1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:04,120 I want to read a wee verse of Scripture and it says in Psalm 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:09,680 107 these words, let the redeemed of the Lord say so, 3 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:13,200 whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy. 4 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:18,720 I want to tell you tonight, when I became a Christian, I became a 5 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:26,360 Christian at the age of 18, one day before my 18th birthday was 6 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:30,480 not some birthday present. You see, nobody's born into a 7 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:34,320 Christian country. Nobody's born a Christian in the 8 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:37,040 sense of being in a Christian home. 9 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:41,320 Keep that thought in mind and we'll ask ourselves a second 10 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:44,640 question. Why did I become a Christian? 11 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:50,360 Because at the age of 18, I found myself in a tent mission. 12 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:53,480 I had been invited by a man at work. 13 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:57,640 At this point in my life I was addicted to booze. 14 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:05,080 I have to tell you, to my shame I was a boozer, a cursor, a 15 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:10,680 fighter and a womaniser. My philosophy as a young man was 16 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:15,200 wine and women and so on. And from the age of 11 and 12, 17 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:18,160 you'd have found me hanging about Kelly's nightclub. 18 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:23,040 I was there on Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday night, 19 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:25,640 Sunday. Thought it was great, thought 20 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:28,560 this was life. But you know, at that time I had 21 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:31,560 no thought of God. I had No Fear of God. 22 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:37,200 I had no love for God. I had no idea God, who's God. 23 00:01:38,320 --> 00:01:42,720 You live, you work, you die, and that's the end. 24 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:47,000 But this particular Sunday night, Friday night, sorry, I 25 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:50,800 was invited to this 10th mission and I was invaded because I'd 26 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:55,040 asked a man at work, under the influence of alcohol, that if 27 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:59,840 the church had the answer, I wanted to go see. 28 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:04,280 My mother died when I was a boy. I was taken from Elbana St here 29 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:07,240 in Belfast, having come from Mackrefelt at the age of 1. 30 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:11,360 I was taken to Bushmills and then down into drum and Droid 31 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:14,320 say Coleraine and reared with a, a, an old aunt. 32 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:17,160 She was a godly lady, sent me along to church and Sunday 33 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:19,040 school. But I, I hadn't really interest. 34 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:22,040 The only thing that I liked about church and the times that 35 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:24,160 I went as a boy was at Christmas time. 36 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:27,280 They sang once in Royal David City and I thought well 'cause 37 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:29,960 I'm called David, that's great, what does that mean? 38 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:32,000 But I, I didn't know what it mean, but it sounded good 39 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:34,200 alright. But I I looked upon all of them 40 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:36,240 being there as a bunch of hypocrites. 41 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:39,960 I thought these people are play acting at church. 42 00:02:40,920 --> 00:02:45,440 But I said to this man, if the church has the answer, I would 43 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:47,640 like to go. And I remember him putting his 44 00:02:47,640 --> 00:02:49,480 arm around me. He was called Andy Alexander, 45 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:52,440 pray for Andy's not that well. And this is what he said. 46 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:57,760 He said, I'm sorry David, the church hasn't the answer, but 47 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:01,160 Christ has. That was double Dutch to me. 48 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:04,360 What did that mean? So anyway, he coaxed me to go 49 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:07,560 along with him to this particular Friday night, to this 50 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:10,320 tent mission. It was in Limavady, 14 miles out 51 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:12,040 of Coleraine. The preacher was the Reverend 52 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:14,440 Sam Workman, and I remember his text. 53 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:17,440 Remember what he said as if it was yesterday. 54 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:22,360 Here was his text. John, 10 and 10, I am come that 55 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:25,600 you might have life, you might have it more abundantly, he 56 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:26,680 said. Young man, you're in this 57 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:27,920 meeting tonight, you're looking for life. 58 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:30,600 You're trying to find it in the dance floor, You're trying to 59 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:33,440 find it through booze and consumption of alcohol. 60 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:36,240 You're trying to find it in sexual fulfilment outside of 61 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:38,240 marriage. You're trying to find it in the 62 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:40,360 ways of the world. And deep down inside you're not 63 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:42,040 happy. And you lie in your bed at night 64 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:43,600 and you wonder what's life all about. 65 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:45,760 This is a rat race. And when it comes Thursday and 66 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:48,800 you pay your cheque over the publican's counter and he gives 67 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:52,560 you the money by by Sunday evening, you're broke and you're 68 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:54,680 catching money and cigarettes for the rest of the week till 69 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:56,680 you get paid again. He says now if that's you 70 00:03:56,680 --> 00:04:00,000 tonight, I want you to come with me. 71 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:04,400 Come now, I want to introduce you to the giver of life. 72 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:07,960 Well, you see that very moment I had no idea what been under 73 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:11,600 conviction of sin was, but I come under conviction of sin. 74 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:16,519 And I heard John 3 and 16, the most wonderfulest love story, 75 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:21,200 for God so loved the world they gave His only begotten Son, that 76 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:24,560 whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have 77 00:04:24,840 --> 00:04:27,600 everlasting life. I went out of that meeting. 78 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:29,360 I was to go to Kelly's. That was the agreement with 79 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:30,800 Andy. He took me home. 80 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:34,280 I was under conviction to the Sunday. 81 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,360 And during those hours, you see, I knew I was a big Sinner. 82 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:41,200 Nobody had to tell me the things that I've done. 83 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:44,600 If I started to tell you from the age of 11 to the age of 18, 84 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:47,640 the things that I would done, you would shake your head, you 85 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:50,640 would tut, tut. You would say no, that could not 86 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:53,560 be right. I wouldn't want to shame the 87 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:58,360 devil. Tonight I was in the pit of sin 88 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:02,800 and the devil was dragging me down and my sin into hell. 89 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:06,000 And I could feel that if I'd have died, I knew I would have 90 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:10,640 gone to hell. What way did I get saved? 91 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:15,440 Not Sunday night. Cut a Long story short, I met a 92 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:18,640 man walking the streets of Coleraine, and he gave me a 93 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:22,160 little tract, 10:00 at night, and I took it home. 94 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:25,000 This time I'm living in a Roman Catholic lodging house, far away 95 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,720 from my aunt, living in rebellion and sin, doing what I 96 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:31,400 wanted to do. And this little tract, when I 97 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:33,960 opened it up at God and man and union and communion. 98 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:38,400 Genesis chapter 1. Genesis 2 And then it had God 99 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:41,600 and man separated with the word sin in the middle. 100 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:45,000 I understood the little draw. And then it had God and man 101 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:48,400 still separated, but man trying to reach out to God through his 102 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:52,440 good works, through his prayers, through his church, his 103 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:55,600 religiosity, man attempting to reach God. 104 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:58,320 And every one of those little logs that come out from man's 105 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:01,280 side fell short. Why did they fall short? 106 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:08,520 Because man isn't evil to reach out to God by himself, because 107 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:11,920 for by grace or receive through faith, and not, not of yourself, 108 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:14,760 not of works, lest any man should boast. 109 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:19,880 And when I turned the Backpage, it had man and God still 110 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:23,200 separated with a chasm in the middle, but this time there was 111 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:27,800 a Red Cross in the middle, as if it was a bridge from God's side 112 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:32,040 to man's side. And inside was the words Jesus 113 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:33,800 saith, I am the way, the truth to life. 114 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:35,920 No man comes unto the Father but by me. 115 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:39,360 And it's as if somebody had put the light on in David's head. 116 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:41,200 You know, sometimes they say you saw the light. 117 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:44,160 Well, I didn't see a literal light, but in my head I 118 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:47,200 understood the way to God was through Christ. 119 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:51,240 And I knelt during that night at the sight of my bed. 120 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:54,560 I didn't know how to pray. I asked the Lord Jesus to 121 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:58,680 forgive my sin, asked the Lord Jesus to come into my life, ask 122 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:01,720 the Lord Jesus to be my Lord and Saviour. 123 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:04,840 I wonder if you have ever asked Jesus Christ to be your Lord and 124 00:07:04,840 --> 00:07:06,200 Saviour? Have you ever knelt in 125 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:10,000 conviction and cried out, Lord save me, I perish. 126 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:11,640 Well see that's what happened to me. 127 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,160 One day before me, 18th birthday, I come under 128 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:19,880 conviction and on that Sunday, from Friday to Sunday, over that 129 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:23,040 weekend, on the Sunday night, I come to Christ. 130 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:26,360 Let me tell you what happened very quickly, Brother Noel. 131 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:28,320 I preached here a few nights ago. 132 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:30,320 If any man be in Christ, he's a new creature. 133 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:32,880 Old things have passed away and all things have become new and 134 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:36,840 all things are of God. The next morning I had no desire 135 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:41,040 for the Park Dr. I had no desire for the booze. 136 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:43,520 It's as if somebody had washed out my mouth with soap. 137 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:46,080 It was clean. I wasn't cursing anymore. 138 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:48,880 I wasn't late for work. I stood up on the joiners 139 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:51,480 workbench and I told everybody in the workshop there was 20 men 140 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:57,040 there, Loyalist community bands members, members of the Orange 141 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:00,000 Institution and other organisations. 142 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:04,320 When I told them I could see if they laughed, said we'll have 143 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:06,800 you back in the pub, Patsy will be looking for you. 144 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:09,680 That was Patsy McIntyre. Do you know something? 145 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:15,560 That's over 40 years ago, Well over 40 years, 42 or three. 146 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:19,280 I'm not a good counter, but I just want to tell you tonight, 147 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:24,560 during that time I failed the Lord in many instances and 148 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:27,840 they've sinned against them. And yet the wonderful message is 149 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:30,640 this. The blood of Jesus Christ, his 150 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:33,679 Son cleanses off from all sin. And even if you're here tonight 151 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:36,000 and you feel a failure, you can go to the Lord. 152 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:38,480 You can kneel at the cross and tell the Lord your sin and ask 153 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:40,600 them to forgive you and watch his promise. 154 00:08:40,799 --> 00:08:44,720 Thy sins and iniquities. I will remember no more. 155 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:47,000 Here's when I became a Christian. 156 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:50,520 Here's why I come under conviction of my sin. 157 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:54,760 Here's the way I simply knelt at the cross and trusted Christ. 158 00:08:55,560 --> 00:08:58,840 And here's what happened. I was put into Christ, born of 159 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:03,480 the Spirit, made a new creature, given a love for God in the 160 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:06,600 things of God that I never had, never dreamed I'd be a preacher, 161 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:10,240 never dreamed in a day. And yet God called me. 162 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:13,480 And God has kept me here as the minister of this congregation 163 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:16,560 for 26 years. God bless you. 164 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:18,680 Thanks for listening, Brother Kong. 165 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:25,200 Thank our brethren for singing to us there tonight. 166 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:27,160 Can we turn please, in our Bibles? 167 00:09:27,680 --> 00:09:34,360 We want to turn to Job chapter 25, the 25th chapter of the book 168 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:36,920 of Job. There's just 6 verses. 169 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:40,720 It's one of the shorter chapters in Job, so we'll read it all. 170 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:44,400 Job chapter 25. If you can find the book of 171 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:48,320 Psalms in your Bible there in the Old Testament, then you'll 172 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:51,520 just walk back one book to the book of Job. 173 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:56,280 I'm going to read from the verse one and it's down to the verse 6 174 00:09:56,280 --> 00:10:02,360 which is the whole of the chapter Joe chapter 25 verse one 175 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:06,680 then answered Bildad the shoe height and said dominion and 176 00:10:06,680 --> 00:10:11,520 fear are with him. He maketh peace in his high 177 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:14,760 places. Is there any number of his 178 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:18,240 armies? And upon whom doth not his light 179 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:23,440 arise? How then can man be justified 180 00:10:23,560 --> 00:10:28,200 with God? Or how can he be clean, That is 181 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:32,320 born of a woman. Behold even to the moon, and it 182 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:36,320 chineth not. Yeah, the stars are not pure in 183 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:41,280 his sight. How much less man that is a 184 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:45,880 worm, and the Son of man which is a worm. 185 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:49,240 Amen. May God bless the public reading 186 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:51,720 of His own word just for a moment. 187 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:56,920 Will seek his face in prayer. Our follower under God, we thank 188 00:10:56,920 --> 00:11:01,040 Thee for the meeting thus far. We believe, Lord, that you have 189 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:04,880 been honoured and all that has been said and done and sung in 190 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:07,640 this gathering in one way or another. 191 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:12,840 The centre theme of the meeting, of course, is our Lord Jesus on 192 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:17,160 the hymn Shall the gathering of the people be. 193 00:11:17,680 --> 00:11:19,680 I need Thy power to preach Thy word. 194 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:23,600 I am very conscious, Lord tonight that the arm of flesh 195 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:26,880 will surely fail, and we dare not trust our own. 196 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:30,280 There's nothing Lord, in this preacher that could carry the 197 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:32,880 meeting, even the bringing off the Word. 198 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:36,680 But there is the power of God that is promised in the 199 00:11:36,680 --> 00:11:40,000 Scriptures. Our Saviour heir, he went back 200 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:42,760 to glory. The last great promise that He 201 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:46,960 gave is that she shall receive power after this. 202 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:52,480 The Holy Ghost is come upon you, and you shall be witnesses on to 203 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:55,320 me. May I be a witness for Christ 204 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:59,520 even in this gathering tonight, that your word, Lord, have a 205 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:03,320 free course and be glorified. It would be a tremendous thing, 206 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:06,200 Lord, if at the end of the gathering, souls were saved, 207 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:11,960 backsliders restored, that God's people sent on their way, 208 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:16,240 rejoicing built up in their most holy faith. 209 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:22,240 Hear an answer prayer, glorify thyself in Jesus name, Amen. 210 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:25,480 Amen. And the last part there of the 211 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:29,640 verse four that we want to give our attention to, there's two 212 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:33,040 questions asked. We would be awhile tonight if we 213 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:36,520 were to answer both of them and deal with them. 214 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:41,600 So we've decided just to look at the end of verse 4 and it gives 215 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:46,760 his ample room and ample scope for the preaching of the gospel. 216 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:54,320 The question is asked, how can he be clean that is born of a 217 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:57,880 woman. The speaker in our text is a 218 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:03,040 fellow called Bildad. The shoe height in verse one 219 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:07,920 there and he was one of Job's friends and comforters. 220 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:12,800 There were three all together, and they came to see Job, who 221 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:16,800 was lying in his bed in great affliction. 222 00:13:17,560 --> 00:13:20,480 Job was greatly afflicted in his body. 223 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:24,480 He was in great pain. He was in agony because he was 224 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:28,600 not only afflicted in his body, and that was bad enough, but he 225 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:34,800 was afflicted because of an ongoing onslaught of the devil. 226 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:37,280 You read of that in the opening chapters. 227 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:43,920 The devil picked on him and Job, it may be said, need needed a 228 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:47,880 lot of prayer and he needed a lot of support and he needed a 229 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:51,840 lot of comfort. But Bodad here and his two 230 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:57,080 companions give rise to that somewhat cynical question that 231 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:02,240 you tend to hear regularly with friends like these, who needs 232 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:05,480 enemies? And even not free, as Job's 233 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:09,680 comforters has been engrafted in the everyday speech. 234 00:14:09,680 --> 00:14:11,400 People use it. They don't even know where it 235 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:14,200 comes from. It's in our common language now. 236 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:20,400 It refers to one who brings no comfort to you, but adds to your 237 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:25,520 reflection when maybe words of comfort would really be better. 238 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:30,600 Now maybe you're wondering why so much attention is given to 239 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:34,480 these, the words of these men. There's chapter after chapter. 240 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:38,560 Job is a big book and these men contribute so much. 241 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:41,480 Well, why is it then if they're not that good at their work? 242 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:45,440 There's so much attention given to what they say. 243 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:50,440 And herein lies the rub. Their theology, their doctrine, 244 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:54,280 their teaching was fine, that's why. 245 00:14:54,960 --> 00:15:00,120 But it was their pastoral application that let them down 246 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:03,880 big time. The Bible says it are words that 247 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:09,040 are fitly spoken, right words to the right person at the right 248 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:11,680 time. It's those words that are 249 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:16,600 likened on the apples of gold in pictures of silver. 250 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:20,360 Now at the beginning of their visit to him again, you read it 251 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:23,480 in the early part. These men, as of perhaps they 252 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:26,720 could only do in the East, where of course the whole scene is 253 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:29,760 set. They came and they saw Job and 254 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:33,840 they sat for a whole week in silence. 255 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:36,560 You and I could hardly sit still for 10 minutes. 256 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:39,120 These fellows sat still for a whole week. 257 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:43,560 They just looked on, they wept, they mourned, and nobody spoke. 258 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:48,640 And that husband commented. Then it all went sour because 259 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:53,640 they opened their mouth and well, we would say that they 260 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:57,960 added to his affliction. You know, truth is indeed a very 261 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:02,840 precious commodity, but it should never be used to Bosch 262 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:07,160 someone over the head. Sometimes there is a time to 263 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:09,440 speak. If your words are good words, 264 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:14,200 then, and our times there is a time to be silent. 265 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:18,880 We can divorce these words having acknowledged their 266 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:23,720 immediate context because the words themselves, when we take 267 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:28,040 away all the little bad bits round them, Bildad and his 268 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:33,200 friends, these words carry great weight and I believe that from 269 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:39,240 them tonight we will be able to preach the gospel of Christ. 270 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:42,480 We have three main thoughts and we'll try and move quickly 271 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:45,120 through them. First of all, number one, we 272 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:50,720 have the question analysed, the question analysed. 273 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:55,000 The question itself, of course you will have picked up, is a 274 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:59,560 rhetorical question. It has been asked not so much to 275 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:05,560 get an answer, but to make a point, a grammatical point, and 276 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:09,040 when within a limited scope it is seen. 277 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:15,160 No man who is born of a woman can be clean. 278 00:17:15,839 --> 00:17:19,440 That's what the Bible says about us, born of a woman. 279 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:22,920 No man born of a woman can be clean. 280 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:27,599 And this is teaching us what is a great truth, and a great truth 281 00:17:27,599 --> 00:17:32,200 that is not often mentioned, is often denied, is not often 282 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:35,800 mentioned, seldom preached on. And that's the doctrine of what 283 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:40,480 is known as original sin. Original sin. 284 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:46,120 And we need to learn the truth because it explains to us why 285 00:17:46,120 --> 00:17:51,360 the gospel is so necessary. The gospel isn't just a 286 00:17:51,360 --> 00:17:56,320 preference here, something that we can hang on to and attach on 287 00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:59,640 the life in general. If you think you need it, no, 288 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:04,560 you need it, you need it. The Bible says the gospel is for 289 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:10,200 sinners, unclean sinners. It is summarised in the words of 290 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:14,600 the apostle who said this is a faithful saying worthy of all 291 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:18,480 acceptation. Christ Jesus come into the world 292 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:22,600 to save sinners and there's a great danger. 293 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:27,520 The great danger is says that we could argue ourselves out of 294 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:31,240 being saved. We could take the wrong box, we 295 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:35,640 could make the wrong claim and make the wrong denial. 296 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:39,200 Anybody who says being confronted that they are sinners 297 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:42,840 and they start to defend themselves are putting 298 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:46,760 themselves in great danger. The worst thing you want to do 299 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:50,480 is to argue yourself out of God's salvation. 300 00:18:51,120 --> 00:18:55,040 Here in our tax man's state is led bare. 301 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:59,840 God has stripped everything away and he states a very 302 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:04,200 disconcerting truth. He's telling us here, as the 303 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:10,520 Bible does elsewhere, that we are all born sinners with a 304 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:14,720 sinful nature. The little child is born we you, 305 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:16,640 and we are. It's lovely and it's beautiful 306 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:19,240 and all. We say nice things, old little 307 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:21,480 Angel and so on. All that like that there. 308 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:26,440 But that's fine sentimentally. But when you drill down a little 309 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:30,320 bit with the word of God in your hand, you realise that we are 310 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:35,920 looking at a little Sinner, one born with a sinful nature. 311 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:40,760 And soon that sinful nature is going to manifest itself. 312 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:42,960 There's going to be that stomping of a little foot 313 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:46,000 somewhere. There's going to be that little 314 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:55,400 defiant no, no to the requests or the demands of apparent King 315 00:19:55,440 --> 00:20:01,440 David put it in the words in his great penitential Psalm in Psalm 316 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:03,640 51. Listen to these words. 317 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:07,960 Behold, when the Bible says, behold, it's a little called to 318 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:10,960 stop and to look. Look at this. 319 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:15,280 That's what he's saying. Behold, he said, I was shaping 320 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:21,720 in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. 321 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:25,800 Now, that's nothing to do with being born out of wedlock out of 322 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:30,640 anything like that. No, he's saying, I was born with 323 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:36,120 a sinful nature. I have been born into a wicked 324 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:42,720 race, the human race that has rebelled against its creator. 325 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:47,080 I have been born on the wrong side of the tracks. 326 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,880 Psalm 58. David again says the wicked. 327 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:55,440 Note the word. The wicked are estranged from 328 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:59,840 the womb. They go astray as soon as they 329 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:04,080 be born. Speaking lies in our words. 330 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:08,920 The seeds of wickedness are already there and they will soon 331 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:14,760 develop and manifest themselves in full bloom when they have the 332 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:20,800 opportunity to do so. Now sin may be portrayed under 333 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,760 many descriptions. I think we at the opening part 334 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:27,600 of, I remember back of the mission of certainly the first 335 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:32,720 week we looked at that all the different ways sin is portrayed, 336 00:21:33,120 --> 00:21:39,320 most notably rebellion. But here in our text it is on 337 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:42,000 cleanness. Who can be clean? 338 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:46,920 That is born of a woman and that's telling us today that sin 339 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:49,640 pollutes. There's a lot of talk about 340 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:52,240 pollution, isn't there? You go on the news in the 341 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:55,880 morning, the BBC Breakfast, it seems about every 3rd day 342 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:58,640 they're talking about Thames Water and you're seeing the 343 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:00,760 sewer pipe going out into the Thames. 344 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:05,080 The pollution, the fish kills. We know what pollution is. 345 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:06,760 It's in the air, it's in the sea. 346 00:22:07,360 --> 00:22:13,040 Well, morally, morally, we've all got polluted hearts. 347 00:22:13,360 --> 00:22:17,840 It is universal. Listen to Isaiah chapter 64, 348 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:22,200 verse 6. We are all, and that's an all, 349 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:27,720 embracing all, every one of us. We are all as an unclean thing, 350 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:33,160 the language of our text and all our righteousnesses, our filthy 351 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:36,200 rags. And we do all fear as a leaf, 352 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:41,640 and our iniquities like the wind have carried us a day, carried 353 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:43,600 us away. You remember the words of Isaiah 354 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:48,800 way back in chapter 6, as he stood in the very presence of 355 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:51,720 God. He says he saw the Lord sitting 356 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:54,160 on his throne high and lifted up. 357 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:59,680 He saw the angels, the angels cover their faces, and the 358 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:03,200 angels cried out three times to God. 359 00:23:03,360 --> 00:23:09,040 Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God of hosts. 360 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:12,360 What was Isaiah's response to that? 361 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:14,920 Isaiah pading to you was a good man. 362 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:18,280 He was God's man. He was a redeemed man. 363 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:22,800 He was a saved man. Isaiah, confronted with the 364 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:28,080 holiness of God, said woe is me, for I am undone. 365 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:32,960 I am a man of what? Unclean lips? 366 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:37,640 You see, uncleanness invades the whole body of man. 367 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:42,960 The apostle Paul and our great man of God had to cry out when 368 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:48,880 he saw himself up against the Lord, as it were, O wretched man 369 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:53,320 that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death. 370 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:58,520 Again he said in me, that is in my flesh left to myself, 371 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:05,880 dwelleth no good thing. Later on, Joe Joe will confess 372 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:10,240 in the presence of the Lord. I abhor myself, he said. 373 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:16,040 I repent in dust and Isis. Can I say that such uncleanness 374 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:20,200 was still under our first point? Such uncleanness is contagious 375 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:24,680 and it is dangerous. It leads to disease. 376 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:31,000 The disease leads to death. It may be communicated to ours. 377 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:34,760 We are the touch, not the unclean thing. 378 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:37,160 It can be communicated the others. 379 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:41,120 The book of Proverbs, a very practical book, tells us that we 380 00:24:41,120 --> 00:24:46,680 should shun certain people or particularly their influences, 381 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:51,400 those who are guilty of various vases with the angry man that 382 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,000 says thou shalt not go, why is that? 383 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:55,560 Because you're going to get angry. 384 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:59,720 He's going to wind you up and those seeds of repellent in your 385 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:03,800 heart will rise up and that uncleanness of sin will manifest 386 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,200 yourself. If he's angry and gone off on a 387 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,160 rage, let him go. Just be thankful that you're not 388 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:11,440 going with him. It talks about the harlot woman, 389 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:14,440 the strange woman as she has described in the Bible. 390 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,600 And it's not because we are better than they. 391 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:19,760 We're not going to be the hypocrite tonight. 392 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:21,600 We're not going to be the Pharisee tonight. 393 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:27,880 But because our own wicked hearts left to themselves are 394 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:31,240 tender, dry. You get the last time that you 395 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:33,120 ever had the problem a few weeks ago. 396 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,320 Get all those fires in the mornings with the fires near us 397 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,520 there in Tyrone. The ground was tender, dry and 398 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:43,320 all it took was one match, one cigarette butt, 1 little light, 399 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:47,880 1 little broken bottle with the the sun shining through it and 400 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:51,120 soon there was the big flame of fire. 401 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:56,080 We recognise the corruption of our own hearts, and if such sins 402 00:25:56,080 --> 00:26:02,560 are repulsive to us, then how much more are they repulsive to 403 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,600 God? God in the highest is the 404 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,640 highest authority. They've got the the old verse 405 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:13,120 there or the little question that is asked in the verse 4. 406 00:26:13,120 --> 00:26:16,040 It really does set up our question here. 407 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:20,960 How then can man be justified with God? 408 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:27,040 He is the Master before whom we will either stand or fall. 409 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:31,760 We will stand one day at His judgement seat, and we will be 410 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:37,680 summons to appear and to give an account on such uncleanness 411 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:39,760 tonight. Such uncleanness. 412 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:43,760 If we're dying, this uncleanness, it will keep us out 413 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:46,400 of heaven. We love to sing about heaven, 414 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:50,680 don't we may like to think about the glory land and we, we, we 415 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,080 think it's a wonderful, wonderful place where the Bible 416 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,280 tells us that it is. It's the it's the height of joy 417 00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:59,880 and pleasure to be in the presence of the Lord forever. 418 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:05,280 But listen to what it says. Nothing, nothing that defileth 419 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:09,120 shall enter into heaven. That's why it's so wonderful. 420 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:16,400 All that is unclean and defiled is kept out in heaven itself. 421 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,400 You have the redeemed of the Lord there, and they are 422 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:25,920 portrayed in being in white robes, the righteousness of the 423 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:30,200 Saints. The Bible says in Revelation 22 424 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,560 concerning the uncleanness, it keeps a man out of heaven. 425 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:38,160 It will be pronounced on a great multitude, perhaps at the last, 426 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,600 some even Goward in our meeting tonight. 427 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:47,000 That him that is unjust beyond just still the final doom. 428 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:54,040 Let him that is filthy unclean. Let him be filthy still. 429 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:57,160 These are the worst words that anybody could hear. 430 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:00,720 But not only do we have the question analyse, moving on here 431 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:05,000 quickly and #2 we have the question answered, the question 432 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,520 answered. In other words, we are treating 433 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:09,720 it as a question that is not rhetorical. 434 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:12,920 Originally it was a rhetorical, it was asked for a fact. 435 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:17,040 But we're going to take it as a question that needs to be 436 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:19,920 answered. The rhetorical has served its 437 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:23,640 purpose in the first point. And since we are all unclean by 438 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:27,840 sin, both original and actual, and therefore, in such a state 439 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:34,160 barred from heaven, no hope in ourselves of getting in, because 440 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,920 there can be no fellowship between righteousness. 441 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:41,800 And on righteousness, you say, Is that it? 442 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:47,240 Have I come here tonight to hear a message of certain doom and 443 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:51,560 perdition? The old question was asked in 444 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:55,400 the Gospels. Who then can be saved? 445 00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:00,000 But this isn't all what the Bible says. 446 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,800 Bible says man cannot cleanse himself. 447 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:09,600 The stain is too deep. Jeremiah said these words in the 448 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:13,800 early part of his book when he's saying his complaint among to 449 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:17,320 the people. He says if you wash yourself 450 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:23,320 with knighter, knighter was a very strong soap, an industrial 451 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:26,280 level soap. If you wash yourself with 452 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:31,840 knighter and you take to thee much soap yet thine iniquity, 453 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:37,680 thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God. 454 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:41,400 The ladies will know what it is like when you're doing the 455 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,960 washing. You've got a stain and our 456 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,800 fellas come of a wee bit of a stain in my shirt. 457 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:48,400 Is there anything you can do about it? 458 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,920 And outcomes the carbolic soap and outcomes all the the wonder 459 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,960 portions that you spent money for to go through the wash, but 460 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,120 the stain's still there, isn't it? 461 00:29:57,720 --> 00:29:59,120 It's not right in the back down here. 462 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:02,680 It's sitting there somewhere where you you, you're going to 463 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:07,160 see it. And if man cannot remove and 464 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:11,560 cleanse his own sin, he certainly cannot cleanse and 465 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:15,880 remove the sins of an hour. There's no human cure for this. 466 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:19,280 Tonight. There's no church can cleanse 467 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:20,800 you. Tonight. 468 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:24,600 You go through all the rituals of your church, no matter visit 469 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:29,080 Roman or Reformed or whatever, the church cannot deliver you. 470 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:34,760 It cannot wash away your sin. But what we can do and what 471 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:37,880 we're doing tonight is that we can preach unknower. 472 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:44,120 What is impossible with men is possible with God. 473 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,480 And we are introduced in this book of Job. 474 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:53,960 Job was, the Bible says, a perfect and an upright man. 475 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,800 He was not sinless, but he was a saved man. 476 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:01,400 He feared God that's the beginning of wisdom, the fear of 477 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:06,640 God he astute that means he rejected evil and how was this 478 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,840 how's this man born on clean of a woman? 479 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:14,760 How can he be an upright and a perfect man fearing God because 480 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:20,120 he spoke about a Redeemer Job 19 verse 25. 481 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:23,600 I know he said, he's in the depths of despair here. 482 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:27,480 When he speaks his words. He's down in the dumps a 483 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:30,760 thousandfold, and yet he's still a man of faith. 484 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:36,160 And he cries out, and he says, I know that my Redeemer liveth not 485 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:40,160 a wonderful thing. He had a saviour, had a 486 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:42,960 Redeemer. Here's a man surrounded by 487 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:47,920 heathen with her false deities, who demanded so much, delivered 488 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:52,320 nothing, never mind so little, unable to save anybody. 489 00:31:53,880 --> 00:32:00,600 But Job's God was alive, the one true and living God, and God was 490 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:04,640 his Redeemer. And Job's God, who is our God, 491 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:06,960 who we're preaching tonight, is wowing. 492 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:12,640 Although he is the offended one. He's wowing to be gracious and 493 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:17,800 merciful to the guilty. There we deserve nothing but to 494 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:22,960 be castaway in wrath. The world one time so plunged 495 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:28,000 itself in the uncleanness. Job chapter or Genesis chapter 496 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:33,640 6, when the whole earth was full of violence in the days of Noah, 497 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:38,800 days that will return again before the Lord comes back and 498 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:43,440 listen to what it says. It repented the Lord that he had 499 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:47,920 made man on earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 500 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:52,840 And the wicked cannot complain if God was to cast them into the 501 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:56,720 deepest hell, because the whole world tonight, the whole world 502 00:32:56,920 --> 00:33:01,200 stands guilty before God and every mouth is stopped. 503 00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:07,080 There's no legal arguments, there's no excuses, there's no 504 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:09,800 smart lawyers, there's no bluffing. 505 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:14,440 The Supreme Judge who knows all things and will do that which is 506 00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:17,080 right. Has God made a way back to 507 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,840 himself from the dark paths of sin? 508 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:23,000 Can God cleanse the souls of men? 509 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:27,920 Can he present them to Himself, as the Bible says, without spot, 510 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:30,720 without wrinkle, or any such things? 511 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:34,320 That's why I'm here tonight. That's why this church is here 512 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:37,680 tonight, because we answer yes, he can. 513 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:41,160 And we point to a fountain. We did it in our opening hymn. 514 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:46,240 We say there is a fountain filled with blood drawn from 515 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:51,000 Emmanuel's veins. Sinners floods beneath that 516 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:54,240 flood lose all their guilty stains. 517 00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:57,840 And that's the cross. That's the cross of Calvary, a 518 00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:03,920 great fountain, Zechariah 13 and one opened up for all sin and 519 00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:07,720 all uncleanness. And that's what God did when he 520 00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:13,199 sent his Son to Calvary's cross. And what happened at the cross? 521 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:17,159 Christ died. Christ died for the ungodly, for 522 00:34:17,159 --> 00:34:22,040 the unclean, scarcely for a righteous man, says Paul. 523 00:34:22,159 --> 00:34:27,800 For a clean man would one die. Yet he says it may be perhaps 524 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:31,960 peradventure, some thinking that a good man would be worth dying 525 00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,280 for. Some would even dare to die. 526 00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:40,159 But God commanded his love toward us, in that while we were 527 00:34:40,159 --> 00:34:47,040 yet sinners on clean sinners, Christ died for us. 528 00:34:47,679 --> 00:34:51,719 What happened at the cross? God put His Son on the cross, 529 00:34:51,719 --> 00:35:00,000 and God made him Christ, who knew no sin to be made sin for 530 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:05,360 us, to be accounted as a Sinner for us, that we might be made or 531 00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:09,640 accounted righteousness in him. He was numbered with the 532 00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:14,680 transgressors, He was numbered with the unclean, and all that 533 00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:19,320 righteous and all that holy wrath of our God fell upon him. 534 00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:24,000 He was our substitute. Christ died, for on account of 535 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:28,920 our sins He gave Himself for us. You see, without the shedding of 536 00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:32,280 blood there is no remission, but the blood was shed. 537 00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:36,480 He felt the lash of the whip in Pilot's judgement hall. 538 00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:40,680 He knew what it was to have His hands pierced. 539 00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:45,720 I hear the dole blow of a hammer swung low there kneeling, my 540 00:35:45,720 --> 00:35:51,040 Lord, to the tree, and then it says someone took a spear and 541 00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:54,800 rammed it into his side, and forthwith came out. 542 00:35:54,800 --> 00:36:01,360 What water, water and blood, blood to satisfy the divine law, 543 00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:05,000 water to cleanse the goatly soul. 544 00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:09,640 All we preach tonight, we're not ashamed to preach tonight about 545 00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:15,400 the blood of Jesus Christ godson cleansing us from walls in the 546 00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:19,520 word there cleanseth and it's a mood that it's inner the tents 547 00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:23,720 that it's in in the original language is that it keeps on 548 00:36:23,720 --> 00:36:28,080 cleansing us from all sin captured in the words of the 549 00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:31,720 handwriter. The blood that washed my sins 550 00:36:31,720 --> 00:36:38,480 away still cleanseth every hour you remember the words of the 551 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:45,280 Saviour to Peter. He that is washed is cleansed 552 00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:51,000 every whip all the Gower clean holy clean. 553 00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:57,160 This is the question analysed. And then thirdly and lastly, it 554 00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:59,040 falls to me tonight very quickly. 555 00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:04,000 We have the question applied and that's where we say, well, 556 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,480 that's very interesting. How does it apply to me? 557 00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:09,600 We make it personal. I hope tonight if you're 558 00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:11,400 unsaved, you're asking this question. 559 00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:20,000 How can I unclean, unsaved, unfit for the purity of God's 560 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,960 heaven? As it stands, the gates will be 561 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:27,760 locked against me and I will be told that a part is cursed, 562 00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:32,560 because cursed is the man who can keep, not the whole of the 563 00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:35,480 law of God. How can I be clean? 564 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:37,240 I need to be cleaned again into heaven. 565 00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:41,320 Well, God has opened up this great fountain for us. 566 00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:44,560 The blood has been shed. That blood as we were singing 567 00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:47,320 will never, will never lose its power. 568 00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:51,120 The gospel that has centred on the blood of the Lamb, Jesus 569 00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:57,080 said it will be preached in the world until the end of the age, 570 00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:00,720 and that's when all the purposes of God will be worked out 571 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:04,520 concerning salvation. That's why we can stand and 572 00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:06,640 preach this so confidently tonight. 573 00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:12,200 Find these boys, Peter and John and all starting off 2000 years 574 00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:15,280 ago the blood had only been shed and you'd maybe say well after 575 00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:18,800 2000 years has it lost any of its ancient power? 576 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:23,600 No, it's still the same. It's still the gospel of Christ 577 00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:27,040 which is the power of God unto salvation. 578 00:38:27,240 --> 00:38:30,280 Do everyone not believeth? How do you get this cleansing? 579 00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:34,520 Well the verse it says that blood cleanseth us from all sin 580 00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:38,360 leads to 2 verses down first, John 1:00 and 9:00. 581 00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:42,080 If we confess our sins, That's what I'm saying. 582 00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:48,040 Take the sinner's place. If we confess our sins, not to a 583 00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:51,920 man in a wee box, not to a man sitting round the table the way 584 00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:55,920 they do it now, but if we confess our sins to our great 585 00:38:55,960 --> 00:39:00,480 high priest in heaven, the only priest the Sinner needs, If we 586 00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:06,760 confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins 587 00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,280 and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 588 00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:13,440 And what you need to do, and this might be hard, you need to 589 00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:17,520 forsake any other concoction that you might have. 590 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,080 You cannot keep your options open. 591 00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,920 It must be Christ and it must be Christ alone. 592 00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:31,160 Any our man made scheme is what the Bible calls unbelief of the 593 00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:33,720 truth. It's a sin, even the entertain. 594 00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:36,680 And to hold on to such a thought, it's a thought that 595 00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:42,560 needs to be repented of because the retainant is to become 596 00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:44,320 worth. I know, I say let it go. 597 00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:47,680 It's useless, it's worthless, it's dangerous. 598 00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:52,560 In Acts chapter 28 and verse 3, we read about the Apostle Paul. 599 00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:57,400 He survived the great shipwreck. He went on to an island and 600 00:39:57,400 --> 00:39:59,440 everybody of course come in off the sea. 601 00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:01,720 They were wet, they were soaked through, they were cold. 602 00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:05,880 They got a bit of a fire going, as you would, and after a piece 603 00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:10,560 of wood there came out of the wood a deadly vapour and it 604 00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:13,280 fastened itself on the Paul's hand. 605 00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:14,920 You know what the Bible says he did. 606 00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:20,600 He immediately shook it off. And that's what you need to do. 607 00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:25,280 That's what you need to do with any deadly thought that you 608 00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:28,920 might still be entertaining, that there's another way of 609 00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:32,400 cleansing. I say tonight, shake it off, 610 00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:40,240 break off thy sins, repent of it, and lay hold or not finished 611 00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:45,040 work of Christ. The price has been paid, the 612 00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:48,400 work has been done, the invite goes out. 613 00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:54,200 Faith lays hold on eternal life. Will you come tonight? 614 00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:57,360 Wash them, be clean. You know, this is the last night 615 00:40:57,360 --> 00:41:00,560 of a gospel mission. It's always a solemn time 616 00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:04,000 because sometimes there's folks and Welsh, we're glad to see 617 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,840 them and it's wonderful. The only common the gospel 618 00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:08,360 missions. And we don't have them every 619 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:12,520 hour a week either. And it might well be, and I 620 00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:14,640 don't know, but it could well be. 621 00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:17,280 Maybe you're hearing the gospel for the last time. 622 00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:22,520 There's a great fountain opened up drawn from Emmanuel veins 623 00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:27,160 which you need to come. It's them that come why 624 00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:31,200 shouldn't be cleaned and if you come he gave the great promise 625 00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:34,880 Noel preach medley on Friday night That great thanks to him 626 00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:40,120 that cometh to me. I will in no wise cast out his 627 00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:47,160 blood can make the file as clean his blood avails for me whose 628 00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:49,960 have listened well tonight time is moving on. 629 00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:53,720 If you want to speak with me afterwards we're going to have 630 00:41:53,720 --> 00:41:56,800 this little bit of supper and I'm willing to chat you but you 631 00:41:56,800 --> 00:42:00,320 know just sitting in your seat tonight just sitting in your 632 00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:05,200 seat say Lord, I'm unclean. I've listened to this man who 633 00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:08,360 has preached your word I'm unclean. 634 00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:13,040 Wash me, cleanse me in the blood that flowed on Calvary.