Sinclair Ferguson

I wonder if you ever wonder why it is that there are some people in your church family that people tend to go to.

One of the reasons is because they know they will keep their secrets.

And the reason they know they will keep their secrets is because these people guard their hearts and their lips as though they were Fort Knox.

And you and I need to learn to do the same.

So remember Jesus' words.

One who is faithful in very little is also faithful in much.

Yesterday I mentioned a letter by the great hymn writer John Newton where he makes the point that sometimes one blemish in our Christian character can be like a spot on a tie or a mark on a shirt or a dent in our car that everybody seems to notice.

Yesterday I mentioned a letter by the great hymn writer John Newton where he makes the point that sometimes one blemish in our Christian character can be like a spot on a tie or a mark on a shirt or a dent in our car that everybody seems to notice.

That's what they notice rather than the shirt or the tie or the new car because it seems to take over.

That's what they notice rather than the shirt or the tie or the new car because it seems to take over.

We've been thinking all this week about the wonder of God's revelation in the cosmos and the marvel as Christians that we understand that we were made as His image for fellowship with Him in order that we might be like Him, that we might know Him, that we might trust Him.

But we've especially been thinking about our rebellion against this revelation and our rebellion and rejection of it.

But I don't think that we should leave this week without remembering where this story goes in the pages of the Scriptures.

For just as the Old Testament begins with the words that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, there's a very similar beginning, isn't there, to the gospel according to John.

And John echoes what Moses had written in Genesis chapter 1.

And he tells us that, as Genesis 1 tells us, that the creation came into being through the instrumentality of God's Word.

John now shows us that that Word was actually a person.

And he says, in the beginning, when God created all things, He did it through the person who was face to face with Him.

In the beginning was the Word.

And the Word was face to face with God, and the Word was God.