Mission 25 - Nothing but the blood of Jesus

I want to read a wee verse of Scripture and it says in Psalm

107 these words, let the redeemed of the Lord say so,

whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy.

I want to tell you tonight, when I became a Christian, I became a

Christian at the age of 18, one day before my 18th birthday was

not some birthday present. You see, nobody's born into a

Christian country. Nobody's born a Christian in the

sense of being in a Christian home.

Keep that thought in mind and we'll ask ourselves a second

question. Why did I become a Christian?

Because at the age of 18, I found myself in a tent mission.

I had been invited by a man at work.

At this point in my life I was addicted to booze.

I have to tell you, to my shame I was a boozer, a cursor, a

fighter and a womaniser. My philosophy as a young man was

wine and women and so on. And from the age of 11 and 12,

you'd have found me hanging about Kelly's nightclub.

I was there on Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday night,

Sunday. Thought it was great, thought

this was life. But you know, at that time I had

no thought of God. I had No Fear of God.

I had no love for God. I had no idea God, who's God.

You live, you work, you die, and that's the end.

But this particular Sunday night, Friday night, sorry, I

was invited to this 10th mission and I was invaded because I'd

asked a man at work, under the influence of alcohol, that if

the church had the answer, I wanted to go see.

My mother died when I was a boy. I was taken from Elbana St here

in Belfast, having come from Mackrefelt at the age of 1.

I was taken to Bushmills and then down into drum and Droid

say Coleraine and reared with a, a, an old aunt.

She was a godly lady, sent me along to church and Sunday

school. But I, I hadn't really interest.

The only thing that I liked about church and the times that

I went as a boy was at Christmas time.

They sang once in Royal David City and I thought well 'cause

I'm called David, that's great, what does that mean?

But I, I didn't know what it mean, but it sounded good

alright. But I I looked upon all of them

being there as a bunch of hypocrites.

I thought these people are play acting at church.

But I said to this man, if the church has the answer, I would

like to go. And I remember him putting his

arm around me. He was called Andy Alexander,

pray for Andy's not that well. And this is what he said.

He said, I'm sorry David, the church hasn't the answer, but

Christ has. That was double Dutch to me.

What did that mean? So anyway, he coaxed me to go

along with him to this particular Friday night, to this

tent mission. It was in Limavady, 14 miles out

of Coleraine. The preacher was the Reverend

Sam Workman, and I remember his text.

Remember what he said as if it was yesterday.

Here was his text. John, 10 and 10, I am come that

you might have life, you might have it more abundantly, he

said. Young man, you're in this

meeting tonight, you're looking for life.

You're trying to find it in the dance floor, You're trying to

find it through booze and consumption of alcohol.

You're trying to find it in sexual fulfilment outside of

marriage. You're trying to find it in the

ways of the world. And deep down inside you're not

happy. And you lie in your bed at night

and you wonder what's life all about.

This is a rat race. And when it comes Thursday and

you pay your cheque over the publican's counter and he gives

you the money by by Sunday evening, you're broke and you're

catching money and cigarettes for the rest of the week till

you get paid again. He says now if that's you

tonight, I want you to come with me.

Come now, I want to introduce you to the giver of life.

Well, you see that very moment I had no idea what been under

conviction of sin was, but I come under conviction of sin.

And I heard John 3 and 16, the most wonderfulest love story,

for God so loved the world they gave His only begotten Son, that

whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have

everlasting life. I went out of that meeting.

I was to go to Kelly's. That was the agreement with

Andy. He took me home.

I was under conviction to the Sunday.

And during those hours, you see, I knew I was a big Sinner.

Nobody had to tell me the things that I've done.

If I started to tell you from the age of 11 to the age of 18,

the things that I would done, you would shake your head, you

would tut, tut. You would say no, that could not

be right. I wouldn't want to shame the

devil. Tonight I was in the pit of sin

and the devil was dragging me down and my sin into hell.

And I could feel that if I'd have died, I knew I would have

gone to hell. What way did I get saved?

Not Sunday night. Cut a Long story short, I met a

man walking the streets of Coleraine, and he gave me a

little tract, 10:00 at night, and I took it home.

This time I'm living in a Roman Catholic lodging house, far away

from my aunt, living in rebellion and sin, doing what I

wanted to do. And this little tract, when I

opened it up at God and man and union and communion.

Genesis chapter 1. Genesis 2 And then it had God

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and man separated with the word sin in the middle.

I understood the little draw. And then it had God and man

still separated, but man trying to reach out to God through his

good works, through his prayers, through his church, his

religiosity, man attempting to reach God.

And every one of those little logs that come out from man's

side fell short. Why did they fall short?

Because man isn't evil to reach out to God by himself, because

for by grace or receive through faith, and not, not of yourself,

not of works, lest any man should boast.

And when I turned the Backpage, it had man and God still

separated with a chasm in the middle, but this time there was

a Red Cross in the middle, as if it was a bridge from God's side

to man's side. And inside was the words Jesus

saith, I am the way, the truth to life.

No man comes unto the Father but by me.

And it's as if somebody had put the light on in David's head.

You know, sometimes they say you saw the light.

Well, I didn't see a literal light, but in my head I

understood the way to God was through Christ.

And I knelt during that night at the sight of my bed.

I didn't know how to pray. I asked the Lord Jesus to

forgive my sin, asked the Lord Jesus to come into my life, ask

the Lord Jesus to be my Lord and Saviour.

I wonder if you have ever asked Jesus Christ to be your Lord and

Saviour? Have you ever knelt in

conviction and cried out, Lord save me, I perish.

Well see that's what happened to me.

One day before me, 18th birthday, I come under

conviction and on that Sunday, from Friday to Sunday, over that

weekend, on the Sunday night, I come to Christ.

Let me tell you what happened very quickly, Brother Noel.

I preached here a few nights ago.

If any man be in Christ, he's a new creature.

Old things have passed away and all things have become new and

all things are of God. The next morning I had no desire

for the Park Dr. I had no desire for the booze.

It's as if somebody had washed out my mouth with soap.

It was clean. I wasn't cursing anymore.

I wasn't late for work. I stood up on the joiners

workbench and I told everybody in the workshop there was 20 men

there, Loyalist community bands members, members of the Orange

Institution and other organisations.

When I told them I could see if they laughed, said we'll have

you back in the pub, Patsy will be looking for you.

That was Patsy McIntyre. Do you know something?

That's over 40 years ago, Well over 40 years, 42 or three.

I'm not a good counter, but I just want to tell you tonight,

during that time I failed the Lord in many instances and

they've sinned against them. And yet the wonderful message is

this. The blood of Jesus Christ, his

Son cleanses off from all sin. And even if you're here tonight

and you feel a failure, you can go to the Lord.

You can kneel at the cross and tell the Lord your sin and ask

them to forgive you and watch his promise.

Thy sins and iniquities. I will remember no more.

Here's when I became a Christian.

Here's why I come under conviction of my sin.

Here's the way I simply knelt at the cross and trusted Christ.

And here's what happened. I was put into Christ, born of

the Spirit, made a new creature, given a love for God in the

things of God that I never had, never dreamed I'd be a preacher,

never dreamed in a day. And yet God called me.

And God has kept me here as the minister of this congregation

for 26 years. God bless you.

Thanks for listening, Brother Kong.

Thank our brethren for singing to us there tonight.

Can we turn please, in our Bibles?

We want to turn to Job chapter 25, the 25th chapter of the book

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of Job. There's just 6 verses.

It's one of the shorter chapters in Job, so we'll read it all.

Job chapter 25. If you can find the book of

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Psalms in your Bible there in the Old Testament, then you'll

just walk back one book to the book of Job.

I'm going to read from the verse one and it's down to the verse 6

which is the whole of the chapter Joe chapter 25 verse one

then answered Bildad the shoe height and said dominion and

fear are with him. He maketh peace in his high

places. Is there any number of his

armies? And upon whom doth not his light

arise? How then can man be justified

with God? Or how can he be clean, That is

born of a woman. Behold even to the moon, and it

chineth not. Yeah, the stars are not pure in

his sight. How much less man that is a

worm, and the Son of man which is a worm.

Amen. May God bless the public reading

of His own word just for a moment.

Will seek his face in prayer. Our follower under God, we thank

Thee for the meeting thus far. We believe, Lord, that you have

been honoured and all that has been said and done and sung in

this gathering in one way or another.

The centre theme of the meeting, of course, is our Lord Jesus on

the hymn Shall the gathering of the people be.

I need Thy power to preach Thy word.

I am very conscious, Lord tonight that the arm of flesh

will surely fail, and we dare not trust our own.

There's nothing Lord, in this preacher that could carry the

meeting, even the bringing off the Word.

But there is the power of God that is promised in the

Scriptures. Our Saviour heir, he went back

to glory. The last great promise that He

gave is that she shall receive power after this.

The Holy Ghost is come upon you, and you shall be witnesses on to

me. May I be a witness for Christ

even in this gathering tonight, that your word, Lord, have a

free course and be glorified. It would be a tremendous thing,

Lord, if at the end of the gathering, souls were saved,

backsliders restored, that God's people sent on their way,

rejoicing built up in their most holy faith.

Hear an answer prayer, glorify thyself in Jesus name, Amen.

Amen. And the last part there of the

verse four that we want to give our attention to, there's two

questions asked. We would be awhile tonight if we

were to answer both of them and deal with them.

So we've decided just to look at the end of verse 4 and it gives

his ample room and ample scope for the preaching of the gospel.

The question is asked, how can he be clean that is born of a

woman. The speaker in our text is a

fellow called Bildad. The shoe height in verse one

there and he was one of Job's friends and comforters.

There were three all together, and they came to see Job, who

was lying in his bed in great affliction.

Job was greatly afflicted in his body.

He was in great pain. He was in agony because he was

not only afflicted in his body, and that was bad enough, but he

was afflicted because of an ongoing onslaught of the devil.

You read of that in the opening chapters.

The devil picked on him and Job, it may be said, need needed a

lot of prayer and he needed a lot of support and he needed a

lot of comfort. But Bodad here and his two

companions give rise to that somewhat cynical question that

you tend to hear regularly with friends like these, who needs

enemies? And even not free, as Job's

comforters has been engrafted in the everyday speech.

People use it. They don't even know where it

comes from. It's in our common language now.

It refers to one who brings no comfort to you, but adds to your

reflection when maybe words of comfort would really be better.

Now maybe you're wondering why so much attention is given to

these, the words of these men. There's chapter after chapter.

Job is a big book and these men contribute so much.

Well, why is it then if they're not that good at their work?

There's so much attention given to what they say.

And herein lies the rub. Their theology, their doctrine,

their teaching was fine, that's why.

But it was their pastoral application that let them down

big time. The Bible says it are words that

are fitly spoken, right words to the right person at the right

time. It's those words that are

likened on the apples of gold in pictures of silver.

Now at the beginning of their visit to him again, you read it

in the early part. These men, as of perhaps they

could only do in the East, where of course the whole scene is

set. They came and they saw Job and

they sat for a whole week in silence.

You and I could hardly sit still for 10 minutes.

These fellows sat still for a whole week.

They just looked on, they wept, they mourned, and nobody spoke.

And that husband commented. Then it all went sour because

they opened their mouth and well, we would say that they

added to his affliction. You know, truth is indeed a very

precious commodity, but it should never be used to Bosch

someone over the head. Sometimes there is a time to

speak. If your words are good words,

then, and our times there is a time to be silent.

We can divorce these words having acknowledged their

immediate context because the words themselves, when we take

away all the little bad bits round them, Bildad and his

friends, these words carry great weight and I believe that from

them tonight we will be able to preach the gospel of Christ.

We have three main thoughts and we'll try and move quickly

through them. First of all, number one, we

have the question analysed, the question analysed.

The question itself, of course you will have picked up, is a

rhetorical question. It has been asked not so much to

get an answer, but to make a point, a grammatical point, and

when within a limited scope it is seen.

No man who is born of a woman can be clean.

That's what the Bible says about us, born of a woman.

No man born of a woman can be clean.

And this is teaching us what is a great truth, and a great truth

that is not often mentioned, is often denied, is not often

mentioned, seldom preached on. And that's the doctrine of what

is known as original sin. Original sin.

And we need to learn the truth because it explains to us why

the gospel is so necessary. The gospel isn't just a

preference here, something that we can hang on to and attach on

the life in general. If you think you need it, no,

you need it, you need it. The Bible says the gospel is for

sinners, unclean sinners. It is summarised in the words of

the apostle who said this is a faithful saying worthy of all

acceptation. Christ Jesus come into the world

to save sinners and there's a great danger.

The great danger is says that we could argue ourselves out of

being saved. We could take the wrong box, we

could make the wrong claim and make the wrong denial.

Anybody who says being confronted that they are sinners

and they start to defend themselves are putting

themselves in great danger. The worst thing you want to do

is to argue yourself out of God's salvation.

Here in our tax man's state is led bare.

God has stripped everything away and he states a very

disconcerting truth. He's telling us here, as the

Bible does elsewhere, that we are all born sinners with a

sinful nature. The little child is born we you,

and we are. It's lovely and it's beautiful

and all. We say nice things, old little

Angel and so on. All that like that there.

But that's fine sentimentally. But when you drill down a little

bit with the word of God in your hand, you realise that we are

looking at a little Sinner, one born with a sinful nature.

And soon that sinful nature is going to manifest itself.

There's going to be that stomping of a little foot

somewhere. There's going to be that little

defiant no, no to the requests or the demands of apparent King

David put it in the words in his great penitential Psalm in Psalm

51. Listen to these words.

Behold, when the Bible says, behold, it's a little called to

stop and to look. Look at this.

That's what he's saying. Behold, he said, I was shaping

in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Now, that's nothing to do with being born out of wedlock out of

anything like that. No, he's saying, I was born with

a sinful nature. I have been born into a wicked

race, the human race that has rebelled against its creator.

I have been born on the wrong side of the tracks.

Psalm 58. David again says the wicked.

Note the word. The wicked are estranged from

the womb. They go astray as soon as they

be born. Speaking lies in our words.

The seeds of wickedness are already there and they will soon

develop and manifest themselves in full bloom when they have the

opportunity to do so. Now sin may be portrayed under

many descriptions. I think we at the opening part

of, I remember back of the mission of certainly the first

week we looked at that all the different ways sin is portrayed,

most notably rebellion. But here in our text it is on

cleanness. Who can be clean?

That is born of a woman and that's telling us today that sin

pollutes. There's a lot of talk about

pollution, isn't there? You go on the news in the

morning, the BBC Breakfast, it seems about every 3rd day

they're talking about Thames Water and you're seeing the

sewer pipe going out into the Thames.

The pollution, the fish kills. We know what pollution is.

It's in the air, it's in the sea.

Well, morally, morally, we've all got polluted hearts.

It is universal. Listen to Isaiah chapter 64,

Isaiah 64:6

verse 6. We are all, and that's an all,

embracing all, every one of us. We are all as an unclean thing,

the language of our text and all our righteousnesses, our filthy

rags. And we do all fear as a leaf,

and our iniquities like the wind have carried us a day, carried

us away. You remember the words of Isaiah

way back in chapter 6, as he stood in the very presence of

God. He says he saw the Lord sitting

on his throne high and lifted up.

He saw the angels, the angels cover their faces, and the

angels cried out three times to God.

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God of hosts.

What was Isaiah's response to that?

Isaiah pading to you was a good man.

He was God's man. He was a redeemed man.

He was a saved man. Isaiah, confronted with the

holiness of God, said woe is me, for I am undone.

I am a man of what? Unclean lips?

You see, uncleanness invades the whole body of man.

The apostle Paul and our great man of God had to cry out when

he saw himself up against the Lord, as it were, O wretched man

that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death.

Again he said in me, that is in my flesh left to myself,

dwelleth no good thing. Later on, Joe Joe will confess

in the presence of the Lord. I abhor myself, he said.

I repent in dust and Isis. Can I say that such uncleanness

was still under our first point? Such uncleanness is contagious

and it is dangerous. It leads to disease.

The disease leads to death. It may be communicated to ours.

We are the touch, not the unclean thing.

It can be communicated the others.

The book of Proverbs, a very practical book, tells us that we

should shun certain people or particularly their influences,

those who are guilty of various vases with the angry man that

says thou shalt not go, why is that?

Because you're going to get angry.

He's going to wind you up and those seeds of repellent in your

heart will rise up and that uncleanness of sin will manifest

yourself. If he's angry and gone off on a

rage, let him go. Just be thankful that you're not

going with him. It talks about the harlot woman,

the strange woman as she has described in the Bible.

And it's not because we are better than they.

We're not going to be the hypocrite tonight.

We're not going to be the Pharisee tonight.

But because our own wicked hearts left to themselves are

tender, dry. You get the last time that you

ever had the problem a few weeks ago.

Get all those fires in the mornings with the fires near us

there in Tyrone. The ground was tender, dry and

all it took was one match, one cigarette butt, 1 little light,

1 little broken bottle with the the sun shining through it and

soon there was the big flame of fire.

We recognise the corruption of our own hearts, and if such sins

are repulsive to us, then how much more are they repulsive to

God? God in the highest is the

highest authority. They've got the the old verse

there or the little question that is asked in the verse 4.

It really does set up our question here.

How then can man be justified with God?

He is the Master before whom we will either stand or fall.

We will stand one day at His judgement seat, and we will be

summons to appear and to give an account on such uncleanness

tonight. Such uncleanness.

If we're dying, this uncleanness, it will keep us out

of heaven. We love to sing about heaven,

don't we may like to think about the glory land and we, we, we

think it's a wonderful, wonderful place where the Bible

tells us that it is. It's the it's the height of joy

and pleasure to be in the presence of the Lord forever.

But listen to what it says. Nothing, nothing that defileth

shall enter into heaven. That's why it's so wonderful.

All that is unclean and defiled is kept out in heaven itself.

You have the redeemed of the Lord there, and they are

portrayed in being in white robes, the righteousness of the

Saints. The Bible says in Revelation 22

concerning the uncleanness, it keeps a man out of heaven.

It will be pronounced on a great multitude, perhaps at the last,

some even Goward in our meeting tonight.

That him that is unjust beyond just still the final doom.

Let him that is filthy unclean. Let him be filthy still.

These are the worst words that anybody could hear.

But not only do we have the question analyse, moving on here

quickly and #2 we have the question answered, the question

answered. In other words, we are treating

it as a question that is not rhetorical.

Originally it was a rhetorical, it was asked for a fact.

But we're going to take it as a question that needs to be

answered. The rhetorical has served its

purpose in the first point. And since we are all unclean by

sin, both original and actual, and therefore, in such a state

barred from heaven, no hope in ourselves of getting in, because

there can be no fellowship between righteousness.

And on righteousness, you say, Is that it?

Have I come here tonight to hear a message of certain doom and

perdition? The old question was asked in

the Gospels. Who then can be saved?

But this isn't all what the Bible says.

Bible says man cannot cleanse himself.

The stain is too deep. Jeremiah said these words in the

early part of his book when he's saying his complaint among to

the people. He says if you wash yourself

with knighter, knighter was a very strong soap, an industrial

level soap. If you wash yourself with

knighter and you take to thee much soap yet thine iniquity,

thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God.

The ladies will know what it is like when you're doing the

washing. You've got a stain and our

fellas come of a wee bit of a stain in my shirt.

Is there anything you can do about it?

And outcomes the carbolic soap and outcomes all the the wonder

portions that you spent money for to go through the wash, but

the stain's still there, isn't it?

It's not right in the back down here.

It's sitting there somewhere where you you, you're going to

see it. And if man cannot remove and

cleanse his own sin, he certainly cannot cleanse and

remove the sins of an hour. There's no human cure for this.

Tonight. There's no church can cleanse

you. Tonight.

You go through all the rituals of your church, no matter visit

Roman or Reformed or whatever, the church cannot deliver you.

It cannot wash away your sin. But what we can do and what

we're doing tonight is that we can preach unknower.

What is impossible with men is possible with God.

And we are introduced in this book of Job.

Job was, the Bible says, a perfect and an upright man.

He was not sinless, but he was a saved man.

He feared God that's the beginning of wisdom, the fear of

God he astute that means he rejected evil and how was this

how's this man born on clean of a woman?

How can he be an upright and a perfect man fearing God because

he spoke about a Redeemer Job 19 verse 25.

Job 19:25

I know he said, he's in the depths of despair here.

When he speaks his words. He's down in the dumps a

thousandfold, and yet he's still a man of faith.

And he cries out, and he says, I know that my Redeemer liveth not

a wonderful thing. He had a saviour, had a

Redeemer. Here's a man surrounded by

heathen with her false deities, who demanded so much, delivered

nothing, never mind so little, unable to save anybody.

But Job's God was alive, the one true and living God, and God was

his Redeemer. And Job's God, who is our God,

who we're preaching tonight, is wowing.

Although he is the offended one. He's wowing to be gracious and

merciful to the guilty. There we deserve nothing but to

be castaway in wrath. The world one time so plunged

itself in the uncleanness. Job chapter or Genesis chapter

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6, when the whole earth was full of violence in the days of Noah,

days that will return again before the Lord comes back and

listen to what it says. It repented the Lord that he had

made man on earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

And the wicked cannot complain if God was to cast them into the

deepest hell, because the whole world tonight, the whole world

stands guilty before God and every mouth is stopped.

There's no legal arguments, there's no excuses, there's no

smart lawyers, there's no bluffing.

The Supreme Judge who knows all things and will do that which is

right. Has God made a way back to

himself from the dark paths of sin?

Can God cleanse the souls of men?

Can he present them to Himself, as the Bible says, without spot,

without wrinkle, or any such things?

That's why I'm here tonight. That's why this church is here

tonight, because we answer yes, he can.

And we point to a fountain. We did it in our opening hymn.

We say there is a fountain filled with blood drawn from

Emmanuel's veins. Sinners floods beneath that

flood lose all their guilty stains.

And that's the cross. That's the cross of Calvary, a

great fountain, Zechariah 13 and one opened up for all sin and

all uncleanness. And that's what God did when he

sent his Son to Calvary's cross. And what happened at the cross?

Christ died. Christ died for the ungodly, for

the unclean, scarcely for a righteous man, says Paul.

For a clean man would one die. Yet he says it may be perhaps

peradventure, some thinking that a good man would be worth dying

for. Some would even dare to die.

But God commanded his love toward us, in that while we were

yet sinners on clean sinners, Christ died for us.

What happened at the cross? God put His Son on the cross,

and God made him Christ, who knew no sin to be made sin for

us, to be accounted as a Sinner for us, that we might be made or

accounted righteousness in him. He was numbered with the

transgressors, He was numbered with the unclean, and all that

righteous and all that holy wrath of our God fell upon him.

He was our substitute. Christ died, for on account of

our sins He gave Himself for us. You see, without the shedding of

blood there is no remission, but the blood was shed.

He felt the lash of the whip in Pilot's judgement hall.

He knew what it was to have His hands pierced.

I hear the dole blow of a hammer swung low there kneeling, my

Lord, to the tree, and then it says someone took a spear and

rammed it into his side, and forthwith came out.

What water, water and blood, blood to satisfy the divine law,

water to cleanse the goatly soul.

All we preach tonight, we're not ashamed to preach tonight about

the blood of Jesus Christ godson cleansing us from walls in the

word there cleanseth and it's a mood that it's inner the tents

that it's in in the original language is that it keeps on

cleansing us from all sin captured in the words of the

handwriter. The blood that washed my sins

away still cleanseth every hour you remember the words of the

Saviour to Peter. He that is washed is cleansed

every whip all the Gower clean holy clean.

This is the question analysed. And then thirdly and lastly, it

falls to me tonight very quickly.

We have the question applied and that's where we say, well,

that's very interesting. How does it apply to me?

We make it personal. I hope tonight if you're

unsaved, you're asking this question.

How can I unclean, unsaved, unfit for the purity of God's

heaven? As it stands, the gates will be

locked against me and I will be told that a part is cursed,

because cursed is the man who can keep, not the whole of the

law of God. How can I be clean?

I need to be cleaned again into heaven.

Well, God has opened up this great fountain for us.

The blood has been shed. That blood as we were singing

will never, will never lose its power.

The gospel that has centred on the blood of the Lamb, Jesus

said it will be preached in the world until the end of the age,

and that's when all the purposes of God will be worked out

concerning salvation. That's why we can stand and

preach this so confidently tonight.

Find these boys, Peter and John and all starting off 2000 years

ago the blood had only been shed and you'd maybe say well after

2000 years has it lost any of its ancient power?

No, it's still the same. It's still the gospel of Christ

which is the power of God unto salvation.

Do everyone not believeth? How do you get this cleansing?

Well the verse it says that blood cleanseth us from all sin

leads to 2 verses down first, John 1:00 and 9:00.

If we confess our sins, That's what I'm saying.

Take the sinner's place. If we confess our sins, not to a

man in a wee box, not to a man sitting round the table the way

they do it now, but if we confess our sins to our great

high priest in heaven, the only priest the Sinner needs, If we

confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins

and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

And what you need to do, and this might be hard, you need to

forsake any other concoction that you might have.

You cannot keep your options open.

It must be Christ and it must be Christ alone.

Any our man made scheme is what the Bible calls unbelief of the

truth. It's a sin, even the entertain.

And to hold on to such a thought, it's a thought that

needs to be repented of because the retainant is to become

worth. I know, I say let it go.

It's useless, it's worthless, it's dangerous.

In Acts chapter 28 and verse 3, we read about the Apostle Paul.

Acts 28 · chapter mention

He survived the great shipwreck. He went on to an island and

everybody of course come in off the sea.

They were wet, they were soaked through, they were cold.

They got a bit of a fire going, as you would, and after a piece

of wood there came out of the wood a deadly vapour and it

fastened itself on the Paul's hand.

You know what the Bible says he did.

He immediately shook it off. And that's what you need to do.

That's what you need to do with any deadly thought that you

might still be entertaining, that there's another way of

cleansing. I say tonight, shake it off,

break off thy sins, repent of it, and lay hold or not finished

work of Christ. The price has been paid, the

work has been done, the invite goes out.

Faith lays hold on eternal life. Will you come tonight?

Wash them, be clean. You know, this is the last night

of a gospel mission. It's always a solemn time

because sometimes there's folks and Welsh, we're glad to see

them and it's wonderful. The only common the gospel

missions. And we don't have them every

hour a week either. And it might well be, and I

don't know, but it could well be.

Maybe you're hearing the gospel for the last time.

There's a great fountain opened up drawn from Emmanuel veins

which you need to come. It's them that come why

shouldn't be cleaned and if you come he gave the great promise

Noel preach medley on Friday night That great thanks to him

that cometh to me. I will in no wise cast out his

blood can make the file as clean his blood avails for me whose

have listened well tonight time is moving on.

If you want to speak with me afterwards we're going to have

this little bit of supper and I'm willing to chat you but you

know just sitting in your seat tonight just sitting in your

seat say Lord, I'm unclean. I've listened to this man who

has preached your word I'm unclean.

Wash me, cleanse me in the blood that flowed on Calvary.