God's holiness and hatred for sin are central to understanding His love and the necessity of salvation through Jesus Christ. The sermon emphasizes that God's infinite holiness means He cannot tolerate sin, as evidenced by His commands and the descriptions of His wrath against rebellion and impurity. Despite this, God's profound love extends even to the worst sinners, demonstrating His desire for their salvation. The only path to reconciliation is through Jesus Christ, as no other name or method offers redemption. The message concludes by urging listeners to accept God's gracious offer of salvation through Christ, ensuring eternal life in His presence rather than eternal separation.
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I remember as if it was yesterday, when I was a real doctor and was practicing medicine, one of our office nurses gave me a book for Christmas. At that point, she did not know the Lord Jesus as her personal Savior. By the grace of God, she came to know him and trust him. But she gave me a book for Christmas and she decided it better have a little bit of a religious flavor. So she picked this book off the shelf of the store and gave it to me and she didn't know how important a book it would be. It was not written by a Christian. It was a book called God's Dominion.
It was referring to Canada. It's called the Dominion of Canada because of Just like the United States in its inception, it was built on the principles of the Word of God, at least a Judea-Christian ethic. So this book was called God's Dominion, A Skeptic's Quest. It was written by a man by the name of Ron Graham. Now, Ron Graham probably doesn't mean much to most of you, but he was a very famous author. He was an award-winning journalist. and at one time was a senior producer on our national broadcasting system. By his own admission, he was not a Christian.
However, as you read through the book, you understand that in his life, although he is reluctant to admit it, he had some contact with the gospel of the grace of God. For he records in the book, as I'll explain in a minute or two, he traveled Canada from coast to coast for two and a half years. going to every kind of religious organization, going into churches of all descriptions, going into Bible studies, any place he was allowed to go, trying to estimate the condition of spirituality, that abused word in the Dominion of Canada. He records how he went into a little place, and as I think of it and how he described it, it must have been like a little gospel hall that I knew when I grew up.
And he said he was in there and he said those children were singing some choruses that he remembers when his grandmother took him to Sunday school some forty years before. And he said, it touched my heart. I began to weep. I didn't want to let anybody know that I had any sort of sympathy with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. But as these little children... began to sing these little gospel hymns. And he records, one was, and of course we know it. But for him, he had not heard it in forty years. Jesus loves me. This I know, for the Bible tells me so. And so he said, I have to admit that I had a little cry in the seat.
And he said, it brought back all the memories of my youth. He spent two and a half years crisscrossing Canada, visiting every conceivable kind of religious organization and church. He talked to people he called pastors and rabbis and priests and gurus and mystics and every kind of religious organization and leadership imaginable. Sometimes he'd sit in the back pew and just watch the audience. Was the message that was being proclaimed from the pulpit having any impact on the audience at all? Were they paying attention? Were they sleeping? He estimated himself, if he was in there for the first time hearing it as he was, could he understand the theme, the purpose?
Would he know if the truth was being spoken? Was it relevant to the needs of the people in the pew? Were they interested and involved? What was the motive for the whole thing? Was it money? Was it power? Was it prestige? What was the whole thing? Was there any evidence that anybody had been blessed by sitting for an hour in that congregation? So we decided to speak to some of the church attenders. Now, pretty threatening to a speaker to have somebody interviewing you on an exit here saying, did that, Solomon, make any sense? Did it make any impact on your life tonight? Have you made any decision you had never made before? But that's the sort of thing he did.
He asked them what they knew about the church, whatever that meant to them. He asked them what they knew about the Bible. and very few people knew anything from the Bible. They could say, well, I think it says something about do unto others as you would have them do unto you, something like that. He asked them about whether they themselves had ever made some sort of commitment or some sort of link with the eternal, and most people's eyes just glazed over. He asked them... Had those folks ever been interested in you spiritually, physically, mentally, socially, morally, in any sense except from behind the pulpit?
It was interesting. He made a habit of, if he visited our assembly, this is what he would have done. He'd have gone to the farm on each side and knocked on the door and said, tell me what you know about that church. And they might say, what church? They've been living there beside it for years. He would say, have they ever come to tell you about what they believe from the Bible and from the Word of God? Has it had an impact on your life? Have you changed your mind? Has anything happened? And when you were in need, were they there for you? Was this religion that they espoused, something that was practical and real? And he would ask things like that. Then he would say, were any of you interested in the future?
How do you think about death? When death comes, what are you counting on to get you through? Is there life after death and many other interesting things? Well, in summary, it's very interesting. I've read through it a couple of times. It's about eight hundred pages. But he says it was discouraging and challenging at the same time. He says the most discouraging thing was that most people went to these Christian and non-Christian but so-called spiritually motivated gatherings and their lives were not changed at all. They were coming out the way they came in.
He said they knew almost nothing about God. He specifically asked them about God. What do you know about God? They shrugged their shoulders. Some of them would say, well, give me a hint. And he'd say things like, God is and he got a variety of answers. Even very few would say God is love. He found that some who he would assume by their tenacity and their commitment and their enthusiasm about being in church that they were true believers, as he called them. But he said that when I asked them, they knew very little about God as well.
he would say, well, tell me three things you know for sure about God, and they could hardly come up with one. But there was a few exceptions, a few lovely exceptions. And as he finished his book, it got me thinking. For the last few years, I've been writing and studying and keeping a journal in my own little study about the attributes of God. the attributes of God. I want to know what the Bible says about the living God. I want to know if someone was to come to me and say, what is God like if you have to tell me in thirty seconds what God is like, what would I respond?
And you in the service tonight, how would you respond? What would you say? And I thought about that and I've made piles of little notes and I throw them into these little pockets in my journal. And one day I decided that I better put them in some order. And I haven't done that yet, but if I got around to writing a book or preaching a sermon about the person of Almighty God and his plan for mankind, and I've never preached on this, but if I had that opportunity, I would call it something like four things that you ought to know about God. or four things that God does not know.
And you say, well, careful, Paul. God is omniscient. He knows everything. And I'm saying to you, I would like to preach a sermon and write a book about four things that God does not know. And that's what I'm going to do tonight. I want you to listen carefully. I want you to go away from this short gospel meeting. knowing about four things that God does not know that can be an eternal blessing to your soul. I want you to think about that and I want to just bring four simple points to your attention.
Four things that God does not know. Four things you need to know about them before you die. And the first is this. God does not know. any sin that He does not hate. Number one, very important, God does not know any sin that He does not hate. The Bible says that God dwells in light unapproachable. God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all. Sin is darkness. Men walk in darkness because their deeds are evil.
And God does not know a sin that he does not hate. And there are several reasons for this. Let me read a scripture to you, and then we'll move on with this point. God does not know a sin that he does not hate. Zechariah chapter eight, seventeen. It's worth jotting it down. And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbor. and love no false oath for all these are things that I hate, saith the Lord. Bad thoughts about your neighbor. Shaving the truth so that your oath is not true.
Another scripture in Proverbs six, sixteen to nineteen. These six things, dost the Lord hate? Ye seven are abomination unto him. A proud look. Let's stop there. God hates pride. And the Lord says, Ye seven are an abomination, a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked imagination, feet that are swift in running to mischief, a false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord amongst his brothers. Four things that God does not know.
He does not know any sin that he does not hate. Why is that? Well, first of all, God is holy. If we say to you, and you say to just an exit interview from people coming out of the grocery store, excuse me, sir, or excuse me, ma'am, I'm just doing a little survey, and I want you to tell me the first thing that comes into your mind when I say the word God, what are most people going to say? God is love. God is love. The fact is that God is love. But the preeminent attribute of God that people need to know before they know that God is love is that God is holy.
I think I mentioned yesterday or this morning that the godness of God is his holiness. And when we do not understand the holiness of God, We are not sensitive to sin. And so God wants you to know before you leave this building tonight that God hates sin. Number one, because he's a holy God. I referred this afternoon, I think it was, to Isaiah chapter six. And every time I read that chapter, I stand back and immediately in my mind, I have a picture of God in His holiness upon the throne.
And there he sits in his majestic glory in the person of Jesus Christ, as John twelve tells us, that Isaiah was seeing a pre-incarnate vision of the Lord Jesus before he came into the world to save sinners. While he was still sharing the majesty of heaven with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, he is sitting on the throne as the Savior, the one who is to come to deliver us from the penalty of sin. But the angels who are surrounding the throne are singing one message. Not God is love. Not God is powerful. Not God is omniscient. But God is holy. They were angels called seraphim who had three wings, two to cover their face, two to cover their feet, and two to fly.
The seraphim, the bright and shining ones who guarded the altar of Almighty God, were people who dare not look upon the presence of Jesus Christ upon the throne because he is infinitely holy. Infinitely holy. And the angels on this side would sing, Holy, Holy, Holy. And on this side, Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God of hosts, the commander-in-chief of all of us. For he is the Lord Sabaoth, the God of hosts. He is the commander of the holy angels. But they covered their faces because they did not dare look upon his holiness.
God hates sin because he's infinitely holy and sin, your sin, and my sin is an offense to a holy God. Then I turn over to the epistles to Timothy where there's a verse from the early church hymn book that's listed from it and just given as Paul builds it into his message to Timothy. Great is the mystery of God. God upon the throne was manifest in flesh. Witness to by the Spirit. And as he came in his humanity to the earth and wicked men abused him and brutalized him and rejected him and spit in his face a holy God and men his hand had created stuck their faces next to his and spit in the face of God.
Those men did not know that he was a holy God. So he said, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. those men took a read and thrust it in his hand and a rough soldier's blanket around his shoulders and beat a crown into his thorns and buffeted him when he was blindfolded and say, if you are the Son of God, tell us who did it and we will believe in you. Or if you're the Son of God, come down from the cross. And all the time, the next portion of that hymn verse says, he was seen of What must it have meant to those there of him who through the endless ages of eternity, serving him on his right hand and left hand on the throne of his holiness, for the first time saw the Lord Jesus in his humanity, in this filthy, filthy world, as wicked men who cared nothing about his holiness abused him and spit in his face?
God hates sins. because he himself is infinitely holy and he dwells in light unapproachable. The second reason he hates sin is because sin is an act of rebellion against God's purposes for his created being and his creation. And sin always spoils, always does. Very interesting when I was involved in a lot of counseling in my office practice and elsewhere, How very few people were willing to admit that sin always damages. Sin always spoils. It spoils our character.
It ruins our marriages. It prejudices the salvation of our children when we live before them with an example that does not point them to the Lord Jesus. Sin always causes damage. sin always spoils. And although God can forgive sin, He has not always promised to remove the scars. It always spoils. It has spoiled God's creation to begin with. And as I thought about this, and I've never been a tree hugger or an environmental enthusiast, but But when I got to spend considerable time in the far north Arctic, that is the Beaufort Sea, way above the Arctic Circle to where I lived for a period of time on board icebreakers and drill ships.
where the temperatures were so low we couldn't measure them, and where you would think the world was pristine, untouched by human hands, and we'd drill holes down through thirty feet of ice and floating up from the bottom with a pot can or cigarette butts or something. And the world that God made as a paradise out of love for people as hands had made has been spoiled because of people like you and me. Sin is an act of rebellion against God's purpose for his created being, and it spoils this world. You just have to read what goes on in this world to understand that.
But God created this man in paradise. Paradise. The word is referred to in II Corinthians chapter twelve. And paradise is a word that is not translated into English. It's transliterated from Persian. And it really means a pleasure place or a pleasure park. And in Second Corinthians chapter twelve, the Spirit of God gives Paul the opportunity to tell us a little bit about the pristine beauty of God's original creation. And what it says is that Paul was given a thorn in the flesh. The story is important, but we can't dwell on it.
But it says he was caught up into the third heaven where God dwells And he was part of the paradise of God. Now, a Persian king lived in a wilderness of desert, and nothing was beautiful. And today, when you go to the Middle East, except for the intense spending of dollars and hydration and many other things, it's a wasteland. It's a wasteland. But these Persian kings would take their immense wealth and they'd rest from that barren scene through all of their efforts, a beautiful, idyllic place.
And it would be the most luxurious thing that Hume and I had ever seen at that time. And what a Persian king would do is he would invite some of his closest friends, never his enemies, only his closest friend, to come into his pleasure park. and they would have the opportunity of sharing this unspoiled beauty for a brief time. Paul wants us to know, the Bible wants us to know that God created men innocent and put them into a pleasure park. I would love to be able to see Eden before sin entered in. God made it a pleasure park, and he's inviting us to share his pleasure park, but he shares it for people who were sinners and rebellious against him.
But sin brought evil into the world, and God's pleasure part was turned into the wasteland that we know it now. It says thorns and thistles, and it mentions many other things. But the world has been affected in such a way that God's only remedy for this poor and sick world damaged by sin is to create a new heaven and a new earth in which dwelleth righteousness. Romans chapter eight puts it this way, the whole of God's creation groaneth and travaileth in pain until now. That means this world in which we live is groaning in pain because of the evil and the desperate situation that it's in.
It says, we too, who believe are groaning in pain and travail unto now, waiting for the redemption of our bodies. There's a day soon coming when all that sin is brought into the world that affects us as God's people is going to be removed by the power of the blood of the cross. And it's great to preach that the blood of Jesus Christ is able to cleanse all sin, but God is not going to leave one thing in this world that sin has spoiled, untouched, and changed to perfection by the value and the power of the blood of Christ. He's going to condemn this world to eternal judgment. It's going to disappear in an inferno of judgment. And God is going to create a new heaven and a new earth in which only dwelleth righteousness.
Because God does not know a sin that he does not hate. And God is righteous through and through. God hates sin because sin will separate some men and women and boys and girls from God eternally. Revelation chapter twenty tells us this. And this is one of the most solemn passages of the Word of God. I want you to turn to it. Revelation chapter twenty. It almost closes the canon of the Bible, but everybody, Christian or not Christian, should read this from time to time.
And I saw a great white throne. And him that sat on it from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them. A great white throne, not because the throne was great, but the person who sat upon it was great. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God. And the books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the book of life, and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them, and they were judged every man according to their works, and death and hell were cast into the lake of fire.
And this is the second death. Read verse fifteen. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. And this is the second death. God hates sin because ultimately every person born in planet Earth from the time of Adam till the shout and the rapture of the church, every person who is a rejecter of the love of God and rejects the cleansing power of the blood of Christ to remove their sins. We'll stand in this particular scene. Everyone.
And it says, whose ever name was not written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. This means that the evidence of your sin and rebellion against the holy, loving, caring God will be there to judge you. And everyone, nobody is too great to escape, too insignificant not to be present. Every person in this room who does not know Jesus Christ as their personal Savior will stand at this judgment if the Lord should come now. It says the Word of God will be open.
No one will have an excuse. And after sitting in this meeting tonight, no one who does not know the Lord personally as their Savior will have an excuse because we have read one portion from the Word of God that warns you to flee from the wrath to come. It tells you that if you're born once, physically you'll die twice. You'll die when you go Beyond this world into the grave, you will die when God casts you into the lake of fire, which burneth forever and ever, and this is your second death. But if you're born twice, you only die once. I shall never forget. I have a twin brother.
People often ask me, does he look like me? And I say, no, he's eternally grateful that he doesn't. And, but I shall never forget. We were born, of course, being twins, on April the fourteenth, nineteen thirty-one. I don't remember a thing about that. But I shall never forget our second birthday. Again, it was in April. And there we are, not nineteen thirty-one this time, but nineteen forty-four. And sitting in a gospel meeting in central gospel hall for years, somewhat anxious about my salvation but largely ignoring the pleading of God the Holy Spirit. We came home from that gospel meeting and my father in his gentleness just took us to the kitchen table and opened up his Bible and asked us again if we would accept the Lord Jesus and his grace and his mercy at the cross of Christ.
And he read very slowly and distinctly For God so loved the world that he gave for you, Paul, and for you, David, his only begotten son, that if you, Paul, and you, David, would accept him as your personal savior, you will be saved. The tears began to stream down our faces. We all got on our knees in our little kitchen room, and in a moment of time, we were born again and will only die once. I want you to know that God loves you so much. I want you to know that if you reject the Lord Jesus, your sin will eternally separate you from God.
And He tells us that the book of life's record is there. not necessarily bad things you've done because most people are quite careful about that but the Bible says God doesn't look on the outward appearance God looks on the heart he has eyes that are flaming fire he sees right into the recesses of your mind and your intentions and your actions whether you do them or not he knows the real you and the real you something that fends his holiness and will eternally separate you from God and so Sin is hateful to God because it will separate you from God forever. Now, when we preach the gospel, we say things like, if you come and trust the Lord Jesus and know truly the cleansing power of his blood to deliver you from the power of darkness and to place you in the kingdom of God's Son, you'll have eternal life.
Is that right? That is right. But it's equally true that those people you know, some of you are in this room tonight, and you refuse and you die in your sins, and you refuse the gospel of God's grace, you will live forever too. You will have eternal life. So we must be more precise than that. Both sides of the issue will have eternal life. One, in the paradise of God, in the eternal fellowship and love of the triune God, to rejoice forever in His glad presence. to have your mind expanded with a mind that can understand the glories of His grace and the wonders of His power and might and who He really is for eternity, for eternity, for eternity.
But there may be some in this room tonight who will also live forever, ever conscious, that they miss God's mark, they miss God's salvation, they miss God's blessing, and they forever will spend a conscious eternity in the knowledge that they missed is eternal salvation. Everybody will live forever, but sin will make sure you never live in fellowship with the living God. So God hates sin. And the second thing I want you to know is that not only does God not know any sin that he does not hate, But God does not know any sinner that He doesn't love.
Romans five eight says that that is true. But God demonstrated, or as the King James says, commended His love toward us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. John three sixteen says it so well, for God so loved the world. that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life. In spite of the fact that he knows everything about us, God does not know any sinner that he doesn't love. Think of the worst sinners you could imagine.
If I said to you, name the worst sinner that you could ever think about, who would you say? Some would say Hitler. Can God save Hitler? Does he love him? Some would have other choices. They would have people like Stalin. When I was a real doctor, I spent a considerable amount of time in Russia, in Siberia. A way up far beyond the Arctic Circle where we would see laplanders with reindeer pulling little slays with wood on it, skimming in low over some of those rivers and helicopters.
And it dawned on me that when I was in that particular part of the northwest Siberian plain that I must be very close to the Gulag. Does the Gulag mean anything to you? Does the name Alexander Solzhenitsyn mean anything to you? The Gulag is a horrible place. I spoke to a colonel in the Russian military and I said, by any chance, could one of your pilots take me up to the Gulag and to my other surprise he said yes. I shall never forget getting up early and walking out in one of those frozen ice storm mornings.
And a whole row of helicopters, only one, was warming up. It takes three hours to warm it up so it can take off. And as we wended our way up into that wasteland and we came down very low, I saw the gulag, a vast prison camp of just wooden boards, much like we deranged turkeys in here. with command towers and barbed wire. And in that place, Stalin murdered twenty million people. Can God love and forgive his sin? You take the worst sinner that you can conceive of, and the list could go on and on and gone.
But the fact is that God does not know a sinner, like Stalin and Hitler, that he personally... does not love. Think of the worst that you can think of, and the list is endless. But if that person, if Stalin or Hitler, or someone worse, and there have been worse, if they were the only sinner on planet Earth, God would have sent his son to die on the cross for Stalin or for Hitler, and he would have sent his son to the death of the cross for you if you were the only sinner that ever existed on planet Earth. God doesn't know, a sinner that he does not love.
Think of Mary, the prostitute who walked in on Simon's supper in death. And Simon was a sinner but a respectable one, and Mary was the city's slut. And he let her wash his feet with her tears and dry his feet with her hair, even as he sat at his dinner table. because his heart of love went out to a lady who he knew everything about, but in spite of knowing about her, he loved her with a passion. John four describes an interesting scene at a well called Sychar, and the Lord Jesus went out of his way and took a tortuous and long journey in a hot and dusty land.
Simply so, he would arrive at a well at Psyker at the precise time that a woman who was a harlot and had had a relationship with seven men in an adulterous way would be there drawing water at high noon so no one would see her because no one came to draw water at high noon. But the Lord Jesus made sure he was there. And he told her, woman, out of your very being can flow rivers of living water. For who you're looking at is the one who cleanses the darkest heart. Remember Zacchaeus, that little squirt who climbed up into a tree?
Because he had cheated and maligned all sorts of people. And he was a sinner that was hated by the Romans and by the Jews. But his avarice and greed knew no bounds. And when he heard that Jesus was coming by, he wanted to get up into a tree and see the Lord of glory, but not be seen himself. But the Lord knew he was there. And this man who suffers from the greed and avarice that can grip any heart in this room tonight was addressed by the eternal Son of God, said, I see as if he is. You're just a little guy, but come on down because you and I need to fellowship at your house and you need to know your sins forgiven.
You need to remember that God does not know a sinner that he doesn't love. The third thing I want you to learn tonight is God doesn't know of any way of salvation except through Jesus Christ. He doesn't know any other way. John fourteen and six says that he said, I am the way, the truth and the life. No man comes to the Father except by me. I am the way because men are lost in their sin. I am the truth because men are deceived. I am the life because men are spiritually dead. And if you're not a believer in Jesus Christ, you're lost, you're deceived.
and you're spiritually dead and if you remain in your sins the Lord says where I am there you cannot come John fourteen reminds us of this God doesn't know of any way of salvation except through Jesus Christ a number of months ago I was asked to take a funeral The fellow who died at age thirty-nine dropped dead in his living room. He had come once to the gospel meeting. In fact, the night before, on the Sunday night to Wallenstein Bible Chapel and heard the message of salvation.
And he never trusted the Savior. He got into an argument with his third wife and dropped dead, passed from time into eternity. But because they'd been to the chapel once, his wife... asked if someone from that church would take his funeral. And I did. And I didn't know anybody there except the wife. But sitting about two-thirds the way down in the left, there was a big burly fellow who I later found out was a detective. He almost looked the part, stone-faced. And I simply told them of God's love and preached on this verse that God through Christ is the only way.
He is the truth and He is the life. And I walked out of that building and we went to the cemetery and laid that body into the ground to certain judgment. Two days later the phone rang late at night and it was this policeman. And he said, can I come and talk to you? And I said, yes, I have Thursday and Friday for he said, no, it's got to be tonight. And I sat up until a police car came up my drive. All the neighbors, I'm sure, were out peeking through the window. And out came this man completely broken with an awareness of the sin. He said, I want to know the way.
I want to know the truth. I want to have God's life. And I thought he needed to know a whole lot more than the simple message I'd given at the funeral. So I opened my Bible and he said, no, let's get on our knees and I want to talk to God. And he said something like this. Oh God, I'm a sinner because the Bible tells me so. Oh God in heaven, I know that Jesus Christ loves me because the Bible tells me so. And, oh God, I know from the Bible that if I only open my life and confess my sin and leave it with the blood of Christ, you will save me even in this room.
And at that moment of time, Dan Anderson came to life in Jesus Christ. And he's going on for the Lord. But God knew. that there was only one way of a salvation, and that was through Jesus Christ. Acts four twelve says, Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name under heaven given amongst men, whereby we must be saved. Galatians two says, no flesh shall be justified by the works of the law. And every person almost I've ever taught personally to about the gospel is interested in helping God in his ability to save souls.
Now, I live in a Mennonite community. Many of them are lovely people. Some of them are saved. But most are counting on good works to get to heaven. And the Bible says, no flesh shall be justified by their own works. And Revelation twenty, eleven, fifteen goes on to say as we quoted, whoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. God doesn't know any other way of salvation except through Jesus Christ. When I worked for Gulf Canada Resources, we needed a counselor to work full time with our alcoholics and drug addicts in our company.
One out of every ten. employees in this high-tech industry was an alcoholic. Does that surprise you? That's the normal number for all of North America, including Iowa and including Ontario. And I began to search for a full-time drug addiction counselor, somebody who would move into families and to marital problems and And although the company wasn't basically interested in the sole salvation of one employee, they were interested in changed employees, better employees. I heard about a man down in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He had been a policeman, a detective there.
He had two little blonde baby girls and an older blonde girl about age four at the time. He was an alcoholic. He had a loving wife whose name was Naran. I met her. She told me this story and he told me this story. There came a time when his drinking and his absence from the family was not only hostile to her life, but it was hostile to the children. And she knew they were being damaged by his lifestyle. And she gave him an ultimatum. Bob, pack your things and leave. He said, I will never forget the night I walked out of my own home.
And I thought for the last time, looked on the face of my wife and my dear little girls. I put my revolver in its holster. I grabbed my uniform, packed a bag, got in my police car, and I drove downtown to the seediest motel I could find because I thought I would live there forever. And I got into that room with my heart breaking. And I didn't know what else to do. I was sitting by a window with a neon sign just kind of shining across the road. So I pulled down the blind. I turned on the television. And all I caught was the end of a program. But I knew that God was speaking to me because there was a choir singing just as I am.
Without one plea. But that thy blood was shed for me. That thou bids me come to thee. O Lamb of God I come. And he said, I didn't know whether it was a one-shot deal. And I was too late to find God. But I thought, maybe it's a series. So I sat there all day. And an hour earlier, I turned on the radio and the television in case I could catch it on either one. But on television, it says, there came the face of a man who I found out was Billy Graham. And he preached the gospel of the grace of God. And he said, that choir sang the same hymn, just as I am without one plea. But that thy blood is shed for me, and that thou bidst me come to thee.
O Lamb of God, I come. He said, I took my gun out of the holster, and I placed it on the table. A day earlier I would have put a bullet through my head if God did not answer my prayer. And I got on my knees and I didn't know what to do. So I put my hand out and I touched the television and said, Lord, can I come? Can I come? And the blood of Jesus Christ, God's son, cleansed him from sin. And he came and worked for Gulf Canada Resources. He worked for me. I can't tell you the number of times that he and his lovely wife and family, we would share times together. I traveled thousands of miles with him.