1 00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:05,360 Thank you, brother. Can I turn to Isaiah chapter 53, 2 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:10,680 please? Isaiah chapter 53 And we're 3 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:16,040 going to read from the verse one and we'll read to the end of a 4 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:21,280 chapter, Isaiah chapter 53. I have no doubt it will be a 5 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:25,640 familiar reading to most of you. Galloward here, but maybe you're 6 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:29,640 hearing it for the first time. And this is one of the most 7 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:34,080 blessed passages in the Word of God. 8 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:39,320 Isaiah chapter 53, commencing our reading at the verse one. 9 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:42,560 And once again we have a question asked here. 10 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:45,440 Questions were asked earlier on in the first of the gospel 11 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:48,160 songs. Well, here are some more 12 00:00:48,160 --> 00:00:52,840 questions in the first verse. Who hath believed our report, 13 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:57,680 and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? 14 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:03,560 For He shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root 15 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:08,800 out of a dry ground. He hath no form nor comeliness 16 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:12,160 in. When we shall see him, there is 17 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:15,440 no beauty that we should desire him. 18 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:21,480 He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows, and 19 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:25,520 acquainted with grief. And we had, as it were, our 20 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:31,640 faces from Him. He was despised, and we esteemed 21 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:35,560 him not. Surely He hath borne our griefs, 22 00:01:35,960 --> 00:01:40,720 carried our sorrows. Yet we did esteem him stricken, 23 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:47,200 smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our 24 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:51,360 transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities. 25 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:56,920 The justice meant of our peace was upon him, and with His 26 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:02,040 stripes we are healed. All we, like sheep, have gone 27 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:05,480 astray. We have turned everyone to his 28 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:11,760 own way, and the Lord hath led on him the iniquity of us all. 29 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:17,160 He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his 30 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:20,360 mouth. He has brought us a lamb to the 31 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:26,400 slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so we 32 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:30,920 openeth not his mouth. He was taken from prison and 33 00:02:30,920 --> 00:02:33,840 from judgement. And who shall declare his 34 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:37,400 generation? Or he was cut off out of the 35 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:41,280 land of the living? For the transgression of my 36 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:47,400 people was he stricken, and He made his grave with the wicked 37 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:53,440 and with the rich in his death, because he had done no violence, 38 00:02:54,320 --> 00:03:00,600 neither was any deceit in his mouth, yet it pleased the Lord 39 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:03,680 to bruise him. He hath put him to grief. 40 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:08,080 When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin. 41 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:13,320 He shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the 42 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:17,080 pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. 43 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:22,840 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied 44 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:26,680 by his knowledge. Shall my righteous servant 45 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:31,520 justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities. 46 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:36,520 Therefore will I divide him apportion with the great, and he 47 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:41,240 shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he hath poured 48 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:45,480 out his soul unto death, And he was numbered with the 49 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:51,440 transgressors, and he bare the sin of many, and made 50 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:55,080 intercession for the transgressors. 51 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:57,920 Amen. Indeed, that God will bless the 52 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:02,040 public reading of His word. Let's seek his face, please, 53 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:06,640 just for a little moment in prayer. 54 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:11,720 Our Heavenly Father, we rejoice in the gathering in this church 55 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:14,600 tonight. The people have come together. 56 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:18,880 We have come primarily to worship Thee, for Thou art God, 57 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:21,000 and beside Thee there is no other. 58 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:25,960 We have come also, Lord, because this meeting has been designated 59 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:30,040 as a gospel meeting already, Lord, the gospel has been 60 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:35,400 proclaimed and so on, and in the reading of Thy Word and I, they 61 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:40,400 are has come. Blessed are for the preaching of 62 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:43,960 the Word of God. What a burden, Lord, lies upon 63 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:47,800 the preacher's heart tonight. What a great responsibility. 64 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:52,440 But think of the apostle who was compelled to cry out and say, 65 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:54,720 who is sufficient for these things? 66 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:57,320 A necessity was laid upon him. Indeed. 67 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:02,120 He said, Woe, woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel. 68 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:05,920 But we thank you for our our sufficiency is of God. 69 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:09,520 We're not left in our own Lord for this matter. 70 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:13,360 We can look to heaven for help. Bless, I word, each and every 71 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:16,800 heart goered here. Thou knowest those who are yet 72 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:20,160 unsaved. We want them to get saved. 73 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:24,240 We want them to be redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. 74 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:28,000 I mean, there's some among us, banks that cold of heart 75 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:33,680 wandering away from the Lord, half in and half out as far as 76 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:36,560 the world is concerned. Oh, we want to see them 77 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:39,440 restored. And that there be among your 78 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:44,080 people tonight a little reviving even in the midst of the years. 79 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:47,240 Lord, in the midst of the years make known. 80 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:54,080 Give me the power that I need in Jesus name, Amen, Amen. 81 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:57,720 And to words of verse 6 that we want to look at tonight right 82 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:01,560 there in the very heart of this chapter 53. 83 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:05,960 It says all we like sheep have gone astray. 84 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:12,160 We have turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord have led 85 00:06:12,280 --> 00:06:17,040 on him the iniquity, the sin of us all. 86 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:21,600 For anyone who is acquainted with their Bible both in the Old 87 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:28,560 and in the New Testament, Isaiah chapter 53 is perhaps one of the 88 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:35,520 easiest passages to interpret. The Lord in our verse Here verse 89 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:43,680 6 is God the follower and the hymn the masculine were there in 90 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:49,080 the same verse is a reference to God the Son. 91 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:54,120 And our interpretation here is confirmed in Acts chapter 8 when 92 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:58,440 the New Testament where we read of a man called Philip the 93 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:01,920 Evangelist. He met up with an Ethiopian man 94 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:08,280 who was sitting in his chariot reading this very passage, this 95 00:07:08,280 --> 00:07:12,240 very passage. And Philip the Evangelist drew 96 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:16,440 near and he took the initiative. He says, do you understand what 97 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:19,280 you're reading? And the man says, well, really I 98 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:22,520 don't, you know, I'm wondering here of whom is the prophet 99 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:25,760 speaking? Is he speaking about himself or 100 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:28,160 is he speaking about someone else? 101 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:34,480 And the Bible says of Philip the Evangelist beginning at the same 102 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:37,440 Scripture. He did what I'm going to do 103 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:42,800 tonight. He preached on the hymn Jesus. 104 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:47,680 We need to remember that it might not just been as clear at 105 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:50,440 that time to the original writers. 106 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:54,840 In first Peter chapter 1, the Bible talks about the prophets 107 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:59,800 enquiring diligently concerning this salvation. 108 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:03,600 It would seem to indicate to us that they didn't have all the 109 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:05,160 light that we would have. They. 110 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:09,680 Maybe they were wondering of whom is this prophet speaking? 111 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:15,360 But they testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the 112 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:20,720 glory that should follow, and certainly Isaiah and his friends 113 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:24,680 away back in those days, they had enough light in them to be 114 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:27,440 saved. The Spirit of Christ was in 115 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:30,920 them. But many of the details that we 116 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:36,640 take for granted now that we are familiar with in our age was 117 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:39,640 maybe at best somewhat hazy to them. 118 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:41,360 There's a little hymn in her hymn book. 119 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:45,800 It was written by Horatio, Horatio Bonner, Scottish 120 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:49,440 Presbyterian minister, way back in the 19th century. 121 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:50,960 And the second verse goes like this. 122 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:56,560 It says, rejoice and be glad. There's sunshine at last. 123 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:01,760 The clouds have departed and the shadows are past. 124 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:05,720 Now that's not a little happy song in this sense, not a little 125 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:07,560 song you might sing in a children's meeting. 126 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:12,640 The sun is shining in the sky. Do da, do da de No, What he 127 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:17,680 means is there is sunshine at last, The clouds, that is, and 128 00:09:17,680 --> 00:09:22,480 the shadows, the Old Testament shadows, the types and shadows, 129 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:27,320 things that were hidden perhaps to the people wondering what did 130 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:30,800 they mean? He says they're now gone and 131 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:37,400 we've got the full light, the sunshine of the full revelation 132 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:40,720 of Scripture. We are no longer looking at an 133 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:44,960 incomplete jigsaw, but all the pieces that we need at this 134 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:49,720 moment are in place. We have the full light of 135 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:56,040 revelation and when we come to Isaiah chapter 53 written some 136 00:09:56,040 --> 00:10:01,480 what was it 500 years, maybe 700 years, whatever there before the 137 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:07,160 birth of Christ. We are now reading it in 2025 in 138 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:12,040 the historical light of the cross of Calvary. 139 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:17,720 Isaiah gave us a prophecy. The four Gospel writers, 140 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:22,080 Matthew, Mark, Luke and John gave us the history. 141 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:26,840 The rest of the New Testament gives us the theology or the 142 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:29,320 light and the load, the application. 143 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:33,000 And maybe you're saying as we gather here tonight, well, what 144 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:38,120 does this tax mean to me? What benefit can I gain from 145 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:40,400 this tax I'm putting to you tonight? 146 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:44,320 I hope to prove to you that it should mean everything to you 147 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:50,800 here. I say here, and your soul shall 148 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:55,120 live. Isaiah chapter 53 and verse 6 149 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:58,720 deals with a fundamental problem. 150 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:02,120 A fundamental problem. You say I have enough problems 151 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:04,080 in my life. You might have, but here's a 152 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:08,560 fundamental 1 and you need to attend to this one first. 153 00:11:08,560 --> 00:11:11,560 Let's look at the text. First of all, number one, with 154 00:11:11,560 --> 00:11:15,040 three points tonight. Number one, we have this 155 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:19,960 problem, this fundamental problem, faithfully stated, 156 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:22,160 faithfully stated. What is it? 157 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:29,480 In a few simple words, it just says all we like sheep have gone 158 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:33,240 astray. Back in Isaiah chapter 30 and 159 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:37,720 verse 10, as Isaiah, who wrote these words was ministering to 160 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:43,280 the people, he was visited by a delegation and they tried to 161 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:47,000 limit and to control his preaching. 162 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:50,280 That's never a good thing, you know, unless the preacher's out 163 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:52,520 of order. But Isaiah wasn't. 164 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:56,480 He was speaking by the inspiration of the Spirit of God 165 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:00,520 and back in chapter 30 and verse 10, this delegation of the great 166 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:04,080 and the mighty, they came to him and they said, look, we're not 167 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:06,280 trying to stop you from preaching. 168 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:08,280 Well, you know what's common, don't you? 169 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:11,520 After that, they always try and soften the blow. 170 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:16,760 It's like when you go into the get your little Jag and down in 171 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:19,240 the clinic. Well, don't then put that nice 172 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:22,240 little bit of cotton wool on you and then rub the skin just that 173 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:24,480 little bit. Well, you know what's coming 174 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:27,120 after that. And that's what these men did. 175 00:12:27,560 --> 00:12:29,360 They're saying to them in the fact, look, we don't want the 176 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:32,400 limit You're you're preaching, but there's always going to be a 177 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:40,360 but here, isn't there prophecy. Preach on the US smooth thing, 178 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:42,400 she can almost hear them say, can't you? 179 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:46,120 The smooth things? Give us things that are 180 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:49,560 palatable. Give us things that truths that 181 00:12:49,560 --> 00:12:52,480 are, yes, true, but they're not so upsetting. 182 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:55,520 You've been laying it on thick and fast, Isaiah. 183 00:12:55,800 --> 00:13:01,120 Can you not ease back a little? But Isaiah didn't play their 184 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:03,800 little game. If they wanted to heap to 185 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:07,360 themselves, as the Bible says men in the last days will do, 186 00:13:07,680 --> 00:13:11,880 false teachers who would cater only for their lusts and for 187 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:15,880 their itching ears. Then Isaiah says, men, you're 188 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:22,000 going to have to look elsewhere. I cannot cater to your desires 189 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:26,560 and your wants. You need to hear, Isaiah says, 190 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:29,440 the things that I am preaching to you. 191 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:34,280 And this problem, when it is faithfully stated, isn't 192 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:39,360 palatable to the Sinner. It's not what he wants to hear. 193 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:45,440 You know, taste has never been the bottom line in any court 194 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:47,840 case. We don't swear. 195 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:52,240 If we are called to go to court and we stand up in the witness 196 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:54,680 box, we'll put our hand in the Bible. 197 00:13:54,680 --> 00:13:57,680 We might even hold it up. Or those who don't believe the 198 00:13:57,680 --> 00:14:00,240 Bible can bring their own religious book, or they can just 199 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:03,360 put up their right hand there. It's an indication that they are 200 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:05,760 swearing. It's a very solemn thing, of 201 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:09,080 course, to swear to bring an oath, but we don't swear in a 202 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:12,360 court case to provide what is tasty. 203 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:15,480 We're not there to entertain the jury. 204 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:17,400 We're not there to entertain the judge. 205 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:23,000 No, we put our hand in God's Word and we swear to tell the 206 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:29,000 truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. 207 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:34,000 And so it is when we come to preach the Word, we come to deal 208 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:37,520 with a problem here. We must look at it fairly and 209 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:40,360 squarely. It's not as a tasty tonight. 210 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:43,840 That's not the issue. There's our men and our pulpit 211 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:46,560 to cater for that, if that's what you want. 212 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:51,160 But in a pulpit like this, we must deal with that which is 213 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:56,840 written, the words of truth. Look at those words gone astray. 214 00:14:57,160 --> 00:15:00,800 This is the problem. All we, like sheep, have gone 215 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:03,320 astray. And these words, of course, need 216 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:07,000 a point of reference in order to have a fact. 217 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:10,560 Because once you start to look at this, your first question, 218 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:14,840 the logical question is going to be from what standard have we 219 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:18,400 gone astray? From what path have we wondered 220 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:24,400 if I make a, a, a spelling mistake as well as you and I, I 221 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:26,320 write you a letter and you come back to me and say, well, you, 222 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:30,520 you spelt that word wrong. Well, we're going to have to. 223 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:32,680 I mean, I might say, well, fair enough, no big deal, is it? 224 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:36,880 But supposing I was on a fighting form and I would say, 225 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:38,480 well, no, I think you've got it wrong. 226 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:41,840 Well, what will we do? We would head probably to the 227 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:44,520 Oxford English Dictionary, wouldn't we? 228 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:48,640 We would go to the great authority and we would see who 229 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:53,440 had spelt it wrong. And here the matter relates to 230 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:55,760 sin. The word, their inequities, is 231 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:59,120 just another one of those myriad words for sin. 232 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:06,120 And the point of reference is binding upon us all because when 233 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:11,440 we step outside, first of all, the will of God, you step out of 234 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:15,360 the will of God and you step into sin. 235 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:20,280 And God in heaven, who sits on his throne of justice and 236 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:27,080 holiness is the sole arbiter of what is good and what is bad. 237 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:31,680 This is absolute truth. This is not something that is 238 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:34,240 negotiable. I, I, I say to you tonight, 239 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:42,120 ignore the chattering classes. Ask yourself, what does God, my 240 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:48,400 Creator, my judge? What does God require of me? 241 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:54,440 The will of God is clearly expressed in the law that bears 242 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:57,880 his name. The law of God is summarily 243 00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:03,400 expressed in the 10 commandments, and those are very 244 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:05,839 important things to be acquainted with. 245 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:10,520 Here is the will of God. And if we stray like sheep from 246 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:16,520 these commandments, then this is inequity, because the Bible says 247 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:22,839 by the law is the knowledge of sin, because that's what sin is. 248 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:26,920 It is a transgressing of the law of God. 249 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:30,560 Now that word astray is a very expressive word, the Hebrew 250 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:32,960 language in which it was originally written, this very 251 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:37,000 expressive language. And we have the authorised 252 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:41,680 Version, which is a very expressive version of this very 253 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:46,480 expressive language, and it's translated elsewhere. 254 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:53,320 This word astray is used over in Psalm 107, verse 4, concerning 255 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:57,560 the children of Israel in the desert for 40 years. 256 00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:00,720 What did they do in the desert? They wandered. 257 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:06,880 All we like sheep have wandered away. 258 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:11,400 It's used over in second Kings chapter 21 and verse 9 259 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:17,200 concerning a wicked man called Manasseh and it says of Manasseh 260 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:24,480 that he seduced the children of Israel to do wickedly. 261 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:29,720 Our words are are used and again in this Old Testament that the 262 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:33,000 word is translated elsewhere will not look at them all by the 263 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:38,320 word erred, erred. It's translated by the word 264 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:43,480 deceived. It's translated by the word 265 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:46,400 dissembled. And there's not one of those 266 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:50,200 words that you would wish upon yourself. 267 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:54,760 You're setting out on a journey. You don't want to be wandering. 268 00:18:55,720 --> 00:19:00,080 You don't want to be deceived. You don't want to be dissembled, 269 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:05,960 set in total disarray, because when you have a strange sheep, 270 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:11,280 you have a lost sheep. And the famous parable that 271 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:15,480 Jesus told the word in Matthew 18, of course, bringing us into 272 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:20,360 the New Testament and Matthew 18 had talked about the sheep going 273 00:19:20,360 --> 00:19:25,400 astray. And Luke 15, the same parable, 274 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:31,080 the word is that the sheep was lost, and it means to be lost 275 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:35,680 from fellowship with God. Again, the language of Ephesians 276 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:42,160 4 and 18 concerning an unsaved man, he is alienated, alienated 277 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:45,400 from God. He is alienated from God. 278 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:49,080 He's alienated from the favour of God. 279 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:54,760 He's out of kilter with God. The Bible says the wrath of a 280 00:19:54,760 --> 00:20:00,480 sin hating God lies heavy upon the Sinner. 281 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:05,640 Sin is the just precursor of wrath. 282 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:12,520 The soul that sinneth wanders heirs, is dissembled out of the 283 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:15,440 way. The wages of sinner's death. 284 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:17,080 You'll notice there that it's universal. 285 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:20,360 We're still in our first point. It's universal in its scope. 286 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:22,840 Who does it apply to? All. 287 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:25,400 All. No exceptions. 288 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:29,600 The only exception, of course, was Christ Himself, the sinless 289 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:32,720 Son of God. But for the rest of us, born of 290 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:39,320 a natural generation, we have all gone astray, every one of 291 00:20:39,360 --> 00:20:42,040 us. This is the problem here that is 292 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:45,120 faithfully stated. But notice again, as we look at 293 00:20:45,120 --> 00:20:47,920 the passage #2 we have the problem here. 294 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:51,440 Further studied. It goes a little deeper. 295 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:53,280 He drills down a little bit more. 296 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:56,560 It says all we like sheep have gone astray. 297 00:20:56,880 --> 00:21:01,960 Notice the middle part. We have turned everyone to his 298 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:05,520 own way. We ask the question, who is 299 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:09,080 responsible for the spiritual lostness? 300 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:11,200 We've always got to put the blame, don't we? 301 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:14,000 Somewhere. And we start to dig a little 302 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:16,160 deeper here. Well, how did this happen? 303 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:19,520 Who's to blame for this? Where does the buck stop? 304 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:23,040 As one of the old American presidents, he put it on his 305 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:25,600 desk. The bus, the the book. 306 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:29,520 The book stops here. Where does it stop in this 307 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:32,200 matter? Can we blame our first follower, 308 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:34,640 Adam? You see, we're all related 309 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:37,800 tonight. You're my relatives because if 310 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:41,920 you trace your family tree back and I trace my family tree back, 311 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:44,840 we're going to go back probably through job path. 312 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:48,280 I'd imagine being all on this side of the world. 313 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:54,160 We're going to go back the Adam and our first foer sinned 314 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:59,040 against God, and he must spare part of the blame for what is 315 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:04,680 happening today, because it says by one man, by Adam, sin entered 316 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:10,200 into the world, He opened the door, he let it in, and death 317 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:15,440 has passed upon all men. Can we blame our fower, Adam? 318 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:19,960 Yes, to a point. Can we blame the devil, the 319 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:24,720 devil's, the tempter, the seducer, The seducer? 320 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:27,680 We've used that word already. Yes, to a point. 321 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:32,800 Because he has blinded the minds of them that believe not. 322 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:36,640 Can we blame our words? Yes, to a point. 323 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:42,520 Wicked man, it says in Jeremiah 32 caused Judah to sin. 324 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:46,320 And maybe we can start looking for a scapegoat tonight. 325 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:49,840 We look in our family. You say all of you only knew the 326 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:54,960 family on which I grew up in or maybe we can look to our friends 327 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:57,640 and said I fell in with the wrong company. 328 00:22:58,120 --> 00:23:00,200 These were boys I went to school with. 329 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:03,520 I ran around with them. If I hadn't had them, I would 330 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:06,760 have been so lonely on me own and they they led me in the sin 331 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:10,720 We can blame maybe even government policies and send 332 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:14,080 they're pumping us stuff out others morning, noon and night 333 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:18,480 and it's had an influence upon me in educational trends. 334 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:23,400 These are all small points. Tonight, they're all small 335 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:26,480 points. They're like those little fig 336 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:31,760 leaves sewn together to cover the nakedness of sending Adam 337 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:34,640 and sitting even sent as sinning Eve. 338 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:43,840 Because our text very firmly and very justly puts the blame where 339 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:46,480 it squarely belongs. You can bring all these other 340 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:50,400 things into play if you want. Don't forget, other people face 341 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:55,600 that as well. The Bible says we have turned 342 00:23:56,000 --> 00:24:01,600 everyone to our own way. What we did, we did willingly. 343 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:07,680 Our wills are sinfully perverse. They're free. 344 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:09,160 Yes. Do you believe in the free will 345 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:10,040 of man? Yes. 346 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:14,360 In this sense, we call it the free agency of man. 347 00:24:15,360 --> 00:24:20,000 We're not puppets, we're not puppets, we're not being moved 348 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,680 around, we're not blocks of wood, we're not ottomans. 349 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:28,160 So we're free, but at the same time and in a different 350 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:32,440 relationship, we're also bound. We're bound in sin. 351 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:38,800 That man that commits sin, the Bible says, is the servant, or 352 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:43,080 as it can be translated as a stronger translated, the slave 353 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:47,160 of sin. And man is a willing slave. 354 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:51,200 He sells himself in the spiritual slavery. 355 00:24:51,360 --> 00:24:53,920 He is a rebel and a willing rebel. 356 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:59,800 And it's that that makes us fully accountable and therefore 357 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:05,400 justly punishable for our sins. The Lord stops in and he says 358 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:11,080 you did what you did freely. You did what you did because you 359 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:15,880 wanted to do it. You love the darkness rather 360 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:19,520 than the light because your deeds are evil. 361 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:25,320 When Adam sinned in the garden, he had thought he could hide. 362 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:29,880 Big garden, big trees got a way out of sight of the Lord's, we 363 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,600 thought. And God just came into the 364 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:34,920 garden. And he says Adam where art I 365 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,040 where art I. Of course, it was God's business 366 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:42,480 to summons Adam to appear. Things were never going to be 367 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:44,840 the same again. The fellowship was broken. 368 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:48,560 He was out of kilter with God. He was now an enemy of God and 369 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:52,400 God summoned him and Adam stepped out from behind the tree 370 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:56,040 with his little fig leaves and was answerable to God. 371 00:25:56,640 --> 00:26:01,000 You remember Cain, it was Adam's son, his first born son, and he 372 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,360 wasn't in the garden. He, the Bible says he's in the 373 00:26:03,360 --> 00:26:07,480 field with Abel, his brother. Abel's a righteous man. 374 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:10,360 Abel loves the Lord. He's a converted Sinner. 375 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:14,040 Cain is a wicked person and they have a little. 376 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,480 It says they talked in the field. 377 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:19,320 I have to dig deeper into that someday. 378 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:21,880 I would say they argued in the field. 379 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,120 I can see Abel. They're arguing for the blood 380 00:26:25,120 --> 00:26:27,240 theology. You've got to come key in the 381 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,000 way of the blood. I came by the lamb. 382 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,920 I was accepted with God. You brought the fruit of the 383 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:35,080 ground. Yes, it looks so pretty, your 384 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:39,200 little flowers and your little vegetables, but God rejected 385 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,080 them. Why not come God's way? 386 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:46,000 And old Cain, the wicked, carnal, ratchet Cain rose up. 387 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,600 And you know what he did? He slew his brother. 388 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:53,800 And then God says to him, Cain, what hast thou done? 389 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:58,200 It's not that God didn't know, but he's dragging the confession 390 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:03,120 of guilt out of the mouth of Cain and going a lot further 391 00:27:03,120 --> 00:27:05,480 than a sinning flower had ever done. 392 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:08,560 Because the case gets worse and worse and worse. 393 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:15,880 Cain checked God, he tried to deny his responsibility. 394 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,320 He says, am I my brother's keeper? 395 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:22,480 I really have to give an account. 396 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:26,280 And you know, that's the great mistake which people make. 397 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:32,960 We try and plead that we are innocent and the Bible says we 398 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:36,120 are guilty. There's a tendency today, it's 399 00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:43,200 the problem of the age, to view our sins using the wrong set of 400 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,320 lands. And that's why and that's how 401 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:52,800 and that's when we go astray. There is a way that seemeth 402 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:59,400 right onto a man, but the ends thereof are the ways of death. 403 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:05,320 Man allows himself to be LED astray by his own wicked and 404 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:10,280 deceitful heart. Jeremiah 17 verse 9 is a 405 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:13,960 fundamental verse. Never get away from at the heart 406 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:18,800 of man. Deceitful, deceitful, above all 407 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:22,120 things, desperately wicked. Who can know it? 408 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:27,320 That's why the Bible says that that man who trusts in his own 409 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:31,920 heart is a fool because he's trusting in a heart that is 410 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,680 deceitful. A deceitful heart was like a 411 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:37,160 deceitful friend. Many a man went into business 412 00:28:37,360 --> 00:28:39,880 with a partner. He felt he could trust that man. 413 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:44,560 He felt they could do business together and the partner in 414 00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:47,000 business was thieving money off him. 415 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:51,240 He was safe in a little way. He was presenting one set of 416 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:55,120 books when he had another. And the man says, I was 417 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:59,120 deceived. I never thought, well, the 418 00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:03,840 deceiver is in your own heart. Heart of man by nature is wicked 419 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:07,920 above all things, desperately wicked. 420 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:10,840 The question, the challenges are, who can know it? 421 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:15,160 Who can Plumb the depths of the wickedness of his own heart? 422 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:19,160 And that's why the Word of God is necessary. 423 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:22,800 When you have the Word of God as your guide, you're thinking 424 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,360 straight. You're going to see things as 425 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:28,400 they really are. Let me tell you what the Bible 426 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,040 says about your way. It's a hard way. 427 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,400 You want to throw the Bible aside, say it's not for me. 428 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:40,080 It's a hard way. The way of the transgressor is 429 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:42,200 hard. That's what the book says. 430 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:46,240 It is a hopeless way. Oh, you say, but I am on the 431 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:49,760 side in the majority. There's many in my Rd. 432 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:53,520 Yes, it's called the Broad Rd. There's a name on it that's 433 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:55,400 called the Broad Rd. Where does it lead? 434 00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:00,520 Leads to destruction. It's a hopeless Rd. 435 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:04,600 The problem further studied. Thirdly and lastly, here we have 436 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:09,200 the problem finally solved, the problem finally solved. 437 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:13,720 It's a human problem, but it has a supernatural answer. 438 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:19,560 It's not resolved to do better. And somebody taking you aside 439 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:21,600 and says, son, you know you need to pull up your socks. 440 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:23,840 That used to be the phrase one to pull up your socks. 441 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,880 You need to catch yourself on. It's not somebody taking you 442 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:31,640 aside and saying nothing. Let me let me show you here how 443 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:35,560 how you can deliver yourself. It's not clean up your life. 444 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:40,280 It's not men broken fences. That's here in our text. 445 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:44,640 Even though all we like sheep have gone astray, we're lost. 446 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:46,600 We have turned everyone to our own way. 447 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:49,680 We are responsible for our own condition. 448 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:57,720 Here's a message of the gospel the Lord laid on him, the Lord 449 00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:04,680 Jesus, the iniquity of us all. And in one stroke it recognises 450 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:11,000 how sinful, how guilty and how hopeless we are. 451 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,920 And if you haven't had that realisation yet, that hasn't 452 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:19,320 come home to your heart by the conviction of the Spirit of God, 453 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:24,640 then then it's highly unlikely that this great Calvary truth 454 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:29,520 will benefit you that much. Because the Bible says it's not 455 00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:34,200 those that are whole, that is healthy who need the physician. 456 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:37,680 Not that any of us are, but many people think, well, there's 457 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:42,040 nothing wrong with me. This gospel that you preach, 458 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:46,160 take it to the slums, take it to the where the drug addicts are. 459 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:49,720 Take it to the, the pubs when they're, they're falling out, 460 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,360 getting out and tripping over. And they, they're, they're 461 00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:54,880 hooked. And they say, but it's not for 462 00:31:54,960 --> 00:32:00,400 somebody upright like me. Well, if you think like that, 463 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:06,400 you don't need the physician. But it's the sick, the people 464 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:13,360 who realise their lost estate. It's not the healthy Jesus came 465 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:17,000 to call. Not the righteous, not the 466 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:23,160 righteous, but sinners Jesus will receive. 467 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:30,240 The only physician who can heal your sin sick soul is the very 468 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:37,120 God whom you spend your life rebelling against, not an 469 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:40,000 ignorance. God is not an ignorance of who 470 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,800 you are. He is not an ignorance of what 471 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,080 you have done. You may think, no, I saw you, 472 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:51,280 but with full knowledge. But He knows the end from the 473 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:56,680 beginning. With full knowledge, the Father 474 00:32:56,840 --> 00:33:03,400 sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. 475 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:08,880 The Good Shepherd came, and what did the Good Shepherd do? 476 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:12,640 He laid down his life for the sheep. 477 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:19,080 God the Father LED on him the iniquity of us all. 478 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:24,120 He sent them to the cross as our sin bearer and our great sin 479 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,600 bearer. The Good Shepherd came and He 480 00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:30,240 went willingly to the cross. He went like the Lamb to the 481 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:32,960 slaughter. The sheep before her heirs was 482 00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:34,880 done. He opened not his mouth. 483 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:39,920 The old hymn writer says he could have called 10,000 angels 484 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:44,080 to destroy the world and set him free, but he didn't do it. 485 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:50,160 They came for him and there's the disciples with them. 486 00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:51,920 Peter grabs the sword. He's going. 487 00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:56,200 Peter's going to fight. Peter's going to go down dying. 488 00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:59,600 Peter has already said all men forsake yell, not forsake you. 489 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:04,520 Peter's wheedling the sword around like a madman and our 490 00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:09,440 Lord's still in control and he says let these ones go, let 491 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:14,800 these men go, let these sheep go because it says in the book, 492 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:16,639 you're going to smite the shepherd. 493 00:34:17,679 --> 00:34:22,639 The Good Shepherd gave us life for the sheep and they're in the 494 00:34:22,639 --> 00:34:26,719 Calvary Centre cross. And that emblem of suffering and 495 00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:31,639 shame, Christ bore our guilt. He was wounded. 496 00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:36,199 It was our transgressions, He was bruised, It was our 497 00:34:36,199 --> 00:34:39,840 iniquities. The chastisement of our peace 498 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:46,840 was led on Him by His stripes. Our we heedy bore our guilt. 499 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:51,639 He took my sins and my sorrows, and He made them His very own. 500 00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:55,800 He bore the burden to Calvary. He suffered and he died alone. 501 00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:00,240 He silenced in that. He satisfied the just demands of 502 00:35:00,240 --> 00:35:04,240 the divine law, the laws clamouring rightly for our 503 00:35:04,240 --> 00:35:09,040 destruction. Jesus silenced the law because 504 00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:11,440 he said, let all the wrath fall in me. 505 00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:17,120 That's why he cried, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? 506 00:35:18,240 --> 00:35:22,200 Because the wrath of a sin hating God was poured out in him 507 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:26,920 and he's secured. I don't believe he only 508 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:31,160 provided. That's true, but it doesn't go 509 00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:34,040 the whole way. Let's go the whole way tonight. 510 00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:37,840 He's secured salvation for his people. 511 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:40,920 That's why he cried it as finished. 512 00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:45,640 The lost sheep was out in the mountains, wild and bare. 513 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:48,680 The Good Shepherd went out to look for it. 514 00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:51,160 The parable that Jesus told. How long did he look? 515 00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:54,640 Till we find it? Till we find it? 516 00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:57,680 And he's looking for you tonight, Lost sheep. 517 00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:03,040 Do you not hear his call? He's Westerling, as it were, for 518 00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:06,440 you. He, he, he's shouting for you. 519 00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:10,600 He wants you to hear his voice. He wants you to respond to his 520 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:13,120 message. You need to be saved. 521 00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:17,640 Your excuses don't work when you make an excuse for your sin. 522 00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:19,880 You're only multiplying your sin. 523 00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:23,600 You're only adding another sin to this great mountain debt that 524 00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:27,040 you have. The Bible tells you what you 525 00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:32,240 need to do. You need to repent and believe 526 00:36:32,240 --> 00:36:35,280 the gospel. That was the message of John the 527 00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:39,000 Baptist. Very simple, very plain, very 528 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:40,640 understandable. Repent. 529 00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:44,840 That means do AU turn, because if you're on the wrong Rd, you 530 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:50,120 need to do AU term. You need to get back round into 531 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:54,840 the right way. Repent and believe the gospel. 532 00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:59,520 Call in the name of the Lord. The book is very clear in this 533 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,080 matter. All the simplicity of it all, 534 00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:05,840 the wonder of it all. Whosoever that covers the all 535 00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:11,280 who have sinned, whosoever shall call in the name of the Lord, 536 00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:15,440 shall be saved. You can go home rejoicing 537 00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:20,120 tonight that your sins have been forgiven, this great problem 538 00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:23,400 finally solved and solved for eternity. 539 00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:32,360 If you come as a Sinner to Jesus, May God draw you and 540 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,160 bring you to Himself.