When Jesus described Himself, He said, “I am the Way”—I’m the Way back to God. I’m the Way of Life that you need. What do we find in Christ? Oh, we find joy unspeakable! We find hope unbounded! We find love supreme! Everything the world needs is found in Jesus Christ. He is sufficient for every need. Paul said, “I determine to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified,”[1Corinthians 2:2].

What we need is the plain, simple Gospel of Jesus Christ to restore us to what the church ought to be—everywhere! “I am the Way, I am the Truth, I am the Life,” [John 14:6]. There is no Life apart from Him. The abundant Life is found in Jesus Christ. You don’t have to have a mansion to be happy, to be fulfilled, to have hope eternal, to live an abundant Life. He’s put salvation on the lowest shelf. Everybody can have it. And isn’t it amazing how the Gospel’s been preached in so many places outside our country, and they’re responding by the hundreds in Africa—even in Russia?

Jean Burch is signing over here for our deaf. You may not know that she has been for years grading correspondence courses that have gone to Europe and other places…about 170 of them. And I don’t know the exact number—she could tell you—but many, many have been baptized while she taught them by sending correspondence courses to them and grading them and answering their questions in letters. That’s thrilling, dear friends. Those people are learning the TRUTH, and they’re becoming New Testament Christians!

Pilate said to Jesus, in a sneering way, “What is truth?” [John 18:38]. I’ve heard it in classrooms where somebody said, “Well, it’s hard to define truth. What may be true today is not true tomorrow.” Well, don’t be that skeptical. If you keep defining, you’ll come right down to the core, to the very heart or clear meaning of Truth, and you’ll know the Truth. You can know the Truth! We may know partial truths, or we may know incomplete truths, but NOT in THIS book! [Harvey is holding up the Bible.] This book declares that there’s one God; one Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ; one Holy Spirit; one church; one Word; one Truth. [See Ephesians 4:5.] Put all of this together and you have the unity that the whole world needs. This is simple enough that anybody in any country can do it.

Sue [Sue Porter, wife of Harvey Porter] and I were in Africa on one occasion, and we worshipped in several places there. One of these places was a mud hut. Fellow Christians there had the Lord’s Supper, and they sang, and they prayed and an interpreter interpreted for us so that we’d know what the prayer was, and then they had the sermon. I was touched. Do you realize wherever our Lord worshipped, prayed with His apostles and disciples? All over Galilee—sometimes in the Temple courtyard. But friends, it’s not the walls around us that make the church. We’re the church. And if our heart is in tune with heaven, and we know the Truth, and we stand for the Truth, and we worship in spirit and in Truth, then heaven is here, and Jesus is present, and God is pleased, and we’re following—obeying—what the Holy Spirit wrote. I take great comfort in that. The Lord’s people have always been in the minority. But God and one person who is devoted to Him makes a majority. I want God on our side. And I should rephrase that. I want all of us to be on God’s side.