When Faith Falls Away - 1 Timothy 4:1-5

We've been going through a letter in the New Testament

called the Book of First Timothy, and we're now starting

chapter 4. If you got a bulletin as you

walked in, you'll see one word it says trustworthy.

And that is the whole focus of this study is to look at how the

Bible describes this whole operation of church, from the

way that we gather to the way that we rise up and, and, and

lead and serve one another there.

There's instructions on all of that in this letter from Paul,

all to a young pastor named Timothy.

And today we're going to start a new chapter and kind of

introduce a new theme. And before we do that, I'll just

remind you for those of you who were here early enough to hear

the first song, no shame if you weren't.

But we sang one of the great hymns and all of the of the

Christian hymns. It is Come Thou Fount, and I

think that hymn has one of the greatest confessional lyrics

that we ever sing. It's very subtle, it's very

simple. But every time I sing it, I

think, Lord, I needed once again to be reminded of the way that

my heart can so easily drift from you.

And so for those of you who sang it, we sang along, as we said,

prone to wander. Lord, I feel it prone to leave

the God I love. And then of course, the the song

is a a moment of worship where he says, Lord, take my heart and

seal it by your chords of love. Now, if you were singing that

song, how many of you felt that specific moment as we were

worshiping as a, a, a point of, let's say, conviction where you,

you realize once again, that's me.

I, I can love the Lord on Sunday morning.

I can read the the word and on my devotional time and I can be

so committed in my heart and my mind and my soul to follow.

And then what happens? Well, life happens and I start

to just kind of wander. I start to drift in my mind and

my purpose and my mission and my goals are, are no longer just

loving God and loving people. They go towards all of the other

things that the world has to offer.

And I think that is why that is such a powerful song because it

it just acknowledges this human instinct to drift away from God.

And I bring all of that up and it's worth singing corporately

because what we find from the very first letters to the church

throughout the centuries until now, that that is not just an

individual temptation that actually happens as churches

that are sown in faith, hope, and love, they, they, they grow

up and they mature and they start getting blessed and

provided for. And what happens?

A church that starts with the love of God can so easily wander

and drift to all of these other things that we've been

addressing throughout the whole Trustworthy series.

Leadership can go awry. Serving can go awry.

The gathering of the church can become about things that are not

just getting into the word and honoring God.

And either if you haven't felt it on an individual level, I'm

sure that if you've been around church long enough, you have

seen the mission drift. And today Paul is going to write

Timothy to give him a vision of how that happens and an answer

as to how to fight the good fight of faith against it.

So this is the theme that we're going to introduce in this new

chapter in our study through Timothy, starting in verse one,

Paul writing to Timothy, says now the spirit expressly says

that in latter times, some will depart from the faith, giving

heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons.

So there's your headline of the chapter.

Some in later times as what is sown in in faith, hope and love.

As time goes on, some are going to drift away and we'll talk

about what he mentions, what that drifting is look is going

to look like. We'll address a couple of

things. Paul says it's going to happen

in the later times or the latter times.

Now some of you might read that and get an excitement that today

we're going to talk about the end times in Christ's return,

and we can do that. But we're not going to do that

for very long because the majority of the New Testament,

when they talk about the latter times or the end, they're

talking about the age of the church that exists from Genesis

to the coming of Christ. Was this culmination of all of

the prophecies of God pointing to the coming one and Christ

comes on the scene and from Christ ascending on high to the

right home of the Father until he returns is this last chapter

of human history called the latter times.

And I'm excited for Christ's return.

I think there's some really good reason to keep that on the

forefront of our mind. And I think that there's also

some bad reasons that sometimes the, the, the focus on end times

can become too predominant. And so I'll say 2 bad reasons

and two good reasons because that'll segue us into what Paul

is getting at. I think the two bad reasons to

overly focus and, and, and hyper focus even on end times is 1.

Some people treat it like an early retirement plan.

It's like, man, if I could find out the day and the time and the

month and the year and I could just kind of count backwards and

reverse engineer the calendar, I would know exactly how to really

get the most out of earth. And I could, you know, have fun

and, and quit my job and take out a bunch of credit card debt

and, and then Christ will come back and I won't have to don't

worry about anything. That's a bad reason to care

about the return of Christ. I think the other bad reason

that sometimes comes up is just we, we travel through the ups

and downs and the hardships of life.

Sometimes life can be so overwhelming, your personal life

or when you think about the state of the world, you can look

at all the news and wars of rumors of war or pandemics.

You can just think, can Christ come back?

Because this is so overwhelming. I just want it all to end.

I, I, I think that's also a bad reason that you're just so, you

know, taking in water in life, that you just think, I just want

all this to end. The, the Lord said, we're going

to have trial, we're going to have tribulation, but take

heart, be of good courage, keep enduring because he's overcome.

So if you're feeling overwhelmed, I hope the Lord

comes back and, and puts all of this into order.

But if he doesn't keep enduring until you meet him face to face.

And so now we have some really good reasons to consider latter

times the the final chapter of human history.

One of them is just to remember at all times that time is short,

that your brief window in human history is not very long.

And there is a brief window between his ascension and his

return. Christ is going to come back in

a twinkling of an eye. And Jesus says, I'm going to

work while it's day because there's a night coming where no

one can work. So let us consider the times

that we live in. And when you see the chaos of

the world and you consider all of the the trouble of evil

prevailing, preach the gospel with confidence that there is a

a great harvest that will take place before the return.

And, and we want to be a part of that.

So it's good to think in those. And then the other good reason

is what we're getting at today. Paul is saying that things tend

to, as they go on, drift from the mission.

So be aware that in later times and latter times at the church,

in Ephesus, at our church, and at the end of human history,

there will be a drifting away that is often called an apostasy

where those who had faith lose faith, the those who trusted God

stop trusting in God and they turn to other things.

And, and Paul is saying, be watchful of that.

And that's the one we're going to focus on because I think that

we should be extra mindful of, of just the reality.

Like we said, there is a prone to drift.

There is a prone to to walk by faith and then kind of feel like

you've had enough faith in your life and then just kind of walk

by other things that are not the, the godly life that he has

for you. And so Paul is going to say

here's what to look out for. As he says there's latter times

and that there in there's some will depart from the faith.

And in the next 3 verses we're going to see what a departure of

the faith looks like. So again, verse 1 giving heed to

deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons.

And then verse 2 says speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their

own conscience seared with a hot iron.

And then verse 3 says forbidding to marry and commanding to

abstain from foods which God created to be received with

Thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

So in those three verses we saw three what you could call the

unholy Trinity of an untrustworthy church.

You have bad doctrine, he says, doctrine of demons and deceiving

spirits. You have bad teachers,

hypocrites who are lying, and then you have bad fruits.

So if you, if you come to this, you know, falling away and

you're a part of it, you're going to be known because the

fruit of your life is things that are not actually intended

by God's grace for you to live in.

And so we're going to look at those things.

We're going to look at what it, what happens when there's bad

doctrine, bad teachers and bad fruit and how to spot it and how

to avoid it so that we don't drift from the purity of faith.

And so we'll end with some good news for all the bad to be

balanced out with some good news.

But first we already read it. Let's look at the bad doctrine.

This is a theme of this letter. The the the trustworthy church

has got to fight the good fight of faith against bad teaching or

people use the word of God and and don't point people towards

God, but to all of these other things.

And Paul is going to say bad doctrine is actually akin to

demonic deception. That's how serious he's taking

this. And So what is what is that?

What is what is bad doctrine or bad teaching?

Bad Sunday pulpit preaching? How can you look at that and

say, wow, that that is actually so deceiving.

There's so much deception from behind that pulpit that it's

demonic. Well, what I don't think it is

based off what we're about to read from the teachers lives and

the fruit. I don't think this is just and

be careful that Halloween just takes over and there's just evil

everywhere and and everyone leaves church and goes by Ouija

boards and tarot cards. I mean, that's what we think of

when we think of kind of the demonic evil of the world.

But read it again. He's talking about doctrine.

He's talking about the way they're teaching using God word

and manipulating it. And so we can't cover every

single way that someone could deceive a flock of people that

are trying to know the Lord. But we can find from the very

beginning some themes that are used by deception and evil

spirits that manipulate God's word.

And so for this we appeal to the creation as Paul has done

throughout this letter. Let's look at how things were in

the very beginning and see what what patterns form from the

first pattern. And so Genesis chapter 3,

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Genesis chapter 3 verse one, it says now the serpent was more

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cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had

made. I I like what the King James

Version says for the word cunning.

It actually says he's more crafty.

He's more deceiving. Genesis 3 is describing the

paradise that God had made the the good world for man and woman

to to live in and have dominion over and to multiply and be

fruitful in and to walk with God.

He's describing the deceit that enters in and the deceit is pure

evil. He's describing this

manifestation of Satan in a serpent.

It says that he's more crafty than any beast of the field.

And he said to the woman, has God indeed said, you shall not

eat of every tree of the garden? So we want to look at the

pattern of deception and here is the root that everything grows

from. It is the undermining of God's

word when we're looking for teachers and and hypocrites and

people that are falling away from the faith and bringing in

other doctrine that would be considered demonic.

What what you can look for in the initial deception is this

one simple question. Did God really say it?

Does the Word really say what the Word says?

And then of course, Eve is going to try to give an answer to what

God actually said. And then you're going to find

another part of the pattern in the serpent's respond, verses

four and five. And it says, then the serpent

said to the woman, you will not surely die, for God knows that

in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will

be like God, knowing good and evil.

So we have an undermining of the word of God.

And then we have a redefining of the word of God.

And when you combine those two, you will find that the main

tenants of deception and demonic doctrine, when when people come

and they use the word of God or they question the word of God

and they say, well, is that really what it means?

Is that really what it says? So we have all sorts of versions

of did God really say in our day and age.

So you may have encountered some of them yourself.

I think there are some that that seem to dominate the cultural

conversations of our day. Did God really say that His word

would endure forever? Is is the word of God actually

truth or is it really just kind of a moral guide book that we

can use as one of the great books of all of the religious

library? That's a common question that

people will ask to undermine the faithfulness of the word of God.

And in undermining, they will then redefine by saying it's

simply one of the, the books in the collection.

And so you undermined the, the power of Scripture, the

authority of God's word. And when you undermine that, you

can begin to undermine all sorts of other things about how God

designed church, family, city. The one of the, the classic ones

that we continually run up against and our modern culture

is did God really say? And then there's all sorts of

questions about marriage and man and woman and the gift of sex

that is to be enjoyed between them.

And be mindful of this. It's a question that will come

up in the heat of the moment. Did God really say that we need

to be married? Can't we just be in love?

Does God really need a piece of paper for us to enjoy the gift

that he's given us? There's all sorts of ways that

the word will be undermined and redefined for someone to gain

what they're actually looking for apart from God's will.

Here's a popular one. Did God really say that Jesus is

the only way to salvation? Is that what Jesus meant when he

said I'm the way, the truth and the life, and that no one comes

to the Father except by me? Surely Jesus wouldn't be so

exclusive and narrow minded. He's such a good teacher.

He's such an awesome person. Surely he's open to all of the

other ways that God has revealed himself through the history of

religion. He's a way, but not the way.

And then maybe for the sake of where Paul is going with his

encouragement for Timothy, maybe you've wrestled with this.

Maybe you've come from a religious background that

actually put this on your shoulders and you need to be set

free from this by the power of the gospel.

Did God really say you are saved by grace and not by works?

Surely there must be something you're supposed to do.

Surely there must be something that after you receive the gift

of God, you should be doing to actually become more holy and

more spiritual. And here's all the rules and

here's all the regulations and here's all the secret knowledge

to become more holy and more spiritual.

And that has been a did God really say moment from the

beginning of the gospel until now?

And you have so many religions that that use the name of Jesus

and pursue the the power of God with all sorts of works of man,

temple work and mission work. And how many people you've

witnessed to and how often you go to church and what you wear

at church and the scriptures you memorize and the scripture you

use. And all of these rules are added

to the gospel. Did God really say grace alone?

And that is in fact, what Paul is dealing with so often as he

writes the New Testament, that grace is the power to save and

that works are something God has prepared for us to walk in

beforehand. So we start with bad doctrine,

and with bad doctrine you're going to find bad teachers, he

says in verse 2. Speaking lies in hypocrisy,

having their own conscience seared with a hot iron.

So one of the the signs, of course, this is not, you know, a

perfect example of a perfect teacher.

But remember, as we were looking for good signs of leadership,

Paul is telling to Timothy, qualify your leaders.

They must be blameless, above reproach.

They must be respectable. In other words, they're not

living a double life. They're not preaching a message

that they themselves are not able to live.

And now you want to find the qualification of a bad teacher,

Hypocrites and liars. They're they're, they're pushing

laws and regulations and burdens on the people that they

themselves cannot lift. Later they'll, they'll see some

of the teaching in in this church that Paul is warming

Timothy against. They say not to Mary.

They say there's certain food that you can't eat.

Well, are they married while they're preaching?

That some of them presumably are.

Are they able to perfectly align themselves to the dietary laws

that they're preaching? It says in James chapter 3.

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If you have bitter envy and self seeking in your hearts, do not

boast and lie against the truth. This wisdom does not descend

from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

For where envy and self seeking exist, confusion and every evil

thing are there. And so one of the reasons that

we study this, the goal is that none of us would drift from the

faith. All of us would cling to the

simple gospel, but also that you would be able to not be

deceived. Part of this theme is there's

deception that is put on the people what to look out for.

Well, James says that where envy and self seeking exist, there's

where your evil is. And sadly, that is one of the

clear marks of people who speak lies and hypocrisy is that

they're self seeking. They're they're building

disciples unto themselves. They're building a church brand

for their name and their face. And so we look out for self

seeking and envious leaders. I like this quote.

It says the cure for hypocrisy is the gospel of grace.

The preacher who proclaims the need for grace will no doubt

preach a message that matches his own life.

The preacher who preaches a message of grace will no doubt

preach a message that matches his own life.

Amen. I can preach your need for grace

because I can match that in my own life.

And I will say for all of you who have listened to the

trustworthy series that we've gone through and and said, man,

I want to have a trustworthy home.

I want to have a trustworthy marriage.

I want to raise kids that trust me as I disciple them.

Preach the gospel of grace and you won't be a hypocrite.

Preach the gospel of regulations and rules and all of the burdens

that you can put on people to be more religious and more perfect

in the eyes of God. And you yourself will be found

as a liar. And your your kids or your

husband or the people who know you best will lose respect not

only for you, but for the message that you're proclaiming.

And then it says that they have their conscience seared with a

hot iron. I think it's a good moment just

to consider the gift of the conscience that God has given

all of us. It says the law is written on

our heart when we hear the word of God.

If if you're hearing with ears to hear, it gets planted in your

heart and then you leave here and there will be times where

the Holy Spirit just calls to your mind, puts a burden on your

heart of truth that should guide your life away from wrong and

towards evil or towards good. It says the consciousness, that

internal moral compass shaped by God's Word to discern right.

From wrong and for for this whole picture of the compass, I

can actually just direct you all to a time and our our our great

history as a country when Disney actually made good movies.

Sadly, that day is now over. But there was a day way back in

the 40s when Disney made a movie called Pinocchio.

And if you haven't seen it and you're interested in what the

best picture I've ever seen of the conscience is, consider a

little cricket that lived on Pinocchio's shoulder and his

name was Jiminy and he was the the he was a parable of sorts.

He was analogy of what the conscience does.

The conscience urges obedience to the truth.

And so if you watch the movie, you'll see Jiminy tell tell

Pinocchio, hey, you got to go to school.

Just like Geppetto said, you go to school.

That's the truth. That's the commandment.

He says do it. He's urging towards the truth

and the conscious warns against sin.

And so you'll remember as as he's tempted to go to Pleasure

Island, this little puppet named Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket says

no riches and and and fame are deceiving.

Don't go. He warns against sin.

He warns against the deception of sin.

And then finally, the great benefit of the conscience.

And it's so important that we allow this to be something that

we respond to, lest we get seared.

We turn it off it. It encourages repentance.

And so at some point, Pinocchio has drifted so far from his

original purpose that he becomes a donkey.

And that's a reminder that that's what sin does to you.

It makes you a donkey. There's another word for that,

but we won't say it in church. And, and, and, and then as

conscious comes and he says you got to go back to Geppetto.

He will know what to do. And so some of you need to hear

your conscience speak to you right now.

If you've drifted from the faith and you hear a message called

prone to wander, you say prone to wander, I'm wandering right

now. Your conscience is telling you

go back to the Lord. He knows what to do.

He knows how to make beauty from the ashes and the mess you've

made of your life. And here's the danger.

And this is a great segue back to the the view of a bad

teacher. The bad teacher has seared his

conscience. The bad teacher has been, has

been motivated by the Holy Spirit to preach truth and he

turned it off. He's been motivated by the Holy

Spirit to warn against sin and he actually promotes sin.

He's been but the conscience, the Holy Spirit has said, go

back to God. What you're doing is wrong and

God can fix it. And if you say no enough to the

Holy Spirit and this, this internal guy that God has given

us in our conscience, you can actually sear it.

You can turn it off like the nerve endings of a, of a hand

that has been overworked and it's no longer got nerves.

You can't feel what you're touching.

That's a beautiful picture of a seared conscious.

You can no longer feel the damage and the effects of the

lives that you're destroying. The conscience is seared.

And so again, we hear this message.

Don't drift. And also be on the lookout.

Be on the lookout for a teacher or a leader or a person bearing

the name of God who is unable to show remorse and never repents.

Repentance is how we keep the conscience in our life alive to

keep telling us things. And then finally we have bad

fruit. You get bad doctrine, you're

going to have bad teachers. And the result of that is a tree

is known by its fruit. And what's coming off the tree

of this, this apostasy that is happening as this church drifts

away and people have lost the faith, it says here's what

they're teaching. They're teaching, forbidding,

forbidding those to marry and commanding to abstain from foods

which God created to be received with Thanksgiving by those who

believe and those who know the truth.

There's 2 examples that are happening in Ephesus.

Common battles for Paul to be fighting against as he preaches

the gospel of grace. And he fights against one word

that encapsulates all versions of don't marry and don't eat

certain food. And that is the word legalism.

It's good for us to hear it once again to be aware of it.

Just because you're disciplined and strict doesn't mean you're

legalistic. But if you lose love, you often

replace it with legalism. And here's what it what the

definition is. Legalism is a strict adherence

to laws, rules, or traditions as means of earning righteousness

before God at the expense of grace, faith, and love.

And the two examples he gives are both kind of in the same

heart. This idea potentially happening

in Ephesus comes maybe from this Gnostic teaching that the

physical world is evil and to truly be spiritual you have to

neglect the flesh at all costs. And so marriage leads to one of

the great pleasures of sex. So don't even get married, just

abstain from the whole thing. And the more celibate you are,

the more spiritual you are. Well, what have we already said?

That is an undermining of God's word.

God's word says that for this reason that man and woman should

be joined together to create one flesh.

That from the very beginning he made the man and woman to become

fruitful and multiply and have this version of the family

represent the the Kingdom of God in their little circle.

It's good to be married and you can take anything out of

context. Paul once wrote to another

church that those that are single have the gift of

singleness and, and someone might have heard that and said,

OK, no one can ever marry well. Legalism can take good things.

That may be a conviction for you.

Some of you may never watch TV in your house and some of you,

you, you may, you may have a, a strict regiment for when you

wake up and what day you rest on and how often you read the

Bible. And, and all those things are

fine until they become the standard by which everyone must

live. And if anyone doesn't do what

you're doing, they're less holy than you.

That's legalism. So some of these people were

doing it with marriage. Other people were doing it by

abstaining from food. Again, if it's a Gnostic

teaching physical bad food feeds the flesh.

We can see a good practice of this is sometimes we'll we'll

take some time to pray and fast to seek the Lord and just quiet

our flesh. But in no way can this ever be a

burden that is placed on people that if they're not doing it,

they're less spiritual. It might have been a Jewish

influence to take dietary laws and say, if you really want to

be spiritual, if you really want to be righteous, this is what

you have to eat. And we have to be mindful of all

the different ways that legalism can creep in, good things that

become standards for everyone and a bar of righteousness.

Paul says that is bad discipleship and bad fruit.

I do find it funny in our culture how so many people have

fallen away from the faith, stopped going to church and even

stopped believing in God and they've chosen to never marry

again, never have a family and, and, and become vegan.

And I think that that here it is right here, we've got a a

version of it happening in the real world.

But that's not what Paul's talking about.

As we as we come to the good news, I want to point out what

Paul isn't talking about when we hear falling away of the faith

great apostasy in the end times. There's going to be, you know,

those who are faithful that are that are now faithless.

And if you're like me, my mind sometimes goes to a picture of

that person being a a militant atheist.

They they've rejected God on every account.

They are are strict Darwinian evolution.

There's an explanation for everything apart from God and

faithless means you have no faith at all.

And there's a version of that, but that's not what Paul is

describing. What Paul is describing is

people that are pursuing God in all of the wrong ways.

They're still at the gathering. They're still sitting under

teaching. They're still considering how to

live out the, the teaching and the, and the doctrine.

They're, they're spiritual. Remember they, there's, there's

a spirit of, of deceiving spirits.

They're spiritual. They just don't have the Holy

Spirit. It says that they're doctrinal,

they just don't have sound doctrine.

It says that they're making sacrifices, but instead of

picking up their cross and making sacrifices for the Lord

and for each other, they're picking up the law and they're

making sacrifices to impress God.

And so the real warning is not a message to the outside world of

the dangers of falling away. The real warning is for the

gathering to be so careful that you don't drift from faith, hope

and love and the gospel of grace in everything that we do.

And that is where we will find the good news in all of this.

In verse 4 it says for every creature of God is good and

nothing is to be refused, that it is received with

Thanksgiving, for it is sanctified by the word of God

and prayer. Paul says there is such a simple

and easy solution to the great apostasy.

Receive what God has given you with Thanksgiving.

Let it be cleansed by the word and prayer.

And I, I love the picture of this.

We'll look at the details very briefly, but the picture is so

often when a church drifts, it doesn't drift into, you know, a

sloppy faith. It doesn't drift into just never

going to church. It it doesn't become less

religious, it becomes more religious.

There's more programs, There's more heavy-handed preaching.

There's more burdens, not less. And what Paul is going to

restore the vision of a trustworthy church is by saying

the gospel is so simple. God has cleansed by the power of

his Word everything he's given you already, and the picture is

now food again. He says he is sanctified food by

the Word, literally by the Word. Jesus says, don't you know it's

not what goes into you that defiles you, but comes out of

you? Jesus was cleansing the vision

of the dietary laws. And then by the word in Acts

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chapter 10, Peter gets a vision of all of these unclean animals

and the Lord says eat them as a picture that the middle wall of

separation between the Jewish people and the Gentiles.

It's gone and you guys can eat together.

And Peter says I can't. And the word of God says don't

call something unclean that I have made clean.

It's finished. You can eat.

The word of God has cleansed the food and then he says now pray.

So there gives you a little insight into why we pray.

It's like thank you Lord, we can eat whatever we want.

It comes from you. We're going to pray so simple

and the the way that we see it so simply for the removal of

dietary restrictions is the same way we see our lives presented

before God. There is a simple offering that

all of us are required to make. We don't have to offer our

amazing celibacy or abstinence. We don't have to offer all of

the ways that we've become monks and we go out to the desert and

pray for 50 hours. All of those offerings are not

the way that we now have a blessed relationship with God.

Paul says give Thanksgiving, the word and prayer.

The animals are cleansed by the word.

The people are cleansed by the Word.

What do we need? We need the word of God to come

into our lives to transfer us from the Kingdom of darkness to

the Kingdom of light. And now we just receive

everything that we have. God, we thank you for this

little church family. We thank you for the families

you've made us husbands, wives and children.

Thank you for the gift of salvation.

Thank you for the money that gets passed out in baskets.

Thank you for the mission fields.

We just thank you and we thank you.

We thank you, and then we come. We say Lord now continue to

cleanse us by the washing of the Word.

So here's the simple message. Be on the lookout in your own

life or in the gatherings that God plants you in to sit under

teaching for complex and complicated heavy-handed

messages of what you need to do to finally be made right with

God, and instead live under the gospel of God's grace.

That by His Word the promise of salvation is freely given, that

you can receive the free gift of salvation when the invitation is

made by the Word. All have sinned, fallen short of

the glory of God, but He so loved you that he sent his Son,

that whoever believes confesses on him with their Word will not

perish. You're clean.

There's nothing you need to add. Walk in the good works that He's

prepared for you and give Him thanks with your life.

Watch out for the complicated. Live in the simple.

Amen.