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[5:09] Thank you. along and everything concerning prime things are the transitory things they pass on and there will be a time as the scripture tells us from heaven and earth will pass away so there's one thing he says you'll never pass away but my word does never pass away now renewing that word of grace of exhortation desiring them as newborn beings not in a foolish weak manner he doesn't mean that but he means with that earnest and that energy of faith and hope in a precious Christ so seek for the things of eternal life for your soul's welfare as the eagerness of the baby's dead for when it would seek that milk from the mother's breath so let your exercise of soul be the same that deceit that that the mercy friend if you and i are being amongst those who have pasted for god not those who are short of themselves know everything about it need know no more and quite satisfied but those who know what it is to pass through this life's journey is the wilderness and for time to time feel there's no real religion at all and when they try to pray they feel as if their heart like a stone and the words dry up as it were in our mouth the trauma knew something of that when he uttered that prayer and as the heart he said panties after the water for gold panties my soul after the old god and talking about his flesh oh it's carnal thing my soul he said and it's after god even the living god not a dead god a living god when shall i come and appear before god ah if slept not on the same breath perhaps in some measure you know what it is to be there but first for god you've been weary the things that surrounded you but for me you've been full enough to play with them for a time and definitely seek your comfort in your aging and the lord brings something into your life to show the emptiness of those things and you want to pray now and you can't pray like guilt and shame stands up before you now and all your foolishness as and i pray like that will god hear me yeah he's to save unto the uppermost those who come unto god by him is as there the word goes to whom coming as unto a living stone that is the coming of every needy soul to whom coming but there will be no coming where there's no life where there's no spiritual life there will be no desire to come where there's no spiritual life but if there's a drain of spiritual life in you there will be that only to come under the lord and treat from his fullness right for our grace daily health daily direction guidance and provenance guidance and grace casting all your care upon him and designing earnestly the blessing so the father for it is in all thy ways acknowledging and he should direct thy funds how are you living making a way for yourself doing very well god thinks look good and tell you there's no need to seek god's blessing on us everything is prospered so easy the foal set in his heart for his nose all among the foals and playing with the things of time and sense how the lord can offer all that in a moment can't he only got to raise hand on you what's all that then all your doors have been blasted and all your labor's been searching for and all your energy is gone to the foal women oh what a master's energy to know what it is to have that spiritual life and i don't want to mystify anyone here and several young people here this evening you might say what do you mean spiritual life and coming i mean this my friend that neither you nor i or anyone else would speak the lord for their souls welfare unless the lord has put some spiritual life in their soul i don't think they say that sometimes when you're in trouble you'll go to the lord and lay your face before him and pray the lord to deliver you out of it everyone everyone is asked to get out of trouble and others will pray like that that my friend is coming more it's coming for your own souls welfare you're wanting for your concerns here you want to know that all your time to return and the great of my friend is coming for your own souls welfare if you have that friend that life within no matter what path lies before you it'll be well within every step prepared all the way everything concerning you in life's journey under the supreme control and he's an all power from god it is with each one the whole world and every creature it eyes on it is only supreme control see that arose the stars along to the pirate reads all the promises is he that controls the waves of the sea instead of boundaries and not pass over is he not the omnipotent god control heaven and earth and in a special way the lord jesus christ is for he is now sitting at the right hand of the father in that seat of power and all power not some power and not some power over some things but all power over everything all power is given into his hands all power so the judgment and of grace for the end of time it will be that precious price that will sit upon the judgment seat and he'll jump to quick and the dead and the same jesus ever live today in heaven a merciful and faithful high priest for danger the things of god now this is room coming as unto a living stone i like to figure here stone setting forth the lord jesus christ its stability its immobility his unchangeable character its stability is the same yesterday the same forever and as he is in himself shows every word of his grace which is partly to his dear people and in the covenant of his word it is my word his word shall stand and will do all its pleasure yea he said heaven and earth shall pass away that my word shall not pass away what a sound what a joyous certainty isn't it unchangeable unbelievable always the same always freely and willing to begin full of grace and the and able to save under the utmost those who come unto god by him the world is coming you might say oh well it doesn't concern me much i'm afraid i can't say i've been i've been what i hear often people express called my grace i can't say that i feel that if i have to say that i can see a never threat yea well there's one thing about it my dear friend are are you desiring to come is there anything in this message who would lay hold of you you see a reality in them and this is sometimes a desire to know these things yourself a desire to come before him and that space given to previous man you've got a desire underneath it all what a master and that a living desire my friend the lord will keep that alive that won't die then he'll grant the whole film of that design in his own final way the market that my friend what a take is have you got to say no i really i'm honest with you i've never had any real desire in my heart a strong place aren't you what a strong place suppose we'd more just to lay your hand down upon you now and take your breath from the body where would you be what would the end be with you you've got nothing in you not even the desire not even a longing in your breath that's that and yet if you've got a desire there although you feel most unworthy and then you often feel that things of time and sense captivate you and carry your ways and yet you find from time to time a guilty conscience before god you see that speaking voice in you that desire that rises up from time will be a speaking voice in you and that very voice itself will bring you in guilty from time to time and my friends that that desire will spring up and that's what i want to hear and that's what i want to hear the world has said seems to not have dominion great shall reign but god knows how to deal and how to cause that to spring up it might be that's what i want to hear that's what i want to hear it might be in quietness and tenderness bringing you along what a well-nosed it will bring you to its own to the strength of life the homecoming unto a living throne not a dead stone and not only does it mean in the first place he says he doesn't say come to whom come but this room's coming continually coming they've got to come from time to time as we pass along through life's journey not that what god's word will stand is coming and ordered and all things are sure not that not that standing god's work is perfect if all his ways are perfect but in regard to our living experience as a spiritual experience as we pass along through life's journey we become continually day after day day after day lay our case before him we become continually day after day day after day day after day day after day day we are brought daily to feel our means i often think of daily it's declared to be a man after god's own heart and he got to the end of his days you know you think well surely now he's got all he wants there's no need for him to come now he had all that was me for the minute but my friend is coming for a man the same he's next he says and when it came to the end what did he have to rest on to look back upon his work not much to look for was there wasn't it not to make him a change as he looked back and you see he was able to look up to come onto that stretch of strife to roll my heart free nor show his life all the disappointments he had met his own and his own bitter disappointments too the lord knows how to deal with it you know to bring us to our life class his favourite son he indulged him you know and he ought not to have done but he loved his exalem and he indulged him and exalem turned round on him rebelled against him he burned him out of his kingdom oh what a sorry day that was the four days and his fall oh he dreamed over that for me and let the world all remainder all remainder is life and now lord

[22:00] I am old and brave and he remember not against me my sins fluff out my transcripts and so he said my heart be not so with God yet as he made with me an everlasting covenant all that and all things have drawn all my salvation and all my desire though he make it not to go the mercy to come now is this rest alone upon the finished work of the precious Christ and that which alone can come and does come from him who is declared to be the stone to whom coming is unto a living stone you know what this coming is then friends have you ever drawn a little from this fool has there been a real corruption and there are times also when you have felt guilt upon your conscience you have slipped somewhere with a great adversary pursuing you how you'll tangle and beguile a child of God sometimes you get caught up in a snare and after we've done that you turn round and they use that very thing against you yes oh yes what a mercy then when you feel that guilt within your conscience to come once more with his precious

[23:55] Christ the womb is coming yes again and again you know many times as you have to come Lord pardon my initiative cover my many sins with a mantle of love Lord I've had to come many times like that and I said I shall have I shall have while I'm in the body I don't sin openly I'm not a debate character but all my friends are slipped and flying for the indwelling power of sin and it's calm and made to heart of mine guilty and guilty as a full and heart searching God what would you do if there's no fountain open for sin and uncleanness if there was no eternal rock to go for the womb is coming

[25:00] I just thank God for that I mentioned this morning that there'd be no coming unless you're drawn the trial of mine will never come a mere preventive religion alone will never come it's quite satisfied there's no need to come and my friends a poor family sinner knows what it is to be drawn is to thy groom and the cause of love and abandon the man and the broken and he draws his people he never forces his people he never paralyzes them under his own law and shakes them on the brink of hell he doesn't do that he draws them you know what drawing power is there isn't that in his love it is love where his power lies the love that was manifest man why should

[26:14] Christ die just for the unjust to bring us to God he never added anything to his glory he could never take anything away the whole world will dance yet he saw fit and the sovereignty and the sovereignty of his divine mercy and the ruins and when the Lord draws you to that one sacrifice will we be told the drawings that bring you first the knowledge of your sins before God not merely the knowledge that you're a sinner thousands know that and they'll say so tonight God be masterful to mere sinners yet they've never known what it is for God's holy law to arrest them and bring them in guilty before the bar of justice and is standing there guilty fearing his sentence instead of which he meets you with love and pity hears that love sin when he shows that poor broken hearted sinner who sees nothing but justice and judgment before them and reveals the love and mercy of a precious

[27:40] Christ to them an oath coming drawn to that one sacrifice complete atonement and then see that love of God instead of meeting you in his just judgment and cutting you down and he'll drop the word sinner I have loved you with an everlasting love and therefore as loving kindness I have drawn with there's nothing in thy prayers and nothing in thy doings has caused me to move I purpose to be in the sovereignty of my divine love and mercy and now I have manifested that love to me that you have been drawn to stir the cross of Calvary and receive a little of the wounds of the precious Christ and a broken heart under the weight of sin and guilt laid upon that dear redeemer and you'll have a hope that your sins were laid there and break your heart that's where the Lord breaks the heart where he conquers the sinner where he brings it to himself not his awful vow and justice and judgment but his love brings his love from this allowance

[29:08] I'll bring them into the wilderness this day I'll speak comfortably unto her and you will have bring your arms from there unto all coming I'll be to you a living stone and not a dead stone have you proved it if you've passed along if you've never proved it my friend don't say well I don't think I have an election and predestination and a sovereignty of God you leave it alone friend the question is this if you've ever come has the Lord ever drawn you you can leave election and predestination alone you'll know that as God brings you he'll teach you those blessed truths that he brings you and you've come unto him my friend and you're saying

[30:09] God fallen in that day and don't be tried with a great adversary coming against you and say well you know God's got a people chosen in him before the world began and you're saved by grace and grace over and there's no hope for a creature like you or you may come and a spiritual faith a little well I don't know I might as well go on enjoy myself get what I can out of the world because if I am to be saved I shall be saved I can't alter God's purposes ah ah the devil will get you on that point doesn't he at this point then you leave that alone you leave those doctrines alone if your soul in God has anything brought you as an humble suffering there that's the thing and when he brings you there he'll gradually open your understanding and make you wise at the salvation and you'll thank God for his electing love and mercy brings you the spirit so bring this out of your heart why me oh why me why such a wretched me why was I her made to hear thy voice and enter one thousand room while thousands make a wretched choice and rather power and tongue to the world coming has he drawn you is there any beauty in him that you desire and has drawn your heart affection to him oh this coming my friends is the sight in

[32:08] Christ that's put up in the place of a child of God that's the coming the long desire and those feeble wishes so weak that the M writer says that Jesus inspires and bid you to see that's the coming all the many inward clothes that you don't go back with a long face you don't ask for a you don't wear religion on your countenance it's on your heart and you don't always show what is in your heart do it people can't see that maybe it's your business it's your death your domestic duties behind the counter you may show a smiling face but before your heart searching God your heart might be broken ah my friends the heart and the being you know what it is to sign sign with your own eyes to begin to give you grace and faith that you live without sinning against his love and mercy oh that we could do so you might say can't you do it no no

[33:37] I which will be a sinner here all my days did I have a sinner saved by grace having a hope and lay on the finished work of Jesus Christ not enough there his own coming his uncle living stone you see then in that coming you see in past that life that spiritual life the word said if any man be in Christ he's a new creature all things are passed away all things are new and all things are gone that doesn't mean to say that there nothing will be in the world in you at all for there no common desire to call nothing of the thought means that those things shall not have dominion and not be the reigning passion in you as they are now they won't control your life as they do in the days you run regenerate you'll know you've got them there and you'll cry out against them at times let not sin have dominion over me water up all my going to thy path keep thou my sweet from with everything this is all coming in early the cries and the coming of the

[35:07] Lord and the very knowledge of what we are as the Holy Spirit teaches as we go along through life journey bring us more and more in our coming to the Lord Jesus Christ to draw out of his fullness grace for grace another thing in regard oh this precious Christ this stone spoken of here this living stone is always to be found you haven't got to look round for him he's not like the bio gods of earth he's always at the mark his feet and he waits to be gracious he waits to answer prayer and he's there not only is he able but he delights to answer prayer it's his life there to witness and testify for every poor sinner who comes pleading that all prevailing name he's there to present his own work on their behalf his own sacrifice and atone and made for sin his own righteousness that he brought in for his people he's there my friend as a witness in heaven and my witness is in heaven and my record is on high no matter what men may say about me my witness is there and if your witness is there my friends if this living son stands in heaven for you what greater witness can you have in heaven than that if your all is resting upon a precious life upon what is accomplished for the satisfaction of divine justice and for your sin he's given your hope that not only that he's shed his blood but that he's dying for you oh my friends what a martyr then as they could come to this living home disallowed indeed of men but chosen of

[37:34] God and precious why precious the thing is precious because of its scarcity scarcity now there's only one God there's only one stage there's only one precious Christ and it's precious that sinners can say and only say how precious is the Savior everything proceeds from him is likewise precious it's the only source of it sin every grace and every mercy comes to us through Jesus blood and yet you see there's no receiving of it by the carnal heart disallowed of being of men chosen of

[38:42] God and precious and ah the Lord God said that you know this is my beloved son and whom I well please hear you hear me he was one as the son of God he was ever one with God he saw him pretty ladies God had a sign and took in union with his divine nature a nature like our own and he entered into that nature as it said a body that shall prepare for me and he entered into that very humanity that he might be capable of suffering that he might serve under the law that he might know what temptation is God couldn't suffer and

[39:42] God couldn't be tempted and the son of man was and could and he did suffer and was tempted and always such as we are yet without sin and he knows how to deliver the other temptations we might think sometimes we can't see any need for Christ to come like that could there not be some other way of satisfying divine justice in the heart of sinners no no other way and the reason is this as human nature fell on the curse so my friends before ever peace joy happiness salvation can come to any force in us that same nature but satisfy divine justice and neither human

[40:45] I can do that he shut himself up into a converse do nothing but prayer and read the word of God all those days of your life you couldn't satisfy divine justice you've got a nature born in sin and shame and in in in in in in in the evil in our own hearts and therefore it was a need to be that God should take a nature like our own that nature itself was spotless conception was wonderful of the Holy Spirit and karma dare to understand his nature was very it was very human in every aspect and there was human weakness there in it sinless weakness he shed tears he could feel pain he knew the funds of the people against him he humbled his thirst he leaned against the world weary he was very human there was no sin in him if there was any sin in his humanity he could never take the sins of the election of great on him and seeing there was no sin in his humanity he was able to take the sins of the election of great upon him and bear him and bear him and therefore he satisfied divine justice in so doing you see because he said all the sinners it shall die but he died the just of the unjust that bring it to

[42:41] God what a stone is this what a precious stone is this do we disregard it many do today many professing religion despise this I know a better way of salvation than this a more shorter salvation than this because it will give way after our religion comes from this living God it will fail oh what a mercy this not to fight against this truth but to be brought under it by the love and mercy of a giant Jesus disallowed indeed of man what does man cry today the same as his didn't when

[43:43] Christ was upon me away within a way with him crucify him we will not have this man to alone we don't want to lead him to make him miserable would it go about like that every day is the last to you the ones will have your fling have a bit of the world don't you ah no for all things God will bring you to judgment all once through it you want any joy and peace you want any real happiness you'll find it my friend with the throne of grace love of love that love of love in your heart there's no peace like unto it no peace in that love that can cover all our sins through that love of righteousness that imputed righteousness which he wrought out he puts upon every poor sinner through every plot and blamish his name and ever will be from the eyes of

[44:50] John his precious is there anything more valuable more precious than death I give unto them eternal life and they can never perish and none shall pluck them out of my hands unto all coming and then when you come to the end of the journey what a mercy still there to look up unto the Lord still coming still resting not upon ourselves not upon our religion not what we've accomplished our good works on our bad but I rest in alone in the present Christ resting there ah he can come there I remember one I knew very well life going he was a man that said a very written of religious things very written and at his death there

[46:00] I was rather anxious to know out what you whether there was anything real or not and he laid more of that unconscious so that our fear is when he was conscious for a few moments and one of those moments I said oh little wizard and he looked up and said resting in Jesus and of the night resting in Jesus and immediately passed away unto whom come as unto a living stone we don't know what's going on in the heart who becomes blood where he has put that seal of people of life now I must leave the strength I've gone over the white here and you might shout it up a few things safety solemn bar if you accept you'll never do anything of your own strength my friend go and go to this living stone and he'll give you strength sufficient for the day seek that and will not perish for the new new so that place where you will find joy and happiness and peace in the living and a believer amen amen more them or or no

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