Turn with me to 1 John chapter
1. 1 John chapter 1, and I want to
look this evening or begin to look at verse 5. John writes, this then is the
message which we have heard of him. This, then, is the message
which reveals and manifests Christ to us, that he is the salvation
of God, that our Lord Jesus Christ came into this world bearing
the flesh of his people, like unto the seed of Adam, made like
unto us, but without sin. He came to this world for the
very purpose to redeem his people, to put away our offenses, to
deliver us from the guilt and the offenses which we have committed
against our God, and to justify us before holy God. Our Lord
said, I am come that they might have life, and have it more abundantly."
Our Lord came that we should have life and have it abundantly,
and that life is in Him. He is the light and life of men. He's our life. And this, then,
is the message which puts man in the dust before God. This
is the message that shuts our mouth and stops us from boasting
and being confident in our works and in our ways and the things
that we do and think that we do for God. This shuts the mouth. This causes us to stop boasting. This makes us to cry out to the
true and living God for mercy and forgiveness. This message,
this message which we have heard of Christ, causes us to see what
we are before holy God, that we ourselves are sinners, offenders,
vile, wretched worms before God, and that He is the salvation
that we need. He alone is the salvation of
his people. And the Lord does this for us. Even that first time when we
see our need and we see Christ's sufficiency, he does this work
for us. This then is the message which
Christ has given unto us by his voice, by his word. And this then is the message
which we declare unto you. This is the message which God's
preachers, God's messengers, are sent to proclaim to the sheep
of God, to the people of God, to feed the sheep of God. This is the message. This is
the message for salvation, the message that you must know, that
if you are to know the true and living God, that if you are to
walk in fellowship with God and walk before him in light and
not in darkness, not in deceit, not in wicked works, not in the
things that we do and bring to God in the flesh, but if we are
to walk in fellowship with God in the light and in the truth
then we must hear this word. We must know this Savior who
gave us this word. This word speaks of Him, the
Lord Jesus Christ. And here's the message that John
says, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If you are dead in trespasses
and sins, if God shows you that by nature we have no works of
righteousness, if God shows you tonight that you're a sinner,
and he's revealing to you that your works are not righteous
works, they're not good works, and if you would have eternal
life, if you would know the true and living God, but see, I'm
a sinner, then hear this, that Christ is the way. He is the
way, the truth, and the life. And no man comes to the Father
but by Jesus Christ, whom the Father himself has sent to save
his people from their sins, to give them light and life and
a knowledge of who the true and living God is, to give them his
spirit so that we, for the first time, worship God in spirit and
in truth. And so if we're going to stand
before God, we must be righteous. We must be perfect. And that
is exactly what Christ does for his people in his redemption.
He's accomplished that work. He's made his people righteous. He's settled the debt. He's obtained
eternal righteousness for his people. He's redeemed us by his
grace, and it pleases him because he has accomplished our redemption
to give us these blessings, to make us to know what he's done,
to not only do the work, but to accomplish it in our hearts
and to put away the enmity. and the lies and the darkness
that we hold on to and trust in. God tells us, or I'm sorry,
John tells us. The word of God, he tells us,
God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. This light,
it speaks to the very righteousness and perfection of holy God. It describes all the attributes
of God. God is light. It's speaking of
who he is, of all his attributes. of his perfection, of his righteousness,
of his holiness, of his love, of his faithfulness, of his provision
and care, of all the gifts that he gives to his people, of of
his justice, of his mercy, of his long suffering, of his patience,
everything that we have words to try and describe God, it's
all light. It's all light. It all reveals
that God is light. He's omnipotent, meaning he's
all powerful. He's omniscient, meaning he knows
all things. And he's omnipresent, meaning
he's everywhere. There's no place where God is
not. He is able to see and to be with all his people, all his
creation at all times. And every attribute of God is
only light, perfect light in whom is no darkness, no darkness. Now, can you or I comprehend
that? I have in my notes fully comprehend
that. We can't even comprehend it. We can't even come close
to fully comprehending the light of God and what that means. I'm
just scratching the surface and doing a poor job of it, but we
can't even comprehend what that means, that God is light. Paul himself said it this way,
for now we see through a glass darkly. I can't even quite make
it out fully. And yet what I do see is glorious,
and yet we're seeing through a glass darkly. But then, there's
coming a day when we shall stand face to face with God. That's
why the way is narrow. It's as narrow as Christ. Nothing else, but Jesus Christ. That's the narrow way, because
it's gonna be you and I, or it's gonna be you standing before
your, the face of your Savior, looking him right in the face.
Me too. Face to face. Now, I know in part, I know in
part, I don't see God, I don't understand the fullness of the
light of God. Now I see in part, but then shall
I know even as also I am known. We're scratching the surface
here, and that's all we'll really do in this life. And the longer
we live in the truth, we're blessed to see more and more of Christ. But you know, and I know you
know this, the more I learn, the more I see I don't know anything. And the more I learn, the more
I study, the more I see I need to study, because I don't know
anything as I ought to know it. And the farther and farther I
feel like I fall behind in the knowledge of God. And the more
that I see, because he's that glorious, that wonderful, that
amazing. Like our Lord said to his disciples,
we saw it on Sunday, ye give them something to eat. And how
that that shuts my mouth, because what do I have? That puts everything
in perspective for me of how insufficient I am to feed the
sheep of God. And yet, he's the one who who
it pleases to abundantly provide for you and to give you exactly
what you do need because He is Light. He is Light and in Him
is no darkness, no sin, no evil, no wickedness. Now the first
and most easily understood meaning of this word darkness It refers
to sin, sin in all its forms of iniquity and transgression
and trespasses. And that's what we are by nature. That's why we don't know the
true and living God. That's why when we look at him
or think we're looking at him, we're looking into darkness and
we don't see him or understand him or know him according to
the truth. Isaiah the prophet said, your iniquities have separated
between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from
you that he will not hear. By nature, we're blind. By nature, we are in darkness
so that we cannot understand God. We don't know how to worship
him. We're just like that woman at
the well, and we think we know something, but we're just like
that woman at the well who thought she knew a little something,
and all she did know was that when Christ comes, he'll teach
us all things. He'll show us all things. Amen
to that. Amen to that. Because that's
exactly what we need. Because he's light, and we're darkness. But we don't know how to worship
God in spirit and in truth. That's what Christ does for us.
That's what our Lord does for his people. He has redeemed us. He gives the spirit who fills
us and gives us the new man born of Christ's seed, wherein we
worship God in spirit and in truth. Not this old man of flesh. This old man of flesh is ever
confused and ever in darkness. But that new man born of his
grace, that's where we worship God. That's where we cannot sin
against God. When John later says, we sinneth
not, it's in the new man. The new man sinneth not. All
this flesh is is sin, but the new man, all he can do is believe. All he can do is believe and
trust God. So by nature, we're blind and in darkness. And we
read the scriptures of men, and it tells us that there's a veil
over our heart, a veil that keeps us from seeing and knowing the
true and living God. Paul, after the Lord had knocked
him off his horse, and he's in some house, and the Lord sends
a man named Ananias, a brother. a man who worshipped God in spirit
and in truth, by the Lord Jesus Christ. He entered into the house,
and putting his hands on Saul, said, Brother Saul, the Lord,
even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest,
hath sent me that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled
with the Holy Ghost. And immediately There fell from
his eyes, as it had been, scales, scales. And he received sight
forthwith, and arose, and was baptized." And that describes,
those scales describe every one of us by nature. That's what
we all have on our eyes by nature, scales. And in Job, when Leviathan's
being described, it speaks of his scales being his pride. It's his very pride, because
they're so tight together, nothing can get in there. It's his protection. And those very scales, that pride
is what blinds our eyes and keeps us from seeing and knowing the
true and living God. But when Christ comes, those
scales are removed. When Christ comes, the veil is
lifted so that we see the light of God. And we see his perfections
and holiness. And we see that he is light and
in him is no darkness at all. And that's when he begins to
empty our hands of all the things, all the works, all the righteousnesses,
all the good deeds, all the things that we boast in and speak of.
That's when we let go of those things, seeing they're nothing
but dung. They're fit for the trash heap. They're garbage. Just like Paul threw them out,
so the Lord's people start throwing those things away and those trusts
and confidences that they have. Even the confidence or the good
thing we think we've done for throwing them away, he teaches
us, even that's not your work. There's nothing for you to boast
in in that. That's the work of Christ, the good works of Christ
being wrought in you. Now, the scriptures speak of
sins, iniquities, trespasses, and transgressions. So let me
just give you a sense of what those things mean, because there
are some differences in those words. And yet, just understand
that every one of them describes darkness. It describes what we
are by nature. Now, in Psalm 32, verse 5, David
said, I acknowledge my sin unto thee. And mine iniquity have
I not hid? I said, I will confess my transgressions
unto the Lord, and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. So sins, what are sins? They are an offense. An offense
has been committed. We've broken a law or commandment
of God. We've sinned against the light
and the law of God. And sin carries a penalty. There's a punishment that is
necessary, that must be given for that offense. Then iniquities. Well, that word, if you think
about it, implies a balance, something that's not imbalanced.
There's an inequity. There's an inequity. And we're
weighed, and we are found wanting. And what iniquity speaks of is
guilty. We're guilty. There's guilt. We have sinned, and we are guilty. That's why David said, thou forgavest
the iniquity, the guilt of my sin, of my offense. You forgave
the guilt. and put away the perversion and
the depravity of my sin. You've put it away, Lord. You've
done that. Now trespasses, we're familiar
with that in the sense that we could trespass on a neighbor's
property. We might not even know that we've
crossed the line. But that's what a trespass is.
It's to cross a line and to be in a place you have no business
being in. You're not supposed to be there.
You're trespassing. Get out of there. Transgression
takes that another step in that it's a willful, rebellious trespass. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. The Lord says don't do it, I'm
doing it. That's transgression. That's
this willful rebellion in trespassing where we ought not to be. Don't
go there. We're crossing a line. And so
all these are works of darkness, whereas God is light. And we, brethren, by nature,
are nothing but darkness. We're familiar. Even if we don't
understand all those words, we're guilty of every one of them by
nature in Adam. when we didn't know what we were
doing, and when we do know what we're doing. We're guilty of
all those things. We're darkness, and God is light.
And we have a sense of sin, right? Even if you never grew up in
a Christian home, and you grew up somewhere in the world where
Christ is not preached, we have a sense of what sin is, even
society. The society you grow up in gives
you some sense of what that there's a right and a wrong. As a little
kid, you might be spanked for going into that living room.
Some people don't want you going in the living room, and they'll
swat you right on out of there. You've trespassed into a room
you're not supposed to be. Or you reach out to some little
trinket, and you get your hand smacked. And you realize, whoa,
don't touch that, that's not yours. And then you grow up and
you start getting caught in lies and you start getting in trouble
with your friends or your siblings or whatever it is, you start
getting a sense that there's some boundaries, there's some
laws, there's things that we're not supposed to do, and when
I do it, I get in trouble. Some people grow up with a sense
of the Ten Commandments given by Moses, right, and we hear
The punishment of crimes in the news, somebody has done something
and now they're being punished for their crime, either in jail
or being put to death, and we're starting to get a sense that
there's some wicked things that we do. And Paul said it this
way in Romans 2.14, for when the Gentiles, this is what he
means by it, when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by
nature the things contained in the law, like putting a man to
death, who's murdering another man, these, having not the law,
are a law unto themselves." And Paul is showing that everybody
has a sense of what's right and wrong, so that they're all sinners,
that we become sinners just from society and whatnot. But what that does is it enabled
Paul to go to even the Greeks and the Gentiles and preach the
gospel because all are sinners. And when Paul went out there,
he didn't backtrack and say, well, wait a minute now. I've
got to teach you the law of Moses first. Let me show you about
sacrifices, and let me tell you the Ten Commandments. He didn't
have to do that, because he knows all men are sinners, and all
men are guilty. They've committed iniquity, so
that they're all guilty and worthy of death. And they understand
that. They get that. And so there were
people that were made to tremble, because they were worshiping
an idol god, they were sacrificing, and they were doing various works
to try and obtain some sense of forgiveness with holy God,
not even knowing who he was. And so there were some that the
Lord had in those cities, like in Corinth and such, and Ephesus,
that heard the gospel and rejoiced in it. That's why we go and preach
the gospel, because all men are sinners in need of this glorious
salvation. To know that God is light, and
we are darkness, and the works that we were doing to try and
fix ourselves were nothing but wicked works. Wicked works. And our Lord shows us, we preach
Christ because He's the Savior of sinners. We declare Christ,
for by one offering He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified,
whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us. So that even
without that law of Moses, a person whom the Lord has made to see
their sin, that they're a sinner, that they are an offender of
God, that they've been sacrificing to God in complete ignorance
and darkness their whole lives. They rejoice when the Lord opens
the ear and removes their blindness. They rejoice that Christ is the
light of God, that He is their salvation, that He put away all
their sin. It makes them turn from their
dark, sinful, polluted, ignorant ways. It makes them have no confidence
in the flesh, not even in their turning, but every confidence
in the Lord Jesus Christ. Because Christ gives life to
dead sinners. We do declare all men are sinners,
they're all guilty, I'm guilty, we're all guilty, Christ is life. Christ is the salvation of God. And he reveals that through the
indwelling of his spirit which he gives to all who he redeemed. And he goes on in Hebrews 10,
for after that he had said before, this is the covenant that I will
make with them after those days, saith the Lord. I will put my
laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them,
and their sins, and iniquities, their offenses, and their guilt,
and what they've done that's worthy of death, I will remember
no more. And when the Lord does that,
He gives us that hope in Christ, and we see the light of Christ.
Our Lord, He promises, when He says that, the reason why I read
that is because He teaches His people more and more what He
would have them to know. It's not about going back to
Moses, the Ten Commandments of Moses, thou shalt have no other
gods before me. Thou shalt not make an image
and bow down to that image to worship me." That's not God,
that's just an idol. He said, Thou shalt not take
the Lord thy God's name in vain. He said, Thou shalt remember
the Sabbath day to keep it holy. You shall honor your father and
your mother that it may be well with you and you have long life
in the earth. And then he said, thou shalt
not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal,
thou shalt not bear false witness against your neighbor, thou shalt
not covet anything that is your neighbor's. All those commandments. But the Lord is going to show
you by his spirit indwelling in your heart what he would have
you to know. Now we know that those things
that I just recount it for you. We know that to have any confidence
in false gods and in trusting those things, anything outside
of Christ, that that's wicked. And we know that we're not to
murder and commit adultery and to steal and all those things.
We know that those are bad. People get caught up in looking
at all kinds of things, and they start seeing darkness everywhere,
and how wicked this world is. But the Lord doesn't remove everything
all at once. And some things he doesn't remove
at all from his people. He might remove it from one,
but not from another. But it's according to what he
would do. Even in Matthew, you think about this. In Matthew
19, where our Lord was talking about eunuchs, He said, some
were born eunuchs from their womb. Some were made eunuchs
by men, by other men, to stand in their castles. And they didn't
have to worry about them. And he said, and there be eunuchs
which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that's able to receive it,
let him receive it. Are all eunuchs? No. No, all are not eunuchs. And
the Lord doesn't remove from everyone's hand the same works
of darkness. He doesn't show that to everyone.
He doesn't reveal that necessarily to everyone. To some people,
cigarettes are a wicked thing. And to others, it means nothing
to them. One person can pick up a glass
of wine and drink it. Another person won't do it. One
person can go to the false temple and buy some meat that was sacrificed
to an idol. It means nothing to them. They're
just getting some dinner. And another person says, I won't
do that. I wouldn't do that. And some people can listen to
music. Some people can dance. Some people
can play cards. Some people can go to the movie
theater. And other people can and won't do it. But the Lord
is the one who reveals that for various purposes in each one
of his people. And we don't make it our business
because the Lord has removed something from me to make you
see what I see. We just trust the Lord. Paul
said it this way, let not him that eateth despise him that
eateth not. And let not him which eateth
not judge him that eateth, for God hath received him. Who art
thou that judgest another man's servant? To his own master he
standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holding up,
for God is able to make him stand. And so when and if God is pleased
to remove a work of darkness? Because by nature, this whole
world is darkness. This flesh is full of darkness.
Tons of things. Everything we do is polluted
with some darkness. in it to some degree. And the
Lord is the one who teaches each of his people as it pleases him
for various purposes. Some of which is just to teach
the sheep how to love one another and how to get along with one
another. And so there are differences like that in the way that we
see things, because we're learning to love, and to forbear, and
to be long-suffering, and to be patient, and to be kind, and
gentle, and understanding with one another. So the Lord does
that. The Lord does that. But if God
will remove something from his servant, you know how he's going
to do it every time? It ain't going to be because
you told them not to do it, or you convinced them that it's
sin. Because I've done things by the
law, and they just come back. Or I've done things in constraint
like that. It doesn't work that way. You know how the Lord teaches
each one what he would have them to know? It's through the preaching
of Christ. It's through the holding up of
the light. Because sometimes the Lord has shown me a thing
about myself and it takes sometimes 10 years before something goes
and it's just been on my heart for a long time and then one
day you wake up and you just don't have a desire for that
anymore and it's all his grace he doesn't remove everything
like that, and he doesn't remove it by the constraint or the whipping
or the threat of the law. He does it through the preaching
of Christ, the light. And that's how he teaches each
one of his people. And I'm fine with that, because
I'm thankful for how he teaches me graciously and is patient
with me. And so I trust that he does that
with you through the preaching of Christ, not the preaching
of the law, not by constraint. And then that brings us to one
other sense. There's two other senses, but we're not going to
get to it all. But one other sense of this darkness
that men do is, because we leave one form of sin and we step right
in another pile of sin. And that's the delusion that
men have that, because now they've picked up a form of religion,
or changed religions. I'm not a Catholic no more, now
I'm a Christian. Or I'm not a Jew anymore, now
I'm a Christian. Or I'm not Muslim anymore, now
I'm a Jew. Or whatever it is. Whatever it
is, people trust in their form of religion and they boast in
that. And they boast of, some people
boast that they don't do certain sins anymore. And that's their
hope, but they're dead and they have no life in Christ, just
ignorance and darkness. All they've done is trade one
thing for another. Like they were swapping out cars or something
like that at the dealership. And that's it. And so a lot of
people go through the motions of a Christian, and they remove
outward sins. They wash the outside of the
cup. They get it all pretty looking. They change their speech. Because
when you're around certain people, if they're very strong and say,
this is how you live now, people are going to conform to that. They're going to do what the
pastor is saying. If you say, someone's going to
believe you, if I'm saying it, someone's going to believe me,
whether it's right or wrong. So beg God that it's right, that
it's truth, that we're declaring Christ and not dead works. And so people are going to change
their speech, and yet they can still remain in absolute ignorance
and darkness, unchanged by Christ, not having a spirit, not walking
in the spirit or in truth. And we see this described in
Revelation 3, the church of the Laodiceans. Verse 14, it says,
unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write, these
things saith the Amen. the faithful and true witness,
the beginning of the creation of God. This is Christ, our Lord,
Jehovah God, Almighty God, speaking to us. He said, I know thy works,
that thou art neither cold nor hot. I would thou wert cold or
hot. So then, because thou art lukewarm
and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth. And
listen to this, 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. This is a church, a professing
church, claiming to be part of the body of Christ. They thought
they had arrived. They were doing ordinances and
practices. And they thought, you know, they
made a profession that this was their righteousness now. They
were good, holy people before the Lord. And everyone could
see they're dead. They're dead. Everyone could
see it but them. And they had no knowledge of
their sin. They had no understanding of the plague of their own heart. And they were ignorant of their
darkness and blindness. And our Lord says in verse 18,
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire that thou mayest
be rich. What is that gold tried in the
fire? It is the Lord Jesus Christ who
went to the cross bearing the fiery indignation of God and
was found faithful, perfect so that he consumed the wrath of
God which was against us and put away our sin forever. He's
that gold, that precious gold tried in the fire. And he says,
imbibe me white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that
the shame of thy nakedness do not appear. That's the righteousness
of the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the one that covers our
nakedness, not our good works, not what we do. Christ's righteousness
is our apparel. He's our robe. It's his righteousness
that makes us fit to stand before holy God. And anoint thine eyes
with eyesalve that thou mayest see, so that by his grace and
power, the scales fall off and we see the light of God. and
you that see Christ, that He is your righteousness, that He's
our hope to stand before the true and living God, that's salvation,
brethren. That's light. You see the light
of God. You hear that message. You've
heard that message declared. That's your hope. And you that
hope in Christ and not yourselves, stay right there in the Lord
Jesus Christ. He said, as many as I love, I
rebuke and chase and be zealous, therefore, and repent. And so
many make a profession, and they participate in the ordinances,
doing the outward forms of religion, and are always hoping. When they
don't see Christ, they're always hoping, Lord, will this be enough?
Today, will this be enough? Will this be the work that finally
you give me some peace, that finally you let me see the light,
that finally I feel like I've done enough? for you, Lord? Will
this be the day? No, it'll never be enough. Nothing
we can ever do will ever be enough to please God and to satisfy
Him and to put away our sins. Never. It'll never be enough. But if God have mercy on you,
then He ain't gonna let you settle in that and be pleased with your
works. He'll deliver you from it. He'll
show you Christ because Christ is salvation. I received a phone
call today from a woman that's been listening to us online for
a long time. I received a phone call from
her and she was so overwhelmed that she was crying and broken. She said, She said, I've been
so ignorant. She was using the word stupid,
and then she kept correcting herself. She said, I was so ignorant for
so long. She said, the earliest memory
I have is when I was two years old. And she said, I'm 77 now. And she said, from two to 77,
so for 75 years that I can remember, I had a hope in my goodness. Every time I did some deed, I'd
pat myself on the back. and thought, that's a good work.
That'll bring me closer to God. And she kept thinking, will that
be enough today, Lord? Was this enough? Did this do
it, so that the scales are tipped to my favor now, so that I could
have some peace? And she said, all that time,
I was afraid to die. No matter what good thing I did,
I was afraid to die, because I didn't think it was enough.
And she's right. It wasn't enough. It was never
enough. And she called and said, and
I'm so ashamed. I'm so ashamed because I was
ignorant that whole time. But now I see Jesus, that he's
my righteousness. She said, I've been reading the
Bible for years and years and years, and it doesn't make any
sense to me. And I've been listening and coming to churches. She knew
clay and stuff. And she said, I didn't know anything. And she said, tell Johnny that
for the Thank you for the book that you gave me of Charles Spurgeon.
She said, that's the second best book that I have, The Bible and
Mr. Spurgeon. And she's been reading
that a lot. And she said, lately, I hear
the messages, and they make sense. And I'm hearing it. And it's
making more sense, and more sense, and more sense. And she said,
Sunday, she said, all I did was cry through both messages. I
couldn't stop crying, because all I could see is, I see Christ
as my righteousness. not my works, not what I've done.
Jesus Christ is all my righteousness. And she gave God the glory today. And so that's what I'm saying,
brethren. We have this delusion. All right,
because we put away a few works here and there that this is our
righteousness, and it's not. That's just a delusion. And I'm
going to basically stop there. But I'll just say very quickly
as a teaser, the third one is just men then, if they're not
in that kind of dead religion, they turn to the law because
they don't believe Christ is sufficient to save them, that
his righteousness is enough. And so they turn to the law for
their righteousness. And they try to bring in all
these other works by their works. And they try to circumcise themselves
and cut things out with a form of circumcision to make themselves
feel like they've attained a righteousness. Brethren, God is light, and in
Him is no darkness at all. And that means He's gonna make
us, we're gonna know sin, we're gonna know that we're sinners,
that we are darkness by nature, that we're full of sin, that
we cannot save ourselves. He's gonna show us, then He's
gonna show us Christ, who is the righteousness of His people,
the comfort and peace and joy of His people, so that We're
not afraid to die because Christ has put away that second death.
It hath no more power over you. you that for whom Christ is all
your hope that's the hope he he gives us that he's our light
I'm darkness and he's light and so through this man Jesus Christ
is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins and by him all that believe
are justified from all things which could not be put away by
your dead religion by Moses by doing the best you could, what
your mommy and daddy told you was the right and wrong, that
doesn't save you. Christ and Christ alone is the
salvation of his people. And I pray he bless that word
to your hearts to hear it, to see Jesus Christ. Amen.