In these last days, God has spoken most clearly through His Son, Jesus Christ, offering a complete revelation that surpasses earlier communications through dreams, visions, or angels. While God used various means to communicate in the past, the written Word and Christ's sacrifice provide a perfect and accessible path to salvation. This revelation addresses the sin of humanity, offering cleansing through Christ's blood for those who trust in Him as their Savior. Furthermore, the sermon emphasizes the certainty of Christ's second coming, urging listeners to be prepared and to reject the scoffers who doubt His return, finding assurance in His finished work.
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A great love and blessed be, the love of God you stand for me. A great love, a blessed dream, a love that you'll shine for me. For nearly two thousand years the name of our Lord Jesus Christ has been the most popular and the most precious name that human lips have spoken, and there must be a reason. He has done more for the world than any other person, and he still stands ready to do even more, if only he can find needy ones who will put their trust in him.
Our one aim and desire is to magnify and extol his blessed name. Will you listen as we seek to sing his praises and tell of his wondrous love? This is Welcome Detweiler Speaking. Where will you be seated today?
Where will you be seated today? Where will you stand? Where will you be seated today? hearing, grueling, he did his job in praise the day. I did, my dear, my dear, she and his job was to stand up to say, Father, my dear, yes, my dear God is my day, to pray. Jesus is ready to take the blood, ready to receive it today.
Ready to take you and take your hope, Jesus is ready today. Ego, Ego, Ego, he had his devil to say, Willie, Willie, Willie, he had his devil to say, White, white, he had his devil to say, If you ask in my name, you say, Each of you, why did you hold this hand?
Why do we stand here today? Why did you speak to us, to go back? We both do, why did you say? Echol, echol, Echol, Echol, Echol, she has been told this day to day, He had his roses every day. Why did God bless me? Oh, he had his roses every day. Jesus is my way to say. My scripture reading is taken from the book of the Proverbs chapter three.
My son forget not my law, but let thine heart keep my commandments, for length of days and long life and peace shall they add to thee. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee, Bind them about thy neck, write them upon the table of thine heart. So shalt thou find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes. Fear the Lord, and depart from evil.
In shady green pastures so rich and so sweet, God needs his dear children alone. Where the waters pooled low, bays a weary wise babe, God lead his dear children alone.
Some through the water, some through the flood, some through the flood, but all through the blood. Some through great sorrow, the joy is the storm. In the night season, and all the day long. Though sorrows befall and saken of hope, God needs his dear children alone.
Through grace we can conquer, defeat all our foes. God needs his dear children alone. Come through the water, die through the flood, die through the forest, die through the flood.
Some too great for In the night we burn, and all the day long. The poem I've selected is entitled, The Mercies of God. The mercies of God, what a theme for my song.
Oh, I never could number them more. They are more than the stars in the heavenly dome, or the sands of the wave-beaten shore. They greet me at morn when I waken from sleep. They gladden my heart at the noon. They follow me on into shades of the night when the day with its labor is done. Tis angels of mercy encompass me round wheresoever my pathway may lead. Each turn of the road some new token reveals, Oh, for me life is blessed indeed. His goodness and mercy shall follow me still even on to the end of the way.
I have his sure promise, and that cannot fail, that his mercy endureth foray. For mercies so great, what return can I make? For mercies so constant and sure, I'll love Him. I'll serve Him with all that I have, as long as my life shall endure. God touch my ears that I may hear, above earth dim, thy voice ring clear. God touch my eyes that I might see the task thou'd have me to do for thee. God touch my lips that I might say words that reveal the narrow way.
God touch my hands that I might do deeds that lead men to Christ anew. God touch my feet that I might go to do thine errands here below. God touch my life that I might be aflame and ever glow for thee. Things, we meet in the presence of the Spirit of the Father, and all the Father.
To the creation, man of Calvary, Son of the Beloved, gave himself to me. Thank you.
Oh, I love to hear His word when you belong to me. You are not your own, but the Christ you know, and you might need your glory. Come, my Lord, you will hear His way. I have played you by my grave. And when I did this job, it was great to have just been, so that you see me. Faith is raised with Christ my Savior.Faith is with your heavenly feet.
When the rapture I behold him, Jesus Christ who died for me. Faith is red, I can behold him, far beyond the starry sky. Faith is in the glory flowing, I can lead him far and is faithful, faithful moment, faithful, faithful, faithful, faithful, faithful, faithful, faithful, faithful, faithful, faithful, faithful, faithful, faithful, faithful, faithful, faithful, May to
save him all his glory, I shall see him cry and cry. By thirst it is a barren land of sin and shame, And nothing satisfying there I come. But through the blended cross of Christ one day I came, With rings of living what is it above? I am drinking at the springs of living water. Happy now and by when all is satisfied. I am drinking at the springs of living water. Oh, wonderful and valuable supply.
Oh, sinner, won't you come today to Calvary? The fountain there is flowing deep and wide. The Savior now invites you to the water-free. Where there's been spirit can be satisfied, I am drinking at the springs of living water. Happy now am I, my soul is satisfied, I am drinking at the springs of living water.
Oh, wonderful and bountiful supply! Oh, wonderful! and bounding for the fire. God, who at sundry times and in divers' manners, spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by or through his sons, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the world. The term the last days, can apply to the conclusion of any given period of time.
The last days that the writer of the letter to the Hebrews has in mind refers to God's present dealings with the human family, in contrast to the former days when he spoke in different ways. In former dispensations men received a partial revelation of God, but in these last days he has given to us a perfect revelation through his Son. God is by no means limited to the agencies that he may choose to use to make himself known. But all the agencies of Old Testament days proved to be fragmentary, and the full and perfect revelation of God was not known before Christ, God's Son, came into the world.
In those earlier days God spoke to men on a number of occasions through dreams and visions. By this means he instructed men. It may be that God may still use this means of communication in regions where the full revelation of the Holy Scriptures are not available. But it is rather doubtful that God would use dreams where men have access to His divine complete revelation. We must remember that Satan takes advantage of the subconscious moment. He is not satisfied with controlling the minds of men while they are awake. but he would fill their minds with filthy dreams.
Then too, he may use this same means to fill their minds with lies regarding the way of salvation. For instance, a man may be convicted of his sins and may begin to inquire about the way of salvation. Satan will immediately seize the opportunity to quiet that troubled soul, and he may do it by causing that man to dream that he went to heaven and received a grand reception. Some people who are inclined to be emotional will conclude from such a dream that all must be well with the soul. They may refer to that dreamy experience as a conversion, but such events may be subtle traps set by the devil.
God is not in the habit of saving people in a dream, nor do men receive the assurance of salvation while they are asleep. There is no record in the Bible. that God spoke to men in a dream after the written word was completed. So the channel of dreams was used by God only in earlier days, but in these last days he has spoken more distinctly through his son. In the Christmas story that has just occupied our attention during the past few weeks, we were reminded that God also spoke to the human family by the medium of angels. The heavenly messenger was dispatched by God to visit Zacharias while he was performing the duties of priests, burning incense in the temple of the Lord.
Just a little later, the same visitor from heaven appeared to Mary in the city of Nazareth to announce to her that she was chosen among many women to be the mother of the long-awaited Messiah. For a period of some four hundred years heaven was silent. That is, no message from heaven was given until Gabriel appeared to Zechariah. A few months later he appeared to Mary, and a short time after that a heavenly host appeared with the angel who came to announce the birth of Christ to the shepherds in the meadows of Judea. For a little while the messengers of heaven were very active in carrying news from heaven to earth.
This means of communication was used frequently before the New Testament was completed. But since we have a complete revelation from heaven, the ministry of angels has not been used. There are a few religious cults who have tried to sell their strange religions on the basis that an angel appeared to announce the new religion. But their claims are very questionable. Because the messages that these late angels are supposed to have brought are in opposition to the word of God. I rather think that if some of these latter-day angels were examined very closely, it would reveal that they are mongrels or horned angels.
When Paul wrote his letter to the Galatian Christians, he defended the gospel of grace which he preached and went so far as to say that even if an angel from heaven preached any other gospel, he would be a curse. Perhaps Paul knew. that false Gospels would arise with a claim that they were true because some freak angel appeared to introduce the newfangled idea. From all that we read regarding the ministry of angels in the Bible, we may conclude that they served a very important purpose before the divine revelation was completed. But since that time there is no need for their ministry. For God who spoke in time past by these various means is now, in these last days, speaking to us through His Son.
And the divine revelation that God has been pleased to give concerning His beloved Son is a complete revelation. The record that God has given of His Son is very simple, so that the most illiterate can understand. Even a child can grasp the truth of God's revelation of His only begotten Son. Christ came to do for us what we could not do ourselves. He came to take our sins away. Surely this was something that we could not do ourselves. God's righteousness demanded that sinners must be cleansed before they can be admitted into heaven. And that cleansing required the life's blood of a sinless substitute.
Earth could not supply that blood. No being under the earth could supply that atoning sacrifice. Only heaven could provide a sinless substitute and the Lord Jesus Christ was willing to shed his own blood to cleanse us and to make us fit for the presence of God. First John one seven we read, And the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanseth us from all sins. John pointed to him and said, Behold, the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. Perhaps I should pause to ask my radio friend, Has he taken your sins away? He died on the cross for your sins.
He was punished for you. But you will never enter into the good of that unless you claim Him as your Savior or your substitute. The very moment that you will rest your soul upon His finished work, He will cleanse you from all sins and make you eligible to enter His spotless heaven. He is waiting to do this cleansing work in your heart, and as soon as He gets your permission, or your expression of desire to have it done, he will cancel the record of your sins. And to you he will say in the language of Isaiah forty-four twenty-two, I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgression, and as a cloud thy sin return unto me, for I have redeemed thee.
Now let's look at another portion of the Scripture where the expression, the last days, is used. This time I turn to Second Peter chapter three and verse three. Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. Scoffers have been present to announce their conceit and ignorance ever since God has spoken to man. But their numbers shall increase. as we approach the closing days of this glorious Gospel age.
The truth of God's Word which appears to be the most ridiculous to these self-elevated scoffers is the glorious truth of the coming again of the Lord Jesus Christ. Since all of the promises of God's Word are of equal value, I have no more difficulty in believing the truth of the personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ than I have regarding any other promise in God's infallible Word. The young believers of two millenniums ago did not believe that Christ would come the first time, but he came, and he came exactly according to the details of the prophecies of the Old Testament scriptures. God's prophetic clock is ticking away the hours, and when the appointed hour shall arrive, he who promised to come again will come again.
to complete the great work of redemption, that is, the redemption of our bodies. Each passing year brings us closer to that great event when every living Christian will be caught away from the earth, changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye. This glorious event is the grand anticipation of every blood-bought child of God. But there's a sad portion that accompanies this truth. for it is preparatory to days of judgment which shall come upon the earth for all who are left behind. The proud scoffer who now raises his head in a scornful attitude will then join those who cry to the rocks in the mountains to hide them from the wrath of the Lamb.
It may bring some sense of satisfaction to be a scoffer now, but there's a terrific afterwards which must follow. the seat of the scornful is always occupied by a very little fellow, who requires very little to occupy his mind. To put it in barnyard language, Peter is saying, In the last days there shall be a lot of little bantams strutting around, scoffing at the second coming of Christ. As Christians face another year, we do so, exclaiming, Perhaps this year, is the year when His blessed promise, I will come again, will be fulfilled.
If so, the new year means a speedy trip to heaven and home. I'm thankful that I can say I'm ready to go, for there was a time when I dreaded even the mention of His coming again. I knew it would mean that I would be left behind. I praise God for the assurance of God's precious word that all who are resting in Christ and His atoning sacrifice are ready to go even without a moment's notice. I covet this peace and assurance for you who have never put your trust in Christ. I ask you to lay aside your arms of rebellion. I ask you to forsake all your efforts to save yourself.
And as a lost and undone sinner, trust the Savior who loved you and died to save you. Why did they nail him to Calvary Street? Why tell me why was he there? Jesus the of a friend. Why tell me why was he He nailed them all to the tree.
Jesus, the death for me.
should he care? I do not merit the love he has shown. Why tell me, why should he care? He nailed them all to the tree.
Jesus, the death of my sin, for the He bade the ransom for me.