Christ Is All | January 11, 2026 AM

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I'm going to invite your attention to Colossians chapter

#3 this morning. If you don't know where that is

in the Word of God, go to the back portion of your Bible.

It's near the rear of the New Testament, the book of

Colossians. You have Galatians, Ephesians,

Philippians, and Colossians in that short little span there.

Colossians chapter #3 And the title of the message this

morning is Obviously This Christ is All to go along with our

theme for 2026. You know, we've had 11 different

themes over the years we've been here at Liberty.

I actually had to go through my notes to be able to find them

all again because it's amazing to me how much of A focus they

are for a year. But then after a while they kind

of fade to the back of your mind as a new theme takes its place.

2014, our very first one was Triumph in Christ.

And to be honest with you, just the fact that the church was

established and still open after a year was a triumph.

Triumph in Christ first 2015 was walk worthy 2016 that ye may

grow 2017 be found faithful then launch out and who is on the

winning side. 2020 diligently seek him 2021 he is worthy 2022

set at liberty 2023 one word forward and then verse #20 or

year 2024 and 2025 add to your faith.

And I really feel like each of these came at just the right

time and just the right season for us as a church.

I particularly think of 2020 and 2021 and 2022 going into 2020

could never have imagined that diligently seek him would have

been so important when people were seeking answers from all

different places when we didn't even know what the questions

were, let alone the answers. In 2020.

I was so glad to be able to have that mind focused on the fact

that the Lord was the one that we were to diligently seek.

And I think a 2022 set at liberty, a time of

tumultuousness at our church in many ways.

And the fact that those who the Lord had left remained here set

at liberty. I could never have imagined how

that would have all worked together.

And then to see how the Lord has grown this church and to see how

the Lord has blessed this church in so many ways has pleased me

more than I can possibly say to you.

You know, the, the process of choosing a theme is not a

mysterious one. It's not that I have some sort

of special revelation or anything like that.

It's just simply through prayer and through my own Bible reading

that I see a phrase or I see words that just kind of seem to

jump out at me and arrest my attention.

And it just seems like the Lord's leadership is such that

this would be something for us to be able to focus on.

And maybe you'd ask this question, you know, Pastor, why

are we spending a year on Christ is all?

Why would we spend an entire year just thinking about the

fact that Christ is all those 3 little words?

Why would we do that? How could we do such a thing?

Well, I think it's important because my fear is not just for

you, but really for my own life as well.

I feel like a lot of us are very fond of Christ, but we can't say

that Christ is all. I'm not making an accusation.

You're all looking at me like I'm trying to hurt your

feelings. All right?

I'm not trying to hurt anyone's feelings this morning, but I'm

just saying this that I feel like a lot of us are very fond

of Christ. I think a lot of us feel that

he's very important to us. But to say that he is all like

the scripture says, it's something I think many of us are

not prepared to be able to say. For many, Christ is just part of

who they are as a complex creature.

You know, we're many components that make up who we are, aren't

we? You know, I think of the fact we

live in the Boston area and that kind of is part of our DNA a

little bit. Whether you were born in this

area and you say you park the car in Harvard Yard, but the

other way, you know, and you've lived in this area or like for a

transplant like I am in this area, I feel like especially

when you go to different parts of the country, it's part of who

you are. It's a curiosity that people

have when you go different places.

And so that's part of our identity.

You know, being a parent or being a spouse, that's part of

your identity and it's who you are loving coffee is a part of

your identity, at least here at Liberty Baptist Church.

Amen. Like coffee lovers, you know,

people love to coffee, they love the pets, they love dogs, they

love cats. Yes, people even love cats.

Amen. I love cats.

I know that. We got a few in here, all right.

Everyone else, not so much, all right?

That's okay. It's all part of who we are.

It's part of who we are as people.

But unfortunately, I think for many Christians, Christ is part

of their identity, like a small room in a larger house, but it's

not their actual identity, like the foundation upon which the

whole house stands. And that's who we are to be as

believers, that Christ isn't just a small part of the larger

whole, but that truly Christ is our everything, because Christ

is everything. Jesus put it this way in Matthew

Matthew 7:24

7 verses 24 and 25. Therefore, whosoever here at

these sayings of mine, and do with them, I will liken him unto

a wise man, which built his house upon a rock.

And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew

and beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded

upon the rock. Jesus Christ is that rock that

we found our life upon. Paul put it this way in

Philippians chapter 1, verses 20 and 20.

Philippians 1:20

One, according to my earnest expectation and my hope that in

nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness as

always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether

it be by life or by death. For me to live is Christ, he

says, and to die is gain. Paul's not being ambiguous there

whatsoever. He's saying that in his life,

whether he lives or he dies, Christ is all to him.

This morning I want us to consider why Christ is all.

Then over the Sunday mornings to come this year, we're going to

look at the different characteristics of Christ.

Why is he all? Who is he?

Do we understand not just the fact that he lived and he

ministered and he died and he resurrected, but who he was in

his earthly ministry and who He is today and how that impacts

each and every one of us in our spiritual lives as well, these

characteristics of Christ. There's so many more, more than

you likely realize, and with so many characteristics of Christ,

there's no doubt that Christ should be all in our lives.

Would you stand please for the reading of God's Word?

We're in Colossians chapter #3 if you'd stand please for the

reading of God's Word. We're to read from verse #1 to

verse #11 and we'll only be really looking at verse #11

today, but we'll be looking at the whole text next week as

well. So I think we should start from

the beginning where it says this.

If he then be risen with Christ, Seek those things which are

above where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

Set your affection on things above, and not on things on the

earth, for ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

When Christ, who is our life shall appear, then shall ye also

appear with Him in glory. Mortify therefore your members,

which are upon the earth, fornication, unclean in

ordinance, affection, evil, concupiscence and covetousness.

This which is idolatry, for which things sake the wrath of

God cometh on the children of disobedience, into which He also

walked sometime when He lived in them.

But now you also put off all thieves, anger, wrath, malice,

blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

Lie not to one another, seeing that she had put off the old man

with his deeds, and have put on the new man, which is renewed in

knowledge after the image of him that created him.

Now look at verse 11. Where there is neither Greek nor

Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian,

Cynthian, bond nor free. But Christ is all and in all.

And that last phrase there is what I really want us to focus

on today. But Christ is all and in all.

You may be seated as we pray together.

Heavenly Father, I do thank you for this morning and I thank you

for all that we're here today. My heart's desire is that there

are those who may be unsaved that need to know what it means

to be saved. Not what religion says or not

what a man's opinion is, but what does the Word of God say

about the gospel? I pray that those people would

come to a saving faith today. And you, I do pray for those who

are part of our church, that each and every one of us not

need to just be fond of Christ Lord, but that He is our all, as

He is all and in all. Lord, help us all to be able to

receive from your Word through Your Holy Spirit that which we

need today. Help me to deliver it in a way

that's understandable, that is honest to the Scriptures, a Lord

that magnifies you above all else.

And I do ask this in Jesus name, Amen.

Colossians 311 is one of the more powerful and believe it or

not, beloved verses that you'll find in all of scripture.

It was the favorite. I didn't know this until

recently. It was the favorite verse of Sir

Isaac Newton. The Puritan writers use the

verse to confront nominal Christianity, meaning this may

be Christianity in name only, insisting that Christ must be

the believers defining reality, not merely some added devotion.

Matthew Henry, the great commentator, said the verse

teaches that Christianity does not improve the old man, but

rather replaces the old man. And Charles Spurgeon, perhaps

one of the greatest preachers of all time, that great Baptist

preacher of the 1800s in London, preached on this text at least

four different times to thousands upon thousands at the

Metropolitan Tabernacle. Now, as we look at our theme

text this morning, there are two points I want to set out to

prove to you in the next few minutes.

I think the first one won't be too hard for us to be able to

look at. The second one might need some

convincing, but these two things that I want us to see this

morning are this first of all #1 mankind has always been divided.

And #2 Christ is the answer to all division.

I think #1 we can all agree this morning, no matter where you are

or where you've come from, that, number one, mankind has always

been divided. Does anyone want to argue with

that today? I would imagine that wouldn't be

the case. We are the United States of

America, but in many ways we are the divided States of America,

aren't we, that we live in division?

But I would say that division is not something that just appeared

in the last 15 or 20 years. In fact, I think people

sometimes seem to think that it just recently arrived on the

scene. But division has been something

that man has been doing well pretty much since man has been

on this earth. It's always been about division,

dividing from one another. Verse #11 talks to that and

points to that where it says there is neither Greek nor Jew,

circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian, Cynthian, bond or

three. Now, that might not sound too

much like something that we would understand today, but as

Paul is writing this letter, this letter to the Colossians,

that means it was to the city of Coloss in Greece.

As he's writing of this letter to the people of Colossus.

They would have understood exactly what Paul was talking

about when he name checked these different groups and these

different ways of living. In fact, one commentary says

Colossus had once been a significant city, but by the 1st

century it had declined in prominence, overshadowed by

nearby Laodicea and Harapolis. It's population was ethnically

and religiously diverse, including native Phrygians.

Greeks influenced the by Hellenistic culture and a

substantial Jewish community. This mixture created a setting

where ideas from Judaism, Greek philosophy, and local folk

beliefs all came together. And so these people of Colossus

would have understood who these groups were and how Paul was

trying to say there's neither this nor this.

There's neither this nor this or these other groups as well.

And so as he begins the verse, he gives some of those contrasts

and he starts with this. There is neither Greek nor Jew

and some other places in the word of God.

Well, you see that word Greek, it's also used for Gentile.

And so Gentile or Greek would really be a non Jew and then the

Jew would be, well the Jew. So you have the first set of

contrasts. You have the Greeks, the non

Jews, but then also the Jews as well.

This is talking about ethnic identity, immutable traits.

These are people from this group.

But then there are people from this group, but then it mentions

others as well. The other contrast of

circumcision or uncircumcision. Now at first we might think of

that being, well, the same as Jews and Greeks, because we

understand that the Jews were given the sign of circumcision

in the Old Testament. It was part of their covenant

relationship with the Lord. It was a sign of that which God

had promised them. And so immediately we might

think it's just a restating of that, which was just said in the

contrast before between Jews or Greeks.

But I actually believe it was something deeper than that

because circumcision was a sign for those not only who were

ethnically Jews, but those who also became Jews as well, those

who became part of the covenant relationship of the Jews.

And so we'd almost look at it deeper than that and say when it

talks about the circumcised and uncircumcised, it's talking

about people of different religious beliefs, not just the

immutable traits that were born with.

But it says, you know, there's this tension between Jews and

Greek geeks, but there's also this tension of those who

believe in the Lord, but also those who don't believe in the

Lord. There's that natural tension

that's there as well. And then he mentions these other

groups, the Barbarians. We're familiar with that term

Barbarians today. And what you're probably

imagining in your head right now is exactly what it was.

It was those who were outside of the Roman Empire.

I didn't realize this till I studied it out, But the term

barbarian was for them an onomatopoeia.

That word kind of means a word that sounds like what it is.

And for them, they were looking at those who are outside the

Roman Empire, whose languages they didn't understand, and they

would often think that that sounded like they were talking

like bar, bar, bar bar. That's what it sounded like

their unknown language to them. And so they called them

Barbarians. They were people who weren't

part of the Roman Empire. They didn't know him.

And they said, well, we'll call them Barbarians.

And Cynthians, listen to this. We're even worse than

Barbarians. They were even Wilder in the

sensitivities of the Roman Empire.

They were savages in many ways. They were crude, they were

coarse, they were boorish. They were savages, they were

nomads. They were warlike people who

invaded the Fertile Crescent in the 7th century before Christ.

The Synthians were notorious for their savagery.

And then it goes on to say there's bond and free talking

about those who are part of the slave market and the slave trade

during that time, which in many places in the Roman Empire could

have been up to a order in some places of those who were living

or more were slaves that were held as slave labor.

And so there's all of these different groups here.

And many of those groups were at odds with one another.

Jews and Greeks, circumcised and uncircumcised in many ways, all

of them against the Barbarians and the Synthians were against

everybody. And then Bond and Free, it seems

like could there be any unity? Could it be anything that they

have in common? No, it seems like more than

anything, it was just vision. They were divided, They were in

these different camps, and in many ways it felt like they had

nothing in common with one another at all.

But here we are 2000 years later, and don't you feel like

there's a lot of similarities to where we are today?

Again, we live in a divided nation, which is in the midst of

a divided world. See, we as mankind with all of

our advancements. And we've had a lot of

advancements technologically speaking, haven't we?

But with all of our advancements, we still get into

the age-old debates of being divided by all of these

different things. Mankind is divided by race.

Mankind is divided by color, mankind is divided by language.

Mankind is divided by social classes, particularly in other

nations where some of the social stratas are still held to today.

And you can't leave the caste system of which you were born

into. Those are still around today for

billions upon this planet. Mankind is divided by economic

classes. Mankind is divided by education,

where you're college educated, where you're part of a trade.

Did you graduate high school? Did you get a GED?

We break up into all these different camps and we even

break into smaller camps, and a lot of them aren't even

important, but it seems like we try to break ourselves into

smaller groups than that. There's the Ford people against

the Chevy people, there's the Duncan people against the

Starbucks people. There's the iPhone people

against everyone else, the Android.

There's Coke and Pepsi. There's early birds and night

owls and by the way, early birds.

I just want to know how you do it.

That's all I want to know. Early birds, night owls, aisle

seat against window seat, Pats against chargers.

Wait, no, that's tonight. Never mind.

We're divided into all of these different groups, and some of

them important and some of them meaningless.

But it's like we're always dividing and trying to find our

group and define our niche, and this is what mankind does.

And if it was just to find people with common belief so

that then we could reach out to other people, that would be one

thing. But mankind divides, and in the

division we find that they can get pretty heated, get pretty

difficult, and we live in a world that bears witness to

that. Mankind is divided by belief

system. We find that all throughout the

word of God. You can go all the way back to

the first family. No, not Adam and Eve, but their

sons, Cain and Abel, they divided.

One died over the issue of whether offering should be made

with fruits and vegetables or the blood of animal sacrifices.

God commanded Abraham divided with his family and moved to a

promised land of which he didn't know where it was, but he just

trusted the Lord to go and divided from his family.

In the old world, Samuel is a young man divided from the

leadership of Israel who we're not doing right, and decided he

would do right in a time of great wickedness of Israel.

Ruth divided from her people in Moab when Moab was not serving

the Lord, but yet she decided to go back with Naomi to Bethlehem,

Judah. And she said in Ruth chapter

one, verse 16 For whither thou goest I will go, and where thou

largest I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people

and thy God, my God. Daniel and his friends divided

from the leadership of Babylon, and we're willing to put their

lives on the line against the false gods and the false

leadership of Babylon. But this division of belief is

still true today. There's Christians, there's

Jews, there's Muslims that make up 4 million or rather 4

billionth of the world's population today, not to mention

over 4000 religions worldwide at the best estimate of many.

There's different national beliefs.

There's right and left, Conservative and Liberal,

freedom and socialism, red state and blue state.

Do I really need to convince you how divided we are today?

I think if there's anything today, you'd probably say

pastor, it's overkill. Pastor.

I understand, Pastor, we live in a divided world.

But yes, it's always been a divided world.

The problem has always been division.

Mankind keeps dividing. The camps keep getting smaller

and the camps keep getting more vicious every day.

So let me ask you this. With all that division, are you

unsettled? Are you afraid?

Are you concerned for? Yourself, your kids, your

grandkids. Are you like me that there were

times this week that you just as your normal habit of life, you

click online or on your phone to check the news and maybe you

said, oh, I don't know that I want to look at it because I

don't know what I'm going to see.

I felt that this week. Have you felt that this week?

Do you have that concern? Mankind is divided in your

heart. Are you asking yourself the

question, Maybe? Is there an answer to all of

this? Is there an answer to the

madness that's around us? Is there an answer to the

divisiveness? Is there an answer to the

problems? Is there an answer to sin

itself, the very root cause, the very root problem of mankind?

Could there be an answer? Well, as I told you a few

moments ago, listen, mankind has always been divided.

That's clear in verse #11 Greek, Jew, circumcision,

uncircumcision, barbarian, sentient, bond, or free.

And you could put any of the groups that I just mentioned in

there and update it for today. I'm not talking about changing

the Word of God, but I'm saying the same problems exist today

day that existed back then. But here's the answer that

Christ is the answer to all division.

If you get nothing else from today, understand this that in a

world that is divided, Christ has always been the answer to

all division. Don't miss the 1st 4 words of

this verse. Look again at verse #11 it says

where there is neither, meaning this there's an answer to that

division. So there's a place where there

is neither Jew or Greek, circumcision nor uncircumcision,

barbarian, sentient bond nor free.

Where there is neither means there's an answer to all of

that. And that word but three simple

letters. BUT the conjunction and many

times the most blessed word that you'll find in all of the word

of God. Say, why is that?

Because upon that small word hinges a great change where

there's division. But there is an answer.

But it's not just an answer, it's a very specific answer.

The specific answer is this Jesus Christ.

Why? Because Christ is all and in

all. The answer has always been Jesus

Christ. There's two phrases right there

that we can look at it, and I can tell you that in the short

time I have, there's no way I can treat these as well as I

would like to because there's so much there in such a small short

phrase. Christ is all and in all.

But first we see that Christ is all meaning this.

He is everything that matters. Christ is everything that

matters in this life when it comes to salvation.

He is everything that matters. There is no other name given

upon man, given under heaven whereby man must be saved, but

in the name of Jesus Christ. He is everything that matters.

He is your identity. We're not Bostonians and we're

not Americans and we're not all of these other things first, or

coffee lovers or cat lovers. Apparently not many of those

today. We all those things when our

true identity comes from Christ, he first and foremost, you say,

so I'm not supposed to identify with anything else.

Well, of course you are. You can't.

We live here and this is where we are and this is the nation

we're in. And by the way, I'm so glad to

be an American. I'm thankful to be able to live

in the United States of America, even with all of its flaws and

all of its difficulties. I'm so thankful that we are

placed here for such a time as this.

But I will say this, that even with all of those identities,

Christ is the primary identity. And as we identify with him,

listen, he makes us better, better and all of those other

things you say, well, identify as a parent.

That's that's who I am. Well, identifying with Christ

will make you a better parent. Well, I'm a spouse.

That's wonderful. Christ will make you a better

spouse. 1 of Bostonian. I can't promise you Christ will

make you a better driver. All right.

I can't promise you I can get upset in traffic.

All right, That's a that's that's between you and the Lord.

All right, But I do know this. Listen, He is our identity.

Christ is all. He's our righteousness.

Our righteousness doesn't come within ourselves.

We're sinners. We do wrong.

We see that in the very division of which it bounds around us.

We see that we're sinners. But in Christ we are righteous.

We have righteousness through Him.

In salvation, in Christ, there is wisdom.

Wisdom of the world is fool's gold.

It seems like it will lead you a certain direction, but that

direction often times is right off a Cliff.

But the wisdom of the Lord, the wisdom of the Lord is what we

need. Christ is all when it comes to

wisdom. Christ is all when it comes to

purpose. Christ is all when it comes to

hope. Christ alone is the source, the

sum, and the substance of the Christian life.

Now the other side of that is this.

Not only is He everything to us, listen, He is also everything

that matters to me. Christ is all meaning this, that

that he should be everything in my life, but also this he is

lacking nothing. That's why we can say Christ is

all. That's one of the things I want

us to look at over the next several weeks.

Some of these characteristics, consider some of these that Lord

willing, we're going to look at that.

Christ is healer, Christ is teacher, Christ is

compassionate, Christ is meek, Christ is omnipotent, He is

servant, He is holy, He is savior, forgiving, prophet,

eternal, gracious, light, the door, shepherd, life, truthful,

divine, loving, omniscient, peaceful, glorious, judge,

bread, just, sovereign, Redeemer, Lord, humble, creator,

wise, patient, victorious, merciful, sinless, obedient,

priest, righteous, faithful, and king.

That makes me tired. Just saying it all don't make me

say it again, But those all come from New Testament verses that

tell us who He is. Christ is all.

He's not just all to you, but He is all, sufficient and lacking

nothing. Christ is all.

What else in this world can you think of that is

all-encompassing and all powerful like Christ?

Christ is all. But it also says this, that it's

not just that Christ is all, but Christ is in all.

Those are the last words of the verse, and in all meaning Christ

is in all. You realize that when you accept

Jesus Christ as your savior that he dwells within you the spirit

of Christ. Colossians 127 says Christ in

you the the hope of glory. Because of this, Galatians 327

through 29 says for as many of you have been baptized into

Christ, have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek,

nor bond, nor free. Does that sound familiar to

anyone? We have Christ within us.

There's neither Jew nor Creek, nor bond, nor free.

There's neither male nor female. You're one in Christ Jesus.

Meaning what? Where there was division, now

there's unity. What mankind cannot accomplish,

only God can accomplish. If you be Christ's, then ye are

Abraham's seed and errors according to the promise,

because He is in all. He is the only truly unifying

factor that you can find in this world that you can always rely

on. Oh, there's other unifying

factors. I understand that, but they

don't work 100% of the time. Oh, there's some good programs

out there. There's some good thoughts out

there, there are some philosophies out there that

might steer you in the right direction, but if it comes from

man, listen, it won't work 100% of the time.

But I will tell you this, there's only one who is always

the unifying factor and that is Jesus Christ.

He can heal the vision of this world, but listen, most

importantly, He can heal the division of your broken heart as

well. He can heal the division of the

world, and it starts with each having their hearts healed from

the division that comes by sin and brokenness.

He can unify a marriage. Christ is in all.

He can bring unity to a marriage.

He can bring unity to a family. Believe it or not, He can bring

unity to a church. Imagine that.

A group of people. Thank you, Ralph.

All right, imagine that's how I feel too about it, brother.

You know, listen, a bunch of us being together, if we all have

Christ, we should be the most united group that you can find

anywhere. But it seems like that's not

often the case, is it? I'm not talking about liberty,

but I'm just talking about churches in general.

It makes you wonder if that's the case in the church isn't

truly united, then that means that Christ isn't all to the

church because people are serving their own selfishness,

their own thoughts, your own sin.

But where there is not unity, that means that Christ is not

all to unify a nation. Say where's the hope for

America? I say to you the hope for

America's in Jesus Christ for Psalm chapter 33 verse 12.

Psalms 33:12

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord and the people whom

he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

Say, Pastor, you trying to make this a Christian nation?

Have you ever heard of the separation of church and state?

Well, I have heard the separation of church and state.

That was written by Thomas Jefferson, not in the

Declaration of Independence of the Constitution of the United

States, but he wrote about it to a bunch of Baptists in

Connecticut because they were worried about there being a

state church, as there already had been in the colonies turning

into States and as there was in Europe from which they were

trying to escape. Do I want this to be a Christian

nation? Here's what I want.

I want everyone to be a Christian and then this will be

a Christian nation. That seems to be the simplest

way to do it, to be able to just share our faith with as many

people as possible to tell how much Jesus can be a unifying

factor in a broken heart. And Jesus can unify hearts.

He can unify families, He can unify churches, He can unify a

nation. Listen when we humble ourselves

and realize that when mankind gets involved, we divide.

But when Jesus Christ truly is all and in all, he brings unity

that nothing else could bring. Truly, Christ breaks barriers

and Christ saves sinners. I don't try to say that in a way

that sounds flippant. Christ breaks barriers.

Sometimes people say something like that and they're trying to

say that sin is OK, that sin is not a big deal.

That's not what I'm talking about.

The barrier between Jew and Greek was broken down by Jesus

Christ. The barrier between circumcision

and uncircumcision was broken down by Jesus Christ.

Barrier, barbarian, sentient bond and free broken by Jesus

Christ. Why can I look around today and

see there's all different shades of color, people that know

different languages, people that come from different backgrounds?

Why can I look at this room and look like, then look and think

that it looks more like a group of the United Nations?

I don't want to be like the United Nations, but but why do I

see that? Because where the world couldn't

understand that we could be one in Christ and speak different

languages and be of different races and know that we're all of

one blood. And by the way, we all go back

to the same ancestors. You can go back to the book of

Genesis. You'll find out we're all

related. What do you need today if you

don't know where you'll spend eternity, if you're unsure where

you would spend your life after this life is over, and yes, I

said that correctly, where you'd spend the next life after this

life is over. I want to implore you, make

Christ all in your life. Understand that you're a Sinner.

Only Christ can save you. We're going to have some folks

there get baptized today. They came to a place where they

understood that they're sinners, that only Jesus Christ can save

them, and they called upon Christ to save them.

This isn't a process that you take care of when you're a baby,

when your parents take care of it with you.

This isn't a process that you do because you join a church.

It's not a process that you do because you have to listen to

the pastor preach 100 hours and then you know you're going to

heaven. Somebody say, wow, is that is,

is that easy? That sounds pretty hard actually

to me, all things considered. No, it's not about what feat you

could accomplish. It's about what Jesus

accomplished on the cross. That's why He is all and in all.

If you're a believer today, you know Jesus Christ, your Savior.

Are you fond of Him? Amen.

Or is He more? It's good to be fond of Him.

That's a good place to start. But is He all and in all, you

say? But you mean then Jesus, He

would be everything. Now you're getting it, but

there'll be nothing left. No, the things that would be

left would be things that would honor him and the things that

your responsibilities in your life you would do better because

you would be honoring the King of kings and the Lord of Lords.

No, Christ being all would not make you a worse parent and make

you a better parent. A worse spouse would make you a

better spouse. You say you've said that already

pastor. I just don't think people

understand it or believe it. Yes, it'll make you better when

Christ is all. Thought a lot of thought about

marriage on my mind, not just because it was on our

anniversary a few weeks ago, but because two weddings and 13

months for our family. That's a it's a lot.

It's a lot in the pocketbook because they're girls.

So it's a lot on everything. And listen, I'm I'm so thankful.

I'm so thankful for Carter, who just married Bethany back in

May. I'm thankful for Casey, who's

about to marry Kaylee here in June.

I'm thankful for them, but it makes me think about our own

wedding as well, Diane and mine. And you know, it's amazing.

All I've said this before, all the preparation, the time,

expense and all that and you get ready, it all leads up to like

30 minutes and you're done and you're like, that's it.

Like we need to do that again. Like that went by way too fast

for all the money and all the time and all the stuff that

happened. That's incredible.

I mean, it goes by so very, very fast.

But I think about wedding relations or marriage

relationships, I think about the wedding and there's usually two

different ways of looking at it. There are some that that wedding

day, they spend extravagant amounts of money on it and for

them, that's maybe the very best day of the marriage.

I'm not judging anyone. I'm not saying I'm just using

this as a way of illustration. For some, that may be the very

best day. It is the peak, it is the

pinnacle. And then after that it kind of

tapers off. It's a sad reality.

It is a reality in some situations.

There are others. And I feel this way in my own

relationship, but I feel like the wedding was modest and it

was, it was wonderful. And by the way, I'm not saying

that the the success of your marriage is based on how much

money you spent on it. Please be clear.

Let me be clear about that. But it was modest and we were so

in love. And I, I thought then I couldn't

love her any more than I love her right now.

But you know, 22 years later, and for some, that's a lot.

And for some of you are like, yeah, your kids, you know, I

know. But 22 years, I think I know I

love her more now than I did 22 years ago.

I couldn't even I couldn't even explain it.

I can't even I don't even understood it.

I just the longer we're together, the more I love her.

By the way, I'm not just saying that because she's in here

because I don't think she's in here right now.

So I mean, don't tell her I said any of that.

OK, no, but I feel like as by way of comparison, and I know

this may be a difficult comparison to make because as we

consider our relationship with Christ, human relationships

aren't always perfect because both people are not perfect.

Our relationship with Christ is different because we're not

perfect, but he is. But follow the illustration for

a second. If the best day of your

Christian life was the day you got saved and that was it, then

you've missed out what Christ has in store for you.

Was it an amazing day? It was a life changing day.

They became a new creature. Old things passed away, all

things become new. You were seated in heavenly

places. You you became a believer,

adopted into the very family of God.

It was a great day. But can I tell you this?

You ought to love Him more after years than when you fairly first

met Him. And if the day that was the

greatest, most lovingest day of your relationship was a day you

got saved, then just kind of tapered off.

Christ is not all. What's the process?

It ought to be the other marriage where as time goes on,

it just keeps getting better and better, sweeter and sweeter.

Oh sure, there's rough patches here and there, there's

difficulties, there's ups and downs.

And by the way, when there's ups and downs in our relationship,

mine with the Lord, it's not his fault.

He's faithful, he's true, He's good, I'm the one that can

stray. But is he your all in your daily

life as he is? And if he is, every day I'll get

a little sweeter than the one before.

And that when the time comes that he calls us to glory,

whether that's through death or whether through Jesus coming

back, it'll just be another progression, another step of

that getting to fellowship with him for all eternity.

Listen, He's going to be our all for eternity city might as well

be our all now. Christ is all.

Is he all for you today? Thank you for listening to the

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