Gospel—Cecil Roossinck
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I know these chairs are getting a little hard, but.
Just a few more minutes and you'll be free. Let's just look to the Lord and ask us blessing on His word. Our God, our Father, all. We thank you for our precious Savior whose love is laid hold upon us. We thank Thee for that gospel message is 1 so many of our hearts. By sovereign grace, Lord, should there be one still in their sins, we pray they might turn.
Now to close these meetings.
Find the joy of knowing the Savior, knowing sins forgiven.
Knowing God is their Father, Lord, we ask thy hope with Thanksgiving that worthy name of our precious Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
I'd like to turn for just one part of a verse to First Samuel.
Umm, First Samuel.
Chapter One.
I'm just gonna read the part of the 27th verse.
First time you won 27 for this child, I prayed.
For this child, I prayed.
That's averse that is often touched my heart and I see.
A good share of the children we're here have gone, uh, on their way now. But uh.
A little thought that I'd like to pass on to you who are parents.
Mothers, grandmothers and fathers and grandfathers. For this child, I prayed.
Most of you.
Probably have a praying mother or had a praying mother. I did. I thank God for that.
I know all my mother often prayed for me, and I thank God for answering her prayers.
Is your mother. Perhaps it's a grandmother.
That knew and loved the Lord. She may be gone, she may have passed on.
She prayed for you for years.
If you come to know the Savior yet, has that prayer been answered?
Well.
There's one more opportunity.
These meetings, the last Gospel meeting, the last few minutes.
Once you receive the Savior tonight, if you have a praying mother or had a praying mother or praying grandmother.
She loved it to know.
Those prayers have been answered for you.
I just want to tell you a little story that's happened. Uh.
Uh, in our bookstore a couple of years ago now. Uh.
Mann came into the bookstore and I happened to be there and.
And he's so happy he said I'm saved. He said I'm saved. I want to tell you how I got saved.
So that was for years rebelling against the Lord.
And fighting against the gospel at no use for the Lord.
He said that the Lord allowed many, many situations in my life to stir up my heart, but I.
From all side, turn the Lord down time after time.
So the last time he said this was last winter.
Another fellow and I decided to go, uh uh, bird catching, shooting sea birds in January. And it was very cold. And uh, there was what we call slob in the harbor, the floating particles of ice all over, very cold in salt water. So they went bird hunting.
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He wasn't a man that was careful about safety and things. He was, uh, reckless, shall we say, reckless. They went out bird shooting here in January and they got a couple of birds.
And by and by what he called a Rogue Wave came along, a big wave, and it turned over their boat.
Upside down and they in the water.
And uh, it wasn't a warm ducking, I can tell you.
And uh, they lost their birds, of course, but that was small concern. Couldn't swim. This man couldn't swim.
And uh, he still didn't turn to the Lord, He thought, Boy, now it's time to cry out to the Lord to save him. But no.
But the Lord had his eye on this man, I was going to say young man, but he was now.
Older than me, anyway.
Considerably older than me, I think. Uh, although a life lived like he had lived his life. It's hard to hold somebody is sometimes they get older looking, but anyway.
He was in the water, freezing cold, and the Lord sent another Rogue Wave along.
And it got a hold of their boat and tipped it back over. And when they come to think of it, the two of them are both in the boat.
Unbelievable, but it's true.
The only trouble is the bolt was 3/4 full of water and they were about up to their chest and ice and water very very cold.
Still not saved and uh.
Finally they froze. It was that cold that they lost consciousness and uh, by and by another boat saw them.
Went out to rescue them and uh, pull up alongside and there's two lifeless men sitting in this boat, water up to their chest.
Well, they said, well, we better told the thing in the shore, which they did. They told them in the shore and the men were dead, so they took them out of the boat, threw them in the snow bank.
We're gonna do these pillars.
So buying by UH, a car came along. It was it was a station wagon, the fellow said.
Well, throw them in the back of my station wagon and I'll take them down to the hospital, down to the morgue. So that's what they did. They threw him in his station wagon and they took him down to the hospital. Two of them.
And uh, the amazing thing is after two days, you know, they covered them with blankets and all kinds of things that they would do. Some medical people here know a lot more about what they would do, but after a couple of days.
He opened his eyes. Came too. Still alive. Still alive.
And while I was there in the hospital, he began to think.
I'm a law Sinner.
And my father has prayed for me for years, and I put it off and refused the love of God. And right there in the hospital, he accepted Christ as his Savior. Couldn't get any closer to death than he did.
And oh, I was so amazed at this story, I said to him.
That's so interesting, I said. I wanna pray for you, I said. Would you tell me your name so I can pray for you?
He said Abe Lehman.
I almost fell on the floor.
About UH.
40.
Yeah, probably 41 or two years earlier.
Abe's father was also Abe Lehman and myself and Mr. Earl Ensign and another brother. We have been on our knees and Abe Lehman's kitchen praying for young Abe that he be saved. And I prayed for him for a long time. But you know how it is After a while you forget years went by.
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And here's young Abe Lehman, saved by the grace of God. It was just a thrill to meet him. And, uh, he lived in Port Abbas. If you ever come our way to visit, by the way, you're welcome. I'd be glad to see you. You come through port a bash. You might look him up.
Umm. I looked him up. Umm, a month later, I suppose it was. And here I found he lived in the very house where his father had lived. Now his father had been with the Lord for many years, and there was that kitchen floor that we kneeled on the same spot. So young Abe and I kneel together. There on the kitchen floor is a rather poor house and all, but we kneel together and praise the Lord.
That God answers prayer.
And I know there's some here whose fathers, whose mothers have been praying for you for years. If there's one here that's not yet saved, don't put it off.
God loves to answer prayers, those you that are mothers here and fathers.
Spend time on your knees for your children, for your grandchildren.
Hannah here said For this child I prayed and God granted her partition. Don't don't be discouraged. Maybe some years Abe senior he never saw the salvation of his son, but they're going to be together in the in the glory.
So.
Let's not neglect to pray. And if you have a praying mother, think of it our our prayers answered. Have you come to Christ? You know your sins forgiven, You can know it.
This afternoon. Well, now I'd like to turn to another household. Umm, John's Gospel, Chapter 12.
I'm going a little backwards here, but in John chapter 12 we find a.
A house where there's uh.
There's uh, three, three members of this household, and.
Some of them we've.
Often spoke of or thought of Mary and Martha and Lazarus. They lived in a house in Bethany, and I feel sure there was prayer that went on in that house.
We don't know.
It's also called the House of Simon the Leper. They knew what sorrow was testing trials.
But we don't want to get into that tonight. Our time is too short.
I just want to think of particularly one member of that household.
And we don't find very much about him and whether he loved the Lord.
But if we went back to the 11Th chapter of John, it's a story that's very familiar to us all. His name was Lazarus.
Lazarus.
Was sick.
He had a.
A disease which took his life. I don't know what the sickness was.
Perhaps it was a special sickness.
Because, the Lord said.
It was for the glory of God.
But God has his purposes. What does he have to bring you through before you'll turn to the Lord Jesus? I I trust that everyone in this room knows the Lord.
But if you're sitting here and that person next to you thinks you're saved?
Some others that you associate with us think you're a good Christian often hear that term. A good Christian? Well, ask yourself, am I safe? Lazarus was brought up in this house and he he knew his sister's, uh, love to have the Lord come there. He knew his sisters loved to entertain and and.
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Give Brand have the Lord for supper. And he knew his sister Mary sat at Jesus feet and heard his word.
And Martha loved to serve.
I don't know about Lazarus fee but what I do know is he got sick.
And he died. He died.
The Lord Jesus said earlier in the chapter that this sickness is is, uh? Not under death, but for the glory of God, for the glory of God and uh.
Sure enough, he succumbed to whatever sickness it was, and he was dead. The sisters called for the Lord.
He comes.
He waited two days still before he started to come. And uh, the disciples, uh, they were a little nervous over this.
But then the news came that Lazarus was dead.
Help us dead.
Could have brought in a doctor, but too late when they're dead. Too late.
So the Lord.
Comes.
If there is one just Oneness audience tonight.
Who is dead in sins and trespasses?
Ah, the Lord knows your condition. Your friends may not. The Lord knows where you stand. You have eternal life in Christ. You can have it. It's available to whoever will.
But when you're dead.
When his body is dead.
No turning back is there for the believer. We've read this afternoon what it will be to, uh, be clothed upon with that body from on high. What a wonderful time it'll be to be finished with all the sicknesses and troubles and sorrows of this world, and to be with Christ, which is far better. But let me warn you, dear ones, there's one here that will die in their sins without Christ.
It's as hopeless and helpless as it can be.
While the Lord comes, we are not going to go into the details here, but He comes to comfort and strengthen and help.
These dear sisters who are weeping over their brother, their brother who had died.
And uh, the Lord wept with him.
Uh, gotta be careful how I express as Jim kind of set us straight on why the Lord wept with the breath with these sisters, It was indeed.
Uh, weeping with them that weep. He felt what they felt, What a gracious Savior we have. But there was the other side of it that was brought out too. The Lord saw what sin had wrought in this world.
And he wept, even though he knew what he would do, even though he knew that he was going to raise Lazarus from the dead. Still, as he viewed.
What Synod wrought his tender heart wept.
She weeping over you.
Hope not.
And I hope there will be joy this evening in the presence of the angels in heaven over 1 Sinner that repents. You know, Lazarus here I believe is a little picture to us of someone who is indeed dead in sins and trespasses. Not only is he dead, but Martha said to the Lord.
Oh, he's been dead 4 days. He stinks.
Stinks.
Before I received that was my condition. Dead and stinking. He's in the grave and the the grave is closed. They don't wanna.
Smell any of that old smell and that stink. Don't want to look inside.
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Don't wanna face the the fact that he's gone. He's corrupting. Corruption is set in. Sin is corrupting. You're still in your sins if they've never been washed away in the precious blood of the Lord Jesus.
You're not only dead in sins, but corruption setting in setting well.
Not to take that much time, the Lord is uh.
He goes to the tomb.
Where Lazarus is.
He says roll away the stone. Oh, Martha says. Whoa, whoa, just a minute. Oh stinks. No, don't roll with stone.
Sometimes.
The Gospel.
Seems a little too blunt. We get afraid of.
Afraid of mentioning.
That the end of the road without Christ is hell for all eternity in the lake of fire. Do you think perhaps we should just not mention that because we don't want to scare anybody?
In Lark Harbor, where we've had the gospel tent for a good many years.
Umm. The minister of the certain church there. Umm was going to have a uh, Christmas sing song and uh.
Instead of singing song, she said to the audience. I was told that someone was there.
She said one of the kids at school came to me the other day and asked me about hell.
And she said they're getting their rubbish from the gospel tent, so there's no such a thing as hell is what you make it here and it's supposed to be a minister of the gospel.
And uh, very sad. Couple of people told me about it.
And.
It wasn't, I think about a month later.
She had a stroke.
The Lord closed her mouth. She never said another word. The rest of her life mouth was closed. Dear friends, there is a hell.
And as much it breaks my heart.
There's gonna be young people, there's gonna be boys and girls that are gonna they're gonna go there. Why don't we just ignore it so you can just go on right straight there?
All people tell me we don't hear about hell.
God is faithful. God is faithful, he warns us.
That the Day of Wrath is coming, The Day of Judgment, the Great White Throne.
If you stand before the Lord in your sins, that's just where you go.
But maybe you don't want to hear it.
I'd rather hear about it now and learn the way of escape.
Wait till I'm there with no escape. There'll be no escape there. Well, Lazarus was in the grave, Martha said. Oh, don't open it. Don't, don't. Don't get into that. It'll stink. We can't stand it. Well, the Lord simply said to Martha.
Said I not unto thee.
Uh, without believe I would see the power of God.
Umm.
Then they opened the grave.
They opened the Gray.
And the Lord is standing there by the grave in front of the grave.
Did you quick shut it stinks. Oh no, oh, he cried out on that voice of power. Lazarus, come forth.
Oh, what a rescue. What a rescue.
Are you still?
Dead and sins and trespasses all the Lord is calling to you tonight. Come unto me, oh ye that labor in our heavy laden, and I will give you rest. We have a Savior that's longing for your salvation, that wants to bless you.
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You're gonna say no thanks.
You know, Abe Lehman went on for 40 years having been warned. The Lord was gracious, save him at the last possible second. So near eternity was he the Lord's savior. And you might pray for him If you ever think of it. His wife isn't saved, and she's not too happy with his telling this story. He loves to tell the story. He tells it over and over.
Wherever he goes, how the Lord saved him, not only saved him from the the freezing of his body, but the burning of his body in hell. Saved from hell and save for heaven. What a glorious message. And there's a lot here that are saved from hell, save for heaven, waiting that moment when the Lord is going to come take us home together.
To the father's house.
Oh, I'm. I'm so happy that I had a praying mother.
I had a praying grandmother too. Thank God for that.
Perhaps you have a praying mother, praying father?
Grandmother or grandfather?
May the Lord answer those prayers for you tonight.
Right. Don't put it off.
You may not be so.
I was gonna say fortunate sometimes that word isn't. Uh.
Uh, the best.
You may not.
Make it through those icy waters and be pulled out and rescued saved.
But God is speaking to you. The very fact that you're at the Gospel meeting tonight, the last meeting of these, uh uh, meetings here, the last opportunity.
Is before you come tonight. Won't you come? Come now, The Lord says, Let us reason together. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as wool, though they be red like Crimson.
They should be as well. The other ones snow get those mixed up.
I was gonna say I'm only human, but I'm very human. I make a lot of mistakes, but the Lord is good. Well.
Lazarus came out of the grave and he was bound with grave clothes.
The Lord care about that.
I did always say loosen, loosen and let him go.
Well, I want to read one other verse.
And then it's time to close 12Th chapter of John.
I'll just read verse 2 to save time. Most of you know this story. They he came to Bethany and there they made him a feast. And here's what it says.
Umm, there they made him a supper, and Martha served, And Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him. Isn't that sweet? Lazarus, the one who was corrupting in the grave, who the Lord and his mercy called forth and set him free. Now he's sitting at the table with the Lord.
Would that be a word to someone here?
If the Lord has set you free, save your soul, you're a new creature in Christ.
He has a place set for you at the table at his table.
Once you take your place there, you'd like to have you there, you know?
Think back of amphibious in the Old Testament.
He was afraid of David. In fact, he, uh, he he wrecked his legs, running away from David because he was afraid.
But he ended up by the grace of God, by the kindness of David sitting at the King's table.
The rest of his life, he never left that position. Isn't that sweet? Well, if you're saved by the grace of God.
When you find your place at the Lord's table, he wants you there. There's a place for you there. Well.
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That's all.
Short message, but may it touch our hearts. We'll just thank the Lord now, our God our Father. We give thanks for our precious Savior who rescued us from hell.
Saved us from hell, Saved us for heaven. Lord Jesus, we want to thank thee for that great salvation paid for in full at Calvary's cross by thy precious blood that was shed for sinners, shed for rebels, shed for me, Lord, for one.
Who cannot say this for themselves tonight?
May they learn what it is.
To know that they have eternal life.
They might know that they're saved and on the way to glory.
Oh Lord, we pray Thy blessing. We thank you for this time together with our beloved brother. We pray to bless Thy word in every place where it's gone for.
Give you thanks together in a worry precious holy name of our Lord Jesus Christ, our Savior. Amen.