We're turning to the penultimate book in the Bible. That's the second from last, the epistle of Jude, just one chapter. And we're going to read from the verse 11 of the chapter. It's Jude and the verse number 11. You'll find it just before the book of the Revelation. So it's Jude and the chapter one. There is one chapter only. And we'll read from the verse 11. Woe unto them, for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the heir of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsane of Cor. These are spots in your feast of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear, clouds they are without water, carried about of winds, trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit twice dead, plucked up by the roots, raging waves off the sea, foaming out their own shame, wandering stars to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever, And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts, and their mouths speaking great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage. But beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, how they, or how that they told you, that there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts, These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit. But ye beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost. Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. And some of you, or some, have compassion, make a difference, and others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hitting even the garments spotted by the flesh. I want to him that is able to keep you from falling, to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, the only wise God, our savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. And we end our own, Amen to their public reading of God's Word. Let's unite in prayer, please. Let's seek the Lord, our loving Father. We do seek Thee. We seek Thy help. We seek, O God, the strengthening of body and Lord of mind. We pray that Thou would remove all distracting thought and We pray, Father, for those of us here in the main part of the building. We pray also for those who maybe join us within the hall tonight as they watch on. We pray, O God, that thy word will be as effectual there as it is even in this place. We pray for the Holy Ghost to be here. We pray that God himself will come minister to lies and to hearts, we pray. Glorify thy son. We look to Thee, dear God, that Thou wilt grant enabling for both preacher and hearer alike. We pray that at the end of this meeting, there might be brands plucked from the burning. We offer our prayer and through our Savior's precious name. Amen and amen. Emergency witch service. These are the words that will greet you when you key into your telephone, those all important three digits, 999. Going live on the 30th of June, 1937 with the help from the GPO, BT's forerunner, 999 was the first emergency services number in the world. The service was launched after a fire at a London doctor's surgery in November 1935 that resulted in five fatalities. It led to a committee being set up by the House of Commons to look at how telephone operators could identify emergency calls with respect to the thousands of calls that were coming in to their premises. The committee They set up, they were set up and they proposed that there should be a standard, easy to remember, nationwide number to alert the emergency services. They first considered the number 707, corresponding to the letters SOS on the telephone dial. They also considered the number 333, but eventually they settled on 999 as the most practical of numbers. eight decades since introduction of that service. It has expanded from receiving 1,000 calls in its first week to now 560,000 calls per week. Almost 30 million emergency calls are made to 999. Now much has changed since its launch on the 30th of June 1937, but one thing has remained the same. the dedication of the emergency services who rally to the place of emergency to assist those in need. How thankful we are for those who place themselves in harm's way, not only to protect us, but if need be to rescue us. from danger and from peril. As I look to the Lord for direction for this gospel message tonight, the Lord directed me to think about one of the emergency services that are available to us when we do ring and when we do call 999, that service being the fire service. Now in this little epistle, the epistle of Jude, such a service is hinted at in the words of the verse 23. But let me read the verse 22 to set it in context. And some have compassion, make a difference, and others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire. hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. Tonight as we consider, and as we continue in our series of Gospel messages for particular occupations, I want to preach a message that I've entitled, A Gospel Message for a Firefighter. A Gospel Message for a Firefighter. Now from these words in the verse 23, we're brought to consider two very simple gospel truths. The first truth that we're brought to consider is the truth, there is fire. There is fire. Our text says about those who pull others out of the fire. That's what a firefighter does when confronted with a burning building or a burning vehicle. They set about delivering those who are trapped inside, rescuing them out of the fire. Now the Bible speaks about certain fires. that the sinner needs to be delivered from. One of those fires is very obvious to us all, the other two not so obvious. Today when we speak of fire in the pulpit, that is scoffed at by many. Most pulpits are silent on the matter that there is fire. But regardless of that, it matters not, because Scripture is very clear that there is fire. fire that you the sinner needs to be pulled out of by God's grace and by God's mercy. Now the first fire that you need to be delivered from, the first fire that you the sinner needs to be rescued from is the fire of sin. the fire of sin. Let me direct you to a number of texts where sin is likened to fire. Isaiah chapter 9 and the verse 18. Isaiah 9 verse 18. The word of God says there, for wickedness burneth as the fire. It shall devour the briars and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke. Wickedness burneth as the fire. Romans chapter 1 verse 27, it says, And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lusts. one toward another, men with men, working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was met. We have there this thought of fire, the burning of a fire, when it comes to the sin of sodomy. James 3 verse 6, the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. So the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire of hell and so we have on these three occasions the thought of sin being like a fire just consider that statement of isaiah in chapter 9 in the verse 18 for wickedness burneth as a fire because in those words we have the prophet affirming that there are similarities between sin and fire There are resemblances, parallels that can be drawn between fire and sin, and we want to consider a few of them. I want you to consider in the first place the beginning of fire and the beginning of sin. The beginning of fire and the beginning of sin. You see, a fire often has small beginnings. From a cinder of a thrown away cigarette, to the simple striking of a match, raging fires covering vast expanses of land. Thousands of hectares can have their sources all traced back to very small beginnings. The great fire of London of 1666 started at 11 or 1 a.m. on Sunday morning, the 2nd of September, in Thomas Fournier's bakery on Pudding Lane. It is believed that the fire began with a simple spark from the bakery's oven. It fell onto some fuel that was lying thereby and nearby. It only took a spark to destroy one third of London. One third of London was destroyed in the great fire of 1666, and it all began with a little spark falling out of the baker who supplied the bakery or the food even for the king. Small beginnings, just small beginnings, and such a sin. Sin is often small beginnings, a simple lie, a fleeting glance. A covetous thought can all be the beginnings of a lifetime of sin. Just take Eve as an example. It was only a look, a look at the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And yet that covetous glance set the wheels into motion, whereby the entire human race would be plunged into sin. And tonight, sinner, I'm sure that you can look at your life You can recall how that drinking habit of yours just began with just one sip. How your addiction to pornography began with just one click. How your chain smoking commenced with one draft. from a cigarette, how your drug habit originated in simply taking one tablet, how your compulsive lying began with just one line. You see, just like fire, sin has very small beginnings. That example is brought, or that thought is brought to us in the life of a leper. The leper, their leprosy would begin by a simple rising in the flesh. But that rising would then spread, and that rising would then become infectious, taking complete control of the leper. But it all began with just a simple rising within the flesh. Such a sin, it commences so small, and yet it takes control. I want to remind you, sinner, it took the committing of only one sin, banish our first parents from earth's paradise. And if that be the case, then it will only be one sin that will keep you banished from heaven's paradise. The sin of Christ's rejection will banish you from the paradise of God. Revelation 21 verse 27, and there shall no eyes enter into it anything that defile us. Speaking of heaven, neither whatsoever worketh abomination or maketh a lie, but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life. Make sure that your name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life. There is the parallel between fire and sin. It always has but small beginnings. The second parallel, the second resemblance that can be drawn between fire and sin is the advancement of fire and sin. Just place a spark into combustible material, and it's not long before that material is taken control of by a fire. And then it leaps from point to point, and item to item, until the entire building is caught in flames. We're told by the historians that within a short period of time, the fire began in Thomas Farney's bakery on Pudding Lane. It had engulfed 300 houses. It was helped by a strong easterly wind. It eventually reached the River Thames, and there it hit warehouses that were stocked with combustible products, including oil and tallow. It fueled the fire, helping it on its way. Sin advances in a similar way within a sinner's life. One sin leads to another. It leads to another that leads to another. until the entire life is contaminated by and then finally given over to sin. Sinner, are you not amazed? Are you not amazed at how swift and rapid the progress of sin has been in your own life? Is it not the case that although sin, though its beginning was small, almost indiscernible, that it has so taken hold upon that life of yours that you're unable to shake off now its sinful habits? Sin advances with such speed just as fire does. There is a third likeness, a third likeness between fire and sin, and that is the power, the power of fire and sin. There's not much, there's not much that can stand in the way of a fire. There's not much that fire cannot destroy or even degenerate. Such is the power of fire that it's able to turn solids into liquids. and able to turn liquids into vapor. Fire has the power to consume almost everything that stands in its way. In 1979, archaeologists, they excavated the remains of a burnt-out shop on Pudding Lane, or Pudding Lane. It was very close to the bakery in which the fire started. Among the burnt objects that were found, the archaeologists found melted pieces of pottery, It is estimated that at its height, the temperature within that fire, the great fire of London, reached something like 1,700 degrees Celsius. Very few substances would have been able to withstand that temperature without being consumed. You know, folks, the power of sin consumes. But it consumes something more than the mere beautiful forms of material wealth. It consumes more than the exquisite productions of human art. It consumes an entire man, an entire woman. Such is the power of sin that it consumes an entire life and it devours the entire soul. Maybe that is the case with you tonight. Maybe tonight you understand that there is power with respect to sin. Man, my nature is born under sin. Sin is that evil tyrant. It reigns within the heart of man, causing every faculty to be contaminated thereby. Man, my nature is influenced by corrupt motives, by evil passions. They're led captive by carnal passions. They live day after day under the power of sin. Such is the power that the sinner cannot break free. They're in bondage to their sin, such as you tonight in the gospel. Here you are under the power of darkness. under the power of sin, unable to break free, such is its power that it's taken control of that entire life of yours, unable to deliver yourself. You have sought to find refuge, salvation in many another thing, but salvation from sin, the breaking of sin's power. only be accomplished by the salvation that Jesus Christ offers to you in the gospel. Deliverance from the power of sin can only be experienced when you come as a sinner to Christ, when you take your rightful place there at the cross, recognizing your great need of sin. There's a fourth likeness that comes to fire and sin. You see, fire is indiscriminate. And so is sin. You know, fire does not decide whenever there are materials there to be burnt. It doesn't decide, as it were, to go one direction. No, it takes everything, everything in its wake. Like a tidal wave, it just pushes through, taking all indiscriminately. There's no, as it were, compassion with fire. No, it takes it all, all in its wake, all taken and all consumed. And is that not the case with sin? It's indiscriminate. All. The Scripture said, all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Every man contaminated by sin, everyone born of Adam, Adam's accursed race, are born in sin. There is an indiscriminate nature with respect to sin, and no matter how moral you think you are, no matter how charitable you live your life, I tell you, if you've never come to Christ, sin has got a hold of you. You need to be saved, saved from sin. There's a fifth comparison that can be drawn from fire, and that is the destruction of fire and sin. Such was the devastation caused by the great fire of London that it left 100,000 people homeless, destroyed 13,200 homes. In its wake it left 87 parish churches, the Royal Exchange, Guildhall, St. Paul's Cathedral as burnt out shales of buildings. One third of London completely destroyed. The estimated property value of the loss was something between five and seven million pounds. Such was the destruction of that fire. Because fire has the great potential, the great potential of bringing tremendous destruction. And is that not the case with sin? Sin bringing great destruction. Think of the potential destruction within a life. A person in full bloom of health, they give themselves over to sin. and they find their bodies wrecked because of that which they have put within, and that which they have done in their own body, giving themselves over to their sinful passions. Think of the damage and the destruction that sin brings to a home, a home where joy and peace reign, where a marriage was happy. where children enjoyed the presence of mum and dad, but then sinned to cold of an individual, sinned to cold of a life. brought war and destruction and mayhem within a home. Such is the destructive power of sin. Think of the power of sin when we look out into our community. Think of what sin has done to this community. This community that once was God-fearing no longer is. This community that once believed even in God's day, even though they themselves do not Christ. But sin has caused havoc. Sin has brought great destruction. All morality has been thrown out the window. Moral restraint no longer is the possession of man and woman, but rather they give themselves to sin. Oh, the great damage. The great damage that sin does. Thinking of those who had lives destroyed with sin, one preacher wrote some of bodies once beautiful, now bloated and weathered by sin. Some of feelings once tender, now petrified by sin. Some whose intellectual powers were once strong, now feeble by sin. Some who were once full of hope, now hopeless by sin. The destruction, he said, which sin has caused is awful, awful. Unsaved one, I tell you, and I warn you, sin will destroy you. Sin will destroy you emotionally, intellectually, physically, But most importantly, spiritually, sin has tremendous destructive power, just like fire. There is fire, the fire of sin. But there is a second fire that you need to be rescued from, and that is the fire of God, the fire of God. When we read the scriptures, we read, And we come to understand that God is light. We come to understand that God is love. We come to understand that God is life. But we also come to understand that God is fire. In both Old and New Testaments, we read this statement, God is a consuming fire. In Deuteronomy 4, verse 24, For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God. Hebrews 12, verse 29, For our God is a consuming fire. Now it is true that fire purifies. It is true that fire refines. But this fire, the fire of God, is said to be a consuming fire. And from such sinner, you need to be pulled out. You need to be pulled out of that very fire. You see, sinner, God's wrath is like fire. It will eternally burn against you, you who have opposed Him, you who have broke His commandments. Though it be spoken of as a consuming fire, You must not think, sinner, that you will be annihilated by that fire, or that you will be destroyed by that fire, but rather, like the burning bush that burned and was not consumed, or like the three Hebrew boys in the fiery furnace of Babylon, you too will endure the fire of God's wrath, never to be destroyed. God's fiery wrath is from what you need to be rescued from. God is a consuming fire. The Puritan William Gurnell wrote, do not think, O sinners, that you shall finally escape. God's mail goes slow, but grinds small. The more admirable his patience and bounty now is, the more dreadful and unsupportable will that fury be, which arises out of his abused goodness. Nothing is smoother than the sea, yet when stirred into a tempest, nothing rages more. Just so, nothing is so sweet as the patience and goodness of God, and yet nothing so dreadful as his wrath when it takes fire. nothing more dreadful as his wrath when it takes fire. Fire! Fire! God's fire! God's wrath being poured out upon you, the ungodly. For all of God's eternity, Sinner, you need rescued from that fire. God's fire. And then there is a third. It is the most obvious fire, from which every sinner listening to this message needs to be delivered, and that is hellfire. Hellfire. When's the last time you ever heard about hellfire? The church that you go to, you're maybe not from this church. When's the last time the preacher ever spoke about hell fire? Because I can say the fire of hell is real fire. I take Matthew's gospel, and all I do is take the words of Jesus Christ, And I show them to you just at this moment of time. Matthew 5. Let's look at them. Verse 22. Jesus Christ, the Speaker. But I say unto you that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment. And whosoever shall say to his brother, Raka, shall be in danger of the counsel. But whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. Jesus said it. Hellfire, the most compassionate, loving preacher, the one who wept. the one who mourned, the one who sorrowed over the nation and over the very city of Jerusalem, the one whose tear ducts opened and silver tributaries of rain, as in the form of tears, fell down his blessed cheeks, Jesus Christ, gentle Jesus. He said, hellfire, he did. Matthew 13, verse 41 and 42. The Son of Man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity, and shall cast them into a furnace of fire. And there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Stay in the chapter. Go to the verse 49 and verse 50. So shall it be at the end of the world. The angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, and shall cast them, the wicked, into the furnace of fire, and there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Go forward five chapters to the chapter 18 and the verse number 9. If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out. and cast it from thee. It is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire. Note the verse before it. Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off and cast them from thee. It is better for thee to enter into life halter-mained, rather than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into everlasting fire. verse chapter 25 the verse number 41 chapter 25 verse 41 then shall he say unto them on the left hand depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angel sinner there's fire hell fire and you need to be rescued from that fire. Let me say that this fire is not figurative. This is literal fire. It is fire that torments. For we read in Luke chapter 16 of the man who died without Christ and without God, and he lifted up his eyes in hail, and he says, I am tormented in this flame. There's flame. There's fire. sinner you need to be rescued from hellfire. Thomas Brooks, he remarked, wicked man, who are now such jolly fellows shall one day go from burning to burning. They shall go from burning in sin to burning in hell, from burning in flames of lust to burning in flames of torment. Sinner, may the fear of hellfire drive you to Christ. Because in Psalm 111, verse 6, I read these words, upon the wicked, and that's you. He shall reign snares, fire, and brimstone. and an horrible tempest, this shall be the portion of their cup." My unconverted friend, there is fire. There is fire. Be in no doubt about it. But the second truth that we are brought to consider is because there is fire, You need to be rescued from the fire. How simple these truths are. By nature, we are rushing headlong into the fires of sin, God, and hell. And from such, we need to be rescued. Because if we continue as we are in our sin, it will result us reaching the place of everlasting burnings. Now, to escape that fate, you must be rescued. You cannot rescue yourself. It is impossible. You're trapped. No, you need another from outside to come on a rescue mission. And thank God Christ came on that very mission. You know, the amazing thing is, to me, that there are people, and if they see a fire, A physical fire. I don't know about you, but I've never seen someone running to a fire. I've seen firemen, yes, they're on a mission to save, but I'm speaking about a member of the public. I never see them running into the fire. No, what do they do? They run from the fire as far as they can, lest the fire takes a hold of their physical bodies. And yet, sinner, here you are. Here you are. and hell fire waits, and you have no thought of fleeing to a place of safety. You have preserved your physical body from the physical fire, but what about that soul that's heading towards an eternal and an everlasting hell? Our text reads, others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire. Aware that there is fire, we read that concerned souls fearful of what will befall the unrepentant sinner, they give themselves to the task of pulling such out of the fire. The phrase literally translates away from the fire, away from it, before they even get there, they are involved in pulling them away from the fire. Before they ever come to experience it, they are involved in snatching them away from the fire. Now, lest I be misunderstood, let me be clear on two points. First of all, when the sinner dies and goes to hell, they can never be rescued, never. The sinner on their death is closed up in hell with an insurpassable gulf fixed between them and heaven. Luke 16 tells us that. This is not reaching into hell. Whenever you go there, sinner, and this is some second chance. That's not what the text means. The second thing that I need to be clear on is that preachers, evangelists, Christians, they are only secondary agents that God uses in the saving and pulling of sinners out of the fire. because it is ultimately God and God alone who saves the sinner out of the fire. As we think about this rescuing from the fire, just two things. I want you to notice the motive behind the rescue. Others save with fear. I believe the phrase can have two meanings. Either people are saved as they come to fear what awaits them at the end of a life of sin. I trust that you fear. I trust that you fear meeting God in your sin. Because by that fear, thank God you can be saved and pulled out of the fire. But it can also mean that those who are doing the saving do so because they fear for the spiritual well-being of others. In other words, fear of what will befall the sinner motivates the rescuer to attempt the rescue. They understand their fate and fear propels and compels them to rescue, to rescue those that are in the fire. Did the Apostle Paul not say something similar? 2 Corinthians 5 verse 11, knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men. Aware of God's terror as he exercised his wrath, Paul along with others set about not driving people to Christ, not scaring people to Christ, but persuading them by strong argument and by loving entreaty. He persuaded them to Christ. The motive was that they understand the fearful end, and so they attempt the rescue. What is it that motivates any gospel preacher? Well, let me say what motivates this preacher, because I can only speak for myself. The thought of a monthly salary does not motivate this preacher. A man's to live in with my family does not motivate this preacher. The applause of this community or the praise of a congregation does not motivate this preacher. I'll tell you what motivates this preacher. It's love for your soul. Understanding just in a little way of what awaits you and what will befall you as an unrepentant sinner. That is what motivates me. The fear of you dying without a saving interest in Jesus Christ. keeps me in the ministry. With all of its disappointments and all of its difficulties, it is love for your soul and the fear that there are some people from this congregation and they're going to die without a saving interest in Jesus Christ. Now sinner, you may not fear for your soul, what I do. Now I admit that that fear is not as strong as it should be on my part, but there is fear nonetheless. So let me encourage you, implore you, beg you, entreat you to flee. Flee from wrath to come. and flee to the cross, and flee to the blood, and flee to the Christ of God." The motive, the means employed in the rescue. We are told that those who are in danger are pulled out of the fire. The word pulling means to be seized, to be carried off by force, to be snatched out, to be snatched away. You see, what happens in the gospel is that sinners are let hold off. They're let hold off by the Spirit and by the Word. They're snatched out of the fire of sin and out of the fire of God and, thank God, eventually out of the fire of hell. See, God has devised the means and the counsels of eternity by which boys and girls, mums and dads can be delivered from the fire of hell. That means, that God devised means, was a work that was accomplished through the perfect life, the penal death, and the powerful resurrection of Jesus Christ, his only begotten son. That's how That's how you can be delivered from the fire. By his life, the Son of God secured a perfect righteousness that you could never have secured for yourself even if you were given the opportunity to live a thousand lives. By his one life, he obeys the law and he satisfies all of God's demands. By His death, the Son of God, He satisfies the legal demands of a broken law. He pays the penalty of sin by His death on the tree, a death that involves bloodshedding, blood, blood to put away sin. By His resurrection, the work that He accomplishes in His life and in His death is verified publicly to be satisfactory to God. You see it's through the cross, through the cross and the cross alone that you the sinner can be delivered from the fire because the blood of Christ quenches the fire. It puts the fire out. The blood, it quells the fire. That which was burning against me burns in Christ there at the cross. There at the cross, He becomes the great sacrifice. And what happens in the Old Testament sacrifice is that the fire descends and consumes the sacrifice, but not this sacrifice. No, though the fire of God's wrath descends, He, the sacrifice, consumes the fire. so that when I stand in him, when I am met in him, when I am in saving union with him, the fire has been, the fire has already burnt in Christ himself. Is that not the case? There in the prairies, what they do, they set the fire as they see the fires approaching in the distance. They set it ablaze and they fan it out and they make sure that there's a place where there's no more fuel for the fire. So when that wall of fire comes up against that very place where all the fire has already been consumed, the fire stops, the people are safe within that precinct. And as a result, they're rescued from the coming fire. Such is in the gospel. Christ has taken the fire. We stand in Him. And therefore, when the fire of God's judgment comes down the road to us, as it were, thank God there's no fuel, because I'm in Christ. Are you in Christ tonight? Are you in Christ this evening? Tonight in the gospel, God rushes. He rushes as it was and as it were into the very fire to rescue you. He would have you to be a brand plucked out of the fire. We sang about it tonight. Will you be rescued tonight from the fire? Only a fool would stay in a burning building and refuse help, refuse the help of those who are offering to rescue them. You would call that individual, you would say that person is a fool. And yet God would rescue you tonight. And you refuse the offer of salvation, the offer of deliverance, the offer of rescue. What does that make you then, sir? What does that make you, madam? I'll leave you to answer that question. If the fool refuses a physical rescue, what does it make you who refuses a spiritual rescue? Will you be saved? God God will pull you out of the fire. Send up the cry, emergency which service? Christ, Christ, that's who I need. Christ come to my rescue and thank God he will. May God, in his mercy, bring you out of the fire. Let's bow our heads in prayer. O God, our loving Father. O God, our loving Father. We bless thee that there is a way of rescue. And yet we sing this evening's song. will the season of rescue be o'er, and soon will they drift to eternity's shore. Haste, then, my brother, no time for delay, but throw out the lifeline and save them today. O God, we have thrown out the lifeline into this meeting house. There are sinners here, and they need to be rescued. They need to be plucked out of the fire. Lord, give them the courage to speak up as they leave through this door tonight, if it even be thy will that they get to there. If they need help and counsel, oh God, give them the courage to seek the Savior. But Lord, even where they sit, we pray that they'll send up the cry, Lord, save me, I perish. May there be the cry from some soul tonight, our souls, and be pleased, be pleased to pluck brands from the burning. We offer our prayers and through our Savior's precious and holy name. Amen and amen. If you are concerned, please speak to us on the way out tonight. Thank you.