Good morning. Glad you're here. I'm making John quit chatting. Yes, thank you. I'll show you a picture in the leader service we are happy to have. He is, yes, that's right. So we're excited to welcome Miles into the world today. That means I am trying to operate the cameras and everything else. So those of you online, if anything goes wrong today, blame Nathan for having a baby. Yes, that's true. If it had been, if it had been Shelly, there'd have been a lot of information there, but it's a baby and we're excited he's here. Let me lead us into word of prayer. Heavenly Father, it's our blessing to be here this morning. Thank you for life and new life, and thank you for your watch care over us. And thank you especially for the gospel of Jesus Christ. We're grateful for it in Jesus name, amen. Okay, we started, what, eight weeks ago? Yeah, eight weeks ago on what I was going to do in a one one session and grew into eight weeks on this little series that I came to call the Rightly Divided Gospel. And the premise of this series is that we have a gospel under which we live, a pattern, if you will. I've sometimes called it the Pauline pattern or the Grace gospel. It is the gospel under which you and I are saved. There is no other gospel by which we may be saved other than the gospel that tells us that because of the death barrel and resurrection of Jesus Christ, who is now Lord both of the dead and the living, god has decided to, I'll say, change the plan a little bit. He had a prophetic plan that you can read about in the prophets, obviously, and even in Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, their fulfillment of that prophetic plan or the desired fulfillment of the prophetic plan. And that plan was that Israel would receive her King, her Messiah, her Savior, and he would come and rescue her from her enemies and would establish the reestablished, I guess you should say, the throne of David. And the reestablished throne of David is the kingdom of God here on earth. Messiah would reign on earth and would crush the serpent on the head and would conquer death and life would be grand. How's that? And that was the salvation that was taught in the Hebrew scriptures and really up until the time of Paul. So there was not and we have tried to look at to verify this, but there was not a salvation in the Old Testament in which say, Ezekiel would have come and said, trust in the Savior today and receive eternal life here and now. That wasn't there. What he said is live. He and all the others in the Old Testament live according to the law in order to be righteous before God. And then you'll die. And someday you will be raised again. And when you're raised again, there will be a judgment, and that judgment will determine whether or not you enter into the kingdom of God or you enter into the place of eternal torment. That was the Gospel, I think, all the way up until Paul. Well, Paul comes and brings something that is very different. And Paul's issue is you might believe in the Lord Jesus and you'll be saved right here, right now. You'll be complete in Christ. The righteousness of God is yours. You can say if I die right now, my last breath here will be my first breath in Heaven. And that is a very different thing. So my again, the premise of this study has been that up until the Apostle Paul, the Gospel was that prophetic plan. But I guess you could say things didn't go according to plan. Although if we wanted to be real accurate, we should say that differently. But for the sake of time, I'm going to say things didn't go according to plan. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. Instead of he's a jolly good fellow, rise up and crown him king. They killed him. They killed him. He died. He was buried. He rose again, of course. And then there was the real offer of the kingdom, where Peter said, hey, if we repent of what we have done, days of refreshing will come. God will restore us, god will will provide what he's supposed to do. But if we don't repent, then the day of Jacob's trouble will come or the tribulation will come. Well, he was right, except that he did not know, because it had not been revealed, that God was just going to pause everything. Just like sometimes we change clocks, god has his own time change. And so God put everything on hold, all of the Tribulation, all of the earthly kingdom, the messianic kingdom, he put that on hold. And then he pulls this fellow Saul of Tarsus and says, let me tell you a new thing that I'm going to do right now. And it's that new thing under Saul of Tarsus who became Paul the Apostle, that we live, and that is our Gospel. So my contention again, all through this series has been that when we share the Gospel or talk about the Gospel or try to understand the Gospel, we have to be really careful to separate that which is Israel's prophetic stuff and that which is our spiritual stuff. It's a little bit general to say there's too much of a broad brush, but again, we'd do it just for the sake of time to say israel's promises and blessings are earthly. Our promises and blessings are spiritual. And we might not get a mansion just over the hilltop right here in New Mexico. What's over the hilltop? I guess angel fire. And we might not get it right here, right now. That's not our promise. These earthly blessings are not our promise. It's a spiritual promise. So we need to get it right now, then we have looked to try to defend that. And all along I have said that's a pretty bold claim to make, that our gospel started with Paul and is different. I say it's bold not because it's pretty plain. If you read the Bible, it's just right there. But we read the theology books instead of the Bible or listen to our preachers instead of the Bible. And I think they've got it all mixed up and they're the ones that would call me a heretic, but I think they're mixed up. I thought about and I won't do it. I thought about talking about what a real heretic is, what's the definition of a heretic because I think we use that way too often. Basically the way we use it, a heretic is someone who doesn't agree with me. So all the Lutherans, all the Methodists, all of those are heretics. The only I am not the heretic, okay? There probably is a better way to use that, but we throw it out kind of loosely and it wouldn't be hard if you went to the right circles, play this eight sessions this and they'd say, yeah, the ball heavy guy from Talis, he's a heretic, no doubt about it. But I think I've given a pretty good defense to convince the ladies and gentlemen of the jury, hey, this really is what the Bible says. It really does say something new started with Paul and that's what's separated and that's ours now. We come today where the water hits the wheel a little bit and we might finish today or we might go another week. But I think that when we present the gospel and I've got a handful of just a sampling of the gospel tracks that came to me because I mentioned several weeks ago, hey, grab a track and send it to me and I'll do some analysis of what we got today. I really want to give more of a summary of the analysis rather than looking at any specifics, but I have given some actual quotes from these and other tracks that I've picked up and what I think is we've got a mixed up gospel that we are sharing. Now, let me say here at the beginning, just because I don't want to forget it, I might say it at the end too. Most of us right here were probably saved under kind of this mixed up gospel. It was a little bit of Israel, it was a little bit of grace and it put those things mixed together. And for me and for you, I don't doubt my salvation. I know that God is a God of grace and that I place my trust in Him and that even though I didn't have a full understanding or it wasn't even presented to me correctly, there is the grace of God that saved me by placing my faith in Him. But going out from here. Why confuse other people? I'm convinced that one of the reasons there is so much doubt of salvation today in the church. I guess there has been for a long time. I was reading just the other day, a Southern Baptist pastor who talked about his journey of doubt, and he said, I doubted so much. I've been baptized four times. And we see every now and then you hear these stories and we, meaning Zay, kind of think this is a great thing. It'll come along like so and so was a deacon and served the Lord faithfully for 60 years. But then the evangelist came in and he realized he had never even been saved. I'm always like, I actually think when he was six or eight or ten or twelve or 14, he placed his faith in Jesus Christ and the Lord saved him. Now, he might have been confused about a lot of things or, you know, whatever it was, but he probably was saved again. We could save that for another day, but let's not lead people into confusion by mixing up the Gospel. By the way, I think I only picked up from the, from the bad stack, so there's not a one here. I think I, I would recommend, hey, take, take this and go out and use it. Here's the three common errors that I found as I was looking through I probably looked through 40 tracks, and as I was looking through 40 tracks, I kind of summarized them because I decided I don't know how to just go through every one of these and show you. So here's the, the three errors that I saw almost always. Number one is they sell that probably should say they sell the Gospel. Okay, if I don't want to be so snarky. They present the gospel using fear. They present the Gospel using fear. I never was afraid of snarky, by the way, but they put the gospel forth using fear. Now, fear is a motivator, right? How many of you have been motivated by fear from time to time? We certainly have. I don't know about you. I have this thing that I wake up in the middle of the night frightened of some deadline, thinking, my goodness, I've got to get this done. The deadline is looming. I have to do it as soon as the light comes up. And then the light comes up and I put it off another day. But that fear can be a pretty decent motivator. I have a feeling any of us who ever were in school, we were motivated a little bit by fear. You know, I'm going to study because I fear getting a bad grade, or maybe I don't fear getting a bad grade. I fear what Dad's going to say when I get a bad grade. There's fear all through our lives. This is why, when you are perfectly obeying the law and you're driving down the road and you see red and blue lights in the rear view mirror. You let your foot off the gas a little bit and say, oh, you check everything. What have I done wrong? And fear is a motivator. But I don't think that sharing good news and we would even say the greatest news there is. I don't think fear is the best way to do that. Again, it works. We might be able to have testimonies in here, I don't know of coming to faith because you are afraid of going to hell, you're afraid of dying, whatever. It does work. And what was the I started to say craze. That might not be the best word. It's a little snarky. What was the fad? I'm still having a hard time finding a good word. The movement back in the, I don't know, 90s maybe. Remember on Halloween when they would have those it wasn't like a haunted house but churches would have a death house, I can't remember what. But basically all the teenagers would line up and they would go through. And here's a bubba who died in a car wreck and they got it all bloody there and all that kind of thing. And they lead you through several things of fear. And by the time you're done, you're like, I don't want to go to hell. They took me to the brink of hell right there and I suspect a lot of people were saved that way. So it certainly does work as a motivator. Or the evangelist comes in and paints such a verbal picture of hell that the temperature is getting a little warm just hearing him. So you come. So it works. I'm just not sure that's the best way to do it. Now, the fear that I see in the gospel tracks is typically elicited in one of two ways. By far, the first one is the winner, and that is to present the Gospel by saying you are a sinner and God is angry with you. Now, again, they might not put it in those words, but they'll come real close. You're a sinner and God is angry with you. That once again, it works sometimes. And we could talk about is there a side of truth to that? There's certainly some truth to it. Does it work? Yeah, but is that really the best way? I told you way too many times about the time I walked out the door there and the guy said, are you the pastor here? And I said yes. And he said, I'm tired of you Christian shoving things down my throat. And I said, I never shoved anything down your throat. Yeah, I've been all you Christians, you're shoving things down my anyway, we ended up having this conversation and he basically didn't like people saying you're a sinner and God's angry with you. Interesting. What I ended up saying is Christians are excited because they believe that God has given a gift through Jesus. Christ through his death, bear and resurrection, and that he offers to any man, woman, boy or girl, the gift of eternal life, not holding their trespasses against them by grace through faith. That's just an exciting message. They want to share that. Well, I don't mind you sharing that, but I don't want you witnessing to me. Okay? So he equated witness with you're a sinner and God's anger with you. What was the famous Jonathan Edward sermon? Sinners in the hands of an angry God. And if you go you can look it up on the Internet if you want. This afternoon. If you look up sinners in the hands of an angry God and read the manner in which people responded to that sermon, you'll hear descriptions about people in their New England churches with Jonathan Edwards, how they were just gripping the front of the pew in such utter fear, they couldn't wait to get down to the Mourners bench and get things right with God. That idea. Here's some examples that come from some of these, and they're by and large, most of them are exact quotes. I didn't put the quote marks on them because I didn't want two pages of footnotes. But here they are. Your sins keep you from being part of God's family. That one's not too gruesome, but it's still a little frightening, isn't it? And especially since I think that I happen to have it right on top here. It's kind of a kids one. It's got little cartoons and stuff in there for kids. And to take a child and say, hey, you have a family. Do you love your family? Does your mommy love you? Does your daddy love you? Yeah. Well, your sins keep you from being part of God's family. There's a fear that comes about in all of that rather again, rather than grace. Second one. One of these says the most terrifying words anyone could ever hear come from the Lord Jesus when he tells the victims of deception, depart from me. I never knew you. Well, that's in one of these that is about yeah, there it is. Have you ever been deceived? It's got these scary looking people on the front who are deceived. Have you ever been deceived? And it goes through talking about the nature of deception and who are you going to trust and the danger of deception. And basically it goes saying, hey, you might be religious, but what if you've been deceived? The most frightening words a person could hear are, away from me, I never knew you. Well, that's kind of scary. You've been going to church all your life and here it is that you're motivated by fear here. Now, let me say there's a lot of people sitting in churches who are deceived, and there are even a lot of them who don't really even know the gospel because of the nature of the religion that they're in. No doubt about that. I think his motive is probably right there, but I'm just not sure sharing the good news with fear is the best approach. Here's one, I quoted this god will destroy us if we continue in our sin. This was one on it was kind of a patriotic, patriotic one here, and it was kind of mixing the United States and us personally that God is going to destroy the United States. God is going to destroy you if we continue to sin. That's a fear thing. Your rebellion against God keeps you from eternal life. What if you take a beautiful, sweet six year old child? They need the gift of salvation, just like some sinner like Lynn. And your rebellion against God keeps you from eternal life. It's a fear kind of thing. Man is sinful and separated from God, thus he cannot know and experience God's love and plan for his life. Now, again, that one's a little softer, but it still kind of starts out presented by fear. The second fear topic has to do with hell or judgment. And these are obviously kind of closely related, but I think there are sometimes, there are many times, maybe even most times in gospel tracks where we present the gospel almost as a threat. If you don't believe what I'm telling you right now, you will be damned to eternal hell. Again, can you dig in that and say, yeah, there's some truth there? Well, a person who rejects the gospel, yeah, they don't go to heaven, they go to hell. No doubt about that. We're not denying the truth to that. I think that however we're starting them kind of on the wrong foot. It's not a grace walk that we're beginning them on. If they walk to overcome fear. Here's one who says, I lived a real good life. But then the angel is kind of a cartoon. So the angel replies, Everything has been recorded. Did you really live a good life? Because I've got a record of everything. That's sort of this fear of judgment is one, to punish man's rebellion. God sent a catastrophic flood, but people continue to sin, so God will one day punish the world with fire. Okay, that one goes based on Noah's Ark. They sinned in Noah's day. God destroyed them all. Guess what they're going to do today? What God's going to do today? Again, it's a judgment kind of fear. This last bullet point here was geared towards senior adults, attract her senior adults. At best, we live only a few years on this earth and what then again, it's not a bad thing to consider. But I kind of think one, it's not the best psychology, and I'm not really all that big on psychology and whatnot, but it's you typically when you're witnessing to someone, it's kind of a total stranger. And there's probably a better way to win friends and influence people than go with that. But I think the bigger issue than that because psychology, your psyche and my psyche, whatever, I don't know if they're ever going to meet or whatever. It is what it is there. But to get a person started in the Christian life, looking at it as a walk of fear, walk the fine line, be very careful. Typically what's going to happen is two or three years later, if you make it that far, they're going to give up. They're going to say, I can't make it and they're done. So I don't think we're doing them much of a service there when we get there. And so there's no doubt really of some of the practical realities that are here. But is that the best introduction there's? Problem number one with tracks number two is they make the death of Jesus Christ to be all about me. Now let me explain what I mean here on this. Almost all the tracks say, hey, do you know that Jesus died for you? Do you know that Jesus died for your sins? Now that sounds okay. And there's a sense again there in which that's correct. Right. And yet if we looked at it, and we might in this new series that I'm doing between now and Easter, if we looked at the issue of why did Jesus die, I am convinced it was not really so that Randy White could go to heaven. In fact, I'll say it this way, I think the death of Jesus Christ has a fringe benefit that Randy White can go to heaven. There really was a different purpose for the death of Jesus Christ. It just so happens that God uses that as the payment for my salvation and your salvation. But without knowing the real purpose, some guy dying 2000 years ago seems a little bit random, but we'll go ahead and take it. Okay? Jesus died for me. I don't know how he even knew me or what was going on there, but I guess he died. And we have a hard time ever really putting together the purpose of the death barrel and resurrection of Jesus Christ and how it connects to my salvation. Because we started out thinking, oh, it's kind of all about me, remember? I don't know, you've probably been told before, maybe when you were younger, but maybe when you were older, if you were the only person that ever lived, jesus still would have died for you. Okay. It makes me feel special. But if I was the only person that ever lived, then none of the Bible would be true because it would have been a whole different story, right. So really it, it begins to fall apart in, in so many different ways. But if you, if you look at, I don't know, Romans, Romans 14 nine is one of my see if I can find where are we? Do we have a scripture here? I got too much on the screen. Well, I don't even see it. So I'll tell you what it says. I think it's even on the outline. Yeah, top of the second page, Romans 14 nine says that to this end Christ both died and rose and revived. Let's stop the right there. To this end that is, here is the purpose of this is the desired result. To this end, Christ died, rose and revived. Now we understand died and we really kind of understand rose, but then there was revived. And that sounds the same thing like rose again. So why did it say it twice? You could translate that to say, to this end, Christ died, rose again and lives today revived as is living. So here's the reason for the deathbearland resurrection of Jesus Christ. And then it goes on to say that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living. That's pretty clear. He died in order to be Lord both of the dead and the living. If you look at Philippians, chapter two, I don't know, beginning in about verse eight or so, it says that Jesus was obedient unto death and therefore God hath given him the name that is above every other name that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow and every tongue confess Jesus Christ as Lord. So in his death bear and resurrection, he is Lord of the dead and of the living. Now, what's that mean? You go back to Adam and the curse comes upon the world and the world and everything in it basically becomes under the curse of death, all of creation. Groans paul uses the word. And so the death Bearland, resurrection and living today is so that Satan would not be Lord of the dead and the living, but that Jesus would be Lord of the dead and the living. So basically the Deathbell and resurrection was about defeating Satan. Defeating Satan so that creation could be restored. Now, to go back to what we talked about at the beginning with the prophetic plan. You remember the prophetic plan was that the Lord was going to come, he was going to establish the kingdom for Israel. That kingdom would be established upon the death bear and resurrection of the Lord. That is to say, the death barrel and resurrection of the Lord would bring things back under the right king, not the God of this age, but the King of kings and Lord of Lords, not Satan, but Jesus Christ. So the death of Jesus was to restore all things. It just so happens that since he became Lord of all, he can offer me eternal life if he wants to, and really based on whatever criteria he wants to base it upon having died, conquered death and living, conquering life, if you will. Having conquered life and death, being Lord of both the dead and the living, he can do whatever he wants to. So he really could have. I'm going to be out on the edge a little bit. He could have said, I will give you eternal life, but first you have to put your right foot in, do the hokey pokey, turn it all around, whatever that is. He could have set that as the standard, he's Lord of the dead and the living, and rather he chose to do it by grace. So if we take these gospel tracks and we present the death barrel and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ as all about me, we really confuse the whole reason that he died and the whole plotline of the scripture and the purpose of the life of Jesus Christ and how all the Old Testament fits together into all this. Getting the completed work of Jesus Christ correct in your theology helps make the whole Bible make sense. So basically what I'm saying is by presenting the Gospel, saying, hey, do you know that Jesus died just for you? It was all about you. I think we lead them into a life of confusion of scripture, whereas if we step back and said, here's this grand plan that God was offering, and guess what? That means that you in Towson, New Mexico, men, women, boy, a girl. You can receive the gift of grace by grace through faith. And it's kind of this wonderful fringe benefit that God is offering. But wait, there's more. And we put ourselves in the right path to lead to a good biblical worldview and a good understanding. So I think that's problematic through there. And then the third area in which we mess up is that these tracks tend to ask for works first, then for faith. Say, that's shocking. Surely not. I would challenge you if you have a track at home, pull it out and see if it asks for works first and then faith. Here's the way some of them read to get it. Let's see. To have eternal life, one must repent of his sins and believe in Jesus. Now, is that works and then faith. Have you ever repented of your sins? It's not an easy thing to do and it's a you thing. You decide, I'm not going to do that anymore. I'm changing. I'm going to be a different person. And now that I'm a different person, I'm going to place my faith in Jesus Christ and we present it in that order. I think that's kind of really kind of a mistake to present it in that order. It puts the emphasis on us, if nothing else. Here's another one, and I quote this one here. It says, if you repent and then it gives a definition. Are sorry for and turn from your sin and trust in Jesus's death for you, you can become a child of God. Now let's just take out the parenthetical there. If you repent and trust in Jesus's death for you, does it take one thing or two things to be saved according to that? Two, you have to repent and you have to trust. Let's take trust his faith. So Paul, when he said it's by grace through faith, not of yourselves, he didn't really tell this whole story because he forgot to check that gospel tract that said, oh, no. First you must repent. Remember, the Philippian jailer, again, is such a good example of Pauline grace theology. What must I do to be saved? Repent and be baptized for the forgiveness of sins. Paul said, oh, excuse me, I got that mixed up. That was Peter. Peter on the day of Pentecost under the prophetic program talking to Israel, had all that stuff in it. But Paul just said, believe on the Lord Jesus and you'll be saved. All he said, we have a problem with this because especially us preachers who are pure and righteous and holy and good, we we want everyone else to be pure and righteous and holy and good, just like we are. And we're afraid if we just teach them grace, what if they keep cheating in algebra class? Why? I never cheated in algebra class. My algebra teacher is still alive. She's my friend on Facebook. Hope she's not watching. But we kind of want to, I don't know, encourage people or shame people, depending on if you want to be nice or snarky into stop doing that bad stuff. I think grace is a better motivator. I think you come and you show them grace, and lo and behold, they get it after a while, and they're like, okay, I need to get that out of my life. That doesn't fit with grace. I need to work on this. The Lord has graced me. I want to grace him back. And all those kind of things that I think work better. But this really is I don't know how you take this and say if you repent and trust to say that that's not works, that's not of yourselves. That's a gift of God. If I repent, that's a work of me. Here's the third one. This one's kind of familiar. It's the ABC method of sharing the gospel. It goes like this admit that you are a sinner and willing to turn 180 degrees. Repent from your sin. The ABC method of sharing the gospel starts right there. A admit it's often done with children. I'd like to show you the gospel ABCs. A, you need to admit that you're a sinner. You need to make a 180. You need to turn you fourth grader rutches and leches. You need to quit that and turn in a different way. So it starts out first you got to start with how bad you are. Then believe that Jesus died for you. Then see confess verbally and publicly your belief. Out of three of those, how many of them are works? I'll say too trusting in the Lord. That's kind of handing over everything over to him. So it's hard to say if someone comes in. Maybe I'm hauling a load of wood and they say, let me do that for you. Okay, I'll let you do that for me. It's hard to call that works. They're working. I'm not working. I pass that on. So trust is really passing that on. But admit you're a sinner and repent of your sins and the way they put that c, confess verbally and publicly your belief. Okay, verbal is my mouth is moving right. There's noise coming out that really is saying physically, something has to happen. There has to be this verbal confession. And publicly it can't happen in the woods because if there's a confession in the woods and nobody heard it, did it really happen? It has to happen in some kind of public setting and that's the way the gospel is shared. And so I think that is, again, asking for works and then faith. Now, if you boil that down, you might say, okay, Randy, you have created an impossible scenario for putting a gospel track together. How in the world are we ever going to get all of that in a three by five trifold? And I would say that is an inherent deficiency within gospel tracks or gospel presentations to say you can't put everything and get it just right. Even today, twice, I think I said. Now I'm using a broad brush. We probably should narrow that down. If we were really having a talk on it, we would need to be more specific. And you take all of these here and they're a three by five trifold. How about that? How do you get the right information? How do you share it? Right? I want to say that I think it really is an impossibility to have a gospel track that has everything perfectly right about it. So should we quit using gospel tracks? Well, kind of. Sort of a no. How's that? I think obviously there is a time when you want to or you need to, or it's all you could ever do is hand them an insufficient message and move on. So we want to try to get a three by five trifold in the best way we could do it. I remember an evangelist once, he said, I'd never buy a shirt without a track rack. He always called that the track rack right there. I'd never buy a shirt without a track rack. And it was one of those carried tracks around and he loved to go about he passed them out. I want to say vociferously, but I don't think that's the right word. That involves a voice, doesn't it? Abundantly. He passed them out everywhere he was passing and he had lots of good stories about someone read it and contacted him or read it and chased him down the street or whatever. And there certainly is a purpose and they work, and probably most of us ought to use them more as a quick way at the supermarket or whatever it is, to say, hey, I like this. You should read it. But what we also ought to realize is that a person coming in and reading the word of God and studying it and learning it is a much better plan. That person is going to stick for the long run. Imagine if you were to go to a tribe, an unreached tribe in papawa New Guinea, and you had a gospel track, three by five trifold in the papawa, New Guinea language, whatever it is, and you went in as a missionary and said, here, here, you handed them all out, everybody had one, and you left. What kind of Christian faith would there be if you came back a year later, ten years later, 20 years later? Likely none. If there was one, it would probably be distorted. You'd say, oh, my goodness, how in the world did they get that? Well, that's all they had. You left it with them. So there is that inherent deficiency that sometimes we have to live with and go with it. But I think for evangelism, we would be much better off saying the best way to evangelize a person is get them in Bible study, if we can bring it. And this used to kind of be the approach. Remember back when I was growing up days, and you went to Sunday school and you checked off those six things on your envelope, and everybody had to turn an envelope, even if it didn't have any money, right? Because there was going to come someone in 15 minutes at the door and knock, and if the secretary didn't have that filled out, there was going to be wrath of God. And you filled that out and it included in there. How many contacts did you make this week? How many people did you invite to church this week? How many people did you invite to Sunday school this week? And we had the idea maybe we over promoted it a bit, but nonetheless, we had the idea bring the person to church and let them sit through Bible study, bring them to your Sunday school class and let them sit. And the Sunday school class might have been on, I don't know, something like hosea or Job or hagai or some weird thing. You're like, oh, I can't bring them to that. That's not a gospel presentation. But we understood that the Word of God doesn't come back, boy, the Word of God does its work. So you come, you learn the word of God, and you leave, and you have more questions than you have answers. But you come back the next week and it takes about a year, two years, three years before you start putting it all together where you can even ask a question that's not just off the wall, confused, totally messed up. We can kind of tell that they're hovering around the truth somewhere. And we took that long term approach, I think, evangelism, to get the gospel rightly, divided, that's better I remember. I don't know, dear. And COVID sometime I think lady called me and she said, I want to be baptized. And I said, well, come by the church, let's talk. And so we talked a little bit and I said, okay, you want to be baptized? Why? Why do you want to be baptized? Because I made a new turn in my life, okay? And we started talking and actually, I don't have a copy of it now. I started going through the little pamphlet. We have the essential gospel. It's eight and a half by eleven trifold, so it's much more thorough. We started going through that and each step along the way, it was clear in her answers and what she was saying, no, I just want to be baptized. And we went through that. She walked away and I guess maybe went somewhere else and got baptized, I don't know, because it was clear by the time we were done like, no, this is not what I want. I just want to be baptized. If she would come in and get a Bible study and learn over time, then she would really understand the gospel. My guess is she caught a piece of the gospel off gospel television or somewhere along the way she had picked up something. And yet in her responses it was like, yeah, the problem is it's all wrong. Now, I could have and maybe back in the day, I could have said, let's heat up the Baptistry and be ready to go. Everybody will celebrate this Sunday. And she would have been here about four weeks maybe would have depended on if the food was good, which it always is. So six weeks, okay. She would have made it six weeks and left maybe not even ever really knowing what the gospel is. Such a better thing just to say, hey, come on in, let's, let's get Bible space. So when you come to church, if you're, if you're one who's looking, you're going to come to church. If it's a decent church, they're going to do Bible teaching and you're going to go away saying, I didn't understand 98% of that, but you understood 2%. And then you come back the next week and you say, oh, I understood 3% of today's sermon. Well, give it 98 weeks down the road putting things together and you get it and you have a firm understanding and then you're able really to understand the gospel such a better thing. Now, again, I understand there's the time to use these and I am out of time. But I included four little points that we give there. The thing I would look for, if you're looking for a gospel track, is try to avoid those three common errors. Look at the gospel track saying, is this trying to sell fear or is this using fear to sell the gospel? Are they making the death of Jesus Christ to be all about me and are they asking for works before faith? If that's the case, then set that one aside and keep looking for another one. There's a few out there that probably do it. And then I think you're going to have to say, okay, this is way too insufficient, but it'll do for what I need. I'm going to work and pass those on. And with that, I am out of time and I'll give let's see, just an announcement maybe. Okay, I was going to show you the graphic of our next sermon, but you'll see it in ten minutes. We're going to take a ten minute break. We'll have the worship service and we are going to talk about Easter today. Easter in the Bible, even. We shall see. Heavenly Father, thanks for the gospel of Jesus Christ. We just pray that you would help us as we struggle to put such a wonderful long grace story together and be able to share it in just a few moments when the time arises. But also you would help us to take a long look and say, hey, how can I get friends and family and neighbors into Bible study? Whether it's in the church or it's on their own or it's in the home or whatever it is, how can I get them to study the word which we believe? It's the word of God that is able to make one wise unto salvation. And so we study it, we teach it, we look into it from COVID to cover and are blessed by it. In Jesus name, amen. God bless you. We'll start back here in about ten minutes with Easter in the Bible. God bless you.