Well, we, we want to thank our brother and I was powerful
altogether, wasn't it? And great singing.
Good to sing of Christ, drinking at the streams of living water.
It's wonderful to be saved, isn't it?
And we're happy. Well, we should be.
And because we have Christ as our saviours.
Well, thank you very much. That's the first time I've heard
you and I was really blessed as she came there to sing the
gospel today. Thank you very much, Mr
McLaughlin, the session here and the church for inviting us along
here at this particular time and to hold the gospel ambition.
I hope you'll come back. And I know it's a bit far by
these gentlemen, but if you're around the community, come along
and invite all of us in under the sound of the gospel of the
Lord Jesus Christ. So let's work together and let's
pray together and we pray to God with touch hearts and people
will be saved. Maybe you're here tonight, the
first very night of the mission, and you're not right with God.
Well, we certainly pray that you'll come and find the Lord
Jesus as your Lord and Saviour today.
Have a great way to start the mission, wouldn't it?
The very commencement here of the mission tonight.
Now we're going to turn in God's Word to looks or John's Gospel
chapter 4, the Gospel of John and the chapter 4.
And just for time's sake, we'll just read a few verses together.
And this woman met the Lord Jesus at the well in John four
and the Lord Jesus speaking and he says to this woman, verse 24
God is a spirit, and there that worship him must worship him in
spirit and the truth the woman saith unto him, I know that
messiahs cometh, which is called Christ.
And when he has come, he will tell us all things.
Jesus says unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
Upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked
with the woman, Yet no man said, Why seekest thy, or why talk
with thy with her? The woman then left her water
pot and went her way into the city, and saith on says to the
men, Come see a man which told me all things, whatever I did.
Is not this the Christ? Then they went out of the city
and came unto him. Amen and prepare the Lord to
bless the short reading of this word to all of our hearts here
tonight. My tax is found earlier in verse
29. This woman who had met Christ.
She said come see a man was told me all things that ever I did.
Is not this the Christ. So let's pray has asked the
Lord's blessing the night. Father in Heaven, I pray as
you'll be with us around the word of God.
We thank you for the Bible. We're privileged people.
We have the word of God and our own mother tongue and we're
glad. And Lord, we are privileged to
come here tonight to preach it and to listen to it being
proclaimed. And I pray tonight as we bring
the first matches of the mission, it will be just
wonderful if I would touch hearts and I would save souls.
Lord, this is your work. We pray your work powerfully
here tonight. We pray for help to speak, we
pray our Lord for liberty, we pray the word of God.
We come with clarity to all of our hearts and glorify your
great name. I pray in Jesus name, Amen.
Come see a man. This is really simple words from
a sinful woman. When we come to the Bible,
you'll find in the matter of salvation, the Lord Jesus
Christ, He deals personally with those who are lost in sin.
You only have to read the Bible and you'll find the Lord Jesus.
He deals personally with people. Sometimes in my door to door
evangelism, I talk to people about being saved and they said
to me, that's Noel or just that's a personal thing.
Well, I look at them and I says you're right.
So it is personal, but if I'm saved or somebody knocks my
door, I and I said to me about being saved, I'll tell them that
I belong to the Lord Jesus Christ.
It is a personal thing. You find this in the Bible,
you'll find the Lord Jesus Christ and he meets with people
personally. In John chapter 3, we have
Nicodemus. He's a religious ruler and a
matter of fact, he has a religion right up to the neck.
He's full of religion. But here's the thing about
religion. Religion doesn't save.
In all the religion of the day, religion isn't saved.
You must be born again, Christ told them.
And praise the Lord, this man was saved from his self
righteousness. There are people tonight in this
community. Maybe there's some people
tonight in this, in this building and you're full of self
righteousness and you know, like this terminology that you must
repent and you must be saved and you must put your faith in the
Lord Jesus Christ. And he says, Noel, I, I've been
brought up in church. I've been going to church and
was a young man, a young boy or a young girl, whatever the case
may be. And you're full of religion.
Religion doesn't save you, you need to be saved from that.
I thank God, the Lord Jesus, our Saviour.
We think in chapter 5, a man who was saved from his weakness and
potent man left for 38 years and he could not move, he couldn't
get into the pool or anything. But thank the Lord, the Lord
Jesus Christ made him whole. Christ Jesus made them whole and
he, he was saved from his weakness.
There are people, there are people tonight and there are
held in the very bondage of sin and they just cannot get up.
They cannot release themselves. But we're glad to come to this
community and to be able to preach the people.
There's one who can set you free, the Lord Jesus Christ.
He can save you. You feel weak tonight in your
sin. Christ can do it.
What about the man, Chapter 9 blindness, This man who was
blind man, There's a lot of people blind today.
Many people have different views about Christ, about God, about
the way of salvation. But the Lord Jesus told him go
wash and to pull us alone, which by interpretation sent.
And he went his way therefore and washed and came seeing.
What a wonderful, what a wonderful day it was when the
Lord Jesus Christ shaped him from his blindness and he opened
up his eyes and he looked in the lovely face of the Lord Jesus
Christ. The Lord can see a few tonight
from your blindness, your darkness, your sin tonight in
this meeting, chapter 8, the woman see it from her
wickedness. Woman taken in adultery.
And yet the Lord Jesus Christ says go and sin no more.
And here's another woman, see it from her wickedness, because she
was a great Sinner, an awful Sinner, but she met the Lord
Jesus Christ this day in an unusual place, not in a church,
not in the temple, not in a synagogue, but she met the Lord
Jesus Christ, all a whale, and she met the Lord Jesus Christ.
I want you to see tonight what a wonderful day it was.
Her life was never, never the same again.
And she was saved by the grace of God.
And what a change, what a change comes into your heart, comes
into your life when you find the Lord Jesus Christ as your Lord
and Saviour. And this woman who found Christ,
she runs, she runs into the city of Samaria and she gives a
wonderful invitation to the people in the city and she's
calling out. Come and see a man.
Come and see a man was told me all things that ever I did.
Is not this the Christ? Do you see her in the streets
here of Samaria? Come and see a man all I want to
say tonight he couldn't start the mission really in any better
way and come and see a man and that's really what I want to
commence our gospel campaign here tonight and this meeting.
Come and see a man which told me all things ever I did.
Is not this the Christ? And I want us to think tonight
and you see here very simply the call that was made.
The call that was made. Now a simple call and you listen
to the words here that that that fall from the lips here of this
woman come and see a man. She uses she uses a word that
even the youngest person could understand.
You didn't have to get a dictionary or you didn't.
There's no Google in those days and type in.
Could you tell me what does this word mean?
Come, no. This was simple terminology and
theology to the people. A simple call.
A call that everyone could understand.
Even the most ignorant person in the city of Saint Mary could
understand. Come to Jesus and that's the
call. And rabbit is in chapter 6, and
I take time to look at it, but you're right about opening their
seals. And after the seal was opened,
he said come and see. And then there's mysterious,
there's horses, there's white horses, there's red horses,
there's black horses. And you can read all of those
things like people have different interpretations,
granted, but you can read that and a number of times it says
come and see, come and see, come and see.
Well, hold on a minute. Here's something really simple.
Come and see a man come to Jesus, tell Lord Jesus Christ
and remarkable. He used simple language to the
people. There's nothing complicated in
the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Remember he said in Matthew 11 verse 28, come on to me, all ye
that labour and have a laden and I give you rest.
Do you hear the call of the Son of God calling you?
Come on to me, just come to him, just come to the way you are
turning from your sin and come and trust them.
Remember the parables. Luke 14, verse 17.
Come for all things are now ready.
The prophet Isaiah in chapter 1, verse 18.
Come thou and letters reason together, saith the Lord.
Though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as though
there be red like Crimson, they shall be as wool and be come to
the Bible and you'll find gospel preachers you'll find others
calling out. Come come to Jesus Christ.
Here's a simple here's a simple call.
Come and see a man. I want you to know that tonight
it's not a call to any church. We didn't knock the doors and
carried off the call people to the church and more than welcome
to the church. That's no problem that they
should our calm down The creeds and creeds are important.
We had to sell that what we believe has to be put down and
may we keep to them, but come to Jesus.
That's it. Tonight.
Are you in your sin tonight and lost, heading towards the lost
hell. Come to Jesus Christ.
The calls coming out. You see this lady, they see her
running into the streets here of Samaria.
Come to cry. This is the purpose.
This is the purpose of this mission.
Come and see a man. We want you to come to Christ.
That's it. And we pray that the prayer
meeting, the very commencement here tonight, wouldn't it be
wonderful in this meeting tonight that somebody got saved
the first night of omission, not the last meeting.
Sometimes we think that would be the last week and we'll bring in
the Nats and be we move on somewhere else.
But in the very first night of omission, wouldn't it be
tremendous if someone came to Christ?
I've only found this once in my ministry doing omission.
On the first day of the omission.
I remember a fellow, a man and he came to Jesus Christ the
first day of the omission. But if you're not saved the
night, come to Christ, a simple call, a special call because
notice here, this call was to see no ordinary man.
This was to see the man Christ Jesus.
Now I want to say this, a prominent man, he's the greatest
man who ever lived the Lord Jesus.
There's no one like it. And there's estimated that up to
this day and age that 60 billion people have lived upon the
earth, majority have died, unknown yet.
I say to you tonight, and I say it on a shameful day tonight,
there's one person dominates humanity.
Who's that? The Lord Jesus Christ.
He is Lord of Lords, the King of kings.
He's number one. He's a prominent man.
Someone said this. We have no record of the date of
his birth, yet the world's chronology is linked to it.
He never wrote a book, yet millions of books have been
written about him. He never raised an army, yet
millions have laid down their lives for his 'cause he had no
formal education, but thousands of universities have been raised
in his name. His public ministry was
restricted to 1 little country, yet his message, it's proclaimed
all over the world. There's none like him.
And this woman, this woman, she says here's a unique call,
here's a very special call. Come and see a man, the Lord
Jesus Christ and there's none. There's none like the Lord Jesus
Christ. I want to say that to you
tonight. He's number one.
He's number one, He's the greatest and I said, and I'm
sure as many people tonight could get in behind me.
I agree with you. I agree he's number one.
He's a prominent man. He's a great man.
He's the greatest man who ever lived.
There's no doubt about that. He's a divine man as well, of
course, because you'll find a number of times you'll find him
referred to. Remember John said in John one
verse 34, I saw him by a record that this is the Son of God.
See, I think he, he is God, yet he became man, the deity of the
Lord Jesus Christ, the humanity of the Lord Jesus Christ.
He's a divine mother. I say to you, he's a special
man. He's a unique man.
I said to you, there's none like him.
He's a God man. And she's calling out to this
people. I want you to come.
I want you to meet with them. He's a loving man.
He is a loving man and because here in this particular chapter,
the Lord Jesus Christ when he was speaking to her in verse 7,
he says give me to drink. And in verse 8, the woman says
to her, she says, how is it that I being a Jew asked to drink of
me, which I'm a woman of Saint Mary for the Jews have no
dealings with the Saint Martins. There was a there was a division
the Jews and the Saint Martins did not get on at all.
And she could not understand how this man who was speaking to
her, who was Christ, he was speaking to her in love, how he
had anything to do with her. But you know, he's a loving man.
There's no one as loving as the Lord Jesus.
The member says in the Luke's Gospel, chapter 15, verse 2.
This man, this man, this man was, he was, he was sinners.
He's a loving man. He loves us.
He left heaven. He came down into this world and
he went to the cross and he planned and died upon the cross
to save us in love and in love and mercy.
He came down from heaven and made that 11 sacrifice for sin
forever. Why did he do?
Of course, to put away our sin, of course to save us.
But hold on a minute, because He loved us, there's no love like a
love of the Lord Jesus. I never forget the day I came
face to face. I was told that Jesus loved me.
I'm yet to be boys and girls. I was doing a meeting there this
morning and, and, and lurking and they were saying yes, Jesus
loves me. Do you know that tonight in this
meeting? Do you know he's a loving man?
He doesn't love your sin. No, no, but he loves you.
He he's a, he's a, a loving man. And I, I say that there's on
this loving of the Lord Jesus, a Song of Solomon.
It says his mouth is most sweet. Yeah, he is all together lovely.
He's all together lovely. You can read there in chapter 5,
the Song of Solomon and it comes to the end.
He's all together lovely. And you know, here's the very
sad thing about it. Islam has says he's all together
lovely. Speaking here of Muhammad.
That's what they've said. Maybe I've never done, but you
can check that out. And there's a Hebrew word, Mr Mr
McLaughlin, He's a Hebrew scholar over here.
But there's a sort of similarities in the word.
But it's nothing to do with Muhammad.
And they have actually said there's Muhammad in the Bible.
He's all together lovely. Well, I hope there's nobody here
tonight says my Muhammad. He's all together lovely.
Not a bit of it. It's Christ.
He's all together lovely. He's a loving man.
He's a holy man. There's none his equal.
He is without sin. He never sinned in Word of
thought and teeth. These words cannot be said of
me. They cannot be said of you.
We have all sinned and come short of the glory of God.
Everyone in this meeting, everyone outside this meeting
has sinned against God and broken his laws.
But the Lord Jesus, a holy man who the Bible says Hebrews 7
verse 26 for such a high priest became us who was holy,
harmless, undefiled, suffer from sinners, and made higher than
the heavens. He's holy.
There's nothing like him. Muhammad was not holy as an evil
man. I had 9 wives and all the rest
of him. You can check it out in history
for yourself. Not speaking about him and
speaking about Christ. There's none like the Lord Jesus
Christ. He's Lord of Lords, he's king of
kings, He's divine, he's loving. Come and see him come be faith
and see Christ and that's really a call that was made and that's
the call of this mission to you to come to come and see him.
It's a single call as well. Notice here in verse 29.
She came come and see a man who's told me all things ever I
did you see in this passage here.
This was message came to this people and perhaps so many
people here for the first time, for the first time coming in
here to the community and the call come, come to see Jesus
Christ. I want to tell you, are we
province Northern Ireland? We love it.
We love our land. I love it.
You love it. I hope you do.
People's all need to get out of here and get to Australia.
Stay where we are. This is the best land in the
world, OK? And the Australians here
anywhere, remember I'm not offending anybody.
It's the best land. You know why the Gospel, the
gospel as Peach ain't no missions going through our land
here today and other places and the gospel is being preached and
the cry is going out and the invitations given out to people
to come to the Lord Jesus Christ.
And there are people there are people in our province and they
have sat through numerous missions.
I have done a mission. I I see a man one time the other
night and he sat through mission after mission after mission
after mission after mission. And as far as I know, he's not
saved. But here's people called just
the ones who are called to Christ.
Maybe you're here tonight. This is not their first mission.
You remember missions here before Mr McLaughlin and others
have done them here in this humility.
They've heard calls, invitations, come to Jesus
Christ, repent and believe the gospel and you're not saved.
These people already heard this. It tells us that the Joyce Will
project there's 2.87 billion people in the world.
Notice, I've never heard the gospel, never heard the gospel.
I cannot be said in this wee land.
My privacy. There's tracks given out,
there's doors been knocked, there's invitations been given
out, there's open errors behind in the street.
There are gospel texts all throughout our province and
there are people and they've never heard, never heard about
Christ. But you have, you've heard many
times. People have never heard about
His love, His death, his resurrection, His glory.
Come and see a man. And I want you to see as you
think about this. I want you to see as you with
all my heart and I certainly it's calms the heart is right.
We want you to be saved. We want you to to have
forgiveness of sins and and find a rest in Christ and eternal
life. So there was a call that was
made. This is what the mission's all
about Christ will be preached here in this mission.
Come and see a man come to Jesus Christ.
I want to think secondly here about the the Christ that was
mentioned because he says here also he said to come and see a
man who has told me all things, whatever I did, is not this the
Christ. So there was Christ that was
mentioned here because she confessed about the perception
of Christ. You know what she says about him
here? He's all known, which told me
all things ever I did. She said this.
Did you see this man? He knew everything about me, He
knows everything about mine and that's that's what we find here
in verse 18. Remember Lord Jesus Christ said
in verse 16, go call thy husband, go and get him come
thither. And the woman says, well you
know I have no husband. And Christ says I as well said,
I have no husband. For thy has had five husbands,
and he whom thy has is not thy husband.
What they say is truly, oh Lord Jesus Christ told her, hold on,
you've had five husbands and you see the man's with you now, he's
not your husband. But she was really stuck with
this, touched with this. He knew all about her and she
confessed this was told me all things whatsoever I have done.
He told me everything I did and the perception of the Lord Jesus
Christ and her sin was led before and she freely confesses
that the Lord Jesus knew all about her sin.
Remember Job said Job 10 verse 14.
If I sin then thy Markus me and then what?
Thy not not acquit me from mine. And like me, those 3 words, if I
sin, then thy Markus me. Now I want to tell you here
tonight on see a person that's meeting you may be hiding your
sins, you may be denying your sin, you may have forgotten your
sin, but the Lord knows all about them and it's all about
your sin. You can hide sins from people,
husband can hide sins from their wife and vice versa, from their
mums, from dads, whatever the case may be.
But I want you, I want you to see tonight Christ knows and it
was everything about you. In Psalm 69 verse five, he said,
oh God, thy knowest my foolishness and my sins are not
hid from me. They hear them, they hear them
lamented to hear them cry before God.
He says I knowest my foolishness and my sins.
They're not hid from me. He knew everything about them.
And Christ knows everything about your sin.
He knows all about it, how you sinned, when you sinned, where
you sinned, the perception of Christ.
And she also confessed about the person of Christ.
It's not this, the Messiah, the promised Messiah.
I've found him. In other words, she's saying
here, he's given me living water, He's standard, He's come.
It's not this the Christ. And she talked about the Lord
Jesus Christ. I know that Messiah's cometh.
The Lord says, oh, I am he, I am he, I am the Messiah.
And she's confessing here and she's confessing about the
person of the Lord Jesus Christ. I've found him, I've found him
the Messiahs, I find Christ. Now the old religious Jews did
not believe that you only have to read the Bible and you'll
find how they attack the Lord Jesus Christ.
Think for instance, they said to me, Mark 14 verse 61.
They said of him, art thou the Christ, the Son of the blessed.
They never doubt that are you, are you the Messiah?
Of course, of course He's the Messiah.
And so here that she was confessing who Christ was the
person. Do you remember they came Andrew
name came and said to the Lord Jesus or came to came his
brother Andrew. We have found the Messiahs.
We've found another wonderful thing.
We've found them. I'm asking you here tonight if
you found them, have you found Christ to be your Saviour?
We have found them. I can't stand till later.
Call them by preaching tomorrow. We'll find them.
We'll find the Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiahs, and she's
confessing this, confessing here about the person of the Lord
Jesus Christ. We do.
We're glad tonight we can say who he is.
He knows all about you. He knows all about your feelers,
all about your sin. Tonight in this meeting, He sees
right down into your heart. You cannot hide it.
You can hide it from other people, but you cannot hide your
sin from Christ. And this was what the confession
here she made about Christ. And I want to speak last to hear
about the conversion of the multitude, because come and see.
A man was told me all things ever I did.
Is not this the Christ? Look at 1st 30.
Then they went out of a city and came on to him.
Do you see this? These men heard, they heard,
they heard the words of this sinful woman who had found the
Lord Jesus Christ. Then they came out of a city.
Notice here there's separation. They came out.
They come out of a city. They left their sin, they left
their all. They left their all, and they
came to the Lord Jesus Christ. I want to say to you tonight and
in this meeting, if you're ever going to be saved, you must come
out. You must come out of your sin.
I'll not be preaching. You'll get to heaven and
drinking in the bars and clubs and pubs and everything that
goes for that lifestyle in one hand and the Bible in the other
hand. Repent and believe the gospel.
It's one or the other, it's the other.
It's Christ or sin. You can't have both of them and,
and you have to you have to break from your sins.
You have to break from yourself righteousness.
You have to break from your fear.
You've got to come to Christ. Listen to these words of the
Lord Jesus Christ and Luke 13 verse 5 accept you repent.
You said, oh, likewise perish. And he's talking to these people
and he says if you don't, if you don't repent, if you don't turn
around from your sin, you'll perish.
But anyone on this meeting here tonight wants to perish.
I hope you say no, I don't. Of course you don't want to
perish. You don't want to go to hell.
Who wants to go to hell? Be punished for your sin, where
our sin will take you? Repent, you must repent, you
must turn from your sin and you must come to Jesus Christ.
And they came out and they went out of the side.
I thank the Lord that I went out of the pubs.
I went out of the pubs, I left at all and I came as a Sinner to
the Lord Jesus Christ. So happy glorious day that is.
And then there was our separation and then there was
our faith because notice here in verse 39, it says here and many
of Saint Martins of thus that he notice believed on him.
And then when we get down to verse 41 and many more believe
because of his own word, they see here they're believing and
they're believing in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Remember there the words of Paul and Silas to the Philippian
Taylor. He cried out what must I do to
be saved? The masses was very clear to
him. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ
and I shall be saved. Do you want to be saved?
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
You're saved by faith. And that's a great doctrine of
the Bible that just shall live by faith alone.
I want to emphasise that because I meet people and, and, and
outreach work and I talked about the way of salvation.
And here it's Christ plus it's Christ plus what they do, their
works, their love, their cure. But I want to tell you here
tonight, it's Christ only. And these people believed.
They believed the Lord Jesus Christ.
If you're ever going to be saved, believe in him, trust
him. Would you trust him?
Would you trust him with all of your heart tonight, Lord save
me, forgive me my sin, give me everlasting life.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ that I shall perceive there's
people coming out to heard this message while they're out
they'll come with the Christ. They're put in their faith and
the Son of God and then their profession as well.
And it says in verse 42 and said on the woman.
Now we believe not because of thy saying, for we have heard
him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ.
Notice the Saviour of the world, and not a wonderful profession.
Now what's in you? Now, of course, where message
help them. But now we've heard him, we've
heard him ourselves, we believe in him, we believe this.
He's a Saviour of the world. He is the Saviour.
There's no other safety and we're trusting them and many
believed in them and they turned to him and each one turned
personally. And I see here he's a saviour.
It's not, it's not a church, it's not works and it's none but
Christ can save you. And I'm saying to you tonight,
would you believe in them? Would you leave your sin?
Would you trust them? And you'll be able to leave here
saying, I know he's a saviour of the world and you're allowed to
save the night. Child of God, I trust you're
rejoice unto the Lord. And if you're not come to the
Lord Jesus Christ. Come and see a man come to come
the way you are tonight. Come in all your fears, come to
Christ, fall at his feet. Repent from your sin.
Lord Jesus, I'm asking you, I'm asking you to save me.
I'm asking you to forgive me. And he will save you.
He'll accept these people, come out to them.
The sinful woman, look at her lifestyle.
Look at her lifestyle, full of wickedness and full of sin.
She came to Christ, notice, notice what we read here in the
passage. He took her in.
Not wonderful. There's no one as loving as
Christ, as merciful as the Lord Jesus.
Would you come to him tonight? Would you be saved?
We're not here. We can't price raise.
We don't price raise anybody. We're here.
Mr Whitlock was here but call 9 myself.
Have a wee chat with us after the meeting.
The more important I I say this. More importantly, have a chat
with the Lord. You talk to the Lord about this.
But we're here to help. If you need help.
You can be safe tonight. You can be forgiven tonight.
Not wonderful. You can give everlasting life
tonight. The answer is free, salvation
free. Come and see him come to Christ.
He's aware the truth and the life.
And so we're here to tell you here tonight.
I hope the Lord have blessed that first message to your heart
tonight. And you will come and you'll go
home and you'll tell people. I saw Christ by faith.
I saw him, I came to Him, and he saved me and he gave me
everlasted life. May the Lord write His word upon
our hearts tonight. Amen.