Gospel—P. Wilson
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Detroit, October 14, 1962.
Gospel addressed by Paul Wilson.
Send together M #68.
Christ is the Savior of sinners.
Christ is a savior for me.
Long I was chained in sins darkness.
Now, by His grace, I am free.
Savior of Sinner.
Save your sinners like me.
Shedding his blood for my ransom.
This is the savior for me #68.
Now I suppose.
That all of the children here tonight.
Know what I mean when I refer to the city called Jerusalem?
Wonder if there's some boy here tonight that could tell me where Jerusalem is?
Where is it?
No. Well, there's going to be one in heaven too. But I'm speaking now the one that we know of geographically.
On the maps of this world.
You can get a map and you can find the city of Jerusalem.
Where would you look for it? North America.
South America.
Europe.
Africa.
Well, I think we would find it in what they call the Middle East.
You know, there's a diversion of the opinion as to whether it should be called the Near East or the Middle East.
Palace, England calls it one thing and we call it the other.
But we'll call it in the Middle East.
It's over between Asia and Africa.
It's it's.
In the land of Palestine.
They call it Palestine now. They call it the land of Israel. It's over in the land of Israel.
I wonder if some boy could tell me.
What was in the city of Jerusalem?
In the day when the Lord Jesus was here.
Oh, you say, I didn't know I was coming to a Sunday school lesson.
But remember, we have children here tonight.
And I would like to emphasize the fact.
That Jerusalem is over there, where the Lord Jesus came.
It's in the land of Palestine.
It's the center of that land, but it's the center. God calls it the center of all lands.
And when the Lord Jesus was here, there was a great marble temple there.
A temple for the purpose of worshipping God.
The old temple that Solomon had built was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar.
Then there was another temple that was built.
In the days of Ezra.
And it was a poor substitute for Solomon's glorious temple that cost millions of dollars on today's market.
The temple that was built in the days of Ezra.
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Didn't have all the golden ornaments that made the house valuable from precious stone gold standpoint.
But it was the place where God placed his name, and God told him that he would take pleasure in that building.
Well then, that temple was destroyed or taken down by Herod.
And in its place, Herod built a marble temple.
I wonder if there's a boy here tonight that could tell me how long.
It took to build that marble temple.
Pretty shipped. Soon you'll be accusing me of being like the Queen of Sheba asking hard questions.
I've been accused of that before.
But it took 46 years to build that marble temple.
Now that was then in existence.
And I want to read to you tonight.
About.
3 pilgrimages.
Three separate trips that were taken to the city of Jerusalem.
Where the temple was.
Turn with me first to first. Kings 10.
First Kings, chapter 10.
When the Queen of Sheba.
Heard of the fame of Solomon?
Concerning the name of the Lord.
She came to prove him with hard questions.
And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train with camels that bear spices.
And very much gold and precious stones. And when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
And Solomon told her all her hard questions.
There was not anything hidden from the king which he told her not.
And when the Queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom.
And the house that he had built.
And the meat of his table.
And the sitting of his servants and the attendance of his ministers.
And their apparel.
And his cup bearers.
And his ascent, by which he went up into the House of the Lord.
There was no more spirit in her.
And she said to the king.
It was a true report that I heard in my own land of thy axe and of thy wisdom.
How be it I believe not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it, and behold, the half was not told me.
Thy wisdom and prosperity exceeded the fame which I heard.
Happy are thy men.
Happier these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.
Blessed be the Lord thy God, which delighted indeed to set thee on the throne of Israel.
Because the Lord loved Israel forever, therefore.
Hath he made thee king, to do judgment and justice?
The Queen of Sheba.
Reigned in a different in another land.
And you know, they didn't have telephones or telegraphs.
They didn't have radio, they didn't have newspapers that I know of.
But some way or other.
The information about Solomon's greatness. Solomon's glory.
He was the richest man in all the earth. He was the wisest man in all the earth.
God gave that man great wisdom.
And he gave him great wealth.
And he gave him to reign over the people of Israel, as she says, because he delighted in Israel.
Exalted him.
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Solomon built that great temple. The like of it has never been built since.
If you were to go to Rome, the city of Rome.
You would see great pomp and ceremony and splendor today.
Because of the ecumenical conference of the Pope that the Pope is called.
And you would see the beautiful paintings and artwork and all that of Saint Peter's in Rome.
But it would all be like.
Dirt like one of these Mexican Adobe huts down in New Mexico.
Compared with the glory of Solomon's temple.
I suppose that the gold that Solomon put into and upon that temple.
Is more than the horde in Fort Knox.
Wonderful Bell.
Now why did God give one man so much wealth?
He hasn't promised it to me.
And if he gave it to me, I wouldn't know what to do with it.
It would probably be a snare to me if I had a part of it.
But why did he give Solomon so much money, so much wealth, so much wisdom?
Solomon had wisdom above any other. It says that Solomon wrote of trees from the Cedars of Lebanon to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall.
He wrote Proverbs and all his wisdom was astounding. We were noticing the other.
Here Friday night, I don't remember just where it was that Solomon wrote three books.
Song of Solomon, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes.
And God used him to write with such discretion and discernment by the Spirit.
Did he use the name Jehovah in Proverbs and he used the name God or Elohim in Ecclesiastes and he used neither in the Song of South?
Well, the song in the book of Proverbs, it's God instructing or God known as Jehovah, in relationship with these earthly people, giving them instructions how to live.
In Ecclesiastes it's man apart from revelation, judging by the sight of his eyes and reasoning against God. And so it's God or alone that you oh the precision of the word of God. The Song of Solomon tells of the glory of Solomon and the Bride, which is Israel in the future day, united to Christ, the earthly bride and the Messiah.
But it's Jehovah that will be her king.
Now it wouldn't have done to say, let Jehovah kiss me, he says.
Solomon pens it. She says let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth. He uses neither Jehovah nor God because it was in keeping with the mind of the Spirit of God that both be dropped or the wisdom of Solomon was great. No man on earth is wise as that today.
And everything was in grandeur. Notice what she saw.
The house that he built.
And the sitting of his servants.
Or the meat of his table, the food that was on his table. He must have had food there from all quarters of the world.
Delicacies and fine foods from all over.
And the sitting of his servants, His servants acted so in unison. They did this and they did that. Just a decision and according to a set plan.
Why? She was duly impressed.
And the attendance of his ministers or how they acted too.
And the their apparel, they didn't have to wear good business suits. They had special apparel. It was suited to a wealthy great king.
And that King Solomon was a type of the Lord Jesus Christ when he comes back to reign. That's why he was so great and now.
And his cup bearers and his ascent, by which he went up into the House of the Lord, everything impressed.
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It's grandeur.
Notice another thing that this woman, this queen, when she went to see him, she didn't go out and review the armies.
She kept to her.
Place as a woman but a queen. But she goes back into the kitchen, she goes back into the cupboard, she goes back behind the stage to see how it's all done.
And she's so impressed that there's no more spirit left in.
Oh, I enjoy the fact that that Queen of Sheba while she went to see the Wisdom of Solomon.
She didn't go to review the Army. You know, sometimes, I suppose, if you go to the White House.
You wouldn't find everything stick and span behind the front side behind the.
The wall, it separates from the pantries and kitchens, but everything was imperfection in Solomon's house because he's a type of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Kingdom when he reigns. Now this woman heard this report and she's a type of the nations. The Gentile nations are going to hear of the glory of Christ when he reigns, and they're going to go up to Jerusalem and they're going to be overwhelmed.
At his glory.
Nor the King has ever had what Christ will have in that day. They'll be overwhelmed. Well, she was.
She said unto thee, King, it was a true report that I heard in mine own land, of thy accent, of thy wisdom.
Howbeit, I believe not the words. It was just incredible.
When she heard of his the magnificence of his Kingdom, of his throne and everything that went with it, to the smallest detail, to the smallest thing in the kitchen.
To go to Washington, DC, you don't have to get far from the Capitol.
You don't have to get far from the White House to find slums.
Oh, this Kingdom is going to be perfect.
Happy are thy men, happy are thy servants which stand continually before thee and hear thy wisdom. She's impressed.
This woman heard a report that sounded impossible.
It sounded incredible. And she went, and she saw, she was convinced, and she gloried in the glory of Solomon, and she asked him anything she wished about hard subjects, and he explained it all to her.
Impressed by his wisdom, by his wealth.
And the way everything was ordered.
She's overwhelmed.
Now, that's because Solomon was a type of Christ.
And she's and she's a type of the Jewish of the Gentile nations that are going to see the glory of Christ when he reigns.
They're really going to be impressed.
Now I want to turn to Matthew 2.
We find another trip to Jerusalem.
Now we'll see what these people found in Jerusalem.
Solomon was long since gone.
Nebuchadnezzar have destroyed that magnificent temple.
People have been dispersed.
But there was a remnant of them back there in the land, but they were poor.
No great king reigning over them now.
Now, when Jesus was born in Bethlehem, or to read it more correctly, Jesus having been born in Bethlehem.
Of Judea in the days of Herod the King, behold, there came wise men from the East to Jerusalem.
Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the East, and are come to worship him. And when when Herod the King had heard these things, he was troubled in all Jerusalem with him.
And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.
And they said unto him.
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In Bethlehem of Judea.
For thus it is written by the prophet, and thou Bethlehem.
In the land of Judah. Notice that because in Michael 54 where you get it, it says and thou Bethlehem, Bethlehem, Ephrata, Bethlehem in the land of Judah.
There were five or six bethlehems at that time, but this was the specific one in the land of Judah.
And thou Bethlehem in the land of Judea, Bethlehem of Judea.
The sixth verse. And now Bethlehem in the land of Judah, art not the least among the Princess of Judah. For out of thee shall come a governor that shall rule my people Israel. Then Herod, when he privily called the wise men, inquired of them diligently what time the star appeared.
And he sent them to Bethlehem and said.
Go and search diligently for the young child, and when you have found him, bring me word again that I may come and worship Him.
And when they had departed the king from the When they had heard the king, they departed and loathed the star which they had seen in the east, went before them till it came, and stood over where the young child was. And when they saw the star, they rejoiced.
With exceeding joy.
And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary, his mother.
Fell down and worshiped him.
And when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts.
Gold and frank, incense and myrrh.
And being warned of God in the dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
Now here are some men. I don't know how many there were.
Next month you next month or the month after you'll see billboards. It will show you 3 wise men.
I don't know that there were only three. Scripture doesn't tell us, but there were wise men.
They came from the east and they came to work to find the child that was born.
They said we have seen his star in the East and had come to worship him.
It's supposed that these wise men were acquainted with the prophecy of Balaam.
The stars shall rise out of Israel or Judah, and as.
Out of Israel and the scepter out of Judah.
Oh, they were, it's supposed. I don't want to take time to turn back to Numbers to read the prophecy of Salem, but it's supposed that these wise men were acquainted with the prophecy of Balaam, which prophecy told of the coming of Christ.
Now they're warned. They're told of God. Their attention is directed to this star.
They are sure that something's happened over in Jerusalem, over in Judea, and they take a long journey.
Over to Jerusalem to see something that has happened there. They go to the same place where the Queen of Sheba went.
They didn't find Solomon's temple. They didn't find Solomon.
They didn't know where to go when they got there, but instead of going to the city of Bethlehem.
They went to the king. They went to King Herod. He was a descendant of Esau.
He was an idol Mian.
And so he wasn't interested. In fact, he was troubled when he heard there was that one born king of the Jews. He was so troubled to know that he finally slew all the children around her, trying to get rid of that child that was born king of the Jews. 1 to get rid of it.
Why? Because he thought that a king of the Jews might be some threat to him, and he wanted to eliminate any possibility of a threat.
To him.
So he calls the Jewish leaders. Now that was right enough. That was pretty wise. Herod sends for the leaders of the Jewish people and the enquires where Christ or the Messiah was to be born.
Because the Old Testament told exactly where he was to go on, and it told how he was to be born and when he was to be born. It was all given in the Old Testament.
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But Perry didn't know.
The strange thing about it is that the leaders of the Jewish people now, they were the leaders of religion.
They were the leaders of a religion that was God-given. Now there are a lot of people today in this land that are leaders of religion and they don't have any use for Christ.
Lots of them that deny the deity of Christ, deny his virgin birth and deny his atoning death. They deny everything about it and let their leaders of religion and their there are 1,000,000 that are following those blind leaders of the blind into the pit.
Well, it was so inept, not one of those leaders of the Jewish people would take one step to find the king.
Not one of them took one step to Jerusalem or to Bethlehem to find that child.
Or they could say where he would be born. They knew the Old Testament prophecy.
What? They weren't interested, they just were unconcerned.
You tell people today that Christ is coming and he's going to take the Christians home and then he's coming back to judge the world that cast him out. He's going to rule them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like the Potters vessel, and they're unimpressed. You can't frighten them into being exercised. You can't plead with them about the love of God. Neither the love of God nor the threatenings of hell move people today.
It's like those in the 11Th of Matthew that were not moved, whether they piped or mourned.
Well, they came and they found this place.
Now this is not the, this is not the main, this is not the stable where he was born.
This is not the Manger in the place where he was, where the place where he was laid when he was born.
It is supposed that this is some two years later when the when his parents took him up to Jerusalem for the feast again.
At least two years later, it's not now a Bay, but it's a young child, It's not a stable, it's a house. But they come to this place. It may have taken them the best part of that time for preparations for their journey and to make the journey. You know, they couldn't get into an automobile and whiz over a good road and get there and few hours. It was a long, slow trek.
Well, they got there, they found the house, and they found the child with Mary, his mother.
Now, there are those that would occupy us with merit, but I want to call your attention to the fact that these wise men were not occupied with marriage. They were occupied with Christ. When they saw Him, they fell down and worshiped Him. Not one word of reverence to marriage. They fell down and they worshiped Him. Isn't that important?
How that shuts out all of this?
Foolishness that Rome has about Mary. I say foolishness is worse than that, but I won't call it worse.
And then?
Another thing 11 Verse. And when they were coming to the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshiped him. And when they had opened their treasures, they presented to unto Him gifts.
Now if you go to see a baby or a young child.
You do not present gifts to that baby, you present gifts to the mother.
But these men were wise, These were wise men directed by God, and they presented their gifts to Him. Now that would have been a slight on to Mary.
But it's no slight when you consider that this was God come down in the flesh.
God manifest in flesh.
Their creator.
Had come in the form of a baby, a young child. Wasn't it proper that the creator?
Their creators should have the gifts, should have the worship and not married. Surely it was proper and even their gifts are what they offered, their gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. Gold is used in scripture as a type of His deity, His divine glory.
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Frankincense is that which is offered as the fragrance of his person.
And Merv that speaks of his death.
His divine glory.
And then the fragrance of his person, and he's passed down here and in his death, all for God.
Frankincense.
And the myrrh.
All connected with his death. What what wisdom there is.
In the offerings of these two, excuse me, I was going to say the three wives. It's the wise man again, I say. I don't know how many of them want.
And they offered gifts to him.
Oh dear friend, if there's one here that isn't saved tonight.
He alone is the one that is worthy of praise. He alone is the worthy of one only, One worthy of worship and of any gifts that we make Him. To Him be the glory, to Him be the praise.
And don't forget that while these divides, while the fragrance of his person descended in his life to God, yet there was his death to the glorified God in the place where sin was, and his death had met the need of the Sinner.
What a perfect save.
But now we pass on to the 8th of Acts.
After hurry along because it wasn't my thought to develop any one of these in particular, but rather to show them in their relationship.
Here is a journey of another man now to the same city of solemnities, as we term it City of Jerusalem.
The 8th of Acts.
Read from the 26th verse.
Now, before we read, let us make this comment.
Philip the Evangelist, the only man that's called an evangelist in Scripture.
You know, it's pretty presumptuous for a man to say I am an evangelist, to put his put this card out and hand you a card and say John Brown of Angels.
Because there's only one in all scripture that's called an evangelist. Pretty presumptuous, I think, for anyone else to claim that.
But an evangelist is not a man that gets a title from a university. He's a man that loves people, that love souls, and Philip was one of them.
And Philip had gone down to the city of Samaria, and he preached Christ, and the whole town turned to Christ.
Well, according to human reckoning and theological reckoning, today, Philip would have been due for a promotion.
He would have been due to be sent to a larger city now that he had acquitted himself so well in Samaria. He'd get a promotion, he'd get a bigger town to work on. But the Lord, who is all wise, says Philip, I want you to go down.
The 26th verse The Angel, the Lord said unto Philip, saying, Arise and go toward the South, under the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.
Go down.
Go down Samaria was at a greater elevation. Go down to the South of Palestine.
Go down on that road to Gaza. Go down onto what? Near to what they now refer to as the gazer, the Gaza Strip.
There's a lot of talk about that strip down there, you know, that the Philistines used to hold and that.
Egyptians hold a day, but he says, I want you to go down there and it's a desert rope.
What a come down for a man that's in his city evangelizing a whole city.
The Lord, the Angel, the Lord says, Philip, I want you to leave this prosperous work, this great work here and go down, go out in the country and go down into the desert. There's a desert way down there. I suppose it wasn't any more than a few chariot racks in the sand once you go down there. That wasn't very encouraging.
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But did Philip Demurr.
No, he didn't offer any resistance.
And it says.
And he arose and went. Philip would just as soon go down into the desert and talk to one man as to talk to the whole city.
Ah, that's a real evangelist. He isn't a man that has to have 10,000 or 20,000 or 50,000 before you put in an appearance.
He is a man that loves souls and will go down at the call of the Lord and talk to one man.
And I think some of the most effective evangelizing that's ever done today is done.
Between one soul and another.
Just to speak to another soul about Christ.
Precious opportunity that anyone with a love for souls has. He doesn't need to have a card that says he's in a Baptist here. Well, he arose and wept and a man, and behold, a man of Ethiopia.
A unit of great authority.
Under candidacy. Queen of The Ethiopians.
Who had charge of all her treasure?
Had and had come to Jerusalem for to worship.
Here is a man.
Oh, man of prominence.
A prominent figure.
He was the treasurer of this country.
All the Queens.
Well, all the possessions were at his disposal.
The important man wasn't.
Well, he might have said, well, I can't get a vacation and get time to go up to Jerusalem. Why, I'm too busy. But there was a longing in that man's soul. And he said, I've got to get to Jerusalem now. He had the same kind of a longing in his heart that the queen of Sheba had. He had the same kind of a longing in his heart that the wise men from the East had. They wanted to find something out about the true God.
And they found God's representative.
In Jerusalem in the days of Solomon, as Solomon on the throne, a type of Christ in his coming glory.
And the others found the Son of God in human form as a young child in a house, and they worshiped him.
All, brethren, I meant more to the heart of gods than all the ceremonies that were performed in the city of Jerusalem, in the Temple, and I'm satisfied that those ceremonies were going on in the Temple with regularity.
Every special feast day had to be maintained and observed. Everything had to be done according to the rule. But it meant more to the art of God to see those men make that stretch from the East over to Jerusalem to find the King of the Jews. He was that was born King of the Jews.
Well, that's our blessed Lord and Savior. Now this man with the same emptiness.
Do you have an empty feeling in your heart? Is there one here that isn't satisfied?
Well, I can be sure one thing. If you haven't Christ, you're not satisfied.
Even the man of the world. Now you go out in Detroit tonight and you'll find thousands upon thousands that are indulging in the pleasures of this life.
Do you think they're going to be happy tomorrow?
I can be sure of one thing that a lot of them are going to get to the office in the shop tomorrow with a headache.
They're going to get there and they're going to call it Blue Month. Years ago, I saw a newspaper editor say that the reason Monday was so often blue. It was such an exhausting task, looking for pleasure on Sundays.
They're going to get there tomorrow with Blue Monday.
They won't be fit for anything until at least noon tomorrow.
Ah, but if you have Christ.
You can begin the morning with rejoicing in Christ Jesus. You can rejoice in Him who was God manifest in the flesh.
Who came down and went to calories across the state? Well, what we need is not religion. What we need is Christ to occupy the heart. Nothing but a personal doing a building won't do it. Suppose we had Solomons Temple right here in Detroit.
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Well, I'm sure one thing, it would be on the tourist list of places to visit, but it wouldn't satisfy anybody's heart.
It takes Christ, His glory, His perfection, His work to win your heart and mind and satisfy our heart.
Well, this man had gone up to Jerusalem. He saw the temple.
He saw the priests with their roles. He saw ritual that goes with ritual, never sat in satisfied anybody. And yet Christendom is turning back to ritualism.
Fact. Just as fast as they can go. Why are they turning to ritualism? Because they've given up Christ, and ritualism seems to give a panacea, a sort of a.
Opiates that will make them not notice their discomfort, their longing, desire. So this man was on his way back. He hadn't found what he was looking for. He was looking for either Christ or something. The toll of Christ.
The Queen of Sheba got it. The wise men from the East had it. Here's a man that he goes up to the center of religion for the world and he goes back empty. He's on his way back.
The Lord looks down on that man that had made the long trek at such a trouble. You know, he didn't do it in an air conditioned car. He he did it in the chariot open and it was a jostly old robe and it wasn't very convenient. It wasn't very comfortable. But he was doing it all because he had a longing desire in his heart and is going back with the desire just as great as he arrives.
How many a man with a longing desire to find Christ tonight goes into some big church?
And have them preach politics.
Has them preach reform.
And he's going, and he'll go out tonight just as empty as he went in.
All stories repeated a million times.
Well, he was writing in his chariot.
But I'll tell you one thing you had with him. Maybe he bought that in Jerusalem. He had a copy, A roll, a scroll with the with the prophet Isaiah.
Written on it.
And they have paid a nice bit of money.
He may have bought it not realizing what it contained. In fact, he didn't. And as he's going back now, no doubt he has a man that drives his chariot and he's sitting back and he's got this scroll to roll out and he's reading this scroll.
And the spirit said 29th verse to Philip, go near and join myself to this church. He said, don't wait for an introduction. Go and go and come up to the map. Go make yourself known to him. Get acquainted there. Go, go to that charity.
I know we're all a bit timid and sometimes we'll wait for Amanda approach us, but here was a case he was told. Don't wait for an introduction, don't wait for any preliminaries or niceties. Just go and attach yourself to that chariot. And I suppose if Philip ran alongside of it, I imagine it was going wheels turning, going down the road, and Philip runs, runs alongside of it, I suppose.
And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophetess ***.
Did you ever have to go somewhere and preach the gospel and wonder what your sermon would be, what you'd speak from, where you'd turn and the Word of God? I've had that happen so many times.
I like to then Philip wouldn't have any choice about I wouldn't have had to figure it out at all. I'd have known that it was a mind of the Lord because here was a man already reading the chapter. He's reading Isaiah 53 and what a chapter it is. You can ask for a better to preach Christ about.
Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophecies *** and said unto him, Understand this, thou what thou readest.
Says to this man, this stranger, Think of it coming up, running up alongside of a chariot and calling out to the man. Do you understand what you're reading?
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Rather impudent, the man might have said.
But this man is getting the Lord is preparing this man, just as he was preparing Philip to go carry the message.
And he said how can I accept some man should guide me?
And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with it. Now he has the invitation into the chariot.
Now we see Cherry, a driver no doubt, and two men sitting in the back with a scroll of Isaiah the prophet unrolled in front of him.
I like to visualize these things.
I got this scroll, I got it unrolled, and they've come down out of the 53rd chapter.
All the Spirit of God had him arrived just at the right moment. He had him arrived just when he was reading the right verses in Isaiah 53 to preach Christ about.
And the place of the scripture which he read was this. He was led as a sheep to the slaughter.
For his life is taken from the No.
That is a sheep to the slaughter in the 32nd verse, and like a lamb done before his Shearer, so opened he, not his mouth.
In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away.
And who shall declare his generation, for his life is taken from the earth?
Eunuch answered Philip and said, I pray thee.
Of whom speaketh the prophetess of himself, or some other man?
Then Philip opened his mouth and began at the same Scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.
In the previous chapter, when he went down to Samaria, he preached Christ.
That was to the Samaritans that were a mixed race and we're looking for Christ, he preached. Christ.
Here he preaches Jesus.
To this Ethiopian.
The Christ wouldn't have meant so much to an Ethiopian, but here's Jesus, the one that came down in manhood, and he began at the same scripture, and he preached unto him Jesus.
Well, what did he preach?
He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. That's what man did to it. That's the martyr sufferings of Christ. Don't forget there are two different kinds of suffering.
In the At the cross, martyr sufferings and sacrificial suffering.
The martyr sufferings are what Christ suffered from man.
As a martyr.
Was cast out.
Crown with thorns, smitten with a rock.
The hair plucked off his cheek.
And the insult of insults they spit in his face.
Not only once, but twice. The Jews once, the Gentile soldiers another time.
Insult upon himself the martyr sufferings of Christ, they cried out. Away with Him, crucify Him, We don't want Him.
You know that God still is going to look at this world as to the martyr sufferings of Christ.
He's going to look on this world as having murdered his son. He's going to say to this world, as he said to Cain, where is Abel thy brother?
Where is my son?
I sent him there. What did you do with him?
This world is to give account for what they did to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Give account they must no questions mounted.
What a solemn thing it will do when this world has to stand before God.
To give account of what they did to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Solemn things, judgments coming on this world because of what they did to the Son of God.
It's coming, it's coming, it's coming closer and closer and closer.
The next thing that will happen is the Lord Jesus is going to call the Christians home. Then he's coming back with them in just a few years and.
Put up, set up his throne and rule before he sets up his throne. He's going to smash them like a Potter's vessel.
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If you ever pass through the Navajo Indian Reservation out there in New Mexico and see the pottery they sell.
I never saw such fragile stuff in my life. A little touch almost and it shatters and goes all the pieces.
Fred.
Oh, he's going to smash them in pieces like a Potter's vessel. This world has no idea what God has to hurt for what they did to his son. And let me say this.
Everyone in this room is accountable, you say I wasn't here then.
Pilate says no, I wash my hands of it. I'm not responsible. Pilot couldn't wash his hands of it. Neither can you.
You're not saved. You're either for Christ or you're against it.
If you're not for him, you're against it. If you haven't taken your stand for the Lord Jesus Christ in this world, you're still connected with the world that cast him out.
If you haven't decided for Christ, own to God that you are a Sinner, and you will take Christ as your Savior. You believe he died for you. You're still one of his enemies. And if the Lord would come, you'd be judged as one of these enemies, as one of those that crowd away with it. You can't get out of it. There's no neutrality in this.
You know, nations talk about being neutral.
Really, there is no such thing as a neutral nation.
There is no such thing as a neutral person. They are either a core Christ or they are against it. And if you are not for Christ, you are against it.
I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophecies. Oh, He goes on in the 32nd verse. In his humiliation His judgment was taken away. Think of his humiliation. Think of how lowly he was.
He didn't resist.
He answered nothing when they charged him with all sorts of false things. He didn't protect protect himself.
They said come down from the cross and we'll believe. He didn't come down with the cross from the cross. No, He stayed there and bore the wrath and judgment of a holy God against sin so that man could be saved.
They didn't come down.
Didn't defend himself, he said. At one time I could call on my father to give me 12 legions of angels.
What could one Angel do? 12 legions of angels.
He didn't do it. God has said to him in the second Psalm, Ask of me, and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost part of the earth for thy possession.
But when he was here, he says, I pray not for the world. The time hadn't come for him to ask for the word. But one of these days he's going to ask for it. He's going to get it, and he's going to rule in righteousness with a rod of iron in this place where he was cast out.
Now he says in the 33rd verse, in his humiliation, his judgment was taken away.
Now the reason this reads a little difference, and it does in Isaiah 53, is this is taken from the Greek Septuagint. Isaiah 53 is taken from the Hebrew. This is probably even a better translation than the one from the Hebrew.
In his humiliation, because he didn't defend himself, because he was the meek and lowly Jesus, in his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. He wasn't given a fair trial.
Greatest miss, just greatest miscarriage of justice, as we said before in the handles of jurisprudence.
In his humiliation his judgment was taken away, and who shall declare his generation, for his life was taken from the earth?
All go down to the 25th verse. Then Philip opened his mouth at the same scripture. How nice to have your your subject all laid out for you men's. Philip opened his mouth and began at the same scripture and preached unto him Jesus.
I haven't any better subject than Philip had.
I have the best subject, the same subject that I can tell you of Jesus, the one that was crucified, the one that the world rejected, the one because he was in form of lowly man and human in humiliation. He got an unrighteous, unfair trial cast out. But I can tell you that when man had done his very worst, God did his very best and made that blessed One on the cross to be a sacrifice for sinners.
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Do you believe he bore your sins there?
I wonder if there's a boy or a girl here tonight they can say Jesus is my savior.
Not only was that man cast him out, but when he was on the cross in those three hours of black darkness.
He was bearing the judgment for sin that I deserve to think of it, that the Holy one of God.
Had my sins laid on.
And have God's judgment poured out upon him for my sense.
Oh, is there one here that can't say He bore my sins? He suffered the penalty that I deserved. He was punished instead of me.
Oh dear, boys and girls here tonight, can you say Jesus is my savior? He died for me on Calories books. If you can, you can do like this man, this Ethiopian, this man of great power and authority.
He went on his way, rejoicing.
We'll skip the verses in between. Our time is up. But he went on his way, rejoicing, And you need, need have a longing in your hearts no longer.
It can all be satisfied tonight, for the Lord Jesus will not only save you, God will not only put all your sins away and forgive every one of them if you'll accept Jesus as your Savior tonight.
But He'll satisfy your heart, He'll give you something for your heart, for your affections. Be your object and keep you and have you with Him in the glory for all eternity.
Jesus saves us all the way.
All when you think of what sinners we were.
Quote again what we.
I think I quoted in in Toledo the other night a couple weeks ago.
Speaking about Jesus, someone said it's Jesus.
Just exactly suits us.
What a save.
Just what we needed, the Holy One who knew no sin to come down and be made sin that we could be forgiven.
That's God's salvation, that's God's savior and the man that went to the city of religion and found nothing.
Found Jesus is he savior on a desert Rd. He didn't do it in a church building. He didn't do it in a temple. He did it out on a sandy, dusty, Ruddy Rd. in the desert down near Gaza. And he went on his way rejoicing from there.
You want to go on your way rejoicing. I can tell you how to do it. Many have done it.
Most in the room have done it.
Found Christ as their state. Oh, how many have found Christ as their Savior in different circumstances in different places?
Where we're talking the other night to a party and we were discussing the case of the man who was on board ship, and he never accepted Christ as his Savior. And he knew that he should. He knew the story. He knew the way of salvation. And a wave came along and washed him off the deck.
As he was out over the ocean, on the ocean, going to drown, he cried out, Lord save me.
He was saved out there on a wave.
And another wave came along and washed him back and put him right back on the deck, took him off and saved him and brought him back.
Oh, how many different circumstances there are that show the marvelous ways in which people have been saved. I found Christ as their Savior, but you can do it right here tonight without it getting into the storm at sea.
By Christ right here.
Some brother him.
137 thanks.
He left the brightness of his home for sinners such as I.
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Rejected and a stranger here he came to die.
Only begotten Son of God.
He left the courts on high to tread the weary paths of earth.
He came to die 137.
Regarding the fact that the Ethiopian eunuch did not find what he was looking for when he went to Jerusalem.
Was that the Lord Jesus Christ had been cast out?
And the Lord had said, Your house, the temple, is left unto you desolate.
It was empty. Religion was all that was left.
God's house had been turned over. It was empty. It was desolate. Christ himself was rejected.
And all he found there was an empty shell of religion. And there's plenty empty shells of religion left today, but very little of Christ. No Christ. And you'll be satisfied both now and forever. Let us break.