Gospel—A. Barry
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53rd of Isaiah, who hath believed our report?
And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
Or he shall grow up before him.
As a tender plant.
And as a root out of a dry ground, he hath no form nor comeliness.
And when we shall see him, there is no beauty.
That we should desire him. Here's the spy.
And rejected of men.
A man of sorrows acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were.
Our faces from him.
He was despised.
And we esteemed him not.
Siri have borne our grief.
And carried our sorrows.
Yet we let us see him.
Reckon nothing of God.
And afflicted, but he was wounded for our translations.
He was bruised for our iniquities.
The testament of our peace.
Was upon him.
And with his Christ.
Were healed.
Only like sheep have gone astray.
We have turned everyone.
To his own way.
And the Lord of Jehovah.
Have laid on him.
They are Nicolas of us all.
He was oppressed.
And he was reflected.
Yet he opened not his mouth.
Is brought as a lamb to the slaughter.
And as the sheep before her shears is done, so he opened not his mouth.
He was taken from prison and from judgment. And who shall declare his generation?
Or he was cut off out of the land of the living, or the transgression of my people.
While he's pregnant.
I read this as it isn't a better translation.
And they made his grave with the wicked.
But he was with the rich in his death.
Because he had done no violence.
Neither was deceit.
Any deceit in his mouth.
It had pleased Jehovah to bruise him. He had put him to grief.
When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin.
He shall see his seed.
He shall prolong his days.
And the flavor of the Lord shall prosper in his hands.
He shall see of the travel of his soul.
And shall be satisfied.
By his knowledge of my righteous service.
Justify many.
Or he shall bear their iniquities.
Therefore will I divide him a portion of the Greek?
And he shall divide the spoil over the strong.
Because he poured out his soul.
Unto death, and he was numbered with the transgressors, and he bear the sin of many, and made intercession.
Or the transgressors.
Now let's read in the 8th chapter of the book of Acts.
8th chapter of the book of Acts.
The 26th verse.
And the Angel of the Lord spake unto Philip.
Arrive and go toward the South, under the way that goeth down.
From Jerusalem, out of Gaza.
Which is better?
And he arose and grant.
And behold, a man of Ethiopia, and eunuch of great authority under Kansas, Queen of The Ethiopians.
Led the charge of all her treasure, and it comes to Jerusalem for to worship.
Was returning and sitting in his chariot, ready. There's the Prophet.
Then the spirits are under Philip. Go near.
Enjoy myself of this cherry.
And Philip ran thither to him.
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And heard him read the prophet Isaiah.
And said to Understandest thou what thou readeth? And he said, How can I accept some man should guide me? And he desired Philip.
And he would come up and sit with him.
The place of the scripture which he read was this.
He was led.
As a sheep to the slaughter.
And like a lamb before her shears so open he not his mouth.
In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away.
And who shall declare his generation?
Or his life is taken from the earth.
And they look, answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet?
Of himself.
Or some other man.
And Philip opened his mouth.
And began at the same scripture.
And preached unto him Jesus.
And as we went on their way, they came unto a certain water in the unit at sea. Here is water. What have hindered me to be baptized? 38% He commanded the chariot to stand still.
And they went down both into the water.
The Philippine eunuch be baptized him.
And when they were coming up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away. Philip.
At the uniform, no more.
He went on his way rejoicing, but Philip was founded as.
Passing through, he preached in all the cities till he came to Caesarea.
I've just read.
About the first sermon on record that was ever preached on the 53rd of Isaiah.
And we have it on our hearts tonight.
The speak again.
From that wonderful 53rd of Isaiah.
And other transistors the last meeting.
Are these meetings in Des Moines?
And it may be the last gospel.
That you will ever hear in this world.
I may rightly say that this is the last gospel.
That will ever be preached in this world.
From the 53rd of Ivale.
Or if that was the first, this may be the last.
But I can say this.
That if they are unsigned.
A poor hell bound Sinner like this.
They open, you know.
God's mercy is still extended to you.
And you can be made just as happy.
You can go back to your home in the very same way.
This black man went back to his home.
For long ago.
You can go home rejoicing.
And I can tell you this too.
At the same blessed Holy Spirit that said to Philip, Bold joy thyself to this chariot.
Is there present at this meeting?
And we are seeking to bring this message.
Delivered after nearly 2000 years.
To your heart.
Underneath your.
In the same way that the Spirit of God was bringing that gospel from the 53rd of Isaiah.
This unit.
Who heard and believed and was saved?
And my great desire, beloved friends, is that I might present.
In simplicity.
The same person.
The force presented to that man in the chariot.
My way to clean desire tonight is this.
That I might present to you Jesus.
Hello, how little difference it makes?
The God who loves your soul.
Whether it be just one black man.
Or whether it be a company like this?
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Whether it be some little boy or some little girl.
Hello Sinner and who all rejected for offer of mercy.
It makes no difference whatever.
The Spirit of God is seeking in every way to exercise your soul.
Bring you to the place.
Where you will receive the Savior.
In the quiet simplicity.
In which this man received the message.
And remember, dear friends.
That it was the first time he heard the gospel.
They didn't wait to hear it the second time. They were saying that the first time he ever heard the message he received.
All May God grant that no one here.
Or wait for a second time to hear the message, because as I've already told you, this may be the last gospel.
That will never be placed from the 53rd of Isaiah, indeed from any other portion of God's Word. We know it is the last message in this hall for the year 1961.
All I pray our great desire is.
That you may think seriously.
Of what we have read here.
Over a furnace we have.
Presented to us.
In this beautiful, wonderful chapter in God's precious Word.
And.
What is necessary?
Or your soul salvation, where this man, this black man had this portion of the Word of God. And here we're presenting to you a message from God's blessed Word. We've read from the very same chapter that he was reading from so long ago.
The Angel of the Lord directed the tour.
O thou is of the dead, The spoil of the Lord told him to join that chariot.
And all that divine operation.
Is working.
Just as much for your salvation, beloved friend, tonight.
As the Spirit of God.
And the blessed word of God.
That's working to bring you.
Toyota, except that same voice of Jesus.
All that other friends, I can't still. I can't go higher, nor do I deserve to go higher, nor do I desire to go beyond.
The message of their fellow.
That this will all go down there in that wild effort.
Where this chariot is the passing on its way back to a distant country.
Or have that same blessed, wonderful, precious Lord Jesus Christ.
To prevent your needy soul.
Let us look at the 53rd of Isaiah briefly.
I think we will find a statement like this.
In Mr. Darby's writings here.
There were This is the prayer.
Of the godly raiment.
In that coming day, after the church has been translated to heaven, and the Lord returns, and they see in his hands the printers and nails.
And they realize that that.
Is a long rejected Messiah.
And that they crucified.
Their own king.
Who came in love and mercy?
To save them at such a cost.
But it says something like this. I'm not undertaking to give word for word.
Is what is this he says if the subject.
That is, that is on the.
Of everyone who loves the Lord.
Oh, what a precious subject it is.
We know it's going to be unspeakably precious.
Care of those of another dispensation.
Another mighty work of the Spirit of God.
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When he found the hearts of everyone who loves the Lord Jesus.
I want to ask my dear brethren in Christ, my dear sisters in Christ.
If the very reading of this chapter.
Didn't just affect you in a special, peculiar way, although you'd heard it so many times before. I can say that as I read it, it just thrilled my very heart.
And gave me such a delight to think.
Of what wonders are contained?
In this blessed portion of God's precious Word.
Are there other friends? If we didn't have anything else to prove to us that the Bible was the word of God, this is indeed a sufficient proof.
Or here we get the full description of the death and the sufferings of Christ.
Written hundreds of years before our Blessed One was born into this world.
You know what time they're going to die or where they're going to die here.
I was sure we're going to be buried in the cemetery, maybe where our fathers and mothers, why, we don't know.
My dear, smashed to pieces on the car wreck, they might be in a plane and land in the sea. No, no squad is there before us but hundreds of years before Jesus came into the world.
We have a description.
All the way where his body was to be laid.
Oh yes, friends, it is the Word of God.
And it's learning and operating and powerful.
And if anyone is bought to know the Savior tonight?
I can tell you this, it will not be my eloquence.
But it will be the fact that you have been brought under the power.
Of the Word of God.
Only God used this gospel message.
This message that converted that Ethiopian unit may use it for your soul salvation. It's very nice and I want to say again how the Spirit of God is just working.
In just as deep an interest in your soul as it is working in the interest of this black man that Philip found out there in the desert.
Well, we get a description.
A brief description.
Of the life of our blessed Lord here in this world.
It says that he shall go up before him.
As a tender plant.
Who looked out of a dry ground?
He hath no form nor comeliness.
I was on the farm sometimes and they.
Very dry weather. I've done the post holes and come across roots way down in the ground where there was no water to.
Raised those roots and I thought as I picked them up and looked at them about this scripture a root.
Out of a dry ground.
Oh, it means.
What means the Lord?
Was entirely in spirit, separated from all the corruption and evil that's in this.
In this sad world.
You know, it's been only three types of men, or three men, we might say that Was Adam Innocent.
Innocent because he didn't know right from wrong. But when he sinned we have Adam Paul.
And we've all partaken of the same fallen nature.
Of that man who listened to the person. And then there's the third, A holy man.
Think of the Lord Jesus and His absolute abhorrence of sin. And yet in a world of sin, you know our beloved, you were the Lord, our word. When you have been enjoying the Lord and communion such as we have been experiencing here during these three days, maybe you go back to your office and you hear for fantasy the Lord's name taken.
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You hear the ungodly conversation. Doesn't it hurt?
I would grieve your heart all and beat it does.
But think of a man who didn't have a fallen nature such as we have.
And yet.
In all evil.
All this world of sin.
Or indeed, he was a route out of a dry ground.
And when it says that he had no form of comeliness.
A way out where it could be rendered lordliness.
He didn't ride a prancing speed. He didn't come in a gilded chariot.
He walked from Galilee to Judah.
A humble, lowly man in this world.
And it says that when we saw him, there was no beauty that we should design. They didn't want that kind of.
Savior. They wanted one that would come in at the head of an army and deliver them from the Roman yoke and set them free. They wanted They wanted a hero or a conqueror.
Until this dust is true today as it was.
But the Lord is here. Man doesn't want that kind of a Christ. That is the natural man.
Little nothing to attract the natural man.
In connection with the person of Christ.
The hero.
On their cell attracts their their natural.
Interests and and they can and they can worship from leader and the important character. There was nothing of that.
About our blessed Lord.
So it was.
And rejected of men.
An old man. They're trying today to paint a picture of Christ that will, Sir, that will please the public. I picked up a book one day and the title of it was The Man That Nobody Knows.
And will I be on this book was that the old writers and expositors of the Bible had missed the idea, and that now this man at this late date was able to give us a true picture of Christ, and he made out that Christ was a very popular man, that he made jokes and and.
He could mingle with any class of people.
Of what conceived.
To think a man of this present generation would think that he was the first that could tell us what kind of a man Christ.
Was down here.
Right here on all that is leading up to is preparing the world for the 4th Christ. And he will be the kind of a man the world wants, or else he'll worship him, He'll sit in the temple, they'll all receive him. But when our blessed Lord was here.
He was despised.
And rejected of men.
A man of souls. I believe that words in the plural, isn't it?
He was a man of sorrow, Yes, Oh, how many sorrows.
The experience.
Here below in this world.
Think of how they were forced it they said, Thou art a Samaritan hath the devil.
Think of the Creator, the one who should have had all the.
Support of dignity and honor and respect being treated with such third disrespect.
And then at last, as his mock trial, to spit in his face.
Oh friends, you can't think of some of the worst criminals that are being tried today being insulted?
Can't think of anything more insulting than for.
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A man who stood in the face.
Of another man. But that's the way they treated our blessed Lord.
Then they took the curse of the earth and made a crown and mockery.
Put it on his head and put a Reed in his hand.
Or what suffering and what dishonor?
The head went through Beloved and why?
Oh, he wanted to prove his love to the very creatures.
That insulted him.
And you know, it's a marvelous thing, beloved friends, that when he rose from the dead, after all they had heaped upon him.
He told his disciples to go into the world and preach the gospel to every creature. Where did he tell him to begin? As you begin at Jerusalem, just as all he said, you go through all soldiers that planted the crown of thorns and tell them that I forgive him.
You're going to tell those men that drove the nails through my hands?
But I can pardon their sin. You're told that man that trusts the spirit of my side.
That there's a full salvation for him.
All things will be ever a story of love, like the story that we find in the love that's in the heart.
Of the blessed Lord Jesus Christ.
Well, it says, surely we have borne our grief.
And carried.
Our sorrows. I want to know the meaning of that verse. Turn to the 8th of Matthew for a moment.
Matthew 8.
If code is there, I'll find it in a minute.
The 16th verse. And when the evil was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed, the devil.
And he cast out the Spirit with his word, and healed all that were sick.
That it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by Everest. The prophet saying himself took all infirmities and bare our sicknesses.
Know what we have when we're sick? We fend for the doctor.
And most of those men are kind hearted men. They come in and look over their patients.
They feel his pulse, they listen at his heart, prescribe for him, and then they get in their car and away they go.
They don't spend their time weaving over their sick patients. They couldn't.
But friends, when that blessed great position.
Fill the sit here below.
He entered into their souls. He didn't just heal them with his power. And then?
What was the limit of his work? But no, it says he bore our Greece.
And carry our souls.
Sometime if you have the opportunity.
It was my apparent look at Capernaum and then look at the city of Name.
I have a map over my writing desk in my room where I do my correspondence.
A fulfilled map of Palestine.
And if I looked and lived at that journey through those mountains the Lord took from Capernaum to the city of Nain, about 20 miles or more, and through a most rugged mountainous temple motor would have fine roads.
The Lord didn't jump in the car and go off at 60 miles an hour to the city of Maine. He walked those miles.
And you'll find that one day the Lord was in Capernaum, and the next day is in the city of Nain, just when this funeral procession was wending its way to the cemetery carrying the only son of a widow. And it says that Jesus was moved with confession.
Or as he took our sicknesses and bare ourselves.
I was impressed and reading not long ago about the Lord healing the daughter of the Canaanite woman. And yet there was only the border of Tyre and Sidon I believe. What if I could find that was the longest journey the Lord ever took?
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Way up in the North Palestine, outside of the land of Israel. What forth?
Or there was a poor Canaanite woman that had a daughter that was possessed with the devil. He went up there and that's all I read of us to what the Lord accomplished there was to heal the daughter of that poor woman that was in such deep distress. Sometimes we talk, and very well we may speak about the Lord.
You must need go through Samaria and the way journey he took to find that woman.
Factors will but there were other journeys the Lord took in his compassion and love.
For poor.
Souls in deep distress and need.
Or I love to view his life. Beloved friends down here, entering into our sorrows and worlds.
And I love to think they in that connection.
That he is touched with the feeling of our infirmities now that he's in glory. We have not an high priest that cannot be touched with a feeling of our infirmities and a lot of Saints of God. When you're passing through Saul, remember that his heart is just as tender towards you in your sorrow as he was towards those of old. That he came in such a loving grace.
And.
Tenderness.
To heal and to bless.
If ever. Yet we did esteem him.
Beckon written of God hand afflicted turn to the.
18th Chapter. Zechariah.
We'll read there another prophecy about the smiting.
The seventh verse.
Awakeful sword against my shepherd.
Against the man that is my fellow Seth, the Lord of Hope, Smite the shepherd.
The sheep shall be scattered.
And I will turn my hands upon the little one.
I believe that I was friends. I don't want to go into deep doctrinal subjects, but I believe that the smiting was especially in connection with Gethsemane.
You know the Lord went into guest family.
And there he tasted the bitter cup.
Oh, think of the agony of soul that he passed through in anticipation of the cross was deported.
Think of the sweat becoming great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
There was the agony of soul that he was passing through.
All beloved, when the Lord went to the cross, he didn't go there.
Not knowing.
Gotta wait.
He and he went through in company with the father all the way all the forest.
Of what lay before him.
The bearing away.
Of the sins.
That he was going to atone for.
I love to think too, that even when we get the scattering of the sheep that he was going, he doesn't forget the little ones.
Oh, what a bad thing it was. You know, when they all forsook him.
Mayor the leader was taken and LED off.
To be tried and to be.
Betrayed and to be condemned.
But be crucified yet during that time.
When the son of God who had LED them.
In his ministry, he wouldn't forget them. Even then he was going to put his hands from those 4 little ones.
And it fled away, because now he must bear their sins.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for all iniquities. The chastisement of all peace was upon him with his stripes, which he will now.
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We're at the cross, beloved friend.
We're considering those last three hours of darkness.
We have seen the anticipation in Gethsemane.
And you know, in Gethsemane there was an Angel came and supported him.
They were angels at his birth. They were angels in the wilderness.
When he was tempted, after the temptation that came and ministered to him, angels, as we said in.
A beloved friend. There was no Angel.
And those dark and so much.
When he who knew no sin was made sin for us.
It went through the stripes of Pilate.
When it says with his stripes we are healed, we know that Pilate took Jesus and skirted him.
Barry McMillan was telling me about some of these wretched men that they can't control any other way. They've given so many strikes on their bare backs and they're laid up in the hospital as a result.
Awful experience, as he said.
The pilot took Jesus and scourged him with a Roman skirt.
Oh, why was that?
What is necessary? This shows that.
Holy of the human heart.
That couldn't conceive of enough.
To bring suffering.
To that man for whom even Pilate says I find no fault in him.
The thing that says nothing.
Compared to this wounding that it speaks of here wounded.
For our transgressions.
I read for her down in the chapter.
Well, it says.
In the ninth verse.
It was with the rich in his and I noticed in the margins his death.
In the plural.
And then further down it says.
When thou shalt make his soul.
And offering for sin.
Notice the 12TH verse 2.
The middle of the verse because he has poured out his soul.
Unto death.
Oh, what descriptive words. Those are beloved friends.
That is, you could take all the best the tortures, those that have been burned at the stake, roasted alive.
And all the other deaths that have ever taken place. Death.
And bring them all together, and then you get just a faint conception.
Of what the Lord was enduring.
There when he was wounded. For our transgressions.
And grooves for our enhancements.
All the other folks tonight, can you reject such a savior as that?
Can you turn the deck here to one who has suffered?
All that suffering in order to save your guilty soul and to fit you for eternal glory with His Son.
People may talk about.
That God isn't just.
The sin, the Sinner to hell.
So therefore you have heard such a love story as this.
And been told about how he suffered in order to save you from that place.
And you spurn the offer.
Despise the invitation.
He preferred to go on in your.
Your own way.
What can you expect?
Than the eternal judgment of God.
All things God doesn't want you to go to that place of punishment.
And God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son.
That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Oh, he loves your precious soul.
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And that's the proof of how much he loved.
You're never dying. So he didn't spare his son, but everyone spoke that he withheld. That you deserve.
The judgment he took upon.
Laid upon His beloved Son. And now for those who accept him, we have the next verse.
They are more or less they brought before us.
All we like she.
I've gone straight. Who turned everyone to his own way.
And Jehovah hath laid on him.
The iniquity of us all.
I was told of a man that was in distress about his.
And he had listened to a servant of Christ.
And after the meeting was over this.
Preacher of the Gospel.
Had only a few minutes before he was to take the train out of the town.
This man came to him in distress.
Wanted him to talk to him.
Well, because of the brief time he had to speak to him.
He said this.
He says you turn to the 53rd of Isaiah.
Read the sixth verse.
And he says go in by the 1St all.
And go out by the last all.
You see?
What he meant. Now let's look at it and get those tools. Here's the first oil he was to go in by.
All we like sheep.
Have gone straight.
In other words, was he willing to put himself among?
Where all are born astray.
And turn to their own way. In other words, was he willing to take the place?
Our poor loss.
Here.
Well if so then you could go out by the 2nd or best free thirst.
And Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
If he took his place as a lost Sinner, then.
He could accept this one.
On whom Jehovah laid.
Those many sins.
And he could say I am among that all.
And then Jehovah lay those sins when his Son was a sin bear.
On the faucet, Calvin.
They could go in and find himself a Lawson and go out.
Northern whole thin question was settled forever.
And how beautifully it is settled forever.
Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquities of us all. When did we lay our sins on his beloved Son?
It was my 2000 years of old beloved friends.
The cross of Calvin. That's why it gives me perfect peace.
That's why I know that I'm going to be in heaven and have no fears whatever as to the destiny before.
Now some people say that our sins were laid on Christ up to the time where converted if ever so well I'm in an awful position because I was saved when I was a little boy about 3 or 4 years old. So here I've got.
But six to seven years of sin that are not yet atone for wouldn't it be terrible? Most of my sins have been committed after I was converted, so I'd be far worse off than some poor old reprobate that comes to Christ tonight and accepts him as his Savior. Because according to that doctrine where he gets old his sins.
For the war, Caesar has more and more, so he'd go home reversing. But what about me?
Oh, how miserable I'd be.
All beloved friends, you can see that that isn't true. Thank God that transaction took place nearly 2000 years ago. Where was I when when the cross of Christ?
For the service there on God.
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The long before I was born, yet God who knew all my sins.
They forever permitted neither to leave out for one hour of and he took them all, and he laid them on his beloved son.
And now I know that I have first said that I have failed many times for quarter wages.
By grace I seek to run to God my Father when I sin, and confess it all not to a judge, but to a follower who has given his Son to die to save me.
Bless our beloved friends.
Gives real peace to the soul.
For no the finished work of Christ, and that is the finished work because.
He bowed his head. In death, he said it has finished. Yes, he's born all that load of sin, all that suffering he had gone through for you and me. The work was done. Yeah, he goes down into death. But to be raised triumphant beyond the power of death.
And Satan in all his dominions.
Well, we'll just consider once more that dear black man that God saved there in the desert.
As we were saying, this man was reading God's word.
He was interested in it. He'd been up to the one for the feast, for he was returning a sad and a disappointed man.
But for some way, he got.
All this precious portion of God's blessed Word.
And God was so interested in that.
Their views, they took pull up away from his preaching there in that city of Samaria, and set him down there into that desert.
To preach, to have one man.
All friends think of the worth of a human soul.
Think about the worth of that soul was to.
A black man made no difference.
God loves that man's soul. He knows for a couple about his sins.
You know all about his getting that that question of the word.
He sent his servant down there.
Just at the right time.
For preaching to him Jesus from this very passage of his friends.
That we've had before. And then when he had, he delivered his message.
In the NFL, for all the enemy to be baptized.
What did he want to be baptized for? Or if he wanted to be buried for that one?
His death had flown from all sin. He wanted to be separated from everything. Judaism or hedonism, whatever it might be. He wanted to be buried in the grave of Jesus.
God, the Spirit of God who has sat in there to take hold of that carrier, catches away Philip and he's found in other places.
The year this man goes on back to his own country.
Rejoicing a new creature in Christ Jesus.
Well, I was friends tonight. Oh, I wonder if there are any here that are halting between two opinions.
I'm sure this man never had another opportunity like that in the desert to give.
And you may never have an opportunity like this, they said at the beginning of the meeting. This may be the last gospel sermon that preached from any subject.
From Isaiah 53 or any other person of God's word.
Let me and preach you and my Savior's name not to miss the opportunity.
Often suppose.
You're boring without being saved tonight and the Lord were to come before morning. What about your precious soul?
We're going to spend eternity.
Then the Holy Spirit that moved Philip to.
To join himself to that charity is working with your heart and conscience tonight.
They appeared with it.
Accept that savior.
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Don't reject him another moment.
The city mind your own personal savior.
As we speak at this moment, don't leave this room, beloved friends.
Without.
Knowing for certain.
That Christ is your Savior.
And that you're on your way to heaven, God granted.