Address—C.E. Lunden
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We'll start reading that the 12Th verse, Luke 5, verse 12 and it came to pass when he was in a certain city, behold, a man full of leprosy, who seeing Jesus fell on his face and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
And he put forth his hand and touched him, saying, I will be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.
And he charged him to tell no man, but go and show thyself to the priest, an offer for thy cleansing, according as Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
But so much the more when there are fame abroad of him.
And great multitudes came together to hear and to be healed of him by him of their infirmities. And he withdrew himself into the wilderness and prayed.
And he came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees, doctors of the lost, sitting by which were come out of every town of Galilee and Judea, Jerusalem, and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.
And he brought, and behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy, and they saw it means to bring him in to lay him before him. And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst.
Before Jesus.
And when he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man, thy sins are forgiven me. And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who's this which speaketh blasphemy?
Who can forgive sins but God alone?
But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, the answering said unto them.
What reason ye in your hearts, whether it is easier to say thy sins be forgiven?
Or to say or rise up and walk, but that she may know that the Son of Man hath power upon earth to forgive sins.
He sat under the sick of the palsy. I say unto thee, Arise and take up thy couch, and go into thine house. And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God. And they were all amazed to make glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things today.
And after these things, he went forth and saw a public, unnamed Levi.
Setting at the receipt of custom. And he said unto him, Follow me.
And he left all rose up and followed him.
Levi made him a great feast in his own house, and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them. But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do you eat and drink with Republicans and sinners? And Jesus answering, said unto them, They that are whole need not a position, but they that are sick.
I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
36 birds.
And he speak also parable unto them. No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old. If otherwise, then both the new makers are rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agree of not with the old.
And no man putteth new wine into old bottles, else the new wine will burst the bottles and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. But new wine must be put into new bottles, and both are preserved, no man also having drunk old ones.
Straightway desireth new, for he saith the old is better.
John's Gospel, the 1St chapter That the 4th. 3rd chapter. Sorry, we read the third verse. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God. Fifth verse. Jesus answered, Verily, verily, verily, I say unto thee.
Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. We have in this passage in Luke.
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3 pictures.
Of man.
And they all apply to each one of us.
In the first instance we have a man who was unclean.
He needs cleansing. The next we have a man who's absolutely helpless, and in the third instance we have a man.
Who is just there, ready to be called? And he answers. Isn't that lovely? Just ready to be called and answered.
Now, dear friends, tonight I wonder.
If there's anyone in this room who doesn't know the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior, If they realize that they're unclean in the presence of a holy God.
Supposing you were introduced to heaven tonight.
And the doors opened. Would you go in?
Are you ready for those courts as we were singing of light? Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? Because there's no other way of entrance than that precious blood of Christ.
No.
Man must be cleansed. He's unclean. That's what leprosy is, a picture of what a foul disease it is.
When they take men and they separate them from society, and they take them way off on an island somewhere, there they are alone in their misery. And if I'm saved in their wretchedness, what's the difference? 01 might be miserable in physical circumstances, but they're wretched if they're out of communion with God.
Wretchedness comes from doing your own will.
And it separates you from God for all eternity.
But you know, in the Old Testament we find a leper.
Who was all covered with leprosy. He was to go to the priest.
What was he to go to priest about? What would the priest want a man that was covered in the leprosy for?
Ah, according to the holy word of God, he was to pronounce him clean.
Strange, isn't it?
That a man that was all covered with leprosy, when he was brought to the priest, he was bound to call him clean. Why? Because of things were written before time were written for our learning. What is this?
The Lord Jesus wants you to come to Him tonight and to acknowledge that you're a guilty, lost Sinner.
And if you come to Him and receive Him as your own personal savior, you will be clean.
And justice fit for those courts of light as that thief on the cross who went to be with Jesus that very day.
No other preparation needed, and there's no other name given under heaven among men whereby we must be saved. And that precious name?
Of Jesus.
No wonder the Bride and the Song of Solomon says Thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee. It's not only the name, but it's Port Florence. All the love of that name is poured forth in this room Tonight is the Savior of sinners. Are you going to receive that precious name of Jesus? Because God has exalted him and given him a name which is above every name.
And there's a day coming when every knee shall bow, and every tongue will confess.
That Jesus is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Now I ask you tonight, have you confessed that precious name of Jesus as your own?
Are you washed in that precious blood that he shed at Calvary's cross when he made atonement?
And when he took away all the guilt of those who would receive him as their savior.
And what does he say here?
A man full of leprosy, who is seeing Jesus, fell on his face and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
I'm not going to try to evaluate the motives of this man's heart other than this. He had a need and he came to Jesus. That's all. He had a need and he came to Jesus.
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There might have been reasonings there that I don't know anything about, but he had a need and he came to Jesus.
And that's simply the gospel. Do you have a need tonight? Have you received Jesus your Savior?
You're unclean. Yes, you are. You know very well that you wouldn't want to stand in the presence of God.
As you are.
You know very well, dear friend, if you're unsaved, and that's the purpose of this meeting.
The Gospel, the glad tidings.
Would you? Would you stand in the presence of God as you are?
You know Job, when he went into the presence of God, he said I'm vile.
What about Isaiah? I'm a man of unclean lips.
What would you say as you entered the presence of God? And you will enter the presence of God?
And tonight he can be your Savior, the Lord Jesus can, but there's a day coming when the one who now.
Is offered to you, dear one, as a savior. It will be your judge.
Because in the 17th chapter of Acts, God is appointed a day when He will judge this world in righteousness by that man whom he is ordained, and he's given witness to all men that he's raised him from the dead.
Do you think Pilot would be happy to hear that the Lord Jesus is going to be was raised for the dead?
I'm sure he wouldn't.
Do you think you're less guilty than Pilate if you reject Jesus?
It's just what your own heart is like to reject the Son of God who died that you might live.
And so here's a man, if thou will, thou canst make me clean. He knew he could make him clean, and he just wondered if he would.
And he will, He will.
Come unto me, all you'd labour, and are heavy laden, and I'll give you rest.
Though their sins be a scarlet, the children quote to us in Sunday school.
As you'll be white as snow.
I'm sure you've heard these things so often.
And every time you hear them, there's one more count against you of rejecting the Savior, and they're just a little more hardening the heart to receive Jesus as your own personal Savior.
And he put forth his hand and touched him. All beloved friends tonight, just picture the Son of God from heaven coming down, taking a body, walking over and touching a defiled leper.
You know, when a man had leprosy, especially of the head, he was to he was to be put out of the city.
And he was to walk around the city, and as he went he would put his hand over his mouth. When he met someone, he would cry. Unclean, unclean.
Another picture.
What the sinners should do in the presence of God. And you know when a man had leprosy, he was a castaway. He had none of the privileges of the people of God in the land he was outside.
What a picture.
What a solemn thing it is, dear friends, to be a leper in the presence of God, a castaway defiled with no hope.
But Jesus.
Just Jesus, that's all.
Is that enough for you, Jesus? He touched him, saying I will be.
Thou clean.
No one asked your dear friends tonight, is there anyone else that could touch you and say be?
Thou clean, you know there was a time when.
Naaman was sent to the.
King.
And of Israel and to be cleansed, he said to my God, am I God to cleanse a leper? This man is raising some trouble for me. I can't cleanse a leper.
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No, he couldn't either, but there was a prophet that could, and he has a picture of the Lord Jesus who can cleanse the leper, the defiled man.
Now I said be thou clean and immediately the leprosy departed from him. Now is it going to be so with you here tonight immediately and it will be so. Faith recognized it. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved in thy house.
If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, blame in thine heart that God had raised him from the dead.
Thou shalt be saved. You believe that? Whence immediately?
And it can be so with you tonight.
Now a testimony to the priest that Moses commanded in the 16. First we have another picture. It's a picture just like this room tonight.
With people from every part of the country.
Gathered together different walks of life, a large company only these were mostly.
Pharisees and Doctors of the Law.
And what does it say about them?
The power of the Lord was present to heal them. Period. That's all.
Period.
Do we hear of any cleansing here? No, there was number need.
Because we read in the latter part of this chapter.
I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Are you a Sinner tonight?
As you stand in the presence of the Holy God, are you a Sinner tonight?
You are on his sight, how about yours?
In order to be saved, you will have to take God's side against yourself and own what you are in His presence.
In no other way.
Now we have a man who is afflicted with palsy.
It's not defilement now.
That's just one picture of what man is.
But now here's a man who was bound and with his sin, you know, the story is told once of a blacksmith.
Who in the olden days before there was the electric welding?
Or gas welding they used to Weld in the forge it put the metal in the in the forge and and heat it to till the the metal began to sparkle white hot and then they did with the anvil and welded together.
And this man was so good at it that.
They had to make the change for the present.
That one day he found himself in the prison and he couldn't get out. He'd made the chains that bound him in the prison and they were so strong he couldn't break them.
Now that's a picture of a Sinner who is bound in the cords of his sins.
And dear one, it's been said that this book will keep you from sinning.
But it says someone has said also that sin will keep you from this book, and isn't it true?
And if you're going on In Sin tonight, I dare say you're not reading this book.
Because this is the only book that will tell you deep down in your soul that you're not right with God.
And be sure your sin will find you out.
Be sure of that. This man is bound. He has no liberty.
The Lord interprets it differently from the Pharisees.
Because the issues of the Kingdom of God are moral, not just physical.
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This man is bound in sins. Now, you know, redemption doesn't only buy us back, but it sets us free. And that's what this man needs. He needs to be set free. There's no question here of defilement. We have that in the first picture. But here we have the question of palsy.
Until the Lord raises the question of sins.
Now we find those who are interested in this man, and I'm sure there have been some interested here who have brought others to these meetings so they can hear the gospel of the grace of God. It's just like these men who brought this man in a stretcher in the crowds were in the doorway and so they couldn't get in.
Curiosity seekers.
But there's no hindrance. You know where there's faith.
No hindrance. And up on the roof they go, and they tear the roof open, and they let this man down in the midst before Jesus.
Oh how precious this picture is, bringing one precious soul into the midst before Jesus. Have you ever tried it?
Have you ever had that happy privilege bringing one precious soul?
Into the midst before Jesus.
And when he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee. Well, that wasn't what he was brought, therefore was it?
Oh yes, it was.
He didn't know it made the friends didn't know it either.
But he found it out and he got A2 full blessing.
He had all his sins forgiven him.
Beside that he rose up and walked, and he just carried his bed. And that's the result of the gospel, the grace of God that takes us above the circumstances of this life.
Immediately he rose up before them and took up that Ronnie laid and departed to his own house, glorifying God.
Well, dear friend, if you've never glorified God before, when your soul is saved, you will.
Do you know what it will mean to you? It will mean from death to life.
That's what Romans 5 and 24 tells us. Verily, verily, I say unto you.
He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent Me half everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but is fast from death unto life, that's what it will mean to you.
Oh, how precious. Think of that woman who reaches through the crowd just to touch the garment of Jesus.
Immediately turn who touched me? All the disciples said what a question with this great crowd thronging me. He said Who touched me? And immediately she realized that he knew it was the Lord. Jesus not only healed her, but he was interested in her. Yes he was.
He was interested in her. He was interested in the one who touched him.
And he completes the story as he tells her that her faith saved her. It was a precious blood of Christ though.
There's no salvation than the other, but there must be faith that goes along with it.
You know what the apostle, as he went through this world, preached. Oh, he preached many things, and we have these lovely records of his ministry, but he says that he had not.
Failed, that is. His purpose was to preach repentance towards God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
That's the basis of all the blessing, and there's no use of reading the book of Ephesians or Colossians.
As your portion, dear friends, until you have received Jesus Christ as your own personal Savior.
No, that's the basis, the foundation. There must be repentance.
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You remember in the 21St chapter of Matthew, a certain man had two sons.
And he said the first son go work today in my vineyard. He said I will not.
Now that's the natural man and his answer to God.
But he repented and went, oh, thank God. He repented and went. Thank God that he's given any of us to repent and go.
But there was another son, too, and he said, son, go work today in my vineyard. He said I'll go, Sir, but he never went.
Now which of them, the Lord said, did the will of his master?
The first.
Even the Pharisees owned that the publicans and harlots go into the Kingdom of God before you.
Why?
Because they repented.
They repented.
There's no salvation without repentance. But repentance is not salvation, dear friends. Salvation is Christ.
Receiving the Lord Jesus Christ as your own personal Savior, trusting in that shed blood at Calvary's cross.
The one who hung there on that cross, those three hours of darkness, bearing all of our sins and woe.
Putting it all away forever, so that you and I might enter without spot or stain in those courts of glory. Have you received Him as your Savior? Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Well, the Pharisees have a lot to say, but what good is it? They just reason.
And, you know, they're religious people. Remember this.
If you're a child of God and get out of communion, you're liable to take the place of the Pharisee and speak against the people of God and the work of Christ.
That's the danger.
All was the danger.
Lord Asylum thing it is to be in a religious position like the Pharisees whom everyone looked up to as leaders in the religious world.
And still not to have Christ as their Savior. Christ is the touchstone.
There's no other. There's no other name, there's no other center, no other person but Jesus. That's all.
Reason as you will.
Make it simple, Christ.
Is the Savior of sinners.
And now we have another man.
Who's this? He's the one who wrote the Gospel of Matthew.
And he's just sitting there doing his ordinary work.
And the Lord Jesus says follow me.
Up he gets, He leaves the leaves everything to follow Jesus. Is it worth it?
Is it worth it?
You know, Speaking of this paralytic that we've just mentioned.
I was standing on the corner in Peoria, IL waiting for someone.
And I saw a person.
They are a young man in a wheelchair. I didn't notice there was a nurse standing behind him over against the pillar.
And not having a tract, I just went over and I thought I would speak to him about his soul.
And so the first thing I mentioned, he answered like that with something from scripture just like that.
It's a good thing I didn't give him a track because he couldn't have used it. I'll tell you.
That we talked a little bit.
We I found him just rejoicing in Christ as his Savior.
And yet he was. He didn't have long for this life.
Paralyzed, couldn't move, had to be moved about and carried. But he was rejoicing in Christ his Savior. He'd had all his bands united, if you know what I mean.
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As far as his soul was concerned.
When I was about to leave him, he said, Sir, he says, I suppose you didn't notice that I was blind.
Think of it.
Here's a man, he had nothing, nothing but Jesus. And what do you have tonight?
What do you have?
I know there are those here who know the story of Albert and Gresham.
Oregon then abet all of his life.
And someone offered him some money one day and he said I don't need it. I have Jesus and I have my bed and that's all I need. Think of it.
Jesus, how much does He mean to your soul tonight?
Well, I know he meant something to this man that we're reading about.
Because he left all and followed him. And if he means anything to you, you'll do the same.
Yes you will.
What else does he do? What else does he do to prove that Jesus means something to him? He fills his house with sinners who are interested in salvation so that Jesus can sit at the table with them.
And they can feast together.
Oh, I'd like to be in there. Oh, what a feast.
To have Jesus sitting at the table with sinners, that's the way it'll be in heaven, and he won't be sinners then.
Washed in that precious blood.
Now, in the other Gospels it says that Levi made him a feast. Here it says he made him a great feast. Why does it say that in this Gospel? Because it's the rejected Son of Man, I suppose. And everything in Luke is great. You know, over 30 times we get the word great in Luke because it's the greater glory.
The glory of the Son of Man is the greater glory, so everything here is great. And you know in that coming day when the Son of Man reigns, everything will be great.
But down here for the Center, everything is great. Who receives him as their savior?
Question is why do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners? Why?
Jesus answering, said unto them, They that are all need not a physician, but they that are sick.
Think it over.
Why did Jesus come into this world? Because everyone was.
Had no needs. No, it's because you have a need in your soul that can never be remedied.
Without Christ.
You know there's a day coming, we're told in the book of Amos, I believe.
Well, they're going to go from one end of the earth to the other looking for the word of God, and they won't find it. You don't believe that, do you? But God said it, and it'll be true.
The truth is literally far in the streets and you don't know what it will be tomorrow.
There are nations on the earth today that where men would give hundreds of dollars to be able to get a copy of the precious word of God. You hold it in your hands and you haven't even taken Christ as your Savior, have you?
Have you?
Why not?
The old now is accepted time. Now is the day of salvation.
Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
There's no hope of tomorrow down here, but there is up there. If you put all your hopes down here for tomorrow, you may lose out, dear friends.
You may lose out.
There was a young man years ago who was crippled.
And his cousin, a big, strapping football player, came to see him.
And the crippled boy gave him the gospel.
He laughed in his face and fell over death. This happened in Canada.
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Strapping strong, healthy football player What happened?
Why, dear friends?
He that often being reproved and hardeneth his heart.
God's judgment will be upon him.
Oh, what a solemn thing it is to hear the word of God over and over again and reject it and not receive it.
But now we're going to notice these verses, the 36th verse moral principles here.
And expect also terrible unto them.
Now apparel is a a dark saying.
It's calculated to fasten on the conscience and never leave it.
No man put us a piece of a new garment upon an old. The women know that.
You have an old.
Rotten piece of cloth and put a good strong piece on it and the first tug, why it will pull the rotten to pieces. That's the principle here. They they're not compatible at all.
If otherwise, then both the new make of the round and a piece that was taken out of the new agree if not with the old. Now you can reply this to the law if you like, but I'm not going to apply it that way tonight. I'm just going to picture this man before God.
His character.
You know, dear friends, your character in Adam isn't very good.
You're lost, you belong to a ruined race, and you're under guilt.
You need a new one.
And if you take Jesus Christ as your savior, you will have a new character. That's the 8th chapter of of Romans.
If any man have not the spirit of Christ or character of Christ, he's not of him.
Is not of him.
But if you take Jesus Christ as your savior tonight, you will have a new character before God.
It'll be Christ.
Now you can't take that new character. You can't just get a little bit of Christianity, you know, and apply it to the old nature in Adam.
No, you'll have to be born again.
There has to be an entirely new man.
You can't put the new on the old.
There has to be something entirely new, and that's of God. And what else?
An old man put us new wine into old bottles. Now these bottles were made of skin. They would take a a goat or a sheep, A lamb possibly.
And they would tie.
The after the carcass was taken out of the skin and they would tie the legs off and so on, and they would use it like a bottle to make wine in. That's what was called a bottle.
And it lasted just one year until the line was the wine was prepared for that season.
Now he says no man put his new wine into old bottles. You don't take and put new wine into last year's bottles. It won't work.
Get a point?
The old bottle won't hold a new wine, in other words.
The old bottles just for one year. The new wine is for eternity. Don't try to put it in the old bottle, get a new bottle.
Get a new bottle.
Now notice.
New wine must be put into new bottles and both are preserved.
No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new for he Seth the oldest better.
Is that what you're saying tonight? The old is better, Is it? Have you tried the new?
You know the old is going to go when you leave this world. It's going.
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What about the new?
And if you have in Christ, you don't have the new, but what will you have? The blackness of darkness forever.
No one hates to speak of that.
Separation, eternal separation from the one who made you for every joy.
If you want it.
Because in his presence there are pleasures forevermore. Do you want it? You can have it tonight.
All believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Trust in that precious blood that was shed at Calvary's cross.
The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanseth us from all sin.
Have you been cleansed as we have been singing tonight?
And now I want you to turn to John with me, the third chapter.
We find in the end of the second chapter there were certain that the Lord would not commit Himself to because He knew what was in man. He knew the heart of man.
And that next chapter, as we've been taught, should start. But there was. But here's another man, Nicodemus.
He's a different man. Something has happened. The Spirit of God has been working with this man. Unless the Spirit of God works in your soul and never be any blessing.
Something has happened to this man. He comes to Jesus by night.
He's not a safe man, Not yet.
No, but he came to Jesus by night.
Something has happened in his soul that led him to come to Jesus.
Dear friend, tonight you may not know anything about the gospel, you may have just heard one word, but come to Jesus tonight.
He's your only hope. Don't come because you know all about it. Come because you need Jesus. Come like the leper came.
Come like.
Those other pictures we have in Scripture, those who came to Jesus, the woman who touched his garment and all because of their need. What did she know about it? She knew He could heal her. That's all that she knew. He did come to Jesus.
That's where you want to come to.
And so he asked the Lord a question.
He says.
He talks about the miracle now God was with him.
He was a teacher, he recognized all this.
But the Lord just brushes it all side. And he said, verily, verily, truly, truly, I say unto you, except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God. And dear friend, unless you're born again there, you just won't even be able to see.
Those things that we belong to, the eternal destiny of your soul and blessing, you'll never even see it.
Because man that understandeth not is like the beasts that perish.
They will never see. They'll never know.
You must be born again.
You must be born again.
Now in the next fifth verse, except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, you cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.
And what is it that characterizes the Kingdom of God and Luke's gospel particularly righteousness. Do you have it?
Peace for your conscience.
Joy in the Holy Ghost, you have these things. They're not visible.
No, but that's the character of the Kingdom of God. Do you have these things?
Righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
Well, dear friends.
You'll never see it, and you'll never enter it except by water in the Spirit. And what's the water?
Why is this precious word of God?
And it's the Spirit of God that's pleading with your precious soul tonight.
To take Jesus Christ as your personal savior. Are you going to do it?
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Now turn with me to John 2.
And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there, and both Jesus was called in the disciples to the marriage. When they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus said unto him, They have no wine. Jesus said unto her, Woman, what? What have I to do with thee? Mine hours not yet come.
His mother Seth unto the servants. Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it. I never sat there. 6 water pots.
Of skin. Oh no stone. Notice it carefully. Stone permanent.
After the matter of the purifying of the Jews.
Containing 2.
Or three Perkins apiece.
I worked in the pottery once, and I watched the Potter on the wheel as he formed these vessels. They weren't all the same. They were supposed to be nearly the same, but they weren't all the same. Some contained more liquid than others.
According as the Potter himself wanted them to be.
The way he wanted to make them.
Their other artists, you know, and they make them after their skill.
Containing two or three firkins apiece.
A permanent stone vessel, no longer a skin vessel.
That lasts one year.
Now here's a here's a vessel that's permanent that contains two or three firkins apiece.
And here's the water now that goes into the vessel notice.
Jesus said to them, fill the water pots with water.
And they fill them up to the brim, and he set them to them, Draw out, and bear unto the governor of the feast, and they bear it. When the ruler of the feast had faced the water, it was made wine, and knew not whence it was.
But the servants withdrew the water, knew the governor of the feast, called the bridegroom, and said unto him Every man at the beginning to set forth good wine.
When men have well drunk than that which is worse. But thou hast kept the good wine until now.
Now we find that the servants have the secret They knew. They knew the source because they were close to their master.
Oh how beautiful a picture we have.
And dear friends, where did we start tonight?
We started with a leper that was defiled.
We we end up with water pots.
With new wine, what more can you ask? Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your Savior?
Have you?
I believe God has given your soul tonight a true picture of what you are in his presence. You're defiled. You're helpless.
You're in need. You're a Sinner because Levi was a Sinner, you know?
That's the point there. He was a Sinner.
And you're a Sinner.
And without the blood of Christ, you'll always be under that guilt all eternity.
That the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanseth from all sins.
Oh how good have a permanent water pot fashioned by himself.
Filled with that.
Which he can turn into wine.
Just a word to the parents, are you filling those little water pots each day?
My father knew nothing about the truth of separation, but we had the word of God every morning and every evening.
In our home, are you filling those water pots with water?
You can't turn them to wine.
He can.
And faith will count on God to do it. Oh dear friends, tonight have you Christ as your Savior.
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Are you trusting in that precious blood?
Do so tonight.