Gospel—Tim Roach
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Just as I want to receive.
Now there's broken the day summer. It's different savior for today.
The girls standing, blanketing.
Shining is like for my grandson.
This is the savior for me.
Shredding his blood for my ground.
This is my savior for me.
The third line of verse one talks about says Long, I was changing since darkness. Tonight I want to talk a little bit about darkness. There's spiritual darkness in this world, there's physical darkness at night, and there's going to be darkness in eternity. For those who do not know the Lord Jesus Christ as their savior. I'm just thinking back when the children of Israel, the nation of Israel, was captive and slaves in the land of Egypt.
And Moses was there at that time, and they were slaves, but God was going to use Moses to rescue them out of the land of Egypt. And God said about that time God sent 10 plagues on the land of Egypt until Pharaoh would let the nation of Israel go out free to worship the Lord. While the 9th plague that they had there was darkness. And there is darkness in all the land of Egypt.
And it said it was darkness that could be felt. Not sure exactly what that means, that it was darkness that could be felt. But I believe there was pain in the darkness. And the Bible says that the angels were sent in the darkness to torment them and they, the people, were afraid in the darkness. Let's look at John chapter 12.
John, Chapter 12.
In verse 46.
This is the Lord Jesus speaking. The Lord Jesus says I am a light into I have come a light into the world that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. From this verse we understand that you as you sit here tonight without the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, you are in your sins. This verse says you are in darkness, spiritual darkness, without Christ. And the Lord Jesus comes. He delight his love. He's light and he wants you to be part of his family.
In heaven. But you can't be part of His family unless the light shines in your soul. And you accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior and have the light of life within you. And so in order for that to happen, we need to take care of the question of our sins. Our sins need to be taken away so that the Lord Jesus can then come into our life. Well, in the lake of fire there will also be darkness.
Start this that can be felt and let's look in Revelation chapter 16 and this will talk a little bit about darkness that can be felt.
In Revelation, chapter 16 and verse 10 says in the darkness.
And and we need to see here that in the darkness of God's wrath there is pain. And so in verse 10 it says in the 5th Angel poured out his vial upon the seed of the beast, and his Kingdom was full of darkness, and they gnawed their tongues for pain.
Pain is not something that we enjoy.
Pain is you go to the doctor and he says how much pain do you have? Umm tell me on a scale of one to 10, how bad is your pain? And I remember one time I had a #10 pain, I was working with some equipment and I got stuck between two pieces of equipment and my foot was stuck there and I couldn't get out. And the two pieces of equipment were trying to move towards each other and crushing my foot and it hurt and I couldn't get out and I was screaming.
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And I was embarrassed because I couldn't not scream. I just continued to scream and I tried to stop and it just the screams just coming, coming out. I couldn't stop screaming in time to even yell for help. And so about 15 minutes later the neighbor came over and he was able to help. But I was there for 15 minutes of torment, alone, screaming, alone.
Psalm 78 verse 49.
Psalm 78, verse 49. He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation and trouble by sending evil angels among them. I believe this might be a reference to the darkness, because if you go through this, this, this chapter, it's talking about all the plagues in the land of Egypt. And I believe this might be a reference to the plague of darkness that could be felt in the land of Egypt. And the people were suffering there in the terror of the darkness.
When the angels of God were sent in there to trouble the people in the darkness.
Matthew 22.
There's many examples of darkness in the scriptures, and we'll look at a few of them. Matthew 22. And this is a story of a man in a wedding garment, and the results of him not having on a wedding garment. He was invited to the wedding, but he was not dressed appropriately. And in verse 12, the master of the ceremonies, he says he came and saith unto him, friend, how camest thou in hit her not having a wedding garment. And he was speechless.
Then said the king to the servants, Find him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
If you reject Jesus Christ tonight as your Lord and your Savior, and you will find yourself at at some future time when you stand before God and He sends you into a lost eternity and you're cast into outer darkness, you, the Sinner, will have no excuse as you are thrown into the darkness of hell. You will have nothing to say. You will have no arguments. You have no defense. The Sinner is guilty.
And the justice of God will be glorified as the Sinner is cast into the darkness of hell, which was prepared for the devil and his angels. God didn't prepare hell or the lake of fire for you. He loves you.
And that's why we have the Gospel meeting. That's why the Lord Jesus came down into this world, because he knew there were so many sins, Everyone was a Sinner, all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. The Lord Jesus knew that until he came down into this world. So there could be a remedy for your sin. And the Lord Jesus himself is that remedy for sin.
And let's look at Luke Chapter 8.
And we'll find out what 2000 Demons said to Jesus.
Luke Chapter 8.
A man named Legion, and his name is legion because he had a legion of aid of devils inside of him. And these demons, these devils, they were controlling this man, they possessed him. And verse 28 when this man, when he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou son of the Most High?
I beseech thee, torment me not.
You see, the demons know that the lake of fire is a place of physical torment and physical pain and emotional terror, and they tremble in fear. And the demons, they don't want to go to hell. They don't want to go to the lake of fire. They don't have a choice. They are going because of their way they treated Jesus, because the way they treated God. But you have a choice.
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You you don't have to go to hell. You have a choice. And your choices you leave on the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus has prepared a place for you in heaven.
And he wants you there with him. And tonight he's offering you that place in the Father's house with the Lord Jesus. He's offering you freedom from your sin to have your sins washed away. He's offering you eternal life tonight. Well, the demons don't want to go to hell. Let's look in Luke Chapter 16, verse 23.
This is a man.
He was a rich man.
And there was another man called Lazarus, and the rich man had many good things in his life.
The Lazarus had not. He was a beggar and.
When they both died, the rich man, he had no faith in God and he went to hell.
And in hell, let's read verse 23. And in hell. This is not the lake of fire yet, but he was still in hell. And he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus that may he may dip the tip of his finger in water and pull my tongue. I am tormented in this flame.
But Abraham said son.
Remember that now in thy lifetime received good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things. Now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. We've already expressed the fact that in hell it's darkness. It's outer darkness. There's pain in there, and there's also flames. And this man, he wasn't even in the lake of fire yet, but he was tormented in the flame. And so from these verses we understand that there will be no relief from the suffering.
In the torment of hell, after the Sinner dies, he goes directly into torment. That's what you have to look forward to. Yeah, you may reject Jesus tonight. You might have a wonderful time when you go out in the and do whatever you do in your in your own life, but that's only gonna last for a short time. That's only gonna last. You don't know when you're when your death date is.
It's only gonna last until the end, Until the end of your life, or until the Lord Jesus comes. And if you're still living at the end, you will be sent to a lost eternity in hell. But in James Chapter 2.
James, Chapter 2.
And look at verse 19.
This verse is also speaking about eternity without God and it's also.
Speaking about the demons, the devils verse 19 James Two you believe that there is one God you do well. The devils also believe and tremble.
Maybe you do believe that there is a God. Maybe you even believe that you're a Sinner and you're lost in your sins. But you have not yet put your trust in the Lord Jesus. But it is good that you believe that there is one true God. But do you tremble? Do you tremble? Are you ready to repent? Are you ready to trust in the Lord Jesus Christ?
Do you believe that you are a Sinner?
Do you believe that you deserve to suffer in hell because of your sin?
Do you believe that Jesus is God and that Jesus died as your substitute to take your punishment for sins? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. Though the Lord Jesus came into this world to save sin, to save you, He came to save me and thank God he has saved me.
The Lord Jesus came to save you, and in order to do that he had to suffer, and he suffered anguish and pain and terror as he experienced the wrath of God.
On the cross, were you?
He died for you as your substitute.
He shed his blood for you to wash your sins away. And Jesus suffered so much as he endured the cross and the shame and the punishment of sin against himself. He did no wrong. He had no sin. He did no sin. He didn't even think sin.
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Is the perfect folding Lamb of God, the Son of God, the Lord Jesus. But yet he was willing to go to the cross and have my sin put on him, and he would suffer there as if he were the guilty one.
He suffered so much shame.
For you.
And he did this. The Lord Jesus was willing to suffer in this way because he loves you.
The Bible says that the Son of God loved me. That's the Lord Jesus. The Lord Jesus loved me and gave himself for.
Jesus loves you. He doesn't want you to go to the lake of fire. Let's go to Isaiah, chapter 53.
Isaiah chapter 53 and these These verses describe a little bit of what the Lord Jesus had to suffer while he was there on the cross during three hours of darkness. Because it was during those three hours of darkness that the Lord that God had put our sin on Jesus and the wrath and anger of the Holy God fell on Jesus Christ.
During those three hours of darkness, Isaiah 53, We'll start at verse 4.
Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. Yeah, we did esteem him, stricken and smitten of God and afflicted. He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities.
The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are you.
All we, like sheep, have gone astray, We have turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Lord Jesus was as we said He was innocent. He had no sin but my my iniquity. All our sins and our iniquities were laid on him.
Then he sucked.
Suffered so much we can't even imagine what it was like. It just says here he was wounded for our transgressions and he was bruised for our iniquities. That doesn't explain the fullness of the wrath and the anger of God that fell on Jesus for me.
Many years ago I told this story before, but many years ago there was a name, a man named Placidus and his wife and his two sons, and they were Christians. And they were arrested because of their faith in Christ, because they were Christians. And they were put into the Roman Colosseum at that time. And they put them in there with the wild beasts and they put the Christians in there, and the wild beasts would come in and eat the people and tear them to pieces. And so that's what happened to Placiduses family. They're put into the Roman Colosseum and when the wild beasts refused.
To tear them to pieces and to keep the family, they took the family.
Out of there. And they had a brazen bull, a big brazen bull. It was hollow inside and they put the family inside that hollow, brazen bull.
Then he shut the door and locked the door.
And then they lit a big fire underneath.
And they got it very hot.
And slowly that brazen bull got honored by.
And the family that was inside started to get hot and started to burn and it became intense and they started to scream and the screaming of the family as they were in their screaming pain. The noise of the screaming went out through the hollow head of the bull and out to the audience in this Colosseum and sounded as if the Raging Bull were alive.
While the Christian family was roasted to death.
And all the people cheered.
Can you imagine the look of pain on the faces of that family?
As the heat as the brazen bull got hotter and hotter and they're screaming pain, tortured their faces.
It's good. Isaiah 52.
Screaming pain is written on the faces.
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Of those who suffer.
Isaiah 52, verse 14.
Speaking about the Lord Jesus.
As many as were astonished at thee. His visage was so marred, more than any man in his form, more than the sons of men.
The appearance of Jesus, his face, his appearance. It was marred more than any man as he endured the wrath of God against sin. God did not want man to look on his Son, Jesus Christ as he endured the wrath of God in the punishment for our sins. It was too terrible to look at.
So there it was, darkness, 3 hours of darkness. And besides that man would never be able to look unto the righteousness of God.
And still live.
They looked at the righteousness of God. They would die too, as the righteousness of God punished Jesus for our sins. Well until for three hours. While Jesus suffered for our sins, God turned off the light of the sun and darkness, covered all the land. Lord Jesus endured the darkness, and during that time our sin was put on Jesus and God punished Jesus for our sins.
And as we said, all was in darkness, so we don't know exactly what happened.
During those three hours during that time of supper.
But out of the darkness Jesus Christ. And he cried with a loud voice. He says, My God, my God, why? Why hast thou forsaken me?
Shortly after that.
Jesus commended his spirit to the Father.
Anytime.
The soldier was standing there.
He saw that Jesus had died.
But his hatred had not yet been complete until he took his spear, and in hatred he threw it into the side of the Lord Jesus.
An act of hatred.
Brought forth the blood and flowed from the sides of the Lord Jesus.
And the Lord Jesus, his blood was shed. It is that precious blood of Jesus that can wash your sins away tonight. That precious blood of Jesus was evidence that he had died and he was punished for our sin, our sins.
Over all the land, there was darkness.
It could be filled. The Lord Jesus felt all the anguish and the pain in that darkness.
If Jesus suffered so much.
That he was willing.
And he loved you so much.
That he was willing to suffer that much for you.
So that you could go to heaven to be with him.
If he suffered that much, he is not going to let you go. He's not going to let you get away from him.
Nothing will be able to separate you from the love of God.
I see.
I'm now talking to a person who has believed on the Lord Jesus.
You believe in the Lord Jesus. He will give you eternal life. He is your you are the child of God the Father. You belong to the Lord Jesus.
And His love is what is reaching out to you tonight to save you. And nothing will separate you from His love when you are saved. Not your sin, not Satan, not your own selfishness. Nothing can get you out of the hands of Jesus, and nothing can get you out of the hands of the fallen.
So you are safe forever.
That's what it's offered to the believer.
If you do not know the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, this wonderful love, this wonderful future is offered to you tonight. But how can you have your sin removed? Well, let's look at a verse in First John Chapter 4.
First John chapter 4, verse 9 and 10.
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And this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through Him. Verse 10. Here is his love, not that we love God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Oh, the love of God is so great, the love of the Lord Jesus was willing to come into this world.
To be the propitiation for our cities appreciation is kind of like a covering. It takes away our sins.
And Jesus, the Son of God, is the remover of sins. He's the propitiation for our sin.
Tell you a little story. We had a guest.
Some time ago.
Some guests and one of the children found a a patch of berries, big big berries, and they took them and they started writing on the white wall of the house and graffiti here and there many places.
Into the various things on the wall. And when the father found out he had done that, he took the boy and he got some soap and some water and some chemicals and they scrubbed scrub, scrub, scrub, and they couldn't get the very stain off. It would not come on.
That is how we are with our sins.
We can work hard to be good, we can be kind to other people, we can give our money to charity, We can do so many things.
Trying to make our good works outweigh our bad so that we'll have a chance to get in to him.
But there's nothing good that we can do to get rid of our safe. Just like that boy scrubbing on the very stain with the soap and water. It won't come off. And that is why God the Father sent His Son, Jesus Christ into this world to be the substitute to die for us sinners. And this when the Lord Jesus died. This allows God to remove the sin that makes it impossible for us to have fellowship with God. That's the reason God put you in tears, so you can have fellowship with you. He wants you to be His friend. But because of our sin, we can't have that fellowship. And so Jesus had to come and die.
Well, when that boy could not remove the very stain off the white wall.
Bottle bleach, some spray cleaner and we spray it on the stain. It's all it disappeared and the wall was white again.
Well, that's just like the blood of Jesus Christ.
We read that the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses us from all sin.
How do you get the blood to be applied to you so you can be saved? Well, there's two points of responsibility for you so that you can receive eternal life and so that you're free to go to heaven. Those two things are repentance towards God and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ. And you'll find that in Acts chapter 20, verse 21. Now repentance. Repentance means that you adjust your thinking to turn away from your own purpose.
And to turn away from your own will, and to turn away from your desire to sin, and you submit yourself to the will of God. That's repentance.
Now faith towards the Lord Jesus means to believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved. Believe that you are a Sinner who deserves sin, who deserves death and judgment in the lake of fraud, and believe that Jesus endured the judgment of God and that he was punished as your substitute.
For your sins.
Believe that Jesus died. Believe that his blood was shed to wash away your sin. Believe means to put your trust to trust that Jesus did all the work to save you from your sin.
If you believe on the Lord Jesus like this.
Let me see that easy. Believe and trust.
Maybe you are convicted.
Maybe you're you're sorry for your sin.
Maybe you want peace in your life, in your heart.
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I want the Lord Jesus to be a part of your life.
If you haven't understood what's been taught tonight.
Please come and talk to me after the meeting. I'll be here this afternoon. This afternoon. I'll be here tomorrow. But don't put it off. Don't wait any longer.
To experience the peace and the joy of having eternal life.
Why don't we see #13? The Lord Jesus suffered so much. He had a lot of sorrow in his life.
And but he is our Savior. Man of sorrows. What a name for the Son of God who played a king, ruined sinners to reclaim Hallelujah. What a savior.
Man of sorrows what I need.
To ring like a little bit of water.
Day No.
Is there any shame? And scarcely brown in my life.
That's great. Our God and Father, we give thanks for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of sinners. We give thanks that there's a there's hope for anyone here who is a Sinner who needs to be saved. Lord Jesus, we give thanks, Lord Jesus.
That you have gone to the cross since you've taken the punishment, endured the wrath and anger of the Holy God against sin.
So that means we go free. Oh, we give thanks for that love, Lord Jesus, that. And we just ask that that love withdraw our hearts to give thee worship and glory and honor and praise. We give thanks, Lord Jesus and your name, We pray.