Turn with me, please, to Colossians,
the third chapter. The book of Colossians, chapter
three. Yes. Is it true Am I risen with Christ? Is it true? Are you risen with
Christ? Are you resurrected from the
dead with the Son of God? Do you live now with Christ? If so, if so, if you are risen
with Christ, seek those things which are above. Where Christ said it, on the
right hand of God. If there is one particular evil that constantly troubles my heart, that disturbs me more than any
other, it is that I appreciate, love, and
value the Lord Jesus Christ so very little. So very little. I never dreamed it was possible. I never dreamed it was possible
for a redeemed sinner, a man saved by the grace of God,
a man in whom God has implanted his very son, a man saved from
such degradation, such sin, such corruption, such guilt, such
hurt, as I am. I never dreamed it was possible
for a man who owes so much, to return so little. For a man who
is loved so much, to return so little love. For a man who is
given so much, to return so little commitment. If your vision with Christ, seek
those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right
hand of God. Set your affection, you notice that's not in the
plural, it's in the singular. Make this the object of your
affection, make this the object of your heart, where your treasure
is, that's where your heart is. And where your heart is, that's
where your treasure is. Where's your heart? You'll soon
find out whether or not you live in this place. Where's your heart? Oh, but preacher, we have to
live in this world. I understand that. We have responsibilities. Husbands, wives, sons, daughters,
jobs, tables to make. I understand that. Where's your
heart? Where's your heart? Huh? What is the object of your
heart's constant care, and your heart's constant concern? Set your affection on things
above, Christ, his righteousness, his glory, his will, his purpose,
his grace, his church, his kingdom. Lazarus has been raised from
the grave and he laid aside the grave clothes. He no longer cares
anything about the grave clothes. He has no more interest in the
grave clothes. The grave clothes are a stench
to him. The grave clothes are a vile thing to him. He's no
more interested in that that wrapping of the grave clothes,
he laid that aside. That's what this world is. That's
what the themes of this world is. Set your affection on Christ
Jesus, not on things on this earth, for you're dead. Dead to the law, and dead to
this world, I don't know about that. No. No, I don't. I just don't know about that.
But I know that everybody who's risen with Christ is dead. Dead. Crucified to the world and the
world crucified to you. I know that preachers have for years, generations,
tried to get folks convinced that being worldly is for women
to wear mini skirts when they're popular, to wear long skirts
when they're popular, for fellows to wear short hair when long
hair is popular, or wear short hair when short hair is popular,
wear long hair when long hair is popular. That's worldly. To
be worldly is to dress like the world, talk like the world, go
to places the world goes, and eat what the world eats. That's
foolish. That's foolish. Dress like you
want to. Wear your hair like you want
to. Oh yes, with modesty. But that doesn't have anything
to do with worldliness. Whether you wear long skirts or short
skirts, that doesn't have anything to do with worldliness. Worldliness
is an unviewed attachment to this world. an undue attachment to this world. We're dead. The life is dead
with Christ in God. Now listen, when Christ, who
is our life. Once one of Napoleon's soldiers
was wounded on the battlefield, and the surgeon on the stretched
him out and he took his knife and began to probe for the bullet.
The soldier winced with pain and he said, careful what you're
doing. A little deeper and you'll touch
the emperor. He says, the emperor is in my
heart. This is what Christ gives to
the believer in our life. What is it that the believer
is? What is it that he loves? What is it that's foremost in
his being? Christ. He's our life. He's our life. If we're his,
he's our life. Well, when Christ is our life
shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory. This is my prayer. Lord God, Do not allow anything here to
be more precious to me today than it shall be in eternity. Let nothing here be of greater
value to me now than it shall be when I stand before God in
judgment. Let nothing here have a greater
hold upon me now than it shall be when all things here are gone. When Christ is our life shall
appear. He will appear with sin and glory
and nothing else will pass. Mortified therefore put to death,
put to death your members which are upon the earth. Now because
you're risen with Christ, and because you're seated with Christ
in heavenly places, and because Christ is your life, don't get
your head too high in the air. Because the reality is, you're
filthy members of this flesh are still with you. Don't get
the notion that you're going to cease from evil and cease
from sin. That's not going to happen. Because
this old man of flesh is just like he always was. So Paul admonishes
us to constantly, daily crucify and put to death this old man,
this fleshly nature. And then he describes the members
fornication. Believers don't commit fornication,
do they? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you probably haven't been
involved outwardly because you're afraid you get caught. And it
goes on constantly, men and women. Paul says don't feed it, mortify
it. Uncleanness, that which is contrary to purity,
holiness, inordinate affection, that is an undue love for anyone
or anything. Evil conceit. I looked that word up. It is a desire for that which
is forbidden. It is a evil desire after that
which God forbids. which is idolatry. We denounce idolatry. There's
a couple articles in the bulletin today about idolatry. I'm going
to tell you something, there's more to idolatry than worshiping
a statue of the Virgin Mary. Covetousness. Desiring what God
hasn't given. Desiring what God hasn't bestowed. Seeking after what God hasn't
granted. That's covetousness, and it's
idolatry. It's the worship of materialism. It's the worship of things. It's
the worship of your own selfish desire. These are the things
for which the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience,
into which you also walk. Sometime when you lived in them,
were no longer under the dominion of these things, They're present
with us, but we must, and we do, if we're God's children,
we do not live under the dominion of these things, but rather we
fortify. We put down, we crucify, we take
our old man and nail him to the cross with a deliberate intent. We say no to self and yes to
Christ. But now he also put off all these,
anger, wrath, malice. Blasphemy, filthy communication,
that is slander, gossip, backbiting. Put those things out of your
mouth and line up one to another. Seeing that you put off the old
man's deeds and have put on the new man. That new man, that new
creature, that new creation which is renewed in the knowledge after
the image of him that created him that is that new man is born
of the spirit of God he is this is what takes place in regeneration
God creates his image again in us creating Christ Jesus in us
put on that new man that new man Christ Jesus where there
is neither Greek nor Jew in Christ there's no such thing
as race Let's translate it another way,
whether it's neither black nor white, no such thing. Oh, we're proud white Southerners. We're bigoted white Southerners.
And I know some proud bigoted black Southerners as well. In
Christ there's no such thing as race. Circumcision or uncircumcision? In Christ there's no advantage
to religious performances. Circumcision doesn't amount to
hill of beans and uncircumcision doesn't amount to hill of beans.
Barbarian city? In Christ there's no such thing
as class. There is in our churches. is
in our opinion, but not in Christ. I see in men and women who profess
the name of Christ a snobbishness that's contrary
to this book, contrary to the grace of God, contrary to the
gospel of Christ. See somebody who looks like they've
been buying their clothes at the Goodwill and the Rummage
sales, and you, oh, he's a nice fella. Just leave
him over there. You see somebody that's maybe
not quite from the proper side of the railroad tracks, you know,
they're not quite up to the poverty level like you are, and you think
you're something else. And somebody that's just a little
higher than you, looks down and knows it's you, and you get offended
by it. Oh, it is high-minded pride God
hates. God hates. Of all things in this
world that God Almighty hates, in the world there's nothing
he hates like pride. Nothing. Nothing. And yet there's nothing
so common to that. Nothing so easy for us. Nothing
so natural to us as pride. In Christ, it doesn't make a
bit of difference whether you're a barbarian or a Scythian. Doesn't
make any difference whether you're a, what he's saying here, doesn't
matter whether you're a Roman citizen in the elite of Roman
society or whether you're considered as a barbarian with no rights
and no privileges. There's no such thing as bond
or free. That is, it doesn't matter. It
doesn't matter. There's no advantage. Here's
a man who's a master, a plantation owner, a wealthy man. He has
everything at his fingertips, everything man could desire.
And here's a man who's a slave. He has no rights. He has nothing
of his own. He can't even call his own sons
his. They belong to his master. Paul said that doesn't matter.
That doesn't matter. Not in God's eyes. Not in God's
sight. In Christ there are no social
distinctions. There are no class distinctions.
There are no race distinctions. There are no intellectual distinctions.
Nothing whatsoever. Think of what it says. But Christ is all. And then all. Christ is all. One more time
I'm going to try preach to you in those words. I will not detain you with a
long introduction lest my words mar the beauty of my substance.
I want two things for you. This is my prayer for you. Lord God calls everybody here
to see that Christ is all. I want you to see it. With the
eyes of your heart, soul, and understanding, I want you to
see that Christ is all. And secondly, I pray that God
will make Christ your all. I want you to see that he's all,
and I want you to have him as all. As Paul uses these words
in our text, this is what they mean. In the matter of salvation,
Christ is all. That's what Paul's saying in
this context. He tells us that in the new creation
there's neither Greek nor Jew, that is Gentile nor Jew, circumcision
or uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman or free, but
Christ is all and in all. What he's saying is this, God
has no respect for and no regard to those things that distinguish
men one from another. Paul is saying that that which
men highly esteem is an abomination to God. That which you think
is most important is insignificant, and that about which you are
the most proud, naturally, is meaningless. You think it's important to be
somebody in this world, don't you? Oh no, I'm not that way. Why do you teach children that?
You think it's important to be the best dressed? You think it's
important to live in the nicest home? You think it's important
to have the highest education? You think it's important to be
the most well-learned? Oh, preacher, no, I don't think
that. Yeah, you do. Yeah, you do. I do, too, naturally. It's natural. It's natural. Oh, I wish God would teach me
that and teach you that. Now this is what Paul's telling
us in regard to salvation. Your family name, your pedigree
will never give you the least merit or favor with a holy God. Oh, but I'm the seed of Abraham.
That's what the Jews said. We have Abraham, our father.
We have the oracles of God. I come from a long line of Jews. I come from a long line of priests.
I come from a long line of rabbis. I come from a long line of religious
folks. What difference does that make?
What difference does that make? Maybe to some of you here, and indeed some of you have, you've
come from a long line of men and women who believe God. Mothers, fathers, grandmothers
and grandfathers. Let me tell you something. If
everybody in your family tree, as far back as you can trace
it, had been faithful, committed believers, and you were raised
in an atmosphere where Christ was honored, it will do you no
good. I talked to a lady when I was
passing West Virginia. She seemed to have some understanding
of the message I was preaching and wanted me to come by and
visit, so I did. She and her husband attended
the church there until this day. That is until the day I talked
to her. She chatted with me a little while, and I asked her, I said,
how long have you been a believer? And she said, oh, I've always
been a believer. Because Martha said that's too
long. That's just too long. She was raised in a religious
family, baptized or sprinkled as a baby. She was raised up
to believe Christian doctrine. She was raised up to believe
in Jesus. And she presumed that her rearing
and her family gave her a claim to God. I said to her, except
you're born again, you'll never enter the kingdom of God. And
I say to you, in this matter of salvation, who you are and
where you come from, whether you're a foolish Greek, a pagan
Greek, an idiotic unbelieving Greek, or whether you're a refined
religious man, a refined religious woman, trained up in the most
excellent traditions of the church of God, it matters not in regard
to salvation. Christ is all. trust him and
you have life. You don't trust him, you have
no life. There is nothing in outward religious
ceremony and outward religious services that can win God's favor
either. Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision
is nothing. Now, I would do nothing to minimize
the importance of God's appointed But insofar as salvation is concerned,
now listen to this, insofar as salvation is concerned, the ordinances
of God are no more advantageous than the ordinances of me. People
think that they come to an altar and they burn a little candle
before a statue of Mary and that makes everything all right with
God. Or they go into a confessional booth and they say their confession
in the ears of a man and that makes everything all right with
God. are they get in the waters of baptism and by that baptism
they unite with God's church and that makes everything alright
with God. You had just as well bow down to a tree stump in the
woods as to get in baptism, the waters of baptism, and hope to
find favor with God. The ordinances of God are of
no more advantage than the ordinances of me. Turn over to Isaiah 66,
I'll show you. Isaiah 66. Here are some men
and women who came to worship God without faith. Here are some
men and women who came to worship God in his appointed way, but
without faith. The Lord says in verse one, thus
saith the Lord, the heavens is my throne, the earth is my footstool. Where's the house you're going
to build me in? You think you're going to put me in a box? And
where is the place of my rest? For all those things hath mine
hand made, and all those things have been, saith the Lord, but
to this man will I look." This is the man I'm looking to. Even
to him that is of a poor and a contrite spirit. Not bodily
poor, not physically poor, spiritually poor. Even to that man who's
got no merit, even to that man who's got nothing at all for
God, and trembleth at my word. Now then, the Lord describes
the others. He says, if you're not of this spirit, if you're
not broken, humbled, and brought to poverty in yourself, he said,
he that killeth an ox be just as well off to kill a man. Wait
a minute, God required folks to sacrifice oxen only in faith. He says, he that sacrifices a
lamb without faith in Christ, It's just as if he had cut off
a dog's neck in the holy place. He that offereth an oblation
without faith in Christ, just the same as if he had offered
swine's blood to a holy God. He that burneth incense without
faith in Christ, just the same as if he had blessed an idol.
Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighted
in their abomination. They chose their ways, and I'll
choose their delusions. In salvation, Christ is all. Christ is all. You've got to
trust Christ. Will you hear me? You've got
to trust Christ, or you've got to die. What about our works? I told
the ladies in our Bible class this morning, A couple of weeks
ago, this Campbellite uptown had an article in the Sunday
paper in which he defended the doctrine of man being saved by
his works. First time I ever read such trash
in my life. I knew a lot of fellows would
leave it, but not many of them are ignorant enough to put it
in print. What about works? What part do they play in salvation?
None. None. The Apostle Paul in Galatians
5.2 says, if you be circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.
Now this is what he means. He is not saying, he is not saying
that every boy that's circumcised when he's a baby is damned. That's
not what he's saying. Any fool knows that. What's he
saying then? He's saying anybody who does
anything, anybody, who does anything, hoping by their deeds to merit
God's favor, doesn't know Christ, doesn't trust Christ. He hasn't
yet come to the knowledge of Christ. We're not papists, so
we don't do penance. We're Baptists, and we have our
own forms of penance. It's feeling bad, so we do something
to make up. We get down, we do something
to make up. I see folks all the time. They try to use God just
like the pastor uses a priest. They don't come to church, don't
have any interest in the gospel, don't have any interest in Christ
and things of God. And then, you know, Saturday
night, your boy stays out drunk half the night. Your husband,
you don't get along well and you have a fight. and carry on. Everything's been going so miserable.
So, well, we're gonna get things straightened out. I'll go to
church in the morning. No, you're not gonna worship
God. You're not gonna worship God. Christ is all. Christ is all. You'll either
trust him and him alone or you'll never have to be Your social
class, your education, your moral refinement will in no way contribute
anything toward your salvation. God has no regard for the refined
Roman any more than he does for the uncouth barbarian. God has
no more regard for the educated, wealthy upper class than he does
for the poorest, most ignorant, filthy bum in the streets. Turn over to 1 Corinthians 1.
I don't know whether we'll ever learn this or not. I rather doubt
it. I'm so sick of men who claim
to be God's preachers, bowing and scraping before a rich meme
and trying to somehow or another scratch their back and make them
feel good about themselves and act as though God Almighty can't
get along without their little tip they offer to God. I said
God has no more regard for the wealthy than he does for the
poor, if anything he has less. I said God has no more regard
for the refined than he does for the uncouth, if anything
he has less. I said God has no more regard for the educated
and well-trained than he does for the ignorant and unlearned,
if anything father he has less. God does not get impressed by
things that impress me. Look here in 1 Corinthians 1
verse 26. You see your calling, brethren. Have it not many wise men at
this place, not many mighty, not many noble
of call. I've seen a few. I thank God. I've seen a few. But most rich young rulers are
going to go to hell with their riches. One day Mr. Whitfield had one
of his associates call upon him, a young man who was a faithful
servant to Whitfield, had been for some time. And he came and
told Mr. Whitfield that he had received
notice that his very wealthy uncle had died and left him a
large estate. men together and he said brethren
let's have special prayer for our brother here. He has just
received a very great temptation from God. Isn't it amazing how that as
men increase in riches they decrease in dependence upon Christ? Isn't
it amazing how that men they'll they'll get started in their
business or they'll get started in their job their employment
and they They're just so anxious to serve the Lord. Well, when
I do this and when I get that, I'm going to do some things.
And the more they get, the less you see of them. The more successful
they become, the less they have any need for Christ and the gospel
of grace. Not many wise men, not many mighty,
not many noble are called. But God hath chosen the foolish
things of the world. confound the wise. And God's chosen the weak things
of the world to confound the things which are mighty. And
God's chosen the base things of the world, the things which
are despised, hath God chosen. Yea, and things which are not
to bring to naught the things that are. That's our God. That's our God. You say, well, the way you talk,
everybody's going to have to become a fool to be a believer.
Well, yeah. Yeah. You're going to have to
recognize that you have no understanding of anything with regard to God
until God gives it to you. You're going to have to. The
way you talk, man's going to have to become a poor fellow
In order to have any acceptance with God, yeah, yeah. I mean, you're going to have
to sell all you've got into the hands of the Son of God or you'll
never have Him. The way you talk, the fella doesn't have anything which men
regard as valuable, important, and praiseworthy. that impresses
God. That's right. That's right. Strange thing. We want our children to be doctors
and lawyers. Huh? Take that boy of yours, Ninja.
You want that fellow to grow up to be a doctor, a lawyer, somebody
to make a good position in your life. How many doctors and lawyers
do you know who know God? We want our children to be teachers,
leaders in society, leaders in the community. We want them to
be the most well-known, the most popular, the most looked up to.
How many well-known, popular educators do you know who know
God? Huh? How many do you know? We want them to be wealthy and
comfortable in their situation in life. How many wealthy, comfortable
people do you know who know God? Do you know anybody? I know a
few. I know a few. And yet we take
our children from the mother's breast until we put them out
in the world and this is what we seek for them and this is
what we impress them with and we say this is important. is
not anything important but Christ. Nothing. Nothing. Oh, preacher, you talk like a
fanatic. God make me such. God make me such. I wish I was
half as much. I wish I was half as much so
persuasive in this regard that that girl right there When she
looked at her daddy, she knew that he thought Christ is all
as much as he liked Republican politics. I wish somehow I could be just
half as fanatical, just half as fanatical about this issue. Christ is all! That means everything else is
nothing. As men are about their favorite
balls. insofar as salvation and acceptance
with God is concerned, you're nothing. And you've got nothing to give
God. You've got nothing that God wants.
You've got nothing to offer God. This religious world had made
God a beggar at the doorsteps of sinners for so long Men are
somehow the high and mighty opinion that God can't get along without
them. Folks expect preachers to chase
folks down and coddle them. Somebody comes in and says, well,
nobody spoke to me this morning. Well, I hadn't seen you often
enough to know who you are. And I don't intend to go begging.
I don't intend to go knocking on people's doors and make them
feel good about doing God a little service. I don't intend to do
it come hell or high water. I don't intend to do it ever.
My God is greater than that. He's greater than that. Well,
if you don't treat folks with kid gloves, somebody else will
get them. Let me make this statement here
and now, plain and clear. Merle Hart, Bob Ponser, Wes Roseboom,
and all the rest, if anybody can get you, they can have you.
Anybody! If you can be satisfied with
some kind of a man-bending religion that has no honor for God, that
requires no commitment to Christ, go after it! Go after it! I'm telling you, it's time
men quit playing games with God. Either Christ is all buddy or
he's nothing at all. Either he's all or he's not fit
to be saved. Either he's all and all is committed
to him or he's not. I don't know. I don't know. That may shut you out and me
too, but I know it's so. I know it's so. Christ is all. in the eternal purpose and covenant
of God's grace before the world was made. When Jesus Christ stood
alone in his glorious divinity with the Father and the Holy
Spirit, when God determined to save sinners and God said he
would be gracious and merciful, Christ was all. And God saved
us according to his own purpose and grace which was given us
in Christ Jesus, our all, before the world was made. Our Lord
Jesus Christ. And the matter of righteousness
is all. We are made righteous by the
imputation of his righteousness. And that's all the righteousness
we've got. That's all there is. When you begin to imagine that you have attained a little
smidgen of goodness for God, you begin to imagine that you
have kind of lifted yourself up just a little bit above, oh
sorry, I lifted him, you begin to imagine You know,
after all, I'm not a perfect man or woman, but look at these
folks. When you begin to imagine it,
I'm telling you, you have no right. You might impress the preacher, And you might impress your sons
and daughters, and you might impress your husband or wife,
and everybody might clap their hands and pat you on the back
and tell you what a fine, fine, fine contribution you are to
the kingdom of God. But you still haven't got anything.
Nothing. Nothing. The God I worship, I
call by this name. He is Jehovah Jesus, the Lord
by right. He is the Lord of my righteousness. I claim no other righteousness
for I have no other righteousness and I want no other righteousness. He is the end of the law for
righteousness to everyone that believes it. He obeyed God for
me. He obeyed God's law for me. He fulfilled righteousness for
me. He lived in this world as a man
for me, and his righteousness is imputed to me. What about
the matter of redemption? Christ is all. For you know that
you are redeemed, not with corruptible things of silver and gold, but
with the precious blood of Christ, as the lamb slain from the foundation
of the world, who barely was ordained from before the foundation
of the world. Christ has redeemed us from the
curse of the law. He was made to be sin for us
and he was slain as the sin substitute so that we might be made the
righteousness of God in him. As a matter of regeneration,
Christ is all. You know, I've been praying for
you. Some of you don't know it. I've
been calling upon God for you this morning, yesterday, last
night, for weeks, for months, and calling upon God that he
calls you to live. Oh, I want you to live. But I can't give you life. I
can't give you life. And I refuse to tie religious
strings around dead man's toes and make him act like he's alive. The son quickeneth whom he will. The son quickeneth whom he will. We bring our sons and daughters
and pray for them. So often I've had people call
me up Thank God you've got better sense,
but I've had folks call me up, try to get me to come down, talk
to their son, he's done this, or talk to their daughter, she's
done that, in this or in that, as though I can say some kind
of a hocus-pocus magical religious spell and turn a rebel to a servant. I can't do that, and nobody else
can, nobody else can. But as men hear the gospel of
God's grace, as this day I preach the gospel to you again, if the Son will, he can give
you life. He can give you life, if he will. It is not of him that willeth,
nor of him that doneth, nor God will show him mercy. The Lord Jesus Christ gives life
to sinners and the life which he gives is himself. What about sanctification? People,
God got to be sanctified. Christ is all. Of him are you
in Christ Jesus. Of God are you in Christ Jesus.
That's how you got in Christ. Who is made of God and to us
wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption.
according as it is written, he that glorieth let him glory in
the Lord. Our Lord Jesus Christ hath perfected
forever things that are sanctified. The Lord Jesus Christ has made
us perfect. You are complete in him like
nothing." That's what he says. What about this matter of preservation?
Which I don't know. I would confess, Christ, I went
through this. I'm I know something about what
I say because I experienced most of it. I sat back there and listened
to a fella preach the gospel. And I thought, I've got to confess. I've got to confess it. But I've
done it so many times and hadn't taken it yet. I ain't going to
do it anymore. I'm not going to call on him again. I'm not
going to confess him. I'm not going to make a mockery
of things again. I can't persevere. I can't keep up. I can't follow
him. I don't have the strength. No,
you don't. No, you don't. Merle Harding
would have depended on you. You would have quit following
him a long time ago, and I would too. What about perseverance
then? Christ is all. I have hope of
seeing you who believe in glory, not because of anything in you. I know you better than that. No, I have overseen your face
around the throne because the Son of God said my sheep are
my boys. I know them. I give unto them
eternal life and they follow me and they shall never perish. I preach a simple gospel. These
three words are so simple that the smallest child here understands
what I'm saying. I dare say any child in this
building understands what I'm saying. Christ is all. Christ is all. It's so profound
that the most experienced believer can't fathom their depths. Christ
is all. But the message is simple and
it's clear. If you have been made by the
Spirit of God to see that Jesus Christ is God, that he is the only propitiation
for sin, and you trust him as such, you're saved. It's that
simple. It's just that simple. If by
the Spirit of God you have been made to see that Christ is the
Son of God, and that he died for the ungodly, that he and
he alone is the only propitiation for sin, and you trust him, you
have eternal life. You have eternal life. Preacher,
it can't be that simple. It is. It is that simple. I'm going to quit. I had several
things I wanted to say. Listen to me. I talked to a friend of mine
one day this week, I can't remember when it was, a man 50, 55 years
old. He'd been in and out of religion
all his life, all his life. He's been in fundamentalist religion,
he's been in hupi religion, he's been in landmark religion, he's
been in and out of religion all his life. One fellow tell him
to do this and another fellow tell him to quit doing that.
He said, I was driving down the road and I got hold of a sermon
you preached. I don't know where I preached
it. I was dealing with this subject, Christ is all. I plugged it into
my dash. And as I listened, he said, that's what I've been
looking for for 20 years. Christ is all. Christ is all. That's it. There's no salvation
in the church. There's no salvation in your
works. There's no salvation in what you do. There's no salvation
in what you are. No! No! No! A thousand times no. Christ is
all. May God make you who you are.
paid for.