Well, the scripture on the wall in front of you is where we left off last week and where we'll start this week, Matthew 14. After he has fed the multitude, he straightway constrained his disciples to get into a ship and to go before him to the other side while he sent the multitudes away. And I'd like to look briefly at John's account. This is one of the only things that's in all four of the gospels, the feeding of the multitude. They had all those baskets left over in John 6, 14, which is page 1122 in the Schofield. Those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, this is of a truth, that prophet that should come into the world. And when Jesus, therefore, perceived that they would come and take him by force to make him a king, He departed again into a mountain himself alone. I think today most people involved in leadership in public, we call them politics, and there's a joke there too, but most of them, when they see somebody wants to raise them up, they run toward him, not away from him. left up the mountain alone, up the mountain alone. They were saying this is that prophet that should come into the world. And we've made this reference before, but back in Deuteronomy in chapter 18, Moses was reassured by God as he's nearing his departure that God would raise up someone to take his place. Of course, Joshua did immediately, but the promise from God was through Moses' mouth, the Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thy brethren like unto me. Unto him you shall hearken according to all that thou desirest of the Lord thy God. We will need to read just a little bit here. Verse 17, Moses said, And the Lord said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken. I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren like unto thee. And I will put my words in his mouth and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. That's the prophet that's referred to several times once there in John chapter 6 by the people of Israel. They were expecting Deuteronomy to be fulfilled and hoped it was in their day because they didn't much care for the rule of the Romans over them than the Romans ruled over them. In John chapter 1, John the Baptist was out preaching and said, John the Apostle recorded this. This is the record of John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, who art thou? There's a wild man dressed in rough camel skins and eating locusts and honey out in the desert and preaching. And they said, who are you? And he said, well, I am not the Christ. He confessed and denied not, but confessed, I'm not the Christ. I'm not the one we're looking for, the promised one. They asked him, well, what then? Are you Elijah? He said, I am not. Are you that prophet? Deuteronomy 18. He said, no. Well, who are you then that we may give answer to them that send us? What sayest thou of thyself? And what did John the Baptist say of himself? I'm a noisemaker. I'm the voice, just a noise, of one crying in the wilderness. But what I say is make straight the way of the Lord. Take the bends out of the road. Take the low places and fill them up. Take the high places and knock them down. Make straight in the desert a pathway for our God, to quote the prophet Isaiah. So. John 6 toward the end in verse 26, not the end, but just further along. When they came to Jesus on the other side of the lake after he had been in the mountain alone, we read about a minute ago, they came to him again and Jesus answered them and said, verily, verily, I say unto you, you seek me not because you saw the miracles. You don't come to me because you think I'm the one. You come to me because you did eat of the loaves and were filled. You liked the sandwiches. Labor not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of Man shall give unto you. For him has God the Father sealed. And they said unto him, What shall we do that we might work the works of God? Does that not remind you of that rich young ruler that came to Jesus and said, what must I do that I might inherit eternal life? And he says, you know the commandments. But this time he said this, he said, this is the work of God, the only one that you believe on him whom he has sent. They said therefore unto him, what sign showest thou that we may see and believe thee? What dost thou work? We're going to give you a hint here. Our fathers did eat manna in the desert. As it is written, he gave them bread from heaven to eat. You know, Moses, he could get us manna every morning. And Jesus said unto them, verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven, but my Father giveth thee the true bread from heaven, the bread of God. is he that cometh down from heaven and giveth light unto the world." That's the same message he gave to Nicodemus about coming down from heaven and going back there again. They said unto him, that's what we want, bread. Evermore give us this bread. Keep on giving us this bread and fish too. He said unto them, I am the bread of life. He that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. He said something like that to the woman at the well, and she had a similar response. But by the end of their conversation, she was saying, I know that the Messiah will tell us all things. He says, I'm the one. In verse 36, I said unto you, you have seen me and believe not. Well, we're going to go back now to Matthew 14. He sent the multitudes away, as John said, because they wanted to make him a king. And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray all alone. When the evening was come, he was there alone. He sent the disciples out on the boat. He sent the multitudes away. He was there. alone on the mountain. My notes I mentioned, it's not unusual for Jesus to pray, to pray alone, even to pray all night in a different place. In Luke chapter 6, this was said, it came to pass in those days he went out into a mountain to pray and continued all night in prayer to God. This is God, God's Son, the Son of God, the Son of Man, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, and yet, here as a man on the earth, and what he needed and what he did was to pray, and to pray more than to sleep, to pray to his Father in heaven. Meanwhile, the disciples, going back here, they went out into the ship, He constrained them. He made them get into a ship and go before him to the other side. But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with the waves. The wind was contrary. You ever try to row a boat into the wind? A boat with a sail that's up? I mean, that's tacky. Never mind, Louis. The wind was contrary, the waves were tossing. It's a little ship in the fourth watch of the night. It's late, that's right before the next day starts, the last watch, the fourth watch of the night. Oh, in John 6, we'll go back there just for a second, verse 18, it says, They'd gone out over the sea. It was dark. Jesus was not come to them. The sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew. Some of you have been to the Sea of Galilee. I'm told, I've read, it's kind of a bowl-shaped thing. And when the wind is blowing the right way, the bowl shape of the land around the lake whips it up as though it was a much larger body of water. I think it would happen that way at Lake Okeechobee, except we don't have the hills around it. But even in Lake Okeechobee, when a hurricane's coming through, they get a storm surge. Did you know that? It's a big enough lake that the shores of that lake are subject to hurricane problems from the water. Well, they'd rowed 25 and 20 or 30 furlongs, 25 or 30 furlongs. They'd gone quite a ways, but they hadn't. And they see Jesus walking on the sea. You know, it says, It's like when it was, I went on and I shouldn't have, where am I supposed to be? Zip was in the midst of the sea. In John 6, 18, they were afraid. I think that was the previous passage I was looking at. Let me see if I can get back there. Yeah, all right. So it's a lot of problem here. In John 8, 24, they're out in a boat another time. He's in the ship. The disciples followed him and there's a great tempest in the sea. The ship was covered with waves. He was asleep. But this time in our current narrative, he's not even in the boat. He's out walking. Jesus went under them, walking on the sea. They're afraid they're gonna drown, they're gonna sink. Walking on the sea. When Mark tells the story, It says he's up on the mountain praying, and it's evening, and he's alone, and he sees them. He saw them toiling in rowing. He's on a mountain. He can see. They didn't get very far. Look at the winds against them. Look at them waves. He wasn't surprised. The wind was contrary unto them. About the fourth watch of the night, he cometh unto them walking upon the sea, and would have gone on by. Hi, boys. Going for a walk. Would have walked on by. He was going along fine, alone, and didn't need the boat. Well, the disciples back in Matthew saw him walking on the sea. They were troubled. Now, that's a word. I like that word. I put it in the notes, spelled it all out here. They were troubled saying it is a spirit and they cried out with fear. Usually in the New Testament this word spirit is pneuma. We don't say the P in English, but in Greek they pronounce that extra consonant there, pneuma. We'd say pneumatology, the Greek person would say pneumatology, I hear. I'm not sure, I've never met an actual Greek person to speak to them like that. But when I say pneuma, it's not because I'm ignorant. It's because I think I'm not ignorant, okay? You can judge for yourself. But this isn't the word pneuma. This is a word spelled out in the notes, phantasma. Looks a little bit like our word phantom. Most of you are familiar with the phantom of the opera. It's a ghost. It's a specter, an apparition. Somebody don't belong here because this is where the living people are. It's only used here and in Mark's account of the same incident. That's the only place in the New Testament we hear about phantasma. And so they were troubled and cried out for fear. The fear word is just kind of the normal word for phobia there, phobos. But the troubled word is interesting, and I thought I'd take you through. There's these, I don't know, 10 places, maybe there are 12. It's used in the New Testament, and we don't have to look at all of them, but remember them. You can remember some of this New Testament. In chapter 2 and verse 3 of Matthew, there was a great king called Herod the Great. And when the Magi, the wise men, came from the East to Jerusalem, they asked him, where is he that is born King of the Jews? For we've seen his star in the East and are come to worship him. He was the King of the Jews. They said, we've come to find the one that was just born King of the Jews. Where is he born? They didn't know. Micah, chapter five, verse two. Well, it says Herod, the king, was troubled. This word Tarasso. He was stirred up. He was agitated. And I have said this sometimes before. When the omnipotent dictator potentate is troubled, so is everybody with him. You don't want to be around when no one when mom ain't happy. Ain't nobody happy, as they say. Zacharias in Luke chapter 1 was troubled when he saw, what did he see? He saw an angel. Nobody that we know about had seen an angel since Malachi's day, 400 years earlier. And Zacharias, old man, sees an angel, not only sees an angel, but then the angel says, hey, your prayer is heard. And he said, what prayer is that? He said, the one about having a baby. He said, that prayer? We would have been better a little bit earlier. But Zacharias was troubled. The disciples in Luke 24-38, the disciples at the end of the Gospel of Luke, when they saw the risen Lord for the first time, the whole gang of disciples, they were troubled. And what did Jesus say? He said, look here and see. Handle me and see, a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see me have. He invited them to have the proof that he was indeed himself and alive again, a man forever a man having been born and died and risen again from the dead in his body. No such thing as a spiritual resurrection, it was a bodily resurrection. It's the word that's used, this troubled word, about the water in the pool at Bethesda. The pool at Bethesda was known to be a place where occasionally an angel would come down and trouble the waters. And when the waters were troubled, whoever got first into it would be healed of their infirmity. That's the account in John chapter 5. In John chapter 11, this is the word used about Jesus himself. He was troubled. And that's something we got to think about. Why was he troubled? Not because Lazarus was dead, but because the sister Mary When she said to Jesus, if you had been here, my brother wouldn't have died, she was just weeping and weeping and weeping. And when he saw her weeping and the rest of the mourners there lamenting Lazarus' loss, that troubled him. The sorrow that they shared, he shared, he was troubled. At the end of his public ministry, John chapter 12, we should look at this one. In John chapter 12, to give it some context, he rides into Jerusalem and they hail him And they see Lazarus with him and know that he's alive, and the Pharisees are saying, man, everybody's gone after him. And a couple Gentiles were there, certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast, and they wanted to see Jesus. Said, Philip, we want to see Jesus. Philip said, Andrew, they want to see Jesus. And so they went together to Jesus. And Jesus, when he heard the Gentiles were coming to see him, he says, you know, it's time for me to go. And he told them that a corn of wheat has to fall into the ground and die to bring forth fruit. He tells them that if they love their life, they'll lose it, but they hate their life, they'll keep it to life eternal about rewards. This is 1226. Again, very unusual in John's gospel, a message about service and rewards. If any man serve me, let him follow me. Where I am, there shall also my servant be. If any man serve me, him will my father honor. He probably taught more about service than is recorded in John's Gospel, but when John touches on it, it's so nice. Now is my soul troubled. He says, I'm getting close to having to do this dying thing. What shall I say? Should I say, Father, save me from this hour? No. For this cause came I unto this hour. Here's what I'll say. Father, glorify thy name. And there came a voice from heaven. The third time that we have recorded in the Gospels that the Father spoke audibly from heaven. The first was at his baptism. The second was at. that transfiguration mountain, and this the third time, I have both glorified it and will glorify it again." And just like some of the other times, some of the people understood it. Some of the people said it might have been an angel that spoke. Some said it just thundered. But he said to the disciples, this voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. He was troubled because he was about to go through this most awful time. He's troubled again in the next chapter in John, in verse 21 of chapter 13, because he's washed their feet. But then when he had said that, he was troubled in spirit and testified, saying, Verily I say unto you, one of you shall betray me. When he has to announce that one of the 12 closest disciples were going to betray him, it troubled him. He knew it, but it troubled him and he had to let them know as well. There's a command in the next chapter that the disciples not be troubled. Passage so precious at a funeral. Some of you know one of our friends, Close to several of us, Dr. Arnold, Dr. Lindstrom, my friend, my mentor, Eddie Williamson, my friend, Bud Hamilton, who taught at Florida Bible College in Hollywood when I was there. He was an athlete and a Bible teacher. He taught at Taylor University in Indiana for some years, and he led one of their basketball teams, I believe, to a national championship in their division. He was a great athlete and coach. But he went to heaven 11 o'clock yesterday morning or day before and People who are close to him are to some degree troubled, but Jesus said, don't let your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there you may be also. That's a verse of great comfort to people who've lost a loved one, a verse of assurance that when you are a believer, And when you know believers and any of them pass from this life, they go to where Jesus has been working for 2,000 years almost on their new house. It's gonna be nice when he was a carpenter, you know. Don't know if he makes anything out of wood in heaven, but preparing a place for us. The Council of the Church in Jerusalem, the leaders of the Church in Jerusalem wrote a letter out to the ones that had told the Gentiles they had to be circumcised and become Jewish in order to be in the Church of Jesus Christ, and they said, we're not behind that letter that some of you heard that troubled you. They weren't supposed to be troubled by that idea. The unbelievers in Thessalonica, this is Acts, chapter 17, the unbelievers. Thessalonica, Paul worked there for three weeks, three Sabbath days, and it says in verse 5, the Jews which believed not moved with envy because the whole city came out to hear the gospel, the Gentiles. And they set all the city on an uproar and assaulted the house of Jason and sought to bring him out to the people. And they got a ruler and dragged Jason, because they couldn't find Paul, dragged him down to the rulers of the city. And they that have turned the world upside down are come hither also. Verse 8, they troubled the people and the rulers of the city when they heard these things. It's trouble. It's trouble. One last place this word is used in the New Testament, in Peter's first letter, 1 Peter 3, verse 14, he knows they're going through trials and pressure and hard things, and in verse 14, First in verse 12, the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous. His ears are open under their prayers. The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, but who is he will harm you if you be followers of that which is good. But and if, you know what that means, right? Shouldn't happen, but if it does, if you suffer for righteousness sake. Well, what? That doesn't fit. If you suffer, Happy are ye. How many of you vote for that? I'm not. If you suffer for righteousness sake, happy are ye, and be not afraid of their terror, neither be afraid. And then comes that verse we love to quote, sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. When? When we're suffering for righteousness sake. Then set apart the Lord God in your hearts, give him a place that doesn't move, and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear. He describes our assurance of heaven as the hope, the joyful anticipation, not just maybe so, maybe not, but the anticipation of heaven that we have. He said, give an answer for why you're so sure of heaven. The answer for the hope that's in you, to every man. He just says every man that asks you, but you know, you should maybe ask some of them. And he says, having a good conscience. They're going to speak evil of you as of evildoers, these people that are making you suffer. They may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. So there's all the places where that word troubled is used in the New Testament. And the disciples in the boat were troubled. said it's a ghost, it's a phantasma, and they cried out for fear. They were fearful. But this word straightway is one of the many ways the Greek word that means immediately is translated. You can look through the Gospel of Mark, the Gospel of the servant, And this word happens verse after verse, after verse, after verse, after verse, because what's a servant do? I'll think about, no, a servant does what he's told right then, right there. And that's the way Mark is presented. Immediately, forthwith, anon. It's always the same word translated in different ways. Straightway, immediately, when he saw they were fearful. Instead of going on by, like Mark's gospel said, he said three things. Be of good cheer. which is one word, tarseo, which means have courage. Have courage, take courage, be courageous. And then he said, it is I, it is I. I don't like to force Greek letters on you, but here, peek at this. This is E-G-O and this is E-I-M-I. Ego, A-me. Ego, A-me. Those are the two words translated, it is I. A-me all by itself means I am. Ego is like the pronoun used in psychiatry. Ego, it means I. It's the first person singular pronoun. It's only used in the Greek language for emphasis. Usually, Jesus is saying, I, I am. Here he's saying, I am. It's me. And the connection of those two words together is certainly for those Jewish people a reflection back to the name God gave himself to Moses on the mountain. When Moses said, who shall I say sent me unto you in Egypt? God said, I am that I am. And thus shalt thou say unto them that ask thee, I am has sent me unto you. He said to the Jews in his own day that were against him, he said, before Abraham was, I am. He said, I am. the bread of life. He said, I am the good shepherd. He said, I am the door. Always in this very powerful, emphatic construction. And he said it to the disciples as he's walking on the sea. And they're afraid he's a ghost. He says, I'm not a ghost. I'm God. I am the great I am. And then he says, be not afraid. Be not afraid. Be not afraid. The same word for fear. They cried out for Phobos. He says with a negative in front of it, no fear. Don't be afraid. Do not be afraid. It's a command. Well, that changes the picture. And Peter, being Peter, Peter speaks up. And we make fun of Peter sometimes. He's the one that denied the Lord three times, and he's the one that grabbed the sword, and he was such an expert swordsman that he cut just the ear off of the young fellow. Do you think? What was Peter's vocation? He might have been a net caster, but he was not a sword caster. So when he aimed for the head and got just in the ear, he missed by about two and a half inches. He was trying to split the man's skull. But Jesus, rather than doing what we would think was a greater miracle and putting the man's head back together, just put his ear back on and said, it's enough, let him be. Don't do that. Peter was bold and he's, we got to look at those other verses. John 6, 68, John 6, verse 68. It's a long way through John chapter six, sorry. Simon Peter answered when Jesus said, Will you also go away? He said, Lord, to whom shall we go? The crowd had gone away because Jesus said, if you don't eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, you have no, he's not saving you. You have, what did he say? The words of eternal life. He had not taught them plainly about dying for sin. He had taught them plainly. He was the promised one. He was the one. His works and his words and the Holy Spirit and their own witness of his miracles, all evidence, he was the promised one. We believe, in verse 69, and are sure that thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. What a great, great confession. Peter, speaking for the disciples, said, we believe and are sure that thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. Now Jesus had to reply, you know there's one of you that's a mess. One of you is a demon or the devil. But what a great confession. In Matthew 19 and verse 7, that's not the right verse. 1927. I can't read my own typing. I didn't type. When Jesus had answered the rich young ruler with his advice to sell all they have and he'd have treasure in heaven after the young ruler refused to recognize who he was, Why do you call me good? There's none good, but one that is God. He says, OK, so you're not God. And he went on. And that was the bad answer. But Peter answered and said to Jesus, because he's listened to this conversation and he said, look here, we behold, look here. That's Southern for look here. We have forsaken all and followed thee. He said almost the same thing the rich young ruler said, all these have I kept for my youth up. We did that. We dropped our nets, our boats, we following you. What shall we have there for? He's bold. He knows what he wants. In chapter 26, verse 33. "'Oh, you shall be offended because of me this night. "'It's written, "'I'll smite the shepherd and the sheep of the flock "'shall be scattered abroad, "'but after I'm risen again, I'll go before you to Galilee.' "'Peter answered and said unto him, "'All men shall be offended because of thee, "'yet I will never be offended.' "'And Jesus said, "'This night before the cock crow, "'you'll deny me three times.'" And in John 18, In verse 10, there they are in the garden. The band of men has come, led by Judas, who kisses Jesus, and they're trying to take him. And Peter, having a sword, drew it, and smote the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. If Peter's right-handed, that's a trick, because it's on the wrong side of his head. I don't know. Servant's name was Malchus. There's Peter being Peter. And yet, Peter walked on the water. Lord, if it's you, bid me come unto thee on the water. I've seen a video of the Gospel of Matthew that doesn't have any words in it except the words of the text. And when they get to this part where they're portraying it on the screen, the actor portraying Jesus starts laughing. And I'm not sure, but that might not be right. I just can't get rid of that picture. Lord, if it be thou, bid me to come unto thee on the water. He said, come on. And Peter was come down out of the ship. He walked on the water. Don't make fun of Peter to go to Jesus. He did it. He walked on the water. What did the other 11 do? Made sure their life jackets were on. It's still stormy. And then Peter walking on the water saw, not Jesus, saw the wind boisterous. The wind is still blowing and blowing. He was afraid and beginning to sink, he cried saying, Lord, save me. Korion sozon me, if he spoke it in Greek. Lord, save me. Very succinct prayer. He didn't say, our most high holy heavenly father, dweller in eternity. No, he said, Lord, save me. I'm dying. And there's that word again, immediately, immediately. Jesus stretched forth his hand and caught him and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? There is a prayer, save me, and an answer, caught me. From sinking into the deep, he was immediately saved. And who was holding him? Was Peter holding on desperately? No, Jesus was holding on to him. He caught him. No slipping away. And there's sort of a rebuke here, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? It's all one word, oligopiste, one who trusts too little. And Doubt is the word Adistasis, Adistasis, Adistasis, and that Diastasis is a word that means two, like divided means make into two. Diastasis, like the word really means duplicate. You remember James chapter one in verse eight? James one. Verse eight, James said, a double-minded man, diastasis, is unstable in all his ways. Don't have two minds. You're gonna walk, walk. If you're gonna sink, sink. Don't be walking and sinking, it's not so good. We're back in verse 32 of Matthew 14. They got into the boat. When they were coming to the ship, see all this time when he's out there on the water and Peter goes with him, The wind's still blowing. As soon as they get into the ship, the wind ceased. It doesn't die down slowly, it's just done. And they that were in the ship, you know, the first time when he was sleeping in the boat, he had to rebuke the wind and it obeyed him, but this time it just gone, immediate. They that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying of a truth, Thou art the Son of God." They are growing in their appreciation of the person and the power of Christ. In chapter 8, in verse 27, sometime earlier, they'd said, What manner of man is this that even the winds and the sea obey him? This is really something. And then in this verse we just looked at, they worshiped him saying of a truth, this is the Son of God. And then in two chapters further, in chapter 16, We have Simon Peter saying, whom say you? Jesus said, who do you say I am? Because others were saying John the Baptist or Elijah or Jeremiah, one of the prophets. And Simon Peter answered and said, thou art the Christ, the son of the living God. So very, very much like that confession in John chapter six that we looked at. Thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that thou art the Christ, the son of the living God. When they were gone over, when they were gone over, they came into the land of Gennesaret. And the men of that place had knowledge of him. This might be the first time he was there. They sent out into all the country round about and brought in him all that were diseased and besought him that they might not, might only touch the hem of his garment. And as many as touched were made perfectly whole. So there's this excited reception. The first time he visits there, he's the healer. The healer has come. And though that's not his main message, he honored their faith and did heal all those that touched. But I'd like to look back at John 6 and think about these words again. What Peter said to the Lord when he was asked if he would go away, thou, Jesus, thou hast the words of eternal life. We believe and are sure that thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. There's been someone promised he'd be a prophet, he'll be a priest, he'll someday be a king, and he's gonna be the one that delivers us, not just from the Romans, but for all eternity. You have the words of eternal life, not prosperity in this life. And we believe and are sure that thou art the Christ, and the Christ is the Son of the living God. Doesn't that pretty much say it all? We sometimes look at John 3.16 because it's so familiar, but think about that in view of that. Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son. What is that talking about? Not just Bethlehem and birth, but he gave him to die on the cross. It was a payment that had to be made, a payment for sin, because mankind, you know, was separated from God by sin. If this is mankind and this is the sinless God, He can't get close to man because of the sin that separates them. But He gave His Son, 2 Corinthians 5, 21 says, He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us that we might be made the very righteousness of God in Him. And so He gave His only begotten Son to die for sin that whosoever believeth in Him did not perish but have everlasting life. Remember Peter and Jesus as they're walking on the water? Jesus caught him. and held him and made him safe because he had a little bit of faith. Not a lot of faith, just a little bit of faith. He has the words of eternal life. The verse I understood when I got saved is 1 John 5, verse 13. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God. His name is Jesus. His name is wonderful. Why? If you're a believer, he wrote these things to you that you can know, K-N-O-W, that you have eternal life. Peter said, we have known and believed that thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God, and you might believe on the name of the Son of God. This is the presentation Jesus kept making all through his ministry, that people would know who he was. John the Baptist, who are you? I'm not the Christ. Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. To whom should we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life, and we believe and are sure that thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And if you're in the group that believes on the name of the Son of God, the Bible says right here in front of you that you may know that you have eternal life. Dr. Seymour used to use John 6, 47, and he says, what does it say? What does it say? John 6, verse 47, get there. Oops. Jesus said, verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life. And he says, who's this written to? He that believeth on me. What do they have? What do they have? Everlasting life. When do they have it? When they believe. And then he'd say one more question. Do you have it? Do you have it? Because it's that simple. It's believing in Jesus, the Christ, the Son of the living God. What He did on the cross makes it make sense that we should believe in Him. That He died for sin and rose again, that makes it make sense that we should believe in Him and not somebody else. After he did that, there's no more saying, I know what the Bible says, he's coming, and when he comes, I'll believe in him. There's none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. I am, Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh under the Father, but by me. Let's pray. Father in heaven, how plain and clear is your word, and to whom should we go else to whom other than Jesus He has the words of eternal life, and we know and are sure that He's the Christ, the Son of the living God, and believing we have life through His name. If there's anyone listening that this is not clear to, Father, help them ponder these words from Your Word, in Jesus' name, amen. God bless.