What Do You Seek? — John 1

0:00 If you would turn in your Bibles to the first chapter of John's gospel, stopping at Hebrews three as you go, if that's possible. You turn them from the back, then it's possible. If it's not, then you come to John's gospel first, obviously. It's hard for me to, at times just show up and have something relevant to you. I just trust that what's relevant to me is similarly relevant to you.

0:44 And I say that because, though not on the mission field as I once was, I've tried to stay occupied with what I consider to be the Lord's work. Primarily making disciples. By that, I mean, as we were told in Matthew to go into the whole world and make disciples, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I've commanded you. So that when it says all things and observe, well, those were Christ's words. For me, it means not, you just don't teach people what to believe.

1:40 It's not enough just to teach them what's right and wrong doctrine. Can do that, and that will certainly be part of the work. But teaching people to practice those things is the larger part of the work. Convincing people into the defined points of Christ's intention for his disciples and for our local churches, local gatherings, little pockets of believers that are gonna spring up in every area you go, because when you go, you're gonna see people saved and you're gonna see people baptized and they're gonna wanna meet together and they're gonna wanna function as a member of the body of Christ in that local area. And that's hard work.

2:25 In my opinion, that's the hardest work, to teach people how to practice the things that Christ taught. And because every person who's ever been saved has been joined to a local body, every person. Nobody has not ever been saved where God didn't join that person to a local group of Christians for the purpose, for the purpose of functioning as a member of the body of Christ under the headship of the Lord Jesus himself, who has promised that wherever we do this, he would stand in our midst and be the head. And all we have to do is function under his headship. That's hard to teach people.

3:14 It's hard to teach people to believe it. It's harder to teach people how to practice it on a regular basis. Nevertheless, that's the great commission. Nothing short of that, all right? Nothing short of that.

3:31 Teaching people how to function, because when you function under Christ's headship, as you gather here in his name with him in our midst, then you are available at his movement to build somebody up, to use a gift that he's given you, to use your very presence, your words of encouragement, so that you can be part of the effort, as described in the book of Ephesus, of the self edification of the church. Everybody, every constricting ligament moving under the authority of the head. Sounds simple. It's hard to do. Trust me, it's hard to do.

4:15 But that's of course the plan and that is what most of my life, a Christian, I believe I've been exercised by to teach people that. And I didn't always get that. Didn't always seem that easy to me. But I've been doing it for a number of years now, and so sometimes I forget how hard it is. How hard it is, because people really don't wanna function under Christ's headship.

4:45 They wanna function under their own headship. They make decisions based on other issues. So, in passing, which I know we're in passing, but we're still in passing, before we get to the message. How many people know a verse out of one Corinthians 11 that they could quote without looking at it? One Corinthians chapter 11.

5:44 Okay. Anybody else? Now, verse 23? That I received from the Lord is also that which I delivered you, that the night in which Christ was betrayed, he took bread. You know that verse?

6:08 That's verse 23, by the way. You might not know it. You might not know that by heart. I mean, you probably know where it's at on the page. And this isn't a quiz, I'm just trying to make a point.

6:20 Most people who gather and want to honor the head that way include that verse as part of their thinking when it comes to what they do on Sunday. They show the Lord's death. They find a way to show the Lord's death. Very few people know verse 30, or get to verse 30. And I only say that because of what I heard this morning, and I say it lightly, but at the same time, I just present it to you in passing.

6:53 Really, don't focus on it. Really has nothing to do with the message, but it's just so hard for me to sit at the Lord's Supper and not think I need to make a comment about that. Not to take away from the truth, but to build the truth. And there have been times when I've stood up from there to here and walked and said, you know what, I'd rather talk about what we're talking about at the Lord's Supper than what I prepared. And I was tempted to do that this morning.

7:21 Really tempted. And I might find a way to slide it in anyway, because it's just, we'll just have another little added thought. But back to the verse 30 of one Corinthians 11, says what? For this cause many are sick, many are weak, and many have fallen asleep. What?

7:40 A very few times in the New Testament are you gonna have the spirit of God direct a comment toward a group of Christian to explain a possible link between something they were doing wrong and something that they were experiencing physically. Very few times. That's one of them. For this cause, many are sick, many are weak, and many have fallen asleep. And I would think any local church who wants to practice New Testament principles or gathers themselves and profess to want to and desire to honor the headship of Christ and therefore submit themselves to his leadership through the authority of his word, would get to that verse and say, wow, that's really a frightening verse.

8:31 You know why? Because we always have sick people in our midst. And we have a lot of weak people. And you have to step back and say, well, weak how? Well, there you go.

8:41 You don't know how. He doesn't take the time to explain that. No, we're only talking about the people who are weakened with age, like myself, broken bodies. No, he doesn't say that. The spirit of God doesn't just address that to people who might be frail.

8:58 For this cause, many are sick, many are weak, and many are falling asleep. And we live in an age, beloved brothers and sisters, whether you wanna acknowledge it or not, that Christianity, we're increasingly cold to the things of Jesus Christ. All right? We are increasingly cold to the things that belong to Jesus Christ and to his eternal purposes. And how do we grow cold to him?

9:24 We have our own purposes. We're on our own path and we want his blessing. And we even committed to the war. But so many times our purposes are not his purposes. And we just grow cold to his purposes.

9:42 All right? And I'm not saying that's true here. All's I know is when the meeting started, somebody stood up and said, We got a lot of people sick. And that's the very first verse I thought of. Not because it's true of you.

9:55 I would never judge you that, I don't know you. I mean, know some of the young people. They're fun to know. Not that your other people aren't fun to know, but the young people keep me sharp. Because they constantly present the challenges of being a delinquent.

10:30 But it's amazing what happens in Luke 24 when the two go back to Jerusalem. Now, catch up in the details. They were walking home. They're sorely disappointed. They had all but given up on the possibility that Jesus Christ was who He says He was, and Jesus Christ himself holds their eyes, walks next to him.

10:52 They can hear him, but they can't see him to recognize him. What a wonderful picture. How many Christians do you think are in this room who have Christ walking next to them, wherever they're walking in the wrong direction, having a hard conversation with them, and they don't have a clue who they're talking to? They don't have a clue. And I'm just limited to this room for a second, because I know how often this happened to me.

11:25 And it finally dawns and behold it, it must be the Lord speaking to me. Must be the Lord. And had they not compelled him to stay? Because you know, he pretended to keep going. And that's the word, pretend.

11:39 I'm sorry. There's no way around. He pretended like he was gonna walk by their house. And they're at the little gate that has their name on it. This is where we live.

11:47 And now they have the choice to make. The fire in their heart, as their testimony was, Did not our heart burn within us when he spoke to us along the way? Yeah, that's the kind of Bible study you want where your heart's on fire. Right? And I don't mean heartburn.

12:02 I mean, heart's on fire because you hear Jesus Christ is saying something to you. But now we're at the point where we're gonna go home and resume our normal lives. We gotta go inside and resume our normal lives. And how many times did I have stepped up to the platform and just begged God I could say something so people wouldn't resume their normal life? I don't know what to say.

12:50 It's beyond me to know what to say. Our lives were so full of absolute worldliness. Anyway, they compelled him. Anyway, he went in. He graciously went in, and they broke bread.

13:21 Suddenly, eyes are open, and he's gone on his way. They get up, they run back to Jerusalem. In a hurry. They arose the same hour, the Bible says, and got back seven miles. And when they got there, they found them who were gathered together.

13:47 And they went in and they said, The Lord has risen indeed and has appeared to Simon. And they told what things were done in the way and how he was known to them in the breaking of bread. And as they were speaking, Jesus himself stood in the midst and said, peace be unto you. They were terrified. It wasn't a normal meeting.

14:13 I so loved the fact that Jesus Christ interrupted them. He didn't wait his turn. It wasn't that what they were saying about the walking with Christ wasn't good. They had a great testimony. It was fresh.

14:29 It was what? Two hours old? They had a very real personal experience with Jesus Christ that they were sharing with everybody. And you know what Jesus Christ said? Shh, be quiet.

14:42 He interrupted them. And I'm telling you how many times I've been at the Lord's Supper when it just seemed like Jesus Christ interrupted everybody by manifesting himself, not about what men are saying, good or bad, powerful or not powerful, weak or watery, it didn't matter. But if you've never been at the Lord's Supper when Jesus Christ stood in front of you and said, Look, to you, and made you look, it's his manifestation to you personally that we're talking about. It's not just, well, there's an assembly and they believe. No, if you can attend breaking of bread, and you can be there, and you can listen, and you can sing, and you can be interrupted with your own thoughts, and appreciate that brother's thoughts, and have so much being shared to bring you to the point.

15:55 Look at my nail holes. And they were terrified. You want that terror. You want the sense that Christ is really in our midst. And he has our attention.

16:09 And if he doesn't have your attention, I don't know how you attend. If you don't have a daily, a weekly manifestation of Christ you as an assembly, how do you put up with a meeting? Listen to the same brothers. Get up, you can write the songs down. Fifty two weeks, you're probably singing the same five songs.

16:30 It's never about the brothers. It's never about the music. It's about Jesus Christ showing himself to you. And if you don't get that, get it. Because then you won't miss the meeting.

16:45 And I'm not here to promote a meeting. I'm telling you that if you don't see Christ in a meeting, don't end the meeting till you do. Till you do. Forget the clock. You think family five hours more important to Jesus Christ than him showing himself to you?

17:06 You being taken? Look at the result. Behold my hands and feet, verse 39, it's me. Handle me, see me. The spirit doesn't have flesh.

17:17 And when he had thus spoken, he showed them his hands and feet. And then what? And while they yet believed not for joy, King James Version. What's it mean? They were so joyful, they couldn't believe it.

17:31 So, have you ever been like that at breaking of bread? That solemn meeting where everybody's head's down, quiet? Have you ever been so joyful that you couldn't believe the greatness of the fact that Jesus Christ himself stood in front of you, and by faith you could see afresh the nail holes, wounds? That's the kind of joy that you want in a meeting. And then what?

17:56 And then what? And then they wondered. And you know what? That word wondered, for me, that's where worship begins. When you're wondering about how it could be so good that it can't be true.

18:17 Not when you can explain the gospel to me in every page. That doesn't make me wonder. Guess what? I've been on that page. Not when you just constantly preach the same message to the choir over and over and over again, explaining why we do it, why we do it, why we do it.

18:37 No, brothers and sisters, do that all you want. But at some point, realize that. You're never gonna get to wonder explaining Christ's presence. You won't get to worship. We'll teach our young people that because you attend the meeting, you worshiped.

18:57 Because you're in a meeting that we call the worship meeting, because we have emblems we're worshiping? No, we're not. We're remembering the way he told us to. Use emblems physically, touch something, to mentally think about something, and maybe those two together would get your heart engaged. Maybe.

19:16 And how many times they become when they wasn't engaged? Where you sat cold, regardless of who shared, with no manifestation of Christ to you because in your heart, he's not here. We're just a denomination. God forbid, beloved. God forbid.

19:51 So what's relevant to me? All right, let's open a prayer now. I'm through with the little editorials. We got time, don't worry. I'll get it all in.

20:02 Father, we thank you for your son. And as we gather under him, we want to open your word and receive it for what it is, your word, and not man's. And we pray that Your spirit would be mightily at work to open our hearts to hear You. We trust, Lord, as we do, that we would have an appropriate response to indicate the kind of soil we are. I ask that you would work mightily in us for the glory and honor of your son, Jesus Christ.

20:30 We pray in his name, amen. So this is what's relevant as I make disciples. And you're in Hebrews three or are you in John one? I said John one, but stop in Hebrews three, remember? So you should have a finger in both, but we're really looking at Hebrews three right now.

20:51 On our way to John one. Because I wanna ask you one question today. No, actually, I wanna read you one question that Christ asked somebody. All right? So the premise that I make disciples, I begin when I'm making disciples or attempting to make disciples is the fact that Jesus is the great shepherd of the sheep.

21:19 He's the good shepherd, right? He's the great shepherd. He's the chief shepherd. So in John 10, you're familiar with the wonderful verses of John 10. Jesus says, My sheep listen to my voice.

21:37 I call about and I lead them. And when he brings them out, he goes ahead of them and they follow because they know his voice. So there's a very simple premise about making disciples, and that is, number one, you have to be a genuine sheep. Number two, you gotta hear the voice of God. You gotta hear.

21:59 And number three, you gotta follow. Those are the three fundamental issues of making disciples. Are you really a truly belong to Christ? Number two, do you really hear his voice? And I don't mean audible.

22:14 Please don't misunderstand what I'm saying. I mean, do you have a sense in your soul that he speaks to you? Not just that he speaks. I know that is confusing, especially to young people. Well, the Bible says word.

22:31 Yes, there's no doubt. But when you go on through John 10, you know this, that he calls his own sheep out by name. And so at some point, there's a realization that he's called you by name, by name. And so there's that response from your spirit to his spirit that he knows you by name, he's called you by name, you belong to him. And there is no greater truth to combat the fear of Matthew seven.

23:00 Matthew seven, you know, many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, verse 20, 21, 22, did we not, and we cast out demons in your name. We did this. We did all this stuff in your name. And Jesus dismisses them. In fact, he repels them.

23:21 In fact, he cast them out. With what particular point does he do all that? One point. I never knew you. I never knew you.

23:32 That is such a frightening verse to deal with young people, old people who have made great professions of being followers of Christ, and yet absolutely no evidence. And so you're frightened for them. You're actually frightened for them that their experience is false, that they've been duped into believing they're Christian. They've never yet really heard his voice, nor yet respond to his voice, nor are they currently following him. Yet they insist that they're, the guy at my church told me, there's eternal security, and so I'm saved forever.

24:12 No, you're lost forever if you're not a sheep. I'm sorry. You're lost. Forever is the same amount of time with you're lost or saved, but if you don't know his voice said he's called you by name, then why would you think that you belong to him? If you don't live, if you're not currently actively following him, why would you think you belong to him?

24:31 Why? Now, please don't hypothetically out of the stage and say, well, we have a lot of examples where some, yeah, forget them. I'm talking about you. You, not them. Not the person you're burdened for.

24:48 Not your brother that you wish was here. Not your sister, not your wife who might have come if it was somebody more normal to speak rather than a wild man. Yeah, I get all that, right? I get all that. Who cares about them at this moment?

25:03 You know why? Because I mentioned to somebody last night about taping messages. I never really believed in taping messages. I just do it to be courteous. It's against my nature.

25:13 You know why? If God wanted you to hear this message, you'd be in this room. As I believe. All this technology, nah. So you're here in this room and you think you're here by your design?

25:27 Do you really? You had an alarm clock that wake you up and got you here? You got a little car turned the engine on and brought you here? All those little things that you think are part of your life that really is why you're here? I'm telling you, you're here because Jesus Christ wants you here.

25:42 Because if he didn't want you here, you wouldn't be here. That doesn't, I'm not dealing with did he want anybody else here? That don't matter. I have to worry about them. Just you.

25:54 Just think about you. Not even the person next to you. Just think about you. All right? Hebrews chapter three.

26:03 And just for the sake of time, because your clock is faster than mine, my clock only... You know, I got this Apple thing. It says it's only quarter after eleven. But yours says quarter to twelve. What's up with that?

26:24 No, I'll be on time, trust me. I kept you over the last time I was here. I promised I wouldn't do it again. First, we'll just jump into Hebrews three, verse seven. So, the Holy Spirit says, don't Jesus love how he doesn't attribute it to the Psalm writer?

27:14 Part of it. Familiar with Psalm 95? Verse one. Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord. Let us shout unto the rock of our salvation.

27:29 Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song. For the Lord is the great God, the great king above all gods. In his hand are the depths of the earth and the mountain peaks belong to him. The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands form the dry land. Come, let us bow down and worship.

27:49 Let us kneel before the Lord our maker, for he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture. What's the illustration? We're the sheep. We are the flock under his care. And the last phrase of verse seven of Psalm 95, where the Hebrew writer picks up, Today, if you would just hear what he has to say to you.

28:15 If you would just hear his voice. If you would just hear his voice. Today, if you would just hear what the great shepherd wants to say to you. Now, this is a great Psalm. You know why?

28:29 Because you got six and a half, almost seven complete verses about you singing, and you making a noise, and you hooping and hollering and being all excited about all these great things about God. Hallelujah. Yes, I say it, hallelujah. I even raise my hands if you want. That makes you feel better.

28:46 Not against it. But he suddenly changes the tune. You've made a lot of noise, but can you listen? Can you listen? Can you hear the spirit of God say something to you today?

29:03 You gotta love the present tense of today. The moment, beloved. The moment you're in now, I'm asking, can you hear the spirit of God say something to you? To you. I'm beyond saying it to the whole group.

29:21 Don't matter to me that the group gets it. Because if you get it and you're part of the group, maybe you'll be contagious with it. What is the spirit of God saying to you? All right? Verse eight of Psalm 95, Do not harden your hearts as in they did in Meribah, and as they did the day Massah was in the wilderness.

29:46 And what was the big complaint back there in Exodus? There's no water. What's the big complaint in Numbers 20? There's still no water. And what's the real issue?

29:56 What was the people's real complaint? Is God really among us or not? And that's a great question. Because if you're breaking out bread, you wanna know if Jesus Christ is there or not. You don't care if I'm there or not.

30:14 Is Jesus Christ there? And in this meeting, you don't care if I speak a message that has a little bit of oomph to it. Who cares? Does the spirit of god say something to you? Him is he speaking to you.

31:06 There's the obstinate hearts of Acts, and then there's this. And then there's the hardening that comes through the deceitfulness of sin, as we continue into verse 13 of this chapter. Hardening. There's hardening of your hearts. There's callousness to the things of God.

31:26 There's callousness to his words. There's always gonna be a attitude of I've heard that before. It doesn't apply to me. It's not for me. It's not about me.

31:37 I wish so and so woulda heard that. It's never about us individually, and that is deadly hardening. That's never about you. It is about you. There's nobody more important in this room to Jesus Christ than you.

31:55 Nobody. Elders are more important. Sisters are more important. You're the most important work that Jesus Christ is doing in this room at the moment. He's trying to get your attention.

32:06 And don't look at anybody else. He's trying to get your attention. He wants to say something to you. And if you don't believe that, then you better start believing it. You better start believing it.

32:22 Because you're right back there where we're saying, is he really in our midst or not? Does he really speak? Does God really speak to us? Yes, beloved. If you're a sheep, he calls you by name, you know his voice, you respond to the voice.

32:40 If you don't hear his voice, you have the right to question whether you really belong to him. If you don't know him speaking to you, you should go and find somebody and say, Please pray with me, because I am uncertain that I really belong to Christ. I'm not in the business of making people who don't know Christ feel good that they might know Christ. That's not my job. If you have no evidence that Christ communes with you and you commune with Christ, you should feel uncertain to the point where you get certain, all right?

33:13 You get certain. My brother mentioned a prayer where they, how are they gonna spend so many days in prayer or hours in prayer? As I had a Bible school teacher in England named Doctor. Allen Redpath. Some of you might have heard of him, right?

33:29 When he used to be the minister at Moody Memorial Church in Chicago, where Moody Bible School is, or was, I'm not sure if it's still there. He wanted to learn about A. W. Tozer and how he knew such deep things about God. So he asked Tozer, Can I come with you one morning when you're having your quiet time so I can experience what I think you must be experiencing?

34:02 He told a bunch of us young people at Bible school this story. Tilda said, Sure. I'll meet you tomorrow morning at 04:30 on the beach. 04:30. Yeah.

34:16 Red Paz got there. There he is, face down in the sand. Rippev said, The presence of God was so strong around him, I backed away and took my shoes off. Is that the kind of quiet time you have where anybody who walked in would feel God's presence? Because you're communing with the Almighty God.

34:49 And the shoes are off. And you know why the shoes are off at all? It never really came to me till recently, actually, meditating on why the shoes always come on. Because the shoes are that which attaches you to the world. And when you get that attachment off your feet and get in God's presence, they come off naturally because you're detached and you're like, If you've never experienced that, I invite you to it.

35:10 And I'm not talking about having emotional mountaintop experience, but I'm telling you, if you do not know that Jesus Christ speaks to you personally, get in his presence and don't move until you know his presence. What's more important to you? You got a different agenda? Sin is so deceitful that it hardens us. You see that as we read through Hebrews chapter three.

35:58 They shall never enter my rest. See to it, brothers and sisters. See to it. None of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. Oh, hold it.

36:10 He called them brothers and sisters. That means he recognized that they're Christians. But can a Christian have an unbelieving heart? Absolutely. It's a great fear.

36:22 You're a believer, but you're full of unbelief. I classify myself as a believer, but I operate my life based on a huge amount of unbelief. Yeah, it can happen. Disconnect from Christ. Is He really?

36:42 Does He really speak? Is He really leading me? You know, all of the fiery darts the enemy can shoot at you to just make you question whether He's really even alive. Does he really care what I do? I'm just a little nothing on the planet where all these other people are so important doing great things.

36:59 And I'm just a little going to college first years person. Yeah, that's unbelief that you are not important to him and that he doesn't wanna connect you to his eternal purpose, no matter where you're at and what you're doing. Always. Not at the point of graduation, not at the point of retirement, always, no matter where you at, he has you involved in eternal purposes that he purposed in his son. And it takes faith to operate that way so that every conversation becomes an opportunity.

37:34 It takes faith to treat people a certain way because every interaction with somebody becomes an opportunity to demonstrate the grace of God to people. Yes, I know. It takes a lot of discipline. It takes a lot of faith. Be encouraged.

37:51 Encourage one another, verse 13 says, as long as it is called today. Today, now, this moment, so that none of you are hardened by sin's deceitfulness. Remember what Paul said to Timothy, Second letter, chapter four, Preach the word, be prepared in season, out of season. Correct, rebuke, and encourage with great patience and careful instructions. So you have a commitment made to each other, and we got these wonderful devices.

38:19 Don't we have a huge amount of devices? And what do you do with them? You see, I would disagree with Camp and Camp said no phones. Especially for CITs. Can I be the CIT director?

38:34 We know we butted heads. You know why? And I wanna teach those CITs how to use their phone by sending verses out to everybody on their contact list. Because verses can encourage people. When's the last time you sent a verse to somebody?

38:50 To encourage them. When's the last time you went up to somebody and said the verse to their face to encourage them? To encourage them. Because that's what this passage says. Encourage everybody today in the present moment, all right, so that none of you get hardened through the deceitfulness of sin, is connected to the deceitfulness of riches.

39:09 That was part of the reason why the word was choked in the parable of the sower. Yeah, yeah, it really all makes sense, John's Gospel chapter one. Sorry. I promised. I'm trying to keep my word.

39:30 So I made reference already to do disciples, to disciples. Maddie's gotta go to work, by the way. Thanks for telling me that, Maddie. Other than that, I would've said I offended you. Which I know is nearly impossible, but.

40:14 It's almost like the exact opposites. Right? But something happens. Jesus turned and saw them following, And then confronted them with the question, What do you want? What do you want?

40:35 I don't think they were prepared for the challenge to be confronted with a direct question by Jesus Christ himself. They were used to listening to John. I'm sure he was a good preacher, But Christ himself standing now, what would appear to me, John's walking that way with two disciples. And as they pass Jesus, who's walking this way, just for the sake of your imagination, allow this to be true. Don't say, well, he was going this way.

41:06 Just follow with me if you can't. Trying to make it simple. And Jesus, John says, there's the lamb of God. And the two turn around and start following Christ. Okay, with me?

41:22 And now Christ, what do you two want? Doesn't Christ know exactly what they want? Shake your head yes. Of course he does. But do they know what they want?

41:43 No. So here comes the fumbled answer. Where do you live? Why, you gonna visit? You gonna mail me?

41:53 I mean, so, I mean, I think they fumbled at the response. Nevertheless, the graciousness of Christ is to come and, what? Come and see. See for yourself. Now come and learn.

42:06 Now come and study. Now come and memorize all the good things that we do. No, come and see. See for yourself. First person action, see for yourself.

42:19 And I'm asking you, at 12:00, if Jesus Christ stood at that door when you walked in this room today and asked you as an individual, what do you want by following me? What would you tell them? Now I know that you didn't all come here because you want something from Christ. Some of you came because you want something from your parents. But I trust that God has asked each one of you, what are you really looking for following Christ?

43:10 I wouldn't think that you could probably fool them. You can fool me. You can fool others in this room. But you should have an answer ready to tell Jesus Christ. What's your motive for being here?

43:28 Let's close in prayer. Father, we thank you for your word. We thank you for your son, the wonder of your son coming into the world to save sinners, saving me, saving these fine people, Lord. And others, countless around the globe, ever working, never resting, saving people, making them your own, putting them in a local body of believers, using them to build up other believers, sending some to go and do the work of an evangelist. Lord, say hallelujah, What a savior you are.

44:08 Thank you for this time. We pray in Christ's name. Amen.