Gospel Meeting California Spring Conference 2026

UNEDITED TRANSCRIPT: In the hymns that we were singing from our Spiritual Songs book. There was a word repeated in all of them and that you might be here this evening. Nobody knows what's going on in your life. Nobody knows the things that you are personally dealing with. Nobody knows the struggles that are happening inside. Well, let me tell you, my friend, the Lord Jesus. He knows. The Lord Jesus knows and he is concerned about every single aspect of your life. God is so concerned that he sent the Lord Jesus Christ to take care of a problem, a problem that we have no solution for. God would provide for us. That word that we have sung this evening is all in three hundred and sixty nine. The first hymn that we sang. Says in verse two. All the price is paid. All the price is paid. And if we stop to ask ourselves. Price for what? What's been paid. What was the cost? How much was it? Let's turn together. We're going to look at just a few scriptures. We'll begin. Romans chapter three verse twenty three says, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. For all have sinned. There is no exclusion from that word. Turn to Isaiah fifty three. Isaiah fifty three. We'll read the end of verse six. It says, and the Lord has laid on him. On him. That's the Lord Jesus, the iniquity of us all. All have sinned. All have sinned. There is no way For you to determine even what that means for yourself. You. That is, you cannot count or measure the extent of your own sin. Not even the sins of all the people who are in this room. Scripture tells us that all have sinned. Every single one. And the Lord has laid on him. The iniquity of not just a few of us, of not just the ones who did. Just a little bit of us. All of us all. There is one who knows. Who knows sin's full weight. There is one who is able to bear the cost. There was one who was sent to be that sacrifice for our sin and sins. It's the man, Christ Jesus. And you might be sitting here this evening and you have no relationship with him. Maybe you sat here. You enjoyed some of the things that you heard today during the conference. Maybe you could say amen to some things, but there is something that is missing in your life, and that is a relationship with the one who loved you and gave himself for you. Our sins bear a penalty. We deserve death. We deserve judgment. We deserve to be cast away. But, my friend, we also sang about the love of God and just how we cannot measure the amount of sin that the Lord Jesus would bear. We cannot measure his love. And we probably can't even comprehend what that means. That a man would love everyone. We were saying it today. It's probably easier to get along with some of us than it is others. You know, there might be some even believers in here who would say, yes, I love my brethren. But, you know, that's the thing about what God has done. God did not just tell us that he loved us. God did not just tell us that he loved us. He showed us. He gave. He was willing to give. The Lord Jesus went into death for us. He took your place and mine. Is when we sing that song sometimes guilty of death. Oh God, we were. Thy judgment was our due. So all have sinned. He has borne the iniquity of us all. And you might be here this evening. Again, nobody knows. Nobody knows what's going on in here except for God above. And you might have done a really great job of fooling everybody else. But you cannot fool God. You cannot. And why is it that this evening God has ordained that you would be here today? Because, my friend, he has a message for you. God has something that he desires to say to your heart. And he wants you to dispense with the pretense, dispense with the, the the wall that you've put up. Because you can. You might fool mom and dad. You might fool brother and sister. I'll tell you recently. A young man who has been with us at Camp Pine Valley. Who was just a joy as a camper. Enjoyed what seemingly was every single aspect of camp. I had a conversation with him a couple of months ago. He said all that Jesus stuff I don't believe. And it literally broke my heart. Because it seemed like he was just putting on a show. My friend. Everyone in here has a birthday. You have no idea what that other date is. Should the Lord Jesus tear? You have no idea how much time you have left. But sometimes we live like we have all the time in the world to do whatever we want to. Leave God out. To say, I don't need Jesus Christ. I don't need everything that people at church are talking about. I don't need a relationship with him. You know. There is coming a day when every knee will bow. Every single person that has mocked. Every single person that has said I don't need will bow. And they will confess and they will see him. The Lord Jesus Christ. There is another verse that was repeated quite often today. Let's turn to it in the book of Matthew. Chapter eleven. Matthew chapter eleven verse twenty eight says, come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden. You know, when I come to Southern California, I have a certain piece about me. Because I know that if I get sick, there is a doctor at every turn. Can you imagine for a moment if. You're in the emergency room, you have a problem, and then all of a sudden, every single person who has a problem comes in. Think about that. Every single person who has a problem walks into the door. That would be a nightmare scenario in any hospital, right? He says, come unto me, all you who labor and are heavy laden. He is the one person who is able to make that invitation. He's the one person who is able to say, everyone, come. Whatever your burden may be, whatever your problem is. Come. Because he is able. We. We spoke about it earlier today. He is the one who is able to deliver. Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. Come unto me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. The only one who can promise that everyone will be taken care of. I had to go to the emergency room in San Diego, and I hope I never have to go again. You know, I haven't seen it so much over here. But out east, you drive on the highway and sometimes you'll see a billboard. Emergency room. Fifteen minute wait. Think about that. Fifteen minutes. That sounds great. When you are dealing with the Lord Jesus, he says, don't wait. There is no waiting. You don't need to wait one minute. You can come just as you are. God desires that you get right with Jesus Christ. God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. God says, repent of your sins. Make a decision to go a different direction, a different way than you have gone before. You have gone the other way already. That end is the way of death. You need to go the Jesus way. He is the way, the truth, and the life. He says, come unto me. You will find the rest. You know those of you in here who love the Lord Jesus, who know the Lord Jesus as your Savior. I've said this often recently. It's not promised to us that life will be easy in this world. But in this verse we have what is promised to us, what will be easy. It says, my yoke is easy, my burden is light. That's the easy thing for the believer to be with one who is going to be able to take you through any storm, to be with one who's going to be able to guide and direct you each step of the way. To be with one who is concerned about, as we said earlier today, the way you walk. Some of us are in a stage of life where we are pouring time and energy, tremendous amount of studying into what may come for me later on in my career. And we thank the Lord for so many young people who are really driven as students. But let me ask you, my friend, are you putting the same time and energy into this? You believe that the there's going to be fruit from all your studying through college, University, med school. ET cetera, et cetera. Eternal blessing. An eternal investment. Something that will carry you through. Through eternity. Let's look at another verse in the book of Isaiah. Isaiah forty five verse twenty two says. Look to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is no other. Look to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth. There is one who can make that invitation. There is one who can save. Save you from a wrath to come. Save you from the lake of fire. To save you from being eternally lost should you die in your sins. My friend, God sent His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, born of the Virgin Mary, went to the cross of Calvary, shed his precious blood, went into death, rose again the third day. And he's saying now to you, come. He's saying now to you, look to me, all you ends of the earth, every single person in every single place, all whose sins I have borne you will be saved. Hey, we're living in a day and age. And I. I sometimes struggle with just how Difficult. The word difficult will be. Because there is coming in this AI age a lot of falsehood, fake things. So much so an ad pops up on your phone and there's a disclaimer these people aren't real AI generated. Brother was telling me a story about one of his family members in Lebanon. How she had a cell phone in her home and that cell phone got a message. The village is going to be bombed. So everybody got up in the middle of the night and left. And it was a prank by a high schooler. Can you imagine that? There are go...