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On behalf of the conveners of the conference, we want to welcome everyone to this session, the Gospel Now, until 8 .15, in the will of God. If you're here for the first time, we welcome you among us and trust that we'll meet you in heaven when life is over.
Now, just before we open the scripture, we'll just have a quick word of prayer. Let us pray. Our Father, we ask for thy help further this evening. We thank you for saving these beloved brethren. They have a time where, a place when, and a manner how, they were one for heaven.
We thank you for the Gospel message. We've been reminded of the power that's behind it, the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth. We do trust tonight that those who are before us, some poor weary soul that maybe God has been dealing with in recent days, might trust the Savior tonight.
We think of the boys and girls. We have heard of those who have been saved in early night. There's a number here tonight who need salvation. As we open the book now, we ask for heaven's help another time to be simple and clear and plain, that the wayfaring person may not err therein.
So we thank thee for the Savior, and we thank thee for the message, and ask a blessing in his worthy name. Amen. I have three brief readings tonight by way of opening Luke's Gospel, chapter 10, is what we want to start with.
Luke's Gospel, please, chapter 10, if you have the Holy Bible with you. Now I want to talk tonight about the concept of being wounded. That's the message tonight by way of opening, two-fold message in the Gospel, the concept of being wounded.
And so, in answer to a lawyer's question here, the Lord Jesus said in verse number 30, Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
Please underline in your mind tonight, this dear soul, here he is, stripped of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. Isaiah chapter 53 in the Old Testament is the next passage.
Isaiah 53, the center of your Bible. Now, in a brief reading here, Isaiah, please, chapter 53. Notice the first question, Isaiah 53, 1, who hath believed our report? Verse 4, surely he, the Lord Jesus, hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.
Yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his strife we are healed.
But he was wounded for our transgressions. First Samuel now, chapter 31 to conclude. First Samuel, please, one of the history books of the Old Testament. First Samuel, chapter 31. First Samuel, please, 31.
Interesting story, I'll just read you the sequel of what happened. Notice, please, verse number 3. First Samuel 31, 3. And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him, and he was sore wounded of the archers.
He was sore wounded of the archers. He talks now to his armor-bearer at the end of verse 4. But his armor-bearer would not, for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword and fell upon it. And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword and died with him.
So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor-bearer, and all his men that same day together. Those are the readings tonight. The concept of wounding, being wounded. Now let me just tell you what's on my heart here for a minute or two.
Recently, in one of the press media advertisements on the internet, it showed the picture of a wounded soldier. He was wounded in Afghanistan, and he was in excruciating pain. And it told the story of what happened.
And his associate was killed on a wayside home. And he got a military burial, and the dear fellow left the hospital in excruciating pain. And he went to the funeral to pay his last respects to a friend.
You see, his body was wounded physically. Now that's the concept I want to leave in your mind tonight. I have three simple thoughts for the gospel by way of opening. Number one, I want to think of the road of the wounded sinner.
There he is. He's lying on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho to use the idea. Half dead. Wounded. The road of the wounded sinner. It displays and tells us tonight and pictures a soul without the Lord Jesus.
More about that in a minute. And then I want to talk about the report of the wounded Savior. He was wounded for our transgressions. That brings us to Calvary. We want to linger there tonight and tell this audience in a simple way how a soul can be saved and won for heaven.
And be absolutely sure before you leave the gym tonight that all is well. But I want to bring the other side of the gospel to you. And I want you to think of the remorse of a wounded soldier. Saul, the son of Kish.
What a sad story. On Mount Gilboa, as the battle went against him, he was sore wounded. And the record shows he fell on his own sword and he went to eternity. Dear people, tonight, when the day is done and the last step is taken, we will leave the world that we live in and move into another world.
The great eternity. Now, I just want to give a simple thought here and pass on the road of the wounded sinner. See, this lawyer was an expert in the law of the Old Testament. They thought he knew a lot.
But the Lord Jesus wants to tell him and get the message across to him that we want to do tonight. And he said, man, there was a man one day and he left Jerusalem and he went down the road to Jericho.
And he met thieves, robbers. And they stripped him of his raiment. And they were obnoxious to him. And they left him half dead, wounded, on the side of the road as he moved downward. Dear people, tonight, it's a very faint picture of the world that we live in.
Of our generation tonight in 2010. It just tells us of the road, the broad road that the Savior talked about. Moving from time into eternity. Wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction.
And many there be which go in there at. There he is. He's lying absolutely helpless. Do you think he could do anything to save himself and get himself out of that situation? Absolutely no. Every moment that he lived, the man has got wounds.
And from a physical standpoint, if somebody doesn't intervene, he will die and move away. How suggestive tonight. Here's the story of the gospel. You see, the Bible teaches. As by one man, sin entered into the world.
Death by sin. Death is passed upon all men for all sinned. And so we started with this wound that salvation can heal. But sin has brought the wounds into the life of every individual. And if you're here tonight, and I've never heard the gospel before, or I've heard it from day one.
Dear people, tonight you can't help it. That's the way we were born. But God wants you to learn your need tonight. And I want to just major on this, dear soul, lying right there on the road. You see, friend, on the broad road, spiritually speaking, there are all kinds of people that will wound others and strip them.
And they'll get wounds that I want to use tonight as an example. For example, the wounds of disappointment. Maybe you're here tonight and you've been disappointed with life to this point. The wounds that others have placed on you.
Ah, tonight that old world out there is a lonely place. And there's plenty of room for pleasure and sin and all that it brings. But it only brings wounds, spiritually speaking, to dear people. The pursuits of sin.
The pursuits of pleasure. The pursuits of business. And cut it whatever way you want, friend. We're in a disappointing world. And the big thing that you need to learn in this gospel meeting tonight is your need.
You have a spiritual need, friend. And there's nothing you can do about it. Only cry to God that you might learn before him what it's all about. And so I often ask people when I'm on this passage, if the Samaritan hadn't have stopped that day, do you think the man would have been healed?
I doubt it. Dear soul, if you continue the pathway that you're going, and if salvation doesn't come your way, and the Holy Spirit doesn't intervene, and you're not challenged with the gospel of the grace of God, you'll die and move into eternity.
But we have come tonight, dear soul, to tell you from our hearts what life is all about. I know many tonight, and they've been wounded by sin. Some that we have met recently that break your very heart.
And some of them raised in Christian homes. And they have drunk deeply at the cisterns of the world. Dear soul, tonight will you learn the road of the wounded sinner. You see, physically speaking and geographically speaking, Jericho was lower than Jerusalem on the map.
And you see the downward road? It's downward. It's pointing downward. And it finishes in the city of the curse that the Bible says was burned with fire. I want to tell this audience tonight that if the Spirit of God begins to work with you as real friend, when free grace awoke me by light from on high, then legal fear shook me, I trembled to die.
I've been not right. God helped you tonight to learn your need. I want you to think about the report of the wounded Savior. Let me make the application out of this profound passage. You see, God has a report tonight that he's putting out to the world of men and to this audience.
Well, might we ask, who has believed the report? And the report tonight, dear people, of the wounded Savior that brings us to Calvary. Let me linger there for a minute. Over 2 ,000 years ago, on the history of this old world, outside the old city of Jerusalem one day, early on a Friday morning, moving forward to Calvary, the Lord Jesus Christ, who's gone out to die.
Have you heard the story of the cross? Where Jesus bled and died? Where your debt was paid by his precious blood that flowed from his wounded side? I want to tell you tonight that the first person that ever told me of the Lord Jesus in Calvary was my mother as a little fellow.
And I learned the gospel at her knee. Maybe you know the gospel tonight, but you're not saved, friend. Here's how you can be saved. On that cross, God took account of Christ. And on those lonely three hours there, he was wounded for our transgressions.
He was fierce, is the word, for our transgressions. He was bruised. He was crushed for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him. And with a strike, I am healed. Anyone here tonight, and you've never shared it with one, but your heart is breaking.
It's your sin that has come to you. And your conscience is pricked and has been stirred through circumstances recently. Even children. I want to ask you tonight, friend. Have you ever discovered in your history, whoever you may be, who the Lord Jesus Christ died for?
Let me quote you the hymn writer, Wounded for me, wounded for me. There on the cross, he was wounded for me. Gone my transgressions, and now I am free. All because Jesus was wounded for me. We were at a meeting recently, out in the west there, at a conference, just like tonight.
And this young fellow, 12 years of age, came up and he said to me, Stan, do you remember me? I said, I sure do. I said, you remember what you told me? And asked me four years ago, at the end of a meeting, yeah.
He said, I found out tonight, in this meeting, who the Lord Jesus Christ died for. Dear fellow, he said, I found out, he died for me. That's our song that we sung tonight. I am a guilty sinner, but Jesus died for me.
He bore on the tree the sentence for me, and now both the sinner and the surety are free. If you come tonight friend, and your emotion is stirred, fine, but it has to get deeper. But you see friend, this is a very emotional experience, and I'm talking from my own experience.
And if it gets to you tonight friend, could you be simple enough, to take God at his word, and accept what the Bible says, and understand for the first time, that when he died on the cross, and was wounded and bruised, he died for the ungodly.
And if he died for those, I'm one of them. He took my place, and suffered in my stead. I have only a few minutes. We might never meet again, in this particular part of the world. I have come to tell you tonight, about the remorse of the wounded soldier.
He's lying on a hillside, on Mount Gilboa, and his three sons beside him, and his armor bearer. He's a soldier. He's deeply wounded, and he took his life. He fell on his spear, and he was in eternity.
The story goes like this. There was a day in his experience, and the wounded soldier, was heard to say, I've played the fool. I have erred exceedingly. And he's died. And he filled a premature grave. We don't know where he is tonight.
The Bible doesn't say. But I have come to tell this audience, that if he left Mount Gilboa, believing on the Lord Jesus, he's in heaven. But if he left the way he was born and lived, he's in hell. Dear people tonight, this is where the bottom line of life, and gospel preaching is all about.
In a few minutes it will all be over, and we'll say goodbye. Never maybe to meet again. And when life terminates, I've come to ask you tonight from my heart, where will you be in God's eternity? If you're saved, heaven.
If you're lost, hell. We have prayed privately and publicly, for a young man that terminated his life this week. Way out there in Northern California. I was at a site just a few weeks ago. Had a little chat with him.
Tonight he's in eternity. Dear people tonight, life at best is very brief, like the falling of a leaf, like the binding of a sheep. Be in time. Will you believe the report tonight? Will you take Christ as your Savior?
Then will your joyous answer be, saved through a long eternity. Will people listen? If you leave the world without the Lord Jesus, they'll go down at last to weep and wail, and think of your folly, of saying no to the Lord Jesus, and finally arrive in the lake of fire.
God pity you tonight. Our brother conducts here to speak. Will you listen to the message tonight? The road of the wounded sinner, are you on it tonight? The report of the wounded Savior, and the remorse of the wounded soldier.
God help your friend tonight, to take Christ as Savior here and now, and meet us in heaven, when life on earth has passed. Thank you.