Gospel—D. Whitaker
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Good evening.
Could we sing together hymn #23 on this little white hymn sheet?
We sang it once today. What a beautiful time that was, sitting in the presence of the Lord Jesus.
Singing this hymn, behold, behold the Lamb of God, on the cross, on the cross.
For us he shed his precious blood on the cross. On the cross. Oh, here the overwhelming cry. Eli Lama Sabachthani.
Draw near and see the Savior die on the cross. On the cross.
#23.
Evil, evil.
Tomorrow.
Jesus Christ is in the grass and I just love.
Oh.
I'm at the restaurant.
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
Let you go.
To the water and the sun and he's going to have you go to aggregate in my heart.
Kuala Lumpur.
I don't give a.
So we ask God's help for the meeting before us.
Gracious Father, we look to thee now.
Independence.
And submission to thee.
We have before us this wonderful gospel message, and Thou hast seen fit to leave it in the hands of Thy people, Thy servants, to proclaim it.
And our Father, we feel our weakness here tonight, but we realize that there's no weakness in this precious book which we hold in our hands.
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It is that wonderful message from above, that glorious gospel.
Of the blessed God found in the Lord Jesus Christ. O precious Savior, we thank thee for Calvary. We marvel as we look back at that.
That the occasion there on the cross, Lord Jesus, where thou has yield up that precious holy life, but just for the unjust to bring us to God. And so help us now. We cry to thee, Father, for help and we ask thee for each heart here tonight. Perhaps there's someone that has not heard the gospel message. Help it to be clear.
Help us to be instructed by that in Thy word and help us to realize our deep need before the our God. And help us to realize too that Lord Jesus, Thou hast made the way whereby for rebellious man can be brought into eternal blessing. So we thank Thee, Father, we just bless Thee for all Thy kindnesses to us these last two days also. And help us now we pray in Jesus name, Amen.
There's a prayer meeting held on the other side of the lunchroom in the library.
And while the brothers were praying, I thought to myself, this is a public high school and I wonder.
If there's a Bible on the shelf.
So I waited till the prayers were over and I started looking. I looked under.
Oh, different headings. You have autobiographies and you have biographies and you have.
Histories, no doubt. There's psychology and there's.
Mythology. There's fiction and there's nonfiction. And so just before the meeting this evening, I slipped back in there because I did find the Bible. I was afraid I wasn't going to find one. I just want to say that brother Ruben Ruga was preaching to about 1000 children in a certain country.
And he was preaching this glorious gospel that we expect to proclaim here in the next hour.
And he was shouting it out to these little children that was translated into that foreign language called.
To cure.
I'm sorry, Timbuka and.
After the message was over with.
The principal of the school said. Now this is a Muslim country, the principal of the school said.
You, the children, want to tell you that.
You're welcome to come back, come back and bring us the words of God anytime.
Please come back. And then the staff at that school said you have brought us the words of God. You come back anytime.
Now if these same words that brother Reuben was speaking were preached in.
A school system here in this country, they would be ushered out the door as far as I know.
I meant that worked for me was dealing with a Muslim man.
There in Kirkland, WA and he this.
Muslim was pumping, running the gas station and he filled his car with gas and his brother Mark went in there and he gave him a gospel tract and started talking to him about the Lord Jesus.
In this Muslim man, said Demarc. He says, well I'm from a Muslim country, a year from a Christian country. Mark said this isn't a Christian country. The Muslim said yes, we're living in a Christian country here. I'm from a Muslim company. Mark said no, this is not a Christian country. He said yes, it is a Christian country. Mark said, I'll prove it to you. Watch this, Here comes the perfect stranger through the door. He says, listen to this. He says, excuse me, Sir, He said, did you read your Bible?
And talk to God in prayer this morning. Speak with Christ in prayer.
He says, what are you talking about? He turned away from that man, he said. That's what I mean. This is not a Christian country.
I thought that was very interesting and I've used that illustration before.
So I pulled the Bible out of that without anybody's permission, and I will have to put it back.
Now, tonight.
If it was your job to put this Bible back.
Under what heading would you put it?
Would you put it under?
Psychology or sociology Biography.
Or would you put it under fiction?
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It's your job and it has to be categorized correctly.
What heading Science. Anthropology.
Where would you put it?
If I were to give this book to you, teenager.
Someone in their 20s, someone in the university, where would you place this book? In that library on the other side of that kitchen.
I know where it came from. I have to put it back there, but if it's your job to put it back, where would you put it?
Well, we know there's some folks that would put it under fiction. We know that, don't we?
And then some people, well, I just opened it once and I read a verse that says, I will restore to you the years that the locusts have eaten.
Would you put that under plants and animals?
Something to think about. Set that here so it doesn't slide down.
The Gospel.
I would like to just take a moment. We're going to speak of it, I think three times in this.
Message tonight, and let's start with First Corinthians.
Chapter 15. I'd like to speak about the Gospel in the beginning.
In the middle and at the end, I'd like to present to you the Lord Jesus Christ and all of his glory.
And it says here, moreover, brethren, verse one.
Excuse me, First Corinthians 15.
Now, most of us in here are brethren tonight.
And I would just like to say.
That.
Apostle Paul here by inspiration, says, brethren, you can listen to the gospel too.
Moreover, brethren, it's OK to preach to the assembly. I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also you have received, and wherein ye stand, by which also ye are saved, if you keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain, For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received.
How that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures?
And that he was buried. And that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.
And there's more here. These are facts. These are facts that we need.
God has looked down from the height of his sanctuary down into this world and he's seen this poor place covered with sin. He looks down upon it and what does he see? He sees a cemetery 25,000 miles around it. A cemetery.
It's the land of the dead.
An astronaut or rather man that studies astronomy with these powerful telescopes and they have Hubble telescope now that reaches out into space, very Clearview. And they've discovered now galaxies that are 1,000,000, maybe trillions of light years apart.
That, and he very melancholy said this.
Is it true that?
We're all alone.
All alone.
In this vast universe.
And I might add to that.
We're dying, dying.
Death has come in. Sin has come in rather.
And then there's death, and the wages of sin is death. That's the minimum wage.
Death talk a lot about minimum wage nowadays.
But oh, think of a lifetime of sin.
A lifetime of rebellion. I stand in awe sometimes and I watch men on the brink of eternity. Their years are filled up and they take that precious name of Christ in vain. It means nothing to them. Not only that, but they intersperse it with a filthiest words they can find aren't even in the dictionary.
For the chick O'Brien after men got done using the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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In vain a Recon picture right now in the front of a car. He's sitting there that put up on a bumper.
He looked over to that man. He said, you know, you've just spoken about my very, very best friend, the Lord Jesus Christ.
He said if I said something unkind about your mother to this man, he said that would hurt, wouldn't it?
He said you've spoken about my Savior and that hurts. I love him. He saved my soul.
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved in my house.
Is appointed unto man once to die, and after this judgment.
Judgment. And so we're going to talk a little bit about this this evening.
In this gospel that's presented in these first three or four verses here of 1 Corinthians 15, we find some facts.
One of them is he was delivered up.
He died for our sins, He was buried, and he rose again the third day.
According to the scriptures.
How does the Gospel? And so we have here. This can be amplified upon, but it can't be more blessed than this.
And then it says he was seen of above 500 brethren at once when I go to a conference.
I like to think about that. I see some conferences we got hundreds and hundreds of dear brother, and it's my desire as we get together and look into the Scriptures and enjoy fellowship that we might over 500 brothers at once see the Lord Jesus and that way.
Well.
I would like you please to turn to Proverbs chapter 8.
I probably will read quite a bit of scripture this evening.
And I expect we'll be speaking perhaps mostly out of the book of Job.
And we'll be reading in several different places, but let's start, please, with Proverbs chapter 8.
Before we do, I'll just mention this to a lot of us have children that have been in school universities.
High school, junior high, and I would just like to say this, that looking at the Scriptures, the little that I have, I find in here is the university. God's word is the university. As we look at the book of Proverbs, I think you'll see.
God, oh, he delights to reveal his secret to his servants, the prophets, and no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do?
Well, we'll go to it later. There's a Psalm 25 speaks about the secret of the Lord is with them that fear him. Well, here God in his wisdom, He says, I'm going to tell you some things, I'm going to tell you some things. And then later on in the Scriptures, I'm going to reveal it to you and I'm going to take away all the question Marks and I'm going to put a period there and you'll see it clearly. But now let's go please to Proverbs chapter 8.
And verse 20.
Verse 19. My fruit is better than gold gave them fine gold in my revenue than choice silver. I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment, that I may cause those that love me to inherit substance. I will fill their treasury. The Lord possessed me in the beginning of His way, before His works of old. I was set up from everlasting from the beginning, wherever the earth was.
When there were no depths, I was brought forth. When there were no fountains abounding with water, before the mountains were settled before the hills, was I brought forth. While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. When He prepared the heavens, I was there. When He set a compass upon the face of the depth, When He established the clouds above, when He strengthened the fountains of the deep, when He gave to the sea his decree that the water should not pass his commandments, when He appointed the foundations of the earth.
Then I was by him as one brought up with him. I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him, rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, And my delights were with the sons of men.
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Now you don't need to turn this.
Chapter up here something about wisdom and the first part Oh yes Proverbs chapter 17 the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge and so we have God instructing man here I think of men you know sometimes they.
When their umbilical cord is cut, it isn't long and they're on their mother's milk.
And then they put a pacifier in their mouth. They get a little bit older. Then a little milk bottle holds about 8 oz. Got to warm that milk, you know, so it can take it. And then that child gets older and he gets in school and he gets in a pencil in his mouth. He's got an eraser on the end of it in case he makes some mistakes.
And then he goes off to college and he spends a few years there and he comes out, somebody places upon him the title of A, a doctor of this, doctor of that. And now he goes out into this world and he looks out through somebody else's telescope and he says.
Ah, this is where we came from. Be careful this.
Is the answer to that.
These men.
Some of them mean well, but if they're honest, they'll be like some of the greatest men of earth is say we know 110th of what we don't know, 110th of 1% of anything. Wisdom comes from God, and God wants to dispense that wisdom to us tonight and today. Genesis chapter one.
In the beginning, God will stop there.
I have to fill that in with a verse from Job. Thank you for your patience.
Touching the Almighty.
We cannot find him out.
And behold, God is great and we know Him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
Genesis chapter one, please.
In the beginning, God.
It's like this God is saying if I don't reveal myself to you, you will be an absolute and utter darkness. There will be not one ray of light.
From you to me or in your understanding, unless I introduce myself to you and implant that light and that intelligence in you. And so it's like God says to man, he says, I'd like to introduce myself to you in the beginning. God. Oh, what a way to start this book. I have a question. Where do you think we should put that book?
That Bible that I have down there, how should we categorize that?
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, let there be light, and there was light. God saw the light that it was good. And God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light day in the darkness. He called night in the evening and the morning were the first day. God said, let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament.
And it was so God called a permanent heaven, and the evening and the morning were the second day. Job, chapter 38, please.
I just like to say for a moment here about Job that he was a wonderful man, but he had.
Had a problem. He had an accelerated sense of self importance perhaps.
And it wasn't a good thing. And so God had to speak with him about this, and he used some very interesting things to do it with. He used a lot of animals, and he had lots and lots of questions. And I think that God wanted, God wanted to tell Job some things. As we read down through this, we'll consider this 38th chapter. But we'll notice too, as he presents these things, that there's a question mark after almost every one of them. And one of them, Mr. Job, where were you when I did this? Where were you, Job, when I did that?
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And how good this is to think about this?
Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
Gird up now thy loins like a man, for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
Where was thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?
Declare, if thou hast understanding, who hath laid the majors thereof, if thou knowest, or who hath stretched the line upon it.
Whereupon are the foundations thereof passenger, who hath laid the cornerstone thereof?
When the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy.
Or who shut up the sea with doors when it break forth as if it had issued out of the womb.
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and the thick darkness of swaddling band for it, and break up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, and said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further. And here shall I proud ways be stayed. Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days, And hast thou cause the dayspring to Noah's place, that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
It is turned as clay to the seal, and they stand as a garment, and from the wicked their light is withholding, and the high arm shall be broken. Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea, or hast thou walked in search of the depth? Have the gates of death been opened unto thee, or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death? Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? Declare, if thou knowest at all, Where is the way where light dwelleth? And As for darkness?
Where is the place thereof that thou shouldst take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldst know the paths to the house thereof? Norstow it, because thou was then born, and because the number of thy days is great. Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow, or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war? By what way is the light parted which caterer the east wind upon the earth? Who hath divided a water course for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of Thunder to cause it to rain upon the earth?
Where no man is on the wilderness, where there is no man to satisfy the desolate and waste ground, to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth.
That's where we will stop.
What a strange.
Portion of Scripture.
As we look at this, we find that God is talking to Job. Job, he says you have quite an idea about yourself importance, but I want you to gird on your clothes now like a man, and I'm going to ask you some questions and like I say, as you go down through this, this is something you can't talk about maybe in a Wednesday night reading meeting with regards to.
The truth in that sense. But because it's all question marks now, when the New Testament, the question marks are taken away and we get a clear picture.
Here it's veiled purposely because God has not seen fit at this particular time in this old, old writing here to let some of these glories be known. But let's look into them a little bit. And we don't want to tread where we should not. Of course not.
But these are good questions. Where were you? Man has been given 3 score and tennis by reason of strength 4 score. And we had a brother here that made five score and one marvelous. That's grace, isn't it? I sure enjoyed his company. But here man is given just a few years and then in the 50 I'm going to look at us him. Here it says Jesus from everlasting days.
When he adorned the arch of heaven and built it, thou wast there to order where the sun should rise and Marshall every star. When Ocean's bed was meted out and spread a hoary deep, thou gavest the flood of firm decree.
In its own bounds to keep when hung amid the empty space, the earth was balanced well with joy. Thou sost the mansion where the sons of men should dwell. Jesus from everlasting days.
Thy thoughts upon us Ran Ersin was known ere Adam's dust was fashioned into man.
Oh, we've gone back. We've gone back before Earth's earliest ages. It speaks about Earth with a swaddling band around it. Here, that's what you put on a newborn child.
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This wisdom doesn't come from the universities.
Of men.
This wisdom comes from God, and he says to Job.
When I measured out this earth and I stretched the line upon it, where were you all?
Only thought of in God's thoughts from a past eternity.
And then the foundations, because they have a 70 story building going up on top of that. And then what they do with those rods come and then they pour a huge pond of concrete and that's the foundation. They sunk it for stability.
And here the Lord says.
The measures thereof, whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened?
Or who laid that cornerstone? Who sunk the margin says made to sink the cornerstone thereof?
Yes, indeed. Now that's Earth and that's something that is shakable because I stood there.
Actually, I was jacking up an automobile and I was looking underneath that car and things started bouncing around that earthquake. I got up and I ran for the door because I had these huge concrete walls all the way around me.
I got out in the alley and I stood there and I saw the power of God. Things were moving. Not just my little city, not just Seattle, not just the county, not just the state, not just the neighboring states, 30 miles down eastern Western Canada. Things are moving and shaking. Stuff's falling off the wall and things are creaking.
Old men were fearful. What was I doing?
I said Hallelujah. I said this is wonderful. Praise God, I was rejoicing.
Well, I could see the power of God, marvelous power of God.
That evening.
A man, black brother in Christ, came off his shift and he started talking about that earthquake that happened this day.
And he said, you know, men were terrified. If they didn't know Christ as their Savior, they were terrified.
And he says, But if they did know Christ as their Savior, they were saying, praise the Lord.
I said, brother, that's exactly what I was doing, praising the Lord.
But I have something that doesn't move. I have something here that doesn't shake.
This is the word of God, the word of God.
Now I'm gonna have a question for you.
Where under what category would you put that book?
Who shut up the sea with doors and so on.
He made a cloud of thick garment and darkness, the swaddling band for it. He's talking about the earliest days of this earth.
Apparently covered with water.
But he said there's a time when that's going to stop and I'm going to start something new.
God has in his mind a purpose, and that is blessing for this earth upon which we are today, someone has said. I think it's true.
This earth is shaped like a great big teardrop.
Teardrop. We likened it to a big cemetery.
And here we are. We're alone in this.
Vast universe all alone on a dying planet.
I'm not alone.
Not alone.
No, Sir.
When God was shaking that northwestern part of the United States.
I said there he is, there he is.
I talked to him that morning in prayer. Someone said God is dead.
I talked to him. You do too, if you're believer. Not dead, very much alive, very powerful.
Oh, eloquent.
He is so eloquent.
When he speaks. But I just want to say too, that the earthquake has come and gone and.
The buildings, the bricks are swept up and the cars that were crushed were hauled off to the wrecking yard and the people have been patched up. There was 25 or 6 people that went to the hospital and got themselves patched up. Nobody was killed. Nobody was killed. I hear about earthquakes in Afghanistan and Turkey and Indians, so thousands are killed. Why?
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Oh, it's the goodness of God to America. The goodness of God to Canada.
Well, we'll go on.
So he has a decreed place for this water that covers the earth. And then he says in verse 11, hitherto shall come, but no further. Was that a time of judgment that covered this world? I'll have to leave that to the Bible scholars.
It seems to be, but then he says no, that's all. Your proud waves are going to be stopped.
And I'm going to bring in some of my purposes here on this earth. There's going to be blessing.
There's going to be blessing. God has a purpose, and that purpose is His Son.
To be blessed and be honored and to be revered in this earth. And I can't understand why sin and death came into this earth. The only thing I can think of is because God needed a black dark backdrop to show forth his love and his power and his might and His Majesty and his wisdom and ruling and guiding. He couldn't have done it. Perhaps otherwise, I don't know.
Then we go down.
Verse 12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days? Oh, is he hinting to Job that there's something new coming? God said, Let there be light.
That light is going to be called here the Dayspring. Oh, the Dayspring. That's beautiful.
Thank God.
Sin, the enemy brought in this sin. Sin is death and all this darkness. And now God is talking about a dayspring.
As the days spring from on high visited us.
His name shall be called Emmanuel, Jesus, God manifest among us, manifested in the flesh, that Dayspring from on high has visited us. Does He know His place? Oh, he knows his place. His place was to come down here and do the Father's will at the Father's bidding. And he did completely, thoroughly, wonderfully. He did it to the glory of God the Father.
And I wasn't the main reason he came down here to this world, and you weren't.
No, we had one that would rather.
Die than disobey.
And he did. He went to that cross and he died and he gave up his life. And oh, there's such a blessing in the wake of that, that I'm in that blessing tonight, redeemed by the precious blood of Christ. I love that.
Let's turn now to verse 13 again.
That it might take hold of the ends of the earth. Oh, when that sunshine goes out.
It goes out and it reaches like you find on the 19th Psalm. There's nothing hid from the heat thereof when the sun goes around.
Just no need to turn to it. We know that we loveth the heavens, declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth His handiwork. Day unto day out of speech, night unto night showeth knowledge. There's no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words unto the end of the world. In them hath He set a Tabernacle for the sun, which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strongman to run a race.
Is going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it, and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Isn't that wonderful?
Oh, that's wonderful.
Let me I have another hymn I'd like to read here. Well, let's just say it from the palace of his glory. From the palace of His glory came the Lord Himself to seek us. He would have us there above.
Will go on. And so this light, it goes out into this world and it searches out everything.
You know what searches out the wicked? And he's looking. You're looking at one here that was searched out when I was seven years of age.
Poor guilty Sinner.
Stealing pop bottles that weren't mine. They were empty. They were worth 2 cents apiece. I had my little shoe box full of them, perhaps six of them.
I had taken those bottles. They weren't mine. They belonged to a concession.
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And I looked down in that box, I was a 12 cent center and I said to the friend that was helping me steal and by the way, his last name was Grace.
I said to him, I forget his first name now. I said I'm afraid.
What are you afraid of? I said.
Had that box shoebox full of 6/6 of these two cent bottles. I said empty bottles.
Pop bottles.
So that I'm afraid, he said. Why are you afraid? I said. I'm not saved.
He said you're not saved. I said I'm not saved. Well, he said you want to get saved.
I said yes I do. I want to get saved. Well, he said let's pray. I said don't know what to pray. He said you pray and you say what I say. He was a couple years older and so there was one poor guilty Sinner leading another poor guilty Sinner to Christ. Strange sight.
12 cents Center What about you tonight?
Well, the light reached in.
Verse 15 And from the wicked their light is withholding, and the high arms shall be broken.
Now verse 16, hast thou entered into the springs of the sea, or hast thou walked in search of the depth God came down on the person of Christ?
Some 102 Perhaps? Let's see.
If we can find that verse, it says.
For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven did the Lord behold the earth.
To hear the groaning of the prisoner, to loose those that are appointed to death.
Ah, did he come down and search?
Of the depth, oh how deep man has gotten into his sins. He's not a 12 cent Sinner.
That's an awful thing.
One sin in God's sight is more horrible than 10,000 sins.
My site.
No, he came down and he looked. He searched this and over. You know what? He found not one righteous soul anywhere.
All of us have turned aside. We're like sheep that have gone astray. And I'll tell you if you look at it this way, think of a a mother sheep.
Expecting a little lamb?
Strayed from the fold out in the fields.
Down the valleys.
Gone, lost beyond reach.
And while that mom of sheep's out there, she gives birth to that little baby sheep, that lamb, that lamb is born lost.
Here we are.
Could it be a little boy, a little girl, that the gospel preacher has one hand and.
A praying mommy or daddy has the other hand.
And the Spirit of God is saying to you tonight.
That conference is over. That's the one you promised me. You get saved at.
And you're not saved tonight and the time is half gone and three quarters gone is slipping by so quickly.
Yes, an eternity will begin.
And that's it. That's it.
Oh, for 17 Job, have the gates of death been open unto thee, or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
Now we come to the cross.
O cross of Christ, O glorious tree, what place can be compared with thee where God's own Son was crucified?
Was there for us. A ransom died there from his head.
His hands, his feet.
Sorrow and love flowed, mingled down. Did there such love and sorrow meteor thorns composed so rich a crown?
Look at those beautiful 4 gospels.
Matthew his head.
What did they do with it?
They crowned it with a crown of thorns, that king of all kings.
And then he comes Mark as a servant. That's his hands.
What did they do with those hands? They bound those hands.
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And they let a cross of wood.
That's Matthew as kingship.
Mark his service. Luke, son of man, What did they do with those feet?
God walking down here as a man.
They took those blessed feet and they.
They struck out in deadly intent.
And they ran those bikes.
There were spikes through his feet.
There's another gospel.
There's another wound.
A soldier with a spear.
Pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood.
And water.
Now set blood maketh atonement for the soul.
There, from his head, his hands and his feet.
And there from that side, that water and blood flowed forth.
What category would you put that Bible under?
We go on.
Have the gates of death done open unto thee. They haven't been open unto me.
Because Jesus went through those gates of death.
Has thou perceived the breadth of the earth? This gospel has gone out. Oh, it's full of hell, like a river.
It's here tonight. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.
If you take your place as a godless, wretched Sinner like me, we'll go through those courts together, into those courts together.
Then it says.
Where is the way where light dwelleth?
Oh, the Lord Jesus came a light into this world. He dwelled here for 33 years.
And As for darkness, where is the place thereof? Oh, he pointed to that. You can find out where the Lake of Fire is as darkness.
If you take it to the boundary of, you'll find that in Two Peter 24.
Let's look at second Peter 24.
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness.
To be reserved unto judgment.
Well, it speaks in other places about darkness.
There's no light there. This is the time for light now. The Word of God is the light. He's the light of the world, the Lord Jesus.
Then it says, Hast thou entered into the treasures? Verse 22 Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow?
There's all question marks behind these things I'm asking you, do you know what it is tonight to have a good conscience before God? He gives out good consciences for those that trust Him and know Him.
Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
Isn't that beautiful?
Isaiah 118. Come now.
Let us reason together, saith the Lord.
Though your sins be as scarlet.
They shall be as white as snow, though they be red like Crimson. They shall be as wool, and he goes on to say, whiter than snow.
Oh, the peace.
The peace that comes.
Many souls have lived their whole life with a bad conscience.
But he's able to take and Washington every stain of sin away.
Then it says the treasures of the hail. What a strange thing to say.
Treasures.
You know that in judgment God is going to be glorified.
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What if you were part of that scene?
Where he got glory.
For sending.
A wicked soul out into eternal night and darkness.
Under the judgment of God.
But look, it talks about hail here. Revelation 1621.
And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent.
And men blasphemy God because of the plague of the hail, for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
That's something to think about.
The Lord says, which I have this hail I have reserved against the time of trouble.
Yes, there's a time of trouble coming. It's called the time of Jacob's trouble.
And there'll be no time like it four or before or after.
Now we go down, we have to go through a lot of these in a hurry.
Verse 24.
By what way is the light parted?
Where is the light gone?
Oh, ye are the light of the world, it says now.
And.
We were talking about the Rapture. Where are those that bore the light? Where are they gone? Oh, they've gone to that House of light above.
Now, E Wind upon the Earth, you look at the scripture, more than one book, it talks about the east wind. What is it?
It's judgment.
Judgment. That's the only thing that's left for this country. That's the only thing that's left for you, Sinner. If you reject the grace of God, there's nothing left for you but judgment.
Who has divided a water course for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of Thunder?
Oh, there's something new coming in here.
Lightning and Thunder. I can't explain that, but there's something coming in verse 26.
To cause it to rain upon the earth where no man is, oh, there are lots of men are going to be wiped off the face of this earth.
In this time of Jacob's trouble.
When the Lord is going to come in for reign on this earth and there's going to be blessing.
There's going to be wonderful blessing. Look at it what it says here.
And the wilderness.
To satisfy the desolate and the waste ground.
That caused the blood of the tender herb to spring forth.
We're talking about Earth now. Lady came into the business because I deal with lots and lots of chemicals.
She said to me, where do you dispose of this? Where do you dispose of that?
Where do you put this? And so on fill out this form here. On and on, on and on we went.
She was a grandmotherly type and I thought I would talk to her, I said. Now I have a question for you, ma'am.
If we bring a gallon of oil out of the earth.
Not just for interest sake. Turn with me please. You wonder if the Bible is up to date.
I think I can find it.
Yes, no need to turn it up. Deuteronomy 33.
19 in the last sentence says treasures hidden in the sand.
Interesting, isn't it, that vast oil reservoir over there that we're so dependent upon?
God tells us treasures hidden in the sand.
Well, anyway, this lady.
She was distressed about the ecological.
Depletement or whatever you want to call it in this world, in this country.
And I tried to go along with her. Finally, I said to her, I said, ma'am, let me ask you a question. If we bring a gallon of oil out of the earth, I said, if it doesn't get put right back to where it was before, it goes out and it. Yeah, she said, I know. And I said, now what about your grandchildren in this world you're living in?
And how it's going downhill.
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And she said, yes, I know we're destroying the earth. And a tear came to her eye.
Well, we'll leave that there, it says here to satisfy the desolate and the waste ground.
Oh, it says, he shall come down like showers on the new moon grass, joy and hope like flowers spring up where he doth pass before him on the mountains shall peace, the hell go righteousness and fountains hill to valley flow.
This whole story for Earth has got a wonderful change in direction here.
The Lord Jesus has not yet taken His position as King of Kings and Lord of Lords, blessed and only potentate.
He's been in the shadows since the time they said we will not have this man to reign over us.
And he had to say, now is the judgment of this world.
He's let man go on. You might say, on this leash that he's on. In which direction has it taken him?
Why? They say if you get more education, the better off you'll be. My in laws live right next to the University of Washington. The closer you get, the darker it gets and the dirtier it gets.
Morally and other ways.
As a matter of fact, I will take a few moments to talk about this.
You turn with me, please, to job.
Chapter 36.
If you were to look at the papers out our way, you would see a great concern.
For.
The health of the young people there.
And they're dying young.
Because of their evil ways.
Young people.
This is God's wisdom.
What category would you place that book under that I have down there?
It says in verse 14.
They die in their youth.
And I'm going to read from the margin. Their life is among the sodomites.
Say, wait a minute, we're back in the book of job. We're way back.
Way back, you can't get further back than the book of Job.
Is it up to date? It says.
They'd die in their youth. Their life is among the sodomites. Isaiah chapter 3.
Please.
God is faithful.
It says here are we reading the front page of the Seattle Times today?
Isaiah 39. The show of their countenance doth witness against them.
And they declare their sin. That means they're proud of it.
As Sodom.
They hide it not. Woe unto their soul.
This book is not out of date. We're reading from articles that are thousands of years old. God is faithful. God will judge.
Back to the 37th, 38th chapter again.
They said prophetically of the Lord Jesus.
When shall he die, his name perish? When shall he die and his name perish?
Oh, it says in Psalm 72.
Let's read that. That's just as refreshing as it can be in my soul.
His name?
Verse chapter 72.
Verse 6.
He shall come down like rain upon the moon grass, and showers that water the earth.
Oh, you say mowing grass is beautiful. It is. But you know something?
A terrible, violent thing had to happen to get that grass mown.
Judgment. Judgment. He's going to overturn this Earth.
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Overturn, overturn. And he's got to mow this grass of this earth. Men are like grass, you know?
But he's going to bring in the showers that route out of a dry ground. It flourished.
What will that route be like out of a moist ground? Beautiful. Let's look at this.
In his days, verse seven, Shall the righteous flourish, and the abundance of peace, so long as the moon endureth?
He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from river unto the ends of the earth.
Oh, His name is going to be exalted, and it's going to be extolled, and it's going to be very high. And men shall, kings of the earth, shall bring their glory and honor unto Him. Finally, Where do you fit in all this, young man?
Young woman, older person.
Where do you fit in this? Have you already been part of that Mone grass? Have you been part of that judgment that swept through the hail?
Refuge of lies won't do it.
Kings of the Earth.
So on fall down before him.