All right, if you wouldn't open
your Bibles with me to Genesis chapter 41. Genesis chapter 41. We'll begin reading in verse
53. And the seven years of plenteousness
that was in the land of Egypt were ended. And the seven years
of dearth began to come according as Joseph had said. And the dearth
was in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt, there was
bread. And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people
cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians,
go unto Joseph. What he saith to you, do. And
the famine was over all the face of the earth, and Joseph opened
the storehouses and sold unto the Egyptians. And the famine
waxed o'er the land of Egypt, And all countries came into Egypt
to Joseph for to buy corn because of the famine was so sore in
all lands. Let's bow together in prayer. Our Father, we come into your
presence this evening a thankful people. How thankful we are that
sinful men and women such as we are can come into the presence
of the thrice holy God and call you our Father, that the God
of heaven and earth is our Father. You chose us in divine election,
you adopted us into your family, you caused us to be born again
into your family, all by your will, your mercy, your grace,
your purpose for your glory. And Father, we're thankful. Oh,
how thankful we are to be an object of your mercy and your
grace. And Father, we also bow before
you, a hungry and a needy people. Father, we need a word from thee. I beg of you that you not let
us leave here this evening without hearing from thee. If we have
met here just to hear the thoughts and ideas and words of men, we've
met in vain. But Father, if you'll speak to
our hearts, we'll have a worship service. If you'll speak to our
hearts, blessed and our hearts and souls strengthened and encouraged
to continue on the journey that you've called us to go through
here below. Bless us, Father, for thy great
namesake. That the name of Christ our Savior be exalted. And Father,
I thank you for this place. I thank you for this people that
you have raised up and called together. Father, I ask that
you would keep us, keep us in your love, keep us in love for
one another that we might be bound together in love for thee
in love for for one another love and care for our community that
that this might be a place father where christ is preached where
there is no other agenda but the people might come to know
the savior Father, we pray for the sick
and the afflicted of our number and those that we know of that
here and other places, those who are hurting, need you especially,
Father. We pray you'd be with them. Comfort
their hearts with your presence. Give them a fulfillment of your
promise that your grace is sufficient. And Father, we pray you deliver
them quickly. All these things we ask in that name which is
above every name, the name of Christ our Savior. It is a very blessed privilege,
it's a responsibility, but a privilege for those who preach the gospel
to compel sinners to come to Christ. What better thing can
you do? By God's grace, if he enables
you to do it, then compel sinners to come to Christ. I always am
very conscious, I try to make an effort to do that in every
message I preach. Because I want the unbeliever,
I want them to go to Christ. I want them to go to Christ for
mercy, salvation, and life for their souls. And I want believers
to go to Christ again. I know you've already come to
Christ, but Peter said to whom? Coming. Coming. I want you to
come again. That you find food for your souls,
assurance for your hearts, and comfort and instruction. And
if the Lord will enable me, tonight I'm going to preach an entire
message on that subject. titled the message, Go to Christ. Our text begins in verse 53,
Genesis 41. And the seven years of plenteousness
that were in the land of Egypt were ended. And the seven years
of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said, and the dearth
was in all lands. But in all the land of Egypt,
there was bread. And when all the land of Egypt was famished,
the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. And Pharaoh said unto
all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph. What he saith to you, do. Now the seven years of plenty
have ended. The people have used up all their
hoarded resources and now they're hungry. They don't have any bread
and there isn't any grain growing, there's a famine. So the people
go to Pharaoh, looking to him, looking to their leader to provide
food for them. Now the picture here is the condition
that you and I are in spiritually because of our sins. Our sin
has left us in a spiritual famine. We're empty of anything God requires
and we can't grow it. We can't produce it. We're empty
of righteousness. We're empty of holiness. We're
empty of life itself. We're dead in sin. So we can't
produce anything living. We're empty and we can't fill
ourselves. We can't fill ourselves with righteousness. We can't
fill ourselves with spiritual life. Our sin has left us in
a spiritual wasteland. It's just like it must be standing
in the middle of the Sahara Desert and as far as you can see in
every direction, there's nothing but sand. Dry, hot sand where
nothing can grow. There's no life there. And if
we stay there very long, we're going to die. You not only do
we live in a world that is a famine. I want to make sure all of us
understand this. Right now where the rubber meets the road here,
each of us personally Individually, we are a famine. We're just a
bunch of dry deserts gathered together, but there's no life
in any of us. Look over, if you would, Amos chapter eight. If
you have the authorized version, that's page 1146. Hosea, Joel,
and then Amos. The Lord gave Amos a word for
Israel and a word for us. And I know this has come to pass
many, many times over the history of the world. Boy, it sure is
true in our day. Look at verse 11. Behold, the days come, saith
the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine
of bread or thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the
Lord. And they shall wander from sea to sea and from the north
even to the east. They shall run to and fro to
seek the word of the Lord and shall not find it. Isn't that our day? Man has rebelled
against God. Man has said, I don't want God.
I don't want God's way of salvation. I don't want God's authority
over me. You tell me that God's sovereign over me. He can choose
to do with me what he will. I don't like that. I don't want
that. And God says, all right. All right. One of my biggest
fears is God giving me what I want by nature. God says, all right. You don't want my word, I'll
take it. I'll take it from you, and you're going to run from
sea to sea, from north to south, and you're not going to be able
to find it. Just a wasteland. We're left in a deadly spiritual
famine, aren't we? But you know what? All of that
is part of God's purpose of salvation for His people. There's got to
be a famine before we'll see Christ. There's got to be a drought
before we become thirsty and seek Christ the water of life.
We've got to realize we're in a spiritual famine or we'll never
see Christ. We'll never seek life. We'll
never seek forgiveness of sin in him. We'll never seek redemption
in him. That's what the Lord, how he brought all the Egyptians
and all the world at this time. They realized they were in a
famine. They hadn't been looking for bread for the past seven
years. The earth was bringing forth by handfuls. But now they're
in a famine and they're looking for bread and they never would
have come to Pharaoh looking for bread if the Lord hadn't
sent this famine. And that's what the Lord's gonna
save you and me. Spiritually, that's what he's gonna do to
us. We'll never go to God seeking for salvation. We'll never seek
mercy, we'll never seek grace until the Lord makes us realize
we're in a spiritual famine. That we're empty and we cannot
do anything. to help ourselves. Now that's
a miserable condition, but the Lord's got to bring us to that
miserable condition before we'll ever seek for help outside of
ourselves. We'll never seek Christ as long
as we think there's some help in ourself. If the Lord ever
shows us what we are, if he ever shows us our condition, if he
ever shows us how desperate we are, nobody's gonna have to beg
you to go to God and cry out for mercy. And if you go to God
crying out for mercy, do you know what he's gonna tell you?
I can tell you exactly what he'll tell you. He's gonna tell you
the same thing that Pharaoh said to the hungry Egyptians. Go to
Joseph. If we go to God seeking mercy,
seeking grace, seeking salvation, we go to God, God's gonna say,
go to Christ. It's all in him, go to Christ.
I just find it very interesting. Pharaoh didn't just suddenly
take charge. Now everybody's coming to him,
you know, looking for food and, you know, he didn't suddenly
take charge and start giving people food. He said, go to Joseph. Joseph is in charge of all the
food in this world. You go to him. And when sinners
finally cry out to God for mercy, when we finally cry out and beg
God for salvation, bread for our empty souls, The father doesn't
take charge and just say, well, here's mercy for you. The father
says, go to Christ. The father says, go to my son. My son is in charge of all salvation. He's in charge of all life. He's
in charge of all righteousness. John 3, verse 35, our savior
said, the father loveth the son, hath given all things in his
hand. The father put everything in the hand of Christ to dispose
of as he will. And he tells us, go to my son. Go to my son. And that's what
I want to tell us from the word of God tonight. Go to Christ
and what he says, do. Now the Lord Jesus Christ, he's
the only source of salvation. There's no other savior. He's
the only source of mercy. He's the only source of righteousness.
He's the only righteous man who ever lived. He's the only source
of forgiveness for our sin. He's the only source of eternal
life. Is that what you need? Then go to Christ. You'll find
it no place other than Christ. I have a few examples. Number
one is this. You and I are dead in sin. We
need life. We need spiritual life. Then
go to Christ for life. Everybody here has heard many,
many times Then when Adam sinned, he died. He spiritually died. And everybody who would ever
descend from him, they died too. When Adam died, all of us died.
When we were conceived in the womb 6,000 years later, we received
the dead nature of our father. We received the dead nature of
Adam. Because the dead spiritual nature, that's the only thing
our father had to pass on to us. That's the only thing his
seed could pass on to us. We're conceived in sin, we're
conceived dead, we're born dead, and everything we do is dead.
Everything we try to do to please God, we think, oh, that's a good
one. It's got the stench of death
on it. God snarls up his nose, that's a stench in his nose.
And if we're not given spiritual life, we're gonna die physically. And then we're gonna suffer eternal
death in hell. Now, people who are raised in
religion, and I'm talking about even true religion, even the
gospel of Christ, they tend to think everybody else is dead
in sin, don't we? I mean, we're so dead, we think
everybody else is dead in sin, but not me, not me. I do all
this religious activity. I faithfully attend the preaching
service. I know what the Bible says. I
mean, from the time I was knee-high to a grasshopper, I've been taught
what the Word of God says. I know what the Word of God says.
I know a bunch of facts and doctrines from Scripture. Boy, you want
to play Bible trivia? Boy, you don't stand a chance
against me, you know. Well, now that's good. And I
would highly recommend that you make sure you're taught the truth
of the Scriptures. But knowing those things, is
not salvation. You can know all those things
in your head and spit them back out just like you do on a science
test or a social studies test. You can know all those things
and still be spiritually dead. There's a huge difference between
head knowledge and heart faith. There's a huge, huge difference
in spiritual life in the heart. Now, if you're dead and you want
spiritual life, tell you what to do. Go to Christ. He's got it. In John 17, verse
two, he says, as thou has given him power over all flesh. Here's
why the father gave power over all flesh to his son, that he
should give eternal life to as many as thou has given him, that
he should give it. Now go to Christ. There's not
a question of whether or not he's going to give it to you. He said, this
is why my father gave me power over all flesh, that I might
give life to your people. All those people that you draw
to me, I'm gonna give them life. I'm gonna give it to them freely.
Eternal life is Christ to give. It's His to give. If you want
eternal life, go beg Him to give it to you. Go beg Him to give
it to you. He won't turn you away empty.
Now, don't think I'm saying that us going and begging God, that
obligates Him to give us life. That's not so. Go begging for
it. He doesn't have to give it to
you, but he will. But he will. John six, verse
35. Jesus said unto them, I am the
bread of life. He that cometh to me shall never
hunger. And he that believeth on me shall
never thirst. He gives it freely. Not only
does Christ have life, he is life. Christ is our life. If you would have life, go to
Christ. Beg to be joined to Him. If you're
joined to Christ, you'll have life. Just like the stem of a
tree, the branch of a tree has life because it's joined to the
trunk. Now, if you cut it off of the
trunk, it's going to die. But as long as it's connected to
the trunk, it's got life because life is in the trunk. If we're
joined to Christ, we have life for the very same reason, because
we're joined to Him. Now here's the thing. I know
this by experience. I know it from preaching to people
and being around people a long time. I know this is the case
with us. This is not the first time you've
heard somebody tell you come to Christ. And here's our problem. And the Lord told us what our
problem is. You tell people the wonderful news of Christ the
Savior, how ruined we are, and how completely and utterly He
saves His people from their sin, cleanses them, gives them life.
And people walk out the door and don't come. They walk out
the door not believing Christ anymore than they did when they
got here. Now why is that? Well, our Lord told us it's because
of our nature. By nature, He said, you will not come unto
Me that you might have life. You won't do it. If you find
yourself unable to come to Christ, tell you what to do. Ask the
Lord to draw you. Ask the Lord, if he'll draw you,
you'll come. And if you come, he'll give you
life. All right, number two, you and I are lost in sin and
we need to be saved from our sin. Does that describe you? Go to Christ for salvation. Like
I said, you and I are sinners. We need to be saved from our
sin. And maybe more accurately, we
need to be saved from God. We need to be saved from God
who we've sinned against. We need to be saved from the
justice of God that is against our sin that must be satisfied.
Well, we sure can't save ourselves, can we? Everything we do is sin. Everything we do requires that
somebody save us from what we do. Can you save yourself? If your answer to that question
is no, tell you what to do. Go to Christ for salvation. The
very reason Christ came to this earth as a man, the reason he
took on him flesh is to come to this earth and save sinners
of whom I am chief. That's why he came. He came to
save. He came to save sinners. Now,
are you a sinner? Go to Christ for salvation. It's the very
reason that he came. Now, don't ever forget this.
Just like life is not a thing, it's not some magical being,
life is a person. Salvation is a person too. Salvation is not a legal state
of being, like you're legally charged with sin or you're legally
charged with righteousness. It may sound like you don't have
anything to do with either one of them. Salvation is not a legal
state of being. Salvation is a person. It's a
person. It's knowing a person, it's loving
a person, it's having union and relationship with a person. It's all in a person. Why do
you reckon Simeon held an eight-day-old baby in his arms and said, mine
eyes have seen thy salvation? He saw him. Salvation's in a
person. The Lord Jesus Christ is salvation. Now if you need salvation, go
to him. It's all in Him. And again, I
tell you, He won't cast you out. Now I'm not saying, you understand,
I'm not saying us coming and asking obligates God to save
us. What I'm saying is if we come
to God and beg Him for mercy, He won't cast us out. Let me
read you a few verses. Isaiah 45, verse 22. Look unto
me and be ye saved. All the ends of the earth for
I am God and there is none else. Now, the Savior left no doubt
there. If you look to Him, you will be saved. You will be. He won't cast you out. John 10,
verse 9. I am the door. By me, if any
man enter in, he shall be saved. If you come to Christ, you shall
be saved. Acts 2, verse 21. Whosoever shall
call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. No doubt about
it, isn't it? I don't think I need to say this
to anybody here, but just, you know, this bears this disclaimer. It doesn't mean everybody says
the name of Jesus. Everybody says the name Christ is saved. It's the Lord of this book. If
you call on the Lord of this book, Christ, not the one of
our imagination, but of this book, He said, you shall be saved. That seems like a pretty good
reason to me. for a sinner to go to Christ.
Because He said, if you come, I'll give you salvation. All
right, number three. Our sin has separated us from
our God. That's more troubling than we
tend to think about on a day-to-day basis. Our sin has separated
us from God. If you want acceptance with the
Father, if you want to come back into the Father's presence accepted,
Tell you what to do. Go to Christ. See, we were separated
from God in Adam. When Adam was thrust out of the
garden, he was thrust out from the presence of God, was thrust
out of fellowship with God. So were we. So were we. Now we're also separated from
God because of our own sin. Now, when I say our own sin,
Adam's sin is our sin. It's not like, well, we're charged
with Adam's sin even though we didn't do it. No, we were in
Adam. He was our representative. His sin is our sin. But since
we've come on the scene, we've committed plenty of sin on our
own, haven't we? Plenty of sin. God said in Isaiah 59 verse two,
your iniquities have separated between you and your God. Your
sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear. Now our
sin has separated us from God. And we can't do anything to cross
that great divide. We can't do anything to come
back into God's presence except that if we come into the presence
of God as we are, we'll be struck down. Does that trouble you? Do you
want acceptance with the father? Do you not want to be thrust
out of his presence? Then I tell you what to do. Go to Christ. Ephesians one verse six. to the
praise of the glory of His grace wherein He hath made us accepted
in the Beloved, in Christ. The Father is pleased with His
Son, and He always accepts His Son. And He always accepts sinners
who are in His Son, always. Not for our sakes, because who
Christ is. And if you would be accepted
of the Father, come in the Beloved, come to Christ and you'll be
accepted. Just like being separated from
God doesn't bother us near as much as it should on a day-to-day
basis. Having some sense that we're
accepted in the presence of the Father, we come before Him in
prayer. That one day we'll be accepted
in His presence, awaken His likeness. That doesn't thrill our souls
and calm Our troubled hearts, near as much as it should, accepted
in the beloved. All right, number four. Our sin
has offended the holy God. Now that's troubling. If I would
offend one of you, that would bother me so much, I just could
hardly rest until We set things right between us, that I've offended
one of you. What is it to offend God? Well,
we ought not be able to rest until we get this matter settled.
I've offended God by my sin, what should I do? Tell you what
to do. Go to Christ for forgiveness. You know, our sin is a whole
lot more than just breaking the rules. Our sin has offended the
lawgiver. Our sin has offended the creator,
the one who's created us, who's given us life and breath and
he's been nothing but good to us. There's not a person here
can say, God's been anything but good to me. He sure gave
me a whole lot more than I deserve. We've sinned against him. Now
we need God to forgive our sins. We need to be forgiven. Well,
here's the question, will he? If I would offend one of you,
I would come and apologize to you. He said, could you forgive
me? Will you forgive me? Well, here's a question. Will
God forgive me? Huh? Really? You want to find out? Go to Christ. Go to Christ. There is forgiveness with Him. Ephesians 1 verse 7, in whom
we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins. according to the riches of His
grace. There's forgiveness of sin through the blood of Christ's
sacrifice. Here's the reason God forgives
the sin of His people. Their sin has been punished. Punished fully in Christ our
substitute. The blood of Christ paid for
the sin that made God angry. You know why the debt's forgiven?
Because it's paid. It's not written off to bad debt.
It's paid. God forgives the sin of His people
because His own Son died to satisfy God's justice against that sin.
Now, if that's not amazing grace, I don't know what is. I've never
heard of amazing grace. If Christ dying in the place
of His people so that their sin is forgiven in justice, if that's
not amazing grace, I've never heard it. Now again, I tell you, come to
Christ. Come to Christ for forgiveness. You know what he said? I will
forgive. That's what he said. And if there's
any doubt that he meant it, I'm going to give you this scripture.
In the midst of the most horrible suffering that's ever taken place
on the face of this planet, suffering of body and soul of God and human
flesh. You know what he said? Father,
Forgive them. They don't know what they're
doing. Forgive them. That sure sounds like a savior
willing to forgive, doesn't it? Sounds like a savior able to
forgive. That's just the fella. I wanna
beg for forgiveness in you. He's just the one. All right,
fifthly. Now you and I are unrighteous. And we need to be made righteous.
If we're not righteous, we can never come into God's presence.
We can't make ourselves righteous. What are we to do? Go to Christ. Now the way a person
is made righteous is by obeying God's law. Obeying it perfectly. We, you and I, are unrighteous.
We've already established this. We're sinners. We're constantly
breaking God's law. So we're unrighteous because
everything we do is sin. Now, if we're not righteous,
we'll be damned. We're in a fix, aren't we? If we're going to
be made righteous, somebody else is going to have to do it for
us. Because we can't do it for ourselves. We need somebody to
make us righteous, don't we? Well, I'll tell you what to do. Go to Christ. He is the righteousness
of His people. His very name is Jehovah Sidkenu. The Lord, our righteousness.
And the amazing thing is how the Lord, our righteousness,
how the Holy One of Israel made His people righteous. The Lord
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, did no sin, knew no sin, wasn't
even acquainted with any sin, was made sin for His people.
He took their sin away from them and He made it His. He became
guilty of it. And he traded them, if that wasn't
enough, he traded them his perfect obedience so that they would
be righteous. And he took that sin into his
own body on the tree and he was sacrificed. He suffered and died
to put it away. He was made sin for us who knew
no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Now, if you would be made righteous, Go to Christ. Go to Christ. It's all in Him. Now, if He went
through all that suffering of the cross, He went through being
separated from His Father because of the sin of His people, He
made His soul an offering for sin. If He went through all of
that to make His people righteous, do you think He'll withhold it
from you? No. He'll give it to you freely.
Righteousness is in Christ. Go to Him. Six, we have a problem of the
filthiness of our sin. Our souls are defiled by sin. We're defiled through and through. Now we can't cleanse ourselves.
So what are we to do? Well, I'll tell you, go to Christ.
Go to Christ for cleansing. Again, I say this, our sin is
not just breaking the rules. Sin is a disease. You know the
reason that leprosy is given to us as a picture, a type of
sin in scripture, is because sin is a disease. It's a disease
that kills 100% of those that commit sin. 100%, it's 100% fatal. Sin is a disease that has defiled
our souls. But the only people that God
will accept into his presence are people who are holy. white
and clean, but we're black and defiled with sin. God cannot,
he will not, and he cannot accept us as we are. Now, what do we
do? Huh? Go to Christ. Cleansing from our sin is found
in him. 1 John 1 verse 7, the blood of
Jesus Christ, his son, cleanses us from all sin. The blood of
Christ pays for sin. It atones for sin. It covers
sin. And it cleanses it away. Cleanses
it from our souls so that our souls are white and clean. And He cleanses us from all sin. It's not some sin. It's not some
problem sin. It's all sin. All sin. I can't think of a better reason
for a defiled, filthy sinner to come to Christ than this.
His blood cleanses from all sin. If you would be cleansed from
your sin, go to Christ. And then here's the last thing.
By our sin, we've declared war on God. We're in a war we cannot
win. We need peace. Go to Christ for
peace. You know, if you've ever played
sports, it's a bad feeling to be in a game where you can't
win. I mean, you just look up the
scoreboard. I mean, there's no coming back from this. I mean,
you can't win. I mean, that's a bad feeling,
you know. Maybe I'm too competitive. Maybe
that's not that bad a feeling for you. I mean, it's a bad feeling
for me. I hate it. That's just a game. How much
worse a war? I mean a war that really matters
now, a war. You and I have declared war on
God. We started a war we can't win. And the consequences are
serious. It's eternal damnation because
we have so foolishly picked a fight with God. Now we better Sue for peace before
it's too late, don't you reckon? Would you sue God for peace?
Would you beg Him for peace? Let me tell you where it's found.
Come to Christ. Come to Christ. You come to Christ,
you know what you're gonna find? God's terms of peace are sweet. They're easy. The Lord Jesus
Christ has already made peace by the blood of His cross. The
blood of Christ took away the sin that made God angry. So God's
at peace. There's no reason for Him to
be angry. There's no reason for Him to
go to war with His people. The blood of Christ has taken
away their sin. Now you come to God begging for
peace. Beg for peace for Christ's sake.
Beg God for peace because of the blood of Christ. And that
same blood that makes the Father not angry, makes the Father be
at peace. When that same blood of Christ
is applied to your heart, you'll have peace. That blood will give
you a new nature. A nature that loves God. A nature
that gladly submits to God. That gladly submits to His righteousness. Of course I'm going to submit
to His righteousness and not try to have one of my own. I
want Him to be my righteousness. That new nature will be at peace
with God. If you would have peace, go to
Christ. Go to Christ. I could go on and
on and on and on. Just different examples of this,
but you get the idea here, don't you? Whatever fix you find yourself
in, go to Christ. We need to know the Father, don't
we? We don't know the Father. Salvation is knowing the Father.
You want to know the Father? Go to Christ. He's the one that
reveals the Father. We're in darkness and we need
light. I can't see. I can't see the gospel. I can't
see Christ. I can't see the joy of this. I can't see the peace of this.
I can't even see my own sinfulness. I'm in darkness and I need light.
Go to Christ. He's the light of the world.
By nature, all we believe is a lie. I mean, you can't make
somebody believe the truth. You can't make somebody believe
the gospel. But I mean, you make up some
most outlandish thing that you can think of with some outlandish
idol that you've made up, and people will just fall for it
hook, line, and sinker in a breath. I don't want to believe a lie.
I don't want to go into eternity believing a lie. Well, I'll tell
you what to do. Go to Christ. He is the truth. He is salvation in truth and
mercy. You can only find that in Christ. Trying to earn our own righteousness
by keeping the law. That will just plumb wear you
out. My dear friend Jim Meadows, after working all day, finally
say, I'm give out. I'm give out. Well, that's how
I feel about this world. That's how I feel about man's
religion. That's how I feel about trying
to put up some fake religious front. That's how I feel about
trying to earn my own righteousness and do something that makes me
feel like God would be happy with me now because of what I've done.
I tell you what, I'm give out. I'm give out. Tell you what to
do. Are you give out? Go to Christ and cast yourself
on Him. He said, if you're weary, come. Come to me, and I'll give you
rest. That's what he said. You reckon
he'll do it? I think he will, since he said
it. All right, now look with me,
Isaiah 55. Here's where I want to close
tonight. Isaiah 55. In case you're wondering, I'm talking
to you tonight. to every one of you, telling
you, come to Christ. Here's why I tell you that, because
that's what the word of God says. Isaiah 55, verse one. Oh, now
listen up. Everyone that thirsteth, come
ye to the waters. And he that hath no money, come
ye, buy and eat. Yea, come buy wine and milk without
money and without price. Now wherefore, why do you spend
money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which
satisfieth not? Hearken diligently unto me, and
eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself
in fatness. Incline your ear, and come unto
me. Here, and your soul shall live,
and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure
mercies of David." Now, I spent this whole message telling you,
come to Christ. Here's what God says. He says
the same thing. He says, are you hungry? Are
you thirsty? Come to me. Come buy everything
you need without money and without price. Now, how can I come buy
something if I don't have any money? You come by trusting Christ. You come to Christ trusting that
He is everything that the Father requires of you and He'll give
it to you freely. Now, that's a blessed commandment
from the Father. This is a blessed privilege that
God's preachers have. To hear on a Wednesday night,
when I'm right here with I know every last one of you, to tell
those I love so much, have one more opportunity to tell you,
go to Christ. And what he says, do. That's
a blessing. All right, let's bow together. Our Father, how we thank You
for Your Word. How we thank You that You have given us such a
clear declaration of the Gospel. It's so simple. Go to Christ.
Look to Christ. You made it so simple. Everything
we need is all in one person. It's all in Christ. And Father,
I beg You that You would Give each one of us here tonight a
heart of faith that would go to Christ, that would go to him. Father, we beg you for mercy.
We beg you for salvation. We beg you for life. We beg you
to accept us and see us only in your son. Father, enable us
to come to Christ and find, just as he said, that he's everything
we need. Father, it's in the blessed name
of our Lord Jesus It is for our good, but Father, for the glory
of Christ, we ask you to be merciful to us. Bless your word, Father,
as it's been preached. In Christ's name, for his sake
we pray, amen. All right, Sean.