Gospel—G.H. Hayhoe
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Will you turn with me tonight to the prophet Isaiah and the 6th chapter?
Isaiah chapter 6.
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the Seraphims. Each one had 6 wings. With twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy.
Holy is the Lord of hosts, The whole earth is full of his glory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
Then said, I Wall is me, for I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of the people of unclean lips, for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. Then flew one of the Seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongues from off the altar, and he laid it upon my mouth.
And sadness law, this hath touched thy lips, and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I send me. And he said, Go and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not, and see indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes.
Lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert and be healed. Then said I Lord, how long? And he answered, until the cities be wasted without inhabitants, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, and the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land, but yet in it shall be.
And it shall return, and shall be eaten as a tail tree, and as an oak whose substance is in them when they cast their leaves. So the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
But also turn with me to Acts chapter 13.
Acts Chapter 13.
And verse 38.
Be it known unto you, therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins, and by him all that believe are justified from all things from which he could not be justified by the law of Moses. Beware therefore, lest that come upon you which is spoken of in the prophets, behold.
Ye despisers, and wonder, and perish.
For I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, no a man declareth unto you.
And another passage in Hebrews Chapter 9.
Hebrews, Chapter 9.
And the 27th verse.
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment, so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many, and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin.
Unto salvation.
Well, dear friends, in this chapter that we have read in the 6th chapter of Isaiah, we have a very solemn scene brought before us.
And there are three particular things that I would like to mention, and that is it's a scene of death in the year that King Uzziah died.
It's a scene where the Lord is seen lifted up upon a throne, and it's a scene where a man still living is seen in his presence, in his sins, by the way, has been provided that his sins could be put away. And dear friends, that's the whole gospel message that we have to proclaim tonight because we're living in a world where death reigns.
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Where living in a scene.
Where? Because.
Sin has come into this world, Death is on every hand, and every one of us must realize the solemnity of the fact that we have to leave this world someday. It'll either be through death or if you belong to the Lord Jesus, it might be that you would be caught up at the Lord's coming. But one thing is absolutely certain.
You are not in this world to stay.
We are fellow travelers through this world, travelers on to eternity. And as a fellow traveler, I address you tonight, dear friend, and ask you this most searching and solemn of all questions to where are you traveling? Where will you spend eternity? You can't dare to be indifferent to this matter. You can't dare to brush it aside.
As though it were a matter of small concern. He wouldn't think of taking a journey anywhere in this world without making some kind of preparation. But the moment is coming when you are going to leave this world and go to an eternal destiny. And how can it bathe that you care not about this solemn matter? I can only give one explanation for it, the explanation that God gives.
Word. And he says, The God of this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
The God of this world is Satan, friends, and he may have blinded your eyes religiously. All you say. I thought if we had religion that that was enough. All friends, you can have a religion that that does not meet your need. Cain was a religious man. Cain approached the true God. Cain came into his presence as a worshiper.
But he approached God in the wrong way.
He approached him by works of his own. He brought the fruit of a cursed ground and presented it to the Lord for his sacrifice. And it says to Cain and to his offering, God had not respect.
And you may be a worshipper of the true God. You may approach him from week to week.
You may be a very religious person, but all there's something more important than having religion. Have you approached him in the right way? God has a right way. It says there is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the enderof are the ways of death. And Mark, dear friend, I didn't ask you what church you belong to, for in reality there are only two religions in the world.
The religion of D or D all.
And the religion of DONEDO? Yes, do. And you may be doing one thing in your next door neighbor may be doing another, And your hopes for eternity may be based upon what you're doing. But dear friends, the Bible says by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God.
Not of works. Bless any man.
Should both, the little hen says, cast your deadly doing down down at Jesus feet.
Stand in Him, in Him alone, gloriously complete. Yes, dear friend, the question is, are you trusting to something that you can do, or are you trusting to what the Lord Jesus Christ has done? Do you believe in yourself? Do you believe in your works? Do you believe in your character? Or do you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for your salvation?
Oh, that's the important thing.
Tonight, dear friend, it isn't enough, I say again, to have religion. It isn't enough to be devoted in your religion. You can be sincerely wrong.
It says in Acts chapter 4 and verse 12. Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. God has one way and only one. And the Lord Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
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And so I.
Stand here, I say, to ask you to what church you go, but I ask you this Solomon searching question on what are you resting your hope for all eternity?
Can you say on Christ the solid rock I stand? Are you tonight resting upon what Christ did upon the cross of Calvary? Oh, that is the great and important question for you tonight, because whether you believe it or not, you are traveling on to one of two destinations. The Word of God distinctly tells us that at the end of life there are but two destinations.
And one is eternal blessing, and the other is eternal judgment, it says in the 25th chapter of Matthew in the 40th verse.
46th verse. Rather, these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal. There is just as much authority in the word of God to teach us eternal, everlasting judgment, as there is authority to teach us that there is an everlasting blessing and happiness.
Oh, we we must be faithful and warn you. And can't you see why we must?
Be in earnest tonight when we realize the value of a soul. Why, if its sudden danger came to this room, you would say it was a neglect of duty if the ones in charge didn't see that all was possible was done to get you safely out of this place. And dear friend, how can I discharge my responsibility before God?
Unless I tell you of the way of escape that God has provided for thy.
Soul of yours so that you might be saved.
Well, I say we have a scene of death, and this man that's spoken of here, this king in the year that King Uzziah died, King Uzziah was a religious man. King Uzziah undertook to come into the presence of God, but he undertook to come into the presence of God in the wrong way.
He came in a way that was contrary to what God had said in his words.
And because of that, this man, King Uzziah, was smitten with leprosy.
All you say, but wasn't he sincere? Perhaps he was, but he came into the presence of God in the wrong way.
He didn't come in the way that God had appointed, and because of that he was smitten with leprosy. And here we have his death.
Dear friend, again I say don't be satisfied with religion without Christ.
Don't be satisfied with just going on in the thing that you were brought up in.
It says in the 26th chapter of Acts, Saul of Tarsus was speaking. He said, I verily thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. Wasn't he a religious man? Indeed, he was a very religious man. And was he sincere? Yes, he thought with himself.
He didn't go by the word of God, he thought with himself.
And perhaps you say, well, I think this and I think that isn't it better to be able to say God says this?
God says that, and God says plainly in his Word.
All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Have ye accepted God's testimony about yourself? Dear friend, remember what the Lord said when He made himself known to Job. Job was justifying himself. And the Lord said to Job, Wilt thou disannow thy judgment?
That thou mayest be righteous.
Dear friend, are you disannulling God's judgment to maintain your own self righteousness?
I'm not as bad as you think I am, friend. I don't know how bad you are, but I know what God says about me, and I know He says it about you too. He says all have sinned. Have you ever taken sides with God against yourself? Have you ever acknowledged in the presence of God that this statement is true?
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That it's what God says about you and there can be no mistakes.
Because it's the judge himself.
You might, you might resent it if someone condemned you of something and you say you're not guilty. But when you are in the presence of the judge and he brings you in as guilty, you have to accept his judgment, especially if it's the final Court of Appeal. And dear friend, there's no Court of Appeal beyond the word of God.
The Lord Jesus said the word that I have spoken. The same shall judge him in the last day. Yes, it's not going to be the creed of some church. It's not going to be by the words of some man that you will be judged in that day. But the Lord Jesus said the word that I have spoken.
The same shall judge him in the last day. You're going to have to.
Face this book someday you're going to have to answer to God for how you treated its message. For the Lord Jesus said heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away. And so here in the year that King Uzziah died.
Isaiah saw the Lord sitting upon a throne.
High and lifted up, dear friend, have you ever got into the presence of God?
Are you measuring yourself by your fellow man, or have you got into the presence of God about your condition? Isaiah in the chapters before was saying woe, woe, woe upon the nations about.
And it may be as you pick up the daily newspaper and see the awful crimes that are being committed, you say, what a wicked world. Where are things going to go? They're getting worse and worse. But have you ever turned the finger on yourself and said, woe is me, dear friend, I ask you, have you ever got into the presence of God? This man condemned other people, but when he got into the presence of God.
He condemned himself.
And that's always the way when a man gets into the presence of God. That's what true repentance is. It's the estimate of the form of sin in the light of all that God is revealed as light and love. Have you ever got into the presence of God and formed God's estimate of sin? Perhaps you say, well, sin is relative. It's what you think it is, dear friend. It's not relative except to God.
And.
Relative to God, yes, But it doesn't matter what your fellow man says. The point is it's against God that you and I have sinned. It's God that has set the standard. It's to God you must answer. And he says we are all as an unclean thing and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags, He says again.
He says again in the.
And the prophet Isaiah, Jeremiah in the 17th chapter. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. Who can know it? I, the Lord, search the heart. I try the reins. Yes, dear friend, tonight God is looking into your heart, and He sees perhaps what no one else can see.
I may have used this illustration before.
But I'll use it again, because perhaps it will show the point that I have in mind. Supposing I have two rotten eggs sitting here on this table, and I roll one of them off onto the floor.
And it breaks.
And a bad smell comes into the room.
The egg is broken, all the rottenness that sinners come out.
When I pick up the other one and I take it up to my nose and I say this one's all right, there's no bad smell from this egg. This is a good egg. You might say to me. All the bats inside it may not have come out yet, but it's all there. And dear friend, it may be that you have a Christian father and mother.
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There are some children of Christian parents like I had.
And I thank God for them. I was brought up in a Christian home.
My father and mother kept me from doing a lot of bad things that I would have done if I hadn't had such parents as I did. The bad was all inside. I thank God that it didn't come out, but God looked inside my heart.
God looked inside my heart. I thank God that he did, and he told me what was there, and I thank God I acknowledged it was true. You wouldn't want me to break the second egg on the floor to prove it to you that it was rotten, would you? And dear friend, God doesn't want to. God doesn't want to plunge you into all the depths of evil for you to see how bad your heart is. But he's looking under the shell tonight.
He sees all that you and I are. And when Isaiah the prophet got into the presence of God, his fellow men might have said a wonderful man. It tells us in Zechariah the prophet that there were men, Joshua the high priest and others there. They were men to be wondered at.
But when Joshua the high priest got into the presence of God, it says he was clothed in filthy garments.
Clothed in filthy garments and all. My desire for you tonight, dear friend, is that if it's never been so before in your life that you'll get into the presence of God. I can remember when I was a boy and sat in a meeting like some of these boys here, and when the preacher spoke about the heart being deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
I didn't think my heart was quite that bad, but I had to let. I had to.
Find out when the light of God shone into it, that it was just as bad as the vilest Sinner that ever lived.
Yes, dear friends, it's important that you should realize that it's not what you see in your heart, but it's what God sees in it. It's what God sees into it, and here when.
Isaiah saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and lifted up, and he heard those seraphims say.
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of His glory. Yes, he found himself in the presence of a thrice holy God. He saw those symbolic beings there who spoke of God's holiness.
And I just like to mention here that these seraphims speak of God's holiness and connection with judgment.
There are two different characters in which these holy beings are brought before us who represent God's governmental ways in connection with the earth.
There are the cherubims and there are the seraphim.
Perhaps to make it simple, we know something about what a coat of arms means or something like that. Well, it stands for something. And when we read about the seraphim in the Bible, they bring before us God's holiness and connection with the judgment against sin. When we read about the cherubim, they speak of the fact that.
Now God is governing this earth. He's behind the scenes.
But he has not left himself without tokens of his goodness, it says in the 14th chapter of Acts.
God left not himself without witness, in that He did good and sendeth rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling men's hearts with food and gladness. And this is where people make their mistake, because it says in Ecclesiastes, because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily.
So therefore the heart of the sons of man is fully set in them to do evil.
And friends, you may look around the world and say, well, I don't believe that there's a hell in judgment. Why? And there's so many good things here in this world.
Health and food, sunshine, beautiful scenery and all these wonderful things we enjoy day by day. I can't think of a place where there'll not be a token of God's goodness. Well, dear friend, I want to.
This that. Now the reason that God has not as yet displayed His true character in holiness in connection with the judgment of this world is because the cherubim are looking upon the blood. God is acting in patient grace toward this world. But if you reject the grace of God.
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Revealed through the blood of Christ, you're going to find yourself.
In a place where there will not be 1 token of God's goodness forever.
Have you ever stopped to think about that? You know when Adam and Eve were driven out of the garden? If you read it, I haven't time to turn to it, but it says that God placed at the entrance of the garden cherry of them, which turned every way to keep the tree of life. And so Abraham, or rather Adam and Eve, were driven out from the garden.
They were driven out into a world where there was sunshine, where there was good food, and where there were many things to enjoy. Death was here. Some of the results of sin are here. Sickness, misery, suffering is in this world, but not the full results of sin. Sinner, you haven't seen it yet. You haven't seen it yet.
And perhaps because you're enjoying good health and good food and.
Happy family life, you think, oh, there's nothing to worry about, but all when?
When Isaiah saw those seraphim.
When he saw those holy beings and they said holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. All earth is full of his glory. They covered their faces, they covered their feet and it says with twain made it fly. That is, they were doing God's bidding. And oh, if you realize, dear friend.
The awfulness of the judgment of sin. You tremble tonight.
He would be afraid you wouldn't, wouldn't dare to go to this meeting unsaved. You'd say, oh, if that's what's ahead of me, I want to be saved tonight. I want to have Christ tonight. I want to know that heart of love that was revealed at Calvary's cross.
Your friend, and there is a time coming when it tells us in the 14th chapter of Revelation, when it says the wrath of God will be poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation.
The wrath of God will be poured out without mixture. Have you ever stopped to think of what it would be to be in a place where you felt the wrath of God without any mixture of His judgment?
If your wife takes sick, she can go to the hospital and get loving Care now.
If your wife takes sick, your friends perhaps will send you cards and sympathize with you.
Come forward, perhaps to help you. You're living in a world where you have hundreds of tokens every day of God's goodness. But don't forget, if you reject the Savior, you're going to be in a place where there will be no tokens of God's goodness forever because you turned your back upon the One who wants to save you and bless you.
And when Isaiah.
Got into the presence of the Lord, and he heard those seraphim.
Why? What does he say?
He says wall is made, wall is made. He says here the house was filled with smoke. What does this mean? The house was filled with smoke.
Well, you know, if you smelt smoke now, I know what you'd think you would say There's danger near. There's danger near.
Wonder where that smell of smoke comes from? Sometimes in the house I sat somewhere and I said to my wife, I think I smell smoke. I think I smell smoke.
And we'd investigate and find out.
And once or twice we've been very thankful we did. There was danger close by, and we're glad we investigated. And dear friend, I want to tell you that this world is a place where you can smell the smoke.
Judgment is at the doors. The terrible condition of things in this world is a reminder to your heart that there's something worse coming unless you find shelter under the precious blood of Christ.
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Oh, what a solemn thing here. The house was filled with smoke, and I hope tonight you'll smell the smoke of approaching judgment. I hope by the grace of God your heart will be aroused to the solemnity of the fact that there is judgment. It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.
And so in the presence of all this, Isaiah said, woe is me, for I am undone. What made him say this? Was he measuring himself by others in the nation? Was he looking at others and saying, well, I'm just as good as others?
And I think I'm a little worse than others, no, he said.
Mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
Mine eyes have seen the King all. May God and His goodness. Open your eyes tonight to see the Lord in all His glory.
And when you take your place as a Sinner, God finds joy in that.
Always say, does he find joy in my misery?
That sounds strange, doesn't it? But it says in the 15th chapter of Luke there is joy in the presence of the angels of God.
Over 1 Sinner that repenteth. God finds joy when a Sinner is awakened to feel his true condition. And if there was a boy here cried out, oh I'm afraid I'm lost, I'm on my road to hell. God will look down with joy.
Because he has a savior, He has a savior, and those who feel their need are the ones who find the savior.
Those who feel their need, what was it that led the prodigal to find out what was in his father's heart? The boy that didn't feel his need never discovered what was in his father's heart. He never found it out. What led the prodigal to find it out? He felt his knee. He felt his need and all. Dear Sinner, I trust that God will awaken you to feel your need of Christ. You need Christ tonight, if you.
Haven't got Christ as your Savior? You need Him. He's your greatest need.
Perhaps you say, well, I need some money, I need a home to live in. Well, those things may be honest needs, but there's the greatest of all needs that I speak to you about tonight. Have you got Christ?
Have you got Christ? Have you him as your Savior? Are you under the shelter of his blood? Isaiah realized his need and he said I am undone.
I I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips, for mine eyes have seen the king, the Lord of hosts. When Peter got into the presence of the Lord, he said.
Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord. Yes, he got into the presence of God. When Job a man that God could say there wasn't a man like him in all the earth, and yet when he got into the presence of God.
Job said. I repent and abhor myself in dust and ashes, and so tonight, whether you're a respectable Sinner.
Or an out and out Sinner. You need Christ. Have you received him? Is the Lord Jesus your Savior? Oh, May God grant that tonight you'll do like Isaiah did, and you'll cry out from the depths of your soul. I am undone. I'm a man of unclean lips. I'm a Sinner.
Our brother read to us about that woman in the 4th chapter of John. She was talking about her religion. Should she worship in this mountain or should she worship in Samaria? In Samaria or at Jerusalem?
She talked about the Lord being a prophet.
She was concerned about some of these things.
But when did the Lord make himself known to her? When she came to the point where she said, It's Christ I need, she said when Messiah cometh, he will tell us all things to me. It's as though she was brought to the point where she said, Oh, it's Christ I need. And he revealed himself at once, and oh, isn't that just the way God does?
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Isn't that what happened here? As soon as this man said I am undone, woe is me, I am a man of unclean lips, it says. Then flew one of the seraphim. Then flew one of the seraphims with two of those hands. He had covered his face with two of those.
Hands he had covered wings. Rather, he had covered his feet, but with the other.
2 They were there to fly.
You know your friends, I want to tell you God's always in a hurry to bless.
He's never in a hurry to judge.
He's never in a hurry to judge.
He has waited almost 2000 years since this world crucified his son. What is he waiting for? Waiting to blast?
Waiting to bless. And it tells us in another chapter in Isaiah that judgment is God's strange work. He doesn't want to judge you, dear friend. He's done everything that love could do to save your soul from coming. Judgment. Love couldn't do more than what He has done. He's provided everything. You can't say you're too poor because we're not redeemed with silver and gold.
Old, but with the precious blood of Christ, you can't say that you can't do anything because He doesn't require you to do anything.
Or perhaps you say, But my heart is so full of unbelief. But he wants you just as you are. Dear friends, I like the way the little hymn puts it. Come as thou art in all thy sins, Come with thy hardened heart. Come with thy cares, thy doubts, thy fears. All grace he will impart. Isn't it wonderful the Lord Jesus wants you just the way you are?
Just the way you are, sins and all dear friends, all come to the Savior just like you are He. You can't do anything for yourself, but He'll do everything for you. He'll remove those doubts. He'll remove those fears. He'll clothe you with the best robe. He'll give you a welcome better than you ever expected. All your friend, He wants to do it all for you.
The word was finished at the cross.
You know, some of us seem to find it harder to accept things than others. Some of us have naturally reasoning minds. But dear friend, whatever your sin is, it's just as much of A sin to have a mind that reasons against God as to have sinned in some way against your fellow man. Indeed, it's worse.
And God wants you if you've committed the vilest sins against society, or if you've long doubted the word of God and His goodness. He wants you just the way you are.
Come as you are, dear friends, He wants to bless you. All that Isaiah needed to say was I am undone. I'm a man of unclean lips. Mine eyes have seen the King. The Lord of Hope didn't say one word to justify himself, didn't make any promises of what he was going to do. All he did was acknowledge his true condition and what? And God did the rest.
God did the rest.
Then flew one of the seraphims, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar. Oh, what does that altar speak of?
All we have blessed and wonderful news for you, dear friend. The work necessary to put away your sins was accomplished long ago.
There was accomplished long ago. Why must the live call be taken from off the altar? Oh, that was the place of sacrifice. And I want to point you tonight to one who died a sacrifice for your sins.
God can pardon you on a righteous basis. God can pardon you not because he overlooks your sin, not because he makes little of your sins, but because he has already taken up the question of sin and settled it once and for all at Calvary's cross. Isn't that good news? Isn't it wonderful, dear friends?
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You perhaps you say, Well, if I tried to confess all my sins, I'm afraid I couldn't remember them all.
Well, I have still good news for you. You couldn't remember them all. I couldn't remember them all. But the very God against whom I sinned is the God who took my sins and placed them upon the head of His beloved Son. It says the Lord hath laid.
On him, the iniquity of us all. And although I couldn't remember my sins, and although I couldn't form a proper measure of sin of myself.
I rejoiced in all that the question of my sins was taken up by the God against whom I sinned, and he placed those sins upon his blessed Son. And the Lord Jesus bore the full storm of judgment and cried. It is finished.
It says he was delivered for our offenses and was raised again for our justification. And the reason we Christians have peace is because we know that the death is all paid. We're not hoping that we've been sincere enough or that we've remembered all our sins, or that we've been religious enough, but we know that God himself.
Has settled the question of our sins.
He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with His stripes we are healed.
And saw the seraphim took the live coal, and he touched it to the lips of Isaiah, and he said these wonderful words.
Law, this hath touched thy lips.
Thine iniquity is taken away.
And thy sin purged, dear Sinner, come to Christ, and all the value of Calvary's cross will be applied to your need. And more than this, you'll have the very Word of God Himself to rest upon, to make you sure. Could you have more? Could God's divine love give less?
Yes, I say, the work of Christ has made us safe, and his word makes us sure. Supposing you met Isaiah the next day and said, Isaiah, what about those sins? I heard you say that you were undone, that you were a man of unclean lips. What about those sins? Oh, he says, I heard the most glorious news.
The Lord said.
Thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
And I have blessed news to tell you tonight, and that is that God's word says the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin. I have the words of the Judge Himself to tell me that there is no condemnation. Listen to these lovely words in the 5th chapter of John on the 24th verse.
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 condemnation, but is passed from death and life. Who said it? The judge himself. The judge himself.
Could you have anything better, boys and girls? Could you rest on anything better if you were going to be brought up to court?
And you knew that the judge realized that you were guilty. He'd seen you commit the crime, and you were going to stand before him. You'd say, well, I've got no hope at all. He knows I'm guilty.
But supposing the judge said to you?
I've got good news for you. When you come up before me, there's a man that has already paid the fine for you. There's a man that's already paid the fine for you, and there'll be no condemnation for you.
Oh, what a wonderful thing, dear friend. That's what Christ has done.
Lawless hath touched thy lips. Thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged all. Won't you rest upon that finished work tonight?
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Want to rest upon it? Cast your deadly doing down down at Jesus feet. Don't depend on your own thoughts, your feelings, your church.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Who do you believe on, dear friend? Do you believe in yourself?
Do you believe in your feelings? You say, well, I don't feel any different. Well, then you must believe in your feelings. I don't believe in my feelings. They're so changeable. They're up and down.
Dear friends, I believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and as it was mentioned in the meeting this afternoon, it says thou art the same.
Thou art the same. And another lovely verse in the 10th of Hebrews says, Cast not away, therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. Another verse in that same chapter says, Let us hold fast.
The confession of our faith without wavering. Why?
For he is faithful. Perhaps you say, well, I'm unfaithful. But dear friend, he is faithful. It depends upon him.
He's undertaken my whole case, and He wants to be your savior tonight. He wants to speak peace to that heart of yours. Can you go on your sins any longer? Can you reject such wondrous love? Can you its power disown? Come give your all in gratitude, nor leave him thus alone. He hung alone on Calvary for you, but He wants you not only.
To save you from hell. But he wants you to be his companion for all eternity. It's not only what he saves us from, dear friend, but he saves us for to be his companion. To share with him all the fruit of that work of Calvary. Oh, what a wonderful message of love.
And then it says also I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said, I here am I send me. Isn't this lovely?
You know, after the Lord Jesus saves you, after he's done everything for you then.
He doesn't even say now is there, you'll have to do this or you'll have to do that.
He makes a request.
And the heart of Isaiah responds to that request. And perhaps you say, well, I couldn't live the Christian life, dear friends, you can't live it till you get it. You've got to get it first. And when you get the Lord Jesus Christ in your heart.
He'll respond like Isaiah did. Isaiah said, here am I. Yes, he was one whose sins were gone, who had learned in all the heart of the Lord, and all to your friend. When the Lord Jesus has saved your soul, it's a joy to confess his name. I know that sometimes I fail to confess his worthy name, but I can say this.
That the happiest moments of my life have been when I have confessed and spoken.
Well, of that precious worthy name. Oh dear friend, it's not ******* it's freedom. You're set free in Christ.
Free from the condemnation of sin, receiving a new life. And then here he says, whom shall I send? And Isaiah says, here am I send me. Yes, the Lord makes your heart willing, dear friend. He doesn't pull you along, but he can make you willing and He'll give you the grace. I remember two people were saved one time at a gospel meeting.
And they were quite society.
People and as they went home from the meeting, one said to the other, well, God has saved us, but we don't have to talk about it to all our friends, you know. And the next morning, the next morning, they were happier than they were the night before. The phone rang and one of their friends started to talk a bit.
Started to talk about the news as they usually conversed on the telephone and the young lady couldn't keep it in. It wasn't long until she told her friend what happened the night before and so it was until all her friends knew that they have to do it.
They wanted to do it. They wanted to do it. And perhaps you say, well, I don't think I've got the courage, but oh, when the Lord Jesus comes into your heart, why you just can't keep it in the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
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Well, Isaiah is told here.
Countless people here he indeed, but understand not just like to make a few comments about this.
That is, Isaiah was warned that this was not going to be an easy thing. He was going to meet opposition. And so I tell you tonight that when you accept the Lord Jesus your Savior, joy will fill your heart. You will want to tell your friends, but don't be surprised if they don't want to hear it. Don't be surprised.
You've got to expect that because the world has long gone on rejecting Christ.
Long gone on.
And so Isaiah raised another question. He said how long? How long? And he said.
Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate.
Well, how long is this message going to go out, dear friend, until God closes the door in judgment?
Until he closes the door in judgment. I like the way a little hymn puts it. Weary not to tell the news that if thousands still refuse, all shall be without excuse. Jesus says. Jesus says. And tonight, dear friends, once again we proclaim to you this wonderful news. It may be that you're closing your heart against it, but God doesn't. Weary of hearing.
Sound of them, of his wondrous grace told them. And we don't weary. We love to tell it. We love to tell it, the little hymn says. I love to tell the story for those who know it best.
Seem hungry and thirsting to hear it like the rest. And when in scenes of glory I sing the new new song, it will be the old, old story that I have loved so long. Dear friend, there's a Savior for you tonight. And if you'll only have him, all do receive him. But remember, judgment is coming.
Wise men.
Men who were up in the know of what's going on in the world, they're worrying about the world being overpopulated. But here it tells us it's going to be underpopulated. It's going to be underpopulated. Dear friend, I want to tell you, judgments coming upon this world, awful judgment, judgment such as the world is never known before, is going to fall upon this world.
But all there's still a door of grace that hangs wide open to night.
But when once the master of the house hath risen up and shut to the door, then shall they begin to knock, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us all. There's a moment coming when this room won't be large enough to hold the crowds. That would give all the people's us to hear a message of God's grace such as one has sought to present tonight.
This room wouldn't hold. There isn't a place large enough in Montreal to hold the crowds that will long to hear once more the message of God's love. But there's a time coming when the word will be too late.
Too late will be the cry.
Jesus of Nazareth has passed by.
But tonight, he's passing by. Perhaps as he passes by, he pulls in. Your coach, please.
I was speaking to a man the other day and we were speaking about how the Lord wanted to save. We were speaking about God's willingness to save. And I said the Bible says that the Spirit of God compels people to come in. And I said to my mind, it's just as if he caught a hold of your coat sleeve and pulled you along.
He said, I sort of feel that now, but I don't know whether he accepted Christ. Call your friend. Perhaps as he passes by, he's catching hold of your sleeve. He's seeking to pull you in. He's seeking to bring you to the point where you'll say, O Lamb of God, I come.
Don't shake off the pleadings of His Holy Spirit. May God grant that you will yield to His wondrous love. All you need to do is just to acknowledge that you're a poor, guilty, lost Sinner. That's what He asks of you, and He'll do all the rest.
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All the rest receive him tonight as your savior.