In the sermon transcript, the preacher begins by emphasizing the importance of understanding that no one can be justified by the law. He encourages the audience to reflect on the fact that Jesus died for each person individually. The preacher also announces the passing of Mr. Lawrence Lugan and invites people to attend his funeral. The choir sings hymns before the message, and the preacher expresses gratitude for the attendees and invites them to continue coming to future services. The sermon concludes with the congregation singing hymn number 371, which praises Jesus as a wonderful Savior who hides our souls in the rock and brings us rivers of pleasure.

Now we're going to commence singing 371. 371 will be our opening hymn, and if you keep up that singing, it'll sound good. A wonderful saviour is Jesus my Lord, a wonderful saviour to me. He hideth my soul in the crest of a rock, where rivers of treasure I seek. 371. Heavenly Father, we would bow ourselves this evening reverently and humbly and exceptionally in thy holy presence, in the name of the Lord Jesus. As we come to bow ourselves before thee, we do so with a deep awareness of the fact that we should not at all be in thy presence, that we have no claim upon thee. Then we remember the value of the name of Jesus, and in his name we are accepted, in his name we are forgiven, in his name we are received by thee. We ask thee, Father, that thou wilt in love and mercy remember us tonight in this place. We need thee every moment, we need thee for every need. We need thee, Father, for the singing of the hymns, the reading of the scriptures, the delivering of the message. And Lord, in this congregation there are many personal and private needs, and we would commend them to thee, as each person here present would mention something to thee that's very personal to them. Loved ones and friends that are sick, suffering, or dying. Sins in our lives that need to be forgiven. Power of sin that needs to be broken. Loved ones that need to be brought to the Savior. Questions in our minds concerning the past or the future. Oh, Father, wilt thou in this evening service meet the need of every heart, fill the void in every life, present Christ to every soul, and move by the power of the Holy Spirit in conviction and conversion. We ask thee, Lord, that thou wilt nourish follow me tonight. This year was concerning thine wonderful son. May he stand amongst us in his risen power. May his voice be heard deep in all our hearts, and may there be an attraction that would draw us to Christ tonight. May we be drawn by the chords of love, or may we be driven by chords of affliction. But, Father, we pray that there shall be beauty will come to Christ tonight, one way or the other. And thou wilt meet, and thou wilt hear the many prayers of thy people, and we thank thee for the united and the individual prayers of thy people for these meetings. And we ask thee, Lord, that tonight thou wilt be pleased in heaven to hear and to answer, and let us rejoice that those who will find the Savior in this place. We commit the entire program of this service to thee, with every other service in the city and the country, that thy blessing might be upon thy word and upon thy servants as they preach it, and that Christ might be exalted and that many might find him as Savior. This is the burden of our hearts. As we thank thee for the wonderful, wonderful Savior we have in Jesus Christ, we give our bells to thee now for the blessing which thou art willing to pour out upon us for Jesus' sake. Amen. At this juncture of the meeting, we're going to invite the choir to sing for us. They will sing two pieces for us, Walking with the Savior in Jesus' Wonderful Lord. If you were with us last night, well, you enjoyed the choir, and now that you're with us tonight, you're going to enjoy the recital. So listen as the choir will sing for us right now. Walking with the Savior in Jesus' Wonderful Lord. Thank you. Well, we're so glad to have you with us this evening. It's nice of you all to come, and we want you to continue to come, and to come night after night and be with us for this campaign. This service will finish at, like, eight o'clock, I hope. Forty here, I'm sure. But there'll be another one that will start at nine o'clock for the heel and the hearty and the teens and the twenties. And for that, we invite everybody who's qualified to be here to be here. If you wonder whether you're young enough to be here, you ask some of the young people, and they'll tell you, if you see some of the young at them, and they'll work it out. We're looking forward to an informal hour together from nine o'clock to ten o'clock. That, they tell me, is the back shift in Scotland. And so I'll be on that back shift after this. Tomorrow evening, now listen to this. Tomorrow evening at 7.15, that's a quarter past seven, in this building, all the senior citizens are being invited to have tea here. Now, I'm told to say this, that if you're not a senior citizen or if you think you're not one, and you'd like to have that tea at 7.15, you could try and get here before that time. But everybody is invited to be here at ten minutes to eight. If you're a teen or a twenty or just married or just divorced or whatever, it would happen to be your kids, you'll be here at ten minutes to eight o'clock. The first part of the service is senior citizens, and they will join with you, and they'll expect you to be here to help them in their service. And this hall should be packed to capacity tomorrow night, and everyone that's here tonight should be here at ten minutes to eight tomorrow night. For hymn singing, it was the service at eight o'clock. Then on Tuesday at 6.30, there is a children's service, and then eight o'clock for the gospel service with hymn singing from 7.45. 7.45, hymn singing. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Wednesday afternoon, 2.30, ladies only. And we'd be so glad to have a whole lot of the ladies, and more than usual, on this Wednesday at 2.30. So now you've got Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday in here for hymn singing at four in the evening. Service at eight o'clock. Senior citizens, T at 7.15. Women at 2.30 on Wednesday. No meeting on Friday, but we're back again at seven o'clock on Saturday, and then another food day next Lord's Day, if the Lord wills it. Now, before the meeting on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, there will be a prayer meeting at 7.15. And it was good to find the prayer meeting room filled to capacity tonight, and we'd like to see it filled on Tuesday night, Wednesday night, and Thursday night at 7.15. Thank you for being here, and may the Lord bless you. Come as often as you can, and if you have difficulty in coming, let somebody know, and I'm sure they'll go along and help you to come by driving you or something like that. And if we can help you with any spiritual matters, let us know, so that we will be able to come and see you and discuss these wonderful things with you that God might be able to bless you, because we want the maximum blessing from God for the maximum number of people in the shortest possible time. And we're waiting for that, and you're praying for it, and God is ready to give it to you. Our Bible reading tonight is going to be from the Acts of the Apostles. If you've got a copy of the Scriptures with you, you might like to look at them. Acts of the Apostles, chapter 13. And Paul is speaking here about the Lord Jesus in verse 29, and he says these amazing words. Acts 13 and 29. And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree and led him into sepulchre, but God raised him from the dead. And he was seen in many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people. And we declare unto you, glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, Christ God hath fulfilled unto us, the children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again. As it is also written in the second Psalm, Thou art my son this day, have I begotten thee. Verse 38. Be it known unto you, therefore, men and brethren, that to this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins, and by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. That's all we want to read, and that's enough to preach on for the rest of the year. I want you to think up two verses before the choir sings for us again. 773. And then the choir will sing. 773 years I spent in vanity and pride. Caring not my Lord was crucified. Knowing not it was for me he died. A parable. It's very possible that right here tonight there's people who don't know that the Lord Jesus died for them personally. Before we sing it, let me make one more announcement I have here before me. You will know of the fast passing of Mr. Lawrence Logan. And his funeral will be held tomorrow from the Cooperative Funeral Parlor, 95 Warren Street, Springburn, at 3 o'clock. Now those who wish to join there at the funeral parlor will be welcome, and I'm sure appreciated. Praise the Lord! Thank you. We're going to very simply look tonight at these words of Paul as he preached the gospel because he was a powerful preacher, and an effective preacher, and a successful preacher, and a faithful preacher. And talking about the Lord Jesus Christ to these Israelites who didn't appreciate Jesus Christ at all, Paul said to them, when the soldiers had done all to him which had been written in the Old Testament prophetically, and that was directly, when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down. They took him down from the cross. You must have read in the Old Testament many things about the Lord Jesus led as a lamb to the slaughter, and the cheaply poor he had done. When they had fulfilled that, they took him down. In the Old Testament it says that all his bones were like a joint. His mouth was dried up. His tongue was cleaving through his jaw. When they had fulfilled all that, when all the waves and billows of the wrath of God came over him, when they had fulfilled all that, when the darkness had come and gone, when he was thirst fed, when he suffered, when he found in deep mire where there was no standing, and there was no foundation for his soul, when they had fulfilled all that, they took him down. That's all they could do, they took him down. And with tender hands they wrapped his body in linen clothes, and they carried him into a subtle curse. But God raised him from the dead. All that humanity, what brave humanity can do with Jesus, is to take him down. Nineteen hundred and seventy intellectuals take him down. Nineteen hundred and seventy modernists take him down. Nineteen hundred and seventy Mormons personally take him down. But God raised him from the dead. God by divine power reached into a little cave in a garden outside the walls of Jerusalem and lifted him up and exhausted him far above principalities and powers. Jesus, my Savior, is far above all thrones and dominions before him must fall. Because God hath exhausted him far above all. And Paul stood there dead, and countless thousands of preachers from Paul to this day have stood and said this. Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that previous man that you took down is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins. There are probably two words in the Bible that are beautiful. And one is the word come. And the other is the word forgiven. And I think that I would vote for the word forgiven as being the most beautiful in the entire book and in the entire world. You know what it's like, don't you, when somebody says forget it. It's all right, forget it. Don't you, when somebody says forget it. It's all right, forget it. I'm glad you took it that way. Forget it. Ladies and gentlemen, tonight I'm going to prove to you in the next thirty minutes that the sin of your life that troubles you, that torments you, that rises up before you, that the holy God of heaven is prepared to say to you How about that? Forget it. Oh no, no, no, I want to pray to you. No, forget it. Forgive me. Forget it. The thing is this, you know, that when people forgive you on earth they never seem to forget. It would even remind you in a year or two of such effect. Now, I forgive you. You just watch yourself now. I forgive you. But the living God of heaven is going to look at you. He's going to say to you, forgive him. Really, really. He says to you tonight that you're listening to him. If you're not listening to him you don't deserve to hear him. If you're not listening to him you won't hear him. He's prepared to say to you tonight in Abingdon Hall these majestic words. You're sin. And you're liquid. I will remember you more forever. How about that? Forgive him. Why can God say to anybody in Glasgow tonight and I mean anybody, I mean you'll not find anybody. You get out after this service and find me somebody between now and tomorrow morning that God won't forget, will you? I don't care what gutter you find them in, what back poster lying paralytic junk God will look at them and say forgive him. The man is in there. Sweetly majestic statement from the God of heaven. Why? Because when they had fulfilled all that was written of him that's why, they took him down. They took him down. They took him down. Because the hands of humans pushed the hands of the military. Because they tortured him, they punished him, they persecuted him, they despised him, they rejected him. And when they were finished God led to meet on him the iniquity of us all. My sins. I don't know how many millions I've committed up to the moment. The laws count. I don't know how many millions I'll commit in the next year. My sins were led of Jesus 1,900 years ago. And if I'm to approach a craw, to crawl to God and say to him I am a guilty sinner but Jesus died for me. God will say forgive him. Look. If I am prepared to acknowledge that I am sin then he's not. And if I am prepared to acknowledge that when they had bestowed all that was written of him they took him down but God raised him from the dead and that man is my saviour and in his name I come to God. And in his name I ask God to forgive me. God says I forgive you. Through this man is put unto you the forgiveness of sin. We've got a mixed up impression of God. This is our problem. The world has got the wrong idea of God altogether. The writing generation has got the wrong idea. And now you're saying to yourself nobody's got the right idea but you. Well, if anybody has got the Bible idea of God they've got the right idea. I didn't write the Bible but the Bible is the right idea of God. And I happen to agree with the Bible. That's no credit to the Bible and no credit to me either. It's just logic, that's all. I am prepared to accept the Bible because I can't find anything better and the Bible works as far as I'm concerned. And I don't believe for one moment that any person has to choose a book to compare with that of God. And after 300 years in circulation in the English language, nobody has found the doctrinal fundamentals of Satanism. Nobody has proved it wrong. Why can't somebody prove it's wrong? They've proved that other books are wrong. The banned books, the corrupted books, the withdrawn books, but not that one. Best seller of the year. The inspired word of the living God. And that book there talks to me about God and I've got to get the idea from that book about God and that book says that God is prepared to forgive me all my sins. There's a music coming down from heaven tonight and God is saying, forgive me, forgive me, forgive me, forgive me. That's the message from God. Our idea of God is different. We feel that God's up there angry, we feel that God's up there with a rod of iron, and you've got to watch what you do, and you've got to watch how you move, and you've got to sort it from, and you've got to bow to Him, and you've got to pay Him, and the way we pay Him is only a second, really. You shouldn't pay God at all. And you've got to behave yourself because He's come down in a thunder cloud in a moment and strike you out. Now that's entirely wrong. Entirely wrong. At this moment, that's wrong. I want to tell you tonight that God has declared an amnesty. If you were in Ireland, you would appreciate what that means more than where you are right now. God has declared an amnesty. Yes. We had an amnesty over in Ireland last year, I think it was. It was a great thing. Great thing. We got a new Prime Minister. He's got a new brush to brush up the country. And you've got all the sweet queens. So the first thing he did in his high, exalted chair of office was to declare an amnesty. And that was wonderful. They opened the prisons and they sent all the prisoners out. And they tore up all the charges against all the fellows that had ever thrown petrol bombs or fired a shot or thrown a stone around their heads. An amnesty. And he said, in fact, that we don't have anything against you people anymore. And the courts are all going to close down on all these kids. That was tremendous. Tremendous. But men went home to their wives and family through six long terms in prison forgiven. Pardoned. Just because the new Prime Minister wanted to try something better to bring stability to the country where he said, OK, OK. You're all forgiven. Now don't do it again. And they didn't for about 24 hours. God in high heaven has sent a message down a tentacle. I don't know why they can't get this. I don't know what's wrong with the people. Blinded by the God of this world. God sent a message to Earth 1,900 years ago and he said, there's an amnesty. You're forgiven. Come out of your tentacles. Call out of your cells. You guilty sinners come to me. You're forgiven. And he cried to him in the caves of Earth. Trembling white in humanity. With swollen hair. Brave brain. Bullying up kids for their own defense against a God he said, I don't want to hear you. I just want to forgive you. Struggling, scheming, planning, dividing. Whereby we could win the favor of this great holy God. We get up at 6.30 in the morning and pray to him that he'd only forgive us. But it stopped us. I forgive you if you come to me. There's an amnesty. Tremendous, isn't it? Well this amnesty, of course, which we have in our country, and we're looking for another one at the moment, enables those with a guilty conscience to clear their conscience. Oh yes, there's a lot of people waiting for another amnesty. And you know what they're going to do as soon as they tell them that there's another amnesty for a week, seven days of peace. Those fellows are going to go to their own haysheds in this country and under bales of straw they're going to lay out guns and bombs and ammunition that are troubling their conscience tonight. They're going to walk down to the police and they're going to say, thank God you could relax. I don't know how I ever got a hold of it. I lost sleep over those things in my house, up in the rafters, under the floor, in the box. Things that have tremended my mind and I knew if I was caught I would go to jail. Thank you, sir, for the amnesty. Thank you for an opportunity to own up. That's what an amnesty means. And really, if there's an amnesty to care enough here tonight, tomorrow they'll be down by their hundreds to clear their minds and their hearts of the burden and the fear of things in their possession that they never intended to have and did what good of them. Ladies and gentlemen, listen. There's things in your mind and things on your heart that are worrying you, that are tormenting you. It's an amnesty. Such a precious man is put under your forgiveness of sins. God will forgive you tonight. I'm going to invite you. Really. I want you to be prepared for it. I'm going to invite you tonight to come to God with all of your sins, with all of your problems, with that crushing, embarrassing, tormenting conviction that you have, that you want. And the first reaction from your heart tonight will be, Sir, I couldn't come to God. Not as I am. I want to fix myself up. No. There's an amnesty. Through this man is put, don't you, forgiveness. Forgiveness. Forgiveness. I'm convinced of this fact. That the reason there are so many people in the world without Christ, without the Pope, and without God, the reason there are so many is because they're afraid to come to God. Now, I see that we've got the most need for people to come to God. Somebody told me I made it too easy. Well, I don't think so. Because we couldn't make it easy enough. People say to me, but I want to do this, and I want to do that, and I want to do the other thing. Fellows in universities and colleges say to me, Why should I be a sinner? Why should God condemn me? Why, why, why? I cannot help doing what I do. I cannot help being a sinner. I sinned because of my nature. I didn't select this nature. I got this nature. I was born with it. I didn't ask to come here. I happened to appear on a planet that was cursed by God. Why should God have it in for me? And so they build up this tremendous case that helps to serve their faith. They stay away from the church, because when they go to church, they hear a message that hurts their conscience, disturbs them, and maybe robs them of a nice treat. So they don't want to go to church. They build up a case for not going to church. They build up a case for not approaching God. They build up a case for not coming to God. They build up a case against Christ. They build up a case against the Bible. They build up a case against religion. And there's no need to do it at all. Because God said, I don't want to hear you. I want to forgive you. You don't have to build up a case, you know. I can't understand why people don't understand this. Listen to me. If you were going to appear in court on a charge, you would naturally build up a case, and you would pay a lawyer a lot of money to build up a case. Because you don't want to be caught. You don't want to have to go to jail. And you're certainly not going to plead guilty, because you've got six years worth of law enforcement. It's better than what you did. Now listen, if somebody could tell you, if a good lawyer could tell you that he couldn't convict you on this case at all, you would not go to jail. Just walk down there yourself, and when the lead up is charged, you plead guilty, and you send your home. You say, you mean he sent me home to plead guilty? You just plead guilty. It would be awfully hard to do, wouldn't it? You stand there and you still say, guilty, my Lord. And then you wait for it. Say the ten years, and you're sent home. It's an awful guy to buy this. The sinner, you guessed it, the sinner who comes to God and says to God, God, I'm guilty. I'm a sinner. I'm no good. I'm weak. I'm worthless. I have no value. What I've done in the past, I would do it again if I got the opportunity. It's not a good thing to put myself on your mercy. Do your work. You know what God will say to a fellow like that? I'm shocking you. I'm shocking you. You say, what kind of a God is that? That's a holy and living God who has paid his son for your sins. God's not God. No, he's not. Unless Jesus Christ has not died for every one of your sins, God couldn't forgive you. Jesus Christ God's son died on the cross for your sins. I don't know who you are. I don't have to know who you are. You can stand tonight and say, I am a guilty sinner but Jesus died for me. God, I'm guilty. But Jesus died for me. God will say to you, forgiven, forget. When did you hear a message like that? That's the best message you ever heard, isn't it? That's the gospel. That's the good news of God. An amnesty. Christ of your senses, men and women, with your guilty conscience, your point of offense, your fear of God, come with all your sins. Bring your weapons of destruction, your guns, your ammunitions, the murderers in your heart. Be the brothers, the revenge, the jealousy, the malice, the greed, the envy. Things which would destroy you completely. Christ tonight. And don't go to a police station. Don't go to a military post. Stand before the God of heaven and say, I'm guilty, Lord. I'm here. I'm on the earth. I'm a sinner by birth. I'm a sinner by chastis. I'm absolutely no good. There's nothing in me that's any good. I never will be any good. What are you going to do with me? I'm going to forgive you. I'm going to take you to heaven. I'm going to give you a crown. I'm going to give you a throne. Why? God so loves the world that he gave us only the forgotten. Don't waste time, fellows and girls, zoning up a case to defend yourself. You couldn't win if you tried. And you couldn't win if you thought all night. But if you think plenty more, you're in. God'll give you heaven. God'll give you peace. God'll give you power. Who's this man? Jesus Christ is preached unto you the forgiveness. God's amnesty. You know, you must have the experience that I'm talking about in the court. One day a fellow caught me for going too fast on a little country road. I didn't know that I shouldn't have gone fast. You're better not to know if you want to go fast. And he caught me and I just told him I didn't know. I didn't really know. He said, well, no, time's up. Well, no, he tricked me and showed me the sign with the head that rolled around the sign anyhow. It wasn't possible to see it. And so I decided that I would go down to the magistrate, is what they call the movement there. And I would just tell him straight that I had always been on this road and never seen a sign any day and it wasn't my fault that the signs were overgrown and I didn't see why a priest might be standing in a little sideway anyway to try and catch me with a radar machine I thought was completely unjust. Not at all in keeping with the high dignity of that court. I had it all worked out. And before I went to preach that night I went over it again. So I went and got into the box, he said. And the constable was there and he said what I had done. The little boy looked at me over his half-mask and said, have you anything to say? I seared my throat and thought, what, when's the first thing I'm going to say? And before I said, he said seven times in court. It was all over. I didn't get anything of worth. None of it. But I said seven times and stepped off that road the next time. You're not going to get an opportunity of saying to God all the things you want to say anyhow. You're not going to get time on what you think of the flood and the disaster and the disease and the death. You're not going to get time to talk to him at all. Don't waste your time. Don't you blow up any kids like that. Why should a God of love do this? Why don't you mind? You won't have an opportunity to talk to him about that anyway. Well I wouldn't want a God that does this and said the other thing. Well don't waste your time worrying about that. Get up in the dock tonight now. Down before the Holy God that knows you through and through. And say, I'm guilty. Will you forgive me for Jesus' sake? Nothing better than to take a long two-take, isn't it? And then go to hell at the end of it. Listen to me. You haven't done anything yet. You haven't been any place that he doesn't know about yet. You haven't seen anything that he doesn't know about. And you haven't sinned yet that he can't forgive. The death of Christ, the crucifixion of Christ, the sacrifice of Christ enables God to say to every individual in the city here tonight, Forgiven. Forgiven. Forgiven. I know somebody who thinks before you say to me, before you say, why doesn't God forgive them all? Why should he forgive them all? God wouldn't want to forgive somebody that didn't want forgiveness. If you don't want forgiveness in objection, no, God wouldn't push that down your throat. It may be that you're so manly, and so big, and so wise, and so brilliant that you're proud to be a sinner and you want to take the punishment for your sin. Man, that's all I got to use these words. So God wouldn't enforce forgiveness upon a sinner. The least he could do is ask for it. Call upon me, and I will answer you. Hang that tongue upon to me! I will enlure Christ out. You'll never get any better apology than that. God says if you come to him, he'll not cast you out. God says if you own up, plead guilty, say you're sorry, he'll forgive you. What do you want now? Well, I'd like to see God forgive you. He's not going to. No man has seen God at any time. I'd like to hear the voice of God! Speak in my name! He's not going to. He speaks in the mind and in the conscience. He disturbs you. Now listen, there are some of you disturbed right now. Sure, sure there are. And even at this moment, after all I've said, you're trying to defend yourself. And you're trying to book up a chance that you couldn't help it, since the way you were built. A wee weakness you have. Don't worry what it is. Admit it. Don't worry whether it's a little weakness or a big weakness. Don't worry whether you got it from your father or your mother or your grandmother. Don't worry about what God does or how God does it. You are just a little creeping, crawling thing in a tiny, tiny little planet in his vast universe, and there's three billion of us, crawling across the planet. Helpless, fighting, diseased, crippled, and dying. One in four dying of starvation. We're trying to build up cases to defend ourselves. Because if you're strictly guilty, I'll forgive you for Jesus' sake. This is your opportunity now to do that. I'll bring you to the bar of God. I'll bring you face to face with the God of Heaven. And sitting at his right side is the son whom he raised from the scepter after they had taken him down. Don't you take him down. Let him remain high and exalted as God has placed him there. Take him there. Bow before him. Own his majesty and his mightiness before him. All to Jesus. I surrender. Lord, would you take a worm like me of twenty years and let it all crash? Father, we bow reverently in this solemn moment and ask thee that thou wilt help us. And oh God, that thou wilt defeat the devil. And that ladies and gentlemen and young people here will see the logic of the simplicity of admitting that they're guilty and receiving forgiveness. Oh God, we thank thee for this wonderful saviour. You hide us, my soul, in a cleft of a rock where rivers of pleasure I see. We thank thee that thou hast declared an endless day. And we can admit anything we like and we'll not be punished for it because Jesus died. We can give ourselves up more. Thou wilt release us from the prison of sin. Thou wilt set us gloriously free. Oh God, we thank thee for the amnesty of God. Wilt thou by the power of the Spirit of God draw me to thyself tonight? Let thy voice be heard very, very loudly and very, very clearly as men and women come to Christ. Young people, bow before us and appreciate something fresh of the worth and the value of the Lord Jesus Christ. We thank thee for him now as we commit ourselves to him in his precious name. Amen.