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.

Gospel Meeting 26/08/2018

Luke’s Gospel ch7 vs36 – 50.

Simon was a Pharisee - highly religious outwardly, but just as sinful on the inside as anyone.

He sought to criticise The Lord Jesus Christ for eating with a sinner.

The woman indeed had a sinful lifestyle, but the Pharisee wanted to make out that had Jesus Christ been a prophet He “would have known this” and had a very different attitude towards her.

However, as with the Samaritan woman at the well, He already knew everything  there was to know about this woman’s life!

Furthermore, The Lord Jesus Christ prior to this event, had completely proved Himself by many deeds and wonders!

This woman had a burden of sin. Guilt was breaking her heart, her conscience deeply troubling her.

We too have a conscience, and each of our lives are accountable to Him.

She was showing remorse and repenting of her sin to Jesus Christ.

Reader, some of us may think we are better than others, but we are ALL sinners!

There is only one way to God in Heaven, one way to have your sins forgiven, one way to make and have peace with God, and one way to have an eternal home in Heaven … through His beloved Son, Jesus Christ.

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

-    John’s Gospel ch14 vs6.

This most wonderful Man left Heaven’s glory, took on flesh by being born of a virgin, becoming our Emmanuel (God with us).

He grew up in perfect holiness and healed all manner of sick and diseased people.

He raised the dead back to life!

Only Jesus Christ Son of God could do these miracles … He IS God!

He is eternal, always was and always will be!

In His great love for us all, He came to save us from the eternal penalty of our sins against Holy God –  that most awful place called Hell.

“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace”.

-   Isaiah ch9 vs6.

Jesus Christ came to save the lost – you and I!.

“ … I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance”.

-   Matthew’s Gospel ch9 vs13(b).

Jesus Christ was ever sinless – He is God in the flesh! – holy and pure, and was the only one who was able to become a sacrifice for all our sins.

On the Cross at Calvary, He suffered great agonies, was mocked, abused, and scoffed at. Yet, He had done nothing wrong at all. He voluntarily laid down His life, shedding His blood to make atonement for all our sins.

Darkness covered the whole Earth for three hours, when Jesus Christ was made sin for us.

“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.

“It is finished”. – Jesus Christ’s final words before He bowed His head and delivered up His spirit. A cry of victory! The price of our sins had been paid in full through His own sinless body and spotless blood.

“ … for it is the blood that maketh atonement for the soul”

-    Leviticus ch17 vs 11.

Jesus Christ gave all that love could give and was victorious over death and sin!

A most wonderful Saviour – the only Saviour of sinners!

Dear friend, He is willing and able to save you this day. He gave that life and blood just for you too!

Please realise that your sin is your greatest problem –

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

-   Romans ch6 vs23.

Hell is real, and Holy God must punish all unforgiven sins.

“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 vs27 -28.

God wants nothing other than for you to be in Heaven with Him, and earnestly asks that you would accept the provided Saviour, Jesus Christ. Simply come to Him in faith this day, repenting of your sinful life like the woman we have been reading about.

These are simple clear truths, not to be rejected!

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

-    John’s Gospel ch6 vs37(b).

The woman’s sins of a lifetime were all forgiven and gone in a second – and so can yours! 

Jesus Christ alone can bring you joy, peace and assurance that you never knew!

“Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace” (vs50).

Gospel Meeting 19/08/2018

Psalm chapter 23.

John’s Gospel ch10 vs1 – 18.

This Psalm is one of the most quoted and favourite passages of scripture for many people. It is very well known as a song, and has prompted many works of art.

Why? … Because it promises what so many people long for but cannot find in today's world.

 It contains:

vs1)  At peace, and lacking nothing

vs2/3) Divine guidance, leading you onwards

vs4) Total protection, fearing no evil

vs4) His abiding presence – thou art with me

vs4) Comfort, through The Good Shepherd’s rod and staff protecting and guiding

vs6) Eternal joy – dwelling in the house of The Lord for ever!

Who would not want to have these rich promises in their life?!

So many people do indeed long for these, but search in all the wrong places of this world for them.

It is a Psalm that brings comfort to those when in times of distress, but all too often fail to see the key phrase.

It is not in just the singing or hearing of it that brings lasting comfort – but in the knowing of the one and true God that this Psalm speaks of …

“The Lord is my shepherd”.

David, the writer, knew The Lord as his shepherd and so could go on to write the following verses - a hymn of praise!. A good shepherd never leaves or mistreats his flock, and will always do what is right.

Reader, can I ask who is your Shepherd?

Who do you trust above all else?

Who is bringing you absolute assurance in this life here, and for your next life in Eternity?

If your faith and trust is in yourself, or a friend, perhaps a family member, or a business colleague, then none of these can ever deliver the promises and blessings of this Psalm.

People can never find complete fulfilment in or through others - and on a bigger and more serious picture – many are still hoping that their “good deeds” will bring them into Heaven.

 The Word of God clearly tells us that this is futile.

“All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away”

-    Isaiah ch64 vs6.

Therefore, the real issue is not in knowing this Psalm off by heart, but rather do you personally know The Lord as YOUR Shepherd?

David had total confidence in writing this Psalm – because He did know his Lord.

He, like all of us, was incapable of finding these rich promises without divine help.

vs6 is a most wonderful promise! We are nothing but Hell deserving sinners, but God in His great love, grace and mercy does not treat us as we deserve, instead offering anyone a home in Heaven through accepting His Son, Jesus Christ as your Saviour!

Onto the passage in John’s Gospel many years later, and the people of this day knowing this Psalm now heard its message delivered like never before.

The Lord Jesus Christ explained that people were like vulnerable sheep facing great dangers and needed a shepherd.

Then Christ really shook them up when he clearly and simply told them (vs11) ... 

“I am the the good shepherd, the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep”!

The Lord Jesus Christ is the true shepherd of Psalm ch23!

He came from Heaven, born of a virgin, in order to live a perfect, holy, sinless life, so that he could then lay that life down as a sinless sacrifice for all of our sins.

Each one of us are the sheep that He came to seek and to save!

“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.

God took all our sins and placed them on His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, in His crucifixion on Calvary’s Cross.

In the person of The Lord Jesus Christ, we are offered all the promises of Psalm ch23.

We are each invited to receive life in all its fullness through knowing Jesus Christ as our personal Saviour.

(vs14) “I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine”.

By accepting Jesus Christ as your Saviour, repenting of your sinful way of life, you will be completely forgiven of all your sins, cleansed by His blood that He shed on The Cross for you.

No longer facing condemnation and an eternal Hell, but made fit to enter into Heaven through faith in His atoning work at Calvary!

“And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent”.

-     John’s Gospel ch17 vs3.

Life need not be fearful even though you may be “walking through the valley of the shadow of death” … God is in the valley with you and has defeated death!

Dear reader, God loves YOU ever so much that His beloved Son died for you and He wants you to be with Him in Heaven for ever!

Are you still clinging onto a false shepherd who cannot deliver?

Will you be found wanting in a soon coming day - when it will be too late for ever to call upon The Good Shepherd and be saved for eternity?

Tonight, accept the real Good Shepherd, Jesus Christ, and put your faith and trust in Him as your real Saviour

“Get right with God for life is sad and dreary,

Without the sunshine of His face divine.

Turn now to Him who offers untold blessing,

to satisfy the needs of souls like thine”.

Gospel Meeting 05/082018

Mark’s Gospel ch10 vs46 – 52.

The Lord Jesus Christ met the great need that Bartimeaus had.

He can meet yours too. Bartimeaus had a physical need, but ours is a spiritual need.

We all need to have our sins forgiven, and we need Jesus Christ just as much as blind Bartimeaus.

Friend, you may think you are ok as you are, you may think you are happy and enjoying your life, but it is an absolute reality that you need to address the question of your sins – it has eternal consequences!

It is of such enormity that the Son of God, Jesus Christ, came from Heaven and took on humanity in order to pay the price of our sins. The only one who never once sinned had all our sins placed on Him on Calvary’s Cross. The Holy One suffered, bled and died so we can all be saved from the eternal consequences of our sins. He rose from the grave, being fully justified, and is now seated at His Father’s right hand in Heaven.

Bartimeaus had a plight – he was blind, destitute, and without any Government benefits in those days. He was dependant on the kindness of people of whom he begged    . However, The Lord Jesus Christ transformed his life!

His problem was his eyes, but our problem is inside – SIN!

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”

- Jeremiah ch17 vs9.

A sinful heart leads to sinful acts!

“Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned” – Romans ch5 vs12.

“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.

Friend, you see how serious the problem is!

All sin utterly offends Holy God, but He loves us despite this.

He showed us exactly how much, by sending His only beloved Son to be the sacrifice for our sins. Amazing love!

Bartimeaus’ condition was ruining his life, and sin totally ruins ours.

We can see this daily all around us.

We each have a great sin problem that needs to be urgently dealt with.

Only The Lord Jesus Christ can save you!

Tonight, He is still ready, able and willing to save you – just as He intervened with Bartimeaus.

Be assured of this, Holy God WILL judge all sin - whether you have already died, or if you are still alive at the return of The Lord Jesus Christ.

“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 vs27 – 28.

Death is simply not the end!

 Every person is going onto a never – ending eternity.

Every person has the choice of two real places – Heaven or Hell.

Heaven is the place of complete joy and blessing for those who accepted and know Jesus Christ as their Saviour. The unsaved, who rejected Jesus Christ’s offer of forgiveness, will suffer the awful reality of Hell.

The Lord Jesus Christ gave clear warnings which we should all heed!

Friend, where are you heading?

Is this wonderful loving Man your Saviour, or is He still outside of your life?

We are all Hell deserving sinners, but in His great love for us He paid the price so that no – one need end up in that most awful place.

You can be 100% sure of Heaven tonight, but only through this Man Jesus Christ!

Bartimeaus knew that Jesus Christ was his only hope.

He needed more than the money he begged for to solve his problem, and here came the Man that could get to the root of his problem.

The crowd tried to put him off meeting Jesus Christ – and it is the same today – many are pressured away from Him by family, friends and work associates.

I earnestly ask, do not let the crowd stop you from being saved!

The crowd can take you down to Hell with them, but they can never bring you back.

Bartimeaus shouted all the louder! …  If you know tonight that you are heading to the wrong destination and need saving, let no – one and nothing stop you!

“For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his own soul?”

- Matthew’s Gospel ch16 vs26.

Bartimeaus realised he had nothing to offer, he was completely dependent on the grace, mercy and love of The Lord Jesus Christ. His simple plea was “Have mercy on me”.

So it is with us dear friend, we cannot save ourselves by any means, but we too must simply cry out to Him “Lord, save me!”.

He will meet your need, because Jesus Christ did something no – one else could ever do. On Calvary’s Cross He laid down His life, and the sinless blood he shed cleanses you from your sins. In His rising from the grave, His Father was fully satisfied.

A living Saviour, to meet your need!

“Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near”.

- Isaiah ch55 vs6.

“For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved”.

- Romans ch10 vs13.

Complete assurance!

The Lord Jesus Christ did not ignore this mans plea amidst the crowd, and He has His eye on you too tonight.

Will you come to Him?

Will you tonight be delivered from a certain Hell to a certain blessing in Heaven?

Blind Bartimeaus had faith – do you?

Friend, turn from sin in repentance tonight and accept Jesus Christ as your Saviour.

Jesus Christ never passed through Jericho again – Bartimeaus had but one opportunity and took it. Likewise, not one of us is ever promised a tomorrow, but you have an opportunity tonight – please take it!

Bartimeaus left his past behind, starting a new life (vs52) “and followed Jesus”!