Gospel—Ed Wilson
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Well, this is the last gospel meeting of the conference.
Honor, we might open tonight with him #34 in our little sheet, Precious, precious blood of Jesus.
Shed on Calvary, Shed for rebels and for sinners, Shed for me.
Very personal.
It's been shed for rebels, It's been shed for centers.
And there isn't a person in this room that does not fit that category right there. We're all rebels. We're all sinners. And so we can say that Jesus shed his precious blood for me. Yeah.
Lovely truth, precious blood that hath redeemed us. And I hope that everyone in this room tonight can say this. In truth, precious blood which hath redeemed is gonna make it personal and say that precious blood was shed for me.
All the prices paid.
They're lovely to realize that that price has been paid in full.
In full.
Perfect pardon now is offered. Peace is made. Thank God it's been made.
I don't know where I would be tonight, and I don't know for a moment on what my soul could rest on if peace had not been made through the blood of Jesus.
I want you to think about that for a moment.
Where would any one of us in this room be tonight?
If peace had not been made.
Thank God it's been forever, forever settled on God's terms.
Though thy sins are red like Crimson, deep and scarlet glow, Jesus precious blood can make them white as snow.
Every time I think of this verse, I think of an illustration that we did years and years ago in a Sunday school.
One of the boys brought in one of the whitest shirts he could find.
And I mean, to look at it, you'd say that is a white shirt.
No grease on it, no grime, nothing. Sunday school teacher made us take it outside and light on the snow bank. It was yellow in comparison to the snow.
And I love these simple little illustrations, you know, because as a child, I believe the Lord uses these things to make little impressions upon our hearts and our minds.
I thought about that, isn't that amazing?
Precious, precious blood of Jesus ever offered free. God offers it.
And FI offer you something, you might question it, but God offers salvation. Ever offered free? Oh, believe it all, receive it. That's not enough to believe it up here. We have to believe it down in the heart. If with the heart, man believes. And by the way, the feet follow the heart.
The feet follow the heart. Wherever the treasure is, that's where the heart is going to be. Have we found that treasure in Christ? I hope everyone in the room tonight when we leave here, we can say of a truth, I found my treasure in Jesus.
Alright, let's sing this in together.
First John chapter one and verse 7. Let's turn to it.
I want the last clause in that seventh verse. The blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, God's Son, cleanses us, cleans us from all sin.
Do you and I have any idea how offensive spin is in the presence of a holy God?
I think it was the prophet Ezekiel was taken by the Lord to look through a little hole in the wall.
What he saw was great abominations.
One speck of thin in the presence of a holy God.
That's worse than an ocean of sin before your eyes and mind.
Did you know that?
The holy gaze of God as he looks down.
He cannot tolerate sin in any shape, particle or form.
I wanna tell you tonight that outside golf, outside Jerusalem, on Golf Office Hill almost 20 centuries ago.
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A mountain of sin was laid upon the head of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I remember as a child in Sunday school singing that hymn that we often used to sing a children's chorus. My sins were as high as a mountain.
They brought them down to the fountain.
What is the fountain of precious blood of Christ?
You know what happened that day is the fact that your sins and my sins, your sins and mine, if we're trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Those sins, that mountain of sins was swallowed by a fountain.
Thank you, Vic.
Precious blood of Jesus shed. John 19 tells us very very clearly that that Roman soldier came and with a spear pierced the side of the Lord Jesus. Was it the blood and Gethsemane that saved? No.
Was it the blood that he received at that scourging post in Pilot's judgment hall? Was that the blood that saved us? No, it's all precious.
What was the blood that saved?
Hear the words and I'm quoting them. John 19 but one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side and forthwith came their out blood and water. Listen carefully now. And he that saw their record and his record is true. I love that and he knows that he say it's true that ye might believe. Do you believe that tonight? Do you believe that the blood of Jesus Christ.
From his ribbon side is that which alone can take away your sins and give you divine life.
Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. How is it in this day in which we live, that we're beginning to hear voices telling us that there are other ways? There's only one way.
One of the most popular women in the United States right now is telling us that they're that Jesus is only one of many ways. This woman is a multi millionaire by the way.
And this is what she proclaims. There are other ways than Jesus. It's not true.
The only man who never lied, who could not lie, because in him was no sin. He knew no sin, He did no sin. He said this, except he believed that I and he ye shall die in your sin, and where I am you cannot come. That's pretty plain, isn't it? John 14 and six says I am the way, the truth and the like. No man cometh under the Father.
But by me there is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. You notice how it goes from the singular way to the plural wave. Interesting, isn't it?
There's a way that seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. You know, it's interesting. It's like he starts down a road. Oh, well, this looks good. So I think I'll deviate and I'll go off here, Right.
And then along comes something else which pleases the air, and he deviates on to that.
You know, it's interesting that in this country at the present time, there are many, many things that are given forth to men and women that will make them happy, that will bring satisfaction. So they think because there is, according to Hebrews 11, pleasure and sin for a season, right? There is pleasure in sin for a season, but there's no permanent, true, fulfilling and lasting peace and joy. You're only going to have that in the work of Christ.
I wanna tell you this tonight, as that work has satisfied the heart of God. You think?
Think of what that work can do for us if we admit it by faith into our hearts. If that work has satisfied God forever. Think of what that work will do for you and me if it's admitted into the heart by faith. I'm thankful to say tonight that by the grace of God, I've done this, and I believe that many in this room have done that.
Not because we're anything.
Let me quote you Ephesians 24 By grace are you saved through faith and that.
Not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, not of work, lest any man should boast.
Let's call Romans 10:00 and 9:00. If thou shalt confess with thy mouth, Jesus is Lord, and believe in thine heart, not the head, the heart, and believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Why is confession so important?
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Why is confession with the most so important?
Well, it's important, Manward.
Because if you leave this world, if you pass on in depth and you have not made a clear statement, people are gonna wonder. They come and they say, well, you know, that person passed on. Did you ever hear them confess? The Lord? Have you ever heard that? And sometimes people, well, no, I I've never, ever heard that one give a clear confession. It makes you wonder, doesn't it?
So it's with the confession of the most, and then it's the belief in the heart that God has raised him from the dead, because tonight our God is the God of resurrection.
That's the greatest power that's known. He brought world into existence by the word of his power. But think of it. In order to redeem a guilty soul, in order to give him divine life, he had to be the God of resurrection.
That's power. That's what it says in Ephesians 1, by the way. That's what it says in Ephesians one. According to the working of his mighty power, or according to the working of the might of his power. Think of it. Think how powerful this God is, and yet a working of the power of his might to bring a Sinner to himself.
To bring them from darkness to light, to bring them from the authority of Satan and translate him into the Kingdom of the Son of his love. That's power. That's real power. Lovely to realize that our Lord Jesus possesses that power. Have you been there? Have you accepted this one? Do you have divine life right now? The blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleans us from all sins.
And that's really strange that men and women have the idea fixed in their mind.
That God can only cleanse people from some sin.
And go to a murder in a prison, and you present the gospel to them, he says. You mean to tell me that God can forgive the sin of murder?
That God can forgive a bank robber.
That God can forgive someone who's committed fornication or whatever. God can do that.
You know, it's the little words and scriptures that are so precious, aren't they? That little word ALL all, but how profound it is all sin. And then we think of that verse in Romans 3 and 23. All had sinned and come short of the glory of God. How simple that is. And yet how profound it is all, not just some, it's all.
The blood of Jesus Christ is done cleans us from all sins.
You know day I got saved.
Just like what happened to this, I know this is what happened. In the sight of God, He reached down.
He killed me.
Razmi and newness of life. Was Christ what you're looking at tonight as an individual now who's no longer seen under that old endemic condition and that wonderful who but God could do that?
You know, man, tonight, what does man want to do? Man wants to take this old Adamic fallen nature and he wants to fix it up right? He wants to educate it. It's educated flesh. He wants to refine it. It's refined flesh. He wants to make it good in the eyes of his fellow man. But he never ever stopped to think of the most important thing of all. What does he look like in the eyes of a thrice holy God?
Would you like to see what God has to say about what an individual looks like in his thin in the presence of a thrice holy God? Let's turn over to Isaiah 1 in 18 and we'll see exactly what God has to say about this, because it's very plain. It's very straightforward.
This is what God has to say.
And by the way, Israel was probably one of the best specimens.
A band that we can find in its natural setting.
Hear what God has to say about it's very important book of Isaiah chapter one.
That's diverse.
Come now, let us reason together, saith the Lord.
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So your sins be a scarlet. They shall be as white as snow, though they be red like Crimson, they shall be as wool.
That's a lovely statement.
Where is the verse in this chapter that says from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot? OK verse 6.
From the sole of the foot even unto the head, there is no soundness in it. Wounds, bruises and putrefying sores.
That's not a very pretty picture, is it?
Suppose you and I were in this room and someone came into this room who had stores all over their body that were oozing.
Just a math.
Uh, uh, uh, uh, a dead person just oozing these things. Oh, it's awful. Why? You wanna get out of their presence probably as quickly as you can. What is God telling us in this verse?
This is what he sees as he looks at the awful condition of man in his sin.
That's what he sees.
And men and women have the thought fixed in their mind that they think they're pretty good.
This is what God tells us and it's lovely as we quoted, as we've read this verse 18. Come now, come now, He says, let us reason together. You know, men do a lot of reasoning. They do a lot of reasoning. They think a lot of things and they've used this wonderful gift of thought and reason, you know, to even rule out the very existence of the Creator. Isn't that amazing? All the grace and the patience of God. I wanna tell you tonight, He may be waiting just for you.
He may be waiting just for you. God's house is filling fast, but I'm telling you this, one of these days that last call is gonna be gathered in.
If you linger till the darkness, you may sure you will surely miss your way. You're gonna miss it. God's not always gonna hold the door of mercy open.
It's gonna close, and very soon.
Come now and let us reason together, saith the Lord. O your sins be a scarlet, they shall be as white as snow, though they be red like Crimson, they shall be as well. Now everyone knows where wool comes from.
Comes from sheep.
It's a lovely thing to realize tonight that every person in this room who's saved, by the grace of God, they are the sheep of his pasture. They are.
What warmth have we provided for him?
None. None is natural men. There's nothing we can give him, he said. The cattle on 1000 Hills are mine. If I was hungry, I wouldn't tell you.
One thing He wants, One thing He wants. I want your kids to listen to this. That's one thing that the Lord wants from you.
You know what it is?
It's the heart.
That's what he wants from you. He wants your heart. He says, My son, give me thine heart. The enemy wants to take your heart. He wants to break it and leave it unfulfilled, and he'll keep it. There are many men and women tonight who have learned to their sorrow that the devil pays down wages.
That's what you get at the end of a work week, right? You get wages. But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ. Our Lord then paid down wages. Wages.
Pleasure and sin for a season, but there's fearful and frightful wages to pay at the end of it all. Solemn to think of it.
That's the truth.
I wanna turn over to averse now in second currency in chapter one.
2nd Corinthians, chapter one.
I'm reading a verse here now which is true of every person in this room who would say, but I'm going to speak a little bit more about this verb.
And how it could be true of you, my friend tonight, if you're here without Jesus.
As this verse could be true of you, I know this verse is true, and it's going to be true of every person who knows Jesus as their Savior. I have a confession to make to you tonight. One of the most fascinating numbers in the Word of God is the #3.
Divine and adequate testimony, that's what it is. The #3 Let's look at this wonderful verse. It's verse 10.
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Who delivered us from so great to death? I wanna turn this question right directly to you. Can you say that the Lord Jesus Christ has delivered you from the wrath to come? Because it's coming even now, dear, when the storm clouds are gathering on the horizon, things are getting worse for this world. They're looking for a man to lead them out of their problems. They're looking for individuals to fix things. They know that things are not right. I love that poem that someone wrote a few years ago.
The outlook is not very good.
Things are as black as night. It's getting worse. As I said, those storm clouds are gathering on the horizon. They are. It's almost like we can hear the rumble of the Thunder in the distance. Everyone here has seen a thunderstorm. You know those. Those clouds roll in. Everything get so still and so quiet. It's almost eerie before the storm breaks. I often wonder sometimes that that aren't that isn't where we are at the present time.
Just kind of like a little low, just uh, kind of a stillness, kind of a quietness. People wondering with bated breath what's going to happen next.
And they're going to wonder and the fury of that storm is going to break upon the Christ rejecting world. I want to tell you it's coming and it's coming very, very quickly. I want to stay tonight. There's deliverance for you. If you'll believe you'll be able to say who delivered us from so great a death thinking of Moses. You know, this morning we read that verse in the 12Th of Hebrews.
The status of the sons of Israel. He was standing there looking at Mount Sinai, all of smoking on fire. And he said, I exceedingly fear and tremble. Think of it. Here's a mountain that engulfed by fire and darkness and the sound of the trumpet that's just getting louder and louder and the people are just pleading with them. You know, we don't want to hear the voice of God speaking to us in such a way. I wanna tell you tonight, friend, there was a storm that burst on Mount Calvary.
Nearly 20th centuries ago. That was more awful than what happened announced on EI that day. Hold your place here and let's go back to the Book of Job, the 38th chapter.
The 38th chapter of Job.
I wanna read the ninth verse.
This is Jehovah speaking.
When I made the cloud, the garment thereof in thick darkness, a swaddling band for it.
We have a tendency to look at this chapter and think of it in the aspect of natural creation, and it's true. But I think the Spirit of God has something more in mind because this was just not any cloud. This was Z cloud. Pay attention to the article here. Z cloud at high noon on Calvary. Can't you get the picture? A Son of God is suspended there on a cross of wood between two thieves, between heaven and earth. The jeering multitude are hurling insult after insult. Adam, if thou be the Christ, come down from the cross. That's unbelief, you know, and we'll believe. They wouldn't have believed.
And at high noon, this scene is in raft and engulfed in darkness.
How graphic this verse is in describing this?
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, Jesus was the solitary man in that darkness.
In those hours, think of it.
And thick darkness of swaddling band forest. Interesting. You know, when he came into this world as a little child, he was swaddled in clothes and laid in a Manger.
Showing us the poverty into which he came. Although I wanna tell you tonight, my friends, no poverty like this, when he was all alone in that darkness, and the sins of everyone who would believe were placed upon him there. I wanna ask you tonight, have your sins been put there for your sins placed upon him?
Have you accepted him as your savior? Have you looked away to that cross and said Jesus died for me? Oh, the shame of it. It was my sins that put him there.
It was the thins of all of those who would believe. Have you believed that Jesus died for you? What a frightful thing that must have been.
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Latin engulfed in darkness.
And do you know he was forsaken of God too? Psalm 22 to the chief musician concerning behind the morning.
He was there in the midst of his foes, just like a deer.
Very graphic assignment is in describing to what they're the various ones who surrounded him. There were the bulls of Beijing.
Everyone here, I'm sure, has seen a bull, big and powerful. He would, in a company of those bulls at Baytown, the religious leaders of his day.
They haunted him, they questioned him, they tried to entrap him, and in the end they condemned him to death. Think of it, an innocent man. Then the dogs were found there. The Gentile soldiers, I believe, tells us there in the Gospels that they gathered together the whole band into that judgment hall. And that's something one innocent man and a whole band gathered around him, and they laid wound and strife upon him.
And some have told us what it was like when they brought that lash down upon him again and again and again. And they made his back, as the Thomas tells us, his back like a plowed field. I don't know if you've ever plowed a field. I have. I lived on a farm with a child. I remember being on the tractor watching that ground being rolled under Nyaz to think to myself, boy, if this field could talk, Think of the pain and the agony.
You think of it, the Lord Jesus, we read that verse this morning in Isaiah 52. It's it's his visage was so hard, more than any man and his form more than the sons of men. He didn't have to take it. He submitted to it in love and in grace to the will of God his Father. And he did it for your blessing and for mine, but he did not have to submit to it. You know, we die because we have to. He died because he chose to.
And that lovely he chose to lay down his life.
Can you say he laid it down for me?
Can you? Can you say Jesus died for me? It was for me that he was forsaken in those hours of darkness upon the tree. It was for me that God the Father.
Had to turn it back upon his son.
Because God is so holy, those eyes cannot look upon sin. There it was, and all of its awfulness upon our substitute, and God turned his back upon His Son. What poverty? This was real poverty.
You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor. What poverty was his?
I'd love to tell that story, and I'll tell you that I've been saved since about the age of 10. But I'll tell you that that story to me gets sweeter every time I hear it.
And while there are arguments that the hymn writer I need no other plea. It is enough that Jesus died and that he died for me, and that is personal.
This is a great chapter. You know it's 38 some.
One of our brothers home in the assembly used to say that this chapter is an unanswerable proof of the majesty, the power of God, but interspersed in these verses as the cross work of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what makes it so majestic.
What a great chapter it is.
And you know, some of the most profound statements in the word of God are questions.
Questions. God asks us questions He asked a man here. Questions. True, Joe couldn't answer them. But you know God would ask these questions to you and to me tonight. Look. Look at some of them. Where was thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?
Where were you?
Where were you and I when Jesus Christ died upon Calvary's cross and wrought that great work of redemption? When the foundation of our salvation was laid, where were we?
Did we advise him in it? According to Romans 11, we didn't.
Who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been His counselor? Did we counsel him on salvation? No, no, You know, when it was presented to me as a child for the first time, even though I was raised in a Christian home, I thought it was the most fantastic thing I ever heard. Why would God be interested in me? Why would God lay the foundation for my salvation? Why would God do such a thing? Out of the millions of people alive in the world tonight, why would God be interested in me?
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I'll tell you this, you can't get around that wonderful verse in John 316, can you? For God so loved the world.
That whosoever put your name in there, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. What a great thing whosoever believeth, whosoever. Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved, even a callin in tonight.
Are you gonna call on someone else and call on someone else? You're gonna be lost. And call on the name of the Lord. You'll be saved.
And I vividly remember conference three years ago in Stellarton.
And I remember that there was this young girl who was very troubled about her soul, very troubled. And I remember her making the statement. She said to me this, she said, part of me wants to believe, but the other part of me, I find it almost impossible to believe.
I said well you better listen to the part that tells you to believe.
Better listen to the part that tells you to believe. What is it that you find so fantastic that you can't believe? She said, I find it so fantastic that people lived to be such a great age in Genesis 900, sometimes 900 plus years. They have a problem with that. She said, yes, why do you have a problem with it? While she said I can't really see how people could live that long. I said, my dear, it's part of the inspired word of God.
He had stated it as a fact.
Listen to the what? What is it then that you do believe? She said, Well, when I think of the work of Calvary and I think of the fact that he died for me, she said I can accept that. I said that's all you need. That's all you need.
I'm happy to say that about two or three days later, she did accept the Lord as her savior. What a wonderful thing, you know.
Unbelief is a terrible thing. Unbelief is an awful thing.
And that heads the list, by the way, of those in Revelation who will be one day confined to the Lake of Fire. It is what? The fearful and the unbelieving.
The fearful and the unbelieving. And then it gives the awful list of the rest. But it's the fearful and the unbelieving. What does it mean by fearful? I believe the fearful there is those who are afraid to confess the Lord. They're afraid that their friends are gonna make fun of them.
I think of a dear brother that I know in Christ. It's not at the Lord's table anymore. Through discouragement, he got away. But I remember sitting, you know, in a class in Fredericton and oh, we had this teacher and he was awful. He was an agnostic, you know.
And I remember him vividly saying one day he said, you know, he said when Jesus Christ was crucified, when they put him on the cross, they broke every bone in his body. And never forget Doug's answer.
He said to him, he said, Mr. McFadden, he said that's a lie. He said, my Bible tells me that the bone of him shall not be broken. He said, I want to tell you something, Sir, the Bible is right. There wasn't a bone broken.
Auto testimony. I wasn't a bone broken. Think of it suspended there between heaven and earth and not a bone broken. Those nails going through his hands and his feet, Not a bone broken. See, the whole thing was miraculous.
And then the shedding of his precious blood. How can I tell you about it?
How can I tell you about it, France? It was a miracle.
You asked any undertaker in this town, when you cut into a dead body, when it starts to bleed, you stop immediately. There's still life there.
I want to tell you that day.
When they pierced his eye, a glorious stream of blood and water came forth. Is that what you're trusting in tonight? Heaven will be your force. And if you are?
Heaven, That's what God looks for, the precious blood of Jesus.
Was a wonderful thing when the first creation was laid. So glorious, it says, when the morning star sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy.
But you know, heaven has never heard. Heaven has never heard a song that's going to be sung there very, very soon.
You know, they sang here, these morning stars and the sons of God, they sang, but heaven is going to hear another song very, very soon. And everyone this morning who had the privilege of being here in the presence of the Lord Jesus, we learned a few bars of that song that we're going to sing up there, Revelation chapter 5. Let's turn to it and we'll see what it is.
I hope everyone in this room attended. The sound of my voice tonight is going to be able to hear and is going to be able to think this wonderful song.
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5th of Revelation.
Verse 9 Revelation the 5th chapter, the ninth verse they sung a new song saying thou art worthy to take the book.
And also on the fields there.
For that I'll explain.
And it has redeemed that to to God by thy blood.
That beautiful every kindred in tongue and people and nation now in the original via was not there as is redeemed to God.
I wanna tell you tonight that the work of Calvary is such an immense work.
That only God could describe it to him.
You think of how that precious blood has reached all the way back to the beginning of time, and it pardoned Adam, it pardoned Abraham, it pardoned David, it pardoned Solomon, it pardoned all of those Old Testament things.
Think of the power of that precious blood that has brought multitudes in in the present day, from Pentecost up until the present moment, until that moment when the Lord Jesus is going to call the church home millions.
God has been glorified in the work of Calvary.
What a thing this is going to be.
And if the Lord Jesus comes tonight?
All of those ones, those faithful ones who will pass through that tribulation, they're going to overcome the wicked one. They're going to wash their robes white and clean in the blood of the land. Let's take it on a little further. All a blessing that will accrue to this world through that millennial reign of Christ. When he reigns from the river to the ends of the earth, it will be as a result of the cross worker teeth.
Let's take it even further into the eternal state. God is one day going to remove from this world after it's burned up. As we learned that from Second Peter 3. The heavens and the earth will be dissolved by fire. God is one day, through the work of Calvary's cross, going to remove every particle and trace of sin from His universe forever. You know why? Because of the cross of teeth.
What an immense work.
I wanna tell you tonight that this poor speaker is not worthy to stand up here and tell you what God has done.
What the Christ of God has done through that wonderful work on Calvary's cross, I'm inadequate to tell it.
But the more that I think of it, the more filled my heart with joy, and I think that Jesus Christ has glorified God in the work of Calvary's cross.
Are you tonight under the shelter of the precious blood of Jesus? Are you, have you been there? Have you come there? Have you received Him as your Savior? Are you going to be a part of this company that have trusted Him as their personal Savior, have had their sins washed away and that precious blood, and have divine life?
Are you?
Servant of the Lord put that question to my wife when she was a little girl, and she said, well, I hope so.
He was faithful with her, he said. Well, if you hope so, you're not saved.
She said, well, that was very blunt, but she said that's exactly what I needed to hear. There's no hoping friends.
There's no hoping I am. I'm either in Christ or I'm in my sins.
And if I'm in my fins, I'm not in Christ. And if I'm in Christ, I'm not in my sins. And that's, oh, I think that is, I think that's so wonderful.
Can you say that tonight? Can you say that Jesus died for me? Can you make it personal?
Can you make it personal?
They sung the new song.
Bauert worthy to take the book, I wanna tell you tonight, I don't think.
If there's any possible way that you and I can Plumb the depth that's wrapped up in this wonderful verse.
If you and I in our in the state that we're in at the present time, if we could be transported into heaven right now and see these things in our mortal bodies, we couldn't stand it. It would be so overwhelming to us that our hearts would almost burst.
Thank God we're gonna get a new body. We're going to get a new body.
To be able to appreciate all of these things and not just like him, Adverse and 2nd Corinthians, let's go back and look at it again. We mentioned the first part of it. Let's go back to it again, Second Corinthians chapter one.
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He delivered us who delivered us past tense from so great a death and thus deliver. After you get saved, you're not left to go on in this world by yourself.
You know I couldn't live a day in this world where not for the fact that above pleading my case is my great High Priest.
Some put it this way, go down the road and you see a big gravel truck coming towards you. The devil had his way to the whole thing upset on top of your car.
Preserved by him. Makes you wonder sometimes people cut off all of a sudden.
Had they accepted Jesus as their Savior, how they might have been preserved had they known Him as their Savior.
You know the wicked are set in slippery places according to the Psalms.
Through their eyes, stand up with fatness, and they have more than their heart could wish. I'm talking about the unsaved, unregenerate man. And yet they're set in flipper places and they go down to hell in a moment. I'm not sound like an awful thing to say, but it's the truth. How they could have been preserved if they've been trusting the Lord Jesus. And even if they do pass through the article of death, they're ready. They're ready. Think of how the Lord Jesus has entered into the domain of the King of Terrors and robbed him of his power. Jesus has done that.
Isn't that lovely?
The believer doesn't have to fear death. He looks on and he says, if it's my will to go, Lord Jesus, it'll just be to be with thee, which is far better.
David had an understanding of that, didn't EA though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, art with me. I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. The Savior who gave us breath brings light and triumph there, said the hymn writer.
In the last few minutes, I wanna look at the last part of this verse. We have deliverance from the penalty of our sin. We have deliverance, OK, from the power of sin seen in the second part of this verse. One day you and I are gonna be translated out of this world and we're gonna be delivered from the very presence of sin itself. And a wonderful thing, I think, that one day Jesus is going to comment on bodily going to be delivered out of this present evil world. What a day. That's what it means here in the last part of this verse. I believe in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us.
And I tell you tonight that the Lord Jesus Christ is one day, and it just might very well be tonight. I'll tell you, this earth does not have much time left. The clock is ticking away. The sand is running from the top vial into the bottom one, and soon that sand is gonna be all run out. Time is going to run out for this world.
You know the only reason why things have continued to the present day is because of the fact that a precious Savior died outside the walls of Jerusalem on that cross almost 2000 years ago. Agnostics and atheists who deny Him and deny His person and deny His work don't realize that the only reason why planet Earth has continued to the present time is because of the death of the Lord Jesus Christ. Did you know that?
And yet people market. They make fun of it. They don't believe it.
I'll never change the fact that it's a blessed truth and a wondrous reality.
Who delivered us from still greater depth, past tense and death. Delivered in whom we trust He will yet deliver us. We have a dear brother home on our assembly, I said the other day. He passed the age of 100 the other day.
Ever we go and visit them.
The first thing that comes out of his mouth.
I'm not looking for debt, I'm looking for the Lord to come.
I'm looking for the Lord to come.
What our blessed hope it is and a certain reality. And it's getting more certain every day, you know, that we're closer now than we were this time last night.
Perhaps tonight the Lord Jesus will come and it will be over.
It will be over.
Surely we're looking for it.
If you're here tonight in your sins, it would be the most terrifying thing that I can think of to be left behind. Think of it to be left behind.
I can't think of anything more awful, anything more terrifying than to be left behind.
Especially you younger children.
If you have parents that love you, you have parents that have presented the gospel to you. They have told you that it's time to seek the Lord. It's time.
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In those time charts that were written a few years ago, I remember one line in that time chart that just seemed to jump right off the page at me.
It would be extremely sad, says the time chart.
If those ones who were left here and known as the moral term of earth dwellers.
We're children of Christian parents who had the opportunity of receiving Christ as their Savior but said no, not tonight.
I want you. I want you to let that sink in for just a moment. Your mom and dad have prayed with you. They prayed for you.
They've said to you.
You need to accept the Lord Jesus as your Savior.
You need to. It's not an option. You know what we mean by option. It's not something that we can take or leave. It's an absoluteness. Necessity. It's a necessity.
You don't have life apart from the Lord Jesus.
In Newfoundland, I mentioned that.
We started that gospel meeting on Saturday night by singing one of the probably one of the most.
Beth loved him of all time. I'm gonna finish with this.
If you don't mind, I'm gonna relate a little story about a cousin of mine.
I think probably the greatest children's hymn that ever was written was that one Jesus loves me. This I know.
For the Bible tells me so little one to him belong. They are weak, but he is strong. I had a cousin who was ten years of age.
And I remember after I was saved, I longed to see Glenn's 8.
And one day when he was there in the house, he got the Bible down.
And our Redham John 316, said. Glenn, I wanna read you something.
And I read them that verse. For God so loved the world, but he gave his only begotten Son. Whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. He was. He was about 10 or 11 at the time.
Same age as what I was.
And, you know, he said. I believe that.
And it got saved, accepted Christ as a savior.
About two years after that.
Glenn developed a tumor on his brain.
Was behind his eyes.
And I've never seen a more pathetic side in my life, that dear little boy.
The tumor just kept growing and growing and growing and it got to the point where it was beginning to affect his his vision and it affected his mind and it affected his bodily functions.
I remember Mom going into the hospital and holding that dear little boy in her arm 14.
Years of age.
And in the end, all he could do was mouth a few words of that hymn that he learned in Sunday school as a little boy.
She used to hold him in her arms and hold him up close and he would just whisper a little word.
Jesus loves me.
I remember the last Sunday school picnic. He was that.
And he had a race. He won a race.
And he won a pride, and it had a little verse on it, and the verse was that one that I just quoted for God to love the world.
I'm going to see him.
According to see him someday in that cemetery where he was laid to rest.
There's another grave beside that one.
Two brothers.
One drowned in 1959 at the age of 14.
I never heard Donnie give a clear confession of the Lord Jesus as a savior. He's his oldest brother.
Got up one Sunday morning, he said to his parents that I'm going swimming today.
Parents said no, Donny, today is Sunday. It's the Lord's Day sun. So I don't care that I'm going anyway. I don't care what you say. Don't out the door. Went away to Quinn and he lost his life. He drowned 14 years of age. Never ever heard a clear confession of crime from his mouth.
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Think of it. And yet this other boy I know I'm going to see him. There was that clear confession of the Lord Jesus.
Two boys, two brothers, same cemetery, side by side, 14 years of age.
Going to England Sunday, he confessed the Lord Jesus with his mouth.
Are you going to do that? Are you going to confess Him with your mother? Are you going to believe in your heart that Jesus died for you at the personal Savior who waits the night for you?
Now, if you knew the heart of Jesus, if you knew the heart of a loving God, you could not, you could not resist.
I I'll come or Jesus, I will confess my sin to thee, I'll repent, and I'll re easily as my Savior. I'm not going to ask you to come into this filthy heart of mine. I'm going to ask you to take this filthy heart of mine and wash it whiter than the snow, and then come into it.
As nothing more friends that's needed that for 50 minutes now we've presented 55 minutes now we've presented the gospel of the grace of God.
Confess him with your mouth and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead. You will. You will be saved.
You turn away and I'm gonna guarantee you this, that if you die in your sins, there's going to come a day when God is going to resurrect you. You're going to stand before the Lord Jesus. That record on your life is going to be opened and everything is going to be there. Every thought, every deed, every gospel meeting you sat in and the fact that you rejected Jesus.
I love what one among us here has said so well. If a man committed something against you that was worthy of death.
And you went with them and you and, and you got right down there in the cell with them in the prison. And you pleaded with him to accept the pardon. And he said, get out of here. I don't wanna talk to you. What could you do for an individual like that? That's what God has done. I love the two words, mercy and grace. And I'll finish with this. I was out West of talking to our brother Lawrence Gill. And I know he won't mind me using this. He gave us, gave me two of the most beautiful illustrations of mercy and grace that I've ever heard in my life.
If someone murdered my son and I forgave him, I would be mercy. But if I took the very murderer who murdered my son and brought him right into my family and I made him my own child, that would be great. Oh, brethren, that's what God has done. That's what God has done with you and with me. I want to ask you here tonight, one here in your thin, do you realize that God loves you, That God, in spite of what you are and what you have done, he offers salvation and pardon.
Through the finished work of the Lord Jesus. Will you take it tonight?
If you're not sure, stay behind and talk with some of us. We'd be glad to go over the scriptures with you and show you these wonderful things. We have life tonight and we want you to have life. We don't want you to leave this room without Jesus. It might be the most fatal step you ever take. It might be fatal. I think it's something Bob Bowman told us about a man he was speaking to down South, or rather someone who was speaking to this individual that he knew. He gave a man the gospel and the man in fury turned away and he said, I don't believe it. I don't believe it. He turned around to walk away and he died of a heart attack right there on the spot. No hope.
Think of it. Think of it.
I wanna tell you tonight.
God isn't fooling when he says, boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. You can have salvation tonight. God wants you to have salvation tonight. He wants you to be cleansed from your sins, and he wants to make you. Will you let him? Will you let him? Let's pray.