I want to say a few things to
you this morning on this subject. He is our peace. He is our peace. Now, if you look down here in
verse 11, you should be familiar with these first several verses
because I quote them nearly every message I bring. But beginning
here in verse 11, He tells this people whom he found dead in
trespasses and sins, who were by nature the children of wrath,
even as others, walking according to the course of this world,
according to the prince of the power of the air. A people that
he quickened together with Christ when he raised them from that
tomb, and rose them up together, raised them up together, and
set them at God's right hand. And then in due time, sent the
gospel to them. And give them the ability, give
them of his spirit to believe and repent. And not only that,
but give them a desire in their heart to walk with God. And then he tells them now, he
said, you're his workmanship. created in Christ Jesus unto
good works. This thing is not just something
done on paper. This salvation of God is not
something that is taken care of behind closed doors. This
thing of salvation is something God does in your heart, something
that you cannot do for yourself. You are His workmanship. created
in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained
that we should walk in them. Now, listen to what he says.
Wherefore, remember, remember, remember where God
found you. Remember that you being in time
past, Gentiles, Gentiles in the flesh who are
called uncircumcision by that which is called circumcision
in the flesh made with hands. And that at that time you were
without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel,
strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope without
God in the world. But now, in Christ Jesus, you
who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ,
for he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath
broken down the middle wall of partition between us, having
abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments
contained in ordinances. For to make in himself of twain
one new man, so make in peace." and that he might reconcile both
unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby,
and came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and
to them which were nigh. For through him we both have
access by one Spirit unto the Father." Our ministry, the ministry
of this church, the gospel ministry, is a ministry that desires peace. I am not at war with this world.
If I was at war with this world, I'd participate in all the religious
rallies. I'd go sign up, get me a billboard,
put on a jacket, go out there and march up and down the street
and protest things. I'd go out and take part in those
things. I'd give my money to those things.
I'd get out there and demonstrate with the rest of the world. But
I'm not at war with the world. And children of God do not like
controversy. Now, let me say one more thing
about this not being at war with this world. He said we war not
with flesh and blood. My warfare is not with you as
a person. My warfare is with those things
that have indwelt you. And my weapons are not carnal. I don't have carnal weapons. It's not going to do me any good
to have musicians and entertainers and all these types of things
that religion uses to get men to do things because it won't
do you any good. That strong man, he keepeth his
goods at peace until a stronger than he comes in and overtakes
him and puts him out. You can't put him out. I can't
put him out. I'm not at war with this world.
I'm at peace. I'm at peace, and I preach peace.
But the peace I preach is in a person, the Lord Jesus Christ. Our ministry is a ministry that
desires peace. Children of God don't like controversy,
arguing, and divisions. They're at peace with God and
one another. And I'll be frank with you, when
there are divisions and when people do get upset, even people
who don't know the gospel, when they get upset, we get upset.
Because we don't like it. We don't like it. We desire peace.
It's not my desire for you to go away from here upset. It's
not why I stand up and preach what I preach. I want you to
be reconciled to God. But reconciliation, Or what he
says religion preaches, peace where there is no peace won't
do you any good. It won't do you any good. And
so this peace must be preached as it is. Children of God are at peace
with God and they are at peace with one another. And their attitude
and their spirit is an attitude of peace. He said, Blessed are
the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God."
Children of God are peacemakers. The child of God that's been
called out of darkness, called into the light of Christ, he's
tasted, Peter said, that the Lord is gracious. He's tasted
his grace. Yes, he knows his justice. Yes,
he knows his righteousness. Yes, he knows something about
his wrath and those things, but he's tasted of the grace. He's
tasted it, and he himself is gracious. And he's no longer at war with
God. He's been reconciled to God. God has revealed to him
what he is and where he is and why he is the way he is. In discovering
his sin and rebellion, God then reveals his sovereign mercy and
grace in Christ. And that man, by the power and
purpose of Christ, The power and purpose of God, of God in
Christ. Ain't that what he said? And
all things are of God who hath reconciled us unto himself by
Jesus Christ. Of God. We discover those things, and
we come to know that what Paul called the peace of God that
passeth all understanding. How can you be at peace? Look at this world economy. It's
shot. I was looking at this thing on the news. You can't help but
see it. It's on every channel you turn to and they're on there
and they're screaming and yelling and carrying on about this health
care issue and what if this happens and that happens and the next
thing happens and they're upset and tore up. I'm going to tell
you something. If you think for a minute that
your peace comes from this world, you're never going to have any
peace. Peace is in Christ. It's the
only place it can be had. You can't find it in this world.
You can't find it. I want you to know the peace
of God and lay hold of this peace and rest in this peace until
you die and then go to be with the Lord who himself is our peace. Let me give you several things
here from Ephesians chapter 2 concerning this piece. Here is the first
thing I want you to see. By the testimony of the Word
of God that God finds and ministers to men and women who are active
rebels and enemies of God. They are not good folk. They
are rebels and they are enemies of God. They just don't see it.
They don't understand it. It's impossible for a natural
man to see the spiritual enmity of his mind. He can't see it.
It has to be revealed to him. That's why they get in trouble.
When a man gets under conviction, he's in trouble. His health goes
downhill. Everything goes downhill. God
gets a hold of him, turns him inside out, opens him up and
lets him look inside and see the leprosy. Let him see the
vile uncleanness of his righteousness, filthy rags." Oh, they're enemies, they're rebels,
and this is the natural state of all men. Listen to this in
Psalm chapter 58. David begins this in verse 1
with this statement. Do you indeed speak righteousness? Do you indeed speak righteousness,
O congregation? Do you judge uprightly, O you
sons of men? Yea, in heart ye work wickedness. You weigh the violence of your
hands in the earth. That is, you measure. You measure
yourself. and your deeds by what natural
men do and say in the earth. You compare yourself to other
men. That's what he's talking about
here. You weigh the violence of your
hands in the earth according to what the earth has to say,
according to how they reason, according to their logic. You're
okay. You'll be all right. You'll be
all right. Listen to this, verse 3, the wicked are estranged,
they're strangers from the womb. They go astray as soon as they
be born, speaking lies. Flip back a few pages to Psalm
chapter 51. Natural man is born into this
world a rebel. He's a rebel. He's an enemy of
God. Well, I don't go outside and
stand there and shake my fist up in the face of God. I don't
do that kind of thing. Our Lord said, if you're not
with me, you're against me. Isn't that what He said? That's
a rebel. If you're not for me, you're against me. Listen to this here in Psalm
51.1. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Thy lovingkindness,
according to the multitude of Thy tender mercies. Blot out
my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from mine
iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my
transgressions, and my sin," not sins, my sin, S-I-N, that's
who he was. That's what that's talking about.
My sin, he said, is ever before me. Against thee and thee only
have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight, that thou
mightest be justified when thou speakest, and clear when thou
judgest." David received with conviction the testimony of God
concerning his sins. God said he was a sinner, and
he said, that's what I confess. That's what I confess. And I
do it that thou mightest be just. justified when thou speakest." Now listen to this, "'Behold,'
he said, "'I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive
me. Behold, thou desirest truth in
the inward parts, and in the hidden part thou shalt make me
to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall
be clean. Wash me, and I shall be whiter
than snow. Make me to hear joy and gladness. that the bones which thou hast
broken may rejoice. Hide thy face from my sins, and
blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O
God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from
thy presence, and take not thy Holy Spirit from me. Restore
unto me the joy of thy salvation, and uphold me with thy free spirit."
Now watch this. Well, I teach transgressors the
way, and sinners shall be converted
unto thee. To become a peacemaker, one must first be brought to
God and exposed for what he is. God has to reveal to you what
you are by his own testimony. by his own testimony. And when
you receive that testimony and you begin to compare your deeds
with the deeds of other men that he testified of in this book,
and you begin to see that your religious practices line up with
these other men that he talked about in the scriptures, lines
right up with them, then you begin to enter in a little bit,
a little bit into that understanding. and you justify God. The sacrifices,
he said, of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite
heart. O God, thou wilt not despise.
And I tell you this, the Bible has nothing to say to good folk. That's why I spend so much time
talking about the sinner. This is a faithful saying, Paul
said, and it's worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus
came into the world to save sinners, of which I am chief." Isn't that
what he said? Sinners. Sinners. The Bible has
nothing to say to good folk. It has no promises of peace,
no promises of mercy or grace to anyone except wretched sinners
and enemies of God. And I have a twofold message
of evangelism. When he talked about John the
Baptist, the forerunner of Christ, coming into this world, he said,
Cry. And he said, What shall I cry?
And he said, Here's the first point to your message. All flesh
is grass, and all the goodliness of man is like the dandelions
in the spring. It comes forth quick and blooms,
and then it turns into nothing, and the wind blows it away. That's all it is. That's all
it is. It's just grass. It's just grass. And all man's glory is like the
flower of the grass. All flesh. All flesh. There's nothing lasting. Nothing glorious about it. There's
nothing about it worthy of mentioning. It's just to be gathered up.
He said that's all it's good for is to feed beasts and gather
it up and build a fire. That's all it's good for. That's
all it's good for. There's no peace in the world.
In the world, our Lord said, over there I think it's in John
14 or 15 when He's leading up to His departing to the cross
and He's talking to His disciples through those several chapters.
And He's giving them comfort. an assurance of his love, an
assurance that when he's gone, he's going to send a comforter,
and so on. And he talks to them, and he
says, now, he said, know this, there's no peace in the world. That's where I'm leaving you,
and there's no peace here. But in the world you shall have
tribulation. That's what you've got here,
trouble. Nothing but trouble. Because
sin and darkness is all that's here. In 1 John 2, verse 15,
he says, Love not the world, neither the things of the world.
If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in
him. He doesn't understand yet. He's just clinging and reaching
and grasping and digging and working and doing all he can
do to get a hold of everything he can get a hold of. And if
you won the lottery this morning, you'd spend that and still want
more. You can't satisfy a sinful heart. You can't satisfy it. You'll
never have peace that way. For all that's in the world,
the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride
of life is not of the Father. It's of the world. God allows this world. Peter
talked about this world. We mentioned something about
it in Sunday school class, that it was reserved by the Word of
God unto fire against that day of judgment and perdition of
ungodly men. The world. God's going to burn
it up. That's what he thinks about it. He's going to burn it up. There's
no peace in the world. Everything in it is temporary. Everything in it is condemned.
Everything in it is awaiting destruction and wrath. And there
is no peace in religion. There is no peace in religion. In Isaiah chapter 59, God speaks
to natural Israel. He spoke to the nation of Israel.
Now, listen. Isaiah 59-1. He said, Behold,
the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, neither
his ear heavy, that it cannot hear, but your iniquities have
separated between you and your God." Now, if you are really
interested, you can find a definition of these iniquities over in Isaiah
chapter 1. And in Isaiah chapter 1, he tells
them not to bring any more vain oblations. Incense, he said,
is an abomination unto me. The new moons and Sabbaths, the
calling of assemblies, I cannot away with. It is iniquity, even
your solemn meetings. This is the iniquity that he's
talking about. It's their self-righteousness.
There's no peace in religion. God hides his eyes. He said,
when you stretch forth your hands to me, he said, I'll hide my
eyes. Who told you to do these things?
Your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and
your sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear. None
calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth. They trust
in vanity. They speak lies. They conceive
mischief. and bring forth iniquity. Their
feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood.
Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, and the way of peace
they have not known. There is no judgment in their
goings. That is, there is no understanding. They have made them crooked paths. Now watch it. Whosoever goeth
therein, shall not know peace. Ain't that what he said? How come? How come? Because they don't preach the
person in whom is peace. Peace is in person. There's no peace in religion.
Peace is in a person. He is our peace. That's what
it says in Ephesians 2.14. He is our peace. The prophets
foretold him to be the Prince of Peace. Ain't that what they
said? Ain't that what Isaiah called him, the Prince of Peace?
Upon his appearance it was announced to the shepherds on the hillside,
this day a Savior was born who is Christ the Lord. And then
the heavenly host all chimed in and cried out, Glory to God
in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men." Peace
is in person, and peace follows the person. It followed him from
eternity to the prophets. It followed from the prophets
to the coming of Christ. And it followed from the ascension
of Christ into glory through the gospel that's preached. We
preach a person. Salvation's in Christ. Look to
Christ. Receive Christ. Rejoice in Christ. Cling to Christ. It's in a person. One Sabbath day, our Lord stood
up for to read, and the scrolls were delivered to him. And he
turned over to Isaiah chapter 61, and he began to read. You
can find that over in Luke chapter 4. In verse 8, he said, The Spirit
of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach
the gospel to the poor. He sent me to heal the brokenhearted
and preach deliverance to the captives, the recovering of sight
to the blind, and to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach
The acceptable year of the Lord. Anybody in here know what that
means? What in the world is he talking about to preach the acceptable
year of the Lord? I bet you've never looked at
that before. How many of you in here have ever heard of the
year of Jubilee in the Old Testament? That's what he's talking about.
That's what he's talking about. There was a year set up Under
the old covenant, it was called the Year of Jubilee. All debts
were forgiven. Everybody that was in bondage
was set free. No more debts. Had a controversy. Had a controversy, all forgiven. All forgiven. Think about it. How they rejoiced. Look forward to that 50-year
time, that year of jubilee. The year of jubilee. He said,
The Lord hath anointed me to preach the year of jubilee. I am the year. In me all debts
are forgiven. Think about it. What kind of
a debt have we run up? How much do you owe God? Think
about it. You're in bondage. But he preaches
that in him, the bondmen are set free. He said, I set free
the captives. Set them free. They can go. Peace. Peace. It's all in Christ. Sin is an affront. I want you
to listen to me. We owe a debt we cannot pay.
We serve a servitude that we'll never fulfill. We're sold unto
sin. And we never work it off. Sin
is an affront on God. It's a violation of His character. It's a violation of His affection.
And it's a violation of His authority. We challenge His right to be
God. That's what sin does. Sin is
an affront. It's a frontal attack. It's not
sneaking around behind God. It's going right up into His
face. That's what it is. Brother Scott preached years
ago down in Ball, Louisiana. He preached the message in Malachi,
Will a Man Rob God? And he said there's a difference
between a robber and a thief. I never thought about it. A thief,
he sneaks in. He crawls through the back window.
He's silent. He gets what he wants, and he
gets out. He's not a robber. A robber comes
in and kicks the door open, guns blazing, and comes in and takes
what he wants. That's the sinner. Will a man
rob God? Oh yes, he'll rob God of his
righteousness. He'll rob God of his glory. He'll
rob God of his justice. He'll rob God of his vengeance. It's a frontal attack. It's an
affront on God. It's a bold rebel standing before
his God and spitting in his face. It's a declaration of his independence
from God. I don't need him, says the sinner.
I don't need him. I live as I will, do what I will,
act how I will, talk how I will, and I believe what I choose to
believe. I don't need his person, I don't need his purpose, and
I don't need his power. I've got my free will. And I'm not going to give it
up even if God sends me to hell. Now, that's the truth of it.
That's the truth of it. You're going to go to hell hanging
on to your free will. I'm going to go to hell hanging
on to some false religion. Sin puts a man as far away from
God as he can get. He said, you who were a false, a false, yet now hath he made
nigh. Between God and the sinner is
an ocean of sin, a sea of iniquity, and sin must be paid for. Every
offense of sin under the law incurred a debt. Read it. Read it for yourself. I don't
care what it was. It incurred a debt. There was
a penalty. There was a stipulation involved.
And here's what Paul said about that law. That desire to be under
that law, do you hear it? Do you hear what it says? You know, we're going to go out
here in the parking lot, put up a little billboard, put the
Ten Commandments on it. It's becoming popular today.
I'm seeing it everywhere. Got this little thing, We Believe
in the Ten Commandments, and they put them out there. Well,
let me tell you something. If you're going to be righteous
by your obedience to the law, you have to do the whole law,
not just the Ten Commandments. Cursed is everyone who continues
not in all things. written in the book of the law
to do them. You don't even know what the law says, and neither
do I. But we're going to be righteous
by our deeds. I'm telling you, there's an ocean
of darkness and sin between the sinner and God. And his punishment
is set by an infinitely holy God whose very nature cannot
clear the guilty. Think about that. I will, he
said, by no means, Clear the guilty. Is he guilty? He's going
to pay the debt. Ain't no ifs, ands, and buts
about it. What do they call old Judge Roy
Bing, the hanging judge? He'll give you a fair trial and
then hang you. We can't satisfy this, I'm telling
you. Sin must be paid for. Every offense of sin incurred
a debt. And crimes against God demand
punishment. And he said if this man, under
two or three witnesses, he did something, a child with disobedience
to its parents, do you know that was a death penalty? Look it
up. If he was constantly disobedient,
he was a little rebel running around the community, they would
take him out and stone him. Put to death. See, we toy with
sin. We won't toy with it. We've got
good stuff, bad stuff. I'm telling you, God is infinitely
holy, infinitely just. And it takes infinite satisfaction
to satisfy God. You can't do it. You can't do
it. Sin is a debt man cannot satisfy. And until his debt of sin finds
satisfaction in God, he cannot be at peace with God. It's a matter of his sin, his
sin. And God has left in man a conscience,
a constant reminder of his debt. And that conscience tells him
he's guilty, he's guilty, he's guilty. Now, according to the
scriptures, a man can go on in religion. God may give him over,
and that conscience may be seared as with a hot iron, not affected,
not touched. But I tell you this, you can
never pray enough, attend enough, give enough, sacrifice enough,
satisfy enough to put away that screaming conscience.
It ain't going away. There's only one thing that'll
quiet a guilty conscience once God pricks it. The blood of Christ. And that has to be applied by
the Holy Spirit of God. Turn with me to Romans chapter
8. Well, preachers, why are you
so sure? Why are you so dead sure about these demands of God? They say, I just don't know about
this infinite, And these just seem a little far-fetched to
me. What makes you so sure of that? Why are you so convinced
that nothing a man can do can satisfy God? Where do you get
the idea of infinite standards and infinite justice and infinite
righteousness and infinite wrath? At the cross. At the cross. This is the Son
of God, isn't it? He did no sin. He did no sin. He was holy, harmless,
and undefiled. Satan, Satan, who could? I'm telling you, nobody, no being
on this earth is better at finding and manipulating a man with his
sins than Satan. Satan examined him and tempted
him in all points like as we are, yet without sin. He found nothing, he said in
me, not even at the cross. He found nothing in him, nothing. But yet I look and I see that
man has turned his back on him. Religion has turned their back
on him. God has turned his back on him. And he hangs up there
between heaven and earth. in the solitude of his sufferings. That's infinite. This is the
God-man. This is not just a man dying
on the cross. This is God and man dying on
the cross. He had to be a man to suffer. God can't suffer, but he must
be God to satisfy because man cannot satisfy. If it were just a matter of you
reforming your life, you think God would have hung his dearest
son on the cross and put him through such humiliation? No
way. And he said to those people,
Paul did, he said, those that, like the child who was a constant
rebel, he said, under two or three witnesses, this thing was
established and they took him out and stoned him. He said of
how much sore punishment. Suppose you shall you be thought
worthy who have trodden underfoot the Son of God and counted the
blood of his everlasting covenant an unclean thing, a common thing. I don't need that. I just need
to walk down an aisle. Can you imagine? That makes me
sick. I can't even imagine how God
would feel about that. Walking down an aisle, popping
your bubblegum. Listen to this over here in Romans
chapter 8. He said, There is therefore now no condemnation,
no judgment to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not
after the flesh, but after the Spirit, who walk as free men. That's what he's talking about.
Justified of God, no debts to pay, no condemnation to face,
no guilt to cause me trouble. For the law of the Spirit of
life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and
death." How can that be? How can a man born in sin, who
lives all his days in sin, who lives in a sinful world, and
whose very mind is enmity against God, find himself free from all
charges of sin? How can that be? from all the
penalties of death. How could that be? Listen to
this. For what the law could not do
in that it was weak through the flesh, your flesh and my flesh. It was weak. It couldn't do it.
God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and
for sin, condemned sin in the flesh. hanging on that cursed
tree is a man who has no sin of his own. So that the judgment,
the judgment that God sent him there, the sufferings that he
bore while he hung there on that cross, that shameful humiliation,
the crown of thorns and the blindfolding him and slapping his face and
spitting in his face and telling him to prophesy. Brother, they
took him out and stripped his clothes from him and hanged him
up naked on a cross and stared back and laughed at him until
he died. And you're going to go to church
and trust in that to satisfy God? Come on. I'm telling you, God satisfies
in him. I cannot find any sin in me that
I cannot see resolved in Him. When you come there, God will
give you faith. When you can't find, I can't
find a sin, I'm telling you I'm a sinner, I know what I am. I
can't find one sin in me that I cannot see satisfied in Him. I cannot see one law required
of me to obey that he did not obey better." Oh, Christ, He's our peace. That's what Paul said. Paul said,
Remember who you are. God didn't even recognize you
for 4,000 years. He left you over there with spears
and statues. running around barefoot in the
jungle and worshiping pigs and snakes. He left you alone. Gentiles. There is not a person in here
this morning who is not a Gentile. Lumped us all in one big lump
with the hottentots of Africa and everybody else. That is where
we are. You Gentiles, he said. You remember
that. But God reconciled you in His
Son. And you that were far off have
been made nigh. And He tore down that middle
wall of partition between us. There is no longer a Gentile
court in the temple. There is just one court. There
is just one temple. One body. Christ. Jew and Gentile. Huh? He is our peace. Listen to this. Who has made
both one. What about that? Huh? Made both one. He made me a Jew.
He made me a Jew. Now I can go back. I can go back
here in the Old Testament, and I can lay hold of the promises,
and I can rejoice in those things, and I can see Christ in those
things. I can do that because He made me one. He made me one. Listen to this. Now in Christ Jesus, you who
sometimes were far off are made now by the blood of Christ. He
is our peace, who has made both one and has broken down the middle
wall of partition between us. Abolished in his flesh the enmity,
even the law of commandments. He took them out of the way. Now we look to Christ. Let me
give you just a couple of scriptures and I'll close. In 1 Corinthians
chapter 12 and verse 13, Paul said, For by one Spirit
are we all baptized into one body. whether we be Jews or Gentiles,
bond or free, and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. That is that spiritual baptism. Now, listen to this in Galatians
3, verse 27. For as many of you as have been
baptized into Christ have put on Christ. By faith, we put him on. We put
him on in baptism like a uniform. We identify with him. We identify
with this gospel. We identify our hope, our whole
hope in him. And we put him on, put him on
like a uniform. We believe that testimony of
God concerning his sin and publicly identify with him in baptism.
And standing in them, listen to them, verse 28, there is neither
Jew nor Greek, neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor
female. You are all one in Christ Jesus,
for He is our peace. He is our peace. Think about
that. And listen to what he says on
down here in Ephesians 2. Verse 16, And that he might reconcile
both unto God, Jew and Gentile, made them all one in Christ,
and reconciled them in one body by the cross, having slain the
enmity, and came and preached peace." That peace that's in
him, that's what he's talking about. He came and preached Christ. I tell you, when you preach Christ,
He is our peace. And we're at peace. We're at
peace. There was a day when I was concerned
about what men thought about this, thought about that, thought
about this doctrine, thought about that doctrine, and all
that type of stuff. Let me tell you something. Salvation
is in Christ. Come to Christ. And in Christ,
I'm telling you, you'll learn the doctrines. They have to be
what they are. They have to be. But the preeminent
thing is to come to Him. Point men to Him. Here's the
peace. There's no peace in learning
a bunch of stuff. There's no peace in it. Come
to the person. I'll tell you who that woman
at the well took hope in. The person that sat on the well
with her. Huh? She saw a person. And he
told her one-on-one, sitting on a well with that sinner, he
talked to her for no telling how long, and finally told her,
he said, I that speak unto you, I'm the Christ. And that's what
she went and told everybody. She said, you need to come hear
this man. You need to come hear him. You need to come see him. He told me everything. That man down there at the Pool
of Bethesda, laying down there, I forget how many years they
brought him and just laid him there. He had nobody put him
in the water. You think doctrine was important to him or that
man that took him by the hand and raised him up? I'm not trying to belittle doctrine,
but I'm trying to tell you that there's a worldly difference
between the person of Christ and just doctrine. come to the
Son. In Him is life. He that hath
not the Son hath not life.