I just want to read with you tonight two short verses from this chapter. Jesus Christ was the greatest preacher that ever lived and the servant of God was the greatest servant that was ever preached. It begins in Matthew chapter five and concludes at the end of Matthew It's food of practical teaching and it's also food of warning and the second chapter or the second half rather of chapter seven, there's a lot of solid words of the savior praise. So, we're going to read some of those words this evening. Matthew chapter seven verses thirteen and fourteen. Will you listen as we read the word of god together? The son of god, the lord Jesus Christ, full of Let me read those words again. Verse thirty. Enter ye in at the straight gate. For wide is the gate and and many there be which go in their abbey, which straightens the gate, and narrows the way, which leadeth on to life, and few there be that find it. We know tonight that God has promised to bless his word and to magnify his word above his very name. It's a blessing promised at the beginning of scripture. Let's pray together and thank the Lord. Father, we are so thankful once We thank you for the grace of god and everything that has gone on before. We thank you for the singing of thy praise of thee. Uplifting of thy name and the opening of thy word to me. Thank you lord for the word of testimony as well. We thank you lord for Daniel for saving him. Whenever he was just a young man, for giving him to his teenage years and now into adulthood. We thank you lord for the desires to put in his heart to serve the what God can do, what he's done for others, he can do for you. And Lord, we pray for all that are gathered within this temple, young and old. We pray that you will lead us tonight at the point of need. Speak, O God, in their hearts and lives by the power of the Holy Spirit. And we ask now, God, I will grant liberty and grant they grace and help as we consider the gospel together. We're very conscious of God and we have a very real enemy. He wants to snatch away the good seed. He wants to mine the minds of them that believe not. Father, we take authority in the Savior's name. We thank you, God, for the power of the Savior's blood. We ask, O God, thou wilt be pleased to put a hedge around about this thing. And grant, O God, that my son will be exalted. The presence of God will fill this place. and honor, praise, and glory will be brought to the seniors here. I pray lord for my help. I'll be behind the cross. Tell me oh god with my spirit. I'm glad that my day and my parish will be for god in the eyes and minds of men. But I'm lifted magnified and unified son. For he alone is worthy. And it's for his name. And for thy glory we pray. Take it away. Istanbul in Turkey is the fifth largest city in the world, inhabited by 12 million people. It's one of the most dangerous places to live in this world, because the city of Istanbul is situated on a fault line. And in 1999, there was a tremendous earthquake that claimed the lives of 40,000 people. And around about that time, they predicted that within 25 years, there would be an even greater earthquake. is a very dangerous place to live. But it's not the most dangerous place to live on the face of God's Earth. There's an island off the coast of Brazil. They call it Snake Island. It is filled with thousands and thousands of reptile snakes. They say that for every five to 10 square meters, there's at least one deadly rattlesnake. And for that reason, Snake Island is inhabited by them. It's one of the most dangerous places you can live on the face of the earth. But it's not the most dangerous place. Death Valley in Nevada is the hottest place on the face of the earth. Sometimes the temperatures are soar to 57 degrees centigrade. And you can't survive, they say, for more than 14 hours without water. It's a very dangerous place. But it's not the most dangerous place in the face of God's earth. Naples in Italy is a beautiful city. It's got a beautiful setting. Many people go there for holidays. And it's inhabited by some 650,000 people. It's a beautiful setting. But it's a dangerous place to live because it's surrounded by volcanoes. And they say that if just one of those volcanoes began to erupt, It would result in trying to evacuate some one million people from that city and the outlying areas. Naples is a dangerous place to live. But it's not the most dangerous place upon the face of God's earth. San Pedro Sula is a city in Honduras. They say that it's the murder capital of the world because of drugs and prostitution and arms dealing. San Pedro Sula. is the place on the face of the earth where you're most likely to be murdered or kidnapped or never seen again. These are dangerous places, but dear friend, tonight they are not the most dangerous place upon the face of God's earth. I want to speak tonight for a little while about the most perilous place on planet earth. The most perilous place on planet earth is the broad road that the Lord Jesus Christ himself spoke about in Matthew's Gospel chapter seven and verse number thirteen. If you're in this meeting tonight and you're outside of Christ, and you're still in your sin, and you're still under the condemnation of God, and you're still on the broad road that leads to destruction, can I say to my friends with love in my heart on planet earth. Here in Matthew's Gospel chapter seven is the Lord Jesus, the son of God, a man full of mercy, a man full of grace, a man full of truth, brings a sermon in the mouth to a conclusion. And he says to his students, he pleads with them and he says, enter ye in at the straight gate. For broad is the gate, and broad is the way, and many there be which go in thereof. I want to ask you tonight, are you on the broad road? Or are you on the narrow road that leads to heaven and leads to home? If you think for just a moment or two about these two roads that the Savior speaks about, you will notice that there's no mention at all of any religious groups on these roads. There's no mention of social class on either of these roads. There's no mention here of financial status on either of these roads. There's no mention here of age groups on either of these roads. The Savior simply says that one road is broad and leads to destruction, and the other road is narrow and it leads to life and it leads to heaven and leads on. Now shortly after Adam sinned in the garden of Eden, the Lord came walking in the midst of the garden, the crude of the day, and he called out and said, Adam, where am I? And I believe that in the gospel meeting and in the gospel mission like this, the Lord draws near and the Lord challenges hearts. And maybe tonight in this meeting, God is asking you, where are you in the road of life? Which road are you on? Are you on the narrow road that leads to heaven? Or are you still in that awful broad road that leads to destruction? I say tonight, the Broad Road is the most perilous place on planet Earth. And I want tonight to give you six very simple reasons why I believe that is so. First of all, the Broad Road is the most perilous place on planet Earth, because whenever you're on the Broad Road, you have an unforgiving past behind you. An unforgiving past behind you. who the Bible says in the book of Ecclesiastes chapter 3 and verse number 15, that God requireth that which is past. The Bible presents a picture of God as one who is just, one who is righteous, and one who is holy. God cannot turn a blind eye to sin. God must deal with sin and therefore trying to turn over a new leaf and trying to start afresh, will not really come up with God because God requires that which is passed. And if you're not a believer tonight and you're not saved and you've never been born again and you've never trusted Christ the Savior as Lord and as master, I want to tell you on the authority of this book that you've got an unforgiven past behind you. Now, maybe tonight you have Maybe tonight you have tried to cover up some of your sins. God still sees them. Moses, one day in Exodus chapter two, slew an Egyptian with his bare hands. And he looked to the left and to the right, and at last he found a place to bury this Egyptian. And the Bible says he buried him in the sand. And Moses thought that nobody had been watching. But oh, he forgot that the Lord sees all things. The Lord sees the things that are done openly. The Lord sees the things that are done behind closed doors. And the Lord sees in their very hearts and in their very eyes. And the word of God says that your sin ultimately will find you out. Be sure that your sin will find you out. If you live and die with an unforgiving past behind you, that past will follow you all the way to the Great White River. Be sure your signal will find you. Now, many years ago, there was a English naval vessel that was traveling in the Atlantic Ocean. It was coming close to the coast of Jamaica. And they came across what they believed was a pirate ship. But that pirate, the chief pirate, the captain pirate within that ship was a very crafty man. There he looked through his telescope, and he saw this naval vessel coming behind him. He called for one of the men in the ship to take all of the records of where the pirate ship had been and put them in a big bundle and threw them overboard so that they could not be traced for time. And so whenever they last found themselves in the harbor in Kingston in Jamaica, the ship was searched for the last, nothing could be pinned upon them because there were no records that had been kept of where the ship had been, or at the very least, the records of the boats. But right about the same time, there was a fishing boat out at sea. They saw a great white shark, and they fired at our crew with the shark, and they brought it onto the deck of the ship, and they caught its stomach open. And would you believe it, inside the stomach of that shark, there was a big scroll, and it was the records of where the pirates shipped it in. And they brought them to the magistrates in Kingston, and there was enough evidence to convict the pirates. of your crimes. Be sure your sins will find you out. You have an unforgiving past tonight, perhaps, behind you. And someday that past, ultimately, will catch up with you. In 2 Samuel chapter 3, we read about a man called Abner. He had murdered somebody in revenge. Somebody was coming hot in his heels, and Abner began to run to a city of refuge, a place where he could at least be safe for a little season, though at last he pleaded his case. But the strange thing about Abner, whenever he got just to the very gates of that city of refuge, he stopped just a couple of steps outside the city gates. And a revenger of blood caught up with him and thrust him through with a sword, and Abner, died just outside the gates of the city of refuge. Whenever his funeral cortege was going by, David, the king of Israel, stood up and said, died out there as a fool died. Died out there as a fool died. If he had just taken another couple of steps and stepped within the gates of that city of refuge he would have been saved. But rather than taking those extra steps, he stopped. and his past caught up with him, and Abner was cut off from the tribal land. I want to tell you, friends, tonight there's a city of refuge. There's a place of safety. There's a fountain filled with blood, drawn from Emmanuel's hands, and sinners who plunge beneath that flood, they lose all their guilty sins, and there's nobody tonight within the walls of this tent that's beyond the reach of God's salvation. and if you tonight were to take just one step of faith and trust Christ as Savior, as Lord and as Master, your past could be forgiven and your soul could be saved and you could be cleansed and redeemed and set free. The Bible speaks about the Son of God giving his life upon the cross for the remission of sins that are past. But unless you come to Christ, you will always have that unforgiven past behind you. And that's why the broad road is the most perilous place on planet earth. Because you've got an unforgiving past behind you. Furthermore, whenever you're on the broad road, not only is there an unforgiving past behind you, but there's an unhappy God above you. An unhappy God above you. Now there's nothing I like to preach on more than the love of God. There's nothing that delights my soul more than thinking about the love of Christ and the great love in the heart of God that brought the Savior from above to die on a cross outside of City Wall. And I take great pleasure and great delight in telling men and women that God loves them. And that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in heaven should not perish but have everlasting life. But if I am to be faithful to God, I'm faithful to this book. I'm faithful to your soul. I also have to remind you that the Bible not only speaks about the love of God but it speaks about the wrath of God. Not only does the word of God speak about the grace of God, it speaks about the judgment of God. The Bible not only speaks about the mercy of God, it speaks about the righteousness of God. The Bible says in Psalm with the wicked every single day. God looks down on this world and God sees exactly what's going on in the same Genesis chapter six of Noah's day that God looked down from heaven and God saw that the whole world had corrupted itself before God and that every imagination of the thoughts of men's hearts was only evil Does God not have a right tonight to be angry with this world as it is? I meet people all the time and somebody said to me recently, well, if there's a God and if there's a Savior, why doesn't he sort out all the rising fuel prices? Why doesn't God reduce our taxes? Why doesn't God fix this broken world? Why doesn't God put money in our bank accounts? Why doesn't God make us all fit and healthy. You know, we have this idea that if there's a god out there, he's almighty. He should just solve our problems and let us continue to live and repent it against him. Dear friends, I believe tonight that god is every right to be angry when he looks at this world of ours and he sees the sin in it and he sees injustice in it and he sees murder and he sees theft and he sees lies and he sees violence and he sees trampled underfoot, and his name dragged through the gutter, and his word cast off to one side, and his son despised and rejected. The Bible says that those who believe not are condemned already. I wonder how God tonight used you. I wonder tonight how God used him. Do you honestly think tonight that there's God which died in your life and you're not yet a believer? And why is love in God's heart for sinners? Do you not think tonight that God has every right to judge you, to punish you, as you reject his son, as you reject God's love, and you reject God's mercy, and you reject God's grace, and you don't fulfill your purpose in this world to glorify God and to enjoy him forever? I say tonight in the authority of Philistines that why God loves this world. God is not happy with this world. The Bible says He's angry with the wicked every day. The people in Lua's day, whenever Lua was raised up by God to prepare an army, and to be a preacher of righteousness for dead beings, the generation in Lua's day never concluded that they were in any sort of danger. So it was with the people of Lot's day. Maybe tonight, you've never considered that you're in danger, living in that broad room. And such was the grace of the mercy in the heart of the seer that is that large crowd assembled that day on that hillside that the Lord bore dead and exhorted them, enter into the street gate. For broad is the road that leads to destruction. And many there be which find. Do not assume tonight that all is well. You're not a believer and you've never given your life to Christ and you've never conceived Him. All of this is not well. You've an unforgiving pastime. You've an unhappy God above you. But furthermore, the Bible also says there's an unending hell beneath you. And Isaiah chapter 14 and verse number 90 are words that were written to the king of Babylon, who was a type of Lucifer at that particular time, and the word of God says there, Hell from beneath thee is moved to meet thee at thy coming. Scripture says in Revelation 20 that on the last day that the devil shall be cast into the lake of fire. And then death and hell shall be passed into the lake of fire. And then those who do not trust in the Lord shall ultimately follow suit, granting absolutely no pleasure at all in speaking about hell and damnation and death and judgment God said to the prophet Ezekiel, son of man, I've sent you as a watchman unto the house of Israel. And when I say unto the wicked, O wicked, thou shalt surely die. And thou givest him not warning to warn that wicked from his ways, that wicked shall die of sins. But his blood will I require. And I have. I must be faithful tonight to my God. Faithful tonight to this moon. Faithful tonight to my conscience. faithful to my personal and tell you that the scriptures of truth speak about death. The Bible says hell is living. The Bible says hell and destruction are never satisfied. The Bible even says that hell is a man whose scriptures warn us. Old Testament and new over and over and over again about the seriousness of the consequences of dying in our sins but furthermore the savior himself. The Lord Jesus Christ, so compassionate, so kind, and so tender, spoke more about hell than any other preacher in the word of God. That's how first American evangelist, he was preaching once in a church, he was declaring the gospel, and in the course of his address, he warned the congregation about the possibility of ending up in a lost eternity. and he spent a little while in the course of the sermon speaking about heaven judgment and the lady came up to him after the service and she was extremely irate and she took him by the hand and she says, Mr. Hafner, we are respectable people. Why can't you come to our church and talk about the meek and lowly Jesus? Mr. Hafner said to her, my dear friend, it was from the meek and lowly Jesus that I got all of my information. I'm not sure tonight what church or what denomination you're from. You might be Roman Catholic. You might be Church of Ireland. You might be Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist, all of the historic church And that's why this broad road is such a perilous place. Because whenever you're on the broad road, there's an unforgiving past behind you. There's an unhappy God above you. There's an unending hell beneath you. And perhaps as well, unseeable prompts all around you. Can I ask you tonight, what are you trusting in? Whenever the storms and the trials of life come, Whenever the hard times come, what's your faith and your trust and your confidence in it? Daniel in his testimony spoke about those difficult and those hard times and those dark times that often come and to the lives of us all. The tree is gone in the midst of it all. There's a rock through the steadfast of Don Jubalon. To him, I could say, rock of ages, left for me, left behind myself in thee. and the water and the blood from thy riven side which loath thee for sin the double cure cleanse thee from its gilded power but friends tonight I ask you what's your confidence in tonight? What's your trust in this evening? Whenever the storms of life happen and then whenever you have to leave this world and go out into the great eternity what's your trust and what's your confidence in? You know there's only one thing in all the world that's worse than having no and that's having a false hope. There's only one thing in all the world worse than having no hope. And that's having a false hope. You get me a man or a woman who says, listen, there's no hope for me. You can point an individual like that to the cross. Point him to the son of God who shed his blood to redeem us from all iniquity and is able to save and set men free. But you get an individual who's got a false hope, it's very hard to convince him that they need Christ. The word of God says in the book of Proverbs and verse twenty-eight that the execution of the wicked shall perish. And I ask you, what are you trusting in? What is your hope for heaven? Maybe you say tonight that I'm a relatively good person. I don't really do anybody any harm. I provide for my family. I I'm honorable in the workplace. I And I'm a relatively good person, and I don't believe that there's ever a possibility that somebody like me to be lost. Well, maybe on a horizontal level, you're a good person. And you're a good neighbor, and you're a good citizen. But as far as our vertical relationship with the Almighty is concerned, Scripture says there's none righteous, no one wrong. There's nothing to do with good. We are all as an unclean thing. When all the righteousness are filthy rags and all we like sheep have gone astray. You may say that I can find the medicine. God is too kind and loving. I'm merciful to die and water costs and water. Praise the word of god for all the sins. Psalm nine verse number seventeen. that the wicked shall be You may say to me, well, I try my best and I've got my church. I attend a piece of worship Sunday by Sunday and well, that's good enough for me. I put money in the field and I come out from time to time and you know, everybody likes me and the pastor will. He's got a good word for me as well and I'm a religious person and surely, all religions lead to god. No religions lead to god. There's only one that can The scripture says, neither is there salvation in any other. For there's no other name under heaven, let alone man, whereby he must be saved. The scripture records that there is one God and one mediator between God and man, the non-Christ Jesus. Maybe tonight you say, well, years and years and years ago, I did a profession of theism. Yes, I granted my life never changed. I never followed the Lord. I never really loved the Lord or witnessed for the Lord. I'm far from god tonight but surely as long as I've got a little profession somewhere that will cut with god. That's enough. Reverend Duncan Campbell used to say, men are drifted to hell over the weight of the decision and we're cursed with professions today. It's possession I'm interested in tonight. Not merely a profession of Bible says, if any man is of Christ, he's a new creature. All things are passed away, behold, all things are become good. Are you walking in units of life this evening? Has your life been changed by the grace of God? Can you say tonight, my Jesus, I love thee, I know thou art mine, for behold, the pleasures of sin, I resound in thee tonight. Can you say, well, I don't really feel that I'm in any sort of danger. Whenever news filtered through that the Titanic had struck an iceberg and was sinking, and they need to evacuate and get onto a lifeboat, the majority of the people just sat in their beds, sat at their dinner tables, sat listening to the band, standing in rafts under swimming pools to enjoy the recreation of the big ship. And many of the lifeboats that went out to begin with went out half empty. Because nobody believed that the unsinkable Titanic was actually sinking. Many of them felt that they were in no danger at all, and that didn't change the reality. All the stable props are up. What's your hope tonight for heaven? Dr. Harry Ironside, the great Bible teacher of Moody Church in Chicago, tells the story of a young man who was sickle-jacked by profession, and then became a public entertainer, a surrogate Muslim, or he called himself a human fly. One of the great buildings in the city of Los Angeles, one of the great hotels, he began to ski on the side of this hotel. Hundreds of people gathered on the sidewalk to watch this human fly, scaling the side of this building across window ledges and bricks, including his finger, in between the bricks of the mortar. Up he rode, story after story. At last, there he is, almost at the very top. He seemed to pause. He couldn't seem to find anything to hold on to. He reached for what looked like a grey stone jutting out of the very top of the building, but couldn't reach it. And then with one cat-like movement, he sprung from his feet and laid hold upon that, and tragically fell to the pavement and perished in the cycle. And what he thought was something solid, that he could hold on to to get him to the top, turned out to be just a simple spider's web. And he was holding on to something. who was not able to take us away from him. And the only one who's able to take away the mercy is the Lord Jesus Christ. Beyond that cross of Calvary shed his precious blood. There was none other good enough to pay the price for sins. Jesus only could unlock the gates of heaven and let us in. You see tonight why we're saying the broad road is the most terrible place on planet earth? Because when you're on the broad road, there's an unforgiving pastime There's an unhappy God above you. There's an unending hell beneath you. There's unstable props all around you. And there's also a very uncertain future before you. Proverbs chapter 27 verse 1 says, most not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day they bring forth. The future now more than ever in this world of ours seems to be so, so, so uncertain. The events of the last two and a half years have surely shown us that we cannot bank upon the security of financial institutions, and parliaments, and public representatives, and world leaders, because it's just incredible how things change so quickly. Things nowadays seem to be so uncertain, so obscure. Not only internationally, nationally, and locally, but also personally. Towers who stood up from their beds this morning and throughout the course of the last 12 hours or day was changed radically. They knew their lives were changed forever. Time is so uncertain. Time is so unsure. There's only two things that we can be absolutely sure and certain of when they're both spoken about in Hebrews 9.57. And that is a disappointment on demand once to die. But after this, the judges. Those are the only two things that we as individuals tonight can be absolutely sure of. Death, and every great death judgment. It's a point that Audemars wants to that. They say on average that every single hour, somewhere in the region of 6,316 people die globally. Over 6,000 people have gone into eternity across the world since we signed the first humanistic They say that 5,000 people, 56 million people rather, die every single year. The human mortality rate is 100%. One out of one die. Death is the most democratic thing in all the world because every single one of us will get to participate. None of us are getting out of this world alive and yet there's a very real conspiracy of science about death. Nobody likes to talk about death. Nobody likes to think about death. Nobody really likes to prepare for death. We struggle to prepare for funerals. We struggle to prepare for wills. We struggle to think about all of those things, like insurance. But still more, we struggle to think about eternity, where we will be five minutes after we die. None of us tonight really know how we will die, when we will die, or where we will die. But we all know that for certain we will die. And if we just die and that was it, that would be bad enough. But the scripture says there's an after this. Death is not the end. Death is not secession. Death is not annihilation. Death is but a door that leads us and ushers us out into eternity. And the scripture says, it's appointed of the man once to die, and the man for this judgment. And some days you stand, having lived your life in the broad road, and left this seat of time from the broad road, and you stand before that great judgment throne of God, and that unforgiving past catches up with you, and you meet that unhappy God before you, and yes, you discover that there really is an unending hell beneath you, and all of those unstable props around you are absolutely worthless. How will it be for you then? The Bible says the boots will be opened and the dead will be judged out of the things that are written in those books. The broad road is the most perilous place on earth. For those five reasons, unforgiving past time, unhappy God above you, unending hell beneath you, unstable props around you, on certain future before you. But then lastly, the broad road is the most perilous place on earth. Because whenever you're on the broad road, you've got an unsaved soul within you. An unsaved soul within you. Whenever God created man, back there in Genesis chapter one, two, and three, the scripture says, if God breathed in the house dust, means the breath of life, the man became a living soul. And that distinguishes man from the animal world. These bodies of ours are not really us, they're just the houses that we live in. The real personalities of the inside, the Bible calls that the soul, that's the real you, that the soul was made for fellowship with God. And whenever a person dies, the soul begets the body and is ushered out into the great eternity to await the great resurrection day. That's why oftentimes whenever somebody is lying in a coffin or in a casket, we will often say, they've gone. They've left us. But the body, the frame, the house, the chemical matters, the elements, they're all still there. But the real personality, the real soul, the principle of life is gone. And there's something about life that's mysterious. We can't really explain it. It's a remarkable thing that in the scientific world, there is no recognized definition for what life actually is. We can observe the vital signs of life, but nobody can really explain what life actually is. Because life, as the Bible defines it, is a spiritual entity. You're not just a physical entity and an emotional entity. and a material entity. You are a spiritual entity. God made you with a body, with a soul, and with a spirit. And someday your soul will be required of you. It was said to the rich young fool that his soul will be required of him. Hebrews 10, 39 speaks about the saving of the soul through faith. Psalm 49 says the redemption of the soul is precious. So precious is one human soul that the son of God went to a cross and shed his blood. Took the wrath of God, offered up his soul as a sacrifice to the saints. I believe he would have got mad if he didn't want the sinner to work. That's how much he loves us. That's how valuable you are to him. That's how valuable your soul is. Many are living in a world tonight without worth. without purpose. They feel hopeless. They feel worthless. They feel unloved and they feel unwanted. And yet, remember, God made you. He made you in his own image. He made you and formed you and fashioned you so that you could come to know him and walk with him and love him and serve him because he saw our sins and cut us off from it. He sent his son to die on a cross to Many, many years ago, whenever North America was being settled along that east coast, ship after ship was leaving Ireland and England and other places to go across the Atlantic Ocean. Many people were transporting their wealth by any means possible. One very wealthy farmer had sold up his farm, sold his possessions, gone to the jewelers, and with his money had purchased a large diamond so that he could store his wealth from Ireland across the Atlantic Ocean sell it in New York City or some other place, and set up home in America. And there he was, well-dressed, standing on the deck of the ship, and the ocean was like glass, the sun was shining, there wasn't a breeze, there wasn't a cloud in the sky, and the ship wasn't making much progress. And the young deckhand who had virtually nothing of this world's good was working away in the deck, getting things in shape, if you like. And he looked at this wealthy gentleman reaching into his coat pocket, and he brought out that big diamond. And he held up to the sun, and he turned it round, and it threw the sun's rays in all directions. A little boy stood transfixed as this man was handling this diamond. Then he took it, and he threw it up into the air to get attention for himself, and he caught it in his hand. With that, the young deckhand went over and said, sir, can I ask you, is that a diamond ring? He said, it certainly is. And they explained the story that all of his wealth and all of his inheritance had been given over and sold and bought this diamond that was transporting all his wealth across the Atlantic to America. And the little boy said, sir, when you're a very foolish man, handling it so frivolously like that and throwing it up in the air, such was his confidence that he looked the young boy in the face and he threw the diamond up again and he smiled at the young boy and he reached out his hand to catch it and bunched off his fingers He hit the deck, rolled across the deck of the ship, and out to the porthole on the side of the ship, down into the deep waters of the Atlantic Ocean. And then the little boy said, sir, I'm richer than you are, now. And he went back, and the man had lost everything. You would say, rightly, that man's a fool. And yes, he is. Dear friend, in the journey of life, that ship represents your life. That ocean represents God's great eternity. And that diamond represents your precious son. And some of you tonight are halting between two opinions. And you've never given your life to Jesus Christ. And you're in danger of being lost forever. What a perilous place the Broadland is. It's a perilous place because it's often a place that's comfortable. It's often a place that's prosperous. It's often a place that's respectable. And it's a dangerous place because many people don't even know that they're up here. But can I say tonight, in focusing my way of contrast, that the safest place you could possibly be on planet Earth is on that narrow road that leads to heaven, and leads to hope. Jesus Christ, my Lord, said, my sheep hear my voice tonight, and I give all to them eternal life, and they shall never perish. Neither shall any man put them out of my hand, a man with broad robe has an unforgiving past to hide in, a believer on the narrow road. The psalmist says, goodness and mercy follow me all the days of my life. A man with broad robe has an unending hell beneath it, an unsecure prop surrounding. A believer on the narrow road can say that underneath and round about are the everlasting A person on the broad road as an unhappy God above them. A believer on the narrow road as a loving father who smiles above them. A person on the broad road as an uncertain future before them. A Christian on the narrow road as a heavenly hope before them. A person on the broad road as an unseen soul within them. A person on the narrow road as a soul that's seeking for time and freedom. I wonder tonight, what road are you on? are running this perilous case tonight on Planet Earth. Years and years ago, there was a famous painting by Frederick Monty. He was a famous European artist, and there was a painting of his that was stored in the Louvre Museum in Paris. It was there for years, and the title of the painting was Jet Wave. It's a very unusual painting. It depicts what he, tried to depict as being the devil playing chess with a floor-looking man with his head in his hands, looking down at the chessboard, and the devil looking across with a smile on his face. And it seems that he's got this young man cornered, and there's no moves that he can make. And for years, I've stood in that art gallery, and nobody questioned the integrity of the title checkboard, until one day, a famous chess player came along. And he looked at the painting, and he looked at the pieces on the board. He looked, and he looked, and he stood there as they looked for minutes on end, maybe even hours. Then last, he put up his hand and called one of his friends over and says, there's an estate witness here. It says, checkmate. But he says, as far as I can see, it's not game over just yet. He says, there's still one move that that young man can make. If the king is moved from here to here, the whole game changes around and the devil's the one knocking into a corner and he's the one checking in as long as the king takes him in. Do you know where we're going? There's a wonderful king. Jesus Christ is his name. And whenever there's no hope for any of us, he made that way. And he went to a cross. And maybe you think tonight there's no hope for me. I tell you tonight, there's all over the world as long as there's breath in your lungs and as long as there's a bond in heaven and as long as there's a wonderful gospel. You come tonight. Put your trust in Jesus Christ. Don't live in the broad road any longer but give your heart tonight to this evening. Start out for heaven. Start out for hope. This meeting is drawn to a close and I just want to mention again, he's in the booklet saying this one's a new What must I do to be seated? If you would like one or both of these good ones, speak to me at the door. If you'd like to speak tonight or speak to somebody else's ministers here tonight, the reverend McClernand, the reverend Fred Greenfield, Pastor David Sly, the reverend Eric Brewer, myself, and many other believers. Many people tonight would love to appoint you to the seat. I pray tonight in your heart. Don't leave if I don't by the voice of Jesus. Let's pray. Let's pray as high as god. We'll not sing anymore but that's just quietly and reverently. Let's pray to the spirit of god. Let's every of every child of god pray. Just even where you sit tonight. Why don't call upon the lord? Why don't trust him as your savior? Even though I give me your heart and give me your life. He'll be with me. He's promised he'll never leave you. Lord, have you not been tired of your Let's start out for heaven. Let's start out for an eternity of your sin and justice. Heavenly Father, write thy word upon our hearts. That who God which has been sown in weakness, we pray that the spirit of God will apply nightly to the hearts and lives of men and women. And will God forbid a even one here tonight that's on the Bring them to the scene. Change their heart and change their life. I grant you, God, tonight that they will take up the cross. Start out for heaven, start out for me. I'll be able to go home tonight saying, it is well, it is well with my soul. Father, hear and answer prayer. Disperse us and part us without blessing. We humbly pray in the Savior's name and for God's everlasting glory.