Henry Grattan Guinness is a man who led multiple revivals and had a massive heart for missions. Often unknown today, he was also related to the famous Guinness family. This sermon of his is extremely relevant for us today.
Thanks to Daniel H. for reading this sermon for us. Thank you so much Daniel!
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00:00 --> 00:03 [SPEAKER_01]: Revived thoughts is a production of Revived Studios.
00:08 --> 00:11 [SPEAKER_01]: This is Troy Angel, and you're listening to Revived Thoughts.
00:19 --> 00:23 [SPEAKER_00]: To sit still, an indecision is to commit spiritual suicide.
00:24 --> 00:29 [SPEAKER_00]: If you sleep on until the end of life, you will wake up in hell.
00:31 --> 00:36 [SPEAKER_02]: Every episode, we bring you a different voice from history in a sermon that they delivered today.
00:36 --> 00:42 [SPEAKER_02]: We're going back to 1860 to hear a sermon by Henry Vatton, Guinness.
00:43 --> 00:45 [SPEAKER_02]: Troy, I messed up my back, man.
00:46 --> 00:49 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what position I slept in the last night.
00:49 --> 00:59 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, like when you sleep on your neck or on your end up with a critic in your neck and it hurts and when you look a certain direction, it's like that except for my whole back.
00:59 --> 01:02 [SPEAKER_02]: If I sit up straight.
01:02 --> 01:03 [SPEAKER_02]: All right, I don't know.
01:04 --> 01:05 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm struggling through this morning.
01:05 --> 01:27 [SPEAKER_01]: I guess is what I'm trying to say Anybody listening to our show now knows that we're old They're like, oh, these are our old young people which I don't think they would have thought that anyway But now they definitely know like these are older people like this when I record my not show You know youngsters anymore like when we first started we were young we had 20 something sounding voices because we were but clearly When we're opening the show with your back ache
01:27 --> 01:57 [SPEAKER_02]: That's the biggest thing, when I turned 30, which has been a few years ago at this point, that was the main thing that I feel like people, they don't tell you about, they don't prepare you for, is for me, it was literally like the year I turned 30, suddenly the back starts hurting and it takes longer to get feeling, like you shovel that driveway, you better prepare to take it easy than I think, because that back's gonna hurt, didn't
01:57 --> 02:04 [SPEAKER_01]: I suppose if I was shoveling snow I think my back would hurt a little bit but I may I feel I don't feel this type.
02:04 --> 02:09 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm older than you by a hair and I don't have a back pain so I guess feel blessed that I Not knowing through that.
02:10 --> 02:22 [SPEAKER_01]: I have other issues like you get the good years for a little bit more after a run than probably they did Yeah, years ago, but that's that all I'm notice so far so I so far so good the Lord bless me hair still here
02:22 --> 02:23 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
02:23 --> 02:24 [SPEAKER_01]: Good.
02:24 --> 02:29 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not really good for a mid-30 year old-ish person.
02:29 --> 02:34 [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, and this is where the audience, and again, the audience is probably like, didn't I click it up a set about a Henry Gratton again?
02:34 --> 02:36 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what are they talking about, but as normal.
02:36 --> 02:38 [SPEAKER_01]: When do you consider middle age to have started?
02:38 --> 02:43 [SPEAKER_01]: because I've been saying a middle-aged since after I was 31 because I'm like, you're in your 30s.
02:43 --> 02:44 [SPEAKER_01]: That's not enough.
02:45 --> 02:53 [SPEAKER_01]: And my wife very firmly thinks that's the wrong time to say you're middle-aged and so when I tell her she's middle-aged, my wife host a martyr, some mistakes.
02:53 --> 02:54 [SPEAKER_01]: Does not like that.
02:54 --> 02:55 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the wrong move.
02:55 --> 02:56 [SPEAKER_01]: Don't do that.
02:56 --> 02:58 [SPEAKER_01]: She's not appreciative of that and never has been.
02:59 --> 03:05 [SPEAKER_01]: So, but I've only, but in my head, I'm like, if you're in your 30s, you're middle-aged, that's 30s and 40s from middle-aged, 50s, you know?
03:05 --> 03:08 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what that age is actually.
03:08 --> 03:31 [SPEAKER_01]: you're right uh thank you socially uh locally you're wrong for some reason that for some reason like you're mid 40s what people are like if i am wrong like but what is the exact range when people can start saying i'm 45 or 45 is what like a lot of people refer to so the time 43 i can't say i'm middle age if i'm back i feel like you're middle age by then and i don't
03:31 --> 03:32 [SPEAKER_02]: It's all psychological.
03:32 --> 03:36 [SPEAKER_02]: They're all, everyone's trying to convince themselves that they're gonna live forever and that they're still young.
03:37 --> 03:38 [SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
03:38 --> 03:44 [SPEAKER_01]: Who is like, I'm 31, I'm at a late, like, what's the time you're application for middle-agedness early?
03:44 --> 03:46 [SPEAKER_01]: Let's get in there.
03:47 --> 03:49 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just, so audience, send us your answer.
03:50 --> 03:54 [SPEAKER_01]: Let me know in the comments or, you know, retweeted at us or send us an email.
03:54 --> 03:55 [SPEAKER_01]: Just, you don't, it doesn't have to be deep.
03:55 --> 03:58 [SPEAKER_01]: You're going to say, hey, I heard this conversation.
03:58 --> 04:00 [SPEAKER_01]: Normally, love the show.
04:00 --> 04:01 [SPEAKER_01]: That's nice if you can add that.
04:01 --> 04:06 [SPEAKER_01]: But we thought it was weird that you went on this question for a while, but anyway, it's 35 or, you know, 40, 42.
04:06 --> 04:08 [SPEAKER_01]: What is that age when middle age hits?
04:08 --> 04:11 [SPEAKER_01]: If you're, and I'd be very curious, maybe send in your age as well.
04:11 --> 04:13 [SPEAKER_01]: Because that sounds like I'm trying to fish.
04:13 --> 04:16 [SPEAKER_01]: Like for information and while you're at it, tell the CIA what you do for a look.
04:16 --> 04:33 [SPEAKER_01]: No, but I'm just like You know like I'm curious if a younger person would be like you're right, you know Troy 30 when it's like and of like a person in their 50s was like no, no, no, no, 60s the new woman plate Yeah, I thought what is the average life of an American now?
04:33 --> 04:39 [SPEAKER_02]: You're probably you're probably pretty consistently getting like 85 90 No, no, no, it's like my way.
04:39 --> 04:41 [SPEAKER_01]: No, but here's the thing like
04:42 --> 04:46 [SPEAKER_01]: I feel like it depends on a lot on like how you lived your life.
04:46 --> 04:49 [SPEAKER_01]: Like I think the average age is really dependent on where you lived.
04:50 --> 04:53 [SPEAKER_01]: And like we're 81 or not really.
04:53 --> 04:54 [SPEAKER_01]: I thought for sure.
04:54 --> 04:55 [SPEAKER_01]: I saw something not that long ago.
04:55 --> 04:56 [SPEAKER_01]: It was like mortality rate 72.
04:56 --> 04:58 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that's women.
04:58 --> 05:00 [SPEAKER_02]: Women are 81, men are 75.
05:00 --> 05:02 [SPEAKER_02]: That makes sense.
05:02 --> 05:04 [SPEAKER_02]: That's a significant difference, guys.
05:04 --> 05:05 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
05:05 --> 05:06 [SPEAKER_02]: No, I checked out though.
05:06 --> 05:08 [SPEAKER_02]: Guys are a lot more dumb.
05:09 --> 05:13 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I think it's, we, we all started with a lot less careful about what we eat and stuff.
05:13 --> 05:15 [SPEAKER_01]: I think that's what I made more of a lot less.
05:16 --> 05:19 [SPEAKER_01]: I was thinking you might want to like, we're more willing to drive through that service.
05:19 --> 05:21 [SPEAKER_02]: All of the above, all of the above.
05:21 --> 05:26 [SPEAKER_01]: I guess we're more likely to do stupid stuff in general, broadly speaking, probably true.
05:26 --> 05:32 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, and proving the point, here we are, five minutes in the episode, and we're still talking about this.
05:32 --> 05:32 [SPEAKER_01]: We usually get on to it.
05:33 --> 05:55 [SPEAKER_01]: I will say I'm sad and to say if you've not listened to our first episode by Henry Grant and Guinness you absolutely should I remember this we got to enter I got to interview I don't jolly can't remember if you were on that one and I'm usually But I got to interview Dr. Oz Guinness who is the great grandson of Henry Grant and Guinness If you do not know who he is I didn't know how big a deal he was at the time
05:55 --> 05:57 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, he's an apologist.
05:57 --> 05:58 [SPEAKER_01]: He's a speaker.
05:58 --> 06:01 [SPEAKER_01]: He's the I probably the biggest name that's ever come on our show.
06:02 --> 06:04 [SPEAKER_01]: And again, I didn't really realize who I was talking to.
06:05 --> 06:13 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, he does like a he was doing a joint show with Jordan Peterson over at the daily wire like he's been on a ton of different programs TV shows and etc.
06:13 --> 06:29 [SPEAKER_01]: He's a really big name, but the thing that was cool was not don't go listen to it because we had this big name on But like going listen to it cuz his story was absolutely incredible like he discussed both his great grandpa and a bunch of interesting facts about his great grandpa's life Which was why I had him on I was like, hey, do you want to talk about your great grandpa?
06:29 --> 06:32 [SPEAKER_01]: You know your son kind of thing or um, and he he was totally all about it.
06:32 --> 06:37 [SPEAKER_01]: He really enjoyed it but he also he just had a very
06:37 --> 06:38 [SPEAKER_01]: Cool life story himself.
06:38 --> 06:57 [SPEAKER_01]: He talked about how as a kid, he was escaping China when the communist took over how they lost loved ones on the way and what his parents went through and stuff and it was just a really I think it's like the closest I ever felt like I was talking to like like one of those old Hudson Taylor type missionary moments like where you're like, well, you really
06:57 --> 06:58 [SPEAKER_01]: went through a lot.
06:58 --> 07:02 [SPEAKER_01]: You grew up in a different world and you're out, you know, out here defending the faith today.
07:02 --> 07:05 [SPEAKER_01]: So great episode, which you could be on this time, but he is not.
07:06 --> 07:09 [SPEAKER_01]: So we're gonna tell his great grandpa story without him this time.
07:10 --> 07:23 [SPEAKER_02]: Henry, Gratin Guinness, yes, in case you are wondering and you didn't listen to our previous episode, it is the same Guinness as the Guinness beer, the alcoholic beverage comes from the same family language.
07:23 --> 07:28 [SPEAKER_01]: What if you were going to ask if it's Guinness Book of Road Records, because you don't go straight to alcohol.
07:28 --> 07:29 [SPEAKER_01]: Is that Guinness?
07:29 --> 07:30 [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't think of that one.
07:30 --> 07:34 [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't actually think about that, but my kids are always walking around with this Guinness Book of Road Records thing.
07:35 --> 07:35 [SPEAKER_02]: I bet you it is.
07:35 --> 07:39 [SPEAKER_02]: I bet you it is the same Guinness family that that comes from.
07:39 --> 07:41 [SPEAKER_02]: are we doing a live look up?
07:42 --> 07:43 [SPEAKER_01]: I am looking it up right now.
07:44 --> 07:47 [SPEAKER_01]: It was originally created by the Guinness Brewery to settle a pub debate.
07:48 --> 07:48 [SPEAKER_01]: What?
07:49 --> 07:49 [SPEAKER_01]: What?
07:50 --> 07:52 [SPEAKER_02]: That is, wait, what kind of pub debate was this?
07:53 --> 07:56 [SPEAKER_02]: It just sounds more like the Guinness family are good marketers, they know.
07:56 --> 08:01 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so one of the the managing director of Guinness Breweries went on a shooting party.
08:01 --> 08:03 [SPEAKER_01]: What is that in Ireland?
08:03 --> 08:07 [SPEAKER_01]: If you're missing a shot like a golden, oh that makes more sense.
08:07 --> 08:12 [SPEAKER_01]: You got an argument with somebody about what the fastest game bird in Europe was.
08:12 --> 08:19 [SPEAKER_01]: This led to a very long debate, and eventually one of the employees had the idea of creating like a book of records as what it seems like.
08:19 --> 08:26 [SPEAKER_01]: A thousand copies were given to pubs across Britain to promote the Guinness brand, but they were very popular with people.
08:26 --> 08:31 [SPEAKER_01]: This is actually really interesting, it's strange history here and I didn't get the book.
08:31 --> 08:34 [SPEAKER_02]: Let's divert the show, let's have a record history.
08:35 --> 08:38 [SPEAKER_02]: We should have asked Oz about that, okay, sorry, back on.
08:39 --> 08:46 [SPEAKER_02]: So, interesting family, old family, crazy family that he comes from.
08:46 --> 08:52 [SPEAKER_02]: His mother was married to a man who died in a duel, which is a very fun fact.
08:53 --> 08:54 [SPEAKER_02]: That wasn't.
08:54 --> 08:55 [SPEAKER_02]: That wasn't his father.
08:55 --> 09:01 [SPEAKER_02]: His father was the person that his mother remarried after her mom's previous husband was killed.
09:02 --> 09:03 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, I guess it's a good thing.
09:03 --> 09:04 [SPEAKER_01]: I guess it's a good thing her.
09:05 --> 09:16 [SPEAKER_01]: He died because if not, if he had won the duel, you know, they'd be no, they'd be no, they'd be no, they'd be no, they'd be no, they'd be no, they'd be no, they'd be no, they'd be no, they'd be no, they'd be no, they'd be no, they'd be no, they'd be no, they'd be no, they'd be no, they'd be no, they'd be no, they'd be no, they'd be no, they'd be no, they'd be no, they'd be no, they'd be no, they'd be no, they'd be no, they'd be no, they'd be no, they'd be no, they'd be no, they'd be no, they'd be no,
09:16 --> 09:35 [SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, anyway, it was actually, as the Guinness family line progressed, that connection to wealth and specifically from the brewery, also apparently from the Guinness World Record publications, the wealth that's really what they're most famous for, right?
09:35 --> 09:35 [SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
09:35 --> 09:54 [SPEAKER_02]: The wealth that affected the family caused divisions, as wealth usually does, and so there were, it seems like a part of the family that went into more theologically minded areas and others that went more into fame and money.
09:54 --> 09:58 [SPEAKER_02]: Would you say that's true accurate drawing that's how Dr.
09:58 --> 10:10 [SPEAKER_01]: I was gonna put it And he was like yeah, there was like the the they had a lot of money kind of ran the brewery side on one hand And then there's that we all went into ministry and did that side on the onion So one went into riches and one went into eternal riches.
10:11 --> 10:12 [SPEAKER_01]: It's all got it
10:12 --> 10:13 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, what a thing.
10:14 --> 10:14 [SPEAKER_02]: That's a great line.
10:15 --> 10:15 [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
10:16 --> 10:24 [SPEAKER_02]: Henry getting Guinness himself was born in the year 1835 and he was raised in a Christian household.
10:24 --> 10:32 [SPEAKER_02]: It seems like if he was a teen, which we do believe he did have teenage years.
10:32 --> 10:36 [SPEAKER_02]: If he was a Christian thing, I was trying to say he just said if he was up to you.
10:36 --> 10:39 [SPEAKER_02]: I know, I know, I didn't, I wouldn't say if he was a Christian.
10:39 --> 10:44 [SPEAKER_02]: If he was a Christian, it doesn't really appear to have manifested in his denies.
10:44 --> 10:47 [SPEAKER_02]: He seems to be a little bit of a rebellious goat, the win, child.
10:48 --> 10:51 [SPEAKER_02]: At 17, he went out in the study, he was going to travel.
10:51 --> 10:53 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, this seems like Calacan gap here.
10:53 --> 10:59 [SPEAKER_02]: He visited Mexico, Texas, and the Caribbean, and again, their main base of operation here.
10:59 --> 11:01 [SPEAKER_02]: They're from England, from London.
11:01 --> 11:20 [SPEAKER_01]: Can I say a quick word about Texas down here so if you're wondering like timeline because it says Texas now is it was why not the United States because at this point Texas was its own independent country and this was actually the same he would have been in the Texas area not as a Christian missionary at all
11:20 --> 11:31 [SPEAKER_01]: At the same time, though, that Melinda Rankin was, so if you are a martyrs in the missionaries listening, of course you should be, you know that my wife put out a very recent episode on the Protestant missionaries in Mexico.
11:32 --> 11:37 [SPEAKER_01]: It was a very dangerous time to be in Texas when Henry Gratton, getting us, was going through there.
11:38 --> 11:41 [SPEAKER_01]: If you had paid attention to these, like that episode, there was a rife with
11:41 --> 12:00 [SPEAKER_01]: with you know, factions and wars and stuff like that that was going on and that's kind of the time period he's going through which again just kind of it how the Lord's hand a protection must have been over him because he would have been pretty easy for him to gotten into the wrong spot and the wrong situation and end up dead as he's taking this kind of gap year as it were.
12:00 --> 12:03 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, love those revive studio crossovers.
12:03 --> 12:04 [SPEAKER_02]: What, what, at the light?
12:06 --> 12:08 [SPEAKER_02]: He also spent some time visiting the East Indies.
12:09 --> 12:13 [SPEAKER_02]: And that's where he came down with an illness quote, Sicken to Death.
12:13 --> 12:15 [SPEAKER_02]: He called himself, which is a great phrase.
12:15 --> 12:18 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to start saying that around my house, my dear.
12:18 --> 12:20 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm Sicken to Death.
12:21 --> 12:23 [SPEAKER_02]: Please bring me some water.
12:23 --> 12:26 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure Sarah will appreciate that.
12:26 --> 12:40 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so he was able to kind of hobble home in his sixth state to try and recover and that's uh, it seems like the tools and Lord use to kind of give him an eye opening experience as he recovered.
12:40 --> 12:45 [SPEAKER_02]: He entered into a state of repentance and dedicated his life to Christ.
12:45 --> 12:52 [SPEAKER_01]: Shortly after he dedicated his life to Christ, he heads to New College, London, and began kind of studying theology.
12:52 --> 13:00 [SPEAKER_01]: He definitely felt a quick call into ministry, and he started preaching even before he'd really gotten all the studies and stuff under him.
13:00 --> 13:05 [SPEAKER_01]: He was quickly ordained, and many people really liked his preaching style.
13:05 --> 13:08 [SPEAKER_01]: They thought it was very accessible to common people, not a scholarly type in his sermon.
13:10 --> 13:13 [SPEAKER_01]: As someone who's also gotten this comment
13:13 --> 13:19 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't, I always am like, I think it's a compliment, but it is kind of weird when you get it and they're like, oh, I really love your preaching.
13:19 --> 13:21 [SPEAKER_01]: Very, you know, I could really understand it.
13:21 --> 13:28 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, it wasn't like over my head or anything, and I'm like, I feel a little bit like you're kind of calling my sermon-style dumb.
13:28 --> 13:39 [SPEAKER_01]: But I think the idea here is at its very accessible, and that, you know, with all these high theology, maybe people who had something wrong with it by that way have lots of them on our show.
13:39 --> 13:40 [SPEAKER_01]: We love them.
13:40 --> 13:46 [SPEAKER_01]: too, but I think sometimes that we can get so caught up in the Greek or something that we lose access to the common man.
13:47 --> 14:06 [SPEAKER_01]: So when the right moment hits, and Henry Gratt and Guinness is kind of like round on the cusp of this quote unquote like right moment hitting because Spurgeon and Moody and a bunch of people are going to be coming around at the same time here, like bursty on the scene with their very accessible sermons.
14:06 --> 14:26 [SPEAKER_01]: He also spent some time here preaching in the British Isles, and I got the impression this was like actually kind of islands off the coast of Britain in Ireland More so than like like the main area is a Britain that you would normally think of there, but he's going through his preaching Getting his ministry started when there's a huge revival that's we've sober north Ireland from 1858 to 1860.
14:26 --> 14:34 [SPEAKER_01]: It's called the Oster Revival
14:34 --> 14:42 [SPEAKER_01]: at a church getting together and praying for their neighbors, neighbors there, and friends to just come to Christ, like, they just become convicted to do that.
14:42 --> 14:55 [SPEAKER_01]: Then a year later, one person came to Christ from these different meetings and they were like, we found success about a year later, there was like 50-plus people visiting, and then a year after that, there's 16 different churches as having these meetings on the same day.
14:55 --> 14:59 [SPEAKER_01]: And so, he really exploded over the course of a couple years.
14:59 --> 15:02 [SPEAKER_01]: I just really like that story because I feel like anybody can do that.
15:02 --> 15:05 [SPEAKER_01]: Like anybody can just say, hey, let's get together and pray for our neighbors to come to Christ.
15:05 --> 15:10 [SPEAKER_01]: And you know, maybe maybe it'll just be the 4 or 5 or 10 of you doing that for years on then.
15:10 --> 15:13 [SPEAKER_01]: That's a worthy thing to come together for, but you'll also never know.
15:13 --> 15:16 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe the Lord's just waiting for 4 or 5 or 10 faithful people to do that.
15:16 --> 15:18 [SPEAKER_01]: and he might make a huge move.
15:19 --> 15:30 [SPEAKER_01]: Explodes in this giant thing called the ulcer of eyeball, and I'm sure I'm saying it wrong, because Irish names always kind of, it's probably like Worcester or something, but it spreads across Ireland, the UK, and even into Canada.
15:31 --> 15:45 [SPEAKER_01]: At one point, crowds of 12 will be gathering to here, and Henry Gratt and Guinness, who have been kind of preaching in the area, he gets pulled into it, so he's a part of those massive crowds of people, but he's only about 25, so it to me, absolutely amazing how many people are coming there.
15:45 --> 15:56 [SPEAKER_01]: This revival is swept into Canada and he got the chance to preach over there as well and he had a huge impact on church history in the world He didn't know it at the time
15:57 --> 16:02 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, he actually would have quite a re-chun on several different people, A.
16:02 --> 16:05 [SPEAKER_02]: B. Simpson, the founder of the Christian Missionary Alliance.
16:05 --> 16:16 [SPEAKER_02]: When he was 15 years old, he happened to stumble into one of these revival meetings that were happening in Canada and he heard Henry Guinness preaching and
16:16 --> 16:18 [SPEAKER_02]: became a believer during that, during that revival.
16:18 --> 16:25 [SPEAKER_02]: So today, the Christian missionary alliance has nearly 7 million members in over 24 churches.
16:26 --> 16:32 [SPEAKER_02]: But its founder was just a 15-year-old man listening to Guinness Preach a long time ago.
16:32 --> 16:37 [SPEAKER_02]: And back on the Irish side of the revival, Guinness was playing a role over there too.
16:37 --> 16:45 [SPEAKER_02]: Jay Edwin or said, it was the most powerful move of God on Ireland since the days of St. Patrick, which high praise.
16:45 --> 16:53 [SPEAKER_02]: and not just average people, but leaders and parliamentary members, everyone was known to come and hear him preach.
16:53 --> 16:59 [SPEAKER_02]: And again, as far mentioned, at this time he's 25, so that is that is too much fame.
16:59 --> 17:00 [SPEAKER_02]: I would not
17:00 --> 17:01 [SPEAKER_02]: handle that well.
17:02 --> 17:05 [SPEAKER_02]: If I was a 25 year old, I would not know what to do with that.
17:05 --> 17:06 [SPEAKER_02]: It would not end well.
17:07 --> 17:09 [SPEAKER_02]: But it seems like through the grace of God.
17:09 --> 17:11 [SPEAKER_01]: That's why the Lord has waited jolly.
17:11 --> 17:14 [SPEAKER_01]: He's going to make us famous when we're older and we're ready for it.
17:14 --> 17:15 [SPEAKER_01]: We're no age.
17:15 --> 17:18 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think I can handle that well now.
17:19 --> 17:21 [SPEAKER_01]: That's why we're not we're famous.
17:21 --> 17:22 [SPEAKER_01]: That's why we're not we're famous.
17:22 --> 17:25 [SPEAKER_01]: That's why we're not
17:25 --> 17:29 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, it is amazing how many young men at the time, uh, period would blow up.
17:29 --> 17:33 [SPEAKER_01]: I mentioned Spurgeon, Moody, Guinness, uh, the reason I think this is fascinating to me.
17:33 --> 17:35 [SPEAKER_01]: Spurgeon is preaching like to giant.
17:35 --> 17:36 [SPEAKER_01]: He's getting called at 19.
17:37 --> 17:39 [SPEAKER_01]: Moody is around, I think, 2021, same age.
17:40 --> 17:41 [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, they're all preaching beforehand.
17:41 --> 17:43 [SPEAKER_01]: They just start getting their churches at that age.
17:43 --> 17:51 [SPEAKER_01]: And here's Guinness, 25, preaching to crowds of 12, you know, bringing the Christ people who will lead entire denominations someday.
17:51 --> 17:53 [SPEAKER_01]: And I just, I see churches today.
17:53 --> 17:57 [SPEAKER_01]: I've had arguments so many people have been like, oh, you know, you really shouldn't make anyone a pastor until they're 30, 35, 40.
17:57 --> 17:59 [SPEAKER_01]: Little blah, blah, blah, blah, they're two.
18:00 --> 18:06 [SPEAKER_01]: One of the problems today is we're letting too many people too young in and I'm looking over and I'm like, that's a 33 year old guy with a family, like he's not that too young.
18:06 --> 18:09 [SPEAKER_01]: And I just, I, I look at these guys.
18:09 --> 18:12 [SPEAKER_01]: They're so young, comparatively, but look at what they're doing.
18:12 --> 18:13 [SPEAKER_01]: And I, I was something I've mentioned this to people.
18:13 --> 18:16 [SPEAKER_01]: I say, well, look at Spurgeon, look at Moody, look at Guinness here.
18:16 --> 18:17 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm like, well, those guys are special.
18:18 --> 18:18 [SPEAKER_01]: Those guys are different.
18:18 --> 18:21 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, but nobody knew they were special, right?
18:21 --> 18:22 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, we, you don't know.
18:22 --> 18:23 [SPEAKER_01]: You gotta, I don't know.
18:23 --> 18:28 [SPEAKER_01]: I just think, I think we, we put an age limit, maybe on some things that actually wasn't there.
18:28 --> 18:36 [SPEAKER_01]: Man, it's me a pit, maybe I'm opining too much, but I can't, I can't imagine when I was 25 preaching the crowds of thousands,
18:36 --> 18:48 [SPEAKER_01]: Somebody had to take a chance on these guys and trust that the Lord was using them and I think that who knows maybe the hard 25 roads today that would also be able to preach to their tens of thousands but uh we're not letting them get the opportunity I think that could be really bad.
18:49 --> 18:51 [SPEAKER_01]: Alright so in 1860
18:51 --> 18:56 [SPEAKER_01]: He gets married to his first wife, and at first wife, because she eventually dies, he gets married again, not anything weird.
18:57 --> 19:02 [SPEAKER_01]: But they have seven kids together, and when she dies, many years later he'll have another wife, they'll have two kids together.
19:03 --> 19:08 [SPEAKER_01]: One aspect of Guinness that we haven't really covered about is really important to his life as he had a huge heart for missions.
19:09 --> 19:13 [SPEAKER_01]: In the rest of this episode, we could just spend time listing all the mission organizations.
19:13 --> 19:17 [SPEAKER_01]: speeches, conferences, conventions, things like that that were really important to him.
19:17 --> 19:19 [SPEAKER_01]: It was just a massive part of it.
19:19 --> 19:26 [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, during this time period, only a couple years after this, he actually will reach out to Hudson Taylor, and they kind of become friends.
19:27 --> 19:33 [SPEAKER_01]: And he asked him, you know, if I could if you could join him in China and be a part of the China Inland Mission.
19:33 --> 19:37 [SPEAKER_01]: And Hudson Taylor actually told him, no, hey, if you don't know Hudson Taylor, very famous for sharing.
19:37 --> 19:39 [SPEAKER_01]: I go, of course, check out Mars missionaries for more on that.
19:39 --> 19:41 [SPEAKER_01]: Or you can put my say, or you can come to our show.
19:41 --> 19:43 [SPEAKER_01]: We have three episodes on Hudson Taylor.
19:43 --> 19:44 [SPEAKER_01]: We have those actual speeches in the feed.
19:44 --> 19:48 [SPEAKER_01]: So first enjoy our show, then go check out our leases.
19:48 --> 19:51 [SPEAKER_01]: But that's in requested that Guinness stay stay in London.
19:51 --> 19:52 [SPEAKER_01]: You're awesome.
19:52 --> 20:02 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure China's the best place or maybe he is like you can do so much better Where you are in London preach about what's going on in China tell people help organize missions from the home front.
20:02 --> 20:04 [SPEAKER_01]: That's where you would be best served
20:04 --> 20:19 [SPEAKER_01]: And so and so he did get us took that like that role of I'm going to help missions get help people get to the field help people Ray support help be the awareness razor back home very seriously Again, I this is later on in life.
20:19 --> 20:34 [SPEAKER_01]: He didn't know at the time But later on his life his daughter and author and supporter of missions herself will actually go on to make Mary Adcent Taylor's son so I mean these two will literally become future family someday
20:41 --> 20:46 [SPEAKER_02]: The East London Institute for Home of Foreign Missions was one, by the way.
20:46 --> 20:48 [SPEAKER_02]: That's too long of a name for admissions or your station.
20:49 --> 20:50 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, these days too far away.
20:50 --> 20:57 [SPEAKER_01]: They would change it to like, like, horizon or, or, you know, just one night, one word, something something really easy.
20:58 --> 21:04 [SPEAKER_01]: And it wouldn't have anything missions on it because a closed country stuff would be like, right, right ideas or something, I don't know, you know how it is now.
21:04 --> 21:13 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the East London Institute for a home and foreign missions was one of those really important mission organizations that Guinness started.
21:13 --> 21:27 [SPEAKER_02]: It alone would send out 1300 missionaries to regions all over the world and Livingston inland missions was another one that Soptuary the gospel deep into the heart of Africa But yeah, it was named after
21:27 --> 21:28 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, who knows.
21:28 --> 21:30 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I love being sent to the land mission.
21:30 --> 21:37 [SPEAKER_01]: I could have been could have been any buddy At the so we have episodes by David Levinson in the feet to just start down.
21:37 --> 21:38 [SPEAKER_01]: Love you guys.
21:38 --> 21:38 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on.
21:38 --> 21:38 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
21:38 --> 21:52 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that mission Organization Encounter more struggles though, and eventually it was taken over by a American Baptist missions in the area That I believe still run it
21:52 --> 22:05 [SPEAKER_02]: There's a lot more that we could say here, but the thing that we want to communicate about Guinness is that especially in the last five years of his life, he was hyper-focused on missions.
22:05 --> 22:18 [SPEAKER_02]: He really wanted to make that a part of who he was and his identity, not only in the way that he organized and had an administrative position organizing missions, but also himself.
22:18 --> 22:28 [SPEAKER_02]: physically, he traveled himself as a missionary and went out and shared the gospel in several countries during the latter part of his life.
22:28 --> 22:30 [SPEAKER_02]: So, yeah, I'd love to see it, and it's awesome.
22:31 --> 22:38 [SPEAKER_01]: Guinness is one of those figures who we just when I'm going to cover all in one episode and sadly his work is pretty much forgotten today.
22:39 --> 22:47 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, at the Big Gaze Football World Records, did not mention that this Guinness guy did a whole lot of work for the world and we could really
22:47 --> 22:53 [SPEAKER_01]: They covered other records for the records of the Great Christians, including the ones in the Guinness family, are sadly forgotten.
22:54 --> 22:58 [SPEAKER_01]: Not by his kids, many of them grew up to be missionary, not by his great grandson.
22:58 --> 23:03 [SPEAKER_01]: Dr. Ozganes, who has done so much for the world and defended the faith in so many different ways.
23:03 --> 23:06 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's a cool aspect of him that you don't see
23:06 --> 23:33 [SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't always get kind of, even when people do talk about it, they might not notice this, but if you look at his family, a lot of them went into mission, almost all his children went into missions, and Christian work themselves, he not only left a legacy around the world, he not only left a legacy through AB Simpson, and every day happened there, he not only went to left a legacy through these revivals and the people that came to Christ, and with missions, but he also left a legacy in his own family,
23:33 --> 23:39 [SPEAKER_01]: that the stuff he was saying on stage and at the pulpit he was clearly living through his life and impacted his own family as well.
23:40 --> 23:47 [SPEAKER_01]: And we're still being impacted by the world today by a great grandson speaker who is carrying on that legacy.
23:48 --> 23:50 [SPEAKER_01]: So it's just really a really cool
23:50 --> 24:13 [SPEAKER_01]: really like Henry Grant and goodness, and he's also he you can tell he's a very good preacher just by you can you can just look at the sermon 200 years removed from it and go man if that sermon was preached to an audience today that would get the people you're about to listen to that sermon this sermon was given during probably his revival time of life either in Ireland or in London he would have been about 25 when he preached the sermon.
24:29 --> 24:43 [SPEAKER_00]: Isaiah 2817, judgment also will lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet, and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
24:46 --> 24:57 [SPEAKER_00]: The words of the text are these, the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies.
24:57 --> 25:06 [SPEAKER_00]: From time to time as he hurried along, he turned and looked at the clouds gathering behind him in the sky, warning of a coming storm.
25:07 --> 25:15 [SPEAKER_00]: Soon the wind began to rise, the night grew darker, and as he ran in search of shelter, he saw a small hut ahead and crept inside.
25:17 --> 25:26 [SPEAKER_00]: Before long the wind inhaled again beating upon the roof of his refuge, the storm tore
25:26 --> 25:30 [SPEAKER_00]: the man rose and fled in terror before the storm.
25:31 --> 25:41 [SPEAKER_00]: For a short time it seemed he might escape, but suddenly a flash of lightning struck him and he fell in the wilderness of blackened corpse.
25:42 --> 25:43 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the picture.
25:44 --> 25:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Now look at the original.
25:47 --> 25:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Adam's sinned.
25:48 --> 25:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Her clouds gathered over his head, darkness fell upon him.
25:57 --> 26:00 [SPEAKER_00]: Fear not, said Satan, you will not surely die.
26:00 --> 26:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Behind this lie, Adam tried to hide himself.
26:05 --> 26:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Then God came, and with the hail of his judgment swept away this refuge of lies and struck the man with death.
26:14 --> 26:27 [SPEAKER_00]: and it is certain that from the time of Adam until this present day, thousands upon thousands have taken refuge from the warnings of God's wrath beneath the lies of the evil one.
26:28 --> 26:34 [SPEAKER_00]: Tonight, I want to expose some of these refuges to those of you who are hiding from God.
26:35 --> 26:43 [SPEAKER_00]: I do this because death may come upon you without warning and your souls may perish in hell.
26:45 --> 26:50 [SPEAKER_00]: First, let me ask you this question, are your sins forgiven?
26:51 --> 26:54 [SPEAKER_00]: Many of you know that your sins are not forgiven.
26:56 --> 26:58 [SPEAKER_00]: Are you prepared to die?
26:59 --> 27:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Many of you would have to say, I could not lie down tonight and die in peace.
27:07 --> 27:14 [SPEAKER_00]: Then let me ask another question, why are you listening to me?
27:15 --> 27:16 [SPEAKER_00]: to learn the way to be saved.
27:17 --> 27:18 [SPEAKER_00]: Very well.
27:19 --> 27:25 [SPEAKER_00]: I will speak clearly, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.
27:26 --> 27:30 [SPEAKER_00]: But you reply, ah, I believe in my election.
27:31 --> 27:33 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, what does that have to do with the matter?
27:34 --> 27:36 [SPEAKER_00]: I told you to believe in Jesus.
27:37 --> 27:44 [SPEAKER_00]: Yet you answer with the words, it is not
27:45 --> 27:49 [SPEAKER_00]: Tell me honestly what you mean in your heart when you quote that verse.
27:50 --> 28:03 [SPEAKER_00]: You say, if I am elect, I will be saved no matter what I do, but if I am not elect, I must be damned no matter what I try to do, so there is no use in my trying at all.
28:05 --> 28:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me tell you plainly and earnestly that this is a refuge of lies.
28:11 --> 28:16 [SPEAKER_00]: If you continue to hide in it, God will sweep it away with the hail of judgment.
28:18 --> 28:19 [SPEAKER_00]: Do not misunderstand me.
28:20 --> 28:24 [SPEAKER_00]: I am not fighting against the doctrine of election itself.
28:25 --> 28:28 [SPEAKER_00]: Rather, I am opposing the way you are using it.
28:30 --> 28:37 [SPEAKER_00]: I believe the doctrine of election runs like a golden thread through the silver fabric of the Word of God.
28:37 --> 28:43 [SPEAKER_00]: It is impossible to tear it out without tearing apart the very structure of eternal truth.
28:45 --> 28:48 [SPEAKER_00]: It is not a dark doctrine to me with a cursed tide to it.
28:49 --> 29:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Rather, it shines before me like the first sweet ray of light that came down from God into the black abyss of our ruin.
29:06 --> 29:10 [SPEAKER_00]: I confess that I accept it, and I cannot do otherwise.
29:11 --> 29:16 [SPEAKER_00]: It is as plain to me in the Bible as the doctrine of redemption itself.
29:17 --> 29:23 [SPEAKER_00]: First, I cannot help but see that God is everything in the salvation of all who reach heaven.
29:24 --> 29:30 [SPEAKER_00]: Second, I cannot help but see that He intended this from all eternity.
29:31 --> 29:33 [SPEAKER_00]: That, of course, is election.
29:35 --> 29:43 [SPEAKER_00]: I learn from the 8th chapter of Romans that election is the first link in the great chain of salvation that stretches from heaven to earth.
29:44 --> 29:48 [SPEAKER_00]: If you break that link, all the others fall to the ground.
29:49 --> 29:56 [SPEAKER_00]: No election means no calling, no justification, no sanctification, and no glory.
29:57 --> 30:02 [SPEAKER_00]: But my friends, do not twist this doctrine to your own destruction.
30:03 --> 30:09 [SPEAKER_00]: Look carefully at the matter, and you will find that election is not exclusive, but inclusive.
30:10 --> 30:16 [SPEAKER_00]: In plain language, it shuts no one out, while it certainly brings many in.
30:18 --> 30:19 [SPEAKER_00]: Notice this carefully.
30:20 --> 30:31 [SPEAKER_00]: Scripture presents election as making the salvation of many certain, but it does not present it as placing an impossible barrier in the way of anyone's salvation.
30:32 --> 30:37 [SPEAKER_00]: Election has made many saints, but it has made no reprobates.
30:38 --> 30:42 [SPEAKER_00]: Election only saves, only sin destroys.
30:44 --> 30:49 [SPEAKER_00]: But even if the matter were as you claim, you would still have no right to act as you do.
30:49 --> 31:01 [SPEAKER_00]: To sit still in indecision is to commit spiritual suicide.
31:02 --> 31:04 [SPEAKER_00]: But why should I reason with you this way?
31:05 --> 31:08 [SPEAKER_00]: Tell me, do you act like this in ordinary matters?
31:10 --> 31:12 [SPEAKER_00]: Suppose a friend invites you to dinner.
31:13 --> 31:17 [SPEAKER_00]: The table is spread before you and you are asked to sit down.
31:18 --> 31:19 [SPEAKER_00]: You say, stop.
31:20 --> 31:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Does not God know everything?
31:23 --> 31:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, your friend answers.
31:26 --> 31:30 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, you say, God already knows whether I will eat this food or not.
31:31 --> 31:33 [SPEAKER_00]: So it is all fixed, and I cannot change it.
31:34 --> 31:38 [SPEAKER_00]: If I am not meant to eat this dinner, I cannot eat it even if I try.
31:39 --> 31:46 [SPEAKER_00]: But if I am meant to eat it, I must eat it even if I get up and leave the room and try to go without it.
31:46 --> 31:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, I will sit here and do nothing.
31:54 --> 32:02 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you would not reason this way about ordinary food, why would you say such things when God sets the bread of life before you?
32:03 --> 32:15 [SPEAKER_00]: When He freely offers you the Lord Jesus Christ to feed your starving soul, why would you say, if I am meant to eat the bread of life, I must no matter what I do.
32:15 --> 32:24 [SPEAKER_00]: If I am not meant to eat it, I cannot no matter what I try.
32:25 --> 32:33 [SPEAKER_00]: If you were lying on a sick bed in the shadow of death, and a medicine were offered to you that had the certain power to cure you.
32:34 --> 32:44 [SPEAKER_00]: Would you say, if I am meant to live, I will live, if I am meant to die, your medicine will make no difference, so take it away and leave me.
32:46 --> 32:48 [SPEAKER_00]: No, you would not.
32:48 --> 32:57 [SPEAKER_00]: Then why say this when the good physician Jesus offers the only medicine that can heal your soul and save you from eternal death?
32:59 --> 33:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Why say, if I am elect, I will be saved no matter what I do and if I am not elect, I will be damned no matter what I try.
33:08 --> 33:17 [SPEAKER_00]: If Christ does not truly offer to save you, then I have nothing more to say, but you admit that He does.
33:17 --> 33:29 [SPEAKER_00]: If your present refuge about election is not the very gate of hell that I have nothing more to say, but you admit that to die in your present state would be to perish.
33:31 --> 33:32 [SPEAKER_00]: Why then remain there?
33:33 --> 33:36 [SPEAKER_00]: Why linger in such a place?
33:37 --> 33:41 [SPEAKER_00]: Leave it at once and flee for your life to Jesus.
33:42 --> 33:49 [SPEAKER_00]: For surely, the hail will sweep away this refuge of lies and the waters will overflow this hiding place.
33:52 --> 33:58 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, I pass on to speak to others here who are not prepared for death and judgment.
33:59 --> 34:04 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me ask the question again, what are you trusting in?
34:05 --> 34:09 [SPEAKER_00]: Someone answers, I trust in the mercy of God.
34:10 --> 34:15 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me say plainly that if that is all your trust, it is a refuge of lies.
34:16 --> 34:19 [SPEAKER_00]: Your reply is not God merciful.
34:20 --> 34:27 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, he is more merciful than you can imagine, but it will not do to trust only in the mercy of God.
34:28 --> 34:39 [SPEAKER_00]: God is so rich in mercy that although he has been giving it away every day to millions of people for ages, his stores of mercy are still not exhausted.
34:40 --> 34:46 [SPEAKER_00]: If you come to him and say, oh my God, is there mercy for me?
34:46 --> 34:54 [SPEAKER_00]: God will answer, I am the one who keeps mercy for thousands, and whoever comes to me, I will never cast out.
34:55 --> 34:58 [SPEAKER_00]: But beware of trusting in God's mercy alone.
34:59 --> 35:02 [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine a man pursued by enemies.
35:03 --> 35:13 [SPEAKER_00]: A friend offers to shelter him inside a strong power, but the man refuses to enter.
35:15 --> 35:15 [SPEAKER_00]: you cry out to Him.
35:16 --> 35:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Your enemies are coming.
35:18 --> 35:19 [SPEAKER_00]: Why do you not take refuge?
35:20 --> 35:28 [SPEAKER_00]: He answers, I trust in the tower, but you reply, the tower is no refuge to you until you are inside.
35:29 --> 35:33 [SPEAKER_00]: It is the same when you say, I trust in the mercy of God.
35:35 --> 35:42 [SPEAKER_00]: I tell you that God's mercy will not save you until you are inside the tower of refuge which is Christ Jesus.
35:43 --> 35:46 [SPEAKER_00]: make haste to be found in Christ.
35:46 --> 35:49 [SPEAKER_00]: Once you are there, no one can harm you.
35:50 --> 35:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Then you can say with confidence, if God is for us, who can be against us.
35:57 --> 36:00 [SPEAKER_00]: But while you remain unforgiving, you are not safe.
36:02 --> 36:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Remember that God is just as well as merciful.
36:06 --> 36:09 [SPEAKER_00]: He is so just that He will
36:10 --> 36:14 [SPEAKER_00]: He will repay the wages of sin to the last sin.
36:15 --> 36:26 [SPEAKER_00]: I believe this lie about mercy is the soft pillow on which thousands are sleeping away their precious hours of hope until the day of judgment.
36:27 --> 36:37 [SPEAKER_00]: My friends, God is so just that He could not save a single sinner without punishing that sinner's guilt in the person of the innocent Jesus.
36:38 --> 36:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Even though the life of Jesus is worth more than the souls of the entire world, if God chose to save even one sinner out of all humanity, he could not do so without the death of his son.
36:52 --> 37:00 [SPEAKER_00]: He could not forgive even the smallest sin without the precious blood of Jesus being poured out to death.
37:01 --> 37:03 [SPEAKER_00]: So just is God.
37:05 --> 37:12 [SPEAKER_00]: Never imagine that God's mercy will save you, unless your sins are washed away in the blood of Christ.
37:13 --> 37:15 [SPEAKER_00]: Put your trust in the Redeemer.
37:16 --> 37:28 [SPEAKER_00]: When you have trusted in Him, you may stand before the whole universe, spotless and white, cloth in His beautiful robe of everlasting righteousness.
37:31 --> 37:40 [SPEAKER_00]: Now I turn to another group among you who answer my question, are you prepared for judgment by saying, we do the best we can.
37:41 --> 37:48 [SPEAKER_00]: Let none of you think I exaggerate when I say that I have seen multitudes comforting themselves with this miserable hope.
37:49 --> 37:55 [SPEAKER_00]: On the day of judgment, the hill will sweep away this refuge of lies from the heads of millions.
37:57 --> 37:57 [SPEAKER_00]: What?
37:58 --> 38:00 [SPEAKER_00]: You say you do the best you can.
38:01 --> 38:02 [SPEAKER_00]: Then you must be safe.
38:02 --> 38:07 [SPEAKER_00]: If you truly have done the best you could up to this moment, you are as safe as the angel Gabriel.
38:09 --> 38:10 [SPEAKER_00]: But do you feel that way?
38:11 --> 38:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you have no fear of death or hell?
38:15 --> 38:16 [SPEAKER_00]: You dare not say so.
38:17 --> 38:20 [SPEAKER_00]: But if you were without sin, you should be without fear.
38:21 --> 38:25 [SPEAKER_00]: But wait, will you solemnly declare that you have never sinned?
38:26 --> 38:27 [SPEAKER_00]: Will you say that?
38:28 --> 38:28 [SPEAKER_00]: No.
38:29 --> 38:37 [SPEAKER_00]: You know that God has never given you a command of the you have not broken, either in your heart or in your actions or in both.
38:39 --> 38:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Since this is true, how can you ever again say, I do the best I can?
38:45 --> 38:48 [SPEAKER_00]: How blind and stubborn human pride is?
38:49 --> 38:57 [SPEAKER_00]: When will we learn to hate our spiritual leprosy and our filthy garments and confess that we are truly unclean?
38:58 --> 39:04 [SPEAKER_00]: sin is our leprosy, and even our best deeds are like infected rags.
39:06 --> 39:11 [SPEAKER_00]: Will we proudly hold up these filthy rags before God and his angels in boast about wearing them?
39:12 --> 39:26 [SPEAKER_00]: We do the best we can, the best we can, listen to the word of God, all have sinned.
39:27 --> 39:31 [SPEAKER_00]: By the deeds of the law, no one will be justified in his sight.
39:32 --> 39:38 [SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
39:40 --> 39:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Learn from this, that the best thing you can do is to look to what another has done for you, even Jesus.
39:47 --> 39:49 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, even Jesus.
39:49 --> 39:53 [SPEAKER_00]: By believing in Him, you may become righteous before God.
39:55 --> 40:04 [SPEAKER_00]: I say again, the best thing you can do is to believe in Jesus so that through him, you may truly become righteous before God.
40:06 --> 40:10 [SPEAKER_00]: But can the just God really make you righteous in this way?
40:11 --> 40:15 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, he can read and believe these words.
40:17 --> 40:34 [SPEAKER_00]: Being justified freely by His grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness for the forgiveness of sins that are passed, through the forbearance of God.
40:35 --> 40:44 [SPEAKER_00]: To declare, I say, at this time His righteousness that He might be just and the justifier of the one who believes in Jesus.
40:45 --> 40:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Romans 3, 24 through 26, where then is boasting?
40:53 --> 40:59 [SPEAKER_00]: Where is the boast that says, I do the best I can, listen to the word of God.
41:00 --> 41:07 [SPEAKER_00]: It is excluded by what law of works, no, but by the law of faith.
41:09 --> 41:16 [SPEAKER_00]: As surely as the word of God is true, if you cling to this boast, you will be excluded along with it.
41:17 --> 41:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Remember the Pharisee who thanked God that he was not like other men, and was rejected.
41:23 --> 41:31 [SPEAKER_00]: Remember the tax collector who cried out, God be merciful to me, a sinner, and he was justified.
41:32 --> 41:35 [SPEAKER_00]: And remember the words of Christ about such cases.
41:35 --> 41:41 [SPEAKER_00]: Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
41:43 --> 41:49 [SPEAKER_00]: Fall on your knees before God in say, Lord, I have done almost the worst I could.
41:49 --> 41:53 [SPEAKER_00]: I am a miserable sinner.
41:53 --> 41:59 [SPEAKER_00]: But Lord, you did not come into this world to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
42:00 --> 42:08 [SPEAKER_00]: Have mercy on my soul, forgive my sins, and O just God make me righteous through Jesus.
42:10 --> 42:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Then the Lord will keep His promise, whoever comes to me, I will never cast out.
42:23 --> 42:38 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of you have run to the opposite extreme, though you are not prepared for eternity, you comfort yourselves by saying that you believe in Jesus Christ and are on the road to heaven while you lack the kind of faith that truly saves the soul.
42:40 --> 42:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me ask you who say, I believe what it is that you believe that can justify you.
42:47 --> 42:52 [SPEAKER_00]: You say, I believe that Jesus Christ came into the world to teach us the way to heaven.
42:53 --> 42:57 [SPEAKER_00]: But so did the rich young ruler who came to Christ long ago.
42:58 --> 43:03 [SPEAKER_00]: He asked, good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?
43:04 --> 43:08 [SPEAKER_00]: Christ told him, take up your cross, and to follow me.
43:09 --> 43:13 [SPEAKER_00]: But the man went away sorrowful, and where did he go?
43:13 --> 43:20 [SPEAKER_00]: Where else but toward destruction?
43:21 --> 43:24 [SPEAKER_00]: You answer, I believe in the great judgment to come.
43:25 --> 43:32 [SPEAKER_00]: So did Felix, when Paul stood before him and spoke about righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgment.
43:33 --> 43:36 [SPEAKER_00]: Felix believed it all and trembled.
43:36 --> 43:40 [SPEAKER_00]: Yet he said to God's messenger, go away for now.
43:40 --> 43:43 [SPEAKER_00]: When I have a convenient time, I will call for you.
43:45 --> 43:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Did that convenient time ever come?
43:48 --> 43:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Have not the doors of everlasting darkness closed upon his soul since then?
43:54 --> 43:57 [SPEAKER_00]: What do you believe that is more than he believed?
43:58 --> 44:05 [SPEAKER_00]: You say, I believe that Jesus was innocent and suffered for the guilty and that he truly is the Son of God.
44:07 --> 44:09 [SPEAKER_00]: So to Judas, he new Christ was innocent.
44:10 --> 44:16 [SPEAKER_00]: He knew him to be the Son of God, yet he betrayed him and went to his own place.
44:17 --> 44:20 [SPEAKER_00]: What do you believe that is more than he believed?
44:22 --> 44:28 [SPEAKER_00]: You answer, I believe that Jesus died to save sinners and rose again to everlasting glory.
44:29 --> 44:31 [SPEAKER_00]: So did Ananias and Sapphira.
44:32 --> 44:35 [SPEAKER_00]: They heard the Apostle Peter preach these truths.
44:35 --> 44:38 [SPEAKER_00]: They accepted them as true.
44:38 --> 44:47 [SPEAKER_00]: They were baptized and joined themselves to the followers of Christ, yet they were struck dead by Almighty God for their terrible lie.
44:48 --> 44:50 [SPEAKER_00]: Would you wish to be where they are?
44:52 --> 44:56 [SPEAKER_00]: What do you believe that is more than they believed?
44:57 --> 45:05 [SPEAKER_00]: You say, I believe in heaven and hell, Satan and all the demons believe that as well.
45:06 --> 45:09 [SPEAKER_00]: They once were angels in heaven at our noun devils in hell.
45:11 --> 45:14 [SPEAKER_00]: What do you believe that is more than they believe?
45:15 --> 45:19 [SPEAKER_00]: At last you ask, what must I believe in order to be saved?
45:20 --> 45:21 [SPEAKER_00]: Then let me ask you this.
45:23 --> 45:25 [SPEAKER_00]: What did the dying thief believe who went to heaven?
45:26 --> 45:30 [SPEAKER_00]: He believed more than Judas and more than Satan.
45:30 --> 45:33 [SPEAKER_00]: Did he not believe that Jesus was his own Savior?
45:34 --> 45:46 [SPEAKER_00]: that Jesus was bearing His sins, as well as the sins of the world, that He not trust that Christ would remember Him forever, and did He not call Him Lord.
45:48 --> 46:01 [SPEAKER_00]: O that you would throw your poor, dark soul into the outstretched arms of Christ as that
46:02 --> 46:05 [SPEAKER_00]: come and cast yourselves upon Christ forever.
46:06 --> 46:09 [SPEAKER_00]: Cast yourselves upon Christ forever.
46:10 --> 46:11 [SPEAKER_00]: Come and cry.
46:12 --> 46:19 [SPEAKER_00]: Just as I am, poor, wretched, lined, sight riches healing of the mind.
46:20 --> 46:26 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, all I need in thee to find, O Lamb of God, I come.
46:26 --> 46:40 [SPEAKER_00]: Just as I am, that will receive, will welcome pardon, cleanse, relive, because thy promise I believe, O Lamb of God, I come.
46:42 --> 46:50 [SPEAKER_00]: Finally, I believe that some I speak to have long been hiding from their own consciences behind this refuge.
46:50 --> 46:53 [SPEAKER_00]: I must wait for God's time.
46:54 --> 46:57 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me say a few words to such people.
46:58 --> 46:58 [SPEAKER_00]: Now listen.
46:59 --> 47:02 [SPEAKER_00]: The solemn truth is that Christ is waiting for you.
47:03 --> 47:04 [SPEAKER_00]: Have you ever read His own words?
47:05 --> 47:08 [SPEAKER_00]: Behold, I stand at the door and knock.
47:09 --> 47:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Isn't that waiting?
47:11 --> 47:12 [SPEAKER_00]: I stand.
47:13 --> 47:14 [SPEAKER_00]: Isn't that waiting?
47:15 --> 47:16 [SPEAKER_00]: I stand at the door.
47:17 --> 47:19 [SPEAKER_00]: Is that not waiting just outside?
47:20 --> 47:23 [SPEAKER_00]: I stand at the door and knock.
47:24 --> 47:26 [SPEAKER_00]: is that not waiting to come in?
47:27 --> 47:29 [SPEAKER_00]: This is exactly your situation.
47:30 --> 47:41 [SPEAKER_00]: You keep the door of your heart tightly bolted into locked, while Jesus stands outside knocking again and again, Christ knocks.
47:42 --> 47:43 [SPEAKER_00]: Lord, you answer.
47:44 --> 47:49 [SPEAKER_00]: I will wait for your time, open to me, says Christ.
47:50 --> 47:54 [SPEAKER_00]: Lord, you reply, I will wait for your time.
47:55 --> 47:59 [SPEAKER_00]: Why do you keep the door locked with unbelief, says Jesus?
48:00 --> 48:04 [SPEAKER_00]: Lord, you answer again, I will wait for your time.
48:06 --> 48:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Be careful, sinner.
48:08 --> 48:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Do not continue to trifle with Christ.
48:11 --> 48:15 [SPEAKER_00]: If He turns away and leaves you to yourself, you are lost.
48:16 --> 48:20 [SPEAKER_00]: If he breaks the door open in judgment, you are lost.
48:21 --> 48:24 [SPEAKER_00]: Do not say again, Lord, I will wait for your time.
48:25 --> 48:31 [SPEAKER_00]: Instead say, Lord, I believe, help my unbelief.
48:33 --> 48:38 [SPEAKER_00]: Have you never read in the Word of God that the present moment is the time of salvation?
48:39 --> 48:40 [SPEAKER_00]: Read these words.
48:41 --> 48:44 [SPEAKER_00]: Now is the accepted time.
48:44 --> 48:46 [SPEAKER_00]: Now is the day of salvation.
48:49 --> 48:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Some time ago a young man came to a minister under deep conviction of sin.
48:54 --> 48:57 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, Sir, I am a great sinner.
48:58 --> 49:12 [SPEAKER_00]: The minister replied, you were a greater sinner than you think, not covering the wound with flattering lies but applying the sharp truth to it.
49:13 --> 49:15 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, said the minister.
49:15 --> 49:17 [SPEAKER_00]: You deserve to be sent to hell for your sins.
49:19 --> 49:23 [SPEAKER_00]: Sir, said the young man, what must I do to be saved?
49:24 --> 49:27 [SPEAKER_00]: Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, said the minister.
49:28 --> 49:31 [SPEAKER_00]: But I must wait for God's time, said the young man.
49:33 --> 49:36 [SPEAKER_00]: Now is the accepted time, replied the minister.
49:37 --> 49:40 [SPEAKER_00]: But sir, I must wait for the call of God.
49:41 --> 49:44 [SPEAKER_00]: Now is the accepted time, said the minister.
49:45 --> 49:47 [SPEAKER_00]: But Sir, I must wait for repentance.
49:49 --> 49:50 [SPEAKER_00]: Now is the accepted time.
49:51 --> 49:53 [SPEAKER_00]: But Sir, I must wait for faith.
49:54 --> 49:57 [SPEAKER_00]: Now is the accepted time.
49:58 --> 50:00 [SPEAKER_00]: Well then surely I must wait for the Holy Spirit.
50:01 --> 50:08 [SPEAKER_00]: Now is the accepted time.
50:09 --> 50:16 [SPEAKER_00]: But those words kept ringing in his ears, now is the accepted time, now is the accepted time.
50:18 --> 50:21 [SPEAKER_00]: No effort of body or mind could drive them away.
50:22 --> 50:25 [SPEAKER_00]: At last he knelt down, he wept.
50:26 --> 50:32 [SPEAKER_00]: He confessed his sins, he prayed, then he rose up, praising God.
50:33 --> 50:36 [SPEAKER_00]: For him, that was the day of salvation.
50:37 --> 50:41 [SPEAKER_00]: unforgiven man do not wait even half an hour longer.
50:41 --> 50:44 [SPEAKER_00]: Break down before God right now.
50:45 --> 50:49 [SPEAKER_00]: You know that you must either be converted or be lost.
50:49 --> 50:53 [SPEAKER_00]: You know that you grow worse with every passing hour.
50:53 --> 50:58 [SPEAKER_00]: You know that Christ is just as ready to receive you now as He will ever be.
50:59 --> 51:02 [SPEAKER_00]: Be reconciled to Him today.
51:05 --> 51:11 [SPEAKER_00]: Before I close, let me ask every young man and young woman listening what you think about these things.
51:13 --> 51:15 [SPEAKER_00]: I am sure none of you would dare to mock them.
51:16 --> 51:19 [SPEAKER_00]: I am sure that some of you believe them and to feel their truth.
51:20 --> 51:34 [SPEAKER_00]: But are there not some who say, we know these things are true and we intend to change some day, but there is still plenty of time.
51:35 --> 51:38 [SPEAKER_00]: How unreasonable this thinking is.
51:39 --> 51:42 [SPEAKER_00]: Why do you plan to turn to Christ later?
51:43 --> 51:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Is it because Christ pleads with you?
51:46 --> 51:48 [SPEAKER_00]: But does he not plead with you now?
51:48 --> 51:53 [SPEAKER_00]: And will you not grieve and insult him by delaying?
51:53 --> 51:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Why turn later?
51:57 --> 51:58 [SPEAKER_00]: Is it because God commands you?
51:59 --> 52:05 [SPEAKER_00]: But does he not command you now?
52:06 --> 52:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Why turn later?
52:08 --> 52:11 [SPEAKER_00]: Is it because danger threatens you?
52:12 --> 52:14 [SPEAKER_00]: But is not death already behind you?
52:15 --> 52:18 [SPEAKER_00]: Are not the flames of hell already beneath your feet even now?
52:20 --> 52:24 [SPEAKER_00]: By delaying, are you not playing at the very edge of the pit?
52:25 --> 52:28 [SPEAKER_00]: Will you never be wise until it is too late?
52:30 --> 52:33 [SPEAKER_00]: Why do you forget that your life hangs by a breath?
52:34 --> 52:39 [SPEAKER_00]: Why do you push away the thought that there is only one step between you and death?
52:40 --> 52:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Why do you close your eyes, stop your ears, and turn your back while God and your own conscience cry out, the hold, the judge stands at the door.
52:53 --> 52:54 [SPEAKER_00]: Are you thinking clearly?
52:54 --> 52:56 [SPEAKER_00]: Or are you acting like a madman?
52:58 --> 53:00 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you truly intend to face the wrath of God?
53:02 --> 53:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Even if your heart were iron and your mind were brass, you could not stand before his consuming judgment.
53:10 --> 53:15 [SPEAKER_00]: How then will your fragile body and your sensitive soul endure everlasting torment?
53:17 --> 53:18 [SPEAKER_00]: What are you counting on?
53:19 --> 53:20 [SPEAKER_00]: Tomorrow?
53:22 --> 53:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Tomorrow?
53:23 --> 53:25 [SPEAKER_00]: But are you certain you will see it?
53:26 --> 53:28 [SPEAKER_00]: Is tomorrow really yours?
53:29 --> 53:35 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you not realize that you live moment by moment only because God supports you moment by moment?
53:36 --> 53:42 [SPEAKER_00]: Those moments are few, they are all numbered, and they are quickly passing away.
53:42 --> 53:49 [SPEAKER_00]: To watch you, would make angels wonder and devils rejoice.
53:49 --> 54:18 [SPEAKER_00]: Every moment your heart grows harder, your guilt increases, your light fades, your hopes sink, your time flies, your night grows darker, your joys die, your life moves toward its close, and still your soul keeps dreaming, dreaming through its final moments before eternity.
54:20 --> 54:29 [SPEAKER_00]: God forbid, for if you sleep now you will surely wake never to sleep again in the fire that is never quenched.
54:30 --> 54:38 [SPEAKER_00]: Once more I solemnly urge you, rise up, leave everything behind and come to Jesus.
54:39 --> 54:40 [SPEAKER_00]: come now.
54:40 --> 54:42 [SPEAKER_00]: For God's patience is waiting.
54:42 --> 54:48 [SPEAKER_00]: His long-suffering is enduring and his mercy is pleading.
54:49 --> 54:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Come now for the world is of lowering.
54:52 --> 54:56 [SPEAKER_00]: Sen is deceiving and Satan is tempting.
54:57 --> 55:00 [SPEAKER_00]: Come now for Christ is calling.
55:00 --> 55:04 [SPEAKER_00]: The Spirit is striving and heaven is in fighting.
55:05 --> 55:08 [SPEAKER_00]: Come now for conscience is warning.
55:08 --> 55:12 [SPEAKER_00]: Death is drawing near and judgment is approaching.
55:14 --> 55:14 [SPEAKER_00]: Come now.
55:14 --> 55:20 [SPEAKER_00]: Now this very hour come to Jesus.
55:22 --> 55:31 [SPEAKER_00]: Can you hesitate for even a moment when on one side there is sin, shame, sorrow, darkness, and destruction?
55:32 --> 55:38 [SPEAKER_00]: And on the other side there is holiness, honor, joy, light, and glory.
55:40 --> 55:52 [SPEAKER_00]: While God gives you this precious opportunity, exchange hell for heaven and live forever.
55:53 --> 55:58 [SPEAKER_00]: You have heard that to hide from God's wrath behind a lie is death.
55:59 --> 56:04 [SPEAKER_00]: Now hear this, to hide from God's wrath behind the truth is life.
56:06 --> 56:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank God that He who is the truth is also the life.
56:11 --> 56:22 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is the man who shall be a hiding place from the wind and a shelter from the storm.
56:23 --> 56:28 [SPEAKER_00]: See the sinful and dying multitudes, carelessly passing their time.
56:29 --> 56:35 [SPEAKER_00]: But here beneath the shadow of a great rock, people stand in safety.
56:36 --> 56:51 [SPEAKER_00]: See how the bright arrows of God cut through the clouds and fall in judgment like swift messengers of his coming vengeance.
56:54 --> 57:04 [SPEAKER_00]: When the storm of judgment finally comes, the strength, hope, and glory of this world will fall forever beneath the power of God.
57:05 --> 57:09 [SPEAKER_00]: The hail will sweep away every refuge of lies.
57:10 --> 57:24 [SPEAKER_00]: But the saints will stand secure in the shadow of that great rock, Jesus, until the storm passes, and the darkness is gone, until the day breaks, and the shadows flee away.
57:26 --> 57:31 [SPEAKER_00]: So that you may stand among them, flee to Jesus now and cry.
57:34 --> 57:39 [SPEAKER_00]: Other refuge, have I none.
57:40 --> 57:43 [SPEAKER_00]: Leave me not, oh leave me not alone.
57:43 --> 57:46 [SPEAKER_00]: Still support and sheltered me.
57:47 --> 57:49 [SPEAKER_00]: Hide me, oh my Savior, hide.
57:50 --> 57:58 [SPEAKER_00]: Until the storm of life is passed, guide me safely to the harbour and receive my soul.
57:58 --> 57:59 [SPEAKER_00]: At last.
58:11 --> 58:13 [SPEAKER_01]: I really enjoyed this sermon.
58:13 --> 58:16 [SPEAKER_01]: I love when he goes through the different conversations and excuses people make.
58:16 --> 58:22 [SPEAKER_01]: He calls it refuge of lies because people cling to all these different reasons why they shouldn't come to God.
58:22 --> 58:23 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I'll wait later.
58:23 --> 58:25 [SPEAKER_01]: I'll get, I'll have more time.
58:25 --> 58:29 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe tomorrow, maybe this, maybe that, and he's breaking through these stories.
58:30 --> 58:32 [SPEAKER_01]: And I, there's,
58:32 --> 58:35 [SPEAKER_01]: You can just tell that if you were in the audience at the time, this would be good.
58:35 --> 58:39 [SPEAKER_01]: I might even, I'm actually thinking, I probably print this sermon out and maybe give it to my students to read.
58:39 --> 58:46 [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's, I think what I really like about it is I work with people who, you know, they're still wrestling with their faith in coming to understanding.
58:46 --> 58:50 [SPEAKER_01]: And a lot of them, I think the excuses haven't changed.
58:50 --> 58:51 [SPEAKER_01]: The reason people don't come to Christ.
58:51 --> 59:02 [SPEAKER_01]: Today are the same reasons people don't come to Christ 200 years ago and I think probably 2 years ago We we cling to many of the same excuses and same reasons and the same things hold us back What will people say?
59:02 --> 59:03 [SPEAKER_01]: I'll have more time later.
59:03 --> 59:13 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to change all of this kind of stuff I I believe a judgements coming, but I you know all these different things that keep us from God I love the way he wove the Bible through this story.
59:13 --> 59:20 [SPEAKER_01]: I love the things he said and I think of how young he was preaching this and I Just go wow as incredible how the Lord used it you
59:20 --> 59:36 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, I maybe your pastor, you are blessed to have a pastor who does preach like this and he's really direct and he calls people to the Lord, but I think a lot of churches could really benefit from sermons like this being given, or you just call people to love Jesus and to not make any more excuses.
59:36 --> 59:48 [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's something that sometimes gets lost and maybe that's why we're not seeing the same revival work being done that we used to see is because we're not seeing the straight biblical preaching and calling people to the Lord as much.
59:50 --> 59:53 [UNKNOWN]: Thank you.
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