I imagine several of you growing
up participated in readings, liturgical readings. We believe
in the Holy Ghost, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins and life without end, creeds, creeds. They are the summary of confessions,
man-made documents, and they're generally given in order to preserve
the faith and make people to be sound in the faith. The first
one that I know of was the Nicene Creed. It was written in the
third century, and it was given to combat errors regarding the
Trinity, and people have been sleepwalking through that creed
for centuries, reciting it, having it memorized, maybe a response
of reading, and it's done. very often. Now creed is a brief
statement of faith, a confession that briefly states the core
beliefs in kind of a formula. That's what is meant by creed.
Now, let's read the true apostles creed. Let's read the first 11
verses of Acts chapter 15. And certain men which came down
from Judea. Now, this is the church at Jerusalem,
the church of which James, the Lord's brother, was the pastor,
a gospel church. They came down from Judea and
taught the brethren, these Gentile believers, and said, except you
be circumcised, After the manner of Moses, you cannot be saved. Now these men, I repeat, came
out of the church at Jerusalem, and this was their teaching. When therefore Paul and Barnabas
had no small dissension and disputation with them, They determined that Paul and
Barnabas and certain other of them should go up to Jerusalem,
where these men came from, unto the apostles and the elders about
this question. And being brought on their way
by the church, they passed through Pharnasi and Samaria, declaring
the conversion of the Gentiles, and they caused great joy unto
all the brethren. And when they were come to Jerusalem,
They were received of the church, Paul and Barnabas and these people
from Antioch. They were received of the church
and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things
that God had done with them. But here's the problem. There rose up certain of the
sect of the Pharisees, which believed. That's kind of a strange
way of stating something, isn't it? The sect of the Pharisees,
which believed. Well, that raises a red flag,
doesn't it? The sect of the Pharisees, which
believed. Why not just believers? But the
sect, and that's where we get the word heresy from. It means
a choosing. The sect of the Pharisees, which
believed, and this believing is not stated in they believed
and still are believing. It's a finished belief. You see,
if you believed yesterday, truly you're believing today. But if
you just believed yesterday, there's a problem. Really, you
didn't believe in the first place. There, this was spoken of in
a tense that would say that the believing was finished. There rose up certain of the
sect of the Pharisees, which believed saying that it was needful
to circumcise them. And we find out they took it
a little further and to command them to keep the law of Moses. That's what these fellows were
saying. They believed, they believe the
gospel, but it's also necessary to be circumcised and to keep
the law of Moses. Well, verse six, and the apostles
and elders came together for to consider this matter. Was Paul going to Jerusalem to
find out if maybe he was mistaken? And he was going to see what
Peter and John and that bunch had to say? No, no, he'd been
taught the gospel directly by the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, I
have no doubt that these men were saying, Peter says this,
John says this, And he wasn't going to see if maybe he was
mistaken in doctrine and going to get straightened out, but
he was going to see if this was being said. He went to Jerusalem
about this matter. Verse seven, and when there had
been much disputing. Now picture in your mind a gospel
church and there being a big fuss going on over works of grace. That's what was going on here.
There was much disputing. That's bad. You know, it's interesting
that people use this chapter. This is where the Presbyterian
doctrine comes from, the Presbyterian form of government. You go to
the elders. to find out what to believe.
They're the ones who interpret the scriptures. This is the presbytery,
the elders, and you go to them to find out what to believe.
And they get that from this passage of scripture. Now that's not
what this passage of scripture is teaching. Remember, they didn't
have the full canon of scripture this time. They didn't have the
New Testament the way you and I do. So they were going to the
apostles and to the elders to find out what had taken place. And when there had been much
disputing, Peter rose up. I love the way it says that.
I think Peter was saying, I've had enough of this. Peter rose
up and he said unto them, men and brethren, You know how that
a good while ago, God made choice among us that the Gentiles by
my mouth should hear the word of the gospel and believe. And
he's talking about what took place with Cornelius in Acts
chapter 10 and 11. And everybody was critical of
him for going there and preaching the gospel. But he said, you
know, that took place. Verse eight and God, which knoweth
their hearts, bear them witness. These Gentiles giving them the
Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us. They were born from above,
just the same way we are. Or we're born from above, the
same way they are. He put no difference between
us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. Now therefore,
why tempt ye God to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples.
You need to keep the law. Which neither our fathers nor
we were able to bear. This is interesting. Putting
expectations on other people that you really don't put on
yourself. That's what was going on at this time. And he's exposing
the hypocrisy of it. And then he gives what we could
call the true Apostle's Creed. Here it is. We believe that through
the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, we shall be saved even as they. Now he doesn't say they'll be
saved like us. Not at all. He says we'll be
saved like those Gentile dogs are saved. By the grace of the
Lord Jesus Christ. Now I do not believe in the use
of any man-made creed, confession, document, or formula. We don't need them. We've got
the Word of God. Well, our creed says this about
the Word of God. Who cares what your creed says? Who cares what your confession
says? We have the inspired, inerrant
Word of God. Who needs a confession if we've
got that? Now this book, let me remind you, This is what it
claims for itself. All scripture, all scripture,
Old Testament, New Testament, every phrase, every sentence,
every word, all scripture is given by inspiration of God. Literally, God breathed. Now somebody says, how could
that be? How can you trust that this book is inspired by God
and that men haven't changed it and there's not error in it
and men's editions? You know, when somebody goes
to, you say it to somebody and somebody else and somebody else,
how different it is. How can you say that you really
believe the Bible's the word of God? Well, I believe the Bible's
the word of God the way I believe God created the universe. If
God is powerful enough to create the universe, and he is, as an
act of his will, it's no problem for him to inspire men to write
a book and keep it preserved. This is a divine book. I love
the way Peter said, holy men spake as they were moved. Holy men of God spake as they
were moved by the Holy Ghost. We have the Bible. Now why would
we want to go to man-made documents, even if they've got good stuff
in them? Accurate stuff. Why would anyone
want to go to a man-made document for anything? And as far as, well, look at
the way they did at this time. They went to the elders and the
apostles to get the matter settled. That's not what was going on
at all. They were fighting. They were fighting at this time. This
was an argument. What a shame. A bunch of people that claim
to believe the grace of God Having a big fight over works and grace?
Why, this is shameful is what it is. There's nothing, this
is where we get our church government. This is not about church government.
This is about shame, really, that they would even have this
argument in the first place. This is not about church government.
We don't go to documents. Now remember, they didn't have
the New Testament at this time. They didn't have any of what
we call the New Testament. And they would go to the apostles,
what did the Lord say and so on. But now we have the final
full revelation of scripture. And this book is a closed book.
There is no other additions to it. And you and I are dependent
upon God to reveal to us what it means. We can't figure it
out. This is God-breathed, God-inspired, and we are shut up to him revealing
himself to us, but we look nowhere else but the holy scriptures. The inspired word of God. Now, that doesn't mean there
is not an inspired creed that briefly embodies our core belief. And I think Acts chapter 15 verse
11 is a glorious summary of what every believer believes. I like the way Peter didn't say,
I believe. He said, we believe. We believe. They may not, but
we do. We do. This is the statement
of faith of every single believer. The we is all the elect of God,
all who believe. We believe that through the grace
of the Lord Jesus Christ, we shall be saved even as they. And this statement was born out
of this trouble. You know, the Lord blesses trouble.
He blessed this conflict in the church to narrow things down
where Peter would rise up and make this statement. We believe
that through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, we shall be
saved even as they. This would not have come had
not this trouble began. In verse one, and certain men,
which came down from Judea, taught the brethren and said, except
you be circumcised. Now it's true salvation's in
Christ. It's true salvation's by grace. It's true salvation's
through faith. We do not deny that in any way.
However, except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, you
cannot be saved. In other words, Christ plus. Not Christ alone, but Christ
plus. Not Christ is all, but Christ
and. Now that's exactly what they
were teaching. And it wasn't just circumcision,
as we go on reading in verse five, they were also saying,
you need to keep the law of Moses. You need to keep the Ten Commandments.
And you know what is so, how many people say, well, that
sounds good. We ought to keep the Ten Commandments.
We ought to keep the Ten Commandments. The Ten Commandments are glorious.
They're a reflection of God. We ought to keep the Ten Commandments.
And everybody in here agrees with that. We ought to keep the
Ten Commandments. We love God's law. Here's the
problem. You don't. You don't. You haven't kept one commandment
one time. And when these men come in here saying this, there's
a real problem. Well, Paul of Barnas didn't like
it. When therefore Paul and Barnabas
had no small dissension and disputation within, that means there was
an argument, there was a heated argument. Paul was mad. We ought
to respect other people's views. Well, not here, not here. There wasn't any small disputation. There was a heated argument at
this time. Well, they determined that Paul
and Barnabas and certain other of them should go up to Jerusalem
unto the apostles and elders about this question, this issue
of, is salvation really all of grace? And I have no doubt that
what had happened, it doesn't say this, but this is only reasonable,
these fellows tried to use Peter and John as their backing. Peter
says this, Paul says this. Calvin says this, Luther says
this, always right and trying to use the words of a man to
back up what they're saying. And Paul wasn't going there to
see if, well, maybe I'm mistaken. Maybe I'm wrong. No, the Lord
taught him the gospel directly. He said, the gospel which was
preached to me was not after man. For I neither received it
of man, nor was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus
Christ." You remember there in 2 Corinthians chapter 12 when
he talks about how he was brought into the third heavens and heard
unlawful things, unspeakable things which are not lawful for
a man to utter, but the Lord taught him the gospel directly
at that time. He wasn't being taught by Peter
or John. He was being taught by the Lord
himself. That's what an apostle is in the first place. He's someone
who learned the gospel directly from the Lord himself. When someone
says, I'm an apostle, they're liars. That's all you can call
them, liars, because there were only 12 apostles. When Judas
fell, Paul took his place. We read of the 12 apostles of
the Lamb. There are not 13, there are not 14. They're not extra
apostles. And these were taught the gospel
directly by Christ. So they said, let's go to the
apostles and see, because Paul wasn't worried about, well, maybe
I was wrong and maybe they'll get me straightened out. No,
he was going to show that this is what all the apostles believe.
Verse three. And being brought on their way
by the church, they passed through Phidisi and Samaria, declaring,
letting everybody know about the conversion of the Gentiles,
God saving the Gentiles, and that caused great joy unto all
the brethren. And when they were come to Jerusalem,
where these men had come from, they were received of the church
with joy and of the apostles and elders, and they declared
all things that God had done with them. So simple. Not what we've done with God's
help or what we've done through God helping us, but what God
has done. What God has done with them,
through them, as instruments and nothing more. What God has
done. But, verse five, there rose up
a certain of the sect, of the Pharisees which believe.
Now, that just lets you know all you need to know. The sect
is heresy. That's where we get the word.
Heresy means a choosing. Now, a heretical doctrine, if
continued in, and I say this fearfully, but I say it knowing
it so, a heretical doctrine, if continued in, is damning to
your soul. This is not just different views
of things that are not, this is talking about the issues of
the gospel. And if heretical doctrine is
received and not left, it is damning to the soul. And it's
a choosing. The word means choosing. You
have to choose to believe that which is false. You believe that
which is true because it's true. You don't, two plus two equals
four. Well, I choose to believe that.
No, you don't choose to believe that. You believe it because
it's so. You'd have to choose to believe it's five though,
wouldn't you? You have to choose to believe it's three. Heretical
doctrine is a choosing. There rose up certain of the
sect, the heresy of the Pharisees, which believed, and like I said,
in the original language, that's spoken in such a way as that's
a completed act. They believed, but they're not
believing right now. It was a completed act. You know, the evidence that
you believed yesterday is you believe today. That's it. Faith is always in the present.
If it's a past thing, it doesn't do me any good. Yesterday's faith
doesn't do me any good. I gotta believe today. I gotta
look to Christ today. believed, and they added this,
it was needful, it was necessary. There is the key word that lets
us know this is heretical. They said it's needful, it's
necessary. Yes, salvation is by grace in
Christ, but it's also necessary to command them to keep the law
of Moses. Now, as I said, we love God's
law, and we respect God's law, And we think God's law is altogether
glorious, a reflection of the glory of his character. But if
you think that you've kept one commandment one time, All you
do is bring God's holy law down to your corrupt level. That's
it. You don't understand the law
of God, or you would know better than that. Like I said this morning,
it takes a new nature to recognize that. It takes a holy nature
to recognize that. If you don't have a holy nature,
you don't have any understanding of God's law. But if you have
a new nature, you understand this about yourself. Well, verse
six. The apostles and elders came
together for to consider this matter. And when there had been
much disputing, and like I said, this is to their shame. This
is to their shame. You know, if I got up and started
disputing, saying, you all need to keep the law. You all need
to keep the law. God's not respected unless you,
you need to at least try to keep the law. The law is your rule
of life. If I stood up and started saying something like that, May the Lord deliver us from
that. Shame on me. Shame on me. The Lord teaching
me the gospel and then me coming up with something like that.
This was shameful that this disputing was going on. It was used by
the Lord. You know, the scripture says,
there must needs be heresies among you, that they that are
approved may be manifest. That's in 1 Corinthians. And
really, it's through these errors quite often that the truth is
sharpened. We're thankful for that in that sense. I'm thankful
that whatever happens, the Lord's in control of. And he's got wise
and holy purposes for it. But still, this is wrong, this
dispute that's going on. And when there had been much
disputing, I loved the way Peter rose up. He said, I've had it
with this. I'm not listening to this any
longer. This dispute is over. That's what Peter said. This
dispute is over. Peter rose up and said to them,
men and brethren, you know how that a good while ago, God made
choice among us. that the Gentiles, by my mouth,
should hear the word of the gospel and believe. And they did. I
love Acts 10 and 11 when he first comes to Cornelius and preaches. And God, which knoweth the hearts,
bear them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did
unto us. But no difference between us and them. I love that there's
no difference. There's no difference. No difference
between one believer and another. We're all saved the same way.
They all believe the same thing. They're not denominations. They're
not denominational distinctions. Have you ever thought about how
ridiculous denominations are? Baptists and Methodists and Catholics
and Presbyterians. It's purely man-made. There's
nothing in the Bible above it that would even hint of a denomination. It's contrary to the gospel. Is Christ divided? No. And you
know, these denominations, I think of denominations, and you have
people say, well, these folks in these other denominations,
I'm not saying they're not saved, but our particular brand of Christianity
is a little bit better, we're a little bit sounder, we've got
a little bit more. What that is is a denial that
Christ is all. That's all it is. It's a denial
that Jesus Christ is all. I've got something better than
you. I'm in a little bit higher class of Christians. You're down
here on the bottom. You're the stupid Christians.
I'm the smart. I have understanding. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. There's no difference between
us and them purifying their hearts by faith. Now, therefore, why
tempt ye God? You know, that would be provoking
to the Lord. It would be provoking. It'd be tempting. Why tempt ye
God to put a yoke? Stand fast in the liberty wherewith
Christ has made us free and be not entangled again in the yoke
of bondage. That's what he called that view
of the law, a yoke of bondage. Now therefore why tempt ye God
to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which you don't
put it on your neck. And our fathers didn't put it
on their neck. They weren't able to bear it. Why would you expect
them to bear something that you were an utter failure in? You
know what it's called? It's called hypocrisy. That's all it is. Pure, undiluted
hypocrisy. You don't keep the law. What
are you doing telling other people to keep the law when you don't
keep it? And that's when Peter makes this statement. We believe
that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, we shall be
saved, even as they. Now this we, as I've said, is
all the elect of God. Every one of God's elect in this
room, when they hear this, they say in their hearts, amen to
that. Amen to that. That's what I believe. We believe. We believe not just this doctrine
we ascribe to. We believe that through the grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ, we shall be saved. Even as they now in this brief
statement. They emphatically state what they don't believe.
They don't believe in salvation by works. They don't believe
in salvation by law. They don't believe in salvation
by free will. They don't believe in salvation
by ceremony or rituals. We don't believe any of that.
We believe that through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, we
shall be saved. Now, I want you to think about
this, and I never really thought about this until preparing this
message. Peter could have said, we believe that through the grace
of God we'll be saved, and he would have been right, wouldn't
he? He could have said, we believe through the grace of the Father
we shall be saved, and he would have been right. That wouldn't
have been an erroneous statement. He could have said, we believe
that through the life-giving grace of the Holy Spirit we shall
be saved. He could have said that, and
it would have been right, but that's not what he said. He said, we believe
that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, we shall be
saved, even as they." And I think this is interesting. In the Greek
language, and I always hesitate to say this, but I think it's
important, there's what's called the Aorist tense. And it's not
in the English language. God chose to reveal the gospel
with this very exact Greek language. And in the Greek language where
it says, we shall be saved, it can just as easily be translated,
we believe we've been saved. We believe we're being saved. And we believe we shall be saved
through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. And that's what
we believe. We believe we've been saved.
That means it's already done. That means it's accomplished.
That means I'm already saved. It means God saved me. He saved us. And he called us with a holy
calling, not according to our works, but according to his own
purpose and grace, which were given us in Christ Jesus before
the world began. We've been saved. Well, it takes all the pressure
off, doesn't it? Nothing to do, it's already been done. It's
already been done, and he did it all, and he did it before
the foundation of the world. I mean, it's not like it's even
something, yes, it happens in time, but the reason it happens
in time is because it happened in eternity. We've been saved. Salvation, past tense, completed. We're being saved. Unto them which are being saved,
Literally. Christ, the power of God, the
wisdom of God. You know what happens when you're being saved?
You're saying, Lord, save me. Lord, save me. You know, I pray
that prayer more than any other prayer, I suppose. Lord, save
me. Get me out of this. Save me for myself. Save me from
my sins. Lord, save me. We're being saved. And we will be saved. We shall
be saved. One of these days, I'm gonna
be perfectly conformed to the image of Christ. I'm not gonna
have any sin, any unbelief. Perfectly righteous. Salvation
in three tenses. We've been saved, we're being
saved, and we shall be saved. I love that scripture, 2 Corinthians
8, 9. You know, you know the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ. I love the way he says that to
every believer. You know, you know, I don't have to convince
you of this. You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that
though he was rich and understand that yes, he has all the gold
and silver and material things in the world, the earth is the
Lord's and the fullness thereof, but that's not what it's talking
about. He was rich in communion and fellowship with his father.
He was rich in worship. The persons of the Trinity worshiping
each other. He was rich in praise. He had
the praises of angels falling at his feet. Oh, the riches of
the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, he always had the Father's
smile, the Father's pleasure. Oh, the Father delighted in the
Son. What riches! Yet for your sakes,
He became poor. He didn't have that anymore. He came under the awful frown
and displeasure of his father. No communion, forsaken, cut off. Why? For your sakes. that you through his poverty
might be rich. That's the grace of the Lord
Jesus Christ. And I love the way he calls him,
he's the Lord. Now, what that means is he's
Lord of all. Peter said that to Cornelius.
Preaching peace by Jesus Christ, he's Lord of all. That means
he's the Lord of creation. That means he created the universe.
He's the Lord of Providence. Everything that happens in time,
he's the first cause of. Somebody says, well, he allows
it. No, he cost it. Are you saying God's the author of evil? I'm
saying he cost it. And I'm saying he's in control
and whatever he does is right. And I'm so fine with that. I
love it being that way. He's the Lord of salvation. That
means if you're saved, it's up to him to save you. You don't
have any control in this. Your salvation is in his hands. Now, that's a good place for
it to be because if it's in your hands, you won't be saved. I
guarantee you that. If it's in your hands, you're
in trouble. I'm in trouble. But oh, thank
God salvation is of the Lord. He's Jesus, the Savior. Thou shalt call his name Jesus.
He shall save his people from their sins. He's the Christ. He's God's prophet. He never
said, thus saith the Lord. He said, I say it to you. He's
God's priest. He doesn't bring the blood of
an animal. He brings his own blood to the father. He's God's
king. I mean, his will is always done.
He's the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe that through the grace
of the Lord Jesus Christ, we shall be saved even as they. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ
is my surety. I can't express the joy that
I have in knowing that everything with regard to my salvation,
he took full responsibility for before the foundation of the
world. I love to think of what Judah said about Benjamin. I'll
be surety for him. This is what the Lord said with
regard to every one of the elect. I will be surety for him. Of mine hands shall thou require
of him. If I bring him not back and set
him before thee, let me bear the blame forever. Jesus Christ
said that with regard to me before the foundation of the world.
In time, we talk to the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. He
became flesh. He kept the law for me. He died
for me. My sins became his sins. He was
raised for me for my justification. He ascends for me. And when he
went back into heaven, every one of his people went back with
him in him. He intercedes for me. He controls
everything for me. He's coming back for me. We believe. that through the grace of the
Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved even as they. Turn to 1 John chapter 4. Here's another very simple creedal
statement. This is a creed. This is a form
of what we believe, and it's inspired by God. This is not
some man-made creed. I repeat, I hate those things. Even if they've got truth in
them, I don't like them because why would I want to read anything
that's not inspired by God? To look for, I mean, this is
a simple, glorious, and I guess I'll call it a creedal statement.
Verse one, beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits,
whether they are of God, because many false prophets are gone
into the world. Now hereby know ye the spirit
of God, every spirit that confesseth, and don't miss that word confesseth,
not that believeth, but that confesseth, that publicly confesses. This is what they stand for,
this is what they believe. Those who believe this, they're
going to be identified with those who do in a church where this
is preached. This is confession. Every spirit
that confesses that Jesus Christ is coming to flesh is of God. And every spirit that confesses
not that Jesus Christ is coming to flesh is not of God. And it's
the spirit of antichrist, where if you've heard that it should
come and even now already it's in the world looking second John,
Verse seven, for many deceivers are entering
into the world who confess not that Jesus Christ has come in
the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. Now in that
simple statement, Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. First,
he was before he came. He's the eternal son of God. I love to think of how those
people were thinking or what they might have been thinking
when he said, I came down from heaven. Now, if I said I came down from
heaven, you'd say, you're an idiot. You're crazy. Something's
wrong with you. And I'm sure people were saying
that about the Lord Jesus Christ when he said it. They were thinking
that. But he said, I came down from heaven. I was there before
I came down here. I'm the eternal son of God. I
came down from heaven not to do my own will, but the will
of him that sent me. And this is the will of him that
sent me, that of all which he hath given me, I should lose
nothing, but raise it up again at the last day. And this is
the will of him that sent me, that everyone that seeth the
Son and believeth on him should have eternal life, and I'll raise
him up at the last day. Now, this simple statement, confessing that Jesus Christ
has come in the flesh, number one, we confess he was before
he came. That's inherent in that statement. Secondly, we confess
He came in the flesh. There was a time when He was
not in the flesh. He came in the flesh to be in the flesh
forever. Right now there's a man in glory
with flesh and blood, the Lord Jesus Christ. He came in the
flesh, in the flesh He kept God's law, in the flesh He put away
sins, in the flesh He was raised from the dead. perfectly completing
God's salvation. He came in the flesh and thank
God he did exactly what he came to do. He's no failure. Whatever
it was he intended to do, that's what he did. Thou shalt call
his name Jesus for he shall save his people from their sins. Now, back to our text. Verse 11, but we believe that
through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, we've been saved,
we're being saved, and we will be saved. We believe God will
preserve us. We believe we'll persevere all
the end to the end because God purposed our salvation, because
Christ purchased our salvation, because God the Holy Spirit applies
his salvation in the new birth. Yeah, we believe in perseverance
of the saints because of who does the saving. Now, if you
believe man has any part of the saving, no, I don't believe in
eternal security. You'll fall away. I guarantee
you, you will. If you had anything to do with
it, it's doomed for failure. But since salvation is all of
the Lord, all of grace, all of God's people will persevere.
They shall be saved. And I love the way Peter ends
it. We shall be saved even as they.
And this is very important. He doesn't say those Gentiles
will be saved like us Jews. No, he says us Jews will be saved
like those Gentiles. We're all the same. There isn't
one class of salvation for one and a different kind for the
other. There's not first class and then the coach seats. No, we're all saved The same
way, however the chief of sinners is saved, that's how I'm saved. That's who is saved. Well, let me leave you with this
thought. How can I know if I'm one of
those ones that can say we believe that through the grace of the
Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved? How can I know I'm one
of those people? How can I know I'm involved in
that way? I can give you one way that you can tell. Are you
a sinner? Christ Jesus came into the world
to save sinners, of whom I am chief. If you are a sinner, yes,
this is your creed. You're one to say, we believe
that through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, we shall be
saved, even as they. Let's pray.