Gospel—Norm Hiebert
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This evening by singing hymn #14 Have you been to Jesus?
For the kranzing power, are you washed in the blood of the land?
Are you fully trusting in this racist? Are you watched? Can we stand sing #14? Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power? Are you the worst in the world?
I will be crossing in His grace. And are you watching the world of the Way?
Are you walking daily by the Savior?
Are you born in the world?
You restrictions while men in the frequency are you watching the blood of the land?
When the bridegroom comes, will your wall see why you're?
Going to be ready for the mansion straight. And he was in the blood of the man.
Who are you in the world?
Of this earthy way as well. Are you watching the blood of the land?
So I pray together.
Blessed God, our loving Father, we thank you so much for the Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of sinners.
We thank thee, our God and Father, for that great love that caused thee to give thy Son the Lord Jesus Christ. And this evening as we gathered together here, we just pray that.
Thou will impress upon the hearts of each one of us, particularly the Speaker, the preciousness of the blood of the Lamb, and to be washed in that blood which was shed to cleanse sinners from their lost condition, from their sins.
Lord Jesus, we just pray that there would be the realization and recognition that those who reject the Lord Jesus Christ are on the broad Rd. that leads to destruction. We pray this evening that there will be a response to that message, not because of the individual speaking, but Lord Jesus that thou will move to the Holy Spirit of the hearts of any that are not saved.
That the speaker would be simply a vessel, a channel from myself. Lord Jesus, and pray thee that thou will bless thy word, for we ask it in Jesus name, Amen. Amen.
I'd like to sing another song.
Perhaps.
Because on the Backpage one for the children. That said, I'd like to say #41 just two verses, the 1St and the last verse.
Around the throne of God and heaven will many children sing children whose sins are all forgiven. Will heavenly anthems bring singing glory, glory, glory be to God and #41 The first and last verses only.
Round the throne of God, and thrilled in your friends and everything children at the same time.
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The constant singer shame is one good word of sin.
Glory.
Glory, glory, glory.
There are many here this evening who know the Lord Jesus Christ is safe. I don't know everyone of you, but as I look over the audience, I know there are many here that know the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior and have confessed me like I sometimes do. I stopped a few of the young ladies in the hallway.
People and I said, do you think there's anybody here that's not saved? You know what they said? I really don't know.
I stopped and talked to a couple of young brothers.
Told me that they were saved and I asked them the same question and they thought about it. They said, not sure, but probably. So we're here tonight for one purpose, to speak about the Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of sinners. And there's an interesting story that I've always enjoyed. Maybe I've told it too often, but I'd like to read.
And 2nd Kings chapter 5 about a guy who had the title of Major General. I'm taking some liberties when I say that, but we'll call the Major General Naman. Let's start reading in the 5th chapter of Second Kings verse one. Now name and captain, the host of the king of Syria was a great man with his master and honorable because by him the Lord had given deliverance on to Syria.
He was also a mighty man in valor, but he was a leper.
And the Syrians had gone out by companies and had brought away captive under the land of Israel a little me. And she waited on me and his wife.
As he said unto her mistress, Would God my Lord, were with the prophet that is in Samaria, for he would recover him of his leprosy. And one went in and told his Lord, saying Thus and thus, say the maid, that is in the land of Israel.
And the king of Syria said, Go to go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed and took with him 10 talents of silver, 6000 pieces of gold, and 10:10 changes of raiment. He brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Not On this letter is come unto thee, Behold, I have therewith sent name and my servants to thee, that thou mayest recover him.
Of his leprosy. And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he read his clothes, and said, Am I God to kill and to make alive, that this man doesn't send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? Wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how we seek of the quarrel against me. And it was so when Elijah the man of God, had heard that the king of Israel had read his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hath thou read thy clothes?
Let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel. So name came with him with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the House of Italicia. And Elijah sent a messenger of him saying, Go and wash in Jordan 7 times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean. Dallnaam was wroth and went away and said, Behold, I thought.
He will surely come up to me, and stand and call in the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. Are not a banner and far, far rivers of Damascus better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage, and a servant came near, spoke of him, and said, My father, if a prophet had been thee.
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Do some great things. Would thou not have done it?
How much Wilder then when he saith they washed and be clean, then wet he down again like unto the flesh of a little child and he was clean. We'll stop there. You know there's a number of figures personalities mentioned in this portion that we've read in the first one is naming them on socially was a great man. Officially he was very successful and personally he was brave.
All sounds good, doesn't it? Sounds very good. That's the one. See in the world, we're looking for people like that. Ah, there's a ****** here. Really.
He was a leper, He was a Sinner. God's word tells us, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. There isn't one young person, one older 11 Child who is not a Sinner. I'm a Sinner, I can tell you that. I'm a Sinner saved by grace.
I was saved about 70 years ago.
That's a long time ago. I was afraid of what was coming, but the Lord Jesus and His mercy saved me. I was brought up in the Christian home, so I knew a few things about the Lord Jesus Christ. I knew that sin was bad, and then I found out that I needed to do something about it. And that's what we're here about tonight. What are you going to do about your sins? It's been established in God's Word that all have sinned. There's none righteous.
No, not one.
All have sinned.
What are you going to do about it? You need forgiveness.
I'll tell you a little story. A year or so ago, a young man.
And his son?
And my wife and I were having dinner with this couple and this young man said to me, would you excuse me? My son and I are going to meet a lawyer, My lawyer, as a matter of fact, he said, and his son, we're going to have some time together. The lawyer was a Christian, too.
Well, they left and they said, sure, that's fine. About 10 minutes to the back and this young man's son came back to the dining room table and he was weeping. He put his head down the table and he wept. He wept. My son was pale in a sheet of paper. I said, what's the matter? Well, he said, we went out there, we were going to meet him and they weren't there. So I pulled the home and the son that was supposed to come with him.
It was on the phone crying too. Two of them were crying, he said. We can't come.
My daddy was just killed in the car accident.
Life at best is very brief, like the.
Falling in the league like the binding of machine. The entire this lawyer was great, well known, he was successful, he was brave. I didn't go to the funeral, but I got a tape of the funeral. There was young one young man don't have to speak at the funeral. And he spoke about this lawyer and he said, I want to tell you something very good interesting about this man. He said, you know, my wife and I were expecting our first child.
Was discovered that they were twins.
And the particular hospital, the normal, where everything seemed to be OK, I mean, something happened. They both died because of a mistake. He said, I went to this lawyer that's lying in this casket today. And I said, I want you to go out to the hospital and each of the doctors that were responsible and I want you to take them to the cleaners, everything they've got.
This man said. I saw him lean back in his chair in his box. Did he say anything for a few in this?
And then he said very quietly.
Do you think you could forget?
Do you think you could forget? I haven't seen too many lawyers, and I've seen quite a few of them who wouldn't give that kind of advice.
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They put the clock on. There's money involved, he said. Do you think you could forget, my friend? You know what sins you committed in your lifetime, and you may not forgive yourself for these sins. You may be going on instead, right at this moment. Your thoughts may be somewhere else, but there's someone who can forgive those sins. And since you're a Sinner, you need forgiveness. Here was this man.
Naaman.
He had all the qualities that a successful man could have in this world. But then it tells us in the second verse that there was a little maid here. The army had gone in.
Doesn't tell us anything about men or women or property that they seized in this war, but all it says here they took captivity of the land of Israel a little made.
And she waited on layman's wife. She had no credentials. She had no name, or at least were not given her name. She had no home, no family, no money, no record. She was a no named Little.
It says.
Is one thing she did have, she knew the Lord, and I know that I could go down these rolls here and ask you whether you know the Lord that I'm sure that most of you would say yes. I wonder if some of you might say yes just to keep my mouth shut and not say any more.
I've had it happen in the gospel meeting where I've met somebody coming out the door, say, are you belong to the Lord Jesus Christ? Yes, I do. I accept them as my Savior. And in other words, have you? Yes, I've had another thing. I don't know what that means. And you know whether you're safe tonight. And if you're not safe, you're in a very, very dangerous position, very precarious.
But you know there's a Savior in the glory.
He's looking down tonight, He sees your heart, and He knows whether you are ready to admit that you're a Sinner and that you need the Savior.
We have about 45 minutes. I don't want you to wait 45 minutes before accepting Jesus as your Savior. I want to tell you how you can do it. God's word tells us if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, thou shalt be safe. Did you do that? Well, you may say, I, I, I might, I should go back to my room, Maybe. No, no, no, no. You don't have to do that. That's not a good plan.
Do it right now, except Jesus as Savior. If you feel the Holy Spirit working in your heart, turn to the Lord. Turn to the Lord.
She used the Lord.
When my wife and I were flying out yesterday, we were sitting, I have a, I have 1/2 hour. I'd like to get to the airport at least an hour, couple hours ahead of time for an hour so that I can sit down and watch the people rush by and sit down and enjoy the quiet cup of coffee while people are messing around. Well, anyway, we were, there were three people that were being called by the agent that they were to report right away and they gave warning after warning after warning.
And I saw the agent just looking around the crowd sitting, sitting in the in the Torah airport. He didn't come Finally see him say, well, we got we got to go. The next thing I knew, I was looking at the window and they were shutting the door of the aircraft. And they don't have any maternal for this one. If we're sitting outside, we could clearly see it. And the doors were shut. The plane started up and the young lady came rushing up.
He just says sore it's too late.
It's too late.
I would hate to see you tonight in a situation where you leave this room and perhaps never get to you destination.
And define those too late. It's too late.
Two well, another 5 minutes, we're fine. Two guys came rushing up.
You know, it started to argue.
What are you going to do, planes, take it off?
Arguments won't work, my friend. If you're arguing tonight that you're pretty good, think again. There is none righteous. No, not one. All have sinned. Come short of glory of God. These fellows, one of them at least I believe, is arguing too late. And you know the Lord Jesus Christ is coming. Did you know that? We'll talk about that in just a second or more.
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That says in the fourth verse that one heard, one heard.
That are saying thus and thus said the maid that is in the land of Israel. What does she say verse three would God my Lord were with a prophet that is in Samaria for he would recover him of his leprosy. What a beautiful gospel message that was. She was a little evangelist. She was a little evangelist.
She knew the Lord Jesus and I would like to think that she was taught this by her mother and dad who were no longer in the picture. She knew about this and she was concerned. Before this gospel meeting, there were about 12 or 13 of us in the little room off to the side that.
Was reserved for us to pray you know I wish each one of you could have heard what was said there were prayers going up for you. Are you listening tonight my friend young person order place were you listening there were prayers going up and we get promises that there would be prayers continuing throughout this meeting therefore you.
We're sitting down having a meal, another brother, myself with our wives. It was an older lady sitting at the table and.
She.
Doesn't know the Lord's safety.
So we said, you know, we'd like to see you in heaven with us. It's so nice to be with you to have a meal, but we'd like to see you in heaven. Just let ought to be boring, the other brother said, Well, you want to go to the other place.
There's only two places. God's Word on the authority of God's Word. There's only two places. There is no in between places.
That is a.
Story of the Devil.
You would like to say, oh, that's not that's not true. That's not going to be don't listen to that. Listen to God's word. This word is the truth. It's God's word and he speaks through his word to you. And I trust that the channel that's presenting this is a clean channel and will present that very thing well.
You know that person is older, still is not safe, but an interesting thing happened. You know she was in the grocery store.
She told her I should mention that she told us that when you guys stop praying for me. She was in the grocery store picking up some groceries and said something to the lady behind her. And Melissa, well, the Lord has given us the two. Wonderful.
I said to this brother, isn't that nice that this happened? She was angry. You're getting to her. You're getting to her.
Lord's working there. Now, is there somebody here that's struggling and saying, no, I don't want that. I've heard that many times, but just hearing it isn't enough.
Well, in the fifth verse we were noticing.
The king of Syria said, go to go and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed and took with him 10 lbs of silver, 6000 pieces of gold and 10 changes of rating. Here was a very important man. He said, I'll send you a letter.
You know, if I could send you a letter and guarantee that you'd be saved, I would be delighted to do that.
Why that is not going to save you, but there is a letter here that we'll see.
Solution is there.
The prescription is there.
And so this man said, I'm going to send you a letter. You know, my wife and I just celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary in June, and something very interesting happened as our children were gathered together and our grandchildren who were with us this occasion, he presented me with a gift.
A framed certificate from our Prime Minister, Mr. Harper.
What a thrill.
What a thrill. But, you know, it doesn't matter how many letters Mr. Harper sent to you or to me or to anyone else, that will not save you. I would Add all that he is a Christian. That's a wonderful thing, isn't it, to have somebody in power that's a Christian. But we won't get into that part of it here. There was a support for this man. There was a favor that was going to be extended. And you know, we read in Matthew about.
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Two judges that were standing and trying to figure out what they would do with Jesus and you know, they, they, they couldn't do anything about it.
But they knew something that tells us there was for envy. For envy that they brought him in here because the testimony that was given.
Indicated there was nothing.
Run with this man Jesus. Jesus, the thief on the cross said when he was converted. This man has done nothing amidst or wrong, the centurion said. Surely this is a righteous man.
All there's much testimony to that.
And, you know, the judges knew it too. They knew it too. But they decided that what they were going to do, they were going to compromise and please the people. You know, that's what's happening today. Unfortunately, that happens in every level of life, and particularly in politics. There's a desire to suit a certain number of people that will.
Bring in the bullets.
But anyway, what happened said there was interesting what they all brought out there for the fifth verse. It mentions that he took with him 10 talents of silver, 6000 pieces of gold, 10 changes of rain. Some of you people are good with figures. Could could tell me how much that's worth the amount of money when you think of all that gold and the price of gold today.
You know what reminds me of the 10 commandments?
Here there were 10 talents of silver. I can well recall the man in our office saying years ago said, well, you know, Norm, I I keep the commandments. All I said is Hedrick, you sure? Yeah, Yeah. So I said, well, there's one there that you probably haven't kept. And I quoted it and he said, well, maybe 1-2. I said, no, It tells us in God's word.
That if you're fed in one point.
You're guilty of the whole thing. One point.
You have many citizens, I have many sins, but if you have only one sin, Jesus had to die.
And so he died for sinners, He died for me, he died for you. And here they were bringing all this, these gifts.
10 Changes of clothes Word tells us all your righteousnesses are as filthy rags. And I was thinking this evening as reading this account in Isaiah 55 And one Oh, everyone that thirsteth come ye to the waters, And he that hath no money come ye by, and eat ye ye come.
Buy wine and milk without money.
Without Christ.
Without money, without Christ, eternal life.
Is there a cost of connected with it? Yes, there is a great cost. It costs God, his Son. You know, the Garden of Eden, the story we all know so well.
Man and woman disobeyed God. Very simple thing that they were told not to do. There was one tree in that garden that they were not to eat from.
What they do?
God had to cast them out of the Garden of Eden.
Because they disobeyed. It's a big deal. Big deal. They were disobeying God. That is a big deal.
Disobey God.
And you continue to dissipate your life and you pass it to eternity. You'll find out just what big a deal it is because God as a judge will have to say that you depart from me, the workers of iniquity. I never knew you. I never knew you. There's a lot of people that may say, well, yeah, I know about it. Yeah, you may know about it.
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In this great wonderful country of ours in Canada, a lot of people that know about Jesus, but you know, we have a Sunday school in a, in a very difficult part of the city of Hamilton.
In all those poor kids there, they hardly know who their dad is, sometimes don't know who their mother is. They come to Sunday school because they like the attention. But it's more than that. Suddenly the name Jesus has some meaning. Suddenly they realize that they need to be saved. Suddenly they realize that there are those that love them.
And so some of them come to know Jesus to Savior many years ago in this little hall that has been there for probably 85 years, he came running up the stairs, he said. Mr. Hebert.
The Angels are having a party for me tonight. He knew what parties were all about. You know, he was saying his name is Bryce. I haven't seen him for years. You're sick.
He came of the tracks and of the grime and of the dust and the multitude of sins, and he was saved as hell. Many others.
The king couldn't do anything.
But you know, tells us and look at 2028, it tells us there were two guys.
They suddenly became friends. They were political enemies.
And they both were going in the wrong direction. And so they he came, they were both going in the wrong direction.
They yielded to the public opinion that Jesus should die. What did Jesus do? What did he do? Somebody mentioned it today in the meetings this morning, I believe they said.
They spit on.
They beat him above the head. They put a crown of thorns on his head.
They lashed his back. He was bleeding. They nailed him to the cross of Calvary by his hands and feet. Then they raised that cross up between heaven and earth and summed it in the ground. What would you do if you'd been treated that way?
Would you argue?
Would you think that's right? I'm sure you don't.
Jesus did it for you, He said on the cross. Father, forgive them.
For they know not what they do.
Do you know what you're doing? Young people, children, I want to talk to you for just a second. You've gone to Sunday school, you've gone to young people's meetings, you've been to prayer meetings.
You know it all, but the critical question is knowing it all. Have you ever come to the foot of the cross? I said Jesus.
I'm a Sinner.
I'm a Sinner. I need to have my heart cleansed.
My father-in-law, Tom dear, who's with the Lord?
Many years ago we were visiting, we were there for the family and while he was there he went to the dry cleaners and he put in his suit and he said I'd like to pick it up tomorrow morning. And he went and picked it up and, and on the soup was a piece of paper pending.
And.
The note said the dry cleaner fixed on the suit jacket said the one said I want Jesus to wash all our sins away.
On my voice.
The dry cleaner sauce. He was able to clean the suit.
He wasn't able to wash his sins away. That Lord got into the suit jacket by accident, but I think the Holy Spirit allowed her to be there so that the person who was cleaning the suit would read that.
If I'm emotional about it, there's a reason for it.
Because he accepted Jesus as a savior, because he wanted the dirt all washed away. You say, oh, you know, you're talking very simple things. Yes, that's true. But accepting Jesus as Savior is a very simple thing. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. That's a promise. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
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No matter what, good work, honest work will save you.
But you need to have the Lord Jesus Christ as your savior. And so I asked you, I beg of you, my friend, to think about that. If you're not saved tonight, you're in a very dangerous position. Because before we hit the the hour here, it could be that the Lord Jesus Christ is going to come and this room is going to, I was going to say empty. Will it empty or will you be left behind by you young boys?
Young girls, older people.
Do you know Jesus as Savior? I can at the moment think of anything worse than sudden since the roof empty. Don't get that that's a fantasy.
All right.
Well, you know, in God's Word tells us.
Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also me and my Father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you I'd go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself. That where I am, there He may be also. That is that most words he was saying to his friends.
God's Word tells us further. We read this, read these verses often in the funeral.
A dead in Christ shall rise first, then we which are alive and remain shall be caught with the Lord, shall caught up in the air to meet the Lord, and so shall we ever be with the Lord. And then the last verse says where? For comfort one another with these words. Boys and girls, what would you do if mommy and dad was suddenly weren't here? The room empty? Are those words that comfort to your heart? God has left them there for us so that we can be comforted.
Verse 8.
Verse 7.
The king was angry. He tore his clothes, he says. Am I God? My God?
There are men today, and some women too.
Will pretend to be God.
Give some profound messages.
Which is the more some of them are not giving the truth of the word of God. They're adding a little bit to it. You have to do certain things.
So that you can come to heaven. That is a lie of the devil. He's the father of all lies.
And so in the eighth verse, as we were noticing, the king says, Now when this letter comes unto the behold eye, up there with St. Naaman.
And then, as we've read, Am I God to kill, to make alive, that this man does send them to me to recover a man of his leprosy.
He couldn't do anything. There wasn't anything he could do. Leprosy was considered an incurable disease.
The New Testament speaks How about one man who is safe from leprosy? Well, we'll get into that in just a minute or two.
This man knew his limitations.
So does this man. I can't see you.
You, you, you. I can't see you.
Savior. But there's someone who can. It's a little Jesus Christ. He can save you, and all you have to do is turn to. Just like my son said, I want Jesus to wash all the dirt away.
The dry cleaner could clean the suit but couldn't clean his heart. He accepted Jesus as Savior.
Well, when Elijah, the problem, a man of God, heard about the what the king had done.
He, he said, When life is a man of God, heard that the king of Israel had right his clothes that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy goals? Let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
You know, Matthew tells us, Come now, let us reason together, save the Lord.
If you're not saved.
Don't wait until the end of the meeting. The Lord Jesus hasn't come before the end of the meeting.
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Maybe we can reach them and point you to the scripture.
This is critical stuff that we're talking about. We're living in a terrible world.
We're sinning out.
Were things that in my generation, earlier generation, people would blush. Now they do it openly. You know what I'm talking about. It's all there. It's all there. It's all there and you know it. You've seen it, run into it just driving down the street. Billboards.
The lust of the eye is there, the desire of the flesh is being broadcast without any hesitation.
And the powers that be are limited as to how much is allowed. If the pressure is green enough, maybe few things are are stopped.
But you know what's going on, and the Bible tells us we shouldn't be surprised. In the last days, difficult times shall come. Difficult times. You know, there's a lot of difficult times. I see them.
I see them.
Well, so finally the name, let me get on his cherry, lovely cherry, the limousine, if you can put it that way, nice horses. And is that entourage and he appears at the door of this man of God.
Making it greater.
See, lots of people like to make impressions.
The Lord Jesus would like to make an impression of you. Change it. So we appeared in front of this this door and stood at the door of the House of Elijah. What did Elijah do? This is a great guy. I mean, he's a Major General. He's got medals all over him. Then he go out and say, oh man, did you ever do a great job in that war and and you defeated the enemy and you and and and and on and on and on. No, we didn't even, he didn't even leave his study.
Here's what he said.
He came, he gave him a very brief prescription which you can read. It's not scribbled like some doctor said to scribble, said to generalize because I don't have a great handwriting. But this was a very clear message.
Go and wash in Jordan 7 times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.
That's difficult.
Oh told him everything. He told him where to go. He gave the name of the river. He told him how to wash seven times. Very clear.
Well, you know.
Jordan speaks to us death.
And there's got to be the death of the flesh. You need to be born again. You can be born again by accepting Jesus as Savior. And when you're born again.
You're part of the heavens of God, just like Bryce come charging up the stairs from the downstairs from the sunny Scott. The angels are having a party for me, all the four. It's a wonderful thing to be seen to think that the angels of God in heaven will rejoice for every Sinner that comes to know him a Savior.
But you have to follow that instructor.
You know, this guy wasn't, he was a, he was a mighty man, but he, he didn't have his emotions under control. He was it says Rock.
I think that's even worse than just angry people just burn. Grinding his teeth and clenching his fist, he said. What's with this guy didn't even come out and wave his hands over me?
Sorry, he didn't. He told him what to be seen.
Can't save you.
What the Lord Jesus can, but you have to come God's word, Thomas, come unto me, all me that way, and our heavy lady, and I will, as I say I might, I will.
Wraps.
Sometimes they're very tight. Play the story.
I'm retired in heaven for a while. You know I was so tired working many many long hours a days. Some of you are aware what that's all about. I was so tired that I even fell asleep in the dentist chair.
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One day my wife and I are coming home.
Tight put the brake on handbrake and I said boy tell me when the light changed. I fell asleep topic. Next thing I know is horns blasting. My wife fell asleep too.
Much did you last?
I have to give you a rest.
And if you want to give me, give it to right now, right this minute, you can cry to the Lord.
You don't have to wait till you get to your bedroom, kneel and pray. That's nice too. But you can accept Jesus and save your right where you are sitting now.
And quietly called to him, tell him that you're a Sinner, that you need to be saved, that you're bad and that he wants that he that you want your sins. Simple, simple. The instruction here was simple gold wash Jordan seven time and the promise he gives it. He says here's the results.
Thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean. I haven't seen too many prescriptions from doctors that will have that last phrase. Take this and you'll be cured. Work sometimes, sometimes it doesn't.
Of God, when he gives instruction, he carries it out to the end.
Well, it tells us he went away.
He expressed his thoughts, the white box, I thought, and that's the problem that a lot of us have. We think too much about these things, about how we can get around or how we can do this side or the other thing. Put your thoughts aside. Listen to the word of God, accept Jesus as your Savior.
I thought he will surely come and do all these fancy things and then he starts to negotiate.
He starts to negotiate. He starts to argue a little bit. He says what about the two rivers that are so nice and clean? There's the river called the.
I believe it means Sony.
Maybe it refers to ritualism. When you have a Stony river or the Muskoka Lakes, we have beautiful clean water. You can see the rocks right to the bottom.
You know that's not.
We had a river back in in western, at least in Manitoba it's called the Red River.
Put your hand in the water. Two inches full of water. You can see it.
You don't know what's under there.
And there were people that were probably seeing Jordan, this guy Jordan with my leprosy, with my reputation, with my medals, with the victories I've won, Jordan. And it wasn't the prophet that was argued with him.
What about Amanda Stoney? Ritualism, he said. Whereard Parker. It's a mean sweat. Oh, we like this action, so we swift.
That's rationalism.
You want to try and rationalize what Jesus did and why he did it? He ain't going to do it, my friend. You ain't going to do it. Pardon me for the bad grammar. Justice won't work.
I don't know why he saved me and not someone else somewhere else in another land. As some of you may know, I sent her a message every day called John Schmidt.
A couple of years ago I received a message from a young man and it was something like this.
You will never believe where I am right now.
I'm out behind.
In the armed forces, I'm buried in a trench and there's bombs going on around me, There's guns being fired. But I got a message today on my cell phone here and with your Jen. I just want to comment you for that because he said I don't know, but I'm going to survive. I never heard from him again.
Now what a thrill that is. It reminds me of a little.
Who said gave a message?
She was a little evangelist.
When you know something.
This man fortunately had some friends who were smarter than he was.
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Reason with him. Look, if he had asked you to go out and fight that, get that bunch of guys out if they're hiding in the bushes and and annihilate them and you would have done it.
That will be much more difficult to do than to go and enjoy. I can still hear reasoning.
Wash and be clean.
Well, I might as well do it I guess.
Please pardon me if I extend this a little bit too dramatic. Just imagine saying go.
Unless don't like to admit it, we're wrong.
Don't want to admit that.
But you've got to get a little credit, so I'm going to do it. He went to that river and.
He dipped in the river.
Works, It works. One of those dipping experiences.
He looked at his hands. They were just as white as bad as they were before.
He drifts again. Second job.
And you know what we might consider that to be?
Oh, be popular.
Is that going to wash your sins away? Would that do the job for naming? Look, there's hands. He looked his body. They were still covered with leprosy. Sin, sin, sin was there. It needed to be dealt with. He thought of his riches as he went down the third time. Look at this. So I've got my medal, still got the money in my pocket.
But I've also still been.
Still got leprosy?
He dipped out again.
Forza, you know, I'm a smart man. I've done all these things. I've been able to, I've been able to maneuver, I've been able to do all these things that are necessary to get a victory in the army. That's a good quality. You need them. But the leprosy is still there toward its Had he done what he was told to do, he went down again.
You know something? There may be people here who've gone to church.
That's not going to save you.
But if you've gone to a church where the good news of salvation about Jesus Christ is being preached, that's good. But just the fact that you went down the street and went into the church, that's not going to save it.
I had a bargain long.
Who died few years ago at 80.
He had never, as expressions always darken the church stole. He didn't really want to participate in anything to do with Christianity. We had plead with him by letter. He lived quite a distance away. One day he was admitted to the hospital and my sister called and said he's not going to make it.
Die family heard some good news.
Instead, it's all in the hands of the Lord, just the way N put it in the letter or some such word.
80 years of age didn't have a chance to do very much. He was literally a newborn babe in Christ, but he was saved. But you have no guarantee that you're going to be able to wait till you're on your deathbed and have the opportunity of being saved.
Ernie did.
So anyway.
And I said, well, I've been a pretty good man.
I've gone to the synagogue or whatever it went. Probably not a synagogue, but some place where maybe God was mentioned or something was mentioned. Not good enough. He went down the 6th time. The elephancy was still there. Sin is still I am.
Young people, children, you go to Sunday school tomorrow morning, there's gonna be Sunday school here.
Just being in Sunday school isn't enough. That's a wonderful thing to have, to see children sitting in the front row and somebody giving them the gospel.
Have you done something about it, or have you just sung together? Jesus loves me this I don't. Beautiful song. It ain't good enough. He went down, came up six times.
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He give up the leprosy was still there.
This dear man.
Went down the 7th time.
He did it in obedience to that which the prophet told he looked at his hand unclean, unclean. The leprosy is gone. And if you accept Jesus as Savior, your sins will be gone. They'll remove, be removed as far as the east is from the West, buried in the deepest sea, removed forever, never to be brought to your attention. Our young man appeared before me while I was working days he had he was appealing his case and we were talking to him and the security people said to me, well.
You know you're not going to like this, but this fellow is going to come in with two big guards, 6 foot six, 300 lbs and they're going to have shackles on his legs and he's going to have to be cuffed and, and he's going to come here and.
This case with his lawyer, I said.
I don't want any security, I don't want any shackles. I don't want any tough means. I don't need any of that.
He said, let me tell you know, I we don't agree with you. This man is tremendously strong. He's a good worker, but when he gets into some strong drink, he becomes extremely powerful. It took half a dozen police officers to subdue him. Thankfully, he didn't use any guns on him.
They had some union.
All right, you guys are the experts in the field. I just hope that I can talk to him and let you guys interfere. Yeah, go ahead. First thing I did, I went over to him and shook his hand.
He smiled. I said we're not going to be wrong, just tell me what you call this. Maybe 10 minutes, I said. Good.
I hope you have a good day.
I was able to do something.
What I did, it's not the sun. He was a bad guy, He was strong. I don't believe he knew the Lord Jesus to save it and have an opportunity to speak to him. But you know there was a way in which he could accept the tube, and that is by what the word of God tells us, that thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from the dead. Thou shalt be sacred.
A couple of years ago, my neighbor Dave, who always walks his dog, beautiful cloudy dog, down the street, and he came over one day and said, no, my wife just died. My wife just died. Oh, I said come on in chat for a while. And he wanted me to do something from him beforehand with my computer. You know, computers are weird things if you haven't found that out. So anyway, he came in and talked. He wanted some pictures. He said he had two pictures of his wife.
Family, he said, what's your first information? Glad to do that I said I'll send it to you on e-mail. He came back about well maybe a week or so later he says, you know, Norm, I'm not much of A religious man and and these messages you're sending out to me are very nice, but I'm I don't really.
He said the stuff you said. No, dude.
I said, Dave, I'm sorry, but I don't know how that happened. Well, I did maybe.
You know what computers can do sometimes get away with you. But he was getting my chance.
I don't know that he ever was ever seen, but about a week after this man's late night, the neighbor right next to me was packing his truck out of his driveway, coming down the street. No Chris, that Dave's like.
At least your neighbors have not gotten along very well. He was very sore and said, you know, it's awfully important that when someone dies that they're prepared, that they're ready to die. And I can tell the truck was going into gear. He said, oh, well, he when I got the paper, do the paperwork and say, oh, it's not. It's not all finished. It's not all finished.
So anyway, I thought that would be the end of the story with Chris after having that conversation. But around Christmas time I was cleaning out my walk and your time is going. And anyway, he he came over, he says normally you go to church.
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And do something. Would you pray for him? So my grandpa's died. Would you pray for him? I said I sure will. I sure will.
Privilege to pray for you. I don't know that he says yet, but he has a sick have a different a different attitude. I was so glad that he felt that he could ask me about this.
Just one quick point before we close.
In a while, Elisa told him what to do.
The man was violent and was upset. God's word tells him to wash me, and I shall be whatever himself. Wash me and I shall be white yourself.
But you know, this man came back and he confessed the Lord. He confessed to this man what had happened to him. His flesh was like the flesh of a baby. He was born again. He was sick.
And he went on his way, rejoices.
But first of all, only 100.
I don't want anything and you know something.
Your gifts or the gifts that you give for your salvation are nonsense, useless and unnecessary. This is a one way gift that God is offering. The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that he's ever believed that Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God set my Son unto the world to condemn the world, but that the world was through him might be saved.
This prophet had a servant, his name was Gay side. He had been with him for many years. He saw all the things that the prophet had done. You read the earlier chapter, well a lot of things that he had done, but you know after a man is set away seeing the wealth of the Spanish Major General.
Part of his mind started working after he got on the way, he went after him, he says. You know what? My master had two guys that came here and needed some money. Would you do? Would you give him a talent?
Take two, take two, take it all back.
He came back, I'm, I'm Russian. When he came back, he went into him where he put this stuff out that he'd gotten and he said just Major General.
And why? She said. Where have you been?
What have you been? I saw you going after that man. I saw the stars and give you something.
Is it a time to receive money and to receive garments in all yards and vineyards and cheap oxen and man service and nature?
That's your objective.
Without Christ.
It'll all be burned up, used up.
Here comes the crunch last verse of that chapter. The leprosy therefore name shall be of thee and unto thy seed forever. And he went out for Mr. Presidents electrous latest if you're going to leave here in your sense.
You may never get another opportunity. God speaks once, speaks twice.
He walked.
Him being reproved, part of his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, in fact without remedy.
I can't make it. He stays, and I certainly can't say it, but the Lord can Come unto me, All ye that labor are heavy labor, and I will give you restless prayer. Bless his daughter, love her daughter. Thank you for that word.
Has given us all the instructions that we need.
We just pray that what is all that stuff?
Knocks anything other than that, but there's anybody that's debating is to whether they should save our God and Father. We plead with thee but thou the cause of young person and child, whoever they may be who they may be saved or Jesus. We ask him in thy name Amen. There was sin in the garden. Something had to be done. Jesus came into this world and he died and saved sinners.
Jesus of the Greater Jesus rose from the dead.
And Jesus is coming again, my friend.
Don't leave without accepting Jesus as Savior in a couple of minutes as we leave this room, it's going to get.
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Making wishes to LeBron. See if anybody gets touched by the message that God gives me the word. If it can be abnormal, we would like to help you. But again, remember it's between you and the Lord.