Gospel—D. Hayhoe
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Herman deep in the saviors love, could we stand to sing this hill?
Will you arrange?
And I am not sure anything close you're going to work here. Let's go to the.
We pray together.
Our God and our loving Father.
We thank thee. We can begin this meeting with prayer.
Singing this hymn and then prayer to thee, our God, to commit this time to Thee.
We're here for 45 minutes, our God, if thou dost allow us that long.
To have before us thy precious word, the value of a soul before thee.
And that great work of redemption, Father to thy Son, accomplished for Thy glory in the eternal good of mankind.
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Unto all, but upon those who believe.
We commit the gospel to thee. It's thy word, Father, it's thy work.
And we ask thee to take thy word now and help us through the time together.
To speak well of thy beloved son.
For we give thanks in His most precious name, Amen.
Before I make a couple of comments, I'd like to turn to the book of Jill.
Chapter 33.
Job 33, verse 13.
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 the vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men in slumberings upon the bed, then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction.
That he may withdraw 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, a multitude of his bones with strong pain.
So that is life abhorreth bread and soul dainty meats. His flesh is consumed away, it cannot be seen as bones that were not seen stick out. Yay, his soul draweth near under the grave, and his life to the destroyers is there. If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among 1000, to show under man his uprightness, then he is gracious unto him himself.
Deliver him from going down to the pit.
I have found a ransom.
We started with that verse there. 13 Why dost thou strive against him?
You know I must make a confession to you every time, and I know there are so many others here that feel the same way as I do right now.
That when we get up to take the gospel, we hardly know how to present the message.
But I have before me, brethren and friends.
One word tonight.
That one word has 3 letters.
Why?
WHY?
You ever asked the question why?
This verse starts here. 13 Why does that strive against him?
Oh, I don't have many words verses to turn to with the word why in it tonight?
But I want to give you before I go on any further, I want to tell you about a man who 45 years ago said to God, Why?
This man.
Just lost a son.
He was killed in a car accident.
20 years old.
This boy grew up.
In the home that I grew up in.
He was my brother. His name was Ernie.
I was a year younger than him.
I remember the details so well.
And very quickly, one night.
Like that?
That young man, 20 years of age in the third year of medical school, was ushered into eternity.
He was one of eight children my parents had.
And I remember.
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That that body was brought to our home in Pine Grove, Ontario.
I remember the number of people that came.
One after another to our house.
And then I remember at night time when everybody left.
That my father gathered us.
Around the casket to kneel down and pray.
And my father went over by the casket.
And he always kneeled down on one knee.
Like this?
That's the position that he was in and his head was on the cask.
And I remember him saying 3 words.
Why? Why? Why?
He wasn't responsible in the accident.
There's a drunk coming the other way. There were four in the car, there was one killed.
Why have you had things you faced in your life and you've asked why?
God sends things.
And I thank God he sends things in my life.
Because as we have in these words.
Verse 14.
God speaketh once, ye twice, yet man perceiveth it not.
Has he been working in your heart?
Are you ignoring him?
Oh dear young people, I know the world is making a bid for your life.
Dear children growing up in Christian homes, I know what your parents tell you.
And I know what you hear at school. I know what your friends say, a little bit of what your friends say.
It's eternity that counts.
And Satan has divined this world in such a way to make it so attractive to men and women and boys and girls and young people. He's making the bid for your life.
He wants to drag you down to the pit and so we have in this world deliver.
In this in this chapter here verse.
24 Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit.
Why does God send things in your life and mine, friend?
Because he loves you.
That's the bottom line. He loves you and he loves your soul.
So much he doesn't want you to go down to the pit.
And you're a traveler, and I'm a traveler. And like we had before us last night, eternity is soon to be faced.
Where are you going?
Eternity Where? Where, friend?
Are you ready to meet God?
Quite as though strife against him.
You know everyone God speaks to.
There's not a man or a woman who will be in a lost eternity who will be able to say I never had an opportunity, I don't believe.
But God says, just turn with me, please. Back to Genesis chapter 6 for a moment.
I know this is a well known verse.
Verse 3.
And the Lord said.
My spirit shall not always strive with man.
Oh, it's a wonderful thing, friends, that God has sent his Holy Spirit into this world.
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And the office of the Spirit of God is to work in the hearts of men and women around the world.
I love the pictures we have in the Word of God in connection with the servant being sent out at supper time. Go into the highways and byways and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
The compelling is done by God the Holy Spirit, and He works and He compels and He and yet God allows the circumstances in your life and the different things that happen in your life. Why?
Because he wants to get to you.
Because he wants to save your souls and point you to Christ. Because he doesn't want you to go to a lost eternity without Christ.
Forever and ever and ever.
You and I have a beginning. We'll never have an ending.
Now I want to turn to.
One of the most beautiful chapters in the whole that I consider in the whole Bible. How do we take and we say, which is better than another chapter? Psalm 22.
Want to read the whole chapter friends?
Psalm 22.
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? Oh my God, I cry in the daytime that thou hearest not, and in the night season, and I'm not silent. But thou art holy, Oh, thou that inhabit us, the praises of Israel. Our Father is trusted in Thee.
They trusted, and thou didst deliver them. They cried unto thee, and were delivered. They trusted in thee, and were not confounded. But I am a worm, and no man a reproach of men, and despise of the people. All they that see me laugh be to scorn. They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him. Let him deliver him, see he delighted in him.
But thou art he that took me out of the womb without it. Make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
I was cast upon thee from the womb. Thou art my God from my mother's belly. Be not far from me, for trouble is near, for there is none to help. Many bowls of compass me, strong bowls of Beijing, have beset me round. They gaped upon me with their mouths as a ravening and a roaring lion. I have poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax, it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
My strength is dried up like a potsherd.
And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws, And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
For dogs have compassed me, the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me. They pierced my hands and my feet, I may tell all my bones. They look and stare upon me. They park my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. But be not thou far from me, O Lord, O my strength has thee to help me deliver my soul from the sword, my darling, from the power of the dog.
Save me from the lion's mouth, for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. I will declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee, ye that fear the Lord, Praise Him all ye the seed of Jacob. Glorify him and fear him all ye the seed of Israel. For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, neither hath he hit his face from him, but when he cried unto him he heard.
My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation. I will pay my vows before them that fear Him. The meek shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise the Lord that seek Him. Your heart shall live forever. All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord, and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. For the Kingdom is the Lord's, and He is a governor among the nations.
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And they all, they that be fat upon the earth, shall eat and worship.
And they that go, all, they that go down to the dust, shall bow before him, and none can keep alive his own soul. A seed shall serve him, shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation they shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he has done this.
You know, I was thinking this afternoon as we as we were taking up that chapter in second Peter, chapter one.
Connection with Peter there when he says that he.
Spoke of the excellent glory and what he saw in that mount of transfiguration and the beloved Son of God. And when God declared this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. You know friends are before this there was 4000 years of man's history through this world and God looked down from heaven and he saw the lives of every man and woman and boy and girl that was ever born in this world.
Trace them wrote down everything of all their lives.
And finally, after 4000 years, one man was was brought into the world who glorified God in every step that he did, and that was his beloved son. And after 30 years of his life here on earth, God is so pleased with his beloved Son that he breaks open the heavens and he says, this is my beloved son.
In who I am well pleased. Oh, it's beautiful to see that in the 17th chapter of of Noel, pardon me, in the third chapter of of Matthew, there at the river Jordan, I think it was. And there the Lord Jesus, as he comes out of the water, and those heavens are broken open, and God can't help himself, as it were, to declare unto all those people, this is my beloved Son, and whom I'm well pleased.
Never was there a man in those 4000 years that walked for the glory of God. And so the word says, all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, and your conscience tells you that you are included in the all.
But God had a man in mind, his own beloved Son, and he sends them down into this world.
And he walked through those 30 years, and then another three years go by, and what's he do? He breaks the heavens.
Tells those disciples Peter, James and John on the Mount of Transfiguration again any change in the qualities of that peerless man.
With all that he that he, the ridicule and the mocking.
From all those around.
No, turn to it back please in Matthew chapter 17. Hold the place here if you would in Psalm 22.
Matthew 17 verse five. Well, he yet spake. Behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them.
And behold a voice out of the cloud which said, This is my beloved son.
In whom I am well pleased, old friends, to think of God.
Saying those words about that blessed man.
Spotless. Perfect.
And then we turn to this chapter.
And we hear the words of the blessed Savior as He hung on the cross.
And it starts out by saying, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Why was he there?
Why did God forsake his Son?
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Why did you ever ask the question? Why in your life the Savior asks the question?
It's all right to ask the question why?
As long as we ask it for the in the right spirit because God sends things into our lives.
This man hadn't done anything wrong.
But God sends things into your life and into mine because he loves us and he's trying to wake us up.
And he doesn't want boys and girls and men and women, young people, to go to a lost eternity.
It's OK to ask the question why?
But here in this chapter.
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
He was still the Savior. The blessed Lord Jesus still found him as God. He called him my God. He had confidence in him. My God, my God, why has thou forsaken me?
What about the fathers in the Old Testament? Were they ever forsaken?
Our fathers trusted in thee, they trusted in thou didst deliver them. They cried unto thee and were delivered. They trusted in thee, and were not confounded. But I am a worm, and no man, a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
That is the language of the Lord Jesus Himself as he spoke to God on the cross.
I believe in those hours of darkness.
And you and I are allowed into the chamber here to hear the language of the Savior speaking to God in heaven in the hour of his deepest need.
Why was it his deepest need?
O beloved friends, it was at the cross that God gathered all the sins.
Of all the boys and girls and men and women.
Who are going to come to Christ and pile them up?
The piles and piles of seals.
And God put them on the sinless one on the cross.
All those sins that were covered up through the offerings in the Old Testament.
The rug had to be taken off, as it were, and they're all exposed before a holy.
And then God, who is holy.
And hate sin. Place them on the head of his beloved Son, who knew no sin.
And let out all the fury of his wrath.
Against the Savior.
My sins were there.
And God judged Jesus.
As if he was the one who committed those sins.
Did he die for you?
Have you ever seen Jesus there dying for you?
Nobody ever paid the price that he paid.
God could not look on sin.
And sin must be punished.
And either there be a spotless victim.
To be judged for the sins.
To pay the price in full, or its banishment for you and me forever, to a lost eternity.
The gospel is unto all.
But it's upon those of belief.
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So no matter where you go in the whole world, oh, how precious.
Some of these stories, oh I love to hear that today about the brother was mentioning about these young brothers in India going to virgin territory like Apostolic days and giving out the gospel no matter where unto all.
And how many times have you heard it?
And like our brother said, like they never heard going to areas they never heard before about Jesus. How many times have you and I heard?
Have you said no to him?
Are you going on and you're striving against him?
All dear friends, the love that God has for you.
The love that he has for me, just think that 2000 years ago he knew we'd be in this.