1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,080 Praise the Lord. We're going to turn now for 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:06,040 Bible reading. We're turning to Isaiah chapter 3 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:18,160 28, Isaiah chapter 28. I'm going to take time tonight 4 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:26,280 to read the first 17 verses. I was tempted to break into the 5 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:32,240 chapter. What is think that there's 6 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:34,640 things here that we should read together. 7 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:40,840 Isaiah chapter 28, we're reading from verse one. 8 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:49,080 Notice the first word. It's woe. 9 00:00:49,160 --> 00:00:55,280 It speaks of judgement. That's the theme this chapter, 10 00:00:55,520 --> 00:01:03,920 Isaiah 28 verse one. Woe to the crown of pride, to 11 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:10,440 the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading 12 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:16,520 flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are 13 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:22,880 overcome with wine. Behold, the Lord hath a mighty 14 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:28,760 and strong one, which, as a Tempest of heel and a destroying 15 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:33,680 storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast 16 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:37,400 down to the earth with the hand the crown of pride. 17 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:42,000 The drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under feet, and the 18 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:46,080 glorious beauty which is on the head of the fat valley shall be 19 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:50,720 as a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer, 20 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:56,720 which, when he that looketh upon it seeth while it is yet in His 21 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:00,360 hand, the eateth it up. In that day shall the Lord of 22 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:05,440 hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty unto 23 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:09,680 the residue of His people, and for a spurt of judgement to Him 24 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:13,720 that sitteth in judgement, and for strength to them that turn 25 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:18,640 the battle to the gate. But they also have erred through 26 00:02:18,640 --> 00:02:22,280 wine and through strong drink are out of the way. 27 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:26,920 The priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they 28 00:02:26,920 --> 00:02:30,200 are swallowed up of wine. They are out of the way. 29 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,520 Through strong drink the air and vision they stumble in 30 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:36,880 judgement. For all tables are full of vomit 31 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:40,560 and filthiness, so that there is no place clean. 32 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:45,760 Whom shall he teach knowledge, and whom shall he make to 33 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:49,520 understand doctrine? Them that are weaned from the 34 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:54,080 milk and drawn from the breasts. For precept must be upon 35 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:59,240 precept, precept upon precept, lying upon line, lying upon 36 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:01,280 line, here a little, and there a little. 37 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:05,600 For with stammering lips, and with and another tongue will he 38 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:10,600 speak to this people. To whom he said, This is the 39 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:14,360 rest, wherewith you may cause the weary to rest. 40 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:19,840 And this is the refreshing Yet they would not hear, but the 41 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:24,920 word of the Lord was unto them, precept upon precept, precept 42 00:03:24,920 --> 00:03:28,760 upon precept, line upon line, line upon line. 43 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:32,200 Hear a little, and there a little, that they may go and 44 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:35,720 fall backward, and be broken and snared and taken. 45 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:40,880 Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men that rule 46 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:45,040 this people, which isn't Jerusalem, because ye have said 47 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:48,960 we've made a covenant with death and with hell. 48 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:53,760 Are we at agreement? When the overflowing scourge 49 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:59,720 shall pass through, it shall not come unto us, For we have made 50 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:04,480 lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves. 51 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:09,040 Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a 52 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:14,160 fountain, a foundation, a stone, a tried stone, a precious 53 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:18,720 cornerstone, a sure foundation. He that believeth shall not make 54 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:21,600 haste. Judgement also will lay to the 55 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:25,000 line, and righteousness to the plummet, and the heel shall 56 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:30,960 sweep away the refuge of lies, and the water shall overflow the 57 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:32,680 hiding place. Amen. 58 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:35,600 We know God will stamp with His own approval and blessing this 59 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:38,520 reading of His own precious and infallible word. 60 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:42,520 Now. Now, my text tonight is taken 61 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:47,720 from Isaiah chapter 28 and the verse 17. 62 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:52,880 Judgement also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the 63 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:57,240 plummet, and the heel shall sweep away the refuge of lies, 64 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:01,880 and the water shall overflow the hiding place. 65 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:08,160 Now I've entitled this message rejecting the refuge of lies. 66 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:14,280 Now as you think through this subject, I want you to think of 67 00:05:14,280 --> 00:05:20,120 the following truths. First of all, I want to expose 68 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:28,160 the faulty refuge of lies. You see, the words refuge of 69 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:38,000 lies or the refuge of lies teach us this, that it's a refuge in 70 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:43,400 name only. It's a faulty refuge. 71 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:49,640 It's a faulty refuge that will not stand up to the test. 72 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:53,920 In the midst of the storm. You see, a refuge of lives gives 73 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:59,160 a false sense of security and a false sense of protection. 74 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:04,040 It's looked upon as a refuge that's safe and secure, but of 75 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,760 course it doesn't stand up to the scrutiny of the test. 76 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:11,840 There's a day coming when it will be tested, and in that day 77 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:17,080 it'll be discovered to what it actually is in reality, a refuge 78 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:19,600 of lies. Fault will be found once the 79 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:22,040 test is applied. So I want you to think with me 80 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:26,880 now of a storm. Well, think of a Category 4 or 81 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:30,880 Category 5 storm, something like a hurricane and you're there in 82 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:35,320 your holidays and you're in a wee tin hot on the beach. 83 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:38,800 Just a lot of corrugated bits of iron nailed together. 84 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:42,040 Or maybe it's one of them nice rooting wooden structures, 85 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:45,320 whether it's round or a hexagon shape or, or maybe it's it's 86 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:47,720 made of some sort of bamboo cane. 87 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,480 And you think to yourself, sitting there on the beach, 88 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:55,040 here's a hurricane coming. You've been told force Category 89 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:57,480 4. And you think to yourself, well, 90 00:06:57,520 --> 00:06:59,320 I'll be safe. I'm OK. 91 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:02,160 I'm in my little tin hot. I'm in my wooden structure. 92 00:07:02,280 --> 00:07:06,200 I've got my bamboo shelter here. And you're forgetting something. 93 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:13,160 You're forgetting the power of the wind, 405060708090 miles an 94 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:15,480 hour. And you'll discover at that 95 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:19,160 moment when it hits that your shelter is no good. 96 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:25,520 Your shelter is not strong enough, it's not going to hold 97 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:27,760 up. And that's the picture here. 98 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:32,280 It says, And the heel shall sweep away the refuge of lies, 99 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:37,000 and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. 100 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:42,160 You see, the storm is the test. And when the heel beats upon it, 101 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:47,200 and whenever the waters overflow the structure, you will discover 102 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:51,160 that it's not strong enough to meet the standard. 103 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:55,440 Hurricane season is alive and well in the United States of 104 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:58,160 America. In the past, it has engulfed the 105 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:03,200 Caribbean, the southern USA and New Mexico, and it has brought 106 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:07,880 terrible destruction of people's livelihoods and properties in 107 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:09,920 its wake. People have lost their houses, 108 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:12,720 their cars, their business have been destroyed. 109 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:16,360 The loss of life, of course, but that's another level. 110 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:19,920 But do you know this in every storm? 111 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:23,200 Category 4. Category 5, United States of 112 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:26,080 America. Folks are warned by law 113 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:31,080 enforcement. Media outlets go wall to wall. 114 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:37,640 The police are involved. People are told protect 115 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:42,520 yourself. Get to a special shelter, get to 116 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:46,360 a place of refuge. If you don't, you're endangering 117 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:50,640 yourself and your families. For those that think, well it'll 118 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:56,880 be OK, it'll miss my wee house, we will be OK, you could 119 00:08:56,880 --> 00:09:06,600 discover in its path that you have a faulty shelter that feels 120 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:11,000 you in the are of need. And you see, if you don't heed 121 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:14,760 the warning and you ignore it and set it to the one side. 122 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:18,760 Isn't there a spiritual application here in the eternal 123 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:20,920 realm? What about the realm of the 124 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:23,640 soul? Remember the Lord Jesus said 125 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:29,800 this in Mark chapter 8. He told us there in Mark chapter 126 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:33,880 8 and verse 36. For what shall it profit a man 127 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:36,400 if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? 128 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:39,440 Or what shall a man give an exchange for his soul? 129 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:43,440 You see, the most important possession that you have is your 130 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:48,920 precious immortal soul. Think of the realm of eternal 131 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:52,880 punishment of the wicked Matthew chapter 10 and verse 28. 132 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:55,640 And fear not them which killed the body but are not able to 133 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:59,600 kill the soul, but rather fear him who is able to destroy both 134 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:03,880 soul and body in hell. What about the realm of the 135 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:06,640 coming day of wrath and judgement upon the world? 136 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:11,680 10s of thousands of people are told and given time prepared to 137 00:10:11,680 --> 00:10:14,840 meet thy God. They're called upon to repent, 138 00:10:15,560 --> 00:10:22,040 but many sadly, in their mind, they're living in and holding on 139 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:26,800 to what we really have to say is a faulty refuge of their own 140 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:29,520 making. And they're not aware how faulty 141 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:32,320 it is. There's not aware that that 142 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:38,200 there's it's an unsafe refuge and they don't feel the urge or 143 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:41,560 the need to evacuate to a place of shelter. 144 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:46,040 They have no shelter in the time of storm. 145 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:49,720 Or maybe we could say it's not that they have no refuge. 146 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:52,520 They don't feel the need of the refuge. 147 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:56,960 It's an offer. And when the heel comes and when 148 00:10:56,960 --> 00:11:02,560 the storm of judgement comes, it sweeps them away and the storm 149 00:11:02,560 --> 00:11:06,920 exposes and destroys their faulty refuge. 150 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:11,920 It's ineffable. It's going to happen carelessly, 151 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:17,160 lately judging ourselves, but the Lord won't. 152 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:25,320 The Lord, by careful observation and by personal observation, can 153 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:31,480 expose the faulty refuge. I want you to think about the 154 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:33,920 refuge that you're hiding in tonight. 155 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:39,040 Will your refuge satisfy your accusing conscience? 156 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:41,200 See each of us have a conscience. 157 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:44,880 A conscience is like God's detective in the soul. 158 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:51,280 The question is this, will your refuge self silence the voice of 159 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:56,800 your accusing conscience? See old John the Apostle said 160 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:02,800 this in First John chapter 3 and in the verse 10. 161 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:08,520 He made this amazing statement. First John 3 and verse 10. 162 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,640 In this the children of God are manifested in the children of 163 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:14,120 the devil. Whosoever doeth not 164 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:18,640 righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his 165 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:21,600 brother. And in verse 20 we read For if 166 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:25,080 our heart condemn us not, God is greater than our heart and 167 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:30,720 knoweth all things. Each of us have a refuge, A 168 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:34,560 refuge for own making, one that we depend upon. 169 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:44,800 But the reality is that this refuge is a a refuge of lies, 170 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:49,120 and God who knows all things knows that this faulty refuge 171 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:52,640 will not satisfy your accusing conscience. 172 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:57,240 Let me ask another question. Will your refuge separate you 173 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:02,600 from the slavish part of sin? We believe that we're saved unto 174 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:06,400 holiness. Remember in Romans 6 and 14 175 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:08,840 we're told, for sin shall not have dominion over you, for 176 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:11,320 you're not under law, but under grace. 177 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:13,760 Now when we're born again of the Spirit, we're not being 178 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:17,080 automatically sinless, but the power of sin is broken. 179 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:19,200 He breaks the power of cancelled sin. 180 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:22,640 He sets the prisoner free. The reality of the child of God 181 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:26,320 that's now in Christ is no longer controlled by sin. 182 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:29,760 And here's a spiritual test. Do I hate sin? 183 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:35,680 Do I love righteousness? Do I rejoice in the testing 184 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:41,040 that's coming? It was John Owen that said this. 185 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:45,840 When the Holy Spirit sanctifies A believer, he does a complete 186 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:49,440 work on them. He puts into their mind and will 187 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:53,400 and hearts a gracious supernatural principle which 188 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:57,480 fills them with a holy desire to live unto God. 189 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:05,440 The whole life of holiness lies in this refuge. 190 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:09,280 You think of a builder, He's coming in to inspect the 191 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:11,920 building that's been built. He not only looks over it with 192 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:16,400 his eye, but he uses the line. He uses the plummet. 193 00:14:16,560 --> 00:14:19,120 The line in the plummet, judgement also what I laid to 194 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:20,920 the line and righteousness to the plummet. 195 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:23,520 The line in the plummet has to do with the construction 196 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:27,000 industry. It's connected to building and 197 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:31,480 the builder comes to to examine the building. 198 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:35,280 Is this wall straight? Is this wall strong? 199 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:39,640 Is this wall going to stand? So it's checked carefully. 200 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:45,880 It's it's observed closely. Is it going to, to, to pass the, 201 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:52,000 the, the, the inspection? That's the idea here. 202 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:55,520 Spiritually, God will get his line. 203 00:14:55,920 --> 00:15:01,040 God will use his plummet against what we are hiding in to examine 204 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:09,080 us and expose if it's a a faulty refuge, will you have a refuge 205 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:11,000 that secures you in the hour of death? 206 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:17,240 See, one day will die, will discover this truth, that the 207 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:21,560 Lord Jesus, not when he died, deceive us from an everlasting 208 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:28,000 burning hail, and from the power of consequences of sin, but 209 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:31,200 deceive US1 day from the power of death itself. 210 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:37,520 Dost thy fear death? Remember what Paul said that 211 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:40,600 about Timothy. He wrote to Timothy, and he said 212 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:44,480 this in First Timothy, Second Timothy, chapter 2, verse 12, 213 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:47,240 for the which 'cause I also suffer these things, 214 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:50,720 nevertheless I'm not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, 215 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:52,960 and I'm persuaded that he's able to keep that which I've 216 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:55,520 committed unto him against that day. 217 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:58,400 That was the day of death. That was the day of judgement 218 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:03,440 was coming and and will your refuge stand the ultimate test 219 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:05,920 of death. It was John and Charles Wesley 220 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:09,320 who left a woman whom they'd led to the Lord. 221 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:13,520 The woman had passed away, gone into God's eternity, and they 222 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:16,840 left the house. And one said to the other, our 223 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:20,360 people die well because they die in Christ. 224 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:23,320 Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord. 225 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:28,080 And in the day of our death we need a sound and secure hiding 226 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:31,040 place. Not only a hiding place that 227 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:35,360 saves us from hell, but but saves us from facing the wrath 228 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:40,200 of a sin hating God. Will your refuge save you in the 229 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:44,000 final hour of judgement? Remember we read this morning 230 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:50,080 Revelation chapter 6 and we read these words again and said to 231 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:53,720 the mountains and rocks fallen us, and hide us from the face of 232 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:56,480 him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb. 233 00:16:56,920 --> 00:17:01,680 Revelation 616 verse 17 For the great day of his wrath has come, 234 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:06,040 and who shall be able to stand? See judgement is coming. 235 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:11,640 And here's the question, where are you hiding? 236 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:14,880 You need to examine your heart and life tonight. 237 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:19,839 You need to ask yourself, am I hiding in a faulty refuge? 238 00:17:21,599 --> 00:17:25,560 You see, you need a refuge from the destructive power of an 239 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:28,319 accusing conscience. Maybe your conscience is 240 00:17:28,319 --> 00:17:31,400 accusing you now of guilt releasing to sin. 241 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:36,120 You need a refuge from the damning power of inbred sin. 242 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:40,680 You need a refuge from the devilish power of Satan. 243 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:46,120 You need a refuge from the devouring power of death that's 244 00:17:46,120 --> 00:17:51,120 never satisfied, and you need a refuge from the destroying power 245 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:55,440 of coming eternal judgement. And how many rationalise? 246 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:58,560 How many deny that they need such a refuge? 247 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:02,440 How many distort what the refuge really is? 248 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:06,560 How many distrust the need of such a refuge? 249 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:09,160 But the question of question is this? 250 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:14,200 Is this a true refuge, or is it a faulty refuge? 251 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:19,520 It needs to be put to the test. It needs to be exposed by the 252 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:23,280 line and the plummet judgement also. 253 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:26,480 When I lay to the line, that's God's judgement and 254 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:29,640 righteousness to the plummet. That's God's righteousness. 255 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:32,120 And God applies those two principles. 256 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:37,480 He judges righteously according to his mind and will. 257 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:41,760 The second thing tonight I want you to think about is this. 258 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:49,840 Not only expose the faulty refuge of lies, but examine the 259 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:57,320 false refuge of lies. You see, there is a refuge today 260 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:03,880 of foolish boasting. You talk to people, but getting 261 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:07,400 saved, coming to repentance and faith in Christ. 262 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:11,200 People start saying things like this, but you know, I'm 263 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:16,120 basically a good person and kind and honest and sincere. 264 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:20,840 I'm morally upright. I'm definitely not as bad as 265 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:23,080 that other man or woman. And they start telling you about 266 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:26,400 some woman in some street or some place that they know of, or 267 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:30,640 maybe even using the scripture analogy, I'm not as bad as that 268 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:37,600 publican in Luke 18. See, the mindset is I don't do 269 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:41,600 what they do. And they measure themselves not 270 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:45,920 by the 10 commandments, not by God's standard of absolute 271 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:50,160 sinners, perfection and holiness, but by themselves. 272 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:54,200 And they rationalise and they have a refuge of foolish 273 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:56,400 boasting that they hide in and they think, well, I'm not a 274 00:19:56,400 --> 00:20:00,640 thief, I'm not a murderer, I'm not a an adulterer. 275 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:04,840 Just ask my friend, ask my neighbours, ask my family. 276 00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:09,080 I don't do anybody any harm. And you see people that Felicity 277 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:13,760 boast like that there. They do not see the need of the 278 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:18,040 refuge in Christ. The reality is they don't really 279 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:21,440 know them true cells. They don't know their own heart 280 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:25,200 because the Bible says the heart is deceitful and above all 281 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:28,000 things, desperately wicked and. Who can know it? 282 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,800 And that word desperately means it's it's utterly wicked. 283 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:33,840 It's it's incurable in and of itself. 284 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:38,240 If you turn over there to the book of Romans in Romans chapter 285 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:43,600 3, it was the late Doctor Paisley one time had preached a 286 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:48,840 sermon on 4 Roman nuns and they're found in Romans chapter 287 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:53,000 3 as it is written. This is a reference to the Old 288 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:56,960 Testament Scriptures quoted from Psalm 14. 289 00:20:57,680 --> 00:20:59,720 There is none righteous. No, not one. 290 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:03,440 There's the first one. There's none that understandeth. 291 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:06,560 There's the second one. There's none that seeketh after 292 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:08,360 God. There's the third one. 293 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,320 And here's the 4th 1. They're all gone out of the way. 294 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:13,120 They are together, become unprofitable. 295 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:15,720 There's none that doeth good. No, not one. 296 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:20,480 There is none righteous, there's none that understandeth in and 297 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:23,560 of themselves, there's none that seeketh after God, there's none 298 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:26,920 that doeth good. No, not one. 299 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:31,120 There's the four Roman nuns. Do you know that in the top of 300 00:21:31,120 --> 00:21:33,920 our High Street in Belfast, there's the Albert Clock. 301 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:40,080 It's an old landmark. It's got four sides, it's got 302 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:42,520 four faces. And you see sometimes in 303 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:46,160 Belfast, as the way people talk, he has more faces than the 304 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:49,280 Albert Clock. What does that mean? 305 00:21:50,360 --> 00:21:52,600 That means there's different sides to them. 306 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:57,280 And how many people have a refuge of foolish boasting 307 00:21:57,480 --> 00:21:59,480 because they've got this mindset? 308 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:04,320 I am basically a good person when the Bible says there's none 309 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:09,560 good, no, not one that is none capable of being spiritually 310 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:16,160 good in and of themselves. Character in Pilgrim's Progress 311 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:21,080 called Mr Morality and there's a lot of people like him in 312 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,960 Northern Ireland. They check a list. 313 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:27,640 Here's the things I do. I give to charity. 314 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:31,720 I speak honestly. My word is my bond. 315 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:38,160 I act morally. But you know, morality cannot 316 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:42,320 save you. Morality cannot make you holy, 317 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:48,600 and a gospel of good news that doesn't change you and make you 318 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:54,280 holy is not the gospel. And for those that for whom it 319 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:57,640 is written, there's none righteous, and none that 320 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:01,160 understandeth, and none that seeketh after God, and none that 321 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:02,840 doeth good. Here's the message. 322 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:06,920 No, not one for all of sinned and come short of the glory of 323 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:11,880 God and his righteousness. That's Paul's summary in Romans 324 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,800 3 and 23. And the word for all of sin then 325 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,600 comes short. It doesn't mean just by a little 326 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:19,000 bit. You've got to think of an Archer 327 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,880 firing a bow and arrow at a target. 328 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:25,240 And it's not that he's just missed by a little bit. 329 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:30,680 He, he's a mile off. It's, it's, it's so far that you 330 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:36,080 can't really begin to fathom it. He has fallen so short of the 331 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:38,320 standard. He's not even close. 332 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:41,560 He's, he's full of his self righteousness. 333 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:45,600 And how many have a refuge of foolish boasting? 334 00:23:47,360 --> 00:23:51,760 I'm basically a good person. What about a refuge of finite 335 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:55,240 behaviour? You see, many point to their 336 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:57,880 church attendance as we talk to them about the gospel. 337 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:01,520 They talk about their good works and their religiosity. 338 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:07,040 They tell us, well, I attended this church as a boy and that's 339 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:10,280 good. I have no problem with church 340 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:13,560 affiliation. They might even produce and say, 341 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:16,960 look, I've got a baptismal certificate, I've got a 342 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:19,560 confirmation document, and that's good. 343 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:23,360 I'm not knocking that. But that's not the matter. 344 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:27,840 There's no saving merit in church affiliation or 345 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:31,400 attendance. There's no saving merit in 346 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:35,280 baptism certificate or confirmation documents. 347 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:39,800 There's no saving merit in any meritorious behaviour. 348 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:45,560 It's all false and finite. You think of those? 349 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:49,200 Well, but I pray the Lord's Prayer every night before I go 350 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,280 to bed. What about reading the Bible? 351 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:54,280 Search. I read the Bible everyday. 352 00:24:55,320 --> 00:25:01,400 I go to church on a Sunday. But here's the point, whether 353 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:04,560 you're offering prayer, reading the Bible, going to church, 354 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:10,240 being good, being loving and kind and sincere doesn't save 355 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:12,080 you. That's the point. 356 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:15,040 It's a refuge of finite behaviour. 357 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:19,040 Because come to the book and the book says not by works of 358 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,960 righteousness what we have done, but according to his mercy he 359 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:26,080 have saved us for by greasy you see it through faith and not not 360 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:29,200 of yourself. It's the gift of God, not of 361 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:31,640 works list any man. Suppose you're not saved because 362 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:33,960 you say prayers, even the Lord's Prayer. 363 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:36,200 You're not saved because you read the Bible. 364 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:38,520 You're not saved because you go to church. 365 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:42,000 No, no salvation isn't Christ alone. 366 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:46,120 We're saved by Christ alone through faith alone. 367 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:55,000 Someone has rightly said the more simply and entirely the 368 00:25:55,000 --> 00:26:00,000 believing soul lives in Christ, the more enlarged, the more 369 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:06,560 experimental and the more practical will be his ideas of 370 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:08,880 all truth. What is truth? 371 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,520 Octavius Winslow said that, and here's the answer. 372 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:15,040 Jesus says I'm the way, the truth, the life. 373 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:17,640 No man comes unto the Father but by me. 374 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:22,440 You see, multitudes are leaning upon a refuge of lies, a refuge 375 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,760 of foolish boasting, a refuge of finite behaviour. 376 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:32,000 They believe that all of this meritorious behaviour will 377 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:37,320 eventually get them into heaven. Now they're not saved by 378 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:41,920 meritorious behaviour. Good works will not get you into 379 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:45,880 heaven. We're not saved by them, but 380 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:47,800 we're certainly not saved without them. 381 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:50,480 Because we're saved on to good works. 382 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:53,040 Good works follow. That's the evidence that we have 383 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:58,080 faith in Christ. Let me suggest something else, a 384 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:02,160 refuge of fruitless beliefs. See, there is a belief today 385 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:03,840 that all you have to be is sincere. 386 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:11,840 Be nice, be neighbourly, be loving and kind and honest. 387 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:15,040 It's like the song all you need is love. 388 00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:19,480 Now that's a false gospel. That's not the gospel of the New 389 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:21,200 Testament. See. 390 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:24,600 See one of the fruitless beliefs today is this, and it's rife in 391 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:27,840 Northern Ireland. A God of love will not send 392 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:31,280 anyone to hell. He will not damn anyone. 393 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:35,080 That's a big fat lie. I've already quoted Romans or 394 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:40,080 sorry, Matthew chapter 10 and in the verse 28, listen to the Lord 395 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,760 Jesus and fear not them which kill the body but are not able 396 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:46,680 to kill the soul, but rather fear him which is able to 397 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,240 destroy both soul and body in hell. 398 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:51,240 Who said that? That was the Lord Jesus Christ 399 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:53,120 himself. And every one time that the Lord 400 00:27:53,120 --> 00:27:56,200 Jesus spoke about heaven, he spoke 13 times about hell. 401 00:27:56,320 --> 00:28:00,440 You see, we need to rediscover what's written actually in the 402 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,920 Scriptures. There's a man called Doctor Rod 403 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:07,480 Bale. He used to be faithful to the 404 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:09,880 blood. In the book, something happened. 405 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:14,840 He wrote a book. He called it Loves Wins. 406 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:18,480 He changed his mind on the doctrine of hell and the 407 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:20,880 doctrine of everlasting punishment. 408 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:26,880 I believe that that book sets forth the distorted definition 409 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:31,560 of the holy love of God. There's a false premise there 410 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,840 that love wins in the end. It's it's like the doctrine of 411 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:40,400 universalism. I was given another book before 412 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:44,480 one of my dear friends whom I had the privilege of burying 413 00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:48,760 passed away. It was written by a man called 414 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:56,840 Doctor Fudge, and he was fudging the issue because he said this 415 00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:00,800 in his book. The fire of Hell is not Eternal, 416 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:06,440 and he admitted in the book that what he had just written is 417 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:09,520 totally contrary to the teaching of the Scriptures. 418 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:16,320 I remember pointing that out to the law and to the testimony. 419 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:20,240 If they speak not according to this word is because there's no 420 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,440 light in them. And we know that the body dies, 421 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:26,680 and we know that death is the soul leaving the body and 422 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:30,840 goodnight into God's eternity. And the soul lives on either in 423 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:35,960 the triumph and bliss of eternal life, because he that believeth 424 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:43,080 hath everlasting life. Soul will either live on in the 425 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:47,480 bliss of heaven or in the terrors and burning of an 426 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:49,800 endless hell. Think of the rich man in hell 427 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:54,800 tonight. No escape tormented in this 428 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:58,880 flame. Here, here's a 4th 1A refuge. 429 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:05,200 A fault finding blame game. This is very popular. 430 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:11,240 What the game is this? You minimise your own sins and 431 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:13,960 shortcomings. You confess. 432 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,080 Well, well, I'm not perfect, but nobody is. 433 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:19,240 And then you start arguing. But if so and so, as a 434 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:24,200 Christian, his lifestyle is far worse than mine. 435 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:28,040 He's a hypocrite, a rotten, stinking hypocrite. 436 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:29,800 And that's what I've been told about some. 437 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:33,280 And I'm not like him, therefore I'm better than him. 438 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:36,200 And what is it? It's a refuge of fault finding, 439 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:39,360 blame game. You're hiding behind the man 440 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:43,560 who's a professing hypocrite. You're hiding behind the woman 441 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,360 and you're using your fault finding as an excuse. 442 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:54,360 I pointed this out to one man. That's not good because you're 443 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:58,600 still a vile guilty Sinner like him or her before God. 444 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:03,280 And your fault finding will not exonerate you in the day of 445 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:07,280 judgement. You can issue your list of good 446 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:11,000 deeds or your bad deeds, but will not exonerate you in that 447 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:15,680 day and you're not answerable to God for that man or woman. 448 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:22,200 What about you tonight? Will you expose the faulty 449 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:27,240 refuge of lies? Will you examine the false 450 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:31,480 refuge of lies? This refuge of foolish boasting, 451 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:35,320 finite behaviour, fruitless beliefs, fault finding, blame 452 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:37,600 game? These are only some of the 453 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:41,720 refuge of lies that people hide in so they don't have to obey 454 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:44,600 the call to repent and believe the gospel. 455 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:49,880 One final thing, I want you to think of something else as we 456 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:53,520 finish. Embrace the faithful refuge of 457 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:57,760 the Lord. If you think of the words in the 458 00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,280 verse 16. Therefore, thus saith the Lord 459 00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:01,920 God. Behold, I lay in Zion for a 460 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:05,920 foundation, a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a 461 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,440 sure foundation. He that believeth shall not make 462 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:13,040 haste. You see Jesus Christ tonight as 463 00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:17,400 a saving refuge. Behold, I lay in Zion for a 464 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:21,560 foundation, a stone, a tried stone, a precious stone, a sure 465 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:24,960 foundation. He that believeth shall not make 466 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:27,880 haste. The Lord Jesus is not only a 467 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,320 saving refuge, but is a sure refuge. 468 00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:34,600 He's been tried and tested. The Lord Jesus is precious. 469 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:40,880 He's a satisfying refuge, and these words here in verse 16 are 470 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:43,160 a prophecy concerning the Lord Jesus. 471 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:46,560 It's also a sanctifying refuge. And if we were to turn to Acts 472 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:52,640 chapter 4 verse 11, Romans 9 and 33, Romans 10 and verse 11, 473 00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:58,680 First Corinthians 3 verse 11, Ephesians 2 and 20 and 21, and 474 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,440 first Peter chapter 2 verse 68, you'll discover that the New 475 00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:07,800 Testament picks up these words, Isaiah 8 and 16, and relates 476 00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:12,680 them and reveals them to be a prophecy concerning the Lord 477 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:17,080 Jesus Christ. Embrace the faithful refuge of 478 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,000 the Lord. Who is he? 479 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:21,200 He's the Lord Jesus Christ himself. 480 00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:26,880 He's a saving, sure, satisfying, sanctifying refuge. 481 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:33,880 If you look at Isaiah chapter 32 for a moment, it says this in 482 00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:36,800 the verse 2. And a man shall be as an hiding 483 00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:40,440 place from the wind and a covered from The Tempest, as 484 00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:44,440 rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadows of a great rock 485 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:48,240 in a weary land. Not a man who knows about the 486 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:53,600 refuge, not even a man who provides A refuge, but a man 487 00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:57,880 shall be as an hiding place from the wind. 488 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:01,120 And that man is the Lord Jesus Christ. 489 00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:06,720 And that means the place of the refuge is available. 490 00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:13,199 You know, in the hurricane season, Category 4, Category 5A 491 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:16,880 policeman comes and knocks at your door. 492 00:34:18,159 --> 00:34:22,040 He tells you about the danger. He tells you that there's a 493 00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,880 shelter provided. He gives you the information as 494 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:28,600 to where the shelter is. He urges you to heed the 495 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:32,960 warning. He tells you the place of refuge 496 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:37,239 is available. But you, of course, tonight, as 497 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:41,880 in any time of the hurricane season in the United States, you 498 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:45,639 have to make that decision. Nobody's going to force you out 499 00:34:45,639 --> 00:34:48,760 of your home. You have to make that choice 500 00:34:49,199 --> 00:34:51,600 over there in the book of Hebrews, and we'll finish with 501 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,440 this. In Hebrews 6 and verse 17, we 502 00:34:54,440 --> 00:35:09,600 read this Hebrews chapter 6 and verse 17, wherein God willing 503 00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:13,400 more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the 504 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:17,520 immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath, that by 505 00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:21,760 two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to lie, 506 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,280 made of a strong consolation, and listened to these words. 507 00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:27,960 Verse 18. Hebrews 6, verse 18. 508 00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:34,240 Who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before 509 00:35:34,240 --> 00:35:37,000 us. Think of these words fled for 510 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,880 refuge. And let me finish with a true 511 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:46,280 story told by Doctor RA Torre. He said there was a man in his 512 00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:55,280 neighbourhood who was a very educated man who loved life, who 513 00:35:55,280 --> 00:36:02,280 was very wealthy, a man who was proud, a man who maybe in some 514 00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:06,280 respects was behave like a know all and wouldn't listen to the 515 00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:08,520 call to repent and believe the gospel. 516 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:12,080 That man lived like that for many years, never darkened the 517 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:18,760 door of Doctor Tory's church. That man fell sick, became I'll, 518 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:23,080 was diagnosed with the disease, sent for Doctor Tory. 519 00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:26,360 Dr Tory was surprised when he got the call to go and visit 520 00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:28,040 this man. So she knew all about him. 521 00:36:28,240 --> 00:36:31,160 There's no all highly educated, very wealthy man. 522 00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:34,720 And he went to his bedside. And this is what the man said to 523 00:36:34,720 --> 00:36:38,320 Doctor Tory. What must I do to become a 524 00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:42,680 Christian? I wish I was a Christian now, 525 00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:47,120 Doctor Tory, I wish I was a Christian. 526 00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:52,080 As far as I'm led to believe. Doctor Tory pointed him to the 527 00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:54,760 Lamb of God which taketh the way, the sin of the world, and 528 00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:58,040 said to him to flee for refuge to Christ. 529 00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:00,440 And that's what I urge you to do today. 530 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:04,120 Maybe you're thinking and saying that in your heart, I wish I was 531 00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:06,440 a Christian. If you want to become a 532 00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:10,040 Christian tonight, you want to be born again of the Spirit, 533 00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:15,960 then flee to Christ because Christ is the only refuge. 534 00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:20,720 He's a saving refuge. He's a sure refuge. 535 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:25,280 He's a satisfying refuge. He's a sanctifying refuge. 536 00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:28,560 He's the only refuge that you need. 537 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:32,560 Embrace the faithful refuge of the Lord. 538 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:37,200 Behold, I will make a man to be a hiding place. 539 00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:40,720 Are you hiding in Christ, the Rock of Ages? 540 00:37:40,720 --> 00:37:47,880 Tonight, let's expose the faulty refuge of lies, let's examine 541 00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:54,320 the false refuge of lies, and let's embrace the faithful 542 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:56,320 refuge of the Lord.