Gospel—George Cook
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Good evening and welcome to the Gospel Meeting.
The directions to the No Offense day, but the directions were a little difficult for me to understand, to retain. But the directions here tonight for what we have to tell are very simple. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. Can we sing #13 in our hymnal, our little hymn sheet #13?
Man of sorrows. What a name for the Son of God.
Who came what a contrast man of sorrows to this one, who is the darling of the Father, the one in whom he found his delight. Please start that for us, please.
Cortana.
Everything.
And all day.
Till my heart.
Wisdom.
First Peter One talks about.
The suffering of Christ and after that the glory is an order.
He suffered. Man of sorrows. What a name for the Son of God who came ruined sinners to reclaim Hallelujah. That means praise the Lord. What a savior. You know, tonight I wonder if you recognize that you're in that class called Sinner.
A man moving in independence of God without any respect for God and his authority over your soul.
But if you have.
Hallelujah. What a savior. And we're going to talk tonight, Lord willing, about blindness.
You know, when they asked me a couple of weeks ago what I should to take the Gospel meeting tonight, I asked the Lord what I should take up and.
It came very clear, and I've enjoyed the passage before John 9 and here are readings are in John 11. So it's to me, it was just kind of another encouragement that this is what the Lord has before us, a blind man. And I wonder tonight if there's someone here that's a blind man or a blind woman or a blind boy or a blind girl that doesn't realize that before a holy God, before the Son of God.
You're a Sinner.
And God is a just God, but he's also a savior God.
They're in shame and scoffing root in my place. Have you seen that? Has your eyes been open to see that He took your place? He was judged. He who knew no sin. He was made sin for us. He that knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Seal my pardon with his blood. Hallelujah. What a Savior. Guilty, vile, and helplessly spotless lamb.
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Of God was he. What a contrast man of sorrows.
Son of God.
Vile and helpless, spotless lamb, full atonement can it be? Hallelujah. What a savior. Let's look to him. Lord Jesus, we thank thee that we have this good news to talk about. We have thee to present to blind eyes. Father. Lord Jesus, we have thee the sent one of the Father to present to our hearts. And so we pray thy blessing and liberty of thy spirit.
And working in each one's heart the speaker as well as the hearer, And let us know the different state of each one here, and the need of each soul. So we pray our Father, that thou would give thy spirit to work in accordance with that need for eternal blessing. And for thy glory, our Father and the glory of thy Son, the Lord Jesus, we ask in his name. Amen.
Let's look at John 9.
Start actually back up a few verses in John 8 and it's interesting.
At the end of John 8 and John 8 the Lord is presented as the light, but at the at the end of John eight he presents himself as the I am.
Jehovah come.
Verse 58 Verily, verily say unto you, Before Abraham was I am, you know, in John one It says he came into his own the Jew, but his own receiver not. But as many as received him to them became. I better read it to them became the sons of God, even those that believe on his name. I'm gonna read it through again, because I wanna get the correct, uh, words on that John one. Verse 11.
He came into his own, his own receipt, and not but as many as received him.
To them gave he power our authority to become.
The children of God should read even to them that believe on His name. You see how simple the gospel is.
The Lord Jesus died on the cross of Calvary. He took your punishment. He took your place. He was your substitute. You just see him that he died for me.
You believe it, and you thank God for it.
Hallelujah. What a savior.
You know, in the book of John it presents the Lord Jesus as the Son of God.
In Matthew, he's the king, the Messiah, Mark, he's the perfect servant. Luke, he's the son of man. But in John he's the son of God. In John there's no genealogy, no ascension. He's tabernacling with men. He became flesh. The Word, the eternal word. The word was with God.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God a distinct person.
The sun.
Was and he was God.
And he became flesh and dwelt among us, the Father tells us in First John 414, the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. And all through John, the Gospel of John, even in the epistle we have the expression sent. He's the sentence of the Father. Why? Because of God's love to you. He wants you to know that the Father sent the Son. He is a just God. He's a holy God. He cannot allow sin in his PR presence. He must judge sin. He's a just God.
But he's a savior, God. He's a God that have you to know his love for. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish but have eternal life. God wants you to enter into that sphere of life tonight. He wants your eyes to be open. Before we begin Chapter 9. Uh, let's look at UH John 16 and verse 27 and 28.
Umm, I don't know if you've read that book by Mr. Hawking called The Son of His Love.
It it shares truths regarding the eternal sonship of the Lord Jesus. And I've. I've just started to read it, but I tell you I've really enjoyed it so far. And then Mr. Bellitz, on the Son of God, I encourage you to pick up the Son of God by Mr. Belly. So sweet.
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Verse chapter 16 and verse 27 for the Father himself loveth you.
I believe a brother brought that before us during the Reading meetings because ye have loved me.
You know we can't exalt the Lord Jesus too high.
He is all the fullness of the Godhead.
Colossians tells us that he is a preeminent 1 The first born of creation. Not that He was created, but that he created all things. They were created by him for him, through him. He's the first born from among the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence. This is the delight of the Father. The Father in a past eternity we read in Proverbs 8 was that he was a delight.
Of God.
As he was there in eternity.
There as he was born in Luke 2, the angels proclaimed that there is delight in men, delight in the sun, the Lord Jesus in his introduction, his incarnation into this world.
And then as he begins his public ministry at the baptism by John the Baptist.
The Father again says, This is my beloved Son in whom I found my delight.
And then that picture of his, of his being in the glory, Transfiguration. Again the Father's voice. This is my beloved Son. Hear ye him. Hear ye him tonight exalt Christ. He is God, become man, the creator of the universe.
Hebrews one says, God, who had diversed times, diverse manners, taken time, passed into the Father through the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us in Son. Another way to say that leaving out some preposition, God has spoken in Son, God has become man.
John 16 verse 27.
And have believed that I came out from God. He was always eternal, always with the Father. The Father again sent the Son. John 1628 I came forth from the Father.
That was before he became Incarnate, pre Incarnate.
And I'm coming to the world now he's incarnation born.
To us.
A. A child is born.
Became a man.
The son always decided given.
And again I leave the world and go to the Father.
This person.
Is the one who wants you to have that blind, those blind eyes open to behold John 9 and verse one. And Jesus passed as Jesus passed by, because they picked up stones to stone him at the last verse of John John 8 and he hid himself.
And went out into the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by. And as he passed by he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And the disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man or his parents, or he was, that he was born blind?
You know, we we want to come up with answers for difficult things that happen in our lives, and we're finite. We don't have the answers. He has the answers. We look for causes. We think it's maybe God's government did this, or because of this, God's foreknowledge would know that perhaps we leave that with the Lord. And the Lord says, neither has this man sinned nor his parents, but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. I must work the works of him that sent me, is that word.
Sent one.
I must work the works of him that sent me while for his day. The night cometh when no man can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, and and said unto him, Go wash in the pool of Siloam, Stop there for a moment.
Now wait a minute. This man is blind.
The Lord spit on the ground.
Reached down and made clay of the spittle.
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And then he placed it on his eyes.
What was that all about?
I say that reverently because we know.
The Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.
He had a purpose and he tells them to go to the pool of Siloam, which is interpreted scent. Interesting. There's that word again, scent. So he goes to the pool.
He went his way, therefore, and washed and came seeing.
You think of this.
The presentation of the Lord Jesus to man.
He becomes He's God become man.
And then he comes into his own but his own will.
Receive not.
But as many as received him. Have you seen this one? You know the clay often speaks of what we are by nature.
Our humanity. But here's a holy humanity, that holy thing within the.
The Angel speaks to Mary but.
Here he becomes a man.
And he is sent in the water. He is sent to the pool of Siloam.
And there he washes.
And I would suggest to you, as we re read and take up the word of God that presents the sent one to our soul, we see him become a man, that he died for me. And that pool is open and available to everyone. The pool of Siloam, the scent. 1 And so this man, there's no question, no questioning. He obeys. He went his way, therefore, and washed and came seeing that Simple.
The gospel is simple. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
And thou shalt be saved.
So the first there are several groups of people that he comes into contact with now.
The neighbors verse 8 therefore when they which had before had seen him that he was blind said is not this he that sat and begged. Some said this is he, others said well he's like him but he said I'm he. You know when you imagine just I can't imagine but imagine this a man blind and I don't think he wore dark glasses like some that have that.
Situation today do, but he's sat and his eyes perhaps disfigured. I don't know if born blind.
Uh, not having any normal look appearance to him.
Umm, and all of a sudden now?
His eyes are open. He's bright. He's changed. He's completely different.
But there's something else, not just externally but internally it's been a work.
In his soul. And so he has to say I'm he, you know and uh, Romans 10/9. I just thought about that. Maybe we should turn to it. I think it's an important and applicable verse right here.
It says if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shall believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved for the for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. It's interesting in our lives how that Christianity is salvation is by faith, by grace. You're saved through faith and.
That and not of works that any man should vote so salvage.
By faith. And that none of yourself is a gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.
It's interesting that God uses the mouth as well.
Not to cause a soul to be any more saved, but as far as their eternal destiny, but I believe to help them in the pathway of faith.
And so it's good at the grocery store, at school, at where you work to let your colors, to fly your colors, to let folks know that you're his, that you belong to the Lord Jesus.
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I am he therefore said a unto him, How are thine eyes? Opened? He answered, and said, a man, So he he has this realization. He's a man that is called Jesus, made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam and watch. And I went and washed, and I received sight. Then said they unto him, Where is he? He said, I I know not. He was blind when the Lord healed him. He was blind when the Lord sent him to the pool of Siloam. I don't know how he got there, but he got there. He made sure he got there.
And he he washed. He came seeing.
But he hadn't seen the Lord, he said, I don't know, I know not. Verse 13 They brought to him the ferret they brought to the Pharisees. Him that aforetime was blind and it was the Sabbath day when Jesus made the clay. Uh oh.
Here's something for the religious man to get a hold of the Sabbath day.
It was Sabbath day when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes. Little did the Pharisee realize this was the Lord of the Sabbath. And then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon my eyes, and I washed, and do see, And therefore said some of the Pharisees, this man is not of God, because he keepeth not the Sabbath day. You think of it the Son of God.
In the presence you think of his expression in John 11.
In Matthew 11.
28 Come unto me, all you that labor.
And the invitation this evening is just that come unto me, he says, All ye that labor and heavy laden.
And I will give you rest.
God wants you to enter into that rest.
To enjoy your sins forgiven and learn of me I'm meek and lowly. Just think of it. The God of the universe. The Creator of the universe. The The preeminent 1 here.
And being talked about saying this man is not of God because he keepeth not the Sabbath day, Others said How can a man that is a Sinner?
Do such miracles, oh some thoughts, and there was a division among them. And they said unto the blind man again, What saith thou of him? That he hath opened thine eyes? And he said, He's a prophet.
So there's begins to be this growth, this growth in this blind man. I say blind man because I I don't know his name, but you know at this time he's not blind anymore. He sees Hallelujah. Have your eyes open to see he's a prophet. But the Jews did not believe concerning him that he had been blind and received and received his sight until he called the parents of him that he received his sight. So they're they're still trying to understand how this miracle could happen.
So they, they asked him. They brought the parents.
And they asked him, saying, Is this your son?
Who you say was born blind. How then does he now see his parents answered and said, We know not that this is we know that this is our son, that he was born blind. But by what means he now see it we know not. Or who opened his eyes, We know not. He's of age. Ask him. We he shall speak of himself. And and we get a little glimpse of the fear that was in the ju and jewelry at that time, the fear of anyone that would suggest that Jesus was the Christ.
The Son of God.
Today, you know, it's interesting in this land we have so-called religious freedom.
But there's an oppression now more than there was when I was growing up as a child. That name.
That name is rejected of men.
But how sweet and precious that name is to the Father.
So they backpedal and they say, well, you'll have to ask for him for himself. These words fake his parents because they feared the Jews. For the Jews had agreed already that any man did confess that he was a Christ. He should be put out of the synagogue. Therefore, said his parents, He's of age, Ask him.
Then again call they the man that was blind, and said unto him.
Give God the praise. We know that this man is the Sinner.
He answered and said whether he be a Sinner or no, I know not. One thing. I know that where is I was blind. Now I see and I I don't wanna be light here, but I almost think of the expression. Well, hello.
I was blind. Now I see.
He's, you know, he's bold. Before these religious men here, he was a blind beggar a little while ago and now he's bold and says hello. I was blind. Now I see.
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And then he says.
Then said they to him again, What did he today? How open he thine eyes, How many times had he given this testimony? But he gives it again.
I told you already and you did not hear.
Wherefore would you hear it again? Would you also be his disciples? I mean this. This man, this blind man, has insight.
That these men, he def.
He didn't tell the story again. He didn't need to. But he asked him, if I told it again, would you become his disciples? Just think of the religious pride and I wonder sometimes.
If my heart, maybe your heart.
Is guilty of that a religious pride that keeps you from really confessing what you are? You know, that's just what the gospel is.
You tell God what you already what he already knows. He knows you are a Sinner, that you need a savior telling that.
On to him.
That what the Bible says, that all has sinned and come short of the glory of God and the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
They reviled him and said, Thou art his disciple. What we are Moses disciple.
I believe if Moses had been alive right then he'd say no, I've been over the house, but he's the son of the house. This is the Lord, This is God the Son.
We know that God spake unto Moses As for this fellow.
This is Jehovah's fellow. We know not from whence he is. The man answered and said unto him, Why herein is a marvelous thing, that ye know not from whence he is? And yet he opened my eyes.
You know, unbelief.
Is so irrational.
You know, evolution is an example of man's crowning explanation.
Of reasoning that there is no God. You know what God says.
The fool has said in his heart, there is no God.
Nabel.
You read about naval in First Samuel 25 fool rich man received much re received protection from David and his men.
Four, God has said it, and this man has had his eyes open and his heart open and his intellect open to think clearly. And he says to these men that were religious men that could have put him out.
And we'll find out. They do put him out here, and there's a marvelous thing that you know not from whence he is. And yet he opened my knife. Now we know that God heareth not Sinner sinners, but if any man be a worshipper of a God and doeth his will him he heareth it so he's growing. He's a man. He's a prophet, one who do does his will.
Since the world began, it has it was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind. If this man were not of God, he could do nothing. Now who's speaking? The beggar, The blind man, The one that was blind? Now he has his eyes open and he's teaching. These religious man, these doctorates, PhDs in divinity. They're teaching. He's teaching them.
That they need to have their eyes open too.
They couldn't take it.
They say, they all. They answered, and said unto him, Thou was altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out. Jesus heard that they had cast him out. And when they had found him, he said unto them, Do thou believe on the Son of God?
That tremendous they cast him out, but they had already rejected the Lord. And when they cast him out, there was the Lord to meet him, and he had the privilege of following.
Human rejection. You know, it reminds me we're going through First Samuel in our assembly.
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And we noticed in John with Jonathan, he had a good start. He had a love for David, he gave his all to David. But he didn't follow the Lord Jesus in the path of rejection.
This is a word to those that are Christians. You've had your eyes open. You've seen the loveliness of Christ. You've seen that he died for you. He's your He's your savior.
You need to follow him. You need to be earnest in your life.
You know, I just, umm.
A few months ago I spoke on and studied the thought of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. I was remarking to her brother during prayer for the gospel how something sometimes something so simple.
And it's in this expression can be so sublime.
The Son of God.
Son of God. And as we looked at and thought about these different scriptures about who this person is.
The glory of the sun. And as we give honor to the sun, we honor the Father.
If we do not honor the Son, we do not honor the Father.
The Son of God.
He thought of not robbery to be equal with God, but made himself of no reputation. He became a man.
And he went to the cross.
For me, the Son of God.
What was his motive? The person, the Son of God? The motive. And I think Don Lamb for that suggestion, he gave me this thought.
Who loved me? It was his motive. You ever thought about that? The Son of God who loved me?
And gave himself. That's his work.
This person, the Son of God, his motive, who loved me.
Gave himself the motive, the object for me.
Put yourself in that thought. That's a verse at the end of Galatians 220. I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live. I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me.
And gave himself could not give any more for me.
I know it's the work on Calvary.
Was the greatest, highest thought is the burnt offering.
He gave. He did that, for the Father gave glory to the Father.
But we can enjoy.
That the Good Shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. I'm one of his sheep. Are you one of his sheep? Are you wandering, still lost and undone in your sins?
Are you still blind?
Since verse 32 again, since the world began, was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind? If this man were not of God, he could do nothing. They answered and said, Dost thou thou dost altogether born in sin? Were they not?
Well, wait a minute, 'cause the Bible says all have sinned.
And come short of the glory of God, does thou teach us. And they cast him out. Jesus heard that they had cast him out. And when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God? He answered, and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him? And Jesus said unto him, Thou has both seen him, Yeah, wonderful, this one whose eyes were blind, as now seeing him.
And it is he that talketh with thee.
He went from a man to a prophet.
To one who was a worshiper of God.
To the Son of God.
God's desire is that we grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus.
The Apostle Paul says that I may know him. Oh wait a minute. I thought Paul was already a Christian. Yes, he was. I thought he already knew him. Yes, he did.
That I may know him.
We need to have this desire in our souls, in the word of God, to know Him.
The Son of God, who loved me, gave himself for me.
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And he worshipped him, he said, Lord, I believe, And he worshipped him.
Isn't that wonderful? The normal course when the soul comes into the good of Christianity believing on the Lord Jesus.
We then become worshippers.
And Jesus said for judgment, I am coming to this world, that they which see not might see, and that they which see might be made blind. And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?
That's amazing. There were those of the Pharisees.
That were still there during this conversation. In chapters 9 and 10 continue on, we find out that this man was one of his sheep that the Lord had found, the Lord had given himself for.
But some of the Pharisees which were there heard these words and said, are we blind also?
And Jesus said unto them, If you were blind, you should have no sin.
Have you owned before a holy God that you need?
Sight that you are blind, that you are in your sins, that except he work in your soul, That you'll remain blind and apart from God and are destined for a lost eternity. Sin is a terrible thing.
Sin. God cannot.
Allow In his presence he must judge sin. He is a just God, a holy God, but he's also a savior God. If you were blind, you should have no sin. But now you say we see, therefore your sin remaineth.
The Son of God.
Love me.
You know and I in Ezekiel 36, nine it says, Behold.
This is Jehovah speaking to his people, Israel, but I like to apply it to myself.
Behold, I am for you, Ezekiel 36 nine.
You should be tilled and sown. We don't like the tilling.
Tilling in our lives. We don't like that. But he tills so that he can sew, that he can bring forth fruit in our lives that we had before us in the address.
Psalm 56 nine says God is for me.
You can put emphasis on any one of those words and it's true and it's beautiful. God, the one who is God is for me. God is. It's a definite thing. God is for me.
God is for me.
God is for me.
Take it in. Behold, I am for you.
And then we realize God is for me.
In Romans 831 Says If God be what forest, who can be against us?
What a sphere, What a pool of Siloam. We can go to that pool. We can take that water of the Word applied by the Spirit of God to present to our eyes Christ become a man. God become a man, the Son of God.
Who love me and gave himself for me. Let's sing again that hymn #13 man of sorrows. What a name for the Son of God who came. Let me start that, please.
Harry can have.
The room.
In my.
Lake.
Heal my pardon.
William.
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Wow. Savior.
Kill. Evaluate.
Lamb of God was he. Oh, let me see.
Our God and Father.
Let me thank you for sending that thou hast sent thy son, the Lord Jesus.
We thank thee, our Father, that thou art interested in each and every heart in this room this evening.
We pray, Father, that thou would just bless us.
With a further knowledge of this one who loved me and gave himself for me, Father, we pray that there's anyone in this room that yet has her eyes closed.