Let's be turning over to Luke
chapter 8. Luke 8 here. Now, this is where
our Lord goes to the land of the Gadarenes, and there is a
man possessed of a legion, a legion of devils. And what we see here
is the great authority and power of our Lord and Savior, Jesus
Christ, so that even the devils are subject to Him. When He commands, they must obey. But the glorious thing here is
that we see with the same authority and power, He's able to save
His people ruined in sin. He has the authority. to deliver
us from death and to give us life in himself. All authority, all power is given
unto him in heaven and in earth. And we see that power here. We
see that authority. Now, when we come to this man,
we'll see that it's a description of our ruin in Adam's race. This is a picture of our depravity. Every one of us is capable of
sinking as low as this man sunk. And the glorious thing to that
is that just as this man from that base, defiled, ruined state
there is brought all the way into the light of salvation,
into the joy of the salvation of the saints of God by Jesus
Christ. There's no sinner too awful,
too fallen, too deep, too dark that Christ can't save. There's
none that anyone whom our Lord has set His grace upon to save,
they shall be saved in the day of grace. And that's a great
comfort to great sinners. A great comfort. So let's read
here in verse 26 and 27. And they arrived at the country
of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee. You'll recall
that they had been on the Lake Gennesaret, or the Sea of Galilee,
or the Sea of Tiberias. They're different names, but
they're the same body of water. And we saw in the midweek what
the Lord showed us in that storm. But when he had went forth from
that ship to land, there met him out of the city a certain
man, which had devils long time. and wear no clothes, neither
abode in any house but in the tombs." Now here's a description
of a pitiful, sad man. This man is not right. This man is possessed with a
legion of devils. And to see him would be to see
a filthy, horrid creature. I remember when I was in New
York, in the city of New York, we came out of a theater. Right
there were people come and go. We had our kids with us and everything.
And there was a man, an older man, who was just stripped down
naked. And just right there. And there's
a cop only a few feet away. And this man's just in his own
world doing his own thing. And that's similar to what we
see here. Here's this naked man, this wild
man. It says he came out of the city,
but it means he's not in the city. He's living in the tombs. He's among the tombs, among the
people that are dead. And you wouldn't feel safe around
this guy. He might lash out at you at any
moment. He might attack you. And it probably
kept a lot of people away from the tombs. If they had to go
out there, they probably had several large fellows with sticks
and staves to beat him back and keep him away. But we're told
here that this man had devils a long time. He wore no clothes,
so that he was completely naked. And he lived like an animal.
He didn't live in a house like you or me. He didn't even live
in a makeshift tent. He lived in the tombs. What was
there is what he used. And that was how he lived and
where he lived. Now, what manner of man is this? This is a man that we would shun
and want to not be near at all. We wouldn't want to spend any
time or turn our back on a person like this. But what the Lord
shows us here, what he teaches us in scriptures is that this
is a testimony of our depraved nature. As low as this man sunk
is capable that every one of us is capable of sinking too. How could David, a man after
God's own heart, take another man's wife, sleep with her, and
then put that man to death to cover his sin? That's horrible. And yet that man, a man after
God's own heart, did that thing. And so this man here, this depraved
man, is a testimony of what I am by nature. As our brothers quoted
of Paul, we're the wretched man. I'm the wretched man. I'm the
chief of sinners. I'm the one that could turn and
hurt my brethren at any moment, if not for the grace of God.
I'm fully capable of offending any one of you. If not for the
grace of God, we depend on the Lord to help us and to save us. And so we might look at this
man and justify ourselves. Well, I don't do that. That's
not me. Well, for one thing, it is a
testimony of our, this nature is our nature. And it's only
by the grace of God that keeps us from doing certain things.
But there's a lot of hidden things that we do. There's a lot of
things that we'd be ashamed of to have broadcast up here before
all of you. We wouldn't want that. We're
all depraved sinners. And we're going to look at some
scriptures in a moment that show us what we are before God until
the salvation of God is brought to us. This is what our God saves
us from. That's why we're looking at it.
This is what God must save us. This is why we need a Savior
and why we need so great a salvation because We can't fix it ourselves. We can't deliver ourselves. And
so it does no good for us here to compare ourselves and look
at this guy and say, man, I'm glad I'm not like that. I'm not
like that. I'm better than he is. But you
also have to think on the flip side is, well, he's possessed
with a legion of devils. So what's your excuse? And what's
my excuse? If this man's so filthy, Well,
he's possessed. So what's our excuse then for
the sins that we commit? And I say that just to bring
us to see, yes, Lord, I need your salvation. I need Christ. I'm the sinner that needs this
salvation. because I'm no better. So the
scriptures teach us first, of all that in Adam, all die. All die. And that's speaking
of our nature. It's corrupt, defiled, ruined,
fallen, in darkness, and in bondage to sin. And we cannot work a
righteousness for ourselves. This man, we're told, had devils
a long time. You know, the scriptures speak
of us as all. Every one of us by nature in
Adam is under the influence of the evil one, of that evil spirit. Look over at Ephesians chapter
2. In Ephesians chapter 2, picking
up in verse 1, Paul tells us, he reminds us, and you, this
is me, this is you that believe him, you hath he quickened, made
alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins. We're like this fellow,
dead in trespasses and sins. Now listen to this, wherein in
time past ye walked according to the course of this world,
according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit
that now worketh in the children of disobedience. That's how we
walked before Christ, brought light and life to us, among whom
also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of
our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind,
and were by nature the children of wrath even as others. And so while we may not all manifest
the same sins as one another, or what we see here in this man
being possessed of devils and such, but we all, our nature
is unclean. And we're under, by nature, in
Adam, without the grace of God, we're under the influence and
leading of an evil spirit. of an unclean spirit. We submit by nature to the prince
of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the
children of disobedience. And so we all come under that
influence apart from the grace of God. We're all led by that
and partake of the lust of this flesh that appeals to this flesh
by nature. You know, we read of Mary, called
Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils. So the scriptures say
that. That's a description used for
her specifically, unique to her, because they don't say Peter.
who was delivered of a devil, or Paul who was delivered of
a devil, or anybody who was delivered of three devils. No, it's used
for her specifically, so there's obviously some more pronounced
examples of that, but the point is what our Lord is showing us
here is that there's an ugliness to our nature, a filthiness,
a ruined nature in Adam. We're not as good as we like
to to portray that we are by nature before the true and living
God who sees our hearts and knows our thoughts and knows all things.
He knows who we are. And so this picture of this man,
this filthy man, it brings to the front, to our face, this
is what I am in Adam. This is my nature, this depraved
nature. Romans 3, verse 10 through 18.
As we read it, it's describing us. But think of the similarities
to what we see in this man here. Romans 3.10, as it's written,
there is none righteous, no, not one. There is none that understandeth. There is none that seeketh after
God. They're all gone out of the way.
They are together become unprofitable. There is none that doeth good,
no, not one. is an open sepulcher, a tomb,
where dead people are buried. With their tongues, they have
used deceit. The poison of asps is under their
lips, whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. The things
that we say don't build up people as much as we think they do.
They often infect and inflict others with our words. Their
mouths are full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift
to shed blood. Destruction and misery are in
their ways and the way of peace. Have they not known there is
no fear of God before their eyes? And so to argue, for us as men
to argue that we're better than another shows that we don't have
an understanding of what we are by nature. We're not being honest
with one another. It's just pot sherds striving
against other pot sherds. And a pot sherd is a broken piece
of pottery that has no value. It can't carry any water. It
can't be used to carry something or to bear a burden or to do
anything like that. It's a broken piece of pottery.
Now this one might have a pretty swirl on it versus that plain
one over there, but both are useless in terms of carrying
anything. So we can't glory in ourselves. Then the nakedness of this man,
it describes our nature without a covering for our nakedness. Righteousness is to the soul
what a robe is to the body. It covers the nakedness. It covers
what we are. You know, I was thinking about
this, and the first thing that we're told that Adam and Eve
knew, once their eyes were open, when they ate that fruit, it
says they knew that they were naked. That didn't depart from
them. They knew, they understood, I'm
naked. And that's why we see men in
dead letter religion striving to cover their nakedness. Because
we have a sense that we're naked, but they turned to the trees
and went to the fig leaves and tried to sew fig leaves to cover
their nakedness with their own works. with natural things that
decay and fade and fall off and show our nakedness. That's what
we do by nature. And so we need to be saved from
that idolatry. But this man here, he didn't
even care for his nakedness. He could care less. And we see
a lot of that in society today. I guess there's times where it
gets worse and a little better, morally speaking. But yeah, people
just flaunt. their filth in your face and
expect you to rejoice in it with them. Expect you to accept it
of them. But this man, he lived in the
tombs, like we do, among spiritually dead sinners and participating
and practicing dead works. And this is why the Lord tells
us to be carnally minded is death because it's what we are by nature.
This man here, Now, what we're given here, another, if you wanted
to step back here, take a bigger picture here, is that Christ's
coming to this country of the Gadarenes here, it describes
the light of the gospel coming into a dark land. Here's this
ship rolling up on shore with the light of God, the light of
men, the Lord Jesus Christ stepping out of that ship, and this man
comes to meet him, and this was necessary because when Christ
redeemed his people, rose from the dead, and ascended to the
Father. Before he did that, he gives the commission to the church
and says, you go preach this gospel. You go tell sinners like
this filthy sinner. And so if you're going out to
some foreign land where they're nothing like you, and they're
full of corruption and darkness, you preach this gospel. You declare
this gospel, because I have my people there. If I send you there,
there's a people there whom I have redeemed and saved. You go carry
this light to them. And so that's what we're seeing
here. And the reason why the Lord does
it is because he has a people, a chosen people that we look
on the outside and say, uh-uh. They're not the people of God.
Let's go over here. They're a little nicer. They
got better food over here and a nice place. But the Lord says,
no. I got my people even living among
tombs. And I'm going to bring them out
of darkness. And you're going to carry that light of what I've done
and accomplished for them to them. And so the Lord's going
to make his people to know the joy of his salvation. Luke 8
27 when he went forth to land there met him out of the city
a certain man a certain man there's that word I think Luke uses that
word certain a lot in this chapter and he uses that that word a
lot of certain centurions Servant on a certain day. Here's a certain
man He's using that a lot and it's a it's a adjective to describe
a distinction There's something different about that man. And
no, it's not that he's a greater sinner than the others it's that
God has a purpose of grace for that man that certain sinner
as horrible as he is as vile as he is and so the Lord does
this because There's us sitting here that are filthy sinners. Maybe we don't show it. We don't
want people to know. But there's people here trembling
and afraid. How can God save a sinner like
me? Oh, he can. He is able, and he
did, he does. He saves his people that are
filthy sinners. And so that's the encouragement
and the comfort, and that's what he's showing to these disciples.
He says, come, look at this filthy sinner, because you're going
to carry this gospel to filthy sinners and to dark lands and
to dark places and people full of corruption and idolatry that
you think no way could God save them. Yes, he can, and he did
and does. Because a lot of us sitting here
are those sinners that he saved. And we can point out others that
we think they're better than me, but they don't believe. They
don't hear it, and they have no desire to hear it. I don't
know why, but the Lord's given me a desire. And we're thankful.
We're made thankful because he's made that distinguishing grace
known in our hearts. That's a mercy. So that's the
bigger picture here is that our Lord sends his gospel far and
deep into dark places to save his people. We see that in Acts
13, 47 through 49 when Paul and Barnabas went out on their missionary
journeys. They said, For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying,
I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest
be for salvation unto the ends of the earth. And when the Gentiles
heard that, they were glad and glorified the word of the Lord,
and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed. And
that word of the Lord was published throughout all the region. And
the picture there is, I mean, yeah, the way it's worded there,
it sounds like Paul is, but we're bearing the light. We're the
candlestick that just holds up the light of Christ. He's the
light of men, and we're just carrying it through the world,
through this dark place, and he's shining that light into
the darkness, and calling his people out of that darkness into
the arms of Christ. By this gospel, our Lord, we
see here, he binds the strong man. He binds, he defeats and
strips down of the armor of the strong man, the devil. He defeats
him, locks him up, and takes his plunder. He takes out those
precious things given to him of the Father before the foundation
of the world. And that's what he does for this,
what he does here for this man in delivering him from his bondage.
and giving him life, that's what he does for us. So verse 28 and
29. When he saw Jesus, he cried out
and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, what
have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou son of God most high? I
beseech thee, torment me not. For Christ had commanded the
unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had
caught him, and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters, and
he broke the bands and was driven of the devil into the wilderness. So there's a picture here in
these chains and these fetters, because this is what man does
to try and contain our lusts and contain the wickedness of
our hearts. We put laws and various things
around us in society to keep us in place, keep us from acting
out and doing corrupt things and being as depraved as we might
otherwise be, to have some sense of right and wrong. People even
turn to the law of Moses and say, you know, we put the Ten
Commandments and the law in the courthouses, if we can, and in
schools. And fine, you know, that's fine
to show people. But these chains and these fetters
are snapped and broken by man all the time, just like is pictured
here by this guy. They do not, they might, constrain
us to a certain degree and put some bumpers up to keep us in
line to a certain degree, but the reality is we break these
things all the time and go off into the wilderness by ourselves. So those chains They're meant to constrain the
sinful lusts of man, but we break them. And those fetters are,
as I understand it, they're shackles for the feet to keep you from
running off into sin. But he just snapped those fetters
also. He just broke them up and just
snapped them. And that's what we do. They're
meant to keep us from trespassing, but we still do it by nature. Even if we don't let others know,
we break the law. a lot in our nature. And so this
man's a mighty sinner, and he needs a mighty Savior. And this
is here to show us, as for you and me, you that are great sinners,
Christ is a great Savior. He is the great Savior. And that's
what he's come to do. And so our Lord here is making
known to his people, he's the salvation. Through this man is
preached unto you the forgiveness of sins. Christ, by his death,
by his substitutionary death, he died for the sins of his people
to obtain our forgiveness, to cover them so that God may be
merciful and just to be merciful to us for Christ's sake. And so all who believe Christ
are loosed from the law. They are forgiven of their debt
of sins, which they've committed breaking the law and transgressing
the law of God. And we are given life in and
by the Lord Jesus Christ, because he is our righteousness. Now,
let's read this account of when the Lord casts out these devils. Verse 30, and Jesus asked him,
saying, what is thy name? And he said, legion, because
many devils were entered into him. Our Lord knew. He asked
this for our benefit. So we know what's going on here. And they besought him that he
would not command them to go out into the deep. And there
was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain. And
they besought him that he would suffer them or allow them to
enter into them, the swine. And he allowed it. He suffered
them. Then went the devils out of the man and entered into the
swine, and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake
and were choked." Now, when I was young I used to run down steep
hills and I enjoyed it very much, but as I got older I realized
that's kind of a foolish thing to do because you might twist
an ankle, break an ankle, smack your head on a rock, Like you
could hurt yourself bad or even die. But that's what we see happening
here, this violent running downhill, going over the cliff and into
the sea and choking to death. Now there's three things that
we take away from what just happened here. First is, even the devils
are subject to Christ, so that nothing can touch you except
God permit it. Nothing can touch you. It's not
that. It's God fighting against the devils and if God isn't looking
carefully, He's going to get you over here and maybe you'll
do a little better here. No. Christ is in control of all
things. Nothing can touch you except
He permitted and allow it for your good. And we're seeing here
that In Christ, the fullness of the Godhead dwelleth bodily,
and the blessing of that is to know that in Him ye are complete. In other words, He has all authority.
What He's done and says when you're delivered, you don't have
anyone else to answer to. He's your master. He's your Lord. He's done the whole thing here,
complete in Him, so that you don't have to check in with anybody
else over here, or nobody else has to sign off on it. It's done. When Christ set you free, you
are free indeed. And He's your Lord, your Savior,
your Shepherd, your husband, your friend, your master, your
brother, and your God, and your Savior. He's all to His people. Second is, we see the mighty
salvation that we need. We see this mighty salvation
that only Christ can accomplish for us. Do not think that you
can save yourselves, that you can improve your lot by going
back to the law or just working on getting a little religion
in your lives. Christ is all. We need Christ every hour. We need him to save us to the
uttermost, and when he does, he does. He brings us to his
feet. And so we need a mighty salvation. And then third, we
see here these swine here falling easily and violently into the
waters. It pictures the millions and billions of inhabitants in
this earth who reject the salvation of God, opposing themselves against
themselves, and perish in their sin. These waters are sinners,
filled with evil, unclean spirits polluting the waters. And it's
a picture of those who reject Christ and embrace sin and don't
want to hear it, don't believe Christ, want nothing to do with
what Christ has done. Man by nature is on a mad run,
violently downhill, carelessly just charging as fast as he can
down into hell. And that's what the picture here
of for this man is what God has done for his chosen redeemed
sinner. And the rest are swine filled
with unclean spirits and just perish in their sins. Now, following
all this, we see the effects of Christ's salvation for his
chosen redeemed sinner. We see the effects here. Luke
8, 34 and 35. When they that fed those swine
saw what was done, they fled and went and told it in the city
and in the country. Then they, all the people who
heard it, went out to see what was done and came to Jesus and
found the man out of whom the devils were departed, sitting
at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind, and they
were afraid. So when Christ delivered this
man, he was free indeed. The devils were departed. This man is under new management. He has a new spirit, a holy spirit. He's a new creature. If any man
have not the spirit of Christ, he's none of his. But if you
have the spirit, it's because you are his. You are the Lord's. You're his child, because Christ
gives his children the Holy Ghost. He gives us the Holy Ghost, and
the Spirit of God dwells in the people of God. The Spirit of
God reveals Christ to you. He takes the things of Christ,
this Word, and He reveals them to your heart, and makes you
to know that Jesus is the Christ, what He's accomplished, and that
He is sufficient to save you to the uttermost. And He draws
His people to Christ. But he makes us new creatures
in doing that. He makes us new creatures. And that's how we're drawn in
faith. We're justified by Christ. And
he makes us to know that. This man was also found, right?
He had been lost. Now he's found. And where do
we find him? Sitting at the feet of Jesus. And honestly, that's how you
know someone's found. They're sitting at the feet of
Jesus. They want to be here. They want to hear Christ. They hunger and thirst for Christ's
righteousness, and they're satisfied with Christ and His righteousness.
They're not still looking for another righteousness. They're
not still looking to improve their lives by the things that
they do, and they're standing before God by the things they
do. They're trusting Christ. They're believing Him, and He's
sufficient to the uttermost. So they're sitting at Jesus And,
you know, we see pictures of that in Scripture. We'll come
to it eventually, but there's Mary, Martha's sister, and we're
told in Scripture that she sat at Jesus' feet and heard His
word. That's what believers do. They
sit at Christ's feet and hear His word. And another point to
that too is just, you know, there's commandments or laws written
in here and people think, well, shouldn't we be spending time
and focus on that? Shouldn't we, isn't there things
by looking at Christ and Christ only that we're missing certain
things? Or shouldn't you drill into those things more? Anything
we drill into, so to speak, anything we look at or bring forth, it's
under the shadow of Christ. It's in, and we shouldn't even
use that, it's in the light of Christ. It's at His feet. That's
how we learn and understand this word rightly is in the face of
Jesus Christ. And as we come to things, we'll
do our best by the grace of God, is really our best, is by His
grace, that's how we'll understand what our Lord is teaching us.
And how He instructs us and keeps us and reveals to us in this
word, it's at the feet of Christ. Always at the feet of Christ. And the other blessed thing there
is that our Lord said, Mary hath chosen that good part, which
shall not be taken away from her. Glory be to God. You that
are God's people, he says, I'll not remove. You that love his
word and want to hear his word, he says, I'll not take it away
from you. I won't remove it from you. I'll
feed you. You're my sheep, he says. And he'll keep that word
coming and feeding you and nourishing you and strengthening you. because
you're his. He's brought you to his feet
for a reason. He's not going to kick you away. He feeds his
sheep there. So it'll not be taken. And then
this man says, we're told that he's no longer naked. He's now
clothed. He's got clothes on. It's a picture
that testifies to what our Lord does for us by his righteousness. We're clothed. enrobed in the
righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. So when we come before
Holy God, when we come before our Lord Jesus Christ seated
on the throne of God, judging the nations, we won't be standing
there naked. In our sin, terrified and afraid
by the works that we've done, no, we'll be standing there without
sin, in perfect, spotless, unwrinkled, unblemished righteousness of
the Lord Jesus Christ, your husband, who gave you that beautiful wedding
garment. It says you're beautiful and
you're mine. We're his and he's our righteousness. We're not
naked. And he was also, we're told that he was also in his
right mind. He's no longer a madman violently
going about trying to destroy himself and others and turning
to dead works that can't save him. He's resting content in
the salvation that Christ has provided. And that's what our
Lord does for us. He gives us peace and comfort and all our
security in Christ. in him. And what we see here
is this. You would think they'd be afraid
of this guy. But now they see him healed and in his right mind
and clothed and sitting down normal at the feet of Jesus.
And it says they were afraid. They were now terrified. They never saw such power and
authority. Verse 36 and 37, They also which
saw it told them by what means he that was possessed of the
devils was healed. Then the whole multitude of the
country of the Gadarenes round about besought Christ to depart
from them, for they were taken with great fear. And he went
up into the ship and returned back again. So they wanted the
Lord, the Savior, to leave them. And so you have to ask, well,
then what spirit was ruling them? What spirit was leading them? Because it wasn't the Spirit
of God, because the Holy Ghost reveals Christ to us. And the
Holy Ghost bears the fruit of love for Christ and His people. We want to be near Christ. We
want to hear Christ. So what spirit do these people
have that they didn't want Him to be there? What did Legion
ask? What have I to do with thee?
That's what they're saying. What have we to do with thee?
Why did you come here? and do this thing. We don't understand
this. You're going to have to leave. We want you gone. And
so he did. And that's the picture here. These people are the waters filled
with unclean swine. When you saw that picture of
them running violently down, that's what the masses that have
not the grace of God, that's what they are. They're just filled
with an unclean spirit running with violence to their destruction. But that shouldn't stop us from
bringing the gospel and preaching the gospel to any creature, all
creatures, because out of them the worst of the worst might
be the one that the Lord has called and determined to save
that day by the preaching of Christ and giving them life.
So this is like what we read of the Jews when they saw How
the Gentiles believed, Acts 13.50 says, but the Jews stirred up
the devout and honorable women and the chief men of the city
and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled
them out of their coasts. And so without the grace of God,
that's the reaction of the depraved man to the light of God. I don't want to hear that. I
don't want that. Don't bring that around here.
Get me out of here. Get you out of here. Whatever
it is, just be gone with it. And that's madness. That's nakedness. That's out of your mind, this
world. That's what this world is without
the grace of God to reject Christ. The joy and the rejoicing here
is that Christ brought salvation to a certain man, and he would
not be denied. He went over violent rough seas
at peril to their lives, that they were in jeopardy. That's
how fearful they were. They thought, this is it. But
nope, our Lord brought them safely to the other side. And he did
all that for one sinner, to save one sinner. And that shows how
faithful your God is to save every one of His sheep chosen
in Christ before the foundation of the world, and He'll lose
none of them, none of them in Christ. Verse 38 and 39, now
when the man out of whom the devils were departed, Yet now the man, out of whom
the devils were departed, besought Christ, that he might be with
him. But Jesus sent him away, saying, Return to thine own house."
I see that as a picture of the local church, wherein the Lord
has saved you. He says, you be content there.
You don't got to go here or there. I've given you a house. I'll
give you my word. I'll keep you, and comfort you,
and give you what you need, and show how great things God hath
done unto thee." And he went his way and published throughout.
Now notice that, how great things God hath done unto thee. He goes
his way and published throughout the whole city how great things
Jesus had done unto him. What a glorious declaration that
Jesus is our God and Savior. He is our God and Savior. What
a faithful, faithful Savior. And so this brethren, this picture
here of this awful man, which is a description of my awful
nature, how beautiful to see Christ and what He has done to
save His people to the uttermost. And while there's multitudes
rejecting the light, multitudes who may be put on a better show
that they're okay, but inside are just as unclean and defiled
as this sinner is without Christ. And so you that believe, that's
what your Lord has done for you. That's what His blood has done
in delivering you from death and giving you life, delivering
you into the family of God and the saints in light in the Lord
Jesus Christ. So he says, believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. That's his promise and
that's his authority and power that gives it to you. Amen.