Done!

The 19th century Irish Plymouth Brethren preacher, C. H. Mackintosh, once told of an old woman who was a believer witnessing to a lost religious man. The old saint said to her friend, "There is a wide difference between your religion and mine." "How is that?" he asked. "Your religion," she replied, "has only two letters in it, and mine has four."

The poor man was one of religious people like the rich young ruler, who hope to get to heaven by the things they do, by observing ordinances and ceremonies, keeping the commandments, and doing good works, by what the apostle in the 9th chapter of Hebrews calls "dead works." But he did not understand what the old saint was saying.

He asked her, "What do you mean by two letters and four?" She replied, "Your religion is d-o Do. Mine is d-o-n-e Done."
• "Do" is the religion of the legalist, the religion of works, the religion of Babylon. "Done" is Christianity.
• "Do" is the false gospel of antichrist, the lie of Satan. "Done" is the proclamation of the gospel, the good news of grace, the truth of God.