Thank you, Bill. What a good gospel song that
is, Matthew. Thank you so much. You got to
lower this pulpit. Seems like every time I come
down here, it grows. It is such a joy. I can't express
unto you the joy of being here and seeing you and the fellowship
with you this morning. and appreciate the Lord putting
in your heart to be here. And I pray the Lord be with us
this morning and let us glean from his word and profit from
his word. I want you to look with me for
my text and Titus epistle, Paul's epistle to Titus in chapter three. And I want you to keep your Bibles
handy. four scriptures this morning
I want you to look at with me. I want to begin here in the epistle
of Titus. I want to read the first seven
verses in this book, in this chapter. Titus chapter 3 and look with
me in verse 1. Paul instructed Titus here on
the island of Crete instructing the churches, put them in mind
to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates,
to be ready to every good work, to speak evil of no man, to be
no brawlers, but gentle, showing all meekness unto all men. For
we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived,
serving divers' lust and pleasures, living in malice and envy and
hateful and hating one another. But after that, the kindness
and love of God our Savior towards man appeared, not by works of
righteousness, which we have done, but according to his mercy,
he saved us. By the washing of regeneration
and renewing of the Holy Ghost, which he shed on us abundantly
through Jesus Christ our Savior. That being justified by his grace,
we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Paul was instructing these believers on the island of Crete here to
be subject to the civil magistrate there, the government, the local
government. no doubt to pray for them. And
he says in another place, we need to do that because we want
to live a quiet and peaceful life. Not always easy to pray
for politicians is, but we're instructed to do that because
they need God to guide them. The heart of the king, the king's
heart is in the hands of the Lord. So obey them unless What
they command us to do would violate God's will and God's word. And
then we have to say to them, we ought to obey God rather than
man. But seldom that happens. Then he says in verse two to
speak evil of no man. Don't speak evil of your brothers
and sisters in Christ. That's never allowed. Don't even
think evil towards them. But don't speak evil of the civil
government, politicians. Don't defame anybody. We're always
allowed to debate truths, but we're never allowed and should
never defame a person's character, vilify a person, no matter who
they are. And he says, don't be a brawler,
don't be quarrelsome, don't be argumentative. You can contend
for the truth, but don't stick your finger in somebody's face
and start screaming at them. And he said this, be like this,
be gentle, be mild, be patient, manifest some humility about
you. The servant of the Lord must
never strive, but be gentle to all people, patient and apt to
teach. patient and apt to teach. And
then he gives a reason why we should be this way. Because he
said we were sometimes ourselves foolish. How unwise, brothers
and sisters, we were when we were without God and without
hope. How silly we were. The silly things we thought.
The silly things that we did. Foolish, foolish, foolish. We
live lives of fools, didn't we? We were sometimes foolish. And then he adds to that disobedience.
This word is very akin to that word we see sometimes as rebellious. We were unpersuadable, rebellious
against our parents, rebellious against our teachers, rebellious
against God. rebellious against all authority
in our hearts. In our hearts, it didn't always
manifest it, but there it was, we were disobedient. And then
we were deceived. This word means to be led astray,
to go out of the way. All we like sheep have gone astray. We've been deceived. Then he
adds to that, serving divers lust and pleasures You don't
see that in a lot of people, do you? So many people can hide,
and thank God that we do. We hide this lust, the lust of the flesh. We can
subdue it, dress it up, but there's one thing we can't hide, and
that's the lust of the mind. And that's where Paul said we
were before the Lord saved us. And he adds to that living in
malice, living in malice and envy. Our heart intentions was
so often to hurt people and jealous of things that other people had
and jealous of other people's promotion, malice and jealous. And he adds to that this hateful
and hating one another. How many wars has been in our
lifetime? I'm 74 years old and I'd have
to stop and count the wars that's been in my lifetime. The barrels
of blood that's been shed by humanity. Our jails, our prisons are full
of people that have attempted to hurt one another. What is
the problem with humanity? Well, Paul tells us you're hateful.
Our hearts are full of hate without God and without Christ. Our hearts
are full of hate. You put a lost man, you put any
man in the right position and the right time and you watch
hate bubble up in his heart. Hateful and hated hating one
another. You say, Bruce, I can't believe
I was that bad. Well, we're going to get to that
in a minute. Who made us to differ? What brought
us out of this horrible state? When did it happen? Well, he
tells us that here in verse four, doesn't he? But after that, the
kindness And love of God our Savior towards man appeared. God revealed His kindness to
you. He revealed His love to you.
And how did He do it? By calling you, by regenerating
you, by washing you, by saving you from this awful, awful state
by nature that we were in. And when did He do it? When you
were in that state. He didn't wait till you got better.
He didn't wait to see some decision or choice you would make. He
come to you when you were dead in your sins and gave you life
eternal, gave you a new heart and a new spirit. Even when we
were dead in sins, for His great love were we beloved. He makes us to differ, doesn't
He? And Him only. And He adds to this, not by works
of righteousness, which we have done. It certainly wasn't any
works that we'd done before conversion. That's just works of iniquity. Neither was it any works done
after we were converted. Works that we did that were accepted
of God. Works did by faith and love.
It wasn't for that reason that he gave us life eternal. Bruce, why did he do it then?
Why would he come to us in this state and deliver us and save
us? He tells us in the very next
line, but according to his mercy, he saved us. I love that word,
don't you? Mercy. If I ever had another
kid, I'm going to name him Mercy. We got to grace you this morning.
Any mercies? Somebody should have named their
kid Mercy. I love Mercy, don't you? Mercy had saved me or else. The Lord Jesus Christ did not
come down from heaven to solicit a contribution from us. He don't
need anything we got. I came to show mercy." Ain't
that what he said? Mercy saved us. Covenant mercies,
sovereign mercies, free mercies. This is the covenant that I will
make with them after those days, said the Lord. I will be merciful
to their unrighteousness and their sins and iniquities will
I remember no more. Mercy, mercy. And he said he
did it by the washing of regeneration. When the Lord comes and gives
us life, he not only gives us life, but he washes us, washes
us from our sins in his precious blood. And then he gives us his
spirit, the spirit of adoption to bear witness with our spirit
that we're sons of God. As soon as the Lord regenerates
you, he washes you from your sins. And then the first thing
you start saying is this, father, father, The spirit of his dear
son sent forth into your heart. And the answer this question
here that I might ask how much love did it take to do this for
us? How much mercy? How much kindness? How much grace?
He said, abundance. You say, Bruce, it's going to
take abundance of grace to save me and get me to heaven. And
it's in the heart of Jesus Christ. God has filled his big heart
with everything you and I need to save us and take us to heaven,
which he shed on us, he poured on us abundantly through Jesus
Christ, our Savior. He justified us from everything,
and he gave us a good hope that when this life is over with,
this life of trials and heartaches, that we will go to be with him.
That's a good hope, isn't it? You can't find this gospel, this
hope anywhere else but in the word of God. My message this morning is found
in verse three, verse one, verse three, and it's this. For we
ourselves were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived. Here's my message this morning.
and my heart trembles when I think of this, deceived. We were sometimes deceived. Paul included himself, he included
all those apostles, he included all the prophets that had ever
been, he included everybody that the Lord had saved. We were sometimes
deceived. If you had to ask me the chief
characteristics of a lost person, I would tell you it's this, deceived. My soul trembles when I look
back to when I was lost. When I was without God and without
hope in this world, my soul trembles to remember that I was deceived. I was led astray. I was beguiled. I was ensnared. Matt sang that song without grace
and without God. I knew not my danger. I knew
not my danger. I'm going to take my time this
morning and I pray God what few thoughts I have to give to you
will go to all our hearts. I have three scriptures that
I want to show you and all of them have to do with this concept
of being deceived. You can turn there with me. The
first one is found in Jeremiah chapter 17 and verse 9. Very familiar passage to all
of us. Jeremiah chapter 17 and verse
9. Some things that's very, very
deceitful. Some things that deceive us.
I want you to look first at Jeremiah chapter 17 and verse 9. Look at this. The heart is deceitful above all things
and desperately wicked. Who can know it? When you look
at that, you almost automatically see four
things. First of all, the heart is deceitful. What is the heart? It's what
houses our intellect. Everything we know naturally
comes from the heart, the intellect. It houses the affections, everything
we like, everything we dislike, what we love and what we hate
comes from the heart. What we will to do or abstain
from doing comes from the heart. The heart is the center of our
being. The heart's deceitful. Ain't
that amazing? The heart is deceitful. And here's
the thing, brothers and sisters. It's not that somebody else has
deceived me. I had deceived myself. My heart,
my natural heart, is deceitful above all things. A deceived
heart the prophet says, has turned him aside that he cannot deliver
himself or say, don't I have a line in my right hand? He can't
say that and he can't deliver himself because he cannot because
he has a deceived heart. That's the first thing. The second
thing is it's deceitful above all things. There's nothing more
deceitful than the natural heart. I was watching a video the other
day, probably most of you may remember this, 2004, one day
after Christmas, when that Indian Ocean tsunami hit. And I was
watching, people has that on video, 14 nations, that tsunami
hit. Killed over a quarter million
people in just a few minutes. And I was watching that and they
had it on their phone. The ocean sucked the water a
couple of hundred feet back and people ran down in there collecting
shells and looking at the beach that had receded. And all of
a sudden there was this giant wave came and just washed them
away. 227,000 people estimated. And they said,
we didn't see it coming. It deceived us. But there's something more deceitful
than any aspect of nature. And you know what it is? It's
the heart. It's the unregenerate heart. And notice this about it. Not
only is it deceitful above all things, And boy, here's the clincher,
it's desperately wicked. That means incurably wicked.
There's people that deceive us. But most people that are out
here deceiving people won't do it to the detriment of your well-being. You may have a used car salesman
that will lie to you and cost you some money after you drive
the car off of the lot. But most people are ruled by
a conscience. They have a limit to what they'll
do to you and how they'll deceive you. But you know something? The heart has no limit to it.
It has no moral compass about it. It's so wicked. It's so deceitful. It will deceive
your soul in regard to eternity. He will deceive you until death
comes and the flames of hell wakens your conscience. That's
wicked, isn't it? For somebody else to deceive
me and get me in trouble is bad enough, but for me to deceive
myself, that's awful. And yet the heart does. It's
desperately wicked, incurably wicked. You know something, I'll
say this with all carefulness, and I know that you'll understand
what I'm saying. God Himself cannot even cure
the heart. We never read where He cured
the heart. He gives a new heart. But He doesn't touch this old
heart, dissubdues it. It's incurably wicked. The fourth line he says about
it is this, who can know it? Who can possibly know it? If you ever read Pilgrim's Progress,
when Hopeful and Christian was talking to young ignorants, and
they were telling him how bad the heart of man is, and he said,
well, my heart's not that bad. And they said, how do you know
it's not that bad? He said, my heart tells me it's
not that bad. Am I a good man? Ask me. Well, of course I am. There's
but one way to guard our hearts and to judge our actions and
our motives, and that's by the written word of God. We cannot
know our hearts. How many times have we foolishly
said, well, if I know my heart, well, you don't. And we don't. Because nobody can know his own
heart. That's the depths of wickedness
that's there. And a dear brother was talking
about this morning about our sin that dwells in us. And I
am so thankful. I don't want to know the depths
of my wickedness. Do you? And yet there's the heart. You can't comprehend the depths
of the wickedness of the heart and you can't comprehend the
degree of deception that it's willing to go to deceive. Listen to these things. Listen to some ways the heart
deceives people and see if we can't relate to this. The heart
presents to a person sin It presents sin under the notion of pleasure. Sinful pleasure. Enjoy this. This is pleasure. You'll have
fun with this. It persuades him to let loose
the reins of the lust of his flesh and mind, but it hides
from him the reality that these pleasures are only for a season. And then bitterness always comes. Look at the entertainment industry
in our day. They seem so happy while they're
on stage, don't they? Having fun on their courts. Their heart has convinced them,
but just live, man, live it up and enjoy this life. And yet some of them come into
awful bitterness before death. They seem so happy, but they're
miserable. They can't even live with their
spouse for six months. What's wrong? The heart has convinced them
that there's pleasure in sin, but the heart hides from them
the fact that it always leads to death, to bitterness. How many people do you see? Well, they seem to be having
all kinds of fun and pleasure seeking as they grow old their
body breaks down, their face begins to sag, and they can't
endure it. They have all of these surgeries
to make themselves look better, to continue to enjoy life, because
their heart is still telling them, there's pleasure, there's
pleasure, pleasure. And sometimes it deceives them
until they come to the end and face eternal death and bitterness. The heart presents sin to a person
under the notion of worldly profit. It promises riches. It promises
possession. It promises things. And it suggests
to the heart what he can do to get these things. And when you've
got them, it suggests ways to keep these things. But the heart
never tells a man that when he's got them, he may be a loser for
having them. How many rich people have pierced
themselves through with many sorrows? How many have fallen
into temptations that ruin them and their entire family by possessions. How many, because of lust after
possessions, has quenched the word of God in their hearts? How many have said, I've got
to have it. I've got to have my oxen. I've
got to have my land. I've got to have it. And when
they've got them, they're losers for having them. Charles Spurgeon said he never
seen any man leave Christ and the gospel because of poverty.
But he's seen multitudes leave Christ because of riches. They
that will be rich. The heart tells the hypocrite,
and I think probably this is the most deceitful and wretched
thing that the heart does. It tells the hypocrite that he's
got a good hope. But he don't tell him the hope
of the hypocrite will perish. He tells him that you're a pretty
good man. All you have to do is believe
in Jesus and do some religious deeds and don't be concerned
about anything else. But he never tells him that he
must repent, that he must turn to the Lord with all of his heart.
He tells him you need just a little religion. That's all you need
to have a good hope. But he never tells him that he
must be born again. He never tells him that the only
faith we'll save is the faith of God's elect, a faith which
brings the heart to trust in Jesus Christ with all its being,
to put all your confidence in the Savior. Never tells him that.
Never tells him that he must have a righteousness of that
God-man who is seated in heaven. He just tells him, you're a pretty
good fella. And don't worry. Don't worry. Do some good things
along. Give a little money. Pray a little
prayer sometimes. And he deceives them if God doesn't
intervene until he stands before the Lord on his throne and argues
with the Lord of glory. Let me in. On what grounds? I had a good hope. What was your
hope in? I preached in your name. I cast
out devils in your name. I paid tithes. I did many wonderful
works in your name. Who told you that was a good
hope? My heart told me that. Here's the reality. Depart from
me. I never knew. And it wasn't somebody else that
gave me that hope. It was my own heart. The heart
is deceitful and desperately wicked. When I look out over
you this morning, I'm speaking to you. This word is speaking
to you. It's sobering, isn't it? Could my heart be this wicked?
Could my heart cause my eternal damnation? Could I deceive myself? Brothers and sisters, think of
the multitude. Think of the multitude of people. Hell has enlarged itself. And I bet you if you could interview
each soul in hell this morning, it would come down to this. Why
did you come here? Why did you continue on? I thought,
I thought, I thought it was okay. How wicked, how deceitful the
heart must be that it will actively promote the eternal ruin of a
man. Think of this. The heart deceives
in regard to time. The heart tells the person you
have ample time to seek the Lord. You can repent on your deathbed. Enjoy this life. You've got plenty
of time. Felix said, when I have convenient
time, I've got plenty of time. I'll call for you. For as we
know, he never called. For as we know, he ran out of
time. Time is not ours, is it? I've got plenty of time. I've
got plenty of goods laid up for many years. You fool. That's what God says,
isn't it? You fool. This night, I was in two car wrecks. Tore
the cars all to pieces. Don't know how we got out of
them. I was almost drowned. I was under a crushed, crushed
snow, almost crushed. They pulled me out just before
I died. And all the time before that
and after that, my heart kept telling me, you've got plenty
of time. Don't worry about it. Enjoy the
ride. Don't think about death. Don't
think about eternity. Don't think about standing before
God in judgment. Just enjoy your days and you
got plenty of them left. That's why I tremble, brothers
and sisters, when I look back upon my lost state. What would you think? If you
was on the road and you didn't know for sure where you were
going, and you saw a police officer, and you pulled up to him and
said, is this a safe road for me to drive along? Is this gonna
end well? Oh, yes, yes, yes. Just enjoy the ride, enjoy the
scenery. And you left that police officer,
and just a few miles down the road, the bridge was out, and
he knew it. And you went over a 500-foot
gorge. What would you think about a
man like that? Oh, you'd hate him, wouldn't you? You should
be hated. What do you think about your
heart? Your heart is the one that's
telling you, you've got plenty of time. Old Ralph Martin said,
we've become a nation of sudden death. People suddenly dying without
any remedy. They're stepping off into that
gorge from which there's no return or redemption. Why did they wait? Their heart kept telling them,
you got plenty of time. Enjoy the ride. Oh, if you're here without the
Lord Jesus Christ this morning, I hope I hope this goes to your
heart. I hope this awakens you that
you go home. You can't rest. You can't live
another day without knowing for sure that you've got a saving
interest in the son of God. That's a serious. This is the
most serious thing. We are standing on the brink
of eternity. And our hearts are telling us,
don't worry about it. You've got time. You've got time.
Here's the second thing, and I won't be very long on it. Look
in Hebrews chapter 3. Here's the second thing I thought
about that was very deceptive, that deceived people. Look here
in Hebrews chapter 3 and verse 12 and verse 13. Hebrews chapter 3. I guess the book of Hebrews,
as much as anything, is about warnings, being watchful, prayerful. In verse 12, take heed, brethren,
lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing
from the living God. But exhort one another daily,
encourage one another daily, while it is called today, lest
any be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. Boy, you and I are living in
a pleasure-seeking society, aren't we? But the Lord's grace is sufficient. But here's the thing. We must
take heed to his word. We must be prayerful. We must
be watchful. Because sin is a very, very deceitful
thing. And if it pounced on us, revealed
its true nature to us, suddenly we'd be shocked. But it doesn't
do that. It comes to us gradually and
sears the conscience. Did you ever do this? I'm guilty
of this. And I have to watch this very
closely. Did you ever watch a movie or
see a video? And there's some language on
there, you know, you don't need to be listening to. And your conscience is sort of
shocked by it. But then you override your conscience
and you listen to it. And then you say, I'm not going
to do that anymore. But you do it again. And then,
lo and behold, you do it again until finally the conscience
is not shocked anymore. Ever happened to you? You know
what that is? The hardening effect of sin. It's gradual until it deceives
you. When I was a young boy, We had
false religion all around me. We had false churches back then.
We think sometimes it's just happened now. It's always been
around since the beginning of time. One quarter of humanity
was in false religion when there was only four people upon the
earth. When I was a young man, we had false preachers and false
churches. But you know the difference?
Even though they were wrong in preaching a false gospel, they
had a degree of morals about them. If some of our forefathers, even
those preaching a false gospel, could see where we've drifted
to today, they'd be utterly shocked. When you were just a... Well,
it went long ago, Mark. You'd have been shocked if you'd
have thought they're ordaining and marrying homosexuals in the
churches. We're not even shocked by that
anymore, are we? Well, sin is a deceitful thing.
It's gradual. It's deceived me. It's deceived
you. And this ought to encourage us
to watch against it. To pray against it. To always
be coming to the throne of grace. To obtain mercy. To keep our
conscience tender. Always be going to the cross
of Calvary. Keep your conscience tender when
you see the love of your Savior and what He was willing to give
up and suffer to redeem you. Keep a tender conscience. Watch
against sin. Don't let it gradually harden
your heart. Always be gathering as you are
this morning with one another, encouraging one another and comforting
one another, especially as we see the day approaching. Because
we're all brothers and sisters susceptible to be deceived by
sin. And if a man says he has no sin,
he deceives himself. There's people doing things today, five years ago they would have
been horrified to think about doing. One more passage, look at Hebrews
chapter 12. Hebrews chapter 12, and look
in verse seven. I'm sorry, not Hebrews, Revelations. Revelations chapter 12, and look
in verse seven, and we'll close with this one. Revelations chapter 12 and verse
seven. There was war in heaven. Michael
and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon fought
in his angels. The dragon prevailed not, neither
was there a place found anymore in heaven. And the great dragon
was cast out, that old serpent called the devil and Satan. which
deceiveth the whole world. He was cast out into the earth,
and his angels were cast out with him. The old dragon, he's
cruel, isn't he? And he's old, he's experienced,
he's been around much longer than we have. John called him
the devil, which means he's the accuser. He used to accuse the
saints to God. He accuses the saints to us,
doesn't he? He's Satan, the enemy, God's
enemy, Christ's enemy, and your enemy. He's called here the old
serpent because he's so deceptive. The serpent beguiled Eve. It deceived Eve. Brothers and sisters, Satan He's
not laboring to have a big bank account. He's not seeking to
buy property and possess things. He is working very hard, day
and night, without any rest. He's working in the drug communities.
I'm sure he's behind all this addiction today, the drunkenness
and the open and profane sins. He's working there. He's working
in the hearts of the moralist. He's working in the hearts of
the false prophets and false teachers and their congregations.
And he's working with this one thing in mind to destroy this
world. He hates God, he hates Jesus
Christ our Lord, and he hates humanity. And his chief aim is
to destroy everybody that he can. And you and I are no match for
him. I'm telling you, he was a mighty
angel at one time. He was a beautiful angel, powerful
angel. God made him that way. He's not sovereign. He's a creature,
but he's a mighty creature. He's a deceptive creature. He
can make us think evil is good and good is evil. And there's only one person that
can bind him and stop him from deceiving us, and that's the
Lord Jesus Christ. He labors to keep people from
hearing the gospel. I've been pastoring now for a
long, long time, and I'll tell you, I've experienced this. I
have seen people seemingly have legitimate excuse not to come
and hear the gospel. And turn, finally, when push
comes to shove and we realize what happened, it was just Satan
that hindered. Paul said, I would have come
to you once and again, but Satan hinders us. He hinders you from
hearing the gospel and he hinders the gospel from coming to you. If God allows him, he'll continue
that until you perish. And when people do hear the gospel,
what does he do? It gets in your mind. I used
to have to go to church when I was a boy, and the worst hour
of my whole week was going to church and listening while people
expounded the Word of God. And what I would do, I would
sit and think about all the things I was going to do when I got
out of church, and that occupied my mind. And if I happen to hear
something, prejudice, you got no right to say that. You got
no right to say that about me. Who was doing that? Who is it
that stirs up prejudice against the gospel? It's Satan. The human
heart, the natural heart is bad enough, but he stirs it up. Why? To harden one's heart so
you won't believe the gospel and be saved. He misrepresents
the Lord Jesus Christ. He tells young people especially,
if you come to Christ, it's going to be the worst life you ever
lived. He's a slave master. He's going
to put burdens upon you you cannot bear. And Satan never tells you
that he's a very gracious and all-sufficient Savior. And it'll
be the best life you'll ever have until you get to heaven. Oh God, intervene. I pray God
here this morning, if you're here soul and you're lost, if
you're without God and without Christ, I pray he'll do to you
exactly what he did to me. That he'll come in, he'll break
in with his love and with his kindness and his mercy. He'll break in and give you no
rest. He'll make you know that you've
deceived yourself, your need of being saved, and He won't
let you rest until you rest in Him. I hope that's what He does
for you. I've often said, if God dealt
with everybody the way He dealt with me, He'd save everybody.
You feel that way? He left you no choice in the
matter, did He? He puts you calling upon Him.
I gotta help the Lord. Save me, Lord, I'm gonna die.
Have mercy upon me. You didn't worry about it before,
yes, but now the kindness and love of God my Savior has appeared
to me. I pray it appear to you this
morning, dear soul. And if it has, dear brothers
and sisters, be thankful. And continue to encourage one
another. and comfort one another because
we need each other. I need you, Billy. I need you. I need you, Mark. I need you,
Rex. I need you, folks. Oh, Father, our Father in heaven,
merciful, merciful Father in heaven, how could we possibly thank you
for what you've done for us? Our hearts tremble to thank where
we were when you found us. And you revealed such mercies
to us. We're amazed that anybody's saved
at all when we consider these things this morning. And we trace the very cause to
your love and kindness and all your saving attributes that's
in Christ our Lord. Oh, Father. Father in heaven,
for Christ's sake, for your dear son's sake. Save the lost. Save the loss that may be here
this morning. And encourage your people. Help us to be so thankful every
day, lift our hearts in praise and thanksgiving to you for what
you've done for us. and what you're going to do for
us. Bless this dear people. Bless them as a congregation.
Provide their awful, awful needs. We ask these things, Lord Jesus,
for your sake. Amen. He's all I need. He's all I need. Help me sing this, would you?
Christ is all I need. He's all I need. He's all I need. Christ is all I need. Oh, Scott Richardson said, is
Christ all you need? He said, if he's all you got,
he is. I ain't got nothing else if you
don't want anything. Thank you, brothers and sisters,
for being so kind and patient.