Given All

[0:00] A Pastor's Reflections, Given All, Genesis 24, 36, And Sarah, my master's wife, bare a son to my master when she was old, and unto him hath he given all that he has. John 3, 35, The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand.

[0:22] Hebrews 4, 13, All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. Ephesians 1, 22, And has put all things under his feet, and have given him to be the head over all things to the church.

[0:39] God is not a God of half measures. When he does a work, he does it to completion. Nobody is sort of filled with the Holy Spirit or partially saved or a little bit loved by God.

[0:53] God is a God of all things. For Abraham, the question of who should inherit all things was settled upon Moriah. If there was ever any question still lingering in his mind about who was God's chosen son, or if maybe there was still a little something he could do for Ishmael, those questions were permanently put to rest on the mountain.

[1:16] When God so clearly intervened in the offering up and raising up of Isaac, Abraham knew who the promised seed really was. John 8, 56, Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day, and he saw it and was glad.

[1:34] Genesis 22, 14, As it is to this day, in the mount of the Lord it shall be seen. In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen who it is, who is the one, who will be given all.

[1:49] 1 Corinthians 15, 20, 27, and 28 But now is Christ risen from the dead and become the firstfruits of them that sleep. For he has put all things under his feet, and when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

[2:13] The only one worthy to receive all things of the Father is the Son, who has gone into the mount of the Lord, and there risen from off the altar.

[2:24] And there is only one Son that has accomplished that. The Son of promise, Jesus, has proven himself worthy of all that the Father has, and the remarkable thing is that the Son then turns around and gives all that he has to the bride.

[2:39] 1 Corinthians 3, 21-22 Therefore let no man glory in men, for all things are yours, whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come, all are yours.

[3:00] All things are ours? But for what purpose? Ephesians 4, 10 He that descended is the same also that ascended far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.

[3:15] The purpose? That we might receive the fullness of the Son. The Father's desire for you is for you to know that fullness. He who holds nothing back has given his one and only Son for you.

[3:29] And the Son now gives all that he has to you. Are you living in the fullness of that truth? Or are you only experiencing the fullness of God in half measure?

[3:41] If so, it is not the Father nor the Son who is to blame. Romans 8, 32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

[3:55] You see, all that the Father has, has been given freely unto the Son. And all that the Son has, has been given freely unto you. So today, will you receive all?

[4:10] Father, never before and never again will the world experience such a complete giving of all as the cross. For it was upon the cross that you gave to your Son all the sin of the world.

[4:24] Thank you that you do not do things in half measures. Thank you that all of my sins have been thrown behind your back, never to be seen or remembered again. Amen.