Many of you have heard this story I'm about to share with you.
You may not know the context. 1962, the Green Bay Packers blew a fourth quarter lead over the Philadelphia Eagles to lose the NFL championship game. They were devastated. So a few months later, it's now July, they're back at training camp. And the team gathered in the locker room, they're licking their wounds from losing that game, a game they should not have lost. And their coach, this man, Vince Lombardi, walks into that locker room. Now, they assume that he's going to teach them some more complex passing routes. They're going to kind of pick up where they left off. They're going to get a little bit more complex.
They're going to, I don't know, kind of get cute and have some trick plays and all this kind of stuff. Instead, Vince Lombardi walks into the room and he doesn't teach them new complex patterns. He picks up a football and he says, gentlemen, this is a football. And he brought them back to the fundamentals.
Passing, blocking, tackling. And this hyper focus on fundamentals allowed them to win the NFL championship that season, 37 to 0 against the New York Giants. He didn't teach them more complex things.
He said, no, no, no. Let's go back to the basics. Every now and then, it is good to go back to our basic fundamental message that we preach. Because people can come to this church and hear me talk about the Baptist and all those spirits speaking in tongues, prophecy. And you get really confused. Let's go back to our very basic message.
Let's go back to the football. We call it the gospel. What does gospel literally mean?
Good news. That is our fundamental message. Now, remember the background of 1st and 2nd Timothy. Paul is telling Timothy, Timothy, you need to strengthen the base.
The church at Ephesus, they're going through some turbulence. Timothy, I'm sending you back to that church. And what you're going to do is strengthen the base of that church. And part of strengthening the base is reminding them of what the gospel is.
See, a lot of times you'll hear me talk about the gospel. Okay, that's just the that's the ABCs of Christianity. I love what Tim Keller says the gospel is not the ABCs of Christianity.
It is the A through Z of Christianity. It all goes back to this fundamental message called the gospel. So turn if you would have 1st Timothy 1-12. Remember last week, Paul talks to Tim and he says, Timothy, there's some crazy teaching going on in your church.
You got to take them back to good, solid, pure teaching. And that's what Paul's doing right here. He said, let's go back to the good, solid basic teaching called the gospel. Verse 12 of 1st Timothy 1, Paul says to Timothy, I thank Christ Jesus, our Lord, who has given me strength to do his work. He considered me trustworthy and appointed me to serve him, even though I used to blaspheme the name of Christ. In my insolence, I persecuted his people.
But God had mercy on me because I did it in ignorance and unbelief. Now, for some of you who might not be familiar with Christianity, here's what Paul is saying. Paul, before he got saved, hated Christians, hated Jesus, hated the church. He had Christians arrested, put in prison.
He even participated in the execution of Christians. There's a great movie called Paul, the Apostle of God. Who's that guy who played Jesus on Passion of Christ? Yeah, Jim Caviezo.
It's a great movie. Paul, the Apostle of Christ. And in this movie, he keeps having flashbacks of all these Christians that he killed. All his life, Paul could not forget what he did.
And that's what he's saying right now. Verse 14. Oh, how generous and gracious our Lord was. He filled me with the faith and love that come from Christ Jesus.
This is a trustworthy saying, and everyone should accept it. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, and I'm the worst of them all. But God had mercy on me so that Christ Jesus could use me as a prime example of his great patience with even the worst sinners.
He never dies. He alone is God. Amen.
Isn't that great? Now, the key verse here, and again, I hope you're kind of into underlining Scripture and really digging into the Word of God. The key verse in this passage is verse 15.
Look at that. Verse 15, Paul says this. This is a trustworthy saying, and everyone should accept it.
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, and I'm the worst of them all. Now, when Paul says this is a trustworthy saying, he uses that five times in the pastoral letters. Second Timothy Titus. Five times just in the pastoral letters.
And when he says this is a trustworthy saying, what he's probably saying, what scholars think he's saying, is in the early church, there were sayings circulated in the early church that you might not be able to find in the Bible, but there were popular sayings in the early church. Like this one. We have this one. You all ready for this one? Here's one of those ones saying, God is good. Okay, that's what he's talking about.
Or maybe some of y'all aren't familiar with this one. I asked God in my dream, why was there only one set of footprints in the sand, and God said, that was when I, what, carried you. Okay, so these are these kind of little sayings going around, and evidently there's a saying going around, in those days, Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Now, that's the key verse. That verse encapsulates the Gospel.
And so let's kind of pick that verse apart a little bit. First of all, look at that word sinners. Christ came into the world to save sinners. Interestingly, in the Greek, sinners comes before the word to save.
So in the Greek, it literally says, Christ Jesus came into the world sinners to save. The starting point of the Gospel is, we're not good people. We are messed up people. Any messed up people here at Cross Assembly today? Wow, I didn't realize this passion is such a church of pagans. All right, look at it. We're all messed up people.
That's the starting point of the Gospel. I'm a doctor, and you have cancer, and you come to me, and I say, I've seen this kind of cancer before. I can actually cure this kind of cancer. But you refuse to admit that you have cancer? I don't care how good of a doctor I am.
If you don't understand that you have cancer, I can't help you. I don't care how good of a Savior Jesus is. If you don't understand that you're a messed up person, that you are a sinner, not a whole lot Jesus can do for you. That's the starting point of the Gospel. That we are messed up people. And incidentally, that's why I believe this whole self-esteem movement is demonic and satanic in nature, because it's Satan's way of saying to everybody, no, you're not messed up. You're actually a good person. You will never receive the Gospel.
You'll never give your life to Jesus if you think you're actually a good person. Y'all know what I mean by the self-esteem movement? It's going crazy. We are raising a society of self-obsessed people. I was watching the news this morning, national news, but they're talking about a school, I think it's near Burlington in North Carolina, that they've actually had to take the mirrors out of the bathrooms, because so many kids were excusing themselves to go to the bathroom to take TikTok videos of themselves in the mirror.
That's the kind of society we're raising. A bunch of self-absorbed, self-obsessed people. There's another commercial. We'll tell the commercial. It's a diabetic medication commercial, but there's this annoying lady that dances around all over the place.
I don't know why I did this. I said, I'm going to look her up. And I looked her up, and here's what she said.
She makes a living. Self-love advocate. Only in America can you make a living teaching people how to love themselves. Robert Shuler, years ago, got this ball rolling when Pastor Shuler, and I use that in air quotes, said this. Listen to what Robert Shuler said in his book on self-esteem. Quote, the core of sin is a lack of self-esteem.
No, it's not. We have the core of sin. We are not good people. We should not be obsessed with our goodness. And see, this has to be the starting point of the gospel. If you don't realize how messed up you are, you'll never understand the glory of the gospel. If I come to you and say, I'm paying your bill.
What do you mean? My lunch bill at Chick-fil-A? You mean my dry cleaning bill?
No, no, no. When I say to you, I'm paying your bill, that means I'm paying your mortgage. I'm paying your car off. I'm paying your kid's car off. I'm paying your college.
Suddenly, I'm paying your bill takes on a totally different meaning, doesn't it? If you don't understand your debt, you won't understand the majesty of me saying Jesus paid that debt. It starts with we are sinners.
You with me? Look back at verse 15. It starts with the word sinners. Jesus Christ came into the world, look at this, to save. There's a lot of confusion today as to what Jesus Christ's purpose was. Why did he come?
It says right there. He came to save. You know, God the Father was so intent on this, he says, I'm going to wrap up the mission of my son Jesus in the very name that I'm giving him. So there's no mistaking why he came. The name Jesus means the one who saves. It's in his very name.
Oh, okay. But he came to save us from what? Save us from an unfulfilled life?
Save us from financial challenges? I'm hearing a lot of that on Christian TV. He came to save society from social injustice? I'm hearing a lot of that in woke churches.
Save you from bad habits? He came to save? What did he come to save us from? Well, it's in that first word we just went over, that word sinners. Jesus Christ came to save us from our sin. Matthew 1.21, you will call him Jesus because he will save the world. People from their sins.
Listen to me. Jesus Christ came, you know, listen to this, to save us from the consequence of our sin that broke our relationship with God. Jesus came to save us from the consequence of a broken relationship with God. We have sinned against God. We have rebelled against God and that sin, that separation, that rebellion, that broken relationship. It causes a lot of problems in your life. And the ultimate consequence of that broken relationship is eternal hell. You have broken the laws of God and he is angry.
And the ultimate consequence of that anger and that broken relationship is hell. And you don't want to hear that, I understand. But this is very clear teaching of Scripture.
You understand? You can't just go to the Bible and pick and choose what you like. In the Old Testament alone, did you know Jesus gave 70 of those references? Take all the different things that are said by different people throughout the Bible about hell and combine them, it doesn't begin to equal the number of times Jesus talked about hell. Jesus talked about hell more than anybody else in the Bible. And you say, this doesn't make any sense.
It may not make any sense, but it's reality. We have rebelled against God. We have broken the laws of God and eternal consequence. The ultimate consequence of that is hell. Revelation 20, verses 14 through 15. Then death and the grave were thrown into the lake of fire and anyone whose name was not found recorded in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire. You say, that's kind of sadistic of God to say, love me or I'm going to sizzle you for all eternity.
That's really not what's going on here. When you and I sin, we join in the satanic rebellion and the cosmic satanic rebellion against God. Did you know the book of Matthew says, God never created hell for human beings.
Did you know that? Do you know who he did create hell for? Satan and his demons.
It's very clear in scripture. And when we rebel against God, we joined that cosmic rebellion and Satan's destiny becomes our destiny. What's God supposed to do?
Let everybody back into heaven again so we can start this whole mess all over again. No, when you and I come to realization that we are sinners, we understand this. We, just like Satan, have rebelled against the God of the universe and Satan's destiny becomes our destiny. Paul was saying right here, Jesus Christ came into this world and he died on the cross for our sins. He took the punishment for our sins so that broken relationship with God that ends in eternal hell will be mended and we are brought back to God. That's the gospel right there.
Look here, right here, my beautiful blue eyes. You need to understand this. That is the gospel message. Jesus Christ came to save sinners, not correct social justice, not to make you financially prosperous. Jesus Christ came back to reconcile you and God. That's why Jesus came into this world. And when that happens, when we are rescued from the consequences of our sin, the relationship with God. When Jesus saves us, I want you to see this in this passage, several things happen. Number one, there is mercy. Do you see that in verse 16? But God had mercy on me. That means, Romans 8, one, there is now how much condemnation for those of us who are in Christ Jesus?
None. Listen to me. You get born again, you're never going to go to hell.
That's very elemental. I'm finding in the Pentecostal church, that's not very elementary. I talked to an evangelist one time who said, when I speak at youth crusades, I know which kids come from the Pentecostal church and which ones don't. Those from the kind of maybe Reform Baptist churches, they get saved once and that's it. The Pentecostal kids come forward every year, year after year to get saved over and over and over again.
For some reason, we've not taught our people the security that we have in Christ Jesus. Mercy means he's no longer angry at you. He's no longer going to send you to hell. Mercy means, now watch this, grace means you get what you don't deserve. Mercy means you don't get what you deserve. We deserve hell, but mercy means we ain't going to get hell.
Are you with me on that? The result of the gospel is there is mercy. You don't have to worry about eternal hell when you get saved. Number two, not only is there mercy, there's grace. Look at verse 14.
He talks about the graciousness of Jesus Christ. Here's the thing. You can receive mercy. Now watch this.
This is important. You can receive mercy. But somebody's still not like you. In other words, if I just said, when you get saved, you're not going to go to hell, okay, that's good. He's not going to punish me in hell, but I think he still doesn't like me.
Grace means not only is he not going to punish me, he actually likes you. Like I was, I don't know why I was thinking about this, but a couple weeks ago, y'all see at Chief's game when Patrick Mahomes didn't like the referee's call. And so he is so mad, he's yelling at the referee, he's going at his referee, and one of his teammates step in and say, whoa, calm down, calm down, calm down. And Patrick Mahomes like, okay, I'm not going to charge the referee, but he was still glaring at him.
He just still couldn't stand him. See, that could be how we look at Jesus. God is angry at us. We deserve hell. And Jesus steps in, gets between us and God the Father.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, Father, calm down, calm down. Don't send him to hell. And God's like, all right, I won't send him to hell.
But I still can't stand him. Grace means no, no, no, no, no. The moment you get saved, you are now adopted as his son or daughter.
I'm going to say something right now that's going to blow your mind, and I can back it up from the New Testament. When you get saved and become a child of God, it's like Jesus is your elder brother, and God loves you as much as he loves his own son, Jesus Christ. Is God glaring at Jesus and angry at Jesus?
No, no. He's his beloved. When Jesus saved you from hell, he not only gave you mercy, he gives you God's grace. And now because of Jesus Christ, what about the abortion, the affair, the this, the that? God says, I don't see that anymore. When I look at you, I see the precious blood of my son, Jesus Christ. I see the righteousness of my son, Jesus Christ.
I love you as much as I love you. I love my son, Jesus. That's grace. That's the gospel. When Jesus saves us from our sin, our rebellion, our separation from God, Jesus Christ gives us mercy. He gives us grace. And God, let me give you another result of Jesus saving us. There's also a love that we now have for God. Look at verse 14.
He filled me with the faith and love that comes from Christ Jesus. All honor and glory to God forever and ever. He is the eternal king, the unseen one who never dies. He alone is God. I'm gonna tell you, when you start to understand the gospel, we need a revolution of worship in America. We need people to really know how to worship. Can I tell you when worship begins? When you understand just how much God loves you, when you understand just what God did for you, just how gracious and merciful God was, verses 14 and 17, all you can do is just throw up your hands and say, I love him.
He is a good, good God. And that, brothers and sisters, I am finding, is the key to living a holy, godly life. I try to walk, watch, when people ask, Pastor, how can I pray for you? If there's nothing major going on in my life, some of y'all have asked me this before, Pastor, how can I pray for you? I'll say this, if there's nothing major going on, just pray I walk close and clean to the power of the Holy Spirit. My motivation for walking close and clean is not, I'm afraid I'm going to hell. I ain't going to hell. My motivation is, he has done so much for me.
How could I ever break his heart? This love just wells up. In fact, I love this great quote from Charles Spurgeon. He said, when I regarded God as a tyrant, I thought my sin a trifle. But when I knew him to be my father, then I mourned that I could have ever kicked against him. When I thought God was hard, I found it easy to sin. But when I found God so kind, so good, so overflowing with compassion, I smote upon my breast to think that I could have ever rebelled against one who loved me so much. So when you get saved, that war between you and God, it's over with. Genesis chapter three, when Adam broke that relationship with God, here's what he said, God, I was scared and I hid from you. That, listen to me, that describes some of y'all here today.
I'm scared of God because I'm a messed up person and I want to hide from God. The war is over. I was reading something a lot back.
I love reading about war and all that kind of stuff. When World War II ended, so World War II is over, the Japanese have surrendered. There was a Japanese lieutenant named Hiroo Onoda. He didn't believe that the war was over. He was in the Philippines and so he goes and he starts hiding out in the jungle. He hid in the jungle of the Philippines for 29 years, almost 30 years after the war is over. They tried to find him.
They tried to drop leaflets. It's from planes that says, look, man, the war is over, Lieutenant. He said, well, that's just American propaganda. In 1974, a Japanese college student tracked him down and befriended him but could not convince him that the war was over.
It's 1974. Finally, the Japanese government located one of his former commanders, had that commander go to the Philippines, found the lieutenant and his commander ordered him to stand down. Only then, 29 years after the war, did he surrender. I think God is saying to some of you all, you can come out of hiding now. War is over. My son defeated the forces of hell at the cross. My son paid for your sin at the cross. The war between you and me, it's over right now. You can have peace through my son, Jesus Christ.
You can come out of hiding and you can become my adopted son or daughter. That's the gospel right there. Now, look, in God's grace, I got to insert this. In God's grace, he still at times allows us to live with the consequences of our sin.
Let me say that. You are forgiven but in his grace, he allows you to live with the consequences of your sins. You say, why in his grace?
Why do you say that? Could you imagine what kind of mess we'd all be in? If not only does he forgive us of our sin, now there's no consequences.
I don't know about you, I could go live like hell if there's no consequences, right? Here's what God says, I love you. You're forgiven but ma'am, I'm sorry. You've lost your family. I forgive you for that affair. You are now, I'm just telling you, I'm reconfirm, you're my child. I love you. I care for you. You're my daughter in Christ. I want you to understand that but you've lost your family. Sir, you're my child. I loved you. I love you with an everlasting love.
You're not going to hell because you belong to me but you're still going to go to prison because you embezzled that money and there are consequences to your sins. Does that make sense? Okay, so let's not go crazy. All right, so there's one more part of this verse that I love, verse 15. One more part that you can't skip over. Pause as Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.
He doesn't stop right there. What does he say after that? And I am the worst one of them all. This is so important for those of us who were born again already. Paul does not say Christ came into the world to save sinners and I was the worst one of them all.
What does he say? I am present tense. I am a born again believer. I have the Holy Spirit living in me. I walk with the Lord Jesus Christ but I'm still not perfect. I have found the closer you walk with Jesus, the more you see just how messed up you are.
The longer you walk with Jesus, the more you see just how messed up you are. The spiritual leaders, I'm one of them but I'm the least. Five years later when he's writing to the church at Ephesus, he doesn't call himself the least of the apostles. He calls himself the least of all Christians.
Ephesians 3.8. And now at the end of his life, he doesn't say I'm the least of the apostles. I'm the least of the Christians. You know what he says now? I'm the worst of all sinners.
You see that progression? The longer you walk with Jesus, the closer you walk with Jesus, you realize you still don't have your act together. We're still messed up people. So I'm going to tell you something. The gospel, can I do a confession?
I don't want to get me fired here but it's not going to be a sexual thing but let me give you a little confession. The gospel never did a whole lot to me up to a couple years ago because here's what I thought about the gospel. See I got saved when I was nine years old. All my heavy duty sinning that I did, I did after age nine. So I thought what Jesus is saying is, Chad, at age nine, I'm going to forgive you of all the sins you've committed up till age nine. Now you are saved. But from here on out, it's on you. Well, let me ask you, what kind of sins does a nine year old growing up in the 1980s have to confess? Jesus, I'm sorry, I coveted his high score on Pac-Man and whatever. I watched the A team the other night and BA Brock said the H word and I shouldn't have listened to that.
What do you do? All my heavy duty sinning took place after I quote unquote got saved. And here's the realization that hit me a few years ago. The same gospel that got me saved is the same gospel that keeps me saved. Jesus that God has saved, but it's our blood and sweat and tears that keep us saved. And I'm just telling you that same blood of Jesus that forgave me of my sin when I was nine years old is the same blood of Jesus that continually day by day, moment by moment cleanses me and washes me and is going to get me from here to glory is the blood of Jesus Christ. It's the same sins up to age nine. But it's the same grace of the Lord Jesus Christ that's going to get me from that point on to glory. It's the same gospel.
It's the same blood, then you can start relaxing in Jesus Christ. I was reading about a man last week that he said he had two friends in high school named Wayne and Dave. Now, both these guys apply to the same colleges hard college to get into. Wayne got early acceptance in December. You're in, we now accept your application, you will be going to this prominent prestigious school next year. You're in, they said to Wayne. Dave got a deferment letter.
Do you know what I mean by deferment letter? Dave, we're not quite sure if you're in or not. So take some classes, get involved in some extracurricular activities, reapply at the end of the school year, and we'll let you know if you're in or not. Dave is having fun with his classes, making great grades.
Dave is sweating all the time. They both got involved in extracurricular activities. Wayne, who's already been accepted, he got involved in extracurricular activities that he enjoyed and he had fun with. Dave got involved in extracurricular activities that he thought would look good on a college application. He said the difference between the young man who got early acceptance and those who didn't, the guy that didn't get early acceptance, it was as different as night and day.
One had joy in and enjoyed life, the other was just miserable. That's some of y'all. I've prayed the prayer, I've given my life to Jesus, but I just don't know what's gonna happen on that final exam when I draw my last breath. Listen to me, the moment you got saved, you got early acceptance.
You are already in. You don't have to work anymore, you don't have to strive anymore, you can enjoy Jesus and your church and your family and your life because here's what the Bible calls you, be accepted in Christ Jesus. The love of the gospel changes everything.
Let's kind of close this thing out. If you're a sinner and you know you're a sinner, you need to give your life to Jesus today. In a few moments, I'm gonna lead you in a very simple prayer, but it's not the prayer that saves you, it's Jesus that saves you and I'm gonna lead you in giving your life to Jesus. Give your life to Jesus.
That broken relationship with God, it's put back together. And the Bible says you pass from death into life. You don't pass from death into life when you die, no.
You pass from death into life the moment you give your life to Jesus. That's for those of you who have never been saved. But let me say something to the rest of us who are born again already. Here, I want to recommend something radical.
Are you ready for this? I want you to make, we have all these spiritual disciplines. We read the Bible every day, we pray every day. Can I give you a new spiritual discipline I want you to do every single day?
And that's this. Preach the gospel to yourself at least once every single day. I love what Paul Tripp says. Paul Tripp says no one is more influential in your life than you are because no one talks to you more than you do.
Jerry Bridges, great author, Jerry Bridges wrote a classic called The Pursuit of Discipline. Bridges says every day I spend time preaching the gospel to myself. He says, quote, since the gospel is only for sinners, I begin each day with the realization that despite my belonging to Jesus and being called a saint of God, I still sin every day in thought, word, deed, and motive. If I'm aware of my subtle or not so subtle sin in my life, I spend time acknowledging those things to God. I remind myself that the blood of Jesus cleanses me from all those sins and that because of Jesus, I am accepted by God. He said, I remind myself with scriptures like these.
As far as the east is from the west, so is here moved our transgressions. Psalm 103, 12. I do not remember your sins anymore, God says.
Isaiah 43, 25. All we like sheep have gone astray. We've turned everyone to his own way, but the Lord has laid on him.
The iniquity of us all. Isaiah 53, six. Happy are those whose sins are forgiven and covered. Romans 4, seven. There is therefore now no condemnation for those of us who are in Christ Jesus. Romans 8, one. He forgave you of all of your sins.
I love that discipline. Every day I remind myself, yeah, I'm still a sinner, but here's who I am in Jesus Christ. I preach the gospel to myself every day.
And I want you right now just to bow your head. If you're not certain that you have eternal life, if you're not certain that when you die you're going to heaven, if you're not certain that you have been reconciled to God through Jesus Christ, I want in just a moment to lead you in a simple prayer to Jesus that absolutely changes everything. You and I are sinners separated from God by our sin. But 2000 years ago, all those sins that would separate us were placed on Jesus Christ. And when he died, your sin died with him. And now you can be reconciled with God, made right with God, become friends with God through Jesus Christ. I want everybody else in this place, your wife, your kids, your friends, it's now just you and Jesus. And I want you to say something like this to Jesus. Jesus, I'm a sinner.
I am a messed up person. But Jesus, I believe you died for my sin. I believe you were buried. And Jesus, I believe three days later, God raised you from the dead. Tell them that Jesus, I believe you're a sinner.
You're alive right now. Lord, I turn away from my sin. And I turn to you. Say this to Jesus. Save me from my sin. Come and take charge, take control of my life. And take me to heaven when I die. In Jesus' name, Amen.
Would you stand with me right now? I always spend a little bit of time back there. There's a little room. I just spend time praying. And just a little while ago, the Lord reminded me of something. I think this is for somebody here today.
This is for somebody who thinks, yeah, I got saved years ago. But if I'm going to make it to heaven, it's going to be on my shoulders. I got to work hard to be acceptable in God's sight. I got to work hard to make sure I walk the line. And the Lord reminded me of something.
This is for somebody. Listen to me. Salvation going to heaven is not your responsibility. It's your response to His ability.
It's not your responsibility. It is your response to His ability. Y'all trust in Jesus.
You think He knows what He's talking about? You think you can trust your eternity to Him? If you believe in that Jesus Christ that has promised you, I am the Lord Jesus. I began the good work. I'll carry that work unto completion in me. If you believe that right now, lift up your hands and just worship Jesus. Can we do that?
I'm just serious. For the next few moments, just bless the name of Jesus. Just receive that prophetic word that your salvation is not your responsibility, Jesus. It's my response to your ability. I just give it all over to you again, Lord. I just put my hand in you. Jesus, I trust in you right now. I trust in you. He heard and He answered. That's why I trust Him. That's why I trust Him. I saw the Lord. He heard and He answered.
I saw the Lord and He heard and He answered. That's why I trust Him. That's why I trust in God. He's my Savior, the one who will never fail. He will never fail. And I trust in God. He's my Savior, the one who will never fail.
He will never fail. Man, we got an old saying around here. It's all about the assemblies of God.
Is that it? It's all about Pastor Chad, Pastor Chris, and Pastor Vic. It's all about who? Jesus. It's all about Jesus. He is the starting point. He is the author. He is the finisher of our faith. It is all about Jesus.
