for him

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For Him（ Paul Washer)

 

    You don’t need self esteem, you need the knowledge of God.  It’s all about Him, your heart beats for Him.  You were given breath for Him.  You were given strength for Him.  You were given a mind for Him, You were given everything you were given for Him.  And it is only living for Him that you will ever find purpose and meaning.  And even it that, you will not find purpose and meaning if your goal is just to find purpose and meaning.

 

        You should believe in Jesus Christ, you should repent (Mark 1:15, Matthew 4:17) and you should serve Him even if He sends you to hell before He is worth of repentance and faith and service, though you get nothing from it.  Do you understand that kind of Christianity?  Well, it’s all about Him, and not about men. 

 

        For what reason does our heart beat?  For what reason does our chest heave and draw in breath, there is only one reason, and it’s for Him!  Men were not made for him, this world was not made for men, men were made for God.

 

        The Christian said, I was born in sin, and in sin did my mom conceive me.  I have broken every law of God, and I deserve the full extent of his just wrath against me.  I am trusting in the virtue and merit of another, Jesus Christ my Lord, all to him, nothing in my hand I bring, simply to the cross I cling.

I need no other argument, I need no other pled.  It is enough that Jesus died, that He died for me.

Young man came to me one time, you’re right, Brother Paul, you’re right, Jesus is all we need.  I said, young man, Jesus is all we have!  He’s not just all we need.  Outside of Him there is nothing.  You need to understand that Colossians not only teaches us that the world was created by Christ and for Him, it was created in Christ. 

        Everything outside of Jesus Christ is not reality.  Everything outside of Jesus Christ is absolutely absurd.  Everything outside of Jesus Christ is death.  There is nothing, there is no right reality.  There is no logic, there is no sense, there is no reason, there is no right.  Nothing works, everything was made to be in Christ. 

 

        You greatest problem is lashing yourself down to this truth.  Total surrender to the person and will of Jesus Christ, to the glory of Jesus Christ.  That men might see what they are, and in seeing what they truly are, having their hearts exposed, they will see their need of a Savior.  But while you play with them and cuddle them and protect their self esteem, you have at the same time dammed their souls to hell. 

It seemed like every time I get up to preach in a meeting, some person would get up and sing and ask the question, “Oh God, what did You see in me that you saved me?”  I felt like a kid in school with his hands raised in the back, oh, pick me, I’ll tell you!  What did God see in you?  He saw an object of wrath, He saw someone who had broken every law that He has made, and live a dislocated, perverted life, that’s what He saw!  And why did He save you?  Two reasons, God is love, second, to demonstrate His glory, His mercy, His attributes, to not only the world, but even beyond.  You were given everything you were given for Him!  And it is only by living for Him that you ever gonna find purpose and meaning. 

 

        For Him, for Him, for Him!