Gospel—G. Hayhoe
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General Meetings, Detroit, November 1961. Gospel by Gordon Hayhoe.
And her hold in the thorns of us 11:00.
That fall, their wings are dry when the strong times left and the cable strains boil your ankles.
Cannot move grounded, firm and deep in the Saviour's love.
Oil your anchor hold in the trace of fear.
When the Breakers roar and the races there while the surgeons Raven the wild winds blow, shall the angry.
And the Saviors long.
Well, your anchor hold in the floods of death.
Where the water's cold fill your latest breath.
On the rising tide, you can never fail.
While your anchor.
Well, your eyes.
Be all through the morning.
Like the City of Cold and the Harbor Bright.
Oh well, you ******. Saved by the heavenly shore.
Oh, and my stars are.
Forever.
More.
We have an acre lot of people.
That fast and sure, while the bill was wrong.
Fasten to the rock where it cannot move.
Around the thermodynamic.
Saviors long.
Like to turn to the book of Daniel Daniel, chapter 5.
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Bell shires of the king made a great feast to 1000 of his Lords and drank wine before the thousands.
Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels.
Which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem.
That the king and his Princess, his wives, and his concubines might drink therein.
Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the House of God, which was at Jerusalem.
And the king and his wives, his Princess, his wives and his concubines drank in them.
They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand.
And rode over against the Candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the King's palace.
And the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the King's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him.
So that the joints of his loins were loosed and his knees smote one against another.
The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers.
And the king spake and said to the wise men of Babylon, whosoever shall read this writing, and show me the interpretation thereof.
Shall be clothed with scarlet and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the Kingdom.
Then came in all the King's wise men. But they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof.
Then was King Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his Lords were stunning.
Now the queen, by a reason of the words of the king and his Lord, came into the banquet house.
And the queen spake and said, O king, live forever. Let not thy thoughts troubling, or let thy countenance be changed.
There is a man in thy Kingdom, in whom is the Spirit of the Holy God.
And in the days of thy father, light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him.
Whom the king? Nebuchadnezzar, thy father, The king, I say, thy father.
Made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans and Soothsayers, for as much as an excellent spirit and knowledge and understanding, interpreting of dreams and showing of hard sentences and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel.
Whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called and he will show the interpretation.
Then was Daniel brought in before the king, And the king spake, and said unto Daniel.
Art thou that Daniel, which art of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of jewelry?
I have even heard of these, that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee.
And now the wise man, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof. But they could not show the interpretation to the king. And I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations and dissolve doubts. Now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet and shalt.
And have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shall be the third ruler in the Kingdom.
Then Daniel answered and said, Before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another.
Yet I will read the writing unto the King, and make known to him the interpretation.
O thou King, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar, thy father, a Kingdom, and majesty, and glory and honor.
And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him.
Whom he would he slew, and whom he would he kept alive, and whom he would He set up, and whom he would he put down.
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But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened and pried.
He was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.
And he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beast in his dwelling was with the wild *****. They fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he knew that the Most High God ruled in the Kingdom of men, and that he appointed over it whomsoever he will. And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humble thine heart, though thou knewest all this.
But as lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven, and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee.
And thou thy Lord, thy wise, thy concubines of drunk wine in them.
And thou hast praise the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wooden stone, which sea not, nor here, nor and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways Hast thou not glorified? Then was the part of the hand sent from him, And this writing was written, and this is the writing that was written, meaning. T kel You Farson.
This is the interpretation of the thing, meaning God has numbered thy Kingdom and finished it. He kills our weighed in the balances and art found wanting puries. Thy Kingdom is divided and given to the Medes. And Persians then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with Scarlet and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the Kingdom.
In that night was belle shahs of the king of the Chaldeans flame.
And Darius the Median took the Kingdom, being about 3 score and two years old.
With one more sausage in Acts chapter 13.
Acts chapter 13 and verse 38.
Be it known unto you, therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sin, And by him all believe our justified from all things from which he could not be justified by the law of Moses. Beware, therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophet, Behold Jesus, and wonder, and perish.
For I work a work in your days.
Our work, which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declareth unto you.
Well, this chapter friends that we have read in Daniel 5.
Is a very solemn one. I believe it brings before us a picture.
Of the very time in which we live, because here we see Gentile power. Belshazzar was a Gentile, and we see them just having a grand and fine time on the very eve of the judgment of God falling upon that Kingdom. And isn't that just like the day in which we live? It's a time of great prosperity. It's a time of parent progress.
The time when man is going ahead and the glory of this Kingdom.
Seemed well, it was so. It was so impressive, and Belshazzar was so satisfied that his city could not be taken that he felt he could just settle down and enjoy himself, and that it would be impossible for the enemy to enter the city. They felt they were well protected, and in those days when they didn't have airplanes, he felt that he was quite safe. He could just sit down and enjoy himself and have this feast along with his Lords and concubine.
And isn't that similar to the time in which we live? I say when people feel.
That now they have come to such a point in world progress that they can really enjoy.
What the world has to offer, and they don't seem to have any thought of the awful judgment that hangs over this world. And I want to say to those who are here tonight, especially to you who are young, who have Christian fathers and mothers, that is a very solemn warning in this chapter for you because Belshazzar had a believing grandfather, I believe we can say.
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Levick of Nazareth had turned to God. Nebuchadnezzar attic knowledge that the Lord was the true God.
But a low fell Shazer. His son or grandson knew all about it. He was still going on in pride. He refused to humble himself. He made-up his mind that he was going to have a good time. And it may be that you have a Christian father and mother. Perhaps you have a Christian grandfather and a Christian grandmother, but you're out to have a good time.
And you're saying, oh, I don't need to be saved now there's plenty of time. I'm going to have my fling while I can. While I have my health and my energy. I intend to enjoy myself and I'll think about serious things later on.
But all how little Belshazzars and all those who were enjoying this feast with him.
Realized what was going to happen that night, that night. And there's no guarantee, dear friend, that this may not be the very night in which the door of grace should be closed and God's awful judgment will begin to fall upon this poor world that has rejected and cast out God's beloved Son.
We see here then, a very solemn setting, and yet as far as the world was concerned.
This was a time that would be called a grand feast. A good time. And perhaps it may be that way with you. You may be saying, don't disturb me, please. I'm having a good time. I don't like to hear about hell and judgment to come. I don't like to be told about it because it spoils my good time, it spoils my happiness. But all how much better to be warned.
Before it's too late. How much better it had been. Or Bell Shazer, if he had listened to this warning instead of going on in his blindness and his indifference, and that awful judgment overtook him that very night, all he had lots of warnings.
It says God speaketh once, yeah twice. Yet man perceiveth it not.
How many times has God spoken to you? How often have you been warned?
Upcoming judgment How often has someone put a little gospel tract into your hand? Some friend laid his hand in your shoulders and spoken to you about your soul. How often, perhaps Father and mother have played with you and brought before you the solemnity of what it would be to spend eternity under the judgment of God? And are you still indifferent? Are you still careless? Are you still thoughtless?
How that immortal soul of yours?
All of the time coming, dear boys and girls and all the ones here when you're going to have to.
Stand before God as a judge if you are not saved.
You'll have to meet God as a judge, but you can lead him to.
You can meet him tonight as the one who loves you. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. It says in Isaiah that judgment is God strange work he doesn't like to judge. He's delayed the judgment as long as it's possible.
For God in his perfect wisdom to do it. But the time is going to come very soon.
When the judgment will fall, God is patient.
The long-suffering of our God is salvation, not willing that any should perish.
But that all should conjo repentance.
Well, this was a great feast, wasn't it? 1000 of his Lords and concubines. Perhaps you've heard of great parties, but this was something very, very wonderful when you can think of a royal feast with 1000 guests. Oh, what a fine time they seem to be having. And yet the armies of the enemy were right outside the city, making their way under the wall.
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Saw that they would enter into the city and it may be that tonight.
It may be that tonight God has written upon your page that this day, this very day in November 1961, will be the last day of your history on earth. It may be that this is the very day that the Lord Jesus Christ will come. Or I plead with you.
To consider this question solemnly tonight, while it's still a day of God's grace.
Well, it was bad enough that they were just going on having a good time.
But when we come to the third verse, we see how they filled up their measure of iniquity.
And what was that? Well, it was when the king commanded to bring the gold and silver vessels.
That came from the House of the Lord, and bring them in to this entire speech.
And drink wine, and praise the gods of gold and silver, and brass, and iron and wood.
And may I say that that's just about the stage that we have come to.
In the history of Christendom, it's bad enough when people go on in their sins, thoughtless and indifferent to the claims of God. But when people begin to make plays and make jokes out of this blessed book, when people begin to make fun from this book and despise the God who has written it, it's a very strong thing that I say as I go about through the city.
I thank God that I don't frequent the places of amusement down through the streets of this world.
But as I see the signs that hang out in front of these picture palaces and places.
I can't help but think of this feast of Nebuchadnezzar. There is nothing too holy.
There is nothing too good in God's precious word for people to make a joke out of it and to make it a thing to entertain them in their wicked, evil course. And man is fast filling up his measure of iniquity and sin. He's, as it were, taking the gold and silver vessels out of God's house and using them to drink wine and praise the gods of gold and silver and brass and iron and wood.
His own accomplishment, what he has done, his own human progress.
Is put on the pedestal to be exalted and the Bible and the truth of God.
Was dropped down and ridiculed, and trampled upon all friends.
We are living in solemn days. We as Christians need to be warned about it. One has often said to the children and to the young folks, never make a joke of any kind about God's Word. It's God's precious, unchanging word, and it's a tremendous thing when people begin to make jokes about God's Word.
There will be no laughing when people stand before God to be judged.
There'll be no laughing at the Great White Throne. There'll be no laughing in hell in that place where there's weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth.
And we can see the awful condition of things that were existing here.
But now they had, as it were filled up the measure of their iniquity.
God had been patient with the Kingdom under the Kingdom of Babylon, but at last they filled up their measure of iniquity. But God never asked without giving a warning. God never asked without giving warning. He warned the people that the flood was coming and he gave faith to repent. Our brother read to us in the second chapter of the Revelation this afternoon.
About that great corrupt system, and it says I gave her space to repent of her fornication and she repented not. God gave nine of the space to repent. He sent, He sent Jonah down. And while there was a temporary repentance, God held her off the judgment. And it didn't come at that time because of the repentance at the preaching of Jonah, but when they returned to their evil ways.
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And fill up their sin. Then God brought the promised judgment upon them. He told Abraham that he would give him he he would give him the land of Canaan. But he didn't give it to him until the iniquity of the Amorite was full. Don't be surprised that you see things getting worse in the world. The reason God is waiting is he is going to allow man to show out.
The evil that's in his heart. And you dear young people, you dear boys and girls.
Growing up in an age like this, you are just seeing the very thing that I'm talking about. You're seeing the measure of sin being filled up all. Let us be sure that we're like Daniel, that we stand apart from all this. It's true that in his employment he had to frequent the palace. He was there in a higher position in the palace in Babylon, but he was still a separated man. And you and I must earn our living in this world.
But this world is a system is under the judgment of God. Its religion is first hastening on to the time when they'll not only give up the Christ of God, but they'll actually they'll actually leave out God and Christ.
Out of the whole profession in the earth altogether, and when God brings His judgment.
On an apostate prison them they will not only have given up Christ, but they will have given up God altogether. And the whole Christian world, as we speak of it, will have song in with the worship of a man. For it tells us in 2nd Thessalonians 2 That the Antichrist as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God, and the apostate Jews in their land.
And Apostate Christendom will fall in with that kind of thing.
And the Christ of God and God himself will be completely abandoned and given up as far as this world is concerned.
That's what's coming. That's what's hastening upon this world.
Well, where was Daniel? He was separate from all this. He was fulfilling his daily work conscientiously.
The next chapter tells us that in his daily work they couldn't find any error or fault in it.
All that they could say is that we can find no error or fault in this Samuel.
Except we find it in him concerning the law of his God. Dear Daniel was a faithful testimony for God and separation from the whole corrupt system. Oh, May God keep those who are His so that they would be separate from all this that's going on and quickly ripening for the judgment of God.
Well, the time came in the middle of the feast, after they were drinking out of these vessels of gold and silver from the House of God.
That there was a part of a man's hand that rolled upon the wall.
And it says the king fall apart of the hand that wrote.
And sometimes I think that the great men of this world already have seen the part of the hand that wrote. I believe that there are people today in high places in this world that have seen that hand, and they're trembling and they're afraid. And yet it seems that there isn't repentance produced in their heart. There wasn't with Nebuchadnezzar, Edward Belshazzar.
There was no repentance rod in his heart, but he saw the part of the hand that wrote the Lord Jesus said man's hearts, failing them for fear and for looking after those things that are coming upon the earth.
And there are awful things coming upon this earth, and men know it, and men know it. He saw the hand. It was over against the Candlestick in that dimly lighted place. For all this impiety and evil was going on, there was still a little flare of light, And under that flare of light the part of the hand wrote, God, hath numbers thy Kingdom.
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And finished it, and there's still a flare of light in this world. The Bible still here. The gospel is still being preached. And that's why people don't like to see this blessed book circulated. That's why they don't like to hear the gospel message announced. Because in it they see the part of the hand that wrote. They don't mind us talking about God being a God of love.
But they don't like that which God writes on the plaster against the Candlestick.
That is, our brother spoke this afternoon about the church being a Candlestick in the earth.
And so God always has, even in spite of all human failure.
He always in the day of his grace, gives a testimony to man.
And he first tells him of his grace and love.
But he also warns them of what's coming. Well, the king, he he was very upset. It tells us here the sixth verse. Then the King's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him so that the joints of his loins were loose and his knees smote one against another. He was afraid and all. If there's anybody in this room tonight who's unsaved, I hope that you too will tremble.
It's a rare thing to see anybody today.
Afraid of coming judgment, people are so indifferent.
The word hell is used as a slang word more than in its awful reality. But let me warn you, dear friends, God says as a hell God says there's judgments coming. And whether man likes to make a slang word out of it or not, I tell you, it's an awful, awful thing to think of a Sinner under the judgment of God for all eternity, A Sinner exposed to the wrath of God.
Because he would not have God's beloved Son as his own precious flavor.
Well, the king was appraised, and in his fear, who did he turn to? He turned to God. He knew about the true God. Daniel reminded him about that. He said you knew your grandfather spoke of these things and you knew about it, Belshazzar. Yes, he knew. But who did he turn to? He He turned instead to the astrologer's.
The Chaldeans and the soothsayers, that is, he turned to those who.
Regarding supernatural wonders in the heavens, he regarded those who had the learning of the Chaldeans.
And then he turned to the people that spoke. Nice. Smooth thing, the Sooth Sayer. Isn't that what the world is doing All they're looking up into the heavens. They're boasting of how they're going to master space. They're boasting of the progress of human knowledge and wisdom. And they like the people that tell them there's nothing to be afraid of. A golden age is just around the corner. God, the God of love.
And everything is going to workout and we're going to have a wonderful golden age in this world.
And jet down in their hearts. They know it's not true. It doesn't answer the question.
It doesn't remove fear from their minds. And those people who are talking about the space age and those people who are boasting in the advancement of knowledge in this day, and those who say that there's no hell and that everything is going to be all right, the joints of their loins are loose and their knees are smiting one against another. They're only talking. You know it, You know, they're just talking.
They're afraid.
Underneath all their bravado and underneath all their boasting.
They're afraid because they know that the handwriting is already upon the wall.
And that what God has said is going to come true. And isn't it a strange thing that in this modern age?
When there's been more preaching saying that there's no hell and judgment to come.
People are more afraid of the mention of hell today than they ever were.
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They're more afraid of it today than they ever were. There's nothing but they dislike so much as a preacher that preaches hell, fire, and judgment to come. But I warn you solemnly, dear friends here tonight, that God's Word is true and all the wisdom of the Chaldeans.
And all the men who are talking about faith and what's up there in the heavens.
And all those who are trying to gloss over the present situation.
Haven't got any peace in their own souls. They're afraid. They're afraid underneath it all.
And if you are not saved, I hope you are afraid. The Lord Jesus said, Fear not them to kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear. Fear him who, after he has killed, hath power to cast into hell.
Yeah, I say unto you. Fear him? Well, these people were called in.
They couldn't make known the writing.
And isn't it true that today by all those things we speak of?
Man doesn't know what's ahead. He doesn't know what's going to happen tomorrow.
Everything in the future, even in the greatest nations of the world, look so uncertain.
That people don't know which way to turn. So after these people that were called in.
I had been brought, it says. They couldn't read the writing, They couldn't make known the interpretation.
And this is a strange thing, that the wisest man of this world still find. This book, a sealed, closed book, as far as they're concerned, tells us in the 29th chapter of Isaiah that the word, the the vision of all has become unto them, is the words of a book that is sealed which men delivered to one that is learned, saying, read this, I pray thee. And he says.
It feels. It feels.
They can't understand it. It's a sealed book to them.
They need to have their eyes opened to see what this blessed book means.
When it tells us what's coming and yet the Christian knows what's coming. Oh, I know that many in this room tonight are Christians born again. Know the Lord Jesus as savior. And isn't it amazing thing that we can look out on what's happening upon this world and we don't need to be disturbed As far as uncertainty is concerned, all were disturbed as we think of the awful judgments that are going to fall.
But as far as what's happening in the world, the Christian who is taught of God.
Only sees that the handwriting is being fulfilled, that everything shaping up toward the final end as God has said it. So Bells Daniel. He wasn't afraid. The writing told him what was coming upon the Kingdom of Babylon. And so God's precious Word has told us of what's coming on this world and the Christians.
Has found a way of escape from the coming judgment.
Under the shelter of the precious Blood of Christ, the precious Blood of Christ.
Oh friends, are you under the shelter of the blood? Can you look up tonight and say thank God?
The blood is on the door when judgment fell on Egypt.
There were those who could point to that door and say no judgment can touch our home tonight because God said when I see the blood.
I will pass over you. Isn't that lovely? When I see the blood, I will Passover you. What gave them peace? Were they better than the others? No. The blood was on the door. Dear friends, we who are saved.
Don't think we're any better than the rest of the world. We're no better than the people who are carrying on in this world and their sins.
We're no better than the ones who scoff and mock at the Bible, but for the grace of God.
But God has opened our eyes to see, our ears to hear.
And our heart to receive crimes. And will you do it tonight? Will you receive Christ? As many as receive him to them gave thee power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name? Well, in this hopeless, seemingly hopeless picture.
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It tells us in the 10th verse. Now the Queen, by reason of the words of the king and his Lord, came into the bank, into the house.
God saw to it that there was one there.
Who would bring in a message to the king if he would only listen?
And all how wonderful it is. God is still sending His messengers.
To tell of the one who is able to answer the question.
The one who is able to dissolve doubt. The one who was able to tell what is coming.
And the one who engraved who himself has provided a way of escaping the judgment.
He has provided a way, so she came in and she said in the 11Th verse.
There is a man in thy Kingdom, in whom is the Spirit of the Holy God.
And in the days of thy father likes and understanding and wisdom.
Like the wisdom of the gods was found in him whom the king Nebuchadnezzar, thy father, the king, I say, thy father made master of the magicians.
Astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers.
Yes, there is a man in my Kingdom. There is a man in my Kingdom.
There was one in the Kingdom, but he was despised.
He was a man that had been carried away captive out of Judas.
He was one whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away as a slave, and brought him down to Babylon. And here many years later, we find that Belshazzar looked upon him in about the same way. Heart thou that Daniel says in the 13th verse, I saw that Daniel which art of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father, brought out of jewelry.
Can't you hear the pride in the voice of the king and the way he despised this man?
Who was carried captive only a slave brought from down and not despised country of Judah. But he was the one whom God had brought here, that he might make known what was going to happen to the whole Gentile power, and of the judgment of God that would fall in the end. And to whom to whom has God made known these things?
As to those who are despised, it says, God hath chosen the poor of this world.
Rich in faith. Another verse says things which are despised.
Has God chosen? Yeah. And things that are not to bring to not.
Things that are The Lord Jesus himself was despised, it says in the 53rd chapter of Isaiah. He is despised and rejected of man. A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. We hid, as it were, our faces from him.
He was despised and we esteemed not. I remember quite a few years ago.
We had a man come into our little mission hall back in Ottawa and he sat there in the Bible readings all perhaps for a month or so. And he said, isn't it a strange thing that we have to come to a humble place like this to find out these things?
But that was the turning point in that man's life. That was the last time he came and he went and joined a large church. He wouldn't be identified with such a despised little company who were just in a little, a small little hall out in the country. Oh, he didn't want that. And that's the way the world is today. They'd like to go to some big, pretentious place.
They like to listen to the astrologers and the Chaldeans and the soothsayers.
As our brother remarked that they want a religion relevant to the space age.
They want something that expresses man's greatness and his architecture and all that he can do. And they want the ones who stand up to speak to these soothsayers, but to hear from a despised person who hasn't been to college and who doesn't, isn't trained in the wisdom of this world, to hear the truth of God. It won't happen. They won't have it. But let me warn you, dear friends, tonight.
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That the Lord Jesus said, except to be converted and become as little children.
He shall in no wise enter to the Kingdom of God.
He that humbles himself shall be exhausted.
Ma'am. And the proud captain of the host of the king of Syria. What was said to him?
Go down and dip in Jordan 7 times. Oh, that was too much for the pride of that important general. And it wasn't until he finally yielded and humbled himself that he got the blessing. And tonight, if you would be blessed, you must come down.
To the feet of the despised savior, you must bow before him.
And acknowledge that you're nothing but a poor, lost, guilty, hell deserving Sinner.
You must take your place humbly before him if you would be blessed.
There is not one in this room tonight who is saved, who hasn't had to come down.
And take his place as being nothing but a poor loss in it.
And dear friends, if you want the blessings, come down tonight. Come down, step down from your pride and say, Lord, I'm a Sinner. I acknowledge that, but I believe you died for me. But something else that's very nice to hear about the 12Th verse, or as much as an excellent spirit and knowledge and understanding and interpreting of dreams.
And showing of hard sentences and dissolving of doubts were found in the same Daniel in this lovely says dissolving of doubt.
Quite a few children here tonight. Now that's one of the things as the enemy tries to do. He tries to bring doubt into the mind.
I can remember even with our own children, they professed to have believed in the Lord Jesus as their savior.
But sometimes when they go to bed at night, the lights were all out.
They want you to come in and speak to them. And they had doubts. They had doubt. They weren't sure. How could those doubts be dissolved? How could they be taken away? Could we do anything by any wisdom of our own or power of our own? Could we remove those doubts? No. We could just tell them of this precious word of God. We had the privilege of finding them to the precious, unchangeable word of God.
And if there's a boy or a girl or a young person here tonight who has doubts.
What is going to remove those doubts?
Just to take God at his word. Just to take God at his word. Oh how important this is. A day when people like to think things out. As they say they like to think things out. But God's way of salvation is by his face, by faith. And for myself, I can say I was troubled with those doubts too. And the only way to have those doubts removed is just to look up and say Lord is a child.
I believe what you have said.
Remember, a young man brought up in the meeting said to me one time. Well, he said. I've asked the Lord over and over again.
To remove the doubts they still seem to come. Oh, I said. Don't ask the Lord to remove the doubts. Look up and tell him you believe his word.
Said. How would you like it? You told me something and I said to you, I can't believe what you said. I hope you'll remove the doubts from my mind. Wouldn't you feel quite insulted? Wouldn't you feel insulted that I was telling you I couldn't believe what you said? Well, tonight I know that the devil tries to bring doubts even into the minds of Christians. Want to remove those doubts.
Oh, Paul said. I believe God.
That it shall be even as it was told. And when the devil seeks to bring Doats into your mind, remember the only way to meet them is to look up and don't ask the Lord to remove them, because that's it's almost unbelief. If I ask you to remove the doubts from my mind, that's as good as saying I don't think I can trust you. But if you look up and acknowledge that, it's Satan that's trying to put in those doubts.
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And tell God that in spite of the fact that Satan's trying to put the doubts there.
That you still believe him, that honors him, that glorifies him. Well, it says the removing of ghosts, the answers to the hard questions, they were all found through this man who believed God, this man who was God's messenger. That's why I read in the 13th chapter of Acts a work which he shall in no one is believed on Man declared unto you. They might have said, Oh, Paul, who are you?
He said I am only a man, but he said I am telling you what God says. I am telling you what God says.
Through this man, not me, but through this man, Christ Jesus his priest, and you, the forgiveness of Friend.
And by him all it believes are justified from all things.
All believe are you in that all?
Well, if you're in that all that believes, then it says are justified from all things. Oh hogrance. Oh, how simple.
Salvation is just taking God at his word.
Well, Daniel was called in. Great offers were made to him.
Now, the king said. Why? I've heard about you.
That you can dissolve outside rewards richly. I'll put a chain of gold around your neck. I'll make you the third ruler in the Kingdom. I'll quote you with Scarlet. I'll do a great deal for you.
I'll take you out of this insignificant place and I'll give you a place of honor in the Kingdom.
As Daniel said, let thy gift be thyself. Give thy rewards to another.
That I don't want any pay for speaking the truth of God. And tonight is not going to be a collection plate classed at the end of this meeting. We're not going to charge people for telling them the truth of God. God's word is true and salvation is free. And tonight you can have salvation without money and without price. And the king didn't have to pay anything. True, He did give some things.
To Daniel, but Daniel didn't want anything for what he was saying.
He said, he said I don't want a thing for it and I don't want any honors for it. And he said in another place, it's not in me, there's nothing in me. He said that God, there is a God in heaven that reveals secret, he said earlier in this book.
There's a God in heaven? Well then, he reminded Nebuchadnezzar.
Of how his grandfather had known these things, he said. Your grandfather. He was high and lifted up, and his mind became hardened and pride and God brought him down. He lost his reason. He was driven from the sons of men, and for seven years he was a raving maniac. And at last God restored him. And what was the result?
He said that after after this he prayed.
Extolled the God of heaven. All dear friends, what is God going to have to do to you?
To bring you to repentance, many a man has had his body smashed to pieces.
Many a man has had terrible grief and sorrow come into his life and into his home.
And yet it is all Son of God in love and for his blessings.
Belshazzar knew all this. He had heard about it. He had heard about it from his father.
And no doubt he heard about it from the queen, who had, who knew all about this Daniel, and had no part in this impious feast. Yes, I expect he knew all about it. And so Daniel said, thou the 22nd verse, And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart.
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Thou knewest all this, but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of Heaven.
And they have brought the vessels of his house before thee.
Thou, thy Lord, thy wise, thy concubines, have drunk wine in them, and thou hast praised the gods of silver, of gold, brass, and iron, and wood, with sea not and are here and all I notice this. And the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways that thou not glorify? You're sitting in that seat, drawing your breath.
Over and over again, you breathe in and out, and God has given you that breath.
And God may take away that breath tonight. God may remove your breath tonight.
You wouldn't dare to sit in a seat here with a sword hanging over your head by a thread.
Yet move your seat at once if there's something worse than a sword hanging over your head.
By a thread. God holds your breath. He might take it away tonight.
Jesus might come tonight.
Judgment might begin to fall upon this world as it will when the Lord Jesus comes.
But all friend, still the day of his grace, he still waits.
He's still patient, but soon the day of grace is going to be over. That night, it was over for Belshazzar that night. That was his last opportunity and.
The hand said.
God hath numbered thy Kingdom, and finished it.
Do you remember the rich farmer? He was so successful, he was going to tear down his barns and build greater. And God said to him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee. Then who shall these things be which thou hast provided?
And as you think of all the wealth and all the inventions and progress of this world.
But it's all reserved on the fire.
And God has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness.
By that man whom he hath ordained for Avi hast given assurance unto all men.
And that he has raised him from the death.
Well, what did? What did Belshazzar do about all this? That he'd take a humble place.
Did he own his sin and his wickedness? Did he say I humble myself?
No, he had had many opportunities, but I believe is a very fond thing pictured in this chapter.
That there is such a thing as God speaking for the last time, and I believe God had spoken to Belshazzar for the last time, and you'll notice.
That there is no message of pardon offered to Belshazzar in this chapter.
It's a song thing, but if there is such a thing as a man.
Rejecting the grace of God once to us, once to us, the Bible says, my spirit shall not always strive with man. And as a little hymn says, there's a line that is crossed by rejecting the law where the call of His spirit is lost and you hurry along with the pleasure mad throng. Have you counted? Have you counted the cost?
Belshazzar hadn't counted the cost, but I believe I can say that he had crossed the line. He had crossed the line. Oh, dear Sinner, don't cross the line tonight. This may be your last opportunity.
And if you say no to the Lord Jesus tonight, it may be there will never be another.
Offer its pardon to you. There will never be another offer of pardon. There may be lost in pleasure and sports and things of this world, but all what an awful thing, if God should, right beside your name up there in that book in heaven. He's had his last opportunity. He's had his last opportunity. Oh, I plead with you, dear strength.
Say you're called in love to my savior calls in love and grace.
Goodness and offer salvation to you. Very kind here.
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But it was very kind what Belshazzar did here. He clothed David and Daniel, rothering Scarlett. He put a chain of gold about his neck. And remember this with all the kind acts that you do for a believer, All the goodness you show to a believer will never outweigh your sins. It's Christ to me. It's Christ. You need all wanna come to him tonight? Why not close in with his offers of mercy?
All to you, dear boys and girls.
And to any older ones here who may be unsaved, why not look up?
In this very meeting and say, O Lamb of God.
Icon These are solemn, stern reality. We're Speaking of things that really count. The things of this world don't count in view of eternity. Oh, I plead with you, set aside for this time all consideration of earthly things. The people in Nineveh, they even left their cattle unfed. They set aside all their occupations, and they said, let us cry to God.
Perhaps he'll hear what I can tell you tonight, that if you'll cry to God for mercy, he will hear. He will hear. Because the Lord Jesus said him that cometh unto me. I will know why Scott says all come to the Savior tonight. The sad, sad end of Belshazzar is brought before us in. That night was Belshazzar sling that night. That was his last opportunity. That was the last time.
All this may be your last opportunity. Why not come tonight? Why not yield heart and body, mind and will, to him who died through thee? Look up tonight.
There's a little hymn says come as thou art with all thy sins.
Come with thy hardened heart. Come with thy cares. Thy doubt thy fears all great He will imply the Savior stands without stretched arms. Will you come to him tonight before it's too late? Receive them as your Savior right now.
Shall we sing #25? Life at best is very brief like the like the falling of a leaf, like the binding of a sheep in time. Bleeding days are telling fast that the dye will soon be cast and the fatal line be passed in time. First verse and the 3rd and 4th verses only of this hymn.
25.
Life that best is very brief, like the.
Police like the binding of a ship.
Bleaking days are telling files that the die will soon be cast and the faith to lying behind.
Day and time.
For our voice of Jesus calls, you'll be in time.
No longer wait, you may find no open gates and your cry be just too late. The end time.
Time is gliding swiftly by death and judgment, both drawn on to the arms of Jesus.