You know this world is full of preachers, but just a few were chosen. Stay tuned for Treasured Heritage, a preaching program spotlighting those servants who have gone on to glory. Isaiah 5417 says, this is the heritage of the servants of the Lord. And now, Treasured Heritage. If you have your Bible this morning, let's turn, if you will, now to the book of Hosea in the Old Testament, of course, page 924 in your Scofield Bibles, the book of Hosea. I want to lift a verse or two here and let us look at it for a little bit. I'm speaking to you this morning on crying spells. I hear people say things over the radio, even television many times, and I don't quite know for sure the word they're saying. So I'm going to spell it for you while you're finding your place. Crying, C-R-Y-I-N-G, just plain crying, and then spells, S-P-E-L-L-S, crying spells. All right, with that thought in mind, let's turn now again to chapter number six. in the book of Hosea, page 924 in your Scopia Bible. Now, the Lord has spoken to the nation of Israel quite severely. They'd gone away, they had hideous sin in their lives, and God speaks to them and says, unless you do something about it, I'm going back to my place, and I'm going to stay there until you repent. Now, here's their answer, beginning chapter six, verse number one. Come and let us return unto the Lord, for he hath torn, and he will heal us. He hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days he will revive us. In the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. Then shall we know if we follow on to know the Lord. His going forth is prepared as the morning, and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and the former rain unto the earth. Now, to brief summary, while we're not speaking from these portions, I want you to get what they're saying. Well, they said if this is what we need to do, we're going to do it. In other words, if God says repent, we'll repent. If God says to say we're sorry, we'll say we're sorry. If God says, well, whatever He says to do, we better do it, you see. In other words, it was a superficial thing. It wasn't from the deep of their heart. In essence, it was just some crying spells. Now, notice what God says in verse number four. Here's God's answer. O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? For your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew, it goeth away. Therefore have I hewn them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of my mouth, and thy judgments are as light that goeth forth." In other words, God says, My light goes all the way through you. Outside, you've made some little attempts and you've had a few crying spells, but inside, when I x-ray you with the Word of God, I still see sin in your lives. Now watch chapter 7, verse number 2. And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness, now their own doing hath beset them about, they are before my face. Let's read it again a little more carefully. And they consider not in their hearts that I remember Did you realize this morning God remembers your sins and mine? Did you realize this morning that it's impossible for a holy and righteous God to forget those sins, even though that you and I may, unless they have been covered by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ in true confession and true repentance? Then God says, listen, now their own doings have beset them about, they are before my face. The Hebrew idiom here is so pungent that it nearly defies description, but the best way that I know, when we studied through the book of Hosea some two years ago or so, I remember on this verse in particular, God is saying, when I look down at you and whatever your requests may be, when I see you all along the way in the peripheral vision of my eyesight, I see all your sins like statues along a corridor or along a street." There they are. When I look down at you, I see these sins as statues. Now, here's what I'm trying to say. I remember giving this illustration two or three times, but it comes to my mind and it serves my purpose so vividly that I fear not to give it. Years ago, years ago, I was in a meeting in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The pastor and I were downtown, and he said, let's step in here and get a shine. And we stepped in and got up on the thing, and a man came over and began to shine our shoes, and his hair, what little bit was left was gray, and his eyes were faded, looked as if he'd looked at the sun too much. And he was shining away, and the pastor said to him, he said, Uncle, have you been born again, are you a Christian? The old man dropped his head and went back to shining his shoes, I guess, for maybe thirty or forty seconds. He looked up again and he said, and also don't guess who he is, he said, I had a few crying spells or two, but he said nothing ever came of them. Nothing ever came of them. And with that he went on back to shining his shoes. Now I'll never forget that. I'll never forget that until the Lord takes me home. Did you know that's what's wrong with most folk today? They've never really been born again of the Spirit of God. They've never really had their sins wiped away by the blood of Jesus Christ. They've just had some crying spells, is about all they've had. Now, you can have crying spells, for example, over visions or dreams. And I don't mean to say this just to be funny, but a lot of times you can eat too many pickles and onions and a lot of hamburgers at night and go to bed, and you can have some vivid dreams in Technicolor. And there's a lot of people who've had some visions or dreams, and that's about all they've ever had, but they've never really had a born-again experience with the Lord Jesus Christ. Others may have had some fleshly reformation. That is, maybe if they had the habit of drinking, maybe they've quit drinking, or gambling, or maybe they've quit becoming or being unfaithful, you see, to their marital vows. Maybe they've quit some of these things, and their fleshly reformation has been more than just a, quote, crying spell. Maybe it's something that happened like a fleshly emotion to this extent. Maybe there's a service where maybe the fleshly emotions were really generated. Sometimes singing could do this. Sometimes the right kind of preaching can generate, or the wrong kind as the case may be, may generate just fleshly emotion. And people may come out of the same thing that would energize an unsaved group of people at a rock and roll show or some other show that does something to pull the flesh. And out of crying and deep things of this sort, they'll respond. Sometimes it's fleshly works that they respond to. For example, they may go and join the church. They may be baptized, put their name on the church roll, pledge to this and that and the other. And this somehow satisfy them a little bit. They have, quote, a crying spell for a little while. But beloved, I want you to hear me and hear me well this morning. It doesn't matter to me how much of the crying spells you may have. It doesn't matter to me, or I believe the word of God, how much emotional experience you may have. If it doesn't make you change your life, it's nothing but of the flesh, brother, and it's nothing more than just a crying spell. Now, I thank God for people who come forward in this church or any other church crying. I think it shows that God's touched the fountains of the deep, and that's not what I have any reference to whatsoever. But I'm trying to say Regardless how you may have felt, regardless of the feeling that you may have had at that particular time or any other time, if it didn't change your life and you can look back on that day and say, that's the day God changed my life, chances are you have never been born again of the Spirit of God and about all you've had is a crying spell. Now all I can do is stand on the word of God. Therefore, if any man, now doesn't that mean you as well as me? Presbyterians as well as Baptists, Church of God as well as Nazarenes, and Nazarene as well as Assembly of God, don't you believe it means ever? Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation, and all things are passed away, and behold, all things are become new. Now if you still love the things that you used to love, chances are all you had was a crying spell. And you've never really had that born-again experience, that deep, settled peace that comes to your heart. You may have been in a church for years, but never really have been born again. This is what God is saying. When I look down at you, I can't answer your prayer. I can't do anything for you. Your sins are like statues when I look down at you. Your goodness is as the morning dew. In other words, you generate up something and you make an effort in the flesh and you say, I'm going to do better. I'm going to change. I'm going to do this. But it isn't long until you're right back down. God says, it's just like the morning dew. It's just a little crying spell that just about lasts long enough for your handkerchief to get dry. And you're the same old creature that you used to be. You know how I know that so well? I experienced it. See, I was reared in a Christian home. I remember going to Sunday school and the little diplomas, as I mentioned to you, that I got, and Cradle Roll and these other places, and the old B.Y.P.U. and the Baptist Church. I went to all that. I used to be in the plays and have to memorize parts, all that. Mr. Carl McGraw, who was at one time now retired as the president of the First Union National Bank, was my Sunday school teacher when I was in the junior boys' department of the First Baptist Church right here in Charlotte, North Carolina. I was reared in church and Sunday school. I went to church as a young boy, then I got away from church, not from the Lord because I never was saved, never was born again. I remember one time my dad talked to me and he said, son, the way you're doing is not right. I respected my dad, I believe, honest to believe this, as much as any man could respect his father. My dad died when he was 82 years old and I still said yes sir, no sir to him and I never did know what he'd done if I hadn't, but I never did want to find out. I just said yes sir, no sir. I respected him, I loved him and the Lord. I'm saying that to say this, I'd say to my dad, I'm going to do better. Now every fiber in my body meant to do it. I mean, I made it do it for about a week. And then my little crying spells would dry up about the time my handkerchief got dry and the old flesh would take over again. It was like that a series of those experiences over and over until February the 22nd, 1950, about 9.15 in the basement of the Tabernacle Baptist Church, when I got saved. Now when I got saved, all things passed away, and behold, all things became new. I'm not the same man that I used to be. Now let me say it this, I'm not the man I ought to be, and I'm not the man I'm going to be, but I thank my God I'm not the man I used to be. God saved me, brother. It wasn't a crying spell I had, but it was a genuine conversion that changed my life and my outlook and everything there was about me. I see people like this every day of my life, on either side that you want to describe. I've seen people make a profession of faith, listening to the radio, listening to the television, whatever it may have been, they get saved. I've talked to people who got saved through the records and the tapes from this church, and their life would become so different they just didn't seem like the same people. I've seen people make professions of faith. You couldn't tell the difference at the time, but their life never changed, and all in the world they had were some crying spells. You know why I know that again? For the Bible tells us so. The fact that crying spells will fade away, that's what God's saying. He said over Ephraim, for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew, it goeth away. Now, I want you to think about the Bible says very vividly, remember Lot's wife. Lot's wife lived with a godly man, Lot. She knew what it was. She had a godly uncle named Abraham. She understood from the word of God what she was supposed to do. I believe that all Lot's wife ever had was a few crying spells. When he said, listen, we've got to get out of this city, away from these people, and away from those things you love. We've got to get away from these dancing schools your daughters in. We've got to get away from these ungodly places your daughters are in. We've got to get away from that. And the Bible said she went a little ways out of the city, but watch, she looked back, and the Bible says she turned to a pillow of salt, and then it says so vividly and so forcibly in the New Testament, God says to every one of you and me, remember Lot's wife. All she had were some crying spells, brother. She never got born again by the Spirit of the living God. You remember Israel at the Red Sea? When they got there, you remember, everything seemed to close in on them. They began to pray, and God did a miracle. He opened up the Red Sea, let them across on dry land. When Pharaoh's army came in hot pursuit, the waters closed back over, and they were drowned, every single one of them. They began to sing praises unto the Lord. And I think I'll take time to turn quickly. Let me just do it. In the book of Exodus, chapter 15, Listen to what it says. And then sang Moses and the children of Israel a song unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will prepare him a habitation. My Father is God, and I will exalt him. They went on singing from verse number 1 to verse number 22. Listen. So Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur, and they went three days into the wilderness and found no water. And when they came to Merah, they could not drink of the waters of Merah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was Merah. And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? In other words, it lasted about 21 verses, if you want to put it in that simple thing. They had a crying experience. They rejoiced and said, God can do anything. And the first time a little testing came, they folded completely, and they began to murmur and bitterly complain against the Lord. You know why? They had a mixed multitude, indicating that many of them had never been born again. You remember what the Bible says about the rich young ruler that came to the Lord Jesus Christ? Master, what good thing must I do to inherit eternal life? And Jesus told him what he had to do. And the young man, in essence, had a little crying spell. And he said, oh, no, I didn't know it really meant something. I didn't know it'd take something out of your life. I didn't know there were any demands on your life. I didn't know you had to live different. I thought I could go on living just like I've been living and then go to heaven when I die. You see, Lord, I didn't really want to live for you. I just wanted to die for you. The Lord said, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, you don't understand. And the Bible says the young man turned his back on Jesus and walked away. All he had had was just a crying experience. Remember Felix, the Bible says he trembled when he heard the preaching of Paul. Something reached into his emotions and squeezed them till his hands began to tremble. It's almost as it say that he was holding on to the back of the pew and his hands and his arms were trembling. But he said, at a more convenient season, I'll talk to you. He had a little crying spell, but so far as we know from the word of God, he's burning in the pit of hell today. Just a crying spell's all he had. King Agrippa listened to the Apostle Paul and he said, in those words that have been quoted so many times and in many different ways, almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. I had a little crying spell, but nothing ever really came of it, he said. I think in my mind what the Bible says even about the devil. The Bible says the devils believed and they trembled. They had crying spells. Even the devil can have crying spells, but he couldn't get saved. Then I want you to see not only from scripture, but I want you to see from your own experience. Do you remember in your childhood, for example, Remember maybe in a summer storm and it seemed like the thunder and lightning hovered about your head and you were scared to death? And you remember how you got over in the corner weeping and crying and scared to death? And you said, Oh God, help me! Lord, I'll do anything! Help me, Lord! And you had a crying experience. But it wasn't an hour or two that the summer storm had passed away and the sun began to come out and the first thing you know you had forgotten your promise with God. And God said, Just like the early morning dew, it fadeth away. Do you remember that time when you were in trouble? Do you remember that time when you had done something your parents had told you not to do and you had to face the inevitable? You had to face them. Do you remember how you sat in the car or maybe stood outside or hid behind a tree and you cried out in a childish way, Oh God, if you'll help me. Lord, I'll do anything. Lord, I'll go to Sunday school. I'll read the Bible. Lord, I'll do anything. And after the crisis was over, you completely forgot about it. Do you remember maybe the time when there's a time of sickness in your own life? Maybe you're in the hospital, or maybe at home, and a sudden pain hits you, maybe in the chest, and you didn't know what it was, and you remember how your life seemed to be brought vividly in an instant replay, so to speak, in your mind, and you saw it, and you realized that if you died in that condition, what a horrible shame, and you begin to promise God all that you'd do if God had just let you live. It wasn't long until you forgot it was it. Some of you listening to me on the radio this morning, you told God if you'd straighten out your physical health and get you back together, you wanted to go to the house of God. That's all you wanted strength enough to do. And God's given you the strength. And some of you this morning listening on your way out to the golf courses or to the lake or some other place on God's day. You remember that time when your home was broken and you thought for sure you were losing your husband or wife? Remember how you got back, brother? You didn't have to have a little book on prayer. You didn't have to have somebody to tell you how to act holy. You got there and said, oh God, I want you to save me. I want you to keep my wife and my husband. Lord, don't let my family break up. Lord, I know what's wrong. We're not right with God. And oh God, if you'll hold my family together, we'll start serving God. You know, don't you? When God looks down at you right now, he sees those sins like statues because all you ever had was a little crying spell. You were just like the thief on the cross. All he wanted was off of the cross. Remember when that child was sick or wayward or whatever the case may be, and you said, Oh God, you remember those things? Some of you men can go back in your mind to the foxholes of the war. The bombs were bursting overhead and the bullets were flying. You said, oh God, if I can just get back home. If I can just see my boy and girl one more time, Lord, if you'll take me back, I'll live right. You lived right all right when you got back. Got back into the old crowd. Back into the old places. Saying the old things. Really all you had was just a crying spell, wasn't it? Nothing really ever came of it. God didn't change it. Whatever's happened in your life, you've had to do it. You've had to try to resist this and try to develop a liking for this, and it just cuts against the grain. And in a weak moment, you say, why try anymore? I'm sick of that. I'm going back to the old leeks and garlics. That's what happens to many people who said they're backslid. They're not backsliders. They never have slid forward yet. Never had anything to slide back from. Never been born again. Then you remember one time when you prayed. Remember one time when you got out of that hospital or got your family back together or maybe you got to feeling well enough. Boy, you remember how you'd turn on the preaching and how good it seemed. After a while it got to where it kind of bothered you. Begin to find criticism. Criticism always comes from a guilty conscience. Did you know it? Anytime you hear anybody criticizing, just be kind of understanding and kind because they've got a guilty conscience. The first thing you know, they say, well, I'm not going to that church no more. This and that and the other. My choir sings too loud, or they don't sing loud enough, or the songs are not right, or whatever. They'll begin to complain and find fault. It isn't long until they're gone. Do you remember when you avoided sin? Do you remember how it seemed like the spotlight of God's Word reached to your heart and you realized then what sin really was? Do you remember now how you progressed and you were matured and you are living in a different world now and you don't have the same convictions that you once had, you know? Well, after all, things are different today. Maybe it was just a crying spell you had, you see? God's Word doesn't change. God's convictions don't change. God's Word stays the same all the time, and it will throughout eternity, for it's already settled in heaven. God can't change the Word, and God will not change it, because it wouldn't be fair to those that have lived by it and died back down there. That which was wrong a hundred years ago, according to God's Word, is wrong today, and it will be a hundred years from now, or you couldn't depend upon this book. And you and I will give an account to God according to things that were in this book a hundred years ago, just as surely as we will to things that are a hundred years in the past, because God's Word doesn't change. Then I'll tell you why these crying spells fade away. First, it's because you never realized you were truly lost. I'm going to turn in my Bible a minute to the book of Psalms number 51. And you hear David as he's crying out. I want you to listen. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Thy lovingkindness, according unto the multitudes of Thy tender mercies. Blot out my transgression. Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgression, and my sin is ever before me. Against thee and thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight, that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, thy desire is truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden parts thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me to hear joy and gladness, that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy way, and sinners be converted unto thee. Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God, thy God of my salvation, and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. O Lord, open thou my lips and my mouth, that they shall show forth thy praise. For thou desirest not sacrifice, else I would give it. Thou delightest not in burnt offerings. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart. O God, thou wilt not despise." What is he saying here in simple language? It doesn't matter how much I may be able to give in a monetary way. How much I may be given in the way of service, that's not what God wants. It's a broken spirit and a contrite heart. That's what he meant in Matthew. Blessed are the poor in spirit. It means towards God there is no hope unless he's merciful to us. Have you ever reached a point like that? Has your sin ever been so hideous and so big and so ugly that it almost made you sick on your stomach? And realize that between you and a holy, righteous God there was ugly, filthy, dirty back alley sin. You went to God and you said, Oh God, cleanse me of mine. Oh, you say, Brother Hudson, my life hasn't been like that. That's the first lie you've told since you heard me preach. That's all I'm saying. For your sin is ever before God. He said they're like statues. And when I look down on you and want to have mercy on you, those sins are standing there on either side. I look down and I see them. But thank God when you confess it through the blood of Jesus Christ, they're done away with and remembered against you and me no more. Hallelujah, brother. If that doesn't make you thankful, it doesn't make you rejoice, all you've ever had some crying spells. And then maybe you never really saw the beauty of Jesus. You had to listen to somebody else. Maybe you never really had the hatred of sin. Jesus said in 1 John 2.15, love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. Now listen to what Jesus said. I didn't say it. If any man, now is that the same any man over in 2 Corinthians 5.17? Therefore if any man be in Christ, if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. Now, I didn't say that. The Lord did. Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation. Listen. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. What do you really care about this morning? Is it the approval and acceptance of the world? Or is it that of the Lord? When you dress, do you want the world to approve of you? Or is it Jesus Christ? When you live and as you give, do you want the world to approve of it, or is it for Jesus' sake? That's what God's asking. Then you never had God's promise, brother. I've got promises, and I can cling to, and I don't say it with assumption. I say it with all the love in my heart. I've got promises that God can't break that He's given to me, brother. Paul said in Philippians 1, 6, wasn't it? I know in whom I have believed. I'm persuaded that he's able to keep that which I've committed unto him against that day. Thank God for those promises, brother. And his sins and iniquities will I remember against you anymore. They're as far as the east is from the west, and God says they're behind my back. And then God says again, I remember them against you now. Those are God's promises to my heart. Now they may be to your all, so it's all right with me if God wants to share the things that he's given to me. But God's given me that promise, and God who cannot lie has given me the promises that my sins have been forgiven, brother. That's what I rejoice in this morning. Then very quickly and lastly, sadness of the cases that God mourns. Oh, Ephraim. Oh, Judah. Jerusalem, he said. Oh, Judah. Again, he said in the New Testament, oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, God's looking at you this morning. I believe from the bottom of my heart God's looking at you and God knows your name and God's saying, oh Sam, oh John, oh Bill, Susie, oh Catherine, whatever your name may be. Oh, he says, I want you to know, your righteousness, just like the early morning dew, it'll fade away. You've just had some crying spells. I want you to come to me that I can... God's not willing that any should perish. Then I want you to know that God has no new method. Luke 16, when that man in hell said, Send somebody to my five brethren, lest they come to this awful place. Listen now, listen. They have Moses and the prophets. That is the Old Testament. If they will not believe Moses and the prophets, they would not believe one though he was raised from the dead. God is saying if you wouldn't believe this Bible, if you wouldn't believe what I preached to you this morning, you wouldn't believe if a dead man came out of the grave and tried to persuade you. Beloved, I'll be honest with you, when you think about that, it lets you know how hard your heart really is, isn't it? Then God's convictions are dangerous. Did you realize that? I never come into this pulpit, but I'm aware of one thing. It's dangerous when I preach. I don't mean me. I'm told when a preacher stands and opens up the word, it's dangerous. It's dangerous for me first because I'm going to give an account of the way that I've preached. Was I sincere? Did I deliver it with everything that I knew how? Did I preach as a dying man to a dying world? Did I preach with a conscious thought in my heart? It may be the last time for me or for you. But I want to tell you something that's dangerous for you. Beloved, for I want you to know you take iron and begin to heat it and let it cool off and it gets harder. It's called tempering it. Every time you heat it and it cools off, it becomes a little harder, a little more brittle, a little more easy to break. Every time you've heard the gospel invitation and you've refused it, your heart has become a little harder. Your hearts are in here this morning like one is a ball of wax and the other a ball of clay. Now, you take a ball of wax and a ball of clay and put them in the sun out there this morning, and it will melt one and harden the other. Now, the Word of God that I preached this morning, I believe, is going to get some people saved. But others, it's going to make your heart a little bit harder. The Bible says, And God hardened Pharaoh's heart. I used to think that was awful. I didn't understand it until I read the Scriptures. Then I found out it meant God presenting the truth over and over and over. And Pharaoh hardened his heart by saying, no, Lord, I won't do it. And God said, Pharaoh's heart was hardened. God says, he that being often reproved and shall suddenly be cut off, and that without remedy. He that being often reproved and hardeneth his heart shall suddenly be cut off, and that without any remedy. God says, you be reproved, you be preached to over and over. And if you reject it, your heart is going to be, you're going to be cut off. And there's absolutely no remedy for it. And then you're older. How many of you here, listen to me now, I want you to help me. How many of you here were saved after you were 60 years of age? Would you hold up your hand a minute? After 60 years of age. I'm trying to look. I see one or two hands. Thank you. Now you've helped me this morning. You've helped me preach. Pull them down. But I want to tell you something that's dangerous for you. Beloved, for I want you to know you take iron and begin to heat it and let it cool off and it gets harder. It's called tempering it. Every time you heat it and it cools off, it becomes a little harder, a little more brittle, a little more easy to break. Every time you've heard the gospel invitation and you've refused it, your heart has become a little harder. Your hearts are in here this morning like one is a ball of wax and the other a ball of clay. And you take a ball of wax and a ball of clay and put them in the sun out there this morning, and it'll melt one and harden the other. Now the Word of God that I'll preach this morning, I believe he's going to get some people saved, but others, it's going to make your heart a little bit harder. The Bible says, and God hardened Pharaoh's heart. I used to think that was awful. I didn't understand it until I read the scriptures. Then I found out it meant God presenting the truth over and over and over. And Pharaoh hardened his heart by saying, no, Lord, I won't do it. And God said, Pharaoh's heart was hardened. God says, he that being often reproved and shall suddenly be cut off and that without remedy. He that being often reproved and hardeneth his heart shall suddenly be cut off, and that without any remedy." God says, you be reproved, you be preached to over and over, and if you reject it, your heart is going to be, you're going to be cut off, and there's absolutely no remedy for it. And then you're older. How many of you here, listen to me now, I want you to help me. How many of you here were saved after you were 60 years of age? Would you hold up your hand a minute? After 60 years of age. I'm trying to look. I see one or two hands. Thank you. Now, you've helped me this morning. You've helped me preach. Pull them down. How many were saved after you were 50 years of age? Let's see your hands. Would you slip them up a minute? A few more, very few. How many were saved after 40? Let's see your hands. Would you do it? Just a few more. How many were saved 25 and under? That is, from five years old, you might say, up to 25 years of age. Let's see your hands, would you? Do you see the danger? Do you see what I'm saying? You're a week older than you were last week. Your heart has become harder. The same gospel that softened hearts and won them to Jesus is the same gospel that's hardening your heart. You're living on dangerous ground. Then the sad thing about it, did you know after a while this experience teaches you a lot of things? You learn how to reject God's call. You learn how to put it away. How to salve your conscience and build up resistance and excuses to it. It's like a man that's out in the sun all the time after a while his skin gets to where the sun doesn't bother him anymore. Your heart is just like that. And I urge you and warn you in Jesus' name this morning, if you feel in your heart right now that's all you've ever had is a crying spell, you need to come to the gospel, to the gospel of Jesus Christ. and allow him to save you and to give you his promises. And when he looks, he'll not see the rows of statues of your sin, but they're blotted out by the blood of Jesus Christ, never to be remembered again. There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. Who's gonna preach the Bible and never compromise at all? Who's gonna give their heart and soul to spread the gospel? 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