Address—G.H. Hayhoe
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I'd like to read verses in a few different places and the Word of God first of all in Acts chapter 17 verse 16.
Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him. Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans and of the Stoics encountered him, and some said, What will this babbler say?
Other some he seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods.
Because he preached unto them Jesus and the resurrection, and they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine whereof thou speakest is? But thou bring a certain strange things to our ears. We would know, therefore, what these things mean, for all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars Hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription to the unknown God, whom therefore ye ignorantly worship him, declare I unto you God that made the world.
And all things therein, seeing that He is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made.
Made with hands, neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though He needed anything, seeing He giveth to all life and breath, and all things, and hath made of one blood all nations of men. For to dwell in all the face of the earth, and have determined the times before and appointed, and the bounds of their habitations, that they might seek the Lord, if happily they might feel after Him and find Him, though He be not far from every one of us. For in Him.
Live and move, and have our being, as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring. For as much then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the God has likened to gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. In the times of this ignorance God winked at, but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent.
Because he hath pointed today in the which he was.
The world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained, whereby hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
We turn also to Jeremiah Chapter 9.
Jeremiah, Chapter 9.
Verse 23.
Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches, but let him with glory, glorious glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord, which exercise loving kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, saith the Lord.
And John chapter 3.
John, Chapter 3.
And verse 13.
And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of Man, which is in heaven. For as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, Even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him.
Should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned, but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Well, dear friends, it seems rather strange that in a Christian land we should have to speak about the unknown God, and yet we are living in days of such remarkable change, and that there are people growing up in this very age to whom God is an absolute stranger. They have no thought or conception of what it is to have to do with God, and they are turning back to the heathen ideas and Eastern religions instead of accepting.
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Truth of God's precious word. And to you boys and girls who have been brought up in Christian homes, I say you have a wonderful privilege. You have been brought up with a book that reveals God to us. You have been brought up as the Jews of old with a wonderful privilege of having in your hands God's revelation of himself in all men today.
Are spending millions of dollars spending so much time?
Trying to find out more and more of the wonders of this universe in which we live. And God has allowed men to make advances that some of us never expected to see. In fact, the printing press cannot keep up with the advance of knowledge. And wise men are glorying in their wisdom. Wise men are glorying in all that they are discovering and in their ability, their strength. Think of being able to take off and go all the way to the moon and land on it and.
Got it, dear friends, we're living in very serious days. But I say that alone. Men are finding out all these things about the vast creation in which we live. There is an increasing and appalling ignorance of the God who made it all, the one who made everything and in whom we live and move and have our being. No wonder there is so much frustration everywhere.
No wonder there is so much of a problem in the minds of men and women.
And young people today, because they are discovering the universe, they are glorying in their wisdom, but they do not know the one who alone can fill and satisfy the human heart.
Him and the purpose of the gospel is not to deal with the question of man's knowledge in connection with scientific subjects, but to bring before you the God with whom you have to do. God has made himself known. And we're told in Romans chapter one that the gospel is concerning God's beloved Son. Now it's true it concerns your blessing, but I say it's concerning God's Son.
God, the one who made it all, wants you to know Him. I'm sure that if someone gave you a beautiful gift, the best gift that you would ever receive in your whole life, you would never be so hard hearted and careless as to say, I'm not interested in getting to know the giver. I'm not interested in getting to know the person who gave me this wonderful gift.
And this universe in which we live.
Can it be that you are saying I'm not interested in getting to know the one who made it all? Well, dear friend, it's your loss. But I have good news for you. God wants you to know Him. God loves you. John 316 says God so loved the world. When did God begin to love the world?
Well, when sin came into the world.
As it's often been remarked, the first words that God spoke after sin came in were these. Adam, where art thou? God became a seeking God. He had made this world His own hands, had planted the garden for Eve, Adam, and Eve to enjoy. And because Adam was lonesome, God had given him a companion, one who he could enjoy.
Whose companionship he could have and share.
All the good things of that garden that God himself had planted for him. But sad to say, he chose to listen to the voice of the enemy instead of listening to the voice of the God who had prepared everything for him.
And so he listened to the tempter. It seemed like a very small sin.
That wasn't very much that he did. Why couldn't he try the tree? The only way you can find out is by trying things. Haven't you said that yourself? Well, you can't know unless you try. Well, that's what Adam thought. That's what Eve thought. They said we'll never know unless we try. And so let's just try it. Perhaps we'll only try it once. If it doesn't bring us the pleasure we expected, we don't need to.
Continue eating of it. But, dear friends, that one act of disobedience was the solemn and awful act that brought sin, that brought misery, that brought death, that brought ruin upon the human race. Because I tell you, my friend, that sin in God's sight is more terrible than you have ever thought.
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Because one sin was enough to shut Adam and Eve.
Out of that garden, never to re enter it. Sin is an awful thing in God's sight. And I say again, you may have said, well, I don't see why I shouldn't be able to at least try it, to try it once. I ask. Perhaps you've tried something once and perhaps you've ruined your life. Perhaps you've tried something and you've ruined your health.
You only have to take poison once to bring.
On yourself, the awful results of the poison that you have taken. And dear friend, I warn you solemnly that just as sin has come into this world and sin is still here, sin has ruined this world. But God is still a God of love. And when Adam sinned, God sought after Adam and the same hands that had planted the garden and provided it for his happiness.
Turned after Adam had sinned and himself made coats of skins that they might be clothed in his presence, The same one that they had sinned against made provision for them in spite of their sin. And this is the good news of the gospel. And that sin has come into this world. And this precious book that we have is not one of the philosophies of man. It isn't one of the ideas.
Of man, but it is God's book.
It's been written by many different authors inspired by the Spirit of God over a period, I suppose we could say of about 1500 years. And all these different writers have written and God has preserved the book to us and one doesn't contradict the other.
I studied books in school, and the books that are being published today contradict the books that I studied when I went to school. Man's wisdom changes so quickly, but not God's. And God could write this book over this period of 1500 years and use different writers of all kinds of different measures of education and temperament, and He could give it to you and to me as a revelation.
Himself a revelation that he's going to stand forever, because Jesus said heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away.
Now it may be that you say, well, I'm not interested. I'm not interested in religion. I'm interested in fun. I'm interested in having a good time. But dear friend, you have to do with God. You must answer to God. When your tax papers come, you don't say I'm not interested. You can throw them in the waste paper basket if you like, but that doesn't mean that you have no responsibility just because you're through them in the waste paper.
Basket the day of reckoning will come, and you will have to find that the law has caught up with you. And dear friend, you may go on in good health. You may say I am having more fun than the people who have accepted Christ because they are persecuted. You may say that. But I warn you, my friend, that you have to do with the living God, and that the day of reckoning is going to come.
Of course I do not allow this.
And that although you may have more fun, I say you haven't the real peace and joy that the Christian has. I would say that when she drank Meshach and Abednego, the three men that were thrown into the fiery furnace for their faith, when they were in that fiery furnace, I would say that they were happier man than the ones who stood and looked in the window and saw them there, because they were walking in that fiery.
Furnace in the company of the Son of God. And dear friend, it may be true that if you accept Christ as your Savior, you will be persecuted. Many of the early Saints were persecuted in this very day in which we live. I am persuaded that there are many who have laid down their lives for Christ. We're living here in a privileged land. You're not very likely to be put to death. But while we're standing, while we're sitting here in this room.
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Other countries.
Are persecuting people who acknowledge the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior. But I say in spite of all that, that they have a peace and they have a joy and a satisfaction in their hearts, knowing Christ that their persecutors do not have. And then when this world is over, for man is not born for time, He's born for eternity when this life is over.
Then what all the day of reckoning comes, and it says, as I live, saith the Lord, every tongue shall, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
And so tonight I want to bring before you the one who may be to you, as he was to the people that lived in Athens long ago, the unknown God, the unknown God. Now, it doesn't say that these people didn't have good minds. They, I would say, had excellent minds. I would suppose that some of the most brilliant minds lived at this time in Greece, and that these Greek philosophers.
Were exceptionally intelligent man, but these Greek philosophers with all their knowledge did not know the true God. They had all different conceptions of God and so they they're known today the God of love and the God of hate and the God of War and the God of peace, the God of commerce, all is different these different conceptions that they had.
And lest they should have missed one, they put up an altar to the unknown.
God in their city, and as Paul walked through their city, his spirit was stirred in him when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry and friends. I confess as I walk up and down the streets of the world, as I go about the streets of great cities, I must say I feel something like Paul. My spirit is stirred in me and I often feel sad as I watch young people locking up and down the.
I'm not there to censure them. I'm there to feel sorry for them that they don't know the true God. They don't know the Christ of God. They don't know the one that can fill and satisfy their hearts. And they're trying something. They say our society hasn't done it. Let's try something different. But I don't care what you try or I don't care what they try. The solution is not from man. Man has been given.
Almost 6000 years to find the solution to the problems and he can't find it because he brought in the ruin himself and he is powerless to find the remedy. The remedy comes from the heart of God. The remedy is Christ and His finished work. And friends, it may be tonight I say, that you have reared up an altar to the unknown.
God, you may have a philosophy of life, but that doesn't answer your problems, that doesn't settle. You say it gives me a certain Peace of Mind. Certainly you can have a Peace of Mind through a lie.
Has somebody ever told you a lie and you rested on what they said? A couple of days later you found out it was a falsehood and you said what a fool I was. I was so happy and I thought this was so. And it's not so at all. Sure, you can have Peace of Mind through a lie, but you can't have the peace that God gives because the peace that He gives is a person.
He is our peace. Christ comes to live in your heart.
Heart. It's not a philosophy. It's not just accepting a certain set of ideas. It's not accepting Christianity as a religion. It's knowing a God revealed in Christ. It's receiving Christ as your own precious and personal savior and all your friends. I speak to you with this in mind. I speak to you boys and girls.
I say you have a tremendous privilege.
You have God's book in your hand. Your parents probably have brought you a Bible. They have given it to you. They have taught you verses out of it. They want you to know this Blessed 1 as your own personal Savior. They want you to have new life. They know that the world can't satisfy and they long that you should know Christ. They're not trying to make religious people out of you. They want you to be saved.
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They want you to have him as your own.
Well.
These people on Mars Hill, they were curious people. They said, thou bring us certain strange things to our ears. We would know about these things. And it says those people spent their time and nothing else but to tell or to hear some new thing. And perhaps you would like to hear something new tonight. You'd like to hear something curiously different.
There are all kinds of new ideas coming out constantly.
All kinds of new discoveries, new fashions, all kinds of changes in modern society, but we still have in our hands God's unchanging word. The Lord Jesus is the same yesterday and today and forever. He said, I am the Lord. I change not therefore ye sons.
Of Jacob are not consumed.
Well, Paul opened his mouth and told them about this altar and he said, now I'm going to tell you about the God that you don't know. You have built an altar to the unknown God. I want to tell you about him. He's the one in him whom we live and move and have our being.
We are also his offspring.
The Most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands. Perhaps you say, well, I have seen the emptiness of religion. There's so many people who go to church and they're no better than anyone else, and they don't seem to have anything. It's just to them sort of a ritual that they go through. The most high dwelleth not in temples made with hands.
As saith the Prophet, heaven is my throne and earth is my.
Footstool. This place where we're meeting is not a church. It's just a convenient place to gather. We don't speak about a holy building. We speak about the necessity of having Christ in your heart. And you could enter the finest and most religious building in the whole of United States. It wouldn't change your heart. My friend. The Most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands.
But he said heaven is my throne and earth is my footstool.
But He has given to you a life that is going to live on and on forever. And this solemn fact I want to press upon you, You are not created like an animal. You are not created with a life that is going to end when death takes place.
For for the for man, when he dies, it is just a change of residence. He just goes from this.
World to another place, they take his lifeless body and they put it under 6 feet of ground. But that's not the end. And the Lord Jesus brushed aside the curtain in the 16th chapter of Luke. And he told us there about two people who died. One man died and he was very rich. And it says he was buried.
Perhaps as they had a large funeral procession.
Perhaps they had the best casket that money could buy to bury this rich man. Many nice things were said over his casket and they took and lowered his body into the ground. And I don't know what they might have said over it, but I do know that the Lord Jesus tells us where that man's soul was and it says in hell.
He lift up his eyes, being in torment.
In hell, he lifts up his eyes, being in torment. If your dog dies and you put it under a couple of feet of ground, that's the end of the dock. His life as well as his body came out of the ground according to Genesis 1, but not so with man. His body came out of the ground, but not his life. God breathed into man's nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
And you?
Are not like the man, like the beast.
It says Who knoweth the spirit of a man that goeth upward, and the spirit of a beast that goeth downward to the earth? All, my friend, death is not the end for you. The other man, he died, but he died in faith. It wasn't torment for him. He was comforted. He was with the Lord. There wasn't any sorrow for him. No, his sorrows ended when he left this world. He had a difficult life here.
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He was poor, he had hardships, but at the end he left this world. He changed his residence, but he went to a place of blessing. And I speak to you solemnly, my friend, don't let anyone deceive you that death is the end. God has told us the curtain has been brushed aside. And the God who made this world and who made everything in it, and you were his offspring.
And I am his offspring. Death is not the end, and we must answer to him.
Well, Paul went on spoke here and tells us in the.
31St verse Because He hath appointed today in the which he will judge the world in righteousness, by that man whom he hath ordained, whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
I should have read the 30th verse and the times of this ignorance God winked at, but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent.
That is in the past.
People didn't have the knowledge of God as they do now. They were not as responsible as we are who live in a land where there are many open Bibles and it says God commandeth all men everywhere to repent. He calls upon you to turn to Him. He calls upon you to acknowledge the wrong of your ways and of your thoughts.
Why does he do it?
Is this something that's just optional? Is it something that you can do if you like or say I won't do it? Well, in one sense. You can say no if you wish to in one sense. But remember, God commands you and it's a solemn thing to disobey God.
You will have to answer for your disobedience to God. God now commandeth all men everywhere to repent. You can decide when a job is offered to you, whether you'll take it or not. You can decide whether you'll go back to school or college at the end of this summer. But, dear friends, you can't decide this solemn issue about.
Where you're going to spend eternity.
If you reject Christ, you will spend eternity in that awful place of judgment. But if you receive Christ as your Savior, you will have an eternal blessing with Christ in glory. It is not for you to decide where you will spend eternity. You can receive Christ, you can say no to his offers of mercy, but God it says to God the Lord belong the issues from death.
Yes, he is the wife.
Who will dispose of things after you have left this world?
When He calls upon you to repent and before the day of judgment comes, why does he call upon you? Because He doesn't want you to have to do with him as a judge. He wants you to have to do with Him as a Savior. He wants you to have to do with God as a Savior God. A God who loves you, One who sent His Son to die for you, One who is willing to pardon you, One who desires to have you in that glory above.
Spend eternity there with Him and to have the joy of that happy home that He has prepared for you.
And he says, He hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. God is going to judge this world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained. We often say there's not much righteousness. Now perhaps you say, well, people seem to get away with everything. I don't see why it shouldn't be like the rest.
All my friends get away with things. Why shouldn't I get away with things? Friend, You only think that you.
Away with something you only think you do You don't. There's a righteous judge, and it says he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, nor reprove after the hearing of his ears, but in righteousness shall he judge the poor and reprove with equity for the make of the earth. When there's a case in court, the judge has to listen to the evidence. The judge has to make a decision based on what he sees and hears.
God doesn't have to make thee.
A judgment upon what He sees and hears. Because He knows He looks into your heart right now. He sets your secret sins in the light of His countenance. You hide nothing from Him. The darkness and the light are both alight to Him. You may have hidden things from your parents. You may have hidden things from your best friends, but you cannot hide anything from God. He knows the thoughts of your hearts. He knows all about you, my friend.
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Of knowing it all. He loves you, He loves you. And so before he takes the place of a judge, he sends a message to you and says, I don't want to be your judge. I want to be your savior. But I warn you, my friends, the day has been set. The judge has been chosen. God has.
Set the time when that day of judgment will come. I don't know when it will.
We who are Christians are looking for the Lord Jesus to come. We're looking for him as deliverer from the wrath that's coming on this world. God is not going to allow evil to go on unpunished. But it's like it says in in the book of Ecclesiastes, because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily. Therefore the heart of the sons of man.
Is fully set in them to do evil because.
Because you told a lie and God didn't smite you dead like he did Ananias and Sapphira, and because you did some sin and God allowed you to have good health the next day and to have a good day at business. You thought that he didn't see it and you thought that the day of reckoning wasn't coming. Because you cheated in that exam and you passed and you got good marks. You say I got away with it. No, you didn't.
No, you didn't. God has a record. You can't deceive God. He's going to judge the world in righteousness, and unless you have Christ as your Savior, every one of those sins is going to be brought up against you. In the 20th chapter of Revelation, we read about the great white throne and the small and great stand before God, and the books were open and God has the record.
In the 3rd chapter of John, we read the fourth chapter of John, we read about the Lord talking to a woman beside the well of Sychar. And this woman tried to put on an innocent front. She tried to pretend that she was a religious woman and was really concerned about the right place to worship. She tried to pretend that she was all right.
And then, to her utter surprise, the Lord opened the page of her life and started to read it.
She found out that he knew all about her.
She said, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. Yes, she found he knew all about her, but all before the conversation was done. She found that he was the Christ who had come to save her. And dear friend, that's what we want you to find out tonight.
That God who knows all about you, the only person who knows all about you, say people don't know all about me. I say the person who knows everything I've ever done, the person who knows everything I've ever thought, is the person that loves me the most, and that by his grace I love him because he first loved me. And he went to Calvary's cross. And there on that cross of Calvary, he bowed his head.
But in those hours of darkness, and that awful judgment that ought to have fallen upon me, fell upon His blessed and holy Head in those hours of darkness, He cried out, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why was Jesus forsaken? Was it because God was not pleased with the work that He was doing? There never was the heart of God.
More pleased than that his Son should be willing to glory.
By Him about the question of sin.
Why did God turn his face away? Because God is of two pure eyes to behold evil and cannot look upon iniquity. Because if God was going to receive me into His presence in favor, my sins must be punished, and thank God they were punished upon my substitute.
All we, like sheep, have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. Isn't that good news, my friend? I remark again. God may be opening up your life page tonight. He knows all about you. I hope that you realize that He does.
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But I want you to know that that God, who up till tonight may be an unknown God to you, is the God who sent his Son to die for you. The God who loved you enough to deal with his Son about the question of sin, so that you might be blessed, so that you might have peace, so that you might have pardon, that you might water this room and say, I know God is my father.
I know Christ is my Savior. He is not an unknown God to me anymore. He's the one who sent His Son to die for me. Oh, what a wonderful thing to know. What a wonderful thing. And He's given assurance unto all men in that He raised Christ from the dead. We're not just talking about a person who died. And that was the end.
As our brother mentioned before, the world will accept Christ as a great teacher.
A great leader. When he was here, they would come by force and make him a king. The world will recognize him as the greatest person that ever lived. Today they call him a great reformer. My dear friends, he was God's eternal son. He was God come down. A heavenly stranger, loved to sinners to proclaim.
Some years ago in the city of Philadelphia, they had some paintings on display.
One of these paintings portrayed the Lord Jesus Christ standing before Pontius Pilate.
And a Christian man was in the city at the time and some friends said, wouldn't you like to go down and see that picture of Christ standing before Pilate? It's a wonderful masterpiece.
The brothers reply was I'm waiting for the time when Pilate stands before Christ.
When Pilate stands before Christ, yes, my friend, you're going to look into the face of that Savior who walked this earth. You are going to see those lovely eyes. You're going to see those nail prints in his hand. You're going to see the spear mark in his side. And as you stand, if you die in your sins before that great white throne to be judged.
Just to think that you will see the one there who could have been your savior, and you'll meet Him there as your judge. Because you said you didn't care. Because you said you were going to go your own way. You were going to have your own thrills. You were going to try everything there was to try, and you went your own way. And where will that way lead you? There is a way that seemeth right unto a man.
But the end thereof.
Are the ways of death what God loves you, my friend?
God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son and all I want to tell you with all my heart tonight that He wants to bless you. If He made this universe so beautiful, if He made this world in which we live so lovely and gave us all things richly to enjoy, how marvelous that when we spoil.
That as we have through sin, that he opened the door of heaven and said, it costs me more to invite you into my home up there than it cost me to create this world.
When it was a question of creating this world, it says in the 33rd Psalm he's fake. And it was done. He commanded and it stood fast. It was a small matter for God to make this universe. It was a small matter for God to make all those vast orbs in the sky and all the creatures that roam this earth and to make man in his own image. God could do that by just speaking.
He just spoke and it was done.
But when your soul was to be saved, the Maker of this universe bowed in the Garden of Gethsemane and sweat as it were, great drops of blood falling down to the ground, when He knew that the only way that you and I could be saved was for Him to pay the price of sin.
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He said to his father, O my father, if it be possible, let this come.
From me, nevertheless, not my will that thine be done. You think you can escape the judgment of God apart from Christ? The Lord Jesus himself could not escape the judgment that was our due if He was going to glorify God about the question of sin. And so He went to that cross, He bowed his head, He bore the judgment.
And those blessed words run out from the cross.
It is finished, it is finished. Friends, we proclaim a finished work. We proclaim the precious blood of Jesus that cleanses from all sin and all those lovely words in one. John 17 there for you, my friend. The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.
I'd just like to tell two or three little instances about the that lovely verse.
Many years ago there was a man preaching over in Ireland and he chose that lovely verse. The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin through a large number of people in the audience. And when he read the verse, he announced the wonderful news that if there was a Sinner in that room, no matter.
While he was he might be the worst Sinner in the whole city, he went on to say he could possibly even have committed murder. But still the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. He said to that precious flood can put away every sin.
A man was sitting at the back of the hall. He had been convicted of almost every crime, even murder, and he had managed to get free. And he was sitting at the back of the hall. He got up in his seat and he said, is that verse really in the Bible? Yes, said the preacher. It's really here. He said, I am coming up to see. He walked right up to the front of the room and he said, I want you to show it to me in the Bible.
The preacher gladly and happily opened his Bible at first, John one and seven. It says in the whole verse, if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanse of us from all sin. Friends can get into the brightest light of God's holy presence, and it will never discover one sin on you if you are cleansed in the blood.
He read the verse.
He accepted it. He believed it.
He received pardon for his sins, he walked back to his seat believing that his sins were gone, and he lived the rest of his life to proclaim the good and glad news that the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth us from all sin.
Another dear old lady, a titled lady in England, a very wealthy woman who lived in a castle, who had studied the Bible all her life. When she came to the end of her life, this was her comment. She said it takes the whole Bible to live with, but it only takes one verse to die with, and she said the verse that speaks.
Peace to my soul is the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son.
Cleanseth us from all sin. Another dear old man who had served the Lord all his life, when he came to the end, one of his sons said to him, Do you have any doubts about your salvation Now His answer was, I have no doubts about the value of the blood of Christ.
And if there's a doubting boy or girl here tonight, if there's someone here and the devil is attacking you with doubts and said he assure you feel saved and you're sure you've had the right experience, friends, it's not what you and I think of the blood. It's what God says about it that counts. And what does God say about it? He says the blood.
Of Jesus Christ, His Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Will you rest on it tonight and be saved? If so, you'll know the true God. You'll know his Son. This is the true God and eternal life. You'll know salvation. You won't be glorying in all man's great advancement in science and all these done, but you'll be glorying in this, that you know the God who exercises loving kindness.
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And judgment.
And righteousness in the earth. The God whose heart is filled with loving kindness. The God who executed judgment upon his Son because he didn't want to execute it on you. And the God who proclaims that you are righteous in his holy presence because he sees you when you're saved.
In Christ do you know him? May God grant shall come to know him.
Tonight acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace, thereby good shall come.