Gospel—A. Barry
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General Meetings, Des Moines, Des Moines, June 1962. Gospel by Amberry.
We will sing hymn #10.
There is a savior.
On high in the glory.
A savior who suffered on Calvary St. A savior as willing to save now as ever.
His arm is almighty, his love great and free.
That dear loving Savior who lives in the glory this world once rejected and nailed to the tree a robe of derision. They circled around him. And all this he suffered from sinners like thee. Those hours of darkness He suffered for sinners on Calvary's cross.
All forsaken alone.
While making atonement and bearing the judgment are in, and now he's on high on the throne, he weigheth in patience for sinners to trust him, and says, I receive thee now just as thou art salvation and pardon, I heartily offer to all who receive me by faith.
In their heart hymn #10.
Where is the.
I I I.
Let us turn to the third chapter of the Book of Zechariah.
3rd chapter Zechariah.
And he showed me.
Joshua the High Priest.
Standing before the Angel of the Lord.
And Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
And the Lord said unto Satan, The Lord rebuked thee, O Satan, even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuked thee. Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?
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Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments and stood before the angels.
And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have.
Caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will close thee with change of raiment.
And I said, let them set a fair miter upon his head.
So they set a fair miter upon his head.
And clothed him with garments, and the Angel of the Lord stood by.
And the Angel of the Lord.
Protested unto Joshua saying.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, if thou wilt walk in my ways.
And if thou will keep my charge?
Then thou shalt judge mine house.
And shall also keep my courts and I will give the.
Places to walk among them that stand by.
Hear now, old Joshua, the high priest, thou and thy fellows.
That sit before thee, for they are men.
Wonder that or the margin, says men of Fine or Tight.
Men wondered at or, behold, I will bring forth my servants the branch.
What a striking picture we have, beloved friends.
Of the thinner.
In his lost condition.
Here's a man that's clothed with filthy garments.
But he's standing in the presence of the Lord.
He's standing before the one who is able to save him.
So that salvation is there waiting for him.
Full forgiveness and pardon is right there for him to receive.
But we're also told that Satan is standing at his right hand to resist him.
One often marvels.
When they?
Hear the Gospel treats time after time.
And see sinners sitting under the sound of a glorious message of God's great salvation.
To see them go on and reject that message.
When all its wonders and blessedness are presented to them. When such untold riches.
Are offered for them to receive and then.
One wonders too to think that one could listen to such warnings as are found in God's holy Word, upcoming judgment. And when you stop to think of that judgment, it's eternal. We read all the eternal judgment.
We read the other hell of which God blessed himself. He fell reply, hand up, and they cut it off. It is better for thee to enter into life having one hand, and having two hands to be cast into hell, fire into the fire that never shall be quenched.
All think of eternity, friends in outer darkness.
Shut out from all the redeemed will the memory of lost opportunities.
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Again, I say 1 wonders how anyone could ever leave a meeting where they're worn so solemnly of judgment to come and go on in their sins go on as Christ rejecters. How can it be explained? It seems so out of reason. It seems so absurd to think that for a few years.
Pleasure here, but men will risk an eternity.
In a lost eternity.
Which they can never.
They can never escape or leave.
Is there any explanation for such sheer quality as we see men going on and on and rejecting the offer, and getting nearer and nearer to that eternal destruction and perdition that awaits those that to reject the offer of God's mercy?
There is an explanation and we get it here. And what is it? Satan is standing at your right hand to resist you. And if there's any trouble, soul tonight in this audience, I can tell you that Satan is right at your right hand and he's going to do all in his power tonight to keep you from accepting.
The gospel and getting the salvation of your soul friend Satan is no inferior being. If you turn with me to the 28th chapter of Ezekiel, you'll get a little description of of Satan there, incorporated in the history of the King of Paris.
We read in the.
12Th verse, Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God, Thou sealest up the sun, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Thou hast been in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone was thy covering. I'll not read those about those different stones, but in the 14th verse.
Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth.
And I have set thee, soul, thou rest upon the holy mountain of God. Thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou was perfect in all thy ways from the day that thou was created.
Hell iniquity was found in the 17th verse. Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty. Thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness.
We learned, dear friends, from that scripture, that Satan was once the most exalted of all the creatures of God. But he fell. He was lifted up with pride. He wanted you usurp the place of God.
And so he had a dismal and awful fall. But remember this, that when that creature once so beautiful.
So marvelous fell he fell with his power, and he's using that power and that wisdom.
To ruin your souls and to drag you down.
And the sin away from Christ down the road that's going to end him.
In that awful place where that was prepared long ago, or the devil and his angels.
Satan standing at his right hand to resist it. But all friends, I want to tell you something more.
For if we were left to ourselves, to our own strength, to resist.
That enemy that holds the world in his grip. For we told you know in John Epistle that the world lies in the wicked one. We see on every side the result of Satan's all hope power over poor deluded fallen man.
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And they they were told that the God of this world has blinded the minds of them that believed not, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
All they all terrible.
Delusion of the enemy of your precious soul. But again I say thank God.
There is one who has defeated that enemy.
Thank God there's one that's stronger than Satan himself, mighty as he is.
That glorious creature that fell and fell with such power and such wisdom that he's using soul so solemnly in this world.
There's one that has defeated him and now can defeat all his power.
Can deliver your precious soul forever from his dominion. We want to learn, friends, before we close this meeting. Something of that glorious one who has defeated Satan and by grace, all precious, wonderful thought canceled defeat his efforts to ruin your soul that you can leave this call tonight if you have never known forgiveness and salvation.
For a child of God.
Delivered from the power of Satan brought no Christ trusting in him as your Lord and your Savior.
Are we? Learn something more about Joshua here.
It says now Joshua was closed with filthy garments.
Well, that's just the picture.
Of a Sinner in his sins.
You know, friends, we need to get a view of what we are in God's sight. We can appear very.
Well before men, but let's just see how God sees us.
In our lost condition.
Stop and think about.
Your life. Would you like to have all that you have ever done put up on the screen on this?
Wall here for everybody to look at. I wouldn't. I think I'd want to get out of this hall as fast as ever I could.
Some of us would turn pale friends at all. Our sins were put on a screen to be looked at.
But do you think those sins are hid from the eyes of a thrice holy God, that is, that cannot behold iniquity?
It's all under his eye. He sees every sin that was ever committed.
All things that no one knows about are all known to him.
Our friends, when God paints the picture, he doesn't paint a false picture. God doesn't deceive sinners like Satan is deceiving man. Satan would make you think that you're a very respectable man, respectable enough to escape hell and get some way to heaven.
And the word of God exposes man and his lost condition. He shows him just exactly.
What that condition is?
It tells us in the 17th chapter of Jeremiah that the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Who can know maybe all those things have never come out, but they're there. And then the next verse says, I, the Lord, search the heart. I try the reins.
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Our friends, if we get into God's presence and see ourselves.
In his presence, we're going to realize that the only place.
That God could ever send us in that condition is out of His holy presence into a lost eternity from which we could never return. You know, friends, we are not only lost sinners, we are hell deserving sinners. We sinned against God, we sinned against Christ. All we hear, yes, we're clothed in filthy garments.
But some people say, well, I think I'll improve my ways.
I'll turn over a new leaf.
I'll give a lot of money to the poor. I'll do a lot of of good deeds and and start out to serve the Lord. Well, what does God think of all such works? When?
They are offered as a means of our salvation. Do they better our condition? Well, we did start in. Suppose we were like Zacchaeus, who said, I Behold, Lord, I give the half of my goods to feed the poor.
That's a lot of illness. Half of his goods to feed the poor. But will that change our condition? Will that make us any cleaner? Will that make us any more fit for heaven? Let me turn you to the 64th chapter of Isaiah for a moment.
The 64th chapter of Isaiah and the sixth verse.
For we are all an unclean thing.
Now notice carefully and all our righteousness says.
Or as filthy rags.
Joshua was clothed with filthy garments. We're saying that there is a picture of a Sinner in his sin. In the 64th chapter of Isaiah we get a picture of the thinner clothed in his self righteousness.
His righteousness says that's all his good works.
All his arms giving all the money that he's given to this church or that church, all his praise the preacher.
And all that is paid out to different orphanages, everything that that a Sinner could do to.
Help on humanity.
For what does God say about the whole thing?
How is the man clothed that's clothed in his self righteousness?
It sounds that his clothes in filthy garments, in filthy rags.
So you see, if there is any advantage whatever, why it would be in the man that's clothed with filthy garments, because they would at least cover his nakedness. The filthy rags are even worse.
Hollisburg.
Let all the good work that the thinner could can't ever do.
Only leave him exposed to his wretchedness, and as it were, in an absolutely worse condition than that poor drunkard that's lying there in the ditch because of a man who is trusting to his self righteousness.
He's harder to reach like the Pharisees that.
Rejected the Lord.
Than the downright.
Corrupt Sinner like the publicans and the harlots.
You know, Scripture is very plain, friends.
About whether good works will save the soul, we read in Ephesians 2 That by grace ye are saved.
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Through faith and that not of your spells. It is the gift of God, not of works. Lest any man should vote, why should anyone think that his good works would save him, when there is a scripture that tells us, as plain as words can express it, that it's not a work?
Lest any man should vote.
Oh friends, I trust there is none here that are trusting to their good works.
For their salvation.
But thank God there is a remedy, no matter how filthy the garments may be, no matter how many filthy rags. A poor self-righteous man.
May that be wearing God has the remedy.
For the condemned, they defiled the guilty Sinner.
So we read in our chapter here.
The Lord said unto Satan.
No, they forth first. And he answered, and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him.
And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.
In that beautiful. In that lovely dear friend.
To hear the Blessed Lord say, take away.
The filthy garments from.
So as we were saying that if you had all your sins put on a screen there for this audience to look at.
We wouldn't. We couldn't stand to have such an experience as that. But how wonderful when one first take away.
All those sins out of my sight.
Our beloved friends, that blessed One, who says, take away the filthy garments from him.
Can take away all of your life.
Every city that you have ever committed.
Oh, what a wonderful truth that is. Forgiveness.
So that he says that he says to Joshua and I have called thine iniquity to pass from them our friend, the one who is speaking here, the one who is saying, take away the filthy garments.
Is the one who has a perfect right.
Till forgive and pardon the guilty Sinner. You know, when the Lord Jesus Christ was here among men, there was a man let down through the roof, one time a poor palsy man. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said, Son, thy sins are forgiven thee, that they were those there that said, Who is this?
That forgive us thin gossip, and only that blessed one to show them that he had the power to forgive sins, he said To that helpless man, rise, take up thy bed and walk, proving who he was, and that he had power to forgive and to heal a poor Sinner. Then there was a woman that came.
Into the house with Simon the Pharisees and wept at the feet of Jesus.
Washed his blessed feet with her tears, and Jesus said to that poor woman thy sins, which are many, are forgiven. And Simon the Pharisee, he fell like those others were Speaking of, who is this that forgiveth thee? And Jesus said to that poor woman.
Thy faith hath saved thee. Go in peace.
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All the Lord did not diminish her sins, he said. There are many.
But thank God he says they're all forgiven. But he doesn't say that your tears of repentance are the reason your sins are forgiven. Or did he say?
Live faith of savory glow in peace.
A lot of friends, as I look on your faces tonight, am I looking in the faces of any who are not yet trusting in Christ as a personal Savior?
Oh, may you look very nice. Except that blessed one.
Who is able to forgive and to cleanse you from every stain of sin? May you put your trust in him this very night.
And when you 2GO away in peace.
It won't be because of any good works that you've ever done, but it simply it will be simply because you came to him as a poor, lost and ruling center and accepted him as your Savior by faith. That will be the reason, as beloved trends, that blessed wonderful Savior as the one who has the right to forgive and to cleanse the guilty sinners.
And the reason, friends, he can forgive and cleanse the guilty is because he was the one that went to the cross and took the heavy load of our sins.
And as the Scripture tells us that he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we're healed. Let me invite you to the Cross account, and there learn why He has a right to forgive your sins.
Them in the Garden of Gethsemane.
There, in such deep agony of soul pleading with his father, that's the threat was dropping down as great drops of blood to the ground.
Here his entreaty. Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. And beloved friends, do you think that if there had been any other way than the cross?
To our faith, our lost man, that God the Father after those pleadings there, would have let his Son suffer as he suffered on that cross. Ashamed to ask the question is to answer the question. No, all, no, my friends, if God Himself, God who loved His beloved Son with an infinite love.
That one that had done all his will, and it was his perfect delight, could find no other way in this universe to save lost and perishing man, but to let his son go on and suffer there for you and me. You think that any man is wise enough to find another way than the cross of Christ to save his soul from hell?
Oh, how absolutely.
Foolish. What quality to consider that if God couldn't find another way that.
Any creature of man, any creature here could find the way that he could be saved apart from that cross. All our friends, he must go to that cross. And he did go to that cross.
Think of him when they took those blessed hands.
I had wrought wrought wonders here below that had broken the bread to feed the multitudes and heal the sick, and touch the beer, to raise the widow's son and the cruel hand of man.
Nailed those blessed hands to that cross, and those feet that had trod that land from Dan to Beersheba in service to our fallen creatures.
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To a bless them, oh Cedar, nailed to that cross and there he's lifted up.
And the surging crowd joins in mockery.
For three long hours at last, they sit down and watch him there in his agony.
When God is at worst that's been, he says. I have let man show what he would do.
And man showed to the full limit his hatred toward God. Now God says I'll show my love to your poor guilty sins and friends. The heavens grew dark.
And alone in that darkness.
That awful transaction of our sin was settled between a holy God and his beloved Son. It was when and it was there that he was wounded for our transgression. It was there that he was bruised for our iniquities.
Old friends, though they could see that face once marred more than any man.
After the scourging and the crowning, the horns and the mockery and the suffering as he hung there. But when he became a sin bear, no mortal eye beheld his anguish.
Oh friends, what he endured.
No one can ever describe or enter into, but we can know the blessed, marvelous results of what was accomplished there.
See that redeemed company singing his praises.
That new song have thou art worthy.
Because I was slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood.
Think all that immense company of the redeemed there, seeing the praises of the Lamb. And you know, friends, a little of what he must have suffered there, as He bore the sins of all that untold multitude that are there.
Singing his praises and glory.
Yes, thank God he can say, take away the filthy garments from has he taken away the old garments of sin? If he has, he's done something more for you, beloved friends. And what's that? He says. And I will clothe thee.
With change of raiment.
That's lovely.
Word there for us, and it suggests a line of things that runs all through scripture.
You know when Adam and Eve had sinned in the Garden of Eden.
It says, And the Lord God made coats of skin, and clothed Adam and his wife.
That is, God clothed him with that which necessitated the death of an innocent victim type of the Lord Jesus. Indeed, here we have a change of Raymond.
And in the 22nd of Matthew where we have the king making a marriage for his son.
We find that the king provides wedding garments for his guests.
There's the same subject. The guests that came to that marriage didn't have to bring their the clothes that they were to wear for such a grand occasion. It was all provided by the king himself, and each went into that festive hall flows in in the wedding garments.
And then another place we find it was when the prodigal returned from the far country.
And the father has received him and welcomed him with a kiss of reconciliation, he says to his servants, Bring forth the best robe and put it on him and put a ring on his hands and shoes on his feet. So when that prodigal went into the father's house that was filled with music and songs, he didn't enter that house.
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With the rags where he had been feeding.
The swine in the far country? No. He entered the Father's house with the very best robe to Father himself could provide. And what do you think, beloved friends, that those coats of skin, the change of Raymond, the wedding garment, and the best raw represents? I'll tell you what they represent. They represent the Lord Jesus Christ himself.
I know what in God's word for I read in First Corinthians one and 30 It says There and of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.
Of him are ye in Christ Jesus.
Every believer in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Is in that blessed One before God and.
Romans 8 And one tells us there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. Oh, what a wonderful grace, beloved friend, He takes away all those sins that those filthy garments from you, and then he clothes you, as it were, with the very best robe of heaven.
It's too marvelous for us.
To.
Take in although we can't believe it.
That a poor vile Sinner.
That's only fit for the likeness of darkness, can be changed in a moment and be just as fit for heaven as the Lord Jesus Christ himself.
Perhaps someone says that's a lot to say.
But it's true. And why is it true? Beloved friends, does God see the one who has accepted his beloved Son anymore in his lost, ruined condition? He doesn't see him that way at all. God sees the One who has accepted Christ as Savior.
Has clothed in that best robes. In other words, he sees him just as exactly.
As he sees his Son, in whom he has found all his delight.
And then he says, and I said, let them set a fair miter upon his head, All that means that he is brought into a priestly service, into priestly dignity. So we're made, after we're saved, a Kingdom of priests unto our God in Christ.
All the dignity that the believer, when he has saved, is brought into.
Then we have this, And the Angel of the Lord protested unto Joshua, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts.
If I was walking my ways, does he say if you walk in my ways, I'll take the filthy garments away? Why? They were already taken away?
And if thou will keep my charge by then, I'll rebuke Satan for you, while Satan was already rebuked and he was delivered from him. It's another subject.
Then thou shalt also judge my house, and thou shalt keep my courts, and I will give thee a place to walk among them that stand by.
Oh, there is.
Helpful instruction to every child of God.
Our friends, we were seeking to make it as plain as possible.
That salvation is not of works, but you will find in the words, and one thinks of that very.
Chapter from which I quoted that by grace are ye saved?
Through faith and that not of yourselves, not a work list any man should boast. We find that in the very next verse. It tells us that ye are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, on to good works.
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So it's just like this we don't work in order to be phased. We work because we are saved and what what wonderful privileges are presented.
What rewards are offered for a little service for that blessed One who has delivered us from our sins and clothed us?
For his presence. Oh, it's described here as I will give thee a place to walk among them, to stand by.
Oh dear Father and fester in Christ a little.
Suffering for Christ, bearing his reproach for a little while down here.
Brings eternal gain up there all the arms.
The reward that can't be estimated. Just think about the Lord is offering.
For a little faith from us to him in this poor world.
Where he was cast out and rejected here below.
And then he goes on to say.
And here now, O Joshua, the high freestyle, and thy fellows that sit before me, for they are men.
Wonder that and as I mentioned that in the margin.
It's it's a signs or types.
Well, if one is, if one is walking with God, following the one who saved him, thinking to follow that blessed one who suffered on the cross to save him, he becomes a testimony to others in this world.
All beloved friends still desire to.
To serve the precious favor who died to set you free. Well, you just go on, just like we're instructed here. Here's the air, the voice telling this one who has these filthy garments to remove that if he would follow on in their ways of the Lord.
That he would be a testimony for him. I'll just consider that carefully and prayerfully, beloved friends, that what God?
Is asking of you and me.
There's not a lot of work.
You get the boasting about that, but there's that within the reach of every child of God that will make him a blessing.
And be useful for his blessed Lord and master. And it's simply quiet, simple obedience to his precious words. We can all do that cancelling. A little child can be obedient to the word of God and beloved friends. That's the greatest testimony that was ever offered in this world of sinners. The world takes notice of one that's obedient to the word of God.
They can't explain it. They find that they've got a power and a joy.
And something the world knows nothing about, and it becomes a testimony to others.
Well, now in closing, beloved friends.
I know that Satan.
Is resisting this gospel that has been presented to you. He's seeking to keep you from closing in with this wonderful offer that is given you.
Of salvation.
Let me just ask a question. Who are you going to listen to?
As this meeting closes, Satan is telling you right now as you sit there. Not tonight.
What is the Lord Jesus tell you? He tells you, Behold, now is the accepted time.
He says, behold, now is the day of salvation. Satan says, oh, you can be far greater success in the world if you go on like the world. Don't listen to that kind of talk. You'd miss your opportunities. You wouldn't have the advantages that you would if you went on like men of the world. Are you going to listen to that friend? Are you going to take the advice?
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All that enemy that's going down to that place that was prepared for him.
Or are you going to listen to the voice of Jesus? And what is he saying to your soul tonight?
Oh, he says, Come unto me, all ye that labor under heavy laden, and I will give you rest all. Let me just entreat you in my Savior's name. Listen to the voice of Jesus.
Accept the invitation as he says. Calm or isn't that simple? Isn't it precious? Beloved friends, isn't it wonderful to think that God's beloved Son?
Is just entreating you this very moment from his word, and now in the glory we hear his voice again sing.
Come, come unto me, and you can come to that blessed one this very moment. You can have the whole thing settled for time and eternity between your soul and him right in your heart, without leaving this room, without leaving that seat. You can just talk it all over with a blessed Lord. You can just tell him. Yes, I know I'm a poor Sinner, but you can say, Lord Jesus.
I do accept thee as my precious savior.
We'll see #15 all blessed gospel found, yet there is room. It tells to all around. Yet there is room the guilty may draw near, though while they need not fear with joy, they now may hear. Yet there is room number 15.
Oh, blessed that God.
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Yes.