Have you ever owned or been given something that was amazing, maybe even quite precious,
but you never actually got any benefit from it? I remember when Sal and I were engaged,
we went through the very important rite of passage that is doing your wedding registry.
Now for the uninitiated, those who haven't had that delight, basically what you do is you go
to one of the big department stores, a Meyer or a David Jones, and they give you one of the
barcode scanning guns, and you just walk around scanning things you want. It's amazing, you don't
have to have any money at all, you just scan things and hope that somebody else will spend the money for
you. So you wander through the shop and you get all the essentials like towels, sheets, flat screen TV,
all those sorts of things, and just really hope that somebody's feeling generous when they're going
through for those big ticket items. And the point of it is that hopefully you don't get 50 towels and
no dinner plates, that sort of thing. Doesn't always work, but that's the theory. Now for full
disclosure, I should concede that for our wedding registry, I survived about the first 20 minutes
in David Jones before Sal set me free from those shackles and instead went back with her mum
afterwards about seven or eight times. So I really didn't know what was coming when the delivery truck
arrived after we'd come back from our honeymoon. But I do remember as we were opening all these
things wrapped up in David Jones wrapping paper and trying to figure out where we're going to put
these things in the place that we were living, there was one, maybe more than one, but at least
one thing which to this day I still don't understand. It was the same in my house growing up.
It's the same in almost every house that I've ever visited. The fancy plates. I don't understand.
We have the usable plates and then we have the fancy plates. And so this is the stuff in your house
that lives in a special cabinet, usually next to the dining table. I'm not sure why, but that's where
it is. And there's glass so that you can see these beautiful plates piled up there. Maybe view the
pictures of them. And it's there for the special occasion when the queen comes to visit.
Now obviously not really, but it feels like we're holding out for something special. But really the
only function that these plates serve is to insult the bulk of your guests who sit at your table
looking at the plates that they weren't special enough to get out on the table.
I remember as a kid, so there was five kids in my house growing up, so we were pretty good at
breaking stuff. And we would break plates and cups regularly. And I remember our regular plates,
our boring, unimportant, not special person plates, that set was starting to struggle.
And so I thought, obvious solution, we have a set right next to the table on display that
we could bring out. Apparently it wasn't so obvious. Instead, we bought another set of regular
plates so that our special plates could stay special, stay unused and sit in the fancy cabinet.
What is the point of fancy plates? I mean, the value of a plate is its ability to hold food
so that you can eat off it. And the plates in the cupboard had all the necessary needs for being
a plate. They were firm enough. They were flat enough. They weren't broken. In fact, they were more
than good enough. They were fancy. But because we put them in the cupboard, in the cabinet, we never got
any benefit from them. They didn't deliver as plates because we refused to use them for the very thing
they were made to do, hold food. Now, it's possible to have good, valuable things in your life, things that
are there for your benefit and to waste them because you never used them. Instead, we put them in a cabinet
for a special occasion that never seems to eventuate. It's even possible to do that with the good things
that God blesses us with. It's possible to go from people who are struggling in life, trying to figure out
what we're here for, trying to figure out how to please God, feeling the burden of our failure, and then
to discover His amazing grace and love for us, even though we don't deserve it, to discover free forgiveness
and unconditional love and think, wow, this is the solution I've been searching for. And then to put it in a
display cabinet and go back to feeling insecure and guilty and unsure and kind of lost in life and having
to try really hard to convince God to love you, when we do that, we make following Jesus a struggle.
We make following Jesus difficult because we know we're not good enough and then being not good enough
with the solution in the cabinet makes us want to try harder and then trying harder doesn't work
because we still fail and then we feel worse and so then we try harder and it's this vicious cycle
and then because we're feeling insecure, we start looking down on other people to try and make ourselves
feel better, but then because we're looking down on other people, we start to worry about what other
people are thinking of us and it just is exhausting trying to follow Jesus when the only thing that can help
you, the solution you need, the solution you need has been put in a display cabinet for the special occasion.
Often the challenge for many Christians is not discovering the good things that God has to offer,
but having discovered them, actually using them day by day, actually getting the benefit from them
in your week, in your job, in your relationships.
That was the problem for the churches in Galatia.
We're embarking today on 12 weeks in this book.
This is a letter from Paul the Apostle to a group of churches in the region of Galatia.
That's what is now southern Turkey.
These churches were started by Paul on one of his missionary journeys.
He travelled through the region preaching the gospel.
It's there in verse 8.
He says, the gospel that we preached to you, or in verse 9, the gospel that you accepted.
When they heard the gospel, churches began.
These people went from being in that pattern of struggling, lost, unsure, searching for security,
to thinking, we've found it.
To thinking, I'm going to change my life.
This is the best message I've ever heard.
What was it that he preached?
What was that message that began the whole journey for them?
Verse 3.
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,
who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age,
according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be glory forever and ever.
Amen.
Now, this is a classic way to start a letter in the ancient world.
It's classic to Paul's letters as well.
You get to look at that in your community groups this week.
But Paul uses this to take them back to their foundation.
It starts with who's writing Paul, who it's to, the churches in Galatia.
And then normally, third, you would say something like, greetings, or I miss you.
But Paul takes that opportunity and makes it a gospel opportunity.
So what is the gospel?
Let's just walk through those three verses a bit slower.
Firstly, grace and peace to you from God our Father.
It's a gospel of grace.
Absolutely foundational to Paul's message, to the gospel, to the message of the whole Bible,
is the reality that if you want to know God,
he needs to decide to grant you that privilege, even though you don't deserve it.
That his mercy is the starting point.
Because you and I and everyone ever and the Galatians are just straight up undeserving of the privilege of knowing God the creator.
The gospel is the good news that by grace, God gives you what you do not deserve.
In fact, what he offers is peace.
It's grace and peace to you.
And that's not like peace as in like peacefulness, some sort of serenity.
It's not peace as in life being easy and comfortable.
It's more, it's bigger than that.
It's more like, almost like world peace.
If in that phrase you can catch the sense that it's God bringing justice on the earth,
fixing what's wrong, judging the guilty, recreating our world to be the perfect place it's supposed to be.
Removing sickness and death and pain.
That's the peace that the gospel holds out for people.
It's a hope for the future that God is preparing for those who belong to him.
Those he's chosen by grace.
So the gospel is grace and peace to you from God our Father.
Secondly, and the Lord Jesus Christ who gave himself for our sins.
The gospel is the message that says God's grace is available through Jesus.
And not just Jesus generally who was a carpenter's son or some other detail about his life.
But the Jesus who came and lived a perfect life as the only one who deserved a relationship with God.
And most importantly is the one who died as an innocent man in our place for our sin.
For our rejection of God.
While we were his enemies.
Jesus died that we might become sons and daughters.
He took our punishment.
He handed us his perfection.
So that we could have the relationship with God that we were made for.
The relationship with God that we are eternally restless without.
So that that longing and searching could be met.
Jesus came and died for our sins.
And then thirdly, to rescue us from the present evil age.
He did it to rescue us.
The whole issue, the whole reason we need a gospel, we need a good news, we need a message of hope.
Is because sin is in the world.
And because of sin, all of creation has been separated from God.
Everything that is wrong in the world and in your life is a result of sin.
And it's a result of us being separated out from God and his goodness.
We've lost access to him.
We now lack the ability to please him, even if we want to.
We are fenced in by death.
Fenced in by our own failure and limitation.
But Jesus comes to rescue us from that.
He comes to give us a new life.
He comes to give us the power of his Holy Spirit,
which enables us to finally please God.
And live for him.
And then lastly, it's according to the will of our God and Father.
Again, it's all about grace.
It's all about what God has done.
It's all about what God chooses to do.
And for no other reason.
Because of his great mercy.
The gospel is the message of God's grace to us in sending his son
so that we might be forgiven
and so that unworthy people like you and I can know him as father.
That is the gospel.
Before we get into anything else in Galatians,
before the Galatians get into anything else,
Paul needs to drag them back to there, to their starting point.
If you're a Christian,
that is the message that you heard and accepted.
If you're not a Christian,
that is the invitation of the gospel.
The invitation from God to you is that you could know this forgiveness.
You could receive this gift of love and acceptance from God that you do not deserve.
You could be rescued from the frustration and futility of this age.
You could have the hope for peace.
The hope for heaven.
The hope for the day when God will return and rescue those who are his finally and fully.
That gospel truth was sufficient for many of us in this room
to make the decision that our lives would no longer be about ourselves
but would be about the one who had done all this for us.
This gospel was sufficient for the Galatians to make the decision
to leave other religion and other idol worship
and other cultural commitments
and make Jesus their defining reality.
And then,
verse 6,
Paul says,
I'm astonished
that you are so quickly
deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ
and are turning to a different gospel
which is really no gospel at all.
They just deserted him.
I mean,
notice that word there.
They didn't desert it.
They didn't desert information.
They didn't desert content.
They deserted the one who called them.
They turned away from God himself
who offered them grace,
who offered them their solution.
Astonished,
almost doesn't feel like it does it justice.
I mean,
having experienced the grace of God,
having been loved in spite of who they are,
having been forgiven through the blood of Jesus on the cross,
having discovered the significance and satisfaction
that can only be found in Jesus,
how do they just turn away?
And so quickly.
I mean,
if they've been following God for a long time,
maybe you've been a Christian for a while
and that joy that you had at the beginning,
that wonder that God would do this
has kind of faded
in the struggles of life
and in the challenges.
Maybe then you could understand,
but near the beginning?
I remember when I became a Christian,
I was 14 years old,
I felt invincible.
It was quite literally,
even to now,
the most exciting and significant thing
that I had ever discovered
that God would love me like this
and love me like this forever.
I wasn't going anywhere.
And yet,
these churches,
so quickly,
after discovering the grace of God,
have deserted the one
who called them to live in that grace.
How?
How does that happen?
Do you remember when you discovered grace?
If you're a Christian,
do you remember what it was for you
for the first time
to understand that God
would love you like this?
How do you go from there,
from amazed,
from wondered,
from overwhelmed,
from this is what my life
will be about from now on,
to just turning away?
What happens between those two points?
One of the things that
my family and I like to do,
and when I say like to do,
I think we've done it maybe three times,
but Bailey's a big fan
of scenic world
in the Blue Mountains.
He loves going on the train
that goes kind of essentially
down the cliff and back up.
He loves going on the cable cars
and, you know,
it's a pretty amazing thing
to have an hour and a half
up the road.
But I have to confess
that on the cable car,
I think it's the yellow one,
that has a clear bottom
that kind of stays frosted
until you're in the middle of nowhere
and then it goes clear
so that you can see
that certain death awaits you
if something goes wrong.
I remember sitting on there
and just pondering for a moment
that the only thing
at that point
between me and certain death,
I eventually started worrying
about my family and kids as well
that were with me,
but initially me and certain death
was a cable about that round.
Now, I'm no engineer,
don't pretend to be,
but I just remember for a moment
just second guessing my decision
to step onto that cable car,
especially the second and third time
because Bailey was having so much fun.
But the reality is
in the country that we live in
with the security standards
that we have
and the engineering that's available,
it's a very safe thing to be on.
Even if you get stuck in the middle,
that cable's not snapping.
It's getting regularly checked.
It's probably capable of holding
about 15 of those cable cars
plus people.
They're going to overrate it
to make sure that it is secure.
But when you're in the middle
between these two cliffs,
miles above the ground,
not miles, but it feels like it,
it doesn't matter
that I'm completely secure
if I don't feel completely secure.
If I'm standing in that car
looking through this clear bottom
at trees,
that cable could be this thick,
if I don't feel secure in that moment,
I'm going to act
based on how I feel.
I'm going to panic.
I'm going to be telling the operator
to hurry up and accelerate
this thing to the other side.
I'm going to be crying.
I'm going to be, you know,
getting a piggyback from sales
so that I'm not going to hit
the ground first.
I'm going to act
based on how I feel
even though in reality
I'm completely secure.
It's going to be dictated
by how I'm feeling
in that moment.
These Galatians
have heard the gospel.
They have heard
the truth
of the irreversible reality
that God has loved them
by His grace.
Loved them in spite
of who they are
and so in fact
nothing that they do
or don't do
could ever change
His love for them.
They are secure
in His love.
But their issue is
in spite of the concrete
objective reality
that they are secure
they don't feel secure.
They're second guessing
their security.
They're panicking.
They're doubting
the engineering.
I mean,
you've got to understand
they're turning
to another gospel
but they're still
turning to a gospel
even if it's
no gospel at all.
They're looking for a gospel.
They still want
to be with God.
It's not like they're saying
forget God
I'm not interested
in Him anymore.
Their issue is
they're just not sure
that they're on the right track.
They're just not confident
that they're secure
in God's love.
They're starting
to worry
whether they've
ticked all the boxes.
They're turning
to a false
and useful gospel
but they're turning
to a gospel
that they've been
tricked into thinking
will help them.
They still want
to be forgiven.
They still want
a relationship
with God.
They still want
to get to heaven.
They're putting effort
into this new direction.
We're going to look
at it more
over the coming weeks
in terms of exactly
what was going on
for them
but their effort
counts for nothing.
Their effort
not just doesn't
help them
it hinders them
because by turning
to this gospel
they're rejecting
the one gospel
the only gospel
the true gospel
that can offer security.
They've been confused.
Verse 7
Evidently some people
are throwing you
into confusion
and are trying
to pervert
the gospel of Christ.
They've been lured
into a perversion
of the gospel.
That's the trick.
The enemy
is very clever here.
The devil's been
at this longer
than any of us
longer than any
of the Galatians
and he knows
that Christians
are not completely stupid.
Some of us
might be closer
to stupid than others
but we're not
completely stupid.
And so these
false teachers
these some people
don't turn up
and say
oh Jesus is stupid
forget about him
because we wouldn't
fall for that.
We'd be like
no no no
Jesus is the important bit
we just learned
a couple of weeks ago
Christ alone
and we're all
about that.
And so they didn't
turn up and say
forget Jesus
they turned up
and said
Jesus is great
isn't it fantastic
what he's done
all this stuff
it's done so much
for you and helped you
there's just a couple
more things
that you need to do
just to really begin
just to be
be sure that you're
the genuine
article
be sure that you're
legitimate
see the devil
presses the buttons
that he knows
are sensitive
for them
see these
Galatian Christians
were Gentiles
they're basically
everyone who's
not Jews
and these
some people
who had turned
up were Jews
and so these
Jews claimed
a certain level
of Christian
heritage
if you like
they were God's
people
and so these
Galatians were
looking at them
thinking they must
know what they're
talking about
I mean they've
been here longer
than I have
and so they
figured I guess
we need to do
what they say
these Jews
turned up
and they were
telling you
you know
Jesus is
fantastic
there's just a
couple more
Jew things
that you need
to do
things like
being circumcised
things like
eating certain
foods
things like
the way you
wash yourself
all that sort
of stuff
it all sounds
pretty harmless
except for maybe
circumcision
but it all
sounds pretty
harmless
it sounds like
the kinds of
things you go
yeah maybe
God does want
me to do
those things
maybe they're
good things
for us to
do
and in fact
whether you
do them or
don't do
them isn't
the issue
is if you
are doing
them and
thinking that
by those
things you
will be
forgiven
the issue
is that by
doing whatever
it is that
these people
are asking
we begin to
think that
they're the
things that
enable us to
have a
relationship
with God
that is not
the gospel
it's not the
gospel Paul
preached
it's not
the gospel
they accepted
the gospel
is a message
of grace
alone
not grace
plus some
other things
by definition
grace has
to be alone
if grace
is giving you
something you
don't deserve
as soon as you
do something
to try and
deserve it
then grace
disappears
grace is by
definition
alone and
the only gospel
is a gospel
of grace
whenever we
add something
to the gospel
we make it
grace plus
something else
we make it
Jesus plus
something else
it's a
perversion
it's no
gospel at
all
it's not
good news
I've been
around churches
like ours for
a little bit
over half my
life
I just want
to flag one
particular
perversion that
is a danger
for us
there's two
big ones
one is that
you take the
gospel and say
I'm forgiven
so God
doesn't care
what I do
and I can
do whatever
I want
we're going
to talk
about that
one a bit
more in a
few weeks
the issue
for the
Galatians
was the
issue of
here's the
gospel
Jesus has
done everything
he's just
one or two
extra things
I just want
to challenge
us
I want us
to reflect
on how
do we
do that
because in
my experience
both personally
and my
experience in
churches like
ours is that
we have
what I call
the be like
me gospel
the be like
me gospel
is the gospel
that says
Jesus has
died for
your sins
you don't
deserve it
there's nothing
you can do
come and find
forgiveness
and be like
me
you know
be into the
same things
I'm into
I've been a
Christian for a
while and my
hobbies are kind
of a little bit
holier than your
hobbies so just
shift sideways
the way I dress
is a little bit
holier than you
are so dress
like me
the way I
speak is a
little bit
holier than
you so speak
like me
the way I
think about
political issues
is a little bit
holier than you
so share my
stance on all
things political
I remember
someone who used
to come to our
church just really
briefly he used
to smoke
sometimes he used
to smoke out on
the deck
out here
where the
atrium is
that used to
be a deck
that we hang
out on
and I remember
the extent
when this person
and I don't
mean that in a
good way
when this person
would light up a
cigarette at a
church event
I remember as a
pastor being
prodded and asked
if I was going
to intervene
let him know
about you know
his eternal
damnation as he
lit up that
cigarette
his Christian
character was
called into
question
for the record
I think smoking
is dumb
not trying to
offend you if you
smoke
it's bad for
your health
it smells bad
but it has
nothing to do
with the gospel
nothing to do
with whether or
not someone
deserves God's
grace
of course they
don't deserve
God's grace
that's the point
that's what makes
it grace
no one deserves
it
as soon as we
require somebody
to be like us
or to think like
us or to speak
like us or to
dress like us
we're doing
gospel plus
so many
churches are
full of
identical people
because they're
very subtly
doing the
be like me
gospel
we don't say
it's a gospel
issue but we
just won't be
friends with you
if you're not
like us
you won't be
welcome
unless you
start acting
like us
talking like
us
thinking like
us
our vision
as a church
is to be
transcultural
God's vision
for his church
is to be
transcultural
a church
full of
people who
are completely
different
and yet have
all received
the same
grace of
God in
Christ
people who
speak different
languages
people who
are rich
and poor
people who
are polished
and refined
and those who
are a little
bit more rough
around the
edges
people who
swear and
smoke
people who
feel out
of place
among nice
middle class
Anglicans
except for the
fact that
they're depending
on the grace
of God just
as much as
the rest of
us
one of the
first signs
that you've
lost hold
of the only
gospel and
are holding
on to some
perversion
is the way
that you
look at
and treat
other people
if your
response as
you look
around the
room is
pride at
how much
better you
are than
others
or disgust
at how
sinful they
are or
even
frustration
that they're
not putting
in the same
level of
effort as
you at
being a
Christian
what do
you think
it is you're
trusting in to
save you at
that point
the answer
is you
your gospel
has become
you
you're trusting
how good you
are how much
better you are
than others
how hard you're
trying
that's not
the gospel
that's no
gospel at
all that's
not good
news that
is a prison
of guilt
and fear
and shame
and failure
and disappointment
there is
only one
gospel
there is only
one message
of hope
there will only
ever be one
gospel for
sinners like
you and me
and it is the
gospel of
grace alone
in Christ
and so Paul
says emphatically
in verse 8
even if we
or an angel
from heaven
should preach
a gospel
other than
the one we
preach to you
let them be
under God's
curse
as we've
already said
so I say
again if
anybody's
preaching to
you a gospel
other than
what you
accepted
let them
be under
God's
curse
there is
only one
gospel
we just spent
five weeks
being reminded
of this
we stand
on the one
message of
salvation
that is offered
through what
Jesus has
done on
the cross
and so the
last question
we've got to
ask and I
promise I'm
finishing
how do we
resist the
perversions of
the gospel
how do we
make sure we
don't like the
Galatians get
dragged away from
this amazing
message of hope
how do we make
sure that we
stand firm in
this one and
only true
gospel
well some
of you will
be aware
that when I
was a little
bit younger
I used to
drink quite a
bit of coke
I've since
matured I have
an adult palate
now and I've
moved on to
V
when I say a
lot of coke
I'm in
litres per
day
two litres
would be a
slow day for
me
I'm talking
from the age
of like 12
through to
about 25
I would
like find
scrounge around
the house for
money I would
wander around the
playground at
school trying to
get money off
people and I
would just buy
coke I just
love the stuff
drink it like
it was you
know heaven
it was amazing
I got so
familiar with
the taste of
coke so
refined in my
palate that I
could taste the
difference between
coke that came
out of different
containers I
could taste the
difference between
coke in an
aluminium can
to coke in a
plastic bottle
coke in a
glass bottle to
coke in a
plastic bottle
I became so
good at tasting
differences in
coke I could
tell you the
difference between
a 2 litre plastic
bottle and a
1.25 litre plastic
bottle I used to
brag about this
quite regularly I
thought it was a
bit of a spiritual
gift something I
should take pride
in and in my
previous church the
youth group kids
you know they
weren't convinced
so they decided to
give me a cola
challenge and they
said we're going to
get you know some
Pepsi some diet
coke some you
know that terrible
RC cola stuff that
they sell all these
different colas and
they put them in
plain little white
cups on a table and
the challenge was for
me to taste them all
and pick the real
coke I stood at the
table looked at the
row of cups and said
that's the coke I
didn't even have to
taste it by sight I
could tell the real
coke and I was
right it was easy it
wasn't even a
challenge because I
drank so much coke up
to this point I knew
how fizzy it was
supposed to be I
knew what colour it
would be I even knew
you know in that
small cup how that
would impact the
darkness of the coke I
was really across coke
like we're talking
serious familiarity I
knew it so well that
it was easy to spot the
imitations easy to spot
the dodgy diet versions
and whatever else was
out there it's the same
with the gospel it's
not complicated if you
want to be equipped to
resist the perversions
that are out there if
you want to be equipped
in those moments where
you feel insecure to not
go running after false
gospels and false
solutions if you want to
be equipped to resist
even the false gospels
that start here in those
moments of doubt in those
moments of guilt in those
moments of shame you need
to get familiar with this
one true gospel of grace
you need to live in grace
you need to make grace
your daily meal do the
things you did when you
first encountered God's
grace when you first
heard and accepted the
gospel do the things that
enabled you to taste and
experience how good God's
love is there's a whole
bunch I want to really
quickly suggest three that
I think will be true of
anybody who is a
Christian three things that
you did when you first
experienced grace that you
should keep doing to make
grace a part of your
everyday first one listen
to God's word you had to
hear the gospel to respond
to it you need to keep
hearing it day in day out
a little bit of
confession is that when
we're writing when I was
writing this sermon this
week I was feeling a
little bit of deja vu after
spending five weeks looking
at the reformation the
reformation we basically
pulled apart the gospel for
five weeks and I thought
we're starting Galatians I'm
basically saying the exact
same thing this week and
there was a part of me
that's not going to be
interesting we need to hear
this over and over again
because there is that part
of us that goes got it on
the shelf you need to be
listening to God's word like
we are right now you need to
be opening the Bible and
hearing from God grace and
peace to you from God our
father and the Lord Jesus
Christ you need to hear that
message over and over again
that's first second one you
need to confess sin when you
first became a Christian I've
said this over and over
again my community group
knows that this is my chorus
this is my go-to and I'm
going to keep saying it when
you became a Christian you
confessed sin might not have
been fancy it might not have
been in clever words like we
did together just before but
you essentially said God I
need your help I need to be
rescued and what did you
discover God God answers that
prayer God forgives God
cleanses God washes you and
so you need to discover that
again you need to confess sin
again you need to admit that
maybe you've been holding
people to standards that the
gospel doesn't maybe you've
been holding yourself to
standards that the gospel
doesn't and you need to find
that God will forgive you and
then as you're experiencing that
grace you'll be equipped to
know when you hear the lies and
the perversions it's the second
one third one last one is you
need to thank him I'm guessing
a little bit here but I think
there's a fair chance that when
you became a Christian when you
discovered grace there was a
bit of thankfulness going on
for you I remember sobbing just
thinking this is like this is
stupid good God you are amazing
God has filled your life with
grace the fact that we're
sitting here right now soaking in
the truth of the gospel is a gift
from God but there's a chance that
we'll walk out of here and not
even recognize that he's the one
who gave us that gift thank him
train yourself to see and
recognize the grace and as you're
surrounded by it you're ready to
resist the false gospel the fake
gospel the one that drags you away
from the true and only gospel of
grace and forgiveness that is found
in Jesus grace is not the beginning
the gospel is not the beginning it's
everything
God called us to live in grace so
take the gospel out of the display
cabinet if you've put it on a shelf
get it out and use it eat off it
every meal be shaped by it be defined
by it because there is no other gospel
there is no other hope there is nothing
else that has the power to give you
security there is nothing else that
has the power to give you joy in
darkness there is nothing else that
can lift you from the limitations and
the hurt and the struggle of this life
and give you eyes to see the heaven that
God is preparing for you so use it live
in grace
you