John, Chapter 20. I really believe that. The message
I'm going to try to bring this morning is a continuation of
the verse that we just heard, therefore being justified, that's
the gospel, being justified by the work of Christ, therefore
being justified, by faith we have peace. By faith we have peace. And I believe in many respects
this message is going to be just a continuation of that verse. By faith we have peace. What
is faith? What is faith? I want to talk
this morning about hindrances to faith. Now let's read this
passage of scripture together in John chapter 20, beginning
in verse 24. John chapter 20 verse 24, but
Thomas. But Thomas. You know, there's
always some significance to the buts in scripture. You see them
a lot. Pay attention to that. But Thomas. One of the twelve, a true disciple
called of God, made a disciple by Christ. One of the twelve
apostles, Bud Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was
not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore
said unto him, We've seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except
I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my
finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into
his side, I will not believe." And after eight days again, his
disciples were within and Thomas with them. Then came Jesus. The doors being shut. You know,
when the Lord's with his people, all else is shut out, isn't it?
He shuts the doors. That's something to think about
right there. Then saith he to Thomas. Well, let me finish reading verse
26. The door is being shut and stood in the midst and said,
Peace be unto you. Remember, by faith we have peace. Peace be unto you. Then saith he to Thomas. reach hither thy finger, and
behold my hands. And reach hither thy hand, and
thrust it into my side, and be not faithless, but believing." And Thomas answered and said
unto him, My Lord and my God, Jesus saith unto him, Thomas,
because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed. Blessed are they
that have not seen, and yet have believed." Question, what comes into your
mind when you think about this man, Thomas? I dare say that every one of
us say, well, we think of doubting Thomas. We just read the story
of doubting Thomas. Now, Thomas was not in reality
any more doubting or unbelieving than the other disciples were.
He's singled out as the doubting disciple, but turn with me to
Mark chapter 16 for just a moment. This is after our Lord has appeared
to the Twelve. We read in verse 9, Now when
Jesus was risen, Mark chapter 16, Now when Jesus was risen,
early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene,
out of whom he had cast seven devils. And she went and told
them that had been with him as they mourned and wept. And they,
when they had heard that he was alive and had been seen of her,
believed not. Every one of them. James, John,
Andrew, Peter, every one of them. They didn't believe her. And after that he appeared in
another form unto two of them as they walked and went into
the country. Remember down the road to Emmaus when he appeared
to those two disciples and the scripture says Their hearts burned
within them as he opened it in the scriptures and they knew
he appeared. He even ate supper with them
and they were so excited they come back to the disciples to
tell them about what took place. Verse 13, And they went and told
it unto the residue, neither believed they then. Now there,
they heard from two credible witnesses, all 12 of them, and
they did not believe. And afterwards he appeared, verse
14, unto the eleven. The Lord himself appeared unto
the eleven as they said it meet. And what did he do? He upbraided
them for their unbelief and for their hardness of heart. Now that's how he dealt with
his disciples at this time. So when we talk about doubting
Thomas, well the rest of that bunch were just as doubting as
he was. Yet, for some reason, God the Holy Spirit sees fit
to make this event known to us, to single out Thomas in a special
way as the doubting disciple. And that's what we think of when
we think of Thomas. Thomas, like you and I, in many
ways, is a contradiction. Did you notice Thomas is called
Thomas, which is called Didymus? You know what Didymus means?
I didn't know this until I looked it up. Didymus means twin. Twin,
Thomas the twin. I look at Thomas and I see a
fellow who looks a lot like me. Twins, Thomas the twin. Thomas,
the doubting disciple, in many ways mirrors us. You know, we're
all in, I can see it especially in you, contradictions. It's easy to see contradictions
in other folks, isn't it? I mean, I, you know, I can see
it in them. Well, if I could see it a little
clearly, I'd see it more clearly in myself. I realize that, but
I mean, we're all, it's just the way it is. Quite often our
principle and our practice don't line up, do they? Well, you see that with Thomas.
He had faith. He loved Christ. And yet he's
described as the doubting disciple. Now, what I want for us to examine
this morning is what was behind the doubts of Thomas. Now, by faith, we have peace.
And in as much as our faith becomes weak, our peace becomes weak
as far as our experience goes. what was behind the doubting
of Thomas. And if we can see what was behind
his doubting, we can find out what's behind our own, the unbelief
that we have. And isn't that a cry that actually
comes from our hearts? What about that one fellow who
said, Lord, I believe. Help thou mine unbelief. I pray that God will give us
some help for unbelief and considering what's behind Thomas. You know,
another passage of scripture I thought of was over there in
Matthew, chapter 17, where the disciples were trying to cast
out that demon. Remember, he was wallowing on
the ground and foaming at the mouth, and they would say, cast
him out, it didn't work. And then the Lord came down from
the Mount of Transfiguration and he cast him out. And after
all that took place, The disciples, every one of them, came up to
the Lord. They said, Lord, how come we couldn't do it? I mean,
we've done it in the past. You gave us grace, too, but it
didn't work this time. How come we couldn't do it? You
know what the Lord said to them? Because of your unbelief. Unbelieving believers. Now, that sounds like a contradiction
in terms, but, hey, it's the way things are, isn't it? unbelieving
believers. Thomas, why do you doubt? Now, in delivering this message,
I'm going to be directing this message to believers, unbelieving
believers. In delivering this message, I'm
directing this to unbelievers. I can say to believers, here's
our greatest problem. This is that sin that so easily
beset us, that Paul speaks of in Hebrews 12, you know, that
sin that somebody says, well, everybody's got their different
besetting sins. Well, maybe so, but that ain't what he's talking
about there. Unbelief is the besetting sin he's talking about.
This message is directed to believers and dealing with our unbelief,
but it's also directed to unbelievers. Here's what the unbeliever's
problem is. So this is for everybody, believer
or unbeliever. What's behind the doubting of
Thomas? And what I want us to do is look
at Thomas. Look at Thomas, what the scripture
teaches about this man. And we're going to look at four
different aspects of Thomas. And really, it's every time Thomas
is mentioned in the scripture. But would you turn with me to
John chapter 11. Doubting Thomas. Thomas, why
do you doubt? Well, let's see what Thomas' problem was. Now,
this is the first much of anything we have said about Thomas in
the scripture here in John chapter 11. This is where our Lord was
going to heal Laverus, and he was going to go back to Jerusalem.
He tells the disciples of the sickness of Laverus. It's told
to him about it, and he's going to go back to Jerusalem, and
we read in verse 8, and his disciples say unto him, Master, the Jews
have sought lake Thessaloniki, and do you go there thither again?
Now, just recently, just a few weeks before, when our Lord was
in Jerusalem, They sought to stone him and put him into death.
And the disciples thought, you're going back there again to get
into that kind of trouble? Why? Why? It'll happen again. Maybe we better hold off here.
Maybe we better not be going. But they end up going. But look
down in verse 16. They're going to go to Lazarus. Then said, Thomas. Now, here's
the first really mention we have of Thomas. Then said Thomas,
which is called Didymus, Thomas the twin, unto his fellow disciples,
will let us go also that we may die with him." Now I want you to think about
that. Thomas in very many respects seemed very noble in saying that
he loved Christ, he really did. He loved the Lord Jesus Christ,
and he says if he goes back to Jerusalem, no doubt they'll stone
him again, but I love him so much I'm going to go back with
him and die with him. Now that sounds good, and I admire Thomas's
courage at this time. He was very sincere in making
that statement. But doesn't that kind of remind
you of somebody else? Remember Peter? Peter said, Lord,
I'm ready. to go to prison with you, and
to die with you." Thomas says, Pharis, let's go
die with him. Where was Thomas when the Lord
did die? Now, he expressed his great courage
at this time. But he was of that number who,
when our Lord died, forsook him and fled. He wasn't anywhere
to be found. Now, the first hindrance to Thomas'
faith, the first hindrance to our faith, is too high an opinion
of ourself. That's Thomas. Now, if Thomas
would have known himself the way he should have, if I would
know myself the way I should have, instead of saying, Lord,
I'll go with you and die with you, Thomas should have thought,
I know how weak I am. I know how sinful I am. I know
how cowardly I am. I know that if he doesn't cause
me to go with him, I'll end up flying away and hiding and running. I know something of my own weakness.
And he would have come up to the master and said, Lord, would
you give me grace to not deny you? Because I know I'll do it
if you don't keep me. But no, Thomas says, fellas,
come on, let's go die with it. Now, the first great hindrance
to faith is too high an opinion of self. You know, a high view of self
is based upon falsehood. You know, I love that scripture
in Galatians chapter 6, verse 3, when Paul says, if a man thinketh
himself to be something, you know what it says next? When
he is nothing, he deceives himself. You know, when Paul spoke in
Romans chapter 12 of proving what that good and acceptable
and perfect will of God is, you remember that? In Romans chapter
12, you know what the first thing he said to do in order to prove
that good and acceptable and perfect will of God? In verse
3, the first thing he pointed out that we're to do is let no
man think more highly of himself than he ought to think. First
thing he said. Now, the first hindrance to faith
is too high an opinion of yourself. A high view of self in reality
is contrary to the gospel. Romans chapter 5 verse 6 says,
For when we were yet without strength, it didn't say when
we were weak, it said when we were without strength. In due time, Christ died for
the ungodly. Now, for whom did Christ die?
those without strength, and those who are ungodly. And if Thomas
and if Todd always kept that in mind, boy, that'd keep them
at the feet of Christ, wouldn't it? That'd keep them seeing their
continual need of Him. You see, everything about a high
view of self is contrary to grace. A high view of self keeps us
from looking to Christ. If Thomas would have viewed himself
as he should have, he wouldn't have made that statement. And
really, in many respects, we admire that statement, don't
we? You know, let's go dial with him. He said it because he loved
Christ. But if he had a lower view of self, he wouldn't have
made that statement. He would have come to Christ
and said, Lord, give me grace to go with you. Give me grace
to look to you. You know, Christ Jesus is not
all unless we're nothing. And only as we see ourselves
as nothing, nothing, nothing. What's nothing? I don't even
know how to describe it. I mean, there's no words to even
describe nothing because it ain't nothing there to describe. Nothing. Only as I'm nothing is Christ
everything. He only fills empty glasses. A high view of self prevents us
from seeing His preciousness. Now, Christ's preciousness is
not dependent upon our view of His preciousness. I realize that.
He's precious whether you or I see Him as precious or not.
It's not dependent on what we see. But as far as our understanding
of His preciousness, it is relative. $10,000 in his checking account. $20
ain't going to mean much to him. But if a fella doesn't have anything,
$20 is a big sum of money. If he's got a starving family,
kids to feed, oh, can you imagine how blessed he would feel to
have $20 to walk into the grocery store with? Preciousness is relative
in that sense. And the lower view you have of
yourself, the more precious he will be to you. The way up in the kingdom of
heaven is down. And the only way I can see him
is at his feet. That's it. And to you which believe, he
is precious. Now, the believer knows this
in principle. Every believer in here knows
in principle, we he's so precious, we we almost feel like we're
in the dark when we talk about it. We don't even know when we
talk of his infinite greatness and glory, we realize we don't
even know what we're talking about, but we know we believe
it, don't we? In principle, we believe that our practice gets
it gets messed up and we start thinking high thoughts of ourselves.
But I'll tell you this also, I could say to the unbeliever,
here's why you have no true faith. You're looking to self as the
source of it. Way too high of you of yourself. Now, if you
go to an apple tree to pick oranges, ain't going to be any oranges
are there? And when you look to self as the source of faith
or the source of salvation in any way, you're going to come
up empty every single time and you won't See any preciousness in Christ
until you're made to deal with who you are as a result of your
follow-up in your father Adam. And you won't see any glory in
him until you're made to see that you're nothing but sin. So there's the first hindrance
to faith, too high a view of self. Now let's go over to John
chapter 14. Our Lord says in verse 1, Let
not your heart be troubled. And I love to read this with
verse 38 and verse 1 together. Jesus answered him, Wilt thou
lay down thy life for my sake? Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
the cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice. Let
not your heart be troubled." Isn't that amazing? You can chew on that for a while.
He says, you believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's
house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have
told you, I'd go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare
a place for you, I'll come again and receive you unto myself to
where I am. There you may be also, and whether thou goest,
you know, and the way you know." Thomas. Here's old Thomas. Thomas saith unto him, Lord,
we know not whether thou goest. How can we know the way? Now
that seems like a very good question. How can we know the way? Jesus
saith unto him, I'm it. I am the way. Thomas, why are you asking a
question like that? Is it the way was some kind of path that
you needed to walk along? Why do you ask a question like
that? Like it's something you needed to be able to read the
map to figure it out? Thomas, you're looking at the
way. I'm him. Now, the second hindrance to Thomas's faith was
that in reality, he had too low an opinion of Christ. Now, is there anybody in this
room that has a high enough view of Christ? Aren't you ashamed of really
how little you do honor him? Lord, show us the way, Thomas! I'm the way. I'm the truth. I'm the life. Now, in principle, every believer
believes this. We know this. He's the way to
the Father. In principle, we've got that down. Christ is the
way. No other way. Christ is the way. We've got
that down in principle. But in practice, how many times when you have
sin on your conscience, and you're feeling guilty, and you try to
come into God's presence, I'm sorry now, would you receive
me? Lord, I believe, Lord, Lord, I promise I'll never do it again.
Lord, I'm trying to look. We don't come to Christ as Christ
the way we Lord. Receive me, I'm sorry. Instead
of resting on him as my way to the father, even in spite of
who I am. Thomas, I am the way. Thomas I'm the truth. The truth is not a proposition. The truth is not a plan. He is the truth. Thomas I'm the life. I'm not
going to show you the life I'm in. And Thomas had too low a
view of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is all of those things. You see him. Only God can show us him. I can't
show you him. I can't show myself him. Only
he can make himself known. The only way you'll see the Lord
Jesus Christ is if he shows himself to you. That's what revelation
is. The only way you can know me, really know me, the only
way that you know what's in my heart and what's in my mind and
what I'm really like, the only way you can know me is if I make
myself known, really. There's no way you can find out
what's really there. And the only way you can truly
know Christ is if he makes himself known. But I'll tell you what,
in knowing him, first of all, you will have a low opinion of
yourself. But that low opinion of yourself
will be based upon having a high opinion of him. You see, you
know him, you find out who he is. You can't help but have a
low opinion of yourself, can you? And have a high view of
him. Now, the second hindrance to
faith is just too low an opinion of Christ. And if you're an unbeliever,
here's why you don't believe. You don't know him. If you know him, you can't help
but believe. If you know Him, you believe
on Him because you've got no choice. You don't choose to believe.
You believe because you have no choice. And if you don't believe,
it's because you don't know Him. You have way too low an opinion
of Him. And if you're waiting for something
to happen... Listen, the reason anybody believes in the system
of salvation by works is because it's never been revealed to them
that He is salvation. Thomas, you've got too low an
opinion of the Lord Jesus Christ. He said, I am the way. Okay,
let's go to John 20. Now, Thomas, why do you doubt? Well, first of all, he has too
high an opinion of self. Second, he has too low an opinion
in reality of the Lord Jesus Christ. Here's the third thing,
and we've already read this passage of scripture in verse 24, that
Thomas, one of the twelve called Didymus, was not with them when
Jesus came. The other disciples therefore
said unto him, We have seen the Lord, and they did. But he said unto them, Except
I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my
finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into
his side, I will not believe. Thirdly, the great hindrance
to Thomas' faith that he had was that he had way too high
an opinion of his experience. I won't believe unless I feel
it, unless I see it. I've got to feel my finger in
the holes in his hands. I've got to thrust my hand into
his side. I've got to feel it. If I don't
feel it, if I can't touch it, I will not believe. Thomas had way, way, way too
high an opinion of his experience. You see, he heard the testimony
of credible witnesses. All ten of those fellows said,
We've seen the Lord! That wasn't enough for Thomas
to believe. He had to feel something. Now, does that ring true to your
experience? Oh, I would believe if I could
just feel my sin more. I could have so much more assurance.
If I could have more of a deep experience in the Lord. If I
could feel more raptures of love. If I could see more glory in
this person. And I could believe then if I
could just feel and see these things. Would that be believing
in Him or would that be believing in yourself? Would that be looking to your
experience or to him? Thomas, you got way too high
on the view of experience. Oh, and I know that's the truth
concerning myself. Now, if the ground of our assurance
is based upon something that we have felt, If I is in my testimony, I believe
that I'll be in heaven because I have seen this or I've experienced
that. No, the only ground of assurance
is that Christ died. And the only sign that I need
is the sign of Jonas. Three days and three nights,
he was raised up. The only sign a believer needs
is the sign of the resurrection. What he did is enough and I don't
need anything else. I need no other argument. I need
no other plea. It is enough that Jesus died
and that he died for me. Is that enough to satisfy you?
Or do you need to feel something? Thomas said, I need to stick
my hand in the hole in his side. And the Lord rebuked him for
that. He had way too and a half opinion of experience. And the
believer knows this in principle. You know that you ought not look
to your experience, you ought to look to Christ, don't you?
You know that. But the unbeliever looks for
the sign because he's seen no glory in the message of the gospel.
Not in reality. The Jews require a sign. The
Greeks think after wisdom, we want to know how to live. But
we preach Christ crucified. Unto the Jews, that's a stumbling
block. Unto the Greeks, that's foolishness. But unto them which
are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God and
the wisdom of God. Now, if you're waiting for a
sign, and yeah, I need to say this especially to young people
who grow up hearing the gospel of God's grace. And I know I've
done I was raised up, Paul you were raised up under the gospel
and we know God elected a people and Christ died to be elected
and God the Holy Spirit will call them and we know we won't
be saved until he calls us, therefore we think well I'll just wait
for something to happen. Well you'll wait until you're in hell. They looked unto him and were
lightened. They looked unto him and were
lightened. Look, don't wait for an experience.
Look to Christ now. Everybody in here, look to Christ
now. And don't wait for some kind
of experience. The devil will give you one. He sure will. He'd be quite happy
for you to have an experience if it causes you to miss the
Lord Jesus Christ. Thomas had way too high a view
of experience. And then look in verse 24 again.
There was another problem with Thomas. But Thomas, but Thomas,
one of the twelve called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. Old Thomas had other things to
do at that time. I'm sure he felt like he had
a good reason for not being there. But Thomas wasn't there where
the Lord was. Thomas had way too low an opinion
of worship. He wasn't there. Somebody said, how come he wasn't
there? I had no idea, but he wasn't there. And who is the
one disciple who is pointed out as the doubting disciple. Thomas. He was not there. Now, when we talk about public
worship, we're talking about the assembling of God's people
together to hear the word preached. God has manifested his word through
preaching. Titus 1.3, 1 Corinthians 1.21,
It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that
believe. This is how Christ manifests
himself. Somebody's already said where two or three are gathered
together in my name. There am I in the midst of them.
Christ promises his presence in the public assembly of God's
saints. Now, when we don't show up and
understand this, I'm not trying to manipulate people with guilt.
I'm really not when I talk about this. You know, trying to make
people feel bad, but you know, well, but the bottom line is
with regarding public worship, Christ has promised he's there. Not sometimes, every time when
people meet together to hear his name and when I don't show
up, I say, well, it's not that important for me to be there
where he is. Now, actions speak louder than words. And that's
what those actions say. Thomas was not there. Faith cometh by hearing, and
hearing by the word of God. And notice it's not so much the
word read, but the word heard, that God blesses to save in faith. Thomas was not there when our
Lord first appeared to the disciples. You know, the closest thing that
I've ever experienced to heaven on earth is seeing Christ in the word
preached. There's nothing like it. I guarantee you any pleasure
this. I mean, in my experience, there's
no pleasure that this world affords that's like seeing Christ in
the word preached. and being enabled to worship
Him, seeing His glory and His beauty, seeing the perfect righteousness
counted to me, me seeing my sinfulness and His all-sufficiency. There's
nothing like that. And oh, what it says about the
state of our hearts when we feel like we don't need to be there.
Thomas wasn't there. And look at Thomas. Well, I want to look at one closing
scripture that I think kind of ties this all up. And we've been
talking about unbelieving faith or unbelieving believers. Well,
turn with me to Matthew chapter 8. Matthew chapter 8. Now, the fellow that we're going
to consider right now, I want us to see what the Lord said
about him. Now, let's remember Thomas. What was his problem? First of all, he had too high
an opinion of himself. He had too low a view of Christ.
He had too high an opinion of his experience, and he had too
low an opinion of worship. And you see, those are hindrances
to faith. You see that, don't you? Okay, now this fellow we're
going to talk about now, look what the Lord said about him
in verse 10 of Matthew chapter 8. When Jesus heard it, he marveled. And he said unto them that follow
verily, I say unto you, I have not found so great faith. No, not in Israel." Now here's
somebody who the Lord says, this fella has the greatest faith
I've ever seen. Now let's compare this fella's
faith to Thomas' faith. And we're going to see the difference.
We're going to see a big difference. Well, let's look up in verse
5. And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto
him a centurion, a Roman soldier who was over a hundred other
soldiers, beseeching him and saying, Lord, my servant lies
at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. And Jesus saith unto
him, I'll come and heal him. The centurion answered and said,
Lord, I'm not worthy that you should come under my roof, but
speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. For I'm a man
under authority. I understand something about
authority, having soldiers under me. I say to this man, go, and
he goes, and another comes, and he comes. So my servant do this,
and he does it. And when Jesus heard He marveled,
and he said unto him, Thou art worthy, I say unto you, I have
not found so great a faith, no, not in Israel." Now let me point
out some characteristics of this fellow's faith. Now the first
thing that I would notice about this fellow is he had a very
low opinion of himself. The Lord says, I'll come and
heal him. This fellow said, Lord, I'm not
even worthy for you to come under my roof. Why would you want to
do something like that, to be around the likes of me? Now,
if the Lord were here, and He is in spirit, but if He was here
physically this morning, and said, I want to go to somebody's
house to eat, I'd say, me? Come on, I'm the
preacher! Better than anyone. I mean, me!
You know, this fellow wouldn't have even volunteered. Why, he
wouldn't want to come to my house. I mean, I... I got no business being around
him. Kind of like Peter. Lord, depart from me. I'm a sinful man. I just defile
the air you're around. That's this fellow. Lord, I'm
not even worthy to have you come under my roof. He had a low opinion
of himself. And the second thing I've noticed
about this fellow is he had a high and exalted view of the Lord
Jesus Christ. He said, now, Lord, I understand
something about authority. I say to this soldier, you go.
He goes. I say, come here. He comes. I
say, you're going to do this. He does it. I understand authority.
And I know that you have absolute authority. Whatever you say goes. He had a high and an exalted
view of the Lord Jesus Christ. You know something else about
this fellow? He had a real low opinion of experience. The Lord
said, I'll come and heal him. And he said, oh no, Lord, speak
the word. I don't need all this, I don't,
just say it, and it's done. Speak the word only, and my servant
shall be healed. He didn't need no experience,
did he? All he needed was for the Lord to say it. That's enough. And notice verse 5. And when Jesus was entered into
Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion beseeching him. This
fellow came to where the Lord was. He knew where he was, and
he got to him. And isn't that what public worship
is? Isn't that what the preacher... We know where he is. He's in
the word preached. And he came to him. Now, what
would the world say about this man's faith? This guy needs to
go to a counselor. He needs, you know, he he needs
to have higher views of himself. I mean, he doesn't want the Lord
to come in. We need to roll him in some kind of self-esteem class
or something. Get him up. Get him some better. But what
does our Lord say about this fellow? He says, I tell you, I've not
found so great a faith. And here's the one who knows
what great faith is. We wouldn't see it as that big
a deal. Would we? Now, I mean, that got young.
But our Lord says, I tell you, I've not found so great a faith. No, not in Israel. Okay, hindrances
to faith. Well, high opinion of yourself. Too low an opinion of Christ.
Too high an opinion of experience. And too low a view of worship.
What's great faith? A low view of yourself. A high
and exalted view of the Lord Jesus Christ. A low view of experience
and feeling. Feelings come, feelings go, feelings
are deceiving. My warrant is the word of God,
not else's worth believing. And a high view of worship. May God bless that to our hearts. I'm glad he repeated those points
over again. Keep those in mind, something
to chew on the rest of the day. Brother Charles said, The gospel
will mean nothing to you unless you're needy. And for those who are needy,
there's full justification. That's a good move. And that
meant something to me. I appreciate it. And I appreciate
those four points. Keep those in mind. Chew on them,
like an old cow. Bring it, cut it up, chew it
again. All right. Here, if you'll come
up, we'll sing, here, I'm number 228, searching for a...