Toronto, Canada.
March the 31st, 1961.
Gospel meeting.
Our Calvary is almighty in
this company tonight.
There are some, some
in this hall tonight who are not yet
under the shelter.
I suppose that every one of us here
who are Christians can look back to that
time in our lives when we did not
know the Savior.
And we let every boy and
girl who has never yet received Christ as
their personal Savior, tonight is lost, L-O
-S-T.
How solemn it is to come into this
room, lost from those courts, the enemy of
your precious soul, who do all in his
power to stop you from hearing not the
preacher's voice, but the very voice of God
speaking to your precious, never-dying soul.
I want to ask this question before we
turn to God's Word.
I want to ask you, my friends, every
man in this room, every woman in this
room, every boy and girl in this room,
I want to ask you this solemn question.
If you had died last night, oh friends,
how solemn this is.
If you had died last night, I ask
you, where would you be right now?
Where would you be now?
If you had passed away without Christ, you
would be in eternal darkness, away from God
forever, in your sins.
Now I'd like to bring the next question
from the Word of God.
God ever asks man.
It's a very, very solemn question.
And the
Lord God calls unto Adam and said unto
him, Where?
That's a very solemn question.
Because it tells us that man is like
a fallen creature.
I didn't know where man was.
It's not because God couldn't see Adam that
I believed that God would have this question
sent from this platform tonight.
Where art thou?
Where are you hiding?
For of the unsaved man and woman is
hiding a solemn question.
Where art thou?
Here was a man who had only sinned
once.
That one sin he committed.
Hiding behind the breach of a diary to
hide away from God.
He only had a record of one sin.
And that one sin drove him away.
Now, my friends, I want to ask you
tonight, if you're unsaved here, without Christ, without
hope, without God in this world, I want
to ask you about your record.
I want to say unto myself that
I do know that our life is so
solemnly known before God.
And tonight we'd like to, at the very
start of this meeting, we'd like to bring
you into the immediate presence of God himself,
not in the presence of a God who
loves the sinner, but a God who takes
sins with all his power, with all his
might.
And God asks that question, Where art thou,
you sickly matron?
And he stands in the presence of God
and he says, I was naked, naked, naked.
I'm naked.
But outside of the Lord Jesus, outside of
his death and resurrection, outside of his precious
blood, there is no salvation.
For in his sight I am great.
Into your very heart, into the very depths
of your soul, my friend, where art thou?
Where are you hiding tonight, my friend?
Where are you hiding?
Heaven bound or hell bound?
There's no middle ground.
There's no neutrality.
Either tonight you're on the way to eternal
glory, There is
no record in the word of God of
a seed that believeth in the Son of
God, hath everlasting life in the first class.
But he delighteth in the wrath of God.
And he hath
made that wonderful discovery.
And he hath found that the word of
God concerning you is true.
The whole world, he
says, is no different.
We're all sin in some show.
My friend, it's a wonderful discovery to find
out you're a sinner so you'll never get
to heaven, will you?
Without that, my friend, you'll never come to
Christ.
So you'll find you're a fool, a liar.
A question that God is asking.
Bow down.
Now, my friend, in chapter three, we have
lost.
In chapter four, we find that man is
guilty of God and is lost and guilty.
God says to Cain, What hast thou done?
Did God not know?
My friends, I speak rapidly.
Did not God know that Cain's hands were
stained with the blood of Abel?
He knew that exactly.
He saw with his holy eyes that Cain
had killed his brother, and yet he asked
this question.
Why did he ask it?
To point out to Cain he was guilty
and to point out to you tonight, my
friends, that you are guilty.
What hast thou done?
The other night we were visiting the lady
and as she sat in her living room
with her husband, both of them were smoking
cigarettes.
You do the best you can and you
live a good life and try to do
what's right.
What else can God expect from a person?
And the speaker said this to her.
The one who was speaking to her said
this.
My dear lady, you realize tonight that you
have a heart just like Judas Iscariot.
You have a heart just like Adolf Hitler.
You have a heart just like Eichmann that
murdered five million Jews.
And your heart is no better than that
man's.
Not a bit better.
Not one bit better.
For you and I are sinners, my friends.
I want to turn.
I don't ask you to turn, but I'd
like to read to you a few scriptures
from God's Word that shows God's thoughts about
your heart and my heart.
In the fifth of Genesis, in the fifth
of Genesis, sixth of Genesis, Genesis 6, verse
5, God saw that the wickedness of man
was great in the earth, that every imagination
of the thoughts of his heart was only
evil continually.
14th Psalm and the first verse.
Now I want to say to anybody in
this room that I use as a stranger,
I want you to solely realize that these
are the words of the only living God
there is.
The only living God who reads your heart
through and through.
All fingers make it open to the eyes
of him with whom we have to do.
Psalm 14, verse 1.
The fool has said in his heart, there
is no God.
They're corrupt.
They have done abominable work.
There is none that do us good.
The Lord looked down from heaven upon these
children of man, just to see if there
were any that could understand.
And he saw they are all gone aside.
They're all going to become filthy.
There is none that do us good.
No, not one.
Not one, he said.
That's what God said.
Not one.
Jeremiah chapter 17, Jeremiah
7, is deceitful above all things
and desperately or incurably wicked.
Who can know it?
I, the Lord, search the heart.
Of the Old Testament, the psalms all testify
from the
man walked to the scaffold, now
turns his
forefront out, the
very Christ, and
he ends it up by, never
bother me, open
up your heart, your
head, the very death
faces you.
A young
man, young lady, he
proved his love.
Oh, my friend, he
won your heart.
We were down the hall, and we were
praying for you.
We were praying that God would speak to
you.
We were heard knocking on the
hall, 32 years old, in the city of
Montreal, and heard those who are now our
brethren in Christ, preaching the same precious gospel
of the grace of God.
We heard that voice touch in our poor,
poor, lost, darkened hearts.
That gentle voice said, tonight's the night.
Tonight's the night to receive Christ.
And many a night, we walked into that
gospel hall, saying, no, we will not come.
We will not come.
But the wonderful love of God, the matchless
grace of God, the marvelous love of Christ,
has broken the barriers down.
Christ.
Christ has won the hearts of many in
this room tonight.
I ask you to say, I don't believe
in force and conversion.
God forbid.
But I say again, and I say again,
God can.
If God has spoken to your soul tonight,
if God has spoken to your soul, gnarly
in the kiss of the serpent, raise
those hands.