Gospel—Paul Cedarland
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I'd like to welcome everyone to the golf convenience this evening.
Maybe we could begin with hymn #3.
My hope on nothing less is built than Jesus and the bloody spilt. I dare not trust the sweetest frame, But holy lean on his blessed name. On Christ the solid rock I stand, All other ground is sinking sand hymn #3.
And what he spilled.
I dare not trust the sweetest spring.
But holy, lean on his blessing.
On crisis.
Oven rock, I stand.
All of your ground.
Is sinking.
Sand.
Alert and drown.
Everything.
I am Dormill.
Face anchor holes when and die all.
My name is great.
On his hands.
Let all my soul give way.
Please fill our hearts my lasting day.
We could also sing hymn #13.
Man of Sorrows, what a name for the Son of God who came.
Ruined sinners to reclaim. Hallelujah, what a Savior.
#30.
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So I was looking around the room this evening.
I'm happy to see that most here, I believe, truly know the Lord Jesus as their Savior.
And these hymns that we just sang for the believer, it brings us joy and comfort and peace.
But if there's one here, it's yet lost in their sins.
These hymns probably mean nothing to you, but this message tonight is a message from God, from God's Word. It doesn't matter what I say, it's what God says that counts. And so, with the Lord's help, this evening we'll seek to proclaim the Savior of sinners, the Lord Jesus Christ, God's beloved Son. Let's look to the Lord for his help.
Our blessed God and our gracious Father, we thank thee tonight that we have such a Savior. We thank thee for the Lord Jesus, thy beloved Son, that one who came from the heights of glory down to this world of woe to give his life, that we might have life and have it more abundantly. So we praise thee for the finished work of the Lord Jesus. We pray too, for any tonight that don't know thy love, that are strangers to thy grace. We pray that thou.
Grace would work in their hearts and arrest them. They might realize their need and they might be brought to repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. So we would look to Thee and count upon Thee for Thy blessing on Thy Word.
In Jesus precious worthy name, Amen.
We could turn start the meeting tonight by looking at Romans chapter one.
Romans chapter one.
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated under the Gospel of God, which he had promised before by his prophets in the Holy Scriptures.
Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh, and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness.
By the resurrection from the dead.
Verse six. Among whom are ye also the called of the Lord Jesus Christ?
At speaking to believers. Then it goes on to say.
Versus.
Verse 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God and the salvation.
To everyone that believeth, to the Jew 1St, and also to the Greek, for therein is the righteousness of God revealed from heaven. From faith to faith as it is written, the just shall live by faith.
So we see in these verses that the gospel concerns the Lord Jesus, and this evening we'd like to make one thing clearer from the very beginning, and that is that Christ is the Savior of sinners, and he's the only Savior where Jesus could say I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.
The Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. My friend, I'm happy that you're here this evening. But you know, the gospel is something real, and it's something that's serious and earnest. Earnest. Not like if I go to buy a car or something, I have to make a decision. But, you know, if I make the wrong decision, I might be out.
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20 Thousand 50,000.
But that's nothing compared to losing your soul, the poet could say. To lose your wealth is much, to lose your health is more. To lose your soul is such a cost that no man can restore. So tonight we're Speaking of issues of life and death.
And the Lord Jesus.
Is the only savior.
And tonight man is lost. The Bible tells us that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Tells us all. We, like sheep, have gone astray. We've turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
The good news is the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which is lost.
So though man is lost, ruined in his sins, God has provided a remedy. We read you read in the book of Romans. Here we find about the Lord Jesus is the only Savior. We read about faith. We read about the grace of God, the righteousness of God that he's made available for those that trust the Lord Jesus. But we also read a little further on in this chapter about the wrath of God.
You know God has no pleasure in showing wrath to sinners, but God is a holy God.
And he cannot pass sin by.
God could not pass the Sinner by his sin demands that he must die.
But in the cross of Christ we see how God can save, yet righteous be.
You know, years ago, in the days when they still would whip kids in the school if they did something wrong, there was a boy that.
Had misbehaved and he knew he was going to get a whipping, so he ran out of the class and he ran out into the woods.
Do you know the principal's son was a friend of that boy that ran off into the woods?
And he?
He went to the principal and he said let me take my friend's punishment.
And in principle wasn't real happy with that. But after a while he decided he agreed to it. And so he took his son and whipped that.
Boy, he whipped that sun and that sun went out into the woods and he showed his friend there were these bleeding marks on his back and he said.
It's OK for you to come back now. I've taken your punishment.
You know when we were lost in our sins, we sang that him guilty, vile and helpless. We spotless Lamb of God, was he full atonement? Can it be Hallelujah, what a savior. The Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, loved his creature.
I want to say that the gospel is about the love of God, the love of the Lord Jesus, and if you're here tonight, you may be the worst Sinner.
In the town of Kirkland He may be the worst thinner in this state. But God loves you, and God sent his Son to die for you, Bible tells us. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Have you believed? Have you trusted? It's a personal thing.
I know when I grew up, I heard John 316 so many times that we just got used to it. And there's a story told of a little girl. This was years ago when they worked in the print shops and it took a lot of Labor to print a piece of page of a book. And this little girl went into her dad's print shop and she saw a little piece of paper laying on the floor that her dad had thrown down and discarded because he had.
Made a mistake in the print. That little girl picked up that print, that piece of paper, and she read these words.
For God so loved the world that he gave.
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And then it stopped. There was a mess up on the print. But you know, her heart was attracted to those words. She took that little piece of paper and she took it to her room and she had it there and she read it again. She had always, she knew she was a naughty girl and she had always thought that.
God was out there to get her and to punish her if she did something wrong. But here this verse told her that God so loved the world.
And uh, so she just had the part up to God, so loved the world that he gave. I quoted nothing more than that, but she just knew that God loved and God gave and it caused a whole new thought.
Of God, I want to say tonight that God is a giver. God, that little girl was so happy. She took that little piece of paper and she read it over again. And she had it for several days in her room. And she would look at it. And after a while her mother said, you know, you have a secret. Tell me what your secret is. She was a little embarrassed, but she said, I hope it's OK, Mama, but I took this.
From daddy's print shop. And the mother picked it up and she read For God so loved the world that he gave. She also was touched by these words.
She said let's go to daddy and see if we can find the rest of it. So they went to the father. There he was busy working the print shop and.
They said what's the rest of this? Do you have the rest of this? He said. Oh yes, I have that.
And, uh, here it is. And he picked up the piece of paper and.
They read the Mother, read the words, for 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 both the mother and the daughter were touched by the love of God. But the dad, he'd been printing all these papers, and to him it was just words. I fear perhaps sometimes boys and girls, men and women, can come to these gospel meetings. Well, we know the words, but doesn't mean anything to us. Have we made it personal? It's a personal thing.
We need to each one individually trust the Lord Jesus as our own favor. It's not good enough if our moms and dads are saved.
That doesn't save us. It's not good enough. It's wonderful thing to learn the Scriptures and to have them in our to know them. What we need to have a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus. We need to trust Him personally.
The Lord Jesus loves us and He wants us to be saved. That's why this message is going forth this evening. There was another lady. She also got some wonderful words.
A man handed her a piece of paper and said, If thou knewest the gift of God.
That Lady took that piece of paper and crumpled it up and threw it on the floor.
And stomped on it.
Man is lost.
Bible tells us God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.
But it also tells us this is the condemnation that light is coming to the world and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.
Are your deeds evil tonight? If you don't know the Lord Jesus as your Savior, you have sins.
You need those things put away. The good news is the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanseth us from all sin.
The Lord Jesus came to seek and to save you.
The word Jesus.
God's beloved Son, the one that dwelt in the bosom of the Father in a past eternity.
The Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
He sent His Son to be your Savior and to be mine. Will you have him this evening if you don't yet know the Lord Jesus?
He's a wonderful Savior. He's an all the way home Savior, and he'll never let you down. He's one that can satisfy the longing soul and fill the hungry soul with gladness. Last night we sang that hymn. O Christ and thee, my soul hath found, and found in thee alone the peace, the joy. I thought so long, the bliss till now unknown.
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Have you found that satisfaction? We live in a world.
Where men and women, boys and girls, are trying everything, trying to find peace, trying to try and trying to find love, trying to find joy, trying to find satisfaction. Man wrote a song. Can't get no satisfaction. I've tried. I've tried.
Over and over he sang that, another man musician said, I'd give all that I have for a little bit of peace. You have peace tonight. You have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. You can, you can have joy. The little children sing a song. LEAVE at once. SIN and sorrow come to Jesus.
Joy will surely follow.
You want real and lasting joy. It's found only in the Lord Jesus Christ. This world pleasures of sin are, but for a season they're empty. They bring no lasting satisfaction.
What is your hope in tonight? Is it in the Lord Jesus?
You put your hope in him. He'll never let you down.
I've sometimes built my hopes on things in this world, and you know, it's always turned out to be a huge disappointment. But the Lord Jesus has never disappointed me, and He'll never disappoint you. He alone is the Savior. Christ alone can save, break the power of sin. Christ does fully satisfy the heart.
Decrease to him.
Turn over to the book of Isaiah.
Isaiah.
I believe it's chapter 55.
Oh, Isaiah 55 verse one. Oh, everyone that thirsteth come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money come by, Come ye by, and eat ye come by wine and milk, without money and without price. Wherefore do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which satisfy it not?
Hearken diligently unto me.
And EE that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness, Incline your ear and come unto me here, and your soul shall live.
And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even if sure mercies of David.
Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and a commander to the people.
Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee, because of the Lord thy God.
And for the Holy One of Israel, for he hath glorified thee.
Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found. Call ye upon him while he is near.
That's a wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man is thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Razor rain cometh down in the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but water the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater. So shall my word be that goeth out of my mouth.
It shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
For ye shall go out with joy, and ye shall be LED forth with peace. The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing.
And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands, instead of the thorns shall come up the fir tree, and instead of them briar shall come up the Myrtle tree. And it shall be to the Lord for a name, and for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
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Your own days.
Back before they had modern methods of transportation, GPS and all those things, cell phones, all those things we take for granted today.
Travelers would sometimes go through the desert. Sometimes they would lose their way.
And so they would spread out in search. They would need water, and they'd spread out in search of water. And when they would find water, they would cry out. Oh.
And the others would come and they would be able to get the water. You know, tonight we have something better than the water. This earth. The Lord Jesus could say to the woman in John four, she could say, He could say to a woman that was thirsting after water that could never satisfy and never last. He could say to her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again.
But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst, but the water that I shall give him shall be in him.
A well of water springing up into everlasting life.
So the Lord Jesus.
Is a giving Savior and He came from the heights of glory to give his life for you. He wants to give you the water of life. We turn over to the end of Revelation. One of the last things we read is whosoever will.
Let him take of the water of life freely. God is a giver. God, have you tasted the water of life? Lord Jesus is offering as we read. Come to the waters, He that hath no money.
No, God is a giver God.
And salvation is a gift tells us the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Salvation is a gift. You and I are too poor to buy it, and God is too rich to sell it. But He is offering salvation without money and without price. But you know, in order for us to have that salvation.
Someone had to pay the price for our sins. So that salvation that's being offered freely, that you don't have to work for, you don't have to pay for it, you can.
Come freely and take it. Someone paid for that and it was the Lord Jesus Christ. We turn over. We were to turn back.
To Isaiah 53 we would see where the the way was opened. We had it touched on in our meeting this afternoon where we heard those words. He is the propitiation for our sins.
And not for our sins only, but also for the whole world, for those of us that know the Lord Jesus.
God has opened up the way that we could have our sins taken care of. He has taken care of our sins.
But their door is open. The Lord Jesus has laid the foundation when he went to Calvary's cross, so that anyone in this whole world, whosoever will, may come and receive the Lord Jesus.
Tells us in John's gospel as many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God.
Even to them that believe on his name. Have you believed on Him tonight? If you do, if you trust the Lord Jesus as your Savior, you will be saved. Bible tells us in Acts 1631. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
It's not believe and keep the law, it's not pray, and it's not read the Bible, wonderful as those things are. Stories told of a little girl that went to a.
Gospel meeting and she knew she was a Sinner and needed to be saved and somebody told her to read the Bible and pray.
She went home and.
She didn't know where to start in the Bible and she didn't know how to pray. And so she just knelt down by her bed and she said, Lord, Lord Jesus, I can't read and I can't pray, but I want you to save me. And the Lord Jesus saved her and he'll save you if you will trust him.
Let's take a brief look at what the Lord Jesus did for us. This might mention this was written believe over 600 years before the Lord Jesus was born. And yet.
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Can't really go anywhere else in scripture and find such an accurate description of his work and what he's done.
Very beautiful.
Let's start with verse two. He shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of a dry ground.
He hath no form nor comeliness. When we shall see him. There is no beauty that we should desire him.
He is despised and rejected, a man, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, and we hid, as it were, our faces from him. He was despised, and we esteemed him not.
You know the Lord Jesus came into this world to make known the heart of God.
Satan had created.
A gulf between man and God.
You know, Adam and Eve, they're in the garden. They chose rather to listen to Satan than to God.
And they chose a piece of fruit instead of God.
Shows how foolish our hearts are by nature. We cannot trust our own hearts, but thankfully we can trust the Lord. They made the mistake of doubting God, doubting His word.
And whenever we doubt God, someone's made the comment. All our failure, whether sinners or Saints, is because unbelief in the goodness of God. Oh, there's one that's worthy of all our full confidence, and that's the God.
It is made us and sent his son to die for us.
Where Jesus came known to reveal the heart of the Father, He was the only begotten Son that dwelt in the bosom of the Father.
In the past eternity He was there in the glory, daily rejoicing before His Father.
You think that hymn dwells in his bosom, knoweth all that in that bosom lies, and came to earth to make it known that we might share His joys. You know it was the Father's purpose that you and I might be able to enjoy fellowship with the Father and with His Son, and the Lord Jesus has made that possible.
He came to this earth. He came so near to his creature. He became a man.
The Lord of glory, the one who made the Maker of heaven and earth, tells us in John One in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God. And then it goes on to say that He came unto his own in his own received him not, but as many as received him to them gave he power, or the privilege to become the sons of God, or the children of God.
No, God wants you and his family tonight.
Are you willing to trust the Lord Jesus? And when the Lord Jesus came into the scene, there was God manifest in flesh.
The Lord of glory became a man perfectly doing his Father's will.
In every step of his pathway here and as he went about, the Father's love was displayed in the sun as the Lord Jesus touched a leper and healed him, gave sight to the blind, gave strength to the lame man so he could stand up.
Raise the dead.
Went about doing good, healing all that are oppressed to the devil. Lord Jesus was there.
For all.
But he also came where man could get his hands on him.
Man.
Didn't like the fact that he reached their conscience.
At one point, when the Lord Jesus spoke, they could marvel at the gracious words that proceeded from His mouth. Within the next moment, when He reached their conscience, oh, they took up stones to stone him. They didn't want any part of that.
You know you were a Sinner tonight and God says you're a Sinner. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. And I hope your conscience, you feel that in your conscience because you're in the presence of a holy God, all things are naked and open unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
You have to do with God.
And you're gonna regret it for all eternity if you do not repent and believe the gospel.
But the gospel is good news. So our desire is rather to show the love of God rather than preach the judgment of God. But nevertheless, the judgment of God is sure, and it's just and according to truth. And you and I.
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Deserve that judgment. If you've trusted the Lord Jesus, he's born that judgment for you. But if you have not, he that hath not, the Son hath not life, and the wrath of God abideth on him.
Where Jesus made known the heart of the Father.
But you know, He was so near, so loving. And as we mentioned before, men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. Man is lost, and man has no heart for God's beloved Son.
Unless his eyes are opened. And so it's our prayer and hope tonight that your eyes will be open and you'll be turned from the power of darkness to the wonderful, massless love of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The only saver that can save you, only trust him, only trust him, only trust him now. He will save you, He will save you. He will save you. Now you know men took the Lord Jesus and they they laughed him to scorn. Later on they his own, one of his own disciples, Judas Iscariot, betrayed the Lord Jesus.
You know, no matter how much privilege you may have had.
If you don't know the Lord Jesus, that's the picture. That's my heart, and your heart by nature.
Our hearts are deceitful above all things the Bible tells us, and desperately wicked. And who could know it?
What kind of a friend would betray his own friend? And yet that's what Judas did, and that's what our hearts are capable of. And yet the Lord Jesus loves us. And so man took that blessed one.
And they hung him up on a tree between heaven and earth. First they smote him, they beat him. He gave his back to the smiters, his cheeks to them that plucked off the hair. He had gnawed his face from shame and spitting.
That blessed Savior set his face steadfastly to go to Jerusalem. He knew what was going to happen, but He went anyway so that you and I could be saved.
Saved for all eternity, saved from our sins and brought into the richest blessing God who is rich in mercy for His great love worthy loved us even when we were dead in sins.
Had quickened us together with Christ. Have you been quickened? No, God uses his word. The word of God is quick and powerful. He uses his word, says being born again. Are you listening to the word tonight?
God's Word, the entrance of thy Word, giveth light, giveth understanding to the simple.
The Word of God is living inoperative. Will you hear it?
Well, man mistreated the Savior, hung him up on a tree between heaven and earth, and the Lord Jesus allowed that he could say, Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and He shall presently give me more than.
12 legions of angels. He would not save himself because he wanted to demonstrate his love, the love of God, to man, his creature. It was God's answer.
To Satan's lie for this purpose was the Son of God manifested.
That he might destroy the works of the devil. Satan had made God out to be a bad guy. Someone's someone that's out to get you. And that's not the heart of God. God has no pleasure and the death of the wicked. But that he turned from his evil way. Turn you, turn you. Why will you die? See, our time is going by fast.
You know all those things that the Lord Jesus suffered at man as they smote him, they beat him.
Hung him up, put nails between his, put nails into his hands, hung him up there and sitting down, they watched him there. They mocked the Son of God, the Lord of glory, and our hearts were told out as that mob cried away with him. Crucify him. We will not have this man to reign over us. That's my heart apart from the grace of God, and that's your heart too.
But the wonderful thing is.
That there, as man was doing his worst, the Lord Jesus was doing his best. There on that cross, in those three hours of darkness, God's beloved Son was punished for the sins that we deserved. That he took the punishment that we deserved, He tells us as we read here.
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Surely He hath borne our grease and carried our sorrows. Yet we did esteem, did esteem Him.
Stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
So God punished his Son that we might go free.
The punishment, the affliction that the mistreatment that he received from his Creator showed the love of the Lord Jesus showed his patience, His grace, his heart for man's blessing. The last act before they took him and bound in me. When Peter cut off a man's ear, his last act with his hand with he took his hand and touched that man's ear and he healed him.
Showing his heart, a blessing for his creature.
And all those things we did that in.
Things that we heaped upon him.
That didn't atone for our sins, but that work on Calvary's cross, the Lord Jesus hung there in those three hours of darkness, and he bore our sins in his own body on the tree. God punished the Lord Jesus for what we did.
And if you'll have him tonight, he'll be your Savior. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanseth us from all sin.
He can cleanse a vilest Sinner tonight, and He can cleanse you. Will you come to him? Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Yes, the Lord Jesus bore the punishment. He bore the judgment of a holy God.
In those three hours of darkness on Jesus, God's just vengeance fell, which would have sunk a world to hell. He bore for a sinful race and thus became their hiding place. Is it your hiding place tonight? It can be. You need a hiding place. That tells us in Isaiah, man shall be as a hiding place. Oh, do you have that hiding place? That place of safety from the judgment is coming soon.
Tells us that Hell was prepared for the devil, and his angels wasn't prepared for sinners.
Oh, are you going to perish? Turney, Turney, why will you die? I was walking up. I was at a place of.
And I was walking up these steps and I saw.
Written etched into the rock, it said choose life and it said Deuteronomy. How did D EU2DE UT for Deuteronomy? And uh, God wants you, you know, you have a choice tonight.
But God doesn't just say choose. God now commands all men, every word repent, because he's appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained, whereof he hath given assurance unto all men.
And that he hath raised him from the dead. Is he your Savior? He can be where Jesus is coming. Soon will those of us that know the Lord Jesus will be caught up to see his blessed face.
We're gonna see the nail marks in his hands. We're gonna see the pierced inside where the precious blood flowed forth so that you and I could be saved. Those of us that know the Lord Jesus, it's gonna be a joy to us. But if you refuse the gospel of God's grace, you're going to pass into a lost eternity. And all eternity there will be weeping and wailing, gnashing of teeth.
All there's no joy in hell. There's nothing there to satisfy the heart.
But God's beloved Son is a worthy object, and he alone can satisfy, and he'll satisfy you. If you'll come to him. He'll put away your sins. He'll wash away every stain of sin, make you fit for the presence of God.
And you can go on your way with rejoicing because you will have a new life. And he sustains that life. He gives you everything you need for the pathway. I ran out of time, so I didn't get to go into that. But I want to thank. I want to thank you all for coming here. And I trust if there's any here yet lost in their sins, that you will receive the word Jesus. Now there was.
A minor that went to a meeting and he heard the gospel preached.
And as he listened, he knew he was not saved. And after the meeting, he spoke to someone and he was in earnest. He wanted to be saved. And, you know, and it got late and they told him, well, how about if you come back tomorrow morning because it's so late, just come back tomorrow and we'll visit with you some more. He said. I need to get it settled tonight.
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And finally the light sunk through and he received the Lord Jesus. He just came as a needy Sinner, telling God he was a Sinner and he trusted the Lord Jesus, received the Lord Jesus as his own Savior, and he came into blessing.
Had his sins forever put away and he went off and the next day he went into the mine to work and there was a cave in and that mine and they went in. The rescuers went in to rescue and they were bringing out the bodies. And this miner's last, he was, his life was just ebbing away.
And his last words were Thank God it was settled last night.
And I pray God that if you're here yet, ye lost in your sins, that it might be settled tonight. You might receive the Lord Jesus, and you'll never regret it. You're never going to meet up.
A person that comes to the Lord Jesus and was sorry they did. I never have and never will.
Please, I would plead with you.
This might be your last chance.
Come, God hasn't asked us to do something hard. He just says, come, come believing. Trust the Lord Jesus, that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth, the Lord Jesus shall believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead. Thou shalt be saved, for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Let's pray. Our blessed God and our Father, we thank you for the gospel, Thy grace.
We feel burdened tonight if there be any here, yet lost in their sins, we just pray earnestly that they might avail themselves for the opportunity. Pray that Thy word might have its entrance into their hearts, and they might flee from the wrath to come.
And might trust the Lord Jesus and come into eternal blessing, and go on their way, rejoicing in a living, loving, wondrous savour. So we thank Thee for thy beloved Son, and that work, ye the compass, and how thou art satisfied with Jesus.
And we are satisfied as well. We thank thee, if thou hast raised up the Lord Jesus, that one who humbled himself and was obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Thou hast raised him up and given him a name which is above every name. So we thank thee for thy worthy Savior in his precious name. Amen.