Book of Acts chapter 3. I'd like to begin reading with
verse 11 and read down through verse 20. Verse 11 through verse
20. And as the lame man, which was
healed, held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto
them in the porch that is called Solomon's Greatly Wandering. And when Peter saw it, he answered
unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? Or why
look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness
we made this man to walk? The God of Abraham, and of Isaac,
and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his son
Jesus, whom he delivered up, and denied him in the presence
of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go. But ye denied
the Holy One, and the just, and desired a murderer to be granted
unto you. and kill the Prince of Life,
whom God hath raised from the dead, whereof we are witnesses. And his name, through faith in
his name, hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know. Yea, the faith which is by him
hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. And
now, brethren, I want that through ignorance you did it, as did
also your rulers. But those things which God before
had showed by the mouth of all of his prophets, that Christ
should suffer, he has so fulfilled. Repent ye, therefore, and be
converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times
of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord, and
he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you. After the miracle of healing
upon the lame man, the people gathered about Peter and John,
And we see that they were not at a loss for a subject upon
which to address the congregation, upon which to address the multitude. These men were full of the gospel,
that is, Peter and John. They had a living, vibrant relationship
with the Lord Jesus Christ, who had just recently been crucified
and had been raised from the dead. and their hearts were full
of the gospel. So they spoke to the people of
that topic which was nearest to their hearts. If we know Christ,
who is the gospel, whatever situation or position we may find ourself,
we know already what is the appropriate subject for the people. You're
gathered here this morning, no question in my mind about what
the appropriate subject for the morning is. We need to preach
the gospel to men and women. It is the gospel which is the
power of God unto salvation. The gospel is always in season,
it's always appropriate, and if it is preached in the spirit
from the heart, it will surely accomplish the will and the purpose
of Almighty God. We believe that God has a people
in this world. And we believe that God's going
to have those people brought to the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. And we believe that through the
preaching of the gospel, God is going to accomplish that purpose
that he's decreed from old time. So turning to the multitude,
Peter began at once to preach to them the gospel without a
second's hesitation. Oh, to be ready. a soul on fire
in the Spirit of God, ready. Lord, grant it to us evermore,
that we might be ready to give a witness to every man that would
ask us a reason for the hope that we have in our soul. Take
note now that Peter turns the attention of the people from
himself and John to the Lord Jesus Christ. He would take the
attention off of him. They were looking upon them as
if by some power of theirs or by their holiness they had made
this man to be healed. And beloved Peter would have
them to look away and to look to another. Why look you so earnestly
on us? Peter said, we haven't made this
man to walk, it's through the power of the name of the Lord
Jesus Christ that this man has been made to walk. We would say,
along with the Apostle Paul, 2 Corinthians 4 and 5, we preach
not ourselves, we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the
Lord and ourselves, your servants, for Jesus' sake. There's not
a Baptist preacher that I know of in America that can make a
gnat live any longer than it's predestinated to live. We have
no ability to give life to anyone. We have no ability to lift anyone
up and to give them eternal, everlasting hope in the Lord
Jesus Christ. We must have the Lord Jesus Christ
himself. The preacher's object must be
to get the attention of the people off himself and to get it on
Christ always. The whole power to bless men
does not lie in the servants of God, but in the Lord Jesus
Christ and in the gospel of his salvation. That's where all of
the power of God lies to bless lost sinners and to bring them
out of their condition. Peter did not beat around the
bush. but he took these people directly
to Christ. He preached not merely the gospel
of good news, but he preached Christ. He preached the person
of Christ. He preached Christ crucified.
He even preached crucified by them, you see, because they were
the ones that had participated in the crucifixion of Christ,
Christ risen, and Christ glorified of his Father. It would appear
that if there ever was a crowd of people to whom this should
not be mentioned, maybe it was this crowd. Because they had
just put the Lord Jesus Christ to death, and they certainly
did not believe that he was the Messiah of God. They did not
believe he was God's Christ, the anointed one who would come
into the world to save sinners. Well, beloved, depend on it.
This is the very strength of the Christian message. It is
to be, that is our message, is to be saturated with the name,
the person, and the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. You take
Christ out of your message and you un-gospelize the gospel. If you take Christ out of our
message, we don't really have a message to proclaim unto men
and women. You give the people the husk.
And the husk are only fit for the swine when you take away
the precious kernel of the gospel. And the precious kernel of the
gospel is none other than the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. Peter would tell them about Jesus
Christ and about nothing else but Jesus Christ. There's an
old German proverb that says that the main thing is that the
main thing always remain the main thing. And I think that's
good. Beloved, the main thing is the
Lord Jesus Christ, the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
He knew that this message was the power of God unto salvation,
and he would not flinch. from it even in the presence
of these who had crucified the Son of God." Notice how he puts
it. He says, you have slain him, you have crucified him, you have
preferred a murderer, and you turned him away. He's not afraid
of being personal. No, he would touch the conscience
of these sinners. He would make them feel their
guilt. He would make them feel their
sin. Even so, brethren, when we preach
the gospel, we must preach the truth in love, but there cannot
be any hedging, there cannot be any trimming of the truth. It cannot be altered. the truth
must be set forth. Accursed let him be that takes
away from the gospel of Christ or bates his breath and smooths
his tongue that he may please the unholy throne. I was just
recently reading a book and I come across this story about the pioneer
evangelist Peter Cartwright. He spent 70 years in the ministry
preaching the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ in the early history
of America, and he preached the gospel without fear or favor. And one Sunday he was asked to
preach. at a church in the southern part
of the United States. And during the psalm, just before
the message, the pastor leaned over and whispered to him that
Andrew Jackson, of all people, had just entered into the sanctuary. And he cautioned old Mr. Cartwright
to be very careful of what he said, lest he offend their famous
guest. And so the old preacher, knowing
that the fear of man bringeth a snare, Proverb 29, And verse
25, was determined not to compromise the truth. Make no difference
who was present. He knew that great leaders needed
the Lord just like everyone else. So he boldly proclaimed the gospel. In fact, halfway through his
sermon, he said, I understand that Andrew Jackson is present
in the congregation today. If he does not repent and be
converted and openly confess Jesus Christ, he'll be just as
lost as anyone else when we all come before the Lord. Well, rather than Andrew Jackson
being angry at what he said, somehow or other it broke his
heart. And he was convicted of his sin, and before he left that
meeting that morning, he had openly owned and confessed the
Lord Jesus Christ. And from that very moment on,
these two became the very best of friends. Andrew Jackson, Now
does anyone here know numerically when or who or what president
he was? Any young people? Andrew Jackson? Anyone here? Anybody know? What's that? No? He was the seventh president.
But he got converted in a meeting where a man was bold to declare
the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and told him that he must
repent and be converted or he'd die and go to hell just like
all the rest of the people that died with their sins unforgiven. Now then, I say Peter Van Boley
and earnestly preached the gospel, and he preached the gospel of
the Lord Jesus Christ. He preached it personally and
directly to this crowd who were gathered around him. Well, what
did he say to this crowd? Well he told them what they had
done and then he told them, repent ye therefore because you have
crucified the Son of God. He said you repent and you be
converted that your sins may be blotted out. Now beloved this
morning There are four things which I want to speak very briefly
on this subject and four things that I wish to mention this morning
from this text. First of all, Peter told them
to repent and be converted. Repent signifies in its literal
meaning to change one's mind. Well, if there ever was a group
of people that need to change their mind, it was this group
that Peter was preaching to. It has been translated, the word
here, repentance, after wit or after wisdom. Meaning that after
wisdom has come into a person, their mind is changed, especially
if it be the true wisdom of God, and especially if their minds
are contrary to God, to his word, to his truth. It is a person
finding out that they were wrong and rectifying their judgment. Finding out that they're wrong
before God and rectifying their judgment. Somebody said repentance
is to leave the sins we loved before and show that we in earnest
grieve by doing so no more. There was a Sunday school teacher
that ask a class what the word repentance means. A little boy
put up his hand and said, it is being sorry for your sins.
And then a little girl raised her hand and said, it is being
sorry enough to quit. being sorry enough to quit. A
schoolgirl was saved and someone asked her, what were you before?
And she said, I was a sinner. Then she was asked, what are
you now? And she said, she answered and said, I'm a sinner. They
asked, well, what's the difference? And she answered, I was a sinner
running after sin before, but now I'm a sinner running from
sin. My friend, it is to. It is to
turn and to change your mind about your sin. Repentance is
a discovery of our evil nature. It's a discovery of our depravity. Every one of us, by nature, are
loathsome worms before God. Every one of us are sinners.
All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. We've all
gone astray. We've turned everyone to our
own way, and the Lord hath laid on Christ the iniquity of us
all. So we need to come to see the
evil of our nature and of our depravity. We need to mourn. We need to loathe that we are
what we are. We need to understand what we
are and then we need a mourning, a time of mourning and loathing
that we are this. And also there's to be a resolution
to forsake the best we can what we are in a state of nature.
It is in fact a change of mind that is so deep and practical,
it is of such deep and practical character, it makes a person
love what they once hated and hate what they once loved. Conversion means a turning around. He said repent and be converted. It means to turn around. It means
a turning from and a turning to. It means a turning from sin
and a turning to what is right. It means to turn from sin and
evil and to turn to holiness and to the will of God. From
the world it means to turn. It means to turn from the world
to heaven. It means to turn from south to the Lord Jesus Christ. It means a complete turning. In the Greek, it is really repent
and convert. That's what it is, repent and
convert, or rather repent and turn. Now in Mark chapter 5,
when the demoniac had the devils cast out of him, you might remember
that chapter, our Lord Jesus cast out the devils out of this
man. And I compare that to repentance when he was changed. He was completely
changed. But when he put on his clothes,
I think that that was no longer naked and filthy. I call that
conversion. After he was touched by the Lord
and the demons came out of him, then he began to act as he ought
to. He put on his clothes and he
appeared to be a sane and ordinary person in public. Now when the
prodigal was feeding the swine and all of a sudden he began
to consider and to come to himself That was repentance. But when
he set out and left the poor country and went to the Father's
house, that to me is conversion. Repentance is a part of conversion. It is perhaps the gate or the
door of conversion. Regeneration is the implanting
of the new nature of God. And the first sign of that is
faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and then a consequent repentance
of sin, a conversion from that which is evil to that which is
good. I believe that regeneration is
the making alive of a dead soul. And everyone is dead by nature.
They all need a quickening. We all need a quickening. We
need for the Spirit of God to come into us and make us alive. You hath he quickened, Paul said,
who were dead in trespasses and sin. And so we need this being
brought to life, and then when a person is brought to life,
and I don't think you can put up a sheet of tissue paper between
these things, regeneration, repentance, and faith, and conversion, you
couldn't separate them, but they're distinct things that take place,
and I think they take place in order. I believe a man must be
made alive before he can believe Christ, or before he can repent,
or before he can be converted. He must be made alive. So Peter
is saying, you change your mind, be sorry for what you've done,
forsake your old ways, and turn and become new men. I will say
this, that repentance and conversion are the work of the Holy Spirit
of God. There has never been, neither is there any now, any
genuine repentance in this world which the Holy Spirit is not
the author of. The Holy Spirit is the author
of all. genuine repentance and conversion. For this purpose, our Lord Jesus
Christ has gone on high in Acts 5.31, tells us that he's exalted
to be the Prince and the Savior to give repentance and the remission
of sins. All true conversion is the work
of the Holy Ghost. We may rightly pray in the words
of the old prophet, turn thou us and we shall be turned. For
until God turns us, turn my friend we never shall. Only when God
turns us, only when God by the Holy Spirit comes and operates
on us will we have a change? Here's a gospel summons true
belief and true repentance. Every grace which brings us nigh
without money come to Jesus Christ and by. Some might object saying
you tell us in one breath to repent and convert and in the
next breath that these things are the gift of the Holy Spirit. Well, that is correct. You're
listening. You're listening if you caught
that, my friend. I believe it is the duty of all
men to repent and convert. It is their duty. God commanded,
Acts 17 and verse 30 says, the times of this ignorance God winked
at, but now God has commanded all men to repent. All men to
repent, because he's appointed a day. in which he will judge
the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained,
whereby he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he raised
him, Christ, from the dead. And so God has commanded all
men everywhere to repent, and it's my duty as a preacher of
the gospel to tell them to do it. to tell them what God has
commanded. Now you say, I do not see how
you telling sinners to repent should in any way be likely to
make them do so. Well, I don't either, but I know
it does. I know it does. I know that God
is pleased to bless the message of the gospel and when we're
telling sinners to repent, to repent and be converted, that
God blesses that and bless God. There are some that do repent
and there are some that are converted. I do not know why a poor, weak
creature as myself saying to a lost sinner, believe and live,
should lead them to believe, but it does. And the Holy Spirit
blesses it and they do and have believed and they are saved.
They're all around us here that have done just that by the power
of the Holy Spirit. And if we cannot see how, if
we see the fact, If we see people believing, if we see people trusting,
if we see people changing, if we see people turning around,
then beloved, we will be content to bless God for it. God uses
his word. We tell men to repent and believe
not because we believe they have power in themselves to do so,
for we know them to be dead in sin, and we know that they have
not the power within them to do it. And that's why David Brainerd
became so angry when God began to deal with him. David Brainerd
died when he was 29 years old. He was a missionary to the Indians
in New York State, upper New York State. And the Lord began
to deal with him. He got under conviction. He needed
to repent, but he had no disposition to repent. He said, God commanded
me to repent, and God's commanded you to repent. God's commanded
you to have a right disposition toward Him. God has commanded
you that when you find your wrong before Him, that you take sides
with Him, and you agree with Him, and you take sides with
Him against yourself. God demands that you do it. And
old David Brainerd said, I just could not, I didn't have the
disposition to agree with God and take sides with Him against
myself. I didn't have that disposition.
And do you know when he got saved was whenever he began to cry
out to God, God you've demanded this of me. Would you give me
a disposition to where I would repent after he came down off
his high horse? and began to pray and seek the
Lord for that which God demanded of him, then God gave it to him. And if there's anyone here today
and you're interested in repenting and being converted, listen to
me. Ask God to give you the disposition.
Because it's more than an act. You can say, I'm sorry, but that's
not enough. Your heart's got to be in it.
You've got to have a disposition from God that would agree with
Him and take sides against yourself. Now, we don't believe there's
any power in you. I don't preach to you, repent
and be converted because of any power in you. But no, I do so
because I know that God has the power to raise the dead. And
I know He can put it in you. God is able to give you a disposition. Now, not that we believe there's
any power in our voice, for my preaching is less than nothing
apart from God blessing it and using it. Beloved, the gospel
is the mysterious engine by which God converts the hearts of men,
and while we bid the dry bones live, the Spirit of God comes
and makes them live. and breathes breath into them
and makes them live. When the deaf are told to hear,
the Spirit of God gives them ears. When the blind are told
to see, the Spirit of God gives them eyes to see. When the impotent
man was told to stretch out his hand, a divine power goes with
the command, and the hand is stretched out, and the hand is
restored. Because the power of God is in
the command of the Lord. The power lies not in the sinner. The power lies not in the preacher,
but in the Holy Spirit, which works effectually with the gospel
by divine decree, so that when the truth is preached, the elect
of God are made alive by it. Their souls are saved and God
is glorified. That's what takes place. Repent
and be converted. So we must Go on preaching the
gospel, preaching it boldly, and leave the results with God,
for God has promised to make his gospel the power to save,
and so shall it be to the world's end. God will bless his gospel
to the world's end. So repent and be converted, that
your sins may be blotted out. That's my first point. The other
three are shorter. Secondly, there was a good reason
for this command. A good reason for it. Why? Because, as we referred to earlier,
these Jews had put Jesus Christ to death. This was literally
true. They had a part in Christ's execution. Now, I want you to listen to
me very carefully. And this is spiritually true
of us. Every sin, in the essence of
it, is a killing of God. Hear me. Every time that you
do what God would not have you do, you do in effect, so far
as you can, pull God down off his throne and get up there yourself. That's exactly what you do. I'm
telling you, sin is going into the God business yourself. When
you thumb your nose at God and say, I'm not going to do what
God wants me to do. I'm going to do exactly what
I want to do. My friend, you're going into God business. That's
what you're doing. You disown the authority which
belongs to the Godhead. You do intent so far as you can
kill God. That's exactly what you do. That
is the drift of sin, my friend. Sin is a God-killing thing. That's what it is. Every violation
of the law, in its essence, it is rebellion against his sovereign
throne. When our Lord Jesus Christ was
nailed to the tree by sinners, sin only did then literally and
openly what all sin really does in a spiritual sense all the
time. That's exactly right. I'm telling
you the truth. That's why you need to repent,
my friend. It's because you also have been
trying to kill God ever since you've been alive in this world,
breathing God's air, drinking God's water, wearing God's clothes. You've been trying to kill God
and drag him down off of the throne. These offenses of yours,
you thought they were just trifles. You didn't think much of it,
but you've been trying to stab God in the back. Every sin says,
let there be no God. No God for me. No God for me. I don't want any God telling
me what to do. That's what every sin cries out. No God, no God,
rid the universe of God. Let me be God. Let me do what
I want to do. Will you not repent? Let me ask
you a question. If I went around this room and
asked each one of you, do you think these folks that Peter
and John was preaching to ought to have repented? Amen? You think they ought to have
repented? All right, what about this bunch here this morning?
Don't you think we all ought to repent? All of us are sinners. Every one of us. Broke God's
law. Oh, we drink iniquity like a
dog drinks water out of a mud hole. We're all sinners. And we all have sinned. And we're
all going to hell if we don't find a way to repent and to be
converted. What a hell above ground would
this world become if you and I got our way by nature. What
a hell. What moral chaos. Den of beast. this world would be if God would
just say, I abdicate. I abdicate. You all are sinners
and you're all running this show and I'm going to abdicate. I'm
going to step back and let you just do with it what you want.
Turn it into a living hell. That's what it would be. And
some folks think it's already there now. But I'm telling you
what, if you'll hang around a while, you'll find out this is not hell.
This is not hell. If you can really believe this
morning that though you did not nail Christ to the cross, nor
plate the crown of thorns and put it on his head, nor stand
and mock him there, yet that every sin is a real crucifixion
of Christ, and a mockery of Christ, and a slaughter of Christ, this
is abundant reason why you should repent. and turn from your sin. Does he deserve this of you? Prince of life and glory, king
of angels, the one adored by seraphs, yet despised by men
who shed his blood. Repent or perish. This ought
to melt the icicles of our hearts. There ought to be some tears
being shed in this place this morning, a bunch of god killers.
That's what we are. And it's a mercy and a miracle.
God Almighty continues to give you the breath of life. He's
got to wake you up every morning. He's got to give you every breath
you breathe. Every breath you breathe, He's got to give it
to you. And yet we sit here hard-hearted, cold-hearted. You say, we'll
not have this man. You take him away. We'll not
have this man reign over us. Not this man. Give us Barabbas. Give us Barabbas. You'll take
this murderer. You'll take this murderous world
is what you'll do. This killing sin of yours. But
this blessed Savior, let him go. Take him away. Crucify him. Get him out of our way. We want to do what we want to
do. Well, that brings me to the third thing, that without repentance
and turning from sin, sin cannot be pardoned. It cannot be blotted
out. He said, repent, convert, and your sin will be blotted
out. Now, many oriental merchants kept their accounts on little
tables or tablets of wax. On these tablets of wax they
indented marks which recorded the debts of their customers. And when
these debts were paid, they took the blunt end of the stylus or
pencil and just flattened down the wax and the account entirely
disappeared. That was blotting out in those
days. Now he that is able, hear me now, he that is able And I
say that because I know that our blessed, loving God must
enable you to do it. Now hear me. He that is able
to repent is pardoned, is through the precious blood of Christ
so entirely forgiven that there's no record left of his sin. You listen to everything else
I said? Did you hear that? There's no record left. of your
sin. The marks and the wax has been
leveled. No record left. Sin gone, gone forever. Gone, cast behind the back of
the Lord as far as the east is from the west. Never to be remembered
against us anymore. Now do you expect God to do this
for you without repentance? Should our God have forgiven
that bunch? You remember Jesus on the cross
prayed for them and said, Father, forgive them. They don't know
what they do. Peter said you did it in ignorance. But do you
think that God ought to have forgiven that bunch without them
having a change of attitude and a change of mind about this thing?
Without repenting, do you think he ought to have? No, I don't
think he ought to have. And I don't think you ought to
expect that He'd forgive you without you humbling yourself
before Him and begging His forgiveness for all of your sin-killing sins,
your God-killing sins. Well, the marks and the wax,
has it been leveled? Well, bless God if it has, how
wonderful that is. But my friend, it's not going
to happen until there's a repentance. Where is the honor and the dignity
of the throne of God? God deserves that you humble
yourself. Repent and convert, but rest
assured it cannot be removed except there be repentance and
conversion as a result of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. You
cannot have your sins and go to heaven too. Will you leave
your sin and go to heaven or hold on to your sins and your
unbelief and go to hell? Which shall it be? There must
be, hear me, a divorce between us and our sin or there cannot
be a marriage between us and Christ. Got to be a divorce between
us and our sin before there can be a marriage between us and
Christ. He that confesseth and forsaketh
his sin shall find mercy. To this man will I look, even
to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. But for the proud and haughty
Pharaoh, who says, Who is the Lord? that I should obey him. There is nothing but eternal
destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory
of his presence and power. He who goes on in his iniquity
and hardeneth his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that
without remedy. Well, lastly, fourthly, repentance
and conversion will be regarded as a very precious thing in the
future. And to some of you, your future
is already here. When the times of refreshing
shall come from the presence of the Lord. When the times of
refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. This is
a difficult passage. There have been those that struggled
with it. Find out what it means. But I think this is what it means.
He that can repent and is converted shall enjoy the blotting out
of sin in that season of sweet peace which always follows pardon. Let me say it this way. Among
the very happiest parts of human life are the hours immediately
following being saved. Now I believe that. I believe
that. I've witnessed that myself. the clapping of the trees, the
singing of the mountains. And I've been around, some of
you all, after God saved you and saw how happy you were. Some
of you at your baptism, you could have shouted. You could have.
If somebody else would have just led the way, God forgive them
for not. But anyway, there was happiness. There was a season
of refreshing. wonderful, blessed. When the
prisoner first gets out of prison, hallelujah, how joyous, just
walked out, praise the Lord. When the sick just got out of
the hospital, when the chains of sin fell off, when the hungry
man got to the table, when he got his first meal, how glorious,
how wonderful. That's the time of refreshing
that we have. Oh, if you only knew the bliss
of being forgiven, you'd never stay away from Christ. Is that
right? All of you that got to him, amen? Amen, that's right. You get to Christ. Know the bliss
of forgiveness of sin. Yes to know that I'm his and
he's mine how glorious and then I think there's also this note
in that passage and He could be talking about and I hope it
is the second coming of Christ Because he said in verse 20 and
he shall send Jesus Christ Which before was preached unto you
Christ is coming back. I Glory to God, He's coming back
when He's going to subdue all things by His power. When He
comes back without sin the second time to salvation, the Lord Jesus
is going to appear. And thank God all of those that
have repented and converted and have been turned about and their
sins have been blotted out, they're going to be absolved in that
day. They caught up together to be with the Lord, forever
to be with the Lord. A time of great refreshment.
Aren't you looking forward to it? A fellow walked up to me
the other day and he said, well, what are you expecting now? Just
out of the clear blue. What are you expecting now? He
knew I was a Christian and a preacher of the gospel. And I said, I'll
tell you what I'm expecting. I came back immediately with
this. Believe the Spirit of God, give it to me. I said I'm not
looking for a hole in the ground. I'm looking for a hole in the
heavens. I believe that Jesus Christ is coming back. I believe
it. The Word of God teaches it. And
whenever He comes back, this vile body is going to be changed.
And I'm going to have a glorious body like unto the body of the
Lord Jesus Christ. And I'm going to be caught up
and forever be with the Lord. Done with all of this. Done with
all of it. Forever be with the Lord. Glory
to God. Hallelujah. Well, this is what
I believe. I believe there's times of refreshing
coming that the Lord's going to send them. Some of you have
tasted just a little bit of it. You've tasted a little bit of
it. And I believe it's coming in a great way. So rejoice. Those
of you here this morning, and maybe someone here that you say,
well, you know, preacher, as you preached this morning, I
did feel something in my soul. I did feel in my own heart my
guilt. I did feel that I'm a sinner
before God, and I would make a confession of Jesus Christ
this morning. I would believe on him and I
would declare my faith in Christ today. We're going to sing a
hymn.