Address—P.B. Geveden
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We'll begin.
By reading from Genesis chapter one.
Verse 26.
And God said, let us make man in our image.
After our likeness.
Chapter 2 and verse 7.
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground.
And breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.
And man became a living soul.
Then we read about a garden being planted.
A lovely, beautiful place where he was to have his abode.
He was to dress it and keep it.
In that garden they were all a manner of lovely trees.
Not pleased and provided fruit for the enjoyment of this creature that God had formed in His likeness and image.
Then man was given that responsibility.
And even the companion.
So we can see that everything started out real well.
How would you like to be fresh from the hands of the maker?
We are as creatures still.
In him we live and move and of our being.
So that we can say today.
God made us. He gave us our being. We are His.
And we have a responsibility.
To Adam was committed responsibility.
He was advised not to eat of the Tree of the knowledge of good and Evil.
For in eating of that particular tree, he would suffer I'll consequences.
Nausea surely die.
So separation from God has taken place.
God came into the garden in the cool of the day to commune with him as before, and he could not be found, for he had gone a distance from him, and that hidden himself among the trees.
So a question had to be raised.
Where art thou?
Now there was a question directed to Adam.
And a little later on in the account, we find another question that was directed to Eve. What has thou done?
So they spoil everything.
He had failed through disobedience.
And we are in a world of uncertainty.
And why are things so uncertain in this world?
It is because of man's sin.
Man's disobedience to God.
Man's will exercise in distrust of his Maker.
We have in the Word the will of God.
And a statement about the will of the flesh.
And the will of the Gentiles, which is the will of the Sinner.
Through a man's will.
Uncertainty has been introduced into this world.
There was security in that lovely garden.
There was enjoyment there too, because God could come and commune with this creature in the cool of the day.
But now he found himself at a distance.
And in uncertainty.
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He distrusted God.
He became a doubter.
And he also doubted his fellow creature.
Cain would not trust Abel.
And what's wrong today?
Men and people are unable to trust one another and there is suspicion.
Because of man's strong will that he seeks to exercise himself.
And to take care of himself against all foes.
You don't know what the speaker might do.
Of course, knowing God's grace.
And the fact?
That the Lord is gracious.
We can have confidence in one another.
Now the world was so filled with crime.
And violence.
Of corruption and sinful lusts of every kind.
That God repented himself, that he had made men on the earth.
And it was necessary to bring in the flood for the destruction of all life on the earth except those.
That moved with fear.
Those that found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
And Noah prepared that ark to the saving of his house.
Eight souls were saved.
And a new start was made.
But it's still the repetition of the same thing.
For, it's indicated that it would be so again.
And there is judgment that lies ahead of this world tonight.
And we are warned as to the fear of Him who has power to cast both soul and body into hell.
There is hell.
And you will go there.
If you.
Neglect so great salvation that God has provided through His beloved Son.
You will go there if you are a Christ rejector.
Hell is a necessity.
Could it be right?
For those that know God and there is children.
And are the righteous in the earth.
To be brought along.
With those that have spurned God's grace and trampled under foot the precious blood of Christ.
Oh, it wouldn't do to put Tom Paine and the agnostics and the infidels.
In the same position as those that know the Lord Jesus Christ.
And the value of his precious death.
The preciousness of the blood that he shared for the remission of sin.
On the cross, by the sacrifice of himself.
Man believes in the punishment of evil doing in this world. He's lessened his belief in that.
They think more of rehabilitation nowadays.
They think you know that man underneath somewhere.
Possesses.
A lovely.
Bloom or bud that should be nurtured and brought into bloom and to blessing and so that man will enjoy things here below.
But it's all spoiled through sin.
That's not possible.
There must be a new beginning.
Man's state is bad.
The Son of Man, you know, came into the world to save that which was lost.
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That's Matthew 18 and 11.
The Son of Man came into the world to seek and to save that which is lost.
Luke, 1910.
Lost.
That tells us of our condition as alienated from God.
And that is described and brought before us from Romans 512 to the end of chapter 8.
Man's state as a Sinner, his condition being lost and requiring the coming of the Son of Man that he might be saved.
There's a difference in those two verses.
And each one is true.
It's the word of God.
And the man doesn't like to read his record in the word of God.
There is a man traveling beside me and he said that is the most terrible book that has ever been published.
Because it brings before such weird things, such terrible things.
Murder and wars and incest and all kinds of sin.
Which shouldn't be brought to our attention.
But God is faithful in His description of man, in His history here in this world.
And this book gives us the history of two men only.
The record of Adam.
And here we can put ourselves under his name with Ditto marks.
We are just the same as he was. We are lost.
That is our condition.
Away from God.
The old eye was shaped in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
She was happy when.
Speaker was born into this world 71 years ago.
She took a special interest in me.
She came to my bedside and stroked my brow the night.
That this lad confessed the Lord in 1914.
But yet.
Our shape and iniquity and incended my mother conceived me. That's the state of man.
His condition is lost.
And that kind of thing, that state of thing, cannot continue forever.
Because the Lamb of God has come into this world, and we are told to behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of this world.
Nor we are guilty too.
And we read about sins. They are listed in different catalogs.
And several books of the Bible.
Perhaps are all the sins that have ever been committed have been listed, and we can commit all of those sins because we have the capacity to do so.
For in my heart and your heart.
We find the seeds of every sin that is stained the pages of human history.
Man doesn't like to read his history here.
He likes to read his own history.
He would omit the record of sin.
He is glad to tell you about the struggles of the human race and the advancements that man has made in this world.
You know sin.
Is self will.
Sin is not merely the transgression of the Lord, I recommend, but sin is lawlessness.
Which is simply self willed.
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So as well to be informed as to the will of the flesh.
And as to the will of the Gentiles, and as to this self will that each of us possess in full measure.
As to our state.
We are lost.
It wasn't necessary for you to be taught how to do wrong.
You have known how ever since you came into this world.
There was that capacity.
For.
The exercise of sin.
And very likely you demonstrated that.
Right away.
Perhaps in a fit of timber?
Against your mother.
Who marched up to the door of death and brought you into this world?
And you can be thankful that you are here.
Here in this world.
The Son of Man hath power to forgive sins. Or there's a scripture in Luke.
About chapter 4.
That the Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins.
He took that title. He became a man in order that he might be your savior.
So you have come into the world where provision has been made for the remedy of sin.
And the remedy is for you as an individual.
In the gospel we do not preach.
With the idea of saving this world.
He is the Savior of the world, but the point in the gospel now is that God is taking out of this world of people for the name of Christ.
He is saving souls.
There is darkness in this world.
How did it come?
Men loved darkness because their deeds were evil.
Light reveals, and our blessed Lord was the light of the world. He came.
And the men loved darkness.
Because of their evil deeds.
And if you're in the darkness as to God's light of salvation, it's because the God of this world is blinded the mind of them that believe not.
Just one thin sheet of newspaper between me and that light will bring some measure of dimness to me.
And even if you took it outside and held it between you and the sun.
It wouldn't be bright as it was.
The God of this world has blinded the minds of them that believe not.
So we find ourselves not only in the world of uncertainty, but in the World of Darkness.
But God is light.
And he sent his son the light of the world.
And we can read about the light that shines in his face. And we were thinking about it.
That light of the glorious gospel of Christ.
And all may it shine to you tonight.
The Southern man came into the world to save that which was lost.
A little child, you know, was in the context of that passage.
There are those that entertain the idea that a little child goes to heaven because of its innocency.
That's far from the truth.
Not so.
A little child goes to heaven before the years of responsibility, because the Son of Man came in the world to take care of the needs of that soul.
Through his death on Calvary's cross.
The Son of Man came into the world to save that which was lost.
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And that being true of a little child.
Think again of that other verse in Luke 1910.
The Son of Man has come to sick and to save that which is lost.
And if he is seeking for you, that means that you have gone astray.
Only like sheep have gone astray, we have turned everyone to his own way.
That's our wills at work.
The will of man.
That causes all the trouble and the uncertainty that prevails in this world.
But the will of God is that not any should perish.
That all should come to repentance.
And to the knowledge of the truth.
Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
No precious is the thought, the force of that word grace.
For that brings God's blessing to us.
His unmerited favor.
And our only ground of entrance into the presence of God is His mercy.
While we have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
And we can rejoice in the righteousness that He has provided for the Sinner on the simple principle of faith.
And it is of faith that it might be by grace.
If it were any other way, it couldn't be by grace.
God loves you.
He made you. He gave you your being.
And you're responsible to him.
Men try to rid themselves of the thought of responsibility to God.
They've invented quite a theory of man's origin.
But don't you think that in South Carolina there were some scraps of metal on a shelf and the wind blew real hard?
And shook those scraps into a container that had a circulation of water in it, or something else. And these little scraps of metal turned into different shapes and became polished, and finally came fitted together. And a face came out with numbers on it and began to kick.
While the scientists might say that's a poor illustration.
Was just as reasonable as his theory. God made us, we are responsible to him.
And we're in trouble because of sin in this world.
There is uncertainty and there is darkness.
But there can be assurance.
And there's light for you.
The entrance of thy word giveth light, he says.
God has given us His precious Word as a light.
And thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
And that light is shone in the face of our blessed Lord. It still shines there.
And oh, what a lovely one he was down here as he went about and did good.
So man's condition is one of ruin.
And he is guilty before God because of his sins.
In Ephesians chapter 2.
We have.
A description.
Of the Sinner.
That is.
Different to any other.
Found elsewhere in the word.
And.
You who were dead in trespasses and sins.
Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world.
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According to the Prince of the Power of the Air.
The Spirit that thou worketh in the children of disobedience.
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past, and the lusts of our flesh.
Will filling the desires of the flesh and of the mind.
And where by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
There is reference here to those that were especially favored on the earth.
To whom the oracles of God were given.
And the service of the temple, the covenants, and so on.
But.
Although favored.
And to give a special opportunity for the development.
Of that which would be pleasing to God, they failed.
And they were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
By nature we are the children of Rome.
And we shall undergo God's judgment against sin.
If we do not take shelter under the precious blood of Christ.
If we do not turn to him in simple belief.
And accept the truth of John 524 Verily, verily, I say unto you.
He heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me.
Hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation.
You are a dead man.
How is this?
These are dead toward God.
That happened when sin came in.
And Adam fled.
And man has found himself at a distance, and he wills it that way.
Ever since that moment.
And you may not like the message tonight.
Because of that.
But this is the message that you need, because God loves you.
Always light and that shows up what we are.
And it ought to be that way.
So that we can appreciate his love.
God loves you.
We have the proof of it.
For he gave his son.
The only begotten Son.
Years ago, in World War One, my brother was in the service and my mother put on the front door where people could see it.
A flag, one star in it.
A little boy with his father was walking outside the city somewhere, and he was counting the stars on such flags.
To here one there in that house, that door, that window.
And even 3.
But they walked away into the country from the glow of the city lights and to the little boy looked up into the sky.
And the evening star was shining ever so brightly. And he said, Daddy.
Did God give his son?
He did not for the war.
But for you as a Sinner.
That you might have certainty.
That you might be delivered from the power of darkness.
And that you might have assurance.
And enjoy.
The light of heaven.
Well, here is a dead man. What does he do? He does nothing.
If there were a dead man right here, what could he do?
He can't do anything, Kenny. He's dead.
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That's the way we are. That's the way we were dead. Dead and trespasses and sins.
But suppose there was an extraordinary Dr. and he could.
Perform a little special kind of service and revive or impart life to him. What did the dead man do? He did nothing. What can you do? You can do nothing.
Just be the dead man.
The subject of works is taken up a little later in this chapter.
God, you know the Father and the Son, communicate life.
All is necessary for you is to receive it.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. It's that simple.
Whosoever should call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Is so simple.
Let a wayfaring man go. Fool need not err.
A young man.
Not so young, in his 60s.
Along with so bad it couldn't be taken out.
But as he realized his condition and the limit of his time, about four months to go.
He turned completely to the Lord.
And engaged in those precious things that are eternal.
For the things that are seen are temporal.
He was interested in.
The Games.
And who got the high score?
But I was all over.
Whatever insurance did it make?
Who won?
Or who lost?
All that occupied him now was that which was eternal.
He remarked one day.
It is so simple.
That most everyone misses the path.
Simple faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as the Savior of sinners.
So we are quickened together.
Raised up together.
Made sit together in heavenly places in Christ.
All that can be your destiny.
That can be true of you.
Sinner, whoever you may be, I was a Sinner.
God saved me.
He will save you.
He wants you for a purpose.
He would like to have you to be the object of his kindness.
He would like to display you in the ages to come.
Showing the exceeding riches of his grace and his kindness towards you through.
Christ Jesus.
Man lost paradise.
He can regain it.
It's gone.
But man as a Sinner even for such we are.
Can have that which is far better.
You can be created in righteousness and true holiness.
That's better than the innocent state that Adam was in.
All such are the blessings of the Gospel.
The power of the Word of God.
That tonight.
In simple faith, committing yourself to the Lord Jesus in confession of your sin.
In acknowledgement of yourself as being dead in trespasses and sins.
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You can be the recipient.
All that life everlasting.
The very life of Christ in new creation.
For by grace, are you saved?
By grace, are you saved? That's the source.
And the foundation, the work that was done, is the precious blood of Christ that was shed.
Being justified freely by his grace. Being justified by his blood.
Being justified by faith, we have peace with God.
Peace with God, all that is the assurance that you can enjoy for yourself as an individual.
By believing in the Lord Jesus the Savior.
By grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves. It's the gift of God.
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Or if you try works, you will go back to Mount Sinai.
With all of its Thunder, With all of its lightnings.
And you won't be able to find peace there. You will never be able to arrive at that point.
By yourself efforts.
All you need to come to Mount Zion, you need to taste that the Lord is gracious. You need to yield yourself to Him.
He is the Savior of sinners, the very One.
That you need.
And there's none other.
Another name under heaven, given among men, whereby we must be saved.
We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works.
They come afterwards.
You know the ploughing of the wicked is sin.
What was wrong with plowing?
He might need to plow to feed the baby.
But sin.
If he's doing that without the suitable submission.
And subjection.
To God, his Maker.
The plowing of the wicked is sin.
And all your righteousnesses are his filthy rags. So aren't we glad of the gospel of Christ, the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth?
What a difference it made in the Philippian jailer.
He was a hard hearted man.
And evidently took delight.
In inflicting pain.
And discomfort upon.
Two servants of the Lord, Paul and Silas.
But the light shone from heaven.
He came in trembling. Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
And the answer came immediately.
They told him to do himself no harm. He was contemplating self destruction.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
And what next?
All he was.
Tenderly.
Bathing and anointing the bleeding backs of those two men that he had thrust into the inner prison.
The Gospel made the difference.
The power of God and the salvation.
And the apostle went to.
Thessalonica.
And they received the word there with much assurance.
Or is a positive message.
And they turn to God from idols to serve.
Turn to God from idols to serve the living and true God.
And to wait for his Son from heaven.
That is the power of the gospel, isn't it?
Or it was that power of the gospel that saved the chief of sinners, and he was the most religious man in his day.
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He was bending all of his energies against those that believed in the Lord Jesus.
That's the power of the gospel and if you are here tonight, depending on what you are doing.
Custard deadly doing down.
And look into the face of that blessed Savior who was lifted upon that cross to die for you.
You know you were four of we were.
But how is it?
Verse 13 But now in Christ Jesus ye, who sometimes were forever made nigh.
By the blood of Christ.
Made nigh.
You heard about the blood of Christ Friday in the Gospel.
Again, that message of the preciousness of the blood of Christ was repeated last evening.
And here we read again about the blood of Christ and what it does for us.
Brings us nigh.
The precious blood of Christ.
Will you ridicule that?
Some scoff at it.
And to want their children to hear about it.
But remember, it's the basis, the ground.
Of salvation.
It is the work that was accomplished at the cross, the finished work of Christ.
That saves the soul.
There are those that believe you know in blood when it's a question of a good meal on the table.
They still believe in blood, you know, when they go to the hospital.
And.
They take blood in their veins that's provided for them. Transfusions perhaps it's called.
And they even believe in blood on the battlefield when they want you to go.
For some purpose that they call worthy.
But coming to the blood of Christ? Oh no.
And tonight, once you take shelter.
Under the precious blood of Christ.
And.
Find yourself admitted.
Into the household of God.
And coming to the enjoyment of all these precious blessings.
That are ours in Christ in the heavenly.
You can be certain.
We believe and are sure.
You can be a child of the day.
Taken out of the darkness of this world.
You can be positively certain about your destiny, the future that's yours, by faith in Christ Jesus.
And you can be in the enjoyment of the light of life.
Let's sing precious blood.
Spread shots pressure blood of Jesus.
On Calvary.
And forever.
Sinners.
Get born.
Let's just love that.
Every day.
Now is open.
He says made.
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Like Crimson?
You've been scarlet gold.
On, stripes on.
Like a made them.
Oil.
Oh, believe it.
No reason.
For the.