Gospel—Jim Hyland
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Let's begin the Gospel meeting this evening with hymn #10. On the Gospel hymn sheet. There is a Savior on high in the glory, a Savior who suffered on Calvary's tree. A savior is willing to save. Now, as ever, his arm is almighty, His love great and free. I'm going to suggest we stand up to sing this hymn #10 and if someone will please start it.
All around, yeah. And all that. It's a turn from 700 like me. Oh God.
I mean, I'm.
Sorry for its standards.
On how the rings crossed all for the day and the lawn.
While beginning at the storm.
And then uh.
Transparency, Anderson. Trust him and said by raising me thou just.
Five months ago, so we shall have our thy father and the little day of river to fall under the ring, sleeping with me like that.
Their heart.
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Let's ask God's help and bless. I'd like to read 5 different portions of the word of God. One of these five we're going to speak from particularly. But I would like to read these five different portions beginning first of all in the book of Isaiah, Isaiah, chapter 53.
Isaiah chapter 53 and verse 6.
All we, like sheep, have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. And then I want to go to John's Gospel, chapter 10.
John's Gospel chapter 10 and verse 11.
I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. Hebrews, chapter 13.
Hebrews chapter 13 and verse 20. Now the God of peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. And then the portion that is particularly on my heart.
In Luke's Gospel chapter 15.
Luke's Gospel, chapter 15. And we'll begin reading at verse one, then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners, for to hear him. And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners and Edith with and he spake this parable unto them. Some of you having 100 sheep, if he lose one of them, does not leave the 90 and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it.
And when he has found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep, which was lost. I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over once more than over 90 and 9 just persons which need no repentance. Just hold your finger here. We're gonna come right back to this portion. But I do want to read a phrase in the Psalms.
Psalm 23.
Psalm 23 and verse one. The Lord is my shepherd. Well, as these versus and portions of the Word of God clearly indicate, I have it on my heart this evening to speak in the gospel of the Lord Jesus as He's presented in the aspect of the Shepherd. You know, as we go through the word of God, we have different figures and types used so that the youngest child can grasp clearly.
What it is to know the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior, what it is to have one who cares for us all along the path of faith and service. And one of the beautiful ways that the Lord Jesus has brought before us in the gospel is in the aspect of the shepherd. That's why I read that verse in John 10 that says the Good Shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. We know that the Good Shepherd is the Lord Jesus who came into this world and went to Calvary's cross.
And died there for you and for me. Died and shed His precious blood, so that salvation could be offered to lost sinners. You know it is beautiful to go through the Old Testament and to notice particularly the two perhaps most complete types of the Lord Jesus in the Old Testament, Joseph and David. And at the beginning, when they are introduced to us, they are both introduced. At 17 years of age, Joseph was tending.
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His father's flocks. We find that David, when he is called by his father to be anointed by Samuel as king, the future king of Israel. Again, what was he doing? He was keeping sheep. Oh, how beautiful to see that the Lord Jesus is presented in this way. And those who are beautiful types of the Lord Jesus, they begin in that way. But I read here in the 53rd chapter of Isaiah to begin with.
Because here we find our condition, our true condition, the condition of every soul born into this world and everyone of us here. It says we're like sheep and we've gone astray. And I want to impress upon our souls at the beginning of this gospel meeting that everyone of us, young and old, are sinners. We've gone astray. We've turned everyone to his own way.
But, you know, it's it's easy to say, oh, we like sheep have gone astray. It's easy to confess that the whole human race has fallen and that all have sinned. But it doesn't just say all we like sheep have gone astray. It says we have turned everyone. That brings it right down to the individual. And that's the way I want you to look at it this evening. I want you to see that individually, the gospel is for you, but you will never receive the gospel as an individual.
In the way God intends you to do unless you individually realize.
That you are a Sinner. That you have sinned. Let me tell you a little story. My wife and I and my youngest daughter had opportunity just a couple of weeks ago to be in Asheville, NC.
Asheville, NC, is a beautiful city nestled in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
And there in Asheville, NC, is what is called Biltmore Estates. And we had opportunity, as I have done before, to walk through the grounds and the House of Biltmore Estates. It is a castle like home built by a man named George Vanderbilt. I don't know if George Vanderbilt came to know the Lord Jesus Christ as his savior, but let me tell you about his grandfather, Cornelius Vanderbilt.
When Cornelius Vanderbilt died in New York City he was a railway tycoon and when he died he was the richest man to date to die on American soil. He was a multi multi millionaire. But you know, as he lay on his deathbed at the beginning of the year 1887, he realized that he was not ready to meet God. With all his wealth around him, he realized that eternity lay ahead.
And that he must make preparation. And he was distressed as family members came in, as his servants came to tend to him, as the best doctors were brought in to make him comfortable. And on the 4th of January, 1887, Cornelius Vanderbilt called for an elderly servant that had attended his gardens for many years, because Cornelius Vanderbilt remembered that there was a colored servant in his employ.
Who, when he went around doing his chores saying gospel hymns, and this dear colored man was called to his bedside, and he was only too thrilled to come to the bedside of the man that he had worked for for so many years.
And Cornelius Vanderbilt said to the servant. He said, sing something. And this servant stood beside his bedside, and with tears streaming down his face, he sang that old gospel hymn that perhaps some of us have sung many times. I sang it in my youth, growing up come ye sinners, poor and needy, we can wounded, sick and sore. He sang through every verse of it by memory. Every.
Every inch of his body portrayed the feeling that was in his soul as he sang that precious gospel hymn. And when the last word and note died away in feebleness, Cornelius Vanderbilt reached out and took the servant's hand.
And he said to him, Cornelius Vanderbilt is a poor and needy Sinner, and I accept the Lord Jesus Christ as my savior. And that was just a day or two before on the 4th of January of that year, he went from his 5th Ave. mansion in New York City to the courts of glory to be with the one that he in his last moments has had received as his savior. But he had to come to the realization that he was a poor and needy Sinner.
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And you need to come to the realization tonight that you are a poor and needy Sinner, because the Lord Jesus said they that are whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. It says He came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. And so all we like sheep, have gone astray. We have turned everyone to His own way. But all there is a remedy tonight the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all, and the Good Shepherd has given his life at Calvary's cross.
And not only as he laid down his life, but as we read in Hebrews 13, that great shepherd has shed his precious blood. All the blood of Jesus is the cure tonight. It's the blood of Jesus Christ that cleans us from all sin, that cleanses from every stain of sin. I see these children here tonight. Oh, I trust everyone of you are washed in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
You know there was a skeptic, a man who didn't believe in God or believe the gospel, and he was walking down the street of the town where he lived one time. And he was walking with a Christian man, a man who had had uh, received the Lord Jesus and was washed in the blood of Jesus. And this skeptic, this one who didn't believe, he said to the Christian man, he said what good is the blood of Jesus. Look at this world, it's in ruin, it's sin. Man are going on in sin.
Look at all the corruption and sin that's rampant in this world today. What good is the blood of Jesus?
Well, you know, the Christian man very wisely didn't answer for a few moments and they walked along together in silence. I have no doubt the Christian man was praying for an answer and as they came to the street corner.
They saw two little boys playing on the side of the road. Now this skeptic who didn't believe he was a manufacturer of soap, he had a factory.
Where they made soap? Right there in that town. And here were these two little boys playing on the street in the mud. And they were filthy dirty, absolutely filthy dirty and enjoying it too. And so the Christian turned to the skeptic and he said, Sir, what good is your soap? Look at these boys, people in this town and you tell us your soap is good and you advertise your soap to be the best and what good is it? Look at these kids.
All the soap manufacturer said, don't you realize my soap is no good unless it's used unless you apply it? You ever been sent from the dinner table to wash your hands and you went to the bathroom to wash your hands and you didn't use soap? And what usually happens when you come back to the table? Mom or dad say to you you better go and use some soap. This time it wasn't that there wasn't soap available at the sink. It wasn't that it wasn't a good kind of soap, but you didn't use it.
All the Christians said, just so it is with the blood of Christ.
It's of no avail unless it's applied. And tonight the blood of Christ is of no avail unless it's applied. But if it's applied, it cleans from every stain of sin. We're justified by the blood of Christ. Oh, I'm thankful for the cleansing power. We sometimes sing a hymn. What can wash away my sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. But you know that verse we read in Hebrews also tells us something else about the shepherd.
That he's risen from the dead. That God brought again from the dead, that great shepherd of the sheep. And that's really why I gave out to him, we sang, There is a savior on high in the glory, a savior who suffered on Calvary's tree. A savior is willing to save. Now, as ever, his arm is almighty, His love great and free. You know, the Lord Jesus died and shed his precious blood here in this world, here at go, at Golgotha, here on Calvary's hill.
But you know the Lord Jesus after being laid carefully by those who loved him.
In a tomb he rose from the dead, he died, he died, he was buried, and he rose again the 3rd day according to the Scriptures. And I am so thankful, and it rejoices my heart every time the gospel is told to hear of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Because if Christ be not raised, your faith is in vain and ye are still in your sins. But thank God he was raised again for our justification.
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And that Lord Jesus who's up in heaven, It's just as if tonight he's bending low over this gospel hall, just waiting to receive somebody. Just listening to hear somebody in their heart say, yes, Lord Jesus, I come, oh how simple it is. But before we pass on, I want to impress upon our hearts again the fact that we are sinners and there needs to be repentance. All we need to believe it's true, but it's repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
And that really brings us to what we read here in the 15th chapter of Luke. Because preceding this story of the sheep that went astray and the shepherd that went after it, preceding this story, it tells us then drew near all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. They knew they had a need, All people that thought they were pretty good people that thought they had it all together, They didn't want to hear what the Lord Jesus said.
But those who realized that they were sinners, they drew near to hear what the Lord Jesus had to say, How important it is to draw near and hear what the Lord Jesus has to say. Because, you know, we've come to the end of these meetings. And, you know, we think, well, won't it be wonderful if we have meetings again like this next year here in this building or somewhere in the Richmond, BC area? But you know, the Lord Jesus is coming very soon.
He's coming very soon, three nights. The gospel has gone forth in this building. But we can't promise that there will be another opportunity. These publicans and sinners here, they had an opportunity to hear the Lord Jesus speak on this occasion. But I'm going to tell you about a 13 year old boy who was very, very sick. He lived on the island of Saint Vincent down in the West Indies.
And he was so sick that he was in the hospital and he was dying.
And there was a nurse who I knew very well. Her name was Dorcas Dublin.
And nurse Dublin lived in the town of Brighton Village, Saint Vincent, and for many, many years she was a nurse at the large hospital in Kingstown, the capital.
And I sat in her home one afternoon, mopping my brow. It was about 110° in humid, and I sat in her home and listened to her tell this very interesting story. She told me that one night she was making her rounds at the hospital in Kingstown, and she came to this cot where this boy was lying, and she could see that his breathing was very labored.
And that he probably wasn't going to live until morning.
And nurse Dublin has been for many years.
A Christian love the Lord Jesus and she never missed an opportunity to tell others in that hospital of the Lord Jesus and the need for salvation.
She bent over the caught of this young boy. She wasn't sure if he was conscious. She didn't know if he could hear her or not. But she bent over his cot and she said to him, She said, boy, if you ever need to be needed to be saved, it's now. And she began quoting Gospel verses from the word of God.
And she told me some of those verses that she quoted, Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. And God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him.
Should not perish, but have everlasting life. And several other verses. And finally she quoted that verse believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. And that boy opened his eyes and he looked into the eyes of nurse Dublin and he said, nurse I believe, And he took one more breath and he was in eternity.
And I listened to that story.
And a wave of emotion came over that sister as she told me that story. Long retired from her profession, she was probably in her late 80s when she told me that story.
But the reality of it swept over her as she retold it, and it swept over my own soul as well. And I wonder if you knew that you just had a few breaths left to breathe, if it would make a difference tonight in how you listened and responded.
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To the gospel story.
But God's word very plainly tells us, behold, now is the accepted time. Behold, now is the day of salvation. And we're not just told to remember our Creator while we're young, but remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth. You know what that means for our purposes tonight? It means you need to get saved. And you need to do it right now, not just while you're young, because, you know, I look at these.
Girls on the front row and they're pretty young, but you know, they look at me and I'm sure they don't think I'm very young. But then you I look over at somebody like Brother Coleman. And I am sure that Brother Coleman has a little different perspective on me. If you were to ask him if he thought I was young, he would say yes. And so it's from it's it's all their youth is from our perspective. I realized one day that my girls thought I was old.
I realized when I looked at my father, I thought he was old and he was about the same age I am now. You see, it's all from our perspective. And so it's not just being saved while we're young, but there's even something more urgent than that. It's being saved now. It's not waiting until we leave the Gospel Meeting. It's not waiting till we get home. It's not waiting till next week. It's getting saved now. It's receiving the Lord Jesus.
Immediately. There's always an urgency connected with the gospel and the Lord. Jesus told this little story, a little picture, a parable to put very simply and clearly before those ones who had a desire to hear his words, what it was to have a a savior seeking, a shepherd seeking, one who was lost. You know, I heard this story from the very early days of my childhood.
And I'm thankful I did. But let's just notice a couple of things. In the few minutes that we have this evening, we find here that there's a shepherd and he loses a sheep. You know the nu, the number HU100 has significance in scripture. Numbers have significance in scripture. And I believe that you'll find that often when the the wor, the number 100 is mentioned in scripture, it denotes complete salvation.
You know, when they pulled the net out of the sea, there was 150 and three fishes. The 100 there denotes complete salvation. Here there was 100 sheep, but one went missing and something was incomplete now. And so we find that the shepherd goes out and he seeks this sheep. He goes out to look for it. It's a picture of the Lord Jesus coming into this world, seeking the loss.
The Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost. Do you realize that you're lost tonight? You realize that you're lost tonight. If you do, We have wonderful news, and that is that there's a shepherd that's seeking the sheep. And so he goes out to find it. And what does he do? Just look for a little while. No. He saw it until he found the sheep that was lost.
I am thankful in my own experience that the Lord Jesus found me when I was five years of age. Yes, I was just five years of age by the grace of God. Five, five years of age. The shepherd found me in my bedroom in my parents home, alone in the dark and afraid. The shepherd found me and he saved me. And you know, by the grace of God, and I know it's only by the grace of God, but by the grace of God I've had.
Never had a doubt as to my salvation. I've had lots of other questions. I've got away from the shepherd. I've been rebellious, A rebellious sheep. I've ex exhibited self will in my life. I've had a lot of other questions about a lot of things in my life, but by the grace of God I can say before God.
That for the last 42 years of my life, I have never doubted that the Lord Jesus is my shepherd, my Savior. You know you can have that joy in your soul too.
You can have that assurance in your soul too, to know that you are saved, that your sins are gone in the blood of Jesus, and that you are on your way to heaven. My youngest daughter and I. One time we're in the city of Toronto and we wanted to get from point A to point B. And in a city like Toronto, the best way to do it is on the underground subway. And so we boarded a car on the underground subway and we were quizzing along under the city of Toronto.
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And I looked across in the subway car and there was an advertisement. And there were this advertisement. There were two young people facing each other and they were speaking.
And one young person was saying to the other, Where will I be 10 years from now? Now this advertisement was simply an advertisement for Ryerson University, a university in the city of Toronto, and it was an advertisement propagating higher learning and getting an education so you could get a good job and get along in life and so on. But the one young person was saying to the other, Where will I be?
10 years from now and the other young person was saying back, I wish I knew.
You know, I thought of that in connection with the gospel. Where will you be 10 years from now? Where will you be 10 days from now? Where will you be 10 minutes from now? Where will you be 10 seconds from now? You don't have to say. I wish I knew Michael Faraday, that great scientist, the father of modern electronics, was lying on his deathbed.
And a friend came to his deathbed to try to comfort him and he said, Michael, what are your speculations for eternity? He said Speculations. I'm resting on certainties. He wasn't speculating. And we don't have to speculate or wonder what lies beyond this world. Wouldn't we be sad? We wouldn't have any gospel to tell tonight if it was just speculation? No, there are certainties that we rest on tonight.
And I know with certainty if I draw my last breath while I'm standing at this table, or if the Lord Jesus comes before I step down and the meeting concludes that I'm going to go to be with the Lord Jesus in heaven. I know on the authority of God's Word, what is ahead, The Father's house, singing the praises of the Lord Jesus, forever seeing the shepherd there with the marks in his hands of Calvary and in his feet and his spear, Pear sighs.
And so the shepherd goes out here, and he seeks for the lost sheep, and he seeks until that sheep is found. And then you listen to what I'm going to say next. And when he finds that sheep, he gives it a good scolding and he gives it a slap and he tells it. Now you get home with the rest of the sheep. You've been a very bad sheep, and I want you to just find your way home. And you deserve to be cold and tired and hungry. Is that what the shepherd did? All you know the story?
You young children, you know the story so well. You've seen it even illustrated in a picture book, perhaps, how that shepherd so tenderly reached down. Oh, it's a beautiful picture of the Lord Jesus coming right where we are.
He reached down and he picked up that sheet and he put it on his shoulder.
And you know, that sheet might have struggled and he might have got a foot or two loose on the way back, but he never got off the shoulders of the shepherd again. And in Scripture, I believe that shoulders speak of the place of strength. It's the eternal security of the believer. And so the Lord Jesus said in John 10, my sheep hear my voice, and I know them.
And I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish. I am not afraid of ever.
Getting out of the arms and off the shoulders of my shepherd, he has me securely there. The devil himself can't pluck me from the hand of the Lord Jesus or off his shoulders. He's carrying me safely home to heaven, to glory. He'll never let me go. I like to tell stories to illustrate points, and I'm gonna tell another story, particularly for those who are younger, because.
I'm very exercised and challenged when I see these dear children here tonight. I know they've heard the gospel many times and yet I wonder in my soul if they really come to know the Lord Jesus as their savior. I come from a town of about 9 or 10,000 in Eastern Ontario. It's called the town of Smith Falls, Ontario, and some years ago there lived in the town of Smiths Falls a man named Mr. Lee. I never knew what his first name was because everybody called him.
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Moose Lee and they called him Moose Lee because Moose Lee was a great big strong man and Moose Lee was the Fire Chief for many years in the town of Smiths Falls where I live. We have in Smith Falls what they call a Volunteer Fire Department. They're not always the fastest on the scene of a fire. And one night Moose Lee, who always kept his two way radio on in the night so he gets a fire, calls. He was awakened early in the wee hours of the morning, I suppose two or three in the morning.
Via fire call, he listened to where that call was coming from as he hastily dressed and he jumped in his vehicle and instead of going to the fire department first the Firehouse, he went straight to the scene of the fire. He knew his men would be along in a few moments.
He got to that house. It was a two-story frame house.
And he looked around the yard, and he knew there was a mother, and some children lived in that home. He could see no one around. And so, without thinking of his own safety, he rushed up to the door of that home, pulled it open, And there he saw the top of the stairs, a mother and two children. And this mother was frozen with fear. There was flames and smoke all about her, but she just couldn't seem to get it together enough.
To get those children down the stairs. And so, again, without thinking of his own safety, he rushed up that stairs. He took that mother and he slung her across his shoulders. He picked up a child in this arm. He picked up a child in this arm.
But as he turned to leave, he realized that in a carriage there was a baby as well.
From his experience as a firefighter, he also realized that he probably didn't have time to go down the stairs, deposit his heavy load and come back for that day.
And so he bent over that carriage, and in his teeth by its clothes, he picked up that baby.
And he turned, and he staggered slowly and clumsily down that stairs. The smoke was choking him. The heat was intense, but he finally got to the bottom of the stairs.
He staggered out the door. He sat down one child, he sat down the other. He took the mother off his shoulders and he handed her back his her baby. And as he was in the process of handing the baby back to that mother.
The stairs behind them collapsed.
And you know, in the town of Smith Falls, for many years, that heroic deed was never forgotten. And that mother was so grateful that Moose Lee risked his life to save her and her family. But all tonight, we're talking about one who didn't just risk his life to save us. He gave his life at Calvary's Cross. Sometimes we sing that hymn we'll sing of the shepherd who died.
Who died for the sake of the flock. His love to the utmost was tried and firmly endured as a rock. And you know the shepherd here, he carries the sheep on his shoulders, not just one shoulder, but he carries it on that place of double security. And he brings that sheet safely home. And oh, there was rejoicing because there was a Sinner that repented. And you know tonight if you get saved.
There'll be joy. And where will the greatest joy be tonight? In heaven, in the presence of the angels of God. There's joy over 1 Sinner that repents. You know, I wouldn't want to press this and this is just a little aside, but you know those who have gone on before, who died in faith like my Father and so many of our loved ones.
They are so in the eclipsed by the glory of the face of the Lord Jesus.
And by being in His presence that they're not occupied with what's going on on the earth at this point, they're there in the full enjoyment of the presence of the Lord, absent from the body and present with the Lord. But I do wonder. I do wonder if there is one event on earth that stirs all heaven, and that those who are around the Lord Jesus realize that something momentous has happened to get on earth when there's joy.
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In the presence of the angels of God over 1 Sinner that repents. You want to make heaven reverberate tonight. You want to bring cause joy in the presence of the angels of God? Oh, bow your head and tell the Lord Jesus you're a Sinner, but that you're sorry. That's what repentance is. It's just to be so in the simplest form tonight. It's just to be sorry that you're a Sinner, Sorry that you've wronged God, Sorry that you've sinned against the Lord Jesus and received the gift of God which is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
To believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved.
Oh, I say what joy it will bring in heaven and all, what peace and joy it will bring to your heart. All I say, are you gonna bring joy in heaven? Because if you don't, if you're lost tonight and in your sins and you go out of this door one more time without Christ, oh think of the sadness in the heart of God tonight.
Think of the sadness in the heart of the Lord Jesus as you turn away and you say one more time. Not tonight. Not tonight. Not tonight. We heard about that boy who got saved on his deathbed with his last breath. But you know we don't know when our last breath will be. God was very gracious to that young boy. But what about you tonight? Are you gonna come and receive the Lord Jesus? And I concluded by reading that portion.
In the 23rd Psalm, perhaps one of the earliest verses we memorize in Sunday School, the Lord is my shepherd. Not just the Lord is the shepherd, but the Lord is my shepherd. You see how intensely personal it is.
And I plead with you before God tonight. I plead with you, and in love to your soul not to go out of this room until you can say the Lord is my shepherd. I'm not saying can you say the Lord is the shepherd, but can you say the Lord is my shepherd? Have you received the Lord Jesus as your savior? Can you say that he is yours?
Are You redeemed by His Precious Blood?
The Lord is my shepherd, I rejoice to be able to say tonight the Lord is my shepherd. You know, I think sometimes at the end of a gospel meeting, souls wonder, well, how can we really be saved? I'm going to tell you before I pray just how simple it is. I'm going to pray in a moment.
And if you, realizing your great need as a Sinner and realizing God's great salvation through the Good Shepherd, would like to be saved tonight before you get up off your seat, it's this simple.
You can close your eyes. You don't even have to close your eyes, but it would walk out any distractions. But you can bow your head and you can talk to God in your heart. You can talk to the Lord Jesus in your heart. You know he hears what you say.
Whether you utter one word aloud or not, and right here, you don't have to be any special place or in any special position. But you can talk to him in your heart tonight while I pray, and tell him you're a Sinner, but that you want to receive the Lord Jesus as your Savior. And if you do that, I have a verse that guarantees that you will go out of this room saved. It says, Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
If you'd like to do that, do it in your heart right now.
And if you do it, tell somebody, If thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus is Lord, and believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, Thou shalt be saved, for with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
And with our confession is made, and the heart believe it unto salvation. And so I plead with you, be saved, be saved. Now it's that simple. The shepherd is seeking for you. Will he find you right here in one of these chairs? Before we leave, let's pray our God and Father.