I want to read a wee verse of Scripture and it says in Psalm
107 these words, let the redeemed of the Lord say so,
whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy.
I want to tell you tonight, when I became a Christian, I became a
Christian at the age of 18, one day before my 18th birthday was
not some birthday present. You see, nobody's born into a
Christian country. Nobody's born a Christian in the
sense of being in a Christian home.
Keep that thought in mind and we'll ask ourselves a second
question. Why did I become a Christian?
Because at the age of 18, I found myself in a tent mission.
I had been invited by a man at work.
At this point in my life I was addicted to booze.
I have to tell you, to my shame I was a boozer, a cursor, a
fighter and a womaniser. My philosophy as a young man was
wine and women and so on. And from the age of 11 and 12,
you'd have found me hanging about Kelly's nightclub.
I was there on Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday night,
Sunday. Thought it was great, thought
this was life. But you know, at that time I had
no thought of God. I had No Fear of God.
I had no love for God. I had no idea God, who's God.
You live, you work, you die, and that's the end.
But this particular Sunday night, Friday night, sorry, I
was invited to this 10th mission and I was invaded because I'd
asked a man at work, under the influence of alcohol, that if
the church had the answer, I wanted to go see.
My mother died when I was a boy. I was taken from Elbana St here
in Belfast, having come from Mackrefelt at the age of 1.
I was taken to Bushmills and then down into drum and Droid
say Coleraine and reared with a, a, an old aunt.
She was a godly lady, sent me along to church and Sunday
school. But I, I hadn't really interest.
The only thing that I liked about church and the times that
I went as a boy was at Christmas time.
They sang once in Royal David City and I thought well 'cause
I'm called David, that's great, what does that mean?
But I, I didn't know what it mean, but it sounded good
alright. But I I looked upon all of them
being there as a bunch of hypocrites.
I thought these people are play acting at church.
But I said to this man, if the church has the answer, I would
like to go. And I remember him putting his
arm around me. He was called Andy Alexander,
pray for Andy's not that well. And this is what he said.
He said, I'm sorry David, the church hasn't the answer, but
Christ has. That was double Dutch to me.
What did that mean? So anyway, he coaxed me to go
along with him to this particular Friday night, to this
tent mission. It was in Limavady, 14 miles out
of Coleraine. The preacher was the Reverend
Sam Workman, and I remember his text.
Remember what he said as if it was yesterday.
Here was his text. John, 10 and 10, I am come that
you might have life, you might have it more abundantly, he
said. Young man, you're in this
meeting tonight, you're looking for life.
You're trying to find it in the dance floor, You're trying to
find it through booze and consumption of alcohol.
You're trying to find it in sexual fulfilment outside of
marriage. You're trying to find it in the
ways of the world. And deep down inside you're not
happy. And you lie in your bed at night
and you wonder what's life all about.
This is a rat race. And when it comes Thursday and
you pay your cheque over the publican's counter and he gives
you the money by by Sunday evening, you're broke and you're
catching money and cigarettes for the rest of the week till
you get paid again. He says now if that's you
tonight, I want you to come with me.
Come now, I want to introduce you to the giver of life.
Well, you see that very moment I had no idea what been under
conviction of sin was, but I come under conviction of sin.
And I heard John 3 and 16, the most wonderfulest love story,
for God so loved the world they gave His only begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have
everlasting life. I went out of that meeting.
I was to go to Kelly's. That was the agreement with
Andy. He took me home.
I was under conviction to the Sunday.
And during those hours, you see, I knew I was a big Sinner.
Nobody had to tell me the things that I've done.
If I started to tell you from the age of 11 to the age of 18,
the things that I would done, you would shake your head, you
would tut, tut. You would say no, that could not
be right. I wouldn't want to shame the
devil. Tonight I was in the pit of sin
and the devil was dragging me down and my sin into hell.
And I could feel that if I'd have died, I knew I would have
gone to hell. What way did I get saved?
Not Sunday night. Cut a Long story short, I met a
man walking the streets of Coleraine, and he gave me a
little tract, 10:00 at night, and I took it home.
This time I'm living in a Roman Catholic lodging house, far away
from my aunt, living in rebellion and sin, doing what I
wanted to do. And this little tract, when I
opened it up at God and man and union and communion.
Genesis chapter 1. Genesis 2 And then it had God
and man separated with the word sin in the middle.
I understood the little draw. And then it had God and man
still separated, but man trying to reach out to God through his
good works, through his prayers, through his church, his
religiosity, man attempting to reach God.
And every one of those little logs that come out from man's
side fell short. Why did they fall short?
Because man isn't evil to reach out to God by himself, because
for by grace or receive through faith, and not, not of yourself,
not of works, lest any man should boast.
And when I turned the Backpage, it had man and God still
separated with a chasm in the middle, but this time there was
a Red Cross in the middle, as if it was a bridge from God's side
to man's side. And inside was the words Jesus
saith, I am the way, the truth to life.
No man comes unto the Father but by me.
And it's as if somebody had put the light on in David's head.
You know, sometimes they say you saw the light.
Well, I didn't see a literal light, but in my head I
understood the way to God was through Christ.
And I knelt during that night at the sight of my bed.
I didn't know how to pray. I asked the Lord Jesus to
forgive my sin, asked the Lord Jesus to come into my life, ask
the Lord Jesus to be my Lord and Saviour.
I wonder if you have ever asked Jesus Christ to be your Lord and
Saviour? Have you ever knelt in
conviction and cried out, Lord save me, I perish.
Well see that's what happened to me.
One day before me, 18th birthday, I come under
conviction and on that Sunday, from Friday to Sunday, over that
weekend, on the Sunday night, I come to Christ.
Let me tell you what happened very quickly, Brother Noel.
I preached here a few nights ago.
If any man be in Christ, he's a new creature.
Old things have passed away and all things have become new and
all things are of God. The next morning I had no desire
for the Park Dr. I had no desire for the booze.
It's as if somebody had washed out my mouth with soap.
It was clean. I wasn't cursing anymore.
I wasn't late for work. I stood up on the joiners
workbench and I told everybody in the workshop there was 20 men
there, Loyalist community bands members, members of the Orange
Institution and other organisations.
When I told them I could see if they laughed, said we'll have
you back in the pub, Patsy will be looking for you.
That was Patsy McIntyre. Do you know something?
That's over 40 years ago, Well over 40 years, 42 or three.
I'm not a good counter, but I just want to tell you tonight,
during that time I failed the Lord in many instances and
they've sinned against them. And yet the wonderful message is
this. The blood of Jesus Christ, his
Son cleanses off from all sin. And even if you're here tonight
and you feel a failure, you can go to the Lord.
You can kneel at the cross and tell the Lord your sin and ask
them to forgive you and watch his promise.
Thy sins and iniquities. I will remember no more.
Here's when I became a Christian.
Here's why I come under conviction of my sin.
Here's the way I simply knelt at the cross and trusted Christ.
And here's what happened. I was put into Christ, born of
the Spirit, made a new creature, given a love for God in the
things of God that I never had, never dreamed I'd be a preacher,
never dreamed in a day. And yet God called me.
And God has kept me here as the minister of this congregation
for 26 years. God bless you.
Thanks for listening, Brother Kong.
Thank our brethren for singing to us there tonight.
Can we turn please, in our Bibles?
We want to turn to Job chapter 25, the 25th chapter of the book
of Job. There's just 6 verses.
It's one of the shorter chapters in Job, so we'll read it all.
Job chapter 25. If you can find the book of
Psalms in your Bible there in the Old Testament, then you'll
just walk back one book to the book of Job.
I'm going to read from the verse one and it's down to the verse 6
which is the whole of the chapter Joe chapter 25 verse one
then answered Bildad the shoe height and said dominion and
fear are with him. He maketh peace in his high
places. Is there any number of his
armies? And upon whom doth not his light
arise? How then can man be justified
with God? Or how can he be clean, That is
born of a woman. Behold even to the moon, and it
chineth not. Yeah, the stars are not pure in
his sight. How much less man that is a
worm, and the Son of man which is a worm.
Amen. May God bless the public reading
of His own word just for a moment.
Will seek his face in prayer. Our follower under God, we thank
Thee for the meeting thus far. We believe, Lord, that you have
been honoured and all that has been said and done and sung in
this gathering in one way or another.
The centre theme of the meeting, of course, is our Lord Jesus on
the hymn Shall the gathering of the people be.
I need Thy power to preach Thy word.
I am very conscious, Lord tonight that the arm of flesh
will surely fail, and we dare not trust our own.
There's nothing Lord, in this preacher that could carry the
meeting, even the bringing off the Word.
But there is the power of God that is promised in the
Scriptures. Our Saviour heir, he went back
to glory. The last great promise that He
gave is that she shall receive power after this.
The Holy Ghost is come upon you, and you shall be witnesses on to
me. May I be a witness for Christ
even in this gathering tonight, that your word, Lord, have a
free course and be glorified. It would be a tremendous thing,
Lord, if at the end of the gathering, souls were saved,
backsliders restored, that God's people sent on their way,
rejoicing built up in their most holy faith.
Hear an answer prayer, glorify thyself in Jesus name, Amen.
Amen. And the last part there of the
verse four that we want to give our attention to, there's two
questions asked. We would be awhile tonight if we
were to answer both of them and deal with them.
So we've decided just to look at the end of verse 4 and it gives
his ample room and ample scope for the preaching of the gospel.
The question is asked, how can he be clean that is born of a
woman. The speaker in our text is a
fellow called Bildad. The shoe height in verse one
there and he was one of Job's friends and comforters.
There were three all together, and they came to see Job, who
was lying in his bed in great affliction.
Job was greatly afflicted in his body.
He was in great pain. He was in agony because he was
not only afflicted in his body, and that was bad enough, but he
was afflicted because of an ongoing onslaught of the devil.
You read of that in the opening chapters.
The devil picked on him and Job, it may be said, need needed a
lot of prayer and he needed a lot of support and he needed a
lot of comfort. But Bodad here and his two
companions give rise to that somewhat cynical question that
you tend to hear regularly with friends like these, who needs
enemies? And even not free, as Job's
comforters has been engrafted in the everyday speech.
People use it. They don't even know where it
comes from. It's in our common language now.
It refers to one who brings no comfort to you, but adds to your
reflection when maybe words of comfort would really be better.
Now maybe you're wondering why so much attention is given to
these, the words of these men. There's chapter after chapter.
Job is a big book and these men contribute so much.
Well, why is it then if they're not that good at their work?
There's so much attention given to what they say.
And herein lies the rub. Their theology, their doctrine,
their teaching was fine, that's why.
But it was their pastoral application that let them down
big time. The Bible says it are words that
are fitly spoken, right words to the right person at the right
time. It's those words that are
likened on the apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Now at the beginning of their visit to him again, you read it
in the early part. These men, as of perhaps they
could only do in the East, where of course the whole scene is
set. They came and they saw Job and
they sat for a whole week in silence.
You and I could hardly sit still for 10 minutes.
These fellows sat still for a whole week.
They just looked on, they wept, they mourned, and nobody spoke.
And that husband commented. Then it all went sour because
they opened their mouth and well, we would say that they
added to his affliction. You know, truth is indeed a very
precious commodity, but it should never be used to Bosch
someone over the head. Sometimes there is a time to
speak. If your words are good words,
then, and our times there is a time to be silent.
We can divorce these words having acknowledged their
immediate context because the words themselves, when we take
away all the little bad bits round them, Bildad and his
friends, these words carry great weight and I believe that from
them tonight we will be able to preach the gospel of Christ.
We have three main thoughts and we'll try and move quickly
through them. First of all, number one, we
have the question analysed, the question analysed.
The question itself, of course you will have picked up, is a
rhetorical question. It has been asked not so much to
get an answer, but to make a point, a grammatical point, and
when within a limited scope it is seen.
No man who is born of a woman can be clean.
That's what the Bible says about us, born of a woman.
No man born of a woman can be clean.
And this is teaching us what is a great truth, and a great truth
that is not often mentioned, is often denied, is not often
mentioned, seldom preached on. And that's the doctrine of what
is known as original sin. Original sin.
And we need to learn the truth because it explains to us why
the gospel is so necessary. The gospel isn't just a
preference here, something that we can hang on to and attach on
the life in general. If you think you need it, no,
you need it, you need it. The Bible says the gospel is for
sinners, unclean sinners. It is summarised in the words of
the apostle who said this is a faithful saying worthy of all
acceptation. Christ Jesus come into the world
to save sinners and there's a great danger.
The great danger is says that we could argue ourselves out of
being saved. We could take the wrong box, we
could make the wrong claim and make the wrong denial.
Anybody who says being confronted that they are sinners
and they start to defend themselves are putting
themselves in great danger. The worst thing you want to do
is to argue yourself out of God's salvation.
Here in our tax man's state is led bare.
God has stripped everything away and he states a very
disconcerting truth. He's telling us here, as the
Bible does elsewhere, that we are all born sinners with a
sinful nature. The little child is born we you,
and we are. It's lovely and it's beautiful
and all. We say nice things, old little
Angel and so on. All that like that there.
But that's fine sentimentally. But when you drill down a little
bit with the word of God in your hand, you realise that we are
looking at a little Sinner, one born with a sinful nature.
And soon that sinful nature is going to manifest itself.
There's going to be that stomping of a little foot
somewhere. There's going to be that little
defiant no, no to the requests or the demands of apparent King
David put it in the words in his great penitential Psalm in Psalm
51. Listen to these words.
Behold, when the Bible says, behold, it's a little called to
stop and to look. Look at this.
That's what he's saying. Behold, he said, I was shaping
in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Now, that's nothing to do with being born out of wedlock out of
anything like that. No, he's saying, I was born with
a sinful nature. I have been born into a wicked
race, the human race that has rebelled against its creator.
I have been born on the wrong side of the tracks.
Psalm 58. David again says the wicked.
Note the word. The wicked are estranged from
the womb. They go astray as soon as they
be born. Speaking lies in our words.
The seeds of wickedness are already there and they will soon
develop and manifest themselves in full bloom when they have the
opportunity to do so. Now sin may be portrayed under
many descriptions. I think we at the opening part
of, I remember back of the mission of certainly the first
week we looked at that all the different ways sin is portrayed,
most notably rebellion. But here in our text it is on
cleanness. Who can be clean?
That is born of a woman and that's telling us today that sin
pollutes. There's a lot of talk about
pollution, isn't there? You go on the news in the
morning, the BBC Breakfast, it seems about every 3rd day
they're talking about Thames Water and you're seeing the
sewer pipe going out into the Thames.
The pollution, the fish kills. We know what pollution is.
It's in the air, it's in the sea.
Well, morally, morally, we've all got polluted hearts.
It is universal. Listen to Isaiah chapter 64,
verse 6. We are all, and that's an all,
embracing all, every one of us. We are all as an unclean thing,
the language of our text and all our righteousnesses, our filthy
rags. And we do all fear as a leaf,
and our iniquities like the wind have carried us a day, carried
us away. You remember the words of Isaiah
way back in chapter 6, as he stood in the very presence of
God. He says he saw the Lord sitting
on his throne high and lifted up.
He saw the angels, the angels cover their faces, and the
angels cried out three times to God.
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God of hosts.
What was Isaiah's response to that?
Isaiah pading to you was a good man.
He was God's man. He was a redeemed man.
He was a saved man. Isaiah, confronted with the
holiness of God, said woe is me, for I am undone.
I am a man of what? Unclean lips?
You see, uncleanness invades the whole body of man.
The apostle Paul and our great man of God had to cry out when
he saw himself up against the Lord, as it were, O wretched man
that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death.
Again he said in me, that is in my flesh left to myself,
dwelleth no good thing. Later on, Joe Joe will confess
in the presence of the Lord. I abhor myself, he said.
I repent in dust and Isis. Can I say that such uncleanness
was still under our first point? Such uncleanness is contagious
and it is dangerous. It leads to disease.
The disease leads to death. It may be communicated to ours.
We are the touch, not the unclean thing.
It can be communicated the others.
The book of Proverbs, a very practical book, tells us that we
should shun certain people or particularly their influences,
those who are guilty of various vases with the angry man that
says thou shalt not go, why is that?
Because you're going to get angry.
He's going to wind you up and those seeds of repellent in your
heart will rise up and that uncleanness of sin will manifest
yourself. If he's angry and gone off on a
rage, let him go. Just be thankful that you're not
going with him. It talks about the harlot woman,
the strange woman as she has described in the Bible.
And it's not because we are better than they.
We're not going to be the hypocrite tonight.
We're not going to be the Pharisee tonight.
But because our own wicked hearts left to themselves are
tender, dry. You get the last time that you
ever had the problem a few weeks ago.
Get all those fires in the mornings with the fires near us
there in Tyrone. The ground was tender, dry and
all it took was one match, one cigarette butt, 1 little light,
1 little broken bottle with the the sun shining through it and
soon there was the big flame of fire.
We recognise the corruption of our own hearts, and if such sins
are repulsive to us, then how much more are they repulsive to
God? God in the highest is the
highest authority. They've got the the old verse
there or the little question that is asked in the verse 4.
It really does set up our question here.
How then can man be justified with God?
He is the Master before whom we will either stand or fall.
We will stand one day at His judgement seat, and we will be
summons to appear and to give an account on such uncleanness
tonight. Such uncleanness.
If we're dying, this uncleanness, it will keep us out
of heaven. We love to sing about heaven,
don't we may like to think about the glory land and we, we, we
think it's a wonderful, wonderful place where the Bible
tells us that it is. It's the it's the height of joy
and pleasure to be in the presence of the Lord forever.
But listen to what it says. Nothing, nothing that defileth
shall enter into heaven. That's why it's so wonderful.
All that is unclean and defiled is kept out in heaven itself.
You have the redeemed of the Lord there, and they are
portrayed in being in white robes, the righteousness of the
Saints. The Bible says in Revelation 22
concerning the uncleanness, it keeps a man out of heaven.
It will be pronounced on a great multitude, perhaps at the last,
some even Goward in our meeting tonight.
That him that is unjust beyond just still the final doom.
Let him that is filthy unclean. Let him be filthy still.
These are the worst words that anybody could hear.
But not only do we have the question analyse, moving on here
quickly and #2 we have the question answered, the question
answered. In other words, we are treating
it as a question that is not rhetorical.
Originally it was a rhetorical, it was asked for a fact.
But we're going to take it as a question that needs to be
answered. The rhetorical has served its
purpose in the first point. And since we are all unclean by
sin, both original and actual, and therefore, in such a state
barred from heaven, no hope in ourselves of getting in, because
there can be no fellowship between righteousness.
And on righteousness, you say, Is that it?
Have I come here tonight to hear a message of certain doom and
perdition? The old question was asked in
the Gospels. Who then can be saved?
But this isn't all what the Bible says.
Bible says man cannot cleanse himself.
The stain is too deep. Jeremiah said these words in the
early part of his book when he's saying his complaint among to
the people. He says if you wash yourself
with knighter, knighter was a very strong soap, an industrial
level soap. If you wash yourself with
knighter and you take to thee much soap yet thine iniquity,
thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God.
The ladies will know what it is like when you're doing the
washing. You've got a stain and our
fellas come of a wee bit of a stain in my shirt.
Is there anything you can do about it?
And outcomes the carbolic soap and outcomes all the the wonder
portions that you spent money for to go through the wash, but
the stain's still there, isn't it?
It's not right in the back down here.
It's sitting there somewhere where you you, you're going to
see it. And if man cannot remove and
cleanse his own sin, he certainly cannot cleanse and
remove the sins of an hour. There's no human cure for this.
Tonight. There's no church can cleanse
you. Tonight.
You go through all the rituals of your church, no matter visit
Roman or Reformed or whatever, the church cannot deliver you.
It cannot wash away your sin. But what we can do and what
we're doing tonight is that we can preach unknower.
What is impossible with men is possible with God.
And we are introduced in this book of Job.
Job was, the Bible says, a perfect and an upright man.
He was not sinless, but he was a saved man.
He feared God that's the beginning of wisdom, the fear of
God he astute that means he rejected evil and how was this
how's this man born on clean of a woman?
How can he be an upright and a perfect man fearing God because
he spoke about a Redeemer Job 19 verse 25.
I know he said, he's in the depths of despair here.
When he speaks his words. He's down in the dumps a
thousandfold, and yet he's still a man of faith.
And he cries out, and he says, I know that my Redeemer liveth not
a wonderful thing. He had a saviour, had a
Redeemer. Here's a man surrounded by
heathen with her false deities, who demanded so much, delivered
nothing, never mind so little, unable to save anybody.
But Job's God was alive, the one true and living God, and God was
his Redeemer. And Job's God, who is our God,
who we're preaching tonight, is wowing.
Although he is the offended one. He's wowing to be gracious and
merciful to the guilty. There we deserve nothing but to
be castaway in wrath. The world one time so plunged
itself in the uncleanness. Job chapter or Genesis chapter
6, when the whole earth was full of violence in the days of Noah,
days that will return again before the Lord comes back and
listen to what it says. It repented the Lord that he had
made man on earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
And the wicked cannot complain if God was to cast them into the
deepest hell, because the whole world tonight, the whole world
stands guilty before God and every mouth is stopped.
There's no legal arguments, there's no excuses, there's no
smart lawyers, there's no bluffing.
The Supreme Judge who knows all things and will do that which is
right. Has God made a way back to
himself from the dark paths of sin?
Can God cleanse the souls of men?
Can he present them to Himself, as the Bible says, without spot,
without wrinkle, or any such things?
That's why I'm here tonight. That's why this church is here
tonight, because we answer yes, he can.
And we point to a fountain. We did it in our opening hymn.
We say there is a fountain filled with blood drawn from
Emmanuel's veins. Sinners floods beneath that
flood lose all their guilty stains.
And that's the cross. That's the cross of Calvary, a
great fountain, Zechariah 13 and one opened up for all sin and
all uncleanness. And that's what God did when he
sent his Son to Calvary's cross. And what happened at the cross?
Christ died. Christ died for the ungodly, for
the unclean, scarcely for a righteous man, says Paul.
For a clean man would one die. Yet he says it may be perhaps
peradventure, some thinking that a good man would be worth dying
for. Some would even dare to die.
But God commanded his love toward us, in that while we were
yet sinners on clean sinners, Christ died for us.
What happened at the cross? God put His Son on the cross,
and God made him Christ, who knew no sin to be made sin for
us, to be accounted as a Sinner for us, that we might be made or
accounted righteousness in him. He was numbered with the
transgressors, He was numbered with the unclean, and all that
righteous and all that holy wrath of our God fell upon him.
He was our substitute. Christ died, for on account of
our sins He gave Himself for us. You see, without the shedding of
blood there is no remission, but the blood was shed.
He felt the lash of the whip in Pilot's judgement hall.
He knew what it was to have His hands pierced.
I hear the dole blow of a hammer swung low there kneeling, my
Lord, to the tree, and then it says someone took a spear and
rammed it into his side, and forthwith came out.
What water, water and blood, blood to satisfy the divine law,
water to cleanse the goatly soul.
All we preach tonight, we're not ashamed to preach tonight about
the blood of Jesus Christ godson cleansing us from walls in the
word there cleanseth and it's a mood that it's inner the tents
that it's in in the original language is that it keeps on
cleansing us from all sin captured in the words of the
handwriter. The blood that washed my sins
away still cleanseth every hour you remember the words of the
Saviour to Peter. He that is washed is cleansed
every whip all the Gower clean holy clean.
This is the question analysed. And then thirdly and lastly, it
falls to me tonight very quickly.
We have the question applied and that's where we say, well,
that's very interesting. How does it apply to me?
We make it personal. I hope tonight if you're
unsaved, you're asking this question.
How can I unclean, unsaved, unfit for the purity of God's
heaven? As it stands, the gates will be
locked against me and I will be told that a part is cursed,
because cursed is the man who can keep, not the whole of the
law of God. How can I be clean?
I need to be cleaned again into heaven.
Well, God has opened up this great fountain for us.
The blood has been shed. That blood as we were singing
will never, will never lose its power.
The gospel that has centred on the blood of the Lamb, Jesus
said it will be preached in the world until the end of the age,
and that's when all the purposes of God will be worked out
concerning salvation. That's why we can stand and
preach this so confidently tonight.
Find these boys, Peter and John and all starting off 2000 years
ago the blood had only been shed and you'd maybe say well after
2000 years has it lost any of its ancient power?
No, it's still the same. It's still the gospel of Christ
which is the power of God unto salvation.
Do everyone not believeth? How do you get this cleansing?
Well the verse it says that blood cleanseth us from all sin
leads to 2 verses down first, John 1:00 and 9:00.
If we confess our sins, That's what I'm saying.
Take the sinner's place. If we confess our sins, not to a
man in a wee box, not to a man sitting round the table the way
they do it now, but if we confess our sins to our great
high priest in heaven, the only priest the Sinner needs, If we
confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
And what you need to do, and this might be hard, you need to
forsake any other concoction that you might have.
You cannot keep your options open.
It must be Christ and it must be Christ alone.
Any our man made scheme is what the Bible calls unbelief of the
truth. It's a sin, even the entertain.
And to hold on to such a thought, it's a thought that
needs to be repented of because the retainant is to become
worth. I know, I say let it go.
It's useless, it's worthless, it's dangerous.
In Acts chapter 28 and verse 3, we read about the Apostle Paul.
He survived the great shipwreck. He went on to an island and
everybody of course come in off the sea.
They were wet, they were soaked through, they were cold.
They got a bit of a fire going, as you would, and after a piece
of wood there came out of the wood a deadly vapour and it
fastened itself on the Paul's hand.
You know what the Bible says he did.
He immediately shook it off. And that's what you need to do.
That's what you need to do with any deadly thought that you
might still be entertaining, that there's another way of
cleansing. I say tonight, shake it off,
break off thy sins, repent of it, and lay hold or not finished
work of Christ. The price has been paid, the
work has been done, the invite goes out.
Faith lays hold on eternal life. Will you come tonight?
Wash them, be clean. You know, this is the last night
of a gospel mission. It's always a solemn time
because sometimes there's folks and Welsh, we're glad to see
them and it's wonderful. The only common the gospel
missions. And we don't have them every
hour a week either. And it might well be, and I
don't know, but it could well be.
Maybe you're hearing the gospel for the last time.
There's a great fountain opened up drawn from Emmanuel veins
which you need to come. It's them that come why
shouldn't be cleaned and if you come he gave the great promise
Noel preach medley on Friday night That great thanks to him
that cometh to me. I will in no wise cast out his
blood can make the file as clean his blood avails for me whose
have listened well tonight time is moving on.
If you want to speak with me afterwards we're going to have
this little bit of supper and I'm willing to chat you but you
know just sitting in your seat tonight just sitting in your
seat say Lord, I'm unclean. I've listened to this man who
has preached your word I'm unclean.
Wash me, cleanse me in the blood that flowed on Calvary.