes the clouds His chariot. “Yours, O Lord, is this beautiful kingdom and its government; seed-time and harvest, summer and winter, the heat and the cold come at Your command, and are Your servants doing Your will, and accomplishing Your purpose.” All nature illustrates Your power, exhibits Your goodness, evidences Your wisdom, reflects Your beauty, and shows forth Your glory. Though blind and sinful people cannot see, God is there in every small part of His creation. It is His kingdom by creation.
“Yours is the kingdom” of providence. This world is not a kingdom without a throne—a throne without a sovereign. The affairs of this planet are not governed by blind accident. God is in the history of the world—its past, its present, and its yet unshaped future. The worldly and the politician may not recognize this fact, but it is so. From the smallest atom to the greatest thing, all are ruled by You. You provide everything for everyone—life, breath, and all things. It is His kingdom by providence.
“Yours is the kingdom” by grace/redemption. God still creates people and provides for them so He may reign in this redemptive kingdom. This is Christ’s highest kingdom in the world; and for the establishment and completion of this kingdom, both the kingdom of creation and of providence exist and are subservient. This redemptive kingdom is both internal and external; invisible and visible. There is the kingdom of grace in the soul of the believer—”the kingdom of God is within you”—and there is the kingdom of grace in the world, “the Church of God, which is the pillar and ground of the truth.” By the kingdom of redemption, He redeems people from their sin and establishes His kingdom of justice in their hearts. He reigns over them. We pray that this redemptive reign will come. Here, the praise says that the kingdom belongs to Him. Only in the kingdom of redemption do people recognize God’s creation and providence.
This is so true in our conversion. When we come to Christ, the old king is dethroned, and a new king reigns in our hearts. So far, we have been saying, “Mine is the kingdom.” By nature, a life was having self on the throne, all about my pride, my name, my reputation, a life for self. Self is the king; selfishness is the kingdom. “Mine is the kingdom.” When we are converted, a great change happens from then on: it is “Thine is the Kingdom.” It is no longer what I desire or want to do, but what You desire or what You want to do. That is true conversion. This is the heartbeat of a true Christian. Not “mine,” but “Thine is the kingdom.” I live for Your kingdom.
It is very unjust. If God is the Creator and Provider, the kingdom belongs to Him. But Satan and people have done great injustice to God. This prayer is a contrast placed against all that Satan and people have taken from God’s kingdom, power, and glory. There is a temporary wrong kingdom now. We have a fraudulent kingdom and government. You remember Absalom, the son of David. He tried to usurp his father David’s kingdom and chase the father from the throne. That is the kind of sense here. We say the kingdom belongs to you; you are the rightful king. You should reign in every person’s heart. You created, provided, and you have all rights to reign, but the greatest injustice is that Satan and people have taken the kingdom, power, and glory. Millions of hands every day do not give due glory to God but try to barge into the throne of God and grab the crown from God’s hand. What should be done to those hands? They should be cut off. The kingdom is His; He should reign.
What do we see Satan and people doing? We see Satan making havoc. We see the power of the prince of the power of the air working in the sons of disobedience. Everywhere he reigns. We see all this and cry, “Lord, Yours is the kingdom.” These are Your men and women, cities, and countries. You created and provided for them. Bring Your redemptive reign. May the kingdoms of this world become the kingdom of Christ. We see our souls, families, and society recognize His just right and say, “Come and rule, Lord.”
Here, when we pray this prayer, we plead with God to answer all these prayers because we recognize it is His kingdom. Do we recognize it? A true believer is someone who has recognized this. How many of you recognize it? He created you; he provides every day’s breath, water, and food, and he makes your hands move. He does all this. So, you don’t live as your own king, in vain pride, thinking, “It is my kingdom; I shouldn’t live for myself, my name, my reputation. I will live as I like, do what I like, go where I want, with no regard to His commands.” “My life, my way.” No, it is His kingdom. I need to recognize that, bow my head to that, and obey Him. Is the King living in your heart? Have you prayed, “Yours is the kingdom; reign in my heart, reign in my family, my church, my society”? Is He reigning in your heart? If not, you may be praying, “Your kingdom,” but always inside, your life may be saying, “Mine is the kingdom.”
If you don’t realize that it is God who rules everything and give Him due glory—”Yours is the kingdom”—maybe everything God is doing in your life is to make you realize that. To make you realize that without Him, you cannot even lift your hand or wake up. You are fully dependent on Him. It is very unjust to live for your kingdom and self. When people proudly live for themselves and do not give God glory, He humbles them and makes them realize. Do you want to see one man who didn’t realize it was His kingdom and what happened to him? Not an ordinary man, but the greatest king of the greatest empire in the world. See how He humbled him.
What a solemn illustration of this is presented in the history of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon! Listen to the narrative—”Daniel 4:29-32: At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spoke, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty? While the word was in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken–The kingdom is departed from you. And they shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make you to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomsoever he will.”
The king praises God for the unspeakably blessed truth God taught him by the overthrow and humiliation for seven years. Do you know what that truth is? “Yours is the kingdom.” Verses 34-35: “At the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up my eyes unto heaven, and my understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored Him that lives forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom is from generation to generation.” Seven years of a ruined mind, of mental derangement, of dethronement from his kingdom, not even begging in the cities, but in the forest, eating grass with the beasts of the field, were needed to humble the pride of this haughty and vainglorious monarch and to teach him that the sovereignties of the earth belonged to God. “Yours is the kingdom.” He had to be disciplined and fitted for re-establishment in his kingdom more firmly.
Think about it. Have you realized? It is not “mine, my name, my image, my life; I can do as I like. See my experience, see what I have built. It’s my kingdom.” There is so much pride in our hearts that does not melt. We saw sin is the greatest evil, but you know the greatest and first sin is pride; the mother of all sins is pride. This brings all evils into our lives. That pride blinds us from seeing “Yours is the kingdom.” I am, my talents, experience, and possessions all belong to Him. I am just a slave. I am nothing. If He just had one shot, I would drop dead. All gone. Do you realize that in your life? Look at Nebuchadnezzar. Is God dealing with you in a similar way? He lifted you up a little by providence. You do not recognize His kingdom and give Him glory, and you are boastful of your gifts and achievements; you have not given God the glory.
He has, perhaps, drawn a momentary cloud-shade over your mental powers, causing you to feel no peace, tension, or confusion, or has incapacitated you physically for the trust confided to your hands. And, like the deposed monarch, He has removed you from a higher place in providence and put you into a school to teach humility. Maybe your trials are in your body, finances, or family; maybe it is a school to teach you, “Yours is the kingdom.” For the great king, it took seven years. For some of us, it takes 30, 40, or 50 years, and some never learn. Learn, be still, and know that He is God. Humble yourself under His mighty hand, and He will exalt you in due time. This is the lesson God is teaching you in providence. Do not yield to despondency, still less to distrust. All these emptyings and plowings are but to prepare you for larger blessings and greater fruitfulness. Thus was it with the king of Babylon, and thus it will be with you. Verse 36: “At the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my honor and brightness returned unto me; and my counselors and my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added unto me. Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment–and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.”
If, then, this kingdom of creation, providence, and redemption is the Lord’s, recognize His right to rule and reign singly and supremely in your soul. No idol should reign in your heart, including yourself. He should have the supreme place in your heart and life. The kingdom is Christ’s—let Christ reign alone. He will by providence work. “Lord, the kingdom within my soul is Your own; Yours let my heart be, Yours my obedience, Yours my service; Yours my life—all, all Your own.”
And the Power.
Psalm 62:11: “Twice have I heard this, that power belongs unto God.” All the power of the creature is derived. Everything on earth, in the sky, and under the water moves by the power and energy of God. But God possesses a power that is essentially His own. His power created all things and still provides for all things. The power is His. He works through all things—the whole world and all creatures are the field of the ever-present energy of God, in creation and in providence.
In redemption, the power of conversion is His. His greatest display of power is converting a soul. You know what power is needed for saving a soul. The Greek word is dunamis—dynamite—explosive and irresistible power. That is what is required. Nothing else can save us from the dominion of Satan’s kingdom.
One of the words of God repeatedly highlights our inability. Romans says, “Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.” It’s not that they will not, but they cannot. 1 Corinthians says the natural person cannot know the spiritual things. It’s not that he doesn’t want to know, but he cannot; it is an inability. John says, “Unless a person is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” “No one can come to me unless the Father draws him.” On every person’s head, it is written: “cannot, cannot, cannot.” Every time I preach, “believe, obey, repent,” the scriptures say, “cannot, cannot, cannot.”
“I must, I cannot.” “I want, I cannot.” This is the most humbling truth in the whole Bible: we cannot. We don’t have the power. Oh, our inability is so great; we don’t have any power. How much we need to recognize this! “You cannot do anything without me.” We hate to hear this. We, as sinful beings, boast of being able to do things. “I can do that and this.” Here the truth is that our inability is so great. When the soul begins to seek the kingdom of God, the kingdom comes in life. Defeat after defeat, disappointment. Then we see, “Mine is not the power; it is not my hands. I cannot.” So the crushed soul turns to heaven, “Yours alone is the power. Yours alone is the power.” We need divine dynamite; nothing less will do.
Do we recognize this? It is God’s power alone that saved us, not ours. Many foolishly boast, “Yes, the kingdom may be Christ’s, but the power is mine. I came to Christ; I saved myself.” All the power that saved you is His. In the same way, we cannot do anything in Christ’s kingdom without His power. Do we realize that? How humbling it has to make us—absolutely nothing, poor in spirit.
We cannot save our children. We have to do all that we can to teach them, but we cannot. His power alone can save them. Do we recognize that His is the power? If so, how much we will plead with Him! “Lord, Your name be hallowed, Your kingdom come, Your will be done, give us bread, forgive us, lead us,” because “Yours is the power.”
The church is so barren, people just hear the truth, and there are no changes in them; it’s so dry. Nobody is serving you but living for themselves. They are living for the world, not serving you; they don’t pray and read Your word. Lord, we may preach and do whatever we can, but “Yours is the power.”
Souls are all dead in sins; societies are perishing; all are dead bodies walking. We may have gospel meetings. Whatever the church may do, however much money we have, the greatest preacher, the best method—do whatever we want, it is not going to save one soul. It is only when we realize we cannot do anything, that only Your power can save. “Yours is the power.” It is only when we realize this that there will be any progress or blessing in our church.
His power breaks the chain, drives out the kingdom of Satan, casts out the demon, and establishes the kingdom of grace within the soul. Not only for saving, but it is only when we recognize His power that His power keeps the feet of His saints, preserves them from falling, and brings them to His heavenly kingdom. “Yours is the power.”
When we recognize that, the truth is so glorious. “I cannot.” All this power is on our side. All power on earth and in heaven belongs to our Immanuel. There is not a difficulty from which He cannot deliver you; not a need from which He cannot relieve you; not a sin which He cannot subdue in you.
All power is essentially and mediately Christ’s. Is anything, then, too hard for Him? This power, O believer, is pledged to bring you safely to glory. No one shall wrest you from its grasp; none shall ever pluck you from Christ’s hands. Peter says His power alone protects us. “Yours, O Lord, is the power! In You have I strength. Yours is the power to dethrone every form of Antichrist, to remove out of the way every impediment to the progress of Your kingdom and the triumph of Your truth. Yours is the power to overthrow error and false teachers, to foil Satan, to crush Your foes, to defend Your gospel, and to conduct Your Church to a final and triumphant victory over all her enemies.”
This is one of the greatest and most sanctifying lessons in our education for heaven—the power of God. The saints only learn this lesson when they realize their utter weakness. We become experimentally acquainted with both at one and the same time. Oh, it is a grand thing to know when we are weak! When we have come to the extreme of our weakness, we are the nearest to Almighty power. God’s power is never exercised but in alliance with human weakness. Thus, the apostle could reason, paradoxical though it may be—”When I am weak, then I am strong.” His strength shall be perfected in weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9-10).
The power is His. Though we are weak and have so many enemies, our weakness is so great that it is only by God’s power that we will reach heaven’s shore. Then our eternal song will be, “Yours, Lord, is all this power.”
Yours Is the Glory.
When we realize the kingdom is His and the power is His, only then will we be able to live for God’s glory. God gets glory only when we realize that it is His kingdom and His power that have done it all. Every person lives in his own kingdom, by his own power, and for his own glory. Some false Christians say, “Yes, it is God’s kingdom,” but live by their own power and for their own glory. A true mark of a true Christian is that their goal is the glory of God.
Paul lived a life for his own kingdom in his own power. But when he was converted, brought to a servant position, he realized the kingdom was His, the power was His. “Lord, what do you want me to do?” He realized that without God he could not do anything. It was the theme of his ministry—not my glory, but Your glory. His great concern was to deflect all glory away from himself to God.
Galatians 6:14: “But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
2 Corinthians 12:5: “On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses.”
1 Corinthians 9:16: “For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of.”
Again and again, he deflected glory away from himself. “Not me, not me.” He reflected glory to God and turned all praise to Him.
1 Corinthians 10:31: “So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.”
1 Corinthians 6:20: “For you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.”
All this says, “Yours is the glory.” Let all praise and glory go heavenward, away from me. This is the accurate mark of a true Christian. They never seek self-praise and are never pleased with it. When they are born again, they want to deflect glory to God. “Not to us, not to us, but glory to you, God.”
Psalm 115:1: “Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!”
Do we have this as our life goal in everything we do—in our personal life, in our family life? “Yours is the glory.” All our unanswered prayers in our life are because we do not have this motive. Do you live for God’s glory? When will you live? What else should God do for you to live for His glory? You were created, provided for, and redeemed for it. What an unjust and wrong thing it is not to live for that. May your conscience loudly speak to you of its injustice, guilt, and foolishness.
Even as a church, we seek to have more numbers, a big church, or maybe a name. “I got them to Christ.” We don’t aim to glorify God. God mightily works among people whose hearts burn for the glory of God. Then, with that, we put in efforts, have gospel meetings, and prayerfully preach the gospel. The Holy Spirit comes and powerfully converts souls. When sinners are converted, it is “Yours is the glory.” No longer will people admire the message, the preacher, the strategies, or the church; it is God’s kingdom and God’s power, and He gets all the glory.
What a great doxology! The great end of all that God does is His own glory. All things shall contribute to His supreme and endless praise.
Romans 11:36: “For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.”
It has ever been the united effort of Satan and fallen humankind to thwart God in this His purpose—in other words, to rob Him of His glory. Since the fall, it has been man’s way, having learned his lesson from an apostate father, to rob God of the glory justly due to His great and holy name from every part of His vast empire. We do not give Him that glory in creation or in providence.
It is a fearful sacrilege of which fallen humankind is guilty. We can conceive of no crime of greater magnitude, or one which more strongly evidences man’s deep depravity and total alienation from God than taking God’s glory. Are we giving God the glory that belongs to Him? Are we ascribing to Him the supreme, undivided glory of our talents and usefulness, of our wealth, providential position, rank, and influence? Do we ascribe the glory of our salvation to His electing love, His sovereign mercy, His free grace? And is our daily life a sweet cloud of incense, ever ascending to the honor and praise of Him who, in the exercise of His unmerited mercy and discriminating love, has called us out of darkness into His marvelous light? Can we honestly say, “We live for the glory of God?”
Oh, give Christ all the glory, the unrestrained, the most free, willing ascription of glory, for all that He is, and for all that He has done. “Yours, O Son of God, is the glory!” To Your everlasting love, to Your precious blood, to Your justifying righteousness, to the power that holds me up moment by moment, and to Your grace, pledged to preserve me to Your heavenly kingdom, I ascribe the praise, honor, and glory most justly Yours. Oh, give God in Christ the glory! Take not one drop from the anthem of His praise—lay all at His feet, exclaiming, “You are worthy!”
Forever.
These are significant and solemn words! “Forever!” He is the eternal God, and you know He has created us as eternal beings. Think of it; what a weighty word. Who can understand it? “Forever.” After the sun stops burning, the moon is gone, the world is gone, there is “forever.” Not for 10,000 years, 1,000 million years, or 10,000 trillion years. Forever. We are born to live forever.
Forever could have been such a curse for us, but it is His kingdom, His power, and His glory that made it a blissful forever for us. Because His kingdom and power are without end, so must our praise be without ceasing. Every moment of life must be filled with praise, both now and throughout all eternity.
Oh, what glory will God get from His redemption! He will come with great glory in the skies, wearing “many crowns.” To take a people for His praise out of this fallen world, to redeem them by the sacrifice of His Son, to regenerate them by His Spirit, to preserve them by His grace, and finally to bring them to glory—the wonder and admiration of principalities and powers—will constitute a source of glory, honor, and praise, lasting as His throne, endless as His being.
The redeemed and glorified Church will be the grand censer of the restored world, from which will ascend a cloud of adoration, praise, and glory, encircling the throne and filling the universe through eternity. Oh, we have but the faintest conception of the glory that will arise to the Triune Jehovah from the scenes of Bethlehem, and Gethsemane, and Calvary, and the Resurrection. All empires shall then resign their sovereignties into His hands, and all kings shall lay down their crowns at His feet, and all scepters shall be broken before Him, and God in Christ shall be all in all.
Could this glorious prayer close more beautifully than with these three words? “For what good reason should we earnestly desire the sanctifying of Your name, and the coming of Your kingdom, and obedience to Your will, seeing these are so peculiarly due to You, namely, kingdom, and power, and glory? And seeing You are so great and rich a King, may we not crave with confidence at Your hands all needed good things to be bestowed on us, and that all evil may be averted from us? That we may find You gracious to us, both in giving and forgiving; and as in forgiving us the guiltiness of sin, so, in freeing us from the power of sin, and preserving us from the power of our spiritual enemies that would draw us into sin. We are under Your royal protection; we are Your subjects, yes, Your children. You are our King and Father, so that Your honor is engaged for our defense. Whatever sum our sins amount to, they are not too great for such a King to forgive; they cannot rise above Your royal goodness; and whatever our enemies may be, all their force is not above Your scepter. Though they be strong, too strong for us, yet You are much too strong for them, for the power is Yours. And this we know, that all the good You do to us will bring back glory to Your name; and it is that we most desire, and that which is Your due; the glory is Yours.”
Amen.
“Amen” signifies a fervent desire. So let it be. It shall be. Thus closes a glorious prayer which, for its simplicity and sublimity, its spirit and comprehensiveness, is unequaled. The word “Amen” is of Hebrew origin. It was of frequent use among the Jews and was afterward imported into the Christian Church. It signifies that which is immovably true, which the mind accepts in faith, and for which the heart expresses its ardent desire and firm belief that all shall be fulfilled.
To all the revealed doctrines, to all the holy precepts, to all the precious promises, to all the animating hopes, to all the devout petitions, and to the doxology of praise, thanksgiving, and glory contained in this sublime prayer, taught us by the Lord, let us breathe our believing, solemn, and lasting “Amen!”
“And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto him that sits upon the throne, and unto the Lamb forever and ever. And the four living creatures said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped Him that lives forever and ever.”
Amen.
Can you hear the word “forever”? But what, O sinner, will be your “forever”? What, O you unconverted man and woman, will be your endless future? Alas, if you die as you live, yours will be a “forever” of woe! The fires of Tophet—forever! The gnawings of the worm—forever! The shrieks of agony and the groans of despair—forever! The society of demons and the companionship of the condemned—forever! The wrath of God—forever and ever!
No cessation of being, no eternal sleep, no annihilation of existence will be the condition of those who die in their sins, die unconverted, die outside of Christ. What a blessing would annihilation be to such people! But it is not theirs. You recoil from death now; you will seek it then! You fence with, foil, and keep the “last enemy” at bay now. Then you will beseech and implore him to come, but he will not come. “And in those days shall men seek death and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.”
Heaven and hell are alike eternal. “These shall go away into everlasting punishment; but the righteous into life eternal.” Reader, what will your “forever” be? A forever of hell, or a forever of heaven?
There is still hope! “Christ died for the ungodly.” “It is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.” He receives all and casts out none who come to Him. His mission authorizes Him to save sinners. His work engages Him to save sinners. His love constrains Him to save sinners. His power enables Him to save sinners. His grace pledges Him to save freely and to the uttermost all who come to God by Him.
Do not lose a moment in coming to Christ. Come away from your sins, from your self-righteousness, from your rituals, from your formalism, from your infidelity, from your worldliness, from your carnality, from your empty profession, from your soul-deception, from your false hope, and from the foundation of sand upon which your solemn and unending future of happiness is built. From all this, you will “go away” before long—but where? Escape from it now and run to Jesus—the City of Refuge, the Hiding Place from the wind, the Covert from the storm, the Savior from the wrath that is to come—lest your lamentation through eternity should be, “I am not saved! Not saved! NOT SAVED!”
Recognize that the kingdom is His.
Grace Reformed Baptist Church, Bangalore 