It's Christ plus nothing.

It's not Jesus Christ is a good starting point.

If you can get your life together, you might make it in the kingdom.

Jesus Christ is a good beginning, but if you keep the rules, you'll get there.

No, it's Christ plus nothing.

Welcome to Grace to You, the Bible teaching ministry of John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

Have you ever tried giving the gospel to someone who's really given to philosophy and worldly wisdom?

Someone who finds life direction from philosophers and professors and the best thinkers from all fields,

someone who believes that being enlightened means being informed by current knowledge,

not the so-called old-fashioned concepts like heaven and hell and sin and forgiveness.

Well, John MacArthur's message today speaks directly to the person who elevates human reasoning above all else.

Today's lesson was chosen by a grace to you staff member as John MacArthur's most memorable sermon.

That's the title of our brand new series, and so follow along now.

Here's John with his lesson titled The Sufficiency of Christ.

My heart is drawn to a very important subject that I want to share with you.

The subject is the sufficiency of Christ, the sufficiency of Christ.

It's just very important from time to time, no matter what we're studying studying that we focus again on all that is bound up in Christ.

In order to do that, I want you to turn in your Bible to Colossians chapter 2.

Colossians chapter 2, that wonderful epistle of Paul. And I want to call your attention to verse 10,

if I might, the first part of the verse, just one statement. And we'll use that as the initial

point to discuss this particular portion of scripture. Paul writing in Colossians 2.10 says, and you are complete in him.

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