The Only Gospel

Have you ever owned or been given something that was amazing, maybe even quite precious,

but you never actually got any benefit from it? I remember when Sal and I were engaged,

we went through the very important rite of passage that is doing your wedding registry.

Now for the uninitiated, those who haven't had that delight, basically what you do is you go

to one of the big department stores, a Meyer or a David Jones, and they give you one of the

barcode scanning guns, and you just walk around scanning things you want. It's amazing, you don't

have to have any money at all, you just scan things and hope that somebody else will spend the money for

you. So you wander through the shop and you get all the essentials like towels, sheets, flat screen TV,

all those sorts of things, and just really hope that somebody's feeling generous when they're going

through for those big ticket items. And the point of it is that hopefully you don't get 50 towels and

no dinner plates, that sort of thing. Doesn't always work, but that's the theory. Now for full

disclosure, I should concede that for our wedding registry, I survived about the first 20 minutes

in David Jones before Sal set me free from those shackles and instead went back with her mum

afterwards about seven or eight times. So I really didn't know what was coming when the delivery truck

arrived after we'd come back from our honeymoon. But I do remember as we were opening all these

things wrapped up in David Jones wrapping paper and trying to figure out where we're going to put

these things in the place that we were living, there was one, maybe more than one, but at least

one thing which to this day I still don't understand. It was the same in my house growing up.

It's the same in almost every house that I've ever visited. The fancy plates. I don't understand.

We have the usable plates and then we have the fancy plates. And so this is the stuff in your house

that lives in a special cabinet, usually next to the dining table. I'm not sure why, but that's where

it is. And there's glass so that you can see these beautiful plates piled up there. Maybe view the

pictures of them. And it's there for the special occasion when the queen comes to visit.

Now obviously not really, but it feels like we're holding out for something special. But really the

only function that these plates serve is to insult the bulk of your guests who sit at your table

looking at the plates that they weren't special enough to get out on the table.

I remember as a kid, so there was five kids in my house growing up, so we were pretty good at

breaking stuff. And we would break plates and cups regularly. And I remember our regular plates,

our boring, unimportant, not special person plates, that set was starting to struggle.

And so I thought, obvious solution, we have a set right next to the table on display that

we could bring out. Apparently it wasn't so obvious. Instead, we bought another set of regular

plates so that our special plates could stay special, stay unused and sit in the fancy cabinet.

What is the point of fancy plates? I mean, the value of a plate is its ability to hold food

so that you can eat off it. And the plates in the cupboard had all the necessary needs for being

a plate. They were firm enough. They were flat enough. They weren't broken. In fact, they were more

than good enough. They were fancy. But because we put them in the cupboard, in the cabinet, we never got

any benefit from them. They didn't deliver as plates because we refused to use them for the very thing

they were made to do, hold food. Now, it's possible to have good, valuable things in your life, things that

are there for your benefit and to waste them because you never used them. Instead, we put them in a cabinet

for a special occasion that never seems to eventuate. It's even possible to do that with the good things

that God blesses us with. It's possible to go from people who are struggling in life, trying to figure out

what we're here for, trying to figure out how to please God, feeling the burden of our failure, and then

to discover His amazing grace and love for us, even though we don't deserve it, to discover free forgiveness

and unconditional love and think, wow, this is the solution I've been searching for. And then to put it in a

display cabinet and go back to feeling insecure and guilty and unsure and kind of lost in life and having

to try really hard to convince God to love you, when we do that, we make following Jesus a struggle.

We make following Jesus difficult because we know we're not good enough and then being not good enough

with the solution in the cabinet makes us want to try harder and then trying harder doesn't work

because we still fail and then we feel worse and so then we try harder and it's this vicious cycle

and then because we're feeling insecure, we start looking down on other people to try and make ourselves

feel better, but then because we're looking down on other people, we start to worry about what other

people are thinking of us and it just is exhausting trying to follow Jesus when the only thing that can help

you, the solution you need, the solution you need has been put in a display cabinet for the special occasion.

Often the challenge for many Christians is not discovering the good things that God has to offer,

but having discovered them, actually using them day by day, actually getting the benefit from them

in your week, in your job, in your relationships.

That was the problem for the churches in Galatia.

We're embarking today on 12 weeks in this book.

This is a letter from Paul the Apostle to a group of churches in the region of Galatia.

That's what is now southern Turkey.

These churches were started by Paul on one of his missionary journeys.

He travelled through the region preaching the gospel.

It's there in verse 8.

He says, the gospel that we preached to you, or in verse 9, the gospel that you accepted.

When they heard the gospel, churches began.

These people went from being in that pattern of struggling, lost, unsure, searching for security,

to thinking, we've found it.

To thinking, I'm going to change my life.

This is the best message I've ever heard.

What was it that he preached?

What was that message that began the whole journey for them?

Verse 3.

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,

who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age,

according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be glory forever and ever.

Amen.

Now, this is a classic way to start a letter in the ancient world.

It's classic to Paul's letters as well.

You get to look at that in your community groups this week.

But Paul uses this to take them back to their foundation.

It starts with who's writing Paul, who it's to, the churches in Galatia.

And then normally, third, you would say something like, greetings, or I miss you.

But Paul takes that opportunity and makes it a gospel opportunity.

So what is the gospel?

Let's just walk through those three verses a bit slower.

Firstly, grace and peace to you from God our Father.

It's a gospel of grace.

Absolutely foundational to Paul's message, to the gospel, to the message of the whole Bible,

is the reality that if you want to know God,

he needs to decide to grant you that privilege, even though you don't deserve it.

That his mercy is the starting point.

Because you and I and everyone ever and the Galatians are just straight up undeserving of the privilege of knowing God the creator.

The gospel is the good news that by grace, God gives you what you do not deserve.

In fact, what he offers is peace.

It's grace and peace to you.

And that's not like peace as in like peacefulness, some sort of serenity.

It's not peace as in life being easy and comfortable.

It's more, it's bigger than that.

It's more like, almost like world peace.

If in that phrase you can catch the sense that it's God bringing justice on the earth,

fixing what's wrong, judging the guilty, recreating our world to be the perfect place it's supposed to be.

Removing sickness and death and pain.

That's the peace that the gospel holds out for people.

It's a hope for the future that God is preparing for those who belong to him.

Those he's chosen by grace.

So the gospel is grace and peace to you from God our Father.

Secondly, and the Lord Jesus Christ who gave himself for our sins.

The gospel is the message that says God's grace is available through Jesus.

And not just Jesus generally who was a carpenter's son or some other detail about his life.

But the Jesus who came and lived a perfect life as the only one who deserved a relationship with God.

And most importantly is the one who died as an innocent man in our place for our sin.

For our rejection of God.

While we were his enemies.

Jesus died that we might become sons and daughters.

He took our punishment.

He handed us his perfection.

So that we could have the relationship with God that we were made for.

The relationship with God that we are eternally restless without.

So that that longing and searching could be met.

Jesus came and died for our sins.

And then thirdly, to rescue us from the present evil age.

He did it to rescue us.

The whole issue, the whole reason we need a gospel, we need a good news, we need a message of hope.

Is because sin is in the world.

And because of sin, all of creation has been separated from God.

Everything that is wrong in the world and in your life is a result of sin.

And it's a result of us being separated out from God and his goodness.

We've lost access to him.

We now lack the ability to please him, even if we want to.

We are fenced in by death.

Fenced in by our own failure and limitation.

But Jesus comes to rescue us from that.

He comes to give us a new life.

He comes to give us the power of his Holy Spirit,

which enables us to finally please God.

And live for him.

And then lastly, it's according to the will of our God and Father.

Again, it's all about grace.

It's all about what God has done.

It's all about what God chooses to do.

And for no other reason.

Because of his great mercy.

The gospel is the message of God's grace to us in sending his son

so that we might be forgiven

and so that unworthy people like you and I can know him as father.

That is the gospel.

Before we get into anything else in Galatians,

before the Galatians get into anything else,

Paul needs to drag them back to there, to their starting point.

If you're a Christian,

that is the message that you heard and accepted.

If you're not a Christian,

that is the invitation of the gospel.

The invitation from God to you is that you could know this forgiveness.

You could receive this gift of love and acceptance from God that you do not deserve.

You could be rescued from the frustration and futility of this age.

You could have the hope for peace.

The hope for heaven.

The hope for the day when God will return and rescue those who are his finally and fully.

That gospel truth was sufficient for many of us in this room

to make the decision that our lives would no longer be about ourselves

but would be about the one who had done all this for us.

This gospel was sufficient for the Galatians to make the decision

to leave other religion and other idol worship

and other cultural commitments

and make Jesus their defining reality.

And then,

verse 6,

Paul says,

I'm astonished

that you are so quickly

deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ

and are turning to a different gospel

which is really no gospel at all.

They just deserted him.

I mean,

notice that word there.

They didn't desert it.

They didn't desert information.

They didn't desert content.

They deserted the one who called them.

They turned away from God himself

who offered them grace,

who offered them their solution.

Astonished,

almost doesn't feel like it does it justice.

I mean,

having experienced the grace of God,

having been loved in spite of who they are,

having been forgiven through the blood of Jesus on the cross,

having discovered the significance and satisfaction

that can only be found in Jesus,

how do they just turn away?

And so quickly.

I mean,

if they've been following God for a long time,

maybe you've been a Christian for a while

and that joy that you had at the beginning,

that wonder that God would do this

has kind of faded

in the struggles of life

and in the challenges.

Maybe then you could understand,

but near the beginning?

I remember when I became a Christian,

I was 14 years old,

I felt invincible.

It was quite literally,

even to now,

the most exciting and significant thing

that I had ever discovered

that God would love me like this

and love me like this forever.

I wasn't going anywhere.

And yet,

these churches,

so quickly,

after discovering the grace of God,

have deserted the one

who called them to live in that grace.

How?

How does that happen?

Do you remember when you discovered grace?

If you're a Christian,

do you remember what it was for you

for the first time

to understand that God

would love you like this?

How do you go from there,

from amazed,

from wondered,

from overwhelmed,

from this is what my life

will be about from now on,

to just turning away?

What happens between those two points?

One of the things that

my family and I like to do,

and when I say like to do,

I think we've done it maybe three times,

but Bailey's a big fan

of scenic world

in the Blue Mountains.

He loves going on the train

that goes kind of essentially

down the cliff and back up.

He loves going on the cable cars

and, you know,

it's a pretty amazing thing

to have an hour and a half

up the road.

But I have to confess

that on the cable car,

I think it's the yellow one,

that has a clear bottom

that kind of stays frosted

until you're in the middle of nowhere

and then it goes clear

so that you can see

that certain death awaits you

if something goes wrong.

I remember sitting on there

and just pondering for a moment

that the only thing

at that point

between me and certain death,

I eventually started worrying

about my family and kids as well

that were with me,

but initially me and certain death

was a cable about that round.

Now, I'm no engineer,

don't pretend to be,

but I just remember for a moment

just second guessing my decision

to step onto that cable car,

especially the second and third time

because Bailey was having so much fun.

But the reality is

in the country that we live in

with the security standards

that we have

and the engineering that's available,

it's a very safe thing to be on.

Even if you get stuck in the middle,

that cable's not snapping.

It's getting regularly checked.

It's probably capable of holding

about 15 of those cable cars

plus people.

They're going to overrate it

to make sure that it is secure.

But when you're in the middle

between these two cliffs,

miles above the ground,

not miles, but it feels like it,

it doesn't matter

that I'm completely secure

if I don't feel completely secure.

If I'm standing in that car

looking through this clear bottom

at trees,

that cable could be this thick,

if I don't feel secure in that moment,

I'm going to act

based on how I feel.

I'm going to panic.

I'm going to be telling the operator

to hurry up and accelerate

this thing to the other side.

I'm going to be crying.

I'm going to be, you know,

getting a piggyback from sales

so that I'm not going to hit

the ground first.

I'm going to act

based on how I feel

even though in reality

I'm completely secure.

It's going to be dictated

by how I'm feeling

in that moment.

These Galatians

have heard the gospel.

They have heard

the truth

of the irreversible reality

that God has loved them

by His grace.

Loved them in spite

of who they are

and so in fact

nothing that they do

or don't do

could ever change

His love for them.

They are secure

in His love.

But their issue is

in spite of the concrete

objective reality

that they are secure

they don't feel secure.

They're second guessing

their security.

They're panicking.

They're doubting

the engineering.

I mean,

you've got to understand

they're turning

to another gospel

but they're still

turning to a gospel

even if it's

no gospel at all.

They're looking for a gospel.

They still want

to be with God.

It's not like they're saying

forget God

I'm not interested

in Him anymore.

Their issue is

they're just not sure

that they're on the right track.

They're just not confident

that they're secure

in God's love.

They're starting

to worry

whether they've

ticked all the boxes.

They're turning

to a false

and useful gospel

but they're turning

to a gospel

that they've been

tricked into thinking

will help them.

They still want

to be forgiven.

They still want

a relationship

with God.

They still want

to get to heaven.

They're putting effort

into this new direction.

We're going to look

at it more

over the coming weeks

in terms of exactly

what was going on

for them

but their effort

counts for nothing.

Their effort

not just doesn't

help them

it hinders them

because by turning

to this gospel

they're rejecting

the one gospel

the only gospel

the true gospel

that can offer security.

They've been confused.

Verse 7

Evidently some people

are throwing you

into confusion

and are trying

to pervert

the gospel of Christ.

They've been lured

into a perversion

of the gospel.

That's the trick.

The enemy

is very clever here.

The devil's been

at this longer

than any of us

longer than any

of the Galatians

and he knows

that Christians

are not completely stupid.

Some of us

might be closer

to stupid than others

but we're not

completely stupid.

And so these

false teachers

these some people

don't turn up

and say

oh Jesus is stupid

forget about him

because we wouldn't

fall for that.

We'd be like

no no no

Jesus is the important bit

we just learned

a couple of weeks ago

Christ alone

and we're all

about that.

And so they didn't

turn up and say

forget Jesus

they turned up

and said

Jesus is great

isn't it fantastic

what he's done

all this stuff

it's done so much

for you and helped you

there's just a couple

more things

that you need to do

just to really begin

just to be

be sure that you're

the genuine

article

be sure that you're

legitimate

see the devil

presses the buttons

that he knows

are sensitive

for them

see these

Galatian Christians

were Gentiles

they're basically

everyone who's

not Jews

and these

some people

who had turned

up were Jews

and so these

Jews claimed

a certain level

of Christian

heritage

if you like

they were God's

people

and so these

Galatians were

looking at them

thinking they must

know what they're

talking about

I mean they've

been here longer

than I have

and so they

figured I guess

we need to do

what they say

these Jews

turned up

and they were

telling you

you know

Jesus is

fantastic

there's just a

couple more

Jew things

that you need

to do

things like

being circumcised

things like

eating certain

foods

things like

the way you

wash yourself

all that sort

of stuff

it all sounds

pretty harmless

except for maybe

circumcision

but it all

sounds pretty

harmless

it sounds like

the kinds of

things you go

yeah maybe

God does want

me to do

those things

maybe they're

good things

for us to

do

and in fact

whether you

do them or

don't do

them isn't

the issue

the issue

is if you

are doing

them and

thinking that

by those

things you

will be

forgiven

the issue

is that by

doing whatever

it is that

these people

are asking

we begin to

think that

they're the

things that

enable us to

have a

relationship

with God

that is not

the gospel

it's not the

gospel Paul

preached

it's not

the gospel

they accepted

the gospel

is a message

of grace

alone

not grace

plus some

other things

by definition

grace has

to be alone

if grace

is giving you

something you

don't deserve

as soon as you

do something

to try and

deserve it

then grace

disappears

grace is by

definition

alone and

the only gospel

is a gospel

of grace

whenever we

add something

to the gospel

we make it

grace plus

something else

we make it

Jesus plus

something else

it's a

perversion

it's no

gospel at

all

it's not

good news

I've been

around churches

like ours for

a little bit

over half my

life

I just want

to flag one

particular

perversion that

is a danger

for us

there's two

big ones

one is that

you take the

gospel and say

I'm forgiven

so God

doesn't care

what I do

and I can

do whatever

I want

we're going

to talk

about that

one a bit

more in a

few weeks

the issue

for the

Galatians

was the

issue of

here's the

gospel

Jesus has

done everything

he's just

one or two

extra things

I just want

to challenge

us

I want us

to reflect

on how

do we

do that

because in

my experience

both personally

and my

experience in

churches like

ours is that

we have

what I call

the be like

me gospel

the be like

me gospel

is the gospel

that says

Jesus has

died for

your sins

you don't

deserve it

there's nothing

you can do

come and find

forgiveness

and be like

me

you know

be into the

same things

I'm into

I've been a

Christian for a

while and my

hobbies are kind

of a little bit

holier than your

hobbies so just

shift sideways

the way I dress

is a little bit

holier than you

are so dress

like me

the way I

speak is a

little bit

holier than

you so speak

like me

the way I

think about

political issues

is a little bit

holier than you

so share my

stance on all

things political

I remember

someone who used

to come to our

church just really

briefly he used

to smoke

sometimes he used

to smoke out on

the deck

out here

where the

atrium is

that used to

be a deck

that we hang

out on

and I remember

the extent

when this person

and I don't

mean that in a

good way

when this person

would light up a

cigarette at a

church event

I remember as a

pastor being

prodded and asked

if I was going

to intervene

let him know

about you know

his eternal

damnation as he

lit up that

cigarette

his Christian

character was

called into

question

for the record

I think smoking

is dumb

not trying to

offend you if you

smoke

it's bad for

your health

it smells bad

but it has

nothing to do

with the gospel

nothing to do

with whether or

not someone

deserves God's

grace

of course they

don't deserve

God's grace

that's the point

that's what makes

it grace

no one deserves

it

as soon as we

require somebody

to be like us

or to think like

us or to speak

like us or to

dress like us

we're doing

gospel plus

so many

churches are

full of

identical people

because they're

very subtly

doing the

be like me

gospel

we don't say

it's a gospel

issue but we

just won't be

friends with you

if you're not

like us

you won't be

welcome

unless you

start acting

like us

talking like

us

thinking like

us

our vision

as a church

is to be

transcultural

God's vision

for his church

is to be

transcultural

a church

full of

people who

are completely

different

and yet have

all received

the same

grace of

God in

Christ

people who

speak different

languages

people who

are rich

and poor

people who

are polished

and refined

and those who

are a little

bit more rough

around the

edges

people who

swear and

smoke

people who

feel out

of place

among nice

middle class

Anglicans

except for the

fact that

they're depending

on the grace

of God just

as much as

the rest of

us

one of the

first signs

that you've

lost hold

of the only

gospel and

are holding

on to some

perversion

is the way

that you

look at

and treat

other people

if your

response as

you look

around the

room is

pride at

how much

better you

are than

others

or disgust

at how

sinful they

are or

even

frustration

that they're

not putting

in the same

level of

effort as

you at

being a

Christian

what do

you think

it is you're

trusting in to

save you at

that point

the answer

is you

your gospel

has become

you

you're trusting

how good you

are how much

better you are

than others

how hard you're

trying

that's not

the gospel

that's no

gospel at

all that's

not good

news that

is a prison

of guilt

and fear

and shame

and failure

and disappointment

there is

only one

gospel

there is only

one message

of hope

there will only

ever be one

gospel for

sinners like

you and me

and it is the

gospel of

grace alone

in Christ

and so Paul

says emphatically

in verse 8

even if we

or an angel

from heaven

should preach

a gospel

other than

the one we

preach to you

let them be

under God's

curse

as we've

already said

so I say

again if

anybody's

preaching to

you a gospel

other than

what you

accepted

let them

be under

God's

curse

there is

only one

gospel

we just spent

five weeks

being reminded

of this

we stand

on the one

message of

salvation

that is offered

through what

Jesus has

done on

the cross

and so the

last question

we've got to

ask and I

promise I'm

finishing

how do we

resist the

perversions of

the gospel

how do we

make sure we

don't like the

Galatians get

dragged away from

this amazing

message of hope

how do we make

sure that we

stand firm in

this one and

only true

gospel

well some

of you will

be aware

that when I

was a little

bit younger

I used to

drink quite a

bit of coke

I've since

matured I have

an adult palate

now and I've

moved on to

V

when I say a

lot of coke

I'm in

litres per

day

two litres

would be a

slow day for

me

I'm talking

from the age

of like 12

through to

about 25

I would

like find

scrounge around

the house for

money I would

wander around the

playground at

school trying to

get money off

people and I

would just buy

coke I just

love the stuff

drink it like

it was you

know heaven

it was amazing

I got so

familiar with

the taste of

coke so

refined in my

palate that I

could taste the

difference between

coke that came

out of different

containers I

could taste the

difference between

coke in an

aluminium can

to coke in a

plastic bottle

coke in a

glass bottle to

coke in a

plastic bottle

I became so

good at tasting

differences in

coke I could

tell you the

difference between

a 2 litre plastic

bottle and a

1.25 litre plastic

bottle I used to

brag about this

quite regularly I

thought it was a

bit of a spiritual

gift something I

should take pride

in and in my

previous church the

youth group kids

you know they

weren't convinced

so they decided to

give me a cola

challenge and they

said we're going to

get you know some

Pepsi some diet

coke some you

know that terrible

RC cola stuff that

they sell all these

different colas and

they put them in

plain little white

cups on a table and

the challenge was for

me to taste them all

and pick the real

coke I stood at the

table looked at the

row of cups and said

that's the coke I

didn't even have to

taste it by sight I

could tell the real

coke and I was

right it was easy it

wasn't even a

challenge because I

drank so much coke up

to this point I knew

how fizzy it was

supposed to be I

knew what colour it

would be I even knew

you know in that

small cup how that

would impact the

darkness of the coke I

was really across coke

like we're talking

serious familiarity I

knew it so well that

it was easy to spot the

imitations easy to spot

the dodgy diet versions

and whatever else was

out there it's the same

with the gospel it's

not complicated if you

want to be equipped to

resist the perversions

that are out there if

you want to be equipped

in those moments where

you feel insecure to not

go running after false

gospels and false

solutions if you want to

be equipped to resist

even the false gospels

that start here in those

moments of doubt in those

moments of guilt in those

moments of shame you need

to get familiar with this

one true gospel of grace

you need to live in grace

you need to make grace

your daily meal do the

things you did when you

first encountered God's

grace when you first

heard and accepted the

gospel do the things that

enabled you to taste and

experience how good God's

love is there's a whole

bunch I want to really

quickly suggest three that

I think will be true of

anybody who is a

Christian three things that

you did when you first

experienced grace that you

should keep doing to make

grace a part of your

everyday first one listen

to God's word you had to

hear the gospel to respond

to it you need to keep

hearing it day in day out

a little bit of

confession is that when

we're writing when I was

writing this sermon this

week I was feeling a

little bit of deja vu after

spending five weeks looking

at the reformation the

reformation we basically

pulled apart the gospel for

five weeks and I thought

we're starting Galatians I'm

basically saying the exact

same thing this week and

there was a part of me

that's not going to be

interesting we need to hear

this over and over again

because there is that part

of us that goes got it on

the shelf you need to be

listening to God's word like

we are right now you need to

be opening the Bible and

hearing from God grace and

peace to you from God our

father and the Lord Jesus

Christ you need to hear that

message over and over again

that's first second one you

need to confess sin when you

first became a Christian I've

said this over and over

again my community group

knows that this is my chorus

this is my go-to and I'm

going to keep saying it when

you became a Christian you

confessed sin might not have

been fancy it might not have

been in clever words like we

did together just before but

you essentially said God I

need your help I need to be

rescued and what did you

discover God God answers that

prayer God forgives God

cleanses God washes you and

so you need to discover that

again you need to confess sin

again you need to admit that

maybe you've been holding

people to standards that the

gospel doesn't maybe you've

been holding yourself to

standards that the gospel

doesn't and you need to find

that God will forgive you and

then as you're experiencing that

grace you'll be equipped to

know when you hear the lies and

the perversions it's the second

one third one last one is you

need to thank him I'm guessing

a little bit here but I think

there's a fair chance that when

you became a Christian when you

discovered grace there was a

bit of thankfulness going on

for you I remember sobbing just

thinking this is like this is

stupid good God you are amazing

God has filled your life with

grace the fact that we're

sitting here right now soaking in

the truth of the gospel is a gift

from God but there's a chance that

we'll walk out of here and not

even recognize that he's the one

who gave us that gift thank him

train yourself to see and

recognize the grace and as you're

surrounded by it you're ready to

resist the false gospel the fake

gospel the one that drags you away

from the true and only gospel of

grace and forgiveness that is found

in Jesus grace is not the beginning

the gospel is not the beginning it's

everything

God called us to live in grace so

take the gospel out of the display

cabinet if you've put it on a shelf

get it out and use it eat off it

every meal be shaped by it be defined

by it because there is no other gospel

there is no other hope there is nothing

else that has the power to give you

security there is nothing else that

has the power to give you joy in

darkness there is nothing else that

can lift you from the limitations and

the hurt and the struggle of this life

and give you eyes to see the heaven that

God is preparing for you so use it live

in grace

you