Gospel—Al Coleman
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Let's open the meeting tonight by sending him #23 under Gospel hymn sheet.
#23.
Great to the charming sound, herbodious, severe.
Helen with the echo will be found, and all the earth shall hear 28 out.
Sorry, 28.
#28.
Great land and drive away.
You play without your man.
Where?
Is God, and He's thus life for thee, for thee for.
Let's ask the Lord blessing on his word in the gospel tonight. We come before thee at the start of his gospel, a loving Father. And we pray that as the gospel goes forth tonight, that if there's anyone here in this room that doesn't know of thy sovereign grace, that grace that picks up the very worst dinner and saves them, makes them thine.
We thank Thee for that grace that is available to each one, and we thank Thee, Lord Jesus, for thy precious work on Calvary's cross. We thank Thee for willingly going to that cross and dying force and shedding our life's blood force. We thank Thee for bearing our sins there in thine own body in the tree. And we thank Thee too, that we have the wonderful hope of students seeing me face to face, being with the unlikely in that coming scene of glory. We know that Thou art coming again, coming to receive thine own.
And take us home to the Father's house. But we're burdened tonight for those that it would be in this room tonight that are still lost in their sins. The heavens found that matchless sovereign grace that that charming sound grace, great riches at Christ's expense. We thank you for it tonight as we ask the help us as we open our precious word tonight that we might glean something from thy precious word.
And that there might be something for those that would be in the audience that are still lost and in their sins. Perhaps there's one young person here tonight that has never confessed to his Lord and Savior. We pray that tonight they might decide for Christ. Tonight we ask this loving Father in the precious name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen, Amen, Amen. Grace, grace. And that's what I want to speak about tonight. Espionage out of my heart.
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Great, great.
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Look at look at that Luke's Chapter 7 first of all.
Luke Chapter 7.
Verse 41 There was a certain creditor which had two debtors, the one owed 500 pence and the other fifty, and when they had nothing to pay he frankly forgave the most. Tell me, therefore, which of them will love the most?
Simon answered and said, I suppose he to whom he forgave most.
And he said unto him, Thou hast judged righteously. I want you to know tonight that there stands before you tonight one who is a 500 pence debtor, one whom God's sovereign grace saved. When I was a young man, I was a young man.
And I wonder as we look around the room tonight here and just before the gospel meeting tonight, I was watching all the young people scattering, stampering around the room here, running, playing, bouncing balls and having a good time. And that's good. That's good youthful energy. And you can spend those times between meetings and just play, and that's good.
But you know something right now, tonight, for this 3/4 of an hour that we're going to have and preaching the gospel, this is a very serious time, a very serious time for you. And I want you to listen closely.
Because you know, if if you're not saved, God wants to save your precious soul tonight, He does.
And you know what it says in the in the precious word of God, it says this is the faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners in that wonderful that we can say tonight that God.
2000 years ago sent his beloved son here into this world, and that blessed one came into this world.
The holy, spotless Lamb of God. God could look down as we heard this, as we read this morning upon that blessed water, and say, This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased.
He never did any sin. There was no sin in his life. He was the sinless humanity.
But he went to Calvary's cross. Why?
First of all, wicked man, your heart and mind put the Lord Jesus up there in that cross.
But he became the Sin bearer.
We can say that who himself bore our sins in his own body in the tree. To think of those long dark hours on Calvary's cross when he was there and suffering suffering.
The penalty of my sins, he was there. It was an account of me that he was there.
Bury my sins. He did it all for me on Calvary's cross. Why? Why did he do that? Because he loved me. And the installation's 2 and 20. We should find those precious words, the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. And dear one, tonight the Lord Jesus Christ loves you. He loves you with an everlasting love, and he doesn't want to send you to a hell.
No, he doesn't. It's the last thing that God wants to do. He says in that he, umm, I think it's Ezekiel 33. He says, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked would turn from his evil way and live. And then he says, turn ye, turn ye, for why would he die? And so the, the, the plea of the gospel tonight is God is not willing that any should perish, that that all should come to repentance. And so it's wonderful, isn't it, that the gospel can go out again. God is giving you another chance to be saved.
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Yes, he is and I, I, I am. I'm finding that in the last little while over and over again of how that we have met individuals where God, it seems, is giving them another chance to be saved, another chance to be saved. And you know.
A very solemn thing tonight. This may be your last chance.
To be saved. This may be your last chance to be saved.
Don't put it off. Don't do it. Don't wait.
Behold, now is the accepted time. Behold, now is the day of salvation. Don't wait, Don't do like I did and wait till I was a young man before I got saved. Go out and sow my wild oats as it was.
When I was a young man, don't do it. This world has nothing to offer you, but Christ has everything to offer you.
The love of his heart to you. Wonderful. What a wonderful God it is. What a wonderful Savior. And I say this to you tonight, you haven't lived until you found the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Tonight I want to go back to you to the chapter that we've been taking in the reading meeting and I want to read some verses there. You think that we've gone through the, the, the 2nd chapter of Ephesians.
We haven't gleaned at all. No, you know, the Word of God will never get to the bottom of it. It's precious. It's precious. It's wonderful. And the reason why I want to read these verses, the first of all, I'll read them and then I'll tell you.
Ephesians chapter 2.
Ephesians chapter 2 verse four that God but God who is rich in mercy for his great love wherewith he loved it. Think of that for his great love wherewith he loved you.
Even when we were dead in sins hath quickened us together with Christ by grace, that beautiful word, grace. Grace, are ye saved? How did I get saved? Through sovereign grace.
And has raised this up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace and His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith.
And that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.
I want to bring before you in the time allotted tonight 3.
Uh.
Persons in the Word of God, that was outstanding grace, outstanding grace. And as we look at them, it's so precious. But there's another one, that outstanding grace.
That God showed.
And that's this person here, this person here, outstanding grace that God showed that he could save a Wretch like me.
I think I'd do that. How wonderful isn't it?
I'll I'll tell the story again.
You know, I grew up in a Christian home and we're going to come to that in a little while.
And I was a bad guy.
Yes, there was real bad. I did everything that this world could do.
But God saved me. It is matchless grace. I dear one tonight was a 500 pence debtor and he saved me and he can save you tonight.
My sister-in-law said this.
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Al, if the Lord can save you, there's hope for my son, the Lord say both of us, we've both been gathered and going on.
Your weakness fall these years.
I'm a trophy of His grace. How about you?
This man receiveth sinners and needeth with them. You can be just a 50 pence debtor or you can be a 500 Benz debtor but you need to be saved.
Unique Christ as your Savior. And so I ask you tonight, are you saved? Do you know the Lord Jesus Christ as your own personal Savior? Those sins that you have committed have separated you from a holy God. God cannot have sinned in his presence, but he's provided a way through his Son, the Lord Jesus and his precious work on Calvary's cross. And I'm going to tell you tonight that the Lord Jesus is coming.
Coming to take all his own that know him as Lord and savior of their life. And we're going to hear that shout that is going to take us out of this scene and into his very presence. Maybe that's very nice.
Exciting. How wonderful to think that we could be home with the Lord Jesus tonight, but to be left behind in your seat. I know what it's like. I was sitting in a seat like that years ago.
There was a man by the name of Stanley McDowell that came into our meeting and he would preach the gospel of tears were just flowing down his his face as fast as they they would come out.
And he would preach the gospel faithfully.
And I sat in so many of those and never confessed Christ as my Savior.
Thank God he saved me.
By grace, are ye saved? That's me. He saved me. How about you? He can save you tonight. You can be saved. Sitting right in your seat. Little boy. Little girl here tonight, sitting beside your mom and father. Are you saved?
Your mom, your dad can't save you.
Oh yeah, it's only the Lord Jesus can save you. All you have to do is bow your head while you're sitting in your seat and ask Lord Jesus, save me. I'm a Sinner. I need the Lord Jesus as my own personal savior. Have you done that yet?
Says decide for Christ tonight. Tomorrow may be too late. It says behold, now is the accepted time. Behold, now is a day of salvation.
Remember now thy Creator in the day of thy youth. The time to come to Christ is when you're young.
Have you done it yet?
By grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves is the gift of God. Second Samuel, Chapter 9.
How many times have we been in the gospel meeting and we've heard the story of Mephibosheth?
How many times? I know I've heard it many times in gospel. Do you ever get tired of it? I don't get tired of it. It's a precious, precious chapter.
What is this? What is this all I can see written all over this chapter? Grace. Grace.
Here is a, a Mephibosheth it says. And in the first verse, and David said, uh, is there any, ye, uh, any that is left of the House of Saul, they might show the kindness for Jonathan's sake.
That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his kindness.
Towards us through Christ Jesus. Isn't that beautiful, you know?
To become a child of God, you know, he just blesses you every day of your life. What a God we have. And it doesn't stop there. It goes on for the ages to come. Beautiful, didn't you? What a savior, what a God we have. And this is the one that we're going to spend in eternity with. How I am so excited about.
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The future, and I see this and I ask this is that your future? It's mine and you can have it. It's through sovereign grace. Nothing that I've done not of works, lest any man should boast.
Only one way to heaven. Neither is there salvation than any other, for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved the only Savior of sinners.
There's only one man that can save you, Jesus, the Lord Jesus. And here's this man, David wanted to show him kindness.
Now what was he? He was a cripple. He was crippled. He fell. His nurse picked him up.
And he fell.
And he was crippled, couldn't do a thing.
Now you say.
God, what would David want with a man like Mephibosheth? What would he want?
He said I wanna show him kindness for Jonathan's sake.
And you know God wants to show you kindness for Jesus sake.
It's all been done for you on Calvary's cross.
And here we find in this chapter, I won't go through the chapter, I don't have that much time. And we go through the chapter, what do we find? There's a man by the name of Zydel. What is he? If you look through, if you read through the chapter, you'll find this, that Zydel was always active. He was always doing something. He was always.
He was a man.
That did things.
He was a man of works, and you know that's what it says there in Ephesians 2, not of works, lest any man should boast. There's not one thing, dear friend, that you can do to merit your salvation. It's all been done for you on Calvary's cross. The Lord Jesus could say it is finished, everything's been done. All I have to do is come as a guilty, lost Sinner before a holy God.
And he'll save me. That's it. No, Wonderful how simple it is. God didn't ask you to do something complicated to get saved.
And that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. And what does he do? He says, my favorite ship. I'm gonna, I'm gonna bring you into my house and I'm gonna sit you down at my table as one of the King's sons, no wonderful as one of the King's son. And we've been brought dear one that know the Lord Jesus as our Savior.
Into a family and here we are to, uh, this weekend, families brought together.
Wonderful how blessed this is. What a it's been. AI love this weekend. It's really nice to meet all of our brethren.
And there was Mephibosheth, and it said he sat at the King's table at eight of the King's feet.
As one of the kings sons.
I like that as one of the King's sons, there has often been said that if you saw Mephibosheth sitting at David's table.
You would wonder which one was Mephibosheth. You know what you had to do. You had to look under the table, and there you would have found that Mephibosheth was the one with the crippled feet. And let's see and see. When I see it myself, I say it's just like me. My sins are all gone. I've been brought into rich blessings. How wonderful that is.
But then something more.
Something more precious. What did he do? He brought me this morning to sit on that chair over there and eat at the King's Me to remember Him in His death for me this morning. How precious that is. What a wonderful privilege to be gathered to the precious name of the Lord Jesus, and to remember Him because it was well with us, and to think upon Him to praise His blessed day.
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Little boy, little girl here tonight.
You're sitting in your chair.
Have you ever done this?
Lord Jesus, thank you for dying on Calvary's cross for my sins. Have you ever done that? That's what the Lord Jesus wants to hear from you.
Grace fetched Mephibosheth out of a place of no pasture and made him sit at the King's table.
Grace has brought each one of us here today.
To sit at the King's table and eat at the King's name. Grace, Super Grace. Let's go to you know.
I'm just, I'm just going to put three of them. There is just many in the precious word of God that God showed grace to matchless grace.
But there's one that there's one that stands out.
Umm uh, second Chronicles chapter.
33.
Second Chronicles, chapter 33.
Manasseh was 12 years old when he began to reign, and he reigned 55 years in Jerusalem. I'm just going to stop there. Manasseh reigned 55 years in Jerusalem.
He was 12 years old when he ascended the throne. I'm gonna ask for a show of hands tonight if this is all right. Is there a 12 year old boy or a 12 year old girl? There's one.
We got 1-2. Now just think of this 12 year old boy, 12 year old girl. Manasseh was 12 years old when he ascended the throne. He reigned for 55 years.
Manasseh was one of the most wicked kings that ever ascended the throne, and because of the sin of Manasseh, God had to carry away the children of Israel into Babylon.
Because of his awful, awful sins that he committed. And you wonder why.
God allowed this for 55 years.
There's a reason.
Would you turn with me, first of all, to, uh, just hold your places there and go to Jeremiah?
Chapter 3.
I hope it's Jeremiah 3.
Umm. Maybe somebody can help me, uh.
Wilt thou not from this time crying to me, my father, Thou art the guide of my youth.
Verse 4 Thank you very much Jeremiah chapter 3. I'm breaking in a new pair of eyes and glasses. Umm Jeremiah chapter 3 and verse 4. Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, my father, Thou art the guide of my youth. I love this verse. It's a it's an incredible verse.
What do you need?
What do you need in your youth? You need a guide. What do you need when you get old as I am? You need a guide still.
For every day of my life, I need the guide.
What else do I need? I need a father. I need a father. And dear young people, here's the verse for you tonight, will you not from this time, from this very moment on tonight.
Say my father. Can you say that tonight of a truth and say he's my father, my father?
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What is that? That's a relationship that you've been brought into.
If you're a child of God, you have a father, a father in heaven.
And the prayer is this.
And wilt thou not from this time?
Say, Anthony, my father, thou art the guy of my youth. Young man, young girl here tonight you're in your youth. You need a guide.
The Lord Jesus is your guide.
This precious book that we have here tonight, that we have opened before us is a guide. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and like a light unto my path. A guide. That's what I need.
When I was a young man, my Bible sat in the drawer again, gathered dust. Those were wasted years. Wasted years.
Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, my father, Thou art the guide of my youth.
The Second Chronicles, chapter 33.
Really, this is what Manasseh needed.
Manasseh had a godly father in Hezekiah. Think of it.
Is there one here tonight who has grown up in the Christian home like I was?
Manasseh grew up in a very godly home, Hezekiah.
And yet he said. I don't want to have anything to do with it.
And the wickedness that he caused the nation to go through.
You read it, read the account of it, and it's terrible.
It's terrible, I haven't got time to read it all.
But what happened?
God stop that man. He stopped and you know.
If you go on in your sin, God can stop you, and thank God he stopped me.
He stopped the NASA. Let's read it.
Verse 11 Because of his wickedness. Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. Would you like to be like our brother Tim? Did this morning have it all those changed. That's what happened to Manasseh. He was carried away to Babylon, this wicked, wicked king.
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And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God and humbled himself before the God of his Father. You know it says God speaketh one's day twice. God might have to speak to you as he did with me. He might have to shake you up like he did with a Philippian jailer.
He doesn't want you to go on that course. He wants you to be saved tonight.
What do you do?
Verse 13 And he prayed to him all friend, tonight, have you prayed to Jesus?
Here's a wonderful savior that he listens, a wonderful, wonderful stranger, our friend that you can talk to. There's a friend for little children above the bright blue sky, A friend who never changes, whose love can never die. What a friend we have in Jesus.
I couldn't do without him one day.
And he prayed to him that he was incredible of him, and he heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem, unto his Kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was his, was God. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord, he was God, God had to bring.
A great trial into Manassas life, this man, you might say.
The chief of sinners.
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Sovereign Grace.
In the Like I say, there's so many here in this precious book that God administered sovereign grace to.
Manasseh is one of them. Think of it. You think? No, I I can't even think of it.
Grace, grace, great riches that Christ expense. Let's go to the last one. Umm.
Genesis, umm 4646.
Genesis 46.
And verse 2.
And God spake unto Israel in the vision of the night.
And said Jacob, Jacob.
And he said, here am I. And God said.
Hunter, Jacob. Jacob. Jacob.
Oh, isn't that wonderful?
He's calling your name, your friend tonight, Jacob, Jacob, Peter, Peter, John, John, whoever it is, I like this because it says God speaketh one. She ate twice. This is one man of the seven in scripture that God spoke twice to.
And this is one man.
Now I'm gonna ask you.
How would you like to have your life history written down in the Word of God? And I counted it up this morning and it was 13 chapters.
13 chapters I I I give or take.
13 chapters of the History of this man Jacob.
A trophy of God's grace.
20 years. He was away from God, out of community with God. He was a cheater, he was a schemer, he was a supplier. He did all kinds of things.
He made deals.
Hey, says Jacob. Jacob.
What we find at the end of his life, there he is by faith, Jacob.
Worshiped, leaning on top of his staff.
13 chapters of failure in this dear man.
How'd you like to have 13 chapters written about you?
I I don't want. I don't want.
13 chapters written about me.
No. You know something?
All those things that I've committed are all gone. All 13 chapters on all of everything. God.
Washed in the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
My sins are all gone. How about you tonight? Are your sins gone? The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, planteth us from all sin like Him are gone.
Amazing Grace. It's grace. It's grace.
Do you know this one? Do you know Jesus as your own personal Savior? Have you come as a guilty, lost Sinner tonight before a holy God? He can save you tonight.
Won't you come? God is pleading for your soul. You know, as our brother was saying last night there was a prayer meeting in those rooms back there, praying for souls that in this room might still be lost.
We can only let let leave the Lord Jesus out of your life. Are you going to wait for another day, another moment, another week?
And decide then are you gonna have that opportunity to be saved?
My wife and I visited a lady not too long ago.
She had something for sale.
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And the advertisement and the newspaper and we went to see her.
And she and she greeted us at the door and let us see him. She was very friendly. She was a nice woman.
And she was 90 years old.
She was Fry, she had a lovely apartment in the West End and she's very friendly and owe a Bon a bonus. She was the next Newfoundlander.
And we had a great time together because we were talking about home.
Where she lived and where I live. And then we got to talking about the Lord.
She was 90 years old and she says there's no God. There's no God.
Eternity was waiting for her, and she wasn't saved.
What a tragedy to live 90 years in this world.
Without crafts, I can't imagine one day without Christ. And she was a humanist.
An atheist.
She had, in her young life had.
Been in a church or something like that. She told us she had had a disaster in her life and after that disaster her husband was killed.
And she was robbed and everything else and, uh, since then. Oh God, oh God.
What kind of a God would allow this to happen in my life?
I'll tell you a loving God, just like Manasseh, just like Jacob, just like.
God wants to save her, wants to save you.
90 years old. What is the future for her in a lost eternity forever?
Pray, we pray for her.
Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound that fade a rest like me I once was lost, but there I thought was blind, but now I see. Could we sing that?
Amazing Grace.
I'll speak to you.
Umm.
Wednesday.
Is why me?
I want.
I am.
So.