Gospel—W. Dear
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Good evening.
One and all, we're here to proclaim the good news of the Gospel.
Of Christ, what a wonderful message we have to proclaim.
I was sitting in the row and.
I heard some discussion in the road behind as to who was to take the gospel.
And this name and that name was mentioned and I know there are many in this hall here tonight.
Who would very capably preach the gospel?
But I've been asked to give the message tonight, and now you know who it is and we're going to sing a hymn. Let's begin with.
A question #14 Have you been to Jesus?
For the cleansing power, are you washed in the blood of the lamb? Could we stand as we sing #14?
Jesus for the.
Are you walking daily by the same side?
You lost in the blood.
Pressure from within the privacy Why are you watching the blood on the land?
You washed in the blood of the land.
When the bright green cometh will never grow in the blood of the land.
When you're so big, ready for the mansions, right? And we washed in the blood of the land.
Are you watching the?
At the outset of this meeting, I want to take the opportunity to thank each and everyone of the brothers that were in that prayer meeting.
Just a few minutes ago.
Crying out to God for the salvation of your soul.
And asking for help for the speaker that he might present the message of the gospel in a simple and a clear message. I want to thank you each one who had part in that prayer meeting. And I want to thank each one here tonight who continues in prayer on behalf of the Word as it goes.
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Forth, because it tells us. I believe it's in Psalm 127.
That.
Accept the Lord, build the house. They labor in vain that building.
I noticed on the back it says children's hymns and courses. Now we have a number of children here.
Boys and girls, so nice to see you here in the front row. And I don't think we as all the ones we get tired of singing these children's hymns. And so one of my favorites is number 44 on the back of this hymn sheet. And it goes along with the message that I trust the Lord has laid in my heart this evening #44.
And we can just remains seated.
Into a tent where a gypsy boy.
Salvation, salvation, we can't be saved. Nobody ever has stolen to me.
Tell me again.
Something like that.
Salvation Story.
Of the children of men, nobody ever had so many before.
Boy.
Stand up to me like a tiger.
And I'm not perish, my hand will be old. Nobody ever read the story of soul.
Now where I am.
Salvation Story.
Of the children of men, nobody ever has told me before.
When they bring on the last words of his breath, just as he answered the pounding of death.
Roman Santa's son whosoever sent me.
When I am sure that he sent him for me.
Tell me about you.
Now we didn't sing the last verse. There's another verse that goes smiling, he said as his last eye was.
He was smiling.
While he was breathing his last breath, so gypsy boy, he was in a tent, he was dying. He never heard about Jesus, never ever before. Not like you here tonight, I'm sure.
Perhaps everyone has heard about the Lord Jesus Christ, but this little gypsy boy, he listened to the message and I wonder, would one of you boys have any idea what verse it was that the missionary spoke to the little boy? It's a verse, as we sang, that has.
Words like God.
Sent his son. It has the word whosoever.
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In it, it has the word parish in it. Would anybody have any idea? Oh, number of hands. OK, what do you think?
That is so good. You got it right, John 316 And so I would like to speak on this verse tonight. And you know, I don't make any apology for speaking on perhaps one of the best known, if not the best known verse in the Bible.
John, 316.
And I think there's somebody here that could probably quote that with no problem.
OK, you want to quote it? Sure.
Perfect. Thank you very much.
I was on a plane.
It wasn't that long ago and so I was sitting beside this gentleman and he was reading his magazine.
And.
I was able to engage him in conversation.
He was a middle-aged man and.
He was a financial advisor.
And he was running a successful business in City of Denver.
And he was, I think, 67 years old, 67 years old. So we talked and we talked about the economy and we talked a little bit about the housing market and so on.
And, you know, I think he had some good advice, you might say, from a natural standpoint. But then I said I'd like to ask you a question.
Have you ever heard?
John, 316.
And it rather startled me. He said, no, what is it? What is that? He did not know about John 316. So I had the opportunity to quote to him the verse just like you quoted it here tonight. And he listened and.
We had a good conversation.
So we don't want to take too much for granted with respect to John 316.
Now, some years ago.
There was a young man, he loved to play football.
And he was really good at football.
So this particular day there was a championship game to be played. But this man, his name is Tim.
He knew that there was more to life than playing football, and he wanted to spread the good news of the gospel.
He had been raised in a Christian home.
And so he's trying to think, how is it that I can reach out?
To souls that are in need of Christ.
And this is what he did.
You know, football players.
Often they put a rectangle of like black.
Underneath their eyes. I'm not sure what it's made out of that, that black smudge. It's underneath their eyes like that, and that means that maybe the sun will not.
Disturb their eyesight. In other words, this black will absorb the sun.
Instead of it reflected into their eyes so they can't see where the ball is.
So Tim's thinking.
I know what I'm going to do.
I'm going to write on that black rectangle.
John.
3.
16.
And that's what he did.
And so he went out to play the game.
And it was highly publicized. It was a championship game.
And.
As it was, he did very well.
And Tim's team won the game.
After the game.
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There was a PR man came to Tim. I want to tell you something, Tim.
Over 90 million.
Googled John 316, you know, means that Google. They put it in the computer to see what is John 316? What's it all about?
And Tim was so elated. Well, I wonder, does that mean that there could be possibly 90 million people that don't even know what John 316 is all about?
Well, we don't want to take too much for granted. It's a wonderful verse. I think it was Martin Luther.
He spoke of it as being the gospel in miniature.
And in fact, what Martin Luther said he thought, he thought it was at the heart of the Bible.
John 316. Well, you know, in John 316 we have.
A verse there that even boys and girls can understand. Not difficult words, but they are words that in a condensed form give us the deep and marvelous truth of the Gospel. And these are powerful words. So I would like to turn to John.
Chapter 3, verse 16 tonight.
And speak from this verse.
It says.
For God.
So loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
This verse in the King James Version has 25 words.
25 words in John 316.
No greater gift has ever been seen.
12 About God.
And 12 about me.
Son in the center.
Verse 16. John 3.
It starts for God.
For God.
I see boys and girls here tonight, older ones and.
You wanna learn more about God? I had a man, dear brother.
Give me a little text.
Probably.
I don't know, could be 50 years ago.
And I still got the little text and he made-up these little texts.
Using a piece of quarter round I believe it was, and then he just lettered 2 words on there. He said God first.
And I still got that sitting on my shelf. God first. Well, here in this.
Verse We have God. First we need to start with God. You know it tells us in the Bible, in Genesis 11, in the beginning, God.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, and that's marvelous to think about. You know, God is great. He's so big.
And we live in this little tiny planet.
I mean in relation to the universe. You need a microscope to see the planet Earth because the universe is so huge.
If you were to travel.
At the speed of light, and that's very fast. That is 186,000 miles. Now listen to this per second.
Can you imagine that?
This world, this Earth, you go around one time, you've gone about 25,000 miles. You go around again, you go on 50,000 miles, you go around about 7 1/2 Times. Now you've gone out 186,000 miles roughly. Can you imagine going around the earth?
7 1/2 Times in one second.
Imagine that.
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That is very, very fast now if we were traveling.
That fast, and that's the speed of light.
How long would it take us to get to the moon? Would anybody here know how far away the moon is? How many miles? Yes.
OK, you think it take two days? All right, What do you think?
What?
8 miles to the moon.
All right, anybody else? We're still looking for the right answer.
Yes.
Two months.
Anybody older here tonight tell me?
I know what it is.
240,000 miles. You got it right. Thank you very much, Mr. Prost.
240,000 miles to the moon. Now if you're traveling at the speed of light to the moon, you're going to get there in a little over a second.
That's fast now does anybody know how far it is to the sun?
Thank you very much. Exactly 93,000,000 miles now if you travel from the earth to the sun.
At the speed of light, it's going to take about 7:00 to 8:00 minutes.
Now we're going to go to the closest star.
It's out there in space.
You know how long it would take to get to the next closest star.
It's 4.2 light years away I believe.
That means it would take over four years traveling at the speed of light to get out to that first star out there, that huge star. And it's only one star.
Milky Way has billions of stars.
And it takes I don't know how many thousands of light years to go across Milky Way, but to tell me there's there's billions and billions of galaxies as huge as Milky Way and they're out there in space.
I must say, I lookout at night, I see a few stars twinkling out there. I don't think about those millions and billions and trillions of stars out there, but they're there. Who put them there?
Yes, you got it very good. You know what tells us in Genesis chapter one? He made the sun. He made the moon.
And he made the stars also. Isn't it nice he made the stars also? 5 words.
It's not difficult to understand. Take God at his word, people, they think there was some kind of a Big Bang and all of a sudden got all these stars scattered all over the place. And I mean, no, that's not according to the word of God. And I want to tell you here tonight we got the Bible. You see this book I got in my hands.
This is the word of God.
And the Lord Jesus said.
I'm talking about the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Son of God and the one who spoke these words of John 316, he said.
Heaven and earth are going to pass away, but my words.
Words, WORDS, words shall not pass away. That means every word that he spoke. It's important. It's pure. I believe it's in Psalm. It tells us that the words of the Lord, they're purified. Is it seven times? Pure words, pure words, and they will not pass away.
Well, I'm so thankful to have this book in my hands here tonight.
Yes.
The Bible.
It's like a.
Rock.
Undaunted.
With the raging.
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Storms of time.
And it's pages burned with the truth eternal.
And his pages glow with a light. Sublime.
We have folks. Name is.
Walsh last name is Walsh and we came home one day and I drove by their house and the house was a charred ruins.
It appeared from everything was destroyed in that house. What has happened here? So we went and we spoke with them. There was a fire, some kind of electrical fire I believe that started and it was just a total loss, but.
Tara Walsh, she said. I want to tell you something. You'll be glad to hear this.
There was two or three items in the house that did not burn, and she said one of them was the family Bible.
And that made an impression on her, and it's made an impression on me too.
The Word of God is imperishable, so.
John 316 For God, starting with God, God always existed.
I got a ring here on my finger. It doesn't have any beginning, it doesn't have any end.
It's just round, no beginning, no end. And that's.
How God is? He never had a beginning and he will never have an ending. And you know God.
It tells us here.
So loved the world, so we could say that God.
Showed up. I think God is the greatest lover.
We had that brought before us last night the love of God.
We need to focus on it.
It'll make a difference in your life.
Hymn writers said.
Message came from heaven to cheer my heart. One day it's set to joy. Bells ringing. It chased my gloom away. It was in the good old Bible. John's Gospel chapter 3 verse 16 I discovered was written there for me.
John, 316.
It's done me good. It can do you good. I look in the hall here tonight. I know many, I would like to say all are enjoying in their soul the truth of John 316.
Who was it that spoke these words?
Nicodemus earlier in the chapter it tells us about this ruler came to Jesus by night.
And you know, he had some questions and the Lord Jesus spoke with Nicodemus and he said to Nicodemus, except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God. That means.
We need a brand new life because we are born.
In sin.
And the Lord Jesus spoke with Nicodemus about that. He didn't understand. He thought the Lord was talking about going back into his mother, you know, and being born again.
But that's not what the Lord was speaking about.
He's talking about his spiritual.
Referred and I tell folks that, you know, I was born right here in Saint Louis.
But I was born again in Chicago.
And they don't know what I'm talking about. That gives opportunity to present the truth of the gospel. We need to be born again.
So the Lord Jesus spoke with Nicodemus, and then as we read on here, he gave Nicodemus the gospel. Wouldn't you like to be Nicodemus in here?
Hear the Lord Jesus speak these words.
You know, if the Lord Jesus came walking through that door there, you know what I would do?
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I'd sit right down in that chair.
It's got a bunch of bottles of water. I just take the water off the chair, put it on the floor. I sit down there. I ask the Lord to come.
Take the podium and preach the gospel, because there's nobody that could preach better than the Lord Jesus, he spoke.
The truth he spoke with conviction, he spoke with passion, he was concerned for Nicodemus and he delighted to speak about his father and the love of God. And he was here in this world.
To tell boys and girls in older ones.
About that wonderful love.
And I can only just begin to tell you how wonderful it is it we can't Plumb the depth of the love of God. It's so grand. And I think we're all acquainted with that.
Him, and it sounds to me like an exaggeration, but I don't think it is. You know how the hymn writer put it. Could we with ink the ocean fill?
And we're the skies of parchment made.
Where every stalk on earth a quill.
Like a pin? A quill.
And every man is scribed by trade. You know what a scribe is? Well, a scribe is somebody that picks up a quill or a pin, and they write and they write and they write and they write. They do so much writing. They write books and books and books. They're called scribes.
But the hymn writer went on to say.
If every stock, that is every blade of grass, every stock on earth.
Was one of these.
And every man.
Ascribe a writer by trade to write the love of God above.
Would train the Ocean Drive.
Nor could the scroll contain the whole, though stretched from sky to sky.
Imagine that much ink in the ocean.
You could do a lot of writing if all the water in the ocean was in.
But the hymn writer said.
To write about the love of God, it would drain the ocean dry. I think about that and.
It's so wonderful, so for God.
Let's say God is the greatest giver.
And the greatest lover, it says he so loved. This is.
An intensity of love.
Shall we say the greatest love?
What about the world?
The world is the greatest number.
Would anybody have any idea how many people live in the world today? You know, Yes.
Thank you. Thank you.
8 billion people, men, women, boys and girls and this verse is telling you and me that God loves.
8 billion people.
It's the greatest number.
Now what comes next?
That.
He.
Gave could we say the greatest act?
God gives, what did he give? I read one time about some folks, I believe it was over in Germany, and they found a piece of paper that was laying in the street and they they picked it up.
And to begin to read it.
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And it said.
God.
So loved the world that he gave.
And in the track was torn.
The next page was thorny.
To begin to wonder what is it that God gave? And they begin to search it out and they found out what it was that God gave. God gave.
His only begotten Son. This is the greatest gift.
And the apostle Paul, he said, Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.
The greatest gift was God's own dear Son.
You know, this was impressed on me, and I know most here, I don't think everybody knows the story, so maybe I'll repeat it, but this story really made an impression on me. And this happened over in the East.
Albert Trecker.
Was at his post doing his job.
And his job was to open up this.
Drawbridge because.
This bridge was over the Passaic River, and so Albert Tractor, he worked in Little House, right by the bridge, by the river, the Passaic River. And so there were big boats that went down this river.
And so in order to allow the boats.
To go down the river, he had to work some controls to get the bridge to open up.
Now who's the train bridge? And so when the bridge was down, the train would go racing by.
So this particular day.
Albert Trecker had opened up the bridge.
To allow the big boat.
To go through.
He looked over there.
Here come his little boy, running up to see him. His name is Peter.
And Albert, you know, he loved his little son Peter so very much, he was glad to see him.
All of a sudden.
In the distance.
Albert hears a sound.
That's a poor excuse for a train. What's up? But in any case, he heard a whistle of the train. And you know, it was a speeding train filled with people coming out of the big city.
And he knew he had to put that.
Bridge down.
For the train to go across.
So he was in the process of working the controls put the.
Bridge them. He looked outside of the.
Little House in horror.
Peter, his son, had slipped on the embankment. It's like this is an embankment.
And he slipped right down in the grass, and he tumbled right down into that river, and there he was out in the river.
And Peter couldn't swim.
Alberts first impulse was I could have jump in and get my boy out of the river. He could have easily saved him from the river.
But then he thought, wait, there's that speeding train coming.
Albert had a decision to make.
It was.
Save his son.
And see all those people on that train.
Crashed into that open bridge.
And perhaps most be killed.
Or he could stay put down the bridge train comes across.
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But what about Peter? He decided I'm going to stay at my post, and he stayed. And he made sure that bridge came down. It came down just in a nick of time.
And as soon as that bridge came down.
Into the water when?
Albert Trekker, It was too late.
His little son was dead, he had drowned, but all those people on the train, they were safe and the train speed on and took their the people to their destination.
You know, I thought about that. What went through the mind?
Of Albert Trekker as he sees his son there struggling in the water. The sun is drowning.
God made a decision.
You know God.
He could have saved his son.
But there would be no salvation.
For you, or for me, or for anyone else, God had a decision.
And it tells us what he decided in Romans chapter 8. It says he spared not his own son.
But he delivered him up for us all. What a wonderful God we have. And you know the Lord Jesus came into this world at the Father's bidding to do His will.
And he went to the cross, it tells us.
What the Lord Jesus thought back in the Psalms, I believe we have an expression of what was in His heart. In Psalm 88 it says there that.
Lord said I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up.
And that's what took place. The Lord Jesus went to the cross of Calvary and laid down his life, and the Father observed all that was taking place.
But you know, the Father sent the Son to be the Savior and.
We thank God from the bottom of our hearts for His willingness to sacrifice His Son. We thank the Lord Jesus for His love and going to that cruel cross. And there it was that he was lifted up to die.
What was it that held him to the cross? They took nails, and with hammers they pounded those nails.
Into the wood of the Cross.
This hand. This hand.
Then his feet.
The Lord said they pierced my hands and my feet and he allowed them to do this. He could have called 12 legions of angels to destroy.
All those.
Soldiers.
And all those people that were clamoring for his blood. But no, he chose.
To die so that others could be saved.
You know, they made fun of the Lord Jesus, he said. Oh.
He saved others himself he cannot save as he was hanging there on the cross.
He saved others.
Himself he cannot say well.
They spoke the truth. In order to save others, the Lord Jesus had to die.
Why do you have to die? Because I'm a Sinner?
Because you are sinners. The Bible tells us that all have sinned.
And come short of the glory of God in one place. It tells us that men sin just like they drink water. It's just happening over and over and over, and there is none that doeth good. No, not one. But God saw us in our desperate condition, and He was willing to send His own dear Son to bear our sins in His own body.
As it tells us in Second Peter 2 on the tree, he took my sins.
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And yours too, if you trust him. And they were placed upon him, and God brought down the rod of judgment upon His own dear Son.
For your sin and mine.
For all who trust him, they can say that Jesus, he was punished for me. He was wounded for my transgressions.
Is there anybody here that would allow me to put their name in that verse?
Somebody that really knows that they're saved, I'll put your name in the verse and make it really personal.
If not, I'll put my name, Tim Stewart. Thank you, Tim.
So let's see how this sounds.
He was wounded for Tim Stewarts transgressions. He was bruised for Tim Stewarts.
Iniquities. The chastisement of Tim Stewart's peace.
Was upon him.
And with his stripes, Tim Stewart is healed.
Now I could put Tim's name in John 316 too.
Would there be anybody here be willing? Let me put your name in John 316.
OK.
That's right. Yeah, Jack. OK, Jack, let's see how this sounds for God. So loved.
Jack that he gave his only begotten Son.
That if Jack believes in him, Jack should not perish.
But Jack should have everlasting life. It's just that simple. It's good to put your name in these verses.
So we have already gotten down to about the middle of the verse, OK, It tells us He gave his only begotten Son. We could say his only begotten Son. That's the greatest gift that could ever be given.
So that's God's part. Now you notice what it tells us here in verse 16, right at the middle of the verse, son.
Son, what is at the center of our solar system? Anybody know it what's right at the center of the solar system? And all the planets are going around like this.
Yes.
That's right, the SUN.
Now in this verse.
It's the Son, it's right at the center of the verse, so there's 12 words about God.
12 words about me, son in the center. Now let's go to the words about you and me.
This is what comes next after Sun.
That whosoever. Oh, what a beautiful word this is.
Beautiful word, whosoever. Let's say that this is the greatest simplicity.
It's not difficult to get saved. Salvation is by faith, by grace. Are you saved through faith?
And that not of yourselves. It's the gift of God. You know, in this gospel we have reference to believe or to believing. 99 * I counted up the number of times it was 99.
I had read that and I thought, well, that's a lot of times. I'm just wondering if this person I'm reading here, do they really know what they're talking about? So I counted, yes, 99 times. We have reference to believing, and you know what believing is? It's taking God at His Word and putting your trust.
In what he has to say.
And you believe day in and day out, so many things. When you came to this meeting tonight, you sat down on that chair. You sat down on that chair.
And you believed that that chair is going to support you because if you thought that chair was going to break down, you would not sit down, right? You had faith in the chair.
Now, you may not know the exact time that you sat down on the chair.
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I mean, it was probably.
Around 7:00 or so, but you don't know the exact time.
But that doesn't matter. You sat down on the chair and you're still sitting on the chair because you have faith in that chair.
And you know, I believe.
That what God appreciates is when we put our trust in His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Believe.
The Apostle Paul and Silas, they were cast into prison and you know the story well. Acts 16, I believe it was spoken of last night. There was an earthquake. The doors on the prison flew open. The prisoners could have easily escaped.
The jailer was about ready to kill himself. He had his sword out there because he knew if any of those soldiers, I should say prisoners, escaped.
He be executed.
Paul says do thyself no harm. We're all here.
And when he heard that, he tells it he called for a light.
Goes into the inner prison there and he falls at the feet to Paul and Silas. He asks a question.
What must I do to be saved?
In earnest.
Been an earthquake. The prison was crumbling. The doors were flying open.
And without hesitation, Paul and Silas give the answer. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
And thou shalt be saved. It's just that simple. People say they believe, but do they really believe?
Some here have known what it is to jump out of an airplane with a parachute.
So if you get on the airplane.
Intending to jump out.
Of the airplane once it reaches, I don't know, 20,000 feet or whatever.
So the airplanes going down the runway.
You feel OK?
I got faith in this parachute and I got faith in this instructor knows what he's doing. Everything's OK.
You get up.
20,000 feet.
The door and the airplanes opened up.
The instructor says jump.
Lookout.
He says it's a good parachute.
Don't have to worry about the parachute.
And the jumper said well.
What about if I do something wrong, like on the way down I messed things up? The instructor says. Well I'm going to jump with you.
He looks at the instructor.
Really.
Instructor.
It says jump.
The man jumps.
He's put his faith.
Is trust in the parachute and the instructor that's believing what the instructor had to say. Now the greatest favor that we can do the Lord is to take him at His Word and to believe what He says. He tells us that Abraham believed God. Doesn't say only that he believed on God, it says he believed God.
And you know it was counted to him for righteousness. Without faith, it's impossible to please God.
And the reason it's so simple is because the Lord Jesus suffered on the cross for sinners, for you and for me. He came under the judgment and the wrath of a holy God for my sin and for yours. And now God is able to justify the Sinner as we had before us today. Declare the Sinner righteous, and God can be just.
Two, he doesn't have to sacrifice his.
Holiness or His justice in order to save you. Because Jesus paid the price. He took the judgment, He was judged. And now you and I, we go free.
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Whosoever.
That's.
The greatest invitation.
The greatest simplicity in him, that's the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the greatest person.
Should not perish. It's the greatest deliverance. Are you perishing here tonight? Do you know what it means to perish? It's spelled PERISH. It means to pass eternally ruined into Satan's hell.
This is serious.
What is hell? It's referred to as a lake of fire.
And there's no way out.
No exit. It's eternal.
Damnation. God doesn't want you to perish. He loves you. He wants you to be saved.
Should not perish greatest deliverance.
But.
You might say this is the greatest difference between perishing what comes next have it's the greatest certainty in that nice. You can be sure that you're saved and on your way to heaven. The apostle John, he said these things I write unto you that you may know that you have eternal life. God wants us to know beyond the shadow of a doubt that everything is good.
Everything is well for time and for eternity.
Because salvation does not depend upon you, it depends on Jesus.
And the Lord Jesus is offering a full and free salvation because his love for you and his precious blood that was shed at the cross.
When that soldier pierced his side forth with came throughout blood and water.
And it's the blood of Christ that cleanses from all sin.
No other remedy for sin rather than the blood of Jesus.
Now, finally, we have.
Everlasting life.
This is the greatest possession, the greatest possession that you or I could ever have. It does not cost you or me one cent because Jesus paid the price in a marvelous to think.
And what is eternal life? It's not only to spend eternity forever and ever and ever with Jesus in the glory in the Father's house, but it's to know God.
The Lord Jesus said this is life eternal, that they might know Dean, the only true God in Jesus Christ.
Who he has sent. Wonderful.
That we can know God and just keep on getting better acquainted and better acquainted, and that's what's going to happen in eternity. Are you prepared for eternity? There's a man over in Australia and for years he went around.
And he had this chalk and he right on the ground or on a wall.
One word, Eternity. He was the eternity man. Nobody knew who was putting this word out there.
Until finally, years later, they found out who it was. Man, by the name of Albert Stace I believe it was.
And it was determined that he might have wrote that word about 500,000 times.
Over in the city of, I believe, Sydney, Australia.
Eternity. And you know, I believe God used that.
To speak to souls. Eternity is long. Are you prepared for eternity? You prepare for this life.
You know, it's been said.
He who?
Provides for this life but takes no care for eternity. He is wise for a moment, but he's a fool forever. Please don't be a fool forever. Come to Christ, accept him. He wants to save your soul, He loves you.
It was a.
Car in town and sitting at the gas station there and I looked on the back end of that car. Big sign.
This is what it said on the sign please.
Do not go to hell. That's what it said. I'm signed.
I think that's going to make some people think.
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The Lord Jesus don't want you to perish. God doesn't want you to perish. Think about this verse. John 316. What a beautiful verse.
Go God's way. People have their own way.
About a year ago.
There was a man, he left the party 11:00 at night.
Down in North Carolina.
He said his GPS.
So he was following the GPS down the road is dark.
Then realized that there was a bridge that had been washed out.
The next morning, his wife woke up. She didn't see her husband. Where is he?
They went out to search later that morning. They found that car upside down in the water below.
And that man had perished.
Well, you know.
There's a way that seems right unto a man, but the ender of other ways of death go God's way.
His way is salvation, and he that has the Son has life, and he that has not the Son of God, shall not see life.