Blessed Lord, we are gathered here in thy
name tonight, and especially in the interest of
those who are not saved.
They do not know that to the joy
and blessing of sins forgiven, know nothing of
eternal life, peace with God, and joy unspeakable
and full of glory that thy salvation brings.
Thou art there still without God and without
hope in this world.
O Lord, we pray that this may be
the night of their decision, and there may
be joy in the presence of the angels
of God over sinners, many repenting.
Many here are kind and generous and affable
and religious, and all the rest of it,
but still in their sin and still without
salvation.
O God, let this be the night when
many will go home saying, Thank God, I
know my sin is forgiven.
Jesus Christ is my Savior and saved by
His grace.
Bless thy people with a spirit of believing
prayer.
Stamp eternity upon our eyeballs, we pray thee.
O God, make eternity be a reality, and
grant, Lord, that there may be that burden
on the heart of thine own for these
who are still unsaved, that it will make
them well nigh impossible to reject the Lord
Jesus Christ, but make it very easy as
far as possible of accepting Him as their
Savior.
We look to thee for this, and in
Jesus' name we offer our prayer.
And everybody said, If there is one message
more than another, dear friends, that I always
dread, it's this message that I want to
bring to you today.
It's a grand thing, the gospel of Christ,
to preach before God, to tell men and
women, it doesn't matter who they are, up
or out, or down or out, whitewashed or
blackwashed, it doesn't matter who the man or
woman is, that Jesus Christ can forgive sin
and save men and women.
Man, that's a grand message.
But friend, I'm here with an awful burden
of a message tonight.
I want to speak to you who are
unsaved, those of us who know Christ as
our Savior, your eyes will be opened because
it says watch as well as pray, and
you'll pray while I preach watching.
But to those of you unsaved, I bring
this message to you, the sin that has
no forgiveness, neither in this world nor in
the world to come.
A solemn message.
So many of you here have been celebrating
the Lord's Supper, and all you did was
drink the heat and drank damnation to your
soul.
It's an awful business.
Playing and trifling with the things of God,
and these symbols of His dying and undying
love, I say friend, play with liquid lightning,
play with burial and disease, but for God's
sake keep back from that and other.
Whenever you begin to play havoc and play
foolishly and irreligiously with that sacred thing, and
how many do it?
How many do it?
Some of you are here this evening after
having done it, and all you've done is
brought larger condemnation, larger damnation upon your own
soul.
I trust it may be the last one
you've ever had, and that this will mean
the turning on your part to accept Christ
as your Savior.
The sin that has no forgiveness in this
world nor the world to come.
You know there's a lot of confusion in
the minds of many regarding this matter, and
there are those who tell us that this
sin could only be committed when our Lord
was on earth in the days of His
flesh.
It was committed then.
It was committed by towns, by cities.
O Chorazin, O Bethsaida, O Capernaum, raised to
heaven shall be cast down to hell.
And sixty years after the very day that
He uttered that, the things have been blotted
out that even the antiquarians can't even discover
where those cities were.
Blotted out under the judgment of God.
Jesus looked over the city of Jerusalem and
said, O Jerusalem, that gillest the prophets and
stonest them that are sent unto thee, how
often I would have gathered thy children together
as a hen gathereth her brood under her
wings, but ye would not.
Behold, your house is left to you desolate.
The day of grace hath come and gone.
If thou hadst known, says Jesus, even this,
known this in this thy day, the things
that belong to thy peace, He said to
Jerusalem, but now they're hidden from thine eye.
I wonder how many here tonight and that
very same word has gone out regarding them.
Again and again on the verge of repentance
and believing, again and again near the kingdom
and almost persuaded, and yet turning back from
it.
And there comes a time when God says,
If thou hadst known that the day of
thy peace, but now they're hidden from thee,
your day of grace is ended, you're sure
of doom and damnation as if you're already
in hell.
It's a terrible thing, dear friend.
But it was a common sin in that
day.
Do you remember what the Lord said to
the Pharisees and Scribes?
These weren't the outlaws.
These weren't the ragamuffins.
These weren't the rascals that were reeking in
the very kennels of hell.
No.
These were the religious leaders of the day.
And Jesus says, Ye shall die in your
sins, and where I am ye cannot come.
O ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart,
ye do always resist the holy ghost, said
Stephen, regarding the people of his day, and
their day of grace had ended.
There was a man called Judas.
He was one of the apostles.
He was treasurer of the church of Jesus
Christ.
He performed miracles.
He preached the gospel.
He went out, and you couldn't tell, neither
one of the disciples could tell that he
would have been a betrayer.
When Jesus said, One day one of you
will betray me, everyone looked in each other's
eyes and said, Lord, is it so?
No.
Lord, is it I?
Everyone felt that there would be a potential
betrayer, but none ever suspected.
None ever suspected that Judas was to be
the one.
And now they're gathered around the communion table.
And the Lord looks at them and He
says, Judas, what you're doing, do it quick.
And John, writing of it, he writes it
with a shudder.
Judas went out.
That was night.
The day light was never dawned upon his
doomed and damned and darkened spirit from that
hour to this.
Seven times the Lord warned him.
Far better he had never been born.
Seven times He warned him.
Say friend, how many times has the Lord
warned you?
How many times have you sat around the
Lord's table, eating and drinking damnation to your
soul?
How many a time?
Maybe you've done it for the last time
today.
You've sat around the Lord's table and He
has said to you as He said to
Judas, what you're doing, do it quick.
And you've done it for the last time.
You may live for 60 years after this,
but you're as sure of hell as if
you're already in it.
It was a very real sin in the
days when Christ was here on the earth.
There are those that they're confronted and they
say it rarely if ever is committed today.
I very much question that, dear friend.
I very much question that.
I'm glad that I haven't got angelic eyes
today.
Angels see that fatal sign and shudder at
the sight and devil strays that livid line
with hellish delight.
On the forehead, God has set indelibly a
mark unseen by man, for man is blind
and in the dark.
I thank God I can't see that.
I believe, dear friends, there's more people that
have committed this sin than we've any.
And yet we get the paraphrase laughing at
it in their way.
While the lamp falls out to burn, the
greatest sinner may return.
The biggest lie that ever was concocted in
the mind of a man.
In that Bible from Genesis to Revelation, you
couldn't show me one word to substantiate that
poetical lie.
Do you remember how earnestly he strove years
ago?
How long is it since you felt anxious
about yourself?
How long is it since you were convicted
about that?
How do you know you'll ever be anxious?
How do you know the Spirit of God
will cease to strike?
He that is often reproved and hardened of
his neck shall be cut off suddenly, and
that without a remedy.
The harvest is past, said Jeremiah, and the
summer has ended, and you're not saved.
How many a harvest has passed?
How many a time of blessing?
You've seen many men and women getting converted,
and you're still unconverted.
Take care, dear friend, take care.
It's a sin that is as real today
as ever it was, and you can just
as readily commit it today as ever it
was committed in any other day.
Maybe there are those of you here today
and you're confounded about it, and you think
that you've committed this sin.
I've come across so many that when they
turned about the subject it was taking up,
and it attracted them to the meeting, and
they felt that they had already committed that
sin.
Friend, let me tell you in the authority
of God's Word, the very fact of your
anxiety, the very fact of your distress of
mind and conscience, the very fact of your
uneasiness is the surest evidence you have not
committed that sin.
As I'll show you later on, when you've
committed this sin, you've no longer any conviction.
You've no longer any anxiety.
You've wrapped the rags and relics of your
own religiosity and boasted morality and all the
rest of it around you and say, thank
God I'm not like other men.
No sense.
No sense of need, or need of need,
need of Christ.
And the very fact that you're anxious, the
very fact that you're distressed, that may it
be, is the evidence that you're still in
a state of grace.
If you want to believe that, go to
Christ as you are now, right in your
own heart.
Come to Christ now.
Him that cometh to me I will in
no ways cast out.
I am the door if any man enter
in he shall be saved, and shall find
pasture to his soul.
Come right in here and put it to
the test.
See whether I'm telling you right or not.
But if you're in a state of grace,
if you're anxious about your soul, then you're
still the object of God's mercy, and not
the object of God's wrath and God's anger.
But remember this, dear friends, that although there
is a good deal of confusion about the
matter, there's no confusion in the Word of
God.
Let me mention one or two things regarding
this sin.
First, it's no ordinary sin.
It's no ordinary sin.
Jesus says, All manner of sin.
Matthew chapter 12, verse 31.
Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of
sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men.
For you may have been the greatest sinner
that ever lived.
Your sins may have been as crimson as
crimson could be.
You may have raped in the very kennels
of hell.
You may have been the biggest religious hypocrite
that was ever whitewashed.
It doesn't matter how great a sinner you
may be.
It doesn't matter how long you've continued unto
this day in sin.
All manner of sin.
Guilty of every sin.
Adultery and fornication, lying, cheating, murder.
Makes no odds what it is.
All manner of sin.
Except this one sin.
It's no ordinary sin.
It's a sin against faith.
It's a sin against knowledge.
It's a deliberate, willful, stifling of your neck
and rebelling against God and God's way of
salvation.
Continue in that.
Continue and persist in that.
And there comes a time when you see
your doom.
But it's no ordinary sin.
This sin against the Holy Ghost.
You quench the Spirit.
You resist the Spirit.
You grieve the Spirit.
Until at last He leads you to your
doom.
And to your delusion.
And to your awful doom.
Not only that, dear friends.
It's not only an extraordinary sin.
But the people that are mostly in danger
of it.
Are people like yourself.
You wouldn't need to go to the red
light district of a city.
And in the rescue missions talk about a
message like this.
But you people here who have been born
of God-fearing parents.
Brought up in a godly home.
Baptized many into covenant grace.
Joined the church.
Good member of the church.
Sunday school teacher.
Choir member.
The deacons and elders of the church.
Ministers in the book.
Living respectable, honorable.
And upright lives.
And thumping on the blood of Jesus Christ.
And doing death's fight to the Spirit of
God's grace.
You're the ones that commit this sin.
Everyone that's mentioned in the Word of God.
Always religious people.
The first.
The first one was a unitary.
First unitary.
Came.
Lived in a godly home.
With Abraham.
With Adam and Eve, his mother.
Caleb and he were in the same family.
Both the same opportunities.
Both the same privileges.
Both blessed.
Came.
Murdered his own brother.
God stamped his forehead till he went out
and cried out.
My punishment is more than I can bear.
Went out from the presence of God.
With a stamp of God's curse upon his
forehead.
Judas Iscariot was an apostle.
Apostle.
A member chosen by Christ as a disciple
of Christ.
As I was saying there.
Did the preaching.
Performed murder.
Went out collecting others.
To evangelize around him as Jesus Christ had
said.
And right from that inner family.
From the apostolic position.
Out to the caverns of the dark.
My dear friend you are far more in
danger.
Of this sin than all the pimps and
harlots and whoremongers.
Liars or murderers that ever crawled the earth.
Jesus said that.
He said ye Pharisees and scribes.
Ye stand without.
While drunkards and harlots press into the kingdom
of God.
You wrap the rags of your own respectability
and churchianity.
And church membership and so on around you.
And say I've always lived a good life.
Done the best I can.
And trying to do good and this that
and the other.
And all you're doing is.
Resisting the spirit or quenching the spirit.
And take care dear friends that you're not
doing it for the last time.
It's a noble thing to go from a
church to the caverns of the dark.
From the communion table.
To the weeping and the wailing and the
gnashing of teeth.
From the singing of your songs.
And the benefits and blessings that you enjoy.
From religion.
Out into the lake of fire.
Weeping and wailing and gnashing your teeth.
Jesus said.
Many of you will say to me in
that day.
Lord.
We have preached in thy name.
A minister I am a fundamentalist one.
Preached in thy name.
Yes.
Says I never knew you.
Never knew you.
Cast out into hell fire.
From the pulpit to the bottomless pit.
Many.
He says many have weeped and thronk in
my presence.
And from the communion table to the caverns
of the dark.
Many of you says cast out devils.
Officers of the church, Sunday school workers.
Many of you.
Jesus says that many.
Young fellow said to Jesus one day.
Are there few that be saved?
Jesus says many will seek to enter in.
And shall not be able.
And you shall stand without knocking.
Lord.
Open unto us.
Says I never knew you.
Cast out into weeping and wailing and outer
dark.
Oh dear friend those of you here.
Children of God fearing parents.
Brought up in a godly home.
With all the blessings and privileges of your
religion yours.
And still despising it.
Still turning it down.
Maybe you are like as I was.
I had a kind of a notion in
my mind.
That I could be saved when I liked.
That I could be converted when I liked.
I never knew a day that sometime or
somehow.
I'd be more or less convicted and anxious
about my soul.
And I knew I had to be saved
or damned.
But I thought I could put it off
as long as I liked.
Now that's the queer delusion.
And the reason you are not saved.
It isn't that you don't know you need
to be saved.
You know you're a lost sinner.
You know that the wrath of God's on
you.
You know you're condemned already.
And nothing but the skin and your ribs
between your soul and the lake of fire.
You know that.
And you say, I hope I'll never go
to hell.
I hope I'll never be lost.
And you're risking your soul on continual delay.
Take care dear friend.
Take care.
My spirit shall not always strike.
You can't, you can't mock God and get
away with it.
Be not deceived, God is not mocked.
Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also
reap.
What are the evidences or symptoms of a
person that has committed this sin?
If I had time and strength and you
had patience.
I could go up and down these roads
and I could put my hand on the
one that will be that of it.
This is a word which caused a defect.
Which caused a defect.
If you were saved, you couldn't hate it.
You couldn't hate it.
You couldn't be saved and not know it.
You couldn't be saved and not show it.
You couldn't get a dose of the mumps
and everybody not see it.
You couldn't get a dose of typhoid fever
and not see the effects of it.
That's the principle that the doctor goes on.
He diagnoses.
And he tries to find out and then
he prescribes the remedy.
And when you commit the unpardonable sin.
When you cross that boundary line.
Things begin to happen.
Things begin to appear.
And you can tell at once whether your
soul is doomed and damned.
Inside that living body of yours.
It will not cost you a half an
hour's thought or anxiety.
You see when you commit this sin, you
never become anxious again.
You live and die and wake in hell.
Not only doomed but damned.
Oh, it's real dear friends.
It's real.
The first significant symptom that appears when a
man or woman has committed this sin is
this.
There is no response to gospel message.
No response.
Thy heart is cold and silent.
And thy Saviour's pleadings have ceased.
The one sitting, sitting beside you.
Shaking a bit.
Tumbling in the seat.
Anxious about their soul.
But you're quite calm.
Unmoved.
Thy heart cold and silent.
And thy Saviour's pleadings ceased.
God help you.
It wouldn't matter if I thundered earth.
All the thunders of Sania.
And the judgments of the law.
Wouldn't move you.
But told you that all the silvery notes
of Calvary.
With the dying and undying love of Jesus
Christ.
And the very means of grace that will
bring salvation.
I trust to many here tonight.
Leaves you anxious.
You were in the same meeting.
You heard the same singing.
You heard the same preaching.
Yet you weren't touched.
Not unmoved.
Said it was interesting to see so many.
It was interesting to hear them preach.
But no one would move.
No anxiety.
No conviction.
Thy heart cold and silent.
In that living body of yours.
A doomed and a damned spirit.
Assured of hell.
As the devil and his angels.
Another significant thing is this.
When you've committed the unpardonable sin.
There's no recognition of need any longer.
No recognition of need.
Ha ha.
You say I don't need.
I do the best I can.
What more would a good God want anyhow.
And I follow the light of my conscience.
And I try to not do anybody any
harm.
And I try to help everybody along.
I belong to church.
And I say my prayers.
And I read the Bible now and again.
And that's it.
That's the language of a damned soul.
When I'm doing any daily personal work in
a meeting.
And I sit alongside of one.
And they begin to talk like that.
I close.
You're alongside of somebody that's passed.
Passed redemption.
They've sent away their day of grace.
And now they're deluded by their own deceitful
heart.
Into thinking that they're alright because they've lived
a bit of a half decent life.
No recognition of need.
There are those here tonight that your need
seems to be so great you wonder whether
you can be saved or not.
You say in your heart I wish to
God I was saved.
But I'm frightened.
I'm wondering whether He would save me.
I'm wondering whether I...
Oh, that's it.
Man, you're in a state of good grief.
But there are many of you here tonight.
Absolutely indifferent.
Perfectly indifferent.
Quite satisfied.
You have no fear of death.
No.
You have no fear of God.
You have no fear of eternity.
Oh, my.
A lady said to me one day.
Why, she said, I would die this minute.
Wouldn't puzzle me one bit.
Says, aye, sister, I'm glad I can't lift
the skin in between your eyes there.
Or I'd see the mark of Cain and
the brand of God.
Curse of God on you.
No recognition of need.
When the spirit ceases to strike, then your
day of grace is in.
You'll be as happy and as blighted as
the days long.
You'll be as happy and contented as could
be.
You'll say, I know I'm, I know I'm,
I'm doing all right.
I'm, I'm doing all right.
I'm living a good life.
And that's it.
That's the language.
Speak to the experience of those of you
here who are saved.
Under the state of grace.
Tell me, friends.
Isn't it the continual mourning of our hearts?
I need thee.
Oh, I need thee.
Every hour I need thee.
Conscious of our need day in and day
out.
Praising God for the grace that can meet
our need.
Thanking God for a God of love and
mercy that's blottered our very sin in his
precious blood.
But you?
Oh, no.
Need nothing.
Bless your heart.
What could a good God and a kind
God accept?
Haven't you done all this and done that
and done the other?
That's it.
That's the language, dear friend.
Another symptom of this, there is no repentance
on account of sin.
I thank God every day for the sweet
grace of repentance.
As the old Puritans call it.
Sweet grace of repentance.
I thank God that tears can come to
my eyes.
And I can mourn over my lack of
love.
Lack of faith.
Lack of zeal.
I am inward corruption and depravity.
You?
The only thing that would give you anything
would be remorse.
If you were found out doing something.
If I could reveal to you the thoughts
of your mind and the pictures that you've
got on the walls of your imagination and
put it up here before this crowd, you'd
be mortified.
You'd be filled with remorse.
But not repentance.
No sense of sorrow regarding sin.
You laugh at it.
Talk about a white lie.
And you talk about sin as if it
was something, well, if God forgives, God's a
good God that forgives just anything at all.
And you can roll it under your tongue.
You can live in it.
As long as it's respectable.
As long as it's not altogether lacking decency.
And certainly before it's found out.
Quite a lot of fellas in jail tonight.
And all they have is remorse.
That they were out there to back out
of this what they were before.
But they're sorry that they're caught.
And they're sorry that they're paying the price.
And man, that's what hell will be.
Through all eternity.
There's nobody tortured in hell.
Will you find that?
They're only tormented.
Nobody can torment you.
Nobody can torture you.
Anybody can torture you.
Nobody can torment you.
It torments something that you do to yourself.
And in hell, they open their eyes in
torment.
Doesn't bother you down here after you've sinned
away your day of grace.
When you've committed this sin, you can live
in sin and delight in it and all
the rest of it.
Smile as you die.
And open your eyes in hell.
Another very real symptom is this.
There's no realization of danger whenever you commit
this sin.
They say, hell, I don't believe in hell.
It's an obsolete, antiquated, anti-dated kind of
an old bogie.
These old time Puritans of the 18th century
or early 19th century had this to scare
people with, you know.
But now in the 20th century, we're intellectual
and we've made tremendous progress.
And we don't believe in that old fashioned
hell.
Well, you wouldn't think there was a hell
for you never hear about it in the
pulpit, do you?
You never hear it.
They lift their hands and they pronounce the
benediction on every breath of the devil that's
going to hell.
As well as every child of God.
You wouldn't know there was any sinners, saints,
goats and sheep.
All bundled in together, sitting all around the
Lord's table.
Boys, it's awful.
It's awful, but it's real, dear friend.
Just as sure as there's a heaven, there's
a hell.
God made heaven.
God made hell.
God's hell.
It'll last as long as heaven.
And you'll live and die as long as
heaven.
As the saints will be in heaven forever
and ever.
But no sense of danger.
You'll put your head on your pillow tonight
till you go to sleep like a child
in its mother's arms.
No fear.
It's not a day we live who are
saved that we don't thank God we're not
in hell.
And that we're not on the road to
hell.
And we praise God for the love that
sought us.
And for the blood that bought us.
And the grace that has brought us to
the fold.
But you?
Hell, nothing.
Nothing like that.
How could a good God put anybody in
hell?
He doesn't put anybody in hell.
You're the boy that does it.
There's nobody can damn you but yourself.
Your worst enemy, and the greatest sin, and
the amount of sin no devil, God, nor
man couldn't damn.
In your fist is your destiny.
You can settle it.
I'm going to hell and God couldn't keep
you out.
I'm going to heaven and God won't keep
you out.
You're thirsty.
Don't you see?
But you laugh at it.
We mock at it.
We deride it.
If you want to know anything about hell,
these old picture shows are all the time
showing it.
Hell and heaven.
If you want to hiss it, see the
boys in the corner.
These other roughnecks that may be above, they
all believe in hell.
But those of you who are decent and
religious, you've got above that.
But friend, don't forget it.
Don't forget it.
It's God's hell.
And God says that everybody that's heard of
Christ will perish in hell and perish in
hell for eternity.
All people that forget God are going to
be there that day.
Another symptom.
There's a queer hatred gets into your heart
when anybody preaches to you the way I'm
preaching to you tonight.
Unless some of your faces are liars, boy,
you'd look so dire, you'd have me dropping
dead where I'm standing right now.
You're just about as mad as a March
Hare.
What on earth you says brought me in
here to hear the like of that?
Did you ever hear a man use language
like the way that man does?
Did you ever hear a bird...
Ah, that's right.
Boy, you're a queer and angry at it.
Queer and mad at it.
Need to go to hell?
Going to tell me that I'm under the
curse of God?
Tell me that I'll perish?
Angry.
Whitey.
Do you not know who I am?
Do you not know how I've lived?
Do you not know how I've been and
religious and respectable?
What I've done and how much I've done
and how generous I've been?
That's it, that's it.
And anybody tells you that you're born in
sin, totally depraved, in your heart is the
absence of every particle of good and the
presence of every evil that has devastated humanity
and ruined the world.
A fallen creature.
An affording creature.
Not going up, but down.
Total depravity.
Into deeper depravity and iniquity.
And when everything that would hinder, that would
prevent, loosens you, that's when you get to
hell, and you go.
Into such depravity and iniquity you hardly can
conceive.
But man to be telling you that, that
you're lost, that you're guilty, that you're ruined,
that there's nothing but hell on your feet
there, and you're just annoyed beyond measure.
And you'll go out of that door tonight
and what you'll say about me, boys and
boys, you'll let it out.
Well, dear friend, I'm telling you God's truth.
Oh, there are those here tonight, and these
awful words that I'm telling you and the
truth that I'm bringing to you, they're trembling
in the balance.
They're shaking.
Fear, says Jesus.
Fear.
Fear, I say.
Fear Him that is able to destroy both
body and head.
And they fear, but you've no fear.
But you're angry.
You're angry.
But anybody should dare to say to you
like that, and speak to you as I've
spoken.
Well, friend, you'll never hear my voice again.
It's not likely that you and I'll meet.
The old fellow gets to be nearly 83
years of age.
He's just about one hop ahead of a
funeral undertaker.
So it's not likely that you and I'll
meet again.
But glory to God, I can say that
I'm clear of your blood.
We're townsfolk together.
It's here where I was born and brought
up, and here where I was born again.
And our ancestors, I noticed in the old
Abbey graveyard, the first one stuck in there,
1604.
And I'm looking you in the face, and
I'm giving you God's word in unambiguous terms,
clear, unmistakable language.
And, man, it's cost me a good many
hours' thought and prayer before I could do
it.
Oh, dear friend, the very fact of your
anger, the very fact of your annoyance, the
very fact of being disturbed the way you
are in this, others will be moved and
melted.
Others will be almost persuaded.
But you're there.
Why is this an unpardonable sin?
Is there any sin that God can't forgive?
Is there any sin that Jesus didn't atone
for?
Is there any sin that the blood of
Jesus Christ can't cleanse?
You see, in forgiveness, there's got to be
two parties.
The one that forgives and the one that's
forgiven.
So when Brother Thompson and I had a
row here, and we're in a quarry, wonderful
quarry, and I felt I wasn't the guilty
one.
I felt he was the guilty one.
I said, Brother Thompson, here's my hand.
I forgive you.
That's the unpardonable sin.
You're a sinner.
You need forgiveness.
God says, I'll forgive you.
Don't need it.
Keep your forgiveness.
And the unpardonable sin is the deliberate, the
willful, the intelligent, persistent refusal of God's offer
of mercy.
I don't know what to do.
I've been nearly 60 years in this work,
and I've used every method and every message
and everything that...
Boys, you've got me beat here.
You've got me beat.
I don't know what I haven't done.
I don't know what I could do that
would bring you to Christ.
I've neither sought your favor, nor your money,
nor your friendship.
I've sought to get you warned about yourself.
What are you going to do?
Are you going to trample the blood of
Christ under your foot?
Are you going to resist the Holy Ghost
again as He seeks to strive with you
to come to Christ?
What an awful sin.
Take care, dear friend.
In the Civil War in America, yonder, there
was a young boy.
He had lied to his mother, and he
had lied to the authorities about his age
and so on.
He was in those days, there wasn't bugles
or that, but drums and one thing or
the other they had.
And in one of the awful battles yonder
around Gettysburg, they hadn't shelled it, cannonballed it.
Hit the boy and knocked the arm clean
off him.
And in the doing of it, smashed his
body too.
There was very, very little hope of any
that that boy would recover.
They did their best for him.
Every now and again, he'd break into delirium.
And the surgeon said, Nurse, if you can't
hold him, keep him quiet, there's no hope.
That artery will break and he's gone.
And during the hours of the night, she
stood by his side, stood by his bed.
Over yonder was another bed with a young
fellow, terribly mutilated and needing help.
And this boy seemed to have a natural
sleep.
She left him for a moment to go
and help the other.
When delirium grabbed him, the beast sat him
with one arm, he'd be gone, going through
the excitement of that bloody engagement.
She grabbed him, got him down, but this
time the blood spurted out.
In through the bandages, she stepped and gripped
the artery with her finger and thumb.
Sent for the surgeon.
The bleeding had brought some consciousness to the
boy as the surgeon arrived and he said
you can let him go.
There's no hope.
He looked up in the eyes of the
nurse and said, Don't let me go.
I can't die like this.
But the thing was slipping in her thumb
and finger and he was gone.
And in the mercy of God, he has
put you under my influence at hand today.
And if I pronounce the lenediction, God help
me, you'll go out laughing and talking and
all your impression will vanish.
Spirit of God grieved and how do you
know?
How do you know?
For the last time, oh dear friend, with
all the passion and power I have, I
plead with you if you've got any sense
of sin, if you're the least bit anxious,
don't kill it.
Don't kill your conviction.
Don't insult the Holy Ghost again.
But I plead with you, accept Christ as
your Savior today.
Now is the accepted time.
Now is the day of salvation.
There's no future date in God's salvation.
He never says tomorrow or the next day
or even the next minute.
It's now.
Or never.
Now is the accepted time.
Now is the day of salvation.
Shall we pray together?