A Recipe for Bread

Guest (Male): How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, is laid for your faith in His excellent word. Welcome to the Sunday sermon on Through the Bible. I'm Steve Sweitzer, your host, and in this study of God's Word, Dr. J. Vernon McGee is going to take us to a short verse in Matthew 13. But don't let it size fool you. In this little parable about leaven and meal, we'll discover a message that reaches far beneath the surface and then helps us understand the times that we're living in. But before we begin, let's hear from a couple of fellow passengers on the Bible bus. First, Josh and Emily send this note. I'm writing to let you know that the messages have taken a deeper meaning and that our God is the God of all comfort, as Paul states in 2 Corinthians. Not long ago, I had been listening to the daily program with my daughter, 8 years old, who had severe cerebral palsy and who loved listening to Dr. McGee with me. She would laugh when he would talk about the whosoever wills and the whosoever wants. She knew and loved John 3:16 in a deep and special way that I hope to understand one day. She went to be present with Christ on the morning of April 16th, 2024. She's now free and completely safe. I must admit, I had hoped I would be able to introduce her to Dr. McGee, but I'm looking forward to that day when she gets to introduce me. Through your continued ministry and instruction, we have come to love the comfort that our God gives, and the booklet Death of a Little Child has helped us to see how God has opened up the true reality of heaven to us, keeping us going here in this life. May God richly bless you. And may God bless both of you, Josh and Emily. And thanks for sharing your story. I do pray that it brings hope to others who are listening, who are probably facing similar heartbreaking grief as well. It's a small thing, but please know that your seat will be saved as you travel along with us, and we're so very glad that you're here as well. And if you're listening and maybe you or someone you know have lost a child yourself, you'll find Dr. McGee's booklet Death of a Little Child for free download in our app or at ttb.org, or just call us if you'd like us to send you a copy. That number is 1-800-65 Bible. Now, our next letter is from Wagner, who shares this. My journey began at the end of 2000 when I relocated from Brazil to Florida due to a job transfer. During my six years in the United States, my wife Simone and I not only embraced Christ through a church in Pompano Beach, but also became avid listeners of this program aired on local radio stations. Upon our return to Brazil in July 2006, my daily interaction with the ministry lessened. However, a few years later, I rediscovered the programs and their extensive collection online and through various apps. I'm deeply grateful to God for embarking on my second journey through the Bible bus and for the profound growth that has brought to my Christian life. This growth has been fostered significantly through the testimonies of fellow believers shared in reports from World Prayer Today, which emphasize the profound impact of the ministry in their lives. All glory to God for the work he continues to accomplish through the ministry and heartfelt gratitude to all who tirelessly ensure its reach remains alive and active across the globe. Well, two very different stories and yet the same faithful God. As we show up and study His word, He meets us in grief, in growth, in long journeys, and in new beginnings. Well, you know, we'd love to hear how he's meeting your needs too. You can write us in the app directly. You can also email us at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at 1-800-65 Bible. And you can always send a note by mail to Box 7100, Pasadena, California, 91109. In Canada Box 25325, London, Ontario, N6C6B1. And don't wait or overthink it. Your story may be just the encouragement another listener needs. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank you for your living word and thank you for the comfort and strength that you've given us through it. As we study, help us to hold fast to what is true. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Here's the Sunday sermon on Through the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee.
Dr. J. Vernon McGee: We are talking about bread this evening. Someone has said that a college bred man is a four-year loaf. By the way. You have to have a lot of nerve to tell them like that, the gentleman. Now, I'm taking a text this evening, which I very seldom do. And this evening our text is found in the 13th chapter of the Gospel of Matthew, verse 33. Another parable spoke He unto them, The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till the whole was leavened. The Gospel of Matthew is the key to the Bible. The 13th chapter of Matthew is the key to the Gospel of Matthew. And verse 33 is the key to the 13th chapter of the Gospel of Matthew. So that, if you want to put it like this, verse 33 of the 13th chapter of Matthew is in one sense the key to the Bible. Now, that may seem to you to be an oversimplification this evening. It seems unbelievable that this verse could be the key because all we have in this verse is a recipe for bread, and it's the kind of bread that mother baked. I can remember as a boy in the south that my mother baked hot biscuits. The fact of the matter is, we never had a meal that we did not have hot bread. I can remember as a boy coming in sometime into the kitchen, and my mother would have the bread on the back of the stove, a wooden stove, and she would say, be careful, don't jump or make any noise. If you do, the bread will go down. And sometimes it would go down, you know, if it was jarred. And the reason was that that bread had in it yeast, we say. The Bible calls it leaven. It's that which makes bread rise. And honestly, it makes it tasty. It makes it very delicious to the natural man. And so we have in this parable here, everything seems to be in order here in mother's kitchen. She takes leaven, yeast, and she puts it in three measures of meal and we're going to have hot biscuits. And they will be delicious, I can assure you. Now, you may say, well, this parable, it just seems to be a page out of Betty Crocker's cookbook. Well, may I say to you, that is probably true. And it does seem strange, does it not, that the Kingdom of Heaven is just one of the departments of General Mills? That's what we have here. Here is leaven being put in three measures of meal. But may I say to you, we maybe ought to look down under the surface. I think there's more here than meets the eye because of the fact our Lord said, after he gave the first parable, there are seven parables here definitely, probably eight, but there are seven parables that we know, and after the first parable, and he explained two of them, and that gives us the key to the other parables, but he explained the first one and afterward, he says, it's given to you to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven. So that these parables have to do with the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven. Now, it really is a mystery because there is an interpretation of these parables that's popular that seems to contradict everything else in the scripture. And may I say that the parable of the leaven is really the parable, it seems to be the dividing line today among expositors of the scripture. For there are two interpretations of the parable of the leaven that are diametrically opposed to each other. And of course, there may be three. In other words, there is the wrong interpretation and then there's my interpretation, and then there's probably the one that's the right interpretation. May I say that there is always three sides to every question. And that's your side, my side, and the right side. But here we have two interpretations of this parable and I frankly was not up only brought up on hot biscuits, but I was brought up on this interpretation of this parable. I was told that the leaven here is the gospel. And that the woman is the church. And that the three measures of meal represent the human family. And that the church is to take the leaven, the gospel, and hide it in the meal, and before long, it will all be leavened. May I say that when I was a boy, that was the interpretation, we'd thought World War I, and there were a great many deluded people in that day and great many people were beginning to believe maybe after all, the gospel wasn't going to convert the world as some were saying. But at the turn of the century, they believed that the gospel would soon convert the world. And I read the other day an article in a Christian magazine where the writer took the position that even at this late stage, and I thought everybody had given up this interpretation, but he said, you know, we can still believe that in spite of conditions today, two World Wars, worldwide depression and the atomic bomb, we can still believe that the gospel is finally going to triumph and the world is going to be won for Christ. May I say you can't find that in the Word of God. Our Lord nowhere indicated that the preaching of the gospel would convert the world or that he would set up his kingdom upon this earth by the preaching of the gospel or that he'd use the church as the means of establishing his kingdom here upon the earth. Now, if this interpretation that has been so popular and apparently, there are many that are reluctant to give it up today, that means that the leaven is the gospel and it's just working in the world in a good way. And before long all will be leavened in spite of what's happened in this century. My beloved, if that were true, then Christ contradicted himself in these parables that he gave in the 13th of Matthew. And actually, the reason that Matthew gave us Matthew 13 was just to show us how confused Christ was as a teacher and that he's not worthy of our confidence. Because he's already given two parables and he interpreted those two parables, so nobody can guess about them. One's the parable of the sower. He made it very clear. He said, I'll explain to you what this one means, the field is the world. The seed is the Word of God. I am the sower. The son of man is the sower. And that, I think, is the picture of him tonight. Under God's right hand, he is sowing seed, the Word of God in the world. And I do have the confidence to believe that under his direction that I'm sort of sowing seed for him down here. That that's my business. That's the reason I put such an emphasis on the Word of God. It's because I believe that's my business. He's sowing seed. That's what he wants us to do, sow the seed of the Word down here in the world. That is our business. That's what we're called to do. That's what we should be doing down here, sowing seed. But the interesting thing is, he said that some of that seed, it fell by the wayside. It never produced a thing. He said another fourth of that seed fell among thorns, produced nothing. He said another fourth of that seed fell on stony ground, it produced nothing. And he said only one fourth of it even got on good ground, and that which got on good ground, well, only one third of it brought forth a hundredfold. So, may I say to you that that's pretty bad sowing, if you ask me. That's very discouraging to know that only one fourth of your seed will even fall on good ground and then only one third of it's going to bring forth a hundredfold. That's very discouraging. Any farmer will tell you today that he does lots better than that. They expect today the way they sow that practically every seed's going to come up. And today when they sow corn, their problem is to weed out the corn. They don't expect just a fourth of it to come up. They expect all of it to come up and then they will thin it out. Same thing's true of cotton. And today when they sow wheat, they expect it all to come up. May I say to you, our Lord says, when you sow the seed of the Word, you can only expect one fourth. And then he gave this very discouraging parable. He said that the sower went forth to sow and then his servants came into him and said, did you know that last night an enemy got into our fields and has been sowing darnel? And they said, let us go out because it's beginning to come up and let us pull up the darnel. He said, no, you let it grow together. And I'll take care of it at the harvest. I'll be the one that will separate the darnel from the good wheat. I'll be the one that will do that. You just let it both grow together. Now, may I say to you, friends, that's no picture of a converted world, is it? That's no picture of everybody on topside of the earth turning to Christ. May I say to you that in the parable of the leaven, he says that the leaven got into the three measures of meal and it worked and worked and worked until all of it was leavened. 100% was leavened. That's the picture. Let me read it again. Another parable spake he unto them. The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till the whole was leavened. Now, to begin with, when did the leaven become something good? If it does mean the gospel, then this is the only place in the Word of God that you will find leaven being used in scripture as something good. And the very interesting thing is that our Lord was a Jew. Our Lord was speaking to Jews. Those that had been brought up in the Old Testament tradition. And our Lord had been preparing these people for over a century concerning certain great truths. For instance, one of them, without shedding of blood, is no remission of sins. And in order to get that truth over to this nation, may I say to you that literally there were millions of animals in the course of over a millennium that were shed. The blood was shed in order to convey to these people the truth that without shedding of blood is no remission of sins. Now, also at the same time that he gave them the truth about the shedding of blood, he gave them the truth concerning leaven. Leaven is used 98 times in the Bible. It's used 75 times in the Old Testament and 23 times in the New Testament. And it's always used in a bad sense. God at the very beginning, began to school these people that leaven was something to be avoided and that leaven was not acceptable to him. And when they left the land of Egypt, they not only put the blood on the doorpost, but also he told them that they were to bake bread without leaven. To begin with, there's a practical reason for that. Leaven is a corrupting process. And if that bread is left on the back end of the stove long enough, it'll spoil. It will be, you'll have to hold your nose to get into the kitchen. If you leave it there long enough because leaven is a corrupting process. You have to get the bread right at the right time. Just when it rises, stick it in the oven in a hurry. And then believe me, it's good. It's delicious. It's good to the natural taste, if you please. Now, that kind of bread is not bread that you can put in a sack and keep it for, well, for several weeks or months. I pulled down a loaf of bread off of the market of the I shouldn't give the name of the place, but it was one of these supermarkets the other day and I think they had it about that long. I in fact, I think it's one of the loaves they brought out of the land of Egypt. It was so old. I don't know how it got there. I went to the manager about it and he said, my let me have it and you could have thrown it and well, you'd kill somebody if you'd thrown it at them. But it had spoiled really. It wasn't fit to eat because it was leavened bread. Now, they would eat unleavened bread. And back in the 12th chapter of the book of Exodus, verse 15, listen to the Lord now at the very beginning. When they became a nation overnight, that very night he taught them two things. Without shedding of blood is no remission of sins. And that night he said, leaven is a principle of evil. Listen to this. Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread. Even the first day, ye shall put away leaven out of your houses. For whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. Now that is a tremendous statement for God to make. He says, if you eat the wrong kind of bread, you're cut off from the nation. Does that sound fair and right to you? May I say to you, God's giving them a great principle that leaven is evil. It represents false doctrine. It represents evil in most any form. And I'm prepared tonight to offer anyone a hundred dollars. They'll show me any place in scripture where leaven means something good. Now, before you give me this scripture, I'll turn to it myself because I have had people before, they come down in great triumph, and they say, what about Leviticus 23:17? Now, this is the only place in the Word of God where leaven was ever included in an offering. And the very interesting thing is, it's very meaningful here. Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals. They shall be of fine flour. They shall be baken with leaven. They are the first fruits unto the Lord. Now, this was Pentecost. Pentecost is the church. And Pentecost on that feast and that feast alone, leavened bread was offered. Why? Because my beloved, the church is not perfect. There's evil in the church. Always has been from the very beginning. Beginning with trouble in the church in Jerusalem down to the present hour. There has been evil in the church. And so that which is offered to God, and he knows about it. But that is the remarkable thing. And the wonderful thing is that he will accept us, though we be sinners, and in spite today of all of our failures, he'll not take his hand off of us. And what a marvelous lesson that in this one offering that represents the church. That leaven was offered. That's the only sacrifice in which you find it offered at all. Now, if you'll notice the nature of leaven for a moment, I said a while ago, it was what we call today yeast. It is a corrupting process. It's what makes great juice ferment. It is what makes bread rise. It is the corrupting process in practically all food stuffs that spoil. And it is fermentation. It was called in the nation Israel. You'll even find in an Orthodox Jew today on one of their feasts. You take the feast of Yom Kippur. You'll find out they'll sweep out their home. And you ask them what they're doing. I remember very fine Jewish family lived across from us in Nashville. He didn't do much sweeping and I saw him sweeping one day and I went over and asked him. I said, for gracious sakes, don't start this in the neighborhood because all the wives will have their house and he says, this is Yom Kippur. And I said, what are you doing? He says, we're getting rid of the komets. And I said komets? What's komets? He says, that is leaven to you. That which is evil. That which is round. The the the little dirt that gets in the corner. And we get rid of the komets. And komets is what was kept out. But the thing that they ate was matzah. Unleavened bread. That was the bread that they ate. Leaven was kept out of it. Now, my beloved, wouldn't it be exceedingly strange if our Lord, speaking to these men who were schooled in the Old Testament, who were saturated in its teachings, for him to get up and give a teaching that was contrary to anything they'd ever been taught without explaining it to them. And this is the parable he didn't explain. Why? Because they already knew what he was talking about. You've got to get into the church today and get ThDs and PhDs before you get mixed up on leaven. But back there they understood what it meant. They knew at that time that leaven was a principle of evil and they so understood it in that day. Now, our Lord used this figure on other occasions. And when he used it on other occasions, he made it very clear what he was talking about. At least the disciples found out what he meant by it. Now over in the 16th chapter of the Gospel of Matthew, here's what he said. Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. Now if leaven is the gospel or it's something that's good, why should they beware of it? This is some thing he says, beware of the leaven. And these men, they scratched their head and they said, what does he mean? Does he mean that we shouldn't eat bread, certain bread that we shouldn't eat? And then he explained it to them. Down in the 12th verse, he says, they understood that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. In other words, leaven there, when our Lord used it, he meant that it was the false doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. May I say to you, I do not think that you can do a complete flip mentally or spiritually and say that the leaven is now the gospel in the 33rd verse of the 13th chapter. I think it's very important to understand that leaven is not the gospel, but it is a principle of evil, if you please. Now, if leaven is something that is good, then poor Paul never got straight on it either and he was a Pharisee and he always understood it was evil. And nowhere when our Lord took him out on the desert and got him straightened out on the gospel of grace, he never seemed to get Paul straightened out on this matter of leaven because Paul wrote, and I'll only give one of his quotations in 1 Corinthians 5:6. Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven that ye may be a new lump as ye are unleavened, for even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. What's Paul saying to these Christians? He's saying, you get and he's writing to the Corinthians. You get evil out of the church. It is evil and in the church in Corinth, it was not only evil doctrine, not only evil principles, wrong principles, but it was also evil conduct. And Paul used it to speak of both, you see. So that, friends, leaven anywhere you find it in the Word of God is a principle of evil. And you just can't by the churches or the seminaries, more or less pass in a law, you just can't make it that way. I've been very much interested in keeping this little resolution that went before the 78th Congress at its first session in the House of Representatives and it passed both the representatives and the Senate. This was April 17th, 1943. And you listen to this. Now, remember, we were in war at that time with Japan. Listen to this. Whereas certain cherry trees located around the Tidal Basin in the District of Columbia and in other parts of the District of Columbia have heretofore been known and referred to as Japanese cherry trees. And whereas it has been established that the said cherry trees originated on the island of Olong in Korea and not in Japan. Therefore, be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring, that the said cherry trees shall hereafter be known and referred to as Korean cherry trees. Isn't that nice? Just by Senate and House of Representative resolution, the Congress changes cherry trees from Japanese cherry trees to Korean cherry trees. Now, after the war and and we've come this far along, isn't that utterly ridiculous? And you know what they are today? They are still Japanese cherry trees. I saw pictures of them last spring in a magazine and it says Japanese cherry trees. You just can't pass a resolution and change this, my beloved. They're still what they are. And because today, most of our theological seminaries and denominations, they passed a resolution and they say leaven must be good, it's the gospel. They don't make it the gospel anymore than you can make Japanese cherry trees Korean cherry trees. They're still the same cherry trees. And they're Japanese cherry trees today in spite of what Congress did. And in spite of what today is being attempted in our seminaries and the popular interpretation, may I say to you that leaven tonight is still a principle of evil. And our Lord says, the Kingdom of Heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until it all was leavened. I'm not through with the parable. It not only breaks down with the leaven, it breaks down everywhere else. The meal that she uses, the three measures of meal, was made from the wheat. And it actually is not a parable about leaven. It's not what happened to leaven. It's what happened to three measures of meal. And the meal, which was made out of the wheat, and we've already been told that that wheat that was sown is the Word of God. This is what's going to happen to the Word of God when it's sown in the world. Somebody's going to sneak a little leaven into it. And I can remember as a boy seeing my mother take off just a just a little bit of a handful of dough and she'd put that aside. That she's saving that for the next go. She wraps it up, puts it in the ice box. And the next time, well, she puts it in the dough, mixes it all through. And before long the next time the whole business is leavened again. That's the way that it comes about. All of it is leavened. May I say to you, it's not what happens to leaven here, it's what happens to three measures of meal. It's what happens to the teaching, if you please, of the Word of God in the world after 1900 years. And then there's something else that I have a question about. If this is the gospel, why did she hide it in three measures of meal? We were told that this was to be proclaimed from the housetops. We were told that we were to go into all the world and preach the gospel and it was to be proclaimed on high heaven. But here the woman hides the leaven. And if this is the gospel, this is not the way to get it out. You may be sure. May I say to you, this sneaky way of getting it into the into the bread, hiding it in the bread, is bringing evil, if you please, and bringing false teaching into the teaching of the Word of God. That's what's happened in the past 1900 years. And I'm not through yet. And I'm moving now on dangerous ground. What about this woman? Here is a woman in an official position. May I say that she is theologically wrong? Right now, listening in, and when you listen in, there'll be folk, they'll be sharpening their pencil right at this point. Don't write me, will you not? Because I've had all the letters and I I think I've had all the arguments. In this day of female preachers, it's very difficult to see. May I say to the Jew in that day it was repugnant to see a woman in the place of teaching. Our Lord in all of these parables says a certain man. A man went out and sowed seed. He said a merchant man came buying goodly pearls. But here a woman takes leaven and hides it in three measures of meal entirely out of place. And you'll find out again that that's the teaching of the Old Testament because at this time there was no New Testament. No use referring now to New Testament scripture, but when you go back in the Old Testament, you'll find out that the woman that stands out as the most repugnant of all was Jezebel. And when John was given these seven messages from our Lord, our Lord says, I have this against you that you permitted that woman Jezebel to teach. And he says, I forbid it. And in Zechariah, you have a woman in a bushel basket going through the heavens. You know, that hadn't been tried in Southern California. They've tried everything else, and I've often wondered why they didn't try that. I have a woman preacher go across and with this day of the helicopters, maybe they could work out something like that, go across in a bushel basket. That'd be according to scripture. But if you read that and the interpretation given to Zechariah, you'll find out it was wrong. Now, I do not believe and still do not believe in female preachers. I think it's wrong. I think it's unscriptural. I do not think there's any scriptural basis for it whatsoever. There are two things, I think I should say. However, Dr. Ironside was walking with one of his brethren up here at Oakland through a park, and there was a woman preaching. And this brother said to Dr. Ironside, isn't it a shame that that woman's out there preaching? And Dr. Ironside said, it's a shame that there's not some man to take her place. And then I remember what Gypsy Smith years ago in Dallas, Texas, when he was holding meetings at the First Baptist Church. A lady came up to him after the service one evening and she says, Gypsy Smith, I've been called to preach. And Gypsy Smith felt just like I do about female preachers, and he said to her, he says, how many children do you have? She says, I have seven. He says, it's wonderful, isn't it? God's called you to preach and he's already given you your congregation. May I say to you, that's where the woman's called to preach. Now, the parables are about a certain man. And here is a woman that takes this leaven and hides it. May I say everything is out of place here. What do we have? Our Lord says that in this interval from my first coming to my second coming, the business of those that are my servants will be to sow seed in the world. That's our business. We're going to sow seed in the world. And as we sow seed in the world, some sneaky female is going to come and put in leaven. Now, don't misunderstand me. The woman represents the evil principle. The leaven represents an evil principle. And the interesting thing is, and I say this tonight, after some thought, do you know that practically every heresy that has come into the church has come in through a paid clergy? That's the way it came in. There has been slipped into the teachings of the Word of God. There has been slipped in error, and there has been slipped in all of this that is evil. So much so that I marvel that any sinner ever gets saved. I really marvel at it. It's one of the most amazing things to me when anybody in this day gets saved because of all the voices that are speaking in this hour, and they all, that's one thing sure, can't be speaking for the Lord and speaking so many contradictory things. Really, salvation is today by the grace of God. And that's my reason, friends, for believing that in this hour that, well, a great many of us here at the church of the Open Door think that the five minutes after the service is over, and you give the invitation, that that's the only time anybody can ever get saved. The interesting thing is, that that's not where the work is being done in this church today. May I say to you, I have letter after letter. I have letter from a man that was in one of the cults. In fact, he and his family were in the cult. He said, McGee, I listened to you for six months. Three of those months, I thought you were crazy. I thought you were absolutely a man that was insane, the things that you talked. And he says, that's the reason I listened to you. He said, boy, that fellow's crazy. And he listened. But after three months, the Word of God began to get into his mind and his heart. He'd been in a cult. And do you know that it took him another three months before all of the cobwebs, all of the leaven could be pushed aside. And this man could see that Christ died for his sins and that he actually didn't have to do anything to be saved except to receive Christ as his savior. And he said to me, that was the craziest thing I ever heard. Imagine God saving a man and he didn't do anything. Just believe God. He says, that seemed impossible. Because I'd been in a cult where you work yourself to death. And then you couldn't be sure. You just hope that somehow another things would work out. It's amazing that anybody can get saved, my beloved. Because there's been so much of leaven that has been put into the meal today. Of course, a certain amount of the Word of God is given by the cults. But there's a whole lot of leaven that is in it today. And the very interesting thing is, leaven sure makes it good to the natural taste. And that's the reason that certain services appeal to the natural man. They have to appeal to the natural man because it appeals to his appetite. I know exactly how he feels. I love hot biscuits. And there are a lot of hot biscuits being given out today as the Word of God, just shot through with leaven. But it's not the gospel of the grace of God, whereby we are saved. That our savior died on the cross, that we might have eternal life simply by trusting him. We've been talking about leaven. That which is evil. That which is an evil principle or even evil conduct. And it may be that you've been fed up on it. It's good to the natural taste. But may I say there's nothing that will give indigestion like eating too many hot biscuits. And today a great many people have been feeding on leaven. Maybe you have. That which appeals to the natural taste. And you really never have come to Christ, rested upon him, him alone. You you've wanted to do something. You've wanted to add something. Maybe it's not even clear to you now. But somehow another tonight, you'd like to turn to one that will undertake to save you. And he's not asking you tonight to do one thing, my beloved, except just believe him. Just believe him. Amazing, isn't it? Amazing when you think of the different things men are told to do today. And you can separate the gospel from every cult and every ism. All of them say, do, do, do. The gospel alone says done. It's done. The great transaction is done. He's done it all for you. And all he asks you to do, believe it. Trust him.
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