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Our gracious Father in Heaven, how grateful we are for the day that we have been able to spend around the Word of God. Our Father, for those of us that know the Lord Jesus as our Savior, it has been a joy to us, a help to us.
Our Father, we've even been appreciating the promise of His coming again for us. Our Father, we're thankful for this blessed hope we have, the imminent return of our Savior. Yet, our Father, though it caused joy in our hearts, we would also be sorrowful to consider that there are those that surround us who are still in their sins.
They do not know Him, they do not anticipate His coming, they do not have this hope of forever being with Him. Yet, our Father, how grateful we are that the Gospel can be preached even this evening. Our Father, we trust it might be an opportunity that is taken advantage of by those who are in their sins.
Father, we would think of the dark days that we live in. Yet, we're grateful for this fact the Lord Jesus says, I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Father, we're thankful for one who is still saving souls today.
Our Father, we trust that souls might be saved even in this company this evening. Our Father, cross the face of vast earth. Father, give us help, we would ask to open the Word of God and read from it.
Help us to be faithful to our God without the fear of men. So, our Father, we would ask these things with our thanksgiving in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, let's turn to the book of Genesis, please.
I'm going to read a few verses, probably more than I normally would. But there's a point that I would like to make this evening. So, Genesis chapter 6, please. We'll begin reading at verse 5. Genesis chapter 6 and verse 5 says,.
And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thought of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created. And of course, the context of the great flood that was going to come upon the face of the earth. Now, let's go to 2 Samuel chapter 11, please.
Father, ahead in our Bible, 2 Samuel chapter 11. We'll come back to these when we're finished reading. And 2 Samuel chapter 11, we'll read here at verse 26. 2 Samuel 11, verse 26 says,. When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
And when the morning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife and bear him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord, or maybe the margin of your Bible says, was evil in the eyes of Jehovah.
John chapter 8, please. John chapter 8. We'll read verse 21 here. John chapter 8 and verse 21. This is now regarding the Lord Jesus and those that surrounded him in their unbelief as to who he was. John 8, verse 21.
Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way and you shall seek me and shall die in your sins. And whither I go, ye cannot come. One more verse in Revelation chapter 21, please. Revelation 21. We'll read here verse 8.
Revelation 21, verse 8. This is a future scene. As far as the new heavens and the new earth, we read at the beginning here. But verse 8 says this. It says the fearful and unbelieving, the abominable and murderers, and whoremongers or prostitutes and sorcerers and idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake of fire, which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
And we're going to read another verse that's a little more pleasant. But we'll begin with these verses. Now, you might ask, what do these verses have in common or why read all these verses? Well, there's a point that I would like to make this evening.
You know, we live in a world that does not see sin as God sees sin. And a world that is not grieved by sin as God is grieved by sin. Actually, we have read that in the beginning of our Bibles in Genesis chapter 7.
Now, grant you that some 1600 years have passed since God created the heavens and the earth in chapter 1. But you know what we read is this, that when God saw man that he had made, and that the thoughts and desires of his heart was only evil continually, it repented the Lord that he made man.
And the very sin that men and women would commit against him was something that would be grievous to his heart. You see, we live in a world that is so full of sin. It's become so common. It's become so normal in the thinking of men and women.
But the thing that I'd like to emphasize this evening is this, that sin is sin in the eyes of God, and sin that is something that grieves his holy heart. And sin for men and women is a tremendous problem before that holy God.
You probably don't want to hear anymore about the Pope after his visit. You know, it's just quite remarkable the atmosphere of this world that we live in. When I heard that Roman Catholicism, the leaders there said that abortion is going to be an absolvable sin.
Don't get me wrong, God can forgive murder. God can. But when they would think so little of such a thing. Now you might read of mass murder. As you look it up, you'll probably find the greatest mass murder of all time was a man named Mao Zedong, a communist leader of China.
And to his account, 60 million Chinese people that he murdered, his own people. That sounds terrible. But you know how many people have been killed in this country since 1974 by abortion? More than 50 million.
So the United States is no different than China. And yet the religious leaders of the day would see something so awful as murder as not so grave. Something that they are going to absolve men and women of the guilt of.
What about this country? When the highest court of this country would legalize sin, I think you'll understand what I'm talking about. Giving it as an actual right to for men to marry with men and women with women.
The highest court of this land. What can I tell you? Something the Supreme Court of the United States is not the Supreme Court. Because there is a God in heaven. Who is going to judge men and women and their sin.
Yet something that for us as men and women as we are so surrounded by sin. The awfulness of it in this world. And the sin that is in our own hearts. It doesn't affect us as it ought to. But the reason we read these verses in the beginning.
Sin grieves the heart of God. And then some 1400 years later when it comes to David. It says the thing was grievous in the eyes of God. And then a thousand years later as the Lord Jesus Christ is on the scene.
Listen to what he says about sin. He doesn't play it down. He doesn't try and brush it aside or under the rug. He says this. If you die in your sin. Where I go speaking of heaven. You can not come. And then all the way to the ends of our Bibles.
And we read that list and there are many more that could be added. But there is a short list of sins. And those that have lived in practice and died never having these sins forgiven. They shall have their part in the lake of fire.
In other words for God sin is no small thing. It is not something that is permissible. It is not something that God can tolerate. Or that God can look lightly upon. And there are people on this earth that will not like to hear preaching like this.
They don't want to hear words like this. You know God he is the supreme judge. And what God calls sin is sin. And we ought to understand something. Our sin is a tremendous problem before God. I don't think that things really have changed all that much in Genesis chapter 6.
We read of how grievous, how awful it was. The thoughts and the desires of men's heart. Only evil continually. You know the human heart hasn't changed in 6 ,000 years. It's really the same. When God is still grieved by our sin.
And one of the things that we can understand from the very beginning is this. That God will judge sin. It grieves the heart of God because he is absolutely pure. He is perfect. He is holy. And here is a world that is filled with sin.
And God says I'm not going to tolerate it any longer. I'm going to destroy man that I have made. And apart from eight people that would enter into that ark. Noah and his family. God did what he said he was going to do.
And he judged sin. According to Matthew 24. Speaking about that flood coming upon the earth. And people didn't understand that God was going to move in judgment. They were eating, drinking, marrying, giving, and marriage.
Until the flood came and took them all away. It's likely going to be the same when God's judgment comes upon this scene. That people still not have understood the awfulness of their sin. Before a holy God.
But maybe there are people here and they're thinking this, you know. That's the world. That is outside. That's everybody else and all the wickedness of everybody else. And somehow, some way, they think they are going to escape the all-seeing eye of God.
You know, that brings us to the second portion that we read there in 2 Samuel. I don't really have time to go into all the details of it. But you read there in those chapters of how David, the great king of Israel.
He gets up in the afternoon and he's on the roof of his house, of the palace. And he sees this beautiful woman taking a bath. And he actually inquires who she is. And they told him she is the wife of Uriah.
Despite being told. She is brought and that act of adultery is committed. And there was a child that was conceived. But we have read these words, the thing was evil. In the eyes of Jehovah. And the moment came when God sent Nathan, the prophet.
To put his finger upon David, that guilty man. Even though this world is filled to the brim with sin. It doesn't mean that men and women are going to be lost in the multitudes. And the awfulness of your individual sin will not be noticed by God.
Because here is a man. And apparently, for a while. There was some ease of conscience. There was really a lack of fear on the part of David with this sin. You can even read that as how he would try to cover it up.
But there was never repentance until Nathan comes. And David has to understand the awfulness of his own sin before a holy God. You know, we don't like to give this impression that we are preaching down to people.
Because those of us that preach the gospel, we are sinners saved by the grace of God. And people don't like to hear about sin, but it needs to be understood. It needs to be recognized. And not just that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
But that I have sinned. That I am guilty before a holy God. As we read there in John chapter 8. That my sin is not taking me to God's holy heaven. But my sin will actually exclude me from heaven. That your sin, that my sin, is enough to keep sinners out of heaven.
And will actually land them down in hell. You see, sin is an awful problem. Though men might call it normal, ulterior. God says it's sin. And it grieves His heart and it's known by God. And it will separate men and women not only for their life from God.
But sin will separate men and women from God for all eternity. If you die in your sin, the Lord Jesus says. Where I go ye cannot come. Listen, there's a problem that needs to be faced. You know what was so sad is this.
The Catholic Church as the Pope was here. They were saying really the focus of the church has changed. That they're not going to be so harsh and so critical of sin. But they're going to focus more on love.
And get this in on climate change. The sad condition of sinners. They want to speak about everything else but the problem of their sin. But before God, your sin is a problem. I hope you understand this evening.
That you need to have your sins forgiven. If you're ever going to be in God's holy heaven. We could have a perfect environment, pristine. Now don't get me wrong, we ought to be stewards. And I've lived in countries where garbage is on every hand.
And it's not something that's pleasing. Do you know we could have a pristine environment here on earth. And men and women still go down to hell. We can have the greatest hospitals this world has ever seen.
And the souls of men and women still perish in their sins. And men and women all hungry might be fed. There are many physical needs. But the greatest need of every soul is knowing their sins forgiven.
We find that sin is a real problem. From the beginning to the end of our life. God does not look lightly upon sin. God sees this world. I don't think he sees it any different than he did in Genesis chapter 6.
But just read another verse with me in Isaiah chapter 53 please. The book of Isaiah. And we'll read in chapter 53 a few verses. Many verses that would be worthwhile reading here. Isaiah chapter 53, we'll read here from verse 7.
Says he was oppressed and he was afflicted. Yet he opened not his mouth. He has brought as a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before his shearers is dumb. So he opened not his mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment.
Who shall declare his generation he was cut off out of the land of the living. For the transgression of my people was he stricken. He made his grave with the wicked and with the rich in his death. Because he had done no violence.
Neither was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him. He hath put him to grief. When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin. He shall see his seed and shall prolong his days.
And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hands. And he shall see of the travail of his soul and be satisfied. And by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many. For he shall bear their iniquities.
So what God saw in Genesis chapter 6 was not pleasing. But grievous to the heart of God. What God sees in this world today is grievous. What God sees in your heart is grievous. Yet when we think of the person of the Lord Jesus.
We'll find one that is altogether different. In his life it could be said of him God from heaven said. This is my beloved son. In whom I am well pleased. Clearly he is marked out from all the sinful man that surrounded him.
In all the grievous things. Yet here is one that God could find his delight in. Who was not a rebel against God. Who was not a sinner. Who did not live his life without God. But here is a person who lived to please God.
As God would look upon him he could say. In whom I am well pleased. Again Matthew chapter 17. This is my son. Hear ye him. But we're thinking of another awful scene from Isaiah chapter 53 here. But it's not so much the awful grievous sin of men and women.
That is said before the eyes of God. But it is a chapter that deals with sin. And we have read it is actually the Lord Jesus that perfect one. The one who was bruised by God. Your sin is such an awful problem before the eyes of a holy God.
Yet how thankful we can be this evening. That it's God himself that has made provision for our sin. Despite all the awfulness of it. Despite the awful consequences that sin will bring to men and women.
Here is a God in heaven who has moved. Listen how the words of the New Testament give it. The father sent the son to be the savior of the world. And here he is not only living a perfect life. But as he so often said to his own disciples.
It's necessary that the son of man would be delivered into the hands of man. And suffer. And be crucified. And die. Be raised again the third day. So here we have it in this scene as a son of God. He has taken from prison and from judgment.
The false accusations that are brought against him. As he would stand before the Sanhedrin and before Pilate and even before Herod. And here is one in all of his innocence. He does not open his mouth in his own defense.
The Bible says like a lamb. He is led to the slaughter. He was so willing to go. The one who was so perfect and pleasing to God. He never did any violence. He never did anything to grieve the heart of God.
There was no sin in his mouth. There is no sin in his heart. And yet we read those words. Let it please the Lord to bruise him. You know what a tremendous thing it is to consider the awfulness of our sin.
You see the awfulness of sin in Genesis 6. The awfulness of sin in 2 Samuel chapter 11 and 12. You turn over to this scene and again you will see the awfulness of sin. And what the Lord Jesus Christ must suffer.
That our sins be dealt with in a right way. That God in heaven might look down upon men and women and be able to forgive them. Cleanse them. Make them fit for His holy heaven. And here is the Son of God.
The Bible tells us that the Lord has laid on Him. The iniquity of us all. The awful wrath of this God that hates sin with a holy hatred. Would pour out His wrath, His judgment against sin on His own beloved Son.
The Bible actually tells us this. That it pleased the Lord to bruise Him. The Bible tells us this. He was so marred. More than any man. Can you imagine God's well beloved Son crowned with thorns and spit upon.
His back having been lashed. And His hands and feet nailed to an awful cross. And the Bible says yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him. God did not find some pleasure in suffering as far as His perfect Son's suffering.
But He found pleasure in this that sin was being dealt with. It was laid upon Him and we read He could bear the iniquities. He could bear that awful load, that awful wrath that was poured out upon Him.
He could bear it. As a living sacrifice. To the satisfaction and the pleasure of God in heaven. That awful grievous sin of mine I am so thankful to say has been dealt with. Has been borne away. God's holy and sinless Son suffered.
In verse 11 it says,. And He shall see of the travail the fruit of the affliction of His soul. You want to know what God is satisfied in? It's not this sinful world. He's not even happy with the self-righteousness of men and women or their works to cleanse themselves.
You want to know what pleases God? His Son. Not only the perfect life that He lived, but His sacrifice on the cross at Calvary. I'm not going to argue with my brother. And if it's the Lord Jesus, if it's God, it's true of both.
But God shall see the travail, the fruit of the affliction of His soul and be satisfied. How thankful I am that there is one who has satisfied God in regards to my sin. As the innocent Son of God, He was willing to suffer for me.
Be a great thing if you discover this evening that He suffered for me. Despite the awfulness of my sin and what my sin deserves. He was willing to bear it for me. And God is so well pleased. God is pleased with the sacrifice of His Son.
The one who suffered. The one who died. The one who God raised again the third day. And He is the one that you must trust today. If you are ever going to be in God's holy heaven. But as we have read this evening, if you die in your sins, you will never be there.