Gospel—Ernie Munck
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And think that he can be his own savior. Oh, you know, the grace of God is preached, the love of God is preached, the work of Christ is preached. But what is it that man wants to do?
He wants to do something so that he knows that he can be brought into favor with God.
Hear this man, he lay there thirty of eight years. It's much like Israel of old. You know, there were two years they that they went through the wilderness.
But there were 30 and eight years that they were wandering around.
Wandering dining hall.
How solemn it is. This world is a place where people die.
And they are estranged from God.
And is there no hope? Is there no help?
You you made this statement here.
When Jesus saw him lie and knew that he had now been a long time in that case.
Wilt thou be made whole?
Oh, you know, there's a longing created in the heart when he doesn't have peace, when he's estranged from God, and he knows that God is a holy God and he has to do with him.
The question is, wilt thou be made whole? Will you lower yourself to be made whole?
The important man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool.
But while I am coming another step down before me.
You know, it kind of reminds me of a friend that I had when I was a boy. I spoke to him and I said, Roland, why aren't you saved? He and I were raised in the same Sunday school. He and I had the same privileges.
I'd like to have you turn with me to phone 142 and we'll read a little bit about this flight.
I thought I was loud enough.
142, please.
Read the song.
I cried unto the Lord with my voice. With my voice unto the Lord did I make supplication. I poured out my complaint before Him. I showed before Him my trouble when my spirit was overwhelmed within me. Then thou knewest my path in the way wherein I walked. Have they privately laid a snare for me?
I looked on my right hand and behold, there was number man that would know it. Know me. Refuge failed me. No man cared for my soul. All here tonight we'd like to tell you there is one who cares for your soul. Even if you don't care for your own soul, there's one who does care for your soul.
That's God, you know, it's a very interesting person in first Peter chapter 4.
We read these words that those that have believed and have committed their souls unto the keeping of him as unto a faithful Creator. Do you know God didn't bring man into this world and then just say, well I don't care about him. Even though he knew man would fall, He had a care for man. I read the verse.
First, Peter.
419 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God?
Commit the keeping of their souls to Him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
You know, in the time of of Nineveh, when Jonah was sent to Nineveh.
There when Jonah didn't have the satisfaction of pronouncing a curse upon that city, you know, God told Jonah, he says there's a city of so many 1000 people and also some so many thousand that didn't know their right hand from their left hand. God had a care for those people and God has a care for your soul too.
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You know he's made a provision for it.
Thank God there's a provision made for our souls in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Roland, he said, No man cared for my soul. I cried unto thee, O Lord, I said, Thou art my refuge, and my portion in the land of the living. Attend unto my cry form brought very low.
Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are stronger than I Bring my soul out of prison that I may praise Thy name. The righteous shall compass me about, for Thou shalt deal bountifully with me. You know Roland, he got cancer. He was dying, and he called for somebody to preach the gospel to him, and he got saved. Oh, you know, what is it that would call a man 'cause a man?
To want to have his soul saved, it's the eminence of judgment that that's ahead of him. It's not love for God that would cause him to do that. So I'd like to have you sing with me number 42 in in the back here.
No. Pardon me.
#34 in the hymn book, we can sing that together. You know, that's the story of a lady by the name of Francis Ridley Havergall. She was raised in a Christian home and she said she didn't know how to be saved. She didn't know what her father was a preacher, you know, like that person, uh, Second Corinthians 4 says. And if our Gospel be hid.
It is hid to them that are lost, in whom the God of this world has blinded the minds of them that believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel should shine in unto them. How solemn it is to be blind, to be blind.
To your sin to be blind to your.
Enmity toward God to be blind to the grace of God.
So she composed this little hymn after she found that there is a way. There is an ample provision for you tonight.
And here we'll think about it.
34 Precious, Precious.
Calvary.
And then dependent on that bad bed to lift it up and carry it off. You know that made the Jews unhappy. Man likes to be see men in trials and troubles and burden. But you know God would like to set you free. You know, there was a man dying one time and he said he sure wanted to be saved, but he said he didn't want God to do anything wrong.
In saving him. So the preacher turned to Romans chapter 3. We'll read that verse together.
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But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets, 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. And here's the verse.
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
Oh, that means being justified without a cause in US. You know, we're saved. God's charges. God is the one who's undertaken our cause to save us. God is the one who sent the Lord Jesus Christ into this world.
And you know the cross of Christ has a twofold side to it. One of them is man's side. Man's side was to take the Lord Jesus Christ and hang him there and set away with this man. We will not have this man to reign over us. You know there are 7 sayings in the gospel about the Lord Jesus.
That we're said about him and they were derogatory.
Except for one, the thief that was dying next to the Lord Jesus Christ, he said of him, This man hath done nothing amidst. Do you know today, tonight, if you're going to be saved, it's going to have to be on the account of the obedience of one. Through one man's disobedience, many were brought.
Read it.
One Mens disobedience, many were made sinners.
So by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Oh, that's one side of the cross. The other side of the cross was a voluntary side of where the Lord Jesus gave himself as a ransom for our souls. Oh, thank God he went there. He shrank from being made sin. He could say to his Father, Father, if it'd be possible.
Let this cup pass for me.
But no, it had to be God's righteousness, God's holiness had to be satisfied. There had to be a sacrifice. You know, all the sacrifices of the Old Testament, when they were given, they couldn't put away sin. David could say in Psalm 51, sacrifice and offering. No, it's not.
Else would I have brought it? You know God has brought his own offering in Hebrews chapter.
One we read these lovely words.
1.
God, Who at sundry times and in diverse manners spake in time past unto the Fathers by the Prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the world, who being the brightness of His glory, and expressed image of His Person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had.
By himself.
Purge our sins when He had by himself made purgation for sins. Oh my friend, we were too poor. Too poor to bring to God anything that would satisfy him. God has found his satisfaction in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Have you found satisfaction in Him? Oh, you know, you might know all about the work of Christ.
You might know.
Of his atoning work. But oh, how does it apply to you? How can I get the interest in that precious blood? You know, there's two things that are necessary. One of them is the sufficiency of the work of Christ to save your soul, and the other one is the grace that will receive you. You know someone is well said.
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I've never read in scripture of any Sinner that came to the Lord Jesus Christ in his sins, in all his ruins, who was rebuffed by the Lord Jesus Christ.
Oh, how precious that is. The Lord Jesus has made himself available.
You know we read in Luke in Luke chapter 18.
The narrative.
Of someone else who came to the Lord.
Verse 35 And it came to pass that as he was come nigh unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the wayside, begging, and hearing the multitude passed by. He asked what it meant. And they told him that Jesus of Nazareth passes by. And he cried, saying, Jesus.
Thou son of David, have mercy on me. And they which went before rebuked him that he should hold his teeth, but he cried so much the more. Thou son of David, have mercy on me.
And Jesus stood.
And Jesus stood, oh think of it, the Lord Jesus will stand at the cry of a poor blind beggar.
He'll hear your cry. Maybe you're ashamed that you won't admit it to somebody else, but you're troubled about your soul. That's the Lord Jesus will hear you cry. You'll stand still. He'll stand still. You know every.
If you came to the come to the Lord Jesus Christ, you can be assured that He had to die for those sins. He had to put them away by the sacrifice of Himself.
We read to his own self.
There are sins in his own body on the tree.
Oh, I'd like to tell you that you're welcome to come to him tonight.
I'd like to turn to a portion that in a way, is a favorite of mine.
It illustrates, I believe, the Gospel in a way like none other.
Second Kings chapter 6.
And it came to pass, verse 24, after this, that Ben Haydad, king of Syria, gathered all his hosts, and went up and besieged Samaria. And there was a great famine in Samaria, and behold, they besieged it under ass's head was sold for four score pieces of silver, and the 4th part of a cab of dove dung for five pieces of silver. And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall.
There cried a woman unto him, saying, Help my Lord, O king. And he said, If the Lord do not help thee, when shall I help thee? Out of the barn floor or out of the winepress? And the king said unto her, What Ayleste? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, may we meet him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow. So we boiled my son, and did eat him.
And I said unto her, On the next day, give thy son, that we may eat him, and she has hid her son. And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes, and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked. Behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh. You know here was a straightened circumstance. Here was this a place where there was no escape.
It reminds of us of Jericho, of the city of Jericho, it says. And Jericho was straightly shut up. None could go out and none could come in.
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You know, I can remember the boy asking myself, why was I brought into this world? Have you ever asked a question like that of yourself? Here I am. I'm born into this world and I'm a sinful boy. I've done things I can remember as a boy. One time a boy dropped a dime in the playground and I snatched it up and put it in my pocket.
Went home and on the way home my bought some candy. You know, there was not much comfort in that because that night I couldn't stand it anymore. I cried out.
Mom, I stole something. I stole something. I sinned.
You know, we might think that we're all right, but just the temptation statement put there in front of you. One sin thrust Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden.
One sin will shut you out of heaven for all eternity, unless that thin is pardoned. Oh, how solemn that is. Jericho was straightly shut up this city here.
It was straightly shut up and there was no resources left, no resource in themselves.
We find then, he said.
And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes, and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh. Then he said, God, do so, and more also to me, if the head of Elijah, the son of sheep at shall stand on him this day.
Uh, you know, people blame God.
Blame God for their troubles. I remember my mom telling me they were in Germany just after the war and they sat at a table in Bavaria and a big Bavarian comes up to him and says, can't you sit with us? Aren't you just are you better than we are? So my mom and sister, they sat next to the Bavarians at their table. My mom gave thanks for the food. One big one woman looked at my mom said.
What, you still believe in God?
I don't believe in God anymore. I lost my husband and four sons in the last war and I don't believe in God anymore.
Oh, my friend, think of it. Do you think that in Providence, do you think in the circumstances of life that you will find God manifested?
Ah, here is where God's manifested, for God so loved the world.
That takes you in.
That he gave his only begotten Son.
Oh, God is in love.
He gave his only the darling of his bosom to be crucified.
To be a hiding place for you and for me.
Do I understand it? Do I enter into the depth of it? No.
But God does, God did. God knew what it took to put your sins away in mind. And the Lord Jesus, he died for the glory of God. And so that you might have a hiding place. God didn't consult with you or me to see whether we like his way or not.
But he gave his Son from his bosom to be a hiding place for sinners like you and me. All were welcomed to come to the Lord Jesus, because he says that whosoever believeth on him, whosoever stretches himself out on him, should not perish, but have everlasting life. You know Mr. Patton, the missionary.
To New Guinea one time went on a hunt with some natives and they killed a fallow deer, and they were carrying this deer through the jungle and it was a hot day. They came up upon a green place in the grass.
And the native threw himself down on the grass. He said. My, it's a good, it's good to be able to stretch yourself out here.
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You know, Mr. Patton, he was trying to make a translation of the Bible and, you know, there was no word that he could find for belief. And so John 316 came to be, uh.
Written for God so loved the world that he gave himself, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever stretches himself out on him should not perish, but have everlasting life. All my friends, we have a man. God sent the Lord Jesus Christ to be our Savior.
A tremendous cost to himself.
Oh, for you to turn aside from that, to turn aside from the Savior, is a very solemn, solemn thing, because there is no other Savior, neither is there salvation in any other. For there's none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.
Oh, but thank God he's available.
You know, there was one time.
A lady woman.
He was dying.
And she sent her little daughter to go to the preacher.
To get her in, to get her mother in.
The mother didn't want to go to hell, she wanted to go to heaven. She heard about the Lord Jesus and she thought for sure that the preacher would be able to get her into heaven.
And she came and it was a rainy night and she knocked on the preacher's door and says, can you get my mother in? Can you get my mother in?
And the preacher says looked out the door and says what's the matter? Is your mother drunk or something?
She said if, if, if she's drunk, go get the policeman, he'll he'll take care of her. She said no, no, my mother's dying and she's afraid to die and she wants to go to heaven and she doesn't know how and she wants you to get her in.
The preacher he worked for, he was a fashionable preacher and he worked in the, I mean, he preached in a fashionable church.
And he told the people the way to get to heaven was to get yourself there by being good, by doing right things, and then you'll get to heaven. In other words, save yourself.
The preacher said.
What am I going to do?
This woman, she has no character. She doesn't have good habits. She's been a drunkard. What am I gonna do? And she wants me to get her in.
You know he's off, that what his mother had taught him.
There is his his mother had taught him that the Lord Jesus said, Come unto me, all ye that labor, and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
He says his mother taught him the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son cleanses us from all sin.
The Lord Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
And God is ready and willing to save us if we'll come to Him.
The preacher said. You know, I'm going to tell this woman these things.
And he told the woman these things, and the woman said, yes, but my sins, My sins.
He said, you know, the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses us from every sin.
Oh, thank God.
She said, well, oh good, she said, you know, I think that will do. He says, Now, preacher, you pray and I'll pray with you, the preacher.
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He got down on his knees and prayed, he says. While I was getting her in, I got in myself.
Ah, neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved all we must be saved, or we perish eternally. But thank God He's made the way from His own side, and here we find it.
In the 7th chapter.
Pardon me.
The 6th chapter reading from 33. And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him.
And he said, Behold, this evil is of the Lord. What should I wait for the Lord?
Any longer?
Then Elijah said, Hear ye the word of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord, Tomorrow about this time shall a measure of fine flower be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shackle in the gate of Samaria. Then, O Lord, on whose hand the king leaned, answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the Lord would make windows in heaven, might this thing be?
And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shall not eat thereof.
Aw, it's a sin not to believe. You know, we read in the in John's gospel, I think it's the 12Th chapter, the Lord Jesus could say of sin because they believe not on me, of sin because they believe not on me. Man is responsible to believe God.
And God makes this declaration of what Christ has done here we find. And there were four leprous men at the entering end of the gate, and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die? If we say we will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, still here we die also. Now therefore, come, and let us fall under the holes of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we shall live.
And if they kill us, we shall but die. Oh, you know what they did? They tried mercy, and they found mercy.
At the hands of God, because God made the way open for them.
And they rose up in the twilight to go onto the camp of the Syrians.
But when they were come to the uttermost part of the campus, Syria, behold, there was number man there. For the Lord had made the host of Assyrians to hear a noise of Chariots and the noise of horses, even the noise of a great host. And they said one to another, low, The king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to come upon us. Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents and their horses, and their ***** even the camp as it was, and fled for the light.
And when these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried 10 silver and gold and raiment, and went and hid it, and came again, and entered into another tent.
And carried them also, and went and hid it. They said one to another, We do not. Well, this is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace. If we cherry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us. Now therefore come, that we may go and tell the King's household. So they came and called onto the border of the city, and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and behold, there was no man there.
Neither voice of man, but horses tied and ***** tied in the tents, as they were. And he called the porters, and they told it to the King's house within. And the king arose in the night and said to his servants, I will now show you what the servant Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry. Therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field. Ah, what unbelief, how suspicious unbelief is.
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Of the word of God, that all these men, they were perishing, so they tried mercy and they found it. May in the extremity of your case before God, that you may try mercy and find abundant mercy because God has cleared the way through the work of the cross. The Lord Jesus has died and he's risen again and now in heaven.
He says to the center, Come on to me, the door is still open. The Lord Jesus said, I am the door by me. If any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out and find pasture and old friends. Think of it, that door is open.
Because of the work of Christ.
Otherwise that door would be shut.
God has made the door open. You're welcome to come to the Lord Jesus. Here we find again that one who says, if the Lord would make windows in heaven, might this thing be, Oh, unbelief.
How Satan would have us to be unbelieving of the goodness that's in the heart of God.
He that bears not his own son. He that spare not his own son.
But delivered him up for us all. How shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Oh God is not spared the Lord Jesus Christ. I would just like to.
Read.
There's more verses here.
Verse 16. And the people went out and spoiled the tents of the Syrians, saw a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of God. And the king appointed the Lord, on whose hand he leaned, to have charge of the gate. And the people trolled upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him.
All the gospel is that God is ready to meet you, the work is done, and the Lord Jesus invites you to Himself. I'd like to turn to three scriptures.
Hebrews chapter.
Two.
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard blessed at any time we should let slip forth. A word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward. How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord?
And was confirmed unto us by them that heard him. O God's salvation is not to be trifled with.
He's made that way for us at such a cost to himself.
Like to turn to Hebrews chapter 10.
It's one thing to despise the law, but it's another thing to despise the grace of God. He that despise verse 28, He's a despised Moses. Law died without mercy under two or three witnesses. Of how much sore punishment suppose he shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified?
An unholy thing, and hath done, desperate unto the spirit of grace.
Hebrews.
Chapter 12.
Verse 18.
For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and Tempest, and the sound of a trumpet in the voice of words which boys they had heard, entreated that the word should not be spoken to them anymore. For they could not endure that which was commanded. And if so much as a beast touched the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dark. And so terrible was a sight that Moses said, I exceedingly feared quake.
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But you're calm.
Unto Mount Sion unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem.
And to the innumerable company of angels, to the General Assembly and Church of the first born.
Which are in heaven. And to God this judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant. And to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things than the blood of Abel. All God has given the blood of sprinkling. It's your privilege to come by that sprinkled blood.
Play that blood for yourself.
God has given it, and he told us to come by that way.
And it says, See that you refuse not him that speaketh, for they escape not who refused him that spake on earth much more Shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven, Whose voice then shook the earth? But now he has promised, saying that once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
Last verse of the chapter For our God is a consuming fire.
Just like to say one more thing, we're done.
Come for certain blessings.
Stay away at your peril.
Come for certain blessings.
Stay away at your peril.
Our God and our Father, we own disease. That the word is but feebly spoken.
But we do pray that thou hast by thy spirit, use thy word for the blessing of souls.
Is I intend that the souls should be saved, and that thoudest desire souls to be saved. For thou hast said all that the Father giveth me shall come to me, and him that cometh to me I will in a white cast out. For I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me, and this is the will of him that sent me. Oh God, think of it.
This thus thy will, thy would, thy would, that men turn to thee, and we pray.
That I was granted there be no rest for souls until they rest in me. We ask these things and give thanks and commit the time to thee in Jesus name, Amen.