Peter said, The faith which is by Christ
has given this man this perfect soundness, complete, made him
complete. That's good. I like that. Go
back with me to Acts chapter 3. I'll never forget the first time I
heard that hymn. Down in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. And it was in a little country
church building with wooden floors. And it was full that night. And they sang that hymn and I
thought the roof was coming off. And I thought I was going to
come out of my pew. I loved it so much. You remember that? And we brought it home and we
learned it together. Great hymn. Let's read verse
twenty. Act three verse twenty six again
verse twenty six. Title subject unto you first. God having raised up his son
Jesus sent him to bless you and turning away every one of you
from his iniquity. This is a message for every one
of you, every one of us, old, young, male, female, Jew, Gentile. There's a real temptation in
preaching to try to come up with something new, something unique, especially if you're just trying
to get people's attention. You want people to listen, and
so there's a temptation. And every man would admit it,
to try to come up with something unique, perhaps. But every true preacher knows what
his job is, and that job is to preach Jesus
Christ. Like Moses, who held up that
serpent of brass upon the pole. Everybody dying would look to
that that symbol that represents Christ crucified. That's the
job of the preacher, to preach Christ, to point men and women
and young people to the Lord Jesus Christ. He's like that
pole. He's only good for lifting up exalting Christ. And I know
what the power of God is. I've experienced it myself. I
do experience it, and I've seen it. What the power of God is
that he uses to open blind eyes and deaf ears, it's simply or
singularly the gospel of Christ. Christ, Paul wrote, is the wisdom
of God and the power of God. He said the gospel is the power
of God and the salvation to everyone. So this is a message. for everyone,
everyone that believe every one of you. Do you remember a few
Sundays ago? We looked at Chapter 2 of Acts
as Peter preached, Simon Peter preached at Pentecost. Well,
this message sounds just like that, doesn't it? That's because
it is. It is the same message. It is
the message. And here Peter is preaching sometime
later, and he's preaching the very same message to a different
crowd. You see, we don't have a different
message for different people. We have one message. It's the
same message, the message of Christ crucified, buried, risen,
ascended, exalted, seated, reigning, ruling, controlling, seated,
satisfied, successful, sovereign Lord and Savior, returning. That's the message. And that's
the power of God unto everyone who believes it. Message for
everyone. This is the message for everyone. Jew, Gentile, male, female, old
and young. In our story here, Peter and
John, two faithful, called, chosen, sent apostles, that is, messengers
of Christ, they had come to the temple to worship. They had just
come themselves to worship, to our prayer. They came to pray
and to worship with God's people, and there was a certain lame
man there, whom Christ healed. Christ healed him, and he healed
him through Peter merely invoking the name, the power, the person,
declaring. This man began to walk because
Peter declared Christ. What a miracle just through the
name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Well, it says in verse 11 that
all the people ran together. All the people. This attracted
a lot of attention. And they ran together, that is,
thousands. You know, after Peter preached,
five thousand. Five thousand men. not including
women, young people, believe. Isn't that amazing? From what? Preaching Christ. Well, all these
thousands of people heard of this miracle, this sign, these
signs and wonders, and they came running to see the miracle as
they would today, as they do today. See, Peter and John did
not plan this ahead of time. They did not announce a miracle
service. This just happened. They came to worship. That's
what true worshipers do. And they came, and God did this
in order for Peter to stand up and preach. And like Pentecost,
after Peter preached Nobody's talking about that lame man leaping. The miracle and the wonder. They're
all talking about what a miracle and a wonder that God Almighty
had mercy and grace upon them for rejecting the Christ. That
God Almighty caused them to walk by that path. And today, if we were to announce
a miracle service, they would come by the thousands, wouldn't
they? And you know, let me say this. Scriptures are clear about
this. There are signs and wonders that
these false preachers do perform. Yes, they are. But Scriptures
calls them lying wonders. Scriptures says they are sent
by God and they are strong delusions sent to those who will not receive
the truth, who believe not the truth. That is, the gospel of God's
sovereign mercy and grace in Christ alone. They don't receive
that, and so God sends them strong delusions to believe a lie and follow these evil men's seducers.
So some of these things are not all bogus. Some things really
happen. That's how he explained that.
But that doesn't mean those men and women are sent by God. Well,
Peter now, Peter and John, the Lord through them performed a
great miracle and wonder, how do we know that Peter and John
were true? Look at verse 12. Verses 12 and
13. Peter saw all the people running
to see this. and marveling and wondering at
the power these men seem to have. And he said, Men of Israel, don't
marvel at them. Why are you marveling? Why are
you looking at us? Don't stare at us and gaze at
us and be in awe of us. Don't do that. As though by our
own power or holiness we made this man to walk. No, God, the
God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Jehovah. The God of our Father,
He hath glorified, He hath exalted one, His Son, Jesus Christ. Don't look it up. Paul one time,
you remember the natives, was it Melita, the island where they
said the gods are among us? And they began to sacrifice,
what was that? Maybe it was Ephesus. I forget. But they began, they
were going to make sacrifices to Paul, and Paul ripped his
clothes off. Don't do this. How do you know
Peter and John were true men? Peter and John were true men
because they take no honor, no glory or credit for anything. And they did not come in their
own name. You never hear them mentioning
their name here. They did not come in their own
name. They mentioned one name. One name, as Paul said, there's
one name under heaven given among men whereby we must be set. There
was one name they were interested in men remembering, knowing,
and exalting, Jesus Christ. How do we know they were true?
Because they quickly preached Christ. They quickly pointed
men and women away from the Seth and pointed them to the Lord
Jesus Christ. That's how you know God sent them. That's how you know that they
were true. And so Peter says, verse 13, God hath glorified
his Son God hath exalted, honored, set
forth whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation, whom God
hath set forth to be Lord, whom God hath made Lord, the King,
the one and only. I wish we could deal with Christ
as prophet. Oh my, prophet, priest, and king. There's only one who bore all
three of those titles. Christ is that prophet. Christ
is that high priest. You know, right now, there's
only one high priest. There's only one person who can
absolve us of all our sins. One. And that's Jesus Christ. Prophet, Priest, the Great Hype,
the Potentate, Prophet, Priest and King, Lord
of Lords and King of Kings, the Messiah, the Redeemer, One Redeemer. There is no co-redemptress. One
Redeemer, who by his own blood, Mary didn't shed any blood. Whoever shed blood is the one
who redeemed the church. Who's that? One. His Son, God's Son. He said over
in Hebrews, he said, let the angel bow down to him. Let everything
bow down to him. Verse 13, he said, God hath glorified
his Son, whom you delivered up and desired in the presence of
Pilate, whom you denied in the presence of Pilate. And verse
14, you denied, Peter says, the Holy One and the just. You denied the Holy One. Do you
know there's really only one Holy One? You know that? Anyone who thinks
of themselves as being holy in themselves, or calls other men,
sinful men, your holiness is denying the Holy One. That's right. See, he must have
the preeminent. He's the only holy one. And you
know, men and women by the thousands, and I know they're ignorant,
and I blame their ruler. But men and women by the thousands
do that today. They think of men as holy. There's only a holy one, and
that's to deny him. And they deny, he said, you have
denied the just. The just. Capital J, you see
that? The just want. Listen to Ecclesiastes
chapter 7, verse 20. There is not a just man upon
the earth that doeth good and sinneth not. The rich young ruler came to
Christ one day and said, good master, and the Lord said, hold
it. Why callest thou me good? There's none good but one, and
that's God. So if you're going to call me
good, I must be God. If you're going to call me Holy
Father, I must be God. Right? Don't call any other man
that. That's what he is. He's the just one. There's not a just man on the
earth that doeth good and sinneth not. And since then, when that
was written, since then there's only been one. Just one. Jesus Christ, the just one, the
right reverend, holy father, Jesus Christ. Arise, ye saints,
salute your king. Bow to, kiss the feet of, ask
for absolution of your sins from one person, Jesus Christ. To do otherwise is to deny him.
The only one holy one and just one. I'll never forget hearing
my pastor make this comment. It's so wise, so astute. He said, most persons mistake
God's restraining grace for their own personal holiness or goodness. See, Scripture says, by nature,
there's not a just man on the earth that doeth good and says
nothing. And there's only been one ever,
the Holy Son of God, the Just One. He said in verse 14, you
denied the Holy One, the Just One, desired a murderer to be
granted unto you, killed the Prince of Life, whom God hath
raised from the dead. Desire to murder, that's Barabbas,
isn't it? And you know it's no different
today when men, you see, men and women didn't like the claims
of the Lord Jesus Christ, the sovereign claim. Why did they
kill Christ? It wasn't for a good work. It
wasn't for feeding them, doing things for them. It wasn't the
gentle Jesus meek and mild that fed the multitudes and healed
the sick. That wasn't it. But they said,
You're just a man and you make yourself God. And we don't bow
to a man. We will not have this man reign
over us. We have our free will. You're
not God. You're just a man. We're as God's. We will do as we will. Christ
didn't know all authority is given unto me in heaven and earth. No man cometh unto the Father,
but by me. I am the way, the truth, the
life. As the Father hath life in himself,
to give it to whomsoever, even so hath the Son life, to quicken
whom He will. The Father hath committed all
judgment unto the Son. I am the judge. I have the keys
of hell and death at my side. I am that I am." That's what
Jesus Christ said then, and they said, We will not have this. We'd rather have that murderer. Give us Barabbas. Give us a thief
and a murderer. Don't give us this one who's
told us the truth. Give us a liar, a thief, and
a murderer. And isn't that exactly what men
and women do today when they listen to these thieves and murderers
of souls and liars on God and reject the plain truth of God? Isn't it? So everybody's guilty
of the same thing. Had we all been there, see all
we, like she, have done this, we did despise and reject him.
Had we all been there that day, we would have said, kill him.
That's right. And we did it in effect. All
the years we lived without giving him a thought, without caring
that he came, who he was, why he came, what he did, didn't
care. It's the same thing. But he said, Peter preaches now,
he said, He killed the prince of life whom God hath raised
up. You rejected whom only one God
accepted. You denied the only one God bore
witness of. You disapproved of the only one
God said, I approve. You were not pleased with the
only one God said, I'm well pleased. You called him a sinner, the
only one who wasn't. Isn't man a confused being? Isn't man altogether sinful? No soundness in him, is there? No sound judgment, no sound,
no bad heart, bad mind, no sound. Killed life because man loves
darkness and death and sin rather than life and holiness. But,
now Peter said, his name His name, verse 16, through faith
in his name, hath made this man strong." Whose faith in his name? Peter and John. Not that man. The man didn't
even know who Jesus Christ was, he said. Peter and John. We believe Christ would go into
all the world and preach the gospel. Is that it? That's it. The Lord said to Ezekiel, preach
to the bones. Preach. I believe, I believe this is
the power of God. That's it. Do it. And through
faith in his name, God given that is, hath made this man strong,
healed this man, whom you see and know. You know this man.
Yea, the faith which is by Christ. Peter's not saying this man's
faith hath made him strong. No, he doesn't have any. He does
now. But he didn't have anything.
It wasn't that man's faith that made him strong. It was Jesus Christ's gift, Jesus
Christ's power, Jesus Christ's glory, and Jesus Christ's work
that raised him up. It had given him perfect soundness.
This man who was broken and crippled, and you know he was, without
strength, without hope, without help, without God on the outside
looking in, you know that. Now look at him.
He didn't do it, and neither did we. That's what Peter is
saying. Here's a man, he says, you know
this man, you know this man. You've seen him before. He was
lame at birth, like old Bartimaeus, remember? Now it wasn't Bartimaeus,
it was the other, one of the other blind men that the Lord
healed. And they said, that looks like
him. I believe it's him. It is him.
You've seen him. He was lame at birth. He was
powerless. And they left him every day.
You saw him sitting here every day, sitting at the gate of the
temple. He couldn't walk, you knew that, he could not walk,
you've known this man, he would not go in, he would not, he didn't
want to go inside, he just wanted money. You know this man, look
at him now. One day someone came by, yes
a man, and all this man did is preach Christ. And then Jesus Christ, through
the declaration of himself, Jesus Christ made this man stand up,
gave him strength to stand. and to walk, yea, even leap,
and above all, praise God, he went into the temple where he
never wanted to be, where he could not come and would not
come. Now he's right inside, he's in
the temple, praising God. Now who, we didn't do this, he
didn't do this, Jesus Christ didn't. And is it not so with
you? Every one of you, every one of
you who now believe Christ, who are complete in him. You see,
he's the one who's given us this perfect soundness. Oh, yeah. And then he went on
to say in verse 18, he said, but those things which God before
had showed by the mouth of all his prophets that Christ should
suffer have been fulfilled. To him, give all the prophets
witness, the whole Bible that you read. Peter is saying. The Old Testament, the law even
that you take pride in or think you keep, you know what it's
all about. You know what it's all about
now, don't you, John? John Micah, you know what it's
all about now. Rather who? Now you know. All these things about Christ. They bear witness
of Christ. He's fulfilled it all. He taketh
away the first to establish the second. It's all been fulfilled. Christ, because Christ is all
and in all. And so he said, now Peter concludes
his message as he did at Pentecost. Repent ye therefore and be converted. Repent and be converted that
your sins may be blotted out. When the Lord comes and makes
all things new, you'll be found of him holy, unblameable, and
unreprovable. Yes, he's able to present us
faultless before the presence of his glory. He and he alone.
He's the only one who can make us perfectly sound. And when
he comes, repent therefore. There is no salvation without
repentance. Repent. That's what Christ preached,
didn't it? Repent. I ask you, do you hear
the Word anymore? No, because you don't hear man's
sin, man's guilt. But when the Holy Spirit has
come, see, the whole same Holy Spirit is moving here as He did
at Pentecost. To do what? To convince, convict
of sin. Why? What? Sin, what? Stealing a watermelon? Rejecting
God's Son of sin, Christ said, because they believe not on me. And of righteousness and judgment,
that he's the only one righteous, and all judgment outside of him. There's judgment in him, no condemnation. That's what the Holy Spirit will
convince you of. Repent. Repent that your sins
may be blotted out. Same way he concluded Pentecost. You see, same message in it. Over in Pentecost, he said, repent
and be baptized, every one of you. He didn't say that here.
Yes, he did. In chapter 4, it says, verse
1, as they spake unto the people, he's still preaching. And I guarantee
you, he said, That is God's Word. It guarantees it. That Peter said, confess it in
baptism. The Lord said to preach that. Be baptized. What is repentance? He says repent. Well, the word
simply means to think differently. That's what the word, I looked
it up, and it means to think differently, a change of mind. Right, Brother Ed? That's what
it means, repent. Be converted means to turn. Turn from a way you're headed.
To turn and head the other way. To repent. Now repentance is
toward God. This is what Paul said. We preach
day and night repentance toward God and faith toward the Lord
Jesus Christ. Repentance toward God. Here's
repentance. Where does repentance come from? It's the goodness of God that
leads us to repent. It's the grace of God. If anyone
repents, God graciously granted them repentance, the gift of
repentance. And it's the goodness of God,
seeing His mercy, His love, His grace, His kindness to us through
Jesus Christ that breaks our hard heart and causes us to repent. Why not? But God gives repentance. And here's repentance. Here it
is. It's to think differently. Here's
what we used to say. I thought God was like, and God
comes through the preaching of his word. And then you say, and
God says, think again. It's different isn't it? Psalm
50, doesn't it, Mancy? He says, Thou thoughtest I was
altogether such a one as thyself, but I'll set things in order
before your eyes. See, this is repentance. I thought. Now I think differently. I thought
God was this way. God was like me. Now I know he's
not like me at all. He's not like a man at all. I
thought, here's repentance, we say, I thought, we used to say,
I thought Jesus was in my hands and outside my heart's door and
waiting for me to let him. Now I know it's different. Now
I think the opposite. I used to think it was up to
me to accept him. Now I know that he must accept
me, that I must be accepted in him, by him. God can be the only
one that can grant repentance in me. That's the 180 degrees
in it. I thought I had free will. God says, think again. It is he that worketh all things
unto the counsel of his will. See, repentance is, I think,
different. And it goes much deeper, doesn't
it? Repentance. Someone once said years ago,
you've never really repented. Here's repentance. You've never
really repented until you've repented of three things. Number
one, sin. When David in Psalm 51 repented,
he said, My sin is ever before me. What he's saying is what
I am. Not just what he'd done, but
what he was to make him do what he did. Here's repentance of
sin. Oh, wretched man that I am. In my flesh filleth no good thing. I am sin itself. Oh, aren't you
thankful God has made him to be sin for us? That's repentance. Repentance
is repentance over sins, the things we have done. Oh, my. And he said, this old writer
said, we've never really repented until we've repented of our self-righteousness. thinking too highly of self.
That's what self-righteousness is. And we still have a lot of
it. No, we still have a lot of sin, sins, and self-righteousness. So this repentance is not a one-time
thing years ago. It's an ongoing. It's a state
of mind and heart. It's a lifetime of loathing yourself. and faith for the Lord Jesus
Christ. Yes, do you know that through
faith in this man's name, you are absolved of all things from
which you cannot be justified by the law of Moses? Do you know
that? Just faith. Yes, that's right.
No other way. You need nothing else. Just repent. And be converted, he said. Be
converted. That means turn. Be converted. Over in 1 Thessalonians, which
we've preached that from many times, you know, and recently
on the radio, our pastor preached from that, speaking of the elect
of God. How are they known? Well, he
says, when our gospel came. What gospel? What you've been
hearing this morning. The gospel. The one and only
gospel came. In what? Not word only, but power. Life-giving power. The Holy Ghost.
Yeah, convicting power. Repentance-granting power. And
he went on to say, "...and you turned from your idols." Converted. You turned from your
idols. to serve the living and true
God. You used to go with the masses, the broad road that leads
to destruction, the way you thought was right, where there's blasphemy,
there's false religions, another Jesus, another gospel, didn't
you? Giving men glory and so forth and so on. But why did
you turn? Why did you turn? What did David
write? Turn us, O Lord, and we'll be
turned. like God turns the ocean. If
God can and must turn that powerful ocean, don't you think He can
and must turn a man's heart? Like the rivers of water. Yeah, even the king's heart is
in the hands of the Lord Jesus Christ. Like the rivers of water,
He Turn to him. Paul, Saul of Tarsus. I hate this way. I hate this
Jesus. I can't wait to get to that chapter.
Chapter 9. He said, I hate this way. I will
not believe this way. But God, Christ, that's who it
was, came and said, put him in the dust. You will not do what? What do you think of me now?
Who are you? I'm Jesus. Oh, man. Lord! Turn us. This is why we preach
salvations of the Lord. Do you have some people you know,
some family, some friends that you've tried, you've spoken to
them until you're blue in the face? Religious, irreligious,
you prayed for them, you cannot convince them. With man it's
impossible, but here's your hope. Janette, here's your hope. The
proudest Pharisee, like Saul, with God, if it's God's will,
if they're one of God's elect, all things are possible. He will
bring them to his feet. He's able to subdue all things
unto himself. That's a good hope, isn't it?
As long as there's breath, as long as the gospel's being preached,
as long as arrows are flying, they're going to hit somebody.
They're going to hit somebody. But don't give up hope. See,
we don't know when the seed was sown. Huh? I'm quite sure many gave up on
me, you know. I left, I grew up hearing the
gospel. I guarantee you most of them,
he's gone. He's gone. Yeah. Like old Onesimus for a while,
that he might be received. Oh my. Well, he turned us, he
turned you, every one of you. I got to go on down and quit
here. He says in verse 26, unto you first, God. Now, maybe these were at this
time here in Jerusalem. This was at the temple. It was
predominantly Jews, wasn't it? Mostly Jews. At this time, at
Pentecost, Tammy, there were people from all over the world.
But here, it's over, Pentecost. Now at this temple, this day,
there were mostly Jews. Well, this is fulfillment. That
prophet said, Jesus Christ said, go in all the world and preach
the gospel beginning first. Start at Jerusalem. Oh, but they're the ones that
killed you. I know it. But when I was hanging on that
cross, I forgave thousands of them. And they're out there. Go preach the gospel. Watch them
come. Jews first. See, this is the
gospel is the power of God unto salvation, to everyone to believe
it, to the Jew first, and also the Gentile. Also the Gentile. And here's
what God has done is the salvation. This is God's gospel. This is
for God's glory. Salvation is of the Lord. And
he has, verse 26, sent his son to live for you, his people. to die for you, your substitute,
to be raised for you, quickened together with him, to be seated
for you, seated with him in glory, that someday you'll reign with
him, kings and priests with him, small k, small p, with him in
glory. God has done this. This is all
of the Lord. Jehovah, God. He's the one that
sent His Son, raised Him up, sent Him to bless you. You see,
God thanks be unto God who has blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly things which are in Christ Jesus. according
as he hath chosen us in Christ for the foundation of the world,
that we should be holy and without blame, perfect soundness, before
him in love, having predestinated us unto the adoption of children,
oh, as to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath
made us accepted in the Father." Isn't that wonderful? God's done
this. So God gets all the glory, and
He says it's to you, every one of you. Put away your sins, and that
God did all of this. Every one of you that believes,
every one of you that received the love of the truth, that are
born of God, every one of you who repent, he's given repentance
to. Every one of you have been turned
from idols to serve the true and living God. Every one of
you. Here's good news. Your sins and your iniquities The iniquity of Israel shall
be sought and not be found. Why? It's on the head of the
scapegoat. And nobody's been looking for
him for years. He's gone. Never to return. And so, and I told you down in
Chapter 4, he kept preaching, and I know that he told them
to be baptized. And see, the message hasn't changed,
has it? And you haven't tired of it,
either. And the half hasn't been told. No one has ever exhausted
the gospel cry. Oh my, the half has not yet been
told. Someday, I can't wait until Jesus
Christ preaches his gospel. Then we'll say, it's been told
now. Same message show, and the same
result, and people believe that the Lord
did a miracle. Why? How? Through preaching this
gospel. That's it. This morning, Brother
John Mico comes, and I've been looking forward to say brother. Haven't you? Brother John Mico,
a Connecticut Yankee. And I'm glad that he's coming
to be baptized according to the—this is the way we do it—according
to the divine command, that is, from God, of Christ our Lord. We baptize. He's coming to be
baptized before us all to do what the Lord said for everyone
to do—confess the Lord Jesus Christ. That there's one Lord. You now know, don't you, Brother
John? One Lord. One faith. There's one faith.
One baptism. Right? It's for believers. Brother John and I were talking.
We were talking about him being baptized and he said, and I'm
not going to talk like he does, but I bet he mocks my old hick
accent. But he said, you know, I didn't,
I used to, he said, I was, I was christened. Weren't you as a
baby? That's not baptism. That's not
in the scriptures. Men have made that up. It's not.
Our Lord said, he that believeth in his baptize. He that believeth. Babies. This is for believers. Now they can be young, young
children. Yes, they can. But he didn't
tell us to baptize babies, but believers. Believers, those who
hear the gospel and believe. And what they do when they're
baptized is they... This is what baptism is, just
a picture of it. That when Christ was crucified,
bearing my sin, that was me hanging there. God Almighty was pouring
out his judgment on me. Christ was crucified. I was crucified
with Christ. But then he was buried, he was
put in a tomb. He didn't have dirt sprinkled on him. Right? Not sprinkling. But he was under
the ground. In baptism, we go down under
the water as a picture of this burial with the Lord Jesus Christ.
And everyone that does it says, I am dead. I'm dead. I've been sentenced,
judged, and it's been carried out. I've been crucified, and
now I've been buried. That old man is buried. Nevertheless,
John, I live. We're going to bring John up
out of the water. Yes, we will. As a picture that we now are
quickened together with him, we rise to walk in new and sublime. Now, this water is just water. It's old Franklin County. You
ought to see it. It looks like the River Jordan.
It's brown, isn't it, Vicki? We filled it up, and I put everything
I know to put in it and can't turn it clear. I can't make it
clear. I thought, that's fitting, you
know, that we get down in the water. It looks like the Jordan.
That's very fitting. I'll go name them, you know. And we're going to go down in
that water and it's not going to change John one bit. It's just proof that God has already done a change. You see, it's not going to wash
away one sin. It's just the confession of a
man who believes his hands have been washed away, not by water,
but by blood. The blood of Jesus Christ. Is
that what you believe? That's who and what? There is
no one. Do you believe that? John used
to tell his daughter, Catherine, who preceded him in this. She used to tell him, you know,
you remember when he started coming here and visiting here
and he's like the rest of us. Every one of us, when we started
coming, we thought, I don't know. He used to tell her, you live
what, 40 minutes from here, 30 minutes, Catherine? And you pass
a lot of places, don't you, to come here? And John used to tell
her, why do you drive all this way? Then you John, he said, here's
a church and there's a jerk. We all thought that it's all
the same. No, it is not. Yes, most places are the same. And we're not saying that this
is only church preaching the truth, that there are many others,
but I don't know any in this particular area. Maybe, I hope, I hope there is.
But John used to say, why do you go all this way? Here's a
church, here's a church. And one day he told her, finally
he said, now I know why. Now I know. And he told me, he
said, I was baptized, christened when I was a child. He said,
I don't know why. And at first I didn't understand. He said, I didn't have a clue.
He said, in his very words, I didn't have a clue. He said, I didn't
know what it was all about. He said, now I know what it's all about. It's all about Christ. That's
right, John. That's right, it can't be said
better. It's all about Christ, because
Christ is all that.