Our Lord says in verse 1, let
not your heart be troubled. Now the disciples had reasons
to be troubled. They did not understand. If we
do not have an understanding of the Lord's purposes, an understanding
of his ways, we have a right to be troubled. The disciples,
as indicated by their questions, did not understand. One of them's
mother said, Lord, when you come into your kingdom, let one of
my sons sit on your right hand and the other on your left. They
were always asking, Lord, will you now restore the kingdom to
Israel? They did not understand. Some
of their ideas about Christ and his kingdom were totally wrong. They visualized a Jewish kingdom,
a kingdom of splendor and wealth and glory. And now the Lord talked
of going away, not even setting up a kingdom here. He talked
of dying. He talked of their denial. He talked of suffering. He talked
of their being scattered. He talked of persecution. He
talked of them being cast out of the synagogue, not taking
over the synagogue, being cast out of the synagogue. And they
were genuinely confused. And they were troubled. And they
were downhearted. And our Lord comforts them. He
says, I have many things to say to you. You're not able yet to
receive them. I have some things that you don't
understand, but you will later. But what you want to do is this.
You believe in God. You believe in God. Believe in
me. Believe in me. Trust in me. Cast all of your cares upon me. I care for you. Rest your hope
and your confidence and your trust only in me, for in my Father's
house there are many dwelling places. And now watch this, I
go to prepare a place for you, and the average person when he
thinks of our Lord's words, I go to prepare a place for you, he
goes up there to fix up the streets of gold and the walls of precious
stone and the gates and the palaces and mansions, but that's not
at all what he's talking about. I go to prepare a place, a place
of acceptance for you. You don't even belong there.
It's like old John Jasper, the black preacher from Richmond,
Virginia. Someone said, when you get to
heaven, and they stop you at the gate, and they say, what
right have you got to be here? Now just tell me, what right
have you got to be here? You don't have a place here. And he said, I'm going to reply,
That's true. I don't have any right to be
here. I'm not here on my rights. I'm
here on the righteousness of another. Christ said, I go to
prepare a place for you. You don't have a place in God's
presence unless Christ prepares it. A place of acceptance, a
place of righteousness. Who shall stand in his presence?
He that hath clean hands and a pure heart. Well, that says,
Brother Jim says, a wipe-out on all of us, isn't it? We don't,
any of us. Clean hands and a pure heart?
Well, Christ has got to prepare that place of righteousness. You see what he's saying? I go
to prepare a place, for you don't have a place. Man goes to his
place. Judas died and went to his place. You know where it was? His place
was hell, separation from God. That's my place. That's your
place. I know my place, but Christ said,
I go to prepare a place for you, a place of acceptance, of righteousness,
a place of inheritance. I don't have anything up there.
I didn't have until he went there. And now I do. He's entered in
and taken over glory in my name, in your name. A place of glory,
a place of acceptance, a place in God's eternal presence. And
all of this is prepared. Christ prepared it by his obedience. It's not the work of his hands
or his words only, it's the work of his passive and active obedience. He prepared this place of acceptance
by making himself in his obedience to the law acceptable. You see
that? I prepared it. He prepared it
by his obedience. He prepared it by his sacrifice. He has, by one offering, perfected
forever them that believe. He prepared it by his intercession. We have no place in glory except
in Christ. So he says, don't be troubled.
Now you believe in God, believe in me. Believe in me. I go to prepare a place for you,
and if I go and prepare a place for you, I'll come again that
where I am, where I am, where is Christ? Brother Barnard said
one time that we're not only to preach who he is, but where
he is. We're not only to preach what
he did, but we're to preach where he is. Because if he's not where
he is, then we have no hope. Where is Christ? He is seated
at the right hand of the majesty on earth. Where I am, where is
Christ? at the Father's right hand, the
place of acceptance, the place of love, the place of power,
the place of glory, that's where I am. Where I am, there ye may
be. Where is Christ? Exalted and
given a name above every name, that's where I am. Where is Christ? He's eternally glorified. that
where I am, thou you may be. And Thomas said to him, Lord,
we don't know where you're going. How can we know the way? We know
so little of this place. We know so little of this place.
You prepared in this place where you're going. You talk about
where you are we going to be. How can we know? How do we get
there? How do we get there? And that's my subject this morning.
The place is the place of acceptance. How do I get there? The place
is the place of righteousness. How do I get there? The place
is the place of eternal glory. How do I get there? The place
is the place where Christ is. How do I get there? How can I
know the way? And Christ said to him, Thomas,
I am the way, I am the truth, and I am the life. No man cometh
to this place where I am, except by me. Now the whole need, the
whole situation and difficulty, our whole problem, and we've
got problems, and our whole problem, whatever it is, and problems,
whatever they are. Our whole situation, our whole
difficulty, had its beginning in Eden's garden. Now, I know
that. I know that's where it had its
beginning, in Eden's garden. There, our father Adam fell,
according to God's word. Adam lost for himself and his
posterity three things. He lost three things. I know
a lot of folks talk about he lost perfect weather and now
we have storms. He lost the trees that bore fruit
in their season and he didn't have to work so hard. And he
lost good health and now we have sickness. But my friends, Adam
lost a whole lot more than that. In the Garden of Eden, Adam lost
for himself and his posterity, not only these comforts, or so-called
comforts of life, but he lost some things in the spiritual
realm. First of all, he lost life, spiritual life. He died in sin. He died. He didn't die physically seven,
eight, nine hundred years later, but he died to God. He lost that
divine life. He retained a natural life, a
fleshly life, a pagan life. He retained the corrupt life. He retained that nature that
hates and lusts and envies and angers, and he retained that
devilish nature, that fleshly nature, and he lost that spiritual
nature. He lost that nature that loves
and believes and enjoys and waits upon God and delights in God.
He lost that nature. He lost the life of God. He retained physical life and
physical needs and physical desires, but he lost spiritual life. And
then not only that, but he lost the truth. He lost the truth. You see, Adam believed Satan. Martin Luther said one time,
don't believe Satan even when he tells the truth. Don't believe Satan even... You
know, I hear people that watch this, some of these television
preachers, and they're so far away from the gospel, it's pitiful.
Doris and I was watching a couple of them last night, and she said,
well, they say some good things. The devil says some good things,
too. But don't believe him even when he says good things. Basically,
his purpose and objective is wrong. It's not the glory of
God, but the glory of the flesh, his own glory he seeks. He changes
himself to an angel of light. He changes his ministers to ministers
of righteousness, morality, humanity, good things. Don't believe him,
even when he's telling the truth. He'll deceive you, he'll lead
you astray. And man lost the truth. Man,
Christ said, I've come in my Father's name, and you will not
receive me. Let another come in his own name,
and him you will receive." We lost the truth. We call bitter
sweet and sweet bitter. We lost the truth. There is a
way that seemeth right to man, and the end is death. We lost
the truth. My ways are not your ways. My
thoughts are not your thoughts. We lost the truth. The natural man, whatever he
thinks is the right thing to do or the right way to go, is
wrong. And what he thinks not is right. What he has no capacity even
to understand is right. The natural man will see that
not the things of God, they're foolishness to him. We lost the
truth. The wisdom of this world is foolishness
with God, and the foolishness of God is wisdom. We lost the
truth. We're confused. We think, but
we don't think right. We love, but we don't love God.
We walk, but we don't walk straight. We lost the truth. And not only
that, but Adam lost the way to God. He lost the life of God,
he lost the truth of God, and he lost the way to God. God put
him out of the garden and barred the way. And there's no possibility
of Adam ever getting back in that garden. Not in his own strength. Not by his own efforts. No way. Now those are the things Adam
lost. Those are the things that we're
without. We're without life. You will not come to me, Christ
said, that you might have life. We're without life. We're dead
in trespasses and sin. Death passed upon all men. We're
without the truth. We believe a lie and are damned
for believing it. And we lost the way to God. We're
struggling around here. Man tries the way of superstition,
all the mumbo and jumbo and candles burning and robes and crosses
and water, you know, and all this mumbo-jumbo. And man likes
that way, but that's not the way. That's not the way. Man likes
the way of works. Man likes the way of law. But
that's not the way. We've lost the way to God. We're
trying to figure out in our own wisdom how to get back to God.
Now how am I going to sit down and I'm going to quit this, that,
and the other, and I'm going to get back to God? We don't even know
where the way is. That's what Thomas said. How
can we know the way? We don't even know where it is. That's the shape we're in. We've
lost life, we've lost the truth, and you need to, you better examine
what you think God says my thoughts are not
your thoughts, but this is reasonable. Is it reasonable or scriptural?
Now you better think about that. This is the way I see it. I know
that's the way you see it, but you see like a blind man. The
natural man is blind. He's enmity against God. His
thoughts are not subject to God. Well, this is logical and reasonable,
and this is the way I... Like one lady said to Brother
Scott Richardson, she was contending for all of this organized Sunday
school thing, you know, and he said, well, dear lady, he said,
Sunday school is not in the Bible. She said, well, it ought to be.
And that's the way we think. This
is the way it ought to be. But that's not the way it is.
We've lost the truth. The way, the truth, and the life. And this is what Christ said
in verse 6. I'm the way, I'm the truth, and
I'm the life. What we lost in Adam is restored
in Christ. And I want us to look at these
three things. Now, first of all, and I'll be brief, the way. I'm
going to be plain, but brief. I am the way. Now, William J. William Jay caught a mail coach
to London one day, and this was back before the trains and before
cars and airplanes, just way back yonder. He caught a mail
coach, that's two horses or four horses and a kind of a wagon
like they used to have in the old West days, you know, stagecoach.
And he was riding on it, and nobody, no passengers but him.
It was a male coach. He's the only passenger, so he
sat up with the driver. William Jay was a famous preacher
over in Europe. And so he started, the driver
was a quiet man, you know, he had his plug at the back of his
jaw there, and he was driving the old stagecoach, and William
Jay wanted to talk. And they came through a town,
and William J., this is his own words, he said, uh, who's the
mayor of the town here? The old man said, I don't know.
And, uh, they'd ride a little further, and they passed a big
farm, Bob. William J. says, whose farm is this? He
said, I don't know. And they passed another place,
you know. Well, that's a beautiful building,
that castle there. Who built that? I don't know.
Finally, William J. said he got exasperated, and
he looked at the stagecoach driver, the male coach driver, and he
said, Well, what do you know? He said, I know the way to London. And that's what I'm saying to
you. I think too many preachers are too concerned about too many
things And they forget that they're supposed to know the way to God
and supposed to preach the way to God. They're not supposed
to entertain sinners on their way to London. They don't have
to know who built the castles and who owns the lane and who's
the mayor of the town. They don't have to know all of
this history and grammar and all of the other things, the
civic affairs and the laws and so forth. A signpost, let me
tell you this, you're going down the road, and a signpost is not
meant to be interesting. A signpost is not meant to be
attractive. It's meant to point the way.
That's what it's put there for, to point the way. And we don't
care whether it's red, white, or blue. And we don't care for
poetry and rhymes on signposts. We want one thing, the direction
to where we're going. And I believe that every servant
of the Lord ought to give attention to his calling, and that is to
point the way to God. And when we point the way to
God, we stand like John the Baptist of old and we say, Behold the
Lamb of God. That's the way to God. Behold
the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. Notice
what Christ says here. He said, I am the way. He's not
a good way, he's the way. He's not one of the ways, he's
not a convenient way, he's not even a special way, he's the
only way to go. Christ is the only way to go. I am the way, I am the door. Now, what does a way suppose? What are we talking about when
we say Christ is the way? What does a way suppose? Well,
a way supposes two things. A way supposes a point from where
I am and a point to where I'm going. When I talk about a way,
I'm talking about two things. I'm talking about where I am
and where I'm going to be, or where I'm going. And Christ said,
I am the way. I'm the way out of ruin to righteousness. Utter, absolute ruin. By one
man's sin and disobedience, we were made sinners. By the righteousness
and obedience of Christ, we were made righteous. Christ is the
way from ruin to righteousness. Not the church, Christ is. Not
the law, Christ is. He's the way from ruin to righteousness. He's the way from death to life.
In Adam I died, in Christ I'm made alive. Christ is the way
from enmity to peace, having made peace through the blood
of his cross. He is the way from guilt to pardon. He is the way from condemnation
to acceptance. He is the way from hell to heaven.
He is the way from separation from God to eternal glory with
God. Christ is the way. Now notice
this. He says, I am the way, the only
way, not a good way, not a convenient way, not a special way, not one
of the ways, I'm the way. But he says, now watch this,
this is the most important part of the whole message right here.
Christ said, I am the way. Now notice this, he didn't say,
I am the God, he said, I am the way. He doesn't say, I am the
one who made the way, he said, I am the way. Now stay with me,
this is important, this is where I think most preachers are missing
it. Christ did not say, I'll show you the way. I am the way. I am the way. Would you have
righteousness? If you have God, you'll have
righteousness. If you have acceptance with God,
you'll have righteousness. Well, Christ is my righteousness. He's not one who demands it or
one who commands it, and not even only one who provides it,
although He is. Now, listen to me. He provides
it, but He is the provision. He is my righteousness. I wish
I could make this plan. And I know there's no way under
heaven that anybody can have the faintest conception of what
I'm saying unless God Almighty has taught you. Christ is not
only the way to righteousness, not only the one who provided
righteousness, not only the one who imputed righteousness, but
he himself is that righteousness. You see, the Father doesn't,
and I hope you understand what I'm trying to say, and to talk
about heavenly things in earthly language is too difficult for
me. I'm not sufficient for these
things. But the average person thinks that God is in heaven.
And what Christ did made us acceptable, and now the Father watches me,
he watches each step I take, and he says, oh, don't go over
there, and he smacks my hand, and I step over here, and he
says, don't do that, and he smacks my foot, and he says, go this
way, do this, do that, now you're doing better, I'm pleased with
you now, and I'm not pleased with you. God never looks on me with any
pleasure at all. God sees me in Christ. He looks
on Christ. Christ is my righteousness. Christ
is my sanctification. Christ is my redemption. Christ
is my glory. The Father loves us in Christ,
he receives us in Christ, he looks upon us in Christ, we are
in Christ. Christ said, I am the way, I
am the responsible one, I am the mediator, I am the one with
whom God deals. Adam died, Christ lives, in Adam
I died, in Christ I live. Christ, would you have peace?
Somebody say, I'm going to make peace with God. Now hold on there.
Christ is our peace. Christ is our peace. You don't
want God to deal with you. When God gave the law at Sinai,
Israel backed off, scared to death. And they said, Moses,
don't let God speak to us and don't let us speak to God. You
get between us and God. That's what a mediator is. Each one of you union members
don't go before the arbitration board or whoever's settling these
contracts. You have a representative, somebody
who represents you. You and I got a representative
in Congress. They don't call me and ask me,
how are you going to vote on this bill? I ain't going to vote
at all. I don't have a vote. My representative represents
me and does the voting. Christ is my representative.
Christ is my peace. Christ is my mediator. Christ
is the one God deals with. This is so. I'm telling you the
truth. Christ didn't say, I am the God. I am the way. He didn't
say I came to point the way or to make a way. I am the way. Everything God has is in Christ. And if you're in Christ, you
have everything God has. Would you have life? Christ is
the life. He that hath the Son of God hath
life, he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. Would you
have holiness? Well, I'm going to do my best
to have holiness. I'm going to give up this, that,
the other, and I'm going to take on something else, and I'm going
to smile all the time, and I'm going to twiddle my thumbs, you
know, and I'm going to be holy. Don't let me scare you, but there
ain't no good in your flesh. And if you're expecting to recommend
yourself to God by some of the things you say or do in this
flesh, you're done for. God's judgment and anger and
wrath is upon you, because in the flesh dwelleth no good thing.
But wait a minute. If Christ is your holiness, If
Christ is your sanctification, if all of your righteousness
is him, that God don't look at me, even my prayers are shot
full of sin. Don't you wish you could pray
without sinning? Don't you wish you could give without sinning?
Don't you wish you could come here and sit in this place and
worship God without sinning? Don't you wish that? I do. Well,
if our worship's got sin in it, God's holy, God couldn't even
look on his Son because of his sin imputed to him. What makes you think he's going
to look on this bunch? Well, I say he's going to look on us
with favor because he looks on us in Christ. Christ is our holiness. I'm not giving you a license
to violate liberty. I'm saying a man that turns the
grace of God into lasciviousness doesn't even know the grace of
God. I'm saying a man that uses his liberty to sin doesn't know
what Christian liberty is. A man who says, well, I'll do
this because I'm saved and I'm in Christ and I can't be lost,
is lost. Any man who justifies disobedience
and justifies dishonesty and justifies sin and justifies drunkenness
and justifies blasphemy because he's in Christ is a liar, is
not in Christ, and probably never will be. For man loves Christ, he lives
for Christ's glory. He seeks to please the Lord Jesus
Christ. But Christ is our holiness. And
you just have to ask the Holy Spirit to explain that to you,
because can't anybody else do it. It has to be revealed. It has to be revealed by the
Spirit of God. I am the way. I am the way. Don't miss this. This is the heart of it. Salvation,
my friends, is not a doctrine. It's a person. Salvation is not
a plan, it's not a moral code, it's a person. Vital, living
union with a person of Christ brings to me all that God has,
is, and does in Christ. But what shall I do, preacher?
Do? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
I know that, but what shall I do? Do? Believe on the Lord Jesus. I know that you said that, but
what shall I do? Do? Believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ. That's what you do. Trust him. But I tell you, when I get home,
I'm going to pray. Well, that's good, I hope you
do, and I know you will, but that ain't the gospel. I hope
you do. But I tell you, I'm going to
start living for God. I hope you do, and I believe
you will, but that's not the gospel. Well, I'm going to be
baptized, and I'm going to join the church, and I'm going to
set a good example. I hope you do, and I believe
you will, but that's still not the gospel. Christ is the gospel. And this is the reason we've
been missing Christ, we've been doing. We've been going all these
different directions, and we haven't found any peace, and
we've found no righteousness, and we've found no comfort, and
we've found no communication with God, we've found no fellowship,
and we've found no way out of our conflicts. We've been hunting
a way. Christ is the way. We've been
doing instead of believing. We've been doing instead of trusting.
I will turn from my sins and say, God, preacher, I hope you
do and I know you will, but that ain't the gospel. The gospel
is a person. It's not a duty. It's a person.
It's not a doctrine. It's a person. It's not a deed.
It's a person. I am the way. I am the way. All right? I am the truth. Now
listen to this. I'm going to tell you something
here that needs to be said loud and clear. Falsehood can tolerate falsehood,
but truth can never tolerate falsehood. Two lies, two lies
can live in the same house together at peace, but the truth and a
lie cannot live together, cannot get along, they're inseparably
divided. Truth can never live with a lie. A man, a religious man, who's
trusting his works for salvation, whatever those works may be,
he may be trusting baptism, church membership, he may be trusting
his tradition, he meets another man, now listen to me, who's
trusting his works, may take a different direction. This denomination
and this group may say you have to be baptized to be saved, and
others say you have to be circumcised. This group says you have to attend
church on the seventh day, this one says on the first day. This
one says you have to tithe, and this one says you have to fast.
This one says you have to do this, and those two can meet,
and they can get along, and they can band together in an ecumenical
movement. And they can say, brethren, we
all agree, we're all sincere, and we'll meet in heaven. But
let either of them meet a true believer and say this, brethren,
we all agreed and we'll all meet in heaven, and that true believer
has to say, no, that's not true. Christ is my righteousness. Christ
is my hope. Christ is my sanctification.
Other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid Christ
the Lord. Though we or an angel from heaven
preach any other gospel, let him be accursed. I'll compromise
with you on the length of your hair, but not on the gospel. I compromise with you on the
millennial truth, but not on the gospel. I compromise with
you on whether to take up offering with a plate or put it in a box,
but not on the gospel. I compromise with you on a lot
of these other little things, but not on the gospel. A liar
cannot live in the same house with the And Christ said, I'm
the truth. I'm the truth. Not your work,
not your tradition, not your custom, not your goodness, not
your doctrine. I am the truth. Christ is the
truth, truly man and truly God. Christ is the truth, the true
prophet, priest, and king. Christ is the truth, the sum
and substance of every promise. Christ is the truth, the truth
of all the types and the shadows. Christ is the truth, in opposition
to all its faults, Christ is the truth. If you from sin are
longing to be free, look to the Lamb of God. He to redeem you
died on Calvary, look to the Lamb of God. All right, in closing,
Christ said, I am the way, I am the truth. Truth will not live
with error. We cannot compromise who our
Lord is, what our Lord did, why our Lord did it, and where he
is now. I cannot compromise on that. Somebody said to Brother Barnaby
one time, Brother Barnaby, let's get together around Jesus. He
said, which one? Which one? The Jesus of this group of error,
that form of error, this form of error, or the Christ of the
Bible, the Christ of God? Now, let me tell you something.
He's not sweet little Jesus boy. He's King of kings and Lord of
lords. He's not the one who died on
the cross to make an effort to save anybody. He's the one who
gave his life a ransom for many. He shall not fail, he shall see
of the travail of his soul and be satisfied. He is the one who
is exalted and given a name above every name, and sitting at the
right hand of the majesty on high, having finished his work,
expecting that his enemies be made his foes too." Truth will
not live with error. Christ is the truth. Oh, we'll
be compassionate, we'll be gracious, we'll be tender, we'll be kind,
because that's what our Lord called us to be. But we're going
to be fine. We're going to be fine. You go the way you want to go.
You build on the foundation you wish to build on. You look in
the direction you wish to look. That's all right. But as for
me and my house, we're going to look to Christ. And as for
me and this house here, we're going to preach Christ. Be way,
be truth, and the life, the very life of God is in Christ. Turn to 1 John. 1 John 5. Now I want you to look at these
verses, 1 John 5. And you know, I think, I don't,
you know how witnessing is a difficult thing. It's not easy. But usually
if I'm talking to a person who knows practically nothing about
the gospel, I go to this chapter here in 1 John 5, I think it's
helpful. If you read it carefully, in
verse 11, let's begin with verse 11, 1 John 5, this is the record. This is it. Nothing needs to
be added or taken away. This is the record. This is God's
Word. This is that true and faithful
saying and worthy of acceptation by all men, that God hath given
to us life, eternal life, the life which Adam lost. Now, eternal
life here, listen to me, is not the length of it. It's the quality
of it. We're not talking about just
living forever because people in hell, according to the Bible,
are going to live forever. But when the Bible talks about
eternal life, it's not talking about how long it lasts, it's
talking about the quality of it. It's eternal life because
it's the life of God. It's the life from the beginning.
It's God's life. It's eternal life, both ways,
having no beginning or ending. It's eternal life. And God's
given this to us, which we lost, which we by nature don't have,
eternal life. Now watch it. And this life is
in His Son. It's not made possible by His
Son. It's not just provided by His Son. It's in His Son. You
see it? I've got to get to Christ. I've
got to, like the branch and the vine, I've got to be grafted
into Christ. I've got to eat his flesh and
drink his blood. I can't just accept him, I've
got to receive him. I've got to be vitally united
with him, Christ in me, the hope of glory, Christ formed in me. This life's in his Son. It's
going to stay in His Son, so I've got to be grafted into the
Son. I've got to like the body and
the head and the vine and the branch. I've got to, I can't
run around out here separated and severed from Christ and play
with my religious things. I've got to be in Him, where
He is, I am. Where I am, He is. I in them
and thou in me, Christ said. He that hath the Son. Not just
he that accepts him or reads about him or admires him or serves
him, he that hath the Son. You see the difference? Most
serve the Lord. You might be right, you will.
The wrath of man will serve the Lord and praise the Lord. I guarantee
you, you'll serve the Lord. Everything's serving the Lord.
That Son out there's serving the Lord. The wind's serving
the Lord. The demons are serving the Lord.
Everything in the universe is serving the Lord. But I don't
want to just serve him, I want him. I want to have the Son. He that hath the Son hath life. And he that hath not the Son,
he hath not life. I don't care what you have. You might have a little old experience
and get in trouble and decide you're going to get religion
and accept the Lord and start doing better. You're just deceived,
that's all. You've got to have the Son. Have
the Son. Christ in you 24 hours a day. You can read the rest of it there,
verse 20, And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath
given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true,
and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and this
is eternal life in Christ. So you don't have to try to figure
out if some of these Hollywood evangelists
and folks are telling the truth.
Most of them aren't. Christ is the way, the truth,
and the life. He's the way, the truth, and
the life. You've got to know Him. I've got to know Him. There's
no special person, and God's no respecter of persons. God
calls the foolish and the base and the things which are not.
So there's room at the cross for you and for me. There is. God delights to show mercy. But
I tell you this, don't miss Christ. You've had enough religion, don't
accept any more religion. Don't look for another place,
look for a person. Don't look for another experience,
look for a person. Don't look for another feeling.
You've had all that. Don't look for another dogma
or doctrine or truth. Look for a person. Lord, give
me Christ. Form Christ in my soul. Bring
me into a living union with him. I don't want to miss Christ.
Don't you miss him. Our Father used this message
for whatever purpose it pleaseth thee. We believe that you've
spoken to us today. We believe we've had a word from
the throne. We've had that breath of fresh
air. With Christ the way, the truth, and the life, and I believe
you've made it plain to us, and we're responsible to seek the
Lord with all our hearts, and we'll be found of him. In his
name we pray, amen.