In this sermon, the preacher discusses the commissioning of the Seventy by Jesus in the 10th chapter of the Gospel of Luke. He emphasizes that those who hear and despise the message of the Seventy are actually treating Jesus and God lightly. The preacher also highlights the idea that sinners are not innocent victims but willful rebels against God's son. He warns against hardening oneself against the claims of God for his son and emphasizes the importance of listening to Jesus. The sermon concludes with the reminder that our breath and existence are in God's hands, and we cannot live or move without him.

And may I say a deep thank you for my wife and myself for the two weeks we've had the privilege of being with you. It's been a great joy to me to have the battleaxe with me. She doesn't go with me much. She's getting old, you know. This is the first meeting she's been with me in many years. We're grateful. The Royal, the way you've treated us, the way you've received us. Your pastor holds lots of meetings and thus he's learned in an exceptional way how to treat a visitor. And we thank God for him and for you. We would ask that you make us the object of your prayer. We won't get to hold any more meetings much unless the Lord opens the door. I'm rejoicing that I've been preaching now about three months without any rest and I have made it. And I was wondering when we made the schedules if I could hold out. I'm under doctor's care and I haven't seen him now in a long while. I want to make a public apology to Brother Paul Williams. I've said some mean things about him. But last night he gave me a semi-chiropractic treatment and settled my nerves, eased the pain, and I slept the sleep of the innocent. And I apologized to him this morning and told him he's a fine fellow. And he said his mother always said that he is a fine little boy. I appreciate it so very much. They're building one of these McDonald's hamburger joints in our town. I sure hope they got it completed by tomorrow night. We've got Brother Meehan on our hands. We'll have to feed him tomorrow night. Cheapest you can get a hamburger in our town right now is 19 cents, but if they get that in you can get one of them 15 cents and we can make that. We just tickle that he's going to go home with us and on his way to Rocky Mountain. Rocky Mount. And we'll have him as our house guest and we'll rejoice in him. Him being delivered by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken and with wicked hands have crucified and slain. The silliest thing that has ever hatched up in the mind of a man was that Jesus Christ was just a good man. If he were just a good man, that's just impossible. Everybody likes Jesus today and they'll do everything about him except listen to him and bow to him and obey him. But that's an absolutely impossible situation for Jesus Christ got exactly what is coming to him when men with wicked hands took him and nailed him to a tree. He is God Almighty. He's either a madman that should have been crucified or he's either God Almighty in the flesh who should have been received, who should have been worshipped, who should have been listened to, who should have been obeyed. There's no way on earth to explain American so-called Christianity except say it's physical impossibility. There are just one or two attitudes that are consistent. Either hate Jesus for the madman he is and how he tried to hoodwink a world of mankind or love him and worship him and serve him. He's either God in the flesh or he's the worst madman that ever lived. There is no in between. America has sinned more against God's testimony about Jesus Christ than any other nation since time began. No wonder that America for some years now has become the land of sudden death. Those who count figures, analyze situations, inform us that in the United States of America every time two people die one of them dies a sudden death. Dies without time to make preparation for his long home. Airplanes crash. People start across the street, never get there. People burst their brains out on a bathtub. People dying all about us suddenly. Many of them we call accidental deaths. But in God's world of course there are no accidents. And it is a solemn thing to face the fact as I leave a congregation and go elsewhere to remember that I've been preaching most of my ministry. It's in a land where God Almighty brings action many a time and sends men out into eternity who have been often reproved and who meet that reproof by stiffening and hardening themselves against God. And God says he that being often reproved, hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed. And that without remedy. Since Adam's time nobody's ever been a guilty sinner. Adam started the ball rolling when he admitted what he'd done but laid the blame on his wife. And he hurled his situation back in the hands of God and sought to make God responsible for his estranged condition by saying the woman thou gavest me she did so and so and I listened to her and after all you're to blame you ought never to have given me the woman in the first place. From that hour to this, every unsaved man tries his dead level best to put the blame for his lost, undone, ruined, obnoxious to hell condition back in the laps of Almighty God. That's the reason God scares so many people who won't. Keep telling them they can't. They are different people and all of God's reproof is the act of a monster God warning and threatening people who are after all in a bad shape but they're not responsible for it themselves. Either the wife of somebody is the reason they're still in a state of willful unbelief and on their road to hell. There is just one controversy between God and sinful men and that's the person and work of Jesus Christ. The Bible is crystal clear. God's just got one little matter that he constantly brings before you. The controversy between God and man is not sin now for God understands that and he's done something about it. The controversy between you and a holy God is the fact that you thus far with your eyes wide open, maybe you've made a profession of faith and hiding behind that, you've joined the church and hiding behind that, but you've never come under to God's Son and sanctified him as Lord in your heart. Which God Almighty demands of every human being and which he requires. And men have been sending God a message back ever since the gospel was planted in this country as it has never been planted in any country on topside of God's earth. God's been asking, listen to men and women, we will not have your Son to reign over us. Nobody in this country's got an objection to Jesus being a Savior. The issue in this country is Jesus being Lord. And thus we've had a gospel that denies his Lordship and is sending people to hell from our churches with the name of Jesus on their lips. But with Jesus Christ not enshrined as absolute Lord of their lives, that's the conflict of this hour. That's the conflict of this hour. Oh, what a conflict it is. I seem to shut my eyes and close everything out and I can hear the multitudes of people today, not in so many words, but in all of our actions. Sending God a message, we just plain will not have your Son to have his rightful place, the place you've ordained to have in our lives. I sat down years ago in a hotel room with a man that God used as he never used any man, I think in America, dear old Mordecai Ham, prophet of God. How God did use him. And I said, Brother Ham, give the young preacher the message for today. And he said, Brother Barnett, the message for today is who is Jesus. I said, it's always been the message. There'll never be any other. We must stick to it. Who is Jesus? Who is Jesus? I received the compliment years ago in Binghamton, New York. A man was criticizing me and he passed me the best compliment I've ever received. He said, I'm not coming back to hear him. You hear him once, you hear all he's got to say. Oh, what else is worthwhile talking about to men and women who do not have the Lord, except to just pressing the one thing that counts. Jesus Christ, by God's eternal decree, in virtue of his life laid down, is Lord. Bow down to him. That's the starting point. No use talking about anything else until we get the right start. And I come tonight with a warning message. There are some peculiar things about 13th Street Baptist Church, but most of them, I think, are very good. And I know Henry Mahan doesn't have all the truth and neither do I. But I just bet you I'm not speaking to anybody here tonight who hadn't been faced time after time with the truth of God's testimony about who Jesus Christ is and what response God requires of men and women. As they face Jesus Christ in the gospel and in the written word of God. Hear me? Listen to me. It is my high privilege and has been most of my ministry to go to churches and cities where they have never heard anything that sounds like the truth about the Lord. The Lord Jesus Christ. God have mercy on anybody in Ashland, Kentucky, that goes to hell. And God have mercy on anybody that ever attends a service this year and finally winds up in hell. How many stripes you'll have, only God knows. For to whom much is given, much is required. And I come knowing that this last message has been here so many times, it's in the laps of God, whether he'll ever be back or not, we don't know about tomorrow. And I know that the gospel that preached after I'm gone, but a man came happy this last time. He says, Oh, let me be faithful to warn people of the high cost you're likely to pay for continued hardening yourself against the reproof of God. Concerning his son. In God's name, get out of your hiding place. I've been doing the best to say one thing here. Try to rob you of every piece you have. In some doctrine, or if you could hide behind the doctrine, you'll sure do that. Or behind some individual. Or if you could, you'd do that. Just spring out in the open. Or as a poor preacher can handle the word of God, having to trust the Holy Spirit. And just keep hammering on this, that if you go to hell, you'll not go as an innocent victim of a monster God, but you'll go to hell as a willful refusal to listen to God's testimony and act upon it. Concerning his son. If I believed that sinners were innocent victims, I'd never preach another sermon. I'd curse God if that'd do any good. But this Bible says we're not innocent victims. We are willful rebels against Almighty God's Son and what He's declared Him to be. And there's nothing on God's earth that'll bring out the deep hatred in men's hearts. There's nothing on God's earth that'll separate the men from the boys today quite so much as this business of just keep looking men and women in the face. That's what God says about it. This is the Son of my love in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him. Listen to Him. America, the land of sudden death. As we were coming home, my wife said, the Marine Band's in town. I don't know nothing about it. I may pull a bone or talk about something I don't know. But said he gonna play over at some high school or somewhere tonight, you know. Oh, the spirit of rebellion against God's Son in America. The best television shows are on Wednesday night. Most of the prize fights are on Wednesday night. The best television shows, they tell me, are on Sunday night. This generation of men and women, they join the churches of America and working for the inside or doing it their level best to banish Jesus Christ from America. They're doing it. The war's on. The war's on. There's a war going on now between the communist nations who claim to be anti-God and Britain and France and America and Canada who are for God, but against His Son. And in between is the Christian who's seeking to say a word about the Son and the Christian who knows. That America that prints the name of God with trust on its coins opens Congress with prayer and dedicates every building by asking the preacher. Now they have the preachers to bless all of everything. And yet this nation of ours is anti-Christian. It's not anti-God. We call on God when we're in a picklement. But the Bible says if we do not honor the Son, we cannot honor God. I'm trying to say now that we're living in the most terrible times of this earth's experience because men with their lips talk about our dependence in God. But we will not listen to His Son. And that's the controversy of this hour. And the wrath of God is being stored upon men and women who have the Son constantly placed before them and His claims pressed upon them. And the warning of the Old Testament in the New is in the language of my text, he that be an orphan reproved, hardened at his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. Men do harden themselves. Lost man, you've been hiding behind something, laying your lost condition on God a long time. Every time you face His claims about His Son and you find your nice little refuge to keep from having to face it, your heart is broken. And the next time it's easier to find a cave, and the next time it's still easier. And that program will land you one day right in the wrath of God who has faithfully promised that for men and women who keep on reproving, keep on hardening themselves against His reproof, they'll suddenly be destroyed. I challenge you ladies and gentlemen to find in this book where God's got but one issue with this generation. He's not trying to close up all the bare joints. He's presenting the claims of His Son. He's not trying to make this a better world in which to live. He says, go and burn it up. He's presenting the claims of His Son. That's the only thing. He just keeps us. He won't change His subject. He's monotonous. This is my Son. What think ye of Him? What think ye of Him? Whose Son is He? The Bible will say, what have you done about Him? What think ye of Him? This is my Son. Listen to Him. Listen to Him. And people get them a little refuge to get away from the insistent, clamorous voice of the Holy Spirit. Thus they harden themselves. Houston, you ought to run me crazy when I see people deliberately harden themselves against the Spirit of God, taking the truth of God about His Son and pressing the claims of Jesus Christ. If you know any other thing the Holy Spirit does except take the truth of God's testimony about Jesus Christ and keep pressing that truth and that Son on sinful people. You come tell me about after service. When He talk, He'll not talk of Himself, but He'll talk of Him who is God manifest in the flesh. And men harden themselves. Men keep on hardening themselves. And I used to couldn't stand it. I said, my, why do people harden themselves against the Lord? Jesus Christ, why do they do it? I was out in Lubbock, Texas in the last two, three years for my fifth campaign out there. Hadn't been back in 27 years, I think. And I, when I got out there, sitting right down on the front seat every night was a man that I asked about him. He was paralyzed, couldn't hear a word. And, but they'd bring him to service every night. 27 years before, I saw that man go through a meeting and several times I saw him under such deep conviction that he'd have to be carried out by two men and driven home. One night, the Spirit of God dealt with him so tremendously that they had to have a stretcher and an ambulance to get him home. But brother, he doubled up his fist and spat on his hands. And he put on a good battle, brother, and the pity about it is he won. And one night, the last night, I saw that happen. He was stricken in a paroxysm of the Holy Ghost and his body was paralyzed. And for 27 years, he'd just been a man, couldn't speak, couldn't do anything, eat like a hog, couldn't hear the message, couldn't understand it if he did. Just existing, God struck him. You tell me, well, if the Holy Spirit would strive with people, they'd be saved. You don't know your Bible, brother. I don't understand it, I can't handle it theologically, thank God I don't have to. But not everybody the Spirit deals with surrenders. Most of them up until now hang on for dear life and succeed in resisting the Holy Ghost's claims about Jesus Christ until they die and they go to hell. And some of them resist him and harden themselves until God snaps them out and sends them into an eternity without any chance to prepare. I'll never forget the man in Detroit, Michigan. He was a terrible fellow. He delighted in insulting preachers and Christian people, and he delighted in asking people to leave his house and demanding that preachers leave him alone. And he could cuss the church and everything until he had glue in the face. He had a godly Christian wife and a little three-and-a-half-year-old beautiful girl, curly, golden-colored hair, pink cheeks. And one morning after I preached on the Sunday morning service, I was greeting the people down at the front, and I felt somebody tugging at my coattail, and I looked around, and the little three-and-a-half-year-old girl was standing there, and she held up her arms, and I took her in my arms, and she put her little fat arms around my neck and just broke my heart. As with her arms around my neck, the little three-and-a-half-year-old girl, they know a lot more than we think to do. She sobbed out in her little baby language, oh, Bubba Bonner, I want my daddy to get saved. Bubba Bonner, I want my daddy to get saved. Bubba Bonner, I want my daddy to get saved. And a mother came and took her out of my arms, and she was weeping, and I said, do your best, sister, to make it convenient for your husband to listen. I was on the radio at three o'clock on Sunday afternoon, and this man would listen to you preach on the radio. He wouldn't darken the door of a church house, but he had a hobby or something to have, and he'd listen on the radio. And I said, do your best. See to it he listens to me. I'm going to send him a message, and it did come to pass. I found out that he did listen to me, and we had the service on the radio, the song service, and I preached a little while, and then I said, I beg the pardon of the radio audience for two, three minutes. I want to send a personal message, and I think it's a message from God. And I said, I have hopes and reason to believe that somebody's listening to my voice. Now, I'm going to tell you what happened this morning. I think it is God's last message to you. I said this morning, your little curly-haired, beautiful girl, gift of God, crawled up in my arms and put her arms around my neck and sobbed out her cry, oh, Bubba Bonner, I want my daddy to get saved. I want my daddy to get saved. I want my daddy to get saved. And I said, mister, you know who I'm talking to. You've cussed preachers. You've ordered them out of the home. You've been proud of how tough you are. You won't come to God's house. You try to be smart about it. And I said with all of my heart, I believe this is God speaking to you through the broken-hearted, tearful voice of your little girl. And I demand that you get down on your face before that radio and repent toward God and come unto Jesus Christ. You know what he did? He turned the radio off, got his hat, hurled a curse at me, shouted at his wife, opened the door, went through it, slammed it, crushing, and went to the nearest beer tavern. And before I got back home, where I'd been entertained after the radio broadcast, somebody shot him to death. And he went out yondering to the hands of the God who cussed the cuss, who had spoken to him through the tears of his three-and-a-half-year-old baby girl, hardened himself, resisted the claims of God in Jesus Christ, and became another example of Proverbs 29 in 1. He, that being often reproved, hardened his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. Ladies and gentlemen, in my final message to you tonight, I want to call your attention again to the fact that you're dealing with a God who in the past has killed people, and he's still killing people. There are no accidents in God's world. God, the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, is a God who kills people. His destruction he's talking about in this text is just getting rid of as far as his life is concerned, and putting you out yonder where there is no remedy. Sudden death. Sudden death comes from the hands of the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ. You know, my friends, this God who warns, he, that being often reproved, hardened his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy is the same God whose I've called your attention time after time here. The Bible says that he destroyed every human being in the world in flood time days except eight souls, and the scientists tell us there were more people alive in the world then than there are now. It is almost unbelievable. No wonder they're shooting at the Old Testament now that talks about a God who in his wrath brought a flood and drowned perhaps three billion people at one time. But that's the God of this Bible. That's the God who hung his Son on the cross. That's the God who's turned over all judgment to his Son. That's the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ. The God of the Bible rained fire and brimstone down out of heaven and utterly destroyed in the face, from the face of the earth so that you can't find out where they were. Two great cities and the suburbs, Sodom and Gomorrah, literally destroyed the city and everybody's in it except Lot and his family. Listen to me, ladies and gentlemen. Listen to me. The God of the Bible is a God who kills people. He kills people. He kills people. Mordecai Hamm was in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, my wife's town, many years ago. In those days, all the merchants were asked to turn out and they'd have services in the daytime. All the stores would be closed. And 40 of the prominent merchants of that little city, perhaps 25,000 people, boycotted the meeting and did a lot of talking against it. And Mr. Hamm got up in the pulpit and prophesied that within 12 months' time, all 40 of them would die a terrible death and be in hell. And you can go to Okmulgee now and find out. It happened. And that city's never got over it yet. This poor preacher who preaches to you now has left a trail of death all over this country. Every place I've ever been where I've seen God really work, I've also seen sudden death. I tell you, my friends, I can't explain it. But where the Spirit of God is pleased to reprove men and men are pleased to harden themselves, God Almighty is pleased to bring terrible death on men who would destroy the testimony of God about his Son. Oh, my soul, this is a land where God Almighty is destroying men and women by fisting them with death and hurling them out into eternity where there is no remedy. I don't apologize for this book, brother. It's God's book. I never have joined the course of apologizing for the God of the Old Testament. I never have apologized for preaching out of a book that tells us about a God who killed 3 billion people at one time. It's just so, brother, and it stumbles me and it staggers me, but it's the truth of the Word of God. And if we were bright, bright, we'd be a little less free to trifle with the threats and warnings and invitations and commands and demands of a God who's got the power and has the will and has to wipe 3 billion people off the face of the earth. And when he warns people he's to be listened to, and when he directs our attention to his Son, he's to be heeded. Ladies and gentlemen, it is a costly, dangerous thing to harden yourself against the claims of God for his Son, for his Son, for his Son. You know, you're in the hands tonight of a God about whom the Bible says our breath is in his hands. You're in the hands of God tonight about whom the Bible says we live and we move and we have our being in him. This book actually teaches, that's the 17th chapter of Acts, that I lived in him. I couldn't live if he took his hand off of me. I move, I couldn't move if he took his hand off of me. I couldn't exist if he took his hand off of me. I tell you, my friends, that's pretty solid. This Bible says I'll not get my next breath unless he gives it to me. This Bible says I can't move a step except in him. God help us all that God would have to do to destroy a rebel who's hardened himself against God's Son, just not to give you your next breath, just take his hand off of you, and you drop into hell. You drop into hell. I used to preach when I was a young fellow, wonderful how God overlooks our ignorance, I used to preach that men ought to be sent to hell. What I learned a long time ago, I never have preached to anybody that ought to be sent to hell. The people I preach to ought to be in hell already, ought to be in hell already. And the people I preach to, the only reason they're not in hell is because the God who holds them in the hollow of his hand, in mercy and patience and longsuffering, doesn't cut them off in their rebellion. But it's a fearful thing to live and move and exist and be absolutely dependent on the one whose testimony about his Son men and women refuse to heed. It's a terrible thing. Some of these days God's going to answer your prayer, leave me alone, don't bother me. I've got a living to make and I've got this, that and the other and I don't want somebody constantly presenting this Jesus to me demanding that I come under to him. Leave me alone, leave me alone, leave me alone. On the 22nd night of December, in a northern city, we stood for an invitation in an evangelistic campaign. And I remember right down on the fourth row of pews, on the corner, was a young lady and sitting next to an older lady. And as the choir started to sing, I saw the older lady lay her hand gently on the shoulder of the young woman. And I don't know what she said, but I can imagine. And the young woman, I could tell, deeply resented it, said something back to her. Her eyes were flashing, her face was flushed. And the Spirit of God said for me to go. There's a high, a big old tabernacle, a high platform. I had to walk down some steps and I did. And the Spirit didn't tell me what to say. And as I was walking, he just told me to go. And I had my eyes almost closed walking there to her and saying, Lord, you told me to go, what you want me to say, and I get there. And it turned out he didn't want me to say anything. For as I got nearly to the young lady, I sensed it and I opened my eyes and looked up and looked into her face. And before I could say a word, she said, for Christ's sake, leave me alone. And for his sake, I'll leave you alone. I'm mean as a devil, but if you could convince me that Jesus would be glorified and be for his sake, I'd try to do most anything. And I'm looking in your face, honey, if you dead sure want to be left alone, for Christ's sake. That's all I can do is just leave you there. And I bowed and I said, all right. And I turned and walked back and continued the invitation. And directly she stormed out of the building. I never saw her again. On the first day of January, she and her young man that she was engaged to be married to got in her little coupe and started across the traffic of that city to have New Year's dinner with some friends. In route, their car had a head-on collision with another car. There were five people in the other car. They weren't scratched. Her young man friend wasn't hurt. She was thrown out with a broken neck. She was dead when they got to her. The paper published this so-and-so had met an accidental death in a car accident, but it wasn't an accident. I'll tell you exactly what happened. In the 10th chapter of the gospel of Luke, at the 16th verse, the Lord Jesus commissioned the 70 to go out and talk about him. And he told them in the 16th verse, he that heareth you, heareth me. And he that despises, treats lightly you, despises, treats lightly me. And he that treats lightly me, treats lightly him that sent me. As God is my Lord and my Judge. When I walked out of that platform and walked down to stay awake, as the Spirit of God gave me utterance to that young woman a few nights before, I didn't walk alone. Ladies and gentlemen, every child of God who witnesses the Lordship and Saviorhood of Jesus Christ and presses his claims and his rights on men and women doesn't do it alone. And when I press the claims of Christ on men, you're not just rejecting me, you're rejecting Almighty God. And when that young woman turned to me and said, for Christ's sake, leave me alone, she didn't say it simply to me, she said it to him. And on the first day of January he answered her request and he left all alone. And that wound her up because we live and we move and we have our being in him. And when he takes his hand off of us, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it. He that being often reproved, pardon if his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. Dear brother D.L. Moody preached, he didn't know it, but he preached his last sermon. As it turned out, that was the last time he ever preached. He was stricken and hurried back to Chicago and died. And that blessed man of God preached what turned out to be his last sermon in the municipal auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. And he preached on excuses. And as only he, I suppose, could, he went into the excuses that men offer as to why they will not receive God's Son. As their Lord and Savior. And when he comes to the invitation, that God knew it was going to be his last sermon, I guess he didn't. And he gave this unusual invitation that I'm going to pass on to you. And it'll be my pressing hope that you'll listen to it. Mr. Moody said, my message is done. And now I want you people to act. I want every person here to act. And I want to know how many in this auditorium will send God a message. Dear God in heaven, on this, and he gave the date, in the municipal auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri, I have heard your humble servant, D.L. Moody, preach on excuses as to why men will not come to Christ. And I have heard your humble servant demand and invite that right here and now I bow to your Son and receive him as my Lord and my Savior. Dear God in heaven, I will not do it. At least that'd be consistent, wouldn't it? That'd be honest, wouldn't it? I just want you to know, God, I don't believe all this Bible business. I make it all right. I'm not faxing to receive him. As my all in all, as the song, as all I need, I do not propose to receive your Son. And Mr. Moody said, every one of you who'll be honest and consistent must be done with this dillydallying and you'll send God a message and let that sink in. This is final, this is my ballot, this is my vote, this is my decision. I will not receive your Son. Say, won't you stand to your feet? Nobody would stand. You wouldn't do that tonight, would you? Then he said, all right, if you won't do that, how many of you will send God this message? God in heaven, on this night we name the date, I've heard your humble servant D.L. Moody preaching in the Municipal Autorum in Kansas City, Missouri. He's preached on the reasons men give why they'll not come and receive your Son. And he's invited and demanded that right here and now, I receive your Son as my Lord and my Savior. How many of you will send him a message? God in heaven, I will. I will. I will receive him. Thank God, he came unto his own, and his own received him not. That's the tune of this age. But to as many as received him, to them gave he the right to be called the sons of God. We're going to stand and say, and on this night, the 18th of November, in the year of our Lord, 1962, you heard a mighty poor preacher, but a preacher. He tried to get in about to bow to me tonight, but I tried to bring you a warning about what it costs to keep on refusing to listen to my God. And I invite you tonight, I press hard upon you tonight, will you receive God's Son? With a print of the nails in his hands, with the marks of the cross on him. I lift it up at the right hand of God now, declared to be Lord of all. Will you have him as your Lord? And so many as will, we ask you to walk an aisle and make it public. And declare him before men. Let us stand. What are we going to sing? Every head bowed and every eye closed, we're going to sing number 225. Now our Father, in the name of him whom you saved your Son, the Son of your love, you tell men to listen to him. Oh, in the name of him who was God manifested in the flesh, hanging on a cross, to substitute for sin and sinner. In his name, we commit this invitation and we pray it please you that the Holy Spirit do what I can't do now, and press hard upon every individual here, the person and the work of the Lord Jesus Christ. And bring them to curse it, or surrender to him, for Jesus' sake. Amen. There are perhaps people who ought to come for membership by letter or statement. You've been saved and properly baptized and you wish to have fellowship here, you're welcome to come. But I'm concerned more than anything else that God's my judge. I've delivered my heart and soul to you. Receive God's Son. Believe on him enough to submit yourself to him like a stocking barrel. And do it publicly. And do it right now. I think that's plain. God speak to hearts while we sing. Will you do it? I will. I will. I will. I'm sending the message tonight. I'm already sending my love. I'm sending the right message right now. Come on out of that cage. Get out behind that fuse. It's no good. It's just this. God presses his Son upon you. The Jewish nation said, we won't have him. And the world's been echoing that cry ever since. How about you? How about you? I will, while we sing the second verse. Do it right now. Do it publicly. Right now. I will not repeat the song that you have yet seen. Be seated, just a moment, please.