Will you please turn to 1 Thessalonians, 1
Thessalonians, chapter 5, verses 23 and
24.
1 Thessalonians, chapter 5, verse 23.
Now the God of peace himself sanctify you
wholly, and your whole spirit and soul and
body be preserved blameless at the coming of
our Lord Jesus Christ.
He is faithful who calls you, who will
also perform it.
Hebrews, the letter to the Hebrews, chapter 4,
verses 12 and 13.
Hebrews, chapter 4, verses 12 and 13.
For the word of God is living and
operative, and sharper than any two-edged sword,
and penetrating to the division of soul and
spirit, both of joints and marrow, and a
discerner of the thoughts and intents of the
heart.
And there is not a creature unapparent before
him, but all things are naked and laid
bare to his eyes, with whom we have
to do.
The gospel according to Matthew.
Matthew, chapter 10, verses
38 and 39.
Matthew, chapter 10, verses 38 and 39.
And he who does not take up his
cross and follow after me is not worthy
of me.
He that finds his life shall lose it,
and he who has lost his life for
my sake shall find it.
And this word, life, is the same word
as soul.
So we can read it this way.
He that finds his soul shall lose it,
and he who has lost his soul for
my sake shall find it.
Let's have a word of prayer.
Dear Lord, we do want to thank Thee
for all that Thou has done for us,
and we want to thank Thee for Thy
precious word, because Thy word is truth.
Thy word is light.
Thy word is life.
Lord, we do pray that Thy word will
really be open to us, that we may
not only understand it, but we may enter
into all truth.
To the praise of Thy glory, we ask
in Thy precious name.
Amen.
We have been considering together on this matter
of being wholly sanctified, our
whole spirit and soul and body be preserved
blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus,
because this is the calling of God.
This is the will of God for all
who are redeemed by His precious blood.
It is God's purpose that all who are
redeemed should be saved to the uttermost, not
just barely saved, but fully saved.
Not only our spirit, but also our soul
and our body, our whole being, be wholly
sanctified.
That is to say, separated completely unto God
Himself.
And that is to be preserved blameless at
the coming of our Lord Jesus.
Our Lord Jesus' presence is soon coming, and
we shall all stand before His presence.
And it is God's will that when we
stand at His presence, we are preserved and
blameless and wholly sanctified.
This is the will of God, and this
should be our passion, our desire.
Now, we have already considered this matter of
our spirit being wholly sanctified, and we do
not have the time to go back.
But this morning, we would like to continue
on how our soul being wholly sanctified.
How can our soul be preserved blameless at
the coming of our Lord Jesus?
Now, for the sake of some brothers and
sisters who may not have that basic understanding,
probably we have to lay a little bit
of foundation first.
You know, when God created man, in Genesis
2, verse 7, He took the red earth
and formed it into the form of a
man.
That is our body.
Then He breathed the breath of life into
that earthen form.
And that breath of life that comes directly
from God becomes our human spirit.
Because God is spirit, and He gave us
a human spirit that we may commune, communicate
with God.
And as God's breath entered into this earthen
vessel, a third element came into being.
So the Bible said, and man became a
living soul.
So you find in the creation of man,
man is created as a tripartite, spirit and
soul and body.
Our spirit gives us God consciousness.
Our body gives us world consciousness.
It is our soul that gives us self
consciousness.
This is what we are.
Soul is the central part of our being.
It is not the highest part.
The highest part is our spirit.
Because that will enable us to be in
relation with God.
But our soul is our very being.
That's what you are.
It is I, me, myself.
It is the seat of our personality.
So our soul actually takes a central part
in our being.
According to God's divine order, we use our
spirit to touch God and to receive from
God His will.
Then our soul will embrace it.
Our soul will love it.
Our soul will consider it.
And our soul will will it.
And then our soul will pass what God's
will to our body.
To act it out.
To do the will of God.
Now that is the divine order of God
for human beings.
So dear brothers and sisters, we are talking
today of ourselves.
That's what you are.
Do you know yourself?
If we want to know God, we need
to know ourselves too.
Because soul is ourselves.
When man sinned, our
spirit was dead.
By dead it doesn't mean that it's not
living.
It is no longer there.
As an organ, an element is still there.
But it has lost its proper communication with
God.
In other words, when man sinned, our spirit,
human spirit, was dead unto God.
No more communication.
Cut off, alienated from the life of God.
So what remains is soul and body that
are still functioning.
But when sin entered into the world through
man, sin became the dominating power to our
life.
Our soul was contaminated.
Our soul was dominated by the power of
sin.
And therefore, our soul is lost.
Now if you read Ephesians chapter 2.
In Ephesians chapter 2, in verse 1 through
verse 3.
And you, being dead in your offenses and
sins.
And you, that is your soul.
Because soul and you are one.
Often times you find in the scripture, soul
and man are synonymous.
When Jacob entered into Egypt, the Bible said
70 souls entered into Egypt.
Because soul is synonymous to man.
That is what you are.
And you, being dead in your offenses and
sins.
So far as God is concerned, your soul
is dead.
Not only your spirit is dead, your soul
is dead.
That is to say, your soul has lost
its proper function.
It has lost its direction.
It has lost its source.
And when the soul is left to itself,
instead of under God, that soul is a
lost soul.
Now what are the conditions of the lost
soul?
You have walked according to the age of
the world.
You walk according to the custom, the fashion
of the world.
According to the ruler of the authority of
the air.
The spirit who now works in the sense
of disobedience.
Not only you become worldly, but also you
are under the authority of the spirit.
And that is the evil spirit, that is
now working in the sense of disobedience.
And what will be our manner of life?
Among whom we also all once had our
conversation, that is our life, our manner of
life, in the lusts of our flesh.
Doing what the flesh and the thoughts will
to do.
In other words, we have fallen into our
sinful fallen soul.
Dominated by our soul, by the sinful flesh,
the sinful soul, the sinful eye.
And we're children by nature of wrath, even
as the rest.
In other words, after man's sin, he becomes
a son of wrath, a disobedient child
to God.
That is what our soul condition was.
Now you turn to Ephesians chapter 4, verses
17 to 19.
Another description.
This I say therefore, and testify in the
Lord, that you should no longer walk as
the rest of the nations, walk in the
vanity of their mind.
Being darkened in understanding.
So when your soul is lost, it becomes
a sinful soul.
You find all the functions of our soul,
begin to function improperly.
It has lost its proper function, and it
begins to function in such a way, that
your mind becomes vain.
Your understanding becomes darkened.
And also there is the ignorance which is
in you.
It affects all the faculties of your soul.
Now the faculties of our soul are threefold.
Will, mind, and feeling.
You know that you are because you think.
You know that you are because you feel
it.
You know that you are because you will
it.
You have your will.
So these are the functions of our soul.
Now you know our soul is our spirit.
It is immaterial, incorporeal.
It is not like a body which is
a corporeal body, physical body.
But the soul is immaterial, and yet it
is real.
It is a substance.
A substance that is not material substance.
And how do we know our soul?
We know our soul by its functions.
So we know our soul by our will,
volition.
By our mind, our thought, and by our
feeling, our sensation.
That's how we know ourselves.
You are different from anybody else because the
way you think, the way you feel, and
the way you will is different from the
way from anybody else.
That's your individuality.
That's what we are.
But after we have seen, you find that
that life of the soul, that self-life,
is sinful, is corrupted, is under the domination
of the evil one, and therefore your mind
becomes bad.
You think of the vanity of your mind.
Now if you have the enlightenment from above,
like Solomon in Ecclesiastics, he looked at everything
under the sun and said, vanity of vanity.
But before we be enlightened, how our mind
goes for the vanity of this world.
And our understanding is darkened.
We think we know, we understand, but our
understanding doesn't have the right standard.
It is darkened so far as God is
concerned.
And how about our will?
You'll find the hardness of the heart.
So it says here, by reason of the
hardness of their heart, give themselves up to
lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness and greedy unsatisfying
lust.
In other words, our will is all corrupted.
We will to do the things that are
unpleasing to God, sinful to God.
And how about a feeling?
He said, having cast off all feelings.
Our feelings all become corrupted.
That is to say, our whole soul has
fallen.
So, so far as God is concerned, this
living soul is now a lost soul, a
dead soul.
Now that was our condition before we were
saved.
That was the condition of the people of
this world.
They may consider themselves as enlightened, but actually
their understanding was darkened.
But thank God, He loves our soul.
You know, Charles Wesley has a hymn called
Jesus, Lover of My Soul.
God loves our soul.
And that's the reason why you'll find He
comes to us, to save us.
Not only to save our spirit, and sanctify
it, but He comes to save our soul,
and to sanctify it.
So that's why you'll find in 1 Peter
1, verse 7, there is a term called
the salvation of the soul.
Now brothers and sisters, usually we think that
salvation is limited to our spirit.
He that is born of the spirit is
spirit.
That's salvation.
But remember, salvation also reaches to our soul.
Our soul needs to be saved just as
much as our spirit needs to be saved.
In other words, after we are saved, is
our soul being saved?
Now we would like to approach this matter
from experiential viewpoint.
Now even though the spiritual experience must base
upon spiritual truth, you know, but we do
not have the time to deal with this
matter of spiritual truth.
What Christ has done for us, that is
the basis of our spiritual experience.
But this morning, we would like to just
focus our attention to our spiritual experience.
How is our soul being saved?
Because this is something that is going on
today.
After we are saved, that is our spirit
is awakened.
Then the salvation of the soul begins.
And it will continue on throughout our life.
So far as our spiritual experience is concerned.
Now if you are saved, what happens?
You receive a new life.
The Bible calls it eternal life.
In other words, the Holy Spirit will not
only give rebirth to your dead spirit and
quicken your dead spirit into a new spirit.
And the Holy Spirit also himself comes and
dwells in our new spirit.
But also a new life is given to
you.
And that new life dwells in your spirit.
So in other words, when we are saved,
we receive a new life.
And that new life is none other but
the life of our Lord Jesus.
It is the life of our Lord Jesus.
He himself, as it were, comes into our
spirit and dwells there.
He is the life of our spirit.
And you know, when his life comes into
you, he brings to you his new nature.
You know, every life has its nature.
The birds, the life of a bird has
a nature to fly.
The life of a fish has a nature
to swim in the water.
And you find the Adamic life, the fallen
life, the life of our soul has the
nature of being earthly natural and even devilish.
That is the nature of that Adamic life
in you.
That old life in you, your fallen self,
has a life there.
It is the natural life.
So-called natural life is the fallen life.
And it is earthly.
And even devilish.
That's what you find in James, the book
of James.
But this new life, it is the life
of Christ.
And this new life is in your spirit.
And this new life is spiritual, heavenly, godly.
So thank God, that when he gives us
this new life, this eternal life, that life
of Christ in us, it carries with it
a new nature.
And in other words, we will incline towards
that which is spiritual, incline towards that which
is heavenly, incline towards that which is godly.
You want to be like God.
You want to commune with God.
You want to do the will of God.
That is a new desire created within you.
Brothers and sisters, do you have that kind
of new desire when you are saved?
Before you are saved, what interested you was
the world.
God is no interest to you.
But after you are saved, you have a
new desire to know God, to approach God,
to fellowship with him, to pray, even to
read the word of God in order that
you may know him better.
Brothers and sisters, a new nature began to
express itself in you.
How do we know we have eternal life?
You know, the gospel of John tells us
if you believe in the Lord Jesus as
the son of God, you have eternal life.
And in 1 John, the whole book is
written for the purpose of telling us how
do you know you have eternal life?
You have eternal life because you began to
see light.
You began to walk in the light as
God is in the light.
You know you have eternal life because God
is righteous and you begin to practice righteousness.
You know you have eternal life because God
is love and you begin to love, not
only love God, but love those who are
begotten of God.
Now, these prove that a new life is
in you.
The new nature, incarnation, expression, begins to come
out from you.
Now, do you have such experience?
I believe you all have that.
But, when you offer seed, I cannot
tell you how long.
With some people, it's longer.
With other people, it's shorter.
But, sooner or later, you discover that it's
not all light, all righteousness, and all love.
You begin to discover that in you, that
is in your flesh, there is still darkness.
There is still unrighteousness.
There is still unlovingness.
In other words, in your spirit, you love
God.
You love to do His will.
But, in your soul, you discover the old
man, that self, that flesh, is still dragging
you down.
You come into a conflict, a civil war
within yourselves.
Now, brothers and sisters, are you having that
civil war?
You feel that within you, there are two
persons, as it were.
So far as your inward man is concerned,
you love God.
You want to do His will.
You want to do what is right.
You want to walk in the light.
And, you have some light, too.
But, you discover in your outward man, in
your soul, in your flesh, there is another
life there.
The sinful, fallen, self-life.
And, that still wants to do the old
things, go the old way.
And, love the world.
Even love sin.
And, have no desire to do God's will.
So, there is a conflict within you.
Now, that you'll find in Galatians 5, verse
17.
You'll find that the flesh lusts after the
spirit, and the spirit lusts after the soul,
after the flesh.
There is a civil war going on within
you.
Now, you think that after you're saved, everything
will be rosy.
Everything will be alright.
But, sooner or later, you discover there are
two lives within you.
And, these two lives are struggling, striving, fighting
against each other.
Now, do you have this kind of experience?
Now, if you have that kind of experience,
actually, it's a proof that you're saved.
That you have the life of Christ in
you.
And, this civil war will increase in
your life.
When you consecrate yourself to the Lord.
Now, we often say the first Christian experience
is consecration.
After you are saved, what should be your
first Christian experience?
The first Christian experience is you are constrained
by the love of God to present your
body a living sacrifice.
Holy.
Acceptable to God.
This is your spiritual, intelligent service.
Now, if, brothers and sisters, you have not
presented your bodies a living sacrifice, you are
still keeping to yourself you are still the
master, as it were, of your life.
Even after you are saved, well, that civil
war probably will not be very intense.
But also, your Christian life is not very
much different from the people of this world.
In other words, the more intense that civil
war, the better.
After you consecrate yourself, that civil war will
be intensified.
Why?
Because after you consecrate yourself to the Lord,
the Bible said, your mind will be renewed.
Now, what does that mean?
It means that in the past, your mind
loved the things of this world, conformed to
the fashion of this world.
But now your mind began to prove what
is the perfect acceptable will of God.
There is a change in your mind.
You know, when we were saved, there was
some change, but very superficial.
But after consecration, the renewing of the mind
began to come to your life.
And your mind began to be renewed, to
begin to love the will of God, want
to understand it, want to do the will
of God, instead of still loving sin and
the things of this world.
And because of this, your civil war is
intensified.
Now, that is Romans chapter 7.
You know, Romans chapter 7 is the conflict
between the mind that is the renewed mind
and the flesh.
Because in Romans 7, you find this man,
Paul, after he was saved.
We believe it was experienced after he was
saved.
His mind is renewed.
He knows what is the will of God.
Not only that, but his will, he wills
to do the will of God.
But he discovers he does not have the
power to do it.
He said, what I want to do, I
cannot do.
What I do not want to do, I
do it.
It is not I who do it, it
is the sin in me that does it.
Oh, wretched man that I am, who can
deliver me from this body of death?
In me, that is in my flesh, there
is no good.
So is the conclusion of Romans 7 in
verse, the last verse is said, with my
mind I serve God's law, but with my
flesh I serve sin's law.
You see the conflict there?
The conflict is intensified.
Another thing, even though your mind is renewed,
but because it is still in the beginning
stage, therefore you also discover you have a
problem.
And the problem is you do not know
whether this is from God or this is
from yourself.
Am I doing it out of myself or
am I doing it out of God?
You begin to wonder.
You know, not only you do not have
the power to do God's will, but you
begin to be perplexed, not knowing exactly whether
this comes from your spirit or whether this
comes from your soul.
If it comes from your spirit, it is
of God.
If it comes from your soul, it is
of man, of the flesh.
Unacceptable to God.
No matter how good it is.
You know, this becomes a problem to you.
So now you come to another experience.
And the experience is the dividing of the
soul and spirit.
You know, the dividing of the soul and
spirit actually is the second Christian experience, strictly
speaking.
After consecration, there will be the dividing of
the soul and spirit.
Now if there is no consecration, you will
not feel the need of such dividing.
Because you are mainly living in the soul
life.
Everything comes up your soul.
Even your worship, even your service come from
the soul and soul power.
But after you have really consecrated yourself, you
really want to be wholly set apart for
God.
Then the dividing of the spirit and soul
becomes a necessity.
Now do you sense the need of such
a division?
Or do you think that soul and spirit
are one?
It doesn't matter.
But the Bible says to us very clearly
that natural man, that is the soulish man,
does not love the God, love the will
of God, and cannot even know it.
It's totally unacceptable to God.
Now how can the soul and the spirit
be divided?
In Hebrews chapter 4, verse 12, the word
of God is living and operative.
Sharper than any to a sword.
Penetrating to the division of the soul and
spirit as the bone and the marrow.
That every intent of the heart, intent and
mind of the heart will be exposed.
Because there is nothing that was exposed in
the sight of God.
Bone and marrow.
Marrow is the blood producing element.
But marrow is in the bone.
You do not see the marrow until the
bone is cracked.
In like manner, our soul is the shell
as it were of our spirit.
And after we sin, our spirit is completely
imprisoned by our soul.
It is like the bone with the marrow.
And for the spirit to be released, there
has to be a penetrating and a dividing.
That will show us what is of the
spirit and what is of the soul.
But how can we distinguish it?
You know, so far as our Christian experience
is concerned, we come to a point where
we begin to sense the need of the
dividing of the spirit and the soul.
We do not want to live in our
soul life.
We want to live in our spirit life.
We do not want to serve in our
soul power.
We want to serve in our spirit power.
And often we ask ourselves this question.
Is it from the spirit or is it
from the soul?
Is it from God?
It is from me.
Brothers and sisters, are you puzzled?
The more you try to divide, the more
confused you begin.
And it is at that point that you
find your spiritual life is paralyzed.
You know, I like to use that illustration
of a centipede.
A centipede has a hundred feet.
And it can walk very fast.
One day the centipede said to itself, I
wonder which of my legs moves first.
So he began to figure out which of
his hundred legs moved first.
And he got stuck.
He couldn't move anymore.
So after a while he said, oh, it's
okay, give up.
And off he went.
Now, spiritually speaking, some Christians are in this
state.
They are paralyzed.
They love the Lord.
They want to be completely in the Lord
and for the Lord.
And they are afraid of their flesh, of
themselves, of their soul power.
And they try to analyze themselves.
The more they analyze, the more paralyzed and
they do nothing.
Now you think that this is a bad
sign.
No, this is a good sign.
If you're really progressing in the Lord, you
will come through that stage.
How can the soul and the spirit be
divided?
So Hebrews chapter 4 tells us the secret.
You know, Hebrews chapter 4 tells us that
the Word of God is living and operating
like a two-edged sword, penetrating, dividing.
The picture is when you bring a sacrifice
to God.
You put the sacrifice on the altar.
Then the priest will come with a sharp
knife.
And he is a trained butcher.
So he knows exactly how to cut that
sacrifice and not make a mess of it.
So he will cut according to the formation
of the bones of the body.
A clean cut.
He will penetrate.
He will divide.
So everything will be exposed.
The bone, the marrow will be exposed.
Nothing will be hidden in the sight of
God.
What is the Word of God?
The Bible tells us the Word of God
is the sword.
Two-edged sword.
Sharp.
But whose sword is it?
Who is welding that sword?
If you weld that sword, you cut up
people and cut yourself and make a mess
of everything.
The one who used that sword is the
Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit today represents Christ as the
priest, the high priest.
And he alone has the ability the knowledge
the power to cut a clean cut.
When the Holy Spirit is using the Word
of God that is a living and operating.
When we are using the Word of God
we hurt ourselves.
We hurt others.
We are not supposed to do that.
Let the Holy Spirit use the Word of
God.
So you'll find that as we go on
with the Lord and we are confused what
should we do?
Do nothing.
Lie on the altar.
Don't climb down.
Don't struggle.
Lie on the altar.
Allow the Holy Spirit.
He knows just the timing just the occasion
and he knows when he will use that
living and operating Word.
God's Word becomes living operating.
It is no longer just written Word.
All you have read all there are stored
in your memory.
The Holy Spirit will bring it out at
the moment right moment and show you what
is of God what is not of God.
What is of the Spirit what is not
of the Spirit.
There is no more mixture.
That's the work of the Holy Spirit.
You know then the intent and thought of
your heart that is of your soul will
all be exposed.
Intent is will.
Thought is mind.
Everything will be exposed naked before God and
that's the way we learn the dividing of
the Spirit and the soul.
Brothers and sisters we need to learn this
lesson.
You know the dividing of the Spirit and
soul is more than something we can do.
We have to leave it with the Holy
Spirit.
But what we can do is be quiet
on the altar and let him do the
work.
That is the dividing of the Spirit and
the soul.
And gradually you'll find through the living word
of God we begin to understand what is
of the Spirit and what is of the
soul.
That is the second step.
And now the third step.
The deliverance of the soul or the salvation
of the soul.
How can our soul be delivered from the
domination of sin?
From the domination of self?
From the domination of our flesh?
How can we be delivered?
Do we feel the sense the need to
be saved to be delivered?
The Apostle Paul said, Oh wretched man that
I am.
I'm a wretched man.
Who can deliver me from this body of
death?
Thank God through Jesus Christ.
So you see when we come to this
matter of the deliverance of the soul Before
we touch upon the experience side I have
to say a little bit about the truth
side the objective side.
In other words what has Christ done for
us?
He not only bore our sins all the
sins we have committed in his body on
the cross that all our sins are being
borne away carried away our sins are forgiven.
But when Christ died on the cross he
not only died as our substitute he also
died as our representative.
Therefore the Bible says in Romans 6 knowing
this is something we need to know knowing
that our old man was crucified with Christ.
When Christ was crucified our old man the
old self the old I was included in
Christ.
So when he died on the cross our
old man was dead.
Over.
And this is what Christ has done for
us.
This is something we have to believe.
That's where faith comes in.
So Romans 6 11 said reckon yourself as
dead unto sin and as alive unto God
in Christ.
It is only true in Christ.
If you look at your feeling it is
not true.
But if you look at the finished work
of Christ it is true.
So you have to reckon count yourself as
dead unto sin in Christ and as alive
unto God in Christ.
That's a matter of faith.
And after you stand on that ground you
yield your body as instruments of righteousness unto
holiness to God.
That's what you need to do.
And this is the objective side the foundation
for the salvation of your soul.
Now you come into the experiential side the
subjective side and the subjective side is what
Christ has said to us.
Today if you gain your soul life you
lose it.
Today if you lose your soul life for
my sake you gain it.
Today if you love your soul you love
your life you lose it.
If for my sake you hate your life
you save it.
Now what does that mean?
It means that in our daily life we
need to deny ourselves take up the cross
and follow Him.
That's what it means.
Because if we deny ourselves that is our
will.
We are willing to say no to ourselves
to our soul life.
He has his demands we say no.
You are dead.
I won't listen to you.
And then the Holy Spirit with a rage
crosses to come into our life.
Our relationship with people our circumstances things that
occur to us all these things are under
the hand of the Holy Spirit.
He will provide the cross for us to
bear.
You don't need to create any cross for
others or for yourself.
Let the Holy Spirit in His wisdom He
will arrange your circumstances.
We call it the discipline of the Holy
Spirit.
And He will show you what the cross
is.
When God's mind conflicts with your mind when
God's will conflicts with your will when God's
feeling conflicts with your feeling that is a
cross.
And because you have denied yourself you are
able to take up the cross and follow
the Lord.
And when you do that so far as
your soul life is concerned you lose it.
Because you suffer.
You love yourself and you suffer.
But if you lose it today for the
sake of the Lord you gain it to
eternity.
Why?
Because a transformation begins to come into your
soul.
Instead of you your fallen life flesh
self that is the life of your soul
that is in charge of all the faculties
of your soul.
So all the faculties of your soul are
the expressions the manifestations of what you are.
You are on the throne.
But gradually you'll find by taking up the
cross and following the Lord self is dethroned
and Christ is enthroned.
In your soul.
This is Ephesians chapter 3.
The strengthening of your inner man that Christ
may dwell in your heart.
Christ comes into your soul.
Not only he is the life of your
spirit that life begins to come over your
soul.
He is now using all the faculties of
your soul.
So your feeling your thinking your willing expresses
Christ instead of express yourself.
That is the salvation of the soul.
That is your soul being wholly sanctified.
That is what Paul said.
I live but not I.
It is Christ who lives in me.
For me to live is Christ.
Brothers and sisters that is the salvation of
the soul.
That is the sanctification of the soul.
That is how the soul is preserved blameless
at the coming of the Lord.
When we stand before the Lord we are
like him.
Therefore there is no fear.
As he is so are we in this
world.
So brothers and sisters very briefly simply we
put this matter before us.
Our soul needs to be saved.
And this is the prescribed way in the
word of God towards the salvation of the
soul.
So may the Lord help us.
Let us pray.
Dear Lord we are touching something that
concerns ourselves so intimately that we often times
find ourselves in dark confused.
But we praise and thank thee that thy
word is clear.
Thy truth is certain.
We thank thee that thou love our soul
and thou desires to save our soul to
the uttermost.
O Lord we want to give our soul
to thee and pray that thou will by
thy spirit work out thy salvation.
We ask in thy precious name.