Gospel—C.E. Lunden
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In #4 Christ is the Savior of sinners. Christ is the Savior for me.
Long I was chained in sins darkness, Now by his grace I'm free.
Christ.
Turn to the Gospel of Luke chapter 8, verse four of chapter 8, Gospel of Luke. And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable.
A sower went out to sow his seed, and as he sowed, some fell by the wayside, and it was trodden under. It was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it, and some fell upon a rock, and as soon as it was sprung up it withered away because it lacked moisture.
And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up with it and choked it.
Another fell on good ground and sprang up and bear fruit in hundredfold.
Verse 11. Now the parable is this. The seed is the word of God.
Those by the wayside are they that hear, then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.
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They on the rock are they which when they hear, receive the word with joy. These have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
And that which fell among thorns are they, which one they have heard go forth, and are choked with cares.
And riches and pleasures of this life. And bring no fruit to perfection.
But that on the good ground are they which in an honest.
And good heart.
Having heard the word, keep it and bring forth fruit with patience.
Now we have in this chapter that the word of God, the seed, is the word of God.
The word of God.
Likened to the seed is that which gives life.
And that's all we have to present to you, dear friends. Tonight is the word of God.
Because it's the only way by which you can have eternal life.
He says to us, Verily, verily, I say unto you.
He that heareth my word.
And believeth on him that sent me half everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but is passed from death unto light.
We are warned solemnly in the Old Testament that he that despises the word shall be destroyed, but he that regardeth the commandment shall be rewarded.
Now, what we have in this portion that we've read this evening is the way in which the word is received.
Is first received, likened to one who receives the seed.
By the wayside.
It's a natural picture of that country that the Lord uses. It's a country of hills and valleys.
And at the bottom, in the valleys, there were little spots where the grain was grown.
Where the seed was sown, the ground was tilled.
And outside was the wayside.
And along.
Along the side there were thorns and in other places there were stones.
Now the earth in Scripture is often likened to man's heart.
And the heart is what receives the word of God, if there is to be any blessing.
It must pass through the conscience that it must reside in the heart.
And so the question before us tonight is, how will this seed be received by you?
And dear friends, I'm speaking you to you tonight as though you were all unsaved. Because this is a gospel meeting. I know that most here are saved, that the message is for the Sinner.
How are you going to receive the word of God as the seed is sown by the wayside?
The birds of the air come and pluck it up. Those are the wicked spirits.
And though it's sad sometimes when the gospel is preached and after the meeting.
Even some of the Saints of God are used of the enemy to pluck up the seed.
To divert the attention to other things. Little do we realize how solemn the issues of the Gospel and of the Kingdom of God are.
This evening may be the time when souls will pass from death unto light.
May we not in any way interfere with this with any lightness?
What a solemn thing it would be, dear friends.
You have heard the word of God, and the seed in your case be sown by the wayside, and you go out bearing no fruit.
No life there because there's no place for the seed to lodge.
In your heart.
But then the seed also is sown on Stony ground.
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Now that's like the flesh, you know, It always resists the word of God.
And even in the Christian, when we hear new truth, oftentimes we resist the word of God until the Spirit of God.
Returns again, as we heard today with Peter three times to remind him that he was God was speaking to him in order that we might receive the Word of God and believe it.
How good it is for this, for the Spirit of God to speak again, because it says in Job 33 that God speaketh 1 shade twice, and man perceiveth it not, and he tells how he speaks in pain and sorrow, sickness on the bed and so on. God speaks in many ways to souls.
But the question is.
Receive the word.
And is sown on Stony ground.
Now it has.
Not much earth and it may spring up.
And there may be a profession.
And by the way, in each of these cases there is a profession because there is a conscience that is exercised the moment the word is heard.
And dear friends, tonight if you never heard the gospel before and you walk out of this room tonight.
Unsaved.
You'll be a different person as to your responsibility towards God.
Because.
You will have made some kind of profession.
Having heard the gospel of the grace of God.
And what is the gospel of the grace of God? Is it not that Jesus died for sinners?
Is it not that He came from those heights of glory down into this world of sin, so that you and I, poor sinners, ruined and undone as we were singing, might have salvation through that precious blood that was shed at Calvary Cross? Is that not the gospel of the grace of God?
That God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. But whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Do you have this life, or do you have a profession of it?
Has the seed fallen in Stony ground, and that flesh of yours resisting the word of God?
Yet outside there's a profession of it, and it's a sprung up.
But as soon as the sun comes up, tribulation and trial Withers away. But still there's a profession.
And you hide yourself in some religious denomination.
So that you can have an eased conscience.
But the seed has fallen on Stony ground and there's no fruit.
You can go on with your religion, but you won't have Christ unless you take him as your own personal savior tonight.
But then the seed is also sown among thorns.
And you can picture the farmer as he spreads the seeds.
Some that goes beyond the field that's been plowed.
And it reaches the thorns.
And as the thorns, as the seed comes up, so do the thorns.
And they choke it. Now what are the thorns? And I would like you to especially notice what it says in this 14 verse.
And that which fell among thorns are they which, when they have heard, notice that.
When they have heard.
Go forth.
Oh, what meaning there is to everyone of these expressions go.
For when they have heard, go forth.
And are choked.
Notice with cares.
With riches and pleasures. Three things. The seed that sown among thorns is choked by cares, riches and pleasures. Now how does that affect you tonight, that scripture?
We're living in a day where there's great prosperity.
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And men are surrounding themselves with cares to such an extent.
That they have no time for the word of God and it's choked and there's no fruit, no life. 21St chapter of Luke and the 34th verse. The Lord is speaking here even to his disciples because Judas was there, you know, and he said and take heed to yourselves.
Lest at anytime your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of this life.
So that day come upon you unawares, for as a snare shall come on all in the dwell on the face of the whole earth.
Now, dear friends, the Spirit of God tells us in this passage that the snare that will come upon this earth.
At the time.
When Jesus comes will be the cares of this life.
It's put, in other words, in Philippians.
There we are told that men.
Mind earthly things as an object.
Earthly things, and when the true church is called away, all those who are of Christendom, that is, those who have made the profession of Christianity and are left behind.
Will be called Earth dwellers. Earth dwellers. Why they didn't want heaven. Do you want heaven tonight?
You want to stay here.
You're going to stay here if that seed is fallen by the wayside.
On Stony ground are among thorns. You are going to stay here. The cares of this life. Oh, you say, well, we all have cares, but it says being overcharged with the cares of this life. And what does that mean? It means to leave God out.
To leave God out. What else does it say? Choked with cares?
And riches, riches, anything that the heart is set upon here instead of Christ, riches.
Three things. Cares, riches, pleasures. You know, there never was a day unless it was before the flood. I don't know about that.
That there never was a day.
When there was more energy and money spent on pleasure than there is today. And the Spirit of God is warning, it's those who have fallen among the thorns.
And they bear no fruit. And I asked you solemnly tonight, dear friend, of which class are you in? Of these three, or are you in these three classes?
Have you allowed the enemy to come and take that precious seed that gives you eternal life? Take it away.
Fallen by the wayside?
Or has that flesh in you resisted it, that Stony heart so that there's no fruit?
Or have you allowed the thorns to choke?
So there's no fruit, no life, no salvation. But now notice in the next verse, 15th verse. But that on the good ground. Oh, I love this verse.
The very first moment I read this verse.
It just became a part of me, but that on the good ground.
Are they? Are you one of these?
In an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it and bring forth fruit with patience.
We have instruction here, we have fruit here, but it's brought forth with patience and that's the character of the day in which we're living.
You know the enemy is trying to wear the people of God out, but.
We need patience and we need more patience, and it won't be long before the Lord will come and take us home. We need patience, but bring forth fruit with patience. Now this is the work of the Spirit of God in the soul producing fruit. Of course, the thought is eternal life here.
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Giving life to the one who simply believes God's Word.
And so we repeat again the four ways in which the Word of God is soul. It's sown by the wayside.
The birds of the air pluck it up.
As soon as you leave the room, you're occupied with other things.
Instead of getting down before God and confessing Jesus Christ as your own personal savior.
There was a young man who used to come to the meetings. He still does now, but.
He left for a while and he told one of the young people, he said I don't want anymore of that trash.
And he left and he was in the barracks. He was an officer in the in the Air Force.
And he had a companion in this room who was a Baptist, and he read his Bible every night, and he made fun of him reading his Bible.
And finally after a while, this Baptist brother turned to him and he said, have you ever read it? He said no. Well then, what are you making fun of something you have never read for?
Well, he said. Read it to me then.
So he read him the 1St chapter of Romans.
He was convicted on the spot and he said, will you get down with me?
That I might confess Christ as my Savior. And He confessed Christ as his Savior that very night, Tuesday night.
The next large day evening, I happened to be in that particular meeting and I was speaking and this young man walks in.
Nobody knew about it.
And after the meeting was over, to their astonishment, he said, May I say a few words?
And he got up before several young people there, besides the rest.
And he publicly confessed Jesus Christ as his own personal savior and that lovely the Spirit of God working through the word of God. And that's what we have here tonight, the word of the living God. Well, that isn't the end of the story. I believe there are four of the family converted now.
Oh, how precious the Word of God is. How powerful the word of God, living and powerful and sharper than any two edged sword.
And so we have the word then, in an honest and a good heart, bringing forth fruit.
Fruit and that to life eternal.
And we ask you tonight, dear friends, in which class are you? Have you received the word of God in good ground?
Now I want to turn you to an Old Testament passage to use it as an illustration for what we're Speaking of.
We'll turn to 2nd Kings, the 5th chapter.
What we're taking up tonight is so well known to everyone that many of you know it by heart perhaps, but we have to remember that there are many younger ones here, some who perhaps have never heard it before, and those who are well taught will have to bear with us tonight, the 5th chapter.
Of second Kings.
Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria, and he was also a mighty man in valor, but he was a leper.
And the Syrians have gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid. She waited on Damons wife, and she said under her mistress with God, my Lord, were with the Prophet that is in Samaria, for he would recover him of his leprosy.
And one went in and told his Lord, saying thus and thus, saith the Maid, that is not of the land of Israel.
And the king of Syria said, Go to go and see, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed and took with him 10 talents of silver, 6000 pieces of gold.
10 Changes of raiment.
And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now when this letter has come unto thee, behold, I have therewith sent name and my servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy.
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And it came to pass when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he ran his clothes and said.
Am I God to kill and to make alive? This man does send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy.
Wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh the quarrel against me.
So Elijah, Elijah the man of God, had heard that the king of Israel read his clothes. But he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? I didn't. Come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
No name and came of his horses.
And with his chariot he stood at the door of the house. Elijah.
And the life to send a message on him saying go and Washington Jordan 7 times nice place that come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.
The lemon was wrought and went away and said.
Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me and stand and call in the name of the Lord his God.
Drop his hand over the place and recover the leopard.
I'm not abandoned farther rivers of Damascus better than all the waters of Israel.
May I not wash in them and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.
Any servant.
Came near and spaced unto him, and said, my father.
If the prophet did, they do some great things.
Which thou not have done it how much rather than when he sat under the wall?
And declaring.
Then when he down and gripped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God, and his flesh came again like under the flesh of a little child.
And it's closed.
Well, we have here a very simple story of a leopard.
Telepathy is a picture to us of sin, an incurable disease.
I know the medical world says they have medicines now that can arrest it, but it really is an insurable disease that's in the blood.
And so it's still.
Your friends, you know there's nothing that can wash away yourself.
But the blood of God? Nothing.
900 didn't know that. He didn't know that.
It was only the God of Israel that could take up his case, the leper. Only God sent me electricity.
He could come with his job.
What does it say here?
Just first took within 10 lbs of silver.
6000 pieces of gold.
10 James Arraignment.
All dear friends.
All the gold in the world that for the way one thin.
No man can by any means redeem his brother or bring to God a ransom for him.
The redemption of their soul is precious.
And it's Jesus forever.
It's only the precious blood of Christ. It can put away sin.
As he put away your stand.
As we put away all your sins and guilt.
You know, dear friend, tonight, unless you have Jesus Christ as your own personal Savior, your loss.
And that for all ephemera.
Has it ever come home to your soul what it means to be lost?
Lost. I was lost for a little while when I was fighting forest fires once.
But I I got out of it.
And there may be some here who have been lost, possibly a day or two or several days.
Can you imagine what it would be to be lost?
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To be lost for eternity without Christ and without God.
The Christ who loved your soul so much that he came all the way from heaven down to Calvary's cross and shed his blood, His precious blood that you might be saved.
No, but beside being lost, dear friend, you're condemned.
If you're without sight.
Because of the guilt.
That lays on your soul.
I don't care how young you are, how fair you are to look upon your loss, and you're condemned without Christ.
And you're on your way to hell.
With a never dying soul.
To experience forever the wrath of estimating God, when tonight.
You can allow that seed to fall into the good ground and receive Jesus Christ as your own personal faith. Would you do it tonight?
The old knowledge of the accepted time now.
Is the day of salvation.
When that young man was convicted by Romans chapter one.
He got down on his knees now, and he confessed Christ.
He's been a happy Christian ever since.
Won't you do it tonight?
Now we feel a little made here.
Isn't it strange the means that God uses for the salvation of souls?
I was in the home of a very wealthy family.
And they were inquiring about the gospel after I'd mentioned it.
And.
As I was sitting in their living room.
The lady of the house excused herself for a moment, and she came back with the Bible.
I said where did you get this? She said. You guess.
Her maid had brought it to her.
Thank God for the maids who know Jesus Christ as their Savior.
Yes, thank God.
For the man that stands at his workbench.
And does an honest day's work.
Confessing Jesus Christ even in his occupation.
Because, dear friends, when you get to heaven, it isn't going to be the gospel preachers.
It will be that individual work, day by day, that are going to bring the souls home to Lauren. Oh, I know it's the precious flood of sight, but God uses little maid.
Didn't they use Esther to move 127 provinces of the Kingdom of a Haju era?
Yes, he used his little name.
He uses that he means that he places.
And know how good it would be for you and me as Christians to be in that state of soul at all times, on our job, at our work, wherever we may be at school. Be ready to be used.
And she just gives a simple testimony that there was a God in Israel that could heal leprosy.
Can't you tell someone they're, they're young people tonight that there's a God who can save you to sit there from his sin and to tell that story?
Very simple listen.
In fact, the Sinner doesn't need a complicated story. All he needs is a simple one. She was a captive maid.
Captive made.
She waited on Naamans wife.
Now this man Naman was a great man with his master.
I suppose he was a very outstanding warrior.
A man who had.
No doubt won many great battles for his last.
But you know all the valor, all the ability that nature provides.
Never can take care of that matter of leprosy.
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No, leprosy cannot.
Be healed except by God alone.
And dear friends, no matter what position you may be in this world, no matter what position you may be over others.
You're a Sinner and you're on your way to hell without Christ.
And there's no other name given under heaven among men whereby we might be saved. They're not precious name of Jesus.
Have you taken Jesus as your Savior?
Do it tonight and don't be late.
And don't delay to go out of the room before you take Jesus Christ as your Savior.
New young people who have been brought up in Christian homes.
The face of your father will never save your precious soul.
It takes your own personal faith in Jesus Christ.
Because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord.
And believe in thine heart that God has raised him from the dead thou.
Shall be saved.
No other way than that.
The confession.
Living in the heart.
Bring salvation.
To the soul.
But he was a leper all that ****.
It spoils everything, doesn't it?
It spoils everything.
With all the honors this man had, but he was a leper.
And you know, there are those who go on in their occupations day after day, year after year. They hear the gospel.
Pay no attention to it. They have their mind set on one thing.
That is.
Their business.
Or their pleasure, or whatever it might be.
There was a man who had retired from his business.
And he moved next to a Christian, and the Christian tried to speak to him. He was a brass executive.
And this Christian had worked for the steel company, and they had some things in common.
But he tried to whip this to him once. The salt.
The man walked by on the other side of the street after that.
One day he got cancer of the leg.
And.
This brother could often observe him walking down the street and kicking his leg out to get some relief from that awful, dreadful drawing of that cancer in his leg.
Pretty soon he stopped walking down the street.
And his wife happened by and his brother said to his wife.
How is your husband?
He said he's in bed.
I think he wants to see you.
And so this friend of mine went over to see him, and he took his Bible.
And this man who didn't want anything to do with Christianity?
He said read me out of your book.
And he read him the gospel of the grace of God.
He said. But he said that's wonderful story, but he said it doesn't apply to me.
He said I have never done anything wrong.
I've always paid my bills, I've always carried on my business justly.
I provided for my family for years to come.
And sending my children through college. What can you expect of a man?
He said I have not done anything wrong.
Wisely, my friend said to him, I'm going now.
And I'm making one request.
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When I leave, I want to tell the Lord what you told me. He came back the next day.
And he said, I'm glad to see you, Brother Lyle.
He said why do you call me brother?
Because because I couldn't tell the Lord what you told me to tell Him what I told you. Because he says I know I'm a Sinner through and through.
And I am saved by the precious blood of Christ.
The seed had fallen into good ground and had borne its fruit. Has it with you?
Are you going to wait till you're on a deathbed to receive Christ as your Savior? Are you going to waste those precious years that lie ahead, perhaps in your life?
Wasting it on the flesh.
With no returns whatsoever. Poor investment, isn't it?
Poor investment.
So are you going to take Jesus Christ tonight as your savior?
Trust in that precious blood. Have every spot removed, not one spot remaining.
Because the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses from all sins.
Well, he brings all of this marvelous crappings, gold and silver.
And you know the streets in Syria, they still are. I think many of them are made of cobblestones.
And can't you just picture this whole group of, I suppose, soldiers?
Who Serv.
Wagons loaded with, you know, gold. Heavy rumbling down those stone roads.
It must have made a tremendous racket as they went down.
With all this perfume, what for?
To be healed of leprosy.
And is that just not like the center today? He thinks that he has to do something. He has to do this, and he has to do that, and he has to do the other thing until he gets so confused that he doesn't know what to do.
The blood of Jesus Christ plays us from all sins.
That's all.
Oh, how simple the gospel message.
Want to take it tonight?
All its name and it brought is only a hindrance to him.
And a stumbling block for Gehazi, which we haven't read about. That's all.
But now we come to.
The Kagan, the King says, while this man seeks a quarrel with me, think of the king of Israel, who is supposed to represent God on the earth.
He didn't even know there was a prophet in Israel that could heal of lepership.
But the Prophet hears about it, he said. You send him to me.
And he will learn that there is a God in Israel that can heal leprosy.
Over Naaman comes. He doesn't even open the door to speak to him.
Why ah, dear friends, you and I have to humble ourselves before a holy God.
We have to take our true place and in the 14th chapter of Luke.
If you're bidden to a supper while you take the low plate, don't take the high plate because someone may have to say to you you'll have to take the low plate because you've taken somebody else's seat.
But if you take the low place, then the master of the feast will say, Friend, come up higher.
And he'll honor you.
Those are the ways of God.
Naaman had to come down.
And catch a picture that great general. I suppose he was decked with metal.
I don't know.
And he had all of these servants.
But he had to humble himself in front of all of them.
Humble thyself under the mighty hand of God, and He will exalt you in due time.
You know, dear friend, that you have to do with God, not with man.
You realize that you are a Sinner, lost and on your way to a lost eternity that you have to do with God.
Humble yourself.
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Take your true place before God if there should be blessing.
And So what happened?
Elijah sent a message on him saying go wash in Jordan 7 times and my flesh will come again to thee and thou shalt be clean.
There's the gospel message.
In the Old Testament, of course.
Thou shalt be clean. Isn't that what he wanted? To be clean of his leprosy?
The Washington Jordan 7 times.
Oh, we have better rivers at home.
Jordan was a muddy river. You know we have better rivers at home.
Can I watch there and be clean? He went away in a rage.
But again, we find that God uses strange.
Messenger.
Not a little maid this time, but the servant.
Sir, it's interesting to notice the servants in scripture.
We find in the second chapter of John.
That nobody knew where that water came from.
That was turned to wine. Except the serpent they knew.
Why did they know? They were close to the master, That's why they knew.
They knew. The servants knew.
Oh, what a priceless thing it is to be a serpent.
In any little way to be near the master, to know his mind.
And the servants say, My father, they entreat him, They take their true place, but they entreat him.
If the Prophet had, did they do something great thing? Oh yes, he would have done that.
He had already brought gold, I suppose, perhaps half $1,000,000 worth, I don't know.
If they had said to do some great thing, would you not have done it?
Yes, and that's what touched his conscience.
How much rather than when he says to the wash.
And they play.
What?
And what does it mean to wash? What does it mean to be washed in the precious blood of Christ? It simply means to confess Jesus Christ as your own personal Savior. Have you done it?
You children here tonight, have you done it?
I say to you, dear children and young people of Jesus came tonight and he may would you be left behind?
Killed us young people, would you be left behind?
Have you confessed Jesus Christ as your own personal Savior?
Where would you be left behind?
Then when he down.
That great man went down.
And that's the way the blessing down.
Dipped himself seven times. He went in once.
No, he wasn't planned. He went in twice.
He went in three times, he went in four times.
5 * 6 * 7 times.
Obedience to the Word of God.
Is what brings blessing.
You obey the word of God seven times. Spiritual perfection.
The culmination of blessing.
And what happened? Exactly what was told him.
And his flesh came again, like unto the flesh of a little child.
And it was clean. In other words, new birth.
A picture to us of new birth. Entirely new.
Burke oh how good this is.
Obedience to the Word of God brings this result.
Did God say it by the prophet? Yes. Do you believe it? Naman did.
It's a simple word. It's the word believed simply by faith.
Because faith comes by hearing.
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And hearing by the word of God.
And he was clean.
Now turn this me to a scripture in Matthews Gospel, the 7th chapter please.
Verse 13.
Enter ye in at the Strait gate, For wide is the gate, and broad is the way that lead us to destruction. And many there be which squin there at, Because straight is a gate, narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Verse 21 Not everyone that says unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the Kingdom of heaven.
But he that doeth the will of my Father, which is in heaven.
Now, dear friends, what is the will of His Father, which is in heaven?
This question was asked of the Lord on the 6th chapter of John's Gospel. We won't turn to it.
This is the will of God.
That you believe on him whom he has been.
That's the will of God.
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name?
And in thy name have cast out devils, And in thy name done many wonderful works. Notice that.
Wonderful work.
Cast out devils, Judas did.
But where is he today?
Yes, God can give power to men to do these things.
But that doesn't mean their soul has been changed.
There has to be repentance.
A complete change, a complete revolution of the soul.
And then will I profess unto them, I once knew you, but I don't know you anymore. Is that what it says?
That's what people would like it to say. Then they can say you can be saved and lost again.
But it doesn't say that.
But does it say read it carefully?
Then will I profess to you.
Unto them.
I never knew you.
What those who cast out demons?
Those who did wonderful work, Yes. I never knew you.
Casting out demons and doing wonderful works will never save your soul.
What is it that saves the soul? It's the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son.
Shed on Calvary's cross and death.
That's what saves the soul and faith that believes it.
Faithfully.
Then will I profess unto them, I never knew you.
Depart from me.
Ye that work iniquity.
It's a little picture of what's going on today all around us under the name of religion. It's the works of iniquity if it isn't faith in Christ.
And Savior.
You can have all the marks of religion.
But if it isn't, faith in Christ.
It is if it isn't simply trusting and acting according to his precious word. Its works of iniquity.
And iniquity, oftentimes in the New Testament is a picture of religious evil, the worst form of evil that could be.
Because it's directly sinning against God.
And his known word.
And so where are you tonight then, dear friend? Is the seed? Has the seed fallen in good ground? Good. Can bear fruit. 100 bowls.
Or as the seed fallen by the wayside and as you go out the door tonight.
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You'll say, well, that was the truth, all right, but I've got other things. I have other things to do.
I haven't time for it now.
Is that your attitude?
Or as the flesh risen up and say, well, I'm not going to believe that I'm going to.
Make a research first on my own.
What men are doing?
You know more than God, You know more than His word.
You know that word is forever settled in heaven. Nothing else is down here.
You'd better believe it.
Or you're lost.
Lost.
Lost for all eternity.
Banished from the presence of a holy God.
And the blackness of darkness forever.