free. How wonderful that is. We thank God if we know the truth
of Jesus. Let's now come to the Word of
God and we pray that God's blessing will be upon us as we consider
his Word. And so once again if you turn
with me to Mark's Gospel chapter 16 and verses 15 and 16. This is Jesus speaking to his,
to the 11, or to his disciples, 11 disciples after he was risen
from the dead. And he said unto them, go ye
into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature
He that believeth and is baptised shall be saved. He that believeth
not shall be damned. So this morning, We try to consider, well, I said
I want to consider three things from these words. First, this
is a divine commission. Go and preach the gospel. And
second, we briefly just try to consider the gospel, which means
good news. And the gospel of Jesus Christ,
as we said this morning, is the best news that this world has
ever heard and will ever hear. It's the best news that any of
us can ever hear. So desperately are we in need
of such news from heaven. God has spoken. God has communicated
with us, though we turned our back on him. And he calls us to return. He has made a way. He has sent his dear son and
made a way for us to return. to the presence and the blessing
of God. And Jesus is the way. And so we try to consider something
of the gospel of Jesus Christ and how the Word of God describes
the gospel of Jesus Christ as being the gospel of peace. the
gospel of salvation, the glorious gospel, the everlasting gospel,
whose truths shall never pass away. And so my friends, the third
thing we said that we wanted to mention from these verses,
having spoken briefly of the Divine Commission which is the
Great Commission, to go and preach the gospel and something of the
nature, the content of the gospel. The third thing I want to notice
from these verses is God's unstoppable grace that comes to you and to
me. And under that general heading
which we'll speak of this evening, God's unstoppable grace. This is what we see in these
verses, that comes to us in all our need
and brokenness and ruin and rescues us and heals us and restores us
and redeems us to God and gives us hope of glory, of eternal
life. These are no small blessings. These are unspeakable blessings. Not only is this unstoppable
grace, This is unspeakable grace. I mean it's the greatness of
it, the goodness that's in it, that reaches us. The distance
between us and God is so great, especially as we are plunged
in sin. And yet God comes right down
where we are in the person whose beloved Son and takes all our
sins and all our shame and all our ruin upon himself and delivers
us and restores us and brings us back to God. So we will also mention the unspeakable
grace that's found in these verses. the unstoppable grace and the
unspeakable grace. And so under that third general
heading of what I want to consider from these two wonderful verses
of the Great Commission, what we'll say is that this is
not only the Great Commission of the King, that's the true
King, Jesus. It's also a gracious commission,
isn't it? Even in its wording, going into
all the world and preach the gospel, the good news to every
creature, to everybody, that all might hear the good news
from heaven of Jesus Christ. That's grace. And so, under this heading of
unstoppable grace, in this Great Commission, I want to speak of
the origin of the Gospel and the purpose of the Gospel. Okay? And then, also to notice
under that same head and of God's unstoppable grace, the inseparable
command or ordinance of believers' baptism. So with God's help, let's come
to these things. So firstly, my friends, we are considering
in this great commission to preach the gospel, God's unstoppable
grace. that comes to you and comes to
me. At least it comes to our hands
and comes to our ears. And my friend, you know, God
sends his word. And when he sends it into your
heart, no man can stop it. But consider then the origin
of the gospel. Where does this good news of
salvation for sinners come from? And my friends, I want to say that the Gospel
is the very good news of God's love to us. The Gospel which saves us comes
from the bosom of God the Father. By bosom we mean the very heart
or place of where God's love is, as it were, metaphorically
or just speaking as men we can picture this. If you're a parent and your child
hurts themselves and they're crying, oh and your bowels of
compassion move to them, what do you do? You go to them and
you pick them up, a small, your young child is crying and hurting
themselves and where do you draw them to in the arms of your love?
You draw them to your bosom. My friends, the Scriptures are
very clear. There is no ambiguity about God's love. It's demonstrated. It's manifested. It's revealed. It's even commended towards us
in the fact that God sent his Son. as we read in those well-known
but very precious words, for God so loved the world as he
gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should
not perish but have everlasting life. For God so loved the world,
that's the reason he gave his dear Son, the Son of his love.
And what do we read about the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who
came into this world to save sinners? That no man has seen
God at any time, the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the
Father. That's why we can say that this
Gospel, the Gospel of Jesus Christ, comes from the bosom of the Father. because the Only Begotten Son,
who is in the bosom of the Father, who is in that, who is one with the Father, but
who is the love of the Father to the Son, and the Son to the
Father, my friend, is incomprehensibly great, infinite, eternal, pure. It's beyond our ability to measure. But that love is where the Gospel
comes from. And that's a wonderful truth.
That's real good news, isn't it? Real good news that this
is the Gospel of God's infinite, eternal, unchanging, perfect
love. That's what the Gospel of Jesus
Christ means. And so, as we said, there are
many numerous texts in the Scriptures which bring that to us in, oh,
my friends, unmistakable clarity, such as this one. But God commendeth
his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died
for us. And again, God, we read, in this
was manifested the love of God towards us. In John's Epistle, we read those
words, don't we, in the fourth chapter. In this was manifested, that's
revealed and made known, the love of God towards us because
that God sent his only Son, his only begotten Son, into the world
so that we might live through him. And again, here in his love,
not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his son
to be the propitiation for our sins. And my friends, on a human
level too, because Christ became that real man, we see in Jesus
manifested the love of God towards us. We see his great love towards
us. Because he said himself, greater
love has no man than this that a man lay down his life for his
friends. And so my friends, in the Saviour
who died to save us, who suffered and bled at Calvary to redeem
us, who bore our sins in his own body on the tree, we see
the greatest demonstration of love that can be given to us. That is it, Jesus loves. us. Now when I say us, we can
qualify this in this way. My friends, there the truth of
Jesus dying on the cross is the truth of his great love for sinners,
for that's for whom he died. You will never come to know that
love unless you come to Him. And that's why the Gospel is
preached. We'll come to that next, the purpose of the Gospel.
That you might be saved. Now my friends, that love from which this Gospel
flows is everlasting love. It's sovereign love. It's unchanging
love. And God knows that what the very
nature of sin is more than we do. We don't really understand
what sin is much. We're deceived by sin, we're
blinded by it, but sin hates God and it hates God's love and
it will never ever come to God even though God sends his son
into the world. But this truth that Jesus died
for sinners is a truth that God sends by the power of his Holy
Spirit into the hearts of those whom he has chosen to save in
his great and sovereign eternal love. And they come to believe
in the Saviour. And my friends, this is the wonderful
truth of the Gospel, that you cannot put your trust in Jesus,
except God loves you. Therefore, if you have come to
see the Saviour, this is by God's grace, his work in you. You have come to see the God
who loves you and he loves you more than you
love him. So when we read in this was manifested
the love of God towards us because that God sent his only begotten
son into the world that we might live through him. My friends
that's who Jesus is for all who come to him. And so this is a
wonderful truth, my friend, that this Gospel, it flows from the
bosom of God's love because it's the Gospel of Jesus Christ who
is in the bosom of God's love and he came down from heaven
to this earth. And this is the Gospel of God's
love that comes to us and embraces us and saves us at the cross
of Jesus Christ. Do you not want God to love you? Surely this must be the cry in
the heart of every human being. If only they could know that
God loves them. That's why the gospel is the
best news that this world has ever heard. All but sin which
blinds our eyes and our hearts so we see not the glory of God
as it shines to us in the face of Jesus Christ. But then, so we consider the
origin of the gospel, the unstoppable grace of God
that's flowing towards us. But what about the purpose of
the gospel? Well, my friends, we have the
purpose of the gospel here, don't we, in these very words? Go into
all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. And
then in verse 16, we have the purpose, don't we? He that believeth,
that's the believeth the gospel, what the gospel declares, and
is baptized shall be saved. Now, what we can see in this
whole verse, that he that believeth not shall be damned shall be
condemned. That's what the word damned literally
means, be condemned. The essential, that believing
is essential to salvation. But we can see it's conjoined
to baptism and cannot be separated, so we'll come to that in a moment.
But first what we see because the whole of the scriptures clarify
this and even this very verse it's clarified that believing
is essential, believing in Jesus is essential to salvation. But he cannot be separated from
baptism, we will come to that God willing, but This is the purpose then of the
Gospel. I'll give two purposes we see
here in this verse 16. The Gospel is to be preached and believed in. It's to be preached so that it
might be believed. That might seem obvious, my friend,
but it's not obvious to us, always. Jesus said to those two disciples
on the road to Emmaus, and they loved Jesus. He said to them,
O fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets
have spoken. Now that may be relating to a
different context, but those words apply to us, don't they?
We're so slow of heart to believe, we're more ready to doubt the
goodness of God than we are to believe it. But the gospel is preached to
be believed. And what is it that we believe
in the gospel? Well, what is in the gospel? It's the gospel
of Jesus Christ. When the gospel is preached,
Christ is preached. And the purpose of Christ being
preached is that we might believe in him, in Jesus Christ. That's just what happened, didn't
it, in Philippi when Paul went there on his missionary journey.
Why? You know the Acts chapter 16? He first went to the riverside
where there was Lydia, whose heart the Lord opened so that
she began to listen and to attend the things that Paul spoke about
the kingdom of God and the gospel of Christ. She became a believer, but then
later Paul was put in prison because people raised up persecution
against him. And he was in prison with Silas,
his co-worker in the gospel. And they were in chains in prison. And at midnight they were singing
praises. And there was a jailer looking after them and all the
prisoners. And the jailer no doubt heard their singing praises
to God. And at midnight, as we know,
there was that great earthquake, and all the prisoners' chains
fell off, and the prison doors flung open, and the jailer, thinking
that all the prisoners would therefore have escaped, went
to kill himself. But as we know, Paul said, do
thyself no harm, we're all here. And he came and fell down before
Paul. He has now been arrested. He
saw that God was with Paul. he knew that Paul knew something
he didn't know. Paul had a joy that he did not
possess. Paul was singing praises when
he was in prison. Oh my friend when did you last
sing praises? to God while Paul sang them at
midnight in the darkest hour. Why? Because he had received
the best gift he could ever have. He had received Christ Jesus
into his heart. Oh, blessed be the name of the
Lord. Indeed, if you know the Lord as your Saviour, if you
have come to saving faith in Jesus Christ, you have a joy
and a peace that no man can take from you. And that Philippian jail at that
point didn't possess it and he suddenly realised his need of
it, his need of this good news, this good thing that Paul had
and he didn't have. And he said, what must I do to
be saved? He realised therefore he was
lost in the dark, he was far off from this life and peace
that Paul knew, from the God that Paul confessed. What about you, my friend? Where
are you this evening? It's a great question. Where are you in relation to
this gospel? But listen to what Paul said
to him. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
and thou shalt be saved. That's what we read, don't we,
in Acts chapter 16? Why, this prison officer called
for a light, sprang in, came trembling, and fell down before
Paul and Silas, and brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must
I do to be saved? This was a cry of agony from
his soul. And they said, Believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved and thy house. So this is what we say first.
This unstoppable grace of God in the gospel that comes to you
and me, it is preached so that it might be believed. So that
we might put our faith and trust and hope in the Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ. That we might come to Him and
bow before Him. You see, the gospel has invitations. It calls to us to come to Christ
in all our great need. You know, God's Word. It's like a mirror isn't it?
God's Word is like a mirror. When you open God's Word and
read the truth of God in there you begin to see what you're
really like and we can either put it from
us We cannot resist that conviction that the word of God will bring
to us as it shows to us what we're like in the sight of God.
But remember this, that God's word does not make you see the
ugliness of your sinful life to destroy you. It does it to
make you realize your need of the gospel and of Christ. That's for sure. And so, the Gospel calls us,
invites us, and it commands us to repent, to turn from our sin,
and to come to the Saviour, Jesus Christ. And the Gospel promises
that He will not reject us, though we might, like Paul, think and
realise that we may be the chief of sinners, we may be far worse
than those who may be around us. Now, my friend, Christ said that the one that
comes to him he would in no wise cast out. He will never spurn
them or throw them out of his house. He will receive them and he'll bless them. Did he
not say, we quoted it this morning, did he not cry Come unto me all
ye that labour and are heavy laden. If we don't know the truth
about our sins and the guilt that we are guilty sinners who
have broken the law of God, then my friend we will never appreciate
or know our need of Christ and the rest that he can give. Satan
may always be holding some carrot before our eyes or some hope
in the future for a wonderful future on this earth, but he
was a liar from the beginning. All that, oh my friend, he might
hold some glistening things for us, but it is not the gold of
the gospel. We'll find it will poison us and destroy us at the
last. But the Scriptures reveal just
the truth about our ruin, our danger, that we must give an
account of ourselves to God all our life. As we said this morning,
in everything that we've done with our left hand and our right
hand, in all the words that come out
from our mouth, and why we've spoken them and in every thought that we
have. That is to say, in those plans
that we make in our mind, in those things which we give ourselves
to think about, the attitude that we have, that
we've had today, We must give an account to God. God is a perfect
judge. He would always judge righteously.
He's no respecter of persons. You cannot curry favour with
the Almighty. But his eyes are too pure than
to behold iniquity. He cannot countenance that which
is sinful, that which is unrighteous, that which is ungodly, that which
is in disobedience to his word, to his character, his law. But the gospel calls us in our
ruin, in our brokenness, to turn from the hopelessness of our
sins and to come to Jesus as we are in our ruin, in our wretchedness,
because the gospel assures us and promises that he will receive
us graciously. We will not be destroyed in coming
to Jesus, the Son of God, but we shall live. He will give to
us what we don't deserve. He'll forgive our sins. He'll wash us and make us whiter
than the snow, morally so. So that's the first thing about
the purpose of the gospel. And that's what we have here.
He that believeth. Secondly, The Gospel is preached
so that we might be saved. And these two things, believing
in salvation, believing in Jesus Christ and salvation of our souls
can never be separated. Does not the gospel, the word
of God promise salvation in Jesus' name? Do not read, it shall come
to pass that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord
shall be saved. Now what do you need, my friend?
More than that, is not that word attractive to you? Even to those
who have tasted that God is gracious, this word is what fills them
with joy. Whosoever shall call on the name
of the Lord shall be saved. Again, don't we read in Romans
chapter 10 of this wonderful truth of the salvation that's
in Christ Jesus and promised in him for all who come to him
and put their trust in him. Oh, my friends, as we said this
morning, they'll be saved from sin and from death and from hell. So my friends we read in Romans
chapter 10 these wonderful words. That if thou shalt confess with
thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thy heart,
that God has raised him from the dead, that he is the Saviour
who died and rose again. Thou shalt be saved. Oh, what words they are, golden
words, precious words. There's nothing that can compare
with them. Imagine you're drowning in a
lake. What do you need more than anything? You need a rope that
you can cling on to, that someone throws you from the shore, that
they can pull you to safety. That rope that's by the shore,
that the man standing there only needs to throw in, becomes the
most precious object to you, doesn't it? When you're drowning
in the middle of the lake, all for the rope. My friends, it's the same here. This gospel, oh, which we so
much need. We soon will go the way of all
the earth. We must soon appear before the
judgment seat of God, of Christ. You know, if we die in our sins, what faces
us. The Word of God is very explicit,
it's unmistakable what faces us if we die as unbelievers,
if we die in our sins. Nothing that defiles ever will
enter into the presence, the blissful presence of God. We must be cast off forever. And what is it like to be cast
off from God? You know, Abigail said about
the enemies of King David that the Lord would cast them off
because they were the enemies of the Lord, the enemies of the
Lord's people. I mean, the enemies of the Lord's
people, the enemies of the Lord. They'll be cast off like a man
throws a stone out of a sling. But imagine if the arm that casts
you off is the almighty arm, is the everlasting arm. Think
how far the stone would go if it's cast off by the everlasting
almighty arm of God. I don't think it would stop going
further and further away. And that's just what it is the
scripture describes it like, to be shut out of the presence
of God, cast off, banished from the presence of the Lord. In
one place it's described as the blackness of darkness or outer
darkness, the place where it's impossible for light to penetrate
and the more... I know we cannot speak of time
and eternity but my friend, speaking in time as we're in time, the
more it continues the further from the light you go. Because
the scriptures speak of a bottomless pit. So if you fall into a bottomless
pit it means you keep falling and falling and falling and falling
and never stop. I don't think you're ever going
to get out. Because Jesus speaks of a worm
that never dies in the place called hell. He said, if you don't believe
that I am He, the One whom God sent to be the Saviour of the
world, you shall die on your sins. That's why we need the
Gospel, my friend, isn't it? But that's why we need to be
saved, and Jesus is the Saviour. And that's what he promises here,
that if we confess with our mouth the Lord Jesus, and one part
of confessing with your mouth is to call on the name of the
Lord, to plead the name of the Lord. Another part, my friends,
because if you believe in your heart, you know, out of the abundance
of the heart, the mouth speaks. So you'll either confess or deny
the Lord with your words, ultimately. If you confess with your mouth
and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead,
thou shall be saved. They're wonderful words, aren't
they? Precious words, like that life rope. For the drowning man
was precious to him. So these words, my friends, are
precious to you. For watching a prophet, you could gain the
whole world and lose your own soul. For he that loses his soul
loses everything. He loses himself. He's lost forever. Jesus is the saviour who can
save to the uttermost, who promises salvation to all who call on
the mighty name of Jesus. Now to call on the name of Jesus,
you need to call on him as the saviour, for that's what his
name is. His name shall be called Jesus, for he shall save his
people from his sins. My friends, you might call on
Jesus for this and for that, but you need to call on Jesus
as the saviour. whom God sent to save you. And that's what the Gospel proclaims. That's what it calls us to believe
in Jesus the Saviour, whom God sent to save you. So as we come to the end, I want
to speak also under this heading of the unstoppable grace of God
that comes to us in this great commission to preach the gospel,
the inseparable ordinance of believers' baptism from this
great commission. My friends, believers' baptism
is never separated from believing in Christ in the Scriptures. The Great Commission was a command,
but it included that the ministers should baptise those who have
come to faith in Christ, by God's grace have put their faith in
Christ. And believer's baptism, my friend,
is a very gracious sign. It's a sign of God's great grace
to us. It's a very precious ordinance.
An ordinance means something that is commanded by authority. It's a decree. Believer's baptism
is a decree of the king of kings. It's a decree of the risen savior.
For those who believe in him, he commands them to be baptized. And baptism, my friend, is all
about your identity being in Christ. That you belong to Jesus. What a precious sign it is of
God's grace that being baptised in the name of the Lord You are now identifying outwardly,
publicly with Jesus Christ. Oh what grace is that, that God
has condescended to come. It's a sign of union with Christ,
that you belong to him, that you are joined to him from henceforth.
Is that not wonderful? It's a sign that you have fellowship
with Jesus in his death, burial and resurrection. You have an
interest in him. You have a part in him. You belong
to him who died for you. That's where your hope is. This
is what the sign is, my friend, of baptism. It's very precious. It's a sign of God's great grace.
Blessings attend it. But my friend, the command is
so clear. He that believeth and is baptized. The two things cannot
be separated. Baptism is not for the mature
Christian. Although if a mature Christian
has never been baptized, they ought to be. But you're baptized when you
come to faith in Christ. When you can say, oh, like Martha
said, when she said, believest thou this? She said, yea, Lord. I cannot deny it. I may not understand everything,
but I believe thou the Christ, the Son of the living God, should
come into the world, and I believe with all mine heart. That's what
was said to the eunuch by Philip, wasn't it? It's about a confession of faith
in Christ. And it's a sign of regeneration.
It's a sign also that your sins are washed away. Your sins are
forgiven. Water cleanses, doesn't it? forgiven
through him who died and rose again for you. And it's a sign
also that you are now joined to the Lord, and henceforth you
will not follow yourself, but you will follow him, and you're
risen again to newness of life. You have a new life in Christ.
All these things are signified by the precious ordinance of
believers' baptism. So that, my friend, is in this
text too, and brings before us the unstoppable grace of God. The devil hates believers' baptisms. That public display of the grace
of God in Christ Jesus, that salvation that you're hoping
in the Saviour of sinners, He that believeth and is baptised. The two things cannot be chiselled
apart, they belong together. And that's wonderful. Praise
God. But now just finally as we come
to the end of Time's Gone, just mention my friend also in these
verses here, we see also the unspeakable grace of God. The
unstoppable grace of God in the origin from where this gospel
flows in God's love flowing towards us. No man can stop up that river
of his love as he sent his dear son into this world who accomplished
that which his father gave him to do, to redeem the church to
God, the sinners whom he came to save, those who believe by
his grace in him. The unstoppable love of God in
the purpose of the gospel that sinners like you and me, unbelievers
that we were, shall be called to put our faith and trust in
the Saviour and that we might be saved. This is God's grace. It's promised in the gospel freely.
and this wonderful sign of God's grace to us in Christ, that we
can have union with Jesus Christ, the Son of God, with this wonderful
sign through his death and resurrection, that we hope in him, that we're
joined to him, that our identity is now in him, and we will follow
him from henceforth. But also we see just very briefly
in the last few minutes the unspeakable grace of God, just in this. what we're saved from. We've
already mentioned this but we see it in the text. He that believeth
and is baptized shall be saved but he that believeth not shall
be damned. Now my friend there's a double
sense in this condemnation or damnation that awaits those who
don't believe in the gospel. As fallen sinners we're already
under the sentence of death And so if we never believe in
Christ as Saviour, we will not be saved. We need Jesus. That's why the Gospel is to be
preached. This is God's great grace. He doesn't need, have
to save us, but this is His grace which has appeared to all men,
whether they were here or forbear, it's still His grace. But if we've heard the Gospel, And do not believe, my friend. Also, that adds to our condemnation. Because imagine this. When you
come before the judgment seat of Christ, who is the judge? The only savior of sinners, the
only one that could save your soul. And he promised that if
you come to him, he would save you. If you call on his name,
he will save you. That's what the gospel promises
unequivocally. And yet you did not. Now he's
your judge. And if the saviour of sinners
sentences you to hell, there's no hope. Saved from hell, from darkness,
from misery, from wrath, from being with Satan perpetually,
the murderer. And what we save to? To inherit
a kingdom. What kingdom? God's everlasting
kingdom. How? Because, my friend, that
kingdom must come at a price. Deliverance from hell must come
at a price. This is the unspeakable grace of God. God spared not
his own son. but delivered him up for us all.
Jesus paid the price. That precious blood which he
shed when he laid down his life, purchased for us, not only opened
the door of hell and set us free, but purchased for us the kingdom
of God. He that spared not his own son,
but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also
freely, that word freely literally means graciously, give us all
things. all things are belong to Christ. Christ was not spared
for us so how should not by not by not sparing his own son to
whom all things belong for whom all things are by whom all things
were made how should not through him give us all things. the unspeakable grace of God
in the gospel, my friend. And so finally, we mustn't miss
this as we now close. We mustn't miss this, must we?
Miss what? I mean, what's about you and
me? He said, he that believeth and
is baptized shall be saved. He that believeth not shall be
damned. These words have great relevance for us all, don't they? Oh my friend, how do you stand
in relation to the Gospel? Now remember this, the purpose
of the Gospel is that you might be saved, nor that you might
be damned. God didn't send his Son into
the world to condemn the world, the world is already condemned,
but he sent his Son into the world to save the world, we read. And so, Where are we? Do we believe in
the Son of God? Have we come to the feet of Christ?
Have we poured out our heart before him? Have we called on
his name for salvation? These things have great consequence. Our eternal destiny is decided
by them. We need this precious saviour.
Thank God for the gospel which calls us to come to him. Now
you see, if by God's grace your faith and hope are in Jesus,
then rejoice, rejoice. God loves you. He has saved you
by his grace. He has chosen you to salvation.
If you're seeking the Lord, you cannot yet say, oh, you've come
to that saving faith in him. but you've not yet found him,
then the gospel calls you. It calls you to come near, to
cast away your doubts and come and consider this gracious commission
and fall into the arms of Jesus. If, my friend, you're trembling
and fearing that God will never save you, your sins are too great,
you've never sought the Lord, maybe you feel you might have
committed the unpardonable sin, Take this word, my friend. It
takes precedent over your fears and your darkness. Nothing can
darken its glorious truth. This light will shine into your
deepest darkness. Consider its truth and come as
you are in all your need and fall at the feet of Christ and
cling to him. He won't cast you away. He will
bless you. He'll forgive you. If you don't know the Lord, perhaps
you're far off from Him. Perhaps you're unconcerned. Then may this word awaken you.
May you be warned by it to consider your ways. Unless you believe
in Him, you will be damned. But all that put their trust
in Him will never be ashamed. So this, my friend, is a word
that comes to us all, a precious word. This Great Commission,
go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptised
shall be saved. Can you add a hallelujah? But
he that believeth not shall be damned. May God bless this Word.