I want everyone in here this
morning to be totally honest with yourself before God this morning. I want
to ask some questions from God's Word. And we need to be totally honest
in answering these questions. The state of your soul is conditioned
on the answer. Ralph Barnard used to say, honest
people don't wind up in hell. What he meant was people who
would honestly come before God Almighty and before his Word,
and have the Word of God search them and try them, and they admit
to some things, and just honest. The Scriptures tell us to examine
ourselves, see whether we be of the true faith. Paul talked
about having a good conscience and faith unfamed. That is not
faking it, not faking this thing, faith. A good conscience. And whether these things be in
us, Paul said in another place, he said, no, you're not your
own selves. Will the Christ be in you except
you be reprobate? A reprobate is someone who doesn't
care, because God's left them alone, given them over. They
don't care. And let us not deceive ourselves.
All right? Don't justify yourself on myself,
me. Let's not deceive ourselves.
All right, if you could have one wish, let me ask you this
question. If you could have one wish, if
you would truly, God came to you like he did to Solomon. It
really happened. He came to Solomon and he said,
I'm going to grant you one thing, one desire, one wish. Be honest. If you had one wish from God
Almighty, what would it be? I'm going to answer that question. I'm going to ask three questions
and answer them all. If you're taking notes, I'm going
to ask you first, what do you need? What do we need? What do
we need? We'd be honest with that before
God. And secondly, what do we want? What do we want? And lastly,
what are we going to get? That's very simple, isn't it? What do we need? What do we want? What are we going to get? That's
easy to remember, isn't it? I'm going to tell you what our
need is, and this is every man, woman, boy or girl. I don't care
if they're sixteen or sixty. This is what everyone in here
needs, whether they know it or not. Some, by God's grace, know this. I believe salvation is to feel
this need, to know this need. Now look at verses 38 and 39.
This is a very familiar story. Luke 10, verse 38, Now it came
to pass, as they went, that is, Christ and his disciples, he
entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha
received him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary. which also sat at Jesus' feet
and heard his word. Now, the Lord came to visit this
family, and Martha, I believe she's the oldest. I don't think
it says anywhere, but she apparently is. Martha receives him into
their house. She invites him in. That's a good thing. The scripture says, Be not forgetful
to entertain strangers, for some have entertained angels. She
entertained or had the Lord of glory in her house. Be not forgetful. We all need
that admonition. My, my. Forgetful. How you forgetful
to entertain is you forget about everybody else. You don't forget
about yourself. You wouldn't forget old me. old self, forget
everybody else. Don't be forgetful to entertain. Christ said, as much as you've
done it to the least of one of these my brethren, you've done
it unto me. I've entertained some of God's people that I felt
like, well, all of God's people I feel like I'm entertaining
Christ himself. It's a blessed privilege and
a high honor to have them in my home, and many and I have
recently said this, and I mean it from the depths of my heart.
I can't wait to finish that house, number one, so I can fill it
up with God's people. Didn't we say that together?
Can't wait to have folks over again. Stay with us. Be with
us. Eat with us. Fill it up. When
Martha asks the Lord to stay and eat, that's a good thing.
She begins to prepare the meal. Apparently, you see it says in
verse 39, it says, Mary which also sat at Jesus' feet. Apparently
Martha sat down for a while when he came in as he began to speak.
Our Lord is never an idle moment or just idle chit-chat with the
Lord of glory. No idle words with him. No mere
idle words didn't come in and say that, like we do, you know,
about half of what, 95% of what comes out of our mouth is just
useless chit-chat, isn't it? Hey, how you doing? OK. You all
right? Fine. Going OK? Fine. Good. Good day? Good day. The
weather's nice. We don't have much in us to offer. the Lord of glory, and he doesn't
just say, hello, how you doing? He immediately began to instruct
and teach, and every word that came out of his mouth had an
eternal consequence. You believe that? Well, they
did. At any rate, apparently Martha
sat down with everybody else. No man spoke like this man when
he opened his mouth. I know some men who would like
to think that you do all the talking and think everybody ought
to listen. When they ought to do more. Less
talking. But when our Lord opened his
mouth now, Abraham shut up. And sat down and hung on his
word. Well, apparently Martha did this
and Mary also. OK, but after a while something
they need something. You know, he just fed 5,000,
but she felt like she had to get up and feed this crowd. That's a good thing. It's a good
thing. Nothing wrong with that. Service
to others. Our Lord commends it. That's what we're here for. We talk about our house. It's
really not to use on ourselves. It's not. Our homes, our Lord, the Lord,
God's people anyway, gives us these homes to entertain God's
people there. That's just some people, that's
what we're called to. That's what God's people are
called to service. And here they have much of much
is required. Those that have a big house ought
to have more people in it. Well, she was doing a good thing. It was a helpful thing. Our Lord
said he came to minister, didn't he? He said, I didn't come to
be ministered unto. Didn't he, John? He said, I came to minister. And then he washed feet. Remember
that? He said, if I've done this, the Lord of glory, whom everybody's
going to fall down at my feet someday and serve me. If I've
washed your stinking feet, the least you can do is have other
people's in your home. Right? I've done this, the Lord said.
You've learned this. You take note of it, he said.
Because he said in another place, he said, I was naked and you
didn't clothe me. I was hungry and you didn't feed me. I was
homeless and you didn't take me in, did you? Who's he talking
to, people? The people he said that to, when
did we see you like this? He said, I have my people. You never had any of my people
in your house. Well, Martha was doing a good
thing. It's fine. What she was doing
was a good thing. And Lord does not upbraid her for this. tell anything negative about
what she's doing. All right? It's a good thing. Verse 40, it said, Martha was
cumbered about much serving. Now, here's the point. She was
cumbered about. The word cumbered, you know what
the word cumbered means? The Greek word, where we got
the word cumbered from, the Greek word means distracted from what
was necessary. That's what the word means, distracted
from what was necessary. He was cumbered about much serving. Serving is good, but not if you're
cumbered about it, not if you're distracted from what's really
necessary. Now, we can and we will justify
anything and everything we do, don't we? Martha did. And she got in a bad state, didn't
she? What did she start doing when she started justifying what
she was doing? She started looking at everybody
else. Mary. Lord, make her get up. Make her get up and help me. Don't you care? She said it to
him. Don't you care? You going to
sit there, too? That's about what you're saying,
wasn't it? Don't you care that my sister and I'm doing... Martha,
Martha, Martha. Martha, Martha, Martha. You know,
we can justify everything. This is a good thing she's doing,
but it didn't justify nothing, nothing, no thing, and no one
justifies taking us away from sitting at the feet of our Lord
and hearing him. Nothing and no one justifies
removing us from the worship of Christ. What this all is a
picture of is those who would have anything, becumbered about
anything that would take them away from sitting at the feet
of Christ and hearing him, hearing his word. Where's that? It goes
without saying. He said, where two or three are
gathered, that's where I am. Temporal things. Look over at
Luke 14. Temporal things will take us
away. Luke 14, turn over there. Our Lord gave this parable of
a great supper, and this speaks of the marriage supper of the
Lamb. This is a parable, but it speaks
of true and heavenly things. Luke 14, verse 15, "...when one
of them sat at meat with him, heard these things, he said unto
them, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God."
Oh my, they sure are blessed. Then said Christ unto him, A
certain man made a great supper, and bade many, and sent his servant
at suppertime to say to them that were bidden, Come, for all
things are now ready." You know, the preaching of the gospel is
supper time. Come, all things are ready. What
things? I've got a feast, fat things, wine on the leaf, bread,
wine, corn, milk, honey, you name it. All things are ready. Verse 18, And they went all with
one consent, or that is, they all had the same heart, empty. Begin to make excuse. First set
on the hill, I bought a piece of ground. Well, I've got a land.
I've got some land I've got to see about. I've got to get the hay in, or
I've got to get something. Hmm. Another, read on. Another, verse 19, said, I bought
five yokel boxes. Well, I've got some cattle, and
they've got to be fed, they've got to be milked. I go to What
it was here, he was going to buy cattle. He was going to an
auction there. To prove him, I bought some cattle.
I've got to go check them out. Another said, I married a wife. The wife, she's at home. She
doesn't want to come. She wants to go, the wife wants
to go to the park today, or wants to go to the races today, or
the wife wants to go here and there today. Huh? You're not married to me, huh?
You're married to your wife. Verse 21, So that servant came,
and showed his lord these things. Then the master of the house,
being angry, said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets
and lanes of the city. Bring hither the poor, and the
maimed, and the haught, and the blind. And the servant said,
Lord, it is done, as thou hast commanded. Get their rooms. The Lord said unto the servant,
Go out into the highway and hedges, and compel them to come in, that
my house may be filled. I say unto you, that none of
those men which were bitten shall taste of my supper." None. I wish more people would tremble
at that word. None of them. Verse 26, look at this. I tell you, the word of God is
sharper than a two-edged sword. The word of Christ Look at verse
26, he says, "...if any man come to me, and hate not his father,
his mother, his wife, his children, his brethren, his sisters, yea,
his own life also." Whatever it is that he does, he cannot
be my disciple. Can't be my disciple. Another place he said, go ahead,
choose this day who you're going to serve. Because you can't serve
your family and God. You can't serve your husband
and God. You can't serve your wife and God. You can't serve
mammon, your job and God. You can't do it. Now, you can
serve God and serve your family. You can serve God and serve your
husband. As a matter of fact, you won't truly, properly serve
your family or your husband or your job unless you do first
serve, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness.
That's right. That's right. This message is
to God's people. Now, back in the text, Luke 10,
he said, You cannot be my disciple, cannot. Now, verse 41, Jesus
answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, Thou art careful, art full of
care, and troubled, full of trouble, about many things. What is worth
being full of care over? What? Nancy, what? What? Troubled about many things. What
is worth troubling ourselves over? Huh? Oh, my. What? Who? Who is worth the trouble? Who is worth the care, being
full of care? Martha, Martha, verse 42, one
thing is needful. It's one thing needful. Martha,
Martha. Put your name in there, okay? Amy, Amy. I'm not picking on
you, just saw you there. Vicki, Vicki. Rick, Rick. Henry, Henry. William, William,
one thing is needful. What's that? What is it? What do you really need? What's
this one thing? The Lord of Lords says, one thing is needful. One
thing we need. What is it? I ask you, what do
you really need? What Mary was doing right there.
She said, Mary's chosen it. Mary's chosen it. What was Mary
doing? Sitting. at the feet of Christ. Sitting at the feet of Christ. Now, I
ask you, what do you need? Mary apparently needed what he
was saying. I don't know if this is the Mary
who was, uh, seven devils were cast out of, Mary Magdalene,
or I don't know which one it is. There's three or four Marys
in the Scripture. I'm not really certain. But if it was different,
this was the Mary that was such a great sinner. Oh, she's needed. She was still a sinner. The Lord
had saved her, but yet she's still a sinner. She's in Christ
for a minute. Oh, I need to hear Him tell me
one more time. I don't commend you. Go sin no
more. I need to learn another. I need
to see Mary needed wisdom. And Christ was the wisdom. She
didn't know anything. Probably she didn't know what to do, where
to go, how to do it, what to think. We're not sufficient of
ourselves, as Scripture says, to even think anything. Or to
make a mess of my life up until now. Christ is our wisdom. You want wisdom? Come sit and
listen to what Christ says. He is our wisdom. Of God is he
of the wisdom. I mean wisdom. I need to be wise
and know how to approach this holy God. A lot of people are
ignorant of that, aren't they? I mean, ignorant of how to approach
this holy God. And they're going to come into
the presence of this Christ, holy God, someday, thinking they
know Him, thinking they believe Him. It's
the wrong one. They've had the wrong one all
that time. Right? Isn't that what our Lord said?
Many will say unto me in that day, we've done this, we've done
that, we've accepted Jesus, we've made our decision, we've baptized,
we've did this and that, and they'll say, I never knew you.
I never loved you, I never knew you, and you don't know me either.
And they're going to be forced to say, that's right, you're
not the Jesus we heard about. You're not the one I thought
I knew. Well, you're a sovereign. You're holy. You're a consuming
fire. You do what you will with whom
you will. Wisdom. Mary, who's wisdom is? She might be a blonde, but she's
wisdom. She don't mind me saying that. I don't even have it. I need
wisdom. Where am I going to get wisdom? The wisdom in this world ain't
as foolish as this. Isn't that what 1 Corinthians
1 says? God has made this. I don't need to hear what Charles
Darwin said, or learn what Carl Sagan said. Don't be a fool if
the fool has said, Science today is science fiction. Fools would follow that. You
hang on to every word of the Westerner, you'd be a fool. Wisdom, I need real wisdom that
comes from above. That's the only wisdom. Mary
said, I'm only going to get it at Christ's feet. I'm only going
to get it when I hear Christ speak. Where's it going to be?
I'm going to sit there, and I'm going to hear it, because I need
it. Wisdom. Mary said, I need righteousness.
I'm unholy. I'm ungodly. Every thought I
think is evil. I'm a wicked sinner. I need righteousness. God loveth righteousness. He
hateth iniquity. I need righteousness. Where am
I going to get it? Christ is the only one that has
it. He's the righteous servant which
shall justify many. How? By His righteousness. He
said, I give it to all those that come to God by me. You need
a robe? You feel naked before the all-seeing
eye of God? I need covering. Rebecca, I need
covering. I'm just naked. I'm naked. You see, the Scripture says all
things are naked and open before the God with whom we have to
do. We have to do with Him. We're
naked before Him. Cover me. Hide me, O my Savior. Hide, the song said. Cover me
in what? Blood! Righteousness! So I can stand
before this holy God. I need a robe! I need a robe! Man, I need the best robe! Not one of these hospital gowns,
you know? That'll show me for what I am!
I need one to cover me. Who's got
it? Jesus Christ, the only one who
does. Where is it found? Come sit, and you'll get it.
He'll clothe you in it. Every time the gospel is preached,
he clothes us in it. Sanctification. I'm a filthy
mind. My filthy thoughts, my filthy
dreams, my filthy ways, I'm a filthy, from the sole of my feet to the
top of my head, and there's no soundness in me. Is there any of you? You find
any soundness in anything? I need sanctifying. I need God to clean up my acts. Don't you? Where does it come
from? Ephesians 5, 26. He sanctifies the church and
washes it by the water of his words. Where is it going to be
preached? My mind is full of this worldly
filth. Where is the word of God that
cleanses us going to be preached? I need to wash in that fountain.
Preach the word to me, preacher. Let's go through it. I've got
to find out how. I mean, sanctify. Sanctification and redemption. Mary needed redemption. She knew
her Redeemer living. He's going to be in our house
that day. I know my Redeemer living, and I'm going to be in
his house this day, sitting at his feet, because I need redemption.
I ain't there yet. I'm not there yet. There's another
Paul who said, He's greater than me. Oh, much greater than me. And Heather, he said, I'm not
there yet. I haven't arrived. He said, I
press toward the mark of the prize of the high calling. How
do you press? Where's Andrew? There he is.
Andrew, I used to be, well, still am short. But growing up, I was
just shorter than others. You'll reach them, buddy. Don't
worry. I'm about as tall as most of the girls, Matt. I am. I found me a wife who's shorter
than But I was short growing up, and I played sports. I played
basketball as my favorite. Baseball. I was pretty good at
basketball. For one thing, when you're short,
you have to be faster than everybody else. Quicker. I used to get
on their nerves, you know. It came off of me. But I was
real good at defense. And if we needed a ball, just
send Paul. You ever heard of full court
press? That's what I did. Give me that ball. Who's got
the ball? I'm going to get it. Paul said, I press. Where's Christ? He'll be there. I'm not there
yet. I don't have the ball, if you'll
let me use that term, huh? I'm not there yet, Deborah. I'm
not there yet. I'm not sure if I'm going to
make it yet. My confidence is in Jesus Christ. Tumblers. But,
buddy, when I get down and dirty and sinful and all that, I've
lost my confidence. I need to come back in again
and lay hold on the sacrifice. Don't you, John? That's what
we do. We lay hold on the altar, not just the dirt. Christ's altar. We have an altar, the Scripture
says. Christ is the altar. And that's
what we do when the gospel is preached. We lay hold on the
horns of the altar and say, "'If he slay me, I'll trust him.'" I'm not there yet. Tell me, preacher,
one more time. Maybe it'll sink in. How is, I'm going to say, what
is it to know Christ? Huh? How can I find salvation
one more time? It's in Christ. It's in Christ. You've got to hear it. Mary had
to hear it. And people, it's needful. It's needful. Do you need this? Maybe you don't need me ranting
and raving, and I apologize. I wrote down here I'm trying
to be the best preacher I can. I really am. But I ain't got
much to work with. This, anyway. Got a lot to work
with here. But I wrote down here on that
podium over there and on this podium right here, slow. I got to improve on this thing. I wrote down slow. I got to slow
down. I've got to slow down. And like Donnie, I get talking
fast. I wrote down clear. I've got to be more clear. Clear. I want to be understood. I'm
not trying to impress anybody. I want people to hear me. Even
our children. I want them to understand me. I wrote down here compassion.
I don't want to get mad at people that I have no control over.
God's going to have to—I have no control over people. Some in here obviously don't
need this gospel, and I get upset when I see them not needing it,
and indifferent to it, and careless, and unconcerned. I get upset,
but the truth is I can't do anything about it. I can pray to God, Lord God,
make them need the gospel. Make Luke and Jacob and all of
them need the gospel. Hannah, make them need the gospel.
Lord, I can't do it. I've tried. I've tried. I don't care, a preacher. Thank
God. He's woken me up on that. Preacher
didn't do it, really. God did it. And then I wrote
down lastly here in big letters, highlighted in red, Christ. Preach Christ. Because he said,
if I be lifted up. I'll draw, I'll draw. See, I'm
the shepherd. They hear my voice. I'll draw. I'll draw. Even those black sheep. I was the black sheep of the
family. Yeah, probably, I was the black
sheep. He brought me. And the truth be known, all of
God's sheep were black when he brings them. He doesn't have
any white sheep. Self-righteous sheep. He doesn't
have them. They're all black. They're all forlorn, they're
all wondering, all we like sheep have gone astray. But the Lord
is like a good shepherd. One thing is needful. I ask you,
what do you need? Do you need Christ? Do you need
this gospel? Do you? Look at verse 42 again. It says, "...Mary hath chosen
that good part which shall not be taken away from her." It shall
not be taken away from her. Do you know where Mary is right
now? She's sitting at those feet that
burn like brass in a furnace. She's there now. That's where
I want to be. That's where I want to be, where
I get my start. I'm an apprentice. I'm an apprentice
disciple. I'm not a master. I'm an apprentice. I'm a disciple. What am I going
to do? I'm going to learn. I'm going to learn from Mary.
Mary, how did you get to be at his feet? Well, you start just
where I started. Just hold the beginning of your
confidence steadfast to the end. Hold those feet! Sit at those
feet. Hear his word, and you'll be
there if you're by and by. Sit at his feet, like me. He
won't be taken from you. What do you want? Psalm 27, very
quickly. What do you want? What is it
you want? We have a hard time distinguishing
between the two, don't we? Between our wants and our needs?
No one. Everybody in here is guilty.
I'm the worst. I'm the worst, and the second. We have a hard time distinguishing
between our needs and our wants. What we want is not always what
we need. Let me ask you this, and to be
honest, I ask you first to be honest. What do you want in life? For some it's one thing, some
it's another. A young person, I tell you a
young person, you know the extent of their happiness. Twenty-five
dollars in their pocket and the keys to the car. Buddy, they're in heaven. I know, I was there. And boy,
it doesn't hurt to have a sixty-seven firebird, Steve. Four hundred
four-speed. Doesn't hurt a bit. That's heaven
to a kid. Unless God kills him, sends him
to hell. Unless he wrecks that sixty-seven
firebird and spatters his brains out. It happens. The youth, the younger people
growing up with just a husband. Oh, if I could have a husband.
Man. Ladies, wow, how dumb we are. If I could just get married. Later on they say, if I could
just get unmarried. Right? Too old, too smart, too
late. I could just get a husband. I
could just get a wife. I could just get a house. Oh,
a house. If I could just get a house.
And then I could work on it every day. In my spare time. I can fix it up, and when that
breaks, I'll fix this up. Or I could just get a car, a
new car. And then the older they get, it's got to be bigger and
better. More expensive. And we'll do
anything to get it. We'll do anything to get it. Well, this man right here was
called a man after God's own heart. A wise man. Look at this. Psalm 27, verse 4. He said, "...one
thing have I desired of the Lord, and that will I seek after, that
I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life."
to behold the beauty of the Lord, to inquire in his temple. You know, what we usually want,
what we want, what we want, we usually get. You know that? We
want something bad enough, we'll go after it, won't we? Huh? If we want something bad enough.
No sacrifice is too great to get it, is it? If we want something
bad enough. People do what they want to do. Yeah, they do. No
matter what the cost is, we'll seek it, we'll go after it. We
go after it, we'll pay it, we'll sacrifice it, anything, anyone
to get it. People will wait in line, lay
on a sidewalk in freezing weather to get a ticket to see some idiot
stand up on a stage or to watch a car go around a circle. Well, that's a real aspiration
in life, isn't it? If I could just get tickets to the Talladega
500. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll
lay on the sidewalk for 24 hours waiting in line. Oh boy. I've made it. See how ridiculous
man is. How stupid, utterly stupid mankind
is. Eternal things at stake Sunday
morning. And I'd rather watch Rusty Wallace
than Jesus Christ. Rusty who? Who? You know, I wouldn't walk
across the street and shake one of those dudes' hands. I'm not against NASCAR. I like
it. I'm a Dale Earnhardt fan. Sorry, Stan. And I drive forward. But I really would. They're not
worth walking across the street for poor people. They don't know
God. They don't care about gay rights every Sunday. These guys,
their life is their idol. Don't you dare make it yours. Those dudes aren't worth walking
across the street for. As a matter of fact, I can't
think of one. I can think of one. And that's what I will seek after.
That's what David said. That's where I am. Where was
David? In Psalm 84, he said, Blessed
are they that dwell in thy house. What house? What house? A lot of people dwelling
in houses. Right now, this morning, sitting there watching today's
show or whatever. Thy house. God's house. What's that? It's
a church where God dwells with his people. Listen to this. Psalm
84, verse 4, "...they will be still praising thee." Do you
know where David is? He's in God's house right now.
Do you know who's sitting beside him? Mary! David and Mary. Lord God make Paul Mahan sit
there. I want to sit there and say it,
don't you? If nobody else, it's me and David
and Mary. Two or three gathered, and he
said, I'll be there. Make me in that number. One thing
have I desired of the Lord, that's what I'm going to seek after.
Where are you going? To worship the Lord. He said
he'd be there. I want to be there. He said he's
coming someday. For those that wait for him,
I want to wait on him. He said those that believe him will be saved. And he said, when
I come, will I find faith on the earth? Oh, Lord. Find it in me. Find it in me. and faith cometh
by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." Do I make too much
of this? Oh, our Lord said how salvation
is hinging on it, hinging on it. Well, what do you get? Lastly,
Ecclesiastes 3, all right? Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes. Find that real fast. What are
we going to get? You get what you want. Yeah,
you do. God gives people what they want.
People who want the world, get it. Go after it, you'll get it. Grab the gusto, you'll get it.
What? Gusto. Seek the Lord, what do you get?
You get the Lord. That's what I'm going to seek
after. Now, here's something we all get, everybody gets, whether
they want it or need it or not. Ecclesiastes 3, verse 16, and
I'll quit with this. I saw unto the Son the place
of judgment, that wickedness was there, the place of righteousness,
and Nicodemus there. I said in my heart, God shall
judge the righteous and the wicked. There is a time there for every
purpose, for every work. I said in my heart concerning
the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them
and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. For
that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts. What's that? One thing. one thing with all of them. As the one die, so die the other. We see, we drive down the road
and we see beasts laying there. No way. Huh? Possums, dogs, cats laying there. There are people that sometimes
lay on the side of the road, dead. Then what? That makes the first two things
pretty important. When I was fifteen years old,
I buried my best friend. I grew up with him. We were a bosom buddy. We rode
our tricycles together. We rode our bicycles together.
We got our permits at fifteen. My best, best buddy lived every
spare moment with him. He's dead. Put his body in the
ground. My twenty-one-year-old brother,
twenty-one. Twenty-one. Boy, that's young,
isn't it? Put him in the ground. My forty-two-year-old sister,
put that body in the ground. Dead. One thing happens. It won't happen
to me. It won't come to me. One thing. Well, one thing I
need. In light of that, I need Christ.
I need Christ. And there's one thing I want
then, and one thing I'm going to seek after all the days of my
life. By God's mercy, by God's grace,
that's what I'm going to seek after. that I may dwell in the
house of the Lord, behold his beauty, and inquire into his
temple, because that one thing is going to happen to me. He's
going to lay my body right down here, and he's going to say,
well, he's dead, isn't he? But if I know Christ, I'm alive,
I'm alive, oh, I'm alive, I'm alive. He that hath the Son hath life.
He that hath not the All right, Brother Joe, what's
that number? I'm sorry, 318.