I'm a simple man. I like things
to be real clear and simple. I have a hard time understanding
things that are confusing. And one of the things I love
about the gospel is its simplicity. I like it when Paul said to the
church at Corinth, I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent
beguiled Eve, that your mind should be corrupted from the
simplicity that is in Christ. The gospel is a simple message. It's not like the message of
religion that is confusing and convoluted. It's not contradictory. It's not You know, if you listen
to the message of free will, man-made religion, works religion,
it's impossible to understand because it's contradictory. They'll
say that God is sovereign, but then they'll say that the sovereignty
of God runs up against a brick wall when it hits man's free
will. And they'll say that God loves
everybody, but most of the folks that God loves, He's going to
send to hell. And it's a message that can't be understood. No
one can make sense out of nonsense. And man-made religion is nonsensical. But the gospel The Gospel, when
we say God is absolutely sovereign, we believe that He's sovereign.
And we don't preach a God who loves everybody, and a God who
died for everybody, and a God who wants everybody to be saved,
and a God who's waiting for man to let him have his way. We preach
a successful, sovereign Savior with His simplicity and clarity
of who He is and what He's accomplished. And I'd like to try to bring
a message this morning entitled, One Thing. One Thing. The Bible speaks of one desire,
one need, one thing that we know, one thing that we do, one ground
of assurance, one thing required, one thing that is sure, one question
to be answered, and one thing that men lack. And I like the
oneness of the gospel and of the scriptures. And I like the
onlys of the scriptures. When the Lord said in Genesis
chapter 6 verse 5, God saw the wickedness, God saw that the
wickedness of man was great upon the earth and that every imagination
of the thought of his heart was only evil and that continually. You and I have never been able
to have a holy thought. much less perform a holy act. God's requirement is that we
love him with all of our heart and all of our mind and all of
our soul all of the time. And the truth is that we've never
been able to love him for a moment with all of our heart and all
of our mind and all of our soul. And the Lord Jesus Christ, the
only man that ever did that. Oh, he loved God. He loved his
father with all that he had all the time. And God was pleased
with that. David, in Psalm 51, he said,
Against thee, and against thee only have I sinned. Sin is against
God. It's only against God. And God's
the only one that can forgive it. I love it when the Lord told
that man his sins were forgiven, and they said, only God can forgive
sins. Yeah, only God can forgive sins. David said, Lord, I will speak
of thy righteousness, even of thine only. only. Oh, the simplicity of the gospel. It's singular. It's not confusing. It's all about the person and
work of the Lord Jesus Christ. We have no righteousness whatsoever
apart from Him. But oh, what perfect righteousness
we have in Him. David went on to say, for thou
only art holy, and thou only are my rock and my salvation. Only. One thing, one thing. Turn with me to Psalm 27 verse
4. Psalm 27, verse 4. We have one
longing desire. And David put it like this, one
thing have I desired of the Lord and that will I seek after that
I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life
to behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. The longing desire of every child
of God is to see Him in the fullness of His glory, to sit at His feet,
to be without sin, to be made like Him. David said, that's
my only desire. And we just, we have that one
desire. In Psalm 17, verse 15, he said,
as for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness and I shall
be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness. The child of God
is not satisfied. We're satisfied with Christ.
We're not satisfied with ourselves. We're not satisfied with ourselves,
but oh, we will be when that one desire is fulfilled and we
see him as he is and we are made like him. Turn to me to Psalm
65, Psalm 65. Look at verse four of Psalm 65. Blessed is the man whom thou
choosest. Oh, if God doesn't choose you,
there's no blessing from God. But oh, the man that God chooses. And causes to approach unto thee. If God doesn't cause us to approach
unto him, we won't come. He must make us willing in the
day of His power, that He may dwell in thy courts. We shall
be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy
temple. The one longing desire of every
child of God is to hear that trumpet of God sound. to be made
in His likeness, and to be rid of this sinful flesh. Paul said,
In me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing, and he went on
to say, O wretched man that I am, O wretched man that I am, who
shall deliver me from the body of this death? When God gives
us a new heart in Christ, we're still carrying around this old
man, aren't we? We've still got the old nature. And I understand
that the analogy that Paul is using there in Romans chapter
7 is that of a man who commits murder, and one of the ways that
they punished him was to take the body of the man that he had
murdered and strap him to his back and make him carry that
rotting corpse through the streets of the city. Isn't that the way
we feel? We just have a rotting corpse
hanging on our back. And the one desire we have is
to be rid of that corpse and to be made like Him. So David
said, this is my one desire, one thing if I desire to the
Lord and that I will seek after, that we will keep looking towards. And the Lord is coming back for
those who are watching and waiting for Him. Secondly, we have but one need. One need. Do you remember when
the Lord is in Bethany at Mary and Martha and Lazarus' house,
and Mary is busy preparing dinner for the Lord and for the people
that are there, and Martha is, and Mary is sitting at the Lord's
feet, and Martha comes to the Lord and said, Lord, aren't you
going to make Mary help me? And while the Lord say, Oh, Martha,
Martha, you're encumbered with many things, but there is one
thing needful. And Mary has chosen that good
thing. Mary's chosen that good things.
Mary was sitting at the feet of the Lord Jesus. Listen to
him speak. You know, somehow I think that
Martha gave up on fixing dinner at that point and sat down right
there next to Mary. You know she did. You know she
heard what the Lord was saying. That's where we need to be, sitting
at His feet. And what a blessing it is when
He's pleased to speak. My sheep hear my voice. They
follow after me. They understand who I am and
what I've done for them. And they know that that one thing
needful is me. They shall be all taught of God. The Lord said, Father, I thank
Thee that Thou hast hid these things from the wise and the
prudent, but revealed them unto babes, even so, Father, it was
good in Thy sight. The Lord is pleased to speak
to His children. And He sits them down at His
feet, and He causes them to hear. And the means by which He does
that is what we're doing right now. In preaching the Word of
God, in preaching the Gospel, in preaching Christ. The Lord
said, and I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men to Myself.
As the serpent was lifted up in the wilderness, so must the
Son of Man be lifted up. Faith is what we need. Faith
in the Lord Jesus Christ. And God says faith comes by hearing. And hearing comes by the Word
of God. I can remember back in religion
when we used to have a question and answer after a talk, or we
would get together and have a discussion about things. And looking back
on that now, all we were doing is pooling our ignorance and
competing with one another to see who could have a better opinion
than someone else. That's not the method that the
Lord blesses. He blesses preaching. Why? Why does God bless preaching?
Because it humbles everybody. You see, when you're listening
to the Word of God being preached, you're not making a contribution.
Hearing is a passive activity, isn't it? It's completely passive. You're not doing anything. And
the Lord's going to make us passive in our salvation. Now, lest you
think that, well, what about the preacher? Trust me, as humbled
as you are in being able to stand in sitting there and not having
any contribution to make, the man that God calls to stand before
you is much more humbled. You can't get in the pulpit without
begging God for His ability. And He never comes out of the
pulpit without feeling like, oh Lord, you're going to have
to say so much more than I was able to say. So, the activity
of preaching humbles everybody. It humbles the man in the pulpit,
it humbles the man in the pew, and it glorifies Christ. It glorifies
Christ. It's the means by which the Lord
is pleased to make himself known. The one thing that is needful
is to sit at the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ and hear from
him. That's what the Lord told Martha. Martha, if you've got me, if
you've got me, you've got everything. And if you don't have me, you
don't have anything. Don't have anything. What does
it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own
soul? What will a man give in exchange
for a soul? The whole world is pursuing after the things of
this world. And God says, the one thing that is needful is
to sit at my feet and hear my voice and learn of me. Didn't the Lord say, all you
that labor and are heavy laden? There's a lot of people laboring
in religion trying to earn their way to heaven. But very few people
are heavy laden. That word heavy laden means to
be crushed. It means to be crushed. And only
God can do that. Only the Spirit of God can smite
us with the weight of our sin and the weight of the law so
that we run to Christ. And the Lord says, all you that
labor and are heavy laden, come unto me, take my yoke upon you,
my burden is light, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly
of heart. And that's what the Lord said
to Martha, there's one thing needful, one thing needful, to
learn from me and to learn of me. And if you have me, you have
everything. Hebrews chapter 4 verse 15 says,
We have not a high priest who is unable to be touched with
the feelings of our infirmities, but was in all ways tempted,
even as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly
to the throne of grace. that we might find mercy and
grace to help in our time of need. We are a needy people and
the Lord's calling us to come into his presence and to learn
from him. And he says the throne that you
come before is a throne of grace. It's not a throne of law. It's
not a throne of judgment. That's all been settled. It's
the throne of grace and your high priest We have a priest. We have an advocate with the
Father. One who has ascended back into glory and taken his
rightful place. And he is able to sympathize
with the feelings of our infirmities. Because in all ways, like us,
he was tempted. Tried. He experienced... He experienced
sin so much more than we do. He experienced the fullness of
it. The full shame of it. You know, sometimes people think,
well, you know, I need to feel more sorry for my sin in order
for God to be able to forgive me. You and I are not capable
of feeling sorry enough for our sin. We're not. The only sorrow that we can really
have for our sin is to see what it took for God to put it away.
When the spirit of grace and supplication is poured out upon
the house of Israel, Zechariah chapter 11, and upon the children
of Jerusalem, They will look upon the one whom they have pierced
and mourn for him as one mourneth for his only begotten son. God
looked at the travail of the Lord Jesus Christ and he was
satisfied. He's the only one that ever experienced
real sorrow for sin. Our sorrow is not sufficient.
We can't produce enough sorrow for God to say, okay, now I know
you're sincere. Now I know you're sincere. We're
so accustomed to our sin, aren't we? We're so used to it. We're anesthetized to it. We're
not affected by it very much, except what the Lord gives us
and causing us to see that the Son of God had to die in
order to put that sin away. God's satisfied with him. He's
satisfied with him. And we're satisfied with the
one God's satisfied with, aren't we? I know I quoted this in the
first hour, but what David said when he spoke his last words,
although my house be not so with God. He was talking about the
tabernacle of his own flesh. He said, my life is not as it
ought to be. And he was also talking about
his own family, wasn't he? You talk about family grief.
David had a son that raped his daughter. He had another son
that murdered his son. He had another son that tried
to take over his throne. David grieved with his family. His wife was taken away from
him. What did he say? Although my
house be not so with God. I've got a mess of a house. And
you know, everything that David said can also be understood as
the words of the Lord Jesus Christ. And so the Lord Jesus Christ
stands in our stead before his Father and he says, Father, my
house isn't like it's supposed to be. It's not like it's going
to be one day. One day is going to be perfect.
Right now they're still struggling with sin. Yet. He has made with me an everlasting
covenant, that covenant of grace made between God the Father and
God the Son and God the Holy Spirit in eternity past. That
was all of David's desire. That was all of his salvation.
That was all of his hope. And how did David conclude those
words? Though he make it not to grow, You know the Church
of the Lord Jesus Christ is the exact same size right now as
it was before Adam was created? It's the exact same size right
now that it will be in glory after everything is said and
done? The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ hasn't grown by
one person. Not by one person. It's exactly
the number that God wrote in that Lamb's Book of Life. It's
not going to grow. In our own personal experience,
as I said in the previous hour, when we grow in grace and in
the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, we don't see any particular
growth in our own lives, do we? Don't you love it when the Lord
said, I'm going to divide the sheep from the goats, and I'm
going to say to the goats, I was hungry, and you didn't feed me,
and I was naked, and you didn't clothe me, and I was thirsty,
and you didn't get me to drink, and I was a stranger, and you
didn't take me in? And what's the goat say? What's the goat
say? Say, Lord, when do we see you
like that and not do those things for you? We've been, we've been
devoted our whole lives to ministry. We've been down to the soup kitchen
and the clothes closet, and we've been doing this and that for
you. And what's the Lord say? Depart from me, you workers of
iniquity. I never knew you. Never knew
you. And then he looks to the sheep
and he says to the sheep, I was thirsty. You gave me a drink.
I was naked. You clothed me. I was hungry.
And you gave me food. I was a stranger. You took me
in. And what's the sheep say? Lord, when did we see you like
that and do that for you? You see, the sheep don't take
notice of what they're doing. They don't sit back and take
comfort in their works as the evidence of their salvation.
They say, Lord, when did we do those things? And what's the
Lord say? And that you did it to the least
of these my brethren, you did it unto me. Now, when the Lord
talked about clothing the naked and giving water to the thirsty
and taking the stranger in, He wasn't talking about putting
physical clothes on a body. He was talking about putting
the robe of righteousness on that naked sinner. He was talking
about giving a drink of water to that thirsty sinner. He was
talking about taking that stranger. You see, that only happens in
the preaching of the gospel. It only happens in the preaching
of the gospel, and here's the glorious truth of that, is that
every member of the body of Christ participates in every preaching
of the gospel that takes place. Tomorrow morning will be Sunday
morning in Orlando, and Todd Niver is going to be preaching
the gospel in our church. And we're going to be a part
of that. And those brethren that are there
in Orlando right now are taking part in what we're doing right
now. Why? Because the whole body of
Christ participates in the preaching of the gospel. And the Lord says,
when I commend my sheep, I'm going to say to them, well done,
good and faithful servant. Not because of our faithfulness,
because of His. Because of the effects that the
gospel has. And the participation that every
child of God has with the gospel. One thing needful. One thing
needful. Mary has chosen that good part. She has Christ. He's the one
thing. There's not many things, but
one thing. And then in John chapter 9, you
remember when the Lord gave sight to that man who was born blind?
And the Pharisees wanted to interrogate him to find out who had performed
this miracle. And they began to ask him all
sorts of theological questions. And they interrogated his parents
and wanted to know how long he'd been blind. And what did the
man finally say? He said, listen, I don't know
about all that. All I know, I know one thing. Once I was blind, and now I see. Once I could not see that I was
a sinner, Now I understand that sin is a continual thing for
me. Once I could not see the Lord
Jesus Christ for who He is. I could not see Him as the successful
Savior, the glorious Christ, the Son of God, the Messiah,
who actually finished the work and accomplished the salvation
of God's people. I couldn't see that. I thought
God was trying to get folks saved, but needed us to make our contribution
in order for him to be able to accomplish his work. What did
Paul say in Romans chapter 10? He said, say not in thine heart
what can I do to bring Christ down from above? Or what can
I do to bring him up from the grave? What can I do to make
what he did work for me? He said, perish the thought.
God forbid, don't even think that way. Don't even think that
way. Oh no. When the Lord went into
the grave, He took all our sins and put them away once and for
all by the sacrifice of Himself. And when He ascended back into
glory, He took with Him the names of those for whom He lived and
died, and He ever lives to make intercession for us. We have
an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the Righteous One." That blind man said, one thing
I know, Once I was blind. I couldn't see myself as a sinner.
I couldn't see Christ for who He was. I couldn't see the finished
work of salvation. I couldn't rejoice in that. I
didn't know how it was that God remitted sins and put away sins.
But now, now, I see. I see. A Saraphenician woman. that the
Lord... Remember, she came to the Lord,
begging Him to deliver her young daughter from a devil. And the
Scripture says that the Lord ignored her. He acted like she
wasn't even there. And then on top of that, the
disciples publicly berated her, embarrassed her by saying, Lord,
send her away. She's a Gentile. Just send her
away. And then she continued to beg.
And what did the Lord say? It's not right to give the children's
bread to dogs. So now the Lord's ignored her.
The disciples have rebuked her. And now he's called her a dog.
And most folks in that situation would say, well, if that's the
way you think about it, just forget it. I'll go find some help somewhere
else. What'd she say? Truth, Lord. Truth Lord, that's
what I am. You see, she had already been
given sight, hadn't she? Truth Lord. But the dogs eat the crumbs that
fall from the master's table. Lord, would you give me a few
crumbs?" It's like that woman who crawled through the crowd
in order to touch the hem of the Lord's garment. And he said,
who touched me? And the disciples said, Lord,
why do you say who touched you? You're being touched by everybody.
Oh no, virtue's gone out from me. Power's gone out from me.
Someone's touched me with faith. And he turned and saw her and
the scripture says, she told him all the truth. She had eyes
to see something now that she didn't see before. One thing,
one thing I know, once I was blind, now I see, now I see,
now I see I'm a sinner. Now I see that the only hope
that I have are the crumbs that fall from the master's table.
Now I know that the only hope that I have is God's sovereign
grace, his mercy towards me. You read the book of Job. Job
spent a lot of time justifying himself. As a matter of fact,
when Elihu finally stands up and preaches the gospel, the
scripture says that Elihu, as the gospel preacher, was angry
at Job because he justified himself. Job said, let me bring my case
before the throne of God and I'll prove that I'm innocent.
I don't deserve this. And then Job preached, and then
Elihu preached the gospel to him. And the first words out
of Job's mouth, what were they? Behold, oh, I see something now
I never saw before. I'm vile. I'm vile. He said, I had heard of thee
by the hearing of mine ear, but now mine eyes have seen thee. And I repent in dust and ashes.
Lord, I spoke without knowledge. I didn't know what I was saying.
I didn't know what I was talking about. But this one thing I know
now, once I was blind, but now I see. Now I see. Oh, the one thing that's needful
is the Lord Jesus Christ, and the one desire that we have is
to be with Him for all eternity. And the one thing we know, the
one thing we know is that once we were blind, and now we see. Philippians chapter 3. Turn with me there, Philippians
chapter 3. Paul said in verse 8, yea, doubtless
I count all things but lost for the excellency of the knowledge,
oh, that I might know Him. Know Him. Herein is life eternal,
that they might know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ,
whom Thou hast sent. That's the one hope of eternal
life, is to know Him. And Paul says, I count all things
but loss for the excellency of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom
I have suffered the loss of all things. Yeah, I hear religious
people talk about what they've given up for God. And it's like
they miss it. It's like they miss what they
gave up. What's Paul say about those things that he lost for
Christ's sake? He says it's done. We don't miss
dung, do we? We don't. We're glad to be rid
of it. Glad it's gone. Yea, and be found
in Him. In Him. Not having my own righteousness,
which is of the law, but that righteousness which is by the
faith of Jesus Christ. We were talking, Ben and I were
talking about the King James. This is one of those verses,
every other version of the Bible will say this. Not being, not
having my own righteousness which is of the law, but that which
is through my faith in Jesus Christ. Oh, our hope is the faithfulness
of the Lord Jesus Christ. That I may know Him and the power
of His resurrection. What is the power of His resurrection?
That when Christ was raised from the dead, all those for whom
He died were raised with Him. That's why He's called the Firstborn
among many brethren. We were in Christ, raised from
the dead. Paul said, I just want to know
that when Christ was raised, I was raised. That's the power
of the resurrection. And the fellowship of his suffering. That I was
in Christ when he hung on Calvary's cross and that the wrath of God
was exercised. I was in him, just like I was
in my father Adam. We were in the loins of Adam
when he sinned in the garden. And everything Adam did, we're
charged with. And in the same way, God placed His people in
Christ before the foundation of the world, so that the life
that Christ lived is our life, the death that He lived is our
death, the resurrection that He was raised is our resurrection,
His ascension, we're ascended with Him, we're seated with Him
now in the heavenlies. We're in Christ. And that's what
Paul said, that I might know Him, the power of His resurrection,
the fellowship of His suffering. That's why he said, I am crucified
with Christ. Nevertheless, I do live, but
the life that I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of
the Son of God, who loved me and died for me. And he said,
that's the one thing I want to fully know Him, more and more. If by any means I may attain
unto the resurrection of the dead, not as though I had already
attained, either were already perfect, but I follow after,
if that I may apprehend that which I am apprehended of Christ.
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended, but this
one thing I do. For getting those things which
are behind, I press towards the prize of the high calling in
Christ Jesus." This one thing I do, I'm not living off of yesterday's
grace. You remember what happened to
the children of Israel when they tried to collect enough manna
to get them by for a couple days? God said, you go out every morning
to get manna. And the Lord Jesus Christ said,
you pray for your daily bread. Yesterday's grace is not sufficient
for today. That manna rotted, didn't it? We've got to have a fresh measure
of grace from heaven. God's got to speak every day
to our hearts. And Paul's saying here, this
one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, forgetting
the successes, forgetting the failures, forgetting everything. pressing towards the prize, calling
out to Him every day, this one thing I do. To whom? Coming. Coming to the Lord Jesus
Christ for fresh manna every day. And then the Scripture tells
us, turn with me to 2 Peter chapter 3. 2 Peter chapter 3. There is one ground of assurance. 2 Peter 3, look at verse 8. But
beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with
the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years is one day,
that the Lord is not slack concerning His promise. That's the one thing. The one
ground of assurance is that God is not slack concerning his promises. As some men count slackness but
is long-suffering to us-ward. Don't miss that us-ward. The
long-suffering of God is towards his church. not willing that
any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." Isn't
it amazing how men rest the scriptures? They take the Word of God and
they'll... I had a brother tell me recently, he said, you know,
you can prove anything from the Bible. You prove that there is
no God from the Bible. All you have to do is leave out
the part that says the fool has said in his heart, Just leave
that part out and you can take, there is no God, right out of
there and just conclude, well, the Bible says there is no God.
And that's what people do. They rest the scriptures. They
say, well, God's not willing that any should perish, but all
that come to repentance, as if God's trying to get everybody
saved. No, His promises are to us, and the ground of our assurance,
the ground of our assurance is His faithfulness in keeping His
promises. And not one will perish. I was
telling some men out front that when Peter speaks of them resting
the scriptures, that word rest is a word that was used to describe
putting a man on a rack, tying his hands and his feet to a rack
and stretching his body until his bones came out a joint. What
for? To get him to say something that
he wouldn't say otherwise. You wanted him to confess allegiance
to the king, you put him on a rack, and you make him confess something
that he wouldn't confess otherwise. And that's exactly what men do
with the Word of God. They put God's Word on a rack,
and they stretch it all out of joint, and they make it say things
that it doesn't say. It doesn't say. The ground of
our assurance is that He is not slack concerning His promises.
But He's faithful to usward. He's going to accomplish the
salvation. Not willing. If God's not willing
for something to happen, it's not going to happen. Now we will
a lot of things that, you know, that happen or don't happen.
But when God wills something or doesn't will something, His
will is sovereign. And so when it says He's not
willing that any should perish, that all should come to repentance,
none will perish, all will come to repentance. The one ground of our assurance. Let me ask you, if you will,
to turn with me to Joshua chapter 23. Joshua chapter 23. Look at verse 14 in Joshua chapter
23. Now Joshua is about to die. And these are Joshua's last words
to the children of Israel. And behold, verse 14, and behold,
this day I am going the way of all the earth. And you know,
in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing
hath failed from all the good things which the Lord your God
spake concerning you, all are come to pass unto you, and not
one thing hath failed thereof." There's the ground of our assurance.
He cannot fail. He's not frustrated. Isaiah chapter
42, He hath not failed. He's accomplished His work, hasn't
He? The salvation of His people is
sure. He shall not fail nor be discouraged. I'll close with this point. When the Pharisees tried to entrap
the Lord, he turned the things back on them and he said, I've
got one question for you. One question. That's all. John's
baptism. Was it of God or was it of man? And they wouldn't answer the
question. They got together and they said, well, you know, if
we say it's of God, then he's going to say, why don't you believe
John? If we say it's a man, well, the people love John and they're
going to all turn against us. So they responded by saying,
well, we don't know. The question that they had asked
the Lord is by what authority do you do these things? And he
said, I'll ask you one question. John's baptism, was it of God
or was it a man? They would not give God the glory
for the message that John the Baptist was preaching. What was
the message John the Baptist was preaching? Behold the Lamb
of God, which taketh away the sins of the world. I must decrease,
he must increase. Look to Christ. That was the
message. They didn't believe it. They
didn't believe that he had the authority. One question I'm going
to ask you. By whose authority do you do
these things? Remember when Pilate was interrogating
the Lord? Don't you know that I have the
authority to release you or to put you to death? The Lord looked
at him. You have no authority at all
except that which God has given you. I've got all authority. All power has been given unto
me in heaven and in earth. Therefore, you go. One question. Who has the authority? Who has
all authority? All authority to speak, all authority
to save. Who's the one that we bow before
and worship? And depend on for everything?
One question. The gospel's simple, isn't it?
There's just one thing needful. One thing. One message. One simple truth. It's not complicated. It's all about the Lord Jesus
Christ and what He's accomplished on behalf of a sinner. How did Paul say to the church
in Corinth, I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled
Eve in the garden, that your hearts will be drawn away from
that simplicity which is in Christ Jesus. The gospel is simple. Pray that the Spirit of God will
make it simple and clear to our hearts. Give us hope in Christ. Amen.