The Ultimate Anti-Depressant

Well thank you for the warm welcome this morning. I want to tell you that as you are here at this building, an outsider viewing your worship together, this is a very respectable and dignified facility.

It's a very pleasant place that the Lord has given to you. In that sense the boundary lines have fallen for you in pleasant places. But I'll also tell you this, that the body of Christ is not made up of stones or planks, but it's living stones.

And most importantly you are a lovely bride of Christ. The Lord has gifted you and he's graced you and he has provided a body here that has strengths that I believe can fetch much glory for him. So you should be encouraged for what the Lord has done.

Don't despise the day of small things. But let's go now to the Word of God. Please turn with me to John chapter 3 and the focus of our attention will be a very familiar verse, John 3 and verse 16. Just consider what it says there.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but shall have everlasting life. Let's pray together. My father we do thank you for the Lord Jesus.

We praise you for the hope that we have in him and we ask that he would be here, that he would be walking among us. He said if two or three gather he's in our midst and we ask that we would sense his robe brushing against us.

We prayed in Jesus name, Amen. Now there's a deacon who is going to be ordained and the text that we use will be fuel for that new labor of this brother for it is the love of God that constrains us in Christian service.

And also we think of how, oh in 2024 there are many issues taking place culturally and one of them is an epidemic of depression and the love of God sustains us in all things. So as we speak about God so loving the world it is multifaceted in its usefulness to us.

Just consider how the goal of salvation in Christ Jesus alone imparts the eternal life that every soul needs to avert not just a temporary depression but rather an eternal depression in outer darkness in hell.

Think of the bleakness of that. You see it's only justification by faith and regeneration by God's Spirit that can bring true joy and true enduring peace and any self-help treatment short of this spiritual new birth is tragically and fatally nearsighted.

So what I want to do here is I want to consider how the biblical gospel is really the ultimate encouragement to a new deacon or the ultimate encouragement spurring on not just a new deacon but even someone here.

I don't know what's going on in Cartersville Georgia but there may be somebody in these red pews who is being strangled by a dark suffocating depression. There's a word here for all of us in fact for all of us and I mean that don't don't think to yourself Oh John 3 16.

I've heard that one before I got that maybe it's relevant for somebody sitting on the other side of the room. No no no no there is the the red dot of the aim of the gun of the word of God directed right at your heart brother and at your heart sister because this gospel is not simply for the lost sinner it's also for the sin tossed Saint.

And what you've what you're hearing now if it's your the first time you've heard of the 10 ,000th and first time you've heard it it is so relevant so relevant to me as well. We all need the gospel preached to us and we need to feed on that gospel.

The Gospel Saves for Eternity

So consider with me how the gospel is the ultimate encouragement in five ways five main headings. And the first is this think of how the gospel saves for eternity. The gospel saves for eternity. Around the middle of the 19th century there's a man named Morris Ritz.

He painted a masterpiece. It's entitled checkmate. It's a it's a gripping scene of a chess board and on one side of the chess board is a young man and there's a tear on his cheek and a look of horror in his eyes because on the other side of the chess board is the devil and the devil has a predatory look of triumph because on the chessboard of life this young man has sold his soul to Satan by bartering with sin.

And basically what the devil is saying to the young man who's doomed. Checkmate. You're lost and you're damned. Well there's a story of this painting being on the wall of a museum and a handful of men walked by and stared at this painting and after five minutes four walked away but one man stayed staring because you see he was a chess master.

And as you looked at the configuration of the pieces on the board after 15 and then 30 and then 40 minutes finally he shouted out wait a minute wait a minute. It's not checkmate he said. There is a move.

There is a move. It's not checkmate. And so what we see here in this passage is that the truth is that all of us have sold our souls to Satan and all of us sit tragically in these red pews checkmated by our sinful treachery against God.

I recently met a 26 year old Marine who'd gone off to Afghanistan and he sinned in hideous ways so that as he was coming back to the US to a wife and to two young children he realized that the shoe was gonna drop and the consequences of his sin was gonna fall.

He was checkmated. But then somebody gave him the gospel and he realized that there was a move. He wasn't doomed in life. He could flee to the Lord Jesus Christ who could save him from his sins not only for eternity but even for this life to come.

And as he came and was laying our carpet and he turned on his phone and there were Christian hymns. My wife asked him. Well tell me Nate tell me about yourself. He told the tale of how the Lord Jesus saved him from his desperate situation.

Nate realized that there was a move he could go to Christ who could rescue and save and snatch him from his death row bench on which he sat. You see the checkmated Marine Nate and any criminal hell-deserving sinner and I and you here you can go to the cross of Christ for us this morning.

There's a move. In fact you can go to him right now. In fact let's go to him. Just just come with me now to an ugly skull-shaped hill outside of Jerusalem. It's back in 30 AD. And and there is the Lord Jesus.

There he is hanging naked. He's nailed to the cross. And the Bible records in Matthew 27 that he made a loud cry during the ninth hour that said llama suboxonee which means my god my god. Why hast thou forsaken me.

Let me ask you what what is going on here. Well I'll tell you what's going on. The Lord Jesus is is taking the electric chair of eternal punishment in the place of death row sinners. You see Jesus he's been banished to the hellish horror of teeth gnashing outer darkness on that cross.

You see him there he's he's away from the smile and the favor of his father. He's undergoing God's wrath that sinners deserve. He's he's there on that cross. He's taken our hell. He's sacrificing himself as our substitute.

See what's going on on Golgotha. Is that all the sins of his criminal friends at that moment in time were legally imputed to the Lord Jesus. They were downloaded onto the hard drive of Christ's infinite soul.

You may sing a hymn here that goes like this. Oh to see the pain written on your face. Ever heard that hymn. Bearing the awesome weight of sin. Every bitter thought every evil deed of yours and mine crowning your blood-stained brow.

This the power of the cross. Christ became sin for us. Took the blame bore the wrath. We stand forgiven at the cross. Spurgeon never called Spurgeon in this place Spurgeon once preached regarding Christ's cry of dereliction from the cross.

And here's what Spurgeon said. He said this. This voice out of the belly of hell marks the lowest depths of the Savior's grief. The desertion was real. And Spurgeon went on. We believe this. This agony was equal to the agonies of the lost in hell.

And remember not not the equivalent for the agony of one in hell but an equivalent for all the hells of all that innumerable host of souls whose sins he bore condensed into one black cup that he drained down in a few hours.

The miseries of an eternity without end miseries caused by a God infinitely angry because of an awful rebellion. And these miseries multiplied by the millions for whom the man Jesus Christ stood as covenant.

Head. What a bitter cup that was Spurgeon says. And yet he drained that cup drained it down to its last dregs so that not a drop was left. And then having drained that bitter cup Jesus shouts in triumph there in John 19 he says.

It is finished. And bowing his head he gave up his spirit. And Spurgeon goes on. He gives he gives the ultimate encouragement his own previously checkmated soul. In fact we sense even in Spurgeon that there were times in Spurgeon who was given to depression he himself would struggle with assurance.

Did you know that I'm really a child of God suffocated with the darkness of despair at times. Listen to how he encourages his own soul by by this reality of Golgotha. He says this. For you my soul no flames of hell for Christ the pascal lamb has been roasted in that fire.

For you my soul no torments of the dam for Christ has been condemned in your place. I just drink that in Jesus. Great work on the cross for sinners accomplished what our good works never could. You see there is a move to go to Christ but it's always a futile move for us to ever rely on our own good works because they're rubbish.

Go to the Lord Jesus Christ and believe only in his finished work on the cross for sinners. You know that Texan Galatians 2 16. Listen carefully. Now listen to those who think that on the scales of life they could do more goods than bads and that'll get him to heaven.

Bad move it says in Galatians 2 16 knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ. We have believed in Christ Jesus that we might be justified by faith in Christ not by works of the law.

For by works of the law no flesh will be justified. That's the simple gospel. You may have heard it before. You may not have. But listen. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever believes in him whoever what have you done where you been whoever believes in him shall not perish.

But you'll have everlasting life. You see the gospel saves for eternity. That's our first point. Second of five points is the gospel is all you need. It's all you need. Back in December of 2016 I was at the bedside of a dear brother in the church in Holland named Glenn and Glenn was dying of cancer.

In fact he was almost skeletal as he was going through chemo and the cancer had begun to eat him away. At the time that I was visiting him he was told he probably had a couple of weeks to live like the church would have night vigils maybe four-hour shifts.

We'd be there all night with Glenn. Robin didn't want him to die alone. So I I'd be there at night and sometimes in the dark Glenn would get all discouraged and afraid. His sins would rise up as a roaring dragon ever experienced nighttime dragons.

What Glenn did there in that front room of that farmhouse looking out the window in December with the bleak weather and the snow and the craggy branches on the trees. It was so dark for him. And he would just say there are.

There are times when my sins come out at night and I fear I've got a face God. And then I'm doomed to hell. But then he pulled out of his pajamas as he laid in bed there this this crumpled up piece of paper.

And he said this is all I have. And it was Romans 10 9. And it said this if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead you'll be saved. And he said that that's all I got Pastor Mark.

And and I did the best I could to encourage him to Glenn cling to the gospel promise as a drowning man clings to a life preserver in a stormy sea. Be encouraged Glenn. Christ will hold you fast. But then a few days later I was there in a Saturday morning.

You know Glenn would at night he'd. He'd breathe in and breathe it out and breathe in and breathe out. And you'd look is he gone. They breathe in again breathe out. But that Saturday morning he breathed out.

He never breathed it again. He's gone. Glenn's cancer storm ended and he was washed up on the shore of another world. I haven't seen him since but I'm thinking that that Saturday morning Glenn was greeted by angels who escorted him to the presence of the judge of all the earth.

And there Glenn stood. And there the devil might have appeared accusing Glenn of all of his recorded crimes of thought and word and deed. And I can almost hear the devil cackling when Glenn arrived. Surely this filthy sinner is mine.

He sold his soul to me. He has sinned away any right to be yours. He's guilty of high crimes against your law. He's a criminal deserving forever punishment in hell. Checkmate. Can you hear the one who accuses the brethren day and night at Glenn's side there.

And that's what I'm thinking that Glenn opened up his hand and uncrumpled his scrap of paper and he boldly read it out loud confessing Jesus as his Lord and as his Savior who died on the cross and rose for him.

It was just like the hymn that Billy Graham had penned and Glenn and I had sung just a few nights before just as I am without one plea. This is all I got that the Lord Jesus died for me. And and I'm thinking then that that the Lord Jesus in that judgment scene strode forward and showed his wounded hands and feet and declared that he had already taken Glenn's sentence.

He'd already hung in Glenn's place. He was already strapped in Glenn's electric chair while on the cross. He already took the full voltage of his father's wrath for Glenn's sins and paid in full the infinite wrath of God that Glenn deserved to pay in hell.

And I'm thinking after the Lord Jesus stood and said is this not a burning stick snatched from the fire. I'm thinking that Glenn got a change of clothing and that the filthy rags of Glenn's sinful performance were exchanged for the radiant white linen of Christ's perfect obedience.

And I'm thinking that dressed like that. Then Glenn was escorted past and annoyed Satan past the stairway leading to hell and into the most excellent of banquet halls reserved for the celebrating of the homecoming of Jesus.

Blood-bought friends you say where do you get that. Well I think that's really what's what's penned there in Zechariah chapter 3 where we see the homecoming of Christ's Saints. It says there. Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord and Satan standing at his right hand to oppose him.

And the Lord said to Satan the Lord rebuke you. Satan the Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you. Is this not a brand plucked from the fire. Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments and was standing before the angel.

And then he answered and spoke to those who stood before him saying take away the filthy garments from him. And to him he said see I have removed your iniquity from you and I will clothe you in rich robes.

And then I said let them put a clean turban on his head. So they put a clean turban on his head and they put the clothes on him. And the angel of the Lord stood by him. You see just like Glenn all you need is this promise.

God so loved the world he gave his only begotten son. Whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life. Is that crumpled promise yours is it in the pocket of your pajamas in the heart of your soul.

I'm just saying that's all you need. Because first heading is the gospel saves for eternity. Second heading is the gospel is all you need. Consider with me the the third heading. And that is this. The gospel provides acceptance with God.

I'm not telling you anything new like Peter says in first Peter 1. I'm stirring you up by way of reminder. The gospel provides acceptance with God. See we need to understand that this gospel encouragement isn't only for the dying like Glenn it's also for the living like y 'all.

I was in the home of Zach and Elizabeth. Three little children they got. And and Hannah you got little children as well. And there are certain mothers here. It's it's it's for those who are living in every conceivable circumstance.

It's it's for women who who desperately want to be super moms but find they just can't measure up. Anybody relate to that. In her book Christ in the chaos how the gospel changes motherhood Kim Crandall tells of her spiritual odyssey as a mom.

Here's how it went. She got pregnant and was immediately deluged by her Christian women friends and mentors with books and pamphlets telling her how much she was to eat precisely how to exercise exactly how much weight to gain how to train for labor and breastfeed and manage diapers.

And here's what Kim wrote. I was going to be a all-natural homeschooling dress wearing bread-baking whole foods eating mother. Then you know what happened. The babies came and they came and they came.

And she says that was it. I couldn't be the kind of mother I wanted to be the kind of woman I honestly regarded as more godly than others. So I labeled myself a failure and spent the next several years in a terrible depression.

Yes next several years she writes. And she tells how it all came to a head. One evening as she sat in the dark rocking in a chair reflecting how miserably she had fallen short that day having impatiently scolded her son and cursed aloud within earshot of her daughter and neglected the needs of her husband.

She sat there rocking convicted in her guilt cell. See her motherhood odyssey had led her to despair of herself. She was feeling like she'd fallen so far short. She couldn't do this anymore. She couldn't.

She couldn't be the God it all together super mom. God deserved her to be. And she thought that God could never love her but instead that God would just kick her away in disgust. You see it was time for Kim to run afresh to the cross and be reminded of the only way to find acceptance with God.

See. Kim needed what we all need in these red pews here. She needed a shot of the adrenaline of the truth of the gospel. And that's what we're getting here. Because in mommy meltdown moments Christian women don't need fundamentally to be reminded of the what would Jesus do behavior list but instead the what did Jesus already do gospel bomb.

And that's what we're slapping on here. See. Can put it this way. Jesus isn't only my example. Jesus is my replacement. He did what I couldn't do. Everything I haven't done. He did it sinlessly and perfectly because think of it.

Jesus never had a moral meltdown. He never lashed out in profanity against his disciples or enemies. Even even when the heads were wagging at him as he was hanging on the cross. The Lord Jesus said forgive them.

They know not what the they do. See. Jesus wore Kim's humiliating dunce cap on the cross so that in her rocking chair she might wear his impressive crown of righteousness and wearing the apparel of Christ righteousness.

Kim sits accepted in the lap of her heavenly father in whose eyes Kim listen is as adored as the perfectly obedient son of whom Jesus said there in the Jordan River. This is my beloved son with whom I am well well pleased.

I'm a grandfather of 11. It's wonderful to be a grandpa. They're in the bathtub there and they get lost in the bubbles. And then you pull them out and the big beefy towel. And there they are. They come out.

What are they. They're all clean. They're all clean. And they're adorable. Aren't they David. You look on them. See. This is the way that the Heavenly Father looks on us sinners. Even those have gone back to our vomit and gone back to the pig slop in Christ Jesus.

We are all clean and we're wrapped up in the the beefy white linen righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. And he delights in us. Zechariah. Zephaniah 3 speaks of how he sings over us. This isn't just some kind of a delightful theory.

This is biblical reality. Think to think of what one woman has described like counseling Kim as she's in the rocking chair having rolled around in the vomit of her own sin. Listen to this. It's Jesus a lot delight to dress you up in garments that befit your calling as the bride of the Lords of Lord.

And when he looks at you he smiles at you with deep affection. You're clothed in a robe of righteousness. It says in Isaiah 61 10 where it says. My soul shall rejoice in the Lord for his clothed me with garments of salvation.

Yet yet this person writes and says this. But when we rock in our chairs and focus introspectively and narrowly only on our sin we're like a bride who insanely shreds her gown. And then she hides in a corner ashamed self-condemned wretched.

All she sees is her shame. But Christ thinks again looking at the righteousness of her wedding garments. Isn't she magnificent. She's gorgeous glorious noble honorable. Think in terms of of Princess Diana.

Maybe that's wrong. Maybe that's for Aspen and for Brian. But maybe younger ones like for Zach and for Elizabeth. Think of Princess Kate. Okay you think of the delight of that on her wedding day. And then imagine to be sore regarding your relationship with the Lord.

Remember this. You're not beautiful because you've been allowed to play dress-up with somebody else's bride wardrobe. He's made you mommy at a meltdown moment. Even he's made you holy spirit soul and body.

We're not playing dress-up. This is who we really are in the Lord Jesus Christ. So you think about it. Could it could it be that that we who deserve God's disgust actually get God's delight to the point where he he sings over us.

Zephaniah chapter 3. One man writes this. He says creatures made in the image of God. As such creatures we instinctively pine and ache for affirmation and praise. We all do because we're made in the image of God.

And we we want a well-done one man. Right. This is this is I know you. He says all your life you've been knocking on a door. Affirm me. You say to people love me. Tell me I'm okay. You've been working all your relationships so that somehow you can steal self-acceptance from other people.

But he says I know what it is with you. It never works. Does it. It never works. But you know in the gospel the door at which you've been knocking will open at last. Now. Finally the only pair of eyes in the universe whose opinion counts looks at you and sees you as an absolute beauty.

Finally the door on which you've been knocking all your life has been opened at last. And now the natural world ceases to have any claim on you who cares what they think if the God of heaven delights in me.

And you know what. Now criticism doesn't kill you. Because you have acceptance with God. You see that's the gospel. It brings the ultimate affirming encouragement to our knocking and trembling and insecure souls.

See this kind of perfect love drives out all fear brother and sister. Because you know what like it says in Romans 8. If God before you who can be against you. So so we've seen that the gospel the gospel saves for eternity.

The gospel is all you need. The gospel provides acceptance with God. Now just consider fourthly how the gospel is a cure-all for every spiritual ailment. Every spiritual ailment. In Greek mythology there's the the goddess panacea ever heard that word panacea.

That's the universal remedy. A little potion. That's a universal remedy. You see panacea is actually mentioned at the opening of the earliest version of the Hippocratic Oath taken by physicians and legend has it that panacea possessed a potion that was a cure-all for any physical malady.

So so whether it was a child who was fevered or a warrior who was wounded or a king who was diseased panacea would come and say pour the potion of that into that and into that. See panacea is a is a cure-all.

Well the gospel is kind of like that the gospel is a cure-all for every ailment every disease every calamity that you have pour the gospel into it. John Stott. He views the gospel in this way. He says.

Listen all progress in the Christian life depends on a recapitulation of the original terms of the gospel. That's why I'm stirring up by way of reminder what we're stirring up what we already know to be true.

Because the remedy in every situation that we're in because in the Christian life we never outgrow the need the daily and even hourly remind ourselves of the gospel every spiritual battlefield that we're facing that whether it be the spiritual battlefield of disappointment or anger or bitterness or hopelessness or temptation or fear or or selfishness or weakness every spiritual battlefield we're on requires us to deliberately revisit and remind ourselves of the gospel.

So what you what you struggling with today in that red. I don't know but I'm telling you pour the gospel into that and into that. It's the universal remedy. Late in Paul's life he was surrounded by a whole host of discouraging circumstances.

I mean think of the guy in 2nd Timothy. He was. He was imprisoned in Rome. He was about to be executed. His head was about to be cut off and it was about to fall into a basket. There were people who were abandoning the faith right and left.

But he writes to Timothy and says this in 2nd Timothy 2 .8 Timothy remember Jesus Christ seed of David risen from the dead. Remember Jesus Christ seed of David risen from the dead. Remember Jesus died on that cross and he was buried in the tomb.

Everything was dark and depressed and there was doom and gloom and no hope. But the very nature of the gospel is remember Jesus Christ seed of David risen from the dead. It was bleak that first Lord's Day morning.

But the living God turned the tables and it went from sadness to joy. It went from mourning to dancing. What situation are you in brother. Can can can the tide be turned. That's the very nature of the gospel.

It can be turned. Those guys in the upper room everything was so bleak. But when Christ appeared those eleven went and they turned the world upside down. And this isn't the last chapter. Where you are in your life right now.

I've I come and visit churches. I once came and visited a church in in Mebane North Carolina where pastor Gary Hendricks who'd passed there for 50 years died unexpectedly. And then a month later Bob Prentice died as well of COVID.

I mean this church was down for the count. But we will tell them in the lives of individuals in the lives of corporate bodies of Christ he can turn the tide. You may feel brother this is a small little tiny mustard seed of a church and it's doomed to die.

But the Lord Jesus Christ gestates it becomes as big as a tree casting shade over the suburbs of Atlanta. He is able to do it. Brother what's your circumstance. Pour the gospel into it. It's it's the remedy for everything.

I know a man who who participated in sexual perversion in his youth and is haunted with feelings of indelible moral filthiness. I know of another man who who cheated on his wife and though she forgave him he's still plagued with paralyzing guilt.

I know of another man who's who's visited visited cyberspace unclean places where he's looked at women committing adultery in his heart. I know of another man who who recklessly listen miscalculated while driving his 18 wheel truck and crushed into a motorist resulting in the manslaughter death of somebody else's precious son.

And I know of a man who due to his own folly committed serious business blunder causing the bankruptcy of his business and the collapsing of his large family's comfortable standard of living. All of these men battled with bouts of strangling dejection and depression.

And what do I say for the gospel. Into that into that into that and into that. Because on the cross Jesus took matters into his own hands. When it says having wiped out the handwriting requirements that were against us which was contrary to us he has taken it out of the way.

Having nailed it his hands nailed to the cross he's taken care of these things these these guilt things that haunt you things you've done. He's nailed them to the cross. And you know we talked about the gospel is for women but you know it's also for men.

One man who writes this I think every man carries around some sort of wound or baggage that things they've done mistakes they've made sins they've committed even if they've repented of these things. Sometimes they don't feel forgiven they don't feel like they can escape from living under that shadow.

But you know the gospel comes in and it says that what you've done in the past it doesn't define you now you are what God says you are in Christ. And understanding the rich truth of justification gives great freedom from the past.

So man sitting in this red pew here pour the gospel into. What ails you this morning. There's there's a young man I sat with him at a cafe and he's drinking down his cup of coffee and saying there's no way that somebody who is addicted to this kind of sin that I'm addicted to I keep going back to it.

How can I be a Christian at all. Well if you read Romans 7 it says Paul the Christian man writes when I would do good evil is right there with me. So I don't do the good that I would do but the evil I wouldn't do that I do all what a wretched man am I who will rescue me from this body of death.

Thanks be to God is Jesus Christ our Lord. There's no condemnation for those. Or in Christ Jesus I say to that brother he's fighting he's battling. You know up in Michigan we've got the Grand River that flows through Grand Rapids.

You got these coho salmon who come in the spring and they're heading back up to the spawning grounds and they're fighting against the current. You go to the the dam which is about an eight-foot dam and they jump and they jump and they fall.

They jump and they fall and they jump and they make it over and they get up. Those are those aren't dead sticks flowing with the current. Those coho are alive. And if you were a Christian you're fighting against the current.

Your JC Rouse says that the Christian is known not only by his inward peace but also by his inward fight. And if you are fighting you are alive in Christ. Jesus said it's the gospel the gospel. We never outgrow our need of the gospel.

It's the cure-all panacea even to our dying day. And I go back to Glenn again my friend my skeletal friend Glenn cancer bleak farm in January of 2017 he finishes uphill marathon against cancer. And and just a couple nights beforehand I read to him Malachi 4 to see he was a dairy farmer.

And Malachi 4 to it describes a sinner's final liberation and it says this. But to you who fear my name the Son of Righteousness shall rise with you with healing in his wings and you shall go out. Listen to this like calves released from a stall.

I said Glenn what does it mean. A calf released from a stall and the skeletal eyes opened up. Why. He said oh he said that's in the spring when the calf's been all bound up during the winter. But when the spring comes you open the barn doors.

They go running around the meadow like crazy. That's you Glenn here you are. You're you're all. You're all tied up here on this hospital hospice bed in your skeletal. You're in the stall but it won't be long when the door is gonna be thrown open and you're gonna run out in the meadows of the new heavens and the new earth.

And that's the way it was for for Glenn. And that's the way it is for all of us. Because the last point is that you know the gospel is the cure-all. But the gospel also is for you. That's for you brother.

I listen. I don't care if this is the first time you've heard the gospel and believed it or the 10 ,000th and first time you've heard the gospel and listen to me believe in the Lord Jesus and you shall be saved.

No old Bartimaeus mark chapter 10. Bartimaeus Jesus son of David have mercy on me. And there are voices that come to him and say shut up old man don't bother the master. You know I have resolved that this kind of my life.