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As If Jesus Was Standing Next to You
May. 24, 2022
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Transcription

There was a man named Robert Murray McShane. He was a 19th century minister, very famous minister, godly, godly man. And he said when you go to pray, as you pray, you should always pray as if Jesus were standing right next to you. Because he is. He's always right there.

Right there. So let me tell you one more story about the omnipresence of God. There was a man who was an atheist. That means boys and girls, someone who didn't believe in God at all. He was dying and he had a little grandchild, maybe eight years old, who came to visit him.

She was, She loved the Lord. She was a God-fearing child and she had she had Began to read but Couldn't read too well yet. She was probably six or seven years old now that I think about it and The grandfather had a sign above his bed that said, God is nowhere. And that man, this is so sad, that atheist, he wanted to convince that girl that there was no God. So he said, can you read the sign above my head?

And the girl looked and she said, God is now here. Instead of nowhere, she put the W at the end of the no. God is now here. And when the man heard that, the Holy Spirit used that to convert that man, and grandpa got converted. God is now here.

You see, if you really understood that God is now here, your whole life would change. Your whole life would change. And so once you realize that God is everywhere and your life changes, well then you see God's omnipresence becomes very precious to you

There was a godly 19th century minister named Robert Murray M'Cheyne who said that when you go to pray, you should always pray as if Jesus was standing right next to you. Because He is. He is always right there.

There was once a dying man who was an atheist and his little grandchild came to visit him. This little girl, who could barely read, loved the Lord and feared God. The grandfather had a sign above His bed that said "God is Nowhere" and he wanted to convince the little girl that there was no God. He pointed to the sign and said, "Can you read that sign above my head?" The little girl looked up and slowly read aloud, "God is now here." When the man heard that, the Holy Spirit used it to convert him in that moment.

If you really understood that God is now here, your whole life would change. Once you realize that God is everywhere and your life changes, God's omnipresence becomes very precious to you because you never have to go anywhere alone.

Speaker

Dr. Joel R. Beeke serves as Chancellor and Professor of Systematic Theology and Homiletics, as well as Academic Dean for students from the Heritage Reformed Congregations. He is currently a pastor of the Heritage Reformed Congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a position he has held for thirty years. He is also editor of the Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth, board chairman of Reformation Heritage Books, president of Inheritance Publishers, and vice-president of the Dutch Reformed Translation Society. He has written, co-authored, or edited 125 books and contributed over two thousand articles to Reformed books, journals, periodicals, and encyclopedias. His PhD (1988) from Westminster Theological Seminary is in Reformation and Post-Reformation Theology. He and his wife, Mary, have three children: Calvin, Esther, and Lydia, and eleven grandchildren.

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