Gospel—Dean Rule
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Grace be with you, mercy and peace.
From God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
The son of the Father.
In truth and love we could pray together. Blessed God our Father, what a wonderful greeting we have to start this meeting.
We, everyone of us.
Deserve to spend forever. Deserve to spend eternity in the Lake of fire. Every one of us deserves to be punished forever for what we are by nature.
And what we've done.
But if that was all there would be to talk about, I wouldn't be standing here as a God.
We give thanks to Thou art a God of love, the God of mercy.
A God of grace, God of truth.
And the love has been expressed in a way that goes far beyond what we could begin to explain or even understand. And giving the Lord Jesus to die for us. Only begotten Son to give thanks for that tonight. But at the same time, we pray because we are concerned that there might be some here tonight who are not yet ready.
That if the Lord's coming were to be during this meeting, they would be left behind. And we pray very especially for them tonight. We realize that we can't work in hearts.
All we can do is be in some feeble way a mouthpiece, but that's all. We just pray that the Spirit of God would have liberty to work in the hearts of those who are not ready, those who are not saved before it's too late. In Jesus name, Amen.
I'd like to start this evening singing 1 #18 If someone could start it please. God loves the world so tenderly, it's only Son he gave that all who on his name believe it's wondrous power will save. For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but of everlasting life. If someone could start #18 for us please.
He saw him, he gave.
On his name feeling.
Then once the power to save for God so long.
I talked to a brother here by phone yesterday morning. He mentioned the invitation, the opportunity to share the gospel this evening, and the word that kept coming to my mind was truth.
Because you and I live in a world.
That has thrown the concept of absolute truth out the window.
Over 100 years ago in Europe, one of the things that started them down their skid spiritually.
Was they started to say there is no such thing as absolute truth, There's no such thing as black and white. You can't know things for sure. And that message has made it across the ocean and it's going at a galloping pace right now and people are throwing away the idea that there is absolute truth.
But what we're talking about tonight is something that's absolute truth. But I'm thankful that's not the only word that we have to speak and can speak about because God combines in many occasions truth with love. And we want to look at that this evening.
But when I look at the group that's here, I realize that it's not a group, that the message that we're going to be speaking tonight is something that's new, it's something that's different, It's something that has not been heard before.
It's a message that has been received by the vast majority of those of us who are in the room. The vast majority of those who are here tonight have recognized that they're sinners. We've recognized that the vast majority of us have repented of our sins. We've realized that because of what we've done, we deserve to spend eternity in the lake of fire. But thankfully, the message doesn't stop there. But God, in his grace and love and mercy, gave his Son.
So that we could be saved.
But this morning we were talking about two people, someone who because of a family connection, we had constant contact for a period of 17 years.
And not gonna mention names or connections. Another person is a person who apparently spent the vast majority of their life in service apparent to the Lord. And yet our question this morning was one of those two people. Did either of them know the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior? And why do I say that? Because in the one that I knew very well in those seventeen years, I never heard.
One statement, one bit of appreciation for the Lord Jesus as a person.
A great critic she can run down.
One side and the other criticizing those who are Christians. She sat in a room like this for multiple conferences. She had been baptized. She broke bread for many years.
Path. And if I can put it this way, because we can't see hearts, we can't see what goes on. But from what I know, I will be surprised to see her in heaven unless there's going to change, and I pray that there has been.
How about you?
You couldn't. The vast majority here could easily explain the gospel, and I'd like to read first a verse in Second Thessalonians chapter 2, and I've never remember using this in a gospel meeting before, but it came to mind when I was sitting here. Second Thessalonians chapter 2.
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We won't go into all the details or but I I wanna read it because.
Just as a little reminder, first 7.
For the ministry of iniquity doth already work. Only he who now letteth will lead until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that wicked one be revealed from the Lord, shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming, even him whose coming is after the work of Satan, with all power and signs, and lying wonders.
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish, because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
So someone here this evening who in their mind mentally assents and says yes, I understand how to be saved.
They know in their mind that you know in your mind. It's the truth.
But it's never really reached you in the heart. You've never received the love of the truth. It's just a mental assent to something.
We're not talking about believing a weather report, believing a news report or something like that. We're talking about the change that takes place when someone.
Genuinely and their heart repents and believes.
Receive the love of the truth, those who might know it. And there are many who know it but have not really believed it. And I'm not trying to cause doubt in anyone's mind because some of us went through long periods before we had really peace.
I'm talking about the fact that there might be someone who knows about it, who's made a mental assent to it, but never in their heart really believed if the Lord Jesus were to come at this moment.
This room would be almost empty.
Would your seat be empty or would you still be here?
I hope this room would be completely empty.
But my concern is that there might be those who would be left behind, who would be able to be the explainers of what's happened, but without an opportunity to ever be saved. Why? Let's go on to the next verse. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie.
They say over 1 billion people in the world have never heard the name of the Lord Jesus.
And more than double that, triple that have never heard the gospel. The contrast that came to mind as I was driving down from the Chicago area yesterday and realizing that this was going to be a group that heard the gospel many times. It's not a new message.
A week from today, be visiting a brother if the Lord leaves us here and he's invited a group of people into his home, the group of people that he's invited into his home, he said. This is a list. I've invited atheists, I've invited Buddhists, I've invited Hindus.
I've invited Muslims and there will be a few Christians there.
Far different audience, but the need is absolutely the same. But those are people in many cases who have not had the same opportunity that you have had and I've had.
But if the Lord leaves us here awake, I hope a little group will have an opportunity to hear about the Lord Jesus and they'll have a responsibility for what they do with it.
But if you refuse the Lord Jesus as your Savior now, you will believe a lie. You will never ever have an opportunity.
You will never believe during the Tribulation, during the Millennium, during eternity.
You will be condemned for all eternity. The opportunity is now. You will not believe.
Then God says it very clearly here. So the urgency is now. I'd like to turn now to John chapter.
18 I believe it is.
John, Chapter 18.
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And verse 38.
Pilot saith unto him.
What is truth?
Very simple three word question. What is truth?
Well, truth, the word means what's real, what's genuine, what's been unconcealed, what's been brought out into the light.
There is truth.
If you hold your finger there for a minute, I'd like to go just over a couple of chapters.
And verse 17 of chapter 17.
Just the last words. The last four words.
Say word is truth.
You and I have a book that's totally different than any other book.
It has been or ever will be written or published. So many very helpful books in the back of the room on the shelf.
But every one of those books and everything that I say and anyone else says during these meetings, apart from when we're directly reading the Word of God, needs to be judged by the book that you and I have in front of us because this book is true. This judges everything else. So if I say something, don't just take it at face value. You need to find out if what I say is in accordance, is in agreement with what's in the Word of God. This book is not something that contains the truth that it does, but it's far more than that. This book is the truth.
From the first verse in Genesis.
To the last verse in Revelation. There's no other book like it. It's marvelous that God has given us a book like this, a book that answers the question that Pilate had What is truth?
You know, he asked and if you go through the list and there's one that's sort of asking 2 parts, I think it's 12 questions. What what I've counted before in these two chapters, in most of the other 11 questions, they stood around and he waited for an answer. But when he asked the most important perhaps question of all in those two chapters, what is truth? What did he do?
He walked away.
He had an opportunity because he was face to face with the one who in John 14 six says Jesus said I am the way, the truth and the life. He had an opportunity to hear from the source of truth. What is truth? He had an opportunity to have the most important question that someone could have answered.
Answered and he walked away.
Is there someone here tonight?
Who rejects the love of Christ? Who walks away from the one who can answer? Not talking about any of us? Now we're talking about the Lord Jesus Christ.
Have you turned your back on him or have you believed in him? Have you ever received the offer of salvation that he made, or have you rejected it? You know, the most common thing I believe in a group like this is not those who necessarily reject it, at least for many years.
The most common thing is those who neglect it.
Those who say I've got time tomorrow, I've got time next week, I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna have that fun, I'm gonna do something else. The Lord Jesus faced two major groups of people when he was at the cross. He faced a group of people that were very religious. They were trying to keep things to the order of the law, but in their hearts they were completely dark and they were dead and their trespasses and sins without life. On the other hand, he was in front of someone, Pilot, a governor who had been sent by Rome.
And one of the things that the Romans did in different places around the Roman Empire.
They build cities called, shared a common name, Caesarea Caesarstown. Why did they do it? Because the people wanted to have the same fund that they could have in Rome, even when they were far away from Rome. And it wasn't a question of jumping on irritally or something or Emirates Airlines or whatever. It was to fly home to Rome and to get some of the fun that they might have back and watching the things in the Coliseum, watching the lions eat up people and that sort of thing. And so they built cities around so that people could enjoy it. And maybe you're on one extreme or the other.
Maybe tonight you're saying I'm good, I'm religious, I make it to all the meetings and I do this and that, and I read my Bible every day. Well, that's good. But do you know the Lord Jesus as your Savior? Or maybe on the other side, you're saying I want to have fun, we're only here one.
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Romans chapter one.
25.
To change 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 on the vile affections. And this chapter lists the things of gross sins. Worship the creature more than the Creator. I've mentioned it before.
I just mentioned some here, but I want to mention it again, a sign that struck me one time going down and uh, on the escalator down into a sub the subway station in Caracas, Venezuela a number of years ago. And there was a sign on the wall.
For a gym or I don't know what all the things that were there and the.
Very simply.
If your body.
Is your God. Let us be your temple.
If your body is your God, let us be your temple. It's been a country that's had, from what I've understand, the greatest number of beauty Queens that have won Miss World or Miss Universe or whatever the contests are the country in tremendous turmoil.
For one side of things says, hey, you know, you, you do whatever your body wants to do.
Enjoy life while you're here, you've only got one shot at it.
But verse 32.
Tell us what the end of that is.
Who, knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things, we heard this before today, are worthy of death, not only do the same, but a pleasure in them to do them. Her brother read this at the end of the last meeting.
That's one side of it. But perhaps you're, you say, well, I'm not like that. You know, that's not what my life is like. Let's go into chapter 2 and see another group of people. There's three groups of people here, the third of the Jews. We won't get there but chapter 2, verse one. Therefore thou in it art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art the judges for wherein thou judge us another.
Condemn us thyself.
1000 for 1000 judges does the same things.
But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. But thinketh so man thou the judges then would do such things, and does the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God, who despises thou, the riches of his goodness and forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance.
Pilot and some others may have wanted to enjoy life, but it's a time that the Lord Jesus was there. Another group that he faced were the ones like the Pharisees.
Self-righteous people.
So cherry about and they had their leather things in which they had the the things of the law and the bigger the better so that they'd look more religious.
It's only in knowing the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior.
It says the goodness of God leadeth the repentance.
There's one place in the universe that the goodness of God does not reach. The goodness of God does not reach into hell, does not reach into the lake of fire.
It does not reach, and there's a place of eternal judgment that was not prepared for human beings. Who was prepared? Prepared for the devil and his angels. God and his infinite love and mercy made a place and made a way through His Son that all of us could spend eternity with Him in heaven.
And heaven is a place that there's not very much written about it in the Bible and the Word of God. Why? Perhaps because it's so far beyond what we can even begin to grasp or understand. We know those who had a vision of it, like Paul and John when they came back and changed their lives forever. It's going to be wonderful. It's going to be marvelous, but it would be a horrible place to be if you didn't know the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior.
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It wasn't prepared for those who reject Christ, and the Lake of fire was not prepared for those who reject Christ either.
But God is a God of mercy.
He's the God of grace and perhaps for the children that are here, I'm going to repeat an illustration that has stuck in my mind many years ago when a brother and Ralph was speaking at a conference many years ago and he talked about the time that his two sons.
We're misbehaving.
One summer evening.
And normally the punishment for misbehaving was a spanking or being sent to the room.
But that evening they said, Dad, please don't punish us for what we've done.
And his father, the father Ralph, wanted to illustrate to his sons what the word mercy meant. And so he said, Tonight I'm going to show you mercy. I'm not going to punish you for what you've done.
God and mercy sent his son. He doesn't wanna punish us for what he's done, what we've done. But his son's asked an unusual request.
And I'm going to ask one of the boys or hear something if they raise their hand, how many of the boys here or girls here, when you've been misbehaving, ask. And this isn't exactly the weather for it. You ask your parents, your father, your mother or both of them if after you've misbehaved, if they can take you out for an ice cream cone.
On a hot summer day.
Raise your hand, those of you who usually get taken out for an ice cream cone when you've misbehaved. I don't see many hands go up well, these two boys, said Dad.
Thank you for not punishing us, but could you take us out for an ice cream cone?
And their father said, yes. He said, I'm gonna take you out for an ice cream cone because I wanna show you what Grace is. Said Not only am I showing you mercy tonight when you deserve to be punished, I'm not gonna punish you, but I'm also gonna show you grace.
Because I'm gonna take you and give you something that you don't deserve. You and I deserve to spend forever in the lake of fire. But God is in mercy, in his mercy has made a way so that we don't have to be punished for our sins because the punishment fell on the Lord Jesus Christ. But God didn't just take us out from not being sent to the lake of fire. God also offers us grace. He wants to give us something we don't deserve. He wants us to spend forever.
With him in heaven, that's grace.
He couldn't just brush it aside. That Father that evening had to brush aside judgment. He had to not punish when there was a punishment that was deserved. But God the Father could not brush aside. He could not put aside judgment.
There was only one thing that could be done, and so let's go to the most.
Commonly quoted, perhaps memorized verse in the Bible, John chapter 3 and verse 16.
For God so loved the world.
And if we were to write down the names of the people who were singing, and we were gonna go connect on to google.com and type their names in and find out under Wikipedia or something what the life was of ten of those people, we'd probably find that eight of them or seven of them, or six of them showed in their life that they didn't even really understand what love was. They might understand selfish lust, but the life didn't show that they really understood what love was. But when God talks about love, it's love. It comes at a price.
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God the Father has enjoyed fellowship with His Son forever.
You and I can try to imagine what it's like to talk about forever. And I think sometimes it's easier to understand forever in the future than it is to understand forever in the past, because we can think a little bit about something that doesn't end. But when we try to think about something it doesn't have a beginning it it's even harder, at least for my mind to grasp.
But that's what God the Father.
God the Son and God the Holy Spirit have enjoyed forever.
But God didn't want his Son to be alone.
God didn't want His Son to be alone in that way. He wasn't alone. He was with the Father and with the Spirit, but he wanted a bride for His Son.
You know family, when there's a wedding coming up and you're happy about the wedding, you look forward to it.
Looking forward to a wedding our family.
Got 1A bride for his son. He wanted you and he wanted me.
To be with him forever. He wanted an object on which he could show his love. He wanted an object on which his son could show his love. He wanted those who would respond to him. And what we're talking about tonight is, yes, you need to be saved.
Just as many of us have been because you don't want to spend eternity in the lake of fire, you need to be saved because it's going to be wonderful to be with the Lord Jesus.
And I hope I can say this in the right words.
That's important.
So we don't wanna be selfish about it. I'd like to turn and John chapter.
Four to the history, and I say history, not story because it's very important and not, again, to make someone an offender for a word. The book we have in front of us is not a collection of short stories, not a collection of things that have come out of someone's mind of a writer like Ernest Hemingway or something that would write stories. We've got a book of true history in front of us in this book tells us about a woman.
Who went to the well? And it's this well known story and I won't take the time to read it. She went to the well at an unusual time of day because she was not the most respected citizen in the community. She lived a life that was shameful. And yet you know what I have to say when I put myself up to that woman, all I can say is there's no difference. Sure, I've done and thought things that she never did. We're no better. But that woman went at an unusual time of day, but she had a very unusual opportunity.
Because someone knew that she was going to be there and timed his visit to be with her. And so verse 21.
Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh when ye shall neither in this mountain nor yet a Jerusalem. Worship the Father you worship. You know not what we know, what we worship for salvation as the Jews.
But the hour cometh, and now it is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit, and the truth for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
God wants to save you from your sins through the work of the Lord Jesus Christ, but it's not just so you can go to heaven. It's not just so that I can go to heaven. God wants people who will be worshippers, who will recognize how worthy His Son is.
I was very struck the other day.
Week or two ago and we're reading in the morning and Isaiah and reading through in Spanish and you come to the verses about someone going out into the woods.
Taking their acts or whatever, cutting a tree down, taking that tree and taking the wood and forming it into an idol, and then getting down on their knees and worshiping what they've made with their hands. We live in a world where people worship what they've made with their hands.
It's not necessarily an idol made out of a piece of wood or some figure made out of a piece of metal.
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Yeah, we're thank. We're thankful for technology, for the things that we get to use.
But if what you worship today instead of the Lord Jesus Christ.
It's some apparatus that may be very useful and your hands are my hands. But if those are the things you worship, if it's people, if it's an athlete, if it's a singer, if it's a a star in something or else.
Your worship is misdirected. God wants to save you, not to worship anyone else apart from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
We're not just saved for selfish reasons for ourselves.
God deserves that, the Lord Jesus deserves that, He wants that, and when we get in his presence, it makes a difference if we could turn to Mark chapter 5 to some other verses that talk about truth.
Mark chapter 5, verse 24.
And a certain woman.
Which had an issue of blood 12 years.
And it suffered many things that many physicians, and it's been all that she had.
But.
Press behind and touched his garment. Stop.
Percent certified, but they touched on his clothes. I shall be whole and straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.
And Jesus immediately, knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes? His disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and say itself, Who touched me? And he looked round about to see, said he had heard that had done this thing, but the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her.
Came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth. And he said unto her, Daughter, by faith has made thee whole, Go in peace, and behold.
To get into the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Didn't do anything for her. They couldn't find a cure. And we not to despise medicine, we're thankful for the things that the doctors do, the nurses do, the hospitals do.
But didn't solve her problem.
We're just touching.
But I think the healing wasn't limited to her body.
I think the healing went to her soul and her spirit. We're going to meet that woman, those of us who know the Lord Jesus as our Savior someday. But if you ever reached out and touched the hem of his garment, knowing what was done, she fell and told him all the truth. The Savior that wants to save you tonight.
Is the one person in the universe, and I say that and don't misunderstand me, the closest person by far to me in my life is my wife. We talk.
But the one person?
That I can absolutely say everything to. It's on my heart. All the struggles, all the thoughts that need to be dealt with, confess the things that are the concerns and anytime, anywhere, 24/7 is the Lord Jesus Christ.
I don't shock him, I don't surprise him.
Things in my life may grieve him.
He's the one person who knows everything about me and still loves me. He knows everything about you and he still loves you. When you think of what it is for God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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Have enjoyed perfect fellowship since the past eternity, having to go through what happened on Calvary's cross to think about including sinners.
Such as ourselves in the company in heaven. It's a marvelous thing.
But he doesn't say you're gonna go there on the basis of something you've done, because if that was true, if He allowed sinners with their sins into heaven, he would spoil it. So what does he do? He wants to work in your heart tonight, if it has not worked already, to make you fit to go in there.
His standards?
And you and I and ourselves could never measure up to those standards. The only human being who has is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Came down and took the poorest of places.
Didn't have money in his hand.
Last years of his life he didn't have a bed he could call his own.
He put it all aside because he came down. He became rich. Poor that we might be made rich.
Friday of this week or Thursday afternoon of this week, I'm supposed to meet with a man.
And.
This man is a very rich man and he's been in the space, the conference room of the office for him. And in Ecuador I was supposed to meet with him in his home country.
The man is rich enough so that the translator that used in that country before, when in the House of this man translating for someone else, they pull up in a very rich suburb of the city.
The house, the mansion go in through the front. Two Ferraris parked out front when the translator was there. So he's got a mansion, he's got some rather high end vehicles.
And through the translator, the man who he owed money to said, you owe this amount of money and it's tremendously affecting us if you don't pay it.
And this man, Valerie's response to him was, do you think I have all of this because I pay all my bills?
A rich man who's absolutely poor. I've given him a calendar in his native language and he put it aside and he said I don't want that. If Valerie Lassie Chef dies tonight without the Lord Jesus, he will be absolutely destitute and poor because he will leave this world with absolutely nothing, with the same quantity he came into this world.
Be warned, if you don't know the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, you may not have a mansion, you may not have two Ferraris. I don't and close to it.
Do you know the Lord is your savior? Do you have the real riches that there are?
Or are you?
In destitute poverty like that man and not really realizing it.
When God gives a gift, He gives it forever.
Everything that we have, physical things are on loan. They're not ours, but they're loan to us.
When God gives something every blessing he gives.
Which is better?
Having something if, if one of our three daughters when they were children and they were given a gift at their birthday or something, what would you think of, uh, my wife and I, if we said, OK, here's the gift and then three days later we're taking it back. That's it.
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May have been sometimes where they couldn't use it because of disobedience, but we didn't take it away. If we take it away, it wouldn't have been a gift. When God gives the gift, he gives it forever, and he's given the most marvelous gift that could ever be given. He gave his only begotten Son. He gave the Lord Jesus to die for you and to die for me. And so this woman, fearing and trembling, she fell down before him and told him all the truth.
If you don't know the Lord Jesus Christ, who's your Savior?
Maybe tonight you're thinking, well, I'm a little bit of shame because I've fooled people for years.
Don't worry about that.
He's never fooled, and I've never fooled the one who really matters.
I've never fooled God the Father. I've never fooled the Lord Jesus Christ. We can't.
And for those here who do know the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, I ask you the question, have you ever confessed Him?
Have you ever gone to your father, your mother, your aunt, your uncle?
And told them that you knew the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior.
I think that's the struggle that I will have from my life when things are difficult, when there are problems, when there are things that are concerned, things you want to have happen.
I want to try to do what I can to resolve them. Now there's always the way it works.
But I'll tell you that the three most.
Memorable days as a father for the three days.
That each of our three daughters confessed the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior.
It would tear me up to a point to say, yes, I want the Lord to come, but no, not yet, because I'm afraid that someone in my family would be left behind.
If the Lord Jesus came tonight, what about you?
Would you be left behind or Are you ready?
Do you know the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior or is it something you say can wait until tomorrow?
In truth, because he was capable, healed her, but at the same time he showed love. This world often doesn't combine those two things.
One of the people that I'm most looking forward to meeting, of course, apart from the Lord Jesus because nothing will match that. But in heaven we will meet many different people. We'll have all eternity and, and yes, our focus will be on the Lord Jesus Christ, but it doesn't mean we won't be enjoying time with others. Well, the people I'm most looking forward to meeting as a woman who have never met, her name is Alberta and she's with the Lord Jesus. And why am I looking forward to meeting her? Because.
She's my mother-in-law that I never knew.
When my wife was 17, she was in a hospital bed and the doctor came in to her, a woman physician, and said to her, we've looked at the results and you have a number to certain limited number of months to live.
The woman spoke the truth but showed no love.
And her comment later about my mother-in-law, if I could put it that way, because it was the mother of my wife, her comment to the other people, the family and others later was, you know, normally when you go into tell that to someone that they've got a limited amount of time to live.
She said they normally just kind of come apart. She said she didn't.
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And ask why and they explained because.
You know the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior. She's been there with the Lord Jesus Christ.
For 37 or 38 years.
The woman gave her truth, but not love. Someone else that I know fairly well, the man named Jorge was being treated by doctors in Ecuador for cancer, and there was a concern that the cancer had come back and things weren't quite right. And what were the doctors doing they were giving him?
Sufficient painkillers so that he didn't.
The problem that was perhaps returning tumors and things like that, they were showing to him.
Care, love. So he didn't have pain.
But they weren't telling him the truth. They weren't giving him the true report of his condition until finally some people in the family said. And they got together a sum of money which I believe was like 40 or $50,000. And a few weeks ago we spent a significant period of time in Houston, TX.
At a very good clinic and the comment of the doctors after they first saw the results is why didn't you come before? Thankfully, turns out there's a problem with treatable because he had been hearing.
Tonight, the truth is we deserve to spend an eternity in the lake of fire, but God and His love has made a way so that we don't have to.
Just a couple more verses and then we'll close and John chapter one.
John, Chapter one.
Stop.
The Word verse 14.
I'm looking forward to seeing the Lord Jesus and all his glory. There will be no light bulbs in heaven. There will be no electrical connections. The Lord Jesus from himself.
Will show forth a glory that will be enough to illuminate.
Awe of heaven.
For all eternity.
Can you imagine what it'll be like to be face to face with someone?
Many of them did.
Full of grace, He wants you and I to be wherewith Him. The truth He cannot Passover sin. He took care of everything.
Are you looking forward to being with him face to face with him for all eternity?
If not.
The last face you will ever see for all eternity is the face of the Lord Jesus.
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And when you were before him, if you reject him as Savior, when you're before him as judge?
Stop the word love.
Just chatting, no mention of the word love.
Is expressed that he's shown that, not just words.
For just judgement, I'd like to close before we pray by reading the verse that we started with at the beginning of the meeting and 2nd John.
2nd Epistle of John, verse 3.
Grace be with you, mercy and peace from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ the Son of the Father in truth and love that we pray, bless the God our Father. Now that we don't begin to work in hearts or anything, but first we want to give thanks for the Lord Jesus Christ.
I want to give thanks for the work that was done on Calvary's cross. We want to give thanks for the unspeakable gift that was given to save sinners such as ourselves. But at the same time.
We want to plead on behalf of those.
Who are not yet saved.
We don't know how much time is left.
We don't want anyone here to be able to be an explainer of what's happened.
Yet without being in the possibility of changing their eternal destiny, I just pray that the Spirit of God would have liberty to convict of sin.
To work a work of repentance and to give faith as we realize that if we didn't repent and believe because we were any smart or anything like that, it's just a work of grace and mercy. And we pray that for anyone here who's not yet saved in Jesus name, Amen.