Thank you, Sherry. Back to Galatians chapter 1 now
with me. Galatians 1. Let's read verse 7 and verse
11. Galatians 1. Scripture reads
concerning the gospel We need to read verse 6 with that. Verse
6 and 7 and verse 11, it reads, I marvel that you are so soon
removed from him, or God, that called you into the grace of
Christ unto another gospel, which is not another. Let there be
some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ. He says, but I certify you, brethren,
that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. Looking at these verses again, which speak of a perverted gospel,
and the certified, Gospel made me think back to a message by
my pastor many years ago, a message blessed to those that heard it
then. I'm not sure if I was there,
I don't know, but I heard it later and greatly blessed me,
entitled Recovering the Gospel. I even endeavored to preach it
myself, pretty much the way it was several years ago. And in that message, he outlined
the difference between the modern perverted gospel, or so-called
gospel, and the truth, the differences, which is what we're going to
be doing this morning from Scripture. Now, the first thing that we
read here is of Paul's calling, Paul's supernatural calling of
God. And that's vital, people. It's
vital to believe that the Apostle Paul was and is God's Apostle. And that this letter that he
wrote is not the words of a man, but as it is in truth, the Word
of God. That's vital that we know that,
that we believe that, that Paul was not just an ordinary man. Honestly, it's vital that we
know that. Very few today believe that this
is indeed God's Word. Most think it's Paul's words
and it's up for debate. So the first thing he does in
verse 1 says, Paul, an apostle, not of men. No man made me an
apostle, he said, neither by man. That is, I don't work for
men. Not of men. Neither by man, they
didn't hire me and that's not who I work for, he said. That's
not who I'm trying to please, he went on to say. Read on. But
by Jesus Christ, an apostle made so by Jesus Christ and God the
Father who raised him from the dead. No prophet in the Old Testament
ever applied for the job. Ever. Every prophet in the Old
Testament was called supernaturally by God. Every apostle was called
supernaturally by God and gifted, God gifted, supernaturally by
God. Our Lord even said, whatever
you bind on earth and so forth. Remember that? These men, the prophets and the
apostles, heard directly from God. God spoke to them personally. That's right. That's right. That's one concern in the apostles. That's one of the requirements
or credentials of a true apostle is they had to receive their
message, the gospel, the word from Christ himself in person,
not second person, but from him himself. Say, when did Paul have
that? Well, He saw the Lord on the
road to Damascus, didn't he? And we just read here where it
says he didn't go to Jerusalem and start conferring with the
rest of the apostles. He went to Arabia. And that's
where the Lord Jesus Christ taught him the gospel. Three years. Isn't that a coincidence? Same
time that the rest of them spent with the Lord. Three years. That's one of the requirements
of an apostle, a prophet, a direct revelation. You and I are different. You and I are different. I include
myself here. You and I are different. We receive
God's word through men. And I'll show you, you know these
verses, but one in particular, 1 Thessalonians 2. 1 Thessalonians
2. I dare not presume that everybody
knows these verses though. I want you to look at 1 Thessalonians
2. You know the passages like in Romans 10 where it says, How
shall they call on him whom they have not heard? And how shall
they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach? How
shall they hear without a preacher? You know that. Romans 10, 13,
14, 15. How shall they preach? True preachers are sent by God.
They don't apply it to the job either. But it's not the same.
These men aren't infallible. Their words are not the words
of God. No, no, no, no, no. Some think they are, but they're
not. God never saved anybody through
a man's preaching. Not modern. He saved men through
Peter's preaching. Didn't he? That's because it
was the Word of God, and God wrote it down. What he preached,
he wrote it down. My message is, you know, I've
got them all in notebooks, but I will burn them. They're really
not going to do anybody any good. They're not. It's here and now. It's here
and now. That's a fact. Now here in 1
Thessalonians 2, verse 13, for this cause, Paul said to the
Thessalonians, we thank God without ceasing because when you receive
the word of God which you heard of us, You heard it from us,
he said, you received it not as the word of men, but as it
is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also
in you that believe. See, they had to hear it through
the apostle, but that's alone. They had to hear it through a
man. God wasn't speaking to them, but he did speak to the prophets
and apostles. OK, you know that, don't you?
See, is this important that we know this? Sure it is. Because
every liar, every man or woman that stands up today and tells
you that God said something to them, they're a liar. That God
sent them and they have a new revelation, they're a liar. God didn't send them. Read Jeremiah
23 for yourself and many other places. He said, Paul, an apostle, and
all the brethren which are with me, he had many traveling companions,
Silas and Timothy and others, unto the churches of Galatia.
Now who is he writing to? Who is this word to? This is
the word of God through Paul, but it's the word of God. Who
is it to? Who does that say this to? The
churches. All right? That's to the churches.
The Revelation says, Let him that heareth hear what the Spirit
saith to the churches. I can't labor this enough. Especially
today. You understand the importance
of that? You do. Because men and women, even, all over the
land today are taking God's Word and throwing it out there wholesale
and saying it's to everybody. It's not! You write letters to
people and you sign it who you wrote it to, don't you? Who's
it to? Who you owe it to. I'm not mad
at you. I'm just emphasizing, OK? You
ever been just dead certain about something? How could you say
it without... Listen, I am mad at these people. I don't... I'll
never cease to be mad at these fellas. They're butchering souls. At any rate, God's word is written
to the churches. You see that? The churches. You
know that. Blessed are your eyes. They see that. Your ears, they
know that. They hear that. Your heart, you
know that. It's to the churches. Believers. And you know, in the
church are goats and sheep. I mean, those that look like
it. God knows who it's to and who it applies to. Like the Sermon
on the Mount. You know, there are many people.
All right. To the churches, he says, to the churches, to believer,
grace be unto you and peace from God our Father to the children
of God, the people of God, the elect of God, the redeemed of
God, grace, peace from God, God your Father. God loves you. Smile, believer, saint, child
of God, those in Christ by faith, smile. God loves you. God is your Father. I can say
that with more conviction than these fools out there. I can
say it to the people of God and say it with a smile, God loves
you. And boy, the love I'm talking
about, Deborah, of God for His people, it's itchy. And I'm getting way ahead of
myself. to the church grace and peace from God our Father. Grace? What grace? He begins that with,
this is the true grace wherein we stand. This is the saving
grace of God. This is the gospel of God's grace,
or the grace of God that's in Christ. Grace which means a work
applied. Grace which means a gift bestowed. Grace which means a righteousness
given. Grace which means a pardon eternal
and full and effectual. Grace which means a new nature,
a new creature given. Grace that's given, an application
of something, not an offer, an application, not something up
for acceptance, a work of God upon the heart and in the belief. In me. Paul says, in me. Not
to me, but in me. Grace and peace. This sums up
the gospel, doesn't it? Grace. Salvation is by grace.
Not of works that any man should boast, but it's grace, it's a
gift. 100% a gift of God. Sovereign
gift. He gives it to whom He wills. It's His prerogative.
Nobody deserves it. He gives it to whom He wills.
Grace. Aren't you glad? Salvation is
about grace. Not only is it sovereign, it
means it's eternal. The gifts and calling of God
without repentance. He doesn't take them back. Once in grace, Always in grace. God's grace. Christ's grace. Salvation 100%. The gift of God. Boy, those that know it and experience
it and love it, well, say amen to that. And the world spits
nails, but hmm. Grace, grace. What a charming
sound the Scripture says. him, said, harmonious to the
ear. I can't wait for old Zerubbabel to lay that topstone, can't you?
What's he going to shout? What's he going to shout? And
what's everybody going to shout? Grace unto it. When this whole thing, when this
temple is done, he lays that topstone. Now, you know who the
topstone is, don't you? You know who the bottomstone
is, don't you? That means everybody, every brick
and every stone in this building is on the stone and under the
stone. Crowned with a stone and standing on the stone on a rock.
As irrevocable as Christ Himself, the Builder of the temple. Set
the Lord to build the house, labor and vain to build it. Grace
unto it. Grace unto it. I'm not waiting
until then. I'm singing it now. Peace. Peace declared by God. Peace.
God's not angry with you, believer. God is not angry with you. The
wrath of God abides upon those outside of Christ. Not the love.
The wrath of God abides upon the ungodly. He that believeth
not, the wrath of God abides upon them. But not God's people. There is no wrath upon them.
There never has been and never will be. Smile. God loves you. Peace declared by God. and made
or purchased by Christ, by His blood. Verse 4, "...gave Himself for
our sins." Who? Christ. "...gave Himself for
our sins to deliver us." That He might deliver us. Strong deliverer. We just sang it. Strong deliverer. Christ gave Himself to deliver
us. Who did Christ die for? Who did
He come to deliver? His people, His church, didn't
He? Huh? Christ is the Deliverer. That's what His name is. That's
what He did. He delivered us. I love that passage over in 2
Corinthians. It says, We trust the living
God who hath delivered us from so great a death who doth deliver
us and will yet deliver us. I believe I've been delivered
when God said so before the world began. I believe I am being delivered
right now by this God. I'm like Brother James, you know,
when I hear the gospel, I just get saved again. Fine, wonderful. You know, I need to hear it.
Today is the day of salvation, isn't it? And I'm going to lay
hold on it. I am going to lay hold on it
today. Today. And I trust and I hope
and I pray and I believe that I will yet be delivered when
that roll is called up yonder. And by His grace, through the
mercy of God in Christ Jesus, I'll be there. Is that presumption? Am I talking back about myself?
Did I say anything I'd done? No. Grace. See, I trust the grace of Christ. We're talking about the gospel
here, folks. And that means good news. And I just want to see
you smiling through it. Good news. Boy, it says deliverer. Christ who has delivered us from
going down to the pit. Isn't that what the scripture
said? Deliver them from going down to the pit. Why? Found a
ransom. Brother Ed Hale sang about that.
Found a ransom. Ransom was found. Price was paid. Who gave himself? What's the
price? Not of what, it's of who. Who
gave himself for us? Right there is substitution.
If you seek them, if you seek me, he said, let them go. And maybe you didn't hear that.
When Christ, they were coming to kill him. And they'd have
been killed too. Every one of the disciples had
been slain. But Christ went before them and
stood in the gap. Stood before them. The captain
of their salvation said, if you seek me, you must let them go. If the law is seeking me, and
Christ answered to it, it must let me go. If Satan seeks me and he seeks
whom he may devour, And Christ stands in front of him and says,
you seek me, let him go. If my sin, which is ever before
me and in me, if Christ has made sin for me, sin must not have
dominion over me. Well, ain't that good news? What's
it all about? So who? Him. Him. Can you tell the difference
here? I'm preaching a person. To whom,
verse 5, to whom be the glory forever and ever. What do you
say to that? Good answer. Scriptural answer. You'll be saying that throughout
eternity. Get used to saying it. It's about time. The redeemed
of the Lord need to get used to it. Men and women. I know
you ladies, many of you told me many times that you wanted
to shout out amen. Where does it say you can't do
that? It doesn't. I say go ahead. I say, go ahead, you remember
my daughter, you know, if we won't sing it, somebody should.
Do you hear that, honey? Say amen. Well, I'm going to. Huh? They're not permitted to
teach and you assert authority over them. It doesn't say you
can't say amen. I believe that, brother. Amen. To whom be glory. That's
what we're going to say. The Amen. Let the Amen sound
from His people again. Amen. Amen means so be it. That means that's the way it
is. That means that's the way I like it. That's the way I want
it. But that's just the way it is. Yes. It means yes. Yay. Amen. To Him. To Him. It's all Him. It's all
Him. Deliverer. Deliver us from this present
evil world. You see what God says about the
world. Far from loving the world, He
causes an evil place, doesn't He? Huh? According to this perverted
thing, you know, that God just loves everybody so much, and
oh, He just wants to save the world. No, He doesn't. No, He
doesn't. He causes an evil world. God doesn't say anything good
about mankind. Nothing. He says that thoughts
of his imagination are only evil continually from his youth up.
Looked down upon the sons of men and said, they're all together
stinking. Psalm 14, look it up for yourself.
But God. Well, he says to the church at
Galatia, I marvel, verse 6 and 7, I marvel, I am amazed, he
said, that you are so soon removed from him that called you into
the grace of Christ unto another gospel, which is not another.
That there would be some that trouble you and would pervert
the gospel of Christ. You see what he says? He said,
this gospel that they're calling gospel is not the gospel at all.
It's a perversion. It's a perverted gospel. It's
not the gospel. They call it that, but it's not
the gospel. Paul called it the gospel of
Christ, there in verse 7, didn't he? In Romans 1, he called it
God's gospel, didn't he? And Paul said, it's my gospel.
Our gospel, didn't he? He said, it's your gospel. It's
the gospel you received. The one that gave you life. The
one that gave you eyes to see and ears to hear. The one you
received by his grace. The gospel. There's perversion
out there. You know it so, don't you? Not
all you hear today. These Galatians, very quickly,
these Galatians were being manipulated by self-righteous, self-seeking
evil men. And they're hard to tell, smooth
tongue and fair speeches, you know, to see the hearts of the
simple, and that's what these fellows did. And they looked
good and sounded good, and people thought they were good, and there's
enough truth to fool them. But they were trying to bring
back these Galatians under bondage to the Old Testament. law. That's chiefly what they were
doing. Trying to bring them back under bondage to the Old Testament
law. And that's not unlike the Amish today. You're hearing a
lot about them today. And I do feel sorry for those
parents. I really do. Let's not be calloused
at all. I do feel sorry. But that religion is evil. German Baptist religion is evil. reformed religion, for the most
part. And if this goes out on this
website, I'm going to finally get some letters. One way or
another, this so-called reformed religion today is evil. God's word here calls the gospel
the grace of Christ, period. Not the grace of Christ and. Does it? He calls it the gospel
of the grace of Christ. The grace of Christ, verse 6.
The grace of Christ. The gift of Christ. He is the
gift. From him, in him, to him, of
him, for him, through him, him. The grace of Christ. What's salvation
all about? Him. Christ. Tell me the meaning of
salvation. Christ. Well, how does one say
it? Christ. Just ask a question and
I'll answer it. One word. Christ. Christ and
grace are synonymous. How is a man accepted with God? How are we going to live with
Christ? Will God hear us? Christ. Anything else, anything in addition
to that is a perverted gospel. Folks, it's so subtle, it's so
subtle, knowledge of doctrine. By his knowledge shall my righteous
servant justify many. By his knowledge shall my righteous
servant justify many. By his knowledge shall my righteous
servant justify many. There may come a day when I get
Alzheimer's and I won't even be able to pronounce the word
righteousness. But I've got one. And his name
is Jesus Christ, the righteous. Well, I'd hate to stand before
God and try to articulate the gospel and drop out every sentence
and cross every T, wouldn't you? Said it wrong! Out! According to some men. I'm going to stand before God
someday, and He's going to say something to me, and I'm not
going to say a word. He's going to stand in front
of me and say, I'll answer everything for this man. Everything. Ask me. If he broke laws he doesn't
know he broke. I didn't break a one of them. What's your hope? Let me rephrase
that. Who is your hope? Is your hope
what you know? Or who? Is it enough for an old
simple sinner to say, Christ is all? Will that grant entrance into
glory? Huh? That's all I'm hoping for. That's
all my hope. All my hope. We'll find out won't we? We will
find out. Though I understand all doctrine,
I have no knowledge and so forth." 1 Corinthians 13. Well, he says, and that's why
I say this reformed religion today, man, man, they're making
an attainment of knowledge. It's not. That's a real subtle
form of legalism. They won't say they're bringing
you back under the Old Testament law, but they are. They are. The gospel. God's gospel. The grace of Christ is what we're
talking about. The gospel of Christ is what
we're talking about. It's a certified gospel. Now I'm going to tell
you about the certified gospel. God has certified it. Have you
ever had anything certified? Have you? Certified? I received,
you've received letters before, certified mail. That means somebody
signed it, sealed it, delivered it to you. It can't be certified unless
it's signed. It can't be certified unless the U.S. government seals
it. It can't be certified unless you receive it and it's delivered. I couldn't help but think about
that song, Signed, Sealed, Delivered. That's a good illustration, isn't
it? You like that? That's what this
gospel says. Signed by God. God made this
everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, ensured, predetermined,
predestined his people. That's what I said. God predestined
his people. Every one of them. He chose them,
he elected them, predestinated every one of them to be conformed
to the image of Jesus Christ. Put them in Jesus Christ for
salvation. The Holy Spirit comes and seals
it. You know what the Scripture says?
Sealed by the Spirit of God. This is the evidence of what's
the word I'm looking for. Anyway, sealed by the Spirit
of God, by giving you this faith, deliver. Christ some day is going
to deliver every one of them to the Father. Every one of them. Here he is, bought with a price,
signed, sealed, finally delivered. Behold I and the children which
thou hast given me, none of them is lost. Now isn't that good
news? Those that trust Christ, I mean
those that really love Christ, His glory, God's glory, those
who are really looking to Jesus Christ only, this is great news. It's not just good news, this
is great salvation. Great sounding. Certified. This
is a certified gospel. Well, here are some marks that
show us the difference between this perverted gospel. Give me
a few more minutes. I'm enjoying this. Anybody else? This is the same old thing we've
heard for years, isn't it? This is a good sign. If you still
enjoy it, If you still lay hold fast, the beginning of your confession
right now is a good sign. Good sign. If you're hearing
this like, oh, like you've never heard it before, like the first
time, that's a good sign. It's called good news. News. His mercies are new every
morning. An old sinner needs mercy every
morning. And when he hears about it, it's
good news. I remember one time, Brother
Stephen is working this morning, and I remember making a statement
that every day the slate is wiped clean. And that big old boy just
got a little blubbery. Isn't that good news? Blood it
out! All yesterday's sin is enough
to damn me. This morning, blood it out. It says the iniquity of Israel
shall be sought for. They're on a goat somewhere. Oh, man. I certify it, brethren. I certify it by the Word of God.
This is it. Well, here's some marks that
differentiate the perverted gospel from the certified. The perverted
preaching today, so-called. Thirty minutes. That's all I've
been. I've got 15 more minutes. The modern so-called gospel preaching
emphasizes entertainment and what you see, you know, miracle
signs and wonders. Come see what's going on. That's
what they say. Come see. Come see. So they build big elaborate
structures and give big choir. Come see. Come see. Come see.
Come see. The gospel needs nothing but
a preacher and a hero. Come here. Come here. Don't need a big fancy building
to hear, do you? And it's not music that saves
anybody. Nobody's ever saved by music.
Never. I love music much as an expected
person. But we're not going to spend
our time here doing that so people walk away saying, well, isn't
that a pretty song? Isn't he a pretty boy? No, no, no. Preaching, true preaching of
the word and praying, calling on God, scriptural way to worship
God. Simple. Worship, hearing of the
word, that's it. That's all we do here. Isn't
it? You're my witness, our witness.
That's all we do here. That's what God's pleased to
use. That's all he's paid to you. First Corinthians 121. The
modern perverted gospel is a mental agreement to facts, you know,
acceptance of a plan. You know, the Romans wrote, you
agree to this, you agree to that, you do believe this, this, this,
this, this, so forth. Look at verse 16. The certified
gospel is a revelation of Christ within. He said when He revealed
His Son in me. It's a huge difference, isn't
it? I knew the doctrines. from a child. I didn't know Christ. It's a revelation of new birth.
It's a new birth. It's a new heart. New heart. It's life. I mean, it's life
from the dead. And it really is. The perverted
gospel emphasizes a change of ways. He's changed his ways. The gospel gives a change of
heart. A new heart I'll give him, he says. A new master. It's
a change of masters. New ownership. You're not your
own anymore. He bought the price. Gospel so-called makes heaven
the primary goal. Heaven is there. Everybody wants
to go to heaven, so that's why there's so many Christians today.
Everybody wants to go to heaven. Want to see mama, don't you?
Well, yeah, that's what I'm hoping for more than anything else,
to see mama. Here's what a man with God's
own heart says in Psalm 73. He said, Whom have I in heaven
but thee? Talking about Christ. And there's
none on earth I desire beside thee. See, for the true believer,
this is what God does to a true believer. He makes Christ the
prize. Christ is the prize. Christ is
heaven. The people of God, you see, they're
already in heaven. I've got a taste of it anyway.
That's the reason they're so loath to leave here. This is
a foretaste of that. And if they say, like Peter,
let's just stay and build three tabernacles right here. Stay
here. Lord, let's don't leave this mountain, Mount Zion. Don't
want it. Someday we won't have to, Nancy.
Someday we won't have to. We won't have to leave. We won't
have to go out in that evil world anymore. Now, you know what I'm saying.
I'm not saying that we're better than them. No, no, no, no, no.
Started out talking about grace, didn't we? I'm going to end up
talking about it. Well, the modern perverted gospel
calls for a decision. Make your decision. The true
gospel is a call for mercy. People calling for mercy. Big
difference. The modern perverted gospel calls
on man. It's calling on man, man, man,
men, women. The gospel has men calling on
God. The modern perverted gospel calls
on man to stand up, stand up, be counted. The gospel, the true
gospel, certified gospel says be still, says bow down. The modern perverted gospel says
make your voice heard. The gospel, the certified gospel
says let your words be few. One word. Amen. One word. The gospel says, no fear, no
fear. Oh, the, I mean, the perverted
gospel says, no fear, no fear. The perverted gospel, no fear.
The certified gospel says, unite our hearts to fear thy name.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fear. The perverted
gospel. Modern perverted gospel is an
offer to man. An offer. Which, incidentally,
that word is not in the Bible. Offer to man. The certified gospel
is an offer to God. All the difference in the world. All the difference. It's an offer
Jesus Christ made to God for his people. It's not an offer
to man. He's not ours to offer. That's
what the Methodists, that's what they all say, all of them across
the board, that's what they say. The big old sign out on 460 going
to Lynchburg says, by some Baptist place, says the offer still stands.
That's blasphemy. Jesus Christ didn't make an offer
to man. He made an offer to God and God
accepted it. Whoever he made it on behalf
of, John Davis, God accepted it. It does stand. That one he made still stands.
And it will forever stand. The modern perverted gospel says
it's an offer to be accepted or rejected. The certified gospel
says this is a covenant. It's been ratified. The modern
perverted gospel makes out God to be a bystander in the affairs
of this world. Can't do anything. He's a bystander
in the affairs of this world. Boy, I'm looking forward to saying
this. The certified gospel declares
that God is God in every sense of the word. that God is absolute
control over all things down to the particles of dust in the
sunlight coming through the window. The path of those who have been
predestined by God. Yes, sir. Yes, ma'am. These certified
gospels said God purposed all things, God ordered all things,
and God predestined all things in their share. That's the God
of the Bible. That's certified. Look it up. Certified. It's a certified gospel. The
modern perverted gospel says their Jesus is a frustrated failure,
that he tried and failed, he wants to and can't, he hopes
to and you'll do it. The certified gospel, you want
to hear this? The certified gospel says he's
satisfied, he's not even discouraged, Isaiah 42 says. He's satisfied,
he's successful, and he's what? Seated! No priest in the Old
Testament ever sat down. They never finished what they
did. Nothing they ever did was effectual. One man, what did I do? One man, when he came as a priest forever,
when he did the job, Kelly, he sat down. Right there he is, seated. He's seated. We're seated with
him. Because what he did, he did for
his people. You like that? That's good news,
isn't it? And here's the results of the
difference, the results that come from these different, two
different, one perverted gospel and a certified. Perverted gospel,
the results of that is pride. The most proud people on the
face of the earth are religious people, aren't they? Huh? The
haughtiest, the loudest, the boldest. They're not bold for
God. They brag on themselves. You
know it, so you run into it. It makes you sick, doesn't it?
Huh? You hate to see them coming, don't you? Proud, self-righteous. De-certified gospel. Breaks people. Humbles people. The modern perverted
gospel gives everybody such a feeling of worth, self-worth, and value. You know, God needs me now, doesn't
He? Oh, God's so glad that I left Jesus. Oh, my. The certified
gospel. The true gospel gives every one
of his people a complete, utter sense of their own worthlessness
and of his utter and complete, infinite worth and value. Everybody in heaven is declaring
and singing this one song, worthy is the Lamb. Heaven is filled
full of unworthy people who shout one thing, worthy is the Lamb. The perverted, modern gospel
makes up much of God's patronizing, proud religion. Here I am, like
the Pharisee in the temple. Aren't you glad to see me? Here
I am. I've come. And they're hirelings, those
fellows that they hired. They're paying to tell them,
we're sure glad to see you, brother so-and-so. You did pay up today,
didn't you? We're sure glad you're here. Oh, man. Ah, the certified
gospel. creates a bunch of thankful,
thankful, unworthy, undeserving, meek and lowly people who just
think it would be a privilege to be sitting on the back row. I don't belong here, but I'm
sure glad to be here. Thank God for bringing me here. The modern perverted gospel,
and I quit, is a part-time religion. A past-time religion, when it's
convenient. Past-time. Let me give you a
true statistic. The so-called Billy Graham crusades
that you see going on all the time. This is a fact. I read
it. Several years ago I read this. They went in search of all of
those converts after thousands of them had come down. Less than 3% of those that come
forward even attend a church anywhere. It's phony, people. It's all
a bunch of phony stuff. Phony. Part-time, past-time,
the true gospel, the certified gospel is life. I didn't say a life. It's life. What do you do when you live?
You do what you have to do to live, don't you? You do it without
thinking about it. Huh? You understand what I'm
saying? You breathe. You eat. You drink. You rest. You laugh. You cry. You shout. You get quiet. Life. You walk, you move, you
have your being. This is life. Christ is life. It's not a so-called choice. It's involuntary. You understand what I'm saying? life. That's just the fact. The
certified gospel is just that, certified. The perverted gospel is what man
must do with God. What man must do, the certified
gospel. And I hope you'll take a Bible
and go home and see if this is certified. The certified gospel. It's what Jesus Christ has done. That's right. Okay. Let's sing in closing, number
51. What better hymn to sing than Praise the Savior? You who
know Him, who can tell how much we owe Him? So gladly let us
render to Him all we are and have. Number 51. And we'll stand as we sing.