Gospel Meeting 21/04/2019

Job ch19 vs23 – 27

John’s Gospel ch20 vs1 – 16

Job’s words are most remarkable when we consider the time of their writing.

It is widely acknowledged to be the oldest book in the Bible, yet he speaks of the coming Messiah – Jesus Christ, his Redeemer, ever so long before it came to be!

He speak of his Redeemer with absolute confidence, that it is a certainty –

 “ For I KNOW that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth…”

Dear reader, how is your confidence in having the eternal penalty of your own sins paid for?

Have you put your faith personally in Jesus Christ? 

Can you call Him “MY Redeemer”?

Despite Job’s body decaying and dying, he knows he is going to see God.

He had full trust that his own body would be revived and resurrected one day.

His Redeemer would pay the full price of his sins, for him to know and see God!

His heart was yearning for this -  and so too should ours!

The Lord Jesus Christ is the only Redeemer, mankind’s only means of Salvation.

The sinless Son of God took all our sins upon Himself at the Cross, and took our punishment that we can be forgiven and have eternal life.

Despite Job’s appalling condition, his faith remained steadfast…

“His wife said to him, “Are you still maintaining your integrity? Curse God and die!” He replied, “You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said"

- Job ch2 vs9 – 10

There were many things Job did not know or understand, but he loved God and fully trusted Him. He was striving to live a holy life that was pleasing to God – and God had faith in Job!

How is our faith, when the storms of life come upon us?

Job had great contentment in knowing his eternal life was completely assured.

“…yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another…”

He had rightful grounds of utter confidence in His coming Saviour!

“…because I live, ye shall live also”

Jesus Christ speaking from John’s Gospel ch14 vs19

“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 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 vs1 – 3

What certainties and reassurances are in the words of The Lord Jesus Christ!

I know that my Redeemer lives!
What joy this blest assurance gives!
He lives, he lives, who once was dead;
he lives, my ever-living Head!

He lives to bless me with his love;
He lives to plead for me above;
He lives my hungry soul to feed;
He lives to help in time of need.

He lives, and grants me daily breath,

He lives, and I shall conquer death,

He lives, my mansion to prepare,

He lives, to lead me safely there.

He lives, all glory to his name!
He lives, my Saviour, still the same;
What joy this blest assurance gives:
I know that my Redeemer lives!

(Hymn by Samuel Medley)

Gospel Meeting 14/04/2019

Genesis ch1 vs1 – 5

Ecclesiastes ch3 vs1 -8

Galatians ch4 vs4 -7

Time!

Everything we know is governed and measured by time.

Countless people depend on regularly checking their diaries.

Many of us have fancy timepieces that adjust themselves!

God, who is outside of time, created time concerning this world.

God ever was from eternity and ever will be, and He is in absolute full control of all things!

“The earth is the LORD’S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein”

- Psalm ch24 vs1

He created us and we are subject to Him.

Many people do not want to recognise this, and want to live a life that is just pleasing to themselves.

However, we who are Christians, are most happy that God is in complete control – we enjoy the security and certainties!

Our times are in His hands – King David acknowledged such in Psalm ch31.

God foretold of a most special time when The Messiah would come.

Many details were told hundreds of years in advance, and all came to be exactly so in due course!

“But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth his Son…”

- Galatians ch4 vs4

This is worthy of our utmost rejoicing.

 The Saviour of Sinners was born – conceived of a virgin!

Without The Lord Jesus Christ having stepped into time, entering this world, we would have been without hope, facing eternal punishment for our many sins against Him. All of mankind is fully dependant on His sinless life here and in His work of redemption on The Cross.

God’s immense love for us is shown on The Cross. His only begotten Son had all our sins placed upon Himself and took our judgement for them.

What love that none of us deserve!

1)

What kind of love is this,

that gave itself for me?

I am the guilty one,

yet I go free.

What kind of love is this?

A love I’ve never known.

I didn’t even know His name,

what kind of love is this?

2)

What kind of man is this,

that died in agony?

He who had done no wrong

was crucified for me.

What kind of man is this,

who laid aside his throne

that I may know the love of God?

What kind of man is this?

3)

By grace I have been saved,

it is the gift of God.

He destined me to be His son,

such is His love.

No eye has ever seen,

no ear has ever heard,

nor has the heart of man conceived,

what kind of love is this.

- song by B & S Haworth.

In King David’s Psalm ch22, he gives a graphic picture of death by crucifixion.

When it is remembered that crucifixion was a Roman, not Jewish, devised form of execution. the proof of the inspiration of God’s Word is beyond doubt!

All these things were eternally known in God’s plan of Salvation!

“He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake”

- 1^st Peter ch1 vs20

Our sin separated us from God, but God gave His well beloved Son, that we can each be restored unto Him.

God in the flesh, Jesus Christ, knowing all things, clearly told His disciples beforehand what was going to happen…

“Then he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished. For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on: And they shall scourge him, and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise again”

- Luke’s Gospel ch18 vs31 – 33

Dear reader, The Lord Jesus Christ bore the judgement of a righteous God for my sins and yours. 

Christ’s time and hour had come…

 “Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour”

- John’s Gospel ch12 vs27

Jesus Christ duly rose from the dead three days later – His sinless sacrifice for our sins was fully accepted.

Are you still outside of the grace of God?

We are never sure of our tomorrows – the time to repent and come in faith to accept Jesus Christ as your own Lord and Saviour is NOW!

There is no time like NOW!

“As God’s co-workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain. For he says “In the time of my favour I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” I tell you, now is the time of God’s favour, now is the day of salvation”

- 2^nd Corinthians ch6 vs1 -2

Gospel Meeting 07/04/2019

Isaiah ch1 vs18,  ch43 vs25,  ch44 vs22-23

Luke’s Gospel ch12 vs58-59

Tonight’s speaker reminded us that the book of the prophet Isaiah is sometimes quoted as being “The Gospel According to the Old Testament”, due to its many such  references!

God ever wants to bless mankind, and has never stopped loving us.

Although long separated from God through our sins, yet His desire is to bless us.

“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

God has dealt with our sin question at Calvary’s Cross. His only begotten Son, The Lord Jesus Christ, in His willing sacrificial death, took all our sins upon Himself and took our punishment.

“God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God”

-  2^nd Corinthians ch5 vs21

Salvation and complete blessings are ours, dear friend!

Simply come to The Lord in heartfelt repentance of your sinful way of life, confessing you are a sinner and asking Him to be your Saviour.

Come now, believing who He is, and having faith that His blood given at Calvary forgives and cleanses you from all sin.

“Come now, and let let us reason together” saith the Lord (ch1 vs18) …

God is the most reasonable person in the universe!

He asks us to reason, or to settle, things with Him. Not as equals, but with Him being the absolute all knowing God. He is infinitely superior in every way – otherwise He would not be the true and living God!

God speaks with full authority, and He speaks of His great mercy, grace and love.

The speaker accepted The Lord Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Saviour in 1948, and still praises God every day for saving him.

“…though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool” (ch1 vs18)

Scarlet is a known as a very deep dye.

Friend, no matter how deeply stained you may be with your personal sins, you can be washed white as wool. Completely cleansed and forgiven for all the wrongs you may have done!

1)

Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?

Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?

Are you fully trusting in His grace this hour?

Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?

Chorus:

Are you washed…in the blood,

In the soul – cleansing blood of the Lamb?

Are your Garments spotless? Are they white as snow?

Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?

2)

Are you walking daily by the Saviour’s side?

Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?

Do you rest each moment in the crucified?

Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?

3)

When the bridegroom cometh, will your robes be white –

Pure and white in the blood of the Lamb?

Will your soul be ready for the mansions bright,

And be washed in the blood of the Lamb?

4)

Lay aside the garments that are stained with sin,

And be washed in the blood of the Lamb!

There’s a fountain flowing for the soul unclean,

Oh be washed in the blood of the Lamb.

-  Hymn by E. A. Hoffman

King David knew all about sins being as scarlet, and in Psalm ch51 confesses them. He was guilty on many counts, yet knew his forgiveness –

“cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow” (vs7)

Dear friend, your eternal soul’s destiny depends on putting this matter right.

It needs to be settled personally between you and God, through Jesus Christ.

As we have read tonight, your sins in full can be blotted out!

Many times we hear people say “I will forgive you, but I won’t forget”…

This is not our God! – here, He says

“I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins”

He wills to remember them no more! What a truly great pardoning God we have!

What about those who choose to reject this most gracious offer of full and free Salvation through The Lord Jesus Christ?

Here, the speaker turns to tonight’s reading from Luke’s Gospel…

The Lord Jesus Christ makes it clear that while there is yet time each one of us should make our peace with God. Judgement is coming!

The speaker gave a heartfelt plea to get right with God before you find yourself at His judgement seat… forever too late!

Friend, our times are unsure – we are never guaranteed tomorrow.

The message from God is simple… “let us reason together and settle your sin question! He has provided the only way your soul can be saved…

“For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved”

-  John’s Gospel ch3 vs17

“Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved”

- The Acts ch4 vs12

Gospel Meeting 31/03/2019

The Acts of the Apostles ch2 vs36 – 38

The Book of Psalms ch32 vs1 – 5

The First Epistle of John ch1 vs8 – 10

The speaker’s message tonight concluded the third portion of a series:

“The A,B,C,D,E Route to Becoming a Christian and Beyond”

C = CONVERT…

On the first day of the Christian Church, the people having had their sinful nature explained to them, were cut to the heart over them.

They understood what Peter was saying to them and were clearly convicted.

The message was the same then as it is today –

“Repent, and be baptised every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit” (vs38)

What a response from those gathered – around three thousand precious souls “gladly received his word” (vs41) and were saved!

Sadly, we can reflect on a great contrast here…

Three thousand souls were saved from one sermon – perhaps in this land of ours tonight we may have one precious soul saved from three thousand sermons?

A positive change is called upon where one is converting.

We no longer a slave to sin under Satan, but serving Jesus Christ who is without sin.

With His indwelling Holy Spirit, we are a new person!

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away, behold all things are become new”

-   2^nd Corinthians ch5 vs17

“Therefore we are buried with him in baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life”

-    Romans ch6 vs4

“That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind, And that ye put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness”

-   Ephesians ch4 vs22 – 24

When we consider everything that The Lord Jesus Christ has done for each of us, He is fully deserving of a great change in our lives!

At Calvary’s Cross He suffered most terribly when he took all our sins upon His sinless body and received our punishment for them.

Jesus Christ paid the highest price for our sins in full, so that any one of us can go free, no longer facing eternal condemnation.

“O what a Saviour that He died for me!

From condemnation He hath made me free;

“He that believeth on the Son,” saith He,

“Hath everlasting life.

Chorus:

“Verily, verily”, I say unto you,

“Verily, verily,” message ever new;

“He that believeth on the Son” ‘tis true,

“Hath everlasting life.”

All my iniquities on Him were laid,

All my indebtedness by Him was paid;

All who believe on Him, the Lord hath said,

“Have everlasting life.”

Though poor and needy I can trust my Lord,

Though weak and sinful I believe His word;

O glad message! ev’ry child of God

“Hath everlasting life.”

Though all unworthy, yet I will not doubt,

For him that cometh, He will not cast out,

“He that believeth”, O the good news shout,

“Hath everlasting life.”

-    Hymn by J. McGranahan

Dear reader, every single one of us has greatly offended Holy God through our sinful lives and actions.

Yet, in His great love, grace and mercy towards us, He still tonight offers you a full and free Salvation through His atoning work on The Cross.

Oh, would you not respond to His loving call tonight reader?

Please have sorrow for your sins and call upon Him tonight. Just acknowledge you too are a sinner and have genuine remorse, in faith asking His forgiveness.

Please make your peace with God tonight, through His well beloved Son, Jesus Christ.

It is futile to try and hide our sins from God, for he knows them all.

Don’t let your sins continue to burden you.

Rather, be like David the psalmist, who acknowledged them (vs5) and gained forgiveness and peace.

Accept Jesus Christ as your own Saviour, and He will utterly cleanse you through and through by the power of His shed blood!

Dear reader, all the work has been done for you! There is nothing you can, or need to add! 

Hallelujah, what a Saviour!

Simply come in repentance and faith this night - grasp this forgiveness and eternal life while you still may!

“Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon”

- Isaiah ch55 vs6 – 7

Gospel Meeting 24/03/2019

Genesis ch3 vs14 – 24

Matthew’s Gospel ch22 vs1 – 14

Adam and Eve had rebelled and disobeyed God (vs6)

From that moment, decay and death was assured.

Yet, offspring was coming (vs15 – 16)

Eve was still going to be the mother of all living.

Adam can sadly be called “the father of all dying”…

“…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

Every human being is sinful by nature!

Adam and Eve’s eyes having been opened, they made aprons from fig leaves to cover themselves.

These were inadequate, and God made them coats of skin and clothed them.

In the book of Esther, ch4, Mordecai put on sackcloth and ashes on hearing terrible news concerning the Jewish people.

Later, he was dressed in royal robes that the king had himself worn (ch6 vs7 – 8, ch8 vs15)

God wants to do the very same for each of us.

Not only does He want us to be saved from the wrath to come, but He wants to dress us in the best garments.

Through accepting His beloved Son, Jesus Christ, as our Saviour, we can then be clothed in the robes of Christ – we have His righteousness!

Dear reader, God wants you to have the very best through The Lord Jesus Christ!

Riches are simply not good enough to clothe you correctly in God’s sight…

“You say, “I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing”. But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked”

-    The Revelation ch3 vs17.

Still naked!

Any good works or “religious” acts”we may do fare no better…

“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 v6

In Zechariah, ch3, the angel showed Joshua the high priest, to Zechariah in a vision. Joshua was clothed with filthy garments.  The angel took away his iniquities, removing his filthy garments and put fine garments on him.

This is exactly what The Lord Jesus Christ has achieved at Calvary’s Cross for you and I, dear friend! All our personal sins and the sins of the whole world were taken from us and placed on Him. He took the punishment that was ours, in the sacrifice of His sinless body, that you and I can be free from eternal condemnation -  which we fully deserved for our many sins against Holy God.

The Lord Jesus Christ had to be unclothed that we might be clothed in the very best of The King…

“When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing them into four shares, one for each of them, with the undergarment remaining, This garment was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom. “Let’s not tear it”, they said to one another “Let’s decide by lot who will get it”. This happened that the scripture might be fulfilled that said, “They divided my clothes among them and cast lots for my garment”. So this is what the soldiers did. (see also Psalm ch22 vs18)

-    John’s Gospel ch19 vs23 – 24

No condemnation now I dread;

Jesus, and all in Him is mine!

Alive in Him, my living Head,

And clothed in righteousness Divine,

Bold I approach the eternal throne,

And claim the crown, through Christ my own…

Verse from hymn by C. Wesley

Dear friend, no matter how tainted with sin you may feel, remember the story of the prodigal son told by Jesus Christ in Luke’s Gospel ch15…

When he repented and returned to his father, he was greeted with love and compassion – then he had the best robe put on him!

The Lord Jesus Christ loves you, and with outstretched arms bids you come to Him this day in faith and with a heart of genuine repentance.

 Turn away from a sinful life and be clothed in Christ’s robes of righteousness!

You can have peace with God today, and eternal life with Him!

What heart would not be filled with lasting joy at these realities?!

In tonight’s scripture from Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus Christ speaks a parable in which there was a wedding feast and there was one man who was not wearing his wedding garment. The custom was that these were provided at royal feasts.

 It had been rejected.

Likewise, Salvation has been provided for you and I in the only way possible – through Jesus Christ and His shed blood. 

Will you personally accept it or reject it?

To reject it will have you be like this man here, when you stand before God in a fast approaching day… he was speechless...

Dear friend,  are you wearing God’s provided clothing…?

“Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved”

-    The Acts ch4 vs12

“It is finished”

-    spoken by Jesus Christ, on The Cross – John’s Gospel ch19 vs30

A complete Salvation!

Gospel Meeting 17/03/2019

John’s Gospel ch4 vs1 – 42

In this passage of scripture, the Samaritan woman went about her usual daily business but ended up having an encounter with a Man that would change her and her life forever.

When God is involved, nothing happens by chance!...

(vs4) – The Lord Jesus Christ “must needs go through Samaria".

The Lord found the woman without any problem, and He knows all about each of our own situations and circumstances today.

The Samaritan woman was amazed that a Jew should be engaging with her.

The Jewish people had wrongly become very proud of themselves, and thoroughly despised the Samaritans.

We can also think of Jonah, who hated the idea of having to testify to the Gentile city of Ninevah and was angry that God had spared it.

However, Jesus Christ came into the world to show love and care for all needy people…

“I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance"

- Luke’s Gospel ch5 vs32

“For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost"   

- Luke’s Gospel ch19 vs10

Personal challenge – do we ever wrongly look down on any certain groups of people…?

The Samaritan woman came to the well at an unusual time of day. Very likely to avoid meeting other people from her city, having achieved a certain reputation.

But God in His infinite power and wisdom, can readily use anyone to bring further glory and honour to His name.

“Brothers and sisters think of what you were when 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 may boast before him”

- 1^st Corinthians ch1 vs26 – 29

So, as the conversation continued, The Lord offered the woman a lot more than she was thinking – not just a drink of water!

The Lord was offering her the true living water –  the Holy Spirit indwelling and eternal life!

The woman had come to the well with a physical thirst, but Christ had much more for her - a fully satisfying water for a spiritual thirst!

Today, there are so many people thirsting for things in the world that can never ever satisfy.

 Only The Lord Jesus Christ can fulfil our needs.

“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labour for what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare”

- Isaiah ch55 vs1 – 2

           

We were created to have a relationship with God, and only He can satisfy the emptiness that exists in our lives without Him.

The woman here tried to find her happiness through men, but ever failed

The Lord Jesus Christ - despite knowing all about her sinful life -  in His love and compassion still freely offered her forgiveness and Salvation.

Nobody is too sinful to be saved!

Dear reader, if you are feeling ashamed and beating yourself up over things you may have done, remember – The Cross was for you too! Jesus Christ willingly took your sins upon Himself and took your punishment for them.

“This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins”

-  Jesus Christ speaking from Matthew’s Gospel ch26 vs28

Jesus Christ died and was resurrected that you personally can have full forgiveness and eternal life!

The offer of Salvation from The Lord Jesus Christ requires a personal response.

The Samaritan woman responded by leaving behind her much needed waterpot to run back into the city and tell the happy news to others.

 She had met and accepted The Saviour of sinners!

A new changed woman, full of joy!

Now, a city of people was changing too upon hearing the woman’s testimony about Jesus Christ!

It is not about ideology or teaching – it is all about A Man!

The woman said (vs29) “Come see a man…”

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

- 1^st Timothy ch2 vs5

Like the Samaritan woman, we too should be filled with gratitude to tell others about this most wonderful and loving Man, who is the only Saviour of sinners.

Dear reader, would you take this opportunity tonight, to come with a genuine heart of repentance to Jesus Christ? Ask His forgiveness, putting your faith and trust in Him as your own Lord and Saviour.

“This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins”

- Jesus Christ speaking from Matthew’s Gospel ch26 vs28

He is not a disappointment! Jesus is far more to me
Than in all my glowing day-dreams I had fancied He could be;
And the more I get to know Him, so the more I find Him true,
And the more I long that others should be led to know Him too.

He is not a disappointment! He has saved my soul from sin;
All the guilt and all the anguish, which oppressed my heart within.
He has banished by His presence and His blessed kiss of peace,
Has assured my heart forever that His love will never cease.

He is not a disappointment! He is coming by and by.
In my heart I have the witness that His coming draweth nigh.
All the scoffers may despise me, and no change around may see,
But He tells me He is coming, and that’s quite enough for me.

He is not a disappointment! He is all in all to me –
Blessed Saviour, Sanctifier, the unchanging Christ is He!
He has won my heart’s affections, and He meets my every need;
He is not a disappointment, for He satisfies indeed.

                                                                    (Anon)

Gospel Meeting 10/03/2019

The Acts ch2 vs22 –  41

The speaker’s message tonight was the third of a series:

“The A,B,C,D,E Route to Becoming a Christian and Beyond”

C = CONVERT…

This is each person’s part in response to having accepted the Gospel of The Lord Jesus Christ.

One repents, one confesses Jesus Christ.

It is possible to believe the Gospel without being a Christian…

One must have trust and belong in a personal daily relationship with The Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour.

A change is required!

One has a new life - with new beliefs, habits and a different way of daily living!

Otherwise one is simply not doing the will of God.

This is profession without faith…

“Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity”

- Jesus Christ speaking from Matthew’s Gospel ch7 vs21 -23.

A modern saying is “don’t just talk the talk, but walk the walk!”

It is trusting Jesus Christ with your whole life.

Dear reader, is Jesus Christ “Lord of all or not at all”, in your own life?

“…This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it…”

“…From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him…”

- read John’s Gospel ch6 vs53 – 69

Dear reader, are you prepared to go the whole way?

Will you respond to Christ’s loving call and invitation to be saved from your sins?

Will you completely trust Him today and for the rest of your life?

Their may be things you cannot fully understand, but you can absolutely trust Him implicitly!

In tonight’s portion of scripture we read of around 3,000 precious souls being saved!

People who were convicted of their sins, their consciences were touched and feeling guilty (vs37).

They asked that most important question “what shall we do?”…

There is only ever one way -

“Repent, and be baptised every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins…” (vs38)

This is one question with always the same answer – the only possible true answer!

As with the Phillipian jailor…

“Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved…”

- The Acts ch16 vs30 – 34.

The 3,000 people had faith, gladly receiving the message. They confessed and were converted!

The Gospel is God’s prescription for full health!

Imagine going to the doctors and happily getting a prescription for your most painful ailment. Then you take it home and leave it unopened on the table… how totally ridiculous would that be!

Yet this is exactly what so many people are doing today across the world…

They are refusing the only antidote for sin and its eternal consequences.

 An utter tragedy.

The Word of God clearly speaks of the two places where every person will spend eternity – either Heaven of Hell.

Having arrived at one or the other, both destinations are completely unchangeable.

Dear friend, trust in Christ’s redeeming work at Calvary’s Cross and have forgiveness for your every sin tonight. He is the only Saviour of sinners!

Peace with God and eternal life can be yours  - will you not accept this most wonderful Man as your Lord and Saviour before you lay down to sleep tonight?

“You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand”

- Psalm ch16 vs11.

But what a horrendous and totally different eternity for those who reject Christ’s sacrifice and offer of Salvation.

The Lord Jesus Christ gave many clear warnings of the reality of Hell for the unsaved.

(See Luke’s Gospel ch16 vs19 – 31)

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

- Hebrews ch9 vs27.

“How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation…”- Hebrews ch2 vs3.

Dear friend, please get right with God tonight, through His dear Son, The Lord Jesus Christ.

1)

“Get right with God” – for life is sad and dreary

Without the peace He gives and which endures;

Turn now to Him who offers untold blessing

To satisfy the need of souls like yours.

2)

“Get right with God” – your load of guilt is heavy,

And God alone can take that guilt away;

He gave His well – beloved Son to suffer

Upon the cross, your every debt to pay.

3)

“Get right with God”- no longer be rebellious

Against the love that seeks your soul to win;

Bow down at last, and as your Lord confess Him,

Whose blood alone can cleanse away your sin.

4)

“Get right with God” – Eternity’s before you,

How dark ‘twill be if, banished from His face,

You go outside into the night of sorrow,

A stranger ever to His saving grace.

- Hymn by J.T.Mawson.