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Salvation Without The Gospel Elder Mark Green

did not command the apostles to send, but to “go.” There is a difference between send-
ing and going. God did the sending; the apostles did the going. If men had stuck to
going when they were sent, instead of trying to send when they had not been com-
manded to send, then the modern Mission movement never would have happened.

Now, the second of the two sentences in our text. The first was for our instruction in
righteousness, but the second is a question to us, whether we know we are children
and disciples of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: “Know ye not your own selves,

how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?” Are we not abundantly
blessed by our Lord God; our Abba, Father, to know we have indeed a Spirit within us
which gives us thoughts of peace and love? Are we not blessed additionally as chil-
dren of God in the truth? Not just to know the Lord, but to know about our Saviour;
and how we are able to know Him and the power of His resurrection, in the truth of

God's Holy Word (Which is His Word and His Truth), that truth which is revealed to
us by the Spirit of God (1Cor. 2:10).

Is it not a blessing sometime hard for us to confess, that God has blessed us with all
spiritual blessings in Christ, and we are able to know Him and worship Him in Spirit
and in truth: Can we not confess freely how we feel ourselves to be the children of
God, and of our Lord Jesus Christ, that we know Him, and we know how unworthy
we are: How our examinations have shown us our many sins and imperfections, and

yet how greatly we have been blessed to know about Jesus, and how we do know Him
as our Lord and Saviour, by the Holy Spirit of God; and how we can cry unto Him
“Abba, Father,” knowing our own selves to be the children of God, with Christ in our

hearts, and peace in our souls.