Gospel—R. Thonney
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Dean, the Beginner Gospel meeting this evening.
Have you any room for Jesus?
He who bore the load of sin.
As he knocks and asks admission Sinner, will you let him in?
Room for pleasure.
Room for business.
But for Christ the crucified, not a place that he can enter.
And the heart for which he died.
Sing #17.
Have you?
Seen.
Sinner, will you let him in?
Let's pray. Gracious Father, we're still singing another hymn #6.
God in mercy sent his Son to a world by sin and dawn. Jesus Christ was crucified. It was for sinners. Jesus died. Maybe we can stand and sing #6.
God in murder?
Oh.
Sure.
It's a turn, first of all, to a verse in or a few verses in Second Corinthians chapter 4.
And in beginning with verse 3.
But if our gospel be hidden, it is hid to them that are lost, in whom the God notice the small G of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not.
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.
Hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Night My purpose is to speak.
On the knowledge of God and in Christianity we have been given the true knowledge of God. What is God like? You know, in the Old Testament times, as we were mentioning earlier today, there was a partial revelation of who God was in creation. There also is a revelation of the glory of God. The heavens declare the glory of God.
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And the firmament showeth his handiwork. It is all a testimony.
As to who God is and when you look at the universe.
And consider the vastness of it. You get a glimpse. You get an idea of the tremendous power of God that is displayed in creation. And let me remind you.
That it didn't take him a whole long time to make it all. He spoke and it was done. What tremendous.
Power to bring the universe into existence we have no.
Concept, really, of the vastness of it all, although I really believe that it has.
Its limits, it has its edge because it's part of creation, and creation is something that is measurable. But as we look at it, the billions and billions of stars and galaxies out there in space, you get a glimpse of how tremendously powerful our God is, because necessarily he's greater than the whole universe. We're not just talking about some.
Imagination.
Or fabrication of the human mind when we speak of God, no.
We're talking about a God who has revealed himself, and he reveals himself through different means. One is, as we've been speaking about, of creation.
And in the law of Moses, there was also a revelation of how holy and how just God is. God is holy, He's just. When they came out of Egypt, the children of Israel, they came to Mount Sinai.
And they agreed. All that the Lord hath said we will do.
They had no idea of what it entailed and God immediately said sit bounds.
On Mount Sinai, don't let anybody cross those. If anything crosses those bounds, even if it's a beast, he'll be immediately killed. Yes, God is holy.
In our society today, people think they can cross any line they want to. They don't understand who God is.
But it is not until the New Testament and we have the coming of the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, that we have the full revelation of God, and to me it is the most wonderful thing in Scripture.
The most wonderful thing that God has come into his own creation in the person.
Of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let's read a few verses in Hebrews, first in the first chapter and then in the second chapter, because I'd like to share what I've enjoyed so much in recent times as to who our God is.
I find in our culture that we live in here in the United States and Canada.
That there is a tremendous departure from the true knowledge of God.
And as we are living in the midst of the culture here in the United States and Canada.
I don't think you and I can say that we're totally isolated and unaffected from of that culture.
I think we have to confess that we are affected by it. And what really scares me is you go into youth homes. Lord has opened the door next to Lawrenceville. Over in the city of Vincennes, there's a youth home where.
The youth are detained by the law for various crimes that they commit and as I mentioned this afternoon.
Anybody from 12 years up to 17 or 18 years old.
Are there, And it is astounding to me how little knowledge of the true God there is. Oh yes, they speak of Jesus. Oh yes, they speak of God. But the idea that they have in their minds, it is evident that they don't know the true God of the Bible. And I fear that there are those who are brought up in the meeting as we talk about it.
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Those who hear the gospel and who have not opened their hearts to receive the true knowledge of God.
What a treasure, what a wonderful thing that this poor finite creature can know the infinite eternal God that made everything. Oh, what a wonderful thing it is. Let's read a few verses here in Hebrews chapter one. First of all, beginning with verse one God.
Who at sundry times and in diverse manners.
Spake in time passed into the Fathers by the Prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, whom He hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the world's.
Who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power.
When he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.
These verses show how God Himself has come into His own creation in the person of our Lord Jesus Christ. Tremendous to think about it. The God who is greater, necessarily greater than the whole creation itself, has come into His own creation. How did He come? He was born.
Of a woman he was born of a virgin, a woman who had never known man. And it was through that means that God came into his own creation. He was born as a little baby.
He was laid in a Manger and to me it touches me to the core.
That when God came into his own creation, nobody.
Seemed to realize who he was.
You know, when there are things that happen, important things in this world, people make a lot of noise about it. I remember some years ago we were down in Bolivia, in the southern town of.
Yaquiva with the family and it happened to be the time here in the United States when the World Cup was being played.
And it was the last game.
And Brazil won over Italy, I think it was.
I'll never forget how.
The firecrackers ran out. And this is Bolivia, remind you.
It wasn't Brazil, but they were happy that the World Cup stayed in South America. And there was tremendous celebration through that whole city. And I mean, firecrackers that hurt your ears going off every now and then for at least two whole hours. That was the celebration for that event.
Were there any firecrackers that went off when Jesus was born?
Did anybody know about it?
The angels came down.
And they must have thought what happens, What happened to these people? Don't they understand who that is?
He was relegated toward the animals were there was no room for him in the inn. That's the way our God, our glorious God came into this world.
The angels had to go up to the mountainside to look for some shepherds.
Those poor people out in the mountainside to tell them that the Savior had been born.
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That God had come into his own creation.
Do we realize what a tremendous fact the incarnation is?
You know the world celebrates it only once a year, but.
Brethren, we should celebrate it every day of our lives.
Our God, our glorious, eternal God, has come into this world in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now we can know who God is because He came to our world. He walked here, and we have in this book inspired testimony as to who.
This person really is.
I don't want to go on to the next chapter because it's not my purpose to meditate.
Much on the fact that fact to go on to chapter 2 and we have another tremendous truth of the Gospel, and it is this.
That that God man who was here in this world.
Now has gone back into the glory of God. Not only has God come into this world.
In chapter one of Hebrews. But in chapter 2 a man has gone into the glory of God.
And I think it's so tremendous to put those two things together. Let's read it.
In chapter 2 and verse six, one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man? That thou art mindful of him, or the Son of man, that thou visitest him. Thou mayest him a little lower than the angels. Thou crownest him with glory and honor, and it set him over the works of thy hands Thou hast put all things.
In subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him he left nothing.
That is not put under him, but now we see. Not yet all things put under him, but we see.
Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death.
Crowned with glory and honor, that he by the grace of God, should taste death.
For every man. So here we have the Lord Jesus.
As a man and where is he? He's there.
In the glory of God, yes, there is one of our race.
There is a real living man of flesh and bones.
In the glory of God tonight, that too is one of the tremendous truths of the gospel, and it is through the Lord Jesus now that we have the full and true knowledge of who God is. You want to know who God is, what kind of a God we have? Get to know Jesus. You will know what kind of a God we have.
He is the image of the invisible God. Yes, God is necessarily invisible to the human eye because he is so vast, so great, so infinite.
But the Lord Jesus is the image, the visible.
God, we can see with our eyes the Lord Jesus.
And where is the Lord Jesus? He came to be a little lower than the angels. Angels in creation are higher order than men. They are more powerful according to scripture.
But the Lord Jesus didn't become an Angel. He passed the angels by to become a man.
To come right where you and I are, we can't say to God you don't understand God, how it means, how it feels to be a man. He knows he was a real man in this world.
And as a man, he could die. And this is the story of the gospel.
The Lord Jesus as God, as the eternal Son of God, could not die, but becoming a man, he could die as a substitutionary sacrifice for we who were sinners and as such condemned to death, and the Lord Jesus when he came to the end of his life here in this world.
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We know the story. He was taken outside of that city of Jerusalem.
He knew full well what awaited him, and he allowed men.
To stretch out those hands and nail them to the cross, they gave the worst death possible to the Son of God.
They crucified Him. They crowned him with thorns. They hit him in the face. They spit in his face.
Every insult they could think of.
Was what they did to him.
It was a reflection of your heart and mind. Oh, you say. I don't think I would have done that to him. I wouldn't do that to anybody.
If you say that, let me tell you, you don't know your own natural heart. Naturally, every one of us is an enemy of God. And it is only the grace of God that can work in my heart and in your heart and bring us to repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Yes, you would have been there at that cross. Yes, you would have heaped those same insults on him because.
That is the natural condition of your heart and mind and if you think.
You are any better than that? Let me ask you tonight to repent, because you are not. That's the testimony of the Word of God. There is no difference, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
We like to make differences and we are constantly measuring people. Some measure up to our standards perhaps, and others just don't make the standard and we don't accept them.
God says as he views the whole human race by nature.
There is no difference. I can stand by the worst criminal.
In the presence of Saint Louis tonight and say there is no difference, naturally speaking.
Between myself and that criminal.
The awfulness of his heart has come out into the open more than perhaps in mine.
But my heart is just the same. Again, I say, if you think you're any better.
And I think this is a real.
Hindrance for those of us who have been brought up in the meeting, so-called.
I was brought up in the meeting too.
God had to deal with me to make me realize.
That is true. There is no difference between me and anyone else in this world. That is our natural condition.
And so here we have the Lord Jesus suffering death, tasting death for every man. Yes, he wants everyone to be saved. He doesn't want anyone to be lost. God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Let me ask you.
Are you saved?
I think everyone here has heard the gospel before.
But I'm not talking.
About merely having the appearance of being a Christian. It really searches me when I think of the Lord's own 12 apostles, that one of the 12 was a traitor, and what the Lord calls a devil.
Isn't that awful?
We got quite a few more than 12 here tonight.
Are you sitting there without God?
You know yourself, you have never made it real and personal in your own life.
I ask you with all my heart to get serious with God. You can fool me. You cannot fool God.
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And if you're fooling anybody, you're fooling yourself worse than anybody else.
Don't do it any longer. Get straight with gut.
The Lord Jesus tasted death for every man. It doesn't mean that every man will be saved, because salvation comes by faith in Christ, and if you do not exercise personal faith in the Lord Jesus, you will not be saved.
I'd like to go back now to the book of Romans chapter one.
And read there because we have quite a bit about the knowledge of God in this chapter.
We'll start with verse 16.
For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, For it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth, to the Jew 1St, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness.
And unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness, because that which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God hath showed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made.
Even his eternal power and Godhead so that they are without excuse because that when they knew God.
They glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened, professing themselves to be wise.
They became fools and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image like unto corruptible man, and to birds and four footed beasts and creeping things.
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves.
Who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator?
Who is blessed forever? Amen.
For this cause.
God gave them up unto vile affections, for even their women did change the natural use.
Into that which is against nature, and likewise also the men leaving the natural use.
Of the woman burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves there that recompense of their error which was meat, and even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge.
God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient.
Being filled with all unrighteousness fornication.
Wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whispers back fighters, haters of God, despiteful, proud boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents without understanding.
Covenant Breakers without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful, who, knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
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What an awful dark picture we have painted for us here in this chapter, and yet it seems to fit the picture of what we see around us here in the United States of America, this country where the Gospel has gone out so freely for so many years.
Where the light of the knowledge of God has brought such prosperity and material blessing to this country.
But now this country is turning away from the true knowledge of God.
And it's awful the direction it goes. I'm sure you've noticed as we read over these verses how it is down, down, down.
Paul here and I want to go over these verses briefly. It says I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. The good news is the news of who our God is. Yes, God is a savior God. God is light and God is love. His light shows you what you are. It shows you your sin, and not one sin will ever be allowed to taint that holy city above.
If you're going to be there in that day, you have to deal with God about the matter of your sins.
And you have to deal with him on his terms. You do not set.
The basis of judgment. People think that when they get to the judgment seat that they're going to answer back to God.
They have another thinker coming that will not be so. No, you are going to be judged at God's bar of judgment, not your own thoughts.
I often give the illustration in South America when we lived in Bolivia, supposing I was arrested for doing something, perhaps that was legal in the United States but is illegal in Bolivia, and I'm taken to court. And I say to the judge, I said, Sir, this is fully allowable in the United States of America. What would he say to me? He would say you are standing.
In Bolivia, and you will be judged by Bolivian law. United States law may be that way, but you are not in that position. And so you and I have no right to establish the basis of judgment. God has established it. And when you stand before God, it will be on the ground of his norms, not yours.
Not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. It is the power of God unto salvation. I marvel as I travel around and meet different people who have gotten saved.
And it's always different. Everyone is different. How God reaches into the hearts of terrible criminals at times and changes them sometimes. They're religious people, extremely religious.
Remember a lady in the Dominican Republic that we stayed in their home. She and her husband were believers at that time, gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. But before she had gotten saved, she was Catholic and a very devout Catholic. And she said, I'm not going to let those evangelicals get a hold of me. They're not going to persuade me. And so to be able to defend herself.
Against those evangelicals, she decided to get the Catholic Bible and start to read it so that she would have a basis to stand on before the evangelicals. And she got reading in the book of Hebrews, and she came to those verses that said.
Every priest standeth daily offering oftimes the same sacrifices which can never take away sins.
But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of the throne of God.
Said well, I don't quite understand that. I'd better take it to my priest and ask him what it means.
And she did it, and the priest could not explain it. And as she said later, she said those two verses took me square out of the Catholic Church. How God uses one and another strongly against the Gospel. He reaches down in tender grace to work in the heart of one and another. Has He worked in your heart? He's.
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Striving tonight, I really feel the Spirit of God is present here to strive with some of our dear young people, our dear children, perhaps some older ones too, that have really never made it real in their own souls with God. God is a living God. God is a real God. God can be known through the person of our Lord Jesus Christ. Tremendous.
To get to know our God through the gospel. I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. It is the power of God and to salvation to everyone that believeth. To the Jew 1St and also to the Greek. Then he says in verse 17. Therein is the righteousness of God revealed from grace, from faith to faith as it is written, the just shall live by faith.
Oh yes, in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed. Are you righteous? The scripture says there is none. Righteous. No, not one.
How then can I be righteous before God?
By faith in Jesus Christ and these this theme is taken up in the book of Romans. Majorly the matter of justification by faith. How can I be right with God?
Well, there was a standard, a perfect standard of justice in the Old Testament. It was the law of Moses that no one could keep that law.
And so now there is another completely distinct way in which we can be made righteous before God. Number one, to accept God's testimony when he says you are a poor, lost, condemned Sinner. Have you accepted God's testimony #2 when God says Jesus is the Savior of sinners?
To accept God's testimony, if you accept in simple faith God's testimony, God says I justify you, I make you righteous, not on the ground of our works, but on the ground of the work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary.
Being justified freely, it tells us in chapter 3.
Through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Yes, God.
Justice had to be satisfied, and it was. When the Lord Jesus hung on that cross, He paid in full the price of our redemption. I say that God would not have raised him from the dead if there had been the least little question left unresolved.
It was all taken care of and God was not only satisfied with what Jesus paid on Calvary, he was glorified by it and as a result He raised him from the dead as the testimony that the price has been paid in full. Now you and I, by simply believing God's testimony can be made righteous. Oh what a wonderful thing being justified by faith.
We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
That's the story of the gospel. The righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel by faith, from faith to faith, as it is written, the just shall live by faith. But it also says in verse 18, the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth and unrighteousness. In other words, people think that God is a God of grace and of love. They're right.
He is.
But they sometimes forget that God is also a God.
Of holiness and of truth. And that that does not excuse unrighteous behavior. And as in the first meeting of this conference, we heard about those who turn the grace of our God into lasciviousness. In other words, make the fact that God is gracious an excuse to go on sinning. God is gracious. He'll forgive me. Let's go on and have a fling.
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The most awful condemnation is given to that kind of mindset, and if there is someone who has that mindset here tonight, again, I want to ask you to repent, to change your mind on that matter because it is extremely serious. This is the norm in the United States of America that we live in, but it is not the norm of God's Word. The wrath of God is revealed from heaven.
Against all unrighteousness, ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth and unrighteousness. Notice they're holding the truth.
Oh yes, we have the truth, but they're holding it in unrighteousness. Now notice verse 19. Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them, For God hath showed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.
In other words, creation is a testimony that goes out all over the earth. So often when I'm speaking to souls about the gospel, they say, what about the heathen that have never heard the gospel? Oh yes, they've heard the gospel. It may not be the gospel of the grace of God that you and I have heard and are responsible for.
No. It may be what is called the everlasting gospel, the testimony that goes out through creation.
I've seen pictures of some of the savages in the jungle of Bolivia, and those tribes are generally going down in number. They kill each other off little by little if they're not reached in time.
And they don't have the gospel. They've never heard the name of Jesus. But those savages all have a consciousness of a supreme being. The things that are made are a testimony to the existence of a maker.
So that they are rendered inexcusable. The time comes when every man, woman and child will stand before the throne of God.
Inexcusable.
No, God gives testimony, and He gives ample testimony to everyone.
But you and I are tremendously responsible because we live in a land where the truth of the gospel of Christ has been given out in a fuller measure, perhaps, than in any other time in the history of the world.
What a privilege to live in this time. What an awful responsibility to not receive the true knowledge of God that we have in the gospel.
Because that verse 21 when they knew God, yes, there was a time when they did know God. They glorified him not as God, neither were thankful. God is a being that you need to glorify and also you need to be thankful to Him. Oh how good God is. He sends his reign on the just and on the unjust.
God is no respecter of persons. He loves the world, for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Yes, they knew God, but they did not glorify Him as God. Neither were thankful. They became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Here goes.
The beginning of this downward path that is so evident in our country, the United States of America.
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.
Of and said, if somebody if I was walking along a path through the forest and I picked up a watch off the path and say, you know what, this watch was not made by anybody.
It was just an explosion out here in the middle of nowhere, and this watch came out of it.
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You'd say you fool.
I know you would laugh at me, but when man looks at the tremendous creation.
And says that nobody created it, professing themselves to be wise.
They became fools and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God.
You're not going to corrupt God. No, He is the uncorruptible God.
Into an image they'd like to corruptible man, to birds, to four footed beasts and creeping things. Notice the decline.
They give up the true knowledge of God. They give up the knowledge of the Lord Jesus, who is the image of the invisible God.
And they immediately replace it with other idols, sometimes of men. Corruptible man to birds.
At least they're up in the air, but then it comes down to four footed beasts and then it grovels in the dust to creeping things. He goes down lower and lower in his declension.
Awful to think about, but this is what is happening in this country.
Are you being affected by the culture that we're passing through?
I'm amazed at the idolatry that is taking place in this country.
You say What do you mean by idolatry? I mean sports stars.
I mean music stars.
And it's down in Argentina. The other day, as we were going down from Buenos Aires toward La Plata, my brother picked us up at the airport and took us. He showed me the monument beside the road.
It was a place where a singer, an Argentine singer, had died in a car accident. He was so loved that people make pilgrimages there to see the place where he died. Idolatry.
They give up the true knowledge of God and your heart and mind longs for some object, and if you do not embrace.
God's man, the Lord Jesus Christ, you are going to embrace an idol of some sort or another. No, it may not be one made like an image, but it will be a man or perhaps even an animal. People give more importance to animals than they do to human beings today.
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves.
And so here comes the corruption of the body.
You know man is made.
In three parts, spirit, soul and body, we are made in the image of God, and God is triune and so is man, spirit, soul and body. And in this list you may have noticed that three times it says that God gave them up in the first case in verse 24.
He gives them up and it's the body that's affected.
In verse 26 for this 'cause God gave them up unto.
Vile affections. It's the soul that's affected. And in verse 28, and even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind. That's the spirit that's affected.
God is slowly giving man up because they have left the true knowledge of God. I think it's extremely solemn to think that this is the direction our country is going. The embracing of the homosexual agenda in this country, the defending of it has been an abomination to God and he will not.
Tolerated. It's going to be judged. Those verses in the book of Jude, Speaking of Sodom and Gomorrah, says he made that an example of what would happen to those who live ungodly lives.
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God judges sin, and if you refuse to leave off with your sin, you will taste the judgment of God in all its awfulness.
God gives up people to a reprobate mind to do those things that are.
Not convenient. No, it's not convenient to go on sinning. It has its disastrous effects.
And God lays it out here so that we can realize this is the culture.
We're passing through, but notice how far it gets.
In verse 29, being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whispers, backbiters, haters of God.
Not only have they given up the true knowledge of God, but anytime God is mentioned, there's abject hatred expressed toward Him.
Despite full proud.
Boasters. Inventors of evil things. Disobedient to parents without understanding. Covenant Breakers without natural affection. Implacable. You know what that word means? Means you can't reason with them.
The other day when I was there in Argentina, a brother who was a builder was going to build a wall between two neighbors, and we happened to go out with them and I found them, the two neighbors in a royal debate out in the back.
I mean, the brother found him that way. We came on and saw a little bit of it, but he told us that the one neighbor who was not in agreement for building that wall, he was not financing it either. But.
The neighbor that had contracted the brother to come in said, OK, I'm sorry, forgive me, but we've already got this job going. And the other man says I will not forgive. You can't imagine people living so close and being implacable. That's characteristic of the world we live in. Unmerciful. And then notice verse 32.
Who, knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same?
But have pleasure in them that do them.
Can I say something?
I think it's pretty hard. The TV screen makes verse 32 possible. Maybe you say I don't do all that garbagey stuff.
But do you sit in front of a TV screen to have pleasure in seeing those that do them?
Think about it. That is the picture that's painted in departure from God. Oh, what a wonderful thing it is to know the true God, the living God, the eternal God, in the person of our Lord Jesus Christ. Dear young people, have you accepted this God into your life? Have you received the Lord Jesus Christ into your heart?
We have the true knowledge of God in the Lord Jesus Christ. Turning from that, If you have heard the gospel from your youth up and you have not accepted it and you are turning away to go in a different direction, this is the picture that is painted and what is before you is eternal fire. What happened to Sodom and Gomorrah?
It was destroyed by fire and brimstone. They guess. Archaeologists guess where that city was located, but there's not even any ruins. I understand that of that city left.
What? You know what brimstone is? Brimstone. In the Spanish translation, it's sulfur. Big gobs of sulfur came down and hit people and burned that whole city out of existence. That's the example that God gives to those who will live ungodly. Tonight is a time of decision.
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Do you want to go the world's way?
Is there a tendency on your heart to go that direction? I ask with all my heart, along with all our dear brothers and sisters that are here present. Don't go that route. Turn tonight, repent and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
For if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.