Gospel—J. Lloyd
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May we begin by singing hymn #7 #7.
Know this little hymn?
Preaches the gospel within itself.
And all this is 1 hymn that.
I left to give out every time I stand up to tell out the good news.
Loved the world of sinners lost and ruined by the fall. Salvation full at highest cost He offers free to all, All towards love, towards oneness. Love the love of God to me. It brought my Savior from above to die on Calvary. Someone started with you.
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Maybe we bow our heads in prayer, add some precious ministry here in the last two days, force. And we've had two wonderful gospel messages, Yes. Our brother Saturday night brought before us this sovereignty of God, yes. And a brother last night brought before us the judgment. Yes.
Those will go out of this world without the Lord Jesus and where they would go to.
Has So tonight I'm going to try to speak to you on going to heaven.
Yes. Where you'll go to, you know, there's only two places. You know, I'm talking to the people.
From day-to-day, about where you're going, where you're going when you leave here. That's a good question. Every once in a while you have an opportunity. Where are you going when you leave here?
Well, for a few moments they don't grasp what you mean. Then directly they'll say, well, I don't know, well, where can you go?
Well, almost everybody will tell you there's two places to go. Two places? Yes, there are only two places. Where do we find that? We find it from God's Word, don't we? Sure do. You know, yesterday a day, there was a little track handed to me.
Bye, brother. I think he's still here.
And so I just looked over the hidden of this little track and I find in it.
The Lord Jesus is coming to take all born again Christians to heaven. Arthur, what a wonderful thing that is. Yes, he's coming to take all born again.
Christians to heaven, of course you're a Christian when you're born again. Take all those that are born again to heaven. Now that's a wonderful place, isn't it? Yes. So we'll turn to the most familiar portion to all of us, the third chapter, the Gospel of John. Yes, the third chapter, the Gospel of John. That's where we get that record.
And Saul will look at it tonight.
And.
Yeah, in verse one there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher, come from God, for no man can do these miracles that thou dost except God be with him.
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Accept them and be born again. He cannot see the Kingdom of God. Nicodemus said unto him, How can a man be born when he's old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit.
He cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. That which is born to the flesh is flesh. That which is born to the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I say unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it lists, and thou hears the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence he'd come, or whether it goes. So is everyone that is born to the Spirit.
Nicodemus answered and said.
Unto Him how can these things be? I will go down to verse.
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14.
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, Even so must the Son of Man be lifted up at whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. I'd like to tell us for the benefit of the younger ones.
The story went like this.
A country church.
And there was a brother who had been there.
And had pastored this for many years.
And the boys and girls there.
Had heard him since childhood.
And they had grown up, got larger, larger.
Every time this old brother would get up to speak, he would come across the phrase he must be born again.
Yes. Or whether it was Sunday school, or whether it was the morning preaching. Whether it was the night.
Well, a group of the young boys, they heard him there all their lives, and so they decided that perhaps it had just grown such a habitless brother that he didn't realize what he was saying.
They didn't want to hurt his feelings. They all loved him.
So they talked about it a while. They decided that two or three of them would get together and just.
Call his attention to it.
And remind him of it.
So they did. So they called this brother out and told him that my brother, we're all lucky and we wouldn't hurt your feelings for anything in the world, but we just wanted to call something to your attention that perhaps you don't realize.
So they said, you know, every time you get up to speak to us or anything while you come across this craze, you must be born again.
Why did you do it?
Well, the old brother stood there for a second or two and looked down, and he raised up and says he must be born again.
So that's why deny to ever get into heaven, you've got to be born again.
Sure is. He must be born again.
I went into a hall once and I saw over the door of it.
Bowling once and die twice.
Born twice and die once. Well, how true that is, Yes, You know, one that's not born again will never do anything but die.
That's right.
Because death starts off with you in this scene.
We look at these nice little babies and how beautiful and innocent they are, but just think that death is trailing right on with them and it's going to overtake them one day. Yes, it will. It's going to tell. It will take you one day and it's certainly going to overtake the speaker too one day. Yes, it is. But then if you go on without the Lord Jesus.
All you're doing is dying. And you know, here lately I've thought about those that die without the Lord Jesus. What happens to them?
They just.
Die, die, die and die. That's right.
Tracked, you go into a place of death.
That's right. Oh, what an awful thing it is. Yes.
But if you turn to the Lord, yes.
Receive the Lord Jesus Christ.
Then you can't do anything but live, live and live. What a wonderful marriage. Yes, what a difference.
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You know, often say to the men in the jail.
The difference between heaven and hell.
Is not how good you've been or how bad you've been.
That's what we have taught all around us today. If I'm a good fellow, yes. Why then?
I'm all right, but if I'm a bad feller, I'm all on them.
You know, there's an expression in the world today.
And it's firmly believed that when the judgment day comes, my bad works will be put over here, my good ones over here. And if my bad ones outweigh the good ones, well, then I dump off in the pit. Yeah. But if my good ones outweigh the bad ones, then I go up to heaven. Yeah.
Well, you know, that suits the old nature. They'd like to think that I'm, as a fellow said to me once, be careful there. I'll have to go to step over. Phone imbalances there for you. Yeah.
So. But that isn't true. That isn't true at all. Oh no. The difference between heaven and hell is the Lord Jesus Christ.
That's right, the Lord Jesus Christ.
I might have told this before, but during the war I worked with a fellow. He was a fine fella.
And I talked to him yellow every day about the Lord.
And he'd been raised in a Christian home.
And I told him he needed the Lord his Savior.
And he would repeatedly say to me, I've got to do something.
Why he meant by works.
Our brother Gladding said last night they didn't believe there was any good works that the Sinner could do. But I don't believe there is either in the sight of God. But the show is in his own eyes. Yes, his show is in his eyes because he never has done nothing bad.
It's all good so.
And so he would point out here, I've got to do this, I've got to do that, got to do this. And I would say to him, Jack, you can do everything. You know what to do.
As long as you want to do it and leave the Lord Jesus out be lost, you be lost.
Yes, how true that is. So we live in a day when people were all around us, and you young people are not shielded from it, no more than anyone else. Yes, you'll hear it that you got to do something. Yes, good to be saved, but you know Christ died for sinners. Yes, I come not to call the righteousness, but Sinner.
So here's your night. We have a record of a man. No doubt he was a good fellow.
I have no doubt. But what if you had known Nicodemus in his lifetime? You would have known, as my father used to say, a high toned gentleman. You're welcome. You would have known a man that kept every bit of war went right along with it. A man that you couldn't point your finger at. Not at all. He was a model and an upright man.
We've got no words to doubt it at all, because we find that the Lord says to him, I didn't read that verse. Art thou a master or a teacher in Israel?
That's where you find any waltz. But we find something else about Nicodemus.
And that is, and what a glorious thing it is. He came to Jesus. He came to Jesus. Well, He come to the right source to get the right information as what to do. And I want to tell you tonight, if you're without the Lord Jesus Christ, if you'll come to him, it makes no difference on how feeble way you come, you'll get the right instructions.
You'll get the right way because he says in John 14th of John and verse six, I'm the way. I'm the way only not a wonderful thing. I'm the way. So we find that Nicodemus was a ruler. He says here are the Jews and but he came to Jesus by night.
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Well.
He was in the darkness. He couldn't have come no other way.
No doubt it's dark like it is outdoors.
But every sinners in the darkness.
He never comes to the light until he comes to Christ.
Because scripture says of those that are saved, you pass from darkness unto light.
Pass from darkness under light. And what a wonderful thing it is to pass from darkness under light.
Now Nicodemus.
Was not satisfied with what he had.
Are you satisfied with what you got?
Now, you may be going on with something that seems all right and seems good, yes.
Now, many years ago, Preacher Wright used to use this phrase. I never did like it. It may be all right to live by, but it won't do to die by.
I didn't like that phrase. I never thought that something that wasn't all right to live by wasn't all right to die by.
Oh, I've got it reversed. It wasn't good enough to die by. It wasn't good enough to live by.
So Nicodemus wasn't satisfied, and you know, that's a wonderful state to come in and become dissatisfied.
Yes, now you know, as long as our Sinner is satisfied in the state he's in, why then are you not going to change him? No, he has to realize that he's a lost Sinner. And a dear old Brother Ryan says not only a lost Sinner, but a helpless lost Sinner. Brother Ryan says Satan will tell you you are sinners.
Satan will tell you your Sinner, but Satan will never tell you you are lost, helpless Sinner. Oh yeah.
So we must realize that we're not all lost, but we are helpless and we have to come to someone else for a source of help. So now here's a story that was told long before our saved, long before I was saved.
Brother Scott had lived it wrong. I suppose there's some in here. Couldn't remember Brother Scott.
Brother Scott was from Winnipeg, Canada. I'll never forget that. Yeah, Winnipeg, Canada.
And he preached the Gospel faithful that Rome.
In my father's home, you know, we had a he had the house built a great big room. He was built in an oxygen shape like that.
Well, the Hell Gospel meetings there every year held a series of them, and then periodically on Sunday nights while the room would be packed, Brother Scott would preach the gospel there. Brother Scott used more illustrations in the gospel.
Than any other one I ever heard preach the gospel in my life. Yes.
And many of those illustrations still linger in my mind.
And this is one of them.
And it comes to mind tonight.
There was a man on board of a vessel.
And he was very unruly and I couldn't get him to obey the orders.
And so they would take him and put him down in the Brig.
Put him down there and keep him so long. Take him out.
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So they, they, they he'd go right back and disobey again. They put him back and put him on bread and water and things.
Didn't help with that.
Soil, one fellow suggested.
That they open the Hatch in the bottom of the ship down there, a hole what goes down under where the blast floor is, and put him down there where there's nothing but just old scummy water, you know, and creeping things and and dark and all. And maybe that would bring him to himself.
So the captain said, well, we've done everything else, let's try that too.
So they did that, put him down in that hole and he stayed down there a while and well, you're willing to obey orders and, and straighten up. I'm all right.
Well, they kept him down there several hours longer. Oh, he was all right. The captain got a little uneasy about it.
No stamp down there, so one of the other sailors says captain.
Let's bring a light and drop down there and let him see where he's at, yes?
So when the light shone down then he saw what a tolerable place he was in.
All those creeping things, all that squirmy water. He began to yell and cry. Yes, I'm willing to obey, yes, I'm willing. Yes, let me out. And I want to tell you now, if you are lost without Christ here tonight, let the light shine into your heart and soul. Yes, it will show you the place you're in, the position you're in. Until the light shines in, you'll never see.
Or don't close your heart, don't close your mind to the gospel of the grace of God. Don't close your ear to that little quiet, still voice that speaks to your heart and soul. But I want to tell you, man, I speak no more and I speak no more. None of us, none of us have a promise of tomorrow. How that has been stressed here. None of us have a lease on life.
None of us.
Have got a promise that will get home tonight. But is it? Dear brother said yesterday he didn't be home in the glory. Can you say that? Can you say that? Oh, what a wonderful hope there is for the believer. So Nicodemus here, he was unsatisfied. He wasn't satisfied with what he had. No, the law could never save nobody.
Could never take you to heaven. No, it couldn't give you a life here on this scene. Yes, give you a life here. But you had to be under a string always. But the Lord wants to give you life eternal in a place of perfect perfectness. Straighten it down. Oh, what a wonderful thing. So Nicodemus came to Jesus. Came to Jesus.
This is one of the three nights in Scripture. Surely you know three nights. One of them is when Judas betrayed the Lord and he went out.
Star was nice.
Helen, this man built a barn, you know.
Yeah, he had plenty.
So, so take thieves. Thou hast much goods laid up for many years. What's the answer to it? Yes.
Yes, this night thy soul shall be required to be.
What if that is said of you? Yes, and I'll tell you if you haven't come to the Lord.
You're still in the night. It'll be a required audience in the night. You'll never be in the light. You'll never know what light is. Never know. So now, though, as Nicodemus, he talks to the Lord here, You know, he knew there was something about the Lord that was different. He could see it. Yes, he could see it.
So then.
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Hey, ask the Lord a question, but the Lord doesn't get in discussion with us. And so the Lord said to Nicodemus, I got to be a chain. I got to be a chain.
He must be born again. All that was news to him. He never heard of it. Never heard of it. And one of the first things Nicodemus does starts reasoning. Starts reasoning. Is that what you've been doing for many years? That's what I did.
I read yes, put it off.
I'll tell you there's a menu. Soul, menia soul in a lost eternity because they put it off one day too long. Put it off, put it off as I've told before.
One night is us going out of the jail many years ago used to go up there on the top floor. You know, they locked you up in it.
And then when you got through speaking, you had to shake on the door and.
Then wait till the jailer got through whatever he's doing and come unlock the door and let you out.
Well, I'd spoke to the men that night.
Fellow that I'd known a long time.
And he was there.
And I began and had to wait him again to talk to him.
I put my arms around him and said Bud, he was there for drinking. It ruined a life with drink, yes.
He was one of the best shoe salesman.
And every sold a pair of shoes and at once a business of his own.
They drank it up. He got a job, he couldn't hold it, drank it up.
And of course he wound up there. That's what sin does for you boys and girls.
It never stops taking you down till it gets you down in the lake of fire. That's what sin does for you.
So poor bud. I put my arms around him. He told me what he wanted to do. He lost his family, he lost his wife and children had left him. He didn't have anything.
And I said, God, what you need is the Lord. Won't you take the Lord a Savior?
And I pleaded with him there, I suppose, for 10 or 15 minutes. So I'll tell you what I'll do, John.
I'll take him next Friday night.
I'll take Jesus next Friday night, I said. But I might get back next Friday night.
The Lord might come from this Friday.
I take him now, but take him now.
No, he said. John, I tell you I'll take him next Friday night. You come back. I'll take you next, Bud. You end up be it.
Well, I went out to lock the door. I'll see you next Friday night.
On a Saturday night, they carried him out of that jailhouse. This is dead as he is right now.
Where he is, I don't know.
Or I trust that he took Jesus to save you. Don't put it off. Don't put it off.
Nicodemus didn't put off coming to Christ. He didn't put off coming to Jesus. Don't put it off if you are here tonight without the Lord Jesus. No, it's a sad and solemn thing because as we talk together there last night, few of us brothers got together. What an awful place.
Hell is the lack of what an awful place it is, Yes.
So now we must go on. So he says to him, except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.
Nicodemus said unto him, How can a man?
Be born again when he's old, can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born began to try to figure it out? Yes, don't do that. Don't do that. You can't figure it out. It's faith that saves you, not reasonable. Yes, faith that saves you. For by grace always saved through faith that not of ourselves. It's a gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. Jesus answered and.
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Verily, verily, I say unto thee.
Except a man be born to water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.
The first thing, you can't see it.
You're not born again.
You can't see the beauties of Christ.
You don't know what there is for the believer.
Oh no, how people today would like to know of the things of the Lord, how they would like to enjoy what the believer enjoys, but they don't want Christ. They don't want him. But you can't have it without it. You can't have it. And so the Lord says, and you cannot enter the Kingdom of Walt. You can't get in either.
You can't get in.
Now you know I want to pause right here on this verse.
Because down our way, and I suppose they're here too, we have those that teach.
That unless you are baptized, you can't be saved.
And this is one of the verses they use, you know, Yes.
Well, I want to tell you, except a man be born to the water and I start talking about this water that I got in this glass or something like it. That's what I've got in this glass, as you children learn, is age too old.
But he's talking about the water of the Word. Yes, what the Spirit of God can take and apply to your heart and soul. Convict your conscience. The Word of God. He'll never use nothing else. Yes, the Word of God. And so it's the Word.
Except for this and the water and the Spirit, you cannot enter the Kingdom of God.
Nicodemus was a Jew and Nicodemus no doubt was looking for the Kingdom of God. Nicodemus heart was set on being in the Kingdom of God. Yes. Now are your heart set on going to heaven?
And all my talking, as far as I can remember, I never talked about one man that didn't believe there was no heaven. I've talked to plenty. They didn't believe there's any hell. But I've only talked to one that didn't believe there was neither one.
That's right. Well, I want to tell you the same book that tells you one tells you the other. Try. Without the word of God, we wouldn't know anything about either one.
So then why should we believe about one and not the other?
So.
Nicodemus here, but looking forward to going to the Kingdom.
Now you can take a canvas of this group of people, or any group of people and ask them do they want to go to heaven? And you'll find everybody wants to go to heaven. And 99% of everybody, whether they're saved or lost, are expecting to get to go to heaven when they die.
That's right.
For some way or another, they believe that God is going to let the gap down and let him in.
But that's not true. That's not true. Not at all.
And so.
Nicodemus now God was telling him the Lord was there had to be a change and there had to be a change in you and in me if I get to heaven. That's right.
I'm speaking about now in the natural way, thank God, 30 some odd years ago there was a change took place in me, yes.
And I trust that there has been in everybody in this room. But if there hasn't been a change, don't go out that door tonight without it. Don't do that. Don't do that, no.
Soul.
The Lord says to him, that which is born to the flesh is flesh, and it will always be there.
They'll always be there.
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Now we know that there's every move on hand today to reform the flesh.
The old man. But the old man is not going to do a thing in the world, but die under the judgment of God.
It is certainly pointed out here that it was under the judgment of God. Yes, He's going to die under it. And if you stay that way, you'll die hungry and be hungry for all eternity. What a sad thing. What a sad thing. Oh yes, now that's why the Lord Jesus said to Nicodemus.
One time, not two times.
But three times? Oh yes, in the mouth of two or three witnesses.
Every word should be established. Scripture tells, oh, what a what a marvelous thing here that this is recorded three times. He must be born again. It's an important thing. It's an important thing. And how important it is. That which is born to the flesh is flesh, and that which is born to the Spirit is spiritual.
Two definite separate things. Oh yes.
Oh yes, we had pointed out here to us.
That there was who was it still about the dogs? Yes, The Indians. About the dogs in US, Yes. Two natures in us, yes, sure is. And so now if we're going to get to heaven, he must be born again.
He must be born again because.
The only people that have ever been there.
As sinners born again, that's all.
The only folks who will ever be there is born again, because in heaven God has got a family.
Got a family, that's what it is, and it's made-up of lost souls.
Washed in the precious blood of Jesus, the only way into the family of God.
Is to be born into that family. Now how simple this is. The Lord Jesus took one of the most simplest and the most common things to explain to Nicodemus how to get to heaven.
Try. There has been a change in most everything.
That man is done on Earth.
Except the way of being born into this world.
Attract. Yes. We've all come down the same channel. Yes. No difference. And I want to say to you, there's no difference in me, you or anyone else. Get into heaven. We have to be born again. They must be a change. Yes, there is not a reform.
Not a doing over. God doesn't take the old nature and do it over. Not at all.
Not any part of it is going to be there. Not any part of it. This brother sitting right here said to me, it's supper table later night. I believe it is there after 1000 years of the millennial ring. Perhaps he said it this afternoon here. I just thought about that. After 1000 years of the millennial reign, the old nature will not be changed one bit. It'll still at the end of that marvelous rain of almost heaven on earth, it'll rise up against God.
Yes, if you couldn't change a person in 1000 years, there's no change. No change.
So the old nature won't change. Got to be born again, yes.
God will have no product. He's got it brand new, brand new. Oh, what a marvelous thing. So that's what he says. That which is born to the flesh is flesh, and that which is born to the Spirit is Spirit.
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Marvel not that I say unto thee, it's a personal thing. A personal thing.
Yes, ye must be born again. This is one of the must. In the Bible there's several arms, but this is one of them. No other way. My name is Lloyd.
61 years ago I was born in the low Ed family.
That's right.
And there's no possible way for me to get out of it.
And I want to say to you, there's no possible way for you to get in it either.
No, the only Ave. into the Lord family is by birth.
Unless you were born in it, you cannot get into it.
I ran into one of the most remarkable examples of that back during the winter.
There was a man had a tractor, we did some work on it or something, doesn't it?
And so he was a man about 50 years old.
I'm at 50 years old.
And I talked to him. He was there for several days.
And I talked to him about the Lord.
I asked him if he was saved.
He said no. He began to give me up a nice routine of how he had lived and what he had done.
Then I brought up to him, Ye must be born again.
That you cannot get in there without being born again.
A brand new start being a new God doesn't want the old.
So I used the illustration just what I've done the only way in.
You know, he says.
My name is not Dingler.
Ask Newham is Mr. Dingler. He'd give me checks and sign his name. Mr. Dingler. I got money on the checks, Mr. Dingler and I said, well, he's Mr. Dingley.
But I've got two tongue, tongue, he told me. It was tears in his eyes. He says I've never had anything that fits so in all my life, he says. You know, my name's not Dingler.
He told me at best, I remember his name was Wilson.
Because when I was born.
Why my mother was a dingling.
My father was a Wilson.
And my father was.
Drafted in the army.
As a young doctor.
And he stayed in the Army World War 2 until he was about six or seven years old.
And then?
When he came back out of the army.
My grandfather wouldn't give me up and so my mother and my father had to live in the house with them.
Are you gonna leave me there?
And says they wouldn't live there. My father and my mother just gave me to my grandfather.
My grandfather is named Dingler and said I took on the name Dingler but says I'm not a dingley and I can't get in the dingler family. No there was only one way. Well I trust.
That it reached his heart and conscience, I don't know, but I'll tell you what. He talked to me with tremble, with tears in his eyes. That is nothing that ever explained it. So in his life doing it, no, there was no way into the dingler family thing.
There's no way into the family of God for you.
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Unless you are born again.
Yes, there's no possible chance for you to ever go to heaven without being born again.
No possible chance.
Yes, you may reform, You may change. You may live the most perfect moral life of anyone in your community.
And all of that. But that won't take you into the presence of a holy and a righteous God. No, it won't. There's no place there for the old nature. Not at all. When we are born again, we have a brand new start.
Yes, a brand new start.
Beginning a new life, and that life is found in Christ Jesus. God's beloved Son certainly is. Oh, what a wonderful thing, what a wonderful thing it is to know from the Word of God that you're one of the Lord, that you've been born again and on your way.
To help, yes.
We sing that hymn. Grace and judgment are behind us all. If I got it wrong in it.
Death and judgment are behind us. Grace and glory is before us all. What a wonderful thing. Yes, death and judgment are behind us. Yes. But I'll tell you, if you haven't been born again, it's death and judgments in front of you. Yes, in front of you. That's all the whole world has got to look for.
Of all the lost sinners got to look for is death and judgment. What an awful thing. What an awful thing. I'll tell you it's a good thing. You know the men in the jail, they all drooping on and feeling bad, and you can reach them very easily. Say, what does life hold for you anyway?
I want to say to you tonight.
Does life hold for you anyway?
Without your hope in Christ, what would it hold for you?
Colossians.
Says to us, Christ in you is the hope of glory. If you haven't got Christ in your heart and soul tonight, I want to say to you from God's word, you haven't got any hope for glory.
No, no real hope.
No, you may as I said a while ago.
The outer appearance may be fine.
Out appearance may be fine and how sad it is as we go about today to talk to real fine people, but to realize in your soul and to believe they've never been born again, what a sad, sad thing.
Now as we will close, I want to go down to this last portion, and this will tell us, yes, how we can be born again. Why? And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness.
Even so, must the Son of Man be lifted up?
Another must hear yes, before I could have that new nature, before I could be born again, before I could be on my road to heaven, there must be one would come down and pay the price to God for my sins. Yes, it was. And I want to say to you, the Lord Jesus Christ, God's beloved Son, was willing to leave the heights of glory.
Yes, leave the heights of glory and his dear old Doctor Dashwood could bring out, he would pray out to die dams of glory. I can't bring it out as he did, but you could just sit down, listen to him of what the Lord will the Lord lost.
Before he left it, he come down into this scene. When he come down here, he come down into sinning wool. That's what he did, Sin on every side, on every turn. That's what you see today. That's what he come. He left that place. He came down here and took a place as a babe in the Manger and grew up into this world and there went to the cross of Calgary.
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Yes, and allowed man to lift him up. Lift him up? That's what they did as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness. 21 Numbers 21 tells us about it. Yes, Even so, must the Son of Man be lifted up? What for? To pay the price to God for my sins and yours, that we could be fit for that place.
Where he come from? Where he come from, yes. So must the Son of Man be lifted up. And that isn't all of it. Yes, that whosoever. Oh, you know.
Many years ago.
I was laying on a couch and reading the precious word of God.
Had I run across that word whosoever.
You know, I just rejoiced in souls for quite a while.
Because that took me in. You know, there was a time that you and I were left out, Yes, left out. But that takes you in tonight, Sinner friend. If you're here without Christ, yes, you're taken in. Whosoever believeth in him should not perish. And they're mixing up, but whosoever believeth in him.
Should not perish, but have eternal life, Yes. Not dying now, are you? No. No. If you've received the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior, when you receive him as Savior, you're born again. Yes, you're born into the family of God. Then you have life, Life and life. Yes, never without it.
What a precious thing.
So in closing, I'll say again say be one here.
That's without the Lord Jesus tonight. Take him. Don't put it off. Don't put it off because.
Because we have no promise that any of us will get home.
So may we sing hymn #35, hymn #35.
Oh.