I have found a lovely star that shines on high. Jesus' bright and morning star to me. In the night of sorrow he is ever nigh. He drives the dark and shadows away. Jesus, rock of ages, let me hide in thee. Jesus, rose of Sharon, sweet thou art to me. Lily of the valley, bright and morning star, fairest of ten thousand to my soul. Thank you very much. I say I can see we're quality tonight and not quantity. Thank you for coming anyway. I was given to understand after the morning service that it's your custom of the Lord's Day evening to have a ministry meeting, not a gospel service. Well, you're going to have a change tonight. Ever since the morning gathering, A little phrase has been running through my mind, a phrase that was used this morning, and sitting down, they watched in there. It's some forty-two years since first I stepped out to serve the Lord. You can see I'm no longer a boy. And over the course of those years, I expect I've considered this text with men and women in many, many different lands. And yet I haven't been able to get away from it today. And I've had to turn back to it. And I'd like to read, if I may, please, those lovely verses in Matthew twenty-seven. Matthew twenty-seven, if we may, please. What a story it is. It's the center of the Christian faith. And as we think of it, oh, may the Lord speak to every one of our hearts. And if by chance there's someone here tonight and you've never trusted the Lord, tonight's the night of your opportunity. And if you have trusted him, brethren, isn't it good to get back to square one and see where it all began? Matthew chapter twenty seven, if we may, please. And we will commence reading in the first in the first verse. Matthew chapter twenty seven and verse one. Do you know it's jumped at him a Bible? It never happens like that with you, does it? Ah, there we are. Matthew twenty seven and verse one. When the morning was come and the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death, and when they had bound him, they led him away and delivered him to Pontius Pilate. Further down in that same chapter, please, verse twenty-two, and Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus, which is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified. And the governor said, Why, what evil have he done? That they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified. when Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but rather a tumult was made. He took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person. See ye to it. Then answered all the people and said, His blood be on us and on our children. Then released he Barabbas unto them, and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. And they stripped him and put on him a scarlet robe. And when they had planted the crown of thorns, they put it upon his head and a reed in his right hand. and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Ho! King of the Jews! And they spit upon him, and took the weed and smote him on the head. And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him. And as they came out they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, Him they compelled to bear his cross. And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say a place of a skull, they gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall. And when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. And they crucified him, and parted his garments casting lots. that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet. They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots. And sitting down they watched him there, and set up over his head his accusation written, This is Jesus, the King of the Jews. Then were there two thieves crucified with him. one on the right hand and the other on the left may the Lord add his blessing to this majestic solemn yet majestic portion of his own precious word and now if we'll turn to our hymn books and I'm going to ask you to sing my favorite hymn you know I can only have this hymn song when I come to America or maybe when I go to Australia they sing it there as well But in my own country, strangers that may seem, I don't know a book that it came. I've almost pleaded with some publishers to put it in, but it's never gone in. Of course, my voice never did count for much. But there it is. Number sixty-six. Number sixty-six. Will that be like it? Number sixty-six? Yeah, it will try. It will do very well. It will do very well. Oh, leave me to the man who died. You know, I don't think there's a place I visited, or have visited over the years I've been coming to see you, where before long I'm not asked, now what's the difference to conservatives in England and in America? Well, there is a difference. And the most marked difference of all that you never stand to sing. And we never think of sitting and singing. So you're going to England without a passport. You're going to stand and sing. Thank you. You're going to stand and sing. For all the nations are in glory, Defending not the death of war, Unpunned with every blow. Oh, lead me toward the empty tomb, His death on ground above its throne, His restful word of life on his own, Son holds me in His song and praise. to lead me up to heaven twice, to see the world that crowned the Lord, but gaining up that glory there, I may reflect His image here. Only before the pleading rare, So often warmed from the air, Then said his lesson, Thank I'll see, And praise him through his mercy. Only be of Josiah's will, To be Lord his word of will, His glory will be on earth by the sea and air. Only before but seen, sublime, Prepared by God, before mine, Stendath a march upon the way, Light, light, and love, O'Hare to stay. There's the eternal freedom in one. Bless the spirit of the whole. Rest on despair, forevermore. I have won the worship and adore. Amen. Thank you. You know, I'm always reminding folk, and I know I've said it in Durham in past years, but this here, as you know, was written by Alfred Mace. You know, it crosses my mind there may be some folk here tonight who once heard Alfred Mace preach. Is there any love? None of you. All of you have been converted during the last few years. Well, therefore, do you know, Alfred Mace was a great man, a man of God. Alfred Mace was the son of Jenner. And Jen Mace was the heavyweight champion of the world in the days of dare knuckle fighting. He was the last heavyweight champion of the world who fought with dare knuckles. He won the championship after fighting eighty-five rounds. Gen Mace was a gypsy war. And I remember a few years ago taking a whole crowd of young people to a place called Cromer on the east coast of England for a fortnight holiday. I beg your pardon, two weeks. A fortnight. I marvel at what you folks have done with my language. But there we are. On the Saturday, they were returning home. So on the Friday, they went down to the city of Norwich to do a little shopping, you know. And afterwards, I said to the bus drivers, I want you to follow. And we went down to a little cottage, about four or five miles outside of Norwich, just a little patch cottage. And all this crowded young folk filed ahead of the buses. And I said, I want you to read something. And I pointed to a little grass plant about the size of one of those building blocks. And on it he said, in this cottage was born in the year eighteen hundred and whatever it was, Gen Mes, heavyweight champion of the world. And as far as I know, and I know a little about these things, but as far as I know, that is the only memorial anywhere in the world to the greatest fighter the world's ever seen. But when he was fourteen years of age, Jim Mace Boy was taken to some tent services. and heard the gospel and trusted Jesus cross and eventually became one of the greatest creatures that we've ever had amongst us and Alfred Mace wrote that in and all over the world this morning I was feeling there have been thousands of people as they gathered around the table sang Oh, lead me to the man who died, to all God's nature glorified, descending to the depths of woe, and for us vanquished every fellow. And I don't know about you, but as far as I'm concerned, when I think of the two, a father and a son, I would much rather, at the end of my days, They didn't leave a brass plaque on a wall, but I let God's people to sing among people. Oh, listen, friend. Pray that tonight the Lord will lead us through himself. I'm no singer, as you know. I just have a go sometimes. But I stood by the side of Alfred Macy's grave away in Victoria in Vancouver. And I didn't care who else was in the cemetery. I just stood there and sang that in. For I wanted hope to realize that only one man to whom we can die. Tonight I've chosen, as you know, as my text, the glorious words of Matthew twenty-seven. But before we consider it, may we ask God's blessing. Oh, God and Father, what more can we say than that which we have said in song, that which we have re-echoed again and again? In thy mercy lead us to that man who has glorified thee and is waiting to save sinners. For we ask it in his name. Amen. Amen. And sitting down they watched him there. Oh, what a tremendous verse it is. What a tremendous verse. Do you know it seems to have jumped out of my Bible again? Ah, there it is. And sitting down they watched him there. It's necessary necessary for me tonight to remind you of the divisions of this simple text. They stand out that the simplest can understand and the most learned can try. For I want you with me this evening to think just a little, first of all, of a curious crowd. Oh, how curious they were. They had gathered from all around. I have little doubt there were some from over the borders of the land. But they had gathered to a scene on Calvary Hill, and sitting down they watched him. What was it that drew them to that scene? How curious they were. But as I look at the text, I see not only a curious crowd, they... watched him. But when I gaze at the text, I see a crucified Christ. Sitting down, they watched him. They watched him. Oh, the wonder of it all. There are many people they could have looked at. The high priest was there with his ceremonial robe. The soldiers were there that represented the power of Rome, and what people don't admire soldiers as they march by. There were thoughtful walks and all kinds of life, yet there was one person who claimed their attention. They watched him. But if in this text I find a curious crowd, and if I find a crucified Christ, In this text I see a cursed cross, a cursed cross sitting down. They watched Him there, there. Was it that the apostle who in later years could borrow a verse from the Old Testament, and when he wrote to the church at Galatia said, Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree. A curious crowd, sitting down, they watched him. I've already suggested that there were people from all walks of life there. Let's think for a moment of what the Scripture said. we are told that there were soldiers there verse twenty seven leaves us in no doubt of that fact that there were soldiers there and they were associated with that cross all around us in the day in which we are living we're hearing of the might and power of armies some soldiers are guerrilla fighters some soldiers are marching and recognized and trained armies. But we're living in a world where the might of man is being expressed in its armies. And here we see associated with the cross those who represent the might of the world and they gaze at But when I read this chapter, I see that not only are there soldiers there, but there are chief priests there. For verse forty-one tells us he was mocked by the elders and by the scribes. Whoever would associate the death of Jesus Christ with the religious leaders of its day. still in the schools of my country, religious instruction is a compulsory subject. Under law it must be taught in the school. But in nineteen forty six they brought out a new act which said that while it must be taught they couldn't compel a teacher to teach it. In other words If a person said, I don't believe it, they couldn't compel him to teach it. But it had to be taught. So it has opened up a way for almost a new company of educationalists, religious Christian educationalists to come in. And there are many schools where one person does all, right through the school, does all the religious instruction. But when I was a boy at school, and you would appreciate that was many years ago, When I was a boy at school, I remember sitting in the class. I often hear teachers complain to dad. Between you and me, don't tell them, will you? They don't know they're alone. When I was a lad, there were fifty lads in the class. Great. You imagine fifty like me to teach. But never the best. I can see this man who was our teacher. First time we've moved up into this new class. First religious instruction. He said, boys, I want you to understand that I've got to teach this religious education. I want you to know I don't believe it. Gino, of all the years at school, he's the only man I ever remember. And one thing I remember him above all else for, he looked at us and said, You've got to learn the words of the poet. Can't he remember who the poet was? But there was a lot of parrots we had to learn by heart, ghastly against the evening sky. Three crosses stood on Calvary, two to rebels condemned to death, one to a peasant on Nazareth. And the men who condemned him to suffer thus were men who believed in God like us. Oh, my friend, I thought the devil was having a good time, at least he thought he was. But even today I remember what that master taught us about the thing he didn't believe. And the tragedy is what he taught us was true. men who condemned him to suffer thus, were men who believed in God like us. What an awful pain. But there at the foot of the cross were the high priests, the scribes, the rulers of the people. Just because a person says, Lord, Lord, Jesus said, it's not everyone who says, Lord, Lord, who will enter the kingdom. But will you notice there were not only soldiers there? And there were not only religious leaders there. But will you notice that there were thieves there? Verse forty-four, speaking of those thieves, says they cast the same into his teeth. Oh, you look at me and say, just a moment, Mr. Queacher. That's a little bit insulting, isn't it? to invite me to come to a service and then look at me and say that you are represented by those thieves? Well, maybe it sounds so. It's not meant so. But could I ask you something? Wouldn't you mind me? Friend, whose hands are these? Whose lips are these? Whose feet are these? Whose ears are these? Whose mouth is this? I tell you who they belong to. They belong to God by the right of creation. He made them and by the right of creation they're his. Have I ever used these hands to do things God wouldn't have in him? Oh God, you know I have. Have you used these lips to say things God wouldn't have me say? Oh God, you know I have. These lips would take me to places God wouldn't have me go. Oh God, you know I have. This heart to love things God wouldn't have me love, these ears to listen to things God wouldn't have me listen to. Oh God, you know I have. And could I suggest that we're thieves as much as the wet men that hung on those mosses alongside them? We've taken the thing that belongs to him and we've used it for ourselves. Thieves. So maybe we are represented by those thieves. Soldiers. Religious leaders. Thieves? Women? Oh, they were there. Verse fifty-five tells us that were women at that cross. I wonder why they were there. Or you say that things were a little cruder in those days, that's no answer. I often wonder why those women were there. We never had any sisters in my family. My mother used to teach us when we were little boys, if there's anything you do, you respect a girl. I trust that still has remained with me after all these years and after mother's lectures for a long while. But when I think of these women, gathering to a place where they can gaze upon one spike to a cross, hanging naked for her eyes to see him, with a crown of thorns on a brow, the color of a face that couldn't be recognized as the face of a man. I wonder why they were there. Yes, sisters, madam, you will permit me to say, it isn't every girl, it's not every woman who walks righteously in this scene, is it? Is it not true of us all whether we be men or women? We've all sinned and come short of the glory of God. The greatest tragedy of this sort is maybe tucked away in the Gospel of Luke, where we're told there were children there. As Jesus on his way to be nailed to the cross, said to the women, Weep not for me, but for yourselves and your children. And keep taking children to a scene like that. And yet? And yet? I don't know what it's like in your country, really. And the only schools they've permitted me to speak at have been Christian schools. But I know this, there's hardly a week passes by in my own country when I'm not speaking in a school. And sometimes as I walk across the yard through a crowd of boys and girls, I hear the most appalling of language. I wonder why it is we have forgotten even in evangelical circles. I wonder why it is we've forgotten to teach the Ten Commandments. One of them says, Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in men. And yet, and yet these soldiers, these religious leaders, I say, these thieves, these women, these children were so curious. that there they were at the crawl. What a curious crowd. But our text tells us not only of a curious crowd, it tells us of a crucified Christ. Sitting down they watch him. Him? Who is this person who is referred to as him? Who is he? Sitting down they watch him. Does the context of the story tell us who he was? It leaves us in no doubt, does it? Verse thirty-seven says it was Jesus. It was Jesus. And then as we go down that chapter and we come to the words of verse forty-three, we find he's the Son of God. You are studying, I believe, of the Lord's day evening. You are studying the epistle to the Hebrews. And while I believe from what we've gathered this morning, you're in chapter eight. May I take you back to chapter four for a moment? Do you remember what chapter four does? He brings before us the one who's our face, the one that we are bidding to come to with boldness. Do you remember what it says of him? It says he was Jesus, the Son of God. the Son of God. That's his name. It tells us about his nature. He did no sin. But hallelujah tells us of his nearness that we can draw nigh unto him. And as you look at him, all the wonder of it all, Jesus, they shall call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sin, the Saviour. The name angelic beings chanted. The name that came from glory itself. The Son of God. We are back where we were this morning, aren't we? As our dear brother read to us the eighth chapter of Proverbs. And we dazed afresh into the face of the one who was brought up with him and was daily his delight. Oh, the wonder of it. The Son of God. I thank God that God's Son came into the sea. Down from his glory. Ever living story. My Lord and Savior came. And Jesus was his name. He gave to him. That's who he is. Jesus. The Son of God. They watched him. But if there's a curious crowd, and if indeed there's a crucified Christ, there's a cursed cross, sitting down they watched him there, there. Or how many times have you done what I have done? You've sat down and maybe opened your Bible and you've taken your notebook and you've scribbled down as you have pondered and read the many places in which Jesus was found. I say, if he's the Son of God, if he's the Savior, where do you expect to see Saviors? Where do you expect to see them? You expect to see saviors where people are in danger. Was Jesus heaven there? Well, come with me for a moment to the fourteenth of Matthew. Come with me for a moment to that scene when stepping from the boat. Peter began to walk upon the water and beginning to sing. beginning to think, he cried, Lord, save me. Lord, save me. Was he there? Oh, hallelujah, he was there as he stretched forth his hand and he saved him. He saved him. Oh, they'd seen him walking on the water to rescue a Peter, but they'd never seen him there before. he's not now walking on the water but all the waves and bellows of God's wrath are passing over him he's under the water now Jesus the Son of God I say they gazed and as they gazed at that cross they saw written in letters of Greek and Latin and Hebrew in the letters of control, Roman Latin, in the letters of the covenant, in Hebrew, in the letters of culture, in Greek, they saw the words, Jesus the Son of God, no, Jesus, the King of the Jews. Where do you expect to see kings? I know in your country you don't have a king. but I know where you would expect to see a king. You would expect to see a king sitting on a throne. Was Jesus ever on a throne? If he's the king, was there a time when he was ever on the throne? Come with me back into the sixth chapter of Isaiah. And please remember this. Please remember this. The twelfth chapter of John tells us that the one that was on that throne was none other than Jesus the Son of God. For in the year that King Josiah died, says the sixth chapter of Isaiah, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, hold and lift it up. And all thrown, but the very seraphins chanted, holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts. Thank God he was on a throne. But he's not on a throne now. He's on a cross. They watched him not on a throne. I know he bears a crown. It's a crown of thought. Sitting down they watched him there, there. I said he was Jesus. I said he was the king of the Jews. I said he was the son of God. Tell me, where do you expect to see a son? Where do you expect to see a son? Oh, I say the greatest joy that can come to a father is to have his boy by his side. Was Jesus ever by the side of the father? Well, let me do it again to re-emphasize it. quote to you the words of the eighth of Proverbs that our brother read to us this morning he was as one brought up with him and he was daily his delight but he's not now on the cross but rather he's not now on the throne he's not now walking the water he's not now indeed where they had seen him he's on a cross sitting down they watched him there a curious crowd a crucified Christ a cursive cross but as they sat down and watched him there what did they see now this is the whole crucial point of what I want to share with you tonight. For I want to ask you a question. And the question is simply this. What do you see when you open your Bible and read the story of hell? What do you see? Sitting down they watched him there. I tell you what they saw. As sitting down they watched him there, they gazed into his face, they saw the scripture fulfilled. As they sat and watched him, they saw the Savior for Satan. But oh, hallelujah. They saw the sinner forgiven. They saw the scripture fulfilled. Oh, the wonder of it all. Verse thirty-five says, That it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the prophet. They partied my garments among them, and for my vesture they cast lots. Isn't it tremendous? that while they led him away and crucified him, they were but forfeiting the search. Have you ever... Oh, of course you have. Yes. Of course you have. You've pondered with me so many a time the first promise God ever gave to man. He said there'll come a day when the seed of the woman... will bruise the serpent's head. But the serpent will bruise his head. Now please, that statement, that promise was given before anyone had ever died. Cain had never married his brother. Dad would never let this dark and dream arc on this scene. But God said, the seed of the woman would bruise the serpent's head. the death blow, but in bruising the serpent's head he would bruise his heel. And I want to ask you a question. Can you think of any other way that a person could be put to death when it would be absolutely essential that his heel would be bruised apart from crucifixion? Superman to death, you won't necessarily bruise his heel. Draw a spear into him. You won't bruise his heel. Club him. You won't bruise his heel. Make it modern. Death him. Electrocute him. Hand him. You won't bruise his heel. But if you take a man and crucify him, you can't crucify him without bruising his heel. Do you hear the dull blow of the hammer swung loud, then nailing my lord to the train? An absolute impossibility to grind nails through a man's feet without brooding bruise is ill. And we read that the Scripture might be fulfilled. If you care when you get home, if you care to take your Bible and read the twenty-seventh chapter of Matthew, you will find that there are eight forefellments, eight in one chapter of the twenty second psalm. You'll find it all written in the twenty second psalm and you'll see its fulfillment in the twenty seventh and ninth. They saw the scripture fulfilled. Listen by praying. When Jesus Christ died he did not die this death matter. He gave his life a ransom for many. But they saw not only the scripture fulfilled, but they saw the Savior forsaken. Oh, here's a depth that passes human comprehension. They saw the Savior forsaken. How come to the cry of our blessed Lord, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? But please remember, There was no cry of complaint. No cry of prayer. Will you please finish the scripture? The scripture does not finish where our New Testament finishes. The scripture says, My God, my God, why hast thou forsake me? But thou art holy. O thou that inhabitest the praises of his heaven. Oh, no quiet complaint, forsaken of God, please, please. You may think it is Barté narrow points, but it's not. He was never forsaken of his father. Father and son went together, but it was forsaken of God. All wondered, never illustrated in the simplest way. Imagine with me for a moment you will need an imagination, but imagine with me for a moment that a young man is arrested for murder, a dark, tragic murder. And it's noise abroad that that young man is a judge of the High Court. I don't know what would happen in your country. Of course, in my country it would not be allowed, but in some countries it's allowed. that that young man stands on trial for his lust and sitting there on the bench as judge is his own father. His father listens to everything that can be said against him and everything that can be said for him. Twelve men, good and true, find him guilty. That father places upon his head the black Scholar's act, looking down at him says in the awful words, You will be taken to a place of execution and hung by your neck into your death. May I ask you something? Can't you see the tears burning down the scholar's head? Can't you hear the throb of his voice? father looks into the face of his son. Never will father and son be closer. Never could a judge and a prisoner be farther away. The father went with the son and father and son went together. But as judge, much as holy God just seen. And he cries, my God, why has that forsaken me? For you, hallelujah for me. For me. They saw the Scripture fulfilled. They saw the Savior forsaken. But oh, hallelujah. they saw the sinner forgiven. It's the Gospel of Luke that tells the wondrous story. Tells of one who turned his aching head and cried, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thine. And Jesus said, Today thou shalt be with me. in paradise. Forgiven. Oh, mercies flowing like a river. Millions there have been supplied. Spirit grows as fresh as ever from the Savior's ribbon sign. There's grace to the Father. Grace flowing from hell. Grace enough for eternity. Grace enough for me. Oh, there's mercy with the Lord that he might be feared. They saw the sinner forgiven. How come? How was it that this sinner was forgiven? Well, he took his place as a sinner, did he not? He said in words to the other thief dying with him, Do we not receive the Jew, the Lord of our deeds? My Bible tells me if we confess our sin, he's faithful and just to forgive us our sin and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Friend, if you're not saved, the only possible way for you to be saved is first to acknowledge you need to be saved, that you're a sinner. And after acknowledging his sin, he acknowledged the sinlessness of Christ. But this man has done nothing amiss. Oh, what truth has opened before us. That if there's one dying on a cross who's never sinned, who's done nothing amiss, then we've got to ask, why is he dying? For the wages of sin is death. And if he never sinned, why is he dying? I know why he died. As I gaze at that cross, I realize there's no sin in him. But there's mountains of sin upon him. Peter says he took my sin in his own body. to the tree. He acknowledged his sin. He acknowledged the sinlessness of the Christ. And in doing so, acknowledged that he was Lord. Lord. Lord. And he did what the Bible tells us right from the beginning. He calls on the name of the Lord. I love that sermon of Peter, don't you, on the day of Pentecost? What a sermon. I say, what a difference, isn't that? When Moses gave the law, the scripture says that three thousand people were slain. That's what happened when God gave the law. When God gave his spirit, there were three thousand people saved. Oh, what a difference. What a difference. And my friend, the difference is that the one who hung on Calvary's cross made it possible that those who've not kept the law might be justified, might be forgiven, might be justified. Lord, they made their cry. And on the day of Pentecost, will you please remember Peter's great text? His text is contained in the epistle of the Romans. And it simply says, Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord. Shep, thief, saint. There will be text on the day of Hempicot, and the thief on the cross. Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord. remember me my Bible says that no man calleth Jesus Lord but by the Spirit Lord remember me when thou comest in thy kingdom and what an answer today and I I'm always telling folks you know that I believe in instantaneous conversion could I repeat that I believe in instantaneous conversion. I believe in the conversion of little Zacchaeus, don't you? Jesus looked at him and said, this day his salvation comes in his house. Not next week, this day. You know, I like to tell the story of the Salvation Army man that stood at the street corner with a band of the Salvation Army beating his drum. And the officer said, Sam, will he give a word of testimony? And he leaned on his drum and said, Last night, I was beating the wife. Today I'm beating the drum. That's the sort of salvation I believe in. I believe in a salvation that I make a cursed husband into a loving husband and not take a month to do it. I believe in a conversion that will make a dishonest man honest and not take a month to do it. I believe in a conversion that will flame up all instantaneously. Today thou shalt be with me. In paradise he is saying. He is saying. They saw the sinner forgiven. For the wonder of it is this. I believe in the forgiveness of sins. I believe that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins. Sitting down that curious crowd, watch that crucified Christ there on that cursed cross. They saw the scripture fulfilled. They saw the Savior forsaken. But they saw the sinner forgiven. And that forgiveness can be ours. And brethren, sisters, you who know that forgiveness, why is it we get so unexcited about it? Why is it that we sit back and we say we enjoy it and act as though it was a weight on our shoulders? Oh, that you and I might be up and doing something for Jesus Christ. There's quite a chance for someone here. You have never trusted that, Sonia. Won't you trust him tonight? Won't you gaze upon him tonight? Oh, please, God in will have sitting down. We've watched him there. Before the service, I asked our good dearness, if it would be all right, if he sang it here. And I'd forgotten what the number was. So I said, change it. What was the solemn change? Let Jesus come into your heart. You know, when you were as old as me, you would forget like me. Now, please, someone will help us. You're tired of your sin, let Jesus come into your heart. Three hundred and fifty-three. Do you know I'm glad you were there? You know why I am. Three hundred and fifty-thirds. If you're tired of the load of your sin, let Jesus come into your heart. If you desire a new life to be gained, Let Jesus come into your heart. Just now your dantiness give all. Just now reject him no more. Just now swing open the door. Let Jesus come in to your heart. Three hundred and fifty-three. If you are tired of the woe of your kin, let people come into your heart. If you desire a new life to live in, let people come into your heart.