We're glad you're here. Trust
that the Spirit of God will be here with us. In the past couple of weeks,
I've talked to a young man who was a Baptist and a young lady
who was raised in Catholicism. And both of them said similar
things to me that troubled me. The young man who was the Baptist
said to me, and he's entirely quit going to church at all,
of any kind of church, said to me, I quit going because it seemed
to be about rules and regulations. And there was no room for me
to think. My parents were very strict and
we lived in a very legalistic way and I was to question nothing. And my mind really doesn't work
that way, he said. The young lady who was very gifted
and a Catholic said, really, I got nothing out of it. All
of the formalism, ritualism, It was just, to me, meaningless. I didn't get it. And I thought, you know, both
of those statements were true. That's what they had experienced
in the particular ecclesiastical organizations that they attended. The gospel of Jesus Christ will
not shut down your brain. In fact, it's the most intellectual,
awesome, wonderful, philosophical message that could ever be told.
It's the very wisdom of God. I don't blame people for not going
to a place where the same things are done over and over. and there
is no spirit, no hype, no joy, no awe, no wonder. And so today's message, I just
want to challenge you again and confront you with the claims
of Christ and the crucifixion. Anybody here wear a cross around
their neck? Anybody here? Anybody wearing a cross today?
All right. Anybody here have a cross on
their Bible? We used to have the zippered Bibles where people
would have a zipper on their Bible and then have a cross on
it. I have taken note that mafia
leaders wear crosses. Have you ever seen anyone committing
an atrocity, what we would call sin, with a cross around their
neck. Of course we have. The Pope and
Catholic Church and other religious organizations always have a cross. Even ISIS made mention of the
cross. They had just cut off the heads
of 125 professing Christians, and they declared that they were
going to the city of the cross, meaning primarily Rome, that
they were going to take Rome and cut off the head of the Pope. So the cross is to some degree
a universal symbol that is supposed to connect the dots at least
with something. Do you know the meaning of the
cross? I hope you do. And if you don't, I hope you
will before you leave today. Satan's a smooth operator. His great ploy is to, I think,
desensitize the cross. In other words, to make an idol
out of a cross. There will probably be people
dying to go to hell with a cross around their neck. You do understand that if you
don't have the cross in your heart, you perish. And really the cross is meaningless
without understanding of what is it about the cross. Because
there was two thieves that died with Jesus on either side and
they died on a cross. I take it that most of you in
here who are wearing a cross know that you are wearing it
because you believe that over 2000 years ago, there was a man
called Jesus who died on the cross. I think we have to be
careful about worshiping things rather than the person of Jesus
Cross. I've seen people kiss the cross. And I've often wondered, why
did you kiss the cross? What if you kiss the cross, did
you ever kiss anybody you didn't know? Well, some of you are going,
well, yeah. Well, don't be doing that. I've often wondered, I was watching
the Tigers yesterday somewhat and seen some religious moves
when they did well, yeah, the sign of the cross. But I think maybe the meaning
of the cross has been hid and covered with religious garb,
actually. What ought to be clear to us
all and what we must do is strip the cross, the religiousness
of all of those things that adorn it. The cross ought to be unadorned,
naked, awful, bloody. Cursed is he who hangs on the
tree. And then you're starting to get
somewhat of an understanding of what the cross is all about. In my conversation with these
two young people, young adults, they made mention of the fact
that it just didn't make sense, the story of the cross. And I wanted to say to them,
does man coming from monkey make sense? I was just thinking about
that. Have you ever thought about this?
This is really deep, what I'm about to say here. If man came
from monkeys, I see monkeys now. Why aren't they changing into
men? Isn't that deep? That is really deep. Why isn't
there evolution now? You see a monkey up the tree,
the next thing you know, it's a human being. Evolution doesn't
make sense to me, but I want to tell you this. The message
of this Bible is brilliant. It's awesome. Like I said, Satan is always
at his best. He wants you to be religious.
He wants you to carry a cross, but he doesn't want you to know
what that cross is all about. He doesn't want you to know the
significance of the cross. In fact, people began to make
an idol out of the cross. And Jesus was very, or the Lord
himself in the Bible, you remember when the children of Israel got
snake bit? They were to put a serpent on a pole, which was a type of
Christ, and look to that serpent, and everybody got snake bit,
and look, they would live. And that's really the message
of Scripture. But what the Lord said was this. Now, on a certain time, you take
that serpent that you made out of brass, and you grind it up. You know why he had them grind
it up? Because somebody would have had a serpent, a piece of
that serpent around their neck. You know why Noah's Ark can't
be found? Because we would make splinters out of it and sell
it to religious people to hang around their neck. We are prone
to make idols out of religious things and really miss the real
meaning. What does Paul mean when he explains,
God forbid that I should glory save in the cross? What does
he mean by that? Or I'm determined not to know
anything among you save Jesus Christ. I'm preaching Jesus Christ,
and then he hastily adds, you know, the one that was crucified. Oh, now we're getting the picture.
The cross and a crucified Messiah, a crucified Savior. You see,
this is the heart of God. God's always had a cross in his
plan and in his mind and in his heart. The cross, the doing and
dying of Jesus Christ. As Greg said, the gospel is not about you.
The cross is not about you. It centers in this, in Jesus
Christ, his doing and dying. That ought to be pretty simple.
What is Christianity truly about? It's not all the religious mumbo-jumbo. It's about the doing and dying
of Jesus Christ. And that's how we're saved. I
am a Christian. And you ask me what I am, I'm
not going to tell you I'm a Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian.
I'm a Christian. Christ is my hope. Christ is
my righteousness. Christ is my foundation. Christ
is my justification. Christ is my redeemer. Christ
is my atoner. Christ is the door. Christ is
the bread of life. Christ is the way. Christ is
the truth. Christ is the life. The gospel, the cross. It's here
we drive our stake. And so did the apostle Paul.
He said, I am determined. It's so easy to get religious.
It really is. I can ask you to do a thousand
religious things and you would do them. But what about this? Right where
you are, right now, simply trust Christ. I'm not asking you to
come up front. One of the reasons I don't constantly
ask people to raise their hand, close their eyes, come up front,
because I don't want you to miss Christ. I want you to know the
significance. I want you to trust Him. Salvation
isn't up here. Salvation's in Christ. And it's
by faith we go to Christ and trust Him as the doing and dying
Savior. The old Puritans used to say,
if I perish there and die at His cross, I still shall lie. Near the cross, the songwriter
said, near the cross be my glory ever. The great question asked
by the old hymn writer is a good one. Were you there when they
crucified my Lord? Were you there when they crucified
my Lord? Sometimes it causes me to tremble. Sometimes it causes me to tremble. Were you there when they crucified
my Lord? You're getting close to the meaning
of the cross when you began to tremble with awe and appreciation
that on that cross, he died for your sins. He wasn't dying because
of something he did. And it'll cause you to tremble. The songwriter said, all the
vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his cross. The songwriter said, when I survey
the wondrous cross, many times I'm asked, why do we sing those
old hymns? Because they center in Jesus
Christ and his doing and dying. I don't want to sing a hymn or
a song that doesn't center in Jesus Christ. When I survey the
wondrous cross on which the Prince of Glory died, my richest gain
I count but loss, and poor contempt on all my pride. Forbid it, Lord,
that I should boast, save in the death of Christ my Lord,
all the vain things that charm me most. I sacrifice them to
his blood. Where the whole realm of nature
mine, that were a present far too small, love so amazing, so
divine, demands my soul, my life, my all. At the cross. At the cross where my Savior
died. Alas, and did my savior bleed
and did my sovereign die, would he devote that sacred head for
such a worm as I. Oh, for a thousand tongues to
sing my great Redeemer's praise. Or in the cross, in the cross
be my glory ever, till my raptured soul shall find rest beyond the
river. There's power in the blood, wonder-working
power. On a hill far away stood an old
rugged cross, the emblem of suffering and shame. Somebody, when we
were in here, said to me, you ought to put a big cross up there.
We could put a cross up there, but if you don't know what that
means. Now, I want you to look by faith. You know there's no
pictures in this building? Do you know we don't have a lot
of religious stuff? Keep it plain, because I want
you with the eye of faith to see Jesus Christ dying in your
stead. So when I got home after talking
to these young people and after they asked me these questions,
I got to thinking, what do I see in the cross? Well, first of
all, I see the cultivation of a preconceived plan of Almighty
God to deliver sinners from going down to the pit. You know, before
there was a world, God had already planned to come into the world
to save sinners. A preconceived plan. It wasn't
an afterthought with God. You were not an afterthought
with God. I mean, something When you see
this, that God has come to earth, isn't that an astonishing thing? That God has come to earth, and
God has come to earth to die. That wasn't an afterthought.
That was preconceived and planned and purposed before there was
a world. God had ordained it. You're saved
on purpose for a purpose. You're here today on purpose
for a purpose. I see in the cross, the mother
of all wars. You see, in order for you to
go to heaven, there has to be a lot of things take place. First
of all, the devil has to be defeated. Death has to be conquered. Your
sins have to be paid for. Demons have to be put down. Because the point is this, that
you will surely perish unless God does something. And so the war of all wars was
fought. And the Bible says that Jesus
conquered principalities and powers and led them captive. There was a war took place when
I look at the cross. I see God on the scene. I see
God has invaded history. I see God in bloody battle on
the tree of the cross to defeat my enemies and to conquer my
sin. I see the fulfillment of types
and shadows. You know, you read this Bible,
all you see is the Ten Commandments. You haven't read it or write.
This Bible's not simply about Ten Commandments. This Bible's
not about do's and don'ts. This Bible concerns itself with
this, from Genesis to Revelation, somebody's coming. Somebody's
coming. That's what Genesis declares. when God said to Mother Eve,
you're going to give birth to a boy, to a son, and he's going
to crush the serpent's head. You know what God was saying
to Mother Eve? I'm going to turn this thing
around. The devil's going to be defeated. My son, me in the
flesh, is going to crush the serpent's head. That's what I
see. I'm reading over there in the
book of Exodus, when the children of Israel were to leave Egyptian
bondage. And God said to Moses, now Moses
had them Put a male lamb up. It has to be a young male. It
has to be a very healthy male. It has to be a clean male. Put
that lamb up and watch it for 14 days. And I read that in the
10th, 11th, 12th chapter. of the book of Exodus, and I
see it as an index finger saying, Jesus Christ is coming into the
world. He is the Lamb. He is God's Lamb. And then God said to Moses, make
sure, keep it for 14 days, make sure it's without spot, and then
kill it and take its blood. and strike it to the two sides
of the door, Lentil, and when the death angel passes over and
sees the blood, they'll pass over you. Amen. Have you got the blood
on your door, Lentil? That's how you get passed over.
That's what has you covered. That was an index finger pointing. to Jesus Christ. When I see the
two doves in the Old Testament, in the book of Leviticus, and
the priest was to take one dove and wring its neck and actually
take its blood and let it go into a basin, and then take the
other white dove and dip it in the blood of the dove that died,
and then puts that bloody dove loose was a type of Jesus Christ
taking away our sins. There was the sacrifice, there
was the shedding of blood. When I see the scapegoat in the
Old Testament, where the high priest was to lay his hands on
two goats. One, he was to lay his hands
on the living goat, that goat was to live. The other goat was
to die, it was the sacrifice. And that blood was taken in and
sprinkled on the holy seat, but the living, Goat, after the blood
had been accepted, was taken by a fit man and led out into
the wilderness, showing us that when Jesus Christ died on the
cross, he removed our sins as far as the east is from the west,
never to be remembered against us anymore. That's what I see
in the cross. I see the holiness of God. God
is holy. The seraphims and the cherubims
in his presence in Isaiah 6 cry, holy, holy, holy is the Lord
of hosts. God's holiness presents somewhat
of a problem. In order for you to go to heaven,
you have to be holy too. Holy cow, we're in trouble. Holy, God is a purer eyes than
to look upon sin. No man is going to say, hocus
pocus, and remove your sins from you, and you can slide into heaven. God is so holy that every sin
and every disobedience must receive a just recompense of reward.
Everything you've ever thought, everything I've ever done, everything
I've thought about doing, every sin I've ever committed, the
things that I should have done that I have not done must be
paid for in order for me to go to heaven. I see wisdom in the cross. Justice has to be satisfied.
When you read the Bible, this is no Santa Claus God. This is
a God who's holy, and His justice must be pacified. He must find
satisfaction. There must be propitiation. There must be an appeasing factor. There must be a mercy seat. You
know, in the Old Testament, There was the Ark of the Covenant,
which was a gold box. On the top of that gold box was
a gold lid. It was called the mercy seat.
The high priest would take the blood into the Holy of Holy and
sprinkle it on the mercy seat. Do you know what was inside that
box? The written law of God that you and I had broken. On top
of that box was the mercy seat. Here comes a high priest inside,
and over that box was the Shekinah glory, the presence of God. But
between the Shekinah glory and the broken law of man was the
mercy seat, the propitiation, the atonement. That's what the
cross stands for. Between you and I and a holy,
righteous God, there is a cross. There is the sacrifice of Jesus
Christ. There is propitiation. Hallelujah. Romans 3.25. We were celebrating There is a fountain filled with
blood Wednesday night, Mr. Cowper's song. In Romans 3.25,
this was the verse he was reading when he was converted in the
insane asylum. Whom God hath set forth to be
a propitiation, appeasement, satisfaction, atonement, Mercy
seat. All of those words are like one
in the Greek language. They mean the same thing. To
declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are
past. Through the forbearance of God
to declare, I say, at this time his righteousness that he might
be just and justifier of the ungodly. You know why we preach
salvation by grace? Because salvation is by grace.
In order for you to go to heaven, you have to be justified. And
you can't justify yourself. God is the one who is just. There
has to be a payment for your sins. God's not going to sweep
your sins under the rug. That's what the cross means.
God was being just at Calvary. And when he saves you by his
grace, he is justifying you. You are not guilty, not now,
not forever, not guilty. You've been justified. The judge
has been brought down the gavel. That's what Jesus meant when
he said, it's finished, it's accomplished, it's done. It's
not by works of righteousness, which you have done. It's through
his blood, his sacrifice on the tree of the cross. For as much
as you know, you have not been redeemed with corruptible things,
such as silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Jesus
Christ, a Lamb without spot and without blemish." I see reconciliation
when I see the cross. God's not mad at me. I'm not
going to go around with my head down thinking God's out to get
me. I joy in God. I'm glad there's
a God. He and I are friends. I'm one
of his best friends. There's nothing between us. I've
been reconciled. Two who have been former enemies,
reconciliation means have been brought together in perfect peace.
I don't walk around expecting God to slap me around. God doesn't
abuse his children. In fact, God says to the preacher,
comfort those people. Comfort my sheep. Tell them the
war's over. Tell them satisfaction has been
rendered. Tell them I'm satisfied. Tell
them the debt has been paid. Tell them the price is paid in
full. Tell them it's finished. It's done. It's over. I look at the cross and I see
substitution. This is what it means. You who
have a cross around your neck, look at it. It means substitution. It means somebody took your place.
God hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might
be made the righteousness of God in him. What a deal! He took my sin and gave me his
righteousness. There's nothing better than that.
Substitution. I hope you learn this. I don't
want this to be a dumb church. I want you to have an answer
for the hope you have within you. When you say to somebody,
I'm a mess, but I'm heaven bound. And they say, well, tell me about
that a little bit. Oh, Jesus paid it all. He paid
my debt on the tree of the cross. Don't be going, I go to confession
every week. I'm doing the best I can. I'm
struggling, but I'm hanging in there. Don't be talking like
that. Problem is you won't hang on
long. You ever thought about this? When I see the cross, I
know there's no condemnation. So if you ever see me, I don't
wear a cross. I never have had a cross and
don't particularly, so don't be buying me a cross. But if
I did, I mean, it'll be, it's all right if you wear a cross. But sometimes, yeah, don't make
an idol out of it, but sometimes I see those huge crosses and
I think, are we supposed to be looking at you or your cross? And by the way, your cross doesn't
have to be gold to make it, you know what I mean. Oh, well, I'm
getting off just a little bit. Do you know that God has, when
I look at the cross, I see imputed righteousness. I love these verses
that say this. This is Romans 4. Blessed is
the man that God imputeth righteousness without works. Blessed are they
whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed
is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. Did you hear
what I said? Blessed is the man to whom the
Lord will not impute sin. I want you to think about this.
You've done enough this morning along with me for God to damn
us all. And you know what Satan is? He's
an accuser and he's got the goods on you. Not only did you do what
you did, he knows you did it because he was with you. And he loves to get you in that
place as a Christian because he can't take you to hell, but
he can work on your conscience like this. You know what you
did. And now everybody else knows what you did. You're nothing
but a mess. What on earth makes you think
that you're going to heaven? I'm telling you, I'll tell God
on you too. That's what devil does. He is
an accuser of the brethren. But you know what? When he gets
there, you know what God does? When the devil's pointing his
finger at you. Now listen to me, all of you,
all you Christians, listen to me. I'm about to lift your load. Listen to me. When the devil goes to God and
has the goods on you, absolute proof, and your conscience is
screaming, what the devil's saying is true, I did it. God says this,
nope, no charge, no charge, no. Blessed is the man to whom the
Lord will not impute sin, will not charge sin. We ought to just laugh about
that. We ought to do a little holy laugh and a holy joy about
that. Because we got a truckload of
stuff in here. I can smell it. All of us together, what we brought
in here today, you've been ugly. You've said things you shouldn't
have said today. You've thought things you shouldn't
have thought. And the devil knows all about it and brings it to
God. And God goes, no, it's all taken
care of. It's all paid for. No, I'll never
charge them. Say, well, pastor, I don't know. That does sound like a pretty
good message if that's true. That's what the cross means.
That's what the cross says. There's victory in Jesus. That's
what the cross says. I heard an old, old story, how
a Savior came from glory, how He gave His life on Calvary to
save a wretch like me. I heard about His groaning, of
His precious blood atoning. Then I repented of my sins and
won the victory. Oh, victory in Jesus, my Savior. He sought me, He bought me, and
thank God He caught me. He outrun me. I'm heaven-bound. There is victory. I love being a Christian. I love knowing that Jesus paid. I love this gospel. I revel in
it. I think about it every single
day. There's probably not many times
in my brain where I'm not thinking about Jesus paying it all. You
know why? Because there's so much mess
there too. I have to think about it. So constantly. The cross. What Christ did on
the cross. Victory in Jesus. And I'll tell
you this too. Because he lives, you shall live.
There's a great getting up morning. You know the resurrection is
proof that he paid the debt. Because on the third day he got
up. And one day, if he tarries, you're going to die. But everyone
in here who's a believer is going to get up. I think about this. All you monkey believers, all you folks with different
philosophies, both of these young people said to me, and I probably
shouldn't have said that because, well, I already said it, so.
But anyway, but you know what? I thought about these two young
people that made this comment to me about their particular
brand of religion. I thought about this. Both of these young people seem
to have a desire to help people. You know, you can really be confused
and God be drawing you to Jesus Christ. I'm always like this. I'm always watching for signs
of somebody being one of God's and they don't know it. You know
you can be one of God's and not know it? Let me say that again. Do you
know that you can be one of God's and not know it? I see people
that say things like this. You know, I believe in a high
power. I know there's somebody out there.
And you know, I really want to help people. I really have a
desire to help people. And I think to myself, you wouldn't
have that desire if God didn't give it to you. And you know, some of the most
intelligent people in the world come in here to church off and
on. I mean, really, let me tell you this. Drug addicts aren't
dumb. Drug addiction and being stupid
are not the same thing. Using drugs is stupid, but they're
not the same. They don't equate the same. You
can be a very, very intelligent person and get off base. Amen. There are many people in here
with gifts and talents. You know, as I get older, I'm
more assured every day of, you know, I can't believe I'm the
CEO. I am so not gifted. I see people all, I am surrounded
though by gifted people. who seem like they love me and
care about me, and they do so many good things. I don't know
anything about writing grants. I mean, there's really very few
things that I can do, but I am smart enough to keep smart people
around me. And people who know the gospel
and love Christ. And I am smart enough to know
this, when you got smart people around you, stroke them. Glad to have you here. Glad you're
on my team. Amen. Amen. And get people who know Christ.
Or if you can't get a person who knows Christ, look for signs
that they're one of his and he's drawing them and then win the
right to invade their spiritual privacy and then hit them with
the gospel. The two people that I told you about in the beginning
of this message are on my hit list. Oh, I got a hit list. I got a hit list. I believe that
God could use us and me. You know, sometimes when we're
interviewing people to fill a position over at Grace Centers, And they
say, well, you know, I don't go to church at all. I wouldn't
say I'm a Christian. I wouldn't say I'm convinced.
You know, I would say I really have a love for people. Well, you know, only God's people
really love other people. That is our motive. We have a
motive. I'm here today. I love people.
I love Christ. And you know, Christ loved people.
The greatest servant ever lived was Jesus Christ. So actually
what I'm doing, I'm sheep hunting. Here, sheepy, sheepy, sheepy. And I'm baiting you. I put the bait out there, the
gospel. Say, pastor, a real Christian
is a person who trusts Christ. Yes, but a lot of people are
on their way. A lot of folks are on their way,
so I'm hunting them. And I watch them as they come
closer to the gospel. And I know they're watching me
too. Some of you have been watching a long time. It's about time
for you to lay down the shotgun and trust Christ. Roll up your
sleeves and get in the battle here. Amen. The meaning of the
cross. And so we lift up Jesus Christ,
we preach Jesus. Look what he's doing here. Are
you amazed at what's going on here? If you're not amazed yet,
you need to spend a week with me and just go around and see
what God is doing here. It's the most unbelievable things.
Don was telling me, after everybody had left yesterday, there was
some guy came down there and he goes, you know, I hear Clark on the radio, I've
heard about this church building. You think I could see it? Don
said, yeah, I'll show you. Took him up here and brought
him in here. He gave an envelope to Don with $100 in it. You say, and it wasn't so much
the $100 is, but there's somebody way out there. that's hearing
the gospel and being drawn. I know God's bringing people
here. I know that we are affecting this city. You know, Oakland
County is the largest county in the state of Michigan. I want
to affect Oakland County. I was asked to come to a press
conference with a lot of big folks. I went up there and stood
there. Brooks was there. I stood there
like I knew what was going on. Because I was asked to. It was
about keeping hospital money here in Pontiac. I'm for that. But what I'm getting at is the
point that I was asked to come. Who am I? I stood up there with
the rest of them. And you know, We were the only
charity mentioned by Brooks Patterson as having a representative up
there at that press conference. And there was about 20 of us.
Those aren't accidents. There's a God thing going on.
And there's some of you probably sitting here this morning, you're
so uncomfortable. You're even having thoughts like
this. You know, I've really never been a God person. But I don't
know, somehow down inside, I'm wondering if that guy knows me,
that preacher. I wonder if somebody's told him
about me. Because I, you know, I sense
something's going on on the inside of me. It's the Spirit of God as he
talks to people and draws his elect to himself in regeneration
power. Spirit of God quickens people
through the message of the cross, through the message of Christ,
gives them life. I believe this. There are some
people here who have life and you don't even know it. Say,
why can you have life and not know it? Can you remember when
you were two months old? No. No. Did you have life? Yes. You can have life and not know
it, but you'll start to show signs. You know, when you were
two months old, your bowels worked, your diaper had to be changed,
your kidneys worked, you had to be fed, but you don't remember
any of that, but you have life. I'm calling you now to this.
Look to Christ who died on the cross and trust him. You may
not know the books of the Bible. You may be very confused about
so many things. I don't think I've ever lived
in a day when so many people were fearful. And we have a right
to be fearful with what's going on in our world. And there's
an answer to what's going on in our world. Jesus is coming
again. There's a resurrection day. There's
going to be a new world, a new heavens and a new earth where
in dwells righteousness. So I'm kind of in for the ride,
waiting on Jesus. I really don't have too much
of a troubled heart. Some of us were talking this
week about if they drop the bomb, it will melt everything for 50
miles or 50 mile radius. It's a hundred times more powerful
than the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. If it was dropped
on downtown Detroit all the way to Elmont, it would melt everything. What do you think about that?
And then we got some nuts. We got some crazy people that
want to develop the bomb and they're going to annihilate Israel.
And we're talking about a great peace treaty. and letting them make the bomb.
You know, honestly, if I didn't know God, if I didn't know Christ,
I would be worried. I really would be worried, but
I'm not real worried. He's got everything in his hands.
He's a sovereign God. I want to encourage you to trust
Him. And then as you come to know Him, you can give a testimony
that's very clear. He's my righteousness. He's my
Savior. He's my Redeemer. He's everything
to me. I got all my cookies in one basket,
Jesus Christ. And that's exactly what Paul
meant when he said, I'm determined to know nothing among you save
Jesus Christ. And all of you who are visiting
with us today, when you come back next Sunday, you're gonna
hear the same thing again. And the next Sunday, and the
next Sunday, and the next Sunday. Let's stand together and praise
our God.