Gospel—LeMoine Smith
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Could we start our meeting tonight with number six?
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God in mercy sent his Son to a world by sin and done Jesus Christ was crucified.
What was energy on time? Oh, the glory of the great shining in the Savior's face.
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Above, God is light and God is love.
Sin and death no more shall reign. Jesus died and live again.
In the glorious highest I speak in God, the green daylight.
Oh, the glory, all the grace shining in the Savior's face.
Telling dinners from above, God is light and God is love.
All who in can believe?
Everlasting life receive.
Mourn of all this Jesus now.
Every nature him I found.
All the glory of the grace shining in the Savior's face.
Only sinners from above. God is light and God is love.
Christ the Lord will come again.
It will suffer at once will reign.
Every song at last will home. Jesus Christ is Lord alone.
Over glory on the grace shining in Las Vegas space, coming there from above.
Not his life like God in love.
Let's look to God.
Let's turn first, please, to.
First Corinthians, chapter one.
First Corinthians, chapter one.
In verse 18.
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness.
Are you sitting here tonight?
Thinking it's a bit foolish.
Where are you in your soul tonight?
Do you think the message is foolish?
The preaching of the cross. What does the cross do?
We've had words today.
About the 1St man Adam and his race.
We get it in Romans chapter 5.
The cross was the end to the first man.
The Lord Jesus was crucified on the cross to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Has he put your sins away?
Are you sitting there fooling yourself? Just because you do religious things, you're going to be acceptable to God?
He has a focal point, and that focal point is the center of two eternities.
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Eternity before the Cross and eternity after the Cross.
And God is done with the 1St man.
Let's turn to Leviticus 17.
Verse 11.
I'll just use that one verse. You don't need to turn there if you don't want, but it says this for the life of the flesh is in the blood.
And I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls. For it is the blood that maketh atonement for the soul.
Some religious people.
Makes fun of those who speak.
Of the importance of the blood of Christ to put your sins away. How is it with you?
Can you say I know my sins are covered because Jesus blood was shed for me?
It's the blood that makes atonement for the soul. Who was that man on the cross?
Just another man.
Paul said the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.
Is that how you talk? Is that how your soul speaks tonight?
The Son of God.
Jesus died on the cross as your soul said. Say he died for me and I know my sins are gone.
He made atonement.
For my sins.
What a wonderful thing if you can say that.
What danger you're in if you cannot?
The consequences of living in sin before God and never repenting.
Are an eternal.
Punishment that never ends.
In the Lake of Fire.
People say, well, let's just figurative language.
It's not a figure of comfort.
Hell is not a comfortable place.
It doesn't speak of their being company down there even.
It speaks of it as being the blackness of darkness forever and suffering.
Where the worm dies, Not in the fires, not quenched. That's pretty awful.
Let's turn.
To 2nd Corinthians.
Chapter 4.
If we were to read in Romans 1:16,16For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. (Romans 1:16) we'd read it that the the gospel.
Is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes?
Isn't that wonderful?
But no, though you were a Sinner.
God's message to you.
Is his power unto salvation, if you believe.
Here in 2nd Corinthians 4 we read well. If we went to chapter 3, we would read about the law and the glory of it.
When the law was given, it was a glorious scene.
But the children of Israel.
When Moses came down from the mountain, his face shined and he didn't even know it shone. They said, oh, put something over your face we can't stand.
So they had a veil over him whenever he spoke to the people. When he went back to speak with God, he took it off.
But in chapter three of Second Corinthians.
It says verse 13.
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Paul is saying verse 12. Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech.
Not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, let the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished, but their minds.
We're blinded. Here's the law and it's glory, and they can't stand the glory. And the problem is the mind is blinded. Is your mind blinded tonight?
Or do you believe the gospel of God?
Verse 14.
Their minds were blinded, for until this day remaineth the same veil untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament. Which veil is done away in Christ? Have you met Christ, the Christ of God?
What a wonderful thing that this person.
Brings the total revelation.
Marvelous.
Verse 15. But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart.
Oh, there's a problem.
The heart.
Has a veil over it.
Verse 16. Nevertheless, when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away.
So there's a veil we're finding in chapter 3 and then in chapter 4 and verse three it says but if our gospel be hid, it's hid to them that are lost.
These two times it says hid could be translated, but if our gospel be veiled, it is veiled to them that are lost.
Is it veiled to your heart tonight?
God wants to take away that veil.
It says in verse four in whom the God of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not.
Lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. You see, the problem is, we have an enemy.
Satan is a real enemy. He is here in this verse called the God of this world.
Is your mind blinded you? And I live in a country where the culture is going more and more away from God. No prayer in school, no Bible in school.
You know, 150 years ago that was a major textbook in our schools.
Men love darkness rather than light.
The God of this world had blinded the mind. So what we get in democracy where we live?
Is we get an effort of man to put together things that don't go together.
You try to Christianize the nation.
Amend and religion. Some that are Christian and some that don't know God at all and don't want them and it doesn't mix very well.
It doesn't change the gospel, does it?
It does not change the gospel.
But the God of this world has blinded the mind. Let's turn to.
Acts Chapter 26.
In this chapter.
The Apostle Paul is brought as a prisoner before King Agrippa.
The religious world.
As seen to it that he's.
Become a captive.
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The only religion in the world that represented the true God, Judaism.
In John chapter 4, the Lord Jesus Christ says salvation is of the Jews.
Amazing, isn't it?
God hasn't changed that.
There's one nation on earth that represented him, and by the time the Lord Jesus came into this world.
Things had become so contrary to God.
Man so hopelessly lost in sin that God says.
Salvation is so important, I can't trust you with a single thing.
I'm gonna bring you what you need.
In the person of my son, I'm gonna have him be obedient.
All through his life.
A perfect example.
And he goes to the cross to die for you. Have you trusted him?
Awfully important here Paul stands before Agrippa in verse two. He says, I think myself happy, King Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee, touching all things whereof I am accused of the Jews, especially because I know thee to be an expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
So Agrippa is well acquainted with this.
And so Paul begins to tell his story how he was.
On his way to Damascus, with authority from the chief priests, he was thinking he's keeping things in the fear of God.
But then in verse 13 and 14 at Middlesex king, I saw away in the way of light from heaven above the brightness of the sun shining round about me, and them that journeyed with me. And when we were fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, Why persecutor saw me? It's hard for thee to kick against the ******. And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said.
I am Jesus who not persecute us.
Isn't this amazing?
The preaching of the cross is to them that perish.
Foolishness. This man who had been on the cross is now in the glory.
And he looks on that man's soul of Tarsus, and he says, I love that man so much, I'm going to reveal myself to his heart.
And he's trying to persecute my church. He's doing that. He's delivering some up to prison and beating and death.
I'm gonna change it. I'm gonna use it. Isn't that amazing?
God can change you too.
He can use you for His glory no matter how much you've proposed, if you just believe.
Tonight we look across our world and we see a man named Kim, a terrible dictator in northern Korea.
Do you believe God could change that man?
I believe it could. I pray to that end. He showed me mercy.
He could show that man mercy.
Has he done horrible things? Horrible things?
Korea was once known as a land of Bibles. Amazing.
South Korea sends out.
The second to the United States in sending out missionaries.
Missionaries per capita.
The greatest from Norway isn't that amazing?
Why? Because there's a man who gave his life on the cross and his offering himself unto God as a substitute for my sins.
So glorify God that the grave couldn't hold him, and he's risen from the dead, and he's at the Father's right hand.
And he's looking down the night.
As it says in early Acts that the Lord added daily to the Church, such as should be saved.
We don't know how many thousands were added today.
Thousands upon thousands.
China is over a billion people.
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Some say maybe 20,000 a day. Turn to Christ.
India is a huge population too.
The gospel is the power of God unto salvation. Here he is. He's before Agrippa, and he's not alone.
The Lord tells him, after he says, I'm Jesus, whom thou persecute us. Verse 16 But arise, stand upon thy feet, for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister, and witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in which I will appear unto thee, delivering thee from the people and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee that should have been good news to this Gentile king.
To do what? To open their eyes.
Then we read the God of this world that blinded the minds of them believe not to open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light. We had a little bit today about darkness and light.
I remember being out on the sea as a sailor.
And they said if you light a candle.
You know, you can see that out on the dark night on the sea for miles and miles. I've forgotten how exactly what that was, 11 miles or 14 miles.
A candle.
Astonishing, isn't it? Can't see further than that because of the curvature of the Earth.
Unless you're up on an eye mask, you might.
To open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light. From the power of Satan unto God. You see there's conflict here, God and Satan.
Satan wants to take every soul he can to eternal destruction where he's a going.
And God has a bigger claim on your heart. Aren't you glad? They say, Oh God, receive me as I am of the Sinner.
He is willing to receive you now as ever. Isn't that marvelous? Marvelous.
That they may receive forgiveness of sins and inheritance among them, which are sanctified by faith. That is, in me you're not only going to get in your sins forgiven, but you're going to be.
Included in the inheritance. Wow.
Aren't you glad?
Verse 19 Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision.
But showed first unto them at Damascus, and at Jerusalem, throughout all the costs of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent.
And turn to God and do works meet for repentance. I think should repent. Have you repented?
That's an important part.
There's people today that want to be religious, they want to go to church, they want to have traditions, they want to have holidays.
And you could list a whole bunch of them that are even some called Christian holidays. Many don't even have authority in the Word of God to practice.
But they consider them Christian.
Repentance.
From the past.
Gonna be religious and go on just the way you did before.
I think God will be pleased with that.
I don't believe so.
Turn to God and do works. Meet for repentance. Years ago there was a brother whom I knew. He sold tools.
For.
One of those fancy tool wagons that goes around with a nice Chrome tools.
You know, he sold a lot of tools, but he had three prices. This is a brother. He had three prices. The market bore it. He got at the higher price.
You know what this verse got to him.
Works meet for repentance.
He realized there was something unjust in that.
And his works began to.
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We meet with his repentance.
Verse 21 For these causes, the Jews caught me in the temple and went about to kill me.
And he therefore obtained help of God. I continue unto this day, witnessing both the small and great thing. None other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come, let's Christ should suffer. He suffered for you.
He suffered for me.
Will you have him? The Word of God tells us He gave himself a ransom for all. The work is great enough to redeem all of mankind.
That doesn't mean all of mankind will trust Him.
Have you trusted him? That's the question tonight. Is he personally the one you've put your confidence in?
That Christ should suffer verse 23 and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead.
You know the suffering.
Was something you and I cannot measure.
From the 6th hour into the 9th hour there was darkness over all the land as he was judged.
Percent.
That he should suffer be the first that should rise from the dead.
How acceptable is that sacrifice, that blood that was shed to a tone?
So acceptable.
That the grave couldn't hold him. He's put in a grave and he rises out from among the dead.
Marvelous, isn't it? This victorious man says to your soul tonight I gave myself for you. I paid the price. I want your soul with me in heaven.
How can you measure such love?
They should rise from the dead, and should show light under the people and to the Gentiles. Isn't that marvelous? And as he thus spake for himself, Festus with a loud voice said Paul there beside thyself. Much learning doth make thee mad.
Is she remember that verse?
Be right in 2nd Corinthians 4IN whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not. Here's Festus with a blinded mind.
Verse 25 But he said, I am not mad most noble Festus, but speak forth the words of truth and soberness. For the king knoweth of these things before whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him, For this thing was not done in a corner.
King Agrippa, believe us, thou the prophets, I know that thou believe us. So he can look back as we had in that earlier verse. He's an expert in the customs and questions among the Jews. He believes the prophets which touch upon the law.
What do you say?
Verse 78 when Agrippa said unto Paul almost persuaded me to be a Christian. He's making fun, really.
God of this world that blinded the minds of them that believe not. Here's two men.
In authority in their land.
And they've got.
God's messenger in front of him them.
Are they really capable of judging them? Him?
Judging Paul, Judging the message.
The God of this world that blinded the mind, all precious soul tonight. If your mind is blinded by the enemy and you don't want to hear another word of God's gospel, you're in trouble and you're facing an eternity in the lake of fire.
Let's go back to 2nd Corinthians chapter 4.
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See the enemy's purpose again in verse four, In whom the God of this world.
Are you taking up?
With getting ahead.
Making Ameri great, America great again.
Is that the preoccupation of your heart?
Or our eternal things penetrating this veil, this thing that hides the gospel.
This veil that hides the gospel as something going to penetrate that.
The minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ to his image of God should shine unto them the glorious gospel of Christ. Why does Paul call it that? There he is on the way to Damascus, and suddenly he tells us, as we've read in Acts 26, there's a light from heaven above the brightness of the sun.
Light shines into his darkness, and if you sit here tonight in darkness in your soul.
Let me tell you God once to shine light in there.
This wondrous message.
To give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Paul says, Who art thou, Lord?
The Lord reveals himself. I am Jesus, whom thou persecutest, but rise up.
I got something for you to do.
Marvelous, isn't it? The grace of God?
So it says here.
Verse seven, we have this treasure in earthen vessels. Do you know the Lord Jesus tonight as your savior? Are you a believer here tonight? You got a treasure inside?
If you haven't believed yet, believe now and you have a treasure insight.
Himself we have this treasure in earthen vessels.
The treasure is not expendable.
The vessel is.
Wasn't many years ago some of us watched.
Internet.
I don't remember how many men it was brothers in orange uniforms on the edge of the Mediterranean as they lopped off their heads.
As they confessed Christ.
The treasure was not expendable.
The vessel was.
They've been in peace and joy of the Lord's presence ever since.
Marvelous, isn't it, what the power of the gospel does? Absolutely marvelous. Praise God. There's thousands of Muslims turning to Christ yet today, some by dreams and visions, the Lord appearing unto them, speaking to them, and they check it out a little further. Some fight it for a few years even, but it keeps coming across.
Because he can reveal himself where you and I can't even go.
He's a living savior in the glory, and he loves souls.
Praise God for that.
We have this treasure in earthen vessels. That's the Excellency of the power may be of God and not of us.
Marvelous.
Wonderful place back to.
1St Corinthians 1.
Verse 18 Again, For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God.
You sit here tonight as a believer.
Aren't you glad for that power?
That rot in your soul to make the change.
To get life from God, to give you eternal life.
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When you believe in the Lord Jesus, you get a life.
That never began.
And will never end. Isn't that marvelous?
And the vessel is expendable.
Sometimes we go to the grave of a loved one.
As we're putting their remains away.
And oh, what joy it is when we are so assured.
That they had the treasure inside and their width Christ, which is far better.
Verse 21.
For after that, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew.
Not God. It pleased God by the foolishness of the preaching. It should read the thing preached to save them. Believe. What's that?
Pilate looked at Jesus and he said, Art thou the King of the Jews?
Jesus answers, thou sayest.
That blessed man.
In those hours.
He's LED as a lamb to the slaughter, and as his sheep before her shears his dumb, so he opened not his mouth.
Because he loves you and he loves me, and he has something to accomplish his decease at Jerusalem.
Marvellous man.
Presently living men.
God's not asking you to keep the law.
He's asking you to receive Jesus Christ because you can't keep the law.
Because you're incapable of it.
The natural man, fallen man.
Is not capable of keeping the law. That doesn't change the law. It's good. It's just, it's holy.
The Lord Jesus.
In the glory as the resurrected man is my righteousness.
You believe her. That's the only one that you get righteousness for your righteousness.
Marvelous.
We're 23. Well verse 22 for the Jews require a sign. Isn't that amazing because as he ministered here on the earth.
There was sign after sign after sign and they still would say show us a sign.
Early in the week.
As he comes into Jerusalem for a triumphal entry, they say Ozana.
They spread palm branches.
Hosena means save now.
Just a few days, they're hollering. Crucify him.
Let's turn to Psalm 102.
Psalm 102.
Verse 8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day, and they that are mad against me are sworn against me, for I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.
Because of thine indignation and thy wrath.
When thou has lifted me up.
And cast me down a triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Oh, it's lifted me up.
The Crucifixion.
The judgment of God on that blessed holy man.
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Cast me down.
What it mean?
Verse 23.
This man was 33 years old.
He had done nothing but good.
But he is a man, He is God. He loves you.
And he felt it to be a man. Verse 23 says he weakened my strength in the way.
He shortened.
My days.
All this wonderful man.
Hanging there in the cross.
Verse 24 I said, Oh my God, take me not away in the midst of my days. He feels it to be man.
A righteous man.
But there's an answer.
In the rest of that verse.
Thy years are throughout all generations.
Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth. You know the Apostles Creed does not attribute creation to the Lord Jesus Christ, but God does.
Of all that thou laid, the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the work of thy hands, they shall perish.
But thou shalt endure.
What a comfort.
To the God Man on Calvary's cross.
Wherever this is.
In the garden, I don't know where it really was, but here we have it prophetically.
They shall perish, but thou shalt endure. A All of them shall wax old like a garment, and as a vesture shall thou change them, and they shall be changed, but thou art the same. Thy years shall have no end. Oh, what a glorious person has gone to the cross to redeem you to God by His blood.
Trust him tonight.
Take him as your saviour, believe in him.
One of the great proofs of Christianity.
Is how the apostles lives ended.
They never wavered.
In faithfulness.
To the man Christ Jesus, who gave all to redeem them.
Trust him now if you haven't.
Jesus is coming again from the glory.
But he's coming.
To call the church up to himself.
The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of Archangel and the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first.
And we, the living which remain, shall be caught up together with them to meet the Lord in the air.
Is that going to be true of you?
See, that's my hope.
I know Christ died for me. I know my sacrifice that was made by Him.
Is acceptable to God because God raised him from the dead. God says. I'm going to base your faith on my facts.
My son came to bring you life.
Trust him now.
Verse eight chapter. I mean song #8 on their hymn sheet.
The third verse says now.
It's an important word before the Savior is coming.
Seek his pardon free to know.
Be your stains of sinus scarlet, even if you were Mr. Kim of North Korea.
He will make you white as snow.
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Shall we gather at his?
Grace.
Now we hear the sage of all of us giving him a long day on the God.
Yes, we'll come right down again. It's Warrior's glory on.
In the glory of the glory of God.
In the way to say.
It lands by the fingers of the.
Now we ignore the sacred tongue.
In his heart increasingly awkward in your same birthday and Scarlett evil dangerous why I have no.
Doubt discoveries come in.
His glory of the glory of God is never Wednesday. That is gone.
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