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Mahaney talks about the main thing and only thing that really counts in the long run is Jesus Christ and His Gospel.","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylifetoday.com\/fl2006-04-13.pdf","transcript_content":"<p>\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad<\/p>\n<p>Bob:\u00a0Let me ask you a question \u2013 how often during the day do you find yourself thinking about God; about His purposes for your life; about His plan for all of us; about the Gospel.\u00a0 If the answer to that question is probably not often enough, then here is a second question for you from pastor and speaker, C.J. Mahaney.<\/p>\n<p>C.J.:\u00a0How can we keep the main thing the main thing?\u00a0 Well, we must keep the Gospel personal.\u00a0 This is a daily necessity \u2013 keeping the Gospel, holding fast to the Gospel, not relaxing our grip on the Gospel; not fumbling the Gospel; treasuring the Gospel is a daily challenge and a daily necessity.<\/p>\n<p>Bob:\u00a0This is FamilyLife Today for Thursday, April 13th.\u00a0 Our host is the president of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 C.J. Mahaney is going to help us reflect on the importance of the Gospel today and living a cross-centered life.<\/p>\n<p>And welcome to FamilyLife Today, thanks for joining us on the Thursday edition.\u00a0 It feels different, you know?\u00a0 I mean, walking up to Easter feels different than walking up to Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis:\u00a0It does.<\/p>\n<p>Bob:\u00a0The whole world kind of shuts down for Christmas.\u00a0 Everybody is bustling around, getting ready for the big day, the big celebration when it's Christmas.\u00a0 And Easter, unless you are a Christian, it kind of just scoots by without people paying a whole lot of attention, you know?<\/p>\n<p>Dennis:\u00a0It does and, Bob, there are certain holidays for followers of Christ that are the ultimate holidays, and I think Christmas is certainly important because how can we be redeemed unless the Savior is born, but certainly Easter is equally important because how can we be redeemed unless the Savior die and be raised again from the dead.<\/p>\n<p>You know, it's because of the Easter season and the hope that it represents because of Christ's death, His burial, and His Resurrection that we want to spend the rest of this week talking with you about what is the Gospel?\u00a0 You need to know what the Gospel is personally so that your faith is in the right place but, secondly, you need to know what the Gospel is and what Christ came to do so you can share it with your family, with your friends, with your co-workers, with your neighbors.\u00a0 This is a part of our mission.\u00a0 We need to know what the Gospel is so we can pass it on.<\/p>\n<p>Bob:\u00a0And to do that this week, we've got some help from a friend of ours, C.J. Mahaney, who is an author, a speaker, he provides the leadership to Sovereign Grace Ministries, a network of churches all around the country.\u00a0 He has written books on the Gospel, and the message we're going to hear a portion of on today's program is \u2013 well, I told you, it's one of the five best messages I've heard probably in my lifetime.\u00a0 I mean, it had a \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Dennis:\u00a0That's really saying something, Bob.<\/p>\n<p>Bob:\u00a0It had a profound impact \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Dennis:\u00a0Because you've heard me give a lot more messages than that.<\/p>\n<p>Bob:\u00a0C.J.'s message is a message that, as I heard it, was originally presented to a group of young people in their 20s who were attending a conference in Louisville, Kentucky, and he talked about keeping the main thing the main thing.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis:\u00a0And as you listen to this, I really want you to listen carefully, because you need to know what the Gospel is so you can know how to share the Gospel with those in need.<\/p>\n<p>C.J.:\u00a0[taped earlier] Any knowledge that I have of contemporary Christian music is attributable to the influence of my three wonderful daughters.\u00a0 My daughters are really a wonderful reflection of their mother's godliness and femininity.\u00a0 They have honored their father and loved their father throughout their lives.\u00a0 Another common characteristic of all three is that the play their CDs of preference very loud, which, at this point, I think I must state they learned from their father who not only plays all of his music very loud but lives his life very loud as well.<\/p>\n<p>One day I found myself initially attracted to a CD that I heard emanating from their room down the hall.\u00a0 I had a number of initial thoughts \u2013 one was I wondered momentarily how everybody else in the neighborhood felt about what was playing, given the decibel level.\u00a0 I found myself initially attracted to the musical style, but then eventually distracted by this oft-repeated refrain \u2013 \"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.\"\u00a0 And it was oft repeated \u2013 \"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.\"<\/p>\n<p>Now, my initial reaction to what I was hearing in this oft-repeated phrase in particular was a critical one, because too often I have been deeply disturbed by the biblical illiteracy that characterizes so much of contemporary Christian music, and I assumed at that moment that this was yet another example.\u00a0 Actually, I can remember being in my room and overhearing that phrase, \"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing,\" and my reaction was this \u2013 \"Duh\" \u2013 \"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing, duh.\"\u00a0 I said, \"Thank you, Captain Obvious \u2013 the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.\"<\/p>\n<p>Now, later, as they say in the NFL, upon further review, in reflecting on that song and on that oft-repeated phrase, I realized that my initial assessment of that song was both arrogant and inaccurate.\u00a0 And later, in reflection, I realized that it actually would be difficult to improve upon the wisdom and relevance of that oft-repeated chorus \u2013 \"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.\"\u00a0 Actually, that chorus is a succinct summation of Paul's exhortation to Timothy.\u00a0 In 2 Timothy, chapter 1, and actually throughout 2 Timothy, Paul reminds Timothy that the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing and, actually, this song would really form wonderful background music to this passage that we will be considering this morning.<\/p>\n<p>So let's read this passage \u2013 2 Timothy, chapter 1, beginning in verse 3.\u00a0 Let's read this passage as if we were Timothy.\u00a0 Let's read this passage as if the letter were addressed to each of us, which it is.\u00a0 Let's read this passage as if God was addressing each of us, for He is, and let's discover together this morning that the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.\u00a0 2 Timothy, chapter 1, beginning in verse 3 \u2013 \"I thank God whom I serve, as my forefathers did, with a clear conscience, as night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers.\u00a0 Recalling your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy.\u00a0 I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother, Eunice, and I am persuaded now lives in you also.\u00a0 For this reason, I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands, for God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love, and of self-discipline.\u00a0 So do not be ashamed to testify about our Lord or ashamed of me, His prisoner, but join with me in suffering for the Gospel by the power of God who has saved us and called us to a holy life not because of anything we have done but because of His own purpose and grace.\"<\/p>\n<p>This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time.\u00a0 Is this grace amazing or what?\u00a0 But it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the main thing \u2013 the Gospel.\u00a0 And of this main thing, I was appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher, and that is why I am suffering as I am, yet I am not ashamed because I know whom I have believed and convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him for that day.\"<\/p>\n<p>If Paul were present today, I'm convinced that he would be addressing us similarly.\u00a0 This would be his last letter prior to his execution.\u00a0 Listen with that in mind and feel his passion; feel his intensity.\u00a0 \"Timothy, what you have heard from me, keep.\"\u00a0 Timothy, what you have heard from me, keep.\u00a0 You see, Paul was going to die soon and, therefore, he wouldn't be able himself to keep Timothy.\u00a0 He would no longer be present, but he knew what could keep Timothy, what would keep Timothy.\u00a0 Keep, as the pattern of sound teaching with faith and love in Christ Jesus.\u00a0 Verse 14 \u2013 \"Guard the good deposit\" \u2013 these are all references to the Gospel \u2013 Paul kept the main thing the main thing, and so here he restates the obvious again.<\/p>\n<p>So how can we emulate his example?\u00a0 How can we keep the main thing the main thing?\u00a0 Well, we must keep the Gospel personally.\u00a0 Chapter 1, verse 13, \"Keep, hold fast, treasure.\"\u00a0 Verse 14, \"Guard we must.\"\u00a0 How can we emulate his example?\u00a0 How can we keep the main thing the main thing?\u00a0 We must, we must keep the Gospel personally.\u00a0 This is a daily necessity \u2013 keeping the Gospel, holding fast to the Gospel, not relaxing our grip on the Gospel, not fumbling the Gospel, keeping the Gospel, holding fast the Gospel, treasuring the Gospel is a daily challenge and a daily necessity.<\/p>\n<p>And what I am instructed by here, as I hear Paul's example and this letter, in particular, is that Paul doesn't assume that Timothy's understanding and appreciation of the Gospel is sufficient.\u00a0 He doesn't assume that.\u00a0 Even though Timothy has known the Holy Scriptures from infancy, even though Timothy has been effectively taught by his grandmother and his mother, even though Timothy has been personally trained by Paul in verses 9 and 10 and throughout this letter, Paul restates the obvious, Paul restates the main thing.\u00a0 And if Timothy needed to hear the main thing restated, if Timothy needed to hear the obvious restated, well, we do this morning as well because of the following temptations and tendencies.<\/p>\n<p>Number one, forgetfulness \u2013 we have a daily tendency to forget the Gospel.\u00a0 I came across an article last year that actually was written at the beginning of 1998, and I was drawn immediately to the article, I was fascinated, because in the opening paragraph, the author points out that a Minnesota newspaper reporter \u2013 or \u2013 a story told and reported the following in 1997.\u00a0 A fellow jumped from a plane, his 'chute didn't open properly.\u00a0 According to the story, it took more than a minute to fall 3,000 feet, and yet he lived, he lived.<\/p>\n<p>And then it transitioned to another story \u2013 another man he said is going to remind 1997 because in July he woke up in a morgue refrigerator after 12 hours in a coma.\u00a0 In total darkness, he felt around and, surprise \u2013 he discovered he was resting among the dead.\u00a0 He cried out for help, and the paramedic who opened the door collapsed in shock and died.<\/p>\n<p>Now, actually, what was intriguing as I read this was the main point of the article isn't about these two individuals, it isn't about these two incidents.\u00a0 He makes the point that these individuals are not going to soon forget 1997 because of these experiences.\u00a0 But the main point of his article is how quickly we all do forget.\u00a0 The title of the article is, \"How Soon We Forget.\"\u00a0 We just have this daily temptation and tendency to forget.<\/p>\n<p>Look at this verse \u2013 chapter 2, verse 8, 2 Timothy \u2013 \"Remember Jesus Christ.\"\u00a0 Do you find that odd?\u00a0 He says, \"Timothy, apostolic delegate, remember Jesus Christ.\"\u00a0 John Stoddard writes, \"The command to remember Jesus Christ at first sight seems extraordinary.\"\u00a0 Yes, it does.\u00a0 How could Timothy ever forget Him?\u00a0 Yet, the human memory is notoriously fickle.\u00a0 The epitaph over Israel's grave was \"They soon forgot.\"\u00a0 And it was to overcome our forgetfulness of Christ crucified that the Savior deliberately introduced the Lord's Supper.\u00a0 So why is it critical for us to hold fast the Gospel on a daily basis \u2013 because, daily, our tendency and temptation is to forget the main thing.<\/p>\n<p>Number two, legalism, legalism \u2013 legalism is a daily temptation, a daily tendency.\u00a0 My definition of legalism is \"seeking to achieve forgiveness from God, justification before God, and acceptance by God through our obedience to God.\"\u00a0 Legalism is about seeking to achieve.\u00a0 Grace is about receiving.\u00a0 Legalism is about achieving or attempting to achieve.\u00a0 Grace is about receiving.\u00a0 Seeking to achieve forgiveness from God, justification before God, and acceptance by God through our obedience to God.\u00a0 Legalism is self-atonement, legalism is substituting our works for His finished work, legalism is attempting to add our works to His finished work as if His finished work needed to be added to.\u00a0 Legalism is about self-sufficient individuals seeking self-atonement, ultimately for the purpose of self-glorification and self-worship.\u00a0 Legalism, folks, legalism is the high of arrogance.\u00a0 It reveals our ignorance of God's holiness; it reveals our ignorance of our sinfulness; it reveals the presence of pride in our lives, and it is a daily tendency.\u00a0 We need to hold fast the Gospel; we need to treasure the Gospel; we need to keep the Gospel; we need to have restated to us on a daily basis the main thing.\u00a0 Why \u2013 because, daily, there is this tendency and temptation to legalism.<\/p>\n<p>Bob:\u00a0Well, we've been listening to part one of a message from Pastor C.J. Mahaney on the Gospel, and he's right, isn't he?<\/p>\n<p>Dennis:\u00a0He really is.<\/p>\n<p>Bob:\u00a0We have a tendency to want to go before God and say, \"Look at what I'm doing or have done.\u00a0 Aren't you pleased with me?\"\u00a0 And the only reason He would be pleased with us is not because of what we are doing or have done but because of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis:\u00a0He didn't say it exactly this way, but when we share our faith in Christ, and we attempt to lead another person into a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ where we explain Christ's life, His death on our behalf, His Resurrection, and then the offer of eternal life to those who will cry out in faith to Christ to save them from their sins and become the Lord of their lives \u2013 when we do that, when I share that with a person on an airplane or a taxicab driver or someone that I meet coming and going to a hotel, I am reminded that I was saved that same way.\u00a0 But it was my faith in Christ's finished work on the cross that brought me into a right relationship with God, and I now stand forgiven.\u00a0 I have eternal life, and it reminds me none of that was my work.\u00a0 It was all Christ's work.<\/p>\n<p>And I couldn't help but think as he was preaching, of a couple of verses at the end of 2 Corinthians, chapter 5 \u2013 \"All this is from God who, through Christ, reconciled us to Himself and gave us\" \u2013 now, hear this \u2013 \"He gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to Himself not counting their trespasses against them and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.\u00a0 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ; God making His appeal through us.\u00a0 We implore you, on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.\u00a0 For our sake, He made Christ to be sin who knew no sin so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.\"<\/p>\n<p>He did that for us, but then He gave us a mission.\u00a0 He gave us the ministry of reconciliation.\u00a0 You know, here at the Easter season it's so easy to get caught up in the trappings of dress and what we're going to look like on Sunday morning, when we celebrate a sunrise service or go to church, but we need to be thinking about the next-door neighbor; we need to be thinking about our children's eternal destiny; we need to be thinking about our extended family.\u00a0 We can take this message of Christ's redemption to those who need to place their faith in Him.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say at this point, if you are listening to our broadcast right now, and you don't have a relationship with Christ, now is the day.\u00a0 Today is the day to meet Him face-to-face, and to cry out to Him, \"Lord, be merciful to me, a sinner, I receive you as my Savior and Lord, and Your forgiveness of my sins.\"\u00a0 That's the greatest news we could ever offer another person on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Bob:\u00a0Your point is well taken.\u00a0 If we want to share our faith with others, we need to make sure we understand our faith ourselves, and I think that's where the message we've heard today is helpful.\u00a0 And the book that C.J. has written called, \"Living the Cross-Centered Life,\" is a book that will keep our heart focused in the direction of the cross, where it ought to be day in and day out.<\/p>\n<p>We've got copies of C.J.'s book in our FamilyLife Resource Center.\u00a0 In fact, we also have copies of a devotional book by a man who C.J. considers his theological hero \u2013 that is Charles Spurgeon, the great English preacher.\u00a0 There is a book called \"Morning by Morning,\" that features excerpts from Spurgeon's sermons, and this book will help you each day begin the day with a Christ-center, cross-centered worldview.<\/p>\n<p>We have both the book, \"Living the Cross-Centered Life,\" and the devotional book, \"Morning by Morning,\" available in our FamilyLife Resource Center.\u00a0 If you're interested in getting copies of both of these books, we can send at no additional cost the CD audio that features C.J.'s entire message on keeping the main thing the main thing.\u00a0 Go to our website at FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 In the middle of the page, you'll see a button that says \"Go,\" and if you click on that button, it will take you right to the site where you can get more information on these resources.\u00a0 You can order online as well.\u00a0 Again, the website is FamilyLife.com, click the \"Go\" button in the center of the screen, or call us at 1-800-FLTODAY and someone on our team can let you know how you can get these books sent to you, along with a CD of C.J.'s message.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I know that most of you who listen regularly to FamilyLife Today are aware of the fact that our program, like many of the programs you hear on Christian radio, we are listener-supported.\u00a0 We depend on folks who listen and who appreciate the program to call in and say, \"I'd like to make a donation to the program and help keep it on the air in our city and in cities all across the country,\" and we appreciate those of you who have done that.\u00a0 In times past, you have helped make today's program possible.<\/p>\n<p>This week we wanted to say a special thank you to any of you who could help with a donation to our ministry by sending you a copy of the most widely viewed movie in history.\u00a0 It's the Jesus film.\u00a0 It's been viewed by more than 5 billion people all around the world, and it's been digitally remastered and is now available on DVD.\u00a0 In fact, you can watch this movie in the original English or dubbed in in Spanish or German or Arabic or Korean or Vietnamese or Tagalog.\u00a0 It's a great tool for sharing the story of Jesus with people who speak those languages as their first language.<\/p>\n<p>We'd like to send you the DVD as our way of saying thank you this week when you make a donation of any amount, and you can do that by calling 1-800-FLTODAY to make a donation or by going online at FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 If you fill out the donation form online, when you get to the box that says \"keycode\" just type in the word \"Jesus,\" and we'll know to send you the DVD or if you're calling 1-800-FLTODAY, mention that you'd like the DVD, and we'll send that to you as well.\u00a0 And let me say thanks to those of you again who in the past have helped support the ministry and those of you who called today to make a donation, let me say thanks to you as well.\u00a0 We appreciate your partnership with us in this ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we will be back for part two of C.J. 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