The Sustaining Power Of God

Introduction

Good evening to everyone. Good to see everyone here this evening as we will spend time together opening up God’s word. And I hope that you will be encouraged by the things that we will be discussing this evening. I express my appreciation to you all for your kind words and your prayers that you have offered up on my behalf and even for my family. My appreciation to uh Kaylee uh had uh opportunity to spend time with uh with her and uh uh and the uh her uh son, I forget his name real quick, but uh but we had a great time. I I uh uh uh getting to know her and some things that uh she mentioned that just really confirm uh some of the things that I uh I realized from God’s word, and that is we have to develop our own faith, and that is our faith in God.

And she pointed that out and really appreciated uh her making those statements because that’s what we strive to do is to help each other to grow in our faith to the Lord. And that’s what it’s all about. And I also want to express my appreciation uh to Miriam and Kathy and John had an opportunity to spend time this evening with them as well. And so again, it has been just a wonderful week, and I appreciate you all, and you are in my prayers that you continue to strive to do uh the will of God. If you have your Bibles, again, turn to first or 2 Corinthians, and that’s where the lesson is going to be taken from uh this evening, as we look at a few final thoughts of working together with the Lord.

In Ephesians chapter 2, where we based upon the things that are expressed there concerning that we are saved by grace and that we are God’s workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works that he prepared beforehands that we would walk in them. And then we looked at 2 Corinthians chapter 6, verses 1 and 2. And in particular, verse 1, where we read that, as Paul said, and working together with him, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain. And that has been our theme for these series of lessons, and that is working together with God. And again, if you would look at your Bibles, chapter 2 is a passage that we touched upon during this series, but I want us to look back at several things that are mentioned there in chapter 2, and in particular, verses 4 through 10 again.

As Paul pointed out in reference to serving the Lord and trying to urge the Corinthians to continue to follow in the truth, he says, For out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears, not so that you would be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have especially for you. But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow not to me, but in the same degree, in order not to, I’m reading from the wrong passage. It’s supposed to be chapter six. There it is. Come on, Albert. He says, But in everything, commending ourselves as servants of God, in much endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses, in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in hunger, in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in genuine love, in the word of truth, in the power of God, by the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and the left.

And as he goes on, he points out, he says, by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report, regarded as deceivers and yet true, as unknown, yet well known, as dying, yet behold, we live as punished yet not put to death, as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing, as poor, yet making many rich, as having nothing, yet possessing all things.

They have gone through so many things as he’s bringing to their attention. And yet they exist, and yet they continue to move forward and proclaiming the message of God. In fact, when you start to look throughout the scriptures, over in 2 Corinthians chapter 11, he mentions some more difficult things that he had gone through in the service or for the sake of Christ. And so he makes mention of those difficulties. And many of us have not even touched or come near those kinds of struggles. But what the apostle is bringing to our attention, and the question is raised, how did he do that? How did they continue to go through those things? And so the title of the lesson this evening is the sustaining power of God.

That is how he and those who were serving and proclaiming the gospel message, going through all of those difficulties, were able to do that and remain faithful. It was because of the power of God. In Acts chapter 9, there, the Bible tells us several things in connection to the life of Paul. Remember his conversion. And in his conversion there in Acts chapter 9, it is he is sent to Damascus. And there the Lord then talked with Ananias.

And the Lord said, because when the Lord approached Ananias and told him for him to go to Saul, and Ananias said, wait a minute. Heard a lot of bad things about this guy. He was a persecutor of God’s people. And the Lord said, No, you go to him. I have chosen him. I’m going to show him the many things that he is going to suffer for my name’s sake. The sustaining power of God helped Paul to accomplish his will. Now, what do we mean by sustain here? What we mean by sustain, and that is to uphold, to bear, to support as a foundation supports the structure of a building. This is what God did to the apostle to help him go through the things that he went through and yet remained strong and firm and accomplished the will of God in his life.

And sometimes what we think in the sustaining power of God, we think that it would take a miracle for that to happen.

His providence. In the word providence is that word provide. God provides a way. And so when it comes to the sustaining power of God, it is the power that is upholding, it is the power that is keeping Paul and those who would serve him intact. And if God did that for Paul, how much more does He does, He will do that for us as His children today. And we can take comfort in those things. And so tonight, our discussion is about some of the sustaining power of God. You see, the sustaining power of God is multifaceted. And we don’t have enough time to talk about the multifaceted way of the sustaining power. We can only talk about some of them right now, and then later on in your studies, you’ll see even more as you’re studying the scriptures.

1. The Mercy and Comfort That God Supplies

And I will touch upon some of them towards the end of the lesson tonight. It is evident that the sustaining power of God can happen with miracles where God just interjects himself with nature and speeds it up. And it happens like that. Or it happens in the provisions that he makes for those who would serve him. So let’s begin our discussion this evening about this sustaining power of God. Look with me in chapter one of 2 Corinthians. In chapter 1, verses 3 through 7, we get to get uh we get the first glimpse in this letter of the sustaining power of God. Paul says, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our afflictions, so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ. But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. Or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer. And our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that as you are sharers of our sufferings, so also you are sharers of our comfort. Paul is telling us in these verses that the sustaining power of God is expressed in the mercy and comfort that God supplies. In fact, he uses the plural term mercies there.

Just to tell you how multifaceted his power is to help us to understand what this idea of comfort is about, it’s about strength, it’s about encouragement. And because it’s about these things, and as we get a grip of them, we begin to see that God is able to sustain us in these various ways when it comes to this word comfort. And Paul says he’s the God of all comfort. There is no one that is able to touch the recesses of our soul like God. No one.

A point here in reference to the work of the Lord and looking at how this power, this mercy sustains. And the idea of mercy, the idea of comfort, excuse me, is about compassion. Mercy, compassion, and the comfort that God provides. In this situation, it is with the widow of Nain. And I want us to look at verse 12 in particular, beginning there, and look at the situation concerning the act of the Lord. In verse 12, it says, Now as he approached the gate of the city, a dead man was being carried out, the only son of his mother. And she was a widow, and a sizable crowd from the city was with her. I want you to notice the background here. Here is this woman who has lost her husband.

She is a widow. And she had one son. And that son has died. There is no one to take care of her.

And said to her, Do not weep. There is the comfort that he’s getting ready to offer her. What is that comfort? He exposes or expresses this great power of God by doing what he did in verse 14. It says, He came up and he touched the coffin, and the bearer came to a halt, and he said, Young man, I say to you, arise. There’s God’s power being expressed here by raising this man, this young man back to life. Verse 15, he sat up the dead man, now who is alive, and began to speak, and Jesus gave him back to his mother. All of those who were with this widow could not provide that kind of comfort to her. But Jesus did.

And there was comfort that was given to this widow. What a great lesson for us. To give us courage to continue to follow the Lord. Go back to 2 Corinthians chapter 1.

Notice what the apostle expresses there in verse 5. For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ. The sufferings, the hardships that you and I face can never outpace the abundance of comfort that the Lord can provide.

That’s how great the God that we serve is. No wonder he’s called the God of all comfort. Look with me over in chapter 27 of the book of Acts. In chapter 27, verses 21 through 26, you remember when the apostle is on his way to Rome, and he had talked with those who were in charge of the ship, and he says, Let’s not go.

And so they ran into this great storm. And they were fearful.

And beginning at verse 21. And it says, when they had gone a long time without food, then Paul stood up in their midst and said, Men, you ought to have followed my advice. And not to have set sail from Crete and incurred this damage and loss. Yet, now I urge you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship. Why is he so courageous here? If I was caught up in a storm, and here I remember when uh when I was in the military, and we were on our way back from a NATO exercise back to the states.

And they ended up, we ended up going through uh around the edges of that storm, and I couldn’t imagine us going through the storm, but we were just on the edges. And the military, in reference to the Marines, they always put the Marines down at the bottom of the ship. Why do they do that? But anyway. We’re at the bottom of the ship. And they told us to stay down there. But me, my curiosity, I went up. I opened up the hatch on the deck, and I stuck my head out that hatch, and I looked at the front of that ship, and I saw this gigantic wave. And I closed the hatch immediately, and I went back down to the bottom, and I realized why they told us to stay down there.

I didn’t have that kind of courage that we’re seeing with the apostle here. The apostle stands up in their midst during the storm, and he is encouraging them. Why is that? It’s because he was encouraged. He was comforted by God in the midst of this storm. In verse 23, the apostle says, For this very night, an angel of God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood before me, saying, Do not be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar, and behold, God has granted you all those who are sailing with you. Therefore, keep up your courage, men, for I believe God that it will turn out exactly as I have been told.

In the comfort that he is giving Paul.

He is in prison and sitting there and thinking about this, that he realizes that this is nothing compared to what God did for me through Christ Jesus our Lord. And what that did was bring a moment of comfort and strength to the apostle to help him to make it through whatever he’s suffering. And I want to say, brothers and sisters, we have not even scratched the surface of the suffering that many of them went through. But the encouragement for us is when you and I are suffering. Think about the suffering of Christ Jesus our Lord on our behalf. And what it does, it begins to fill your heart and your mind with thanksgiving. That you have the opportunity, if your life is taken, or even if you suffer for a little while, it’s only a little while.

And God awaits us to give us the glories that He has promised those who are faithful to him. That’s God comforting us. That’s what he’s doing. He’s encouraging us. You can hang in there. You can make it. And even if it doesn’t come in your favor, your home that is prepared for you awaits. You see, that’s the kind of encouragement and comfort that God gives us. And especially as you look back here in chapter 27 with the apostle. Here’s another passage, if you will, over in chapter 7 of 2 Corinthians. Look at chapter 7. In chapter 7 of 2 Corinthians, in reference to this concept of comfort, here is how else God comforts and encourages us. In these passages that is expressed, God comforts the apostle by others in what they do.

Remember in the first letter, he had talked about the one who had was committing an immoral act not even named among the Gentiles. And then what the brethren did is they exercised discipline on this brother. And this brother, then his heart became sorrowful, and he returns to the Lord. And Paul writing this letter made the Corinthian brethren sorrowful. But what it did, it motivated them to get in line with the teachings of God’s word. And so notice what the apostle says, For even when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted on every side. Conflicts without, fears within, but God who comforts the depressed. I remember listening to a lesson by a brother. And one of the things that he brought out in his lesson and caused me to think about this.

And now looking at this, is that when you looked among many of God’s people and you read about them, many of them were depressed. That’s right. And God would step in, and what God would do is strengthen them. And they would overcome the depression as they began to focus their attention on God and who He is.

Depressed. After conquering and defeating the prophets of Baal, he went into a depression. And the depression was that here is evil Jezebel seeking his life. And you think that, well, Elijah, you just defeated the prophets of Baal. God answered with a mighty power with his mighty power. And now you’re depressed. And what God did was say, Elijah, I got some more work for you to do. He fed him. And said, now I want you to go and anoint Jehu. That’s what gets us out of depression a lot of times. Our focus, we have to change our focus. Because it was there that Elijah says, you know, all the prophets and I alone am left. And God says, No, it isn’t. I have 5,000 who have not even bowed their knees to Baal.

And he had to change Elijah’s focus. And when Elijah’s focus was changed, he was strengthened. And that’s how God does this. He changes our focus. And as he changes our focus, notice they are afflicted on every side, Paul says. And he says, God comfort the depressed. Comfort us by the coming of Titus. And what Titus did was Titus brought good news. And that good news is that the brethren at Corinth were activated or they were acting as they should. They were serving God. They got right on the uh right back on the right track. And they were glorifying God. I want you to notice verse 9. He says, I now rejoice that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to the point of repentance.

For you were made sorrowful according to the will of God, so that you might not suffer loss in anything through us. For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death. And so, in other words, Paul is rejoicing at the fact that their sorrow produced in them to do the will of God.

When I get brethren to think about God and what he’s done and what he is doing and what he will do, I’m encouraged by that. And that’s what the apostle is saying of God comforting them by causing them to change their focus. In verse 11, for behold, what earnestness this very thing, this godly sorrow has produced in you. What vindication of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what avenging of wrong in everything you demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in the matter. That’s what Paul was rejoicing over. That’s what got him out of his depression. And it’ll help us when we change our focus and realize that there is a power that we haven’t tapped in yet. And when we tap into that power, restores us.

Of the one offended, but that your earnestness on our behalf might be made known to you in the sight of God. Verse 13 brings it home. For this reason we have been comforted. And besides our comfort, we rejoice even much more for the joy of Titus. Because his spirit has been refreshed by you all. The sustaining power of God. It didn’t take a miracle. It took a changing of our focus. That’s what it took. The good news that some have changed to follow God. That’s what God does with us. So the sustaining power of God comes through the mercy and the comfort that he provides. There are other ways that he does this. We just tapped into just one. Like I said, that is it is multifaceted.

2. The Sustaining Power of God Is Making Us Adequate

Let’s go back to chapter 3 of 2 Corinthians. Verses 4 through 6. Paul says, such confidence we have through Christ Jesus or Christ toward God, that not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God, who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. We touched upon this last night. But I want to put it in the point that the apostle is making concerning the sustaining power of God. The sustaining power of God is making us adequate. Now, what do we mean when we talk about making us adequate? You’ll hear a word like sufficient. Prepared. Ready. It’s one of those words that kind of associate itself with our English about hiking.

When you plan to go on a hike, what do you do? Do you just jump out the car and just go hiking? Try that. You try that once, and then all of a sudden you get caught in the cold. You’re not ready. Not prepared. But no, you get your, you plan, you wear the clothes that you’re going to wear for the hike. You might even carry a jacket in your pack. You have everything prepared, ready for you to go hiking. You put on the type of shoes that you need to wear to go hiking. Can you imagine going hiking in flip flops? You’re talking about a mess. Yeah. No, we prepare ourselves. Well, that’s this idea. This is what the sustaining power of God does. It makes us sufficient, it prepares us.

And in God’s sustaining power, he provides what we need for the work that he has created us to do in Christ Jesus.

What do you find there in those passages? What you find in those passages is Jesus promising the disciples the Holy Spirit, who was going to lead and guide them into all truth. They would be prepared to do the work of teaching the word of God. And then you have a passage like we pointed out there over. Here’s another one. Yeah, Mark chapter 16 is another one here. In Mark chapter 16. Look over there quickly. And we sometimes leave this out. And we shouldn’t be afraid to leave it out or read through that as well. Where Jesus tells the disciples, you go and you preach the gospel to the whole creation or all creation. And he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. And he says in verse 17, and these signs will accompany those who have believed.

He is going to prepare them for the work. In my name, they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues, and they will pick up serpents. If they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them. They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover. In other words, God was preparing them to confirm that what they were teaching was the truth.

Their lives were spared. And they ended up in Malta. You remember when they were picking up sticks? There Paul was. And the serpent wrapped around Paul’s arm and bit him. A viper there. And they’re thinking, well, he must have done something wrong. He was bitten. He’s going to die. And then all of a sudden they see nothing happened to him. You see. God had prepared him. See, the sustaining power of God prepares us. Another passage along with that is Ephesians chapter 4, verses 11 through 12. It is there that God says to the brethren at Ephesus, a passage that you and I are familiar with, and we read them, but they also connect to the sustaining power of God to equip us to do the work that He’s prepared for us.

Look at verse 11. Remember the gifts that he gave? And in the gifts that he gave, some as apostles, some as prophets, some as teachers. For what? For the equipping of the saints for the work of service. That’s the sustaining power of God. Making us adequate to do the work. You know, one of the blessings in reference to doing the work of God. One of the blessings of doing the work of God is that I know where the answers are. I try to remember them, but I can always turn to them. God is even supplied to where they were written down for us, and we can read them. Isn’t that something? Sometimes what I would do in my studies with someone, I’d say, okay, you read it from your read it.

And they would read it. I remember one study I had with someone. We were talking about baptism does now save. And as they were reading the passage there in 1 Peter chapter 3, we said, baptism does not save. And I said, okay, let’s slow it down. Now read it again. And they said, baptism does not save. And I said, all right, slow it down even slower. And they said, baptism does now save. Oh, that’s your interpretation. No, you read it. I didn’t read it. You read it. You see. That’s how a lot of people are. They don’t realize how much that they have been infiltrated by those things that are false. And you get them to read it for themselves. Many of them have not read it for themselves.

And when they begin to read it for themselves, they begin to see the truth of God’s word. As God’s word starts to work on them. That’s the sustaining power of God. Paul says they were written so that when we read, we can understand there, as Ephesians chapter 3 points out, verses 1 through 3. Yeah. That’s the sustaining power of God. That his word was preserved for us in the 21st century. Sustaining power of God, equipping us for the work that he’s prepared for us to do. And the thing is, we can do it. We can. We can do the work of God. We just got to trust him. We got to put forth the trust. Well, let’s go back to 2 Corinthians. And it’s in this time.

3. The Sufficient Grace He Has Provided

Look at chapter 12. In chapter 12, verses 7 through 10. The apostle has talked about the things that he’s gone through. And he’s even talking about his boasting, his boasting would be in Christ. But then he realizes, he says, that he was caught up to the third heaven. And saw things that was unspeakable. That is in contrast to a lot of people today saying, Well, I’ve been to heaven. And then they try to tell you whatever they saw. Paul says he was there. And he saw things that were unspeakable. And then he begins to point out why this was so. And that is so that he would not exalt himself. He says, Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelation, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me to keep me from exalting myself.

Concerning this, he says, I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me. And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore, I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong. Look at the sustaining power of God. The sustaining power of God is in reference to the sufficient grace that He has provided. Sufficient grace. What a picture that’s given to us. In other words, it is fit, it is fully capable, it provides salvation, it gives instructions in righteousness. Now, why do I say that?

It’s because of what Paul said to Titus over in Titus chapter 2, verses 11 through 14. Where Paul writes to Titus, encouraging him to do the work at Crete, to set things in order. And there the apostle says in verse 11, beginning, he says, For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously, and godly in the present age. This is the sustaining power of God in the sufficient grace that is provided in Christ Jesus, in his word that was preserved, so that when we read we can understand. In verse 13, looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus, who gave himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed and to purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good deeds.

That’s the sustaining power of God in this sufficient grace. And just as Paul, just as God told Paul, we do well to listen ourselves that his grace is sufficient. It is capable of doing what God intended for it to do. We just have to trust it. That’s God’s grace. These things should cause us to humbly bow and do whatever it takes to go through whatever we might face in this life to serve him, knowing that God has provided the sustaining power. You know, the apostle heavily relied on that power. In fact, over in chapter 2 of 1 Corinthians, look there with me. In chapter 2 of 1 Corinthians, about the sufficient power, Paul points out there, in 1 Corinthians chapter 2, in verse 1, he says, When I came to you, brethren, I did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. It was the sustaining power of God that caused Paul to do what he did. And then he goes on, he says, And my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the spirit and of power. Why is that, Paul? The reason why is so that your faith would not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God. Paul relied on the power of God. We should rely on the power of God in the power of his word. It is the sustaining power. It doesn’t change. It stands. It stood the test of time.

It is still here. And many of its critics have long been gone. You see, that is where you and I should put our trust in God and his word. It is the power that will sustain us. In those moments when no one else can touch the depths of your soul. Only God can. And allow him to do that. Allow his word to sink deep into your heart. Let it sink deep into your mind. Let it sink deep into your soul, making every aspect of you. And it will sustain you when your friends leave you. When people ridicule you for standing up for what is right.

4. The Sustaining Power Expressed in the Giving

But you will not be alone because God will be there. He’ll be with you. This is what this lesson is about to help us to see that when we’re working together with God, He’s going to sustain us. This has been done over and over again. The sustaining power is even expressed in the giving over in chapters eight and nine. You know, we kind of hedge and hum and ha over the aspect of giving.

It really is. Have you ever taken, you know, when parents start early and giving money to their kids to go ahead and put in the that’s what they’re teaching about giving. That’s what 8 and 9 is doing. It’s teaching us about giving. In fact, those of Macedonia understood this. They understood it. As Paul pointed out there. Chapter 8. Look there. Very quickly. 2 Corinthians. Chapter 8. Notice. The churches of Macedonia. He says that in a great ordeal of affliction, their abundance of joy and deep poverty overflowed in the wealth of their liberality. For I testify that according to their ability and beyond their ability, they gave of their own accord. Begging us with much urging for the favor of participation in the support of the saints.

And then he talks about the attitude that we should have when we’re giving over in chapter 9. It’s for our benefit. Why? Because this is, we become instruments of God in working in sustaining the power. We’re the sustaining power of God to comfort and help our brethren when they are in need.

Conclusion

Well, I’m giving. Look at me. I’m all grown up. That’s what it does. Causes you to mature. And God knows that. That sustaining power in the giving. You see evidence of all of this. It was God who sustained Joseph. Remember Joseph and the difficulties that he went through? He kept God first. And God sustained him through all of that. He didn’t give up. He remained faithful and then became second in command to Pharaoh. Job. God sustained Job through the suffering. He will sustain us. Example after example after example. A person who really needed to be depressed, that was Job. Tell you what. But God sustained him. He did not give up. Neither should we. Why? Because of the sustaining power of God. If you will, bow with me in a word of prayer.

Merciful God and Father, thank you for the power that you exert on our behalf. Help us to recognize that power, knowing that we can come to you and that you will help us, that you will comfort our hearts through the difficult times, that you will cause us to rejoice when we see things from your perspective. Help us to do that, Lord. Help us to open up our hearts and our minds to be receptive to your truth. So it will sustain us throughout the days of our lives in service to your great and holy name. Forgive us, Lord, when we have turned away from you, neglected to talk to you, neglected to even tap into the power that you provide. May we be reminded of these things and ever seek you out as we walk the path of righteousness, knowing that we are working with you and that you will supply us with all that we need to accomplish your will in our lives.

We pray these things to your Son Jesus. Amen. If you have not obeyed the gospel of Christ, we wouldn’t encourage you to do so before it’s everlasting too late. Tap into the sustaining power. How do you do that? You do that by putting your faith in Jesus the Christ. He is the one that died for you, as Peter and the rest of the apostles taught there in Acts chapter 2. But he was raised from the dead, demonstrating ultimate power over death. And that declared him to be the Son of God, as Romans chapter 1, verse 4 points out. And as these men continued to preach about the Christ, he is now king. He’s on the throne. God did that. And what we need to do after doing that, we need to repent of our sins, turn away from it.

It was our sins that brought the death of our Savior on our behalf. We need him. And then what we need to do is confess Him as Lord. He is the ruler, He’s the Master, as Romans chapter 10, verses 9 and 10 teaches. And then bear it with Him in baptism. Where we are raised up out of the water, we are new creatures in Christ Jesus. We have now tapped in to the sustaining power. As we continue to walk with the Lord, working with Him, He will lead us. He will amply supply the power to get us to heaven, to be with Him throughout eternity. Won’t you tap in tonight? Won’t you plug into the Savior? We’re here to help. We’re here to help you to do that.

You will not be able to work until you are tapped into the Lord. We’re your friends. So, my friend, if you are subject to the invitation, we encourage you to come and make it known as we stand and sing the song that was indicated.