I was reading my notes over again
this morning early, and I realized as I worked through building
the sermon for today that there were some things that were maybe
unclear, needed some clarification. So I must preface my comments
this morning with a few things right up front. I want us to
understand that we'll set a context for this sermon. The topic this
morning is those who preach another Jesus, another gospel, somewhat
drawing on some of the things that Brother Bill said last week.
But as I reviewed my notes, went through it, I realized that my
sermon this morning will talk more about what the gospel is
not than what it is. So it comes across as a very
one sided message. It will talk about another Jesus,
another gospel. But I do very little to clarify
the real Jesus and the real gospel. And it's my hope and prayer that
the Holy Spirit will guide us into all truth this morning,
that in our own hearts and minds, we will hold Christ near to us
so that we can see the contrast between another Jesus and another
gospel. The other point that I need to
make is throughout this sermon, I will speak in terms that are
general, generic. When I say gospel, I'm talking
about anything that is being presented as good news. That's what the word gospel means
is good news. And as I use it this morning,
I'm talking about things that are being presented to you and
I as good news. And that is covering a range
of topics, as we'll see, but it all says that it's good news
and it all presents itself as solutions to the problems that
we have. When I mention Jesus Christ or
the Messiah, I'm speaking of one who is presented as the person
who's bringing this good news to us. One who is claiming to have the
answers. Again, it's a generic mention
of the word Jesus Christ or Messiah, because the topic is another
Jesus and another gospel. When I mention the church, I'm
talking in the broadest senses, and that is people that profess
to be Christians. Again, it's generic. We know
that there is a visible church. the broad body of people who
claim to be Christians, and then there is the invisible church,
God's elect, that we may or may not see. With that said, as preface
to the message, let me read some scripture, and let's follow through
in our minds and our hearts what these scriptures are saying,
hold on to key points, and then I'll make comments beyond that.
The first passage I'll read is from 2 Corinthians. Chapter 11,
verse 4. We heard this one last week.
For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we
proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one
you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one
you accepted, you put up with it readily enough. Again, the
key there The thing to hold is that Paul does tell us there
is another Jesus, a different spirit, and a different gospel. Next, we go to the words of Jesus
himself, and he warned in Matthew chapter 24, verse 11, and many
false prophets will arise and lead many astray. We follow Jesus
again in Matthew 24, verses 23 through 25. Then if anyone says
to you, look, here is the Christ, or there he is, do not believe
it. For false Christs and false prophets
will arise and perform great signs and wonders so as to lead
astray, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you beforehand. The key here, from the words
of Christ himself, is that there are coming false Christs. They're
out there. We go again to Paul and we will
follow Paul through some passages. And these are a mix of passages. Let's hold to these thoughts.
From 2 Timothy, chapter 2, verse 15, Paul tells us to do your
best. Or to study, to present yourselves
to God as one approved, a worker who needs not be ashamed, rightly
handling the word of truth. It's an important concept. We
need to know the truth. So that we can see the error.
Again, Second Timothy chapter four, verses one through four,
Paul lays this charge, I charge you in the presence of God and
of Christ Jesus, who is the judge of the living and the dead, and
by his appearance and his kingdom, preach the word, be ready in
season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, and exhort with complete
patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people
will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears, they
will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions. and will turn away from listening
to the truth and wandering off into myths. 1 Timothy chapter 1 verses 2
through 4. To Timothy, my true child in
the faith, grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ
Jesus our Lord, I urge you when I was in Macedonia, remain at
Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not to preach
any different doctrine, nor to devote themselves to myths, endless
genealogies which promote speculation rather than stewardship from
God that is by faith." Paul again tells us in Colossians 2, verses
6-8, Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk
in Him, rooted and built up in Him, and established in the faith,
just as you were taught abounding in thanksgiving. See to it that
no one takes you captive by philosophy, empty deceit according to human
tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, not according
to Christ. We see from these passages warnings
from Jesus Christ himself that there are false prophets coming,
false teachers, false Christs. They're coming. They were present
in the day of Jesus. They are coming in the future. even our time. Paul warns of
the same thing and gives us some identifying factors. The basic
fact that we need to understand about Paul's teaching is they
take our eyes away from the truth in God and Christ and place them
on fleshly concerns. They're guided more towards the
flesh than they are to the spirit. Let's look at the context of
all these passages, because none of this was written in a vacuum. It was all written at a real
time and a real place to a real people. And it's important we
see the message in its day. Over the course of the passages
I read, there were two time frames spoken of. One covers the life
of Jesus Christ, and then the other picks up some years later,
maybe 20 years after the death, burial and resurrection of Christ.
and that is during the ministry of Paul and the Apostles. So
there's two time frames concerned, and that's important as we'll
see. The message of Jesus, the Messiah, was preached in His day and His
time and was understood in His day and His time. The people
were looking basically for a secular Messiah. They wanted a leader
who would come in and overthrow the occupation by the Romans. They were looking for a secular,
governmental Messiah. We can't get away from that.
Jesus came preaching the kingdom of God. They heard the message,
the word kingdom, and they saw on the hill the palace of Herod
and the temple. They saw bricks, stone, gold,
silver, armies. That was their perception. Jesus
preached of the kingdom. He did not fit their expectation
in a Messiah. It didn't hinder his preaching.
He went on. People followed him. The nation
was in a messianic fervor. They were without hope and they
were willing to grasp any message that demonstrated some hope. Jesus had followers. But an important
point to remember is that at the time of our Lord, there were
other Messiahs out there as well. I don't mean disrespect to Jesus
Christ our Lord when I say this, but Jesus was one of many so-called
Messiahs in his day. There were others that ranged
from radical insurrectionists to reformers in the temple. If
you read the works of Josephus, where he explains that particular
period of history, you see that. We know because of God's Spirit
imparted to us, His grace, His mercy demonstrated shed on us,
we know Jesus is the Messiah. But prior to His coming into
our hearts, as God conquered us for Himself, We were willing
to follow other messages of hope as well. Israel was in that same
condition. Jesus did not meet the expectations
of the people of his day. And we see that at such a point
that he preached the gospel to them. He had healed, he had raised
people from the dead, he had fed the multitudes. When he stopped
and said, now let me tell you what this is all about, they
left. Their expectation was in a secular
Messiah. Christ was not preaching that,
and they left him. My point in bringing all that
out is that there were competing ideas in the marketplace. There
were others who claimed a messianic message. There were others who
were saying, here is your hope. There were other messiahs. There
were other gospels, there were other things being presented
as good news at that time. We move ahead to the time of
Paul and the other apostles as the new church is being established,
being built up, converts are coming in. Again, there were
other ideas about Jesus, who he was and what the gospel was
and how it worked. We know that because most of
our New Testament is written in response to what we now know
as heresy. Ideas that had come in from the
side, from the periphery, and gotten into the church. And Paul
and Peter and John were led by the Spirit of God to correct
these errors. There were other Jesus being
preached. There were other Gospels being
preached. Some reckoned that Jesus was
a failure. He had died. And therefore, his
message was somehow lessened or discredited altogether. There
were others within the church who preached that Jesus was a
good starting point. But really, he brings us back
into the law. So if we'll start with Jesus,
but then go back to the law, we'll be much better. That's
another gospel. That's another Jesus. There are
some that preach that Christ was good right along with their
Gentile practice. We see that kind of thinking
coming in in the church of Corinth, in the outer reaches, not within
what we call the immediate holy land, because where Paul was
preaching now, there were pagans that were coming to Christ. They weren't losing all of their
ideas at once. So they were carrying some of
their Bad theology into the church with them needed to be corrected.
Needed to be corrected. There were other messages being
brought into the church. It's not a new problem. We at
the immediate context of what we read is within the church,
but really. Consider where the first false
prophet was. Stand in the garden. Listen to
the serpent. The first message of false hope
given. Was whispered to Eve. Go ahead, you can be like God. False gospel. But the truth or
the or the principle presented rather in that gospel, that false
gospel, underlies every false gospel that has come along since. And that is that God will be
demoted and we will be promoted. At its core, every false teaching
is that principle spoken. Lessen God, make man more. Let's look at some of the other
Gospels and other Jesuses that are out there. We'll focus on
some things, and I make some distinctions here. Let's understand
that there are secular Gospels and there are religious Gospels. At the time of Christ, The gospel
being preached, or not preached by Jesus, but understood by the
masses and hoped for by the masses, rather, was a secular gospel. They wanted a king to step up
and overthrow the government. They wanted a king who would
restore Israel to the glory days. They wanted a king who would
make Israel a wonderful nation. Their viewpoint was contained
by their flesh. They were not looking beyond. They were not looking even within
themselves to see what the root cause of all their problems really
was. They were looking for a secular
Messiah. As the church developed, the focus narrowed. It was a
movement within Judaism, and the discussions were more contained
by the religion of the day. So it's more of a spiritual gospel
as the discussion takes place within the church. A spiritual
understanding of Jesus, spiritual understanding of what the good
news is. So you have a distinction here
of a secular gospel and now a spiritual gospel. At times throughout history,
one or the other has been strongly preached. And at times they've
both been preached together in the same time. I think as we
remember through our history, we can see that to be true. We
can see that to be true. The building of the Catholic
Church throughout what we call the Dark
Ages was a secular gospel. Their goal was to conquer Europe
and then ultimately what became called the New World in the name
of Jesus Christ. Their goal was conquering, it
was not salvation. We understand that from history.
The Reformation came and there was a refocusing of that message,
drawing it back to the spiritual. Now, let us understand that a
spiritual gospel has secular implications. As people act on
what they believe, things happen in the secular. But the emphasis
of the Reformation was primarily spiritual, not secular. So it was a shifting of perspective.
Generally speaking, you see a secular type of gospel, one that's focused
on the outward world, preached during times of great civil distress. Things are out of order, there's
great upheaval in the world, and people are desperate to find
peace. That's when you start hearing
strong, secular gospels. That's when you start hearing
of political messiahs. Now, the time of Christ was such
a period. But we've had them at other times
in our own country. Think back to the late 1800s
when we developed in this country what was called the social gospel. There were those who decided
in the name of Christ that society must be reshaped to reflect Christian
values. And their emphasis changed from
preaching the gospel of salvation to sinners to saving drunks from
the gutter, getting women the vote, things like that. It was a product of a great period
of social upheaval in this country we call the Industrial Revolution. Technology was rapidly changing. People were making a lot of money
and people were making no money. And for a period of time, society
in America was spinning, spinning, spinning, out of control, so
it seemed. Thus, the development of this
social gospel. The time periods that we live
in most recently, a period of great upheaval. We're seeing
the social gospel demonstrated again. We're seeing political
messiahs rising. Look at the election of our current
president. He was and is yet spoken of today
in Messianic terms. This man has the answer to our
every problem, and if we will but let him, he will give us
and fulfill our every need. It is a social, secular Messiah
being preached to us. It is another Jesus. and another gospel. We look within the church to
spiritual gospel. The question within the church
at the time of Paul teetered between two extremes, one of
Jewish legalism and the other of antinomianism or no respect
or heathens to the law of God. That argument today still rages
within the church. God's grace is a special place
within the church. It's a special thing within the
church and it can only be maintained by focusing on God and Christ
alone. We take our eyes off of Christ
and we will rush quickly to one side of the spectrum or the other,
towards legalism or towards antinomianism, and grace will be lost in the
message. The battle over God's grace and
what it means and how Christ works grace in us raged in Paul's
day, and truthfully, it rages today. It rages today. The main message or the main
mention, rather, we have of Jesus is within religious context.
People don't talk about Jesus a whole lot outside of religious
circles, although their claims may be messianic. Now we'll shift
our emphasis away from the political secular arena and look at within
religious circles. And let's mention some of the
other Jesus and other gospels that we see every day. Outside of the church, but within
the religious world, there are other Jesus being preached. We
mentioned one, and we'll call it within the political arena. I said I wasn't going to go there.
I'll make mention of it one more time. There are religious movements,
both on the left and the right, that claim to have God on their
side. And that God will save us through
government. And I put that movement outside
of the church, even though it functions within the name of
Jesus, because its emphasis is to change government rather than
people. Within the religious world, we
can look at some things, I'll mention a few that are out there
that we've heard of that we've seen these preach another Jesus
and another gospel. But again, if you talk to these
people. Every other word out of their
mouth is Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Without discernment, we lose
what they're saying. Here's one that's an interesting
one to me that that amazes me, but it's true. The Catholic cults. Those outside of the mainstream
of the Catholic religion, like this movement from the Caribbean,
Santeria, and that from the Catholics from the Caribbean and Western
Africa, voodoo. An odd mix of the name of Jesus
and voodoo, pagan religion, sanctioned by the Catholic Church. They
perform their rituals. with candles burning with pictures
of Jesus and the Virgin Mary on them. It has nothing to do
with Jesus Christ or the good news that He preached. But if
you talk to these people, they will say, oh, this is good news. And here is Jesus right here
on this candle. Mormonism. The testimony of the
Latter-day Saints. Jehovah's Witnesses, again, when
these people come to your doorstep, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, here's the
good news, Jesus. It's another Jesus and another
gospel. Within religious circles, we
hear a lot of talk and have for the last 20 years about the New
Age movement. And any of their literature that
you read is just paragraph after paragraph after paragraph about
Jesus. But He's a spiritual medium.
He's a spiritual guide unto you. He's not necessarily your Savior.
And often you'll read more about Christ's consciousness than you
will about any gospel. If you can get your mind right,
you can be saved. Another one that is amazing,
it's in the news a lot, we've talked about it even before,
Islam. The Islamists love Jesus. They
consider Him the greatest prophet below that last and greatest
prophet, Muhammad. They reverence Jesus. He is the
great prophet. of Islam. Not the greatest prophet,
but the great prophet of Islam. Their Jesus is completely different
than ours. They say that he never even died
on the cross. That that was somebody else.
And Jesus, as Allah's prophet, would never suffer such humiliation. But you talk to an Islamic, he
will tell you, we love Jesus. He's in your Bible. He's in our
Quran. Muhammad spoke much about Jesus. It's another Jesus and
another gospel. Within the church, and now I
reference those who actually bear the name of Christian. We identify other Jesus's ranging
from legalists to antinomianism, antinomianists. And again, I'm
pretty general in saying this. But I think as you look at the
different messages being preached in different churches by different
people, you can see these basic principles, legalism or lawlessness. So look at the legalists. When you listen to their messages,
it is about obedience, not about grace. Now, they'll
talk about grace and they'll talk about Jesus Christ as our
Savior and they'll talk about the Spirit within us. But when
you listen, really listen, they're preaching obedience. Their message is come as you
are but become like us." Now, that may not sound like
a bad message, but the real message is, come as you are and become
like Christ. The truth is, I am a terrible
measure of Jesus Christ. At my best, at my very best,
if you follow my example, you will fall so incredibly short
of Jesus Christ, and there is no hope in following my example. But the message of the legalist
is, yes indeed, if you will but do this thing and that thing,
and you'll become like I am, you can be saved. You can be
saved. Let's look at some areas within
the church where you'll see this. Again, there's somewhat of a
retreat to the political here in the mention of the first,
and that is I'll make the generic name mention of the Christian
Right. We identify it as a political
movement. Primarily, my thought here is
what is called Christian Reconstructionism and Christian Theonomy. That is that we must put the
laws of God, the Old Testament, in place in our current society. That is the only way we can capture
righteousness within our society. Their emphasis is the law of
God. The emphasis of Christ is the
grace of God. Because law makes our sin known,
but it doesn't save us. The Christian right, as I use
this term, says we need the law placed back upon us. It's the
only hope for righteousness in our society. Another church,
and some would maybe argue with me on placing these people within
legalists, but I'll explain my point, and that is the prosperity
church. Basically, the entire charismatic
movement, and I know that will offend a great many, but it's
true. The prosperity movement calls on the name of Jesus. Oh,
we pray all kinds of things. If we'll agree with Jesus, we
can get this. But the Jesus they preach is
an incantation, a formula, not a Savior. I have heard Prosperity
Preachers on the Trinity Broadcast Network say that God's laws apply
to everybody, even if a pagan, somebody who doesn't believe
in Jesus, will apply these laws, they'll get what they want. Do you see? It's about law. It's about formula. It's about
doing stuff. And beyond that, it's about getting
stuff for me. It's not about furthering the
kingdom. It's not about following Christ. It's about getting stuff
for me. And it's legalism. You listen
to Him. If you will do this, then God
must do this. Notice here, God doesn't have
to do anything. God is God. If He will condescend
to be kind to us, then praise His name. But He's under no obligation
to anyone to do anything. There's another one that's kind
of striking. I'll mention it, the black Jesus movement. There's
all kinds of competing ideas out there. They're a legalistic
movement in the sense that if you're not black, you can't gain
the favor of Jesus. And they go through all these
rigors to prove that the Jesus of the Bible was actually a black
man. And that the reason he was persecuted
and hung on the cross was because he was black. It was racial discrimination,
actually. It wasn't that he was preaching
the truth. It wasn't that he was the suffering
servant of Israel. He was a black man subject to
another lynching. Another Jesus. Another gospel. Then you've got the Christian
Jew movement. that sets up a hierarchy within
the kingdom of God with Jewish people who are converted as being
superior Christians to any of us who were never Jewish. It's
a legalism, again, based on religious background. I won't say race
because I don't think you can make the case that Jewish people
are a separate race. But they are a culture and a
religious background. And the Christian Jew movement,
if you'll listen to their preachers, if you'll listen to those who
follow them, very much so preach a superior gospel to the Jew
and a lesser gospel to the Gentile. It's a legalism based on who
you are and what you can do. I won't go on with that. There's
many, many more we could focus on, but I think those are some
you have seen and heard of, and in your mind you can remember
these things and see that there is another Jesus and another
gospel being preached. We look at the antinomian side
of it, and the message here in the antinomian side is, come
as you are, stay as you are. Come as you are. Stay as you
are. The first mention I make here
parallels the first mention I made under the legalist, and that
is the Christian left. There is a whole political movement
that is on the communistic side of politics that claims the name
of Jesus, and they will throw scripture after scripture after
scripture at you and tell you about Jesus, Jesus, Jesus to
make their political point. The Christian left. Listen to
what they're saying. Then they take in so many other
groups within their ranks. Some of the other groups that
are in this antinomian side that bear the name of Christ. If you
ask them, they will say, oh, yes, we are Christians, dedicated
Christians. We know God. We know Jesus. We
take his message to heart. They will accept Jesus. whoever
that is, without accepting any of his moral teachings. The homosexual movement within
the church. There are churches out there,
congregations that welcome homosexuals, practicing homosexuals and tell
them they don't have to change. They don't need to repent that
God loves you as you are and makes no demands that you change. There are whole churches that
are nothing but homosexuals taking that position. Of course, we
understand as we read the Scripture, you have to deny a lot of Scripture
to do that, both Old and New Testament. But there are those
and there Jesus loves them. You've got the feminist movement
and there is a religious feminist movement that will tell you that
the social order, the things that Paul had to say about women's
conduct in the church is unacceptable. And that was spoken by Paul,
but not by Jesus. So we can ignore that. They're without law. The things
that the scripture has to say that would bind them, They won't
hear. They're antinomian. But if you
ask them, they will tell you, I am a Christian. I follow Jesus
Christ. I follow Jesus Christ. Here's
one that's of old, but I will tell you, even though they're
not here in a visual presence, they're here in spirit, and that
is the hippies of the 1960s. Their kids and grandkids are
now our leaders. And their goofy theology of love,
love, love is just stamped all over the church. In the 60s, you had these weirdos
running around saying, I'm a Jesus freak. Well, they don't call
themselves Jesus freaks anymore, but they're freaky nonetheless. And they're in our churches.
And they will tell you that they're Christians. It's all about the
love of Jesus. Now, this is where you start
to get to where people really look at you cross-eyed. Yes,
it is about the love of Jesus. Never understand me to say that
we don't care about the love of Jesus. We are the partakers
of and the respondents to the love of Jesus if we have the
grace of God. But the love they speak of and
the Jesus they speak of are not real Jesus and not real love. We look at some other groups
that come into what we would consider basically the fundamentalist
circles, and yet they're antinomian in a sense, and I'll mention
a few of these. The cowboy churches. They're springing up all over
the place. Cowboys. We can wear our blue
jeans and our cowboy boots and our hats to church. And they
draw a lot of people because they are informal. Now, you can look at me today.
I am not in a suit. I am not formal. But the bigger issue is what do they
preach to their people and what do they expect from their people? What I have found in talking
to people, this is my personal experience here, take it for
that. What I have found from people who go to cowboy churches
is they don't demand any repentance. Come as you are, stay as you
are. Their overriding interest is
they all ride horses. That's the big deal. They ride
horses. It just so happens that they
come to church. But their interest is that they're
all cowboys. We did another bunch that I've
always found humorous, sadly humorous. The bikers for Jesus. You see them out here riding
around in their leather jackets with a big cross on their back,
and they look ten times ugly. They're rough as a cob. Praise
God, we love Jesus. I've never heard them preach,
but I do know that their appearance is of the world. It's purely
of the world, and that's a problem. One of my favorites, and this
is where I'll end this discussion of aberrant churches, but I read
about this church years ago, and it just struck me. It was in, if you'll read the
religious page on Sunday morning, in the paper you'll come across
all kinds of interesting, weird stuff. I read this about the
First Church of Rock and Roll. They read on their Sunday morning
services from the gospel, but they also quoted people they
considered to be prophetic voices of today. The Beatles, Mick Jagger,
the Rolling Stones. And they said, you know, Jesus'
first miracle was to turn water into wine. That proves that he
was a partying kind of guy. Come as you are, stay as you
are. The antinomian part of the church. Another Jesus, another gospel. Something that's common to most
of these aberrant groups is they all claim that Jesus is one of
them. He's one of them. There are those that claim Jesus
was a hippie. He was a rebel against the state
and against the establishment. And in a sense, he was. There
are those that say he was a feminist because he spoke to the woman
at the well. And the first people that saw
him when he was resurrected were women. That proves that Jesus
was a feminist. There are those that say Jesus
and the apostles were homosexuals. Again, these groups are quick
to claim Jesus as one of their own. This is a problem throughout
the history of mankind. And God rebuked Israel of old
in Psalm 50, verse 21, when He said, You thought I was like
you. Left ourselves, we will all recreate
God in our own image. God is like me. No. No. God is like God and He is holy
and perfect. We're told in Romans chapter
12, verses 1 and 2, that we are not to be conformed to the image
of this world, not to be conformed to the image of this world, but
to be transformed by the renewing of our minds. And then once renewed,
we will know what the will of God is. The will of God is not come as
you are and become like me. The will of God is not come as
you are and stay as you are. The will of God is come as you
are and become like Christ. These things mentioned, I think
that with even a casual glance, we can see that there are many
things out there today that are contending for our attention
that are spoken of as Jesus and spoken of as the gospel. But they are not. They are not. We as Christians must be prepared
individually to know the difference. Satan comes masquerading as an
angel of light. If somebody comes up to you or
I during the week and says, come to our religion, become one of
us, we wear chicken suits to our meetings on Tuesday night,
we won't go there. That doesn't even resonate with
us. But if somebody comes up and cloaks enough of their language
with the name of Jesus and throws enough Scripture at us, We might
become confused, deceived for a moment, led astray. What we
must do as individuals is to be close to Christ ourselves.
We must know the real Christ. Each one of us periodically should
ask ourselves in honest appraisal. What do I know about Jesus? What do I know about Jesus? What
do I know about the gospel? And then follow that with a second
question, which is different. It's kind of the same, but it
is different yet. What do I believe about Jesus? What do I believe about the gospel? Most Christians. Out there. have only the vaguest sense of
what they really believe. I think, as I've known you, as
you've known me, we're not a typical congregation, and I don't mean
to brag on us and puff us up in saying that, but each one
of us in here, I think, have taken the time over the course
of our Christian lives to seek and study Jesus. Most people out there, their
view of Jesus comes from a sermon on Sunday morning. Be it a good
sermon or a bad sermon. Most Christians have only a vague
sense of what they really believe. That's tragic. That's tragic. God tells us in the book of James,
chapter 1, verse 5, that we should ask for wisdom and God will grant
it to us. We need to know our Jesus, we
need to know more and more and more of our Jesus. With Jesus
Christ, the real Jesus Christ, and with the Gospel, the real
Gospel, there are hope and there are life. With another Jesus,
not the real Jesus, but another Jesus, and with another Gospel,
there is only false hope and no life. May God grant us the
grace to know now and know always in our minds, our hearts, our
spirits, the real Jesus. May He grant us in our minds,
our hearts, and our spirits a real understanding of the gospel.
There is hope and there is life in Jesus Christ.