Transcription downloaded from https://sermons.heritagesermons.org/sermons/55431/romans-first-sermons-in-usa-i-quality-average/. Disclaimer: this is an automatically generated machine transcription - there may be small errors or mistranscriptions. Please refer to the original audio if you are in any doubt. [0:00] Product oh Thank you. [0:37] Thank you. [1:07] Thank you. Thank you. [2:07] Thank you. Thank you. [3:07] Thank you. Thank you. [4:07] Thank you. Thank you. Let us read together from Paul's epistle to the Romans, the first and the parts of the second chapter. [4:25] Amen. Amen. [4:59] Thank you. [6:01] Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. [6:13] Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. [6:25] Thank you. They are new every morning. Great is his faithfulness. And Lord, we would thank thee too for thy goodness and mercy to us day by day. [6:41] May we never forget the mercies with which we are surrounded. The earth is full of thy goodness. The eyes of all wait upon thee and thou givest them their meat in due season. [6:57] Oh, that men would praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful work to the children of men. But Lord, above all these mercies we would bless thee in that thou hast not dealt with us after our sins nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. [7:22] And as we meet here on this Sabbath morning we recall the words of one of thy dear servants of old. He said we are out of hell. [7:34] We are on praying ground. And we are still where hope can come. Oh, what a mercy, Lord that we are found here out of hell and still where hope can come to us. [7:53] Well, make known thy mercy to us this day, Lord. And as we come before thee now and present our petition so we would confess our sins and plead for mercy. [8:07] Do not leave us to an empty lip confession. Give us a now and feel that we are sinners. Bring us as true mourners over our sins and after thee. [8:22] Grant unto us those sacrifices of a broken heart for Lord, thou wilt not despise such sacrifices. [8:35] Help us each to come mourning over our sins and pleading for mercy. And as we present our petitions we will present them in and through the name and merit of thy dear son. [8:50] We are undeserving of the least mercy and we have no good of our own to bring. There is nothing at all in us to merit thy favour but there is everything in thy dear son. [9:06] And it is his precious blood his justifying righteousness which we would plead before thee now and ask thee to command thy blessing upon us here this day. [9:22] The particular circumstances in which we meet, O Lord, are known to thee and we feel we would commit the services of this day into thy hand. [9:38] Lord, thou hast led us in a way which the waters I have not seen. The land's wealth has not shrugged it. [9:50] Thou hast made known thy sovereign power in our lives. And we believe in thy mercy thou hast caused us to know and do thy will. and thou hast brought us and thou hast brought us to this place to this position which we occupy this morning against all that the flesh would desire. [10:13] We believe, Lord, it has been in accordance with thy will. Now, dearest Lord, could it please thee to come among us and make bear thine arm and send out thy light and thy truth. [10:30] And as we have seen a little or tasted a little of the bud, Lord, may there be the flower. O greatest God, come in thy power yet once more. [10:47] We know that whatsoever thou dost, thou doest it forever. Nothing can be put to it. Nothing can be taken from it. [10:58] Could it please thee, Lord, to come among us here this day and bless thy people thou hast brought them to know the power of prayer. [11:11] And, Lord, do grant in all that lays before us we may prove it yet still more. Our once said rest in prayer can wonders do, bring relief in deepest traits. [11:27] Prayer can force a passage through iron bars and brazen gates. Lord, do come among us this day as thou not said, my word shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I plead, and it shall prosper in the thing where to I send it. [11:51] Send thy word, Lord. All are do quicken dead sinners into divine life. May we see thy word go forth this day accompanied with power, even in some measure as on the day of Pentecost. [12:14] For on that day there were many pricked in their heart, and in the agony of their mind and soul they cried out, men and brethren, what shall we do? [12:28] Well, Lord, thou art the same God today. and we do earnestly beseech thee that thou wilt come again in thy power. [12:40] Lord, do save us from our unbelief, do save us from a fatalistic spirit, whereby we shall say that thou dost not appear and bless thy word today as thou usest to do. [12:58] thou art the same God, the same yesterday and today and forever. May we not dishonor thee by how unbelief. [13:12] May we remember the word we sometimes sing. Thou art coming to a king, thou art petitions with thee bring, for his love and power are such. [13:25] none can ever ask too much. Hast thou not said, O Lord, open thy mouth wide and I will fill it? [13:37] Lord Jesus, when upon earth didst thou not say, ask, and it shall be given you, seek and ye to find, knock and it shall be opened unto you, for everyone that asketh receive it. [13:55] he that seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Dearest Lord, do help us now unitedly to lay hold upon thee, to wrestle with thee, and to prevail with thee. [14:18] There is before us this morning, Lord, a company of people whom, for the most part, we do not know, for thou knowest them all together. [14:30] And Lord, thou knowest we have a concern as to whether they are right in thy sight, or may there be even this morning, may there be a right realization of the awful solemnity of those things which concern our never-dying soul, and a never-ending eternity. [15:01] One said, pause my soul, and ask the question, art thou ready to meet God? Am I made a real Christian, washed in the Redeemer's blood? [15:17] have our union with the church's living head? Lord, do come and solemnly impress upon the mind of each one present this morning that they shall spend eternity in heaven or in hell. [15:39] Oh, Lord, we do seem to be so much taken up and sometimes carried away with the things of time, but oh, how solemn are the things of eternity. [15:55] Come, dearest Lord, at this time, stretch forth thine hand, and could it please thee to bless thy word according to the needs of the people. [16:09] And again, we pray thee, quicken thy deadly last. Oh, may there be those wrought upon, powerfully and effectually, and brought to cry out, what must thy do to be saved. [16:27] And then, Lord, do bless thy dear people. There are those whom we know, they love and fear thy name. Would it please thee, Lord, to strengthen that which thou hast wrought for us, and let thy work appear. [16:46] So knowest where there is a good work begun, and we bless thee, thou wilt never leave it undone, for thou wilt perfect it, thou wilt perform it, until the day of Jesus Christ. [17:02] Could it please thee, dearest Lord, to come to thy people, thy churches in the wilderness, for the most part, thy people have to mourn over the dryness of their bones. [17:17] They look back, may be, to the days of their first love, what precious days they were, and they say, where is the blessedness I knew when first I saw the Lord, where is the soul reviving view of Jesus and his word, what blessed hours I then enjoyed, how sweet their memories still, but now I find an aching void, the world can never fill, come to thy people, and could it please the Lord who grant that in the ministry of thy word this day, there may be drops and handfuls of purpose, so know if whether there are any roots here, any who comes gleaning, any who come with a living desire in the heart, which only thou can fulfill, come [18:18] Lord we pray, visit thy people here, bless them individually, we bear before thee the young, be very gracious unto them, and all may we see thy power made known in them, and then there are aged friends, and there are those in affliction, and doubtless there are those who are absent, maybe because of infirmity, there are those in trial, sorrow, and temptation, Lord, would thou graciously appear, and do bless thy dear people, and do grant a word in season this day. [19:04] Bless thy people here collectively, oh Lord, I know if there are those things we cannot express to thee in words, come Lord, and bless us together, oh cast us not away from thy presence, take not thy Holy Spirit from us, and we do desire, oh Lord, in what laid before us, that in the day of Jesus Christ, it shall be recorded that this man was born there, or we would humbly commit our every care, our every anxiety, and every matter, in connection with thy church and people here, into thy care and keeping, for thou art the head of the church, we want thee, [20:06] O Lord, to come and be head among us, we pray that thou would make known among us thy constraining and thy restraining power, come dearest Lord, and bless us each, who hear the prayers offered on our behalf, by thy people here, and we would pray for them, may there be a building up, a binding together, in the bonds of love and union, and O above all, Lord, may thy great name be magnified in our midst, and as often we meet together here, Lord, may we seek the honor and glory of thy name, in our worship, in our form, in everything, we stand all for before thee, every one of us, and [21:07] Lord, we forgive an account of our ministry, and the people will give an account of their hearing, there is no escape in the day of Jesus Christ, when every one of us shall give an account of himself unto God, be pleased, O Lord, to so bless thy word, that there will be the practical fruit of it, that we might walk worthy of the vocation where which we are called, that men may take note of us, and in our deportment, and in our lives, they shall say, he's been with Jesus, all may that be said of us, grant us grace then, to walk worthy of the vocation where which we are called, save us from the world, the friendship of it, the session of it, all mercifully keep us when we are in it, and have to do with it, deliver us all, from all evil, save us from ourselves, save us from the enemy, do not leave us ignorant of his devices, but come dearest [22:26] Lord, and keep us, clothe us with the whole armour of God, bless all thy dear people everywhere this day, where they are found, gather together in thy name, do enlarge our hope, that we can in sincerity say, grace be with all them, that love our Lord Jesus Christ, in sincerity, and Lord we can, and we must bring before thee, the numbers of gatherings of people we've left behind in the old country, Lord we can never give them up, bless them Lord this day, they've already met together once, be with them now and this evening Lord, and be with all thy servants, no matter wherever they are found, come once more in thy power, send out thy light and thy truth, let them lead us, and all do bless [23:34] Zion everywhere, all stretch forth thine hand dearly Lord, and bless thy one church, help us to pray one for another, help us to pray for Zion, one said my soul shall pray, for Zion still, whilst life and breath remain, for there my best friends, my kindred dwell, there God my saviour reigns, we would lay before thee national affairs, and we pray for all in authority, Lord we live in that day when men's hearts fail and for fear of what is coming upon the earth, but oh what a mercy to realize that the Lord God omnipotent reigneth, hast thou not said be still and know that I am God, [24:37] I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth, now Lord grant us thy help as we attempt to speak in thy name, help thy people to hear, come and bless us together, and do us good, forgive all our sins, wash it in thy precious blood, we ask every mercy, for Christ's sake alone, Amen. 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