1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:02,880 Amen. That's good singing. 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:06,120 Good to have that assurance of sins for a given. 3 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:10,200 Good to have that assurance that the hymn writer did and does. 4 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:13,120 We are going to a palace that is built of gold. 5 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:14,880 But I wonder what about you today? 6 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:18,600 I wonder what about you in this gathering today, you watching 7 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:22,360 along the service online. Do you have that same assurance 8 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:26,280 that so many of us have? That assurance that comes to 9 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:29,760 know that we have our sins forgiven. 10 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:33,560 I want you to turn, please, to John's Gospel chapter 3. 11 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:36,920 We intimated or hinted at it this morning that we were going 12 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:42,280 to be looking at this gospel in a nutshell that we find here in 13 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:46,080 John chapter 3 and the verse marked 16. 14 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:49,360 What a wonderful account this is. 15 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:54,840 John chapter 3, verse 16. Of course, the Bible wasn't 16 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:57,480 originally given in the chapter divisions or indeed diverse 17 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:01,240 divisions of a habitant today that we have and love today. 18 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:06,200 But we do appreciate the fact that there are those that came 19 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:09,840 before that divided it up as it is. 20 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:13,360 In fact, it was a year, I think it was in and around the year 21 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:18,960 1227, whenever Stephen Langdon, the then Archbishop of 22 00:01:18,960 --> 00:01:23,760 Canterbury, took to that mammoth task of dividing the Bible up 23 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:28,640 into the chapter divisions that we know and love today, and then 24 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:31,400 the verse divisions, they came sometime later. 25 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:36,560 That was Robert Stevens, a printer, a French printer who 26 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:39,360 divided up into the verse divisions that we know and love 27 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:45,480 in and around the year 1551 for his edition of the New 28 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:48,960 Testament. And it's John chapter 3, verse 29 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:50,400 16. In fact, we're going to make 30 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:53,160 reference of this tonight because it's something that 31 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:55,320 comes up in the message. And every time I think about 32 00:01:55,320 --> 00:02:00,600 this passage about that division 316, you're going to have to 33 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:02,800 wait a minute or two to hear of that. 34 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:06,480 But we want to read, first of all, trust you find the place. 35 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:09,600 John, chapter 3. We want to read a number of 36 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:11,160 verses at the start of this chapter. 37 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:13,240 Now, let us just set the scene here. 38 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:19,160 Here we have a learned man, a ruler, a very important man in 39 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:23,440 the city of Jerusalem at that time, who came under the cover 40 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:28,880 of darkness to quiz the Lord, to ask him difficult questions, 41 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:31,680 questions that he didn't know the answer to. 42 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:39,320 And I believe that very evening, that very night was the night 43 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:43,200 when the penny dropped for that individual, the night when the 44 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:47,720 skills came off his eyes and he was able to see the Lord Jesus 45 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:51,640 Christ for who and what he was, the Saviour of the world. 46 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:58,160 He had questions that night. He had things that he couldn't 47 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:01,080 get into his head or couldn't understand perhaps. 48 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:02,800 I think a little bit of this was the case. 49 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,600 He was overcomplicating those things. 50 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:11,760 But I believe that's the very night that could be traced back 51 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:18,920 to how this man was converted. John chapter 3 verse one reads, 52 00:03:18,920 --> 00:03:24,000 There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the 53 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:28,000 Jews. The same came to Jesus by night 54 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,160 and said unto him, Look at the very title that he uses here. 55 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:33,280 He respected the Saviour so much. 56 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:35,760 He said, Now this was just the very commencement of the 57 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:38,480 Saviour's ministry. But here he is, He comes in, He 58 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:42,720 knows enough to indicate to us that he's been watching the 59 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:46,080 Saviour for some time. He started off Rabbi. 60 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:49,440 We know that thou were the teacher, come from God. 61 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:54,080 Now the very term we as a plural thing, it brings others into it 62 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:56,240 as well. Perhaps there were others who 63 00:03:56,280 --> 00:04:00,080 had been discussing the matter of who this man really was. 64 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:06,280 But regardless of who that was, here we find this man on his own 65 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:09,120 that night. We know that thou were the 66 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:13,320 teacher, come from God, for no man can do these miracles of thy 67 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:17,640 dost except God be with him. He knew there was something 68 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:20,480 different about the Lord Jesus Christ. 69 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:26,640 Jesus answered and said unto him, verily, verily, and 70 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:28,800 incidentally. It's only in John's Gospel that 71 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:32,520 we have the verrillies repeated or doubled, as we have here in 72 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:34,960 this little phrase, verily, verily. 73 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:37,120 And that's one of the things that we look out for. 74 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,160 Whenever the Saviour was about to say something of look at me 75 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:46,840 when I say this utmost importance, He always preceded 76 00:04:46,840 --> 00:04:51,200 it with either verily, verily, as in John's Gospel, or verily 77 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:55,000 as in the other Gospels, the Synoptics, or words like, lo or 78 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,800 behold, words like that, or words that we ought to look out 79 00:04:57,800 --> 00:04:59,080 for when we're reading Scripture. 80 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:02,640 Here we have it, verily, verily, and then we've got something of 81 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:04,680 utmost importance coming. We know this. 82 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:11,320 I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the 83 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:16,640 Kingdom of God. That's once Nicodemus said unto 84 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:18,400 him, Here's the first of the questions. 85 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,080 How can a man be born when he is old? 86 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:24,320 Can he enter the second time unto his mother's womb and be 87 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:29,680 born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, 88 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:33,240 I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, 89 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:36,320 he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. 90 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:40,240 That's twice. See the way the Lord is 91 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:45,160 reinforcing this truth, this divine truth, thus saving truth. 92 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:51,200 Verse 6, that which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that 93 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:53,960 which is born of the spirit is spirit. 94 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:59,760 Marvel not that I said unto thee, ye must be born again. 95 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:03,560 That's three times and just a few verses where the Saviour is 96 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:06,840 reinforcing this thought to him. In fact, this time in verse 7, 97 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:12,920 he prefaces it with that little free is marvel not he could see 98 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:16,480 by reading this man's face. In fact, beyond that, oh, we're 99 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:18,920 way beyond that because we're dealing with the Lord Jesus 100 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:22,840 Christ here, the Son of God and God the Son, He read this man's 101 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:25,120 hearts as he does with you tonight. 102 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:31,880 He knew that he was surprised or we could even go further than 103 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:34,360 that and we could say that he was a little bit taken. 104 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:36,680 Abide aback. That's why did you ever think of 105 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:40,840 the first few words in verse 7, the 1st 2 words? 106 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:45,160 Why did the Saviour say, Marvel not that I said unto thee, 107 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:49,920 Because this man was struggling with this thought, that he had 108 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:53,280 heard by now three times, or twice by now this was going to 109 00:06:53,280 --> 00:06:55,440 be the third. Marvel not that I said unto 110 00:06:55,440 --> 00:07:02,400 thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it 111 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:04,320 listeth, and thy hearest to sound thereof. 112 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:07,640 But canst now tell whilst it cometh, and whither it goeth, 113 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:11,800 what he is saying here, that you cannot see the wind, but you can 114 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:14,520 merely see the effects of the wind, That's what he is using 115 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:17,960 here by illustration form to this religious leader. 116 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:22,600 So was everyone that is born of the spirit. 117 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:28,240 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, he he was now at the point 118 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:30,720 where he didn't even ask individual questions about 119 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:32,680 individual things that the Lord was saying. 120 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:36,320 It was just so much for him. Look at his response in verse 9. 121 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:40,240 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? 122 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:47,360 He had questions. Jesus answered and said unto 123 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:49,160 him, Art thou a master of Israel? 124 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:54,120 Knowest not these things. Verily, verily, I say unto thee, 125 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:58,320 we speak, that we do no one testify that we have seen, and 126 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:02,760 ye receive not our witness. If I have told you earthly 127 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:05,840 things, and you believe not, how should you believe if I tell you 128 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:10,280 of heavenly things? And no man hath ascended up unto 129 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:14,240 heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of 130 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:17,960 Man, which is in heaven. And here the Saviour is Speaking 131 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:22,240 of Himself, the Son of Man. That's how he refers himself in 132 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:24,800 John's gospel, especially the Son of Man. 133 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:29,440 And in fact, here when we get to verse 14, now we know what verse 134 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:32,039 14 refers to. It refers to something that 135 00:08:32,039 --> 00:08:36,200 happened a way back in Israel's history, a way back before the 136 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:41,640 time of Christ Incarnate. In fact, it refers a way back to 137 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:44,520 something that we read off in the Old Testament in Numbers 138 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:47,000 chapter 21. We know about that. 139 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:50,960 But this man, this religious leader, this ruler of the Jews, 140 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:53,840 this Pharisee, or he knew all about that. 141 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:56,760 Their knowledge of the Old Testament would have put us to 142 00:08:56,760 --> 00:09:00,600 shame. I believe that's why the Saviour 143 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:03,880 said what he did that day in private consultation with this 144 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:08,240 man in verse 14, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the 145 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:12,160 wilderness, and here he gives us prophecy of how He himself would 146 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:18,200 die, Even so must the Son of Man be lifted up. 147 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:22,120 That's the central event, and all time the cross work of my 148 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:25,720 Saviour referred to here in that verse. 149 00:09:26,560 --> 00:09:32,360 That whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have 150 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:34,720 eternal life. Listen to these verses, friends. 151 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:39,720 For God so love the world that he give His only begotten Son, 152 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:43,680 that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have 153 00:09:43,680 --> 00:09:48,280 everlasting life. For God sent not His Son unto 154 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:53,240 the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him 155 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:58,520 might be saved. He that believeth on Him is not 156 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:01,760 condemned. But there's that word of 157 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:05,440 contrast. But he that believeth not is 158 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:11,200 condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of 159 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:15,840 the only begotten Son of God. We'll end the reading there, 160 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:21,200 please, of that eighteenth verse, praying in the knowledge, 161 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:27,200 but the Lord Himself will pour out His own blessing upon this, 162 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:31,760 the reading of His own precious word to our souls just now. 163 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:35,120 If you could join me, please, by standing in prayer for a moment. 164 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:40,320 Let us take a moment as we come before the Lord and the throne 165 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:46,320 of grace, as we reverently approach His word this evening. 166 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:50,080 Let us pray, Father. Well, thank Thee for the 167 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:53,840 blessing that we've had of thy presence already tonight. 168 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:59,680 But Lord, we admit that we can do nothing more, nothing else. 169 00:10:59,680 --> 00:11:03,080 We can't open up the Scripture at all without thy help. 170 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:09,400 Therefore, Lord, I plead with Thee to draw near, help this 171 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:13,360 preacher in his weakness. Help those, the hearers and the 172 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:18,120 Pew and the hearers along online as well, whether it's live right 173 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:20,400 now in their own homes as they're watching the service, or 174 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:23,320 sometime after the fact through the week or beyond. 175 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:29,080 I pray that the entrance of Thy word might bring light and life 176 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:31,880 undertake for us. And I give that help, Lord, for 177 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:35,360 these next several moments in Thy presence. 178 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:38,800 It is for Thy glory and Thy glory alone would you plate. 179 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:41,840 And thy precious and and Thy holy nobody ask. 180 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:50,280 Amen. You know, every time I think 181 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:55,480 about this particular passage of Scripture, John chapter 3 in 182 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:58,400 particular, it brings a smile to my face. 183 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:02,360 It brings a smile to my face. Let me tell you one of the 184 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:04,000 reasons why. There's a lot of things that I 185 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:08,280 could go into just now, but one of the reasons is my home church 186 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:11,320 is a few mile up the road in Balnahenge right from. 187 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:13,880 I always joke that that church was built to coincide with my 188 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:16,360 birth. I think the church there was 189 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:21,800 opened in March 1978 and I was born in the last, the end of 190 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:27,480 1977, but right from that church was first opened to this very 191 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:31,640 day. Part of John chapter 3, verse 7 192 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:35,880 is painted on the wall behind and big bold lettering behind 193 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:40,320 the preacher's head. John chapter 3, verse 7, ye must 194 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:44,640 be born again. That's part of the reason it 195 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:48,440 brings a smile to my face. But there's other parts of that 196 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:50,480 reason as well, that it brings a smile to my face. 197 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:54,680 And indeed, a cold shiver can also run the length of my spine 198 00:12:54,680 --> 00:12:57,560 whenever I think about it. George might know something 199 00:12:57,560 --> 00:13:01,960 about this, because it makes me think and brings me back, in 200 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:05,040 fact, to an open air that we were doing down at the City Hall 201 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:07,320 one Friday afternoon. Do you remember we used to do 202 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:10,120 those open airs? Brother Doctor Paisley started 203 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:14,120 those open airs in the 1960s, lunchtime open airs on a Friday, 204 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:18,480 and US ministers in the Belfast area tried our best to continue 205 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:22,880 that and to keep on doing that. But I remember 1 particular dump 206 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:27,680 Friday afternoon at Belfast City Hall away back in 2019. 207 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:30,640 In fact, I've researched this and I know exactly when that 208 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:32,560 date was. I'll not forget it. 209 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:38,280 It was Friday the 18th of October 2019 to be precise. 210 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:41,960 I remember it well. I remember sitting in my study 211 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:43,720 that day and it was damp, it was wet. 212 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:47,880 It was a nasty sort of a day on the late Clifford Black, if you 213 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:51,000 know if you know Clifford Black and the sort of man he is or 214 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:57,160 was, he's been called a higher reward since Clifford Black 215 00:13:57,160 --> 00:13:59,120 lived in Larne and the weather over there might have been 216 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:01,840 different from what it was in Dromara and certainly the middle 217 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:03,360 of Belfast. And I remember whale. 218 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:06,400 I can still see it yet before sitting in the study window with 219 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:10,040 me at the desk and the phone rang and it was Clifford's name 220 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:12,600 on the phone and I answered it and he says brother, what's the 221 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:15,480 weather like where you are? I says well it's a bit wet here. 222 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:17,320 What do you want to do with the open air today? 223 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:18,840 Do you want to leave it or do you want to go for it? 224 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:24,440 I says we'll give it an hour. So he rang me back in an hour. 225 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:28,320 By that stage I was down in east Belfast and he rang me again and 226 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:29,720 he says, well brother, what do you think now? 227 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:32,000 What's the weather like now? He says it's still raining but 228 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:34,120 it's given it to dry up. I'm just for somebody here at 229 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:36,320 the minute, Clifford. We'll give it another hour. 230 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:40,400 It was about half 11, but half 12. 231 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:42,040 He rang again. He says, well, what are we going 232 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:43,080 to do? I says, I'll tell you what we'll 233 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:43,840 do. We'll go for it. 234 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:47,520 I says I'll meet you at the gates of City Hall at 1:00. 235 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:49,360 He had it booked, meticulously booked. 236 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:53,120 He had a contact in City Hall and he emailed that Lady every 237 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:56,160 day, every week. And he got the booking cemented 238 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:59,080 and set in stone where we might be able to continue that 239 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:02,480 tradition that Doctor Pacey had started back so many years ago. 240 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:05,120 But I remember the day that I remember that later on, about 241 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:08,640 5:00 to 1:00, I pulled up and the wife car actually that day. 242 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:11,320 And he was standing at the sight of their own pulling his hair 243 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:13,480 out. What are we going to do, 244 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:14,360 brother? I says, why? 245 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:17,360 What's wrong When he pointed at this Transit van that was parked 246 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:21,520 and I turned around and I says, well, get him beside it, that'll 247 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:24,080 not be a problem. I don't mean the van, he says. 248 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:27,040 I mean that. And he pointed over at the 50 249 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:31,800 plus Republican protesters that were just about to start a 250 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:34,880 protest that day. They were having a protest that 251 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:37,840 day and it was started. It was actually organised by 252 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:42,960 John Finucan, the then Lord Mayor of Belfast, who was 253 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:47,120 holding a protest that day to reuse the profile of Michaela 254 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:48,720 McCallum. Do you remember that one? 255 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:54,080 One of the Peru too had been caught being as drug mules. 256 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:58,040 That's why they were there. And I said to Clifford, I says, 257 00:15:58,040 --> 00:15:59,800 you know what? We'll, we'll go for it. 258 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:02,080 I had the pipes and all with me as always do. 259 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:03,800 Your brother asked me as he come into the pulpit. 260 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:05,360 Do you have the pipes with you the night? 261 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:08,000 I'm a piper. I'm I wear a whole lot of hats. 262 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,360 You'll know that about me. I'm a piper. 263 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:12,320 I'm a bus driver, I'm an engineer, I'm a preacher. 264 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:14,760 I'm a lot of things. But I had the pipes with me that 265 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:16,680 day and I said, Clifford, we'll not bother with the pipes. 266 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:20,080 We'll go straight into preaching the word because we may get a 267 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:23,320 short shift. And he set up his microphone at 268 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:24,640 the start. And you know what I did? 269 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:26,560 I just, I, I didn't really plan it. 270 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:28,520 Maybe I should have thought about it a little bit more. 271 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:31,640 I had a little black Bible that would have preached from a 272 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:33,800 little black book. It maybe didn't even look like a 273 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:35,600 Bible, but it was a little black Bible. 274 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:39,360 And I held it up as high as I could and I spoke directly into 275 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:42,280 that microphone. So on a nut, joking people over 276 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:44,200 a mile away would have heard every word. 277 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:47,120 You're laughing. You think that's true? 278 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:49,520 That is true. That's been proven because the 279 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:52,840 way the buildings are structured and right down Royal Ave, you 280 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:55,320 could hear me over a mile away, every word. 281 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:58,600 And that was proved because I spoke to somebody on one 282 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:01,480 occasion after preaching at the open air and they were able to 283 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:04,040 tell me that they heard somebody preaching on what the outline 284 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:05,880 was. And after the finish, I said, 285 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:08,280 bro, that was me if I could hear it. 286 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:11,640 But I stood up that day with my little black book. 287 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:13,240 I don't know if you've ever heard this story, brother. 288 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:16,800 It's a true story. I held up that little black book 289 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:21,720 and I said I have evidence in my hand of collusion at the highest 290 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:23,440 level. Oh, I knew I had them on the 291 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:27,160 hook when I said that. And I went on further and I said 292 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:31,440 collusion between political leaders and religious leaders. 293 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:35,120 I have evidence of it here in this little black book. 294 00:17:35,120 --> 00:17:39,080 Oh, I knew I had them and then I brought the book down and I 295 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:41,600 opened it up and I opened it up at this very portion that we've 296 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:46,120 read together this evening, John chapter 3 and began to read of 297 00:17:46,120 --> 00:17:50,400 how Nicodemus, this religious leader, this political leader 298 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:53,880 came under the cover of darkness that very night that we've read 299 00:17:53,880 --> 00:18:00,520 of to speak to this question, to quiz to to have that one to one 300 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:03,120 conversation with the Lord Jesus Christ. 301 00:18:03,120 --> 00:18:10,160 Oh, I knew I had them that day. I preached probably for 20 302 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:13,480 minutes or so, and I was afraid to turn my head to the left or 303 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:16,240 to the right. I was determined to finish what 304 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:19,560 I had started, and I could feel people closing in right behind 305 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:22,120 me and I didn't know who they were, whether they were friends 306 00:18:22,120 --> 00:18:24,280 or foes. I was waiting to get pulled back 307 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:26,760 off that microphone that day, and it never happened. 308 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:30,560 And as soon as the meeting was over, as soon as I finished 309 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:34,320 preaching and clothes and prayer, I turned around. 310 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:37,040 It was actually some of my own deacons, my own committee man 311 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:40,720 from our own church. I didn't know that there was one 312 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:44,120 other man there from the protest who had actually, believe it or 313 00:18:44,120 --> 00:18:49,760 not, actually come over to share his appreciation for what we did 314 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:52,680 and how we did it that day. And to tell me that they had 315 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:56,640 actually waited for us to finish before they would start their 316 00:18:56,640 --> 00:18:59,040 protest. Imagine that, you see, if I was 317 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:01,080 in America now, that we shouldn't praise the Lord. 318 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:06,800 Tell you what the Lord does wonderful things. 319 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:11,160 In fact, I remember something else I told you earlier on about 320 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:13,880 the chapter divisions and the various divisions and what the 321 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:19,520 316 means to me. This is also a true story. 322 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:22,400 I used to work in, well, I don't, I shouldn't say used to 323 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:25,640 work, but I used to work in aerospace engineering. 324 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:29,680 I left in aerospace engineering and went into the ministry 20 325 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:31,600 years ago. I actually went back to 326 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:34,960 engineering 2 weeks ago. I've done two weeks now back at 327 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:37,840 engineering again after hiatus of 20 years. 328 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:40,880 But I used to work an engineer in a in a factory up near 329 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:43,800 Crumlin called Langford Lodge Engineer and we made ejector 330 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:46,600 seats for jets. And I remember 1 morning, I 331 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:49,720 remember it well as clear as if it was happening right in front 332 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:51,280 of me. Now there was a fellow I worked 333 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:53,800 with and got on very well with. His name is Marty. 334 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:59,800 And I remember Marty, as soon as I came into my workstation that 335 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:02,880 day and put down my bag and started to get ready for work 336 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:06,240 about 5:00 to 8:00 that morning. I remember him already making a 337 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:08,600 B line for me and I said to myself, I wonder what this is 338 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:10,240 now. And he comes straight over to me 339 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:12,240 and he says to me, I've got a question for you. 340 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:14,040 I said, Marty, what's your question? 341 00:20:14,360 --> 00:20:16,320 I knew the nature of the question because of the way he 342 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:18,440 come over to me. I just knew there was something 343 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:20,240 up. And he says, I know that you'll 344 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:22,800 be able to answer this question. I said, what's your question? 345 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:27,320 Marty spit it out. He says what does 316 mean? 346 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:30,280 And I smiled and I said Marie, why are you asking that 347 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:32,440 question? He says I was down at Crue Park 348 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,320 yesterday for a big Gaelic final or something like that. 349 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:39,080 He was a GAA fan and and player. He says I was down at the Crue 350 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:42,720 Park and behind the goals. Every time there was a a goal 351 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:45,920 scored in One Direction or every time attention was down at that 352 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:48,200 end of the pitch, there was somebody there with a big 353 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:50,800 sandwich board on them. And it didn't say much but it 354 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:56,440 said this 3 double .16. And he said, I knew you would be 355 00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:57,760 able to tell me something about that. 356 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:03,480 And that is I had the privilege that Monday morning of sharing 357 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:08,040 the gospel message, the gospel in a nutshell of sharing John 358 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:12,880 chapter 3, verse 16 with Marty McNally that day as he listened 359 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:16,720 and hung upon every single word. How did he know it was something 360 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:18,720 religious? How did he know it was something 361 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:20,120 that I'd be able to answer the question? 362 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:23,560 I don't know the answer to that question, but I know the Lord 363 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:26,640 give us a gospel opportunity that day. 364 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:30,040 In fact, I've only just heard the commencement, the close. 365 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:31,760 That's funny how things go full circle. 366 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:35,760 The close of that story recently because I was preaching at a 367 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:40,080 conference, ACPA conference up in Port Stewart last summer. 368 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:44,080 And I related that same story. And somebody come up to me after 369 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:48,360 the meeting and they said, I know the man that used to go 370 00:21:48,360 --> 00:21:50,760 down to all those matches, he had no interest in Gaelic. 371 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:52,520 He had no interest in that. But you know what he had an 372 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:55,400 interest in? And this is the reason why we're 373 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:59,280 here tonight, folks. He had an interest in the souls 374 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:01,360 of men and women and young people. 375 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:05,680 He had a burden for his poor, deluded Roman Catholic 376 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:07,880 neighbours. And that's why he bought out of 377 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:11,240 his own pocket tickets to go down, paid for the journey and 378 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:16,240 went down and stood proudly with his 316 on his bed and a message 379 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:20,280 front and back that he might win others to Christ. 380 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:27,240 Now you understand, perhaps there's three stories there in 381 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:32,880 one, the one of the verse on the wall in Balnahenge, the one of 382 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:38,920 that true story of the Sinn Fein protest that day all those years 383 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:43,600 ago, and of reaching Marty with the gospel in that manner. 384 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:47,480 You know why? It brings a smile to my face as 385 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:49,480 well as a cold shiver down my spine. 386 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:50,840 But let me ask the question today. 387 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:55,280 What about you? You understand anything of the 388 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:59,000 import and the meaning of what we have here in John chapter 3, 389 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,360 verse 16. I want us to think about this 390 00:23:01,360 --> 00:23:03,280 verse. I want us to think about those 391 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:07,240 words that are that encapsulated there in that verse number, the 392 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:11,000 many Bible as it's been often referred to or as as we're 393 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,600 calling it tonight, the gospel in a nutshell. 394 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:17,040 I've heard, I'm sure you have as well heard, hundreds or maybe 395 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:20,280 even thousands of sermons preached on that particular, 396 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:24,240 that famous text of Scripture. In fact, I'm almost afraid to 397 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:27,520 come to that Scripture because we'll never do it justice. 398 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:30,520 But if you were to hold that attitude, you'd never preach in 399 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:33,040 any verse of Scripture because we could never plummet the 400 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:36,320 depths of any verse of Scripture that we'll ever come to. 401 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:39,560 But look at the even the very third word of that verse. 402 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:42,880 Look at it in your copy of God's word for God. 403 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:46,800 So was said this morning how easy it is to skip over words, 404 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:50,400 especially small ones to to just to rush past them and to get to 405 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:53,240 the the main words of meaning in the verse. 406 00:23:53,360 --> 00:23:56,120 God and his love in the world and and begotten. 407 00:23:56,120 --> 00:23:58,040 What does that mean in Son and perish? 408 00:23:58,160 --> 00:23:59,960 But we can and skip over the small words. 409 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:01,680 But look at even that third word. 410 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:08,040 For God so loved the world. That word in itself is like a 411 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:15,480 whale with no bottom, inexhaustibly deep when we seek 412 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:23,400 to think about and describe and have that cognitive grasp of how 413 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:30,920 much God loved you tonight. I want us to look at this verse 414 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,000 in the few moments that we have in respect. 415 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,200 I don't know if you've ever heard it taken this way or not. 416 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:39,920 I know I haven't. In respect very simply to time. 417 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,440 I've divided up three very simple ways. 418 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:46,800 You'll know something about me. I'm a very simple preacher. 419 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:49,280 If I can understand it, you'll be able to understand it. 420 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:53,200 And it is in respect to time, specifically the first part, the 421 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:57,200 middle part, the last part in the past, the present, and the 422 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:00,640 future, because it divides up in my mind at least that way so 423 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:01,600 easily. Look at the verse. 424 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:05,360 That's lies before us. For God so loved the world that 425 00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:09,640 He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him 426 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,480 should not perish, but have Everlast life. 427 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:14,720 Here we have. First of all, the opening words 428 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,760 of that verse speak to us of the past. 429 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:25,040 Do you see what it says there of how the Lord Jesus Christ spoke 430 00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:29,360 to this individual, this anxious Enquirer, this genuinely anxious 431 00:25:29,360 --> 00:25:33,240 Enquirer who was concerned about his soul all day? 432 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,240 Let me ask you a question. Are you concerned for your soul 433 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,240 today? Because here we're dealing with 434 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:42,640 One who certainly is. He took time. 435 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:46,640 Imagine the God of all the universe, the only speak the 436 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:51,440 words unto being, took time to speak to this individual. 437 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:57,320 Perhaps He's the one that's knocking your heart's door 438 00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:00,280 tonight and has been knocking your heart's door. 439 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:05,840 Would you let Him in? Here we have something that 440 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,240 alludes to the past. Look at all the words that are 441 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:09,840 used. Look at the verbs that are given 442 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:13,000 in the past tense. For God, a verb is a doing word. 443 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,840 It's a word, with a few exceptions, that you can put I 444 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:17,560 in front of and that still makes sense. 445 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:26,520 I walk, I sing, I love, I for God, so loved the world. 446 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:31,120 That's past tense, Speaking of something that happened and 447 00:26:31,120 --> 00:26:33,760 something that occurred, of a council that happened in 448 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:36,600 eternity past, as we would call it, for the limitation of our 449 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:38,600 own mind. Really, in the mind of God, 450 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,120 there's no such thing as eternity past or eternity 451 00:26:41,120 --> 00:26:42,600 future. There's eternity. 452 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:46,880 But in our minds, the way we have to think, God so loved the 453 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:48,720 world that He gave His only begotten Son. 454 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:52,880 There was a council, you see, hailed in eternity past when God 455 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:58,280 the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit came up with 456 00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:02,920 this plan, this perfect plan of redemption, that sinners like 457 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:10,280 you and I might be saved. I thank God for that meeting all 458 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,760 those years ago. In fact, an eternity past. 459 00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:18,440 We can't even speak of it in terms of years, whenever the 460 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,840 whole eternity, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit 461 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:25,960 came up with this perfect plan of redemption for a fallen 462 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:32,280 reeds, for a fallen world of sinners such as you and I Just 463 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:33,640 you think about that for a moment. 464 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:37,360 It's hard for the mind to grasp fact. 465 00:27:37,360 --> 00:27:39,600 I want us to think about the love of God for a moment. 466 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:41,600 We're thinking here about things that are hard to grasp. 467 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:43,880 We can't really grasp that fully. 468 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:48,640 We think of love as an attribute that's added on to us and and he 469 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:53,000 can love or he does love or he is lovely or I love this or I 470 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:56,840 love that. God not just has or possesses 471 00:27:56,840 --> 00:28:01,240 whose attributes God is love. It makes up his essence. 472 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:05,520 God is love in the words of first John chapter 4, verse 8 473 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:08,160 and verse 16. We're told there in those verses 474 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,280 on those occasions that God is love. 475 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:14,320 You can turn to that verse if you like. 476 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:17,120 I'm going to read it now. John 4 verse 8, first John 477 00:28:17,120 --> 00:28:20,280 chapter 4 verse 8. He that loveth not knoweth not 478 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:24,800 God, for God is love. Not just that he can love or 479 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:28,000 does love or shows the characteristics of love, but it 480 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:35,240 makes up His very essence. It's who He is because God sent 481 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:37,040 his only begotten Son into the world. 482 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:40,160 First John chapter 4 verse 9 continues. 483 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:44,520 God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might 484 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:50,560 live through Him. Herein is love. 485 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:56,560 Oh, think of it friends, not that we love God, but that He 486 00:28:56,560 --> 00:29:03,800 loved us and sent his Son to the to be the propitiation of our 487 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:08,760 sins, that he might buy us from the slave market of sin. 488 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,440 You know, right away, back before the start of time. 489 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:20,480 God, the Holy Trinity devised this plan in the past for 490 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:24,520 sinners such as you and me, because on the merit, on the 491 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:28,600 basis of His love for us. You think about that for a 492 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:33,080 moment and then in the fullness of time we're getting more 493 00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:36,520 recent now to that central event and all time that happened 494 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:41,840 almost 2000 years ago. God and the Person of God, the 495 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:45,240 Son, the Lord Jesus Christ himself, the one who willingly 496 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:48,400 left the splendour of heaven's glory, the one who came to this 497 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,120 sin, cursed earth. Why, yes, He came to do many 498 00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:53,040 things. He came to train the 12. 499 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,320 He came to raise the dead and heal the sick. 500 00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:58,400 He did. He came to do many things and he 501 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:01,200 did many things. But you know the central reason 502 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:04,160 that Christ came. He came to die upon the cross of 503 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:07,800 Calvary for the sins of many for you and I. 504 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:14,680 Do you ever think about that? That was in the past. 505 00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:20,080 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. 506 00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:25,040 That alludes to and speaks to and references the cross work of 507 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:31,160 my Saviour. He willingly allowed them to 508 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:34,400 hold His arms back against that wooden cross. 509 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:39,640 He willingly allowed them and in full control He could have 510 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:41,440 called. The hymn writer puts it this 511 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:44,880 way, that he could have called 10,000 angels to come and set 512 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:47,000 him free. But what was it that held him 513 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,520 there to the cross? What was him that held him to 514 00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:53,040 that task that he had covenanted from eternity past to do? 515 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,840 And was his love for sinners such as you and I? 516 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:03,240 That's why he came. That's why he allowed those 517 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:06,080 cruel and wicked men to nail him to the tree of Calvary. 518 00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:09,880 That's why he gave his back to the smiters. 519 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,960 That's why he allowed them to force that crown of thorns whose 520 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:18,720 long eastern thorns down upon his lovely brow. 521 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:22,960 That's why he shed his life's blood, because of his love for 522 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:27,520 sinners such as you and I. Oh yes, this first part of this 523 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,840 verse that encapsulates the gospel in a nutshell. 524 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:33,960 It alludes to the past. It brings us back. 525 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:38,320 And let me say this tonight, everyone of you have a past. 526 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:40,960 Maybe there's something in your past that is keeping you from 527 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:43,360 coming. I remember doing open airs up 528 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,440 and down the main road there, the Craigor Rd. 529 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:49,320 I remember taking our microphone and our stand and setting up 530 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:53,680 outside a shop and preaching the gospel for 10 or 12 minutes or 531 00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:56,600 so and then packing everything up and moving a couple of 100 532 00:31:56,600 --> 00:32:00,160 yards up the road and doing it again and again and again and 533 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,120 again as we moved our way up that road. 534 00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:05,480 And I remember one of those occasions, this particular man, 535 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:07,680 he ate a few drinks and and I made his lips loosened. 536 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,080 And I remember whenever we were packing up from one of those 537 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:16,040 stations ready to move on to the next, that man following me and 538 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:18,200 saying, I would love to be C of minister. 539 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:21,400 I would love to be see of pastor. 540 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,680 I said, well, I can point you to the Saviour and he can save you 541 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,440 right now on that footpath in that drunken state in which 542 00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:29,280 you're in, He can save you right now. 543 00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:31,520 And then the excuses started to flow. 544 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,560 And you know what 99% of those excuses were? 545 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:37,480 There were things that had happened to him in his past. 546 00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:41,600 There were times that he had been burned maybe whenever he 547 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:43,880 was involved in the church. There were times that he had 548 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:47,320 been hurt and annoyed whenever he was in in Christian 549 00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:49,560 situations or in Christian families. 550 00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,600 There was something in that man's, there was many things in 551 00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:56,560 fact, in that man's past that was keeping him from coming. 552 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:02,080 What about you today? There's one thing that I've 553 00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,920 discovered here in Northern Ireland more than anywhere else. 554 00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:08,440 And last year we were preaching over in Texas, Tennessee, Ohio, 555 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,120 West Virginia, New York, up that eastern seaboard. 556 00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:13,520 The year before we were over in Canada preaching. 557 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:18,000 But I find it more here in the province than anywhere else that 558 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:21,760 I've ever preached in the world. And that is that everybody you 559 00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:26,880 meet here and you tried to share with them in the gospel, they 560 00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:31,040 always bring up their past, their baggage, something that's 561 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:34,280 holding them back from coming because of that has happened in 562 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:36,320 the past. Perhaps that's the case with you 563 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:39,400 tonight. Maybe that's the reason. 564 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:43,040 If I were to get you 1 to 1 as the Saviour got this man 1 to 1, 565 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:47,440 and I asked you personal questions like why have you not 566 00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:51,480 come to the Saviour for salvation, for sins forgiven? 567 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,280 Maybe you'd give me a similar sort of an answer from what that 568 00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:56,520 man gave me at the site of the Rudad data in the Craig. 569 00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:01,680 It's because of the past, It's because of the baggage. 570 00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:03,240 It's because of the emotional baggage. 571 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:06,160 It's because of some family situation that's arisen. 572 00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,480 Oh, Pastor, if you knew what I had gone through or if I had a 573 00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:12,440 penny for every time I heard this, I'd love to be seen. 574 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:16,000 But if, you know, knew what I've done in my past, there, it's 575 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,520 coming up again. If you knew what I'd done in the 576 00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:22,719 past, you would understand why I simply cannot come. 577 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:27,000 Well I can point you to structures I can point you to. 578 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:29,639 We're thinking this morning and praying for those that were 579 00:34:29,639 --> 00:34:32,280 involved in that. Yet another terrorist attack 580 00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:35,760 down in Dunmurry by cards last night. 581 00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:39,840 I could point you we are anti terrorism and I could point you 582 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:43,239 to occasions in scripture. Let me say this, where we have 583 00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:47,360 terrorists who terrorised and wreaked havoc in the church, 584 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:50,520 soul was one in Acts chapter 8 and 9. 585 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:54,960 Saul was one who wreaked havoc in the church have was anything 586 00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:58,880 to do with any of us who wouldn't have found his body. 587 00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,280 But the Saviour stopped that man in his tracks that day on the 588 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:06,160 road to Damascus and turned him into a trophy of grace for 589 00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:09,800 himself. That's how the Saviour treats 590 00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:13,160 and dealers with those who have a past that would prevent them 591 00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:15,520 from coming. What about you tonight? 592 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:18,760 Would you not come? Maybe there's something in your 593 00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:20,520 past that prevents you from coming. 594 00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:23,800 Would you not come tonight? Come just as you are? 595 00:35:25,240 --> 00:35:27,720 Oh, there's people that will say to me, I'm going to get saved. 596 00:35:27,720 --> 00:35:30,440 I want to get saved. But first of all, I have to give 597 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:32,560 up the drink. First of all, I have to give up 598 00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:34,480 the gambling. First of all, I have to give up 599 00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:36,960 the cigarettes. What does the Lord say regarding 600 00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:40,800 all those things and many more? Seek ye first the Kingdom of God 601 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:44,360 and His righteousness and all these things, all these other 602 00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:46,320 things, all these things that's holding you back. 603 00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:50,960 All these things shall be added on to you with all your getting 604 00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:56,160 get to the cross. Don't try to put all those 605 00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:58,080 things right first. That's putting the cart before 606 00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:05,480 the horse. Come just as you are, Come just 607 00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:06,760 as you are. You can be savoury. 608 00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:10,720 You set on those lovely, comfortable red pews that could 609 00:36:10,720 --> 00:36:13,320 be your birthplace tonight. Maybe you're watching the 610 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,240 service along online from your living room or your kitchen, or 611 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:19,560 listening it after the fact from the comfort of your van or your 612 00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:21,560 cab or your car or somewhere else. 613 00:36:21,720 --> 00:36:24,160 You can be saved right now where you sit. 614 00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:28,000 Just pray to the Lord to save your sinful, never dying soul. 615 00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:30,720 And He can save you as He saved this man Nicodemus in our 616 00:36:30,720 --> 00:36:35,400 passage, yes, there's the past alluded to here in the first 617 00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:37,480 part of the verse. But look at what we read here in 618 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,000 the heart of that verse. Look at what we read there and 619 00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:46,080 concerning the present. For God so loved the Word or the 620 00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:50,000 world as we read there in John chapter 3, verse 16. 621 00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:55,000 For God so loved the world that He gave us only begotten Son. 622 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:58,200 That's the past that. And here we come to the present. 623 00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:03,120 Let me say this, there's a decision that you're to make. 624 00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:06,760 Not tomorrow, not the next day, not down the road, not whenever 625 00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:09,640 you've lived your life, not whenever you've had your fun. 626 00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,240 But this is something for the right now, for the present. 627 00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:17,280 Look at what it says, that whosoever believeth in him 628 00:37:17,720 --> 00:37:20,240 should not perish, but have everlasting life. 629 00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:23,280 Whosoever believeth in him. This is something for right now, 630 00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:30,760 friends, right now. Do you realise today, but while 631 00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:35,200 the covenant of redemption was hatched and eternity passed 632 00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:38,880 between the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, do you realise 633 00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:44,120 right now that their personal responsibility, the onus is on 634 00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:47,560 you tonight? Would you not come? 635 00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:52,360 You have a decision to make. You have to walk out through 636 00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,680 those double doors, through another set of double doors and 637 00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:57,240 then out into the into the evening air. 638 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:01,280 But you have a decision to make tonight, will you? 639 00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:04,600 There's only two decisions. There's not yes, no. 640 00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:06,400 Or maybe that's a third decision. 641 00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:10,160 No, there's only two decisions. There's either for or against 642 00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:12,520 him. There's no room on the fence for 643 00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:15,560 you. Would you not come? 644 00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:19,880 Let me ask you today, what are you trusting in right now? 645 00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:23,880 What have you put your hope in? Maybe it's church attendance. 646 00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:25,440 Maybe it's giving into the church. 647 00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:29,600 Maybe it's good works. Maybe it's endeavours like that. 648 00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:31,640 Let me say those things will never save you. 649 00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:33,320 You could be the member of a church. 650 00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:35,520 You could even be in office in the church. 651 00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:37,480 You could have your name in a church role. 652 00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,520 But let me say this reverently. Your name might as well be in a 653 00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:45,200 sausage role tonight. If you're not saved, would you 654 00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:52,320 not come just as you are? Come to the Saviour for sins 655 00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:56,000 forgiven. The Scriptures don't speak of 656 00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:00,160 coming tomorrow. The skeptors don't speak of 657 00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:03,400 tomorrow being the accepted time of tomorrow being the day of 658 00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:05,880 salvation. Rather, it is right now. 659 00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:08,400 Behold, there's that word. Behold again. 660 00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:11,160 Behold, now is the day of salvation. 661 00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:17,040 What about you today, friends? And then we have something here 662 00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:19,200 at the close of this verse. We'll better move on. 663 00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:23,080 That's alludes to and speaks to the future. 664 00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:29,800 Oh, here in these closing words of John chapter 3, verse 16, the 665 00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:35,720 Lord Jesus Christ grasps and deals with one of the darkest 666 00:39:35,720 --> 00:39:38,400 subjects that we will ever have to deal with. 667 00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:43,120 On the one hand, the Lord Jesus Christ speaks to Nicodemus, this 668 00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:45,560 individual. He looks him in the eye, having 669 00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:47,800 read his heart and knowing all about him. 670 00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:51,240 He looks him at the eye and in the eye, and he speaks to him 671 00:39:51,240 --> 00:39:58,480 here about eternal perishing. That's a reality that we have to 672 00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:01,560 embrace tonight. Dear friends, I wouldn't be 673 00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,840 faithful to your soul if I didn't make much of this. 674 00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,320 Look at what the verse says. Look at what the Saviour says. 675 00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,880 For God so loved the world that He give us only begotten Son. 676 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:14,720 But whosoever believeth in him should not perish. 677 00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:17,400 That's why He came. That's the good news of the 678 00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:19,320 gospel. You know what the law is? 679 00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:23,640 The law is laying it out, all these rules and regulations and 680 00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:26,920 then put over them all. All is you cannot hope to fulfil 681 00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:30,680 the law perfectly. It's doom and gloom in the law 682 00:40:30,720 --> 00:40:33,680 in your natural state. You're headed for a crisis 683 00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:37,440 eternity down that broad road to that place the Bible speaks of 684 00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:40,320 more than heaven, that place called hell. 685 00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:42,920 But you know, the gospel is the good news. 686 00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:46,400 Is that what my privilege and pleasure as a gospel preacher 687 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:49,720 is, is to be able to tell you that that's not the end of the 688 00:40:49,720 --> 00:40:53,960 story? It's my privilege and pleasure 689 00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:57,400 tonight to be able to tell you on the authority of Holy 690 00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:01,040 Scripture, of Holy Writ, on the authority of God's own Word, 691 00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:04,360 that that's not the end of the story, but that there's hope in 692 00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:06,040 Christ. Would you not turn to him when 693 00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:10,320 you still have time and opportunity that whosoever 694 00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:12,640 believeth in him, we've discussed that already. 695 00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:16,720 That's a decision for right now for you. 696 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:23,760 Otherwise, if you continue on in the state in which you were 697 00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:28,680 born, that Adam fallen state, you will perish. 698 00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:32,800 But then there's that other, that alternative that you can 699 00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:35,440 turn to Christ for. But there's that word but the 700 00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:37,520 lovely. There's another small word that 701 00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:40,600 I always notice when I read Scripture, especially because 702 00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:43,480 it's always a hinge word. It's always a turning point. 703 00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:45,560 It always show a contrast before it. 704 00:41:45,720 --> 00:41:48,360 It speaks about perishing. There's nothing darker than 705 00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:55,800 eternal Hellfire and perishing but have everlasting life. 706 00:41:57,880 --> 00:41:59,800 What about you tonight, dear friends? 707 00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:02,920 Maybe you're not saved. Maybe you don't have the 708 00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:06,240 assurance that all those lovely hymns that we've been able to 709 00:42:06,240 --> 00:42:09,960 sing already Tonight Show us and teach us. 710 00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:12,560 The first hymn was blessed assurance. 711 00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:15,560 Jesus is mine. Can you sing that tonight Of a 712 00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:19,320 heart of a truth? The second hymn was, oh what a 713 00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:23,080 wonderful, wonderful day, day I will never forget. 714 00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:27,040 Is that something that you can say of, of a heart of truth or 715 00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:29,320 is that something that applies to those around you? 716 00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:33,920 You can't say it personally. What about the offering hymn? 717 00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:38,760 We are never, never weary of the grand old song, Glory to God, 718 00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:42,280 Hallelujah. What about you tonight? 719 00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:48,400 The gospel message preached always calls or else. 720 00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:50,160 It's not right, it's not done right. 721 00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:52,680 It's not preached right. It's not faithful to the blood 722 00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:55,880 and to the book always calls for a decision. 723 00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:57,720 What decision will you make tonight? 724 00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:06,360 Would you not come? It was December 1913. 725 00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:14,440 The concert was in full swing during the half time interlude. 726 00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:18,640 The Piper. You've already heard that I'm a 727 00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:23,440 piper, but the paper was playing the well known Scottish tune The 728 00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:27,040 Hills of Tyrol. But as that young piper played 729 00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:30,720 that tune on his pipes, all he could think of, all his mine was 730 00:43:30,720 --> 00:43:34,000 taken to was another hell far, far away. 731 00:43:34,240 --> 00:43:37,760 That hell where they took my saviour, Golgothas hell where 732 00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:41,520 they took my saviour and kneeled in between on the wooden cross. 733 00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:45,800 That old of Roman torture and hung in between the two other 734 00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:48,400 malefactors. That's all he could think of 735 00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:53,640 that night. The young piper on that occasion 736 00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:57,760 was none other than the 15 year old Duncan Campbell. 737 00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:01,720 Some of you'll know that name. The shivers go up my spine now 738 00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:04,520 as I think about it. In fact, it was less than a 739 00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:07,920 month before Duncan Campbell's 16th birthday. 740 00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:13,400 But as Duncan Campbell played that tune, a terrible conviction 741 00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:16,160 gripped his soul. He struggled through the tune 742 00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:18,320 that he was playing. It was all that he could do to 743 00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:20,160 finish. But as soon as he finished, he 744 00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:22,640 rose to his feet. He lifted his two swords. 745 00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:25,440 He was, he was a paper and he and he played for those that 746 00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:28,840 sword danced and he lifted his pipes in one hand and his two 747 00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:32,680 swords in the other. And he said this boys, I'm going 748 00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:35,040 home. And the way that he said it, the 749 00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:37,280 dance chairman picked up on it because he knew there was 750 00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:39,160 something different. He knew there was something 751 00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:42,760 troubled. That young man going where the 752 00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:47,880 dance chairman asked him. Duncan replied that to that man 753 00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:51,360 he says unless I'm mistaken I'll never be at a dance again. 754 00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:55,800 Another young man overheard Duncan's conversation that night 755 00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:58,200 with the boys and with the dance chairman. 756 00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:03,240 The older man that ran the thing and as he left as Duncan 757 00:45:03,240 --> 00:45:05,920 Campbell left the dance had other troubled young man. 758 00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:09,400 In his biography it puts it something they guess fell in 759 00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:12,880 step with the young Duncan as they were travelling down the 760 00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:15,320 road. He accompanied them down the 761 00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:18,040 road to Benderloch that pool December night. 762 00:45:18,720 --> 00:45:23,440 As they both made their way home, the two lads discussed 763 00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:28,880 their state, their spiritual state, and indeed they discussed 764 00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:32,400 the way of salvation that night as they walked and talked until 765 00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:35,320 they came to a crossroads where, if they were to continue on 766 00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:38,000 home, they would be forced to part ways. 767 00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:45,960 After a long time standing at that crossroads, Duncan 768 00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:47,840 Campbell's friend asked him the question. 769 00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:52,200 What are you going to do? Duncan had a reply. 770 00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:54,720 He said I don't know about you, but I'm going to go home right 771 00:45:54,720 --> 00:45:57,920 now and get right with God tonight. 772 00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:04,240 He didn't know at that stage, but his father was in the church 773 00:46:04,240 --> 00:46:07,480 praying for him. His mother would have been there 774 00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:10,800 too, but they'd visitors in the home and she wasn't able to get. 775 00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:15,200 But unbeknown to him, his mother was lying in front of the fire 776 00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:19,760 on the hearth, lying prostate, crying for her wayward son. 777 00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:25,040 He didn't know that at the time. I don't know about you, but I'm 778 00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:27,440 going home right now to get right with God. 779 00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:32,560 They dwelled there for a moment or two at the crossroads. 780 00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:36,400 After a long silence, that young man said these cold, these 781 00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:38,960 chilling words. He said, I think I'll wait. 782 00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:42,920 Is that what you are tonight? I think I'll wait. 783 00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:48,880 He waited. He waited until he too grew unto 784 00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:50,960 manhood. He waited until he became a 785 00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:54,160 successful businessman. He waited until eventually, an 786 00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:57,080 old age, he was taken into a nursing home to die. 787 00:46:59,720 --> 00:47:04,200 Questioned many many years later, questioned about his 788 00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:07,800 spiritual state by I think it was 2 Faith mission pilgrims 789 00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:14,320 that had come that day to see him and they urged him to seek 790 00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:17,880 Christ in his twilight years while he still had time. 791 00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:22,040 He replied to them with these cold and chilling words. 792 00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:24,640 He said this and maybe this is where you are. 793 00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:28,480 Speak no more to me on the matter. 794 00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:33,320 I settled it the night Duncan was saved. 795 00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:38,560 He knew that he had missed his opportunity. 796 00:47:41,240 --> 00:47:44,720 What about you? Tonight, you've a decision to 797 00:47:44,720 --> 00:47:48,040 make. We've been thinking about this 798 00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:54,400 mini Bible, this gospel In a nutshell, what will your answer 799 00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:58,160 be? I trust the Lord may give you 800 00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:04,880 grace to simply come in childlike faith and your life 801 00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:10,320 will never be the same again. Hymn #177 It is our closing 802 00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:13,760 hymn. We're going to sing it just now 803 00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:17,640 together. You'll find it in Page 382. 804 00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:20,800 I have a message from the Lord. Hallelujah. 805 00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:23,600 The message unto you I'll give to. 806 00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:25,560 It's recorded in his word. Hallelujah. 807 00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:29,240 It is only that you look and.