1 00:00:06,500 --> 00:00:11,960 He who bore the load of sin, as 2 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:15,800 he knocked and asked admission, sinner will you 3 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:16,720 let him in? 4 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:19,980 Number 17, let us rise please. 5 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:54,630 He who bore the 6 00:00:54,630 --> 00:00:56,710 load of sin, as he knocked and asked 7 00:00:56,710 --> 00:00:56,810 admission, sinner will you let him in? 8 00:01:29,380 --> 00:01:34,360 Tenth chapter, Mark's gospel, Mark chapter 10, verse 9 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:35,420 46. 10 00:01:35,540 --> 00:01:38,680 And they came to Jericho, and as he 11 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:42,000 went out of Jericho with his disciples, and 12 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,880 a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the 13 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:48,600 son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side 14 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:49,000 begging. 15 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:53,060 When he heard that it was Jesus of 16 00:01:53,060 --> 00:01:55,680 Nazareth, he began to cry out and to 17 00:01:55,680 --> 00:02:00,140 say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy 18 00:02:00,140 --> 00:02:00,900 on me. 19 00:02:01,940 --> 00:02:05,040 And many charged him that he should hold 20 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:08,360 his peace, but he cried, the more a 21 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:11,840 great deal, thou son of David, have mercy 22 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:12,760 on me. 23 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:19,200 And Jesus stood still and commanded him to 24 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:19,860 be called. 25 00:02:20,020 --> 00:02:22,260 And they called the blind man, saying unto 26 00:02:22,260 --> 00:02:26,540 him, be of good comfort, rise, he calleth 27 00:02:26,540 --> 00:02:26,860 thee. 28 00:02:27,900 --> 00:02:30,440 And he cast in a way his garment, 29 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:33,660 rose, and came to Jesus. 30 00:02:34,820 --> 00:02:38,100 And Jesus answered and said unto him, what 31 00:02:38,100 --> 00:02:41,660 wilt thou that I should do unto thee? 32 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:46,780 The blind man said unto him, Lord, that 33 00:02:46,780 --> 00:02:48,940 I might receive my sight. 34 00:02:49,780 --> 00:02:53,280 And Jesus said unto him, go thy way, 35 00:02:53,420 --> 00:02:56,600 thy faith hath made thee whole. 36 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:01,880 And immediately he received his sight and followed 37 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:03,680 Jesus in the way. 38 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:21,020 In the 26th chapter of Acts, the 18th 39 00:03:21,020 --> 00:03:21,400 verse. 40 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:27,380 To open their eyes and to turn them 41 00:03:27,380 --> 00:03:31,860 from darkness to light, and from the power 42 00:03:31,860 --> 00:03:36,140 of Satan unto God, that they may receive 43 00:03:36,140 --> 00:03:40,620 forgiveness of sins and inheritance among them which 44 00:03:40,620 --> 00:03:44,260 are sanctified by faith that is in me. 45 00:03:45,180 --> 00:03:57,960 In 2 Corinthians chapter 4, the 3rd 46 00:03:57,960 --> 00:03:58,360 verse. 47 00:04:00,900 --> 00:04:03,260 But if our gospel be hid, it is 48 00:04:03,260 --> 00:04:06,740 hid to them that are lost, and whom 49 00:04:06,740 --> 00:04:09,360 the God of this world hath blinded the 50 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,860 minds of them which believe not, lest the 51 00:04:12,860 --> 00:04:16,279 light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who 52 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:18,760 is the image of God, should shine unto 53 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:19,220 them. 54 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:23,880 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus, 55 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:27,920 the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus' 56 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:28,500 sake. 57 00:04:29,180 --> 00:04:31,860 For God who commanded the light to shine 58 00:04:31,860 --> 00:04:35,420 out of darkness, has shined in our hearts 59 00:04:35,420 --> 00:04:38,600 to give the light of the knowledge of 60 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:42,080 the glory of God in the face of 61 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:43,180 Jesus Christ. 62 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:47,620 Dear friends, there may be tonight in this 63 00:04:47,620 --> 00:04:50,780 audience somebody who has never heard the gospel 64 00:04:50,780 --> 00:04:51,420 before. 65 00:04:51,900 --> 00:04:54,280 That's rather a strange thing to say in 66 00:04:54,280 --> 00:04:56,660 this country or in a country to the 67 00:04:56,660 --> 00:04:57,440 north of us. 68 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:01,140 And yet, my friends, there are many today 69 00:05:01,140 --> 00:05:02,940 who have never heard the gospel. 70 00:05:03,900 --> 00:05:07,640 Many in the United States, and many in 71 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:10,620 Canada, and many in other places of the 72 00:05:10,620 --> 00:05:13,360 world who have never heard the real gospel 73 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:14,840 of the grace of God. 74 00:05:15,940 --> 00:05:18,920 And if you'll pardon us, I'll refer into 75 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:20,460 a personal reference. 76 00:05:20,940 --> 00:05:24,280 Making a personal reference, I remember when I 77 00:05:24,280 --> 00:05:26,940 was a young man, we brought to our 78 00:05:26,940 --> 00:05:29,740 hall in Montreal, and I had never heard 79 00:05:29,740 --> 00:05:30,380 the gospel. 80 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:32,880 Hardly ever heard it. 81 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:34,740 But I remember hearing it once in a 82 00:05:34,740 --> 00:05:35,620 certain system. 83 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:38,640 But apart from that, having attended what they 84 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:41,900 call divine service every Lord's Day of the 85 00:05:41,900 --> 00:05:46,500 year, twice a day, sad to say, never 86 00:05:46,500 --> 00:05:47,520 heard the gospel. 87 00:05:48,220 --> 00:05:50,860 I wonder tonight if there's somebody here who's 88 00:05:50,860 --> 00:05:53,560 never heard the gospel that God loves you. 89 00:05:54,380 --> 00:05:57,020 And that the Lord Jesus died for sinners. 90 00:05:57,680 --> 00:05:59,900 I wonder if there's anybody here tonight who's 91 00:05:59,900 --> 00:06:00,700 never heard it. 92 00:06:00,700 --> 00:06:04,480 Oh, dear friends, tonight we pray that you 93 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:06,940 will not hear only the speaker's voice. 94 00:06:07,660 --> 00:06:10,180 You may hear the very voice of God 95 00:06:10,180 --> 00:06:12,200 speaking to your heart tonight. 96 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:16,300 In all the first steps to heaven, I'm 97 00:06:16,300 --> 00:06:19,320 sure every Christian will admit that the first 98 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:21,760 step to heaven is to find out that 99 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:22,400 you're a sinner. 100 00:06:23,380 --> 00:06:26,320 Oh, how easy it is to look in 101 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:27,400 the prison tonight. 102 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:30,080 To look in the penitentiary tonight. 103 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:32,640 To look in the saloons and the gambling 104 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:34,980 dens and say those men and women are 105 00:06:34,980 --> 00:06:35,360 sinners. 106 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:38,300 To hear men and women on the street 107 00:06:38,300 --> 00:06:41,940 blaspheming and cursing and to say those people 108 00:06:41,940 --> 00:06:42,700 are sinners. 109 00:06:42,700 --> 00:06:46,400 But oh, my friends, how hard it is 110 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:48,420 for a man or woman to look into 111 00:06:48,420 --> 00:06:51,260 the glass, the mirror, into the looking glass 112 00:06:51,260 --> 00:06:54,120 and say there, there's the sinner. 113 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:56,440 Oh, my friends, and I don't know if 114 00:06:56,440 --> 00:06:59,400 you've ever discovered yet that you are a 115 00:06:59,400 --> 00:06:59,880 sinner. 116 00:07:00,620 --> 00:07:02,580 You know, God makes it very clear. 117 00:07:02,580 --> 00:07:06,420 As our dear brother said last night, God 118 00:07:06,420 --> 00:07:10,160 makes it very clear in very small words 119 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:12,000 in the third chapter of Romans. 120 00:07:12,900 --> 00:07:14,780 Oh, you haven't got to get a degree. 121 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:16,460 You haven't got to have a B.A. 122 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:20,080 after your name or an M.A. But 123 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:23,020 God makes it so clear the very youngest 124 00:07:23,020 --> 00:07:25,380 boy and girl in this room tonight can 125 00:07:25,380 --> 00:07:29,840 understand when God says there is no difference. 126 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:35,040 For all have sinned and come short of 127 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:36,480 the glory of God. 128 00:07:37,180 --> 00:07:38,800 You haven't got to have a degree to 129 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:40,840 understand the little word all. 130 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:45,100 A-L-L means you, means everybody, means 131 00:07:45,100 --> 00:07:45,500 me. 132 00:07:46,300 --> 00:07:48,000 There is no difference. 133 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:50,960 What a solemn statement. 134 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:52,500 There is no difference. 135 00:07:52,700 --> 00:07:53,660 God says it. 136 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:56,580 Let God be true and every man a 137 00:07:56,580 --> 00:07:56,940 liar. 138 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:02,000 All have sinned and come short of the 139 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:03,260 glory of God. 140 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:05,420 Is there a young man in this audience 141 00:08:05,420 --> 00:08:08,080 tonight or a young lady or an old 142 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:10,620 man or an old lady who's never discovered 143 00:08:10,620 --> 00:08:13,760 that truth for themselves that they have sinned 144 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:14,780 against God? 145 00:08:15,420 --> 00:08:18,940 And the Bible says, the word of God 146 00:08:18,940 --> 00:08:22,720 declares that the point of man wants to 147 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:25,040 die, wants to die. 148 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:27,300 And after this, the judgment. 149 00:08:28,260 --> 00:08:30,260 What a solemn thing, my friend, if you 150 00:08:30,260 --> 00:08:32,940 have to stand face to face with God. 151 00:08:33,580 --> 00:08:36,039 What a solemn thing tonight, my friend, if 152 00:08:36,039 --> 00:08:37,679 you were called by death. 153 00:08:38,380 --> 00:08:40,380 If you were called out of this world 154 00:08:40,380 --> 00:08:43,960 by death and had to stand in the 155 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:46,800 presence of God in your sins. 156 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:49,940 And the Lord Jesus said in the eighth 157 00:08:49,940 --> 00:08:52,400 chapter of the gospel by John, if ye 158 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:57,140 believe not that I am he, ye shall 159 00:08:57,140 --> 00:08:59,040 die in your sins. 160 00:08:59,660 --> 00:09:02,440 And where I am, there ye may be 161 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:03,060 also. 162 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:05,140 What a solemn statement. 163 00:09:05,140 --> 00:09:08,280 And I believe in these few verses we 164 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:10,620 read together in the tenth chapter of Mark, 165 00:09:10,740 --> 00:09:14,780 we have the story, an illustration of a 166 00:09:14,780 --> 00:09:16,260 man who was blind. 167 00:09:17,340 --> 00:09:19,940 The man who found Jesus. 168 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:22,660 A man who had his eyes opened. 169 00:09:23,300 --> 00:09:26,960 A man who was saved by the grace 170 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:28,720 of the Lord Jesus Christ. 171 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:32,040 And God tells us in these few verses 172 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:34,720 the history of this man whose name was 173 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:35,560 Bartimaeus. 174 00:09:36,780 --> 00:09:39,780 And tonight, my friend, if you're not saved, 175 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:40,640 you're blind. 176 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:44,980 You're blind just as blind as Bartimaeus was, 177 00:09:45,380 --> 00:09:48,620 though he was blind physically and you are 178 00:09:48,620 --> 00:09:49,940 blind spiritually. 179 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:54,620 In fact, I say your case is worse 180 00:09:54,620 --> 00:09:56,160 than the case of Bartimaeus. 181 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:58,280 What a solemn thing. 182 00:09:58,380 --> 00:10:01,080 I notice tonight as I read these few 183 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:06,200 verses, it says in the 46th verse, and 184 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:07,600 they came to Jericho. 185 00:10:08,020 --> 00:10:10,340 Now Jericho is a picture of this world. 186 00:10:11,180 --> 00:10:14,300 In the Bible, Jericho is a type. 187 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:16,640 It's a picture of this world. 188 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:20,120 And how wonderful to know that Jesus came 189 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:21,120 to this world. 190 00:10:21,940 --> 00:10:24,680 We read a lot these days about the 191 00:10:24,680 --> 00:10:25,420 other planets. 192 00:10:25,420 --> 00:10:28,320 They tell us, some people try to tell 193 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:30,080 us that men live in the other planets. 194 00:10:30,220 --> 00:10:31,720 We do not know that. 195 00:10:32,500 --> 00:10:33,920 We don't pretend to know. 196 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:37,240 But we do know that Jesus came to 197 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:37,980 this planet. 198 00:10:38,620 --> 00:10:40,700 That Jesus came to this world. 199 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:43,340 He came here, my friend. 200 00:10:43,460 --> 00:10:45,860 He left the very heavens above, the maker 201 00:10:45,860 --> 00:10:46,800 of heaven and earth. 202 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:48,700 How great he was. 203 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:50,600 How wonderful he was. 204 00:10:50,700 --> 00:10:51,500 How marvelous. 205 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:52,900 The Son of God. 206 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:56,760 The eternal Son of God, the maker of 207 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:59,100 heaven and earth, became a man. 208 00:11:00,580 --> 00:11:03,700 And most of us have looked into a 209 00:11:03,700 --> 00:11:07,160 cradle and seen a little baby lying there, 210 00:11:07,220 --> 00:11:10,240 a little helpless boy in his cradle. 211 00:11:10,780 --> 00:11:12,920 We think of the mighty God, the eternal 212 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:16,680 one who became a man and lay in 213 00:11:16,680 --> 00:11:18,300 the manger of Bethlehem. 214 00:11:18,940 --> 00:11:21,200 What a wonderful thing that was. 215 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:24,360 That Jesus came to this world. 216 00:11:24,540 --> 00:11:29,220 He came here, my friend, because he is 217 00:11:29,220 --> 00:11:30,920 the savior of sinners. 218 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:32,920 He came to seek you. 219 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:34,720 He came to find you. 220 00:11:34,940 --> 00:11:35,980 He came to find me. 221 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:37,120 He came to die. 222 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:40,360 He might save our precious souls. 223 00:11:40,460 --> 00:11:43,860 He might cleanse our sins away with his 224 00:11:43,860 --> 00:11:45,600 precious, precious blood. 225 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:47,660 And I want to say right here, my 226 00:11:47,660 --> 00:11:50,560 friend, that outside of the death and resurrection 227 00:11:50,560 --> 00:11:54,080 of the Lord Jesus, outside of his sin 228 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:57,780 -cleansing, precious blood, there is no salvation for 229 00:11:57,780 --> 00:11:59,500 any child of Adam's race. 230 00:12:00,560 --> 00:12:02,360 Modernism will land you in hell. 231 00:12:03,340 --> 00:12:06,060 The modern preacher with all his doctrines of 232 00:12:06,060 --> 00:12:08,560 following in the steps of Christ will lead 233 00:12:08,560 --> 00:12:10,560 you into the lake of fire, my friend. 234 00:12:10,700 --> 00:12:12,900 There's no salvation in modernism. 235 00:12:12,900 --> 00:12:17,200 There's no salvation in the modernist preacher's doctrines 236 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:17,620 tonight. 237 00:12:19,500 --> 00:12:22,300 Only the blood of Christ has power to 238 00:12:22,300 --> 00:12:23,560 cleanse from sin. 239 00:12:23,680 --> 00:12:26,680 And God tells us in his word that 240 00:12:26,680 --> 00:12:30,300 the blood of Jesus Christ, his son, cleanses 241 00:12:30,300 --> 00:12:32,260 us from all sin. 242 00:12:33,180 --> 00:12:37,000 And all other religions, all other doctrines lead 243 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:37,800 to hell. 244 00:12:38,620 --> 00:12:41,020 The Lord Jesus said, I am the way, 245 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:42,100 the truth, and the life. 246 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:44,960 No man comes to the Father but by 247 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:45,500 me. 248 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:49,360 Christ alone is the savior of sinners. 249 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:53,240 He tells us, too, in this 46th verse, 250 00:12:54,700 --> 00:12:58,160 that as he went out of Jericho, Jesus 251 00:12:58,160 --> 00:12:59,520 left Jericho. 252 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:04,080 And 2,000 years ago, Jesus left this 253 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:04,500 world. 254 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:07,460 Jesus left this world. 255 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:09,980 How did he leave, my friend? 256 00:13:10,580 --> 00:13:14,240 Let me tell you the shocking statement of 257 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:18,600 a modernist preacher who said these blasphemous words. 258 00:13:19,220 --> 00:13:22,800 He said, the body of Jesus lies in 259 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:26,600 a Syrian grave while a spirit marches down 260 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:27,440 through the ages. 261 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:29,320 What a shocking shame. 262 00:13:29,980 --> 00:13:31,940 That doctrine comes from hell. 263 00:13:33,620 --> 00:13:35,980 Jesus birthed the bonds of death. 264 00:13:36,740 --> 00:13:38,920 Death could not hold the Son of God. 265 00:13:39,060 --> 00:13:39,660 He arose. 266 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:44,180 The man Christ Jesus presented himself, showed his 267 00:13:44,180 --> 00:13:46,100 hands and his feet and his side. 268 00:13:46,500 --> 00:13:48,500 He was alive, a living man. 269 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:50,920 And he ascended up to the right hand 270 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:52,800 of God in the glory. 271 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:54,960 Lives there a prince and a savior. 272 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:58,200 The savior of sinners by the grace of 273 00:13:58,200 --> 00:13:59,400 God, my savior. 274 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:00,860 Is he your savior tonight? 275 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:04,200 I challenge you, young man, young girl. 276 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:07,800 Is the Lord Jesus your personal savior? 277 00:14:08,620 --> 00:14:11,500 Have you yet had personal contact with Christ? 278 00:14:13,020 --> 00:14:15,780 Well, Jesus left this world. 279 00:14:16,260 --> 00:14:19,960 But, oh, my friends, the Bible testifies that 280 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:22,720 the Jesus that left this world is coming 281 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:23,700 back again. 282 00:14:25,020 --> 00:14:28,680 Coming back again, the very Jesus who hung 283 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:33,360 on the cross at Calvary 2,000 years 284 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:33,740 ago. 285 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:37,040 Nailed there by men like you and me, 286 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:37,880 poor sinners. 287 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:42,780 That Jesus is coming back again. 288 00:14:42,980 --> 00:14:46,460 First, to call away his beloved bride, his 289 00:14:46,460 --> 00:14:47,620 saint to glory. 290 00:14:47,820 --> 00:14:50,640 And then later, he's coming back to judge 291 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:51,380 this world. 292 00:14:52,260 --> 00:14:56,600 And, oh, my friends, though the savior is 293 00:14:56,600 --> 00:15:00,260 not wanted, though the savior is not popular, 294 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:02,900 and though this world doesn't want anything to 295 00:15:02,900 --> 00:15:06,460 do with Christ, he's coming back again to 296 00:15:06,460 --> 00:15:07,820 judge this world. 297 00:15:08,660 --> 00:15:10,180 And they're going to look and they're going 298 00:15:10,180 --> 00:15:13,260 to see that man who they nailed to 299 00:15:13,260 --> 00:15:15,660 the cross, who they spit upon, who they 300 00:15:15,660 --> 00:15:17,000 crowned with thorns. 301 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:19,900 For Jesus is coming back again. 302 00:15:19,900 --> 00:15:23,740 My dear young man, you've got a Christian 303 00:15:23,740 --> 00:15:25,600 mother and a Christian father. 304 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:27,640 They've prayed for you. 305 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:31,780 Many of us are parents tonight. 306 00:15:32,300 --> 00:15:34,480 We could all stand here one after the 307 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:37,220 other and walk off this platform and tell 308 00:15:37,220 --> 00:15:39,380 you of the tears we've shed for our 309 00:15:39,380 --> 00:15:40,340 boys and girls. 310 00:15:41,100 --> 00:15:43,880 We could tell you without any shame of 311 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:45,680 how we got down on our knees and 312 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:47,240 wept over our families. 313 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:49,720 We're not ashamed to say that. 314 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:53,300 Oh, my friends, tonight God is real. 315 00:15:54,180 --> 00:15:56,660 God is real and the devil's real. 316 00:15:57,440 --> 00:15:59,880 And heaven is real and hell is real, 317 00:15:59,980 --> 00:16:00,500 my friends. 318 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:04,140 Do not believe these modernistic preachers who tell 319 00:16:04,140 --> 00:16:07,620 you with a smear on their faces that 320 00:16:07,620 --> 00:16:09,140 there's no such place as hell. 321 00:16:09,500 --> 00:16:10,420 They lie. 322 00:16:10,900 --> 00:16:12,300 They lie, my friends. 323 00:16:13,140 --> 00:16:15,120 God says there's a hell. 324 00:16:15,980 --> 00:16:19,700 But, oh, glorious news, the cross of Christ 325 00:16:19,700 --> 00:16:21,740 has blocked the road to hell. 326 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:25,540 The cross of Christ has blocked the road 327 00:16:25,540 --> 00:16:25,980 to hell. 328 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:27,420 And to get to hell you must leap 329 00:16:27,420 --> 00:16:28,380 over the cross. 330 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:31,880 You must pass the cross, my friends, for 331 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:34,180 God has blocked the road to hell. 332 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:37,620 Praise his name with the cross of Christ. 333 00:16:38,900 --> 00:16:40,280 The cross of Christ. 334 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:42,460 Jesus left Jericho. 335 00:16:43,340 --> 00:16:45,080 He went out of Jericho. 336 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:47,940 And it tells us in this 46th verse 337 00:16:47,940 --> 00:16:54,220 that there were with him his disciples and 338 00:16:54,220 --> 00:16:55,680 a great number of people. 339 00:16:56,460 --> 00:16:58,120 Isn't that like Christendom tonight? 340 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:00,840 Isn't that what this western world is like 341 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:01,140 tonight? 342 00:17:01,260 --> 00:17:05,220 His disciples, those who follow Christ, those who 343 00:17:05,220 --> 00:17:07,960 belong to Christ, those who know the Savior, 344 00:17:08,599 --> 00:17:10,520 and a great number of people. 345 00:17:11,180 --> 00:17:14,280 Oh, the world is filled with people who 346 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:16,700 all expect to get to heaven someday. 347 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:19,640 Someday they expect to get there. 348 00:17:20,300 --> 00:17:24,040 And I'm talking now about these so-called 349 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:26,060 Christian lands in which we live. 350 00:17:27,060 --> 00:17:30,360 They expect to get to heaven someday because 351 00:17:30,360 --> 00:17:32,260 they live a good life, because they keep 352 00:17:32,260 --> 00:17:34,420 the Ten Commandments they say, because they go 353 00:17:34,420 --> 00:17:37,220 to church every Sunday, because their name's enrolled 354 00:17:37,220 --> 00:17:38,740 in some register. 355 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:40,180 They expect to get there. 356 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,920 There's a great number of people who profess 357 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:45,080 to follow Jesus. 358 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:47,920 Maybe there's a young man tonight in this 359 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:50,700 room or a young lady who says, Yes, 360 00:17:50,780 --> 00:17:52,960 I profess to follow Jesus too. 361 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:55,800 You've never been born again. 362 00:17:56,380 --> 00:17:58,420 You've never been saved by the grace of 363 00:17:58,420 --> 00:17:59,020 God. 364 00:17:59,020 --> 00:18:01,440 You've never felt the burden of your sins. 365 00:18:01,500 --> 00:18:03,460 You've never been in the presence of God 366 00:18:03,460 --> 00:18:04,840 and owned your guilt. 367 00:18:06,360 --> 00:18:07,380 Oh, how solemn. 368 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:09,800 But here we find a man who is 369 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:11,540 in earnest among the crowd. 370 00:18:12,100 --> 00:18:20,710 It says that blind Bartimaeus, 46 verse, the 371 00:18:20,710 --> 00:18:24,390 son of Timaeus sat by the highway side 372 00:18:24,390 --> 00:18:27,510 begging, try to picture the scene as you 373 00:18:27,510 --> 00:18:31,850 can, of Bartimaeus sitting there, the blind beggar. 374 00:18:32,430 --> 00:18:34,290 He was sitting there at the mercy of 375 00:18:34,290 --> 00:18:36,630 his friends and the neighbors and the crowds 376 00:18:36,630 --> 00:18:39,130 that went by, and he was begging for 377 00:18:39,130 --> 00:18:41,590 his life, begging for his existence. 378 00:18:42,590 --> 00:18:45,230 And oh, tonight we can go down the 379 00:18:45,230 --> 00:18:46,570 street to this great city. 380 00:18:46,870 --> 00:18:48,870 We can pass up to the other great 381 00:18:48,870 --> 00:18:51,210 cities of North America, and we can see 382 00:18:51,210 --> 00:18:53,650 young girls and young boys and young men 383 00:18:53,650 --> 00:18:56,390 and young women and all people too who 384 00:18:56,390 --> 00:18:59,450 are sitting by the highway side begging from 385 00:18:59,450 --> 00:19:02,710 this Christ-rejecting world for pleasure and for 386 00:19:02,710 --> 00:19:04,130 happiness and for joy. 387 00:19:04,670 --> 00:19:05,610 And they're begging. 388 00:19:06,710 --> 00:19:08,410 Poor blind beggars. 389 00:19:10,190 --> 00:19:12,970 They cannot see, my friends, that the end 390 00:19:12,970 --> 00:19:16,310 of this life is judgment and the God 391 00:19:16,310 --> 00:19:18,230 of this world, God tells us. 392 00:19:18,230 --> 00:19:19,730 Who is the God of this world? 393 00:19:19,990 --> 00:19:22,710 Satan himself is the God and the prince 394 00:19:22,710 --> 00:19:23,490 of this world. 395 00:19:24,190 --> 00:19:27,430 And he's blinded, blinded the mind of them 396 00:19:27,430 --> 00:19:28,390 that believe not. 397 00:19:29,130 --> 00:19:33,230 And blind, my friends, sitting by the highway 398 00:19:33,230 --> 00:19:34,330 side begging. 399 00:19:34,870 --> 00:19:36,570 Young man, are you begging tonight? 400 00:19:37,290 --> 00:19:40,110 Are you begging tonight from this poor Christ 401 00:19:40,110 --> 00:19:42,930 -rejecting world under the judgment of God? 402 00:19:43,170 --> 00:19:46,450 Are you begging for happiness, begging for joy, 403 00:19:46,870 --> 00:19:51,310 begging for money, begging for pleasure, begging for 404 00:19:51,310 --> 00:19:51,910 amusement? 405 00:19:53,290 --> 00:19:55,750 Are you among the beggars tonight? 406 00:19:56,910 --> 00:19:58,590 Oh, pardon me, it was. 407 00:19:59,310 --> 00:20:01,650 And though he was blind, he wasn't deaf. 408 00:20:02,190 --> 00:20:03,390 Are you deaf tonight? 409 00:20:04,150 --> 00:20:07,610 I have news for you, my friends, for 410 00:20:07,610 --> 00:20:10,010 in the Gospel Luke, in this very account, 411 00:20:10,150 --> 00:20:12,010 we read these extra words. 412 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:15,610 Jesus of Nazareth passeth by. 413 00:20:15,910 --> 00:20:19,050 What a message for Bartimaeus' ears. 414 00:20:20,030 --> 00:20:23,450 Unstopped, undeaf ears heard the message. 415 00:20:23,770 --> 00:20:26,710 As it rang into his ears, Jesus of 416 00:20:26,710 --> 00:20:29,310 Nazareth passeth by. 417 00:20:30,530 --> 00:20:32,190 Oh, what a wonderful message. 418 00:20:33,230 --> 00:20:38,110 As Bartimaeus heard the message, Jesus of Nazareth 419 00:20:38,110 --> 00:20:39,710 passeth by. 420 00:20:39,710 --> 00:20:41,510 He had heard of Jesus. 421 00:20:41,710 --> 00:20:43,030 Who hadn't heard of Jesus? 422 00:20:44,350 --> 00:20:46,950 He was known throughout the land of Palestine. 423 00:20:47,170 --> 00:20:50,010 His miracles testify to who he was, the 424 00:20:50,010 --> 00:20:50,970 Son of God. 425 00:20:51,590 --> 00:20:52,790 He raised the dead. 426 00:20:53,750 --> 00:20:55,530 He opened the eyes of the blind. 427 00:20:56,210 --> 00:20:58,110 He went to the grave of Lazarus, a 428 00:20:58,110 --> 00:21:00,010 man who had been dead for four days, 429 00:21:00,070 --> 00:21:01,710 and called him out of the grave. 430 00:21:02,790 --> 00:21:06,690 Bartimaeus had heard of Jesus, and Bartimaeus realized 431 00:21:06,690 --> 00:21:08,810 that here was the man who would give 432 00:21:08,810 --> 00:21:09,550 him his sight. 433 00:21:10,370 --> 00:21:11,690 Here was the one who would give him 434 00:21:11,690 --> 00:21:12,390 his sight. 435 00:21:12,830 --> 00:21:14,050 And I want to tell you something. 436 00:21:14,970 --> 00:21:17,210 It was Bartimaeus' last chance. 437 00:21:18,110 --> 00:21:20,410 You know, there's something solemn about that. 438 00:21:21,730 --> 00:21:24,750 There's something solemn, my friends, a last chance. 439 00:21:25,270 --> 00:21:26,710 You ever have a last chance? 440 00:21:27,510 --> 00:21:29,810 I've read in the newspapers of a judge 441 00:21:29,810 --> 00:21:31,390 who said to a young man at the 442 00:21:31,390 --> 00:21:33,710 bar, this is your last chance. 443 00:21:34,530 --> 00:21:35,890 Your last chance. 444 00:21:37,290 --> 00:21:41,310 My friends, this might be your last chance. 445 00:21:41,510 --> 00:21:42,970 You say, sir, I'm young. 446 00:21:43,490 --> 00:21:44,330 I'm strong. 447 00:21:44,410 --> 00:21:45,210 I've got muscles. 448 00:21:45,930 --> 00:21:46,910 I have a good heart. 449 00:21:47,010 --> 00:21:49,430 I expect to live for another 50 years. 450 00:21:50,070 --> 00:21:54,270 Listen, this might be your last night on 451 00:21:54,270 --> 00:21:54,610 earth. 452 00:21:55,530 --> 00:21:58,930 This time tomorrow night, you may be in 453 00:21:58,930 --> 00:21:59,790 your casket. 454 00:22:00,650 --> 00:22:03,710 This time tomorrow night, you, my friends, any 455 00:22:03,710 --> 00:22:06,830 one of us, the speaker included, may be 456 00:22:06,830 --> 00:22:10,350 in your casket, cold and still and deaf. 457 00:22:10,450 --> 00:22:12,270 I ask you where you're going to. 458 00:22:13,190 --> 00:22:15,470 Where do you expect to spend eternity? 459 00:22:16,090 --> 00:22:17,830 You can't afford to be wrong. 460 00:22:18,370 --> 00:22:21,590 You may miss your examinations in school. 461 00:22:22,270 --> 00:22:23,790 You may lose your job. 462 00:22:24,010 --> 00:22:25,290 You may lose your health. 463 00:22:26,030 --> 00:22:30,450 And you may regain each of these things. 464 00:22:31,090 --> 00:22:34,230 But if you die without Christ, my friends, 465 00:22:34,370 --> 00:22:36,290 I want to warn you solemnly in the 466 00:22:36,290 --> 00:22:39,830 presence of God, there is no second chance. 467 00:22:41,130 --> 00:22:42,590 There is no second chance. 468 00:22:42,770 --> 00:22:45,930 Jesus said, if ye believe not that I 469 00:22:45,930 --> 00:22:48,450 am he, ye shall die in your sins. 470 00:22:49,050 --> 00:22:54,010 And where I am there, ye can not 471 00:22:54,010 --> 00:22:54,690 come. 472 00:22:55,030 --> 00:22:56,050 No possibility. 473 00:22:56,790 --> 00:22:58,450 Those are the words, and not of the 474 00:22:58,450 --> 00:23:01,330 modernist preachers, those are the words of the 475 00:23:01,330 --> 00:23:02,210 Son of God. 476 00:23:03,130 --> 00:23:04,530 Are you going to believe them? 477 00:23:05,530 --> 00:23:07,930 Are you going to be deceived by this 478 00:23:07,930 --> 00:23:09,050 modern day preacher? 479 00:23:09,950 --> 00:23:12,390 Jesus said, ye can not come. 480 00:23:13,170 --> 00:23:14,450 What a solemn thing. 481 00:23:15,590 --> 00:23:18,670 Oh, as Bartimaeus heard the message we find 482 00:23:18,670 --> 00:23:24,710 in the 46th, 7th verse, he began to 483 00:23:24,710 --> 00:23:27,510 cry out and say, Jesus, thou son of 484 00:23:27,510 --> 00:23:30,490 mercy, thou son of David, have mercy on 485 00:23:30,490 --> 00:23:30,890 me. 486 00:23:31,450 --> 00:23:32,850 What a wonderful thing. 487 00:23:33,710 --> 00:23:35,470 And many charged him that he should hold 488 00:23:35,470 --> 00:23:38,330 his feet, but he cried the more a 489 00:23:38,330 --> 00:23:41,470 great deal, thou son of David, have mercy 490 00:23:41,470 --> 00:23:42,050 on me. 491 00:23:42,290 --> 00:23:44,070 And this is a very solemn thing. 492 00:23:44,870 --> 00:23:47,850 And I believe we have pictured in Bartimaeus' 493 00:23:48,030 --> 00:23:50,650 two cries exactly what happened with the day. 494 00:23:51,550 --> 00:23:54,450 Young lady, you're going to school tomorrow. 495 00:23:54,970 --> 00:23:56,710 The Lord leaves us here. 496 00:23:56,710 --> 00:23:59,210 And if you're spared, you're going to school 497 00:23:59,210 --> 00:23:59,450 tomorrow. 498 00:23:59,570 --> 00:24:02,070 You go to your school teacher and tell 499 00:24:02,070 --> 00:24:05,590 her or tell him, I'm going to become 500 00:24:05,590 --> 00:24:06,170 a Christian. 501 00:24:06,750 --> 00:24:08,370 And they'll say, hold your feet. 502 00:24:09,330 --> 00:24:10,990 Don't worry about those things. 503 00:24:11,070 --> 00:24:12,050 Get on in the world. 504 00:24:12,170 --> 00:24:13,430 Get an education first. 505 00:24:13,550 --> 00:24:15,870 And then when you get educated, think about 506 00:24:15,870 --> 00:24:17,410 these questions of religion. 507 00:24:18,190 --> 00:24:19,630 And it was just the same in the 508 00:24:19,630 --> 00:24:20,750 days of Bartimaeus. 509 00:24:20,810 --> 00:24:22,290 They told him to hold his feet. 510 00:24:22,730 --> 00:24:23,190 Why? 511 00:24:23,890 --> 00:24:26,210 Well, men can go down the street and 512 00:24:26,210 --> 00:24:27,050 they can be drunk. 513 00:24:27,750 --> 00:24:30,230 I'm thinking of dear Mr. McKay McAdam. 514 00:24:31,670 --> 00:24:34,510 The man you may have heard about if 515 00:24:34,510 --> 00:24:37,330 you haven't heard what good news it was. 516 00:24:37,470 --> 00:24:38,050 A drunkard. 517 00:24:38,410 --> 00:24:39,610 A drunkard is home. 518 00:24:39,730 --> 00:24:40,790 The home of a drunkard. 519 00:24:41,710 --> 00:24:46,090 His family, their father the drunkard and the 520 00:24:46,090 --> 00:24:47,210 whole of McAdam. 521 00:24:47,710 --> 00:24:49,430 About 2,000 souls. 522 00:24:50,450 --> 00:24:54,470 They knew David McKay the drunkard. 523 00:24:55,950 --> 00:25:00,490 But all my friends, Christ saved David McKay. 524 00:25:01,210 --> 00:25:03,550 And the very people of McAdam now they 525 00:25:03,550 --> 00:25:05,170 make fun of David McKay. 526 00:25:05,730 --> 00:25:08,750 Why, this world would rather have anything but 527 00:25:08,750 --> 00:25:09,230 Christ. 528 00:25:09,670 --> 00:25:12,590 And I believe and I speak reverently that 529 00:25:12,590 --> 00:25:16,510 this world would gladly receive the devil and 530 00:25:16,510 --> 00:25:17,870 the Lord Jesus Christ. 531 00:25:18,670 --> 00:25:20,890 And they're going to receive the antichrist. 532 00:25:21,010 --> 00:25:22,490 The Lord Jesus said so. 533 00:25:24,130 --> 00:25:26,610 I have come in my father's name and 534 00:25:26,610 --> 00:25:27,790 you receive me not. 535 00:25:28,170 --> 00:25:29,810 Another shall come in his own name and 536 00:25:29,810 --> 00:25:31,090 him ye will receive. 537 00:25:31,410 --> 00:25:33,130 The world wants anybody but Christ. 538 00:25:34,430 --> 00:25:36,710 I ask you, my dear friend, do you 539 00:25:36,710 --> 00:25:37,790 want Christ tonight? 540 00:25:38,050 --> 00:25:40,430 Young man, do you want Christ tonight? 541 00:25:41,530 --> 00:25:44,170 We sometimes said in preaching the gospel of 542 00:25:44,170 --> 00:25:47,570 Christ or hell for every child of Adam's 543 00:25:47,570 --> 00:25:47,830 race. 544 00:25:47,950 --> 00:25:50,530 Christ or hell, which will you have? 545 00:25:51,850 --> 00:25:53,890 What a solemn thing to be here tonight 546 00:25:53,890 --> 00:25:56,330 under the sound of the word of God. 547 00:25:56,750 --> 00:25:58,250 To have been here last night and to 548 00:25:58,250 --> 00:26:00,770 hear the glorious message of sin forgiven. 549 00:26:02,150 --> 00:26:05,610 Oh my friends, do your sins bother you? 550 00:26:05,870 --> 00:26:08,330 I remember one night meeting a man on 551 00:26:08,330 --> 00:26:10,830 the street and he told me his name 552 00:26:10,830 --> 00:26:12,290 was Mr. Wright. 553 00:26:13,130 --> 00:26:16,290 He told me this in a joking way. 554 00:26:16,570 --> 00:26:19,590 He said, even when I'm wrong, I'm still 555 00:26:19,590 --> 00:26:20,030 right. 556 00:26:20,690 --> 00:26:22,850 And we asked that old man, are you 557 00:26:22,850 --> 00:26:23,930 right with God? 558 00:26:24,130 --> 00:26:25,990 And he wasn't right with God. 559 00:26:26,490 --> 00:26:28,650 He wasn't right with God, my friend. 560 00:26:28,730 --> 00:26:30,050 Are you right with God tonight? 561 00:26:30,510 --> 00:26:31,970 Are you right with God? 562 00:26:32,210 --> 00:26:33,770 Are your sins forgiven? 563 00:26:34,310 --> 00:26:36,790 Can you say if I had died last 564 00:26:36,790 --> 00:26:39,310 night, if my loved ones had found me 565 00:26:39,310 --> 00:26:41,670 cold and dead in my bed this morning, 566 00:26:41,670 --> 00:26:43,930 I know on the authority of the word 567 00:26:43,930 --> 00:26:46,550 of God, I'd be in the glory with 568 00:26:46,550 --> 00:26:46,930 Christ. 569 00:26:47,490 --> 00:26:48,430 Can you say that? 570 00:26:48,790 --> 00:26:50,350 Can you say it, young man, from your 571 00:26:50,350 --> 00:26:50,770 heart? 572 00:26:52,150 --> 00:26:53,230 Oh, how solemn. 573 00:26:54,650 --> 00:26:55,930 Bartimaeus cried out. 574 00:26:55,970 --> 00:26:56,770 He was in earnest. 575 00:26:57,550 --> 00:26:58,270 He was in earnest. 576 00:26:58,950 --> 00:27:01,230 And I've read and you've read, too, probably 577 00:27:01,230 --> 00:27:06,410 of the last century, the 19th century, when 578 00:27:06,410 --> 00:27:08,490 men and women fell out of their chairs 579 00:27:08,490 --> 00:27:10,550 and cried to God for mercy. 580 00:27:10,550 --> 00:27:13,330 When men and women wept over their sins. 581 00:27:13,410 --> 00:27:14,990 But I've never, I don't think, in all 582 00:27:14,990 --> 00:27:18,270 my experiences, I was saved 30 years ago, 583 00:27:19,090 --> 00:27:21,590 seeing a man in our halls weeping over 584 00:27:21,590 --> 00:27:22,250 his sins. 585 00:27:23,970 --> 00:27:27,610 Oh, my friends, the devil has blinded. 586 00:27:28,230 --> 00:27:30,430 As the end of this age draws near, 587 00:27:30,990 --> 00:27:33,790 the devil has succeeded in blinding with a 588 00:27:33,790 --> 00:27:39,310 deep, dark blindness men's hearts and men's souls 589 00:27:39,310 --> 00:27:40,370 and men's eyes. 590 00:27:42,150 --> 00:27:43,470 Bartimaeus was in earnest. 591 00:27:43,670 --> 00:27:46,110 I wonder tonight if you're in earnest. 592 00:27:46,750 --> 00:27:48,670 I wonder tonight if you're real, if you're 593 00:27:48,670 --> 00:27:50,990 sitting there in those seats and the devil's 594 00:27:50,990 --> 00:27:51,910 whispering into your ear. 595 00:27:51,990 --> 00:27:52,990 Don't believe that. 596 00:27:53,510 --> 00:27:54,970 Don't believe that stuff. 597 00:27:55,870 --> 00:27:57,590 Are you listening to the devil's hiss? 598 00:27:58,030 --> 00:27:59,050 The serpent's hiss? 599 00:27:59,390 --> 00:28:00,990 The devil's sneer tonight? 600 00:28:02,030 --> 00:28:04,030 Oh, young man, are you in earnest? 601 00:28:04,630 --> 00:28:05,990 Bartimaeus was in earnest. 602 00:28:06,590 --> 00:28:07,770 Notice the next verse. 603 00:28:07,770 --> 00:28:09,710 These lovely words. 604 00:28:11,130 --> 00:28:12,110 The 49th verse. 605 00:28:12,270 --> 00:28:15,210 And Jesus stood still. 606 00:28:15,870 --> 00:28:17,530 Oh, what a wonderful thing. 607 00:28:17,650 --> 00:28:19,010 You know, in the book of Josh, where 608 00:28:19,010 --> 00:28:20,410 the Son stood still. 609 00:28:21,150 --> 00:28:24,050 And here the Son of God stands still. 610 00:28:25,150 --> 00:28:26,450 Wonderful news, isn't it? 611 00:28:27,210 --> 00:28:27,890 Marvelous news. 612 00:28:27,990 --> 00:28:28,750 Are you here tonight? 613 00:28:29,270 --> 00:28:32,630 You know, again, we refer to ourselves, we 614 00:28:32,630 --> 00:28:34,590 sat in the little, in the hall on 615 00:28:34,590 --> 00:28:37,310 City Council Street with the burden of our 616 00:28:37,310 --> 00:28:39,470 sins, knowing we were going to be damned 617 00:28:39,470 --> 00:28:40,130 in hell. 618 00:28:40,990 --> 00:28:43,650 Knowing, my friends, the sins were mounting up 619 00:28:43,650 --> 00:28:45,930 like mountains to the very heavens. 620 00:28:46,130 --> 00:28:48,450 Our sins were getting higher and higher and 621 00:28:48,450 --> 00:28:48,830 higher. 622 00:28:49,430 --> 00:28:52,210 And knowing there was absolutely no hope of 623 00:28:52,210 --> 00:28:53,150 ever getting to heaven. 624 00:28:53,850 --> 00:28:55,010 Knowing we could do nothing. 625 00:28:55,130 --> 00:28:57,250 We were powerless under the power of the 626 00:28:57,250 --> 00:28:57,630 devil. 627 00:28:58,330 --> 00:29:00,070 Is it any wonder we loved the gospel 628 00:29:00,070 --> 00:29:02,770 when we heard the melting story of the 629 00:29:02,770 --> 00:29:06,490 Savior's love that Jesus took our place, that 630 00:29:06,490 --> 00:29:09,350 Jesus bore our sins on the cross of 631 00:29:09,350 --> 00:29:12,450 Calvary, that God judged His Son in my 632 00:29:12,450 --> 00:29:15,830 womb instead, and that by receiving that blessed 633 00:29:15,830 --> 00:29:19,350 Savior, my sins would be gone for eternal 634 00:29:19,350 --> 00:29:22,810 ages under the cover and the shelter of 635 00:29:22,810 --> 00:29:23,810 the blood of Christ? 636 00:29:25,290 --> 00:29:27,750 Is it any wonder I say we loved 637 00:29:27,750 --> 00:29:30,750 the gospel of the glorious gospel of Christ? 638 00:29:31,890 --> 00:29:35,010 Tonight, my friends, your sins may be troubling 639 00:29:35,010 --> 00:29:35,490 you. 640 00:29:36,090 --> 00:29:38,110 Maybe there's a man tonight in this audience 641 00:29:38,110 --> 00:29:39,790 who says, yes, I'm a sinner. 642 00:29:40,410 --> 00:29:41,570 I know I'm lost. 643 00:29:42,050 --> 00:29:43,490 I know I can't get to heaven. 644 00:29:43,890 --> 00:29:45,570 I know I must turn over a new 645 00:29:45,570 --> 00:29:45,930 leaf. 646 00:29:46,290 --> 00:29:49,110 I must do something to appease God. 647 00:29:49,590 --> 00:29:51,290 I tell you, my friends, you can do 648 00:29:51,290 --> 00:29:51,650 nothing. 649 00:29:52,390 --> 00:29:55,190 For all has been done by the Lord 650 00:29:55,190 --> 00:29:57,510 Jesus on the cross of Calvary when He 651 00:29:57,510 --> 00:29:58,430 said it is finished. 652 00:29:58,430 --> 00:30:01,170 The finished work of Christ. 653 00:30:01,710 --> 00:30:02,010 Finished. 654 00:30:02,550 --> 00:30:03,970 There's nothing more to do. 655 00:30:04,130 --> 00:30:04,650 It's finished. 656 00:30:05,290 --> 00:30:08,510 He's finished the work of redemption. 657 00:30:09,110 --> 00:30:10,030 Blessed be His name. 658 00:30:10,730 --> 00:30:12,090 Is that Savior yours? 659 00:30:12,350 --> 00:30:13,790 He can take your sins away. 660 00:30:13,890 --> 00:30:15,550 The burden rolled away. 661 00:30:15,670 --> 00:30:18,190 The burden that the dear young man said 662 00:30:18,190 --> 00:30:20,170 to us, oh, he said, as I got 663 00:30:20,170 --> 00:30:23,750 off my knees, the burden was rolled away. 664 00:30:25,430 --> 00:30:28,350 The burden of my sins, the burden of 665 00:30:28,350 --> 00:30:30,390 my guilt was rolled away. 666 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,320 Jesus stood still. 667 00:30:35,820 --> 00:30:38,080 What made Jesus stand still? 668 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:41,120 It was the cry of a poor blind 669 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:41,660 beggar. 670 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:45,160 The cry of a poor blind beggar. 671 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,140 There he was, crying for mercy. 672 00:30:48,700 --> 00:30:52,340 And those words of mercy, oh, my friends 673 00:30:52,340 --> 00:30:54,660 who sit in that chair tonight, you haven't 674 00:30:54,660 --> 00:30:55,560 got to do anything. 675 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:57,360 Just bow your head. 676 00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:00,700 Just close your eyes and say, Lord Jesus, 677 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:02,620 have mercy on me. 678 00:31:02,980 --> 00:31:07,760 And immediately, immediately, the pierced hand of the 679 00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,200 Son of God will reach down and lift 680 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:10,640 you up. 681 00:31:11,220 --> 00:31:12,360 Oh, how wonderful. 682 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,600 Jesus stood still at the cry of a 683 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:21,400 blind beggar and commanded him to be called. 684 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:23,760 And they called the blind man, saying unto 685 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:25,020 him, be of good comfort. 686 00:31:25,020 --> 00:31:26,880 He said, rise and call us thee. 687 00:31:27,420 --> 00:31:29,460 What a personal message this was. 688 00:31:29,580 --> 00:31:33,460 Here was a personal message from Jesus to 689 00:31:33,460 --> 00:31:34,200 Bartimaeus. 690 00:31:34,780 --> 00:31:38,400 Jesus sent a personal message from his own 691 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:42,320 heart of love through his mouth, his own 692 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:42,980 words. 693 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,260 That message went to Bartimaeus. 694 00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:48,800 Rise, be of good comfort. 695 00:31:49,380 --> 00:31:51,420 He called us thee. 696 00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:53,760 Was that good news to Bartimaeus? 697 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:57,500 Oh, my friends, the same Jesus tonight called 698 00:31:57,500 --> 00:31:57,840 you. 699 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:00,060 You say, sir, if only you knew what 700 00:32:00,060 --> 00:32:01,540 kind of a sinner I was. 701 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,560 If you knew, if my mother knew, if 702 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:06,340 my father knew what kind of a sinner 703 00:32:06,340 --> 00:32:10,020 I was, they'd hang their heads in shame. 704 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:13,420 Friends, you may be the worst sinner in 705 00:32:13,420 --> 00:32:14,020 this world. 706 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:15,700 You may be black. 707 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:18,760 You may be unfit for society. 708 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,360 But you can be fit for heaven tonight 709 00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:26,880 if you'll come to the same Jesus who 710 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:27,980 will stand still. 711 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:31,300 Somebody has said that Christ will stop making 712 00:32:31,300 --> 00:32:34,200 world at the cry of a poor sinner 713 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:35,860 who cries for mercy. 714 00:32:36,540 --> 00:32:40,720 Jesus, they say, will stop making world at 715 00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:44,100 the very feeblest cry of a poor sinner 716 00:32:44,100 --> 00:32:45,100 of Adam's race. 717 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,080 And Jesus stood still and commanded him to 718 00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:48,560 be called. 719 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:49,920 Notice the 50th verse. 720 00:32:51,340 --> 00:32:54,620 You see, when this message reached the ears 721 00:32:54,620 --> 00:32:58,160 of Bartimaeus, Bartimaeus had to make a decision. 722 00:32:59,500 --> 00:33:01,040 Bartimaeus had to make a decision. 723 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:03,060 My friends, you have to make a decision. 724 00:33:03,860 --> 00:33:05,700 Bartimaeus said, I won't go. 725 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:06,920 I don't want to go. 726 00:33:06,980 --> 00:33:08,380 I want to stay right here. 727 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:10,060 I don't want to go to Jesus. 728 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:11,960 I want to stay right where I am. 729 00:33:12,780 --> 00:33:13,880 But notice what he did. 730 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:18,280 And he cast in the way his garments, 731 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,140 rose and came to Jesus. 732 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:22,580 What a wonderful thing. 733 00:33:23,060 --> 00:33:24,820 You know, they tell me that this garment 734 00:33:24,820 --> 00:33:26,860 was the beggar's garment. 735 00:33:27,580 --> 00:33:29,960 When a beggar was given a place on 736 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,720 the road to beg, he was supplied with 737 00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:35,220 a special garment that he had to wear. 738 00:33:36,620 --> 00:33:39,000 Bartimaeus knew he didn't need the garment anymore. 739 00:33:39,460 --> 00:33:40,780 He was no longer going to be a 740 00:33:40,780 --> 00:33:41,140 beggar. 741 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:42,860 He was going to Jesus. 742 00:33:42,860 --> 00:33:44,760 He had faith in Christ. 743 00:33:45,140 --> 00:33:47,380 He believed that Christ could open his eyes. 744 00:33:47,540 --> 00:33:50,440 And he was finished being a beggar. 745 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:52,780 Oh, you want to stop begging tonight? 746 00:33:53,460 --> 00:33:54,780 You want to stop begging tonight? 747 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:56,240 You know, people look at us and they 748 00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:58,720 say, you fellows, what do you do in 749 00:33:58,720 --> 00:33:59,060 life? 750 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:00,080 What do you live for? 751 00:34:00,100 --> 00:34:01,480 You might as well be dead and live 752 00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:02,200 the way you do. 753 00:34:02,620 --> 00:34:03,780 But you know, they're blind. 754 00:34:04,260 --> 00:34:04,860 They're blind. 755 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:07,219 You may have heard the story of the 756 00:34:07,219 --> 00:34:10,600 preacher who one time became very discouraged. 757 00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:14,040 He had tried to preach the gospel faithfully 758 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:15,400 and he decided to give up. 759 00:34:15,540 --> 00:34:17,060 He decided to stop preaching. 760 00:34:17,199 --> 00:34:18,380 He never saw any blessing. 761 00:34:19,179 --> 00:34:21,900 And that night as he slept, God spoke 762 00:34:21,900 --> 00:34:22,300 to him. 763 00:34:22,780 --> 00:34:23,739 He had a dream. 764 00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:25,800 And he dreamt he saw men and women 765 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:29,380 with blindfolded, with their eyes blindfolded, walking down 766 00:34:29,380 --> 00:34:30,000 the street. 767 00:34:30,659 --> 00:34:31,820 At the end of the street there was 768 00:34:31,820 --> 00:34:34,199 a great gulf, a great precipice, and they 769 00:34:34,199 --> 00:34:37,580 were stepping off and falling down the precipice 770 00:34:37,580 --> 00:34:38,580 to death. 771 00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,080 And as he dreamt, he heard a voice 772 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:43,920 say, wake them up. 773 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:45,000 Stop them. 774 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:45,980 Stop them. 775 00:34:46,679 --> 00:34:48,719 And he awoke and said, by the grace 776 00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:51,320 of God, I'll keep preaching the gospel. 777 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:53,920 By the grace of God, I won't stop. 778 00:34:54,340 --> 00:34:55,440 I'll keep preaching. 779 00:34:55,500 --> 00:34:56,560 Are you blindfolded? 780 00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:59,000 Young lady, are you blindfolded tonight by the 781 00:34:59,000 --> 00:34:59,340 devil? 782 00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:02,840 Blindfolded by the devil, the God and Prince 783 00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:03,480 of this world. 784 00:35:03,580 --> 00:35:04,740 He's blindfolded you. 785 00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:05,900 You're marching to hell. 786 00:35:05,900 --> 00:35:07,980 I say, stop. 787 00:35:08,420 --> 00:35:08,920 Stop. 788 00:35:09,580 --> 00:35:11,200 Jesus calls you. 789 00:35:11,380 --> 00:35:12,340 Isn't that wonderful? 790 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:15,500 Young lady, Jesus calls you. 791 00:35:16,720 --> 00:35:17,340 Rise. 792 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:19,020 Be of good comfort. 793 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:20,400 He calleth thee. 794 00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:22,620 Who was callin' him to save him? 795 00:35:22,740 --> 00:35:23,800 Who was callin' him a sinner? 796 00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:26,260 He calleth thee, O dear sinner. 797 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:27,200 He loves you. 798 00:35:27,700 --> 00:35:28,420 He loves you. 799 00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:29,640 God loves you. 800 00:35:30,020 --> 00:35:30,960 Isn't that wonderful? 801 00:35:31,460 --> 00:35:33,400 The devil whispers in our ears. 802 00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:34,340 No, he doesn't. 803 00:35:35,060 --> 00:35:37,520 And God, and I speak this reverently, has 804 00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:40,500 been pictured, and I say this very reverently, 805 00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:44,020 God has been pictured by the devil and 806 00:35:44,020 --> 00:35:47,640 by men as a person who's just waiting 807 00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:50,500 and longing to catch men and to throw 808 00:35:50,500 --> 00:35:51,340 them into hell. 809 00:35:51,460 --> 00:35:53,420 That's not true, my friends. 810 00:35:53,980 --> 00:35:55,300 God loves you. 811 00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:57,320 Oh, he loves you. 812 00:35:57,380 --> 00:35:59,440 The Lord Jesus and the third of John, 813 00:35:59,660 --> 00:36:02,960 I say this reverently too, in the 16th 814 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,700 verse, the Savior says, and with all his 815 00:36:05,700 --> 00:36:08,660 heart and with all his soul, for God 816 00:36:08,660 --> 00:36:11,980 so loved the world, for God so loved 817 00:36:11,980 --> 00:36:13,580 the world, as much as to say, and 818 00:36:13,580 --> 00:36:15,640 I say it reverently, I can't tell you 819 00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:15,820 it. 820 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:17,520 I can't tell you it. 821 00:36:18,300 --> 00:36:21,380 God so loved the world that he gave, 822 00:36:22,100 --> 00:36:26,460 that only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in 823 00:36:26,460 --> 00:36:32,120 him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 824 00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:34,720 Oh, Jesus called you tonight. 825 00:36:34,900 --> 00:36:35,980 Be of good comfort. 826 00:36:36,540 --> 00:36:38,800 Come in all your sins, just as you 827 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:39,200 are. 828 00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:40,680 Come just as you are. 829 00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,420 Jesus is a sinner's friend. 830 00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:44,960 Isn't it wonderful? 831 00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:46,320 Isn't it wonderful? 832 00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:49,580 You may say, oh, sir, I'd be ashamed 833 00:36:49,580 --> 00:36:50,680 to tell my mother. 834 00:36:51,380 --> 00:36:53,640 I'd be ashamed to tell my father what 835 00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:54,800 I've done in my life. 836 00:36:55,180 --> 00:36:57,480 But I'll tell you something, you can come 837 00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:59,200 into the presence of Jesus. 838 00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:01,960 You can tell him everything you've done. 839 00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:02,700 Everything. 840 00:37:03,180 --> 00:37:05,140 If it was possible for your memory to 841 00:37:05,140 --> 00:37:08,880 retain your sins, you could lift them down 842 00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:11,400 and keep the paper and say, Lord, here 843 00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:12,000 they are. 844 00:37:12,580 --> 00:37:14,400 And he loves you just the same. 845 00:37:14,720 --> 00:37:16,000 The sinner's friend. 846 00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:17,780 Are you a sinner tonight? 847 00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:20,580 Oh, there's a lovely verse in the fifth 848 00:37:20,580 --> 00:37:24,880 chapter of Romans that says that God commandeth 849 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:26,180 his love toward us. 850 00:37:26,180 --> 00:37:28,060 Why were we yet sinners? 851 00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:29,800 Christ died for us. 852 00:37:30,220 --> 00:37:32,540 And then it says that Christ died for 853 00:37:32,540 --> 00:37:33,540 the ungodly. 854 00:37:33,660 --> 00:37:35,680 What a wonderful verse that is, that Christ 855 00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:37,380 died for the ungodly. 856 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:38,880 Are you ungodly? 857 00:37:39,700 --> 00:37:41,980 Oh, I tell you, that's a wonderful verse. 858 00:37:42,580 --> 00:37:44,120 Some of us were ungodly. 859 00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:46,700 The speaker here tonight was ungodly. 860 00:37:47,240 --> 00:37:50,160 But oh, Christ died for the ungodly. 861 00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:51,740 Isn't that a lovely verse? 862 00:37:52,740 --> 00:37:54,260 Wonderful, blessed verse. 863 00:37:54,260 --> 00:37:57,220 Christ died for the ungodly. 864 00:37:57,480 --> 00:37:58,780 He loves you, my friend. 865 00:37:59,260 --> 00:38:01,300 Sinner's friend, God loves you. 866 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:02,360 Christ loves you. 867 00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:03,480 He died for you. 868 00:38:03,940 --> 00:38:07,060 He proved his love on the cross. 869 00:38:08,820 --> 00:38:12,480 And then again we find that Bartimaeus cast 870 00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:13,520 away his garment. 871 00:38:14,060 --> 00:38:16,880 That garment, I believe, would hinder his progress 872 00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:17,940 from coming to Christ. 873 00:38:19,020 --> 00:38:22,080 That garment would stand in Bartimaeus' way. 874 00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:23,800 He might fall over. 875 00:38:24,140 --> 00:38:25,120 He might trip over. 876 00:38:25,220 --> 00:38:26,720 It might hinder his progress. 877 00:38:27,260 --> 00:38:29,480 I ask you tonight, my friend, what is 878 00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:31,300 hindering you from coming to Christ? 879 00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:33,020 You know the truth. 880 00:38:33,460 --> 00:38:36,100 A young man in Montreal just the other 881 00:38:36,100 --> 00:38:37,680 day said these words. 882 00:38:38,340 --> 00:38:40,580 He said, I know you have the truth. 883 00:38:41,100 --> 00:38:42,240 I know you have the truth. 884 00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:43,380 I know it's the truth. 885 00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:47,000 My friend, what is hindering you from becoming 886 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:47,600 a Christian? 887 00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:49,540 What's blocking your progress? 888 00:38:49,540 --> 00:38:53,100 What is your garment tonight that's keeping you 889 00:38:53,100 --> 00:38:53,820 from Christ? 890 00:38:54,240 --> 00:38:57,260 What is your garment that's stopping you from 891 00:38:57,260 --> 00:38:58,200 becoming a Christian? 892 00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:00,480 There's a garment that's in the way, something 893 00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:03,920 that's in the way that's blocking you from 894 00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:05,600 the Lord Jesus Christ. 895 00:39:05,720 --> 00:39:07,740 And I give you these questions that the 896 00:39:07,740 --> 00:39:10,600 Savior asks in the eighth chapter of the 897 00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:11,540 Gospel of Mark. 898 00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:14,480 What shall a prophet, a man, he could 899 00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:17,880 gain the whole world and lose his soul? 900 00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:21,460 And what shall a man give in exchange 901 00:39:21,460 --> 00:39:22,400 for his soul? 902 00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:25,280 What are you giving in exchange for your 903 00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:28,480 soul, that precious soul of yours? 904 00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:31,620 Oh, friend, let me say it again. 905 00:39:31,980 --> 00:39:34,540 Let me say this in all due reverence 906 00:39:34,540 --> 00:39:36,340 and love to your precious soul. 907 00:39:36,900 --> 00:39:40,280 This might be your last night on earth. 908 00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:42,980 This might be the very last night. 909 00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:45,700 The Lord Jesus may come tonight and you'll 910 00:39:45,700 --> 00:39:48,160 be left behind, dear boys and girls. 911 00:39:48,860 --> 00:39:51,640 I once took the time to sit down 912 00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:54,000 in my living room and try to picture 913 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,380 myself as an unsaved man. 914 00:39:57,300 --> 00:40:00,160 And I picture myself coming home from work 915 00:40:00,580 --> 00:40:03,300 and coming into my house and seeing the 916 00:40:03,300 --> 00:40:04,040 house empty. 917 00:40:04,700 --> 00:40:06,400 And as I walked up the hall, looking 918 00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,000 in the room and calling my wife, I 919 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:10,000 couldn't find her. 920 00:40:10,700 --> 00:40:13,320 And calling my family, and I couldn't find 921 00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:13,520 them. 922 00:40:13,580 --> 00:40:17,280 And I phoned Mr. So-and-so's house. 923 00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:18,280 There was no answer. 924 00:40:18,900 --> 00:40:20,660 And I phoned another house and there was 925 00:40:20,660 --> 00:40:21,360 no answer. 926 00:40:22,060 --> 00:40:24,400 And finally, I remembered a home where I 927 00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,080 knew the boy wasn't saved. 928 00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:28,320 And so I imagined all this. 929 00:40:29,060 --> 00:40:31,040 And I phoned the house and he said, 930 00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:35,420 Mr. Wakefield, something funny has happened this afternoon, 931 00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:38,720 but all of a sudden my mother vanished, 932 00:40:39,420 --> 00:40:39,900 vanished. 933 00:40:40,700 --> 00:40:43,820 And I said, my wife and my family 934 00:40:43,820 --> 00:40:45,160 have gone to glory. 935 00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:46,500 And I'm lost. 936 00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:48,960 And I tried to picture it, my friends, 937 00:40:49,020 --> 00:40:50,780 and I trembled as I sat in the 938 00:40:50,780 --> 00:40:51,160 chair. 939 00:40:52,020 --> 00:40:54,820 Trembled, I sat there and felt myself as 940 00:40:54,820 --> 00:40:58,240 I fell upon my knees in my imagination 941 00:40:58,240 --> 00:41:00,420 and said, oh, God saved me. 942 00:41:01,060 --> 00:41:03,700 But the answer came back, it's too late. 943 00:41:04,240 --> 00:41:05,560 I never knew you. 944 00:41:05,820 --> 00:41:07,620 All friends at home. 945 00:41:08,900 --> 00:41:11,300 Young man of a Christian father, mother, how 946 00:41:11,300 --> 00:41:13,780 can you leave this hall tonight without Christ? 947 00:41:13,980 --> 00:41:16,740 Young lady, dare you leave this room tonight 948 00:41:16,740 --> 00:41:18,680 without the Lord Jesus, your Savior? 949 00:41:19,140 --> 00:41:21,280 This might be your last chance. 950 00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:25,900 God speaks once, yea, twice, a man perceiveth 951 00:41:25,900 --> 00:41:26,380 it not. 952 00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:29,880 Oh, tonight, we wish we had the power 953 00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:31,880 to go down and unlock your heart. 954 00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:34,020 We wish we had the power to speak 955 00:41:34,020 --> 00:41:34,700 to your soul. 956 00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:36,400 We have nothing to do, we can't do 957 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:38,880 anything but tell you and point you to 958 00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:39,300 Christ. 959 00:41:39,860 --> 00:41:41,680 Christ alone can save. 960 00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:45,660 Christ alone can break the power of sin. 961 00:41:46,340 --> 00:41:50,300 Oh, my friends, tonight, won't you cast aside 962 00:41:50,300 --> 00:41:51,080 that garment? 963 00:41:52,260 --> 00:41:55,080 Well, we find to proceed with our chapter, 964 00:41:56,340 --> 00:41:59,700 the tenth mark, and the fifty-first verse, 965 00:42:00,500 --> 00:42:03,620 I want you to notice the godly courage 966 00:42:03,620 --> 00:42:04,380 in this book. 967 00:42:05,660 --> 00:42:09,620 As Bartimaeus came to Jesus, oh, how wonderful 968 00:42:09,620 --> 00:42:13,120 are the records of God how wonderful are 969 00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:14,400 the records of God. 970 00:42:14,940 --> 00:42:17,980 Has God recorded after your name that you 971 00:42:17,980 --> 00:42:19,100 came to Jesus? 972 00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:22,060 Bartimaeus came to Jesus. 973 00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:25,400 Verse fifty, the end of the verse. 974 00:42:26,780 --> 00:42:29,840 The fifty-first verse, and Jesus answered and 975 00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:32,280 said unto him, What wilt thou, notice how 976 00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:35,460 personal this is, what wilt thou that I 977 00:42:35,460 --> 00:42:37,060 should do unto thee? 978 00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:41,140 Oh, what a moment this was as Bartimaeus 979 00:42:41,140 --> 00:42:43,440 with his blind eyes said he couldn't see 980 00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:43,940 Jesus. 981 00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:45,480 You can't see him tonight. 982 00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:47,500 You can't see Jesus. 983 00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:50,060 But Bartimaeus couldn't see Jesus. 984 00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:52,320 He just stood there in his blindness and 985 00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:54,000 he heard the Savior's words. 986 00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:55,860 You've heard the Savior's words. 987 00:42:57,120 --> 00:42:59,140 What wilt thou that I should do unto 988 00:42:59,140 --> 00:42:59,540 thee? 989 00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:02,340 A personal question, a personal Savior. 990 00:43:03,620 --> 00:43:05,320 Bartimaeus knows what he says. 991 00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:09,620 The blind man, God marked him out as 992 00:43:09,620 --> 00:43:10,720 a blind man. 993 00:43:10,720 --> 00:43:12,060 The fifty-first verse. 994 00:43:12,900 --> 00:43:16,240 Said unto him, notice now, not son of 995 00:43:16,240 --> 00:43:21,680 David, no, Bartimaeus had had his spiritual eyes 996 00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:24,940 open here and he said, Lord. 997 00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:26,900 Who did he call Lord? 998 00:43:27,300 --> 00:43:29,480 The despised Nazarene. 999 00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:31,920 The man this world was going to soon 1000 00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:33,020 spit in his face. 1001 00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:35,420 The man this world was going to crown 1002 00:43:35,420 --> 00:43:36,180 with thorns. 1003 00:43:36,740 --> 00:43:38,680 The man this world didn't want. 1004 00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:42,120 Bartimaeus dared to call him Lord. 1005 00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:44,180 Oh, what a wonderful. 1006 00:43:44,340 --> 00:43:47,040 I believe, my friends, with joy I believe 1007 00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:47,220 it. 1008 00:43:47,660 --> 00:43:49,760 That the angels in heaven looked down upon 1009 00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:52,120 this sight as God looked down upon this 1010 00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:52,420 sight. 1011 00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:54,880 As the devil looked upon this sight as 1012 00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:56,880 Jesus and Bartimaeus stood. 1013 00:43:57,580 --> 00:44:00,060 Face to face, face to face. 1014 00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:03,720 Lord, that I might receive my sight. 1015 00:44:04,260 --> 00:44:06,480 What does God say now to you tonight? 1016 00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:09,380 If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the 1017 00:44:09,380 --> 00:44:12,400 Lord Jesus, believe in thy heart that God 1018 00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:14,540 hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt 1019 00:44:14,540 --> 00:44:15,380 be saved. 1020 00:44:15,540 --> 00:44:17,080 What does he mean by that verse? 1021 00:44:17,240 --> 00:44:21,840 I believe this, this world, my friends, has 1022 00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:23,560 insulted the Son of God. 1023 00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:26,580 This world gave the Son of God a 1024 00:44:26,580 --> 00:44:27,840 criminal cross. 1025 00:44:28,020 --> 00:44:30,540 And this world, I believe, my friends, this 1026 00:44:30,540 --> 00:44:32,700 world we know is stained with the blood 1027 00:44:32,700 --> 00:44:33,280 of Christ. 1028 00:44:34,220 --> 00:44:36,160 God said that if you will call that 1029 00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:39,460 man Lord, if you will call that man 1030 00:44:39,460 --> 00:44:43,620 Lord, and believe in your heart that God 1031 00:44:43,620 --> 00:44:46,500 hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt 1032 00:44:46,500 --> 00:44:47,140 be saved. 1033 00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:50,180 And so he says, Lord, that I might 1034 00:44:50,180 --> 00:44:51,460 receive my sight. 1035 00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:53,920 There may be another blind man around the 1036 00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:58,260 district, but Bartimaeus was concerned with this personal 1037 00:44:58,260 --> 00:44:58,960 question. 1038 00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:02,760 And my dear friends, Christ is a personal 1039 00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:03,260 Savior. 1040 00:45:03,260 --> 00:45:06,220 Christ was Peter's personal Savior. 1041 00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:09,840 And Christ was Paul's personal Savior. 1042 00:45:10,500 --> 00:45:12,700 The Apostle Paul could say, The Son of 1043 00:45:12,700 --> 00:45:16,780 God who loved me, gave himself for me. 1044 00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:19,660 The Apostle Peter could say, Thou art the 1045 00:45:19,660 --> 00:45:22,340 Christ, the Son of the living God. 1046 00:45:23,100 --> 00:45:28,320 Oh, the Lord Jesus was their personal Savior. 1047 00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:30,740 Is he your personal Savior? 1048 00:45:31,420 --> 00:45:33,880 Can you say Jesus is a Savior? 1049 00:45:34,260 --> 00:45:36,060 Jesus is the Savior? 1050 00:45:36,620 --> 00:45:38,820 But oh, thank God I can say that 1051 00:45:38,820 --> 00:45:42,400 Jesus is my Lord and my Savior. 1052 00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:46,060 He loved me, and he died for my 1053 00:45:46,060 --> 00:45:46,680 sins. 1054 00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:50,220 I stake my soul on the precious blood 1055 00:45:50,220 --> 00:45:53,240 of Christ, on the death and resurrection of 1056 00:45:53,240 --> 00:45:54,380 the Son of God. 1057 00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:56,600 Can you do that tonight, my friends? 1058 00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:57,480 You can do it. 1059 00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:00,900 Christ, receive us, sinful men. 1060 00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:04,020 And so it says here in the last 1061 00:46:04,020 --> 00:46:07,480 verse, the 52nd verse, And Jesus said unto 1062 00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:10,840 him, Go thy way, thy faith hath made 1063 00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:11,540 thee whole. 1064 00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:16,160 And immediately he received his sight, and followed 1065 00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:17,640 Jesus in the way. 1066 00:46:18,260 --> 00:46:20,820 Oh, what a wonderful moment this was, as 1067 00:46:20,820 --> 00:46:23,380 the blind man stood face to face with 1068 00:46:23,380 --> 00:46:23,840 Christ. 1069 00:46:24,260 --> 00:46:26,880 And as he heard the Lord Jesus say, 1070 00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:31,600 Thy faith hath saved thee, go in peace, 1071 00:46:31,900 --> 00:46:35,700 and immediately, notice, immediately, no waiting, and I 1072 00:46:35,700 --> 00:46:38,480 say this reverently, no going to the doctor, 1073 00:46:39,060 --> 00:46:42,620 no buying pills or medicine, no, my friends, 1074 00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:44,440 Christ saves immediately. 1075 00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:47,440 You can see us, maybe came in this 1076 00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:50,700 room at 725, on the way to eternal 1077 00:46:50,700 --> 00:46:51,980 darkness and hell. 1078 00:46:52,340 --> 00:46:55,560 You can leave this room now at 830, 1079 00:46:55,980 --> 00:46:59,300 a child of God, fit for glory, your 1080 00:46:59,300 --> 00:47:03,620 sins forever gone, eternal life, heaven is your 1081 00:47:03,620 --> 00:47:06,220 home, and Christ is your Savior, and God 1082 00:47:06,220 --> 00:47:09,740 is your Father, immediately, Christ will save you 1083 00:47:09,740 --> 00:47:10,300 immediately. 1084 00:47:11,220 --> 00:47:14,580 And so it says, he received his sight. 1085 00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:17,600 And I ask you, what was the first 1086 00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:19,460 thing that Bartimaeus saw? 1087 00:47:20,820 --> 00:47:23,380 What was the first thing that Bartimaeus saw 1088 00:47:23,380 --> 00:47:24,460 as his eyes were opened? 1089 00:47:25,020 --> 00:47:27,400 Why, he saw Jesus. 1090 00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:31,160 He never saw him before, but he saw 1091 00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:31,820 Jesus. 1092 00:47:32,740 --> 00:47:36,520 And oh, we see Jesus crowned with glory 1093 00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:37,080 and honor. 1094 00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:40,000 We were Christians, we were under the shelter 1095 00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:41,960 of the precious blood with the eye of 1096 00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:42,380 faith. 1097 00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:45,060 We behold the Son of God in yonder 1098 00:47:45,060 --> 00:47:48,040 glory, crowned with glory and honor at the 1099 00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:49,220 right hand of the Father. 1100 00:47:50,340 --> 00:47:53,560 We behold, and we see Jesus. 1101 00:47:55,780 --> 00:47:57,600 Bartimaeus saw Jesus. 1102 00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:00,040 And young man, if you get your eyes 1103 00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:02,360 open tonight and come to Christ, young lady, 1104 00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:03,980 you will see Jesus. 1105 00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:07,080 This book will become to you a new 1106 00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:10,680 book, the old Bible, the old neglected Bible 1107 00:48:11,100 --> 00:48:13,700 hid away in the library with the dust 1108 00:48:13,700 --> 00:48:14,220 on it. 1109 00:48:14,660 --> 00:48:16,340 As I went into a certain library in 1110 00:48:16,340 --> 00:48:18,200 a certain town, I said to the lady 1111 00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:19,720 at the counter, have you got a Bible 1112 00:48:19,720 --> 00:48:20,120 here? 1113 00:48:20,180 --> 00:48:21,940 And she said, I think there's one someplace. 1114 00:48:21,940 --> 00:48:24,860 She went all through the library and all 1115 00:48:24,860 --> 00:48:27,000 of a sudden she found the old Bible 1116 00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:29,200 hid away in the top shelf. 1117 00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:31,600 The Bible will become a new book. 1118 00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:34,200 Your eyes will be opened and you'll see 1119 00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:36,040 Jesus, Jesus. 1120 00:48:36,660 --> 00:48:39,020 And you'll say, by the grace of God, 1121 00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:41,720 He is altogether lovely. 1122 00:48:42,380 --> 00:48:44,460 He's the cheapest amongst 10,000. 1123 00:48:44,700 --> 00:48:46,300 Why didn't I not come? 1124 00:48:46,780 --> 00:48:49,520 You maybe were at the Detroit Conference last 1125 00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:49,940 year. 1126 00:48:50,540 --> 00:48:53,840 Maybe you sat in the Ottawa Conference last 1127 00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:54,520 October. 1128 00:48:54,900 --> 00:48:57,840 You heard the gospel time and time again. 1129 00:48:57,940 --> 00:49:00,000 What responsibility is yours? 1130 00:49:00,140 --> 00:49:01,200 What will you say? 1131 00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:04,200 What will you say when God looks at 1132 00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:08,360 you, looks straight into your very soul and 1133 00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:13,640 reminds you of this date, November the 24th, 1134 00:49:13,700 --> 00:49:18,640 1962, when you said, if not with your 1135 00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:22,040 voice, with your actions, I don't want Christ. 1136 00:49:23,100 --> 00:49:24,160 What will you say? 1137 00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:26,440 Oh, it's a solemn thing, my friend. 1138 00:49:26,540 --> 00:49:29,540 The Bible says, prepare to meet thy God. 1139 00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:31,140 You've got to meet God. 1140 00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:34,000 Before I became a Christian, you came to 1141 00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:37,040 my house, rang the doorbell, and said to 1142 00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:39,120 me, young man, prepare to meet God. 1143 00:49:39,420 --> 00:49:42,320 I tremble, I tremble, my friend, to meet 1144 00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:42,880 God. 1145 00:49:43,260 --> 00:49:44,800 But I'd like tonight to bring you, before 1146 00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:47,160 I pray, into the very presence of God 1147 00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:50,000 to see yourself as a ruined, guilty, hell 1148 00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:52,940 -deserving sinner and to find out that Christ 1149 00:49:52,940 --> 00:49:54,060 died for you. 1150 00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:56,480 If you believe it, my friend, if you 1151 00:49:56,480 --> 00:49:59,040 only believe it that He died on the 1152 00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:02,300 cross of Calvary for sinners, therefore for you, 1153 00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:03,700 why not receive Him tonight? 1154 00:50:04,100 --> 00:50:07,360 Why not say, Lord Jesus, tonight I receive 1155 00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:08,420 you as my Savior. 1156 00:50:09,020 --> 00:50:10,260 And then, as you go out of the 1157 00:50:10,260 --> 00:50:11,900 room, confess Him as your Lord. 1158 00:50:13,340 --> 00:50:16,080 Bartimaeus says, go thy way. 1159 00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:20,080 No, Bartimaeus says, I won't go my way. 1160 00:50:20,260 --> 00:50:21,860 I'm going your way. 1161 00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:24,400 He followed Jesus in the way. 1162 00:50:24,900 --> 00:50:27,300 Why, Christ had opened His eyes and Christ 1163 00:50:27,300 --> 00:50:28,280 had opened His heart. 1164 00:50:29,380 --> 00:50:30,660 Isn't that wonderful? 1165 00:50:31,020 --> 00:50:34,180 Christ had opened His eyes and Christ had 1166 00:50:34,180 --> 00:50:35,060 won His heart. 1167 00:50:35,940 --> 00:50:38,860 And so, Bartimaeus said, Lord, your way is 1168 00:50:38,860 --> 00:50:39,640 my way. 1169 00:50:40,220 --> 00:50:44,460 And Bartimaeus became a follower of Jesus from 1170 00:50:44,460 --> 00:50:45,400 that very day. 1171 00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:49,020 Will you tonight, my friends, receive this Jesus 1172 00:50:49,020 --> 00:50:50,180 as your Savior? 1173 00:50:50,720 --> 00:50:52,320 We can't tell you anything else. 1174 00:50:53,220 --> 00:50:54,620 The good old gospel. 1175 00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:57,080 The good old gospel of the love of 1176 00:50:57,080 --> 00:51:00,000 God, the precious Son of God who loved 1177 00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:02,540 you and gave Himself for you. 1178 00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:05,100 Will you receive my Savior? 1179 00:51:05,220 --> 00:51:08,420 I recommend to you, young man, young lady, 1180 00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:12,480 old man, old lady, I recommend to you 1181 00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:15,920 my Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, the sinner's 1182 00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:17,620 Savior, will you take Him tonight? 1183 00:51:18,180 --> 00:51:20,280 Will you receive Christ tonight? 1184 00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:22,800 Bartimaeus received Christ. 1185 00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:25,060 Bartimaeus' eyes were opened. 1186 00:51:25,660 --> 00:51:28,960 And again, I say, Bartimaeus' heart was opened 1187 00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:35,240 and Bartimaeus became a follower of Jesus. 1188 00:51:35,700 --> 00:51:38,060 Will you tonight receive Jesus? 1189 00:51:38,220 --> 00:51:40,800 As you leave this room, you're going to 1190 00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:41,580 make a decision. 1191 00:51:42,300 --> 00:51:44,360 You're going to make a decision tonight, my 1192 00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:44,880 friends. 1193 00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:46,320 You can't be neutral. 1194 00:51:46,580 --> 00:51:49,540 There's no neutrality when it comes to Christ. 1195 00:51:50,240 --> 00:51:52,000 Either you're His or you're not. 1196 00:51:52,720 --> 00:51:54,880 Tonight as you leave this room, you leave 1197 00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:56,920 either on the way to Heaven or on 1198 00:51:56,920 --> 00:51:57,780 the way to Hell. 1199 00:51:57,880 --> 00:51:59,580 There's no middle road. 1200 00:52:00,060 --> 00:52:01,680 There's no third class. 1201 00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:03,460 There's no third place. 1202 00:52:03,580 --> 00:52:06,680 Heaven without Christ or Hell without Christ. 1203 00:52:07,980 --> 00:52:12,380 The Lord Jesus said, a man cannot serve 1204 00:52:12,380 --> 00:52:13,380 two masters. 1205 00:52:13,380 --> 00:52:18,360 There's only two, Christ and the devil. 1206 00:52:19,060 --> 00:52:21,180 Which will it be with you, my friends? 1207 00:52:21,820 --> 00:52:25,280 May God grant you will choose tonight the 1208 00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:27,000 Lord Jesus as your Savior. 1209 00:52:27,060 --> 00:52:30,500 Let us sing number 21, Decide for Christ 1210 00:52:30,500 --> 00:52:30,860 today. 1211 00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:33,920 The first and the last verses of number 1212 00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:34,620 21. 1213 00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:36,160 Will you stand, please?