Gospel—C. Whitaker
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May we also sing #20?
Behold the Savior at the door.
He gently knocks, has knocked before.
Has waited long, is waiting. Still, you use no other friend, so I'll he'll enter in and Sup with you and you with him #20.
Behold the same.
Oh.
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Where the Lord's help.
Tonight we want to read 2 portions.
Of the word of God, one that has to do with the past.
And one that has to do with the future. Very solemn portions of God's Word.
That have spoken to multitudes and we trust that the Holy Spirit of God.
Will see fit to use these portions tonight to exercise your heart regarding the briefness.
The brevity of time. Time is fast passing away.
And.
All your precious soul still lost, still outside the door of safety.
The first portion in Genesis chapter 6.
Beginning at verse 5.
Genesis 65.
Concerning the flood.
And God saw that the wickedness of man.
Was great in the earth, and that every imagination.
Of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man, whom I have created from the face of the earth both man and beast, and the creeping thing.
And the fowls of the air for it repenteth me that I.
Have made them, but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
These are the generations of Noah.
Nor was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt. For all flesh had corrupted his way up on the earth. And God said unto Noah.
The end of all flesh is come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them, and behold, I will destroy them with the earth, make thee an ark of Beaverwood rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shall pitch it within and without with pitch.
And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it up. The length of the ark shall be 300 cubits, the breadth of it 50 cubits, and the height of it 30 cubits. A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above, and the door of the ark shalt thou set, and the sides thereof with lore, Second and third stories shalt thou make it.
There and behold.
I even I do bring a flood of waters up on the earth to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life from under heaven, and everything that is in the earth shall die. Verse 22. Thus did Noah according to all that God commanded him.
So did he.
And a few verses in Chapter 7 And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark. For thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation of every clean beast, thou shalt take to thee by sevens the male and his female, and a beast that are not clean by two.
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The male and his female, our powers also of the air by sevens, the male and the female to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth for yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain.
Upon the earth, 40 days and 40 nights. And every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. And Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him. And Noah was 600 years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. And Noah went in.
And Noah went in, And his sons and his wife.
And his sons wives with him into the ark, because.
Of the Waters of the Flood, verse 16.
And they went in, and they that went in went in, male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him. And the Lord shut him in.
And the flood was 40 days upon the earth, and the waters increased, and there up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth. And the ark went upon the face of the waters, and the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and all the high hills that were under the whole heaven.
Were covered.
15 cubits upward did the waters prevail and the mountains were covered.
And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and of cattle, and of beasts, and of every creeping thing that creepeth up on the earth, and every man.
All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land.
Died, and every living substance was destroyed, which was upon the face of the ground.
Both man and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven. And they were destroyed from the earth. And Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark and the waters prevailed upon the earth and 150 days.
Chapter 8 and verse 6 and it came to pass at the end of 40 days.
That Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made, and he sent forth a Raven, which went forth to and fro until the waters were dried up from off the earth. And he sent forth a dove from him to see if the waters were abated from off the ground off the face of the ground. But the dove found no rest for the soul of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole.
Earth. Then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in under him.
Into the ark, and he stayed yet other seven days.
And again he sent forth the dog out of the ark, and the dove came in to him in the evening, And lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off, so no one knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. And he stayed yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove, which returned not again unto him anymore. And it came to pass in the 601St year.
In the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth, and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked and behold, the face of the ground was dry.
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Luke Chapter one.
Luke Chapter one.
And verse 76.
Luke 176.
And thou, child, shall be called the prophet of the highest.
For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways to give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins, through the tender mercy of our God, through the tender mercy of our God, whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death.
To guide our feet into the way of peace.
And the child grew and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts, till the day of his showing unto Israel. Second Peter, Chapter 3.
This is that which is yet to come to pass.
And this speaks of fire.
Destruction.
Once by the flood and the next time by fire.
Second Peter 3 verse one.
This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you, in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance, that ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and by the commandments of us, the apostles.
Of the Lord and Savior, knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of that by the word of God.
The heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water.
And in the water whereby the world that then was.
Being overflowed with water, perished but the heavens and the earth which are now.
Which are now by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as 1000 years and 1000 years, as one day the Lord is not slack concerning His promise.
Some men count slackness, but his long-suffering to usward, not willing, not willing, that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat.
The earth also, and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be designed, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire?
Shall be dissolved and the elements shall melt.
With fervent heat, nevertheless we according to his promise.
Look for new heavens and a new earth for an indwelleth righteousness.
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless, and account that the long-suffering of our Lord is salvation.
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May return back then to Genesis Chapter 6 please.
In this account.
We have here.
A wonderful.
Object Lesson. A wonderful illustration, we might call it.
And it is something that man could see.
And tonight we have that lovely verse in John one and 29. Behold the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world, God's land, God's remedy for man's ruin, God's ark of safety for all who will enter therein.
The Ark was.
An illustration in that day it was a place of safety. It was that which man could behold, and which man had observed for the duration of the building of it, which was approximately 120 years. And they had God's warning, so plain, so very plainly, and they had God's love manifested so definitely.
And so in this scene tonight we have the Lord of glory held up before us in God's precious word. Behold the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world. Well, here we have in the 6th chapter the awful.
Description of wickedness and violence which is rampant in the earth.
As it was in Noah's day, so is it today, at least in part. And a cup of iniquity is fast filling up. We have here in verse five God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth. Oh yes.
Man's state is put here very plainly, wicked. The heart is deceitful and desperately wicked. Who can know it? And tonight?
Dear soul, outside of Christ, you come under that category. You are classified tonight as one of the wicked that God beholds still in your sins.
God loves you, and He would embrace you tonight if you would have His son as your savior. But God hates your sin.
You are.
Spoken of in Romans 6IN Romans 3 and 23 all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, and the wage of sin is death, because God's word says so, but the gift of God.
Is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord, if you will enter.
That open door the Lord Jesus tells us in John 10 and 9 Behold, he tells us, I am the door by me. If any man enter in, he shall be saved. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any man hear my voice and open the door, your heart's door, I will come in and Sup with him, and he with me. Man is a Sinner by nature.
And a Sinner by practice, God's Word tells it so plainly in both Old and New Testaments.
All have sinned and it tells us there in Isaiah 53 and six.
Very plainly, that precious word that we had before us in part this morning, that is.
So plain that you need not mistake it, and it brings before us again that all we, like sheep, have gone astray.
All. And that includes you. Oh, we like sheep of Ganesh, for all have turned his own way.
But the Lord Jehovah has laid on him the iniquity of us all. Go in at the 1St all, and come out at the last. All and all will be well with your needy soul.
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I am a Sinner by nature and a Sinner by practice, so play, and we have a word in Ecclesiastes that is so positive along this same line.
There in the 7th chapter and verse 20 tells us this solemn word.
Ecclesiastes 7 and 20.
For there is not a just man upon the earth.
Not one, not a just man upon the earth that doeth good and sinneth not.
Well, God has searched, and we have in His word in Psalm 14 this that bears testimony against every creature under the sun. The fool has said in his heart, there is no God. They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There's nothing to do with good. The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men.
To see if there were any that did understand and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together, become filthy. There is none that doeth good. No, not one. God's word is so specific and plain that poor man is a Sinner by nature and a Sinner by practice.
So there isn't a soul that could stand up and boast that he doesn't need God's savior, he doesn't need God's remedy for sin because all have sinned and that includes you all, all under sin, that God might have mercy upon all well.
Those are just a few of the many, many indictments we might read that God has against this sinful creation. And since Calvary, God's indictment has been suspended over the scene, just as it were, by a thread awaiting the execution of it, The clipping of the thread, so to speak, and God judgment will fall.
Dear sinners friend, unsaved Sinner, friend, would you like to be in that position?
Under God's wrath and that wrath suspended over your guilty.
Head.
Your head that deserves judgment, that deserves God's wrath, it will come down and you'll be the victim of it. Unless.
You seek refuge in Christ, the ark of safety. God has provided him for you individually, that you might have a safe place to flee, that you might have a clear title to glory by the Precious Blood of Christ, which was shed on Calvary. Yes, this word that we read here in the 14th verse shall pitch it within and without with pitch.
That I understand in the original is speaks of the atonement. The atonement pitch it within and without a place of safety at one, a place of of God's remedy and and safety from the oncoming flood of God's ramp.
Not of water again, but of fire, as we read in two Peter, Three well.
This was a very long, very long account, A very long warning of about 120 years. And God tonight is pleading in mercy to you. And I would like to call your attention to those seven days God waited yet 7 more days.
God is still waiting for you tonight, and we can't say that you will see 10:00. We can't guarantee that. But we know that God is still waiting for you, senator friend. And you might be the last one that will receive the Lord Jesus Christ to complete the body of Christ, and the trumpet blast will sound and we'll be caught away.
To glory. You might be the last one in this room tonight.
Or realize how very, very near you are.
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To a place of safety and yet in a place of danger and despair.
So close.
And yet so far.
Because you haven't yet entered it.
It tells us here they went in with him, and it has the same precious word in Matthew 25 they went in with him, which speaks of safety, which speaks of refuge, and which speaks of fellowship with him and.
God shut the door.
Tonight, as was sung this morning in the children's meeting, one door and only one, and yet the sides are two. I am on the inside. On which side are you? Do you want to be on the wrong side of a closed door for all eternity?
Oh, what up? What a very solemn thought to be on the wrong side of a closed door for all eternity. Satan would have you forget all about that solemnity. He would have you to think that everything is going to go on, just like they said in in the second Epistle of Peter. They said, ah, things will continue as they have since the time of our fathers.
There were scoffers in those days tonight, would you consider?
That God's word is untrue and that God is a liar. And that.
You are going to go on and on and on, at your own, in your own pleasure and according to your own desires, without any termination of such.
Don't be Don't be so unfair to your soul. Don't be so stupid as to think that God's word isn't true. Oh, God's word is true. God's word is settled in heaven. Heaven and earth will pass away, but His word will not pass away.
He says there shall be a fire, there shall be judgment, and it's a fearful thing to have fall into the hands of a living God, for our God is a consuming fire, Speaking of His righteousness, His Holiness, and of His justice, and of His love, and of His wrath and power.
Or tonight that you might come to Christ while yet you may, and that you might find a place of shelter and refuge and safety in him airily, too too late, and forever too late.
Yes, and this we might take a look at Second Peter Two and Five. It was a righteous warning. We haven't had it. Haven't mentioned there in Second Peter chapter 2 and verse 5.
God's word is full of this wonderful subject.
Second Peter 2:00 and 5:00.
Well read verse 4 to get the connection for if God spared not the angels that sinned.
Cast them down to hell and deliver them into chains of darkness, to be reserved under judgment and spared not the old world, but saved. Noah the 8th person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example under those.
That after should live ungodly and deliver just lot. Thanks for the filthy conversation of the wicked.
For that righteous man dwelling among them in seeing and hearing Bex's righteous soul from day-to-day, whether unlawful deeds. Ah, we can go on and on. Think of it our righteous warning, a warning given by one whom we have in verse 8, which speaks. But God found grace. A man in whom God found grace, but nor found grace rather in the eyes of the Lord, because why he was a righteous man.
Oh, tonight, you can't. You can't claim any place of safety outside of the Savior, or that you might realize the necessity of having him as your own precious Redeemer tonight. Don't wait. Don't delay, because it's so dangerous to delay procrastination of people. Time rejection is simply.
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That which we find in the Word of God.
As a result of neglect, neglect or neglect, how should it help Neglect not the day of salvation. This is God's time for you. And when you continue to neglect, it adds up to rejection. And if you reject, you have God's word that's going to stand before you, as it were. In that day. You'll be judged by His precious words and the Lord Jesus Christ on His own throne there, the great White throne, A place where there's no blood, a place where there's no, no, no love, no mercy.
God's righteousness and God's holiness. And you'll hear those words depart from me, you workers of iniquity. For I know you're not. That's the substance of this precious portion of God's word here and in verse 6 of this 6th chapter. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and agreed to met his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth both man and beast. And the creeping thing in the fought of the airport repenteth me.
That I have made them God is a God of love. Indeed, yes.
God of light.
But when man won't have God.
And turn God out they have turned out the light.
They have turned out love. The first death separates man from man, and the second death separates man from God. And where God is not, there will be no light and there'll be no love. It'll be darkness and hatred for all eternity. Do you want to be in such a place as that Senator friend, tonight beware, because there's wrath. Beware lest he take thee away with his stroke.
And then a great ransom cannot deliver thee. Beware, God's word has red lights all through it, and we praise God for His faithfulness to us. And so the first invitation is given here in the first verse of Chapter 7, the first invitation of the Word of God It's given. And the same invitation is given to you tonight, time and time again in the New Testament as well as in the old and.
Noah said, And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou.
And all thy house into the ark for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
Come down. And he's given an invitation tonight. About 1900 times in his word. I've been told or have read it somewhere, and it is constantly come. Come unto me all they were in heaven laden. Come now, let us reason together. Think of it. A God of glory, a God of love and a God of grace and a God of power should look down and see poor wretched worms of the dust just as specks going about.
And yet he should say, come now and let us reason again God.
Would then to reason with poor sinful man. Let us reason together. Though your sins be a scarlet, they should be as white as snow, Though they'll be red like Crimson, they shall be as well. I'll come Now let us reason together and don't delay. God's time is not. And how are you going to escape if it neglects our greatest salvation? Think of these poor souls. Put your put yourself as well as you can in their position. And there they were. They're holding.
No, and his carpenters with him.
Preparing and and constructing and finishing the ark, for it says there that Noah did according to all the God commanded him. So he did. And then just think of the way that they ridicule North and the way that they ridicule his warning. And then when the door was shut, all those thoughts came back to them, and there they were, pounding on that closed door.
Oh no.
We didn't realize that it was going to be so terrible as this. And here we are. Please let us in. Oh no, I said. I can't help you. I can't do a thing about God. close the door. I didn't close and I can't open it.
Our golf was fixed. Indeed it was. And tonight for you. The Gulf hasn't yet been fixed. But if you reject Christ and go out of time into eternity without Him, without your heart cleansed by His precious blood, that Gough will forever be fixed for you.
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And there will be no way of getting across to help you, and no way of escape for you to receive help, Not so much as a drop of water, according to Luke 16.
Are tonight Realize the awfulness of your situation and realize that the Lord Jesus said an eye. If I be lifted up, we'll draw all men unto me. As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness. Even so must the Son of man be lifted up and he's the 1:00 tonight we would seek again to hold up before you as the only remedy for ruin, man.
The owner. They live on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.
For God so loved your soul, that he so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever and that takes you in believeth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life.
All that you might know a place of safety. Take a look at Proverbs 22.
And verse 3.
Just to bear out some of these precious thoughts, and this is one that I hope you will remember. Proverbs 22 and 3A. Prudent man forced seeth the evil.
And hideeth himself.
But the simple pass on and are punished.
Or tonight, that you might be prudent, that you might be wise, that you might hide yourself.
That you might receive Christ as your Savior and be hidden in Him.
Ah, don't be among those that are that are simple the simple pass on and are punished. Ah, you say. I don't believe that word. I don't want. Just a week ago this afternoon we handed some gospel tracts to a lady in a Jeep and I never had a lady say what she said to me. She handed them back. She said I can't take these.
Because I'm not a Christian and I said, but these are gospel tracts. Read them.
And take the Lord Jesus Christ as your savior and he'll save you from hell.
I want to go to hell. All my relatives and friends are there. I want to go to hell. I said, my lady, you know what you said? That's a terrible place. And then she said some other things I won't even repeat. And she just smiled A cynical smile. And I gave her John 316 and she smiled again, just like it wasn't having any effect. I never had a woman tell me that before. Never.
Sometimes a man, very seldom Even so, but.
Think of Do you want to be among that number that will be lost forever in a place of eternal torment and torture?
And that's where you're headed. That's exactly the direction you're going. If you receive price, if you don't receive Christ as your savior, if you go on believing Satan's lie. Oh, the Lord Jesus said him that cometh unto me, I will in no wise cast out, just come to him. Believe on him. Trust in him. Have him as your savior before you go out that door tonight and you can rejoice in sin, forgiven, Rejoice that your name is written in heaven.
And rejoice that you have a clear title to a home in the glory with and like the Lord Jesus Christ forevermore this precious precious ark of gods providing was a voice to the people. And we have in Hebrews one and two that God has spoken unto us in his Son He spoke then in the ark He's speaking tonight in his Son, and he wants you to hearken and heed before it's forever too late.
For your needy soul, because God is not willing at any should perish, but all that you might repent repentance toward God.
And faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ, I believe and receive him, for as many as receive him. To them he gave the power to become children of God, even to them that believe on His name. Well, these are some of the precious things that we read about here in God's wonderful word. And there's something else here for us tonight. And.
That is, this arc endured the star.
Ah, it endured. The star we think of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Our loving sate who endured the storm, the wrath of man from below.
And the wrath of God from above.
And he said, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
His face marked and not even having the appearance of man, because of the buffeting and brutality of of wicked man and God, judgment upon him, the righteous and holy judgment of God against sin upon it. And He bore my penalty, my guilt, and I go free tonight. You want to go free. He wants to be your substitute. He wants to be your Savior. He wants to be your refuge, your place.
Of eternal safety, yes. It tells us that we have been blessed with all blessings in heavenly places in Christ. And if you're not in Christ, you're out. You see, you're out. Those of us who are hissing that are in Christ and we have these, these multiple blessings in the heavenlies in Christ. Where are you? Are you in Christ or are you out? Oh, it's so sad to hear some young people say, well, I I think I'm saved, you know?
I think so.
To the father said. I'll say, but I'm just not sure. Just this summer I had a young lady say, and I've taken it for a Christian for many years, which is sometimes I don't know, sometimes I doubt, sometimes I wonder And I tried to comfort and try to bring her the word not to console her that if she was going on in the wrong way, but I believe she's the law. But Satan comes in and tries to bring him down. Or tonight that you might know for sure because God's word is written that you might know.
You don't have to guess about it. You don't have to hope so. Perhaps so. Maybe so. You can know, as we have in first John five, we read last Saturday afternoon, verses 9 to 13, and that lovely verse that Charles Stanley used so often when precious souls were saved on five and 24. Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but is passed from death.
Unto life Have you made that transaction? Do you know for certain that you have passed from death and delight? Oh, if our gospel be hidden, is hid to them that are lost? Are you still lost? Are you still blind in your sins? Are the blind man said in John 9 and 25.
One thing I know her as I was blind. Now I see. Oh, tonight. Can you say that? Can you say that you have seen the Savior as your substitute, as your refuge, as your place of safety from the oncoming judgment of God's wrath? That's our desire. That's the purpose of this gospel, meaning that you might have a clear understanding of God's way of salvation, all in Christ.
All purchased by His Precious Blood on Calvary, All prepared and made ready for you. God's gospel supper spread. And tonight the next thing on the scene after supper time comes midnight. And it'll be dark. It'll be dark. We read about it in Exodus 12 and 29. At midnight, our great cry went up out of Egypt because death had come in.
And that was only a small matter, so to speak, in contrast to what God is going to bring on this sinful scene when His judgment comes over the whole world.
Oh, take a look at it in Revelation 6, a few verses. There are very pathetic time of anarchy there in the 12Th verse, Revelation 6 and 12. And I beheld when he had opened the 6th seal. And lo, there was a great earthquake and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair and the moon became his blood.
And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree cast their untimely figs, when she's shaken of a mighty wind. And heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together. And every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth and great men and rich men, and the chief captains and the mighty men, and every bomb and every freeman hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains, because they had no hiding place in Christ, hid themselves The dens and rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountains of rocks fall on us.
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And hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb. For the great Davis wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand Second Thessalonians, Chapter One.
I had a Sunday school Superintendent one time over me. She said, you know, God is too good to send anybody to hell. I looked at her. I never heard that before. I believe there was a hell. And I believe that a just God would send me there and send anyone else there who didn't take Christ at his savings. Or she said he's too good.
Now I could see well enough, even as a baby in crisis. She was wrong.
Because God loves us. Yes, He does. We wouldn't want to minimize His love. Oh, he loves you, He loves you. And we could continue all night Speaking of His wonderful love, but all remember that same God is a God of justice. In Second Thessalonians, chapter one, verse seven, In the middle of the verse, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the gospel, have you obeyed the gospel?
Have you obeyed the gospel yet, dear boy, dear girl, have you surrendered to Christ?
Have you taken him as your Savior, who obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord?
And from the glorious power.
Ah, that's an indictment against your sinful soul. If you refuse Christ as your savior, that's where you'll have to terminate from the presence of God, where God is not, where they're nothing but darkness and hatred, forevermore, weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth.
But his arms are spread tonight. Come unto me, come unto me. God and mercy sent his Son to this world by sin under come unto me.
And he will have. He is inviting him. He is the one that gave the first invitation of the word in that 7th chapter. Verse one, come down all thy children into the ark. Ah, listen.
Tonight, you, dear Father, dear mother, How is it with your son, your daughter, when God judgment has fallen and we are caught away to glory, Will you be looking around? Wonder where John is? Where's Mary? Oh, no. I didn't have to wonder where Ham was. He didn't have to wonder where Shem was, He said. They're all here. Here's Shem. All three of my dear sons are here. They're in the Ark. They're safe. And they're wives.
How will it be with you in that solemn day, in that sad day?
Will will you think of it more seriously and make one more effort to win them to Christ? Pray once again, Plead with it? Present the claims of Christ before them, that they might be born again before it's forever too late. If there's somewhere on the high seas in a distant land, write another letter.
Write another letter and put the claims of Christ solemnly and certainly before that they might know for sure that their sins are forgiven and all that. You might get a reply. Ah, Mother, Father, I've taken the Lord Jesus as my Savior and all is well with my soul. Ah, that's that's wonderful. We see the last invitation in Genesis 20 in Revelation 22 and verse 17, the last invitation of the word of God.
Tonight it's so plentiful, and verse 17 of Revelation 22 and the Spirit and the bride say come.
And him that heareth, and let him that heareth say come, and let him that is athirst come.
And whosoever will let him take of the water of life freely, isn't that lovely? Ah, there are two sides, the inside and the outside. Which side are you great great grace of God? It's not a works, lest any man should boast, it's God's great gracious free grace. And he says, Cough. All that you might enter in the Lord Jesus would have you do so. He has told us so plainly. He's the door by me. If any man enter in, said, I am the way, the fruit of my life.
No man cometh unto the Father, but by me you have to come God's way. There isn't any other way.
Any other way is a way of the thief in the rough, and there's no way, no way you must come. The Lord Jesus Christ is the door, the door to God's glory, the door to God's.
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House the the door to a place of safety and refuge forevermore.
Here's the way. He is the one who gave his life on the cross. And you notice in the 22nd verses, there's Noah.
Finish the work. And the Lord Jesus said, Father, I've finished the work which thou gave me to do. And he said in John 19 it is finished. And tonight many of us in this room are resting in that finished work. How about you? Do you know anything about rest in the finished work of Calvary? Oh, I trust that you're resting that work tonight. You don't have to tell me about it, but all that you might speak to someone about it, and you might say yes.
I see myself as a poor, lost, hell, deserving, hell bound, guilty Sinner. And I see that the Lord Jesus is a refuge for sin and for sinners rather. And he's the one that wants me tonight to take him. And I do take him. And I'm confessing Christ to you. They've been praying for you tonight. Dear young people, dear boys and girls, still going on in your sins. They've been praying for you tonight. Oh, that you might confess Christ, believe in your heart and confess with your mouth.
Under salvation, all that you might know for sure that all as well be their soul, their names written there, and that you won't have to hear those words depart from me, you workers of iniquity.
Whosoever name is not written in the land, book of life will be cast into emptied into the lake of fire. Fire. God's word has a lot to say about it and tonight the warning is given again. And tonight what are you going to do about it?
Those dear souls and Noah's day, they disregard.
And they were lost. They perished 15 cubits and about 22 1/2 feet of water.
Over the over the tallest mountain top and treetop. There they were, climbing up into the hills, climbing up into the trees.
No place of escape, no place of safety because they weren't entering into God's heart.
They weren't entering into the place that God had prepared for them through his servant Noah. Tonight, this is the finished work, and we praise God for it, and we rejoice tonight that we have the wonderful invitation. And God is the one who has been giving it, and he would have us hearken to it and really enjoy it. And so we just know that there's someone here tonight that's going on.
And thinking, well, I'd like to have a good time first. You know, I want to. I want to sew my wild oats first. And then and then I'll. I'll take care of this matter of eternal salvation. Ah, you heard the illustrations last night. And it reminds me of those souls that I told you about down in Saint Vincent.
That day when oh brother Edwards walked around, the island of Saint Vincent warned all those souls.
He said there is going to be an earth, there is going to be a volcanic eruption again, and I have heard the rumblings for a week and I have seen the ashes spitting out. I've told you before about it, the people on the Leeward side, the windward side, they said, ah and Mr. You don't know what you're talking about. In our day it never did anything like that. We have our coconut steak out, we're not going to run away, he said. Please go to the other end of the aisle and quickly.
They laughed at it, kept on with their coconuts.
But on the on the Leeward side of the island, they fled when he won. And one night, just a few hours after that, that volcano broke open and poured its molten lava, molten lava, red hot lava boulders, biggest barrels rolling down the mountainside out to sea. About 6 miles and 2200 souls were snapped into eternity in a matter of moments.
Why? Because they would not heed the warning and they wouldn't heed Noah's warning. And so tonight the warning is going out again as it went out last night. Oh, what are you going to do with this warning? Are you going to turn your back on God's red lights and say I don't care, I don't care. I'm going to have my own good time about this like some dear souls in Walla Walla. They came up last year to the front after the gospel was preached. Young man and his girlfriend.
They said we want to get saved.
And we talked with him, about six of us there for 1/2 hour. We want to get saved, but we don't want to get saved tonight and we don't want to get saved here.
Well, I said, how about waiting six months? You want to wait that long? Oh, no, no, no. We don't want to wait six months. And how about how about two months? No, we don't want to wait that long. Well, how about two weeks? No, we don't want to wait that long. But we don't want to get saved now. We don't want to get saved here. We want to go home and get saved on our own.
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Haven't heard anything about them, excepting Christ.
Poor souls. We're concerned about them. Have inquired about them again this summer or tonight.
How about you? Do you want to just go on stubbornly in your own wicked way and die in your sins tonight? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. It says you in verse 16. And they that went in went in with him. Oh, tonight that you might go in with your father, with your mother, You might go into this place of safety and rejoice forevermore that your soul is eternally safe, that you have.
A clear title to Glory that your name is written in the land book of life, and that.
You're realizing, as you're never thought were possible before, that He is your savior, He is your substitute, your refuge, and that you have a desire to go on with Him and worship and praise. Here's that little poem that I like concerning this arc. They dream not of danger. Perhaps you don't either. Satan got your hoodwinked. You know, got you blinded.
Dream of danger. They are those sinners of old whom nor was chosen to warn by frequent transgressions. Their hearts had grown cold. They lacked his entreaties to score. Yet daily he called him. Oh come, sinners, come believe and prepare to embark.
Receive you the message and know there's room for all who will enter the Ark. He could not arouse him unheeding. They stood unmoved by his warning and prayer. The Prophet passed in from the oncoming flood and left them to hopeless despair. The floodgates were open. The deluge came up. The heavens as midnight grew dark. Too late. Then they cried. They turned. Every foothold was gone.
They perish inside of the ark, right there, the ark before them.
Oh Sinner, the heralds of God's mercy implore. They cry like the paper Come, the Ark of Salvation is moored to your shore. Oh, enter while yet there's rule.
The storm kind of justice rolls dock or your head, and when by its furrier touch a lacks of your perishing souls will be said.
They hurt, they refused and were lost.
Oh, tonight, May God help you to do what you know you should do, and do it now because you may never have another opportunity. May we sing that precious hymn #11. Will your anchor hold?
In the storms of life, when the clouds unfold, their wings of strike, when the strong tides lift and the cable strayed, will your anchor drift or firm remain?
Will your anchor.