With everything so far. It's always a it's always a
pleasure to be here and I look forward to a great meeting.
I'm going to read a passage this morning from the 9th chapter of
Hebrews beginning with verse 24 of this chapter.
And in this place we hear the Divine writer saying or Christ
is not entered into the holy places made with hands which are
the figures of the true but into heaven.
In itself now, to appear in the presence of God for us, nor yet,
that he should offer himself often as the high priest
entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others.
For then must, he often have suffered since the foundation of
the world, but now once in the end of the world hath, he
appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself and as it
is appointed unto man once to die, but after this This the
Judgment. So Christ was once offered to
Bear the sins of many and unto them that look for him.
Shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation?
Want to talk on a theme this morning.
That I think all of us should be interested in, but before we
speak certainly, we do feel disposed to pray.
I know that you have been recipients of god good gift this
week by virtue of the fact that you're able to be here today
even as I have and we're thankful for God's blessings
wish to express our thanks to him and call upon his old
prevailing name. So at this time, let us Us
humble ourselves in prayer. Well, this morning, we're going
to have a little homemade blessing.
A young preacher. One time was complaining about
not being able to find sermon material.
And one of the older Brethren is reported to have told him boy,
get your Bible. There's hundreds of them in the
Bible and of course, that's true.
Not like to suggest another source of ideas and that is to
get your concordance. And to look at that, I became
intrigued recently with the conjunction of contrast that we
have on the board here, but now 18, Robertson states that this
term constitutes a strong contrast as opposed to at that
time. So, here we have a contrast at
that time. But now, and he also defines the
word as except for the fact, but means, except for the fact, now
means at the present time, so, I got my concordance day on and I
find several places. These where that little
conjunction is used. So I would like to know this
just a few of those and I believe it will be something
that you're interested in. And Hebrews the 9th chapter and
verse beginning with verse 24, we know that the book of Hebrews
is extolling, the virtues of Christ's Administration if you
will of, as opposed to that of Moses.
And he said, in verse 24 Christ, is not entered into the holy
places made with hands which are the figures of the true.
But into heaven itself now to appear in the presence of God
for us nor yet that he's He should offer himself often as
the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with
blood of others or then musty often have suffered since the
foundation of the world. But now once in the end of the
world hath, he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of
himself and as it is appointed unto men once to die.
But after this the Judgment so Christ was once offered to Bear
the sins of many and unto them that look for him.
Him, shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation?
Notice, if you will, that contrast He would often have
suffered since the foundation of the world, if he had to do is
the high priest of the Old Testament.
But now, but now once in the end of the world or the End of the
Age, the Jewish, or the Mosaic age, happy appeared to put away
sin by the sacrifice of himself. That's a wonderful thought there
because the sacrifices of the Old Testament prefigured and
foreshadowed the sacrifice of Christ.
Did you know that way back Yonder in the Garden of Eden.
When man first was put upon this Earth and was given the
beautiful paradise in which to live, that was a test for Adam.
I presume. Adam was surrounded by
everything that the heart of man could possibly desire.
The Bible said that there were fruit trees.
There it must have been a beautiful place because So every
day, probably the temperature was just exactly right.
The climate must have been wonderful, it was also full of
things that were good to eat and there was simply no reason for
anybody to be unhappy or dissatisfied in the Garden of
Eden. However, God had only two
prohibitions. One of them was a positive
command and the other was a negative command.
God said that he was to keep the garden to tell it and And to
keep it. And the other was that he was
not to eat of the fruit of the tree of which I commanded thee
saying, Thou shalt not eat there.
In the midst of the garden was the tree of knowledge of Good
and Evil. God said don't eat of it because
in the day that you eat thereof, you will die.
And there's no evidence that Adam failed in that first
command to grass and to keep the garden, but Eve was given to him
as we, well know, and Being as the Bible says the weaker vessel
Satan came through mother Eve and he appealed to her vanity
and to all of the three Avenues by which man is tempted.
He said, look at this fruit. Why it's beautiful to look at
besides that it tastes good and it'll make you wise.
She prays, he tried to suggest that maybe God had unduly and
restricted them has God said that you're not to eat of any of
the Trees of the garden. She said, no God said that we
could eat of all of the Trees of the garden.
But of that tree, were not to eat it or touch it.
Lest you die? So she understood God's command.
Very well and he said you won't die.
Why? You'll you'll be as Gods
yourself. You'll know good from evil.
He persuaded her that, that was the thing to do and of course,
she ate of it. And the Bible says that she gave
it to her husband and he did eat.
I've often wondered why Adam with full knowledge entered into
that sin, that digression from God's commandment.
But as one of our older preachers pointed out some years
ago, I think it was true that he loved her so much that he
intended to share her faith. Whatever that was, and so he ate
all of it. Now, we Either guilty, pair
hiding out in the bushes. Somewhere from God, Made made
some little old skimpy fig Leaf garments with which to clothe
themselves, they were inadequate and so the voice of God sought
them out. Adam, Where Art Thou God, of
course new right. Exactly where Adam was what
Bush? He was hiding behind.
And he wanted Adam to see where he was.
And so, Adam says, well, we were afraid because we were naked and
so we hid ourselves. God said, have you eaten of the
tree of which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not, eat
Madam had to confess that he had and so the Bible tells us that
God made them coats of skin and immediately wonder where to get
that skin. While you know that occasion the
death of an animal, didn't it a victim, an innocent victim in
order to cover Adam and Steve, because they're covering that
they had made was inadequate. And so, the Bible says that he
made them coats of skin and thus, probably shed the blood of
the first sacrificial victim upon the face of the Earth.
Incidentally, that word atonement.
He made an atonement for their sin, that word, atonement means
a covering God, covered them with that sacrifice.
And thus, a way back Yonder in the Garden of Eden.
As it were, we see the picture of Christ's sacrifice.
Now in Genesis 3:15, Bible scholars.
Believe this is an allusion to Christ when he said to the
serpent that he would Breathe, the seed of the woman that he
loved the seed of the woman. And, and that he would crush his
head. The seed of the woman would
crush the Serpent's head, that's the only place where exclusively
seed of a woman is mentioned. Usually, you know, the man has
that role. But in this case, Case Christ
was to be born through a virgin and there's the prediction way
back Yonder in the Garden of Eden.
How beautiful a picture that is that Christ was prefigured in
foreshadowed back then. Some think that when God said,
when Eve, when God promised that to Eve and to Adam, and you
remember Eve brought forth her firstborn son.
She said, you remember what she said?
She said, I've gotten a man from the Lord, some seem to think
that, maybe she thought that was the Savior, but of course, it
wasn't man, had to be prepared for the coming of the Lord.
So ages as the ages swept past. Past.
We said other sacrifices which prefigured in for shattered the
coming of the Christ, we see on the knife that the children of
Israel left Egypt, we see a picture there.
They had developed into a mighty nation.
God appointed Moses to lead them out and Moses had showed Pharaoh
all of these wonderful signs plagues that were designed to
mail his over hard heart and let the children of Israel.
And he had resisted every one of them he would agree to it and
then he would he would change his mind.
God said I'm going to give you one more and he will let you go.
God told Moses. He said you this is what you
tell the Israelites in every house you take a lamb.
You take one that is without spot and blemish and you kill
that lamb and you take its blood and you put it in a basin and
then you take hyssop. And you dip that hyssop, in that
blood and you strike it on the lentils and doorposts of every
home, way back there and ol Egypt.
We see the sign of the cross. And God says, when I see the
blood, I will pass over you. That's where that term Passover
came from. And so that night, the children
of Israel with feet shod and with staff in hand and with
everything that they intended to take were ready and it midnight,
a cry went up all over each. Require the blood had not been
applied and the children of Israel made their exodus.
Yes. Away back there in Old Egypt.
We see in that Passover Lamb. The picture of the Christ, the
blood separated from the body, indicated, of course, the
picture of death and that foreshadowed that Christ who was
to come again. The day of atonement rolled
around among the Jewish nation, and on this day once a year, The
high priest took his victim, a bullet and he put his right hand
upon that victim's head and he put that knife between his
teeth. And then he took his left hand
and he took that knife and he cut that innocent victims,
throat and shed, its blood. And that the Bible says, he took
that blood and he made an atonement first for his own sins
and then for the sins of the people.
Hebrews says in Hebrews 10 and verse 1.
However, for the law, having a shadow of good things to come,
and not the very image of the things can never with those
sacrifices, which they offered year-by-year.
Make the comers thereunto. Perfect for then, would they not
have ceased to be offered? Because that the worshippers
once purged should have had no more conscience of sins?
But in those sacrifices, there is a remembrance of sins made of
a Sims every year. Here for it, is not possible
that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
All of those sacrifices, there was a remembrance, again, made
the scripture says every year, and finally, when Christ died
you see, he took away the sins of man.
Once for all the sacrifice on Calvary was once for all
incidentally. Once for all is a Translation of
the Greek word hapax. That's the one that's used for.
Once In, this passage in Hebrews and this word is of immense
significance and it's used several times in key statements
in the New Testament, for example, Christ has been
manifested in human form. Once for all we're told and
Hebrews 9 and 26, he suffered man's sins.
The righteous for the unrighteous were told in First
Peter 3:18 Teen. Once once, for all Christ died,
once for all Hebrews, 9 + 28, he offered his blood in heaven,
once for all Hebrews 9 and verses 12 and 26.
The faith that recognized Body of Proof, that was given to us.
Thief Faith was given delivered to the Saints once for all
according to Jude 3. It's appointed unto man once to
die once for all Hebrews 9 and verse 27.
Once for all God will shake the earth and the heavens that is to
remove them according to Hebrews 12 and verse 27, the glory of
Christ sacrifice as set forth here consists of the complete
the final. The irrevocable nature of his
offering it was not a something to be repeated it was once for
all those offerings and sacrifices He's under Judaism
were repeated year after year, after year, but Christ's
sacrifice was once for all. And this passage eliminates any
idea that the church should have something to offer or sacrifice
in such a thing as the mass for example, because the one and
only efficacious sacrifice has been offered in heaven where
alone it could do any good and by the only one capable of doing
it. And that's Course, the Lord.
Jesus Christ. You know, in some quarters there
is teaching that in the mass Christ is re sacrificed that's
the meaning of that word, the mass but you know, under
Christ's administration his sacrifice was once for all.
But this passage also reveals the true purpose of Jesus coming
into the world. It was not to begin an Earthly
Kingdom, it was not to erect an Earthly.
Throne Our own. It was not to restore a literal
Kingdom to Israel. It was to put away sin by the
sacrifice of himself and those who view the crucifixion of
Christ, as something other than God's plan and envision, from
the beginning, have failed to grasp.
The most fundamental teaching of all the scriptures.
You see, God's offering of himself in the person of his son
upon the cross. That's the sin quite on of all
human forgiveness, and salvation.
And when the writer of the Hebrew letter said there in
Hebrews 9, so Christ was once offered to Bear the sins of
many, it brought to mind that statement of Isaiah, and Isaiah
53, and verses, four through six, God indeed had laid upon
him, the iniquity of us all the chastisement of our peace was
upon him. We did Esteem him stricken of
God and Afflicted. The little Jewish hierarchy had
their little day with him. They humiliated him, they
crowned him with every conceivable insult, they
inflicted upon Christ. The most heinous punishment,
that could be known to the mind of, man.
He was despised and rejected of men.
And thus, he died for the sins of many, but after his death
there quickly appeared the Judgment of God upon Christ.
He arose from the dead, the Supreme Court of the universe
reverse the adversity, decision of the saint.
He, he'd run and the Roman procurator and Christ was
elevated to the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Yes. But now we see the sacrifice of
Christ. But there's another, but now and
that's here in Romans, 6 and verse 20 Where the Apostle said
for, when you were the Servants of sin, you were free from
righteousness. What fruit had you then in those
things, where I have your now, shamed, for the end of those
things is death. But now being made free from sin
and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto Holiness
and the end everlasting life for the wages of sin is death.
But the gift of God is eternal. I have through Jesus Christ.
Our Lord folks, this is a tremendous thought right here.
He said, one time you had, you had your life in sin, but now
now being made free from sin, what happened in the lives of
the Roman Christians, that cause them to cease to be Servants of
sin and become Servants of righteousness.
That's a question. I want to explore for just a
moment. Moment in the 6th chapter of
Romans and verse 16. Paul said, no, you're not.
The righteousness. God be thanked that you were the
Servants of Satan. But now he says you're become
the Servants of righteousness, what happened?
That caused people to cease to be Servants of sin, become the
Servants of righteousness. Alright, let's notice his words
again. He said God be thanked that you
were the Servants of sin. But ye have obeyed from the
heart that form of Doctrine, which was delivered.
You being then made free. Consuming, you became the
Servants of righteousness. Now, there was something that
happened in the lives of the Romans that caused them to cease
to be Servants of sin and become Servants of righteousness.
What was why? He said God be thanked that you
were the Servants of sin. But ye have obeyed from the
heart that form of Doctrine, which was delivered.
You what was that form of Doctrine?
Form is a likeness of any thing, isn't it?
You know what it is? When you're building something
like sidewalk, you'd you lay a form out, you fill it up with
liquid concrete and when it dries, it has that form.
You see, or maybe, maybe you want to make something else.
Maybe somebody wants to form something like a statue, and it
Bears, the likeness of whatever it is, that you're making.
I remember reading one of the Gospel preachers in Borden who
told that during when he was a boy.
He said that it was evidently after the Civil War and that he
had found some old bullet mold somewhere and he said there was
also a quantity of LED and they would have fun melting that led
getting it, hot and melting it and pouring it into the bullet
molds and making bullets. And he said then when they got
the bullets made They'd melt those down and recast them
again. Fun was in the making of the
bullet, you know? Finally, they used up all of
their lad and so they cast about to find something else to use
and got into his mother safe and found some biscuits and he took
the biscuit dough and poked it into the bullet moles.
And he said, they came out in the form of bullets, they were
biscuit bullets, sort of fly out.
And I mean, sort of flabby, E and pale but he said they were
bullets. They were shaped like bullies
but you know, I just want a mole does.
That's what a form. Does it it casts it into the
likeness of whatever the The Forum is.
Now there's a form of doctrine that they obey that caused them
to be to become Servants of righteousness, to cease to be
Servants of sin and become Servants of.
Right? What do you suppose?
That was Well let's look at what we are commanded to do to become
Christians were commanded to believe, partly, do you see and
believe anything that looks like a form of the doctrine somebody.
So what's the doctrine? Will Paul explained that First
Corinthians 15 and verse 3? He said I delivered unto you
that which I also received how that Christ died for our sins
and that he was buried and that he rose again.
Third day. Now that's the likeness.
Now, Paul said there that you will beta form of, that
Doctrine, which duck was delivered posted.
This is what I believe is, right here.
You see anything in belief that looks like this?
I submit you don't. That's a command.
We have to believe. Nothing.
And then we're commanded to repent.
You see anything in Repentance? That looks like this over here.
The death burial resurrection of Christ.
I'm Frank to say I don't well what we're commanded to confess
Christ with our mouth. Matthew 10:32, you see anything
here? That looks like this over here.
Not really no. But what about baptism?
You see anything at baptism? That's another command.
Jesus said, he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.
You see anything? Baptism that looks like this.
Let's look at Romans, 6 and verse 1 verse 4.
It is for, he says No, you're not but so many of us as were
baptized into Jesus. Christ were baptized into his
death. Therefore we are buried with him
by baptism into death like as Christ was raised up from the
dead by the glory of the father, even so we also should walk in
newness of life. Or if you've been planted
together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the
likeness of his resurrection. That's a beautiful picture is
now notice again. He said, God be thanked.
You were the Servants of sin but ye have obeyed from the heart.
That form of Doctrine which was delivered.
You being then made free from sin.
Ye became the Servants of righteousness, I think it's
obvious and evident what it is that makes us free from sin and
causes us to become children of God or Servants of
righteousness. What Paul did not say is
significant, he didn't say thank God.
You pray through or thank God you only believed he said thank
God. Yeah.
Have obeyed obeyed, what that form of Doctrine, which was
delivered. You now, when were they made
free from sin when they believe know?
When they prayed through those say that when the Holy Spirit
fell on them, no, according to Roman's 6, 17 and 18.
It was when they obeyed that form of Doctrine.
But I want to notice another now and that's the now of position.
Now, we've noticed the now of, Christ's sacrifice the now of
forgiveness. Now, we're in a blessed position
out of Christ's death on the cross and our obedience to the
gospel, grows another precious word here in Ephesians 2:13.
He said, but now in Christ Jesus, ye who sometimes were far
off are made nigh by the blood of Christ again and Ephesians 5
and 8. 84. You were sometimes Darkness.
But now are you light in the Lord?
Walk as children of light. Again, Peter puts it another
way. Peter said in First, Peter 2 and
25 for you, worry, sheep going astray.
But her now, returned under the shepherd and Bishop of your
souls seems like the Old Testament was in Paul's mind,
constantly, the background verse In this passage seems to be
Isaiah 57. And Obtain that says, I create
the fruit of the lips, peace, peace to him.
That is far off, and to him that is near sethe Lord.
I will heal him, but the wicked are like, the troubled sea.
When it cannot, rest, whose Waters cast up mire and dirt.
There is no peace saith. My God to the wicked, those
words far off. In both the Old Testament and
the New Testament are a reference.
To the Gentiles. That's what he's talking about
when he says them that are far off.
That's us, folks. Did you know that back in
ancient times, anything that was a far-off was held to be
detestable even among the pagans.
The English word, profane derives from a Latin word
protocol off on 0 which literally means for our off away
from the Temple. In other words, the utter
depravity of the whole pre-christian Gentile,
civilization is expressed by these words are far off.
They were far off from the temple, from covenant
relationship with God. Don't you see?
But the blood of Christ, cleanses from sin and makes it
possible for the profane, the far-off to enter the temple of
God? Patience to 14.
He says he is our peace who hath made both one and hath.
Broken down the middle wall of partition, having abolished in
his flesh, the Commandments contained in ordinances.
Again in Ephesians, these passages here, make a blessed
comparison of what we were with what we are.
He said we were dead in trespasses and sins.
We were walking according to the prince of the power of the air.
We were having our conversation in the lusts of our flesh,
fulfilling the desires of the Flesh, and of the mind, we were
by Nature the children of Wrath, even as others.
But now I want to counter the other.
Now that is his death on the cross and our obedience to the
gospel. We are in Christ work.
Quick and we're sitting in the Heavenly places.
We're no longer a far-off, but were made nigh by the blood of
Christ and were returned to the shepherd and Bishop of our
souls. It's that blessed position and
it's not after we die. It's now, but now he says, but I
would have consider another now and that's the now of practice.
You know are blessed position in Christ.
Forgiving is no excuse for folded hands and Pious laziness
anymore than it is the license to live as we please.
What we were and what we are impels us to consider, soberly
what we should be. What we should be.
Peter said in First Peter 2 and 9 you're a chosen people.
A chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, A
peculiar people. Yes, we're all of that, but this
is no place to stop reading. Let's go on.
He said that ye should Shew forth the Praises of him who
hath called you out of Darkness Into His Marvelous Light.
Now, Paul goes on to say, in Colossians 3 & 8, listen now,
but now you also put off all the These anger wrath malice
blasphemy filthy Communications out of your mouth and then
follows a list of practical duties and responsibilities
every day matters like lying domestic duties business duties.
You see, don't we see that what we should be and we should be in
practice. Now, what we are in profession,
we profess something. Now that we become Christians
and were to be in practice. What we profess, those whose
practice doesn't fit their profession.
Bring reproach upon the church, they tell the world that Christ,
and the church have done nothing for them.
And if you claim membership in the Lord's church, and you're
living in sin, let me tell you that you're hurting the church
because you You see the person who's out here, he just wants an
excuse for not being the Christian.
He wants to justify himself and so he measures himself by the
church member, who's not living a good life and he says, well,
I'm as good as he is, so I guess I'm all right, you see?
Because we're the only gospel that this old sinful world is
going to read. They're not going to read the
Bible. They don't look for Christ in
the Bible. They don't look for Christ in
nature but you know where they do look for Christ.
If you claim to be a Christian, they look for Christ in you.
If they cease in there instead of Christ, the church is hurt.
Here's a man over here somewhere who boast that, he's a church
member But in business, he puts over a shady deal at the
cocktail party. He drinks like everyone else out
on the golf course he uses profanity bets on the game.
He's not a good example. His life hurts the cause of
Christ. Somebody said that, you can take
a cork and put it in a bottle toss it into the ocean, and not
a drop of water will get into it.
And, you know, in the same way, if a man has sin in his life, he
can attend worship every Sunday, but no blessing can come to him
because he has that sin in his life.
Unless our practice fits our profession, we bring reproach
upon the cause of Christ. Now I'm going to say something
that may sound harsh but I really have been convinced for a
number of years that there's a lot of people on the face of
this Earth that are just going to hell with a lot of trouble
because they are not committed to Christ and to his cause.
So it's true, they attend worship at times, but they're
not faithful Christians. And what does it mean to be
faithful? You know the Bible says well
done thou good and faithful servant.
What does it mean to be a faithful Christian?
Well let's see. if I have a paper ball at home, that
supposed to deliver the paper every day, And he just delivers
that one day a week. Would you call that a faithful
Paperboy? I don't think so.
Suppose I had a car. And one day a week, that car
would start would that be a faithful dependable car?
Not really. I've convinced Sometimes some
are simply too slow for too lazy to be faithful.
Said that an ox and a mule one-time work together.
One day, the op said he'd had enough and he wasn't going to
work. So he stayed in the barn that
night he said to The Mule Did the boss say anything about my
not working today? And the mule said no, he didn't
say anything about you not working.
But I had a long talk with a butcher on the way home but you
know, God can't use lazy people. You check the Bible folks and
you'll see that the ones that God has used mightily have been
those who are busy. People who already working
Proverbs 19 and 24, says a slothful man.
Height of his hand in his bosom and will not so much as bring it
to his mouth again. What a picture of a man who's
even too lazy to feed himself. I'd heard this old story ever
since I was a child at home about some old worthless boy in
the community, who was just so lazy.
That he wouldn't provide for his family, too, lazy to do
anything. Finally, some neighbors, made it
up. They just going to take him to
the cemetery and bury him. Somebody said, well don't do
that. I'll give him a bushel of corn.
And said he raised his head up from off, the wagon looked over
and says his it shelled. They said, well, no, you'd have
to Shell it. He said drive on boys.
Well, you know, that's a picture of a lazy person and some people
are too lazy to get up on Sunday morning as you have today, and
attend worship too. Lazy to attend midweek Services,
too. Lazy to attend gospel meetings,
too lazy to do anything for God and others.
And yet, the only ones that are going to be saved according
Order to Jesus are those who are good?
And Faithful Servants, Matthew 25, and 23.
His lord said unto him. Well done.
Good. And faithful servant thou Hast
been Faithful over. A few things.
I will make thee ruler over many things.
Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.
What about us are? We faithful Christians but now I
want to notice one and then I'll be through this morning the now
of either calvary or condemnation.
Let's remember the awful consequence of rejecting, the
now of the Cross. And the now of gospel obedience
and that produces the now of blessed position and practice.
Abraham is speaking to the rich man in the 16th chapter of Luke,
And I know I've heard sermons on that one phrase of that
fearfully solemn passage son, remember but there are two other
words of terrible significance. In a Luke 16 and 25.
He said but Abraham said Son. Remember.
That thou and thy lifetime, receiveth.
I good things and alas, likewise Lazarus, evil things but now he
is comforted and thou are tormented You see, one time he'd
had it going his way. One time when he was leaving in
God's world, he drank God's water.
He breathe gods, are he enjoyed God?
Sunshine. He ate God's food.
But he serve the devil and now the situation is reversed.
Now, he says, you're tormented Lazarus, all he had was evil
thing. Now he is comforted what a
contrast, the rich fool thought, he had much Goods laid up for
many years. God said thou fool this night?
Shall thy Soul be required of the he and God were running on
different timetables. So there comes one day that
final retribution. The tables were turned we may
have had our way and other times but now it's sins, awful
penalty. And the only way out is through
his provision, it's either the now of calvary or the now of
condemnation. For the condemnation is now,
even though he'll comes later, you remember what Jesus said in
John 3:18 Jesus said he that believeth on me is not condemned
but he that believeth not is condemned already because he
hath, not believed in the name of the only begotten, Son of
God, you don't have to die to be lost.
The person who's lost is lost all the time.
Whether he's home or whether he's at way, whether it's at
night or in the daytime, doesn't matter.
He's lost all the time. And the only thing that stands
between him and that awful Abyss that we read about in the Bible
is the pulsations of his heart when that stops.
The now. Of condemnation takes hold.
However, if the condemnation is now.
So, is the Deliverance? Now the Bible said is the day of
salvation. Now, if we will believe and
Obey, as the scripture says, the work is done, He saved old
tonight as the old gospel song says, thank God for the fact
that we can obey now and receive that promise of our Lord.
I don't know how you stand with God today.
I don't know what your relationship with the Lord is,
but I know that every person here today knows exactly what
that is. You know, whether or not you've
ever obeyed, the gospel that will make you a new testament.
Christian, you know, whether you've ever believing, repented
of your sins confess Christ, then buried of the Lord and
baptism for the remission of sins.
But if you haven't done those things, that's the most urgent
business at hand for you. We thank you for listening to
our podcast, put on by the Church of Christ at 22:15 plans.
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