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I love that verse John 3 16. It says for God so loved the world They gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life It's very sad today to think about how many people are walking through life Never thinking about God the God that made us the God that designed us The Bible says we are fearfully and wonderfully made marvelous are thy works and that my soul knoweth right? Well, you're not a product of random chance some explosion that took place millions and millions of years ago You're designed by God. The Bible says in the beginning God created the heaven the earth and God designed us with the purpose of walking with Him and knowing Him. Very sadly, it's our sin that has separated us from God. If you were to ask one reason why you can't go to heaven, it's because of your sin. The Bible says there's none righteous, nor not one. It says for all have sinned and come short in the glory of God. Every single one of us has violated God's law, and that's what sin is. Sin is a transgression of the law. It's anything we say, think, or do that breaks God's law, and to be honest with you, we do it all the time. You walk down the streets of Edinburgh, you'll hear people using profanity. You'll hear them taking God's name in vain. You'll know that they spent the day at the pub instead of going to church yesterday. You'll know that they haven't read the Bible, learned anything about God, and known any truth about God. And you understand that we're all sinners. And because of that, the Bible says the wages of sin is death. In other words, what we've earned because of our sin against God is eternity in the lake of fire away from God. And it's very sad. People were to say to me today, Ben, what's the worst thing about hell? The worst thing about hell is that God is not there. Nobody in hell can cry out to God and say, God, I'd really like to have your mercy. It's too late. The Bible says it's appointed unto men once to die, but after that, the judgment. Nobody gets to get out of that funeral casket and stand up and say, well, you know I just think I'll have another try at this thing and learn about God in my life. You know, the thing is today you're worshiping something. You got to ask yourself the question what it is that you're worshiping. You can figure it out by looking at your bank account and finding out what you spend your money on. You can look at what you spend your time on. Those things are your idols. They're the things that you bow down to. And listen, what should dominate our life is our understanding that there is a God that made us, that created us, and that loves us. Again, the Bible says about Jesus that while we are yet sinners, Christ died for us. Scarcely for a righteous man would one die. but God commended, God demonstrated His love for us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Friends, you can't say to me today, God doesn't love me. All you have to do is look at the cross, look at the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and all the suffering that He went through, not just the physical pain of it, but the shame of the cross as they mocked Him and they cursed Him. And then as you took our sin upon Him on the cross and the wrath of God fell upon Jesus Christ, And he cried out those words as he said, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Jesus Christ was God forsaken because God put that fear in love. Again, the Bible says in Romans 5, 8, but God committed his love toward us so that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Again, there's very few people that somebody would give their life for. We praise God for heroes that fought and died for the liberties that we have. But Jesus Christ made a way for us to be forgiven through His death on the cross for us. He paid the price for our sin. He made a way for us to be forgiven. And friend, if you don't know that love today, I just encourage you. You know, life is not found at the end of a bottle. What you find at the end of a bottle is heartache, debt, drunkenness, immorality, and all the ungodliness that goes with it. What you find in the Bible is that there's a God that satisfies you from the inside out. Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by Him. Friend, He's not a way. He's not a good way. He's not the best way. Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation. And I know this about you today. Now, I may not know you, but if you do not have Jesus Christ as your Savior, you're not ready to die because you will not go to heaven when you die. You'll be cast into hell eternally. The Bible says about Jesus, again, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me. Jesus Christ died so that you could live. The Bible says, He that hath the Son hath life. He that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have everlasting life. I praise God again today that as God looks at you, God is not against you, God is for you. God does not hate you today, but I'll tell you this, He hates your sin because your sin separates you from Him. Your sin is the thing that put Jesus Christ on the cross to die for you. And friend, our sin is an offense to a holy God, a God that designed us, a God that knows how we go together. He made us male and female, created to keep down, the Bible says. Our gender is God-given. It's biological because it's what we're born with, it's what God ordained, it's what God gave to us, and I praise God today. We can look a young person in the eyes and tell them, look, you are who you are by the grace of God. God designed you male, God designed you female. Embrace your God-given identity because it's who God made you to be. Beyond that, God made a way for your son, Jesus Christ, that you could be forgiven. The Bible says that God says in Isaiah It says come unto me all you that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest He says take my yoke upon you and learn of me for I'm meek and lowly in heart and I will give rest to your soul Friends, He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace is upon Him, and with His stripes we are healed. God has the power to cleanse us from the inside out. He has the power to take His blood and purify our soul. And friend, God desires to do that for you today, to be a servant to you. He died on the cross so that you could be forgiven. He made a way for your transgressions to be cleansed. It's only through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Come now and let us reason together, sayeth the Lord. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as gold. You might look at your life today and just be honest and say, Ben, there is no way my life could be cleansed. I just feel like my life is messed up with sin. Listen, the power of the blood of Jesus Christ has the power to wash away your sins. God has the power to cleanse you from the inside out. Friend, if you want hope, God is the one that gives hope. He's the Prince of Peace. He's the one that shed his blood so that you could be forgiven. Again, I rejoice today in those precious verses, Romans 10, 9, and 10, that if thou shalt confess with thine mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath graced us with his death, thou shalt be saved. Friends, salvation is found by faith in God. You might say to me today, Ben, I don't even know how to begin to come to faith in God. You know, I just don't believe at all. I've never been taught about God or anything like that. The Bible says faith cometh by hearing. It's hearing by the Word of God. God absolutely has the power today to bring you to safety, saying He has the power to work in your heart and convince you of the truth that He exists, that His Son Jesus Christ died for you. Friends, just think about Jesus. An atheist has to admit that Jesus Christ is the most famous person in human history. But this book's all about Him. It's written over 1,500 years. It's written by 44 human authors, 66 books, and it all agrees. It's one story. It's about Jesus, the Son of God, that would come and would die on the cross for our sins so that we could be forgiven, so that we could receive God's gift that never lasts in life. My friend, it is a gift. It's not something that you could earn. A lot of people might think, well, I got christened, so, you know, that's me done. Listen, christening does nothing to take away your sin. You could be religious, you could pray all day, you could fast, you could do all sorts of things like that, but it does nothing to cleanse your soul. There's only one thing that can cleanse the soul of mankind, and that's the precious blood of Jesus Christ who died on the cross for our sins. Again, friend, the Bible says he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our inequities. The chastisement of our peace is upon him, and with his stripes we are healed. It's through the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ today that you can be forgiven, that you can receive God's gift of everlasting life, that you can go to heaven when you die. It's only because of the Son of God who loved you so much that he laid down his life for you. Again, friend, if you could look at me today and say, Ben, God doesn't love me, but I tell you, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the God in heaven loves you. He sent his son, Jesus, to die for you. He sacrificed his son so that you could have life, so that you could be born again and have a new life in Christ. The Bible says if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are passed away. Behold, all things are become new. Friend, that do-over that you desire in life is not found in Reformation. It's not found in something that you could do, some self-help thing, or some psychologist, or even in religion. It is found in Christ and Christ alone. Again, He that hath the Son hath life. He that hath not the Son of God hath not life. Jesus Christ Himself said, I come to give you an abundant life. Friends, you don't know what life's all about until you know the God of heaven, know the truth of his word, have a heart that is purified by him, and begin to walk in obedience to his commandment, because truth works. Truth works in a marriage, it works in a family, it works in a life. But friend, lies don't work. And if you listen to the lies of the devil and think gambling is going to meet your needs, you ought to hear the testimony of the man that confessed this past week to his gambling, taking him to a life of thievery and embezzlement as he stole 400,000 pounds to pay for his addiction. And I doubt not that there are people like that today that are walking past this place, and you're addicted to gambling, and you're giving all your money to a piece of paper that is worthless. I know this today, there are people passing this point, you're addicted to alcohol. You work all week just to go to the pub on the weekend, just to drink and waste your living, and you go back and work all week just to get drunk on the weekend. And it's an empty cycle, and it does nothing to meet the needs of your soul, and alcohol is a depressant, it's hurting you, it's hurting your family, it's hurting your finances, and it's hurting your health. to die on the cross to set us free from the bondage of sin and from the penalty of sin. He came to seek and to save that which was lost. And there are a lot of people today that if they'd be honest about their life, they'd have to say this. Look, to be honest, I'm lost. I'm lost. I don't know what life's about. I just feel like I'm drifting. And I'll tell you this, Jesus Christ is there. He's waiting for you to turn to Him. The Bible says about Jesus, Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any man hear my voice, I will open the door and will come in to him and will sup with him and he with me. When Jesus Christ desires to sit down just like you sit down with friends and family at a meal And you enjoyed that fellowship listen Jesus wants to do that in your life He wants to bring you to God in a relationship that is pure and that is right and where you're cleansed by the blood of Christ Very sadly in our day, the justification that men want is self-justification. They want everybody on social media and scientists and educators to bow down and kiss their sin and say, your sin is okay, because we say it's okay. Listen, our sin is never okay. Our sin is a transgression of God's law. not man's law. It doesn't matter today if this world legislates sexual immorality and says it's okay. It doesn't matter if our world legislates killing a baby in the womb and says it's okay. It doesn't matter if our world legislates, as they're thinking about next month, that people can take their own life and they can be helped to take their own life. The Bible has a term for that. The Word of God calls it murder, and it says thou shalt not kill. And friend, it doesn't matter today how many people stand up and say sexual sin is okay, and say that taking a baby in the womb is okay, and killing somebody and helping them die is okay. The Bible says it's appointed unto men once to die, but after that, the judgment, the one that has authority over the life of man is God. And friend, we're created in the image of God. To kill a man is to do an act against the Holy God. And friend, we ought to be embarrassed and ashamed in Scotland today to think that our legislator thinks that they're God, that they can stand up and legislate about taking the life of somebody. That ought to scare people. That ought to get us thinking, how have we gotten here, Scotland, in the last 10 years, that we go down our street parading ungodliness, that we take a month to parade ungodliness. We call it pride when the Bible says, these six things that the Lord hate, and number one is a proud look. Pride says to God, God, I am God, you are not God. Friend, I just tell you, there is an almighty God in heaven, that when you taste this wrath someday, you're not going to laugh, you're not going to mock, and you will maybe curse the day that you were born, because in that day, you came into this world and created beings by a holy God, and you rejected his son, Jesus Christ, and you lived your life as if there was no God. And yet God is reaching out in love, and God in love for you, sinning son, His only son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross for your sins so that you could be saved. And what is incredibly sad today. is despite the goodness of God, despite the grace of God, despite everything that Jesus Christ did so that many people could save, the saddest thing in this world today is that despite that, people are closing their eyes, turning off their brains, shutting their ears, and refusing to think about God and God's love for them. Listen, an atheist might think, well, I'm not a bad person, I'm an atheist. An atheist is someone that never thanks God for their food, never thanks God for their family, never thanks God for their job, and lives their life as if the Son of God, Jesus Christ, never went to the cross, never died for their sins. Friend, I praise God today that the Son of God loves you so much that He gave His life for you. John 3, 16 again says, For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. And you might say to me today, Friend, I don't believe in a God that would send people to hell. Let me ask you, do you believe in a God that would take His Son, His only Son, Jesus, and crucify Him because of our sin? God is just. God is not like a wicked judge that's going to be perverting his judgment because he looks at somebody and says, I feel real bad, badly for you. I can tell, you know, those big crocodile tears. It doesn't matter what you did. I see you're sincere. And so I say your sin is okay. If a judge did that, an earthly judge, you would disbar them. Listen, God would be disbarred from heaven if he ever looked at your sin and said your sin is okay. Don't listen to Scott Rennie in the high church here at St. Giles and his homosexuality as he steps up into that pulpit that used to be the pulpit of a great man of God, John Knox, that with thunder and with courage would preach the word of God and stand with the word of God here in Scotland, a man that now is under the tarmac in numbers. Stage number 23 behind St. Giles and yet one of the greatest men that Scotland ever knew and loved God and now in his pulpit is a man that stands for sexual sin and stands against the God of heaven who condemns homosexuality. Friend, that ought to, again, get our attention in Scotland. When the high church and the state church turn their back on God, what kind of a nation are we standing in? It ought to put some fear into the hearts of some parents whose kids are being taught lies that they can be a boy or a girl, whatever they want to be, despite the fact that we all know that their gender is God-given. Friend, our kids are being taught sexual impurity in our schools. Where are the parents that look at that and say, stop doing that with my kids. You're not going to pervert the hearts of my children. We're going to teach our youth again to guard their purity and guard their holiness, and that virginity matters. And it's the greatest gift that you could give someday to the spouse that you're going to marry and enter into holy matrimony sexually pure. That's what we should honor in Scotland. Instead, we are honoring sexual sin. And it's all over our telly. It's all over our social media. Pornography is everywhere. Immorality is everywhere. And we're not ashamed of the fact that our kids' hearts are being perverted. Instead, we give them a device when they're three-year-old where they can access immorality. And, friend, we don't care. And we're perverting the next generation. Friend, it's time to wake up in Scotland. To look around and say, is it any wonder that this nation is not what it used to be? This nation that invented more things than any other nation per capita? Though a small nation making incredible discoveries that were God-given because of the wisdom that God gave to this nation as a Christian nation. Friend, this was a Christian nation. In the past, think about how many David's, Mark's, Matthew's, Elizabeth's, Mary's do you know? Listen, those are Bible names. Why? Because this nation was a God-fearing nation in the past. But this nation doesn't fear God anymore. They shake their puny fist in the face of a holy God, and they need to read Psalm 2, because the Bible speaks about in Psalm 2, a thousand years before Christ came, that nations are going to try to cast off God, act as if God doesn't exist, and the Bible says about God, God's just going to laugh at it. Because he's going to take his son, his son Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ is going to reign on this earth, and every knee is going to bow, and every tongue is going to confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. Friend, there's a God in heaven that loves you. There's a God in heaven that sent his son, Jesus Christ, to die for you. But friend, if you don't have Jesus Christ, you don't have life. The Bible says about the Son of God, He that hath the Son hath life. He that is not the Son of God hath not like these things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that ye have everlasting life. Friend, if you don't know you have it, I'll just tell you, you don't have it. If you don't know Jesus Christ as your personal Savior and you've never experienced the love of God, the grace of God, the mercy of God, you don't have what you need to enter into eternity. And again, the Bible says, it's appointed unto them once to die, but after that to judgment. Friend, are you ready to stand before God and give an account to the Holy God that created you, that designed you, to look the Savior as your Creator in the face, the one that is standing there at the Great White Throne Judgment, where the Bible says, I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God. And the books were opened, and the dead were judged out of those books according to their works. Friend, are you ready to answer to God for your blasphemy? Are you ready to answer to God for your pornography? Are you ready to answer for God for your immorality, your lusting, your covetousness, your immaterialism, and the fact that you live your life godless, away from God? And they'll tell you, I don't want you to stand on that day fearful to be cast into hell for all eternity like the Savior. I just cry out to you today, you need the Savior, you need Jesus Christ, because the Bible says about God, He's not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Friend, when He casts you into hell, it's over the dead body of His Son, Jesus, who died for you. He took His Son, His only Son, and He sacrificed Him so that you could live. And you laugh about it, and you mock God, and you're embarrassed about God. But you're not embarrassed about your immorality. You're not embarrassed about your pornography. You're not embarrassed about your homosexuality. You're not embarrassed that you took the life of a child. You'll parade your sin on the street, but you're embarrassed about God. You're embarrassed about the Bible. You're embarrassed about a book that stands up for the truth and shows us in our heart what's there. It's like a mirror. It's a mirror of the soul. It shows us the depravity that's there. And praise God, it shows us the solution. And the solution is Jesus Christ. Again, the Bible says without the shedding of blood, there's no forgiveness of sin. The life is in the blood and it's the life that must die because of our sin, because the Bible says the wages of sin is death. I'm afraid you might feel fine and think I can walk through life step after step and it's okay, but I'll tell you this, hell is real, God is real, eternity is real, and it doesn't change based upon your belief. It's a fact, it's a truth, God told us, we know it, we've got to obey it. In fact, I just encourage you to pick up a Bible. And begin to read it, begin to understand the love of God for you. Again, the Bible says that these are written that he might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing might have right to his name. God does not want you to die and go to hell. Who will have all men to be saved and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. Salvation is not in a religion. Salvation is in a relationship. An atheist can look at me today and say, Ben, I don't believe in your God. Therefore, your God doesn't exist. It doesn't matter. I'll just tell you this. God does not exist because Ben Shor believes in God. God does not exist because a church believes in God. God either exists or He does not exist. You've got to know the truth, but you've got to be honest about what you can see in life. The Bible says the heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth His handiwork, day into day uttereth speech, night into night showeth knowledge. Friend, when an eclipse happens and that moon goes perfectly over the sun, it testifies that there is a God. Friend, when you find out that your stomach replenishes itself every three days and that you have a new stomach every three days, you've got to step back from that and go, there's got to be a God. When your blood coagulates and it takes all chemical reactions happening in sequence, if it doesn't happen, you're a hemophiliac and you die, you've got to understand that there's a God. Friend, when you look at DNA, and it's greater than a supercomputer, it has more information than supercomputers have. And when you map the brain of a fruit fly, and you see 5 million connections. Friend, you gotta step back from that and be honest. There's gotta be a God. Explosions don't make things. Science is not God. There is a designer, creator. There is one that made us. He made us male and female. He made procreation, and we bring forth after our time. Friends, science is observable. You would rightly laugh if you laughed about the fact that I said to you, hey, my dog had a kitten. You know, if I said a calf had a bull. You know, it doesn't happen. Animals bring forth after their kind, just like the Word of God says. But I'll tell you, the vast majority of people passing this place say animals bring forth after a different kind. But if you go to the zoo with a bunch of kids and you say, there's your ancestors, they're going to laugh. And they should. Because we know today we are not a monkey, we are not an orangutan. We're wearing clothes, we got hospitals, we got doctors, we got society. We are mankind made in the image of God and I praise God for that. But we're teaching our kids that you're animals and guess what? They're acting like animals. Why should it surprise us? We're indoctrinating them with false teaching and it's affecting their life because what we believe matters. My friend, it's time to get back to the Bible. Begin to study who God is, that He's the creator, designer. Begin to understand the love of God that sent His Son, His only Son, Jesus Christ, again, to die on the cross for our sins. In the book of Isaiah, chapter 53, 600 years before the cross, it says He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace is upon Him, and with His stripes we are healed. Friends, 600 years before the cross, it spoke about the fact that Jesus Christ would be whipped for our sin. Read the testimony of those that put Jesus Christ to the cross, and when you see the scourging that takes place, understand the Bible said that would happen 600 years before it took place. a thousand years before it took place in psalm 22 it says they pierced his hands and his feet they cast lots upon his master but it says about the crucifixion what would happen a thousand years before it took place but why would God give that to us? Why would God give us truth before it ever happened, so that you and I could look at the Bible and say, no, no, no, it's not just a book. It's not what the BBC says, myths, legends, Chinese whispers, stories. They slander this book, but they do not disprove this book, because this book has prophecy in it. Google, how many prophecies did Jesus Christ fulfill? And you say, well, He tried to fulfill them. Really? He was born in Bethlehem? Did He control that? He died on the cross? Did He control that? Listen, the Bible said what day He would die. It said what time He would die. Did Jesus Christ make Himself do that? No. He is who He says He is. He is Messiah. He is the Savior. He's the one that came to die on the cross for our sin. Friend, I just encourage you today, if you don't know Jesus Christ in a personal way, again, you can look at me and say, today, Ben, I don't believe in your God, and I'll just tell you this, it doesn't affect me, because I've done what the Bible says, I've tasted and seen that the Lord is good. Friend, you can mock it all day, think, oh, you know, your God doesn't exist, because I don't feel Him, I don't see Him, or things like that, but the truth be told, you've never tasted of the goodness of God. The Bible says, taste, and you'll see that the Lord is good. And pray until you humble your heart and begin to seek God, you're never going to find him. The Bible says you shall seek me and find me. when you search with all your heart. Friend, you're searching with all your heart for that gambling ticket that's the big winner. You're searching with all your heart in the bottle for satisfaction. You're searching with all your heart in immorality. You're searching with all your heart in sport, in music, in other idols that are in your life. I'll just tell you this, turn that energy to seek God and pick up a Bible and begin to read it and begin to understand about the love of God for you. Again at the end of the book of John it says, but these are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and that believing you might have life through his name. Friend, I can tell you today, I know beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I'm going to heaven. And it's not because I'm a minister, it's not because I'm married, it's not because I'm a good father, it's not because anything that I've done, it's because as a child I heard my dad preach a message on hell, that it's eternal, that it's a fire, that God's not there, that the sounds that you hear in hell are weeping and gnashing of teeth. And as a child I thought, dear God, I don't want to go to hell. And I knew that Jesus died for me. And I asked my dad how to get saved. My dad showed me that I was a sinner, that punishment for my sin was hell, but that Jesus loved me, that He paid the complete price for my sin at Calvary, and that by faith in Him, I could be born again as a child. I prayed something like this, Dear Jesus, please forgive me of my sin, and save me. And Jesus Christ came into my heart at that moment. My friend, I praise God that I've got Jesus Christ in my life. My friend, if I could give it to you, I would. I desire that more than anything. I would desire today that you would know the peace and the joy and the hope that comes from knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that if you're going to die, you're going to go to heaven, not because you're a good person, not because you do good things, not because you're religious, but because you have personally received Jesus Christ as your Lord and as your Savior. Again, the Bible says, but God demonstrated His love toward us, that while we were dead, sinners Christ died for us. Frank, you might think today, then Christ doesn't care about me, God doesn't care about me. Do you know, if you read the Bible, who you find Jesus Christ with are people that they were so far away from God, people that were, like for instance, in prostitution, or in adultery, or in fornication, or in theft. Or in other wicked things far away from God, but he brought them to himself He made them righteous through faith in him and his finished work that would take place on the cross of calvary Bring that praise God that Jesus Christ on the cross. He cried out those words. He said it is finished But it means paid in full. It means that Jesus Christ took the debt that was ours, the handwriting of ordinances that was against us. He nailed it to his cross. He didn't care about the sheen because he cared so much about you. He didn't care about the embarrassment of it, being stripped on that cross and put up there. He didn't care about the pain. He didn't care about the mocking. He didn't care about the ungodliness that was put upon Him. He took it out of love for you. He drank the cup of God's wrath against you. And friend, you laugh about your sin. And you mock God. The Bible says, fools make a mockery of sin. The Bible says the fool has said in his heart that there is no God. Friend, why is it so foolish today to be an atheist? An atheist is somebody that has rejected the only way of salvation. It's like somebody having a winning lottery ticket and just pitching it aside. Having a check worth a million pounds and tearing it up. Hey, that's pretty foolish. Because, listen, God sent his only son, Jesus Christ, to die for you. He offers you a free gift, something that is priceless, that you can't pay for. He paid for it in full. He offers it as a gift, and sadly today, people close their eyes. They shut their ears. And they turn off their brain and they ignore the fact that there's a God in heaven looking down in love at them saying, I would save you from your sin. You don't have to die and go to hell. You don't have to die. It's been eternity away from me. I love you so much. I sent my son, my only son, Jesus, to make a way for you to be forgiven. But very sadly, not only today do you not care about yourself, but you don't care about your children. You don't care about your family. You don't care about your maids. If you don't care to tell them about the God that loves them, that sent his son, Jesus, to die on the cross for their sin. Friend, worse than that, you're leading them away from God. We live in a generation of leaders. Leaders that are leading to hell. The Bible says, why it is the way that leads to destruction. Many there be that go in there at arrows away that leads to life everlasting. Few there be that find it. The vast majority of people that are coming down North Bridge or walking down Princess Street today are people that are step-by-step walking towards hell. Very sadly today, most don't care. Not only do they not care about themselves, they don't care about their families, and they don't care about the Son of God, Jesus Christ, that died on the cross for their sin. And friend, again, I praise God that it's true what the Word of God said about the Messiah, that when He come, He would heal a blindness. He would heal lame men. He would bring people back from the dead. He would Himself come back from the dead. Friend, it's all there in the Old Testament Scriptures, figuring out the Messiah, that when He came, He would do all those things. He would suffer and die on the cross for our sins. Again, it's all 22,000 years before Jesus Christ came. It's a song before the shepherd's song. It says, they pierced his hands and his feet. Jesus Christ, as he's put upon the cross, the soldiers took his hands and he laid his hands there and they nailed his hands to that cross, they nailed his feet to the cross. And it said that a thousand years before it took place, they pierced his hands and his feet. It says they cast lots upon his vesture. Again, a thousand years before it took place, the Bible said that the soldiers would gamble for the clothing of the Lord Jesus Christ. He had a garment that he was wearing that was one piece woven throughout and had no seams. And instead of rending it, the soldiers gambled for it. But the Bible said about that a thousand years before it took place. It says in that psalm, those words, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Jesus Christ on the cross, he cried out those words. As God the Father turned his back on God the Son, that eclipse took place at the same moment as that took place, the sin of the world was put upon the Son of God, Jesus Christ, and the Bible spoke about it a thousand years before it took place. There in Psalm 22, it says, dogs encompassed me about. The Jews would call Gentiles dogs. It was the Gentiles that put Jesus Christ upon the cross. It was the Jews that cried out, Crucify Him! Crucify Him! It was the Gentiles, the Romans, that put Jesus there and again in the Scriptures a thousand years before it took place. The Bible said exactly what would happen. And why is that there and you ought to read it in Isaiah 53, it's in Psalm 22 It speaks about the Messiah and his suffering for us for our sin as he would die on the cross Why did the word of God give us that? He gave it to us so that we would know that when we pick up this book, we're picking up what it is, the very Word of God. It's not to be edited. It's not to be tampered with. It's not to be changed. People are not to stand up in their pulpit and preach contrary to this book and say, thus saith the Lord. Again, I'll tell you today, God is not pleased about Scott Rennie becoming the high church minister at St. Giles. He's not pleased that homosexuality is being brandished in pulpits and said that it's okay and that lies are being told in the name of God. God is not pleased with those that say in the name of God that a boy can be a girl or a girl can be a boy. Jesus himself said, therefore shall man leave his father and mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they too shall be one flesh. The Word of God is very clear about all of that. Friend, don't be deceived by the lies of our day and think, oh, you know, if social media and the government and so-called scientists come together and say sin is okay, that it's okay. Friend, it's not okay. But there's a way to be forgiven. There's a way to be set free. That way is through the blood of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, that died on the cross for our sin. He made a way through His shed blood for us to be forgiven. And friend, if you don't have Jesus Christ, you don't have life. The Bible says about Jesus, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me. Friend, you cannot get to God any other way. I would know this about you if you told me today, Ben, I don't believe in God, I don't believe in Jesus Christ. One thing I know, listen, friend, you're on your way to an eternity away from God in a lake of fire. Again, the Bible says, I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were opened, and the dead were judged out of those books according to their works. And friend, the Bible there speaks about death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. Friend, hell is real. Anybody that laughs about hell might as well stand outside of a burning vehicle, watch somebody screaming in torment and laugh about it and think, oh, that's great. Because I'll tell you this, you know people today that are in hell. If you know somebody that died without Jesus Christ, that you know somebody that is in eternal torment. And I'll tell you this. In hell, they would cry out and say, Dear God, send somebody back to my loved one to warn them. Never to come to this place. But God would look at them and say these words, say of Moses and the prophets, if they're not going to believe the word of God, they're not going to believe if somebody comes back from the dead and tells them about Jesus Christ and tells them about God. And friend, the truth is today, if you don't come to faith in God, You do not have life because you cannot please God without faith. Without faith, it's impossible to please God. He that cometh to God must believe that He is and that He's a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. Prince, salvation's not by works. It's not about you being christened. It's not about you being baptized. It's not about religion. The Bible says there's no other name given amongst men whereby they must be saved. But the Bible says about Jesus, I am the way, the truth and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me. Salvation is not in Islam. Salvation is not in Catholicism. Salvation is not in Jehovah's Witnesses doctrine. Salvation is in the truth of the Bible, the truth that speaks about the Savior, the Son of God, Jesus Christ, that died on the cross for your sin. My friend, if you don't know Him today, you don't have life. The Bible says, He that hath the Son hath life. He that hath not the Son of God hath not life. Friend, God wants you to come to faith. The Bible says about somebody that is in their sin, the wrath of God abideth on him. Friend, God is not waiting to judge you. You're already judged. The condemnation of God is already upon you. The only thing that you ought to do is understand that So that you look to God and say, God, I'm sorry. Please forgive me of my sin. Please pardon me for that which put Jesus Christ on the cross, for that which is worthy of eternity in the lake of fire. And save my soul and put your faith in the Son of God, Jesus, who did not just die on the cross for your sin, but rose from the dead. Friend, we just celebrated it. You know, if you're an atheist today, have you ever stopped and thought about Jesus Christ being the most famous person in human history? His birthday is celebrated every year. Jesus Christ, we date our calendar by Him. We celebrate Easter because He rose from the dead. And you can go to the tombs in Jerusalem, the Garden Tomb, and stand very close to Golgotha. And understand that it's just like the Bible says, you can see the trough where the rolling stone was put in front of it, where they put the body of Christ in there, and they put the guards about that tomb, they put the wax seal upon it, but Jesus Christ walked out of that place. Why? Because he's the Son of God. Why did he walk out? To show not only does he have the power through his death to forgive you of your sin, but through his life he has the power to give you everlasting life. My friend, again, I praise God for that. He that hath the Son hath life. He that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things that are written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have everlasting life. Again, the Bible says in Romans 10, 9, and 10, that thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus. You shall believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from the dead. Thou shalt be saved. I praise God today that God has the power to do that. You might think today, Ben, I could never come to saving faith. I could never put my faith in the Son of God, Jesus Christ, that died on the cross for my sin. I'll just tell you, friend, there's a man in the Bible, he was called Saul of Tarsus. He hated Christ and he killed Christians. He took them and he imprisoned them, men and women. But Saul of Tarsus was confronted by Christ one day on the road to Damascus as he went there to persecute Christians. And Christ said to him, Saul, Saul, why kick yourself against the pricks? A prick was a goat that was used to get an oxen to go in a certain path, and they would often kick against that, and that would just injure them. And I'll tell you this, there are a lot of people like that today, just kicking against God. But Saul of Tarsus was confronted by Jesus Christ, and he said, what should I do, Lord, Master? He submitted to Christ. Saul of Tarsus became Paul the Apostle. He wrote most of the New Testament epistles that we have, like Colossians, Ephesians, and Romans, and 1 and 2 Corinthians, and 1 and 2 Timothy, and Titus. They're all written by a man that used to kill Christians, but he came to saving faith. Friend, I praise God for that testimony and the Word of God. Therefore, I can look at anybody today, and friend, it doesn't matter what you've done against God. You might have killed a baby in the womb. You might be a homosexual. You might be living in immorality. You might be addicted to pornography. You might be a drunkard. You might be a drug addict. But I can tell you today that there's a God in heaven that has the power not just to forgive you of your sin, but to cleanse you and to make you righteous. A hundred years ago, here on the streets of Edinburgh, there was something called the Redeemed Drunkard Band, and they came out and they were giving their testimonies on the street, and the newspaper reported about them. The Redeemed Drunkard Band was out on the street again tonight. A religion that can change drunkards into loving fathers and good husbands is a religion worth having. Friend, I regret today that so few get to see the example of the power of the grace of God, because so few are turning to Christ. So many have hardened their hearts against God. So many have turned their back on the holiness of God and the grace of God and the goodness of God and the mercy of God. Again, friend, I just look at you today and say, look, there's a God in heaven that loves you. That sent his son, his only son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross for your sin. And stop walking away from God and start picking up a Bible. Begin to read it with your family. Read it with your kids. Talk to them about the love of God. Talk to them about what Jesus Christ did. Friend, they're getting bombarded with ungodliness in the schools. They're being taught that sexual impurity is okay. They're even being taught that their gender is not God assigned. That they can choose whatever they want. Their basic biology is being ignored by our society. Our society that says, I believe science. But they reject the science that shows that baby in the womb. They reject the science that says a male is a male and a female is female. They say, oh, science defends us. But science does not stand with ungodliness. Science does not stand with evolution. Science does not stand with immorality. Science stands with God. And I praise God today for His power. I praise God for the Holy Spirit, the Convictor of Sin, of Righteousness, and of Judgment. I praise God that God has the power to work in the hearts of man. People that might think again, I would never think about God. I would never give God the time of day that God could begin to chip away at the hardness of that life. It's mercy of God and the grace of God and the love of God for you that you begin to understand that there is a God in heaven that loves you, whose son Jesus Christ came and you died on the cross for your sin. Again, the Bible says in Romans 5, 8, But God commended, God demonstrated His love toward us. In that while we are yet sinners, Christ died for us. I praise God today, though I preach the truth of the Word of God, that God hates sin. God does not accept homosexuality. God does not accept fornication. I'll just say, most people in Scotland are living in sexual sin. God does not accept that. You can listen to a message I preached at my church yesterday, Southside Free Baptist Church. Just look it up, freebaptistchurch.org. But friend, though I preach against sin, as the Bible commands me to, I'll tell you this, just like God, the reason I do that is because I look at you and I think there is hope because there is life. As long as somebody's breathing, there is hope that they can accept Jesus Christ as their Savior. There is hope that they can repent of their sin and put their faith in the Son of God, Jesus, that died on the cross for them and could return and have the new life that God desires you to have. The Bible says if any man be in Christ, he's a new creature. All things are passed away. Behold, all things have become him. God has the power to cleanse you from the inside out. God has the power to set you free. And friend, if you don't believe that, listen to the testimony of some that have accepted Christ as their Savior that would tell you, look, I was into Buddhism and all sorts of things like that. I was trying to find peace. I was trying to find happiness. I was trying to find satisfaction. And it was empty. It was empty. It was empty. But then I found Christ. And Christ satisfied. Friend, in the book of John, There's a story about Jesus, and he goes up to a woman at a well, and they have a conversation. And Jesus says to her, look, go call your husband. And she said, I don't have a husband. And Jesus says, well, you've had five husbands, and he whom thou now have is not thy husband. And she was an immoral woman, and she was seeking satisfaction in relationships, and it was empty, it was empty, it was empty. But Jesus said to her, I'm the water of life. So many dreams of me and they're satisfied. I'll tell you, this friend, she got excited about that. She went and got her friends and brought them out to find out about Jesus Christ because she knew that Jesus was the answer to what she was looking for in life. Friend, I'll just tell you, you're looking for something in life. You might be looking at the end of a bottle, or in drugs, or in immorality, or in jobliness like that, but I'll tell you this, it's never going to satisfy you. You're living the dream of the person that's addicted to gambling, that keeps buying a piece of paper that is worthless, and you're spoiling, you're wasting your goods for something that is nothing. I just encourage you, stop living like that, and start looking where truth is found, and where happiness is found, and where satisfaction is found. It's found in the Word of God, because it's found in Jesus Christ. And again, friend, the Bible says, He that hath the Son hath life. He that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that you have everlasting life. Friend, God can give it to you today. Salvation is simple. So simple a child can be saved. In fact, the Bible says, unless you come to God as a little child, you're not going to come to God. Because the child just kind of takes it and accepts it. They're very easy when it comes to God. They know there's got to be a God. And they love the idea of God. But sadly, our world is teaching our kids that there is a Santa Claus. They're teaching kids to be good because of Santa Claus. And they're teaching them a lie, but they're not teaching them the truth about a God that loves them, that sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross for their sin. Friend, what a sad day that we live in, that immorality is paraded in our streets. that we have a month that's a so-called gay pride month, and we celebrate wickedness, and we say this is good, and we lift it up. Listen, you get what you honor, and when you honor iniquity, you get death. The Bible says that when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin. Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. Do not earn, my beloved brethren. Listen, it's killing relationships. It's killing finances. It's killing health. Every single sin that men commit, it hurts. It does not help. But what is sad about our society, we lift up sin and say, that's the way to go. You got to go that way. We're putting our kids on a path of destruction. It is hurting them. Our suicide rates are going up. and up because there is dissatisfaction in life because sin does not satisfy. But then Christ does. What we ought to be teaching our kids instead is the fear of God. We ought to be teaching them the truth of the Word of God and teaching them what the Bible says, honor thy father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise, and giving them some parents that are worth honoring, some parents that aren't living in sexual sin. The Bible says marriage is honorable in all, in the bed undefiled, but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. A lot of people today laugh about sin, and they've lost out on their life, but listen friend, what you love, and what you lust, and what you defend, is the very thing that is destroying your life. Friend, that bottle is not helping you. That addiction to gambling is not helping you. That addiction to sport or to music is wasting your time. That addiction to gaming, you're hurting your family. You're staying up till 3am as an adult playing games instead of working and providing for your family. Listen, the things that you defend are the things that are destroying you. It's called sin. Sin is a transgression of God's law. But God sent his son, his only son, Jesus Christ to die on the cross to set us free from the bondage of sin and from the penalty of sin. Again, the Bible says, the wages of sin is death. Friend, the sword that sinneth, it shall die. God said to Eve in the garden, you know, you can eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. That means dying, ye shall die. If you want to blame somebody for the hurt that's in life, don't blame God. Don't say to God, God, I'm so angry at you because of death and cancer and things like that. Friend, it would not be in this life if it wasn't for sin. Read the word of God. All you gotta read is the first four chapters. You'll find out that when man sinned against God, it brought death, sorrow, sickness, and heartache into this world. Friend, it's here because of our sin. And very sadly, we turned our back on the mercy of God, the grace of God, the goodness of God, and the power of God. And yet, God in His mercy is reaching out in His love, desiring you to stop looking, listen, and to think about Him, and think about His love, and think about His mercy, and think about His grace, but stop defending your sin. Because you can't come to the light by covering up the light. You can't get right with God without meeting Him and knowing Him. And so the thing is to know Jesus Christ as your Savior. I have a problem with my father. I don't know what's going on with him. So, this is something very interesting. Most of our students are English teachers, but we're not. I'm going to try and get a few pictures that I can work with. Yeah. um Yeah, I lived back in California for a year and a half. I was a Cavalier on a tour. I was actually a Scottish Cavalier, a Cavalier Chaplain. I taught myself Cavalry. I was a Cavalier on a tour. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Good morning, just down here sharing some truth from the Bible, speaking about Jesus Christ and God, and God's love for us. I don't know if you went to church yesterday, but bringing a little church to the streets of Edinburgh. Just trying to get people to think about God. I understand today most people don't think about God. It used to shock me, surprise me, because God's such a part of my life. But I'll just tell you this, I don't, I'm not as shocked by it anymore. I do think it's possible today that you're walking and you never stop and think about God. But I'll tell you this about God. God has a way of getting into our life. God has a way of putting us on our back, They can stop looking, listen, and begin to think about Him. Because God knows this, if He just lets us go through life without ever having a heartache, ever having a trial, it's very possible that we can just walk through life and go to hell, never knowing about the love of God, never knowing about the mercy of God, never knowing about the grace of God. The Bible says about God, He's not willing that any should perish. but then all should come to repentance. God doesn't want you to die and go to hell. God doesn't want you to walk step by step into eternity away from Him. That's why He lovingly made a plan, a plan of redemption. The Redeemer is the Savior, Jesus Christ, and it was God sending His Son to buy us back from the bondage of our sin and the punishment of our sin. Again, the Bible says about Jesus, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. My friend, if you don't believe in the love of God, I just encourage you to think about those words, Christ died for me. Jesus made a way through his death for you to be reconciled to God, brought back to God. Remember in the garden, Adam and Eve, when they sinned against God, they hid themselves because they were naked. Their nakedness shows the shame of sin and how that separated man and God. I pray that's what sin is. And people say it this way, you know, if I walked into church, lightning would strike. If I cracked the Bible, you know, that would be like God would understand, and I'm just so wicked and things like that. But I'll tell you this, Jesus Christ came to seek and to save. That was what's lost. God isn't looking for clean people. God is looking for people to clean. God desires to help you by reaching down and providing for you what you cannot give. Because the Bible says, Thou shalt not wash thee with niter, and take thee much soap. Yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord. Friends, you can hide your sin from a lot of people, but you can't hide it from God. You might be in adultery. Nobody else knows about it, but God knows about it. You might be an incredible jack from gambling. Nobody else knows about it, but God does. You might be addicted to drugs, nobody else knows about it, but God does. Friend, there could be a lot of things in your life, nobody else knows about it, but God does. And the Bible says about every transgression that we've done against God, that someday the books are going to be opened, and we're going to be judged every man according to our works. Friend, are you ready to stand before God and give an account for the pornography that's in your heart and your mind because you've just been imbibing it? Are you ready to give an account for the drink and the drugs and the things that have gone into your body? Are you ready to give an account to God for the profanity that's in your lips and taking God's name in vain and how you've mocked Him on His day, the Lord's day? Friend, I'll just tell you this. If you're not right with God, you're not ready to stand before God. But God sent his son, his only son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross for your sins so that you could be forgiven. He made a way through his shed blood to cleanse us from the inside out, to make us pure, and to make us holy, to make us clean, even in the sight of God. The Bible says about God's ability to do that as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. My friend, if you're honest about life, you'd say, well, I've got guilt in my life. There's things in my life that I've done, and I wish it wasn't like that, but I'd get up and I'd do it again. And, you know, I'd get drunk on the weekends, and then I'd say I'm not going to do it, but then I'd do it again. And all that cycle of life and that sin, burden, that's where, listen, Jesus Christ came to set you free. Jesus Christ came to save you and to provide a way for you to be born again, to provide a way for you to have God's gift of everlasting life. Again, the Bible says, while we are yet sinners, Christ died for us. Jesus Christ made a way through His shed blood for you to be forgiven, for you to have God's gift of everlasting life. Friends, it's not in words. It's not about, you know, I'm going to be a religious person, I'm going to clean up my life and God's going to accept me. It's not about that at all. In fact, it's not being christened. Christening does nothing to save a soul. You might think, well, I'm going to go to heaven because I've been done for as a child. Listen, that did nothing to cleanse you of your sin. The Bible says there's only one thing that cleanses us of sin. It's the blood of the Son of God, Jesus Christ. But He says, God says to you today, come now, let us reason together, saith the Lord, though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow, though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. God knows the immorality that's in your heart. God knows the immorality that's in your life. God knows the profanity that's in your speech, because it's in your heart. The Bible says out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh. and the blasphemy that's there, and the mocking of God, the laughing at the things of God, all that, God knows that, but despite that, God sent His Son, His only Son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross for your sins, so that you could be forgiven. My friend, I praise God today for the good work of Jesus Christ on the cross. I praise Him for His love for us. I praise Him for His mercy. I praise Him for His truth. I praise Him for His holiness. I praise Him for His grace. And I praise God today to have a look at you today. I understand that God has the power to save you from your sin. God has the power to set you free. God has the power to bring you to victory that you've never known in your life. You might have been somebody that you've always struggled with drugs. You've always struggled with drink. Because from a child, maybe somebody gave you that cigarette, somebody gave you that addiction that's been in your life. I'll tell you this, God has the power to break that through the Son of God, Jesus Christ, that died on the cross for your sin. But there's something called the Holy Spirit The Spirit of God is the one that will come to enable you. You might say, well, I could never live like that. I could never live like a Christian. Listen, God does not expect us to clean up ourselves. God cleans us up, but we've got to come to him for cleansing. Friend, he came, he died so that we could be forgiven. If you could laugh about that, say, well, I like my sin. Listen, do you like being drunk and vomiting? Do you like having your bank account drained because you've got to buy cigarettes? Do you like having your marriage broken up because you're addicted to pornography or you're addicted to immorality or you're an adulterer? But I'll tell you this, sin destroys. And Jesus Christ came to set you free from that. Jesus Christ came to give you life. He came to give you hope. He came to give you peace. Again, it's not in a religion. It's in a relationship. It's about knowing Jesus Christ as your Savior. Friend, I just want to be here today and say, look, God loves you. If you saw what the Son of God did so that you could be forgiven, you shouldn't handle to look at the bloodied and battered and naked body of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary as he suffered and he died on the cross for your sin. He made a way for you to be forgiven. And I praise God that the blood of Jesus Christ has the power to cleanse men from their sin. And friend, if you never tasted that, You've never tasted what life's all about. You might have had every drink and every drug and every immoral pleasure, and it's empty, and it doesn't satisfy, but Jesus Christ satisfied. The Bible says taste, and you'll see that the Lord is good. You can laugh at it today and say, oh, it's not real, because I don't believe in it, and I can't see it. Friends, you can't see gravity, you can't see the wind, but you can see the power of gravity, and you can see the power of the wind. And I'll tell you this today, you can see the power of God. You split one atom and it causes a tremendous explosion And they wonder what holds that all together and the Bible says all things consist through the power of the Son of God Jesus Christ By him all things consist Friends you can see his power in the fact that we can see 14 billion light years away traveling at 170,000 miles per second for 14 billion years and there's nothing else out there because God said he created man and he put man here but there are people today say I don't believe in God because I can't see God but I believe in aliens. They can't see aliens. but they believe in them. Why? Because that fits their theology. That fits their ideology. They want their immorality, their homosexuality, their lesbianism, and their transgenderism, and their ungodliness, and they don't want a God that stands for truth, and that they have to give an account to God for. That's the only way that makes sense. And the only way it makes sense that people would actually believe that we come from animals, which is laughable, and that explosions make things, which is laughable, is because their ideology is against God. And friend, that right there ought to make people stop looking, listen, and say, you know what? That's true. Those that say things about evolution, they are incredibly biased against who? Against God. But interestingly, even atheists take God's name in vain. The Bible says, thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for he will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Friend, why is it that atheists do that? Because we sin by nature. When my children were born, God bless, my wife and I were six children. You know, we didn't teach them to sin. We taught them to do right. We taught them to obey. Sin came naturally. And friend, we sin by nature, so when an atheist takes God's name in vain, they do that because He is God, and they take the name of Jesus Christ in vain, because the Bible says that Jesus Christ is God. Nobody says, Oh Mohammed, oh the Pope, oh Hare Krishna. They don't say that because those men are not God, but there is a God that came to this earth and died on the cross for our sin. His precious name is Jesus, it means Savior. That Savior came and He died and He made a way for us to be forgiven so that God, in love for us, could save us and could take away our sin, the guilt of our sin, the burden of our sin, the punishment of our sin, the bondage of our sin. The Son of God came and He did that as He died on the cross for us. You might say to me, well Ben, how do I get that? Because obviously Jesus died, but not everybody's saved. If I look around, I know there's a lot of ungodly people in this world. Somebody gets saved by putting their faith in Christ. You might wonder what that looks like on paper. Romans 10, 9 and 10 says that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth and believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Have you ever done that you ever stood up to the Lord Jesus Christ with your faith in the Son of God? Listen, you're ashamed of Jesus Jesus wasn't ashamed to die naked as a thief on a cross for you He died in a godly death because he took your place. He took your sin. He took your punishment He wasn't ashamed to do that for you, but you flush to speak the name of Jesus in a holy way You flush to pick up a Bible you flush to go to church. Oh but you're not ashamed of your immorality, your adultery, your fornication, your profanity, your pornography, and all the ungodliness that is in your life, but you're ashamed of God. But we ought to step back from that and say, dear God, how is my heart so hard? How am I so depraved that I can't, in love, look at my Creator and my Designer and my Savior and take Him by the hand and embrace Him and say, thank you so much for dying on the cross for my sin. to God today that many knees would bow and many hearts would confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father because He came because He loved you. He came because He cared about you. He came because He does not want you to die and to go to hell and spend eternity away from Him. He wants you in glory. He wants to save you. Behold, I go to heaven and I go to prepare a place for you that where I am, there you may be also. And he says that to his children. He doesn't say that to everybody. A lot of people want at their funeral the shepherd's psalm, the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want, but I'll tell you this. If the Lord isn't your shepherd in life, he's not your shepherd in death. And yet, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. Listen, if you're not saved, you ought to fear death, you ought to fear eternity without God. Because without Christ, you don't have life. And without life, you don't have heaven. And without heaven, you're in hell for all eternity. Yet the Son of God, Jesus Christ, came and He died to make a way for you to be forgiven. Again, the Bible says, while we are dead sinners, Christ died for us. We're standing for a righteous end. We're going to die, but God's commitment, God's demonstrated His love for us, is that while we are dead sinners, Christ died for us. Friend you made a way for you to be forgiven Because he loves you The friend I encourage you today. Don't don't go through life without God Somebody says drink satisfies and you took a drink. Somebody said drugs satisfied you took drugs Somebody introduced you to pornography and ungodliness and they they said try this and you tried it I'll tell you this today try God try truth Try the Word of God in Jesus Christ The Bible says taste, and you'll see that the Lord is good. Friend, He's good because He loves you. He's good because He's God. He is not immoral. We are immoral. We have turned our back on God. If you want to get angry about life, get angry at yourself. Because the wages of sin is death. The destruction that's here is not God's fault. It's what man brought into this creation. God looked at it as He created it. And every day, He saw that it was good. And on the last day, He said it is very good. It was very good because there was no death. Why? Because there was no sin. but then Eve coveted. And she took fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And the day that she did that, she opened up to mankind and to all of us the death, sorrow, and sickness and heartache that we see. But there is a remedy. The remedy is Christ. The remedy is Jesus. There is an antidenom for the snakebite of sin, and it's the love of God and the mercy of God and the grace of God shown to us at Calvary as the Son of God, Jesus. died on the cross for our sins. Friend, again, if you don't have Jesus, you don't have life. He that hath the Son hath life. He that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have arisen unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have everlasting life. Friend, life's not in a religion. It's in a relationship. It's in Jesus Christ who said, I am the way, the truth, and the light. No man cometh unto the Father but by me. Jesus Christ is not a way. He is the only way. He is the only way today that you have any hope of going to heaven. And a lot of people say, well, you know, Ben, even as an atheist, I'm a good person. So, you know, I'm OK if I die. And there is a God. Listen, we're not OK because the Bible says the wages of sin is death. The punishment for our sin is eternity of wait for God in a lake of fire. I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God. And the books were opened, and the dead were judged out of the books according to their works. My friend, the Bible says, whose trouble was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. Friend, God doesn't want you to go there. He's not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. His Son, Jesus, came to die on the cross for you so that you could be forgiven. Father, I pray today, in the mercy of God, that you turn the hearts of the dear Scottish people back to Christ. Father, that we see a national revival, not a political revival, but Father, a revival of true religion, of knowing Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. Would you bless the Word of God as it's going forth today in Edinburgh. It's in Christ's name I pray. Amen.
Street Preaching 68
Series Street Preaching
Street preaching in Edinburgh.
Sermon ID | 5525112145609 |
Duration | 1:12:01 |
Date | |
Category | Special Meeting |
Language | English |
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