Gospel—R. Bauman
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General meetings weekend, August 1973. Gospel by brother Bauman.
Proverbs, 2525.
As cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
And friends, we've invited you here tonight to tell you good news.
You can get all the bad news you want from the world every day in the newspapers. That's all it can give you is bad news.
But good news is from above, from God himself, from the far countries.
And as cold water is to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. What is the good news? We're going to tell you about it tonight. I could take at random any of 100 verses and it would be good news. But I'm going to take one just so there's no doubt about what we're talking about.
John 524 The Lord Jesus Christ says, Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, shall not commit the judgment. It's passed already from death under life. There is nothing better than that. That's good news.
I want one more verse or two before we start singing. Sometimes I feel that way. Jeremiah 2328 If you want to turn to a turn to us. Jeremiah 2328 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream.
But either hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully.
Now, we do have good news, but we wouldn't be faithful if we didn't warn you to. What good is hearing good news again and again if you don't make it good to your own soul? And I trust and praise it will be given forth faithfully tonight. In fact, there's one more verse comes to mind. Deuteronomy 30, Deuteronomy 30.
And verse.
18I denounce unto you this day that she shall surely, Perry, you say that isn't good news. No, but that's giving the word of God faithfully.
19 I call heaven and earth the record, this day against you that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing.
And praise be to God, He gives you the answer. Choose life. I set before your life and death. Choose life.
Let's turn to the hymn sheet #25.
Time is gliding swiftly by death and judgment both draw nigh to the arms of Jesus. Fly be in time. Oh I pray you count the cost here. The fatal lion is crossed, and your Chrysler soul be lost. The in time the 1St 3 stances with the chorus each time.
Life at best is very brief, like a falling of the least like.
Power.
You may ask. You may ask why we're here telling it.
Well, the apostle Paul said, woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel. He had a sense of urgency in his soul. Before we sing another hymn, let's turn to King. Second King, just for a few verses there on this point. Second King.
7th chapter, Second Kings 2.
I'm sorry, Second King 7.
And starting at verse 3.
The marriage was under siege. Everybody was in trouble.
They were doomed. Inside or out, didn't make any difference. Unless God interceded in a marvelous way, it was doomed.
Verse three. There were four leprous men at the entering of the gate, and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die? If we say we will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city and we shall die there. If we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore, come and let us fall into the host of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we shall live. If they kill us, we shall but die. And they rose up in the twilight to go under the camp of the Syrians, and when they were come to the other most part of the camp.
Of theory of a whole, there was number man there.
They, so to speak, cast themselves from God. There wasn't any hope in the scene at all, right into the enemy's arms, so to speak. For the Lord has made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of Chariots and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host. And they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel had fired against us, the kings of the Hittites, the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us. Wherefore they rose and fled in the twilight, and left their tent, their horses, their ***** even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent and did eat and drink.
And carried them silver and gold and ramen, and went and hit it and came again and entered into another tent.
And carried dents also. And went and hit it. Then they said one to another.
We do not well, this day is a day of good tidings and we hold our peace.
Friends, that's the way it is with one that says.
He's got it everything. He's not only saved from the hell that he deserves, but he's saved for glory. And the treasures are beyond description. And if we would hold our peace, we do not well, it wouldn't be right. We would say as lepers do, we do not well, we hold our peace.
Well, we trust that you'll hear the good news tonight. We trust that you'll hear what we've got in the Lord Jesus Christ through the grace of God. Let's turn to another hymn on the sheet, 30.
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Waiting will not save me. Helpless, guilty, lost thy life in my ear is mercies cry. If I wait, I can but die. Waiting will not save me. The 1St 3 standards.
Weeping will not save me.
Though my favorite.
Part of it is making proud of our day to make it. We really can't go out of life. Everyone's got the party.
You're working well.
I forgot the Lord or not today we need to talk to you and pray. You need to be honest. All of our friends and everything.
Hello, what is your name?
For all the products that I want to see about the same thing.
About our first problems, you know, the rest of the day is great and you know, I don't have a lot of hands together and it's amazing.
Well, the subject tonight really is your precious soul.
And eternity.
To have a soul.
It's going to go on forever. The question is where? Eternity.
Is a powerful word.
Not let's fake it. It only appears once in the whole word of God, just one, but it has a tremendous effect. Think about the word eternity. You're going to have to think about it. Eternity if you can think in this hot weather of some of the terrible snowstorms and blizzards that we've had in the past, one that went for several days and covered thousands of miles of snow.
Drifting for feet high. And if one snowflake melded every thousand years.
When all that snow was gone, eternity, so to speak, wouldn't even be beginning. It's a powerful word, but your soul and eternity are very important subjects.
Will be turning to a few verses. It's good to turn the verses in the Word of God turn to Job 36 chapter 36 of Job the verse comes to mind.
That, I think, will bring out the solemnity of this thought. Job 36 and verse 18.
Because there is right. Beware lest he takes thee away with his stroke. Then a great ransom cannot deliver thee. That little verse has three parts that should make one think. The fact, the possibility, and the impossibility. The fact is, there is a rise. The fact is that everyone that's still in this sin has a wrath of God of biting on him and her.
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That's the fact. The possibility is that he takes me away with his stroke. You don't know when it is. I don't know when it is, but it's a possibility. It may be tonight. The impossibility is in. A great ransom cannot deliver thee. It's too late, forever too late. One second after death it's forever too late is decided. The civil verse is a powerful verse turned to Ecclesiastes for a couple other verses along this string. Ecclesiastes.
The preacher.
Chapter 9.
Verse 12 Please the opposite. 912 For man also knoweth not his time. As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
And Ecclesiastes 11.
And verse 8 But if a man lived many years, and rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness.
They shall be many, they shall be many. The blackness of darkness.
Forever, eternity, eternity don't get mixed up with a little bit of time we're talking about down here.
Don't let Satan fool you in that way when we're talking about eternity.
Little bit of time here is as nothing.
There was a man, his name was Captain Blount, who sailed a lot. He had a regiment with him.
One of his favorite harbors was Malta, and his regiment was stationed at Malta.
When he was older and he was allowed to stay in what they call the castle there overlooking the beautiful harbor.
One day he was standing in front of the window.
Is it evening? As the sun was setting and he saw beautiful, magnificent sailing vessels coming into the harbor. It was a beautiful sight, and as he stood there and looked at it, suddenly it stopped and it shuddered.
It vibrated its song right before his eyes.
And it was moving fast. He had heard the gospel. I'm sure you have. He had heard about how quick a life is snuffed out, how there isn't really any time. There's no tomorrow. There's only tonight for you. He had heard it. Captain Ball said. He dropped on his knees then and there. And he said, Lord, oh Lord, that's the shipwreck of my soul. That's what's going to happen to me if you don't step in, Lord, now and save me.
You know the Lord saved him. You know the Lord saved him. He loves to tell about it. There was a dramatic experience.
There was a sign. There was an engraving that struck me when I read about it over the fireplace in an old English inn.
And and over the fireplace where these large words God a moment.
And Eternity 1 visitor. When he came in, he asked the owner of the inn.
Well, everybody knows what those words are, but why are they there? What does it mean? He said. If you look at the other wall, you'll get the answer.
And it said, God sees you a moment.
Which flees you, and eternity which awaits you. And with that he gave him a gospel.
It's solemn, isn't it? You have to deal with God. He knows all about you. He knows your sins, He knows everything. He's a righteous, holy God. God who sees you in a moment, a moment which, please, you don't know when that moment is. David had a fence in his soul that as the Lord liveth and as your soul liveth, is going to step between me and them.
Just a step, that's all you have. Just a step. The only problem is you don't know which step it is. In Daniel you'll read where the king was told. Your breath is in the hand of the Lord and so is yours. It's no difference the king or the beggar. It's no different. God gives life and God takes it back.
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There's a step between you and death and and your breath is in the hand of the Lord.
Just one more thought on this before we get into the scriptures. On a tombstone of a lad who died at 17 in Little Country Cemetery. It had these words on the tombstone. Reader, one moment, stop and think. I'm in eternity.
But thou are on the brink.
That's the way it is with you tonight. Everyone here that saved doesn't mind this kind of a gospel.
But everyone that's lost Satan's going to be working with you. Don't let him scare you. Don't let him fool you. You're young, you've got a lot of time. But this boy was 17. Praise the Lord, he's asleep in Jesus. And he wanted to warn others. And that's what we want to do. We want to warn others.
Was a man who made his living in a strange way, and I believe this will put the point across if I failed so far. He lived up in the northern part where they were cliffed, many jagged cliffs, and he made his living collecting rare eggs. They ate them, they loved them, they sold them.
He was agile and he was strong and powerful. One day as he was coming home, he always had his rope and accrued him with him. As he was coming home, he saw on there with some beautiful eggs in them. He was alone and they don't often do this, but he thought I'm going to get those eggs. And so he put the spike into the rock and he secured the rope and with a little steep platform was just a board. He lowered it to the point that he thought it was opposite the lift.
Now most of the time these ledges are in, you don't see them except for the other side and that's the way it was here. He lowered himself down and got onto the seat and he thought he had quite a ways to go. And then he started that that rope swinging. He had a lot of muscle and he knew how to use them and pretty soon he was a swinging over that big golf towards the lid.
And justice, as he got to the point where he knew he could jump and reach the left with his arms, he lifted himself up and he dropped and he made it, balanced himself. And he was just congratulating himself when he realized, and he's never done it before. He let go of the rope.
He had let go of the rope.
Now, these men are trained to think fast, and he thought fast. First of all, he knew there wasn't anyone around, and secondly, there was no one else to lower another rope or to help come in as he did. He was doomed. He was doomed. And he looked, and he saw that rope as it swung out when he released it. Move away.
And it came back, and then he thought, two more swings and I'll never get it again.
He had to make it. And he said to himself, and he said to others, when he told this, it was now or never, now or never. And that broke playing toward him, and he sprang and made it. And that's the way I feel tonight. It's now or never really. If you're still lost, it's now or never. The Lord Jesus Christ wants you to be saved. He came here for that very purpose that you can be saved.
And it's really now or never. The clock of life is wound but once. No man has the power to tell just when the hands will stop at late or early hours. To lose ones wealth is said indeed. To lose ones health is more, but to lose ones soul.
Such a loss no man can restore those One soul is such a loss no man can restore its forever and all eternity.
What are you going to do? What are you going to do? I can tell you simply, you got to get saved.
How do you get saved? It's through faith. Faith a very simple thing. Faith it says, for by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourself. It's a gift of God, not of work, lest any man boast. Oh, how wonderful it is. Faith. Faith not in any church, faith not in any system. Faith and nothing down here. Faith in a person.
In a man, in the man Christ Jesus, the Lord of glory, we commend him tonight.
Faith for by grace are ye saved through faith that not of yourself. It's a gift of God. If you want to be saved tonight and before we're done, I trust everyone will have an urgent desire to be saved. If you want to be saved tonight, you can be saved. If you say, all right, I want to be saved, but I don't have faith, That doesn't matter. If you want to be saved, ask God for the faith. He'll give it to you. He'll give it to you. It's a gift. It's a gift. That's the only way you can get it.
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And it doesn't take a great faith to be safe if it's faith of God.
If it's faith of God, that's all you need. I like the letters in the word faith.
Forsaking all, I trust him. It's putting your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, believing what God said, accepting the work of himself on the cross, being washed in his precious blood. And you're saying there's no doubt about it. But it takes faith. If you don't have it, ask God for it. There's no excuse for anyone here tonight not being saved, because faith itself that saves is a gift of God.
Oh, it's wonderful, isn't it?
The good news that God has for us, a little faith is all you need if you have a little faith.
In a strong plane you can walk across the street, but if you got very strong faith in a rotten plank, you're going in and it's the face that counts, not how much.
And that's really what I have on my heart.
It's the kind of faith, not how much. Turn to Luke Gospel Chapter 7. Luke's Gospel, Chapter 7.
And verse 36 One of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him, and he went into the Pharisees house and sat down to meet, and behold a woman in the city, which was a Sinner.
Once he knew that Jesus sat at least in the Pharisees house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, stirred his feet behind him weeping, began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment. Now when the Pharisee which had bid him saw it.
Fake within himself, saying this man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman. This is the touch of him, for she is a Sinner.
And Jesus answering, said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee, verse 47.
Her sins, which are many, are forgiven.
Verse 48 He said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven.
And they that said, at least with him, began to say within themselves, Who is this that forgive us sins also? And he said to the woman, Thy face has saved thee, go in peace.
OMC all in a wonderful.
This woman was a Sinner, but she knew where Jesus was. She knew where to find Him.
She wanted to be with him.
She had faith, she exercised it, she acted on it, and the Lord Jesus Christ said to her those precious words.
Thy faith and safety by sins are forgiven. Who is this that could forgive sins? Also of the Lord of glory. It's the Savior of sinners. His authority is from God because He's very God himself. He came here for that very reason.
It's a faithful saying worthy of all acceptation. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. It takes space, but God gives it to you. Now. Real faith is believing what God says. I mean here in the heart. I read a story once.
Of a tightrope Walker who was one of the most famous in the state.
And just for an act, just for publicity, I don't know why else he stretched one of those ropes at Niagara Falls, across the Tavern there, across one of those stretches from the United States to Canada.
The crowd, of course, was tremendous.
And it seemed like hours before he attempted it, but he walked across.
And he walked back, and as he stood on that platform, the applause was tremendous.
And then they put a rope down and they pulled up a wheelbarrow that had a groove in his wheels, but it was a wheelbarrow. And he put that on the rope and the crowd became silent. Would be going to go across again pushing a wheelbar.
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And he started across and came back. He looked down and he saw a little boy looking up with his mother there in the crowd. That little boy had a look on his face and just told him he had space, that he knew he could do it. And he said, boy, do you believe I can push this wheelbarrow across there to the other side? All the boys said, yes, sure.
He said. Boy, you believe I could push it across if you were in it? Sure, sure I do.
Well, come on up here and get in. And that boy turned and ran, grabbed his mother.
How many of you believe the Lord Jesus Christ can save you and haven't accepted it? What good is it if you believe it if you don't accept Him?
You need him. Eternity lies ahead. That isn't the face we're talking about.
The first Napoleon law to put his army and his regiment in review. He loved to do it.
When he did it, he did it on a white charger, always on a white charge. One day he was putting his regiment in review for the grand site and he let loose the reins and let him drop, and that white charger took off. He was in danger.
A private stepped out of the ranks, and at the risk of his own life, he stopped that horse and he handed the reins back to the emperor.
The Emperor looked at him and he said thank you, Captain.
And the private set of which regiment, Sir?
So happy with that kind of a response, Napoleon said. Of my own personal honor guard.
That man went back to his own regiment and he indicated to his fellows what happened and what rank he was, and he walked over to the honor guards and took his place as captain.
Let's say.
When the Lord Jesus Christ said.
But if you call on me, if you come unto me, thou shalt be saved. I accepted him.
And I'm saying I've taken my place. There's one that's on his way to glory.
That's faith. It's a gift of God.
When that man said thank you, captain, when the poignant said thank you, captain, all he said was, Which regiment, Sir?
He had no doubt. I hope there isn't any doubt in your heart. Now let's look at the different kinds of faith in a few minutes that are left. Luke 8, the 8th chapter of Luke and verse 43. It doesn't matter what kind of face it is, as I was trying to say, if it's of God, you'll be saved.
Luke chapter 8 and at the end of verse 42, as he went, the people thronged him, elected by blessed Savior. It always happened. The people thronged him when he was here. They couldn't get close enough to him. And a woman having an issue of blood, 12 years which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, came behind him and touched the border of his garment, and immediately her issue of blood.
And Jesus said Who touched me when all denied Peter and they they were with him, said Master the multitudes wrongly and Prezi.
And saith thou who touched me? And Jesus said somebody has touched me.
For I perceive that virtue is gone out of me. That was a touch of faith.
That was a touch of faith, and virtue went out of him, and she was saved. It's a wonderful thing, you know, when 1 reaches out to the Lord Jesus Christ in faith, it doesn't matter how weak the faith is, if it's faith of God, you're going to be saved. He said virtue is gone out of me. And when the woman saw that she was not his, she came trembling and falling down before him. She declared unto him before all the people for what 'cause she touched him, and how she was healed immediately.
And he said unto her, Daughter, Be of good comfort. Thy faith has made the whole go and see.
Daughter, a new relationship. She's in the family of God. She saved. She's a sister of mine now in the Lord. Why? Faith. Faith. She took hold. She knew. If you just turn for one verse to see that turn to March 6th, how did she know?
Mark chapter 6 and verse 56. We'll just read it quickly.
Mark 656 Withers whoever he entered in the villages, or cities or country that needs to stick in the street, and besought him that they might touch, if it were but the border of his garment, and as many as touched.
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Were touched it or him were made whole. Whosoever touched the quarter of Jesus garment in space was made whole. She knew that. She knew that she was pivot, but that her face wasn't powerful and strong. No, she just slipped in behind and managed to touch the head of his garment. She knew what would happen.
And when she was found out and brought to him, she trembled.
It wasn't the craziest faith, was it? But it was faith that God and praise the Lord, it always worked.
It always works, you know, during the Civil War, the.
Confederates were losing pretty bad towards the end the southern army and it was a sad sight.
And they were retreating. And as they crossed the Tennessee River with one group in battalion.
Smallpox took over, and that's a sad thing. There wasn't any way to help those boys, just to keep them as comfortable as they could. There was an old ward master who'd been in the Southern army for a long time. He was a real veteran, a rugged fellow, but he had a kind heart, and they put him in charge of the tent that followed way far back, and as they moved slowly, they buried the dead. It was a smallpox war, and he was in charge of it, and he tried to comfort those boys.
On their dying bed. Well, he walked through one tent and he saw a lad there, just a little fella. He shouldn't even have been there, maybe 16 or 17. He was dying. The ward master went up to him and put his hand on his forehead, thought how hot he was and feverish. He knew there wasn't much time. He got some water, sat down next to him, put a straw in his mouth and let him take a little bit of refreshing water. And the lad opened his eyes and look at the ward master.
He said ward Master, I'm dying. I'm dying, aren't I? The word master said Lad, you're dying.
We're all dying sometime lads, to dying.
Master, he said, I'm not ready. I'm not ready to die. My mother told me about these things she read in the Isles of Bible. I went to Sunday school. I know you have to be ready. I'm not ready to die.
He was frantic, the word Master said take it easy boy, will make his comfortable as we can take some more water. He says. Anything else I can do for you now? Yes, get the chaplain, Ward Master. Get him quick. Ward Master said I can't do that. I can't leave this regiment. You know that I can't do it.
He plead with him to get the chaplain. He said I can't do it. The ward master with tears in his eyes, back to wait from that cot and went on about his work. He kept thinking about that lad and he went back a few hours later to see if he had gone yet and passed away. The boy was still breathing hard. The boy said, did you get the chaplain? He said, boy, I told you I can't do that. He said, I'm not ready to die. I'm not ready to die. He says, is there anybody here with the Bible?
Anybody here can tell me what I should do? I'm not ready, Ward Master, the word master said. Well, I can't do anything for you. I don't know anything about these things.
They remembered the lad there, Walter was sick who liked to quote the word of God. So the word master said, I'll go ask John, Maybe he can tell you He went. Several minutes later he came back, he sat down with his boy and he said, he told me the verse from the Bible and I think I've got it memorized.
The boy said, what is it? He said God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him shall not ferry, but have everlasting life. He said. John said all you have to do is believe the Lord Jesus Christ that he died for you and ask him Son. Now that's what John said. Put his hand on his brow and the boy flows his eyes and his lips started to move.
And then he was quiet. The ward master figured he was gone. He left for a few minutes, came back later, felled his forehead, and the boy opened his eyes.
He said, Ward master, I want to tell you something, it works. It really works. He was so happy and the ward master looked at that boy and as he took all the energy could to tell the ward master that it works, the Lord Jesus Christ does say he passed on. He went to be with Jesus asleep in Jesus. The word master told this story to most the people in that boy's time.
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And as he told that story, this old veteran stood there with tears in his eyes. And those big rough hands described this. He says that boy was quite a valiant boy, but he wanted me to tell you.
About his dying day and the Lord laughter said, now I want to tell you two personally that it works. He said, I tried it, it really works. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. What a wonderful, wonderful thing. Friends, we're not telling you anything here that doesn't work. It really works. This woman didn't have the strongest face. She just had the touch, just the touch of his garment, a touch of face, but it worked.
And he said, thy faith has made the whole go in peace. Oh, let's turn to Luke 5, Chapter 5.
Luke 5 and verse 12 It came to pass when he was in a certain city, behold, a man full of leprosy, who sings, Jesus fell on his face, and bethought him, saying, Lord, if thou will, Thou canst make me clean. He put forth his hand and touched him, saying, I will.
Be thou clean immediately the leprosy departed from it.
But that's a plea of faith. We've had a touch of faith. It wasn't very much, but here's a plea of faith. He knew the Lord Jesus could, He just didn't know he would. He said If thou will, thou care, and he plead with him.
That was enough. If the faces of God, dear friends, that's enough. What did the Lord Jesus say? I will, I will. Him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out, He said I will, and immediately.
Because dear friend, when you turn to the Lord Jesus Christ in faith it immediately it's not. That's how fast I was saved. It doesn't take any doing. It's been done. The Lord Jesus Christ did the suffering and the dying and shed his precious blood. It is done.
Finished and all you have to do is accept the offer of salvation.
Through him. Oh how wonderful the story is. Well, we have a plea of faith.
This dear leper who was full of leprosy knew that Jesus could. He just didn't know that he would.
It was a businessman that got saved in a little village. He was well known.
When he got saved, like many of us, when we get saved, we can't wait to tell everybody else in the word we bumble.
The Lord understands that, I believe, but this man just couldn't wait to tell the whole village. What did he do? He rented the hall. He rented the hall and he put an advertise in the newspaper. Anybody that wants to be saved and have their sins forgiven cometh so and so time each night.
And it's free. So the first night quite a few caves and he gave out, in his own little awkward way, the gospel of God's grace. The second night there was fewer, and by the 3rd and 4th night he realized it was just a couple of people and finally an empty room.
He was discouraged.
Finally said to himself.
What doesn't make any difference? I'm still going to tell them some way. I'm going to tell them because they need to be saved. They need to be saved. And so he put another ad in the paper. And this ad said whoever in the village wanted all their debts paid should bring evidences of all their debts to his office. On Saturday morning, two weeks hence, he gave the date between 10:00 and noon and they will be paid in full.
When all that took that village like wildfire, everybody was talking about it. And as the days went by, approaching the Saturday, they began to get skeptical and they talk over the fence and they talk at work. One would say, do you really think old John is going to pay all your bills if you walk in there? No, I don't. I think he's just mad because what happened with his fall? I don't think so. We'd just be a laughing stock at the time and pretty soon.
Skepticism came in. Well, the morning came, and at 10:00 he was in his office waiting.
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But nobody was around.
In a few minutes, a few collected across the street and sort of looked at the building.
By about 10:15, one man came down the street. He looked both ways to see if anybody was looking and he started in the door of the office.
They got into the hall. The private office door was open. John said if you come to have your debts paid, he suggests I did. I've got all the bills right here. He said come on in. He went in, presented the bill. He added them up on the machine and wrote the check that they're paid in full, Don't worry about them before 12:00. Two more men came in, but the rest of them were leery. They didn't believe it. It was too good.
At 12:00 he said, Now you men can go, but first I want to tell you something.
Lord Jesus Christ has paid the price to forgive you for all your sins. And he gave them the gospel. And those dear men with tears in their eyes lifted. And as they went out, the crowd was then there and they said, what did he do? Did he really pay your bills? And they said, yes, he did all of them in full, just like he said, let's go. They started to go in and they said it's too late. 12:00 was the deadline. It's five after. I'm sorry.
That's the way it is. They knew he could. He had plenty of money. There was number problem with paying those debts, but they didn't know if he would. There's no doubt about it with the Lord Jesus Christ.
He will. What did he say to the leper? That's all He said. I will, I will. Old dear friends, if you want your sins forgiven, you need your sins forgiven. Come to the Lord Jesus Christ and it is in full. It was done at the cross almost 2000 years ago. It cost God everything. He had His own beloved Son, my Savior. It cost the Lord Jesus Christ his precious blood.
But he paid the price and it's now being offered to everyone in this room.
Everyone in this building, and some of you may sit there because Satan's want to make sure you have doubts.
You're a skeptical. You're saying he's just telling something. Don't believe it. It's true. It really works. Turn to Mark Gospel chapter 10. March Gospel chapter 10.
And verse 45.
We had a touch of faith. We had a plea of faith. Here's a man that gave out a cry of faith. The Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give his life a ransom for many. Isn't that a beautiful verse? The Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, came here, and he tells you why. He told you why before, and He tells you why now. He came to save you, to give his life a ransom for many.
Kings, prime ministers, presidents today.
Travel long distances to other countries, but they don't tell why they're going.
And when they come back, they don't tell what they've done. But not so.
The Creator of this world, Not so the Lord of glory. When the Lord Jesus Christ left that place in glory, He came here in obedience to His Father's will. The Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world, and He wants you to know why He came, and He accomplished His purpose.
And it's now being offered to you.
And they came to Jericho, and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus the Sonata MIAs set by the highways side, begging. And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, Jesus, thou son of David.
Have mercy on me. Oh, you know it says in Psalms 86 Thou Lord are good and ready to forgive and plenteous and mercy unto all them that call upon thee. He's plenteous and mercy blind part of me is used the right words. He said, Lord, he said, thou son of David, not Jesus of Nazareth, He owned who he was and he said have mercy. Have mercy came to the right man, and when they heard that it was Jesus.
He began to cry out the cry of faith, but many charged him that he should hold his peace.
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All dear friends, that's the way Satan, this hold your peace. If there's anything here tonight that feels that they ought to be saved. Don't listen to Satan because he's getting active. I know he's getting active. He did it to me. He'll do it to you. They did it to blind Bartimaeus. They said hold your peace. Don't cry out. But what did he do? He cried out the more a great deal. Alfred David, have mercy on me and Jesus stood still.
Jesus stood still.
That's the cry of faith. That's the cry of faith that stopped my Savior. The cry of faith always doesn't. He stood still and he commanded him to be called and they called the blind man. They said be a good comfort. Why is he call as these?
Oh, how wonderful it is. And he casting his way, his garment rose, and he came to Jesus. And Jesus answered and said, What wealth that I should do unto thee. The blind man said unto him, Lord, that I might receive my fight. And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way, thy face has saved thee.
Or made the whole and immediately he received his sight. Well, we had the touch of faith. We had the plea of faith. We got a cry of faith. And I want to look at one more before we finish. And that's at Luke 23. There's a look of faith here, Luke 23.
Verse 32. There were also two other malefactors LED with him to be put to death.
And when they were come to the place which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, friends, they crucified the Lord of glory, They crucified the blessed Savior. The world hung him on a cross.
They crucified him and the malefactors, one on the right hand and the other on the left, and then said, Jesus father forgive them, for they know not what they do. They parted agreement and cast lots, and the people stood beholding.
And the rulers also, when they derided him, saying he saved others, let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.
Verse 40, Verse 39. And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ.
Save thyself enough. But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? And we indeed justly we receive the due reward of our deeds. But this man has done nothing amiss.
And he said to Jesus, Lord, he was hanging.
Cross. He was exhausted. This thief was dying, and the one in the middle was dying too. My blessed Savior.
He was to shed his precious blood on that cross and give himself lay down his life.
So that he could save me, and you, if you'll have it. And this thief looked at that dying man, my blessed Savior.
And that was a look of faith. That was a look of faith and.
And he said, Lord, Remember Me when thou cometh to thy Kingdom.
Immediately.
I love it, don't you? Immediately, because the Lord Jesus said this day you don't have to wait. This day thou shalt be with feet in paradise. Well, that's the way it is. It doesn't matter how strong the face is, if it's faith of God, you're going to be saved. And I'm going to ask you, are you saved yet? Are you saved yet? Why not? If you're not? It isn't God's fault in Timothy Reid that God would have all men to be saved.
But God will, God will have all men to be saved and to come into the knowledge of the truth. That's the will of God. And in Peter we read the Lord is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. That's the will of the Lord.
If you're not saved yet, you're going against the will of God, you're going against the will of Lord.
And if you end up in hell, if you end up in the Lake of Fire, you end up in a place that wasn't even prepared for you. It was prepared for the devil and his Angel.
God is so concerned about your soul that he's sure you hear the gospel again tonight, even if it's going forth poorly. It's the gospel and you've heard about it. God has placed the cross of Christ right in your path, and the Lord Jesus Christ has shed his precious blood here on this earth, and that blood will cleanse you from all sins. And if you go to hell, it's your fault. It will not be God. He isn't willing that you perish. The Lord isn't willing to perish. God would have you be saved.
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Go against the will of God, against the will of the Lord. Yet to trample under foot the blood of Jesus Christ, you have to climb over his precious cross and go to a place that wasn't even prepared for you. If you get into hell, it's a solemn thing, how many people are going to hell? And it isn't that easy to get there because God's made it too easy to be paid.
Are you saved yet tonight? I hope there isn't any in their seats in their sin. I hope there isn't any that still have to think of that word eternity. Eternity with anything but happiness and bliss. Because my eternity is going to be in glory with my blessed Savior. Turn to John 5.
John 5. For our last scripture on this point, or there may be one, but John 5.
After this there was a piece of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now at Jerusalem by the sheep market, a pool which is called in Hebrew Tong Bethesda, having five portions, and in these lay a great multitude of important folk. A blind hall withered, waiting for the moving of the water, for an Angel went down at a certain season into the pool.
And troubled the water, and then the first after the troubling of the water, whosoever the first after the troubling of the water stepped in, was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. And a certain man was there which had an affirmative 30 and eight years. How old are you, 29? Well, you've had it infirmity, you've had sinned sickness, and it's sad. It's a terrible sickness. It's a disease under death and eternity in hell. You've had a 20 and nine years. Are you 39? You've had it 30 and nine years.
59 you've had a 50 or 9 years, this man had a 30 and eight years. And when Jesus saw him why and knew that he had been now a long time, in that case he said, well, thou behold.
Sir, I have no man Well, I'm telling you tonight there's the man Christ Jesus Job says there is no days man betwixt us that he connected with God. Man the God there's no days of man will praise the Lord. There is there's one God, one meat eater between God and man. It's the man Christ Jesus. He said I have no man but the man was there and the Jesus said rise and take up thy bed and walk and immediately.
The man was made whole and took up his bed and walked. And verse 15, the man departed and told the Jews that it was Jesus. Oh, there's no doubt about who did it. It was Jesus. Nobody else could do it. It took faith and it was immediate. And now, just for one more verse, Luke.
Five verse 30. Luke 5.
The scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, and said, Why do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners? And Jesus answered and said, They that are whole need not a position, but they that are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
There was a Guild by philanthropist for handicapped children.
The skills in Philadelphia was called the Guild of the Brave Poor Things.
They did marvelous things for these crippled children, and one day they had a great party and they invited a newspaper reporter of the local paper to come and write a feature article. He went, and when he got into the hall he saw the crutches and the wheelchairs and the recruitment of their misery, of their handicap. He stood there and thought for a while. He went in, and as he went in he heard the singing and the happiness and he saw the happy faces, and he couldn't believe it. He stayed. An hour was the most happy hour he'd spent.
He came out and got into the hall and he stood there and looked at those crutches again in the wheelchair.
And he heard a stop and more sobbing. He looked around and sitting on a staircase for the girl.
Neatly dressed, beautiful girl, a little girl, he says. What are you crying about? She sobbed and sobbed, and she finally said.
I can't go in there with them because I just ain't got nothing wrong with me.
Dear friends, I came not to call righteous, but sinners to repentance.
You're qualified. You're a candidate for heaven. Jesus Christ came for sinners. We can't be proud of it. But anyone that says I'm not a Sinner disqualifies himself. You can go in. You can go in. You're a Sinner. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Sometimes I think the problem is we disqualify ourselves or we just don't realize the goodness of God. We just don't realize that God has that much love in his heart toward us.
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Want to give you one final story. I know we're out of time, but at the turn of the century.
At the Ohio State Penitentiary, they had trouble like we have today in penitentiaries, but not so bad because there was still the death penalty.
And the warden decided, he talked to the governor and he said, governor, if we give them an ascendant to be good and watch their behavior for six months, I think we'll be over the hump. If you could think of a reward and incentive. And the governor thought, and he finally said, I'm going to give five parties.
To the best five in behavior for six months. You and your assistant and the chaplain can decide who, but don't tell them what the reward is. They knew there was going to be a ward, but none of the prisoners knew what they had a fine six months and when the day came.
The celebrities were all gathered at the House State Penitentiary. The governor, Lieutenant governor, the warden, of course, many officials, the chaplain, they were all on the platform and they marched the 12 under prisoners in.
Set them down and they were quiet.
The governor started by speaking and he told them, I'm going to tell you now.
We're going to give five full pardons, 5 men who have been disciplinary examples are going to have full pardons and go free today. Then he started to give his speech and the men got restless and there was a lot of disturbance and the chaplain moved over and said pardon me governor, if you believe.
Tell them the names now. Since you've told them what you're going to do, tell them the names now. I don't believe the men could spend it any longer.
So the governor said, all right, he looked at his list. He said Reuben Johnson.
Reuben Johnson, I hold in my hand apart. You're pardoned. Fully pardoned. You're free. Come and get your pardon.
It was a long pause. The governor was a little embarrassed, he said. Reuben Johnson.
I have your pardon. Please come forward and receive your pardon. You're free.
The governor said to the warden, are all the men here? And the warden said, yes Sir, they're all here.
Not one of them is in six days, not one of them is in the hospital. They're all here and all accounted for.
So where's Ruben Johnson?
So the warden called out. Ruben Johnson. You're free. There's a pardon. Come and get it.
No response, the warden, said the chaplain. Where's Reuben?
The Chapel looked where Reuben usually sits. He's been there 19 years. The chaplain spotted him right away.
And they looked right at it. They said, Reuben Johnson, they're calling you.
The governor has pardoned you. You can go free now. The Rupert, come up here and get your partner and all the heads turned towards Rupen Andrew.