Gospel—C.H. Brown
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General Meetings, Columbus, KY. September 1964. Gospel.
Brown.
I see them.
Turns to the hymns.
And we begin our meeting tonight by singing hymn #15.
Him #15.
Oh, blessed gospel sound. Yet there is room. It tells you all around. Yet there is room the guilty may draw near. Go vile. They need not fear with joy they now may hear. Yet there is room number 15.
Now we turn to Lukes Gospel and the 19th chapter.
I might mention something that.
Interest me in a special way about this chapter.
Some of us were associated very closely with our dear brother, FC Blonde.
Dear Beloved.
Evangelist. If they're if there ever was a dear beloved Evangelist, even one.
And this was his favorite chapter. When I think of this chapter about Zacchaeus, I think of Mr. Blount.
And one of the greatest privileges I ever had in my life.
It was just 50 years ago at this time, right down here in Kentucky. We had a general meeting like this, only about 1/4 this size.
Your brother Brown asked me if I would stay and help him in some tent meeting.
And I had time to think it over and I said yes.
And I I look back on that as one of the most refreshing periods of my whole long life. Those six weeks in that candle were in Paul Jibbons front yard. The gospel went out and 50 souls pressed through and found crust.
And some of them are sitting right here in this room tonight, Paul Gibbard in The Monk.
And Jesus.
Entered and passed through Jericho.
I was asked to take the gospel in Montreal a number of years ago.
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And at the last minute.
I made-up my mind that I was to speak from.
Chapter 19 of Luke about Zacchaeus.
So I read the passage.
And for some strange reason, we didn't seem to be able to get much beyond that first verse.
Jesus entered.
Who passed through Jericho.
So we just stopped for a moment or two and talk about that.
Jesus entered and passed through Jericho.
That's history.
Now look back at the 6th chapter of Joshua. Just one verse. If you don't want to turn to it, I'll read it to you.
Remember, the Jericho was the city that tried to keep the children of Israel from ending into their promised inheritance when they came up out of Egypt.
26 verse And Joshua adjourned them at that time, saying person.
Be the man before the Lord that rises up and buildeth this city, Jericho, he shall lay the foundation thereof in his first born, and in his youngest son he shall set up the gates of it.
Now what a pronouncement that is.
That's that city that tried to keep God's people out of their promised land.
Now look at first Kings 16.
Well, way over now, on the time of that wicked wicked man, Ahab, Ahab and Jezebel.
34th verse In his days did he heal the death of Light Bill Jericho?
He laid the foundation thereof and a Byram his first born, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son, Sega.
According to the word of the Lord, which is staked by Joshua the son of nuns.
How long do you think that was after?
500 years.
All you young people here, remember this is God's word and prophecy is history written in advance.
If God says The thing is going to come to pass, count on it. It's going to come to pass.
There are no ifs and ands about it.
Jacko was the city of the curse.
And in that way, it's a type of this world, a cursive city, and this world is under a curse.
The ground is cursed. You farmers know about that. You know what a battle you have.
Where various pests and weeds and **** knots. It's a constant struggle, yes, but here's something to think about.
Jesus entered and passed through Jericho.
Oh, what a momentous back, Daddy, he added, and he passed through.
We have the proof of it on every hand.
This meeting tonight is a proof of it.
Brother Myers is talking about pennies this morning.
So I got one out of my pocket.
And on the front here to the side of Abraham Lincoln, it says 1963.
What does that tell me?
19163 years ago.
God's son came into this world approximately then.
19163 years ago Christ entered and he's passed through.
And you and I are responsible for the fact that he's been here. He left an impress, an imprint.
And you and I are going to react to that one way or another. What is your reaction? You can't get away from the fact that King, he's been here. Every church fire in the country tells you he's been here, every cross that you see elevated in the air.
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Tells us he's been here. Did you write a letter today? You dated your letter. You were dating that letter according to the days when the Lord Jesus Christ entered and passed through. You can't escape it. It's written everywhere.
Solemn thing for you if you don't know him. Solemn thing He's been here.
You know Julius Caesar.
He won't have to answer for what you will have to answer for.
Christ hadn't landed and passed through in his day. He never heard of Christ, nor could he. He hadn't been here.
But you live in a day when that fact is acknowledged by the whole civilized world he's been here and passed through.
And behold, there's a man named Zacchaeus.
Which was the chief among Republicans. And he was rich.
He was chief and he was rich. Well, those are the two things that man wants.
There's a tremendous struggle going on in this world right now.
And the two great things that men are seeking.
Our place or prominence and wealth.
Man either want money.
Or they want a position, a prominence. They want to be at the top.
They say there's lots of room at the top and so they keep clamoring and they never reach it and they're never satisfied. But that's what they want, money and police in this world. What are you seeking?
What do you have to well, this man had that.
He was chief among the publicans. That means that a publican is a tax gatherer, and he was a chief among them.
All the others wandering. Oh, how men like to have others under them. You see that in the arm.
Oh, yes, Private and the And then the growing up the Corporal and the Sergeant and the Lieutenant, First and 2nd and the Captain and then the Major and on up the line. All how people love a place in this world.
Well, this man had it. And what's more, he had lots of money. He was rich.
Yes, but he wasn't happy. He wasn't satisfied. I want to tell you whoever you are here tonight, young or old.
Have a vacuum in your soul that nothing in all the universe can ever feel satisfied except the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ as your own personal Savior.
I was a boy between 16 and 17 years of age.
Had a terrible accident.
Fell out of a barn and just about killed myself. Lay in a hospital for over 2 months.
But God taught me something during that experience. He taught me that I was a Sinner and needed a Savior.
And the first confession I ever made, I made to my.
Unbelieving father.
I made my confession to him.
And I remember his answer, son. If it's real, I'm glad of it. I hate a hypocrite. But if it's real, I'm glad of it.
Well, that's a long, long time ago. That's ancient history.
But all that was the grandest thing.
Ever came to me in my life?
Was when I found the Lord Jesus Christ.
I didn't have the good background that you had. I wasn't brought up in the meeting. All you young folks that have heard these things from your infancy, right on up.
While privileged you are.
And how responsible you are for the required of a man according to what he has.
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Not according to what I have not, and to whom much is given of him shall much be required.
Or if you miss heaven.
It'll be much tighter than for someone that was that just came up on the street.
Then this happens. It's a solemn thing to hear all that you've heard all your life.
And then miss what God has for you.
Well, this man wasn't happy.
His riches didn't satisfy his big position. Ah, that didn't tell the longing of his soul.
And if you're not saved, I know that you have a vacuum down in your soul. I know that you haven't found the secret of happiness. I know you haven't.
Don't try to tell us that you have.
All you're seeking it.
You're pursuing it like the pot of gold at the foot of the rainbow, which you never get there.
And he sought to see Jesus who he was.
Or who he is.
And start to see Jesus. Why do you want to see him? I fell in need in his soul and he'd heard of Jesus and he thought maybe maybe he's the one that has the answer. I want to see who he is.
Well, they had the right thought. I'm going to tell you that. Right there is where everything hinges. Who is he?
Ah, don't let the devil ever whisper into your soul. That is less than what he represented himself to be.
There's no one fact more fully authenticated in the Word of God from Genesis to Revelation than that the Lord Jesus Christ was God manifest in Christ, scene of angels preached unto the Gentiles.
Believed on in the world, received up into glory. He was gone, nothing less, Not a secondary God. And when you talk about the second person of the Godhead, you're not speaking in terms of priority, you're just using a convenient form to describe the matter of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost. But don't. Don't ever think for a moment of describing to the Lord Jesus.
Any secondary place in the Trinity? No, he was gone. Well, Zacchaeus wanted to see him, who he was or who he is.
And he could not. For the press Edward press means crowd because of as little as stature.
Well.
You know, if you really want to find Christ, the Christ of God, or not the popular Christ, no, not the Great Mentor, the Great Teacher, the Great Leader. But if you want to find the Christ of God.
You'll find plenty of the Press of the crowd that will hinder you getting to him. Oh, there there are many movements on foot today that are definitely of Satan to hinder you from finding God's Christ.
Be on your guard.
I feel sorry for our young people today.
I do.
I know something about what's going on.
In the school systems of the country today.
Would you believe it that when I went to high school?
As a 14 year old boy.
That our dear principal got up there with his Bible every morning and read to us.
We had a Quartet that got and sang him.
And then someone sat down to piano and played the chance, the so-called Lord's Prayer.
That was every morning.
But I'll tell you, there's nothing like that in that high school today. It's all different now. All that is shut out.
I feel sorry for you, but just trust.
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The Word of God.
Take your all on what God says in his books.
And it'll keep you.
I know a dear sister.
She's not very old and she was in school.
And this young professor and taught them the theory of evolution and he.
Dropped them infidelity as far as he dared, and in the examination there are some questions asked that plainly required infinite.
So she gave the answers as she had been taught, and then she put a footnote.
Now the above is what I was taught in your class.
But I do not believe it. I believe the word of God and stated something as to her faith in Christ.
I admired her for that. She didn't lose her grades, no.
She wasn't relegated to repeat that course. That man had enough of decency about him.
To let her pass all Don't be afraid of these infidel teachers.
I think of the young man used to be in Drake University.
Professor used to say.
That the Christianity was responsible for all those horrible wars that took place back there in Europe during the Middle East. And he was constantly harping on a Christianity responsible for all this. And we had a young brother in the meeting who was a student over there.
And every time the professor would make a statement like that, he'd say Professor I object.
And the professor would say, well, now, what's your objection? It was not Christianity that caused those wars. That was the perversion of Christianity, the cause.
Finally, the professor said if all my students were like you, I couldn't conduct a class.
Oh, don't be talked down. Believe your Bible. Take your soul on it, and you're going to be glad someday. Yes, you are if you stick your soul on. The truth of God is revealed in this book.
You'll be able to lie down in peace someday if the Lord doesn't come.
And pass into his presence with the knowledge of where you're going and why you're going there.
He thought to see Jesus, and he could not because of the press. Don't let the press spoil us for you.
And he ran before and climbed into a Sycamore tree to see him, for he was to pass that way. Now notice it says he was to pass that way, but it was the last time.
This is fine. Well, he didn't pass this way again.
Last time.
And who knows? Who knows that tonight may be your last time.
Yes, it may. This may be the last time you'll ever get a chance to claim God's salvation.
He ran the core.
Climbed up into a Sycamore tree or a fig tree.
It's properly a fig tree.
Big Mulberry is the proper term. He ran before and climbed up into the Sycamore tree.
Now there was nothing very dignified about a mature man, especially a man in his important position, all his wealth and influence.
Running down the street in that way, it wasn't anything very dignified about it. And then what was more injurious to his dignity with climbing a tree?
You couldn't look very dignified climbing a tree and a dog.
And here was this great crowd, seeing the whole thing.
But he was an earner.
He wanted to see Jesus.
Are you afraid of what people are going to think if you get to Christ tonight? Is that what's holding you back?
He didn't hold Zacchaeus back.
He went right down the road and up that tree. Strange place for a mature man to be.
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He climbed into a Sycamore tree.
He needed a tree, didn't he?
And you know.
If you're ever going to be in heaven.
You'll have to have a tree in your life.
Absolutely.
You don't need a tree. Look at Exodus 15 for a verse.
Exodus 15 and verse 23.
And when they came to mirror, they could not drink of the waters of mirror.
They were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Mara.
And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
And he cried unto the Lord.
And the Lord showed him a tree.
Which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet.
In that lovely Bill Waters.
Bitter water couldn't drink them.
What did those bitter waters need? They needed a tree.
And when they cast the tree into the water, they were made sweet.
Oh dear friend here tonight you're going to find that this life.
Is filled with bitter water.
No ones life goes the way he found this life is full of disappointment. Everyone that's of mature years will testify to that fact.
And if you don't have Christ.
You're going to have disappointments all the way down the road and then at the last.
He's going to pass out in darkness and despair. Yes, you are.
It's an awful thing.
End up your life with no knowledge or hope for the future. And remember this. That conscience never turns into this. This thing that ticks away down on the inside of you, and it's ticking right now while I'm talking, that will never turn into those.
Your mind may turn into this. Oh yes, you can swallow the Freud in theory and go in for all this modern thought and philosophy.
But down inside, something is going to constantly say, but supposing it's true after all.
Now turn over to the 5th of that.
Act 5.
And we read from verse 30.
The God of our fathers.
Raised up Jesus.
Whom ye slew and hang on a tree.
Only slew and hang on a tree. That's the tree that you're going to need.
If you get the head.
Hath God exalted with his right hand, to be a Prince and a savior?
Or to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sin. And we are witnesses of these things, and so is also the Holy, and so is also the Holy Ghost whom God has given to them that obey him.
Now.
Those people were accused.
Of taking Christ and slaying him, hanging him on a tree.
No, they didn't.
But what did God do about him? Hath God exhausted with his right hand, not to his right hand, but with his right hand?
He leaked down and in mighty power.
Exhorted that Blessed One.
To the highest place in heaven at his right hand.
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That he might be a savior. You need a savior. Why not have 1:00 tonight? Why not accepting that he might be a savior to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sin?
What is her sentence? It's taking sides with God against yourself. Have you done it yet? Or when someone speaks to you about the Lord, you immediately begin to defend yourself? Say, well, I'm not so bad, I'm fairly good.
My next door neighbor back in Des Moines.
Lived there beside him for many years.
He was an unsaved man. He was a good neighbor. Never had an unkind word with him all the years we lived side by side.
But he was a swearing man. He had no time for God, for Christ.
I've talked to him many a time about the Lord, he said. Well, someday I'll get baptized and join the wife Church.
That's as far as we'll ever get. Wife of Lamar.
Well, I'm saying now, Mr. so and so.
You know, I wouldn't walk across the street to get you to join any.
Walk across the street, get you to join any church, including the one where I go.
But I sit up all night long if I can lead you to Christ.
No. Someday he'd get baptized and join his wife.
But he never did. He lost his mind.
He died out of his mind.
He's bearing. He's wrong.
Oh, what a solemn thing it is. Repentance. No, nothing wrong with him. Rape tenants and then forgiveness of sins.
Last Sunday night, we go tonight.
We have the gospel up at Bloomington, up at Des Moines, and.
We spoke about that woman in the 70s of the loop.
What the Lord said to her, The sweetest words, I suppose, that ever fell on human ears for her.
Said it right to her.
Thy sins are forgiven.
Thy faith has saved thee.
Go in peace.
Oh, can you think of anything better than that?
And my dear friend here tonight, I don't care how big a Sinner you are, how deep dive you are, and far from God.
If you only 10.
And take crime.
He'll say to you thy sins are for you. Go and peace thy faith at faith.
Saw that poor woman. She was a vile terrorist.
But he heard those words from the lips of the Lord Jesus Christ himself.
And I'll look at the 10th of Acts.
39th verse Act 1039.
And we are witnesses and all things that Jesus did.
Both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem.
Whom they flew and hanged on a tree. There's our tree again.
Him hath God raised up the third day, and showed him openly, not to all the people, but on the witnesses chosen before of God, even to us who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead, And he commanded us to preach under the people, and testified.
That it is he which is ordained of God to be the judge of the living and the dead.
Now listen to this practice verse.
To him give all the prophets witness.
That through his name.
Whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.
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Can God make it any claim? All he tells us, over and over and over again.
And leave on the Lord Jesus Christ and gospel today.
That's it. A repentant sinners. All he needs is Christ, nothing else.
To him give all the prophets with.
That through his name, whosoever does that take you in whosoever.
Does it take you in? Where are you the 19 years old?
13th of Acts.
Act 13.
Verse 28.
And though they found no cause of death in him.
Yet they desired pilots, that he could be slain.
And when they had fulfilled all it was written of him, they took him down from the tree. There's our tree again.
And made him in a sepulcher, but God raised him from the dead.
38 foot.
Vietnam unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man Christ Jesus.
And freaks onto you. Heaven damnation, no.
The forgiveness of sins.
The forgiveness of sin.
And by hints, all that Italy all that believes.
Not all those that believe and do wonderful things, wonderful feats. No, All, I believe.
Are justified from all things.
From which he could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Beware, therefore, let that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets, Behold, he despisers.
And wonders and fairy awake that morning. Beware.
There's a warning here.
But all our blessings.
They took him down from the tree, but God raised him from the dead.
Now one more reference over in Galatians third chapter.
Relations 3.
Verse 13.
Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law.
Being made of curse for us or is written cursed is everyone that hangs on a tree.
As our tree again.
Christ has redeemed us from the curse.
They made a curse for you, and I deserve to be cursed to be banished from God's presence.
With Christ stepped in.
And what he virtually said to God was this. I hope I say this reverently.
Don't hurt them.
Hurt me in that state.
And as he hung there on the cross.
A holy, holy, holy God.
Turning backwards and left me in God.
He was made a curse.
For you and for me.
Ah, you reject that how often?
Such a salvation of such a price.
And you rejected.
You know, the word of God says it before our sin.
Before our sins.
In his own body, on his.
You want to find out.
Do you really want to find out whether you did or not? Well, I'll tell you. You can find out tonight.
If you will come to the Lord Jesus Christ as a poor lost sin.
Tonight, right here in this room.
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And receive him as your savior. You've got positive proof.
Before your sink, and his own body on the feet, it's whosoever.
The 26th verse of that third chapter relations.
For your all the children of God, by faith in Christ Jesus, nothing else will ever make you a child of God. The best.
A child of God or a son of God by faith in Christ need.
Well, we'll go back now.
Through our 19th of Luke.
Yes, Sir.
And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him.
And that remarkable whatever the Lord look up there and see him.
He looked up.
Sorry. Why? Oh, my dear soul, let me tell you, there can't be one movement in your heart toward the Lord Deep, and he doesn't see enough.
If you got any any sense in your soul.
Like to know it. If you like to be near it, he knows about it.
He knew why that man was up the tree and when he got to that tree he looked up and saw him.
And he said unto him Back here.
Make a.
OK.
Are you are you thinking about delaying this matter?
You think? Well, I'll wait for tomorrow night.
We Syria be here tomorrow night.
Have you got some some plans in your mind that you've got something scheduled and you think, well that wouldn't be consistent for me to take Christ tonight and go out and do that. I'll, I'll finish this little engagement I have.
And then?
I may I may look after this.
My friend, listen.
Don't believe.
Make her.
And come down.
Come down.
Pride beats many a person from pride.
Pride. How do you spell it?
We are, I see.
That big eagle.
It's many a person from Christ.
Come down.
Or are you willing to do it? Are you willing to humble yourself here tonight?
And received the Savior. Oh, I pray God your mind.
Why you have all heaven rejoices.
To be able to fight tonight, there's joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sentence, one.
Come down for today I must abide at our house.
Oh, what a privilege to have the Son of God.
Come into your house.
We scratch them into your home.
Not many things in this world any sweeter than a Christian home.
And I've been in hundreds of them. Oh, there's something lovely about it.
Crispy gold.
You coming?
Being part of that home, the bowed head.
The time of the meeting.
And then we opened by.
And then the bow new.
And the praises and the Thanksgiving and the request.
And the peace that reigns, There's nothing like it. Do you have a system home when you like to have one?
For today on the bite of that house, and he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully.
Here's that theater he didn't make the blunder that many have made.
He didn't say, Well, tomorrow I'll see about it. Oh no, no, he couldn't get on quickly enough.
And he received them into his house joyfully.
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All his dignity, what are the crowd going to say? What are all those other tax gatherers?
Over whom? He said. What are they going to say that doesn't bother him?
He received them into his home and received him joyfully.
And when they saw it, they all murmured things going to be a guest for the man that's the Sinner.
Isn't that? Isn't that absurd?
He's gone to be guests of the man that the Sinner. What about themselves? What about themselves? They can point the finger and say he's a Sinner.
Never thought of himself.
And that he has stood and said unto the Lord, the whole Lord behalf of my goods I give to the poor, and if I've taken anything from any man, in false accusation of restoring poor souls.
In other words, Zacchaeus was not a bad man. It wasn't like that woman in the 70s of of Luke. No, he's a different character.
And he tells the Lord about this.
But the largest cutting shot? He doesn't let him go a bit further.
Stopping right there.
Jesus said unto him this day.
Two days in salvation come to this house.
No, not before yesterday.
For as much as he also is the son of Abraham.
What does that mean? What do you mean by that?
Salvation come here today because he's the son of Abraham. Well, turn to the 4th of Galatians who get the answer.
Last verse of the third.
No, they.
Last verse of the third chapter.
29th Verse License 3.
And if ye be Christ, then are you Abraham's seed?
And heirs, according to the promise.
If you be Christ, then are you Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise?
He had received Christ.
A true son of Abraham. Now he was saved, and then the Lord climaxes that with that wonderful verse. For the Son of man has come to seek and to say that was lost.
Zacchaeus was lost.
Nonsense, The saw man come to seek. He's sitting you tonight.
You cannot say he's thinking it a night.
To seek and to save that which was lost. Oh heavens going to be filled with people like that.
They have a lost one.
But they got saved and all. We'd love to see someone here tonight come to Christ.
But he's part of him.
1/21.
Besides, for Christ today.
And God salvation, see, yields soul and body, heart and will to him who died for deeds. Sing the 1St and the last verse someone started, please.