Expounds on the Triune Godhead as revealed in Ephesians 1:1-14, emphasizing the distinct yet unified work of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in redemption. It highlights the Father's eternal choice and predestination of believers, the Son's redemptive work through His blood for the forgiveness of sins, and the Holy Spirit's sealing and pledge of our inheritance. The message underscores that this divine undertaking is for the praise of God's glory and calls believers to a deeper appreciation of their relationship with the Triune God.
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The real joy to be with you this morning and joy the fellowship we have together around the Lord at the Lord's table in remembrance of them. Now to turn to the precious Word of God. Will you turn with me to the epistle of Paul written to the Ephesians? The first chapter of the Ephesian epistle, where we would like to read, beginning at verse one through verse fourteen, Paul writing by the Holy Spirit and saying, Paul and Apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus.
Grace be to you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ, according as he hath chosen us in him, before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love, having predestinated or predetermined us, unto the adoption of the place of children by Jesus Christ to himself.
according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved, in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace, wherein he hath abounded toward us, in all wisdom and prudence, or understanding, having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he has purposed in himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of time he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth, even in him, in whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him, who work of all things as a counsel of his own will, that we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ, in whom ye also trust him, after
that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also after or upon believing, he was filled with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest or the pledge of our inheritance until the redemption of the precious possession under the praise of his glory. May God bless the reading and hearing of this wonderful section of his precious and holy word. One of the greatest revelations of our New Testament written by Paul the Apostle, as he wrote to the Ephesian Church many centuries ago, what joy must have been for him to write, as the Epistle is addressed, to the saint and to the faithful who are in Christ Jesus.
The revelation of one of the greatest truths that you can find in the New Testament in relation to the purposes of God in redemption. and particularly for the saints of this age during the church age. I'm sure you may have noticed, I hope you have, that as we have read the section, there are three great persons brought before our hearts. There is the person of God the Father. There is the person of God the Son. There is the person of God the Holy Spirit. May I repeat it? You will find particularly from verse four through verse six the emphasis of God the Father.
You will find beginning as you go to verse seven down through verse twelve the emphasis on God the Son. Then when she comes to verse thirteen and fourteen the emphasis upon the Holy Spirit. Now beloved there is no question of doubt. This is a great theme. to be able to read and to know something regarding the Triune Godhead. The three persons of the Trinity, as we often call them, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. And I notice in the last verse this week which we sang in our song service, we sang all hail to the Father, all hail to the Son, all hail to the Spirit, blessed, free in one.
Now when you read your Old Testament, you do not find the emphasis on the Trinity, on the Triune Godhead. The emphasis in the Old Testament is chiefly on the person or the unity and the oneness of God. You may remember as you read in Exodus chapter twenty, and you may hear it. If ever you ever hear a program, not very seldom would you hear a Jewish synagogue program. But you will ever hear, you will hear the Rabbi saying, Hear, O Israel, the Lord thy God is one God, and the unity, the oneness of the Godhead is particularly mentioned in the Old Testament.
But there are some suggestions that in the Godhead you may find more than one person, even from the Old Testament, by way of illustration. remember in chapter one of genesis i think verse twenty six that god said let us make man in our own image suggesting the plurality in the godhead think i believe in chapter ten when god saw the town of babel we read that he said let us go down and investigate it and then in the chapter that One of our brethren read in the worship meeting in chapter six of Isaiah.
The Lord said to the prophet, Who will go for us? So there are intimations of the Trinity in the Old Testament, but the emphasis is chiefly upon the unity and the oneness of the God. But whenever you come to the New Testament, bless your heart. All you've got to do is read the Gospel of John. You'll find the Father mentioned the hundred and fourteen times. As we all know well, it's called the Gospel of the Glory of the Son of God, and he's mentioned all the way through it in his glorious manifestation. And the Holy Spirit, such is the Blessed Lord Jesus, who begins the revelation of the Holy Spirit in his ministry in John fourteen, fifteen and sixteen to his disciples.
But all through the New Testament, we have the emphasis on God the Trinity. God the Father? God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Will you look with me at verse three for a moment? Verse three of our chapter. And note particularly you'll find the Godhead revealed in this one verse. As Paul writes saying, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. Now you know very carefully and easily, God the Father is mentioned, and may I emphasize, the word blessed means let us eulogize, let us speak well of, let us pray, the God and the Father.
Now please note, my fellow believer, he doesn't say our God and Father, but the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Father is thus revealed. And then the Lord Jesus is revealed. that through him we have been blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. And you may ask the question, where is the Spirit revealed? Well, in the word spiritual, it's only the Holy Spirit that can reveal to us the blessings that belong to the believer, or the way of salvation that a sinner may need. Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, when he shall come, the Spirit of God. He shall not speak of himself, but he will also convince the world of sin.
Righteousness and judgment are sinned because they believe not in me, as well as reveal the many blessings we have in Christ, revealed by the Spirit. But I would like you to note something very precious, very precious of my own heart to realize more than ever in my life. that God the Father is revealed, God the Son is revealed, God the Holy Spirit is revealed, combining their efforts for the redemption of the human race. God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the whole Godhead working for the redemption of the human race.
I'm sure we can say this from the authority of God's words. There is no divine undertaking, whatever it may be, that you may read in the Holy Scripture. The Father has his share, the Son has his part, and the Holy Spirit also. Beginning at Genesis one and all the way through the book. But here's the great blessed theme of the book of Ephesians, working for the redemption of the human race. Look carefully with me at beginning at verse four. Let's look at verses four through verse six, and we find three definite revelations concerning the work of God the Father for the redemption of the human race.
For the great masterpiece of bringing sinners out of darkness and bringing them into that body of Christ, which is called the church. Note first of all in verse four, and you'll find here before the foundation of the world the Father was working, and Paul writes according as he has chosen us in Christ before the foundation of the world. May I pause worship for later, think with you? Before ever creation began, the thoughts of God concerning my redemption and yours were in his heart, and in his mind?
Oh, the joy of realizing the thoughts of redemption for the human race, which God foreknew and foresaw within his heart before the foundation of the world. And please note what his thoughts were, deviring and choosing, that he might have, nobody had at the end of this book, that we, Paul is writing to the believers at Ephesus, if you are a believer in the Lord Jesus, and you and I who are believers in the Lord Jesus, there's God's thought in eternity past concerning its purposes, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.
Well, may I say very frankly, God wanted a big family, and his thought was to have a family. holy, without blame, before him in love. My beloved, what a tremendous truth that in eternity past God made the choice to have a family for himself, and that they would be holy without blame before him in love. One can recognize their sinless character and purity. like the blessed son of Islam?
But read on in verse five. And note the next thing about him, not only before time began, but now having predestinated or predetermined us. Now note, the family should be in the place of children. And may I suggest to you what the Greek text suggests? The place of sons. to place the Jews, not just to have people before Him holy and without blame before Him in love, but to have them in a blessed relationship. That's sons. In fact, the Greek word is son place, giving them a son place.
That's sons. Children by Jesus Christ to himself. Do you remember that verse in verse John, chapter three? We love it well. Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called what? The sons of the children of God? And what joy it is to recognize the predetermined purpose of God, though children would be his sons in relationship to him. Can I humbly, in worship, can I humbly think with you, You don't find it in the Old Testament.
You don't find the relationship of that intimacy that belongs to the people of God of this age in the Old Testament. May I give you the thought? You have only the mention of the word Father in the Old Testament about five or six times. I mean the name Father. And usually in the relationship to creation, it's cretorial glory. not intimacy, but you and I who know the Lord, let me point out to you, even in your Gospels and through the New Testament. You have, ultimately, if you read the whole New Testament through, I believe you have the name Father, two hundred and fifty-seven times in the New Testament.
I think in Matthew about nineteen and in Mark about four, In Luke about sixty, but in John a hundred and fourteen times, the Father is mentioned. And then the rest of the epistles. You don't find the emphasis on the Father, but not until the Son came could the Father be revealed. As Matthew eleven twenty-seven declares, when the Lord Jesus said, No man knoweth the Son, but the Father. And no man knoweth the Father, but the Son, and he to whom he will reveal him. And my beloved, what choice are recognized?
The predetermined will of God. I want them to be my children. I want them to be my son. Thank Christ. You don't find that in the Old Testament. I don't know how you feel, but you know I'm happy that I didn't live in the Old Testament time. But it's a joy to realize the blessedness of living in the church age. When we're children of God, holy and without blame before him to be his in love forever. And here you have, look, in verse five noted, his desire is determination to have as a children, sons, which is the Greek meaning of it, by Jesus Christ to himself.
You know he only had one son. God told not the world that he gave his only begotten son. And that unique, distinguished name that belongs to the Lord Jesus, suggesting that he's unoriginated, that he's uncreated, that he's the eternal son of God. The thing that come into the earth became that we might, that he might bring sons to the Father. But now please note at the end of verse five what he says about it, according to the good pleasure of his will. Why did he want me?
He wanted me. That's all I can say. See, it was his pleasure. It was his will. One sure thing, my beloved, when God willed that at least, You ever notice in the Old Testament again and again, even in relation to the promises of Israel's restoration? God often says, I will, I will, I will, I will, I will. Lord, I tell you, I've said you'll find the word will in this section more than once, but according to the good pleasure. Well, they said, well, do you often wonder? I often do. I often say, Lord, why did you ever say me? It's because I want it.
I will this. It is my good pleasure. And then read on, please. As you know this, in verse six, to the praise of the glory of his grace. Not to my praise, not to my deserving it, never. But to the praise and the eternal praise of the glory of his grace is undeserved favor. I think it was Louis Perry Schaefer many years ago, I remember reading, made the statement I never forgot. He made the statement, and his own confession of it, that he believed the grace of God was greater than the love of God.
For without the grace, he could never know his love. That's who it is. And to the praise of the glory of his grace, he will, we should be his children. But then note the first thing about him in verse, as you go to the end of verse six. He not only predetermined to have us holy and without blame before him, he not only determined that we should be his children, but in verse six he tells us how. And as Paul writes, wherein he have made us, accepted in the beloved. He accepted us in the beloved.
And you know, well, the beloved is only the one person, his blessed eternal son. This is my beloved son, in whom is all my delight, as God broke the heavens again and again to speak of him when on earth. And through him, I certainly beloved, and what joy do you know, the Father determined that every child he would receive, would be accepted in the perfection of his beloved son. What joy to realize. So nigh, if I may quote the words of the poet, So nigh, so very nigh to God, nearer I cannot be.
For in the person of his son, I am as near as he. So dear, so very dear to God, more dear I cannot be. The love wherewith he loves the son. such as is lost to me. The Father, praise God, predetermined before the foundation of the world, he wanted us. God the Father, predetermined, he would have us in the relationship of his tune. And may I go back to the thought again, to call him Father? Remember Galatians chapter four, verse six. God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your heart, Whereby ye cry what?
Haber, Father. And you may remember there was only one person there that lived upon the earth that called him that. That was the Lord Jesus in Gethsemane. When facing the agony and the bitter cup that he was to drink at Calvary, he sweared as there were great drops of blood and cried. Father, Abba, Father, if it is possible, let this come back from me, nevertheless not my word would I be done. Abba, Father, you know what it is? The word Abba is just like a child. Who knows its parent?
Affection. It's a child that's full of affection for the parent that is loved. And the intelligent knowledge, this is my mother, or this is my father. The Lord Jesus was speaking to his Father in that prayer. Abba. So, and then you and I read in Romans eight, as well as Galatians six, four and six that we called it. We can call him, Abba, Father. Can I say it worshipfully? You and I who know him as our Savior can use the same precious name when we call upon our Father. Aba Father accepted in the beloved.
We don't value him enough, do we? That it brought us to the Father. Remember at the end of John sixteen when the Lord was ending his closing words to his disciples in the upper room? He made a statement before he went to the cross. The Father himself loveth you. The Father himself loveth you. Oh, my beloved, this was the Father before the foundation of the world, working for our redemption to bring us to himself. Now let's look at God the Son, beginning at verse seven.
As it's spoken of as the beloved, we read in verse seven, let me read that son of God, in whom we have redemption through his blood. the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace. Our beloved here we have the Son, redeeming us. In Him we have redemption, through His blood, the forgiveness of the remission of sins according to the riches of His grace. Oh, the joy of knowing that redeeming work of the Son, coming into the world to redeem us. God, we read in the epistle of John, and how true it is, God sent his son here in his love.
Not that we love God, but that he loved us, and sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins. And where have we found redemption in Christ, in him alone? Take the verse. Look at it carefully. You've got four facts in it. You've got the place of redemption. You've got the power of redemption. And you've got the proof of redemption. And you've got the plenitude of redemption. The place of the person of the Son. Christ. Oh, beloved, it's not to the church. It's not to any apostle. It's not to any preacher. It's not to any priest. But it's only to the person of the Son that a sinner must come for his and her redemption.
Oh, beloved, the joy of knowing. Revention is in a person, the person of the Lord Jesus alone. Why in him, the power of it, through his blood, and let me re-emphasize that, through his blood, and the reason for emphasizing it is this, there are men denying the efficacy of the blood of Christ, even among some evangelical persuasion, so-called. And even some radio preacher I know, denying that the blood was necessary. They do not deny his death was necessary.
But they deny his blood wasn't necessary. But they deny his blood wasn't necessary. I beg your pardon. From Genesis for three all the way through the scriptures. You've got a red line of redemption by blood. The blood in Eden. The blood of the Passover time in Egypt. And all through the altars of Israel. The blood upon the altar. God says. that the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I've given it to you upon the altar. For it is the blood that makeeth an atonement of the soul. My beloved, let me repeat. There are men today that are going the way of Cain, as you have in the epistle of Jude. The way of Cain. What was his way?
He denied the need of blood and sacrifice to approach God. Oh, no. The blood on the altar. was that which God required even of Israel. And then when you come to John the Baptist, did he not announce, behold, the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world? God provided land. And then when you get to the book of the Revelation, if you don't mind, you find the blood in heaven. You find the blood in heaven in chapter five, where we shall sing around the throne of God. And with all the redeemed saints, and angelic beings around him will sing worthy art thou, for thou was slain, and as redeemed us to go out by thy blood.
Oh, the joy of being able to emphasize the blood. I think of a dear old man I led to the Lord, I think about fifty or sixty years ago. As I saw him for the last time on his dying bed, he looked at me and said, Brother Bramhall, I'm going to be looking for you when I get to heaven. I looked at him and I said, Mr. Song, so tell me, how do you know you're going to heaven? I wanted him to have witnessed to me again. And he looked at me with a bright smile. He said, oh, brother Bramall, I'm trusting the precious blood of Jesus. I said, praise the Lord. He said, I'll see you again. Dear old chap, he's been waiting for me nearly sixty years.
But I'll get there. He's more fortunate than I am. He got there ahead of me. But thank God it's the blood that is the power of redemption. And then the proof of it, the forgiveness of your sins. Oh, the joy, do you remember the night the Lord saved you, the day whenever the moment was? The joy was in one's heart when you went home singing, hallelujah, that he had saved you from your sins and washed them in his own precious blood. What can wash away my sins? Not even the blood of Jesus. and the joy of having the proof of it. And I want to tell you, the proof of it's worth hanging on to and enjoying to.
My beloved, if you don't enjoy this, and I'll tell you frankly, I don't enjoy this world much anymore. It seems to me the longer I live in this world, the less I want to live much longer in it. It doesn't please me so good. But if you're one thing, I've got my sins forgiven. I'm ready to leave, thank God. And then the plenitude of it, are you here? You've got it again, as it was with the Father, according to the riches of his grace. What a savior, redeemed by his blood. But then there's something else. That's not only that. No, what else the Lord has done, the Son does in verse eight and verse nine, wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and understanding our intelligence.
all right, you have it here, prudent, having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he has purposed in himself. My beloved, what a choice, and know what the Son has not only done. Thank God for the night when he saved my soul, when he forgave my sin. I want to tell you, thank God I've been learning from himself the revelation of the mystery of his will. Beloved, look, there's a lot to learn in the old book. And regarding the mystery of that blessed life, let me quote something in substance that you have in chapter five of this epistle, verse twenty-five through twenty-seven.
Husbands love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify and cleanse it by the washing of water, by the words, And then he might present it to himself, a glorious church, not having caught a wrinkle or blemish or any such thing. Beloved, the mystery of his will. And may I suggest that you've got it in this epistle? The church. You've got more in this blessed epistle concerning the origins, the functions, and the responsibilities, as well as the destiny of the church. the mystery of his will abounding toward us.
And that, according to his good pleasure, which he has purposed in himself. But that's not all. The sun's got a future for us. Let me read in verse ten and eleven. That in the dispensation of the fullness of time, you know, I'll be glad when time's no more, would you? I tell you what, the clock keeps going. But when you... You know, it must be wonderful being in eternity. They don't have mixed costs. If you haven't noticed, God never had a time for us. And there'll be no cost in heaven. But here it is. The fullness of time will come. And he's gathered together in one. Under himself. All things in Christ.
Whether in heaven or in the earth. Even in him. And now note. The third thing he has for us in that glory of time they come. in whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him, who worketh all things as a counsel of his own will. Redemption by his love, revelation of the truth. Have you revealed it to us? For it abounded to us in all wisdom and intelligence, and made known unto us the mystery of his will. May I say lovingly, Hermestly, how needful it is for Christians today to be concerned to know what the mystery of his will is.
In regard to his purposes of this age, of this church, may I give the suggestion and sadly confess that there are many believers today who are departing from the mystery of his will in obeying the truth. Beloved, Let you and I be faithful to him. But that's not up to the future. We are going to enjoy an inheritance with him. The best is yet to come to be glorified with him. And noted at the end of verse, in verse twelve, he goes on to say that we should be to the praise of his glory who first trusted in Christ.
For the joy of knowing Christ, And let me add a word of encouragement. Don't stumble over the word predestination. I remember hearing our brother Arnold see Gageline. Gageline on one occasion, about sixty years ago, make the statement when your mom lady came to him and said, Brother, tell me, what is predestination? And he answered her, Lady, predestination is none of your business. It's God's business. Your business is to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be designated. That's right. And please, let me remark, whenever you read a predestination, it's only in reference to a believer and the future.
Every time, regarding the future of a believer, God predetermines the future of a believer. And here is Christ has supplied and provided an inheritance, obtained it in that coming glory that is yet to come. And may I, please may I end before going further, as you have at the end of verse eleven there, according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will. Can I humbly say, I need it for my own heart. I need it for my encouragement. I am greatly grieved today over many conditions, I'm sure many saints are.
that are prevailing in this world, and that are prevailing, unfortunately, amongst the saints of God. And yet, the purposes of the Lord Jesus are going to come to fruition. He is working all things after the counsel of his own will. Toward those eternal purposes that will yet be manifested to the glory of his grace. And thank God he is faithful. But please note at the end of verse twelve again that we should be to the praise of his glory. The praise of his glory. You have it for the Father in verse six.
You have it here for the Son. That we should be to the praise of his glory. Who first trusted in Christ. Right. What works? The Father. The Son. Now let's look at the closing verses regarding the Holy Spirit, thirteen and fourteen. The Apostle writing, In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. I must emphasize that the Holy Spirit is brought in in those words, repeating again what we said previously, John chapter sixteen, verses eight through eleven.
When the Lord Jesus began to unfold the work of the Holy Spirit, one great work of the Holy Spirit was toward the unsaved world, when he declared, When he shall come, he will convict or convince the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment, of sin, because they believe not on me, of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more. and of judgment, for the prince of this world is judged. Sin, righteousness, and judgment is the work of the Holy Spirit to convict so.
And, beloved, I know in my own experience the conviction of the Holy Spirit, many a time telling me before I was really saved, John, you're lost. John, you haven't trusted the Lord Jesus. John, you haven't believed on the Lord Jesus. But oh, we did trust in him. Who led us to the Lord? My beloved, the work of the Holy Spirit. Can I say reverently? The Holy Spirit came to the world to do that work. One sure thing, I can do it. If you think you can, you can. I know when I was first saved, I thought I could get everybody else saved.
I've done a very good job. Well, we cannot in ourselves. is why the Holy Spirit the work has to be done. How necessary to realize it, not only to the unsaved, but even amongst the same, the work of the Lord. But here you have the Holy Spirit, saying it, Paul writes, in whom ye also try. When ye heard the word of truth, who brought the word of truth to your heart, to your mind, the Holy Spirit? Who brought the gospel of your salvation to you? Very frankly, my beloved, I never got saved before I heard the gospel. But it was the gospel, the gospel, the word of truth, that the Spirit kept bringing to my soul the convicted until at last there was no resistance left.
But to fall at the feet of the Lord Jesus and willingly believe and trust him as my Savior. That was the work of the Holy Spirit. Oh, thank God, not only for the Father, not only for the Son, but for the Holy Spirit. Then note the second word of the Holy Spirit in relation to what he does for us. As you read on in this working verse, in whom also, after that you believe, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise. He answered, the moment I believe on the Lord Jesus, it is not necessary for a believer in the Lord Jesus to pray for the Holy Spirit to come into his or her heart.
It is necessary to believe on the Lord Jesus and be safe. And he'll come in. He'll come in. See with that Holy Spirit. Paul speaks to it in Romans eight, nine. If any man is not, if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he's none of it. You cannot have the Holy Spirit without being saved. You cannot be saved without having the Holy Spirit. He comes in, sealed with that Holy Spirit upon him. And the joy of, well, why does he seal us? Thank God for the work of sealing the believer when he trusts and she trusts the Lord Jesus.
Now read on, if you have no mind, as you go to verse fourteen. Who is the pledge? The word earnest is a not-believed English word, meaning pledge. The Holy Spirit in the believer is the pledge. of our inheritance to which we are going until the redemption of the purchased possession under the praise of his glory. Oh, the joy of realizing the presence of the Holy Spirit in the believer is the pledge that he will bring you into the glory and to the inheritance. And when the Lord's coming back, what's wrong? To claim his purchased possession. To claim his purchased possession.
Christ loved the church and gave himself for it. He's coming back for it. Why, did not he say to the disciple, if I go away, I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am there ye may be also, and where I go ye know, and the way ye know, and so on. And say to God, that Spirit of God is the pledge until he comes back. And when he comes back, He'll redeem what he has bought with his own precious blood. The Father, before time began, determining to have the children, the Son coming into the world to do the work of redemption, to obtain the children.
Behold, I am the children who have now had given me. He will say in that coming day when he takes his home, And the Spirit of God, working for the redemption of the human race. My beloved, may I say, humbling, earnestly, is the mighty Godhead alone, who has worked and is working and will perfect that work of redemption for those who shall be the children of God forever. Oh, my beloved fellow believer, what joy it is to realize God the Father wanted me.
God the Son redeemed me. God the Holy Spirit sealed me. One sure thing, I desire to lose your salvation. Wanted by the Father, redeemed by the Son, filled with the Holy Spirit, the Triune God. Beloved. Angel, forget them. Satan and all of his hopes, forget them? All humanity? There's the Triune Godhead. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
Well, did another poet write, All hail to the Father, all hail to the Son, all hail to the Spirit. Bless three in one. I'm saved by the blood of the crucified one. One little fellow in Scotland many years ago, tried to enter into the local church where he lives, and be accepted as a believer. The dear old elders questioned a little fellow. Sonny had they questioned his salvation and what he knew about Christ. One question was that. Sonny, what can you tell us about the Godhead? Do you know anything about the Godhead? He scratched his head a little bit and said, I don't know much.
All I know, they're three in one, and they're one in three. And the one in the middle, he died for me. Shall we pray? Father, how we thank thee. Oh, blessed Father. Blessed Son. Blessed Holy Spirit indeed. We owe our redemption to no one but the triune gone in. And we just pray, Father. We who know they will enjoy the Father more, enjoy the Son more, and enjoy the Holy Spirit ministry in our hearts and lives. But if there's anyone here that knows not the Lord Jesus, Lord, they must learn in him alone we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace.