# No other name

Date: June 7, 2024

Well, it’s a blessing to be here. And I have to say it’s a blessing to be back home. That’s how I feel. Y’all have just been so kind, given such a warm welcome. Thank you so very much. We have very precious memories being here years ago at Rutherford County Baptist. I do feel right at home. Amen.

You think Pastor Paul is kidding? I know some of y’all think the Lord hadn’t given him the victory over the line a lot, but he’s being serious. This morning, my song leader led the music in overalls, amen. I checked your song leader’s back pocket; he didn’t have the snuff like mine had it, amen. So either he stuffs it deeper or something, I’m not sure. But anyhow, I’d say I feel right at home. I did tell our daughter tonight, “They’re not always like this,” amen, just so she knew that.

I’ve got a couple of questions. Number one, who rated Cracker Barrel? Amen. Y’all get that in a minute. Amen. I like the decoration. Amen. I like it. I like old-fashioned. You can’t—well, I was going to say, you can’t get too old-fashioned for me. You can’t with the preaching, and you can’t with the singing.

But I do like indoor plumbing and heating and air. I do like that. Amen. I don’t want to go so far back that we have to go to an outhouse. Amen. I don’t think that’s the Lord’s will. Amen. In the winter, it’s fifty yards too far, and in the summer it’s fifty yards too close. Amen, we don’t want to go back to that. Some of y’all know what I’m talking about, amen. Some of y’all know.

I did not know that Brother Jebediah was going to be here. Now, I’ll be honest with you, when he started asking for a Moon Pie, I thought he was going to ask for moonshine. I didn’t know. You just never know, amen. But again, I’m not in McMinnville still, so I got to transition. We’re back at Rutherford County. Amen. Amen.

What a blessing to be here. Brother Paul is right about my wife. When she and I met—a matter of fact, her first Sunday at the church at… She started attending that old-fashioned, King James, independent, fundamental, temperamental Baptist church that she started going to. That first Sunday morning was my first Sunday night. It was the first Sunday. We met the next week because you know what happens when two people in their early twenties that are both single get into the same room: everybody starts matchmaking. Amen? And that happened.

Now, you have to understand—I asked if it’s okay for me to tell this because I’d like to be married another twenty years. But when I first met my wife, she had real short, spiky red hair. She had a tongue ring. I’m not kidding, she did. And she was lost. She didn’t know the Lord; she hadn’t been saved. But she was pretty. I mean, I got eyes. Amen, I knew she was pretty.

People were trying to fix us up, and I thought, “Well, she’s not even saved.” But I realized something: sometimes it’s easier to get a pretty girl saved than a saved girl pretty. Amen. And so you’ll get that in a minute. And so, praise the Lord, we got her saved, and it was all right. Amen. Amen.

Now, let me talk a little bit about the overalls. Amen. I have not—and I mean, I have not—worn a pair of overalls. When I walked in, Pastor Paul said, “Where are your overalls?” I have not worn a pair of overalls since 2010. A couple of y’all might remember this; I’ve tried to block it out.

Do y’all know how—let me say—sometimes your pastor has ideas, amen? He had an idea to have a church attendance competition, program, campaign, whatever you call it. It was the Hatfields and the McCoys. He talked me, threatened me, reminded me that y’all paid me, and I was working with youth at times. He needed me to be a Hatfield. I believe I was a Hatfield.

So, you know how the craziness goes. I came in overalls and this and that. I wrote a skit, and there was a gunshot firing and all that, trying to figure out who it was. I looked at him and said, “Was it you?” And I said, “Well, it can’t be you. You don’t even have a trigger finger.” Amen? I said that.

Here’s the thing about that: the winning team won a couple of real nice guns. Whoever won, the McCoys or the Hatfields, won a couple of nice guns. The runner-up had to kiss a pig. Guess who was the runner-up? It’s a good thing the runner-up didn’t get a shotgun because y’all would have had to find a new pastor when I got done, amen.

My therapist says that I’ve made a lot of progress, and I’m kind of getting beyond it. The doctor said that the side effect should eventually end one day, so anyhow, one day it’ll end. But I’m telling you what? I remember Brother Bruce Ford bringing that pig in that side door. When that side door opened, and that pig—I’m not talking about a piglet, not something cute and cuddly—I’m talking about something that stunk so bad it’d knock a maggot off a gut wagon. I’m telling you, it was rank. When that door threw open, I kid you not, that pig went, “Whee!” The therapist says I’m making a lot of progress. Amen.

So what do you have? No, we have—we were scarred for life. So mostly good memories? No, we have wonderful memories.

I want to tell you something in seriousness. I love your pastor. You have a man of God here at this church. You’ve got a man of God. I’ve said this to others, and I’ll say it to his face: he is one of the most humble, sincere men of God that I know. I mean that. I love you, preacher, and I’m thankful for the opportunity to be here tonight. He told me to make myself at home, so I’m going to do that.

Now, a couple of things about me preaching: I tend to preach forty miles an hour with wind gusts up to ninety. I hope that’s okay. Also, I’ll forewarn you that once you’ve heard me preach, you will not have any doubt in your heart that God made a donkey talk in the Old Testament. Amen.

With that, let’s take our Bible—the King James Bible, the Word of God—and open it to the Book of Acts, chapter 4. When you find Acts chapter 4, if you are able, would you stand with me for the reading of the Word of God? Acts chapter 4.

Would it be okay tonight if I just preach about Jesus, amen? Would it be okay if I just try to uplift the lovely Lamb of God? Pray that God will help me. Amen. Anytime I preach—I’ve been preaching since 1997—even to this day, no matter how much I’ve preached, I still get butterflies. We’re going to pray they start flying in formation, amen. Pray for me, and I want to try to lift up the lovely name of the Lord, honor him, and glorify him. Amen.

Acts chapter 4, beginning reading at verse 7. The Bible says, “And when they had set him in the midst, they asked, ‘By what power or by what name have you done this?’”

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, “Ye rulers of the people and elders of Israel, if we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he has been made whole, be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead”—I’m glad about that, amen—“even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at naught of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.”

Look at verse 12. The Bible says in Acts 4:12, “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name.” Notice what it says: None other name. I want you to say those three words with me. Ready? None other name. Amen. “Under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.”

Tonight, with the help of the Lord, I want to preach on the thought of “None Other Name,” or that there’s no other name.

Pray with me. Father, help me not to preach. I pray that I’d be empty of myself and full of Thy Spirit. God, I need You to help me. I pray You to give me clarity of thought, clarity of mind, clarity of heart, and I pray that I’d be hidden behind the cross so that You and only You would be high and lifted up.

I also want to pray that whether there is somebody here in this service or maybe watching via online—if they have come to the service or they are watching—but they have never come to the Savior, if they have never truly been born again, I pray, oh God, I beg, oh God, convict their heart. May they realize that they are lost, on their way to hell, doomed in their sin, and they must be born again and call upon the name of the Lord before it is eternally too late.

May we also be stirred tonight that we continue to lift up Christ, to lift up the name of Jesus, to tell others about Jesus. Help me tonight, I pray. Meet with us in Jesus’ name. Amen. Thank you. You may be seated. I appreciate you standing.

No other name in history is as controversial as the name of Jesus. Oftentimes, people refer to God as a higher power or maybe “the man upstairs” without offending too many. But when you get down to the specifics, when you mention the name of Jesus, oh, how oftentimes it offends.

We see this happening here in Acts chapter 4. If you were to continue to read, you would find out that they were forbidden to preach in the name of Jesus. But of course, they went ahead and did it anyhow. I appreciate and I praise the Lord for the brother tonight that has taken a stand at work. Amen, that’s not easy to do. I know there are others that have taken a stand; I know your pastor has taken a stand, and thank God for that.

I’ve heard countless stories where someone was invited to lead in a public prayer but was instructed not to pray in the name of Jesus. However, John 14:13 says Jesus said, “Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do.”

Jesus—it has caused controversy since the New Testament times. Here, Peter is addressing the Sanhedrin, the Jewish people, and a great controversy is stirring. In verse 17, they decide and say that the name of Jesus should no longer be spoken. Oh, but Peter and John said they could not but help to speak His name.

By the way, if you are saved, if you are born again, if you are washed in the blood, if you were at one time on your way to hell but now you are on your way to heaven, praise God, you won’t be able to help but talk about Him. You won’t be able to help but tell others about Jesus Christ if you are saved. That is what soul-winning is, by the way: telling others that there is none other name.

Peter, under inspiration of the Holy Ghost, makes this statement in Acts chapter 4, verse 12: “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.”

Some would say that statement is narrow-minded, but I want to remind you that Jesus said that the path is narrow; broad is the way that leads to destruction. Friend, there is only one way to heaven according to the Bible: Jesus is the way. There is no other means, there is no other method, there is no other ideology that is going to save.

None other name. Today, I want to submit to you that it is a powerful name. I want to submit to you that it is a precious name. I want to submit to you that it is a providing name, and it is a pardoning name. It is a provoking name, but praise God, it is a proven name, it is a prophesied name, it is a protecting name, it is a perfect name. None other name but Jesus. Say amen. And the Bible said that there is none, none, none, none other name given among men whereby we must be saved.

May I say tonight that the reason there is none other name is number one because there is no other person. There is no one else that has been foreordained. 1 Peter chapter 1 verse 20 says, “Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.”

The Bible said in the book of John, chapter 1, verse 1: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men; and the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”

We could turn over to many precious passages within the Word of God. We could turn over to the Old Testament. In Isaiah, Isaiah 53, it says, “Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.”

You must understand tonight that Jesus Christ and the plan of salvation, it was foreordained before the foundation of this world. When man fell in the Garden of Eden, God did not look down and say, “What are we going to do now? Look at what a mess man has made.” No, God knew that man would fall. God knew that man would fail.

And, friend, they did not have to—and I know one song says this, and I’m not against the song as a whole, I don’t like one line in it—but there’s a song that says they searched through heaven and they found a Savior. Friend, I want you to understand tonight: they didn’t have to go searching for somebody to die for our sins. They didn’t have to form a committee. They didn’t have to form a search party. And they sure didn’t have to have a business meeting about it.

No, before the foundation of the world, Christ was ordained and foreordained to die in our place, shed His rich, royal, red, redeeming blood on the cross of Calvary to bleed and die and suffer and pay for our sins. Amen. None other name because there is no other person that could die in our place and pay for our sin. There is no other name because there is no other person.

There is no other name because there is no other pillar. You say, what do you mean by that? There is no other foundation that can be laid. The Bible said in 1 Corinthians chapter 3, verse 11, “For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.”

In Acts chapter 4, verse 11, they told the Sanhedrin, they said, “This is the stone which was set at naught of you builders, which is become the head of the corner”—the cornerstone. That word “pillar” can mean a cornerstone. If you are familiar with construction—I grew up around construction my whole life. My daddy has done construction his whole life; he is retired now from it. But I can tell you, if you are going to build a building, it doesn’t matter if you are building a building or a pole barn or a deck or whatever, you better get the corner right. You better get the corner square. If you want that building to be perfect, you better get the corner plumb, amen, and level and exactly how it ought to be, because everything is built off that corner.

I’m glad that Christ is our corner. I’m glad that Christ is our cornerstone. Friend, thank God for a church, thank God for a man of God that God laid upon his heart twenty-three years ago to start Rutherford County Baptist. I know that the church in the beginning and all through these years, the cornerstone of Rutherford County Baptist has been and is Jesus Christ. Amen, and thank God for that. Making Him known, telling other people, telling the world, telling Smyrna, telling Rutherford County, telling Murfreesboro, telling Lebanon, telling anyone and everyone that there is no other name, there is no other cornerstone, there is no other pillar but Jesus Christ. Amen.

I’ve got to breathe every once in a while; y’all pray for me. Ephesians chapter 2, verses 19 and 20: “Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone.”

Let me ask you tonight: What are you building your life upon? What is the foundation of your life? Jesus talked about that in Matthew chapter 7. We are in a day and age where so many are building their life on sand, they are building their life on sin, they are building their life on pleasures, they are building their lives on lustful things and the garbage of this world.

Let me tell you something: The world is looking for peace. People are looking for peace. You might be here tonight and you are looking for peace, but you will never have peace until you know the Prince of Peace. Friend, listen: A bottle isn’t going to bring you peace. A pill isn’t going to bring you peace. Snorting something up your nose isn’t going to bring you peace. Having all the money in the world is not going to bring you peace. But honey, when you meet Jesus, He will put peace, and He will put joy, and He will put gladness, and He will put happiness in your heart. Hallelujah. Aren’t you glad about that? Somebody say, amen. He will fill your heart with joy. Friend, as His kids say, “I’ve got the joy, joy, joy, joy, down in my heart,” amen, because Jesus Christ is the foundation of my life. Is He your foundation? Is He your pillar? Amen.

There is none other name. There is no other pillar; no other foundation can be laid except that which is Jesus Christ. I echo again: thank God for a church where the desire and the heart of it is to build upon Christ.

There is nothing wrong with programs, and there is nothing wrong with pizza and puppets. But there is nothing wrong with having fun with different things like that. Nothing wrong with the old-fashioned day. Praise God, I like it. If I hadn’t broken my ankle back in July, I might have done a little bit of jigging in the Holy Ghost. Amen. I’m just saying, I like it, amen. Nothing wrong with that. But it all goes back to Jesus. It all goes back to building upon that foundation. It all goes back to just the church building upon Christ and the right foundation. What are you building your life upon?

I do want to say this—just a little side note here. It talks about building upon the foundation in Ephesians 2: the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone. I thank God for those that have gone before us. Brother Paul, you talked about your pastor, you talked about that dear brother that was against everything. Praise God for men that knew the old-time religion. Thank God for those whose life and ministry were built upon the Chief Cornerstone, and they went before us.

Thank God for the forefathers of fundamentalism and our faith: the John Rices, the Curtis Hudsons, the Jack Hiles, the Tom Malones, and the Lee Robertsons. But thank God for those who might have passed away in some little country church that stood for years. Their name might have never been known, they may have never preached on a national platform, but they stayed faithful, and they kept winning souls, and they kept lifting up Jesus and telling people that there is none other name.

Thank God for people that teach Sunday school. Thank God for people that work the nursery. Thank God for people that work with teens. Thank God for those that—listen—thank God for those. Yes, the Lord is the foundation, but those who were built upon that foundation—the apostles, the prophets, the preachers, the teachers, the workers that have gone before us that God has used. Thank God for that.

And we need another generation. We need people to step up. Listen, I don’t know of one pastor in the world that says, “Oh, we’ve got enough workers,” or “Oh, we’ve got a waiting list.” I mean, listen, we’ve got so many ladies begging to work the nursery; they get mad if we don’t let them work. I just don’t know of any pastor that would say that, and if he did, I’d question his sanity, amen. Because, listen, there is always something to do, and thank God for a church that has people willing to work, people willing to do. It takes everyone. Listen, everybody is not the head. It takes hands, and it takes feet, and it takes fingers, and it takes everybody, amen. Thank God for that. Thank God for a church that has built on the right foundation, the right cornerstone.

There is none other name because there is no other propitiation. That’s a big Bible word, but it really talks about payment. It really talks about Christ. Let me read the verse. Romans 3:23-26 says: “…even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past through the forbearance of God: To declare, I say at this time his righteousness, that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.”

That word propitiation means and speaks of a sacrificial atonement. Jesus Christ literally paid for our sins; He bought us on Calvary. You have been paid for. He didn’t pay the down payment, and you have to pay the installments. Brother, sister, when He died for you, when He bled for you, and when you accepted Him, He erased your sins. Gone, gone, gone, gone. My sins are gone. You ask me why I am happy? I will just tell you why: It is because my sins are gone, amen.

That word justified—I get excited about that word justified—because that word justified literally means just as though I have never sinned. Just as though I have never sinned. Too many of God’s people, too many say born-again believers, aren’t living like they’ve been justified. They are living like they’ve been paroled. Amen.

Let me explain the difference. I know the difference. When you have a last name like Barrett, believe me, you have some people in your family who have been paroled, amen. Don’t buy your head, amen. I mean, listen, every once in a while, I just watch that show Cops. Don’t get spiritual; you’ve watched it too. “Bad boys, bad boys, what you gonna do?” You’ve seen it, amen. I just watch it sometimes just so I can see some of my family, amen.

When you are on probation, that judge might say, “Okay, I’m not going to send you to jail, but you are going to have to pay a fine, you are going to have to do community service, and you are going to have this record of your guilt upon your record for some length of time, if not forever.” You are not going to have to go to jail. You are not going to have to do this or that. I am going to give a far less severe punishment, but you better be careful and you better be on guard. That is how parole works.

But listen, when God looks at me, He does not see sin; He sees the blood of the Son of the Lamb of God. It is not that we are without sin; if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. But friend, listen, I have passed from death unto life. God does not deal with me anymore as a sinner; He deals with me as a son. My sins are gone. They are cast behind His back; they are as far as the east is from the west—gone. My sins are gone, amen.

There is no other propitiation. If that doesn’t crank your tractor, I mean somebody’s flywheel is broke. Amen. There is no other propitiation. There is no other payment for sin. None other name but Jesus, amen.

May I say this as we close? Number four: None other name because there is no greater power. Baptists—and I am a Baptist, believe I am—but you start talking about the power of God, and Baptists get nervous, amen. I mean, listen, you are talking about those old-fashioned services. I have been in some that scare a lot of Baptists. I am not talking about wildfire; I do not worry about wildfire because there is always a wet blanket or two around a Baptist church that will put it out, amen. I am not worried about wildfire. But I have been in some services where, I will tell you what, if you think I am high-strung now, I almost preach myself to death.

I have been in some services—and I have tremendous liberty here, please do not misunderstand me—but I remember serving in my first church. We were having a revival. God got in that thing; God got to work, and God got the blessing, God got to moving, and we actually extended it into another week.

I can remember the evangelist at the time preached a message on winning your loved ones and having a burden for lost souls and having tears on the altar. I am telling you what, Pastor Paul, I kid you not, the invitation went on for an hour, for an hour. I remember he looked over at me and said, “Brother Jimmy, I do not know what to do. I have never been in a meeting where I have felt God’s presence like this.” And I said, “Man, you are not going to do a thing. We are just going to let God work.”

I got up and said, “Look, we did not have any music”—nothing wrong with that—we did not have any music. We did not turn to hymn number such and such because as soon as the evangelist barely got out the words, “Let’s stand together,” people were already coming to the altar and weeping and begging God to save their loved ones, audibly weeping and crying, “Oh God, save my little granddaughter! Oh God, would You restore my family? Oh God, would You help me to reach lost people?”

Let me tell you something: We need to get back to where we believe and depend and trust on the power of God. You need the power. It is not just preachers that need the power of God. It is not just evangelists that need the power of God. It is not just missionaries that need the power of God. Plumbers need the power of God. We need the power of God in our life.

Friend, listen, if you have been saved, you have experienced the power of God. Therefore, if any man be in Christ, 2 Corinthians 5:17 says, “He is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” Friend, He can take you from dope and put you on hope. I have seen Him take many from a bar stool and put them in a church pew. I have seen Him take many that at one time were rebels, but now they have been made righteous. I have seen God take them from the mire and put them in the choir. If somebody as big as God moves on the inside of you, He will make a difference; He will change you. Amen. And there is no greater power—none other name but Jesus, amen.

You do not believe that? Ask the demoniac. You do not believe in the power of God? Ask the woman at the well. You do not believe that God is powerful? Ask Zacchaeus. Ask Nicodemus. Ask the woman caught in adultery. Ask the blind man. Ask the three Hebrew children. Ask the thief on the cross. Ask me. I have seen His power. I have seen what God can do. Praise God. We serve an all-powerful God. We need to stop acting like we serve some dead and limited God. We serve the Risen Savior. He is still able to save. He is still able to secure. He is still able to supply strength. I do not know what you might be facing right now. You might be in the greatest trial you have ever been in. But I want to tell you something, honey: He is able to see you through. He is all-powerful. You put Him in a storm, He will just walk above it. You put Him on rough waters, He will just walk on it. You put Him in a fiery furnace, He will just walk around in it. You put Him in a tomb, He will walk out of it, amen. He is all-powerful, praise God. None other name but Jesus, amen. There is no greater power.

May I say this? I can go all night, amen, but I won’t. I looked at how long your pastor usually preaches, and I said, “My goodness, I would have to have a fifteen-minute intermission.” Amen, I will be done shortly because this old boy will get hungry in a minute.

None other name, may I say, because there is no greater proof. What I mean by that: Matthew 28. We read this account: “And as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came, and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow. And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.”

The angel answered and said unto the women, “Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus which was crucified. He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.”

There is somebody usually around Easter time who will try to disprove, they will try to discredit the resurrection. They will say, “Well, you know, we didn’t have the medical advances of this time, the technology, to know somebody’s life signs and vital signs. Probably what it was is that if Jesus even existed, probably what it was is that he died; he was in a comatose state.”

Listen, let me tell you something: there is a word for that in the Greek—it is baloney—and there is a word for that in Hebrew, which is hogwash, amen. Listen, He was dead, physically, literally dead, but He arose from the grave.

I am sure—I can just imagine—that on Day One, Death thought that he had Him. I am sure Satan said, “Death, do you have Him?” And Death said, “Oh, don’t worry about it. I will keep this whole boy down. Do not worry about it. He is dead, wrapped up in the grave clothes. He is dead.”

I can see on the second day here comes Death, and he looks at the devil. The devil says, “Death, do you have Him?” And Death says, “Oh, do not worry about it, Devil. I can hold Him. I can hold Him; it is not a problem.”

But something changed on Day Three. On Day Three, here comes the devil, and all of a sudden he hears Death saying, “I cannot hold Him! I cannot hold Him! I cannot hold Him!” Up, up, up from the grave He arose with a mighty triumph—victorious over death, victorious over the devil, victorious over the grave, victorious over my sin, victorious over your sin. Hallelujah! We serve an all-powerful God, and there is no greater proof than rising from the dead, amen. He rose, He arose. Hallelujah. Christ arose, amen. There is no greater proof.

May I say this? There is no greater path. You can read in the Old Testament. You can look over in Exodus, and you can see in Exodus 12 that the death angel was going to pass over the children of Israel. It said in verse 13 of Exodus 12 that the blood shall be for you, talking upon the houses where you are. They were to take the blood and put it on the outside of the door. The Bible said, “When I see the blood,” when the Lord said, “I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the land of Egypt.”

The Israelites were supposed to take a lamb. It could not be just any lamb; it had to be a special lamb. They took a sacrificial lamb. They took a spotless lamb. They took a selected lamb. Praise God, this is in good English, but they took a sure enough lamb, amen. They took the lamb and put it over the door, and when the blood was looked upon, death and destruction would pass over.

Years ago, in John chapter 1, verse 29, it records John looking and saying, “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” Friend, listen, that back in the Old Testament was just to foreshadow, just a picture of one day. They used to take a lamb, but then one day the Lamb came. That is why we do not have to sacrifice animals anymore because the Lamb has shed His blood. His rich, royal, red, redeeming blood has been shed upon the cross of Calvary.

The Bible says that Christ is our great High Priest. I believe He took His own blood, went into the Holy of Holies of Heaven, and put it on the mercy seat. I love that old song that says, “There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel’s veins, and sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains.” They are gone, praise God.

To not go through the door is death. Jesus said in John 10:9, “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.” John 14:6, He told His disciples, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” He is the Way because we are lost. He is the Truth because we are in error. He is the Life because we are dead in our sins until we become born again. No other way but Jesus, no other path but Jesus.

So many in this day and age are trying all kinds of ways to get to heaven. Don’t tell me something: baptism is important, but the old song does not say, “At the baptistry, at the baptistry where it first got dipped.” It says, “At the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light,” amen.

Friend, listen, you can be dunked in water, you can be scattered, smothered, and covered—it does not matter. If you have never been born again, you will die and go to hell. It is not water that is going to save you. It is not works that are going to save you. Ephesians 2 says that it is not of works, lest any man should boast. It is not going to be wonders and signs that are going to save you. It is not going to be putting some wafer on your tongue that is going to save you. You must be born again.

Jesus is the Way, not a way. He is the Way. You say, “Boy, that’s narrow thinking.” I am as narrow as the spine of this Bible. Amen. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life,” and there is no other path, no other way but Jesus, amen.

You say, “Well, Brother Jimmy, you speak of a path. A path leads somewhere. Where does that path lead to?” I am glad you brought that up. I am glad you asked, because it reminds me of the last point: There is no better place—I am talking about heaven. John 14:1: Jesus said, “Let not your heart be troubled: ye 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. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”

That verse, that chapter goes on. In verse 4, Jesus said, “And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.” Thomas saith unto him, “Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?” And then that verse we have already quoted, verse 6: “And Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”

The path leads to that perfect place called heaven. It is a perfect place. It is a pure place. It is a peaceful place. And thank God it is a paid-for place. Amen. It is a tombless place. It is a timeless place. But, friend, you will not enter into that place unless you come to a place in your life where you realize you are lost and you need Christ, and you call upon the name of the Lord. Because Acts 4:12 says, “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.”

If you are here tonight and you are saved, this old world is the closest thing to hell you will ever experience. But if you are here tonight and you are not saved and you die without Christ, this old world is the closest thing to heaven you will ever experience. Are you saved? Have you been born again, church?

The first twenty-three years, the Lord has been good. And so Jesus, Terry, has come. I believe the Lord has just begun what He is going to do, Brother from the county. Amen. Keep lifting up Christ. Keep telling the county, keep telling the area, keep telling the world that there is none other name.

May we stand together for prayer. Pastor, I want to turn it over to you. Let you conduct the invitation however you see fit. Just mind God tonight if God spoke to your heart.

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