I want you to look again with
me into Acts chapter 17. We want to define, look at just
two or three words, three words here in verses 1 and 2 before
we come to our text. Verse 1 we read that Paul, or
verse 2 rather, that he reasoned, reasoned with the Jews, the people
there in the synagogue out of the scriptures. Verse 3 says,
opening and alleging. Reasoning, opening, and alleging. The word reason here is from
the word that we get the English word dialogue. Dialogue. That's what it means. And what
we're being told here is that Paul, using the Old Testament
Scriptures, when we read here of the Scriptures, he reasoned
from the Scriptures That's all they had at the time. The Old
Testament Scriptures. And they were somewhat familiar
with that. And Paul reasoned with them.
He listened to their objections to what he was saying. Then he
patiently, act to teach patiently, he told Timothy, refuted them
from the Word of God. Now here in verse 3, the word
opening. Opening. What does that mean?
It means to expand or to force open. How about that? When the
Scriptures were read, Paul opened them up and explained their meaning. That's what preaching is. And
then, also in verse 3, we have the word alleging. Alleging. He alleged and proved from the
Old Testament Scriptures the necessity, the absolute need
of the death of the Son of God and His triumphant resurrection. And notice, again, we're told
that Paul did these things from the Scriptures. He appealed to
the Word of God alone. We don't need catechisms. Paul didn't appeal to the London
Confession, the Baptist Confession, and the Philadelphia Confession.
These things might be handy, but they're not the final authority. They're not to even be I hear
people speak of those things as though they have the same
relevance, carry the same weight as the Scriptures. They do not. Brothers and sisters in Christ,
study the Scriptures. Read your Bible. You won't know
whether this man standing here lying to you if you don't. And I'm afraid a lot of people
just don't read the Word of God. Those who profess to be God's
people, heaven forbid, that we should be one of those. Paul,
from the Scriptures, proved to them, opened up the Word of God
and reasoned with them concerning exactly who the Christ was. He reasoned. Remember what God
Himself said in Isaiah chapter 1, verse 18? Come now, Let us
reason together, saith the Lord. Though your sins be as scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson,
they shall be as wool. Men, I mean lost men, are not
stones. They're not rocks. You can't
reason with a stone or a rock. They won't respond. But men are
accountable. That's why Paul reasoned with
them. Isn't it amazing what men today
do in blaming God about? They blame everything on God. I mean, we see that every imaginable
perversion is laid at the feet of God. Well, if that was so,
if that was so, man wouldn't be accountable. If he had no
choice, if he couldn't help his behavior, then there would be
no basis for God to judge him. But men are accountable. They
do what they want to do. God's not forcing them to do
things that are contrary to His Word. That's what Adam tried
to pull, didn't he? When God came to him, found him,
hiding in the bushes, trying to cover his shame with fig leaves
of his own making, Adam said, God, it's your fault. It's your
fault. The woman you gave me caused
this. As if to say, if you hadn't gave
her to me, this would have never happened. God didn't buy it then. He didn't buy it. He didn't let
Adam off the hook. God didn't buy it then and God
doesn't buy it today. Men are responsible, I repeat,
for their actions. Paul dealt with this thing and
we'll move on, but just briefly. This is the very thing Paul was
dealing with in Romans 9. He's talking about God's marvelous
sovereign mercy. God's election of grace. And
Paul said, I know what you're going to say to me. I know what
you're going to say to me, old man. Thou wilt say to me then,
why doth he, that is God, why doth he yet find fault? For who
had resisted his will? It's not our fault. It's God's
fault, is what Paul anticipated them saying, and that's what
people do say. You remember Paul's answer? Nay,
O man, but who art thou that thou replyest against God? Shall the thing formed say to
him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? God's not
going to bow down to you and me. God's not going to apologize
to this wicked world. God's not going to allow them
off the hook. God's going to call every evil
work into judgment because men are responsible. I often hear, often hear. And
hopefully, I mean I wouldn't judge a man for a word. We all
say things we shouldn't, like I did last Sunday afternoon about
that game. But I hear people say, whatever
will be, will be. Whatever will be, will be. The
Bible doesn't teach that sort of stoic, impersonal philosophy. That sort of thing is fatalism. That's what it is. God deals
with people. The scriptures deals with man
being responsible for his own soul. Our eternal destiny is
our own responsibility. Let me read you just along this
line something that our dear friend, Mr. Fortner wrote. This is from his book, Basic
Bible Doctrine. I thought it would fit well here.
The Word of God does not teach that religious fatalism which
says that the elect will be saved no matter what. I hope nobody
here believes that. If you do, you're wrong. The
Bible doesn't teach the elect shall be saved no matter what.
Remember what we just read in 1 Thessalonians 1? I know you're
elect, Paul said, because the Word was preached to you, and
you heard it. And God gave you the faith and
you believed and you bowed to the Lord Jesus. God works by
means. We rejoice that God Almighty
has chosen a people and His Son before the world began. But those
people must hear the Gospel. How should they hear in Romans
10 unless a preacher be sent? How should they believe in that
which they have not heard? How should they hear until a
preacher goes to them? God uses the means to the end. And oh how Marvin's an example
that Apostle Paul is as someone who believed vehemently. in God's
eternal election, God's glorious sovereignty. Did any man write
more of that than the Apostle Paul? And yet he could say, oh,
I bear witness. God is my witness. I have a continual
heaviness in my heart. I want my brethren, the Jews,
I want them saved. He saw no contrary. He didn't
say, well, whatever will be, will be. The left will be saved
regardless? Oh no, God forbid such an attitude
as that. Don went on to say, any sinner
who is lost at last and goes to hell will do so as a result
of deliberate action on his part. That's exactly right. If anyone
goes to hell, it will be his own fault. If men refuse to walk
in the light God has given them, That is their fault. And when
they are cast into hell, they will acknowledge the justice
of God in casting them out. Don wrote, and we'll move on.
He said, it is something God does in justice in response to
man's sin, that is sending him to hell. God sends blindness
because men and women choose not to believe in the light that
He has given them. He sends hardness of heart to
those who harden their hearts against Him. He sends them to
hell because they refuse to bow to the Son of God. That's the
reason. And it's a just reason. It's
the right thing to do. Now let's look at verse 3. Verse
3. Are you looking at it with me?
Bring your Bibles, please. Verse 3. Paul, we're told concerning
Paul in the synagogue for three Sabbath days, opening and alleging
that Christ must needs have suffered and risen again from the dead,
and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ. The title of my message is this.
Who is the Christ? Who is the Christ? And I hope
you're not thinking to yourself, everybody knows that. They do
not. They do not. Far from it. Who
is the Christ? And this is our first point.
There's only one. There is only one. Now, most
of us, not all of us, there might be one or two exceptions, but
most of us can remember a TV program. It was in black and
white. And it was called to tell the truth. Anybody remember that? From 56 to 78. I remember watching
that, one of the few channels that we got. But the premise
of the program was this. There was four celebrities as
a panel. With a host, a moderator. And
there would be three men, women, whomever, come out and all claiming
to be the same person. They had some unusual distinction,
but they all claimed to be the person. They would come in and
the moderator would say, state your name please. I'm Joe Smith. I'm Joe Smith. I'm Joe Smith. They all claimed to be Joe Smith.
Now the true one would have to tell the truth. He would have
to speak the truth in response to the questions of the four
celebrities trying to figure out who was the real Joe Smith. The other two were imposters. They were allowed to lie. You
remember how it went? After all the questions were
asked and the four celebrities would vote on who they thought
the true person was, The moderator would say, would the real Mr.
Joe Smith now please stand up? And the impostors would pretend
to stand, but then they would go back down and everybody would
say, well, who is it, who is it? And then the real person
would stand up. That was just sort of a guessing
game, wasn't it? It was entertainment. If they
guessed wrong, there was no real harm done. having knowledge of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Knowing, not guessing, knowing
who Christ is, is not a game. It's not entertainment. It has
consequences. Either I know Him or I do not
know Him. There is no in-between. Either
I know whom I have believed or I don't know whom I have believed.
May know much about Him. Like these Jews did. But that's
not faith. And remember, the Lord Jesus
Christ Himself warned His disciples. In His last message to them,
Matthew chapter 24, Jesus said to His disciples in private,
Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in My
name saying, I'm Christ. And shall deceive many. And many
false prophets shall arise and shall deceive many. Verses 23
through 25, Matthew 24. And many false prophets shall
arise and deceive many. And then if any man shall say
unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there, believe it not, for
there shall arise false Christ. Plural, plural. Remember our
point, our first point here, there's only one Christ. Christ
said, they shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and
shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch that, if it were possible,
they should deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you
before, this book, this book, not some man's catechism, this
book, God's Word, identifies the true Christ. It's about Him. The Word of God is about God
the Word, the Lord Jesus Christ. The word Christ means the Anointed
One, the Anointed of Jehovah. It's the same word of the Hebrew
Messiah. Messiah. Same word. It means
God's anointed. God's appointed one. The one
God sent to be the Savior of His people. Now the concept of
the Messiah to the Jewish people was that of a Jehovah that would
deliver Israel and turning into a glorious empire to which all
the heathen would be subjected. That was their idea of the Messiah's
mission. Man, were they off base. Were
they off base, were they not? The expectation of a coming kingdom
was more important to them than the king that was coming. Doesn't
that sound familiar? Doesn't that sound familiar?
They agreed with Paul as far as they were willing to go. We'll agree with you, Paul, if
what you say is what we want to hear. If what you're telling
us agrees with our already preconceived notions, then all is good. But if not, we won't buy it. We won't buy it. Some believe
not. The Christ that the average Jew
looked to was not the Christ of Scripture. It was their own
concept. In other words, their idea of
the Messiah was contrary to Scripture. Does that sound familiar? Does
that sound familiar? They didn't have a monopoly on
this, did they? My soul, when I was in West Virginia
a few weeks ago, I listened to loved ones describe their Christ
They're Messiah, and I thought, he's an imposter. That's an imposter. I don't know who they're talking
about. That's sad, isn't it? These Jews
didn't have a monopoly on this, this misconception of who Jesus
Christ is. Our Lord told them on one occasion,
search the Scriptures for anything you think you have eternal life,
and they are they which testify of Me. All those Old Testament
Scriptures, Christ said, they're about Me. The scribes would make
copies of tedious, a tedious task. Would make copies of the
Scriptures, the Old Testament Scriptures. Make scrolls of them. And yet they didn't have a clue
of what they were copying. Who they were talking about.
Even the disciples were infected with this misconception, this
wrong notion of the mission of the Son of Man. Weren't they?
They were. Remember what Peter said? When
the Lord said, well, let me read it to you. Here in Matthew's
Gospel, chapter 16, verse 21. From that time forth began Jesus
to show unto His disciples how that He must go to Jerusalem
and suffer many things of the elders, just like Paul told these
Jews in Acts 17. And the chief priests and scribes
and be killed and be raised again the third day. You remember what
happened? You remember what happened? Peter,
the self-appointed spokesman, then Peter took him, imagine
this, the Lord Jesus Christ, and began to rebuke him, saying,
be it far from thee, Lord, this shall not be aided thee. Because
that wasn't Peter's notion of what the Messiah came to do.
Like the average Jew, Peter kept thinking he would set up an earthly
kingdom. Lord, we won't allow that. The cross? No, that can't be.
That doesn't fit in with our notion. Remember what the Lord
said? But he turned to him and said,
Peter, get thee behind me, Satan, for thou art an offense unto
me. For thou savorest not the things
that be of God, but those that be of men. With that same mentality,
that same misconception, when they come to arrest Jesus, Peter
draws his sword, takes aim at a servant's head, but hacks off
his ear, and the Lord says, put up your sword, Peter. The cup
which my Father has given me, shall I not drink it? And even
after the resurrection, before the Lord Jesus Christ ascended
back to heaven, they asked Him, Lord, Lord, will you at this
time, will you now, will you at last at this time restore
the kingdom back to Israel? Still that misconception of the
mission of the Son of Man. Oh, but the mission of THE Christ
was much greater than that, wasn't it? Much greater than that! And Paul proved it by the Old
Testament Scriptures that he expounded the them. I'm sure
that Paul would include these during those three Sabbath days. He would go to Daniel and talk
about the Ancient of Days. And then he would take him to
the Psalms and talk about the anointing of the Father. The
one chosen out of the people, exalted, one chosen of the people,
I have found David my servant with my holy oil, I have anointed
him. And shortly, shortly, Paul would
take him to Isaiah, the fifth evangelist he's been called.
And he would tell him about Emmanuel. The Christ is Emmanuel. God with
us. Isaiah 7. And he would go to
chapter 9 and read this to them. For unto us a child is born,
unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his
shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor
of the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.
Of the increase of his government and peace shall there be no end.
upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom to order it
and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth
even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts
will perform this. Isaiah 11, the ensign Jehovah
has set up for his people. Isaiah 32, the hiding place and
covert from the storm. All about Christ. All identified
be Christ. For the Lord is our judge. The
Lord is our lawgiver. The Lord is our King. He will
save us. Chapter 40. The Christ is the
wisdom of God, the glory of God, the scent of God, the Lamb of
God. 42. God says of the Christ, mine
elect. Mine elect. Behold my righteous
servant, mine elect, in whom my soul delights. This is my
beloved son, in whom I am well pleased. The witness, Isaiah
43. The leader of his people, Isaiah
55. The redeemer that shall come
out of Zion, Isaiah 59. The diadem in Jehovah's right
hand, Isaiah 62. And this glorious, glorious prophecy
the Christ. He shall not fail nor be discouraged
until he has set judgment in the earth and the owl shall wait
for his lull." Before we move on, let me share what Robert
Hawker had to say under his entry for Christ in his Dictionary
and Concordance. after stating that all these
prophecies find their fulfillment in none other than Jesus Christ.
They wouldn't fit anybody else. They couldn't apply to anybody
else. Like the rays of the sun, they're brought to focus on one
point, Jesus Christ. They're all about Him. That's
what He told the disciples, didn't He? The Old Testament, the Prophets,
the Psalms, they're all about me. This is what Robert Hawkins
said. And what makes the love and wisdom of the Holy Ghost
so blessed to the believer's heart in this particular is this,
that numerous and great as the names of Jesus are in the blessed
word, in his blessed word, there is not one by which Jesus that
is there known, but what is dear to their hearts, and which at
one time or another They would not be without. Christ is all. They would not have left out
in the Bible for a thousand worlds. No, no, no. He's everything.
Christ is all. He's all to me. Surely, the reader,
Hawker wrote, will never think of the subject in which Christ
appears, thus lovely and endeared, without crying out with the apostle. Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable
gift. Here's the second thing. Paul
speaks of what THE Christ would do. Are you looking at verse
17 again? Opening and alleging that Christ
must needs have suffered and risen again from the dead. Paul states it undeniably, emphatically,
what the mission of the Son of Man was. Why was the Messiah
coming? Not to set up an earthly kingdom
over in Jerusalem. There's multitudes of people
that believe that today. That the Lord is going to come
and reign in Jerusalem for a thousand years and then after seven years
of this and that and other and fifteen different judgments and
then He'll wrap things up. No, Christ came to suffer. Christ came, this is what he
said himself, ought not Christ to have suffered these things
and to enter into his glory after his resurrection? To the two
disciples on the Emmaus road. Afterwards, to his disciples
in the same chapter, Luke 24, verse 46, he said unto them,
thus it is written, and therefore thus it behooves Christ to suffer
and to rise from the dead. He must need suffering. The things concerning the Son
of Man, He said, must be accomplished because He could not otherwise
obtain our eternal redemption if He didn't. He must trod the
winepress alone. He must be made sin before we
can be made the righteousness of God in Him. The mission of
the Christ to save His people from their sin included putting
away their sin, bringing in an everlasting righteousness, making
reconciliation for His people, satisfying all the demands of
God's holy law. He didn't make a stab at it. No, no, no, he did it. If he
hadn't done, if he hadn't accomplished those things, he would have never
cried from the cross before he expired, before he gave up the
ghost, he would have never cried from the cross. It is finished. And God Almighty
three days later said, Amen to that, my son. It is finished
and rose him from the dead to set as his own right hand. What is an earthly kingdom in
literal Israel compared to the everlasting kingdom of multitudes
of redeemed sinners in that place, in that kingdom of the Son of
God of which there shall be no end? Now that's the Christ. That's the Christ. And just as
the Jews were clueless as to the mission of the Son of Man,
it even so is today. Oh, Larry, how can you say that?
How can you say that? Well, how often do you hear God
wants everybody healthy and He wants everybody wealthy? That's
not the Christ. That's not the mission of the
Son of Man. The gospel, the gospel, the so-called gospels are being
preached in most places this morning. Not every place, thank
God, but the majority. The gospel's been sold out for
another gospel, as Paul called it, with a God dishonoring, a
Christ-denying lie, and that so-called gospel, most people
believe. Most of our loved ones believe.
Brothers and sisters in Christ, how it behooves us to pray, O
Lord, make bare your holy arm. O Lord, reign in the heavens.
Come down in this religious mess and reveal your Son to this religious
blind lost generation. Last of all, the true Christ. Oh, the true Christ. I'm not
going to rush. I kind of rushed to get to this
point. The true Christ. Look at the second part of verse
3. Here's what Paul was driving at. And that this Jesus, whom
I preach unto you, is Christ. He's the Christ. He's the Messiah. That one you crucified, He's
the Christ. All those scriptures that Paul
for three Sabbath days expounded to them from the Old Testament,
he brings it to a climax and he says, Jesus is the one. All
of those, we're talking about him. The final blow of the hammer
that fastens down to nail, the clincher. Paul says, Jesus whom
I preach unto you is Christ. He's the one. He's the fulfillment
of all those scriptures. And there neither, as Peter said,
is there salvation in any other name. Some believe those things that
were spoken, and some believe not. Remember, just as our Lord,
just before He ascended, back to glory. Back to the glory He
had with the Father before the world began. He took his disciples
out to the Mount of Olives. As they ascended the Mount, did
they pass that place on the Mount of Olives? That garden? It was on the Mount of Olives.
Did they pass that place? I don't know. That place where
he sweat great drops of blood? Did they pass that spot where
the Son of Man wrestled and cried, oh, if it be possible, let this
cup pass from me. Was fearful? That's what the
scripture says. I can't explain that. Oh, he
came seeking comfort from his disciples and found them sleeping.
Could you not watch with me just one hour? One hour? Peter, I'll
never deny you. And now he sleeps. Why? Because
concerning thee, Christ, he must trolley the winepress alone,
John. And there's nobody going to be
with him. There's nobody going to be with him. In the message
I preached in Danville, I asked that question, was there ever
a loneliness like the Son of God experienced? Was there ever
a loneliness like His? Of course not. There couldn't
be. He told His disciples shortly before they deserted Him, the
hour is coming when you'll all forsake me and flee and I'll
be left alone. He said, yet I'm not alone. My
Father's with me. My Father's with me. And then
shortly after that, God the Father says, Awake, O sword, against
the man who is my fellow, smite the shepherd. And that darkness that had surrounded
the Son of God on the mount that day was just symbolic of the
darkness of his soul and the loneliness of being forsaken
by God. And his cry pierces through that
darkness and says, my God, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken
me? Oh, was there ever such loneliness
as that? And when he passed that spot,
perhaps, and they ascend to the summit of the Mount of Olives,
we're told in Acts 1, while they beheld, he was taken up. Oh, how high was he taken. So high that everything's under
His feet. That's you and that's me. So
high that God's given Him a name above every name. So high, so
exalted, so lifted up above everything and everybody that one day God
Almighty is going to make every knee bow to Him and every tongue
confess that Jesus Christ to the glory that He is the Christ
of the glory of God the Father. And the angels, as they beheld
Him, the angels told Him, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?
This same Jesus, this same Jesus that is taken up from you into
heaven shall so come in like matter. Oh, how tragic that the
Jesus, the Christ, that so many people profess to believe in
and are looking for is not the same Jesus. That's what happened to them
folks in Revelation 6. When the Christ, the true Christ,
departs from heaven in power and great glory, and they sing,
oh my soul, that's not the one we thought. and they pray to
the mountains, hide us from Him. It's not like we suppose. We
believe an imposter. Oh, the great day of His wrath
has come, and who will be able to stand? That's what those multitudes,
not a few, but many, the Lord said. These are not Larry's words,
this is the Lord Jesus Christ's words. He said, not everyone
that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven.
But he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
You mean a child of God must obey the Savior? You think? You think? My soul. Many will say to me in that day,
Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name
have cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful
works? Then will I profess unto them,
I never knew you. Depart from me. Ye that work
iniquity. But Paul says, this Jesus that
I preach to you is the Christ. And this Jesus that I'm trying
to preach to you is the Christ. How blessed, how blessed. Brother Mike Gibbons, I was visiting
him a while back and he loaned me a book. a biography of Ralph
Barnard. It was called God's Hitchhike
Evangelist. I've been reading it, messages
in there by Ralph, and this caught my attention. Let me share it
with you. Ralph Barnard said, that is the cry of our hearts
as we go up and down the lane. I'm trying to preach for the
Lord as he would have me to. Now I'm trying to say to you
that are going to hell as sure as I'm preaching to you unless
it becomes a personal reality with you that Christ died for
you, raised you, intercedes for you and is coming for you and
that He did this for you. Only faith can get that. And
Barnard said, I pray that the Spirit of God might make that
real to somebody as this message goes out. Make it real. People, there's a reality than
knowing the Son of God. It's not a guessing game. Paul
said, I know whom I have believed. He knew. Christ said, this is
like eternal, that they might know Thee, the only true God,
and Jesus Christ. If you lay down tonight and you're
questioning, do I know Him? Do I know Him? It's a pretty
good evidence. You may not. I know we all have our doubts,
but there's a reality to God's salvation. unless we've been
blindsided. And Barnabas said, oh my soul,
the reality there is in Christ Jesus, do not be satisfied with
anything else. Is it any wonder that Paul said
in another place, oh that I might know Him and be found in Him. Because only in Him there's no
condemnation. Only in Him there's no separation
from God. Only in Him there's acceptance
by God, and peace with God, and grace and glory for everyone
that believes on His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. But of Him
are you in Christ Jesus, who of God has made in us wisdom,
and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption. John wrote, everyone
who is born of God, everyone that believeth, is born of God. That's the evidence. The Lord
Jesus Christ said, All things are delivered unto me of my Father,
and no man knoweth the Son but the Father, neither knoweth any
man the Father save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son
will reveal him. And in another place, He graciously,
graciously, sincerely spoke these words, Come unto me, all ye that
labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Come unto
me. Take my yoke upon you and learn
of me. For I am meek and lowly in heart,
and you shall find rest unto your souls. Do you need rest? For my yoke is easy, Christ said,
and my burden is light. When Bobby would text me on Saturday,
when I would tell her my text, be deciding on a song to sing,
and then if she would say, well, Larry, where are your thoughts? What would fit good with what
you're preparing? I would say, Christ is all. I would request that one more
than any other. Christ is all. So if the message
I preach, if that song doesn't fit in, then I've not preached
Christ. And I'm not going to sing. Don't
get nervous. I entered once a home of care,
for age and poverty were there, yet peace and joy withal. I asked the lonely mother of
wimps, her helpless widowhood's defense, and she told me, Christ
is all. I stood beside a dying baby,
or lay a man with aching head, waiting for Jesus' call. I marked his smile, it was sweet
as may, and as his spirit passed away, I heard him whisper, Christ
is all. I saw the gospel herald go to
African sand and Greenland snow to save from Satan's thrall.
Nor home nor life he counted, dear, missed once in perils owned
no fear, because he felt Christ is all. He deserves no less. I dreamed that hoary time had
fled, and earth and sea gave up their dead. A fire dissolved
this bond. I saw the church's ransom thrown. I heard the burden of their song
was this, Christ is all in all. Hey, Billy, you looking forward
to that? What a song. Then come to Christ, O come today. The Father, Son, and Spirit say
the bride repeats the call, for he will cleanse your guilty stains.
His love will soothe your weary pains, for Christ is all in all. The Christ is all in all. God bless you.