Address—G.H. Hayhoe
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I'd like you to turn your face to the.
Gospel and the third verse. And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery. And when they have set her in the midst, they said unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us that such should be stoned.
But what sayest thou This They said, sensing him, that they might have to accuse him, but Jesus.
Took down with his finger rolled on the ground as though he heard them not, Though when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone on her. And again he stooped down and bowed on the ground. And they were heard it, being convicted by their own conscience.
When a one by one, beginning with the oldest.
And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst, when Jesus had lifted up himself and saw none but the the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those lion accusers?
Half more than condemned thee. He said that more than Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee. Dull and sin no more. This morning our brother read a few verses. Pattern those words in them in the mid, and it brought to my mind a few other scriptures, and I would like to just think a little about them this afternoon.
Because, dear friends, dear young people, it's so important that we should find the Lord Jesus as the one who is the Center for our lives, the Center for everything in our lives, for parks. In Him we have nothing.
And I have been said to know that innocent man had no object. Old man has many objects, but a regime man has one object. And so we would like to speak about that one who is the object for our hearts. But it may be that there are some here this afternoon who have not yet been brought to know him.
You have never found yourself.
This woman in their little story we have read here this afternoon, you have never found yourself alone with him. You have come. You have come with your friends and perhaps with your terms to the conference here. And perhaps you have enjoyed the time of fellowship with many other young people. And you said the companionship here is very nice.
But I would like to ask you this plain important question.
Have you ever had a personal dealing with the Lord Jesus?
In order this story, there are two kinds of sinners. There was one who was not enough Sinner, one whose sin could not be his, one who was known before society as one who had this great herself, and had sinned only against God, and brought trouble on herself by it. But.
In the other case, we have another group of those who thought they were all right, took it point the fingers at others, but never had pointed the finger at themselves. As it may be that as you come here, you're not saved, some of you, dear young people, and get your point in the finger at the thought you see in other Christians.
It's sad and one feels humiliated.
There is occasion in all of us who are believers to cause others to point the fingers and notice our failures. But remember, pointing finger others is never going to bring blessing to your soul. Don't quite the same here at others. He could speak and say that he wouldn't put the fathers of those men who accused him with a dog on the slot, but it took him a long time.
Before the figure was turned around and he said.
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I am vile, so a lot of viles. He's already came to the point where he said I repent and abhor myself in dust and ashes. Well these others, thou righteous ones, are they listen to what the Lord said and then turn convicting their conscience.
I turned and walked out and left the woman along with Jesus. Now as far as fixing is concerned, you probably would say those ones who walked out were perhaps more preferable kinds of people. But those people turned their backs upon the Lord Jesus Christ. They buried it back upon Him.
But this woman, he was a Sinner, but she knew it.
And he did not turn her back on the only one who could block her.
All their friends, dear young people, has your conscience convicted? You haven't sat in these meetings, especially if the gospel meetings have seen what it is to be a guilty Sinner in the presence of God. Have you felt the arrow of conviction going home to your conscience? Oh, don't go home from these meetings without Christ.
Don't turn your back upon the land. Who is the founder of Living Water?
Jesus was writing in the ground, and it tells us in Jeremiah the fellows who forsake the Lord, their names would be written in the earth. And I wonder if the Lord was writing the name of those people who were walking out in the earth as they went out and to write. Your name may be written in the earth. Perhaps you may be making a success of life.
And the world turns things.
You may be making progress in your studies, you may have a better job than many of those who are believers, and perhaps you will rise to opposition of success if the Lord does not come in this world. But have you turned your back upon the fountain of living waters? Have you turned your back upon the Lord Jesus Christ?
Are you going to go home from these meetings without him?
And for personal Savior, I plead with you, with your young people.
I believe some of you have come to these meetings unsafe and I fear perhaps some will go home unsafe.
Oh, May God awaken you this afternoon, may find yourself alone with Jesus, convicted in your conscience, convicted by His presence, convicted by His words, and acknowledge your guilty for Him all. It will be a kind of blessing for your soul. You'll never forget this gathering in Toronto if it is the birthday of your soul when you find the Lord.
Jesus, as your personal Savior, when you trust in Him, oh May God grant that you will find yourself alone with this blessed Savior and receive Him. And those wonderful words the Lord Jesus spoke to her, how they touch our hearts. Neither do I condemn thee. How could the Lord not condemn her when she was guilty?
All because as we had this morning, and we'll see it a moment, He went to the cross to be condemned in her place. He went there and bore the condemnation that he might say to her, neither do I condemn these and precious facts that those who are saved rejoice in this moment is that the word of God says.
There is now, therefore, no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. Are you in Christ? You know Him as your own personal Savior. If so, May God bring home those sweet and precious words to your soul. And if there should be a young person here who is passing through a siege of doubt and the other?
Seeing and filling your mind with uncertainty.
May rest upon the precious word of God I know that all your sins so great, so many in his life are washed away or how precious it is to know that the woman you receive the Lord Jesus everything is gone before God and.
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The Savior can say.
Neither do I condemn thee. Indeed, we might say that that's what gave us power now to live for him. For the Lord follows with this remark goal and single more. Some would say, well, if you live the life, you won't be condemned. But here it starts the other way, doesn't it?
He started with a sense in her soil that there was no condemnation.
And now she has the power to live to please the one who had saved her. And when you lay hold his precious words and receive the Lord Jesus as your Savior, then you will have the power to live to please Him. Proximated dogs and the fairies of some sin, and you see unable to break it.
But if you receive Christ as your Savior, as you trust in Him, he'll give you the power.
Because when one is born again, he receives a new life. That's what it is to be born again, to receive new life from God. And so how precious of this one, where no single presence of the Lord now with a sweet pensioner soul, neither do I condemn these. And may you go home from this meeting with the knowledge in your soul that there is no condemnation for you.
Because the Lord Jesus is your own personal Savior.
How? Let us turn to the passage that was read in John 19 and verse 18.
Where they crucified him.
And to other with him on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.
And the 30th verse, when Jesus therefore had received.
Vinegar, he said.
It is finished. And he bowed his head and gave up the door. Here was the blessed eternal Son of God, the Creator of the universe, come down in this world, nailed by his creature to a cross of blood, with a cease on either side. But that cross divides the whole world. But on one side was a thief who remains in his sins.
Who revised the Lord, and never repented of what he had done. But on the other side of the cross was a man who acknowledged his sins, who acknowledged that he was getting exactly what he deserved, and turned and acknowledged Jesus as Lord. He said, Lord, Remember Me when thou comest into thy Kingdom.
And the Lord thine for was today, verily I say unto thee.
Today shall thou be with thee in Paradise. And so here we find the grand mayor by which God could come out in the richness of his heart in blessing sinners. For there was that there was that woman taken in sin. And Jesus said, neither do I condemn thee, but here one year of all wonders.
Was the blessed the stimulus 1 nailed her like cross and in those hours of darkness.
There, in the condemnation that we deserve, or he was looking for our transgressions, he was thrown for our iniquities. The judgment of our peace was upon him and with his right.
We are healed. Oh how prices land. To see your Savior hearing your judgment, and I'm to hear those precious words.
It is a all to know that all of us against us has been fully discharged. Christ has borne all the judgment, and God does not Passover sin because He wants to bless the Sinner merely, but because a righteous settlement has been made.
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All through He does want to bless the sinners and he wants to bless you, but there must be a righteous settlement for sin and the Lord Jesus God blessed Savior, house born, the judgment that you might be saved.
Don't like a dear old girl who had been to Sunday school and she had learned how the Lord Jesus had taken her place and brought her judgment in her place. And the teacher had impressed from the class that God would not be judged if he were punished her to when he had punished his blessed Son in her place.
What else she took very sick.
And she was dying.
And.
When the news was brought to the parents that she wasn't going to get better, her mother asked her what she was trusting in if she should be called away, and she said, Mother, I'm trusting in the justice of God.
Well, the mother didn't understand the child's remarks and she said, dear, you mean you're trusting in the mercy of God?
All as we said mother, that Jesus was punished in my place and God wouldn't be just if he punished me till all how sweet that dear little girl had laid hold of that which many many have not laid hold of, and that is that's a work of calorie has so completely glorified God with sin and has so completely satisfied.
Claim that now God can come out in the largeness and richness of his heart of law, and say to a Sinner like me, neither do I condemn thee. Oh, how precious all they God makes to our souls.
As I've worked that he did for us more precious may our hearts be filled with praise like a little hip we sing and says unless I forget the thine agony lead me to Calvary. All brethren young people, we need to get back to cowardly more often and see last practice Savior and his dying love him taking our place.
It is the true ground of peace with God, and it is the only true ground to for a walk that is pleasing to the Lord. Anything else will break down in time if you have anything else, the approval of your brethren, friends.
Parents love, it may be before you even sooner or later it will breakdown, but if you see that blessed Savior dying in your place, all what a mortal gives to the heart to live to please Him, the one who loved us and gave himself for us.
Well, now let's turn to the funniest chapter.
And the 90s first, then the same day and evening being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut, where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and students amidst, and stuff under them. Peace be unto you. And when He had so said, he saw under them his hands and his thighs.
Then worthy cycles glad when they saw the Lord. Then he said Jesus to them again.
Peace beyond the youth, as my father has sent me, even though.
And I, you hear this one who has completed the work, He said. It is finished. He died. He's losing again now, and he comes and appears in the midst of his own. But where were they, dear young people? Where were these disciples? Were they going along with the world?
3rd nails the Savior to the cross, all for the first time.
We find them now in the place that the doors closed for fear of the Jews. All I say have a cross is, as it tells us, the heart of God and forms the true pieces of our whole Christian life. And when we see what this world has done to our saviors, why we see that our place is.
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Separation from us. Separation. How can we go out of the world that crucified Christ?
Very often young people will say, well what's the harm of this and what's the harm in that? Well, would it not be better to think of it this way? Supporting the people on the streets where I live murdered my wife.
They put it to death in cruel, bitter hatred. And then next week they're going to have a little party and they send me an invitation and asked me if I wouldn't like to come. And I decline the invitation. And they say, well, now we know that you don't believe in.
Playing cards and drinking and things like that, we know that you wouldn't go on with many things, but we're not going to do any of those things. It's just going to be a plain, simple little affair.
Nothing wrong, nothing that you could condemn at all. We'd just like you to come along.
I wonder what would you expect me to feel about other invitations? Wouldn't you be very much surprised if I could go and join myself in your company? Wouldn't it be very surprised if I could spend the evening in that way?
Oh, I'm sure that you would be very surprised.
A dear young person, if the world wants your company, it must be because you don't talk about the Lord Jesus Christ. And if you want their company, it must be because if you're talking, what's your Savior suffered at the hands of this world, be it respectable, like those who went out and turned their back upon Christ.
Or being another wicked world.
It's the same world. All various companies join hand in hand. The military world, the domestic world, the religious world they joined hand in hand were made friends together in the rejection of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And your friend, I plead with you, dear young people, I ask you, when you're invited by the world, the door of wisdom, just to ask what place would my Savior have in this gathering? What place would my Savior have in this entertainment? And if the Lord Jesus.
Is not welcome there. You're one whom he has redeemed to himself. An infinite cost. And when the doors were shut.
The world shut down, the world had crucified his savior, and now here were a few of like mind together difference columns and life strolls. Fishermen. Matthew.
One who was a servant of the government, and there were different occupations that they were engaged in. What was it brought them together? All they had a common law.
For life, Savior, who had died on Calvary's cross. And they weren't disappointed. And they weren't disappointed. The Lord Jesus himself came and stood in the midst and showed them his hands and his sides, and their hearts were glad. All I'd like to urge upon you, dear young people.
All seek the company of those that love the Lord Jesus.
Safe care companies, don't be satisfied any place where your blessed Savior is unwelcome. As a little hidden says, no place can fully please us where thou, O Lord, art not in thee and with thee ever is found by grace or lost. So here are these disciples.
In company with the Lord.
And now the Lord says to them, as my father has sent me.
He even saw stand by you. Now they're set out in the world. It'll be said sometimes, oh wow, that we have to, we have to meet the world. We have to dwell in contact and yes, we do. But do we go to contacting from the secret of his presence? Have we been in the station of his presence, enjoying his love?
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Seeing his face in advance and reflection something of his laws and now go to them. Was the Lord Jesus at home in this world.
He was never hopeless stranger. And here, here it's true, we are here. I was thinking of those who came out of their brains after Christ resurrection and went into the whole city and appeared under many, and I was thinking how that's just the way we should be, brethren.
That is, the Lord lays us up and he would have us now to go through this world and appear to others as those who are the ones who are alive from the dead. Is Assad in Robin 6 as those who are the ones who are alive from the dead is exciting Robin Six. It says that we should live.
As all into our lives for the dead. And so we are.
Some of us, what happened to these people that I went into the holy city and appeared under many. Well, God has been pleased to tell us their names or what happened to them, because they didn't belong here at all. And you allowed to belong here. And it doesn't matter what our names are, we don't want them listening in the earth. The Lord had rejoiced for listening in heaven. And I'm quite sure that these unlaying people had their names.
Heaven, I'm sure I'm going to meet them up there, May you. And I don't know. Among those of this world, perhaps. The unknown, perhaps.
Paying a little attention to, but at least witnesses to the fact that we have been dead and raised again with Christ and now are in this world sent by Him to be witnesses for Him.
In this Dark World where he was cast out. Well, now let us turn to Matthew 18, which was also read to us. Matthew 18 and verse 24 where two or three.
Are gathered together in my name. There am I in the midst of them, well, the Lord Jesus.
In the last passage we looked, thou had risen. He appeared physically among his own. But now he's asking. He has a son that he's caught up. He's up there in the glory now. But I'll order something that he has left for us, something very precious, something that ought to rejoice our hearts eventually, and that is that He has a gathering center.
For his people.
Thomas doesn't say where she were three gathered, but where two or three are gathered. And why the difference here? Why did it not say where two or three gathered? Well, any group of Christians might come together and claim to gather in his name, but this is a special action of the Spirit of God.
And gathering souls together through the Lord Jesus Christ.
And that's why I, dear young people, your parents don't ask you to come to the Lords Table and remember Him. Your friends and those who are interested in your blessings don't ask you. They will think you present the truth to you. They will think to encourage you by saying that there is such a place where the Lord is in the mid and does it not touch your heart and mind?
That in the absence of our Savior, we can't see Him like the disciples in that upper room. We can't see Him now as we will in that coming day of glory. But we can be gathered around Himself and where two or three are gathered together in my name.
There am I in the midst of them.
And Justin Dahl had a senator from Israel.
And only one. And when the 10 drives separated from the two, God never acknowledged the center. Among the 10 drives, he still only had one center, which he acknowledged, and that was in Jerusalem, the place where he had chosen to put his name there.
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It through God's best prophets Elijah and Elijah down the pen drive.
Because he would send the witness and testimony to them, but he did not acknowledge the standard. And so I would ask you, dear young people, and others here too, to be exercised about this.
And the Lord has promised that there would be a gathering center, and His Spirit was gathering Christ during his absence.
Until he comes again. Is that practice to your heart? Holy say, it's going to be wonderful to be up there all together around him. What brethren, young people, it's wonderful to be around and down here. And as our brother said yesterday when he was speaking, what is your answer going to be through the Lord?
When he asked you, why didn't they remember him down here?
What will your answer be? What is saying? Well, I didn't like the people.
My brother just said to me asking someone to come to me and always said I wouldn't come. All such and such a person there. He had some feelings. What a person. He wouldn't come while that person was there. He wasn't looking for the Lord, was he? He wasn't looking to see the Lord in the midst. He had his eye on someone else. Oh, May God give us.
To see no man anymore.
Say Jesus only to value the place and privilege of being gathered to Him.
And he's, he's given us his old precious words that were two or three are gathered together in my name.
There am I Mr. Them. I'd like to look also at Philippians chapter 3. Philippians chapter 3, verse 12.
Not as though I had already obtained earlier, we're already perfect, but I follow after it, that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended with Christ Jesus, rather than I can't not myself to have apprehended what is one thing I do for getting those things which are behind, and reaching forth under those things which are before.
I press for the mark.
For the prize of the high calling or the calling on high of God in Christ Jesus. Now this particular passage we don't have the words in the mid, but the apostle Paul is looking up and he sees Christ in glory. And as we learn from Revelation 5, he's the one who is in the midst, in the throne up there.
It is the Thunder of that scene of all. And so I believe we could speak of it in this way. Here is one who has found an object for his soul, and you may have come to these meetings and perhaps.
You are a true believer.
I was Speaking of the beginning of those who are on the same, but you will come to the meeting. You know, the Lord Jesus as your Savior, perhaps may be got into his precious name. You rejoice. It's a privilege of being able to remember him in his death. But all I'd like to ask you is Christ the center of your life.
Is he the center of your life?
Is he the one who is the object of desire before you?
If you have come here thinking about others, you may go home disappointed. It may be that you've been hoping to meet some friends here and you're disappointed you haven't just met a friend that you'd like to meet. Perhaps you've had a few jars in this apartment.
And your heart is going away a little bit sad because things haven't just turned out exactly the way you hoped they would. But all I'd like to say as you go home, there's not a player in the glory. And he wants to be your All in all. He wants to be the cheapest among 10,000 to your soul.
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Where was the Apostle Paul when he wrote these words?
He was in prison where his presence through the hills. Well, when he wrote this letter, he had decided to that that assembly of Philippi was the only assembly among all one for his priests who had even thought of those temporal needs. Not another one has sent him one thing to help him out.
In a financial material way, he said no church communicated with me as a concerning giving and receiving, but she only he was last along. He was in prison. The people that he had wanted to see sage his earthly people Israel. They have that awareness that you followed on the earth.
It's not speculation left. It's threatened to turn against him. Some of his brethren had turned against him and he had had many disappointments. And as someone remarked the other day in the meeting, he'd been in prison for years. Oh, what a lot of sorrow we've had. Was he getting sad here, young people? Was he going along with a sad heart?
All he writes to tell these dear Philippian believers, he said rejoice in the Lord.
Always rejoice in the Lord. Always. And the Lord knows the hearts of you, dear young people who come here. He knows the yearnings of your heart and how there are things that you look for, long for. And the Lord Jesus is the only one who can really satisfy.
He's the one who satisfies the long soul and fills the hungry souls goodness.
And Paul has found that one has the object. He didn't know many objects. He wasn't allowed an object, but he had one object, and that was that blessed one unseen up there in the glory. And now if you'll turn over with me to Revelation chapter 5.
And verse 5.
And one of the elders said unto me, Weep not.
Behold, the lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has prevailed to open the book, and to loose the salmon fields thereof. And I beheld and wall in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, that Alamos that had been flamed, having seven horns and seven eyes, which had the seven spirits of God.
Sent forth into all the earth, and he came and took the books out of the right hand of him that sat upon the wrong. And when he had taken the books, the four beasts.
And four and 20 elders fell down before the Lamb, having everyone of them Hawks and golden bottles full loaders, which are the prayers of plain. Now the 7th chapter in the last verse. Or the Lamb, which is in the midst of the throne, shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of water.
And God shall wipe away all tears.
From their eyes. Well, here's John. He's weeping. What is he weeping for?
All he sees a hopeless tangle into which the world has been planned, and he weeped, he said. Who can straighten out the tangle? Who can unravel the mystery of affairs here?
Evil seems to be progressing.
And they were getting nursed instead of better. And John wet much? And it may be that disappointing those things, sorrows and trials have caused tears to come to your eyes. And you said, when is the tangle going to be straightened out? When are things going to be set light?
Is God going to allow these things to go on? And it is not going to.
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Investigate His own and straighten things out for His own glory. Yes, dear young people, He is. He is going to. And when that most comes, why, you'll see the same One who is in the midst of the cross, and there's anyone who was in the midst and told Him to His side. The same One who's up there. We are in glory, looking down at us.
Will be in its presence then, and everything will be answered there. Everything will be answered there. And as it was pointed out to us in the meeting, the living creature said Amen, Amen.
As they rejoiced, as they looked back and saw the way that they were led along the pathways, because the triumph, the glory, the Saviors blessed faith as He is in the midst of the throne.
Where the artistic and theme of his peoples song fills every heart to all flowing. And how precious those words God himself, the Lamb, which is in the midst of the throne.
Tells the Lamb, which is in the midst of the throne, shall feed them, and shall leave them under living thousands of waters, and God shall wipe away all tears.
Their eyes whole house sweet and precious, that is. I'm sure there are many hearts here who have secret souls and trials, young people and old people too, and sometimes the enemy who would speak to tell us God quite as good as we expected Him to be, what they could turn us into the world.
All dear young people, let me encourage you to fasten your eyes upon Christ.
There are no disappointment in heaven, and that Savior will wipe away all tears from off of all faces. Solemn sign will flee away, and that blessed Savior will lead us the living fountains of waters, and all will be eternal joy. Then every cup will be filled. They have golden files full of orders.
Harry Harp will be in perfect harmony there, the singing in the melody of heaven.
And again I say, who will be the center of it all? Who will be the center all should never found yourself alone with Jesus. Now you find yourself alone with him today and find Him as your Savior. You've never found Christ as as the gathering Center for his people.
May exercise you this Lord's Day about that blessed privilege.
If you have never found them as a Center for your life, the one who is satisfying objects to your life down here, and may He turn your eyes upon Him so that you'll see no man anymore. Say Jesus only and go home with something of the joy of heaven in your heart, because He wants to wipe away your tears now.
As he will assuredly wipe them away in an effort to return.
When He calls His own home, and it may be thyself will be this afternoon all may He give us grace to be more occupied with Himself, the One who is going to make us to springly happy for all eternity in His blessed and glorious presence when He calls it home.