It has to come to an end sometime.
We greatly, very greatly appreciate the attendance of
God's dear people from most of the denominations,
and we greatly appreciate the fact that have
come to us personally or wrote to us
and told us how they got helped and
blessed and encouraged, and that's a great thing
to me.
The fact that they were encouraged encourages me.
We've got some exhausting letters, but we put
them where we put the rest of the
rubbish in the pile and totally ignored them
for full blame that was on the native
people.
And then I want to say that tomorrow
morning we'll be cleaning the tent up at
about 10 o'clock, and a few brethren
could come and help us to tie the
seats out in advance.
We'll be very, very thankful.
The tent itself won't come down on Tuesday.
Now again, I must thank you all for
your prayers.
Prayers teach me God, and I say without
any hesitation there's not a preacher in the
north of Ireland, and there's a good lot
of us fossils, and there's a good lot
of other preachers that don't preach with us,
and there's no preacher in the north of
Ireland who needs the prayers of God's people
as much as I need them, and that
nobody appreciates them so much.
And all I can say is thank you,
brethren and sisters.
God bless you.
This night, which is the Lord's will, or
rather this day, which is the Lord's will,
we hope to be in the big hall
tons of the Old Farm, to speak to
believers at four o'clock, and preach the
gospel at seven o'clock, so that they
can confidently have a say, as they can
be sure and preferent.
If I can help you with a conversation
after the meeting's over tonight, I'd be very
glad to speak with you.
It's my duty, and it's a pleasure to
do my duty, whether you're a Christian that
maybe got into the church, or maybe you're
a sinner, what do you have to say?
Well, I'm your servant for Jesus' sake, only
for Jesus' sake.
I'm told to be preached in a gospel
by Matthew, the gospel of the king and
the kingdom, chapter 25.
The gospel of the king and the kingdom.
Mark's the gospel of the servant man, do
as you're bid.
Immediately is the key word of Mark's gospel.
Ruth's gospel is the gospel of the son
of man.
Consequences of the genealogy there.
Gospel is the gospel of the eternal son
of the blessed God.
You have no genealogy there.
You can make the genealogy of the eternal
son impossible.
Well, you don't believe in the eternal son,
well, I don't believe in you.
So you must be wrong.
Now then, we want to read a few
verses in Matthew, chapter 25, please, and we'll
begin to read at verse one.
If some lady left a number there at
the end, you can have it after the
meeting's over.
The gospel by Matthew then, please, chapter 25,
and verse one.
Notice where you please, the first word is
the first you would have to play there.
Then shall the kingdom of heaven be like
unto the ten pilgrims, which took the lambs,
and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
Five of them away, and five were foolish.
They that were foolish took their lambs, and
took their wives with them, but the wives
took their inner vassals with the lambs.
When the bridegroom came, they all slumped and
slept, and at midnight there was a cry
made, Behold, the bridegroom come, go thou to
meet him.
Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their
lamps, and the foolish said unto the wives,
Give us of your oil, for our lambs
are gone out.
But the wives answered, saying, Not so, lest
there be not enough for us in you,
but go ye rather to them that said,
I am bride for yourselves.
And when they went to bide, the bridegroom
came, and they that were ready, when he
came to the marriage, and the door was
shut, and the door was shut, came also
the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to
us.
But he answered and said, Verily I say
unto you, I knew you not.
What's there for?
For you know neither the day nor the
hour, but in the Son of Man come.
Let's say again, please.
And when they went to bide, the bridegroom
came, and they that were ready, when he
came to the marriage, and the door was
shut, afterward came also the other virgins, saying,
Lord, Lord, open to us.
But he answered and said, Verily I say
unto you, I knew you not.
What's there for?
For you know neither the day nor the
hour, but in the Son of Man come.
What blessing, Holy Ghost, for our Lord Jesus
Christ's sake, let us pray.
I will certainly follow.
We have read portions of the Holy Scriptures
spoken by the Lord Jesus Christ himself.
Most in the reading are very familiar with
it, but we can see it's thy word,
it's settled in heaven, and it will never
pass away.
We want we have to handle this portion
of Scripture tonight in the feet of God
and in the length of heaven and air.
And, O God, we want the power of
the Holy Spirit behind what we say.
So, God bless us, Lord, blessing may there
be hope to all in the making, both
saved and unsaved, and glory to him who
alone is worthy of glory, our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ.
Therefore we plead with thee, do not allow
us to say what we like, do not
let us allow us to wander up and
down the path.
But, Lord, keep the things before us that
are most important, and help us, Lord, not
only to warn sinners, but to warn the
material, Lord, that they might be saved.
Commit the audience to thee, but commit the
real people to you, that they listen to
us outside.
O God, save the people.
It's no matter whether they may need to
be born again, and apart from it, Lord,
there's no, absolutely, no entering into the kingdom
of heaven.
We ask these things, our gracious Father, giving
a sincere thanks for thy goodness to us
in the meetings from the first day on
to now, and asking thee, Lord, to make
this the best of all.
Amen.
I'm not going to cover any unnecessary ground
tonight.
I'm going to get down to the subject
right away, and I hope by the help
and grace of God to keep on it
right to the end of the meeting.
I'm not going to cover the ground that
a gospel preacher usually covers when he handles
a story of the things against.
But I am going to emphasize three things
with all the power that I possess, and
if I do that, then I'm emphasizing something
that I'm fully persuaded about.
Now, before coming to those three things that's
on my mind, I want to say certainly
to you all, it's just too classic of
people either way, in the wrong way.
And of course, you theologians, you know I'm
preaching the gospel.
I'm not giving you an interpretation of the
passage.
There's no coming of the Lord Jesus Christ
in Mark with the gospel of the King.
And I would say, my friend, in Mark
chapter 24, you have undoubtedly the tribulation from
beginning to end.
When?
When the tribulation is over, and that's the
chapter where it says, he that endures to
the end, the same shall be said, has
nothing at all to do with God's salvation.
Has nothing at all to do with you
and me, and has nothing at all to
do with getting to heaven.
And what does it mean by saying, he
that endures to the end, the same shall
be said?
Well, it's the beginning of the chapter that
will tell you that.
The beginning of the chapter will tell you
that it's Jewish from beginning to end.
It takes in the tribulation which has taken
place after the Lord has come, and after
the church has gone home.
And it's only when he endures to the
end, during the tribulation, we pass out into
the millennium bringing it up.
That's the meaning of it.
Got nothing at all to do with you
and me who live now, and people who
tell you you'll get saved if you endure
to the end.
Then they mean well, and they mean you
will have put the clock in another place.
It's not there at all.
We don't get saved for enduring, we get
saved for believing.
And he that believeth on the Son hath
everlasting life.
Now the thing, the big thing I want
to emphasise my brethren, is about the five
holy scrollings.
There's three good things about them.
But surely there's not good things about holy
scrollings, to be sure.
How the broad road to hell is packed
with good people.
There's no good people in heaven.
There's no salvation for them.
There's no good news in the Bible for
good people.
Where's there somebody that's monstrous?
Where's this life finished, if you please?
Christ then for the ungodly, Romans 5, 6,
and for sinners, Romans 5, 8, and for
our sins, 1 Corinthians 16, 3, for rabid
sinners, Romans 5, 9, 10, 11, for the
lost in the earth, Luke 19, and 10,
and for the unbeliever that's condemned already, and
has begun to be dead in his sins,
that's the person that Christ saved, but probably
else.
While God so loved the world, thank God
he does, please remember there's a whosoever there,
and it's good to whosoever that believeth the
message of the gospel will be saved, and
not the whole world, and there's not a
nonsense to talk about the world will be
saved.
Who's the people outside of heaven's door, Matthew
7 to 20, uh, Matthew 25?
Who's the people at the great white throne
of Revelation 20, 11, 15?
Use only common sense.
Use a little bit of intelligence.
No, he's a believer, not a victim.
That's your Bible, Mark 16, 16.
I could, I could have done tonight already.
No thanks.
I just read bad things about the wise
Romans, but I'm not going to take time
speaking about the bad things of the wise
Romans, and all these things because again, I've
got a lot of gutty mouth people, ridiculing
the people of God, and I'm not going
to do that, and if you do that,
you're a gutty mouth man, and you're a
gutty mouth woman, or you may be a
believer.
Oh no, they had three bad things that
kept bad, and not only that, they were
sound asleep, and the bright rumors coming, and
not only that, but the little lamp was
gone, and they went back and go to
hell for all they care.
Are you sure that you were the lamp
shining?
Are you sure that you were not a
sleep friend?
And are you and I sure that we're
a way to wake them up back that
the Christ of God might come from heaven
tonight, and then retreat to them on high
for serenity and safety?
Let the temple be emptied with everybody that's
born again, and you unsaved people have been
left sitting on the sea, left for the
coming judgment, left for the sin of doom,
left for your nature's dark and shaker of
solemn doom, left for infernal heaven, but the
upholstery we can unveil it only for a
long eternity.
No, I want to speak about three good
things about the foolish riders.
I'm good things, but my two finest good
things about the foolish riders, the foolish that
are on the outside, you can be the
best man or woman in the city of
Belfast, but without you, if you're not there,
because I can't come for you, can you?
What is the oil?
It's a symbol of the Holy Spirit of
God, as most people know, and for the
man and woman's sake, I'm a John 3
fight now, he's born into God's family by
the Holy Ghost, and consequently, he's born by
the Holy Ghost, so thus have the Holy
Ghost, Romans chapter 8, and loved by the
Spirit of God, again Romans chapter 8, and
healed by the Holy Spirit of God, Ephesians
1-3, and into all truth, John chapter
16-22, you see, into all truth, not
shown truth, if you were saved and go
to heaven, and you're just satisfied with a
little bit of truth, and let the ghost
go there, I want to tell you, they
hear, and I'll get a very selfish bereavement,
for my dear friend, if God has saved
you from a length of sin, and a
wicked ungodly will, then a lot still tell,
still the best that can withstand you left,
the Son of God, see, there are three
good things about the fools, don't forget it's
the fools I'm speaking about, there are three
good things about them, it's this, that first
of all, they're a good character, how many
good characters you could ever know, but if
nothing only else than a good character, it
will shut you out to heaven, a good
character's a good thing, if you've got it,
thank God for it, it's good for your
body, it's good for your brain, it's good
for your pocket, it's good for your wife,
it's good for your family, it's good for
your husband, a good character's a good thing,
but it'll not give you hope, and the
man that says you have to do your
best to get to heaven, he's talking a
crap of nonsense, he doesn't know what he's
talking about, that is so far as the
ghost believes himself, this works in the Bible,
all his prophecies have never before, so he's
here a good character, thank you, that's a
good thing, there was a poor woman come
to me one morning, well I ate when
I had my breakfast over, and she said
she wanted to see me, God forgive me,
she wanted to know did the Governing Minister
not come here, well I went into her
room, and I'd seen her, and I'd seen
her, I knew perfectly well, it was probably
wrong, she said to me, sir, I don't
want any socks, and she said, I've been
attending your meetings in the tent, I had
a good idea what was coming next, and
she said, I'm going to get a job
up the road here, and I said, well,
well, she said, that's good, I hope you
get it, and she said, the manager won't
give me it without a reference from a
clergyman, and she said, I have notes that
will come to you, she said, I'm a
good woman, I said, in God's name, can
I give you a reference, I don't know
you, I've never seen a lay person, and
I said, I couldn't possibly give you a
reference, because it wouldn't be honest, and how
do I know who you are, or what
you are, well, I'll give her some money,
and give her something else, and I'm praying,
I hope she'll have to pray, I don't
care if we get a copy of the
problem, and so, I'll race around, did you
give her that, no, I couldn't, ah, but
listen, she was a bad character, I found
out afterwards, but these are foolish fags, in
fact, they're good character, praise ended, they get
hidden, because in the world, that symbolizes the
Holy Ghost, and in the Lord, if you're
not a Christian, you're not going to heaven,
and it's hard to think about being saved
by the grace of God, and not having
the Holy Spirit, it's a contradiction to the
scripture, but I've already quoted you from John
3 5, we were born by the Spirit
into the family of God, and we were
born by the Spirit, and we're bound to
have the Spirit of God, being filled with
the Spirit, and baptized with the Spirit, are
different things, I knew that, but I'm not
concerned about that just now, oh, they have
a good character, my dear, I've seen a
person getting saved here a few days ago,
and certainly, they're a good character, they're a
splendid character, they were all just liable and
commendable, they talked about the church that they
went to, and they talked about being baptized,
of course, but it's not baptism, not at
all, it's only a segment of law, and
they talked about being confirmed, but confirmed, and
you'll say, my dear friend, you can have
all that, but take a child from an
Irishman, who'll tell you that, you'll lose your
soul, it's foolish, and I didn't even know
that, what do you mean, what did Christ
say to me, you're not born again, and
some good body that knows nothing will tell
me, well, no, that's only once in your
Bible, well, you've a creation of a Bible,
I'm going to tell you, you know nothing
about it, because my Bible is just the
same as yours, it's a little bit bigger,
and I'm sure it's a little bit guttier,
and I'm sure it's a bit torn as
well, but it refers to the new birth
16 times, moreover, supposing it only refers to
it once, if it's a holy ghost that
refers to it once, is that not sufficient,
and if you call yourself a Protestant, you
don't believe you're a baby, you're not expressed
to the man and woman as well, now,
I've been asked to do this, and I'm
going to do it now, will you please,
because it's going to go all over Canada
and America, and tell you a few little
lines about my Bible, oh, this is a
great Bible of mine, it's just the same
as yours, there are 66 books in it,
1,189 chapters, and 3,566,480 letters,
you can count them after you get to
supper, but my dear friend, I want to
tell you a few things about it, though
the covers are torn, and the pages are
torn, and though places bear traces of tears,
yet this book, warm and old, is more
precious than gold, it can shatter and shatter
my fears, when I prayerfully look on this
precious old book, many pleasures and treasures I
see, many tokens of love from the Father
above, who is nearest and dearest to me,
this old book is my guide, to the
friend by my side, it can lighten and
brighten my way, and each promise I've made,
soothes and brightens my mind, as I read
it and read it each day, through this
book I will clear which walk I will
take, though great losses and crosses be mine,
for I cannot despair, though surrounded with chaos,
by possessing this blessing divine, that's your bible,
that's settled in heaven, someone hunted in 1989,
and bordered, damn the man doesn't believe him,
so come back to our chapter, I've got
that off my head now, and come back
to our chapter will you please, and these
five verses that we should have in heaven,
they're a good character, now that's a good
thing, how do you know they're a good
character, the bible says that they were virgins,
and virgins indicate the fact that they were
morally pure, a thing that was very stressed
in Jerusalem then, and a thing that's very
stressed in Palestine still, for these five virgins
were morally pure, they weren't immoral, consequently they
were people of a good character, ah but
the good character didn't get them into heaven,
and when the door was shut, the good
character left them on the outside, what are
you going to take you to heaven my
dear friend, to make an attempt, that's what
you come here for, and that's what I'm
here for, what have you got to take
you to heaven, and that little fellow didn't
ask you that, I'm asking you that, what
have you got to take you to heaven,
and what have you got to take you
out of hell, man use your intelligence, you've
got as much as I have, woman use
your brains, and by day you'll make things
tonight, with an ape of sin behind me,
I'm the greatest crime that you could commit,
and you're too much to believe on the
son of God, that's what they took you
out of heaven, that was to jam you
for eternity, what have you got to take
you to heaven tonight, my dear friends and
attend tonight, you that have attended so faithfully,
you that have listened so respectfully, and so
reverently, those who I know right well, you
don't intend to lose your soul, but that's
just the way you're going, and my friend
the devil's making fun of you, and he's
keeping you on the broadway, and you're entertained
with this thing, and that thing, and all
the things at the end of the road,
now then come back to our party Jim
Lee, they had a good time, I repeat
again, that's a good thing, but I'll never
take you to heaven, if I did then
tell me, well did Christ die, although they
were on the outside, with a good character,
look at it again if you please, they
not only had a good character, they had
good company, now that's a good thing, does
nothing to entail a bad company, watching a
company to do things, they said it's no
name of business, owner's thanks it isn't, and
the noble's thanks it is, but I warn
you kindly friend tonight, there's nothing in damn
you will show, like bad company, now coach
ever got a patient, from the epistle to
Jim Lee, there's only one chaplain in it,
and I'll coach you past eleven, go on
to them for the dawn, the dawn, the
place, that's the way to go, the dawn
in the way of shame, what did he
do, went to hell through the best he
can, through the first bloodless religious, on the
universe, and he was the first mongrel as
well, he was holy religion, he mongered his
brother, and he went down to hell, where
did he get that, oh he get that
in the bible, where he get the rest
of the things, when he came up to
hell, most excitedly he said, could you imagine
God saying to the holy ghost, to believers,
woe unto them, never, woe unto them for
they've gone in the way of shame, now
you go back to Genesis chapter four, and
listen friend, with all his religion, and with
all his good sacrifice, and with all his
good intentions, John says, the holy spirit said
in first John 3, 10, all things are
of devil, woe unto them you see, after
all things have gone, they've gone and that's
the way sinners go, they come in from
the company various places, and my dear think
when they come to Belfast, it's great, I
bet you didn't know you were coming to
a very wicked city, that's full of sin
and sinners, that you didn't know that, be
warned dear friend, and mind your company, now
look this again, if you please, not only
have you a good charity, but it's a
good company man, that's a good thing, but
a good company won't take you to heaven,
it's a good thing I repeat again, but
I've had a good dose of bad company
before God saved me, though I'm very thankful
to God, I never stood to the sin,
that the rising generation is busting me, is
indulging in just now, I never was drunk
in my life, I never was a big
fool, I never stood to anything worse than
that, never by the grace of God have
I had to live, I found young men
that I kept properly with me, I certainly
wouldn't be here tonight, for my body would
be morally rotting, but I never touched that,
glory to God, I'm very thankful that you
can have a good company, you can live
in charity and be bound for eternity, you
need more than that man, you need more
than that woman, you need more than that
you dear people, you need more than that
you people outside, you don't intend to go
to hell, I know you don't, you intend
to go to heaven, that's good, but when
you go to start, you never get to
a place if you don't start for it,
you never would have been intimidated, you haven't
started for it, and if you intend to
go to heaven, let me ask you kindly,
when you go to start, there's a somebody
I don't know, where your bible says, both
in the old testament and the new, but
now is the expected time, and now is
the day of salvation, 2nd Corinthians 6 and
2, and the Paul's Christian from Isaiah chapter
49, again I'm going to ask you kindly
friend, because I love your soul, and if
I don't love your soul, I have a
profound hypocrite from being on the platform, for
the priesthood I've given, love the souls of
men, God never should, now then, notice these
5 virgins, the virgins still, but listen, there
were virgins after the Jewish ship, you see,
they retained the character, but the character didn't
get me, no they kept good company, my
that's a good thing, oh what's your company
young man, oh what's your company young woman,
I could tell you a story about this,
that I've known from experience, in Belfast and
elsewhere, what I forbear, but I'm going to
emphasize this, what's your company, what kind of
company do you take, are they helping you
to Christ, are they helping you to heaven,
are they helping you to God's way of
salvation, no they're not helping you to heaven,
it's no matter who they are, or what
they are, or how good they are, or
how religious they may be, so you can
get by, if there's no Christ in it,
and there's no salvation in it, you need
more than that, and you need what the
Spirit of God says you need, about you,
18-3, that's such a big confession, confession
means come right round, and become as little
children, a man told me, not long ago,
you know Mr Knott, I thought you had
more wisdom than that, it's only simple people
who believe the Bible, I said you're perfectly
right, and it's only simple people who go
to be in heaven, now let me finish
that, I accept you to come back and
come right round, and become as little children,
you can't inherit the kingdom of heaven, a
little child, a child, believe all you can,
and I believe all the Bible tells me,
every word of it, if you were two
ways my good man, you can go to
hell, and if you were two ways my
good lady, don't forget you'll go to hell
too, it's just the simple people that believe
the message, and the message is so simple,
that a lot of people fall over it,
believe on the Son, and have everlasting life,
believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou
shalt be saved, come up to me all
ye that live, and are heavy laden, and
I will give you rest, him that come
up to me, I will in no way
cast out, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and thou shalt be saved, no woman's pen
and name, that thou shalt confess with thy
mouth, the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy
heart, that God hath raised him from the
dead, that God hath raised him from the
dead, thou shalt be saved, it's not that
easy, that's your baby, if you had anything
to it, and you took yourself out of
heaven, no John pen and name you please,
I am the door, one door's he door,
there's no bus doors to heaven, I am
thee door, it's Christ my youth, it's not
where you go on Sunday, it's not where
I go on Sunday, it counts for absolutely
nothing, so far as God's salvation is concerned,
I am thee door, by me if any
man enter in, that's not getting up again
the door, these five white wagons, these five
foolish wagons, wouldn't enter in, I am the
door, by me if any man enter in,
he shall be saved, the word man's not
there, enter in man or woman, he shall
be saved, my friend, that's John pen name,
do you believe that Matthew?
Did he ever get into a door?
No, tell me then, tell me there, oh
I'll wait a little longer, for the world
is nice and bright, well I want to
tell you, look clearly I say, as you
can see the world's nice and bright, for
I want to tell you, it's weakened with
iniquity, lamb never was as bad as it
is just now, all you say Mr. Knox,
what it was, they sinned against God in
the dark, you sinned against God in the
light of the holy scripture, don't you see
these foolish wagons, which they were the foolish,
they weren't in the lamp, notice my brethren,
be careful when you're preaching of your faith,
and I'll try and do the same, it
does not say that the ways took oil
in the lamps, oh you're making a mistake,
not yet now, when I make a mistake,
I'll be forever obliged for you to let
me know, it does not say that the
ways took oil in the lamps, it's already
got it here, it's too big a hole
isn't it, I'll tell you what it says,
the ways took oil in the vessels with
the lamps, look this up, so that when
a lamp burns down, we could replenish it
again, from the oil in the vessel, but
it doesn't say the fools took no oil
in the vessels, for they had no vessel,
for they carried the oil, no, that's the
vessel, and the names of property that you
and I got, were never God's favours, you
can call it the divine wicked, if you
like, for speed of chapter 2, and you'll
be alright, but my dear old friend, the
ways had already no vessels with the lamps,
so that when the lamp burned low, they
could replenish it again, and listen you Christians,
many a time your lamp burned low, what
did you do then?
I told you to replenish it again, where?
At the throne of grace, with your heavenly
father, and the good old bible, that's what
you did, but then the fools had neither
oil nor a vessel, they carried the oil,
and whatever little they had in the lamp,
their lamps were going out, and it was
going out, and they needed it most of
all, your religion's alright when the sun's shining
on you, your religion and profession's alright, whenever
you're healthy and alive and well, and everything's
going well for you, but how will it
come when you come to die, hurry it
up then man, hurry it up then woman,
now you see, they had good character, and
they were keeping good company, oh yes, that's
the good thing now, you see, we kept
company with the believers, or with the people
that adored the wise people, but the time
comes, when we're separated from a good company,
oh yes, and the good company went in,
and they're on the left hand side, and
I want to tell you kindly friends, that
you have to be separated from your company,
that is if there are questions, of course
they can be as good as they like,
if they're not born again, then never see
heaven, wouldn't it be a good man, to
be sure he was gone free, what did
he need, he needed to be born again,
and my dear friend, wasn't Cornelius a good
man, that's him most assuredly was, what did
he need, thanks to the fisherman, we'll tell
you how to get paid, and so on,
I didn't quote any more, oh they kept
good company, and a lot of them were
proud of the country, they talked to the
company, they walked with the company, they slept
with the company, and maybe you sleep with
a believer, and as the Lord comes tonight
friend, and you'll be left behind, and all
you'll be left, all that will be left
of your wife, your husband, your father, your
mother, all your brother, your sister, will have
been a true rebuke to her, and all
that the fishmen could find, in that chapter,
in that chapter 12, after Peter had left
the prison, was a change he used to
wear, and all you poor sinners will find
a new home, and your father and mother
will go to heaven, the clothes that you
shall wear, we can get them, we can
have the money, we can have a home,
we can have a bank, and a church,
we can have a farm, we'll have a
good life with hell at the end of
it, and hell for eternity, and tonight dear
friend, if I don't turn the corn, there's
only the two things for us, there's only
the two things for us, and you take
that kindly for me, because I love your
soul, and if you die and lose your
soul, we'll never be able to tell the
Lord, that I didn't warn you, for I
did that every night, and I'm doing it
tonight again, when I want to preach the
gospel for a little while, but not just
yet, I said the absolute good thing, I
only quote it through, first of all, you
have a good character, second is a good
company, and that's very good, I've got a
good object in life, you meet people going
about their past, I meet them every day,
going past the tent, and have no object
in life at all, it's just come day
and go day, and go and spend Sunday,
and have no object in life at all,
and my dear friends, there they are, and
my friends, these foolish faggots, have a good
object in life, and my friends, if you
were born again, you ought to have a
good object in life, and what is that
object, living for two weeks, to the Lord?
From your mouth, he speaks to us, he
says, shall he cross the kingdom of heaven,
and his preciousness, Matthew, that's given to believers,
and all these things, shall be added on
to you, what things?
The things that everybody in Belfast, running after,
what will we eat?
Well, you never gave us hunger yet, what
will we drink?
You never gave us or slept, and what
will we wear?
And for the woman after, what will we
eat, and what will we drink, and what
will we wear?
And the devil's leading the brain, down to
a lost spin of hell, no, my dear
friend, be it a good object in living,
what's that object?
when we're good company, and we're going to
make the bread, so, and consequently, let's start
off to make the bread, you are, but
listen, friends, what's the difference with Egypt, and
not only oil, but the difference was in
the inside, some had oil in the lamps,
and the other had not, and what's the
difference between the shade people, and the only
shade in the tent, and I, I couldn't
just tell you the difference from the platform,
where there's maybe a thousand people, I put
them in the living, God knows the other
end, the difference is in the inside, now
when you come to Massey 7, you've got
two buildings, two houses, one built on sand,
one built on the rock, both houses, they
appear exactly the same, indeed, the one built
on the sand, they appear to be the
best, but it's on the sand, and it
came down, the difference is the foundation, where
nobody can see, then there's two trees, and
what's the difference at the roots, nobody can
see, and because there was no roof, there
was no foot, my dear friend, I can
see your heart, and I don't want to
see it, but I have to tell you
kindly, because I love your soul, if you
have never been born of the Holy Spirit
of God, John 3, 5, then to use
the faith, you have new oil in your
vessel, and you have nothing to meet God
with, absolutely nothing, what is an object that
will go to meet the right good?
Where's your oil?
Oh well, did you know that it says
our lamps are gone out in the text?
Did you know that it says they're going
out in the market?
Now you see, brethren, it's quite plain, they
were bound to be lit, or lighted, did
you use butler lamps, they were bound to
be lighted, but don't you know, at least
us company people do, us people that know
nothing, you know properly, well that an old
ginny lamp will go without any oil for
a little while, did you know hardly any
people going to go to do that?
That's where these were, aye, and you may
have enough religion keeping you going, but you'll
find yourself outside of heaven's door forever, because
you were a bad man, no, because you
were a bad woman, no, because you were
a wicked person, no, because you had no
oil, you had no Holy Ghost, and with
all your goodness, let these foolish bargains, that
had a good character, that kept good company,
that had a good object in life, and
a good shop, they were outside of it
forever, oh, and I notice it, they were
right at the very door, Matthew 7 says,
they're knocked at the door, and they had
a lot of good things about them, but
they're outside the door, let me hear them
speaking outside the door, Lord, Lord, open to
us, we parted, you were speech to the
Jew, you couldn't be any amount of Bible
teachers in heaven, preachers as well, why, because
they never were born again, teaching and preaching
won't take you to heaven, no, but the
whole lot will send you to hell, for
it's not sound, but notice my dear friend,
it wasn't that at all, it was just
this one thing, why were they shut out
of heaven, they had no oil in the
lamp, and the lamp went out when I
needed it most, you religion may please you
all right, whenever things going well, and you
tell me I'm just as good as I
am, a lady pulled up, well, if you're
as good as me friend, I would advise
you kindly, to bid heaven goodbye forever, you'll
never see it, if you're as good as
me, I've just got enough goodness to damn
my soul, but I'm going to heaven till
I surely am, but my goodness had absolutely
nothing to do with it, what has to
do with it, the Christ has to do
with it, you miss Christ son, and you're
a lost soul forever, now you see, the
difference was in the inside, you couldn't see
the difference, look at them lying together, look
at them sleeping together, they not only got
lunch, they dressed the same way, the virgins
dressed as virgins, so that everybody will know
they were virgins, and the harlots dressed as
harlots, so that everybody would know they were
harlots, and the harlots in Palestine, and in
some parts of India, marked by the painted
lips, it's the harlots, oh friend in the
meeting tonight, you can have a whole lot
of good qualities of a gay, but heaven
you'll never see, nobody could please them all
right, now come back to Matthew 7, we
taught him, you will say yes, God pitied
Belfast in the judgment day, sometimes I take
a walk up round the hills at Ligonier,
or Chastory Hills, and I look down over
the city in Belfast, just sits in a
bog hole, you have to come down into
it, no matter what way you come to
it, except you come along the show road,
and there's all the lights blazing up to
heaven, and I say well, I lived in
you for over 50 years, I visited you,
I prayed for you, I preached to you,
I watched for you, and farewell forever, God
pitied Belfast in the day of judgment, with
all its privileges, he put down the trial
in his time, Matthew 7, how far did
these foolish vagrants go, right to the very
door of heaven, if you knew my old
mother used to say to me, someone will
call and will not be heard, someone will
knock when the door is barred, someone will
fail and escape the door, shall you shall
I, let me pause for a little while
friend, in God's precious name, maybe I better
talk, when did you get saved if you're
saved, where were you when it happened then,
how did you get it, what did you
get, did it change your life, did it
make you a new creature in Christ, no,
well friends you haven't got anything, just a
lot of religion, a nice respectable profession, but
absolutely nothing in it, and it may take
you to the door of heaven, but Matthew,
there's nobody dropped so deep into the lake
of fire, let me repeat it again, someone
will call and will not be heard, someone
will knock when the door is barred, someone
will fail and escape the door, now in
Matthew 7, the knock at the door, there's
no knocking in Matthew 7, at the very
door, and he said, now don't open, oh
no, said the Lord, I won't open the
door to you, for why, because you didn't
go to church another time, the one essential
thing for to get to heaven, is to
know Christ as your own personal Saviour, they
didn't know that, and consequently said, I never
knew, you depart from it, listen again you
fallen away people, it doesn't say I didn't
know you and you left me, never, I
said I never knew you, for once saved,
you're always saved, and you put in Christ
the reason to, to be for me and
us to God, and you put in Christ
for no condemnation, Romans 8.1, and you
put in Christ for a changed life, 2
Corinthians 5.17, if you haven't got that
then dear friend, you haven't got anything, but
when you come to Colossians 1.37, what
do you find, Christ to you, the hope
of glory, therefore if Christ is in me,
and in every believer, and I'm in Christ,
then tell me, how can I ever be
lost, it's monstrous, it's a new start to
the finished work of Christ on the cross,
and it's a new start to the saving
grace of God, and it's a new start
to the intermediary work of Christ at God's
right hand tonight, now we come back to
old chapter 8, Matthew chapter 25, oh yes,
they may have lived together, I don't know,
and I don't work on speculation, but I'm
sure of this, they walked together, didn't they
go forth to meet the bridegroom, the bridegroom
Christ to be sure, and notice again, they
talked together, give us a good eye one
said, the other said we have no, what
do you mean, of course this is not
a gospel message, you all know that villain,
why, because the gospel is not sold, and
the guy that can't buy the gospel, no
matter how much money you've got, for Isaiah
50 verses, it's without money, and without price,
mark the two things, the two different things,
because you have money, and you have millionaires,
and multi millionaires, but you never have the
price, for the price is a good price,
and God the man that despises the good
God, is God the man, I don't care
who he is, if you call him by
what name you like, he's a descendant of
the king, oh yes, he did all that,
but when the door was shut, the supper
didn't come ever, never to meet again, what
do they do in the door, what do
they say to sinners, in the meeting they
make the door, what door, John 10 and
9, you're a good respectable man, a woman,
maybe far more than some believers, but that's
not enough to get heaven, no no, I
am the door, that's it, there's only one
door to heaven, you religion and my religion,
everybody else's religion, is not worth anything, the
thing is if you get Christ, then you've
got nothing left, Christ is the door to
heaven for all, who seeks to reach salvation,
the rich, the poor, the great, the small,
of his tribal nation, twice over in the
book of Proverbs it reads, the rich and
the poor meet together, where do they meet,
the rich and the poor meet together, where
do they meet, oh they meet in life,
to be sure they do, though they may
not keep company, but they meet in life,
and they meet in death too, lucky that,
they meet in death, why, because the great
God never asked you whether you were rich
or poor, and I hope never, none of
this will ever be cremated, because cremation is
a splendid step back, would you pay me
for some, oh no, now look this here
please, where do they meet, oh they meet
again, the rich and the poor, at the
great white throne, Revelation 30, 11 to 15,
the rich and the poor meet together, they
sure do, at the great white throne, therefore
to see, to see the sin in the
books, and to see the names not in
the book of life, and whosoever was not
found written in the book of life, was
cast into the lake of fire, and the
lake of fire is a lake of fire,
that no one shall tear from, now the
next thing I want you to notice, there's
another place, where the rich and poor meet,
loaded and drawn, and there's quite a lot
to meet at the cross, outside brought the
good, and the rich and the poor both
get saved, by the grace of God, but
not many rich, oh what authority have you
for that, the good old Bible, oh so
somebody get everything else from the Bible, and
where did God and Henry Walker get it,
I'm not going to go anything inferior, and
of course in the Bible that's all I
want, and I stick to it, and I
believe it, and I love it, and my
friend I'm thankful to God for it, where
do you get anything in the Bible, that
says there are not many rich people in
heaven, well I said there didn't God, but
notice that I didn't say not any, oh
look there's a name, and there's a name
in front of it, and it says not
many, but yes where is it in the
Bible, are you trying to dig the question,
oh no I'll face up to the question
only, 1st Corinthians chapter 10, for you know
you're calling brethren, and you see you know
you're calling brethren, how that not many make,
not many great, not many noble are called,
for God has chosen the weak things of
us, and not only the weak, but the
things that are not, that are not foolish,
and the things that are not, the things
that doesn't exist, to bring to naught the
things that are not many, that's 1st Corinthians
chapter 1, and consequently that's my evidence for
saying, there's not too many big people in
heaven, but I did say there's not too
many, because my Bible says that, and my
friends you know from experience, without going to
a lot of multi-millionaires, in America or
any other place, there's very very few of
them knew anything, it's all about God's salvation,
it's a matter of fact, there's no time
for it, so the Bible says not many,
and of course the Bible is right every
time, and I'll come back to our text,
and then I'll talk you a few verses
of scripture, that you might get saved, Oh
these ten virgins are separate, my I've seen
some sad separation in my life, I'm remembering
now, of a man I buried over 50
years ago, in the city of Belfast, he
was a Christian, and I was burying a
dear man, but he had a wild son,
nearly everybody has, he had a wild son,
but you're always not, so you see,
to meet again, to come home to see
his mother, we buried her out in earth,
and I remember that dear, I
don't talk a lot about the dead people,
if they lived Christ, they don't need my
commendation, and if they didn't live Christ, my
commendation's no use, I would ask that he
go to the funeral, same thing with a
wedding if I might, because listen, there's only
two seasons for preaching, but man, he listened
to the preaching all right, but then he
went over to the coffin, and she's gone,
and your mother will be in heaven young
man, and to make you sit in your
sin, and there's nothing over in the spirit
of God, no one seems to trouble you,
I'm not saying you're not, if you're not
in your mother's hair already, I'm not saying
you are, but you may be, you may
be, because in Ephesians 4, you read about
people that without feeling, either don't feel anything,
and they never will feel anything, unless they
feel the judgment of God, they are past
feeling, so, I've shown you all I want
to show you about these 10, I'm going
to tell you how you can get saved,
I'm going to tell you how you get
saved from the Bible, I'm going to give
you a chapter, and I'll describe it to
you, I don't believe that way, you can
go to heaven if you don't, blessed God
will be able to fill heaven without you,
he's not obligated to you and me, that
means he's not under any compliment to you,
if you believe on the Son he'll save
you, and if you don't he'll damn you,
and that's the whole of it, remember God's
not under any compliment to you and me,
he's provided salvation for us, and he offered
to you the three gifts, John 4, Romans
6, Titus 3, and he wants you to
test the gifts, and if you don't test,
if you take the gift you'll get God's
salvation, if you don't take the gift then
you'll get the wages, Romans 6, 23, what
is the wages?
It's not right to say that the wages
of sin is eternal death, no, the wages
of sin is physical death, but the parity
of sin is a little higher, for that's
where you'll go tonight young man, that's where
you'll go tonight young woman, and this is
my last mitten, and I'm going to tell
you again, well I make you up a
great white throne for believers, so they offer
a great white throne, you're not to have
it, no no, because they offer it with
the Christ, why do you get that?
1 Corinthians 6, do you not know, says
the apostle Paul, that the saints shall judge
the world, and who's the saint?
Sinners, saved by the grace of God, and
nobody else, as we go to judge the
world yet, under the jurisdiction of Christ, we'll
bow our accolades to his divine judgment, and
I do think it's possible, it's possible that
some of you in the tent tonight, who
rejected Christ, and died that way, you'll be
up a great white throne, and Christ's the
judge, and of course you'll be with Christ,
and oh sinner, will you take one last
withering, you fatter, of a man that didn't
warn you your danger, or tell you how
to get saved, oh you now salvation's sworn,
never to come back anymore, oh dreadful coffin
hell to form, never to come back anymore,
no no no no, never to come back
anymore, would you like to be saved friend?
Yes, would you like to be saved now?
Yes, and why do you want to be
saved?
Because I'm going to hell, and what do
you think God wants you to do to
be saved?
Oh he wants me to believe on the
throne, that's quite right, why do you not
do it?
Oh to some I'm trying to do it,
surely you're not going to insult the holy
God, by saying you're trying to believe on
him, why have I told you a thing,
I'm not going to say most of you
would believe it, I don't tell lies, but
my friend, why do you not believe what
God says?
If God says a thing, it's final, and
it's perfectly final, mind that dear friend, and
I'll tell you a few things God says,
how you can get saved, just so you
sit on the seat tonight, we needn't come
up to a penitent form, we haven't got
one, but if you come up, I'll be
glad to sit beside you, and don't raise
hands dear please, for I neither count hands
nor heads, therefore the men do that, that's
their affair, not mine, but this is my
affair here, I sow the seed, and I
let the living God do the seed, and
if he do it, then he'll be sure
that it's well done, now a few verses
of scripture, and why wouldn't I go home
and sleep sound tonight, no I wouldn't sleep
for a good while, I'd be too glad
and thankful to God, and not all souls
came tonight, now here's a stately letter, left
Southampton a long time ago, and it's bound
for New Zealand, and it got right to
the very mouth of Sydney Harbour, but when
it got to the mouth of Sydney Harbour,
it went right down with all hands, now
look at it dear please, the people on
the harbour walls, waiting for to meet their
loved ones, and the people on the boat
are on deck, ready to go off to
meet their loved ones, ah so near but
so far, and neither American engineers, nor Australian
engineers, nor British engineers, ever could find out
what happened, but she went down, she went
down, she went down, now the lifeboat went
out, thank God for the lifeboat men, thank
God for the firemen, and thank God for
the policemen, and all of them there, for
my friend he couldn't live without them, but
mark you well my dear friend, whenever the
dead, the people are floating about on the
sea, in Sydney Harbour, the lifeboat goes out,
man God bless those men, that risked their
life to save people, they knew nothing about,
now there's a very few, there's a very
few men, a very few humane man, that
was in charge of one of these lifeboats,
and every time they picked the body up,
and threw it into the boat, they would
put a megaphone to his voice, and shout,
another one's saved, I could hear that out
in Hastings, and they'd pick up another one,
and they'd throw it in, and they'd shout,
another one's saved, why did they do that,
they wanted to deal people, on the dock
wall, for to hear, that another one's saved,
and to make think, that's my wife, that's
my husband, that's my son, that's my daughter,
that's my father, that's my mother, and so
this Coxswain was his name, my friend, as
soon as he threw a body into the
lifeboat, another one's saved, oh friend, if I
could see, another one's saved in the tent
tonight, another one's saved, saved from a godless
world, saved from a life of sin, saved
from a lost sinner's hell, saved for heaven,
now what a funny, John 10, 28, couldn't
you see that as a scripture now, I
mean, if you gave a lamb to them,
and you were not saved, you'd go to
hell, with the baby ringing in your ear,
now the other man never told you that
shit, he didn't, no, no, no, no, he
daren't do that, that's what they call a
double affirmative, it means truly, truly, it means
it must be, it must be, or yes,
that's what it means, what is it, vanity,
vanity, and that's the strategy of it, I,
that's the authority of it, this is not
what some great big body said, no matter,
no matter whether they're, they're politics, politicians, or
preachers, or whatever they may be, I say
this, they've got it, you can't behind it,
I mean, he said it all for you,
look at me, look at me,