1 00:00:03,280 --> 00:00:08,920 Just before I sit down, I want to mention a couple of things. 2 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:12,480 I'm looking over the congregation here and I see a 3 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:16,640 young couple amongst us and they have just recently got engaged. 4 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:20,240 And that's a wonderful thing, tremendous encouragement. 5 00:00:20,240 --> 00:00:23,880 And we want to say congratulations to Campbell and 6 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:25,840 to Catherine. At this time. 7 00:00:26,240 --> 00:00:29,920 I also want to mention that we still have two of Doctor Barnes 8 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:32,920 books. Never a dull moment out there in 9 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:35,320 the main foyer. They're £10 each. 10 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:39,200 The money, the proceeds, goes to the Deborah House project in 11 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:41,720 Romania. I have really enjoyed reading 12 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:43,160 the book. I learnt. 13 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:47,240 A lot of things that I didn't know about the Lord's servant, 14 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:49,640 I'll not start telling you. He, he'll tell you himself. 15 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:53,120 It's really, really tremendous. And we have two books left. 16 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:54,840 But great if we had them sold tonight. 17 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:59,000 And then you can enjoy the reading and then the proceeds. 18 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,880 Then we'll go to the Deborah House Project. 19 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:03,600 Could I just say one final thing? 20 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:07,080 Could I ask you to pray tonight for a man called Hugh? 21 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:10,640 He's in the hospital. The Lord knows all about Hugh. 22 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:14,080 And we'd ask you to remember Hugh in your prayer that the 23 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:17,680 Lord would touch him and meet his need to his glory. 24 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:20,120 Thank you. I'll hand over to Doctor Barnes. 25 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:25,160 I'd. Like to read together with you, 26 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:30,760 please just some verses from John chapter 3, third chapter of 27 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:34,960 John chapter 3. And it's in this chapter we have 28 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:39,600 the conversation of our Lord with the Nicodemus, A ruler who 29 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:44,840 came to Jesus by night. And we want to just read a few 30 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:48,680 verses beginning at verse 14 place. 31 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:54,680 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, Even 32 00:01:54,680 --> 00:02:00,040 so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whosoever believeth in 33 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:04,600 him should not perish, but have eternal life. 34 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:10,080 For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son, 35 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:15,480 that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have 36 00:02:15,920 --> 00:02:20,600 everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into 37 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:25,880 the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him 38 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:30,680 might be saved. He that believeth in him is not 39 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:36,240 condemn, but he that believeth not is condemned already because 40 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:42,320 he had not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 41 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:46,640 Ending the reading there, 1st 18 And we know God will bless the 42 00:02:46,640 --> 00:02:48,640 reading of His Word to all of our hearts. 43 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:51,200 Do want to say a word of thanks to our brother for the 44 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:55,480 opportunity of coming along and sharing a word of testimony 45 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:59,080 tonight. David is one of those very 46 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:02,960 persuasive people and when he asked you to do something, he 47 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:05,600 doesn't give up. And they asked me to give a 48 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:09,400 testimony, even though I've retired from preaching. 49 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:13,600 When you reach 83, well, it's time to slow down. 50 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:17,600 Other things take place, but it is the joy to be able to come 51 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:21,440 and to share with you. Or I came to know the Lord Jesus 52 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:25,640 as my own impersonal Saviour. I was born in the city of 53 00:03:25,640 --> 00:03:31,320 Belfast in a street called Rosalind St, not far from the 54 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:35,920 Emmanuel Mission Hall and I believe in the prevalence of God 55 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:38,840 and the hand of God and all our lives. 56 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:43,040 Things don't just happen by chance, but behind it all 57 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:48,080 there's a servant, A sovereign God who works all things out for 58 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:52,160 our good and for his glory. I was born into a family. 59 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:58,000 There was 7 boys, seven brothers and there was one girl winning 60 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,400 the sister who was the oldest and if ever there was a 61 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:06,760 Christian, it was my sister when I I always remember her just as 62 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:11,600 a Christian girl who loved the Bible and loved the Lord's 63 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:14,920 people. And we were sent along to the 64 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:20,600 Emmanuel Hall to learn the word of God in the way of salvation. 65 00:04:20,959 --> 00:04:24,360 I meant to say one of the things about being brought up in a 66 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:28,080 large family is that you have hand me down now. 67 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:32,480 I don't think the young people today will feel that the same. 68 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:35,640 There's more prosperity today than ever before. 69 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:40,040 But you got hand me downs and especially in a large family of 70 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:42,880 boys. My sister was the eldest. 71 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:47,080 And you know, I have to say the hand me downs didn't really suit 72 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:51,400 me because my sister's dress has never really seemed to fit or 73 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:57,120 were the right sword for me. But well, that's life there in a 74 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:00,000 large family. We were sent along to the 75 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,520 Emmanuel Sunday School. The missioner was Pastor 76 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:08,920 Proctor, a man sent from God, God, a great teacher of the word 77 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:12,760 of God and preacher of the gospel. 78 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:18,600 And we went to the Sunday school and there we taught, were taught 79 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:21,160 the Scriptures in the way of salvation. 80 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:24,920 We also would go along to the children's meeting on a 81 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:28,720 Wednesday night and and they had a big children's meeting, 82 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:33,360 probably would fill this hall, if not more of boys and girls 83 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:37,120 gathered in under the sound of the word of God. 84 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:41,960 Now I have to confess as a young boy, I love to pick up things 85 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:47,960 that I found in the street as a piece of cord or a piece of wire 86 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:51,400 or something like that. And one day I picked up what you 87 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:54,280 call a washer. I'm not talking about the 88 00:05:54,280 --> 00:05:57,480 dishwasher, dear. Talking about a re round piece 89 00:05:57,480 --> 00:05:59,720 of metal with a hole in the middle. 90 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:03,320 And I put it into my pocket and I never thought any more about 91 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:06,160 it. And the time came when the 92 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:10,840 children's meeting came and Mr. Phillips, who was the Sunday 93 00:06:10,840 --> 00:06:14,720 School Superintendent and also the leader of the children's 94 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:18,440 mission, he spoke with a whistle in his voice. 95 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:19,800 Did you ever meet somebody to God? 96 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:24,400 And he would say, now poison scared, sit up in your seats. 97 00:06:24,840 --> 00:06:29,000 And I used to be fascinated by Mr. Phillips and his free 98 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,920 whistle. And the time came for the 99 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:37,680 offering and of course I put my hand in my pocket and the only 100 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:42,440 thing I had was the washer, the last of the big spenders, and I 101 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:46,840 slipped it into the basket and I felt very pleased with myself. 102 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:49,520 Somebody will get a surprise when they see that. 103 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:54,120 Never did I realise the surprise was going to come my way. 104 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:59,000 And the following week Mr. Phillips came to the offering 105 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:04,760 and they held the washer up and they said no, and he whistled 106 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:08,600 his way through it. And someone put this in the 107 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:13,640 offering last week and God saw who it was. 108 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:16,680 I thought it was Kentucky Fried Chicken. 109 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:20,160 I was waiting on a lightning coming through the doors and the 110 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:23,640 windows and I was going to be judged there and then. 111 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,680 And it really shook me. And I can tell you never again 112 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:31,440 that I ever put a washer into the offering basket. 113 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:36,160 But I thank God for the Emmanuel mission because it was there 114 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:40,760 that I was to come to know Christ as my Saviour. 115 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:47,120 Now the year 1859 was the year of the great revival in Ulster 116 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:53,880 and over 100,000 souls that was estimated was swept into the 117 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:59,240 Kingdom of God by God's sovereign power and revival 118 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:04,240 blessing. And in the year 1959 was 100th 119 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:10,400 anniversary of the great revival and they invited great preachers 120 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:13,520 from all around the world to come and preach and fill the 121 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:18,000 pulpits an Ulster and to preach the word of God. 122 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:22,600 Doctor Martyn Lloyd Jones, Dr Appleman, a converted Jewish 123 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:27,360 lawyer, and Oswald Smith, another great name fellow the 124 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:31,960 pulpits throughout our province. Now in the mission hall there 125 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:36,799 was a young band, converted bandleader Johnny Bassanio, and 126 00:08:36,799 --> 00:08:41,520 he was a great trumpet player. And Johnny Bassani was asked for 127 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:44,600 they do a mission and he had never done a mission on his own 128 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:48,600 before, but he was asked for they come to the manual mission 129 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:54,760 and would he do a mission there. I have to say that it was a 130 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:59,080 breath of revival. People were flocking to get into 131 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:03,400 the meetings and to hear the word of God, and souls were 132 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:06,680 being saved. And I had no intention of going 133 00:09:06,680 --> 00:09:10,480 to the mission, even though my sister had asked me in different 134 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:14,560 times. And one night I decided I would 135 00:09:14,560 --> 00:09:19,080 go to the pitcher house and across the road and one day a 136 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:24,080 mate's house, Jim Barnes, and asked Missus Barnes, Jim in 137 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:26,120 insistently. He's gone out. 138 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:29,040 I don't know where he's gone, but he's away anyway. 139 00:09:29,680 --> 00:09:33,000 And I thought to myself, well, I don't like going to the pictures 140 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:37,320 of the cinema by myself. Then I remembered the mission 141 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:41,560 and I believe it was the sovereignty of God just brought 142 00:09:41,560 --> 00:09:44,160 it to remembrance. And I said to myself, I'll go to 143 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:46,680 the mission, I'll get a seat at the back. 144 00:09:46,680 --> 00:09:51,000 I'll be last then, and I'll be first out of the meeting. 145 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:56,240 But God had other plans for my life that night and every person 146 00:09:56,240 --> 00:10:00,280 in the meeting tonight. God has got a plan and a purpose 147 00:10:00,560 --> 00:10:04,000 for your life. And don't miss the will of God, 148 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:08,560 for the greatest tragedy that can happen to anyone is to live 149 00:10:08,560 --> 00:10:14,160 a life outside the will of God. And that night I sat in the 150 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:19,320 meeting and I was thrilled because the the boy Johnny 151 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:23,280 Bassan, who came from taxes and they had that taxes drawl, you 152 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:26,040 know the way they speak. And I thought he was just like 153 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:28,840 John Wayne. John Wayne was one of my 154 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:32,640 favourites in the movies. See, I think John Wayne and my 155 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:36,400 father won the war between them. I don't tell anybody else that, 156 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:40,440 but I, I was so taken up with John Wayne and the fascination 157 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:44,840 of this young preachers voice. And I enjoyed the playing of a 158 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:48,040 trumpet. The singing was bright, and then 159 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:53,200 he got up to preach and he preached the glorious gospel of 160 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:57,040 our Lord Jesus Christ like I'd never heard it before. 161 00:10:57,400 --> 00:10:59,960 And I knew that God so loved the world. 162 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:04,640 But that night I discovered God's love is personal, that the 163 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:09,880 Son of God loved me and gave himself for me. 164 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:13,520 And I was sitting in that meeting challenged by the Word 165 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:17,960 of God, the story of the cross and the message of the gospel. 166 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:22,160 And then the evangelist said we're going to sing a hymn. 167 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:26,240 It's one of my favourite hymns, just as I am without one plea, 168 00:11:26,680 --> 00:11:29,600 but that thy blood was shed for me. 169 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:34,640 And as they were singing that hymn, this evangelist didn't 170 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:37,160 make it easy. He said if you would like to 171 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:42,200 accept Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour, I wanted to 172 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:46,560 get out of your seat and walk to the front, confessing your need 173 00:11:46,560 --> 00:11:49,720 of Christ. And there was a war within my 174 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:53,880 heart, a real battle and a struggle as I thought on one 175 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:58,760 hand of the cross and the Christ had done for me and on the other 176 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:02,880 hand there was a devil and the pleasures of sin and there was a 177 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:07,000 battle between the two. But I thank God for overcoming 178 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:09,360 grace. And that night I walked to the 179 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:14,680 front and I was willing to confess my need of salvation and 180 00:12:14,680 --> 00:12:18,160 the wonderful thing and the lovely thing was this, that we 181 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:25,680 Mr. Phillips, who led the Sunday school work, came over to be. 182 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:29,400 He was appointed as one of the councillors and they said stand 183 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:31,920 there, come over here. And I sat down in one of the old 184 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:36,880 forms that I'd set, and Sunday school days, and he opened up 185 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:41,440 God's Word, John 3 and 16. And he put it this way. 186 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:46,240 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, 187 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:50,880 that if Stanley Barnes would believe in him, he would not 188 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:54,000 perish, but have everlasting life. 189 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:58,640 He said, Whosoever means you, put your name in and claim 190 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:02,320 Christ as your Saviour. And he prayed a very simple 191 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:07,240 prayer, and they asked me to pray that prayer as my own, and 192 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:10,960 I followed him in prayer. And that night I asked the Lord 193 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:15,400 Jesus to come into my heart and to be my Saviour. 194 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:18,160 And the Lord was true to his word. 195 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:22,680 That night the Lord came into my heart, and I was a new creature 196 00:13:22,680 --> 00:13:25,960 in Christ. All things that began to pass 197 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:29,720 away and all things began to be new. 198 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:34,920 Now the problem was I had to go back into work. 199 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:39,400 I was serving my apprenticeship and I really hear this United 200 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:45,440 Cooperative Bakery Society, UCBS sounds like a degree from 201 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:49,160 Queen's University. But it was the most one of the 202 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:52,480 biggest bakeries in Belfast. It was just at the bottom of our 203 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:58,280 street and Ravenhill Ave and I had I had the opportunity of 204 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:03,360 going and serving my time as apprentice Baker. 205 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:07,440 Now I never tell people that too often for bakers don't do too 206 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:10,200 good in the Bible. First Baker you read about in 207 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:12,840 the story of Joseph that took him out and hung them. 208 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:15,160 Now I'm sure they'll not do that tonight. 209 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:20,080 Don't see any hangman here tonight, but I had to go back 210 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:25,680 into the bakery and there confess Christ as my Saviour and 211 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:30,480 I didn't have to give up my own sea of companions once I knew I 212 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:33,760 was saved. They give me up because with 213 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:37,200 nothing in common. And I used to love to play cards 214 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:42,000 poker and I can still remember how to play it and so on and 215 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:47,080 remember break time. Used to run down to get her 216 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:51,040 break and get her mug filled with Tanner sandwiches and then 217 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:58,760 over to the card schools and we would play poker now in the 218 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:02,640 bakery. It was difficult to live for 219 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:04,600 Christ. But if you nail your colours to 220 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:08,240 the Mass, the Lord will honour you and bless you. 221 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:12,760 And I nailed my colours to the Mass that I was a Christian and 222 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:16,040 the Baker said to me, my apprentice friends and they said 223 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:19,880 you know you'll only last a week at being good 11, you'll only 224 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:21,840 last a week. You'll send the back with us 225 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:23,600 again. And then they give me a 226 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:26,240 fortnight, give me a month, Hallelujah. 227 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:30,240 They eventually gave me up all together because do you know 228 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:34,280 why? God had given me eternal life, 229 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:38,400 Life more abundant, and come that you might have life, and 230 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:42,640 that you might have it more abundantly, And I found a 231 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:46,360 greater and a happier life of being a Christian. 232 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:49,960 And I've been on both sides of the road, the good side and the 233 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:54,640 bad side of the broad road. And I can tell you Christ never 234 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:59,920 fails to satisfy and to keep. And you know, the Lord and the 235 00:15:59,920 --> 00:16:03,120 bakery taught us many wonderful lessons. 236 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:08,080 I was working along with another fellow in the machine and the 237 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:13,320 break time came and for some reason we went to the main 238 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:16,880 switch and pulled the switch down and didn't use the normal 239 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:19,600 switch that we did. And let's put the power off 240 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:23,880 completely for the machine and make him back again from a break 241 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:28,160 and push the button and there wasn't a move but forgotten 242 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:32,360 about pulling the part switched down and we sent for Jimmy Lyle. 243 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:37,360 He was the foreman and he wore a wee white coat down to here and 244 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:40,120 he could get nowhere. Looked at it and looked at it 245 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:44,440 could get nowhere. Then the sun for Harry Bale and 246 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:48,800 he was one of the higher managers and he came with his 247 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:52,760 long my coat and he looked like salmon that couldn't find out 248 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:55,280 was wrong. Then the sun for Sammy the 249 00:16:55,280 --> 00:17:00,040 mechanic and either he could fix anything with a wee sledgehammer 250 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:03,040 and a better wire, he could tie it together. 251 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:07,800 Sammy came and he was beat. I was standing there and 252 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:10,480 suddenly I looked up at the parsh, which I said, Oh my God, 253 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:15,480 but forgot to pull the parsh which and there's no power. 254 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:19,720 Nothing wrong with Jane. And you know, beloved, the Lord 255 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:23,680 taught me a big lesson there that I've kept before me all my 256 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:26,440 life. You see, they had the machinery, 257 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:30,640 but they had no power. And what needs to happen in the 258 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:35,640 Church today afresh is that we need to get connected to the 259 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:41,040 power of the Holy Spirit. Ye shall receive power after 260 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:43,680 that. The Holy Spirit has come upon 261 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:48,200 you and the Church today. Individual believers, we need to 262 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:52,720 get connected with the power of God the Holy Ghost, and that's 263 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:55,240 one of the reasons why God blessed the church. 264 00:17:55,520 --> 00:17:58,720 I believe in the early days, Doctor Douglas and another 265 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:02,720 brother, Doctor Paisley, had an all night of prayer and they 266 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:07,120 were looking to God for a mighty baptism of the Spirit of God. 267 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:11,200 And they prayed to the early hours of the morning, and then 268 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:16,320 they knew for a truth that God had filled them with the power 269 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:21,200 of the Holy Ghost, and they went forth to turn the world upside 270 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:23,680 down. And while Doctor Paisley was a 271 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:29,520 man of great talents and ability and oratory theology, yet the 272 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:33,200 secret of his power throughout the whole of his life was the 273 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:37,840 power of God, the Holy Ghost, the child of God. 274 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:41,960 God hasn't left you to struggle through the Christian life and 275 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:46,720 to live a defeated life, but you should wait till you're endued 276 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:50,960 with a power You're commanded to be filled with the Holy Spirit 277 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:56,280 and the quench not the Spirit and you quench the Holy Spirit 278 00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:58,920 by not being filled with the Spirit. 279 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:04,080 And so God taught us a wonderful lesson even there and the bakery 280 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:08,360 concerning living a Christian life and things were going well. 281 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:11,320 Ought to say this just in passing. 282 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:18,360 When it was a boy of about 10 or 11 roughly, the workmen were out 283 00:19:18,360 --> 00:19:21,080 lifting the big cobblestones. Remember the streets were 284 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:24,600 cobblestones and around our district they were lifting them 285 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:28,040 all and they were making them and the plain streets. 286 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:31,800 And I remember we were carrying on and this fella lifted when he 287 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:35,480 threw it towards my direction and I didn't get out of the road 288 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:38,280 in time. I just smacked me in the hip and 289 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:41,760 boy what a crunch, what a smack and I went down. 290 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:46,480 Little did I realise the fact that was going to have in my 291 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:50,720 life and I could hardly walk, was troubled with pain. 292 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:54,480 Cut a Long story short and you'll see the reason why I tell 293 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:57,680 you this. Cut a Long story short, my 294 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:01,080 mother took me to the doctor's and went to the Children's 295 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:04,200 Hospital. Professor Weathers and the 296 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:08,840 couldn't diagnose what was wrong and then somebody said to my 297 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:12,240 father take him to Ritchie, the football trainer. 298 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:16,320 And he's a great man of bones and works for the football 299 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:19,440 teams. And he scooted his job and my 300 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:22,320 father took me. And I can remember him carrying 301 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:27,800 me and his back from the car up into the hallway and into the 302 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:31,520 room where Richie was. And he examined me very 303 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:33,480 thoroughly. And then he wrote a little 304 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:37,240 letter and he said, give that to Professor Weathers. 305 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:40,880 And when I went back to the Children's Hospital to meet 306 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:45,280 Professor Weathers, a given father given the letter that 307 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:49,240 Ritchie had written. And he looked at it and he read 308 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:53,840 it and he examined me again. And then he did a strange thing. 309 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:57,240 He came out and there was some lady sitting in the front row of 310 00:20:57,240 --> 00:20:59,480 the seat. And he said, ladies, would you 311 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:01,120 fecate those seats and leave them? 312 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:07,240 This boy has to lie down immediately and not move and I 313 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:11,280 wondered what was happening and I laid down and not moved and it 314 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:13,560 turned out I had a chipped hip bone. 315 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:18,840 A pertheous hip disease sat in and I was being crippled with 316 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:22,960 this injury. Now I went in the hospital to 317 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:28,800 put me in plaster Paris from here right down to my toes and 318 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:32,120 boys knitting needles were down trying to scratch it and all the 319 00:21:32,120 --> 00:21:37,280 rest of it and it was very uncomfortable and I was like 320 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:41,040 that lying in the Children's Hospital and got home eventually 321 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:47,560 after several weeks. Then the had to wear first of 322 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:52,680 all had to be pushed about in a wheelchair and I hated that. 323 00:21:53,120 --> 00:21:56,840 My brothers though, fellas that would take me down to the park 324 00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:00,000 and I've been just sitting there and they've been playing Cowboys 325 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:04,160 and Indians and running like ages through the bushes and I 326 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:06,760 couldn't move. Remember one day I got so fed up 327 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:10,840 I got out of the wheelchair and I got behind it and I started to 328 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:15,240 push at home and they came up London St and some women came 329 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:18,080 over and said some you shouldn't be doing this, get into the 330 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:21,000 chair, we'll push you back home and I wouldn't do it. 331 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:25,240 Talk about thick, thickest 2 plants but not as useful. 332 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:31,160 And I got home and eventually after the wheelchair had the 333 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:36,120 worst steel calibre of my leg for a long time, limp about with 334 00:22:36,120 --> 00:22:38,560 this boot them with this calibre. 335 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:44,080 And this was to have a a bad effect on my life, not only 336 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:48,840 physically but educationally. You see, I didn't do much 337 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:52,120 schooling those days and I thought it was brilliant one 338 00:22:52,120 --> 00:22:53,880 getting old school all these days. 339 00:22:54,840 --> 00:23:00,520 But then when the Lord called me into service, I hadn't a clue. 340 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:05,560 And when the Bible sky schooler said the doctor Paisley cut a 341 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:09,960 Long story short, I feel the Lord is calling me into service 342 00:23:10,360 --> 00:23:13,280 and he says, well, you know, a lot of young people have gone to 343 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:17,160 the Wack Mystery training College in Glasgow and why don't 344 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:22,480 you try there? And so I applied and I say this 345 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:25,800 honestly before God. I prayed that they would turn me 346 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:30,560 down, actually hoped on my heart of hearts that they would turn 347 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:32,640 me down. Then I could say I was willing 348 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:34,520 to obey God, but they turned me down. 349 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:38,240 And the story, because I knew I had no education. 350 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:43,000 Then I went to over there for two years, some other fellows 351 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:46,680 from Ulster. Now, remember, we got English 352 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:52,720 classes and Miss McDonald, she's a lovely Scottish lady. 353 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:57,880 And she looked at me and said, Stanley, Mr Barnes, could you 354 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:00,440 tell us the various kinds of nouns? 355 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:03,200 You know them all by heart, don't you? 356 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:06,640 I'm going to ask tonight. You know them all by heart. 357 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:10,840 And I hadn't a clue. And I said, well, there's low 358 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:15,160 down, go down and showdown. And I thought being humorous 359 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:17,080 would Get Me Out of this situation. 360 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,760 Will you talk about a showdown? After the class? 361 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:25,200 She tore stripes in me. Ask me, did I not pray at the 362 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:29,200 beginning of the class that God would bless us and help us? 363 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:33,720 And was she wasting her time? And she really tore strips off 364 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:35,720 me. Hardly spoke to her for a week 365 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:39,480 after. But anyway, through it all I had 366 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:44,280 one prayer. Lord, nail my hand to the plough 367 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:49,480 with Calvary love the Lord help me never to turn back. 368 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:53,440 And by the grace of God, God has answered that prayer. 369 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:58,560 Then cut a Long story short again had to go into a 370 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:06,520 theological hall and when I finished Bible schooling leave 371 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:10,160 part of the Testament out there. But anyway, Doctor Paisley said 372 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:12,120 the everything of becoming the minister of the Free 373 00:25:12,120 --> 00:25:17,720 Presbyterian Church, studying for the ministry, and I toyed 374 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:22,600 with it and I said, well, I've had thought about it. 375 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:26,840 Well, I said you should apply and see what happens. 376 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:31,440 And I applied and was accepted along with Fred Greenfield, Ivan 377 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:35,760 Foster, Frank McClellan, what a bunch together. 378 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:39,120 And we were all starched. Willie McRae, We were all 379 00:25:39,120 --> 00:25:42,440 students together in the theological Hall. 380 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:47,520 And that was a a different experience because the Bible 381 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:53,440 school well was more complicated and deeper studies and theology 382 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,480 and so on in the theological hall. 383 00:25:56,840 --> 00:26:01,040 But you know the Lord and his mercy and his grace once again 384 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:03,080 helped. We were able to get through the 385 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:08,440 exams and eventually I was called, asked to be placed at 386 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:14,600 Mount Marion C2, Sandra Foreman. Sandra used to play the, I'm 387 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:20,680 going to say the mouth organ, the organ and Mt Miriam. 388 00:26:21,360 --> 00:26:24,160 It's lovely to see her and Dorothy in the meeting tonight, 389 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:31,480 but we've got through the exams and I got placed in Mt Miriam 390 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,880 and it was there that I had my Waterloo. 391 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:40,440 Like Napoleon, I spied this young girl sitting in the 392 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:42,440 meeting. She was a Sunday school teacher, 393 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:46,600 and that was Ina Keefe. And the strange thing was this 394 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:51,040 on a Tuesday, this fella said to me, another student, he says, 395 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:55,240 you know, there's a girl who goes to your church called Ina 396 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:58,320 Keefe. The thing they asked her out. 397 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:01,360 I said she wouldn't, she wouldn't be interested in you. 398 00:27:01,360 --> 00:27:05,320 Totally different person and I put the dampers on and that 399 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:09,000 Tuesday night, going home from the prayer meeting, I said then 400 00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:11,160 would you mind if I walk your home? 401 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:13,600 Oh said, not at all, just delighted. 402 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:18,240 It's not at all. And from that time on we've been 403 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:24,440 walking together and thank God for a Christian wife who stood 404 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:28,440 with us right through it all the ups and downs of the Christian 405 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:31,760 life in the ministry. And if you think the ministry is 406 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:36,840 an easy job, everybody thinks they're your boss. 407 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:40,600 I don't know fellas said to me one day, don't forget we pay £3 408 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:45,600 a week under your church. Just a nasty old piece of work 409 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:49,280 that's boiled. Felt like giving them a rebate. 410 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,960 But anyway, through all the difficulties of the work the 411 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:57,080 Lord brought us through and I couldn't look back. 412 00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:03,600 And I can say, great is thy faithfulness, Lord unto me. 413 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:10,520 And every day with Jesus is sweeter than the day before. 414 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:14,960 And I'm looking forward to that great day when Christ shall come 415 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,920 again. And Sunday school we had a 416 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,720 teacher who said, I'll give you a shelling. 417 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,040 Have you learned several verses at the beginning of John's 418 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,880 gospel? And I did it as a wee boy, not 419 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:30,080 that I wanted to learn the Scriptures, but a Bob or a 420 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:34,280 shelling in those stairs with big money there we boy and I got 421 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:36,920 the shelling. But you know when I was in the 422 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:39,960 pubs for when the dancers for fellas. 423 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:44,600 And I used to sit there and wonder and think of what would 424 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:49,240 happen if Jesus Christ came and found me in this place drinking. 425 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:53,360 And even when I went to bed at night I used to pray. 426 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:56,520 Lord, don't let me die, for I'm not saved. 427 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:02,920 But I'm so glad that situation was reversed, transfixed, and 428 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:08,480 there came a time when I came to ask Christ to be my Saviour. 429 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:14,120 And I can recommend them to you tonight as the friend that 430 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:16,880 sticketh closer than her brother. 431 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:20,480 The Christian life is not an easy life. 432 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:24,560 There's a cross to carry. But as Samuel Rutherford, the 433 00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:30,720 Old Covenanter, said, Christ is always there to carry the heavy 434 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:35,600 end of the cross. Can I just close with this? 435 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:40,200 I think there's supper tonight. Don't want it to be your 436 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:44,720 breakfast, but the Dale Moody the evangelist on one occasion 437 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:49,160 in Chicago was having one of his great gospel campaigns. 438 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:54,120 And Moody old was made a public appeal for souls that were 439 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,680 saved. And it's estimated that through 440 00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:00,320 his mentions that he saw over 1,000,000 people converted and 441 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:04,000 brought their Christ. Incredible ministry. 442 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:09,000 And one lady made an appeal and there was no response. 443 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:12,680 And they've been preaching in the words what then shall I do 444 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,520 with Jesus, which is called the Christ. 445 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:21,400 And he said again the second time, what will you do with 446 00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:23,720 Jesus, which is called the Christ? 447 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:26,800 Will you accept them? No response. 448 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:32,560 And then unusual for him, he made the appeal the third time. 449 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:36,320 And he said, what then shall I do with Jesus, which is called 450 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:38,320 the Christ? What are you going to do, you 451 00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:43,720 unsafe person? This old man stood up, a man who 452 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:48,240 had lived in sin in his face and is counted and bore the fairy 453 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:51,600 marks of sin. And he jumped to his feet and he 454 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:56,400 stepped out into the eye. And he said, Mr Moody, Mr Moody, 455 00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:01,960 I'll take Jesus home with me. I'll take Jesus home with me. 456 00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:04,640 And that night the old man got saved. 457 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:09,680 And I'm glad that night in the Emmanuel mission, like that man, 458 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,240 I said, I'll take Jesus home with me. 459 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:17,720 And the Lord has been with us every step of the journey. 460 00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:22,040 And if you put your trust in him, young or old, thank God 461 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:26,960 you'll find him. All sufficient for every trial 462 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:31,160 of life. I trust tonight, if you're here 463 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:36,480 and you're not saved, I just come and accept the Saviour. 464 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:40,320 Speak to us even on the minister of the church after the service 465 00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:44,800 and if you are see him, don't be 1/2 hearted Christian. 466 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:49,280 Be not only saved but surrendered, Be not only 467 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:55,640 converted but consecrated and take up your cross and follow 468 00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:57,800 the Saviour. Why? 469 00:31:57,800 --> 00:31:59,960 I trust the God will answer prayer. 470 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:04,040 You've been very patient tonight and thank you for coming. 471 00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:08,440 And I do trust that that simple word of testimony will be a 472 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:12,000 means of blessing to you this evening. 473 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:13,280 Thank you so much.