1 00:00:01,800 --> 00:00:06,400 Well, we want to thank Sir for coming thinking so well to us 2 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:08,640 here today. That was lovely and it was 3 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:11,400 really enjoyed our ministry and song real blessing really to 4 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:15,160 your own heart and it's it's wonderful to sing of Christ and 5 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:17,920 I trust everyone of us here was blessed as we listened to her 6 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:20,960 sister sing tonight. Thank you for coming along to 7 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:23,040 the mission. No better place to be at this 8 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:26,120 particular time in this community and than being in the 9 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:29,600 gospel mission, singing the old fashioned gospel hymns and 10 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:32,680 listen to the singing. And I trust then also the 11 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:35,760 preaching of the word of God and let's pray together. 12 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:39,360 Let's work together and seek to get people onto the sound of the 13 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:42,640 gospel at this time. Now we're going to turn just to 14 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:45,360 our our reading. It's in book of Second 15 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:48,840 Corinthians chapter 5. For time's sake, we're just 16 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:52,800 going to read our text tonight and 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 17 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:58,440 and the verse 17 is really the text I want to to look at here 18 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:01,720 tonight. 2nd Corinthians 5 verse 17. 19 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:07,720 And Paul here is saying he says, therefore, if any man be in 20 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:11,360 Christ, he's a new creature. All things are passed away. 21 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:17,040 Behold, all things are become new and we we have here a new 22 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:20,080 creature, a new creature that's brought before. 23 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:22,280 Let's look to the Lord for his help tonight. 24 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:26,600 Father in Heaven, we thank you for the already being in this 25 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:29,960 meeting, the blessing of being in your presence, and for 26 00:01:29,960 --> 00:01:33,800 helping our sisters sing so well to us and the sing of Christ. 27 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:36,200 Well, thank you. We have a great Redeemer who 28 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,160 walks with us and he talks with us these facts. 29 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:42,240 He says I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. 30 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:45,640 I pray for help around thy word. I pray you'll speak to anyone, 31 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:48,320 Lord, who is in here tonight and I'll see it. 32 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:51,440 Maybe there's someone home and they're watching and they're not 33 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:53,280 saved. Lord deed with them wherever 34 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:56,800 they are tonight, call them to the Lord Jesus that they might 35 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:58,480 be saved. Amen. 36 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:00,800 Amen. Therefore, if any man be in 37 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:05,240 Christ, he is a new creature. You and I know living in this 38 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:08,960 day and age, there are many great deceptions. 39 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:14,240 Of course, with the progress of modern technology, men are able 40 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:19,120 to produce counterfeits that even an expert would have great 41 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:23,080 difficulty noticing. There's counterfeits cover every 42 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:25,120 area. I came across something there 43 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:27,120 today. Some man was found I think 44 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:30,520 around Belfast or some area and his house was full of 45 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:32,920 counterfeits. He had handbags, he had watches, 46 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:35,760 he had everything. And so we're in this day and 47 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:39,800 age, the counterfeit is very easy to come across. 48 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:44,560 In fact, sometimes we go into the shop and it says beware of 49 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:49,240 counterfeit 20 LB notes. So counterfeit's all around us. 50 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:53,400 Let me say this tonight. It's the same with the spirits 51 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:58,280 of things of the Lord. We are living in a day of many 52 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:01,440 counterfeits. Think for instance, the 53 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:05,760 counterfeit servants of so-called of the Lord because 54 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,360 there are many, there are many today who claim to be a servant 55 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:12,760 of the Lord and they stand up and they seek to preach, to say 56 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:15,640 they believe in God. They have a Bible, they have a 57 00:03:15,640 --> 00:03:18,120 congregation. And yet the Lord Jesus Christ 58 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:23,360 said in Matthew 7 verse 15, beware of false prophets. 59 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:26,640 And so when you think of them all around our land today, there 60 00:03:26,640 --> 00:03:28,760 are many people. There are many people and 61 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:31,560 they're listening. They're listening to a their 62 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:37,000 feet servant, a false message, the preach false, a counter, a 63 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,440 counterfeit messages, counterfeit spirit. 64 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:43,400 The Bible talks and Corinthians about you've received another 65 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:45,320 spirit. There's a spirit abroad today. 66 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:47,120 There are people saying they're speaking in tongues. 67 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:50,640 They're doing signs and wonders and all of these things and 68 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:52,920 there's a counterfeit spirit going today. 69 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:55,840 You only have to go on to YouTube when you type in some 70 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:58,800 names of some fellows, which on that name and there's some of 71 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:02,120 the things that's going on in a service, you wouldn't believe 72 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:03,440 it. They're dancing in the pews. 73 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:05,080 They're falling all over the place. 74 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:07,920 They're gigging and laughing. They're roaring about like dogs 75 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:12,320 or cows and they say, well, this is the work of the Spirit of 76 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:13,520 God. Well, I want to tell you 77 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:16,959 tonight, that is not true. That is not true. 78 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:20,120 That's not the work of the Spirit of God. 79 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:24,200 There's a counterfeit Saviour because 2nd Corinthians 11 verse 80 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:29,760 four, he says for he the cometh preaches another Jesus whom we 81 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:32,240 have not preached. There are people today and 82 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:36,680 they're preaching another Jesus, not the Jesus of the Bible. 83 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:39,560 The Jehovah Witness have another Jesus. 84 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:41,560 The Mormons, they have another Jesus. 85 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:45,160 The Church of Rome have another Jesus, Islam, they have another 86 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:47,360 Jesus. They have not got the Christ of 87 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:49,320 the Bible. So there are counterfeits. 88 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:52,840 There are counterfeits all around the day when we come to 89 00:04:52,840 --> 00:04:55,360 the things of God. Now I want to say tonight, it's 90 00:04:55,360 --> 00:05:00,160 the same thing about salvation. There's a counterfeit today. 91 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:04,640 The counterfeit evasive believe ISM just go to some particular 92 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:09,320 church and so on, and everything will be well with your soul and 93 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:12,400 you'll get to heaven. And yet we find the Lord Jesus 94 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:16,240 saying of a group of people who come before them in Matthew 7 95 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:19,920 verse 23. Then while I profess unto them, 96 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:24,680 I never knew you depart from me ye that work in iniquity. 97 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:27,840 Here's a a great multitude who come before the Lord Jesus 98 00:05:27,840 --> 00:05:31,280 Christ and he looks him in the eye and he says to them, depart 99 00:05:31,280 --> 00:05:34,040 from me. I never knew you. 100 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:40,400 They had the counterfeit. I want you to see that tonight 101 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:44,040 they had the counterfeit. It's not that they didn't 102 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:46,600 believe in a God. It's not that they didn't 103 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:50,640 believe in a person of the Lord Jesus Christ, but they had the 104 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:55,800 counterfeit, A counterfeit salvation that I want everyone, 105 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:00,200 everyone in this hall tonight, in this church tonight to have 106 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:03,760 the real thing. We want a salvation that's real. 107 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:08,320 We want a salvation that saves. That's the salvation we want. 108 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:11,280 We don't want to counterfeit. We don't want to end up like 109 00:06:11,280 --> 00:06:14,960 these people in Matthew Chapter 7 and to come before the Lord 110 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:18,480 Jesus Christ on the last day. And he looks at us and he says, 111 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:20,640 depart from me. I never knew you. 112 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:28,280 We want a true salvation. We want a real salvation, and 113 00:06:28,280 --> 00:06:31,000 that's we have come to preach in this community at this time. 114 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:35,760 Well, this whole thing about a real salvation, a true salvation 115 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:38,960 has brought before us here in the words of the Apostle Paul. 116 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:41,960 Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he's a new creature. 117 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:45,040 Old things are passed away and all things become new. 118 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:47,160 And I want to say just a number of things very quickly. 119 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:49,880 The position that the centre must be in. 120 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:55,160 I want you to see tonight where you must be if you're ever going 121 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:59,280 to be in heaven and if you're ever going to be saved, if 122 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:02,520 everlasting life. The apostle Paul here brings it 123 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:06,960 out so clear, we cannot miss it. The position you must be is US. 124 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:11,840 He must be in Christ. Now I want you to get that 125 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:15,160 tonight. If you want heaven, if you want 126 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:19,920 forgiveness of sins, if you want everlasting life, you must be in 127 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:23,240 Christ. This is the position, This is 128 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:26,400 the place to be, to be saved. Now I want to sell this. 129 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:30,960 In all other religions, there's no mention of people being 130 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:33,480 placed in a person. That's not the case. 131 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:37,320 No, think of Muslims. They're not placed in Muhammad. 132 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:41,520 They're following Muhammad. You think of the Mormons, 133 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,080 they're they're not placed in Joseph Smith. 134 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:47,000 But no, no, they're following Joseph Smith. 135 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:50,080 There's Jehovah's Witnesses in the sense they're not really 136 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:53,760 placed in the Watchtower, but they're following the teachings 137 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:58,440 of the Watchtower. So here is true Christianity, 138 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:01,520 true Christianity, and a true Christian one who's really 139 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:04,160 saved. He's in a place, he's in a 140 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:05,480 person. What is that? 141 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:08,520 Who is that person, the Lord Jesus Christ? 142 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,960 And I want to say that on a shame of The Tonight, there's no 143 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:17,760 other one can save you. And if you're in any other place 144 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:22,040 tonight, you'll not be saved. Don't care how good it is. 145 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:28,600 Don't care tonight how good it sounds if you're not in Christ, 146 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:32,880 you're not going to heaven, you're not forgiven if any man 147 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:36,760 be in Christ, I want you to see that he does not speak about 148 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:39,960 being in a church. Now certainly it's important 149 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:43,559 that a person is in church and why everybody rise on the on the 150 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:47,000 Sabbath day and go to the true House of God to listen to the 151 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:50,120 preaching of the word of God. But it doesn't speak about being 152 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:55,680 in a church that'll save you, doesn't speak about being a 153 00:08:55,680 --> 00:08:57,880 Christian home. And that's a blessing. 154 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:01,600 Some of us didn't have that privilege of being brought up in 155 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:05,200 a Christian home. But maybe you have, you know, 156 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:06,840 what's a real privilege and a real blessing. 157 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:09,880 It's one of them to bring the children up and to teach them 158 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:12,400 the things of God and the way of salvation. 159 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:14,080 That's why I ought to bring up my children. 160 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:16,000 I was with my wee grandchildren the other day. 161 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:18,680 I was staying overnight. Sometimes I preach around that 162 00:09:18,680 --> 00:09:20,280 way and I stay overnight and so on. 163 00:09:20,680 --> 00:09:23,480 And day I got talking to my wee granddaughter and we're talking 164 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:26,080 about the things that Bible and I was throwing out question 165 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:28,920 after question after question. Tell her and you know something 166 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:31,000 she's just throwing the answer certainly gets here. 167 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:35,960 I was real private to know she'd been taught the Bible, the way 168 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:38,720 of salvation. It's in the Lord Jesus Christ. 169 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:41,960 It doesn't speak just about being being in a family that's 170 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:45,400 important that's a blessing or just about believing about Lord 171 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:47,880 Jesus Christ. It doesn't speak about being in 172 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:50,840 baptism and there are many people there are many people has 173 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:53,920 been in the tank in a sense and many people has been through the 174 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:58,520 waters, but they've never been saved, never been saved. 175 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:06,480 Therefore, if any man notice tonight the word of God be in 176 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:12,440 Christ, that's the place. Thus a person that you need to 177 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:17,160 be in to be saved. That's where you need to be and 178 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:20,120 the Lord Jesus Christ is Christ. We're not here to preach a 179 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:21,600 church. We're not here to preach 180 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:23,240 ordinances here tonight. Why? 181 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:25,240 They're all important in their own place. 182 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:31,480 It's Christ and that is a distinct position, a different 183 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:35,320 position because think of this, the Sinner is not in Christ in 184 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:36,960 this natural state. He's not there at all. 185 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:40,520 He's without Christ. You think there are in Ephesians 186 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:43,200 2 verse 12. And at that time you were 187 00:10:43,680 --> 00:10:46,760 without Christ. There are people tonight, they 188 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:49,840 say I haven't got a home, I haven't got money, I haven't got 189 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:52,960 a friend, I haven't got a husband, I haven't got a wife 190 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:54,800 from Abbey. They say all of these things. 191 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:57,720 Here's the most miserable position to be ever in in this 192 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:06,680 world, to be without Christ. The person who's not saved is 193 00:11:06,680 --> 00:11:09,600 without him, without the Lord Jesus Christ. 194 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:13,560 And the talks are in force, Corinthians 15, verse 22 about 195 00:11:13,560 --> 00:11:17,200 the Sinner being an Adam, being an Adam. 196 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:23,400 Here we find the Christian, here we find here in the word of the 197 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:26,960 living God here tonight the position that the Sinner must be 198 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:30,040 in. He must be in Christ. 199 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:34,280 That's where salvation is. The apostle Paul speaks here, 200 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:37,920 verse 14 and 50 about the death of the Lord Jesus Christ. 201 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:41,600 He speaks about the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. 202 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:45,560 He shed his precious blood. It's the same message for all 203 00:11:45,560 --> 00:11:48,560 people. One person said every man must 204 00:11:48,560 --> 00:11:51,240 be in Christ in order to be saved. 205 00:11:51,680 --> 00:11:54,280 And then he said it matters not who he may be. 206 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:58,920 No man may become a Christian and any other methods. 207 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:03,120 Don't do that tonight. There is no other way of 208 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:08,040 becoming a Christian other than through the Lord Jesus Christ. 209 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:14,960 And that's the position you must be in if any man be in Christ. 210 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:17,840 Here's a question tonight. Are you in Christ? 211 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:20,320 Are you saved? Have you repented? 212 00:12:20,560 --> 00:12:24,720 Are you trusting the Lord Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour? 213 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:27,280 Can you say he's all I'm depending on? 214 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:29,640 I put my faith in Him, I trust in Him. 215 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:33,120 I need no other argument and I need no other plea. 216 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:36,800 It is enough that Jesus died and that he died for me. 217 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:39,760 This is the position you must be in to be saved. 218 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:45,400 And I say it again and just not being repetitive, there's no 219 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:47,440 other place to be. There's no other saviour. 220 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:49,880 I don't care what you said tonight. 221 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:52,920 I don't say no. You said we know where it is 222 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:54,360 tonight. There's no other place. 223 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:56,840 There's no other one. Sometimes we get channels. 224 00:12:56,840 --> 00:12:59,160 How do you know? How do you know that your 225 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:02,360 religion is a true religion? How do we know? 226 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:06,120 Because the Bible, the Bible tells us so. 227 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:11,800 So the position the centre must be in, in Christ, there are 228 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:13,840 people tonight in this community, might be in the 229 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:17,600 meeting, might be listening, they're in the world, they're in 230 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:21,600 sin, they need to come to Christ. 231 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:25,360 Are you in Christ tonight? Can you say that? 232 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:27,400 Have you come to him? Have you trusted him? 233 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:31,360 The position the centre must be in. 234 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:36,080 Then there is the power that the centre must experience because 235 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,000 to become a Christian you made something. 236 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:45,720 I want you to see this tonight, a new creature, a new creature. 237 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:49,680 How amazing. God makes things new, and this 238 00:13:49,680 --> 00:13:54,440 is a divine work. This is something God does. 239 00:13:55,400 --> 00:14:00,800 We have a mighty God, We have a great God, a great Saviour, and 240 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:04,120 he makes people, He makes sinners into Saints. 241 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:09,400 This is a divine work. We think here tonight, who made 242 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:11,640 the world? Who made the world? 243 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:15,200 Well, some people believes in the monkey business, evolution 244 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:19,560 and all the rest of it, but we believe the Bible in the 245 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:22,760 beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 246 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:26,600 God made it. In chapter 1 of Genesis first 247 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:30,760 three, it says God said let there be light and there was 248 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:34,960 light and there was no one to help them as God made it. 249 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:41,280 In Isaiah 44 verse 24, here's 1 you can really imagine to 250 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:45,000 Jehovah's Witnesses because when you tell him the Bible says that 251 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:47,000 Jesus Christ made the world, you know what to say to you. 252 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:50,560 Oh he, he helped God, he helped God. 253 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:54,800 But here's a verse that destroys their argument because in Isaiah 254 00:14:54,800 --> 00:15:00,000 44 verse 24, thus saith the Lord thy Redeemer, and he that formed 255 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,480 thee from the womb, I am a Lord that maketh all things. 256 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:06,760 Do you hear Him? I am a Lord that maketh all 257 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:12,360 things, that stretches forth the heavens alone, that spreadeth 258 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:17,560 abroad the earth by myself. Do you see what God says? 259 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:20,960 The heavens, I did it alone. And you see the earth. 260 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:23,840 This earth, He says, I did it myself. 261 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:29,800 Myself and so when we come to the Bible, we find here it is 262 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:33,440 God and God alone, God and God alone that made the universe. 263 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:36,120 I say here tonight, God made this creation. 264 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:39,360 God makes a new creation. He does it. 265 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:43,960 He takes a Sinner and he makes them into a new creature. 266 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:49,000 Remember it says in John chapter one verse 12 and verse 13 making 267 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,040 of receiving Christ, but as many as receive him to then give he 268 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:54,920 the power to become the sons of God, even to them which believe 269 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:58,440 in his name, which were born out of blood, nor of the will of the 270 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:02,000 flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 271 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:06,440 Here tells us how's a person made a child of God? 272 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:09,760 How are they made a new creature born of God? 273 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:12,720 Remember, remember the words the Lord Jesus said to that 274 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:16,120 religious man, Nicotemus. Nicotemus, you have religion and 275 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:19,600 you have religion up your neck, but you must you must be born 276 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:23,120 again. You must be made a new creature. 277 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:28,240 And if I will be saved, you can't save yourself. 278 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:32,200 If I won't be saved, God doesn't, and he make you a new 279 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:36,200 creature. Here's a divine work, a 280 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:38,920 difficult work. The creating of the world was a 281 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:41,840 very difficult work. Thomas Watson said when God made 282 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:43,760 the world, he met with no opposition. 283 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:48,120 But when God is about to make a new creature, Satan and the 284 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:53,360 heart opposing the fight against him, the Sinner doesn't want 285 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:54,920 God. They don't want him. 286 00:16:55,920 --> 00:16:58,040 They don't want the Lord Jesus Christ. 287 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:00,880 They don't want to hear the gospel, they don't want to leave 288 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:02,600 their sin. They don't want to repent. 289 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:04,520 They don't. We sing sometimes, but the Lord 290 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:07,319 Jesus coming into her heart, they don't want Christ. 291 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:08,640 They don't want them in their heart. 292 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:09,839 They don't want them in their life. 293 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:13,480 So this is something that's difficult. 294 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:18,319 There's opposition. There is a hardness in the life 295 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:21,800 of the Sinner. He refuses to obey the word of 296 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:24,480 God. He runs away from the presence 297 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:26,400 of the Lord. He doesn't want them. 298 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:29,480 And you remember saying, well, I'm trying to get my my family 299 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:31,960 to this mission. I'm trying to get my workmates. 300 00:17:32,120 --> 00:17:34,760 I'm trying to get my friends to come and they won't come. 301 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:36,720 They run, they they harden their hearts. 302 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:40,760 They have no Winterson coming. And that is the natural heart of 303 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:43,480 a Sinner. That was my heart at one time. 304 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:46,800 That child of God before you were converted, that was your 305 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:51,240 heart at one time as well. That's all this hardeners of 306 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:53,680 heart. What about the wickedness of the 307 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:55,480 heart? Remember in challenges 6, verse 308 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:59,000 5 and God looked down the time before the flood and he saw that 309 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,920 the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and every 310 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:05,280 imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only able to 311 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:07,280 continue like that's a long time ago. 312 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:10,880 And God looked at it. The world was full of wickedness 313 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:15,120 and the world was full of sin. It hasn't changed. 314 00:18:15,120 --> 00:18:22,320 Still the same terrible things is happening all over the world 315 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:25,320 today. Man's heart is full of 316 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:27,760 wickedness. Man's heart is full of sin. 317 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:30,040 And yet here's a wonderful thing. 318 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:35,120 God can make him a new person. God can do that the worst the 319 00:18:35,120 --> 00:18:40,680 scum of the earth. God can do this in the darkness 320 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:43,560 of people's hearts too. And the amazing thing about it, 321 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:48,440 they love the darkness because in John 3 verse 19, this is the 322 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:50,960 condemnation that light has come into the world. 323 00:18:51,120 --> 00:18:54,720 Notice, and men love darkness rather than light because their 324 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:56,840 deeds were evil. They love the darkness. 325 00:18:56,840 --> 00:18:59,920 And when they come to meetings like this, they come face to 326 00:18:59,920 --> 00:19:02,160 face with the light of the gospel. 327 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:06,440 That's why they don't want to come to gospel meetings and they 328 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:11,120 love the darkness. And the Lord has overcome all 329 00:19:11,120 --> 00:19:14,560 these things before He can make a new creature. 330 00:19:15,360 --> 00:19:17,880 Is your heart hard tonight? You send all I wish I was early 331 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:19,520 this meeting. I love my back. 332 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:22,560 I come in to hear the gospel and I can't wait till this meeting 333 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:24,960 goes hard and I love me back. Your heart is hard. 334 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:26,520 Don't harden your heart against God. 335 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:28,240 Is your heart full of sin tonight? 336 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:34,200 Heart full of darkness. You see, here's a power here of 337 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:38,000 the gospel. God can make a new creation, and 338 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:39,120 He does it of course through Christ. 339 00:19:39,120 --> 00:19:42,320 Thomas Watson again said to cost God nothing to make the world, 340 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:46,120 but to make new creatures cost. The shedding of Christ's blood 341 00:19:48,360 --> 00:19:51,880 has only begotten Son. Think of cross, think of Calvary 342 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:56,960 tonight, the Lord Jesus dying to make us new creatures, to bring 343 00:19:56,960 --> 00:20:01,200 us to God, the Son of God who loved me and give himself for 344 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:02,440 me. This is the teaching of the 345 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:04,880 Bible. It's a difficult work, but God 346 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:06,440 can do it. And I want you to see this 347 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:07,960 tonight. God can save you. 348 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:11,240 You're not so far away tonight, down in your sin, where God 349 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:14,040 cannot reach you, where he cannot change you, where he 350 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:17,840 cannot save you, He can do this. He can make you a new person. 351 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:21,000 Do you believe it tonight? I believe it. 352 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:24,080 He did it for me. He did it for me. 353 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:28,160 Everyone, Mr McLaughlin, call all the ones in this meeting. 354 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:34,000 Here's the work God can do. Don't be without hope tonight. 355 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:37,440 Don't be cast down and lost in your sin tonight in this 356 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:40,600 meeting. There's power in Jesus blood. 357 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:48,040 God can make you a new person, a delightful work that says he 358 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:52,480 makes up a new, a new creature. It's not man being modified away 359 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:54,680 better. A few alterations may tell him 360 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:59,400 it's not the old man improved. He can't really improve the old 361 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:01,640 man at all. He had to destroy him. 362 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:06,880 But he makes a new man, a new man. 363 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:11,000 He puts a new man in a suit, maybe the same old suit. 364 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:12,840 You saw him. That's what he does. 365 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:15,400 But a new heart. I think he'll talk to him 366 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:17,320 because I put a new heart within them. 367 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,240 A new tongue. Psalm 41st 3. 368 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:24,160 He has put a new song in my mouth that wonderful. 369 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:26,840 Before we were converted, we used to sing the songs of the 370 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:30,320 world. I used to love Alba, Status Quo, 371 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:33,240 Make Loaf, all those groups before I got converted. 372 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:36,800 And once I got converted, I started to sing hymns and songs 373 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:39,040 and all of these things. Our sister sang song from there. 374 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:41,600 Tonight he walks with me and he talks with me. 375 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:45,480 When I first heard those things as a young Christian, a new 376 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:49,280 tongue, I do that for you tonight, New Year's, What Lord 377 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:52,000 will they have me to do? New fate, your run after 378 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:55,040 righteousness or run away from sin, New hands, your work from 379 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:56,520 God. Oh, here's something. 380 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:59,880 Here's the life of work. And they say again, the Lord can 381 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:04,080 do this for you tonight in this meeting, I can do this. 382 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:08,240 This is the power you must experience a new creature born 383 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:13,320 again of a spirit of God. God can do this and God can do 384 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:15,600 it for you. There are people tonight, no 385 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:20,000 doubt in this whole community, held by drugs, held by 386 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:23,080 immorality, held by booze, depressed. 387 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:26,520 There are no hope, no hope and there they go day after day, 388 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:30,600 held by sin, following the devil, heading down towards 389 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:32,840 hell, lost. But here's good news of the 390 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,280 gospel. Christ can save them, he can 391 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:38,480 change them. There's power in Jesus blood 392 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:43,440 tonight and that's the power he can experience and make a new 393 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:46,240 creature, say to some people sometimes, do you really want 394 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:47,840 your life just to go on the way it's going? 395 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:52,360 You've lived so many years in the world, you've lived in sin. 396 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:54,560 Is that how you want to go on every year? 397 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:57,400 That's what you want. Just get up, live for the world, 398 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:00,080 live for sin, miserable, cast down, lost. 399 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:02,440 Is that what you want to continue right to the end of 400 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:05,120 your life? I'm asked you tonight, is that 401 00:23:05,120 --> 00:23:09,080 what you want? There's a new life for you. 402 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:13,880 There's hope in Jesus Christ and He can save you. 403 00:23:15,120 --> 00:23:18,360 He can do this for you. And I trust you've listened to 404 00:23:18,360 --> 00:23:20,480 light here. And they meet them. 405 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:25,320 Therefore, of any man being Christ, he's a new creature, a 406 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:28,480 new creation. They do it for you, they do that 407 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:30,520 for you. They wash you in the blood of 408 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:33,560 Jesus Christ. They come into your heart and 409 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:37,880 they make you a new person. They could do that for you 410 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:40,160 tonight. These lessons are taught and 411 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:44,040 found in the gospel of Christ. And they say here the last of 412 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:45,960 the change that the Sinner must have. 413 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,960 And not to say this, that's a great change. 414 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:54,680 That's a great change. He's not the same man or woman. 415 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:57,360 We put a woman in here. It's not the person who see it. 416 00:23:57,360 --> 00:24:02,480 I'm not the same. You cannot be the same. 417 00:24:04,120 --> 00:24:06,720 You cannot be the same. If you're truly repent from your 418 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:10,120 sin and trust Jesus Christ and be washed in his blood and he 419 00:24:10,120 --> 00:24:13,240 comes into your heart, you cannot be the same. 420 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:19,400 It's a great change. It's a visible change, one from 421 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:22,920 darkness to light. When Paul was converted, he was 422 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,320 so altered that the people who saw him that could scarcely 423 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:29,600 believe he's the same man. What did they say? 424 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:35,600 What did they say when they saw Saul in Acts 9 verse 21, when 425 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:38,120 all they heard him and heard him preaching were amazed and said, 426 00:24:38,360 --> 00:24:40,760 is not this he that destroyed them? 427 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:44,680 What's called in this name in Jerusalem and came Hitler for 428 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:47,880 that intent that he might bring them bound on to the Chief 429 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,360 Police when they heard him preaching, He's preaching Christ 430 00:24:50,360 --> 00:24:53,120 to say this. Is that not the man who came to 431 00:24:53,120 --> 00:24:56,000 bind us and to bring us to the Chief Police of castes into 432 00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:03,120 prison? It was it was him, but he's a 433 00:25:03,120 --> 00:25:05,920 new man and boys, they can see it. 434 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:10,520 You can see it. You see, I think it's all the 435 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:14,480 shows here because all things that says are passed away. 436 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:18,680 There's things have to go. Things have to go. 437 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:21,360 And I want to tell you tonight when you're really saved and 438 00:25:21,360 --> 00:25:26,400 trust Christ, they do go. Things are passed away. 439 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:31,760 The views, the opinions, the pleasures, the hopes, the 440 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:37,520 thrusts, the confidence, all go sins and everything goes. 441 00:25:38,360 --> 00:25:41,320 And then he says here and behold this word, behold this. 442 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:44,880 This really gets our attention. Behold, well, what? 443 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:46,360 What else have you got to tell us? 444 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:52,000 All things become new. All things become new, New 445 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:56,840 desires, read the Bible, pray, go to church, fellowship, a new 446 00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,040 destination. Instead of heading down towards 447 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:00,800 hell, you're going home to heaven. 448 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:05,440 All things become new once you get converted. 449 00:26:06,120 --> 00:26:10,040 That's the change. A comfort once said out of the 450 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:14,840 world is altered or else I am. And that's true when you get 451 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:16,960 saved. I remember the day I got saved, 452 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:18,640 I walked out. I thought it was the world 453 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:20,520 looked totally different. I had lived in it a number of 454 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:23,080 years beforehand, but it just looked totally different. 455 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:29,480 Something that happened. The Lord Jesus had come into my 456 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:33,640 heart, a great change. He comes out. 457 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:37,440 The Saviour, the Saviour of the world comes in to live and to 458 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:39,640 stay. And the old, new creature, he's 459 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:42,360 not the same man he was. He's have another spirit. 460 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:46,160 It's a permanent change. It's a permanent change. 461 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:49,840 Change enough for six months or six weeks or six years. 462 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:53,760 That's forever. I know people have affairs and 463 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:57,880 leave, but they were never truly converted through conversion 464 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:00,280 lusts. He's a new creature. 465 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:04,560 All things pass away. Behold, all things become new. 466 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,720 And here's what I wanted The Lord a sea Spurgeon says he can 467 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:11,880 make thee the greatest of sinners to become the brightest 468 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:13,280 of Saints. Not amazing. 469 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,480 You're the greatest Sinner and carried off you send all I feel 470 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,600 no hope and some people say this when you get talking about being 471 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:26,320 safe know what to say I couldn't keep it couldn't live the life I 472 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:30,560 would fall I would feel but here's our here's the verse that 473 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:35,520 destroys all excuses that takes away should take away all doubts 474 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,080 and all fears. Therefore, if any man be in 475 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:41,080 Christ, he's a new creature. All things are passed away. 476 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:45,920 Behold all things become you. The Lord Jesus will save you, 477 00:27:46,360 --> 00:27:49,000 make you a new person, and He'll keep you. 478 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:52,200 You can have that change. Hold on a minute. 479 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:53,920 I'm back where it started tonight. 480 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:59,120 You must have this change. If you want to go to heaven, you 481 00:27:59,120 --> 00:28:01,920 must have it. As I already indicate, you must 482 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:03,920 be born again. You must repent. 483 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,680 You must trust Christ. Martian closing. 484 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:10,280 Have you trusted Christ? Have you put your faith and 485 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:13,040 trust in Him? And if not, come to him tonight. 486 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:15,760 You'll never regret it. We're going to sing a closing 487 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,280 verses in a moment. What a wonderful change in my 488 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:22,760 life has been wrought since Jesus come in to my heart. 489 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:26,400 I've got that peace tonight. All has got that peace tonight. 490 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:30,520 We want you to have this peace tonight, this life that might, 491 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,120 this forgiveness that's found in Jesus Christ. 492 00:28:33,120 --> 00:28:37,800 He can do it for you. Come down, come down with all 493 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:42,240 your heart and ask Him to save you and he wash away all your 494 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:45,320 sin and give every last life. If any questions, come and speak 495 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,400 with me or call Mr McLaughlin as well. 496 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,280 We would love to speak with you. Don't go home without Christ. 497 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:55,200 Experience this power tonight. The power of the gospel, the 498 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,600 power of the blood of Christ, the power of the Spirit of God. 499 00:28:57,840 --> 00:28:59,960 And come to Jesus and he will save you. 500 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:03,720 He'll make you a new person. He'll take you home to heaven. 501 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:07,120 You'll not be in hell where you deserve to be. 502 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,240 You'll get everlasting life. Trust Him. 503 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,120 Would you trust Him? Would you trust Him to save you? 504 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,080 Would you put your faith in Him? I hope you will, and I hope 505 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:19,760 you'll put your faith in the Lord Jesus even this very night. 506 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,440 Trust the Lord. Bless those few thoughts tonight 507 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:24,440 to all of our hearts. Thank you very much.