Chapter one, please. First Corinthians chapter one. I want to begin reading at verse eighteen. For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudence. Where is the wise? Where is the stride? Where is the disputer of this world? Have not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God. It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching, not foolish preaching, but the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified unto the Jews of stumbling blocks, and unto the Greeks of foolishness. but unto them which are called both Jews and Greeks Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wise in the men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty, and these things of the world, and things which are despised, has God chosen, yea, in the things which are not to bring to naught things at us. That no flesh... to glory in his presence. But of him, notice this word, but of him, Christ. But are him or all are ye in Jesus Christ, Lord Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, that according as it is written, he that glorieth let him glory in the Lord. Last week we were mentioning the fact that I was going to read an article to you because this passage we've been reading contrast the wisdom of God with the wisdom of men. And right from the beginning, man in his supposed self-styled intellect and intelligence has been trying to devise his own means and methods not only of civilization, but of how to get to heaven. And I thought as I read this article, I'm going to read it to you. It's one of the best I've read along this line. And it shows what man has achieved by his wisdom. And this article is entitled The Six Days of Genesis, Genesis, and here it is. It'll take about five minutes to read, but it'll be worth that time. After Earth's beginnings, man began and said, let there be a wheel, and there was a wheel. A man saw that it was good, and invented all sorts of vehicles, from wagons pulled by oxen to trains driven by the power of the piston, from carts pulled by ponies to planes pushed by jet engines, and the evening and the morning were the first day. Remember when God created the heavens and earth, or rather when he reestablished the earth, it was the first day, the second day, and God said at the end of the first day, behold, it was good. Now this man is using that similar language. And man said, this is the second day, and man said, let the laboratories bring forth the cleansers, the labor-saving devices, the maintenance-free equipment, Let them multiply in infinite variety, and it was so. A man made self-cleansing ovens, self-cleaning ovens, cross-free refrigerators, remote-controlled lawnmowers, automatic washers, and dryers, electronic equipment of every conceivable type. A man saw that it was good, and the evening and the morning was the second day, or era. A man said, Let there be a new dimension to our vision, so that we can see what takes place on the other side of the earth, as well as in every corner of our countryside and city. So this television divided the night from the day for its viewers, so that the night people may rule, and let it be for a sign of the seasons and give information to all the earth, and it was so. A man made great towers to send the vision on waves of light and sound, and he made a lesser sound called the radio to rule the day, and he set them in the pattern of light to divide the day into segments, the years into series, and the summers into reruns, and man saw that it was good, and the evening and the morning were the third era. Man said, Let there be power from the building blocks of the universe. A man made the power by dividing the atoms and called that power an atomic bomb. A man said, Let the power of the atom be channeled into one purpose. A man called that one purpose the guarantee of peace upon the earth and the working together of all people for the benefit of all. Man saw that it was good. The man said, let the power bring forth new ways of manufacturing goods for all men. And the atom yielded its power to produce submarines, aircraft, carriers, missiles, each yielding after its own kind. A man thought it was good, and the evening and the morning were the fourth era. The man said, let the men of science bring forth a craft that will break the power of gravity and fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. A man created great space capsules, orbiting platforms, communication satellites, flying spy machines, in order to explore the universe and to keep track of its earth neighbors. Every invention brought forth abundantly after this time an inspired new creation. A man saw that it was good and blessed it with huge budgets. saying, Be fruitful, multiply on the earth, and the evening and the morning, where the fifth era or day. Man said, Let us make machine in our image, a machine in our image, after our likeness, and let it do all our calculating for us, and keep accurate records of our fiscal affairs, make out our payroll, keep up the dates, the data, on all scientific photographs, score in memory all the facts of all the earth and every moving thing in heaven and on earth. So man created the computer in his own image, computer and collator, created he then, and man blessed them and said, Do all the work required of man, multiply formulas and equations to the end of the universe. Take charge of the power of the atom and compute the path of the orbiting spacecraft. A man saw everything that he had made, and behold, he thought it was very good, and the evening and the morning were the sixth era. Thus should all the modern world completed, with a post of ingenious devices created by man. In the seventh era man said, Now I will rest and enjoy the fruits of all my labors, but the streaming jets would not let him sleep. The gadgets and expanded vision gave him stomach also. His unlimited power kept him nervously suspicious of his neighbors, and the creation in his own image gave answers to his questions he did not like. Having made all things for his comfort and enjoyment, man found himself still in trouble. Great and marvelous were his achievements, but they brought no peace to him or to the world. For in the beginning was God, who made man and made his heart to be restless. until it finds a dress in the Creator and ruler who created peace and bestows it upon those who believe on the sent one of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. Man said, Behold, I am vile. What shall I answer? For man's eye shall he live again. All the days of man's appointed time will I wait till my change come. You will call, and I will answer you. Here you have more or less a summary of the wisdom of man. Man's genius, his ability to invent great things and establish a great civilization, and have a world that is too dangerous to live in. Man's wisdom has created this or accomplished it. And the first civilization of the human race was the one back in Genesis four, the Canaanite civilization. They invented this. They come up with the first civilization. And how did it end? The flood. It got so wicked that God brought a flood upon the earth and destroyed all man's wisdom and knowledge and achievement. And just as the flood, or that civilization then, is brought by our civilization today, and also that flood that came upon the earth, To destroy the civilization of man, it's going to be brought by a greater judgment that is coming and driven us in the book of Revelation. What I'm saying is that in all man's at peace, instead of all his inventions and his ingenious methods and ways of creating things, has it brought the world closer to God? No, it pushed the world further from God. and those great universities and those great institutions of learning that once taught the Bible and preached the Word of God the way we preach it here, today those very institutions, those very halls of learning are preaching modernism and destroying the Bible. And they flung over more or less and denounced the Bible, modernism. Man in his wisdom has gotten away from God. That's why you read here and Paul is taking it up. The Greeks at that time, there was in Corinth, was more or less a censor of culture. They had lots of wisdom, plenty of places of wisdom, and they practically had the answer for everything. But they were a wicked, ungodly city and people. And Paul attacked. that wicked city, like attacking Las Vegas or some other great city, with the gospel. And the Apostle Paul attacked Corinth, that seat of learning, that place of, supposed to be the greatest culture on earth. That place of learning. He attacked that wicked and drunkenly yet cultured and intelligent city with what? A simple message. Christ died for our sins. He was buried, and he rose again the third day, according to the system. That was a sinful method. My, you say, against the great background of man's learning, his knowledge, his genius, his intelligence, his accomplishment, that's who had to come down on talent. But all you've got to do to get to heaven is expect a crucified man. He rose again the third day when back then, all says the intellectualist, the professor, that truth. Man is too brilliant, he's too culturally, too refined, he's too intelligent, to come down to something as simple as that. Yes, says God, I'm going to make fools the wisdom of this world. You'll be saved, and that's why I emphasize that first, through the foolishness of truth. By comparison to what man has accomplished, it seems foolish for a man to stand up and challenge that great city of Corinth, the fourth largest city at that time in the Roman Empire, he challenged it with a simple gospel message. He came unto them preaching, saying, I know nothing among you, say, Jesus, Christ, and him, too, and today people say, well, you need to tell us in these days of learning. These days of great knowledge, that you're coming to us with that old-fashioned gospel, that faith. You'll either believe that old-fashioned gospel or go to hell, one or the other. And remember this, friend, a man who can't write his own name, who's so unintelligent, as part of this world-caused intelligence, so unentriced, he could believe the gospel. and goes sailing through the pearly gates when all these philosophers, with all their self-imposed knowledge and self-conceitance attitudes, they'll go to hell, and this poor ignorant man will go to heaven. God's going to make foolish the wisdom of this world. The Bible teaches that very plain. Why, if the poor have their gospel preached unto them, and God says my way of salvation is so simple that a wayfaring man, though he be a fool, he did not err. There we go. I had a little incident last night, about eleven o'clock, and he was a man he owned a great estate. He was a magistrate that paltry fellows. And he had some thought of religion, but not very seriously. One day he began to get thinking, well, I've got to leave all this. And so he picked up the Bible. He did happen to have a Bible. And he started reading in Matthew one. And he read on two. And the more he read, the more he became conscious of the fact he's a lost and great sinner. And he needed salvation. But he got over to the book of Romans. And he read a verse. that he couldn't grasp. He couldn't understand his puzzle. So who could he go to? Well, he had a colored man working for him, and he knew that he called and was called the preacher. He said, all right, well, I'm going to see him. He went down to the field, and here was this preacher, colored man, and he was hoeing. And the boss said to him, he was slayed. He said, oh, I've been reading the Bible. And I've got it, and I've found out I'm a great sinner. But he said, I got over to a place, and he said, I read over there in some place in the Bible how God will have mercy on whom he will have mercy on whom he will he harden us. Now he said, I can't get over. That got me stymied. He said, could you explain that? The preacher leaned upon his host. He said, Master, You're going to read too fast. He said, over in Matthew chapter three, it says, repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Now, master, when you obey that, you come back to me, and I'll explain what you found. Way over there in Rome. He says, you're going to read too fast. Hear this intelligent man, and he read too till he found something in the Bible he couldn't understand. But he skipped over a whole lot he could have understood. How wise was that advice if that man had stopped right there in the third chapter of Matthew and repented as a guilty sinner before God and accepted Jesus Christ? Then the old preacher says, you've done that, and I'll explain that if you found over and over. There's a lot in the Bible saying you'll never understand until you are saved by the grace of God. When you're saved by the grace of God, you know your sins are forgiven. Then you have the wisdom of God. For Christ is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, righteousness, righteousness. You'll never know wisdom. That is the wisdom that God is interested in man having until you have the source of that wisdom, that is, of the Lord Jesus Christ. The philosophy of this world is challenged by the gospel. The philosophy of this world is compounded by the gospel, and the philosophy of this world is superseded by the gospel. God's not interested in all we've got going on around us today. And all these shuttle lights and these missiles and what has it, the advances of so-called civilization, civilization, I don't know how in the words, they can develop and much more. What will come up with the next ten or twenty or thirty years if we're still here, I don't know. But friend, I'll tell you one thing, this world is getting further and further and further away from God. It's becoming more corrupt, more corrupt, more corrupt. With its intelligence and knowledge, it's getting further from God. departing away from this letter. These great universities and the colleges were the outcome of revivals by Ginny and G.L. Moody, another man who preached the gospel, he saw people say businessmen, professors, saved by the grace of God, and the established colleges and schools and seminaries that preached the word of God. Those places today, some of them are the hot beds of commoners. Showing how man has drifted from the plain preaching of the word of God. I wondered if you're willing this morning just to accept what God says as it proceeds in this study of man's wisdom and the foolishness of the gospel, the preaching of the God. You'll notice that verse thirty that we have mentioned. It says, But of him are ye in Christ Jesus. Who of God is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption? Of him, that is, of God. Are ye in Christ Jesus? He did that. In Christ Jesus. You couldn't be in a stable place. It would be quite a... decision to make, if you knew there was going to be an atomic war and Russia was going to send all her missiles, and she's got many of them, great silo, saloon, if she sent every missile she's got that she'd like to reply, out from the submarines, off the ship, throw the air, and everyone was aimed at the United States, I'm so sad. Wouldn't be much less. You say, where will I hide? Friend, I'm not a bit worried about that. I've got a good hiding place. I'll be in Christ. I'm in a place that all the bombs and missiles of Russia can't touch. That's what it tells the writing of that verse. But of God are ye in Christ Jesus? You're in Christ. Just like when the flood came upon the earth to destroy the Canaanite... civilization. There were eight people in the ark, and they were saved. And only those who are in Jesus Christ will be saved when God judges this. And the question to you to ask your own heart this morning is you're going to exercise wisdom. It's simply this. Where am I? Where am I? Am I in a church? I don't care what church. No church is going to save you. No institution is going to save you unless you're in Jesus Christ. You could be at the North Pole where there's no church to be found. But if you at the North Pole found yourself there, isolated, in some ways maybe through a plane going off course and settling on the ice, there you stand alone, the lone survivor. No church, no preacher anywhere. Certain death station will. And you'd be saved. Yes, right there on that icy spot, you would bow your knee and open your heart and say, Lord, I will trust thee, I'll trust thee with my soul. I'm guilty, I'm lost, and helpless, and thou wilt me, therefore. You'd be saved right then and put in Christ. Faith and secure. I want to ask you this morning, are you in Christ? I'm not asking you, are you intelligent, or are you educated, or whether you're a scientist, or whether you're a philosopher. I'm asking you one simple question that's right here. Are you in Christ Jesus? That's the only hiding place, or the picture going on today, or this week in one of your movies. The hiding place, I haven't seen. and very good because it came from a wonderful story or history, life of a wonderful person. Then there's only one hiding place. I remember many years ago when they flipped the first atom and they started building bombshells. I went down to New Smyrna Beach and there was a man whose wife, the name of Mr. Mrs. Brown, and they had gotten saved in meetings I had in New Smyrna Beach. And this was a year or two after I got saved. When I went down, I went down to Hadamiro. He had built a bomb shelter. Well, I was kind of amused. He took me down to this bomb shelter, and it was a lot of work. And he showed me he got enough food laid up right there. He had just about everything he could mention that would be necessary. Water? There was a great big bottle. We could live, he says, so long. Right here in our bombshell. And he was serious. He really thought there was going to be bombs coming over here. And people were all over building bombshells. Well, they haven't fallen yet for bombs, haven't they? And his poor old bombshells, long since. There it is, he says. Everything was taken out that was edible. He hasn't worked. I don't suppose it still. in existence. He'd like me to put a pot and made a shed out of him. That was under the ground, so I don't think we're going to use it today. But there's a man, at least he manifested a little wisdom. He thought bombs were going to come. Well, that bombs shelter may have helped and it may not. But supposing bombs had come and he came out, what's he going to do with the radioactive fallout all around the countryside? Everything contaminated. then there's only one bomb shelter, and that's Jesus Christ. He's a safe bomb shelter. He's the one to be in. How wonderful you can put your head on your pillow at night to thank God I'm in Christ Jesus. I'm not worried about the bombs. I'm not worried about anything. But my soul is safe in Christ. Your light is in Christ. with Christ in God. On what God hides, I challenge even the devil to find us. God is hid every child of God into Christ. That's the hiding place. Are you in Christ anymore? And is Christ in you? This is what he's getting at in this passage in verse three. Of him that is of God, are ye in Christ Jesus? First of all, you have our spiritual existence. Then our spiritual, well, our spiritual existence. You were born a Christian. You're here this morning because you had a physical birth, which gave you physical existence. You're existing here on this earth. Some barely existed. come or getting up there where they're not going to hear much long. And your life may be just a mere existence. I'm with some of the very unhappy people. But you're here this morning with a physical existence because you were born fifty years ago, sixty or maybe eighteen years ago. You were born into this world with a body and a nature in an environment suitage of that body. You can move here the proper amount of oxygen and so on, and you can eat things here because, even though the old world is flying around, you're not flying off at certain. You've got a body and everything suitable for this existence on this planet. You've got a physical existence, but, friend, you've got to have a spiritual existence. When do you get that spiritual existence? When you're put in Christ Jesus. And when Christ Jesus comes into your heart, then you have a spiritual existence. You're existing in Christ. You belong to another country, a heavenly country, where you'll be able to spend eternity with Christ. And be like him forever. That'll be a happy, happy existence. But the only way you're going to get into heaven, into that spiritual realm, is by having a spiritual birth here on this earth. That's why the Lord Jesus said to a very religious man, a Bible teacher Nicodemus, in John chapter three, you must be born again. That puzzled and startled the old doctor, not. What do you mean? I must be born again. Can a man be born the second time when he's old, during he was an old man? Can he go through the process of physical birth? No, Nicodemus. You could go through that a dozen times. It's still the old sinful Nicodemus. The Lord wasn't talking about a physical birth or a physical experience. He was talking about a spiritual birth and a spiritual existence. And he says you must be born again, Nicodemus. You must have a spiritual birth that will give you a spiritual nature. enter heaven, a spiritual realm, and enjoy the presence of God. You have capability to live in this world, and you can enjoy it, but there are limitations. But when you're saved, you get a new life in Christ Jesus, and it will qualify you for heaven and the presence of God. And you'll have a capacity, an eternal capacity, a capacity to enjoy all that God is and has throughout each earth. I will never get into heaven unless you have a spiritual experience here on earth. And that spiritual experience doesn't come about by joining the church or getting baptized or getting confirmed. That spiritual experience comes about when, like Nicodemus, he knew he was lost or he wouldn't have come for Christ at midnight. Being such a well-known, well-educated man, he doesn't want to be seen coming in broad daylight. So he crept around at night, midnight, and he came to the Lord Jesus. And what did the Lord Jesus say when he saw the old man worried? The Lord Jesus in Asmode lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so much that some of man be lifted up. The people of the believers on hymns did not perish and have a relapse like Nicodemus. Just as your people, back in Numbers twenty-one, The serpents had bitten the people that were tying in every place. And what did Moses do? God says Moses bitten serpents, poisoned serpents, and bitten these people. Put the likeness of a serpent, a brazen serpent on a pole, and tell them to look to that serpent of brass. It was a serpent that caused their sickness and death. It'll be a brazen serpent. Something in the lifeless of these serpents that'll heal. What they're to do is look. You can post this to the place where the serpent's ditches. You can do what they like. If you want to do any crack or put any band-aid on all these places, that's not going to heal. Those people have got to realize their needs. And look to the serpent of that. That which is light onto that. And when they look... They lived. Now the Lord Jesus Christ gave that illustration to Nicodemus in John chapter three. What was he saying? We were sinners, bitten by sin. And the Bible says Jesus Christ was made in the likeness of sin to flesh. He became our likeness. And therefore in him you get salvation. You get delivered from sin. That's the only deliverance. That's the only refuge. That's the only shelter from your sin and your sins' consequences. Yes, you'll find it in Christ on the simplest possible terms. It won't cost you a dollar. It won't cost you a nickel. It'll cost you a price. Yes, but all God. When I survey the wonders cross, on which the prince of Florida, my riches dain I count but lost, for contempt on all my pride. This is the preaching of the cross. The cross is the answer. That raisin serpent felt no pain. For when Jesus Christ was on the cross, he was made in the likeness of sinful flesh, without sin, but sin was put on. Your sin and mine, he felt the pain. He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquity. The chastisement of the Jews who are having peace was laid on him and with his strife. We are healed. And this is the cross, he speaks of us, the wisdom of the cross. The psalm, in verse eighteen, for the preaching of the cross is the then that perished foolishness. But unto us which are saved, it is the power Wisdom of God. And it is. There's no message on the face of the earth that has the power of the gospel of the grace of God. You could be up here this morning and some great intellectualist, no man of high learning, be up here, taking up a subject way over your head. Or maybe you could take some of it in. If you wouldn't find your little heart moved, You wouldn't find a turning in here. You're a sinner. You're a lost. You're going to hell. And might not be saved. He'd be delivered from hell and go to heaven. You're listening to wisdom, intelligence, the learning of this world. It'll feed your mind, but it'll leave your heart as cold as so. There's only one thing that'll move my heart. Make man repent. And that is the cross. Of our Lord Jesus Christ. There's the wisdom of the cross. That's the message. Paul says, I determined to know nothing among you, save Jesus Christ and him through you. He went to court. With that safety of learning, with all their philosophers and philosophers, he said, I'm not going to debate any of your subjects. I determined to know nothing among these. And in that church at Corinth, there were four parties, sectarianism, that started. Yes, there were four denominations in it. And he says, I'm not paying any attention to that. I've got one message. And a fight on instances. And friend, God has one message for this world today, just one. And that's the clock. of our Lord Jesus Christ. If you're ever going to be in heaven, it'll be through the cross. So there you have the spiritual existence, but your spiritual wealth, he tells us what our spiritual wealth is after you're saved and you've got that spiritual life, that spiritual existence. And you can say this morning, I'm saved. I know I'm saved. I know I'm going to heaven. Because you may know that. The night I was saved, the night I was saved, Way up in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, my old father pointed me to Christ in the kitchen of our home after coming home from church. He led me to the Savior. And I'm glad he did. I had broken his heart and my mother's heart. I praised God, they were the true God used in my service. It was a thrill of my father's life. And friend, that night I got saved. I had a life, a new beginning. I didn't join the church that night. I received the person, and that person is the Lord Jesus Christ. And the only way he could save me is because he had his credentials in the scars in his hands and feet inside on the thorn marks in his brow. These are the things. His credentials, He's able, He's willing, He's ready to save you. And only to the cross can you be saved. Christ is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. When we have it all, we haven't time to go into the spirit of the Christian's wealth. What a Christian has in Christ, it would take us weeks to go into that. We'll be taking it up as we go on through this book of Corinthians. Friend, what I'm interested in this morning, do you have spiritual existence? From that moment on, I knew I was a different man. I turned my back on a career that I loved, sport, playing off. But I had something so much better and so much superior. I had something more satisfying. I had something that gave me a peace and a joy, that took away the fear of God and gave peace instead. I had a spirit of existence Although our physical existence is going to end one of these days, your spiritual existence will not. That's why the Lord Jesus Christ said, I give unto my sheep eternal life. They shall never perish. Once the spiritual existence has taken of its place in your heart and the person of Christ, friends, he says, because I live, you shall live off. That same life he has is in every born-again Christian. Christ in you is the hope of glory. Do you know, do you have Christ this morning? That's the question I want you to ask yourself. If you haven't taken time to go into other things I had in mind or times about up, I want to ask you this question. Do you know right now that there are sins for all to do? Do you know? Do you have everlasting life? Do you have peace with God? Are you happy? What's the answer to solve a long-lived problem, a tangled life, a disappointing life, a troubled home, a broken home in the nation? What's the answer? A psychiatrist knows they can have it. Maybe Frank Eliza will give you a little help. Maybe you'll see, but then what you need is Jesus Christ. That's why he came into this world. That's why he went to that part. That you might have the answer to life's problems, your own personal problems, family problems, business problems. You'll find the answer in Jesus Christ. Christ is made unto you wisdom. If you're a Christian, your God will give you wisdom. Not only when you're saved, but wisdom to live. wisdom to find out the answers for some of life problems. Not only my mother, but many other mothers. My mother had six children of her own. She adopted another and brought up three or four others for four or five years. I knew nothing but hard work. My dear old dad came into this check and threw it on the table. That's the last he got out of it. Now and again he'd asked for it for it. Mother took care of it all. But what mother did that? She was a manager in our home, into her bedroom. Problem after problem. She needed almost the wisdom of Solomon to bring up all those kids. Where did she get it? She got it in Jesus Christ the first of the two years. When a Christian says that he wants to read this Bible that he might learn about life, that they're going to need wisdom to navigate. life's treacherous wall. The only answer is not the wisdom of the word. If you go to every university and institution of learning in the world, travel to plants, turn the world to light, learn and develop your intelligence, the answer is Jesus Christ. And you can be a fool and a fool. The Bible says, why the intellect will say, there is no God. He's a fool. I don't care what letters he has or decrees, and he says that about, God, there's no God, he's a fool. But if you say there is a God, and he's my God, but I've accepted his son as my savior, you're wise. Man's going through New York. There's a big, I remember seeing it back on the television. I think it was the time that these guys died. You know the mass of people... was in New York at that time at a funeral. And I think it was, who was that man you see on the radio time? God forbid. And he said, there's a man over here, he said, in all this crack, and all this mass of humanity, the man over here seems to have lots of room. Let's get over there. And he's sending us right through the crowd to find out why this fellow had some other room. And he had room about ten feet around him. And he said, what did he say in the sign? I am a fool for Christ, she said. Oh, that went over the air. And then he said, look at the other side. And as the people turned around, he said, I believe people were looking the other side. As the man went by, they turned around, who's fool of you? He said, I'm a fool for Christ, who's fool of you? Friends, you call me a fool this morning. preaching the old-fashioned gospel, but it's the only answer. But I asked you this morning, who, who were you? If you're accepting the devil's lie and the wisdom of this world instead of the wisdom of the fool, God wants to be blind. He wants to accept his family. This morning, a very simple thing, it won't cost you a penny, just to repent a heart Open your heart like the petals of a rose to a rising spot. Receive the Lord Jesus right now for you need him. And you shall be saved. Our Father in heaven, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, who came into thy presence, he asked thy blessing on thy word, and frankly for it it fills our hearts with such a stranger as thou have provided. the poor, sinful, ignorant man. He thanked thee for the Lord Jesus. He has made unto us wisdom righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. He thanked thee for our citizens' ship that's in heaven. He thanked thee for our wealth, the heirs of God, and joint heirs of Jesus Christ. May someone say this morning, Ruddwick's end corner not knowing which way to turn, Because of problems in life, all may touch, come to Christ with mourning, be saved, and be satisfied. We ask that in his worthy and pleasant name, amen. Shall we turn to four, two, forty-three, two hundred and forty-three? Softly and tenderly, Jesus, calling, calling for you and for me. See on the portals he's reaching and watching, watching for you. And for me. Come home. Come home. That word, home, is a lovely word, isn't it? Home, with warmth, with love, with friendship.