Gospel—E. Wakefield
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Mike, we sing together #14.
Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power? Are you washed in the blood of the lamb?
Are you fully trusting in His grace this hour?
Are you washed in the blood of the lamb #14?
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Saving his praises our Father in the world. It is the bottom of the world.
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Alive in the world of the land.
Where you are.
Sing #37 The Gospel of Thy Grace, My Stubborn Heart.
Has 1 #37.
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Forever.
Grace of the world.
The Lord.
Where I was in the middle of the Children's Hour.
Worldwide.
Outside.
The world.
Is taking.
And.
Might we open our Bibles?
The first chapter of the book of Romans.
Romans, chapter one.
And verse one.
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ.
To be an apostle.
Separated unto the Gospel of God, verse 3.
Concerning his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh, and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness.
By The Resurrection from the Dead, verse 16.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.
For it is the power of God unto salvation.
To everyone that believeth to the Jew 1St, and also to the Greek.
You'll notice, my friends, if you read these verses carefully, that we have mentioned here the Gospel of God. Secondly, we have his Son Jesus Christ.
Our Lord, thirdly, we have the resurrection.
Of the Lord Jesus Christ. And then we have the power of God under salvation. Or how blessed, my beloved friends, tonight is the proclamation of the gospel of God. Surely there's many of us in this room tonight that can look back with joy.
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To that time when the Gospel of God concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Touched our poor dead hearts and we came out of the devil's darkness into the broad daylight of the grace of God.
We were brought from death to life. We were brought from the power of Satan to God. We were brought from that road to hell under that road to heaven. And I'm sure there's some in this room tonight.
That I've never yet believed the gospel of God concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord. And you were here tonight, my friend. And I ask you what you have in this life. You have absolutely nothing, I'm sorry to tell you.
For I was on that broad road to destruction, and I know something of the heartaches and the sorrows of life and all that the devil has with his plans and schemes to bring you down to hell, and he has nothing for you.
But a grave and eternity, because you have to leave the world.
You just can't stay here. No matter how rich you are or how poor you are, you cannot stay in this world. You have to go.
Into God's eternity and you have to stand before God. You may there may be in this room tonight an atheist or an infidel or somebody else who says, but I don't believe that, But that doesn't matter.
As far as God is concerned, you have to leave and go out into eternity, and you have to stand.
In the presence of a holy God. What a solemn thing, beloved, I'd like to point out too.
That the gospel of God is not concerning you.
And the gospel of God is not concerning me, and the gospel of God is not concerning any man in the world.
But the gospel of God?
Is concerning.
Jesus Christ.
Our Lord.
But I would say to any in this room who have never yet received the Lord Jesus Christ.
As personal savior that you had better be concerned.
Bar is the gospel of God. It's not concerning you.
But you should be concerned by the gospel of God. Now the next thing is this, that the gospel really means God's good news. You know, this world is full of bad news. Tonight you can read it in the press, I suppose You can hear it on the air. You can see pictures of it as you walk down the street, and all you see is ruin.
And the whole business collapsing all around us.
As man loses control of the situation.
And our governments come to the place where they probably put up their hands and say we're sorry, we can't do anything, we can't do anything.
And my friend, tonight you should be concerned about these things. You should be concerned about the mess the world's in.
You can be future become concerned about what is going to happen.
In this world.
For I assure you on the authority of God's Word.
That God is going to pour out onto this world.
His judgment? The world has hopelessly lost.
Like a sinking ship going down under the waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
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And nobody, I'm sure it takes much time to try to repair a sinking ship. You have to leave it. And, my friend, tonight there is a refuge for you outside of this world, and that is in Christ, in Christ. Now, I thought tonight that I would look at a couple of passages in the Old Testament and one in the New Testament, where we have, I believe.
The gospel of God concerning His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Let us look first back to the beginning of the Bible, the third chapter of Genesis.
Now this is a well known chapter to most of us.
But like all the Bible that never grows old, never grows old. It's the same old book that our great, great, great grandfathers read and enjoyed. And today, in 1976, we can still open the Word of God and read from His holy pages. Genesis 3, verse 15.
And here we have God himself speaking. It's the gospel of God. Here we have in this 15 verse God speaking to the serpent and he says.
I will put enmity between thee and the woman.
And between thy seed and her seed it shall bruise thy head.
And thou shalt bruise his heel.
Isn't that a wonderful verse?
Oh, thank God for Genesis 3 verse 15.
It's a hope, my friends. It's God's gospel, and we've often said that God himself.
Reserved to himself the privilege of being the first gospel preacher.
Himself God. In this verse He presents the gospel. All what wonderful blessed news we have here of the promise of a deliverer of a Savior. Let us notice now about this verse.
That God says I will. This is one of God's I wills in the Bible. I will put enmity between thee and the woman.
And between thy seed and her seed. Notice, my friends, it's her seed, nothing to do with Adam. It's her seed, the woman seed. And this brings before us in connection with the gospel of God concerning his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord, that he was born of a virgin. Now there may be some in this room, because we do not know everybody here.
Maybe some who say, well, we don't believe in the virgin birth of Christ tonight. Then I say, you're not a Christian. You cannot be a Christian and deny the virgin birth of Christ now.
There are children in all that don't understand this, and we don't expect them.
Understand this, but you who are older, you who are grown up, you have reached the age of responsibility. I stand here tonight in the presence of God and say, I believe in the virgin birth of Christ.
If the Lord Jesus wasn't born of aversion, he is not the Savior that I'm going to preach tonight by the grace of God.
All my friends, He was born of a virgin sent apart the holy, spotless, eternal Son of the living God, the Creator of all things, and the One who sustains everything and holds everything in place by His mighty power.
The Christ of God.
And here God himself has given out his gospel.
And even in this 15th verse we have back in Romans 1 or.
Verses 103 the very thing we have in Genesis 315.
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This shows how important this is to God, the gospel of God.
And the virgin birth of Jesus Christ our Lord. You see, beloved friends, when God talks about his gospel, he brings us right back to the time when sin entered into the world. And that solemn verse tells us and death by sin. And so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.
This is a very serious thing, you know, To be here tonight in this room, not to hear a sermon, God forbid.
But to be warned, my friend, that you are going out to meet God and that you are going to spend eternity with the devil and the damned unless you're saved. And that covers every man in the world that ever lived from Adam's time down.
For tonight, in this little and this room here, there are, I suppose, two kinds of sinners, and only two.
Those who are saved and those who are lost.
Those who are heaven bound and those who were hell bound. And my friend, I warned you tonight.
I solemnly warn you that hell is not a dancing hall and hell is not a place where man gather to drink beer or drink strong drink. And hell is not a place where men go to have a good time.
But our Lord Jesus Christ, the only man whoever lived, who never told a lie, said there shall be weeping.
And wailing, Can you imagine? And gnashing of teeth. For how long? Forever, you know. You can hardly imagine it forever. Never to stop. Never.
In this life, man says, Well, I'm suffering agony, but I know that death is coming very shortly to take me away.
But in that place there is no end, no end.
I want to ask you because we live in a day where men don't believe.
The Word of God.
And I've talked to men and women too, who say, but I don't believe the word of God.
But they will believe someday. They will believe someday. And I tell you, my friend, if I may use this expression as an escaped prisoner of the devil brought out of the Devil's Jail and prison and penitentiary.
The devil's penitentiary into the arms of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I solemnly warn you.
That after my conversion, I literally trembled.
As I realized how close I was to hell, friend, You can't imagine.
You can never even enter into your mind or my mind what it will be like to have the Lord Jesus say deprived from me.
Into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels. Can you imagine that?
That's so Psalm. Oh, I wish often wish I could live in the 19th century.
And attend a gospel meeting by some of the old servants of God, and see men and women in their chairs weeping.
Weeping. Wouldn't that be a wonderful thing? If we looked into the audience tonight and saw men and women weeping and we could get down and say, what are you weeping about? And they said, oh, I'm lost, Sir, I'm going down to the dungeons of the damned. I'm lost. I must get saved tonight or I'll never get out of this building. I refuse to leave this building until I know I'm saved for God's eternity. But, my friend, we don't live in that kind of a day.
We live in an ungodly age where everything is becoming more wicked every day of the year.
And if the Lord doesn't come soon, we're going to say it's so wicked and so terribly bad that we'll just absolutely long to leave it.
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And the goal to be with Christ, as many of us desire, by the grace of God. Tonight, friend, I warn you, before I go on to my subject, The next point I tell you solemnly.
Young man who has a Christian mother or father, Young lady, you are playing a losing game.
And when you come to the Gospel meeting and snicker or smile and laugh, you know you're not fooling anybody but yourself.
Because I say again, you are playing a losing game. You can't play with the devil and win. Absolutely impossible. You will never win, my beloved friend. If you play with the devil, he'll rob your soul as sure as you're breathing.
But I want to look now at another verse in this chapter and that is the 20th verse of Genesis 3. Continue on with our subject.
Verse 20.
And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. Notice my friend, sin came into the world. Death passed upon all men. And here's a man who dares to call his wife the mother of all living. Why? Because he had faith. And in the next verse, notice what happens as a result unto Adam also.
And to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins.
And clothe them.
Here we go back again. Now to Romans chapter one, verses one and three, the Gospel of God.
Concerning his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. For when God spoke to our first parents, I believe, about these coats of skins, He was really saying, this is my gospel and when he produced the coats of skins.
He as much as said, and this is concerning my son, Jesus Christ our Lord. You see, my friends, the animal, and I believe there was only one the animal from which.
These skins were secured is a picture or type of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And we notice here that in our verse that these coats of skins were made.
By God himself. You see, God. Didn't I speak reverently? God didn't ask Adam to kill an animal and make coats of skins. No man could make nothing when it comes to a covering to be in the presence of God. He can't do anything. Nothing, my friend. You can't do anything to save yourself. I was surprised recently to find.
That somebody had said.
Be surprised that Christ has done 50% of the work on the cross.
And the poor dead hopeless Sinner does the other fifty. What a hopeless gospel that would be.
My friends, God made the coats of skins from an animal that I believe he himself killed.
Bringing before us very clearly.
Calvary and the cross and the Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God on that cross, dying on that cross for sinners in order that God Himself.
Might clothe us with a coat of his own righteousness.
Because unless you have God's righteousness.
You will never get into heaven.
And hell is going to be filled with men and women who led good, clean, respectable lives.
Upright and moral and clean and religious, who rejected God's gospel and God's Son, You know the Lord Jesus made a marvelous statement when he was here. Among his many statements, he said these solemn words.
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If ye believe not that I am.
Ye shall die in your sins, and where I am there.
Ye cannot come.
And of all the wealthy millionaires in North America tonight?
Pulled all their money together into millions and millions of dollars. They couldn't buy one song.
Out of that lost eternity.
My friend, tonight there's a savior for you. He's God's son, and he's a living savior, as we had in the first chapter of Romans were preaching about a living savior.
Because tonight, as you sit in those chairs and I stand on this platform, there is a man, and he's the only man in heaven. The spirits of his people have gone to begin with. The Lord, the spirits. But there's a man in heaven tonight.
His name is Jesus.
And he is seated.
On the throne of the majesty of Almighty God, He's right there in the heavens. And if those heavens open tonight, we would see the very throne of God. And on that throne is seated the Lord Jesus Christ. And my friends, nothing happens in this world unless He allows it. He is over everything.
Everything in him we live and we move on. We have our being. The very breath that man uses to curse God's name is given to him by God. You see, you are a dependent creature, and so am I. Friend, are you saved tonight?
Have you personally received the Son of God?
As your savior in all men speak as if to get saved is really doing God a great favor and a great honor. Because, you see, man likes to be somebody.
Man like to be somebody important. They like to be able to say, well, you know, I did this and I did that, and I came to the gospel and and I did this and I did that. They liked that because it gives man a place. But you see, God says no man is nothing, Man is nobody. But my beloved Son is everything. And to have my son as your Savior means you're brought into the very favor of God so that he becomes your father. That we're going to say in a few moments.
Oh, how blessed is the gospel of God.
Concerning his son.
Jesus Christ, our Lord and my friend, is the only Savior. There's no other savior. All the religions of the East, there are only false religions. Their leaders lived and died. The ones who started them, they're they're gone to the dust years ago. But our Savior burst the bonds of death and came forth. You know, somebody told me the other day, they said, you know.
That the scientists say that Jesus Christ really didn't die at all.
And you'll pardon this expression. I said, well, the scientists are liars because God says he did die. And I believe what God says, not what man thinks. But I believe what God says. And I would advise you, my friend and I, to believe what God says at all costs. Believe what God says concerning his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
You see, God has to punish sin, I would point out here, just look back now again to that third chapter of Genesis. And I want you to notice the seventh verse, right after Adam and his wife disobeyed God and sin came into the world. Now notice what happened.
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed pig leaves together and made themselves aprons. Isn't that a strange thing? If God made the coats of skins, Adam and his wife made the fig leaf aprons, that was what man did. He did that. And tonight, my friends, this world and I refer especially to this country in which we are living tonight.
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There are millions of people who are making their fig leaf aprons because they know they have to meet God. It's a strange thing, but man, no matter how wicked they may be as a rule when it comes to death, they call the preacher and they say to the preacher, I'm going out into eternity and I want you to pray for me. Why do they say that? Because they have.
A God-given conscience.
That tells them that after death they have to be God. They know that their conscience never turns into law. But they know. You know, my friend, tonight if you're here without Christ, you know you have to meet God. And Adam knew it. The first man that sinned in the world, he knew he had to do with God, and he tried to make himself ready for the presence of God with these.
Fig leaf aprons. But he had to confess in the presence of God. I was naked, even though I had the fig leaf apron on. He could say I have nothing on I'm Naked. And all your good works and all your religion and your baptisms, Oh man, loves that. He loves to say I was baptized, but it means nothing, my friends. Without Christ, that means nothing.
And the eyes of God is worth not even a cent. All your baptism, your confirmation vows, your your membership, your attendance, even your Bible. Reading without Christ means absolutely nothing, fig leaf aprons.
What a contrast these coats of skins that God made.
And God clothed them. Isn't that blessed? The more we read that verse, the more wonderful it becomes that God didn't even allow.
Adam and Eve to put the clothes on. He covered them, He clothed them. And my friend tonight God clothes you and I who are believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. He wraps us in Christ where we stand in the presence of God accepted in the beloved. Who is the beloved? It's Christ Himself. Christ is the Beloved. Oh how blessed that we denied who know the Savior are his beloved people.
Because we're accepted in the one who is the Beloved. Now let's look at that chapter we had last night.
I like to say for one many others join We Amen. Everything our beloved brother said about the blood of Christ, friend, there's no salvation without the blood of Christ for any child of Adam's race, No salvation. It's the blood of Jesus Christ.
God's Son that cleanseth us from all sin. Exodus 12.
And verses 12 and 13, Exodus 12, verses 12 and 13, which bring us back to Romans one, verse one and three, for I will pass through the land of Egypt this night.
And will smite all the first born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast, and against all the gods of Egypt. I will execute judgment. I am the Lord. Notice.
And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you.
My beloved friends, the Gospel of God, His very word, I will Passover you. But there's the blood of the slain Lamb, which brings us back to verse 3 concerning His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. And we remember what our brother told us last night.
Maybe some weren't here, so let's speak a moment or two on this verse. The land of Egypt. The world.
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Egypt was the world. There were those houses occupied by the children of Israel. There on the doorpost in the lentil of those doors, of God's people was the blood. Maybe people laughed. Maybe the poor Egyptians mocked at them and laughed at them, but you know, they had two grand things. I want you, my friend, tonight to have these two grand realities.
That God's people here in Egypt have that night they had the word of God and the blood of the Lamb.
Now the blood of the lamb made them safe, and the word of God made them. Sure you haven't got to leave this room tonight and say, well, I I wonder if I'm safe. You can know it on the authority of the living God.
You can know it on the word of the living God, no matter what anybody says. You may meet a man outside, He may say, I went to college for 20 years. I don't believe that. That doesn't matter. The living God has spoken, he says. When I see the blood, what is that? The death of the lamb. The lamb had died. Its blood were shed. And if one of those children of Israel had said what? But I am one of God's children of Israel.
I don't need the blood. I got my six children here and we all believe in Jehovah. We all know there's a Jehovah. We all know he's God. I don't need the blood. The Angel of death would have struck that home and the first born child would have been dead. Why?
Because God said when I see the blood, He didn't say When I see the children of Israel.
He didn't say. When I see my people, he said. When I see the blood and my friends tonight, God values the blood of Christ just as much as he did when I was shared on the cross of Calvary. The blood, I say again, there is no salvation.
Without the blood. It's the blood of Christ. My friends. Are you under tonight? The shelter of the blood of Christ. Young men, young ladies, what does it matter whether you're you have 10 initials after your name, or even 20? If you land in hell, what does it matter whether you're the best educated man in Canada or the United States? What does it matter whether you're the president of the largest corporation in the world if you go to hell?
What does it matter, my friend? You've got to leave everything behind. We just read the other day about a billionaire who died and what did he leave behind? Everything. He left everything behind and he went out into eternity to meet God without a cent, without a sin. And if he didn't have the Savior, he's lost for all eternity. And his billion dollars.
His billion dollars will not get him into heaven.
Never. It's the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, that cleanses us from all sin. You say it's the gospel of God, God's word. I will pass over you, God's Son, the Lamb.
Now you notice this chapter carefully. You will find the lamb was without blemish. Which brings us right back to the virgin birth of Christ, the sinless holy Savior, the Lamb of God himself, who shed His blood. I was speaking to a Jewish lady.
On Wednesday afternoon in Montreal. And she was telling me that around 6:00 tonight, she said that the Passover begins, Sir, about 6:00 tonight. And I said, what do you know about the Passover? Do you believe the story in the Old Testament of the the lamb dying and the blood was shed and put in a base? And she said, I sure do. I believe that. I said, you believe the blood was put on the doorpost and the lentils. Oh, yeah, she said. We read about that many times.
And the Old Testament.
Then I said, lady, listen, in the New Testament, the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Lamb of God shed his precious blood and every born again believer in that glorious Savior is under tonight, that today the shelter of the blood of God's lamb. And she said that is wonderful. That is wonderful. Well, my friends, how good to know. Tonight we're under the shelter of the blood of Christ, young lady.
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You've come tonight. Somebody may have brought you here. Are you under the shelter of the blood of the Lamb, you may say? Well, Sir, I've been here since yesterday. At at 1:30, I was here at the prayer meeting. I was here at the Bible reading.
And we're glad to hear that. But that won't save you to come into this room with a Bible reading.
Will not save your soul. You must have Christ. You must have personal contact with the Lord Jesus Christ. You must receive that Savior and your very heart. Your life is your Lord and your Savior and be able to say, I am under the shelter of the blood of God's lamb. It's the only way of salvation, the Lord Jesus said when he was here. I am the way.
The truth.
And the life No man cometh to the Father, but by me the word of God.
Distinctly says neither is there salvation in any other, but there's no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. The word of God clearly says the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord and all through.
The scriptures were pointed again and again to Christ. For there is no blessing without Christ. There's absolutely no blessing without Christ. And even in the heavenly scene above, in the 5th chapter of the Book of Revelation, we have them singing. Worthy is the lamb that was slain and his precious blood that cleanses from all sin. You see, my friends, it's not what you think.
That's what God says. You may have your ideas. You may say, well, you know, my church teaches. People have asked me what does your church teach? And I say my church teaches nothing. It's the word of God that teaches.
And everything that's taught, my friends, is false unless it's founded on the word of the living God.
Everything. A connection with God's things that cannot be backed up by God's word. They're false.
And I don't believe them. There was a lady came to the house the other day.
She tried to tell me that she could tell me how I could learn the Scriptures, and we asked her by the grace of God what she thought of the Lord Jesus, and she told me what she thought.
Man's thoughts, I said. My dear friend, you're going to land in hell. As sure as you're standing at the bottom of the stairs, you're going to land in hell. You have denied the son of God. You have made the son of God a creature created by Jehovah. You're a poor, lost, blind, dead Sinner and you're heading for hell at full speed. And the young girl, who was only 15, I guess, who stood beside her, I said. My dear young girl.
You're going to land in the dungeons of the damned if you follow this satanic religion that you're linked with.
All my friend, are you linked with any false religion tonight? Anything that tries to add to the work of Christ is not of God.
For the Lord Jesus has finished the work on the cross all by himself. He did it all the work himself and saw were brought into bless him through the matchless grace of God, who has spoken in His word of the gospel of God concerning Jesus Christ our Lord now in the New Testament.
And Luke 15, we have it again brought before us and I believe it's very precious.
We know the story of the prodigal son, so I don't want to read the whole story. You've heard of this young man in the far country and there may be right now, tonight, some young girl.
Or some young man that's in the far country and I want to tell you.
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That your pathway is going to end in sorrow, not only in eternity, but in this world.
Whatsoever a man souls, that shall he also reap. A Christian friend of mine went to a car one night to speak to a man.
And this man said, Sir, there's a verse in the Bible that I'm really afraid of. And he said, what is it? He said Whatsoever a man's souls that shall, he also reap, you can't escape that and neither can I.
You can escape my friend, the wrath of God falling on you by receiving the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal savior and Lord. Now let's look at this 15th We'll look for a couple of minutes, notice what it says. Now the young man returns to his father and verse 20.
And he arose and came to his father. If you read about the elder son later on, you'll find that the elder son drew near to his father's house.
But the younger son realized in his miserable, wretched condition, he comes to his father. And this is exactly what God wants tonight. He wants you to come to himself. He wants you not to come to heaven. He wants you to come to himself. He wants you to come to Christ. He wants to hold you in his arms because he loves you and longs to bring happiness and joy.
Into your poor sad life tonight. Notice now what it says.
But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. Now wasn't that good news? Doesn't that remind us of the gospel of God? We see here? And I speak reverently, God running. You know, when God acts in judgment, he moves very slowly. He waits and waits. I think one of our one brother said it and one case. He waited 300 years.
Just imagine. But he doesn't wait 300 years when a poor Sinner says I'm lost.
Sinking down to hell. Then God doesn't wait 300 years or 300 seconds or one second. He runs. He runs because God is in a hurry to bless man, and he's not in a hurry to judge man. He's going to judge that, sure, but he's not in a hurry to judge man. But he's in a hurry to bless man. And so it says in the 21St verse and the sunset unto him.
Father, I have sinned against heaven and in my sight now. Is there somebody in this room tonight?
That's willing not to say this to me.
But any other Christian here, but to say it to God himself, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight. Are you willing to say that tonight? Is there some honest man, some honest woman, some honest boy or girl who's willing to say I have sinned? Not my neighbors sinned, not my cousin or my uncle or my grandfather, but I.
Have sinned against heaven and in my sight. And the young man said, I'm not worthy to be called thy son. But notice now the Father said, The Father said, The gospel of God, the Father said.
Unto his servants. The young man wanted to be put under the staff of the servants. But this father didn't want servants, he wanted his son.
And he was welcoming home his son. And he said to his servants, if he had lots of servants bring forth the best role. What is this, the best room? It's Romans one and verse 3 concerning his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. The young man who came back home dressed in the filthy garments where he fed the swine, now finds himself wrapped in the best robe.
Provided for him.
By his father without cost. You want to buy a suit? Today I refer to the man.
You have to pay a lot of money for the suit today. But you know, there was number charge made for this best robe. It was provided by the Father. It was ready for the boy long before he came home. And God has been waiting for you, young lady, and God has been waiting for you many years. And you've heard the gospel and you've heard it again and again and again. And God is waiting. He has the best robe, which is his own righteousness.
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Christ himself to wrap around you. Isn't that wonderful? The best role. But notice what else he says here.
And put it on him and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet. You see, the young man was going to have the ring on his hand.
To forever tell him of his Father's never changing love and how blessed as we get older as Christians, we find how more wonderful and wonderful the love of God is as he gaze upon the ring that he's placed on her hand. The ring, my friend, telling us of God's love.
I'm the Savior can say, and the Father himself loveth you. And as the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you. Continue in my love. Continue and join my love. Is the very love that the Father has for His beloved Son. All how blessed, how wonderful. Sinner friend, I feel sorry for you. You are dressed in the filthy rags.
You're a cruel, sarcastic, wicked master. Hold you in his power.
Like a child with a puppet. And he turns you here. He turns you there, and he sends you here and he sends you there. And you search like a hunter for pleasure and amusement to try to drown out the sorrows of your poor heart as you when your way to eternal damnation under the judgment of a almighty God, For rejecting the best role, for rejecting the Ring.
And for rejecting the shoes because the young man you know was not a servant, the servants walked barefooted. And I want to tell you tonight, my friends, the devil's servants.
Are walking barefoot. They're connected to the world, but the child of God has on those shoes.
That separates him from this Christ rejecting world going under judgment.
And nothing else will satisfy the heart of God that the poor Sinner who comes to Christ.
Will receive all the blessings of heaven. Isn't it wonderful? What a gospel. What a savior, my friend, the gospel of God concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. I notice the 23rd verse.
And bring Heather the fatted calf, and kill him. Oh, here was something else. There was no end to the father's resources. Why the calf was there if the robe was there?
The calf was there. He had sighted the calf up.
For the arrival of his Son and all, how blessed God is ready now.
Right, Ready is saying, like a man set out in wine, a park in California, he said. Sir, I I noticed as we were speaking on this very chapter, he was weeping.
And I said, did I see you weeping? Yes, Sir, he said. I was weeping all I long to be saved. Please, Sir, I long with all my heart to be saved. And I said, then why aren't you saved? This is what he said. He said I'm too wicked a man. I said, my friend, you were adding to your sins now because you're telling a lie.
For God has saved the sinner's chief, the apostle poem.
And taking him into the very glory of God and praise God, he can save the worst Rascal, the worst center in the United States or Canada. He can save you tonight. Whether you're a self-righteous Pharisee, a self-righteous hypocrite, a self-righteous church member, or meeting a tender. He can save you tonight. If you'll come to Christ and you'll say that God I've sinned, I've seen you know you've sinned and God knows you've sinned. And God tells you you've sinned.
All the fatted capital of it, and what else is it saying?
And let us eat and be merry. Who is this? The father and his boy. Let us eat and be merry. For this. My son was dead and is alive again. He was lost and is found. Now, if you're here tonight without Christ, if I could talk to you alone and private. And I'll be glad to meet anybody at the end of this meeting and talk to you in private.
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You could say to me, Sir, I want to tell you something.
I've heard the gospel tonight, and I heard what you said. I'm going to say it right now. If you haven't got Christ, you're a spiritual corpse right now. You're dead. You're dead, you say. Well, if I'm dead, I'm not responsible. Yes, you are. You're a dead Sinner, but you're responsible to God. You've got to do with God. You've got to stand before God. You can't get away from God. You got to meet God.
Says he was lost. If you haven't got Christ tonight.
You might be a very respectable young lady, a very fine daughter.
Or a very fine son. But you haven't got Christ. You're lost right now. Not when you die. Now. Tonight you're lost.
And then it ends up in these wonderful words. And they began to be Mary, who the Father and his returned Son. They began to be married. And you know, it'll go on for all eternity. There'll be no deviled interrupt the joy of heaven. It'll go on for all eternity. They began to be Mary, the boy earlier in the story began to be in want.
But his father met every need, every desire, every want of his heart, and they began to be married. All my friends, this is the gospel of God.
Concerning His Son Jesus Christ, Our Lord, Is Jesus Christ your Lord tonight? Can you look up into the very heavens and say, the man this world hates, the man this world nailed to the cross, the man this world spit upon, the man this world nailed between 2 criminals.
He's the Christ of God, He's the Lord where God has made that same Jesus whom he crucified, Peter said to the Jews both Lord and Christ. For God has made Jesus the Lord Jesus Christ, and if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead.
Thou shalt be saved. Which brings us right back to Romans chapter one.
The Gospel of God.
Concerning Jesus Christ our Lord, who is the resurrected, 1 declared to be the Son of God.
By his resurrection, the power of God is the dynamite of God, my friends.
The Apostle Paul said I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it's the power of God. Think of that mighty power that takes a man or a woman out of the very clutches of the devil and breaks the devil's chains and brings a Sinner into the very arms of God.
I tell you, it's the power of God unto salvation. It's the gospel of Christ.