Gospel—R. Thonney
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Like to turn first of all to a verse in.
Hebrews, Chapter 9.
Hebrews Chapter 9 and verse 22.
And almost all things are, by the law, purged with blood.
And without shedding of blood is.
No remission. Want to repeat the last half of that verse?
Without.
Shedding of blood is.
No remission.
Maybe that verse contains a few words that some don't understand.
What does remission mean? Think we can say that it corresponds closely to the word forgiveness of sins?
And so we might read it without shedding up blood. There is no forgiveness of sins.
My friend, if you want to stand right before God tonight, it has to be on the groundwork that God has set up.
And God's state in no uncertain terms here.
That the only groundwork on which you can have forgiveness for your sins.
Is by the shedding of blood.
We live in a democratic society here in the United States. Thank God for the liberty that we enjoy.
But sometimes it seems that people have the idea that they can set up their own terms to God.
That I idea is just as about as good as yours on what God demands of us.
Friend, I want to say here right from the start tonight, my idea isn't worth 2 cents and neither is yours. No, we must come to God on the terms that God sets up in His own word. If you want to have peace in your heart, you must recognize the terms of God's holiness and God's justice.
And the way of salvation that he has set up, there is no other grounds of blessing.
Then through the shedding of blood.
That word is not really popular in the religious world today.
But it is extremely important, friend, if you are going to know what it means to have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, it has to be on the groundwork of the shedding of blood.
Remember a number of years ago working in a hospital and one of the fellow employees?
We were chatting together at the lunch hour and he said I've changed religions. I've changed my religion from Christianity to Judaism and I find it's very interesting. I said yes, that is interesting. If you have adopted Judaism, you will certainly know that God can only accept a person on the groundwork of the shedding of blood.
And of the blood of a sacrifice that God has designated.
I say where is that groundwork in your case?
He looked pretty puzzled. He had no blood on which to ground.
Is standing before God. Oh, how important it is to realize the solemn truth that we have in these words and this verse. Without the shedding of blood is no remission of sin. No friend.
It's not a question of how good you esteem yourself to be, not how a question of how bad you may think you are. It's a question of the blood and the blood of God's land, the blood of Jesus.
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The only groundwork friend upon which you can have peace in your soul with a holy God tonight.
Why is it necessary there be blood? Because friend.
When there's shedding of blood, necessarily there comes death, and death according to the word of God is the wages of sin. And when God looks down on the human race, he looks down on this room tonight, from one corner to the other, including the speaker, the sentence of God is that all have sinned. There is no difference for all have sinned.
Come short to the glory of God.
And we look around the room tonight, there may be some who we would consider better.
Than others that we know, but I say God is.
For as much as you may make a difference.
There is no difference. Sinner is written across each one of us by nature. We're sinners by nature and sinners by practice.
I don't know why it is sometimes that people don't seem to get the idea.
That they're sinners, that their soul is stained with the marks of sin before God, before men. Sometimes we live our lives and we think that we measure up on that yardstick pretty well. But we're not talking about man's yardstick tonight. We're talking about God's measure. And God's measure is this. There is no difference for all.
Have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
Member in the city of Chicago a number of years ago, we were giving out tracks on the street and I approached a well dressed man on the street and offered him a gospel tract. And he looked at me very annoyed and said, what's that? I said it's the gospel track Sir. And he got more annoyed and he said.
Please go away from here. Take that to the part of the city where the sinners live. I said, Didn't you know, Sir, that God says there is no difference?
For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
He stamped his foot angrily and walked off down the street.
He did not want to receive God's testimony as to what he was and I challenge you tonight, Fran, have you received God's testimony as to how hello, you stand naturally before God. I'm talking about everyone sitting in this room by nature has that word written across their souls thinner.
Dinner and the wages of sin is death.
Like it or not.
Death is an awful reality in the world that we live in, you know?
Live in Latin America and you see death and it's not quite so covered up as it is up here. It really impresses me as to the successfulness of the society here in the United States to cover up the reality of death. Someone gets badly sick.
And he's in a hospital. The pain is drugged up so he doesn't feel it.
He often isn't told that he's going to die within a certain length of time.
And they put a TV screen in front of them so he can't think too much on those serious line of things till he's dead. And then they put him in a beautiful coffin and they put beautiful flowers around them and they speak beautiful words over them. They carry them out to beautiful cemetery and lure them into the grave, the whole stark.
Unlikable reality of death is sheath.
In a cover, in an unreal cover, though, friends. Latin America. Remember times when it really impressed me, the shark reality of death. Remember going through a city, a town in the Dominican Republic. We were on foot walking through and there was a little house over there. And of course, because of the heat in those countries, all the windows are open.
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There is a terrific sound of screaming and hollering coming out of that house and I said to one of the brothers, what is going on over there in that house?
He said, well, somebody died over there. When somebody dies, the relatives get together.
In a huddle in the middle of the room. And they cry, and they holler and they scream until they.
Don't have any voice left and they go out and they pay their neighbors to come in and keep on doing it.
That it is a reality.
Brand a terrible reality.
Death is in this world, and it touches everyone of us that are sinners.
Yes, the wages of sin is death. This is the reason.
Why God says without shedding of blood there is no remission?
God cannot lightly Passover my sins. Absolutely not.
His holy righteous character demands that every sin I have ever committed meet. It's just judgment, full judgment.
Without shedding up, blood is no remission.
In the Old Testament times thousands and thousands and thousands and hundreds thousands of animals.
Died over the years.
It's not too pleasant a thing to watch an animal die, even.
God accepted on a temporary basis animal sacrifices in the Old Testament.
But it really only foreshadowed what God had in his own mind and purposes. God's Lamb, the Lord Jesus was there in the bosom of the Father, and in time he came into this world, the Lord Jesus Christ, to be the Lamb of God. But in the Old Testament times.
Animal sacrifices were practiced and thousands and hundreds of thousands of animals died.
You look in First Kings Chapter 8. We're not going to look at it tonight.
But if the dedication of Solomon's temple, he had one offering a peace offering that consisted of 22,000 bullocks and 120,000 sheep. I've seen large flocks of animals out in the country sometimes, but I don't think I've ever seen much more than 1000. But think this one sacrifice that Solomon offered one.
120,000 sheep and 22,000 bullets.
Think of the rivers of blood that flowed that day saw them to think of the blood.
That flawed Never forget in the Dominican Republic, in time we were visiting there and they killed an animal, killed a bull.
Young bull for me.
And they don't do it exactly the way it's done up here.
Never forget it. I stood there and watched. They had a long night and the animal was tied to a tree.
They walked up and they plunged that knife through his rib cage into his heart.
And that bull stood there for a minute and let out a terrible bellow that echoed down the valley.
He kept bellowing, the blood gushing out of his breast until his legs went down and he fell over dead.
It wasn't too pleasant of a site, friend. Maybe you don't appreciate my telling you that tonight about it.
But I just want to impress upon you the awful, tremendous importance of this statement that we've read. Without shedding up blood is no remission. If you are going to stand accepted by God in that coming day, there is only one grounds upon which you can stand accepted. Remember, you and I have no right to set the standards to God. You have no right to put conditions to God.
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We come unconditionally as hell bound ruin.
Lost sinners.
The only way we can come to God.
Sometimes given the illustration.
In Bolivia.
Supposing.
As I'm in Bolivia, I'm arrested. I'm still a United States citizen, but I'm arrested and taken to the Court of Justice to be judged, and I stand there before the judge.
And I'm found guilty.
And I say to the judge, But Sir, let me explain myself.
United States, we can do that. It's all right to do that in the United States. What would he say to me? He would say, Sir, you are in Bolivian territory and you are going to be judged by Bolivian law. You have no right to set any other standard here. The standards are already set. And when God and when we treat up the subject of our relationship with God, friend, I want to impress upon you that tremendous importance.
Of accepting God's standard. There is no other way to have peace in your soul before God. There is no other way to be right with that holy God who is your Creator and to whom you must bow and give an account one day.
Like to go to the Old Testament now the book of Exodus?
To show.
Now this was illustrated. Remember we have spoken briefly.
That God had in his mind.
One sacrifice that was going to satisfy him forever.
The sacrifice of his own beloved Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
And we know that the Lord Jesus Christ was.
Islam.
That one that was going to satisfy.
Is just and His holy demands against me as a poor lost Sinner.
And when he gave instructions in the Old Testament.
The making of animal sacrifices. It was all figurative.
Of God's land, I'd like to go to Exodus chapter 12.
Verse one.
And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying.
This month shall be unto you. The beginning of month shall be the first month of the year to you.
Speaking unto all the congregation of Israel, saying In the 10th day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb.
According to the House of their fathers, a lamb foreign house.
And if the house will be too little for the Lamb, let him and his neighbor next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls.
Every man, according to his eating, shall make your account for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish.
A male of the first year, he shall take it out from the sheep or from the goat.
And he shall keep it up until the 14th day of the same month. The whole assembly of the Congregation of Israel shall kill it.
In the evening they shall take of the blood and strike it on the two sideposts.
None the upper door post to the houses wherein they shall eat it, and they shall eat the flesh in that night. Roast with fire, and unleavened bread and with bitter herbs shall they eat it, Eat not of it, run or sudden at all with water, but roast with fire his head with his legs, and with the pertinence thereof. And he shall let nothing of it remain until the morning. And that which remaineth of it until the morning, ye shall burn with fire.
And thus shall ye eat it, your loins girded in, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand.
Ye shall eat it in haste. It is the Lorde Passover. For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the first born of the land of Egypt, both man and beast. And against all the gods of Egypt will I execute judgment. I am the Lord.
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And.
That shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are.
And when I see the blood, I will Passover you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the land of Egypt.
To get the connection of our chapter here, just like to say that the children of Israel, the nation of Israel, was in the land.
Fully afflicted by the Egyptians and God wanted to take his people out. Pharaoh the ruler did not want to release those people. And so God began to pour judgments, plagues out on the land of one after another after another after.
Their flags God made a difference between his people, Israel and the Egyptians.
But since the plague of death is the result of sin.
Now wage is as sin as death. He could not make a difference in the houses of the Egyptians and the houses of the.
Israelites here, but he made a provision by which there could be salvation.
And it was through the blood of the lamb. And so here we find that they were instructed to take a lamb.
Each household own responsibility for those of us who are fathers.
To take a lamb for an household.
And they were to keep it up for four days, from the 10th day to the 14th day.
To see if there was any blemish, any defect in that lamb that was taken.
And you know, like I said, God, in giving these instructions, had in mind His own beloved Son.
From Adam to the time that the Lord Jesus was born into this world is about 4000 years.
With the Lord, a day is as 1000 years and 1000 years as a day.
Those four days represent the 4000 years of man's history when God was looking down on the human race.
To see if there is one.
There was one that could meet his standards of justice, that one that did not sin, one that did not go astray. He couldn't find one. But God had a lamb. And God's lamb came into this world, the Lamb of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, to make redemption, to shed his precious blood, to make a way into the very presence of God for your soul and for mine.
Oh, what a wonderful story.
Of the Lord Jesus Christ.
That they were to keep up this lamb for four days, and then they were to slay it, kill it, cut its throat, take the blood. And with the hyssop, which was a little plant, they gathered and they used it as a kind of a paintbrush. They put the blood on the upper doorpost of the door, the two side posts of the door outside.
For the eye of God.
It's not so important for their eyes, but for the eye of God. They're going to be protected.
From the judgment, remember it was not enough.
To kill the lamb only it was important.
Awfully important that the blood be applied. Now. I want to speak very specially and very directly to souls here tonight. I don't think there's anyone in the room tonight that hasn't heard before the gospel of the grace of God and that Jesus has died and shed his precious blood that I want to seriously and solemnly question you tonight.
Have you applied the blood of Christ?
Need of your sinful soul. Are you under the shelter?
Of the precious blood of Christ.
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And so the destroying Angel came through the land of Egypt that night.
And as he went house by house, there was number consideration.
As he came to one house, let's see, is this a good person who lives here, or is he kind of a bad person?
No consideration of how good or how bad they've been. Only one consideration. Has the destroying Angel passed through that The land of Egypt that night? Is there blood?
There is blood passed over to the next house. Is there blood?
On the door there wasn't blood. He went in and slew the first born in that house.
And so there was that only one condition of mercy in the land of Egypt.
Under the shelter of the blood of Christ there is mercy, friend.
Are you under that shelter tonight? There is no consideration as God looks into your soul.
Tonight, as to how good you've been or how bad you've been, yes, you're going to be judged for your works in the coming day. God will consider that.
But I say salvation does not depend on how good you've been, no.
Not dear life. It depends on that precious blood of Jesus.
You stand under the shelter, that precious blood. There is mercy.
God's justice has been satisfied and God will not judge you. There is no other grounds of safety in a world that is fast going towards the Judgment Day. It isn't far off, friend, and if you are not under the shelter of the blood of Christ, you are in terrible danger tonight. It's not a question of being baptized.
Not a question of being a church member. Not a question of breaking bread, the Lord's Table.
Not a question on any of those things. It's a question of being under the shelter, the precious blood of Jesus. Where are you tonight, friend? I ask you, where are you? God knows where you are. You too know where you are. Don't hide under a false profession. Tonight they will land you in a lake of fire. I really and truly believe that Satan, the enemy of your soul and mine.
Is luring.
Hundreds of thousands of people into the lost eternity by persuading them.
That they're saved, that they're good Christians when there's no reality of faith in their heart towards God. Oh friend, I want you to search your heart tonight.
I really, really fear.
For some who have been raised in Christian homes and who are kind of just slipping, sliding along on the coattails of their parents, thinking that they're all right. Kind of just slipping, sliding along on the coattails of their parents, thinking that they're all right. Dad and mom's a Christian.
And sure, it must be all right with me. I've really never gotten out in the world, never lived too dirty a life.
I want to tell you if that's all you've got to say for yourself.
You are in terrible danger right now.
And I hope you don't go out of this room tonight without getting the matter settled before God. There is one place of safety that God recognizes none other. It is under the precious blood of Christ.
I'd like to say another word about this chapter before we go back to the New Testament.
That lamb after it had been killed.
And after its blood had been painted on the door close in the little of the houses where they lived, they went inside with that lamb, and they roasted it with fire, and they ate it and made it their own, their very own.
But it couldn't be boiled in water. Nothing could come between the flames.
And that lamb, and it's figurative of our Lord Jesus Christ.
When he hung on the cross of Calvary.
The judgment of God that I deserved as a poor lost Sinner.
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Fell in all its fury on my blessed Savior.
And they were going to crucify him. They offered him vinegar. It was a cheap type of wine that they used for those who were there going to crucify.
To dull the pain as they pounded the nails through the hands and the feet. The Lord Jesus did not recede it. He refused it. Nothing was going to come in between the Lamb and the fire. He went directly into the fire of the judgment of God wasn't only what he suffered from the hands of sinful men when he hung on that cross within those three hours of darkness when God.
Shut out men's curious eyes. God laid on him the iniquity of us all.
And God punished him for our sins.
He was bruised for our iniquities. He was wounded for our transgressions.
The chastisement of our peace was upon him with his stripes.
We are healed. He, the holy, spotless, innocent Son of God, hung there as a sacrifice for sin. For my sins he was punished. Friend, this is the basis, the groundwork upon which God can offer mercy now through the blood of Jesus.
Let's go to the New Testament, to the Gospel of John, chapter one.
As we were mentioning through the Old Testament.
Hundreds of thousands of animals.
Their blood was shed and yet God could not be satisfied.
With the mere blood of bulls and goats, he could not.
It only reminded him of a sacrifice that yes was going to satisfy.
The holy claims of God against us as sinners.
But finally the Lord Jesus came into this world.
And when God sent his only son in this world to be the savior of the world?
He sent a Forerunner and I'd like to read the words of the Forerunner. His name was John the Baptist.
John one verse 29. The next day, John.
It's John the Baptist.
Seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God.
Which taketh away the sin of the world.
Finally, finally, after so many centuries of the history of man and his guiltiness.
Finally.
Here is God's land. What a moment as the Lord Jesus, that blessed Son of God, made flesh.
Is walking along in this world. John the Baptist sees him.
Says, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
Finally, here is God's lamb, the lamb that's going to satisfy.
Completely forever. All the just claims of God against me as a Sinner.
Chapter 19.
This chapter we have the story of the crucifixion victory. Read a few verses.
Verse 13 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the pavement. But in the Hebrew, Gabbatha was the preparation of the Passover in about the 6th hour. And he saith unto the Jews, Behold your king, they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him, Pilate said unto them.
Shall I crucify your king? Chief Priest answered, We have no king But Caesar then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus and LED him away. And he bearing his cross, went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha, where they crucified him and two other, with him on either side one, and Jesus in the midst. Pilot wrote a title, and put it on the cross.
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The writing was Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.
This title then read many of the Jews, for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city.
It was written in Hebrew and Greek and Latin then said the chief priest of the Jews to pilot rate not.
The king of the Jews, but that he said, I am the King of the Jews. Pilate answered. What I have written, I have written. Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts to every soldier apart, and also his quote. Now the coat was woven without seeing, woven from the top throughout.
They said, therefore among themselves, let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. Which saith.
They pardoned my raiment among them, and for my vesture did they cast lots. These things, therefore the soldiers did.
Verse 28 After this Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished.
The scripture might be fulfilled, said I thirst. In other words, set a vessel full of vinegar.
They put a sponge with sponge with vinegar and put it upon hyssop and put it to his mouth.
Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said. It is finished.
And he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost and the Jews therefore, because it was the preparation.
The bodies should not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath day, for that Sabbath was in high day.
Beside pilot that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away. Then came the soldiers and break the legs of the 1St and the other which was crucified with him. When they came to Jesus saw that he was dead already. They weren't break not his legs. The one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side forth with came there out blood and water. And he that thought bare record and his record is true, and he knows that he set true.
That ye might believe we have the story of the crucifixion.
Friend, we read it often, sometimes in the reality of what happened there that day.
On that hill of Calvary doesn't get home to our hearts like it should. But I want to take you there this afternoon, this this evening, take you to that hill of Calvary. In your mind's eye, there's one hanging on a center cross.
Suffering.
Suffering terribly from the hands of his creature man.
Oh, friend, who was that one hanging on the center cross? It was God's beloved Son. What were those men doing to him? They were giving him the worst treatment they could think of. They beat him in the face. They crowned him with thorns. They beat those thorns into his brow. Scripture says his form was so marred more than any man and his four, more than the sons of men.
Seen accidents where people's face gets really badly marked, but his form was so marred more than any man.
Then those three hours of darkness we were speaking about, and God clothed the world with darkness.
And the Lord Jesus hung there for those three hours under the judgment of a holy God.
Against the sins of a creature, a rebellious, guilty person.
Like myself, the Lord Jesus suffered untold agony in those three hours. The end of those three hours? God for a second.
And I cry, according to other gospels, rends the dark my God, my God.
Why hast thou forsaken me, the only one who did perfectly the will of God?
Forsaken of God, friend, there's no need for you to be forsaken of God forever.
No, because he was forsaken in those three hours, the end of those three hours of darkness. That was his cry. And then just as he expires, as he gives up his light, he cries. It is finished. Oh, what a triumph shout. It's finished, friend. The work of redemption.
That work to satisfy the holy claims of God. It's finished tonight.
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We offer a finished work, no need for you to do anything else now.
Except that work that is completely and eternally finished to God's own glory. God has accepted it, and he's shown so in raising the Lord Jesus from the dead, setting him at his own right hand. There's a real living man in the glory of God tonight, the symbol that God has accepted what the Lord Jesus did.
Have you accepted it, friend? It's the only groundwork upon which God can accept you.
A lost, guilty Sinner.
The only way. There is no other way, friend.
And so the Lord Jesus as he was hanging there on that cross of Calvary.
Dead. Think of it, Son of God, dead.
Death the soldier climbs up that mountain breaks.
The legs of one of those thieves, and of the other.
Comes to Jesus.
He gave his life, friend. No man could take it from him to show how much he loved you. He gave his life.
But that soldier took his spear, pointed spear, and plunged it into the side of the Savior. From his side, John, a chosen witness, saw blood and water flow. That terrible, terrible, terrible price.
Was paid to God's own glory, to his complete satisfaction. Oh friend, God is satisfied with the work of Jesus.
He's accepted it. Have you accepted it tonight? Before it close? I'd like to read just.
Do more verses one in Ephesians chapter one.
Ephesians chapter one, verse 7.
Notice the last word in verse six Speaking of the beloved, the Lord Jesus, and it says in verse seven, in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace. Oh, I like that.
We have present possession, not something that I have to keep asking for every day of my life.
Something we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace.
Remember going to preach the gospel in a penitentiary out West?
And not a lot of men came in, but a few did. There's a lot of seats out there.
There's a man, an older man, that's clear in the back.
And you spoke a little bit from this verse we have.
Redemption through His blood. The forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace.
And we explain if you have something, you can say you have it.
You don't ask for it any longer, and souls ask.
Day after day after day for the forgiveness of sins.
Sometimes through not understanding the word of God, but sometimes because they don't have it yet.
Friends, the price has been paid. You don't even have to ask for it. God is extending His arms and mercy and offering you full forgiveness on the ground of that shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ and Calvary.
You don't have to ask for it, all you have to do is receive it and thank God for it.
That man came up to the front after the meeting, was sitting in the back there in the penitentiary.
And he said, all these years I've been asking for the forgiveness of sins.
Now I understand it, thank God I take it.
And he thanked God for it. Friend, that's all there is that's necessary for you to do right where you're sitting, right there, just as you are. Open that heart of yours. Accept God's forgiveness, His pardon, on the ground of that shed blood of Jesus. There is no other way. We have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace.
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I love that word.
Can God measure God? Can anyone measure God's richest?
No, you can't, friend. Sometimes I forgive somebody that you know, when I forgive them, they kind of got it in the back of my mind yet. And my forgiveness is not very great, I tell you that. But when God Forgives, it's according to the riches of his grace. Oh friend, wherever you are sitting here in the audience tonight listening to the word of God, I ask you, I played with you the name of the Lord Jesus to open that guilty heart of yours.
To accept God's forgiveness through the Lord Jesus.
Tonight.