Toronto Conference: 1959
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In the Midst-John 8:3-
Address
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Bing, Toronto, March 1959. Address by getting a hole together #46 in the appendix.
In #46 in the appendix.
Ally and optics warranty all which would divide my heart with me, which would die hardest even fall in answer to my constantly.
All teach me quickly to return and cause my heart a fresh bird, no?
I'd like you to turn your face to the 8th chapter of Gospel.
On the third verse.
I have described and firstly brought unto him a woman taken in adultery, and when they have sever in the midst, they said unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery. In the very acts. Now those within the law commanded us that such should be stoned. But what sayeth thou?
If they said tempting him that they might have to accuse him.
But Gina stooped up with his finger roaring ground as though he heard them not, though when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, lightning first cast a stone on her.
Agay stooped down and bore on the ground, and they were heard. It being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even under the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the the woman, he said unto her woman.
Where are those line accusers?
Alcohol man condemned thee. He said that more thy Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee dull and sin no more.
Morning. Our brother read a few verses, having those words in them in the midst, and it brought to my mind a few other scriptures, and I would like to just think a little about them this afternoon.
Because dear friends, dear young people, it's so important that we should find the Lord Jesus as the one who is the Center for our lives, the Center for everything in our lives. For apart from Him we have nothing.
It has been said and all that innocent man had no object thought man has many optics, but a regime man has one optics. And so we would like to speak about that one who is the Arctic for our hearts. But it may be that there are stopping here this afternoon who have not yet been brought to know him. You have never found yourself.
This woman in the little story we have read here this afternoon, you have never found yourself alone with him.
Your color, you have come with your friends and perhaps with your parents to the conference here and perhaps you have enjoyed time of fellowship with many other young people and you said the companionship here is very nice. But I would like to ask you this planning point of question.
Have you ever had a personal dealing with the Lord Jesus in order this story? There are two kinds sinners. There was one who was an outlook Sinner, one whose sin could not be his, one who was known before society as was, who had disgraced herself, and had sinned only against God, and brought trouble on herself by us.
But.
In the other case, we have another group of those who thought they were all right, who could point the fingers at others but never had pointed to finger at themselves. Happy baby, that is you come here, you're not saved, some of you, dear young people, and get your point, your finger at the thoughts you see in other Christians.
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It's sad, and Lung feels humiliated.
Very often there is occasion in all of us who are believers who cause others to part of the fingers, and those are failures. But remember, pointing a finger at others is never going to bring blessing to your soul.
For a long while he's already came to the point where he said I repent and abhor myself in dust and ashes. Well, these others shall break this one. Are they listening to what the Lord says, and then turns convincing their conscience of turns and walked out and left the woman.
Along with Jesus now as far as fixing is concerned.
Probably would say it, old ones who walked out were perhaps more preferable kinds of people. But old people turned their backs upon the Lord Jesus place. They turned it back upon him. But this woman, he was a Sinner, but she knew it, and he did not turn her back on the only one who could bless her.
Or their friends, dear young people.
Has your conscience convicted you?
Haven't sadly seen, especially in the gospel meanings I have seen what it is to be a guilty Sinner in the presence of God.
Have you felt the arrow conviction going home to your fighting? Oh, don't go home from these means without Christ. Don't turn your back upon the land. Who is the founder of living water? Jesus was writing in the ground.
How to tell of us in Jeremiah the photos who forsake the Lord? Their names would be written in the earth. And I wonder if the Lord was lighting the days of old people who were walking out in the earth as they went out. And throughout your day may be written in the earth. Perhaps you may be making a success of life.
As the world turns things, you lady came along.
You may be making progress in your studies, you may have a better job, they may have those who are believers, and perhaps you'll rise to oppositional success if the Lord does not cover this world. But have you turned your back upon the fountain of living waters and return your back from the Lord Jesus Christ? I am going through holes in these means without Him.
As her personal Saviour flew with you, dear young people.
Some of you have companies means unsaved that I fear perhaps some will go home unsafe. All they got awakening this afternoon may find yourself alone with Jesus convicted in your conscience.
Convicted by His presence, convicted by His words, and acknowledge your guilty for Him all. It will be a time of blessing for your soul. You'll never forget this gathering in Toronto if it is the birthday of your soul when you find the Lord Jesus as your personal Savior, when you trust in Him.
Oh, May God grant that you will find yourself alone with this blessed Savior.
And receive him and those wonderful words the Lord Jesus spoke to her, how they touch our hearts. Neither do I condemn thee. How could the Lord not condemn her when she was guilty? All because, as we had this morning, and we'll see in a moment, He went to the cross to be condemned in her place. He went there and bore.
That he might say to her, Neither do I condemn these and precious facts, that those who are saved rejoice in this moment, is that the word of God says there is now therefore no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.
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Are you in Christ? You know Him as your own personal Savior.
If Saul, May God bring home those sweet and precious words to your soul, that if there should be a young person here who is passing through a seed of doubt, and the other thing is, 16 in doing your mind with uncertainty, male rest upon the precious word of God. I know that all your sins so great, so many.
In his life.
The way or how precious it is to know that the moment you receive the Lord Jesus, everything is gone before God and the Savior can say neither do I condemn these.
Indeed, we might say that that's what gave us power now to live for him. For the Lord calls with this remark, Go and send no more. Some would say, Well, if you live the life, you won't be condemned. But here it starts the other way, doesn't it? He started with a sense in her soul, and there was no condemnation.
And now she has the power to live to please the one who had saved her. And when you lay holes, precious words.
And we see the Lord Jesus as your Savior, then you will have the power to live to please Him. Proximated doll and the fairies of some sin, and you feel able to break it. But if you receive Christ as your Savior, agriculture Him, He'll give you the power. Because when one is born again, he receives a new life. That's what it is to be born again, to receive new life.
From God. And so how precious are this one whenever the presence of the Lord now with a sweet pensioner soul, nor do I condemn these and may you go hold of this meeting with the knowledge in your soul that there's no condemnation for you because the Lord Jesus is your own personal Savior.
Now let us turn to the passage that was read in John 19.
And 1St place team.
Where are they crucified him, and to other with him on either side, while and these are in the midst and the 30th verse. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said.
It is finished. And he bowed his head and gave up the dolphin.
Eternal side of God, the Creator of the universe, come down this world, narrowed by a creature to a cross of wood, with a piece on either side. But that cross devised the whole world. But on one side was a thief who remains in his sin, who reviled the Lord, and never repented of what he had done, but on the other side of the cross.
Was a man.
To acknowledge this then who acknowledged that he was getting exactly what he deserves and turns and acknowledged Jesus as Lord. He said, Lord, Remember Me when thou comest into thy Kingdom. And the Lord's answer was today. Verily I stand to thee today.
Shalt thou be with thee in Paradise?
And so here we find the grand mayor by which God could follow in the richness of his heart in blessing sinners. For there was that, there was that woman taken in sin. And Jesus said, neither do I condemn these.
But here, wonder of all wonders, was the blessed simplest 1 nail, there like cross and in those hours of darkness, there in the condemnation that we deserve, or it was running for our transgression. He was groomed for our iniquities. The cast is meant of our team was upon him.
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And with his right.
We are real know how prices land to see and slave your tearing the judgment and then to hear those precious words. It is a all to know that all of us against us has been fully disguised. Christ has gone all the judgment and God does not Passover sins because.
He wants to bless the Sinner merely.
But because a righteous settlement has been made or through, he does want to bless the sinners and he wants to bless you, but there must be a righteous settlement for sin. And the Lord Jesus, God bless his Savior, house born, the judgment that you might be saved.
Don't like us, dear old girl who had been to Sunday school and she had learned how the Lord Jesus had taken her place and born the judgment in her place at the Teacher. How to impress on the class that God would not be judged if He were to punish her too, when He had punished His blessed Son in her place.
We also took Perry 6 and she was dying.
And.
When the news was brought to the parents that she wasn't going to get better, her mother asked her what she was talking in, if she should be called away, and she said, mother, I'm trusting in the justice of God.
Well, the mother didn't understand the child's remarks and she said here, you mean you're trusting in the mercy of God?
Although he said mother Jesus in my place and God wouldn't be just if he punished me to or how sweet that dear little girl had laid hold of that which many many have not laid hold out and that is that's a worth of calorie household from safety glorified God of his sin and has so completely satisfied.
Claim that now God can come out in the largeness and richness of his part of law, and say to a Sinner like me, neither do I condemn thee, or how precious all they God makes to our souls of that work that he did for us. More practice. May our hearts be filled with praise.
Like a little heavy thing and says.
Unless I forget to thine agony lead me to Calvary call. Brethren, young people, we need to get back to cowardly more often. Fancy black practice failures and his dying while him taking our place.
Is the true ground of peace with God and it is the only true ground to for a walk that is pleasing to the Lord. Anything else will break down in time. If you have anything else the approval of your brethren, friends.
Parents murdered maybe before you, sooner or later it will breakdown. But if you see that blessed Savior dying in your place, all what a moral gives to the heart, the land to please him, the one who loved us and gave himself for us. Well, let's turn to the funniest chapters.
And the Mayan peace work.
Their same day and evening being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut, where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus, and stood in the midst, and sat under them. Peace be unto you. And when he had souls, that he saw under them his hands and his thighs.
When were these cycles alive? When they saw the Lord?
Then said Jesus to them again, peace beyond you, as my Father has sent me. Even so, when I you hear this one who has completed the work, he said it's finished, He died, he's losing again now, and it comes and appears in the midst of his own. But where are they?
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Dear young people, where were these disciples?
Where there is going along with the world. But now to say this is a cross. Oh, for the first time we find them now in the place the door is closed, prepared the Jews. All I say has a cross is that it tells us the heart of God and forms the true pieces of our whole Christian life.
And when we see what this world has done to our saviors, why we see that our place is separation process?
Separation. How can we go out of the world that crucified Christ? Very often young people will say, well, what's the heart of this and what's the heart of that? Well, would it not be better to think of it this way? Support from the people on the streets where I live murdered my wife.
They put on the death in cruel, better faces.
And then next week they're going to have an old party and they send me an invitation and asked me if I wouldn't like to come. And I decline the invitation. And they say, well, we know that you don't believe in playing cards and drinking and things like that. We know that you wouldn't go on with many things, but we're not going to do any of those things.
Plain, simple little affair. Nothing wrong, nothing that you could condemn at all. We'd just like you to come along.
What you What would you expect me to feel about their invitation? Wouldn't you be very much surprised if I could go and enjoy myself in your company?
Which would be very much surprised if I could spend leaving in that way.
Oh, I'm sure. I thought you would be very surprised. And their young person, If the world wants your company, it must be because you don't talk about the Lord of Jesus Christ. And if you want their companies, it must be because you're forgotten. What's your savior suffering at the hands of this world?
Be it respectable like those who went out and turned their back upon Christ for being on earth. Wicked world.
Same world, all these companies join hand in hand, the military world, the domestic world, religious world, they going hand in hand. I don't hear from their friends together in the rejection of the Lord Jesus Christ and your friends, I plead with you, dear young people.
I ask you when you're invited by the world to our wisdom, just to us.
Place with my Savior have in this gathering. What place would my Savior have in this entertainment and if the Lord Jesus is not welcome there you're one whom he has redeemed to himself an infinite cost and.
The doors were shut. The world was shut out. The world had crucified their Savior.
Now here were a few of like lying together, different cards and life troves fishermen, Matthew.
One who was a servant of the government and there were different occupations that they were engaged in. What was it brought them together all they had a common law or that failure who had died on calories, crops and they weren't disappointed.
And they were disappointed. The Lord Jesus himself came and sent me, and showed in his hands and his side, and their hearts were glad. All I'd like to urge upon you, dear young people, all secret company of those that love the Lord Jesus. Take care of companies. Don't be satisfied any place where.
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Savior is unwelcome as a little hip, and says no place can fully please us, whereas thou, O Lord, art not in thee, and with Thee ever is found by grace our rock. So here are these disciples in company with the Lord, and now the Lord says to them.
As my father has sent me.
He even saw stand by you now that are in the world, it'll be sad sometimes. Oh wow, that we have to we have to meet the world. We have to go out and contact them. Yes, we do. But do we go to contact them from the secret of his presence? Have we been in the secret of his presence, enjoying his lives?
Being his face to the glare and reflecting something of his laws and now goes to them was the Lord Jesus and hold this world.
He was another homeless stranger and we are here. It's true, we are here. I was thinking of those who came out of their graves after Christ rescued and went into the whole city and appeared under many. And I was thinking how that's just the way we should be, brethren about it. The Lord needs us and he would have us now to go through this world and.
Appeared waters as those who are the ones who are alive from the dead is decided in Roman 6 as those who are the ones who are alive from the dead is deciding. Robin six. It says that we should live as those who are alive and dead and so we are. Some have asked what happened to these people that have went into the holy city and appeared under many.
Praise to tell us their names or what happened to them because they didn't belong here at all and no others belong here. And it doesn't matter what our names are, we don't want them listening The earth. The Lord said rejoice for written in heaven. And I am quite sure that these unlained people had their names written in heaven. I'm sure I'm going to meet them up there.
May you and I go in and out among those of this world.
Perhaps unnoticed, perhaps paying a little attention to, but at least witnesses to the facts. And that we have.
Been dead and raised again with Christ, and now are in this world sent by Him to be witnesses for him in this Dark World where he was cast out. Well now let us turn to Matthew 18, which was also read to us.
Matthew 18 and verse 20.
Or where two or three?
Are gathered together in my name.
There am I in the midst of them.
Well, the Lord Jesus, in the last passage we looked down the risen. He appeared physically among his own. But now he's asking. He has a Son that he's gone up. He's up there in the glory now, but only something that He has left for us.
Something very precious, something about to rejoice our hearts immensely, and that is that he has a gathering Center for his people. Not only doesn't say we're two or three gathered, but we're two or three are gathered. And why the difference here? Why does it not say where two or three gathers?
While any group of Christians might come together.
Claim to gather in His name, but this is a special action of the Spirit of God and gathering souls together through the Lord Jesus Christ. And that's why as you young people, your parents don't ask you to come to the Lord's Table and remember Him.
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Your friends and all the rest of your blessings don't ask you. They will think that presents the truth to you.
Why would they to encourage you by saying that there is such a place where the Lord is in the bed? And does it not touch your heart and mind that in the absence of our Savior, we can't see Him like the disciples in that upper room? We can't see Him now as we will in that coming day of glory. But we found each other.
Around himself.
Two or three are gathered together in my name.
There am I in the midst of them.
And justice. God had a Center for Israel, and only one. And when the Canyon Dr. separated from the two, God never acknowledged the centers. Among the 10 drives, He still only had one center, which he acknowledged, and that was in Jerusalem.
The place where he had chosen to put his name there.
It's through God's face topic, Elijah and Elijah down the pen drive because he would send the witness and testimony to them, but he did not acknowledge the standards. And so I would ask you, dear young people and others here too, to be exercised about this and the Lord has promised.
There would be a gathering Thunder and his Spirit was gather Christ during his absence until he comes again. Is that practice to your heart? Holy say, it's going to be wonderful to be up there all together around him.
Young people, it's wonderful to be around them down here and as our brother said yesterday when he was speaking, what is your answer going to be? Civil war? When he asked you, why didn't they remember him down here?
What would your answer be what you say? Well, I didn't like the people.
My brother just said to me.
Asking someone to come to me nor said I wouldn't come all such because the person's there. He had some feeling water person. He wouldn't come while that person was there. He wasn't looking for the Lord, was he? He wasn't looking to see the Lord in the midst. He had his eye on someone else.
Oh my God, give us to see no man anymore, say Jesus, only to value the place and privilege of being guided to him. And he's He's given us his whole precious words that were two or three are gathered together in my name.
There am I miss them. I'd like to look also at Philippians chapter 3.
Philippians Justice League.
Verse 12.
Not as though I had already obtained, I were already perfect, but I follow after it, that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended with Christ Jesus. Brethren, I can't knock myself to have apprehended but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth under those things which are before.
I press toward the mark.
For the prize of the high calling or the calling on high of God in Christ Jesus. On this particular passage, we don't have the words in the measure, but the apartment. Paul is looking up and he says Christ and glory. And as we learn from Revelation 5, he's the one who is in the middle in the throne up there.
He's the Thunder of all.
I believe we could think of it in this way.
Here is one who has found an object for his soul, and you may have come to these meetings and perhaps you're a true believer. I was thinking of the beginning of those who are unsaved, but you have come to the meeting. You know the Lord Jesus as your Savior, perhaps, maybe God into his precious name.
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Here is yours. It's a privilege of being able to remember him.
In his death. But all I'd like to ask you is Christ the center of your life.
Is he the center of your life? Is he the one who is the object of desire before you?
If you have come here thinking about others, you may go home disappointed. It may be that you've been hoping to meet some friends here.
And you're disappointed you have this, not the friend that you'd like to meet. Perhaps it had a few jars in this apartment. And your heart is going away a little bit sad because things haven't just turned out exactly the way you hope they would. But all I'd like to say, as you go home, there's more affair in the glory.
And he wants to be your own all. He wants to be the Jesus among 10,000 to your soul.
Where was the Apostle Paul when he wrote these words? He was in prison. Where his presence through to him? Well, when he wrote this letter, he had decided that that assembly of Philippi was the only assembly among all laundry and priests who had even thought about his temple needs.
Letter one has sent him one thing to help out in a financial material way, he said no.
Communicated with me at a concerning giving and receiving, but she only he was left alone. He was in prison. The people that he had wanted to see saved his earthly people Israel. They have been away with such a heart on the earth. It's not fascination with his friends and turned against him.
Thy brethren has turned against him, and he had had many disappointment, and as someone remarked the other day in the meeting, he'd been in prison for years.
Oh, what a lot of sorrow we've had. Was it getting sad here, young people? Was he drawing along with a sad heart? All he writes to tell these dear Philippian believers, he said rejoice in the Lord always, rejoice in the Lord always. And the Lord knows the hearts of you dear young people who come here.
He knows the yearnings of your heart and how there are things that you look for and long for. And as the Lord Jesus is the only one who can really satisfy, he's the one who satisfies the long soul and fills the hungry soul with goodness. And Paul has found that one has the object.
Many objects. He wasn't allowed an object, but he had one object and that was that. Lesson 1 on the scene up there in the glory.
And now if you'll turn over with me to Revelation.
Chapter 5.
In verse 5.
And one of the elders said unto me, Weep not, behold the lion of the tribe of Judah, the Ruth David hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the salmon seals thereof. And I beheld long distance of Rome and of the Far East, and in the midst of the elders that aligned as it had been flamed.
Having seven horns and seven eyes which had a 7 spirits of God.
Sent forth into all the earth, and he can't even took the books out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throng.
And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and 20 elders fell down before the last, having every one of them Hawks and gold and bottles, which are the prayers of faith. Now the 7th chapter is the last verse.
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All the languages in the midst of the throne shall see them, and shall lead them unto living thousands of waters, and God shall wipe away all fears from their eyes.
Well, here's John.
He's weeping. What are they weeping for?
All he sees a hopeless tangle into which the world has been planned. And he weeped. He said. Who can straighten out the tangle? Who can unravel the mystery of affairs here? Evil seems to be progressing and things getting worse instead of better. And John wet much?
As may be without disappointment, and sorrows, and sorrows and frowns.
All tears to come to your eyes and you said when is the tangle going to be straightened out?
When are things going to be set light? Is God going to allow these things to go on? And it is not going to vindicate His own and straighten things out for His own glory. Yes, dear young people, He is. He's going to. And when that won't come, why, you'll be the same one.
Throw it in the midst of the cross, and if anyone who was in the midst and turns hands, and besides the same one who's up there and glory looking down at yes, we'll be in his presence then and everything will be answered there. Everything will be answered there. And as it was pointed out to us in the meeting, the living creature said.
Amen. Amen.
As they rejoiced as they look back and saw the way that they were led along the pathways because the triumph, the glory the saviors blessed faith as he is in the midst of the throne, the artistic and theme of his peoples songs. They're all very hard to all flying and how precious souls words.
God himself, the Lamb, which is in the midst of the Thrones.
Now the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne, shall feed them, and to leave them on the living thousands of waters, and God shall wipe away all tears run on their eyes. Oh, how sweet and precious that is. I'm sure there are many hearts here who have secret sorrows and trials, young people and old people too, and.
Sometimes the enemy who would seek to tell us God is quite as good as we expected him to be.
What seeks to turn into the world all their young people? Let me encourage you to fasten your eyes upon Christ. There is no disappointment in heaven, and that Savior will wipe away all tears from off of all faces. Darling sign will flee away, and that blessed Savior will lead us to living fountains of water.
And all will be eternal joy. Then every cup will be filled. They have golden files full of orders.
Heavenly harp, Romeo and Prince Harry, the earth, the singing of the melody of heaven will be perfect. And again I say, who will be the center of it all? Who will be the center? All this has never found yourself alone with Jesus. Now you find yourself alone within desire and find them as your Savior. You've never found Christ.
As as the gathering Center for His people, they exercise you this large day about that blessed privilege.
That you've never found them as the Center for your life. The woman who is satisfying objects to your life down here.
May He turn your eyes upon Him so that you'll see no man anymore. Say Jesus only and go home with something of the joy of heaven in your heart, because He wants to wipe away your tears now, as He will assuredly wipe them away, never to return.
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When he calls his own home, that is. Maybe thyself will be this afternoon. All they give us grace to be more occupied with himself, the one who is going to make us supremely happy.
For all eternity it is blessed and glorious presence. When he calls us Paul, don't we play together?
The News Your Soul Needs
Gospel—A.C. Hayhoe
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3rd chapter of John's Gospel and the 61St or God soul lost the world.
Back he gave his only begotten Son.
But whosoever believeth in him should not Perry but have everlasting life, or God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world but.
That the world through him, might be saved.
God sent, not his Son.
Into the world to condemn the world, but let the world through him might be saved. Isn't that a glorious proclamation?
Isn't that good news? I know there are many here tonight who rejoice through this day and ever will rejoice in the good news that your soul has found.
In long 3, verse 16 and verse 17.
Just the very news that your soul needed. Just the very news that my soul needed, particularly the 17th verses on my heart for life. God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but.
That's the world through him might be saved. Here we have the heart of God, the boundless eternal love that within the heart of God telling itself out in giving, in spending down here into this guilty world.
His own beloved Son, here you have a heart of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Son of God coming down from those courts of glory, coming down here into this world. ****. Or in order that you and I might know, the love, the forgiving love that was in the heart of God, the water. We have the heart of God. We have the heart of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And we have this world we have yourself spoken of in this verse.
God, the Lord Jesus Christ yourself, God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but let the world through him might be saved. Again, I say this is indeed a glorious proclamation. This is wonderful news, and yet at the same time it seems to me to be a very.
Solemn statement.
For it shall not that the Lord Jesus Christ came down here, that the world through him might be.
Saved.
Who wanted to see this salvation? Who wanted that needed to be saved where there are certain very guilty, very fallen sons of Adam Cooper hat needed this salvation where there are certain ones here and there?
And had fallen so much lower than their fellow man that God was willing to send the Lord Jesus for such house. Us here in that expression of world, that the world through him might be saved, you and I.
Here in this world where under the eye of a place, holy God, and there was no other means of salvation, there was no possible way whereby you or I could stand in the friends of that God whose eye has rested upon us, except ascending into this world.
Of his own dear son to accomplish.
The work where by you and I might know salvation.
Do you like that word? I remember listening for quite a long time to the conversation of a dear young man with whom I went to high school in Ottawa. He professed to know the Lord as his Savior, and he used to speak on religious subject way off when I was in his presence, but I never once heard him use the word sake or lost.
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So I brought it to his attention one day.
Ananda said I noticed that you never never used the word save or lost. Is it that you just have not yet noticed those words in the scripture or do you purposely avoid the use of them?
Well, he admitted that he was purposely avoiding the use of the words.
Saved and lost because he did not want to offend. He did not want to offend.
Now I have in my hand tonight the living Word of God, and I said with all confidence, that is my precious failure. The Lord Jesus Christ, we're standing here before you.
You hear him use those same words.
Lost and saved. He looked down upon you tonight with more concern, with more earnest, loving affections than any servant of his has ever felt. My friend, if you sat down here and listened to his tweeting for an hour, you know the reality of those two words. Lost and.
Say God knows the meaning of the word lost. The Lord Jesus Christ knows the meaning of the word lost by wonder. If you know the meaning of that word With all the intellect that God has entrusted to you, with all the things that you have stored in that mind of yours already in your lifetime, have you ever yet found yourself?
Lost in the presence of a holy and a righteous God, it's not a pleasant discovery.
It's not a pleasant beauty either to stand here and to point the souls by the eternity, and to warn them again and again of their lost Commission. Nevertheless, I do believe that it is the responsibility of everyone who would seek to preach the gospel to.
Warm over and over the warm. But Christ Jesus came into the world to save.
Sinners the same sinners God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world.
But that the world through him might be saved. And I warn you, my friend, that this bonds for the grace of God is not intended for a certain class. Perhaps behind the bar, perhaps the spy father, fellow man, perhaps the outcast of society. Not at all intended for you. It's intended for me. God wants you.
And by his grace is true of me.
We want you to take your place as lost, as guilty, as condemned before him.
Traveling on the plane recently and in conversation with a fellow passenger, I noticed across from me the faith of a young man with a very cynical smile. I knew he was listening to this conversation. I knew that when he got a chance to break in, he was going to have some comments.
That he considered the very height of this world's knowledge. He could not see him waking his text. Sure enough, when it was a little lull in the conversation, he came in with a comment or two, which talons the authorities of both words. Well, now I don't know how to make arguments like that. I have nothing to say when someone.
Turns aside from the Authority this pleasant book.
I looked at that young man and seeking help from the Lord, I just began to tell him that the Lord Jesus had done for me. I told that young man as a lost and guilty Sinner on my road to a lost eternity, I had found out by the maxless grace of God.
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That he loved me so much he had spent his dear Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
To take my guilty place upon the prompt, To get his precious blood to wash away every stain of guilt. And perhaps you had the same experience. As you begin to tell these things, your own soul gets a bit warmed up to the subject.
And what? I was done. The cynical smile was gone. The young man bowed his head for a moment. He said, I can see it means a lot for you. But he said, what about these folks that aren't sinners? I said, do you know someone like that? He said, yes, I've got lots of friends, lots of friends that don't believe the Bible either, and I don't believe they're sinners.
Well, I said, young man, would you like or would any of them like one week of their life as recorded by the thinker of God, including every tongue, including every word, including every need to be written down here for me to read aloud in this compartment?
Oh, I see what you mean, he said. If you look at it that way, I guess we're all guilty.
My friend, it's true of you. I don't know those in this audience tonight, but I fear that there may be present with us, those who have come in and taken their seat with every confidence that all is well and you play. Expect Sunday to stand in the very presence of God and to present to God the record of a life that has been.
Acceptable and a little more.
In the eyes of your neighbors, you've been very devout. In your church attendance, you have done what is right by your neighbors and a little more you have been honest enough, right and truthful about the most of your acquaintances. And someday when you are called into the presence of God, you quite expect that God is going to read that record.
And overlook any of those powerful sins of yours and welcome you into His presence. Now, is that your thoughts?
Is that what you expect to take place someday? I must warn you, I must warn you solemnly, that God is of two poor eyes, and to look upon iniquity. He cannot and will not bear sin in His presence. Not one. If one stay, no sin, one state of sin has been written down.
By the finger of God, under the record of your life.
You're lost, you're guilty, you're condemned, and the remedy is to be found here in this book. All don't you love to pick up this book? Do you read it? Have you found it? The revelation of God concerning your condition.
Of revelation, of ballpark made known in love, in the spending of His dear Son the Lord Jesus Christ. How shall we ever speak for the worthiness of Him who left that home in the glory, came down here to take the loss, the guilty, the condemned, to take their place upon the cross in order.
Almighty preach tonight, will you turn with me for a moment to the 61St pastor of Isaiah, Isaiah chapter 61, verse one.
The Spirit of the Lord gone is upon me, because the Lord have anointed me to preach good, hiding unto the meat.
He had sent me.
To bind up the broken heart. To proclaim liberty.
To the captives and the opening of the praying to them that are bound.
To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance.
Of our God to turn to the 4th chapter of Luke's Gospel.
4th chapter of Luke's Gospel and the 16th verse.
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And the Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up for the reason.
There was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah, and when he had opened the book, he found a place where it was written. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives.
And recovering of sight to the blind.
To set up liberty then that are fruits to preach the acceptable hear of the Lord. And he closed the book. Isn't that grand? And he closed the book. You notice as we read those words in the 61St chapter of Isaiah and the next word.
Where the day of Benjamins of our gods, the day of vengeance of our God, There are those who mock us. Such languages list. They go on their way through this world.
Trying to forget, trying to pass aside all thought of their responsibility before God fried, not those who would warn them of coming judgment of the day of vengeance of our God. To me, this is a glorious.
You have a very strong picture. See the Lord Jesus and your vaccine is all there is given to him, the book of the prophet Isaiah. And he opens that book, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Rest his eyes upon those words, and he reads them down, one word after another, fulfilling each run to the land, until he comes to this statement to preach the acceptable hear of the Lord.
Oh, I love those next words. And he closed the book. He closed the book. The next word were the day of vengeance of our God, my dear friend, if he had not closed the book.
It would have been all up with you and me. There would be no gospel tonight. I would be numbered among the lost and condemned. 1 Doomed to eternal torment and deserving it. But he stopped at those words and he closed the book. How could he do it? There it was in the prophecy of the Old Testament.
Most certainly it was not true that the character of the people to whom he was speaking was any better than the character of those in the day of Isaiah.
How could it be that the Christ of God would read those words and close the book before reading the day of vengeance of our God? I believe that clothing of that book passed him his life. I believe the closing of that book in the middle of the sentence.
Cost him his life and he knew it.
When he closed the book, he knew that the clothes last book in the middle of Ascendance would cost him his life. But he loved you. He loved me. He cleared for my soul. He wanted the joy of numbering me among His redeemed ones. He wanted the joy of welcoming you home to His eternal court of glory.
And though he knew it would cost him his life.
He closed the book and then what did he say? He said this day. Is this scripture fulfilled in your ears? What scriptures? Listen to these lovely words. He had anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor as it is translated in Isaiah. The meat, the poor.
In spirit.
You know that's the company to whom the Lord Jesus would address himself tonight. Is there someone in this auditorium tonight?
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Who has come in here with an exalted idea of your own self righteousness before God? And if you were questioned all of those concerning your fitness to stand before God, your answer would be something like this.
I have always done the best I could. I have always tried to live up to certain ideals. I have always tried to be a devoted member of this or that denomination.
I I one thing after another that you have already done or hope gets to do, and perhaps as an actor's thought, you might make some possible mention of the Lord Jesus.
Is that your hope for eternity? Does that sound like the meat in spirit? Does that sound like someone who has been bowed low in the privacy of Bob, in the sense of their own need and nakedness and guilt?
I remember being in a doctor's office sometime back.
And I noticed one man there who had a bandage around his neck. I noticed someone else there who seemed to have trouble with one leg and couldn't bend his knee. Finally, one or two others there who to all outward appearances, seem to be in perfect health. Perhaps you've done the same, you've just kind of casually glanced around the reception room.
To try and size up the condition of those who were sitting there. You know, I cried with them over. I thought, well, I see what's wrong with this man, see what's wrong with that little boy. I see the trouble that ladies having. But there are three in here that don't seem to have anything wrong with them. But I have an idea that their conviction is probably more serious.
And these other folks that have the bandages that show there's something that doesn't show.
Something that's worrying them, something internal. It may be unknown and unseen to the eyes of others, but they're going to walk in behind that door with fear pretty soon. They don't know what the box is going to tell them. They hope it won't be bad news. Now you sit here in this company tonight, and it may well be that in the eyes of your best friend, in the community in which you live.
Your conduct and your behavior is examinably above many, my friend. We must consider what the eye of God has to see on what the failure of God has to say concerning your condition.
And all May God grant that that robe of self righteousness, that that religion, or whatever it may be which you hope is going to fit you for God's presence, may be laid aside this night. And as one of the poor and meek in spirit, you'll stand in the presence of him who came to preach good news to such.
Last night our brother Gladding told us.
A dear Christian whom he met in Trinidad, who rejoiced to be able to tell him that 25 years before she had had religion and now she had right. Could you truthfully say that?
It reminded me of what our brother Eric Smith told us right here in Toronto. Why did the number of years ago I remember him recounting the story of a dear lady who loved the Lord be thus loved him so much that she desired others might love him too?
And wherever she went, she carried gospel tract with her. That's a good thing to do, my dear young Christian friends. Always have some gospel fact with you. Always be ready to make known and glory of him who has loved you. And he do. And you know she saw all austere gentlemen coming down the road in a garb of a man.
To be a leader of religion.
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It was almost too much for her, but she asked Frank from the Lord and simply offered him a little gospel fact, you know, down in her disdain. What's this? He said, just a little gospel practice, Sir. He drew himself up and he looked down, said, I'll have you know I have my religion. He looked back at him with strength given of the Lord and said.
And I have right?
He went on his way and she went on her way.
Then he told us that quite a number of years later he was in a gospel meeting similar to this. And as she went out the door and shook hands with the one who had told us the gospel message, he held her hands for a moment. He looked and looked into her face. He said, Did you give a gospel tract to a very rude man a few years ago?
Who told you that he had religion? Yes, Sir, she said. I remember that. And he looked back down. You looked back up at him and said, and I have Christ. Yes, Sir, she said, I did. And I remembered that answer, while he said, I'm the one who whom you gave back.
By the grace of God, tonight I too have rights.
All my friend, I want to ask you, I don't know why it may be that is keeping you from my Savior. I know that he stands without strength, waiting and fighting, loving arms waiting to make you his old, the priest that God for the poor. What else does he say? He has sent an appeal the broken hearted. Is there such an one here tonight?
Perhaps this pride but this world has to offer has suffered nothing but disappointment and a broken heart. To such an oneness, Savior had good news. He has joy which this world can never, never take away.
A joy that can be given even to a broken heart. And haven't we seen it again and again for those who would be filled with despair but for the matchless grace of the One who is their Savior, Redeemer?
The healed broken hearted to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind to sad liberty. Them that are bruised, or as Isaiah have it, them that are bound. Now I'd just like to ask you, in which class do you belong? There are those spoken up here who are called.
Poor in spirit, broken hearted.
Captives.
Blind and found or bruised? Is there one of those? Or perhaps do all these fit your face? Or do you stand a loop from them all and say, well, none of those apply to me? I'll have you know that these things do not describe me at all.
Have you no savior? Have you no savior? Did the Lord Jesus not come for you at all?
He came to preach the gospel to the poor, to heal a broken hearted, to set at liberty, then their bound to preach deliverance to the captives, the opening of sight of the blind. And I know that I'm looking tonight into the faces of many who were blind, but by the grace of God, they see tonight blind.
Their own loss and guilty conditions blind to the beauty of Jesus Christ the Savior.
Bound to cactus to yes, all these things applied to me. Every last one of them were true of me, found and bruised and blind captives by the grace of God Jesus Christ, the one who left that home, whose glory, and came down here and closed that book in the middle of the sentence because he loved my soul.
Has opened these blind eyes, has set at liberty this bound captive. You know, I think the language is so beautiful. It not only says to preach deliverance to the chapters, but the Senate liberty them that are bound. It would be one thing to go into the prison house and seek deliverance to those who were bound there.
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But how much more wonderful it would be.
To open the very doors of the prison, to take away the very chains of them that are bound, and to lead them out to the joy of liberty again. Lord Jesus has done it all. Not only did he preach deliverance to the captives, but he sat liberty them their bounds, as you hear these words.
As you listen to this story.
My friends tell me, what does it mean to your heart, you who have lived all these years without Christ, perhaps in a manner satisfied with your present conditions, satisfied with the knowledge that you're a little better than others, satisfied perhaps even in a strange knowledge that after you're gone there's going to be a very wonderful funeral priest.
Satisfied in the knowledge of that one who pretends to care for your soul is going to say some wonderful things about you when you're gone.
But it matters little. It matters not at all what words may be said after you're gone. One thing matters and is this Where will you be? Will you be in the presence of this one who came down from the course of glory to redeem poor lost meeting soul?
Two weeks ago I was standing looking at the architecture of a beautiful cathedral.
And the dear old lady passed by and saw me looking at his architecture. And he said, have you been inside yet? No, I said, I haven't. And when I said that, he recognized a lot of strange action, I suppose. And she said, where are you from? Well, I said, I'm not too much interested in where I'm from, but I'm very interested in where I'm going.
I'm from Canada and I'm going home to glory to be with the Lord Jesus.
What a violence is that proceeds to be very sure that all Yes, I said I am very sure of it because the Lord Jesus.
Came down from my glory, died on the cross for me. While she said I couldn't say that. I can't seem to get rid of my sin. You know, that was a surprising answer. There are very few people who will speak that way.
That dear old lady had spent years in attendance in that place. She could tell me all about his history centuries back, and I spoke to her about the Lord Jesus Christ and the value of His cleansing blood. It was a new story to her.
We never heard it before, never heard of the cleansing power of the blood of Christ. She'd go inside that cathedral.
The bar knees and pray for those who departed into eternity kneeling them in some way her prayers might help. Therefore, souls and eternity we turn from package to package in the living word of God. I can still see that 40 years old who walked away, he said. I still don't know how I'm going to get rid of.
Monetary Oh dear friend, as I want to walk away and knew that the Lord Jesus loved her, knew that he's outstretched arms were different.
In to say all that killed away my heart ate, but I know I didn't feel with my Savior feel. And I know that he looks down at this company tonight. I know when he looks down upon those who are gathered here, he rejoices to look at you one by one and to call you his own.
Or to look at you with a tender yearning love, wanting to have a joy of being able.
To forgive you your sins. But again I say.
Lord Jesus, close that book in the middle of the sentence and left that sentence inspired by God's unfinished.
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Dave Benjamin. How could he do that? Suppose we just turn over to Matthew's Gospel, or a moment or two.
Matthew Gospel 27.
Verse 29.
And when they had spattered crown corn, they put it upon his head in a Reed in his right hand, and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, and said Hail kings of Jews. And they spit upon him, and took the Reed, and smoked him on the head.
And after that they had mocked him. They took the robot from him and put his own Ravens on here and led him away to crucify him.
Then they came out, and they found the man of spy reading Simon by name. Him they compelled to bear his cross, and when they were coming to a place called Valdosta, that is to say, a place of a spell, they gave him vinegar to drink mingled with all.
And when he had tasted her arm, he would not drink. And they crucified him, and parted his garment, passing lost that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the prophets. They pardon My garment among them, and upon My venture did they pass.
Sitting down, they walked in there and set up over his head, his accusation with him.
This is Jesus, the King of the Jews.
45th verse.
Now from the 6th hour there was darkness over all the land unto the mind ours. In about the 9th hour Jesus cried with a loud voice saying Elon, Elon, Lawrence back of mine. That is to say my God, my God.
My hands don't work saving me.
Verse 50.
Neither when he had tried again with a loud voice, healed it up. Both. Behold, the battle of the temple was wrecking, playing from the top of the farm, and the earth is quake, the rocks ran.
When the Lord Sees Us blows that book in the middle of the sentence, when the Lord Jesus closed that spoken hand into the game to those who took care of it.
And began to say, this Scripture fulfilled in your ears. He had this before him, the day of abandoned of all, he had no right, may I say it reverently. He had no right to close that book on your behalf or mine, unless he himself.
Was there that vengeance? But find God it's true, He's done it.
Thank God, abandoned the wrath that should have fallen upon my giving head.
Has fallen from the head of the price of God here, from the cross of Calvary, the Lord Jesus Christ, the one who stepped forth among men, whose words went forth in blessing everywhere, whose hands were stretched in love and mercy and blessings. We find those hands bound to be stand before pilots, we find the Lord.
The dead the voice was still. The Tempest, the voice, the cast of demons is silent here. The Lord Jesus is about to bow his head under the wrath of God that should have fallen on you and me.
He closed the book. He's going to bear the penalty. He's going to bear that. We read the story as we hear him cry through the darkness of that awful, awful power. My God, my God.
Why hast thou forsaken me as we hear him once again cry out, bow his head and kneeled up the ghost by Fran ****. They do if you are not yet they if you have not yet accepted him. Lord Jesus Christ and more Savior. If this wondrous story of God maximize and as a Savior is.
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Worker from the cross, and it's never touched nor heart I spread. And I tell you with all that within me, I beg of you, I beg of you to bow your knees this very night in this very room.
And accept Him, your state, your views of all. You will regret it. You just follow. You have something to lose by accepting Christ.
Those around you here, whose face is even now, are filled with the joy of their salvation. They would rise as one and testify to the joy that comes.
From accepting Christ the Savior over 30 years ago, by the grace of God, He brought my guilty knees out before himself. He saved my soul and I stand here, the soul overflowing with Thanksgiving. The Jesus, the Christ of God is my Savior.
The one who closed that book on the basis of God against me went to the cross to redeem my soul.
How can I book speak forces? Is that the end of the story? Is that the end of the story, my friend, or something? Dreadful yet to come. That book was closed in the middle of The Phantom, but it's not going to remain close. The book is going to be opened again.
You who have rejected Christ, You who have marked the story of God's redeeming love.
And here I fast to speak for the Suns and bars of Christian Parish.
You who live in a home where this book is loved and reverence. You've seen your father's reading this book. You've seen your mother's fears fall on this book. You know your dear praying father. Mother has spent hours on their knees praying for your soul, knowing.
The bottom of your heart you notice. And tonight you sit here in this company, perhaps Father, mother, here too. And yet you know that you have never yet accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as Lord Savior. You've heard of John 316. You've heard of the love of God.
And your procrastinating. You're putting it off. You're going to wait to some more convenient things.
Turned that forth of God's Word in which the song small picture is for free of the opening of the book which is going to bring judgment. Turn to Revelation chapter 5.
Revelation chapter 5.
Vine saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne of Book, breaking within and on the backside.
With seven fields and I saw strong Angel proclaiming with a loud voice, who is worthy to open the book and to lose the seed of thereof.
And no man in heaven more than earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look their arms first Six thy hell, and low in the midst of the throne.
And of the four beak, and in the midst of the elders of the Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven skirts of dogs, sent forth into all the earth. And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him.
Chapter 6 and verse one.
Night Fall.
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When the Lamb opened one of the fields, thine heard, as it were, the noise of Thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see verse 12.
And I beheld when he had opened the 6th seal, and while there was a Gray earthquake, and the sun became black as that father.
And the moon became a blood. The star of heaven fell under the earth even as a fig tree passed us around. Finally figured when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heavenly part as a sprawl, when it is rolled together. And every mount and every island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth, and the great man, and the rich man, and the chief captain.
And the mighty man, and every bond man, and every freeman.
Take themselves in the bends, and in the rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountains and rocks all on us, and hide us from the face of him that sit on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb. For the great David wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand?
Don't enjoy hearing these words?
But it's pruned and is yet to come. It is yet to come.
The hand of the Lord Jesus Christ, knowingly, purposely, lovingly.
Close that book.
And suffer the consequences of the process of Calvary. And again I say knowingly, lovingly went to that prompt.
And there bowed his hand under the wrath of God, in order that this thoughtful of matchless grace might sound in your ears tonight. But the end of the story is not yet here. We find a book up there in heaven filled with seven fields, and it's about to be open. Have you ever, my dear friend, read these words alone, friends?
Would you care to go into your room this night? Read these words?
You wouldn't dare do it unless you knew that you were discounted by the practice blood of Friday. These words used to make me tremble when that book is opened. Seems to me that there's a great deal of time consumed here. 1 field and what for the consequences?
And then another field when they come to the 6th seal. This is a solemn picture at the opening of the 6th seal. What does it say?
There was a great earthquake, The sun became black as back cloth of air. And the king of the earth, and the great man of the rich man, the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bond man, and every freeman.
Take themselves, Madame, and in the rocks of the mountains, and that's in the mountains and rocks all on us, and hide us from the face of him that sit up on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb. Who are these? Are these the timid men are easily fighting, though these are the mockers, these are the ones who lack those who read the word of God.
These are the ones who would not pay me the gospel of God's matchless grace.
Oh, solemn song, purple song, here not heard. Among those of these persons are boys and girls who went to Sunday school, boys and girls whose names were written in the front of a Bible lovingly and prayerfully given to them.
By a dear Christian father and mother now, for fear of him to sit upon the throne, following up on the rock, the mountains that fall upon them. I believe as they do so, the memory of these very words will reign through their sources. Conscience. It's true, I can't exaggerate.
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Month of November.
I stood sadly in the town of Spring Hill and told us closer to their 13,000 feet, 13,000 feet beneath my feet, or 55 miners whose bodies had not yet been brought to the surface.
There, from home to home, that town, you'd see pictures of despair, pictures with a mainly of hope and despair.
Not the pain, just rain of hope was not fulfilled in one of those 55 patients, nevertheless they clung to the very last moment. The spade is whisper of hope. Perhaps one of those loved ones 13,000 feet beneath your might perhaps come forth alive.
But the picture we have here contains.
Monorail, Monorail Hope. I was in the hospital and back from 1 bed to the other beside those men who were brought to the surface. They described to me, in line with society, fellow Master Chief.
The awful reality of these trapped in other darkness.
13,000 feet beneath the daylight.
There again, clinging, clinging, clinging, hour by hour to a fake brave hope that perhaps they might be brought out alive.
My friend, you could not witness that experience without thinking of these burgers, thinking of the day it was coming, when man would literally enactively call upon the rocks and mountains.
To fall upon them, hide them 13,000 feet below the earth would be a welcome spot if it could be. Hide them from the wrath of the Lamb. My dear boy, my dear girl, if you know not Christ the Savior breathing versions bowel knees of your Father yet time and the 1St and the failure who closed the book on the words.
Love your soul who stretched out his tender hands on the crop of pelvis hand under the judgment of God, in order that you might have to offer of the forgiveness of all your sins. All. When I think of that picture when I think of the Lord Jesus closing the book.
I think of its own time this way.
The Lord Jesus closed that book in the middle of the sentence.
Then he turned around and he opened the door. He opened the door and breaks. He invited you, and he is inviting you. Yes, to this very night of pleading, worrying, loving notes of the gospel are going for the hand. close the book in the middle of that sentence.
Has opened the door of grace, and can I invite you in all sorrow and thought perhaps.
This very night, perhaps before you reach your home and lay your weary head on the pillows, that door may close. This same book record. The door which has been opened by grace, is going to be closed with some finality. What else does it say? It tells us that when once the match to the house.
Hath risen up an obstruction of the door.
What?
Makes ye shall stand without talking, saying more, Lord, open unto us. Oh, it is impossible again I say, to exaggerate the reality of this picture. But as I look upon these faces, I'm fixing to the joy. And yet the sulemnity of the Lord we heard, we've heard so much about it the last two days.
Would you like to picture his return now before we close in prayer with you right to close your eyes and picture the refer to the Lord Jesus in a moment notice. Would there be one left in this company? One boy, one girl?
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One grown man or woman who sits here.
In your robe of self righteousness, not ready, not redeemed, not slanted by the precious blood of Christ, not saved of law, and the self comes and fragmented company, every redeemed one is called home into the presence of the Lord Jesus and in that same moment.
In that same twinkling of an eye, the door is struck.
Door is shut, never a mother gospel meaning.
Another film, never. Another verse ran to you from God Living Word.
Come, my friend.
Why doors still open and while that book is still closed, except the Lord Jesus Christ and your Savior now and give to his heart the joy and welcoming you among the big ones.
And give also the joy of hearing those lists of yours confess His precious name as your Lord and as your Savior. I look forth upon the faces of praying fathers and mothers, and I know the joy. This would be theirs if some boys, if some girls.
Would come tonight.
Say, Mother, Father, this night I accept the Lord Jesus Christ, my favorite joy, joy, the presence of the angels of God and God grafted and Sheldon told.
In the Midst
Address—G.H. Hayhoe
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I'd like you to turn your face to the.
Gospel and the third verse. And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery. And when they have set her in the midst, they said unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us that such should be stoned.
But what sayest thou This They said, sensing him, that they might have to accuse him, but Jesus.
Took down with his finger rolled on the ground as though he heard them not, Though when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone on her. And again he stooped down and bowed on the ground. And they were heard it, being convicted by their own conscience.
When a one by one, beginning with the oldest.
And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst, when Jesus had lifted up himself and saw none but the the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those lion accusers?
Half more than condemned thee. He said that more than Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee. Dull and sin no more. This morning our brother read a few verses. Pattern those words in them in the mid, and it brought to my mind a few other scriptures, and I would like to just think a little about them this afternoon.
Because, dear friends, dear young people, it's so important that we should find the Lord Jesus as the one who is the Center for our lives, the Center for everything in our lives, for parks. In Him we have nothing.
And I have been said to know that innocent man had no object. Old man has many objects, but a regime man has one object. And so we would like to speak about that one who is the object for our hearts. But it may be that there are some here this afternoon who have not yet been brought to know him.
You have never found yourself.
This woman in their little story we have read here this afternoon, you have never found yourself alone with him. You have come. You have come with your friends and perhaps with your terms to the conference here. And perhaps you have enjoyed the time of fellowship with many other young people. And you said the companionship here is very nice.
But I would like to ask you this plain important question.
Have you ever had a personal dealing with the Lord Jesus?
In order this story, there are two kinds of sinners. There was one who was not enough Sinner, one whose sin could not be his, one who was known before society as one who had this great herself, and had sinned only against God, and brought trouble on herself by it. But.
In the other case, we have another group of those who thought they were all right, took it point the fingers at others, but never had pointed the finger at themselves. As it may be that as you come here, you're not saved, some of you, dear young people, and get your point in the finger at the thought you see in other Christians.
It's sad and one feels humiliated.
There is occasion in all of us who are believers to cause others to point the fingers and notice our failures. But remember, pointing finger others is never going to bring blessing to your soul. Don't quite the same here at others. He could speak and say that he wouldn't put the fathers of those men who accused him with a dog on the slot, but it took him a long time.
Before the figure was turned around and he said.
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I am vile, so a lot of viles. He's already came to the point where he said I repent and abhor myself in dust and ashes. Well these others, thou righteous ones, are they listen to what the Lord said and then turn convicting their conscience.
I turned and walked out and left the woman along with Jesus. Now as far as fixing is concerned, you probably would say those ones who walked out were perhaps more preferable kinds of people. But those people turned their backs upon the Lord Jesus Christ. They buried it back upon Him.
But this woman, he was a Sinner, but she knew it.
And he did not turn her back on the only one who could block her.
All their friends, dear young people, has your conscience convicted? You haven't sat in these meetings, especially if the gospel meetings have seen what it is to be a guilty Sinner in the presence of God. Have you felt the arrow of conviction going home to your conscience? Oh, don't go home from these meetings without Christ.
Don't turn your back upon the land. Who is the founder of Living Water?
Jesus was writing in the ground, and it tells us in Jeremiah the fellows who forsake the Lord, their names would be written in the earth. And I wonder if the Lord was writing the name of those people who were walking out in the earth as they went out and to write. Your name may be written in the earth. Perhaps you may be making a success of life.
And the world turns things.
You may be making progress in your studies, you may have a better job than many of those who are believers, and perhaps you will rise to opposition of success if the Lord does not come in this world. But have you turned your back upon the fountain of living waters? Have you turned your back upon the Lord Jesus Christ?
Are you going to go home from these meetings without him?
And for personal Savior, I plead with you, with your young people.
I believe some of you have come to these meetings unsafe and I fear perhaps some will go home unsafe.
Oh, May God awaken you this afternoon, may find yourself alone with Jesus, convicted in your conscience, convicted by His presence, convicted by His words, and acknowledge your guilty for Him all. It will be a kind of blessing for your soul. You'll never forget this gathering in Toronto if it is the birthday of your soul when you find the Lord.
Jesus, as your personal Savior, when you trust in Him, oh May God grant that you will find yourself alone with this blessed Savior and receive Him. And those wonderful words the Lord Jesus spoke to her, how they touch our hearts. Neither do I condemn thee. How could the Lord not condemn her when she was guilty?
All because as we had this morning, and we'll see it a moment, He went to the cross to be condemned in her place. He went there and bore the condemnation that he might say to her, neither do I condemn these and precious facts that those who are saved rejoice in this moment is that the word of God says.
There is now, therefore, no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. Are you in Christ? You know Him as your own personal Savior. If so, May God bring home those sweet and precious words to your soul. And if there should be a young person here who is passing through a siege of doubt and the other?
Seeing and filling your mind with uncertainty.
May rest upon the precious word of God I know that all your sins so great, so many in his life are washed away or how precious it is to know that the woman you receive the Lord Jesus everything is gone before God and.
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The Savior can say.
Neither do I condemn thee. Indeed, we might say that that's what gave us power now to live for him. For the Lord follows with this remark goal and single more. Some would say, well, if you live the life, you won't be condemned. But here it starts the other way, doesn't it?
He started with a sense in her soil that there was no condemnation.
And now she has the power to live to please the one who had saved her. And when you lay hold his precious words and receive the Lord Jesus as your Savior, then you will have the power to live to please Him. Proximated dogs and the fairies of some sin, and you see unable to break it.
But if you receive Christ as your Savior, as you trust in Him, he'll give you the power.
Because when one is born again, he receives a new life. That's what it is to be born again, to receive new life from God. And so how precious of this one, where no single presence of the Lord now with a sweet pensioner soul, neither do I condemn these. And may you go home from this meeting with the knowledge in your soul that there is no condemnation for you.
Because the Lord Jesus is your own personal Savior.
How? Let us turn to the passage that was read in John 19 and verse 18.
Where they crucified him.
And to other with him on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.
And the 30th verse, when Jesus therefore had received.
Vinegar, he said.
It is finished. And he bowed his head and gave up the door. Here was the blessed eternal Son of God, the Creator of the universe, come down in this world, nailed by his creature to a cross of blood, with a cease on either side. But that cross divides the whole world. But on one side was a thief who remains in his sins.
Who revised the Lord, and never repented of what he had done. But on the other side of the cross was a man who acknowledged his sins, who acknowledged that he was getting exactly what he deserved, and turned and acknowledged Jesus as Lord. He said, Lord, Remember Me when thou comest into thy Kingdom.
And the Lord thine for was today, verily I say unto thee.
Today shall thou be with thee in Paradise. And so here we find the grand mayor by which God could come out in the richness of his heart in blessing sinners. For there was that there was that woman taken in sin. And Jesus said, neither do I condemn thee, but here one year of all wonders.
Was the blessed the stimulus 1 nailed her like cross and in those hours of darkness.
There, in the condemnation that we deserve, or he was looking for our transgressions, he was thrown for our iniquities. The judgment of our peace was upon him and with his right.
We are healed. Oh how prices land. To see your Savior hearing your judgment, and I'm to hear those precious words.
It is a all to know that all of us against us has been fully discharged. Christ has borne all the judgment, and God does not Passover sin because He wants to bless the Sinner merely, but because a righteous settlement has been made.
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All through He does want to bless the sinners and he wants to bless you, but there must be a righteous settlement for sin and the Lord Jesus God blessed Savior, house born, the judgment that you might be saved.
Don't like a dear old girl who had been to Sunday school and she had learned how the Lord Jesus had taken her place and brought her judgment in her place. And the teacher had impressed from the class that God would not be judged if he were punished her to when he had punished his blessed Son in her place.
What else she took very sick.
And she was dying.
And.
When the news was brought to the parents that she wasn't going to get better, her mother asked her what she was trusting in if she should be called away, and she said, Mother, I'm trusting in the justice of God.
Well, the mother didn't understand the child's remarks and she said, dear, you mean you're trusting in the mercy of God?
All as we said mother, that Jesus was punished in my place and God wouldn't be just if he punished me till all how sweet that dear little girl had laid hold of that which many many have not laid hold of, and that is that's a work of calorie has so completely glorified God with sin and has so completely satisfied.
Claim that now God can come out in the largeness and richness of his heart of law, and say to a Sinner like me, neither do I condemn thee. Oh, how precious all they God makes to our souls.
As I've worked that he did for us more precious may our hearts be filled with praise like a little hip we sing and says unless I forget the thine agony lead me to Calvary. All brethren young people, we need to get back to cowardly more often and see last practice Savior and his dying love him taking our place.
It is the true ground of peace with God, and it is the only true ground to for a walk that is pleasing to the Lord. Anything else will break down in time if you have anything else, the approval of your brethren, friends.
Parents love, it may be before you even sooner or later it will breakdown, but if you see that blessed Savior dying in your place, all what a mortal gives to the heart to live to please Him, the one who loved us and gave himself for us.
Well, now let's turn to the funniest chapter.
And the 90s first, then the same day and evening being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut, where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and students amidst, and stuff under them. Peace be unto you. And when He had so said, he saw under them his hands and his thighs.
Then worthy cycles glad when they saw the Lord. Then he said Jesus to them again.
Peace beyond the youth, as my father has sent me, even though.
And I, you hear this one who has completed the work, He said. It is finished. He died. He's losing again now, and he comes and appears in the midst of his own. But where were they, dear young people? Where were these disciples? Were they going along with the world?
3rd nails the Savior to the cross, all for the first time.
We find them now in the place that the doors closed for fear of the Jews. All I say have a cross is, as it tells us, the heart of God and forms the true pieces of our whole Christian life. And when we see what this world has done to our saviors, why we see that our place is.
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Separation from us. Separation. How can we go out of the world that crucified Christ?
Very often young people will say, well what's the harm of this and what's the harm in that? Well, would it not be better to think of it this way? Supporting the people on the streets where I live murdered my wife.
They put it to death in cruel, bitter hatred. And then next week they're going to have a little party and they send me an invitation and asked me if I wouldn't like to come. And I decline the invitation. And they say, well, now we know that you don't believe in.
Playing cards and drinking and things like that, we know that you wouldn't go on with many things, but we're not going to do any of those things. It's just going to be a plain, simple little affair.
Nothing wrong, nothing that you could condemn at all. We'd just like you to come along.
I wonder what would you expect me to feel about other invitations? Wouldn't you be very much surprised if I could go and join myself in your company? Wouldn't it be very surprised if I could spend the evening in that way?
Oh, I'm sure that you would be very surprised.
A dear young person, if the world wants your company, it must be because you don't talk about the Lord Jesus Christ. And if you want their company, it must be because if you're talking, what's your Savior suffered at the hands of this world, be it respectable, like those who went out and turned their back upon Christ.
Or being another wicked world.
It's the same world. All various companies join hand in hand. The military world, the domestic world, the religious world they joined hand in hand were made friends together in the rejection of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And your friend, I plead with you, dear young people, I ask you, when you're invited by the world, the door of wisdom, just to ask what place would my Savior have in this gathering? What place would my Savior have in this entertainment? And if the Lord Jesus.
Is not welcome there. You're one whom he has redeemed to himself. An infinite cost. And when the doors were shut.
The world shut down, the world had crucified his savior, and now here were a few of like mind together difference columns and life strolls. Fishermen. Matthew.
One who was a servant of the government, and there were different occupations that they were engaged in. What was it brought them together? All they had a common law.
For life, Savior, who had died on Calvary's cross. And they weren't disappointed. And they weren't disappointed. The Lord Jesus himself came and stood in the midst and showed them his hands and his sides, and their hearts were glad. All I'd like to urge upon you, dear young people.
All seek the company of those that love the Lord Jesus.
Safe care companies, don't be satisfied any place where your blessed Savior is unwelcome. As a little hidden says, no place can fully please us where thou, O Lord, art not in thee and with thee ever is found by grace or lost. So here are these disciples.
In company with the Lord.
And now the Lord says to them, as my father has sent me.
He even saw stand by you. Now they're set out in the world. It'll be said sometimes, oh wow, that we have to, we have to meet the world. We have to dwell in contact and yes, we do. But do we go to contacting from the secret of his presence? Have we been in the station of his presence, enjoying his love?
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Seeing his face in advance and reflection something of his laws and now go to them. Was the Lord Jesus at home in this world.
He was never hopeless stranger. And here, here it's true, we are here. I was thinking of those who came out of their brains after Christ resurrection and went into the whole city and appeared under many, and I was thinking how that's just the way we should be, brethren.
That is, the Lord lays us up and he would have us now to go through this world and appear to others as those who are the ones who are alive from the dead. Is Assad in Robin 6 as those who are the ones who are alive from the dead is exciting Robin Six. It says that we should live.
As all into our lives for the dead. And so we are.
Some of us, what happened to these people that I went into the holy city and appeared under many. Well, God has been pleased to tell us their names or what happened to them, because they didn't belong here at all. And you allowed to belong here. And it doesn't matter what our names are, we don't want them listening in the earth. The Lord had rejoiced for listening in heaven. And I'm quite sure that these unlaying people had their names.
Heaven, I'm sure I'm going to meet them up there, May you. And I don't know. Among those of this world, perhaps. The unknown, perhaps.
Paying a little attention to, but at least witnesses to the fact that we have been dead and raised again with Christ and now are in this world sent by Him to be witnesses for Him.
In this Dark World where he was cast out. Well, now let us turn to Matthew 18, which was also read to us. Matthew 18 and verse 24 where two or three.
Are gathered together in my name. There am I in the midst of them, well, the Lord Jesus.
In the last passage we looked, thou had risen. He appeared physically among his own. But now he's asking. He has a son that he's caught up. He's up there in the glory now. But I'll order something that he has left for us, something very precious, something that ought to rejoice our hearts eventually, and that is that He has a gathering center.
For his people.
Thomas doesn't say where she were three gathered, but where two or three are gathered. And why the difference here? Why did it not say where two or three gathered? Well, any group of Christians might come together and claim to gather in his name, but this is a special action of the Spirit of God.
And gathering souls together through the Lord Jesus Christ.
And that's why I, dear young people, your parents don't ask you to come to the Lords Table and remember Him. Your friends and those who are interested in your blessings don't ask you. They will think you present the truth to you. They will think to encourage you by saying that there is such a place where the Lord is in the mid and does it not touch your heart and mind?
That in the absence of our Savior, we can't see Him like the disciples in that upper room. We can't see Him now as we will in that coming day of glory. But we can be gathered around Himself and where two or three are gathered together in my name.
There am I in the midst of them.
And Justin Dahl had a senator from Israel.
And only one. And when the 10 drives separated from the two, God never acknowledged the center. Among the 10 drives, he still only had one center, which he acknowledged, and that was in Jerusalem, the place where he had chosen to put his name there.
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It through God's best prophets Elijah and Elijah down the pen drive.
Because he would send the witness and testimony to them, but he did not acknowledge the standard. And so I would ask you, dear young people, and others here too, to be exercised about this.
And the Lord has promised that there would be a gathering center, and His Spirit was gathering Christ during his absence.
Until he comes again. Is that practice to your heart? Holy say, it's going to be wonderful to be up there all together around him. What brethren, young people, it's wonderful to be around and down here. And as our brother said yesterday when he was speaking, what is your answer going to be through the Lord?
When he asked you, why didn't they remember him down here?
What will your answer be? What is saying? Well, I didn't like the people.
My brother just said to me asking someone to come to me and always said I wouldn't come. All such and such a person there. He had some feelings. What a person. He wouldn't come while that person was there. He wasn't looking for the Lord, was he? He wasn't looking to see the Lord in the midst. He had his eye on someone else. Oh, May God give us.
To see no man anymore.
Say Jesus only to value the place and privilege of being gathered to Him.
And he's, he's given us his old precious words that were two or three are gathered together in my name.
There am I Mr. Them. I'd like to look also at Philippians chapter 3. Philippians chapter 3, verse 12.
Not as though I had already obtained earlier, we're already perfect, but I follow after it, that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended with Christ Jesus, rather than I can't not myself to have apprehended what is one thing I do for getting those things which are behind, and reaching forth under those things which are before.
I press for the mark.
For the prize of the high calling or the calling on high of God in Christ Jesus. Now this particular passage we don't have the words in the mid, but the apostle Paul is looking up and he sees Christ in glory. And as we learn from Revelation 5, he's the one who is in the midst, in the throne up there.
It is the Thunder of that scene of all. And so I believe we could speak of it in this way. Here is one who has found an object for his soul, and you may have come to these meetings and perhaps.
You are a true believer.
I was Speaking of the beginning of those who are on the same, but you will come to the meeting. You know, the Lord Jesus as your Savior, perhaps may be got into his precious name. You rejoice. It's a privilege of being able to remember him in his death. But all I'd like to ask you is Christ the center of your life.
Is he the center of your life?
Is he the one who is the object of desire before you?
If you have come here thinking about others, you may go home disappointed. It may be that you've been hoping to meet some friends here and you're disappointed you haven't just met a friend that you'd like to meet. Perhaps you've had a few jars in this apartment.
And your heart is going away a little bit sad because things haven't just turned out exactly the way you hoped they would. But all I'd like to say as you go home, there's not a player in the glory. And he wants to be your All in all. He wants to be the cheapest among 10,000 to your soul.
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Where was the Apostle Paul when he wrote these words?
He was in prison where his presence through the hills. Well, when he wrote this letter, he had decided to that that assembly of Philippi was the only assembly among all one for his priests who had even thought of those temporal needs. Not another one has sent him one thing to help him out.
In a financial material way, he said no church communicated with me as a concerning giving and receiving, but she only he was last along. He was in prison. The people that he had wanted to see sage his earthly people Israel. They have that awareness that you followed on the earth.
It's not speculation left. It's threatened to turn against him. Some of his brethren had turned against him and he had had many disappointments. And as someone remarked the other day in the meeting, he'd been in prison for years. Oh, what a lot of sorrow we've had. Was he getting sad here, young people? Was he going along with a sad heart?
All he writes to tell these dear Philippian believers, he said rejoice in the Lord.
Always rejoice in the Lord. Always. And the Lord knows the hearts of you, dear young people who come here. He knows the yearnings of your heart and how there are things that you look for, long for. And the Lord Jesus is the only one who can really satisfy.
He's the one who satisfies the long soul and fills the hungry souls goodness.
And Paul has found that one has the object. He didn't know many objects. He wasn't allowed an object, but he had one object, and that was that blessed one unseen up there in the glory. And now if you'll turn over with me to Revelation chapter 5.
And verse 5.
And one of the elders said unto me, Weep not.
Behold, the lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has prevailed to open the book, and to loose the salmon fields thereof. And I beheld and wall in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, that Alamos that had been flamed, having seven horns and seven eyes, which had the seven spirits of God.
Sent forth into all the earth, and he came and took the books out of the right hand of him that sat upon the wrong. And when he had taken the books, the four beasts.
And four and 20 elders fell down before the Lamb, having everyone of them Hawks and golden bottles full loaders, which are the prayers of plain. Now the 7th chapter in the last verse. Or the Lamb, which is in the midst of the throne, shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of water.
And God shall wipe away all tears.
From their eyes. Well, here's John. He's weeping. What is he weeping for?
All he sees a hopeless tangle into which the world has been planned, and he weeped, he said. Who can straighten out the tangle? Who can unravel the mystery of affairs here?
Evil seems to be progressing.
And they were getting nursed instead of better. And John wet much? And it may be that disappointing those things, sorrows and trials have caused tears to come to your eyes. And you said, when is the tangle going to be straightened out? When are things going to be set light?
Is God going to allow these things to go on? And it is not going to.
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Investigate His own and straighten things out for His own glory. Yes, dear young people, He is. He is going to. And when that most comes, why, you'll see the same One who is in the midst of the cross, and there's anyone who was in the midst and told Him to His side. The same One who's up there. We are in glory, looking down at us.
Will be in its presence then, and everything will be answered there. Everything will be answered there. And as it was pointed out to us in the meeting, the living creature said Amen, Amen.
As they rejoiced, as they looked back and saw the way that they were led along the pathways, because the triumph, the glory, the Saviors blessed faith as He is in the midst of the throne.
Where the artistic and theme of his peoples song fills every heart to all flowing. And how precious those words God himself, the Lamb, which is in the midst of the throne.
Tells the Lamb, which is in the midst of the throne, shall feed them, and shall leave them under living thousands of waters, and God shall wipe away all tears.
Their eyes whole house sweet and precious, that is. I'm sure there are many hearts here who have secret souls and trials, young people and old people too, and sometimes the enemy who would speak to tell us God quite as good as we expected Him to be, what they could turn us into the world.
All dear young people, let me encourage you to fasten your eyes upon Christ.
There are no disappointment in heaven, and that Savior will wipe away all tears from off of all faces. Solemn sign will flee away, and that blessed Savior will lead us the living fountains of waters, and all will be eternal joy. Then every cup will be filled. They have golden files full of orders.
Harry Harp will be in perfect harmony there, the singing in the melody of heaven.
And again I say, who will be the center of it all? Who will be the center all should never found yourself alone with Jesus. Now you find yourself alone with him today and find Him as your Savior. You've never found Christ as as the gathering Center for his people.
May exercise you this Lord's Day about that blessed privilege.
If you have never found them as a Center for your life, the one who is satisfying objects to your life down here, and may He turn your eyes upon Him so that you'll see no man anymore. Say Jesus only and go home with something of the joy of heaven in your heart, because He wants to wipe away your tears now.
As he will assuredly wipe them away in an effort to return.
When He calls His own home, and it may be thyself will be this afternoon all may He give us grace to be more occupied with Himself, the One who is going to make us to springly happy for all eternity in His blessed and glorious presence when He calls it home.