One of my favorite things to listen to is personal testimony. Personal testimony about people coming to faith in Christ Jesus. Being saved. That's a wonderful thing to hear, isn't it? Don't you love hearing those testimonies? And this past week, I was blessed to hear a number of testimonies from a group called the HeartCry Missionary Society. A preaching had been given and the Gospel had been shared and Scripture had been distributed in a prison in Mississippi. And prisoners, convicted felons, men on death row, men who were serving multiple life sentences were testifying to the grace of God in their lives. It was beautiful. It was just incredible to hear of the winning, loving, life-changing, life-transforming power of Jesus. It's amazing to think about, too, that these men who were once so vile, so criminal, so wicked, violent, evil, that they will be with the saints in heaven one day, that you will see them and know them as a brother. They will shine as gems in the crown of Christ. It's a wonder to behold the grace of God can change people from being so bad. Did you hear me? Can change people from being so bad. But I also heard a testimony this week from a man named Jim Wilson. Some of you all might know this name. I give out books written by this fellow, Jim Wilson. He's a great Bible instructor, a great counselor in terms of his writing. And he wrote a little memoir called, Saved From Being Good. Saved from being good. And today we have before us someone who needed saving. A young, rich man. And he was seeking eternal life. And he was, by all comparisons, a really, really good man, y'all. He was good. Not compared to God and Jesus, but compared to you, he was good. I don't mean that to be mean. I'm just saying that this man was pretty amazing. He was a good guy. Yes, there are those vile types of sinners who are lost in prisons, who are lost in brothels, who are lost in drug houses, who are lost in violence and addiction and all sorts of wickedness. Lost in the streets. But if this passage is true, then take it down, put it in your minds that there are nice type of sinners, nice types, good types, moral types of sinners who are lost in the church, y'all. Who are lost in the Sunday school class. who were lost in the town hall, in the civic organizations. There are those sinners there who need to be saved, and they need to be saved from being so good. Is that a shocker to you? Does that shock you? That shocks me. But it is true. It is true. If this Bible paragraph is true, then Jesus is willing to save sinners from being good. You who have an honorable name, who have a great work history, maybe you've even been one of those sacrificial veterans, a town leader, a community organizer, a civically esteemed man or woman. You could show that all your business practices have been above board and just and equitable and fair. You give money away to charities. You give money away to people. You're well-known for being so good. You need to be saved. That's the scandal of the Gospel. You need to be saved from being good. And only one person can save you. Only one person can save you. You cannot save yourselves. And you know who that person is. Who is the person that can save? Who alone can save? It is Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. And that's the main thing I want you to know this morning. The main thing I want you to know is that it is humanly impossible to earn eternal life. It's humanly impossible. It cannot be done in your own strength. What can you do to earn eternal life? What amount of hours could you punch on a time sheet and then hand to God and say, in exchange for this good work time, these good hours that I've served you with, exchange that, and God, I would like to be paid with eternal salvation. What amount of service can you offer to God so that He would patronize that service with eternal days in His presence forever? What could you do? What can you do to be saved? And I'll go ahead and spoil it for you. I didn't read it all the way through. But if I were to read it all the way through, the next paragraph, the disciples look at Jesus and thinking of this young man, this rich young ruler who is great, who is good in the eyes of man, they look at him and they say, well, then Jesus, who can be saved? It's verse 26, I believe. Verse 25, when the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished. Well, then who can be saved? But Jesus looked at them and said, with man, this is what? Impossible. But with God, all things are possible. Let these verses show you that a man or a woman could be rich in many fine ways, many esteemed ways. A man or woman can be rich in a lot of things and still be absolutely destitute of God. They can be absolutely impoverished in the spiritual life. Be filled with many good things. Do you know it? Do you know it? So I want to show you these verses, I want to preach to you these verses, and I want to look at the three riches of this man. He might have had more, but I want to talk about three riches that he had, and how he was still in such poverty. So, here it is. I want you to see that this man was first rich in zeal. He was rich in zeal. I want you to see how zealous this man is. One verse to show it, one verse to kick it off, although you can see it all throughout the passage. This man is a zealous man, and by zealous, I mean he is in hot pursuit of one thing. That's what being zealous means, to be in hot pursuit of one thing, to be obsessed over one thing. Let me read to you why I say this. Verse 16, and behold, a man came up to him saying, okay, let me just stop there. There's a lot that's actually behind this English language here. Behold, what does that mean? It means suddenly, look. What's going on right now? You guys know, Lester even brought it up. Jesus is on His way to Jerusalem, where He's going to be lifted up on a cross to die, and then be resurrected. And on His way to Jerusalem, great throngs of people are crowding around Him, where He is healing them and casting out their demons. He's been arguing with Pharisees. He's been blessing children. And all of a sudden, a man pops up, pushes his way through everything, and gets in the presence of Jesus. The gospel of Mark, and I don't normally do this by bringing the other gospels in, but I think if you want to see a great picture of all this working together, you've got to look at Mark chapter 10 and Luke chapter 18, and they'll tell you more about this ruler, this man. In fact, they'll tell you why he's a ruler at all. In Matthew, it doesn't call him a ruler. In Mark, it calls him a ruler. In Mark, according to Mark, this man comes running up to Jesus. He comes running. He's running to Jesus and he falls down at the feet of Jesus. He kneels down before Jesus. And he cries out. What must I do to have eternal life? He's rich, according to verse 22 in Matthew 19. Luke calls him extremely rich. Luke calls him a ruler. I believe Mark does too. Luke 18, 18. He falls at the feet of Jesus. Mark 10, 17. And he asks a direct question, ready to take action. What must I do to have eternal life? And in this question, people, I want you to see the zeal. I want you to see the zeal. Because on the one hand, This man is so many men and women. This man you could look at and you could see, this is what so many people act like. That if they just do enough, if they're just good enough, they can make it into heaven. They can have peace with God by their own efforts. So many people think this way. But I want you to tell, I want you to see why this man is a rare man as well. Let me tell you something. When I get the chance to witness to people and talk to people who are not saved, who are unbelieving, one of the questions that they never ask is this question, what must I do to have eternal life? Because here's the thing, most of the time when I'm having these conversations, or when you have these conversations, nobody thinks that they don't have eternal life. Everybody's walking around assuming. I'm on my way to heaven because I'm so good. People are already skipping this question. I say, do you have peace with God? Yes, I have peace with God. Why wouldn't I have peace with God? Why wouldn't I have a relationship with Jesus Christ? Why wouldn't I be on my way to heaven? This man, this is fascinating, y'all. This man doesn't have eternal life. He doesn't have eternal life. And here's what else. He knows he doesn't have eternal life. He runs to Jesus because he has not eternal life and he says, what can I do to get it? He's lost and he knows it. That's like half the battle when it comes to evangelism. Helping people see that they're lost, that they're in need of a savior, that they're in need of salvation. He knows that he knows people knew people knew back then that there was heaven and there was hell. It was one or the other. And he knew he did not have heaven. That's why he's asking the question in the first place. If he didn't have it, he wouldn't be asking for it. If he had it, he wouldn't be asking for it. I'm going to tell you what, I was reading all this commentary on this man, and I've fallen more and more in love with this man and the way he comes to Jesus. As I've learned of him and what he says and what he does. And how Jesus treats him. He's just, he's fearing the judgment to come. He knows he's lost. He wants eternal life. He's willing to work for it. He's willing to do as much as he can, much good as he can to get it. If zeal were money, this man would be a billionaire. He's young. He's rich. He's a ruler. By the way, these things matter in your minds. He's rich. He has many great possessions. He's a ruler. A ruler was a synagogue ruler. This means he was probably an expert in the Scriptures, an expert teacher, kind of like a pastor, but even more than a pastor, he was like a civic leader in town. The synagogue was where the Jewish civics functioned. He would be making rules like small claims court. He would be making rulings on those sorts of things. He was young, so he was a very capable, energetic person. He's rich in morality, as you see, that he's done many good things. He's an honoring man in that he calls Jesus a good teacher in the other Gospels, not so much in Matthew, he just comes to him. He's rich in religion. He's rich in orthodox religion. Think about that. He knows there's such a thing as eternal life. But he's not a materialist, y'all. He's not an atheist. He's not an nihilist. He knows there's such a thing as eternal life. And he's honest. He's honest. He doesn't have it. He is a. He's a good man. What a man. What a man. What a mighty good man, y'all. He is good. He's a good man. He's desirous of eternal life. He's a feeling man. And here's the deal, though. He has no spiritual knowledge. You know, this is what is just true of people who are unconverted. He has no spiritual knowledge. He hasn't considered the standard for what a good deed even is. or what good even is, namely God Himself. He's not understood the spiritual nature of the laws defined by Christ. You know, Jesus preached the Sermon on the Mouth and Jesus said the law is not principally about do's and don'ts and the works you do with your hands. The law exposes the sin of your hearts. The sin and evil that sin and evil doesn't begin in your hands and what you do, but in your heart and your mind. This man is ignorant of the mechanics of salvation, you know, believing it can be achieved by good deeds. And he's willing even to do those good deeds. He's. But, you know, I say all these these errors that he has, but this just makes sense. He's unconverted. He doesn't have that that that spiritual light, that knowledge that's given by the spirit, that that helps you see the way God works. That helps you see the importance of Jesus Christ. That helps you see the poverty of good works. He's a feeling man, he's a desiring man, right? I mean, this is interesting. I mean, so many people, I think one of the things we deceive ourselves, or you can deceive yourself on, is when it comes to faith and eternal life and spirituality, is people will talk about their feelings. And feelings are great. By the way, I love feelings. I'm feeling it right now, y'all, okay? Feelings are great, but people talk about feelings like, oh, I was somewhere in a religious worship service once and I felt God move. I felt God love me. You know, I went on one of those Emmaus walks, one of those retreats. I went to a pastor's conference and I just felt so taken up in things. Or maybe I just felt so sorry for my sin. Maybe I felt a need for God. Look, these things are great things, but they are not the same as conversion. And so for everyone here, don't rest until you know you have that inward witness of the Holy Spirit testifying to you that salvation is not in and of yourself, not in and of your feelings, but it is in and of Christ alone. And in and of his righteousness that he gives because he was the one who perfectly kept the law for you. And who died in your place and forgave your sins. This man is purchasing, trying to do everything he can to purchase life, purchase eternal life, and he gains no purchase. Romans 10, 14. I should read this to you. Paul writes about this. This is the condition of the Jews when they rejected Christ, when they've not looked for God's grace. Paul says, Brothers, my heart's desire. This is Romans 10, verses 1 through 4. Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them, the Jews, is that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to God's righteousness. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes." People, that is just an incredible summary. of the problem here and the problem with good deeds and good works and self-made righteousness. It's because you're zealous. People want to be good. People want to behave. People want to act morally for the most part. But what is this? This is a rejection of the provision God has made. When we stand upon this good work, good morals, good law-keeping, all the goods, and we say, you know what, this is what gets me into heaven. Paul says, ah, they're 99% right. They're 99% righteous, and they're 100% unrighteous. They've got all this goodness, and they're 100% children of the devil. They've got all of this stuff to look at and applaud. And they have all the condemnation in the world because they've rejected God. As the only one who is righteous. He is zealous, he's been zealous for a long time since his youth, he says, and yet he still lacks. So a man can be rich in zeal, but poor in knowledge. Saving knowledge, that's not just knowing stuff, that's having that light of Christ shine upon you so that you may see that Jesus Christ truly is the way, the truth, and the life, and you can only get to the Father through Him. So the second thing, the second thing this man is rich in, this man is rich in morals. He's rich in morality. He's rich in works of the law. Right? And so we need to learn that a man can be rich in works of the law, but poor in grace. Poor in grace. And this is where the majority of the argument takes place. These verses, verses 17 through 20, this is Jesus leading this man. And this man needed a personal application of God. Anytime, I'll give you an encouragement here, church, anytime you see Jesus deal one-on-one with someone, you need to pay attention to it. Because what he does is he goes after the heart of that single person. to expose what this person is clinging to and why this person is in error. I'll give you an example. Remember, Jesus is beginning his ministry and people see him and his disciples. And one man comes up to him and says, Jesus, I will follow you wherever you go. And Jesus says to him, hey, Foxes have dens, birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head." That's kind of an interesting response. Why would Jesus just respond that way? Because He knew that man had an issue with security. He needed to put in the work and come home to a hot meal and a nice bed and some silk sheets and a hot tub so that he can get ready to go to work tomorrow. And Jesus says, no, that's not the life of a disciple. Or the man says, Jesus, I will follow you. And Jesus says, and he says, but first let me go back and bury my father. What does Jesus say to him? Let the dead bury the dead. Does Jesus have a problem with funerals? No, but he knew this man had an issue with his family. He wouldn't break from his family to follow Jesus. Or what about the woman at the well? Do you remember the woman at the well? At Jacob's well in John chapter 4? Here we are. And Jesus is talking to her directly. Woman, if you had known the kind of water that I provide, you would ask me for a drink. And she said, give me this water and I'll go get my husband and bring him to you. And he says, you know, you've had five husbands. And the man you're with right now ain't even your husband. And he begins this bringing out of her this revelation that she would see Jesus as the one who knows her perfectly and the one who still loves her and the one who she can look to and trust with her life and no longer live according to this world. In fact, that's exactly what she says when she goes and shares the gospel with the Samaritans. She says, come see the man who showed me all that I ever did. That's why Jesus deals with this young man the way he does. It's a personal application to this man that he needed. We need to hear it too, for sure, as we look in. But this man needed a direct application of Christ's wisdom. Jesus says, why do you ask me about what is good? There's only one who does good. And I love this. I love that he leads this man with this first step. Proverbs 26 verse 5 says, Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes. And Jesus is doing that. He's answering this man according to just where he starts. Right there, right at the heart of the young man's argument. The young man wants to know what good deeds to do, and Jesus wants to show this man where goodness actually comes from. Psalm 119 verse 68 says, The Lord is good and does good. Jesus wants the young man to ask himself, how good must I be? How will I know if a deed is good enough? What is the standard? What's the passing grade? What's the going rate these days for eternal life? And Jesus is saying, God himself. God himself. God himself. So then, Jesus then says, now if you want to, do the works of God. If you want eternal life now, do the works of God. do the works of God knowing that He is the standard for goodness. That these laws have to be accomplished as good as Him. And I don't know about you, but I feel like when I read this, it was like being thrown into a washing machine. Because I'm like, Jesus, it's like you're going against everything you say about eternal life. That it's all of grace, but you're telling Him to do these works that will lead Him to eternal life. But I want to show you that Jesus is helping this young man. He's actually going to help this young man reach the hangman's noose of his own argument. He's going to help this young man build a straw house, and at the end of it, the young man's going to look at it and push it over and say, it can't be that. It can't be that. And why do I say this? Well, go with me. Look at it. Look at it. He says, if you want to enter into life, do the commandments. What are these commandments? It's most of the second table of the law. Honor mother and father. Don't murder. Don't commit adultery. Don't steal. Don't bear false witness. Love your neighbor as yourself. And this man dares to say, I have kept all of these. The other gospel say he says he's kept them all from his youth. And everybody, I think all of us naturally, we want to jump on this man and say, you blind fool. You self-righteous, self-absorbed person. You actually think you've achieved these commandments. You are so deceiving of yourself. I think we naturally want to do that. But you know who doesn't do that in this passage? Who doesn't do that? Jesus. Jesus doesn't do that. Jesus doesn't make a correction or a condemning remark against this man. It's not because Jesus is agreeing with him. Of course the man is deceiving himself. That's what sinners do. That's what we all do. That's what we do when we look at the law, what we do when we look at religion, what we do when we think of God. We just think, hey, I must be pretty good. We look around at other people and we say, that that person over there has got it wrong. That person over there has got it wrong. I must be doing something right. Of course, he's deceiving himself. That's what sinners do. He's just acting out of the poison of his unconverted heart. Jeremiah 17 9 says the heart is deceitful above all else and desperately sick. Who can know it? But I want you to see. how Christ is so magnificent in His wisdom and patience. Like I said, it's like He just worked with this man. Hey, son, let's get some straw and build a house together. Here we go. And the man builds it with Christ, and they take a step back and look at it. And the man says, this can't be it. Just pushes it over. How do I know this happens? How do you know this happens? Because he comes to, at the end of all these laws, and the man says these words. He says, what do I still lack? Do you hear that question? What do I still lack? What am I not getting? Jesus, you say all these commandments, you say all these practices, I've been doing them, and they are proving to me that I'm not getting any closer to heaven. I'm not getting any closer to eternal life. It's like I'm at the bottom of the ocean, and I'm swimming upwards, and I can see the light of the sky, but I just keep swimming upwards into more and more ocean. with no chance of getting out. What am I missing? Jesus, I've been good. I've been honest, charitable, dependable. I've been above board. My accounts are clean. You could look at my efforts. You could ask people in my synagogue where I rule. My history is impeccable. Penance is not saving me. All that I've done for others is not saving me. All of what you've said, Jesus, I've tried to do, and I've gotten to this point where all I can say is it is insufficient and is not good enough. I still don't have eternal life. I still don't have it. I'm still lacking. I'm still insufficient. And it's at this point, At this point, the other gospel, specifically Mark, says that Jesus, at this point, looks upon this man, and do you know what he does? He loves him. He loves him. Jesus looked upon this man. When this man says these words, what do I still lack? Jesus looks upon him and loves him there. Because this man has come to the end of hoping in himself. He's come to the end of it. It says right here. He's right there on the cusp. He's pushed down the straw house. He's realized that after looking at the goodness of God and seeing that He doesn't measure up to it and no good deed He could ever do to measure up to it is going to stand. He looks at it and says, I still lack. I still don't have eternal life. And that's where Jesus says the final thing. You see, Jesus's wisdom in this passage is that he brings them to decision time. And Jesus says these words, He says, if you want to be perfect, right? This is the same thing as if you want to be good. If you want to be good in God's sight, you know, Matthew 5, 48, I believe, says, you must be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect. It's that word telos, which means the end. If you want to be mature, if you want to be complete. This is what Jesus says. If you want to be perfect. Sell your possessions. Give to the poor and follow me. Just keep in mind, Jesus says this. Jesus has now defined. What it takes for this man to enter into life. Turn from your stuff. And come with me. Turn from your stuff and come with me. Luke tells us that this man was extremely rich. The word possessions that this man owns, this man has, is the same word found in Acts 5 when it talks about the property that Ananias and Sapphira sold. So if we just take these two together, this man was rich in properties, y'all. He had a lot of stuff. He had a lot of land. And this really could have reinforced something in his own works-based righteousness system of his mind because Some people and some people then and still now view money and possessions as wealth as a prize for righteousness, right? Like if you do, if you're righteous, if you're truly a God lover, then you truly have faith in God, then you'll become very wealthy. Right? It's kind of a sales pitch, right? I think we'd fill up this church if I were to walk around the neighborhood saying, hey, if you come to Jesus, you're going to get rich. Right? If you put your faith in Jesus, you're going to get more land. You're going to get a nicer car. Right? We'd sell out that way. And that's what happens today, too, with the health and prosperity gospel movement. But anyway, this man could have viewed at that moment that his money was a prize for his righteousness. We should talk about this more, but I want you to see that Jesus has brought out, like He does, the finest wine for the end of this party. That He has been saving the statement after the man has exhausted everything, every item, every boast in the flesh. This man is exhausted at all. And now Jesus is going to say, here's what you got to do. And it's basically the same formula that comes down to every one of us. Quit your idols and go to Jesus. Because you know what the problem with this man was? He was a ruler. He understood theology. He may not have understood all the mechanics of salvation and all those things, but he understood the goodness of God that had been shared down through all the the generations and all the scriptures, he understood how people could miss heaven even though they were fine people. He understood these things. He may not have been perfect in his knowledge. As I've already said, he lacked that knowledge. He may have been suppressing that knowledge. But the problem with this man, if this passage is true, wasn't his intellect. It was His affection, His love. And that's the problem with anyone, anyone who hears the Gospel of Jesus Christ. When you come to Jesus Christ, when you're at that crossroads where it's either the narrow way that leads to life or the wide way that leads to destruction, do you know what it is? Do you know what the issue is? It's love. What do you love? What do you treasure? What do you put all your hope in? In this man, in the eyes of Jesus, in this man to his own heart, his struggle is not about laying hold of God intellectually. His struggle is he's got stuff that he likes a whole lot. He's got idols. He's got money that he loves. He's got riches. That's the third point. You can be rich in riches, but poor in Christ. This man is rich in possessions, in wealth, and this ultimately is going to lead Jesus into another teaching that we'll come to next time. But it says that this man walked away sorrowful. He walked away troubled because he had many great possessions. Because after talking with Jesus, after learning that he does not have what it takes, after learning that all the works of the law, none of them can justify, all they can do is reveal sin, according to Romans 3.20. You see this man, he got to that point like Paul, when Paul wrote Philippians chapter 3 verse 6, Paul said, I was a Pharisee of Pharisees, and when it came to the law, I was blameless. Paul was saying, take the law, take my life. Put them together, and you could see no difference. And you know what Paul says about that? He says, What that amounted to was like the stuff you step in in your neighbor's yard. You have to scrape it off the bottom of your shoe later on. It's like refuse. It's dung. It's garbage. It's garbage compared to the greatness of knowing Jesus Christ as Lord, Paul would say. That's the point at which this man comes to. That's the point. He's right there. He's at the cusp. And then Jesus says, you're there. Now what you've got to do is leave your idols and come and follow Me. And the man walks away sorrowful. And personally, I believe there was yet hope for this young man. We don't know, and I can't say definitively, But I'm telling you, just go back to what I said earlier in asking the question. This man asked, what must I do to have eternal life? You know, this question is so important. This is the question of your soul. You shouldn't go anywhere else or think about anything else unless you know, until you know that eternal life is sure for you, until you have that assurance. But this man doesn't have it, and he walks away sorrowful. It would be a glaring revelation if it said, this man walked away rejoicing, happy, like none of it mattered to him. But that's not what the Bible says. It says he walked away sorrowful. I'm not saying he was saved in that moment, but maybe there was still yet hope for him. Maybe he was on his way to Jerusalem, where Christ would be crucified and resurrected. I'm almost positive he was on his way to Jerusalem, as so many of the Jews were at that time. Maybe he would have turned to Christ later. But I'm telling you, he walked away sorrowful after coming to Jesus. That's a good sign, y'all. I'm telling you, if you walked out of here sorrowful after I'm preaching, after my preaching, and you walked out that door sorrowful, introspective, trying to feel the weight of what the eternal Word means to you, I will tell you something, that would be better than you coming up to me afterwards and saying, I like your kid's cute whale spout. And the Word having no effect on your life. If you were to run up to me and clutch me and say, you, Charles, as the minister of the gospel, what do I have to do to have eternal life? That would be great. These would be signs that there's some sort of spirit work in you. Maybe it'll take time. Maybe it'll come through tears. Maybe it'll come through groanings. But you know what? It's never gonna come if you never ask the question, if you never weep for your sins, if you never hear God's word, if you never trust in Him, if you just constantly keep looking at yourself as being, okay, okay, okay, good, good, good. I've done it all. I have nothing to worry about. Are you hearing the need of this man? He's not there yet. Maybe you're not either. Maybe there was still time for him to close with Christ. Or maybe time ran out. And he left with the true gospel. He left this world with the true gospel linging over his head. That all he had to do was just put aside his money and turn to Christ. But he would rather be rich. He would rather be concerned of the world. He would rather be concerned over his own goodness and self-righteousness. He would rather be known for a nobleman than to be known with Christ. He would rather participate in all his purchasing than depart with the world. People, you don't know that either. You don't know what time is left for you. If there is the Good News hanging over your head, and you have not yet closed with Christ, and you have not yet turned to Him, and you've not yet given up and fully surrendered to Jesus in your heart, make it today. Say, Lord Jesus, I give up myself. I give up my good deeds. I don't care if you're 13. I don't care if you're 85. Today is the day you look to Christ and you say, Jesus, nothing in My hands I bring, but it's simply to the cross I cling. Naked, I come to You for dress. Helpless, I come to You for grace. Don't be like the rich man, the rich young ruler. Be like so many other Christians who have been able to say and sing, riches I heed not, nor man's empty praise, but thou mine inheritance, now and always. High King of heaven, first in my heart, still be my vision. O ruler, thou art. That's where you've got to come to. Come to Jesus. Come to Jesus like this man. Come to Jesus with your resume. Come to Jesus. Come to Jesus and then look to him and say, none of this will get me into heaven. But I need to go with you, Lord Jesus, for you are the way, the truth, and the life. Don't make it complicated. Repent of your idols. Look to Jesus and be saved. Amen. Would you pray with me?