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here? God would appeal to you tonight, there is a turning
point. What brings you to the turning point in your history?
Repentance. O, beloved hearers, that is a great turning point
in life when, convicted by the Spirit of God in conscience and
in heart, a person repents and turns to God. How many of us
have known it, the blessedness of that turning point when we
repented. Oh I would plead with you, get to God in repentance.
Do not accept the Lord Jesus in a nominal kind of way. Let the
Holy Spirit probe down into the depths of your moral being as
to where you stand now in relation to God, in relation
to His claims.
This young man had tasted the depths of degradation and
when his money was all spent, he found he was the loneliest
person in the world. Once he had as many friends as anybody
could desire, as long as he had money, as long as he could
spend, he had friends, he had friends everywhere, but when it
was all spent he found he was the loneliest person in the
world. Have you ever been that way? Have you ever been in
that state when you felt isolated; you felt that nobody cared for
you; you felt that nobody loved you, that nobody bothered
whether you lived or died? Well, let me tell you, God loves
you, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-
begotten Son, that whosoever believes on him may not perish,
but have life eternal”, John 3: 16. It says of this young man
that he came to himself. I marvel sometimes at the simplicity of
Scripture, the simplicity of the language. It says, “And coming
to himself”. Have you come to yourself? Have you come to this
fact, that things have got to be narrowed down to yourself?—
not the fact that your father and mother were converted, the
fact that you may have a long pedigree amongst the people of
God. It must come down to just yourself. Wonderful thing!—
you say, ‘Jesus died for me’.
The prodigal said, “How many hired servants of my father’s
have abundance of bread, and I perish here by famine. I will
rise up and go to my father”. We were speaking in the reading