Before we turn to Ruth tonight,
I want you to turn to Romans chapter 10. Go ahead and turn
there if you would. Romans chapter 10. Let me say while you're turning,
we've now come to the most important part of the evening. Actually,
the most important part of the day, the week, the month, the
year. for that matter, because every
time we meet is the most significant time of the preaching of the
gospel. I cannot stress how urgent preaching
is. Preaching the gospel. Big difference
in preaching and just, and preaching the gospel. Big, big difference. Life and death difference. There's
nothing more needful, critical, crucial, or urgent. Preaching
the gospel is the very means that God uses to save them to
believe. Many today claim that since the
Bible is the word of God and contains the gospel from front
to back, from cover to cover, that God can save us in her by
simply them reading the scriptures. Well, I agree with part of that. God can do anything and everything. He could save us in her however
he desires, but That's not how God has purposed to save sinners. It pleased God by the chosen
and particular means of gospel preaching to save them that believe. The first clue should be that
Jesus Christ himself was a preacher. The Bible declares and claims
a great deal about preaching. The word of the Lord, Christ's
word, came unto Jonah. You remember the story of Jonah.
And the scripture says the second time saying, you remember what
happened the first time. God said, Jonah, go to Nineveh,
and Jonah, he consented that he would, but you know the story,
he jumped on a ship heading in the opposite direction. But the
second time he came to Jonah, he said, arise and go into Nineveh,
that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. See, there's a message that God
himself bids a preacher to preach. True preachers preach the word
that Christ bids them to preach. And that word bid means appoints.
God appoints everything, especially the preaching of the gospel.
The scriptures tell us in those days, John the Baptist preaching
in the wilderness of Judea and saying, repent ye for the kingdom
of heaven is at hand. For John the Baptist was he that
was spoken by the prophet Isaiah, who said, this is the voice,
speaking of John the Baptist, of one crying in the wilderness,
preaching in the wilderness, crying unto sinners. Not the
Lord pleading with sinners to be said, well, won't you just
let Jesus have his way? No, that's not what preaching
is. He's crying in the wilderness, prepare you the way of the Lord,
make his path straight. We're told in Matthew chapter
four, verse 23, that Jesus went about all Galilee preaching and
teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom
and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among
the people. Our Lord was a preacher. Our
Lord Himself said, for as Jonah was three days and three nights
in the whale's belly, so shall the Son of Man be three days
and three nights in the heart of the earth. And then He said
this, the men of Nineveh shall rise up in judgment with this
generation and shall condemn it because they repented at the
preaching of Jonah. And He said, and a greater than
Jonah is here. John the Baptist, our Lord's
forerunner, the greatest of men born of women, our Lord said,
came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism
of repentance for the remission of sins. The Lord Jesus went
throughout every city and village preaching and bringing the God
gospel, good tidings of the kingdom of God. The scriptures say a great deal
about preaching. We could go on and on. The Lord manifested
his word through preaching. Titus 1.3, the Lord himself said,
let us go into the next towns that I may preach there also.
He was all about preaching. He said, for therefore came I
forth. This is the reason for my coming. The great commission
concerns preaching. Go ye into all the world and
preach the gospel to every creature. And he that believeth and is
baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be
damned." Do you see the urgency here? And preaching the gospel calls
for a verdict. You know what a verdict is. When
the gospel is preached, the sinner is called to act upon what is
heard. Joshua said, choose this day
whom you'll serve. You can't remain neutral in that. Elijah said, how long will you
halt between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow him. If Baal be God, follow him. But one or the other's God. And you need to choose which
one is your God. You can't remain indifferent.
The Lord Jesus said, no man can serve two masters, for either
he'll hate the one and love the other, or else he'll hold to
the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. You cannot serve God in this
world. You cannot serve God and the
Lord of this world. Matthew 12, 30. He that is not
with me is against me, the Lord said. And he that gathereth not
with me scattereth abroad." God has drawn a line in the sand. The only reason given for Naomi
leaving Moab was that she heard that the Lord had visited his
people in giving them bread. The Lord Jesus said, I know thou
works, thou art neither cold or hot. I would that thou work
cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm
and neither cold nor hot, I'll spew thee out of my mouth. See
the urgency of this, this thing called preaching. Paul said,
woe unto me if I preach not the gospel. Not just preaching, preaching
the gospel. Naomi reached a verdict because
she'd heard what God had done. This is the verdict that every
single believer comes to. Was Naomi just simply given a
choice to go or to stay? Well, Naomi, you can stay in
Moab if you want to, or you can come on back to Bethlehem, Judah,
where there's bread. No, you see, her situation was
ordained by God. God had caused her to hunger. Well, preacher, that's not my
God. Well, then you better get ready to do business with the
God. God calls her to hunger. There's
no choice, no decision for her to make if she was truly hungry. And if you're truly hungry, you'll come to where the bread
is and you'll eat and you'll be glad. You'll thank God for that bread.
Christ is that bread. God had emptied Naomi's stomach
and had also brought about the death of those who could provide
food for her. God is going to take away all
your worldly hope, your worldly support, ain't gonna strip you
of all of it and cause you, his child, to depend on him and him
alone, to provide you what you need in order to be reconciled
to God. If Naomi was to live, there was
only one place where she could go and there would be bread along
with a kinsman redeemer to provide that bread for her. And that's
what was in Bethlehem, Judah, which is called the house of
bread. The Lord Jesus Christ is our house of bread. In John
chapter six, the Lord was straightforward about who he was. He said, I
am the bread of life. Is there anything that we don't
understand about that? I am the bread of life. I am the living bread which came
down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread,
he shall live forever. And the bread that I will give
is my flesh." He said, except you eat my flesh and drink my
blood, you have no life in you. He said, no man can come to me
except It'd be given. This living bread
is given. And you can have it no other
way. Except it were given unto him
of my father. You can't earn it. You don't
deserve it. You do not merit it. It's given
to you. It's a gift. And it's God's gift. He's the only one that can give
it. And the scripture tells us when
the Lord said those things, from that time, many of Christ's disciples
walked no more with him. I look around tonight. There's
people missing that used to be here all the time. They're not
here anymore. They walk no more with him. And it was then that the Lord
asked the apostles, will you go away also? Will you also go
away? I've often thought about the
answer Peter gave to the Lord when the Lord asked him that
question. It reveals the place that every
believer, every child of God, every saved sinner is brought. He said, Lord, to whom shall
we go? And boy, if you're a believer,
if you're a child of God, you can identify with that. There's
nowhere else you can go, not to hear these words of life.
Nowhere else you can go. Thou hast the words to eternal
life. We believe and are sure that thou art the Christ. You know, I'm not sure about
a lot of things anymore, but I'm sure about that. The Lord
Jesus Christ is the Christ. He is the redeemer. He is the
substitute. He is the sacrifice. He's the
only thing, the only one that God will accept. And he accepts
us in him. Lord, whom shall we go? There's no place else to go.
There's no other way to be saved. Life is given unto us of God
in Christ. Jesus Christ is the living bread. Now there was only one place that
Naomi could receive that which she needed, and that's where
God had given it. She must go there to receive
it. Beloved, Christ is that place. That's what this is picturing.
Us coming to Christ, who is the bread of life. It's to Him that
we must go. And there's only two reasons
that gospel preaching, there are two reasons gospel
preaching is the means of salvation. First, because God said so. It pleased God by the foolishness
of preaching, what the world calls foolishness of preaching,
to save them that believe. That's what God said. Secondly, in all the scriptures,
we do not find salvation coming to anyone apart from preaching
and hearing the gospel. That's why Paul said necessity
is laid upon me. Woe is unto me if I preach not
the gospel. The gospel is revealed through
preaching. Paul said, but when it pleased God who separated
me from my mother's womb and called me by His grace. Well,
how did God call Paul by grace? How did God reveal Christ to
Paul? Paul said, He called me by His
grace to reveal His Son to me. How did God reveal Christ to
him? Through preaching. Through preaching. That's how He revealed it to
you. If it's been revealed to you, Now I know that what I think
doesn't matter. Only what God says in the scriptures
really matters. But I will tell you this. I believe
that the seed was sown in Paul's heart the day he heard the glorious
gospel as he held the coats of those who stoned Stephen. The
death of Stephen plagued Paul all his life. He never got over
his part in Stephen's death. He never got over His part in
the persecution of Christians in general. Throughout the remainder
of Paul's life, he professed himself to be the chief of sinners. Stephen and all those people
he dragged out of their homes and persecuted was always just
in his mind. He professed himself to be less
than the least of the saints. I'm less than the least. I'm
a wretched man. And one of the main reasons was
his past dealings with believers, especially Stephen. I'm just
convinced of that. And when Paul wrote that God
separated him from his mother's womb and called him by His grace
to reveal His Son in him, then he added this. that I might preach
Him. Speaking of Christ among the
heathen, that I might preach Him. Why? Because that's the
only hope that a heathen, that a sinner has. Tell me the story
of Jesus right on my heart, every word. Only the Lord can do that. God was going to call other sinners
by the preaching of Paul, because this is the means, the only means,
that God uses to call and save sinners. Well, preacher, you
sound like you believe preaching the gospel's important. Yes. It's urgent. It's the only way
you can be saved. When Paul said in Galatians 4
that he received the gospel not from man, but directly by the
revelation of Jesus Christ, that's the same for all of us. Paul
wasn't saying there that he didn't hear the gospel preached from
a man, that he heard it only from the Lord. Man cannot reveal
the gospel to us. As much as he would like to,
as much as I, your preacher, your pastor, would like to reveal
it to you, I can't reveal it to you. Now man can preach the
gospel to us, but God the Son's got to reveal it to us. And here in Romans 10 verse 8,
look at this. But what saith it? The word is
nigh thee, even in thy mouth and in thy heart. That is the
word of faith, the gospel, which we preach. Look down at verse
13. For whosoever shall call upon
the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call
on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they
believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they
hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach except
they be sent? As it is written, how beautiful
are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring
glad tidings of good things. Who hath believed our report?
Who's believed this preaching? So then, faith cometh by hearing,
and hearing by the word of God. The means of this life-giving
hearing is preaching. I'd say it's pretty important.
You know, this past Sunday, many quote churches here in town had
Mother's Day programs and gave no attention at all to preaching. As sad as that is, if their preaching is not the
gospel, a message by Mama or about Mama will do as much good
as any other. It's in and by and through gospel
preaching that God is pleased to save those that believe. Have
I told you that lately? And this proves that it's impossible
to call upon Christ until you're given life and believe on Him. It's not even possible to believe
on Christ unless and until you've heard the gospel. It's impossible
to hear the gospel without a preacher, and it's impossible to preach
unless God sends you. There's a lot of people been
sent, but it wasn't God that sent them. It was man that sent
them. It was a grandma or papa or somebody,
but it wasn't God. So the only possible conclusion
that can be reached is that faith comes by hearing and hearing
by the preached word of God. You know, in Acts chapter eight,
the Ethiopian eunuch was reading the scriptures in his chariot.
We know that story. He was reading the 53rd chapter
of Isaiah, a chapter that's full of gospel prophecy. It's all
about Christ, every bit of it. And Philip, you know, Philip
joined his chair. He said, do you understand what
you're reading? He said, how can I, unless I have some man show
me. Some man's gotta, someone's gotta preach to me. Someone's
gotta tell me what I'm reading. I know that that man was an intelligent
man while he was the treasurer over a queen's treasury. He was no, he was a smart man,
no doubt about it. But he didn't understand what
he was reading. Because God uses the means of preaching to reveal
the gospel to us. Ed Eunuch was one of God's elect,
and he was a man of character and intellect, yet he had no
idea what the prophet Isaiah was talking about. But he needed
to know in order to confess Christ. And I love how the word of God
says it. It says, and then Philip opened
his mouth, and began at the same scripture and preached unto him
Jesus. What'd he preach? Jesus, Jesus
Christ and him crucified. That's what he preached. Not
about mama, not about daddy, not about. all these other useless
things. He preached unto him Jesus Christ
and him crucified. And the Lord's made it clear
that this is the order that he's ordained. The preacher preaches
Jesus Christ. If he doesn't, he's not a true
preacher. Some will assert that God does
not need a preacher. That's true. The Lord doesn't
need anything or anyone, but need. Now listen, need has never
been the issue with God. He doesn't need anything. Purpose
is the principle of how God operates. And the scripture tells us that
God has ordained and purposed to save his elect, how? Through
the preaching of the gospel. So, with that somewhat long introduction,
now turn with me to Ruth chapter one. I wanna just look at two
verses, beginning in verse six, Ruth chapter one, verse six. Got it, Ruth chapter one, verse
six. Then she, Naomi, arose with her
daughters-in-law that she might return from the country of Moab,
for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the Lord had
visited his people in giving them bread. Verse seven, wherefore? She went forth out of the place
where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her, and they went on their
way to return into the land of Judah." Now, we've got a beautiful
outline and picture here of our redemption and how God saves
sinners. And I'll be brief. First, then
she, Naomi, arose. She arose, God's gonna bring
his people out. Whether it's out of Moab or whether
it's out of Egypt, God's gonna bring them out. Naomi heard the
good news in Moab. Israel, Israel heard the good
news in Egypt. The believer hears the good news
in this world. We're in this world, but we're
not of this world. We hear the good news in this
world, and then God brings them out. Aren't you glad the Lord
brought you out? The Lord told Moses in Exodus
chapter six, verse five, he said, I've heard the groaning of the
children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep in bondage. For he's weak
by nature in bondage, in bondage to sin, in bondage to Satan. But he said, God said, I remembered
my covenant. Wherefore saying to the children
of Israel, I am the Lord and I will bring you out from under
the burdens of the Egyptians and I'll rid you out of their
bondage and I'll redeem you with a stretched out arm. That's God's
arm. Arm of power and strength and
omnipotence. None can stay, he said. I will redeem you with a stretched
out arm and with great judgments, and I will take you to me for
a people, and I will be to you a God. And you shall know that
I am the Lord, your God, which bringeth you out from under the
burdens of the Egyptians." Egyptians. I love how the Lord always tells
who he is before he tells us what he's gonna do. We can have confidence and we
can have hope in His promises to us because of who He is. He
said, I am the Lord. There's only one Lord. He is
the Lord. He's not a Lord, not one of many
Lords. He is the Lord. And He said,
I, the Lord, will bring you out. You can write it down. Good as
done. I will rid you out of their bond. I will redeem you with a stretched
out arm. There's no doubt that he will
do these things. Why? Because he's the Lord. He's
not a man that he should lie. He's not a man that he should
repent. When God says something, he'll do it. If you belong to
him, God's gonna cause you to arise. And you know what? You're gonna arise. Arise, for
the Lord hath delivered you into, the Lord hath delivered into
your hand. Arise and eat bread and let your soul be merry. Arise,
therefore, and the Lord be with thee. The Lord Jesus said time
and time and time again, arise and take up your bed and walk.
What happened? They rose. I say unto thee, arise,
arise and be not afraid. What'd they do? They rose up. Arise and go your way, thy faith
hath made thee whole. He gave them the faith to believe. Awake thou that sleepest, and
arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee life. How'd that
work out, Lazarus? It worked. What about you, man,
at the gate of Nain? It worked. God said, arise, and
we arose. God said, come forth, and he
that was dead came forth. Then, verse six, then Naomi arose,
that she might return from the country of Moab. That word arise
means to abide and live. You know, it was Naomi's affliction
that brought her from bad to best. Her ears were open to instruction
in her adversity. The Lord doesn't just make life
a bed of roses and then say, okay, see what I can do for you.
Don't you want to believe in me? No, he gives us his good
news in adversity. While we're in our sin, while
we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. We arise to hear the good news
of the gospel. Life's got to be given before
we can hear. And what do we do when we're
given life and hearing? We do the same thing that Naomi
did. She went to where the bread was. She went to the house of
bread. So secondly, we see that Naomi
returned to the, from, it says, from the country of Moab. Verse
seven says that they, Naomi and her two daughter-in-laws, went
on the way to return unto the land of Judah. Now that word
return means to turn back. It means the same thing as the
word repent. Repent means to turn around.
The Lord says, as I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure
in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his
way and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil
ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel? Repentance is turning
from the place where you are to the place or to the one in
whom all your needs are provided. Naomi is heading to Bethlehem,
Judah, where the bread is, and every child of God will. Naomi thirdly repented, turned
around because she heard. That'll be the cause of every
child of God turning. And all the people that heard
him justified God being baptized with the baptism of John. Oh,
this is talking about an effectual hearing. This is talking about
a spiritual hearing. This isn't talking about just
hearing some words that a man speaks. This is talking about
hearing the commandment of God that says, come unto me and be
ye saved. This is speaking of spiritual
hearing. When the centurion heard of Jesus, he sent beseeching
him that he'd come and heal his servant. Paul preached of Christ
Jesus, and when they heard, they were baptized in the name of
Jesus because they heard, they affectionately heard, they heard
with their hearts. Hearing the gospel always, as
I said, has one or two effects. When they heard, they glorified
God, or when they heard, they were full of wrath. It'll either
make you mad or it'll make you glad. Time and time again, the Lord
Jesus said, let him that hath ears to hear, let him hear. Who has ears to hear? Only those
that the Lord gives ears to hear. The prophet Zechariah spoke of
some who refused to hearken and it says pulled away their shoulder
and stopped their ears that they should not hear. Those who refused
to hear made their hearts as adamant stone, it said. It is
written, therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts. Now, we can credit God for men
and women believing, but we can't blame God for them not believing.
You know who you can blame? Yourself. It's like when someone
hears the gospel, And they refuse to believe it's like sticking
their fingers in their ears and having a heart of adamant stone,
because that's what it is. The Lord has to take out the
heart of stone and give us a heart of flesh, or we'll never believe
any of this. The Lord Jesus said, behold,
there went out a sower to sow, and it came to pass as he sowed,
some fell by the wayside, and the fowls of the air came and
devoured it up. And some fell on stony ground,
stony heart, where it had not much earth, and immediately it
sprang up because it had no depth of earth. When the sun was up,
it was scorched, and because it had no root, and Christ is
the root of Jesse, isn't he? It withered away. And some fell
among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it
yielded no fruit. other fell on good ground." The sower didn't yield that ground. I didn't cultivate that ground.
God did. The sower's the preacher. We
don't have anything. We just proclaim the gospel. But I fell on good ground and
did yield fruit that sprang up and increased and brought forth
some 30, some 60 and some 100 fold return. And the Lord Jesus
said unto them, he that hath ears to hear, let him hear. How
does faith come? You know, by hearing and hearing
by what? The word of God, the gospel,
the good news. How is this good news heard? to the man's preaching. You couldn't be any better place
tonight, not because I'm the preacher, but because of the
message that's preached from this place. You couldn't be any
better place. Naomi heard some good news. Now,
we're not told how she heard that there was bread in Bethlehem,
Judah, but someone told her that God had given bread in Bethlehem,
Judah. Someone gave her glad tidings
of great joy. Someone shared with her this
good news. Someone preached the gospel to
her. But the someone's not important, because we're not even told who
they were. It's the message that is. It's the message that's important. Doesn't matter who it is that
tells it. It's the message. Jesus Christ came into the world
to save sinners. If you're a sinner, that's great
news. And again, we're reminded that we're not saved by what
we give or by what we do for God. We add nothing to God. We take nothing away from God.
Salvation is in hearing the good news that the Lord has visited
His people in giving them bread. That's our message. Christ is
the bread of life, partake of Him and you shall live. Not a
hard message. How do we know that the Lord
has visited His people in giving us His bread from heaven? That's how we know. For God so
loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For
God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but
that the world through Him, the living bread might be saved. He that believeth on him is not
condemned, but he that believeth not is condemned already. Why? Because he hath not believed
in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Who's interested
in this bread from heaven? The ones whom God made hungry. The only one who rejects the
bread is the one who's not hungry. Hunger and thirst make up the
need of the gospel and Christ is the fulfillment of both. He's the bread of life and he's
the fountain of living water. He's the bread that fell from
heaven when Israel was in the wilderness and he's that water
that came from a rock. Blessed are they which do hunger
and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled. What's the one requisite there? That you'd be hungry and that
you'd be thirsty. Blessed are they which do hunger
and thirst, for they shall be filled. Jesus said unto them, I am the
bread of life, and he that cometh to me shall never hunger, and
he that believeth on me shall never thirst. Do you believe?
Do you believe on Christ? With what simplicity and singularity
is the message heard? The gospel is declared in the
terms of the most basic of human needs. These natural needs are
real. They're understood and they're
felt. We all know something about being hungry. We all know something
about being thirsty. Physically, what about spiritually? Naomi knew that God had made
her so. And every child of God knows
that it's God that made them so. Naomi knew she had no means
of providing what she needed. Naomi was shut up to the fact
that God must provide for her. She lost her husband. How'd she
lose her husband? The Lord took her husband from
her. She lost both of her sons. Who took them from her? The Lord
did. Every child of God knows this. It's through preaching
that it's revealed. And this is why we need the preaching
of the gospel. Not everyone feels a hunger and
thirst for Christ, but every one of the elect do, every single
one of them. Christ is the bread from heaven
and the water of life. The meat for the believer is
to do the will of God. The works of the believer are
to believe on him whom God has sent. On the last day of the Feast
of Tabernacles, our Lord stood up and he cried, if any man thirst,
come unto me and drink. Naomi did not hear that God would
give this bread if she returned. Naomi did not hear that God had
made this bread possible to get. Naomi did not hear that God wanted
and was trying to give this bread to those who would decide and
choose to take it. Naomi heard how the Lord had,
past tense, visited His people in giving them bread. Fourth, the gospel is not given
with a rod of correction, but with a gift of sustenance. The
gospel has everything to do with what God brings and what God
gives. He hath visited his people in
giving them bread. God has visited his people in
giving them Christ. And God did not offer them this
bread. No sir, He didn't offer it. He
gave it. Did God just make it available
if they chose to eat it? No. He came and He gave His people,
the people that no longer hungered, those that were hungry and thirsty,
that's who He gave it to. He brought bread to the hungry. Those who were full didn't need
it, just like those in a well don't need a doctor. It was God
that emptied them. It was God that would fulfill
them. It was God to them who gave them
the bread of life. The gospel's good news for the
poor. It's good news for the hungry. It's good news for the
thirsty. Are you hungry? Are you poor? Are you thirsty? Naomi did not
leave Moab having doubts about bread. She believed that God
was a rewarder of them that diligently sought Him. The preacher can't make you hungry,
but he can tell you where the bread is. And that's what I am
endeavoring to do tonight. I'm trying to point you to Christ,
the bread, the living bread of life. Fifthly, and lastly, what
did Naomi do when she heard? Verse seven. Wherefore she went
forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law
with her, and they went on the way to return unto the land of
Judah." Now, did you notice here that it says they went on their
way to return? They weren't returning just yet.
Something must occur first. As it always is when the gospel
is preached, some believe and some don't. Ruth believed Naomi's God. She said, your God be my God,
your people my people. Ruth was governed by the invisible. Orpah was governed by the visible. Orpah looked back just like Lot's
wife did. What was the difference between
Ruth and Orpah? Best I can tell from what we're
told about Orpah, she was a loving daughter-in-law just like Ruth. It was the grace of God that
made them to differ. It always is. It always is. That's the difference between
every lost and saved sinner. The gospel and the preaching
of it is designed, it's purposed and ordained for those whom God
has made hungry for Christ, the bread of life. That's who it's
for. How do I know the gospel's for me? Are you hungry? Are you
thirsty for righteousness? Then it was, if you are. Is that
why you've come tonight to dine at the table that God has prepared
for you? If so, God made you hungry and
God has determined to fill you up. This, my friends, is the gospel.
And it's because of your need, it's because of your hunger,
it's because of your thirst that He has given to you the bread
and the water of life, Jesus Christ. And that's who we preach. That's our message. And that's
the urgency of it. You and I need Jesus Christ.