Gospel—K. Harman
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Hello. Hello.
Is that good enough?
Is there any water?
Want to welcome everyone to the Gospel meeting tonight?
And I'd like you to open your song sheets to number.
6 front page #6.
God and mercy sent his Son to a world by sin undone. Jesus Christ was crucified.
It was for sinners Jesus died. Oh, the glory of the grace shining in the Savior's face, telling sinners.
From above, God is light and God is love.
Number six.
God in mercy sent his Son.
To the world by.
Sin undone, Jesus Christ was crucified.
Twas for sinners Jesus died.
All the glory.
Of the grace.
Shining in the Savior.
Telling sinners from.
A bomb.
God is life and God is love.
Love, sin, and death no more shall reign.
Jesus died and lives.
Again.
In.
The glory.
See him God's supreme delight.
Oh, the glory.
All the great shining.
In the Savior.
Face.
Knowing sinners from.
God is life and God is.
Oh heaven, his name.
Everlasting life.
Receive.
Lord.
Of all is Jesus.
Now.
Everything to him.
Must fall.
Over the glory.
Of the.
Great Shining.
In the Saviour's face.
Stolen Sinners.
God is life and God is.
Love.
Christ the Lord will come.
Again.
He heard suffered once will reign.
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Every tongue at last.
Well, alone.
Jesus Christ.
Is Lord.
Alone.
All the glory of the grace.
Shining in the Savior.
Face telling sinners from.
Above.
God.
Is light and God is love.
We bow our heads and ask God's help.
We just came out of a prayer meeting.
And if there's anyone in this room?
Thank you.
There's anyone in this room tonight?
That is still lost.
I wish you were a family on the wall in that room tonight.
And just here.
The concerns of everyone in that room for your salvation.
The word of God tells us if our gospel be hid is hid to those that are lost.
You've heard the gospel before, many, many times. I don't believe there's anyone in this room there's never heard the gospel, is there?
But I can't say that everyone in this room is saved. I don't know your heart.
God looks down into this audience tonight and He sees right down into your heart.
That right, Bob?
Every heart here is all things are naked and open unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
We sung in this hymn here in this song all who in his name believe everlasting life, receive Lord of all as Jesus. Now every knee to Him must bow, and if you don't bow the knee to not be before him in this scene.
You will bow your knee in that scene, that coming day, my friend, where there will be all things will be exposed.
Him you will stand there without that wedding garment on, as it were, and you will. You will have nothing to say.
You know, there was, before we get into what I had on my heart, I'd just like to read a verse or two in the book of Acts chapter 24.
And we read there of how Paul was preaching to Felix.
And it says in verse.
25 And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled.
And he answered, Go thy way for this time when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
And then over in the 26th chapter, Paul was speaking to Agrippa.
And Agrippa called him mad. Paul Lowart beside thyself, much learning doth make thee mad, Festus said with a loud voice in verse 25. And the king knoweth all. For the king knoweth of these things before whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him. For this thing was not done in a corner. King Agrippa, believeth thou the prophets?
I know that thou believest. Then Agrippa said unto Paul, almost Thou persuadest me to be a Christian. There is none in this room. I believe I said it before, and I'll say it again, that has not heard the gospel, and if there is someone in this room has heard that gospel and has rejected it.
It's just like what we have read here. I know that thou believers, I know.
And as you sit here under the sound of God's word, again, not my word, but under the sound of God's word, I would that you would be like Felix who trembled.
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My friend, these are eternal issues and you have been brought here tonight.
By God.
To hear his word once again, the.
The day is past coming to a close when it will go out.
I trust your heart will be solemnized when you think.
Of the fact that when you leave this world, where will you be? Where will I spend? Where will you spend eternity? These are solemn issues, my friend, and I want you to consider them in the light of the Word of God. You have rejected it, perhaps neglected it. God's offer of mercy.
But you can't go on doing that forever, because the day will come.
When it will be no more, there no no more opportunity. You know there was a time when God gave Pharaoh 10 opportunities.
To to obey his word and he didn't. And finally God hardened his heart. If our gospel be hid, it is hid to those that are lost. Is that your condition tonight, my friend? Lost without hope, without God in this world?
You know God loves you.
And he loves each one in this room. He loves you so much.
But he spared nothing, He that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all.
Of showing up with them also freely give us all thing. God wants to give you my friend, all that he has.
All that he has.
If you knew the gift of God and who it is that speaketh unto thee, the Lord Jesus could say to the woman at the well.
He would give you water that you would never thirst again.
Is there anyone in this room thirsting for the?
For something.
You don't know what you're thirsting for. Perhaps you.
You are trying this thing and that thing and you're going from 1:00 well of water to another well of water.
And you're never getting your thirst satisfied. Am I speaking to someone who has that situation in your life right at this moment, You young people?
How often have you rejected the word of God?
Do you ever scoff at the Word of God when you are sitting in your own little assembly?
And the word of God is proclaimed. Are you listening?
You know those brothers there that are trying to bring that word before you? They may be doing it stumblingly.
But they are reading the word of God, and they want, they are anxious for your soul.
They want you to be saved.
Perhaps your parents are here tonight. They're praying for you.
There was many prayers going up in that prayer meeting tonight and I value those prayers.
For this meeting.
But you know, there's it was mentioned over and over again about those young people, children perhaps that have spurned the gospel, that have not, that are not saved.
And they're anxious for your soul, my friend.
You know.
It wasn't always so that we could that God was as accessible as he is.
It's a wonderful thing, isn't it, to know that God is accessible?
But you can. You can reach Him, but He can reach you. That we can talk to Him. Do you talk to God? Have you ever talked to him? Have you ever told God that you're a Sinner, that you want to be saved?
Have you ever told him your condition, your longings, the.
There are many in this room. I'm sure everyone in this room has remembers the times when they've gone. Those longings were there.
And they cried to God.
To give them salvation, to give them something for their souls.
But they might have a purpose in this life.
You know, there's so many, they're going through this world, no purpose. A brother was bringing this out.
Today.
Where are you coming from, why are you here and where are you going? Many people are concerned about their about their roots.
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But are you concerned about your where you're going, my friend? That's far more important than where you came from.
But how thankful we are that God is accessible now because of the cross of Calvary.
I would like to begin by going back to the book of Exodus, chapter 33.
We'll begin reading.
From verse 17.
The Lord said unto Moses, I will do this thing also, that thou hast spoken, for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee.
By name. And he said, I beseech thee, Show me thy glory. And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee, and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will show mercy, unto whom I will show mercy. And he said, Thou canst not see my face, for there shall no man see my face. See me and live. And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock, and it shall come to pass.
While my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover thee with my hand while I pass by, and I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts, but my face shall not be seen. There was a time, I say, when God was inaccessible except by.
To a a class of people.
Priests who could come into his presence by a sacrifice, but the.
Commonly speaking, we could not come into his presence alone.
There was a veil in between. There was something hindering us to come into the very presence of God, because you see God as holy.
God is holy and he cannot look upon sin.
And we read in the book of Job, I believe it is that of one who is saying who will give a ransom?
For him and he said deliver him from going down into the pit, I have found a ransom, a ransom.
Oh, you say if someone could find a ransom for me and pay the price.
To set me free. How wonderful that would be.
Yes.
But here is God who says to Moses, Moses, you can't look upon my face.
Moses says, show me thy glory. Have you ever asked the Lord?
To show to show himself to you. Is there anyone here in this room that desires to see the glory of the Lord that hasn't seen him already? Oh, I'm speaking to so many in this room that no, that have seen the glory of the Lord that have that know him as their Savior and they know what it means to be sheltered by the blood of Christ. But there are those who are fearful, perhaps. And yet you say, show me thy glory. Have you ever done that?
Well, Moses could say, show me thy glory. And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord. And you know, my friend, God has done that. Yes he has. God has proclaimed all his goodness to us.
And we'll go on.
We'll go into John's Gospel.
John, Chapter one.
I'd like to read from verse one. In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him. Without Him was not. Anything made that was made in Him was life, and the life was the light of men, and the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.
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Verse 9. Verse eight. He was not that light, but was sent to bear witness of that light. That was the true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world.
The world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own.
And his own received him not, but as many as received him to them gave he the power to become the sons of God.
Even to them that believe on His name, which were born not of blood, nor the will of the flesh, nor the will of man, but of gone.
The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth, verse 16. And of his fullness have all we received, and grace. For grace, for the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. No man has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father.
He hath declared him.
Turn to John's to a little further in John chapter 5.
Verse 36. But I have greater witness than that of John for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do.
Bear witness of Me that the Father hath sent Me, and the Father Himself which hath sent Me, hath borne witness of Me. Ye have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen his shape.
Chapter 6 and verse 46.
Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God.
He hath seen the Father.
You see, no man could see God and live. No man has seen God at any time. No man could look upon his glory. His glory was, was, was hidden from man. And Moses, you know, we see there how Moses was on that mountain and God and, and God said, he hit him in a Cliff to the rock and he put his hand upon him.
As he passed by.
And he saw his back and not his face.
Could not look in the face of God and live. That's how holy God is. And you say you are going to take your chances and stand before a holy God.
In your sins, I had a man tell me that once you know.
Man is gone now in the very presence of God.
Trying to stand in his own works, in his own, with his sins upon him. My friend, your sins have hidden between you and your God. You have to get rid of those sins.
Or they're going to take you right down to a lost eternity.
Moses, the servant of God, could not look upon his face.
And so he hid him in the cleft of the rock as he passed by. You know how wonderful it is to have a hiding place in this world. My daughter and her husband were living out, are living out on the West Coast, and they weren't too familiar with the powers of the waves.
And they were walking along the shores as the as the tide came in, and this one big breaker came rolling in. And my daughter saw it just in time. And she leaped up upon the rock and spread Eagles on the rock while the waves went away. Could have just pulled her right out to sea, but she was saved by holding on to the rock.
And you know, we have a rock, we have a hiding place, as Moses had a hiding place here in the cleft of the rock, while the holiness of God passed by. Well, my friend, you know God does not change His thoughts concerning sin.
As the years go by, this society in which we live, they change their thoughts about the morality, you know, and so things today don't seem quite as bad as they did 50 years ago or even 25 years ago.
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And so because society thinks that they can live with it, then God can live with it. But you know, God is just as holy now as he ever was, and he's going to require.
Those sins, and if those sins, if you die in your sins, you will perish.
Forever in your sins.
You need a hiding place. Yes you do.
And so we get here that.
This man, the Lord Jesus Christ, God's answer to the rock. He is our rock, Rock of Ages, cleft for sin. Can you sing that? Oh, how often we sing. I love that song.
I can't quote it all, you know, but I love it. There's many here that can quote it, but I'm not good at remembering all these, all the lines. But how wonderful it is to sing about the Rock of Ages cleft for me.
And to know that we are hidden in that rock that is higher than I.
And so it says here the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glories of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth, If we turn over to the First Epistle of John.
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Chapter 1. The apostle here could say that which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the word of life. For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and show unto you that eternal life which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us.
That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us, and truly our fellowship is with the Father.
And with his Son Jesus Christ and these things right we unto you, that your joy may be full. Now I know that's spoken to Christians and the the beginning here is really the beginning of the Lorde pathway here on earth. But nevertheless, here was the one because God was inaccessible as it were, because he he could not be reached because there was a veil in between. God in mercy sent his Son to a world by sin undone.
Jesus Christ was crucified for mice and and for for me he died. For sinners, he died. Jesus Christ was crucified to us for sinners. Jesus died. And so here is what who God sent into this world in order that you and I might have a hiding place, that you and I might be sheltered from that, from the storm, that we might have a refuge for our souls.
That we might have our sins washed away in His precious blood. God had to do the work, my friend.
And so God looked down upon you and me. God looked down upon this earth, and what did he see? There's none that doeth good. No, not one. They've all turned aside. They've all gone, gone astray.
And there's No Fear of God before their eyes. What a condition was your, your condition and mine without God and without hope in this world. You know they're told. The Ephesians were told to remember.
Remember what they were in times past, Gentiles after the flesh, strangers from the covenant promised without hope, without God in this world. That was a condition of the Gentile. That was a condition of those who were apart from the people of God, the nation of Israel, who were the only ones that had a testimony for God in the world at that time. The poor Gentile, he was without hope. He was a law unto himself, and he was left, as it were, to go into a lost eternity.
God had turned aside from God, but oh God in mercy many times picked up one here and picked up one there. But generally speaking, the Gentile had no hope.
In order to bring hope, we read that there was a night came in this world when the angels came down and God moved the whole creation.
He put a star in the sky, he put a sign in the sky and he moved the whole the whole.
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Shall we say He moved mountains in order to bring the Lord Jesus down as a babe in the Manger. He placed him in this world.
And he grew up in this world, the Savior of sinners, as he was a babe in the Manger. He held the whole world in his hands, manifest in the flesh. That's what we've been reading and all I love to think of this, that God loved you and me so much.
That he could give up the darling of his bosom.
What a savior we have. Do you know him as your savior? You know him as your Lord? Are you spurning him?
You've heard it over and over again.
The Lord Jesus right now.
Is standing on high with his arms open, saying, Come unto me, all you that labor, and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. He died on the cross, and there upon the cross he could say, he could look down. He say, Is it nothing to you?
All ye that pass by, behold, and see if there be any sorrow like under my sorrow. Do you hear Him? Do you see Him there upon the cross, as he looks down upon you? And he says, I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Do you? Do you know that Jesus died for you, my friend? Do you know, you young boys and girls, that Jesus loves you?
And he gave his life for you.
Oh, if you only knew how much he loved you. If I only knew how much he loved me, I would never, I would never dishonor him.
My friend, if you knew how much God loved you, if you knew how much it cost him to send His beloved Son into this world in order to redeem you and me back to Himself.
Your sins and mine. What a price he paid.
And you dare sit there, my friend?
Heedless. Are there any here in this room tonight?
Sitting in these seats with the eye of God upon you.
And you don't take heed to it. You don't see him hanging upon the tree, hanging upon that cross of Calvary.
And saying again, I say, Is it nothing to you, or you that pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow.
Oh, if you would get a vision of that, my friend, if you would get a glimpse of that man of Calvary.
And you know that he died for you.
You would be like Felix, and you would tremble my sins.
My sins and you would want to get rid of them.
Oh, there's a hiding place. There's a place where God, a rock, a Cliff in the rock where God will hide you as the storm passes by.
There's a storm coming on this scene, my friend, a storm of judgment. And that's why we have the gospel meeting tonight. That's why it has gone forth all these years is to warn, warn you about the coming judgment. As he reasoned about judgment, about temperance, about temperance and judgment to come. Felix tremble.
You know, it's possible. We've seen it right here. It's possible for you to sit in your seat tonight and tremble at the very thought of the coming judgment of God. I used to do that myself. I used to tremble at the thought of God's judgment coming, coming upon this world, and I would be still unsaved, still lost.
And.
I used to think of the clouds, you know, We read about he. Behold, he cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see him.
I used to look at those clouds as a young as a boy, remember lying on my back on the grass looking at those clouds. You see the formations of those clouds and some of them just look like coming judgment.
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Awesome.
And they would make me tremble, but I couldn't have told you whether I was saved.
Because sometimes it passes.
But all, my friend, don't let it pass by, because you see.
Be left here. We had that in the meetings today sometime. What if the Lord Jesus should come at this, at these meetings?
And everyone in this room was was taken, disappeared, and you were left here, left here all alone.
Used to scare me.
It used to be petrified that the thought of this, how many of us have gone through that?
Where we didn't want to. We hadn't come to the Lord Jesus yet. We hadn't yielded our lives to Him.
And we are afraid that we were lost. It was so good to go downstairs and find our mother and father still there.
Those are real things for boys and girls, are they not? Yes, they are. I experienced them.
But but God has provided a refuge in the person of the Lord Jesus. How many times have you heard the verse? For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son. That's how much God loved you. That's how much he loved me for God.
So loved.
I wasn't you.
We're in the presence of God by yourself. I've said this many times.
That if you could get a sense in your soul, my friend, of the awfulness of your sins.
And that you found yourself sitting under the eye of God with his eye upon you, and the storm of judgment coming, when every knee shall bow and every tongue is going to confess, that's what will happen. If you were left here behind for judgment, that would be your portion.
Your knee had not bowed now, but it will bow in that coming day.
Let's turn to.
To 2nd Corinthians.
Chapter 4.
We'll read that verse that has been quoted already in verse three. But if our gospel be hid.
It is hid to them that are lost. In whom? The God of this world.
Hath blinded the minds of them which believe not.
Is that so with you, my friend?
Is it the God of this world that has gotten a hold of you and will not let you go?
Your eyes are blinded that you cannot see.
Lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants, for Jesus sake. For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Moses did not know that. Again, there's Moses who could not look upon the face of God, and all he saw was his back parts. You know, I enjoyed a thought that was.
Shared with me a little while ago about this.
That we don't always understand God's doings. Sometimes we only see his back parts. We don't see his face. We don't always know what God is doing.
But in this sense, here that is in one sense, now in this sense, you're.
God was hidden.
And as I said before, he was inaccessible.
But now he has. Now the Lord Jesus has been here in this world. And now how do we see God? How do we know him? We look in the face of Jesus Christ.
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He that hath seen me has seen the Father.
How wonderful this is to know you say, how do I know what God is like? Behold the Lamb of God, behold him. John could look upon him and they say behold a Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. He saw in this blessed man God's answer to sin. The whole world is going to be delivered from its from its corruption and from the effects of sin because.
Of this blessed One who came into this world, manifested God in every way, did always those things that please God.
And that as they could look upon him, they could say, Behold the Lamb of God.
Pilot could look upon him and say.
I find no fault in this man.
And others could look upon him and say they could marvel at the gracious words that proceeded out of his mouth. And the thief on the cross could, could say, My Lord, he could call him Lord. Lord.
He could. He could speak to him and see.
We'll have to read it. I lost my thought. It's in Luke's gospel.
Verse 42 And he said unto Jesus, Lord, Remember Me.
When thou comest into thy Kingdom, Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee today.
Shalt thou be with me in paradise? What a what a, an immediate thing this was for the for the thief on the cross. And you know, there is no miracle in this world. We see the power of God in creation. I was thinking of those, those waves that came in and just about took my daughter out to sea. The power of those waves, the power in the wind we see.
What does?
When God makes bear his arm, who can his power withstand? God just shakes the earth a little bit.
And man trembles. He can't, he has no power. But is there any power, my friend, like that which can change a soul?
That can change his soul, turn him from darkness into light. God said, let there be light and there was light. But all when he says to this dark soul of yours, let there be light. What a wonderful change he can make in your soul. Just think of the soul of Tarsus again. I marvel at that, at that picture that we get in the word of God, that man who was breathing out blasphemies and cursings against the people of God in a moment just like that.
Lord who want to help me to do changed in a moment the power of God. I'm not ashamed of the of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believe us.
He could say to Festus, Believe us, thou the prophets, I know that thou believers. Do you believe the word of God tonight, my friend? Do you believe that the word of God is true?
You believe that when He, when he says that verily, verily I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, shall not come into judgment, but is passed from death unto life. Do you believe that? Do you believe that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son for you?
That gives you believe that my friend, and it's the power of God will come forth on your behalf and he will change your dark hearts just like it says, like it said here in in Second Corinthians.
God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. You look in the face of Jesus Christ, He looks down at you and you see the glory of God shining forth there. You know that God is love, You know that God loves you, and you know that God wants to give His very best for you. Do you know what is waiting for you and me? We don't know the half of it.
I have not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered in the hearts of men the things that God has prepared for them that love him.
But God has revealed them unto us by His Spirit, and He's waiting my friend, to give them to you. He wants to share the His glories with you. He doesn't want it just to save you from your sins and take you to heaven. That's wonderful in itself.
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But all the glories, the glory of Christ.
The glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Moses said, Show me thy glory.
He hasn't seen, and Moses didn't see the glory then like you and I can see him now.
We see later on that Moses was there on the Mount of Transfiguration. He saw the glory of Christ.
He entered into it. He was a part of it, wasn't he?
But you know, we would never know God.
If we didn't know Christ, we would never know Him in the capacity.
That he is that God is love, God is light. So many in this world are saying that God is an austere man. He wants to bring in judgment. You get all those, those religions of the of, of the Pagan world and what do they what do they depict judgment? God is going to, we have to fear this God that is going to if we do the wrong thing, he's going to bring in judgment and he's going to slay us. That is not the God that we know.
The God that I know.
So love the world.
That he gave his only begotten Son? How wonderful is that? Were I told this story before? I believe.
At some place.
How that?
Deut El Moody was preaching when he was first preaching. He was preaching judgment, judgment, judgment.
There was a young man that called him the boy evangelist. Maybe some have heard about him, The boy evangelist.
And Dwight O Moody did not really want to go and hear him, but he did.
And he sat under the preaching of this boy evangelist, and he preached on John 316.
And he preached the whole sermon on that. God so loved the world.
And it was just the gospel of love.
Next night.
Preached again. DL Moody was there.
He preached on John 316.
And he preached the love of God.
Next night he preached seven nights in a row. He preached on John 316 every night.
By the end of that, Dwight L Moody had changed his preaching.
It was number longer just the judgment of God, but it was the love of God.
The love of God, that's what we want to hear about. The love of God. Well, we have to hear about the judgment too. Yes, we do, because there's consequences if we turn away from the gospel, if we turn away from the love of God.
God beseech beseeches you. We sing sometimes. God beseeching, man refusing.
To be made forever glad.
Oh, the gospel has come down to you and me in the person of Christ.
And now we can see his face.
Now we can see God who he is. We can see him in his wonderful character of love.
And of grace and of mercy.
He doesn't want to bring judgment. Judgment is God's strange work.
But the Lord Jesus has come to seek and to save that which was lost.
And now there's another verse in the third chapter of Two Corinthians.
You see, the Lord Jesus died to take us to Himself.
Not just to go to heaven when we die, but to take him to himself. And he wants to share his glories with him with he wants to share them with us.
He wants to take us into the father's house. In my father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, but I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you if I come again.
And receive, I will receive you unto myself, he says. That's what he wants unto himself.
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You know many people who would like to say just give me one, just give me a corner in heaven and I'll be satisfied as long as I know I'm there. But all he wants so much more than that. Yes, it says in verse 18 of chapter 3. But we all with open face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord are changed into the same image from glory to glory.
Even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
I believe in a nutshell, what that means is that the more we learn of the Lord Jesus, the more we are changed to be like Him.
Is that so?
Do you want to be like Christ, or do you want to go on in your sins and suffer the consequences of rejection of such love as this?
What foolishness that would be to do this.
In the face of this love, In the face of such grace.
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor.
That we, through his poverty, might be rich. That's what he offers to you tonight, my friend. Are you a Sinner here tonight?
Are you in your sins? Are you lost? Are you amongst those that we are Speaking of? That if our gospel be hid, it is hid to those that are.
Lost. What an awful word that is lost. Not just unsaved lost. Isn't that an awful?
An awful thing to think about.
Maybe it doesn't frighten you enough.
But think of it in the light of being left here at the coming of Christ. Think of it in that light. Think of it as being your portion forever and ever and ever and ever.
To be lost. There's no hope.
Ever again.
Of hearing the gospel.
And of saying, Lord Jesus, I want to be saved. You can say it all you want at that time and it's too late.
But at the same time, he's offering to you this.
His glory.
He wants you to behold His glory. He wants you to be a partaker of His glory.
And then there's another verse in First Timothy.
Chapter 6.
The last part of verse 14, Our Lord Jesus Christ, which in his times He shall show, who is the blessed and only potentate, the King of kings, the Lord of Lords, who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach, unto whom no man hath seen, nor can see, to whom be honour and power, and everlasting. Amen.
That's the one who came down to reveal himself to you, to me.
Now we can see Him. Now we can see God. He reveals himself to you.
Tonight, he's offering himself to you.
Come unto me, he says, and I will give you rest. Are you burdened?
Are you burdened about your sins? Is there anyone here in this room tonight who hasn't yet yielded to the Lord Jesus?
Perhaps you've been struggling for a while. Perhaps you've been wrestling with this matter. Perhaps you come from a Christian home. Perhaps there's a young person here.
Who is wrestling with this question? His parents. Your parents are praying for you tonight.
What are you going to do about it?
We'd like you to think about this now because the Lord Jesus says now.
The accepted time, behold, now is the day of salvation. God says prepare to meet thy God. How do you prepare? God has given you the very thing to close in on to get a hold of by faith. And it's by grace that you're saved through faith, not not of yourselves. It is a gift of God, not of works. Doesn't matter how many works you try to do to make yourself fit for God, it's not It works lest any man should boast.
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But it's by grace, the grace of God, He's done it all for you and for me, the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son.
Cleanseth us from all sin.
You want to get rid of your sins? Do they burden you? Are they bothering you tonight?
The blood of Jesus Christ, I say, will wash the sins away, every one of them.
Oh, the Lord Jesus says, Come now, let us reason together. Though your sins be a scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like Crimson, they shall be as well.
If there's anyone here that would like to.
To talk to someone tonight, there's any amount of brothers here, there's any amount of people here that would love to talk to you about your soul. Don't be afraid because now is the accepted time. It may be too late tomorrow.
And so come now.
Come tis Jesus gently calling ye with care and toil, oppressed with your guilt, however appalling. Come, and I will give you rest.
For your sin he once has suffered on the cross. The work was done, and the Word by God now uttered to each weary soul is come.
Come, the father's house stands open with its love and light and song. In returning to that father, All to you may now belong. From sins distant land of famine toiling the midday sun, To a father's House of plenty and a father's welcome come.
The last two verses of #2.
Come for Night is gathering quickly.
Or the world's lost queen Hindi.
If you.
Linger till the darkness.
You will surely miss your.
And still waiting.
Sadly waiting.
Till.
The day it's course has run.
With his patience.
On the Bay.
For you come.
Come for Angel hosts our music.
Or the sight so strangely.
Sad God be seeking man.
Refusing to be made.
Forever.
Glen.
From the world and.
It's delusion.
Now our voice is rise as one.
While we shout God's invitation.
Heaven, it's all come.