Gospel—Paul House
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Hymn #26.
Can someone start it please?
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That's God's help.
Our loving God and our Father.
Tonight we would thank thee for thy beloved Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. We thank thee for the day that many of us have been able to have today.
To think about him.
To appreciate what he has done for us.
And now it's, uh, our opportunity, our God to once more.
Speak well of Thy Son and we just pray for help.
Help that we would be able to speak in a loving way, but to be faithful and to warn anyone in this room who doesn't know the Lord Jesus yet. And we just would pray, Lord Jesus, that thou encourage each one of us that are saved already as we reflect on the love that was shown by a holy God.
For sinners like us, we thank Thee that by looking to thee in faith, Lord Jesus.
We can have our sins forgiven, and we thank thee that there's a way to get to heaven, to leave this cold, poor, Dark World behind someday be in the presence of the Lord Jesus. Thank thee for this opportunity now to be together. Thank thee for the privilege to talk about the Lord Jesus Christ, and we pray in his precious name, Amen.
I was impressed today with.
The Lord Jesus.
But he would love me enough.
To become a man.
And to go to the cross and to give his life, and to shed his blood so that I could go to heaven.
So that my sins could be removed forever.
And then I can have a future beyond this world.
Tonight I have the privilege to speak about the Lord Jesus, the man who died for me, who loved me.
Before I ever was. We had that in the meeting this morning.
And tonight, I wanna just focus our attention a little bit on this.
#26 that we just sung together. We're not going to talk about the hymn and what it says right now.
But this hymn was given out earlier in the day by an old brother who's sitting up there on the front row. And I was impressed by that brother because he had a love for souls.
He had a love for your soul if you're not saved.
Many times this brother in the meeting brought the meeting around to the point that if there was somebody here that's not a believer in the Lord Jesus, that you would be today.
Today is your opportunity. Right now, we don't know what's coming in this world. We saw the planes going over today. We know what that means. People can't get along and there's strife. And in this country, we don't see machine guns on every corner. But there are some countries where that's the way it is. This world is not a very nice place for many people to live in. You know, the end is near. Not just. I mean, we can see that. We can see how fragile the systems of this world are.
But you know, the Lord hasn't promised.
Any of us, health and life forever in this world.
No, it's about a year ago my dad had a stroke.
And now he's like this all the time. He's in a wheelchair all the time. Thankfully he knows the Lord Jesus as his savior, but he's in a hospital where there's hundreds of people.
That have the same troubles. It may be they have Parkinson's and they've had a stroke and the list goes on from there. But there's people that are suffering in that hospital that's one city in one country. There's a lot of people that have troubles. What about you tonight? Maybe you're sitting there and you're in good health and everything is going well for you in this world.
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But what about when you got a leaf? Are you ready to go?
Is there a place prepared for you personally by the Lord Jesus's finished work on the cross?
You know, we try to go to see my dad regularly. You know, it's tough to go in there.
It's hard to go down the rows past the rooms and see the people all bent up one problem after another after another, to see their loved ones that are visiting them and the sorrow on their faces. No hope.
You know my dad can't talk.
Very well. He can say my name, he can say Carrie's name, he can say Tommy's name, probably my brother and James and Darren and some of the other grandchildren that he has.
But there's people that come to my dad's room residents.
And I asked my dad to pray for them.
And I can't explain that, but it happens. They know he's a believer. He can't talk, but they ask him to pray.
You know, sometimes the Lord allows sorrows and troubles in our life to get our attention.
Is there somebody here tonight?
You're not listening to the Lord Jesus.
You'd be glad if it was 730 and I was done, or if I finished earlier, you'd be happier.
Then I'm talking to you if you're saying, yeah, that's how I feel.
This hymn that we had tonight.
It says there's light and a look at the crucified one. The Lord Jesus Christ can give you life tonight.
You know, it tells us that we are dead in trespasses and sins. Before we know the Lord Jesus as our Savior, we're dead in trespasses and sins. Are you dead tonight? You say no, I'm here, I'm alive. Are you before a holy God? Are you dead? Are you dead in your trespasses and sins? There's life tonight by looking.
At the Lord Jesus. But you know what? It's the Lord Jesus, the crucified one, because he died for me. That's why I can stand here tonight. Not because I'm better than anyone. I'm a Sinner. But I asked Jesus to take my sins away. I confessed my sins before him.
And he washed me clean.
His precious blood. There's life and a look at the crucified one. I apologize to anyone in the room that certainly speak on this lately. I spoke on it just a few weeks ago at the retirement home. I wanna speak tonight about a man that could not see. One of my favorite chapters in all the Bible because there was a time in my life when I could not see.
Now.
I could see with these eyes.
But I couldn't see with my spiritual eyes. I saw no beauty in the Lord Jesus Christ.
I didn't love him. I didn't care what he wanted for my life. I left him out on purpose.
There's somebody like that here tonight. You're leaving the Lord Jesus out of your life on purpose.
Sad.
Terrible and I would warn you that you are on your way to hell if you leave him out of your life. He's the only one that can take you to heaven. You know, there's many times at the retirement home that we speak at.
When we present the Lord Jesus as the answer.
For people that are about to leave this world and don't know where they're going.
Do you know how many people plan for their whole life? They go to public school, they go to high school, they go to university, they plan their careers, they work hard, they get a home, they get cars, whatever. They have a family. They plan for their retirement. They invest their money on and on and on. But they don't think about the day they gotta leave here. And you know what? The retirement home, there's people that are 70s, eighties, 90s.
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Some even near 100 and you know some of them have never prepared. What does the word of God tell us? Prepare to meet by God, your Maker, the one who made you. You didn't just happen. No, I don't believe that God made me. I'm answerable to him and so are you.
Now we're going to talk about a man that was born blind. But before we turn to John Chapter 9.
I want to think about the air show today.
You know, we could hear those airplanes.
Going around this area.
But you know what? I think everybody here could see them too.
And I think we take for granted a lot of the time that we can see.
I really do.
You know, just think of the people in your family, your friends, what you had for supper tonight. You could see what the chicken looked like. You could taste it. Yeah, but you could see it. You could see the color of the potatoes, the gravy, the beans, the carrots. You could see.
You could see those airplanes.
You could see nature and what God has made.
But let's just try to imagine for a minute if you couldn't see.
Be terrible.
I can't imagine what it'll be like if I never seen my wife before, if I'd never seen any of my kids.
If I didn't know what a lake looked like.
Or a squirrel. Or you pick it if you can't see. How do you relate?
John 9.
We'll read the chapter.
John Chapter 9 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth, and his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin? This man or his parents said He was born blind. Jesus answered, Neither, neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents, but at the works of God should be made manifest in him. I must work the works of him that sent me. While it is day, the night cometh when no man can work.
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle, And he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, and said unto him, Go wash in the pool of Siloam.
Which is by interpretation sent. He went his way therefore and washed and came, seeing the neighbors therefore. And they that which before had seen him that was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and baked? Some said, This is He, others said, He is like Him. But he said, I am. He therefore said they unto him, How are thine eyes open? He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus.
Made clay and anointed my noise, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam and wash. And I went and washed, and I received sight. Then said they unto him, Where is he? He said, I know not. They brought to the Pharisees him that a wartime was blind, and it was the Sabbath day when Jesus made the claim. Opened his eyes. Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed and due see.
Therefore, said some of the Pharisees, this man is not of God because he keepeth not the Sabbath day. Others said, how can a man that is a Sinner do such miracles?
And there was a division among them, they say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet. But the Jews did not believe concerning him that he had been blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight. And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, whom ye say was born blind? How then does he now see?
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His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our Son, and that he was born blind, but by what means he now seeth we know not, or who hath opened his eyes we know not. He is of age. Ask him he shall speak for himself. These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews. For the Jews had already agreed, had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
Therefore said as parents, he is of age, ask him then again, call they the man that was blind, and said unto him.
Give God the praise. We know that this man is a Sinner. He answered and said, Whether he be a Sinner or no, I know not one thing. I know that whereas I was blind, now I see. Then said they unto him again, What did he to thee? How open he thine eyes? He answered them, I have told you already, and he did not hear. Wherefore would you hear it again? Will you also be His disciples? Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple, but we are Moses disciples.
We know that God spake unto Moses, As for this fellow we know not from whence he is. The man answered and said unto them, Why herein as a marvelous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes. Now we know that God heareth not sinners. But if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth. Since the world began, was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind?
If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.
They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and thus thou teach us.
And they cast him out. Jesus heard that they had cast him out. And when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God? He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him?
And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee.
And he said, Lord, I believe, and he worshiped him. And Jesus said, For judgment, I am coming to this world, that they which see not might see, and they which see might be made blind. And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also? Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, If ye were blind, you should have no sin. But now you say, we see.
Therefore.
Your sin remaineth.
A brother in the meeting today mentioned that the book of John was perhaps the last book of the Bible.
That was written.
Historically.
That was a nice thought to me.
I guess I was thinking about it this way.
I try to speak reverently.
God was writing His Word.
This was the last thing he wanted to go over in detail for us to really get it.
So he told us a number of stories that we could relate to and understand, and they're simple and straightforward. You can't miss it.
This is.
One of the chapters in John's Gospel that has been used by the Holy Spirit to bring many people to the Lord Jesus to be able to see with their spiritual eyes. Now, I said at the beginning that there was a time in my life when I was blind spiritually. And if you don't know the Lord Jesus as your Savior, tonight you are too. And our desire and prayer is that you would be able to see.
The Lord Jesus for who he is, the Savior, the Son of God who came into this world a perfect man and gave his life, shed his blood so that you could have your sins forgiven by simply trusting in Him. That's all I did.
I remember getting down beside the bed in my bedroom. I don't know how old I was. I can't tell you what day it was, but I remember doing it and I really meant it, right from the bottom of my heart. And I asked the Lord Jesus to wash away my sins. Have you ever done that?
Now you say, well, why are you telling me about when you got saved? Because I want you to get saved if you're not yet.
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And it's not tough.
This requires you to own that you've sent, and then you need the Lord Jesus as your Savior.
Won't you do it now? You don't have to make a fancy prayer. You just have to tell the Lord Jesus that you need Him and that you want Him to clean you. Give you a new heart with desires to please Him.
Let's talk for a moment now about the blind man.
The Lord has allowed me in my life to have some adversity.
Some sorrows, some troubles. Any of you are aware of that?
It's been a help to me in this way.
That often we're very quick.
To say, oh, I know why that happened.
Or oh, that happened to so and so I know why that happened.
Gotta be very careful.
These men said, Who did sin, this man or his parents?
That he was born blind. They gave the Lord two options. Either this man sinned or his parents sinned. Which one Lord? Lord said you're completely wrong.
Neither.
How could the little boy who was born blind be like I've done something terribly wrong? He wasn't even born yet. When he was, he was. When he was born, he was blind.
The Lord Jesus had something to accomplish in this man's life, in the life of the parents, and in my life and in yours. And that's why this man was born blind.
There's many reasons why the Lord allows things in our lives.
Now for the children.
Those of us who are young at heart.
I wanna think about what happened that day to this man.
Here he is a grown man.
A beggar.
You know we have beggars near us.
Every time I go to see my dad in the hospital.
I go down the Queen's Way and I get off at Bronson Ave. in Ottawa and I go north.
And there's a long straight stretch before the stoplight at the bottom of the off ramp.
And there's a man that stands on that corner with a Tim horton's cup that's empty and a sign.
And he's asking for money.
He's begging. This man was a Baker, but he had an excuse.
The man that's begging in Ottawa, on that corner, he can walk, he can see, he can communicate, but he's a beggar. I don't know what his circumstances are and I feel sorry for him, but this man was a beggar because he couldn't work, He couldn't see. He had to beg because that was how he lived. He relied on the kindness of other people to help him.
He was a beggar. Wanna ask you?
Would you like to be a beggar? Would you like to sit there, the side of the road with a cup or a can or something that you couldn't even see, and wait for people to drop something in the can and the only way you would know is if you heard a rattle in the can because you couldn't see?
So then the Lord Jesus comes that day. I love this story. Lord Jesus comes. The Lord Jesus was the only person that could make this man better. And you know, the Lord Jesus is the only one that can make you better. You say, well, I'm not sick. Yeah, you are. If you're not sick, not safe, you're sick. You're sick bad, sick enough to go to hell. You say, well, I'm not that sick. Yes, you are. If you die in your sins, you're gonna go to hell.
It's as simple as that based on this book.
Now let's picture.
A little bit more, it says here.
In verse 6, Lord Jesus it says He spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle and anointed the eyes of the man of the blind man with the clay.
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Now, I don't know who's got mud in their eyes before, but I've had mud in my eyes. OK, that's what this is. This is mud.
No, we used to go to Redo Ferry a lot. That's where we live now. But when I was a kid, we went to ride a ferry and we had all kinds of fights, you know, like kids on rafts. We had mud fight. We had all kinds of football games. We had great times. But there was times when we got mud in our eyes. You know how much that hurts.
That kills.
It's terrible. The Lord Jesus took mud clay, and he put that into the eyes of this blind man.
You know what reminds me of a story in the Old Testament when God was going to send fire from heaven and consume an offering that Elijah was making on behalf for the people's sins, I guess. And he commanded that there would be water that would be poured on the offering, and then they poured more water on the offering.
And then when the fire came from heaven and consumed that offering, there was no question.
As to where the fire came from.
So this man, now he's got this mud in his eyes.
The Lord Jesus says you need to go to the pool of Siloam and you gotta wash.
Lord Jesus.
Can I put it? Can I say it this way?
Would an eye surgeon today, before he did his operation, fill the eyes of his patient with Sam?
No.
But the Lord Jesus, the proof, his infinite power.
If I can use it, He proved who he was by what he did. Now we know that this is a picture of the weakness of the flesh. You know we're made out of dust as humans.
But this man, he obeys God, and he goes and he washes in the pool. And what happens? It says.
In verse seven he came seeing.
Now I have never had this experience before where I couldn't see with my eyes.
And God gave me my sight. But I'm going to tell you a little story, and I'm sorry to tell you about me again, but it's one that I remember very well. In our meeting back home when I was a boy, there were four sections. And my parents sat where Mr. Stewart is right now. And I sat about where Josh is. And across where Mr. Sikora is over here, there was an old brother called Gordon Gray. Dear old brother.
And you know, I remember when I.
Tried to get my driver's license, I failed because I couldn't see good enough.
I had no idea. I, I thought I could see fine, but when I did the test they said, umm, can you see anything? I'm like, yeah, everything's fine. They said, well, you can't drive until you get glasses, go get glasses and then come back. So I got glasses. But then the next day or two, I went to meeting and I was sitting where Josh is and I could see Mr. Gray for the first time. It was great.
I can't imagine this poor blind man. He'd never been able to see anything.
The Lord Jesus put the mud in his eyes. He goes, and he obeys what the Lord told him to do, and he comes back and he could see.
I It's amazing.
Now I'm gonna tell you another little thing that happened.
When I accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as my Savior, there was a change that happened inside of Maine.
I can't explain it, but it happened. There was a change in my life.
And you know what I'm talking about for you who belong to the Lord Jesus out there.
It's a wonderful change when we get a new life from God. There's nothing like it, but you can't explain it to anybody else.
But it's real.
If you've never been able to see spiritually, you don't know what I'm talking about. But you know when you get saved and ask the Lord Jesus to be your Savior. The wonderful experience.
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You know, it's such a treat. Some of the old folks come to the Lord Jesus, where we go with Mr. Judd.
To see them crying.
Right at the end of their life, so thankful that they belong to the Lord Jesus. Now what about you young people here? Many of you have had the opportunity to come to meeting your whole life and you haven't got saved yet. How come?
The Lord wants you, He loves you, He died for you, and you're saying Nah, not for me.
But he wants you. Tonight is your opportunity. Don't be blind anymore.
Gain eternal life tonight from the Lord Jesus. He wants to give it to you.
A new life. He wants to fill you with His Holy Spirit.
The privilege to be a Christian.
We saw that today. He gave us the privilege.
Now let's go on a little further here.
You know the Lord Jesus, when he was here as a perfect man, he had opposition from those who were the religious authorities at the time.
You know there's.
Sort of like that a little bit now, isn't it?
I'll tell you a little story.
Umm, there's a lady at the retirement home that just passed away.
Mid 90s.
When she was 92, and I've said this before, she told me that she didn't want to come to the Lord Jesus because she wanted to have fun.
92 years old in a wheelchair.
Many times she was prayed for in the assembly at home.
Many times by many brothers. I'm sure many sisters prayed for her much too.
Probably 2 months ago.
One of the young people, they told me this, went to see this lady.
I asked her.
Better so.
This lady said this.
She said get the blank out of here and don't you ever come back.
And I'm not gonna say what the blank was.
That Lady tonight is in eternity.
I do not know where, but she had the opportunity to come to the Lord Jesus.
How about with you?
Is that what you're saying?
Paul, be quiet. I don't want to hear about the Lord Jesus. I've heard about him enough.
Tonight may be your last opportunity.
You know, I think that when that young person went to see that Lady, God was giving her one more chance.
This is the last chance for you. Maybe tonight. Are you gonna say get out of here and don't ever come back?
My point is this.
In the newspaper.
Announcing her death.
She was gonna have a Christian burial.
I can't explain it. Someone who rejected the Lord Jesus, as far as I know to the end of her life, who said get out of my room and never come back. Don't talk to me about him again. He's going to have a Christian burial. Hello.
And I would say hello to you tonight if you're saying get out of my life, I don't want to be saved. Do you understand what that means? Go to hell.
When I saw that lady's picture in the paper, it made me weep.
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But I'll tell you something else about that Lady.
Few years before that we had an older man in the retirement home. They came quite often. I went to his room and got him many, many times and took him back.
I don't think he ever accepted the Lord Jesus as his savior either.
From what I could tell, the way he acted and talked to me and he grieved me many times and I couldn't believe it when I read this lady's death notice.
She was the sister of that guy.
They both were given opportunities.
The brother didn't want the Lord, and neither did the sister.
There's somebody like that.
There's somebody in your family, you know they're not saved either and you're not, and you're kind of making each other feel good about it.
You need the Lord Jesus tonight. Come to Him that He may open your blind eyes.
To be able to see beauty in him.
No, this story is kind of pathetic.
You know the parents of this man.
The Jews go to them and they say, is this your son, and was he really blind from birth?
You know they were wishy washy.
They were afraid of what others would think. Is that you tonight?
You know, I remember this when I was a boy.
We had there was a faithful gospel preacher. He said this and I'll never forget it. He said your friends can laugh you into hell, but they can't laugh you out.
I never forgot it.
What are you thinking about? If you're rejecting the Lord Jesus, why, When he died for you and he wants you and he's willing to take you to the most beautiful place that God could make, speaking reverently to heaven, and you're saying I don't want it? How come?
What's the reason?
Is it your friends? I don't know what reason would be good enough. There isn't any.
But you have one. If you haven't come to the Lord Jesus yet, what is it?
You don't have to tell me.
But someday you will stand before God. And then?
And then are you gonna be sorry?
But it'll be too late.
Now let's go down a little bit in the in the chapter.
The Jews were rejectors of the Lord Jesus Christ.
He was perfect. He did these amazing miracles they could not do.
They hated him without a 'cause they envied him, and they would not accept.
When he did something like this and they kept questioning the man as to like well how did he make you be able to see by putting mud in your they couldn't get it. What a testimony to the power of the Lord Jesus. He could take a man, put mud in his eyes and be for him to be able to see.
You know there's a verse.
In Psalm 146 and the eighth verse says this says the Lord openeth the eyes of the blind.
You know, there's prophecies in the book of Isaiah that talk about.
A prophet.
Being sent by God, that could open the eyes of the blind. And you know, these Pharisees and religious leaders, they prided themselves in knowing the Old Testament better than anybody else. Why didn't they know those verses? And when the Lord Jesus opened the eyes of this man, why didn't they accept who he was?
Unbelief.
In the goodness of the heart of God, I would ask you tonight, why don't you believe?
You know, many people here have been at the Gospel meeting many, many times. You've heard people speak faithfully from different portions all over the Word of God. Why don't you believe?
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Why have you never come to the Lord Jesus? I trust everyone has tonight.
Trust that there won't be one left behind. But you know, I was impressed on me this morning. It was impressed on me that there may be there's somebody here that isn't safe yet.
You know, this your old brother up here, like I think he said it like four or five times.
Why do you think the Lord gave him to the discernment to know that you're not saved? I think so.
So get saved now.
Stop pretending, stop trying to fool everybody. Just come to the Lord Jesus, Have Him as your Savior.
And then tell somebody.
Confess him as your Lord.
Let's go down a little further in the chapter.
You know, we read those verses 31 and 30 and 3132, but you know, this man is used by God to give a tremendous testimony to these religious authorities, you know.
He makes it so clear.
It's never happened before.
No one's ever cured or made a blind man be able to see. It's like you guys need to get it.
And they didn't get it.
Is there somebody like that here tonight? You don't get it.
You don't recognize before God how awful your sins really are and how much He really loves you.
They cast him out.
Of the synagogue. They made him an outcast, treated him like he was just a useless Sinner that they didn't want to have anything to do with.
What a tragedy.
But it says in verse 35, Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?
We're going to talk about the rest of the verse in a minute, but I love what it says here.
When he had found him.
You know tonight the Lord Jesus is looking for you.
He wants to find you.
Are you willing to open your heart to him?
Just come to him just as you are.
He'll save you.
When he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?
You know, we've had lots about the Son of God today.
You know, I just love to sit.
And listen in the reading meetings, what a treat to hear this wonderful truth of who the Lord Jesus is, how he came from heaven, how he became a man, how he was born to a virgin. How like can't explain how that would happen, but it did.
And the wonders of his creation, a brother brought out how he sustains.
Everything by the word of his power.
That's my Lord and Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. And I'm sure there's many in the room that rejoiced as I heard these words and you heard these words, but was there somebody here and you don't believe in the Son of God?
Could it be that you've come to reading, meeting your whole life and you don't believe yet?
Tonight, you can.
Just ask, it's that simple. Come to the Lord Jesus, He'll save you.
Verse 36 He answered and said, Who is he Lord, that I might believe on him?
Lord, I think that's part of the problem.
You know, there's a lot of people they don't want to have a Lord.
Is that you?
It's wonderful to have a Lord.
I remember this one guy that I went through school with.
And I beat him on a test and he said to me, he said, you know, it's not fair.
Because you can pray to the Lord and He helps you.
I said, well, you can come to the Lord too, and then you can pray and get help. He wouldn't.
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But it's wonderful to have a Lord direction.
Stability.
Someone who cares for us every day.
He wants to be your Lord too.
That I might believe on Him. Our desire is that you'd believe tonight. You believe that the Lord Jesus died on that cross and He shed his precious blood for you personally. What you believe tonight?
Won't you believe?
To me, verse 30.
Seven is one of the most beautiful verses in the whole Bible.
I want to think about this first. You remember this man? This was the first day that he could see.
He lived his whole life as a banker.
Hoping to hear the little coins rattling in his tin.
He'd never been able to see the wonders of God's creation like you and I have.
He gets cast out of the synagogue like a sin. Just a Sinner they don't want to have anything to do with.
The Lord Jesus finds him, the Lord Jesus reveals now who he is to him, and it says here thou hast both seen him. This man could see for the first time that day, and who does he get to see?
The Son of God, the Lord Jesus, is standing there in front of him.
He says, Who is he, Lord? Thou has both seen him, he could see.
And it says, It is he that talketh with thee.
Tonight, the Holy Spirit of God is striving for your soul.
And if you hear a little voice knocking on your heart's door, that is the absolute goodness of God calling you one more time to have your sins forgiven. Don't say no. Come to the Lord Jesus. Believe.
You'll open your eyes, your spiritual eyes. He will give you a new life. He will fill you with His Holy Spirit. You will be a happy boy, a happy man, a happy girl.
A happy lady. You know, in Acts chapter 8, it ends by saying that that Ethiopian eunuch, he went on his way rejoicing. That is our desire for you, that your heart would be filled with the joy that we have those of us who belong to the Lord Jesus.
Verse 38 And he said, Lord, I believe, and he worshipped him.
What a privilege know if the Lord Jesus leaves us here.
Many of us.
We'll remember the Lord Jesus in his death.
You know, there's some people here.
Who have never responded yet.
It's a wonderful thing.
To worship the Lord.
When we think of what he's done for us.
How he gave his life, how he suffered, it's a wonderful thing.
Thank you to adore him, to reverence him, to honor him in a world that doesn't want him.
We have another minute.
The last three verses of this chapter.
I do not understand very well.
But I want to convey a thought.
That, I think is right from these verses.
And that is that the religious leaders who claimed to know the word of God at this time, who rejected the Lord Jesus.
They were blind.
The man that they cast out and they said he was a sinful man. They didn't want to have anything to do with him. He could see.
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I love this chapter.
I trust there's nobody in this room tonight.
We could see what they're naturalized. You can see with their natural eyes, but cannot see beauty in the Lord Jesus Christ. You know what we sang at the beginning? There's life.
In a look at the crucified one, the Lord Jesus Christ, will you accept him tonight as your personal Savior? Let's pray.
Our God and our loving Father, tonight we would like to thank Thee so much for my beloved Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
The man.
Who died for us?
We pray for anyone in this room who cannot say this, who does not know where they will be when they leave this world.
We pray, Lord Jesus.
That there may be somebody here tonight who would believe, who would accept thee as their savior.
Be able to go on their way rejoicing.
We thank Thee, Lord Jesus, for that great gift.
The gift of love by life without its gift. And now we dishonor thee and thank thee, Lord Jesus, the eternal, spotless Son of God, And we pray in thy worthy and precious name, Lord Jesus, Amen.