with you to the first chapter
of the book of Luke. The first chapter of the book
of Luke. I want to read verse 77 through
79. Verse 77 through 79. These are the words of Zacharias, the priest of God, after his
mouth had been opened and his tongue loosed, as he spake And
as he prays God, these are his words. To give knowledge of salvation
unto his people by the remission of their sins, through the tender
mercy of our God, whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited
us, to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow
of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. I want you to observe at the
very outset this morning how Zacharias in this, his joyful
prophecy, how he extolled the remission of sins as one of the
extraordinary proofs of the tender mercy of our God. He had been dumb, as we mentioned
earlier, for a season. And this was as a chastisement
for his unbelief, and he used his recovered speech to speak
of the pardoning mercies of our God. Now no salvation, beloved,
is possible without the forgiveness of sin. No one can know that
they're saved. No one can have the knowledge.
of salvation in their soul apart from their sins having been blotted
out, their sins having been remitted, their sins having been passed
over. And so Zacharias says to give
knowledge of salvation unto his people. by the remission. Now that word remission is used
over and over again in the Word of God for forgiveness and for
the forgiveness of sin. It is a passing over of the debt
of sin or passing over through the atonement of their sin by
the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. So the Lord would give us knowledge
of salvation when our sins are under the blood. Are your sins
under the blood? If they're under the blood, my
friend, then they're remitted. Then they're cancelled. Then they're passed over by the
grace of God. Now the Lord could not forgive
His people on the ground of justice. And therefore he did so because
of his tender mercy, the tender mercy of our God who has made
himself our God in the covenant of everlasting grace. He passes
by the transgression of his people because he delighteth in mercy. So at the very outset this morning,
I want any soul here that is burdened with sin to believe
in the forgiveness of sin. I want you to believe in it.
I want everyone here this morning, whatever be your state, If you
be one that is lost outside of Christ, and you carry a heavy
burden, heavy load upon your soul, I want you to believe that
the God of the Bible is a God who can remit. He's a God who
can give remission of sin. He's a God that can put away
your sin. Without the shedding of blood,
there is no remission of sin, but the blood has been shed. Amen the blood has been shed
and it's upon the mercy seat and our God will forgive your
sin Romans 3 verse 24 and 25 says being justified freely by
his grace through the redemption of that is in Christ Jesus, whom
God has set forth to be a satisfaction through faith in His blood, to
declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are
passed through the forbearance of God. 1 John 1, verse 7 says,
The blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth us from all sin. Why don't you believe in it?
Believe that His blood will cleanse you from all sin. John went on
to say, if we say we have no sin, we dare not say that we
have no sin. If we say we have no sin, we
deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. But if we confess
our sin, verse 9 says, he is faithful and just. He is faithful. He is just to forgive our sins
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. So all have sinned and come short
of the glory of God. Even the chosen people of God
were children of wrath, even as others. And so the Lord said
He would give knowledge of salvation unto His people by the remission
of their sin. So all have sinned and come short
of the glory of God. You'd be amazed at how many people
there are living in this world, maybe some right around you this
morning, that do not understand what it means for them to be
a sinner. They do not understand neither
their sinnerhood before God. Now we know, the Bible says in
Romans 3 and verse 19, that what thing soever the law saith is
said to them who are under the law, that every mouth may be
stopped, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world
may become guilty before God. Back in 1972 in the loop in Chicago,
Illinois there was an experiment carried out by some Bible students. They picked out a man who was
a stately looking individual and they placed him in the loop
and he stood there around noon hour and he would look up into
the sky for a little bit and then he would spot somebody coming
toward him on the sidewalk. He would point his finger at
them and he would say, guilty, guilty in a loud voice. And the people looked astonished.
They didn't know what to think. And so he did that for over an
hour. He would stand there, directly
somebody else would come by, point the finger, guilty. And
they were heard to say, it was said that the observers of that
heard people say, basically three or four out of every five or
six would walk away saying, how did he know? How did he know?
that I was guilty. Guilty of what? Guilty of what? I read a story one time about
a lawyer who wrote 12 letters to some of his clients. And these
12 letters went out to men that he had represented and was representing. And in that letter, in those
letters, he told them that they had been discovered, that they
had been found out, that they were exposed. and that they should
immediately protect themselves. And the story is that within
24 hours, all 12 of them had left the country. What were they
afraid of? They were guilty. Not one of
them responded to the lawyer. They all just fled the country.
Because of what? Guilt. Guilt, my friend. All
the world stands guilty before a sovereign God. I read a story
about a fellow who sent $1,200 to the Internal Revenue Service
because he couldn't sleep. He was guilty and he signed his
name on the letter and said, if I still can't sleep after
a week, I'll send you another $1,200. because he was guilty
and he felt the guilt of what he had done in cheating the government. But my point is this, beloved,
that every mouth will be stopped. There's no one who can defend
himself. Nobody can say, I'm not guilty. No one can say, I have not broken
God's law. No one can say that I have never
sinned against a righteous and holy God. All the world may stand
guilty before God. Remember that, before God. And beloved, that's where it
matters, is before God. And you're here this morning
lost outside of Christ. For the one of faith and love
in Him, you stand guilty before God. Now then, as I begin to
think a little bit about this, I remembered some other verses
that were precious. He that believeth on the Son
hath everlasting life. He that believeth not the Son,
John 3.36, shall not see life but the wrath. The wrath of God
abideth on him. The wrath of God abides on those
who are unbelievers. those who have no faith and love
toward Jesus Christ. But God has not appointed us,
Paul said in one of his epistles, to wrath. That is, his people
have not been appointed to wrath, but that they might obtain eternal
salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ. Isn't that wonderful?
Praise the Lord. For this reason, beloved, there
is remission of sins, there is forgiveness. Forgiveness comes
not to us through any merit, of ours, present or foreseen,
but only through the tender mercy of our God and the marvelous
visit of love which came of it. Nothing but what Jesus has done
can bring us into a state of forgiveness and grace. I was
absolutely amazed the other evening When I heard a statement on the
news by Peter Jennings, he was telling about how that the belief
of the Roman Catholics in Rome is that if you walk through the
Vatican door, you are immediately into a state of grace. You're
immediately put into a state of grace before God, and the
people were lined up, they were going through approximately a
hundred a minute. thinking that they were going
to be put into a state of grace by what they were doing. Well,
beloved, nothing but what Jesus Christ has done, the only way
possible that any can ever get into a state of grace is through
the Lord Jesus Christ, a living union with the Lord Jesus Christ,
a faith union, a living, loving, lasting union, a faith union
with the Lord Jesus Christ. That's the only way you can ever
get into union with Jesus Christ. Now beloved, somebody's lost
their way, haven't they? Somebody has lost the truth.
Somebody don't know the truth. I remember a story one time I
heard about Two little boys, they were probably seven, eight
years old, maybe nine. And as the story goes, their
mother was having an awful time with them. Couldn't make them
mind. They wouldn't, she couldn't discipline. And so one day she
was with one of her co-workers and she mentioned it to her co-worker
how that she couldn't seem to get her children to respond to
her discipline. And so the lady said, well, I'll
tell you what I did with my son. When he was that way, I took
him to the priest, took him to the priest, and the priest had
a talk with him, and it helped him. It straightened him out.
So the mother of these two boys said, well, I'll try that too. So she took them to the Catholic
priest, and one of them sat outside of the office and took the one
in, and he sat down there, and the Catholic priest asked this
little boy right off the bat, where is God? Where is God? And the little boy sat there
in amazement. and was astonished, didn't know
what to say of course. And so the priest asked him again,
pointed his finger at him and said, where is God? And the little
boy couldn't move, he was just kind of shuddering. And then
directly the priest said it again, where is God? And the little
boy jumped up and ran out of the office and got his brother
and said, they've lost God and they're trying to pin it on us.
Let's get out of here. And so, beloved, you see that
somebody's lost their way. They've lost God. They don't
know the truth. And therefore, they stand under
the judgment of God. I'm telling you, no way you're
going to get into the grace of God except through faith in the
Lord Jesus Christ. And then we have a standing before
God. To one who is lost, to one who
is despondent and despairing, these words are life. They're
music to the ears. Mercy, through the tender mercy
of our God, God forgives sin. Beloved, if the message of mercy
is music, surely the message of tender mercy is the most exquisite
of all, the tender mercies of our God. It is through the tender
mercies of our God. Now the original word is that
it reads the mercy of the heart of God. the mercy of the heart
of our God, mercy of the bowels, or the inwards, or of the very
soul of the heart of God. That's the tender mercy of God
that hath visited us. The mercy of the heart of God
is to be seen, beloved, in the remission, in the cancelling
of our sin, the great debt of sin that we owe, and in the visitation
of His love. when He comes to us as the day
spring from on high. Brother, sister, the tender mercy
of God forgives sin. It is the mercy of God's very
soul that hath forgiven our shortcomings and our failures and our sins.
Think of it, and it will fill us with wonder that one so great,
one so great, One so omnipotent, one so almighty could be so tender. Beloved, we're apt to impute
unto all mightiness and to omnipotence a crushing force and energy which
could take no account of little and feeble and suffering things
like me and you. But beloved, the truly great
soul is always gentle, is it not? And because God is so infinitely
great, He is therefore tender. He is of tender mercy. Mercy is of the divine essence.
And there's no God, my friend, apart from His very heart. and His very soul. And oh sinner,
I want you to hear it this morning, that mercy lies in the heart
of God for thee. As surely as God lives, He'll
grant remission of sins to those who are able to believe the gospel,
to those who are able to believe the good story, the good news
of the gospel. Well, next, I want to show you
the proof of His tender mercy. And I think we see it in that
He deigns to visit. And that word means He condescends
or stoops to visit us. Let me read it. Through the tender
mercy of our God, whereby the Dayspring from on high hath visited
us. Jesus is that bread which came
down from heaven, that if a man eat thereof by faith, he'll live
forever. A visit, he says, through the
tender mercy of our God, whereby the day spring from on high hath
visited us. Note that God has not merely
pitied us, from a distance and sent relief by an angel, but
he hath himself visited us." Are you awake? Listen, a visit
from God. What must it be? What must it
be? Lord, what is man, the psalmist
asked, that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man, that
thou visitest him. Now it may be that if we were
visited by some very important person of the world, that we
might feel half ennobled by it, and we probably would never forget
it if somebody real important, and I'm not here to suggest who
that might be, but we might feel ennobled having a visit from
somebody important, but a visit from God. I'm talking about the
preachers talking about the preachers talking about a visit from God.
What can we say of this? that he should stoop, I'm talking
about God, that he should stoop to leave his high abode and the
majesty wherein he reigns to visit insignificant beings like
ourselves. Now, beloved, the Bible is a
letter from Him. It's a letter from God and we
prize and we love the Bible. It is beyond gold to us. But, beloved, an actual visit
from God Himself What should we say of such a favor as this? I'm amazed at how difficult it
is in my own soul to have words to express a visit from God to
sinful men and women. What a condescension, what a
stooping it is. So I'm to talk of God, showing
His tender mercy in visiting my soul, in visiting your soul,
in visiting this earth, in visiting His people. And in what way does
He visit? The incarnation of our blessed
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is the first thing I want to
mention. The incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. Emmanuel,
God with us. You see, the Lord came down in
the person. of Jesus Christ. He was given
a body in the womb of the Virgin Mary and he tarried here in that
body some thirty-some years more to work out our salvation. What but tender mercy, what but
hearty mercy, what but intense mercy could bring the great God
our Lord Jesus Christ to visit us so closely that he actually
assumed our very nature. Earthly kings may visit their
subjects on occasions, but they do not think of taking upon themselves
their poverty. They do not think of taking upon
themselves their sickness or their woe or sorrow. They could
not if they would, and they would not if they could. They have
no ability to do that. But our Divine Lord, when He
came into the world, He came into our flesh. When He came
into the world that He made, He came into our flesh. Somebody more eloquent than I
said He veiled His Godhead in a robe of our inferior clay. He veiled His Godhead in a robe
of our inferior clay. He took our nature, sin accepted,
however by taking our nature He could not stand off from the
responsibility of what we were in a state of nature, he had
to also assume our debt and our obligation. He took our nature. He paid a very close visit, did
he not? And to you he took not upon himself
the nature of angels, he took upon himself our nature, he took
upon himself the nature that we have. He took this nature. The man Christ Jesus is our kinsman
redeemer. He's a brother that is born for
adversity. He took our condemnation as He
took our sin, as He took our obligation, as He took our debt
before God. Beloved, He took our condemnation. Romans 8, 1 says, There's therefore
now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. Why is that
so? No judgment awaiting those that
are in Christ. It is because the judgment already
fell. Condemnation fell on Him. This
one I'm talking about. He visited us. He came down here. God gave Him a body. He took
our nature. He took our condemnation and
our sin and He answered to God for our debt and He paid our
debt. Now He gave Himself for us. which
is more than if we said He gave His blood or He gave His life. His own self He gave. His own
self. I lay down my life. He said no
man takes it from me. He said I lay it down of myself.
It's a voluntary act. I took upon your nature voluntarily
and I assumed your debt and your obligation and your sin voluntarily
and I lay down my life to satisfy and to pay the debt and I do
so voluntarily, surely, he hath borne our griefs, and carried
our sorrows, because the Lord hath laid upon him, Isaiah 53
says, the iniquity of us all. Well, beloved, our Lord so visited
us, and has to become the surety. He become the ransom. The Lord
has found a ransom. Who do you suppose it is? It's
a person. It's this one that visited us.
God has found a ransom. God has found somebody who can
bear our sin in his own body to the tree and suffer the vengeance
of Almighty God and deliver us. He found a ransom. God is satisfied. Now beloved, this is because
of the tender mercy of God. It's because of the soul mercy
of our God. It's because of the inward mercy
of our God. This is the heart of the gospel,
the incomparable fact of the incarnation of the Son of God,
His dwelling upon the earth, His presentation of Himself as
a sacrifice to God for us. Well, this is not the only visit
of God to man, is it? It is not. It's the first one
I wanted to talk about, the incarnation, but this day We're a visit of
God in other respects, but with equal mercy, I think. Now you
listen to me carefully. And I'll continue here and finish
right away. The proclamation of the gospel
in a nation or to an individual is a visit of God's tender mercy. Did you get that? A proclamation
of the gospel in a nation or to an individual is a visit from
God. Wherever you come and hear the
gospel, Whenever you were to hear the gospel, be sure of this,
that whether you receive it or not, the kingdom of God has come
nigh you, my friend. The kingdom of God has come nigh
you, even if you stop your ears. and will not hear it, yet God
has visited you in tender mercy, in that by the gospel he tells
you that there is a way made, that there is a way of salvation,
that there is reconciliation. The old song says, our God is
reconciled, oh hear his pardoning voice. Our God is reconciled. Sinner friend, why are you so
besotted? The word besotted means dull.
Why are you so stupefied by this world? Why are you so infatuated
by a vain and empty world? Why is it that when the gospel
comes to you, you not only sin against God, but you also have
sinned against your own interests when you turn away, when you
refuse the salvation which God has so tenderly and heartily
brought to us in the gift of His own Son to die for us. Oh my friend, why are you so
besotted? My friend, listen, oh that you
could, oh that you could, Oh that you had this morning
the Spirit of God upon you, to where that you could receive
Him. Next there's another way in which
He has visited some of us. I want you to listen to me. I
have to keep moving here. By the Holy Spirit, He's entered
into our hearts. That was quite a visit, wasn't
it? When the Spirit of the Living God came down and visited our
hearts. He came in to our hearts. If
any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he's none of His. This
is the earnest of the inheritance. It's the down payment which God
gives and puts into the soul when He baptizes the soul in
the Holy Spirit, when they believe. I do not know which to admire
the most, His incarnation in the womb of the Virgin Mary,
or the indwelling of the Spirit of God in the souls of His people. This is wonderful. He takes not
upon Himself a pure body, but He takes the body, our body,
the body of believers, as His temple. We have this treasure
in earthen vessels. Know you not that you're the
temple of the living God? He dwells in you, He lives in
you, He dwells in all believers, in all their spiritual life,
He dwells in them. Fact is, that's the only life
they have, the life of the Spirit. They have the life of the Spirit,
Christ dwelling in them. And beloved, notwithstanding
all situations, in our rebellions, excuse me, oh may we not grieve
this blessed and holy person. Notwithstanding all of our provocations
and all of our rebellion, he lives not only with us, but lives
in us. Oh heavenly dove, how can you
find rest in such a soulless mind? How can you find rest in
my soul? Well, beloved, there was once
a man by the name of Collins. He was what they termed a free
thinker. He was really, that's another
word for a skeptic. And he met a very plain farmer
one day, and this farmer was going to church. And Mr. Collins asked him where he was
going. And he said, I'm going to worship God. And the skeptic
said, let me ask you a question. He said, is your God a great
God or is he a little God? Well, the old country farmer,
he stood there a little bit and stuttered a little bit and said,
sir, he is both. He is both. Well, how can he
be both, the skeptic said. Well, the farmer said, he is
so great, sir, that the heaven of heavens cannot contain him,
and yet he's so little. that He can dwell in my heart. Heavens cannot contain Him, but
He can dwell in our hearts. And He's visited us, and He moved
in. Hallelujah, He moved in. And
this is all through the tender mercy of our God. And it was
said later that this skeptic went off and told somebody, said
that that simple explanation by that old farmer, that it had
greater effect upon him than all of the learned doctors and
preachers that he'd ever heard. had a great effect upon him.
So we have had visits from the Lord, we've had visits from him
in the Incarnation, visits from him in the preaching of the Gospel,
and visits from him in his coming in by the Holy Spirit to dwell
in our hearts. And also we've had our own special
visits from him, times in the night, times in our trials, in
sorrows, times in our woes He hath visited us. Truly the love
of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which
is given unto us. There have been those nights
when we heard from the Lord saying, I will still give the aid. I will still give the aid. There
are times when we remember when He woke us up and said, be not
faithless but believing. And there are times, and I remember
one time, when he said, I, even I am he that blotteth out thy
transgression for my own sake, and will not remember thy sins
against thee. Oh yes, the Lord visits and gives
rapturous joy, deliverances, and countless blessings. Well,
I must hurry here and say a word about the day spring from on
high. He visits us as the day sprang from on high. Now this
means the dawning in the east, the rising of the sun at the
break of day. He has visited us as the morning
comes up. Now David rejoiced saying, the
Lord will light my candle, but in this we go far beyond him,
we need no candle, for the Lord has visited us with the day dawn
in our hearts. There's an old song that we're
going to sing in a few minutes. One of the lines is, There is
sunshine in my soul today, more glorious and bright than glows
in any earthly sky, for Jesus is my light. Now you see, beloved,
when the Lord comes to a soul, it's like the sun coming up.
in the east in the morning. This is the day springing, the
sun coming up. And as that sun comes up, the
higher it comes, the more and more it reveals itself. And the
Lord comes to a soul, he visits a soul, and he makes himself
known. And day by day, there's a revelation. After the long dark and the cold
night of misery, the Lord comes and as the sunrise that begins
the day. The visits of God are like the
day spring because they end our darkness and they banish the
night. It forever banishes the night.
The Lord comes. Our night is ended once for all
when we see God visiting us in the person of Jesus Christ. Our
day may cloud over after that and there have been many a day
I've lived that the day was cloudy. But thank God the night will
never return, the Egyptian knight. The darkness of sin will never
return. Look to Christ. The night of
sin, my friend, will end for you when you look to the Lord
Jesus Christ. We are not of the night, but
of the day, Paul said. We're children of the day, not
of the night, because God has revealed Himself and the day
has sprung in the east. The sun has come up. In Isaiah
chapter 8 verse 20, it says to the word and to the testimony,
if they speak not according to this word, it's because there's
no light in them. And that word light is morning.
They never had a morning. Never did. The sun never came
up in their soul. The day spring never, I mean
never had a day springing because the light of the gospel never
began to show in their soul. It may begin a little, just a
little, and you see a little more every day. Every day or
every week there's another revelation, another word that piles on top
and the light gets brighter and brighter and brighter in the
soul. And that's when the Lord is doing his work of salvation
in the soul. in your soul, Christ in you. The glory is coming, brother
and sister. The glory is coming. ...sinful darkness. Let us bless
the Lord this morning that He has visited us No more thy light by day, neither
for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee, but the
Lord. Get that. Thy sun shall no more
go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself. and think just momentarily about
it, that while the morning is not... When the sun comes out, like
the mighty man, he comes out to run the race course and to At an evening, it's coming, it's
coming, glory is coming. I'll tell you, this sun will
never go down. To give light to them that sit
in darkness and in the shadow of death. The gospel is for them who sit
in darkness, beloved, don't you ever forget it. Somebody said,
well, if we educate people... ...for those who sit in darkness,
don't you ever forget it. You tell people who sit in darkness
that the light has come, and you tell them that the day spring
has visited and tell him how the day spring has visited. We tried to tell you that this
morning. But listen to me, the gospel is for those who sit in
darkness. Notice it says he sits in darkness.
What does that suggest to you? Well, it suggests hopelessness
to me. He won't move. He sits in darkness, despondent,
motionless. It's a part of the tender mercy
of our God that he visits those who have lost all hope. They
don't have any more hope. They don't have any hope. And
then it says that he visits those who are in the shadow of death.
That's a picture of all the elect. We all were in the shadow of
death. The shadow of death is confusion of mind. Was you that
way before you got saved? Somebody said, Preacher, you're
confusing me. Well, my friend, you've been confused ever since
you've been born, if you don't know the Lord, if you don't know
Christ. The shadow of death is confusion of mind. It's depression
of spirit. It's dread of the unknown, horror
of the past, and terror of the future. That's what it is. Has
hell opened its jaws for you? John 3 and 18 says, He that believeth
is not condemned. But he that believeth not is
already condemned because he's not believed. On the name of
the only begotten Son of God. If you stand this morning under
the condemnation of God, all that's left, my friend, is for
God to shut the light off. And it's all over. Condemnation,
judgment, everlasting wrath and torment, eternal torment, eternal
death, forever and ever. God Almighty has your life in
His hands, the issues of death belong to Him, and He knows you
and He knows where you are. Well, at the conclusion, and
I'm going to give you this conclusion as I see it, and you think with
me, if the mercy, the tender mercy of God has visited us,
and it has, He hath visited us, hath visited us, and done so
much more for us than I can tell, and so much more than you can
hear. I don't have the ability to tell
it, you don't have the ability to hear it. Say, don't talk down,
I'm not talking down to you, I'm just telling you the truth.
We don't have the ability to tell it, and I admit that freely,
and you don't have the ability to hear it. Let us ourselves,
let us ourselves learn something from this, and that is to exhibit
some tender mercy. to those around us. It is a wretched
business, somebody said, for a man to call himself a Christian
and have a soul which never peeps out of his ribs, out between
his own ribs. It is a horrible thing to be
living just to be saved, living to get to heaven, and yet never
live, just living to enjoy his religion, and yet never live
to bless others and ease the misery of a lost world. My friend, let us exhibit some
tender mercy like our God has in visiting us. Let us give the
word of life. I was thinking about a fellow
I read about that was near suicide and he was so close that he didn't
want to be alone by himself. and he never wanted to, he wouldn't
take any medication because he was afraid that he would, the
demons were bothering him so bad that he would overdose on
the medication. And he wouldn't, he had a job
somehow or other that had to do with ropes and he quit his
job because he was afraid he would hang himself with one of
the ropes. And he quit hunting and gave up hunting because he
was afraid that he would turn the gun on himself someday. and
shoot himself, a greatly disturbed person. And one day he discovered
that the only time that he had any relief, whatever, from these
dreadful and awful thoughts of committing suicide was when he
had thoughts of God in his soul. The only time he had any relief.
And so it woke him up and he said, I'll seek the Lord, I'll
fill my life with God and His Word and I will trust Christ
and That solved his problem. You see, beloved, thoughts of
God. Receiving the Word of God. Believing
the Word of God. I like the verse, and I thought
about it a great deal during the night that Aaron quoted this
morning out of 1 John 5.13. These things have I written unto
you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that you might
have eternal life, and that you might believe on the Son of God,
that you might believe on His name. You see, somebody said
to Luther, do you feel saved? And Luther said, no, I don't
always feel saved. I don't always feel saved. But
he said, feelings come and feelings go, feelings are deceiving. Our
Lord is the Word of God, nothing else is worth believing. But
these things are written, that you may believe, and that you
may know that you have eternal life, and that you may believe
on the name of the Son of God. Confess Christ, Believe on Him. May the Lord bless you.