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The Cause and Consequences of Hiding the Gospel

Carryduff Free Presbyterian Church

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  1. We are free at full for Rachel and Rebecca and tearsa for the

  2. ministry and song. Beautiful choreographer brother

  3. Bart and I, he's going to come and share word of personal

  4. testimony. I thank the Lord that he has.

  5. See if me uncapped made by his grace, I grew up in a Christian

  6. home and we attended the free Presbyterian Church, Myron

  7. Avenue in Belfast. There was a large Sunday school

  8. there with over 100 children attending every week.

  9. I remember attending Sunday school even as a tiny tot and

  10. climbing up into the back of a very old Caravan.

  11. I think it was that was used for some disco classes.

  12. At that time, went along the side of the main Church.

  13. Faithful, Sunday school teachers, taught me week-by-week

  14. portions of the Bible and events from the Bible that still stuck

  15. with me today. At home every morning before

  16. leaving for school. And every evening after dinner,

  17. we had family worship, we took turns reading a verse from a

  18. chapter of the Bible. I'm praying and we still do.

  19. We do this today? When wake up Sunday school, I

  20. remember Willie Ferguson as a Sunday school teacher asking

  21. each of us in the class. Whether we received not direct

  22. question was met with her. I was nearly served but I knew

  23. it wasn't and nearly wouldn't be good enough.

  24. From the age of nine. I attended by anger and

  25. dependent Christian School along with my brother and others from

  26. Murray and church. The Christian School is sooo

  27. needed in these dark days and there's an anchor to so many

  28. children who would otherwise fall into the sense of the

  29. world. It teaches the same subjects is

  30. the government-run school but to a higher standard and teaches in

  31. light of the moral standard and truths of the Bible while I was

  32. at my Maria. and I was privileged to sit under the

  33. preaching of Reverend Health's, Plumbing, Reverend Stephen

  34. Hamilton, and Reverend Jim Hardin, and it was while

  35. attending young people's Fellowship, Reverend Harden

  36. discussed The Roman Road of Salvation, this was using the

  37. book of Romans and text from up to point someone to Jesus, as

  38. Savior and Redeemer. The only one that can forgive

  39. her sins after hearing the Roman Road of Salvation.

  40. I didn't immediately go down that path, so to speak.

  41. But the Holy Spirit was definitely working on me.

  42. I always loved learning about creation hide the Bible so

  43. accurate, when it mentions, the creative power and works of God.

  44. Some and the Psalms it says the heavens declare.

  45. The glory of God, it's a text, the shoes, God's creation, truly

  46. shoats that there is an intelligent designer.

  47. Romans 1 verse 20 says, for the invisible things of him from the

    Romans 1:20

  48. creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by

  49. the things that are made us even his eternal power and godhead.

  50. So that they are without excuse God was using his creation for

  51. me to understand him as Creator. One night at about 3:00 in the

  52. morning, I couldn't sleep. I knew that I could no longer

  53. sleep another night without being.

  54. Sure of where I would be, if I died, I started reading the book

  55. of Romans, I read it from beginning to end.

  56. It was an incredible moment of Revelation for my shul.

  57. I understood each verse and I could see that I was a Lost

  58. Sinner. Romans 3 verse 10 says there is

    Romans 3:10

  59. none righteous no not one and Romans 23.

  60. Verse 23 for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God

  61. Romans 5 and he upped his but God commendeth his love toward

  62. us in that while we were yet. Sinners State for us and Romans

  63. 6. Verse 23 says, for the wages of

  64. sin is death. But the gift of God is eternal

  65. life through Jesus Christ, Our Lord I was worthy of Eternal

  66. punishment and hail. If I didn't love Christ, come

  67. into my life, forgive my sins and give me a new life.

  68. Remember, on previous occasions of reading, second Corinthians,

  69. five or 17. Therefore, If any man be in

  70. Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are passed away,

  71. behold all things are become new.

  72. I had not had that change of heart, the priorities of my life

  73. for herself and not for gold. So, as I read the book of

  74. Romans, I ask God to forgive my sins.

  75. Cleanse my heart and make me a new creature for him room.

  76. Z at verse 30 and 39 says for I am persuaded that neither death,

  77. nor life nor angels, nor principalities nor powers nor

  78. things present or things to To come nor height nor depth nor

  79. any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of

  80. God which is in Christ. Jesus, our lord, what Assurance

  81. of salvation for me this is always one of the most amazing

  82. verses of the Bible. God loves love reaches into our

  83. hearts. I can never be taken away.

  84. Romans 10 verses 9 to 13 reads. Lift Thou shalt confess with thy

    Romans 10:9–13

  85. mouth, the Lord Jesus. And shalt believe in thine heart

  86. that God hath raised him from the dead.

  87. Thou shalt be saved for with the heart, man, believeth unto

  88. righteousness. And with the mouth confession is

  89. made unto salvation for the scripture.

  90. Saith whosoever, believeth on him, shall not be ashamed, but

  91. there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek.

  92. For the same Lord over all is Rich unto all that.

  93. Call upon him for whosoever shall call upon the name of the

  94. Lord, shall we? See.

  95. Moved and you that I receive now.

  96. I had a change of heart. Everything I did, I did to the

  97. glory of God, the free Presbyterian Church started a

  98. comp him cold doing something more for God.

  99. And I was at this time that the parable of the business

  100. marketing talents to each of his servants, according to their

  101. ability, really spoke to me Weller.

  102. God gives you just one Talent or five talents or more.

  103. He wants you to use your talents and the service of the church

  104. and I would just ask you argue sieved, have you asked God to

  105. forgive your sins, come into your heart and take control of

  106. your life. And if you are saved or talents,

  107. has God, given you, and are you using them for his service in

  108. half? Well, thank you Mark, for

  109. sharing that word of testimony. Mark, of course, is a mountain

  110. with a number of different talents.

  111. He's the man that set up onto spearheading our internet

  112. Ministry, that God is using On Blessing.

  113. So those who are listening and watching tonight, have Mark to

  114. thank for setting up this ministry but he'd appreciate the

  115. word of testimony. I our Bible reading.

  116. The safe thing is taken from 2nd Corinthians.

  117. Second Corinthians chapter 4. We're going to read the first

    2 Corinthians 4 chapter mention

  118. six versus second, Corinthians Chapter 4.

  119. Verses 1 through 26. Let's hear the word of gold. 2nd

  120. Corinthians Chapter 4 verses 1 through 26.

  121. Therefore seeing we have received this ministry as we

  122. have received Mercy, we faint not but every ninth, the hidden

  123. things of dishonesty. Not walking in craftiness, not

  124. handling the word of God deceitfully, but by

  125. manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to Every

  126. Man's conscience in the sight of God.

  127. But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are Are lost in

  128. whom the God of this world. Hath blinded the minds of them

  129. which believe not lest the light of the Glorious gospel of

  130. Christ, who is the image of God should shine unto them for we

  131. preach, not ourselves, but Christ Jesus, the Lord and

  132. ourselves your servants for Jesus sake, for God, who

  133. commanded the light to shine out of Darkness, have shined in our

  134. hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in

  135. the fears of Jesus Christ. Well, and the reading they are

  136. at verse 6 and we pray. God will stomp was only approval

  137. and blessing. That's reading a bunch of and

  138. precious word. Now, my text tonight is found in

  139. 2nd Corinthians chapter 4, and verse 3, it reads as follows.

  140. But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost.

  141. And I want us to think tonight and the theme that I've entitled

  142. the cause and the consequences of hiding the Gospel.

  143. They this is indeed a Solomon taxed, it contains the most

  144. serious message. You see the Apostle Paul didn't

  145. look upon or view the preaching of the Gospel as I agree.

  146. Sure. Or as a task to fulfilled in a

  147. light-hearted manner, he fully relied on preaching.

  148. The gospel. As a vital part of his ministry,

  149. is he from the day of his conversion, God had called him

  150. to be. A gospel preacher and as a

  151. gospel preacher, he faced many challenges he experienced many

  152. difficulties along the way he had trials and troubles, he had

  153. Fierce adversaries. And foes even at times he grew

  154. weary faint-hearted and, and whale doing and yet despite fear

  155. within and fear without all the way Lee was going through this.

  156. He's soft to be fearful to this grid charge and that God had

  157. called him to God. He knew had put him into this

  158. ministry. He acknowledged in Acts 26 22

  159. that he obtained help of God. He knew he wasn't sufficient in

  160. an office for himself, but his sufficiency his strength was in

  161. God and the New Testament records.

  162. For us, Paul's life of service and devotion as a gospel

  163. preacher. Remember, he tells us there and

  164. First Corinthians in chapter 1 and in verse 22, he says for the

  165. Jews require a sign and the Greeks seek after wisdom, but we

  166. preach Christ crucified under Jews a stumbling-block and unto

  167. the Greeks foolishness. He goes on to tell us there and

  168. chapter 2, he says in a rather, and when I came to, you came not

  169. with Excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you, the

  170. testimony of God for, I determined not to know anything.

  171. Among you see of Jesus Christ and him crucified and I was with

  172. you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling and my speech.

  173. And my preaching was not with enticing words of man's Wisdom.

  174. But in demonstration Creation of the spirit, and of power that

  175. your faith should not stand in the wisdom of man, but in the

  176. power of God, and if you look at Second Corinthians 4:5, he tells

    2 Corinthians 4:5

  177. us this for we preach, not ourselves, but Christ Jesus, the

  178. Lord and ourselves your servants.

  179. For Jesus sake. Paul's Ministry that God had

  180. given to him centered in the person and work of the Lord

  181. Jesus. It wasn't in the VA in

  182. philosophy. If man, it wasn't on some social

  183. remedies of the day, it certainly wasn't on climate

  184. change, that wasn't the focus and it certainly wasn't

  185. lgbt-related. It wasn't a religious rights and

  186. ceremonies of man. It wasn't even on politics of

  187. the day. He didn't even focus on the

  188. moral issues and values of the day but he focused on Christ and

  189. Christ Alone. He tells us something.

  190. Here is a right to the Corinthians but if our gospel be

  191. hid, It it is head to them that are lost.

  192. What is the greatest crime in the century?

  193. I believe the greatest crime in the century happens today and

  194. said-- churches churches that were open to the glory of God

  195. churches, that were opened for the preaching of the gospel

  196. because mayonnaise churches, today are closed and many

  197. churches today, have lost their focus on the gospel.

  198. It was that a doctor Peasley that said, gospel preaching.

  199. Oh, Opens churches and the opposite.

  200. Then is true, not preaching, the gospel, not preaching Christ and

  201. him crucified. What happens eventually the

  202. church days and weathers and becomes closed.

  203. The gospel is not a trivial matter, look at our text,

  204. there's four things here, you've got the testimony of the Hidden

  205. gospel. If our gospel behead, Notice the

  206. words Our Gospel, that's interesting.

  207. Is he hears the testimony of the Apostle.

  208. Paul. Whose gospel, is it?

  209. It's God's gospel, but he calls it here.

  210. Our Gospel that is himself, and the people that were with them.

  211. He had a personal testimony to the saving power of the Gospel

  212. in his own life. Remember in the road to

  213. Damascus, he was dead in trespasses and sins.

  214. How he was spiritually, blind to go.

  215. God and Jesus, Christ and sin, and a soul and salvation.

  216. He was sprightly disease. Did who thought her real fear of

  217. God at that time? And yet, he's not my because of

  218. what happened in the Damascus Road.

  219. He's not a changed man. He is a transformed man.

  220. The persecutors become a preacher.

  221. The blasphemers become a Believer.

  222. Hi, was it possible? Here's the answer for God.

  223. Who commanded the light to shine out of Darkness, not takes you

  224. back to Genesis chapter 1. One verse one and two, what does

    Genesis 1 chapter mention

  225. that God? Um, have shined in our hearts to

  226. give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the fears

  227. of Jesus Christ, hears Paulo's personal experience, God who

  228. commanded the light to shine out of Darkness.

  229. The God who said let there be late well that seemed God by his

  230. creative power. He have shined in our hearts.

  231. And what do these Shane into our hearts.

  232. The light of the Glorious Gospel of God in the face of Jesus

  233. Christ. And that's what see if to that's

  234. what changed him. That's what transformed him and

  235. he was fully persuaded in his whole heart and mind that what

  236. he had experienced was the power of God.

  237. God unto salvation. Remember what he says in Romans

    Romans 1:16

  238. 1 verse 16, for I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it

  239. is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that

  240. believeth to the Jew first and also, to the Greek for therein

  241. is the righteousness of God revealed from Faith to Faith.

  242. As it is written, the just shall live by faith.

  243. That word power is the word dunamis from which we get the

  244. English word Dana made and you got to think of explosive energy

  245. and the gospel is like explosive energy to those, that hear the

  246. gospel and to those to whom the gospels applied, you see the

  247. gospels, the answer. And here's why Paul risked his

  248. life day and Ely, he lived to exalt and magnify the name of

  249. the Lord, Jesus Christ, you know, that the neum Jesus refers

  250. to his Humanity. The name Lord refers to his

  251. daddy, the name Christ, as he emphasized this morning with

  252. fares to his ministry. The gospel is a very Dynamic.

  253. Now message it's the explosive energy of God and here's a

  254. mound, he's burdened. Here's a man who's bent and

  255. reaching souls for Christ and he lived his life with the full

  256. intent of presenting Christ. To all who would hear them.

  257. He knew the reality of what it meant to be a lost soul, he

  258. could see them dead and send. He could see them Spirits,

  259. they've claimed he could see them spiritually disease

  260. destined for damnation and he says this therefore seeing we

  261. have this ministry as we have received Mercy, speaking about

  262. his personal experiences, testimony we finished not in

  263. other words we're not going to lose heart.

  264. We're not going to give up. We're not going to quit because

  265. Paul was possessed by the gospel, it felt his heart and

  266. mind. Mind.

  267. And you see we live in a day when preachers and sadly.

  268. Or D and clergyman in certain churches, do not know what the

  269. gospel is. And yet this man could say in

  270. 1st Corinthians 9 and 16 woe unto me.

  271. If I preach, not the gospel and it's good to have a fine

  272. building over here on her fifth anniversary and we rejoice in

  273. this building, it's good to have a program.

  274. It's good to have activities and even good to have a strong

  275. congregation when everybody's here.

  276. But that's nothing. You can have the building the

  277. program, the activity you can have hundreds of people and yet

  278. not have the gospel. Paul wanted and longed and you,

  279. the necessity of a faithful gospel Ministry that centered or

  280. on the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

  281. He knew the gospel, he was possessed by the gospel.

  282. He loved the gods, he lived for the gospel.

  283. There was no room for changing the gospel.

  284. No room for diluting, the gospel truth.

  285. You, the gospel starts with God and yet he called it Our Gospel.

  286. There's the testimony of the head and gospel very quickly

  287. think about the tragedy of the Hidden gospel, he Says of Our

  288. Gospel behead, ask yourself who's behind the hating of the

  289. Gospel. And the answers given to us in

  290. the next verse. We don't have to second guess,

  291. look at verse 4 and whom the God of this world has blinded the

  292. minds of them. Which believe not the God of

  293. this world is another title for the devil and you see as the

  294. true gospel preacher Harold's forth the gospel and people hear

  295. it. People maybe read it in the

  296. taxed of Holy Scripture, people see it before their very eyes.

  297. Sadly, those who To see and hear and read the gospel.

  298. Can go on with a Christ without a sense of appreciation, without

  299. understanding of what that message is all about, without

  300. having a desire or an appetite for it, something it's not

  301. important to them. Why?

  302. Because the Bible tells us 2nd 1st Corinthians, 2:14 the

  303. natural man. Receiveth not the things of the

  304. spirit of God for. They are foolishness unto him.

  305. Neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned

  306. and you see what is happening to their natural mind and heart as

  307. The devil is at work because his goal is to deceive and to

  308. devalue and deny and doubt and get them to justice.

  309. Believe the gospel, the God of this world.

  310. What has he done? He hath blinded the minds of

  311. them, that believe not. Here's here's the activity off

  312. the devil, the devil's. An expert witness.

  313. They, the devil's being revealed here is the one who desires and

  314. uses his power to exercise over the hearts and minds of

  315. unbelievers. So that they stay blinded and

  316. they stay in the dark as far as the gospel as concerned over

  317. there in the Gospel of Luke in Luke chapter 8 and in the verse

    Luke 8 chapter mention

  318. 15. We read these words by way of

  319. explanation whenever we think about the parable of the sower,

  320. he says. Sorry it's verse 12.

  321. Luke chapter 8 verse 12, those by the wayside.

    Luke 8:12

  322. Are they that hear. So think of something hearing

  323. the gospel, then cometh. The devil at that moment in time

  324. and take us away the word out of their hearts lest, they should

  325. believe and be saved and over there in John chapter 12 and in

    John 12 chapter mention

  326. the verse 14, We have something similar, he has blinded their

  327. eyes and hardened their heart, that they should not see with

  328. their eyes nor understand with their heart and be converted and

  329. I should heal them. And that was a quotation.

  330. Of course from the book of Isaiah, see the devil's buzzing.

  331. He does not want the light of the Glorious gospel to shine

  332. forth into your heart because he doesn't want you to be saved.

  333. He doesn't want you to be converted.

  334. There's nothing good about the devil.

  335. There's nothing true about the Devil.

  336. He's a liar. He's being not from the

  337. beginning. Remember what we read in John

    John 8 chapter mention

  338. chapter 8 and verse 44, year of your father, the devil and the

  339. lusts of your father, ye will do.

  340. He was a murderer from the beginning and Abode, not in the

  341. truth because there's no truth in him.

  342. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own for, he is a

  343. liar and the father of it, and he still in the business of

  344. trying to stop the advance and Red of the great truths of the

  345. gospel and heal. Obscure your heart and mind

  346. using your natural bent to deny and turn away from the gospel.

  347. And he will try as much as they can.

  348. To hide the gospel from you. I want to tell you, here's one

  349. of his favorite devices very quickly pleasure.

  350. You know, the Bible talks about being a lover of pleasure, your

  351. lover of pleasure tonight, more than lovers of God, as in the

  352. motto of Manny in our world eat drink and be merry for tomorrow.

  353. You die. Let me have my Pleasures.

  354. Let me do whatever I want. Give me what I found.

  355. See what I lost four. How many people drink

  356. themselves? Into Oblivion Dance the Night

  357. Away, Gamble? Party scene.

  358. Music. What's happening?

  359. The devil's using this to blame their manes to stop their ears

  360. to what the grid throughs of the Gospel, isn't it?

  361. Interesting. We think of Jesus Christ being

  362. crucified in the cross. What were the soldiers doing?

  363. They were gambling At His Feet. Gambling for the clothing.

  364. That came off the back of Christ.

  365. Here's the crucified Christ. Hanging in agony and blood.

  366. Can you picture that scene? And one of the soldiers doing

  367. there? Gambling for his vesture.

  368. That here, the art, mangs are blinded the devil's at work and

  369. they're in the route to hell and don't know what under oblivious

  370. to it. I'll tell you another device

  371. that the devil has preyed on by Nature's a pro creature.

  372. And remember, praise the Sun and we are going to preach on God's

  373. verdict of the pride month. Next at Sunday night, or put you

  374. on notice in relation to that. Praise one of the seven deadly

  375. sins. It's an Abomination to God.

  376. And you hear the ungodly say well, who needs God.

  377. Who is the Lord that I should obey?

  378. And that's what Pharaoh said. Remember the crowd when they

  379. were crucifying Christ, not the smile.

  380. Turian overs away with him crucify him you see man or quite

  381. happy to live live and pleasure live with all their proud

  382. Spirit. Pray to fee has prayed of Ria's

  383. prayed of Spears on the and they're having to live and die

  384. and not steal it and happy to go out and do eternity.

  385. Well if there is a God would meet them.

  386. Not knowing this a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the

  387. Living. God, here's another device

  388. procrastination. This is one of the devil's

  389. tactics. Boast, not thyself tomorrow for

  390. no man. Knoweth what a day may bring

  391. forth. Putting it off know that you

  392. need to be saved, one thing to be said and yet putting it off

  393. till another time. Remember Felix said, when I have

  394. a more convenient time I will call on you, can you picture

  395. Felix trembling and the hammer blow of the word of God coming

  396. on his heart? And mind is Paul reasoned of

  397. righteousness and Temperance and judgment to come.

  398. There is a judgment as it is appointed unto man once to die.

  399. And after this, the Judgment death is not the end.

  400. You'll have to stand before God and give it a kind.

  401. And God will say depart Eat worker of iniquity and

  402. everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels Felix

  403. wanted a more convenient time we don't really ever got it.

  404. The Bible says today if you will hear his voice Harden, not your

  405. hearts. The Bible says behold now is the

  406. day of salvation. Now is the accepted time.

  407. You may not see tomorrow. I may not see tomorrow

  408. procrastination, false professions.

  409. How how many faults professions is there in Northern Ireland?

  410. Remember the devil? As an angel of Light and how

  411. many people have been urged by the preacher to walk and I'll

  412. say Nack, yard offer a prayer. Not doesn't see if, but they put

  413. their confidence and faith and not, and then they get for free

  414. and and unworried. Did I say the rate formula of

  415. words was my name, spelled correctly.

  416. That, that was a humble enough as a came forward and they never

  417. even have a thought. I could have a simple false

  418. profession. Not to me as a masterstroke of

  419. the devil, some of the thinking that they're sieved pretending

  420. that they're seeing but they're not actually born again.

  421. There's no evidence of a new heart.

  422. There's no evidence of a new life.

  423. Maybe you're here tonight and that's what you have, you've

  424. made a profession, but is actually a false one because you

  425. were never changed. You've no real love for God or

  426. Christ or the things of God, you do hit.

  427. But for sin, you know, desire for holding.

  428. What about the device of possessions, a love for things,

  429. or how many people have a love for things?

  430. And yet their razor close to spiritual reality and spiritual

  431. truth. Happy with their spiritual

  432. blindness, happy with their spiritual, state knows.

  433. Sense of fear, no sense of alarm.

  434. No sense of drama. Why?

  435. Because they're blinded to the gospel.

  436. Notice this here, Half blinded the minds of them, that believe

  437. not. It's not We'll try to put half,

  438. he's doing it at ready. Paul says, in Corinth, it's not

  439. a new thing. He's been added from the

  440. beginning and do I could flag up tonight.

  441. The days of Noah, I remember he was a preacher of righteousness

  442. and many received in Noah's day. Just Noah his wife, his three

  443. sons and their ways not many Comforts in the old world.

  444. We don't really have one come to the days of lot.

  445. Not was a backslider i'mi'm, not spoke to people in Sodom.

  446. He seemed as if he was knocking. Lot's wife.

  447. Turned back became a pillar of salt.

  448. Why? Cause you haven't done your

  449. heart. She had a heart for Sodom not

  450. for the Savior. She loved its lifestyle and it's

  451. lawlessness. The Bible tells us remember

  452. Lot's wife, what about the days of Isaiah?

  453. And if you turn there to the book of Isaiah for a few minutes

  454. and Isaiah chapter 1, you're going to reach something

    Isaiah 1 chapter mention

  455. startling. Something that's actually a

  456. picture of our day. It says there and Isaiah 1:2

    Isaiah 1:2

  457. hear o heavens and give ear o Earth for the Lord of spoken.

  458. I have nourished and brought up children and every belt against

  459. me, the ox new with his owner and the ass, his master's crib,

  460. but Israel dog. Not know, my people do not

  461. consider a sinful Nation a people Laden with iniquity a

  462. seed of evildoers children that are corrupters.

  463. They have forsaken, the Lord, they have provoked.

  464. The Holy One of Israel under anger.

  465. They are gone away backward, why should you be stricken and him?

  466. Or he will Revolt more and more. The whole head is sick, and the

  467. whole heart feeling from the sole of the foot.

  468. Even under the head, there is no soundness in it.

  469. But wounds and bruises and putrefying sores, they have not

  470. been closed, neither I end up neither mollified with ointment.

  471. You see the spiritual blindness was an epidemic in Isaiah's day

  472. and here's the evidence that spiritual blindness.

  473. There's a love for sin. There's a continuation in sin.

  474. There's a forsake in of God, on a forgetting of US law, people

  475. refuse to repent. People don't want to know, you

  476. tell them they're lost and they laugh, they think sends our

  477. friend. But all the while it's a fool

  478. and the Bible talks about the deceitfulness of sin and sin, of

  479. course, not only just saves but what sin destroys Send downs and

  480. not only as their continuation in sin, but there's a

  481. carelessness for the Savior. Hey, many people have no anxiety

  482. for Christ. You invite them to a gospel

  483. service, they're not troubled. They're not tell you, I'll be

  484. there, isn't it? Interesting?

  485. That Isaiah if we go back to Isaiah and Isaiah chapter 53,

    Isaiah 53 chapter mention

  486. and he tells us there, and as I a chapter 53 and the verse 1,

  487. the aasa' on a question who hath believed our report.

  488. And to whom has the arm of the Lord revealed.

  489. And the liberal thought is there who hath believed our Doctrine

  490. who believe the revelation of God, who believed the gospel,

  491. you see to them. It was a worthless thing to

  492. them. It meant nothing.

  493. So they emitted no appeal because remember, they're blind.

  494. Remember, they're dead? Remember, they're spiritually.

  495. Diseas'd they see no attraction to create, they have no love for

  496. Christ. Trust in themselves and their

  497. good. And what's the end of it?

  498. All if you look at our text the tragedy of the head and gospel,

  499. it says, but if our gospel be head and his head to them that

  500. are lost, Lost in sin. Lost in relation to Jesus

  501. Christ. Lost modeling, lost spiritually.

  502. Lost eternally for one day. They will be lost for all

  503. eternity. For Jesus said, if you die in

  504. your sins where I am there, you can't be that's the tragedy of

  505. the head and gospel the devil's at the back of it.

  506. Here's what he's doing, here's the devices and many others that

  507. he's using and here's the end result, lost lost.

  508. One final thing I want you to think about the truth of the

  509. head and gospel. as I've told you the devil's at the back of

  510. us, And the devil Works quickly. As soon as you hear the gospel

  511. to snatch, it away your heart and night.

  512. The devil Works. Intensely, he's not playing a

  513. game, he knows what he's doing, lest, you should be converted.

  514. The devil Works viciously users region anger and persecution.

  515. And of course, that's what he did in Paul's day and that's

  516. what he's doing in our day. The devil Works subtly, he can

  517. come as an angel of Light. He can take away one or too,

  518. few, few truths. Out of the Gospel messy.

  519. Distort, the gospel, that makes it, another gospel, another

  520. Jesus, and it's hidden from the hearts and minds of the people

  521. Here's the truth of the Hidden gospel.

  522. You see this word lost? Are we thinking about?

  523. Sadly, there's a hell. For those Sinners, how many

  524. tonight are lost and sin, naturally lost because they're

  525. born spiritually, dead, blind and diseas'd.

  526. They're spiritually lost. There's no hope.

  527. There's no meaning and they're in danger of Eternal damnation.

  528. They're in danger of being eternally lost because he'll is

  529. real. And who's the one that can

  530. uncover the gospel? Who's the one that can make it

  531. known unto us? Well, that's the work of the

  532. Lord. Jesus, that's the work of the

  533. holy spirit of God, and that's why Paul preached Christ and him

  534. crucified and he preached in the power of the Holy Spirit.

  535. He said we preach Christ and him crucified because yes, there's a

  536. hell for Sinners, but there's hope for sinners.

  537. On the hope for Sinners as this hidden gospel has hidden from

  538. their hearts and Minds will be revealed to them by the spirit

  539. through the scriptures. Unrevealed of the savior.

  540. And they discover that there's hope and joy and peace to be

  541. hard on him. Let me ask you tonight.

  542. What's your attitude and thought to the gospel?

  543. Do You Love The Gospel tonight? Or do you love the gospel?

  544. Have you come to Christ as your lord and Redeemer as your life

  545. being changed and transformed because you're trusting in Him?

  546. Are you among those tonight to him the gospel as head?

  547. Because the devil's at work and you don't even know what and

  548. you're still in the Road to Perdition you're actually lost

  549. with a Christ. The night is that a picture of

  550. you? Would you not like to be saved?

  551. We want you to be saved. We invite you to come to Christ.

  552. Souls got saved over there, to come permission.

  553. It Souls were led to the Lord last year through the internet

  554. Ministry that her brother Mark has set up.

  555. We thank God for the heart and for those who are going home,

  556. well, we Rejoice with them. You could be among them.

  557. What about you tonight? I leave that thought with you.

  558. As the gospel head from you, are you among the lost tonight or

  559. has your age been opened? Because God has chained in your

  560. heart and giving you the light of the knowledge of the Glorious

  561. Gospel of Jesus Christ in the face of Christ?