Mission 25 - A New Creature

Well, we want to thank Sir for coming thinking so well to us

here today. That was lovely and it was

really enjoyed our ministry and song real blessing really to

your own heart and it's it's wonderful to sing of Christ and

I trust everyone of us here was blessed as we listened to her

sister sing tonight. Thank you for coming along to

the mission. No better place to be at this

particular time in this community and than being in the

gospel mission, singing the old fashioned gospel hymns and

listen to the singing. And I trust then also the

preaching of the word of God and let's pray together.

Let's work together and seek to get people onto the sound of the

gospel at this time. Now we're going to turn just to

our our reading. It's in book of Second

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Corinthians chapter 5. For time's sake, we're just

going to read our text tonight and 2nd Corinthians chapter 5

and the verse 17 is really the text I want to to look at here

tonight. 2nd Corinthians 5 verse 17.

And Paul here is saying he says, therefore, if any man be in

Christ, he's a new creature. All things are passed away.

Behold, all things are become new and we we have here a new

creature, a new creature that's brought before.

Let's look to the Lord for his help tonight.

Father in Heaven, we thank you for the already being in this

meeting, the blessing of being in your presence, and for

helping our sisters sing so well to us and the sing of Christ.

Well, thank you. We have a great Redeemer who

walks with us and he talks with us these facts.

He says I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.

I pray for help around thy word. I pray you'll speak to anyone,

Lord, who is in here tonight and I'll see it.

Maybe there's someone home and they're watching and they're not

saved. Lord deed with them wherever

they are tonight, call them to the Lord Jesus that they might

be saved. Amen.

Amen. Therefore, if any man be in

Christ, he is a new creature. You and I know living in this

day and age, there are many great deceptions.

Of course, with the progress of modern technology, men are able

to produce counterfeits that even an expert would have great

difficulty noticing. There's counterfeits cover every

area. I came across something there

today. Some man was found I think

around Belfast or some area and his house was full of

counterfeits. He had handbags, he had watches,

he had everything. And so we're in this day and

age, the counterfeit is very easy to come across.

In fact, sometimes we go into the shop and it says beware of

counterfeit 20 LB notes. So counterfeit's all around us.

Let me say this tonight. It's the same with the spirits

of things of the Lord. We are living in a day of many

counterfeits. Think for instance, the

counterfeit servants of so-called of the Lord because

there are many, there are many today who claim to be a servant

of the Lord and they stand up and they seek to preach, to say

they believe in God. They have a Bible, they have a

congregation. And yet the Lord Jesus Christ

said in Matthew 7 verse 15, beware of false prophets.

Matthew 7:15

And so when you think of them all around our land today, there

are many people. There are many people and

they're listening. They're listening to a their

feet servant, a false message, the preach false, a counter, a

counterfeit messages, counterfeit spirit.

The Bible talks and Corinthians about you've received another

spirit. There's a spirit abroad today.

There are people saying they're speaking in tongues.

They're doing signs and wonders and all of these things and

there's a counterfeit spirit going today.

You only have to go on to YouTube when you type in some

names of some fellows, which on that name and there's some of

the things that's going on in a service, you wouldn't believe

it. They're dancing in the pews.

They're falling all over the place.

They're gigging and laughing. They're roaring about like dogs

or cows and they say, well, this is the work of the Spirit of

God. Well, I want to tell you

tonight, that is not true. That is not true.

That's not the work of the Spirit of God.

There's a counterfeit Saviour because 2nd Corinthians 11 verse

four, he says for he the cometh preaches another Jesus whom we

have not preached. There are people today and

they're preaching another Jesus, not the Jesus of the Bible.

The Jehovah Witness have another Jesus.

The Mormons, they have another Jesus.

The Church of Rome have another Jesus, Islam, they have another

Jesus. They have not got the Christ of

the Bible. So there are counterfeits.

There are counterfeits all around the day when we come to

the things of God. Now I want to say tonight, it's

the same thing about salvation. There's a counterfeit today.

The counterfeit evasive believe ISM just go to some particular

church and so on, and everything will be well with your soul and

you'll get to heaven. And yet we find the Lord Jesus

saying of a group of people who come before them in Matthew 7

Matthew 7:23

verse 23. Then while I profess unto them,

I never knew you depart from me ye that work in iniquity.

Here's a a great multitude who come before the Lord Jesus

Christ and he looks him in the eye and he says to them, depart

from me. I never knew you.

They had the counterfeit. I want you to see that tonight

they had the counterfeit. It's not that they didn't

believe in a God. It's not that they didn't

believe in a person of the Lord Jesus Christ, but they had the

counterfeit, A counterfeit salvation that I want everyone,

everyone in this hall tonight, in this church tonight to have

the real thing. We want a salvation that's real.

We want a salvation that saves. That's the salvation we want.

We don't want to counterfeit. We don't want to end up like

these people in Matthew Chapter 7 and to come before the Lord

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Jesus Christ on the last day. And he looks at us and he says,

depart from me. I never knew you.

We want a true salvation. We want a real salvation, and

that's we have come to preach in this community at this time.

Well, this whole thing about a real salvation, a true salvation

has brought before us here in the words of the Apostle Paul.

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

Old things are passed away and all things become new.

And I want to say just a number of things very quickly.

The position that the centre must be in.

I want you to see tonight where you must be if you're ever going

to be in heaven and if you're ever going to be saved, if

everlasting life. The apostle Paul here brings it

out so clear, we cannot miss it. The position you must be is US.

He must be in Christ. Now I want you to get that

tonight. If you want heaven, if you want

forgiveness of sins, if you want everlasting life, you must be in

Christ. This is the position, This is

the place to be, to be saved. Now I want to sell this.

In all other religions, there's no mention of people being

placed in a person. That's not the case.

No, think of Muslims. They're not placed in Muhammad.

They're following Muhammad. You think of the Mormons,

they're they're not placed in Joseph Smith.

But no, no, they're following Joseph Smith.

There's Jehovah's Witnesses in the sense they're not really

placed in the Watchtower, but they're following the teachings

of the Watchtower. So here is true Christianity,

true Christianity, and a true Christian one who's really

saved. He's in a place, he's in a

person. What is that?

Who is that person, the Lord Jesus Christ?

And I want to say that on a shame of The Tonight, there's no

other one can save you. And if you're in any other place

tonight, you'll not be saved. Don't care how good it is.

Don't care tonight how good it sounds if you're not in Christ,

you're not going to heaven, you're not forgiven if any man

be in Christ, I want you to see that he does not speak about

being in a church. Now certainly it's important

that a person is in church and why everybody rise on the on the

Sabbath day and go to the true House of God to listen to the

preaching of the word of God. But it doesn't speak about being

in a church that'll save you, doesn't speak about being a

Christian home. And that's a blessing.

Some of us didn't have that privilege of being brought up in

a Christian home. But maybe you have, you know,

what's a real privilege and a real blessing.

It's one of them to bring the children up and to teach them

the things of God and the way of salvation.

That's why I ought to bring up my children.

I was with my wee grandchildren the other day.

I was staying overnight. Sometimes I preach around that

way and I stay overnight and so on.

And day I got talking to my wee granddaughter and we're talking

about the things that Bible and I was throwing out question

after question after question. Tell her and you know something

she's just throwing the answer certainly gets here.

I was real private to know she'd been taught the Bible, the way

of salvation. It's in the Lord Jesus Christ.

It doesn't speak just about being being in a family that's

important that's a blessing or just about believing about Lord

Jesus Christ. It doesn't speak about being in

baptism and there are many people there are many people has

been in the tank in a sense and many people has been through the

waters, but they've never been saved, never been saved.

Therefore, if any man notice tonight the word of God be in

Christ, that's the place. Thus a person that you need to

be in to be saved. That's where you need to be and

the Lord Jesus Christ is Christ. We're not here to preach a

church. We're not here to preach

ordinances here tonight. Why?

They're all important in their own place.

It's Christ and that is a distinct position, a different

position because think of this, the Sinner is not in Christ in

this natural state. He's not there at all.

He's without Christ. You think there are in Ephesians

Ephesians 2:12

2 verse 12. And at that time you were

without Christ. There are people tonight, they

say I haven't got a home, I haven't got money, I haven't got

a friend, I haven't got a husband, I haven't got a wife

from Abbey. They say all of these things.

Here's the most miserable position to be ever in in this

world, to be without Christ. The person who's not saved is

without him, without the Lord Jesus Christ.

And the talks are in force, Corinthians 15, verse 22 about

the Sinner being an Adam, being an Adam.

Here we find the Christian, here we find here in the word of the

living God here tonight the position that the Sinner must be

in. He must be in Christ.

That's where salvation is. The apostle Paul speaks here,

verse 14 and 50 about the death of the Lord Jesus Christ.

He speaks about the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.

He shed his precious blood. It's the same message for all

people. One person said every man must

be in Christ in order to be saved.

And then he said it matters not who he may be.

No man may become a Christian and any other methods.

Don't do that tonight. There is no other way of

becoming a Christian other than through the Lord Jesus Christ.

And that's the position you must be in if any man be in Christ.

Here's a question tonight. Are you in Christ?

Are you saved? Have you repented?

Are you trusting the Lord Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour?

Can you say he's all I'm depending on?

I put my faith in Him, I trust in Him.

I need no other argument and I need no other plea.

It is enough that Jesus died and that he died for me.

This is the position you must be in to be saved.

And I say it again and just not being repetitive, there's no

other place to be. There's no other saviour.

I don't care what you said tonight.

I don't say no. You said we know where it is

tonight. There's no other place.

There's no other one. Sometimes we get channels.

How do you know? How do you know that your

religion is a true religion? How do we know?

Because the Bible, the Bible tells us so.

So the position the centre must be in, in Christ, there are

people tonight in this community, might be in the

meeting, might be listening, they're in the world, they're in

sin, they need to come to Christ.

Are you in Christ tonight? Can you say that?

Have you come to him? Have you trusted him?

The position the centre must be in.

Then there is the power that the centre must experience because

to become a Christian you made something.

I want you to see this tonight, a new creature, a new creature.

How amazing. God makes things new, and this

is a divine work. This is something God does.

We have a mighty God, We have a great God, a great Saviour, and

he makes people, He makes sinners into Saints.

This is a divine work. We think here tonight, who made

the world? Who made the world?

Well, some people believes in the monkey business, evolution

and all the rest of it, but we believe the Bible in the

beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

God made it. In chapter 1 of Genesis first

three, it says God said let there be light and there was

light and there was no one to help them as God made it.

In Isaiah 44 verse 24, here's 1 you can really imagine to

Isaiah 44:24

Jehovah's Witnesses because when you tell him the Bible says that

Jesus Christ made the world, you know what to say to you.

Oh he, he helped God, he helped God.

But here's a verse that destroys their argument because in Isaiah

Isaiah 44:24

44 verse 24, thus saith the Lord thy Redeemer, and he that formed

thee from the womb, I am a Lord that maketh all things.

Do you hear Him? I am a Lord that maketh all

things, that stretches forth the heavens alone, that spreadeth

abroad the earth by myself. Do you see what God says?

The heavens, I did it alone. And you see the earth.

This earth, He says, I did it myself.

Myself and so when we come to the Bible, we find here it is

God and God alone, God and God alone that made the universe.

I say here tonight, God made this creation.

God makes a new creation. He does it.

He takes a Sinner and he makes them into a new creature.

Remember it says in John chapter one verse 12 and verse 13 making

of receiving Christ, but as many as receive him to then give he

the power to become the sons of God, even to them which believe

in his name, which were born out of blood, nor of the will of the

flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Here tells us how's a person made a child of God?

How are they made a new creature born of God?

Remember, remember the words the Lord Jesus said to that

religious man, Nicotemus. Nicotemus, you have religion and

you have religion up your neck, but you must you must be born

again. You must be made a new creature.

And if I will be saved, you can't save yourself.

If I won't be saved, God doesn't, and he make you a new

creature. Here's a divine work, a

difficult work. The creating of the world was a

very difficult work. Thomas Watson said when God made

the world, he met with no opposition.

But when God is about to make a new creature, Satan and the

heart opposing the fight against him, the Sinner doesn't want

God. They don't want him.

They don't want the Lord Jesus Christ.

They don't want to hear the gospel, they don't want to leave

their sin. They don't want to repent.

They don't. We sing sometimes, but the Lord

Jesus coming into her heart, they don't want Christ.

They don't want them in their heart.

They don't want them in their life.

So this is something that's difficult.

There's opposition. There is a hardness in the life

of the Sinner. He refuses to obey the word of

God. He runs away from the presence

of the Lord. He doesn't want them.

And you remember saying, well, I'm trying to get my my family

to this mission. I'm trying to get my workmates.

I'm trying to get my friends to come and they won't come.

They run, they they harden their hearts.

They have no Winterson coming. And that is the natural heart of

a Sinner. That was my heart at one time.

That child of God before you were converted, that was your

heart at one time as well. That's all this hardeners of

heart. What about the wickedness of the

heart? Remember in challenges 6, verse

5 and God looked down the time before the flood and he saw that

the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and every

imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only able to

continue like that's a long time ago.

And God looked at it. The world was full of wickedness

and the world was full of sin. It hasn't changed.

Still the same terrible things is happening all over the world

today. Man's heart is full of

wickedness. Man's heart is full of sin.

And yet here's a wonderful thing.

God can make him a new person. God can do that the worst the

scum of the earth. God can do this in the darkness

of people's hearts too. And the amazing thing about it,

they love the darkness because in John 3 verse 19, this is the

John 3:19

condemnation that light has come into the world.

Notice, and men love darkness rather than light because their

deeds were evil. They love the darkness.

And when they come to meetings like this, they come face to

face with the light of the gospel.

That's why they don't want to come to gospel meetings and they

love the darkness. And the Lord has overcome all

these things before He can make a new creature.

Is your heart hard tonight? You send all I wish I was early

this meeting. I love my back.

I come in to hear the gospel and I can't wait till this meeting

goes hard and I love me back. Your heart is hard.

Don't harden your heart against God.

Is your heart full of sin tonight?

Heart full of darkness. You see, here's a power here of

the gospel. God can make a new creation, and

He does it of course through Christ.

Thomas Watson again said to cost God nothing to make the world,

but to make new creatures cost. The shedding of Christ's blood

has only begotten Son. Think of cross, think of Calvary

tonight, the Lord Jesus dying to make us new creatures, to bring

us to God, the Son of God who loved me and give himself for

me. This is the teaching of the

Bible. It's a difficult work, but God

can do it. And I want you to see this

tonight. God can save you.

You're not so far away tonight, down in your sin, where God

cannot reach you, where he cannot change you, where he

cannot save you, He can do this. He can make you a new person.

Do you believe it tonight? I believe it.

He did it for me. He did it for me.

Everyone, Mr McLaughlin, call all the ones in this meeting.

Here's the work God can do. Don't be without hope tonight.

Don't be cast down and lost in your sin tonight in this

meeting. There's power in Jesus blood.

God can make you a new person, a delightful work that says he

makes up a new, a new creature. It's not man being modified away

better. A few alterations may tell him

it's not the old man improved. He can't really improve the old

man at all. He had to destroy him.

But he makes a new man, a new man.

He puts a new man in a suit, maybe the same old suit.

You saw him. That's what he does.

But a new heart. I think he'll talk to him

because I put a new heart within them.

A new tongue. Psalm 41st 3.

He has put a new song in my mouth that wonderful.

Before we were converted, we used to sing the songs of the

world. I used to love Alba, Status Quo,

Make Loaf, all those groups before I got converted.

And once I got converted, I started to sing hymns and songs

and all of these things. Our sister sang song from there.

Tonight he walks with me and he talks with me.

When I first heard those things as a young Christian, a new

tongue, I do that for you tonight, New Year's, What Lord

will they have me to do? New fate, your run after

righteousness or run away from sin, New hands, your work from

God. Oh, here's something.

Here's the life of work. And they say again, the Lord can

do this for you tonight in this meeting, I can do this.

This is the power you must experience a new creature born

again of a spirit of God. God can do this and God can do

it for you. There are people tonight, no

doubt in this whole community, held by drugs, held by

immorality, held by booze, depressed.

There are no hope, no hope and there they go day after day,

held by sin, following the devil, heading down towards

hell, lost. But here's good news of the

gospel. Christ can save them, he can

change them. There's power in Jesus blood

tonight and that's the power he can experience and make a new

creature, say to some people sometimes, do you really want

your life just to go on the way it's going?

You've lived so many years in the world, you've lived in sin.

Is that how you want to go on every year?

That's what you want. Just get up, live for the world,

live for sin, miserable, cast down, lost.

Is that what you want to continue right to the end of

your life? I'm asked you tonight, is that

what you want? There's a new life for you.

There's hope in Jesus Christ and He can save you.

He can do this for you. And I trust you've listened to

light here. And they meet them.

Therefore, of any man being Christ, he's a new creature, a

new creation. They do it for you, they do that

for you. They wash you in the blood of

Jesus Christ. They come into your heart and

they make you a new person. They could do that for you

tonight. These lessons are taught and

found in the gospel of Christ. And they say here the last of

the change that the Sinner must have.

And not to say this, that's a great change.

That's a great change. He's not the same man or woman.

We put a woman in here. It's not the person who see it.

I'm not the same. You cannot be the same.

You cannot be the same. If you're truly repent from your

sin and trust Jesus Christ and be washed in his blood and he

comes into your heart, you cannot be the same.

It's a great change. It's a visible change, one from

darkness to light. When Paul was converted, he was

so altered that the people who saw him that could scarcely

believe he's the same man. What did they say?

What did they say when they saw Saul in Acts 9 verse 21, when

Acts 9:21

all they heard him and heard him preaching were amazed and said,

is not this he that destroyed them?

What's called in this name in Jerusalem and came Hitler for

that intent that he might bring them bound on to the Chief

Police when they heard him preaching, He's preaching Christ

to say this. Is that not the man who came to

bind us and to bring us to the Chief Police of castes into

prison? It was it was him, but he's a

new man and boys, they can see it.

You can see it. You see, I think it's all the

shows here because all things that says are passed away.

There's things have to go. Things have to go.

And I want to tell you tonight when you're really saved and

trust Christ, they do go. Things are passed away.

The views, the opinions, the pleasures, the hopes, the

thrusts, the confidence, all go sins and everything goes.

And then he says here and behold this word, behold this.

This really gets our attention. Behold, well, what?

What else have you got to tell us?

All things become new. All things become new, New

desires, read the Bible, pray, go to church, fellowship, a new

destination. Instead of heading down towards

hell, you're going home to heaven.

All things become new once you get converted.

That's the change. A comfort once said out of the

world is altered or else I am. And that's true when you get

saved. I remember the day I got saved,

I walked out. I thought it was the world

looked totally different. I had lived in it a number of

years beforehand, but it just looked totally different.

Something that happened. The Lord Jesus had come into my

heart, a great change. He comes out.

The Saviour, the Saviour of the world comes in to live and to

stay. And the old, new creature, he's

not the same man he was. He's have another spirit.

It's a permanent change. It's a permanent change.

Change enough for six months or six weeks or six years.

That's forever. I know people have affairs and

leave, but they were never truly converted through conversion

lusts. He's a new creature.

All things pass away. Behold, all things become new.

And here's what I wanted The Lord a sea Spurgeon says he can

make thee the greatest of sinners to become the brightest

of Saints. Not amazing.

You're the greatest Sinner and carried off you send all I feel

no hope and some people say this when you get talking about being

safe know what to say I couldn't keep it couldn't live the life I

would fall I would feel but here's our here's the verse that

destroys all excuses that takes away should take away all doubts

and all fears. Therefore, if any man be in

Christ, he's a new creature. All things are passed away.

Behold all things become you. The Lord Jesus will save you,

make you a new person, and He'll keep you.

You can have that change. Hold on a minute.

I'm back where it started tonight.

You must have this change. If you want to go to heaven, you

must have it. As I already indicate, you must

be born again. You must repent.

You must trust Christ. Martian closing.

Have you trusted Christ? Have you put your faith and

trust in Him? And if not, come to him tonight.

You'll never regret it. We're going to sing a closing

verses in a moment. What a wonderful change in my

life has been wrought since Jesus come in to my heart.

I've got that peace tonight. All has got that peace tonight.

We want you to have this peace tonight, this life that might,

this forgiveness that's found in Jesus Christ.

He can do it for you. Come down, come down with all

your heart and ask Him to save you and he wash away all your

sin and give every last life. If any questions, come and speak

with me or call Mr McLaughlin as well.

We would love to speak with you. Don't go home without Christ.

Experience this power tonight. The power of the gospel, the

power of the blood of Christ, the power of the Spirit of God.

And come to Jesus and he will save you.

He'll make you a new person. He'll take you home to heaven.

You'll not be in hell where you deserve to be.

You'll get everlasting life. Trust Him.

Would you trust Him? Would you trust Him to save you?

Would you put your faith in Him? I hope you will, and I hope

you'll put your faith in the Lord Jesus even this very night.

Trust the Lord. Bless those few thoughts tonight

to all of our hearts. Thank you very much.