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The Admonition podcast brings you Bible lessons and sermons from the Collierville Church of Christ with host Aaron Cozort. Each episode focuses on interpreting Scripture in its original context, exploring the background of key passages, events, and teachings. Gain deeper insight into God’s Word as we study together, applying timeless truths to everyday life.
Have you ever had a to-do list?
You had your list of objectives, your list of things that you wanted to accomplish for the
day.
Maybe it was at work and the first day the boss said every single employee here needs to
have a to-do list so that everyone got done what they needed to do.
Maybe it was an instructor at college that said, Listen, if you do this, you are going to
have a head start in your work.
At at Memphis we had an instructor who one of our assignments was to say whether or not
that we had a checklist of the things that we wanted to do each day.
We are used to the idea of to-do lists or checklists.
Now they have strengths.
What what is it that a checklist provides for you?
Well, it can give organization.
You know what you need to do.
You know the order in which you need to do it.
It can be something great, something beneficial.
Well, what are the weaknesses?
Well sometimes we can put a little bit too much on our checklist.
We don't we don't have all the information in the world.
We don't know how much time we're going to have or what's going to come up.
So there can be times that our checklist has too much on it for what we can really do.
There's other times it can have too little where we realize, you know what, I could do
more today, and then we add to it later.
But a checklist can have too much, it can have too little, and also another weakness of a
checklist is usually it doesn't tell you.
why you're doing what you're doing.
You know that you need to get this done today, but it's it's going to be rare to find a
checklist that says, I need to do this, and here's the reason why.
Now a checklist can be fine for work.
It is something that is extremely useful, beneficial, and it's something that we can use
and it's an expediency, even in our service as Christians.
But what we need to ask is if we use a checklist or if we use the Bible.
If we go to God's word or if instead we use some kind of summary that we've made for
ourselves, the Jews themselves were guilty of this.
Looking at the Jews, Matthew chapter four verses twelve through seventeen, Jesus came to
this earth, he was baptized, he was tempted in the wilderness, and he was about to start
his ministry, or he was starting his ministry.
Verse twelve Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into
Galilee, and leaving Nazareth he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is beyond the sea
coast, in the borders of Zebulun and Neftalim.
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, The land of
Zebulun and the land of Neftalim by the way of the sea beyond Jordan, Galilee of the
Gentiles, the people which sat in darkness saw a great light, and to them which sat in the
region in shadow of death, light is sprung up.
From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at
hand.
The Jews were supposed to be the people who had the word of God.
They had light.
Paul in the book of Romans would ask, What advantage then hath the Jew?
And he would show, Listen, you have God's word, you have that advantage.
They had what they needed, not to be in darkness, but also they were in darkness anyway.
Now they didn't know everything about the Christ that would come, and on top of that, they
had leaders who were hiding the truth from them, or were not teaching the truth to them.
They instead had leaders who said, This is what our rabbi says, so this is what we are
going to do.
This is the tradition of our fathers, so here's what we're going to do instead of
following the old law.
In fact, you know what?
It's not that we're not following the old law.
We're just doing things that help us follow the old law.
When what they were really doing was replacing the law of Moses with what man wanted to
say.
They tried to take a to-do list, a checklist that they had made, that man had designed,
and replace God's word with it.
In the best case scenario, they just tried to make that a useful piece of
of their religion, when what it really did was distract from what they needed to be doing,
following God's word.
Christ came bringing change, bringing a light, and he was going to change it from being
this faulty way of looking at the old law, of looking of w at what God had said, and he
would also bring the church as well, which was his main goal, saving souls and building
his church.
But looking at Christ's ministry, we want to focus on it for just a second on the side
before
The New Testament starts, of the teaching he was bringing them then.
Matthew chapter five, verses one through two.
These verses show Christ starting the Sermon on the Mount.
And Matthew five through seven, that is the Sermon on the Mount, and it's going to show
some of the greatest change you could ever see, or some of the greatest change seen in
what Christ taught the people.
As we saw in Matthew 4, he was teaching them repentance.
Matthew chapter 5, he showed them in many respects how to repent.
He's it starts with blessed are the poor in spirit.
And when usually they would think, blessed are those who are rich, blessed are those who
have what they want.
And all these other aspects, Christ is going to show them something that turns their world
upside down.
Now, with that idea of turning their world upside down, was it the fact Christ was
changing their law or changing the way they looked at it?
Something that needs to be kept in mind here is Christ was during the Sermon on the Mount,
Christ would say many things such as, You have heard it said, an eye for an eye, and a
tooth for a tooth.
But then Christ showed that they were supposed to turn the other cheek.
Was this Christ contradicting the old law?
When he says, Ye have heard it said that he who looks on a woman commits adultery.
But but I say unto you,
Whoever looks on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery already in his heart.
When Christ said that, was he contradicting the old law?
Was he adding to what the Lord had said?
The Lord was not changing the law.
And certainly he wasn't changing it yet.
We know this because the law wasn't going to be done until it was nailed to the cross.
Colossians 2 14 says that Christ had what he did blotted the handwriting of ordinances
that was against us.
Which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.
So during Matthew chapter 5 through 7, Christ isn't implementing the new law.
He's still under the old law.
Whatever he is showing them is not a change in the law they are following.
Looking at those words when Christ says, Ye have heard it said, but I say unto you, we
could translate that but with and.
What Christ was doing was looking at the way they looked at the old law.
the way they looked at it as a checklist, and was saying, You know what, this is what you
should have been doing all along.
Further looking at the fact that Christ was not teaching them something new, he said
himself in Matthew five, seventeen through nineteen, Think not that I am come to destroy
the law or the prophets.
I am come not to destroy, but to fulfill.
For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no
wise pass from the law
Till all be fulfilled.
Whosoever therefore shall break one of the least of these commandments and teach men so,
he shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven.
But whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of
heaven.
What Christ was teaching were principles that were going to apply both under the new law
and the old law.
But keep in mind, right here he says he came not to destroy the law, but to fulfill.
And then he says,
Not one tittle of the law would pass until all was fulfilled.
And we saw Colossians two fourteen earlier that said when Christ was nailed to the cross,
that's when that handwriting of ordinances was no longer was nailed to the cross or no
longer under it.
It's no longer the system by which God judges the people of this earth.
The law was going to change then, but it still had not changed yet.
Which means the Chr what Christ is showing them is not a change in the law, but in how
they looked at the law.
He tells them, Don't think I'm trying to change the law.
Don't think I'm trying to destroy the law.
I came not to destroy, but to fulfill.
Everything Christ taught them could apply to the old law.
Which means what they were doing was not w which means Christ was not correcting the old
law itself, but how they looked at it.
Now this happened to the Jews.
This happened to the people who had the words.
They had the scribes who were copying the words as their life's goal.
If it could happen to them, could it happen to us?
Could we take the scripture of God and instead of looking at it for what it says,
following it for what it says, could it be that we need to step back and ask, are we
following God's word or are we following a checklist, a to-do list we make that we think
is based on God's Word?
But where we're but it's not quite from there.
That's not quite the source of it.
A checklist can be a good thing, but it can also be bad, and it is always going to be a
bad thing if it is used in religion rather than scripture.
It's always going to be bad if it's used instead of looking at God's Word.
Today we are under the New Covenant.
We are under the covenant of the New Testament.
We have a new law.
Hebrews 9 15 says, And for this cause he is the mediator of the New Testament, that by
means of death were the redemption of transgressions that were under the first testament,
that which are called might that they which are called might receive the promise of
eternal inheritance.
We have the new law now.
Christ is the mediator of the New Testament.
If they needed to be careful about how they looked at the Old Law, how much more should we
be careful in looking at Scripture and looking at the New Law, the better law that we
have?
Today.
We're going to ask some look at a line of reasoning when it comes to these this checklist
idea.
First, if we follow a checklist, then we follow something other than God's plans.
If we follow something that we have written ourselves, even if we haven't realized we've
written it, we follow something that is not God's word.
Second Timothy three, sixteen and seventeen.
All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof.
For correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect,
thoroughly furnished unto every good work.
We have this saying that all Scripture is profitable, but also connect that with
Revelation, chapter twenty two, verses eighteen and nineteen.
For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, if any
man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in
this book.
And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take
away his part out of the book of life and out of the holy city from the things which are
written in this book.
Now it needs to be kept in mind that this passage in Revelation is in Revelation.
This is about the book of Revelation itself.
But the principle applies to the whole of Scripture.
If we add to it, the curses that the Scripture shows against those who add to God's word,
they're going to come against us.
If we take away from it,
The promises God has for those who follow His Word, they will be taken away from us.
God is going to be just in how He treats that.
But now looking at this in conjunction with Second Timothy three, sixteen and seventeen,
you have the holy word of God, which is perfect for all.
But then you have the fact that if we add or take away from it, we've done something
wrong.
If we follow a checklist rather than God's word, we can be following too little.
Even if it's a part of God's word, but not all of God's word.
It's not going to work.
It's God is not going to accept it.
We read earlier Matthew 5, 17 through 19.
Verse 19 again says, Whosoever therefore shall break one of the least of these
commandments and shall teach men so, he shall be called least in the kingdom of God.
Whoever breaks the least of these commandments, there's going to be consequences for it.
Whoever doesn't pay attention to what God has said, there is going to be repercussions
because of it.
Now the Lord is not looking down and waiting to strike us for anything we'd possibly do
wrong.
We'll look more into the idea of how great our God is and how He doesn't do that later on.
But Christ was showing the fact that they the details mattered.
The fact that they followed this law mattered and they could not leave out what God was
saying.
Even if it was uncomfortable, even if it took extra time.
What God wanted them to do was what God wanted them to do.
We can't take the great commission out of Scripture.
And pretend like we're following God's way.
We can't take God's command to meet and gather as the church and worship Him and pretend
like we are following God's religion, following God's way.
If we do not do as He says the way He said it, if we're doing too little, there's no way
that God will accept it.
A checklist can be too little, but a checklist can also be too much.
Paul would write in 1 Timothy, starting in verse 1.
First Timothy verses one through five.
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter time some shall depart from the
faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, speaking lies and
hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry and
commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving
of them which believe and know the truth.
God is showing that there are these who would come and they would have lies.
They would speak lies and hypocrisy and they would forbid to marry.
They would ab command people to abstain from meats.
They were commanding people to do things that God had not commanded himself.
You can have a checklist that has too little.
You can also have a checklist that has too much.
A checklist that says, you know, God didn't say this, but we're going to command it.
There's a religion out there that
For hundreds of years has said, You can only be a priest of God if you never marry, if you
are celibate.
Well, they've never looked at God, they've apparently never looked at God's word and saw
marriage is honorable and all in the bed undefiled.
They have added to God's word.
And then that same religion wants to talk about Good Friday, wants to talk about not
eating meat, when God shows here specifically that there would be those that would come.
And would command to abstain from meats.
Now this applies to far more than any single denomination.
In fact, this applies more than just in the fact that there are there's the commands to
abstain from meats that some people have, the commands to abstain from marriage that some
give.
If we put more on the brethren than what God's word says, then we are hurting him.
If we condemn people for things that aren't really God's word but are just our culture,
Then there is going to be punishment because of that, because we follow lies and hypocrisy
as well if we do that.
We can have too little in our checklist, we can have too much, but also if we follow a
checklist instead of God's word, it can be something entirely different from what God
commands us to follow.
Romans ten one through three talks about the Jews having a zeal for God, but not according
to knowledge.
They had a zeal for the Lord.
It's not that they had a zeal for an idol, they had a zeal for God, but they didn't know
how to serve him.
The way they were to serve him was now under the new law.
Colossians 2 14, the old law was nailed to the cross.
They were still following it.
The Israelites were still following that old way when it was entirely different from what
God commanded.
Again, if we follow what we think is right, if we follow our own to-do list rather than
the Word of God, it can result in us following something entirely different from what God
desires.
And that's when we end up with religions that look like mythology.
That's when we end up with tasks that we don't know where they came from in Scripture.
God has given us a simple commands.
Simple commands.
He's commanded us to be with one another as Christians, to edify one another, and to go
out and preach the gospel to others, being benevolent to the world outside.
God's commands are simple.
He commands morality of us as well.
But when we add to it or when we entirely change it,
Even if we stick God's name on as a label on whatever we're doing, it's not going to
change it if it is not from Him.
If we follow a checklist, then we follow something other than God's plans.
Now, keep that in mind.
If we follow a checklist, then we follow something other than God's plans.
Well, it then follows if we follow something other than God's plans, we don't follow God.
So then if we're following a checklist, we have to ask, what is it we're really following?
If we are doing too much, too little, or something entirely different, what is it that is
truly our goal?
What is it that we are truly serving?
It could be that we're following what we've always heard.
Matthew fifteen, verses two and three.
Christ has the Pharisees come up to him and they ask, Why do your disciples disobey the
tradition of the elders and eat with unwashed hands?
And Christ shows them the fact that they are transgressing transgressing the law.
Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
And then go Christ is going to show that they different ways in which they undid the law.
They changed the law because they didn't want to do it, and instead added their own
interpretations, additions, or subtractions to God's word.
But keep in mind he says, they say
Look, we have the tradition of the elders.
This is what we're supposed to do when Christ says you disobey God's command by your
tradition.
If we follow what we've always heard, we can be in danger.
If we go to worship service because mom and dad said so, or because that's what religious
people do in America, instead of doing it because that's what God's word says, we might be
following a to-do list rather than what God has told us to do.
If our
purpose is not centered on him, but rather centered on what we've heard.
Even if we think it's right, it can be entirely wrong.
It's a good thing to wash your hands before you eat.
That wasn't a bad thing for them to say, but what was wrong was for them to bind it as
though it was something from God.
What man says, unless he is quoting Scripture or he is making a necessary inference from
Scripture, is never as powerful as Scripture itself.
That it is never going to be something
That we need to weigh as heavily as Scripture.
We might be following what we've always heard, but we could also be following wayward
priorities.
Matthew fifteen verses Matthew twenty three, sixteen through twenty four, rather.
Christ is also going to show another way in which the Pharisees were following wicked
ways, of following their own desires.
Starting in verse sixteen Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear
by the temple, it is nothing.
But whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.
Ye fools and blind, for weather is greater the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the
gold.
And whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing, but whosoever sweareth by the gift
of upon the altar, he is guilty.
Ye fools and blind, for weather is greater the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the
gift.
They said, We have the temple, we have the gold.
And the gold's more important.
The part that makes us rich, that's what's important.
What's more important, the altar or the sacrifice?
The sacrifice that the priests get to eat a little part of, that's the important part.
They took the part that was more valuable to them that could benefit them and said it was
more important than the part that was more tied to the Lord Himself, to His commands of
what to build, of what to make to worship Him.
Now it's the fact that they were commanded to give these offerings, to have the gold in
the temple, but they had gold that was bea beyond what God had commanded.
They had the donations that were given.
By the rich and even the poor, but they made these riches and they made these temporal
offerings more important in their religion than the temple itself.
It can be the case that there are times where we make things more important rather that
God never even said a thing about.
It can be the case that we look at the church building and think, This is the sanctuary.
When God says, go and meet
And they met in each other's houses in the New Testament.
Frankly, the auditorium, it was never called a sanctuary in Scripture.
It's just as good as any other building to go and worship.
It is simply a place where we meet.
But with that, are there times where we make the building more important than God did?
Or we go and make any other physical aspect.
We go make the bank account more important than the work of the Lord.
This congregation does not do that.
This congregation goes
and supports and make sure that it's following God's word and thank you for that.
But there are many who hold on to the mighty dollar rather than looking for what our Lord,
our deity, desires of us to do with the funds He has given us.
Because they value this world's goods more than the g work that can be done with this
world's goods.
If we follow a checklist, then we might be following what we've always heard.
We might be following
our own priorities, or we could follow what makes us look righteous.
Christ in Matthew chapter six, three different times, is going to tell the Pharisees, You
have your reward already.
Matthew six, verse two Therefore, when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet
before thee as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have
glory of men.
Verily I say unto you, they have their reward.
They took something that was a good and godly thing.
Going and spreading good goods to the poor, but they made it a tradition of making pe
having people look at them, of saying, look how righteous I am.
And then Christ told them, You have your reward already.
When those people looked at you and said, man, look at the good he's doing, they already
had their reward, and there was nothing left good for them to receive from it.
Christ is going to say this again in verses five and sixteen.
But skip over to Matthew twenty-three, twenty-five through twenty-eight.
Matthew twenty-three, twenty-five through twenty-eight.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye make clean the outside of the cup
and platter, but within are full of extortion and excess.
The Pharisees were guilty of making the outside of the cup cup look like it sparkled,
while the inside was dirty.
Imagine bringing that to a fellowship meal.
You had a dish where it was sparkling on the outside.
But before that beautiful brownie dessert was put in, there was a casserole that should
have been washed out maybe about a week ago, still around the edges.
How many people are going to enjoy eating that?
It's not going to happen.
The Pharisees were like that.
They were like a dish where it had been able to stay and stink, and then the next thing
put in it, no one's going to want that.
God certainly doesn't.
If we do what makes us look righteous rather than what is righteous, it could be that
we're just following a checklist of, okay, do I think this is going to make me look
righteous rather than, okay, what has God said is righteous.
We can follow what makes us look righteous or what makes us feel righteous.
Earlier we referenced Romans ten verses two and three.
They have a zeal for God.
They have a genuine sincerity to follow Him, but not according to
To righteousness, not according to knowledge, rather.
Verse 3, for they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish
their own righteousness, have not submitted unto the righteousness of God.
If we follow a righteousness that we've established for ourselves, if we follow a rule
book that we've made, or a rule book that is obsolete, as the Jews did, even if it's with
full sincerity, then it's still something that God cannot accept.
Even though he desires all men to be saved, he by his very nature is required to be just.
We must ensure that what we follow is his word, is his will.
Rather than following what makes us feel righteous, we must follow what makes us
righteous.
Ezekiel chapter eighteen, verses eighteen and nineteen show that a man he is going to be
counted righteous if he does what's righteous.
The one who does iniquity, he will be counted as wicked for his wickedness.
God is going to judge righteous those who do what is right, but for us to know what is
right, we need to know His word in His way.
If we follow something other than God's plans, we don't follow God.
So what is it that we follow?
It could be what I've always heard, it could be wayward priorities, it could be what makes
me look righteous or feel righteous, but a final idea.
If I follow something other than God's plan,
It might be that I'm just going through the motions.
Hose Hosea verse six of chapter six.
In describing his judgment against the Jews, God says, For I desired mercy and not
sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offering.
They were offering things to God.
They were giving him of offerings, but God says, I desired mercy and
And not sacrifice.
This word mercy is translated as kindness and goodness.
It is something that is from it is a characteristic of God Himself.
Exodus 34, 5 and 6 shows that the first personality trait shown of God is his mercy.
God desired mercy.
He desired for man to have a characteristic of him more than he did sacrifice.
And then he desired knowledge of God more than burnt offering.
When God gives us
His commandments.
God's commandments are important.
Let there be no doubt about that.
The Ecclesiastes, the ecclesiastical writer said, Fear God and keep His commandments.
He said, That is the whole of man.
But we need to remember why we follow God's commandments.
God says he desires mercy and not sacrifice.
He desires something more than just following the written commandments.
There's a motive behind it.
What's the greatest commandment?
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, all thy soul, all thy mind, all thy
strength.
And the second is like unto it, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
You can have all of the things right.
You can have every single check mark done.
But if you don't have the motive behind it, then it is nothing but a checklist.
It's not God's word.
It is not his way.
He desires mercy and not sacrifice.
His commandments, in and of themselves, are designed for us to grow closer to Him, to
become more like Him, and to grow in our love for Him.
He desires mercy, for us to have the same kind of mercy He does, not sacrifice.
He desires knowledge of God, for us to know more and more about Him, not just the burnt
sacrifice itself.
God gave those sacrifices so we would understand what it meant to give something, because
He was willing to give His Son for us.
Every single aspect of what God has done.
shows us more about who he is and why we follow him and why he is such an amazing and
great God.
But if we don't follow him so we can grow closer to him, we have to ask, what is it that
we follow?
Brethren, if we follow God's word in God's way and we aren't growing closer to him, if we
are not following him and growing in our love for him, then we're either we either need to
Step back and follow Christianity for what it was designed to do, or stop following the
lie we have fed ourselves entirely.
If we are not growing closer to God, we have missed the entire aspect of why God gave us a
law in the first place.
We cannot just follow it.
We cannot just go to church on Sundays and Wednesdays.
We need to look at God's word and say, I want to grow closer to Him, so I'm going to do
what He says, how He said it, the way He said it.
And if we do that, our Lord is merciful and gracious, and we might mess up occasionally.
There might be something we don't quite get right, but if we are striving to follow him
and we do follow his word, then he is going to say, Well done, thou good and faithful
servant.
Our Lord desires us to desire him.
That is the heart of what he desires of us.
That is the greatest commandment.
If we follow a checklist, we miss
the beauty of what he has shown us.
But if we follow his word, if we do as he says for the reasons he has given us, then we
can be sure that we one day will have a place with him in eternity, because we desired him
on this earth, and then we will truly have him in the life to come.
If we follow a checklist, we follow something other than God's plans.
If we follow something other than God's plans, we don't follow God and we've asked what is
it we could we could be following instead?
But looking at that, if we follow a checklist, we don't follow the Lord.
Therefore, we must put away the checklist and hold to the Word of God.
Otherwise we follow a lie.
Otherwise we follow something that makes us feel righteous, seems like we're doing what is
right, but is only going to end
In damnation.
We must hold to God's word for what it says.
John 14, 15, if you love me, keep my commandments.
Now, this love is important.
This love is the very basis of it all.
But remember, those commandments are the way we express our love to God.
Humans have a love language, a way that they desire for love to be shown.
Some love having gifts.
Some want that physical touch from their spouse.
There's different kinds of love languages.
What if spouses said, no, I'm going to choose your love language today?
It's not going to be what you did what you said it was.
Is that going to go well?
The Lord has shown his love language.
And his love language is has he is d how he has described himself in his word.
We can't say, Oh, I'm going to worship God the way I want to, and access expect him to
think that that is love.
Because love says, what is it that you need?
What is it you desire?
I'm going to do that.
Our Lord looks at us, and even when it might not be something we desire, he gives us what
we need.
God desires us to look at him and give him what he desires, what he wants of us.
Now there is nothing that God needs of us, but he has invested his son, Christ Himself,
into us being saved.
God wants you.
Like he needs you.
Even though he is going to exist and be perfectly fine without you, he has invested his
son's life into you.
That's how much he loves you and wants you.
Why follow a checklist when there is such a Lord wanting you with him for eternity?
The commands matter, but also the motive does.
Mark twelve, thirty and thirty one, as we described earlier, thou shalt love the Lord with
all thy heart, all thy soul.
All thy mind, all thy strength.
The Lord desires you.
He desires all of you.
And if we give him that, if we truly follow his word in his way, then he is going to
accept us.
He is going to look at us with love and happiness because we've done as he says and we can
be with him one day.
Do we follow Christ's Christianity, a one that's does as God says
For what he said, how he said it, or do we follow a checklist?
Brethren, today we we pray that we follow Christ's.
But if we do not, if there is a discrepancy in the way that we live, the opportunity is
now here to say, you know what?
The Lord has shown me how I need to live.
The Lord has given us his word, so I want to live it for how why he said to live it, or do
as he said if I've strayed from his commandments.
If you've gone from his way as a Christian, the Lord desires you to come to him.
But if you are not a Christian, if you have not went to his word yet, if you have not
submitted to his word, then grant you salvation until you are willing to accept it.
If you are in need of the forgiveness of God today, would you please come forward as we
stand and as we stand?