Now, the most important thing
that you will ever do in your life is to make a profession
of faith. In this text that I'm going to
read to you now, the Lord Jesus Christ is declaring plainly what
faith is and what it involves. And He's not discouraging men
and women at all. not discouraging anyone from
coming to Him. But Christ is instructing us
to make a deliberate, conscious evaluation of what faith is and
of what it means to be His disciple. I've titled this message, Disciples
of Christ. And I want you to see here that
being a disciple of Christ, a disciple means a believer, a follower,
a student. of Christ, following Him, believing
Him, taught by Him. Being a disciple of Christ requires
total surrender of all to Christ. That might sound like a big burden
to some of you, but when I got married, it was not a burden
at all to give that woman everything I had. And when she got married
to me, it wasn't a burden for her to give me everything she
had, because we love each other. We love each other. So these
things we're looking at, they're not a burden at all for God's
people. If you've been giving a heart
for Him, this is not a burden. Not a burden. You've counted
a great, great blessing. Let's read this together. Luke
14 verse 25, And there went great multitudes with him, the Lord
Jesus, and he turned and said unto them, If any man come to
me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children,
and brethren, and sisters, yea, his own life also, he cannot
be my disciple. and whosoever doth not bear his
cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. For which of
you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth
the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Lest, happily,
after he hath laid the foundation, is not able to finish it, all
that behold it begin to mock him, saying, This man began to
build, and was not able to finish. Or what king, going to make war
against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth
whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against
him with twenty thousand? Or else, while the other is yet
a great way off, he sendeth an ambassador to him, and he desires
conditions of peace. So likewise, whosoever he be
of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my
disciple. Salt is good, but if the salt
have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be seasoned? It is neither
fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill, for men cast it
out. He that hath ears to hear, let
him hear. Now I want to look at this under
four headings. The first is this. Faith, the
true believer comes to Christ. The second thing is faith worships
Christ preeminently. The third thing is faith bears
his cross. The fourth thing is faith finds
all sufficiency of God. And the last thing is faith stands
in the covenant mercies of God. First of all, he says in verse
25, there went great multitudes with him and he turned and he
said unto them, if any man come to me. Faith comes to Christ. He says, if any man come to me. Coming to Christ is altogether
a spiritual matter. It's the heart's action. It's the soul's action. Movement to Christ. believing on Christ. The Lord said, he that cometh
to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall
never thirst. Coming to Christ. He that cometh
to me, he that believeth on me. Coming to Christ is believing
on Christ. You may think that's simple,
and you may think that doesn't need to be said, but it does
need to be said. It's not a First and foremost, it's not
an action of your hands. It's not an action of your feet.
It's not an action of your body. It's an action of the heart.
It's faith. And secondly, it's not coming to a preacher or to
a church or to a denomination or to a system of doctrine. It's
coming to Christ, to the person, Christ Jesus. And this coming
to Christ is altogether, absolutely altogether to the glory of God's
grace. The Lord said, no man can come
to me except the Father which hath sent me drawing. And he
said, and I'll raise him up in the last day. He said, no man
except it were given him of my Father can come to me. Ephesians
tells us that by grace are you saved through faith. And it's
not of yourselves. It is the gift of God. It's not
of works, lest any man should boast. This coming to Christ
is entirely of God's glory. God's glory. And it's not a one-time
thing. It's not a one-time thing. This
is a continual life. Christ is life, and it's a continual
coming to Christ constantly, constantly. Peter said, if you've
tasted that the Lord is gracious, to whom coming? We're constantly
coming to Christ, and we constantly need Christ. Paul said, who hath
delivered us from so great a death? and doth deliver us and we trust
shall deliver us. It's continual, continual. True faith comes to Christ himself. A heart thing, a heart thing.
Secondly, faith worships Christ preeminently. That means nobody
is above him at all. Nobody. The text here, verse
26. If any man come to me. Now they
were all, the multitude, they were gathering together, they
were coming to Him. And the Lord knows the hearts of people. And
He's making this clear now. Making this clear now. He said,
if any man come to me and hate not his father and mother and
wife and children and brethren and sisters, yea, and his own
life also, he cannot be my disciple." And you fit in there somewhere.
And I fit in there somewhere. Now, this word hate doesn't mean
we cease loving our families. That's not what he's saying.
But what it does mean is we can't be the disciple of Christ and
put anybody above Christ. Nobody. I want you to see this
in Ephesians chapter 5. Look there with me. Whatever
your relationship is as a believer, notice this. Ephesians 5.22. Ephesians 5.22. Wives, submit yourselves unto
your own husbands as unto the Lord. You see this is as unto
the Lord. Look at verse 25. Husbands, love
your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself
for it, as Christ did. Look at chapter 6, verse 1. Children,
obey your parents in the Lord, in the Lord, for this is right. Look at verse 4 of chapter 6. Ye fathers, provoke not your
children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition
of the Lord." You see, in every relationship, whatever it is,
the Lord's first. The Lord's above. Even our dearest
loved one, Lord Jesus Christ, is first. If there ever comes
a time when my wife tries to turn me from Christ and tell
me, you can't worship Him anymore. You can't worship Him anymore."
If it came down to it and she said, either you're going to
stay with me and be my husband and stop worshiping Christ or
worship Christ and I'm going to leave. I hope it never comes
to that, but she's going to have to go. That's just how it is. And she would tell you the same
thing about me. That's just how it is. Same with a father and
a mother. Same with a son or a daughter.
The Lord said, he that loveth father or mother more than me
is not worthy of me. He that loveth son or daughter
more than me is not worthy of me. Our love for our various
relationships in this life will cause us to compromise the gospel. for them. And if we do that,
we don't love them. We don't love them. We don't
love them at all. Wherever there's a oneness of
heart, a oneness of heart and affection, a oneness of Christ
with our souls, wherever that is, we're going to love what
Christ loves, and we're going to hate what God hates, and we're
going to say that His people are our people, and we're going
to say that wherever He dwells, we dwell. We're going to be like
Ruth was to Naomi. She said, entreat me not to leave
you. She said, from following after
you. I don't want to return from following
after you. She said, where you go, that's where I'll go. She
said, where you lodge, that's where I'll lodge. She said, thy
people should be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest,
that's where I'll die, and that's where I'll be buried. The Lord
do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and
me. It's sad that God-hating imposters make people so hesitant
to follow somebody who Christ has given to teach them the truth.
It's sad to that case, but that's not something you got to worry
about with believers. We're not worshiping each other, but we
love each other, and we serve each other, and we are thankful
to God for each other. And we trust Him. We trust Him.
And we know that if any turn, if any start declaring something
false, I love you. I hate to see it, but I can't
part with my Savior over it. Can't do that. Whenever I got
married, Melinda and I got married, Our pastor told us, if you and
her will have a happy marriage, he said, this is the simplicity
of a happy marriage. He said, Clay, if you love her,
love Christ more than you love her and put Christ before her
in everything. And he said, Melinda, if you
love Christ and put Christ before your husband in everything, he
said, That'll be the key to a blessed, happy marriage. And that's true.
That's true. Can't love husband, wife, son,
daughter, mother, father more than Him. Not worthy of Him.
So faith comes to Christ, and secondly, faith worships Christ
preeminently. Preeminently. All these relationships
in which we serve are in the Lord. In the Lord, as unto the
Lord. Alright, third thing, faith bears
the cross. Look at verse 27. Whosoever does
not bear his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. Bearing the cross means we're
going to have to lay down our life. That means death to everything
and everybody that's going to come between me and the Lord. whether it's my flesh or another's,
whether it's within me or without. Anything and everything that
comes between us is going to have to be laid aside, everything. Now, that's going to be painful
sometimes because you think about this, you think about loving
A dear, dear loved one who just denies the Lord. That's painful. That's painful. We're going to
have to suffer that to bear that. Christ Jesus the Lord preferred
to manifest the righteousness of God by laying down His life
and being made a curse for His people. that he might free them,
redeem them, purchase them by his blood, by his blood from
the curse of the law. That was, he willingly was made
before all a shameful thing. And he bore everybody around
in him, bad-mouthing him and dragging his name through the
mud and screaming blasphemous things about him. All together. And his prayer was, Lord, don't
let my people be ashamed because of this reproach. Don't let them
be confused because of this reproach. And sometimes that's all a believer
can do is just say, Lord, Don't let my brethren be ashamed because
of this reproach and this reviling and this false accusation, these
false things that are said. And it's painful. It's painful. But he preferred
the will of God be done over everything else. And because
he did, he finished the work. of declaring God righteous. He
finished the work of bringing in everlasting righteousness
for His people. He finished the work of reconciling
His people unto God. And everybody for whom He died
in Christ Jesus are made the righteousness of God because
of what He did. When we look at that and we see
the suffering that He endured on the cross, that just tells
us, brethren, suffering's okay. It's alright. God brings about
great things through suffering, through suffering, great things.
And it will be the reproach of men, it will be those we may
love the most, it will be our own flesh, our sinful desires,
our lusts, our wants. This is what the Lord said, whosoever
will save his life, means I'm just going to be I'm going to
have my way. I'm going to take the last path
of least resistance. I'm going to live for me and
me alone. I'm going to serve me and me
alone. And if it's easy, I'm going to do it. And if it's difficult,
I'm not going to do it. If it's pleasurable to me, I'll
do it. If it causes me pain, I'm not
doing it. You know what a pig in a pig
lot does? He just lives to eat slop and
lay in mud. That's all he lives for. That's
all he lives for. If you save your life, you'll
lose it. But whosoever shall lose his
life for my sake, Christ said in the Gospels, the same shall
save it. The same shall save it. Brother Walter Groover went
down to Mexico back in the I think it was in the 60s or
70s, I can't remember now, but he moved his whole family down
there. And I just, I think of this, this baffles me. I mean,
I moved my family to New Jersey. He moved all his family and had
four kids, he had a whole bunch of them. And he moved his whole
family from Texas, not West Texas, East Texas. all the way down
to Yucatan, into Mexico, and went from having everything he
had to nothing. From good schools to no school. Not only things he had for himself
and his family, but things that his children had, moved down
there, took down there. Somebody said, are you happy? Are you happy? And he said, it's
not about my happiness. And he said, but yeah, I'm happy.
Very happy. It's not about just my fleshly
ease and happiness. But he said, yeah, I'm very happy.
Very happy. Faith comes to Christ. Faith
worships Christ preeminently, none above him. And faith bears
the cross. We lose our life for Christ.
This world's not about us. This world is about the glory
of God, and it's about those whom God has called being called
out by His grace. Don't you want to see this work
finished? I want to see it finished. I enjoy coming, this is my favorite
time right here, is coming here and ministering this Word to
you. I enjoy this more than anything
else. But I don't want to do this forever. I'm ready to go
be with the Lord and sit down and listen to Him and hear Him.
Right now I'm ready. When He's ready, I'm ready. So
this is what He's put us here for, is to further this Word
for Him. Well, here's the next thing.
Faith finds all the sufficiency of God. The Lord tells us to
count the cost. Count the cost. Really count
the cost. What you're getting into. Count
the cost. And He gives two illustrations
here. He uses a building and He uses fighting a war. Look
at verse 28. For which of you, intending to
build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost,
whether he have sufficient to finish it? Lest, happily, after
he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it,
all that behold it begin to mock him, saying, This man began to
build, but he wasn't able to finish. Or what king, going to
war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth
whether he be able with 10,000 to meet him that's coming against
him with 20,000. Or else, while the enemy is yet
a great way off, he'll have to send an ambassador and he'll
have to desire conditions of peace. And the Lord says, so
likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that
he hath, he cannot be my disciple. Now you listen to this. Brother
Scott's building an outbuilding at his house. We were talking
about this and I want to build an outbuilding by my house. And I told him, I said, you keep
all your plans together and keep whatever you think you could
have done better, we'll do that better on mine. You keep up with
all your costs. Everything and he counted the
call. He sat down first. He planned
it out He counted the cost and he knew okay. I've got every
all That's required to purchase everything I need to build this
outbuilding and he didn't start building He didn't strike dirt. Did y'all start building yesterday?
They didn't strike dirt till they knew we got sufficient to
finish this thing and if he didn't Everybody that drives by his
house and sees a half-finished building would just always be
reminded, Scott just never did plan on, he didn't plan accordingly
for that. He didn't have sufficient to
build it. He didn't get it finished. Well, I hope you get it finished,
Scott. Well, here's the fact of the
matter, and this is what the Lord's teaching us. You truly
sit down and you count the cost. And if you can honestly say that
in yourself you have some sufficiency to finish this building, know
right up front you will never finish the building. Never. Never. We have to forsake every
thought that we can even begin the building, much less finish
the building, and trust that God alone is our sufficiency
for all, or we won't have sufficiency to begin, much less finish. Much less finish. Christ is the
foundation that's been laid. God laid this foundation. He
is God and He laid this foundation. He is righteousness. He is the work required. He is the willingness required. He is everything required. Christ is. And He accomplished
this by His willingness, by His work, and He finished it. He
is the foundation. And you who are called by Him,
You're called not of yourself, and you don't come of yourself,
but you've been called of Him. And if you come to Him, you're
being built up in Him. And He said, He shall bring the
cornerstone thereof, the headstone thereof, with shoutings crying
grace, grace unto it. And our sufficiency from beginning
to end is Him. Listen to this. You can turn
there if you'd like. 2 Corinthians 2. 2 Corinthians 2, verse 16. Paul asked this question. Who,
he says, is sufficient for these things? Look there with me. 2 Corinthians
2, 16. at the end there. Who is sufficient
for these things? Look down at chapter 3 and verse
5. Not that we are sufficient of
ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our sufficiency
is of God. It's of God. It's all of God. Now let's look at this next illustration. If you're going to enlist in
God's army, that's what a profession of faith is. You're saying it's
just like a man going down to the army or one of the armed
forces and signing up and saying, I'm enlisted in the military
today. This is what you're doing. You're
enlisting in God's army, in God's army. And you're going to be
fighting way more than you got appears that you have with you.
And he says this, you're going to have to start this war knowing
that the captain of your warfare, Christ Jesus the Lord, the author
and the finisher of faith, begin this warfare knowing this, our
warfare is accomplished. It's already won. When we get
in the race, when we get in the battle, the war, it's won. Our iniquities pardoned. He's
rewarded us double for all our sin. It's accomplished before
we begin. The second thing we're going
to have to know is this. Look at 2 Timothy 2 verse 3. If we get into this army, we're
going to have to know something here too. We didn't choose him. He chose us. He chose us, 2 Timothy
2 verse 3. Endure hardness as a good soldier
of Jesus Christ. No man that woreth entangled
himself with the affairs of this life that he may please him who
hath chosen him to be a soldier. If we're going to be in this
army, God's putting us in this army. Look now over at Ephesians
6. Ephesians 6. If we're going to
be in this army, we've got to remember this. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Are you still there
at 2 Corinthians? Turn to chapter 10. 2 Corinthians 10. 2 Corinthians 10. Look at verse
3. We're going to have to consider
and we're going to have to remember this. Though we walk in the flesh,
though you're right now still just a boy or a girl or a young
man or a young woman or a older man and woman, whatever. You
have to know this. Though we walk in the flesh,
we do not war after the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare
are not carnal. If they were, they'd be some
mighty poor weapon. But our weapons are mighty through
God to the pulling down of strongholds. Now, Ephesians 6. Ephesians 6. We're going to have to remember
this if we're going to be in this warfare. Ephesians 6, verse
11. This is what we're doing. By
faith, this is what we're saying. Verse 11. Put on the whole armor
of God. It's God's armor. You see this? It's God's armor. That you may
be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle
not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against
powers, against rulers of the darkness of this world, against
spiritual weakness in high places. That sounds like something a
whole lot stronger than us, don't it? It is. It is. So, wherefore
take unto you the whole armor of God that you may be able to
withstand the evil day and having done all to stand. Stand, therefore,
having your loins girt about." This is a description of a soldier
going into battle. Here he is. He's got his loins
girt about with truth. With truth. Look now. And having on the breastplate.
He's got a breastplate on. of righteousness. Whose? God's righteousness. The Lord
our righteousness. Now look here, in your feet,
you're going to have to have something to protect your feet.
Your feet shot or clothed or covered with the preparation
of the gospel of peace. I'm trying to teach you here.
I'm trying to teach you how to walk. I'm trying to teach you
what you, before you take the first step into this warfare,
I'm trying to tell you here through this gospel of peace, how it's
going to be accomplished, how it's going to be won. That's
already been won in him. Look, verse 16, above all, taking
the shield of faith. You know what that shield is?
Above everything else, take the shield of faith. You know what
that is? That's trusting God to do everything. That's trusting
God to do it all. Wherewith ye shall be able to
quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. They're going to
be shooting back. And take the helmet. You're going to have
to have something to cover up that noggin. Take the helmet
of salvation. No! Salvation is of the Lord. And the sword, you're gonna have
to fight with something. But with what? The sword of the
Spirit. Of the Spirit, which is the Word
of God. Word of God. Praying always with
all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, watching thereunto
with all perseverance and supplication for all saints. So this is what
I'm saying to you. Don't tarry. God's called you. You move when God calls you,
but don't make haste. Don't make haste. Abraham was
called to offer up Isaac. To offer up Isaac, his son, and
he had three days to think about that. And if you were going to
offer, you might say, well, that's not a very long time. If you
were going to offer up your son, I guarantee you it'd be a long
time to think about for three long days. But you know why he
did what he did? He did what he did accounting
that God was able to raise him from the dead. He did what he
did. This is what he counted. He counted the cost and this
is what he accounted. This is what he came up with.
God is able. That's what I'm saying to you.
Count the cost. Is your God able? Is He able
to do everything? Is He able to do everything?
He says, verse 33, so likewise whosoever He be of you that forsaketh
not all that He hath, He can be my disciple. All your wisdom,
you've got to forsake it. Christ is our wisdom. All those
filthy rags that you've been thinking made you somehow accepted
of God and right with God, you've got to forsake those. Christ
is our righteousness. We cleanse our hands, we wash
ourselves of that imaginary notion that we're going to be made perfected
in the flesh. You say, well, that's a contradiction
in terms. If God washes us, we'll know
what that means. Christ is our sanctification. And we've got to forsake all
our so-called liberties, all my rights and everything. Christ is our redemption. He's
our liberty. Our liberty. This is how Paul
put it. Yea, doubtless, I count all things
but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of God, of Christ
Jesus my Lord, for whom I've suffered the loss of all things
but I don't even count them laws." He said, I count them just done,
that I might win Christ and be found in Him, not having my own
righteousness, which is after the law, which is after something
of me. but that which is truly the righteousness
of God, which is wrought by God Himself in Christ Jesus for me,
applied to me, wherein I've been wrought and made to behold, He's
all my righteousness, all my standing with God." And he said,
I want this because I want to know Him, I want to know the
power of His resurrection, I want to know the fellowship of His
sufferings, I want to be made conformable unto His death. That's
what Christ is telling us here. It's not this old, you know,
trying to make yourself look like you're pitiful and make
yourself look like you have given up so much and talk about everything
you've given up for God and all that you've lost for Him and
how much you've sacrificed for Him. It's not that at all. It's
not that at all. It's being made willing to realize,
I haven't given up anything. I never had anything. I never
had anything. And now I've been freely given
everything in Christ. If you lived in a cardboard box
and somebody came and gave you some keys to a brand new mansion,
you wouldn't say you'd given up anything. You'd say, I've
been given everything. That's what Christ has done.
All right, here's the last thing. Our walk. How are we going to
walk? Faith walks in God's covenant mercies. Verse 34, Luke 14, 34,
and we'll finish. He said, salt is good. Salt is
good. The Lord declares that the believer
is the salt of the earth. You know what salt does? It preserves. Salt preserves. The believer
in this life is the preservative of a sinful, wretched, decaying
world. That's right. And when the Lord
has called the last of His vessels out of this world, there's not
going to be anything in this world to preserve it anymore. Salt represents the bond of God's
everlasting covenant. If you want to look at this,
Leviticus 2, Leviticus 2.13, when He gave the law, this is
what He said in the law, every oblation of your meat offering,
anything that you do, anything you do to offer to God, He said,
Leviticus 2.13, Every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou
season with salt. Why? Neither shalt thou suffer
the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat
offering. With all thine offerings thou
shalt offer salt. The salt is the preserver. The
everlasting covenant of God is the preserver. He's the preserver. And His word to us is this. He
said in Psalm 89, 27, I have made Him, Christ Jesus, the Son
of God, my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
He said, My mercy will I keep for Him forevermore. And my covenant shall stand fast
with Him. And he said, in his seed, those
God gave him, those children God gave him, redeemed by his
blood, those children that must be born of his seed, those children,
his seed, he said, I will make, God said, I will make them to
endure forever in his throne as the days of heaven. And Christ
came, look at Hebrews 8.1. Christ came and he finished the
work. He finished the work. And God
salts those that He gives life. He seasons us with this preserving
Word of everlasting covenant of unchanging grace. And He says
here, verse 8, He says, I will make a new covenant with the
house of Israel. And He says, and with the house
of Judah. And he says here, verse 10, look
there at verse 10. This is the covenant I'll make
with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord. I'll
put my laws into their heart. I'll write them in their hearts.
Here it is. It's what he's going to say to
you. As he said this to you, I'll be to you a God and you
shall be to me a people. You shall be to me a son and
a daughter. And he said here in verse 11,
he said, and all shall know me. Because He's going to do the
teaching. He's going to do the teaching. And He says, verse
12, I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins
and their iniquities will I remember no more. And so everything that
we have from God, is a covenant of salt. It's ordered in all
things and sure. And so this covenant is the salt. It's the seasoning of all our
wisdom as we walk in this life. It's the first thought on our
mind is that everything I have, everything I am, and everything
that I shall be given is mine by free grace because God gave
it to me and wrought it for me. This is going to quell the fears
within us, our natural flesh. It's going to mortify the deeds
of our flesh. It's going to calm us when we
need to be calm. It's going to lift our spirits
when we need to be lifted. It's going to bring us down when
we need to be brought down. It's going to give strength to
our knees when we need strength. It's going to give power to our
hands when we need power. And everything we say is going
to be seasoned with this salt, this grace that He's given, because
this is our only hope, the everlasting salt of God's covenant. This
is our savor. This is what makes God's people
to differ from every other brand of godlessness. It's what makes us redeem the
time we have. But a man that's lost his savor, What is it to lose, you say?
It's to lose any one of these things we've been talking about
today. It's to stop looking at Christ, coming to Him, worshiping
Him. It's to put others above Christ. It's to stop seeking
His life and start seeking our own life. It's to stop finding
all sufficiency in Him and to think we really got a little
strength in ourselves. When we do that, we have completely been
conformed to the spirit of this world. Salt is good, but if it's lost
its savor, what are you going to salt salt with? How do you salt salt? God's all. Christ is all. And if he's not all, There's nothing else to salt
with. Nothing else. Nothing else. It's neither fit
for the land-net, nor yet for the dung-hill, but men cast it
out. It's not good for anything. Now
here's the application. Verse 35. Verse 35. He says this, He that hath ears
to hear, let him hear. Let him hear. Do you remember the Pearl of
Great Price? Man, he goes in and he sees that Pearl of Great
Price, nothing like anything he's ever seen. And he says,
I have got to have that Pearl of Great Price. What's it cost? It's going to cost everything. Everything you've got, it's going
to cost you. And the man goes and he takes
and he sells everything he's got. Everything. His wife, her husband, the children, the
house, the land, the job, the gifts, The toys, everything. He comes and says, I gotta have
that pearl. And the merchant man says, it's
yours. And he says, now, here's your
wife. Here's your husband. Here's your
land. Here's your toys. Here's all
these things. You get to have them. But remember,
I own them all. They're all mine. Now enjoy the
pearl and enjoy those things. And this is what the Lord said.
If you have ears to hear, He's given you ears to hear. Come
to Christ. Believe on Him. He's given you
ears to hear. Worship Him alone. Please don't misunderstand me.
When I say worship Christ alone, I'm saying worship God alone.
He's God. God. The fullness of the Godhead
in the body. Only once ever declared the name
of God. God. Worship Him only. that His grace is full sufficiency
for everything. Lay down your life, and as the salt of the earth,
with the full assurance that everything is yours by this everlasting
covenant that is ordered and sure in all things in Christ, Let everything you do and everything
you say be seasoned with this salt. And this is what the Lord
said. Look over at John 6.37. John
6.37. Well, Clay, that scares me that
you talked about that salt being cast out. Oh, no, no, no. No, no, no. If you've heard Him,
if you've heard Him, this is what He said. Look at verse 36. I'm sorry,
verse 37. All that the Father giveth me
shall come to me, and that him that cometh to me I will in no
wise cast out. Not at all. Not ever. Look down
here now to verse 40, the very end. And I will Raise him up
at the last day. At the last day. Alright.