We're turning to Mark's gospel, chapter 7. Mark chapter 7 this evening, the gospel of Mark, the 7th chapter, we're reading from verse 14 of chapter, Mark chapter 7, and the verse number 14. And when he, that speaking of the Lord Jesus Christ, had called the people unto him, he said unto them, hearken unto me, every one of you. and understand. There is nothing from without a man that entering into him can defile him, but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man. If any man have ears to hear, let him hear." When he was entered into the house from the people, the disciples asked him concerning the parable. And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him? Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth forth into the draught, or the sewers, purging all meats. And he said, that which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within. and defile the man. We end our reading at the 23rd verse. Let's unite in prayer, please. Seek the Lord. Our loving Father, we do cry. I pray, O God, for the infilling of Thy Spirit. Grant, O God, help in the preaching of Thy Word. Lord, we're here for this hour. Lord, that's all we have this moment. O God, we have plans for later on. But Lord, we have only these moments. Lord, we boast not ourselves even of them, not even of tomorrow, for we know not what a day, what an hour would even bring forth. And so come, close us in into this hour, this gospel hour, this time when the gospel invitation will be given, the gospel preached. We pray that there might be wonders, miracles in our midst who will give thee And we shall give thee all praise for it, for we offer our prayers in and through Jesus' precious name. Amen and amen. Well last Lord's Day evening we came to dissect the human anatomy as we considered that great text over there in Isaiah chapter 1 in the verse number 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 soreness in it but wounds and bruises and putrefying sores that have not been closed. Neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment." And we came to understand the truthfulness of the inspired penman's assessment of the whole head when he said that it was sick. That was affirmed when we looked into the sinner's mind. We saw a mind that was polluted by sin. It does not think correctly upon the matters of God. of sin and of coming judgment. We thought about the sinner's eyes, eyes which are blinded to the beauty and the glory that there is in Christ and his gospel because of sin. Examination was also made concerning the sinner's ears. We came to understand that the sinner is deaf to many a voice, the voice of the gospel preacher, deaf to the voice of conscience, Death to the voice of even the wrong, the voice of God as it's heard in the gospel through the word and through his faithful messengers. We took time to examine the sinner's mouth and concluded that the lips and the tongue and the throat are entirely contaminated by sin. And therefore Isaiah was right when he said that the whole head is sick. Tonight we want to go a little further in our investigation and see if sin has affected any other part of the human anatomy. So I want to preach a second and a concluding message on a message that I commenced last week entitled, A Gospel Message for a surgeon. And so we're going into the operating theater again. And we want to begin by dissecting and examining the sinner's heart, the sinner's heart. Now the prophet Isaiah informs us in Isaiah 1 verse 5 that the whole heart is faint. Now the word faint can be translated with the word sick, and that is important because at times we think the heart has only but swooned. It is only but and requires a little resuscitation. But we must remember the translation of the word is that it is sick, entirely sick, wholly contaminated. And that'll be important when we come to consider a truth in a few moments time. But note with me initially that the whole heart is faint. It's not that just part of the sinner's heart is sick. It's not that the vast majority of the heart is sick, but rather the entire heart is faint, the entire human heart is sick. Now when a heart in physical terms is sick, we understand that that affects every other part of the human constitution. For a person to have a heart problem will mean that there are other subsequent problems because the heart is that vital organ that keeps us alive and keeps us in good health. We need a sound heart, a healthy heart, if our entire body is to know the benefit of good health. But here we see that the whole heart is referred to as being sick. It's no different in spiritual terms. When the heart is sick, the whole man is affected. Someone has rightly said, the heart of the problem is the problem of the heart. And when we come to read the scriptures of holy truth and its assessment of the sinner's heart, then we see that the heart of the sinner in its fallen and sinful state is firstly deceived. It is a heart that is deceitful. Jeremiah 17, verse 9. informs us that the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it. Now there are many things in this world that you and I would say are deceitful. Some people would suggest that the politicians They're deceitful. Some would suggest that the tax man is a deceitful individual. Some would say that the multinational business owner is deceitful, and the devil is deceitful. But here we have the record of Scripture informing us that above all of these things, the human heart is deceitful. And our hearts, they deceive us into thinking that we're pretty good people. Despite the Scriptures telling us that there is none that doeth good, no not one, and that there is none good but one, that is God. The human heart, the sinful heart, the deceitful heart of the sinner will deceive us into thinking that God will accept us as we are. despite the Scriptures telling us that we can only find acceptance in the below. The deceitful heart of man would tell us that there is a multiplicity of ways to God, despite the Scriptures telling us that there is only one way to the Father. And that is through Jesus Christ, who is the way, the truth, and the life. The deceitful heart will inform the sinner that sin really isn't that serious a matter at all, despite the scriptures telling us that sin is exceeding sinful. I wonder, before I go on any further tonight, are you a person who believes your own deceitful heart? one who would commend yourself with respect to your own morality, an individual that is proud that you haven't gone to the excesses of sin as others have, an individual who would comfort yourself with some kind of false peace, a level of morality, a level of respectability, and yet an individual who has never bowed the knee Never surrender to the claims of the gospel and certainly never welcome Jesus Christ into your life and into your heart. Be careful. Be careful, sinner, because that heart within you is deceitful above all things. Do not be a self-deceived individual. But something else about the heart of the sinner in its fallen and sinful state, it is defiled. The prophet Jeremiah goes on to declare, not only is the heart of man deceitful, but it is desperately wicked. You see, the heart of man loves vanity, loves falling. loves sin, while at the same time it hates holiness and truth and every divine restraint that God would place upon the sinner. A heart in which sin resides is a heart that is defiled. Now our Bible reading in Mark chapter 7 reminds us of sin's defilement of the human heart. We read from the verse 21, from from within, Out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile the man. Now, as we read this portion of God's Word, it is the Savior that is speaking here. This is Christ, the Omniscient One. The one who is able to look into the hearts of men and see the very state of the sinner's heart. Now he's not speaking about some notorious prisoner here. He's not speaking about some individual that's on death row because they have committed some heinous or grievous crime within society. But rather he speaks of the human heart, the heart of the religious man. The heart of the religious woman, the heart of such an individual is like this heart. And within the heart of every human being there lies the seeds of these very sins. Now many of those seeds lie dormant within our lives. They're kept down by the fear of consequences. They're kept restrained. because of the restraint of public opinion, the dread of discovery, the desire to be respectable before others, and above all, the almighty grace of God keeps those sins lying dormant within the heart. But every sinner, every sinner, this heart, this sinner before you tonight, has these very seeds of sin implanted into his heart. and without the grace of God. And if the grace of God was lifted from us, we would be those who would commit adultery, we would be those who would commit murder, and thefts, and covetousness, and wickedness, and deceit, and lasciviousness, because our hearts are defiled by sin, the human heart. The human heart is defiled by sin. And that sin, these things defile the heart. Now you may say, so what? So what? So what if the heart is defiled by sin? Well, let me remind you in the words of Revelation 21, verse 27, that nothing that defileth will ever enter in. Nothing that defileth will enter into heaven. And if your heart is still defiled at death by sin, you will not get into God's heaven. That is how serious it is to leave this world with a heart defiled by sin. A heart that is controlled and corrupted and contaminated by sin. And the only thing that I can tell you to do tonight in the gospel is to have that defilement washed away. That deep-seated defilement of sin needs to be cleansed. And the only agent that can do such a cleansing is the blood of Jesus Christ. That's the only thing, the only fountain, the only agent to cleanse away the defilement of sin. Nothing but the blood of Jesus, the blood of Christ, the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin. It is the gospel alone that presents and contains the only answer for sin's defilement. And so the heart of man is defiled. In the third place, the heart of the sinner in its fallen and sinful state is dead. It's dead. Not dead physically, the heart beats, but certainly dead spiritually. not a spark of life, spiritual life within the sinner's heart. It is not until God implants new life into that heart by the Holy Ghost that that heart that is dead and motionless about real religion is brought to life in Jesus Christ. Well, see, then, God describes the heart of the sinner as being a heart of stones, so faint, so sick is the sinner's heart in God's sight that it needs to be brought from death to life. God says that every living person is spiritually dead who is not a real, thorough, genuine, decided Christian. You are born dead, dead in trespasses and in sin. Sinner, you're disinterested. In the gospel evidences, you're dead in state tonight. Think of it. God has called you continually. He's called you by his mercies. He has called you by affliction. He has called you by the preacher. He has called you through the word. But you fail to hear his voice. Why? Because you're dead in trespasses and sins. The Lord Jesus Christ has pleaded with you. He has sent gracious invitations in the gospel to you. He has knocked on the door of your heart many years, and yet you fail to hear his voice. You've disregarded what he has done for you in the gospel. Why? Because you're dead. in trespasses and sins. The preacher has preached about the glories of heaven, while at the same time he has preached about the terrors of hell. He's preached about the beauty of the Savior, while at the same time he's preached about the ugliness of sin. And yet you've sat unmoved, unconcerned, only a heartbeat away from God's endless eternity. You sit here unconcerned as the very flowers of May. Why? Because you're dead in your trespasses and sins. And know that tonight, in this meeting, the power of the gospel might be experienced within that deadened heart of yours, that you might be quickened by the Holy Ghost, and made spiritually alive unto God. Sinner, it's not reformation that you need tonight, it's resurrection. That's what you need tonight, resurrection. You need to be raised from the deadness of your sin. The Bible speaks about passing from death unto life. That's what it is. That's what the new birth is. That's what it is to experience God's salvation. There is a passing from death on to life. Oh, make sure that you have passed from death to life. And if not, come to Him who is the resurrection and who is the life. And who will, on your coming, impart to you life. eternal, everlasting, abundant life to you in the gospel. A deceitful, a dead, a defiled heart resides in each and every sinner. And only the gospel can change the heart, because the Bible and biblical religion is all about the heart. God deals with the heart. Only the gospel can transform such a heart so that the deceitfulness is replaced with truthfulness, that the defilement is replaced by purity, that the deadness is replaced by life. Oh, that God in his grace would do a heart transplant in this house tonight and give you, the sinner, a new heart. It's called a heart of flesh. And take from that flesh of yours that stony heart and give to you a heart of flesh. And upon that heart inscribe his law and inscribe his statutes. The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. But we need to move on. Because we'll continue to examine the entire human anatomy. And as we do so, we want to examine in the second place, the sinner's hands. The sinner's hands. Isaiah chapter 59, if you have a Bible. Isaiah chapter 59. In the opening three verses, there is a comparison made, a contrast. There is the Lord's hand spoken of in verse number one. And then in verse number three, he speaks about your hands. Let's read from Isaiah 59 verse one. Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot see you. Neither is ear heavy that it cannot hear, but your iniquities are separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear, for your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness." The people of Isaiah's day were no different than the people of our day. They employed their hands, they employed their fingers as agents to commit sin, to commit iniquity. Read it, and your fingers with iniquity. You think of the many sins that men and women and young people commit by just using the hand. I think of the sin of stealing. People close their hand on God. to steal from him what is rightfully his in the tithe and in the offering. While others open their hand and with sticky fingers, they steal from family and friends, employers and neighbors and even churches. I think of the sin of murder. Doctors employ their hand skill to rip from the womb a lovely unborn baby. and abortion. Others hold a gun or a knife in their hand to end another person's life. I think of the sin of adultery. A married spouse takes another person who is not their married partner into their embrace with the use of a mere hand. holding the hand, using the hand to commit adultery, wrecking a home and wrecking a marriage and wrecking a family. I think of the sin of idolatry. The crass man employs his hand to form an idol. Others use their hands to set up such idols within their homes. What about the sin of lying? What about the sin of lying? No, lying is not just the sin of the tongue. be a sin of the hand as well. I wonder how many business owners altered their figures just before the self-assessment form was to be filled in at the end of January this year. I wonder did you steal from the taxman? Did you write in the right figures? Yes, the very hand, the very hand of the sinner is involved in all these kinds of sin. Is it then any wonder that the blessed Savior, when he was here on earth, on his sermon on the mount, he said these words in Matthew 5 verse 30, And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off and cast it from thee. For it is profitable for thee that not one of thy members should perish and not that the whole body should be cast into the hell. Now the Savior wasn't arguing for some kind of physical amputation of the hand from the body and some kind of sadistic self-mutilation process by cutting off the hand when it offends. Christ is using hyperbolic language here. It is language of intentional overstatement. And the Lord Jesus Christ was emphasizing simply to his hearers the heinous nature that sin is. His argument literally went as this, better to have no hands and not sin than to have hands to sin. better have no hands to sin than to have no hands not to sin. I wonder as you look at your hand tonight, your hand, your sinful hand, I wonder do you see those hands stained by sin? Shakespeare wrote the play Macbeth Lady Macbeth kills Duncan and as she kills him, his blood, his blood is on her hands. She runs to the well within the courtyard and she tries to wash her hands of Duncan's blood. The sin, the guilt, the shame of it. She plunges her hands into the water, hoping to get her hands clean of Duncan's blood. She brings them out again, only for the blood to reappear on her hands. She plunges them in again, trying to wash her hands. She brings them out, and again the blood is there, and she cries out, out, spot, I say, out, what will these hands ne'er be clean? She couldn't get away from the sin of hand. In the murder of Duncan, that is only but, as it were, a figment of a story. It does not happen, but is it not true, the sinner's hands? What did Pilate do when Christ stood before him? He tried to wash his hands. tried to wash his hands from what he was going to do with the Savior. And I tell you, sinner, in the gospel, in the gospel you do the same. You attempt to wash your hands of all responsibility when it comes to what you're going to do with Jesus Christ. But I tell you, you'll not be able to wash those hands. those hands that say no, those hands that are held up and say, I will not have this man to reign over me. I tell you, sinner, tonight it would do well for you to listen to the counsel that you have for you in James 4, verse 8. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts. ye double-minded, draw nigh to the Saviour. He'll draw nigh to you. Cleanse the hands, those thin stained hands in the blood of Jesus Christ. Plunge beneath that blood-filled fountain and have every stain of sin extracted, expunged, and erased from your life tonight in the gospel. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners. Such is the boldness of the sinner that they take their hand, and they form it into a fist, and they shake it into the face of the Almighty in an act of defiance. Listen to these words I came across in Job chapter 15 verse 25 concerning the sinner. For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengthening himself against the Almighty. Think of it, the sinner stretching out his hand against God, the sinner in his defiance wishing to dethrone God, to tear him from off his throne, to have God brought down. Such is the arrogance of the sinner, such is the defiance of the sinner. They reveal the words in Job 15, 25. They reveal the daring defiance that the sinner exercises when he comes against God. They stretch out their hand against God. Oh, the folly of such an action! Puny man! Against upnipping called. a grasshopper against the Almighty. And yet such is a sinner. No, no to Christ. I tell you, sinner, God says, I have stretched forth my hand all the day long and no man regarded it. He reaches out his hand the nail-scarred hand, the pierced hand. Instead of stretching your hand out against God, why not place your hand in the nail-scarred hand and let that hand lead you to the place called Calvary. Let that hand lead you to the place of repentance. The heart, the hand, Let's examine another piece of the body. We're thinking about the sinner's kidneys. Yes, the sinner's kidneys. Yes. I return to a verse that I have already quoted. Well, I quoted part of it, the initial verse. It's found in Jeremiah 17, verse 10. We spoke about the heart of man being deceitful. Above all things and desperately wicked. And then the inspired pen man goes on. I, the Lord, search the heart. I try the reins. I try the reins. The word reins is the word kidney. The kidney. Now what is the kidney? Well, the kidney is that hidden, that deep part. The kidneys are that part, the remote part of the human anatomy. It's that which is out of sight. hidden neatly away within the body. And here we see the Bible speaking here. When the Bible speaks of trying the reins, there's figurative language being used here. God is searching. He's searching the hidden part of man. He's searching the very seat of man's affection, the very being of man, right into the very core. right into the very center of it all, where the hidden man is, where no human eye can penetrate, God is searching, searching, looking, and He's looking to see where your affections are set upon tonight. He's looking to see if you've got any heart for God, any affection for God, any love for God. He's examining to see whether those affections are towards him or not, whether they're sincere, whether they're hypocritical. He's coming to the hidden part of man and he's giving them a thorough examination and a comprehensive inspection. I tell you sinner, does that not terrify you? Think that God is looking into the very core of your being tonight. That he's going right into the very kidney, as it were, the very seat of your affections and he's pulling away all the pretense and he's seeing as you really are. He's penetrating What a deep, penetrating examination it is. You've maybe hid your defiance against God from your family and friends, but I tell you, God knows you. God sees you. God's coming to your soul tonight, and into your life tonight, and He's pulling it all away, and He's stripping you back. He's using the scalpel, and He's going deeper, layer after layer. We've been on the surface. You've been in the eyes, and the ears, and the mouth, and then we're into the heart, and He's going deeper, and deeper, and deeper. The psalmist said, search me, O God, and know my heart. and see if there be any wicked way in me. And that's what he's doing tonight in the gospel. He's pulling it all back and he's going to bring to light the hidden things of darkness. Does it not trouble you, sinner, that your only affections are for the things of earth? And you have no affections set upon things that are above. God is fully acquainted with your modus, with your affections, make sure that those affections are towards God, and that can only be the case when He has won your affections and He has set them upon Him in the gospel. There is a fourth part of man, the sinner's anatomy we want to consider, We're moving our way, we're going south, aren't we? The mind, the eyes, the ears, the mouth, the heart, the hands, the kidneys. What about the sinner's knees? What about the sinner's knees? It is a strange part of the body, I know, to be considering, but God would have you to bow the knee, to bow the knee. Sinner, he would have you to bow the knee in time and make him Lord and Savior before those knees of yours are forced to bow in eternity, and you meet him as judge. The Scriptures remind us that there's coming a day when every knee shall bow, Isaiah 45, verse 23, I have sworn by myself, the word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness and shall not return, that unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. Romans 14, 10, for it is written, as I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. Philippians 2, verse 10, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things on earth and things that are under the earth, the bowing of the knee. It speaks to me of certain things. It speaks to me of humility. It speaks to me of sincerity. It speaks to me of teachability. It speaks to me of submission. It speaks to me of surrender on the part of the individual that bows before one that is greater than him. However, the sinner does not want to submit, and the sinner does not want to surrender their lives to God, and so they refuse to bow the knee. Is that not what was said concerning Joseph? He went out into Egypt. The cry went out before the chariot, bow the knee, bow the knee. He was a physical Savior. His name, his Egyptian name means Savior of the world. And there's the Savior of the world riding out on the chariot. We read in the prophets concerning the chariot of the gospel, Christ rides the gospel chariot. And as they cried before Joseph by the knee, so God in the gospel would say, sinner, by the knee, by in humility, by in submission, by in glad surrender, make me Lord, make me Savior. Did you know that there's such a thing? I'm sure you did. There's such a medical condition as a locked knee. When a person has a locked knee, the patient is unable to bend the knee. Can't bend it. Or they're unable to straighten out the knee again. I tell you, there's many a sinner. And in spiritual terms, you have got locked knee. Locked knee. You have never bowed the knee, never acknowledged Christ as God and Savior and as Lord. You've got spiritual lock-knee. Let me ask you, have you ever bowed the knee? Have you ever yielded gladly in glad surrender, owned him as Savior and as Lord? I implore you, sinner, tonight in the gospel, bow the knee and bow it now before you're compelled to bow it in eternity. by the knee. There's one final body part we want to consider. We thought about the sinner's heart tonight, his hands, her hands, the kidneys, the knee. What about the sinner's feet? Their feet The direction of travel of our bodies is determined by the orientation of our feet. What a profound statement. It simply means whatever direction your feet are going, that's where your body will go, unless you've got two left feet and they decide, or one left and one right, and you decide to go in two directions at the same time. But normally, the direction of feet determines the orientation of travel. The way the feet go is the way that the body goes. Senator, what about your feet? I speak of them spiritually. I'm not asking you have your bunions on your feet or anything like that. I'm asking you what about the spiritual direction of your feet tonight. I tell you, the Bible makes it very clear that the orientation of your feet is not toward God. In actual fact, it is in the complete opposite direction. Your feet, your feet are taking you further and further away from God. The Bible speaks of the sinner going astray, and that is because their feet are prone. They are prone to run from God. It's hereditary. This problem with our feet, it's hereditary, because our first parents, when they sinned, Their feet did not take them to God in repentance, but rather their feet took them behind the very bushes, the very trees of the Garden of Eden, trying to hide from God's presence. And from that moment, every sinner's feet have been turned out of the way. We go astray. as soon as we're born. That's what the Psalm is saying. I suppose the most familiar verse with respect to the strain of one's feet is found in Isaiah 53 verse 6, all we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. Proverbs chapter 1 verse 16 reminds us that the feet of the sinner run to evil. And is that not the case? Sinners run to their sin. They haste to the place where iniquity is readily available. And as they do so, they flee from God and all that is righteous and all that is true and all that is ungodly. No wonder then Jesus Christ said, and if thy foot offend thee, cut it off. It is better for thee to enter halt into life than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that shall, that never shall be quenched. Let me ask you, sinner, where did your feet take you this week? Did they take you to the place of sin? Did they take you further away from God? I would encourage you to turn your feet, turn your feet to the place called Calvary, where you there will gaze upon the one who died to make atonement for sin. We've been thinking about our anatomy, the sinner's anatomy. But I want to close by taking you to the cross. And there I want you to examine Christ's anatomy. I want you to stand at the foot of the cross and examine the Redeemer's head. It's a head that's crowned with thorns, crowned with a thorny crown, bejeweled with crimson drops of blood. I want you to examine the Redeemer's ears for they're filled with the scoffing and the laughing, the ridiculing and the blasphemy of sinful men. I want you to think about the Redeemer's eyes as He looks down through time and He surveys the full sum of man's sin and rebellion against Him. I want you to think and examine the Redeemer's lips. They pour forth grace, even in His dying hours. Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. I want you to think about the Redeemer's tongue as it cleaves to the very jaws of His mouth, swollen in the Middle Eastern sun. I want you to examine the Redeemer's throat, dried and parched. for lack of moisture as he hangs there in naked shame. I want you to think about the sinner or the Redeemer's heart, broken, crushed, pierced through with a soldier's spear. I want you to think about the Redeemer's hands, pierced through with cruel nails. I want you to think about the Redeemer's kidneys, the very innermost being of the blessed Son of God. He inwardly yearns for the salvation, the redemption of his elect people. I want you to think about the Redeemer's knees. Because a night just prior to this crucifixion, those knees were in the dust of Gethsemane, as he prays for the Father's will to be done. And then view the Redeemer's feet, those feet that span the stars, bringing and carrying to this earth the gospel of peace to fallen mankind. And now those very feet are affixed to the cross by wicked and cruel men, piercing them with nails. What a bloody spectacle, and I use it correctly, the word, what a bloody spectacle. Head eyes, ears, mouth, lips, throat, heart, hands, kidneys, knees, feet, all in order to secure a redemption. They are enduring the curse, the sin of my sin, your sin, as being born into the very body of Jesus Christ. Every part of His anatomy, every part of His anatomy, becomes a very sin offering. He becomes sin for us. Sinner, as you stand at the cross and examine the anatomy of the Redeemer, remember that He has been wounded for your transgressions and He has been bruised for your iniquities. My mind, my mind was polluted by sin. my ears, my eyes, my heart, my mouth, my hands, my kidneys, my reins, the knees, the feet, all affected by sin, but through the cross, through the cross, Christ has taken that defilement. Christ has taken sin's contamination, and He has purged it all away. Sinner, in God's sight you are nothing less than a mass of sinful corruption. The blood of Christ can cleanse you. The blood of Christ can make you whole. The one who examines you on the table is the one who brings the healing. God, the great physician, can heal the sin sick soul. Will you come to Him? Will you be healed? Oh, may God in His grace show you what you are, your entire being polluted by sin, and that you'll come to understand that only the redemption in Christ can reverse all that sin has done. May tonight you come to the great physician in the gospel. Let's bow our heads in prayer. I wonder tonight, have you saw yourself as God sees you? Has God troubled you in any way in this meeting? If he has, respond. Respond now. Just where you sit, cry to God for mercy. Cry to him. God, take this sin-polluted life of mine. Cleanse me in thy precious blood. Make me a Christian and help me walk with God." Such a cry will be heard. Oh, may there be confession of sin, repentance from sin, and may there be salvation from sin tonight in this house. And as I've said, if I can help you, will you please speak to me at the door? to speak to you about these things, to open up the Scriptures with you, but I trust that you feel yourself to be filthy, filthy through and through because of sin, and oh, that you would seek the cleansing in the blood of Christ. Oh God, our loving Father, We bless thee and thank thee for a book before us that tells us the truth about ourselves. There is no papering over the cracks. It reveals to us our hearts and how sinful we are. And yet we thank thee for a Redeemer, a Savior, who can take this heart of ours and make it clean. and make it right with God. O God, answer prayer tonight. Challenge the sinner in the gospel. Give them courage to seek counsel. O God, may they not sit in their sin any longer, but may they arise and go to Christ. I will arise and go on to Jesus. May that be the cry tonight. I am coming, Lord. Coming now to thee. Wash me. Cleanse me in the blood that flowed on Calvary. Answer prayer. and save the lost. We offer prayer in and through Jesus' precious name. Amen and amen. Thank you.