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Mikal Smith

The Poor Rich Ruler

Mark 10:17-31
Mikal Smith July, 2 2023 Video & Audio
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I want to start reading verse
17. Let's go to the Lord in prayer. Lord, we come now and we just
thank you so much for Christ Jesus. And thank you also for
the fellowship that we've already had so far this morning. Lord,
we just pray that the songs that we have just now sang truly do
come from our heart, lifting up the exaltations of Christ
Jesus. And our hope is that the Holy
Spirit will be here with us, as you've promised, where two
or three are gathered. And we pray, Lord, that you would
guide us in our worship and that we would worship you in spirit
and in truth. And we just pray that as we look
at these scriptures, that we might see Christ today. We are
a teacher of these things. Lord, we surely don't want to
put ourselves out there as the attraction, as the main point
of any sermon, of any message. Lord, that the gospel of Jesus
Christ and what he has done, who he is, all that he has accomplished. Father, we pray that that would
be our focus, and that would be what is seen and heard. Lord, we pray for all that are
here today. We pray that you'd give us hearing ears, and we
pray that you'd give us receptive hearts. We pray, Lord, that if
there's any here today that you'd get to, to grant repentance and
faith to. We pray, Lord, that You would
do that and grant that. Lord, that they might be moved
to follow You in believers' baptism. Lord, we just ask that You would
just guide us and direct us in all things. We just pray, Lord,
now that You would show us Christ once again, as we ask in these
passages. Look beyond those things that
are necessarily physical. and see those things which pertain
to the kingdom of God. It's in Christ's name that we
pray. Mark chapter 10 and verse 17
says, And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one
running and kneeled to him and asked him, Good master, what
shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? Jesus said unto
him, Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, That
is God. Thou knowest the commandments,
do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear
false witness, defraud not, honor thy father and mother. And he
answered and said of him, Master, all these have I observed from
my youth. Then Jesus beholding him loved
him and said unto him, one thing thou lackest, go thy way, sell
whatsoever thou hast and give to the poor and thou shalt have
treasure in heaven. and come take up the cross and
follow me.' And he was sad at that saying and went away grieved,
for he had great possessions. And Jesus looked round about
and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that have
riches enter into the kingdom of God. The disciples were astonished
at his words, but Jesus answereth again, And said unto him, Children,
how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into
the kingdom of God? It is easier for a camel to go
through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into
the kingdom of God. And they were astonished, out
of measure, saying among themselves, Who then can be saved? And Jesus looking upon them said,
With men it is impossible, but not with God. For with God all
things or path of, or possible. Then Peter began saying unto
him, Lo, we have left all and have followed thee. And Jesus
answered and said, Verily I say unto you, there is no man that
hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother,
or wife, or children, or lands for my sake and the gospels,
but he shall receive in a hundredfold now in this time houses, and
brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with
persecutions and in the world to come eternal life. But many
that are first shall be last, and the last first." One thing that really stuck out
to me in this is a couple things. One thing this man came, and
we know this is the story of the rich young ruler, right? One thing that stuck out to me
in this is the rich young ruler came to Jesus and he basically
came and said the same thing that the religious leaders said
whenever they came to Jesus. That was over in John 6. John 6 and verse 20. Actually, I'll start reading
verse 26. Jesus answered them and said unto them, Verily, verily,
I say unto you, you seek me not because you saw the miracles,
but because you did eat the loaves in the field. Labor not for the
meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto
eternal life, which the Son of Man shall give unto you. For
him hath God the Father sealed. Then they said unto him, What
shall we do that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered
and said unto them, This is the work of God that you believe
on him. whom he hath sent." So this man basically was saying
basically the same thing as these religious leaders were saying.
You know, what must I do that I might do the work of God? Or
what must I do that I can perform some work and inherit eternal
life? There's something that I should
be doing to inherit eternal life. So it tells me a couple of things.
This man obviously, you know, was concerned about eternal life. He wanted to know what was going
to happen on the other side. What's going to happen after
this life is over, there's obviously something's going to happen in
the life to come, and I hope to have eternal life. And so
he was concerned about that. But notice, if you would, he
knew the answer came from the good master. I mean, this man
was concerned about these things, and he obviously thought that
he was living a good life because he said, all these things that
you've said, I've already done. You know, I've been keeping it,
and we know that that's not true, right? He thought that was, I
have heard a preacher one time say, obviously this man, actually
in a conversation, he said, whenever I told him no man can keep the
law, he said, well, that man did. It's in the Bible. Jesus didn't tell him he didn't
keep the law. Well, brother, Jesus didn't have to tell him
he didn't keep the law because he went right to the next commandment
that he gave him that the man knew he couldn't keep and wouldn't
keep. It has nothing to do with did
this man keep the whole law. He didn't keep these laws. We
know he didn't keep these laws, and Jesus made that the point
because he gave him a law that he knew he couldn't keep. Even
if that man did keep those other laws, and I don't believe he
did, but even if that man did keep all those laws, Jesus gave
him a law that he couldn't keep. Thereby, according to James,
if he offends in one, he's guilty of all of them. And he was showing
the man, you know the scriptures, the command is to keep all the
law, not just some of them. And this man was keeping all
these laws, but he couldn't keep that one. Therefore, he was guilty
of every one of those laws. And brother, listen. Just as
a side note, we've talked about this many times, especially whenever
we've gone through relations. We know that that condemnation
that the law has and gives is a striking condemnation. There is no way that we can escape
the condemnation of the law. You think that you're getting
ahead by keeping the law of God and that you're performing some
kind of a righteousness before God and you're getting along
with God and you're You know, as I've grown up hearing it all,
staying right with God and everything, do you think that you were doing
that in your flesh and keeping those laws or keeping some righteousness
that God's accepting and everything? The law is thundering, just like
it was back on Sinai whenever Moses came down the mountain.
It's a thundering law. It is a thundering condemnation. And the perfection of the law
is not keep some of it as best as you can. It is keep it all
or die. And brethren, we can't escape
that unless we have somebody who substitutes for us and who
does that. And praise God, we have Jesus
Christ who did that. So this man coming to Jesus and
saying, you know, hey, I've kept all those laws and everything. I can almost see probably those
disciples that was hanging around there. They probably were snickering
a little bit. This guy obviously don't know.
Or this man here, whenever he said that, Jesus, of course we
see here that he said that he looked on him and he loved him.
He beheld him and he loved him. Whenever Jesus saw that, he probably
seen, you know, this man just still has ignorance of what the
law really is. He thinks he's keeping the law.
Whatever the case might be, this man was convinced that there
was something that he could do And therefore, even, and I think
this is what God, whenever He puts this into our hearts, there
is a deficiency there. This man's seeing there's a deficiency
or something. I need to make sure, what is
it that I need to do to inherit eternal life? Because I've been
keeping all these things. I've been doing all these things,
but still his soul was unsettled. There's something that's not
right. There's something that's more that's needed, surely, that
I'd have to do. Well, brethren, I tell you what,
nobody has that thought except those who are the children of
God. You know, we don't have those thoughts in the natural
man. The natural man does what? Pulls up those fig leaves, right?
And he tries to cover himself with his own fig leaves. He thinks
that his righteousness is good enough for God. He thinks whatever
he does is righteous before God. I'm keeping the laws of God,
so I'm righteous before God. God's gonna say, all right, well
done, thy good and faithful servant. Enter in. I don't know, I might
be wrong about this, but I think the only one that's going to
hear that is Jesus. And we are only going to hear anything like
that because we're in Christ. But Jesus is the one who is the
good and faithful servant. He's the one who is obedient
and fulfilled all the law of God. So this rich young girl,
whenever he came to Jesus, he said, you know, what must I do
that I might inherit eternal life? It's the natural man's
response to religious things. What can I do? What must I do?
That's the default attitude that we have, is that we can provide
some kind of righteousness. It goes all the way back to the
very beginning, the very first sin that ever was committed.
You can be as God. You can be as God. You don't
have to worry about God saying, don't do that. You can be as
God. You can provide your own righteousness.
You do your own thing. And we think that we can just
cover up and do our own thing and God's going to accept that.
The Bible clearly says that the flesh profits nothing. That everything
that is done in the flesh is sin and that it cannot please
God. And that all of our attempts
at righteousness is filthy rags. And I'm always compelled, and
I say this a lot, I'm always compelled Because whenever that
word is used there, that word righteousnesses is plural. All
of our righteousnesses, he didn't say unrighteousnesses, are filthy
rags. He said all of our righteousnesses.
So every best thing that Michael Smith can do in some religious
way or even some try to attain what this tells me to do is filthy
rags. God doesn't accept anything that
we do. And I'm even going to say, even
what we do as children of God with the Holy Spirit in us, there
is nothing that we do that is accepted for righteousness before
God. The only righteousness that God
has accepted, will accept, is the righteousness of Jesus Christ
alone. and not Jesus Christ's righteousness
working out in you. That's not the righteousness
that God accepts. God only accepts the actual righteousness
of Jesus Christ. So this man was obviously ignorant
of God's righteousness. The Bible says that they went
about seeking their own righteousness and they were ignorant of the
righteousness of God. Well, that's what being the ignorant of God's
righteousness is, and using the ignorant is not in a derogatory
way, right? It's just saying that they were
uninformed. They were unaware. They did not know. They were
unlearned. They did not have the knowledge. And when I say that, I'm not
talking about book knowledge, seminary knowledge. I'm talking
about they didn't have the knowledge and the teaching of the Holy
Spirit of what righteousness really was. I mean, these religious
leaders, and apparently this man here, they had all been taught
that there's a righteousness that we get by keeping God tells
us to do, and the law never was given to us to give us righteousness
or to cause us to be righteous or to save us or to justify us. The law was always given by God,
and just exactly the way Jesus used it right here, the law was
always given to condemn us. It was always to show us that
we cannot perform righteousness. We cannot do anything to reach
perfection. The very word sin, it means missing
the mark. We always miss the mark. And
the law is always there to show us our inability for perfection,
our inability for righteousness, our inability to obey. Therefore,
for the child of grace who has been given the Spirit of God,
that that Spirit of God convicts of that sinfulness, convicts
of the missing the mark, the convicting of the imperfection,
the unrighteousness, the inability. The Holy Spirit convicts us of
that. The Bible uses the term, causes
us to be poor in spirit. We become poor in spirit. We
become poor in spirit because we now, by the Spirit's teaching,
by the Spirit's enabling, we now have been humbled and come
to the right mind of understanding and I would say this is also
a part of the repentance that God grants to us is we now realize
righteousness cannot be attained by me. Righteousness cannot be
performed by me. That I have no righteousness,
therefore the only righteousness I have hope in is in the righteousness
of Christ. And so now we repent, meaning
we turn from the thinking that we can perform righteousness
and we trust and hold to the righteousness of Christ alone
as our righteousness. His substitutionary obedience,
His substitutionary death was all for us, and that is what
God accepts. That's what God has declared
as the righteousness that He would accept, that He would give
that to us, and that it would be part of our account. And so
Jesus here gives this man the law that he knew he could keep. And this man, the Bible says,
he went away sad because he had great possessions. Now, we're
talking about the physical thing here, right? This man had great
possessions. He had wealth. He had whatever,
you know. I don't know what all he had,
but he had a lot, obviously. And he went away because he had
great possessions, and he went away sad because he obviously
loved those possessions and didn't want to give them away because
he was wanting to inherit eternal life. But when Jesus told him,
well, to get eternal life, why don't you go sell all those things
and then come and follow me? The man went away sad. Why? Either
he was going to give them away and wasn't going to have them
anymore, which we don't know what happened after this, or
He wasn't going to give them away and I'm going to not get
an eternal life. That's what he was thinking,
at least in his mind. So I don't know what the case was, but either
way, he went away sad, sorrowful because he had great possessions. Now that's the physical aspect
of that. What's the spiritual teaching that we have here before
us? Remember, I always say we always need to go past the physical
to see and look at what the spiritual teaching is here for us if the
Spirit will give us understanding of it. And we see here, and the
reason I say that is because of the conversation between Jesus
and His disciples. See, Jesus went and said, the
disciples were astonished because Jesus said, you know, hey, hardly
shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God. Does
that mean that rich people, anybody that's rich, they can't get into
heaven? No, that's not what it means. Does it mean that being
rich is a sin or is evil? No, it doesn't mean that either.
I've heard people preach that and teach that. No, it's not
that either. Now, I will say this, the Bible
does say that the love of money is the root of all evil, right?
Your heart's desire, if that's all it is, is to make money.
We all know people that's like that. Their main drive is to
get out there and to get rich and to be rich and to do whatever
they can to be rich and everything. But some people are blessed with
that. Some people are driven by that and that's what motivates
them. It's two different things. The
love of money. This man obviously had a love
for money because he didn't want to get rid of the possessions.
But Jesus said, hardly shall they have those who have riches
entering the kingdom of heaven. And then he also said that it's
easier for the camel to go through an eye of a needle than for a
rich man to enter the kingdom. But whenever he said that, the
disciples didn't perceive it necessarily as meaning having
a bunch of money. Because they said, and they were
astonished out of measure, saying among themselves, who then can
be saved? Now they're saying, well, These
men were not rich. We'd probably say Matthew maybe
was rich if he didn't get rid of all of his money whenever
he quit being a publican. But all these men were fishermen. Poor guys, right? So even now,
they're saying, wait a minute. They got the teaching that Jesus
was trying to get through to them. Jesus was talking about
whenever we think that we are rich in righteousness, and don't
have need of Christ or don't have need of someone else performing
something for us. With me, I can do it. Pull myself
up by my boob straps. I'm a self-made man, you know.
Whenever we are rich in those things, hardly can a man get into heaven.
Now, I hope I'm not too scattered here. Notice Jesus said, shall
they that have riches enter into the kingdom of heaven?" He didn't
say, never can anyone that has riches enter into heaven. Now,
I'm still talking on the spiritual level here, right? On the spiritual
aspect. If we're looking at this in a spiritual way, talking about
righteousness, and whether or not it's Christ's righteousness
or our own righteousness, he said, how hardly shall they that
have riches enter into the kingdom of heaven. There's only one man
who has all the riches that has entered into the kingdom of heaven.
And that's why I think that he didn't say never, because he
is the one man who has entered the kingdom of heaven, who had
all the riches. He was rich in righteousness.
So everyone else, though, is not gonna make it. And that's
why these men say, well, who then can be saved? Who can be
saved? And Jesus, looking upon them,
saying, with men it is impossible, but with God all things are possible. See, with men it's impossible.
We cannot perform this righteousness. We cannot amass the riches of righteousness that God will
accept. We just can't do it. I'm reminded
of this in Revelation. Revelation 3. If you want to
add, feel free to jump in. Revelation 3. Look at verse 17. Jesus speaking here. He says,
Because thou sayest, I am rich and increased with goods, and
have need of nothing, and knowest not that thou art wretched and
miserable and poor and blind, and naked. Now, how awful is
that? Someone who has all the riches,
and again, speaking of righteousness, whenever we think that we have
a righteousness to put before God, what's that old saying that
they used to say, there are none so blind as those who do not
see? I mean, obviously this man here, he says, Thou sayest that
I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing.
And Jesus is saying, you think that, but you don't even have
any clue that you are poor, blind, miserable, and naked. See, that's
how we are in the natural man. And until God quickens us, until
God grants us repentance, grants us faith, teaches us who we are
in ourselves in Adam, and everything, we think we have all the riches
of righteousness that God's gonna accept. You know, the old illustration
that we used to have of the old balancing skills. You know, whenever
we get up there, God's gonna balance all of our good deeds
with, I've done more good deeds than I've done bad deeds, so
God's gonna let me in. Or Peter at the pearly gate is
gonna look in the book and say, oh, you've done pretty good,
I guess we can let you in, you know. Whatever the silly cartoonish
thoughts that we used to have about how you get to heaven,
This man thinks that, hey, I'm going to be able to get in. I
have all these riches. I've done everything that needs
to be done. And Christ is saying, you don't have any clue that
you're poor. And how I think about the child of grace, that
whenever the Bible or whenever the Spirit opens up our understanding
and we see what the Bible teaches us of ourselves, then what happens? We take the opposite place. We go from thinking that we are
rich to knowing that we are poor. Remember that, was it the publican
that was in there praying with the Pharisee? And the Pharisee
was saying, you know, I thank you God that you've not made
me like this poor sinner here next to me and everything like
that. What was he doing? He thought he was rich in righteousness. He was keeping that law. He was
keeping the things that God had told him to do. And what was
this guy doing? He was on his face before God
and he said, Forgive me, I'm a sinner." He knew that he was
wretched, poor, miserable, without anything. No money to buy, nothing
to give, nothing to offer unto God. And what did Jesus say? Who's the one that went down
justified? It was that man that was on his
face before God. And the Bible says, blessed are
they who are poor in spirit. blessed. That's a blessing that
God gives us. He grants us the blessing of
being poor in spirit because whenever we become poor in spirit
by God's grace, by the Spirit's convicting and teaching, when
we become poor in spirit, we begin to look to Christ. Whenever we're poor in spirit,
we look to the one rich man that we know by the Spirit's teaching,
and that's Christ. He's the only one rich in righteousness. And if He is rich in righteousness,
maybe He will give it to me. Maybe I can be given righteousness
by Him. So we begin to have a hope that
His righteousness can be our righteousness. That He would
be gracious to us and give us His righteousness, that He would
be gracious enough and merciful enough to account us in His righteousness. Well, brethren, that's being
poor in spirit. We're poor in spirit. We know that we are not
accomplishing anything before God. And this young man here
had not been made poor in spirit. Now, I will say, Jesus said there
that He looked upon him and He loved him. He beheld him and he loved him.
Now, I've heard some men say, well, that man went away and
never did make it to heaven because he loved his riches more than
anything. The Bible doesn't say that. He
did say he went away because he was sad because he had much
wealth, but it didn't say that he never entered into heaven.
It never did say he eventually ever repented or turned to Christ
or followed after Christ. It doesn't say that, and it doesn't
not say that, or well, I guess it does not say that. It never
does say, so we don't know either way. So anything would be inference,
right? But the Bible does say that Jesus
loved him. And we know that Jesus only loves his brethren. Now, I was kind of interested
in this this morning before I came out of my bedroom. I thought,
you know, I want to look at that word love there. Because I know
in our language, love, we have one word, love. And it just kind
of means a different thing. You know, I love my wife and
I love my kids and I love my friends and everything. And then
there's a love for God, right? And a love for the brethren.
And all these loves are different, right? Okay, the way I love Daniel
is different than how I love my wife. And how I love all you
guys is different than how I would love God. So it's a different
love. Well, in the Greek language, they have more specific words.
So I thought, well, I'm gonna love see what this word is behind
this word love and see is it phileo because I know the word
Greek word phileo I've been taught is uh you know means a friendship
love that would be what meaning Larry has is a phileo love we
have friendship love we also have brother brother brotherly
love right and then there's a eros which is a intimate love like
you have with your wife And then there's the agape love, which
is the love of God. So I thought, well, I'm gonna
look and see is whenever Jesus said that he loved him, did he
say phileo? When I went and looked at that
word, it's the exact same Greek word as John 3, 16, for God so
loved the world. That's the agape love. That's
the love that God has for his elect, that everlasting love. That everlasting love that God
has for his elect is the word that Jesus used there. It's there
for us. He meant, I love you as my elect. That's what he said. Well, he
didn't say to him, but it's recorded Jesus saying that. He loved him. So my thoughts is that man went
away sorrowful, but there was a point in which God brought
him to his understanding of those things. My thought is, in my
opinion, again, I'm not going to part ways with anybody or
be dogmatic about this or anything like that, but if this thing
says that Jesus loved him, then that man was the elect of God.
And at some point, because the Bible says, all that the Father
giveth me shall come to me. And that word come means believe,
believe on me. At some point, that man was given
to believe. And his thought process changed.
And he went from being a rich man to a poor man. And it may
have not necessarily been because he gave away all of these things.
But just because he began to see, good master, there is nothing
that I can do to inherit eternal life. I know that you are eternal
life. And if I'm to have eternal life,
it has to come from you. And the thief on the cross said,
Remember me when you come into your kingdom. See, that thief on the cross
didn't know nothing. That thief on the cross didn't do anything.
It wasn't the thief's belief that even caused him to be saved.
What caused him to be saved? Well, that man right there in
the middle, what he was looking at. What was it that he had to
do to inherit eternal life? Nothing. But he was poor in spirit. The other man wasn't. Right? Cain and Abel. Cain, rich. Abel, poor in spirit. I mean, we look at that, the people
of God are made poor in spirit. They come not boasting of their
riches. I've kept that. I've kept that.
I've done that. I've done this. I've done that.
And brother, I tell you what, and I just get to now, I don't
listen to any of it, but I used to every now and then would listen
to Christian radio while I was driving for work. And man, I
tell you what, it just gets to the point where you just can't
stand listening to all the garbage that's out there. Everything
is man-centered. Everything is I can perform everything
for myself. Christians, quote unquote, Christians
today are the most richest, and I mean that in not physical monetary
things. They are the most richest people
in the world because they think they can do everything that this
book tells them to do. They're keeping God's law. They're
working and doing everything. They're advancing God's kingdom.
They're winning souls, snatching people from the fire. They're
doing all this stuff. And it's just like that guy in
Revelation, Jesus says, you think it's that you're rich, that you're
poor, miserable, wretched. How sad it is if we're that way
and the Lord never does grant mercy to us. He never does grant
us repentance from that. But one of these days, everybody's
gonna know Everybody's going to stand before the one who is
rich in mercy. And they will know that He is
sovereign. And He will show mercy on whom He will show mercy. He
will show grace on whom He will show grace. He will grant repentance
to those He will grant repentance to. And all those who He doesn't,
they will receive their just reward for all that they have
done. And the reward for all the sin that they have done,
the Bible says, the wages of that sin will be dead. And nobody
can look and accuse God and say, why have you made me this way?
Because the power has the power over the clay to make whatever
kind of vessel for whatever kind of use that he wants to make.
So brother, we are blessed to be made poor in spirit and to
go from being rich to being poor. And I'm thankful that the Lord
here was gracious enough to this man because obviously he thought
he was keeping the law. The Lord was gracious to him
by pointing out his inability. Because if God didn't point out
our inability to us, we would have kept right on all the way
to the end in the judgment time thinking that we are rich in
righteousness. And that we're just going to
open that pearly gate with Brother Paul throw right down those golden
streets and take a resident in our mansion and Jesus gonna pat
us on the back and tell us how great a job we did. And boy,
I tell you what, I couldn't advance my kingdom if it wasn't for you.
We used to sing a song. What was the name of that song? You probably remember this, brother.
It was Ray Gould saying it. When I get to heaven, I'll look
around and see, you know, all these people, you know, because
of you, I'm here, you know. Now, that's our mentality, right? That's the mentality of modern
Christianity. Look at all these souls that made it here because
of our ministry. I wrote an article that I posted
on Facebook this week. I actually wrote it a few years
ago, was when I made the validation, and I wrote it, actually changed
some things on there, but I've seen Bode Bachum had made a statement
a few years ago. It was an anniversary of his,
how long he'd been at his pastor, his church. And they had a picture
and it was, it was in the church and it was showing inside the
church. And he said, he said, countless, countless people,
I can't remember the exact quote, but he said, destinies were changed
in these pews and everything. And anyway, so I wrote an article
about people's destinies don't change, for one, and none were
caused by you, right? That was kind of the gist of
the piece and everything. I don't say anything about him.
You know, I think he's preaching the false gospel. He's a Chalminian
who has this whole fullerite aspect to their sovereign grace,
but I don't throw any doubt on His salvation, that's between
Him and the Lord, I don't know. But what He said is wrong. Eternal destinies don't hang
in the balance. And that's the thing. We think we are rich,
and we think that because of our service, because of our ministries,
because of whatever we want to claim, that people are getting
into heaven. And when we get there, we're
going to be slapped on the back and say, well done, good job.
But the only thing we're going to be doing is we're going to
be And the whole discussion about crowns is a whole different story. But all I know is this, a crown
that's given to me is going to be cast down to feed Christ.
We're going to be bowing down and saying, worthy is the Lamb
who was slain. For thou hast redeemed us, saved us, called us, protected
us, preserved us, every aspect of our life, every aspect of
our salvation, the only credit goes to Jesus Christ. I hope to be a good father and
teach my children what the Bible teaches, but nobody's saved because
I'm their dad. Nobody's saved because I'm a
preacher. Nobody is saved because, you know, anything that men do. The only reason we're saved is
because of God. because of Christ. He's the only one that has the
riches. He's the only one that truly is righteous. All right. That's all we got. Anybody got anything you'd like
to add to it? Sure. Any thoughts you got, old bro?
After you turn everything off. Oh, after you turn everything
off? Sure. Yeah, we can turn that off.

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