Now I would like to read two verses from the first chapter of Romans. I am not going to speak on the first chapter of Romans, but this will be a background to what we wish to say tonight. Romans chapter one. Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called an apostle, separated under the gospel of God, which he had promised before by his prophets in the Holy Scriptures. concerning his son, Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh, and declared the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead. By whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations for his name, among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ. To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called faith, grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. First I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. For God is my witness who might serve with my spirit in the Gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers. making requests, if by any means, now at length, I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you. For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, till the end he may be established. That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me. Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purpose to come unto you, but was hindered hitherto. that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles. I am debtor to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the unwise. So as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also. For I am not ashamed of the gospel, the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believe it, to the Dupers, and also to the Greeks. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, the just shall live by faith. May God bless the reading of his precious words. Shall we pray? Blessed God our Father, we thank thee for this man, the Apostle Paul, whom thou didst save and commission. and give him this wonderful job in that first century of the Christian church's history to go out to the Gentiles with the gospel. We thank him for all that he did. We've heard his words tonight where he says, I long to see you. I long to come to you at Rome. I am ready. I'm not ashamed of the gospel. and I want to bring the gospel to you. We thank you for the gospel, the gospel of salvation, the gospel of God, the gospel of His Son. And we thank this, come down to us, all down through the ages, and we have the Bible in our hands and the wonderful gospel story to read and to believe that we might be saved. Oh, God, speak to us tonight in this meeting. May the voice of the Son of God be heard. And grant, as we study thy wonderful salvation tonight, our heart might overflow in praise. And we ask, Lord, if there should be one here that is not fully and entirely dedicated to thee, that this night might be the night when there may be a full surrender to thee and to thy word. We seek thy blessings on this meeting in the precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Now when I have been speaking here Sunday evenings for the last two months since our conference, I don't know how many times I've spoken, perhaps about once a month, but I have been taking up a series of talks that I have been calling, agreeing to define it. The things which God gave me when he saved me. The things which God gave me when he saved me. You see, God saved me sixty-two years ago, that's a long time back. He saved me when I was a little boy of ten. And I was absolutely positively sure that when he saved me, he saved me. I never had a doubt about it since. Through the wonderful verse John, For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. And I got everlasting life. I was saved. But I had no idea that night all the things that were involved in my salvation. And in that instant of time when I accepted Christ, and in that moment in your life when you accepted Christ, God gave us precious things, tremendous things. And I don't think that through all eternity we'll fully fathom and fully understand and measure the depth and the meaning of all that we received in Christ Jesus when we accepted the Lord as our Savior. Now I have been talking, I think this would be probably the eighth talk, or the sixth talk. We talked about forgiveness. When God saved me, he forgave me. All my sins. Forgiveness. I needed forgiveness because I was guilty. A guilty sinner must be forgiven. He could never get to heaven without that. And when God saved me, he forgave me all my guilt, all my sins. And then when God saved me, he justified me. Now, I needed to be justified because I was condemned. A man who is condemned and in the death row and he's in the prison waiting the sentence of death, There's only one thing that could save him from death. That would be in some mysterious or wonderful way for somebody to come in and say, he's absolutely justified and he didn't do it. Now we did do it. We sinned. We sinned against God. But because God's Son took our place and died upon the cross and bore the penalty of our sin, God can come in and say, because of what he did, I justify you. and I count you as if you'd never sin at all. That's what we received when we were saved. Justification. Then the next thing we talked about was redemption. I needed to be redeemed because I was in bondage. We were in bondage to sin and just like a slave in the slave market, we had to be bought out of the slave market. And that's just what God did when he saved us. By the infinite price of Calvary, he purchased us out of the slave market and set us free. We have been redeemed. So we're forgiven. We're justified. We're redeemed. All this we receive when God saved us. And then we receive what the Bible calls the reconciliation. We talked about this one night. The reconciliation. You see, I was estranged to God. I was away from God. I had no desire toward God. I was in envy toward God. I was in enmity to God. And God needed to reconcile me. Now God never had to be reconciled to me. He never was any other than reconciled to me. God so loved the world. He doesn't need to be reconciled. But we needed to be reconciled. And this is what God did when he saved us. He reconciled us and brought us back to him. We have received the reconciliation. And then the next talk, the last talk I gave, was on the word sanctification. Now sanctified, the real meaning in the Bible sanctification, is to be set apart for holy purposes. To be set apart for God. In the tabernacle there were sanctified vessels, wholly set apart for God's use. And when God saved us, he intended us to be set apart for himself. To separate us. separate us from the world in all the world's ways and make us holy in to use us for his glory so we have been sanctified we don't there is a sense in which we have to separate ourselves but our sanctification in God's place in God's life took place when God saved us he sanctifies us now tonight I want to speak in a very broad sense about salvation the salvation we receive when God saves us. This is a very broad term and it includes all these previous subjects I've been mentioning. Justification, forgiveness, sanctification, they're all included in this great word salvation. And I would like to be very simple tonight. I see quite a number of young people here and I want to, if I can, put it so simply that oldest and youngest will understand what we're talking about tonight about God's wonderful salvation in the epistles of the Hebrews the writer of the Hebrews called salvation so great salvation so great salvation that's truly what it is it's great because it reaches it reaches the chief of sinners It reaches the richest man and the poorest man. It reaches the black man and the white man. It goes out through all the world of great salvation for whosoever will. And Paul, as I read this now, he says, I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believe it. This word power is the Greek word denimus, and it means There are several Greek words for power, but this word means, it's a real word from which we get our word dynamite, dynamite. And it's the dynamite of God unto salvation. It can blow up strongholds of sin and wickedness and darkness and blackness and save many women. It's the dynamite of God unto salvation. And God has given us salvation. In Ephesians chapter one, Paul is talking to these Ephesians and he tells them verse thirteen in whom he also trusted after that he heard the word of truth the gospel of your salvation the gospel of your salvation in this wonderful book we have the gospel in this wonderful book we have God's way of salvation In this wonderful book we learn how I can be saved. The sad thing is people don't read this book. I thank God for the Bible every day because this is God's will for me. This is God's plan for me. This is God's eternal purpose for me. It's all in this book. And without this book, I would never, never know it. And the more I read this book, the more wonderful it becomes, and the more wonderful things I learn about the great salvation God has given me. And for all these years since God saved me, I've been reading this book and learning more and more and more of this tremendous salvation, so great salvation, which God gave me when he saved me that night so long, long ago, in the city of Bristol, England, way, way back, in the year nineteen hundred and ten. I wonder if there's a spot in all this wide world that you know of. Maybe two years ago, six months ago, ten years ago, twenty years, forty, fifty, sixty years ago. Some spot in all this world where you say, that's where I was saved. That's where I was saved. You know, there's one of the sound, and it seems to deal with this very subject. It says when God's reckoning up things, you say, this man was born there, and this man was born there, and this one was born there. And it's a wonderful thing to have some spot in all the world where you were born again, where you accepted Christ as your Savior, and you received this wonderful salvation. Now there may be someone here tonight and say, well, I don't know, I can't find out any spot. I can't think of any moment in my life when I accepted Christ as my Savior. But let me ask a question. Are you saved? Are you saved? This is a very serious thing. Salvation is a serious matter. People don't worry about it today, but they're going to worry about it when it's too late. Salvation is tremendously serious. In the Old Testament, We get salvation very, very much spoken of, but it always seems to refer to salvation from their enemies, you know, from the enemies of Israel. And even when we get into the New Testament, still under the Old Testament regime, shall I say, before the new era came in, the church era on the day of Pentecost, at Luke chapter one, when the old man sinned there, or rather... John, or rather Zechariah as John the Baptist's father, was speaking in verse seventy-one of Luke chapter one. He says, verse sixty-nine, he has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David. Now what was his concept of salvation? He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, as he spake by the mouth of all his holy prophets, which have been since the world began, that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all those who hate us. That was his concept of salvation, that we should be saved from our enemies. And that was the Old Testament concept of salvation, to be saved from our enemies. But the New Testament has a different concept. Look at Matthew. chapter one and the angel comes to Joseph and speaks to him about the child that's going to be born it says in verse twenty while he thought on these things behold the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream saying Joseph thou son of David fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost and she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall what? Save us from our enemy? No, read it again. This is New Testament now. For he shall save his people from their sins. That's what salvation means in the New Testament. He shall save his people from their sins. In the Old Testament, salvation was a kind of a temple thing. If you read or particularly, let me think of some of the books. Take the books of Kings and Chronicles. Take the books of the book of Judges. You see, the people sinned and drifted away from God, and God raised up a judge, a ruler, a king, and he brought them all back to God and defeated their enemies and saved them from their enemies. When that king died or that judge died, they drifted back into their old ways of idolatry and got away from God. It was a temporary salvation. But in the New Testament, salvation is eternal. Not temporary, it's eternal. An eternal salvation. Now what are we saved from? I think it's absolutely essential that we should know what the meaning of salvation is. Ultimately, and finally, and in its strictest sense, God's salvation saves me from hell. That's what it means. My sins deserve eternal death, and without salvation, I speak to anyone here tonight who's not saved. Without salvation, if you die and your sins unsafe, you go to hell. That's what the Bible says. The Lord Jesus spoke more about hell than any other person in the Bible. Do you know that? The Son of God who loved us and gave himself for us. So terrible is that place that he described it better than anyone else described it. And he told us of that awful place where the worm dieth not and the fire is not quaint. And his salvation saves us from hell. Let's get it in Bible words. It says... For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish. That's what happens to us. Without salvation, we'll perish for all eternity. That whosoever believes in him should not perish. And God saves us from perishing. One Corinthians, one verse eighteen, I'd like to read a verse. First Corinthians chapter one. For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness. But unto us which are saved, it is the power of God. Now you see, take our world around us today. Take our profession. Take our great educators and our universities, the people with all their wisdom and their knowledge, to them, the preaching of the cross is just a piece of knowledge. They say, well, if I believe in somebody that died two thousand years ago on a cross in defeat and weakness outside the city wall in Jerusalem, I'm going to be saved. That's what God says, but they don't think that. So God describes this. He says, in this same verse, for after that in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God. You can't know God through education. You can't come to Christ through university education, good as it is and necessary as it is in the world today. But that's not the way it felt this. The professors, they don't have it when it comes to the things of God. As we were saying this morning, faith is something altogether different. You don't want miracles we were saying this morning to believe. You don't have to see things to believe. As I said this morning, I see this microphone. I don't want to have faith to believe it's a microphone. I see it and believe it. I can't help it. but you believe in God whom I have not seen, that's why he thinks. And the wisdom of this world can't understand it. And he says, after the world, after they've been the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God. He pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. than men. So he says, the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness. But I'm emphasizing the word perish. That's what I want to emphasize. Perish. See, these men in their so-called wisdom are going on, but where are they going? They're going to perish for all eternity because they've turned down God. And they're purely minds so educated and so wonderful. They're purely minds Do not understand the things of God. And they go on in their own wisdom, in their own pride, in their own way. And they're going to perish for all eternity if they don't turn to God and believe a simple gospel message that doesn't need education, that a child can understand, that anyone can understand, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. And I tell you what, once you accept Christ as your Savior, you have more knowledge than all. I'd rather have this book without a university education than I'd have a university education without this book. Because there's more wisdom in this book than all the universities in the world. David said, oh, look at Psalm. A hundred and nineteen. What a wonderful. What a wonderful Psalm. A hundred and nineteen. And he says in verse... Oh, how love I thy law. It is my meditation all the day. Thou, through thy commandment, has made me wiser than mine enemies there ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers. For thy testimony is my meditation. I have more understanding out of this book. He says, than all my teachers. I understand more than the ancient one, because I keep thy precept. This is a wonderful book. And God's salvation is in this book. And he says to those that look upon the preaching of the cross as foolishness, they're going to perish. They're going to perish. And this is what salvation means. It means that God has saved us from perishing. Luke, nineteen verse ten says, the Lord Jesus says, The Son of Man is come to seeking to save that which was lost, that which was lost. And every one of us in our natural state were lost before God saved us. And if you're not saved tonight, you're lost. So let's mix it up. Let's get it all straight. We're saved or we're lost. That's what the Bible teaches. And God has given us this wonderful salvation which saves us from perishing forever. so then we said that as guilty we need forgiveness as condemned we need justification as being sold in the market slave market of sin we needed redemption but as lost and perished we need salvation that's what we need salvation and it says neither is there salvation in any other except in the Lord Jesus Christ. That's the only way to be saved. I was talking to a lady the other day, a fairly nice lady. And she told me, you know, she said, we're all going our own way, but we'll all get there someday. I'll go my way, you'll go your way, and we'll all get there. The Bible doesn't say that at all. He doesn't say, if I go this way and you go that way, we'll all get there. Neither is there salvation in any other world, for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. Only one way in Jesus said, I am the way, the truth and the life. No man cometh unto the Father, but by me that's the only way. And this is the salvation he gave us. And then... I was reading in Romans one, where he calls it the power of God unto salvation. And then he goes on to talk about the wrath of God. Now salvation saves us from the wrath of God. Let me read Romans five and verse nine. Romans five. Let's read verse eight. God commended his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. Much more than, being now justified by his blood, we should be saved from wrath through him. What do I mean? I'm talking about the wrath of God. The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness. God hates sin, and the very nature of God means he must demand punishment for sin. He wouldn't be God if he didn't. The throne of God cries out. Sin cannot enter heaven. The throne of God demands a just payment for sin. And the Lord Jesus paid that payment at the place called Calvary. And the wrath of God fell upon him. All the judgment of God fell upon him at the place called Calvary. But I tell you, men and women that reject that work that he did at Calvary, and reject his salvation, they're going to be subject to the wrath of God for all eternity. I don't know what it'll be. I can't conceive what it'll be. But I know the Bible says it's called the wrath of God. There's another sense, another term, another meaning to the wrath of God. I was talking about the eternal wrath of God. For people that reject Christ and spend eternity in a lost hell, that's the wrath of God. There's another wrath of God which is about to be revealed. The wrath of God is going to be revealed in this world. Very soon. When the church is called out of this world, then the wrath of God is going to fall upon this scene. And it's going to be seven years' judgment. Seven years' tribulation. Seven years... terrible time the Lord Jesus said such as was not from the beginning of creation till now and he says that judgments will be so great that except those days be shortened there'd be no flesh saved the wrath of God is going to be revealed from heaven because of the sin in the world today all people tell us the world is getting better you know our education is making things better I remember when I came to the United States twenty three years ago We stayed in New York the whole summer, ten weeks of nineteen forty-nine, and we used to walk around the streets of New York with no fear, whatever. My wife used to go away and speak to a women's meeting somewhere in New Jersey and come back across on a bus or something, and I'd be speaking somewhere else, and we meet in some restaurant at eleven o'clock at night, and no fear at all. But today you can't walk the streets of New York. Do you think it's getting better? I used to love to go to Washington and see all those buildings and walk through those streets, but now they tell me you, you dare not go except in a car, locked in. Because of the terrible state in which the world is, in which the world is become. Murder and rape and robbery and sin and looting and wickedness and immorality. Let me read you a verse a moment about the wrath of God. Ephesians chapter four. Ephesians chapter five. Verse three. And think of these things as I read them out. Awful things. And think of how they are in the world today. Verse three, Ephesians five. Fornication, uncleanness, covetousness. Let it not be once named among you as become its saints. Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient, but rather giving it a thanks. For this you know, listen to it, this you know, that no whoremonger nor unclean person or covetous man who is an idolater has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain word for, because of these things, but things. these things I've been talking about today. Immorality and wickedness and sin in the world today. Because of these things, cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. We live in an age of disobedience. Discipline is God. And that's what's wrong with the world today. No one, but we live in a land of liberty, you know. And you say we are... Democratic, we just have our rights and everybody's got his rights. You see where our rights are leading us. Man needs to be governed. Man needs to be ruled. God made it that way. And when man's allowed to do what he likes and everybody's got his own rights to do what he wants, the world goes to chaos. And the wrath of God is about to be visited upon this scene. because of disobedience, disobedience to God. So we're saved from wrath, and in a real sense, not only we're saved from eternal wrath, but we are saved, it tells us in, let me see, Thessalonians, first Thessalonians chapter one and the last verse, verse ten, it says, even Jesus who saved us from the wrath to come will not go through the wrath of the great tribulation, he saved us. When I've been talking about salvation, The salvation I received in my case sixty-two years ago, some of you could go longer than that, some less, but sometime in your life you accepted Christ as your Savior, and God gave us all these wonderful things when we accepted Him. That was the past tense of our salvation, but there's a present tense of salvation. It says in Romans five verse ten, For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more being reconciled we should be saved by his life now you say now wait a minute I was saved by his death what does it mean saved by his life well we were saved by his death he paid the penalty of our sin at Calvary's cross and we were saved by his death his precious blood was shed to put away my sin I was saved by his death but there is a sense in which I'm saved by his life the Lord Jesus was raised from the dead went back to the glory of heaven And now he's our great high priest, living, living for us. And daily we're being saved by his life. You see, what do you mean being saved daily? Wasn't I saved ten years ago, twenty years ago? Yes, you were. But there are tenses to salvation. That was past tense. I'm talking about present tense. As long as I'm here on earth, I'll have an old simple nature. They won't do good. Try as I will, I can't patch it up. It never gets any better. And it's as bad today as it was when I was a young man or all through life. I still have that old sinful nature. It can't do good. And the great apocryphal, that wonderful man, he said, Who should deliver me from this body of sin? When I want to do good, I do wrong. The good that's in me, I do not. The things I want to do, I can't do because I've got a simple nature. and God is saving us from that every day. There is a present tendency of salvation. And God gave us this when he placed his Holy Spirit that dwell in us. And the Lord Jesus came to dwell in us. He came to give us power over sin. And we get power over sin just the same way as we were saved. We were saved by faith. And the way to get victory over sin is by faith. To put your foot down on God's word and believe what he says, and claim the victory. claim the victory in his name and he saves us every day turn with me to second timothy chapter three it seems to me a chapter a scripture that's often read out of its context or interpreted out of its context let me read it to you second timothy All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. He says in verse from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures which are able to make me wise unto salvation. What does he mean, wise unto salvation? Well, there is a primary sense in which through the scriptures I was saved. But I believe this is an application not to the sinner as much as it is to the saints. Make me wise unto salvation. The sinner, he doesn't read about it. But we read the Bible every day, and all Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and it's profitable. What for? It's profitable to make me wise unto salvation, to save me day by day through faith, which is in Christ Jesus. It's profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. This is a daily salvation which God gives us. What a wonderful salvation. Now tell me did he save us from wrath to come. Now tell me did he save us from our sin and the consequences of our sin and the guilt and so on. But he saves us day by day. As we read this book, we have a high priest in heaven. We have the word of God on earth and we have the Holy Spirit within us. For that means that spells victory all down the line. A high priest in heaven. The word of God in our hands and the Holy Spirit in our hearts. that we might be saved day by day from sin, from those wicked thoughts, from those words we say sometimes which we shouldn't say, from jealousies and evil speaking and backbiting and gossiping. He saves us every day. We will keep this word in our hands, the Holy Spirit our Father and the high priest up there in heaven interceding for us. Now there's a sense in which we're not yet saved, you know. There is a future sense of salvation. Peter says, who is it now, it's Romans, Romans thirteen says, Romans thirteen and verse eleven, knowing the time that now it is high time to awake out of sleep, For now is our salvation nearer than when we believe. Well, you say, wasn't I saved when God saved me those many years ago? Wasn't it complete? Yes, it's an eternal salvation, complete salvation. But the future tense of it is when God's going to take me out of his seat. Now is our salvation nearer than when we first believe. There's a wonderful moment coming. when the Lord Jesus is going to step into the air and call his pride to be with himself, to call his church to be with himself. And that is the ultimate salvation. Peter talks about it beautifully. And he says, in the first chapter of his first epistle in verse five, he says, we are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation. But I am saved. That's right. But I'm kept unto salvation. that salvation when he takes me out of this scene altogether. Kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation. And then verse nine of one Peter chapter one, receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your soul. The end of your faith, even the salvation of your soul. So then there is a sin in which I am not ultimately and completely saved until I get out of this old body that's giving me so much trouble and finish forever with that old nature that keeps me back and the Lord Jesus comes and call me to be with himself and I should be finally and eternally saved and be in his presence for all eternity Paul writing to the Thessalonians to the Thessalonians says that this hope of the coming of the Lord Jesus, this hope he says in chapter five of one Thessalonian, he says, verse eight, let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love and for and helmet the hope of salvation. Well, I was saved all those years ago. What am I talking about? The hope of salvation. I'm talking about the ultimate of salvation. When God will take us and call us out of this sea and we'll be absolutely and finally saved for all eternity. That's the hope of salvation. Now he says, put this hope on like a helmet. We're going in the battle for Christ. And we're battling, he says, not against flesh and blood, but against evil principalities and powers. And the great hope we put on like a helmet over our head is the hope of salvation. that he's going to save us out of this whole thing and take us home to glory, to be with himself for all eternity. So we were saved years ago. We are being saved day by day. And we shall be saved finally and ultimately when the Lord Jesus comes back and calls us to be with himself. What a glorious salvation we have. You know, we should be praising God every day. I can't understand why Christians should be complaining. We've got nothing to complain about. We've got salvation at the infinite cost of the death of Christ and the blood of Christ. He's given us this great salvation. And our hope's up there in the glory. And we're just passing through this seed. You say, well, I haven't got this and I haven't got that. What do you want it for? What we want? What we need is to have contented heart and be content with such things as we have and to hasten on to that day. Enjoying our salvation day by day until the Lord calls us out of the sea. I wonder if there's someone here tonight that knows nothing about what the things I've been speaking of. You're not saved. Oh, may God help you to realize that you must be saved or you'll be lost forever. Those that do not believe will perish for all eternity. The Bible teaches you. And the only way of salvation... There's no other way. The only way is by faith in the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ at the place called Calvary. I'd be happy to talk to any about this matter. We don't press people and say, come up to the front or put up your hands or anything, but we'd love to talk with you tonight if you're not saved and help you. I've had the joy many, many times after a meeting like this, sitting down with an open Bible and leading a soul to Christ. And I'd love to do that tonight. if you have any doubts or problems. Shall we pray? Blessed God, our Father, we bind thy presence now. We thank thee for this meeting. We thank you for this solemn word that has given us from thy word. Oh, Lord, we've been reading about men and women perishing. What an awful word. Perishing forever in the make of fire. Just because they reject thine infinite salvation. Oh, God, may it be that none would leave our meeting in that state tonight, but everyone will accept the Lord Jesus. If there's an unsaved one here, help us to make contact tonight. Help us to lead that soul to Christ. We thank you for this great salvation. Save from our sins. Save from guilt. Save from condemnation. Save from the slave market. Save to be thine forever. Thy free servant. and save to spend eternity in the glorious heaven thou hast prepared for us. We thank thee for the Lord Jesus Christ, thy beloved Son, who went to the place called Calvary and purchased all this for us so long ago. Help us to live like men and women that belong to him. We seek thy pardoned blessings and thank you for this hour together in the precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.