1 00:00:02,060 --> 00:00:03,880 Now, I would like to read in the 2 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:06,640 New Testament, in the Gospel of John chapter 3 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:07,039 19. 4 00:00:08,420 --> 00:00:10,420 There are four Gospels in the New Testament, 5 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:12,520 and we'll just read in the fourth Gospel, 6 00:00:13,340 --> 00:00:14,860 John chapter 19. 7 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:26,560 In this chapter, we have the story of 8 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:28,680 the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus. 9 00:00:30,540 --> 00:00:32,420 And we won't read the whole story, we're 10 00:00:32,420 --> 00:00:35,960 just going to read the last part of 11 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:39,080 what happened before he died, as it's recorded 12 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:39,840 in this Gospel. 13 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:42,580 We're only going to read one verse, verse 14 00:00:42,580 --> 00:00:42,960 30. 15 00:00:49,180 --> 00:00:51,820 John 19 and 30 says, when Jesus, therefore, 16 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:55,600 had received the vinegar, the soldiers had come 17 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:57,020 to him when he said, I thirst, and 18 00:00:57,020 --> 00:01:00,500 offered him this bitter drink, he said, It 19 00:01:00,500 --> 00:01:01,180 is finished. 20 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:06,180 And he bowed his head and gave up 21 00:01:06,180 --> 00:01:06,680 the ghost. 22 00:01:07,420 --> 00:01:11,300 In other words, Christ died. 23 00:01:19,260 --> 00:01:21,920 These are the last three words recorded in 24 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:24,980 the Gospel of John before the Lord Jesus 25 00:01:24,980 --> 00:01:25,520 died. 26 00:01:26,300 --> 00:01:27,860 Now try to imagine this. 27 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:30,640 Here is a man who's suffering on a 28 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:31,000 cross. 29 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:33,500 If you can't find difficulty imagining that, so 30 00:01:33,500 --> 00:01:33,920 do I. 31 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:36,900 But he's just outside a city, there's a 32 00:01:36,900 --> 00:01:39,840 major road with people coming and going, and 33 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:41,200 on the side of the road there is 34 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:43,180 a cross, there are three of them, and 35 00:01:43,180 --> 00:01:45,500 this man, Jesus, is on the middle cross. 36 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:48,700 And just as he's about to die, he 37 00:01:48,700 --> 00:01:52,600 says, three words in English, It is finished. 38 00:01:52,820 --> 00:01:55,340 Two words in Spanish, one word in his 39 00:01:55,340 --> 00:01:57,060 language that he spoke at that time, the 40 00:01:57,060 --> 00:02:00,020 language of Greek, and he says what would 41 00:02:00,020 --> 00:02:03,080 be the equivalent to the people passing, It's 42 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:03,780 all paid. 43 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:07,039 Now that would be a strange thing for 44 00:02:07,039 --> 00:02:10,440 a man who's been suffering, suffering intensely on 45 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,840 a cross, about to die, to suddenly just 46 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:16,040 say in a loud voice, It's all paid. 47 00:02:16,780 --> 00:02:18,180 But I want you to think with me 48 00:02:18,180 --> 00:02:20,700 tonight about what he said and why he 49 00:02:20,700 --> 00:02:21,120 said it. 50 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:22,860 First of all, I want you to think 51 00:02:22,860 --> 00:02:25,120 about the necessity of the payment that he 52 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:27,880 made, the necessity of that payment. 53 00:02:29,900 --> 00:02:33,160 Down in Mexico, where I live, we are 54 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:34,980 getting up to date slowly but surely on 55 00:02:34,980 --> 00:02:37,780 technology, and in fact, where we are, we 56 00:02:37,780 --> 00:02:40,960 can now pay our electric bills at an 57 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:42,060 automatic teller machine. 58 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:43,360 We're getting advanced. 59 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:45,320 And you go and you put your bill 60 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:47,480 in there and it comes up, or you 61 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:48,900 can type in the number of the meter 62 00:02:48,900 --> 00:02:49,560 at your house. 63 00:02:49,980 --> 00:02:51,360 I have to type the meter at my 64 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:53,460 house because we don't get the bills and 65 00:02:53,460 --> 00:02:54,820 they don't always come on the same date, 66 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:56,520 and there's a lot of variance there. 67 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:58,700 And so, not too long ago, I was 68 00:02:58,700 --> 00:03:01,340 concerned that maybe we had a, our bill 69 00:03:01,340 --> 00:03:03,260 wasn't paid, wasn't up to date, and I 70 00:03:03,260 --> 00:03:05,620 wouldn't want the electricity to get cut off. 71 00:03:06,140 --> 00:03:07,960 And we hadn't gotten a bill for some 72 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:10,160 time, so I went to the automatic machine 73 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:12,460 and I typed in the meter number, and 74 00:03:12,460 --> 00:03:13,980 up came some beautiful words. 75 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:19,080 There is no debt on this account. 76 00:03:20,020 --> 00:03:20,840 Oh, I was glad. 77 00:03:20,920 --> 00:03:21,840 I wish I could get that every time 78 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:22,720 I typed in those numbers. 79 00:03:23,060 --> 00:03:24,900 There is no debt on this account. 80 00:03:25,860 --> 00:03:29,100 You see, that would not be something that 81 00:03:29,100 --> 00:03:31,000 God in heaven could say about you and 82 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:31,320 I. 83 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:33,460 There is no debt on this account. 84 00:03:34,100 --> 00:03:36,280 Because you see, the Bible uses the idea 85 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:39,440 of a debt to illustrate the problem that 86 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:41,940 we have, the spiritual problem that we have 87 00:03:41,940 --> 00:03:44,080 before God, the problem of our sin. 88 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:47,700 A debt is when somebody is responsible for 89 00:03:47,700 --> 00:03:48,620 a certain amount of money. 90 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:51,180 And when we talk about a spiritual debt, 91 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:53,220 we are talking about a certain amount of 92 00:03:53,220 --> 00:03:58,520 responsibility for acts of sin, of disobedience, of 93 00:03:58,520 --> 00:03:59,980 breaking of God's law. 94 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:02,240 Sin against God. 95 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:05,000 In the Bible, that is a real problem. 96 00:04:06,180 --> 00:04:07,560 And you, if you would like to think 97 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:09,060 of it this way tonight, if you will, 98 00:04:09,580 --> 00:04:12,840 you have a debt, a spiritual debt, a 99 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:16,920 responsibility for sin against God. 100 00:04:17,899 --> 00:04:19,980 Now, please understand that that is a very 101 00:04:19,980 --> 00:04:20,899 serious thing. 102 00:04:21,540 --> 00:04:24,460 Don't run for cover under the idea, well, 103 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:26,900 everybody here has the same problem, as if 104 00:04:26,900 --> 00:04:28,360 that somehow is supposed to make us feel 105 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:28,960 more comfortable. 106 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:33,340 Tonight, if every person in this auditorium was 107 00:04:33,340 --> 00:04:36,540 declared to have terminal cancer, you would say, 108 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:37,680 well, the good thing is the rest of 109 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:38,940 us, the rest of you all have what 110 00:04:38,940 --> 00:04:39,440 I have. 111 00:04:40,180 --> 00:04:42,080 You would be focused right in on the 112 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:42,520 reality. 113 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:45,500 I have personally a real problem. 114 00:04:45,740 --> 00:04:47,180 And that's what God wants you to do 115 00:04:47,180 --> 00:04:47,520 tonight. 116 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:51,300 To focus your attention right in on this 117 00:04:51,300 --> 00:04:55,440 real spiritual problem of your debts against God. 118 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:57,860 Because you see, the record books of heaven 119 00:04:57,860 --> 00:04:58,980 are very accurate. 120 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:02,560 There is not one sin, not one sinful 121 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:05,520 thought, anything that has been dirty, anything that 122 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:07,920 has been unkind, anything that has passed your 123 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:10,060 mind that's somehow not been written in the 124 00:05:10,060 --> 00:05:10,580 books of heaven. 125 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:12,600 There's not one word that has ever come 126 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:15,800 out of your mouth that has been inconsistent 127 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:17,860 with the word of God that has been 128 00:05:17,860 --> 00:05:21,180 defiling, anything that has been hurtful, that's all 129 00:05:21,180 --> 00:05:22,140 recorded in heaven. 130 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:24,360 God has the record books, the accounting books, 131 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:25,600 and they're all up to date. 132 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:30,460 The Bible says all have sinned and come 133 00:05:30,460 --> 00:05:31,960 short of the glory of God. 134 00:05:32,460 --> 00:05:34,740 It says the payment for sin, the wages 135 00:05:34,740 --> 00:05:36,220 of sin, is death. 136 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:38,360 And so tonight, if you were to put 137 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:40,640 your problems all out on the table, and 138 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:42,020 you were to talk about the problems in 139 00:05:42,020 --> 00:05:44,660 your family, the problems in your job, the 140 00:05:44,660 --> 00:05:46,040 problem of your health, and you put it 141 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:48,760 all out on the table, your eyes should 142 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:51,200 fix right in on the one that glares 143 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:54,140 brighter than all other problems. 144 00:05:54,660 --> 00:05:57,300 It should call your attention, it should grip 145 00:05:57,300 --> 00:06:01,000 your heart and your mind, I have a 146 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,580 problem of the debt of my sin against 147 00:06:03,580 --> 00:06:04,160 God. 148 00:06:04,820 --> 00:06:07,600 Because look, when your life is all over, 149 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:09,800 really if you died with a lot of 150 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:11,380 financial debt, that wouldn't be a good thing, 151 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:12,840 but you won't take your debt with you, 152 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:13,560 that's the good part. 153 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:16,840 If you died with bad health, well, you 154 00:06:16,840 --> 00:06:18,380 died, so that doesn't really come into it. 155 00:06:18,620 --> 00:06:20,300 If you died with problems in your family, 156 00:06:20,380 --> 00:06:23,240 that's a serious thing, but really that wouldn't 157 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:24,700 bother you and that wouldn't affect you in 158 00:06:24,700 --> 00:06:25,320 the next life. 159 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:28,420 The only thing that you will have to 160 00:06:28,420 --> 00:06:30,100 be worried about in the next life, life 161 00:06:30,100 --> 00:06:32,700 after death, the Bible talks about a real 162 00:06:32,700 --> 00:06:34,140 heaven and a real hell. 163 00:06:34,860 --> 00:06:36,840 The only thing that you should be concerned 164 00:06:36,840 --> 00:06:39,460 about tonight is what about the debt of 165 00:06:39,460 --> 00:06:40,040 my sin? 166 00:06:41,300 --> 00:06:43,400 Maybe you're sitting there thinking, sir, don't talk 167 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:44,640 to me about the debt of my sin. 168 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:46,720 If you want to talk about sin, why 169 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:47,820 you should meet my uncle. 170 00:06:48,500 --> 00:06:50,240 Maybe you should meet my brother. 171 00:06:50,620 --> 00:06:52,220 You should hear what those people say at 172 00:06:52,220 --> 00:06:52,560 school. 173 00:06:53,620 --> 00:06:55,620 The Lord Jesus was talking one day in 174 00:06:55,620 --> 00:06:58,020 Luke chapter 7 to a religious man, and 175 00:06:58,020 --> 00:06:59,260 there was a woman who came in and 176 00:06:59,260 --> 00:06:59,960 she was known. 177 00:07:00,820 --> 00:07:03,320 A woman with a reputation, just awful. 178 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:06,000 And he said to that man, listen, he 179 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:07,940 said there were two men and they borrowed 180 00:07:07,940 --> 00:07:08,280 money. 181 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:10,400 They went to a creditor and they borrowed 182 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:10,760 money. 183 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:12,640 And the one owned 50 and the other 184 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:13,220 one 500. 185 00:07:14,260 --> 00:07:15,520 The day came when they had to pay 186 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:15,980 it back. 187 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,140 In the illustration, Jesus, the Lord Jesus said, 188 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:23,540 when they had nothing to pay. 189 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:25,920 What was he trying to tell that religious 190 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:26,260 man? 191 00:07:26,980 --> 00:07:28,780 You would agree with me, wouldn't you, Simon? 192 00:07:28,980 --> 00:07:32,160 A person who's a sinful, a bad, has 193 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:35,560 a bad reputation that's known around town, that 194 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:37,640 person will never be able to pay for 195 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:38,220 their sin. 196 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:41,240 And Simon, I want to tell you, you 197 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:41,960 may be religious. 198 00:07:42,380 --> 00:07:44,100 You may have tried to live according to 199 00:07:44,100 --> 00:07:44,460 the book. 200 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:46,000 You may have tried to be kind to 201 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:46,360 your neighbor. 202 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:49,400 But I want to tell you, you have 203 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:50,900 nothing to pay either. 204 00:07:51,700 --> 00:07:54,920 In the eyes of God, the need for 205 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:55,400 a payment. 206 00:07:56,260 --> 00:07:57,260 What about your debt? 207 00:07:58,520 --> 00:07:59,760 What could you pay God? 208 00:07:59,820 --> 00:08:01,060 How could you pay God? 209 00:08:01,060 --> 00:08:04,060 Most people have the idea, well, I'll do 210 00:08:04,060 --> 00:08:06,820 something good and that'll cancel out something bad. 211 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:10,160 What a beautiful concept, except that that's not 212 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:12,780 God's concept and that's not, it's not beautiful 213 00:08:12,780 --> 00:08:14,060 at all because it's not true. 214 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:18,260 The Bible says that nobody will be in 215 00:08:18,260 --> 00:08:20,800 heaven by their works, not by works of 216 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:22,380 righteousness which we have done. 217 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:25,260 That won't be, that your good works will 218 00:08:25,260 --> 00:08:26,520 cancel out your bad works. 219 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:28,460 Some people have the idea, well, it's a 220 00:08:28,460 --> 00:08:30,680 bit like, one of the things I like 221 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:32,940 about living in Mexico is we have juices 222 00:08:32,940 --> 00:08:35,440 like you have here, but they also have 223 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:36,820 what they call aguas. 224 00:08:37,940 --> 00:08:39,500 And what they do, for example, you take 225 00:08:39,500 --> 00:08:41,480 a pineapple and you squeeze the juice out 226 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:41,679 of it. 227 00:08:42,140 --> 00:08:43,880 You add water to it and lots of 228 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:44,160 sugar. 229 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:45,160 And that's it. 230 00:08:45,220 --> 00:08:46,400 It's not quite a juice, but it's a, 231 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:48,280 oh, got to come down and try it. 232 00:08:48,300 --> 00:08:48,820 They're really good. 233 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:50,540 All kinds of fruit, delicious. 234 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:54,400 Sometimes they make it out of lemons. 235 00:08:55,180 --> 00:08:57,940 Now it's not lemonade and it's not, it's 236 00:08:57,940 --> 00:08:58,940 not, it's not juice. 237 00:08:59,340 --> 00:09:01,380 It's lemon water. 238 00:09:02,780 --> 00:09:04,380 But I have seen it happen where they 239 00:09:04,380 --> 00:09:05,860 squeeze the lemons all out and the lemons 240 00:09:05,860 --> 00:09:06,320 are sour. 241 00:09:09,060 --> 00:09:13,420 So they start adding sugar, adding sugar and 242 00:09:13,420 --> 00:09:14,020 adding sugar. 243 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:17,620 The beauty of sugar is that if you 244 00:09:17,620 --> 00:09:19,060 get enough of it, it'll take away the 245 00:09:19,060 --> 00:09:19,300 sour. 246 00:09:20,780 --> 00:09:23,080 That's how some people are approaching their lives. 247 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:26,120 The debt of my sin, that sourness, that 248 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:27,700 bitterness, that awfulness. 249 00:09:27,940 --> 00:09:30,040 If I could get enough religion in there, 250 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:32,840 the sweetness of that will take away the 251 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:33,640 bitterness of the other. 252 00:09:33,900 --> 00:09:35,220 That's not how it works in the Bible. 253 00:09:36,420 --> 00:09:38,280 Would you like to know what God actually 254 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:38,680 says? 255 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:44,140 He says, He says about us that all 256 00:09:44,140 --> 00:09:47,120 of us are unclean. 257 00:09:47,820 --> 00:09:51,280 And what He says is our best things 258 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:53,800 we do are like filthy rags. 259 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:57,620 The Bible says that we are sinful, that 260 00:09:57,620 --> 00:09:58,980 there is nothing we can do. 261 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:00,440 It is not a case of even coming 262 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:02,620 up with one thing that God would allow 263 00:10:02,620 --> 00:10:04,020 to dilute down our bad. 264 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:07,480 So I want to ask you tonight, how 265 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:09,400 are you ever going to pay for your 266 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:09,720 debts? 267 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:12,720 And it's an awful thing to live with 268 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:14,360 a consciousness that I have a debt of 269 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:15,240 sin against God. 270 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:17,620 And boys and girls and young people here 271 00:10:17,620 --> 00:10:19,840 tonight, what about your sin? 272 00:10:20,560 --> 00:10:22,220 What about your debt to God? 273 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:24,460 How are you going to keep living with 274 00:10:24,460 --> 00:10:25,080 all of that? 275 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:28,500 And I want to ask you tonight, how 276 00:10:28,500 --> 00:10:32,340 will you ever die knowing that you have 277 00:10:32,340 --> 00:10:34,960 a debt of sin against God? 278 00:10:36,420 --> 00:10:38,080 Could you not sense the need of a 279 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:39,920 payment, the necessity of it? 280 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:42,600 Wouldn't it be wonderful tonight if somebody could 281 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:45,360 come along and they could pay that debt? 282 00:10:46,100 --> 00:10:48,160 You would be the happiest person in God, 283 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:49,820 but you'd have trouble because I'm pretty happy 284 00:10:49,820 --> 00:10:52,080 tonight knowing that my debt has been paid 285 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:53,680 and there are others here as well. 286 00:10:54,340 --> 00:10:56,880 You'd be one delighted person to know, have 287 00:10:56,880 --> 00:10:59,620 peace and be able to say, I know 288 00:10:59,620 --> 00:11:02,320 I'm going to heaven because my debt has 289 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:02,920 been paid. 290 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:04,940 You need to be on the lookout. 291 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:06,000 You need to be searching. 292 00:11:06,580 --> 00:11:08,480 Where could you find a payment tonight? 293 00:11:09,220 --> 00:11:10,920 The necessity of the payment. 294 00:11:13,300 --> 00:11:15,700 But you know, when Jesus said, it is 295 00:11:15,700 --> 00:11:22,870 finished, the people thought, you know how it 296 00:11:22,870 --> 00:11:24,390 would be if you saw somebody in the 297 00:11:24,390 --> 00:11:26,070 back of that police cruiser I've seen going 298 00:11:26,070 --> 00:11:28,870 around Garneville here, if you saw somebody, their 299 00:11:28,870 --> 00:11:30,210 car was pulled over and you saw them 300 00:11:30,210 --> 00:11:32,110 getting into the back with handcuffs on, what 301 00:11:32,110 --> 00:11:32,610 would you think? 302 00:11:33,250 --> 00:11:34,170 What did they do? 303 00:11:35,390 --> 00:11:36,930 That's the way people were as they walked 304 00:11:36,930 --> 00:11:38,570 down that street and they saw the man 305 00:11:38,570 --> 00:11:39,710 on the cross and they shook their head. 306 00:11:39,710 --> 00:11:40,730 They're condemned. 307 00:11:40,890 --> 00:11:41,910 They've done something awful. 308 00:11:42,510 --> 00:11:43,930 And that's what they thought about the Lord 309 00:11:43,930 --> 00:11:46,570 Jesus, that he was being crucified for his 310 00:11:46,570 --> 00:11:47,670 own sin against God. 311 00:11:48,370 --> 00:11:51,110 But the Bible tells us, it wasn't just 312 00:11:51,110 --> 00:11:52,430 that he hadn't broken the law. 313 00:11:53,150 --> 00:11:55,610 He had never sinned against God. 314 00:11:56,510 --> 00:11:59,010 He is the only man on planet Earth 315 00:11:59,010 --> 00:12:00,870 that could have that message from heaven. 316 00:12:01,470 --> 00:12:03,150 There is no debt at this account. 317 00:12:03,970 --> 00:12:04,270 None. 318 00:12:05,070 --> 00:12:06,630 He had never sinned. 319 00:12:06,790 --> 00:12:08,070 Never a sinful thought. 320 00:12:08,070 --> 00:12:09,390 He knew no sin. 321 00:12:09,970 --> 00:12:11,630 Never a sinful word that was spoken. 322 00:12:12,290 --> 00:12:14,410 Never an unkind thing came out of his 323 00:12:14,410 --> 00:12:14,670 lips. 324 00:12:15,470 --> 00:12:17,690 He had never done anything that had hurt 325 00:12:17,690 --> 00:12:19,210 anybody, that had harmed anybody. 326 00:12:19,390 --> 00:12:22,490 No jealousy, no anger, unrighteous anger. 327 00:12:22,850 --> 00:12:24,410 He had never done anything wrong. 328 00:12:24,730 --> 00:12:26,050 And he could not. 329 00:12:27,330 --> 00:12:29,490 And so then, do you not stand back 330 00:12:29,490 --> 00:12:30,870 and ask the obvious question? 331 00:12:32,370 --> 00:12:34,590 If he is saying at the end, it's 332 00:12:34,590 --> 00:12:36,170 paid for, the debt is paid. 333 00:12:37,370 --> 00:12:38,910 If he didn't have a debt, then who 334 00:12:38,910 --> 00:12:39,750 was he paying for? 335 00:12:42,630 --> 00:12:43,990 Think about it, young man. 336 00:12:44,930 --> 00:12:46,810 If the Lord Jesus on the cross, when 337 00:12:46,810 --> 00:12:48,510 he died and the wages of sin is 338 00:12:48,510 --> 00:12:51,250 death, then who was he paying for? 339 00:12:52,130 --> 00:12:54,950 Oh, that's the great truth I discovered 35 340 00:12:54,950 --> 00:12:57,470 years ago, when I wanted to be saved 341 00:12:57,470 --> 00:12:58,710 and I was trying to be ready to 342 00:12:58,710 --> 00:12:59,150 be in heaven. 343 00:12:59,330 --> 00:13:00,770 I had seen my friend get run over 344 00:13:00,770 --> 00:13:03,310 by a car, desperately wanting to have peace 345 00:13:03,310 --> 00:13:05,350 that night, and I could not find how 346 00:13:05,350 --> 00:13:06,490 I could have my debt paid. 347 00:13:06,490 --> 00:13:09,310 And I came across this great need, the 348 00:13:09,310 --> 00:13:10,790 need of my debt being paid. 349 00:13:11,050 --> 00:13:13,190 And reading the Bible, I understood the answer 350 00:13:13,190 --> 00:13:13,830 to that question. 351 00:13:16,550 --> 00:13:20,170 Christ also has once suffered for sins, the 352 00:13:20,170 --> 00:13:21,730 just one, the one who had no debt, 353 00:13:23,110 --> 00:13:26,290 for the unjust ones, those who have debt. 354 00:13:27,230 --> 00:13:30,150 I said to myself, that's it, my debt's 355 00:13:30,150 --> 00:13:30,570 paid. 356 00:13:31,430 --> 00:13:34,670 Jesus paid it all, all to him I 357 00:13:34,670 --> 00:13:34,870 owe. 358 00:13:34,870 --> 00:13:36,730 He paid it for me. 359 00:13:37,710 --> 00:13:39,570 My need was taken care of at the 360 00:13:39,570 --> 00:13:39,950 cross. 361 00:13:40,130 --> 00:13:42,430 I want to ask you tonight, do you 362 00:13:42,430 --> 00:13:44,710 think this could do anything for you? 363 00:13:45,330 --> 00:13:48,190 This great payment that was made when Jesus 364 00:13:48,190 --> 00:13:51,110 suffered and died, the Lord Jesus Christ, he 365 00:13:51,110 --> 00:13:53,050 suffered and died on the cross. 366 00:13:53,150 --> 00:13:54,110 I want you to think with me too 367 00:13:54,110 --> 00:13:56,670 about the totality, the totality of that payment. 368 00:13:57,990 --> 00:13:59,750 In the Bible, there's a story in Acts 369 00:13:59,750 --> 00:14:01,130 chapter 5 of a man and a woman, 370 00:14:01,470 --> 00:14:02,870 and they had a piece of land. 371 00:14:02,930 --> 00:14:03,990 And they took that piece of land and 372 00:14:03,990 --> 00:14:05,150 they put a for sale sign on it. 373 00:14:05,330 --> 00:14:06,870 They sold it and they said, well, let's 374 00:14:06,870 --> 00:14:09,270 go and give this money to God. 375 00:14:09,330 --> 00:14:11,790 And then they thought, well, why don't we 376 00:14:11,790 --> 00:14:13,630 take a chunk out of it and we'll 377 00:14:13,630 --> 00:14:14,250 pocket that? 378 00:14:15,670 --> 00:14:16,510 And so they did. 379 00:14:16,610 --> 00:14:18,170 They stuffed it in their pockets and then 380 00:14:18,170 --> 00:14:20,130 they went, first the man went, Ananias and 381 00:14:20,130 --> 00:14:22,810 then Sapphira, and they came to the apostle 382 00:14:22,810 --> 00:14:24,570 Peter and they said, we're giving the money 383 00:14:24,570 --> 00:14:25,750 from this land to God. 384 00:14:27,690 --> 00:14:28,550 See what they were doing? 385 00:14:29,370 --> 00:14:31,350 They were saying they were making a payment, 386 00:14:31,510 --> 00:14:32,770 but they were really holding something back. 387 00:14:38,410 --> 00:14:42,590 Please, don't you think for a moment that 388 00:14:42,590 --> 00:14:44,270 my Savior held anything back. 389 00:14:46,490 --> 00:14:50,530 The Bible says that he could say, I 390 00:14:50,530 --> 00:14:52,550 gave my back to the smiters. 391 00:14:53,170 --> 00:14:55,790 He let those men whip his back till 392 00:14:55,790 --> 00:14:57,050 it looked like a plowed field. 393 00:14:57,650 --> 00:15:00,510 He didn't pull away from shame and they 394 00:15:00,510 --> 00:15:01,430 spit on him. 395 00:15:02,150 --> 00:15:04,050 He didn't stand back and try to avoid 396 00:15:04,050 --> 00:15:06,050 the blows with their hands or with a 397 00:15:06,050 --> 00:15:06,490 rod. 398 00:15:07,110 --> 00:15:09,010 He didn't pull his arms away and fight 399 00:15:09,010 --> 00:15:10,850 when they put the nails through his hands 400 00:15:10,850 --> 00:15:11,390 and his feet. 401 00:15:11,710 --> 00:15:13,790 The crown of thorns on his head, there 402 00:15:13,790 --> 00:15:14,530 was no resistance. 403 00:15:15,290 --> 00:15:16,690 He was giving himself. 404 00:15:17,850 --> 00:15:19,950 My Bible says that he gave his all 405 00:15:19,950 --> 00:15:23,290 because he didn't come to be served by 406 00:15:23,290 --> 00:15:25,870 others to be ministered unto, but to minister, 407 00:15:26,010 --> 00:15:29,670 to serve, and to give his life. 408 00:15:31,390 --> 00:15:36,060 Could I ask you, could he have given 409 00:15:36,060 --> 00:15:39,900 anything else, anything more? 410 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:43,920 When he suffered and died on the cross, 411 00:15:44,380 --> 00:15:46,200 he gave the maximum. 412 00:15:47,380 --> 00:15:48,440 He gave his all. 413 00:15:49,340 --> 00:15:52,200 It was a full payment, nothing in reserve, 414 00:15:52,660 --> 00:15:53,860 nothing held back. 415 00:15:54,540 --> 00:15:59,440 And Jesus said, it's not just paid, it's 416 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:04,400 paid in full, all the necessity and all 417 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:05,880 the totality of that payment. 418 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:08,240 He paid it all. 419 00:16:09,540 --> 00:16:10,880 You know what the good news about that 420 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:11,100 is? 421 00:16:12,530 --> 00:16:14,080 That means he didn't leave anything for me 422 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:14,460 to pay. 423 00:16:14,780 --> 00:16:16,760 I couldn't, but a good thing, but he 424 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:17,100 didn't. 425 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:20,820 It's all paid, all paid. 426 00:16:21,450 --> 00:16:22,820 A payment sufficient. 427 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:25,180 So let me tell you about the immensity, 428 00:16:25,500 --> 00:16:28,180 the immensity of that payment, the immensity. 429 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:31,980 In the Old Testament in the Bible, when 430 00:16:31,980 --> 00:16:36,160 somebody stole something from somebody else, just suppose 431 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:37,820 that Mr. Shutt, who's going to speak to 432 00:16:37,820 --> 00:16:40,460 you in just a couple minutes, just suppose 433 00:16:40,460 --> 00:16:42,640 that I went to his house and I 434 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:44,540 stole something that was worth $20. 435 00:16:48,940 --> 00:16:52,260 Under the Jewish law, I had to pay 436 00:16:52,260 --> 00:16:52,800 back the $20. 437 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:56,840 But I also have to pay 20% 438 00:16:56,840 --> 00:17:01,440 more, extra, beyond what the debt was, I 439 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:02,080 had to pay more. 440 00:17:02,660 --> 00:17:04,819 That was called a trespass offering, you had 441 00:17:04,819 --> 00:17:05,520 to pay the extra. 442 00:17:10,819 --> 00:17:12,640 When the Lord Jesus was on the cross, 443 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:16,579 Psalm 69, he said, I paid what I 444 00:17:16,579 --> 00:17:17,180 didn't take away. 445 00:17:17,260 --> 00:17:18,280 You know what he's saying there? 446 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:22,119 He is saying that when he suffered and 447 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:25,119 died on the cross, his payment is so 448 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:30,020 immense, it's beyond the debt, if you will. 449 00:17:32,100 --> 00:17:33,520 You know what that means? 450 00:17:34,100 --> 00:17:35,640 My friend here tonight, if you're looking for 451 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:37,160 a payment, if you want to have your 452 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:40,420 case settled, your account closed with God, listen 453 00:17:40,420 --> 00:17:41,340 to the good news. 454 00:17:41,930 --> 00:17:45,600 When Jesus said it's finished, his payment is 455 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:47,980 so good, would it cover every sin? 456 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:49,300 Let me ask you, what about all of 457 00:17:49,300 --> 00:17:49,700 your sin? 458 00:17:50,100 --> 00:17:51,700 You say, well I've done something, I hope 459 00:17:51,700 --> 00:17:53,160 nobody here ever finds out about it. 460 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:55,000 My friend, God already knows about it, and 461 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:56,100 this payment is good enough. 462 00:17:56,380 --> 00:17:59,120 The blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses 463 00:17:59,120 --> 00:18:02,300 us from all types of sin. 464 00:18:03,060 --> 00:18:06,080 There is no sin outside the boundary, outside 465 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:07,440 the boundary of this payment. 466 00:18:07,860 --> 00:18:08,680 It's that great. 467 00:18:09,300 --> 00:18:11,060 You say, well maybe it's good for all 468 00:18:11,060 --> 00:18:13,000 the church people, maybe it's good for all 469 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,100 the good people, but I'm not a person 470 00:18:15,100 --> 00:18:17,620 like that, I have never been inside, this 471 00:18:17,620 --> 00:18:19,160 is maybe the first time you've ever heard 472 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:19,960 the Bible preached. 473 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:22,760 I've got good news for you, there is 474 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:24,680 no person that this payment couldn't be good 475 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:27,740 for, nobody here on planet Earth. 476 00:18:28,420 --> 00:18:30,620 He said it's finished and it's big enough 477 00:18:30,620 --> 00:18:34,060 to cover all the debt, bigger than the 478 00:18:34,060 --> 00:18:34,360 debt. 479 00:18:37,170 --> 00:18:38,630 If you're worried and you say, well that 480 00:18:38,630 --> 00:18:39,970 was good in Bible times, but I don't 481 00:18:39,970 --> 00:18:40,590 know about today. 482 00:18:45,710 --> 00:18:46,810 You know when you go to the store 483 00:18:46,810 --> 00:18:48,470 and there's that date on the milk carton, 484 00:18:49,070 --> 00:18:49,610 check the date. 485 00:18:53,070 --> 00:18:54,250 Got to take it to the count and 486 00:18:54,250 --> 00:18:55,450 you have to say to the person, look, 487 00:18:56,430 --> 00:18:58,230 it's no good anymore past its date. 488 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:03,320 There's no date of expiration on this payment. 489 00:19:05,300 --> 00:19:07,080 In other words, it's good for all times, 490 00:19:07,460 --> 00:19:09,440 and it's good for tonight. 491 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:12,640 I mean, could it be good for you? 492 00:19:14,780 --> 00:19:16,440 Does it not mean anything to you? 493 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:18,960 The immensity of this payment. 494 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:22,040 I remember going back to my house after 495 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:24,160 I was saved, and I could take you 496 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:25,680 right to the spot in my parents' kitchen, 497 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:27,880 and I was standing there, and it wasn't 498 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:30,000 that I felt something really marvelous, I just 499 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:37,190 thought, that's really great, I don't have to 500 00:19:37,190 --> 00:19:41,370 pay anything, it's all paid, free for me, 501 00:19:42,130 --> 00:19:45,590 costly for him, it's immense, that payment. 502 00:19:46,990 --> 00:19:48,330 But I want you to think about the 503 00:19:48,330 --> 00:19:51,770 finality of that payment, the finality. 504 00:19:52,630 --> 00:19:54,010 There's another man who made a payment in 505 00:19:54,010 --> 00:19:54,290 the Bible. 506 00:19:55,030 --> 00:19:56,190 He was called the Good Samaritan. 507 00:19:56,290 --> 00:19:57,390 He was on a journey, there was two 508 00:19:57,390 --> 00:19:58,850 men had gone before him, and there was 509 00:19:58,850 --> 00:20:00,370 a man who had been found half dead. 510 00:20:00,470 --> 00:20:02,230 He had been beaten up and robbed, and 511 00:20:02,230 --> 00:20:04,010 there he was laying on the side of 512 00:20:04,010 --> 00:20:05,650 the road, he was almost, the Bible says 513 00:20:05,650 --> 00:20:06,350 he was half dead. 514 00:20:06,970 --> 00:20:07,750 He was a mess. 515 00:20:07,750 --> 00:20:09,950 Along come two men, religious men, and they 516 00:20:09,950 --> 00:20:11,510 go on, because religion can't help a man, 517 00:20:11,710 --> 00:20:13,550 and along comes this Good Samaritan, and he 518 00:20:13,550 --> 00:20:14,490 comes right where he was. 519 00:20:14,990 --> 00:20:16,890 He binds him up, he fixes up his 520 00:20:16,890 --> 00:20:18,970 wounds, he puts him on his donkey, and 521 00:20:18,970 --> 00:20:20,930 he takes him to an inn, where the 522 00:20:20,930 --> 00:20:23,170 innkeeper is, and he drops him there, and 523 00:20:23,170 --> 00:20:24,810 he puts the money on the counter, and 524 00:20:24,810 --> 00:20:28,170 he says to that innkeeper, here's the payment. 525 00:20:31,500 --> 00:20:34,660 He says, if you spend any more, when 526 00:20:34,660 --> 00:20:36,440 I come, I will repay thee. 527 00:20:39,930 --> 00:20:42,330 Could I tell you tonight that when Jesus 528 00:20:42,330 --> 00:20:44,910 paid it and said, it is finished, He 529 00:20:44,910 --> 00:20:47,750 was not saying, and when I come again 530 00:20:47,750 --> 00:20:49,770 to this earth, I will repay, I will 531 00:20:49,770 --> 00:20:50,510 pay what's missing. 532 00:20:51,790 --> 00:20:53,050 He said, it's finished. 533 00:20:53,990 --> 00:20:56,450 It's a payment once for all. 534 00:20:56,970 --> 00:20:59,430 Oh, he's coming tonight, young man, he's coming, 535 00:20:59,630 --> 00:21:01,610 he could come tonight, and if he were 536 00:21:01,610 --> 00:21:03,750 to come tonight, the Bible says he will 537 00:21:03,750 --> 00:21:05,890 come without sin unto salvation. 538 00:21:05,890 --> 00:21:07,890 In other words, he's not coming back to 539 00:21:07,890 --> 00:21:08,950 settle the debt anymore. 540 00:21:09,710 --> 00:21:11,230 His payment stands. 541 00:21:12,210 --> 00:21:14,150 The person who is willing to put their 542 00:21:14,150 --> 00:21:17,550 trust in the Lord Jesus, he that believeth 543 00:21:17,550 --> 00:21:19,910 on the Son, has everlasting life. 544 00:21:20,550 --> 00:21:22,370 Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. 545 00:21:22,830 --> 00:21:23,410 Take him. 546 00:21:23,950 --> 00:21:26,390 Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou 547 00:21:26,390 --> 00:21:27,230 shalt be saved. 548 00:21:27,510 --> 00:21:29,730 The payment has been a payment once for 549 00:21:29,730 --> 00:21:29,850 all. 550 00:21:30,110 --> 00:21:33,370 Christ also has once for all suffered for 551 00:21:33,370 --> 00:21:33,570 sin. 552 00:21:33,570 --> 00:21:37,290 He has been offered once, once forever. 553 00:21:38,850 --> 00:21:39,830 That's a final payment. 554 00:21:43,190 --> 00:21:44,630 Maybe there is somebody here saying, I have 555 00:21:44,630 --> 00:21:47,550 a debt, and I don't want to pay 556 00:21:47,550 --> 00:21:47,710 it. 557 00:21:49,550 --> 00:21:51,450 I don't want to die in my sin. 558 00:21:53,450 --> 00:21:55,370 I don't want to ever meet God and 559 00:21:55,370 --> 00:21:56,250 face my account. 560 00:21:58,010 --> 00:21:59,610 I don't want to be in a real 561 00:21:59,610 --> 00:22:01,470 lake of fire that the Bible talks about 562 00:22:01,470 --> 00:22:03,890 and suffer for my sin. 563 00:22:06,030 --> 00:22:07,990 How could you have your debt canceled tonight? 564 00:22:08,730 --> 00:22:09,750 Only by a payment. 565 00:22:11,010 --> 00:22:11,970 Only by a payment. 566 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:16,880 And Jesus said, it's paid in full. 567 00:22:18,380 --> 00:22:20,860 You say, well, I would really love to 568 00:22:20,860 --> 00:22:22,220 know that that really is good enough. 569 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:26,440 You missed the two key words there. 570 00:22:29,430 --> 00:22:31,050 This is not now somebody who was there 571 00:22:31,050 --> 00:22:33,510 and said, I think, all right, I think 572 00:22:33,510 --> 00:22:33,850 I got it. 573 00:22:33,870 --> 00:22:34,690 I think that's what happened. 574 00:22:35,210 --> 00:22:36,990 This is not some reporter giving you their 575 00:22:36,990 --> 00:22:37,870 editorial opinion. 576 00:22:39,290 --> 00:22:41,790 The man who made the payment with his 577 00:22:41,790 --> 00:22:47,010 own life, Jesus said, Jesus, the Son of 578 00:22:47,010 --> 00:22:51,350 God who can't lie, he said, it's finished. 579 00:22:52,190 --> 00:22:52,990 It's all paid. 580 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,340 First time I heard the gospel preached in 581 00:22:59,340 --> 00:23:01,220 Spanish, I thought this was going to be 582 00:23:01,220 --> 00:23:01,960 a hopeless adventure. 583 00:23:03,260 --> 00:23:05,240 I don't know hardly any Spanish. 584 00:23:06,120 --> 00:23:08,780 Mr. David Alves got up and he read 585 00:23:08,780 --> 00:23:09,540 these words. 586 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:11,820 In Spanish, it is finished. 587 00:23:14,650 --> 00:23:17,270 I memorized as he preached those words. 588 00:23:17,410 --> 00:23:18,230 I memorized them. 589 00:23:18,890 --> 00:23:19,990 First verse I learned in Spanish. 590 00:23:21,290 --> 00:23:24,690 And I thought to myself, if this was 591 00:23:24,690 --> 00:23:28,710 all I knew, it is finished. 592 00:23:29,810 --> 00:23:33,770 I could die a completely happy man, sure 593 00:23:33,770 --> 00:23:34,230 of heaven. 594 00:23:34,950 --> 00:23:37,730 Because the payment is good enough. 595 00:23:38,470 --> 00:23:41,990 Because he said, it's good enough for me. 596 00:23:43,450 --> 00:23:45,790 The question tonight in this meeting is, is 597 00:23:45,790 --> 00:23:49,750 it good enough for you? 598 00:23:50,710 --> 00:23:55,090 Jesus said, it is finished.