Toronto Conference: 1966
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The Hands of a Man
Gospel—N. Berry
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General Meetings, Toronto, April 1966. Gospel by Norman Berry.
Would you turn with me, please, to the fifth chapter of the book of Daniel?
I would like to bring before your attention tonight.
The hands of a man.
The hands of a man.
In this chapter before us.
We have brought before us.
The first of the great world empires, Babylon.
There were four.
The Babylonian Empire, the Medo Persian, the Grecian Empire, and finally the Roman Empire, all foretold in God's precious word. All surely came to pass and all passed away.
The first of these was the Babylonian Empire.
But in God's wisdom.
He has also used this first Empire.
As a picture of the last.
In its ecclesiastical form and in its political form, Babylon is a picture of the last days.
And dear friends.
The older I get, the more I look into God's Word.
The more I see that God has foretold in these several passages what will befall this world in the last days.
So that we can look into the word of God, and then we can look around us and there we see to our wonder. Here it was written in God's book. Hundreds, yeah, thousands of years ago.
And so this scene that comes before us now is a scene in that first Empire.
It's a vast crowd. It's a great auditorium, no doubt a Great Hall, a banquet hall.
1000 people are gathered before us in this scene.
We will read one verse, the first verse.
Belshazzar the King.
Made a great feast to 1000 of his Lords.
And drank wine before the fountain.
Babylon was a great city.
They tell us that its walls were 75 feet thick, that probably as wide as this auditorium 300 feet high.
Not made out of stone, but made out of bricks.
And that great city.
With those great walls.
Head inside them.
This scene before us, this great moment when this powerful king had gathered together 1000 of his Lords.
There to display his power.
And his affluence.
The great prosperity that he had brought to this great empire.
There they were to have a scene of revelry.
Now, you and I don't need to stretch our imagination to realize that this is but a picture, dear friends, of this world tonight, particularly our Western world, growing in grandeur and in prosperity.
Pleasures everywhere. Running after pleasures. More and more prosperity, greater benefits.
Oh, what a picture this is. Here they were gathered together in all their revelry.
But was that all? Let's read on.
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Thou shazer, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels, which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem, that the king and his Princess, his wives, and his concubines might drink therein. Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the House of God.
Which was at Jerusalem, And the king and his Princess, his wives and his concubines drank in them. They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
Oh, now we see something further into the mind of this great king. An idea comes. He will add a touch of religion.
What will he do? Oh, he will bring the gold and the silver cups, the vessels that had recently been taken out of the very temple of God in Jerusalem.
What sacrilege?
Those holy vessels.
That those priests were so careful to touch those Levites wouldn't dare. I suppose they touch them left alone to those special ones designated of God to carry those sacred vessels into God's very temple, into his house. But now what has happened? Oh, here they are now, in this godless scene.
Here, the king says, bring them in and we'll drink wine out of God's sacred cups, these vessels. Oh, isn't that what this world tonight is doing? Was there ever a time, even in the last year or two, when men's minds are turning more to religion? We hear it all over. Everyone who has spoken on this subject has mentioned that more and more, the subjects are turning to religion. Oh dear friends.
This is but a picture of this world tonight, with all its prosperity, with all its affluence, all adding a touch of religion to it. This is Babylon, dear friends, and it's on the ascendancy. Tonight we see it everywhere. We don't need to have any great vision to be able to see it. My dear friends. It's Babylon on the rise again. God's word is being fulfilled right before our very eyes. This scene typical here. Oh, it is all around us. It's all around us.
Here those people, those godless people, drank wine out of those cups, out of the House of God. All very religious, no doubt. Oh, what a sad moment this was.
And what else? Oh, what was the result? Why, they praised the gods of silver, of gold, of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. Idolatry mixed in. Oh, isn't that developing all around us? Idolatry, the worship of man, the worship of whatever it might be, anything but the living God, if they put a man out into space and he arrives on the moon.
And it may be What then will be the result? Oh, there will be the greater worship, the idolatry of man. We pick up the boys and girls textbooks, and I saw their man as you spelt with a capital M exalting man. Idolatry, dear friends, oh, what a scene is before us in this vast banquet hall. Revelry, the thought of God no, never to be entered into.
But all in the name of for religion, drinking here, satisfying their lusts.
Like my friends, you might say, well, that's just an imaginary scene.
Let's turn to the 18th of a revelation.
In this chapter.
It's no.
Past event Hear now, God Opens.
The curtain, as it were, into a future day.
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Listen carefully to these words prophetically spoken.
18th of Revelation. And after these things I saw another Angel come down from heaven, having great power, and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying that on the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit.
And a cage of every unclean and hateful bird, for all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. And the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her. And the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another voice from heaven saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues, for her sins have reached unto heaven.
And God hath remembered her iniquities, reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works in the cup which she hath filled, filled to her double how much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously. So much torment and sorrow give her, For she hath said in her heart. I city Queen, and I'm no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day.
Death and mourning, and famine, and she shall be utterly burned with fire.
For strong is the Lord God, who judgeth her, and the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication, and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her and lament her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city, For in one hour is thy judgment coming, and the merchants now here is very.
Interesting part. This shows us the value that the world placed on certain things. You, my dear friends tonight, place your values, we all do. On certain things we all have our as it were our lists of our valuables, what we place most valuable in life. Here let us see what this world, this world system that is around us, how it values its possessions.
First the merchants of gold and silver and precious stones. There's the top of the list, and the pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thinewood, and all manner of vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and of iron and marble, and cinnamon, and odors and ointments and frankincense.
And wine and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep and horses, and Chariots and slaves.
And the souls of men.
The souls of men. Where is it? The top of the list? At the bottom, my dear friends, At the bottom of the list. The souls of men trafficking in the souls of men. Oh, isn't that what surrounding us tonight, dear friends in this world and you not.
Gold. Silver at the top of the list. Material things occupying the attention of this world, thinking that it is going to go on forever.
The eternal souls of men that will go on forever, boys and girls. Oh, where do we stand tonight? Are we attracted by this?
This world that is sure as we are going to see in a moment to pass away, are we?
Being absorbed by it, Are we being deceived by it all the material things? Were there ever a time when it so occupied the minds of men, the souls of men last? My dear friends, where do you place the value of your soul? Is it at the top of that list of those things that you want, or is it down at the bottom as we find it here?
What a, what a picture. But all my dear friends.
God was looking on to that scene in that distant day back in Babylon. He looked into that night of revelry, of drunkenness. He looked into that night of sacrilege when his sacred cups there were being lifted in mockery. And in in in in that social scene of grandeur, he saw that wine being drunk. He saw those people being given over to all their lusts and their pleasures.
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The Hand of a man. Let's go back now to our chapter in Daniel.
Verse 5.
In the same hour. How does that we saw that expression in Revelation in the same hour.
Four fingers of a man's hand.
And rode over against the Candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the King's palace.
And the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the King's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. Let's pause there.
Oh God. Saw that scene. And my dear friends, let me warn you, this is God's word. It's not mine. He looks into this world tonight. He sees the revelry.
Here it is, Lord, the evening Sunday night, what would you find in the city of Toronto?
Would just find people gathered around the precious word of God like this to learn more of the destiny of their souls. Nor, my friends, it's revelry and dancing in nightclubs and parties and drunkenness. And it's everywhere. Over a billion dollars being spent on liquor each year. Oh, my dear friends, God is looking down. He's looking down in this world tonight. Are you being fooled by it? God entered into that.
Scene.
And on the wall, the hand. That's all. That's all. Just the hand. But it was in that same hour when everything was at its height. Are you deceived, my friends, by the prosperity of this world?
One of the young boys in Montreal invited me to go up to his room in McGill University and he said I am frightened. I am frightened by what I see, he said. This university, from one end to the other, is just being swept up in a fire of enthusiasm everywhere. Every day we hear the professors talking about the unlimited horizons that are opening up before this world.
Oh dear young people tonight.
Here is God's behind the scenes picture of what is going to happen. He is going to interfere in the affairs of men. It's going to be sudden here in the midst of all this revelry, a hand in that same hour wrote on the wall.
That they go on with their reverie. No, indeed. I remember reading up the sinking up the the ship. I forget the name of it. It was no, it was the castle was the last name.
And the man who was writing this story, he went from deck to deck and he was describing what was going on in every one of those decks here there were in on one there were a party, a private party was being was taking place. And there they were all in their little groups and everything was revelated with the last night, I believe before they arrived. And then on the next floor there was a great banquet going on and so on He went from floor to floor and then another one. There was a quieter scene.
And then below it was a great real wild party, as he said. And everything was just that's it's peak when all of a sudden that great ship struck another ship and within minutes or a little while down went that ship to an icy grave. Oh this. He described it so graphically. He described one minute deck by deck when everything was seen to be so wonderful. And then he went back to.
Those same decks. And he described what was happening, and there they were, acting like beasts.
There they were, terror filling their hearts. My dear friends, be warned. God is going to strike one of these days the hand of a man, he writes on the wall.
The countenance of the king has changed.
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He calls for his wise men, the wisest men of the world, I suppose, of that time. Could they answer his questions? No. They couldn't tell what it meant. It was all foreign to them.
But now I don't think it was the King's wife. I believe it was the King's mother from the context she hears of what has happened. And she comes into that hall and she says to her son, there is a man, there is a man in whom the spirit of the gods is he can tell you. And she reminded him of what had happened to his grandfather, how this man Daniel had been able to tell God's mind. And so they call upon Daniel.
Bringing him into this scene, What a scene, what a contrast, this man of God, how he must have felt out of place when he would enter into such a scene. My dear friends, I want to ask you this question. Do you find, do you feel at a place when you're in the world?
Or do you feel at home?
You bear the testimony of being a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. I speak for a moment to those who know Christ.
Would you be feeling like Daniel?
Their call upon Daniel and they said to him, why? We will make you third ruler in the Kingdom and we will deck you with all the gifts. What does Daniel say? Let's turn the page 17th verse. Then Daniel answered and said before the king, let thy gifts be to thyself and give thy rewards to another. Oh, he had his list too, didn't he? My dear friends? Was he thinking of the gold and the silver? He said they perish with you. I don't want anything of them.
Yet I will read the writing under the king, and make known to him the interpretation.
And so then he recites how this man should have known, or his mouth should have known better. His mouth was stopped. And so it will be, my dear friends, when that day comes, when you, if you are unsaved, when you stand before the tribunal of God, your mouth will be shut.
You're a go or so at Montreal.
In the open air, a man, I think he was from the university too, and he was talking to us after and he said God has made all this mess that we're in tonight. That's what these were his words. And he said, when I see God, he said, you know what I'm going to do? And I said no. He said I'm going to spit in his face.
Spit in his face.
The effrontery. This is what modern education is doing today. Spit in God's face. Oh, my dear friend, I said to him. Your mouth will be shut when you stand before God.
So here was this great king reduced his wisdom, his wise men, they could give him nothing.
But Daniel was able, oh, Daniel had a message from God. And so here in our story, 23rd verse he recites to him his his evil life, 23rd verse, but has lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven, and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee. And thou and thy Lords, thy wives and thy concubines have drunk wine in them. And thou hast praised the gods of silver, of gold, of brass, ironwood, and stone, which see not, nor hear not.
Nor here, nor no. And notice this and the God in whose hand.
Thy breath is in whose hand thy breath is, Ah, the hand of God.
His very breath was in God's hand.
And whose are all thy ways? Hast thou not glorified, then in the 27th verse, one of the interpretations of the writing on the wall, Tikal, thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
Would you hear those words, my dear friend? Oh, I speak to your heart tonight. I don't want to be preaching at you, but I want to appeal to your never dying soul. You're going to hear these words from God?
Weighed in the balances and found wanting.
You will, you will, if you die outside of Christ. These were the words that that great, powerful monarch.
Heard from the mouth of a man of God, all the servants are nothing.
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But we come with a message of warning here now for these few moments, a message of warning from God. The seed is going to be reenacted. We've read how that God has projected into the future. Babylon will fall this world with all its great and mighty buildings and putting them up, as our brother Wakefield was mentioning last night, $150 million. It's nothing for a building, my dear friends. God is going to speak one of these days. Don't be fooled. This civilization is just about at the end we do believe.
We believe that God is just about to speak the God in whose hand.
Thy breath is. It's 7:00. It's 8:00 now.
You have been breathing about 450 breaths since this meeting started.
And everyone of those breaths, my dear friends, has been given to you by God. There we have read it. The God in whose hand thy breath is Who do you realize that tonight, that God is keeping you alive? It's that that breath that you have? It's in his hands. If he removed it now, where would you be? Would this scene be for you? Would you hear that?
Voicing weighed in the balances and found wanting.
Now let's read the last moments, period first in that night. Oh, what a night that was. In that night we read before in that hour, the hand. But now in that night. Oh, what a night that was for this great Nebuchadnezzar. In that night was Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans slain.
The end of the story.
Slain. Where was he? Where were his great walls? Where were all his defenses? My friends, if you're hiding behind the walls made of bricks, this will be your destiny to it was mine.
Oh, how I trembled when the gospel would be preached, How the beads of perspiration used to come out of my my forehead. I knew I was lost. I knew that this would be my destiny. I knew that I would perish. I knew that it was eternal night for me.
Thank God I heard the message from his Heart Club.
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans. He got his full title. Nothing was left.
But one thing was slain.
God spoke.
Now I want to turn from this scene.
To another.
What a contrast, how I tremble to turn to it.
The hands of a man.
Solitary.
No revelry here.
One man.
One man from heaven.
God's Eternal Son.
And where is it?
On the cross, my friends, on the cross of Calvary. Lone figure, Blessed Jesus.
Hands out stretched.
Pierced with nails.
By the hands of those very men.
Whose hands had created.
There with that cruelty they took those nails and pierced his blessed hands.
The Son of God.
Alone, with hands outstretched on the cross, let's turn to the 26th Son of God alone.
With hands outstretched on the cross, let's turn to the 22nd Psalm.
The 16th verse.
The middle of the verse.
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They pierced.
My hands and my feet. What pathos there is in those few brief words they pierced my hands and my feet.
Those hands that had been stretched out.
In doing nothing but good. Those hands who had healed the lepers and touched them, those hands that had brought sight to the blind.
Never before that I can recall in the scriptures was anyone in Israel ever cured a blindness in the Old Testament.
Reserved for the blessed Lord Jesus Christ. Others have got their sight back, but I don't recall anyone of Israel ever receiving their sight except when the Lord Jesus Christ came to her. All those hands that brought sight to the blind, that brought the life to to the to the dead.
Those hands, the blessed Savior could say they Pierce my hands and my feet.
This is what this world has done to the Lord Jesus Christ.
This is what you will be guilty of, my dear friends, of rejecting this Savior, this one who hung there on that cross without stretched hands. They pierced my hands and my feet. Oh, that you might have a glimpse of Christ tonight. This is the one that we would exalt. That Blessed One will have stretched hands.
Let's turn to the Gospel of John chapter 20.
Verse 25.
The middle of the verse.
That's John's Gospel chapter 20 in the middle of verse 25.
Except I shall see in his hands.
Print of the nails.
Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails. Oh, there they were. There they were, the Prince of the nails. Oh, doesn't that touch your heart tonight, my dear friend? Is your heart so cold that you would be unmoved by the scene before us, the blessed Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God?
And Pearson here is one of his creatures.
Saying that he won't believe that he is raised from the dead unless he sees the print of the nails. Oh my friends, that you might see tonight before it is forever too late. The print of those nails in his blessed hands. For you, my friends, it wasn't the nails that has often been said that kept him to the on the cross. It was because in love he came to manifest the heart of God to man. And there he hung on that cross.
The print of the nails in his blessed hands. Oh, there. He endured it because he loved you. My dear friends. He wants to save you tonight. Oh, I don't know. Most of you. Many of you don't know. But you do, my friends. Know this. Have you ever come face to face with God?
Ever realize, my friend, that you will look into the face of God someday?
The hands of a man, those Prince of those nails, were for you. He endured it in love, no other way that you could be brought to God. But through the death of Jesus Christ, he died for you. He endured that cross for you.
But it's very significant that in the different scenes that the those hands appear here, we have seen that on the cross there those hands were outstretched nail prints in his blessed hands. But in this 20th chapter of John's Gospel, we have seen now that he has gone through this, he has died and he has been raised again.
Or in resurrection, isn't this wonderful, dear friend, wonderful. The marks of those nails were still in his blessed hands after he had gone into death, Horace, after he had paid that price that our sins demanded from a holy God. And he was raised by the mighty power of God, the greatest power known. He was raised without our sins. But there in His blessed hands were those prints of a nails.
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Now let's turn to the last chapter of the book of Luke.
Another scene.
But those same blessed hands.
24th chapter of the Gospel of Luke.
39 verse the Lord Jesus now walking amongst his own.
Only the believer saw him after the resurrection, and here's what he said. 39 verse. Behold my hands and my feet that it is I myself. Oh, isn't that lovely? I myself.
Blessed safe.
Behold my hands and my feet, and the 41St And when he had thus spoken, he showed them his hands and his feet. All There was the evidence. Dear friends, there was the evidence.
Himself with those nail prints in his hands, he showed them his blessed hands. What a moment that must have been. Now then the 50th verse. And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands and blessed them. Oh, isn't that lovely. Now we've come to that moment after at the end of those 40 days when the Lord Jesus walked amongst his and was seen only by his followers.
He leads them out to that little town of Bethany that had been such a comfort to his heart. And there he is with his little band, and he lifts up those same hands, and as he lifts them up, he blesses over the hands of blessing. My dear friends, as he rose from this earth, his hands are outstretched in blessing once more, and up he went, out of sight. They saw him go higher and higher, smaller and smaller, in a cloud.
Received a metaphor sight.
He was gone to glory, but he took those nail prints in his blessed hands.
There he is tonight, dear friends, who he lives, He lives. As was mentioned in the meeting, He lives with clean hands. He lives in the glory, but with those Prince of those nails in his hands.
Will we see those nail prints? God's words, says Phil. Let's turn to Zechariah 13.
Verse 6.
This is a future scene. Hasn't been enacted yet.
And one shall say unto him.
That's that same Blessed One. What are these wounds in thine hands?
Then he shall answer those with which I was wounded in the House of my friends.
Oh that same blessed one, in that day when he shall come back, not for the believers, but when he shall come in his glory, in the day of his glory, when I've redeemed one in this vast audience, tonight shall return with him. He will come then in with those outstretched hands, because it tells us in the in the book of Acts, this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
We saw him go up to heaven with those outstretched hands, so he shall come.
With those marks of the nails in His hands, blessed Savior.
Now what about?
The creation.
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There's a nice little verse that I like to read in the 8th Psalm dealing with his hands.
Verse 3.
Psalm 8 verse 3.
When I consider Thy heavens.
The work of thy fingers.
The moon and the stars which thou hast ordained.
Oh, just his fingers this time. The vast creation.
That they are spending millions, I suppose billions on aerospace. Dear friends, he made them with his fingers.
Tells us in the in Genesis he made the stars also just incidental, just in passing, made with his blessed fingers.
But now I wouldn't want you to be left with the impression that it is his hands that saves us, that saves us.
And so we will turn now to to the Gospel of John Chapter 19.
He.
Verse 33.
But.
When they came to Jesus.
And saw that he was dead already.
They break not his legs, but one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
Over a moment, this was.
It wasn't as the blood that came from his hands. Dear friends, we sometimes see pictures of the Blessed Lord with the blood running down his hand of his brow and saying pity me Oh no, that's not the blood that saves.
Here it is the blood that flowed from his blessed and precious side.
Is the blood that washes us from our sins. Oh, dear friends, tonight in all the saliva at my command, I ask you, are you sheltered under that blood of Jesus Christ? Tonight, nothing else matters but the blood of Christ.
Have you come to that living sound?
When they came to Jesus, oh, isn't that wonderful? When, but when they came to Jesus.
Have you ever come to Jesus? Come to Jesus? Well, do I remember the day when the man spoke to me and he had it plead with me for years?
Never had I come to Jesus, but all that day is so bright in my memory.
I came to Jesus. Wouldn't you come to Jesus tonight?
But when they came to Jesus and found that he was dead already, oh, he had given his life. No man had taken it from him. He gave his life, my friend.
You and for me.
They didn't break his legs, they didn't touch his blessed hands. But what did they do? I, soldier with a spear pierced his blessed side, and forthwith came their out blood and water.
Which is it for you tonight, my friends?
Which is you must make this decision.
We, if you could, only heard those of you here tonight who don't know the blessed Lord Jesus, that you could have heard the prayers that were raised for you tonight.
Your souls, your soul that shall go on. I don't say live, but it shall exist.
Or that you might be in earnest tonight. Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?
Have you been sheltered under the blood of Jesus Christ, or are you still hand in hand with this world? Is this world absorbing your attention? Are you just thinking about what it will be like to get back to to business or whatever it might be tomorrow?
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All this world is doomed, my friend. It's doomed. Are you trifling with this world?
Or are you looking to those that blessed one and those hands outstretched in love? Jesus blessed Jesus. He waits. Tonight, He waits.
Now you are either in one of two categories tonight.
You're either in one of two categories.
Let's turn to the first book of Proverbs chapter, at least the first chapter of Proverbs.
This one first, the sad one.
Oh, we pray. And I know that there are many here tonight who are praying at this very moment for some soul tonight that this may not be true of you. What an awful position to be in, my dear friends. Oh, consider.
Don't sleep. Don't sleep. Awaken. Turn to the Savior. Here's what he says in the 24th verse Proverbs 124, because I have called.
And he refused. I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded. Oh, isn't there one tonight that will look to Jesus? Is this going to be said of you to you? I've stretched out my hands. We've read. We've traced briefly through the word of God how those hands were stretched out. And tonight once more, oh, once more. Is it the last night? One of these nights is going to be the last, my friend.
The gospel is going to go out for the last time. You're going to hear the pleadings of the Lord Jesus Christ for the last time. And then it's going to be I've stretched out my hands in vain. If you go out of this auditorium tonight without Christ, you may go into an eternity of blackness, of darkness forever. Old friends, the awakened. Tonight, Christ is waiting for you. Those outstretched hands He's bidding you come to him.
Will it be in vain?
Are you saying some other time, some of you young boys and girls that have been sitting here for these three nights hearing the gospel in all its loveliness and beauty and the warnings too?
You're going to go away back to your homes tonight and still be unsaved? Oh, I plead with you, don't. Don't. What's the contrast to this?
Isaiah 49.
Verse 16.
Oh, what a lovely contrast this is.
What a wonderful contrast. I thank God this describes my position. Does it describe yours tonight? You little boys and girls? You teenagers that are here tonight, is this yours? Make it yours tonight.
The 16th verse, Isaiah 49, verse 16. Behold. Oh, isn't that lovely. Behold.
I have graven thee on the palms of my hands.
Arms of my hands.
Is that where your name is engraved? I thank God it's there forever in the glory.
To because of my good life, no perish, I thought, because the precious blood of Jesus Christ was shed on the cross of Calvary for me.
Graven on his hands, Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands.
Oh, isn't that wonderful? Blessed be his name. Oh, what love.
On those hands that were pierced with those nails, my name engraved on his hands.
Is your name there?
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Is your name there, dear friends, you can have it. Ah, my friend, tonight.
One touch.
Will do one touch.
I don't think Mrs. Willis learned. Mind my mentioning it. Margaret Willis, she came. She was in the Montreal General Hospital. She came to the Gospel meetings in Montreal. The man was speaking about touching the hem of the garment. She went away and she said to Doctor Willis the one that she was keeping company with at that time. I've never touched the hem of his garment. My dear friends, touch him tonight. Reach out your hand. One touch will do it.
One step to Jesus.
One step to Jesus.
One act. Just one act. What is it? Surrender. Are you willing to surrender your will tonight?
And one glance to Calvary. To Calvary glance, one glance, one look of faith.
And the fever of sin is gone, washed away in the precious blood of Christ.
A child of disobedience become a child of God.
Oh, wouldn't you like to step across that line tonight?
I told the story. I think each time I've been here I have to tell it again. George Irons.
A wealthy man in England.
Inherited a fortune. Married a girl, a woman, a titled lady with a fortune as well. Turned to drinking.
Lost the whole thing. Lost everything. Lost his wife. He used to come into a gospel meeting time after time. Every time the gospel invitation would go out, he'd go up to the speaker and he'd say, turning over a new life, turning over a new leaf, going to start a new life. Oh, they heard it over and over again.
On this particular night, when the invitation went out once more, George Irons came down the hall, came down the aisle, and he said to the speaker.
Come and the speaker said, turned over a new leaf. George.
No, said George.
But when you were speaking tonight, it was just as if Jesus was there with his outstretched hands. And I heard him say to me, George, come to me and I come to Jesus.
Oh dear boys and girls, it's the closing moments of this gospel meeting. 8:30 an hour. Time is gone. One last appeal from God himself, the from the blessed Lord Jesus who has come to reveal the heart of the Father to you.
Who has gone all through, who has gone through this in love for your never dying soul?
Who has shared his precious blood, left it here on this earth, gone back to glory, waiting that moment of triumph, when he shall come first to call us away. He may come tonight. Will you hear your name called? Will you hear that shout when he summons from the grave, from the tomb, from this vast audience? If he comes the next few minutes, will you rise to meet that blessed one? Will you gaze into those hands forever, eternally.
Those hands were those marks of the nails. And say it was for me. Oh dear boys and girls, men and women here tonight come to Jesus. Accept them as your personal Savior. The work of salvation is all done.
And he just says, come to me, won't you come to Christ tonight?
One's touch will save you forever.
If there's somebody that would like to take that step tonight, I always like to make the invitation. If you would like to step across that line, oh, we would be so glad to come. If you would come up to the front afterwards. And we would be only so happy to show you from God's precious word, it's a finished work.
Would you like? She went away and she said to Doctor Willis, the one that she was keeping company with at that time. I've never touched the hem of his garment. My dear friends, touch him tonight. Reach out your hand. One touch will do it.
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One step.
To Jesus. One step to Jesus.
One act. Just one act. What is it? Surrender. Are you willing to surrender your will tonight?
And one glass to Calvary to Calvary glance. One glance, one look of faith.
And the fever of sin is gone.
Washed away in the precious blood of Christ.
A child of disobedience become a child of God.
Oh, wouldn't you like to step across that line tonight?
I told the story. I think each time I've been here I have to tell it again.
George Irons.
A wealthy man in England inherited a fortune, married a girl, a woman, a titled lady with a fortune as well, turned to drinking.
Lost the whole thing. Lost everything. Lost his wife. He used to come into a gospel meeting time after time. Every time the gospel invitation would go out, he'd go up to the speaker and he'd say, turning over a new light, turning over a new leaf, going to start a new life.
Oh, they heard it over and over again on this particular night when the invitation went out once more. George Irons came down the hall, came down the aisle, and he said to the speaker.
Come and the speaker said, turned over a new leaf. George.
No, said George.
But when you were speaking tonight, it was just as if Jesus was there with his outstretched hands.
And I heard him say to me, George come to me, and I come to Jesus.
Oh dear boys and girls, it's the closing moments of this gospel meeting. 8:30 an hour. Time is gone. One last appeal from God himself, the from the blessed Lord Jesus, who has come to reveal the heart of the Father to you who has gone all through, who has gone through this in love.
The Way
Gospel—A.C. Hayhoe
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General Meetings Toronto, April 1966. Gospel by Albert Hayhoe.
#10 There is a savior on high in the glory, a savior who suffered on Calvary St. as savior is willing to save. Now as ever, His arm is almighty, his love great and free. He waited in patience for sinners to trust him, and says, I receive thee now just as thou art.
Salvation and pardon I heartily offer to all who receive me.
By faith in their heart, oh come now to Jesus, that dear loving Savior receive him. This moment and peace shall be vine, and we rise and sing #10.
Ha ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha ha ha ha ha. Ha. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Oh man.
I realized.
That I got it.
Oh my God.
Could we also sing hymn #9?
Come every soul by sin oppress their mercy with the Lord, and He will surely give you rest by trusting in His word only. Trust him only. Trust him only trust him now.
He will save you. He will save you. He will save you. Now could we again rise and sing #9.
You turn with me tonight, please, to the book of Genesis.
The third chapter.
Genesis 3.
We read from verse 22.
And the Lord of God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us to know good and evil.
And now lest he put forth his hand, and take also of a tree of life, and eat, and live forever, therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground, from whence he was taken.
So he drove out the man, and he placed at the east of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword which turned every way.
To keep the way of the tree of life.
A flaming sword which turned every way to keep the way of the Tree of life.
What a solemn picture we have here. I'm sure all are familiar with the early verses of the chapter.
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The sad account of the fall of disobedience of man.
Having been placed in a situation surrounded by the abundant blessings of God, he lies an open ear to the whispering of that enemy of soul, Satan, who dared to suggest that the goodness of God was not complete, that God had withheld from man.
Something that would add to his happiness. And I believe we find that same suggestion, that same whispering all around us today. I believe that there are those present in this company tonight who have not yet come to the Lord Jesus Christ and received him as your Savior, because you have heard that very whisper yourself.
And have paid heed to it.
You look around and you see in this poor world that which seems.
So worthwhile, so charming, so attractive. And you feel somehow that it wouldn't mean a giving up of a great many of these wonderful things.
In order to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, do I not speak the truth?
If not, my friend, may I ask you your reason for saying here in this gospel meeting tonight with a heart still closed against one who loved you with a love stronger than death?
A heart still closed against one who went to the cross of Calvary.
To redeem the lost, and you have not yet received him.
Your sins have not yet been blotted out by his Most Precious Blood. Why not, my friend? Is it not true that you have listened to that whispering, which would suggest that there are other present things so worthwhile that the thought of receiving the Lord Jesus tonight is that which you put on? Is that which you would consider perhaps at a later time?
Well, we find that both Adam and Eve accepted this suggestion, took of that which was forbidden, and stood before God guilty and naked.
Their eyes were open, they knew that they were naked, and they tried to hide their guilt, first from one another and then from the sight of God.
And you have done the same, my friend. I want to speak to you faithfully tonight. I want to remind you, my friend, as you sit here in this company work, that respectable record behind you in which you boast. Tonight. I want to remind you that you may have hidden your guilt from the eyes of those who know you the very best, but you have not hidden your guilt from the.
Eye of God.
The eye of God, whom you Sunday must meet, is looking down at you tonight. My dear boy or girl? My dear girl, one I tell you, the eye of God is looking down upon you, and that heart of yours at this very moment is in either one or the other of these conditions.
Either cleanse by the precious blood of Christ or guilty, and you yourself condemn. And on your road to hell. Such is the condition of every one that is in this company tonight. They sought to hide their guilt from one another and from the eye of God, but they found themselves face to face with God.
They heard his voice. They found themselves standing before him.
And they could not deny their guilt. All my friend, by want to warn you tonight, but I warn you in earnest love.
That there is a day coming when you will face not someone who pleads with you in tones of the gospel of the grace of God.
But you will face the author of this book. You will face the God who inhabiteth eternity. Your eyes will look into the eyes of Jesus Christ.
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And your beloved friend in that day will be found naked and guilty and condemned, or you will be found welcome home as one of those redeemed by the precious Blood of Christ.
Can you at the very beginning of this meeting, look up with confidence and with joy and say thank God, thank God, I know that my sins are gone. Thank God. I know that I am redeemed with a precious blood of Christ. Thank God. I know that my name is written down in the Lamb's book of life.
Letters who know not second birth labor to write their names on earth.
My joyousness, that gross divine on Heaven's scroll has written mine by matchless grace. I stand here and say it. My name is written in the Lambs book of life. My sins, which were many, are gone eternally, blown up forever through the precious blood of Christ, and the joy of my heart is this that I want to present to you the same Savior who earnestly, lovingly pleads with your heart tonight.
That you, too may share that joy in the 22nd verse of our chapter.
We see this grievous picture, man driven forth from the presence of God.
Have you pictured this? Did you see Adam and Eve standing there in their guilt?
Before God. And there in the distance they see the tree of life, whose fruit would grant them. I live forever upon this verse.
That God would not have it so? And are you not glad that such was the way of God?
Would you wish to dwell here forever in a scene that is crushed by sin and stained with tears and sorrow? God, I believe in matchless grace, by the way, to the tree of life. Last man should take of that tree and live forever in his guilt in a world that had just heard the curses.
Pronounced in the previous verses.
The author curses the enmity, the bruising, the sorrow, burn, special sweat, and finally the dust of death those curses pronounced.
And man driven forth from the presence of God with this final statement, a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the way.
Of the tree of life. What a barrier, What a God. What a distance. Man from God's presence. Man removed beyond the reach of the tree of life and the way is barred.
By that flaming sword which the word tells us turned every way.
Everywhere, beloved friend, that way, which you cherish as the possibility of your Sunday meeting God and claiming the right to enter those courts of glory.
Do you not have a right, my friend, to determine who shall and who shall not cross the threshold of your own home? You claim that right, and you are entitled to it, and I have no doubt you have already exercised that right.
You have met or you refuse admittance. To whom you will when it comes to the threshold of your own home.
And yet man looks up and challenges God concerning that right to his eternal home of matchless glory. The heart of the picture stand, beloved Fred, gone. The Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of sinners, stand by the open gate of heaven and invites as welcome bear each and everyone upon this condition.
That you will grant God the joy of blotting out every stain of sin. He's able to do it. He delights to do it. He wishes to do it this night. That is a condition upon which any are free to enter the threshold of God's eternal home in glory. That you might give him the joy, I say.
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Bluffing out those many stains of sin, could we turn from this?
Over to the book of Proverbs.
Proverbs.
Chapter 14.
Verse 12 Proverbs 14 verse 12.
A verse well known to most of us. There is a way.
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Let us return in our thoughts and picture Adam and Eve banish from the Garden of Eden. The way to the tree of Life is barred by that flaming sore. There seems no possibility of man ever entering into the blessing pictured by that tree. Man, having turned from God, try to find happiness.
Tried to find that which will satisfy his Restless Heart in a poor world around him. The first man born outside Eden was called Cain, And the word of God says concerning that man were unto them. For they have gone in the way of Cain. Way to the tree of life was barred. God's holiness demanded it.
And Cain turns and goes away, against which everyone of us is solemnly worn well under them, but they are gone in the way of Cain. What is the way of Cain, my friend? We see it all around us in Toronto and everywhere else we go. The world came the way of a respectable man of religion.
Cain sought to draw near to the Lord.
And Cain prepared an offering what would display his own thoughtfulness, which would display his own industry and labor. And he presented to the Lord the fruit of the ground.
Our bloodless sacrifice, a sacrifice in which there was number evidence of Cain's guilt or of the need of atonement. And do we not see that all around us to day this weekend in which there is so much religious activity?
How much is going to be spoken of? The lost and guilty condition of man are the precious blood of Christ, and of the mighty work of redemption. I believe that a solemn reminder in the last epistle ever written were unto them, or they are gone in the way of Cain.
And if you, my beloved friend, purpose meeting God in a coming day.
On the merits of that which you have done, all of that which perhaps you yet hope to do.
Will you not be warned by that most solemn language, although is pronounced upon you?
Yes, with all your respectability, with all for enviable reputation, with all our devotedness to your religious activities, the world God pronounces a world upon you if you are not sheltered by the precious blood of Christ.
This is not my language, this is not my warning. It's the word of the heart of God, and it's the language of the word of God.
Were unto them they have gone in the way of cage, there is a way which seemeth right unto a man. But the endurance, How can I know the end thereof? I see around me those who grow to maturity, those who grow old and pass into eternity. And we stand at the horizon of life, and we cannot see beyond it. And we will call in the wisest man in every field of human search or education, and ask them.
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What lies beyond the grave? There is not one that could answer. There is not one that could tell.
Then would we dare to stand here tonight and speak on so vital a subject beyond which the eye of man cannot deserve? I would not dare to be here if I did not have in my hand this night the precious living.
Eternal Word of God. If I could not open it and speak from its pages with all authority, this message would not be worth the breath that uttered it. But the Word of God says, there is a way that seemeth right unto a man, and the warning follows. The end thereof are the ways of death.
All my friends being warned in time the end of the road that you are following, Are you sure of the end of that road?
I remember when I was a boy, my mother gave me a book. The name of that book was Scarlet and Gold, and in that book there was a picture that impressed me greatly. It showed 2 roles. One was a good deal more broad than the other, and at the end of that broad Rd. there was a similitude of a lake of fire. And at the end of that narrow Rd. there was the similitude of that which portrayed a scene of wondrous glory.
And at the point where those two roads diverged, there was a cross, and beneath that was written, chose you this day, choose you this day. I was only a very little boy when my mother gave me that book.
I can see that picture yet before my eyes, and I can recall the impression upon my boyish heart as I looked at that broad road and at that narrow Rd. which continued to divert until they ended the one in the glory, the other in the lake of fire. Beloved friend, it is a most solemn position for me to be in tonight.
To look forth upon this company and to realize that everyone of you, the boy and the girl, the young people, the fathers and mothers, every one of you, is Sunday going to reach the end of the journey.
And you will end it either in eternal glory redeemed by the precious Blood of Christ, or it says here the end thereof are the ways of death. And Hebrews would tell us.
It is appointed unto men once to die.
And after this.
Judgment. Could we turn also to the 53rd chapter of Isaiah?
Isaiah 53.
Verse 6.
Are we, like sheep, have gone astray? We have turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord have laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Have we heard this verse so often that we fail to see the marvel, the wonder, and the beauty of it? In the first part we read a statement which I'm sure your heart must bow to.
Oh, we, like sheep, have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way. Would you care to stand up and deny that this verse is true?
Care to suggest, my friend, that you have followed the way marked out by the Lord in the pages of His Word? You know that you have gone your own way. Many of us tonight look back and thank God for the day that came. We are downward course. We were left about a hand of matchless love. We were brought to our knees. We were made to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior. And tonight we rejoice.
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To know that we are His forever. But we do admit that it is most certainly the truth of God to say that we have gone everyone our own way. But how amazing, how remarkable are these two statements should be brought together in the one verse.
Oh, we like sheep of gone astray. We've turned everyone to his own way. And then suddenly.
Without any deserving on our part whatsoever, we read the statement, and the Lord have laid on him the iniquity of us all. Good news, beloved friend, glorious news. This is if you have not accepted the Lord Jesus as your Savior, you are on the broad and downward Rd. that leads to the lake of fire.
You've gone your own way. It may be a way that men would condemn.
Or it may be a way that men would most highly commend. It may be a respectable, clean life that you live. But if you know not Christ as Savior, according to the words of this book, from end to end you are lost, my friend, and this news is for you. The Lord have loved on him the iniquity of us all. I'd like to enlarge on that.
I'd like you to picture a scene which we find described in the Word of God.
It was brought to our attention today and it has been on my heart.
Picture in which the beloved disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Were gathered round about him in that upper room, and the Lord Jesus.
Had just told those disciples, whom He loved so dearly the news that touched their hearts. He was going to leave them. He was going to be taken from them. But he told them more than that. He opened his heart and began to tell them of his Father's house, the many mansion in the glory, and the amazing news that he was going to come and take them there.
Beloved, we've read this so often that perhaps once again.
We fail to enter into the feelings of those disciples as they hear for the first time. That would you have heard so often turn to 14th chapter of John.
Let not your heart be troubled you. believe in God, Believe also in me.
In my father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you, I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I'll come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there he may be also. And whether I go, ye know, and the way.
Ye know, Thomas said unto him. Lord, we know not whither thou goest? And how can we know the way?
Jesus saith unto him.
I I am the way.
What a marvelous picture this is. I say we have read it so awesome. We have heard it again and again, and perhaps the wonder of it escapes us.
Picture yourself numbered among the disciples. You've never heard this glorious news before. You'll love this one who's speaking. And he tells you that he's going to leave. He's going to the Father's house, the many mansions He speaks of the day when he will come again to take his own, to be with himself.
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There was one there whose heart had a little uncertainty.
His name was Thomas, and I believe there are many of us that thank the Lord for the question Thomas raised that day.
Am I not true?
Thomas said.
Lord, how can we know the Way? Now isn't that marvelous? You know and I know that we are surrounded by a multitude of opinions and multitudes of creeds, a multitude of voices.
Many of which claim such infallible thoughts, and perhaps we listen to the one and the other in and our bewilderment men say, well, it's just not possible for us to speak with any certainty. We cannot be sure about these matters, for everyone seems to claim that they are right. I wouldn't dare to stand here tonight and claim that I was right.
But I do rejoice to be able to stand here before you with a living word of God in my hand, and find in its pages the statement that perhaps is the language of your heart tonight. How can we know?
Know.
The way.
The way to the tree of life was by that flaming sword brought upon mankind because of our old guilt. That's go that distance, that mighty debt remain between US and the blessings of God's heart. Oh what a distance. Oh what a gulf. You could never bridge it.
You could never pay the debt, nor could I. Thomas hears of a home in the glory. Time, appears of many mansions, and Thomas turns and says to the only one whose answers we can trust. How can we know the way, Oh, my beloved friend, if you were privileged this night to sit down face to face with the Lord Jesus and say to him, Lord, how can we?
Know the way? What would his answer be? What would his answer be? Would it have an uncertain sound to it? Would it leave you wondering? Would it point you to one of the denominations or creeds or sacraments that men boast of?
My beloved friend, hear the language of him who is truth itself. The Lord Jesus looked at Thomas and said.
I am the way we want to present Christ to you tonight, my friend. We don't want to present a creed. We don't want to present a denomination, nor anything that men's eyes can rest upon. But we do. Our hearts point to this night that the one who said to Thomas.
I am the way.
And I can stand here before you. I say it once more, and rejoice with all my heart to testify.
That the one who spoke that day to doting Thomas is my.
Old personal Savior. Old fashioned language. Of course it is, But there are many here who rejoice to make that same confession. I know the Lord Jesus Christ as my own personal Savior.
Can you say the same? Have you received him as your own?
And have your lips ever been opened to confess him as your Lord and Savior to anyone else?
Oh, her thrill of joy. It is from time to time to have someone open their heart to receive the Lord Jesus and ear from their lips, to confess Him as their own. But.
How was it possible for the Lord Jesus to say this?
Man was still at a distance from God. The girl from the barrier still were there. The debt was yet unpaid. And yet the Lord Jesus looks to Thomas and says I am the way. Oh my friend, it cost him. It cost him indeed to make this statement, but he paid the price. He went to the cross.
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He shared his precious blood. He bowed his holy, his devoted hand.
And receive himself the debt, the burden, the worth, the guilt of all my sins, in order that now knowing Him and my Savior, there is no more God, no more distance, no more depth, and gone forever. He who said to Thomas I am the way, kept His promise, my friend.
He went to the cross that you might be redeemed, He died that you might be pardoned. When we think of that blessed, holy, sinless son of God who tried the path of this earth, I was just looking the other day at a map of the land of Palestine, and on that map there was traced as well as men can trace it.
The footsteps of the Lord Jesus.
As he went from one end of the land to the other from 1 village and one town to the other on foot.
The weary footsteps of Jesus, the Son of God, the trod, the pathways of this world through which you and I are now passing.
His very footsteps went up and down the land while he told the love of God. His hands were extracting deeds of tenderest love and kindness and compassion.
That I was looking at that map and amazed at the many weary miles the feet of my blessed Savior trod upon this earth. A brother looked over my shoulder. He saw what I was looking at.
And I think he must have known the thoughts that went through my heart.
And he said, brother, they took those feet and nailed them to the cross.
They did, my friend. They took the very feet that tried to wear Heather, this earth in love to God and men, and nailed them to the cross.
Took the very hands that administered to man's need in all his sorrow, and nailed them to the cross. They hated him. They cried them with thorns. They spit in his face. But all that?
Did not pay my debt, all that did not remove the distance, all that did not entitle the Lord Jesus to say to me, this knight, and to you, I am the way it was necessary that after all that man had done to him.
Darkness descended upon that scene, and there in the darkness there was laid upon the wholly devoted head of Jesus Christ, my Savior.
All my sin.
The guilt, the shame of them, and of judgment they deserve were all poured out upon the Lord Jesus Christ.
Oh, my dear friend, tonight it's a joy to me to think of the one who loved me with a love that was stronger than death. But I wonder how your heart responds as you hear of such love. Are you going to go your own way that will only end in death and after this?
The judgment when they rose right by your side this night, the one there have such infinite cost. They love to say to you, I am the way, oh, what it cost him to say I am the way. He longs to have a joy of seeing yet one more soul redeemed through that precious blood, ready for those eternal courts of glory.
Will you not look at this little statement tonight, and bow with this very moment before the wonder and the simplicity of it, and say I receive him now as my savior? If he were here this night, he would stretch out those arms to you and stay calm unto me all he that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you.
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Rest.
If you reject him, if you close your heart against him, if you refuse once more this night the pleadings of His love, if you rise up from this meeting without Christ and in your sins, you may you may be left here a little longer to try to find satisfaction in the empty pleasures of this poor world that has cast out Christ.
But you know this.
As Grace said in his eligibility in a country churchyard, I believe we learned it at school.
The path of glory lead but to the grave. The pies of glory lead but to the grave there is a glory, there is a fame, there is an honor, there is an entertainment that this poor world with us Christ offers, and men flock to try to find their satisfaction. Apart from him, the lamb can give peace and joy of heart.
Oh, I stand here before you tonight all alone. But I just know that there are many who would love to stand beside me and bear dirt for witness to the fact that the one who opened our poor blind eyes to see our nakedness and our guilt, and to see in Jesus Christ the Son of God, the one who bore the load of sin, the one whose precious blood was shared, that we might be reading.
Deemed, I say that one is able to bring.
Peace and happiness and joy and satisfaction while we wait for the day when we're going to see his face.
Could I just add this comment?
It was just.
35 years ago.
This Lord's Day.
That I first remembered in death.
The one who shed his blood to redeem me here in the city of Toronto 35 years ago, this Lord's Day.
And as I look tonight upon those who have put their trust in the Lord Jesus, you know He died for you. You have accepted him as your savior. You're looking forward to the day when you're going to see Him and thank and praise Him for ever. Isn't it marvelous that in His wondrous grace he has provided for you and for me?
While we wait for the day when we shall see him and thank him more fully provide for us the marvelous privilege of showing that we remember showing forth his death.
You know there is a verse in the 8th chapter of Ezra will not take the time to turn to it, but it does speak there of those who are about to undertake a very, very difficult journey.
Fraught with many unseen dangers. And there began that journey with a fast at the river, the river of Ahaba. And they gathered together and fasted there The Scripture tells us that they might seek of the Lord.
A right way?
For ourselves and for our little ones, and for all our substances.
As I stand here tonight.
My thoughts go back to the day when I was numbered among the little ones, and I thank God.
I thank God for those.
Who prayed for me that a right way might be found for my footsteps. I thank God for a praying father and mother.
Are there boys and girls here who perhaps have reached the age when you're beginning to resent?
Some of the earnest and prayerful pleadings of your dear praying father and mother. You're waiting for the day when you can turn from these things and try to find in the trials of this world that which you hope will satisfy your heart. Or may I stand here tonight and tell their children, and tell their young people, that I publicly thank God with all my heart, that in the days of my childhood and of my youth.
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There were those who prayed for my soul and prayed for my footsteps.
But now I'm beyond that. Now it's my responsibility.
As a Father to pray for the footsteps of myself and of our household, there are those who gathered, may I repeat it, and earnestly, with fasting and prayer, besought the Lord, that they might seek of him a right way.
For ourselves.
For our little ones and for all our substance.
This is not the gospel at the moment, but I trust the comment will be accepted, and I trust too, if there should be numbered in this company any who are yet at a distance from God.
Any between whom there is yet that gulf, that awful distance, that mighty death Sunday, and it may be at any moment.
You may actually find yourself face to face with him.
How would it be this night? How would it be?
I mentioned before this fact.
I was sitting in a restaurant some distance from here.
Across from me at the table there was a young man and a young lady greatly interested in one another.
And I had finished my meal and I turned and said to the young man, and I said, young man, it's 9:00.
If at 12:00 you were called upon to face God, would you be ready to meet him?
And you know, his face lit up with joy, he said. Yes, I would. I have accepted the Lord Jesus as my savior, and I'm ready to meet him.
Wasn't that a grand confession? Could you say that too? 12:00 is not far away, and you may not be here till that hour. I turned to the young lady, and I said, young lady, you heard what he said. If you were called upon to face God at 12:00, would you be ready?
She bowed her head and she said no, I would not.
No, I would not. And what would your answer be, beloved friend? What would your answer be?
I was speaking with a little boy not long ago who had accepted the Lord Jesus as his savior.
And he turned to his brothers and immediately wanted the joy of hearing his two brothers also confessed the Lord Jesus as savior. His brothers were not very old, for they turned to him and said, well, one of them spoke up and said, maybe I'll accept the Lord Jesus when I'm about 12 years old. Now why he chose that age I don't know. But his dear little brother turned to him and said, but before I could count to 12, the Lord might come and then where would you be?
Before I could count to 12 all we have come to the close of this meeting. We're going to rise up and leave, but as we do.
Every one of us is going to leave this hall redeemed and sheltered and cleansed by the precious blood of Christ and on our way to eternal glory, or we're going to leave lost and guilty and condemned.
And on the road to the lake of fire with absolutely no end.
To that awful torment, oh, May God granted this very moment, your heart may be open to receive Him who, without stretched arms, says to you, and he says it, perhaps for the last time.
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I am the way, I am the way the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Whose Claims Do You Own?
Address—G.H. Hayhoe
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Like you to turn with me this afternoon the First Kings Chapter 15, First Kings Chapter 15, and the 16th verse.
And there was war between ASA and Bisha, king of Israel, all their days. And Basha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Rima, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to ASA king of Judah. Then ASA took all of us over, and the goal that were in the treasures of the House of the Lord, and the treasures of the King's house, and delivered them unto the hand of his servants and the king.
Sent them to Ben Haydad, the son of Taberman, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, which dwelleth Damascus, saying, There is a league between me and they, and between my father and thy father. Behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold.
Come and break thy league with Bisha, King of Israel, that he may depart from me. So Ben Hedad hearkened unto King ASA and sent the captains of the host that he had against the cities of Israel and Smolajan and dam and able breath maker and unto and all Sinner us, with all the land of NAFTA life.
We turn over to the 20th chapter. First Kings 20 and then Heda had the king of Syria. Got it. All his holes together.
And there were 30 and two kings with him, and horses and Chariots. And he went up and besieged Samaria, and roared against it. And he sent messengers to Ahab, king of Israel under the city, and said unto him, Thus saith, Then, Hey, dad, thy silver and thy gold is mine.
Thy lies also, and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine. And the King of Israel answered and said, My Lord, O King, according to thy saying, I am blind and all that I have. And the messengers came again and said, Thus speaketh Ben Haydad, saying, Allah, I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver and thy gold, and thy lives, and thy children, yet I will send.
Servants unto thee tomorrow about this time, and they shall search thine house and the houses of thy servants, and it shall be that whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes, they shall put it in their hand and take it away.
And now in the 13th verse of this chapter. And behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab, king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the Lord, hast thou seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will deliver it into thine hand this day, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. And Ahab said By whom?
And he said thus, saith the Lord, even by the young men of the Princess of the provinces.
Then he said, Who shall order the battle? And he said, Thou, And he numbered. Then he numbered the young man of the Princess of the Provinces, and there were 232. And after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being 7000.
Now, if you'll turn over to Psalm 119.
119 and verse 92 on the last law had been my delights.
I should then have perished in mine affliction. I will never forget thy precepts, or with them Thou hast quickened me. I am grind. Save me, for I have sought thy precepts. And in Second Corinthians, chapter 5.
2nd Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 14.
For the Lord of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judge.
That if one died for us, then we are all dead, and that he died for all that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
Well, I see in these portions that we have read the claim of the enemy, all of the people of God, and then in the last the claim that the Lord has over us. And further two conflicting powers, there is that which seeks to claim our hearts or this world. And then the Lord himself, the one who died for us and rose again, the one who paid such a mighty price for us, he has a claim.
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Upon us. Well, in First Kings chapter 15 we say something that seems to me very sad. ASA was a godly king in Israel. There was much that was commendable about this man, but when he got into a difficulty, instead of turning to the Lord, he turned to Ben Haydad, King of Syria. And isn't this the danger with us as the Lord looks down upon this company?
He knows each one who belongs to Him. Dear young people, He knows your heart, and perhaps there has been in your life, as there was with ASA, much that is commendable and pleasing to him. He hasn't forgotten that. He has recorded it all. He never forgets anything that is done for him. It is his delight to record whatever is a faith he tells us from even a thought upon. His name is recorded in his book of remembrance.
But often we find ourselves in difficulties.
We find ourselves placed in predicaments where it seems that there is no help and there is a danger of us at such times turning to the world and seeking their help. And so we find dear King ASA here when he found himself in this sad situation where this King Bishop had that were blockaded him, why he turned to.
Ben Haddad, king of Syria, and he offered, he asked him for help.
And what did he have to sacrifice to get the help of this man? While it tells us here, ASA took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the House of the Lord.
What a tremendous sacrifice he made to get the help of this man in this difficult situation. And you know, whenever we turn to the world, we have to make a sacrifice. And can it be that we should make the sacrifice of giving to the world, the place and the things that belong to the Lord Jesus himself?
It seems to me this is very, very act and very challenging for each one of our hearts because we do have great treasures. Surely, as we have been reminded in the meetings, we have been blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. God could not have blessed us more richly than He has, but in reality we only have as much of the truth as we walk in.
Sure, we have the blessings, but in actual practice, I say it's only as we walk in the truth that it is really ours.
And when difficulties come, there is a tendency with us not to give up the truth itself, perhaps, but to give up the practice of the truth, to take some careless path. And so here to think that he took the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the House of the Lord.
Know of your young people that you so difficulties that some of us who have not had the face, you're put in a position that is unique. It's different than it was before. And perhaps you feel that we whoever do not always understand that. I'm sure we don't. But nevertheless, I would say this to you, don't make a sacrifice in the things of God in order to get along in this world.
Don't give up that which is yours in Christ. Don't give up the precious truth that God has made known to you and the blessedness of walking in it for any advantage.
No matter how good it may seem, and this seemed like a good cause on the part of ASA because this king Beisha was stopping people from coming up to him and it tells us in another place that many from from.
Israel came up to Judah because they saw that the Lord was with ASA. And so it seemed like a good 'cause here it seemed very noble that he should seek to keep the way open so that these people could come up to Jerusalem. But he went about it in a wrong way. He sacrificed that which belonged to the Lord. It didn't belong to him to give.
He sacrificed it and put it in the hands of Ben Hayden and all dear young people. We're living in days when great pressure is put upon us. The world is making greater demands upon our time, on our attention, on our knowledge than it ever has before. And it's so easy for us to give up the things that belong to the Lord in order to seemingly do what is necessary and good for us in this life.
And it's very dangerous. It's very dangerous. Well, perhaps you might say, but this man did come and help. Yes, he did come and help. But it was a sad thing to think that this king should seek that help in that way. And it does not for the Lords glory and it wasn't for the blessing of this man.
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And, Sir, may the Lord grant that if any of us find ourselves sacrificing the things of God for the things of this world, that we may be exercised about it. The Lord, as a claim upon your heart and mind, He has done mirror for us than any other what had been, had ever done for God's people. Or it's true that this King said, there is a league between me and thee, and between thy father, my father, and thy father.
But this was only a disgrace for him to have to say such a thing that he was in league with the King of Syria. And so there may be some connection that you and I have had with the world and therefore we feel a certain obligation to them all. Let us be careful. Let us seek to recognize the Lords claims or the enemy knows just how to entangle us and to get us into such situations and all. I think it's specially true.
When we're young now the Lord give us them to be exercised by what we see in connection with King ASA. Now when we turn over here to the 20th chapter, we find the same man than hedad again, and he comes up against the 10 drives. He had been called by King ASA before a godly king, and now he comes up against the 10 tribes and.
Verse of the 20th chapter. And he sent messengers to Ahab, king of Israel, into the city, and said unto him, Thus Seth and Haydad, thy silver and thy gold is mine. Ether had given it to him from the House of the word. And now he comes to make a claim upon the 10 tribes. He says, Thy silver and thy goal is mine. And dear young people.
The world is making the same claim for you. It's coming to you and it's saying.
You are to me thy silver and thy gold is mine. You and I recognize the Lords claim. Or do we recognize the claim of this world over us all, you say. But we have to earn a living. It's necessary for us to go to school. Yes, that's true. But I hope that in earning a living and I hope in going to school.
That it's in with a desire in your heart to recognize the love claim, and not the claim of any man over you to recognize the Lord's claim.
Indeed, in everything in our lives, it says ye are not your own. Ye are bought with a price. And so whether it's in the employment you have, by the education you're receiving, the clothes you buy, the place you live, the car you drive, in everything that we have, we ought to recognize that our silver and gold belongs to the Lord and only use it as belonging to Him, as under his authority it's.
He is and were spoken of as being unfaithful in what is another man's If we use our silver and gold as though it belong to ourselves, it belongs to the Lord. Now he goes a step further by wives also, and thy children, even the goodliest. As I look into your faces, dear young people, I think, is that what a wonderful.
Opportunity is set before you.
You're young and if the Lord should leave us here a few years longer. What a mighty blessing you could be for the Lord in the place where you live in the assembly, where you are in the school, where you are in your work. If you really that knowledge that you belong to the Lord. But all of us an enemy that's making a Pearl at your heart. There's an enemy that is saying.
Oh, you must consecrate your money, your ability, your relations, everything.
To get around in this world, to be something here. And this king said, not only thy wives and my children. Even the goodliest, even the goodliest. You remember how the king of Babylon, when he wanted to have men to stand in his palace?
He chose out the very best of the berets from the captivity children in whom was number blemish, having understanding and knowledge and science and the ability to stand before the king, and he used them to promote his own interests. And your young people, if you're getting along in this world, if you have a little extra ability that God has given to you, if you have a little extra money that God has given to you.
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Whatever you have, are you going to say, well, I have this extra, it's going to help me to get somewhere in this world. That's what the world is saying.
As soon as you start school, they pick you out. They wrote you, you know that very well. And if you have a little better than the others, they, they pick you out and they say, well, we want you for this. We want you for that. You're going to make your mark in this world. And you can have early or if you need to get along, we'll help you to get along in this world. Why? Because the world is making.
A claim upon you, just as Ben Haydad here made a claim upon God's people.
He is making a claim upon you, and he is saying at this very moment by sliver, and thy girl is mine, Thy wives also my children, even the goodliest, are mine. And what did this king of Israel say? The king of Israel answered and said, My Lord, O King, according to thy saying, I am thine and all that I have.
Or could anything be more sad to think that this enemy of God?
Of God's people should come and make such a demand upon King Ahab and upon the people of Israel.
And then to think that this King Ahab should turn around and answer him and say.
I am thine and a soul to this man, my Lord, all house said, is it possible for us to do such a thing? Is it possible for us to say, well, I recognize that I have to do this and I have to do that? And are you saying to the world, yes?
At your service, I'll do what you want me to do. All dear young people, I plead with you. I plead with you. I don't want to interfere in the affairs of your life. As Paul said, not that we have dominion over your face, but our helpers of your joy. Helpers of your joy. Because if you allow the world to to make this claim upon you, and if you live for the world and for the world's things.
What a sad thing, a lost life, but it's possible to have a saved soul and a lost life. The Lord Jesus said he that love of his life shall lose it, that he that hateth his world and this life shall keep it under life eternal. Thank God if you've accepted the Lord Jesus as your Savior, your soul can never be lost.
You are saved for time and eternity because the Lord Jesus has paid the price for you. His precious blood has cleansed you and your back with that great price. You belong to Him and nothing construct you from His hand, but you can have a lost life.
And a crazy force to have our last life. Life is an example of it. Life went down into Sodom and I already lived for. And his family and his wife and all. It seemed to be nearest and dearest in his life. When Sodom was burned up, it was last.
Was locked, asked order, are you going to meet lot in heaven? But he had a lost life, a lost life. And this king said, my Lord, O king, according to thy saying, I am lying. And there are two verses that are whispering in your ears, the voice of the enemy, the voice of this world. And it's making a claim upon your heart to your young people. It's making a claim upon your time. It's making a claim upon your relations upon everything that you.
It's telling you to choose a partner and seek something in this world for yourself, to make your mark in this world. I know this is what is being set before you from the very beginning of school to the end. To get along, to be something. And now what are you going to answer? Are you going to answer like Ahab did?
And say I am thine and all that I have.
Well, King, King Van Hedda didn't stop there, and in the fifth verse and the messengers came again and said, Thus speaketh Ben Haydad, saying, Allah, I have sent him to thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver and thy gold and thy wives and thy children, yet I will send my servants unto thee tomorrow about this time, and they shall search thine house and the houses of thy servants and.
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Shall be that whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes, they shall put it in their hand and take it away. Or I don't think Ahab realized when he was so agreeable to King Don Hedad that the next step was that Ben Hedad was actually going to send messengers into his house and take away everything that he wanted. And you don't realize when you make this first step toward owning the claims of the world and going along with it, that the next thing.
The world is going to step right into your life, right into your home, and it's going to take what you have for itself. All of us was a sad thing, but this is the way the world does. It already starts by making some demands, and then it isn't long until it principles demands and will take everything that you have all dear young people, I speak to you in love. The Lord Jesus has a claim upon your.
But our furnace world is seeking to have you What had been had ever done for the people of God, or that should have ever made them? This King Ahab willing to do such a thing? What had he done? He hadn't done anything for Israel. It's true he had helped Judith, but he hadn't actually done anything for Israel. And yet this man was afraid of the world, the Bible says.
The fear of man bringeth a snare.
And all how often were afraid to face the work, afraid to face it. And even devoted Christians sometimes, yes, even dear Peter, who was a very faithful disciple of the Lord in many ways. When that little maid said to him, Thou art also one of them, for thy speech be right betrayeth thee. Why he denied his Lord. And there may be some.
Made in your life, some handsome boy in your life that's just saying the very same thing and making a claim upon your heart in your life. And what are you saying? Are you saying yes, I'm done, I'll go right along with you all. What a sad thing to find this. And now he comes and makes this world advance. But he's going to come right into the herb and he's going to take everything that he wishes from the home.
Well, it's nice to see that God intervenes here.
And the 13th verse of this chapter. And behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab, king of Israel, saying.
Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will deliver into thine it, into thine hand this day, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. Or isn't this beautiful, as the little hen that we began with said? And there we are. Grieve him, His promises clear, and love will believe him.
Our father will hear there may be some young person here and you so well.
I'm afraid what you said is true of me and the world has got a hole in from the army. It's stacked into my very life and I don't feel I can free myself from the claims it seems to make upon me. I feel my case is heartless. Or isn't this lovely? This King Ahab thought their case was hopeless too.
Only had such a smile little army in the face of the great multitudes of the army of the king of Syria. And it didn't look like any use. He didn't even call upon the Lord. But all the Lord saw that need and the Lord sent a messenger and he said.
Seen this great multitude, He said. I am going to deliver it into your hand. And dear young person, perhaps this is the point in your life. Perhaps as I speak these words you feel that you have yielded to the world far too much. And you're saying, well, it's got such a hole around me. I feel I can't now turn and follow the Lord wholeheartedly as I would wish to do.
There came a man of God and said that God was going to deliver.
Our great multitude into the hand of this king. Or there's a man of God, though, the Blessed One, who loves your soul, and he's standing before you with his piercing hands, and he is saying, oh, the case is not too difficult for me. The strength of that which is against you may seem overwhelming, but greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
Others one who can help you, dear young person.
There is one who is willing to give you the victory over all the power that is against you, and even although you have failed, as this King Ahab had failed, the Lord loves his people and He loves you, and He wants this very meaning to be a turning point in your life.
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So, Ahab said. Well, he said, by whom will you deliver?
The people and they have said, by whom? And he said thus saith the Lord, Even by the young men of the Princess of the provinces, or I think this is very beautiful. Dear young men, I speak to you this afternoon. Dear young men, you to whom God has committed responsibility in a special way. God has said the head of every woman is a man.
God has placed the ministry in the meetings in the hands of the young men.
And our enemy makes a special attack on young men.
The Lord loves his people and he loves you, and he wants this very meaning to be a turning point in your life. So Ahab said, Well, he said, by whom will you deliver the people? And they have said, by whom? And he said thus saith the Lord, even by the young man of the Princess of the provinces.
Or I think this is very beautiful. Dear young men, I speak to you this afternoon. Dear young men, you to whom God has committed responsibility in a special way. God has said the head of every woman is the man. God has placed the ministry in the meetings in the hands of the young man, and her enemy makes a special attack on young men.
We know her back in the land of Egypt, King Pharaoh said that all our eyes were to be thrown into the river, and he makes a special attack on our young men.
And so they have said, well, he said, who's going to who's going to win this battle? He knew that they had very few men and how could it be? And the Lord said.
Even by the young men of the Princess of the Provinces or dear young people. Dear young brothers, how needful this word for you and I are we willing to go out, as it were, in conflict, are willing to take the whole armor of God.
And stand our ground in the face of the great attacks of the enemy upon us. Where can these young men were wearing to go out just 7000 against our great multitude? Well, even less than that. There were only 232 young men.
And then the army was only 7000 higher. Smart it looked, but what a great victory the Lord gave. What a great victory. Everything seemed to be against them, but God was for them. And dear young person, if you will turn and acknowledge before the Lord that you have no strength of your own, but just look up and tell him that you want to acknowledge his claims over you instead of saying.
Well, you have a claim over me. Instead of doing that, we'll just turn and say to the Lord.
While I want to acknowledge your claim over me, I belong to me. And if you're willing to do that, the Lord can come in. The Lord can have you and all. What a privilege to come out for the Lord Jesus when you're young. As we get over, it becomes more difficult as we get around it. Links are formed in life that make it much harder.
But you, dear young men, while you're still in your youth.
What a privilege to turn and recognize the claims of the Lord Jesus over you and tell the Lord right now that you're willing to go forth in this conflict, to take to her hammer of God and in His strength, in the might that He provides, to go and stand fast.
And the Lord is the one who will grant a full and complete victory. He is able. And so he granted a wonderful victory here. And they were, they were the overcomers. The Lord can help you, your young person.
Will not let us turn over.
To back in Corinthians chapter 5, verse 14.
For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judge that if one died for all, then we're all dead, and that he died for all. That they which lived should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
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Oh, what a difference here. The king of Syria came and said to Ahab. He said your man, your wife, your children, your server and your God are mine. Does the Lord come to you and say you're mine? Always this lovely. He says the love of Christ constraineth us. If his love doesn't draw your heart, why nothing else will.
He has a claim upon you.
Because he loved you and gave himself for you what had been had done.
For of our people of Israel, absolutely nothing. What has certain in this world done that is really worthwhile for you?
All its pleasures are only for a season. But all, dear young person, what is the Lord Jesus done for you?
The love of Christ constraineth US1 is often remarked, does not say the love of Christ should constrain us. It states it as a fact. The light of Christ constraineth us. That is, if I had some nails here, and I had a magnet, I could hold a magnet that far away, and the nails just stay perfectly still, quite unmoved by the force that's in.
But if I bring the magnet down, you begin to see the nails move and it doesn't long as the magnet gets closer than they begin to jump and they jump up to the magnet. Why wouldn't they feel the Pearl away up here and leave and come up?
Well, they weren't near enough to the magnet, and there's power in the love of Christ to constrain your heart and mind. But perhaps we're like dear Peter, we're following a far off. We haven't allowed the Lord Jesus there to as it will come near to us and warm our hearts with His love.
We've allowed everything, silver and gold and things here, material things, progress in this world to come between US and him. But it's not because there isn't constraining power in his laws. I say it doesn't say it should constrain, it says it does. But what is necessary?
Or will you just look up and say, Lord Jesus, I want to be near thee?
I want to be near thee, because if you're near him, he'll come strain your heart.
He will constrain your heart, and He will first you, that He will make you want to live not unto yourself, but unto Him. It's not that He forces you, it's His love constrains you. And so how blessed it is to see here as I.
That love stirs the heart. Why it makes us want to live, not unto ourselves, but unto Him who died for us, or what a price He paid for us.
His land could not give less, His love could not give more.
Gave himself the little hymn, says himself. He gave our poor hearts to win as ever. Love, love like thine from the paths of folly and shame and sin, and fill them with joy. Divine, that precious Savior is coming to you.
And he is not telling you your wives, your children, your silver, and your gold or mine.
But as it worries hurling up his piercing hands and he's saying, I love you, I gave myself for you. And what is the response of your heart going to be? You know, when king, when Abraham went out and won that great victory, when he returned, there were two that met him. There was the king of Sodom and there was Melchizedek. The king of Sodom offered him riches, the king of milk, the king.
Came to bless him, and the Lord comes to you. The world comes to you. Which one are you going to answer? Let us turn to that passage we read in Psalm 119.
So I'm 119.
And verse 92 Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. I will never forget thy precepts, for thou hast quickened thee. I am thy, I am thy king. Ahab said to Ben Hedad, I am thine. He called in my Lord.
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What does the psalmist say? Oh, he said. What a word.
Has been. I will never forget thy precepts, he said. Unless thy law had been my delights, I should have perished. And Ahab would have perished too, if the Lord hadn't stepped in. And all your young people, I commend to you the precious word of God. Are you reading it? The more you read it, the more you learn of that precious Savior who loves you, who's done so much for you.
Memorial field constraint of his love, and the more you will be led to say like the pharmacy here I am thine we all know that lovely little hymn. I am dying. Oh Lord, I have heard thy voice, and it told our love to me, but our land to rise in the arms of faith.
And be closer drawn to thee. And so I say again, there have asked two claims upon your heart and mine. There is the claim of the world. There's a claim of the enemy of your soul seeking to lead you away. And if you have yielded to it, as Orhab did, it's not too late.
Turn to the Lord as you can live the rest of your time.
For him, for you, Sir. Well, I don't think I'm doing anything very wrong. Is there anything in 2nd Corinthians 5 there about doing anything very wrong? No, that isn't the point there. It says that they should not, we should not live unto ourselves, live unto ourselves. I'm not here to say whether you're doing something very wrong or not. I don't know that much about the personal lives of each one.
What the Lord does and you do but.
I ask you, and I ask my own heart, are we living unto ourselves?
Are under Him. This is a great question. Are we living unto ourselves or unto Him? The things you and I may be doing may be quite harmless and yet done herself, and the things that we are doing don't have a wrong order than no value in His sight at all. What if we would just look up?
And recognize his claim over us and seek to look to him. Or what a privilege.
His love will satisfy your heart and mind for our eternity, and He wants to satisfy your heart and mine right now. Oh, May God grant that each one of us may look up and say, I am I.
Colossians 1:9-13
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Colossians 1:14-18
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