July 22, 2024 • 33 mins
Listen to the Gospel Audio from Ballyclare Gospel Hall. Speaker: Sammy Maze.
Subject: "Saved By Grace: A Personal Journey".
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I remember Ballyclare, whenever I was a boy, I once signed forms to play for Ballyclare Comrades.
That was a long time ago.
And I see that they have indeed have changed, changed indeed the different position
that they now occupy with regards to the football league.
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Now, I would like to read with you, please, two verses of scripture,
two passages. which is the first one is found in the book of the Acts.
The book of the Acts chapter 16, it was a question that was asked by a man who was in dire straits.
He was weeping, he was crying, he was down on his knees, he was praying.
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He was a prison warden.
And he came into these two famous prisoners, Paul and Silas,
Acts chapter 16, verse 30, and he said, sirs, what must I do to be saved?
That's good. This man knew that he wasn't saved.
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That's so. Many, many people live today.
They go through life and they don't know that they need salvation.
If we're ever going to be in the glory, ever going to be in heaven,
and ever going to be with the Lord Jesus Christ, we must be saved.
And this man was anxious and concerned. He said, what must I do to be saved?
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And Paul and Silas said to him, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
That was simple. That was clear. That was plain. a possibility that everyone
could do and experience.
So this man is anxious. What must I do to be saved? I don't want to be lost.
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And the answer indeed from God himself through the Holy Scripture is,
believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
I want to read to you another verse in John 3. John's Gospel, chapter 3, verse 36.
He that believeth on the Son, he that believeth on the Son hath, what?
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Hath everlasting life. And he that believeth not the Son shall not see life,
but the wrath of God abideth on him.
What must I do to be saved? The man found out that he needed to be saved,
he wanted to be saved, and he asked indeed, what must he do?
The other statement indeed was made indeed in John chapter 3.
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Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
That's a possibility. Possible for people to come this afternoon to hear the
gospel, to repent of your sins, and take up the words of the poet and say,
Jesus, I will trust thee.
Trust thee with my soul.
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I'm guilty, I'm lost, and I'm helpless.
But, but thou canst make me whole. fairly possible this afternoon for a sinner
in their sins on the broad way gone down to destruction.
Possible indeed to repent of your sins and come to the man who died for you
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on Calvary's cross and accept him indeed as your saviour.
Now I must confess that I've changed my mind today.
I intended to preach upon these two verses. And I got a telephone call this morning.
And this man said to me, Sammy, happy birthday.
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What? Happy birthday. Not my birthday. My birthday is not the September. Happy birthday.
Then I found out what he was thinking about this day 67 years ago.
So I came to Jesus as I was, weary, worn, and sad.
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I found in him a resting place, and he has made me glad. So I've changed my mind.
I'm going to preach, indeed, a little word of testimony.
And I pray if you're not saved before you leave this meeting this afternoon,
you'll change your mind and trust the Saviour who died for you upon Calvary's
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cross. A little word of testimony.
I was born, indeed, outside Belfast near the river lagan,
a little village, indeed, called Eden Derry.
My mother and father, they had immigrated to Canada at the end of the 20s.
My brother was born in Canada in 1931, and because of the Great depression,
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many people were committing suicide, etc.
It was so acute that many people indeed committed suicide.
My parents decided to come home, and they came home to live in the little village
of Edenderry, situated on the river lagan between Belfast and Lisburn.
They had built a large linen mill, indeed, on the river.
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And they had built some 96 houses around, indeed, the factory.
And that is where they came to live back in the very early 1930s.
I was, from a boy, I can't remember when, but from a boy, I was made.
Made to go to Sunday school because there was a man called Bob Smith.
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It was called Bob Smith Sunday School. He started a little Sunday school in
the village, and indeed, the boys and the girls were invited.
And from as early as ever, I can remember, I went to Sunday school and was taught
the gospel. In my bedroom, even today, I have a text hanging up.
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The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
It was Edenderry Sunday School, ESS 1941.
I was a little boy of eight. And this large text. And here it was a first prize
for going to Sunday school.
And so from the very earliest, I knew the gospel.
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My parents were not saved. But I was taught by saved Sunday school teachers,
yes, I was sold to be saved.
May this truth be engraved on my mind and my heart while I'm young.
Oh, how awful the cost if my soul should be lost and in hell.
In hell, if I die as I am. My dear friend, that is the possibility.
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That if you're not saved, the possibility is that you'll never get saved.
If you go on the way you're going, you'll go out over the boundary line and be lost for eternity.
But the Lord Jesus Christ has provided a great and instantaneous salvation.
What must I do to be saved?
This very afternoon, listen to the word of God.
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I trust by the power of the Spirit to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
My grandfather, I was called after him, Samuel. Samuel, my grandfather married
a Roman Catholic from Crossmaglen.
My grandmother used to have this poem, Crossmaglen, where there's more rogues than honest men.
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And so it used to go on verse after verse. My grandmother was a Roman Catholic,
and my grandfather's sister indeed married a man called George Goodall, and he was a missionary.
He went indeed to Kennedy eventually.
He went to the Gospel Hall, And my aunt, she married a man who became the preacher,
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and my grandfather indeed married a Roman Catholic.
But I say again, and I must repeat and give adieu, from my very earliest age,
I knew that I needed salvation.
Though indeed I was maybe in many ways indeed a bad little boy.
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I remember indeed one day in Sunday school, Sunday school teacher Hugh Smith
annoyed him so much he grabbed me by the back of the neck and he took me up
to Sunday school and into a little girls' class.
And I was so annoyed that I said I wouldn't go back to Sunday school and I used to mitch.
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Now my father, though he wasn't saved, he was very strict and if he hadn't known
I was mitching, trying to deceive him, indeed it would have been just too bad.
But I went to Sunday school and then I left and I went indeed,
we had a run across by the Giant's Ring, across the field in the morning,
my brother and I, to go to church to the half-eat communion.
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I was born, and whenever I was a boy, I was baptized whenever I was young.
I was confirmed whenever I was about 12 or 13 years of age.
And a man used to say to me, Sammy, you're a confirmed rascal.
And he wasn't very far wrong. I was just living. I went with my father.
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I know I'm talking about some things that you know nothing about. out.
My father raced greyhounds, brought them up, and he raced them in Belfast,
Dunmore Park, and Celtic Park, and even some days on a Sunday up in Lurgan.
And from my very earliest, I used to go indeed to the greyhound racing.
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There were maybe about six colours. I still remember all those years ago.
Number one was white, number two was blue, number three was red.
Oh, I can tell you all about it from a little boy.
Though I knew the gospel in one hand, yet indeed I was growing up and going
out into the world in the other hand.
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I was about 12 or 13 years of age, and I had the opportunity of going to Lisburn Technical.
I wanted to go because my father had taken me, previous to that,
to indeed York Street, to see Lisburn Technical playing football in the final.
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And I wanted to go because I wanted to play football.
I was very, very keen on football. I went to Lisburn Tech.
I was always getting into trouble.
Indeed, whenever you come out of the classroom at lunchtime,
you're down the street 20 yards up a flight of stairs into the restaurant.
And then you went down the back stairs.
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I'm only in my first year at technical and I say I was maybe about 12 years of age.
The bigger boys used to come out and lean on the banister and go down on their
stomach down onto the ground floor.
And I thought I could do that. And I leaned on the banister.
My feet went up too high. And I went crashing down onto the banister on the
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ground floor. I was unconscious.
I was badly injured, taken to hospital. And that is what, as a little boy.
And other time, when I was 10 years of age, there was a man lived up the street
who worked for J.P. Curry's.
He was bringing some logs home on a Saturday afternoon.
I remember standing, I could tell you the time, twenty past two,
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waiting indeed with Leonard Smith to go indeed on the bus.
Johnny Mackey came up and I went to get a ride on the back of these logs.
I put my hand up on the logs, my feet up on the exit below and down came the
log on my stomach and burst my appendix.
I'd got peritonitis.
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I tried to carry the log up to Johnny Mackey, climbed over the yard wall up
into bedroom, my mother and father away in Belfast.
Until tea time, went over to my grandmother's across the street, back to go to bed.
Next day, indeed, my doctor was Dr. Nelson.
Mother said, we needn't get Dr. Nelson. He'll give him a dose of castor oil.
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We got Dr. White from Dunmurry.
And he come and he said, this boy is very, very ill. This boy has to be taken
to hospital immediately.
And I remember at four o'clock on a Sunday afternoon, been down the street,
there was a gospel meeting.
The gospel hall was having a meeting in the street.
They had to stand aside to let us to the hospital.
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I was taken into the hospital and was operated on immediately.
I woke up during the night whenever it was dark, just very little light in the
ward. and I was very, very thirsty.
I was so ill, I'm tied indeed, I'm chained to the bed.
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My two arms and my two legs are all chained to the bed because I'm so ill, not allowed to move.
But the little girl beside me, she'd got lemonade on the locker and I had no lemonade.
And a little boy of 10, I broke out of the harness. I climbed over the side
of the cot and drunk a little girl's lemonade.
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Climbed back over again, back over and back into the cot. Oh,
they told me, you're so stupid.
You're so ill. You could have killed yourself.
And they put me back into the straps again and had to obey orders.
When I was going to Lisburn Tech at about 12 years of age, I say I was very
keen to play football. and they had a football team in Lisbon Tech playing other techs.
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I acquired a little bit of skill at playing football. Whenever I was a boy,
I was chosen to be a schoolboy international.
Some three times, chosen for the north of Ireland, playing against,
indeed, England, Scotland, Wales.
And I became very keen on football at about the age 12 and 13 years of age.
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Whenever I got further up, I got maybe around 18.
I again was chosen to play for Ireland as a youth international.
Played again, and I've got the caps and the jerseys in the house, still.
And then later still, when I was playing football for Linfield,
I was chosen again as an amateur international.
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So you can see that those years I was very, very fond of football and progressed
in a measure according to worldly standards.
You know, again, getting away from home and mixing with boys Boys,
indeed, they're going to have to live in the hotel for a while,
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bring their cards with them, and you're not long of getting into worldly attitudes
and worldly desires, and you're not long, indeed, to your beginning to gamble
and you're beginning to play with the cards.
All this time, I knew, and I thank God for those uneducated Sunday school teachers
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in Eden Derry, who taught us the way of salvation that I knew from my very earliest.
Yes, I was sold to be saved, and may this truth be engraved on my mind and your
heart while you're young.
Oh, how awful the cost if your soul should be lost and in hell if you die as you are.
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The time would come whenever I was working, I got a job with Lindsay Brothers,
a large wholesale firm in Belfast, who are the forerunners of Lindsay Cars.
So Lindsay Cars indeed came out of Lindsay Brothers Wholesale Drapery.
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I would like to be a traveller.
And I had served my time. the firm that I was working for, Lindsay Brothers,
were showing an interest in putting me out, what they say, onto the road to travel.
But I would like to, I had a cousin, I had a cousin called Sam Graham.
He's still alive. Sam's about, what, 95 or so now from Cary Duff.
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And Sam indeed took an interest in me.
He was in the drapery trade before him. I had tried to help him and he was helping me.
And so he would tell me now, He'd take me to his office on a Saturday morning
and say, now, Sammy, you know, go to Ballymena on Monday.
Now, here, now go to Tweedy Atchison's. Ask him, indeed, he told me the name of the buyer.
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And, indeed, go to this, go to, and he'd give me the names. He was a tremendous
help and a tremendous encouragement.
Then he would say, now, on Tuesday, here's somewhere else to go, etc, etc.
So that Sam, indeed, was a great help to me when I was about 20, 21.
Years of age with regards to being a commercial traveller.
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Then, about that time.
My girlfriend, my girlfriend went to Sunday school.
My girlfriend, she never ever knew, even when she was in work,
she never ever knew that she needed to be saved.
There was a little Quaker, she worked in William Liddell's, after the factory
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in Eden Derry, worked in William Liddell's and the office in here,
there was this little Quaker girl.
And Greta was saying to her one day, she says, you know, So Sammy's funny.
You know, Sammy goes to this gospel hall, that is with my cousin,
Sam Graham, and he says, you know, they believe that you need to be saved.
If you're not saved, you'll go to hell. And this little Quaker girl just said
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straight to Greta, she says, and so you will.
So if you die in your sins, you're not going to heaven. There's only two places.
There's heaven and hell.
There's only two places where people must dwell.
And all through the ages of eternity, there's only two places,
dear friend, let me ask you, in which will you be?
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I've heard about getting saved. And the time come that I, I know I'm not saved.
And the time come that I would like to get saved.
How do you get saved? So Sam would have took us to different meetings on a Sunday
night. And we heard the gospel.
And for the first time, Greta, my girlfriend, expressed to me and to me to her
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for the first time that we would need to be saved. We would need salvation.
So we kept going very quickly. One Saturday morning, Sam was helping me again
with regard to next work engagement.
And he said, Sammy, come up this afternoon and we'll go for a picnic to Newcastle.
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I couldn't disappoint Sam. I said, oh, yes, yes, I will come up.
So I went home to Greta. I says, Greta, we're going up to Sam's this afternoon
to go to Newcastle for a picnic. She says, no, we're not going.
She says, do you not know we're getting married in 10 days' time?
In those days, you didn't have half days on a Saturday, etc.
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She says, we're getting married in 10 days' time.
And we have got so much to do. So I said, well, Greta, you know,
Sam was such a big help to me.
That was a good testimony that he had. And I said, I feel we should go. She finally agreed.
And we went along to the picnic. Sam took us to Newcastle, parked his car,
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walked along the promenade.
Here there were some people having an open-air meeting.
And they brought the open-air meeting to a close. We went up into the mountain. We had our picnic.
Down again, I don't know, by 7 o'clock or so, parked the car,
walked along the promenade and here's another gospel meeting.
A number of men were preaching, and the last speaker took up that little text
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that I've read with you this afternoon.
What must I do to be saved? It's true. You have to do something.
Some people say you don't have to do anything to get saved. You don't have to
do anything to save yourself, but you do have to do something.
You must trust indeed. The answer came back. Jack, if you want to be saved,
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there's just one saviour.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
And so I stood and listened. One or two preachers were preaching and the last
speaker was a man called Jim Hutchison.
He took up that text, What Must I Do to Be Saved? I listened.
At the close of the meeting, I said to Sam, my cousin, I said, Sam, I've got saved.
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He said, would you tell the preacher that? I said, yes. she called the preacher
over. He said, this man says he has got saved.
And so she says, here's the keys to my car. Would you like to go and sit in the car?
And I went along with Mr. Hutchison and Mr. Hutchison read to me a verse.
And the verse was John 3, 36. He that believeth on the Son hath, has got.
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The moment you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as a Saviour,
the one who died for you on Calvary's cross, the moment you trust him,
what must I do to be saved?
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life.
I trusted Christ as my Savior.
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And that was the 21st of July, 1956.
I think that's about 68 years ago. So we come out next Sunday.
That was a Saturday night. In actual fact, that's the reason why I'm speaking
today, because it was this day, this day, 68 years ago, I got saved on a Saturday
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night at an opener meeting in Newcastle.
My girlfriend wasn't saved.
And on the Sunday, we went to Sam's and went to hear the gospel.
Monday, I wanted to hear them preaching again at Newcastle.
So I went to travel in Urey, come up and did the county down coast,
and went again to listen to the gospel meeting.
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I arrived home and Greta was down the road looking for me. She lived at Belly Lesson.
And she said, Sammy, I don't think we'll get married.
That's about eight days away. We'll not get married. She said,
you've changed so much from Saturday night. She said, I don't think we'll get married.
Now, my cousin Sam had told me that if I had to get saved much earlier,
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it wouldn't be right to marry Greta.
You're saved and she's not. That's an unequal yoke.
So whenever she said, well, I don't think, I say the wedding was about a week
ago, a week away. all the arrangements, the dressings and the wedding gowns
and all had been purchased, etc, etc and now she wants to withdraw from the wedding.
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So I said, Greta, whatever you say. That was Monday.
Tuesday I was playing football for Glenavon at that time.
The taxis took us from Belfast, Brown's taxis, Belfast to Lurgan train.
On the way home I said to the taxi man, Would you take us down by Ballylesson?
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I'll get off at Ballylesson. So we're down by Ballylesson,
and I got out to go into Greta's house,
and Greta came down, put her arms around me, gave me a big, big hug and a kiss,
and she said, Sammy, I've got saved.
I've got saved. In her own room.
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One that didn't know she needed to be saved until she had married life.
And she trusts it, and that was seven days before we married.
I think maybe the time's just about up.
So what would we do? I'm not going to go into all the details.
I'll tell you one little thing. It was, I think, a Tuesday night.
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And here there was a man from America having meetings in Finnegan.
Ernest Wilson, just looking for his name. Ernest Wilson, a missionary from Africa,
was having meetings in Bethany Hall, Finnaghy on the Tuesday night.
And I said, Greta, would you like to go? And we knew nothing about the Gospel Hall.
We had no connections with the Gospel Hall.
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I said, but you have to go to lodge tonight. This is your lodge.
For the rules of the lodge are within distance you must attend.
Well, I says, Greta, if you really would like to go up to Finnaghy,
we'll go up to hear this man indeed speaking on the scriptures.
We went up and in that meeting, this man indeed, he spoke and he said this,
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it would be wrong for a Christian to,
to be holding secrets from another Christian that he couldn't share. Oh, that was a blow.
For in the Masonic, we hold secrets, secret signs, secret words.
And I'm in the Masonic Lodge, and I took that message, a message from God. I went home and I wrote.
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The Lodge paid them for my Jews, and I withdrew. Can I just tell you a story?
I was down in the West Indies.
I'd bought a bus in the Midwest, and I was bringing it down to the West Indies.
And I drove it on to the East Coast and to the people there who would export buses for you.
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And I was in and they were going to export the bus down to the West Indies and
I don't know how it came round but the name of Ernest Wilson came up.
Oh, he says, Ernest Wilson just lives up the road here.
Oh, he said, wait, I'll get him on the phone for you. So Ernest Wilson came
on the phone and he said, just as I said about this, he says,
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come up for your dinner, come up for lunch.
So I went up to see Ernest Wilson and I told him this story about Bethany Hall
Finnegan, about what you said.
It would be wrong indeed for a Christian to be holding secrets from other Christians.
He said, I never remember saying that. No, Mr. Wilson, but I do.
I remember you saying that.
And that was the cause of me being convicted and resigning indeed from the Masonic Lodge.
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One day, Greta and I were out visiting my mother Sunday afternoon and we had
got tea and we're going to go into Belfast to a gospel meeting,
I knew Greta didn't want to go to Eden Derry Gospel Hall because a lady,
Miss McKee, was her boss in the linen mill, in the office.
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And Miss McKee was very strict, and Greta was a kind of friend of Miss McKee.
But we left my mother's. We're going to go into Belfast to go to a gospel meeting.
And Greta, out of the blue, said, Sammy, she said, let us go to Edenderry tonight.
But I said, you don't want to go to Edenderry. Yeah, you don't want to go.
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She said, well, she says, I feel that I was spoken to. I would like to go to Edenderry tonight.
Now, everybody in Edenderry knows me. And everybody in Edenderry knew Greta.
She worked in the office there for a number of years.
We went into the gospel meeting in Edenderry. and I personally come out convicted and convinced.
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Sammy, this is where you should belong to. Everybody knows you.
You could be a testimony here in the village. But I said, now,
Greta doesn't want to go.
We're in the house again in Finnaghy, just had got a new house.
And we've lovely semi-detached house, Ardmore Park, Finnaghy. We paid £1,500 for it.
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That's a long time ago. But I said, Greta, you don't want to go to Edenderry.
She said, Sammy, in the meeting on Sunday night, she says, I felt convicted
that we should go to Edenderry Gospel Hall.
I said, well, Greta, that's the exercise and that's the experience I had that
we should go to Edenderry.
Everybody knows it. I said, well, what'll we do?
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We don't know anything about the gospel halls. Jim Hutchison.
Oh, I know Jim Hutchison.
I rang him. I said, Jim, I said, would you baptize us? He said,
why, what's wrong, Sammy?
He said, I said, Greta has suggested that we go to Edenderry Gospel Hall and we need to be baptized.
He said, Sammy, listen, you go ahead to Edenderry Gospel Hall.
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I'll give them a ring and tell them you're coming. and he said that they'll
deal with the matter in Eden Derry.
And so that is the reason in my exercise, my conviction and my conversion with
regards to knowing the man who died for me on the cross.
Listen to it again. So simple and so clear.
What must I do? Very personal. What must I do? I know I must do something.
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What must I do to be saved? For if I don't do it, I'll be lost.
But the biblical answer is, believe on, put your trust on a person.
The person is God's Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, who died on Calvary's cross for sinners.
What must I do to be saved? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and the Bible says.
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Thou shalt be saved the moment you put your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.
John 3, 36, He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life.
The Bible says he that believeth on the Son has got.
Everlasting life. Yes, everlasting life is free.
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Everlasting life is free. Simply by believing on the Son of God,
everlasting life is free.
I came to Jesus as I was, weary, worn and sad.
I found in him a resting place and he has made me glad. What's that, 67 years ago?
A long time. Someone said a long time to be saved. It's a long time to be lost.
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Long time to be lost go out into eternity the place of no return,
waiting indeed on the final size when the books
are open and people will be cast into the lake of fire
according to their works and salvation is
being offered full and free through the precious blood of the Son of God who
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was slain on Calvary now we've left out a lot of maybe details with regards
to the little story but that's the simplicity of it I knew it from a child that I needed to be saved,
careless and indifferent with regards to the world and its sport.
And then, indeed, having an interest, before I got married, that I needed to
be saved, and went to hear the gospel.
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Didn't let anything, indeed, wouldn't have been bad, dear friend,
if I had said to Sam Graham, Sam, look, thanks for the invite to go to Newcastle for a picnic.
It's nearer wedding, Sam, we're getting married, and what, is it 10 days' time?
And it wouldn't have been a bad if I had missed it.
Listen, dear friend, you put Christ first.
You trust Christ. What come what may.
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Know Christ as your Saviour. Your sins are forgiven and a home in eternity.
Never perish, but have everlasting life.
Now, we thank you indeed for your attention.
At least I can't see many of you, but thank you indeed for your attention.
If there's any question you want to ask, I'll try and answer it for you.
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You're very welcome. We trust indeed that God will bless His Word.
Our Lord Jesus Christ will be glorified, and the saints indeed may rejoice at
hearing a fruit abounding from the message of the Gospel. Shall we pray?
Our loving Heavenly Father, we come again into Thy presence through the person of Thy Son,
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the Lord of glory who became the babe
of Bethlehem who became the victim of Calvary we
thank thee that he indeed paid the price and we
thank thee that this great salvation through the
precious blood of the Son of God who was slain upon Calvary this great salvation
provided at infinite cost and available to all indeed free we pray that thou
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will bless thy word and bury it beyond the enemy's reach bring glory to thy
Son and rejoicing in the very courts of heaven.
We give thee thanks now as we dismiss the little company and all we ask we give
thanks in the name and for the glory of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. Thanks.
I remember Ballyclare, whenever I was a boy, I once signed forms to play for Ballyclare Comrades.
That was a long time ago.
And I see that they have indeed have changed, changed indeed the different position
that they now occupy with regards to the football league.
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Now, I would like to read with you, please, two verses of scripture,
two passages. which is the first one is found in the book of the Acts.
The book of the Acts chapter 16, it was a question that was asked by a man who was in dire straits.
He was weeping, he was crying, he was down on his knees, he was praying.
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He was a prison warden.
And he came into these two famous prisoners, Paul and Silas,
Acts chapter 16, verse 30, and he said, sirs, what must I do to be saved?
That's good. This man knew that he wasn't saved.
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That's so. Many, many people live today.
They go through life and they don't know that they need salvation.
If we're ever going to be in the glory, ever going to be in heaven,
and ever going to be with the Lord Jesus Christ, we must be saved.
And this man was anxious and concerned. He said, what must I do to be saved?
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And Paul and Silas said to him, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
That was simple. That was clear. That was plain. a possibility that everyone
could do and experience.
So this man is anxious. What must I do to be saved? I don't want to be lost.
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And the answer indeed from God himself through the Holy Scripture is,
believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
I want to read to you another verse in John 3. John's Gospel, chapter 3, verse 36.
He that believeth on the Son, he that believeth on the Son hath, what?
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Hath everlasting life. And he that believeth not the Son shall not see life,
but the wrath of God abideth on him.
What must I do to be saved? The man found out that he needed to be saved,
he wanted to be saved, and he asked indeed, what must he do?
The other statement indeed was made indeed in John chapter 3.
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Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
That's a possibility. Possible for people to come this afternoon to hear the
gospel, to repent of your sins, and take up the words of the poet and say,
Jesus, I will trust thee.
Trust thee with my soul.
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I'm guilty, I'm lost, and I'm helpless.
But, but thou canst make me whole. fairly possible this afternoon for a sinner
in their sins on the broad way gone down to destruction.
Possible indeed to repent of your sins and come to the man who died for you
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on Calvary's cross and accept him indeed as your saviour.
Now I must confess that I've changed my mind today.
I intended to preach upon these two verses. And I got a telephone call this morning.
And this man said to me, Sammy, happy birthday.
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What? Happy birthday. Not my birthday. My birthday is not the September. Happy birthday.
Then I found out what he was thinking about this day 67 years ago.
So I came to Jesus as I was, weary, worn, and sad.
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I found in him a resting place, and he has made me glad. So I've changed my mind.
I'm going to preach, indeed, a little word of testimony.
And I pray if you're not saved before you leave this meeting this afternoon,
you'll change your mind and trust the Saviour who died for you upon Calvary's
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cross. A little word of testimony.
I was born, indeed, outside Belfast near the river lagan,
a little village, indeed, called Eden Derry.
My mother and father, they had immigrated to Canada at the end of the 20s.
My brother was born in Canada in 1931, and because of the Great depression,
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many people were committing suicide, etc.
It was so acute that many people indeed committed suicide.
My parents decided to come home, and they came home to live in the little village
of Edenderry, situated on the river lagan between Belfast and Lisburn.
They had built a large linen mill, indeed, on the river.
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And they had built some 96 houses around, indeed, the factory.
And that is where they came to live back in the very early 1930s.
I was, from a boy, I can't remember when, but from a boy, I was made.
Made to go to Sunday school because there was a man called Bob Smith.
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It was called Bob Smith Sunday School. He started a little Sunday school in
the village, and indeed, the boys and the girls were invited.
And from as early as ever, I can remember, I went to Sunday school and was taught
the gospel. In my bedroom, even today, I have a text hanging up.
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The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
It was Edenderry Sunday School, ESS 1941.
I was a little boy of eight. And this large text. And here it was a first prize
for going to Sunday school.
And so from the very earliest, I knew the gospel.
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My parents were not saved. But I was taught by saved Sunday school teachers,
yes, I was sold to be saved.
May this truth be engraved on my mind and my heart while I'm young.
Oh, how awful the cost if my soul should be lost and in hell.
In hell, if I die as I am. My dear friend, that is the possibility.
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That if you're not saved, the possibility is that you'll never get saved.
If you go on the way you're going, you'll go out over the boundary line and be lost for eternity.
But the Lord Jesus Christ has provided a great and instantaneous salvation.
What must I do to be saved?
This very afternoon, listen to the word of God.
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I trust by the power of the Spirit to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
My grandfather, I was called after him, Samuel. Samuel, my grandfather married
a Roman Catholic from Crossmaglen.
My grandmother used to have this poem, Crossmaglen, where there's more rogues than honest men.
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And so it used to go on verse after verse. My grandmother was a Roman Catholic,
and my grandfather's sister indeed married a man called George Goodall, and he was a missionary.
He went indeed to Kennedy eventually.
He went to the Gospel Hall, And my aunt, she married a man who became the preacher,
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and my grandfather indeed married a Roman Catholic.
But I say again, and I must repeat and give adieu, from my very earliest age,
I knew that I needed salvation.
Though indeed I was maybe in many ways indeed a bad little boy.
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I remember indeed one day in Sunday school, Sunday school teacher Hugh Smith
annoyed him so much he grabbed me by the back of the neck and he took me up
to Sunday school and into a little girls' class.
And I was so annoyed that I said I wouldn't go back to Sunday school and I used to mitch.
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Now my father, though he wasn't saved, he was very strict and if he hadn't known
I was mitching, trying to deceive him, indeed it would have been just too bad.
But I went to Sunday school and then I left and I went indeed,
we had a run across by the Giant's Ring, across the field in the morning,
my brother and I, to go to church to the half-eat communion.
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I was born, and whenever I was a boy, I was baptized whenever I was young.
I was confirmed whenever I was about 12 or 13 years of age.
And a man used to say to me, Sammy, you're a confirmed rascal.
And he wasn't very far wrong. I was just living. I went with my father.
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I know I'm talking about some things that you know nothing about. out.
My father raced greyhounds, brought them up, and he raced them in Belfast,
Dunmore Park, and Celtic Park, and even some days on a Sunday up in Lurgan.
And from my very earliest, I used to go indeed to the greyhound racing.
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There were maybe about six colours. I still remember all those years ago.
Number one was white, number two was blue, number three was red.
Oh, I can tell you all about it from a little boy.
Though I knew the gospel in one hand, yet indeed I was growing up and going
out into the world in the other hand.
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I was about 12 or 13 years of age, and I had the opportunity of going to Lisburn Technical.
I wanted to go because my father had taken me, previous to that,
to indeed York Street, to see Lisburn Technical playing football in the final.
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And I wanted to go because I wanted to play football.
I was very, very keen on football. I went to Lisburn Tech.
I was always getting into trouble.
Indeed, whenever you come out of the classroom at lunchtime,
you're down the street 20 yards up a flight of stairs into the restaurant.
And then you went down the back stairs.
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I'm only in my first year at technical and I say I was maybe about 12 years of age.
The bigger boys used to come out and lean on the banister and go down on their
stomach down onto the ground floor.
And I thought I could do that. And I leaned on the banister.
My feet went up too high. And I went crashing down onto the banister on the
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ground floor. I was unconscious.
I was badly injured, taken to hospital. And that is what, as a little boy.
And other time, when I was 10 years of age, there was a man lived up the street
who worked for J.P. Curry's.
He was bringing some logs home on a Saturday afternoon.
I remember standing, I could tell you the time, twenty past two,
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waiting indeed with Leonard Smith to go indeed on the bus.
Johnny Mackey came up and I went to get a ride on the back of these logs.
I put my hand up on the logs, my feet up on the exit below and down came the
log on my stomach and burst my appendix.
I'd got peritonitis.
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I tried to carry the log up to Johnny Mackey, climbed over the yard wall up
into bedroom, my mother and father away in Belfast.
Until tea time, went over to my grandmother's across the street, back to go to bed.
Next day, indeed, my doctor was Dr. Nelson.
Mother said, we needn't get Dr. Nelson. He'll give him a dose of castor oil.
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We got Dr. White from Dunmurry.
And he come and he said, this boy is very, very ill. This boy has to be taken
to hospital immediately.
And I remember at four o'clock on a Sunday afternoon, been down the street,
there was a gospel meeting.
The gospel hall was having a meeting in the street.
They had to stand aside to let us to the hospital.
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I was taken into the hospital and was operated on immediately.
I woke up during the night whenever it was dark, just very little light in the
ward. and I was very, very thirsty.
I was so ill, I'm tied indeed, I'm chained to the bed.
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My two arms and my two legs are all chained to the bed because I'm so ill, not allowed to move.
But the little girl beside me, she'd got lemonade on the locker and I had no lemonade.
And a little boy of 10, I broke out of the harness. I climbed over the side
of the cot and drunk a little girl's lemonade.
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Climbed back over again, back over and back into the cot. Oh,
they told me, you're so stupid.
You're so ill. You could have killed yourself.
And they put me back into the straps again and had to obey orders.
When I was going to Lisburn Tech at about 12 years of age, I say I was very
keen to play football. and they had a football team in Lisbon Tech playing other techs.
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I acquired a little bit of skill at playing football. Whenever I was a boy,
I was chosen to be a schoolboy international.
Some three times, chosen for the north of Ireland, playing against,
indeed, England, Scotland, Wales.
And I became very keen on football at about the age 12 and 13 years of age.
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Whenever I got further up, I got maybe around 18.
I again was chosen to play for Ireland as a youth international.
Played again, and I've got the caps and the jerseys in the house, still.
And then later still, when I was playing football for Linfield,
I was chosen again as an amateur international.
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So you can see that those years I was very, very fond of football and progressed
in a measure according to worldly standards.
You know, again, getting away from home and mixing with boys Boys,
indeed, they're going to have to live in the hotel for a while,
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bring their cards with them, and you're not long of getting into worldly attitudes
and worldly desires, and you're not long, indeed, to your beginning to gamble
and you're beginning to play with the cards.
All this time, I knew, and I thank God for those uneducated Sunday school teachers
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in Eden Derry, who taught us the way of salvation that I knew from my very earliest.
Yes, I was sold to be saved, and may this truth be engraved on my mind and your
heart while you're young.
Oh, how awful the cost if your soul should be lost and in hell if you die as you are.
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The time would come whenever I was working, I got a job with Lindsay Brothers,
a large wholesale firm in Belfast, who are the forerunners of Lindsay Cars.
So Lindsay Cars indeed came out of Lindsay Brothers Wholesale Drapery.
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I would like to be a traveller.
And I had served my time. the firm that I was working for, Lindsay Brothers,
were showing an interest in putting me out, what they say, onto the road to travel.
But I would like to, I had a cousin, I had a cousin called Sam Graham.
He's still alive. Sam's about, what, 95 or so now from Cary Duff.
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And Sam indeed took an interest in me.
He was in the drapery trade before him. I had tried to help him and he was helping me.
And so he would tell me now, He'd take me to his office on a Saturday morning
and say, now, Sammy, you know, go to Ballymena on Monday.
Now, here, now go to Tweedy Atchison's. Ask him, indeed, he told me the name of the buyer.
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And, indeed, go to this, go to, and he'd give me the names. He was a tremendous
help and a tremendous encouragement.
Then he would say, now, on Tuesday, here's somewhere else to go, etc, etc.
So that Sam, indeed, was a great help to me when I was about 20, 21.
Years of age with regards to being a commercial traveller.
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Then, about that time.
My girlfriend, my girlfriend went to Sunday school.
My girlfriend, she never ever knew, even when she was in work,
she never ever knew that she needed to be saved.
There was a little Quaker, she worked in William Liddell's, after the factory
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in Eden Derry, worked in William Liddell's and the office in here,
there was this little Quaker girl.
And Greta was saying to her one day, she says, you know, So Sammy's funny.
You know, Sammy goes to this gospel hall, that is with my cousin,
Sam Graham, and he says, you know, they believe that you need to be saved.
If you're not saved, you'll go to hell. And this little Quaker girl just said
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straight to Greta, she says, and so you will.
So if you die in your sins, you're not going to heaven. There's only two places.
There's heaven and hell.
There's only two places where people must dwell.
And all through the ages of eternity, there's only two places,
dear friend, let me ask you, in which will you be?
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I've heard about getting saved. And the time come that I, I know I'm not saved.
And the time come that I would like to get saved.
How do you get saved? So Sam would have took us to different meetings on a Sunday
night. And we heard the gospel.
And for the first time, Greta, my girlfriend, expressed to me and to me to her
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for the first time that we would need to be saved. We would need salvation.
So we kept going very quickly. One Saturday morning, Sam was helping me again
with regard to next work engagement.
And he said, Sammy, come up this afternoon and we'll go for a picnic to Newcastle.
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I couldn't disappoint Sam. I said, oh, yes, yes, I will come up.
So I went home to Greta. I says, Greta, we're going up to Sam's this afternoon
to go to Newcastle for a picnic. She says, no, we're not going.
She says, do you not know we're getting married in 10 days' time?
In those days, you didn't have half days on a Saturday, etc.
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She says, we're getting married in 10 days' time.
And we have got so much to do. So I said, well, Greta, you know,
Sam was such a big help to me.
That was a good testimony that he had. And I said, I feel we should go. She finally agreed.
And we went along to the picnic. Sam took us to Newcastle, parked his car,
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walked along the promenade.
Here there were some people having an open-air meeting.
And they brought the open-air meeting to a close. We went up into the mountain. We had our picnic.
Down again, I don't know, by 7 o'clock or so, parked the car,
walked along the promenade and here's another gospel meeting.
A number of men were preaching, and the last speaker took up that little text
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that I've read with you this afternoon.
What must I do to be saved? It's true. You have to do something.
Some people say you don't have to do anything to get saved. You don't have to
do anything to save yourself, but you do have to do something.
You must trust indeed. The answer came back. Jack, if you want to be saved,
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there's just one saviour.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
And so I stood and listened. One or two preachers were preaching and the last
speaker was a man called Jim Hutchison.
He took up that text, What Must I Do to Be Saved? I listened.
At the close of the meeting, I said to Sam, my cousin, I said, Sam, I've got saved.
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He said, would you tell the preacher that? I said, yes. she called the preacher
over. He said, this man says he has got saved.
And so she says, here's the keys to my car. Would you like to go and sit in the car?
And I went along with Mr. Hutchison and Mr. Hutchison read to me a verse.
And the verse was John 3, 36. He that believeth on the Son hath, has got.
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The moment you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as a Saviour,
the one who died for you on Calvary's cross, the moment you trust him,
what must I do to be saved?
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life.
I trusted Christ as my Savior.
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And that was the 21st of July, 1956.
I think that's about 68 years ago. So we come out next Sunday.
That was a Saturday night. In actual fact, that's the reason why I'm speaking
today, because it was this day, this day, 68 years ago, I got saved on a Saturday
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night at an opener meeting in Newcastle.
My girlfriend wasn't saved.
And on the Sunday, we went to Sam's and went to hear the gospel.
Monday, I wanted to hear them preaching again at Newcastle.
So I went to travel in Urey, come up and did the county down coast,
and went again to listen to the gospel meeting.
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I arrived home and Greta was down the road looking for me. She lived at Belly Lesson.
And she said, Sammy, I don't think we'll get married.
That's about eight days away. We'll not get married. She said,
you've changed so much from Saturday night. She said, I don't think we'll get married.
Now, my cousin Sam had told me that if I had to get saved much earlier,
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it wouldn't be right to marry Greta.
You're saved and she's not. That's an unequal yoke.
So whenever she said, well, I don't think, I say the wedding was about a week
ago, a week away. all the arrangements, the dressings and the wedding gowns
and all had been purchased, etc, etc and now she wants to withdraw from the wedding.
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So I said, Greta, whatever you say. That was Monday.
Tuesday I was playing football for Glenavon at that time.
The taxis took us from Belfast, Brown's taxis, Belfast to Lurgan train.
On the way home I said to the taxi man, Would you take us down by Ballylesson?
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I'll get off at Ballylesson. So we're down by Ballylesson,
and I got out to go into Greta's house,
and Greta came down, put her arms around me, gave me a big, big hug and a kiss,
and she said, Sammy, I've got saved.
I've got saved. In her own room.
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One that didn't know she needed to be saved until she had married life.
And she trusts it, and that was seven days before we married.
I think maybe the time's just about up.
So what would we do? I'm not going to go into all the details.
I'll tell you one little thing. It was, I think, a Tuesday night.
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And here there was a man from America having meetings in Finnegan.
Ernest Wilson, just looking for his name. Ernest Wilson, a missionary from Africa,
was having meetings in Bethany Hall, Finnaghy on the Tuesday night.
And I said, Greta, would you like to go? And we knew nothing about the Gospel Hall.
We had no connections with the Gospel Hall.
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I said, but you have to go to lodge tonight. This is your lodge.
For the rules of the lodge are within distance you must attend.
Well, I says, Greta, if you really would like to go up to Finnaghy,
we'll go up to hear this man indeed speaking on the scriptures.
We went up and in that meeting, this man indeed, he spoke and he said this,
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it would be wrong for a Christian to,
to be holding secrets from another Christian that he couldn't share. Oh, that was a blow.
For in the Masonic, we hold secrets, secret signs, secret words.
And I'm in the Masonic Lodge, and I took that message, a message from God. I went home and I wrote.
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The Lodge paid them for my Jews, and I withdrew. Can I just tell you a story?
I was down in the West Indies.
I'd bought a bus in the Midwest, and I was bringing it down to the West Indies.
And I drove it on to the East Coast and to the people there who would export buses for you.
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And I was in and they were going to export the bus down to the West Indies and
I don't know how it came round but the name of Ernest Wilson came up.
Oh, he says, Ernest Wilson just lives up the road here.
Oh, he said, wait, I'll get him on the phone for you. So Ernest Wilson came
on the phone and he said, just as I said about this, he says,
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come up for your dinner, come up for lunch.
So I went up to see Ernest Wilson and I told him this story about Bethany Hall
Finnegan, about what you said.
It would be wrong indeed for a Christian to be holding secrets from other Christians.
He said, I never remember saying that. No, Mr. Wilson, but I do.
I remember you saying that.
And that was the cause of me being convicted and resigning indeed from the Masonic Lodge.
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One day, Greta and I were out visiting my mother Sunday afternoon and we had
got tea and we're going to go into Belfast to a gospel meeting,
I knew Greta didn't want to go to Eden Derry Gospel Hall because a lady,
Miss McKee, was her boss in the linen mill, in the office.
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And Miss McKee was very strict, and Greta was a kind of friend of Miss McKee.
But we left my mother's. We're going to go into Belfast to go to a gospel meeting.
And Greta, out of the blue, said, Sammy, she said, let us go to Edenderry tonight.
But I said, you don't want to go to Edenderry. Yeah, you don't want to go.
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She said, well, she says, I feel that I was spoken to. I would like to go to Edenderry tonight.
Now, everybody in Edenderry knows me. And everybody in Edenderry knew Greta.
She worked in the office there for a number of years.
We went into the gospel meeting in Edenderry. and I personally come out convicted and convinced.
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Sammy, this is where you should belong to. Everybody knows you.
You could be a testimony here in the village. But I said, now,
Greta doesn't want to go.
We're in the house again in Finnaghy, just had got a new house.
And we've lovely semi-detached house, Ardmore Park, Finnaghy. We paid £1,500 for it.
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That's a long time ago. But I said, Greta, you don't want to go to Edenderry.
She said, Sammy, in the meeting on Sunday night, she says, I felt convicted
that we should go to Edenderry Gospel Hall.
I said, well, Greta, that's the exercise and that's the experience I had that
we should go to Edenderry.
Everybody knows it. I said, well, what'll we do?
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We don't know anything about the gospel halls. Jim Hutchison.
Oh, I know Jim Hutchison.
I rang him. I said, Jim, I said, would you baptize us? He said,
why, what's wrong, Sammy?
He said, I said, Greta has suggested that we go to Edenderry Gospel Hall and we need to be baptized.
He said, Sammy, listen, you go ahead to Edenderry Gospel Hall.
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I'll give them a ring and tell them you're coming. and he said that they'll
deal with the matter in Eden Derry.
And so that is the reason in my exercise, my conviction and my conversion with
regards to knowing the man who died for me on the cross.
Listen to it again. So simple and so clear.
What must I do? Very personal. What must I do? I know I must do something.
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What must I do to be saved? For if I don't do it, I'll be lost.
But the biblical answer is, believe on, put your trust on a person.
The person is God's Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, who died on Calvary's cross for sinners.
What must I do to be saved? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and the Bible says.
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Thou shalt be saved the moment you put your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.
John 3, 36, He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life.
The Bible says he that believeth on the Son has got.
Everlasting life. Yes, everlasting life is free.
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Everlasting life is free. Simply by believing on the Son of God,
everlasting life is free.
I came to Jesus as I was, weary, worn and sad.
I found in him a resting place and he has made me glad. What's that, 67 years ago?
A long time. Someone said a long time to be saved. It's a long time to be lost.
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Long time to be lost go out into eternity the place of no return,
waiting indeed on the final size when the books
are open and people will be cast into the lake of fire
according to their works and salvation is
being offered full and free through the precious blood of the Son of God who
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was slain on Calvary now we've left out a lot of maybe details with regards
to the little story but that's the simplicity of it I knew it from a child that I needed to be saved,
careless and indifferent with regards to the world and its sport.
And then, indeed, having an interest, before I got married, that I needed to
be saved, and went to hear the gospel.
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Didn't let anything, indeed, wouldn't have been bad, dear friend,
if I had said to Sam Graham, Sam, look, thanks for the invite to go to Newcastle for a picnic.
It's nearer wedding, Sam, we're getting married, and what, is it 10 days' time?
And it wouldn't have been a bad if I had missed it.
Listen, dear friend, you put Christ first.
You trust Christ. What come what may.
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Know Christ as your Saviour. Your sins are forgiven and a home in eternity.
Never perish, but have everlasting life.
Now, we thank you indeed for your attention.
At least I can't see many of you, but thank you indeed for your attention.
If there's any question you want to ask, I'll try and answer it for you.
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You're very welcome. We trust indeed that God will bless His Word.
Our Lord Jesus Christ will be glorified, and the saints indeed may rejoice at
hearing a fruit abounding from the message of the Gospel. Shall we pray?
Our loving Heavenly Father, we come again into Thy presence through the person of Thy Son,
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the Lord of glory who became the babe
of Bethlehem who became the victim of Calvary we
thank thee that he indeed paid the price and we
thank thee that this great salvation through the
precious blood of the Son of God who was slain upon Calvary this great salvation
provided at infinite cost and available to all indeed free we pray that thou
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will bless thy word and bury it beyond the enemy's reach bring glory to thy
Son and rejoicing in the very courts of heaven.
We give thee thanks now as we dismiss the little company and all we ask we give
thanks in the name and for the glory of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. Thanks.
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Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.