Well, we want to thank Sir for coming thinking so well to us
here today. That was lovely and it was
really enjoyed our ministry and song real blessing really to
your own heart and it's it's wonderful to sing of Christ and
I trust everyone of us here was blessed as we listened to her
sister sing tonight. Thank you for coming along to
the mission. No better place to be at this
particular time in this community and than being in the
gospel mission, singing the old fashioned gospel hymns and
listen to the singing. And I trust then also the
preaching of the word of God and let's pray together.
Let's work together and seek to get people onto the sound of the
gospel at this time. Now we're going to turn just to
our our reading. It's in book of Second
Corinthians chapter 5. For time's sake, we're just
going to read our text tonight and 2nd Corinthians chapter 5
and the verse 17 is really the text I want to to look at here
tonight. 2nd Corinthians 5 verse 17.
And Paul here is saying he says, therefore, if any man be in
Christ, he's a new creature. All things are passed away.
Behold, all things are become new and we we have here a new
creature, a new creature that's brought before.
Let's look to the Lord for his help tonight.
Father in Heaven, we thank you for the already being in this
meeting, the blessing of being in your presence, and for
helping our sisters sing so well to us and the sing of Christ.
Well, thank you. We have a great Redeemer who
walks with us and he talks with us these facts.
He says I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.
I pray for help around thy word. I pray you'll speak to anyone,
Lord, who is in here tonight and I'll see it.
Maybe there's someone home and they're watching and they're not
saved. Lord deed with them wherever
they are tonight, call them to the Lord Jesus that they might
be saved. Amen.
Therefore, if any man be in
Christ, he is a new creature. You and I know living in this
day and age, there are many great deceptions.
Of course, with the progress of modern technology, men are able
to produce counterfeits that even an expert would have great
difficulty noticing. There's counterfeits cover every
area. I came across something there
today. Some man was found I think
around Belfast or some area and his house was full of
counterfeits. He had handbags, he had watches,
he had everything. And so we're in this day and
age, the counterfeit is very easy to come across.
In fact, sometimes we go into the shop and it says beware of
counterfeit 20 LB notes. So counterfeit's all around us.
Let me say this tonight. It's the same with the spirits
of things of the Lord. We are living in a day of many
counterfeits. Think for instance, the
counterfeit servants of so-called of the Lord because
there are many, there are many today who claim to be a servant
of the Lord and they stand up and they seek to preach, to say
they believe in God. They have a Bible, they have a
congregation. And yet the Lord Jesus Christ
said in Matthew 7 verse 15, beware of false prophets.
And so when you think of them all around our land today, there
are many people. There are many people and
they're listening. They're listening to a their
feet servant, a false message, the preach false, a counter, a
counterfeit messages, counterfeit spirit.
The Bible talks and Corinthians about you've received another
spirit. There's a spirit abroad today.
There are people saying they're speaking in tongues.
They're doing signs and wonders and all of these things and
there's a counterfeit spirit going today.
You only have to go on to YouTube when you type in some
names of some fellows, which on that name and there's some of
the things that's going on in a service, you wouldn't believe
it. They're dancing in the pews.
They're falling all over the place.
They're gigging and laughing. They're roaring about like dogs
or cows and they say, well, this is the work of the Spirit of
God. Well, I want to tell you
tonight, that is not true. That is not true.
That's not the work of the Spirit of God.
There's a counterfeit Saviour because 2nd Corinthians 11 verse
four, he says for he the cometh preaches another Jesus whom we
have not preached. There are people today and
they're preaching another Jesus, not the Jesus of the Bible.
The Jehovah Witness have another Jesus.
The Mormons, they have another Jesus.
The Church of Rome have another Jesus, Islam, they have another
Jesus. They have not got the Christ of
the Bible. So there are counterfeits.
There are counterfeits all around the day when we come to
the things of God. Now I want to say tonight, it's
the same thing about salvation. There's a counterfeit today.
The counterfeit evasive believe ISM just go to some particular
church and so on, and everything will be well with your soul and
you'll get to heaven. And yet we find the Lord Jesus
saying of a group of people who come before them in Matthew 7
verse 23. Then while I profess unto them,
I never knew you depart from me ye that work in iniquity.
Here's a a great multitude who come before the Lord Jesus
Christ and he looks him in the eye and he says to them, depart
from me. I never knew you.
They had the counterfeit. I want you to see that tonight
they had the counterfeit. It's not that they didn't
believe in a God. It's not that they didn't
believe in a person of the Lord Jesus Christ, but they had the
counterfeit, A counterfeit salvation that I want everyone,
everyone in this hall tonight, in this church tonight to have
the real thing. We want a salvation that's real.
We want a salvation that saves. That's the salvation we want.
We don't want to counterfeit. We don't want to end up like
these people in Matthew Chapter 7 and to come before the Lord
Jesus Christ on the last day. And he looks at us and he says,
depart from me. I never knew you.
We want a true salvation. We want a real salvation, and
that's we have come to preach in this community at this time.
Well, this whole thing about a real salvation, a true salvation
has brought before us here in the words of the Apostle Paul.
Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he's a new creature.
Old things are passed away and all things become new.
And I want to say just a number of things very quickly.
The position that the centre must be in.
I want you to see tonight where you must be if you're ever going
to be in heaven and if you're ever going to be saved, if
everlasting life. The apostle Paul here brings it
out so clear, we cannot miss it. The position you must be is US.
He must be in Christ. Now I want you to get that
tonight. If you want heaven, if you want
forgiveness of sins, if you want everlasting life, you must be in
Christ. This is the position, This is
the place to be, to be saved. Now I want to sell this.
In all other religions, there's no mention of people being
placed in a person. That's not the case.
No, think of Muslims. They're not placed in Muhammad.
They're following Muhammad. You think of the Mormons,
they're they're not placed in Joseph Smith.
But no, no, they're following Joseph Smith.
There's Jehovah's Witnesses in the sense they're not really
placed in the Watchtower, but they're following the teachings
of the Watchtower. So here is true Christianity,
true Christianity, and a true Christian one who's really
saved. He's in a place, he's in a
person. What is that?
Who is that person, the Lord Jesus Christ?
And I want to say that on a shame of The Tonight, there's no
other one can save you. And if you're in any other place
tonight, you'll not be saved. Don't care how good it is.
Don't care tonight how good it sounds if you're not in Christ,
you're not going to heaven, you're not forgiven if any man
be in Christ, I want you to see that he does not speak about
being in a church. Now certainly it's important
that a person is in church and why everybody rise on the on the
Sabbath day and go to the true House of God to listen to the
preaching of the word of God. But it doesn't speak about being
in a church that'll save you, doesn't speak about being a
Christian home. And that's a blessing.
Some of us didn't have that privilege of being brought up in
a Christian home. But maybe you have, you know,
what's a real privilege and a real blessing.
It's one of them to bring the children up and to teach them
the things of God and the way of salvation.
That's why I ought to bring up my children.
I was with my wee grandchildren the other day.
I was staying overnight. Sometimes I preach around that
way and I stay overnight and so on.
And day I got talking to my wee granddaughter and we're talking
about the things that Bible and I was throwing out question
after question after question. Tell her and you know something
she's just throwing the answer certainly gets here.
I was real private to know she'd been taught the Bible, the way
of salvation. It's in the Lord Jesus Christ.
It doesn't speak just about being being in a family that's
important that's a blessing or just about believing about Lord
Jesus Christ. It doesn't speak about being in
baptism and there are many people there are many people has
been in the tank in a sense and many people has been through the
waters, but they've never been saved, never been saved.
Therefore, if any man notice tonight the word of God be in
Christ, that's the place. Thus a person that you need to
be in to be saved. That's where you need to be and
the Lord Jesus Christ is Christ. We're not here to preach a
church. We're not here to preach
ordinances here tonight. Why?
They're all important in their own place.
It's Christ and that is a distinct position, a different
position because think of this, the Sinner is not in Christ in
this natural state. He's not there at all.
He's without Christ. You think there are in Ephesians
2 verse 12. And at that time you were
without Christ. There are people tonight, they
say I haven't got a home, I haven't got money, I haven't got
a friend, I haven't got a husband, I haven't got a wife
from Abbey. They say all of these things.
Here's the most miserable position to be ever in in this
world, to be without Christ. The person who's not saved is
without him, without the Lord Jesus Christ.
And the talks are in force, Corinthians 15, verse 22 about
the Sinner being an Adam, being an Adam.
Here we find the Christian, here we find here in the word of the
living God here tonight the position that the Sinner must be
in. He must be in Christ.
That's where salvation is. The apostle Paul speaks here,
verse 14 and 50 about the death of the Lord Jesus Christ.
He speaks about the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.
He shed his precious blood. It's the same message for all
people. One person said every man must
be in Christ in order to be saved.
And then he said it matters not who he may be.
No man may become a Christian and any other methods.
Don't do that tonight. There is no other way of
becoming a Christian other than through the Lord Jesus Christ.
And that's the position you must be in if any man be in Christ.
Here's a question tonight. Are you in Christ?
Are you saved? Have you repented?
Are you trusting the Lord Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour?
Can you say he's all I'm depending on?
I put my faith in Him, I trust in Him.
I need no other argument and I need no other plea.
It is enough that Jesus died and that he died for me.
This is the position you must be in to be saved.
And I say it again and just not being repetitive, there's no
other place to be. There's no other saviour.
I don't care what you said tonight.
I don't say no. You said we know where it is
tonight. There's no other place.
There's no other one. Sometimes we get channels.
How do you know? How do you know that your
religion is a true religion? How do we know?
Because the Bible, the Bible tells us so.
So the position the centre must be in, in Christ, there are
people tonight in this community, might be in the
meeting, might be listening, they're in the world, they're in
sin, they need to come to Christ.
Are you in Christ tonight? Can you say that?
Have you come to him? Have you trusted him?
The position the centre must be in.
Then there is the power that the centre must experience because
to become a Christian you made something.
I want you to see this tonight, a new creature, a new creature.
How amazing. God makes things new, and this
is a divine work. This is something God does.
We have a mighty God, We have a great God, a great Saviour, and
he makes people, He makes sinners into Saints.
This is a divine work. We think here tonight, who made
the world? Who made the world?
Well, some people believes in the monkey business, evolution
and all the rest of it, but we believe the Bible in the
beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
God made it. In chapter 1 of Genesis first
three, it says God said let there be light and there was
light and there was no one to help them as God made it.
In Isaiah 44 verse 24, here's 1 you can really imagine to
Jehovah's Witnesses because when you tell him the Bible says that
Jesus Christ made the world, you know what to say to you.
Oh he, he helped God, he helped God.
But here's a verse that destroys their argument because in Isaiah
44 verse 24, thus saith the Lord thy Redeemer, and he that formed
thee from the womb, I am a Lord that maketh all things.
Do you hear Him? I am a Lord that maketh all
things, that stretches forth the heavens alone, that spreadeth
abroad the earth by myself. Do you see what God says?
The heavens, I did it alone. And you see the earth.
This earth, He says, I did it myself.
Myself and so when we come to the Bible, we find here it is
God and God alone, God and God alone that made the universe.
I say here tonight, God made this creation.
God makes a new creation. He does it.
He takes a Sinner and he makes them into a new creature.
Remember it says in John chapter one verse 12 and verse 13 making
of receiving Christ, but as many as receive him to then give he
the power to become the sons of God, even to them which believe
in his name, which were born out of blood, nor of the will of the
flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Here tells us how's a person made a child of God?
How are they made a new creature born of God?
Remember, remember the words the Lord Jesus said to that
religious man, Nicotemus. Nicotemus, you have religion and
you have religion up your neck, but you must you must be born
again. You must be made a new creature.
And if I will be saved, you can't save yourself.
If I won't be saved, God doesn't, and he make you a new
creature. Here's a divine work, a
difficult work. The creating of the world was a
very difficult work. Thomas Watson said when God made
the world, he met with no opposition.
But when God is about to make a new creature, Satan and the
heart opposing the fight against him, the Sinner doesn't want
God. They don't want him.
They don't want the Lord Jesus Christ.
They don't want to hear the gospel, they don't want to leave
their sin. They don't want to repent.
They don't. We sing sometimes, but the Lord
Jesus coming into her heart, they don't want Christ.
They don't want them in their heart.
They don't want them in their life.
So this is something that's difficult.
There's opposition. There is a hardness in the life
of the Sinner. He refuses to obey the word of
God. He runs away from the presence
of the Lord. He doesn't want them.
And you remember saying, well, I'm trying to get my my family
to this mission. I'm trying to get my workmates.
I'm trying to get my friends to come and they won't come.
They run, they they harden their hearts.
They have no Winterson coming. And that is the natural heart of
a Sinner. That was my heart at one time.
That child of God before you were converted, that was your
heart at one time as well. That's all this hardeners of
heart. What about the wickedness of the
heart? Remember in challenges 6, verse
5 and God looked down the time before the flood and he saw that
the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and every
imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only able to
continue like that's a long time ago.
And God looked at it. The world was full of wickedness
and the world was full of sin. It hasn't changed.
Still the same terrible things is happening all over the world
today. Man's heart is full of
wickedness. Man's heart is full of sin.
And yet here's a wonderful thing.
God can make him a new person. God can do that the worst the
scum of the earth. God can do this in the darkness
of people's hearts too. And the amazing thing about it,
they love the darkness because in John 3 verse 19, this is the
condemnation that light has come into the world.
Notice, and men love darkness rather than light because their
deeds were evil. They love the darkness.
And when they come to meetings like this, they come face to
face with the light of the gospel.
That's why they don't want to come to gospel meetings and they
love the darkness. And the Lord has overcome all
these things before He can make a new creature.
Is your heart hard tonight? You send all I wish I was early
this meeting. I love my back.
I come in to hear the gospel and I can't wait till this meeting
goes hard and I love me back. Your heart is hard.
Don't harden your heart against God.
Is your heart full of sin tonight?
Heart full of darkness. You see, here's a power here of
the gospel. God can make a new creation, and
He does it of course through Christ.
Thomas Watson again said to cost God nothing to make the world,
but to make new creatures cost. The shedding of Christ's blood
has only begotten Son. Think of cross, think of Calvary
tonight, the Lord Jesus dying to make us new creatures, to bring
us to God, the Son of God who loved me and give himself for
me. This is the teaching of the
Bible. It's a difficult work, but God
can do it. And I want you to see this
tonight. God can save you.
You're not so far away tonight, down in your sin, where God
cannot reach you, where he cannot change you, where he
cannot save you, He can do this. He can make you a new person.
Do you believe it tonight? I believe it.
He did it for me. He did it for me.
Everyone, Mr McLaughlin, call all the ones in this meeting.
Here's the work God can do. Don't be without hope tonight.
Don't be cast down and lost in your sin tonight in this
meeting. There's power in Jesus blood.
God can make you a new person, a delightful work that says he
makes up a new, a new creature. It's not man being modified away
better. A few alterations may tell him
it's not the old man improved. He can't really improve the old
man at all. He had to destroy him.
But he makes a new man, a new man.
He puts a new man in a suit, maybe the same old suit.
You saw him. That's what he does.
But a new heart. I think he'll talk to him
because I put a new heart within them.
A new tongue. Psalm 41st 3.
He has put a new song in my mouth that wonderful.
Before we were converted, we used to sing the songs of the
world. I used to love Alba, Status Quo,
Make Loaf, all those groups before I got converted.
And once I got converted, I started to sing hymns and songs
and all of these things. Our sister sang song from there.
Tonight he walks with me and he talks with me.
When I first heard those things as a young Christian, a new
tongue, I do that for you tonight, New Year's, What Lord
will they have me to do? New fate, your run after
righteousness or run away from sin, New hands, your work from
God. Oh, here's something.
Here's the life of work. And they say again, the Lord can
do this for you tonight in this meeting, I can do this.
This is the power you must experience a new creature born
again of a spirit of God. God can do this and God can do
it for you. There are people tonight, no
doubt in this whole community, held by drugs, held by
immorality, held by booze, depressed.
There are no hope, no hope and there they go day after day,
held by sin, following the devil, heading down towards
hell, lost. But here's good news of the
gospel. Christ can save them, he can
change them. There's power in Jesus blood
tonight and that's the power he can experience and make a new
creature, say to some people sometimes, do you really want
your life just to go on the way it's going?
You've lived so many years in the world, you've lived in sin.
Is that how you want to go on every year?
That's what you want. Just get up, live for the world,
live for sin, miserable, cast down, lost.
Is that what you want to continue right to the end of
your life? I'm asked you tonight, is that
what you want? There's a new life for you.
There's hope in Jesus Christ and He can save you.
He can do this for you. And I trust you've listened to
light here. And they meet them.
Therefore, of any man being Christ, he's a new creature, a
new creation. They do it for you, they do that
for you. They wash you in the blood of
Jesus Christ. They come into your heart and
they make you a new person. They could do that for you
tonight. These lessons are taught and
found in the gospel of Christ. And they say here the last of
the change that the Sinner must have.
And not to say this, that's a great change.
That's a great change. He's not the same man or woman.
We put a woman in here. It's not the person who see it.
I'm not the same. You cannot be the same.
If you're truly repent from your
sin and trust Jesus Christ and be washed in his blood and he
comes into your heart, you cannot be the same.
It's a great change. It's a visible change, one from
darkness to light. When Paul was converted, he was
so altered that the people who saw him that could scarcely
believe he's the same man. What did they say?
What did they say when they saw Saul in Acts 9 verse 21, when
all they heard him and heard him preaching were amazed and said,
is not this he that destroyed them?
What's called in this name in Jerusalem and came Hitler for
that intent that he might bring them bound on to the Chief
Police when they heard him preaching, He's preaching Christ
to say this. Is that not the man who came to
bind us and to bring us to the Chief Police of castes into
prison? It was it was him, but he's a
new man and boys, they can see it.
You can see it. You see, I think it's all the
shows here because all things that says are passed away.
There's things have to go. Things have to go.
And I want to tell you tonight when you're really saved and
trust Christ, they do go. Things are passed away.
The views, the opinions, the pleasures, the hopes, the
thrusts, the confidence, all go sins and everything goes.
And then he says here and behold this word, behold this.
This really gets our attention. Behold, well, what?
What else have you got to tell us?
All things become new. All things become new, New
desires, read the Bible, pray, go to church, fellowship, a new
destination. Instead of heading down towards
hell, you're going home to heaven.
All things become new once you get converted.
That's the change. A comfort once said out of the
world is altered or else I am. And that's true when you get
saved. I remember the day I got saved,
I walked out. I thought it was the world
looked totally different. I had lived in it a number of
years beforehand, but it just looked totally different.
Something that happened. The Lord Jesus had come into my
heart, a great change. He comes out.
The Saviour, the Saviour of the world comes in to live and to
stay. And the old, new creature, he's
not the same man he was. He's have another spirit.
It's a permanent change. It's a permanent change.
Change enough for six months or six weeks or six years.
That's forever. I know people have affairs and
leave, but they were never truly converted through conversion
lusts. He's a new creature.
All things pass away. Behold, all things become new.
And here's what I wanted The Lord a sea Spurgeon says he can
make thee the greatest of sinners to become the brightest
of Saints. Not amazing.
You're the greatest Sinner and carried off you send all I feel
no hope and some people say this when you get talking about being
safe know what to say I couldn't keep it couldn't live the life I
would fall I would feel but here's our here's the verse that
destroys all excuses that takes away should take away all doubts
and all fears. Therefore, if any man be in
Christ, he's a new creature. All things are passed away.
Behold all things become you. The Lord Jesus will save you,
make you a new person, and He'll keep you.
You can have that change. Hold on a minute.
I'm back where it started tonight.
You must have this change. If you want to go to heaven, you
must have it. As I already indicate, you must
be born again. You must repent.
You must trust Christ. Martian closing.
Have you trusted Christ? Have you put your faith and
trust in Him? And if not, come to him tonight.
You'll never regret it. We're going to sing a closing
verses in a moment. What a wonderful change in my
life has been wrought since Jesus come in to my heart.
I've got that peace tonight. All has got that peace tonight.
We want you to have this peace tonight, this life that might,
this forgiveness that's found in Jesus Christ.
He can do it for you. Come down, come down with all
your heart and ask Him to save you and he wash away all your
sin and give every last life. If any questions, come and speak
with me or call Mr McLaughlin as well.
We would love to speak with you. Don't go home without Christ.
Experience this power tonight. The power of the gospel, the
power of the blood of Christ, the power of the Spirit of God.
And come to Jesus and he will save you.
He'll make you a new person. He'll take you home to heaven.
You'll not be in hell where you deserve to be.
You'll get everlasting life. Trust Him.
Would you trust Him? Would you trust Him to save you?
Would you put your faith in Him? I hope you will, and I hope
you'll put your faith in the Lord Jesus even this very night.
Trust the Lord. Bless those few thoughts tonight
to all of our hearts. Thank you very much.