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I'd like to read in Matthew chapter 9 tonight. Nice to see so many out on this Saturday night. Matthew 9, and we'll read from verse 2. And behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed.
And Jesus, seeing their faith, said unto the sick of the palsy, son, be of good cheer. Thy sins be forgiven thee. And behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, this man blasphemeth. And Jesus, knowing their faith and thoughts, said, wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?
For whither is easier to say, thy sins be forgiven thee, or to say, arise and walk? But that ye may know that the Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins. Then saith he to the sick of the palsy, arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.
And he arose and departed to his house. But when the multitude saw it, they marveled and glorified God, which had given such power unto man. And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the receipt of custom.
And he saith unto him, follow me. And he arose and followed him. And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.
And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto the disciples, why eateth your master with publicans and sinners? Verse 18, while he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler and worshipped him, saying, my daughter is even now dead.
Come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live. And Jesus arose and followed him, and so did his disciples. And behold, a woman which was diseased with an issue of blood 12 years came behind him and touched the hem of his garment.
For she said within herself, if I may touch his garment, I shall be whole. But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, daughter, be of good comfort, thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.
Verse 25, but when the people were put forth, he went in and took her by the hand, and the maid arose. And the fame thereof went abroad into all the land. And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying and saying, thou son of David, have mercy on us.
And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him, and Jesus said unto them, believe ye that I am able to do this. They said unto him, yea, Lord. Then touched he their eyes, saying, according to your faith, be it unto you.
And their eyes were opened, and Jesus straightway charged them, saying, see that no man know it. Verse 35, and Jesus went and about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.
But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted and were scattered abroad as sheep having no shepherd. Now the Lord will bless to us the reading of his precious word and what we've already heard in the fourth part of this gospel meeting.
When I think of these here, I failed to read about the dumb man here tonight. But there are seven individuals in this portion of God's precious word. We see the paralytic man. We see Matthew. And we see the young girl that was dying.
And we see the woman that had a disease for 12 years. And then we see the two blind men. And then we see the dumb man. And you'll notice that every one of these had to come to the very same person. They had to go to the Lord Jesus Christ.
And that's where every one of us have to come to. We have to come to the Savior if we're ever to be reached and saved. But here all these seven, they were sheep without a shepherd. Can you imagine what that is to be a sheep without a shepherd tonight in this gospel meeting?
If you're not saved tonight in this gospel meeting, you are a sheep without a shepherd. That's quite a thing, my friend, to find out, to be a sheep without a shepherd. David can say, the Lord is my shepherd.
I shall not want. Isn't that wonderful when a person can say these things? The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. That's what gives a person, a child of God, peace within his soul when he comes to know the good shepherd that gave his life for the sheep.
Now the Lord Jesus, it cost the Lord Jesus at quite a price to redeem sinful man back to God. He had to go to the cross. He had to suffer. He had to bleed. He had to die. And to think how cruel men so cruelly treated the Savior.
They said, away with this man, crucify him. We don't want this man to reign over us. And how many people in the world are still saying the same thing, away with this man. We don't want this man to reign over us.
When I think of this paralytic man, a palsy man, he was absolutely without strength. But if you would read in Mark's chapter two, you would see that there was four men, stretcher bearers. They brought this man to the Lord Jesus.
They brought him right to where the Lord Jesus was. And when we think of that tonight, that is very solemn, my friend. Here was four men, they were so interested in this man. He was helpless. He couldn't get to the Lord Jesus.
But they saw the need for bringing him to the Lord Jesus. When I consider that tonight, and here's these men. They brought him to the Lord Jesus. But the house was filled. They couldn't enter into the house.
And these men were not about to give up. They went up to the housetop. They began to take the roof off of the house. And now if you would do that in a day and age that we're living in, you would have to go to the authorities to get permission to take a roof off the house.
And you would never get that permission. You'd have to wait for two weeks, or wait for a month. We'll go through and we'll bring it up and see what comes out of it. But these men brought that man right to where the Lord Jesus was.
And as he was there, he came to be healed. This man wanted healing. He wanted to have his full strength again. He was a man that was without strength. And you know what? When he come to the Lord Jesus, the Lord Jesus said when he saw their faith, he says to the man, son, be of good cheer.
Thy sins be forgiven thee. Now you tell me tonight, how did that young palsy man, if he was young, I don't know. Don't make one bit of difference tonight, whether he was young or whether he was old. How did that man know his sins forgiven?
There was only one way that he would ever know his sins forgiven. The Lord Jesus told him, how could anyone ever know their sins forgiven on this side of eternity, except the word of God tells us what he did for us at the cross of Calvary.
And they thought he blasphemed. Who can tell someone, the only God can tell someone that their sins are forgiven. The Lord Jesus was God manifested in the flesh. Things that they didn't even know. But my friend tonight, the Lord Jesus saw that man's need far more than healing.
And before he could ever take up his bed and walk, he had to know his sins forgiven. And we had to find that out in our own life, that we had to know our sins forgiven before we could ever walk for him.
When we think of the word of God, in Romans chapter three, you would see that we have all sinned and that we have all come short of the glory of God. And that's something every one of us should come to know.
Now there are some that say in the world, I always knew that I was a sinner. So did I. I thought I did. But I'll tell you the night that God made me to realize that I was a sinner and I was without Christ and without hope, a stranger to grace and to God.
That was altogether different, my friend. When God makes it real to the individual that he has sinned and that he has come short of the glory of God. I tell you, it don't take long for the Lord Jesus to make it clear to you what he did for you at the cross of Calvary.
So when we think of this dear man, he finally knew his sins forgiven. Isn't that wonderful tonight? I'm glad for the night that I found out that my sins were forgiven. I didn't have a Scripture that come to me like that.
A Scripture that came to me was the one in Romans 5 and 6 that we heard about so much tonight. How that Christ died for the ungodly. When I think of that, I was up in Newfoundland one time having gospel meetings and just starting a series in Parson Bond.
And that night in my first message, I mentioned, and there was one other brethren that told his testimony tonight that had the problem with his believing. And I said, if there's someone here tonight and you're having a problem with believing, could you just not trust the Savior tonight?
You know, there was a young lady in that meeting that night. And she said to herself, well, she says, I can trust Him. I'll take Him at His word. And she got saved the very first night in that series of gospel meetings.
And a week later, I mentioned on the Sunday night, I said, if there's anybody that gets saved in these meetings, please tell us. We all like to know. If somebody gets saved tonight, don't be afraid to tell us.
Don't hold it back. Tell out the good news and the glad tidings how that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners and to save you. And that girl, we went to visit her next day or so. And Mr. Goff was there.
And he says to the dear girl, he says, he showed her several scriptures with the word believe in. And he says, I understand then you got saved and you believed. No, she says, I never believed. She says, I just trusted the Savior.
Well, there's not too much difference, my friend, tonight. But what God used to let her to see that just by taking Him as His word, that's what salvation is all about, my friend, tonight, is taking God at His word, owning before a holy God that I have sinned and that I have come short of the glory of God.
And that dear young lady that had been troubled for quite some time come to realize that night just by trusting Him. Maybe there's a soul tonight in this meeting. You have a problem with believing. Just trust Him.
Just take Him at His word. I'll never forget the night that I was saved. I quoted that verse so many times in Sunday school. If I didn't learn my verse, I could always quote, for when we're yet without strength in due time, Christ died for the ungodly.
But you know, that night when I was saved, I pondered that verse. For when we're yet without strength, they come to me. If there's anybody without strength, here I've been trying to get saved all these times.
Here I am. I'm just without strength. There's nothing I can do to save myself. And there it said, in due time, Christ died for the ungodly. At a set time, Christ died for the ungodly. And then I began to ponder, who was the ungodly?
Can you imagine that? A person not saved and wondering who the ungodly was? Well, the Lord showed me that I could never live to the standard of God, so I must be the ungodlike one. And right there, for the first time in my life, I found out that I was the ungodly sinner.
For the first time in my life, I noticed there from God's word that Christ had already died for this ungodly sinner. Friend, tonight in this meeting, the work of salvation as we've already been hearing, it is finished.
The work of salvation, the work of redemption is already completed at the cross of Calvary. Now, when I think of the man Matthew, the Lord Jesus came to him and he looked him right in the eye. He says, Matthew, can you imagine somebody here tonight?
And the Lord Jesus looks you right in the eye and the spirit of God begins to convict. Matthew was convicted immediately when the Lord Jesus said, Matthew, follow me. Are you convicted tonight that you're a sinner?
Are you convicted tonight that you have sinned and come short of the glory of God? Can you imagine, friend, tonight in this meeting, how many times you have rejected the Lord Jesus? How many times are you going to continue to reject him?
Oh, be careful, my friend. David could say on one occasion, there is but a step between me and death. We've been reminded of somebody taking that step out of this life into eternity. Thanks be to God that he was saved, but it was just a step.
Little did he know that day that that was the day he was going to die. Little do you know the day that you're going to die. You have no assurance of tomorrow. The Lord Jesus said to Matthew, maybe the Lord Jesus is speaking to you tonight for the last time, follow me.
Would you like to be a follower of the Lord Jesus? Matthew immediately began to follow the Lord Jesus and he followed him right to the cross to see where the Lord Jesus was the one who was going to die in his stead.
Oh, dear traveler to eternity tonight, don't trifle with God. He that being often reproved, hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy. Are you a sheep tonight without a shepherd?
Can you imagine what it is for a flock of sheep out there in the plains without a shepherd? Going astray, all we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Thanks be to God that God ever sent his son into this world. We read for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him or trusted in him shall not perish but have everlasting life.
You could have everlasting life tonight without a shadow of a doubt. But Matthew obeyed the message, the spirit of God so convicted him. I hope the spirit of God will convict you tonight of your sin and that you should become a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Oh, don't put this day in salvation off because tomorrow's sunrise you may never see. It only takes a moment to die, my friend, tonight. And then the great question is, heaven or hell for eternity? Could you imagine tonight a soul dropping out of life and opening their eyes in hell where they'll be weeping and wailing and then eventually the lake of fire?
It's solemn, my friend, tonight. Don't trifle with God. I think of the young lady, 18 years old, dying and they sent her father, a Jew, to go to the Lord Jesus. The Jews had nothing to do with him, but he went to the Lord Jesus and the Lord Jesus was going to go and try to heal her.
But you know what? That woman that had a disease for over 12 years spent everything that she had on her disease and still had the disease. And she worked her way through that crowd there that day. And as she worked her way through the crowd there that day, she says to herself, if I can but touch the hem of his garment, I would be made whole.
Oh, my friend, what faith? Did you notice the faith of the five? Their faith? And the woman, she went through the crowd and she touched the Savior's hem of his garment and immediately she was made whole.
And it says here, be of good cheer or be of good comfort. Thy faith hath made thee whole. Not their faith, but thy faith. No, it's thy faith hath made thee whole. They says, the Lord Jesus says, somebody touched me.
And those disciples says, this thronging crowd? And you say, somebody touched me? He said, I felt virtue going out. What a day that must have been when that woman touched his garment. And he said, thy faith hath saved thee.
Oh, I wonder dear friend tonight, would you put faith in the work of Christ alone? The one who was uplifted at the cross of Calvary? The one who bore our sin in his own body in the tree? We quoted that verse once from the Old Testament.
All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way, but the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. When I think of that verse tonight, that touches my heart. All we like sheep have gone astray, that's universal tonight.
That takes in every soul in this world. We have all gone astray. We have all turned to our own way. That's personal, my friend. To think of people turning their own way. I turned away from God. I got further and further away from God.
18 years of my life I spent in my sins. I was traveling a downward course, going down to hell faster than time could take me. But then it says, all we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way, but the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Why did the Lord Jesus use that word iniquity there in the Old Testament? The reason he used that word iniquity, it's just another word for sin, but it takes in every hideous sin that man could have ever committed on the face of this earth, my friend, tonight.
And the Lord Jesus bore it in his own body in the tree. He put away our sin by the sacrifice of himself. And I'm glad tonight that I know my sin's forgiven. I'm glad tonight that I'm not a shepherd without a sheep, a sheep without a shepherd.
Old friend tonight, are you still a sheep without a shepherd? You don't have to be. The good shepherd gave his life for the sheep. He's waiting for you to come to him tonight. He wants to give you peace.
He wants to give you rest. He wants you to be saved. He wants you to know your sin's forgiven. He wants you to know for sure that you're going to be in heaven. I think of the two blind men. And the Lord says, and when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him.
And Jesus saith unto them, believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, yea, Lord. Then touched he their eyes saying, according to your faith, now it's your faith, according to your faith, be it unto you.
And he touched their eyes and they were made whole. Was it the touch? No, it was their faith. It's faith alone in the finished work of Christ that gives one redemption to know their sin's forgiven and a surety of a home in heaven.
Now the Lord Jesus was moved with compassion over every one of these and over everyone in this world that were sheep without a shepherd. Can you imagine tonight what it would be for a person to die without the shepherd?
To die without Christ? To be lost forever, to be down in hell when there has been so great a pardon made? When the Lord Jesus said, it is finished. He finished the work of redemption for every person at the cross of Calvary.
Why did he finish the work? He died for our sins we heard tonight according to the scriptures and that he was buried and that he rose again the third day. We have faith in a living Savior, one who finished the work of redemption.
He'll never have to do it again. It was sufficient to redeem every sinner that's in this world. But will you be saved? My friend tonight, it's up to you what you're going to do with God's plan of salvation.
You can receive Him or you can reject Him.