I want to take the Word of God and turn to Isaiah chapter 1. Isaiah chapter 1 this evening. We'll begin our reading at the opening verse of the chapter. Isaiah chapter 1 and the verse number 1. The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, In the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord has spoken. I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib, but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corruptors. They have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel onto anger. They are gone away backward. Why should ye be stricken any more? Ye will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick. and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even on to the head, there is no soundness in it, but wounds and bruises and putrefying sores. They have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate as overthrown by strangers. The daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city, except the Lord of hosts had left on to us a very small remnant. We should have been a Sodom, and we should have been like on to Gomorrah. We'll end our reading at the end of the ninth verse of this opening chapter. And with the word of God before us open, let's seek the Lord briefly in a word of prayer. Our loving Father, we come to thy word again, ever thankful for a congregation before us desirous to hear thy precious word. We think of those parents who have made that special effort to have their children under the word. Oh God, we pray that the seed planted tonight may bring forth a harvest in coming days. We're casting seed bread upon the waters, believing that we will find it after many days. We pray, O God, that that seed which was being sown in the hearts of some individual will bear fruit tonight, that this will be the night of the bearing of the fruit and the bringing in of the harvest of their soul. O God, thou art able to do that which thou hast purposed to do, and thou wilt do it, even in this house tonight. Help preacher and hearer alike. Fill this preacher with the Holy Ghost and with power and with clarity of thought and mind and speech. and bring glory to thy son and to thy name alone. For we offer these our petitions in and through our savior's precious and worthy name. Amen and amen. Leonardo da Vinci's A Life in Drawing is an exhibition that is presently running in the Ulster Museum from the 1st of February right through to the 6th of May. The exhibition, marking the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death in 1519, comprises of 12 drawings from the Royal Collection reflecting the artist's passion for architecture, music, anatomy, engineering, geology, and botany. As a successful artist, da Vinci was given permission to dissect human corpses at the hospital of Santa Maria Novida in Florence and then at a later date in hospitals within Milan and in the city of Rome. From 1510 to 1511, Leonardo made over 240 detailed drawings and wrote about 13,000 words towards a treatise on anatomy. Leonardo's drawings include many studies of the human skeleton and its parts, and of the muscles and of the human sinew. He drew the heart, the vascular system, and other internal organs as that body before him was dissected. His drawings and his notations of the human anatomy are widely believed by those within the medical profession to be far ahead of their time. We've come to consider the entire human anatomy in those familiar words that we find in Isaiah chapter 1 verse 5 and 6. The whole head is sick and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even on to the head there is no soundness in it but wounds and bruises and putrefying sores. that have neither been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. Tonight, we want to turn this gospel preaching house into an operating theater, want to dissect the human body, want to reveal the complete contamination that sin has brought to the life of the sinner. With that in mind, I want to preach a message that I've entitled, A Gospel Message for a surgeon. A gospel message for a surgeon. As I've already stated, God himself wants to place you, the sinner, on the cold slab of this operating table of his word. And to show you this evening that every faculty and every member of your being has been contaminated and affected by sin. Now Isaiah the prophet, he takes the two extremities off the human body, the sole of the foot and the crown of the head. And he declares that those two bodily parts and all bodily parts in between those two extreme parts have no soundness to them, have no health to them, but rather they are marked by spiritual wounds. and bruises and putrefying sores. He wants to consider the human body and see what the Bible says, what the scriptures say about the various parts of the human anatomy to help you, the sinner, come to an understanding of how sin has affected your entire being. Now, this examination is not going to be finished tonight. Rather, it's going to take two weeks to complete. Because as I started to look at what God has to say about the condition of the sinner, I came to understand that God is not one of those doctors that gives the patient a quick run over with the eye and then sends them out the door and on their way. But rather, the great physician is the one who gives a thorough and a most comprehensive examination as he dissects the human body and the human anatomy in the Scriptures of holy truth. So tonight we confine our study simply to the examination of the whole head because the inspired writer said that the whole head is sick. And so we want to simply look at the head of the sinner tonight. That'll give us enough to realize how polluted you are by sin, how contaminated your entire being is, as we consider the whole head being sick. And so, confining our studies to the examination of the whole head, I want us to begin by looking at the sinner's mind. the sinner's mind. The apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians chapter 4 verse 3 and 4 said, But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost, in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on to them. You see, the sinner in spiritual terms is not in their right mind. When they are in their sin, the sinner is never in their right mind. The sinner cannot think straight. The sinner cannot think correctly whenever they're found in their fallen sinful state. That is very aptly pictured for us in the healing of the demonically possessed man from Gadara. When we find him, we find him as a restless soul. He's under the dominion of Satan. And what a picture he is of the sinner. under the tyrannical rule of the devil, under his power, a restless being, unable to find peace in this world. We read in the scriptures that he runs from the mountains down to the valley. He runs into caves and out of the caves. Here's a restless soul. What a picture he is of the sinner. But whenever we find him having been healed by God, whenever we find him having been delivered from the devil's tyrannical reign, we read these words in Luke chapter 8 verse 35. We find that he was sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothes, and in his right mind. He's in his right mind. And therefore, we must but only conclude that before he came to Christ, and while he was under the devil's control and dominion, he was not in his right mind. And that is the case of every sinner. The appraisal of this man in Luke chapter 8, this demonically possessed individual, we infer that before the encounter, just like every sinner, he was not in his right mind. It is not until the sinner comes under the reign and the control of Jesus Christ that the mindset that is all wrong is changed and it's put to a position where it's all right. So the mind of the sinner is all wrong. And because the mind of the sinner is all wrong, therefore his thoughts or her thoughts concerning certain things are all wrong as well. We can say in the first place that the sinner thinks wrongly about God, about God. You see there are some sinners and they believe that God is too loving, too kind, too good to punish them for their sin. Others believe that God is at too great a distance from them for Him to even be aware, to be consciously aware of their sin. Some even foolishly think that there is no God, and they can comfort and they console themselves with the false teaching of atheism. While it is true that God is loving, while it is true that God is good and God is kind, it's also true that God is holy, and that God is just, and that God is righteous. And therefore he is unable to pass by transgression without punishing it. You may console yourself tonight into thinking that God is far away, so far away that he cannot see you when you commit your sin. And yet the reality is that the omnipresent God is so near, ever present, seeing and hearing everything that you do. And although tonight you may have swallowed the devil's lie into thinking that there is no God, a quick survey of the created universe around you, the integral functioning of your own body, the record of Holy Scripture reveals that your thinking is warped when it comes to the existence of God. There is a God. There is a God. A holy God. a just God, a righteous God who sees you in your sin. And so tonight, your thinking needs to be changed. Your mind needs to be changed with respect to the matter of God. But in the second place, the sinner thinks wrongly about sin. You see, for the unconverted man or woman, sin is an outdated concept. It certainly has no place within a free thinking, highly educated, morally liberal society in which we presently live within the 21st century. And even if there be such a thing as sin, and even if there be such a one as God, and even if there be such a thing as God's law, they see no problem in breaking that law by living a life that is contrary to the commandments and to the precepts of God, because they do not believe that there are any type of consequences that flow from such life choices. How wrong the sinner is! how wrong the sinner is when it comes to the matter of sin. I want to remind you that sin is deceptive. Not only is sin deceptive, sin is dangerous. Not only is it dangerous and deceptive, sin is damaging and sin is ultimately damning. Now society may change and shift its goalposts when it comes to what they believe is deemed right or what is wrong. They may change the goalposts when it comes to what they say is acceptable and unacceptable practice within society, but God never changes the goalposts. God's standard is forever the same. That which He has declared to be right will always be right, no matter what our society says. And that which He says is wrong will always be wrong, no matter what society says, no matter what government legislates. God has declared a righteous standard by which He will judge every man. And those who violate those standards are guilty of sin, to think wrongly about sin. To laugh at sin, to belittle sin, to think lightly of sin, to deny sin will expose you to tremendous danger because God must punish sin. So the sinner thinks wrongly about the matter of sin. Have you been thinking wrongly about the matter of your sin? Your sin. Your violation of His law, the breaking of His commandments, your Christ rejection, your sin of unbelief. What have you been thinking about that sin? Your sin. Have you been thinking about that sin that God will pass it by? that God will overlook it, having surveyed your goodness, that He'll just allow you into the glory without repenting of sin, without trusting in Jesus Christ. Think no, in no way in that way, sinner. Do not think wrongly about sin. Sin is serious, deceptive, dangerous, damaging, and ultimately damning. There's another thing that the sinner thinks wrongly about in their mind, and that is the matter of judgment. The matter of judgment, the delay. The delay between the committing of sin and the judgment of sin. A delay that I add is due to the long suffering and patience of God. That delay between the moment of committal and the moment of judgment lulls a sinner into believing and into thinking that judgment will never befall them because of their sin, because judgment is not executed speedily. The sinner believes that sin will never be judged because God has overlooked sin, but that is not the case. Ecclesiastes 8 and the verse 11 speaks of such wrong thinking people. Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Because man believes that he's got away with his sin. because God hasn't judged them immediately for their sin. The heart of man, pride in his sin, believes that judgment will never be full. No, I'll escape God's judgment because I've experienced His mercy and I've experienced His long-suffering. And yet such people, maybe you, are wrong in your estimation when it comes to judgment because the closing verse of that same book Ecclesiastes chapter 12 verse 14 reminds me that God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil. In that book we're also told that God shall bring every work into judgment, that for all of these things For all of these things, God will bring thee into judgment. So sinner, do not think, because judgment, because punishment has not been meted out upon you for your sin, that somehow you're going to escape the judgment. But rather, we're all going to stand before the judgment seat of Christ. The question is, will you on that day be found as one who has been reconciled to God, or will you be one who is outside of Christ, having no refuge, having no Savior, having no sacrifice upon which you can claim your right of heaven? Sin leads the mind of the sinner to think wrongly. Sin has defiled the mind, thereby the mind of the sinner is distorted, doesn't think correctly, doesn't think in right terms. I tell you sinner, there is a God. There is sin. There is judgment. Start to think right about these things. Come to understand the testimony of Scripture. Come to expose yourself to the truth of God's Word. The mind of the sinner is contaminated by sin, thereby causing the sinner to think incorrectly about these things and many other things. with respect to the gospel. And so the mind of the sinner, it is sick. But moving on, we want to consider and we want to examine in this dissection of the human anatomy, let's look at the sinner's eyes. They're part of the head, are they not? The sinner's eyes. Spiritual blindness, as a consequence of the fall, has smitten the entire human race. The Bible makes it clear that we from birth are born spiritually blind. Not blind physically, but blind spiritually. We're blind to our own condition, and we are most certainly blind to the things of God. This blindness results in the sinner seeing no beauty, whatsoever in the Lord Jesus Christ. Isaiah 53 verse 2 puts it like this, And when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. These words can be spoken of the sinner. The sinner is presented with Christ here in the gospel. The preacher preaches about his perfect life. He speaks about the miracles that he did, the touching of blind eyes. A restoring of hearing to the deaf, the raising of those from the dead, the touching of the leper, going about doing good, preaching the gospel, saving the lost, restoring the fallen. And as the sinner hears this, they see no beauty in Christ. The preacher preaches about the cross, the dying of the Saviour, the sacrifice, the kneeling of hands and feet to a wooden gibbet, the lifting of the Son of God to the heights of heaven and then down into Mother Earth itself. He speaks of the crown of thorns, the blood that flows. He speaks of the spittle, and He speaks of the buffeting, and He speaks of the bruising. He speaks about the speech of ungodly and wicked men speaking out against the Christ of God. He speaks about the flowing of blood from the riven side of the blessed Saviour. But to the sinner, to the sinner there's no beauty in that. Then he speaks about the bruising of the Son of God by the Father. There as He's offered, as He offers Himself as a sacrifice for sin. There as He's bruised by the Father, put to grief, put to shame by His own Father. There for sin, as He dies there within the darkness. All alone, there as he cries, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? And then as he gives up the ghost, there is absolutely no beauty within the sinner's mind with respect to the Son of God. And then as this preacher preaches about him rising again from the dead. and death having no power over him, and being able to be raised from the dead by the eternal Spirit, and then rising to the glory, and sitting there on the right hand of the Father, ever living to make intercession for us. The sinner sees no beauty whatsoever in such things, because the mind of the sinner is blinded by sin. The sinner's eyes, spiritually speaking, are blinded by sin. To the sinner, the Savior is most certainly not the chiefest among 10,000, and He is most certainly not the fairer. He's most certainly not fairer than the children of man. There's no beauty. Isn't that right, sinner? No beauty in Christ? Nothing to attract you to Him tonight? Why is that the case? because sin has blinded your eyes. You can't see. I believe that this is most beautifully illustrated, this unattractiveness of the Savior to the spiritual eye of the unconverted. It's pictured for us in the Old Testament when it came to the tabernacle. You'll know that the tabernacle was God's church. You'll know that it was made of different courts, the outer court, the inner court, the holy place, and then into the Holy of Holies. You'll know that within the Holy of Holies, that inner sanctum of the tabernacle, housing the Ark of the Covenant, it was like a cube-like structure. It was made of chitin wood. Those planks of wood were covered in pure gold. placed together there with the Ark of the Covenant covered in gold as well and the golden candlestick sharing its light. inner sanctum, all the glory of it, all the beauty of it. This golden place from floor to ceiling, entirely made of gold, the radiant glory that was conveyed by the Shekinah glory that's coming off the very Ark of the Covenant where God himself would dwell and meet with his people and commune with his people. All the glory, all the beauty that would have been in that Holy of Holies, but it was covered. It was veiled. It said that there were four coverings. Four coverings. Firstly, a fine linen dyed blue, and then blue and scarlet. or sorry, blue, purple, and scarlet was the first covering. And then it was covered with goat's hair. And then the third covering was ram skin dyed red. And then finally, the outer covering, this is the outer covering, the covering that people would have saw, it was simply made of badger skin. Now if you know anything about badgers, you'll know that they're, the covering or that skin is very coarse. Most certainly the badgers speaking off or spoken off there, the very color would have been drab and dull covering this place of beauty. All that passed by, all that they would have saw was the drab coloring of badger skins. They would have been unaware of the beauty that lay beneath the covering. And such is the Lord Jesus Christ to the unsaved person. To the sinner he looks unappealing, unattractive. To the worldly the sinner shows no charms, because the eye of the ungodly always turns away from Christ and scorn. Sinner, you'll never appreciate the beauty the glory and the wonder that there is in Jesus Christ until you come to experience his salvation. Until by faith you enter the door, Christ is the door, and you pass the place of sacrifice, the altar, and push on past right into the holiest of all, because the veil is rent for the Christian. and they see the glory and the beauty that there is in the Lord Jesus Christ. To look at Jesus Christ, to look at genuine Christianity from the mere outside does not give you a true appreciation of the wonder and the glory that there is in Jesus Christ. It doesn't give you any appreciation whatsoever. To you, it's all very drab, isn't it? It's all very boring, isn't it? But whenever you come to Christ, all the beauty of it all, the wonder of it all, the glory of it all. Maybe tonight you just don't want to see. You all know the saying, there's none so blind as those who will not see. Not the case. None so blind as those who will not see. Maybe tonight you're in that category of people. You don't want to see. No, you're willfully blind, as it were. You've closed your eyes to your own spiritual state. You've closed your eyes to the beauty that there is in Christ and in his gospel. And you're happy, you're content to step out of time and into eternity with your eyes shut to what awaits the unrepentant sinner. You're walking blindly into the known. Not into the unknown, but into the known. Because God has told you, sinner, what awaits you at the end of a life of sin. There is a grave, a Christless grave. There is a hell, a Christless hell. There is a judgment, a Christless judgment. And there is a lake of fire, a Christless lake of fire. You're not walking blindly into the unknown, but you're walking blindly into the unknown. May God, in his mercy, open your eyes, your spiritual eyes, to see the peril and the danger that you're in. And so the sinner's eyes, the sinner's eyes are blind. But the third piece of the human anatomy we want to examine, as we place ourselves on the cold slab of this gospel meeting, are the sinner's ears. Because they're part of the head, are they not? Your ears. And is it not true, sinner, that you have closed your ears? You have become deaf. to the many voices that God would send your way to encourage you to leave a life of sin behind and to become a genuine Christian. You may say, preacher, what voices? I'm not hearing any voices. If I started to hear voices, preacher, I would start to get worried. I would start to be thinking that I'm going crazy. What voices are you speaking of? Well, can I say that the sinner closes their ears to the voice of the gospel preacher? You may say, that would be quite hard for any sinner to do under your ministry, the Reverend Sturt. Well, there are those who close their ears to the preacher. even as he preaches. They allow the mind to wander. They drift off to daydream land. Their eyes glaze over. They find something to fill their mind and their attention and their thoughts. They allow something within the congregation. They allow something happening on their mobile phone to take away their thoughts about what is being preached. Others have closed their ears to the voice of the gospel preacher by substituting him for some modernist liberal of a rascal that wouldn't know the gospel if it had him up the face. They're happy to sit under a man's preaching ministry, such a man, and refuse to come under the sound preaching of God's precious word, lest they become disturbed in their sin. And so they're happy to sit in some modernist liberal church, certainly not a gospel preaching church, and certainly their church doesn't have a gospel meeting. No, they would rather have it to be so. And then there are others. And they close their ears to the gospel preacher by simply not coming to God's house. And if they do, they make sure that they're out on a Sunday morning when the message is most suited and geared towards the saints of God. And so they close their ear to the voice of the gospel preacher. Oh, that God would open your ears tonight. Open your ears to the voice of this preacher who calls you. to be reconciled to God. That is my task. That is my job. That is my calling. to call you to be reconciled to God. Oh, that tonight you would hear and take to heart the counsel that comes forth from the lips of this preacher that implores you to repent from your sin and flee to Christ for salvation. Don't close your ears to the preacher. Don't do it, sinner. Don't close your ear to the gospel preacher, but pray that God by His Spirit will open your ears tonight and that you'll hear the call of the gospel, the external call that calls you to repent and to believe the gospel. The sinner closes their ears to the voice of the gospel preacher. The sinner has chosen to close their ears to the voice of conscience. Yes, conscience has a voice. Conscience is the inward monitor that God has implanted within every individual that alerts us when we cross God's forbidden boundaries. It is that internal, independent witness to God, the moral governor, to whom we are personally accountable to for our sins. It is therefore the voice of conscience that alerts the sinner of their sin. It reminds the sinner of their guilt before God and of their accountability to Him for their actions. It is an inescapable reminder that we have a moral obligation to our Creator. That's the voice of conscience. And many a sinner closes their ears to the voice of an awakened conscience. And they try to drown out that voice using various means and methods. They try to drown it out by the consumption of alcohol and illegal drugs. Others amuse themselves with the world's pleasures and music. Others submerse themselves in a hobby or some organization that takes up their time. While others, they self-justify themselves. They think themselves not to be so bad in the hope that such will pacify their conscience. I wonder, has the voice of conscience been speaking to you? I wonder, Has your conscience been awakened in recent days? As you've heard the gospel, have you felt the shame and the guilt of your sin? As you've laid down on a Sunday evening after being in this house, do the words of the preacher run on in your mind? And while the husband is sleeping, there you are, wakened. troubled, concerned. As the wife is sleeping, there you are, mulling over in your mind all that has been taught and all that has been preached into the wee small hours off the morning. And then you get up, you get out into the car, or into some vehicle, you sit at the office, you stand on the factory floor, you labor on a building site, you sit behind a school desk, and yet the burden of sin, it gets deeper and it presses heavier upon the mind. If you have been experiencing such things, let me say that you are in a glorious place tonight. Conscience has been awakened. that dormant, as it were, volcano within. has been enlivened by God Himself, and there's trouble of soul, and there's sorrow over sin, and there's guilt, and there's shame, and there's the feeling of the disgrace of it all, and your responsibility to your own family, to be a godly father, to be a saved mother, it comes upon you day after day. I tell you, God is awakening your conscience. Do not silence the voice. of conscience, but yield rather to his promptings, yield to his speaking voice, and seek relief in the blood of Christ for the condemning voice of conscience. It answers ever to the law, and it shows you and I our guilt, that pricking of conscience, that troubling of soul. What about another voice? What about the voice of the rod? The voice of the rod? Yes, God's rod. Micah 6 verse 9, the Lord's voice crieth on to the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name. Hear ye the rod. and who hath appointed it." Hear the rod. He's not saying that a stick or a rod is going to speak, but through the rod, through the rod, God was chastening the people of Micah's day. as judgment came, as correction came, as affliction came, as vengeance was poured upon them as a nation. God was getting their attention. He was bringing out the rod. He was employing the rod. He was employing the time of trouble, the time of affliction, the time of judgment upon the nation. He was employing it as a chastening rod. And God said, in it all, hear ye the rod. Sinner, hear the rod. Maybe you're under God's rod tonight. Is it not the case, sinner, when your health was sound and your business was prosperous and there was peace within the family, eternal matters were the furthest thing from your mind, but now adversity's rolled in, hasn't it? The body's wrecked with sickness. The business is heading towards bankruptcy. The family's being torn apart by family feuds and family troubles and problems. God has got your attention. Is it not the case that now the things of eternity are at the foremost of your mind? God's rod has done its work. He's been speaking. He's been speaking clearly. If God has been speaking through the rod, don't close your ears to the rod, because as painful as its strokes may be, it may be that rod that will be the very thing that will save you from a greater pain in eternity, if that rod drives you to Christ. So hear the rod, the voice of the rod. The final voice is the voice of God himself. Where is that heard? It's heard in his word. This is how God speaks to us through the word. When we open the words, when we open the scriptures, we come to listen to God's voice. It is the sacred book from which God speaks to us from. And what does he say? He says that a person must be born again if they are to see the kingdom of God. He says that the sinner must come to accept that there's neither salvation in any other apart from the Lord Jesus Christ. The Scriptures would say that He is the way, the truth, and the life, and that no one can come to the Father but by Him. This is the voice of God in His Word. It would be wise then for you to listen to that voice if you were ever to be in heaven. But sinner, you have closed your ears to that voice. The Bible if it is even opened in your house, is treated like just any other book, but God would speak to you. If nothing else tonight, if nothing else tonight, start to search the Scriptures, for Christ is there. In them you'll find eternal life, and in them you'll find the record of what he has done in order to save you from your sin. The voices, the voices that God sends, the sinner is deaf to because the whole head is sick. Finally, the last, the fourth part of the human anatomy that has been affected by sin, and here we end tonight is the sinner's mouth. Consider just a few of the constituent parts off the mouth. Think of the sinner's lips. In various passages of Scripture, the sinner's lips are referred to as flattering lips, Psalm 12, verse 3. Lying lips in Psalm 31, verse 18. Perverse lips in Proverbs 4, verse 24. False lips in Proverbs 17, verse 4. unclean lips in Isaiah 6 verse 5. Such are the lips of the sinner, lips that are employed in the flattering of self, that are used in the propagation of lies, Let's speak perverse things that are engaged in the spreading of falsehood, that are employed in the uttering of unclean stories and jokes within the workplace. The sinner's lips are stained and sullied by sin. And if you doubt me, sinner, Take a record of what you say in a 24 hour period and then come back and tell me that your lips do not condemn you as a sinner before God. The lies that you tell, the filthy stories that you speak. those things that proceed out of your mouth, your own flattering of self, yes, even exaggeration. It is a means whereby we understand that we are sinners before God by our very speech. What was it said of Peter? Whenever Peter spoke, he said, thy speech betrayeth thee. In other words, what you say gives you away. And yes, it was speaking about him being a Galilean and by his accent and it was obvious that they classified him as being a Galilean, but can we not say that about the sinner? Your speech betrayeth thee. It's very evident that you're a sinner by the things that you say with your lips. Think of the tongue. That's another constituent part of the very mouth. I made reference to this verse last week. Let me read James 3, verse 5 and 6. Notice, it defileth the whole body. and setteth on fire the course of nature, and it is set on the fire of hell." Now the question that we need to ask, if there is so much evil in the tongue, what must be in the heart of man? Let me suggest to you that if the tongue is a world of iniquity, then the heart must be a universe of iniquity, so vast, so great. The tongue will simply reveal what's in the heart. A sinful tongue reveals a sinful heart. Think about the throat It's part of the mouth, as it were. Romans 3 verse 13 is a verse that brings all these three, these constituent parts together of the mouth. Their throat is an open sepulcher. With their tongues have they used deceit. The poison of asp is under their lips. Lips, tongue, throat. Their throat is an open sepulcher. Now I don't need to remind you that a sepulcher is a place of corruption, it's a place of death. Death issues forth from the throat of the sinner. The entire mouth of the sinner is contaminated by sin's pollution. No wonder then, no wonder that Isaiah says correctly that the whole head is sick mind. ears, eyes, lips, tongue, throat, every part sick and contaminated by sin. The only way that sin sickness can be healed is through the work of the one whose head was crowned with a thorny crown. Sin sickness can only be healed whenever the sinner understands that upon the sacred head of Christ, the Son of God, that the wrath of God was poured out for sin. The cross of Christ, the blood shed there is the only remedy for sin. Sinner, you're sin sick. Your entire being is contaminated by sin. What are you going to use to get rid of sin's contamination? It's so entrenched. It's right into your mind. There needs to be something that will bring cleansing. There needs to be something that will bring relief. There needs to be something that will bring healing. And the only answer that I find in the covers of this book is the blood of Christ. That's the only thing that will bring a spiritual healing and will make you whole again. Will you seek a healing balm? of Christ's blood for your soul tonight. May the great physician, Lord Jesus Christ, walk into this house by his Spirit, sit beside you in the pew, and lay his healing hand, and administer his healing touch to your sin-sick soul. will tonight come to him, be saved, be saved from sin, a sin that has polluted the whole head. What a pathetic picture we find on the operating table of Isaiah chapter 1 and the verse number 5. And we have only got to the head, just the head. May God bring you to Christ even tonight. Let's seek the Lord in prayer. Can I say that I'm here to help you in the gospel? Maybe God has been speaking to you, not only tonight, maybe in recent weeks, maybe in recent months, maybe recent years. You still haven't yielded to him. I'll be at the door, shake my hand, say, preacher, I need to speak to you tonight. I am sick. I'm sin sick. I understand tonight that what you have said, this is me, this is a picture of me. God has placed me on the operating theater. I understand that this is me. My whole head is sick. Run to the physician. Seek the healing balm of the blood of Christ. And if I can help them, please speak to us at the door. Our loving Father and our gracious God in heaven, we pray in the Savior's lovely name that thou will come and open the eyes of the sinner and open the ears of the sinner. Help them to hear and to see what they are as under God's microscope. Will God give honesty of heart, give the gifts of faith and repentance, we pray. And may there be a turning on to Christ, and we'll give the old glory for it, for we offer our prayers in and through our Savior's precious name. Amen and amen. Thank you very much. Thank you.