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1 Corinthians chapter 15 and reading at verse 1,. Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand, by which also ye are saved.
If ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain, for I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he was seen of Cephas, and of the twelve.
After that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. And then we'll read verse 19 or verse 16,. For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised.
And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain. Ye are yet in your sins, then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. Now the Lord will bless his word, I'm sure, the reading of his word, and I'm not going to be long tonight, I think, Mr. Hull, After hearing these testimonies tonight, what an encouragement, no doubt, it has been.
Those were years, I've heard a lot about 1974, since we've come to Iowa here in the last little while when God worked. But I couldn't help but think tonight, one of the reasons why these men that we heard tell how they got saved tonight, one of the reasons really why they are saved is because they recognize that they were sinners.
And maybe some in our meeting tonight, you've been listening to the gospel and hearing the gospel, and the reason you're not saved tonight is because you don't realize before God, you're S-I-N, you're sinned.
And the Bible says that there's really no difference. These men that you've heard tonight tell how God saved them, and those that preach the gospel and many that's in our meeting tonight, the Bible says there's absolutely no difference.
All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. And so the need tonight in our gospel meeting, the need of some of these boys and girls tonight, some of these men and women that are in our gathering, and it's really good to see you here tonight, your greatest need tonight is the need of God's salvation.
And so I've read tonight, I just want to think of that expression, Christ died for our sins. If you were to get a hold of that tonight, the truth of that, the reality of that, you could have the same, not the same story, but you could enjoy the same person, you could come to the same person that these men that we've heard tonight came to in their life's experience.
They came to know Jesus Christ, the Lord Jesus Christ, as their personal Savior. It almost makes you feel like going over your testimony again when you hear these testimonies. It's a wonderful thing, my friend, to be saved.
And it's a wonderful thing to know it, sure of it. So I just want to think about this little expression tonight, just for a few moments. Christ died for our sins. First of all, I'm thinking it's crucifixion, reminds us of the crucifixion.
Christ died. So if we're going to draw your attention tonight to anything, right at the beginning, we would draw your attention to a man who died upon a cross. 2 ,000 years ago, into this world, there came a man by the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
They said, the announcement was, thou shall call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins. And so the one that came into this world, born of a virgin, the Virgin Mary, and he was wrapped in swaddling clothes, you know the story, laid in a manger, and the life that he lived was a perfect, sinless, spotless, holy life.
The Lord Jesus Christ from heaven, God's Son, the eternal Son of the eternal God. And he came, my friend, into this world for the purpose that he might journey to Calvary and to pay a price that only he could pay.
And to do a work that only he could do. And to make a provision that only he could make. To pay the sin debt that you and I owe. And we could never pay for it. So his crucifixion, he died upon the cross.
It was also substitution. Christ died for our sins. It was not for his own sins, for he was perfect. He was sinless. The only one that ever walked on planet Earth that was sinless. And that was God's Son from heaven.
That's why we quote so often in the Gospel, John 3, verse 16, that well-known text, God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
And so the substitution on the cross, who his own self bear our sins, and his own body on the tree. You and I deserve, my friend, the judgment of God because of our sin. But when Christ died upon the cross, he bore the weight of sin.
The sin debt that you and I owed. He paid a price that satisfied the God of heaven on the account of man's sin. That's why the door tonight is wide open. That's why the door to heaven tonight, my friend, if you look at this chart that we have in past nights, this door on this chart, if you see that red dot, that door tonight is open.
Christ opened that door when he died upon the cross. We've been asking in past nights on this chart here, on this Two Roads, Two Destinies, we are all on this chart, really, pictured somewhere. And so if we were to ask you tonight, which one of these roads are you on?
We ask that almost every night, I suppose, to the boys and girls. If you had to come up and take this little laser pointer here tonight, man, woman, boy or girl, and you had to put an X on this chart where you're at on the chart, where would you put your X?
If you had to put your X on this chart, if you had to write your name on this chart, would it be this road or would it be this road? That's getting located where you're at. Well, that door was opened when Christ died upon the cross.
He opened that door wide open that everyone and anyone might enter in. And not only that, but as a revelation, Christ died for our sins. And when a person realizes, when they take their place as sinner before a holy God, and recognize their need of God's salvation, and reach out that empty hand of faith to accept what God has provided in the person of His Son, that work that He did upon the cross, that's the truth of Christ died for our sins.
And that takes us all in tonight in this large company in this building. I want to think of that message very simply. First of all, it's preached. It's a message that's preached. Paul says, the writer here says, this then is a message that I delivered unto you.
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you. So it's a message that is preached. And if we were to think of other places in the Bible, there's a man in the Bible by the name of Noah.
And it says of Noah that he was a preacher of righteousness. Peter tells us that. He was a preacher of righteousness. So in his preaching, when I think of Noah, we all know the story. The boys and girls would know the story of Noah as he's building this ark.
I can almost see him as this ark is being built. And he's standing on that deck, maybe, with that company of people that's listening. And as he bellows out the message from God for people, judgment is coming.
It was days of crisis in the days of Noah. Crisis times. It was tremendous days. The judgment of God is coming. The reason it's coming is because of man's sin, man's wickedness before God, against God.
And as God looked down from heaven, the Bible says he saw the wickedness of man, that it was great in the earth. And it grieved him at his heart. And he's going to send judgment. We're living in crisis days today.
You and I are in crisis days. You know what has to happen? You know what happened in Noah's day? It was a day when they had to make choices. Everyone that Noah preached to, everyone that was under the sound of Noah's voice, or maybe not even under it, it was a day when choices had to be made.
We are living in crisis days. We are right on the verge of the coming of Christ into this world. We would remind boys and girls, and men and women, these days that we're living, we are right on the verge when the shout from heaven is going to be sounded, and the Lord is going to return, and everyone that is saved is going to be caught away in a moment.
If he came while this meeting is on, if he came while this meeting is on, you know what it would do? You know what the Lord's coming will do? It would test the preacher that's preaching. When that shout is given, the reality of my salvation would be tested.
Everyone in our company tonight, every seat that's sat on tonight, would be tested. The reality of our salvation. So if we asked you tonight, are you saved? If we shook your hand going out of the meeting, as we've been listening to these boys, if we shook your hand going out of the meeting tonight, and said, boys, are you saved?
Girls, are you saved? Man, tonight, are you saved? Woman, in our meeting, are you saved? We're living in days, crisis days. Actually, every day we live is a days of crisis. Because we never know when it's our last day.
We never know, my friend, when we're going to take our last breath, as far as time is concerned. God gives it to us one at a time. We hardly even stop to think that this breath that we're breathing, we just breathe it so naturally, and we don't even realize that it could end at any moment.
God could close His hand on our breath at any time. That little pump that keeps going in there, boy, that could stop pumping at any moment. It's a wonder it goes as long as it does. I'm amazed when you read about the amount of blood that that little heart pumps.
And all the vessels that it has to travel through our body. Wonderfully made. And God gives us that breath one after another. And you never even stop to thank Him for it. Did you thank God today for the breath you're breathing?
For the health that you have? A lot of people don't have good health. You ever stop and thank God? Pretty ungrateful. We're an unthankful people. And we're living in a day when choices have to be made of what I'm going to do with the one that holds my breath in His hand.
And maybe there's one in our gathering tonight, and maybe you're going to have to make a choice tonight. They did in Noah's day. They made a choice. There was eight that made a choice to go in the ark.
There was multitudes that made a choice not. What would your choice have been? As you look back in Noah's day, what would your choice have been? I was thinking of a man by the name of Jonah. God said, I want you to preach.
There's a message I want you to preach. Wasn't really no love in it. Jonah didn't preach love. We would preach love tonight because God's love was manifested to the world in that He gave His Son. God commendeth His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
And so God's love from heaven, my friend, is expressed in the giving of His Son, in His death on the cross, in the life that He gave, His death, His burial, His resurrection. He lives tonight. And that love, with arms outstretched to fellow travelers to eternity, He says, come unto me.
But Jonah's message wasn't a message of love. Jonah's message was 40 days and none of us shall be overthrown. 40 days! So their lifespan came down to 40 days. You may not have 40 days. That's the importance of God's salvation.
You may not have 40 days. You may not even have 40 minutes. That's the reality of it. And you know what I was thinking? Jonah preached, but God had more interest in Nineveh than even the preacher did.
That tells me the heart of God. Even in our meeting tonight. I don't know if your heart was moved or not, but my heart was moved tonight as I listened to these brethren tell how God saved them. The strings in there, however we feel that, they're moved.
When we listen to men and women as well in this meeting tonight that know their sins forgiven and God worked in their lives, God spoke to their hearts as God has spoken to the hearts and lives of some in our meeting tonight.
I'm sure tonight in this meeting there's someone sitting in this meeting tonight and you have felt the tug of the working of God in your heart. You've had the thoughts of your need of getting right with God, of getting the matter settled, of knowing for sure, without a doubt, whatsoever that's all as well for eternity, heaven or hell, that's in the balance.
Maybe you've even thought, what will I do with Christ? What am I going to do about this matter? You know, the first gospel meeting I sat in in 1969 was my year, the first gospel meeting I came to after the meetings were on for a while and my mom and dad, I knew my dad there anyway, was going to ask me to a gospel meeting before very long because I knew the meetings were on and anyway, the moment the day came, I had it all worked out.
I don't know what you work out or figure out. I had it all figured out. When my dad asked me to the meeting I'll tell him I'll go one night a week. One night a week. And that'll make him happy and that'll get me clear.
I can manage one night a week. And so I remember I went on a Wednesday night. First meeting of that series that I attended. And you know, before I left that meeting in my thoughts there was this thought that came into my mind David you're going to do something in these meetings with your soul salvation.
I was impressed with that to the extent that it didn't matter on the weekends the nights or whatever I became bothered. The thoughts were going through my mind I was going to have to do something about my soul salvation because eternity is in view.
Well I'm glad tonight that I can tell you the same as the city of Nineveh found out that God loved them really. God loved them. Do you know that God loves you tonight? Do you know how much God loves you?
Well my text says Christ died for our sins. Why do you think he did that? Why do you think Christ died for our sins? Why do you think he did that? Well I'll tell you why my friend because he loves you tonight.
Because his love was great tremendous. His love was so great that he was willing to die for our sins. And I'm thankful for that moment in my little life's experience when I found out that the one who died on the cross didn't come to condemn David to hell, but he came that I might be saved John 3 verse 17.
And I drank in that truth into my soul. God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved. And I rested I surrendered like we were singing in the beginning of the meeting.
That's what you need to do to summon our company tonight my friend and you need to surrender to him. That's what he wants you to do. So it was a preached message not only that but it's a plain message the message of the gospel is a plain message not complicated.
Sometimes we complicate it I guess. But you know it's really a plain message. It's a plain message about our sin. That's our problem. Our problem is that word S-I-N. The tremendous power of sin. And you need to realize tonight you would be saved long ago.
Summon our company. You'd be saved years ago if it wasn't for the power of sin that wraps its cords around a person. And you know the further down this road. See this road? The further down that road you go my friend the harder.
It doesn't get easier. The further that you move away from that door the harder it is to get back to that door. That's why we tell the boys and girls the time to get saved is when you're young. The time to be saved is when you're in your youth.
Remember now thy creator in the days of thy youth. As you get older it doesn't get easier. But I'm thankful tonight that the Bible reminds us that there's salvation for you. If you're older tonight well thank God you're still here.
And there's salvation available tonight. Because our verse says Christ died for our sins. So the sin question and then of course death, heaven, hell. The Lord's coming. The plainness of the message. And it's plain tonight my friend that you need God's great salvation.
It's personal. The message of the gospel is personal. And I think we've been reminded of that tonight how personal it is. When these boys found out personally it was for them that Christ died. It was on their account.
It was personal. Not only personal but it's powerful. It's a powerful message. What do you think brought these boys and many in this company tonight as I look over this audience tonight I'm reminded that the majority here tonight, you know the majority had a moment a day a time in their life when they came to know Christ as personal savior.
It's a wonderful, wonderful thing. It's through the power. The mighty power. The gospel it says here I'm not ashamed. The writer says I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. It is the power of God. Unto salvation.
That's why the drug addicts can get saved. That's why a murderer can get saved. That's why whatever sin you want to think about the worst sin you can think about whoever committed that worst sin my friend, salvation is available.
I suppose even Judas. If he'd have repented rightly of his sin and of what he did he probably could have gotten saved. Even Judas. And yet he lost. Walked with Christ. Lived with the Lord Jesus. And the bible says he died and went to his own place.
What a sad end to a person with such an opportunity. You know there's someone in our meeting tonight and this is an opportunity that God has brought right to your door tonight. There's someone in our meeting tonight and the opportunity is within your grasp.
The opportunity the Lord is passing by even in this gospel meeting tonight. God is passing by and with his passing he brings an opportunity that you could embrace. We could tell stories of different ones.
One man that I'm going to relate again it goes back to Mr. Hull and this man worked for my dad for a number of years in his life. He was a horseman. Team of horses hauling logs to the milt that my dad was sawing in.
And I can remember cruel. He was as cruel to the animals when they didn't do what he wanted. But then later years after his wife passed away that was a Christian really. And he took to drinking and so years of his life all he did he worked long enough to get enough money to drink.
And I've seen him different times passed out in the corner on the floor. Anyway he's in the house to make the story short. Bill would be about late 60s maybe early 70s. And he's in one of the house of my brother's wife's parents and he's laying in the corner.
And he said to the man said you know I think I'll just walk out on the highway there and step out in front of a truck and end it all. And so the man who's a bitter against the gospel, bitter against the gospel.
He said to him well before you do that Bill he said Bob Hunt will be going along here shortly to a meeting in Tatamagoosh Mr. Hall Mr. Bingham were having meetings I think was Mr. Bingham. And of all places above the liquor store in Tatamagoosh.
And he said before you do that go out and hail Bob Hunt down he said and go with him to the meeting, to this meeting. And so Bill did. He's standing on the road and when dad comes along stops the car and picks him up.
And he goes to the gospel meeting and of course about half loaded we call it. Then he went back the next night and he went back the next night and I'm not sure how many nights after that but in the meetings Mr. Hall and Mr. Bingham had Bill Forrest trusted Christ as his saviour.
And I thought after you know mind you after that he met a lady in the assembly and got married after years come into the assembly and you couldn't get in the house after that and the first thing you do is get the bible out and want you to read the bible.
And I thought over and over again the power of the gospel, the power and that same power is available tonight. You know what that power will do? It will bring peace. It gives peace. It's a peacemaking message.
You can enjoy peace with God. I don't know do you enjoy peace when you think about eternity? Do you enjoy peace when you think about leaving life for the next world? Do you enjoy peace when you think about eternity forever my friend?
Forever? Somewhere forever? With heaven or hell? Before the individual? Forever! And the power of my text tonight. If you were to drink in or take for yourself this text Christ died for our sins. He was buried and he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.
God grant that as our meeting continues that you might rest where God has rested. That you might accept what God has accepted. When Christ said it is finished God was pleased with the work that he did.
God grant that you might be pleased tonight and drink in the truth. Christ died for who? Could you finish that? Christ died for whose sins? Just to make it personal tonight.