Galatians chapter 2. So we had finished up our series on the building blocks, dealing with fundamental blocks that we'll need and we need to know something about in our Christian faith, our Christian life. And so we dealt with relationship with Christ, trusting Christ. We dealt with repentance. We dealt with humility. And the last one was content, being content. And so I had started a book, the book of Galatians in Sunday school, kind of using it for a filler. And dad had some preaching engagements that he was at. And so we'd filled in for his Sunday school class on Sunday morning, but I'd kind of left Galatians off. And so I knew I'd be back into it. So tonight we're going to crack the book in Galatians. and look at Galatians chapter 2. Now we had been approaching the famous portion of scripture, Galatians chapter 2 verse 20. And I want to really zero down on that tonight. And I have a simple outline, but an outline that kind of goes together. And I've entitled tonight, Christ Liveth in Me. And there's a song, I don't know if it's titled that, But there's a song called Christ Liveth in Me and I'm reminded I know I think Brother Andy Lefkowitz and Sister Rachel, he'll play the fiddle or she'll sing it or he'll play the guitar and they do a beautiful job with that. That's been played. I don't know if Brother Jonah plays that one or not. I think I've heard you. There's several people who play it. I love that hymn or that song, Christ liveth in me. Anyway, that's the title for tonight. So Galatians 2, verse 20, and we're going to look at, let's get back into this. Let's set our doctrinal setting. Now, dealing with this in the previous verses, in Galatians 2, verse 20, Paul showed Peter the folly of going back to the law. And so this kind of stems him to begin to state these facts and actually come to this verse, verse 20 and 21. And so Paul's contention with Peter was over salvation by faith in Christ. Remember, Peter had come to, if we look back, and so in verse 11, so it says, but when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face because he was to be blamed. And what he was to be blamed for is he was eating and acting and on the side of the Gentiles, but then when the Jews showed up from Jerusalem and they come to Antioch, all of a sudden he left the Gentiles and went over to stand and to be and to eat with the Jews. And he kind of took on this, if you please, this Jewish type sense or feel back under the law. And they were still struggling with the Jewish Christians that were getting saved were still struggling with, well, we still have to keep Moses's law. And remember, it was concluded in Acts chapter 15. And that's basically where it goes in Acts chapter 15. And they conclude that it's all of grace, and it's not of works. And so here, his contention with Peter was over salvation by faith in Christ and by reverting back to the law, Peter was implying that he was still needing to be saved and that Christ did not save him. That's what was going on. Paul clearly stated that Christians no longer need to trust in the law because we trust in the sacrifice of Christ. It's what he did on the cross. Hence, the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. First Corinthians chapter 15, verses one down through about five. And verses 20 here in our text in Galatians 2, verse 20 and 21, they confirm this and draw this truth into its interaction, into its interaction with our daily lives. Because we say here in verse 20, I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. So not only can we not save ourselves according to this scripture and a multitude of other verses, but we cannot manufacture the spiritual life. It is the life of Christ in us that allows us to live according to the gospel of grace. That's the Holy Spirit, and that's what he does. So our first point tonight, I want to draw your attention to if you're writing down, number one, the believer's position. Now, we're going to look at the believer's position, we're gonna look at the believer's passion, and we're gonna look at the believer's persuasion. We're also gonna look at the believer's power, if we can get to all of it tonight. Now they go in sequence and there's a reason why they go in that sequence because number one, you need to realize your position in Christ first. You're never gonna have the power of God. You're never gonna have a passion for Christ and the things of Christ. You're never really going to understand the things of persuasion or passion because you don't understand your position in Christ. And Satan will make sure that even though you've accepted Christ, he still would like to blind your eyes to the clear, simple doctrines of the scripture. Here the Apostle Paul, he marveled in Galatians, and he says, who hath bewitched you? I marvel that you are so soon removed from the gospel that I've preached unto you. And so this is, we're looking, first of all, the believer's position in two places now. The believer's position. So let's read our verses and then we'll make our comments here. In verse 20, let's read verse 20 again. He says, I am crucified with Christ. I'm in Galatians chapter 2 and verse 20. Nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate the grace of God. For if righteousness come by the law, Here's his conclusion, and this is why he doesn't frustrate grace. A lot of religion, a lot of denominations, they are going to frustrate grace. And here's his conclusion. If righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead and vain. That is one main argument that you can't walk around is the crucifixion of the Son of God. and the death, the burial and the resurrection, you can't walk around that. Why would God allow his only begotten son to die for the sins of the world when that righteousness and that justification can come by the law, by doing something? So our position in Christ must be understood and it must be plain. The Christian's life is designed, listen, to be a life of unity and union with Christ. It's not to be in conflict with Christ. It's not to be in disharmony with the things of God. Because we are in Christ, the Bible says, and it declares this. We share his death in resurrection. In Christ, the enthronement of self ends. Now I know for a lot of Christians, a lot of the struggles and frustrations and trials and things that we go through, listen, you're going to have some trouble if self is still on the throne of your life. If the flesh, if the old man is still occupying the control or the steering wheel of your life, your emotions, your desires, your ambitions, and your point of direction, then you're not going to really be in harmony with Christ. And so the position of the believers is very important. There's two factors to it. The believers position identification with Christ. We must realize that we are to identify with Christ. Paul found that life came to him through Christ's death for the payment for sin. something the law could never do. Now I'm going to have you turn to Romans chapter six, Romans chapter six. Now I have asked and I needed to make this announcement. I asked from time to time, probably every month or sooner or rather sooner than that, but brother Samuel will be preaching for Sunday evening. So on December the fourth in the PM service, We're going to have Brother Samuel preach for us, and I'm thankful that he is. It gives me a little bit of a break, and we get to hear him preach. And he's already let the cat out of the bag. He said he'd probably more than likely, if God leads him, be in Romans chapter 8. And I'm already shaking my hands like this is going to be great. And so he does a good job there, but in Romans chapter six, Romans chapter six, now I want you to notice with me some verses here. We're gonna look at a couple here and we'll make our point. We're dealing with the believer's position, your position. If you're saved tonight, if you've accepted Jesus Christ, you've asked Jesus Christ to come in and save you, then you have a position. And you need to know something about this position. Number one, in this position, you identify or you should identify with Christ. The Bible says in Romans chapter six, now look with me in verse 11. He says, likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin. That's something that you and I will have to do, all right? But alive unto God. Why, alive unto God? How is this done? How is this identification with Christ? How is this done? Through Jesus Christ, our Lord. This kind of goes with the verse we're looking at here in Galatians 2.20 about, yeah, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. How does that happen? Well, here in Romans chapter six, he's saying that this is through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Now there's something else. We're in verse 11, if you drop back to verses three, let's read some more, but let me make the second point. So we're identifying with Christ, we're understanding and learning something about our position as a Christian, a child of God, and we identify with Christ, but secondly, we identify, the second thing is that we identify with the cross. not only with Christ, but we identify with the cross. Look at Romans chapter 6, look at verse 3. We just looked and read verse 11, but look at verse 3. And he says this, Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death, that like as Christ was raised up from the dead. Now we'll see the like and as, as were, like as. So the baptism here is a picture of what took place in the heart. The Bible student, you don't want to erase that. Understand what he's saying and why he's saying it. So we're identifying with Christ. Now watch this, verse four. Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death, that like as Christ. All right, these are all pictures of what took place to Christ, and we should identify the same way, was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so also should we should walk in newness of life. There it is, verse 5, for if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we didn't physically die, but we are representing of his death. We're identifying with Christ and then we identify with the cross in his death. He says that here we are planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection. Watch verse six, knowing this. So this is a knowledge, this is something that we should understand and we should know something about. It's our position. That our old man is crucified with him. That's Christ. That the body of sin, that's what you live in. That's nevertheless I live. That's what Galatians 2.20 is saying. Nevertheless I'm living, I'm alive, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. Well, if you've crucified the flesh, if you've identified with the death and the cross in your salvation, he says, now watch this, back in Romans 6, verse 6, that the body of sin might be destroyed that henceforth we should not serve sin. All right, so this is the position that the believer has. Let me say this. Paul does not emphasize trying to obey the law. It's not what he keeps bringing up here. Matter of fact, he's doing the opposite. There's those in the midst in that church that were saying that you must be circumcised by the manner of Moses before you can be saved or stay saved. So you still have to keep the law. And Paul's saying, no, you don't have to, not according to the gospel of grace. Alright, so then from the first century, looking at where Paul's at, dealing with this Galatian group that's struggling. They've been removed from the gospel that was preached unto them. And remember, there's not two gospels, there's only one gospel. All right, the death, burial, and resurrection. So what happens in the first century? What happens in the second century? What happens in the third? And as we move up to where we're at, why do we have so many denominations? Why do we have so much religion out there that teaches so many different things? That's because they want to put a bondage. They want to put people and Christians back under the law. and we're being bewitched by religion and Christianity. We're doing it to ourselves. You say, why? Because they don't simply want to just read it and believe it for what it says. So here, dealing with this, Paul was emphasizing grace, not the law. He was saying, but rather reckoning who he is in Christ. your position in Christ is very important. If you don't understand your position in Christ, you're going to be messed up on everlasting life, you're going to be less messed up on eternal life, you're going to be messed up on the atonement, you're going to be messed up on propitiation, you're going to be messed up on repentance, you're going to be messed up on a number of basic doctrines that you'll find the doctrine of grace, the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, basic doctrines. So understanding our position is very important. Number one, identifying with Christ. Number two, identifying with the cross. And so Paul was saying that he is crucified. He is a crucified dead man. And so he says, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. Let me say this about a dead man. A dead man does not try to obey the law. He's dead, and I'm speaking of the law of Moses in the context of scripture. Something else about a dead man, a dead man does not try to battle the world. He's dead. But Christians, here we go, run off like a race pony and off we go out towards the world. We gotta combat the world, we gotta go after the world, we gotta do the world. No, no you don't, not if you're dead. You're wrecking it dead. You're in the world, we work in the world, but we're not of the world. And I understand there's a vaccine and we have to watch what we do and how much we get of it, but a dead man does not try to battle the world, he's dead. A dead man is not controlled by sin. because he's dead. We got a person that has a sin problem, a young Christian has a sin problem. We have a young Christian that has a world problem, can't decide that your old friends in your old life, you're gonna have to give up. You're gonna have to. Cut it. There's going to be that type of a change if you want to have success, if you want to have victory in Christ. If you're struggling with the law and think you gotta keep this or do that or do this deed or don't do that, you're struggling with law and you're gonna be bound by law. You're gonna be a bondsman to that law. We've been set free from the law because we're dead to it. We've been set free from the world because we're dead to it. And we've been set free from sin because we're dead to sin. And so this is dealing with and understanding our position, our position in Christ. Now Galatians, we're in Galatians chapter two, I've already went back to our text, but turn with me to the four, Galatians chapter five. Let's look at a few verses here dealing with this about identification with Christ and the cross. A little bit more, just a little bit more. So we wanna look at Galatians chapter five. Now notice with me verse 24, verse 24. Galatians 5, verse 24. You say, is the Bible saying this? Well, I'm not a very smart person, and it wasn't hard for me to find these verses, and I mean that wholeheartedly. I never consider myself to be a very smart individual, and you don't have to be, thank God. There's no IQ limit or level that you have to have to be able to understand the Bible. Galatians chapter five, verse 24, very simple. And they, that are Christ, have crucified the flesh with the affections and lust. That doesn't get much easier than that. Let's read another one. Look at Galatians chapter six. We're right there in the neighborhood. Let's move up. Galatians chapter six. Notice with me verse 14. But God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ by whom the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world. So that's pretty, pretty simple. That's why I put it in there, dealing with our position in Christ. Secondly, let's go back to Galatians chapter two and read verse 20 and 21 again. He says here now, back to our text, and let's get a little bit more out of it. I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh. He's dealing with our day to day battle with that old man because when you got saved, the comforter come down and indwells you according to Ephesians. And Ephesians says he seals you until the day of redemption when God calls you home. Whether it's through death or the rapture or the catching away of the saints, however you wanna play it, each one will do the same thing for the child of God. So that spirit, the Holy Spirit is in you, but you have your flesh. When Christ saved you, he wants you to reckon your flesh dead. Now, there's a lot involved in that, meaning that you need to understand, you need to be taught that. You just don't grow up and say, yeah, I know the flesh has given me trouble, I know it should stay away from the world, and I must annex myself from these and understand how to work with them, although they're dead. You have to be taught that, and that's what's going on tonight. So here he says, now, he says, this life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God. How does this happen? So I'm going to deal, secondly, the believer's passion, the believer's passion. Let me say this about the believer's passion. God does not expect the Christian life to be lived by the ability and power of the flesh. So we gotta grip something here with our minds and our hearts tonight. So you're not going to whip the flesh out of the nature and physical strength of the flesh. Most Christians, I wanna say probably up above 50, 60% of them, maybe more than that, think they're combating their flesh, the sin and everything else, the vices, the attractions, the addictions, all by the power of the flesh. Love yourself, know something about yourself. No. Wrecking yourself dead, Christ is the power. His faith is what's gonna get you to generate the power to be able to live a life in the flesh away from sin in the world. That's the only way. So there's a passion here, and God knows that, and he expects us, and he knows that, listen, by the ability and power of the flesh, it ain't gonna happen, but by the power of the living spirit of God, now it can, by the Holy Spirit indwelling you and giving you and enabling you, All right, you can do this, I can do this, anybody, any Christian can do this. And so we see two things here in the believer's passion, all right? Passionate about the resurrection. There is power in the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's where the power comes from. You know, you can die on the cross, almost can get that done. You can be buried. But now when you get along into the resurrecting a body from the dead that's been dead for three days and three nights, that's gonna be hard to do. Somebody has to have power and power to be able to resurrect themselves, that's where our power comes from. That's where our power comes from. It comes from the resurrected Lord and Savior. And then the Holy Spirit does this work by the same type of power in us. So we see the passion about the resurrection. We see the passion about living in Christ. Now operating and living in Christ. Look at Colossians chapter three. I'm watching that clock, I'm running down here. Colossians chapter three, now we want to get Colossians chapter three. Now notice with me verse three, and I'll give you a little, just a little bit of time to get over there. Colossians is kind of hard to find. Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians. Colossians chapter three, verses three. And he says this, for ye are dead. Why does he keep saying that? Well, he's not really speaking of you physically in the physical sense that you're not breathing, there's blood, there's no blood pumping through your system, your heart and stuff. You're still alive, but he wants you to understand that if you don't, in your mind and heart, rank in your flesh as a dead person, it's going to wake up and it's gonna wanna take control. So he's saying here in verse three, for ye are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God. How is that done? Well, what happened to Christ? He was crucified, he was buried, and so you're hid, your life, your physical life is hid in Christ. Christ covers you. Verse four, when Christ, watch verse four, when Christ, who is your life, shall appear, that's the catching away of the saints, that's the day of redemption, all right, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. All right, and so he goes on, he goes on to say in verse five, mortified, therefore your members What? Wrecking them dead. Mortify your members which are upon the earth. And then he goes into a whole list, enough of a sin list to cover about everything that you're going to get involved in. Fornication, uncleanliness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry. which is idolatry, for which things, sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience. So here we're dealing with Colossians and he's telling us, what is he saying? Listen, we need to be passionate about living in Christ, not just for Christ, but living in Christ. A lot of Christians, they do not have victory because they don't understand the position that they have in Christ. And so they're not fully enabled. God, you understand, God tooled every one of us. God fashioned us, he made us, and he wants to use us. but God can only use a vessel fit for the master's use. And if we keep marring that vessel, if we keep squandering the vessel, if we keep abusing the vessel, God can't use us. And so we're ineffective for God. Matter of fact, you're a Christian saved, but ineffective and not being used for your intended purpose for God. So this is what we're talking about. In Christ, a passion about the resurrection because there's power there. Passion about living in Christ. And so we see because we are dead in and of ourselves, and because Christ gave us life, we should passionately live for Christ. This is what the Bible is trying to teach us tonight. Thirdly, So we've seen the believer, we've seen the believer's position, we've seen the believer's passion, now we wanna see the believer's power. Look at verse 20 again, let's go back to our text, Galatians 2, Galatians chapter two and verse 20. Now this verse reminds us, "'I am crucified with Christ,' he says. "'Nevertheless I live, yet not I, "'but Christ liveth in me, "'and the life which I now live in the flesh, "'I live by the faith of the Son of God, "'who loved me and gave himself for me.'" Wow, so here, verse 20 reminds us that we don't live the Christian life in our own strength. but Christ liveth in me. This identifies us with Christ's power, Christ's power. And so it's not our own, it's not something we manufacture, we gotta drum up or get going. Christ gives us the power to do this because number one, he's telling us he wants us to do it. And so he enables us, so we have the power. But let me say this two things here about the believer's power. Not through self. Not through self. You say, why would you say that? Because self is our biggest power motivator. A lot of what we do is manufactured and produced by self. Everything we do, by the way. But for Christ, in the context of doing something for Christ. John chapter 15 in verse five, let me read it to you. I am the vine, John chapter 15 verse five. Ye are the branches, he says. He that abideth in me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. That's ultimately where we're going for God. God wants fruit, not only in our lives, but he wants us to... to produce fruit. So he says, the same bringeth forth much fruit, for without me ye can do nothing. That's Christ, not the church, not the pastor, not the deacon, not the board, not the associate. It's Christ. It's all about Christ. You say, why? Because that's where the power, that's where the believer gets his power. So not through self, but let me say this, but through Christ. Galatians 2.20 says this, let me say this, Jesus died on the cross to save you from your sin. He lives in you to save you from self. That's who enables you and I to live a Christian life in our flesh. Now, I'm not preaching sinless sanctification. Your mind runs very fast, my runs a little slower than yours, probably everybody here, but our minds run, our imaginations run in our hearts and our ambitions and our desires and our burdens. And so we live in this flesh that can operate, it'll operate in the flesh and it'll produce a sin just like that. Normally most sin starts in the mind, goes to the heart and then out from that actions or an inaction. Okay, and so a sin of omission, that's what that's called. Something that you know you should be doing, but you don't do it. So this thing can go either way. We're going to generate sin, but God is enabling us, giving us understanding how we should live this, how we should live this type of life. So it's through Christ. Why? Well, Jesus died on the cross to save us, you and I, from our sins, and he lives in us to save us from ourself. Colossians chapter one, let me read it to you. You can turn if you want, but I'm gonna pick it up, hear the pace. Colossians one, verse 27. That's what the Apostle Paul brought. He revealed a mystery that God had given to him. And that mystery, here it is, Colossians 1 verse 27. I'll read it here. The hope of glory, the Bible says. 2 Peter backs this up in 2 Peter 1, verse 4 says this, whereby we are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having accepted or escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. Ephesians goes a little bit further, Ephesians 3, verse 17, that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, that ye be enrooted and grounded in love. That's Ephesians 3, verse 17. I'm saying tonight the believer has power, but only through Christ. And so we understand the passion of the believer, we understand the power, and we understand the position. Let me get to the last one, the believer's persuasion. The Believer's Persuasion, let's read our text again. I'm crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and then gave himself for me. I live by faith, according to this verse. You, as a child of God, live or should live by faith. We live out of the life of Christ by faith. Christ's incredible sacrifice for us motivates us to live for him by faith. If you look at 1 Corinthians chapter 5, I'm gonna say just a little bit, we've quoted it the other day, and I use this verse a lot, and here's what it says, 1 Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 7, for we walk by faith, not by sight. You see, we get sideways on this because we wanna see where we're going. We don't wanna see what we're dealing with. We wanna know the conclusion because that's how we are as humans. But God says, no, I'm not wanting a Christian or a child about anyone. Nobody's exempt if you're saved. I want you to walk by faith. So here enters this trial into your life. Here enters this struggle. And I want you to get through this because you don't know what's gonna happen. You don't have the power to get through this. You don't have the power to call the yes or no button on this. And this trial makes you become sweeter and more faith-based type Christian rather than by sight. And this is what happens, the believer's persuasion. Well, God has his way and he works and woos and works on us and he's a master builder. So imagine what He can do in your life and heart. The Lord will allow us to endure afflictions or adversity that He might develop our faith. We don't enjoy these times and we would never choose them on our own. I don't think anybody of us, any of us would. Yet the Lord uses them to strengthen and to develop our faith and to deepen our hunger for his presence. I just don't really care too much about God. I know they do that, that preacher does, or that deacon does, or those people do, but I don't. Are you saved? Do you name the name of Christ? Let me ask you this, do you want him to answer your prayer when you pray? So God wants to develop, he wants you to be hungry for his presence. And so he'll bring struggles and trials and situations in your life, because you're going to rely, you need to rely on him by faith. Here's what Hudson Taylor said about Christians. Many Christians estimate difficulties in the light of their own resources, and thus attempt little and often fail in the little they attempt. All God's giants have been weak individuals who did great things for God because they reckoned on His power and presence with them. The Bible verse that goes with that statement is Romans chapter five and verse two. And it says this, by whom also we have access by faith into this grace, wherein we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. This is where we're at tonight. So dealing with the believer's persuasion, and we say that a life of faith, I live a life of faith and I live because of his love. That's why we live. When we consider God's love for us, we can and we will live by faith. If we don't, then we're not living by faith, we're living by sight, and we begin to struggle with the relationship with God, his word, the people of God, God's church, his organization, and anything that has to do with God, we begin to detest or not to want to be a part of. is because we're walking or living by faith, or by sight, not by faith. The Bible says this, and I like this verse, it's kinda on track here because it speaks of the love that God had for the church, and he says in Ephesians chapter five, verse 25, and he's admonishing the husbands and their wives, and he says, husbands, love your wives, and he says this, even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it. So he sets an analogy of himself, what Christ did for the church. Well, I don't need church. I don't need the things of church. Christ, he purchased it with his own blood, and he loved it enough to do that. And so I want to love the things that God loves, and I want to have the passion that God has, and how I do that is live because of his love. We can all do that. We can live this Christian life because of his love. The Bible says in Romans chapter eight, I love this and I've shared this before and I'm about done. Romans chapter eight in verse 37. And it says this, nay in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. I'm persuaded that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ. Jesus our Lord. It all goes back to the Lord Jesus Christ and what he did. Let me say this, so we've looked in conclusion and we've looked at the persuasion and we've looked at the passion, we've looked at the power, and we've spent some time on the position of the believer, but here's what I want to say and put it all together. Our lives in Christ always begin with our position. That's where it starts. Our position then feeds our passion. And passion feeds power. And power always feeds persuasion. But if you don't understand the position you have in Christ, you're not gonna have a persuasion, you're not gonna have passion, and you're definitely not gonna have power. You say, why? It's because not knowing who you're in, what is your position? Your position in Christ is a son of God. He says this, and I've quoted it a number of times the last three or four weeks, but as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God. You have to accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of your heart and life. Starts in the heart. Romans 10, 9, and 10 says, for with a mouth confession is made unto salvation, but with the heart man believeth unto righteousness. You say, is it that simple? It's that simple. God couldn't make it complicated because then you'd have an excuse not to accept Christ. So he even put it one step further. He'd give it as a gift. And we're approaching that time of the year where we're gonna talk about that gift. And that gift is the most important gift ever given to the world. And that's what we're looking at tonight. How do I live this life? You live it understanding the position that you're in. You're a child or a son or a daughter of God. That simple, that powerful, that moving, and it allows you to begin to live a life, a life with the faith of Christ. operating in your life. All right, and in your heart, let's all stand tonight. I'm saying tonight, Christ liveth in me. How about you tonight? Does Christ live in you? So I don't know if I've actually done that. I've got bad. I'm not talking about your baptism. So I don't know that. But I haven't joined this. I'm talking about joining the church. So I don't know about that. I I haven't been that I wasn't raised in church. You don't have to be raised in church. All you have to realize and understand that you're a sinner, that you need a Savior, and that Jesus Christ is that Savior. And you simply ask Him to save you. That's it. That's all there is. That is what we're talking about tonight. I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I. but Christ liveth in me. In the life which I now live, I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. What are we going to sing tonight? Page 280, Softly and Tenderly. 280.