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This week we have Billy Graham with his
message, The Great Judgment.
Now Matthew the 26th chapter beginning at the
36th verse.
Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place
called Gethsemane and saith unto the disciples, sit
ye here while I go and pray yonder.
And he took with him Peter and the
two sons of Zebedee and began to be
sorrowful and very heavy.
Then saith he unto them, my soul is
exceeding sorrowful even unto death, tarry ye here
and watch with me.
And he went a little further and fell
on his face and prayed saying, O my
father if it be possible let this cup
pass from me.
Nevertheless not as I will but as thou
wilt.
I want you to see this picture tonight
because the last 24 hours in the life
of Christ was the darkest period in the
history of the entire world.
And here we find an incident in the
last hours of the life of Christ that
I want us to think about tonight and
see what practical application we have in our
own lives and the world in which we
live.
Many people write to me and they say
we don't understand the gospel.
We don't understand what you mean by receiving
Christ or being born again.
But I think more people write to me
and say this, they don't understand why Christ
had to die on the cross in order
for us to be saved.
They do not understand the dark hours of
Gethsemane.
They do not understand why Christ voluntarily laid
down his life.
They do not understand why he endured the
shame of the cross.
They do not understand all the phrases in
the Bible that talk about the blood.
Many times in the scriptures you find the
phrase the blood of Christ.
The blood of Christ cleanses us from all
sin.
And people revolt against that.
They don't like that.
And they wonder why that's in the Bible
and why so much stress is placed upon
the crucifixion and the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Well tonight I want us to see these
last 24 hours in the life of Christ
were the darkest in history and yet it
was the darkness just before the dawn.
And I believe that history repeats itself.
And when the world comes to that moment
of despair, that moment when it's about to
blow itself apart, that moment when it seems
there is no solution, at that moment the
sun will rise.
The kingdom of God shall come.
Because we have the promise in the scripture
that Jesus Christ the Son of the Living
God is coming back to this earth again.
He is going to set up His kingdom.
And then shall the prayer be answered that
He prayed in the Lord's prayer, Thy kingdom
come.
His kingdom shall rule.
But before the triumph, before the crown, before
the kingdom, before the victory, there had to
come the suffering.
There had to come the cross.
And before you can share in Christ's victory,
before you can have a new life here
and now, before you can go to heaven,
before you can claim the promise that we
shall someday reign with Christ, you too must
come to that same cross.
You too must endure the humility of repentance
of sin.
You too must come in simple faith and
stand at the foot of that cross and
receive the Savior who is willing to go
to the cross.
I want you to see on this night
before He died, He has had the last
supper with His disciples in the upper room.
And they've gone now to the Mount of
Olives at the foot of the mount.
And now they're in a garden that is
called Gethsemane.
And Jesus leaves eight of His disciples on
the outskirts of the garden.
And He takes three with Him, Peter, James,
and John.
And He goes a little further into the
garden and He tells these three disciples to
watch and pray.
And then He goes about a stone's throw
further along and falls prostrate on the ground
and begins the agonizing prayer.
And before He was finished, the Bible says,
He was sweating drops of blood.
What agony!
What a prayer!
Christ must have prayed that night.
Many times in Scripture you find Christ praying
all night.
And if Jesus Christ had to pray all
night, what about us in 1958, with our
race problem, with our problem of communism, with
the problem of crime that is getting worse
with every passing day, with all the social
problems that we face in the world, and
the personal problems, and the problem of sin.
We Americans are not praying.
We're not calling upon God.
We give lip service to God, but our
hearts are far from Him.
Why when the President of the United States
gave a proclamation for a day of prayer
the other day, you didn't read much about
it.
Very few churches observed it.
Very few people spend any time in prayer,
on the day of prayer, when the President
said we need to call on God.
The people didn't call on God.
We couldn't call ourselves a Christian nation tonight.
There are Christians living in America and Christian
influences have been felt in this country, but
we today are a heathen, pagan country.
We're away from God.
We have plenty of religion.
We have beautiful churches, but our hearts are
far from God.
We are not spending time in prayer, the
blackest hour in history since the last 24
hours of the life of Christ.
We are living in today, living on the
very brink of hell itself, living on the
brink of annihilation, and we're not praying.
We're not calling upon God, and Jesus prayed
and agonized until sweat, sweat blood drops came
out from His perspiration.
That night, Jesus prayed a mysterious prayer, an
unusual prayer, a strange prayer.
He said, O God, if it be possible,
let this cup pass from me, nevertheless not
my will but Thine be done.
What did he mean by that prayer?
Let this cup pass from me.
A cup of medicine is offered to a
child, and he shrinks back.
Then at the bidding of his father, he
takes it.
That night, a bitter cup was offered to
Jesus, and he shrank from it.
Why?
I want you to see it tonight.
Always the cross had been before Christ since
the day he was at his baptism.
At the temptation, the marriage of Cana, when
he said, my hour has not come, when
the crowd wanted to make him a king,
at the Mount of Transfiguration, when he talked
to Elijah and Moses, he knew that he
must die.
He had taught his disciples that he must
go to the cross.
He had read in the Old Testament scriptures
about the suffering that the Messiah must endure.
The shadow of the cross was before him
all the time.
He knew that he had to go to
the cross to pay for our sins if
we were to be saved.
But here was the final hour, and the
cup of suffering was bitter.
And in order for us to understand the
chemical formula of the mixture of the cup
that night, I want us to look into
it deeply for a moment.
I want us to see it and analyze
it.
And I want us to see how much
Christ endured that we might be forgiven of
sin, that we might go to heaven, that
we might have some hope of the solution
of our problems.
First, the first element in that cup was
physical pain.
Physical pain!
Oh, men have died terrible deaths before.
Men have been thrown into boiling water.
Men have been burned at the stake.
Other men have died and suffered physical pain.
But the death of the cross was something
even worse than any of that.
The death of the cross is said to
be the worst possible torture that a man
can endure.
Because first they would strip a man to
the waist.
Then they would tie his hands together and
bend him over and take long leather thongs
with lead pellets or steel pellets embedded in
the leather thongs, and they would beat him
across the back until his back was in
ribbon.
And many times the lash of those thongs
would come around his face and take his
eyes out by the socket, even tear his
teeth out.
And often death followed just the scourging and
the flogging that were given by great muscular
men.
Jesus endured that kind of flogging for you
and for me.
Then they took a crown of thorns, sharp
thorns, and placed on his brow.
And his face bled as they jerked his
beard off.
Then they spat in his face until he
was covered from head to foot with the
spittle of the people.
Hatred, prejudice, intolerance, vehemence, the human heart against
Christ.
Christ wasn't killed by Rome or Israel.
The Bible tells us that Christ was crucified
by you and me.
My sins and your sins crucified Christ.
We had a part in it.
All the hatred of mankind.
We've seen in the past few days what
hatred can do.
We've seen some men with sticks of dynamite
blowing up synagogues just to express their hate.
May God have mercy upon them.
The human heart is expressed in that cross.
Almost saddest as they flogged him, as they
beat him, as they spit on him, as
they put a crown of thorns on him.
And then they gave him a 250 pound
cross to carry.
And he stumbles along the road with that
cross until Simon of Cyrene had to come
and help him carry the cross.
And I'm certain today in heaven Simon is
thrilled and proud of the fact that he
helped Jesus carry the cross.
Have you helped Jesus carry the cross?
Or were you one of the ones putting
the nails in his hands?
But you say, Billy, I would never put
a nail in Jesus' hand.
I would never pick up a flog and
flog him.
Wouldn't you?
You did it today.
The sin that you committed today helped crucify
Christ.
Because those people were our representatives.
We were expressing ourselves in them.
You and I helped crucify Jesus.
He was dying for our sins.
Then they took him to Golgotha's Mount and
they put spikes in his hands.
They tore his hands and his feet.
He never uttered a sound.
The pain, the thirst, his tongue was swollen
double.
And he hung hour upon hour on that
terrible cross.
And then at the end, many times when
a person was dying on a cross, the
ravenous birds, the vultures, would come with their
iron-like beaks and pick at him while
he was still alive.
That was the cross.
And that night, the night before he died,
Jesus was on his knees.
Before God and saying, oh God, if it's
possible to save Billy Graham, if it's possible
to save Jim Jones, if it's possible to
save men and women some other way, without
me having to endure that pain, oh God,
find it.
But there was another suffering.
There was the suffering which was the loneliness
that he suffered, because Jesus went to the
cross alone.
No one else could go with him.
He was the Son of God.
He was the only one in the universe
that could bear all of our sins, because
the Lamb, he was the Paschal Lamb that
Passover season.
And the Lamb had to be without blemish.
And he was the Paschal Lamb being slain
from the foundation of the world for us.
He alone had in his body and in
his soul the capacity to bear our sins,
because you see, we'd sinned against God, we'd
rebelled against God, and we deserve death, and
we deserve judgment, and we deserve hell.
But Jesus said, I'll take the judgment, I'll
take the hell, and I'll take the suffering.
And he went to that cross alone, because
only he could suffer.
Only he could be offered as a sacrifice
that would be pleasing to God, and would
reconcile God and man together.
So he endured it alone.
Judas was betraying him for 30 pieces of
silver, about $21.
You've betrayed him today.
The lie you told betrayed Jesus.
The lustful thought that you had, the immoral
deed that you did, the cheating that you
did in business, all of that betrayed Jesus.
How many times we've betrayed him?
We were a part of that betrayal, and
we're just as guilty as Judas.
And we will go to the same place
as Judas went, unless we repent of our
sin and come to Jesus Christ, and ask
him to forgive us.
Jesus died alone.
There he is alone, hanging on the
cross for our sins.
There are many types of loneliness.
There's the loneliness of solitude.
You've been alone when all you could hear
was the thunder of the surf alongside the
ocean on some faraway beach.
I've stood on a lonely beach in India,
and I didn't see a person for miles.
The most beautiful beaches in the world, I
think, are along the coral strands of India.
And I've heard only the beating against the
surf, against the rocks.
Loneliness.
Admiral Byrd wrote in his book, Alone, how
he spent five months in the loneliness and
darkness of the South Pole.
Louis Zamburini, a friend of ours in California,
spent 45 days alone on a life raft.
The loneliness, not knowing at any moment when
you might be pulled down by a shark,
or a Japanese plane would come over and
machine-gun you.
Alone.
Yes, there is that type of loneliness.
We know about that.
But there are other types of loneliness.
There's the loneliness of society.
There's the poor creature that is living in
a tenement house in New York tonight, watching
this telecast.
You never receive a letter.
You never hear a word of encouragement.
You never know the handclasp of a friend.
Or there's the wealthy society leader whose money
has bought everything but happiness and joy.
Or there's the country girl in New York
or Los Angeles tonight, who is seeking fame
and fortune in the big city and who's
been disillusioned and disappointed.
And now she's lonely.
There's no loneliness like the loneliness in a
crowd.
And some of you living in the midst
of the big city are lonely tonight.
There's an emptiness in your heart.
I want to tell you something.
You give your life to Christ tonight, and
He can become your friend that sticketh closer
than a brother.
He can be with you in your loneliness.
And then there's the loneliness of suffering.
Some of you are watching from hospital beds
right now, from hospitals all over America, and
you're lonely lying there.
They're friends, perhaps, in the water, the room
with you.
But you've been suffering.
A lady gave her life to Christ some
time ago, and she said, I've been crippled
for five years with arthritis, and I've suffered.
What a terrible suffering I've had.
And she said, I have spent many a
day alone, but never a lonely day.
Give your life to Christ, and you'll never
have another lonely day.
Because you see, Jesus has also suffered.
He knows what it means to suffer.
And in suffering, He understands your suffering, and
He can come and put His hand on
your brow and comfort you and be there
by your side during those lonely hours of
suffering.
And then there's the loneliness of sorrow.
You've been in the sick room, and you've
seen a loved one snatched from you.
You couldn't do anything about it.
And your heart has been crushed by sorrow.
There's disappointment in your life.
Maybe your husband's walked out on you.
Maybe your boyfriend has left you.
And your heart is crushed and broken and
bleeding tonight.
But Jesus also suffered.
He knows.
He stood at the friend of His, His
friend Lazarus and wept when Lazarus died.
He knows what it means to have a
crushing sorrow.
He can be there with you right now.
He can wipe those tears away and give
you a joy and a peace in your
heart and take away that loneliness.
And then there's the loneliness of character.
A man may find himself in a community
or a society where he has to take
a stand alone on some moral issue.
And it's not easy to stand alone.
Moses had to stand alone.
Elijah on Mount Carmel had to stand alone.
Everybody in the country was against Elijah.
He was the only man that stood for
God.
And you know we that know the Lord
Jesus Christ as our Savior are in a
small minority in the world.
And we're going to be standing more and
more alone.
And some of us someday may have to
pay with our blood and our life for
our faith in Jesus Christ.
And you're standing alone in your office.
You are the only one that's a Christian.
You're the only one that is trying to
live for Christ on the high school campus.
You're the only one in your class.
You're the only one in your community trying
to live for God.
And sometimes you get discouraged and you feel
lonely.
Well remember that almost everybody God ever used
knew those hours of loneliness.
The loneliness of character.
And then there is the loneliness of sin.
And that's the worst of all.
The Bible says when Judas betrayed Jesus on
that last night at the supper he left
the meeting of the disciples and he went
out because it was night.
You remember when you were young and your
conscience was sensitive.
And if you told a lie your conscience
spoke to you.
But now it's become hardened and dulled.
And you know the remorse of many years
of sin.
There are many of you sitting at a
bar right now.
You wish your life were different.
You wish that you weren't chained by the
habits of sin tonight.
You'd like to be free.
But you can't.
You've tried.
It's impossible.
The loneliness of sin.
And the older you get the more lonely
you'll be.
Because you see away from God there's nothing
but loneliness and remorse.
Go ahead and continue for a while.
The Bible says there's pleasure in sin for
a season.
You can get away with it for a
while.
But I want to tell you one thing.
A man told me one day said, I'm
not afraid of going to hell.
He said there'll be a lot of other
people down there.
But listen.
The Bible indicates that hell is a lonely
place.
You won't see anybody else there.
You won't even see the devil.
A lot of people have an idea that
hell is a place where the devil is
standing in a furnace and giving the orders
or sitting in a big office running hell.
That's not the picture at all.
The picture is one of separation from God
and blackness and night and darkness and loneliness.
You'll be all alone.
You won't see your husband.
You won't see your wife.
You won't see your friends.
You'll be alone.
The loneliness of sin.
Sin pays wages.
And it crushes your personality.
It crushes your life.
And it crushes your soul.
And it ends up in hell.
Turn to Christ tonight from your sins.
Let him free you.
Let Christ come in.
Then heaven is going to be a place
of fellowship where your loved ones and friends
will be.
Heaven will be a glorious world of fellowship
and friendship.
There'll be no loneliness in heaven.
The Bible says there'll be no night there.
What a hope we have.
Those of us that know Jesus Christ as
our Savior.
Yes, the Bible says Christ suffered alone.
I have trodden the winepress alone.
And of the people there was none with
me, said Jesus.
Thirdly, the third element in this bitter cup
was the mental anguish.
Jesus had studied Isaiah the prophet.
Jesus knew that he had to suffer.
He knew something about the afflictions of the
next day, that night in the garden.
He knew what was going to take place.
And mentally he was suffering such anguish as
he thought about the suffering of the next
day.
And we have thousands of people in America
that are suffering mentally.
We have thousands of psychological problems.
We have thousands of people in our mental
institutions.
We have thousands of people today that are
confused mentally.
I want to tell you that Jesus can
touch your mind if you let him come
in.
Because thousands of our mental problems are a
result of spiritual separation from God or they're
a result of idolatry.
They're a result of putting other things first
before God and that causes mental unbalance many
times.
Give your life to Christ.
Put Christ first and I guarantee to you
that he can handle many of the mental
problems and psychological problems and psychopathic cases that
we face today in this country.
There are thousands of people that are suffering
mentally.
Down here in the South there are thousands
of people that are suffering anguish at this
particular time.
It's not just a southern problem.
It's a world problem.
It's the problem on Cyprus.
It's the problem in the Middle East.
It's the problem in New York.
It's the problem in Chicago.
It's the problem in the Far East.
It's the problem in India.
It's not just a southern problem.
And thousands of people are searching their souls
and searching their conscience and their minds are
tortured and bewildered by what is the right
thing in a complicated situation.
Mental problems, I tell you, Christ is the
answer.
Come to Christ.
Come at the foot of his cross and
let him touch your mind and your heart
and relax your soul in your heart.
Then we shall know love for our fellow
man that knows no bounds and we shall
love our neighbors as ourselves.
There are thousands of people that want to
obey the law but they don't know what
the law is.
The federal government says one thing, the state
government says another, and they're confused.
And there's a tremendous confusion in the problem
because it's a constitutional problem as well as
a race problem.
And it's all confused and many people are
making emotional statements at the moment, flag-waving
statements, hysterical statements.
Would to God that all of us could
come to the cross and see in Christ
a solution of all the problems that bewilder
us and confuse us.
That may not be your problem.
There may be some other problem in your
life but you need Jesus, you need Christ,
the country needs Christ.
And then, fourthly, the fourth element in this
bitter cup that Jesus was about to drink
was the cup of the anguish of soul.
All others, the physical pain, the loneliness of
its shame, and the mental anguish was nothing
compared to the spiritual suffering that Jesus suffered
on the cross that day.
And that night he was thinking about that.
And his suffering was wrapped up in one
little word, S-I-N, sin.
Because that next day Jesus was going to
be guilty for the first time of murder,
and robbery, and adultery, and lying, and covetousness,
and idolatry.
Because he was going to become guilty of
your sins and my sins.
And a cloud was going to pass between
him and God.
A cloud for the first time, and his
pure righteous soul was going to be filled
with sin.
Your sins were going to be laid on
him.
The scripture says that God had laid on
him the iniquity of us all.
The Bible says he was made to be
sin for us who knew no sin.
He had never known sin, but he was
made to be sin.
How his soul must have shuddered.
How his soul must have been shaken.
How Jesus must have looked with horror.
How he slumped from that.
And he said, Oh God, if it's possible,
let this cup pass from me.
Oh God, I don't want to have to
drink this cup.
If there's any other way to save men.
If there's any other way for the world
to be saved.
If there is any other way.
Oh God, suppose a man could work for
his salvation.
But the Bible says you can't work for.
The Bible says, for by grace are ye
saved through faith, and that not of yourselves.
It's the gift of God, not of works,
lest any man should boast.
You can work your fingers to the bone
doing good works, but that will not save
your soul.
You are not saved by works.
Suppose a man could pay for it.
Suppose you had a billion dollars tonight.
Suppose you were the richest man in the
world, and you gave it all to charity,
or you gave it all to God.
Would you go to heaven?
Not unless you'd come to the cross.
Because you see, if you could have bought
your way, or if you could have worked
your way, or if you could have schemed
your way to heaven, Jesus would have never
gone to the cross.
That night, God would have said, Jesus, you
don't have to go to the cross.
But God could not say that to his
son.
There was no other way.
If it be possible, let this cup pass
from me.
If it be possible, oh God, let this
cup pass from me tonight.
I don't want to have to drink it
unless I have to.
But there was no other way.
And if I could tell you another way
of salvation that was easier, I would tell
you.
I'm here in Charlotte, North Carolina.
This is my home.
This is where I was born.
This is where I was reared.
I'm proud of this city.
I love this great state of North Carolina.
From the mountains to the sea, no more
beautiful place in the world to live.
And I would not be guilty of betraying
my neighbors and my friends.
I tell you tonight, after studying this book
for 20 years, there is no other name
given among men whereby we must be saved
except the name of Jesus.
There is no other way of salvation except
at the foot of the cross.
And when I look at that cross tonight,
I see four things.
I see first the terribleness of sin.
I know that I'm a sinner.
When I look at Christ dying in my
place on the cross and realize the things
that I've done and that it was my
sins that nailed Him there, I must cry
out to God, Oh God, I am a
sinner.
And then the second thing I see is
the amazing love of God.
But God commended His love toward us in
that while we were yet sinners, Christ died
for us.
You rebelled against God.
You've sinned against God.
You've done things that you know you shouldn't
have done.
You've helped even crucify Jesus.
But in spite of it, God loves you.
And on the cross there is written in
gigantic letters in neon fire, God so loved
the world that He gave His only begotten
Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not
perish but have everlasting life.
There is the love of God.
And if you have any doubt concerning the
love of God, look at the cross.
It was there that He died for us.
Thirdly, in that cross I find my complete
redemption.
Christ bowed His head and said, It's finished.
I can't add anything to it.
I can't take anything away.
It's there in the cross.
And if I'm ever to get to heaven,
I'll have to come to the cross.
If I'm ever to have sins forgiven, I'll
have to come to the cross.
And I want to ask you tonight, have
you been to the cross?
Are you sure that you've had this encounter
with God at the cross?
You may be a member of the church.
You may live a moral life.
You may be a decent person.
I don't know who you are, what you
are.
It doesn't make any difference what race you
come from, what your nationality background is, what
state you live in, how rich or how
poor, how educated or uneducated.
You have to come to the cross.
You say, but Billy that's foolish.
Do you mean to say I can't be
accepted by God unless I come to the
cross?
That's right.
And the Bible says the preaching of the
cross is foolishness to them that perish.
God said you'd say it's foolish.
You may be a PhD in the university,
but if you're ever to have peace of
soul with God, you'll have to come like
a little child to the foot of the
cross.
You won't understand it intellectually.
You never will.
You'll never understand the atonement all the way.
You'll never be able to make it all
out.
But you come in simple childlike faith and
give your life to Christ.
You may be the biggest businessman in North
Carolina.
You may be a society leader.
You may be a union official.
You may be a laboring man.
Whoever you are, whatever you are, you'll have
to come through the same gate into the
kingdom.
And Jesus said it's a narrow gate and
the gate is the cross.
And if you are not sure that you've
been there renouncing your sin and receiving Christ,
you've come tonight.
Because I do not see how any person
could resist the love of God.
Many people ask me, what is the unpardonable
sin?
I'll tell you the sin that God cannot
pardon.
Any man or woman that rejects or resists
his son, Jesus Christ, who died, that's the
unpardonable sin.
There remaineth no more sacrifice for sin.
There is no other way.
And I tell you, my beloved friends of
this great nation, there is only one way
of forgiveness and redemption and salvation, and that's
in the cross.
And I'm asking you to come to the
cross tonight.
I'm asking you to come by faith and
say, oh God, I have sinned.
Oh God, I'm sorry for the things I've
done.
I come and by faith receive thy son,
Jesus Christ.
Don't neglect it.
Don't put it off till another night.
You may never have another moment quite like
this tonight.
I'm going to ask all of you in
this building to get up out of your
seat right now, hundreds of you.
Just get up now and come and stand
right here in front and say tonight, I
want Christ.
I will identify myself with him at the
cross.
I'm ready to turn from my sins.
I'm ready to give myself to Christ.
I want him to fill my life.
I want him to help solve my problems
and forgive my sins and lift my burdens.
I want him to come in and be
closer than a brother.
I want him to come in and help
me and forgive me and cleanse me.
I'm willing to come and meet him at
the cross.
God says I want to meet you.
I want to help you, but I'll only
meet you and help you one place and
that's the cross.
And it may look foolish to say get
up out of your seat and come.
Don't ask me how it happens.
I only know when a man comes to
Christ he can never be the same again.
I only know that his life is changed
if he comes to the cross.
And I'm going to ask you to come
right now, hundreds of you all over the
building.
Just get up out of your seat at
this moment, every head bowed, every eye closed.
And after you've all come, we're going to
have a moment of prayer and a verse
of scripture.
And if you're with friends or relatives, they'll
wait.
If you've come in a delegation, they'll wait
on you.
And you at home, right where you are,
can receive Christ right in your living room
as hundreds of people are going to come
here to give their lives to Christ as
they have every night this week here in
Charlotte.
Now you come, quickly.
All over the building.
Just get up right now.
Come, hundreds of you.
That's it.
God bless you.
Many people are coming from all over this
building to give their lives to Christ.
Right there, you can give your life to
him.
It's so simple that many people stumble over
it.
They make it complicated.
You bow your head right in your room,
right now.
Just bow your head.
And just quietly say in your heart, I
give my life to Christ.
Then go to church tomorrow morning.
Go tell the minister at the church what
you've done.
Tell him you want the fellowship in the
church.
And then write to me, Billy Graham, here
in Charlotte, North Carolina, and we'll send to
you the same literature that we send or
we give to these people that are coming
forward here tonight.
You've been listening to the From the Pulpit
in Classic Sermons series.
This week you heard Billy Graham with his
message, The Great Judgment.
Tune in next week to hear A.W.
Tozer talk about girding up your mind on
From the Pulpit in Classic Sermons.