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The Only Hope For Real Change

Colossians 2:11-13

Dr. J. Drew Conley, Pastor

Tri-City Baptist Church, Columbia, South Carolina

It wasn't long ago in a much heralded political scene, that a man called for change. Whatever you thought of the man, his themes struck a core. For people are looking for hope and striving for change. The way things are just do not seem quite right. We are always looking for a better way. Political leaders, social gurus, search for the key to fixing the ills of society. They make their appeals, though, on the basis of the fact that every man and woman is searching for solutions. From our teenage years on, as the disappointments and perplexities of life start to press in on us, people from every walk of life find a hunger inside, a thirst for significance, for satisfaction, a longing to escape the tightening stranglehold of earthly limitations and frustrations. A person can search for these things all his life and never lay hold of the true object of his desire — primarily because man by nature seeks his happiness from things which cannot fill the void.

People will waste an entire lifetime trying to fill their soul with indulgence and pleasure, but never get more than a quick fix. Many buy into the idea that more money, or more comfort, or more responsibility, or more prestige — all these pride-of-life sorts of things — will fill the emptiness, but it is almost proverbial that those who have attained such distinctions are among the most miserable people on earth. Others seek happiness in relationships: a marriage or an affair, a best friend or a clique, but find even the best of friends are marred by imperfections, and may prove fickle in their loyalty, and every last one of them all prove mortal. The most satisfying of human relationships can suddenly become nothing more than a poignant memory. Some find their specific purpose in pursuing mastery of some skill or some science. They possess a tremendous drive to know more, to expand their ability to reason, their capacity to understand. They find that their intellectual powers are shot through with weaknesses and mistakes and, in time, they find that their mental powers are fading and faltering and are but shadows of their former prowess and prophets of their eventual demise.

These are all basically secular approaches to finding fulfilment, but we could choose from a raft of religious approaches as well. Some would teach us that we need to enter into knowledge of ancient truths known only to a very special few, or that what we need is an ecstacy of some mystical experience (out-of-body, or in-body) — some contact with the supernatural. Others will prescribe for us special rituals often powerful in their appeal to the senses, but they say are necessary to tapping into God and finding a fullness for the void. Others will teach a strict adherence to a code of ethics or a set of disciplines, especially that which requires great willpower and often physical sacrifice. But in all these religious approaches, we find like Ahaz of old who sacrificed to the gods of Damascus because he had been beaten by the Samaritans (the Syrians), that although he sacrificed to them that they might help him, these religious pursuits are not the answer to the problem, but rather the ruin of all those that seek them.

The Apostle Paul is adamant that much that is promoted as necessary to your spiritual growth and happiness is nothing more than a fraud. Even when it is cloaked as Christianity, he has argued thus far in chapter 2, that practicing certain ceremonies may appeal to your senses or your pride, but will not change your heart; that adopting additional philosophical tenets will not produce the vital change that you seek; that finding a connection with angelic beings will not add to your spiritual power; that forcing yourself to follow a strict regimen of asceticism, while it may punish your body, it will not change your heart.

D. Martin Lloyd Jones said in his day that "the real tragedy of religion is not so much that the masses do not believe in it, it is that those that do profess to believe in it are not changed by it." We live in a world of hollow religion; a religion that makes great claims, but does not work. The sad thing is so many keep pretending that it does. There are a thousand and one theories, philosophies, strategies—secular and sacred—that claim to bring the change man desperately needs, but the fact is that there is only one hope for real change — only one. Paul focuses our minds on it in chapter 2, verse 10, "ye are complete (you are filled full), in him (in Christ)." When he makes a statement like that, we do well to ask some questions: "How can you, Paul, bring all the complex issues of life down to this core concern? How can you teach us that Christ, and only Christ with nothing else added, is really sufficient? And what do you mean by that?" I want to talk to you this morning on "The Only Hope for Real Change," and I want to answer those questions.

Paul says in chapter 2, beginning with verse 11, "In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ; Buried with Him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with Him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised Him from the dead. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses; blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to His cross; and having spoiled principalities and powers, He made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it." Paul can say what he says: "You are filled full in Christ." He can say that your relationship to Jesus Christ—that Christ—is the only hope for real change because He is the only hope for purifying your heart.

In verse 11 Paul refers to the Jewish ritual of marking a person as part of the covenant community—the ritual of circumcision—with the cutting off of the flesh and casting it aside being a symbol of the cutting off and casting aside of sin so these people might belong to God: a people fit for Him. Even in the Old Testament, the actual physical rite of circumcision (exercised the eighth day of Jewish boy's life), that physical act was not what really made him right with God—it made him a part of national Israel—but what God was looking for was the substance behind the symbol. In the Old Testament in the Book of Deuteronomy, Moses says "the LORD thy God shall circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed." What does that do? "To love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live" (Deuteronomy 30:6). So long as man is a slave to sin, so long as he is devoted to sin, so long as he is tyrannized by that, so long as he loves sin that way, that sin will kill him. But, more importantly, it cuts him off from God. He cannot love God the way he needs to love God.

In the days of great judgment as the Jews were being taken off into Babylonia, Jeremiah proclaims that the whole house of Israel are "uncircumcised of heart." They may have been circumcised in their flesh, but in their heart—in the core of their being—they were still devoted to sin, and they were not in love with God. Notice that here in this passage when you become part of Christ that there is a circumcision that happens on the inside: "In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands" (Colossians 2:11). It is not something that is done physically—it is something that is done spiritually. It is not something that is done by man—it is something that is done by God where He changes your heart and He casts away from you "in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ." Christ died in his flesh. As it were, He cast not just part of his body away but His entire body away to free us from the domination of sin. He describes it here as "putting off the body of the sins of the flesh." To "put off and lay aside" like stripping off of filthy dirty clothes. You know how it is, men, when you have been working outside on a summer day, digging ditches, or some other very dirty activity and you are terribly sweaty; you know the procedure when you get in the house is to drop those directly into the washing machine. You strip them off. They are too dirty to even walk through the house with, and they are too dirty for anyone else to have to touch. And so it is with putting off the sins of the flesh. Notice he describes it "the body of the sins of the flesh."

You see, our spirit has been quickened by the Holy Spirit according to Romans, but our body is still mortal and, as such, it is often the seat—the inroad—of our corruption. It is not that material is evil and spiritual is not—it is that our body is often the seat of where our sinful desire is; it is where the flesh most seems to dominate because the body is still mortal. Christ's work is sufficient for the complete emancipation from corruption. It begins at conversion; it continues progressively through our life here on earth in what we call "sanctification," and is completed when our bodies are raised incorruptible—not only without corruption, but without the ability to be corrupted, when we are glorified.

Just as it was true that the outward rite of circumcision was not sufficient to free the Old Testament Jew, Paul goes on to talk about being baptized in verse 12. It is also clear that the rite of baptism will not free you. In fact, his whole thought in this passage is that no ceremony you can go through—no physical act that you do—can free your heart from sin's corruption. It is only connection with the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ is our only hope for real change because He is the only hope for purifying your heart.

Secondly, Christ is the only hope for real change because He is the only hope for receiving spiritual life. In verse 12 we read, "(we are) buried with Him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with Him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised Him from the dead. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses." We are buried with Him in the sense that we have been united with Him when we receive Christ through faith. When we place faith, total trust, in the ability of God to work this work in us—this fundamental change of who we are—then we are connected with Him, and we are buried with Him in our baptism. Baptism is the outward symbol, the outward identification of ourselves with Christ; and in identifying with Him, by putting faith in Him, we are buried with Him. Now, you do not bury someone, hopefully, until it is clear that he is dead. When we talk about being "buried with Him in baptism," we are talking about the reality and the finality of death. It's over—there is no more hope. There is no more hope for that sin to dominate your life. Paul puts it this way in Romans 6 verses 2 and 3, "How shall we who are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death?" In other words, His death becomes mine. He dies to sin and, thus, frees me from it. Romans 6, verses 6 and 7, "our old man is crucified with him, (using the same language as he uses here in Colossians) that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin."

Our baptism in identifying with Christ — that outward rite signifying a spiritual reality — means that we are celebrating a sort of a funeral. We might say, "This afternoon at 2:00 we are having a funeral service. We are publicly burying bodies that are supposed to be dead, that have been cleansed by Christ, that have been made alive —a new life— in Him." "Old things are passed away." As one commentator put it, "Regenerate Christians should no more contemplate a return to unregenerate living than adults to their childhood, or married people to their singleness, or discharged prisoners to their prison cells, for our union with Jesus Christ has severed us from the old life and committed us to the new." Notice, he says in verse 13 as he describes these Gentile believers as "dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh." They had not even had the physical rite performed. They had not been part of Israel, or as Ephesians 2:12 reads, "(they were) aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God." The uncircumcision of their flesh, the fact that they didn't have that physical sign, marked them as those in a heathen state as those that had no connection with God—degraded, miserable, idolatrous and dead. Jesus Christ not only has love for us to desire our freedom from sin and of receiving spiritual life, He has the power to accomplish that freedom and that life.

The Gentiles, who had not had the privileges the Jews had, they had heard the gospel— they had received Christ, and because of that they had a circumcision that was much deeper than what the Jews had experienced in their bodies: it was a circumcision of heart; it was being made alive on the inside. A true convert to Christ is spiritually dead. That means no matter how hard I try to be religious, no matter how hard I try to be good, no matter how hard I try to find God, no matter how many rituals I go through, no matter how much I read my Bible, no matter how much I pray, I still have no connection with God; I can have no connection with God; I can't really have the spiritual change in me. I can go through a whole life being very religious, being considered Christian (and many people do) and never have this new life implanted in my soul—never have this change on the inside. Christianity is not about merely coming to church. Christianity is not just about following certain procedures: reading your Bible, praying, witnessing, etc. Those are things we ought to be doing, but that is not what makes you Christian. What you and I need is a change of heart which is so vital and so fundamental that I no longer run from God, but I run to Him; that I no longer love sin, but I love God; that I no longer hate God, but I hate sin; that I am no longer am tyrannized by Satan, but I am a slave to the King Jesus. That is what I need. How do I change my heart that way? How do I change my being? You know no corpse can give himself life. So I must be made alive by Jesus Christ, and that life is imparted at the moment of conversion—the moment of regeneration.

Eternal life is the crown and perfect development of emotions we already feel, of occupations we already have begun and pleasures we already are experiencing. When Christ gives to you eternal life, it is not all some day—it is now. It is a life you are to be experiencing now. You have been made alive in Christ. Your spirit has been made alive, and while your body will die and awaits the resurrection, your spirit has already been co-raised with Jesus Christ, and that is exactly what verse 13 says: "(you) hath He quickened together with Him, having forgiven your trespasses." Religious observances are powerless to infuse spiritual life. There must be a direct creative act of God, just as direct as it was when He breathed life into Adam and made dust a living soul. "Regeneration", "being born again," "conversion," "a new heart," "a new creation," "called out of darkness into life," "being made partaker of the divine nature"— all these things are what the Scripture describes as this fundamental change of being made alive. There is nothing, and there is no one in all the universe, that can do that but Jesus Christ, and that is why no matter how religious I may seem to be, no matter how moral I may seem to be, no matter how hard I may try, no matter how sincere I may be, unless I have this fundamental connection, I have no hope—I am still dead.

The Lord Jesus Christ is the only hope because He is the only hope for clearing your record. Notice at the end of verse 13, "having forgiven you all trespasses"— every false step, every blunder, every deviation from what is right—and he goes on to say in verse 14, "blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to His cross." He wiped clean the handwriting; he cancelled the debt; he cleared the charge—those terms remind us of the ancient practice of writing on papyrus (reeds pressed together) where the ink would not permeate the paper and you could wipe it clean with water so it was as if the record never existed. He wipes clean the handwriting that was against us. That word handwriting was used for the written acknowledgment of a debt—a bond, an IOU—it was written by the person who owed the debt. The fact is we owe a debt we cannot pay, and it is written with our own hand. We can blame no one else for the debt but ourselves. We are born sinners, but we also will to be sinners, and we practice sin. We are by nature children of wrath, but we also are disobedient children, and we write day after day after day more and more debt upon our record.

Many will tell you what you need is to "turn over a new leaf. You need to start doing right, and if you could start doing right, God will accept you." What are you going to do about your debt? Even if you could, and you can't, but even if you could this day start doing everything right before God—every thought that passed your mind was perfect, every motive was absolutely clean of any stain, everything you did was godly and good, you didn't leave off anything that should be done and you didn't do anything that shouldn't, from this day onward if you were absolutely perfect—you still have a debt that you can't pay. You have a debt that must be wiped clean. You can convert to whatever religion you want; you can live as high a life as you want—it will still not be enough. You will still be condemned to everlasting fire. The debt must be wiped clean—wiped clean not just in the minds of men, because many a man will give you a break ("Oh, he's basically a good guy.")—it has to be wiped clean in the court of heaven because that is what counts.

"The handwriting of ordinances that was against us"—the word ordinances is the word we get dogma from, or dogmatic—it refers to a decree, a binding law or edict that applies to everyone. What is that ordinance? It is the law of God. The law of God which is good and righteous and holy is, in fact, against us and contrary to us and hostile to us. Paul is not merely speaking of ceremonial law— he is not making that distinction — he is speaking of moral law as well. The moral law cannot save me, any more than ceremony can, because nobody can perfectly keep it. "The law," according to Romans 7:12, "is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good." The problem is that I am not holy, according to verse 14 of Romans 7, "the law is spiritual: but I am carnal (fleshly), (I am) sold under sin." I am a slave to sin; I cannot escape it. The very perfection of God's law makes it my enemy in the sense that it condemns me. In words of Alexander Maclaren, "The law is against us because it comes like a taskmaster bidding us to do, but neither putting the inclination in our hearts, nor the power into our hands." When we speak of law we don't even need to speak of just the written law of God, we can speak of the law of conscience. We can speak of the law that folk recognize as binding moral law. You talk to any man on the street and he may claim to be a relativist, but he believes in right and wrong. In fact, even if he says, "There is no such thing as right and wrong," he has made a statement that by nature is right if he believes it. The relatistic world makes no sense at all. There is a law. There is a law that excuses us or condemns us, and whatever law you are going by, you are condemned by it, and God's law condemns us.

The standard of right and wrong is the law, and because it is a standard that I cannot meet, the law then becomes not just my standard, it becomes my accuser. Then the law prescribes the punishment for violating it: eternal death, separation from God, suffering. Thus the law becomes not just the standard and my accuser, it becomes the avenger of those that are guilty—that is the function of the law: Romans 3:19, 20, "Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in His sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin."

Jesus Christ is the only hope because He is the only one who can clear that record. Jesus Christ paid the penalty of the law when He was crucified. The law no longer has any authority to exact anything else. Death is the ultimate punishment, and Christ has paid that ultimate punishment though He did not Himself deserve it. He became sin for us, that in dying we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. The law no longer has any authority to condemn to eternal death those who are in Christ, because Christ has already died. The only way you are going to clear your record is for the penalty to have been paid. Notice how he put it in verse 14: "nailing it to His cross." He nailed the law with all its demands to the cross, so there is a sense in which the law died with Christ. He paid the ultimate claim the law has on you. Look! If you or I try to be good enough, there is no way we can pay the debt, and the law still has a claim to exact on you, and the penalty is death. Unless you are in Christ, unless you receive Christ as your Saviour and find your hope in Him, you have to pay the penalty by your death. If you are in Him, the debt is paid. Christ died. Do we make void the law? Do we belittle it through faith? No, Christ came, he says, "not to destroy the law, but to fulfill it." Paul says, "May it never be, we establish the law." For it took nothing less than the death of the perfect Son of God, Jesus Christ, to cancel the law's righteous indictment of all of us.

Only through Jesus Christ do I have hope of being free. Martin Luther experienced the reality of this truth when he dreamed that he was visited at night by Satan who brought him a record of his life and found the record was written in his own hand, and the tempter said to him, "Is that true, did you write it?" and the poor, terrified Luther had to confess that it was all true, scroll after scroll was unrolled and the same confession was wrung from him. Again and again, "Yes, it's true. Yes, it's true." At length the evil one prepared to take his departure having brought Luther down to the lowest depths of abject misery, and suddenly the reformer turned to the tempter and said, "It is true, every word of it, but right across it, the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses us from all sin." "The handwriting of ordinances that was against us"—contrary to us—has been wiped clean.

In his book Morning Watches, J. R. McDuff writes a beautiful confession that the believer can claim because of what Jesus Christ has done: "I come to Thee acknowledging my transgressions in all of their heinousness. I have nothing to plead in extenuation. Warnings have been abused, providences slighted, and grace resisted—Thy Spirit grieved. It is of the Lord's mercies that I am not consumed, that Thou hast not long before consigned me with all this load of unpardoned guilt to that place where pardon is unknown. But I do rejoice to know that there is forgiveness with Thee that Thou mayest be feared; that I can bring my great sin to a great Saviour; that I may be enabled to feel this all-glorious name of the reconciled God in Christ a strong power to which I may run and be safe. Give me grace and self-renouncing lowliness to disown every other ground of confidence or hope of mercy to cast myself a broken-hearted penitent at the feet of Him on Whom was laid the burden of all my transgressions. May mine henceforth be the blessedness of those whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered."

"The ordinances against us," "The handwriting", the debt, the bond is wiped clear. When Christ wiped out the handwriting against us, He also vanquished the devil, the "slanderer," the "accuser of the brethren," for no acquisition can stick. Notice, Christ is the only hope.

Fourthly, because He is the only hope for breaking Satan's power, for Jesus Christ (verse 14) "has spoiled principalities and powers, He made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it." "Principalities and powers" is the name for the angelic beings, those angelic beings that some were teaching you had to connect with in order to be spiritually whole. They are principalities in that they exercise great authority. They are powers in that they are mighty in what they do. You look around at our world and there is no question that Satan and his demon hoards are mighty. The whole world is under the power of darkness. My wife and I often comment that it seems often on a Sunday evening when Satan seems so strong. We see the devastation of his demonic armies written in the corruption and destruction in our own American culture—the blindness to truth, the suicidal rebellion, the hatred, the broken people. Paul asserts in Ephesians 6:12 "For we wrestle (agonize) not against flesh and blood (in our spiritual battle), but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world (this present darkness), against spiritual wickedness in high place."

Scripture reveals that man was created a little lower than the angels—he does not possess their power, so, what hope do you and I have against such a mighty and malignant foe? Satan has deceived and dominated every human being that has ever lived—every one of us in this room today have, at some time or another, followed his will. We were born children of the devil—lying from the womb. He has overpowered all of us, and he has overpowered every human being who has ever lived, but one. Jesus Christ said, "He has nothing in me." He said to His accusers, "Which of you accuseth (or convinceth me) of sin?" Jesus Christ, when He was tempted directly by Satan, did not bow to him, did not compromise with him, and one day He shall see to it that that old serpent, the blood-thirsty dragon, the accuser of the brethren, the devil, the adversary of God and man, is cast into the lake of fire for eternity. It is because of Christ's work on the cross that the devil shall one day deceive the nations no more. At the cross, Paul reveals here, that Christ spoiled them—that means He stripped them, as a conqueror strips the weapons and the armor from a beaten enemy. They no longer have authority or power over those that belong to Jesus Christ, and He made a show of them openly—that is, He displayed and exposed them as a victor marches his captives in the spoil of war in triumphal procession through the city streets.

There is a description of such an event which gives an illustration of what Christ has done. It is a description give by Plutarch when the Roman general, Amelius Poulos returned from capturing Macedonia. Great scaffolds were erected along the streets of Rome, and people turned out from all over dressed in festive white. On the first day 259 chariots displayed in procession the statues and pictures and colossal images taken from the enemy; on the second day, innumerable wagons rumbled through the streets of Rome bearing the armor of the Macedonians, and Plutarch describes it this way: "They were all newly polished and glittering, the pieces of which were piled up and arranged purposefully with the greatest art, so as they seemed to be tumbled in heaps carelessly and by chance. Helmets were thrown upon shields, coats of mail, Cretan targets, Croatian bucklers and quivers of arrows lay huddled among horses' bits, and through these appeared the points of naked swords intermixed with long Macedonian (spears). All these arms were fastened together with just so much looseness that they struck against one other as they were drawn along, making a harsh and alarming noise, so that even as the spoils of the conquered enemy, they would not be held without dread. Following the wagons came 3000 carrying the enemy's silver and 750 vessels followed by more treasure. On the third day, the captives proceeded by 120 sacrificial oxen with horns gilded and heads adorned with ribbons and garlands. Next, Macedonian gold, the captured king's chariot and armor, then the king's servants with hands outstretched begging the crowds for mercy. Next came King Percius himself clad entirely in black followed by endless prisoners. Finally came the victorious general seated on a chariot, magnificently adorned, dressed in a robe of purple interwoven with gold, holding a laurel branch in his right hand. All the army in like manner with boughs of laurel in their hands divided into their bands and company, followed the chariot of their commander, some singing verses according to the usual custom songs of triumph and praise of the general's deeds." Now, as magnificent as that was, it is nothing to what Christ has done. The most powerful beings in all the universe have been beaten; they have been paraded; they are a conquered foe.

Christ paid the price to buy your soul back out of Satan's slave market, and Christ has exercised the power to keep you free. "Through His death He might destroy (He rendered powerless) him who had the power of death, that is, the devil" (Hebrews 2:14). Christ is the only one who can do that. You can pile up all your ceremonies and your good deeds, and your rituals and your identifying with this group or that group, and your talking to spirits, or whatever you will, it is not enough to conquer Satan's hold on you. Christ is the only hope of freeing you from sin. Martin Lloyd Jones was a medical doctor before he became a preacher, and he noted that "it is one of the royal rules of medicine that pain should not be relieved by a drug until the cause of that pain has been discovered." And it is one of the greatest medical crimes to break that rule. The trouble with drugs and quack remedies, he says, is "by lessening the pain and palliating the symptoms, they tend not only to hide the real cause of the disease, they also tend to keep people away from the true physician. For in the words of Christ, "they that are whole (they that are well) need not a physician, but they that are sick." All these claims, all these ways of being fulfilled, are not only damaging in that they hide and they camouflage the real need, but they make people satisfied with what is not really the cure.

We know Richard Trench for being a great linguist. He also has written some poignant poetry. He says, "If there had anywhere appeared in space, another place of refuge where to flee, our hearts had taken refuge in that place and not with Thee. For we against creation's bars had beat like prisoned eagles, through great worlds had sought though but a foot of ground to plant our feet, for Thou wert not. But only when we found in earth and air, in heaven and hell, that such might nowhere be, that we could not flee from Thee anywhere, we fled to Thee."

I don't know what you are looking for today for your hope. I don't on what you pin your dreams, but I can guarantee you it is not the change of a job; it is not more comfort; it is not paying off your debts; it is not changing your marriage; it is not any number of things we might seek—it all has to do with your relationship with Christ. If you don't start there, you are just drugging yourself, you are not dealing with the disease where it is, for He is the only hope. You may be a believer, and you may have fallen prey to the notion that you are going to find your fulfillment in life some other place—it will not happen. You will bring but sorrow to your heart and disappointment to your soul. It is in Christ that you are filled full, and if you are away from Him today, you will never be other than empty. It is time to come to the fountain. It is time to come away from the broken cisterns that can hold no water. It is time to come unto Him who can fill you full. He is the only hope.  You may be a believer, and you may have fallen prey to the notion that you are going to find your fulfillment in life some other place—it will not happen. You will bring but sorrow to your heart and disappointment to your soul. It is in Christ that you are filled full, and if you are away from Him today, you will never be other than empty. It is time to come to the fountain. It is time to come away from the broken cisterns that can hold no water. It is time to come unto Him who can fill you full. He is the only hope for real change.

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