1 00:00:00,925 --> 00:00:04,600 And you who have no money, come, buy and eat. 2 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:06,710 Come buy wine and milk 3 00:00:06,710 --> 00:00:09,100 without money and without cost. 4 00:00:09,100 --> 00:00:11,877 This is the issue. This is the stumbling block. 5 00:00:11,877 --> 00:00:15,757 Why some people refuse to come. 6 00:00:15,757 --> 00:00:18,056 You know Charles Spurgeon said, 7 00:00:18,056 --> 00:00:21,732 normally, when a salesman for instance, 8 00:00:21,732 --> 00:00:23,971 wants you to purchase something, 9 00:00:23,971 --> 00:00:26,550 he first describes the item he wants you to purchase. 10 00:00:26,550 --> 00:00:29,756 And then, he tries to bring you up to the price. 11 00:00:29,756 --> 00:00:32,269 Well, not so with the Gospel. 12 00:00:32,269 --> 00:00:34,294 You first describe salvation, 13 00:00:34,294 --> 00:00:37,698 then you have to come down to the price. 14 00:00:37,698 --> 00:00:40,191 Which is nothing. It's free. 15 00:00:40,191 --> 00:00:42,042 You can't pay anything. 16 00:00:42,042 --> 00:00:48,066 But Christ has already paid the price. 17 00:00:48,066 --> 00:00:54,221 We went to a museum today. 18 00:00:54,221 --> 00:00:57,697 And the children were drinking from those water fountains 19 00:00:57,697 --> 00:01:00,956 where you push them and you drink. 20 00:01:00,956 --> 00:01:04,073 No one ever gets the wallet out 21 00:01:04,073 --> 00:01:06,631 when they go to them, do they? 22 00:01:06,631 --> 00:01:10,284 Why? Because you know it's free. You know it's an offer. 23 00:01:10,292 --> 00:01:14,184 But yet with salvation, people hear it's free, 24 00:01:14,184 --> 00:01:17,144 they hear the message, that it's all of grace, 25 00:01:17,144 --> 00:01:19,548 that it's all of faith; 26 00:01:19,548 --> 00:01:22,096 but then they're trying to get their wallet out. 27 00:01:22,096 --> 00:01:25,786 There must be something I must do. 28 00:01:25,786 --> 00:01:27,628 Maybe it's some feeling. 29 00:01:27,628 --> 00:01:30,736 I've got to muster, I've got to work myself up some feeling. 30 00:01:30,736 --> 00:01:32,749 You know so-and-so had this testimony. 31 00:01:32,749 --> 00:01:40,128 So, I've got to have one exactly like him. 32 00:01:40,128 --> 00:01:42,575 Do you realize what that's saying? 33 00:01:42,575 --> 00:01:45,507 I won't trust you, God. I won't believe you. 34 00:01:45,507 --> 00:01:48,271 I'll call you a liar unless I have 35 00:01:48,271 --> 00:01:52,541 exactly the same feeling as so-and-so. 36 00:01:52,541 --> 00:01:53,895 What did Jesus say? 37 00:01:53,895 --> 00:02:00,626 And evil and wicked generation look for signs. 38 00:02:00,626 --> 00:02:02,248 It's without money, it's without cost, 39 00:02:02,248 --> 00:02:08,467 denoting the free-ness of the Gospel. 40 00:02:08,467 --> 00:02:15,308 You must accept salvation as a gift or not at all. 41 00:02:15,308 --> 00:02:19,613 Will you do that? Trust simply in Christ? 42 00:02:19,613 --> 00:02:29,280 It really is all of Him. 43 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:34,514 I mean, what do people wait for? 44 00:02:34,514 --> 00:02:39,669 Sometimes people they're bound in some sin, 45 00:02:39,669 --> 00:02:43,047 and they think if only I can get rid of this, 46 00:02:43,047 --> 00:02:45,853 I'll believe. 47 00:02:45,853 --> 00:02:48,131 Well, that's a works salvation. 48 00:02:48,131 --> 00:02:49,528 That's trying to pay the price. 49 00:02:49,528 --> 00:02:50,956 That's like saying if I'll do my bit, 50 00:02:50,956 --> 00:02:56,622 then the Lord will owe me salvation then. 51 00:02:56,622 --> 00:02:59,442 That won't save anyone. 52 00:02:59,442 --> 00:03:01,645 You must come down to the price, and it's zero. 53 00:03:01,645 --> 00:03:04,560 You must go to Christ just as you are. 54 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:06,452 As Horatius Bonar says, 55 00:03:06,452 --> 00:03:09,428 you must go to Christ with all your sins 56 00:03:09,428 --> 00:03:15,398 because that's the only thing you own. 57 00:03:15,398 --> 00:03:20,507 Not wanting to keep hold of your sins. 58 00:03:20,507 --> 00:03:27,100 But you can't deliver yourself from even one sin. 59 00:03:27,100 --> 00:03:29,356 Because even if you beat something, 60 00:03:29,356 --> 00:03:31,579 you'll only exchange it from one to another, 61 00:03:31,579 --> 00:03:34,528 like a Pharisee. 62 00:03:34,528 --> 00:03:36,833 You could give up pornography, 63 00:03:36,833 --> 00:03:39,833 you could give up lust after money, 64 00:03:39,833 --> 00:03:42,164 whatever's got a hold of you, 65 00:03:42,164 --> 00:03:44,854 and still be unsaved, 66 00:03:44,854 --> 00:03:49,257 if that's where you're looking. 67 00:03:49,257 --> 00:03:51,384 But if you simply trust on Christ, 68 00:03:51,384 --> 00:04:00,572 He will give you victory over whatever holds you back. 69 00:04:00,572 --> 00:04:03,747 It truly is all of Christ. 70 00:04:03,747 --> 00:04:05,082 Because when He saves a person, 71 00:04:05,082 --> 00:04:07,811 He also changes that person. 72 00:04:07,811 --> 00:04:11,507 But you can't change yourself. 73 00:04:11,507 --> 00:04:13,594 You can't save yourself. 74 00:04:13,594 --> 00:04:15,560 So stop trying to save yourself, 75 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:17,440 and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, 76 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:22,856 and you will be saved. 77 00:04:22,856 --> 00:04:24,980 Without money, without cost. 78 00:04:24,980 --> 00:04:27,153 Notice: if it's without cost, if it's free, 79 00:04:27,153 --> 00:04:33,390 there's no excuse not to come to Him and be saved. 80 00:04:33,390 --> 00:04:41,192 No one will be in hell with an excuse. 81 00:04:41,192 --> 00:04:44,307 You heard this Gospel and why they didn't come to Christ. 82 00:04:44,307 --> 00:04:57,108 And why they didn't trust it was all of Him. 83 00:04:57,108 --> 00:04:59,745 Come and buy this wine and milk without price, 84 00:04:59,745 --> 00:05:03,329 the blessings of knowing God, communion with Him, 85 00:05:03,329 --> 00:05:07,358 knowing all your sins forgiven and life everlasting. 86 00:05:07,358 --> 00:05:10,128 Verse 2, Why do you spend money for that 87 00:05:10,128 --> 00:05:13,084 which is not bread, that which is not the truth, 88 00:05:13,084 --> 00:05:15,644 that which is not the Word of God. 89 00:05:15,644 --> 00:05:20,257 And your wages for that which does not satisfy. 90 00:05:20,257 --> 00:05:22,430 Why do you spend your life pursuing sin 91 00:05:22,430 --> 00:05:25,132 apart from God? 92 00:05:25,132 --> 00:05:26,627 Which does not satisfy. 93 00:05:26,627 --> 00:05:31,624 Sure it may satisfy and be pleasurable for a season. 94 00:05:31,624 --> 00:05:37,529 But sin is a deceiver. It will leave you bitter afterwards. 95 00:05:37,529 --> 00:05:43,939 What would you think if someone, 96 00:05:43,939 --> 00:05:46,496 one of your friends in here, 97 00:05:46,496 --> 00:05:51,279 you heard they went to a certain restaurant, 98 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:52,871 and they went there every week, 99 00:05:52,871 --> 00:05:54,553 you've never been there, and you think, 100 00:05:54,553 --> 00:05:57,594 wow, this must be good. I'll ask them about it. 101 00:05:57,594 --> 00:06:00,046 So you ask them what's it like. 102 00:06:00,046 --> 00:06:05,568 And they said it's very expensive. 103 00:06:05,568 --> 00:06:07,049 And tell me more? 104 00:06:07,049 --> 00:06:11,329 And they said the food tastes kind of sweet, 105 00:06:11,329 --> 00:06:16,196 but gives you a real bitter taste afterwards. 106 00:06:16,196 --> 00:06:18,347 And it makes you feel rotten the next day, 107 00:06:18,347 --> 00:06:21,566 I'm always ill the next day. 108 00:06:21,566 --> 00:06:24,849 Every time I go to that place. 109 00:06:24,849 --> 00:06:27,351 Would you want to keep on going there? 110 00:06:27,351 --> 00:06:32,973 Or would you think that person's out of your mind? 111 00:06:32,973 --> 00:06:35,859 You know, that's what it's doing to hold on 112 00:06:35,859 --> 00:06:40,547 to those things. 113 00:06:40,547 --> 00:06:43,343 Why do you spend your money on that which is not bread, 114 00:06:43,343 --> 00:06:49,602 and your wages on that which does not satisfy?