1 and 2 says, How amiable are thy
tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the
courts of the Lord.
My heart and my flesh crieth out for
the living God.
Will you stand with me, please, as we
sing the doxology?
We give thee thanks and
appraise the name of our dear, lovely Lord.
Father, we thank thee we can gather in
thy house this morning on this beautiful summer
Sunday.
We pray, Lord, that thou would meet with
us.
We would pray today that the Spirit of
God may fall upon, Lord, this place.
And may the speaker have a special anointing
from thee.
Speak to hearts today.
We pray that we may leave here, leaving
every burden behind and having a renewment in
the Christ our God today.
Bless us each one in Jesus' name and
for his sake we pray, amen.
Would you take your songbooks, please, and turn
to number 41.
Number 41, as we stand together and sing
one of these great songs of the church,
Great is Thy Faithfulness.
We have
appeared in the service all day today, here
in the people's churches.
We might give them a real warm welcome
to the city.
Joe Stewart and Terry Tyson, and they're going
to be back with us in just a
moment.
And of course they'll be here in the
service tonight singing more than what they, because
of the time limit, what they're able to
this morning.
And I know you'll want to be back
to hear them tonight as they give forth
their message in song.
Now, tonight, this morning we have several important
announcements we'd like to leave with you.
First of all, in the parking areas.
We're still having a little problem with parking
and we're about to get them straightened out,
I believe.
But last Sunday, you remember, Dr. Smith, our
pastor, gave a real stemwinder announcement on don't
park illegally on the side streets.
Now, Dr. Paul met with the ratepayers on
Wednesday morning and he told them that the
police will be out giving tickets to those
that are parking illegally.
So if you have been used to parking
on the side streets, let me urge you,
from now on, starting with tonight's service, let
me suggest that the parking lot is full,
that you go right over to the Bayview
Plaza.
There is unlimited parking over there.
We have a shuttle service going back and
forth about every two minutes, both before the
service and after the service.
And I really believe that that's the best
place we can solve this problem of parking
during our construction time.
So make sure that you're parking at Bayview
Plaza tonight.
And if you park on a street corner
this morning, don't be surprised if there's a
ticket on your windshield as you go out.
We hope not, but we understand that the
police will be ticketing today.
Now, in tonight's service, at 7 p.m.,
we have a real tripleheader going for us.
First of all, Steward and Tyson will be
back with us, singing many times tonight.
And also tonight, we're having a worldwide progress
report of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, one of the
great youth and college organizations in the world
today.
And we're going to have in our midst
the World General Secretary from Singapore with us,
Chou Wee-Hien.
And he'll be taking several minutes tonight to
give us, say, an exciting worldwide report upon
what IV and faith missions are doing around
the world.
And I think that in itself will be
worth your while coming.
Dr. Oswald Smith, our founder, will be speaking
tonight as well, and he'll be concluding his
message from this morning in this morning's service,
and I'm sure he'll want to say something
about that in just a few moments.
Now, on Tuesday night this week, our summer
Bible conference is continuing.
What a great time of blessing we've been
experiencing the last three Tuesdays.
Dr. Warren Weersbe has been with us from
the Moody Church, and he completed in three
Tuesday nights the Book of Ephesians.
Now this Tuesday is a bit of a
change of pace in that we're having a
sacred music concert with Sherman Andrus.
Now Sherman Andrus may not mean very much
to you, I don't know, unless you're a
backer of contemporary gospel music, but Sherman Andrus
is the leader of the Imperials Quartet.
I'm sure you've all heard of the Imperials.
I suppose if I were to ask each
of you who in your own mind would
be the outstanding quartet in today's gospel music,
most of you at least would say, without
any hesitation, the Imperials.
Well, the lead singer of the Imperials, the
one who puts it all together as far
as the Imperials are concerned, is Sherman Andrus.
And he's going to be here tonight, here
Tuesday night rather, at 8 p.m., and
he'll be backed by a group of skilled
musicians' accompaniment.
So you'll want to be here for a
great evening of music Tuesday night at 8
p.m. Then next Sunday, next Lord's Day,
Don Loney, the inimitable Don Loney, will be
speaking both in the morning and the evening
service.
We have Don Loney at least once a
year, and how we enjoy him as he
comes.
And he'll be speaking both at 11 o
'clock and 7 p.m. next Sunday.
And along with Don Loney will be the
Freedmen Quartet, and they're a new quartet, I
believe, here in the People's Church.
Is that right?
From Moody Bible Institute.
And we're looking forward to their singing ministry
with us all day next Sunday, both morning
and evening.
Now please jot these Tuesday evenings down.
As you know, our Summer Bible Conference continues
throughout the summer.
One week from this coming Tuesday, on July
the 6th, Bill McKee, who, like Don Loney,
is an outstanding youth speaker.
And Bill McKee has not been here for
several years.
He'll be speaking one week from this coming
Tuesday.
He's become quite an authority on prophecy.
I don't know what he'll be speaking on,
but I know if you'll make your plans
to be here, you'll be blessed for having
done so.
On July the 13th, the Continentals will be
here, 35 or 40 college-age singers giving
a music concert.
And along with that, we need billeting from
you, our people here, to put them up
for the one night that they are here
and breakfast the next morning.
We need billeting for about 35 to 40
of them.
And if you can help us out, we
would greatly appreciate it if you could see
right after the morning service, Keith Whitaker, in
the lobby, and he'll take down the necessary
information from you.
But we need many, many volunteers to help
us in this regard, and I hope you'll
see Mr. Whitaker this morning before you leave.
On Tuesday, July the 20th, the pastor of
the world's largest church from Hammond, Indiana, Dr.
Jack Hiles, will be preaching.
I was just there for a minister's conference
just a few weeks ago, and they are
now averaging 23,000 people every Sunday morning
for Sunday school and church.
Can you picture that many?
Twenty-three thousand people.
I don't know where they put them all,
but they jam them in.
And Dr. Jack Hiles, in my opinion, is
the most exciting preacher on the American pulpit
platform today, and you'll want to note that
on July the 20th.
On the 27th, a change from your Bible
conference schedule.
Instead of Bruce Dunn, we're having a film.
It will be a world premiere film about
Bob Harrington, Bob Harrington's new film entitled A
Day with Harrington, and that will be on
July 27th, and that promises some unusual excitement
and enjoyment, I'm sure.
July 27th, change that on your brochure so
you'll be able to be here.
I believe that's all the announcements we have
at this time we're going to make, but
we do want to ask the ushers to
come forward at this time.
We want to give you two very important
prayer requests, two people that are in need
of special God's touch just now.
Marlin Sebastian, who for many years has been
a member of the choir, is critically ill
in Scarborough Centenary Hospital, and unless God sees
to work a miracle in her life, her
time is short.
We want to pray for Marlin, for her
husband, and for her mother particularly at this
time of difficulty.
And then a name that most of us
know here in the People's Church, our superintendent
of the adult department, Mr. Alec Fisher, had
a very serious accident in moving into his
new home last Wednesday evening, and as a
result, he's in intensive care at Sunny Brook
Hospital.
And we want to pray for Mr. Fisher
and his dear wife, Ruth, and family at
this time that God will undertake for them.
These and other requests let's remember as we
go to prayer just now.
Our loving Heavenly Father, now we come to
Thee through the name of our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ, the name that is above
every name, and Thou hast said, Let us
enter boldly into Thy very presence through the
throne of grace.
Now, Father, we do that as the people
here in the congregation of the People's Church
join together in the hands of those who
need Thy touch just now.
We think of Marlin Sebastian.
We think of our friend Alec Fisher.
God, we pray that Thou would minister to
their bodies, that Thou would heal them and
touch them, we pray, for Thy glory, and
have Thy perfect will done in their lives.
And now, Father, as we give to Thy
work here this morning, we would pray that
Thou would bless our gifts and multiply them
for Thy glory, we pray, in Jesus' name,
amen.
What they've
been able to this morning, I wonder just
before Dr. Smith comes to bring the message
for us, it's a real privilege to have
our founder with us.
He hasn't been in the pulpit for some
time now, and we count it a real
rarity and a real privilege for him to
join us this morning.
Now, let's take our hymn books, if you
will, and turn to number 116, number 116,
as we sing three stanzas of that Calvary.
Years I spent in vanity and pride, caring
not, my Lord was crucified.
Shall we stand together and say, please?
Get them, W.
R.
Newell, one of the greatest Bible teachers of
this generation, Dr. D.
B.
Towner, a man with whom I studied in
the early days of my life in Chicago,
both those men were intimate friends of mine.
Now, this morning I'm going to ask you,
if you will, to turn to Paul's epistle
to the Romans, Paul's epistle to the Romans,
the third chapter.
I look upon this epistle of one of
the greatest letters that the Apostle Paul ever
wrote, and we're going to study a little
bit of it this morning.
If you will look at the third chapter
of Romans, the last part of the ninth
verse, you'll find these words, they are all
under sin.
They are all under sin, according to the
entire world, Jews and Gentiles alike.
And then the next verse, the tenth verse,
there is none righteous, no, not one.
Now anyone can ever claim to be righteous,
and to be sinless, in view of what
the Apostle Paul has to say, I cannot
for the life of me understand.
There is none righteous, no, not one.
Now look at the nineteenth verse, if you
will.
Now we know that whatever things the law
says, it says to them who are under
the law, I want to say something about
that tonight, something very special and very important,
that every mouth may be stopped, and all
the world may become guilty before God.
Therefore by the deeds of the law, there
shall no flesh be justified in his sight.
No one can be saved by the deeds
of the law.
That's why the law has to be set
aside.
Therefore, by the deeds of the law, there
shall no flesh be justified in his sight.
Now notice these words, for by the law
is the knowledge of sin.
By the law is the knowledge of sin.
There's just one word that I want to
emphasize this morning, that one word is the
word sin.
Only three letters, and I is the central
letter in that word, for sin is summed
up in the word I, S-I-N,
sin.
And I'm going to say five things about
the word sin this morning, and I trust
that you'll apply what I have to say
to your own heart, if the Holy Spirit
so directs you.
First of all, let me say this, sin
originated with Satan.
Naturally, that's the first question we ask, where
did sin come from, how did sin come
into this world, where did it originate?
Sin originated with Satan, not with man, but
with Satan.
Satan was one of the great angels of
God, a created angel, for the angels, as
you know, were created.
They were not always angels, and Satan held
a very high rank among the angels of
God.
He was one of the most influential of
all the angels created by God.
Now it was with Satan, this great angel,
that sin originated.
Let me read just two verses from Isaiah,
the 14th chapter, verses 12 to 14.
Now there are other verses in the Bible
in regard to Satan as the author of
sin, but this one verse will suffice, because
it's so plain, it's so clear, it's so
unmistakable.
And this is what it says, Isaiah chapter
14, verses 12 to 14, How art thou
fallen from heaven, O Lucifer?
And Satan here is designated Lucifer.
How art thou fallen from heaven?
Satan fell.
He didn't retain his first estate.
He was one of the highest of the
angels, one of the most influential of the
angels.
And God says in speaking of him, How
art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son
of the morning?
That's the way he was designated, son of
the morning.
How art thou cast down to the ground?
Now listen, four times it is said of
Satan that he said, I will.
I will.
Know that if you will, for thou hast
said in thy heart, I will ascend into
heaven.
He wasn't satisfied with the place God had
placed him.
He wanted to ascend into heaven where God
was.
And so he says here in the first,
I will, he says, I will ascend into
heaven.
Second, I will exalt my throne above the
stars of God.
He wasn't satisfied with the throne that God
had given him.
And he said, I will exalt my throne
above the stars of God.
I will.
Now in the third place, I will ascend
above the heights of the clouds.
He wanted to get higher.
And he said, I will ascend above the
heights of the clouds.
And last of all, I will be like
the Most High.
I will be like the Most High, God
himself.
Now that's where sin originated.
I will.
And I will.
Satan was not satisfied with the place God
had assigned him.
He wanted a greater position.
He even wanted to be on an equality
with God himself.
And he said, I will ascend on high.
I will be like the Most High.
I will be like God.
Equality with God himself.
That's where sin originated.
Not on earth, not with man, but with
Satan.
Satan was the originator of sin when he
said, I will.
Not what God wanted, but what he wanted.
I will ascend into heaven.
I will exalt my throne above the stars
of God.
I will ascend above the heights of the
clouds.
I will be like the Most High.
That's where sin came from.
Sin originated with Satan.
That's something we should know, we should understand,
we should always remember.
Sin originated with Satan.
Now then, the question arises, how did sin
get into this world?
How did sin get into the heart of
man?
How is it that men became sinners?
And that's my second point this morning.
For sin entered this world through one man.
Sin entered this world through Adam.
That's how sin got into the world.
Through one man.
That man was Adam.
Listen, if you will, to Romans, the fifth
chapter and the twelfth verse.
By one man, sin entered into the world.
I'm quoting literally.
By one man, sin entered into the world.
And that one man was Adam.
Created by God himself.
The first man who ever lived.
Through him, sin got into the world.
For Satan tempted Adam and used Adam in
order to introduce sin into this world of
ours.
He had to use a man.
The man he used was the man God
created.
The man who was created without sin.
The man who was absolutely sinless.
Satan got into that man.
And through that man, sin entered the world.
And that's where sin came from.
Now I do not know when Satan rebelled
against God.
I do not know how far back in
history you and I can trace sin.
I know not when it started, when it
commenced, how many millenniums ago sin originated.
I don't know.
The Bible doesn't state it.
There isn't a single word in the Bible
that tells us the time that sin entered
the world.
But we do know that it came into
the world through Adam.
For Satan, the originator of sin, was the
one who used Adam, God's creation, to introduce
sin into this world of ours.
And that's how it got here.
That's why sin is here today.
That's why men are sinful.
Because Adam introduced sin into the human race.
And as a result, all men are born
in sin.
That's the second fact we should keep in
mind.
Sin originated with Satan.
Sin entered the world through Adam.
And then this is the third great fact
that we must keep in mind.
Sin was, and sin is, universal.
No one can escape it.
The only one who never sinned, who walked
the dirt roads of this earth, was the
Lord Jesus Christ.
He is the only one who became man,
and became man without sin.
He had no sinful nature.
Jesus was born of woman.
He was not born of man.
Sin came down through man.
And since Jesus had no earthly father, therefore
Jesus did not inherit a sinful nature.
He was born not of man, but of
woman.
If he had been born of man, he
would have had a sinful nature, just like
every other man.
But because he was not born of man,
but born of woman, therefore he did not
have a sinful nature.
Sin is transmitted through man.
And Jesus was not born of man.
But sin was, and sin is, universal.
Apart from Jesus Christ, no other man was
so born.
Every other man was born of Adam.
I was born of Adam.
You were born of Adam.
Every man on the face of this earth
was born of Adam.
And therefore every man has partaken of the
Adamic nature.
And the Adamic nature is a nature of
sin.
And thus we're all sinners.
Every last one of us.
Because we were born of Adam.
And through Adam came sin.
Think of Romans the third chapter and the
twenty-third verse.
All have sinned.
All, A-L-L.
All have sinned.
No one has escaped.
Not one individual on the face of this
earth.
All have sinned.
But what about Jesus Christ?
What does it say in 1 Peter the
second chapter?
In the twenty-second verse it says this.
In speaking of Christ, who did no sin,
neither was guile found in his mouth.
The only one who was not born with
a sinful nature, and the only one in
the entire world who lived upon this earth
without a sinful nature.
And who was not a sinner.
Who did no sin, practiced no sin.
You cannot accuse Jesus Christ of one single
sin.
Examine his life as minutely as you want
to, and you'll never find a single sin
of which he was guilty.
Jesus was absolutely and totally sinless.
Who did no sin.
Neither was guile found in his mouth.
Jesus was sinless.
You cannot say that.
I cannot say that.
You have sinned.
I have sinned.
Everyone in this congregation has sinned.
We're all guilty.
Every last one of us, we're all guilty
before God.
For we have all sinned, and we have
all been born with a sinful nature.
Now in the fourth place, what penalty does
sin incur?
What is the result of sin?
Sin incurs the penalties of both physical and
spiritual death.
Those are the penalties of sin.
Spiritual death and physical death.
What you say?
Would there never have been any death in
the world if it had not been for
sin?
Never.
Would no one have ever died if it
had not been for sin?
No one.
The only reason there is death in the
world, the only reason there are undertakers, the
only reason there are funeral parlors, the only
reason there are graveyards, is because of sin.
It was not God's plan.
God did not originally plan for sin to
be in this world of ours.
That was not His plan.
His plan was that you and I should
have lived and lived forever.
There should have been no sorrow because of
sin, no death because of sin, no funerals
because of sin.
It's only because of sin that there are
funerals in this world of ours today.
Sin incurs the penalties of both physical and
spiritual death.
Think, if you will, of Genesis, the second
chapter, in the seventeenth verse.
But of the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil, thou shalt not eat of
it.
The one commandment that God gave to Adam
and Eve in the Garden of Eden was
that they should not partake of the fruit
of the tree of life.
They could have anything else.
Whatever else they wanted was theirs.
But there was one thing they could not
have.
There was one tree of which they might
not and must not eat.
The tree of the knowledge of good and
evil.
That tree they were to avoid.
Never partake of it.
That was God's command.
Thou shalt not eat of it.
Why?
For in the day thou eatest thereof, thou
shalt surely die.
Now, there had been no death heretofore.
Death was unknown.
They had never heard of death.
But now God predicts that if they eat
of the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil, they'll die.
They'll experience death.
And Eve ate of it.
And Adam ate of it.
And as a result, they died.
Both of them.
They didn't die instantly.
But they died nevertheless.
And death entered this world because of Adam's
sin.
The Bible clearly and unmistakably teaches that.
The only reason that you are going to
die, that I am going to die, is
because we have a sinful nature and because
we have sinned.
That's why death has reigned all down through
the years, centuries upon centuries of it.
Death because of sin, Adam's sin.
And that's where we are today, enduring the
penalty of sin.
But of the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil, thou shalt not eat of
it.
For in the day thou eatest thereof, thou
shalt surely die.
And you have the same statement in Ezekiel,
the 18th chapter and the 4th verse.
The soul that sinneth, it shall die.
And not only physical death, but also spiritual
death.
We not only die physically, we die spiritually.
And that's why we have to be saved.
That's why Jesus Christ had to come from
heaven to earth, to atone for our sins,
to make it possible for us to live
forever.
Otherwise, we would have died and remained dead
forever, spiritually dead because of Adam's sin, in
addition to our own sin.
The wages of sin is death.
Death, death.
The wages of sin.
And if you have sinned, you are going
to die unless you can find a remedy.
If I have sinned, I am going to
die and die eternally unless I can find
a remedy.
The soul that sinneth, it shall die.
The wages of sin is death.
And that leads us now to the remedy.
That leads us now to our hope.
That leads us now to the fifth statement
in connection with sin.
Is there a remedy?
Is there any remedy for sin?
Must we all die spiritually?
Is there no hope for us?
Must we all die spiritually and also physically?
Or is there hope?
Thank God there is hope.
There is a remedy for Adam's sin, your
sin and my sin.
Sin has no remedy except in the sacrificial
death of Jesus Christ, availed by faith.
There is no other remedy.
I care not what you do.
I care not how you live.
I care not how good you may be.
I care not how many good deeds you
may have performed.
It doesn't matter what you do or how
you live.
There is no remedy for that sin of
yours inherited from Adam except in the sacrificial
death of Jesus Christ on Calvary's cross.
And that remedy is received by faith.
Now, first of all, there is no other
remedy.
Second, there is no way to secure that
remedy except by faith.
It cannot be secured by law.
Law pointed forward to the death of Jesus
Christ, and in view of his death, which
was to be, God overlooked, passed by, the
sins committed by man If man brought the
required sacrifice to signify his faith in the
atoning death of the Lord Jesus Christ on
Calvary's cross, even though he didn't know anything
about it at the time, then it took
place.
Nineteen hundred years ago, Jesus gave his life
on Calvary's cross for you and for me.
God had provided that remedy from all eternity.
How far back I do not know, but
God determined that man's sins should be atoned
for by the sacrifice of his Son on
Calvary's cross.
Nearly two thousand years ago now, Jesus Christ
paid the price for your sin and for
my sin on the cross of Calvary.
He settled it.
He settled and undid the work of Adam.
But how will that avail you?
How will that help you?
How can you profit by it?
God says, only by faith.
There is no other way.
Not by works, not by your own efforts
or endeavors, not by the kind of a
life you live, or the things you do
or the things you don't do, but by
faith.
A faith that will result in a life
lived for God, a life lived for the
Lord Jesus Christ.
And only as you live that life, does
that remedy apply to you and to me.
What have you done about it?
Where are you today?
Was there ever a moment in your life
when you opened your heart to Jesus Christ
and received him as your own personal Savior
and as a result lived for God?
Oh, you may not have been perfect.
You may have failed again and again, but
God has promised forgiveness every time you turn
back to him and seek his mercy.
No matter what you do, there is mercy
if you will accept the remedy and turn
back to God and confess your sins and
ask him to forgive you and ask it
from your heart.
So I say, in closing, sin has no
remedy, but in the sacrificial death of Christ,
there is no other.
Works will not avail.
Church will not avail.
Good deeds will not avail.
There is no other remedy except the sacrificial
death of Jesus Christ on Calvary's cross.
And there is no way to obtain that
remedy except by faith.
No works of yours will avail, but you
can open your heart this moment to Jesus
Christ and receive him as your own personal
Savior.
I did it when I was 16 years
of age.
I traveled 100 miles to do it.
I didn't realize that I was going to
do it when I left home, but I
did it.
And here in Massey Hall, in our own
city, in the basement, I bowed my head
and opened my heart to Jesus Christ and
accepted him as my own personal Savior.