Man's Ruin God's Remedy

We sing number three. My hope on nothing less is built than Jesus and the blood he's spilt. I dare not trust the sweetest frame but holy lean on his blessed name, on Christ the solid rock I stand.

All other ground is sinking sand. Number three. Let's rise.

Remain seated please and sing the first and the last verses of number four. Christ is the savior of sinners. Christ is the savior for me.

The first and last verses of number four. Night comes. The last night seems to me to be a very solemn occasion for the going forth of the gospel of the grace of God.

Last night we look forward to tonight and Friday night we look forward to Saturday night. But this is the last gospel meeting of this series of meetings that have been held in this school and it may well be the last gospel meeting that we'll ever attend. For the Lord Jesus may come or you may die.

Oh what a solemn thing my friends to think that you have to die. You have to leave this world. You have to stand before God.

What a solemn thing. And tonight as I look back the Friday night we heard that God is life and God is love. Last night we heard of the entrance of sin into this world and tonight I want to speak on two points.

First of all the ruin of man and second God's remedy for sin. Man's disease the disease called sin and again God's remedy for that sin that disease. We have read I am sure all of us about awful diseases that have confronted man.

We've read about cancer. We've read of the millions of dollars that have been spent on that dread disease that man has been fighting for many years. But oh my friends tonight there's a worse disease and sad to say that every man in this world past and present have had that disease save one.

The disease called sin. A disease that only God can cure and a disease that only the blood of Christ can take away. And so we will look into God's word tonight.

I want you to remember that it's God's word. And dear sinner if you're here tonight and you've never heard the gospel before. If you're a stranger and you've come into this room as I went into a room in Montreal in 1930 and knew not the gospel of God's grace.

I want to tell you right now that God loves you. Isn't that wonderful? Maybe you don't realize you've got the sin disease but I want to tell you in spite of your sins in spite of no matter how bad you are God loves you. God has provided a remedy for sin in the precious Christ of God.

I'd like you to turn to the seventh chapter of Mark's gospel where we find the great physician as he opens the heart of man and presents what's in the heart of man. There's nobody could do that. There's no man ever lived in this world to do it but this blessed one has opened the heart.

He's opened the heart of man in the seventh chapter of Mark starting to read from the 21st verse. And all friends it's your heart and it's my heart not the neighbor's heart not the man down the street or the man in the penitentiary but your heart and my heart that Christ has opened here in the seventh chapter of the gospel by Mark. It's your heart.

It's my heart. God has opened our hearts my friends and notice what's in my heart. Your heart.

Your heart young man. Your heart young lady. Child of Christian parents brought up in a respectable home.

This is your heart that Christ has opened it. Christ has exposed it. God here has opened your heart tonight in this precious book in the seventh chapter of Mark.

Notice what Jesus says. For from within. Out.

This is your heart. Out of the heart of men. Not some men.

All men. All men. Not one man accepted but the Lord Jesus himself.

Proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornication, murders, theft, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, legitimacy, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile the man. Now turn to the third of Romans and here again we find God opens the heart of man and opens the whole body as it were of man.

The third chapter of Romans starting to read is verse 10. Notice my friends there's some who say well I'm not like others. I'm different.

Notice what God says in this verse. Verse 10. As it is written there is none righteous.

No not one. Not one. Just imagine.

Not one. There is none that understands us. There is none that seeketh after God.

They are all gone out of the way. They're together become unprofitable. There is none that do us good.

No not one. Notice that. No not one.

Their throat is an open sepulcher with their tongues they have used deceit. The poison of ash is under their lips whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood.

Destruction and misery are in their ways and the way of peace have they not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes. Notice verse 13.

The throat, the tongue, the lips. Verse 14. The mouth.

Verse 15. The feet. Verse 16.

Their ways. And verse 18. Their eyes.

The whole body from the very top of the head to the very sole of the feet God says. Full of wounds and bruises and crucifying sores. God exposes man from head to foot and says he's lost.

He's a sinner. He's a sinner throughout. And in the 23rd, the end of the 22nd verse and the 23rd verse.

For there is no difference. For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Oh my friends tonight this is not a very nice picture.

This is a gospel meeting and the word gospel means good news. Good news. But this is mighty bad news isn't it? This is very bad news to hear you're a sinner.

To find from the very top of your head to the very sole of your foot you're a sinner. A sinner by nature and by practice and you were born that way. And I was born that way.

We were born as fallen creatures as we heard last night. We were born lost. We were born with our backs turned toward God and our faces turned towards hell.

It doesn't take very long my friends for us to exhibit as a child even. As a baby that we were lost fallen creatures. Hopeless and helplessly lost except for the grace of God.

What a solemn picture this is. That man is lost and God in the books of Moses tells us that man is evil. In the book of Genesis in the writings of Moses God says that man is evil.

The imagination of his heart is evil continually. And in the Psalms God looked down from heaven to sea and he found man was lost. That man was in sin.

And in the prophets God says that the heart is deceitful above all things and incurably wicked. Incurably wicked. And in the gospels we just read the testimony.

And in the epistles we find too that man in the darkness and blackness of his heart. The hardness of his heart. And the book of Revelation we find when the judgments of God in the world of man blasphemes the name of God.

So the whole Bible from Genesis to Revelation testifies that man's a sinner. A sinner. Oh my friends tonight man finds the world defiled by sin.

Millions and billions of dollars are spent every year in this country. And in the country to the south in fighting crime it's on the increase. The penitentiaries are filled with men and women.

And except for the grace of God you and I'd be among the number. Man is a sinner. He's steeled his back against God.

And he's listened to the devil's lie as we heard last night. Oh my friends tonight are you here and you're trusting in something outside of Christ to save your precious soul. To finally get you to heaven.

You're dependent upon penance or prayers. You're dependent upon money or something else to drag you into the kingdom of God. You'll perish my friends without Christ.

Christ alone is the savior of sinners. And we'll have later a connection with the remedy for sin. So when you go to a doctor's office he doesn't tell you right away what to take.

He doesn't prescribe the medicine as soon as you enter the door. He examines you and he tells you the disease. And then he gives a remedy.

And I believe that God would do that my friends tonight. That God would tell you of the sin disease. God says the wages of sin is death.

The wages of sin is death. At the point under man wants to die. And after death the judgment.

You have to meet God my friends. Well does the prophet say prepare to meet thy God. Oh my friends tonight only a heartbeat separates you and me from the presence of God.

Only a heartbeat. And we're gone into eternity to face the one who made us. To face the one against whom we've sinned if we're out of Christ.

To spend eternity outside of God's presence forever. Thus says the word of God. The modernist minister said it's not true.

But God says it is. And I advise you my dear friend to believe God tonight. The Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.

From the first verse of Genesis chapter one to the end of Revelation chapter two is the word of God. It's true from the beginning. God has purified us seven times.

And God has not changed his word to fit in with the twentieth century of education. God has not changed his word to meet man's education and man's vast knowledge. God's word is true.

God has not changed it I repeat to meet the twentieth century. The word of God is true. And the Lord Jesus said if you believe not that I am he you shall die in your sins.

Where I am there ye cannot come. What a solemn thing. Tonight as we sit in these seats as we stand on this platform either we stand here you sit there as a saved sinner or a lost sinner.

On the way to heaven or on the way to hell. And there is no middle ground and there's no third place. And there is no second chance according to the word of God.

If you die without Christ my friends you'll be buried without Christ. You'll be raised without Christ. You'll stand in the presence of God without Christ.

And you'll be judged without Christ and you'll go to hell without Christ. What a solemn thing. Oh my friends I ask you as we've often asked before.

If tonight instead of sitting here in a measure of health and strength your poor body was lying cold and still in your casket. What a solemn thought. And the flowers were decked around the undertaken parlor room.

And your loved ones were weeping around the chairs in the in the room. And the funeral notice was in the paper. You were marked for your funeral d'amour at two o'clock.

I ask you in God's name where would your soul be. Where would your soul the young man where would you be if you had died this afternoon. Dear lady where would you be if you had died this afternoon.

Where would you be. Can you say as many in this room can say I'd be with Christ. My eyes would have seen the king and his beauty.

I'll open my eyes in the presence of the one that loved me. My friends are you saved tonight. Are you under the shelter of the blood of Christ.

Are your sins forgiven. Are you still under the power of that one we heard of last night who's a real person. Who is the enemy of our souls and would drag you to hell with them.

For Satan believes the Bible. Satan knows he's going there. He knows his days are numbered.

The word of God tells us you believe in God you do well. The demons believe and they tremble. Think of it.

Think of those demons of the devil. Think of those demons of Satan as they hear of God they tremble. As they realize that judgment comes upon them.

Yet man a poor worm of the dusk he walks down the street and blasphemes the name of Christ and he blasphemes the name of God and he mocks the Bible and says it's a lie. Doesn't tremble at all. Do you tremble tonight my friend.

Do you tremble under the power of the spirit of God. Are you afraid to die under the fact you lie your head in your pillow tonight. You'll wake up tomorrow morning in eternity and your loved ones will find a corpse in your bed.

You'll be gone into eternity. Stand before God. You can't afford to be wrong.

You can afford to be wrong in business. You can be a you can afford to be wrong in your bank. You're going to be for it to be wrong with your health but you can't afford to be wrong with your soul my friends.

You've got to live as long as God lives. As long as God lives forever forever with Christ or without Christ. Oh I would impress upon you.

I would impress upon you in this modernistic age when those who profess to be servants of God are denying the book. Denying the blood. Denying the resurrection of Christ.

Denying the merits of his atoning death. Denying the factors of heaven and hell. I would warn you solemnly in God's name tonight to be not deceived by these preachers of the 20th century.

They lie. They lie my friends. We have no sympathy for the modernist preacher.

They almost sent me to hell and I warn you solemnly that you'll lose your soul if you listen to these ear-sickling preachers of the 20th century. There is a God. God tells you you're a sinner and he says there's no difference.

What a solemn sweeping statement. We look in the jail and we see the man there whose hands are stained with blood and we see over here the respectable good living citizen of Toronto. God says there's no difference.

They're both sinners and they're both lost without Christ. And I tell you my friends that hell will be filled with good upright clean respectable people who rejected Christ and who spurned the gospel of God's love. Are you among them tonight? Dear young lady you've come here tonight.

Somebody's brought you. Somebody's prayed for you. Somebody's cried for you.

Somebody's wept for you young boy. Your mother's cried for you. Your father's wept for your soul.

You've come here tonight under the sound of God's word and you're without Christ. You're going to hell. You're going down to the long broad road to destruction.

God has brought you here tonight on this day in which this world celebrates the resurrection of the man they murdered. The resurrection from the dead of the Lord Jesus Christ who came out of the grave in manhood. A man who broke the bonds of death.

You've come here tonight. I say again when this world celebrates the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ and I ask you tonight is he your savior? Is he yours? Do you love him? Is he precious to your heart? Are you numbered among the redeemed? You know whether it's right or not. As you sit in that chair you know down deep in your heart whether you're saved or not.

You know whether tonight you're ready to meet God or not. You know whether the question of sin is settled between you and God or not. You know it.

As you sit in that chair if I could go down and talk to you and say if you were to die tonight where would you spend eternity? Would you have to hang your head and say well I just hope that the mercy of God would bring me in friends? It won't. It will not. God my friend is going to judge sin.

God is going to judge sin. I don't care what the preachers of this day say. God is going to judge sin.

He's going to judge it. He tells us. And he's appointed the day in which he's going to do it.

You better be ready my friends. You've got to stand before God. People have told me when I stand there I have something to say.

I'll ask God why he made me. I'll ask God why he let me sin. But the Bible says you'll be speechless.

You'll have nothing to say. You'll be speechless. You'll have no excuse.

You'll stand there guilty. And in this very chapter in the third of Romans God says that every mouth may be stopped and all the world will become guilty before God. Oh isn't that wonderful my friends? The first step to heaven.

The very first step to heaven is to find out you're a sinner. You'll never get to heaven till you find you're a sinner. When you find you're a sinner then you'll look for a savior.

But until you don't never if you never find out you're a sinner you'll never want a savior. Man reaches out for the straws. Religion.

Oh they say if you only knew my religion. My friends hell will be filled with men. Religious men who crucified Christ.

I want to tell you it wasn't the drunkards that crucified Christ. It wasn't the immoral people that crucified Christ. It was the men of religion who crucified Christ.

And from Cain's day down to this 1964. The enemies of the cross. The enemies of God's grace.

The religious men who hate the gospel. I ask you I challenge you my friends to stay behind after this meeting and dare to deny it. You dare to deny that statement.

You can't. Man's a sinner from head to foot. Is there no hope? Is there no chance? Is there no way out? Yes there is.

Let's turn to first Timothy chapter 1 verse 15. There's a way out my friend. There's only one way.

Only one. First Timothy chapter 1 verse 15. This is a faithful, sane, and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.

Isn't that wonderful? He came into the world to save sinners. Isn't that wonderful? And I want to read just a few verses in Matthew 27. This is the greatest story this world has ever heard.

There's no story like it. If you want to read a love story read the 27th of Matthew. It surpasses all love stories man ever thought of.

There's no man can think of a love story like Matthew 27. Just a few verses. The 33rd.

When they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say a place of a skull, they gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall. When he had tasted of it he would not drink, and they crucified him and parted his garments, casting lots that might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet. They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots.

Think of this next verse how cold blooded man's wicked heart is. And sitting down they watched him there. The most lovely man this world ever saw.

We've often said the only gentleman who ever lived. And they sat down in their cold blood and they watched him suffer. There was never a man like him.

Never a man walked this world like that blessed man. Glorious savior of sinners as he walked this world. His heart is filled with love.

The Bible says, the word of God tells us that grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. His heart filled with love. His hands filled with grace and truth.

He came from the father's heart, from the glory seen to this world. And he walked this scene, sin apart, everything to triumph. And as he saw man in his sin, I believe that blessed one wept.

He prayed all night. And as he walked through this scene, healing the sick and raising the dead and opening the eyes of the blind, everything he did was kind, was good, was gracious. Man would love to have a world like that where all sickness could be done away and where death could be vanquished.

But man doesn't want Christ. He wants to get rid of death and sin, but he doesn't want to get rid of Christ. He doesn't want Christ rather.

Oh my friends, he walked this scene and they crucified him. And notice down in the chapter, he was crucified with two thieves. Think of the insult in the 44th verse.

The thieves, all of which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth. Now from the sixth hour, there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice saying, Eli, Eli, Lamb of Sabaxonai, that is to say, my God, my God, why has thou forsaken me? Oh friends, do you know the answer to the question? Do you know the answer? Have you ever found the answer? I want to tell you something.

If you'll pardon the personal reference. Every Sunday, about 40 times a year, I went to a place, I never heard the answer to this question. In fact, I never heard the question ever read.

Think of it. Never heard the question read. It's the most amazing question that ever this world ever heard from the lips of a man.

In the darkness, alone with God. As a sin bearer, my sins were laid upon Christ. Just imagine, my sins were laid upon the Lord Jesus Christ.

He was made sin for me. The weight of my guilt was laid upon his blessed person. God looked down upon that cross and he saw that holy man with my sins on him.

And he turned his face away. He was forsaken. Oh, what a solemn.

And we don't, we don't know what it means. We don't, we can't enter into it, my friends. If God forsook you for a second, you'd be dead.

You couldn't stand. If God forsook you for a millionth part of a second, you'd be dead instantly. Here was this blessed man, alone in the darkness, forsaken of God, alone.

As the strokes of judgment fell down upon his holy head, blow after blow descended from the hand of God upon that holy savior, upon that blessed one as he bore the storm. His open bosom was my ward and bore the storm for me. All my sins laid upon him.

God punished him. God judged him for me, for me. Oh, friends, did he do it for you? Was it for you the savior died? Was it for you he paid the price? Do you love him? Do you love him, young lady? Has he won your heart? What can God do more to win your heart and to give his son? I think of the Lord Jesus as he said, from a heart that's filled with love as he stood there with Nicodemus and said, for God so loved the world.

I like to think of the Lord Jesus and I speak reverently saying, Nicodemus, I can't tell you. I can't tell you. For God so loved the world, he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Friends, it means you. It means you. There's no religion in this world can save you.

People say, well, if I change my religion and I tell you, my friends, from my heart tonight, I believe that God hates religion. The world is filled with it. You can find it all over.

The great city of Montreal is just reeked with it. Men standing on the corner with books in their hands denying the eternal sanctum of Christ. What do you think of it? What do you think of it? Man leans on religion.

He says, I trust my church, but I curse my God. Oh, I think of men I know in the city of Montreal who curse and blaspheme God's name seven days a week, seven days a week, and they're leaning on their religion to get them to heaven. They're going to go to hell, my friends, unless they come to Christ.

For Christ is the only savior that God has for sinners. There's one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. There's nobody else.

The Virgin Mary fades away when Jesus comes on the scene. And all the apostles and the prophets, they vanish off the scene as Christ comes forth in all his loveliness and his beauty. And God rends the heavens and says, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.

And Moses and Elijah, they vanish off the scene. And we heard this morning, they lift up their eyes and they saw no man save Jesus, only with themselves. Oh, is Jesus Christ your savior and Lord? My dear man tonight, if you were to die, oh friends, you may die tonight.

I met a man some years ago, worked in the same company in Montreal. We walked down the street, his name was Charlie. We got talking about these things.

And to my amazement, Charlie told me he was a Christian. He knew the Savior. He knew Christ.

And I attended his funeral last Saturday, a week ago Saturday, where Charlie's gone to be with the Lord now. He died very, very suddenly. He didn't expect to die, but he was cut down in a moment of time.

He was seized with a heart attack. And I attended his funeral. And the preacher spoke those lovely words in the first epistle of Peter chapter one, inheritance undefiled, that faith is not a way reserved in heaven for you or kept by the power of God through faith.

And he told of this young man, this man rather, who in his younger days had given his heart to the Savior and had left this world to be with his Savior and Lord and Redeemer. What a wonderful thing it was. It was a victory, my friends.

It was a victory. For every Christian, death is a victory. A victory.

And I think of this blessed one as he bore my sins and the judgment of God fell upon him, he said in the 19th of John, verse 30, it is finished. He bore the whole load. There's nothing left, my friends.

There's no need to go to purgatory. There's no such a place. Oh, to depart and be with Christ as the Apostle Paul is far better.

I step up to the beloved Apostle and I say, Paul, if you die tonight, where are you going to go to? And he said, I'm going to be with Christ, which is far better. He didn't have any doubt. Tonight, my friend, if you'll trust the Savior, you can be just as saved as the Apostle Paul, just as saved as the Apostle Peter.

You can be just as sure of getting to heaven as the Lord Jesus himself is there. I speak reverently. What a wonderful Savior.

He's able to save you. And we point to the cross and we see that blessed one as he bowed his head in death. He bowed his head and we see his thorn crowned head, the blood running down his face as we sometimes sing that beautiful hymn, 283.

That lovely hymn, when we survey the wondrous cross in which the Lord of glory died, the blood runs down his face. His eyes are closed in death. His great heart has stopped beating.

He was dead. Jesus was dead. And he was dead for me.

Dead for me, my friends. I trust him as my Savior. If he wasn't my Savior, I'm going to hell where I deserve to go.

Thank God he's my Savior. He died for me. He paid the price for me.

He suffered the just for the unjust to bring a worthless, hell-deserving sinner to God. Praise God he did it. He paid the price.

He paid the whole hundred cents and the dollars, plus five cents extra. Isn't it wonderful? Isn't it wonderful, my friends? And they laid that blessed man in the tomb. And they rolled the great stones of the tomb.

And there he was in that tomb. Man sealed the tomb with the Roman seal and put soldiers all around the grave. But oh, I love to think of the great stone that rolled away.

And I see in the darkness of that tomb a form coming out. And as he comes out into the light, I see in his hands the nail print. And I see in his side the spear mark.

And I see in his feet the nail print. It's Christ. He's burst the bonds of death.

Death couldn't hold that blessed one. He smashed the bonds of death. He arose a mighty victor over his foes.

Jesus lives. Jesus who was on Calvary's cross. He lives.

He lives. He's the remedy for sin. He's the remedy for sin.

Oh, thank God the receipt, the receipt, the debt has been paid. And the receipt is at the right hand of God, a living man. He's there with a nail print in his hand.

He stands up, as it were, in the very presence of God. With all the angels around him, he stands and they bow their heads in reverence. And I love to think of that day when he arose from the dead, a living savior, the conqueror of death, the sinless one, the one who was here in this world and who walked every step for the glory of God.

Every look he made was for the glory of God. Every word he spoke was for the glory of God. And I like to think as he ascended in his majesty, in his glorious person, into the very heavens above.

And as he entered into those gates, I love to think of the mighty angel Gabriel and Michael and the heavenly host, as they reverently bowed. Jesus Christ the Lord walked into the glory land. Never before had a man been there.

There he was in manhood, the Christ. Oh, doesn't it thrill your heart, my friends, as he walked into the glory of God? And all heaven bows in adoration and praise as that glorious man walks to the throne of God and sits down, a glorious savior, glorious savior, with the marks in his hands and feet that tell of his mighty love. And for all eternity, those marks will be there to remind us in glory that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures, and that he was buried and that he rose again the third day, according to the scriptures.

Friends, that's the remedy for sin. The disease is sin. The disease has seized you, my friend.

You've got it tonight, unless the Lord Jesus is your savior. And if the Lord Jesus is your savior tonight, then the precious blood of Christ has washed your sins away. The story has been told of a man who was working with a group of men in a building, and this man lost his balance and he fell.

And his friends were astonished to see him get up. They thought he'd be dead. When they went down, they found that as he fell, there were a few sheep were passing by.

He led by this farmer down to the farm. This man had fallen with all his weight on the sheep, crushed to death. His life was spared, and the sheep was crushed.

Oh, what a picture. What a picture, my friends. Oh, to think of it, that blessed lamb of God on that cross, buried in the judgment of God, that we might be saved for eternity.

Friends, are you trusting the Savior tonight? Maybe you say, maybe there's a lady here who says, yes, I believe with all my heart that Christ died for me. I think of a lady outside the hall of Thomas and New Brunswick, who said to me one night, when I asked her, do you believe that the Lord Jesus died for your sins upon the cross of Calvary? She looked at me and said, I believe it with all my heart. I said to her, my dear lady, you're just as fit for heaven tonight as you'll ever be.

You're just as fit for heaven as the Apostle Paul. And I can, I'll never forget her face. She raised her head, and the light, the light was on her face.

She believed God. She believed God, and the light flashed into her soul. Oh, what happiness and what joy, what peace comes to those who just trust the Savior.

Friends, what more can we say? What more can we tell you? Must we go on to 830? Is there any necessity to go on to carry on the meeting? No, my friends, we've told you the disease. We've told you the awfulness of sin. We've told you the word of God says that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

We've told you, my friends, there's none good, or God has told you there's none good. No, not one. You can't find a good man in the whole world.

You can't find them. The only good man was crucified, nailed to the cross, and rejected, and cast out. We've told you, my friends, you're a sinner, and we've told you that Jesus is a Savior.

What must you do? What must you do to be saved? I'll tell you, my friends, just bow your head in that seat there, and shut your eyes, and say, oh God, I am a sinner. I know it. I believe you're word.

I believe what you say is true, and tonight I believe that Jesus took my place and died for me. I believe it with all my heart. Please, Lord Jesus, come into my heart, and right away, instantly, you'll be a child of God.

And supposing as you walked out of that door, and shook hands, and said, tonight I receive the Lord Jesus as my Savior, and instantly, you drop dead on the floor. Just imagine. You'd open your eyes in the presence of the King.

Open your eyes in the presence of that lovely man, for by grace are you saved. True faith, and that not of yourselves, it's a gift of God. It's a gift of God, not by works, lest any man should boast.

Works can't save you, my friends. Christ, Christ alone, will you receive him tonight? I recommend to you the Savior of sinners. His precious blood will cleanse you from all sins.

You know, you may say, well, sir, if you knew how bad I was, you wouldn't talk like that. Friend, you may be stained black as coal with sin. You may be the worst sinner in Toronto, the worst sinner in Ontario, the worst sinner in Canada, or the worst sinner in North America.

But I tell you on the authority of God's Word, that the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses us from all sins. You tonight can be justified, and redeemed, and saved, and receive a new life from God, and leave this room rejoicing, and free, and full salvation. I beg of you, as I bow my head in prayer, won't you pray, sinner friend? You need the Savior.

You're a sinner, oh dear young boy with Christian fathers and mothers. You need the Savior. This might be your last chance.

This may be God's last message to you. As we've often said, I love to think of the Apostle John on the Isle of Patmos as he writes the 22nd chapter of the book of Revelation. I love to think of God saying to John, stop, John, stop.

I must give one last invitation to those four creatures. And he says, whosoever will may come and take the water of life freely. Will you come tonight and take the water? Oh, I pray God you'll be saved tonight.

I pray, dear sinner friend, you'll put aside all your superstitions, all your thoughts of good work, of religion. You'll just cast the whole thing overboard, and you'll fall into the arms of Jesus, and receive him as your Savior. Confess him as your Lord, and have that joy and that peace that no man, including the devil himself, can take from you.

What a Savior. May God exalt Christ tonight for his eternal glory and praise. Let us pray.