Salvation is found through faith in Jesus Christ, not through adherence to the law or self-righteousness, as explained in Romans 10. This passage contrasts the desire for righteousness through works with the righteousness that comes by believing in Christ's resurrection and confessing Him as Lord. Faith is a response to hearing the Gospel, and the call is to personally accept Christ's invitation to find rest and life. Responding to God's call immediately is crucial, as procrastination carries eternal consequences.
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The glory to the army of Campbell. From the yest and crockline, from feeling the spine. Of glory to the body of Campbell. The elder, love, the dear. And the king, the king, the king, went on. On the throne of the king's head, to a woman's head. and I told him, your brother and father. He was angry and we were not flowing. But the father came out there to hear me and said, don't be sad, we'll carry it left.
When God told me to say, Oh, glory to God, come home. But glory to God is ample From distance from Christ, from the English wife Of glory to God is ample to the Lord. Now if there's a prodigal ear, Now if there's a prodigal ear Come now to our Father for me.
The incredibly fortunate, I'll take you to it. With him you'll have nothing to feel. And the better, the better, the better. And the world for the time of the marching. And you'll be so blessed, they say you'll confess. You call the minister when you sing. Oh, glory to God, I've come home. Oh, glory to God, I've come home. From guilt and from pain, from pain, from glory to God, I've come home.
But now we've come to the last night of these brief series of meetings together. It's been delightful to have been with you to minister the truth of God and to exalt the person of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. It's been very nice to meet with you Christian people here.
The fellowship has been good. I want to thank also my host and hostess, Mr. and Mrs. Joe. for the lovely fellowship we've had together in that home. That kindness and the warmth of the welcome has been wonderful. And now for this evening I have been exercised before God as to what we shall consider this evening together and I cannot get away from making an appeal in this service this evening to those who are amongst us who perhaps have never known the Lord Jesus Christ as their own personal all
we like sheep had gone astray and turned every one to his own way and the lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all maybe you've never come back maybe you've never responded to the call of christ the call of the good shepherd. Maybe you'll respond tonight. We're hoping and praying that you will. Now let us read together for our reading in the tenth chapter of the Crystal to the Romans.
The tenth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans. That in my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they be ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, that the man which doeth those things shall live by them. But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise. Say not in thine heart who shall ascend into heaven? That is to bring Christ down from heaven? Or who shall descend into the deep? That is to bring up Christ again from the dead? But what says it? The word is mighty, even in thy mouth and in thy heart. That is the word of faith which we preach.
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in thine heart, that God hath raised him from the dead. Thou shalt be saved. For with a heart men believeth unto righteousness, and with a mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture says, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek. For the same Lord, overall... is richer to all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach except they be sent? as it is written, how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things. But as they have not all obeyed the gospel, for as I have said, Lord, who hath believed our report?
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God, But I say, have they not all heard? Yes, there it is. Their sound went into all the earth and their words until the ends of the world. But I say, did not Israel know? First Moses says, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people. and by a foolish nation I will anger you. But his ass is very bold, and says, I was found of them that sought me not.
I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me, but to Israel, he says, all day long have I stretched forth my hands to a disobedient and gain sane people. Now there are three passages that I want to read again into the Gospel of Matthew chapter eleven. The eleventh chapter of the Gospel of Matthew, and verse twenty-eight.
Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon your lamb of me, for I am weak and lonely in heart, and he shall find rest unto your souls, for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. As we turn to the next scripture, will you keep those words in mind? Come unto me. The Gospel of John, chapter five. The fifth chapter of John, gospel.
and verse thirty nine read in from the revised version verse thirty nine of the fifth chapter of John ye search the scriptures for in them ye think ye have eternal life and there are they which testify of me and you will not come to me that ye might have life ye will not come to be that ye might have life and now into the eighth chapter and into the twenty-first verse chapter eight verse twenty-one then said Jesus
again unto them I go my way and you shall seek me and shall die in your sins whether I go ye cannot come in verse twenty-four I said therefore unto you that he shall die in your sins. For if ye believe not that I am he, he shall die in your sins. I want this evening to link those three passages together.
The first in the Gospel of Matthew chapter eleven and verse twenty eight come unto me and then from the fifth chapter of John and verse thirty nine ye will not come unto me and then in the eighth chapter ye cannot come in the first you have the invitation come unto me. In the second you have the accusation you will not come unto me.
And in the third you have the condemnation ye cannot come. And so I make this appeal tonight to anyone in this audience you're not sure that you belong to Christ you're not sure that your sins are forgiven you're not sure that your names are written in the land book of life we pray that before this service is over you will be able to say I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto his hand against that day.
And so we come to the first word, and come unto me, and I will give you rest. That's a wonderful word. I will give you rest. Come unto me, all ye that labor, and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. He'll give you rest of mind. And that's worth something today. In this wonderful country that you're living in, there are over eleven million mentally ill people in your midst.
Jesus can give rest to the he can give rest to the heart he can give rest to an accusing conscience and he's the only one that can do it who else could have uttered these words and expect people to believe him no one else could have uttered these words in truth by the man Christ Jesus.
Come, he said unto me. It's an invitation to a person, not to a religion, not to a sect, not to a church, not to a denomination but to one person come unto me he said christianity is christ come unto me and i will give you rest the first come in the bible is recorded in the book of genesis Chapter seven and verse one.
It's a personal call. Come down. It was a call to Abraham, to Noah. And it was imperative that he should respond to the call for judgment was imminent. And God said to Noah, come down. Come into the ark. It was a personal call. And he responded. He came. And all his family.
Noah came. Mrs. Noah came. And the children came. I wonder, are there any fathers or mothers here this evening. And you've never come to Christ. You've never responded to the call of the gospel. Maybe if you come, your children will come. Why not give your children a chance? You come yourself. Maybe they will come too.
This would solve, and I don't know of anything else that would solve it, this would solve the juvenile delinquency problem that you have in this country and that we have in the old country too. What do we need? More Christian homes, more Christian families, and the appeal to you tonight is, come down. a personal call, not the one next to you, not the one that's sitting in front of you or behind you. You, personally here in this congregation this evening, God is calling you, come down.
Will you come? Jesus now is calling you, calling you to come. Take another call in the book of Isaiah, chapter one and verse eighteen. Come now. Let us reason together, said the Lord. Though your sins be as scarlet, They shall be as white as snow, though to be rich like crimson. They shall be as wool.
The emphasis there is, rich like crimson, sins of the deepest eye, the fairest of all things. They shall be as white as snow. And there are sins to be accounted for, sins of youth, sins of middle age, sins of old age, secret sins, open sins, private sins, public sins.
And God is saying to you, come now. Let us reason together. Let us talk this thing out. Let us reason together, said the Lord. Though your sins be discarded. They shall be as white as snow. But if you read like Quibson, then you shall be as woe. Will you come? Will you come now? Be at this service this evening. Wighten the seat where you sit in just now.
There is a story... in the book of the Exodus, that when God was bringing his people out from the land of Egypt, there was an enemy that opposed this emancipation of his people from Egypt. Pharaoh and his host everything possible to hold those people in Egypt. And God had to be pressure to bear upon them.
Plague after plague. And one of those plagues was the plague of frogs. Frogs everywhere. Frogs in everything. It was a most disturbing state of affairs. And the king fell, sent for Moses. And he asked Moses to pray that God would take away the frogs. And Moses said to him, When shall I pray?
Do you know the answer? It's an amazing answer. It's an unexpected answer. It isn't the answer that you would expect. Moses said, when shall I pray? And Pharaoh said, tomorrow. Tomorrow. What would you have said? You would have said, Get on your knees now. Well, Moses, get on your knees now. Wipe in my presence. Pray this very moment.
Let's get rid of the thing now. But he didn't. He didn't. And yet, you know, you're doing exactly and precisely the same thing. that Pharaoh did. The plague of sin is far more dangerous, far more devastating in its terror and consequences than ever the plague of frogs. And God is calling you now to the place and to the point where you can have this matter settled Even now, the single Christian can't be settled.
And you're saying, tomorrow, God says, now, tomorrow's son may never rise to bless thy long deluded eyes. This is the time. Oh, then be wise, thou wilt be saved. Why not tonight? Today, if he hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
There'll never be a better time for you. than now. Never. Now let us look at the second scripture. First the invitation, come unto me. Second, the accusation. You will not come unto me. And I read that word again. Ye such the scriptures. and they are they which testify of me, and ye will not come to me that ye might have life."
These are religious people. These are people that have the scriptures in their hands. Bible readings. But the teaching is plain. It is not familiarity with the scriptures that will give you eternal life. It is becoming acquainted with a blessed son of God who is the theme of the scriptures.
Have you trusted in the Savior of whom these prophets wrote about? It is a pitiable thing to pretend to honor the Bible while rejecting the Christ of the Bible. And there are many people doing that today. In this great city, people who are familiar with the scriptures, who have the very book in their hands, who know nothing about conversion, who know nothing about regeneration, who have never been linked with the Christ of Calvary.
who never have received the gift of eternal life. Isn't it sad? People who have the Bible in their hands. And if you, my friend, if you were lost at the last, it will be because you will not come. He searched the scriptures, and they are there which testify of me, and you will not come to me that he might have life.
The written word of God was given to us to lead us to the living Son of God. Have you come yet? There are five witnesses in this very chapter that should convict us that God has sent a Savior into the world. You have the witness of the Lord Jesus Himself, His very coming into this world.
His very presence in this world is a witness. Then secondly, you have the witness of John the Baptist that our Savior brings as a witness in this very tent. The witness of John the Baptist. What did he say when he saw the Savior? Behold the Lamb of God. that beareth away the sins of the world. And then you have the works of the Savior as a witness, as recorded in this chapter.
The very works, he said, that I do. Then he testified of me. There are works that none of a man could have done. Is that not a witness? Does that not testify? And then you have the witness of his father in heaven, he tells us. God in heaven is a witness for you. For three times during the ministry, of our Lord Jesus Christ here upon earth, the very heavens were opened three times, and God his Father fixed from heaven.
First it was on the banks of the Jordan. The heavens were opened, and God looks down upon his beloved son with these words. This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased, and the second time on the Mount of the Transfiguration. This is my beloved Son. Hear! Hear! What a voice from heaven was. Listen to him, God says.
Hear him. And in the third time, in the twelfth chapter of John, where the Lord Jesus himself looked up to heaven and said, Father, glorify thy name. And a voice was heard from him. I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. the witness of the Father from the very heavens.
And then the fifth is the witness that we've been reading together, the witness of the Scriptures. You search the Scriptures. There they which testify of me. What an amazing testimony you have in your hand. What in this very meeting tonight? The very book in your hands. Glory gives the sacred page. It's majestic, not the sun. It gives a light to every age. It gives the gods none.
There they which testify of me. And now the Savior said a very significant thing. If another shall come in his own name, him will he receive. Now who is this other? The Antichrist. The first. the willful king that is recorded in the eleventh chapter of the book of Daniel.
The idle shepherd of the book of Zechariah, the false prophet of the book of the Revelation, the lawless one of two Thessalonians two. A sinister fitter yet to arise in this world. Men and women who will not have Christ will bow down to the Antichrist. It is a very serious thing to reject Think not, said the Savior, that I will accuse you to the Father.
Don't think that is. No, no. I will never accuse you to the Father. There is one, he said, that accuses you in Moses. Had you believed Moses, you would believe me. for he roped on me. And yet they would not come. He searched the scriptures, but you will not come.
And finally, in the eighth chapter of John, you will not come. This is the condemnation. If ye believe not, we read, that I am he, you will die in your sins. This is an unpardonable sin. This is the final answer to a profound and solemn question, is there a second chance after death?
And that word this evening defuses every ray of hope for the one who dies an unbelief. Let's clear the ground completely. If you die in your sins, the master said, Never you cannot come. There are two ways of dying. Listen to these lovely words. Bless him.
Are the dead which die in the Lord. They rest from their labors. And their works do follow them. Their works never saved them. It was the work of Canvary that saved them. But as believers here on earth, everything that is done in the name of the master is never lost. and never will be lost. Their works do follow them.
Millions have died thus, and what a wonderful death it is. Absent from the body, present with the Lord. Forever with the Lord. Amen. So let it be. But here is an awful contrast. I repeat again, if he believe not that I am he, he shall die in your sins. Whether I go, ye cannot come.
If you die in unbelief, if you die in unbeliever, not even God in heaven, could help you. You cannot. So this book teaches. And it was the Lord himself who uttered these words. These shall go away into everlasting punishment. But the righteous and through life eternal. To die without Christ, hast thou counter the cost?
To die without hope and thy soul to be lost? You can die in loneliness with over two hundred millions of people in the state. And yet you can die in complete loneliness. You can die in pain. In spite of modern medical science, you can die in pain. And you can die in poverty.
in spite of the fact that you're the richest country in the world, you can die in poverty even in the United States and step up, go to heaven. But if you die without Christ, you're doomed. Your doom is sealed if you die without Christ. I would rather die in the remotest part of Central Africa, never having heard mention of the name of Jesus, than die from the United States of America, the land of the gospel, and to die without Christ.
For without Christ it is to be without hope. Most of you have seen that delightful little picture Christ standing and knocking at the door. He has a lantern in his one hand and is knocking at the door with the other hand. A most famous picture by a famous artist, Holman Hunt. There's a delightful story of a man who brought one of these pictures home.
and put it up on the wall. And his little daughter was fascinated with the picture. And she said to her daddy, daddy, what is he doing? He said, he's knocking at the door. And then she said, why don't they open the door? Why don't they open the door? Now, friend, in this audience this evening, he's knocking at the door.
Why don't you open the door? Are you going to do it now? These are the closing moments of this meeting. Are you going to open the door? do it now, tomorrow may be too late. This is the most wonderful opportunity that you'll ever have in your life. I cannot believe that people can be saved just when they like. But I do believe that if God is talking to you tonight, if the Spirit of God is laying hold of you tonight in this congregation, I do believe that he can save you now.
He can do it now. Just say to him, Lord Jesus Christ, I am a poor sinner. You are going to be my Savior tonight. I will open the door just now and let you come into my heart and into my life. Will you do that now? God help you to do it. Let us pray. Oh God, our Father in heaven, we've come to the closing moments and the solemn moments.
We're very close to eternity in this service tonight. And we're very close to heaven. Only a step. We pray, O God, that every one of us in this congregation this evening may take that step. God forbid that we should come right up to the threshold and never step inside the door. Oh God, deal with all of us just now.
Speak to all our hearts. May there be a response to thee now. responding to the appeal of the gospel. Jesus, I will trust thee. Trust thee with my soul. Gift thee, vile, and fruitless. Thou canst make me whole. Blessed be thy name. We believe, O God, this can be done. right here and now. May it be so, thou shalt of all the praise and the glory in the name of our Savior, who died on Calvary to redeem us the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus.
Now I'd like to say, anyone I can help Just now, before you leave this congregation, I'd be delighted to help you. If I can point you to Christ, oh, what a joy it'll be for me. You stay behind. Please.