(2 Peter) Him — Willie Mullan

112, please. One, one, two. How sweet the name of Jesus sounds in a believer's ear. It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, drives away his fear. 112, please. Number 59, please. Number 59, in tenderness he sought me, weary and sick with sin, and on his shoulders brought me back to his fold again, while angels in his presence sang, until the courts of heaven rang.

Number 59, please. Thursday of February, we're having a baptismal service. I'll tell you more about that next week. First Thursday in February. Now, we're at the second letter to Peter, and you'll notice that we're just taking one verse this evening.

I thought maybe last week when we were looking at this we would do more. But there's so much in this third verse that I think it would be unwise to rush it through and pass it by without touching the depth that's here that God has given to us.

So we're at 2 Peter, the first chapter, and we're at verse 3. And it reads like this, According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue.

And I've noticed that through the two letters of Peter, that again and again he holds on to this word, him. I think he uses it in a very endearing kind of way. He uses this word, him, in the most endearing fashion.

Because the Lord Jesus was very dear to the Apostle Peter. And I think, you know, that when he uses this word again and again and again, just like this, that even as he writes his very spirit, he's adoring Christ.

For this is sort of adoration when it comes like this. Could I show you how many times he uses this in these two letters? Let's go back to 1 Peter, and the first chapter, and we're reading at verse 18.

And he says, Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, who villainly was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, who by him, and he touches this word here, who by him do believe in God.

Can't you see what Peter's saying? He's saying it was him who gave you faith in God. Remember, he is the author and the finisher of our faith. And that's something that should make him very dear to us.

That's something that we should forever adore him for. Just because he gave us saving faith. And he's using this word in this endearing and adoring way. He notices that he goes on with this, who by him do believe in God, that raised him from the dead and gave him glory.

And he touches this word in this adoring fashion again and again and again in this letter. See chapter two. Have a look at verse nine. But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood and holy nation of peculiar people, that ye should show forth the praises of him, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.

You see again he touches this word and he does it in the most endearing fashion. And you know if we could only grasp this the way we should, that it was him who called us out of darkness and at the same psychological moment gave us faith in God.

Somebody asked me once, do you come out of darkness first and then get faith second and life third? Not at all. If I were to ask you what spook in a wheel moves first when the wheel turns, you would have bothered telling me.

Because they all move together. And the bringing out and the giving faith and the installing life is like that. It's like the wheels, the spooks in the wheel. They all turn together. Don't start to differentiate there or you'll get yourself into bother.

This is the bit that you should be lingering with. Bless God he called us. Him that called us out of darkness into marvellous light. It was wonderful that he called us and mind you will learn this evening that he called us by name and at the same psychological moment gave us faith in God.

Have a look again in the second letter. I don't want to take all the chapters, just showing you this. See the second letter where we are tonight. Look at verse sixteen. Peter writing said, For we have not followed cunningly devised tables when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But where I witness is not his majesty for he received from God the Father honour and glory when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory. This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased and this voice which came from heaven we heard when we were with him in the Holy Mount.

You know that's something that Peter would forever adore the Lord for. That he took him up into the Mount and he heard the voice of God and he saw with his own eyes the glory of the Eternal Son. He says we were with him.

He uses this again and again and again in these letters in the most endearing and in the most adoring fashion. See how he closes this letter, chapter three. Here's the very last phrase in the very last chapter.

Verse eighteen, chapter three. He says, To Him be glory brought now and forever. You can see that all the time His Spirit is worshipping him. And I'm taking the word up tonight and then I want to show you the wonderful things that belong to it.

We're looking at the word Him in our verse this evening. Watch what it says in verse three. Through the knowledge of Him that calls us to glory and virtue. And I want to underline the great truth this evening of Him who hath called us.

You remember when we were away back in John's Gospel. I was taking the class here some years ago through John's Gospel. We went through it phrase by phrase. And you remember we came to the tenth chapter.

It all hath to do with the shepherd. And I outlined so many things to you that evening that the shepherd did. Let me go back and find one or two of them for you. We're at John's Gospel, chapter ten. John's Gospel.

And that's the tenth chapter. Just to get the proper connection, verse one. And verily, verily, I say unto you, he that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbers up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. Unto him the porter openeth. And that has been a great difficulty for some of the expositors. If the Lord Jesus is the shepherd of the sheep, who's the porter?

Who opened the door of the sheepfold to us? Well, I don't need to go into that this evening. It would be a long exposition. But it's John the Baptist. John the Baptist was the forerunner of Christ. And he prepared a great part of the nation for his coming.

And in this way, he opened the door of the sheepfold of Israel for the shepherd of Israel. And we could go into this and find great truths that Jesus gave. But I want you to watch this. Unto him the porter openeth.

And the sheep hear his voice. For he calleth his own sheep by name and leadeth them out. He brought them out of Jewry, you know, of Judaism, if you like. But we don't want to get into those side issues this evening.

All we want to know is this, that he calleth his own sheep by name. If you belong to him this evening, you were personally called by him. Him that called you. And you were very definitely personally called.

For he opened the heavens once and looked down and said, Fall! Fall! And he was calling, Fall of Parsons. Yes. I want you to get that. Him that called us. You know, he called us personally and he made us the sheep of his great sheepfold.

And there are not only Jews but Gentiles in it. And they make one flock this evening. And there is one shepherd. I want you to get this. He called you to be the sheep of his pasture. That's why he's your shepherd.

That's why he attends to your needs. That's why he cares for you. I want you to get this. You were called to be sheep of his pasture. The Master came and he called you personally. Now this is the truth that Peter must have learned that day.

Because Peter was at his feet when he expanded everything about the shepherd and everything about the sheep and everything about the sheepfold. It's all in John 10. And you'll find that Peter got a grasp of this mighty truth and got it so wonderfully deeply within his heart that again and again and again and again right through these two letters he's always got this calling business.

I'll just remark how often he does it. Let's get back to 1 Peter. Now we're at 1 Peter 2. And I want you to get this. We've already looked at this. You are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people.

And you're all this that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you. Now there he does it again. It's the very same phrase. Him who hath called you. But this time he's underlining where you were called from out of darkness.

You know when he came personally to call you into his sheepfold and to make you one of the sheep of his pasture, remember you were in the kingdom of darkness. I think we must get this, you know. That day that the Lord came to us he called us out of the kingdom of darkness.

Actually Paul uses a tremendous word here. He says we were translated out of the kingdom of darkness. It was by a divine act that we were brought out of the kingdom of darkness. You don't think we'll get lost again and go back into it, do you?

Because you'd have to undo the divine act, you know. But what I want you to get the hold of and what Peter I think has got the hold of is this. He doesn't only see this essential call making us sheep and bringing us into the light, marvellous light, and I'll talk about that on Sunday morning, but you know we are sheep in the light now.

I want you to get that. Then if you go to the first chapter of 1 Peter you'll find that Peter again uses this. He says, verse 14, As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance, but as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy.

You know, he got the grasp of this doctrine, didn't he? He could see him who hath called us and he could see him who hath called us into his sheepfold as sheep of his pasture. And he could see that the sheep of his pasture ought to be walking on the flames of light.

And he could see this, that not only were they called out of darkness and called to be sheep, but they were called to be holy sheep. It's wholly his. You know, he had got all that very quickly, that we were called, that we were called by name, that we were called to be the sheep of his pasture, that we were called into marvellous light, that we were called to be holy.

He grasped things wonderfully. Look at the second chapter again. Watch this. You remember we had a whole night on this, verse 20. For what glory is it, 1 Peter 2, verse 20, for what glory is it if, when ye be busteted for your thoughts, ye shall take it patiently?

But if when ye do well and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God, for even here unto where ye called. And he's back at it again, isn't he? He seems to have grasped this doctrine in the most wonderful way.

You were called by name. You were called to be the sheep of God's pasture. You were called by name to be the sheep to walk in light. You were called to be the sheep to walk in light as holy sheep. You were called to be sheep to walk in light as holy sheep, but you were also called to suffer.

Here unto where ye called. So many details Peter got the hold of when he talked about this great doctrine. Have a look at 1 Peter 5, do you see? 1 Peter 5, down in the chapter, verse 10. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory, now watch it, by Christ Jesus.

You see, Peter got this bit into it too, that not only are we called by name, individually, not only are we the sheep of his pasture, not only are we called into marvellous light, not only are we called to be holy, not only are we called to suffer, but all the time this great flock, walking in light, holy, belonging to God, is moving constantly towards the eternal glory, because we're called unto his eternal glory.

Do you see how much he grasped? He knew this doctrine very well. That's why in this second letter here, not only does he mention this in verse 3, but when we get down to verse 10, we'll have to take a night for a great part of the doctrine.

See, 2 Peter 1, verse 10. Wherefore the brother, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and your election sure. You see, it's something that's in Peter's heart. He knows the doctrine through and through and through.

And yet he would ask us to stop and examine the foundations of our faith and be diligent about it, that we might make our calling and election sure. But there's something else he does here. We're at verse 3 again.

Let's read it again. In according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory. Let's get that bit done first.

Now, in the authorised version before you, it reads, him that hath called us to glory. And in the revised version, if there's somebody here with a revised version, and there must be, yes, it reads in your book, it reads like this.

Him that hath called us by glory. Because it's by his glory that he calls people up. That's why we should always exalt the Lord and lift him up and magnify him. If I be lifted up, we'll draw all men unto me.

Yes, there's been an argument whether it should be him that called us to glory or him that called us by glory. I would think, and most of the language scholars think, that the revised version is right, that he called us by his glory.

I'm sure that the second thinks that the other translators were right too. Because we're not only called by his glory, but we are called unto eternal glory. But he's already dealt with that in the first letter.

You know, I think it's one of the things that all the young folks should settle for themselves. And it will get you out of many arguments, and it will help you to be established in the faith if you can understand the doctrine of the glory of the Lord, the glory of our wonderful Lord.

And I'm not so sure that all the young folks know about it. Let me do a wee bit of it for you, and then I think you'll grasp what I'm talking to you about, and then we'll see how the Lord called us by his glory.

Have a look at John's Gospel with me. And we're at John 17. John's Gospel, chapter 17. And our Lord has been preaching great things in chapter 16. He was preaching great truths to his own folks. And chapter 17 begins like this.

These words speak Jesus. And it refers to the messages, or the sermons, if you like, that he was preaching in John 16. These words speak Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven. You see, he could turn from preaching to praying in a split second.

And you ought to be able to do that at all times. So that he just finished the sermon, and then he lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, Father, and this is the Son, of course, talking to the Father.

He said, Father, the hour is come. I think you could say this, the hour of Calvary is come, if you like. Or I think you could say the hour of sacrifice is come. Some morning at the table when there's a silence.

Maybe I'll speak on the hour is come. But he's saying to his Father, he's looking upward and saying, Father, the hour is come. Glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee. All that I want you young folks to get is this.

The word Son and the word Father. Capital S at Son and capital F at Father. Because this is the eternal Son speaking to the eternal Father. And he's saying this to him. As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.

And this is life eternal, that they may know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. And he goes on praying, he says, I have glorified thee on the earth. I have finished the work.

And he's looking forward now in anticipation. It is fierce grasping what shall be done. He says, I have finished the work. And he's given God thanks in anticipation. I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

And then he takes a breath and says, And now, Father, and now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. And the Russellites never read this verse.

And the millennial dharmists know nothing about it. And Jehovah's Witnesses are afraid of the life of it. Because he's talking about the pre-existence of Christ before Bethlehem. In fact, he's talking about the pre-existence of Christ before the foundation of this world.

Before the worlds were thrown into space. Before the planets came to their orbits. Before this mighty, gigantic solar system of ours would ever arrive in the heavens. A way before the foundation of the world.

He says, I have glory with thee. You like to tell me that he just began at Bethlehem? Because I would bother you with one or two things. Yes, he's talking about the Father down here on the earth. That glorified thee on this planet.

Father, I've finished the work. I'm determined about that. Father, give me the glory which I have with thee before the foundation of the world. You see, this is his own eternal glory. Oh, I tell you, this is what touched us in the past.

When I was only an old, stupid drunkard standing in rags. This revelation came as clear as it is now. That the Son of God, who was the eternal Son and had glory in the glory before the world began died for me.

That wasn't a wee fellow that died for me. It was the Lord of glory. That's who was on the cross. That's the bit that staggered me. If it was only a man or only a teacher or only a great fellow, I sure as wouldn't mean a thing.

It was the Lord of glory. All that we could grasp was His glory in the glory before the world began. That's what draws men to Him, you know. That's why He calls people by His glory. But wait till you see this.

Let's go to the book of Revelation. Now, this is for the young folks to get the hold of. John 17 and then Revelation 21. Revelation is a great chapter, this 21st one. It's talking about our eternal home.

It is called the New Jerusalem. And you remember I went into this for you. I pointed out the consolations of your home. Verse 4. God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. There shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying.

Neither shall there be any more pain for the former things that passed away. These are the consolations of our new home. There'll be no death there, blessed God. No body gets shot at the door. No sorrow, no crying, no more pain.

These things won't get in up there. Oh, what a place it will be. And in this chapter you have not only the consolations, you have the foundations, you have the illuminations, you have the congregation.

Did you see this last verse? Because it's worth looking at. For you unsaved ones. Verse 27. And there shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth, neither whatsoever workers' abomination, nor make it a lie.

But they which are written and worshipped in the Lamb's Book of Life must get your name in the Lamb's Book of Life if you want to get in there. And mind you, you can't get your name in the Lamb's Book of Life unless you have a connection with the Lamb.

How would you know? And if you despise the Lamb of God, you'll never get your name there. So you'll never be there. No wise entering. But it's not the congregation or the consolation or the foundation I'm after.

Watch this. Here's the illumination of that city. Verse 22. And I saw no temple therein, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon to shine in it.

Watch this bit now. For the glory of God did lighten it. Now watch. And the Lamb is the light thereof. You know, the Lamb will be all the glory in Emmanuel's land. You see, just before we come to the book of Revelation 21, a chapter back, we have a mighty angel standing and looking across the whole world and crying, Time shall be no more.

Time will finish there. And the eternal state will stop. The new heavens and the new earth. And in the new heavens and in the new earth and in the new Jerusalem, there'll be no need of the sun, neither of the moon.

You know, the Lamb will be all the glory. But I want you young people to get into your mind as this. That He had glory in the glory before the world began. And He will be all the glory in the glory when time shall be no more.

I wish the Russellites could get their teeth into it. They would begin to know who He was. He's the Lord of glory. And if you go back to John 17, I will show you this. Have a look at this. This is John 17.

And He's still praying. And He's saying this, verse 24. John 17, 24. He's still saying, Father, I will that they also whom Thou hast given Me be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which Thou hast given Me.

You know, if we were to look upwards today, you'll find the Father hath glorified the Son. And you'll find that Paul says, we see Jesus at this very moment crowned with glory. Ah, this is glory that He has won by His mighty performances on the earth.

You know, when you look up today, you can see Him as the Head of the Church. And this is the glory. You can see Him as the King of kings and Lord of lords. And He is the King of Israel. You can see Him as the advocate for every child in the family.

Because when believers, when believers, just take your time and figure out, friend. We'll wait on you now. Some of you deacons, give them a hand. Just hold it now. Many of the doctors in this evening.

And I was saying that our Lord Jesus Christ, in the glory just now, He's the Head of the Church. He's the King of the Jews. But He's the advocate for every child in the family. When we fail, it's a family matter now.

And our communion with God is broken. But there is an advocate. Yes, with the Father. Get the wording right. Jesus Christ the righteous. Friend, if you could see all the glories that belong to Him today.

You see, He had glory in the glory before the world began. He will have glory in the glory when finally shall be the war. And if you look up today by the glory of the Lord fills the temple above. And it is, remember, the glory of the Lord that is used in drawing men and women to Himself.

I wish gospel preachers could get a hold of us. It isn't just headings, you know. If we learn to exalt the Lord, you see far more people at His feet. Yes, I think this is what is getting at here. Peter knew this.

Peter had seen men drawn to the Lord. And what Peter is saying in 2 Peter 1, the Lord, and what Peter is saying in 2 Peter 1, and verse 3, he's saying, Him that hath called us by His glory. Yes, I think this is what he's saying.

Called us by His glory. And then he put another word to it, you see. Because He's the one who hath glory. Ah, but He's the one who hath virtue. You know, this word virtue is a tremendous word. There are so many sides to it in the Greek.

It means manliness. It means courage. It means worthiness. And I think there was no greater man that ever lived than our Lord Jesus. You know, as Austen said this, and I like to say it, it took a man.

It took a big man, a strong man. It took a man to face the Pharisees and say, white and settled, full of dead men's bones and rottenness. On Sharia's day, the damnation, it took a man to say that. There was no wayfare of preaching.

And you can go through the whole Scriptures, and if you mark the things that you should mark, you can see the breadth of the man. He was a great man. And I'll tell you this, he was not only manly, but he was the most courageous man this world has ever seen.

You can't get courage anymore like this. You know, all the time when he was down here, he knew he was heading for the cross. He even said to his disciples, accept the corn of wheat, fall into the ground and die.

So by the Lord, and he knew he was talking about himself, he must die. He knew that it was said, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up. All the time, he could see the cross, and he knew the best of the cross.

And just from the crack, he turned about. He set his face on the flint to go to Jerusalem. He wasn't running. That night when they came into Gethsemane, he said, who are you looking for? Jesus of Nazareth said, here am I.

And you can see the virtue that's in Christ. You can see the manliness. You can see the courage. And you know when we get home to heaven, all classes, all creeds, all colors, and they'll all unite, and it will be unanimous.

Thou art worthy. Sometimes, you know, when a certain section says you're worthy of something, down here the other section says you're not. But all will be unanimous there. And I can tell you young preachers, if you can learn to make the glory of the Lord and the manliness and the courage and the worth and wealth and work of Christ before the public, you'll draw men and women to the Savior.

That's how he does it. Him who art called of by his glory and virtue, yes, because he's the one that called, and he has glory, and bless God, he has virtue. But you know, that's only the hindermost part of the text, as you can see, because the text begins like this, according of his divine power.

You know, the Lord Jesus had divine power within him all the time. You know, sometimes when you look at the Lord and you see men shoving him around and hitting him on the head with the reed and pulling the hairs from his cheeks, you forget that all the time he had divine power.

Fast control, he must have had. You just think of an ordinary soldier taking a prisoner and spitting into his face. You just think one or two soldiers spitting, smacking the prisoner on the face. Think of them blindfolding him, turning them around, smacking them into his face.

Remember all the time he only needed to think one thought and he'd block them out. Fast control, he never said a word. He never even spoke. Asked them to call his sealers. All the power of his control, when he was reviled, he reviled not again.

When he suffered, he threatened not. All the control is there. I think you can see it here when you begin to think how much he suffered at the hands of men. But you know he had not only control over himself, wonderful, remember how he controlled bodies.

You know he could set prisoners free. The woman that sat in her barn down for twelve years, she was bent, poor creature, twelve years. They tell me the Lord's knowledge was limited but he knew how long she was like that.

And with a word he just threatened her. Do you remember how he gave sight to the blind? He gave hearing to the deaf. He gave speech to the dumb. He gave cleansing to the leper. How wonderful he was, what power he had.

It fitted into our minds, he had divine power. What a person we're looking at. The glorious son of God. Can't you see his manliness? Can't you see his courage? Can't you see his worthiness? Can't you see the power that he had?

Well I think you don't see it completely until you come, you have him face to face with Satan or demons, or devils. You know I remember talking to Russellites one day and they began to belittle the Lord and say he was just a great man, a great teacher, sort of superman, no doubt.

And I said, do you remember the day in the temple when he spoke to the man with the demons? And the demons came out of the man screaming, this is what they said, Art thou come to torment us before the time?

Mark it. These demons seemed to know that one day in the providence of God that this man would be the master and that he would torment them. Demons would never address an ordinary human like that. No they wouldn't.

No demon would come into this place and address any man in here and say, you'll torment us one day. They have no notions like that about us. He was different. They could see his power, he had divine power.

And one day he'll put the devil in the bottomless pit and shut the lid on him and throw the demons in afterwards. All his divine power. You know, Dr. Paisley told me what was Sunday night. He said, how did you get through today?

I said, it got through all right, two people saved. I said, how did you get through? He said, I was preaching on the Lord stopping the funeral of the widow's son. He said, you know, he had power to stop the march of death.

And I thought that was a great thought that he just touched the cotton and the funeral procession stopped. It doesn't say it stopped until he touched the beer itself. And the doctor was right in saying this, that he had power to stop the march of death.

And then I went on with him. I said, he has a bit more to procure because he gives me bits and I give him bits. Only for the preaching, not for Westminster or anything like that. Only for the preaching.

And I said, you know, he had not only power to stop the march of death on the road, but he had power to stop the might of death in the coffin. And he had power to stop the misery of death in the home.

Because he gave the widow back her son. What power he has! Regalitimous! Divine power! Whether the Russellites like it or not, it is in this book. Divine power! That's what it is and you can easily prove it.

Yes, are you beginning to see him? See him the way Peter saw him? Him who hath called us? Him who hath glory? Him who hath virtue? Him who hath power? Now here's what he was wanting to get over to the saints.

According as his divine power hath given unto us. And it's great to underline the word given, you know. Him who hath given us. Young folks, take this into your mind. The Lord never lends you anything.

He doesn't lend to you. Doesn't lend you anything. I'll tell you this. He doesn't lease you anything. Doesn't let things out on lease or lend either. I'll tell you once more. He neither lends nor leases nor sells.

Never sells anything. He never lends anything. He never leases anything. Let's get a hold of this. He just gives. Just gives it to you. That's why you see when you get a paper coming in through your door and a big printed page on it.

A page to print it. And you have to send money and then God will send you some more. Well, I can tell you this. God never looks like that. You don't make a bargain with God to get anything. God doesn't sell.

God won't ever let you bargain. You're either taken free or you're not Jesus at all. That's the only position on the earth. That's what that is. I don't mind exposing that. That's not God's grace at all.

That's just making a fool out of the saints. You don't bargain with God. God gives you. And if you have faith to take it, you can take as much as you like. He gives us. And I'll tell you this. He gives us all things.

Oh, I wish this was on the line as well. Oh, what a giver He is. And I want you to get this. He gives us what He can. All things that pertain unto life. You know, if you want real life. Surely that's what we preach to sinners, you know.

Sinners without Christ have only an existence. If they want life, they must come to Christ. He that hath the Son hath life. And if you haven't got the Son of God, by faith you haven't got life. This is where you get life.

But you know, it isn't only a commencement of life that He gives. It's all things that continue in life. And to make it more abundant, He gives. You know, if we're going to have life more abundant, we need a lot of grace.

Well, He'll give you a lot of grace. And you'll need to be constantly being filled with the Spirit. Because if you're constantly being filled with the Spirit, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.

That is life. And if you haven't got love, you haven't got life. And peace and joy is all yours. And long-suffering is a whole other thing. And gentleness, and goodness, and faith, and meekness, and temperance.

That's life. Well, it's yours. You don't need to put a pound, or two, or three, or four, or five down to get it, you know. It's yours. Yes, you know, this life that He gives, as He gives, it's eternal.

And then if the Holy Spirit is allowed to take full control continually, it is life more abundant. And then when you get home, what a life it will be. With no Satan, and no worldliness, and no flesh, and no pain, and no tears, and no sighing, and no death.

Yes, He gives us all things. But, you know, He goes very carefully about the teaching. He says He not only gives us all things pertaining to life, but He gives us all things pertaining to godliness. You know, this is exactly what Paul taught when we were going through Corinthians.