Gospel—C. Andersen
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Let us turn to him #29 on your hymn sheets.
This hymn is entitled You Must be Born Again.
Someone was getting a bit irritated by the constant repetition of that little sentence. You must be born again.
And he asked why.
Do you have to repeat that so many times? And he got the answer. It's because you must be born again #29.
A ruler once.
Let us turn to a very common.
Chapter in the Bible.
It's been spoken from many times.
In Exodus chapter 12.
And I suppose.
Every child.
Of Christian parents in this room.
Has at one time or another.
Had this chapter read through them.
Or has heard the story, the message of this chapter?
Oh, what a privilege it is for your children to be raised in the Christian home.
And to hear the Bible read and to have prayer together as a family.
What a privilege it is to go to the gospel meeting and hear the gospel preach.
Or you have a wonderful privilege and you have really been blessed in this way.
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And I trust you, boys and girls.
Will not let this message to you from God himself go unheeded, because God is speaking to you. Every time we open the word of God, God is speaking to us.
And I trust tonight.
That you will hear that voice speaking to you, and that you will receive the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior.
Exodus chapter 12.
And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, Say, This month shall be unto you the beginning of month. It shall be the first month of the year. To you. Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel. Say in the 10th day of this month, they shall take to them every man of land, according to the House of their fathers, a land for an house. And if the household be too little for the land, 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 count for the lamb.
Shall be without blemish a male of the first year. Ye shall take it out from the sheep or from the goats, and ye shall keep it up until the 14th day of the same month. And the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And they shall take of the blood and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper doorpost of the houses wherein they shall eat it. And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread and bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
Eat not of it raw, nor saddened 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. That which remaineth of it until the morning he shall burn with fire. And thus shall ye eat it with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand, And ye shall eat it in haste, for it is the Lord's Passover. For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night.
And will smite all the first born in the land of Egypt, both man and peace. And against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment. I am the Lord, and the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you. And the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the land of Egypt.
And this day shall be unto you for memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generation.
Ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.
Seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread. Even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses. For whosoever eateth leaven bread, from the first day until the 7th day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. And in the day and in the first day there shall be in holy convocation, and in the 7th day there shall be in holy convocation to you. No manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat.
That only may be done of you, and ye shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For in this self same day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore shall you observe this day in your generation by an ordinance forever in the first month on the 14th day of the month at even. Usually unleavened Bread, until the one and 20th day of the month at even.
Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses, For whosoever eateth that which is leaven, even that soul should be cut off from the congregation of Israel.
Whether he be a stranger born in the land.
Ye shall eat nothing leavened in all your habitations. Ye shall eat unleavened bread. Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take your lamb according to your family, and kill the Passover. And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lentil and the two side posts with the blood that is in the basin. And none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning, for the Lord will pass through.
To smite the Egyptian.
And when he seeth the blood upon the lentil, and on the two side posts, the Lord will Passover the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto you.
Unto your houses to smite you. And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance disease, and to thy sons forever. And it shall come to pass, when ye become into and become to the land which the Lord will give you, according as He has promised, that ye shall keep this service. And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean you by this service, that ye shall say It is the sacrifice of the Lord's Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt.
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When you smoke the Egyptians and delivered our houses, and the people bowed the head.
And worship and the children of Israel went away and did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.
So did they, And it came to pass that at midnight the Lord smote all the first born in the land of Egypt, from the first born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne, into the first born of the captive that was in the dungeon, and all the first born of cattle. And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants, and all the Egyptians. And there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead. And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said.
Rise up and get your forth from among the people, both ye and the children of Israel, and go serve the Lord, as ye have said.
Also take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone, and bless me also. And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people.
That they might send them out of the land in haste, or they said we'd be all dead men. And the people took their goal before it was leavened. They're needing Trump's, being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders. And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses, and they borrowed of the Egyptian Jews of silver and jewels, of gold and raiment.
And the Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required, and they spoiled the Egyptians.
And the children of Israel journeyed from Ramseys to soccer, about 600,600 thousand on foot, that were men beside children. And a mixed multitude went up also with them, and flocked and purged even very much cattle. And they baked unleavened cakes from the dough which they had brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt and could not carry, neither had they prepared for themselves any riddles.
Now the sojourning of the children of Israel who dwelt in Egypt was 430 years. And it came to pass at the end of the 430 years, even the self same day it came to pass that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt. It is a night to be much observed unto the Lord, for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of the Lord to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generation. And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron.
This is the ordinance of the Passover. There shall no stranger eat thereof, but every man's servant that is bought for money.
Went down and circumcised him. Then shall he eat thereof, as foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof. In one house shall it be. Thou shall not carry forth of the flesh are brought out of the house, neither shall you break a bone thereof. All the congregation shall keep it. And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the Passover to the Lord, let all his male to be circumcised, and let then let them.
Him come near and keep it.
And he shall be as one that is born in the land, for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof. One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the strangers that sojourners among you and dust. If all the children of Israel, as the Lord commanded Moses, so did they. And it came to pass the South same day, that the Lord to bring the children of Israel under the land of Egypt by their armies.
Oh, what a chapter.
What a story. And it's not a fiction story either.
You know, there are stories that are called fiction stories.
And we know.
That they're not true.
They're just something that that made-up. It's the imagination of somebody's mind.
But beloved friends, tonight.
This is a true account of what God did that night, and you notice in the chapter it said, if the night to be much observed unto the Lord.
For bringing them out from the land of Egypt.
Now, in the very first part of this chapter.
We find out that it's God speaking.
It says the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt.
God is speaking.
This is God's word, and this was God's word to Moses and Aaron. And what does he say?
God said, This month shall be unto you, the beginning of months.
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It shall be the first month of the year to you.
The beginning of months. Why was God talking about a beginning? I thought the children of Israel had had their beginning.
They had the beginning in Jacob. Jacob's name was Israel.
And he had sons, and they were the sons of Israel. The descendants of Jacob were the Israelites. They'd had their beginning there. Why talk about another beginning?
Because God knew.
That they needed a new beginning. They gone down into Egypt and they got mixed up with the Egyptians and they were in ******* to the Egyptians and they needed a new beginning.
That is, God wanted to bring them out of Egypt. God wanted to deliver them from the ******* of the Egyptians, from the ******* of Pharaoh.
Well, we find as we read through the word of God, that Egypt.
Is constantly brought before us as a picture of this world.
And Pharaoh surely is a picture of the God of this world, Satan himself.
And there are multitudes of people in this world that are in ******* still to Satan.
And to the world.
And God.
Is still anxious to deliver souls from the ******* of Pharaoh Satan, the ******* of this word, the ******* of their sin.
Oh how God yearns over you tonight who are not saved. He would love to see you delivered.
He wants to save you. He's not willing that any should perish. He wants all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. He wants you to be saved tonight.
God didn't want the children of Israel to stay in Egypt. He wanted them out. God doesn't want you to stay in the world. He doesn't want you to remain identified with the world. He wants you out.
All that you might take heed to this tonight, that it might touch your heart that God wants to take you out of the world. He wants to save you.
God wanted the children of Israel for Himself, or we read that in the previous chapter. He wanted to take them out into the wilderness, that they might hold a feast to Him, that they might be out there in the wilderness all alone with himself. That's what God was after, and that's what God wants for you tonight. He wants you for Himself.
He wants your company.
Why from the very beginning of man's history in this world.
From the very moment that man had sinned, we find that God is seeking man. God was seeking Adam in the garden.
Adam was hiding because he had a conscience. Now his conscience was troubling him and he knew that he was naked and he was hiding behind the tree. God came and he said, Adam, where art thou?
Oh, how lovely to see that God was seeking Adam.
Fallen Adam, sinful Adam, he was seeking him.
Yes, God is seeking you tonight.
He sent the Lord Jesus Christ into this world, and we read that the Son of Man has come to seek.
And to say that which was lost.
God is seeking that which was lost. The Lord Jesus Christ came into this world walking through this scene seeking that which is lost. And that is said in the 19th of Luke Gospel in connection with Zacchaeus.
The Lord Jesus Christ was seeking Zacchaeus law, Zacchaeus the publican. Yes, he needed salvation.
He needed salvation.
And the Lord says of him.
After he had spoken to the Lord.
After there had been a change in his heart.
The Lord says to him, for as much as he is the son of Abraham, ah, he was the son of Abraham, a son of faith, and that's why he got salvation. It wasn't because of the works that he said he was going to do restore this and to restore that. No, for as much as he is the son of Abraham.
That's why salvation came to him.
Tonight, if you put faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, salvation will come to you, not because of your good works, if not by works of righteousness which we have done by grace. Are you saved through faith and not not of yourself? It's the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. Or if you could get to heaven by your good works, why, you'd have something to boast about when you got to glory. But God cannot have us boasting there.
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All the glory must go to Him. He is the one that must have all the praise.
And there is none that can keep alive his own soul. No one can save himself. No one can get himself to heaven by grace. It's only by grace. And grace means that it's something that God does for us for nothing, without our help, without our adding, adding anything to it.
This month shall be unto you the beginning of months. Have you had a new beginning?
He said, well, I had a beginning when I came into this world, when I was born into this world. That's true, but that was the beginning in the flesh. And the Lord said that which is born of the flesh is flesh. But what the Lord wants you to have is the beginning in the Spirit, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
All you need to be born with the Spirit of God tonight. You need a new beginning.
He must be born again, the Lord Jesus Christ told Nicodemus.
Now Nicodemus was a ruler of the Jews, and I would surmise that he was quite an upright man, and perhaps he tried to do the best he could.
But the Lord told him he must be born again, even though a ruler of the Jews, he needed to be born again and everyone needs to be born again.
All speaking about a new beginning.
This poor world.
Is in a wretched condition. What a failure this world has been. What a failure mind has been.
And friends, it's not getting any better in this world.
When we can read about.
A man slave, eight young ladies all at one time.
When we can read about a young man climbing up in a tower in a university and gunning down 15.
Human beings and just within the last 24 hours.
We found out that there was another who had killed 4.
O beloved.
This reminds me of the days of Noah.
Characterized by corruption and violence.
And the Lord Jesus Christ himself said.
That his coming.
Should be as the days of Noah.
Yes, as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it also be in the days of the coming of the Son of Man.
And here we have this violence and corruption, and we're in the midst of it.
And God is looking down and he sees it all. And surely this world is ripening up for judgment fast.
That's why it's so important, dear boys and girls, men and women like you, take the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior tonight, that you have a new beginning, that you'll be born again.
Oh, you must be born again. And if you're not born again.
The Lord says, Verily, verily, stand to you, Except a man be born of waterness of the Spirit, he cannot enter.
The Kingdom of God, for ye must be born again.
You cannot hope for salvation by good works or by self improvement.
It's only by a new life.
We read over in Second Corinthians.
The 5th chapter.
The 17th verse.
What it is that God wants?
Verse 17 of 2nd Corinthians 5.
Therefore of any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. All things are passed away.
Behold, all things are become new. That's what God wants. He wants a new creature.
And also in Galatians, the last chapter a very.
Very significant verse.
Galatians, chapter 6.
Verse 15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision. That's referring to ordinances.
Works, but what avails a new creature? A new creation?
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Have you been born again?
Are you a new creature in Christ Jesus? Do you belong to that new creation?
When the Lord Jesus Christ arose from the dead.
He became the head of a new order.
He became the head of new creation. Do you know the Lord Jesus Christ?
Who died for our sins was buried and rose again the 3rd day according to the scriptures.
Have you received Him as your Savior? If you have your part of that new creation, you are a new creature in Christ Jesus.
You have had that new beginning, but I'm very much afraid that there's quite a number in this room tonight who have not had this new beginning.
Perhaps you haven't been old enough to realize that you needed to be born again.
Perhaps tonight you are beginning to realize that God is speaking to your heart. Don't pass it off, Take it seriously.
Get in the presence of God and have this question settled.
Well, it tells us here in the next verses in chapter 12 of Exodus.
That they were to take a land. God says they shall take to them every man a land.
A land.
Further down it says in verse 4.
If the household be too little for the land.
Then in verse five it says your last. There's a little sequence there.
And we might say a little progress too, perhaps up until this very moment.
You have regarded the Lord Jesus Christ as a lamb.
A lamb.
A sacrifice.
And there are those today who in a way admire the Lord Jesus Christ because of his suffering, and they regard him as a martyr and they say, well, he did make some kind of a sacrifice. Maybe they regard him as a sacrifice.
But that's not enough.
That's not enough.
We must look at the Lord Jesus Christ as the last.
John pointed him out and said, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world, the lions. There's no other lamb. There's no other sacrifice, none other name under heaven given amongst men whereby we must be saved. There's no other savior. There's no use looking for any other Savior.
God has provided the only Savior.
And why all we might be able to give many reasons.
Why He is the only savior? But listen, he is the Son of God.
He is the Son of God.
He came down from heaven. He is gone.
And he walked this world as a man.
And that.
Could take in everything that was going on in this world.
And he knew the horribleness of sin.
And he could fully measure the offense that sin had been to God.
And he knew also the judgment that should be meted out to sin.
He understood this perfectly.
And he knew what it was going to take.
To settle the sin question, to bear the judgment for sin. He knew that.
He could measure it, He could take it all in, because he was the Son of God. He was God manifest in the flesh.
You know, that's why I love to think of the Lord Jesus Christ as my Savior.
Because I know that when he died for my sins on Calvary's crops.
He didn't leave out one of those sins. He knew the mall. He took the mall in and he didn't pay partially for them. He paid for them completely. He suffered the death and the penalty for those sins in a complete, perfect way.
Oh, that's what gives me assurance, and that's how I can rest upon the work of the Lord Jesus Christ without any doubt.
Perhaps there's some in this room tonight that have some scouts about the efficaciousness of the work of the Lord Jesus Christ. Perhaps you're wondering, is it really enough? Don't we have to do something too old friends tonight?
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The work of the Lord Jesus Christ is sufficient because He is the Son of God.
But all marvelous marks, he became a man.
That he might go to Calvary's cross and die for sinners.
Have you believed that he died for you?
Have you believed that He is the Lamb, the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world, the only one who can take away your sin?
All the blood of men.
Has been shed, but the blood of man can never take away sin. The blood of goals, both goats and bulls, has been shed, but it could never take away seed. No, it's only the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ that can take away seed. The blood of Jesus Christ Godson cleanses from all sin, takes care of all of them.
Oh, I am so glad.
That the work of the Lord Jesus Christ, the precious blood shed on Calvary's cross, takes care of all sin.
And as soon as you take the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, the sin question is settled.
For the past, for the present and for the future.
It is settled eternally.
Oh, I am so thankful that all of my sins are under the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. All gone, all forgiven.
Someone says.
Where if all of our sins are gone, all sins are dealt with in question. Settled.
Everything is settled between US and God. Well, then, perhaps we can go and do as we please.
Or indeed you cannot.
Indeed you cannot all the moment you see.
The Lord Jesus Christ hanging upon Calvary's cross.
Dying for your sin.
That very moment you will be attracted to him. That makes me think of my brother Worrell down in Trinidad.
For the world is the only one of the Saints down in those islands that has an automobile. That is, that you could call it an automobile when it gets around. And we were thankful for he took us around in a little Hillman station wagon.
He had a good motor in it and I teased him now and then by saying, well, what you need is to build a new car around this motor. You have a good motor. Oh, he took it a good naturedly and we had a laugh about it, but.
This dear brother.
Was one to the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord won his heart.
He was a Roman Catholic.
And he was somewhat exercised and disturbed. And while he was in that exercise, the Lord brought him in contact with a man who knew Christ.
Who gave him the gospel?
And when he had heard the simple gospel of salvation, he became more exercise than ever, and his conscience was troubling him, and his heart was deeply stirred, and he was upset and he didn't know what to do.
One day, he said, and he was telling us this story as we passed the very cathedral into which he'd gone, he said one day I went into this cathedral and he pointed to it. He said when I got in there, I tried to do the things that I was supposed to do.
As a good Catholic.
But he says the longer I remained in there, the more it seemed like there was a fire burning inside of my breath and I had to get out of there. And he says I haven't been in their city.
Hamburger State.
He said. I saw the Lord Jesus Christ hanging on Calvary's cross, dying for me.
One of those images wasn't anything else but Christ Jesus hanging on the cross, dying for me.
Suffering there for me.
And that spoke to his heart, and his heart was won. From that day on, he came to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Well, he bears the marks of that, you know, to this day because you still speak of the sufferings of Christ, Christ dying there on Calvary's Prosper Kids. And I believe it has helped to shape his life too, because he has a love for people. He has a love for sake.
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For the sin.
There's a sister in the meeting over there now in Trinidad. He's an Indian sister.
That is, she was born in East India.
She came to Trinidad, She had a little shop.
Where she would sell Indian food.
And she wanted to put up a little sign in front of her shop. Just a little sign. It was a globe around a light bulb. And she wanted the words hot roti painted on that light globe.
And she found out that Brother Worrell was a signature. She didn't know that he was a Christian or anything and done contact with him and he came over.
And saw what she wanted done.
And he said I'll have to take the light globe with me. Well, Mrs. Ali didn't like to trust him and he could sense that, so he left some security with her to assure her that he would bring it back after he got it painted.
But through that contact, Brother World has the opportunity to preach Christ to her.
Wasn't long until she accepted Christ as her Savior. She couldn't read. She couldn't read. But now she wanted to read the word of God and she said her heart and mind to it and she picked it out word by word to begin with. And now today she can read the word of God.
Well, it's God working in hearts like that. We thank God that He's still at work, and I believe he's at work here tonight.
In some heart heart of some boy, some girl, some man, some woman, I believe the Lord is working.
And oh, I beg you tonight, if God is speaking to you, don't turn a deaf ear. If God is working in your heart, submit to it. Bow to the work of God, the Spirit of God speaking to you.
Make the Lord Jesus Christ, as it says here in verse five, your land, your land.
Could you say that of the Lord Jesus Christ tonight? He's my lamb. He's my sacrifice for sin.
He is my savior.
The apostle Paul spoke of the Lord Jesus Christ as the Son of God who loved me.
And gave himself for me. Can you say that?
Oh, I love to hear people speak of the Lord Jesus Christ in a personal way like that. He's my savior. He died for me.
Do you know anything about that?
Well, we go on down in the chapter and I notice another expression here in verse eight. It says they shall eat the flesh in that night.
Just thinking about eating the flesh, the Lord Jesus Christ himself tells us over in John's Gospel, the 6th chapter, that He is the bread of life.
And he makes a very striking statement there.
But I believe we can connect it with this expression we have over here in Exodus.
Of eating the flesh of that lamb.
Verse 53 of John six. Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, except ye the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Well perhaps that sounds strange to you. You say, well how can I do that?
Who should eat of my flesh and drink of my blood hath eternal life, and I will raise him up for the last day. Well, it speaks of the flesh, it speaks of the blood. Well, the Lord Jesus Christ, when he died on Calvary's cross, he gave his body, and he shed his precious blood.
It speaks of death. The Lord Jesus Christ giving himself and giving his blood. It speaks of death. Bloodshed speaks of death.
And so the Lord Jesus Christ is simply and plainly telling them here You must appropriate to yourselves my death.
And how do we do that?
By believing in the Lord Jesus Christ and receiving Him as our Savior, believing that He died for our sins.
And that he was buried, That he rose again.
That's how you appropriate. That's how you receive the death of the Lord Jesus Christ and make it your own. That's how you get life.
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He says, Who shall eat of my flesh, and drinketh my blood hath eternal life.
Have you taken into your heart the Lord Jesus Christ, who died for sinners, who gave himself on Calvary's crop?
If you have, you have spiritually eaten his flesh.
Drunkish blood you have appropriated to yourself all the value of his death on Calvary's crops, and you have eternal life on the basis of God's word, not on the basis of what I say. The Lord Himself said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me hast everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life.
How do you know that you have eternal life?
By believing what God says, that's what gives you the assurance.
If not by what we do or but by what we say, that we gain assurance, but it's on the ground of God's word that we get assurance in our soul that we have eternal life.
Well, the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ was shed to cleanse us from our sin.
That's what makes it safe, makes us safe. Like the children of Israel in Egypt, they were safe, shouted under the blood, but they had to have the word of God through Moses to settle them and give them rest.
You know, it would be one thing to be inside of the house, being under the shelter of the blood.
But it be another thing to be at rest about it and to know that everything was all right.
What made them have the assurance that everything was all right? The word, the word that was given. Oh, how important it is for you tonight to believe in the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ and rest on the word of God, the word that God has given. That's the only way you can ever get real assurance that your child of God that you have eternal life. They possible Paul could say, I know whom I have believed.
Well, what gave him the basis for knowing the Word of God?
That's what gives us the basis for knowing it. You can't pull knowledge like that out of thin air. You can't find it in men's writings. You can't find it in the newspaper. You can't find it in the eloquence of of preachers. No, you find it right here in the Word of God.
And that's what enables you to say, I know whom I have believed, and I and and, and persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day. Are you trusting in the blog? Do you believe His word?
We were reading in the Gospel of John this afternoon. Oh, what a gospel that is.
It's a simple it's a simple gospel. It's not difficult to read simple wording.
I believe that's one reason.
That seems that the Lord led me to translate that that gospel into the African language first.
All boys and girls, have you read it? Have you read that gospel? You're missing something if you haven't read it. You're missing something if you haven't read the whole Bible. I just read a poem the other day about reading the Bible through. I wonder how many of this room have read the Bible through.
If you have never read it through, start today. Start reading it through today. You will find something that you've never found before. Read it through, get it all together as a whole, and things will begin to open up to you in the Word of God that you've never seen before. All the Word of God is a wonderful thing. We thank God for the work of Christ, the person of Christ. We thank God for His Word.
The living word. The written word.
Well, let's look at this chapter a little more and see what else there is. It tells us in the 11Th verse.
And that they were to be ready for something. They were to be ready.
Have your loins, skirt and shoes on your feet, your staff in your hand. You shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord's Passover. All that reminds us that the coming of the Lord will soon be here. Perhaps this very night the Lord will come all be in a hurry about taking Christ as your Savior.
Be hasty about it. If there's anything you ought to be in a hurry about doing tonight, it's this one thing. Settling your eternal destiny, receiving the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior. Don't put it off any longer. Oh, it's a dangerous thing to put it off. Put it off tonight. The next time it'll be a little harder.
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The next time it'll be a little harder. You know the oftener you listen to the gospel without.
Responding to it without receiving Christ as your Savior, the harder your heart gets.
And all, most people are saved when they're young. All you boys and girls, remember that most people are saved when they're young. Very few people get saved after they get old because their hearts have gotten hardened and they don't care for eternal things. They don't care for God, they don't care for Christ.
Receive Christ while you're young.
While your heart is still tender, when you can still sense that God is speaking to you.
Don't turn away from the Lord, Don't turn away from his words. As many as received him to them. He gave the power to become the children of God, even to them that believe on His name.
Oh, look at verse 13, he says. When I see the blood, I will Passover you.
When the blood was applied to the lentil, that was the piece across the top of the door and the two side posts.
When the blood was applied there.
And all were inside of the house.
They were safe. And God said, when I see the blood, I will pass over you. And the destroyer didn't come into that house, and nobody died in that house. But in the houses of the Egyptians where there wasn't blood on the door, the destroyer went in and somebody died. Death came into every house where the blood wasn't on the door. But death didn't come in where the blood was on the door, because death had already come in. How the lamb had died. The lamb had died, yes, it already come in. And death couldn't come in the second time.
Have you had the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ?
The value of that precious blood applied to your heart as you believe that Jesus died for you.
If you believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for your sins according to the scriptures.
That is applying the blood to your heart. If you receive the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, that's applying the value of the blood to your heart. And God says, when I see the blood, I will pass over you.
Have you applied it? Have you received Christ as your Savior? Oh, what a wonderful thing to be under the shelter of the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now it talks about applying it in verse 22.
Ye shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lentil and the two side force with the blood that is in the basin, and none of you shall go out at the door of the house until the morning.
Hisser. What's hisser? Oh, it's a little tiny plant, an insignificant plant. Perhaps if you saw it, you wouldn't pay any attention to it. You'd say, well, there's there's nothing to that little plant, just a little insignificant thing.
But that's what they were to take a bunch of that dissipate, which speaks, I believe, of taking a low place, owning our nothingness, our insignificance, humbling ourselves before God, owning ourselves as poor, wretched, lost sinners, and that we need the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior.
That very moment for those of the precious blood of Christ is applied to your heart.
Just own that your poor, lost, guilty Sinner before God and God will do the rest.
The thigh of the work of Christ will be applied to you, and you will be saved right then and there.
Have you ever taken that low place? Have you ever gotten into the presence of God and confessed and owned to Him that your poor, lost, guilty sinners, and that you really deserve to go to hell?
Or if you take that place before God.
God will forgive your sake. He will cleanse you from all unrighteousness. You will be washed in the precious blood of Christ.
Yes he will, he'll do a work on your soul, but that's the point you must come to.
You must take the history, You must take the hyssop. That is, you must take the low place, as it were, following up the feet of Jesus at the foot of the cross, owning that he died for me, died from my sins, for my sins, in his own body on the tree. That's what you need to open.
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And so again in verse 42 it says it is a night to be much observed.
Well, it was night.
When the Lord Jesus Christ was hanging on Calvary Cross during those three hours of darkness, it was dark like night. And oh, what a night that was. Have you ever thought of that night? Has it ever touched your heart thinking of that night, that darkness, when the Lord Jesus Christ was hanging there between heaven and earth, forsaken of God, rejected of men, they was hanging all alone.
Dealing with sin.
And we who know the Lord Jesus Christ the Savior can say he bore our sins.
Body on the tree, it was our sins, my sins, that brought that judgment upon it, that caused that darkness that caused God to hide His face from His Son.
It's a night much to be observed. Have you thought about that night? Have you thought about the death of the Lord Jesus? Give it some thought. Think about it. Meditate upon it. Trust in Him. Receive Him as your Savior tonight, before it's eternally too late.
Lexington #32.
What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus #32.
What can wash away my sins? Nothing but the blood.