Gospel—P.B. Geveden
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Toledo, November 1975. Gospel by Paul Jiverton.
Reverence reference today was made two times.
To that which abides.
The one that is unchangeable.
And also the solid rock.
The Shore Foundation.
And we have a hymn of that character on the seat.
#3
and as it says, I stand, may we do so and sing #3?
My hope.
Double mention.
Of the seed.
You know a sore went forth to soul.
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And some seed fell by the wayside.
And the fowls of the air came and plucked it up.
Would you?
Who are here tonight?
Have it said of you when you leave this meeting.
That the word you heard did not affect you.
There is a power of opposition right here in this room tonight to the opposition of the enemy, to the word of God.
And he'd like to engage your attention in another way so that you'll not be affected by it.
So we need to give attention to pay heed.
To those things that you hear.
And it could be that a soul will be born from above in this room tonight.
And would you by your conduct?
A little bit of carelessness or a bit of mirth.
Hinder the action of the Spirit of God and bringing another soul into the Kingdom.
You very well know that when you came into this world, there was a great deal of seriousness about it.
And in my case too.
And we trust.
That will give attention to this precious message of the gospel where there was never a message like it in all the history of man.
It has come to full flow.
And the floodgates of God's mercy to man are wide open, and there's blessing for everyone present.
As a basis for this hour.
We'll use the 6th chapter of John at least, turning to parts of it.
Verse 9 is a statement.
There is a lad here.
And there are lads present here this evening.
And we believe that you are not here by chance.
Perhaps there might be some false motivation you came to.
And see others that are young.
And these are pleasant times when we are together in this way.
But there is a lad here.
And this refers to what happened almost 2000 years ago.
There's a problem.
Our Blessed Lord was ministering the Word, and the people had been with him about 3 days in that desert place and there were fainting for the need of food.
He had compassion on them.
And he asked his disciples what could be done, knowing very well what he was able to do and would do.
And the certain difficulties were posed or suggested.
But Andrew?
Knew that there was a little boy in the number.
Who had come that day with a lunch?
5 barley loaves and two little fishes.
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When Mother makes bread, she puts things together.
And if you were younger, we'll put your two hands together.
You'll have the number 5.
That man's number and his weakness.
And there were two little fishes.
And to illustrate, we might say here are two little fishes.
Do fishes listen?
You ring the bell over the water and scatter the food and they come up and take it away.
And you have ears to hear.
So we need to use them in that way just at this time.
And through the following moments.
What are these among so many?
All they didn't realize the greatness of the power of that blessed One who was among them.
Perhaps they had forgotten the word. You know that he would abundantly supply his people with bread.
And our Lord acted in blessing to those that were in need on this occasion.
He looked up to heaven. He blessed the loaves and the fishes, and they were multiplied in such volume that 5000 men were fed besides women and children.
And if you look into the detail of this, you'll see how orderly it took place.
You know, order is a good thing, and especially required of God's people in his house.
There's been disorder in this world ever since sin came in.
And we find this poor world rocking and reeling in greater disorder than ever before.
It was not this way when, as a lad, 10 years old, your speaker confessed the Lord's name.
Time passed. Doubts came.
And it might be with you.
But the foundation of blessing never changed.
The leaders in the same place.
Last year, the contrary winds were from another direction.
This time we face them and approach the city from the east.
So things are variable, but there are those things that are solid and that are firm.
That rock on which we stand.
We might tremble on the rock, you know, and be a little uncertain, but there's never any trembling of that sure foundation.
These were fed.
And this was bred 5 little barley loaves.
You like bread too white, whole wheat.
Colonial wonder?
Or some other name.
We require it. It's a necessity.
And it's quite a business, baking, distributing and retailing.
And using the bread that is available.
But we need it.
And this is necessary for our temporal existence.
But mind you that the things which are seen are only temporal. You won't see me here many years longer.
If our Lord wait still in grace upon this world, if our God still in long sovereign, bears with man in his presence wave of iniquity.
Some of us will be gone.
But we shall have entered into that which is eternal.
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Into those blessings that abide forever.
What do you think of this little land?
Oh, he had a mission to accomplish that day. It was his desire to go to that mountainside where the people were.
And it is his purpose to put himself in the presence of that one, that we're doing these wonderful things in his day.
So he got to see Jesus.
And we can seem to we see Jesus by faith Now that's possible tonight.
For you to come into the intelligence of that blessed One and see him as your own personal Savior.
And we read 5 words in the Book of Revelation. They shall see his face.
Or would you see that face in judgment?
Or will you see it?
In the rays of God's grace.
And enter upon the enjoyment of the unsearchable riches of Christ.
That's possible for you tonight.
You can start.
And a sample. And he's invited. You come on to me, he says all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
When they were filled.
He instructed his disciples gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
They gathered them together and fill 12 baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.
Man is a waster.
The prodigal son wasted in his way and the respectable son wasted in another way.
He put his savings in so tightly that he wouldn't make any use of them.
You may be a good Sinner or bad one.
There's a bad woman that got her sins forgiven. There's a Goodman that came into the knowledge of his salvation.
Luke 7 and Acts 10.
We're worried about garbage and pollution now.
There's a very wise man on the West Coast that tells us that.
We'll be drowned in our own pollutions.
And we can see only about 25 years ahead.
When poison and fresh oxygen will collide.
And we will suffer the deadly consequences.
And the man is busily engaged in correcting that problem, if he might be able to do so.
But what about the pollution of this heart of yours?
That's not in the records you know.
It's not an effort of the government and we thank God for government.
All man's heart and its wickedness is in need of cleansing.
And it's a deeper problem than that of the physical problem that surrounds us.
There's more entailed.
And it reaches out into eternity.
And it matters how you leave this world, whether you die in mercy.
Or die without mercy.
You can die in faith believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, and it's that simple.
God's blessing today is by faith, and it is a faith that it might be by grace. If it weren't by faith, it wouldn't be by grace.
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Oh, how simple it is, this boy came.
He wanted to be present that day where the Lord was speaking those words of ministry that the people needed.
And he was willing to contribute to that occasion.
Practically recognized that he couldn't have had the fishes and the loaves apart from that one who was present on the earth at that moment.
Neither have we anything apart from God's grace and His mercies and the provisions that He's made for through His beloved Son.
So they gather up the fragments, 12 baskets. You know they'd had a supply being there that long.
And there isn't any problem about the number of the baskets, and really the number in this case is 12, which speaks of the fullness of the administration of blessings.
And that refers to a coming day on the earth.
But now this was real bread.
Actual food.
And they needed it.
And there is.
The Bread of Life.
The true bread that came down from heaven.
And you'll agree that that's more important.
Then the slice in the toaster.
As far more important to have that bread that came down from heaven.
The living Bread.
That you may eat of it and never hunger.
That you might partake and never perish.
That comes to our attention later, down later in this chapter. Verily, verily, I say unto you, verse 47.
He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
I am that Bread of Life.
No one could speak as he spoke.
For He was the eternal one. God's divine Son, down here in this world in the beginning was the Word is eternal Being.
The Word was with God, his distinct personality, and the Word was God his dearly. That's who he was, but a man.
And sometimes, you know that 61 in the little floor, Kimber comes so impressively to our attention.
There's a brother that loves it so well.
That is really his favorite. How wondrous the glory is that meet in Jesus and from his face shine.
His love is eternal and sweet as human.
Tis divine.
His glory. Not only God's son in manhood, he had his full part.
And the union of both joined in one form, the fountain of love in his heart.
We appreciate a father's love. We value our mother's love beyond the father's. Perhaps. But here's the law That is the greatest love of all.
The love of the Lord Jesus Christ, God's Son, the Son of Man.
Your father's did eat manna in the wilderness, and they're dead.
This is the bread which cometh down from heaven. Oh, this didn't come from Kansas City.
That a man made there often nor die.
Oh, that's wonderful, isn't it? The bread?
Of this character, which we may partake and not die.
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I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If a man eat of this bread, he shall live forever.
And the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
For the world lay under the power of death.
And the knighted souls needed deliverance.
And the only means of deliverance is that which we've realized by faith in Christ, based upon the work of redemption that he was willing to do.
As they lay down his life for us, lifted up from the earth on that shameful cross.
The maker of the universe lifted up on the cross. Yeah.
God's son.
There, nailed to that cross.
By man is creature.
And in those hours of darkness that followed.
Years under the heavy strokes of God's wrath against sin.
So you do not wonder that we sing sometimes brightness of eternal glory shall Thy praise and uttered lie, who would touch the heavens, and story of the Lamb that came to die?
Came from Godhead's fullest glory down to Calvary's depth of all.
Now on high, we bow before him, streams of praises, ceaseless flow.
Wouldn't you like to join in those streams of praises to that blessed One who is altogether lovely and the cheapest among 10,000?
Worthy of homage and praise.
Worthy of all to be adored.
You've been created with that capacity, but you're not able to do it because of the sin that has come into the world and the sin that has infected you.
You came into this world, lost your Sinner and your need, the cleansing power of the precious blood of Christ.
You need to partake of this bread that came down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof and not die.
The Jews therefore strove among themselves.
Saying How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you.
Except ye the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood hath eternal life. I'll raise him up at the last day.
Oh, this is the way of blessing, they thought. It was absurd.
And what does it mean? It doesn't mean that you can really eat his flesh and drink his blood. That is, physically.
But it does mean that you can come under the value of that sacrifice, that work that He did when He bear our sins in his own body, and when He shed His precious blood for the remission of our sins.
There is a lamb killed, you know, back in the history of Israel.
There were instructions as to how it should be done.
The blood was to be caught in the basin.
Is that all?
No, they were to take a bunch of his offenders, sprinkle the blood on the lentil and on the sidepost so that when the destroying Angel passed over.
He would exempt to that house the first born in it from judgment.
When I see the blood, I'll Passover you.
Well, the thing to do tonight is to claim the value of that precious blood that answers so fully to the glory of God on his throne of righteousness and holiness.
And doesn't it shame you because you haven't believed already?
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Is there a note of repentance in that heart of yours toward that blessed one, the Lord Jesus Christ?
Except, he repeated, you shall all likewise perishes twice, said in Luke 13.
And if you haven't believed you have something to be sorry about, you need to repent.
You've turned your back.
On the friend that sticketh closer than the brother, on the one that has power over life and death.
For he said in resurrection, you know I'm he that liveth and was dead, and behold, I'm alive evermore and I have the keys.
Of hell and of death.
Or control.
Over the bodies and the souls of human beings.
And we'll meet him.
And how will it be with you?
You need to meet him now.
You shouldn't delay any longer.
Because this world is fraught with dangers.
From that time, many of his disciples went back and walked no more within verse 66.
Is that your attitude and will that be your action?
To brush aside the precious word of God that you're hearing on these occasions.
And to say that the gospel, the preaching of the cross, is foolishness and that the blood of Christ.
Is a remedy that is something that it goes against my grain. I don't believe in that kind of religion.
Are you going in the way of pain? What was his way?
He was the way he went in the way of the natural man according to man's own will.
And he made a sacrifice that was bloodless.
Oh, it's the blood of Jesus Christ. His Son cleanseth us from all sin.
And some were turning away, going back.
And the question is raised, will ye also go away?
And let's hear that question again tonight in this audience.
And it's my desire to direct it to each one individually. Will ye? Will you also go away unaffected by this precious word of God?
Your soul is at stake.
One answered Simon Peter.
Lord, to whom shall we go?
If you turn away from him, you go.
Oh, there are many avenues of escape from the responsibility that you have to God. You think they're avenues of escape, but not really.
For every man must have given account of himself to God.
Lord, whom shall we go with? Thou hast the words of eternal life.
He knew that he believed it, he was glad about it. And when he was about to fail, you know, the Lord prayed for him that his faithful, not he, would be sifted his wheat.
But he could be useful to his brethren when he was restored. We believe that thou hast the words of eternal life. We believe in their shore.
Do you believe in? Are you sure?
Do you believe in the record that is given in Genesis One about your origin?
There was a man.
There were two brothers in a home in Minnesota.
And one went away to the lumber camp and you know very well in those days that that kind of thing was rough living.
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An exposed life.
And he's already mentioned something like this.
I was a wandering sheep. I did not love the fool.
Did not love my shepherd's voice. I would not be controlled. I was a wayward child. I did not love my home.
I did not love my father's voice. I love the for the Rome.
And a younger brother at home, being so distressed about his absence and the life that he was pursuing, wrote to him and played with him to accept Christ.
He did.
That brother that wrote.
Went away and became engulfed in the responsibilities of this world to which you are exposed to and which you must.
Perform under.
You went away and moved in circles of intelligence on the East Coast.
He was high up in the intelligence of this world and he did things that were very remarkable and were counted very useful in this world.
In retirement, he came back to his brother's house and he said one day.
I believe in evolution and be a Christian.
To the reply was this.
You make the Lord Jesus a liar because he said. Have you not read that he that made them in the beginning, made them male and female?
But he was not satisfied, although there were stirrings in his soul.
And he'd come in with his Bible and he'd sit through the worship or the breaking of bread meeting.
And on another occasion later, he said, oh really? Isn't it possible for me to believe in evolution and also be a Christian?
His faithful brother looked at him. And that brother, you know, is one that's characterized by intense devotion to Christ.
He said to his brother of scientific learning.
If evolution is true.
Jesus evolved and I have no savior.
And that's the way to put it. It's in that light that you must meet it and face it.
We believe in our sure.
Sure, about the beginnings of life.
Sure about the person of that one sent it into this world to save our souls.
We're sure about the value of the sacrifice of the cross.
Through it, God's blessing comes to the most needy soul, to the vilest Sinner, the guilty major. Oh, noy, though violently, need not perish.
Christ, everything is done.
He's provided a way for your full blessing.
And that you might have the knowledge of the forgiveness of your sins.
Now, dear young boy.
And young lady.
Ladder Lassie.
To import a word.
You're young.
You're in school.
And you're going to be exposed to this kind of thing that is against the gospel more and more as you advance in your classes.
And go through graduation in the secondary school and inter college.
There's a danger of you making shipwreck in your faith.
And you're taking a great risk.
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Not to believe now.
You need to believe. You need to believe and be sure we believe in our shore. You need to be fortified against the power of the enemy of this world.
Satan is the God and Prince of this world.
And you will be exposed more and more to this kind of thing.
And there's more than that.
There's information in the 5th chapter of Mark of a man that lived among the tombs. He had a miserable, wild existence.
He had fallen under the power of the enemy, and that power is becoming so active again in this world now.
There are those that traffic in ESP.
They're telling you that you can have a sixth sense.
Unless you can reach out into those regions that are beyond you.
And pry into the unseen world of spirits.
Perhaps you've seen the picture, an old man with a flowing beard, and he's asking you to come and listen to his lectures.
TM.
Transcendental Meditation.
That kind of thing is connected with those unseen powers of a wicked world and those things that are working against Christ.
And that's just to mention only two.
You can be saved from exposure to that thing if you will take the word of God, if you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
If you believe and be sure about these things faith believes and that settles it.
Man says.
We reason.
Man's a reasoner, but his reason?
Brings him into doubts.
Why are there so many books in the world?
Man's ever learning and never coming to the knowledge of the truth.
And he thinks by his own mental powers he's able to solve his problems and we wouldn't be preaching on.
Gospel here tonight that brings before you the improvement of this world.
Everything is better off by the presence of the Lord's people in the world.
But this world is marked for judgment.
And we need that blessed Savior and God is taking out of this world of people for the name of His Son. So it's your individual salvation that is in the balances. And you need to know that Savior our blessed Lord Jesus Christ.
We believe in our show about the resurrection.
You know, with great power.
The apostles gave witness.
With great power gave the Apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus.
That's in the gospel.
That's the basis of the gospel. Without the resurrection, we wouldn't have anything.
But he's risen from the dead and become the first fruits of those that sleep.
Our Lord is alive forevermore.
With great power gave the Apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus.
You know there was a token witness in the media term raising of some that were sleeping. Many bodies of the Saints slept. A rosary went into the holy city and appeared under many.
Oh, he has the power of resurrection.
And this truth was so powerful that it didn't linger around Jerusalem all the time. It spread all over the civilized part of the earth. And a few years later, it was found as a truth recognized and believed among the Christians that were in Rome, Italy.
Just a short period of time.
There were two men in England, brilliant attorneys, and one set out to discredit the conversion of the apostle Paul.
The other, Gilbert W, set out to destroy to annul the truth of the resurrection of Christ. Both of those men were converted, and their book is in print. It's in my possession.
They believed on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Won't you believe?
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Won't you trust that worthy one, that blessed Savior and the work that he has a countless for you by the sacrifice of himself on that cross?
He's alive forevermore. He's gone ahead. He wants you to come.
He wants you to come. All judgment will engulf this world.
We say it looming on the horizon.
Can it continue in its present course? It's like the mighty roaring Prairie fire.
That some settlers heard in the distance as they were content in their little log cabin out in the West.
They looked and there was a black cloud and there was rolling and moving, and all the animals were ahead of it in a in a speedy loop, trying to escape the fury of that engulfing fire.
Oh, that's God's judgment. Just a little hint of it that's coming upon this world.
And if you don't believe the gospel, if you don't receive the truth of the Word, you'll be left behind when our Lord comes, and you'll be exposed to Thy strong delusion that God will send that they might believe a lie and be damned.
These are solemn things that face you as an individual, and you're responsible to the God that measure.
We need Christ. We need him now.
This little lad wanted to see him, and he did.
Oh, tonight.
We need the brand of heaven.
We need the work of Christ. That sacrifice that he made, we need to eat of the flesh.
Of the Son of Man and to drink his blood. That's the remedy for sin.
Why not believe on the Lord Jesus Christ? And what would these people do exposed to such a fire in the Prairie?
Oh, they thought quickly, and the match was struck.
And the grass was lighting right where they were, and it spread out and burned away.
And they were standing where the fire had been.
Our blessed Lord on the cross has been under the judgment of God. All the fire of judgment was against him, and if you take refuge in Christ, you'll be standing where the fire has been.
Oh, why not tonight?
Believe.
That savior.
Why not respond to his loving entreaty?
Why not flee from the wrath to come?
Why not enter into the blessings that pertain?
To that which is beyond.
Heavenly blessings.
Blessings untold.
But remember.
It's necessary for you to be cleansed.
And to trust in the Lord Jesus.
As your savior alone.
We can't trust for you. Neither can father or mother. No man can by any means redeem his brother or give a ransom for him.
But the Lord Jesus Christ has given himself.
In order that you might have the forgiveness of sins and be saved from this present evil world.
This is the refuge.
The solid rock.
The blessing that you need.
Through God's precious word.
Why not?
Believe.
And be sure.
Shall we turn to #7?
Eat now by faith, I claim in mind the risen Son of God.
Redemption by his death I find, and cleansing through the blood.
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#7
Lord love the world.
Of sin.