Theology You Can Use - The Sufficiency Of The Bible

The Sufficiency of Scripture and the Theme of This Series

All right. Well tonight we're going to continue our series our Sunday night series theology you can use roughly based on Wayne Grudem's systematic theology book. Tonight and next Sunday night should be the sufficiency of scripture.

And then the 22nd of January we're going to be having our prayer meeting that we have every quarter so that'll be the 22nd our prayer meeting. But tonight back to what does the Bible say about itself.

We've looked at four words so far in this series called theology you can use and I hate to even say it because this morning I said well theology you know to show you how it's practical. Theology is practical.

We want to try to focus on why it's practical on Sunday nights. And the first four words just in review would be. Number one canon. The canon of scripture. Which books are canonical. They're 66 total.

Which books God has revealed and inspired. Number two authority. How scriptures have authority over our lives. Number three inerrancy that scriptures are without error. Number four clarity that God has spoken.

Talk a little bit about the emergent church and how you just can't be sure anymore about anything. And if you think you know then you're arrogant. And then number five tonight newly will be sufficiency of God's Word.

Almost sounds funny. Is God's Word sufficient? Is it complete? Is it whole? Anything less would mean that it's almost sufficient. It's partly sufficient. It's halfway sufficient. What I hear lots of times as people say the Word of God is sufficient comma.

And then they utter the unutterable word when it comes to sufficiency. And that is. But scripture sufficient. But. And then they tell me why it's not. And so tonight we want to talk about scripture is sufficient.

And we'll look at Christ who is sufficient as well. And here's my goal for you is to have the same thoughts that Martin Luther did 400 and some years ago. Here's what he said. I have covenanted with my Lord that he should not send me visions or dreams or even angels.

I am content with this gift of the scriptures which teaches and supplies all that is necessary both for this life and that which is to come. That is an amazing statement. I don't want anything else. I am content with the scriptures this gift of the scriptures.

And I think there's two kinds of people when it comes to the Bible and its sufficiency. Those that are satisfied with the Bible and those that want something more. And I even almost hate to preach the sermon tonight because I know I'm preaching to a group who are satisfied with the scriptures satisfied with the Spirit of God.

But we'll talk about it anyway tonight. The sufficiency of scripture. Good definition. Westminster Confession of Faith. By the way when I say the Westminster Confession of Faith what is it? Why would I quote it?

Anyone? Why would I quote the Westminster Confession of Faith? Anybody remember the year that it was put together? The century? Yeah. Would you say Nate? I'm thinking 1647. But I could be wrong. But 1600s is good enough.

Right. And they were some divines who got together. What do you mean divines? We don't call people like that anymore. And I'm kind of sad because I'd like to be called divine but they were learning theologians and they were called divines.

Steve's just bowing his head. I'd like to use that as my title that we you know on a daily basis use around here I always go back to when Scott Farah I first became the pastor and I was voted in here at the church in April of 1997 there were 42 voting ballots and I was voted in 40 affirmative zero against and two abstentions in 1997 and right after that Scott and I got to know each other a little bit.

I think we're standing over here. That was a time when the youth room was I think painted sky blue pink or psychedelic purple or some kind of neon signs in there. It was kind of wild around here. That's not related to Scott.

But what is related to Scott. Scott said what do you want me to call you. You know it's good if we could have a friendship and get to know each other. What would you like to me to address you as. And I said we you know I don't really prefer Reverend because there's nothing in me to revere.

To revere is to we only should revere God and his word. And I said you know priest obviously doesn't work. I think just pastor. You can call me Mike. I prefer that the kids call me Pastor Abendroth because they just need to learn that.

But just call me anything but High Holy Father. And so guess what Scott calls me behind the scenes on many occasions High Holy Father. We can go down a level and you can call me a divine. That's fine.

Anyway there were some godly men in the UK who got together to basically give a statement of faith. This is what we hold dear. Some people put it above scripture. Some people put it at the same level of scripture.

But it's just a good description of scripture because it's hard to say you know to a group we just believe all the Bible so they summarize it and it's just excellent. They are Presbyterian. But most other things are very good.

And this is how the Westminster Confession of Faith this document that's really withstood the test of time. This is how it defines the sufficiency of scripture. Quote. The whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for his own glory man's salvation.

By the way did you get that order. God's glory first and man's salvation secondly. Sometimes we flip it around. Remember when we evangelize we're after the glory of God first and man's salvation secondarily.

Proper order here. The glory of God man's salvation faith and life is a spread it either expressly set down in scripture see the right there blatantly or by good and necessary consequence you can make deductions and maybe deduce from scripture unto which nothing at any time is to be added whether by new revelations of the spirit or traditions of men.

Section 1 part 6. Sufficiency of scripture is our supreme authority and it contains every truth that we need for spiritual life and for salvation. True. The sufficiency of God's Word. Let me ask you a question and please give me answers out loud.

Why would the sufficiency of scripture be important. Anyone. What's the big deal. Why preach on it. I think it's gonna take me this week and next to preach on. Why is the sufficiency of scripture that everything we need for life and godliness is in this book.

Competing Authorities: Experience, Feelings, Tradition, and Desires

Yes Brian. Well if it wasn't sufficient we'd have to add to it. Right. It would be people adding to it all the time. The smarter we got our. Okay good Lewis. If it isn't sufficient what else are you going to use.

Book of Mormon wisdom psychology. Other things. Good mom. Does Peter know an answer. Is he just gonna give it a shot. Let's just give it a shot. We're all family here Peter. Because it's God's Word. I think if God wants to communicate.

Excellent answer. By the way I think if God wants to communicate to us he could communicate to us clearly emphatically and sufficiently. Whoops. Forgot that part meant to tell you but didn't get there.

Good. Anyone else. Good job Peter. If it's not sufficient it's not the sole authority. And something else could come up to the same level. Are in fact a trumpet at times. Good. Well let me ask you this question.

Secondly what competes with the Word of God in lives of people. What's. What's something else that people kind of let creep in. Here's the Bible. Insufficient is authoritative. And what kind of creeps in to compete against that sole authority of the Bible.

Psychology. Okay. Good. We'll get there in just a second. What else. Bill my own experience. This happened to me. Therefore it must be true. Because how could I then say no. It didn't happen to you when I wasn't there didn't experience it.

So our own experiences could creep in. Excellent. Good. Pretty. I'm sorry the world standard and it always changes. You know in the world doesn't talk about holiness it talks about crimes. Now it's not sin against God.

It's it's it's criminal. Good. What else God spoke to me. Maybe that could be more in the it happened to me kind of thing. But we could use that as well. God spoke to me personally. Good. Steve I thought we had only one song that was allowed from the pulpit today with Mr. Sandman.

How did that get in there this morning. I'll never know. Feelings. Yes are we have subjective feelings. Somehow are competing against the sufficiency of scripture. Anyone else. I have a couple more listening to the words of men are the the machinations of someone claiming to be an authority.

Okay. Good. Lewis tradition. That was one that I was after tradition. Fiddler on the roof. A tradition. Good. Flow our own desires. By the way that's one of the biggest problems we have in education today.

And that is they have the wrong view of man anthropologically they are not thinking properly. If you have the paradigm that says people are good and we know that the scripture says that people are not born good then there's going to be a huge change in matter fact.

Even the regenerate heart falls under Hebrews chapter 7 Jeremiah 17 9 where the heart is desperately wicked deceitful above all else who can know it. And the next verse is very important matter fact. Let's just go there.

Let's go to Jeremiah chapter 17. Jeremiah 17 just to see these words. We quote them all the time. One of the things I don't like is to read Jeremiah 17 9 without reading the rest. And we have a little phrase in the slogan.

At this church we have many slogans. One slogan is the point of the passage is the point of the sermon. In the point of the sermon is the point of the passage. But hermeneutically Bible interpretation wise.

If you don't understand the verse there's two things that you should do. Well there two words that you should do their one thing and they are all together. Now keep reading. For that is like saying sick into a mad dog.

I love that we want to keep reading. By the way if anybody ever ask you a Bible question open the Bible and begin to read the passage and it will probably give you a lot of the answers. Versus standing there and say well I'm not really sure.

The text just tells us the heart Jeremiah said is more deceitful than all else. And here's Jeremiah the prophet ordained by God. When did God call the prophet Jeremiah. By the way after he finished his ordination classes and exams.

Right. No back in the womb. And even then God knew I'm going to give you to this people. And they are going to turn their back on you. And here's your ministry. Worse than Judson worse than Peyton worse than any these others.

You just go. Here's your missionary movement. You're gonna keep preaching. And if you don't I'm gonna judge you Jeremiah. But no one's going to listen to you anymore. You're not gonna have really a ministry.

If you're thinking about numbers but if you're thinking about my glory you've got a ministry. By the way what great encouragement for us when we're behind the scenes saying nobody ever notices. And does do I make a difference.

And I'm not sure anybody even responds. We preach. We change diapers. We minister to the glory of God and let him take up the rest. My old my old pastor used to say all the time it is burnt into the fabric of my mind.

You take care of the depth of your ministry. God will take care of the breadth. It's up to him. The size of the ministry is up to him. So we just preach for his glory. Like the message this morning. I'm surprised anybody's come back.

You know that's a good way to kill a church is just get up and say Jesus is Lord. Let's go and up. Today was the first day I really look at someone in the congregation and almost with utter disgust they were looking at me like I can't believe you're preaching what you're preaching now.

Maybe it was a stomach problem or they needed Tums or something. I don't know but it was one of those things like you disgust me. I've been preaching for 12 years. That's the first time I've got that kind of look for an entire 55-minute sermon.

Well where am I back to Jeremiah. If you don't know what to do when you're talking just go right back to Jeremiah right to the text. The whole passage here in chapter 17 is talking about this deceitful heart.

And we're going to have to look at some outside source for our help. For instance the sin of Judah. Let's go back to verse 1 is written down with an iron stylus with a diamond point. It is engraved upon the tablet of their heart.

This isn't just kind of a barely kind of touching the surface. This is in the warp and the woof. This is deep down. This is down in the grain of something. This is tattooed with permanency. What's tattooed down there.

Well some of their false idolatry. In verse 2. If you look at verse 5 thus says Yahweh curse. It is the man who trusts in mankind and makes flesh his strength and whose heart turns away from the Lord.

He'll be like a bush in the desert and will not see when prosperity comes but will live in stony waste in the wilderness a land of salt without inhabitant. Verse 7 blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh whose trust is in the Lord.

He will be like a tree planted by the water. This is almost like Psalm 1 about the blessed man who delights in the law of the Lord that extends its root by a stream. And boy if you were in the Middle East you'd realize how important this is and will not fear when the heat comes but it leaves will be green.

It will not be anxious in the year of drought nor cease to yield fruit. The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick. Who can understand it. The answer to man's problem and solution is not found in man.

Where is it found. Verse 10. I the Lord search the heart. He understands. I test the mind to give to each man according to his ways according to the results of his deeds. So we have to be very careful when it comes to the word.

Do we think it's efficient or do we go elsewhere. Here's my list of what competes with the Word of God. Traditions of constitutions. Some churches have a constitution and that trumps the Bible. I've been in some.

I've been down to Calvary Church in West Hartford with Ted Bigelow even a year ago and I would see this whole congregational meeting with the senior pastor was sitting right there and they would stand up one at a time slandering him quoting Robert's rules of order so that he might they might do it.

Who cares about scripture. Who cares about not making accusations against elders without witnesses. Who cares about gossip and slander. And how the scripture condemns that we have to know Robert's rules of order.

That only happened to me a little bit here. I remember people coming up to me. I mean not not those who were biblical but they would say to me you don't. You don't know Robert's rules of order around here.

We'd like to buy you a copy and I said you know I'm sorry I don't know Robert's rules of order. I don't I haven't read it. I don't know about it. I know that was devised by a pastor supposedly in Massachusetts so you could figure out how to run a business meeting.

But I know the Bible but I don't know Robert's rules of order. Am I still allowed to be the pastor. Robert's rules of order. I object all these things and they elevate that up to the scripture mysticism that experiences are authoritative and equal with scripture.

When second Peter one says we have the more sure word cult teachings where they have the cult leader who says things. And then everybody buys with that cult leader says. And then lastly I have a psychology where somehow pastors have to have counseling degrees so that they can be able to minister to the people.

And I think frankly some pastors are intimidated because if they don't have a counseling degree how are they able to minister to people. And the litany goes refer them to a professional. We'll get that to that later.

Scripture Is Sufficient for Salvation, Teaching, Correction, and Training

How about let's turn to second Timothy chapter 3. The topic tonight again is sufficiency of scripture. You all know this passage. But let's just work through it again because I want to show you that the word is not just ink on paper.

Second Timothy chapter 3. Everything that we need is found in this book. God has not left a stranded someplace. God has not allowed us to get on a lifeboat without all the necessary bits of information and all the right things.

Second Timothy chapter 3. And we know this is a pastoral epistle written to Timothy and it's the pastor's tool bag. But it certainly helps us as well if you take a look at verse 15 this is the kind of word that saves.

And from childhood you have known the sacred writings which were able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is God breathed profitable for teaching.

What's teaching. Here's the standard of life. This is what God says he requires. Here's how we articulate holiness and righteousness. Number two reproof. Here's how we have failed to live up to that. The scriptures can say you should be acting this way.

But you're not acting that and acting that way. And so since you failed to live up to that let me show you your sin. That's what scriptures do. They show us the standard. They show us our sin. Number three for correction.

It literally means to stand up straight again. Here's what I desire. Here's how you fall short. Let me pick you up dust you off stand you up and point you in the right direction kind of terminology for correction.

And number four training in righteousness. Teaching us as a way of life how to live righteously. Verse 17 that the man of God may be adequate adequate means capable fitted complete able to meet all needs equipped for every good work.

So basically Paul says to Timothy if you're a pastor and they parachute you into West Boylston in 1997 and you have the scriptures and you have the Spirit of God. You can what. Minister. Only if you know Robert's rules of order.

You can minister only if you have a psychology degree because after all we have repressed memories and everything else. You can only minister if you have the tradition of the Baptist General Conference behind you or whatever other kind of thing.

No you are sufficient by the way I love this because sometimes I just call myself a dope. Are you familiar with that word. That slang dope. Sometimes in our family it's translated as dopest. I'll say that was a dopest thing of me to do.

And I am glad to know that in 2000 1997 in 3097 that if a man of God has been saved by God has the word and the spirit. Is it enough to minister. What about those poor people in India. What about Zimbabwe.

What about other places where to. What do we do. Here's the word here's the spirit. You give it into a minister's hand. And can he turn that region upside down for Christ. The answer is absolutely. And if you look back at that word equipped for every good work this means to equip for a task.

If you're going to equip someone to play hockey there's quite a few things you need for that person. What were some of the things you need if you're going to equip a hockey player so they wouldn't get hurt and they could play.

I can think a lot of things shoulder pads. For me it was funny because when I first learned how to play hockey I bought one thing skates and so I would go out and play and then I would get hurt and then I would buy the next piece of equipment to cover my hurt and so I fell down on my elbow and I still have a bone chip in my elbow to this day because I fell down on the ice.

And so the very next thing I did after I bought my hockey skates is I bought elbow pad and so then you're going a while longer and then you fall down right on your shins and then you buy the shin guards.

One time a hockey puck just before Sunday night service it hit my shin right here and the thing grew out there. I thought I was kind of it was a Pinocchio was coming out of my shin or something. It was so big.

And so what I do. Went and bought shin guards. Then I fell down on my hip a while later and I thought I need to go to Sam's. I played against Sam's and buy some shin guards and it just kept going and going.

Oh duh. Finally I recognize that I should buy a helmet before I fall down on my head and have a craniotomy. When God so equips the scriptures he doesn't prepare the hockey player and says you know what.

I forgot the helmet. And really it was it was used of men who are going on a ship. Jonah getting on the ship to Tarshish and then forgetting everything they needed. They forgot food. They forgot salt rind.

They forgot oranges and all these other things. But when God rigs out a ship he does it perfectly. Listen to Jay Adams before ship was to sail. All contingencies on the journey would be considered and supplies to meet each would be stowed on board i .e. extra canvas from which to make new sails.

Should the original sails be damaged the ship would be thoroughly rigged out. Mere men of course cannot foresee every possibility and so their best plans often end in shipwreck. But God the omniscient one who knows the end from the beginning controls every contingency of history.

When therefore he rigged out his men of God for their work he neglected nothing. In the pages of scripture are stowed every principle that might ever need that they might ever need to perform their tasks in that good everything we need is here.

It's not. The hope is in the pastor hope he's got enough education. Kinda like this morning I alluded to my friend he doesn't have enough experience. Pastor doesn't have enough experience. Pastor doesn't have enough education.

Pastor doesn't have this or that. By the way several have asked me two weeks ago I said last Sunday I said there's a church looking for somebody who's innovative. Is that the same man that I talked about today as last week talking about innovation.

The answer was yes. They want somebody innovative. When we want somebody faithful. But here we have the scriptures are entirely adequate for our textbook our book for living. I can say this way Psalm 19 7 the law of the Lord is perfect.

All-sided lacks nothing. Scriptures are sufficient. Why don't we turn to Colossians. Because I'm gonna work from Jesus is sufficient to scriptures are sufficient. But I don't think we're gonna get to the scripture part before we are gonna get to the sufficiency of Jesus Christ.

The Sufficiency of Christ in Colossians

The book of Colossians is one of my favorite books. I hope I live long enough to preach that here from this pulpit because it is a great book. But the book of Colossians talks about the all-sufficient Savior.

If you're the kind that writes notes on the first page of the book of the Bible for instance when it says the book of Colossians I like to kind of write the theme in that extra space up there that it gives me.

And so if you want the theme for the book of Colossians you need to write these words that Jesus is sufficient. Christ is sufficient. Is Jesus all you need. The answer is yes. He is. Christ is the sufficient one.

And I think then it'll be easy for us to get the sufficiency of his word after we realize that Jesus himself is sufficient. The book of Colossians all kinds of competition out there. But God is sufficient.

Jesus is all you need. Now as we're turning to the book of Colossians let me tell you some of the titles of his sufficiency. You don't have to catch up with me because I'm gonna go quickly but let me just read these.

114 the Son of God, 1 -4 the object of the Christian faith, 114 Redeemer, 115 image of God, 115 Lord of creation, 118 head of the church 120 the reconciler of the universe 29 the fullness of the Godhead 210 supreme authority over all, 23 the essence of the mystery of God, 23 the one in whom all treasures of wisdom and knowledge lie hidden 28 the standard of which all religious teaching is to be measured.

215 the conqueror of evil. In chapter 3 verse 1 he's enthroned at the right hand of God. This God and this God alone is able to sanctify and is sufficient for everything we need pertaining to life sanctification glorification eternal life.

Let's pick it up right. In chapter 1 verse 15 I'm gonna be talking about how Jesus is sufficient. He's the great Savior. By the way for those of you that like hymns we think this was an early Christian hymn.

Verses 15 16, 17, 18. If it was a hymn it's a great hymn. Colossians 115. And he is the image of the invisible God the firstborn of all creation the preeminent one. For by him all things were created.

We're talking about Jesus Christ both in the heavens and on earth visible and invisible whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities all things have been created by him and all things have been created.

What. For him. It's all for him. He is before all things. Verse 17. And in him Jesus all things hold together. He's also the head of the body the church. He's the beginning the firstborn the preeminent one from the dead.

Out of all those who were raised from the dead Jesus is the best so that he himself emphatically might come to have the first place in everything. For it was the father's good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in him and through him to reconcile all things to himself having made peace through the blood of his cross through him I say whether things on earth or things in heaven.

So Paul is extolling the praises of God extolling the praises of Christ Jesus that he's the best. He's exalted he's magnified. And he's trying to tell the people you don't need anyone else. Jesus is all you need.

There's always a problem. And here's the problem. Verse 1 of chapter 2. For I want you to know how great a struggle I have on your behalf. And for those who are allowed to see you. And for those all those who have not personally seen my face that their hearts may be encouraged having been knit together in love and attaining to all the wealth that comes from the full assurance of understanding resulting in a true knowledge of God's mystery that is Christ himself.

I want you to know Jesus like you should know him. There's competition in there these people who are trying to say other things about Jesus. And you need this. And you need that. I'm telling you Jesus is everything.

Verse 3. He just lathers it on he layers it on. In whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this so that no one will delude you with persuasive argument. And there were people out there.

For even though I'm absent in the body nevertheless I am with you in spirit rejoicing to see your good discipline and the stability of your faith in Christ. Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord so walk in him having been firmly rooted and now being built up in him and establishing your faith just as you were instructed and overflowing with gratitude.

Then he stops and he starts talking about the people that are competing with the supremacy of Christ Jesus. And I'm gonna call these wolves for tonight this is gonna be the outline. Wolf 1 wolf 2 wolf 3 wolf 4 wolf 5.

And I don't know how many we'll get to. But it's not gonna be too many wolves tonight. Just a few wolves. Jesus is sufficient. Jesus is all you need. These other people are coming around to tell you you need this.

And you need this higher knowledge. And you need all these other things. Paul said here's Jesus. Look to him. And by the way I'm gonna tell you now who's competing with Jesus. And we're gonna call those wolves wolf number one.

Philosophy. These are wolves that attack Christ's sufficiency. And the word of course since Jesus is the word the first wolf that attacks Christ's sufficiency is philosophy. Colossians 2 8. See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception.

See to it. Be on your guard. Watch out. Better be careful. They're gonna try to take you captive. Back in those days when they take people captive there'd be kidnappers. There'd be men stealers. These people are gonna try to steal your mind.

They're gonna try to get you according to the tradition of men according to the elementary principles of the world rather than according to Christ. There's some kinda chicanery going on. There's some kind of thievery some kind of robbery.

And they're gonna try to rob your mind. It's kinda like invasion of the body. Snatchers. Remember that old show. You're gonna steal your brain. Brain stealers. Some of you are getting kinda tired. So when I say things like that now you're paying attention.

False teachers stealing people. That's how Paul is kinda depicting them. He says I want you to be careful. They're gonna try to steal your mind by teaching things about philosophy and entry tradition.

It's empty deception. Is what it is now. Literally philosophy means love of wisdom. Is there anything wrong with wisdom. By the way should you love wisdom. How many people love wisdom. Should you get wisdom.

Seek wisdom acquire wisdom. That sounds like the Proverbs. Is this the wisdom. Do you think Paul's talking about is a wolf is a men's dealer. No good way to think of this kind of philosophical wisdom is the kind of of worldview that's against the scriptures something that's it's certainly not the wisdom of God in the sacred oracles.

This is a these are theories about God and how the world should be run in the meaning of life that are contrary to scripture. Paul says you've got to be careful. This is worthless. Its empty. You think it's higher knowledge.

You think you've got the inside scoop kind of this Gnostic. I know. And you don't. But you have to say that is not profound. That is not insight. That is wrong. And they're trying to capture my mind. By the way did you know that Christianity is a religion of the mind.

It's all about thinking. Yes it's more than thinking. But it includes thinking. We're to love wisdom. God's not against wisdom. But he's against the wrong kind of wisdom. True or false. Yeah the kind of wisdom that says yeah.

We say Jesus is sufficient. We give him lip service. But he's really not. We need these other things. We need some kind of philosophy. We need some kind of literally here in the text ABCs of things. And then he does something weird.

If you're gonna try to teach someone that you don't need philosophy you don't need tradition. You don't need any these kinda things. That are wolves. How would you teach somebody that. What does Paul do.

I probably go into the heirs of Sigmund Freud and all kinds of other things. What does he do. He justifies his warning by talking about who Jesus is. Do you see that. Look at verse 9. He just blast over that wolf of philosophy by saying let me just show you who Jesus is.

Let me show you the real deal here. And you don't have to worry about all these other heretical things. You want the plumb line. Here's the plumb line for all doctrine. Verse 9 of chapter 2. For in him all the fullness of deity dwells in bodily form.

You don't think you're full of the right kind of knowledge. And do you have this philosophy. You think somebody you know. You think they're the haves and the have-nots. And you need more. Well if you've got Jesus you've got it all.

And in him you have been made complete. And he's the head over all rule and authority. And in him you are also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands spiritual in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ having been buried with him in baptism when we get saved we're placed in the body of Christ in which you are also raised up with him through faith in the working of God who raised him from the dead.

The very best way to show the sufficiency of God is to talk about who he is. And now what he's done. What has Jesus done by the way. Can you get sins off your back by philosophy. Can you get sins off your back by psychology.

Steve do you mind telling your quick story about what happened when you were not saved. And how you went. Yeah.

Just tell everyone to this day some things never change.

Well there's one thing that you can try to assuage your conscience with naps and with movies. That's what I'd like to do if I was having a hard time in life. If I just go see a movie for two hours I forget about myself.

I take a nap. I don't have to deal with it you can use alcohol and drugs and other things. Paul's trying to say Jesus is so great. There's gonna be competition. They're the wolves of philosophy and tradition.

But I'll just try to correct that. And let me show you who Christ is. Here's Jesus's person. And now here's his work. If Jesus can forgive your sins I think he's probably got the whole package. If he can do the greatest thing then can he do the smaller thing.