The You're going to do you.

Do you do you do you do you do

do you do Do you have what feels do like an impossible prayer? Maybe you're praying for the

salvation of someone who seems beyond reach, they're too rebellious,

or they're opposed to anything regarding God or the Bible?

Alistair Begg teaches that Christianity knows nothing of hopeless cases and today on

Truth for Life weekend we'll look at why that's true we're studying

philemon chapter one focusing on

versus 8 through 16.

The grace of God doesn't pass through human genes.

If that were so, then we would just be able to pass it on to our

children. We would be able to press it upon our spouse. We would be able to make sure

that it was true of our siblings and so on. No, Paul understood perfectly that all of the

power in seeing somebody born again of God's spirit is a power which belongs to God and the instrumentality in this case, if you

like the conduit, was none other than Paul himself. Unless we're clear about this, we will very

quickly go wrong. In seeking to see unbelieving people become the committed

followers of Jesus Christ, we are asking God to

bring men and women to himself. He chooses, in his purposes, to give us often a part in that, but all we are are voices, all we are fingers

pointing and Paul was clear on that he says says, what after all is Paul, what after all is Apollis, or Cepis,

only servants through whom you came to believe. That was the instrumentality whereby they had come to faith.

And this notion of becoming a father in the gospel is his privilege in relationship to Enesimus.

I'm sending him back to you.

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