It's been great
to be in Oklahoma.
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You know, what I
like about you people?
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You're down to
earth, you're real,
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I like real people. Amen.
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I'm down to earth.
I hope, I'm every time
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I get up and have
the privilege to preach
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and, and stand up
here I, I always think
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about those two men
that went to the bar in,
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in Oklahoma. And they, they were
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drinking and, and
they got you know,
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a little four
sheets to the wind and
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inebriated and they were walking
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backwards
midnight and they had to go
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over a little
bridge into the village and
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there was a
river running under the
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bridge and as they
got to the top of the
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bridge one of the
drunks leaned over
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they saw the moon
shinning up from there.
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Called the other
man over he said,
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is that the moon down there?
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The drunk shook
his head, he said then
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what are we doing up here?
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I feel like that
sometimes, I really do.
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It's only by the
miraculous grace of
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God and, and
you know, everything
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I have I owe to
Jesus Christ and, and.
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What an honor and
privilege it's been to
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preach these many years.
I held my first evangelist
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crusade in a
bookie joint in Brooklyn.
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It was just about
two months after my
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conversion and I
couldn't really read yet.
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And I was almost
17 years old, but
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I couldn't read or
write. And so my mother,
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you remember the
20th century, this is
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the commercial,
this not the sermon,
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but remember the
20th century some of you
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old folks the 20th
century Bible class,
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you know, the film strips.
Remember those film strips.
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Well, they gave a, the
film strips to, to hold
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this meeting and I
couldn't make sense of it.
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So, my momma, I
went to my mother
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she wasn't
converted, Christian and I said,
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momma could you help me?
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And my mother
agree to help me and,
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and by her helping
me get ready for my
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Evangelistic
Meeting. In fact I preach the
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first night on
David in the Lion's Den.
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Really, I'm
always talking about this
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David and how he
was in a Lion's Den.
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And David never
got near a Lion's Den,
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but, but I preach
with such enthusiasm and
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conviction the
whole neighborhood thought
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the Bible had been
written wrong in that section.
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So, but, but my momma she helped
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me and it was
through that the first person
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I let to Christ
was my mother. Amen.
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My dear mother
passed away just three
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years ago and
faithful to the today she
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passed away and I
look forward to see her.
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My daddy was an abusive drunk.
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I mean a really
abusive drunk until
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he found Christ and
I led him to Christ.
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He became a deacon
in his church; he was
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faithful to God
to the day he died.
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Thank for God
that, what do we have,
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what we owe Jesus Christ?
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To spend eternity
with my father and
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mother, in my youth
I could hardly stand
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my father and
mother. And now we're gonna
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spend all eternity
with my father and mother.
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And I'm looking forward to it.
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So, we have a lot
to be grateful to.
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So, quit having two
poles negative and negative.
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You get it? Some
people have two poles
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negative and
negative. Have one positive and
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spark because
God has done so many
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good things for
you, you should I mean
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you should fly back
to your tent, back to
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where you're
staying, I mean your feet
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should hardly touch the earth.
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I thank God; I
thank God for this week.
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I'm sorry that I
through some curves
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at our recorders
because they've been
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printing labels
and printing labels and
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printing labels and
I get up and I change
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the subject, and
change the subject
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and, and so their,
their profits are going
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down I'm so sorry
for that, but tonight
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I'm staying with
it. There is a sigh of
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relief back there.
The snapshot of Jesus
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Christ, the unique coming King.
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And so, let's bow our
heads in a word of prayer.
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Father God, which art in heaven,
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I thank you for
the grace of Christ,
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speak through
your word to us, advent
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believers, I ask it
in Christ name, amen.
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This great Bible which I hold in
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reverence and by
the way my friend
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I believe in the
whole word of God,
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I believe it's the
infallible word of God.
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I believe that God
of, of Genesis is the same
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God of Revelation
and. But this is equal
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inspired by God,
that every story in it's
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pages has
something to say to us,
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something to do for
us that we should uphold
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the word of God
always, in everything we do,
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but this book I hold
in my hand and I hold in
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my head and I hold in my heart.
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This book ends
in the Revelation.
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It is called by
the way the Apocalypse,
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the Revelation not of the beast,
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the Revelation not of
the Mark of the Beast,
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the Revelation not
of the dragon, it is the
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Revelation of Jesus Christ.
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And now the old man from Patmos,
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he speaks about this
hope that is found in
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his book, every
page ends in hope, every
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chapter ends in
hope. This is not a doom
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and gloom book.
Many times we make
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it out to be a
doom and gloom book.
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And we get to
people so deep into
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prophecy, so deep
into things that we
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hardly understand
that we missed the real
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simple meaning, is
that in this Chaotic
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age, in this world
of turmoil, there is a
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calm and loving savior
by the name of Jesus Christ.
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And He is the hope;
He is the hope of all
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ages. John, the
old man from Patmos.
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Remember he was
in prison in Patmos
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because they tried
to boil him in the oil,
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and, and, and
the emperor couldn't
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make a french fry of
him. And so they got,
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he got so nervous
about this, he send
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him out to Patmos,
he figured he get rid
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of him, but on
Patmos the old man almost a
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hundred years old
catches a vision of the
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man slain, a vision
of the glory of God.
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And the old man is
pen dipped into red
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blood ink of
Calvary, he drops his new
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found faith like
golden pollen from
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stems of
shaking lilies, and they
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sweeten the lives of
men in every age Paul,
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I mean John
writes this Revelation.
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The Revelation and
then he finishes the
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book at Ephesus where he dies.
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This is the climax
of history; this is the
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coming of Jesus
Christ, this is where
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He ends His
book, not with sadness,
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but with or crying, but
with singing and rejoicing.
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He ends not with
emptiness, but fullness.
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He ends not with
death, but He ends
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with life everlasting,
everlasting and eternal.
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The beginning of
a new and glorious
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world, the event,
the second coming of
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Jesus Christ is the greatest
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event of all history.
I mean John introduces
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us to the second
coming with these words.
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"And I Behold,
he cometh with the
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clouds, every eye shall see him,
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and they also that pierced him.
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And all the
kindreds of the earth shall
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wail because of
Him. Even so, amen."
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Revelation 1:7,
here John describes this
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event as a
majestic event, it is a
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magnificent event.
I mean it is majestic
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parade with banners flying
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and trumpets
blaring, sound of mighty huff
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beats across the
heavens. This is the final
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coronation of the
Lord Jesus Christ.
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And by the way
the second coming of
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Christ is not
casual or an unimportant
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event in the
list of other events.
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It is the climax of
all that is gone before,
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everything we believe
about Christ, the Crib,
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the incarnation
of the son of God.
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The cross and our
salvation, finds it's
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satisfaction in
the coronation of Jesus
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and the great return of Christ
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to redeem His people.
The event is one event
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not one of many
events, or not one of
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two events. There
are not two second
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comings, there is
one second coming.
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And listen to me, why
would it be a secret event?
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It is an open
event. Why would it be a,
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a King doesn't
coming to his kingdom
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quietly, he
doesn't sneak into his
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kingdom, he comes with a parade.
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I mean he comes
with power and glory with
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the trumpets
blaring, and the soldiers
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marching, the
10,000.10,000 angels
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singing across to
heavens. And the power of
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their last
trumpet waking the death.
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The coming of Jesus
Christ, listen to me,
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the coming of
Jesus Christ is visible,
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the coming of
Jesus Christ is audible,
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the coming of
Jesus Christ is literal.
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Now, let's look at
that together this evening,
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because there's
much confusion concerning
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the second
coming of Jesus Christ.
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In fact, one of the
great attacks by the
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evangelical
world, one of the great
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attacks by those who
claim to be believers
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in God and God's
word. Attack Jesus at His
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second coming. They misinterpret
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the second
coming that great event,
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they
misinterpret it and they make
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it a secret event.
Now, that's not new
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at the first
coming of Jesus Christ,
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the believers, the so
called believes of that
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day, the Pharisees and Sadducees
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misinterpreted the
first advent of Jesus.
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And so they didn't
find Him at Bethlehem
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because they were
looking for a majestic event.
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And now those in
the last days will be
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deceived because they're
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looking for a secret event.
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But the coming of
Christ, the Bible says,
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the coming of Jesus
Christ is visible, every
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eye shall see
Him. Behold, he cometh
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with clouds,
behold that mean see him,
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and every eye shall see him.
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It does not say a
select few will see
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him come, it doesn't
say just the righteous
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will see Him come,
it doesn't say that the
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righteous man
driving along the car will be
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taken away because he will see,
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it says, every eye which
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shall behold him,
every eye they even
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which pierced him
that doesn't sound like
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the righteous only
that will see Jesus coming
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the second time.
The coming of Jesus,
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the righteous will see Him.
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And the Bible tells
us that even the wicked
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will see Him.
Revelation 1 verse 7,
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the Bible says,
notice in the Bible,
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"For as the
lightning cometh out of the
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east, and shineth
even to the west; so shall
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also the coming of
the Son of man be."
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Listen to me
friend; the coming of Jesus
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Christ is visible. So,
every eye will see Him,
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if you and I was
standing out here on
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the porch, it was
late at night and all of a
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sudden a storm
came and the lightening
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flashed against the
heaven. The righteous would
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see Him, the
saved would see Him,
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but if there were
any unsaved there on the
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porch, they too
would see the lightening.
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Well, the Bible
says that as Jesus comes,
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He comes with lightening, or He
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comes visibly to every eye.
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The coming of
Jesus Christ is visible.
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We believe that
we've always believed that,
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we will always believe that.
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People say to me
Ron; we have changed,
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you know the
doctrines are still the same.
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What I learned as a
young teenage boy in
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Brooklyn, I still
hear to this very day,
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this very hour, it
has not, no one has
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shaken my faith in
the visible return of
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Christ to the
earth. I'm going to see Him
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with these eyes, can
you say amen to God tonight?
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Amen. Coming of
Jesus is visible,
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but listen to me
friend. "And they shall see
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the Son of man
coming in the clouds
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of heaven with power
and with great glory."
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Matthew 24 and verse 30.
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The Bible says,
that Jesus is coming back
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visibly, every eye will see Him.
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Secondly, the
Bible tells us that the
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coming of Jesus
Christ will be audible.
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Matthew 24 verse
31 notice what the
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scripture says,
"And he shall send
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his angels with a
great sound of a trumpet,
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and they shall
gather together his elect
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from the four
winds, from one end of
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heaven to the
other." So, majestic is the
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trumpet sound, it
will role back the graves
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of those who
have died in Christ.
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The graves will gave up their
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dead to the glory of Christ.
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My grandmother came from Norway,
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by the way she came
with her husband and
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five children, she
was pregnant for my
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father and my
father happened to be born
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in Brooklyn instead of Norway.
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And we felt sorry
for him ever since.
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My grandma and
grandpa was here a
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short time, my grandfather was a
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ship builder. He
was working on a mast
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of a ship in
Brooklyn he fell off the mast
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and he was killed.
And this little lady
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had to raise six children.
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She was a
wonderful godly Christian,
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never once kept the
Sabbath that I know of,
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but she was a
faithful Sunday keeper,
00:14:35.81\00:14:37.70
she was faithful to
the cause of Christ.
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The only Christ
that I knew as a child
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was my grandmother's Christ.
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She would every
now and then ask my
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mother, if she
could take the children
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to Sunday school.
And she would bring
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me to that little
Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran
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Church, and she
would send me in.
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And she would be
waiting at the end of
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Sunday school and
I would come out and
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she would have a
piece of candy for me.
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I know some of
you shiver at that.
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That's alright
with me, when I get to
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heaven I'm gonna
have a snicker bar
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tree, you can have all
the avocado trees you want.
00:15:10.30\00:15:12.67
And my little grandma
she sent me and you know,
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all Norwegians we
go to Lutheran Church
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and, and, and I
would been baptized as a
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baby and, and that
didn't take in when
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I was twelve
years old, my mother had
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me confirmed
and baptized and you
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know, I, I learned as a,
but I didn't know Christ.
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I believe, I could, I
could repeat the creme,
00:15:36.21\00:15:39.24
I still cannot
believe in God, the father
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almighty, maker
of heaven and earth,
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Jesus Christ his
only begotten son of Lord
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can see the holy
ghost, born of virgin
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Mary, sentenced
by Pontius Pilate,
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crucified, dead and
buried, sent to hell.
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Third day rose
again, there sitteth on the
00:15:48.99\00:15:50.39
right hand of God
the Father almighty.
00:15:50.42\00:15:51.71
I believe in the
holy Christian Church,
00:15:51.93\00:15:53.13
community
saints forgive the sin,
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resurrection the body
life everlasting, amen.
00:15:54.48\00:15:56.91
But I didn't
know Christ, my little
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grandma when I was
getting into trouble
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she would say good
boy. Isn't it amazing how
00:16:02.20\00:16:04.60
grandmothers can say good boys,
00:16:04.63\00:16:06.32
if you can see a good
boy and you're a bad boy,
00:16:08.01\00:16:10.48
don't you think God can
see good in your bad boy.
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And grandma she
used to sing these
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little Norwegian
hymns and she served Christ.
00:16:20.09\00:16:24.50
She would have
been a great Seventh-day
00:16:26.23\00:16:27.68
Adventist, but no
Seventh-day Adventist
00:16:27.71\00:16:29.26
visit her, no
Seventh-day Adventist
00:16:29.29\00:16:30.93
shared faith with
her. I mean so she was
00:16:30.96\00:16:33.08
faithful to what she
knew. But my grandmother
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was stricken by
paralysis, she had a stroke.
00:16:36.54\00:16:38.70
And she lay for 10
years, half her body
00:16:40.46\00:16:44.23
paralyzed, but I
remember one thing
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about my grandma,
she had half a smile
00:16:46.37\00:16:48.31
on her face
always. My momma took care
00:16:48.34\00:16:52.74
as long as she
could and then she had to
00:16:52.77\00:16:54.78
put her in the,
in the County Nursing
00:16:54.81\00:16:58.61
Home, or a County Hospital
00:16:58.64\00:17:00.07
and I remember when
I was a gang banger,
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black leather
jacket, skull blood, switch
00:17:03.20\00:17:05.08
blade in my pocket
then I think of grandma,
00:17:05.11\00:17:07.01
I used to get on a,
a bus and then subway
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then I take a
subway for two hours and
00:17:09.63\00:17:11.56
then I have to
take another bus and,
00:17:11.84\00:17:13.22
transfer to another
bus and four hours later
00:17:13.64\00:17:15.64
I get to the
hospital. And I walked in that
00:17:15.67\00:17:19.30
big room and there
were many beds of all
00:17:19.33\00:17:21.00
people just
wasting away and, and
00:17:21.03\00:17:23.18
I would come up
and she would have half
00:17:23.21\00:17:24.89
a smile on her face. And
when she saw me she said,
00:17:24.92\00:17:29.44
good boy, good
boy. My grandmother
00:17:33.00\00:17:37.09
never knew me as a believer,
00:17:37.12\00:17:40.02
as a Christian.
So, I can't wait when
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the trumpet sounds
and the graves give
00:17:45.23\00:17:48.61
up the death. And
that little Norwegian
00:17:48.64\00:17:51.77
woman sees me
standing on the streets
00:17:51.80\00:17:53.84
of gold then she
says, Ronny good boy.
00:17:53.87\00:17:56.81
Good boy, and I
can introduce to the
00:17:57.55\00:18:00.94
other tens of
thousands of people
00:18:00.97\00:18:02.63
that I have had the
privilege to lead to
00:18:03.54\00:18:05.02
Christ and to
show them that little
00:18:05.05\00:18:08.94
Norwegian that
was faithful to God.
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The trumpet shall
sound, I hope I'm in
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Brooklyn when the trumpet sounds
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for the death in
Christ shall rise.
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That's what the
Bible says from four winds
00:18:23.77\00:18:25.42
from one end to heaven, the Lord
00:18:25.70\00:18:26.93
himself shall
descend from heaven with a
00:18:26.96\00:18:28.38
shout, that
doesn't sound secret to me,
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that doesn't sound
like a, a secret event,
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it's a mighty event,
it's a glorious the voice of
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an Archangel, I
mean with the trumpet of
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God, if I blew the
trumpet in this room
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every ear would hear him.
00:18:41.78\00:18:43.07
Then the death in
Christ shall, how can
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that be a secret
events, you're walking
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by the cemetery boom
and there comes the death.
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Let me tell you,
you would know it was
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happening. Amen.
You would know it
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was happening. The Bible says,
00:19:01.83\00:19:05.30
the coming of
Jesus Christ is literal,
00:19:06.39\00:19:08.00
coming of Jesus
Christ is audible,
00:19:08.27\00:19:09.87
third the coming of
Jesus Christ is literal.
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Let me tell you what
the Bible says in Acts,
00:19:13.29\00:19:15.41
the Bible tells
us, "And when he had
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spoken these
things, while they beheld,
00:19:16.96\00:19:18.47
he was taken up;
and a cloud received him
00:19:18.73\00:19:20.89
out of their sight.
And while they looked
00:19:20.92\00:19:22.66
steadfastly toward
heaven, he went up,
00:19:22.69\00:19:24.91
behold, two men stood by them in
00:19:24.94\00:19:26.64
white apparel; Which also said,
00:19:26.67\00:19:28.36
Ye men of Galilee,
why stand ye gazing
00:19:28.39\00:19:30.30
up into heaven? This same Jesus,
00:19:30.33\00:19:32.52
which is taken up
from you into heaven,
00:19:32.81\00:19:34.41
shall so come in
like manner as ye have
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seen him go into
heaven." This same Jesus, this
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same Jesus that
touch lame legs and then
00:19:40.57\00:19:43.06
stood and walked and Praise God.
00:19:43.09\00:19:44.92
This same Jesus
that came and touched
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blind Bartimaeus
his eyes and he saw the
00:19:47.07\00:19:49.92
face of a savior and
was called to discipleship.
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This same Jesus it
took, the baby in his
00:19:52.98\00:19:55.18
arms, and beat that
heart into life again,
00:19:55.21\00:19:58.00
and gave it back
to a grieving mother.
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This same Jesus
had walked on water and
00:20:00.43\00:20:02.67
stilled the storm.
This same Jesus said,
00:20:02.70\00:20:05.18
Father forgive
them for they know not
00:20:05.21\00:20:07.76
what they do.
This same Jesus will
00:20:07.79\00:20:10.13
come in like a
manner as you have seen him
00:20:10.16\00:20:12.65
go into heaven. A
literal Christ not
00:20:12.68\00:20:15.32
some kind of operation, not come
00:20:15.35\00:20:17.28
some kind of Casper the
ghost, but a real Jesus.
00:20:17.31\00:20:20.75
A literal
Jesus, but the point is
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"Be Ready" you hear
me. The point is, be ready,
00:20:29.49\00:20:35.35
readiness is the
all important matter.
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My text taken from
the Book of Hebrews,
00:20:38.88\00:20:41.18
tenth chapter,
"Cast not therefore your
00:20:41.21\00:20:43.51
confidence, which hath great
00:20:43.54\00:20:44.97
recompense of
reward. For ye have need of
00:20:45.00\00:20:47.89
patience, that, after
ye have done the will of
00:20:47.92\00:20:50.22
God, ye might
receive the promise.
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And yet a little
while, and he that shall come
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will come, and will not tarry."
00:20:54.94\00:20:58.06
This evening we must
come to grips with that.
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We must look at it.
Get our minds around it
00:21:04.56\00:21:09.29
and respond to
it's final appeal.
00:21:10.74\00:21:12.38
We have to be more
than advent believers,
00:21:14.41\00:21:18.11
we have to be advent
livers and live for the
00:21:19.53\00:21:24.28
coming of Jesus
Christ. Every time the
00:21:24.31\00:21:25.79
coming of Christ is
mention in scripture,
00:21:25.82\00:21:27.65
it chooses the basis
of a creator to say to his
00:21:27.99\00:21:30.97
created prepare to meet God.
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Every message that
comes from our lips,
00:21:34.11\00:21:35.89
every article we
write, every song we sing
00:21:37.09\00:21:40.91
must be in the
context of preparing people
00:21:41.80\00:21:44.26
for the coming
of God, that's the
00:21:44.53\00:21:46.18
responsibility of every
preacher behind a poppet.
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That's a responsibility
of every elder who
00:21:48.76\00:21:50.96
sits on the
platform, to every deaconess
00:21:50.99\00:21:53.23
that folds the communion cloth,
00:21:53.26\00:21:54.94
to every deaconess
that ministers to the
00:21:55.11\00:21:56.85
poor, and every
deacon minister to the widow.
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Let me tell you we
are to live in perceptual
00:21:59.72\00:22:02.41
readiness for the
coming of Jesus Christ.
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Prepare to meet God.
00:22:04.82\00:22:06.51
This Camp Meeting is
for one purpose alone.
00:22:08.37\00:22:10.49
Not to entertain you
for ten nights or nine
00:22:12.09\00:22:15.57
nights or whatever
nights, but rather to
00:22:15.60\00:22:18.45
prepare you for
the coming of Jesus
00:22:18.48\00:22:21.69
Christ to meet
God. The purpose of
00:22:21.72\00:22:24.71
all administration,
the purpose of the
00:22:24.74\00:22:26.87
conference, the
purpose of the churches is for
00:22:26.90\00:22:29.31
the one purpose and
that's to prepare to meet God.
00:22:29.34\00:22:32.20
Instinctively man
has always believed that
00:22:32.23\00:22:34.71
they would be a
show down, that there
00:22:34.74\00:22:36.46
would be some kind
of meeting with God.
00:22:36.49\00:22:38.31
I talked to secular people.
00:22:38.56\00:22:40.03
I talk to people who
say they only believe
00:22:41.49\00:22:43.93
in kind of a God,
Nebulas kind of thing
00:22:43.96\00:22:46.72
you know, he is
out there and the great
00:22:46.75\00:22:48.65
alpha, the great
you know, I mean.
00:22:48.68\00:22:50.44
But yet they have
a belief that there's
00:22:54.36\00:22:59.41
going to be a meeting with God,
00:22:59.44\00:23:01.43
ready to welcome, but a meeting.
00:23:03.16\00:23:06.27
Two days before the
trial of Jesus Christ,
00:23:07.76\00:23:09.45
the crucifixion of
our Lord, his disciples
00:23:09.48\00:23:11.66
asked Him about
the second coming of
00:23:11.69\00:23:13.67
Jesus Christ. He
asked, they asked
00:23:13.70\00:23:15.57
him the ultimate
question about the
00:23:15.60\00:23:17.67
ultimate reunion with
God. Now, you must understand
00:23:17.70\00:23:21.43
and consider the
fact that Jesus told them
00:23:21.46\00:23:23.45
that he was going
up to Jerusalem to die.
00:23:23.65\00:23:25.52
That he kept reminding them,
00:23:27.07\00:23:28.28
I've got to go to my death.
00:23:28.31\00:23:30.42
And so they were losing him.
00:23:30.98\00:23:32.72
And so they
wanted to know what his
00:23:37.15\00:23:40.71
returned would be
like, because it's
00:23:40.80\00:23:43.88
sorrowful to say
goodbye with the idea
00:23:44.65\00:23:48.74
that someone is coming again,
00:23:48.77\00:23:50.08
but it's worse to say goodbye
00:23:51.33\00:23:53.09
and know the person
who never return again.
00:23:54.97\00:23:56.91
But they knew that
he would come again.
00:23:58.58\00:24:03.28
When shall these
things happen he said?
00:24:04.15\00:24:07.52
And what shall be
a sign of thy return,
00:24:08.45\00:24:10.64
the end of the
world? The end time, I mean
00:24:10.67\00:24:13.47
they wanted to
know, no what the end of
00:24:13.50\00:24:15.40
human world, the
end of human heartache,
00:24:15.43\00:24:17.06
the end of
human fear, the end of
00:24:17.09\00:24:18.83
human pain, the end of
human death and sorrow.
00:24:18.86\00:24:21.14
The answer was
a 94-verse resume,
00:24:21.36\00:24:23.84
check up on me,
94-verse resume of
00:24:25.42\00:24:29.99
the signs that
proceed the coming of Jesus
00:24:30.02\00:24:32.20
Christ and it ends,
it's starts in chapter 24
00:24:32.23\00:24:35.59
and it ends in
chapter 25 with the
00:24:35.82\00:24:37.98
story of the ten virgins.
00:24:38.01\00:24:39.70
Now, those signs
are general signs and
00:24:43.13\00:24:46.77
there are specific
signs, but the hub of
00:24:46.80\00:24:50.22
the whole matter,
the hub of the whole
00:24:50.25\00:24:52.11
passage is the fact
of Matthew 24 verse 44,
00:24:52.14\00:24:57.05
listen to it.
Therefore be ye also what?
00:24:57.08\00:24:59.70
Come on,
therefore be ye also, ready.
00:25:00.91\00:25:03.44
"For in such an
hour as ye think not the
00:25:03.86\00:25:05.81
Son of man cometh." That is the
00:25:05.84\00:25:08.01
hub of the whole treatise.
00:25:08.04\00:25:10.24
Readiness is as
the key and it occur
00:25:13.73\00:25:16.73
several times in
the New Testament
00:25:16.76\00:25:18.56
scripture, example
Peter says, he stands
00:25:18.59\00:25:21.33
ready to pass judgment on the
00:25:21.36\00:25:22.65
living and the
dead. Example, James says
00:25:22.68\00:25:24.83
the judge standeth
at the door in the grand
00:25:24.86\00:25:27.33
finale, the final
act, the glorious appearing
00:25:27.36\00:25:30.28
of the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:25:30.31\00:25:31.61
And again I read
all things are ready.
00:25:31.80\00:25:34.44
So, near is the
coming of Christ I can almost
00:25:41.99\00:25:44.09
hear the huff
beats in the heavens,
00:25:44.12\00:25:49.41
so closes is the
coming of Jesus Christ.
00:25:50.37\00:25:52.52
And we are to live
with perpetual readiness.
00:25:53.25\00:25:55.62
I have got to admit to
you, I'm not a sign watcher.
00:25:57.14\00:25:59.54
I spend the day
looking at Jesus,
00:26:02.37\00:26:06.78
building a
relationship with Jesus, because
00:26:08.62\00:26:11.64
I know that when he
comes I'll be first to
00:26:11.67\00:26:14.02
know 'cause I'll be
ready for his return.
00:26:14.05\00:26:20.93
Some people are
thinking, if the signs
00:26:20.96\00:26:22.76
tell me the closer
it is then the more I'm
00:26:22.79\00:26:25.24
gonna be ready,
don't fool yourself.
00:26:25.27\00:26:27.24
You have
opportunity tonight to be ready.
00:26:31.71\00:26:33.72
Go home back to your
tent, go back to your
00:26:35.51\00:26:37.07
place you stay, to be ready.
00:26:37.10\00:26:39.20
You have the privilege of waking
00:26:39.80\00:26:41.64
up in the morning
ready, you have the
00:26:41.67\00:26:44.35
privilege of
sitting down at breakfast,
00:26:44.38\00:26:46.32
I eat breakfast
ready, dinner, ready.
00:26:46.87\00:26:53.03
I'm in my boat, I'm ready.
00:26:55.63\00:26:57.11
I'm climbing a
mountain, I'm ready.
00:26:59.34\00:27:00.85
I go to bed at night, I'm ready,
00:27:02.19\00:27:03.89
because I have a
perpetual relationship
00:27:05.19\00:27:07.56
with Jesus Christ
that's what we need,
00:27:07.59\00:27:09.34
that's what the
pastor here, Phil has been
00:27:09.71\00:27:11.79
telling as about the
fruits of the spirit.
00:27:11.82\00:27:13.90
Joy and we walk alone.
00:27:16.49\00:27:17.84
Hello, I'm a
Seventh -day Adventist,
00:27:21.48\00:27:23.70
so I don't want to become that,
00:27:23.73\00:27:25.38
it's that bad. Now, remember BC
00:27:27.04\00:27:31.36
before Christ used
go to movie and the
00:27:31.39\00:27:34.52
coming attractions, remember.
00:27:34.55\00:27:36.84
I mean they
always showed you the,
00:27:37.82\00:27:39.00
the fight scene
and love scene and
00:27:39.95\00:27:43.52
speed scene and,
and you used to look at
00:27:44.68\00:27:46.88
that and say, wow! If
the coming attractions
00:27:46.91\00:27:49.60
are anything like the movie,
00:27:49.63\00:27:51.28
I want to see the
movie. You see, you should
00:27:51.31\00:27:53.68
be a coming
attraction. Your church should
00:27:53.71\00:27:57.30
be the coming
attraction, so they say,
00:27:57.33\00:27:59.31
wow! That church is
hot, I mean hey that
00:27:59.61\00:28:02.39
believer, I mean
there's something
00:28:02.42\00:28:04.00
about him in his
walk and what he said,
00:28:04.03\00:28:06.03
look at the smile,
if that's the coming
00:28:06.27\00:28:08.41
attraction, I want to be
there for the main feature.
00:28:08.44\00:28:11.89
Amen. Come on now, amen.
00:28:12.10\00:28:14.46
I want to be there
for the main feature,
00:28:14.49\00:28:17.29
coming of Jesus Christ.
00:28:18.43\00:28:19.78
It's perpetual
readiness that's the meaning by
00:28:21.87\00:28:23.77
the way, the
heavenly bridegroom,
00:28:23.80\00:28:25.14
the ten virgins.
Listen they all were
00:28:25.36\00:28:28.71
alike, right, they
did, they ate soybeans
00:28:28.74\00:28:33.84
just like you.
Well, I don't know, but
00:28:33.87\00:28:35.62
anyway they did
all those things,
00:28:35.95\00:28:38.74
they went to Sabbath
school just like you do.
00:28:39.86\00:28:43.01
They said their
prayers, but they
00:28:44.10\00:28:47.02
lacked one thing.
By the way, if you look
00:28:47.05\00:28:50.50
at that it says
their lamp was going out,
00:28:50.53\00:28:55.12
in the original
Greek. In other words,
00:28:56.42\00:28:59.03
everyone had
oil, but some just had
00:28:59.06\00:29:01.37
a little bit of oil.
And what was happening
00:29:01.40\00:29:03.70
when the time
came the oil ran out,
00:29:03.85\00:29:06.78
so they run to get and
00:29:06.81\00:29:08.02
buy oil, it's too late sinner.
00:29:08.05\00:29:10.10
Adventists it's too late
when the Sunday law comes.
00:29:12.80\00:29:15.28
Adventists it's too
late be you ready from
00:29:15.58\00:29:20.89
such an hour. Now,
there are four things
00:29:20.92\00:29:23.72
evident, in the
reading of the passage.
00:29:24.93\00:29:26.60
The coming of
Jesus Christ one is
00:29:27.87\00:29:29.39
imperative.
Listen to me carefully;
00:29:29.42\00:29:32.65
the coming of Jesus
Christ is immutable.
00:29:33.72\00:29:35.80
The coming of
Christ is Emmanuel and the
00:29:37.81\00:29:41.51
coming of Christ is imminent.
00:29:41.54\00:29:42.83
First the coming of
Christ is imperative.
00:29:44.46\00:29:47.02
Jesus needs to come.
00:29:47.33\00:29:48.56
I don't know if
you recognize how
00:29:51.08\00:29:52.35
terrifying, how
scary it is out there.
00:29:52.38\00:29:54.36
Millions are facing,
I mean the future with
00:29:55.91\00:29:59.34
trepidation and fear.
I wish you could visit
00:29:59.37\00:30:03.10
me in some of the neighborhoods.
00:30:03.13\00:30:05.12
I was in San Bernardino, boom,
00:30:06.19\00:30:07.99
I'm ducking behind cars.
00:30:08.02\00:30:10.03
Big gang bangers
bouncing along their
00:30:14.27\00:30:16.45
cars you know,
those big loud music
00:30:16.48\00:30:19.69
blaring away and there
I'm, it's dangerous out there.
00:30:19.72\00:30:23.42
It's imperative I
mean, Jesus needs to come.
00:30:26.00\00:30:29.43
You heard about
the policeman driving
00:30:31.00\00:30:33.21
across the
Brooklyn bridge I might have
00:30:33.24\00:30:34.33
told you to ready,
but I can tell it again,
00:30:34.36\00:30:35.88
it's better with the telling.
00:30:35.91\00:30:36.88
And he's driving
across the Brooklyn
00:30:40.41\00:30:41.64
Bridge and upon the
super structure of the
00:30:41.67\00:30:43.81
Brooklyn Bridge
there is a man about ready
00:30:43.84\00:30:45.30
to jump into this
river. And the policeman
00:30:45.33\00:30:48.88
sees it he pulls
the patrol car over,
00:30:48.91\00:30:50.53
he jumps and he
says, stop mister, wait,
00:30:50.56\00:30:53.15
don't do it. He
starts climbing up and the
00:30:53.52\00:30:57.78
man says, I'm gonna jump.
00:30:57.81\00:30:58.93
He says, no don't
jump, he says stay
00:30:58.96\00:31:01.94
back there. You
take another step
00:31:01.97\00:31:03.48
I'm gonna jump.
And so the man stops
00:31:03.51\00:31:05.02
the policeman, he
says, oh, he says,
00:31:05.05\00:31:06.63
no, no don't jump
life is worth living.
00:31:06.92\00:31:09.65
He says, no life
is worth, I'm gonna
00:31:10.71\00:31:12.40
jump into the east river.
00:31:12.43\00:31:13.69
The cop's
thinking what I can do to
00:31:17.02\00:31:18.36
persuade this. So,
he says, wait, wait
00:31:18.39\00:31:20.51
before you jump,
you give me ten minutes
00:31:20.54\00:31:25.26
to tell you why
life is worth living.
00:31:26.52\00:31:28.66
And then I will
give you ten minutes to
00:31:29.68\00:31:31.17
tell me why it's
not, and at the end
00:31:31.20\00:31:33.45
you can jump. So,
the policeman trying
00:31:33.48\00:31:36.81
to think of all
those good things he was
00:31:36.84\00:31:38.44
telling about
family, about job, about he
00:31:38.47\00:31:40.63
was telling about the beautiful
00:31:40.66\00:31:42.11
Brooklyn Bridge and about the
00:31:42.14\00:31:44.06
privilege of living in Brooklyn.
00:31:44.09\00:31:45.68
And he was talking
about the green grass;
00:31:52.78\00:31:56.34
there's a little bit
there, the one tree that
00:31:56.37\00:31:58.66
grows in Brooklyn.
He was talking about
00:31:58.69\00:32:02.29
sunsets and
about children and, and
00:32:02.32\00:32:05.89
everything
that's beautiful and he
00:32:05.92\00:32:07.66
finished,
exhausted. And then he said;
00:32:07.69\00:32:11.95
now you tell me why
it's not worth living.
00:32:11.98\00:32:14.44
And he started
to, I lost my job,
00:32:15.56\00:32:17.28
I lost my family.
And he went on and
00:32:18.41\00:32:21.38
on and told
about the crime and the
00:32:21.41\00:32:23.43
corruption and
the hassle that he,
00:32:23.46\00:32:25.91
I mean everybody mean and,
00:32:26.31\00:32:29.14
after ten minutes
they grasped hands and
00:32:31.61\00:32:34.71
they both
jumped, they both jumped.
00:32:34.74\00:32:39.26
Listen to me,
there's not much good
00:32:43.28\00:32:44.42
you can say about
it. There are a number
00:32:44.45\00:32:47.67
of malignant forces
opposing the kingdom
00:32:47.70\00:32:52.62
of God and His
word. Think of it, we
00:32:52.65\00:32:58.25
entered last
century on horse back.
00:32:58.28\00:33:00.86
We just left the
century in SUV's.
00:33:02.32\00:33:06.26
We lost influenza
and outhouses, thank God.
00:33:08.59\00:33:13.44
And lanterns, we
left with wrist watches
00:33:15.44\00:33:19.62
and atomic weapons and a
lot of weight, some of us.
00:33:19.92\00:33:24.03
We arrived in a
century, steeped in
00:33:26.01\00:33:28.55
agriculture, working
the fields, we left it in
00:33:28.58\00:33:31.27
laboratory working the computer.
00:33:31.30\00:33:33.67
We arrived money
poor in that century
00:33:35.87\00:33:38.55
and we left money
rich. We entered spiritually
00:33:39.84\00:33:43.88
rich and we left
spiritually poor.
00:33:43.91\00:33:48.29
Judgment is at
the door, if we've
00:33:50.42\00:33:53.30
conquered anything;
it's time we entered
00:33:53.33\00:33:55.96
the 20th century
with life expectancy of
00:33:55.99\00:33:58.02
43.3 years in
America. We're living it with
00:33:58.05\00:34:03.54
the life expectancy of
80. Now, that sounds like
00:34:03.57\00:34:06.53
a lot until you're almost 70.
00:34:06.56\00:34:08.73
If we've conquered
anything it's time 24
00:34:14.23\00:34:16.92
hour news cast,
fast food, instant cash,
00:34:16.95\00:34:20.12
ATM machines,
your grandmother would
00:34:20.15\00:34:22.31
turn over in a
grave. See, cell phones,
00:34:22.34\00:34:28.47
fax machines, all
things to unshackle
00:34:29.57\00:34:33.49
us, give us more
time for leisure.
00:34:33.52\00:34:37.03
How about it? Do
you have more free time?
00:34:38.81\00:34:41.40
I wish I did. I run
faster I get further
00:34:43.70\00:34:47.70
behind, is that I
mean. I spend more time
00:34:47.73\00:34:52.80
doing and getting less done.
00:34:52.83\00:34:54.43
Have you noticed
that? The older you get,
00:34:54.46\00:34:56.01
have you noticed
that? Wake up in the
00:34:56.04\00:34:58.46
morning went to home before
00:34:58.49\00:35:01.16
I know it's time to go to bed.
00:35:01.19\00:35:02.30
And so, what did
I do today, what did
00:35:04.59\00:35:06.09
I accomplish today?
Well, I was gonna do
00:35:06.12\00:35:08.69
that, I was gonna do
that, well all will wait
00:35:08.72\00:35:10.29
till tomorrow, by the time three
00:35:10.32\00:35:11.63
weeks are up, I
finally get to it.
00:35:11.66\00:35:13.32
I mean, technology
has made life easier,
00:35:17.45\00:35:22.17
has it. These
forces seized upon science
00:35:22.20\00:35:26.77
and technology is
prime tools for the
00:35:26.80\00:35:28.71
expiration conquest of the soul.
00:35:28.74\00:35:30.38
Lays of particle
beams, I mean that is
00:35:30.65\00:35:32.54
our century. We're not
talking about you know,
00:35:32.57\00:35:34.97
outer space
malarkey, we're talking about
00:35:35.45\00:35:37.66
here and now, I
mean biological and
00:35:37.69\00:35:39.45
chemical weapons,
high tech surveillance.
00:35:39.48\00:35:41.81
By the way you
think you can run to the
00:35:42.08\00:35:43.55
country and hide in
time of persecution.
00:35:43.58\00:35:45.87
I'm gonna be in the
city, it be harder for
00:35:46.05\00:35:48.49
them to find me in
the crowd, then to find
00:35:48.52\00:35:50.17
you out in the corn field.
00:35:50.20\00:35:51.39
They have surveillance
now, they can tell the
00:35:53.18\00:35:55.76
size of the person
whether it's male or
00:35:55.79\00:35:57.86
female from the
heavens. Listen to me, you can
00:35:57.89\00:36:00.45
hide except under the
wings of the almighty,
00:36:00.48\00:36:03.91
amen. Amen. Except
under the wings of the
00:36:03.94\00:36:06.21
almighty. I, I get on
my computer I, I, I took
00:36:06.24\00:36:09.44
my son's address
in therein, bub, bub,
00:36:09.47\00:36:11.41
bub, bub, bub, bub I
get in the satellite it
00:36:11.44\00:36:13.21
go, bup, bup, bup, bup, bup, I'm
00:36:13.24\00:36:15.13
seeing if he's behaving himself.
00:36:15.16\00:36:16.84
I'm watching him,
my little grandson went
00:36:20.11\00:36:23.32
to, he went to
France, or college there to
00:36:23.35\00:36:27.26
study french and, so
I found him, bup, bup,
00:36:27.29\00:36:30.84
bup, bup, bup, I
told him, he just called
00:36:30.87\00:36:33.69
me, I said watch
out, I'm watching you,
00:36:33.72\00:36:36.22
behave. Kid now
looks to the heavens,
00:36:36.25\00:36:39.15
when he walks out of the dorm
00:36:39.18\00:36:40.38
and when you talk about it.
00:36:41.71\00:36:42.88
Genetic engineering,
robotics, the conflict
00:36:44.24\00:36:48.09
in the Middle East,
the death of a planet
00:36:48.12\00:36:51.07
we called earth.
Just think of a world
00:36:51.10\00:36:52.76
of technology
hi-tech, the age of hi-tech is
00:36:52.79\00:36:55.24
arrived with
magnum forth, computers,
00:36:55.53\00:36:57.93
listen to me, my
little computer, boom.
00:36:57.96\00:37:00.97
This little thing
here, I have more than just
00:37:01.87\00:37:08.41
a Britannica or an encyclopedia,
00:37:08.44\00:37:11.66
Britannica I can put in here.
00:37:11.69\00:37:13.04
I got commentaries
in here; I got all the
00:37:13.64\00:37:15.48
writings of Ellen White in here.
00:37:15.51\00:37:16.99
I mean like a bup,
bup, bup, I, I have an
00:37:17.80\00:37:20.91
Afro cam that I got
to Africa every morning
00:37:20.94\00:37:24.16
when I wake up and
I go to the water hole
00:37:24.19\00:37:26.84
and I watch the animals coming.
00:37:26.87\00:37:28.31
Come on,
technology, let me tell you,
00:37:28.34\00:37:34.09
robots they said
soon we'll have robots as
00:37:35.19\00:37:38.53
companions even
sex partners, can you
00:37:38.56\00:37:41.64
believe it?
It's imperative Jesus
00:37:41.67\00:37:44.59
Christ cuts it
short and comes. Amen.
00:37:44.62\00:37:46.46
Bowing God out, bowing man in,
00:37:47.00\00:37:48.81
there is no limit to
our perversion, in the area
00:37:49.04\00:37:51.43
of robotics; there is
a material now similar
00:37:51.46\00:37:53.67
to human flesh just like it.
00:37:53.70\00:37:55.27
There is now
organic brain that's
00:37:58.02\00:38:00.45
what I need, organic brain.
00:38:00.48\00:38:03.66
They already have
biological computer
00:38:06.24\00:38:07.83
chips, units and this
is not science fiction
00:38:07.86\00:38:10.53
malarkey, it is reality,
talking about artificial
00:38:10.56\00:38:13.19
eyes, artificial
noses that distinguishes
00:38:13.22\00:38:16.14
dozen of flowers smells.
00:38:16.17\00:38:18.42
I can't smell a
flower and tell what it is?
00:38:21.26\00:38:23.43
I can't even look at a
flower and tell what it is?
00:38:23.67\00:38:25.91
I can't even plant
a flower and it grows.
00:38:26.54\00:38:29.26
I'm sorry, I got
the, I don't have
00:38:29.52\00:38:32.11
the green thought.
But can you imagine
00:38:32.14\00:38:34.69
a computer? Bridge
Valley, passed head
00:38:34.72\00:38:38.74
of Harvard seven member team of
00:38:38.77\00:38:40.17
research have
successful clowned a molecule,
00:38:40.20\00:38:42.80
listen which, which
triggers the growth of
00:38:42.83\00:38:45.13
body cells, the
generation of organs.
00:38:45.16\00:38:47.98
It's imperative Jesus
cuts it short and comes.
00:38:49.71\00:38:52.18
In the Hebrew University
in Jerusalem, listen to me.
00:38:52.74\00:38:55.12
Bio-technologists have also been
00:38:56.35\00:38:58.62
successful in
another realm, they have
00:38:58.65\00:39:00.34
successful
manipulated DNA chemicals to
00:39:00.37\00:39:03.78
change aged mouse
cells into young mouse cells.
00:39:03.81\00:39:08.00
Fourteen day cells
into four day cells.
00:39:10.51\00:39:14.25
Listen, courtesy of technology,
00:39:14.48\00:39:16.67
immortality.
It's imperative Jesus
00:39:16.78\00:39:22.59
comes, violent crime
over a million in our
00:39:22.62\00:39:26.67
prisons in America,
I tell you listen it's
00:39:26.70\00:39:28.83
imperative Jesus
comes. He comes and he
00:39:28.86\00:39:31.67
comes quickly. I, I,
I want to get back to
00:39:31.70\00:39:34.11
this, I get
going and here we go.
00:39:34.14\00:39:36.69
Coming of Jesus
is imperative, lets
00:39:36.99\00:39:38.54
review it, coming
of Jesus is immutable,
00:39:38.57\00:39:40.63
I get preaching Emmanuel, it is
00:39:40.85\00:39:42.69
imminent, I want
you to understand that,
00:39:42.72\00:39:44.65
it's imperative of
the Jesus Christ comes.
00:39:44.98\00:39:46.94
"But thou, O
Daniel, shut up the words,
00:39:47.07\00:39:48.61
and seal the
book, even to the what?
00:39:48.64\00:39:49.94
Time of the end:
many shall run to and
00:39:50.25\00:39:52.21
fro, and knowledge
shall be increased."
00:39:52.24\00:39:53.68
There is not one
generation in history
00:39:53.89\00:39:55.60
that's been like our generation,
00:39:55.63\00:39:57.15
with the increase of knowledge.
00:39:58.21\00:39:59.52
Jesus is coming
soon. H.G. Wells said,
00:40:00.64\00:40:03.40
"We are the end of
our rope, everything
00:40:03.43\00:40:05.33
we call life is close at hand."
00:40:05.36\00:40:07.63
I mean that's not some wild eyed
00:40:07.88\00:40:10.28
evangelist
talking. Now, listen to me
00:40:10.31\00:40:12.57
Albert Einstein, "In
the end, there beckons
00:40:12.60\00:40:15.07
more and more clearly general
00:40:15.10\00:40:16.85
annihilation."
That's what he look
00:40:16.88\00:40:18.63
forward to. It's
imperative Jesus comes.
00:40:18.66\00:40:22.81
Former Chancellor
Chicago University,
00:40:23.16\00:40:24.87
by the way where
they developed the
00:40:24.90\00:40:26.50
atomic bomb. "I cannot see any
00:40:26.53\00:40:28.78
future to our known world."
00:40:28.81\00:40:32.54
The former President
of Columbia University
00:40:32.57\00:40:34.60
said, "The end
cannot be far distant."
00:40:34.63\00:40:37.62
They are
scientist; they see what the
00:40:37.80\00:40:39.97
futures hopes. They
say, it's happening,
00:40:40.00\00:40:42.69
there is gonna be an end.
No hell fire and brimstone
00:40:42.94\00:40:47.51
preacher here,
all the forward moving
00:40:47.54\00:40:50.14
technology has no,
has not helped society
00:40:50.17\00:40:52.98
a little bit.
We're going backwards,
00:40:53.30\00:40:55.13
the explosion of
single parent families,
00:40:55.16\00:40:57.15
listen to me, the
declining influence
00:40:57.18\00:40:58.97
of religion in our
homes. And even in Christian
00:40:59.00\00:41:01.73
homes, I'm
appalled. And what's happening
00:41:01.76\00:41:05.37
to our children.
I'm appalled that we
00:41:05.40\00:41:09.68
spend seminar after
seminar after seminar
00:41:09.71\00:41:12.60
talking about
all these things and
00:41:13.03\00:41:14.93
yet we're losing our children.
00:41:14.96\00:41:16.78
I guess it's easy
to talk about vegan
00:41:16.81\00:41:25.92
then it is son or
daughter and easy to
00:41:27.79\00:41:32.50
control our own life.
And the lives of those
00:41:32.53\00:41:38.87
we love the most.
Jesus Christ must come.
00:41:38.90\00:41:43.02
Drugs, sex,
immorality, listen to me, it's a
00:41:43.84\00:41:47.86
pull, what you said
this morning preacher
00:41:47.89\00:41:49.82
is so true.
Pleasing immorality and it's
00:41:49.85\00:41:54.68
not the men any long,
the women it's a disgrace.
00:41:54.71\00:41:58.26
Foul mouth
sitting swirling beer,
00:41:59.85\00:42:02.52
Budweiser
commercials. Listen to me;
00:42:02.86\00:42:05.45
we've lost the sense of shame.
00:42:07.08\00:42:09.04
Filthy mouths,
unbridled thoughts
00:42:10.81\00:42:13.04
and tongues, talk
trash and wonder why their
00:42:13.07\00:42:15.67
life is trash. Amen.
Our greatest challenge
00:42:15.70\00:42:19.94
is not conquering
disease of poverty,
00:42:19.97\00:42:21.92
but our own personal weaknesses.
00:42:22.23\00:42:23.94
We've met the enemy and it's us.
00:42:25.19\00:42:28.51
The clock is
about to strike midnight
00:42:30.82\00:42:32.47
and we're not
ready for the coming,
00:42:33.12\00:42:34.49
but secondly the
coming of Jesus is
00:42:35.47\00:42:36.87
immutable. It
means it's changeless,
00:42:36.90\00:42:38.89
it never
changes. It never changes,
00:42:38.92\00:42:43.49
it's immutable.
The Bible tells us,
00:42:43.52\00:42:45.31
"That by two immutable things,
00:42:45.57\00:42:46.85
in which it was
impossible for God
00:42:46.88\00:42:48.55
to lie, we have,
we might have a strong
00:42:48.58\00:42:50.78
consolation, who have
fled for the refuge to
00:42:50.81\00:42:53.22
lay hold upon God."
Hebrews 6, saint Paul
00:42:53.25\00:42:58.09
was certain of one
thing, that was the
00:42:58.12\00:42:59.64
second coming of Jesus Christ.
00:42:59.67\00:43:01.06
He says, which
hope we have as a what?
00:43:01.20\00:43:03.32
Anchor to the
soul. Second coming of
00:43:03.76\00:43:10.01
Jesus Christ. When I
was a young preacher,
00:43:10.04\00:43:12.23
I used to like to
debate this things,
00:43:12.67\00:43:14.24
I like to look for
the fight to debate.
00:43:15.28\00:43:17.23
Ministers, I want
to debate them, hey you
00:43:19.03\00:43:20.89
don't win anybody
in a debate by the way,
00:43:20.92\00:43:22.85
but I like just to
like to do it, but once I
00:43:24.24\00:43:26.78
was invited to a
seminary, the seminar
00:43:26.81\00:43:28.84
at a seminary, an
Episcopal seminary,
00:43:30.21\00:43:33.32
I was a young
preacher full of fire.
00:43:33.64\00:43:35.21
I mean I was
excited in those days.
00:43:35.79\00:43:37.62
I was
enthusiastic in those days?
00:43:41.47\00:43:43.61
And so I was
invited to this seminary and
00:43:44.86\00:43:48.12
so since I had a
course at the seminary
00:43:48.15\00:43:50.77
on apologetics I knew you know,
00:43:50.80\00:43:52.54
how to answer this
stuff. And so I went
00:43:52.57\00:43:55.18
and I stood up in
this sophisticated
00:43:57.39\00:43:59.37
seminary, Big
Ivy League seminary,
00:43:59.40\00:44:03.09
Episcopalian
seminary, high church, I crawled
00:44:03.27\00:44:05.32
up in this high
poppet looked out and I was
00:44:05.35\00:44:08.48
so excited. I talked
about the Bible being
00:44:08.51\00:44:10.24
inspired word of
God, it's God breathe,
00:44:10.27\00:44:12.12
it's come from
the breath of God.
00:44:12.15\00:44:13.91
We can't mutilate
it, we can't change it.
00:44:14.27\00:44:16.64
It will be forever.
I stood upon the word
00:44:16.92\00:44:19.92
that it's not some
kind of thermometer
00:44:20.16\00:44:21.99
inspiration, some
more inspired than
00:44:22.02\00:44:24.18
others and try to
explain it away with
00:44:24.21\00:44:26.21
intellect and
higher criticism, and lower
00:44:26.24\00:44:28.62
criticism, I spoke
in the terms of Christ
00:44:28.65\00:44:31.61
and he said, all
scripture is given by
00:44:31.64\00:44:34.15
inspiration of
God, it's profitable for
00:44:34.18\00:44:36.99
doctrine, for the
proof, for correction,
00:44:37.02\00:44:39.66
for instruction
and righteousness that
00:44:40.01\00:44:41.80
holy men of God
maybe perfect fully
00:44:41.90\00:44:43.79
finished unto
all good work. Amen.
00:44:43.82\00:44:45.93
I was just getting
rolling, talk about the Gospel.
00:44:48.03\00:44:52.19
And how that
we're saved by grace
00:44:54.05\00:44:55.71
through faith in
Christ. And let me tell you
00:44:55.74\00:44:58.07
that is fundamental
in Adventist belief.
00:44:58.10\00:44:59.93
If you try to get
the heaven any other way,
00:45:02.59\00:45:04.09
you don't understand,
you're not an Adventist.
00:45:04.12\00:45:05.94
If you think
Jesus just paid pot down
00:45:10.01\00:45:11.97
payment on your
house, you're mistaken.
00:45:12.00\00:45:14.17
You just enjoy the
house, do you hear me?
00:45:16.28\00:45:18.07
Just live in the
house. And you'll want to
00:45:18.43\00:45:22.80
keep it up. Right,
come on, that's what
00:45:22.83\00:45:25.87
the preacher said this morning,
00:45:25.90\00:45:27.04
you're gonna want
to keep, you're gonna
00:45:27.91\00:45:29.28
want to clean the widows.
00:45:29.31\00:45:31.96
And so I stood and
I talked about those
00:45:38.17\00:45:39.89
great themes,
the great judgment,
00:45:39.92\00:45:41.28
hey listen to me,
you don't have to be a
00:45:41.42\00:45:43.40
rocket scientist
to understand the
00:45:43.43\00:45:45.52
pre-judgment, if you're having a
00:45:45.55\00:45:47.05
trouble with the
pre-judgment it's
00:45:47.08\00:45:48.53
your head is mixed up.
I was inject, hey listen
00:45:48.82\00:45:51.81
to me. Even as a
criminal I understood
00:45:51.84\00:45:54.64
pre-judgment. They got the facts
00:45:54.67\00:45:58.50
together before I
went to trial, take a rock,
00:45:58.53\00:46:01.04
don't take a
Theologian. If man knows that
00:46:01.07\00:46:04.47
enough then you
stand before, then
00:46:04.50\00:46:06.89
you stand, you sit in court and
00:46:06.92\00:46:08.83
they bring the
facts. And then they say,
00:46:08.86\00:46:12.62
hey bud you're guilty, boom.
00:46:12.65\00:46:15.14
What's so
difficult about that and so
00:46:17.21\00:46:19.51
I stood, I told
them about the great
00:46:19.54\00:46:21.26
judgment not only
fact how God told us
00:46:21.62\00:46:23.87
the exact time just
as he told the exact time
00:46:24.11\00:46:26.12
of the baptism,
the crucifixion and the
00:46:26.15\00:46:28.18
Gospel to the gentile world.
00:46:28.21\00:46:29.54
You don't have to
be a rocket scientist.
00:46:29.86\00:46:31.94
By the way you
don't have to be so
00:46:34.48\00:46:35.54
intelligent, if
intelligence is the
00:46:35.57\00:46:37.51
criteria then only the
smart would go to heaven.
00:46:37.54\00:46:40.21
If riches was the
criteria then only the
00:46:43.13\00:46:44.82
rich would go to
heaven. And so I told of those
00:46:44.85\00:46:49.49
wonderful things we believe in.
00:46:49.52\00:46:50.84
And then I saved
the best for last.
00:46:51.62\00:46:53.26
I said, we believe
in the changeless and
00:46:54.95\00:46:58.50
mutable fact. And
that brought us to this.
00:46:58.53\00:47:03.04
The second coming of
Jesus Christ is imminent.
00:47:05.12\00:47:07.53
For this course I
also suffer these things
00:47:09.30\00:47:11.26
nevertheless I'm not ashamed.
00:47:11.29\00:47:12.81
Listen, for I
know whom I believe and
00:47:13.07\00:47:14.69
persuaded that he
is able to keep which
00:47:14.72\00:47:16.56
I have committed
unto him against that day.
00:47:16.59\00:47:18.40
And then comes the Emmanuel.
00:47:18.74\00:47:19.98
And so I stood there
and I said, I believe in
00:47:21.46\00:47:23.54
the Emmanuel
that God is with us.
00:47:23.57\00:47:25.22
I believe that
the coming of Jesus is
00:47:25.46\00:47:26.83
imminent, he is just
a heart beat away and,
00:47:26.86\00:47:29.06
then it was time for
question, answer and,
00:47:29.85\00:47:31.55
Theologian stood
up the number one
00:47:31.98\00:47:33.91
professor there, he stood.
00:47:33.94\00:47:35.14
And everybody
looked at him and oh,
00:47:35.38\00:47:37.47
and I mean he
introduced himself,
00:47:37.79\00:47:39.44
doctor
so-and-so, Ph.D., Th.D, DDT
00:47:39.47\00:47:44.17
and I was
impressed. And he said, young
00:47:47.31\00:47:50.79
man and I was a young man.
00:47:50.82\00:47:52.39
He said young
man that could be a
00:47:53.83\00:47:57.31
thousands years from now.
00:47:57.34\00:47:59.00
And he sat down and
the students were in
00:48:03.81\00:48:06.84
awe, and I said,
Mister, put your hand
00:48:06.87\00:48:11.32
on your heart.
For you it's not a
00:48:11.35\00:48:15.02
thousand years from
now, be ye therefore ready.
00:48:15.05\00:48:18.52
Get the drift, come
on. Amen. Amen, amen.
00:48:19.70\00:48:26.39
I would clap but,
I'm sorry brother.
00:48:28.67\00:48:31.41
I'm just right
brained, backslidden, and
00:48:34.11\00:48:36.93
I would just, I
just praise the Lord.
00:48:36.96\00:48:38.90
I can't wait to get
the heaven, move in that
00:48:40.42\00:48:41.98
neighborhood,
but anyway coming of
00:48:42.66\00:48:46.73
Jesus, listen to
me when Columnist
00:48:46.76\00:48:49.89
writing about the
uncertain of our time,
00:48:49.92\00:48:51.78
he said this, he said
this the very best our
00:48:53.75\00:48:59.09
leaders could do is
to sophisticate their
00:48:59.12\00:49:01.25
actions in such a way
as ensure other way to
00:49:01.28\00:49:04.51
eternal hell was
paved with good intentions.
00:49:04.54\00:49:07.42
A sales clerk
holding up a toy for this
00:49:08.35\00:49:10.67
modern generation
said this, this toy is
00:49:10.70\00:49:13.43
designed to adjust a
child to live in a world today.
00:49:13.46\00:49:16.44
Anyway he puts it
together it's wrong.
00:49:16.63\00:49:18.57
Coming of Jesus is immutable;
00:49:21.43\00:49:25.63
the coming of Jesus is Emmanuel.
00:49:27.63\00:49:30.58
And Jesus said, ye
shall see the son of
00:49:31.77\00:49:34.73
man coming in the
clouds, right hand
00:49:34.76\00:49:36.21
with power and great
glory in the clouds of heaven.
00:49:36.24\00:49:38.76
Bible tells us
that, "Which also said,
00:49:39.05\00:49:40.95
Ye men of Galilee,
why stand ye gazing
00:49:40.98\00:49:42.58
up in heaven? This same Jesus,
00:49:42.61\00:49:44.13
which is taken up
shall come in like
00:49:44.16\00:49:45.57
manner as ye have
seen him go into heaven."
00:49:45.60\00:49:47.96
I tell you Jesus
Christ is coming again,
00:49:48.17\00:49:50.52
and the coming of
Jesus is imminent,
00:49:50.55\00:49:52.23
it's a heart beat
away. Amen. The first time
00:49:52.40\00:49:56.93
he enters through
the womb of a virgin and
00:49:56.96\00:49:59.41
no one saw him
enter. The second time he
00:49:59.44\00:50:01.95
comes and every eye
will see him, the first
00:50:01.98\00:50:04.31
he came as Lamb
of God. The second he
00:50:04.34\00:50:06.56
comes as the lion
of the tribe of Judah.
00:50:06.59\00:50:09.23
The first time he
came to redeem us, the
00:50:09.45\00:50:11.89
second time he
comes to rain over us.
00:50:11.92\00:50:14.66
The first time
he came, he came as
00:50:14.83\00:50:16.91
King of the Jews.
Secondly he comes as
00:50:16.94\00:50:19.51
King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
00:50:19.54\00:50:21.44
The first time he came to
receive a crown of thorns.
00:50:21.76\00:50:25.00
The second time
he comes to receive a
00:50:25.19\00:50:27.98
crown of glory.
Jesus is coming again.
00:50:28.01\00:50:31.45
The outlook for
our world is dark,
00:50:34.87\00:50:37.05
but the up look is
very bright, this Jesus,
00:50:38.39\00:50:43.37
same Jesus is
coming and it's imminent,
00:50:43.40\00:50:46.53
the real Jesus.
Little boy asked his father
00:50:47.68\00:50:50.86
for a horse for
Christmas, I'm amazed as I drive
00:50:50.89\00:50:53.44
and there's horses everywhere.
00:50:53.47\00:50:54.92
I tell you we're a
little smarter than you
00:50:57.88\00:50:59.36
people in Brooklyn.
We put him in a circle
00:50:59.39\00:51:01.80
time together and
they go around with music,
00:51:01.83\00:51:05.13
can you grab a
ring, a gold ring?
00:51:05.16\00:51:06.80
Boom, boom, boom
and at least they stay
00:51:06.83\00:51:08.91
out of my way.
Anyway, I'll leave it
00:51:08.94\00:51:13.57
for what it's
worth. He says, I want a
00:51:13.60\00:51:16.79
horse for
Christmas. His daddy says, you
00:51:16.82\00:51:19.73
want a wooden horse? He says no.
00:51:19.76\00:51:21.01
He says, do you
want an iron horse?
00:51:21.33\00:51:22.86
He says no. Do you
wanna a leather horse?
00:51:22.89\00:51:24.49
He says no, I want
a horse made of horse.
00:51:24.52\00:51:26.45
The real thing.
When Jesus comes back
00:51:30.01\00:51:32.83
the second time is
the real same thing.
00:51:32.86\00:51:34.64
The same Jesus
which is taken up from you
00:51:35.79\00:51:37.75
into heaven shall
so come and like manner
00:51:37.78\00:51:39.81
as ye have seen
him go into heaven.
00:51:40.11\00:51:42.87
And we ought to be
ready, no prophetic
00:51:43.21\00:51:45.72
evangelist, I mean
no prophetic chart,
00:51:45.75\00:51:47.70
no historical event
awaits to be fulfilled.
00:51:47.73\00:51:50.03
Christ can cut it
shot in righteousness.
00:51:50.28\00:51:52.66
Do you hear me?
Christ can cut it short
00:51:54.12\00:51:57.89
in
righteousness. Amen. I'm amazed
00:51:57.92\00:52:01.67
people go and they
say, well I've been
00:52:01.70\00:52:03.20
studying as the
other ministry show me his
00:52:03.23\00:52:04.96
chart, he worked
down for 40 years
00:52:04.99\00:52:06.81
had everything
down, shaking time and
00:52:07.91\00:52:10.77
I noticed he
wasn't shaking out, but
00:52:11.75\00:52:13.33
everybody else
was, but he had all
00:52:13.36\00:52:15.61
these things, he had it down.
00:52:15.64\00:52:16.98
I was amazed, I
finally said, while
00:52:20.70\00:52:23.54
you were working 40
years on making a chart.
00:52:23.57\00:52:25.76
I have been
leading men and women to
00:52:25.99\00:52:27.56
Jesus Christ I think
that is a little more
00:52:27.59\00:52:29.79
important than a
chart and by the way he
00:52:29.82\00:52:32.22
could change it all by cutting
00:52:32.25\00:52:34.15
it short in righteousness.
00:52:34.18\00:52:35.84
This is not your
scenario. This is God's,
00:52:38.14\00:52:41.73
so he says watch, if
you're ready, expect,
00:52:43.80\00:52:47.00
at any moment. I want
him to come, don't you?
00:52:48.00\00:52:51.58
I mean that
sincerely from my heart.
00:52:53.04\00:52:54.56
I want Jesus to come,
when I first found him
00:52:55.85\00:52:59.21
in Brooklyn, I stood
on the street corners
00:52:59.24\00:53:00.86
and proclaim and I
talked about it on the
00:53:00.89\00:53:02.95
subways and coming
of Jesus, the coming
00:53:02.98\00:53:05.32
of Jesus, the
come, I still believe it.
00:53:05.35\00:53:08.05
It's imminent, I'm
tired to know the two
00:53:09.90\00:53:13.53
thirds of the
world's population are under
00:53:13.56\00:53:15.88
nourished, aren't
you? I'm sick of the crime
00:53:15.91\00:53:20.08
and the rape and the
murder and, I'm tired
00:53:20.11\00:53:22.94
of our little
children being snatched off
00:53:22.97\00:53:24.64
streets because
of some perverted
00:53:24.67\00:53:26.37
person trying to
blame their childhood.
00:53:26.40\00:53:28.78
I want something
better for my life,
00:53:34.75\00:53:36.33
and for my
grand kids, and for my
00:53:36.36\00:53:37.85
children, for my
family. Preparation is going
00:53:38.27\00:53:42.99
on right now. Be
ye therefore ready.
00:53:43.02\00:53:46.59
From years ago, I
was at Team Texas,
00:53:48.17\00:53:49.69
I was the pastor
there. And my wife and
00:53:49.72\00:53:53.20
I was called to
California to give a
00:53:53.23\00:53:55.19
seminar in California.
So, the children were
00:53:55.22\00:53:59.32
teenagers then and
we have to go you know
00:53:59.35\00:54:02.23
how it is with teenagers, the
00:54:02.26\00:54:03.51
Ten Commandments
become 250 commandments,
00:54:03.54\00:54:05.53
come on now. It's
amazing, God started
00:54:05.56\00:54:09.29
with two, and
ten, and then came 250.
00:54:09.32\00:54:13.72
Now, parents have
three, four hundred.
00:54:14.50\00:54:16.15
Well, I told the
kids we were going,
00:54:19.16\00:54:22.99
we were gonna be
back on Thursday,
00:54:23.02\00:54:24.21
I said now I want
you to keep the house,
00:54:24.24\00:54:26.11
you know how it is,
I want you to vacuum
00:54:26.14\00:54:28.11
and thought it was
a joke, but you know,
00:54:28.14\00:54:30.94
I'm giving this.
You know, and then
00:54:30.97\00:54:33.64
I did a stupid thing,
I do that all the time,
00:54:33.67\00:54:35.77
I mean it's
amazing how many stupid
00:54:35.80\00:54:38.45
things I do. In
fact, if stupid was the
00:54:38.48\00:54:41.57
criteria, I would
be the prime example.
00:54:41.60\00:54:44.38
I mean I do dumb
things and, and my
00:54:44.67\00:54:46.70
boy was a year and a half older
00:54:46.73\00:54:48.06
and sister teenager.
And I said, now since
00:54:48.09\00:54:50.33
you're the oldest,
I want you to watch
00:54:50.36\00:54:51.71
over things. I
should never have said that,
00:54:51.74\00:54:53.85
I drove my daughter
crazy within two hours.
00:54:54.16\00:54:57.58
But we took off,
we're back on Thursday.
00:54:59.60\00:55:02.06
When I get out
there through California
00:55:02.83\00:55:04.30
I got the program
and I noticed on the
00:55:04.33\00:55:06.27
program that I
was finished Wednesday
00:55:06.30\00:55:09.28
afternoon. I said,
honey, look at this.
00:55:09.31\00:55:13.71
Let's fly home
and surprise the kids.
00:55:15.28\00:55:17.53
She looked at me with that look
00:55:22.61\00:55:23.59
that women give
you. I mean you know,
00:55:23.62\00:55:26.55
the look. I don't
know, if that's a good idea.
00:55:26.58\00:55:32.57
Not a good idea,
honey, we'll surprise them.
00:55:32.60\00:55:34.86
She said, I don't
know if that's a good idea.
00:55:36.58\00:55:37.77
Let's call them, I said,
oh no lets surprise them.
00:55:38.06\00:55:39.73
So, we persuaded
each other and I went
00:55:41.31\00:55:43.81
out, got on a plane
flew back to Dallas, Texas.
00:55:43.84\00:55:47.98
Straight at night
landed and my wife
00:55:48.01\00:55:53.97
said, lets call
from the airport, oh, no,
00:55:54.00\00:55:55.29
we got to really
surprise them and
00:55:55.32\00:55:56.45
with this close. So, she
said, I don't know honey.
00:55:56.48\00:56:00.23
And so, I called
the deacon up, I said
00:56:00.86\00:56:03.41
Deacon, Ron Halvorsen, oh Pastor
00:56:03.44\00:56:06.24
Halvorsen you're
back. I said yeah I'm
00:56:06.27\00:56:07.93
back a day early.
I want to surprise
00:56:07.96\00:56:09.52
the kids, will
you come out here and
00:56:09.55\00:56:10.52
pick me up. And my
wife and you what to what?
00:56:10.53\00:56:13.32
And his silence for
the space of the half hour.
00:56:14.27\00:56:16.20
He said, say
what? I said, I want to
00:56:18.48\00:56:20.85
surprise the kids,
isn't that a good idea.
00:56:20.88\00:56:22.55
And you know being
kind, he didn't want
00:56:22.83\00:56:24.97
to crush my enthusiasm.
So, he said, I'll come
00:56:25.00\00:56:28.40
out and pick you up
pastor, but okay and
00:56:28.43\00:56:31.84
so we came I
waited 40 minutes later he
00:56:31.87\00:56:34.89
shows up, getting
the car, driving the car,
00:56:34.92\00:56:38.76
his windows
have little Adventist
00:56:38.79\00:56:39.90
communities, you
know all the saints
00:56:39.93\00:56:41.13
would have bet,
said their prayers lights
00:56:41.16\00:56:43.98
were out, I drove
down the street and
00:56:44.01\00:56:47.88
that was in my
house and the lights were
00:56:47.91\00:56:49.11
out, so I looked
at my wife and said,
00:56:49.14\00:56:50.11
honey see, see.
Went to the door, Marsha,
00:56:50.13\00:56:54.48
lets ring the
bell, I said, oh no, no
00:56:54.51\00:56:57.16
I really want to surprise them.
00:56:57.19\00:56:58.56
So, I open the door
quietly, I flipped on
00:57:00.02\00:57:01.73
the light in my
living room, but it wasn't my
00:57:01.76\00:57:03.11
living room, it
couldn't have been my
00:57:03.14\00:57:04.11
living room, I mean
football, basketball,
00:57:04.12\00:57:06.48
I mean underwear,
shirts, T-shirt, how
00:57:06.51\00:57:08.75
can a kid, I mean
how can you have his
00:57:08.78\00:57:11.01
whole wardrobe
laying in the living
00:57:11.04\00:57:12.55
room. I mean, that's my couch.
00:57:12.58\00:57:16.16
Went in the
kitchen, turned on the light,
00:57:18.39\00:57:19.83
it was a
revelation. I mean the dishes
00:57:19.86\00:57:24.41
were piled to the
ceiling and, and pots
00:57:24.44\00:57:26.22
and pan, how can this happen?
00:57:26.25\00:57:27.85
When they, all they
ate were peanut butter
00:57:27.97\00:57:29.48
and jelly
sandwiches. So, I creeped down
00:57:29.51\00:57:33.69
the home to my son's room.
00:57:33.72\00:57:36.53
Pulled open the
door, flew open light,
00:57:40.66\00:57:42.78
my son sits up
rubbing sleepy his
00:57:43.17\00:57:45.93
daddy you're supposed to come
00:57:45.96\00:57:47.04
tomorrow, be ye
ready, be ye ready.
00:57:47.07\00:57:52.80
God is about to
turn on the light.
00:57:58.32\00:58:00.01
Be ye ready. Father
God, I thank you for that.
00:58:03.02\00:58:08.36
I look with
anticipation to that.
00:58:10.11\00:58:11.87
I live every moment
for that, I love every
00:58:13.52\00:58:17.34
moment for that.
Bless these people
00:58:17.37\00:58:20.74
here in
Oklahoma. When you come out
00:58:20.77\00:58:24.57
of the east, when
you fly over Brooklyn,
00:58:24.60\00:58:29.53
head for Oklahoma.
And we pray they'll
00:58:30.82\00:58:34.62
look up and say,
well this is our God,
00:58:34.65\00:58:36.60
we waited for him.
Then we'll move over
00:58:36.63\00:58:40.26
to Texas and on down around
00:58:40.29\00:58:43.97
the world and home at last.
00:58:44.00\00:58:48.18
Welcome home my children.
00:58:50.65\00:58:52.07
And we will see with these eyes
00:58:54.99\00:58:56.66
and feel with these hands
00:58:58.62\00:59:00.34
and love with these hearts.
00:59:08.62\00:59:09.95
Well appear in
Christ's name, amen.
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