Address—G.H. Hayhoe
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I'd like to speak friends tonight about the different ways in which God speaks, because God speaks with a desire for our blessing.
And if there are any here who don't yet know Him, a Savior, perhaps He has spoken to you in different ways. And tonight He is speaking to you again through His precious word. And there would be joy in heaven tonight if you would hear His loving voice, and you would turn to the Lord Jesus and receive Him as your Savior. It would give you peace, will give joy, and heaven would give joy in this room.
And oh, what a mighty deliverance and what I'd like to turn to a few scriptures first of all.
I'd like to turn to Psalm 19, Psalm 9/19, and the first verse.
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth his handiwork.
Day unto day utter a speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge.
There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath He set a Tabernacle for the Son.
Then would you turn to the next book in the Bible, the Book of Job, or, pardon me, the verse, the book before the book of Job and the 33rd chapter?
Job Chapter 33.
And the sixth verse, Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead. I also am formed out of the clay. Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee. Surely thou hast spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying, I am clean without transgression. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.
Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy, He putteth my feet in the stalks, he marketeth all my paths. Behold, in this thou art not just. I will answer thee that God is greater than man. Why dost thou strive against him? For he giveth not account of any of his matters.
For God speaketh once, ye twice, yet man perceiveth it not in a dream, in a vision of the night.
When deep sleep falleth upon man, men in slumberings upon the bed, then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, that he may withdraw a man from his purpose and hide pride from man. He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword. He is chastened also with pain upon his bed.
And the multitude of his bones with strong pain.
So that his life abhorrent bread and his soul dainty meat, His flesh is consumed away that it cannot be seen, and his bones that were not seen stick out.
Yeah, his soul. His soul draws near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers. If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among 1000 to show unto man his uprightness, then he is gracious unto him. And Seth deliver him from going down to the pit. I have found a ransom. His flesh shall be fresher than a child's. He shall return to the days of his youth.
Shall pray unto God, and he will be favorable unto him, and he shall see his face with joy.
For he will render unto man his righteousness, he look at the bond men, And if any say, I have sinned and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not, he will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. Know all these things worketh God oftentimes with man, to bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
Mark well, old Job, hearken unto me, hold thy peace, and I will speak. If thou hast anything to say, answer me, speak, for I desire to justify thee. If not, hearken unto me, hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom.
And I'd like you to turn also to First Timothy, First Epistle of Timothy in the first chapter.
And verse 15, this is a faithful saying.
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And worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
Well, as I said to your friends, I'd like tonight to speak of the different ways in which God speaks to man.
Because, you know, God desires the blessing of man. It tells us that when He created this world, His delights were with the sons of men. And His own hands planted the garden back in Genesis, and there He placed man and woman, Adam and Eve, to enjoy all the good things that He had given to them. He told them they could eat of all the trees of the garden freely. He gave them one.
One tree that they were not to eat of, one that would do them harm.
And they chose to follow their own wills instead of hearkening to the loving voice of God the Creator.
Who had given them that garden to enjoy, to enjoy in all its fullness? They chose the path of rebellion and disobedience to their Creator. And dear friend, I ask you tonight, is that the path that you have chosen? You're going against the wisdom and love of the Creator who gives you life and breath and all things. Are you going on without Him and leaving Him out of your life?
Don't say that God hasn't given you any testimony of His goodness.
Because you're surrounded with ever so many reminders of His goodness and of His love and of His care. Think of this world in which we live with all those things that God has given. And it tells us there in that 19th Psalm where we read the heavens, declare the glory of God, and the firmament show of His handiwork. Our brother last night spoke of someone who said there is no God.
But I don't think that there's anybody sitting in this room.
That says that all these chairs just flew into place and all these things around the room just came into place without anybody doing it. You all recognize that somebody did it, and you and I are living in a world where God has given us ample evidence that He exists of His creatorial power and that He has made this wonderful world in which we live.
In all intricacies of the creation and how everything goes according to His divine planning.
And the heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth His handiwork. Even if you have never read a Bible in your whole life, you would still have to acknowledge that there is a Creator and that if He is the Creator of all things, then you have a responsibility to Him. I don't think that you would walk into this room and say that you have no responsibility to the Marriott Hotels you.
We do have some responsibility. It's their building. And dear friends, you were in this world and you have a responsibility to your creator.
The Bible says everyone shall give account of himself to God. It says, as I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me.
And every tongue shall confess to God. And so don't try to brush it off so easily as saying I just don't believe. The fact that you don't believe doesn't change facts at all. I've never been to Paris, France, but if I told you that because I never saw the city, I didn't believe it was there, you'd say I'm foolish. And dear friends, not believing a thing doesn't change the fact that all. And because you don't believe in a God doesn't.
Way to change the fact that there is a living God with whom you have to do.
And you have to acknowledge his son whether you wish it or not. The fact that people don't believe.
Seems to be, in their minds, a way of escape. Perhaps when your tax papers come, you could throw them in the waste paper basket and say I'm not interested in taxes.
And nobody is going to make me interested in taxes, but you know what would happen?
You know that you wouldn't be able to retain your property if you said you have no interest in taxes. You have a responsibility to the laws of this land, and you have a higher responsibility to your creator. But the wonderful fact is your creator loves you. I don't know whether the ones who are in authority have an individual care about you, but I do know that the God in whose hand your breath is and.
Your ways is looking down upon you sitting in this seat here tonight and says I love you and I don't want to be your judge. I want to be your savior. I want to not only give you temporal happiness in the world, but I want to give you eternal happiness, for in thy presence is fullness of joy. At thy right hand there are pleasures forevermore.
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I beg of you, dear friends, not to be indifferent.
To the claims of your creator, it says there's no speech nor language where their voice is not heard.
There is no land where the sun doesn't shine. There is no land where they don't see the evidence of God's creatorial power. There's no escape from that responsibility. And it says, as Daniel said to Nebuchadnezzar, he said, the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified when Paul stood up on Mars Hill in that city of philosophy?
Athens, he said. He said truly God is not far from everyone of us, for in him we live and move and have our being.
If happily, we might seek after him and find him. But the wonderful fact that I have to proclaim to you.
Is that God is seeking after you?
Christ Jesus came into this world to save sinners. He said He came to seek and to save that which was lost. And friends, He's seeking you and He's been seeking you ever since you were just a babe. He sought even the little ones that says He came to save that which is lost. And when in yourself will you decide to turn your back on Him? Then He started seeking for you.
And He is seeking for you tonight, and He is longing for your blessing.
And you will have to turn a deaf ear to a great many of his warnings if you land in Hell in a lost eternity.
Just as when you're going along, if you're going along and there are warning stop lights there, well, if you go through a stoplight, it's your own fault. If you get into trouble and have an accident, there was a warning given to you. And God's Word is full of warnings. It's full of warnings, but it's full of love. God wants you to. God wants to woo you by His love. He wants to bring you to Himself.
Well, this 19th Psalm says.
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth his handiwork.
And the Apostle Paul in Romans chapter one, when he takes this up, he says there that the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse. You're without excuse.
If you came into this room and behaved the way you like with no sense of responsibility to this hotel.
I don't think they'd count you without excuse. They would say, well, you ought to have known you did have a responsibility, and how much more to the Creator in whose hands your breath is. Well, let's turn over to this passage in Joel Job, chapter 33.
Job had been doing a great deal of arguing. He'd been saying a great many things. And perhaps you like to argue too. Perhaps you like to give out your own views and your own ideas.
And he seemed to find it very difficult to realize and understand what God was doing in his life. Perhaps that's been the case with you. You say my life has been such a puzzle, I don't understand it.
But isn't it wonderful that God sent along this man named Eli Hugh that would speak to Job and would give him to know a little bit of God's ways with man. And that's what I would like to do tonight with the Lords health, to speak a little bit of God's ways. And now he desires to bless. And above all what he has done. That you might be saved, that you might be sure of salvation, that you might be sure of heaven.
Well as 33rd of job where we read it says.
Six verse Behold, I am, according to thy wish in God's stead. I also have formed out of the clay, he said to Job. I'm just an ordinary man like you. My body is formed out of the clay. You don't need to be afraid of me because I'm just a person like yourself, and that's all I am tonight, dear friends, I'm a person just like yourself, a Sinner saved by grace and the wonderful goodness of God.
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But I'm just an ordinary person.
But.
Elonia, who had learned to know something of the ways of his Creator, of his Savior. And by the grace of God, I've learned to know something of that through this precious book. And that's why I would like to bring before you tonight how you might get to know the God in whose hands your breath is, that you might get to know his love, that you might get to know his character as light and love, and that you might receive his free offer of pardon and salvation.
He had been listening to Job talking and noticed the way Job had been speaking. Says in the eighth verse, Surely thou has spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words saying, I am clean without transgressions. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me. Behold, he findeth occasions against me. He counteth me for his enemy. I've heard lots of people talk like that.
Why did this happen to me?
Why should I be in all this trouble? What have I done? And that was just the way the job was talking to. Maybe that's the way you've been talking. But dear friends, if you think you're all right, if you think you're clean without transgression, it's just because you have never been in the presence of God. So I was in a dark room and my clothes were filthy dirty. I might think they were clean, but I'd be a very simple reason. I just wasn't in the light. But as soon as I got into.
I would see that I was clothed as the Bible says. When when the Zechariah got into the presence of the Lord, it says he was clothed in filthy garments. When Isaiah get into the presence of God, he said, I am a man of unclean lips and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips, for mine eyes have seen the king, the Lord of hosts.
And tonight, I hope that this gospel meeting will bring you consciously into the presence of God and that you will see yourself as God sees you. A young lady back in Ottawa was invited to the gospel meeting and this was her reply. No thanks. It makes me feel too wicked.
She didn't want to get into the presence of God about her sins. But dear friends, it's a good thing when you find out how sinful you are because God cannot have sin in heaven. Not one sin can enter heaven. And I'd be very when I am going someplace that I want to have clean clothes.
I want to get where it's nice and bright and where the mirror is good and clean, because if my clothes are supposed to be clean, I want to be sure they are.
And dear friends, God wants holiness. He demands that you stand in his presence without one sin upon you. You say, how can that be? You can't do it, but God can. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanseth us from all sin. Well, Job had been talking about what a good man he was.
And that God was really against him and.
The 12 first, Elihu says to him.
Behold, in this thou art not just. I will answer thee that God is greater than man.
Why dost thou strive against him? For he giveth not account of any of his matters.
Perhaps you say, well, there's so many things that happen in life and so many things in the Bible. I don't understand. Well, dear friends, you have to do with one whose wisdom is infinite. God knows everything. He makes no mistake, the Bible says, As for God, his way is perfect.
And you're going to have to give an account to God, but he doesn't have to give an account to you.
He doesn't have to give an account to you. It says, Why does thou strive against him? For he give us not account of any of his matters. Once the Lord Jesus stood before Pontius Pilate, and Pontius Pilate expected the Lord to give an account of him, give an account to him. But the day is coming when Pilate is going to stand before Christ and he's going to give an account to him.
All what a serious thing when he delivered the Son of God to be crucified.
Old friends, perhaps you look lightly on some of the things in your life, but you're going to give an account. Every man shall give account of himself to God.
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Well, then it tells us about the different ways in which God speaks. It says in a dream, in a dream. Well, I suppose all of us have had bad dreams sometime and they were pretty scary. But we woke up and we were very thankful to find that the dream wasn't true.
It didn't really happen, and the thing that we were so scared about didn't really happen. And you know, God speaks in a very gentle way the first time. Maybe you've had a terrible dream. Maybe you've had a dream about your soul. Maybe you've had a dream about standing before God or going through death and it wasn't so and you were glad to find out you were still alive.
But dear friends, God was speaking to you. It may be over and over again.
Speaks. And he always speaks gently the first time. He always speaks gently the first time. And if he has spoken to you, I beg of you not to be indifferent. He spoke gently when our children were growing up. We never spoke harshly the first time. We always spoke gently. And when we got a response of obedience and love, oh, what a pleasure it was.
We love to see our children happy.
We would do all that we could to make them happy. And when they were a bit rebellious, we always spoke first, gently. And so does God. Maybe he's spoken gently to you. Maybe while you've been sitting in these meetings and you heard the gospel meeting on Friday night and you heard it on Saturday night, and like Felix, you trembled.
As it says, as Paul reasoned the righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled.
Nothing happened at that time to Felix, but he trembled. He knew that what Paul was saying to him was true, but he thought there was plenty of time. He put it off. He said that when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee and your friends. Maybe God has spoken to you and you have been afraid. You sat in your seat maybe last night.
And the Lord was pleading with you. He was, as it were, pulling on your coat sleeve.
And saying, Why won't you come? And you pulled away and said, I want to have my fun first. I want to go on in my own way. God speaketh once, yeah, twice. Yet man perceiveth it not in a dream and a vision of the bed. When deep sleep falleth upon man, then he openeth the ears of man and sealeth his instruction that he may withdraw man from his purpose.
And hide pride from man. Why haven't you come to Christ? I think I can answer. Its pride. It's pride. It's because you feel you don't need the Lord Jesus. You say I'm OK, I'm all right, I'll go my own way. All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way. And the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
God saw you going your own way.
And he longed to bless you. Well, he spoke gently the first time. Then it goes a little further here in this 17th verse. And it says.
Now the 18th verse. Rather, he keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing with the sword. That means that maybe you've had a narrow escape. Maybe you just barely escaped death. I remember visiting a man good many years ago who was in World War One, and he brought out a little testament and showed it to me.
And he said that was in my pocket during the war.
And there was a bullet hole went into that testament. He said that testament was right in my tunic over my heart. He said, you see that that bullet went in there and that testament saved my life. I said, Mr. Burnett, will you let me look at it? And he let me look at it. And it stopped at Revelation 22. I've forgotten the verse, but the number of the verse. But it was whosoever will let him take the water of life.
Freely, I said, Mr. Burnett, have you done it? No. No, dear friend, if you had a narrow escape, have you been close to death and you told your friends you were lucky and you got out of the car without being hurt, or you escaped and the other person didn't and you laughed and joked, your friends, God was speaking to you, he may not speak again.
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He may not he that being often reproved hardness, his neck shall suddenly be destroyed.
And that without remedy. Another dear man might be known to some here down in Kentucky. His name was Johnny McDaniel. I remember going to visit him when he was sitting in a wheelchair just one year after a tree had fallen upon him. His back was broken. And this is what he said to me. God had to break my back to save my soul.
God had to break my back to save my soul. He lived for a good many years afterwards.
To be a bright testimony for his Lord and Savior. He was glad that he had that narrow escape. He didn't turn like Mr. Burnett and just think he was lucky to get free and not be killed. No, dear friends, he turned to the Lord. And if you've had a narrow escape, I beg you to turn to the Lord. The next one might be a call into eternity, as it has been with some of our friends whom we've known well.
Just lately, oh, I plead with you, God speaks through creation. He lets you see all the wonders of his creation. God speaks through a dream, in a gentle way, where perhaps the dream was unpleasant, but you found out it wasn't real and it didn't really happen. But then you were in an accident, a close call. You barely escaped death.
Did you hear the voice of your loving Creator?
The one who wants to be your savior? No, perhaps you didn't listen. Then God speaks again. Listen to what it says here.
Chastened also with pain upon his bed, and with the mother and the multitude of his bones was strong pain.
So that his life abhorrent bread and his soul dainty meat. His flesh is consumed the way that it cannot be seen, and his bones that were not seen stick out. Yeah, his soul draws near under the grave and his life to the destroyers.
Well, it's not hard to understand what this is, a picture of some very serious illness and perhaps you're going on, God is going to have to do this to you to try and get your ear. Are you still going to be indifferent? We meet people in the hospital, people who have.
Very serious bodily conditions, as far as the doctors are concerned, they're terminal and yet.
They still closing their ears to the voice of love that pleads with them.
Oh, how good it is when people hear the loving voice of the Savior, the neighbor of ours who was sick.
Told us, he said I left the Lord out of my life for 20 years, turned my back upon him, wondered if he even existed. Can I turn to him now? I believe he did. I believe he did. And your friends, the Lord didn't turn him away. He, he thought the Lord wouldn't want him after turning his back on him 20 years. But the Lord's cry is whosoever will may come.
He invites the Sinner to come. Christ Jesus came into the world.
To save sinners. And so if you have turned your back upon him.
And you've left him out of your life. Perhaps some serious illnesses come into your life. Maybe the doctor has warned you. Are you going to turn to the Lord Jesus? You say, why did God allow it? This is telling us why he allows us to draw us back, to keep us from the pit, to keep us from eternal judgment, to bring us to himself. And so here is this sick man. And it says here in his 22nd verse.
Yeah, his soul draws near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers, if there be a messenger with him.
An interpreter, one among 1000. To show unto man his uprightness. Yes, God has his messengers. Thank God he does. And the Lord Jesus rose from the dead, he said, to his disciples, going into all the world the gospel to every creature. He said that repentance and remission of sins would begin, was to be preached among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
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And so he raises up his messengers.
Those who will carry the glad tidings of his love and of his grace. And as our brother was talking this afternoon, you don't have to have some special gift or something to do that either. It says if there be a messenger, one among 1000, you say, oh, I'm an oddball when I talk to people about the Lord. Well, perhaps you are, but you're carrying a wonderful message.
A message of pardon. A message of salvation.
A message that God wants to bless Sinner is because he wants to. He says he's not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. If there be a messenger with him. One among 1000. To show unto man his uprightness, what does this mean? To show unto man his uprightness? What is the upright thing for a Sinner to do?
Supposing I stole $100 from you.
Would it be upright for me to say I didn't do it or to try and hide it? Or would it be more upright for me to say, yes, I have to hang my head, I am the guilty one. And then you, pardon me, but wouldn't it be the upright thing for me to do to say I am guilty? And dear friends, that's what God's listening for. He's not listening to hear you say you're going to turn over a new leaf because he knows.
The best you can do is not good enough. All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags.
The best we can do, you say, what more can I do than the best I can do? And your friends, let me use a little illustration. Supposing you have a letter and you want to have it addressed and you hand it to a three-year old child and say here, would you address this letter for me? I'll tell you the address.
Well, if I know anything about what children are like, because we had them, that child would try. And I, I've seen a child and they really thought they were writing a message too. But I don't think any postal clerk would be able to interpret it. The child did the best they could, but it wasn't good enough. Oh, you say, can you be so foolish? Why don't you give it to somebody who can write? Why don't you go to somebody who's able to save you? I can't save you. Your mother can't.
You, your Father, can't save you, but the Lord Jesus is the Savior of sinners.
He says him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out. And if you'll just be upright and take your place as a Sinner, as it says here, He looketh upon man and if any say I have sinned, he's not. He's not asking you to say I'm going to start praying and I'm start going to church and I'm going to do this or that. He wants to hear from your heart and warm from your lips those words.
In all sincerity and all uprightness.
I am a Sinner and I need a Savior. That's what repentance is. That's what repentance is. I've often said that repentance really is a change of mind. That's the meaning of the word. And we are sinners and we have wrong thoughts about two things. We have wrong thoughts about ourselves and we have wrong thoughts about God.
You speak to anybody that's not saved, and he has wrong thoughts about himself. He thinks he's not as bad as God says he is, and he doesn't perhaps believe that God's punishment of sin is as severe as God says it is. He has wrong thoughts about sin and about himself.
And he has wrong thoughts about God because if he only knew the forgiveness that was in the heart of God.
He wouldn't delay another moment. Sometimes you're afraid to tell somebody you're sorry you did something because you don't know whether they'll pardon you. But you never need to feel like that in the presence of God. Because it says, if let the wicked forsake his way in the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him and to our God, for he will.
Abundantly. Pardon, I just love that verse.
He will abundantly pardon how many of your sins? The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanseth us from all sin. If there be a messenger with him, one among 1000 to show unto man his uprightness, then he is gracious unto him. God is gracious. The grace of our God that bring us salvation hath appeared to all men. Yes, God is gracious.
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What is grace? Undeserved favor. I deserve punishment, but God is a pardoning God.
Says in the songs, If thou Lord, should mark iniquity, O Lord, who should stand?
But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared. So it says, then he will. He is gracious unto him, and saith, deliver him from going down to the pit. Yes, Isn't this wonderful? A judge himself says that. I've often said, I know there's no judgment for me because the judge himself told me, the judge himself. You're not going to be my judge.
No preacher is going to be my judge.
But God the one who is the Judge, did you ever notice how beautiful that is? In John chapter 5? It says in John chapter 5 verse 22, the Father judgeth no ma'am, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son. And then in the 24th verse, the Judge himself speaks, and he says, Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent Me hath everlasting life, and shall not.
To condemnation but is passed from death and delight. The father turns judgment over to the son, and the son turns to the one who believes. Says I'm not going to be your judge. I'm not going to be your judge because you've received me and you have everlasting life. Oh friends, he wants to be gracious to you. Deliver him from going down to the pit.
I have found a ransom. You don't have to find the ransom, tells us in Titus.
The Lord Jesus and Timothy. I should say that the Lord Jesus gave himself a ransom for all.
To be testified in due time. So he's the one God found the ransom God sent his Son. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Here's a little picture of new birth. His flesh shall be fresher than a child. He shall return to the days of his youth. Now that is a little picture of being born again. I was born into this world with a sinful, fallen nature. But God has given me a new life and I've been born into his family. I'm one of his children. I have a life that is going to live for all eternity in the.
Presence of God and enjoy in my presence is fullness of joy. At thy right hand there are pleasures forevermore, old friend. And then it says, thou wilt show me the path of life. Well, this is for you if you'll just listen to your Sinner. And then here's the response, the 26th verse. He shall pray unto God, and he will be favorable unto him, and he shall see his face with joy.
For he shall render unto man his righteousness. Isn't this wonderful?
I'm going to see the judge of all the earth, but I'm going to see his face with joy. Yes. I'm not afraid because the judge himself is my savior. Sometimes I think of a child, for instance, his father's the judge in the court. He's had to pronounce the death sentence on a man in the court that day he comes home.
His little boy runs up to him and throws his arms around him. He said to the boy. Aren't you afraid of that man?
He pronounced a death sentence on a man today. Oh, he says, that's my father, that's my father. Oh dear friends, if you know the Lord Jesus as your Savior, you'll see the judge with joy, because he's not going to be your judge. He'll render unto man his righteousness. My righteousness was filthy rags, but says in 2nd Corinthians 5 He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness.
God in him, you couldn't have a better righteousness than God provides. You don't have to do one thing, but just to receive it. Here's this person. He's been laid on a sick bed. He's been careless about his soul, and now the messenger comes in and tells him what's in the heart of God. Dear friends, I'm just formed out of the clay, but I have the privilege of giving you that message tonight. It's not my message. It's a message from the heart of God. He wants to.
You he wants to pardon you he wants to render his righteousness. You looketh upon man, and if any say I have sinned and perverted that which isn't right, and it profited me not, He will deliver him from going down, going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. Oh yes, the Lord Jesus wants to be your deliverer. He wants to save you from the just penalty of.
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Sins He wants you to know the full and the free pardon that he has for you.
And he's offering it to you tonight. And so if you'll turn over with me to Hebrews chapter 2.
Hebrews chapter. Well, I'll read it in the first verse. The 1St chapter first it says here I'll read from the first verse. God, who at sundry times, and in divers manners, fake in time passed under the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom He at the point of heir of all things, by whom also He made the world, who, being the brightness of his glory, and the.
Image of His person and upholding all things by the word of his power.
When he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high. Friends, I want to tell you that tonight, that one who went to Calvary, that one who paid the debt of sin, who his own self bear our sins and his own body on the tree, He's up there at the right hand of God. He's seated there and he wants to deliver you from going.
To the pit he wants to be a pardoning God. To you, he wants you to know the love that's in his heart. His life shall see the light. If you're not saved, you're still in darkness. It says he were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord. And the Commission given to Paul was to go and proclaim this message.
That they might be turned from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God.
Your life will see the light. You will have the joy and peace of salvation.
And you'll know that you have a living, loving Savior seated there at the right hand of God. And I just want to say a little more for those who receive him and those who know him as Savior. He's an all the way home Savior. He says, I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
When you say, oh, but I don't know whether I could live the Christian life.
Well, isn't it wonderful to know that this same blessed Savior who died for us, who went there to Calvary's cross to bear the dead, the load of sin, that He's up there at the right hand of God? I thank Him that by His grace I've been saved for many years. But I've needed Him along the way, needed Him very much. I could never have made it to this hour in my own strength, but the same.
Who died for me? The one who paid the ransom price, The one whose blood has cleansed me from all sin.
Says that he's up there. It says we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are sent apart. And he says if you need help, just turn to me. And there he is. And I found his help all along the way. Friends, He is and all the way home Savior.
Just mentioned too that he also restores it says in the 23rd Psalm he restoreth my soul.
Comes to mind about a lady who came to the gospel meeting many years ago. She received the Lord Jesus as her Savior. She went on her way rejoicing. Know that knowing that she was saved.
But two or three weeks afterwards she came back again to the meeting and she said, boy, I was so happy when I got saved because I knew all my sins were gone. But she hung her head and she said, but I'm afraid I have to acknowledge that I have sinned since I've been saved.
What about that? What about that?
Well, a brother that was speaking, he said, Well, I just want to ask you two questions, first of all.
How, how many sins did you have when the Lord Jesus died? When she said I, I guess I didn't have any. I wasn't born.
Then he said, I want to ask you the second question, Do you think the Lord Jesus is going to die for sinners again?
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And she said, no, I don't suppose. And he isn't. The Bible says in that he died, He died unto sin once, but in that he liveth, He liveth unto God. While the brother said to her, if the Lord Jesus didn't settle the question of your sins at Calvary, they'll never be settled. But thank God he did.
Thank God he did by one offering He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. And I want to say to those who are perhaps young believers, you don't have to come to the Lord after you're saved and ask him to forgive your sins. He just some come and confess. It says if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
That is when you come supposing that I did something wrong to you and I come and say, will you forgive me? I'm raising the question about whether you're going to say yes or no. But if you said Gordon, I have forgiveness in my heart, but I want I've already forgiven you, but I'd like you to say you're sorry. I'd like you to say you're sorry. And you know, when I fail as a Christian, I come with the confidence that the blood has cleansed my sins. But that sin.
Communion with God. I can't be a happy Christian and be displeasing my Lord and Savior. Whence all of Tarsus got saved. His first desire was, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? What wilt thou have me to do? And so when you receive the Lord Jesus, you get a new life, you get a full and complete pardon. But if you want to be a happy Christian, you want to be a happy Christian.
Don't allow sin in your life because it'll break fellowship with God.
It will spoil the happiness of your Christian life because just as God wanted to save you from your sins and make you eternally secure, He wants you to be happy in this world as well as in all eternity. He wants you to be a happy Christian. And if you want to be a happy Christian, just think of what the Lord Jesus has done for you. And when Paul got saved, all of Tarsus, when he got saved, he just wanted to devote his whole life to the Lord.
Had done so much for him. And the Bible says the love of Christ constraineth us, that we should not live unto ourselves, but unto him who died for us and rose again. And so I say again, God is speaking, He surrounded you with the wonderful creation, and you've seen all the wonders of his creation, at least a few of them I should say.
Because there's such an extent to his creation that even the best.
Scientists can never discover all the wonders of it, you know, Mr. Einstein said. And I suppose he was one of the most learned scientists that ever lived. His comment was when somebody asked him about how much he knew, he made this comment, he said. I know less than one 100th percent about anything.
He felt that the creation was so great, the little bit that he knew was less than 101 hundreds of percent about anything. And yet, dear friends, you can know and be sure about something that I don't know whether Mr. Einstein knew. I hope he did, But you can know that your sins are all gone and heaven is your home is not more important than understanding all the wonders of God's creation.
And you can know that tonight these things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that she may know that she have eternal life. Will I say God speaks through creation, speaks through a dream, He speaks through a narrow escape, He speaks through a sickness.
He speaks in a gospel meeting, and he speaks as we have through his Son.
God's Son came down into this world because he loved you and because he loved me.
And he tried that loving path to Calvary, and there he died, a sacrifice for sin. And tonight the blood is on the mercy seat. The way of salvation is open for you. But I also have to give you a warning. And if you turn to the book of Proverbs, I don't think I'd be faithful if I didn't give you a warning. What will happen if you refuse?
Proverbs, chapter one, verse 28.
Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer. They shall seek me early or earnestly, but they shall not find me for that. They hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord. They would none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof, therefore shall eat of the fruit of their own way.
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And be filled with their own devices. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them in the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
But whose soul hearkeneth unto me, shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet.
From fear of evil.
Friends, you can call for mercy tonight, it says. Call upon me in the day of trouble. I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Look unto me and be saved all the ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is none else.
Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. It's still the day of grace.
You have the opportunity, but the master of the house is going to shut to the door.
And I don't know when, but I feel it's getting near. And even if the Lord should not come tonight or tomorrow or very soon, one thing I do know that we're not going to be in this world forever. You have no lease on life. You don't know whether you'll get home safely tonight. And I, I implore you to call upon the Lord now. How shall we escape if we neglect?
So great salvation. It's an amazing verse, isn't it, that 32nd verse? For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
That is, maybe the person sitting beside you is saying, oh, don't pay any attention. There's lots of time. There's lots of time. We used to preach on the street and quite often I would see a young couple come up and stop and listen. Then one pull the others arm, pull her away or pull him away. The turning away of the simple shall slay them.
And the prosperity of fools. You see, I know somebody's not saved. And he.
Things seem to go better for him than for me. It went well for the rich man in this life, but he died in his sins and he lifted up his eyes in hell in a lost eternity. All friends, I played with you. God is speaking to you. He speaks in different ways. I'm sure many of us can bear witness. He's You've had perhaps narrow escapes. You've sat under many, many gospel messages.
You've looked up and marveled at God's great creation.
You studied science in school and yet you say I don't want Jesus, I don't want the Creator.
The little hymn says, what will I do with Jesus? What shall the answer be? Someday your heart will be asking, what will he do with me? Oh friend, why not tonight receive him as your Savior? Just now just tell him that you're a Sinner. He looketh upon men. And if any say I have sinned.
You take your place as a center. You will meet the sinner's Savior and the blood of Jesus Christ.
God's Son cleanse us from all sin.