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TURNING POINTS OF LIFE

W. Dickson

3: 7, 8

One would like the help of the Spirit at this time to address you

in regard to the turning points of life, and to raise with you the

question whether, in life’s journey, you have reached any of

these turning points. After the fall, man set out on a journey. It

says of Cain that he “went out from the presence of Jehovah”

(Genesis 4: 16), he became a wanderer, and man without God

is on that road still. The longer he traverses it, the farther he

goes from God and the deeper he goes into degradation and

darkness. There are many here who can thank God for the

turning points in their life, when they were arrested by God on

that journey away from Him. We hope that these meetings

may be a turning point for some in their links with God and

with Christ.

So I have read from Galatians 4 to speak of the great turning

point in the ways of God when He inaugurated this present

dispensation of grace, when the long dark shadow that had

covered human history, with only a slight glimmer of light in the

darkness, was coming to an end in the incoming of God in the

Person of Christ. Oh, what a change it was “when the fulness

of the time was come”, when God moved in a way in which He

had not hitherto moved, in grace seeking the reconciliation of

His creature to Himself; it was the fulness of time. O, beloved

hearers, because of that turning point we are here tonight,

able to preach to you of this wonderful God who has come

forth in blessing toward His creature. It says, “But when the

fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son”. What

an appeal God made to men! He did not just make a

proclamation by angels, He sent forth His Son. That Babe lay

in a manger and touched humanity at its lowest point. Jesus’

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