Gospel—R. Thonney
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Sorrows. What a name.
For the Son of God who came ruined sinners to reclaim Hallelujah, what had Savior.
Man of Sorrows.
Bearing shame and swapping wood.
In my place, condemnation.
Seal my heart.
With this blood.
On the Sandy girls.
Let's pray.
I'd like to sing another song, but it's not on the hymn sheet. I think we all know it well enough to sing it. It's how great thou art.
I trust you can, and if you don't know it that well, why you can follow along.
Oh Lord my God, when I.
Consider all the words Thy hands are made.
I see the signs. I hear I.
Like to love God universe this way?
And change my soul.
Oh great God, oh great Lord.
The man changed my soul, my savior, God to me.
I'll pray for our grace.
Gentle breeze.
My soul I savior God to me.
I'll break the water, I'll break the heart. Let you, sings my soul, I say goodbye to thee.
Oh great.
God, oh great.
And when I'm not sparing.
Second to God, I stare, standing.
The light of the cross.
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Oh break the out, I'll break the word and change my soul, my savior laughing.
A great thought.
Oh great God.
When he crying out.
And Take Me Home.
Why joy shall be all my heart.
Then I shall die when I'm glad.
And they're probably.
My God, I'll breakdown.
Sings my soul, my Savior unto thee.
Oh great.
I grate our.
And change my soul, my Savior God, to thee.
Thank you.
First time I heard that song was in my junior high school and.
Walla Walla WA.
Had an all school assembly and they had.
A popular.
Singer come to sing popular songs.
At the end of his program, he got up and he said the microphone. I've asked your principal if I could sing my favorite song, and he said I could. So he got up the microphone and he sang that song. First time I heard it. I never forget the thrill to listen to those words. We have a great God. It is an understatement. We have a tremendously great God.
Let's go to Genesis chapter one, verse one.
In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.
Verse.
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he can.
Male and female created he them.
So we have the story of creation in chapter one and what a majestic verse this verse one is. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
He spoke it into existence, according to Psalm.
Forget exactly the number of the Psalm, but it says he spoke and it was done. He commanded and it stood fast. Can you imagine the tremendous power involved in speaking the whole world, the whole universe into existence?
You know, I enjoy creation, and I think it's important that we do enjoy it because it is a display of the power and wisdom of God. What kind of a God do we know? A God who is infinite in his power, in his wisdom, in his knowledge, in his presence. You cannot put a measuring stick on God. He is beyond it all.
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Is eternal and that is something that just blows my mind.
God never began to be. He always was. Everything we know in creation has a beginning, has an ending. But here is a being who never began to be, always was. Wonderful, wonderful truth. I enjoy going to South America.
And sometimes I get to take a trip down across the Andes mountains. And in Bolivia, as in Peru, you have two ranges of the Andes mountains, the inner Andes and the outer Andes. In between those two ranges you have what is called the Altiplano, which is at 12,000 feet altitude.
Few years ago I was with one of the brothers who loaned us his pickups so we could go into this particular area of the Alta plan. When we were coming across the new highway they had built from Potosi to Uyuni is situated right on the high alteplano and as we were coming along to the edge of where it dropped off to the 12,000 feet level.
We stopped just to take a look and I tell you it just does something to me to see the grandeur of it all out in the distance, 150 to 200 miles. In the distance you see the outer Andes on the edge of South America stretching way up above the 12,000 feet level.
And I just revel in it. Honestly, it does something to me, makes me realize how great our God is. But what is the Earth in relation to the rest of the universe? I'm sure you've heard information. I enjoy studying the stars in the universe. You and I know that we are in a Galaxy, a group of stars in the universe.
That is called the Milky Way Galaxy and the Milky Way Galaxy.
I was talking to a group of young people out in Los Angeles one time and I mentioned that the Milky Way Galaxy has around 100 billion stars. I was approached by a young man after the meeting and he said it's really closer to 200 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy alone, of which our sun is one star.
It's totally, completely blows your mind to try to to imagine it all. And then a book that I got as a present for my family some time ago to tells that they are now saying that there is probably about 250 billion other galaxies as big as ours or maybe bigger.
This is our God. This is the God you and I have to deal with.
Hey, we're not going to be bargaining with God. He's God, and you have to do with God. I have to do with God, and I don't set the terms of His righteousness. No, He sets it all, and you and I have to deal with Him for the good of your soul. I plead with you, if you're not straight with God to get straight tonight. You cannot play with God in our country. More and more we're turning from the revelation of the true God.
And we are being occupied with ourselves, our own desires, our wants. What I like, my rights.
And if it is a question of just you and me in the universe, I agree your your idea is probably just as good as mine.
But we're not talking about ideas here tonight. We're talking about the revelation of the true God, and He's the one that sets the standards.
Oh, what a tremendous thing it is to deal with God. So here in the past, what Scripture says in the beginning.
God created the heaven and the earth.
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Now let's go over to John's Gospel chapter one.
In the beginning.
Was the word.
And the word was with God.
And the word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made.
Here we have the Lord Jesus introduced as the Word of God. He is the full expression of all that God is. You want to know God?
You have to get to know the word of God. If I stand here and don't say anything.
You're going to look at me and say, what in the world is he thinking? But as I open my mouth and use words I express to you my thoughts, then you know what I'm thinking. God is so infinite in His being, there is no way that little specks of humankind here can ever know Him. Except He reveals Himself, and that is exactly what He has done.
In the person of the Lord Jesus, the Word of God, who is this? The Word of God in the beginning was the Word, His eternity, and the Word was with God, His distinct personality in the Godhead, because God has been revealed as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Father is not the Word, it's the Son who's the Word. And then it says.
The word was God, his divinity. He is in every sense of the word, God, the person of the Lord Jesus. The same was in the beginning with God. There wasn't a time when he began to be God, because God is eternal.
All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made.
There are false denominations that say that God created Jesus to begin with and then Jesus created everything else. This verse directly contradicts that idea. Without Him was nothing made that was made. He is the creator of everything necessarily. He is not a creature, He is the Creator.
In him was life.
And the life was the light of men.
I love that verse 4, you look at it, it only has monosyllable words in it. Talk about simplicity, but talk about depth at the same time. In Him was life and the life.
Was the light of men. We have life.
And we have light.
What is the light for?
The light is what makes us see everything properly.
Everybody. Somebody switched off the lights in here. I could hear some people rustling papers over there. I could make a guess. It seems like there's people in this room. Somebody flips on the light immediately. I know.
Adults. There's women, there's men, there's children here. Everything is visible. Everything is evident.
In the presence of the light and in the presence of the Lord Jesus, everything.
Was made manifest. You cannot hide anything in the light. You know there's people who try to hide things in the light.
I tell you, you just making yourself a fool by trying to hide things in a light. Don't do it, it doesn't work.
There was a woman who came to encounter the Lord Jesus in this same Gospel of John.
She was a woman.
Who didn't want others evidently to see her because she came when nobody else was around. And as she approached the well, there was somebody sitting there. She didn't know who he was. And so she goes to on to fill her bucket with water. And the Lord Jesus it was who was sitting there said give me to drink. And she starts reasoning with him instead of giving him a drink of water.
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She just starts reasoning with him and she talks to him and he talks to her about living water, a well of springing water, and she says, give me that water. And so he says to her, go call your husband and come here.
Is she thinking to just cover over the story of her life? She says I don't have a husband.
And Jesus responded to her, You said it right when you said, I don't have a husband because you've had five husbands and the one you have now isn't your husband that you said, right?
Immediately she realized she was in the presence of somebody who knew all her life.
But you know what, it amazes me when you are not afraid of the light, when you are willing to get it all out there, all the messy stuff in your life, it sets you free. That woman went right back into the city and talked to those men of the city and said, come see a man that told me everything I ever did. Did Jesus tell her everything she'd ever done? No. Told her a little bit about her.
Marital life, that's all.
But she realized she was in the presence of someone she could hide nothing from. And that's the way it is with you. Whether you believe it or not, that is the way it is. And I say to you, if you got stuff you're trying to cover up in your life, sometimes young people don't like to tell their parents or don't like to tell their brethren what they're involved in. I say if you're involved in stuff like that, get it out into the light. Confess it.
Because he that covers his sin shall not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes it shall have mercy. Well, the Lord Jesus was the light of men.
The light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.
Man was in such darkness, morally speaking, that he could not see the light shining there. So what does God do? There was a man sent from God whose name was John. Now this is John the Baptist. The same came for a witness to bear witness of the light, that all men through him might believe He was not that light. John the Baptist wasn't the light, but he was sent to bear witness of that light.
Sometimes say, what would you think if I go downtown Addison and all the people I meet on the street, I say, hey, the sun shining. Look, the sun shining. You say this crazy guy, get him off the streets. Everybody can tell that the sun shining. But when Jesus came, people were so blind that God had to send a man ahead of him to say, here it is, here's the true light.
That came into the world. That's how blind people were. And so it says verse 9 about the Lord Jesus. That was the true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. Even a blind man, the light shines on him.
And if you are here without the knowledge of the true God, you are blind spiritually, but the light is shining on you. Open your eyes. He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. And that tragic the darkness in which man was found is tragic. You know the animals recognize Jesus.
But not man.
The fish obeyed him, but not man.
He was not known. He came unto His own, verse 11, and His own received him not.
That was the Jewish people. They had the scriptures in their hands. They could answer the questions that they were asked. Where is the Christ to be born? They got out their Bibles and they did in Bethlehem of Judea.
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But they didn't know he was there. They were blind as well.
Verse 12 We have an exception, as many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.
In this wonderful here's an exception. There are some who received him.
Now how do you receive Jesus?
I remember being asked that by a young man in Cochabamba, Bolivia one time. He was a law student at the university.
And he said, I asked the brethren what I needed to do to repent, and they didn't seem to know what I have to do. What do I have to do? He was earnest.
I said well let's read verse John 112 and I want you to read it and he read it. As many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. I said look at that verse, you know what it is to be a student? What does that say you have to do to receive him?
He looked at it and he said believe on his name. Exactly. I said if you want to pray that's fine. I don't say you don't have to. But remember it's not through praying that you receive him. It's true believing on his name. Confidence in that person is the secret to bringing blessing to your soul. And then notice it goes on.
Which were born.
Not a blood, nor of the will of them flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
You know, we're born into this world through our parents.
And the first phrases of that, verse 13, describe how it is we are born of blood, of the will, of the flesh, of the will of man. That's the way we're born the first time. But you know what? When we're born the first time, we're born with a sinful nature. Everybody has it. Some people are worse sinners than others.
But everybody has it, and God is not going to allow, not even one little white lie in his heaven. Not going to happen.
No lie will ever enter there.
If you want to see the Kingdom of God, you must be born again.
And how then are we born again? It says here they are born of God in chapter 3. We don't time to go to it right now, but there it says the Lord Jesus when he was.
Interviewed by Nicodemus said accept a man be born of water and of the Spirit. He cannot enter the Kingdom of God. Water is the word of God.
Is it very clearly in first Peter chapter one, we are born not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever?
Says all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man is as the flower of the grass, the flower.
Fadeth and the grass withereth, but the word of our God endureth forever. Sure. Good to see a lot of young people here.
Nice looking group of young people.
How long do you think those nice looks are going to last?
Just give you some years. I don't hardly can imagine that the years have crept up on me so fast as they have.
And I'm 71 now, but.
What is that?
I sometimes say two years ago I could say I was exactly 900 years less than Methuselah when I died, when he died. So am IA young man or an old man.
It's comparative, that's all it is. And so you cannot say that everything is relative, but you might be a beautiful woman, you might be a strong, handsome young man. Great, but how long is that going to last? Add another 50 years and how are you going to look? That'll be a different story. There's one thing that never, ever grows old. It is the living.
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Abiding.
Word of God So how important it is to be born again into God's family? God wants children. I sometimes say to people, did you decide to be born the first time?
No, that was your parents decision. They wanted children and as a result of their will we were born.
How can we be born into God's family? Is that our will? No, that's God's will. And I look at you and I say God wants you in his family. That's his desire, that all men would be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. Oh yes, I made a decision to receive the Lord, but it was because he wanted children in his family, and I am one of his children.
Now verse 14, notice and the word, there's that title again was made flesh. That's the only reference in John's Gospel to his birth. You know, in Matthews Gospel we have the Lord Jesus and we have his genealogy.
Because he's presented there as the King of Israel and as necessarily that king has to show that he's of the royal lineage.
And in Luke's gospel, where the Lord Jesus has presented us the Son of man.
His lineages traced right back to Adam, the 1St man. Yes, he is a real man he is.
But why is there no genealogy in John's Gospel?
Because he never had a beginning. He always was. There was a point in time in which he came into this world and was born of the Virgin Mary. Wonderful, wonderful story. God has come into his own creation.
In the person of the Lord Jesus Christ to seek and to save that which is lost.
So He 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. Isn't that beautiful?
You know, all of us are kind of lopsided in our character. Sometimes we are very gracious, but we forget about the side of truth. Sometimes we're very on the side of truth, but we forget to be gracious. But here's a man who was perfectly balanced in his relations with everyone he came in contact with, full of grace and truth, it says.
In verse 15 John bear witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me, for he was before me.
Yes.
The Lord Jesus was born approximately 6 months after John the Baptist. He came after John the Baptist, but it says He was preferred before me, before He was before me. How can that be that He came after and that He was before? Because He is God and He is man at the same time. This is the wonderful story of this person. There is nobody else in all human history like this one. He is unique.
For a God fully man. Wonderful, wonderful story.
Well, let's keep on reading here a bit. And of his fullness of all we received, and grace for grace for the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. No man hath seen God at any time. The only begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him.
Oh this is beautiful. Brother Don was mentioning today there would be a little Ant on that table.
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And we go up and say, hey aunt, listen to me.
There's too much distance between humankind and an Ant, no way of communication.
If it would be possible for me being a man.
To become an aunt at the same time, I could go to that aunt and ants have their way of putting their heads together and they communicate. Then I could find out what that aunt was thinking and what he was doing and if I could help him some way. And that's exactly what God has done in the person of the Lord Jesus.
The only begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him. He has come as a man into this world. As a man He can speak to us so that now we can understand in the fullest sense of the Word who our God is.
Well, let's go on a little bit further down. I'd like to get down to verse 29. The next day John seeth Jesus, coming unto him. And Seth, behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. Here we have another title of the Lord Jesus, the Lamb of God. Why the Lamb of God?
And on the Old Testament times when sin came into the picture, there was need to sacrifice an animal and sometimes it was a lamb to satisfy God's righteous claims about the sin question. The wages of sin is death. Nobody can.
Put that to one side.
You've got to face it, if you've sinned, your sin demands death. But here we find that there is a substitute that God himself has provided a lamb, the Lamb of God. You know, for 4000 years God was looking over the human race to see if there was one.
Who had not corrupted his way? And he said they've all gone astray.
There's no difference, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
But then one day the Lord Jesus appears, and John the Baptist says, behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. And you know when God created the universe, all he had to do was speak it into existence.
And it was made by the word of his power.
But when it came to the question of sin, your sin, my sin.
It was more than just speaking a word. There had to be a sacrifice, and it turned out to be God's own beloved Son, the Word of God, the Son of God, the Lamb of God.
You know the story how they took Jesus outside the city of Jerusalem and they nailed him to a cross?
There he hung from 9:00 in the morning to 3:00 in the afternoon.
Six hours. The first three hours, people passed in front of him and spit on him.
Mocked him, Jeered at him.
And.
At 12 noon, everything got dark.
If God is going to forgive your sin, if God is going to forgive my sin, somebody has to pay the price. And who was it that was going to pay the price? This is the tremendous story.
Of the gospel. It was God Himself who paid the price to redeem us, and His own Son was hanging on that grass.
God laid on him the iniquity of us all, and God's holy judgment fell in three hours of darkness. All the waves and billows of God's judgment rolled over him. There was not one complaint from that center cross in those hours of darkness.
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At the end.
There was a cry. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me, you know.
He never said in all his life, my God, he'd always said my Father, he was his God.
But at this time he says, my God.
It was because it wasn't as Father that he was dealing with the Lord Jesus. It was as God and all the holiness of His character. He had to be satisfied. His righteous character had to be vindicated so that He could extend free and full salvation to you and me.
What a story.
That's why He's the Lamb of God.
Let's go a little bit further down.
Verse 30.
This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me, for he was before me, and I knew him not.
An interesting.
John the Baptist mother and the Lord's mother evidently were cousins. Did they not know each other?
You know what I think? I think they probably knew each other, but it never dawned on him who this person really was. And I'm afraid that there might be somebody here tonight. You've been brought up in a Christian home. You know all the answers about Jesus, but it's never really dawned on you who this person really is.
So he says, I knew him not, but that he should be made manifest to Israel. Therefore in my coming come baptizing with water. John Bear record saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him, and I knew him not. But he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending and remaining on him, the same as he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
And I saw and bear record that this is the Son of God. There's another of his titles, Son of God.
Now go down to the end of the chapter.
The Lord Jesus is speaking to Nathaniel, and Nathaniel also makes that confession in verse 49. Rabbi, thou art the Son of God, Thou art the King of Israel. Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto thee, I saw the end of the fig tree, believe us, thou shalt see greater things than these. And he said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, hereafter ye shall see heaven open.
And the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man. Here's another of his titles.
Son of Man, Son of God, we're speaking about his divinity. Son of man, we're speaking about his humanity. In every sense of the word, Jesus is fully God and at the same time fully human. He is a real man made like.
US, except for sin, He was wholly humanity. Wonderful truth. As to his person, I'd like to, in the remaining moments, speak a little bit about this.
Son of God, Son of man, to me, it is beautiful to see how they're brought together in the scriptures. And let's go to.
Chapter 5 To see one place where those two titles are brought together, Son of God and Son of Man.
John 5 verse 24 Verily, verily, I send to you, he that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent Me hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death into life. Wonderful, wonderful gospel verse. Verily, verily I send to you, The hour is coming, and now is when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God.
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And they that here shall live. If a person doesn't know the Lord Jesus as their savior, they are dead in trespasses and sins. Did you get a dead man to listen to you? I could holler I want to a dead man. He's not going to listen to me.
But how does it say here that a dead shall hear? You know why they hear? It's because the Son of God is speaking, and when he speaks, even the dead here.
It's a wonderful thing to see the Word of God penetrating into the hearts and souls of lost people, children, older people too.
When they hear they live. Wonderful to experience that taking place but now notice a little further down.
Verse 27 and well, let's read verse 26 to and as.
The Father hath light in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself.
And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man. There's the other title, Son of Man. What does he do as Son of Man? He executes judgment. Marvel not at this, for the hour is coming in which all that are in the grave shall hear His voice, and shall come forth they that have done good unto the resurrection of life.
And they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation.
As Son of God, he imparts new life to those that listen.
And as son of man, he executes judgment. You know, in the history of this world, we're getting down to the point where people are turning away from God.
It is such a terrible sorrow to see the United States of America turning away from God, thumbing their noses at God's Word. They don't respect it.
The Lord Jesus.
Is the Son of man, and he has something to say to this world.
Before we get to the end of the chapter, I'd like to the end of our time. I'd like to go to Luke's gospel chapter 17, where we have the Lord Jesus and it speaks about the coming of the Son of Man. You know, the Lord Jesus is coming back to this world not only to get all the believers out of it, but he's coming back to judge this world in righteousness.
And I'd like to read what it says here. Luke chapter.
17.
In verse 26.
As it was in the days of Noah.
So shall it be in the days of the Son of Man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
Likewise also as it was in the days of lot, they did eat, they drank.
They bought, they sold, they planted, they build it.
No record of marrying or giving in marriage that was left behind at that time. But the same day that lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed that day he that is upon the housetop and his stuff in the house.
Let him not come down to take it away. He that is in the field, let him not return. Likewise not return back, remember.
Lot's life. Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it. Whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
There we have the day of the when the Son of Man is going to be revealed. The Lord Jesus is coming back to this world and we were talking about it today. The Kingdom, the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He's coming back to impose his lordship in this world. You know, the time we live in is called the times of the Gentiles.
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It's the times of Gentile domination, and from Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonian Empire to this day, it's the times of the Gentiles.
But in the succession of nations in the times of the Gentiles, remember it was the Babylonian Empire, then it was the Medo Persian Empire, and then it was the Grecian Empire, and then it was the Roman Empire.
When the Lord Jesus came the first time, it was the Roman Empire that was in power.
And it was one of the agents of the Roman Empire. Herod had tried to kill him when he was a baby.
And then it was another agent of the Roman Empire, Pontius Pilate, that gave the order to crucify him.
You know what?
The Roman Empire is rising again what we know to be the European Union.
But it is that same instrument that Satan is going to try to use when Jesus comes again from heaven with his Saints, with his mighty angels, the beast and all his armies are going to go against him to battle, to war.
And He, as the Son of Man, is going to do judgment.
Terrible, awful thing, you know, it talks about Noah here.
And Noah built the ark, and the and the animals went in two by two, and the clean animals by sevens. And then the time came when God said, Come thou and all thy house into the ark, and no one in and his wife, and his three sons and their wives.
And then God shut the door.
You know, the windows of heaven were opened and all the fountains of the great deep were broken up. The water came from both sides, from up above in Torrance. They came down. The waters came down. You know, people think that people went up to the ark and said Noah let me in. I don't think they had a chance to live in or didn't even knock at the ark. The torrents of water that came when God does judgment.
Because people will not.
Obey Him in believing the Gospel. When that time comes, it's going to be awful, awful judgment.
Have you stopped to realize how awful the judgment is? That's just ahead. The Lord Jesus said that there will be no time like it afterward, nor was there before it as this time of judgment. That's just ahead. This world is a completely asleep. So many of God's people are asleep too. Do you and I realize how close we're getting?
Oh, may the Lord awaken us as to where we are.
The other case that it speaks about is a lot and you remember the story of Lot.
Remember Mr. Lundeen speaking about this story and he titled it?
Sodom's last night, nobody realized what was happening, but at the gate of the city in comes these two strangers. They happen to be angels dispatched by God to destroy that city. But what were they doing in that city? There was a righteous man there, and he went to be, and they went and stayed at this righteous man.
Lot's house, you know, I wouldn't know that he was a righteous man by reading the account of what he did. It's shameful, absolutely shameful what he did that night.
But Scripture tells us in the New Testament that he was a righteous man, and so he must have had faith because.
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Our righteousness is on the grounds of faith.
And in the next day, when they wanted to get Lot and his family out, they said, who do you have in this city Get them out for? We're going to destroy this place.
And he talked to his sons in laws and they thought he was joking.
They didn't believe it.
And finally came to the point where the angels had to grab hold of Lot and his wife and his two daughters and they drug him them out of the city and said run to the mountains.
Don't stop. Don't look back.
Isn't that awful? He had to drag him out of the city.
They were so connected with things in that city, that awful, wicked city.
That's.
Sodom, Gomorrah, Adman, Zibon, 4 cities that were to be destroyed.
The first one is what describes a sin that has been legitimized in the United States of America.
God is watching it. God is not mocked.
Awful to think about it, but as they were going out of the city, they were running toward the mountain.
Lot's wife turned around to look.
Her heart was back in Sodom. She had been drug out physically, but her heart was back there.
Sometimes I see Christians, but I can see that their heart is in this world. What is it in this world that is so attracting you that you want to look back?
Scripture says remember.
Lots, wife, how solemn she was struck there by the judgment of God.
Oh, may the Lord help us to understand the reality of these things we're not talking about.
Cleverly devised fables. When we're talking about these, we're talking about reality. These things are going to happen. These things are written in Gods infallible word, and they're going to happen.
If there's anybody that still hasn't got the accounts straight.
I'll be sitting up here after the meeting if you want to come and talk.
Be glad to try to help you.
We just pray that if there's somebody that hasn't gotten it straight that they will tonight before it's too late.
Let's pray.