Christmas Day Message 25/12/2018

Micah ch5 vs2

Luke’s Gospel ch2 vs1 – 20

John’s Gospel ch1 vs14

“THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL”!

Well it’s Christmas morning again, and this means many things to many people, but undoubtedly most peoples minds are on opening their Christmas gifts. We who are Christians also have our minds on a gift, a most special gift - and it’s the very same gift we are all sharing!

The Apostle Paul describes it as “thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift”, or alternatively it is “his indescribable gift”, “a priceless gift” or “this gift that is too wonderful for words”.

Truly then, a gift that is like no other!

This is the gift that The Father above has given to all mankind – through the birth of His Son, who always was The Eternal Son of God -  The Lord Jesus Christ came into this world to be The Saviour of Sinners!

Our great gift had a very different start to any other Christmas gift. This first Christmas gift was not a last minute dash to the shop the day before, but was safely prepared and personally carried within her body for nine months!

Not a big box wrapped in shiny paper and decorated, but a small package weighing just a few pounds! When this special gift was delivered, the world was never to be the same place again!

When we are buying gifts for our family and friends, it has to be the right gift – there would be no point in buying aftershave for a man who was fully bearded all year round, or buying a percolator for someone who didn’t like coffee!

But the gift needs to be perfect for each person, and it has been said that a gift must meet three criteria for it to be considered perfect…

Criteria number 1:

The gift should reflect the one who gives it.

Criteria number 2:

The gift should reflect knowledge of the one who receives it. In other words, knowing their needs, desires and tastes.

Criteria number 3:

The gift should be of a nature and quality that will hold its value as time goes on.

By these same three criteria’s we know that God gave each and every person the perfect gift, when He sent His beloved Son, Jesus Christ, into the world to be miraculously born of a virgin…

Criteria number 1

 – Jesus Christ reflects The One who gave Him – God The Father!

The Word of God tells us “The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His being” (Hebrews ch1 vs3)

“The Son is the image of the invisible God” (Colossians ch1 vs15)

 Jesus Christ Himself said “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father”

 (John’s Gospel ch14 vs9)

Yes, The Father’s very words were spoken from the lips of Jesus Christ!

Also, The Father’s mercy and compassion were reflected in Christ’s actions, The Father’s most abundant provision was reflected through Christ’s generosity, and The Father’s great power and love was revealed to us through Jesus Christ.

Undoubtedly then, Jesus is the perfect gift, fully meeting Criteria number 1 - being the perfect reflection of The One who gave Him!

Criteria number 2

Again, Jesus is the perfect gift by most certainly reflecting knowledge of our individual needs and desires. God knew we all had a desperate need of a Saviour. We each are in need of a Redeemer, a Deliverer, and a true friend.  We needed someone who was fully God and fully Man, and no other than Jesus Christ could meet this need.

Being fully God enabled Jesus to pay the price of our sins in His own sinless body, which was laid down at Calvary’s Cross for you and I. Only His Deity alone enabled Christ to be the sacrifice which could bear the sins of the world and free us from the eternal condemnation and punishment we all otherwise deserved.

Yet, being fully Man, allowed Jesus to completely identify with what each of us personally go through each day, enabling Him to provide for all our needs and desires. Jesus is able to care for us in any daily situation we may face.

The Word of God tells us “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin” 

(Hebrews ch4 vs15)

Reverently speaking, if our greatest need had purely been information, then God could have just sent a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God could have just sent us an economist. Or if it had been pleasure, God could have just sent an entertainer.

But no, dear friend, the truth is our greatest need was to be saved from the penalty of our sins, and God – praise be! – sent us The Saviour!

Jesus Christ became our Substitute. We owed a great debt we could never pay, and in His most wonderful love, He paid a debt He did not owe.

Therefore, Criteria number 2 is totally met – Jesus Christ reflects full knowledge of each of our needs and desires!

Finally, Criteria number 3

The gift of Jesus IS of a nature and quality that will hold its value as time goes on – Jesus Christ’s value is absolutely eternal!

“… that whosoever believeth in him, shall NOT perish but have everlasting life”

(John’s Gospel ch3 vs16)

Dear friend, Jesus is the only gift that never expires, never goes out of style and never becomes obsolete!

Every generation, every man, woman, boy or girl needs a Saviour to lift them out of their sin and into the righteousness of God, through Jesus Christ.

Through Jesus Christ “we are brought into an inheritance that can NEVER perish, spoil or fade in Heaven” (1^st Peter ch1 vs4)

The quality of this gift for each person who will receive it is eternal!

Even though not a single one of us deserves this gift and all that flows from it, yet God freely gives Jesus to all, who will in faith and repentance, receive Him as their personal Saviour.

God’s love for us in Jesus Christ never fades or weakens, His love is ever constant and unfailing.

So, again, in Jesus Christ, Criteria number 3 is completely covered!

His gift IS of a nature and quality that will hold its value as time goes on!

We have joyfully received this perfect gift of a Saviour into our hearts and lives…

But what can we give back to God in return for such wonderful love given to us?

We can think about Mary, the virgin who bore The Christ – she had no array of gifts to give back to God, but she simply gave the only thing back she had – she gave herself!

Mary said “I am the Lord’s servant, may it be to me as you have said”

(Luke’s Gospel ch1 vs38)

Mary had no complaining, no excuses or postponing, just the immediate surrendering of her life to her Lord…

What better gift could a person return to The Lord Jesus Christ this Christmas?

This is what God really wants from each of us – simply to give our hearts to The Lord Jesus Christ, and to live our lives in obedience to His precious, living Word.

May we all do so, for His Name’s sake.

Merry Christmas!!

“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”

(James ch1 vs17)

Gospel Meeting 16/12/2018

John’s Gospel ch1 vs1 – 5, 10 -18.

If you were asked, what would you say was the greatest miracle of all time?

There are many choices, including ones with humour, but undoubtedly it is the birth of the eternal Son of God coming from Heaven and being born here of a virgin!

As our reading tonight says – He always was from the beginning, everything was made by Him, and yet He chose to step into time and take flesh here on Earth!

Truly beyond us to fully comprehend, yet such tremendous truths to dwell upon!

“Let earth and heaven combine,

Angels and men agree

To praise in songs divine

Th’ incarnate deity,

Our God contracted to a span,

Incomprehensibly made man”

-  (Words from hymn by C. Wesley)

A body was prepared for Him – fully man yet fully God!

He became man without ever ceasing to be God!

Why did the eternal Son of God become a human being? For our utmost blessings.

The Lord Jesus Christ is our Salvation!

He came as the long promised Saviour.

Jesus Christ was able to yield up His life as atonement for every person’s sins.

His body and His life were unique - , because He was completely without sin. He could not sin because He is Holy God!

When the Holy Spirit touched Mary, she conceived.

“And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women”.

- Luke’s Gospel ch1 vs28

Important to note here, that Mary was highly favoured AMONG women, not OVER women… and herself not to be worshipped. Mary was still a sinner, the same as you, me, and the entire human race!

“And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory”.

-  1^st Timothy ch3 vs16.

“That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us)…

-  1^st Epistle of John ch1 vs1 – 2.

Dear friend, in His great love, the eternal Son of God came, took a body, that He could live a sinless life and sacrifice that body upon The Cross, that each of us can be forgiven and not be condemned to eternal punishment. This is love, grace and mercy!

His soul and body suffered intense agony when He was made sin for our sake – both before He arrived at The Cross, and during.

No man suffered more than Jesus Christ did.

“…But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross”.

-  Philippians ch2 vs7 – 8.

Dear friend, will you not accept Jesus Christ’s offer of this full and free Salvation?

Will you reject His great love for you – He who paid your debt of sin in full by His own body and shed blood?

There is no other means of forgiveness, no other way to Heaven, than through repentance and faith in this God- this God who came and took flesh!

Please come to Him this night, in true sorrow and repentance, confessing you are a sinner and forsaking your sinful way of life.

“And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins”.

- Matthew’s Gospel ch1 vs21.

Gospel Meeting 02/12/2018

The Acts of the Apostles ch26 vs1 – 32.

Paul’s absolutely solid conviction was that Jesus Christ rose from the dead.

Those who know this awesome truth are compelled to share it!

Jesus Christ rose again because His Father fully accepted the sacrifice of His Sons sinless body and shed blood on The Cross to pay the terrible price of all our sins. 

Previously, Paul was the arch – enemy of Christians, going to great lengths to persecute them before he met Jesus Christ in that amazing personal encounter on the road to Damascus. He was addressed by the living God!

He testifies that having met Jesus Christ, He then transformed his life.

This is what Jesus Christ does – millions of Christians all over the world – and myself  included – can say “HE CHANGES LIVES!”, by personally asking Him into your heart and life.

Jesus Christ, God’s eternal Son, stepped into time and came to us to be our Saviour – the Saviour of sinners. He was the only one never to have sinned on this Earth – He couldn’t, as He was Holy God in the flesh! Our Emmanuel (God with us!), voluntarily laid down His life at Calvary, taking our punishment upon Himself.

Friend, if you do not know this one and only Saviour yet, please come to Him this day in faith and in repentance of your sinful way of life. His precious shed blood will cleanse you of all sin, and be made fit to enter Heaven for eternal life.

He is the most wonderful Man to know!

So Paul gave his testimony to the King and explained that God now had this job for him to do – preaching the Gospel (good news) to the Gentile people.

Though in chains and suffering many things Paul was not ashamed and loved preaching the Gospel.

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”

- Romans ch1 vs16.

Paul then went on to explain this Gospel and the scriptures to the King.

There is only one message, one Gospel!

“This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into this world to save sinners, of whom I am chief”.

- Paul speaking, from 1^st Timothy ch1 vs15.

vs18 in tonight’s reading tells us that we need to move from darkness into light, in order to move ourselves from certain death into certain life.

“I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life” – Jesus Christ speaking, from John’s Gospel ch8 vs12.

Why do so many people prefer the darkness? …

“And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved”

- Jesus Christ speaking, from John’s Gospel ch3 vs19 – 20.

People everywhere desperately need to have their eyes opened to these great truths in the Word of God!

“But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them”

- Paul speaking, from 2^nd Corinthians ch4 vs4

Do you believe there is a real devil deceiving as many people as he can?

Friend, beware, he is still so very active in our world today!

Forget the false pictures of horns and prong – he deceptively appears “as an angel of light”! (2^nd Corinthians ch11 vs14).

You can be delivered from his power by accepting the Gospel of The Lord Jesus Christ.

Festus was having none of it, rudely answering Paul, but Paul responded graciously – a good lesson for all we who are Christians having conversation with the unsaved.

Having been accused of “losing it”, Paul had “found truth” rather!

“But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behaviour in Christ may be ashamed of their slander”

- Peter speaking from 1^st Peter ch3 vs15 -16.

Jesus Christ convicts us that we are sinners, desperately in need of the Saviour, and many people still do not like to accept this absolute truth.

 People all around us say they are good and not living bad lives, but the Word of God says different…

“All have turned away, they have together become worthless,; there is no one who does good, not even one” – Paul speaking from Romans ch3 vs12.

King Agrippa also rejected Jesus Christ – despite knowing these things - what a tragedy that he “almost” had his sins forgiven, and “almost” escaped an eternal Hell!

He chose darkness, having come so close to the light.

Was he perhaps embarrassed at what Caeser or his own family might have thought, had he bowed the knee and given his heart and life to The Lord Jesus Christ?

Friend, I sincerely hope that nothing will hold you back today from asking Jesus Christ to be your Saviour. Nothing is worth choosing the darkness and its eternal consequences over the light, forgiveness and life eternal with this wonderful Man!

Nothing and no one is worth rejecting Christ for!

“The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God” – Paul speaking from 1^st Corinthians ch1 vs18.

Gospel Meeting 25/11/2018

Mark’s Gospel ch1 vs40 – 45

In this passage of scripture The Lord Jesus Christ performs another marvellous miracle, but there is a note of sadness afterwards.

Here, a man is suffering from leprosy – a most vile, horrible condition to bear.

He pleaded to be healed, absolutely knowing that Jesus Christ was able to do so immediately. Jesus Christ could have just spoken the word and healed him, but moved with compassion, He did what no other would have dared to do – touch him!

Leprosy is very contagious, and sufferers made people aware not to come anywhere near them.

However, Jesus Christ is no ordinary Man! He is the greatest physician ever, being God in the flesh!

No-one is beyond His healing, of any nature.

All manner of these horrible diseases were brought about by human rebellion against God, disobeying His truth and bringing sin into the world. God’s loving Creation was never intended to be like this.

Having instantly healed the man, Jesus Christ gave him a strong warning that he was not to tell anyone, but go to the priest and carry out the procedures laid down in the Law for those who had become free from leprosy (Leviticus ch14).

Having then been certified as being clean, he would be free to rejoin the community.

But the man did not follow The Lord’s charge, instead he began to tell everyone what had happened, to the extent that The Lord could no longer publicly enter a city because of the crowds. Very likely he was proclaiming Jesus Christ, but it was misplaced zeal and a very important lesson that we should all obey His word in every way. He knows everything – we do not!

The man preferred to do things his own way.

It is really sad that the song most chosen to be played at one’s funeral in these times is “I Did It My Way”. 

How tragic to enter into a lost eternity without God by doing things your own way!

Jesus Christ made it very clear there was only ONE way –

“I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the father, but by me”

- John’s Gospel ch14 vs6.

Many people came to Jesus Christ and all were healed.

Friend, He invites you to come to Him tonight for the greatest gift ever – forgiveness of your sins through His personal sacrifice for them on Calvary’s Cross. He gave His life’s blood for them - this is how much He loves you and wants you to be in Heaven with Him forever!

“… him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out”

- John’s Gospel ch6 vs37.

The Lord Jesus Christ is the ONLY way to gain forgiveness for your sins, have peace with God, and an eternal home in Heaven.

Please do not be like the leper - he took the healing and the blessing, yet decided to go his own way.

Friend, come in repentance and faith tonight, receive Him as your Lord and Saviour, if you have never yet done so.

1) I have decided to follow Jesus;

I have decided to follow Jesus;
I have decided to follow Jesus;

No turning back, no turning back.

2) The world behind me, the cross before me;
The world behind me, the cross before me;
The world behind me, the cross before me;

No turning back, no turning back.

3) Though none go with me, still I will follow;
Though none go with me, still I will follow;
Though none go with me, still I will follow;

No turning back, no turning back.

4) My cross I’ll carry, till I see Jesus;
My cross I’ll carry, till I see Jesus;
My cross I’ll carry, till I see Jesus;

No turning back, no turning back.

5) Will you decide now to follow Jesus?
Will you decide now to follow Jesus?
Will you decide now to follow Jesus?
No turning back, no turning back.

Gospel Meeting 11/11/2018

John’s Gospel ch17 vs1 – 26.

7 things concerning the believing people, those given from the Father to His Eternal Son – Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ is God’s love – gift to the world (John’s Gospel ch3 vs16), and believers are The Father’s love – gift to Jesus Christ.

1)  Purpose

Jesus Christ has all authority to give eternal life to those believing people whom The Father has given Him. (vs2 – 3).

“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish …”

- John’s Gospel ch10 vs27, 28.

2)  Possession

We are Jesus Christ’s possession, we belong to Him! (vs6)

Friend, it is a stark choice – each of us either serve Christ or Satan – who are you belonging to for time and eternity?

“Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters”

- Luke’s Gospel ch11 vs23.

3)  Process

Each believer is taken out of the world and separated from the world (vs6)

“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him”. – 1^st John ch2 vs15.

4)  Positives 

Christ wants His own abundant joy and peace to be inside each of us! (vs13)

Assured of our Salvation and eternal destination through His atoning work on The Cross… a joyful people for Himself!

“Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ” – Romans ch5 vs1.

5)  Preservation

We are all safe under Divine guardianship!

Not one of us is lost or will be (vs11 – 12)

“… neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. I and my Father are one”

- John’s Gospel ch10 vs28 -30.

“Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus” – Philippians ch1 vs6.

6)  Presence

We will be together with The Lord Jesus Christ! He wants us in His presence! (vs24)

Friend, never listen or be deceived by the lies of the world – the only way into Heaven is through The Lord Jesus Christ.

“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” – John’s Gospel ch14 vs6.

7)  Permanence

This is not just a visit – we shall see and share His glory for a never – ending eternity! (vs22, 24)

“For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ shall arise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever” – 1^st Thessalonians ch4 vs16, 17.

In this we see the full cycle and fulfilment - from Purpose to Permanence!

Absolutely secure in and through God’s Son, Jesus Christ.

Friend, if you are still outside of these richest blessings of The Lord Jesus Christ, then with all my heart I encourage you this night to bow the knee to Him, who is the only Saviour of sinners.

Please do not leave it too late like so many others ( Luke’s Gospel ch16 vs19 – 31), but make a decision to accept Him as your personal Lord and Saviour. Turning away from your sinful life, in faith ask Jesus Christ to forgive you and with His sinless blood given at Calvary’s Cross He will cleanse you.

“Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near”

- Isaiah ch55 vs6.

Gospel Meeting 04/11/2018

Exodus ch3 vs1 – 22, ch4 vs1 – 17.

God’s Commission of Moses.

God had heard the groaning of the children of Israel, by reason of their bondage to Pharaoh in Egypt.

God was to take them out of this bondage and into a promised land, flowing with milk and honey.

Moses was the man that God wanted to go to Pharaoh, saying let my people leave.

Moses was a man in hiding, at the backside of the desert, due to his past life in Egypt. He was a runaway and most certainly did not want to go back into Egypt.

As in this case, God can speak to us at a least expected time – Moses was tending his father in laws sheep!

What is this man going to hear from God?!

He was therefore called to a task he feels is way to big for him.

To go to mighty Pharaoh and deliver God’s people from their oppressor!

Moses was no doubt thinking how can I possibly go back into Egypt and do this.

“Brothers and sisters, think of what you were before you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things – and the things that are not – to nullify the things that are, so that no-one can boast before him”.

- 1^st Corinthians ch1 vs26 – 29.

God has a plan for every believer’s life.

Here we pause for a moment, and ask you dear reader, a question – are you maybe not there yet?

Have you still to bow the knee to The Lord Jesus Christ? Have you not repented of your sins and sinful way of life yet?  Have you not put your faith and trust in Him, asking forgiveness yet? Is He not your Lord and Saviour yet? Are you not cleansed of the consequences of your sins through His shed blood on The Cross yet?

Are you merely making your life up as you go along, or are you obediently following God’s purpose for your daily life?

Dear reader, tarry no longer – call upon The Lord Jesus Christ tonight and be saved for eternity. Make your peace with God, through His beloved Son, before it is forever too late for you to accept.

Every one of us has a gift that God can use.

We can do all manner of things – but in His strength, not our own!

There is a whole world of tasks waiting to be done for His Name’s sake

Are we all following His plan – or are we like Moses, trying to find excuses?

 “they won’t believe me”, “I am not eloquent”, “please send someone else”!

Or maybe we are saying “I have a past, how can I possibly do that”?

God answered all Moses’ fears and excuses, giving assurance that He would be with him.

Eventually, Moses is obedient and begins his journey.

Are you now prepared to start your personal journey for Jesus Christ?

It will require faith and trust in your Lord and Saviour.

It may not be easy, and it will very likely ask a sacrifice of something in your life.

Moses’ task was seemingly way beyond his abilities, but God helped him to achieve it.

Ask The Lord to lead you on the journey he has planned for you – tonight!

Gospel Meeting 28/10/2018

John’s Gospel ch17 vs17

Hebrew’s ch10 vs31

“God’s Word Says”

Today, countless people mock God and His Word – a most dangerous thing to do!

Their attitude is often “have you nothing better to do than to preach that rubbish”.

How many in our land would say they still fear God?

Many people simply believe what they have made up in their own hearts and minds – often which is compatible with their own lifestyles. It is usually without any foundation!

Christian people the world over believe that the Holy Bible is the inspired Word of God - infallible and completely trustworthy.

“Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost”.

-  2^nd Peter ch1 vs20 – 21.

In this land at present, there is a severe lack of warning about God’s Judgement Day which is approaching. Countless people are refusing to accept that they are fully responsible for the way they live their lives, but nevertheless, it will have eternal consequences for each one.

Every person will spend a never ending eternity in either Heaven or Hell.

What Almighty God has said matters infinitely more than what mortal man thinks!

Mankind has invented many ways in which one can get into Heaven, but these are all lies and have deceived millions of people. The devil is the father of lies and loves to give false hope!

So what does God’s truth say…?

“This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief”.

- 1^st Timothy ch1 vs15.

Who are the sinners, you may ask? 

Dear friend, that is me, you, and everyone else that has ever lived, apart from God’s Son, Jesus Christ. He is completely sinless!

“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God…”

- Romans ch3 vs23.

To disobey God is sin - and we are all totally guilty!

All sin is an abhorrent offence against Holy God, our Creator, and if our sins are not dealt with and forgiven, it will end in us being forever separated from God in a lost eternity.

“And it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgement”.

- Hebrews ch9 vs27.

God’s Judgement Day is an absolutely fact, and each one of us must make sure that we are forgiven and have made our peace with God before it is too late forever!

Thankfully there is ONE WAY that we can be forgiven – God provided His only Son, Jesus Christ, to be our Saviour of sinners.

This was foretold by God, centuries before Jesus Christ descended from Heaven and became a Man …

 “But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from old, from everlasting”.

- Micah ch5 vs2.

The “child” was born in Bethlehem, but the “Son” was from everlasting!

“For unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord”.

- Luke’s Gospel ch2 vs11.

This ONE WAY requires a personal faith in who The Lord Jesus Christ is, and in His atoning sacrifice for our sins at Calvary’s Cross.

Come to Jesus Christ, and being sorry for your sins, ask His forgiveness and invite Him into your heart and life as Lord and Saviour.

“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast”.

- Ephesians ch2 vs8 – 9.

Friend, how is your track record going to look on Judgement Day?

You cannot save yourself!

There will be no debate!

 Now, today, is when you can be forgiven and saved.

How many countless people will die in this world before tomorrow comes and find themselves in eternity?

What an eternal tragedy to die in your sins!

Heaven… So what does God say about it …?

The Lord Jesus Christ is there, and so will every person who have put their personal faith and trust in Him!

“In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also”.

- John’s Gospel ch14 vs3.

There will be no sin! No tears! No pain! No worries! No mental illness! No death!

“But as it is written, eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for those that love him”.

- 1 Corinthians ch2 vs9.

Friend, by faith in the cleansing blood of Jesus Christ, I will be spending my eternity there!  – will you?

Only ONE WAY – God’s way, not the devils lies!

“… I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me”.

- John’s Gospel ch14 vs6.

Hell … So what does God say about it …?

It is the only other eternal destination.

For the unsaved, those who have not accepted Jesus Christ’s offer of forgiveness through His sinless sacrifice on The Cross.

There shall be weeping and nashing of teeth.

Utter blackness and forever separated from God.

An eternity of torment and punishment for unforgiven sins.

It is the most awful real place and to be avoided at all costs.

Oh what could have been, if only one had repented and believed the Gospel!

Friend, will you be there?

Each of us are in full need of the only Saviour of sinners!

Please accept the love of Jesus Christ and His Salvation He freely offers you tonight, before it is too late.

Do not be deceived by the devils lies, but heed the abiding truth of God’s Word.

Any person may only be a heartbeat away from one of these two eternal destinations.

Please make your decision for Christ tonight!

1.

O soul, are you weary and troubled?

No light in the darkness you see?

There’s a light for a look at the Saviour,

And life more abundant and free! 

Chorus.

Turn your eyes upon Jesus,

Look full in His wonderful face,

And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,

In the light of His glory and grace.

2.

Through death into life everlasting

He passed, and we follow Him there;

Over us sin no more hath dominion—

For more than conquerors we are!

3. 

His Word shall not fail you—He promised;

Believe Him, and all will be well:

Then go to a world that is dying,

His perfect salvation to tell!

(Hymn by H. Lemmel)

Gospel Meeting 14/10/2018

John’s Gospel ch10 vs14 – 18, 25 – 30.

THE GOOD SHEPHERD.

The Lord Jesus Christ told of “bad shepherds of Israel”, who did not attend to the spiritual needs of the people, and compared them with thieves, robbers and hirelings.

The Lord Jesus Christ is the true and Good Shepherd, and concerning this, the speaker gave the Gospel message three headings:

a)    The Love of the Shepherd

b)    The Life of the Shepherd

c)    The Leading of the Shepherd

a)     The Love of the Shepherd …

We can all know some things about someone, but to really know someone involves being in a relationship with them.

The Lord says He knows who are His, and those of us who are His know Him. Not in a general head knowledge way, but in a special, spiritual and saving knowledge, trusting Him with all one’s heart.

(vs15) His love for us is so strong and true that He gave His life for us all, that we can be forgiven for our sins and their penalty.

“… the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me”.

-      Galatians ch2 vs20.

Friend, you too can write your own name into this verse, because of His great love in dying for you personally!.

A relationship requires a two way response. A shepherd calls out to his sheep and only those sheep that belong to him will respond to his voice.

Have you responded to The Saviour’s voice?

Have you made a decision to the Gospel of The Lord Jesus Christ?

Can you say with all your heart Jesus Christ is your own Lord and Saviour?

So many people make so many excuses and hold back from His loving call.

Friend, what is it that would hold you back from accepting Jesus Christ, The Son of God, as your Good Shepherd?

For all who turn to Jesus Christ in faith and repenting of their sins, have a great peace and joy enter into their hearts. You too, can know with absolute assurance that He has paid the price of your sins in full on The Cross and no longer facing eternal judgement.

The extent of His love was shown at Calvary, when He took our punishment on His sinless body, being crucified.

Jesus Christ knows His sheep as well as His Father knows Him!

He is offering you an infinite eternal relationship!

Eternity is truly forever, where will you choose to spend it – Heaven or Hell?

Please embrace His love tonight before it is too late and the choice is forever gone.

b)     The Life of the Shepherd …

A good shepherd would be willing to defend his sheep to the end against wild animals, and the Lord Jesus Christ laid down His own life for everyone.

Only He had the power to end His own life by literally dismissing His Spirit (Luke’s Gospel ch23 vs46).

He let no man take His life, but voluntarily laid it down for you and I.

But He also had the power to take it up again – we are not preaching to you a dead Saviour tonight! The grave could not ever hold the sinless, eternal Son of God!

Friend, the whole purpose of Jesus Christ coming here from Heaven and taking flesh was in order to give that sinless body as a sacrifice for the sins of everyone in the world.

“All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all”.

-       Isaiah ch53 vs6.

No one is excluded from the love and Salvation of The Lord Jesus Christ – only you can exclude yourself and reject His most wonderful love.

Tonight He still bids you to come, whoever you are!

“Come unto me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest”.

-       Matthew’s Gospel ch11 vs28”.

c)      The Leading of the Shepherd …

The shepherd walks in front and the sheep follow. The sheep trust him.

In tonight’s passage (vs16), The Lord tells us that there will one flock and one shepherd, and there are other sheep He must bring into this flock. These sheep are us, Gentiles -  not of Israel.

“That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ”.

-       Ephesians ch2 vs12- 13.

“I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture”.

-      John’s Gospel ch9 vs10.

You WILL be saved! – and be provided with sustenance.You will have His security forever (vs28 – 29).

Not any kind of life, but an eternal life of complete quality in Heaven with The Good Shepherd!

Friend, you cannot do one thing to save yourself from the punishment of your sins, but call out to the one Saviour that has been provided for us.

I pray that this night you too can say with all your heart, the words of David in Psalm ch23 - 

“The Lord is MY shepherd; I shall not want”.

Gospel Meeting 07/10/2018

Mark’s Gospel ch1 vs21 – 38.

In this passage of scripture, all were impressed with the authority which Jesus Christ showed in the synagogue.

He had complete authority both in His teaching and having control over evil spirits.

The Lord Jesus Christ had every right to His full authority!

“All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me “

-    Matthew’s Gospel ch28 vs18.

Jesus Christ had words like no other – and completely unlike the scribes.

They strictly taught the law of Moses and were dry, dull and uninspiring, tying the people up in endless rules and regulations. They would even contravene God’s laws.

However, the common people gladly heard Him, for they understood His words.

Even the demons know that this Man is unique!

 “JESUS, the name high over all,

In hell, or earth, or sky:

Angels and men before it fall,

And devils fear and fly”.

(Words from hymn by C.Wesley)

Jesus Christ’s fame spread immediately over the whole region for He was like no other!

Yet this same One, who came from the highest place of all, humbled Himself to take the lowest place of all – for you and I.

“In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death – even death on a cross!

-    Philippians ch2 vs5 – 8.

“For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him”.

-   2^nd Corinthians ch5 vs21.

Jesus Christ took flesh in order that He would lay down His sinless life as the only acceptable sacrifice for our sins, taking our punishment upon Himself.

If you have not personally accepted His offer of Salvation, then why not come in faith to Him this night and in repentance of your sins?

Whoever you are and whatever you may have done wrong, He earnestly bids you come.

He loves you so much that bled and died for you – and is now ascended back to Heaven preparing a home for those who have accepted Him as Lord and Saviour.

Why not you, dear friend?

Tonight you can know the peace and joy of having all your sins forgiven and the certainty of an eternal home in Heaven – with the One who loved you and gave Himself for you!

“Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father”.

- Philippians ch2 vs9 – 11.

Gospel Meeting 30/09/2018

John’s Gospel ch4 vs46 -54.

Having come out of Judea into Galilee, this was the second miracle by Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ gave miracles as signs to show exactly and clearly who He was.

There are seven recorded miracles that Jesus Christ did, but at the latter end and conclusion of John’s Gospel account he informs us –

“And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name” (ch20 vs30 -31).

“And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen” (ch21 vs25).

A recent survey of 18 -24 year old's showed that 60% did believe in miracles, yet only 15% believed in the miracles performed by Jesus Christ.

“Ye men of Israel, here these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: Him, being delivered by the determinate council and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it”.

-  The Acts ch2 vs22 – 24.

Dear reader, do you believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God?

Are you saved from your sins through faith in His sacrifice on The Cross, and in repentance of your sinful lifestyle?

If not, then God says all are “dead in trespasses and sins”, and under eternal condemnation and punishment for them. All sin is abhorrent and must be dealt with.

“For God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God”.

-  John’s Gospel ch3 vs16 – 18.

My plea tonight dear Friend, is that you are not one of the unsaved souls in this lost position! 

Accept His full and free Salvation with all your heart!

Tonight’s passage of scripture shows us more of Jesus Christ’s great love, grace and mercy towards us.

Here, a nobleman, an official of King Herod and having much authority, but was still unable to solve the great problem in his own family.

His son was dying.

He had heard about Jesus Christ, and came to meet Him.

“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God”.

-    Romans ch10 vs17.

So many people today will not have faith, they want more signs.

 However, after His resurrection, Jesus Christ said to His disciple

“Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed”.

-   John’s Gospel ch20 vs29.

The nobleman, for all his standing, was without pride and begged of The Lord Jesus Christ to come to Capernaum and heal his child.

Each of us can be guilty at times of thinking we are able to sort all situations by ourselves, but only certain things can be truly attended to and solved by Jesus Christ.

Concerning our own great sin problem, we can never do enough ourselves to gain forgiveness for even one of them, let alone a lifetime’s horrendous amount.

The best ever news though, is that Jesus Christ HAS done all the work and paid ALL the price for us!

Don’t focus on self – we are all helpless to find forgiveness through anything we might try to do – but look on Jesus Christ.

Salvation for all was achieved at Calvary’s Cross, solely through His body sacrificed and His cleansing blood given.

Like this nobleman, only Jesus Christ can help you.

It is one thing hearing -  but he sought Christ and came unto him personally.

Friend, it takes an action – a decision is required!

Have you been to Jesus? Will you come and ask Him to be your Saviour tonight?

The nobleman asked The Lord Jesus Christ to heal his son, and he believed the words of Jesus (vs50), and went his way.

The words of The Lord are all powerful – even over distance or time!

“Thy son liveth” – The Lord healed his child without even being with him, and he recovered at the very same hour as the words were spoken!

Tonight, Jesus Christ is saying to you personally that He can save you too from the eternal penalty of your sins.

What peace and joy will fill your heart and mind to know that all is well between you and Holy God!

The great gulf between you and God caused by your sin can be bridged forever by accepting His Son in faith and repentance!

“Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ”.

-    Romans ch5 vs1.

“Nothing in my hand I bring,

Simply to The Cross I cling;

Naked, come to thee for dress;

Helpless, look to thee for grace;

Foul, I to the fountain fly;

Wash me, Saviour, or I die”

(words of hymn by A. Toplady).

The nobleman heard/ came to Jesus/ believed/was saved, and his whole house.

Friend, take firm hold of these eternal truths tonight!

Gospel Meeting 23/09/2018

Matthew’s Gospel ch4 vs13 – 17.

The Lord Jesus Christ, having been rejected by His own in Nazareth for revealing he was The Messiah, now moved to Capernaum.

Despite His uniqueness and having the indisputable credentials foretold in the Old Testament scriptures, the people tried to cast him over a cliff.

Jesus Christ fulfilled over 350 prophesies, completely showing that he was indeed the Son of God.

Still now, in this chapter, Jesus Christ was fulfilling the prophecy of Isaiah (ch9) from over 700 years previously!

Capernaum was a most suitable place for The Lord to continue His preaching.

It was north of the Sea of Galilee, on the trade route between Damascus and the Mediterranean. It had good access and had a mixture of Jew and Gentile.

The people were in spiritual darkness, but now The Light of the world had come!

Jesus Christ sought to bring peoples together to gain the full blessings of God.

“And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall here my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd”.

-    John’s Gospel ch10 vs16.

Sadly, many people today are still groping in spiritual darkness, refusing to come to The Light, and walking in the shadow of death.

“O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?”

-   Romans ch7 vs24.

Like Paul here, we are all sinners needing a Saviour to forgive us from the eternal penalty of our sins against Holy God.

By the grace of God, we have been provided a Saviour – God’s Son, Jesus Christ.

“For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ”.

-   2^nd Corinthians ch4 vs6.

“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that is not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast”.

-  Ephesians ch2 vs8 – 9.

Any and all who will come in repentance and faith to The Lord Jesus Christ, believing who He is and in His atoning work on The Cross shall be saved from Hell and have an eternal home in Heaven.

Friend, if you have not yet done so in your short life here, I urge you to ask His forgiveness this night for all your sins.

“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit”.

-   Romans ch8 vs1.

What not a single one of us could do God has done!

Through Jesus Christ, who is God and Man, this One only can reconcile us to the one true and living God.

At Calvary’s Cross, the sinless Son of God, Jesus Christ, laid down His life, was crucified, was buried, and three days later rose again from the grave – for you personally! He paid our debt in full, through His great love, grace and mercy.

We all matter so much to God, and He most dearly loves you too Friend, no matter what you may have done in your life. The blood of Jesus can cleanse you of all your guilt and sins. Simply come to Him while there is still time.

He longs for your repentance and for you to come out of darkness into light.

“Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life”.

-  John’s Gospel ch8 vs12.

Why reject certain life for certain death?

Hearing the Gospel is a great privelege and to be acted upon personally!

How deadly serious it is to reject The Saviour that God has provided for us all, in His most wonderful love.

“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me”.

- John’s Gospel ch14 vs6.

Gospel Meeting 16/09/2018

Matthew’s Gospel ch12 vs38 -42

Jonah ch1 vs1- 3, 15 – 17, ch2 vs1 – 10, ch3 vs1 -5, ch4 vs1 – 11

Jonah was a unique prophet, having a very short message to preach (ch3 vs4). 

In the original Hebrew it has only five words.

Isaiah, as a typical example, has numerous instances of The Lord speaking to him with many messages for various people.

The speaker broke tonight’s message into three headings:

a) The Sign of Jonah

Ninevah was a large and most sinful city, known for its idolatry and atrocities.

Jonah absolutely did not want to go and preach there - not due to fear, but because he did not want them to repent and rather face God’s judgement.

Jonah disobeyed God and travelled in the opposite direction. He was doing his best to run away from God and his heart was hardened.

He had been given an opportunity to preach the Word of God, and now desiring to be thrown off the ship into the sea!

The Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah – and this finally got Jonah to speak to God! (ch2).

This was the only sign that Jesus Christ would give to the demanding scribes and Pharisees – Jonah spent three days and nights captive in the depths of the sea, before being released out onto dry land … Jesus Christ would be dead and buried for three days and three nights before being resurrected from his tomb – foretelling His death and resurrection.

“… Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day, according to the scriptures: And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also …”

- 1^st Corinthians ch15 vs3 – 8.

b) The Preaching of Jonah

It was the most simple message!

The people of Ninevah had forty days to repent of their sinful way of life, or face God’s judgement upon them.

They did repent, from the common person right up to the king, who decreed a fast!

God relented upon them.

Dear Reader, this is the same message that God has given mankind – including you and I - for thousands of years …

“… repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ”.

- The Acts ch20 vs21

It is the same simple message – The Saviour has come!

He is completely able and willing to save you from the eternal judgement of your sins!

God delights in mercy …

“But because of his great love for us, God who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions – it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – not by works, so that no one can boast”.

- Ephesians ch2 vs4 -9.

Yet Jonah was still angry (ch4) and through the hardness of his heart wanted God to pour judgement out on these people.

His heart was without compassion – unlike God’s, and Jonah admits such, here in ch4 vs1 – 2.

c) A Greater than Jonah

The Lord Jesus Christ told the scribes and Pharisees that through the preaching of Jonah the people of Ninevah repented of their sins, but that He Himself was greater than Jonah – or Soloman.

Jesus Christ IS God!

The Father in His great compassion towards us gave us His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for our sins that we might be forgiven.

Dear Reader, will you repent of your sins tonight?

Will you accept in faith The Lord Jesus Christ as your own Saviour?

He laid down His sinless life, shedding His precious blood on The Cross for you,

having the power to take up His life again, three days later, His sacrifice fully accepted and justified.

“For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men”.

- Titus ch2 vs11.

Gospel Meeting 09/09/2018

Luke’s Gospel ch17 vs11 -14.

Here we have but one day and one experience of the Person of Christ.

Who is Jesus Christ? What do we know about Him?

When he walked this Earth people asked where He had come from.

Sadly, many people today do not want to know anything about Him and only use His Name as a swear word.

Reader, what do YOU think of Jesus Christ? Who do YOU say that He is?

His Name and Person is unique! He is completely unlike any other person!

Although Jesus Christ was born of a virgin in Bethlehem, it was not His beginning.

The Word of God explains to us that He always was!

“But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth  have been from of old, from everlasting”.

-    Micah ch5 vs2.

“All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made”

“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

-   John’s Gospel ch1 vs3 & 14.

Fully God, yet fully Man – the only perfect Man!

We are all tarnished by our sins, but the Eternal Son of God was holy, pure, undefiled and separate from sinners.

Though Jesus Christ left the heights of glory, He came to this Earth in humble fashion – born in a stable, living in the despised Nazareth, and working as a carpenter.

However, in His ministry He performed many miracles, proving who He was and where He had come from.

“And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written”.

-    John’s Gospel ch21 vs25.

The life of The Lord Jesus Christ was ever heading towards His one purpose – He was going to Jerusalem to lay down His life as a sinless sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. He set His face as a flint! (Isaiah ch50 vs7)

Dear friend that includes you and me, praise His Name!

There was absolutely no other way that we could be forgiven for our sins.

No amount of good works or anything else could ever save us from being rightly judged and condemned to an eternal Hell.

But the most wonderful truth is that this Man loved us all so much He was able and willing to have all our sins placed upon Him and face the wrath of His Holy Father in Heaven.

God had to become flesh in order to bleed and die - for you and I friend!

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life”.

- John’s Gospel ch3 vs16.

“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!”

-   Romans ch5 vs8 -9.

What will YOU do with this Man?

What is your opinion of Jesus Christ?

Is your heart not touched by His most wonderful love, grace and mercy for you?

Where you will spend Eternity – Heaven or Hell – depends on your personal answer.

“ … but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgement: So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation”

-   Hebrews ch9 vs26 -28.

The ten lepers in our reading tonight would love to have drawn near to The Lord Jesus Christ, but because their condition was highly contagious they were outcasts from society.

Their condition could not be ignored, and this is exactly the same of ourselves and our sin problem.

Leprosy brought death – and so do our sins!

“But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin when it is finished, bringeth forth death”.

-  James ch1 vs14 – 15.

We are all separated from God because of our sin.

These ten lepers were really fed up and badly wanted help. They were unable to help themselves in any way, but knew that The Man in front of them most definitely could!

No priest or doctor could heal them, but The Lord Jesus Christ is unlike any other – He is God in the flesh!

Likewise, Jesus Christ alone is able to cleanse us from our sins and their eternal consequences.

At Calvary’s Cross over 2000 years ago, He took all our sins and guilt upon Himself.

“For Christ also hath suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God … “.

-  1^st Peter ch3 vs18.

Friend, He endured such agony to bear our judgement, taking God’s full wrath.

Shortly before He went to The Cross, Jesus Christ was so troubled knowing exactly what laid ahead in being made our sin, that His sweat was like great drops of blood falling down to the ground

(see Luke’s Gospel ch22 vs39 – 46).

What love He has for you and me!

Leaving the heights of glory and peace to come right down to a cruel Cross.

Receiving mocking, spitting and hatred without having done one thing wrong.

Jesus Christ fulfilled God’s plan for our Salvation – to all who will accept Him we are no longer condemned to an eternal Hell separated from God … SAVED!!

Will you accept this most loving Man Jesus Christ as your Saviour?

No need to stand afar off like the lepers – He waits with outstretched open arms for you to come to Him in faith and in repentance of your old sinful way of life.

Simply ask His forgiveness tonight and be saved for eternal life in Heaven.

Gospel Meeting 02/09/2018

Psalm ch1.

Matthew’s Gospel ch7 vs7 – 14.

These two passages of scripture show contrasts between the things of the world and the things of God.

The contrast of you either being on the broad road or the narrow road is as big as it could possibly be.

As sinners, each one of us has the choice to make – whether we choose to stay on the broad road that will bring us into Hell, or to change onto the narrow road that will bring us into Heaven.

Friend, which eternal destination is your choice?

“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord”.

- Romans ch6 vs23.

So many people put this most important decision in life off until it is too late!

Many think just leave it and it will all be ok. This is clearly not so – God’s eternal Son Jesus Christ had to come here and die on The Cross to make it all right!

We all have a huge sin problem to deal with, and to just leave it will lead you onto an eternal Hell for all your unforgiven sins.

How do we know we are on the narrow road and forgiven?

By simply coming to Jesus Christ in faith, asking forgiveness, accepting Him as your Saviour and repenting of your sinful lifestyle will assuredly lead you into Heaven!

Can I ask who has first place in your life?

Is it the One who loved you and gave Himself in great agony on The Cross for you?

Surely, the One who can forgive all your sins, keep you out of Hell, and welcome you into Heaven is like no other person and completely worthy of first place in your life!

Jesus Christ loved you personally so much, that He laid down His sinless life for you as a sacrifice.

“The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance”.

- 2^nd Peter ch3 vs9.

Life here may still have many trials, but The Lord promises to be with you each and every day through them.

You may well face increasing persecution for your faith, but take heart!

“Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me”.

- Psalm ch23 vs4.

Friend, are you still not certain of where you are going to spend eternity?

Do you not have an assurance of Heaven through The Lord Jesus Christ?

Jesus Christ sorely wept over paying the price of your sins in the Garden of Gethsemane – but through His Cross we have unbridled peace and joy in knowing we are totally forgiven.

Our home in heaven is assured by this wonderful and loving Man!

If Jesus Christ returns tonight, will you be taken or left behind?

A most sobering thought dear friend that urgently needs a decision!

Are you ready to meet The King – either as your Saviour or as your Judge?

The good news of the Gospel is plain and simple, available to anyone who will make that personal decision to know Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour!

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life”

- John’s Gospel ch3 vs16.

God loves YOU, and paid the same price for YOUR soul as mine!

At Calvary’s Cross, His great love was shown for each one of us.

Friend, trust Him tonight that He has dealt with your own sin problem.

Come to His Cross and ask forgiveness before your time is gone forever.

Just as a drowning man thankfully grabs the lifebelt thrown to him, take full hold of Jesus Christ’s free offer of Salvation and safety right now!

“For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus”

- 2^nd Timothy ch2 vs5.