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How's that? Better? Just make sure it's over your
ear. It's not over your ear. It's going to drop down. You've got to hook
it over your ear. Gotcha. Now you're good. Okay. How's that? Well, good afternoon Virginia
Tech. We're here for a short time today
to Bring the good news of the gospel, all the good news that
there is in America today, in the whole world in fact. The
joyful sound of the gospel, the good news about Jesus Christ,
the Savior, the only Savior, the only one that can bring you
back to God. You might have noticed, don't
you, You know, as you look around the world today, different nations,
countries, your country, my country, back home in the United Kingdom,
well, I call it the disunited kingdom now. No unity, no singleness
of mind anywhere in the world today, I don't think. You know,
you might have noticed, you know, if you've been around for more
than five minutes, you know, that humanity is somewhat you
know, dysfunctional, you know, we don't operate the way we should,
you know, don't even come up to our own standards, nevermind
God's, you know, we set goals, we set targets for ourselves,
you know, I don't doubt that most of you here, you know, on
campus, you set some kind of goal, you know, for yourself,
what you're going to achieve, not only in the university, but
you know, after you leave it, some goal, some achievement that
you want to accomplish, you know, but we never, we come short,
we never, we never maintain our own standards, never mind the
perfection of God's standards. Maybe perhaps, you know, a time
or two you wondered, you know, why is that? Why are we, as human
beings, why are we so dysfunctional? Why is it we don't, you know,
maintain the standards that we set? Well, the Bible gives us
the answer to that. The Bible says that all of sin
comes short of the glory of God. That is, not just that we haven't
reached God's target, not just that we haven't hit the bull's
eye, it's like this, we've torn down God's target and set up
targets of our own. And we've done that in rebellion
against God. And you might say, well, if God's
standard is perfection, if God's standard is good, well, why would
we do that? Why would anybody want to do
that? Why would they not want to maintain? Why would they not want to seek,
at least seek, try to accomplish God's perfect standard? And, well, the answer to that
is, we don't want to. We haven't got the will to, and
we haven't got the desire to. In fact, the very opposite. Our
desires and our wills are set against God's will and against
God's desires. That's what sin is. In a nutshell,
briefly, And it's because of that, you see, that mankind,
humanity, in its entirety, because there's not a man, there's not
a woman, the Bible says that sinneth not. All have sinned
and come short of the glory of God. We've all torn down God's
standard of perfection and set up our own standards. You know,
way, way short of the mark. you set up your own target, you
set yourself up to be your own God, you know, and you say, well,
you know, we, man, we'll decide what's right and wrong. So you
get into all kinds of stuff, you know, like homosexuality,
fornication. Fornication, what, sir? Speak up, boy, I can't hear you,
boy. Like I say, you know, set up
your own target, your own standards. Man says what's right and what's
wrong, not God. That's coming short. That's coming
short. And the reason why you come short,
the reason why, you know, you've got this anti-will, anti-desire
against God, that is, You know, your will's set against God.
Your mind, your heart's set against God. Your very being is set against
God. That's what sin is. That's what
transgression of God's law is. And of course, well, the penalty
for that is death. Death, you see, that's the way
you come into the world. There has to be a change. There
has to be a place, a time, you know, in your history, whether
it's in your youth or whether it's in your middle or old age,
there has to be a point in your history where you can point to
and say, that's where God came to me with His grace and changed
me and made me alive. See, here's the account that
the Bible gives us. It tells us quite clearly, dead
in trespasses and sins, walking according to the course of this
world, according to the prince of the power of the air, children
of disobedience, having a conversation in the lust of our flesh, fulfilling
the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and are by nature
the children of Ra, just like all the others in the human race. But that is, of course, from
the grace of God, unless God's grace intervenes and changes
and transforms us, you know, and makes us new creatures. Because, you see, as far as God's
concerned, that's all that matters is a new creation, that you're
made a new creature. Because if that doesn't happen,
if you're not recreated, or to use the words of Jesus, if you're
not born again, A new creature, that's all that counts, you know.
Not being religious. You can be religious and so very
diligent in the keeping of your religion. All the campuses I've
been to here, you know, in the last two weeks, you know, people
arguing about religion. Some are Jews, some are Catholics,
and some are Protestants, and so on, you know. Forget all that
stuff. Forget all that. Are you a new
creature? That's what counts. That's all
that counts. Because unless you're made a
new creature, that is, recreated by God, made again by God, a
new creature by His grace, well then you're dead in your trespasses
and sins, and you've got that old nature, you're a child of
wrath even as all others, and of course, well, you big bouncer. Bouncer? What do you say, sir?
Sir, go and wash your filthy mouth out. Go and wash your filthy
mouth out. That'd be a good start. And then
we'll talk about your heart. You see, out of the heart, you
hear it going by? You hear the language? You see,
out of the abundance of the heart, the Bible says, the mouth speaks. It's, you know, I'm not producing
that reaction, that cursing and blasphemy, you know, as people
walk by. I'm not the cause of that. You know, my being here preaching
the gospel, yeah, you know, it stirs up the heart, and it brings
out of the heart what's in the heart. And so, as these people
walk by, and maybe, you know, even you silently, you're saying
exactly the same as that guy just said, only you don't express
it verbally, but it's there in your heart. It's that target
again, you see. That you've pulled down God's
standard of perfection. That hatred for God, that's the
nature. Children of disobedience, just
as all others. just as all others. All have
sinned and come short of the glory of God, so therefore all
are children of disobedience. Disobedient to God, disobedient
to His standards, disobedient to His commandments. So unless
God recreates you, unless God makes you a new creature, unless
you're born again, well, you'll continue to exist in that condition. Not live, I say. Not live. You only just exist. by the permission
of God, for a short time in this world, and then God removes you,
God takes you out of it, and of course brings you then to
judgment. But that's what you are, that's
all that you are, and all you'll ever be, except for the grace
of God. A child, a child of disobedience,
walking in disobedience to the standard, the glorious standard
that God has set for humankind. But to go back to my beginning
point, that's why men and women, that's why you, even you, are
dysfunctional as a human being. That's why nations are dysfunctional,
that's why there's wars and rumors of wars, that's why there's all
the bad stuff, that's why even governments your government,
my government, that's why none of them can put it together. You see, all the king's horses,
as we say back home, all the king's horses and all the king's
men can't put Humpty back together again, can't put the nation back
together again. Why? Because the curse of God
that lies upon humanity because of man's disobedience is stronger
stronger than anything man tries to do to make the world right. All the confederacies of men
put together. All the unions of men can't put
the world back together again. 70 years ago and more, they invented
the United Nations. What did they say? The target
was, the target they set was, no more wars and no more poverty. Since they invented the United
Nations, there have been more wars than ever before and more
poverty than ever before. You see, all the confederacies
of men can't put the world back together again. Because the curse
of God is stronger than anything man tries to do. Because the
curse of God's upon humanity Everything, everything that man
tries to do to rebuild the world, God breathes on it and brings
it down. Because His curse is on it. And
His curse is stronger than anything man tries to do, anything even
you try to do. There's only one person, you
see, who can remove that curse of God that's upon man because
of his disobedience. It goes all the way back, you
see, to the first man. He wasn't just the first man.
He was the head. He was the head of the human
race. The federal head of the human
race. Federal, you get that. You understand that, don't you?
In America here. Well, Adam was the federal head
of the human race. He disobeyed God, he was the
first child of obedience, and he brought that disobedience
upon the rest of us, so that by natural generation, one after
the other, you know, unclean parents getting unclean children. That's why you're unclean and
dirty, because your mum and dad were unclean and dirty. They
were children of disobedience, just as others, just as you are,
and under the curse of God because of that disobedience. And so
there's only one man, the second man, the second Adam, the last
Adam that is, Jesus Christ, who came into the world to save sinners. To save us from what? to save
us from the curse of God, to redeem us, to pay the redemption
price, that is, and to lift the curse of God from off of us,
make us new creatures in himself in Jesus Christ. That's the only
means by which that curse can be can be lifted from off you,
off mankind. And then man begins to, well,
begins, not completely, not perfectly, but begins to function the way
that God intended him to function, that is, to live in obedience
to God. But until Jesus Christ performs
that, that surgery, that heart surgery in you, you remain a
child of disobedience. You remain dysfunctional, you
remain under the curse of God, and of course, well, unable to
achieve, unable to live as you, as God intended men and women
to live. But God, in His grace, God in
His goodness, His kindness, sent His Son, Jesus Christ, His merciful
kindness, I say, sent His Son, Jesus Christ, into the world,
that through Him that you might be saved, that you might be delivered
from the curse, that it might be lifted from off you. But then,
of course, further to that, there's the wrath of God. Oh, perhaps
maybe you've heard it said, you know, maybe others, false teachers,
I call them, maybe they've come to your campus telling you that
God loves everybody, loves you. Well, that's not quite true.
That's not what the Bible says. God is love, certainly, but God
is holy, and God hates those who work iniquity, it says, the
Bible says. And it says that he, He hates
those who shed innocent blood. Innocent children, that is, you
know? So no, God doesn't love everybody. That's not what the Bible says.
God is holy, a holy God, a righteous God. He loves that which is holy,
that which is righteous only. He can have nothing to do with
you until, that is, you're made a new creature. Until you're
washed and made clean. until Jesus Christ performs that
heart surgery upon you that is opening up your heart, letting
out the poison of sin, and putting in, putting in His life and His
love into your soul, making you, as I said, making you a new creature
in Jesus Christ Himself. Until then, well, you remain
under that curse of God and under the wrath of God. So the Bible
says, for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven even now,
even as I'm speaking to you. The Bible speaks about you being
saved from the wrath to come. That's the ultimate, that's the
ultimate disaster day, judgment day. But the Bible says even
now, now as I speak to you, the wrath of God is revealed, being
revealed, that is, from heaven against all the unrighteousness,
ungodliness of men who hold down, who suppress the truth of the
knowledge of God in unrighteousness, that is, those fools who call
themselves atheists. Because the Bible says, you see,
the Bible says, it's the fool who says in his heart there is
no God. It's the fool who suppresses
the knowledge of God in unrighteousness, in wickedness. Only a fool would
do that. Only a fool would, you know,
deny that which is plain and obvious to them. And God says
it is. God says that there's no such
a thing as an atheist on planet Earth. All men, every man, woman,
and child born into this world knows that God is. That's plain
to you, says God, by all the things that he's made. You know that you're a morally
accountable creature. You have a conscience within
you, and that conscience testifies along with me here today on your
campus. Your conscience testifies. It's God's agent inside of you
testifying. testifying as to when you do
that which is obedient to God and what is disobedient to God,
either approving or disapproving of you. So you have no excuse,
says God. Not at all. But because you are
children of disobedience, you suppress, you hold down the truth
of the knowledge of God that you have innately within you,
You have the innate knowledge of God within you, and it doesn't
matter who you use, the Daft Dawkins or Darwin, Rosenberg
or any other professorial fool, you know, to try and eradicate
from inside of you that innate knowledge of God, you cannot. It's a sheer impossibility. What's
up with you? What church are you from? Huh?
What church? Pre-Church of Scotland, continuing.
Scotland, Glasgow. I'm Catholic. Are you? Yeah. How does that work for you? In terms of what? Do you know Jesus? Absolutely. What's he like? Well,
I'm about to consume him in the Holy Eucharist. Say again? I'm
about to consume him in the Holy Eucharist. Now, what's he like? What's he like? He's my Lord
and Saviour. You're telling me about a right
R.I.T.E. Yeah. Tell me what Jesus is like. He's my Lord and Saviour. What
does he do for you? Gives you the bread of life.
What does he do for you, practically? Practically? Yeah. Well, in one
in the Eucharist, he gives me the source of life, the nourishment
that he promised, and then as a personal relationship, you
know, when I pray, he guides me, he walks me along the way.
So it's a personal relationship, and there's also a practical,
at the Last Supper when he instituted the Holy Eucharist. Okay. It's a two in tandem. Yeah, yeah,
I hear what you're saying, like, but, um, But what do you say
to, has he given you a new heart? Yeah. Jesus says, for instance,
Jesus says, I go by the Bible, my authority is not the church,
it's the Bible. Jesus says you must be born again.
What do you think he means by that? I mean just as he called
the apostles and disciples. They were born again. I mean
not in a sense of What does he mean that what does he mean that
he wants us to change our lives to him? You know we can't they
can't we're dead Bible says just what I'm talking about now. He
says we're dead and trespasses and since So you've been resurrected
Regenerated that's what that's what he means when he says spirit.
Yeah born again born again of the Spirit of God So when did
that happen? Well, it happens I think a couple
of times, one in the sacrament of baptism. That's where you and I would
disagree. How so? Because it's not baptism. Baptism, you can be baptized
in the Pacific Ocean or the Atlantic Ocean. You can be baptized by
sprinkling. Water doesn't change anything.
It doesn't change anything physically, but spiritually. Even spiritually. Baptism is
not a... There's no salvation in baptism. There's no salvation in baptism,
but it's one of the things. And you know, even when we just
pray to God and to Jesus and we build that personal relationship,
changing our spirits, we conform ourselves more towards Christ.
And there's not just one moment, it's a continual thing, that
when we die, our souls are hopefully brought to heaven by the grace
of God. You said hopefully. That doesn't
really speak of much assurance. Well, I mean, there's an assurance
of heaven, because that's where we were originally supposed to
be. In my garden, it was unity with God, but because of our
original sin. And, you know, even the Catholic Church doesn't
guarantee a certain way to heaven. I mean, Jesus speaks of many
things in his teachings. You're right there. But at the
end of the day, it's the grace of God. You're right there. You're right there. The Catholic
Church doesn't. But the Bible does. The Word of God assures
us of salvation. It's through the preaching of
the Gospel. Men and women hear the Gospel
and by the Spirit of God they're brought to obedience. God breathes
new life into them. It's not done in baptism. That's
called baptismal regeneration. doesn't regenerate anybody. There
has to be a point in your history that you can point to consciously,
not as a child, but consciously. At some point in your history
you can say, that's when God, that's when Jesus Christ came
to me, that's when he changed my heart, that's when he made
me a new creature, that's when he put his love into my heart,
and put his life into my soul. That's when I came to know him
and to walk with him. And I know, and I can say today,
I know whom I have believed, and I know I have salvation,
I know I have forgiveness, and I know when I breathe my last,
I'm for heaven. I know that beyond, there's absolutely
no question about it. It's a tandem, it's a twofold
of the faith and the grace of God also works as well. Yeah,
see there again, there we differ again, you see. This is the teaching
of the Roman Catholic Church, going back to the Reformation.
Salvation by faith in Jesus Christ and by works. It's both. But you see, no, no, no, no.
That this is what the Apostle Paul, read Galatians if you will,
where he invades against that. because that's what the Judaizers
were teaching. They were saying, yeah, you've
got faith in Jesus, that's good, but you need to be circumcised
as well. No, says Paul, faith alone, grace alone, faith alone,
and Christ alone. And the Roman Catholic Church
is still teaching the same thing. Faith in Jesus is good, they
say, but you need good works as well. No, our good works,
even I as a Christian, born again Christian, My good works are
tainted, but I'm still a sinner. So everything, even preaching
to you here today on this campus, is tainted with sin. So it's
unacceptable to God. Our works cannot, cannot be part
of our salvation. Our human nature is simple in
nature. Yeah, yeah. So any works of ours are unacceptable
to God. It's by faith and faith alone.
And Christ and Christ alone. Even Jesus, when he was with
the apostles, taught faith and works. He said, have faith in
me, but he also told them. I don't believe they did, sir.
I don't believe they did. Because you say you've got to add works
to it, right? What you're saying is, in effect,
what you're saying is, Jesus didn't do enough. I've got to
add something to it. And that's an awful, awful thought. Jesus did everything. When he
died on that cross and rose again from the dead, He did everything
necessary for me. I add nothing to it, not one... But he's also calling us to do
the same works that he did. Yeah, yeah, afterwards, afterwards.
I'm saved to do good works, but I'm not saved by good works.
I haven't... I didn't have any good works.
All I had were bad works. It's... We disagree there, sir. I have to head off. What's your
name? Jimmy. Jimmy, nice to meet you. And
you are? Eric. Eric, good to meet you, Eric.
Eric, this is for you. Have a good day. Think about your eternal
destiny. Yeah, I'll have a read, eh? Yeah. No, I wish I could talk more,
but I'm going to head off. We'll be here all day. You're welcome. Eric, take
one of mine. Sure thing. Have a good day,
eh? Are you coming from Scotland? Yeah, I've been here for two
weeks. Really? I'm going back on Saturday, back home to Glasgow.
Believe it or not, my father just left for Scotland. He's
doing some golfing. Is it really? Yeah. Whereabouts? I'm from New
Jersey, so I come to school here. But my father, he tries to go
every couple of years or so with the club he goes with. He's pretty
much golfing every day in Scotland now. He wants to take me there
one day. Good, good. I'll let you get there. I'm mostly German. I've got some
Irish in me. That's forgivable. I'd love to visit. I wish you
travels. Have a good day. Have a good
day. You too, you too. So there you go, friends. That's an important point. I
can't remember where I was now, I've lost my train of thought. Talking to Eric there, you see,
differences of opinion we have, but it's the Bible. The Bible's,
you know, our ultimate authority. We can't go above it. We can't go beyond it. We can't
come short of it. What God says in His words is
what matters, you know. And just talking to Eric there,
he's a Roman Catholic, you know. And just talking about what the
Roman Catholic Church teaches, you know. It says, you have faith
in Jesus is good, but you need something else. What they say
in effect is, they say that Jesus didn't do enough when he died
on the cross and rose again from the dead. You've got to add some
good works to it. But the trouble is, being a sinner,
a sinner by nature, everything you do, everything you do is
tainted with sin and so therefore unacceptable to God. So you don't
have any good works to offer to God and to add to the work
of Jesus Christ. But the thing is, you see, that
Jesus, when He died on the cross, He paid it all, written across
that cross of Jesus Christ. We could write the words and
blaze in the words, paid in full, paid in full, everything. Jesus did everything necessary
when He died on that cross. When He shed His precious blood,
He took that curse that's due to us. He took the wrath of God
due to us. When He rose again from the dead,
He rose to justify us. He did it all. He cried from
that cross, It is finished. What do we not understand about
finished? It is finished. He did it all.
Nothing for us to add to it. So the Roman Catholic Church,
you see, its teaching undermines the teaching of the Bible, undermines
the teaching of the Gospel. And you find it in the Bible,
in the New Testament, the Apostle Paul, Galatians, the book of
Galatians, he deals with that very same error because the Jews
were saying the same thing. They were saying, well, faith
in Jesus is good, but you need to be circumcised as well. No,
said the Apostle, the mighty Apostle Paul. New Testament, the Bible, the
Word of God, the final authority. Grace alone, faith alone, and
Christ alone. The watch cry of the Reformation
some 500 years ago. Grace alone, faith alone, Christ
alone, apart from works, your works, my works, or anybody else's
works. Only faith. You add anything
to faith, you destroy the gospel, you destroy salvation. You have
no salvation. because you have no works in
which to offer to God. It's a new creation that matters. Another point that Eric brought
up, I asked him when he was born again, I asked him when he was
regenerated, when he was resurrected, he said when he was baptized
as a child. Not so. Baptismal regeneration,
that's called. A person is not regenerated,
is not resurrected by baptism. You can be baptized in the Atlantic
Ocean, in the Pacific Ocean. You can be baptized by sprinkling,
by immersion. You can be baptized any which
way you want, but water does not change a man's nature. Water does not change the natural
bent towards sin. Water does not change a man's
nature. By nature, a child of wrath,
children of disobedience, nature's deadened trespasses and sins,
and in need not of religion, Roman Catholic or otherwise,
in need of resurrection, in need of regeneration, you must be
born again, says Jesus. Born again of the Spirit of God,
a spiritual work done in the heart of a man or woman, making
them aware, awakening them out of their slumber of death, Resurrecting
them, that is. It's not religion you need. Heaven
forbid that you should become religious because I'm here today. No, it's resurrection that you
need. Raising from the dead. Dead in
your trespasses and sins. Born again, says Jesus. Except
a man be born again, he cannot see, perceive, understand the
Kingdom of God. by the Spirit of God in conjunction
with the preaching of God's Word, the preaching of the Gospel.
The Spirit of God breathes life from the dead into the souls
of men and women and makes them alive and makes them aware for
the first time in their existence, makes them aware, conscious of
their sinfulness, of their alienation from God, and makes them conscious,
aware of their desperate, desperate need of Jesus Christ and His
death and resurrection. I tell you, if the Spirit of
God today was to convict you of your sin, convict you of righteousness
and judgment, bring you to an awareness of the reality of your
sin, the reality of your disobedience, towards God, I tell you, you
would be ready to swim shark-infested waters to get to Jesus Christ,
because only He could save you from your desperate state and
condition and disobedience against God. You must be born again,
resurrected, regenerated, a new creature, that's all that matters. And in regeneration, given a
new nature, made a new creature, that's all that matters. All
the religion in the world doesn't matter. Have you got the life
of God in your soul? Has He put His love into your
heart? Has He made you a new creature?
Have you been born again of the Spirit of God? Have you been
delivered from that old Adamic nature? Has the curse been lifted
from off you? The wrath of God taken away from
you? If not, till then you're still
in your sin. Until then, until you've been
born again, You will never do what God requires of you. You
will remain a child of disobedience. What's the obedience that God
requires of you? That you should repent and believe
the gospel. But you haven't got the will
to do that. You haven't got the desire to
do that. You're dead in your trespasses
and sins. You've got a dead nature. You're
a dead man walking. You're a dead woman walking.
That's all that you are. You haven't got the will. You
haven't got the desire to repent, believe the gospel. It's commanded
of you, but you can't do it. A dead man can't do anything. Go to the local cemetery, take
a walk around and do some shouting, do some commanding and see what
kind of response you get around the cemetery. What do you get? Nothing. You don't expect to
get anything out of dead people. I'm not here for the dead. I'm
here for the living. Those that God will breathe life
into, into their souls, make them alive, because only then,
only then will you have the will, only then will you have the desire
to repent and believe the gospel. But it's still commanded of you,
the fact that you can't do it, the fact that you're dead, that
doesn't take away your responsibility. Are you responsible? You're utterly,
absolutely responsible for the state and condition that you're
in. Dead in your trespasses and sins. A child of disobedience. Unable, impotent, unable to lift
one single little finger against one single little sin. Unable,
impotent, powerless. to help yourself out of the pit
that you've dug for yourself, but utterly and completely responsible
before God. And in that day, He will judge
you. In that day, He will bring you to judgment. The wrath of
God is revealed from heaven now against your ungodliness and
unrighteousness, your wickedness, But the day is coming when the
full, final, ultimate day of disaster will dawn. The day of
God's judgment. The day of God's wrath. The day
when you will give account to God. You'll give account for,
Jesus says, every idle word that you've ever spoken. You'll give
account for your dead nature. You'll give account for your
Adamic nature. You'll give account for the nature
that your parents gave to you. You'll give account for everything
that's come out of your sinful nature. You'll give account for
your every disobedience to God's commands, to God's law, to God's
target, the glorious target that He set up for humankind. You'll
give account for it all. In that day, you'll stand before
God in judgment. and an account will be required
of you. Even for this time, more so I
tell you, even at this time when the gospel was preached amongst
you, when you heard the righteous commands of God to repent and
believe the gospel, but you could not, you did not, you will give
account for that also. You will be held responsible
in that day. that you heard the gospel, you
heard the truth, you heard the word of salvation, but you did not, you could not
obey because it was not given to you. I pray for you. I pray for you. Every one of
you on the campus here today, Virginia Tech, I pray for you,
my hope for you in preaching the Gospel is that God by His
Spirit would awaken you. That God would grant you repentance
unto Himself. Because it's God that you need
saving from. It's God that you've offended.
It's His target you've come short of. His glorious standard that
you've come short of. It's God Himself that you've
offended. and you need saving from Him,
from God. Today, today if you will hear
His voice, harden not your hearts as many, many have done previously. And many, many do even today. Undoubtless, many will do so. Even hearing the Gospel, even
hearing the message of salvation, even today will harden their
hearts further and putting themselves, putting more distance between
them and their Maker, between them and their best good. My prayer for you, my hope for
you, in preaching the Gospel is that God would grant to you,
that God would give to you the necessary repentance, that His
Spirit, working in conjunction with the preaching of the Gospel,
would awaken you out of your slumber of death, that He would
raise you up out of your tomb of unbelief, and that He would
bring you to an awareness of your sinful condition. That He
would bring you, bring, awaken you to the reality of your sin,
of your disobedience, of the judgment that awaits you of that
dreadful and terrible day when you'll stand before God and give
account. That He would awaken you to the
reality of your sin and of that judgment and that He would grant
to you repentance unto Himself and faith towards His Son, Jesus
Christ. Because only in that way can
you be saved. Only in that way can you be brought
out of that disobedience, a child of disobedience, and become a
child of God. Only in that way, only in that
way can you be brought out of that simple nature, made alive,
made a new creature, born again by the Spirit of God, alive in
Jesus Christ. A new creature, that's all that
matters. Pardon, sir? Amen. God grant to you that repentance,
because He alone can give it to you. repentance towards God,
the one that you've offended, and faith towards His Son, Jesus
Christ, the one who alone has accomplished salvation, the one
who died on the cross, who shed His blood, in order that you
might be washed and made clean, in order that your sin might
be atoned for, that your disobedience might be covered by His blood,
that the curse of God might be lifted from off of you, the wrath
of God removed from off of you, set free from judgment, set free,
set free from the wrath and the terror of God. So today, today
if you will hear His voice, harden not your heart, but hear, listen,
hear God's servants as they bring the word of God to you today. Listen carefully. Faith cometh
by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. As the gospel, as
the good news, is declared amongst you, that's the means that God
uses to bring men and women to that place of faith, saving faith,
believing, repenting, believing, trusting in God's Son, Jesus
Christ, who has done it all. paid it all in full, nothing
to pay. Free justification, freely justified. Living, He loved me. Dying, He saved me. Buried, He
carried my sins far away. Rising, He justified. Freely forever, one day He's
coming. Oh, glorious. Oh, glorious day. A glorious day for the child
of God. A glorious day for the man, the
woman who has been born again. A glorious day for the child
of God who has been given repentance. given, faith given to believe,
granted, granted, given, the free gift, salvation, the wages
of sinners death, but the gift of God, the free grace of God,
is eternal life through Jesus Christ my Lord. The one who calls,
his sheep calls them out of their darkness, out of their death,
out of their disobedience. He calls them by the gospel,
by what I'm doing here today, this afternoon in Virginia. My sheep hear my voice, and they
follow me, and I give unto them eternal life, and they shall
never perish. Whosoever believeth shall not
perish, but have everlasting life, life from the dead, life
for dead sinners, obedience for your disobedience, salvation
in the name the precious name, lovely, lovely name of Jesus
Christ. No other saviour, no other mediator
between God and men, no other way back to God from the dark
path of sin. I am the way, truth and the life,
no man cometh unto the Father but by me. None other name under
heaven whereby we must be saved. One name alone, Jesus Christ. I command them to you, repent
and believe the gospel. Repent ye, repent ye, repent
ye and believe the gospel. Why? Because the kingdom of God
is at hand. That's the only way you can enter
God's kingdom, in the way of repentance. faith towards the
Son of God. May God grant it to you to repent,
turn, and believe on the Son of God that you might be saved. God bless you and have mercy
upon your precious, precious, never dying soul.
The Children of Disobedience!
Series A Street Message
Preached at Virginia Tech University, WV, USA
| Sermon ID | 105222328451793 |
| Duration | 47:23 |
| Date | |
| Category | Open-Air Ministry |
| Bible Text | Ephesians 2:2 |
| Language | English |
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