Gospel—D. Imbeau
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22.
I'm sorry. Let's go back to #20. Behold the Savior at the door. He gently knocks, has knocked before, has waited long, is waiting still.
You use no other friend, so I'll open the door. He'll enter in and Sup with you and you with him. Someone start it, please.
Ask the Lord for his guidance and blessing. Bill #30.
33 Nothing, either great or small, Nothing Sinner. No, Jesus did it, Did it all.
Long, long ago it is finished. Yes, indeed. Finished every jot Sinner. This is all you need. Tell me, is it not someone started please.
You're making as loud as that and we fame. You're doing hands and time.
To every friend, it's just me. Then your name is shattered on the free flow.
Say everything. All you need now is and not.
Can't your daddy do without?
Sleeping.
At the desk and dance and dance alone. What else did we complete?
It together and maybe.
And we shall have great thoughts.
Over the past two days.
Each and everyone in this room has heard the gospel of God's grace many times, many times in the three readings it was brought out last night.
Very faithfully given this morning, Sunday school this afternoon, no, God doesn't leave the center with any doubts.
He tells him exactly what he is, and he tells him exactly what the provision is for him.
In the 4th chapter of Amos, in the 12Th verse, it says prepare to meet thy God. Prepare to meet thy God. How do you do that? Well, to him we just sang. God prepared the way.
God sent his Son into this world.
To die for sinners.
This morning we sang a hymn that 213. The last two verses, the 4th verses, the gates of heaven are opened wide.
The gates of heaven.
Are open wide.
Because the Lord Jesus Christ came into this world and died. That's why. Let's turn to the 21St chapter of Matthew's Gospel and.
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See if we can follow some things in regard to the Lord Jesus.
There's some of, there's some amazing things in this word of God.
There are many subjects in this word of God, but there's one crowning subject.
And that is the person of the Lord Jesus. I believe that if you were to turn through the Bible and search it carefully, that from the very first page of Genesis to the very last page of Revelation, that on every page you will find in some sense, in some way.
The mention of the Lord Jesus? No, I won't say that.
But in some way there's an indication of it. I trust a few of them I can touch tonight.
Let's look a little bit at this one. In the 21St chapter of Matthew, Matthew 21, we'll read from the first verse. And when they drew an eye unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethpage unto the Mount of Olives, then sent Jesus 2 disciples saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an *** tied and a coat with her. Loose them and bring them to me.
And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, the Lord hath need of them.
And straightway he will send them All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet saying.
Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Behold thy king cometh unto thee meek, and sitting upon an *** and a colt, the full of an ***. And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them, and brought the *** and the colt, and put on them their clothes. And they set him thereon. And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way. Others cut down branches from the trees, and strayed them in the way.
And the multitudes that went before and that followed cried, saying Hosanna to the son of David. Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord Hosanna in the highest. And when he was coming to Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this?
And the multitude said, This is Jesus.
The portion was red this morning.
At his birth, and thou shalt call his name Jesus.
For he shall save his people from their sins.
How was that to be?
This is a picture and I trust we can find some pictures in the Old Testament of this very thing.
There's a picture of his triumphal ride into Jerusalem as the King of Kings.
And Lord of Lords.
Tell the daughter of Jerusalem that thy king cometh.
Thy king cometh notice meek, and sitting upon an *** and a colt, the phone of an *** he did come, and meekness.
He did come in loneliness.
When he was born into this scene, he was not born in a palace.
Who was he?
The Lord of glory.
It says that they came to Bethlehem at the time when he should be born, and there was no room for them, Joseph and Mary in the inn.
And it says that the Lord Jesus was born in a stable and laid in a Manger. Amazing.
The King of Glory.
Born in a stable?
And laid the Manger.
The Lord Jesus, when he went through this scene, owned nothing.
Nothing. You know what I'm saying?
They came to him and they said, Should we give a tribute unto Caesar or no?
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And so he reached in his pocket, and he pulled out a coin. Didn't have one.
He said show me a pen and they showed him and he said who's superscription is it?
He said. Well, Caesars, he said. Render unto Caesar the thing that.
Our Caesars, and unto God the things that are gone.
He was not a man of wealth.
And yet he owned the world. And yet he owned everything. All was his. He created it all.
But like this verse says, thy king cometh unto thee, meek, meek.
He came for the express purpose to go to Calvary Cross.
Especially in the 12Th chapter of John's Gospel, he says. Now is my soul troubled.
And what shall I say, Father? Save me from this hour?
But for this cause came I under this hour, he came for the express purpose of going to Calvary's cross. That's amazing. The only man really, that was ever born in this world, that was born to go into death. Really the only one.
When Adam was created and Eve was made, they were not made to die.
No, they were not.
Death came in because of sin.
Death came in because of sin, and today there's evidence in every city that you go into of the effects of sin graveyards. When you drive down the highway, you pass them graveyards because of sin.
Let's turn to Genesis.
About the 40.
40.
41St chapter of Genesis. We'll see a picture there.
Remember the expression They said who is this? And they said this is Jesus.
Have you ever thought of going through the Old Testament and seeing how many times you could find?
This is Jesus.
You'd be amazed at how many times you'd find him.
Here's one of them. A picture. Of course, the 41St chapter of Genesis will go through the portion.
That fits Matthew 2140 second verse.
This is Joseph in front of Pharaoh, and Pharaoh took off the ring from his hand and put it upon Joseph's hand in a radium, investors of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck. And he made him to ride in the second chariot, which he had, and they cried before him bow the knee.
And he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt 45th, 1St.
And Pharaoh called Joseph names ask Nath Pania. And he gave him to wife Asana, the daughter of Potiphar, priest of On. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt. Two things here that I want to bring out. I didn't read the first part, which corresponds to the person of the Lord Jesus. Joseph was rejected of his brethren. Joseph was cast into a pit.
Joseph was sold for 20 pieces of silver.
Joseph was a slave in Egypt.
But he was raised out of that position.
And he was made ruler over all of Egypt.
And it's a profitable thing to read the life of Joseph and see how it compares with what we know of the Lord Jesus and what is going to take take place, which is partially given to us in the 21St of Matthew.
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But one very important point.
In the 45th 1St.
He was given a bride.
Before.
He went out over all the land of Egypt.
Each and everyone of us in this room tonight that knows the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior will be part of the bride of the Savior, the Lord Jesus, before he goes up over all the land of Egypt, before he comes back as the ruler of this world, before he comes back and judges this world, before he comes back and sets up His Kingdom. Each one in this room tonight that knows the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior will be His bride.
A picture. A beautiful picture.
Overcoming scene of Glory.
Will you?
Be part of it.
There's another scene totally 180° from this, and her brother last night very faithfully brought it before us.
The rejection of the offer of God's grace.
Brings judgment. There's a scripture in the second chapter of the Second Thessalonians which says.
Because they believe, not the love of the truth.
If you reject.
God's love.
There's nothing left but judgment. Judgment.
God's offered this world love.
John 316 says for God.
So loved.
Reject that and what is left? Judgment. Judgment. Nothing else.
Another picture.
Look at the first second Samuel.
Second Samuel and the 5th chapter, and we certainly don't have time to go through the.
History of David.
But David is another picture of the Lord Jesus.
David suffered.
Really untold suffering.
He had been anointed king.
Rejected.
Wandered through the wilderness of Judah for years, but not only just wondered, but was pursued by his enemy.
Saul.
But then, finally, that comes to an end. The Lord Jesus has been rejected in this scene. He was He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
But there's a marvelous verse that says But unto them that received him, gave he the right or the power to become the sons of God.
Everyone that received him, my brother mentioned that in Romans 10 it says if thou wilt confess with thy mouth.
Jesus as Lord and believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead. Thou shalt be saved if thou shalt confess with thy mouth. Jesus as Lord. Oh how simple, how simple. But he's the rejected one in this world today, this night, this world rejects him. But there's going to come a day when that rejection is going to end and he's going to rule in righteousness.
And so in chapter five of two Samuel then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are that by bone, and thy flesh also In time past when Saul was king over us, thou went in and out, and let Egypt LED Israel.
And the Lord said to thee, thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel. So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebrew on. And King David made a league with them to Hebron before the Lord, and they anointed David king over Israel. David was 30 years old when he began to reign, and he reigned 40 years in Hebrew, and he reigned over Judas 7 years and six months. And Jerusalem, he reigned 30 and three years over all Israel and Judith.
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A picture of the Lord in his righteousness coming down.
And taking this world and taking his Kingdom. David is a picture of a warrior king. Now let's go to kings and we'll see a picture of another king.
First Kings?
King Solomon.
The 6th chapter First Kings chapter 6.
And came to pass in the 480th year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel. In the month sift, which is the second month that he began to build the House of the Lord and he built the House of the Lord. And Solomon reigned for 40 years as a king of peace.
A picture of the Lord Jesus when he reigns in this scene as.
The benefactor of this world, the King of Peace.
Our time is going by, so let's turn quickly now to the book of Esther.
For another picture.
Of the Lord Jesus.
The very last chapter.
And King A has your laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the Isles of the sea.
And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereas to the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicle of the kings of Media in Persia? For Mordecai the Jew was next unto Kingeris, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace.
To all is see.
We don't have time to go through the story, but at your leisure read the book of Esther. It's marvelous. Now the second Psalm, Psalm 2.
And in everyone of these cases, we could put the title.
This is Jesus.
Psalm 2, verse 6. Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree. The Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my son this day have I begotten thee, Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth. For thy position thou shalt break them with a rod of iron. Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a Potter's vessel.
Be wise now. Therefore, O ye kings, be instructed, ye judges of the earth, Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the sun, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way when his wrath is kindled. But a little, blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
A future day of glory, 32nd of Isaiah.
Isaiah 32 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and Princess shall rule in judgment, and a man shall be as in hiding place from the wind, and a covert from The Tempest, as rivers of water, in a dry place, as a shadow of a great rock in a weary land, This is.
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Jesus, what a marvelous thing.
When he comes back to reign. But you know something had to happen before that took place.
Something had to happen before any of these scriptures. God looking forward in Hebrews 10, it's in the fourth verse. It says for it is not possible that the blood of bulls are of goats should ever take away sin. Not possible. And this morning we remembered the Lord and his death and a scripture was read.
The life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it unto you upon the altar to make an atonement for your soul. For it is the blood that makes an atonement for the soul, and that was accomplished, that was fulfilled on Calvary's cross.
Not in the wilderness.
Not in all the offerings of the Old Testament, Not when Solomon offered 120,000 sheep. 1000 Oxford No.
That verse was fulfilled.
Montcalm.
Turn to the 9th chapter of Luke.
For one Scripture, before we turn back to the Old Testament and pick up the other side.
Well, I'll quote it. I must have picked up the wrong. I must have the wrong reference in my thoughts, however, on the Mount of Transfiguration when the Lord Jesus took.
It's in four Gospels. He took the three disciples with him up on the mount of Transfiguration, and it says that his raiment was changed and became white and blistering. And it says that two men also talked with him, Moses and Elias, and they spake.
To him of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem, the amount of transfiguration is a picture of the glory of the Lord Jesus in that scene of glory when he comes back and sets up his Kingdom. But what were they occupied with? Not with that scene of glory?
But with the deceased that he should accomplish at Jerusalem. So in Matthew 21, when he rode in Jerusalem as the king, something had to take place.
Before that could ever happen.
And that's the other side of the picture of this is Jesus. There's only one other place in scripture that that expression is used, and that's in the 27th chapter of Matthew and the 37th verse. And we'll come to that later. This is Jesus.
And that was the inscription that was put over his cross.
This.
Is Jesus. Let's go back now to the 22nd chapter of Genesis.
In the 24th chapter of Luke's Gospel, the Lord Jesus.
There were two on the way to Emmaus.
And the Lord Jesus, it says. And Jesus himself drew near and went with them.
And it says that he in talking to them, he.
Opened the scriptures to them of all the places in the Moses and the prophets, and all the scriptures concerning Himself.
Let's look at one of them in the 22nd of Genesis.
And the Lord said unto Abraham, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah, and offering therefore a burnt offering upon one of the mountains, which I will tell the other. And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his *** and took two of his young men with him. And Isaac his son enclave the wood for the bird offering, and rose up and went under the place of which God had told him.
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Verse 7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, my father, And he said, Here am I my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood. But where is the lamb for a burnt offering? And Abraham said, my son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. So they went both of them together.
A picture of the cross of Calvary in Mark's Gospel it says having yet one son.
His well beloved he sent him blast unto them.
Having yet one son is well beloved, he sent him last under them.
Something had to take place before.
Matthew 21 Could ever come into effect. Something had to take place before there ever was any blessing to man.
For it's not possible that the blood of bulls or of goats should ever take away sin. There had to be an offering that was acceptable to God to take away sin. And we had it last night.
John the Baptist, when he saw Jesus coming, said, behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. You know he did not stop there, he went on. And in the 36th verse of that same chapter he looks at Jesus again and he says, behold the Lamb of God.
It's true, He was offered as the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. But after we know him as Savior, then we look at Him. If adoring eyes behold the Lamb of God.
No longer taking away our sin, but our Savior of glory.
And so Abraham takes his son a picture of the Lord Jesus.
22nd of Genesis of Excuse Me, A Book of Psalms, 22nd chapter.
Again, we had this this morning too.
And we can write right across it.
This.
Is Jesus.
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping me?
From the words of my roaring, Oh my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not, and in the night season, and am not silent.
But thou art holy. That's the answer. That is the answer.
God for shook his son because he's holy, because he cannot look upon sin.
And consider that verse. I cry in the daytime and in the night season am not silent.
They put him on the cross at 9:00 in the morning.
The.
Till 12 noon.
Man did everything he could.
To belittle him.
Mocked him.
But then at 12:00 the lights went out.
You know, in Egypt it says that the darkness that was there was so bad that it could be felt.
I believe that the darkness.
At the cross.
Was of the same character.
No one moved.
From noon until 3:00 in the afternoon it was dark.
I and in the night season, I am not silent.
At the end.
Of that darkness, that's when the Lord cried.
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His cry of abandonment.
We sing off times.
The depths of all thy sufferings, no heart.
Could air conceive that is true? That is absolutely true.
There is no conception of what took place in those.
Three dark hours? None.
Let me tell you something.
If you eject.
The love of God.
In the gift of his son, you will understand what it was.
For those three dark hours, you will sustain the righteous wrath of a just God against sin. For him eternity.
For eternity.
Terrible.
Terrible.
There's a song that goes.
That.
Can't thou sustain the impenitence doom?
No, I can't.
What an awful thing.
To be offered a gift from a holy, righteous God.
Who gave his son?
To put away sin, to put away your sin, and to say no.
What an awful thing.
Let's go to Matthew 27.
And we'll see. The other part of this is Jesus.
And we'll read first the 37th verse.
And set up over his head.
His accusation written This is Jesus. Can you imagine?
The Lord had he made seven full comments while he was on the cross.
He made three of them.
Before the three dark hours.
He made one of them in the middle at the end of the three dark hours.
And then he made three of them.
After, let's read our call.
Study them. They're marvelous. The first three are grace and mercy toward man.
The center one is that cry of abandonment, and we only find that in Matthew and Mark. We don't find it in Luke and we don't find it in John.
And the last three have nothing to do with man. It's between himself and God.
One of them is I thirst had nothing to do with man.
The next one is, it is finished.
A finished work.
And the last one was Father. Into thy hands I commend my spirit.
And to think.
The Lord Jesus.
It's been brought before us these last two days.
In perfection, he walked through this scene.
He never did one single wrong thing. He never made one single mistake.
He healed the sick.
He gave sight to the blind. He raised the dead. He fed the poor.
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And then he says to the two disciples that John sent him, and the gospel is preached to the poor.
3 1/2 years he walked through this scene.
And when that time came to an end, to prove what man really was.
They said we don't want him.
We don't want this man crucify him, will not have this man to reign over us.
They didn't want God's man and they said give us Barabbas, you know, Do you wonder why this world is in such a horrible state?
Do you wonder why there are murders and theft?
Wars.
Why? Because man said give us a robber. We don't want God's man. We want a robber. And that's what they got and that's what they have.
Why?
Why did the Lord Jesus allow this to happen to him again, I repeat.
John 12.
Now is my sole troubled, And what shall I say, Father? Deliver me from this hour. But for this cause came my unto this hour. Without the cross of Calvary, not one of us would be in this room tonight. Not one of us would be on our way to glory. We'd all be on our way to hell, every last one of us.
Solemn, isn't it?
So and why? Because God cannot have sin in his presence and that's why there was 3 hours of darkness. Because God could not look upon his Son when he was the sin bearer.
But also it brought before us in first Peter 2.
Who bore our sins in his own body.
On the tree.
We can't understand that.
We can't understand how thankful we are that is true. How thankful we are that the Lord Jesus did bear our sins. Not not one of them, not two of them, but all of them.
And throughout eternity.
There will never be an indication that any of us ever sinned. No indication from God. Never. No look.
Oh, we'll see in his hands the results of it.
We.
Know but we had been made perfect. Hebrews 10 perfected forever them that are sanctified marvelous. That's our standing. That's where we stand tonight. If you know the Lord Jesus Christ and Savior. But if you don't, If you don't.
There's the other side of the coin.
They were cast into outer darkness. What a terrible thing. What a sad answer.
To God's marvelous, gracious call to the Lord Jesus's call, come unto me all you that labor, and are heavy laden, and I will give you that.
What are you waiting for tonight? What is each and everyone of us in this room looking forward to for tonight?
Let's turn to the first chapter of Action Closing.
I'm not going to touch on this as to its doctrinal character.
Let's start with verse 9, Acts one. And when he has spoken these things, that's the Lord Jesus. He had taken them out as far as the Bethany in another gospel. And when he had spoken these things while they beheld, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold 2 men stood by them in white apparel, which also said, the men of Galilee, Why stand ye here, gazing up into heaven?
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This.
Same Jesus, this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as you have seen him go into heaven.
Is that what you're waiting for?
Oh, I know the doctrinal teaching here is a little different to what I'm presenting.
But is this what you're waiting for? In the 1St Thessalonians 4 we read The Lord Himself shall descend and we could put in their Jesus himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first.
And we which are alive and remain.
Only those that know the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior.
None others, and we which are alive and remain shall be caught up with them.
To meet the Lord in the air. And so shall we ever be with the Lord.
It's about 7:25, 7/23. Depends what watch you're wearing.
On the 30th day of October.
In 1999.
How many of you here are guaranteed that you'll be here at midnight?
How many in this room are guaranteed that they will see the year 2000, the one that everybody saw it nervous about?
Not one.
Not one.
Not one. There isn't a single person that knows the Lord Jesus Christ and Savior would dare to say I'm going to be here tomorrow, Oh no, Oh no.
And if you don't know the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior, you don't don't dare say that either. If you're honest with yourself, you could walk out of this room tonight.
You could drop dead.
It's happened to many people.
Go in a graveyard and take a look at the graves.
They're all sizes. Take a look at the gravestones and you find all ages.
But if you know the Lord Jesus Christ as savior.
You'll be ushered from this scene into his very presence. Think of Steven.
When he was stoned, it says that he looked steadfastly up in heaven and he saw Jesus standing.
And they they they were so angry when he said that that they rushed upon him and stoned him to death.
He went right from this world.
Into the Lord's bread if the Lord Jesus were to come right now.
How many seats in this room would be occupied?
How many?
So.
Many years ago I heard a man preach and he's well known to many of us in this room and he said that the ones in this world who will know what happened will be the children of the Saints.
When the Saints disappear, they'll know what happened.
Again, I just repeat how simple. How simple.
To just accept God at His word, to believe what he says.
And be saved. How simple. For if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead.
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Thou shalt be saved. There's there's no equivocation about it. There's nothing to argue about. God just simply says, you just do that and you'll be saved. And he means what he says.
And thousands and millions have proved it. And there's many in this room tonight that can tell you it's true.
Believe you know the Philippian Jailer?
There's a scripture that tells us about the sower that went forth to sow, and the seed fell in several different places and some of it fell on good ground. I'll tell you that Philippian jailer had a plowed soul that night.
And when that.
Jail shook and the doors flew open and all the prisoners bands fell off and he realized that his life was worthless.
He said. Sir, is what much did I do to be saved.
He knew why they were put in there. He knew about the story of the Lord Jesus.
And there was number hesitation on his part after what happened.
When Paul and Silas said unto him, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved and thine house, and it says, the same hour he took him out to his home, and washed their wounds, and was saved, was saved. It was that simple. Now does God have to shake you out of a jail, or out of a car, or out of a tree, or whatever it might be?
You know he can. He can.
God speaketh once, ye twice, and perceiveth it not.
Behold, now is the accepted time. Behold, now is the day of salvation. Not tomorrow, not 8:00, not midnight. Behold, now God is true. God is faithful.
And he does exactly what he says. Again, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. You know the Philippian, excuse me, the Ethiopian eunuch on his way down home after coming to Jerusalem from Ethiopia and finding nothing to satisfy his hungry soul, He was reading in the book of Isaiah. And he was reading about.
He was led as a lamb to the slaughter.
After he got through, Philip joined him in the chariot, and he says to Philip, who is this man speaking about himself or another man? And Philip it says Philip commencing.
At Jesus preached unto him Jesus. That's all this tonight. This is Jesus. Do you want him? You can have him.
Accepting and be saved our God our Father, we thank Thee.