Gospel—R. Thonney
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You won this evening.
I will sing of my Redeemer.
Wondrous love to me.
And the cruel cross he suffered from the curse to set me free.
Sing, O sing of my Redeemer with his blood He purchased me on the cross. He sealed my pardon, paid the debt, and made me free.
Ah, he will sing of my Redeemer.
Let's pray.
Gracious Father, it's wonderful to be able to sing of our Redeemer.
Our blessed Lord Jesus.
Who died on the cross to save our souls?
Our purpose here this evening, gracious Father, is to speak of Him and of His love.
We don't know who in this crowd here this evening.
Knows him in truth, and who doesn't?
But Father?
As thou dost look down and see each one, let us know exactly where each one stands, and we would ask that if there is one person here.
Who doesn't know the Lord Jesus in truth?
That the outer shell of profession might be shattered, and that they might realize themselves deny holy Presence.
And realize that they have to do with Thee, and what a serious thing it is. And so we ask thy blessing upon Thy precious word, as is spoken this evening, not only here, but wherever the name of the Lord Jesus is pronounced as the Savior of sinners. We ask for blessing, Father.
And the liberty thy Spirit we ask in the name of our Lord Jesus.
Amen.
Let's see also number six.
God in mercy.
Send his son to a world by sin and done.
Jesus Christ was crucified.
Twas for sinners Jesus died.
Oh, the glory of the grace shining in the Savior's face, telling sinners from above. God is light and God is love.
God.
The last line of the chorus that we sang God is light.
And God is love. Tremendous truths of the gospel message.
That never growled simple words.
Each one monosyllable words still the truth.
That we find.
In these two short statements that are really from scripture.
In the first epistle of John is tremendous God.
Is light and God is love. Oh, tremendous truth. To get a hold of in our souls. I'd like to turn to John's Gospel chapter one to begin with this evening.
To speak about the person of the Savior, our Lord Jesus, as we often say in South American preaching the gospel.
We have not come to preach religion. We have come.
To speak of a person, no religion can save anybody. Only Christ can say he is the Savior. He is the one who died. He is the one who paid his precious blood to purchase redemption. And it is a question of dealing with the person of the Lord Jesus. You know, sometimes I find it easier preaching the gospel to people who have never heard the good message.
Than I do to congregations like this here. I think everyone here in this room.
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As we were singing, I looked over the crowd. But I don't think there's one year who has never heard the message of the gospel.
It's harder, perhaps, to speak to a congregation like this. I remember down in.
Oaxaca. Not in Oaxaca, but in the state of Durango in Mexico, Speaking in the town of Los Reyes to a group of people who had congregated in the front porch of a home where we preached the gospel.
There were not enough chairs for everybody. They were standing around, some squatting.
Still remember an older man squatting there with his pistol on his hip.
And he listened pretty well the end of the meeting, he said.
I thought this was bad stuff. This is good.
This is good. That was his only comment. Let me tell you, it's easy to tell the gospel message to a person like that. That's listening. But here in the United States of America, it is rare, especially in a group of people like we have here this evening, to find a person who has never heard the gospel message. But the tremendous serious reality is that there are probably.
People here who make a profession of being believers in the Lord Jesus and have never accepted Him as their Savior.
And who are on at this present moment their road to a lost eternity, to be spent in the lake of fire with the devil and his angels?
With the God, we could wake you up tonight to the awful reality it's going to be.
But it's happened too often. It happened when our Lord Jesus Christ was here in this world.
One of her 12 apostles who went around with Jesus in his public ministry down here, who preached, who did miracles, evidently who cast out demons.
Was not real and is burning in hell tonight.
The Lord Jesus knew about it.
None of the other disciples.
Seem to understand it.
And when the Lord Jesus said, one of you shall betray me?
Nobody seemed to know who it was. Nobody seemed to know who the traitor was.
As I look around here I see you all pretty nicely dressed and all have an outward smile and cordial and nice.
But I want to tell you that God is dealing not with the outward. God is dealing with what's inside. And if you're not real with God tonight, leave off the sham.
Far better to be real with God and let.
Know what is really on the inside.
A little over a year ago, in a conference in Bolivia, in the area of the country where we used to reside, a young fellow came up to me after the conference and said I'd like to for you to come over to visit where I'm staying. After the meeting, went over there and he and his family.
Were there, he and his wife, they wanted to talk and he said, you know, I was raised in the meeting. I was baptized. I was breaking bread. But I want you to know I wasn't saved and I want to get saved. I want to make sure I'm right tonight.
He and his wife.
Bent their knees to the Lord Jesus that evening.
I don't know.
If there was anything real before that, but that was his testimony, I just want to say that.
To encourage any of you who have made a profession of faith in the Lord Jesus.
But you know it's empty on the inside.
You know that you haven't accepted the Lord Jesus.
Face up to the facts tonight. Don't try to put anymore face on the matter.
When you know it's empty inside.
Come to the Lord Jesus.
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He's waiting for you. He wants to fill that heart of your soul full. You can't contain it all. That's the kind of God we have. He's not a God that's trying to deprive you of something. He's a God that wants to fill your soul so full that you're just going to positively have to overflow. That's the kind of God we're speaking about tonight. Let's read the first few verses of this book of John.
To me it's so majestic. Just think this was penned by a poor, ignorant, unlettered fisherman. Think of the majesty of the Word of God that was given through this man. 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 in him was life.
And the life was the light of men.
The tremendous beauty of these words. We want to speak of Jesus tonight.
The Savior, the Son of God, the one who wears the title that we have in this first verse.
Called the Word of God.
When I have a thought in my mind.
That I want to express to you. I have to use words so that you understand what I'm thinking.
God is light and God is love, but unless God reveals himself.
He is so great in his being that there would be no way that we could know God.
But Jesus is the word of God. He is the full expression.
Of all that God is, do you want to know God?
Get to know Jesus and you will know God in every sense of the word.
In the beginning was the Word his eternity, and the Word was with God, his distinct personality.
In the deity and the Word was God. His deity, Jesus is God in every sense of the word.
The same was in the beginning with God.
It wasn't something that He began to be at a certain time. No, He always was. He is the eternal Son of God. All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made. He is the creator of all things. Nothing that has its being by creation was made apart from Him.
He made it all. There is a false doctrine.
In this world that says that Jesus was the first of God's creation and then he created all the rest. If that were so, verse three would not be true.
The fact of the matter is, the truth of the matter is.
That Jesus was not created.
He was the creator of all things. He must necessarily then be before all things.
Verse four says in him was life and the life.
Was the light of men. Oh, this is beautiful.
The life was the light of men. His very presence as the Lord Jesus passed amongst men was a light that exposed everything. Yes friend, God is light and God is love, and light is that which makes everything manifest.
You're here in the light of this room tonight, and I can see everything about you.
In an exterior way, but the Lord Jesus not only sees everything exterior about you, He knows you through and through.
Neither is there anything that is not manifest in His presence.
For all things are naked and open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
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You cannot hide from him, friend. You cannot.
You may have secrets. You may think that there's somebody that that there's nobody that knows what you actually have done. There's one who knows your life through and through. You will not escape from Him. You must come face to face with your Creator and the person of the Lord Jesus. Sooner or later. There is no way to escape that encounter.
Well, I'd like to go on down the.
Chapter here a little bit, verse 14.
The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.
Here is the incarnation of the Lord Jesus.
He didn't begin his existence at this time.
No, He was the ever existent, 1 The eternal Son in the bosom of the Father.
And yet the time came when the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. Just think of this. To me, it's tremendous.
To meditate on the fact when the Lord Jesus came into this world, it says in verse.
Ten he was in the world, and the world was made by him.
And the world knew him not.
When he was born into the world in Bethlehem, there was no room for him in the end.
There he had to be born where the animals are cared for.
Who is this one?
It's the creator of the universe. Oh, the marvel of it. And as Mother wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a Manger, just to think of him there, the creator of the universe.
Lay in that Manger at the same time he was laying as a being, a physical human being in that Manger. He was controlling the universe and its extension by the word of his power. No wonder wise men, when they saw him, worshipped him. No wonder.
Friend, I worship him. Do you worship him?
And then?
Says he dwelt among us. Just to think of that he dwelt among us.
God, there was a man.
A flesh and blood.
Here in this world.
Who was God in every sense of the word? Nobody seemed to understand. Not only not only even His disciples seemed to grasp the tremendous reality of who He was. Remember when they were in that ship crossing the sea? The Lord Jesus was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow.
Does God go to sleep?
You know he doesn't.
But the Lord Jesus was man in every sense of the word, and as man he swept.
Could that boat sink with the creator of the universe on it?
Absolutely impossible.
And so those poor disciples, I'm afraid, quite a bit like myself.
They got scared when the waves filled the boat.
That happens to me too.
I get scared of life sometimes.
But there was the Lord Jesus, and they came and they woke him up.
And they said, Master, we perish.
He stands up and he stills the winds and the waves. What did they say?
Kind of man is this, that even the winds and the waves obey him?
What else can you expect from the creator of the universe? And yet they didn't seem to grasp the mighty power, the greatness of that person that was walking through their midst in human form.
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Oh friend, that's the person we're talking about tonight, and our desire is that your eyes might be opened.
As to the grandeur, the glory of this Person of our Lord Jesus Christ, oh the marvel of it, the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten of the Father.
Full of grace and truth. In this beautiful full of grace and truth we mentioned at the beginning of the meeting, God is light and God is love. Grace is the expression of the truth that God is love.
Truth is the expression that God is the.
Expression of the truth that God is light.
And in the Lord Jesus, there was the perfect balance. Oh, I have to confess, friends.
That I'm not very well balanced. No human being is, for that matter.
But here was a man.
Amongst men who was completely perfect.
They could find no fly in him. He was full of grace and truth. How often I tend to one side or another. Maybe I'm full of grace and I forget about truth. Maybe I profess to be full of truth and I forget about grace. That's the way we are friends. But here's one who is completely perfect.
Full of grace and truth.
Verse 15 John bear witness of him, and cried, saying, This is he of whom I spake. He that cometh after me is preferred before me, for he was before me.
We know that the Lord Jesus.
In this natural birth.
Of the Virgin Mary was approximately 6 months.
Younger than John the Baptist, but John the Baptist recognizing.
Somewhat of the grandeur of this person, says he that cometh.
After me is preferred before me for he was before me.
He recognized in the Lord Jesus something, someone.
Not a mere man, someone who is eternal in his existence, the Son of God, as he says later down in the chapter verse 16. And of his fullness have all we received in grace for grace. Notice verse 17. The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. The law was a principle upon.
Which man could try for God's blessing on the grounds of obedience? It was conditional blessing. It was conditional upon his compliance with the Law. You know its totality.
You could not break one commandment of it if one kept the whole law.
And broke one of the commandments. He became guilty of all.
That was one principle upon which man could seek for God's blessing.
That absolutely no one could.
Gain God's favor in that way now God, after having tested man.
Under the law, remember, their law wasn't.
Defective. The law was good and perfect.
There was nothing wrong with the law, only the law showed that they.
Defect, the imperfection, was on man's part. It was a mirror to show man his sin, his iniquity.
But now God has set that principle aside, and in the coming of the Lord Jesus there is a completely different principle involved now.
Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. Oh, the tremendous truth of this verse. The law was given by Moses.
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Grace and truth.
Came by Jesus grace. Not only grace, not only truth, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father.
Ye hath declared him.
I'd like to go now into the book of John briefly to two cases.
Of persons who met with the Lord Jesus and how the Lord Jesus, I marvel how he treated each case as it came.
No rules but these tremendous principles of the Gospel.
Grace and truth were ever evident in the way He dealt with each soul as they came.
I marvel at the souls that were attracted to Jesus.
Did that mean he overlooked their sin, that he made light of their sin? Absolutely not.
There was truth there, in the fullest sense of the word, as well as grace.
Let's go to 3rd, 3rd chapter of John John's Gospel.
Here we have a man who is a religious man, a man who is a man of stature amongst his people.
Nicodemus.
There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher came from God.
For no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I send to thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old?
Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born? Jesus answered. Verily, verily, I sin to thee.
Except the man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit.
His spirit marvel not that I said unto thee, must be born again.
Here's a man, as we said, who was a ruler amongst his people, a religious man. The Pharisees were known for their strictness in the Jewish religion. And he comes to Jesus by night, doesn't say why he came by night. We can suppose perhaps that he didn't want to be seen. And maybe there's people that don't want to be known as Christians before their friends.
That Nicodemus, even though it was dark all around.
Came to the man who was light in himself.
He was the light of the world.
He was the expression of the truth that God is light and everything must be exposed in the presence of this one. So the Lord, So Nicodemus begins to talk, and it sounds like nice religious talk that he starts out. It's all true in its place, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher. Come from God, for no man can do these miracles.
Thou dost accept God, be with him. Pretty good start there, Nicodemus, but the Lord Jesus.
Says with one word.
In effect.
Nicodemus, all your religion, all your stature.
Is not going to help you one iota if you want to enter God's Kingdom.
You must start right at the start.
All your religious education means nothing.
And I want to say here to those of you who have been brought up in Christian homes, that's where Nicodemus had to go right back to step one.
He had to be dealt with about the principle of being.
Born again Everyone here this evening has been born once.
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The question is, have you been born again?
Once is not enough to enter God's Kingdom, you must be born again. Nicodemus couldn't understand this. He says how can that be? And the Lord Jesus explains it briefly in verse five. He says except the man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.
It's interesting.
The Apostle Peters statement in his first epistle.
In the first chapter he says being born again, not of corruptible seed.
But of incorruptible by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.
That's the water. You must be born by water.
And the Spirit and the Spirit of God is present here this evening to take the Word of God and to press it home to your heart and conscience.
Young person.
Children.
Are you letting God's Word penetrate into your heart?
Are you holding it at arm's length? You know?
You don't have to try to fool yourself if you're holding God at arm's length.
You may know all the answers, but you're not going to be able to enter God's Kingdom that way. Absolutely not.
You must be born again.
And it is when the word of God penetrates into the heart.
And it is believed that God gives.
New life, That's the way God does it. Faith comes.
By hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Further down in this chapter, the Lord Jesus says in verse 14 as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness.
Even so must the Son of man be lifted up that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 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. Isn't that beautiful?
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.
Oh my friend, God is a God of love.
And the Lord Jesus, in faithfulness to Nicodemus, had let the light shine into that life to show him that he wasn't ready.
That he had to get back to square one. That he must be born again.
But now the Lord Jesus also shows the love of God.
Oh, what a God we have, a God that loves.
And all how he loves.
God so loved the world.
That he gave his only begotten Son. You know, it's awfully easy to talk about love.
It's awful easy to say I love you.
But true love?
Is not so much something that's spoken as something that's shown. And how is it shown? Through sacrifice. Oh, it cost God terribly to love us. It costs God terribly. It cost him his only son. When I think of the love I have to my own sin sons, and I think of how they took Jesus.
To Calvary, how they nailed those nails through his hands and his feet.
How they beat him in the face. How they crowned him with thorns.
How they plowed across his back with that Roman whip.
I say, why didn't God intervene? Didn't he love that son of his? Oh, my friend, He loved him. But let me tell you, God.
So loved the world.
That he gained his only begotten son. He gave him all the way friends. He didn't allow man to treat him bad a certain distance and then says OK, that's enough, no.
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They killed him. They killed the Prince of Life. That's what scripture says.
Oh, to God, we have God's son, the world. That's the God we're talking about.
That's the God that loves you, that wants to fill you, that life of yours.
With so much joy that you can't hold to the end any longer.
The Lord Jesus here, and Speaking of this, refers to Moses.
In the wilderness, lifting up a serpent.
And many of you will remember the story of that serpent in the wilderness when there were poisonous snakes.
In amongst the people biting them, and they were dying. Why, when they finally cried to Moses, Moses was instructed to make a serpent of brass, and to set it up on a pole in the midst of the camp. And they were to look to that serpent of brass. And as soon as they looked, in obedience to the word, look at the serpent of brass, they were healed.
You were saved and the Lord Jesus is laying this out as a picture, as a figure of what He himself was to do. Even so, must the Son of Man be lifted up? What was he talking about? He was talking about the cross of Christ, the cross of Calvary, where he was lifted up, nailed on that cross.
Why the serpent began.
Friend, in the Old Testament the serpent had a curse put on it, and when Jesus hung on that cross of Calvary, he was made a curse for us.
God laid on Jesus the iniquity of us all. In all. God's holy righteous judgment fail in all its fury on the head of my safe.
He bore my sins in his own body on the tree.
He took the punishment for it all.
Before he died, he said, it is finished.
All the judgment that was against me as a guilty Sinner is gone.
Spanish, the work is done.
Jesus bowed his head. He died.
A soldier came up that hill and pierced his side, and out flowed blood and water. It is the blood that makes atonement for the soul. Without shedding of blood there is no remission. The blood of Jesus Christ, His Son cleanses from all sin.
Oh, the works done.
God was so satisfied, so glorified by the work of the Lord Jesus.
That he raised him from the dead the third day.
Jesus.
Lives, lives in the glory of God.
Mighty to save. He's looking down at you right now. I don't know if you've made it real with God. The challenge that I want to present to you tonight, friend, is this. Are you ready to meet him?
Are you ready? Have you dealt with God about the question of your sins?
I'd like to go over to John chapter 8 briefly to deal.
To see the case of a woman who met with Jesus as well.
Verse one.
Jesus went into the Mount of Olives, and early in the morning he came again unto the temple.
Then all the people came unto him, and he sat down and taught them.
In the Scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery.
And when they had set her in the midst, they say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery in the very act.
Now Moses and the Law commanded us that such should be stoned.
But what says thou?
This they said, tempting him that they might have to accuse him.
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But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them.
He that is without sin among you.
Him first cast a stone at her, and again he stooped down and rode on the ground, and they.
Which heard it being convicted by their own conscience, went out 1 by 1.
Beginning at the eldest, even unto the last. And Jesus was left.
Alone and the woman standing in the midst.
When Jesus had lifted up himself and saw none but the woman, he said unto her.
Woman, where are those thine accusers? Hath no man condemned thee?
She said no man, Lord.
Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee. Go and sin no more.
Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world. He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of light.
Here we have a case of a woman.
The first case we talked about was a man, but whether a man or a woman, the need is the same.
But here is this poor woman who has taken in an act of adultery in the very act. Think of the shame of it.
Being dragged right into the temple and set in the midst.
These awful religious hypocrites, why didn't they bring the man to? They only brought the woman. But that's the way religion is. It looks at one side, it doesn't look at it objectively. And they only brought that poor woman. Wretched woman, awful sin. It is the sin of adultery. It's a very common sin in today's world.
And the tendency is to look rather lightly on this sin of adultery.
But they drugged that poor woman into the midst miserable.
Or what? There's Jesus.
The Savior of sinners. Now they think we've caught Him.
He preaches forgiveness of sins.
That Moses in the law said that we should stone.
Such as these, What do you say?
Beautiful the way the Lord handles the situation. Remember, He was completely perfect.
He was never stumped. I would have been, I'm afraid.
But not he.
He doesn't answer. He Stoops down and writes in the ground.
And they keep on asking him and finally he gets up.
And notice he does not answer their question.
He answers their conscience.
Oh, in this important.
He's going to let the light shine. That poor woman was guilty. There was number.
Question about it. They had taken her in the very act of adultery. No question about it.
But if he's going to condemn her?
If he's going to stone her, everyone of those men must be stoned.
Their marriage laws were very loose in those days and they were all probably guilty of the same matter.
And so Jesus.
Doesn't answer their question, He answers their conscience. You know you have a conscience that tells you the truth of the word of God.
That is telling you that you've got sin that's not dealt with.
Don't try to quiet the voice of conscience. God has put that voice within your breasts.
To warn you.
And so he says, when he rises up, he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her, and then he began writing again on the ground. And it says they, being convicted by their own conscience, went out 1 by 1.
Beginning at the eldest, and even unto the last. And notice the end of verse.
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Nigh extremely beautiful moment.
Jesus was left alone.
Than the woman standing in the midst.
Think of that. Have you ever been alone with your creator God?
Have you ever dealt with the matter of your sin with Him?
The Lord Jesus was the only one without sin.
He was the only one who had the right to pick up the stone and the Stoner.
But what is his question to her woman? Where are those thine accusers? Hath no man condemning?
Is Jesus going to condemn her? Her sin is to be condemned, no doubt about it. Serious, serious sin.
But we read, God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world.
But that the world through him, might be saved.
And hear his word when she says, No man, Lord Jesus saith unto her, Neither do I condemn thee. Go that symbol.
The Lord Jesus, what mercy, what love, and yet at the same time what truth.
He didn't make light of that awful sin that she had committed.
He let the light shine and it shined so brightly.
In the hearts and minds of those religious hypocrites that they're, everyone of them had to go out. They couldn't stand the brilliance of that light. They had to leave.
There was that poor woman.
And he says, neither do I condemn. Was he making light of her sin? No, for that sin He was going to Calvary. He was going to pay the punishment for that awful sin in all its fury to God.
He wasn't going to make light of that sin. God cannot pass sin by lightly. Impossible.
But God in his love.
Gave her, not only did he forgive her, he gave her the word to go and to sin the more because when someone comes to Jesus, he gets a new life, a life that does not sin. It's the life we get through new birth. It's a life that delights to please God. That's the sin. That's the life that we have now that does not like to sin. Any luck?
And if you've come to the Lord Jesus, you have a life.
That does not like to sin.
That's the truth of the matter.
All the tremendous truth that we have in the Lord Jesus, how perfectly He met up with each one.
We could continue through the Gospel of John. It's a tremendous gospel to see how he met with each one and he always met them. In that perspective, God is like and God is love.
But before we close, I just want to give a word of warning.
God is light and God is love.
If you refuse.
You still must meet him.
There is no way that you can escape meeting.
Face to face with a person of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Either you meet him as your savior, or you will have to deal with Him as your judge.
It is now to bow your knee to Jesus there, right where you're sitting.
To open your heart to accept Him as your savior, to deal with Him.
Now.
Or it is in the coming day of judgment.
God cannot let your sin go by. And if you refuse?
The salvation that God has provided through the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
You will meet God in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ.
In that coming day of judgment.
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When he sets on the throne of his glory.
All nations will be gathered before him. Or if perhaps.
You should die before that judgment day arrives. You will stand.
Before that great white throne in awful judgment and have to deal with God about the question of your sins.
It says the books were opened.
And everyone was judged according to that which was written in the books.
According to their works, yes, God has all the records straight. You may have forgotten, but God has them all straight.
And then it says there was another book, the Book of Life, and he that was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.
It is our responsibility to warn you of the terrible consequences of.
Rejecting the Lord Jesus with all our hearts. We who are believers want to say to anyone who may not be a believer here this evening.
Don't put it off any longer.
Bow right where you're sitting, bow in your heart to Jesus. 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.
Gracious Father, thanks so much for thy precious word.
For the simplicity of it.
And our concern, Father, again we repeat to thee.
For those in this room.
Who haven't made it real in their own souls.
We ask Thee that they might not wait any longer, but we know that that Judgment Day is near. We ask thee that thy Spirit might strive with such person. We ask Thy blessing and the worthy name of our Lord Jesus. Amen.