Matthew 16, 5. When his disciples were come
to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread. And then Jesus
said unto them, take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees
and of the Sadducees. And they reasoned among themselves,
saying, it is because we have taken no bread. Which, when Jesus
perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason
ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread? Do
ye not yet understand? Neither remember the five loaves
of the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up? Neither
the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets
ye took up? How is it that ye do not understand
that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware
of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? Then understood they how that
he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine
of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. Having just had this encounter
with the Pharisees and the Sadducees in the first four verses of this
chapter, our Lord, having left these religious hypocrites, he
speaks to his disciples and says, beware, beware. They watched what had happened
when these ones came and tempted him. And now he gives them a warning.
And our Lord never just made conversation. Everything he said
was vitally important. And he spoke very plainly. what our society calls political
correctness. You know that doesn't just have
to do with politics, right? Political correctness basically
means you don't call anything what it really is because you
don't want to offend somebody. Just a couple of examples just
to get in our mind what I'm talking about. You can't call anything
a man anything anymore in case a woman might have something
to do with it. You know what I mean? It's not a manhole, it's
a maintenance hole now. Because if a woman goes down
it, what are we going to do? The world will stop turning. There's a school in Seattle that
changed Easter eggs to spring spheres. Because some of the
children don't celebrate Easter, and we don't want to hurt their
feelings. You get the point. By the way,
we won't be having a spring sphere hunt this coming year here at
the church. The idea is don't offend anyone,
anywhere, whatever you do. Our Lord said those Pharisees
and Sadducees, watch out for, beware. Beware of them. Those hypocrites. He called them. hypocritical adulterers to their
face and then said to his disciples, you beware of them. Everybody knew who the Pharisees
were. They were a well-recognized, well-respected religious group
like the Methodists or the Baptists now. Beware the doctrine of the
Methodists. Oh boy, you might offend somebody.
I certainly hope so. I hope I do. Not here necessarily, but you
know what I mean. I know I've offended at least one Methodist
in my life already. And we're not the Lord. We don't
know people's hearts. But understand this, the Lord
did know people's hearts and knew that some Pharisees were
his sheep. Nicodemus, Saul of Tarsus, and he still said, beware of
them. Beware of them. You see what
I'm saying? Exceptions don't make the rule. They don't change
the rule. Are some Methodists cross sheep?
I don't know, but I know this. You better beware the evil, blasphemous,
satanic doctrine of the Methodists. That I know. I'm sure of that. And the Baptists, and the Catholics,
and all the rest of them. Organized religion is all corrupt,
and evil, and anti-Christ. Is that clear enough? If that
doesn't offend them, then I didn't say it right. Paul didn't know
the hearts of men any better than we do, but he wasn't too
politically correct to identify some false preachers in his day
and say to God's sheep, stay away from that person. And he
named them by name. And I've done that too at times,
and I'm sure I've offended people when I did. There are many, many
in our day to stay away from. I won't list them for you here. I'd never be able to list them
all anyway. Here's the lesson here. There's too much at stake
to be delicate about this. To be concerned about hurting
somebody's feelings or offending somebody. Be sure. Don't condemn a man for a word.
But as John said in 1 John 4, Beloved, believe not every spirit,
but try the spirits. Try the spirits. We said last
week, Most people, if there's a stained glass window, it's
the church of God. If there's a cross around the
neck, it's a saint. You're a saint. If you say, God
in heaven, oh, you're a man of God. No, no. No, no, most likely not. Most
likely not. Believe not every spirit, But
try the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false
prophets are gone out into the world, just a handful of true
preachers, but many false prophets. Do they preach the word of God
or the doctrines of men? That's the question. Turn to
Titus chapter one, verse five. Now listen to this now. Paul's
very, very clear here, and I'll just let the words speak for
themselves, but he's very clear. He says to Titus, my own son
after the common faith, he called him in verse four. And in verse
five says, for this cause left I thee in Crete for a reason. Why? That thou should have set
in order the things that are wanting and ordained elders in
every city as I had appointed thee. If any be blameless, the
husband of one wife, Having faithful children, not accused of riot
or unruly, Paul said in another place, if a man can't rule his
own house, how's he going to rule the house of God? The Lord
uses means in his ministry. And he'll use the right ones.
He'll qualify them. For a bishop must be blameless
as the steward of God, not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to
wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre, but a lover of
hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate,
holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he
may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince
the gainsayers. You see, there are those who
won't submit to sound doctrine. Exhort them with sound doctrine,
he said. Convince them not with your opinion.
It's not you arguing against them. It's God they have a problem
with. Show them that. For there are
many, verse 10, unruly and vain talkers and deceivers. There's
a bunch of them. Especially they of the circumcision. Especially among the Jews. The
ones that are supposed to know God. whose mouths must be stopped. Are you in on that? I'd love
to see that, wouldn't you? I'd love to see them shut up
somehow or another. I've said it many times. I'm
for them going out of business. They preach false, false doctrine,
false gospel. I hope they go out of business.
But here's the way that you do that. Convince with sound doctrine. People that don't know any better.
People that are being fooled by these idiots. Ordain elders
in every city. Everywhere where God will raise
a man up. Have him tell the truth. That's
how you reject and refute and do away with error. How do you
shut him up? By telling the truth. By showing
people clearly. This is what God said and that's
what they're saying. Who are you going to believe?
Who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not.
Why do they do it? For money. It's obvious why they do it.
for filthy lucre's sake, for themselves. One of themselves,
even a prophet of their own. Now listen to this guy. He said,
I'll let you in Crete to preach and to teach others who can preach
and raise them up in different cities. And one of themselves,
even a prophet of their own said, the Cretans are always liars,
evil beasts, slow bellies. And Paul said, he's right. They
are. They're characterized that way.
Oh boy. I wonder if that would have offended
anybody in Crete. This witness is true. Wherefore
rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith. Why? Because you want to show
how much more you know than everybody? No! So that they might be saved. so that they can hear the gospel
in truth and be sound in the faith, so they can believe something
that's worth believing instead of the nonsense that they're
calling a gospel now. Not giving heed to Jewish fables
and commandments of men that turn from the truth unto the
pure. All things are pure, but unto
them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure, but even their
mind and conscience is defiled. They profess that they know God,
but in works they deny Him, being abominable and disobedient, and
under every good work reprobate. You see what Paul, he was doing
the same thing our Lord did here, warning against the false preachers,
the false doctrine that they preach, and saying, here's how
you shut them up. Preach sound doctrine. Preach
the truth. Rebuke them with the Word of
God. The Word of God is profitable for reproof and rebuke, for instruction
and righteousness. Not your opinion, not mine. We have to learn from these disciples'
mistake as well. Let me mention this before we
talk more about the doctrine. Their mistake in verses 7 through
11, they had forgotten to bring any food with them over when
they came across the sea there. And when the Lord said, beware
of the leaven of the Pharisees, they thought he was talking about
that. They thought he was rebuking them for not bringing some food. And he said, Do you remember
what just happened? Do you not understand? Still, you don't understand.
And let's learn this from that. You and I are not as smart as
we think we are. I know that we think we're smarter
than these disciples. You know how I know that about
you? Because that's true of me. When I read this I go, what a
bunch of fools. And then I realize, yeah, what
a bunch of fools we are. What a bunch of fools. Do we
still not understand? The Lord had to open their understanding
that he might understand what he had said. You notice there
in the last verse that we read, then they understood. after the
Lord corrected him and showed him the truth. And he'll have
to do that for us this morning or we won't get it. We will not
get it. And our tendency like theirs
is to focus on the temporal. They were worried about what
are we going to eat. And they thought he was worried about
that too. And what he basically said to them is we don't need.
He could have picked up a rock and fed everybody in town with
it. Turned it into bread if he wanted to. Don't we know that
by now? Can't we just quit worrying about
the temporal thing? We gather here, this place has
one purpose, to gather and hear of him and worship him who loved
us and gave himself for us. And still, and I as pastor, am
to blame. We worry way too much about temporal
things. Things that don't matter. And
Christ says, don't you understand yet that that's not the problem.
That's not what it's about. That's not the issue. And when
they did get something right, like Peter did, when the Lord
asked him, who do you say that I am? Peter got it right that
day. He said, you're the Christ. You're
the son of the living God. When they did get something right,
our Lord made sure they knew where that came from. Flesh and
blood hasn't revealed that to you, Peter. You didn't figure
that one out. And neither did anybody else. My father revealed
that to you. No wonder he said, beware, because
false doctrine is so subtle and we're so stupid. Beware. You see that there? Beware the
doctrine. Why? Because they're the ones
that said, he's worried about, we didn't get anything to eat.
Oh, we need to beware, sure enough, don't we? The likes of us. We gotta be careful. We're slow
of heart to believe God's word, and yet carried about with every
wind of doctrine, unless the Lord establishes this. And the way that he keeps us
includes us being aware. Beware. By warning us. Exhorting us to be careful. Take
heed how you hear. Take heed what you hear, who
you hear. Beware. I like something that one of
my brothers preached recently that I heard. He said this, do
you know who the wickedest man in this town is? I'm talking
about the most vile before God. The most vile, wicked, evil,
antichrist, satanic, person in this town is. It'd be hard to
narrow it down to one, but I guarantee you one thing, it's a preacher.
You mark it down. It's a preacher. Did you hear
what our Lord said here? Did I hear what he said? He didn't
say beware of the drug dealers or the harlots or the, you know,
don't go over on the bad side of town. Beware, you know. And I know, I know parents who
teach their children, beware these things. And that's good.
I do mine too. Beware drugs and people that'll talk you into
doing bad things. Beware all these things and then send their
children to a Christian school. When the one thing our Lord said,
beware is their doctrine. Beware. Our Lord warns us in
this book. about two things. Besides our own evil heart, he
does say, beware of covetousness. And that's right here. He says,
beware lest that come upon you, which was written in the prophets.
When the gospel goes forth, the Lord said, I'll declare a thing
unto you and you won't hear it. You won't believe it and you'll
go to hell. Beware lest that come upon you. Beware of yourself.
And that's important. But beyond ourselves, he's told
us in this book to beware of Satan and false preachers. Matthew 7, 15, beware of false
prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly
they are ravening wolves. The Lord Jesus said concerning
these religious hypocrites, in the context of our study in Matthew,
He said, don't you pray like them, don't you give like them,
don't you worship like them, don't live for the things of
this world like they do, take no thought, no anxious thought,
don't judge other men like they do, look at the beam in your
own eye instead of the moat that's in somebody else's eye, Don't
trust in your works like they do. Lord, Lord, haven't we prophesied
in your name? Oh, all of that is in the same
context. Don't do anything. Don't listen
to what they say. Beware what they say. Listen
to what he said also in this verse. A little leaven leavens
the whole. A little bit. And what are we talking
about? He said, don't you know I'm not
talking about bread? Don't you understand that? And
then they understood. He's talking about their teaching. Their teaching. A little untruth corrupts the
whole message. In a bread recipe, there's six
and a half cups of flour, a whole bowl full of flour, two and a
half cups of water, a cup of sugar, a half a cup of oil, some
salt, And one little packet of yeast, it's probably what, about
a teaspoon? And it completely transforms the whole recipe.
That's the picture our Lord's given here. I'm sure you've heard
men preach, and I have too, a lot of truth, a lot of true things
for about 45 minutes. And then in the last two minutes,
say something like, God wants to save you if you'll let him,
or God's trying. What did Paul say about such?
They have a form of godliness but deny the power thereof. They have a form, they'll say
good things for 45 minutes and then they'll deny that God has
the power to say who he wants to say. You know why? Because
that shuts them up to the mercy of God. The truth of God's sovereign
grace shuts men up to the mercy of God. It offends their sense
of fairness and their sense of entitlement to the blessing of
God. Everybody deserves a chance. No, everybody deserves hell. And beyond that, you deserve
nothing. And me too. God said, my hand is not shortened
that it cannot save. He said, I will have mercy on
whoever I want to have mercy on. Does that sound like the
God they preach? If you don't have a sovereign
God, you don't have a God. If you don't preach the truth
concerning Him, you don't preach the truth. But how many times have you heard
people say, your loved ones, your friends maybe at work, defending
a false preacher that they love. They'll say, well, he says so
many good things. Do you realize that they wouldn't
even say that if they didn't know something was wrong? Why
would you have to defend him if you didn't know something
was weird, something's off? I like this illustration. You've
probably all heard it before, but it's still a good one. Rat
poison is mostly good food. Did you know that? It's just
got a little bit of poison in it. You know why? Because the
rats won't eat it. Unless there's a lot of good
food in there. And then it won't do what it's put out to do. And that's the false gospel right
there. It's got a lot of good things in it. How many people
do you know and love? We're very intelligent. No nonsense
people. Have it together. in every other
way, in every other way. And yet this morning, they're
sitting somewhere with a Bible in their lap. A Bible that says in it clearly,
salvation is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth,
but of God that showeth mercy." And sitting there with that Bible
in their lap, they're listening to a man tell them, salvation
is up to your free will. And they're saying, amen. You
see, our Lord said, beware. That's all of us now. We're all fools and slow of heart to believe. He called his disciples that,
slow of heart. They're sitting there with the
Bible in their lap, listening to a preacher say,
God has done all he can and now salvation's up to you. They're sitting there with that
Bible in their lap that says, God hateth all workers of iniquity,
and listening to a preacher say, God loves everybody, and saying
amen, without having any desire to look into that. No desire
to learn what the truth is. Who does God love? If that preacher's
saying God loves everybody, and the Bible said God hates everybody
who works iniquity, I better look into that. Beware, and I'm
telling you this morning in the time that I've got left, beware
of the man who says that God loves everybody. Beware of him. Because as good as that may sound
to some, it is horrible, soul-damning heresy. It gives sinners false
comfort and false hope when the truth is you must flee to Christ. Because without Him, you are
without God and without hope in this world. And you have no
reason to believe that God loves you. None. You will suffer His
wrath He will say to you in the end, I never knew you and put
you in hell where you belong. Unless you bow to Christ, believe
on Christ. You see, you have a sin problem
that they're not telling you about. These ones who talk about
God's love in such a unscriptural way. Oh, I know they believe
that all men are sinners. But what they mean by that is
that we're prone to do evil things, but God loves the sinner and
hates the sin. That's not what God said. It says he hates all workers
of iniquity. If you'll just make a decision
for Jesus, all is forgiven. No, that's not what God said.
Your true condition before God is much different. The truth
is that every decision you've ever made, and I've ever made,
or will make, is evil and anti-Christ. We're not ever going to make
one until His grace comes, until we're saved by His mercy. God
must give you faith in His Son, and He does that through the
preaching of the truth, not through sentimental begging and lying
on God. He must give you faith to submit
to Him as the righteousness of God, Paul said concerning the
church in Rome. He must give you faith to submit
to Him and to own Him as your sin offering before God. You
must have a sin offering. Your sin will be punished. And the wages of sin is eternal
death and your only hope. It's for God to give you faith
in His Son. And when He does, if and when
He does, you'll see that His Son bore all of God's wrath that
was due unto you in your place, in your stead. That's why we
sing, it is enough that Jesus died and that He died for me. This faith comes by hearing and
hearing by the Word of God. not by perverting the word of
God to make it more palatable to the flesh, by the pure, unadulterated
word of God. Thus saith the Lord. The truth
concerning Christ and his effectual sin atoning work, that he died
for sinners and redeemed everyone he died for. Beware the man who says that
Christ died to save everybody. That sounds good to the flesh,
to the scripturally ignorant, to the spiritually blind, to
the natural man, but it is horrible soul damning heresy. If Christ
died to save everybody, and yet many go in that broad way that
leadeth to destruction, as the Lord said they do, and wake up
like that rich man in Luke 16 in hell being in torment, then
what does the precious blood of Christ have to do with salvation? If Christ died for Judas as well
as for Peter, then what does his death have to do with salvation?
No, the truth regarding the death The blood, the precious blood
of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of sinners, is what Paul
preached in Romans chapter 8. If Christ died for you, then
there is no one in heaven, earth, or hell that can condemn you.
If Christ died for you, then God has justified you. The truth
concerning Christ And his cenotonial work on the cross is what he
himself preached in John chapter 10. He said, I lay down my life
for the sheep. And he said in that same message,
they shall never perish. And then he said to the Pharisees,
you don't believe what I'm preaching to you because you're not my
sheep. I lay down my life for them and
they hear my voice and they follow me. and I give unto them eternal
life." That's the truth now concerning those for whom he laid down his
life. Every sinner for whom Christ
died is redeemed by that precious blood. Paul said he obtained
eternal redemption for us when he offered that blood to the
Father for our sins. Justified by God the Father,
Because he's satisfied with the sacrifice of the very soul of
his son that has made his soul an offering for sin. And God
says, I'm satisfied. Redeemed by that blood, justified
by God the Father, and eternally secure in the very hand of God,
he said in that same context. in John 10, in the very hand
of God, eternally secure, kept by his power unto salvation. That's what's true of those for
whom he laid down his life. Not that they got a chance to
do the right thing. He saved them. He saved them.
That's why he's called Jesus. because he shall save his people
from their sin. Beware the man that says that
any work of man has anything to do with the salvation of that
man's soul. Anything. In thought, word, or
deed, anything. Look at Colossians chapter two. Verse 8, listen to what Paul
said now. He's saying the same thing I
am and for the same reason. Because there are those who preach
that your works have something to do with your salvation before
God. Look at verse 8, Colossians 2.
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit
after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world. What
is all that? Not after Christ. Anything that's
not Christ is that. He described the same thing three
different ways. Anything that's not after Christ
is false. Beware. For in him dwelleth all
the fullness of the Godhead in a body. In other words, he's
the God-man. The one who died for sinner is
the God-man. The one mediator between God
and man. And you are complete in him, which is the head of
all principality and power, in whom also you are circumcised
with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body
of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ. The Jews
were preaching you, yes, grace, grace, grace, but you've got
to be circumcised. You've got to do this. You've
got to make a decision. You've got to obey. No. You're
complete in Christ. In Him, you've kept the law without
your hands having anything to do with it. Buried with Him in
baptism wherein also you're risen with Him through the faith of
the operation of God who raised Him from the dead. And you being
dead in your sins and the circumcision of your flesh, the outward obedience
of the law is death for you. You were dead in that. but he
quickened you. Together with him, having forgiven
you all trespasses, all of your law keeping, he's forgiven you
for it. You see that? Blotting out the
handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary
to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross,
and having spoiled, in other words, The crucified redeemer,
there's your salvation, there's your righteousness, there's your
law keeping, there's your sin offering. You're complete in
him, you don't add anything. Having spoiled principalities
in power, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them
in it. My champion, my savior has triumphed
gloriously and I just watched. I just stood there and saw the
salvation of the Lord. That's what happened when I was
saved. How about you? Let no man therefore
judge you in meat or in drink. Don't let them put that yoke
of bondage on you again. Don't let them tell you, yes,
it's all Christ, but you can't eat that. Don't you let them
do it. You're completely in Christ and
Christ alone. You see that? And beware the
man that says God wants to, God's trying, and they have other ways
of saying it that are even more subtle than that. God never tried
to do anything. He does everything he wants to
do, when he wants to do it, with whom he wants to do it, the way
he wants to do it. That's what He does. He doeth
according to His will in the army of heaven and among the
inhabitants of the earth. That's you. He'll do whatever
He wants to do with you, and nobody can stop Him or question
Him when He does. Psalm 135, verse 6, Whatsoever
the Lord pleased, that did He in heaven and in earth, in the
seas and all deep places. And our thoughts are not His
thoughts. Our thoughts are contrary to his thoughts. Our ways are
contrary to his ways. But he's going to do according
to his will. God is sovereign in salvation. And anybody that preaches anything
other than that, beware of him. Romans 9, 18, he hath mercy on
whom he will have mercy, and on whom he will, he'll harden. He'll harden you and put you
in hell for being hard. And he'll be right to do it,
if that's what he's pleased to do. You deserve it, and I do too.
If he doesn't do that, it'll be grace. It'll be mercy. As the father raiseth up the
dead and quickeneth them, even so the son, the son said, quickeneth
whom he In Luke 5, 23, he said, what's
easier for me to say, thy sins be forgiven thee, or rise and
take up your bed and walk? But that you may know that the
Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins. Can you pray
to him? Can you bow to him who has the
authority and the ability to forgive your sins if he wants
to? 2 Thessalonians 2 13 we're bound
to give thanks always to God for you brethren beloved of the
Lord there's some that's where salvation begins right there
the love of God because God hath from the beginning chosen you
why did he choose you because you were beloved of him to salvation to salvation through
sanctification of the spirit and belief of the truth. Ephesians 1.3 Blessed be the
God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with
all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ, according as
he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world,
that we should be holy and without blame before him. He chose us
in Christ before there was ever a world so that we would stand
before Him in the end of the world, holy and without blame. Salvation. Tonight, by God's
grace, I want to talk to you about salvation from the book
of Genesis. Having predestinated us, unto
the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself according to
the good pleasure of his will. He predetermined before you ever
existed that you'd be like his son one day and live with him
forever just because he wanted to. If you're going to worship,
you're going to worship that one right there. Everything else
is pretend. To the praise of the glory of
his grace, wherein He hath made us accepted and beloved. Paul
said, God forbid that I should glory save in the crucified Redeemer. Of course, He's sovereign in
creation. Most would confess that. John said all things
were made by Him. And without Him was not anything
made that was made. Isn't that beautiful? Everything
that you see, the Lord Jesus Christ made it. And if there's
anything wrong with it, it's because of you and me. Revelation 4.11, Thou art worthy,
O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power. I said most
people agree with this, but it doesn't make it any less glorious.
What are you praising Him for? For thou hast created all things,
and for thy pleasure they are and were created. God said to Job in Job 38.4,
Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare,
if thou hast to understand. I'm not worried about ruining
this world, are you? With my garbage, or my little
fire in my backyard. Are you worried about that? Or
global warming, or whatever. Do you know when this earth will
be destroyed? It ain't gonna be destroyed. It's not because
I burned some leaves in my backyard, though. It'll be destroyed when
God's done with it. When he's called his last sheep home. He's
gonna burn it up. Not till then. And God is sovereign
in providence. Everything that happens in his
universe ever has happened, is happening right now, or ever
shall happen, is because God wanted it to, and purposed that
it would, and brought it to pass by his irresistible will and
power. The heart of the king is in his
hand and he'll turn it wherever he wants to turn it, like the
rivers of water. Proverbs 16, 33, the lot is cast into the
lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. I love
that verse. There's no such thing as chance.
There's no such thing as luck. There's no such thing as the
luck of the draw or the stars telling anybody anything. That
word disposing there in that verse means the act of deciding
a matter. You roll the dice. And God Almighty
decides whether it comes up seven or snake eyes. And that God,
the one who determines that, and who turns the heart of kings
in his hand, says to his people, don't be afraid, and don't worry
what you're gonna wear, what you're gonna eat, or what you're
gonna drink. Don't worry about that. Your heavenly Father knows what
you need before you ask him, and he controls everything for
your good. Seek his kingdom and his righteousness. Worship him, honor him, bow to
him, believe on him, follow him. And all these things will be
added to you. Don't be afraid, you little flock.
It is your father's good pleasure to give you his kingdom. And it's his to give. And it's
a glorious kingdom. King David thought about all
of that and wrote a song. It goes like this. The Lord is
my shepherd. I shall not want. The truth is precious to God's
sheep. So when they hear somebody say
God is trying and cannot, I've got a problem with that. What
if he tries to give me his kingdom and can't get it done? I'm not
worried about that, are you? What if he tries to bless me?
What if he tries to provide me with everything that I need,
like he promised that he would, but somebody won't let him? I'm
not worried about it. I'm just not. By his grace, I
know who he is. When we hear somebody teach that
Christ died for sinners who were already in hell when he died,
as much as for those who are saved, I've got a big problem
with that. Paul said, I fear, lest by any
means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so
your mind should be corrupted from the simplicity, the singleness,
the all-inclusiveness. What was it Todd Nabbert said
from this pulpit? The onlyness that is in Christ. Beware the doctrine. And may
God give us grace to obey this exhortation. Hold fast the form
of sound words which thou hast heard of me by God's grace. You've
heard it of me, I believe, by God's grace. Hold fast the form
of sound words which thou hast heard of me in faith and love
which is in Christ Jesus. Amen. Let's bow.