Technical difficulties, all right.
Well, good morning. So good to see everybody here
and be a little bit warm, isn't it? If you would, let's open
our bios to Revelation chapter 21. Revelation chapter 21. Before we begin, let's bow together
in prayer. Our Father, which art in heaven,
holy and reverent, is your matchless name. Father, how we thank you
that out of your goodness, mercy, and grace to your people, that
you've given us this opportunity to meet together, to read your
word, to hear word from thee, to be enabled by thy spirit to
worship you, to enable us to have this opportunity to meet
together with our brothers and sisters, lift up our voices together
in praise and thanksgiving to our God and our Savior. Father,
we do beg of Thee that You would enable us this morning by Your
Spirit to worship You in spirit and in truth. Enable us to forget
about all the cares and responsibilities of this life. And for this hour,
enable us to set our affection on things above. Enable us to
hear a word from Thee that we would leave here this morning
rejoicing in Christ our Savior. That we'd hear a message from
You that would encourage the hearts of Your people. would
cause us to rest in thee, to trust in thy son even more fully. Give us something we can take
with us through this week that will strengthen us and encourage
us for our journey here below. And whatever walk of life and
other responsibilities you've given to us to take care of this
week, give us something that we can take with us to encourage
us and strengthen us along the way. Father, I thank you that
you've given us a place we can meet together and worship. My
thank you for this family believers that you've called together.
Father, I ask that you'd bless each one. Bless us with your
mercy, your grace, your presence, your leadership, your guidance.
Father, we do continue to pray blessing for those who are hurting
those who are sick, who need you especially. Father, we pray
for them. We pray for your hand of healing.
We pray for your comforting presence, that you'd comfort their hearts
with your presence during the dark days that you've called
them to. Father, bless us in this hour. Cause everything that
is said and done and thought about here this morning be to
the praise and the glory of Christ our Savior. For it's in His name,
for His glory, we pray and give thanks. All right, Revelation chapter
21. I want to begin our lesson this morning with a statement
that may be shocking to some people. I don't think it'll be
really shocking to anyone here, but it will be a shocking statement
to many people in religion, to many people throughout the world.
Here's my statement. I've long thought this and I
found it for sure this week. There are no streets of gold
and no pearly gates in heaven. Found that out this week. I know
we've been conditioned to think that, but hope to show you from
God's word this morning that that's not so. And here's the
reason that I make this statement. Here's the reason I make an issue
of this, because this is what I want us to be concerned with.
This is what I want to be the concern of our hearts. It's to
know the Lord Jesus Christ, not be taken up with what the surroundings
of heaven may be, because that's not going to be the comfort.
That's not going to be the peace. That's not going to be the glory
of having the surroundings. I'm, Aaron, I'm confident. It's more magnificent than you
imagine. I'm confident. But that's not why I want to
be there. I want to be where Christ is,
don't you? I want us to be concerned with Him. And I don't want to
be concerned with Him, wait till I get there. I want to be concerned
with Him right now. I want us to be concerned with
Him right now. So I've titled the lesson this
morning, No Streets of Gold in Heaven. And our lesson begins
in verse 9. And there came unto me one of
the seven angels, which had the seven vials, full of the seven
last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will
show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. Now we've seen this before. We saw this angel back in chapter
17. This angel represents God's preacher. God's preacher comes
to John just like God sends his preachers to all of God's people.
And he's going to give John a vision of the Lamb's wife. Now what
is described in the rest of this chapter, the first of chapter
22, is not a vision that describes heaven, is it? He says, I'm going
to give you a vision of the Lamb's wife. I'm going to give you a
vision, a description of the bride of Christ. This is the
description of how God sees all of his people. Now, all the things
we're going to read about this morning, they're all true of
God's people on earth right now, because we've been born again.
We've been born again in the image of our Lord Jesus Christ.
But in that day in glory, all of these things will be perfectly
true, both body and soul. And this is what we have to look
forward to. This is what we enjoy right now. And this is what we
have to look forward to if we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Verse 10 says that he carried me away in the spirit to a great
and high mountain. It showed me that great city,
holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God. that here
the bride is described as a city. This is representative language,
isn't it? The city's not a place. The city is God's people. It's
the bride of Christ. And this is the city that Abraham
looked for. This is the city every believer
looked for. Remember the writer to the Hebrews
said how Abraham looked for a city which had foundations, whose
builder or maker is God. Abraham wasn't looking for a
city. He was looking for a people.
Abraham was looking to be part of that city, to be made just
like Christ. That was Abraham's desire. That's
what I said. I want us to be concerned with,
to be made in the image of Christ. And this is the people that the
father gave to his son to be his bride. And this is how God
sees his people. But you and I are going to see
God's people. We're going to see believers
like God sees them. We're going to have to get up into this high
mountain. We're going to have to get into the high mountain
ranges of the gospel of God's grace. We're going to have to
get into the high mountain ranges of God's word to be able to look
down and view God's church as he sees it. So here's the first
thing, if God let us see it, here's the first thing about
the bride of Christ. The bride of Christ is a holy people. The
preacher here, the angel describes this holy city as holy Jerusalem. God's people are a holy people.
They've been purified by the blood. They've been cleansed
by the blood of Christ. This city is New Jerusalem. It's
the people that God has caused to be born again. He's created
them new and we're born again. We're created with a new nature,
a holy nature, the nature of Christ. God's people are holy
right now. You're not going to, if you believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ, you will never be more holy than
you are right now. Because that's the way that God
has created his people. In every believer, while we still
have this nature of sin, there's a second nature in every child
of God that's perfectly holy. And you'll notice these people
come down from God. Well, you know why they come
down from God? Because they've always been with him. They've
always been in heaven with Christ our servant. Always, from eternity. God's people have been in heaven
as long as Christ has been in heaven because we're in him.
When Christ came down, we'll look at this more in the message
this morning, when Christ came incarnate to this earth, he accomplished
all the salvation of his people and he ascended back on high
then. When he got there, he sat down because the work was done. And what does scripture tell
us about God's people? We sat down in him. We're seated in
heavenly places in Christ Jesus right now. That's how God's people
come down out of heaven because we're in Christ. We've always
been in Christ. We always will be in Christ.
And this city is no small city. This matter of salvation by grace
is no small thing. John said, I saw a great city. It's a city that contains a number
of people no man can count. And this city will be large enough
for all of those people. Plenty of room for all of them,
be large enough for all of them, but they're not going to be one
empty seat. Not one of them will be missing. They're all going
to be there, saved, made holy by the Lord Jesus Christ. But
this bears saying, remember this, they're not holy because of anything
they've done. They've been made holy by a mighty work of God's
grace. Because remember, the builder
and maker of this city is God. Who built them up? Who made them
holy? God did. Verse 16, that's what we see.
And the city lieth four square, and the length is as large as
the breadth. And he that measured the city with the reed, 12,000
furlongs. The length and breadth and height
of it are equal. And he measured the wall thereof,
144 cubits, according to the measure of man, that is of the
angel. Now this city's in perfect symmetry. It's all four perfect. It's as wide as it is long as
it is tall. It's perfect. It is exactly what
Christ the Maker and Builder intended, purposed for it to
be. The purpose of God for His bride is that they be perfect. They're in perfect symmetry.
There's not one part longer than another. The whole body is perfectly
fit together, perfectly joined together, because that's what
Christ has made these. Now Christ's bride is perfect
spiritually now. She's been made perfect. But
when we look at ourselves, that's not what we see. When you look
at me, you don't see somebody perfect. That's the way God sees you.
And in glory, that's the way we'll be body and soul. You just
wait till you see the bride of Christ in glory, when you see
her in all of her perfection. The only way we can see that
now is to see each other spiritually as God has made us, as God sees
us. But in glory, that's what we'll see that body and soul,
of all God's people, the perfect. Second, the bride of Christ has
light, verse 11, having the glory of God. And her light was like
unto a stone, most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear
as crystal. Now you know this light is Christ
our light. And every believer knows this.
If we see anything, we understand any spiritual truth. The only
way we have any understanding of those things is to see those
things in the light of Christ. The only way we can know who
God is, who we are, how God saves sinners, is in the light of the
Lord Jesus Christ. And when Christ comes to his
people, he reveals himself to his people. He is light. So he drives away the darkness
of ignorance and unbelief. And we see and we believe in
the light of who Christ is. Now you who believe, you see
right now, you understand what I'm saying. but you have to admit
in this life, sometimes the way it gets dark. Some, there are
times that we worship the Lord and just, Oh, it's, it's so clear. It's so bright. It's just, there's
no interruption. It just, you know what I'm talking
about. And then there are times and
we don't know why it goes away. We seem like we can't see it.
We seem like we can't worship it. It's interrupted here. rather than there will be none
of that in glory. None of it. It'll always be perfect light
because we will be with Christ our light to see Him and to worship
Him. John said the city he saw, the
people that he saw has the glory of God. Now that's the Lord Jesus
Christ. He is the glory of God. The greatest
glory of God is this. This is what he told Moses. It's
how God can save sinners in mercy and still be God. Still be God.
That's God's greatest glory. That's the Lord Jesus Christ.
What John saw here is the glory of Christ and His sovereign mercy
to His people. It's what He has done, what He
is doing, what He will yet do for His people. And every believer
has that glory in them right now because Christ dwells in
them. And John says this light was
likened to a stone. Now, I thought that was interesting.
I looked at that for a little while. He said the light was
likened to a stone. I thought it was interesting
he said that because we don't get light from stones, do we? Well, I think
that's what that means. We do not get spiritual light
from the place the world thinks you get it from. The world would
never think you get light from a stone. But that makes perfect
sense to a believer, doesn't it? Because Christ is that rock. He's our stone. He's our everything.
He's the rock of our hiding place. He's the rock on which we stand.
He's the rock of our defense. And he's the rock of our life.
One of the writers said that they think this rock is something
like a diamond that's clear. It's a clear stone which shows
us the preciousness of Christ. Something that's precious is
not just valuable, but it's rare. This is a rare stone. The only
place the glory of God is revealed is in the face of the Lord Jesus
Christ. This is a precious stone. Christ is the believer's light.
And that's true both in glory and it's true right now too.
Look over verse 23. And the city had no need of the
sun, neither of the moon to shine in it for the glory of God did
light. And the lamb is the light thereof. Christ is the only light a believer
needs. Here's what I mean when I say
that. We don't need another source of light. We don't need another
source of understanding. We don't need another source
of knowledge or being able to see. We don't need any other
source of light to come to Christ except Christ. We don't need
any other light to believe Him and trust Him and rest in Him
other than Christ, the preaching of Christ. We don't need human
logic. We don't need human arguments.
We don't need sentimental persuasion. We need Christ. If sinners would
come to Christ, you want me to tell you how they're going to
do it? They're going to do it through the preaching of Christ.
And if a sinner ever sees Him, you don't have to worry about
talking them into doing something. You don't have to worry about
trying to talk them into coming to Christ. You will be able to
keep them away if they see Christ. That's why we only preach Christ. He's the only light we need.
Now the bride's going to bask in that light and glory. You
know, now we do use illustration sometimes, don't we? To help
shed light or to help us remember something or understand something.
But you know, in glory, no one there will ever speak in terms
of an illustration. Ever. We'll have the real thing. Face to face. Perfect light. And we will bask in that light
and glory. But it is in that light, the
light of Christ, that the church walks right now. Verse 24. And the nations of them which
are saved shall walk in the light of it. And the kings of the earth
do bring their glory and honor unto it. Now these kings of the
earth, they refer to the bride of Christ. Remember, we've been
made kings and priests unto our God. So these kings, this bride
of Christ, they're a royal people. And they walk in the light that
God's given them. They walk in the light of Christ.
They don't walk in the human understanding of this world.
They walk in the light of Christ. And this is a holy walk. It's
a walk that follows after Christ, a walk that goes to him because
he's our light. The believer has the light of
Christ right now. That's how God saved him, giving
them the light of Christ. All right, third, verse 12. The
bride of Christ is secure. Verse 12 says, And this city
had a wall, great and high. Now verse 16 told us that these
walls, how high they are, they're 12 furlongs high. That's 1,400
miles high. And verse 17 says 144 cubits thick. That's 216
feet, 1,400 miles high, 216 feet thick. That's a secure wall,
isn't it? And verse 18 says, this is interesting. It's a clear wall. And the building
of the wall of it was, was of Jasper and the city was pure
gold, like under clear glass. This is a clear wall. What's
that mean? That's a clear. The natural man
can't see it. You can't see it with fleshly
eyes. You can only see it with the eyes of faith. So if the
natural man, he can't see the wall, he can't climb the wall.
He can't get through the wall. Church is secure in it. And that
wall is Christ our Savior. This is not a wall we have to
wait to glory till we can be inside this wall safe and secure. Christ is that wall. Our Savior
is that wall. Zachariah prophesied of him.
Zachariah 2, verse 5, the Lord said, I will be a wall of fire
about thee. Well, that wall of fire is not
a thing, just like this wall is not a thing. Our wall, our
protection is a person, the Lord Jesus Christ. He is our wall
and no enemy can breach that wall. So the bride of Christ
is safe in Christ, in his mighty hand. We're not safe through
our works. We're not safe through our morality.
I mean, I hope you're moral people. The safety, the security of your
soul rests nothing in your morality, nothing. I hope God's given us
faith in Christ. But our security is not in the
strength of our faith. Our security is Christ our Savior,
that we're held safe in that mighty hand that no man can pluck
his people out of. He is our wall of security. We're
safe in him. And here's the fourth thing about
the bride of Christ. I don't care where they come from. I
don't care what their nationality is, what their background is,
what language they speak. The bride of Christ all comes
to God one way, the Lord Jesus Christ. Verse 12, and had a wall
great and high and 12 gates and at the gates, 12 angels and names
written thereon, which are the names of the 12 tribes of the
children of Israel on the east, three gates on the north, three
gates on the south, three gates and on the west, three gates.
John describes this wall, and this wall has gates on all four
corners of the compass. That tells us the way to God
is wide open for sinners from all over the world, from all
four points of the globe, over the compass. And the gates are
wide open. They're always open. And not
only is there just, there's more than one on all four sides. There's
three on all four sides. There's plenty of room. Nothing
will ever block your way. if you're a sinner, from coming
to God in the Lord Jesus Christ. And the way's not hard to find.
There's an angel over each gate telling people, here's the way,
here's the entrance, it's right here. If you would come to God,
come to God in the Lord Jesus Christ. There's no excuse for us not
knowing the way to God. As a matter of fact, Every person
in this room knows the way to God. Mentally, you know the way
to God is in the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, you may not believe it.
You may refuse to come to it, but there's no excuse for us
not knowing the way to God. God sent somebody to tell us
the way to God is the Lord Jesus Christ. Don't think God shut
you out. No, he hasn't. Yes, we believe
strongly and God's electing life. That's the only way any sinner
will ever be saved. God chose them first. But don't
you ever think God shut the gate on you. Verse 25. And the gates
of it shall not be shut at all by day, for there shall be no
night there. The gate's not closed. My friend,
today is the day of salvation. This is the gospel age. This
is the time that the gospel is being preached. These 12 preachers,
they're going out preaching the gospel saying, here's the way.
And they're telling people the door to salvation is wide open
for anybody who would enter on God's terms. On God's terms. Now, if we're going to enter
on God's terms, we're going to have to enter naked, aren't we? Bringing nothing. Wearing nothing
and bringing nothing. We're going to have to come into
that gate pleading only the Lord Jesus Christ. This is so. We're not saved. It's our own
fault. It's our own fault. We're not
saved in eternity. Here'll be the reason. We refuse
to enter. We refuse to enter on God's terms.
Not God's fault. God didn't shut us out. We refuse
to enter. Now, John describes 12 gates.
Don't be mistaken into thinking, well, then there are many different
ways to come to God. I could come on the north side,
the south side, the east side, the west side. I come from whatever
direction I want to. No, that's not what those 12
gates mean. It means that there's just one
way to the Lord Jesus Christ. Verse 21, there's one way to
God and it's through Christ. And the 12 gates were 12 pearls.
Every several gate was of one pearl. And the street of the
city was pure gold as it were transparent glass. And here's
why I began the lesson with this morning. There are not pearly
gates that everybody's going to enter through to go into heaven.
There's no such thing. No such thing. Remember, this
is not describing heaven. This description is the description
of God's people, of his bride. These gates are made of one giant
pearl. the Lord Jesus Christ, the pearl
of great price. And this is showing us that there's
just one way. I don't care which which direction
you come from, which area of the world you come from. It doesn't
matter what your background is. The only way to enter into salvation
is through the Lord Jesus Christ, through Christ alone. He is the
only door of the sheep. He is the pearl of great price. This is a valuable way. What
a valuable way of salvation. You men, have you ever priced
a real pearl necklace for your wife? Pretty expensive, isn't
it? You imagine one pearl 1,400 miles
high, 200 and something feet. Priced costly pearl. This is
a valuable way. of salvation in Christ. It's
the way of salvation. It's a way that's been bought
with the blood of God's Son. It's a valuable way. It's a beautiful
way. Honey, I've prized a pearl necklace
for you before. It'd be pretty. I mean, look
good on you. This way though, all this pearl, this pearl, the
pearl of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's the beauty of holiness,
the beauty of our Lord Jesus Christ. It's a valuable way.
It's a beautiful way. It's the only way sinners like
you and me can ever be made beautiful, is in Christ. It's in His beauty.
And every person, every sinner that's ever come to God and accepted,
has come through this beautiful, valuable door, the Lord Jesus
Christ. I show you that back at the end
of verse 12, where it says here, there were names written thereon,
which are the names of the 12 tribes of the children of Israel.
These, there were names written above these gates and they described
who it is that's going to come in those gates. It's spiritual
history. All of God's elect come to him
through this one way, through the Lord Jesus Christ. God's
going to see to it. He'll call them, he'll bring
them there and he'll give them faith to go through. Now, John
describes 12 gates, but really there's just one door. Christ
is the door. There's just one door in which
we, through which we enter salvation. And there's just one way of salvation
too. Look over at verse 21 again.
At the end of the verse, it says, and the street, not streets,
the street of the city was pure gold as it were transparent glass. Here's where I got this from.
There are no streets of gold and have This isn't describing
heaven. It's describing the bride of
Christ. This street is made of transparent gold. That's the
deity of Christ. The gold normally pictures the
deity of Christ. This is the deity of Christ that
the natural man simply cannot see. The natural man has no light. He cannot see. So he doesn't
see any value in Christ. But you notice there's just one
street. Now, that's why you can't take all these things literally.
Yes, there's 12 gates coming from all four directions, but
they're just one street. This street goes from all 12
gates. It's just one street, and it
goes one direction. You follow this street to the
end, and you'll come to the throne of God. There's just one way
to come to the Father. There's just one way of salvation.
It is the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the way. John said the
street was made of pure gold. Now, this street is Christ. But
you can also apply it to the gospel of Christ. The gospel
of Christ is a clear thing. Clear. You just take the pillars. I call them the pillars of the
gospel. They're easy to understand. You do not have to be John Gill
to understand what this is saying. It's easy to understand man's
depravity. It's easy to understand. Let's
put it a better way. It's easy to understand. It's easy to understand God's
election of a people. He chose those people unconditionally,
not because they met any condition because they couldn't, but chose
sinners to say just because he will. That's not hard to understand. Nobody, if God left man alone,
nobody choose him. But God chose some people to
save. That's the only way they can be saved. That's easy to understand.
Limited atonement. Christ didn't die to make salvation
possible for every son of man. He died for his people to save
them from their sins. Christ did not die for anybody
in hell. It's easy to understand. The
irresistible call of the spirit. God calls his people through
the preaching of the gospel. They don't see, they don't understand.
They can understand these things, but they don't believe them.
And one day they believe. And they cannot believe. What
happened? One day they see no value in
Christ. Another day, all they want is Christ. Just tell me
more of Him. They understand what Paul said.
They said, that's in my heart. My heart's desire is to win Christ
and be found in Him. What happened? The Spirit called
them and they came. They could not come. Perseverance
of the saints. God's going to keep his people
to the end. He's not going to reveal his son to someone and
then they're going to depart and fall off into hell. That's
crazy. Salvation in Christ is better,
man. It's easy to understand it. You must be born again. This flesh can't be fixed up
and renovated so that we believe God and have some spiritual light
in it. That which is born of the flesh is flesh. It's got
to be a new nature born. It's easy to understand. It's
transparent. And this is a big deal with companies
today. You read about them and they've been trying to secretly
do something bad for years and they finally get caught. And
they say, we're going to be transparent. We're going to be transparent.
We're not going to hide anything from anybody. That's the gospel.
We don't hide anything from anybody. We don't hold anything back.
If we hold something back, we're a false prophet. Because the
gospel is transparent. The natural man can't see it,
can they? Even though we declare it, even
though it's simple to understand, it's transparent. The natural
man cannot see it. He cannot help but think it's
got to be, salvation's got to be through self, something that
I do. But the bride of Christ sees it and they all come to
God one way, Lord Jesus Christ. All right, here's the fifth thing.
The bride of Christ has just one foundation. Verse 14. And the wall of the city had
12 foundations and in them the names of the 12 apostles of the
land. Now these 12 foundations with the names of the apostles
They represent the message of the apostles. Their message was
the gospel of Christ. And this foundation's always
been the same foundation. It's the same gospel that was
preached throughout the Old Testament. It's the gospel that Abraham
believed. This is the city Abraham was looking for. He believed
this gospel. Our Lord told us that. Abraham
saw my day and was glad. What made him glad was this foundation,
the foundation of Christ crucified. It's the exact same gospel we
preach today. Now, we don't preach it in type and picture and shadow
like Abraham understood it. We preach the finished work of
Christ. Now we have this finished work that we have Christ to speak
of. And this is the foundation and there's no other. The Apostle
Paul said, other foundation can no man lay than that which is
laid, which is Christ Jesus, Jesus Christ, our Lord. It's
the only foundation. The foundation of everything
we believe is revealed in the Word of God. If it's not in the
Word of God, we don't believe it. Everything, the foundation
of everything we believe has to do with the Lord Jesus Christ
from God's Word or we simply don't believe it. What a beautiful
gospel. What a beautiful foundation we
have to preach and believe. Look at verse 19. The foundations
of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of
precious stones. The first foundation was Jasper, the second, Sapphire,
the third, Chalcony, the fourth, an Emerald, the fifth, Sardonyx,
the sixth, Sardis, the seventh, Crystallite, the eighth, Beryl,
the ninth, a Topaz, the tenth, a Chrysoporus, the eleventh,
a Jackneth, the twelfth, an Amethyst. Now, I'm not going to go through
what each of these stones represent, because quite honestly, I don't
know. I looked them all up and I can't
tell you what each one of them represents. But this is what
I do know. Brother Henry said, let's stick
what we do. I know what each of these stones represent. They
represent Christ, our chief cornerstone. He is our foundation. And whatever
each of these stones represent, I do know what they show forth.
They show forth the glory. of Christ in a different way.
They show for the glory of his redemptive character in a different
way. And we may not know what each
of these stones mean, but when we hear it, we believe it and
we glory in it because that's hearing Christ preached. Right,
here's the sixth thing, verse 22. The bride of Christ has the
presence of Christ. And I saw no temple therein for
the Lord God almighty and the lamb are the temple. of Christ
dwells in his people right now, right? And it's not something
we have to wait to glory for. The apostle Paul said, no, you
not that you are the temple of God. How is it that you believe
you who believe are the temple of God? Because Paul said the
spirit of God dwelleth in you. That's how you're the temple.
He dwells in you. The believer has the presence
of Christ right now because he dwells in our heart. And more
than that, We dwell in Christ, too. Christ in us and us in Christ. That's saving union. Brother
Todd Nyberg said, you can take a thimble and throw it in the
ocean. And the result is this. The thimble's in the ocean and
the ocean's in the thimble. That's us. That's the saving
union we have with Christ. And in glory, there's not going
to be a place of worship. You know, we gather together
to worship. We come here to Hurricane Road. But there's not gonna be
a place like that in glory, a place we have to go. Because every
believer will always have the presence of Christ, will always
be in his presence. That's worship. It's being in
his presence. And that will be the glory of
heaven. That everyone there will always
have the immediate face-to-face presence of Christ our Savior.
That's a description of the bride. That's a description of those
who will populate heaven. But there's one more thing we
have to look at before we close. John also gives us a description
of those who will not be in heaven. Verse 27. And there shall in
no wise enter into it anything that defile it, neither whatsoever
work at the abomination or make it the lie, but they which are
written in the lambs book of life. So this tells us that there
is only one way of salvation, and it's the Lord Jesus Christ.
Any other way is a way of sin. Any other way is a way of abomination
to God, and He won't accept it. Nothing outside of Christ will
ever be accepted. No one outside of Christ can
ever be saved. That's impossible, because Christ
is the only Savior, so anything outside of Him is not salvation.
There is no other sacrifice. There's no other foundation.
There's no other sacrifice. There's no other gospel. There's
no other Jesus. There are other Jesus's, but
they can't say it can be. There's none other than this
one name for why we must be so the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. So how would I sum that up? How
would I, how would I have us take this lesson and take it
home with us and think about it, ponder upon in our heart.
It's this. Come to Christ. Right now. Come to Christ. Beg Him for mercy. Beg Him for forgiveness. Beg
Him for righteousness. Beg Him for salvation. Because
it's all in Him. And any other way is a way of
abomination to me. All right. The Lord bless you.