Gospel—Mark Debu
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I would like to begin by singing hymn number six on the gospel hymn sheet number six that somebody could start at please.
Good evening.
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Let's look to the Lord for help.
Our Godfather, we thank thee tonight for another opportunity to share the wonderful Gospel message.
Lord Jesus, we thank Thee that thou didst come down.
Down into this.
World by sin and done as we just sang.
Now that that, now let's go to that cross.
Shed thy precious blood, and her sins might be washed away. And we thank Thee, Lord Jesus, for thy patience with sinful man. We think of how.
That work was accomplished nearly 2000 years ago and yet the door is still open today. We just pray Lord, that each one in this room.
Would be honest as to their standing before a holy God.
We pray that there would be none.
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I have heard God's love. I have heard of the Lord Jesus.
Christ, work on the cross.
And decide that it's not for them or decide to think about it later. Lord, we pray that tonight.
Every knee in this room.
Vow to thee, Lord Jesus, we pray this in thy worthy name. Amen.
I would like to start off with.
Umm reading some verses in the Book of Job. Let's turn to the Book of Job several times during this weekend.
And I want to start with some well known verses in chapter one and chapter 2.
And we'll be, umm, pretty brief about those.
Job chapter one and verse six it says now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord.
And Satan came also among them. And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God and his trueeth evil. While the point I want us to remember from these verses right now is that God proclaimed Job a perfect and upright man, and it was mentioned earlier today, that doesn't mean that Job was completely perfect, but I believe that it means that.
As to his walk, he pleased God and you'll see that later on too in the book.
Umm, when his friends argue with him.
They really can't come up with anything that they could stick to job.
When it came to outward things, Job lived in upright life, and we know that God had to work some things out in the life of Job.
But eventually, all those friends quieted down, their speeches got shorter, and eventually they stopped talking. Now let's turn to Chapter 2.
And read verse seven there from verse 7.
The rest of justice to get the story here, the rest of chapter one is occupied with things that Satan brought upon Job and that God allowed Satan to bring upon Job. Umm, that really destroyed the life that he had. All kinds of things get taken away from him. All kinds of calamities fall upon him and yet.
Job did not turn against God and now in verse seven it says so when Satan forth from the presence of the Lord.
And smote job with sore boils from the sole of his foot and to his crown. And he took him a part shirt to scrape himself withal, And he sat down among the ashes, then set his wife unto him. Dost thou still retain thine integrity?
Curse God and die. But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women.
Speaketh what shall we receive good at the hand of God? And shall we not receive evil in all this? Did not Job sin with his lips? That's wonderful because here Satan is allowed to touch Job himself and he smothed him with plagues. That I think when we, you know, think about it, none of us can imagine the physical agony that Job would have to go through, and yet it says that he did not curse God with his lips.
Did not sin with his lips. But another point here that is pretty obvious right away is there is another person here that plays a big role in that Satan and what does Satan do All he does is stake and destroy all he does is stake and destroy. You know my my point is not to go through what all happened to Job and so on. But but the end of the book is very beautiful because it shows us that despite all the things that came upon him all the things that God.
God's purpose for jobless blessing.
But what we see here is in these first two chapters, Satan is exactly the opposite.
All he tried to do was to destroy, was to destroy. But what's interesting too is that after this, Satan disappears from the sea and it is God working with Joe. But the thing that I really want to bring out is in chapter 23, and we were there earlier today, but I was thinking about the verses before what was read.
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Job, chapter thir, 23 and starting in verse 3.
All that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat.
I would order my cause before him and fill my mouth with arguments.
I would know the words which He would answer me, and understand what He would say unto me.
Will he plead against me with his great power? No, but He would put strength in me.
There the righteous might dispute with him. So should I be delivered forever from my judge?
Here's what Job desired and job in this book. He talks a lot and talks about a lot of interesting things.
But Job saw that was happening to him wasn't completely fair. And what Job wanted to do is he wanted to have a little meeting with God and he want to present his cause to God. He wanted to argue, he wanted to reason with God.
And I think that today many people feel the same. Many people in this world feel if I could have my 10 minutes with God and show him all the good things that I have done, bring My Portfolio.
How I've helped this person, done this, done that. Everything would be OK, everything would be all right.
You know, if there was one person that maybe had a right to say this, it probably was Joe, because God himself declared him to be perfect in his ways.
The God, in his patience and his wisdom, doesn't grant Job his request right away. It takes a while. It's quite a long book and there's a lot of things going on in it.
And God is working with Job. And maybe God is allowing things in your life that you think are not right. Maybe God is allowing things in your life that you think are not fair.
And you know, to a certain degree you might be right, because this world is not fair.
And why is that? It's because sin has come in ever since sin came into this world. What you see around us is not what God had in mind. It's not how God ordered things. It's not how things will be when God takes control of this world.
And so.
It takes a little while, but if we turn to chapter 38 of the book, God does speak. God does answer.
And you know God speaks for several chapters. I just want to read the first few verses here of chapter 38. Then the Lord answered Job out of the world when then said, who is this that darkness counsel by words without knowledge.
Girot now thy loins like a man, for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. Where was thou when I laid the foundation of the earth? Declare if thou hast understand.
Oh, these are some serious words. This is God speaking now. This is not Job saying anymore. If I could just talk to God and present my case, it would all make sense. No, God is speaking now.
What does God talk about? He talks about his creation. He talks about the seas. He talks about the stars. A little later on, he'll talk about animals. And he does it in an interesting way, by asking a series of questions.
There's a question, you know, in school, teachers ask you questions to know if you understand what they're talking about. And so God has job questions.
This is what Job says. Turn to Chapter 40.
Verse one.
Moreover, the Lord answered Job and said, Shall he that contend it with the Almighty, instruct him? He that reproveth God, let him answer it. Then Job answered the Lord and said, Behold, I am vile.
What shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. Once have I spoken, but I will not answer yet twice. But I will proceed no further. And then God talks some more. And this is what he says in Job says in chapter 42.
Wherefore I abort myself and repent in dust and ashes. This is verse 6.
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And so here we have job.
He thought a great deal about himself and his righteousness and maybe his wisdom too. But as soon as God speaks, he is completely silenced. There's no one argument, he said. I will fill my mouth with arguments.
And as soon as God speaks, there's not one argument, you know, it tells us that there's a day coming where every mouth will be stopped.
A lot of people think that they will have something to present to God with. Every mouth will be stopped. There will be no one that will be able to contend with God. And you know what's very interesting about this too, is when you think about what God speaks about in these chapters, He speaks about the visible creation. He speaks about the animals. He doesn't even begin speaking about man.
Fearfully and wonderfully made, he doesn't begin.
To speak about what's inside man, he doesn't begin to speak about God's. A man standing before God. No, he just talks about, you might say, the basics.
You know, when it comes to the creation, it's, it's wonderful.
But yet, if we go back to Genesis chapter one, it all came into being by God just speaking. It wasn't that big a deal for God.
But when he speaks about that, or when he asks questions about that, it shows how great God is. It immediately shows to the nothingness of man.
Or how small he is not insignificant because God, because God has his eyes on men for blessing, but it shows how small man is. You know, how, how dare men think that they can stand up against God, that they're on God's level. It's impossible. Now let's turn to the well, I want to read one verse in Deuteronomy.
That kind of shows that Deuteronomy chapter 10.
Deuteronomy 10 verse 17 For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of Lords, a great God, and mighty and terrible with regarded, not persons, nor taketh reward.
It tells us in Hebrews that he is a consuming fire, and fire speaks of judgment. Now let's turn to UMM.
The New Testament and umm, in Romans chapter 3, there's some statements there that are made that I think are very interesting. They're absolute statements. This is this. There is none righteous. No, not one. It says there's none that doeth good. No, not one says all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
All has sinned and come short of the glory of God.
You know in first John chapter one and verse five it tells us this.
First John chapter one, verse five. This then is the message which we have heard of him. And declare unto you that God is light.
And in him is no darkness at all.
And when we look at what God spoke about in Job and his empowering creation, his wisdom in creation, and we see think of the smallness of man.
If you're not on God's side, that's a pretty fearful thing to think about, God's power. But now this verse that we just read, I think would be even scarier. It says that God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all. He's not only an almighty God, he's a holy God.
He is a holy girl.
And think of us, sinful man, sinful man.
And we can't set it aside. This is real. You know, a lot of people try to forget about God, pretend it's not something they have to deal with.
You're deceiving yourself and it tells us in Genesis chapter one that God says let us make man.
He has claims over US. Creator, you cannot do away with God.
You cannot do away with God.
Notice after noon Cain was mentioned and Cain went out from the presence of God. And if you read down a little bit further in Genesis chapter 4 speaks of one of the descendants of Cain, Lamech.
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And it was his sons that set up the world system as we know it now, arts, industry, everything to please man in this world, everything to beautify this world, everything to keep man's mind occupied with anything but God. But it didn't bring any happiness. If you read about Lamech, he was a man that was characterized by immorality, and he was a man that was characterized by violence. And you know what?
His conscience bothered him. He tried hard.
To go in the path of Cain, away from God, but he may make him happy.
It didn't make him happy. His conscience bothered him.
And so each one here, each one in this world will have to do with God. There's no possibility of putting him away.
But you know when God made those statements in Romans 3 that we quoted about none doing good, none being righteous?
You might say God didn't make those statements quickly. He didn't make those statements suddenly. Those statements were made about 4000 years after man fell in sin.
O God is all knowing, He knew that there would be no one that would be righteous.
As a matter of fact, if we look in Genesis chapter 3 when he talked to Adam and Eve, you can already read there that there's the woman see that is spoken of that would gain the victory over Satan.
They were clothed with coats of skin that shows us that blood would have to be shed to bring band back to God. And so God knew all along that there would be no man that was righteous. And yet for 4000 men, 4000 years, a numeral man passed on this scene and had a chance to prove themselves. And it is. It's like this is God's final conclusion. All have sinned.
And come short of the glory of God, all have sinned. That's very absolute. There's none that is excluded from that. Let's turn to Romans 11 for one verse. I really enjoyed this verse many times. Romans 11 verse 32 it says for God had concluded them all in unbelief. Well.
That's what we've just been talking about.
But then the second part of the verse is so beautiful, you know, if we think about God as a holy God.
And He's been so patient with mankind for so long, and none has made the grade, You might say, you could say, and now they're right for judgment. But that's not what the verse says. He had conclude them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon them all. Now we've talked a little bit about now about God's power, about God's holiness.
But there's another thing. God is love, it tells us.
First John chapter 4 God is love.
We know people that are loving.
But I don't know anybody who is in love.
But God is love, It's his very nature, it's his very being, and God being a God of love. It says in Isaiah that judgment is a strange work.
I know if we.
You have to deal with people that constantly do the right thing. We would say enough with that. You know, some of us own a business or something like that. If you have an employee that constantly do it does the opposite of what you want them to do, you would say, I'm sorry, but I can't deal with that. You have to go. That's not what God did. No, He concluded them all in unbelief, that He might have mercy upon all.
How did he do that? God of love? Galatians chapter 4.
You know, there's always this God is love. The God is holy too.
And that really brings in a problem you might say that man cannot solve, but God solved it.
And he did it like this verse four of Galatians chapter 4. But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his son. And I believe the fullness of time here means when man was fully tested, God had given him every single opportunity to prove that there was something in him that could please God. Just a little something.
There was nothing tells us any features that were all dead in trespasses and sins not on life support.
Dead, nothing that could answer to God, no life towards God. So God sent his son for God so loved the world. God is love. And that's what we want to present here tonight. And I started out by speaking about God's, you know, power, God's holiness, because I think we, we, we need to realize that we deal with a real almighty God.
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You know when people try to bring God down or make God an afterthought?
Well, you might want to do that, but it doesn't change who God is. It doesn't change who God is. And when soon as Job heard God speaking, he realized, whoa, I way overstepped my little circle here. I went way across the line. I have no right to question God, no right to question God.
But here's the thing.
God sent his well beloved Son into this world, and he didn't come as king. He didn't come to reign, but he came to go to the cross. He came to go to the cross.
Now think about this, when God made this world and everything the universe, he just spoke it into being.
But when it came to the blessing of your soul, he couldn't do that. He couldn't just speak the word. And it was all OK. No, he has a holy, He's a holy God. And so a perfect sacrifice was needed.
And God had to give his well beloved Son.
What a wonderful thing that is. Doesn't that prove that God is love? Oh yes, there will be a day coming when God will have to judge the wicked, but it's not what He wants to do. The very fact that we're here tonight shows us that God is love because He has all right to judge this world right now that He does not not willing that any should perish.
And so.
He had to give what was most precious to him, his well beloved son.
And the Lord Jesus had to go down to the death of the cross. Now let's turn for one verse to Isaiah chapter one.
It's a very well known verse.
Isaiah, chapter one.
And verse 18.
Says this, Come now and let us reason together, saith the Lord.
You know Job wanted to reason with God but it didn't work did it? But now it's God saying come now and let us reason together. It's not a reason as we would expect A2 way conversation. It's God doing the talking. It's so beautiful that he says come now, come now. That's what God is saying tonight to each one here come, come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. That's the kind of God.
Yes, he's almighty, yes there's a day coming when he will have to act as a judge, but right now he acts in love towards a world by sin undone, and he says come, and this is what he says.
Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.
Do they be red like Crimson? They shall be as wool. Oh, think about the load of sins. Think about the punishment that the Lord Jesus had to bear on the cross.
We all know our hearts. We know them a little bit.
You know, we've talked about this afternoon about how maybe we know ourselves this much, but God knows everything. And so if we're honest with ourselves, we'll all acknowledge that we're sinners. We'll all acknowledge that there's many things that we have done wrong, but I don't think we even know a small portion of how bad we are.
And yet the Lord Jesus came down and died on the cross to wash away their sins.
Shed his precious blood. He know God as a holy God.
He cannot change that.
He cannot change that and so every single sin had to be paid for, but the Lord Jesus did it all for us. I would like to tell a story and some here in this room have heard it before so I apologize for that but about was about 19 years ago I was in Cuyahoga Falls, OH and I was staying with a homeschool family and for a field trip.
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This family went to the local courthouse to kind of watch how things.
Umm, go, you know, in the judicial system and we were sitting in the back row and you know, it was all small cases that came up and umm, you know, case after case came up. And at one point this lady was called up to the front. And this lady was no doubt about her that she was a poor woman.
She was dressed not very nice at all, didn't look very clean herself, looked like a hard life.
And so the judge, who was kind of a kind older man.
He read her name and then he read the crime that she had committed.
She had stolen a gallon of milk from the grocery store and she got caught for doing that. And so the judge read in her name says at this day that place you stole a gallon of milk.
And she didn't deny it.
But as he read that thing to her.
She said it was for my children.
And the judge said something to this, I don't know, I don't remember exactly his words, but he said, lady, I believe it.
And she didn't deny, she didn't say anything except for it was for my children.
And the judge shook his head and he could see he was struggling.
And he says, I'm sorry, ma'am, but the minimal penalty I can give you is $200.00 fine.
In what? She said, she cried. I'll never be able to pay that.
She stole a gallon of milk.
2-3 dollars.
You know that woman, That's me. That's everyone here of us.
I doubt that none of us could ever pay back.
In Matthew 18 there's a story about a king who had a servant who owed him 10,000 talents.
Servant doesn't make any money, so he would never be able to pay that back.
Well, as I've been thinking about this, this story, it's us.
You know, and you think if you go to a courtroom, you put on your best clothes, right? She probably did that. But you know, it was it was rags that was her best clothes. And the Lord tells us, oh, your righteousnesses are filthy rags. So if you think that you can appear before God with your good works, you're exactly like that woman standing in that courtroom, dirty.
Clothed in filthy rags.
Unable to pay your debt?
Unable to pay your debt?
The courtroom was extremely quiet. The only noise was the woman crying.
And a man stepped forward, was in his 40s, I think, dressed really nice. We found out later he was the next case. He was a speeding ticket. And he said, your honor, can I say something? And the judge said yes.
Said would it be OK if I pay those $200?
The judge says if you do that before the court, the debt is paid and this woman is free to go.
She could never pay those $200.
If somebody stepped in and paid for her.
Turn to First Peter, chapter 3.
First Peter, chapter 3.
In verse 18.
For Christ also had once suffered for sins, the just, for the unjust, that he might bring us to God.
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Being put to death in the flesh.
There was a substitute provided by God for each one of us, the Lord Jesus Christ.
This man stepped in as a substitute.
That judge, though he felt very sorry for her, could not let her go free. She had stolen and there was a penalty connected with that.
God does not like to judge, but He is a holy God and if you have sinned, then we all have.
There's judgment connected with that.
That woman standing there alone.
Had no resource.
I think if you can't pay your fine, the next step is you're put into prison.
There's a day coming and it tells us of that in Revelation. We're a whole lot of people will stand before God.
And it won't be.
Lord Jesus as we know Him now as the loving Savior that invites you to come.
It will be him as the judge.
And just like that judge in that courtroom read off the charge, he will open the books.
In every single thing that.
You have ever done that? I have ever done.
Is noted in those books.
If you think you can hide from God, I would challenge you to read Psalm 139.
I think it starts by saying, O Lord, thou hast searched me and known me, and then it gives some details about how good God knows every one of us.
If God knows us like that.
I do not want to appear before God as a judge.
But I don't have to.
Because God has provided a substitute for me. God has provided a substitute for you.
If you will have him.
Lord Jesus went to the cross for each one of you.
The reaction of that woman was something to behold.
She was crying because she could not pay those sins, that penalty.
She was crying a lot more after the judge said I will accept the substitute. I will accept the $200.00 that that man will give.
Memo. What joy there is if a person puts their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and has their debt paid by him now afterwards, after it was like a 2 hour court session.
You know, the judge had noticed us sitting in the back and he came over and talked to us.
And he said.
Some in the afternoons are really hard, he said.
And he said what you saw this afternoon is extremely rare. It's extremely rare. You know, I don't know what the motives of that man was. Maybe he said, if I show kindness, maybe he'll deal more kindly with me. But that's not the point.
God's motive was love.
God's motive.
What's your blessing?
Maybe those $200.00 really didn't mean that much to that man. He looked like he was a well to do businessman.
But God had to give all.
He had to give his well beloved son.
But he did it.
So I want to end by reading.
Umm.
Well known verse in Acts 16.
Because it kind of sums everything up.
We're dead in trespasses and sins. There's no life towards God in US.
You know, and if the Lord leaves us here a little while longer, we'll all go through physical death.
And once that happens, a return.
Destiny is set.
There's no more.
Changing over, it tells them the story of the rich man of Lazarus, that it was a great gold fix.
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Great golf fix. Now if you go look at a courtroom, the way things are set up, there's quite a bit of space between the accused and the judge. There's a high kind of bench wall in front of them and they kinda sit up higher. I don't know if that's to intimidate the people, but that's how it is. It's not a pleasant setting.
I think that the Great White Throne Judgment will be something like that too.
There won't be any closeness nor nearness to Jesus. No, He'll be there as a judge, ready to hand down a sentence. But again, you don't have to meet Him in that character if you accept Him today.
As your savior. And so he was a man. You know the story of the Philippian jailer who was about ready.
To pass into eternity.
But he was arrested by Grace. He was arrested by Grace.
And we hope tonight that you too, don't leave that door on your way to a lost eternity.
Without the offer of God in hell, he gave his son.
I convict your heart, too, that you need him as your personal Savior. And so this man, he turns to another gospel preacher, Paul, and he says, what must I do to be saved?
The most important question you can ask yourself.
And the answer is very simple. The answer was given almost 2000 years ago and the answer is still valid today. It's exactly the same.
Umm, solution to man's problem of sin and man's problem of being.
Far away from God. This is what it says in verse 31. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. You know tonight in the verses that we've read, there's been a lot of absolutes, all of sin. There's none that do it right when here we have another one. Thou shalt be saved.
When it comes to God's offer of salvation, there is no doubt The man that stepped forward and offered to pay those $200.00, he didn't know if that was allowed that he would do that for somebody else. So he asked is it OK if I pay for her? And the judge says it's OK?
But God has put a stamp of approval on the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ by raising him from the dead and putting him at his right hand.
No, today there's a man in the glory.
A glorified man in the glory. It's the very one.
That can be your savior tonight. Don't reject him. Let's pray.
Our Godfather, we thank thee for the Lord Jesus Christ, and we think of how.
Gospel meeting like this.
Is both a happy and a solemn occasion.
Our Godfather, what wonderful love, what wonderful grace in the whole plan of salvation.
But we think too.
That there might be one in this room, maybe more.
That have not yet accepted the Lord Jesus Christ.
O God, we plead with him to come unto thee.
We pray that people would realize.
Who do art?
And that each one will have to deal with God.
We sang that every knee shall bow.
We pray, Lord, that it would be done tonight.
In response to thy author of salvation, not because in a future day every knee will be forced to bow.
So, Lord Jesus, we just leave thy word now and pray for Thy blessing upon it, and Thy worthy name we pray, Amen.