It's good to be here this morning. It's good to see y'all here. I enjoy those specials. I enjoy the songs and the thought about those things that one of these days we're going to be with the Lord. Tell you that's a wonderful thing to think about that I don't know about you, but I get tired of the things going on in this world. I get tired of laws. I get tired of just, I get emails from different organizations and religious organizations also that just, the things that are going on, just. So I got a, I'll put this back at the back. It's one of our mission letters from Brother Frank and, yeah. I almost got it messed up there. But from Brother Frank and Sid James, I don't normally read these, but this one just really, I liked it. I mean, it was convicting to me. So I'm going to read it to you. And if you ever read Brother Frank and Sister Sid, their mission letters, Brother Frank writes at the top of it, and he's very of a matter of factly. But then Sister James writes news from the home front. And those are always, a lot of times enjoyable. I remember Brother Frank telling a story at our church one day that They were going somewhere, they got to the river, and they were gonna cross the river, but the people said we couldn't go, so we turned around and went home. That was him telling the story, matter of fact. But Sister James told the story, it was a lot more interesting. Because they had guns, they shot at the ground, I mean, they chased them away, and they threatened them, and I mean, all of this, you know, and we looked at Brother James, he's like, well, yeah, that happened too. He's just a matter of fact, but he writes. Dear brethren, salvation belongeth unto the Lord. My blessing is upon thy people, Selah, Psalms 3.8. Greetings once again from Western Australia in the name of the Lord and only Savior, Jesus Christ. We hope that each one is doing well. We are thankful to be able to report that the Lord continues to bless our services in the communities of Dongra and Port Denison. This past month, we did not have any new visitors. Yet, we are thankful for the privilege to worship together. On a couple of occasions, a young man has ridden his skateboard past the open door to the services as if he is curious as to what is going on. This last Lord's Day, he came by again and listened outside the door for a longer time. We have been praying that he might be given eyes to see and ears to hear. Sid and I were able to travel to Perth this month for the yearly visit of her specialist and continue to monitor her health and give updates on a treatment protocol. Thank you for the continued love, prayers, encouragement, support for the Lord's work in Australia and Papua New Guinea. Taylor, praying at this young man who rides a skateboard, what is your first thoughts when you see kids riding skateboards? Oh, look, they're behaving. Is that your first thought? It's not, a lot of times it's not. Shame on us. Shame on us for that being our first thought, not being our first thought. But they're praying for this young man that he stop and he's listening a little bit longer. And Sister James writes, news from the home front, this is the part I wanted to read, but I don't just want to read this part, I want to read that part too, because both of them are very good. Says, this past week we got word that Tim Bain, in Papua New Guinea, or PNG as they call it, passed away. So this lady passed away. Says, one time when we lived in the jungle of Papua New Guinea, Frank was on a mission trip to preach at several churches. He preached at one village and then drove to another one about seven miles away to preach again. There wasn't room for all who wanted to attend both services to fit in the vehicle. It was a surprise that Tim Bain jogged all the way there and was in both services. Our vehicle could only go slowly on the muddy pothole road, so she almost kept up the whole time. It was a surprise to all who saw it. She was always a good witness concerning the things of the Lord and wanted to learn more. She later moved to Port Moresby, and when I taught preschool and literacy there, she would often show up and enjoy coloring pictures. She didn't have a birth certificate, but it appeared that she was in her 60s at that time. She didn't have a lot of fine motor skills in her hands since that skill was rarely developed in people her age who never went to school to learn to read or write. She didn't speak English, and I don't speak Duna, but we communicated through others or with just a smile on our faces. It was sad to hear of her passing. Yet we are happy for her to now be with her Lord and Savior. Frank and I look forward to seeing her again in heaven and being able to communicate in a much better way as we praise God together. I tell you, I read that, it was like, wow. She couldn't fit in the vehicle, so she ran alongside of it for seven miles. We have a hard time getting people to cross the street to go to church. And yet she jogged seven miles, not to go, but to hear another message. You think about that. I mean, so I wanted to read that to y'all. This lady, and I don't know if I understand that right, maybe she was younger, I don't know, but she was an older lady. And she was willing to jog seven miles to hear the word of God. That ought to convict us a little bit. Because, I mean, well, it ought to. So, but be praying for our missionaries and those that they have in contact with. So the Lord bless their situations. But, so, we've been going through what things that we believe, what we believe, different things, different teachings that we believe that separate us from not just other religions, but a lot of these things that we believe separate us even from Baptists. They distinct us from just any Baptist, because we are independent Baptists, and we are, we believe in Church perpetuity, we believe in doctrines of grace, we believe in closed communion and different things like that that separate us from just any Baptist. So today we're down to the ninth one and it is of God's purpose of grace. Now, I'll read this article here to you. If you have the article, you can follow along with it. It says, We believe that election is the eternal purpose of God, according to which He graciously regenerates, sanctifies, and saves sinners. That being perfectly consistent with the free agency of man, it comprehends or includes all the means, the Godhead, in connection with the end. That it is most glorious display of God's sovereign goodness, being infinitely free, wise, holy, and unchangeable, that it utterly excludes boasting and promotes humility, love, prayer, praise, trust in God, and active imitation of His free mercy. That it encourages the use of means, or in my words, trusting in God to do the work, in the highest degree, that it may be ascertained or understood by its effects in all who truly believe the gospel, that it is the foundation of Christian assurance, and that to ascertain or understand it clearly with regard to ourselves demands and deserves the utmost diligence. Some of you, I know I've talked to some of you, and when you looked at the doctrines of grace, You were taught it and you said, oh yeah, I see that. I was taught it and I said, what? And then I was taught it again and I said, huh? Over and over again. Until finally one day the Lord opened my eyes to it. It gave me an understanding of it. Wow. And from then on, it's amazing to me that when you see a truth, it's like when you go to the store, you're going to buy a car, right? You go to the dealership. I never wanted to buy a car that you see everywhere, the color. I like to have, I like metallic colors, I like that, I like blue, and I like red, and I like different colors like that. And so I would go and I would look for a car, so we bought my Chrysler out there, because I didn't want, you could find all kinds of red, and black, and white ones. And I didn't want one of those, they're everywhere. I wanted something different, I wanted a metallic one. Found that one. I like that color. It's like a blue, different color. It's a metallic steel color. So we bought it. I had never seen that color before. How many of you think I see it on the way home? I mean, that's what happens when you see it. When you finally see a color, you see it everywhere. That's just like a teaching, a doctrine, you see in the word of God. When you finally see it, Not just hear about it, you see it personally. You begin to see it in all kinds of verses. Someone will be reading a scripture and you'll be like, oh, look at that. There it is again. You know, I have a spot, and I've started this just recently, I have a spot in the front of my Bible that has a lot of empty pages. So I have began to put things on there, some definitions, foretelling, some doctrines that we believe. Then some things to study so I can keep that if I'm at a conference I got to write it down somewhere. So I have a list of things to study there I'm started in my Bible to write those things down and that way if I have my Bible with me Which normally I do when I go places that I can look those up real quick. I have those those verses right there and But it's neat, the more you see it, you begin to see it everywhere. And that's the way it was for me with the Doctors of Grace. When you see it, it just begins to show up. Let's go over a few of these here this morning. We're not going to get finished with this, I'm sure, but we believe that election is the eternal purpose of God, according to which He graciously regenerates, sanctifies, and saves sinners. It's what God does. Election, the doctrines of grace, is not what we do. It's what was done to us, for us, by God. Look in 1 Peter 1. 1 Peter chapter 1 verses 1 and 2. 1 Peter chapter 1 verses 1 and 2. Peter writes here, he says in chapter 1 verse 1, Peter an apostle of Jesus Christ to the strangers scattered throughout Pontius, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Grace be unto you, and peace be multiplied." Look at his opening. I mean, he has a whole lot in his opening right there. He's talking, he's writing to those, the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia. And then he says, elect according to the foreknowledge of God. If you're here today and you're saved, did you know you are one of the elect? You were chosen before the foundations of this world. And you were set aside, sanctified through sanctification of the Spirit. Setting aside of the Holy Spirit and obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Then when you think about salvation, you think about the doctrines of grace, it is such a beautiful, beautiful picture. It's a wonderful thing to see that and to, because God, the Bible says that God, for God so loved the world. So what did he do? Look, love. The world calls love a feeling. Oh, these young kids, they love one another because they think about this person all the time, and I get that. I was one of those. I was. I've told you stories about, because my wife and I, Trish, when we were dating, she didn't live in the same town. She didn't live in the same state that I lived in when we were dating. It was three and a half hours away, but I got to where I could make that trip almost under three hours. I mean, going to see her was an exciting thing, and I was in a hurry to get there. So don't tell my mom I can make that in three hours. She'd probably still get on to me today. But that's the young people. In the world today, love is a feeling. But what really is love? Love is an action. Love is not a feeling. The action causes feelings. But love is an action word. Love, and the world today, they say, have you ever heard somebody say, well, yes, we were in love, but we've fallen out of love? They were never in love to begin with. If love is an action, how do you fall out of it? Look, a lot of the things that these young people talk about is not love, but it is lust. It is that they always have to be together. They always have to be touching. Why? Love is caring for the person. Love is more. I was always excited when Trish was coming to Missouri. Sometimes people wanted to see her so that we would have to go over to other people's houses. And so then we would go over there and the wife would take Trish and talk to her while I talked to the husband. Well, I didn't want to talk to the husband. Just to be honest, I didn't want to. Matter of fact, I didn't want to be there. I wanted to be with her. But this is what we needed to do. You know, there was many times that we spent Not touching, not holding hands, but just seeing one another. And catch glimpses, glances. You know what I'm talking about. And you would see the care that's in the eyes of the other person. That's caring, but our love has grown for one another. The Bible says, for God so loved the world. Love is an action word. Therefore, because He loved the world, and turn over there to John 3, 16, and you know the verse I'm quoting there, John 3, 16. It says here, for God so loved the world, that what? He sent His only begotten Son, If I can get there, I'll read it. For God so loved the world. He loved the world therefore because he loved the world so much. You think about this. For God so loved the world. We've done a study on who God is. Knowing more about God and who he is. What is the one thing we learned about one of the attributes of God? One of the lessons we learned about God? Does God have an end? He's infinite. He's infinite. Every part of Him is infinite. There's no end to it. So when the Bible says, for God so loved, that's more than we could understand His love goes. His love is infinite. There is no end to His love. Therefore, His love caused an action. And what was that action? For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. You think about that. He gave. In some of the translations, the different translations, it says there that He gave His only Son. Or He gave His Son. They take out only begotten. Don't ever, if your Bible takes out only begotten, well I may offend you, but throw it away. Because He sent His only begotten. That's important. That's an important thing to leave in the scriptures. It wasn't just a son. It was his only begotten son that he sent. That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Look, God gave us a way of salvation by his son, sending his son to die on the cross. Who did he come and die for? Who did Christ come and die for? There's two different ways that we look at this. But we know who he died for. We're studying it today. God's great, God's purpose of grace. He gave grace to those that he elected. Because in Romans chapter 3, in Romans chapter 3, verses 10 through 12, it says, as it is written, there is none righteous, no not one. There is none that understand it. There is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way. They are together become unprofitable. There is none that deal with good, no not one. You read that, how many times is none in there? It's all through there, those three verses. There is none righteous." And then to clarify it, he says, no, not one. What does that mean? There's none righteous. Not you either. Plainly simple said, not you either. There is none that understand it. There is none that seek it after God. Look at it, when God looked down through time, there's some religions, they take this and they say, well yes, we do believe in election. But they believe it like God looked down through time and saw who would believe, therefore he elected them to salvation. That makes no sense to me. Because why did he choose them? They were already chose him. So why would you choose them if they already chose you? It makes no sense to me. It's trying to make the scriptures make sense, but just let the scriptures make sense. Read them as they say, all through the Bible, and all through John, Christ says, those that he has given me. There's some that God has given to Jesus Christ, and if you're here today and you're saved, you are one that he gave to Christ. You let the scriptures read, you let them read, and let them say what they're saying. He looked down, but God looked down through time, and what did he see? He saw not one chose Him. Not one. Not one. Not even you would choose the Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible says, and we talked about that this morning, that men can't come except the Father draw him. It's the only way. It's the only way a man, only way a person, a human being can come to God the Father is if he is drawn. And you look that word up, what does that mean? It doesn't mean to push, it means to drag, to pull. Like the woman at the well went to the well to do what? To draw water. And Christ said, well, if you ask me, I will give you water. And she says, you don't have a bucket. And the well is deep. So what does that have to do with draw? She draws the bucket up out of the well. It doesn't come up on its own. She has to pull it. Just like that draw is. Because no one would choose the Lord. And the Bible says that we won't and we can't come to Him. But by Jesus Christ. God, He so loved the world that He created, He made a way of salvation, a way of salvation. In Matthew, excuse me, Christ says in His Sermon on the Mount that He didn't come to destroy the law, but what? To fulfill. To fulfill the law. I love that verse of Scripture. Because it's one of those verses that helped me to begin to see. I can't keep the law. I can't. You study through, I've been going through Leviticus, reading through Leviticus and numbers and different, and those, the Old Testament, reading through there. I'll tell you, can you imagine? I was just trying to put myself in this situation that, can you imagine being a priest and trying to keep up with all the sacrifices, all the laws? And the different sacrifices had to be done a certain way. I mean, it wasn't just, oh, you know, we'll just, we'll just, as long as we get her done, right? No. Certain way, it's got to be done. Certain way. For a certain sacrifice, it has to be done. And just keeping track of all of that, that just boggles my mind to some point. Because how? And you think about that, it was all pointing that there's one, and you think about those sacrifices as the one that would bring the lamb as a sacrifice, that he would put his hand on that lamb. And if you read over there in Leviticus, chapters one and two is where it starts out at, they'll bring that lamb. It's a picture that they are trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ. They've already trusted in the Messiah that's going to come. They didn't have a name for him then, but they're trusting in the Messiah, the one that God is gonna send to die for their sins. And they're putting their sins upon this lamb, and they cut that lamb's throat, and that blood drains out, and the priest catches that blood. And then that person flays their skins, and it's just, look at the picture. All of that, all of that is pointing, it's a shadow of things to come. It's showing them, look, they can't keep the law. But there's one coming that's gonna fulfill the law. There's one coming that can keep the law. God loved us so much that he made a way. And that way was his only begotten son. His only begotten son came and he kept the law. He lived it. He fulfilled the law. And you think about when he was hanging on the cross, in his mind, I tell you, I don't know about you, but when I'm in a lot of pain, don't ask me a lot of questions. Especially difficult questions. Because I'm not going to be able to think straight. I'm not going to be able to. Because it gets me out of my focus. I'm more focused on the pain and Christ is hanging there on the cross. And what does he do? He goes over all the scriptures in his mind. And so that everything would be fulfilled, what does he do? He says two words. I thirst. Why? So that everything would be fulfilled. And after he said, I thirst, they gave him the, on the hyssop, water and vinegar. A little bit later, he said, it is finished. Done. Everything's been done that he came to accomplish. And then he bowed his head and gave up the ghost. When he said, it is finished, you know what that means? And you think about this, I talked to somebody about this the other day, I don't remember who it was, but he said it is finished. But he's still hanging on a cross. You read over in 1 Corinthians, the gospel is the death of Jesus Christ, which Christ said it is finished, so he's not dead yet. The burial and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. So what was finished? when Christ said, it is finished. I think what is finished is the fulfilling of the law. The fulfilling of everything he came to do was finished. He withdrew in his mind that all the scriptures had been fulfilled but one. Therefore, he said, I thirst. Then you could say, it is finished. Then he bowed his head and he gave up the ghost. He died on the cross. He was buried and three days and three nights later, what did He do? He rose again. Look, He died with our sins upon Him. He died for our penalty. He paid for that. You turn over there and you read, I think it's in Psalms 22 where it talks about the bulls of Bashan, how that they compassed about Him and how that they gnashed upon Him. And you read about what is going to be faced in hell. In hell there's going to be wailing and gnashing of teeth. And you look at what Christ faced on that cross. He paid for our hell on that cross. God did that. God set this all up. But you understand why? Why do we believe in the doctrines of grace? Why does He tell us about the doctrines of grace in His Word? Because of John 3.16. because God so loved. Look, how does, husbands, how does the Bible tell you to love your wife like Christ loved the church and gave his life for it? We are to so love our wives that we're willing to die for them. God so loved me. that He sent His Son, His only begotten Son, to die for me. Not just die for me, but to live and to fulfill the law that I could not fulfill. He did that. All of this, and what I'm, we believe that election is the eternal purpose of God, according to which He graciously regenerates, sanctifies, and saves sinners. God does this, not us. We won't come, as it said in Romans 3, 10 through 12. We won't come. We can't come. We're going the wrong way. I tell you, I was happy as I could be. I had troubles in my life. But the day the Lord showed me I was lost, I had a whole lot more trouble in my life. I was okay before that. But after that I was miserable. And still had the same trouble in my life. But then it came when I turned 16 years old. The Lord saved me that night. He saved me. I still had trouble. I still had troubles in my life. But it's been handled differently than it was before that. Because now I have peace in my life. I have a help. I have somebody with me that helps me and guides me. When I truly want to know what to do, truthfully want to know what to do, He doesn't always make it easy to do what's right. Sometimes it's still hard. But He gives me peace. He does that. And I've learned through the years that There's this little wee voice in the back of your mind sometimes that says, maybe you need to stop. You ever hear that voice in the back of your mind that tells you to, hey, can you look at what I'm doing here? You ever not listen to that little voice in the back of your mind and keep going? That's how I know to listen to that voice in the back of my mind, because of the times that I haven't listened to that voice. And then afterwards, all done, people say, why did you do that? Well, I don't know. And sometimes I don't know why I did it. That's the Holy Spirit within us, talking to us, communicating with us, telling us. The Doctors of Grace election, it's all by God. He did it. And I thank the Lord and I praise the Lord. Turn over to Romans chapter eight. Y'all know this scripture here, these verses, Romans 8, 28, but I'm not gonna try and quote them, because I'll mess them up. Romans 8, 28. We're gonna read verses 28 down through verse 31. It says, and we know that all things work together for good to them that love God. Have you ever heard somebody quote Romans 8, 28 from the world? That's what they'll quote. We know that, you know, you know that all things work together for good to them to love God. Well, keep going. The verse ain't done. But a lot of people will stop right there. But it goes on, it says, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Did you know some of the translations take out that little word the? Why? I'll give you another thing. If you look down in your Bible and the is not in there before called, throw it away. Don't keep it. Why? Because it's not just called, it's the called. There's a reason why that word is there. It says the called according to his purpose. And listen, verse 29, for whom he did foreknow. He also did predestinate, to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, more than this, moreover, whom He did predestinate, because He didn't just foreknow and then predestinate and stop. That's why it says, moreover, whom He did predestinate, whom He set in motion, them He also, what, called. And whom He called, Then He also did what? Justified, made right. And whom He justified, then He also glorified. You look at this, this is what the Lord has done for us in the doctrines of grace. He's elected, He foreknew us, He chose us. In Ephesians chapter 1, you cannot read Ephesians chapter 1 and not come away from there thinking, I think God chose me. You can't. I don't know how you would come away from Ephesians chapter 1 not thinking that God chose you. Because it's all through there. He did it. It's by Him. The second part of this is that being perfectly consistent with the free agency of man, it comprehends or includes all the means in connection with the end. God, he did, he elected us, not because of us. Keep in mind John 3, 16, for God so loved, therefore, He made a way of salvation for those that He's chosen. Look in 2 Thessalonians 2, 2 Thessalonians 2, and verses 13 and 14. 2 Thessalonians 2, verses 13 and 14. It says here, but we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the spirit and belief of the truth, whereunto he called you by our gospel and through the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. God hath chosen you to salvation In the beginning, before the foundations of the world, He chose you. When was it? Just ask a question here. I don't know when. When did God purpose all of this? When did God purpose that Christ would come down the cross? All we have is before the foundation of the world. But when was it? Was there a time when he didn't have a purpose and then he did? All I know is that the Bible says he foreordained in 1 Peter 1, he foreordained Christ to come die on the cross. He foreordained it before the foundations of the world. Before. I've looked it up. That's all I can find is it was foreordained. We were chosen before the foundations of the world. So that's what I believe. And people have been asked that question before. When was it that we were chosen? All I can tell you is what the Bible says. And it was before Genesis 1-1. That's it. That's what the Bible says, and that's what I believe. And I think to worry about it past that, ain't no reason for it. There's no reason for it. Why? Why are you trying to get down to a time and everything and know exactly when were you chosen or were you not chosen? Are you saved or are you not? I think the more important thing is to make sure of your salvation. That's the more important thing, deciding when the elect were chosen. The elect were chosen before the foundations of the world. You can see the Trinity at work here in verses 13 to 14. that God had, from the beginning, chosen you to salvation. God chose you, then through sanctification of the spirit and belief of the truth, whereunto he called you by our gospel. What is it that we preach to lost sinners? We preach the gospel. We preach Jesus Christ. Why? Because that's what God has instituted, that he's gonna save them through the gospel. The Word of God. That's why when the jailer asked Paul and Silas, what must I do to be saved, what did they say? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. And then you read that next verse, they gave unto him the Word. They preached the Gospel to him. What was it that Philip preached to the eunuch? He preached the Gospel to him, Jesus Christ. You look through the scriptures, that's what they preached, that the lost sinners was the gospel. And that's what we preach, the lost sinners is the gospel. Because that's what God has ordained that he is going to save people through. Look, we don't save people. Our responsibility is not to save them. We can't. Our responsibility is to give the gospel. And let the Holy Spirit do the drawing. Let Him do the pulling, let Him do the convicting, and let God do the saving. That's what we do. We just preach the gospel. is all we can do. Look in Jude chapter 1 verse 1. Here he says, you see the Trinity at work here. In Jude it says, Jude the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James to them that are sanctified by God the Father. That word sanctified means set apart, chosen, set apart. And it says, and preserved in Jesus Christ and called. There's a trinity right there. God chose and sanctified, set apart a people for Him. Jesus Christ, we are preserved in Jesus Christ and we are called by the Holy Spirit. There's a trinity at work right there. And we look at the doctrines of grace and the doctrines of grace, when you see these, when you see the truth of the doctrines of grace, It's a blessing to me because I don't have to depend upon my words. I don't have to depend upon my timing. I don't trust in none of that. I don't trust in the elegance of how I witness. Look, it's been said many times that, look, if I don't know what to say, I at least know what the Lord did for me. And I can tell how the Lord saved me. That's what they need to know. They need to know the gospel, the Lord saved me. And He can save you too. If you're here today and you're lost. God doesn't save you. He doesn't. You just need to quit trusting in what you can do. That was my biggest problem when I was lost, is trusting in my works. Trusting in my prayers, trusting in my My feelings. Trusting in my emotions. Trusting in all the things that I had. Trusting in my good. Trusting in that I had more good than bad. Trusting in my dad is faster. Trusting in all kinds of things. Do you know when I got to a point that I ran out of things to trust in? I ran out of them. I trusted in everything I had. My toolbox was empty. And all that was left was Jesus Christ. And that's when he saved me. When I quit trusting in me. If you're here today and you're lost, I didn't get very far with this, but if you're here today and you're lost, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the only way of salvation. If you're here today and you're saved, when you think about the doctrines of grace, I'm telling you, it ought to put a smile on your face, because it is an amazing doctrine to me. It is an amazing thing that, and people look at us that believe, that we believe in the doctrine of grace, and they say, I've been told before, you think you're better than everybody else. That is not what the doctrine of grace teaches. It teaches just the opposite. I mean, you think about, I think it's in 1 Corinthians where he says that, look, you know your calling. You know that he called the, what, the weak things and the simple things? Not the better things, the worst things. The unwise, to confound the wise. The doctrines of grace teach us that it was not by us that we were unworthy and are unworthy still. We're not better. He is. That's why we're saved, because of Him. It's a beautiful thing, but we'll finish this up next Sunday, Lord Quillen. Like I said, if you're here today and you're lost, you need the Lord Jesus Christ.