now open your bibles with me
to book of Matthew chapter 13 Matthew chapter 13 I'm continuing
in the series on the parables of the kingdom each one revealing something
some mystery about the nature the continuation and the truth
of the kingdom of heaven, which is God's sovereign rule over
all things, especially his rule over his true people, the true
church of the living God, chosen by God before the foundation
of the world, redeemed by the blood of Christ, justified by
his righteousness imputed, regenerated, called by the Holy Spirit under
the preaching of the gospel, God's sovereign rule over his
church, his salvation that he provides for his people, his
preserving grace, he preserves us, he not only saves us by his
grace in Christ, he keeps us by his grace in Christ, he'll
bring us to glory by his grace in Christ, all of grace. All of grace. That's a comfort
to God's people. But this includes now in his,
he's developing this and showing this to his disciples and showing
it to us today to show that this is what it's going to be like
on earth, his rule, sovereign rule on earth as his kingdom
grows towards the end time, the time of his second coming, the
judgment of this world. This is how it's going to be.
And he started off in Matthew 13 on the parable of the seed
and the sower. He's talking about how the gospel
is going to go out throughout the earth. Some are going to
refuse it, just reject it. Some are going to believe it
for a while and then leave it, which shows they never really
believed it to begin with. That's what the scripture teaches.
The Bible does not teach that one can be truly saved by the
grace of God in Christ and then ever be lost again. That's not
scriptural. That's a false gospel. But he
tells them plainly, now there's going to be, as you go out and
preach the gospel, the gospel seed is not going to fall on
the same kind of heart. There's different kinds of heart,
but there's only one good heart in that parable, you remember?
The good ground hearer, and that's the regenerate heart. Remember
Christ told Nicodemus, what? You must be born again. You know
who he's saying that to? To Nicodemus? He's saying it
to me, he's saying it to you. You must be born again or you
cannot see or enter the kingdom of heaven. That heart, that good
ground here, that good heart is the heart that's not good
in and of itself by nature because by nature we're sinful people
falling in Adam. The natural heart is a deceitful
heart. Desperately wicked, who could
know it? And that includes desperately wicked in man's religious activity
as well as his immorality. People who read the Bible, And
when they see things concerning sin and depravity and relegate
those things off to only the immoral section of society, they
do not understand the Word of God. Because that includes the
natural man in any capacity, doesn't it? When the Bible says
we've all sinned and come short of the glory of God, that's not
just talking about some immoral segment of the population. That's talking about every man
and woman by nature. even in religion. And unless
we learn to read the Bible and interpret it that way by the
power of the Spirit, we won't understand it at all. Mark was
reading there in 2 Thessalonians 2 about the mystery of iniquity,
the deceivableness of unrighteousness. Who do you think that's talking
about? That's talking about those who are religiously deceived.
Exactly who it's talking about. But Christ taught in that parable
that the word's gonna go out, and God's gonna save his people. Christ said it in John 10, my
sheep will hear my voice. They'll follow me. He said, I
know them. And they'll know me, they'll follow me, he said. And
that's what he's talking about, the parable of the seed and the
sower. And then he taught in that companion parable. You see,
these parables come in twos. There's eight parables here,
two each. And in the companion parable of that seed and the
sower, he had the wheat and the tares, the wheat being the true
children of God, the elect of God, known because they believe
the gospel, that's how you know them, they trust Christ for all
salvation, not just part salvation, but all salvation, all of grace. They're submitted to Him. They
know the Gospel. They know the righteousness of
God revealed in the Gospel. Remember Paul said of his countrymen,
he said, they're ignorant of God's righteousness and going
about to establish a righteousness of their own. Well, God's true
children, at some point in time, when it pleases the Lord to reveal
Himself in them by the power of the Spirit under the preaching
of the Gospel, they're going to know Him. They're going to
know His righteousness. They're going to bow to it, submit
to it. and repent of their dead works and idolatry. But he said,
while that's going on, while Christ is sowing his true children
in the world, Jew and Gentile, Satan's going to be sowing his
tares. And who are those tares? Well,
that's a specific thing. Let me say it this way. All unbelievers
are lost. But the tares, that refers to
a specific type of unbeliever. Because you say, how do you know
that? Because of the word tare. What is a tare? A tare is a plant
that looks like wheat, but it's not wheat. It's a poison. In
fact, when it's full grown, they say that the seeds of it are
poisonous. The literal word transliterated
would be darnal. But it looks like wheat until
it's full grown, you find out it's poisonous. Tares refers
to false Christians. That's what he's talking about,
false Christians. And so you see how that developed.
The gospel is going to go out. Some are not going to believe
it, but God's people are going to believe it. But while he's
sowing those true children, Satan is going to sow false Christians.
Satan is a subtle devil. In these next two, I dealt partly
with, in verse 31, look at Matthew 13, 31. There's the parable,
the one grain of mustard seed. Verse 31, another parable put
he forth unto them, saying the kingdom of heaven is like to
a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field. And last week, I had you see
Luke's version of this parable teaches the same thing but he
uses some different language over in Luke 13 verse 19 kingdom
of heaven's like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and cast
into his garden so Luke says he cast it into his garden Matthew
says he sowed it in his field the field there's the world now
you remember I told you that if you notice these parables
these kingdom parables in in Matthew 13 Christ started out
with the first two, and then he spoke the second two, and
then he sent the multitude away. He explained the first two. He
explained to the disciples the parable of the sower and the
seed. He explained to them the parable of the wheat and the
tares. But he didn't explain the other six. He just stated
the parable. Here in Luke 13, look at it.
Verse 32, he said, this mustard he sowed in his field, which
indeed is the least of all seeds, a mustard seed. And when it is
granted, and you know, a lot of people, they'll go to the
Bible and say, well, now the mustard seed is not the smallest seed
in the plant kingdom. It's not. That's not the issue
here. The size of the, what he's, he's making a spiritual point
here, and that's, you know what? That's another one of Satan's
tools. He'll get people off on little details like that, that
they think disproves the Bible. It doesn't disprove it at all.
They miss the spiritual lesson. They miss the truth. It's the
least of all seeds. But when it's grown, he says
in verse 32, it's the greatest among herbs, it becometh a tree.
And then the last phrase there, so that the birds of the air
come and lodge in the branches thereof. Over in Luke 13, when
he spoke of this, verse 19, he says, it's like a grain of mustard
seed which a man took, cast into his garden, it grew, it waxed
a great tree, it grew into a great tree. And he says, and the fowls
of the air lodged in its branches. And that's all he said. Now,
he explained the first two, but he didn't explain the other six.
What does that tell you? It tells you that the last six
parables are to be interpreted by what he said in the first
two. In other words, what these things mean, I can only know
that by how he explained the first two parables. whatever
objects he uses. So here's this one grain of mustard
seed. What's he talking about in that
parable? He's talking about the origin of the church. It had
small beginnings, but then it grew into a great tree. Start
out small. How small did it start out? One
person, the Lord Jesus Christ himself. He is the creator, the
origin, the builder of his church. He told his disciples that back
in Matthew 16, upon this rock I will build my church and the
gates of hell will not prevail against it. He's the head of
the church. He's the heart of the church.
He's the foundation of the church. Christ is. He used the same words
that Luke used. In that John 12 passage, we looked
at that last week, and I won't turn to all these this morning
because I don't have time, but remember back in John 12 when
he said, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground. That word
corn, corn of wheat, is the same word as grain in grain of mustard
seed. And that corn of wheat fall,
he said except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die,
If it dies, it'll bring forth much fruit. He was talking about
his own death. He fell into the ground, as you
could say it, when he went to the cross. Died for the sins
of his people as charged, accounted, imputed to him. And he went into
the ground in a tomb. But what happened? Life came
out of that tomb. Christ came out of that tomb.
And because He established the only righteousness whereby God
could justify the ungodly, life for all His people. There's life
in Him. And so that we're justified before
God based upon what Christ accomplished, what He alone accomplished, nothing
else. Nothing added to it. And as a
result of that, we are regenerated. We're quickened. We're given
life. We're born again from above. We're given a new heart, a new
mind, a new spirit, a new life. You see, that's the fruit. And that's what he's talking
about here in this parable, that mustard seed. It was planted
in the ground. It dies, but it brought forth
much fruit. It brought forth a great tree.
That's his church. believers. When Luke said that the grain
of mustard seed was cast into his garden, that's the language
Luke used. That is so indicative of what
happened to Christ. Think about it. He was cast into
the garden, the garden of Gethsemane. There's one passage of scripture,
I believe it's in John 19, we won't turn there, you can look
that up, John 19, I think it's verse 41, but it talks about
Golgotha. Now you know what Golgotha is,
don't you? That's where the cross, that's where Christ died on the
cross, and he calls it a garden. There was a garden there, talking
about the garden of Gethsemane, that area, it's called a garden.
Now you don't think about the place of the skull, that's what
Golgotha means, The place of death, the place of execution,
where they executed criminals as being a garden. But I want
to tell you something, for we who know Christ, that's exactly
what it was, a garden. God's garden, where he planted
that seed, Christ himself, the God-man. And he died for our
sins. You know why we're righteous
before God? Because Christ died. You know why we have life from
God? Because Christ died. There it
is. And so the church came out of
his death. And it grew up into a great tree.
That's what he's talking about. He says that he was the least
of all seeds. You remember that? We were talking
about this last week. How in the world could you say
that Christ was the least of all saints? Well, have you ever
read Isaiah 53? How does it start out describing
Him? Man of sorrows, acquainted with grief, we hid as it were
our faces from Him. There was nothing about Him. Think about His condescension.
The Lord of glory, the second person of the Godhead, the Son
of God, came to this earth, and was made flesh, and dwelt among
us." What a condescension. And not only just flesh, but
the least. He became a servant, Paul wrote
in Philippians chapter 2. A servant. Now, you say, well,
how does that make him the least? Well, listen. He's the one who
created this world. The Word. Before, who was with
God, who was God. Without Him, nothing was made
that was made. and it was all made for him by him and to him
and he he occupied the womb of a virgin he was born as an infant in a
manger that's a place where they feed animals you were born that
way were you might have been born at home you might have been
born in a hospital but they didn't put you in a feeding trough he's the least you see poor And
everyone was against him. Herod put out a decree to kill
all the male children. And what he had to do, he had
to go down into Egypt, the place of bondage. And there's several things. You
can go to the Messianic Psalms where Christ, in prophecy there,
as expressed by the psalmist. For example, I believe it's in
Psalm 22. If it's not, it's either in Psalm 22, Psalm 40, or Psalm
69. But remember, he makes this statement. He said, I am a worm
and no man. That's Christ speaking as the
one who had our sins imputed, charged to Him. Bearing on Himself all the sins
of all of God's people, past, present and future. He was made
a curse for us. He was crucified between two
thieves. They called Him a malefactor.
You know what that is? That's a criminal. This One who gave them and us
the very breath that we breathe. That's how He was made the least
of all in that sense. He didn't become a sinner. He
wasn't made the least that way. But He was made sin, wasn't He? How? He bore our iniquities in
Himself. A man of sorrows, acquainted
with grief, the least. But out of that least came the
great tree. And then look back at Matthew
13, 32. Then it says, now that's how the church started. That's
how the church began. Out of that very small beginning,
the one grain of mustard seed, the least of all, grew into a
great tree. And you can think about that.
He's talking about the kingdom of heaven in the last days. So
we equate it with the New Testament church. And you remember what
happened after the Lord ascended and Peter and the other disciples,
they preached in Jerusalem. And on one day at Pentecost,
how many people were converted? 3,000. How many of you would
like to see 3,000 people in Albany, Georgia converted? We think something's
really happening now. Well, something's always been
happening in the preaching of the gospel. We know that. But,
you know, from our human viewpoint, could you imagine me standing
here preaching to 3,000 people? Well, then later on as they preached,
5,000 were saved. Great tree. But look here in
verse 32 at the end of it. He says, so that it became a
great tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in
its branches." Now, what are these birds of the air? Well,
there's a lot of different views of it. But I believe if we keep with
the text and we interpret this parable in light of what he'd
said before, that we find out who these birds are back in verse
4 of Matthew 13. Remember he's talking about the
seed going forth? He says in verse 4, He sowed
some seed, and some seeds fell by the wayside, and it said the
fowls came and devoured them up. Look over in Matthew 13, verse
19. Here's where He explains the
parable of the seed and the sower. Verse 19, yes. He says in verse 19, when anyone
hearth the word of the kingdom and understandeth it not, then
cometh the wicked one and catcheth away that which was sown in his
heart. This is he which receives seed
by the wayside. So in that sense, those birds
that robbed that seed are satanic. They're agents of Satan. Over
in Luke's version of the parable, Luke 1319, he says, the fowls
of the air lodged in it. Usually a fowl is one who feeds
upon carrion, dead things. And I read this, I haven't checked
this out thoroughly, but I think it's probably true. If you look
at the pattern of Scripture, anytime you see birds in the
Scripture and they're good birds, the Lord names them. Sparrows,
doves, even a raven. An eagle, for example. But anytime
it's a bad bird, he doesn't name them, he just says birds or fowls.
So what are these birds that lodge in the branches? Well,
to me it's obvious they're not in the kingdom of heaven as far
as being part of the true church, but they're sitting on the branches.
They're agents of Satan. What is he talking about? These
fowls of the air, representing devils, I believe is referring
to in the last days as the church begins, and as that one grain
of mustard seed, Christ himself, suffers and bleeds and dies for
his people, was buried and rose the third day, and the church
comes out of that and becomes a great tree, immediately Satan
starts attacking the church from without. Look over at Acts chapter 2.
Now isn't that what happened? Satan
persecuting the church from without, outside the church. Over in Acts
chapter 2, he's talking about how the disciples, God's people,
were called into the kingdom and they united with the church.
Look at verse 41 of Acts chapter 2. Verse 40 says, and with many
other words that he did testify and exhort, saying, save yourselves
from this untoward generation, talking about Peter preaching
the gospel, and it says in verse 41 of Acts 2, then they that
gladly received his word were baptized, and the same day there
were added unto them about 3,000 souls. There's that great tree
that came out of that one mustard. That's part of that great tree,
the church. Turn over to Acts chapter 4. Look at verse 1. As they spake unto the people,
the priest and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees
came upon them, being grieved that they taught the people and
preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. See, they're being
attacked. And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold,
and to the next day put them in jail, for it was now even
time. Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed, and
the number of the men was about five thousand." That tree growing
it, but they're being attacked. Satan's attacking, you see. Look
over at Acts 7. I'll show you one more, and then
we'll get back. Here's Stephen. Preaches the
gospel. And in verse 57 of Acts 7, listen
to this, it says, They cried out with a loud voice, and stopped
their ears, and ran upon him with one accord. Here's what
they did, like that. We don't want to hear this anymore.
What is it about Stephen's message? What was it about Peter's message
that was so hated by the religious majority? That salvation was
by the sovereign grace of Almighty God through the Lord Jesus Christ
and no other way. That's what they were preaching.
Righteousness only by Christ, no other way. And that all the
deeds, religious deeds, sincere deeds, dedicated deeds of the
natural man, including the Jewish community, was all nothing but
dead works and idolatry. We don't want to hear that. And
they stopped their ears, and ran upon them, and won a court."
Verse 58, "...cast him out of the city," this is Stephen, "...stoned
him. The witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's
feet, whose name was Saul." There's Saul of Tarsus. They stoned Stephen,
calling upon God and saying, Lord Jesus received, Stephen
was calling upon God saying, Lord Jesus received my spirit.
He kneeled down and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this
sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he
fell asleep. Look at verse one of chapter
eight. Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there
was a great persecution against the church, which was at Jerusalem.
And they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea
and Samaria, except the apostles. You see, that persecution started. And that persecution continued
throughout the early days of the church. As the gospel began
to spread out among the Gentile world, God, especially through
the Apostle Paul, began to plant churches in different areas.
Galatia, Ephesus, Corinth, Philippi. We know about those places, don't
we? We've got the Bible here. And persecution kept coming.
It came not only from the religious Jews who hated the gospel of
God's grace, it came from the Roman Empire. Many true believers
were persecuted unto death. Persecuted by Rome. And then
it continued all the way up through. You can read about this in the
book of Revelation. The persecution. by Satan, the
great dragon, who attacked the woman, the church. And she fled
into the desert, a place of safety. But he still attacked and Satan
was loosed and he operated by virtue of the beast, the two
beasts, one representing ungodly governments and economies, the
other representing false religion, What was her name? You remember
her name? Mystery Babylon, the great whore. Much of that religion coming
in the name of Christ, but denying the doctrine of Christ. You can
take it all the way up to the church at Rome. Persecuting true
believers. You can see it. Satan attacking
the church. And that's what these birds of
the air represent. Man by nature hates the truth
of the gospel of God's grace because it leaves him no room
to boast. This is the condemnation, Christ said, that light has come
into the world. What is that light? It's Christ
and the gospel. The gospel of his righteousness
alone, his blood alone, grace alone. And men love darkness
and hate the light because their deeds, their religion, their
efforts, their works that they're so proud of. I know because I
was there, you were too. What was it that you thought
recommended you unto God before God stopped you in your tracks? And by the power of the Holy
Spirit brought you down off your high horse. That's the issue. The book of
Hebrews deals with professing believers being persecuted, even
to the point that some left the church totally and denied Christ. The Bible tells us they were
never true believers to begin with, but they claim to be. And the Lord assures us that
the true people of God will, by the grace of God, remain faithful
to him because they'll be preserved by his grace. He will not let
us go. You know, if you're a child of
God, I can tell you right now, he will never let you go. He'll never let you go. And you
want to know something? That's your ground of assurance
right there. He saved you by his grace. He
will not charge you with your sin. You know why? Because he
charged him to Christ. The true church cannot be defeated.
The gates of hell will not prevail against it. But then look back
at Matthew 13. Look at verse 33. Now here's
the parable of the leaven in three measures of meal. This
is the companion to the grain of mustard seed. The first one,
the church starts out, very small beginning, grows into a great
tree. Satan attacks from without. Here's
the next one, verse 33, another parable, spake he unto them,
the kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven which a woman took
and hid in three measures of meal till the whole was leavened.
Luke's version of that is just about exactly the same, no difference. The kingdom of heaven, as it
appears here on this earth throughout the last age, And I tell you
what, we always have to make a distinction now between the
true church and the false church, what appears to be the church.
You see, Christ had already taught that in the two parables that
he started off with, the parable, for example, the wheat and the
tares. And he said now at the last judgment, he would be the
one who'd separate the wheat from the tares. We can't do it
because we may fail to recognize the truth of the matter. There
are some who claim to be Christian who are so far off that it's
easily recognizable. There are others who are closer,
more subtle. Christ said in Matthew 24 that
as the days grow closer to the end that there will be come who
will be so close to the truth that if it were possible they
could deceive the very elect. Thank God it's not possible. some closer than others the last judgment that will be
that final separation calling all this the kingdom of heaven
assures us that God's still in control now everything is happening
you understand as we go through the last days and as we approach
the end God is on the throne folks he's still in control he hasn't
stepped off of his throne he hasn't relinquished control It's
all going according to his plan. We may not see it that way in
every little detail and we may get upset and flustered and we
wonder what in the world is going on. God is in control. You mean what's happening in
Washington? Good night. It's awful. God's still in control. What's happening in religion?
How many people do you know who claim to be Christian but don't
really know the gospel? What is going on? God's in control. You say, but it's sad. And it
is. And we feel for them. But think about this. As the
birds of the air symbolize Satan's attacks against the church in
the last days from without, this leaven, this leaven and three
measures of meal, symbolizes Satan's attacks against the church
from within. And again, it's something that starts
out very small and grows into something very large. Now, he's
not saying here that the kingdom of heaven is like leaven. That's
not what he's saying. You've got to look at the whole
statement. He says the kingdom of heaven is like leaven which
a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until the whole
was leavened. Who's the woman there? Well, whenever you see
an unnamed woman in scripture which needs a spiritual interpretation,
you have to look for a religious group of people. You know that?
A religious group of people. A woman may represent a faithful
congregation or the true church, like in Revelation 12, where
Satan attacks the woman, drives her into the desert. Or it could
be an unfaithful congregation, a false church, like in Mystery
Babylon, the great harlot. Back in Genesis chapter 3 and
verse 15, what did the Lord reveal to Satan? That he would be at
enmity with the seed of what? Woman. You say, well that's talking
about Eve or that's talking about Mary. Listen to me. What he was teaching there is
a prophecy of the Lord Jesus Christ born of woman and that
Satan would be in a perpetual warfare with him and his church
from the beginning to the end of time Christ would come on
the cross, bruise the head of the serpent, Satan, that's the
mortal wound, but Satan would bruise his heel. That refers
to the death of Christ, but it's not a mortal wound in the sense
that he stays dead because his death is a victory and he would
be raised from the dead. And so every time a woman is
used as a symbol, the common denominator is the idea of a
system of beliefs and practices that influence the other people.
And again, it's either a faithful woman or an unfaithful woman. Now the woman here represents
the church as it starts out, as a faithful church. Over in Revelation 12, it talks
about her being clothed with the sun. and is clothed with
the righteousness of Christ. But here in Matthew 13, 33, it
represents the church on earth initially starting out as a faithful
body of believers, but then it says she puts leaven in three
measures of meal. You know the term three measures
of meal, you know the first time that it's used in scripture is
back in Genesis 18 when Christ appeared to Abraham along with
two angels concerning Sodom. You can read about that, we won't
turn there, Genesis 18. Remember he told Sarah, he said,
go prepare a meal. And she went and she got three
measures of meal, prepared cakes, and they sat down and ate. You
know what the three measures of meal represent? It's Christ
and His truth and the fellowship that we have around that truth. And so what is talking, and think,
you know, people, again, they get off on these things, but
try to get off on what are exactly the three measures, how big it
is. Don't get off on this. Recognize the truth that's said
here. There's a spiritual meaning. Christ is the bread of life.
We feed on him as the bread of life. Now what did this woman
do in this little parable? She hid three, she hid leaven
in three measures of meal. What does that mean? That word
hid, you know what it means? It means to hide within or mix.
You know what English word we get from the root word of hid? Encrypt. Like an encryption. It means to cover, to conceal,
to keep secret. It's not easily seen. You see,
it's kind of deceptive. And the leaven here, this action
of the woman occurred in the past and is still going on and
continues. That's the tense of it. It's not just something that
happened a long time ago. It started a long time ago, but
it continues. Well now, is this good leaven
or bad leaven? Is there any such a thing as
good leaven in the scripture? And the answer is no. In the
Old Testament, there are 59 verses talking about how in the ceremonies
of the Old Testament, leaven is prohibited. Because it represents
sin and corruption. Remember in the Passover, they
said you got to remove all leaven from your house. It's a type
of sin. There's only two exceptions where leaven is allowed. It's
in the book of Leviticus when it's talking about a thank offering
is offered. It must be offered with leaven.
Why? Because the sacrifice of thanksgiving
is offered by who? By us. And even though we're
saved by the grace of God and righteous in Christ, justified
eternally, what are we yet? We're still sinners. And we have
to recognize that. We have to confess that. We're
not free from the corruption of sin. Our sacrifices, our prayers,
our worship, our obedience is still contaminated and can only
be received by God and accepted through the blood of the Lamb. Another time leaven was commanded
was during the Feast of Weeks, Pentecost, to celebrate the birth
of the New Testament church. The church is in view there.
And what is the church? Sinners saved by grace. And what
about the New Testament significance of leaven? All occurrences of
leaven in the New Testament symbolize sin and false doctrine. Beware
of the leaven of the scribes and the Pharisees. You remember
that? And here's what he's teaching. In this parable, the church on
earth, as it appears on earth in the process of time, will
become apostate. Now next week I'm going to veer
off of this and go to that passage that Mark read in 2 Thessalonians
2 to show you what it's talking about even more. But it says, False doctrine and evil men will
infiltrate the pulpits to the extent that the true gospel will
die down until it's barely heard and then the end will come. Most
churches will have fallen away, apostasy on a worldwide scale,
works gospels, free will gospels, very little preaching of God's
truth. And what they do read, they pervert.
How will Satan accomplish that? I'll show you that more next
week, but he will infiltrate the church. Now, we must understand
that the true church, the true people of God, are not in danger. This is an apostasy, a falling
away of the church as it appears, not the true church. Remember
what Christ said, the gates of hell will not prevail against
it. But in the process of time, as we near the end of time, there
will be a great falling away of what is known throughout the
world as Christianity. It'll be Christian in name only.
But there'll be no truth. There'll be no gospel. And we'll
talk about that next week. All right.