Gospel—Paul Cedarland
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Maybe before we pray, let's read one verse in First Timothy.
First Timothy chapter one and verse 15.
This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.
Let's look to the Lord in prayer.
Our blessed God and our Father, We thank thee tonight for thy beloved Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
That one who came from the heights of glory to seek and to save that which was lost. We thank the earth, Father for that one who went to Calvary's cross, and therefore that judgment that we deserved. And we thank thee. The full and free salvation be can be proclaimed through the finished work of thy beloved Son. So we look to thee for that help as we contemplate a few scriptures this evening, and think on thy love and what thou hast done. We thank you for the great salvation now it's provided.
So we praise you for the gospel of Thy grace.
And for the Lord Jesus, and pray for thy blessing on thy word in Jesus precious worthy name. Amen.
Maybe we could also sing hymn #4.
Christ is the Savior of sinners. Christ is the Savior. For me long I was changed in sins, darkness. Now by His grace I am free. Him #4.
So say girls.
Maybe we could turn this evening to Lukes Gospel, Chapter 10.
Luke, Chapter 10.
In verse 30.
And G is the Santerine said a certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. And by chance there came down a certain priest that way, and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
And likewise A Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him.
And passed by on the other side.
But a certain Samaritan as he journeyed.
Came where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion on him and went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an end and took care of him.
And on the Mall, when he departed, he took out 2 Pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him, and whatsoever thou spendest more.
When I come again, I will repay thee.
This little story this evening is a picture to us.
First of all, of man's lost and ruined condition. This man went from Jerusalem, he went down to Samaria. He left a place of privilege and blessing and he went down, down, down. And that's what man has done. Man has departed from God. And if we went clear back to the Garden of Eden.
When God placed man in a garden where he could have everything that was good for him.
Man chose to listen to the lie of the devil instead of believing God. And if you're without Christ tonight.
That is what you are doing.
The gospel is to turn souls from the power of darkness to light.
If you do not know the Lord Jesus, you are under the power of Satan. If our gospel we hid, it is hid to them that are lost in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of those that believe not. Thus the light of the glorious gospel of Christ should shine unto them.
And so the Bible tells us, all have sinned and come short to the glory of God.
There is no difference.
There is not a just man upon the earth that doeth good and sinneth not we know that some have.
Outwardly fallen into sin more than others.
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But we're all sinners. Every child of Adam's race is a Sinner and on the road to hell, unless you have trusted the Lord Jesus as your own personal savior.
Some may be worse sinners than others if we turn.
Last evening our brother mentioned Cornelius, and he was one that prayed often, did good works, yet he still had to hear words whereby he might be saved. So maybe your life outwardly is good.
But the Bible solemnly states, all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
Thankful to say that the Lord Jesus, no matter how good of a Sinner you are or how bad He came to seek and to save you, if you will take your place as a guilty Sinner.
Before a holy God.
You will be able to accept the blessing of God.
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. God's desire for you this evening is that you might be saved. This is the last gospel meeting at this conference.
This may be.
The last Gospel meeting there ever is. If the Lord Jesus were to come tonight, this would be your last chance.
Do not trifle with your last chance. This is.
The gospel has to do with eternal issues, matters concerning life and death.
A few days ago we passed through a park and there was a big rock and people were climbing up this rock.
And a little bit before that we had talked to a park Ranger and she was all excited about this climbing rope that she had.
And it was so strong and yet lightweight. And she said it has to be strong because your life depends upon it.
Well, I want to say tonight, it's your life depends upon the Lord Jesus, that he is an all powerful savior, that he will never let you down.
Will you come to him as a needy Sinner? Come now with this reason together, saith the Lord. Though you're sick, be a scarlet.
They shall be as white as snow, though they be red like Crimson, they shall be as wool. So the gospel goes forth to whosoever will.
Rich or poor? Strong, Weak. Sick Well.
All you need, the only fitness he requires, is for you to feel your need of him.
Need of a savior You need. You do need one. I think this man in the story here who didn't doubt that he needed a savior.
He goes down and man has departed from God. And not only have they departed from God, but they have told God depart from us. If we turn over to the book of Job, we know that's what characterize it says of Cain, that Cain went out from the presence of the Lord. That's what man has done today. And Cain's descendants had to have something to fill the void in their heart. So some of them had the musical instruments, some had the works of art.
Some had their commerce, and it's the same way. In the world we live in today, men are filling their minds and their hearts with every everything except for God.
The the only one that can truly bring them true blessing and happiness is a very one they're leaving out of their life.
The world is full of misery and sorrow and sin, and it's because man has rejected God. There's a verse in Hosea that says, oh Israel.
Thou hast.
Now has rejected me, but in me is thy hope. Thou hast forsaken me. I believe it is but in me as thy help found.
And justice, like Israel, when they turned away from the Lord, there was only one helper, and that was the Lord.
I say tonight there's only one helper for you, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ. There is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.
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Will you have him tonight as your savior and Lord?
Or do you choose that hard taskmaster Satan?
He is a liar from the beginning.
Deceiver.
Dragging souls down to hell. He knows that he has but a short time, and he's seeking to keep you distracted tonight so you don't listen to God's word.
Scripture tells us the entrance of Thy word giveth light. The Word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two edged sword.
Piercing even to the dividing asunder.
Of soul and spirit, and is a discerner the thoughts and intents of the heart.
All things are naked and open unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do you have to do with God tonight.
If you have not had to do with him yet, if you have not trusted the Lord Jesus as your savior, you're lost and you're on the road to hell.
How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? God has provided a great salvation through the finished work of His beloved Son.
Are you trusting in the finished work of the Lord Jesus?
Are you trusting in the?
Your own ideas?
I refer back to Cain. Another thing that characterized Cain was.
His own way, he wanted his own way, His own religion, rather than what? God?
Abel. It says by faith. Abel offered a more excellent sacrifice than Cain. Faith is believing God's testimony. Will you believe God's testimony? It's not my thoughts, not my opinion, nor is it your thoughts or your opinion that matter. What matters is what God says. We have a God, and his word is stable and sure forever. O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.
Will you listen to the word of God tonight? Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God tells us in Peter being born again, not a corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever. Where is your faith?
Like I say, we looked up on the side of this mountain and saw these people putting their so-called protection in the side of the mountain.
All their confidence in that rope, in that protection they had placed hanging there hundreds of feet up, one slip, one failure, and I commented to a lady that was standing there taking pictures, I said these people put their faith, they have a lot of confidence in that.
Their protection there, but I said.
The Lord Jesus is one in whom we can have full confidence and he will never fail.
That protection could fail. There's been people who were climbing and thought they were ever so safe. There was a man in Washington state climbing a rock by the Columbia River. Nezzie got higher and higher. He reached and grabbed a rock, and that rock was not solid. It was not loose, and he fell to his death. He had climbed, been all over the world and climbed the mountains, but he died right there in his home state.
What is your confidence in?
Him writer could say, on Christ the solid rock I stand all other ground is sinking sand.
Where is your faith? The Lord Jesus, Is that all the way home? Savior. He's a great savior and he's provided a great salvation.
But you need to avail yourself of that salvation. How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? Behold now with the accepted time. Behold, now is the day of salvation. We have no guarantee we are at the picnic the other day.
And our brother.
One moment he was there and appeared to be in fine health and the next minute he was laying on the ground.
Well, thankfully.
He knows the Lord, and so if he would have.
Gone into eternity. At that moment he would have gone to be with Christ, which is far better.
But David could say there is but a step between me and death.
Someone else has said there's only a heartbeat between me and Eternity. There's only a heartbeat between you and Eternity, my next door neighbor, just within the last two months here.
Went to a ball game with his with his son.
Had a good fun time at the ball game and then that night he went to bed and never woke up again, passed into eternity.
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What about you? If you were to drop over the God in whose hand thy breath is, hast thou not glorified? It says in Daniel.
Have you given honor to the Son? Have you trusted the Lord Jesus as your savior? Or are you rejecting the Savior that died on Calvary Cross, that dear loving savior we spoke about? Will you have him tonight?
He says, Come unto me, all ye didn't labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
It's not like the rest of this world. He's the one that made you. He can give you satisfaction. You know, a man is broken. Tonight I heard a story that years ago, the big clock in England there, Big Ben was broken and they didn't know how to fix it.
And a man came to that town near and he looked up and he saw that clock was broken. And he said, what's the matter? Why isn't Big Ben working?
And they said, we don't know how to fix it. It's broken. You know, he went and fixed it. And they said, well, how were you able to fix it? And he said, I was the one that designed that clock.
And so.
Man is broken tonight.
The only one that can fix him is his maker.
Where Jesus alone can satisfy your heart. He is the only one that can give you lasting joy, lasting peace. He's the only one that can give you true life. He could say I am come, that they might have life and that they might have it abundantly. All this world talks about life. There's lots of songs about I want to live and it's my life. I can do what I want. The world has lots of songs about life.
But they don't know what true life is, He tells us in John 17 This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom now has sent. And so the Lord of glory, the Lord Jesus Christ, came from the heights of heaven down into this world. You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor.
That ye through his poverty might be made rich.
He came into the scene in this story that Samaritan came right where that man was in the ditch. He came right where he was to help him. There were those that passed by and you know if you are in true need, oftentimes the world just leaves you lane they that's when they let you go is when.
You're right when you need the help. I worked with a man and he got Ms. and his wife dumped him.
Told them that she just couldn't handle it. That was it, right in the time when he was counting on her help.
She, just as it were, threw him out. And that's the way the world is.
Prodigal had lots of friends when he was prospering and everything was going fine and he had lots of money to throw away on him. But when he began to be in want, where were those friends?
And so it is. But I'm thankful to say, there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. There's one that will never leave you, nor forsake you, never let you down. And that's the Lord Jesus Christ. He alone can satisfy your heart. We had that verse at the beginning of conference.
Brother Bruce, read Thou openest thy hand and satisfyeth the desire of every living thing. We have a Savior. That's a giving Savior. He came from the heights of glory.
To give his life a ransom for many.
I was passing through the parking lot out there. I saw a verse on the vehicle. Christ died for our sins.
According to the scriptures.
Another verse said believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. As we were passing, I think it was Idaho Falls. We saw another sign, a big billboard.
The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
So the gospel is available. God has made it simple. He hasn't asked us to do some hard thing.
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The Word is naive even in thy mouth in thy heart. That is the Word of Faith which we preach, that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in thy heart, that God hath raised him from the dead.
Thou shalt be saved.
Have you trusted the Lord Jesus as your savior? Have you come as a guilty Sinner and cried out for mercy?
Will you come? If you have not done so, don't wait.
Behold, now is the accepted time. Behold, now is the day of salvation. Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, And that without remedy God has provided a remedy for you to be saved now, But if you neglect.
That salvation.
Where will you be? You'll spend eternity in a lost You'll have a lost eternity without hope and without God, where there's weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. That's not God's desire for you to go there. God's desires that you might be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth. Will you come?
This Samaritan came to him and bound up his wounds. Do you have wounds? You know sin leaves scars. Sin leaves wounds. It ruins lives. But the Lord Jesus is to take Abel, to take the most broken life, the most ruined, reckless, wretched Sinner that we know. And he can make him appraise a vessel of praise for his glory and honor. He can give him joy and peace.
In a life worth living.
Oh, if you're living in your sins tonight, you have nothing to live for.
A man at work, He was a.
Bragging about the things that he did in.
To me. And you know, I told him, I said, you know, I was in your shoes once, just a center on the road to hell and doing whatever I wanted. And I said, you know, the Lord Jesus.
Pick me up and save me. And you know I wouldn't want to trade places with you for one second to have hell hanging over your head. A lost eternity. Would you want to? Why would you want to continue?
In such a position.
If I gain the world but lost the Savior, were my life worth living for a day, could my yearning heart find rest and comfort in the things that soon must pass away?
What, though I might live without the Savior, when I came to die, how would it be? Oh, to face the valleys gloom without him and without him for eternity? There's nothing more solemn than that, but there's nothing more beautiful than to know the Lord Jesus as your own savior and Lord. He's a He's a Good Shepherd, and He's given his life for the sheep. He gave his life for you and for me.
And We sing to Him, though we have sinned, He has mercy and pardon.
Pardon for you and for me.
The Scripture says, Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return unto the Lord for you, for he will have mercy upon him and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Tells us not by works of righteousness, which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us.
Or maybe someone here that thinks because they've outwardly lived a good life, they've gone to church and done nice things for people, maybe they think that that's going to make them acceptable with God, but you know, it only takes one sin to keep you out of heaven.
And you are lost if you don't know the Lord Jesus, if you haven't received Him. Scripture says as many as received him to them gave the power to become the sons of God.
Even to them that believe on his name, have you believed on the name of the Son of God? Have you put your trust in him? Or if you do, He will receive you, He will save you, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and now shout be saved.
Well, where Jesus is a Good Shepherd, he's a good savior. He came from those heights of glory to save you.
The Lord of glory, the maker of the universe, came and became a man. There is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all, all Have you come to know him as your Redeemer? He shed his precious blood that your sins might be put away. He suffered that just for the unjust that you might be brought to God.
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That giving savior came down right where we were.
Came down, went about doing good, healing all that were oppressed of the devil.
When he saw the leper he could reach out his hand and touch him all. He could have spoken the word and healed that leper. He touched that blind man he touched Peters wifes mother who was sick of a fever. Others is because he came that close to us. He wanted to show his heart of love, identified himself with his creature. He knows he passed through everything, every circumstance.
That we could pass through sin apart. Do you have sorrow tonight? He knew what it was to be sorrowful. He could say, behold and see if there be any sorry sorrow like unto my soul. But with the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. Yes, he had sorrow beyond anything we'll ever know.
Have you experienced pain? He knew more pain than any of us.
Have you been laughed at? Says they laughed him to scorn. Have you been mocked? Sitting down? They watched him there. They mocked him.
Spit in his face. Have you been made fun of all the Lord Jesus has been through all those things?
And.
If you'll come and trust him, you have a heart that perfectly understands every circumstance you've ever been in and everyone that you're ever be faced with apart from sin.
He we sing to him all the joys and all the sorrows he passed through apart from sin.
He came that near full of grace and truth, he could take the little children up in his arms. He came to make known the heart of God and he did. He fully declared the heart of God. No man has seen God at any time. The only begotten son which isn't abusing the father he had declared him. Old man was man believed Satan's lie. Satan's lie was that God is a hard taskmaster. He's out to get you. He's just waiting for you to get to do something wrong.
That's not true at all.
God's desire is to bless you. And I want to tell you, my friend, that God will bless you more than you could ever bless yourself all. We think all we could if we could just arrange our circumstances. If we could just do this or do that, we could bless ourselves so much, our life would be so much happier and so much better. There's a God that loves you so much that he wants to bless you more than you can bless yourself.
He said God is good and God is a giver God of his fullness of all we received in grace upon grace. The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
So the Lord Jesus, his life was characterized by giving, His more blessed to give than to receive, He could say. And that's what his life was characterized by, love and grace and goodness manifesting the heart of God.
You know though, man has departed from the presence of God, though he's a Sinner and a guilty Sinner, a hell deserving Sinner. God loves the Sinner. He doesn't love the sin, but he loves the Sinner. He loves you. He loves me.
Who will you have him? You know we couldn't come into God's presence.
But God has made a way whereby guilty sinners may draw an eye, and that is through the cross of his beloved Son. No man would not have the Lord Jesus.
They could say we will not have this man to reign over us. They took the Son of God, let him up Calvary Hill and nailed him to across the wood, pierced his hands and feet.
And hung him up between heaven and earth, placed the crown upon his head, and smote him.
The servant struck him with the palms of their hands. That very God had given them the strength, and they turned it, turned around, and used it against the very one who loved them, and it came to bless them.
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Spit in his face, mocked him, hung him up on a cross. Sitting down. They watched him there.
Think of it. Man, his creature making himself comfortable in the presence of the suffering Son of God.
Where Jesus said Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.
The last act to that blessed hand before they put the nails through it, was to reach and touch a man's ear. Who had been a man that had his ear cut off, either cut off a man's ear, Lord Jesus. The last act of that hand, he stretched it forth and touched that very man who would come against him. He touched his ear and healed him.
Oh, is your heart against the Lord Jesus tonight?
He wants to touch you and heal you. Will you have him? Oh, my friend, you are passing into eternity.
Christ was rejected, they crucified the Lord of glory. He is despised and rejected. A man, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, but.
He's gone. He's done more than that. He suffered righteously, one who had never done one thing wrong. He suffered from the hands of his creature, and their man's sin was told out. Man's heart was told out.
But the heart of God was told out to. And so we clined that there on those three hours of darkness, the Lord Jesus.
Bore the judgment that you and I deserved.
Christ suffered for us, the just for the unjust that he might bring us to God. Have you come to the Saviour?
That worked, which he did, those hours of darkness he suffered for sinners.
While they are all forsaken alone. Oh, and that's three hours of darkness, he could say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping me and from the words of my roaring? Oh my God, I cry in the daytime, and thou hearest not in the night season. I'm not silent. But thou art holy, O thou that inhabits the praises of Israel. Why was the Lord Jesus forsaken there? It was because of our sins.
So that we might never be forsaken.
God punished the Lord Jesus for my sins and yours, if you'll have him as your savior.
Will you accept that work that he's done in those three hours of darkness He bore the sins of all that will believe on him that work that he did is sufficient to cleanse the vilest Sinner? Will you come to him? Will you accept that work and.
They sitting down, they mocked him, they brought him vinegar to drink, and the Lord Jesus could say I thirst.
After he had borne that judgment.
Hymn writer could say in his thoughtless souls distress, I have learned my guiltiness.
Oh, how vile. My lowest date since my ransom was so great. Have you realized that the work the Lord Jesus did, that finished work He accomplished when He bore the judgment of a holy God against sin, that judgment that we deserved?
When he bore my sins in his own body on the tree, that was for you.
He died for you, and if you were the only Sinner in this whole world, he would have come for you. That's how much he loves you. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son. God has blocked the road to hell with the cross of Christ.
Oh, the work that he did is sufficient.
His work is there available for whosoever will.
Will you have him?
He will not fail you. Will you trust him?
Lord Jesus after he bore the judgment of a holy God against sin in those three hours of darkness.
He could say, I thirst. And they brought him the vinegar. And when he finished, when they had given him the vinegar, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, he said it is finished. And he bowed his head and gave up the ghosts. He laid down his life for you and for me, perfect sacrifice for sins. And then one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water, the blood of Jesus Christ.
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God's son cleanseth us from all sin.
Will You Trust That Precious Blood?
Will you come to the Lord Jesus as a needy Sinner?
And receive him.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, Thou shalt be saved.
Turn you, turn you. Why will you die? God has no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that he turned from his evil way. Will he turn to the Lord Jesus tonight? He's the only Savior. There's none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Were two men were fishing.
In the northern waters.
One was a believer, one was not. They were young men and the one brother had often mocked The other brother and their brother would pray. He would throw things at him and make fun of him. As they were fishing, they were fishing in separate boats, cod fishing.
The one brother fell over backwards into the water, and he couldn't swim.
His other brother saw him out of the corner of the eye, Corner of his eye, and he hastened to.
With his boat to get there and that brother that couldn't swim, he went. The man that couldn't swim, he went down into the water.
And went down once, went down twice, went down. The third time he was well, he was going. He went down twice and he came up and he knew if he went down a third time it would be the last time and that would be it. And at the last second.
Brother who reached out his hand and that man that was ready to drown. He stretched up, stretched his hand up one finger as high as he could, and his brother reached down and grabbed him. He was saved by one finger.
And I want to say, perhaps there's someone this evening that doesn't have a lot of faith.
If you have any faith, put it all in the Lord Jesus. Cast your all on Jesus today.
He's a worthy savior, and he will not fail you.
He will save you.
Will you come to him? Don't wait.
Judgment is coming.
Because there is Wrath. Beware.
Lest he take thee away with a stroke, then a great ransom cannot deliver thee. There's been a great ransom paid through the Lord Jesus. That finished work that he did is sufficient.
There's many in this room that have trusted the Lord Jesus and he has never let us down. And if you come to the Lord Jesus, he will never let you down.
Come unto me all ye that labor, and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. He hasn't asked you to do something hard. Simply come.
Now look, there's life and a look at the crucified one. There's life at this moment for thee. Oh we look to the Lord Jesus tonight, look unto me and be saved all the ends of the earth.
Ram God beside me there is no savior. Lord Jesus is a just God and a savior, and he died for you.
When you have him, don't wait. This could be your last chance.
Told this story before, but I'll tell it one more time.
There were some men that have gone up climbing a mountain and they were coming back.
They were exhausted, exhausted from the trip.
And as they came down across the snow, there was a crevasse that's a big crack in the snow.
And it was pretty wide.
And one of these men.
And they jumped across one by one. But one of these men was so exhausted that he just hung back. And he he was pale.
And tired from the exertion of the effort to climb this mountain, and the guide saw him standing there, unable to jump across, and he reached his hand across to him.
And he said this hand has never failed the hand that trusted.
And that climber, he reached his hand over and grabbed that guy's hand and he was paid, pulled across that crevasse.
To safety.
And I want to say, you know that guy, he could have failed. He could have let the man down.
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With the word Jesus he will never fail, and I want to say, the Lord Jesus has his hand, as it were, outstretched to you.
In his hand has a nail print in it that was there because of his love for you.
And he can see his hand has never failed.
The hand that trusted it. Will you trust that Savior? Will you come to him tonight? Oh come now to Jesus, That dear loving Saviour receive him this moment and peace shall be done. Will you have him? He alone can save you.
The time is short.
Come now.
Let's look to the Lord in prayer.
Her blessed God and her Father, we thank you for the gospel, thy grace. We thank thee for the Lord Jesus and that precious blood that he shed on Calvary's cross. We praise you for that finished work, and we thank you that the gospel goes forth to whosoever will. So we do just pray that if there be, we pray earnest to your Father. We feel that there are those here in this room yet lost in their sins, so we would cry to thee that thou it's work.
Or Father, we know that thou art evil, so we pray that thou hast blessed thy word. Or Father, we cry to Thee. We thank you that thou art a just God and a Savior, and we thank you for that grace and that thou art rich in mercy. Our Father, we thank you for thy love and give you thy son.
So we pray for Thy blessing upon Thy word.
In Jesus precious name, Amen.