Address—P. Wilson
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He was closed tonight. The first chapter of the Epistles of the Romans.
We'll read the introduction to the epistle.
The introduction being the 1St 17 verses.
The ancient first office.
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ.
Call to be an apostle.
Separated under the Gospel of God.
Which he promised before by his prophets in the Holy Scriptures.
Concerning his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Which was made of the seed of David according to the factors.
And declared to be the Son of God with power according to the spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead.
By whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations for His name.
Among whom also are ye also that called.
Who you are? Are you also the fault of Jesus Christ?
To all that being Rome, beloved of God.
Balls to be Saints.
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all.
And if your faith is spoken up throughout the whole world?
For God is my witness, whom I serve.
With my spirit in the gospel of his Son.
That without ceasing, I make mention of you always in my prayer.
Making requested by any means now at length.
I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.
So I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift.
The energy may be established, that is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.
I would not have you ignorant brethren, that oftentimes I purpose to come unto you.
What was left are hindered hitherto.
That I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.
I am dead, or both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians, both to the wise and to the unwise.
So as much as in me as I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are grown off.
Where I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.
Warren is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth.
Is it you first and also to the Greeks?
The variant is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith.
As it is written, the just shall live by faith.
Now the next verse, For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness.
And unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness.
You know.
The New Testament, as we have it, begins with the four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
The Lord Gospels give us.
The history of the bird and the life and the death and the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now if there should be someone here tonight.
Who has at anytime been tainted with the?
Quibblers argument that he would like to see the board gospels combined in one.
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That he would like to have. He doesn't see any reason why we shouldn't have one gospel and they talk about harming, harmonizing the God.
The Gospels. I would like to say this, that it's impossible to harmonize that which was never in disagreement.
There never was any disagreement between Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
May I express that in this way?
I suppose in an audience like that we have some architects.
Are some that have done some architectural work at least?
Suppose you were asked to draw a plan for a house.
Or for any kind of ability.
Would you give me one going over the outside of that building and say there it is?
You would give me a front elevation and a side elevation in the back elevation and you give me the whole thing in different sections.
Why do you say why do we so many elevations?
Wouldn't one do?
But I don't want all the walls to look the same.
They want all the strawberry to be the same all around. Don't want the entrances all the same.
You would have to have necessity give me the four views of that House.
That building?
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John present us with four different views of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Matthew presents the Lord Jesus.
As the Messiah, the King of Israel, who came to Israel according to the promises and prophecies of the Old Testament.
Mark presents him as the son of as a servant.
As the one who came to serve God, to do His will, the prophet spoke for God and served God.
Will present him as the Son of Man and graces his genealogy all the way back to Adam.
Matthew, presenting him as the Messiah only praises his genealogy back through David and Abraham, the beginning of the race that race Jewish people.
John presents him as the Son of God.
The one who always was.
The creator of all things.
In time veil is glory and became a man, and we read in John's gospel after telling of his deity his glory in Godhead says, And the word became flat and dwelt among us.
And King George the sixth was King of England.
Suppose the royal family had engaged A portrait painter.
They call them to come to Nottingham Palace and said we want you to present us, we want you to paint a picture of His Majesty.
And the poor great Vanderidge stand there and say, well, now, just how do you want him pictured?
Do you want him pictured as he might be in the circle or the bosom of his family?
Or do you want him as he might address Parliament?
Or the Iranian is the Admiral of the Fleet for the General of the Armies.
Suppose somebody would speak up and say, well, just forget all those differences and give us one picture.
Put it all in to give us one picture.
You know what?
Try to combine an admiral's attire and generals attire and family man and put it all in one country. You have nothing but confusion. Now Matthew, Mark and Luke present the Lord Jesus to us in those four different characters and each one in perfection.
John Branson doesn't give us some things that he saw and none of the others did because they wouldn't suit with the object of the Spirit of God.
Which what John was given to write.
Well, after the four gospels we get the axe, and the axe is generally the testimony to his resurrection and his ascension.
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Oh, he goes up, and the cloud received him out of his second.
Out of their standards. And there you have the Church of God formed on earth, and the Spirit of God comes down.
And what a demonstration that was of the Spirit of God.
Down here, after Christ had ascended on high, he sends the Spirit of God down here.
And you talk about preaching. Would you like to hear a blue Austin picture?
When you read the second the facts and you'll read them of a man and he didn't have any microphones and they didn't have any billboards and he didn't have any television or anything else, he simply pleased.
And 3000 people got saved at 1 bridge.
I remember what Doctor Wilson said. Doctor Wolston was a preacher and all the preacher every day of his life.
And he said that in the first in the beginning of the church's history, 3000 souls got saved at one preacher. But he says now it takes 3000 sermons to get one clip.
Well, I don't know that he was too far afield.
Too far off the mark.
But all you find the gospel going out in the power of the Spirit of God in the Acts. And if you want an index to the axis, in the first step they're told that the gospel should be preached in Jerusalem, then Judea, and then Samaria, and then to the uttermost parts of the earth.
And you follow that through and you'll find that it's true in the Acts to begin in Jerusalem and then Judea and Maria, and then they go off to the gentleman, and it closes with the gospel being preached by Paul and Rome. World the problems.
God is interested in the gospel preaching.
You know he's interested in this group audience in this room tonight.
Interested in the preaching of the gospel of his Son here and everywhere else. And he's interested in everyone defeated here in this room tonight.
Doesn't by chance anybody here tonight?
What had happened?
For all a servant of Jesus Christ. Now this is the first of the epistles. It isn't the 1St in order of time. In order of time, First Thessalonians is the first, then Second Thessalonians. But I believe that while men were given to put these books together in the order in which we find them, I believe that God definitely overruled so that we have Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, the Acts, and then Romans.
Or in the epistles of the Romans we get the fundamental truth of the Gospel.
Now there's some children here tonight. Let's stop right here.
What is the Gospel?
Maybe some of you could tell me that the gospel is good news.
Some people say, well, the gospel means diatitics.
I'll tell you more than that.
It's the gospel of God.
It's God's good news. Did you ever hear any better news if God has a message of good news for you?
I think you should listen. I think you should need it. I think you want to. These are not my words. I'm reading the words of the Spirit of God that he gave the Apostle Paul to write to some people in the city of Rome about the year 8060.
All the servants of Jesus Christ were among slavery, Jesus Christ. He was a rebel against Christ and one day he got converted and he was just changed all around. He was a man that aided Christ. One moment. He was a man that loved Christ. Burnett He got saved and he got saved right now.
I'm not saying that everybody passes through the same experience.
False. But Paul was an open outer enemy of Christ.
The Lord spoke to him from heaven on that Damascus Rd.
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He acknowledged that there was one there and he was rebelling it and he looked up.
And he calls him low.
In other words, he quit his hostility.
You know, one time.
During the war between France and England.
British Admiral had conquered the French week.
The French Admiral came aboard the French Man of War.
To surrender.
When he came aboard, he recognized the Admiral in charge of the British fleet as an oral schoolman.
Now when he saw him, he put out his hand to greet him.
French commander put out his hand to greet the British admin.
The Admiral said your sword first.
Your sword first.
He had to give in. They had to capitulate. He had to lay down his arms. He had that surrender his soul, and the Admiral could meet him as a friend that he had known before.
Vowed the need of Jesus.
You know, we go on our ways, people go on day after day, year after year and never think that there's a time coming with every knee must bow to Jesus.
I said so, but decreed it.
You needn't think that you'll escape. We'll either follow me now on the day of His grace and get a blessing, or we'll bow the knee in the day of His judgment and get doomed.
Your story first.
Surrender. Well, Paul says. A long slave of Jesus Christ, He takes the place of one who is just a slave willing to serve him. He served the devil long enough.
Called to be an apostle.
That's the expression there, you know. Notice 2B is an italics, meaning that the translator is divided. It really is called an apostle or an apostle by calling.
He got it by direct call, Christ himself.
You want to listen to one that really had a call from God? Here he is. He has something to say to.
Call an apostle by God's call, and then separated unto the gospel.
Are the second verses of parentheses.
This gospel, this good news, this good news is God.
Was promised in the Old Testament.
You go back into the Old Testament, you'll read about it. Think of a verse like this in Isaiah 53 whole that everyone the search come into the waters, and he that hath no money and come by and he how?
Without money, without friends.
Call everyone, come. Isn't that the gospel message? Wasn't that in the Old Testament? It isn't until the New Testament that we understand how understand the fly of it. But it's the gospel of God now, the good news of God that's just exactly suited to the needs of poor fallen men.
Women, boys and girls.
Met your need?
Just exactly 2.
Someone has said, you know, in the name Jesus. It says Jesus just exactly suits us since.
Well, that's the gospel.
It's the Gospel of God that just exactly what we need.
Suppose you have a man out at sea.
They thrown over thrown overboard.
It's impossible. He's a good swimmer, but it's impossible for him to swim to land. The ships gone off and left him.
Law nothing before him now but to die in the sea, eventually die of either starvation of even people float on something or die.
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Die lack of war that he can drink.
I plunge beneath the waves and die. But along comes a boat, a lifeboat, and fix him up. Isn't that what you need? Isn't that what he needs? That is just exactly suited to that man's name.
Suppose now you can take a case like this.
There's a man independent. I don't know whether you have capital punishment in Iowa or not. I think you do.
Both is a man in the state penitentiary and death row.
And he's condemned to death. He's waiting to die. He's waiting the execution for these moments to put him to death for his murder.
And I get permission to go and see him.
And I go down all with the keeper. I'm directed to the cell wherein this man is incarcerated.
And I find out who he is and I make myself known. I introduce myself to him and I have a book under my arm and it's a great big law book. And I say now, Mr. I come down here to see you today and I have a book, a copy of The Laws of the State of I.
And this is what you need.
You always obey these laws.
You'll never land here.
What do you think you'd think of?
You think I was out of my head?
And I have to be the distance.
He say, well, Mr. don't you know I've broken that those laws and that's why I'm here.
Your core health. I was better off where you came.
So what do you think would help them?
The only thing that would help that man.
If I could, there was someone could go down the aisle and find him and say Mr.
I come here to see you. I have a message for you from the governor.
Oh mean for me from the Gov Yeah, we used to go.
What is it when you read it?
He opens it and he reads it. An official pardon signed by the governor.
Now that's the only good news that would suit that man.
Apart.
Oh, you might say, well, couldn't he commute the sentence alive? And president, please still be president. But a pardon full of free signs officially by the governor of the state of Iowa is the only thing that will meet his need.
The gospel is just exactly what suits our needs.
I remember reading a story one time.
An incident that happened many years ago.
There was a man sentenced, a young man that was that we put to death for murder.
In the state of Ohio.
And the mother went to the governor and pleaded with him.
For a chance for that boy, haven't had a chance, she said. Everything had been against him, all the breaks have been bad and his mother pleaded with the governor to please do something to save her son.
He wouldn't promise her any.
So one day he went to the penitentiary.
Went into the office and he said.
I want to see this convict so and so.
He took off his own wraps, and he put on something that might look to make him look more like a clergyman, he thought.
He took a Bible under his arm and he went down the hall.
Not stop with this man's self.
And he said.
John or James, whatever his name was, he called him by name, he says. I came down to have a visit with I want to talk.
Criminal walked over in the corner of the cell and wouldn't talk.
He called him again. He says, come over. I said, John, I want to talk.
Prisoner wouldn't have anything to do.
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Well, he said. I think it's to your own interest that you've got.
Welcome.
So finally, the governor walked away the spirit.
One of the turnpies came a little later and he said how did you get along with the governor?
The governor didn't come to see me as though, yes, he did, says he was down here to see you and talk to you.
I didn't see any governor.
He said yes, he did, He says. You mean to tell me that that man with a Bible in his hand was the governor?
Yes, yes, that was no.
Then he went into a parachute, sobbing in Greek.
He sealed his zoom. There was the one man that could return him, one man that could give him a pardon and he wouldn't talk to him.
Doing with this and he did it himself. Oh, how many people there are like that in the country to say they hear, they hear the gospel message, they read a passage like this and God is speaking directly to them and they won't heed it.
Is God going to be unjust when he puts that man in hell?
Rejects God's mercy. Prepare to touch a grave cloth.
I've heard people say I wouldn't have a thing like that, it's too cheap.
Suppose the young lady.
Becomes engaged to a young man.
And they bring her a very special large diamond ring.
She takes a look at it and she says, ah, that's cheap, I wouldn't have that.
You do not judge the value of something by what you get it for.
The value isn't what somebody paid for. And before God could send you a message of peace and pardon, His beloved Son had to come into this world and die on Calvary Cross. And you'll never know what it costs to Son of God to make that salvation, this gospel, possible to you.
Never understand it on all eternity what it really costs.
You'll never know what it costs God the Father.
Allow his son to go to that.
By the 22nd of Genesis it says after these things God did test Abraham and he said take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovers offering, burnt offering. Now God never sanctioned human sacrifice in spite of what the influence never was.
He tested Abraham. Abraham had gotten that son as a gift from God.
A special gift, a miracle was performed to give Abraham that son, and now he can't test him by saying, now I want you to offer him up for me. But you know what that's all about.
The whole thing there is so you He might express in some little measure to you and me what it cost the heart of God to give His life. That's what Genesis 2422 refers to, why it costs God.
To give his son to die on our response.
The Gospel of God, the good news of God. Now if you want to go back to the Old Testament, you'll find the 10 commandments was the writing of God.
You want the writing of God, or do you want the Gospel of God?
There are a lot of people that would like to keep the law of God yet as a means of reaching God.
But like the man in the Iowa State prison, my going there with the book of the law who the state of Iowa wouldn't help him. He's broken them.
A man that says I'm going to keep the law of God as my basis for standing before all it God.
Why he's broken up.
What does it say about the law? The 10 commandments?
He doeth them, so live by.
But every man has broken them.
The Apostle Paul thought he was a pretty good man. He was a pretty good religious man.
He was at the top of his class. What did he do?
Why? He said. When the law came along and I read the 10th Commandment, it killed me.
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What's the 10th command? Thou shalt not cover.
That's something that takes place from the heart.
Is anybody in this room covered with anything?
I had a man one day and during the Depression tell me you didn't have They didn't have any money to buy anything, but his wife liked to go down and look around the windows to cover.
Anybody covered anything?
Thou shalt not cover.
All of them killed me.
That's one law that everyone broken, everyone that comes of age.
So it isn't the writing of God we want. What we need is the gospel of God. We've broken the law. We're hopeless, we're doomed unless God comes in and meets us with something just exactly suited to our needs. Suppose a man hanging over the precipice, and he hangs by chain with Ken Winston.
Which one of the 10 lengths has to break before he falls?
Why do you think?
How about the?
Anyone of them that breaks, let them go. And then you don't say the links broke, you say the chain broke.
A man that might keep dying a man and break the tent has broken the law.
And the law has no mercy.
People complain about God going to put a man in hell. Why they say it's all wrong.
And yet they got a lot of people locked up over here in the penitentiary and then in jail downtown, and people locked up all around the state. And who is doing it? Like poor failing men themselves, men that have maybe have done the same thing. I've locked them up.
I'll tell you something more about the people than I.
They had they had judges in the state of Iowa that turned every criminal loose that came before him, that get rid of the judge. They wouldn't put up with it.
That's what man feels about.
Now what about our holy God that hates him? And he provided the Savior and a tremendous cost to himself.
But the salvation is yours, free for the taking. Never say it's cheap and what it costs you up.
Third verse concerning his tongue, Jesus Christ our Lord.
One of our hymns says God himself, the source, the fountains, Christ, the way the waters flow.
The Gospel of God concerning his side.
It's all originated in the Lord of God, but it was not possible but for the work of Christ.
Christ came down here, God manifest in flesh. He came down and he took a human form.
Absolutely ***** and apart from sin. Men hated him and said away with him. We don't want him. Do you know why this world has have wars and troubles?
Because one came into this world one time. That was a Prince of Peace.
Put crown to thorns on his head, spit in his face, smoking on the head. Plucked the hair from his cheek, took him out, nailed into a cross. And right away we don't have we won't have it.
That's why this world has war. They, they kill the Prince of Life, they kill they, they kill the Prince of Peace.
Cast him out of this fire to be the now the fourth horse, declared to be the Son of God by the Spirit of.
With power according to the spirit of holiness. By resurrection from the dead.
Is not only the Son of God in the past eternity?
He was Son of God when he came into this world, John One tells us. He was the Son of God in a fast eternity.
Psalm 2 tells us that God saluted him when he came into this world as the Son of God, our and my son.
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Here it tells us that he's the Son of God by according to the spirit of holiness by resurrection from the dead.
Says we'll get rid of it. God raised me. See, there's a big controversy between God and men, Men that we don't want it, we'll get rid of it. God praised me from the dead, took him back to the heavens, took him back to the glory. Now he said, I'm going to punish this world and he's going to be the judge.
And I've already set the date and the judge has been appointed. Everything is set for the judgment of this world, for what they did to correct.
You know why it hasn't fallen yet?
Is long-suffering. God is waiting this very night. This may be the last night of God's grace. He's waiting. He's waiting. He's waiting for sinners to be saved but he's not going to auto his way. One of these days is he's going to take the Christians home. The door of grace closed and judgment compliment.
God wouldn't be true.
To his own son in the work of calories crop. And he allowed this world to go on after rejecting him.
Not going all out to go on, He's going to punish it.
That's something.
Well, we go down.
Nine First, the God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit and the gospel of the Son.
And without ceasing, I may mention of you always in my prayer. It's the gospel of God concerning the assignment. Now it's the gospel of His Son.
Again, I say it's God himself the source. Christ, the way the waters flow.
God's gospel concerning his side.
Now we go down further.
15 first or fourteen. I am debtor both to the Greeks.
They were the sophisticated, educated people of the world.
I suppose Greek culture and Greek learning was at its height.
He says I am a debtor to the Greeks.
Find that he when he writes to the Corinthians, that the Greeks were seeking after wisdom.
But he says the weakness of God, the foolishness of God, is wiser than man. What was the foolishness of God that he would send the gospel message to tell you about a man who was crucified? The Greeks thought that was foolish.
And they thought that the preaching of it was foolish. But he says I am still a debtor to the Greeks to preach it, and I'm a debtor to the Barbarians. And what happens? What do you mean by barbaric? You have to understand that the Romans call everybody that wasn't a Roman and barbarian.
You remember in the end of the act.
Valley the Apostle was on a shipwreck on a ship that was wrecked. They were cast on the island of Malta.
Wow, Malta wasn't what we would call barbarous.
But they spoke of the Maltese as being bark buried. The barbers people showed us no little kind. They simply were not the Romans. Now they were.
He's dead. Or both of the great center, the Barbarians. Both to the wise and unwise. Is there anybody here tonight?
That is outside of this category.
Is anybody here tonight that isn't wise or unwise?
Is an educated or uneducated?
You've got you have these streams here.
How can you get out of that?
Get beyond the scope of Paul's gospel and the golf ball's message. I'm a debtor to preach it. So as much as envy is I'm ready to preach the gospel to you that in Roman he's never been to Rome, the metropolis, and he was glad to go there because he wanted to tell him the gloss. You know in the act you can hear fall asleep and a marvelous ritual lost in the business of the Romans. You will see him teach the gods.
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And a marvelous teacher.
And in the epistles of the Romans you find Him on all the gospel. You have Him first. As you go on in Romans you'll find Him show how the heathen work. Nations have sunk into privacy. They gave up God and worshipped titles, and then they did praise themselves. They went lower and lower till they could go no lower. Then He takes up the heathen philosopher, and all his rhetoric and all his fine language didn't cover up the fact that He was no better than the heat, the other heathen.
Then he takes the Jews that have the law, and he shows that by breaking the law they were just honoring God.
Sums it all up in the third chapter and he says any branch of the heat of the world today, the world and.
All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
All and sin come short of the glory. God, do you believe that you ever read abstract enough? Did you ever read that little gospel track about the man that was on the boy that was on the board ship?
Not the man. Get the stories mixed up. Some of you know the track.
Title Joe Whitrick.
Here was a man and he said he was Goodman read the Christian, read the this third chapter. Romans turned telling what all his sins, He says I don't believe it. I have. Well, he says I understand. And so he began all over and he read the chapter over and every time it comes to one of the black lists, black sins in the list, he'd say except Joe Whitman, except Joe Whitman, except Joe Whitman and he'd go down the category, the whole category of things and thought groups.
Of arraigned man for and he'd say, except your wisdom.
And he got down to the end of the chapter. The man said stuff. I've had enough.
I'm a second.
Commerce, they have enough, you know, people like to excuse.
Some of you may have heard me tell this somewhere, but I'll never forget the incident many years ago.
In Saint Louis, I went with my brother Theodore Fisher. So the Bell Fountains Park. It was an experiment at that time, and as a correctional institute for juvenile delinquents, we didn't. They didn't use the name.
And there was a boy sort of reformed school had no walls and had no bars and no gates, and they were all put on their honor. It was a new experiment handling juvenile. We had the privilege of going there practically every large day afternoon and talking to the boys about the Lord Jesus.
This afternoon I was speaking there and I said trying to convince these boys what sin was and they were sinning. I said, is there one boy here that would say he's never sinned?
One boy put up his hand and said I haven't.
So now that's so beautiful.
Here is a boy that's never sinned. How old are you?
13 I said. Now wait a minute, let's analyze before we check.
Don't you think you do one naughty thing every day, tell something that isn't true or steal something or maybe punch another boy and hurting or do something where he thought maybe he did do 1A day? Well, I said that 365 in a year and in the 10 years it's 3650. If you've lived three years longer than that, why it's 11,000 or more sends you.
Another boy put up his hand and he said he said 10 times a day.
That was his neighbor's opinion.
Now if sometimes we need to get our neighbors opinion, maybe the neighbor would like to say no he doesn't send his divine fellow so we will reciprocate and say he doesn't. But it's what does dog say about it? God says all his spending come short and before.
Well, the apostle Paul lays all that out in this epistle, and then he comes to show that God has a perfect way to save a man and save him fully, freely, and yet maintain his own holiness. But while he does that, he might be just while he justifies the ungodly Sinner who believes in Jesus. Oh, what a savior, what a salvation, what a gospel we have. We have a message for you tonight if you're not saved.
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We have the gospel of God concerning His Son.
It's the good news of God that just exactly suited to you.
Met my knee, I recommend it to you. I was saying just yesterday to someone. I have met many people.
That are saying many many people that have been saved for years and I never met one person that said I'm sorry that I got saved.
Never met one.
But I'll tell you what I have heard time after time.
Sorry I didn't do it sooner.
And if you and if you're not saved, I don't know this audience, I don't know everybody, but if there is, if there are some here that aren't saved, I tell you this. If you will go before God as a guilty Sinner knowledge tonight and tell him you believe that Jesus died for you and take him as your Savior, you'll never regret it.
When you join the corners of those that say I wish I'd had done it sooner.
I believed in the show of hands. I could get quite a little evidence to that point right here.
Take my word for it, there are many here.
Some time here I would say so many years ago. I only wish I wish and save soon.
So Paul wanted to preach the gospel to those in Rome.
16 persons, For I am not ashamed of the gospel.
Are you ashamed of the Gospel?
Are you saying that let him see you? You have a track somewhere?
I'm speaking to Chris.
Are you ashamed to stand by one that's preaching the gospel?
Are you ashamed to carry a Bible somewhere? Let's people see that it's a Bible he left. Or would you rather wrap it up in newspaper first?
Now, I don't believe in finding the biggest Bible you can find. So you can advertise that you're a Christian, that that has a show you know of.
Of trying to be something. Tell them how good you are and how really out and after Christ you are. I had an uncle. What was that way? He carried the biggest violated crime on the streetcar. I believe he was Lord that he likes to brag about.
That is what I'm talking about. But aren't you ashamed to let people see you read your Bible?
Says I'm not ashamed of the gospel. And why wasn't he ashamed of the gospel? He says I know what to do.
He says I'm not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God.
Under salvation, everyone that believes.
He said, I know what it is. I know what it will do. I do too. I remember reading one time of a man that got saved. He was an ungodly man. He worked amongst amongst a lot of ungodly sinners, but he got saved and he found Christ as a Savior and he rejoiced in it and he couldn't keep himself from telling those ungodly men with whom he worked. I'm slave, I found Christ.
And some of them were ranked unbelievers, golfers, and they tried to put him to shame and make fun of him and ridicule him at every opportunity.
Some of them were blatant infidels and they would say we'd like to get into an argument with him about the violence. He says, well, as you know, I'm no match for you when it comes to an argument. I'm an uneducated man. I'm slow speech. I can't argue with you.
But he says if you want to argue with something, argue with the grace that saved me.
Is that you know what I was? You know what it did for me. Now if you want an argument, argue with what's saving. What changed me?
He says I know the gospel and I'm not ashamed of it for I know it's power and it's powerful enough to save every soul and demon tonight. If they just say I'm a Sinner now they Christ my Savior.
God is justified in forgiving every Sinner in the world, so great was the sacrifice of his staff. But he'll never save a Sinner at the expense of glory to his Son. He'll never be a party to his sons dishonor.
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Just be sure that you know that He'll never save you and have you reject Christ. But if you accept Christ, he'll receive you and He'll save you all the way through.
You know neither worrying that he won't get you home. Remember the parable of the lost sheep? Shepherd went out to find the sheep, and he found him, and he put him on his shoulders, and where did he take it?
Part of the way home and put him down and give him a kick and say now get home the best you can.
No, he put him on his shoulders and took him all the way home.
We don't have 1/2 Savior, we don't have a three quarter Savior. We have a full Savior that will see us all the way home to glory.
You want that kind of thing, I tell you I have. The gospel is just exactly soon to you.
And it's yours and the Savior is yours tonight for the same. But you have to take. All I can do is to tell you your lost condition and that you need the gospel that God has prepared. It's such a great thought.
And tell you that if you will accept Christ as your Savior, your save for eternity all the way through.
But I can't make you do it.
Do you want Christ or do you not? Do you want to be saved?
Suppose you say yes.
Sorry to say, yes I want to.
How can I be sick? Well, I'll tell you about one lady that I know, whom I know.
She was in Kansas City. She lived in Kansas City, MO.
One night she was taken to the air of gospel preaching by one of the most.
An excitable man I ever knew.
In Kansas City.
And angels finally got up and told about the gospel in the same.
And she said, I took him as my savior right then where I was. I accepted Christ as my savior. I just lifted my heart to God right there and said I'm a Sinner and I'll take Christ. I want to say.
I know her. That happened over 40 years ago.
She's living in Los Angeles today, gone on happily as a Christian all these years. Her husband wasn't saved until he died, just before he died.
One of her sons wasn't saved until just before he died. That is cancer. I had both her sons funeral and her husbands. I know they died in Christ but all the happiness of that woman have been saved all these years.
What are tongues? What are husbands to wait until his death? I'll tell you something more about threats. He not only save you, but he'll give you an object for your heart. He'll fill your soul with rejoicing.
He's a friend, the stick of closer than brother. He's one that's that will be close to you, comfort you.
Be your counselor, your guide.
All to know, Christ as your Savior is to have much more than salvation is to have the personal rights from your heart and your heart and your soul. You go on your way rejoicing.
They thought you remarks.
The blessing of some precious.
When I tell you again.
If you don't accept Christ.
All knowledge of the way to be saved won't help you.
You must make it your own.
Send that hand. We speak of the mercy of God.
So rich and so free.
But what will it prophecy so #277?
Unless is relied on by thee.
To Miss Adam 7.
We speak of the glory to come, of the heavens so bright and so care.
Unless thou is Jesus believed, thou shalt not, Thou canst not be there. I have a wonderful message from God for you tonight if you're unsaved my friend, but if you don't take it, it isn't luck, smoke and it won't be my fault.
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