Live from the
3ABN Worship Center.
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Welcome to the
Pillars Of Our Faith event.
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Lord, it's with
the simple reverence
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that I come into your presence
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whispering the name
that calms all fears.
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And I'm filled with such emotion
at Your mercy and devotion
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to think that You
would come and meet me here.
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Lord, I tremble at the
very thought of Calvary where
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You chose me over life
as You suffered willingly.
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Lord, I tremble at
the way I'm undeserving of
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the love You came to give and
the blood that makes me worthy.
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Lord, I tremble.
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Let me not forget His temple
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is transformed
into a throne room.
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And through Your name
my soul is ushered in.
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So let me come to You in wonder,
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let my heart
still pound like thunder
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at the way Your grace
has found me once again.
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Lord, I tremble at the
very thought of Calvary where
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You chose me over life
as You suffered willingly.
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Lord, I tremble at
the way I'm undeserving of
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the love You came to give and
the blood that makes me worthy.
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Lord, I tremble at the
way Your love has saved me
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and Your
precious grace forgave me.
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Let me never take
for granted who You are.
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Lord, I tremble at the
very thought of Calvary where
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You chose me over life
as You suffered willingly.
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I tremble at the
way I'm undeserving of
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the love You came to give and
the blood that makes me worthy.
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Lord, I tremble.
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Lord, I tremble.
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Amen.
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Amen, thank you so much Melody.
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Melody Firestone.
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And what a beautiful song.
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And what a
beautiful day we've had here
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in southern Illinois.
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And Camille and I, we just
enjoy it around here so much.
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You should all move here.
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You really should.
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I tell you, we love it here.
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Camille and I were
talking yesterday, we said,
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"You know, we found a home. "
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We love it right here.
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It's country and yet
a lot of good things are
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going on around here.
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So we enjoy it so very much.
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Well our speaker
tonight is Lyle Albrecht.
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Amen.
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Wow, listen to that.
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Lyle, you've got
some friends here.
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You know, wherever I go and
I'm talking to people who've
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made decisions for
the Lord Jesus Christ
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to become part of the remnant
church and be a part of these
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last days message to the world,
I will find that they'll mention
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several speakers.
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They'll mention Kenneth Cox,
John Carter, David Asscherick.
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They will
mention several others.
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And they always
mention Lyle Albrecht.
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Amen.
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They watch Lyle and
they hear the message.
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He's going to be preaching
tonight on the second coming
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of Christ and the millennium,
and all of those events
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that take place.
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And just before he does,
Reggie Smith is going to come.
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He's going to sing a song that
were the words of William Miller
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after the great disappointment.
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But he said, "I have
fixed my mind on another time. "
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Reggie, come and sing for us.
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Amen.
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Oh, I can preach now.
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I'm a little nearer to heaven
than I was five minutes ago.
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It's such a wonderful
privilege for me to be here.
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Amen.
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I listened as I
drove in from the airport
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to my friend C.D.
Brooks last night.
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And as I always
do when he preaches,
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I asked myself this question;
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Why do you keep trying?
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And then I've discovered
that this message that we love
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is very tightly joined together.
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These Pillars that we're
talking about are united,
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aren't they now.
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Yeah.
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One holds up the other, and
the other supports the other.
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You why I'm
assured of that fact?
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You know why I
know it's the truth?
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Lomacang just
preached my sermon a while ago.
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Yeah.
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I tried and tried to
pray him off, but I couldn't.
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I thought he was
going to preach on death.
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Well, how do you
preach the judgment and
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the state of the dead without
preaching on the second coming?
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When you believe
truth, it all goes together.
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It fits like a perfect
puzzle, doesn't it now.
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Amen.
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Well say, I want to
take this one moment to say
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"hello" to my
sweet Peggy who's home.
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And my daughter,
Tammy, and my son, Troy.
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And Peggy, I did not get
another speeding ticket...
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...yet.
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It's been a busy year.
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I retired, you know that.
Last November, we retired.
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But I'm still going
full time with meetings.
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And in addition, I've
made three albums, cd's.
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We use to call
them albums, you know.
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You know how old
I am now, don't you.
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And I've written
an autobiography.
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Got a lot of color pictures
in there, I've told a lot
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of stories in there.
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Some of you are
going to be in there.
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I've had to change some of
the names to protect the guilty.
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Yeah.
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I included this
story. You'll love this.
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I was in central Washington and
I was given the name of a lady.
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I was about to hold a
meeting, open a crusade.
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And I was given the name
of a lady who watched 3ABN.
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Someone said, "She
really likes your program. "
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If you go and invite her, she'll
probably come to the meetings.
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And so I went to her home.
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It was the early fall.
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Her door was open,
the screen was closed.
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And as I got near her
door, I heard a familiar voice.
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Mine.
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True.
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And I knocked on her door.
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And she came to the
door and looked at me
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and looked at her TV
and looked back at me.
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And then she
said, "Oh my lord. "
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I said, "No, it's just Lyle. "
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And she fainted.
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I promise you, the
lady went the whole thing.
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And her son had to bring a
dish cloth and mop her face.
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We baptized her
five weeks later.
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Yeah.
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For those of you that
might be interested in those
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kinds of stories and
40 years of evangelism
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and the conversion of my
parents, you've heard me tell
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a little bit of it,
we have a website now.
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LyleAlbrecht.
com, I guess it is.
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Well I want to say to
you, it's a wonderful thing
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to be a Christian,
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to have a Savior,
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to know where we've
come from and why we're here,
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and where we're soon going.
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Soon going.
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I had the privilege to be
at the home of Johnny Cash.
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I don't want you to
think we were close friends.
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But I was at his home a
time or two and I've been a
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fan since 1956, I guess.
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Some of you may or may not
know that for quite a while
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Johnny and June attended a
Seventh-day Adventist church
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in northern Nashville Tennessee.
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And so I was, a couple
of days ago, re-reading
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portions of Johnny Cash's first
autobiography, The Man in Black.
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I was reading again the story of
the death of his brother, Jack.
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Two years older than Johnny.
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On a Saturday morning in
Diaz, Arkansas, brother Jack was
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going to go down to the
high school wood working shop
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to cut fence posts.
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John, 12 years of age,
was going to go fishing.
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He said, "Jack,
please come fishing with me.
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I want you to come fishing with
me, spend the morning with me. "
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And Jack said, "I'd like
to, brother, but we need the
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three dollars that I'll
make cutting fence posts. "
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And so at the fork in the road,
John went to the fishing hole
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and Jack went to the mill.
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A couple of hours later, one
of the posts got stuck in the
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saw and jerked Jack
into the big circle saw and
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it cut him from
pubis to sternum.
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And an old country doctor
did his best to patch him up but
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he told the family,
"Jack is going to die.
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He's going to die. "
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And for the next
week, Jack lapsed
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in and out of consciousness.
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The family gathered when
they knew the end was very near.
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And suddenly, Jack became lucid.
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And he said, "Can you
hear the angels, momma?
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Can you hear their singing?"
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"No," she said,
"son, I can't hear them. "
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"Oh it's so beautiful,
mother. It's so beautiful. "
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And then he said,
"Do you see the city?
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Can't you see the
city? Oh beautiful city. "
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And then he died.
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Two days later in a
little Baptist church,
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they had his funeral.
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And Johnny said he
took that day great comfort,
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and for the rest of his life,
from the passage that was read
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by the pastor; John chapter 14.
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Open there with me
if you have your Bible.
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If you don't, shame on you.
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If you can, look
on with a neighbor.
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And if you can't do that
then just listen very carefully,
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will you please.
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John chapter 14,
the first three verses.
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John 14 verses 1-3,
you've memorized them.
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By the way, those who make
record of these kinds of things
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say that this passage of
scripture has been memorized
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about as often as
any other in the Bible.
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And for many many
years, if someone had asked me
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what's your favorite
scripture, I would have said
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this certainly is among them.
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Right in the top five. Alright.
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John 14 verses 1, 2, and 3.
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"Let not your... "
Come on say that again.
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"Let not your heart be
troubled; you believe in God,
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believe also in Me.
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In My Father's house are many
mansions; if it were not so,
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I would have told you.
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I go to prepare a place for you.
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And if I go... "
I might come again.
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There's a good
chance I'll be back.
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I may see you again.
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"If I go, I will come again
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that where I am,
there you may be also. "
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"In My Father's house. "
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I want you now to
take a mind trip with me.
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We're going to go back,
you and I, to a dining hall
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of 2000 years past.
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There, around a horseshoe
shaped table, sit thirteen men.
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Twelve very ordinary men who, by
their Lord and His Holy Spirit,
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have become extraordinary.
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In the center is their
leader whom they now know
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is not only their best
friend but also their Savior.
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They have shared together,
for the last time, Passover.
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He's instituted in its
place the Lord's supper.
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And then as they sit
in a relaxed condition,
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He says to them this, "I'm
going to have to leave you.
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Where I'm going you
can't come. Not now, not yet. "
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And their hearts are broken.
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"We've just gotten
to know You well, Lord.
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Surely You're not going to go.
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We want to go. If
You're going we're going. "
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Oh by the way, by the way,
I say to Peggy oft times...
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You know, that girl has spent
40 years in a camper with me.
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Nine months out of the
year, we're in a camper
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somewhere at a
meeting here or there.
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And it's
confining. It really is.
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And not very many
gals could live that way.
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But I oft times over the years
have said, "Well, sweetheart,
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you can go anytime.
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You're not locked in
here, the door is open.
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You can leave anytime.
You're free to go anytime.
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But I'm going with you. "
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And so these disciples
said, "Lord, we're going to
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go with You.
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We're going to go. "
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"No, you can't.
Not now, not yet. "
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And so He speaks
these words of comfort.
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"I'm going to go get a
place ready for you and I
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will come again.
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And where I am,
there you may be also. "
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"In My Father's house. "
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Now, I ask you this
question as we think about the
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second coming of Jesus
and the millennium that begins
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immediately at
His second coming.
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What kind of man
would He be to comfort His
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very best friends with a lie?
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You wouldn't do that.
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Certainly our
Lord wouldn't do it.
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He is coming again.
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We have His promise to His best
friends given in an upper room.
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Now, only just a few hours later
after He's left the upper room
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and gone over with the eleven
of the twelve, into the garden
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and there prayed and wept.
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And then He's arrested.
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He goes first to the Sanhedrin
and the liars come in and
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tell their lies against
Him and He says nothing.
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And finally the high priest
has had enough of His silence
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and He puts Him under oath.
00:23:24.71\00:23:26.56
He does the same thing that
in a courtroom today happens
00:23:26.59\00:23:29.23
when the bailiff says,
"Place your hand upon the Bible.
00:23:29.26\00:23:33.00
Do you solemnly swear to
tell the truth, the whole truth,
00:23:33.01\00:23:37.00
and nothing but the
truth, so help you God?"
00:23:37.03\00:23:40.24
The high priest says to
Jesus, now, "I adjure thee
00:23:40.28\00:23:43.92
by the living God. "
00:23:43.95\00:23:45.00
He's put Him under oath.
00:23:45.03\00:23:46.15
And then he asks,
"Are You the Messiah?"
00:23:47.77\00:23:49.75
And Jesus respects the oath.
He's said nothing up till now.
00:23:52.02\00:23:54.87
But He respects the
authority of the courtroom and
00:23:54.90\00:23:57.13
the officers, and He
respects the oath and He now
00:23:57.16\00:24:00.40
speaks and He says,
"You've said it right. "
00:24:00.43\00:24:03.08
King James says, "Thou saith.
" "You said it correctly. "
00:24:03.11\00:24:05.81
"Indeed I am. "
00:24:06.21\00:24:07.18
But He doesn't stop there.
00:24:07.19\00:24:08.16
He goes on and says to the high
priest, "I tell you here after,
00:24:08.17\00:24:13.31
you're going to see Son of Man
coming in the clouds of glory. "
00:24:13.32\00:24:17.07
Now what kind of man
would He be who would tell a lie
00:24:17.10\00:24:21.24
in a court of law?
00:24:21.27\00:24:22.93
Tell a lie under
oath? No, not Jesus.
00:24:22.96\00:24:25.53
We have not only His
promise to His best friends
00:24:25.56\00:24:27.97
in an upper room, we
have His sworn testimony
00:24:28.00\00:24:30.94
in a court of law.
00:24:30.97\00:24:32.25
He is coming again.
00:24:32.28\00:24:34.86
"Let not your
heart be troubled. "
00:24:34.89\00:24:37.51
Jesus, you
remember, as He looked down
00:24:38.45\00:24:39.92
toward the last days,
00:24:39.93\00:24:40.90
Matthew 24 and Luke 17 and 21,
He said that in the last days
00:24:40.91\00:24:44.48
there was going
to be a lot of worry.
00:24:44.51\00:24:47.41
There was going to
be a lot of confusion.
00:24:47.44\00:24:49.70
Men's hearts were going
to fail them because of fear.
00:24:49.73\00:24:54.00
Heart disease and
heart failure and strokes and
00:24:54.03\00:24:56.14
all of that kind of
thing now are rampant.
00:24:56.17\00:24:58.89
They've become
pandemic in our world.
00:24:58.92\00:25:01.24
People are afraid.
00:25:01.85\00:25:03.01
My neighbors, some of
them are not Christians at all,
00:25:03.04\00:25:05.07
but they know
something is about to happen.
00:25:05.08\00:25:07.66
We know what it is.
00:25:07.69\00:25:09.14
Yeah.
00:25:09.17\00:25:10.59
And so many are fearful.
00:25:10.60\00:25:12.24
But Jesus said, "Let not
your heart be troubled. "
00:25:12.25\00:25:15.11
Their hearts may fail
them for fear, but don't let
00:25:15.14\00:25:17.52
your heart be troubled.
00:25:17.55\00:25:19.04
It's alright for the
non-believer to be troubled,
00:25:19.07\00:25:21.18
it's alright for the
heathenist to be troubled
00:25:21.21\00:25:22.76
and the atheist to be troubled.
00:25:22.79\00:25:24.03
But don't let our
hearts be troubled.
00:25:24.06\00:25:26.01
He is coming again.
00:25:26.04\00:25:28.69
He's coming back.
00:25:32.61\00:25:33.70
Now, the apostle Paul,
in Titus chapter 2 verse 13,
00:25:33.73\00:25:40.28
and we won't have time because
of the menace of the clock.
00:25:40.31\00:25:45.14
By the way, I discovered
early on in my ministry
00:25:46.49\00:25:49.64
if you go two minutes over
and about half the congregation
00:25:49.65\00:25:54.52
develops a disease that I
call the tick of the left arm.
00:25:54.55\00:25:58.31
I know what time it is.
00:26:03.74\00:26:05.20
By the way, have you
folks heard of that...
00:26:07.31\00:26:09.43
You can go just south of
the border and you can get
00:26:09.46\00:26:12.37
a Rolex knockoff.
00:26:12.40\00:26:14.00
One of you has one?
00:26:14.03\00:26:15.34
This is a Timex knockoff.
00:26:18.55\00:26:20.66
And I know what time it is.
00:26:22.76\00:26:24.02
But we don't have time to turn
to all the scriptures so I'll
00:26:24.05\00:26:25.94
just have to reference them.
00:26:25.97\00:26:27.23
And you A
students will take notes.
00:26:27.26\00:26:28.66
Of course you remember these.
00:26:28.69\00:26:30.35
In Titus chapter 2 verse
13, there the apostle Paul,
00:26:30.38\00:26:33.63
referring to the second
coming of Jesus called it the...
00:26:33.66\00:26:35.91
What kind of hope?
00:26:35.94\00:26:36.91
The blessed hope, looking
for the glorious appearing.
00:26:36.92\00:26:39.92
The blessed hope.
00:26:39.95\00:26:40.92
I want to say to you
tonight, to your heart and mine,
00:26:40.93\00:26:43.63
it is our only hope.
00:26:43.66\00:26:45.13
It's the only way out of
here, this mess that we're in.
00:26:46.88\00:26:49.67
And so for the last few months,
I have been preaching a series
00:26:49.70\00:26:53.49
of sermons that I've
entitled with a subtitle,
00:26:53.50\00:26:56.65
The Necessity of
the Coming of Jesus.
00:26:56.68\00:26:58.99
He's not going to come
back out of whim or caprice.
00:26:59.19\00:27:01.64
He's not going to look down
and say, "You're having it so
00:27:01.65\00:27:04.01
wonderfully well down there I
think I'll come and join you. "
00:27:04.04\00:27:06.85
He's going to come back
out of absolute necessity.
00:27:06.88\00:27:09.85
He must come again.
00:27:09.86\00:27:11.75
If there's anyone left
here to save, He's going to
00:27:11.78\00:27:13.76
have to hurry back.
00:27:13.79\00:27:14.76
And so I'm going to just very
briefly scratch the surface of
00:27:14.77\00:27:18.66
some of these reasons why I know
Jesus has to come back again.
00:27:18.67\00:27:23.46
Number one,
nuclear proliferation.
00:27:23.47\00:27:26.47
I'm from Idaho, I only learned
that word a few days ago.
00:27:26.50\00:27:30.38
I thought I'd try it out on you.
00:27:30.39\00:27:31.91
Proliferation.
00:27:31.94\00:27:33.98
But did you notice I
got the nuclear part right.
00:27:35.33\00:27:38.13
Did you notice that?
Give me a little credit.
00:27:38.16\00:27:39.93
There are some
Presidents who can't say it.
00:27:39.96\00:27:41.54
We love them still.
00:27:44.14\00:27:45.34
Well there's so many of the
nations who are not necessarily
00:27:48.69\00:27:51.68
friendly toward us
that have the nuclear bomb.
00:27:51.71\00:27:54.60
China is one and
Russia, of course, one.
00:27:54.63\00:27:56.90
Korean and Iran
and India and Pakistan.
00:27:56.93\00:27:59.56
He must come again.
00:27:59.59\00:28:01.31
You know, mankind has
never made a weapon that he
00:28:01.34\00:28:04.30
has not ultimately used.
00:28:04.33\00:28:05.73
And you just have to wonder
which day it's going to be
00:28:06.13\00:28:08.39
when someone pushes the button.
00:28:08.42\00:28:10.04
He must come again.
00:28:10.05\00:28:12.57
And then
necessity reason number two.
00:28:12.97\00:28:16.21
The population bomb.
00:28:16.24\00:28:18.12
As we prayed in the back
room just a little bit ago,
00:28:18.15\00:28:20.85
we alluded to this, you know.
00:28:20.88\00:28:22.63
There are in our world
today about 7 billion people.
00:28:22.66\00:28:29.56
That number increases by
a million every day and 3/4.
00:28:30.78\00:28:33.97
It use to be every 2 days but
now, of course, the explosion
00:28:34.00\00:28:37.83
is exponential.
00:28:37.86\00:28:40.35
It gets to a certain
point and then it just explodes.
00:28:41.00\00:28:44.07
And that's what's
happening right now.
00:28:44.10\00:28:45.72
They say that at the present
rate of population growth,
00:28:46.68\00:28:49.84
by the year 2025 there will be
more than 20 billion of us here.
00:28:49.87\00:28:56.03
More than we can possibly
feed or clothe or accommodate.
00:28:56.06\00:28:59.42
He must come again.
00:28:59.45\00:29:01.40
And He is coming again.
00:29:02.07\00:29:03.46
And then number three.
00:29:03.49\00:29:05.03
I look at what's happening
in the world of medicine
00:29:05.04\00:29:09.29
and disease and pandemics.
00:29:09.32\00:29:11.28
I have two children
surviving and they're
00:29:11.31\00:29:13.35
both registered nurses.
00:29:13.38\00:29:14.77
And I pray for them regularly
and I want you to do the same.
00:29:14.80\00:29:17.45
Both, my Troy and
Tammy, are nurses.
00:29:17.46\00:29:19.83
And the most dangerous
place you can work these days,
00:29:19.86\00:29:23.48
not in the coal mines.
00:29:23.51\00:29:24.48
Did you know that?
00:29:24.49\00:29:25.46
And it's not in
the logging camps.
00:29:25.49\00:29:27.96
It's in the hospital.
00:29:27.99\00:29:29.22
Yeah.
00:29:29.65\00:29:30.66
Really, it is.
00:29:31.12\00:29:32.32
They have all of these problems
to deal with and all of these
00:29:32.33\00:29:35.80
diseases that come in.
00:29:35.83\00:29:37.72
And oft times, we
don't even hear about them.
00:29:37.75\00:29:39.44
Sometimes I hear
about it through my kids.
00:29:39.47\00:29:41.40
But there are horrors out there.
00:29:41.43\00:29:44.01
When that movie, Medicine
Man, with Sean Connery came out
00:29:44.04\00:29:46.49
a few years ago, some
folks thought it was just
00:29:46.59\00:29:48.76
all done in Hollywood.
00:29:48.79\00:29:49.82
It was based on a reality.
00:29:49.85\00:29:51.40
It was based on a
truth down in the jungles of
00:29:51.43\00:29:53.88
South Central
America and out in Africa.
00:29:53.91\00:29:55.63
There are some horrific diseases
that are on the horizon.
00:29:55.64\00:29:58.82
Our Lord Jesus in Matthew
chapter 24 and the 20th verse
00:29:58.85\00:30:01.99
said that in the last days there
are going to be pestilences.
00:30:02.02\00:30:05.90
I've done some
homework and that Greek word is,
00:30:06.10\00:30:09.66
that word rather, is
translated from the Greek,
00:30:09.69\00:30:12.29
a word called loimos.
00:30:12.32\00:30:14.32
And it's talking
about, says the Greek scholar,
00:30:14.35\00:30:17.52
a time when there come
diseases that are pandemic.
00:30:17.55\00:30:20.88
They not only affect a
community, they not only
00:30:20.91\00:30:23.26
affect a state, but they
become very quickly worldwide.
00:30:23.29\00:30:27.24
And so I read up a little
bit on the Asian flu, 1957.
00:30:27.27\00:30:32.12
A few of you here are
old enough to remember.
00:30:32.15\00:30:34.22
You're not going to admit it.
00:30:36.64\00:30:37.99
That is the Asian flu.
00:30:41.58\00:30:43.10
And in that flu, there
were 2 million who died.
00:30:43.13\00:30:45.39
And then we had in
1968, the Hong Kong flu.
00:30:45.42\00:30:47.40
At least a million
were dead from that one.
00:30:47.41\00:30:49.11
And more recently,
we've had the bird flu.
00:30:49.14\00:30:50.69
And we know that
millions have died from it.
00:30:50.72\00:30:52.26
We're not exactly sure how many.
00:30:52.27\00:30:53.83
And we have continued
to over use antibiotics.
00:30:54.41\00:30:57.67
Oh, the little kids
have a cold or something and
00:30:58.60\00:31:01.07
their mother takes
them to the doctor.
00:31:01.10\00:31:02.49
And the doctor says, "Well, I
think that maybe just a little
00:31:02.50\00:31:05.61
something will fix this
and some things you have
00:31:05.64\00:31:07.62
in your medicine cabinet. "
00:31:07.63\00:31:08.60
And we say, "No, I want you
to give them some antibiotics. "
00:31:08.61\00:31:11.67
And we've over used them
to the point that now they're
00:31:12.07\00:31:15.03
not doing what
they're suppose to do when the
00:31:15.06\00:31:17.89
serious things come along.
00:31:17.92\00:31:19.25
And so we need to, kind of, be
mindful of some of these things.
00:31:19.28\00:31:23.04
Aids.
00:31:24.09\00:31:25.29
Thirty million have
died since 1981 from aids.
00:31:25.69\00:31:29.45
Down in southern Saharan
Africa, there are 40 million
00:31:29.48\00:31:34.83
people today who have aids.
00:31:34.84\00:31:36.97
And fewer than 1/6 of them
get any kind of medication.
00:31:37.00\00:31:39.91
It is a death
sentence in Africa.
00:31:41.33\00:31:43.66
And the way people move
around now, it's so easy to move
00:31:43.69\00:31:46.71
from one place to another.
00:31:46.74\00:31:48.80
Viruses.
00:31:50.59\00:31:51.77
I'm going to share with
you a couple of quotations
00:31:51.87\00:31:53.91
from some men of science.
00:31:53.94\00:31:55.42
I'm not a scientist but I know
how to read from some of them.
00:31:55.45\00:31:59.89
A guy by the name of
Dr. Michio Kaku, a Ph. D.
00:31:59.92\00:32:04.26
from New York University
said and I'm quoting now,
00:32:04.29\00:32:06.99
"Viruses now in the
making are much more deadly than
00:32:07.02\00:32:11.15
any prior
disease, including aids. "
00:32:11.18\00:32:14.31
Now by the way, his reference
is to manmade diseases.
00:32:15.63\00:32:18.45
And there are on the shelves of
the countries, again, that don't
00:32:19.65\00:32:24.78
care for us all that very
much some diseases that are
00:32:24.81\00:32:28.10
in cans and bottles.
00:32:28.13\00:32:29.61
And some say that if they're
released, they're going to be
00:32:29.64\00:32:33.35
far worse than a dirty bomb
to be let loose in New York City
00:32:33.38\00:32:37.35
or some such place.
00:32:37.38\00:32:38.38
And so Dr. Kaku says that there
are many now in the making that
00:32:38.41\00:32:43.84
are far more deadly than aids.
00:32:43.85\00:32:45.61
A guy by the name of Colonel
Larsen who's the director of our
00:32:45.64\00:32:47.80
Homeland Security division
said and I'm quoting again,
00:32:47.83\00:32:50.69
"What scares me is not so
much the diseases that we know
00:32:50.72\00:32:56.47
traditionally in medicine, but
rather the manmade diseases. "
00:32:56.50\00:32:59.57
And then Dr. Serge Popov,
the head of Russia's, the former
00:32:59.58\00:33:04.11
Soviet Union's disease project
said, "It's possible... "
00:33:04.14\00:33:07.33
I'm quoting again.
00:33:07.36\00:33:08.33
"It's possible to take smallpox,
one of the worse natural
00:33:08.34\00:33:11.76
killers, and engineer it
into the ultimate weapon. "
00:33:11.77\00:33:15.13
I was reading along,
by the way, this context
00:33:15.16\00:33:17.97
about our former President
of 1917 or 1918, Woodrow Wilson.
00:33:18.00\00:33:25.84
By the way, did you know where
he was born, Woodrow Wilson?
00:33:26.70\00:33:29.13
You country folks are
going to appreciate this.
00:33:29.16\00:33:31.84
Stanton, Virginia.
00:33:32.83\00:33:33.88
Who else is from
Stanton, Virginia.
00:33:33.91\00:33:35.38
Who else, who else is from...
00:33:35.41\00:33:38.04
No, I mean famous folks.
00:33:38.07\00:33:39.85
Besides you, sir.
00:33:40.05\00:33:41.31
Could you folks think
of a country music quartet?
00:33:49.09\00:33:51.80
The Statler
Brothers. Sure, yeah.
00:33:51.83\00:33:55.38
Well, they really
put Stanton on the map.
00:33:55.39\00:33:58.25
But I've been to the
home of Woodrow Wilson.
00:33:58.28\00:34:01.62
And Woodrow Wilson said
of the smallpox epidemic,
00:34:01.65\00:34:05.19
the caskets of the little
children in Washington D.C.
00:34:05.22\00:34:09.13
were stacked higher than
the average man's head and you
00:34:09.16\00:34:12.43
could see them in the streets
for more than three blocks.
00:34:12.46\00:34:15.19
And that's only
just a foretaste.
00:34:15.59\00:34:17.34
Our Lord must come again.
00:34:17.37\00:34:19.72
He's going to come
again. He has to come again.
00:34:19.75\00:34:22.35
The book of Revelation
speaks about the plagues
00:34:24.00\00:34:26.58
and about the
worldwide sort of condition.
00:34:26.59\00:34:30.10
And it's going to happen.
00:34:30.13\00:34:31.34
I believe we're seeing
it begin to happen now.
00:34:31.37\00:34:33.79
By the way folks, you
know, it's good to laugh.
00:34:33.82\00:34:37.35
And sometimes I find
myself these days laughing
00:34:37.38\00:34:39.86
instead of crying.
00:34:39.89\00:34:40.97
The line between
them is very slim.
00:34:41.00\00:34:43.82
And so we laugh
sometimes rather than crying.
00:34:43.85\00:34:45.93
It's alright even to
smile in church sometimes.
00:34:45.96\00:34:48.11
God has a sense of humor. I
know that because He made me.
00:34:48.14\00:34:50.81
But at the same time,
there has come into my heart
00:34:52.75\00:34:55.99
an urgency that
I've never had before.
00:34:56.02\00:34:59.89
Our Lord is coming.
00:35:01.74\00:35:03.30
And the signs are
everywhere. Everywhere.
00:35:04.42\00:35:07.99
You can't read a
newspaper, you can't turn on a
00:35:08.02\00:35:10.13
news magazine except
you see another crisis
00:35:10.16\00:35:13.31
somewhere in the world.
00:35:13.34\00:35:14.49
And I see those angels described
in Revelation chapter 6 and 7
00:35:14.52\00:35:18.55
holding back the
winds, holding them back
00:35:18.56\00:35:20.87
and their
knuckles are turning white
00:35:20.90\00:35:22.94
and their muscles
are at the stretch.
00:35:22.97\00:35:25.34
Jesus is soon to come.
00:35:25.37\00:35:27.28
And we need to get ready.
00:35:28.73\00:35:30.43
We need to memorize
the promises of God.
00:35:30.46\00:35:33.36
Study our Bibles like
we've not been doing before.
00:35:33.39\00:35:36.29
Pray more than
we've been praying before.
00:35:36.32\00:35:38.11
And memorize our Bibles.
00:35:38.14\00:35:39.94
But better than
that, most importantly,
00:35:39.97\00:35:41.99
we need to know its Author.
00:35:42.02\00:35:43.63
Do you have a
relationship with Jesus?
00:35:45.36\00:35:47.47
Is He your best friend?
00:35:48.71\00:35:50.51
He must come again.
00:35:55.60\00:35:56.91
The next necessity of the
coming of Jesus, as I see it;
00:35:57.38\00:36:02.47
the financial crisis,
not only in the United States
00:36:02.50\00:36:05.25
but in the world.
00:36:05.28\00:36:06.25
I listened to world
news as I drove in from the
00:36:06.26\00:36:08.59
St. Louis airport yesterday
evening and they're talking
00:36:08.62\00:36:11.40
again about how the
stock market crashed yesterday
00:36:11.41\00:36:14.95
and the day before because
of the uncertainly of the
00:36:14.98\00:36:18.10
situation over in
Europe and out in Greece
00:36:18.13\00:36:21.15
and elsewhere in the world.
00:36:21.18\00:36:22.63
You ladies and
gentlemen probably know
00:36:23.72\00:36:26.24
that in the last 14 months
the United States of America has
00:36:26.27\00:36:31.28
spent more money than in
its prior 200 plus years.
00:36:31.31\00:36:34.72
Now I shouldn't say we've spent.
00:36:35.42\00:36:36.89
We have borrowed more money.
00:36:36.92\00:36:39.09
Because we are broke.
00:36:39.73\00:36:41.23
We are broke.
00:36:41.85\00:36:42.83
The state in which I
live has sent a little note,
00:36:43.38\00:36:46.13
"Your income tax refund
is going to be a little late.
00:36:46.16\00:36:48.23
We don't have the money. "
00:36:48.26\00:36:49.85
And that's just
one of the states.
00:36:50.35\00:36:51.66
Nearly all the states are in
the same sort of predicament.
00:36:51.69\00:36:54.17
And I notice as I drove
over here, some of your highways
00:36:54.20\00:36:57.05
have potholes almost as
big as ours out in Oregon.
00:36:57.08\00:36:59.59
Out there we get lost in them.
00:37:00.20\00:37:01.56
You don't want to
drive a little car out there.
00:37:01.59\00:37:03.20
Put away your Volkswagen.
00:37:03.23\00:37:04.39
If you're going to drive
in Oregon, you're going to
00:37:04.42\00:37:05.52
fall in a hole and
they'll never find you again.
00:37:05.55\00:37:07.42
We are, today in
the United States,
00:37:10.11\00:37:11.77
15 trillion dollars in debt.
00:37:11.80\00:37:14.53
And most of that money is
being borrowed from the Chinese.
00:37:14.93\00:37:18.92
And they're not our best
friends in all the world.
00:37:18.95\00:37:21.09
And they're
raising the interest rate.
00:37:21.12\00:37:23.81
And a man who should know
said to me a few days ago,
00:37:23.84\00:37:27.14
we are now paying,
ladies and gentlemen,
00:37:27.15\00:37:29.56
a billion dollars
a day in interest.
00:37:29.59\00:37:32.39
And we're never,
never going to pay it back.
00:37:32.42\00:37:34.55
And with the money
that is promised by means of
00:37:34.58\00:37:39.00
Social Security and
the new health system,
00:37:39.03\00:37:41.06
that puts us in debt to
the tune of somewhere around
00:37:41.09\00:37:45.16
75 trillion dollars.
00:37:45.19\00:37:47.93
There's no way that I
can help you understand that.
00:37:47.96\00:37:50.12
We have seen in the last
few months the government take
00:37:50.15\00:37:53.32
control of the
banks and big business.
00:37:53.35\00:37:55.56
And we read from Revelation
chapter 13, no man could
00:37:55.59\00:37:59.05
buy or sell unless he
goes along with the system.
00:37:59.08\00:38:02.69
I use to preach,
"It's coming, it's coming. "
00:38:02.72\00:38:04.99
Now I say, "It's here,
folks. It's right here. "
00:38:05.02\00:38:08.30
He must come.
00:38:08.33\00:38:09.79
Jesus must come again.
00:38:09.82\00:38:12.34
And then we have in
the last few months seen
00:38:12.74\00:38:15.97
massive earthquakes,
an activation of volcanoes
00:38:16.00\00:38:19.93
that have been dormant
for years and years and years.
00:38:19.96\00:38:22.44
And this is my
reason number five.
00:38:22.47\00:38:24.48
Jesus has to come again.
00:38:24.51\00:38:26.15
I preached a sermon I called,
00:38:26.18\00:38:28.00
Earthquakes,
Tsunamis. Shake rattle and roll.
00:38:28.03\00:38:31.82
My first earthquake experience
found me, an 18 year old boy,
00:38:35.84\00:38:40.24
standing in a street in Idaho
visiting with some friends.
00:38:40.27\00:38:42.88
I was leaning in
their car window beneath
00:38:42.91\00:38:45.69
an intersection street light.
00:38:45.72\00:38:48.08
Suddenly I felt
myself go kind of dizzy.
00:38:49.11\00:38:51.10
Now I've always had a little
problem with motion sickness.
00:38:51.13\00:38:53.34
I knew I was sober.
00:38:53.74\00:38:55.45
And I looked up, I
stood back and I looked up.
00:39:00.50\00:39:03.91
And the street light
was swinging overhead.
00:39:04.41\00:39:06.72
And one of the guys in the
car said, "It's an earthquake. "
00:39:07.32\00:39:09.87
I guess he'd been in one before
somewhere over in California.
00:39:09.88\00:39:12.49
It was an earthquake.
That was my first experience.
00:39:13.39\00:39:15.05
And that one, by the way,
killed a lot of folks up in
00:39:15.08\00:39:18.25
the beautiful state
park of Yellowstone.
00:39:18.28\00:39:20.49
It killed a lot of
people, that earthquake did.
00:39:20.52\00:39:22.62
More recently, however,
Peggy and I were driving
00:39:22.63\00:39:25.74
back from a meeting.
00:39:25.77\00:39:26.83
We were in our motor home coming
back from a meeting in Arizona.
00:39:26.86\00:39:30.74
We spent the night in a tiny
little town of Wells, Nevada.
00:39:31.14\00:39:34.67
Don't tell me you've been there.
00:39:36.60\00:39:38.05
You can hardly find it on a map.
00:39:39.75\00:39:40.97
As we drove out of town the
next morning, I was listening
00:39:42.76\00:39:45.99
to the CB radio.
00:39:46.00\00:39:47.64
I listen to it a lot
because Yogi Berra said,
00:39:50.46\00:39:53.50
"Don't look back, somebody
might be gaining on you. "
00:39:56.08\00:39:58.68
They might have that red light.
00:40:00.04\00:40:02.07
There came on the CB
radio there'd just been an
00:40:03.86\00:40:05.76
earthquake in Wells.
00:40:05.79\00:40:07.06
Knocked some bricks off the
tops of some of the buildings.
00:40:07.09\00:40:10.36
Wells, Nevada.
00:40:10.37\00:40:11.34
And then I read up on it.
00:40:11.35\00:40:12.71
They've never known there was
an earthquake fault line there.
00:40:12.74\00:40:15.65
Never had an earthquake there
as far as the modern record
00:40:15.68\00:40:18.87
had been able to tell them.
00:40:18.90\00:40:20.91
Earthquakes in diverse places.
00:40:20.94\00:40:23.46
Now here's a scripture for
you, Matthew chapter 24 verse 7.
00:40:23.49\00:40:26.32
The same thing you find in
Luke chapter 21 and verse 11.
00:40:26.33\00:40:29.32
Matthew 24:7, there our Lord
Jesus speaking about last days,
00:40:29.35\00:40:32.58
He said there are
going to be earthquakes
00:40:32.61\00:40:34.76
in diverse places.
00:40:34.79\00:40:36.56
Now I've done some homework
here again and I discovered
00:40:36.59\00:40:39.07
that means there are going to
be earthquakes in the last days
00:40:39.10\00:40:41.82
in places where they've
never known them before.
00:40:41.85\00:40:44.34
That's what's
happening right now.
00:40:44.37\00:40:46.14
Yeah.
00:40:46.65\00:40:47.62
There is a fault line
called the New Madrid Fault.
00:40:48.10\00:40:52.11
Any of you folks
know about where that is?
00:40:52.14\00:40:53.81
That's where we are, isn't it.
00:40:54.01\00:40:55.86
Yeah.
00:40:55.89\00:40:57.03
And was it old Daniel
Boone or was it Davey Crocket,
00:40:57.06\00:40:59.84
I'm not sure.
00:40:59.87\00:41:00.84
He was out killing a bear.
00:41:01.28\00:41:03.81
I guess he was
only about 3 years old.
00:41:03.84\00:41:05.59
That's what Walt Disney said.
00:41:06.64\00:41:08.37
But he was walking along
the muddy Mississippi River
00:41:10.87\00:41:13.82
and the earthquake came
and he said, suddenly the river
00:41:13.83\00:41:18.01
began to run upstream.
00:41:18.04\00:41:20.14
And folks thought it
was just another one of
00:41:21.25\00:41:22.97
his big tall tales.
00:41:23.00\00:41:24.86
But science today
says no, he was right.
00:41:25.12\00:41:26.95
The Mississippi ran the
opposite way as a result
00:41:26.98\00:41:30.18
of that terrible earthquake
along the New Madrid Fault.
00:41:30.21\00:41:32.63
Well, that's not
the biggest fault in the
00:41:32.66\00:41:35.09
United States of America.
00:41:35.19\00:41:36.51
The biggest fault line on our
continent, ladies and gentlemen,
00:41:40.42\00:41:43.60
is called the Cascadia Fault.
00:41:43.63\00:41:45.72
And it runs from San Francisco
to British Columbia, Canada
00:41:47.05\00:41:50.74
from 14 to 50 miles
off the Pacific coast line.
00:41:50.77\00:41:54.47
That's my country.
00:41:55.69\00:41:56.99
I just came back from a meeting
over along the Oregon coast.
00:41:57.89\00:42:01.67
And I must admit to you
that every morning I said,
00:42:01.70\00:42:04.88
"Lord, don't let her go
today. Don't let it rock today.
00:42:04.91\00:42:09.09
I get sea sick too easily.
00:42:09.12\00:42:11.16
We don't need that Cascadia
Fault going off today. "
00:42:11.19\00:42:13.95
Volcanoes and
earthquakes and tsunamis are all
00:42:15.13\00:42:19.91
very much related,
ladies and gentlemen.
00:42:19.94\00:42:22.42
The apostle Peter said that
in the last days, this is from
00:42:22.82\00:42:25.86
2 Peter chapter 3
and verses 3 and 4.
00:42:25.89\00:42:28.60
In the last days, he said,
there are going to be scoffers.
00:42:28.63\00:42:32.22
That's it.
00:42:32.23\00:42:33.20
There are going to be scoffers
and they're going to say,
00:42:33.38\00:42:34.76
"Look, things are just
like they've always been.
00:42:34.79\00:42:36.75
I mean, since my great
great grandfather was around
00:42:36.76\00:42:39.53
he's told about
these kind of things.
00:42:39.56\00:42:40.98
And we only know more
about it today because there are
00:42:41.01\00:42:43.28
more people and we
have more news casts
00:42:43.31\00:42:46.36
and satellite
feeds and all of that.
00:42:46.37\00:42:48.74
It's just like it
has always been. "
00:42:48.77\00:42:50.41
But the facts are
these. Now listen up.
00:42:50.44\00:42:52.53
From 1970 until 2000,
disastrous earthquakes
00:42:52.56\00:42:58.06
that had terrific affect rose
from 70 million to 200 million.
00:42:58.09\00:43:04.14
That's only 30 years.
00:43:06.26\00:43:07.70
Since 1900, we have
had over 600 earthquakes
00:43:09.34\00:43:15.17
at a 6 point on the
Richter scale or greater.
00:43:15.20\00:43:18.75
Are you with me?
00:43:18.78\00:43:20.05
In California, the
week of January 9 of 2008,
00:43:21.15\00:43:24.68
there were 475 earthquakes along
the San Andreas Fault alone.
00:43:24.71\00:43:30.38
475 in one day.
00:43:30.58\00:43:33.97
In one day.
00:43:34.93\00:43:36.17
Now here's something
that I find fascinating.
00:43:37.34\00:43:39.81
And again I'm going to
refer to several scriptures.
00:43:39.84\00:43:42.09
I'm going to have
to do it quickly here.
00:43:42.10\00:43:43.69
Matthew chapter 27 verse 50.
00:43:43.72\00:43:46.05
There was an earthquake
when my Jesus died on the cross.
00:43:46.08\00:43:48.64
The earth shook when Jesus died.
00:43:48.67\00:43:51.35
Matthew chapter 28 verse 2.
00:43:51.38\00:43:53.05
It says when Jesus rose from the
grave, there was an earthquake.
00:43:53.08\00:43:56.00
And it was so mighty
that it wakened some of
00:43:56.03\00:43:58.08
the other guys around and
they came out of their graves.
00:43:58.09\00:44:00.98
There was an
earthquake when Jesus rose.
00:44:00.99\00:44:03.04
In Acts chapter 16 verse 26,
it says there was an earthquake
00:44:03.05\00:44:06.68
when it was time to take
the gospel to the Gentiles.
00:44:06.69\00:44:09.99
Paul and Silas, you remember,
were in jail and God said,
00:44:10.00\00:44:13.55
"It is now time, boys,
for you to get out of here. "
00:44:13.58\00:44:15.99
And so He shook the place
down and they went to take the
00:44:16.02\00:44:18.71
gospel out to the whole world.
00:44:18.74\00:44:20.26
God used an earthquake.
00:44:20.29\00:44:21.77
In Revelation
chapter 6 verse 12, God says
00:44:21.80\00:44:25.18
there is a great earthquake
to signal last day events.
00:44:25.21\00:44:28.87
Now not everyone
believes it but I certainly do,
00:44:28.90\00:44:30.77
and believe it
more as the years go by.
00:44:30.80\00:44:32.54
I believe that the
great earthquake that we now
00:44:32.57\00:44:35.46
refer to, you remember, as
the opening of the 6th seal,
00:44:35.49\00:44:39.23
I believe that this
was the one that signaled
00:44:39.24\00:44:42.03
the last days, the end times.
00:44:42.04\00:44:44.12
The 6th seal of
Revelation chapter 6.
00:44:44.52\00:44:46.60
Great earthquakes.
00:44:48.97\00:44:50.35
Fault lines.
00:44:51.29\00:44:52.38
New Madrid, San Andreas.
00:44:53.30\00:44:54.55
But the Cascadia...
00:44:54.58\00:44:56.01
They say that if the Cascadia
Fault releases its energy
00:44:56.51\00:45:01.15
all at once...
00:45:01.18\00:45:02.36
It's been years and
years and years since it has
00:45:02.39\00:45:03.89
done anything at all.
00:45:03.90\00:45:05.01
It could happen today, they
say, or next week or next month,
00:45:05.04\00:45:07.67
but it's going to happen.
00:45:07.70\00:45:08.79
They say if that one should
release all of its energy,
00:45:08.82\00:45:12.20
if the tectonic plates
slam together all at once,
00:45:12.23\00:45:16.44
that there is going to
be a 100 foot tsunami wave.
00:45:16.47\00:45:21.12
I drive along the Oregon
coast and I see signs that say,
00:45:21.15\00:45:24.77
"In case of a
tsunami, turn right here. "
00:45:24.80\00:45:27.30
And I've done this, I've
driven up to the end of the road
00:45:27.33\00:45:30.26
up there and looked at
the altimeter and you're about
00:45:30.29\00:45:32.57
25 or 30 feet about sea level.
00:45:32.60\00:45:34.51
But it says that if this
one comes, it's going to be
00:45:35.32\00:45:38.20
100 feet high.
00:45:38.23\00:45:40.08
And more than that, it
says we're going to have only
00:45:41.50\00:45:44.15
15 minutes of warning
along the great cities
00:45:44.16\00:45:48.58
of San Francisco, and Portland
Oregon, and Seattle Washington,
00:45:48.61\00:45:52.62
Vancouver British Columbia,
and everything in between.
00:45:52.65\00:45:56.03
God says, "In the last
day, I'm going to arise... "
00:45:58.37\00:46:01.79
This is Isaiah
chapter 2 verses 19 and 20.
00:46:01.80\00:46:04.26
Isaiah 2:19
00:46:04.29\00:46:05.54
"I'm going to arise and
shake terribly the earth. "
00:46:05.57\00:46:08.60
And we're beginning to see it.
00:46:09.20\00:46:10.67
The earth waxes
old like the garment.
00:46:10.70\00:46:13.44
We have out in
the Pacific Rim...
00:46:14.26\00:46:16.87
And that's what I'm a part
of out in the Pacific Northwest.
00:46:16.90\00:46:20.34
The West Coast, the Philippines,
Hawaii, the Indian Ocean.
00:46:20.37\00:46:23.44
We have out there in the Pacific
Northwest these volcanoes.
00:46:23.47\00:46:27.64
Glacier Peak, Mount Baker
Peak, Rainier, Mount Adams.
00:46:27.67\00:46:32.09
And St Helens which you've heard
something about, haven't you.
00:46:32.12\00:46:36.01
And the Three Sisters and
Mount Hood and Mount Newberry
00:46:36.04\00:46:38.66
and Crater Lake volcano.
00:46:38.69\00:46:40.58
And Jefferson and Mount Shasta
and Mount Lassen and Garibaldi.
00:46:40.59\00:46:43.83
Many of those are now active.
00:46:43.86\00:46:45.00
Many are right now active.
00:46:46.49\00:46:48.36
I take comfort from
Psalm 46 verses 1-3.
00:46:48.76\00:46:52.37
"God is our strength.
He is our present help.
00:46:52.38\00:46:57.38
We will not fear though the
earth shake and the mountains
00:46:57.41\00:47:00.44
are cast into the
waters and the seas roar
00:47:00.47\00:47:03.29
and the mountains shake. "
00:47:03.32\00:47:04.57
We will not fear. Why?
00:47:04.60\00:47:06.62
Because on Christ
the mighty rock we stand.
00:47:06.65\00:47:09.52
All other
ground is sinking sand.
00:47:10.05\00:47:12.01
On Christ, the Rock
of ages. Cleft for me.
00:47:12.04\00:47:14.67
Christ is the Rock.
00:47:14.70\00:47:16.87
There's one earthquake,
ladies and gentlemen,
00:47:16.90\00:47:19.13
that I long to
see and happily await.
00:47:19.16\00:47:24.44
For the Bible suggests that
when Jesus comes back again,
00:47:25.37\00:47:28.35
the earth is going
to be shaken terribly
00:47:28.38\00:47:31.33
and the saints of God are
going to come out of the graves.
00:47:31.34\00:47:34.25
And there is a little
cemetery out in eastern Oregon
00:47:35.07\00:47:37.49
where I want to be
00:47:37.52\00:47:38.50
when my boy comes out
00:47:39.73\00:47:41.50
and my
granddaughter, Danny, comes out.
00:47:42.09\00:47:44.21
Fill their lungs with
the breath of eternal life.
00:47:50.36\00:47:52.66
Jesus is coming
again. He must come again.
00:47:53.50\00:47:57.57
Of absolute
necessity, He is coming again.
00:47:57.60\00:48:00.42
Now, I'm going to transition.
00:48:00.45\00:48:03.28
And this may not be the
smoothest, but remember again
00:48:03.84\00:48:05.91
I'm from Idaho.
00:48:05.94\00:48:07.16
Alright?
00:48:07.19\00:48:08.47
The day of the second
coming of Jesus Christ
00:48:10.80\00:48:13.25
is the first day of
the 1000 year millennium.
00:48:13.28\00:48:16.55
I was listening to a television
preacher, he shall remain
00:48:17.46\00:48:19.96
nameless of necessity.
00:48:19.99\00:48:21.60
And he was trying to
preach on the millennium.
00:48:24.88\00:48:27.26
And he had them here on earth,
the folks were here on earth,
00:48:27.29\00:48:29.42
the saints, and then they
were in heaven and they were
00:48:29.45\00:48:30.76
back down here and then
they were somewhere else.
00:48:30.79\00:48:33.13
And after a little
while, I was so dizzy.
00:48:33.16\00:48:35.77
And after a little while,
he just kind of gave up too.
00:48:35.80\00:48:37.87
Not a minute
too soon to suit me.
00:48:38.67\00:48:40.64
Now if you do have your
Bibles, please turn with me
00:48:42.73\00:48:46.38
to 1 Thessalonians.
00:48:46.41\00:48:48.67
And here's where brother
Lomacang just stole my sermon.
00:48:50.07\00:48:53.39
He took John 14:1-2 and
then he took 1 Thessalonians.
00:48:53.42\00:48:56.54
I was praying, "Lord, don't
let him have the rest of it.
00:48:56.55\00:48:59.04
Save me a little bit there. "
00:49:01.33\00:49:02.88
Yeah.
00:49:05.66\00:49:06.70
1 Thessalonians
chapter 4 verses 16-18.
00:49:07.00\00:49:10.68
You memorized
it a long time ago.
00:49:10.71\00:49:12.05
Say it with me now, "The
Lord Himself shall descend
00:49:12.08\00:49:15.88
from heaven... " With a whisper?
00:49:15.91\00:49:17.97
Huh?
00:49:18.00\00:49:18.97
Alright.
00:49:18.98\00:49:20.44
"... with a shout, with
the voice of the archangel,
00:49:20.47\00:49:22.76
and the trump of God.
00:49:22.79\00:49:24.49
And the dead in Christ
are going to rise first.
00:49:24.52\00:49:28.41
And then we which are alive
and remain shall be caught up
00:49:28.44\00:49:32.80
together with them to meet
our Lord... " in Salt Lake City.
00:49:32.83\00:49:36.12
I read that.
00:49:36.79\00:49:38.05
Meet Him in Rome.
00:49:38.06\00:49:39.73
Nah, you give me three words
that save us from antichrist.
00:49:40.13\00:49:42.74
Where are we going to meet Him?
00:49:42.77\00:49:43.74
"... in the air.
00:49:43.75\00:49:45.29
And so shall we
ever be with the Lord.
00:49:45.30\00:49:46.39
Wherefore, comfort one
another with these words. "
00:49:46.42\00:49:48.84
Now, you put together
that passage along with
00:49:48.87\00:49:53.88
Revelation chapter 20.
00:49:53.91\00:49:56.44
And go there with me
next, if you will please.
00:49:56.47\00:49:58.18
Revelation chapter
20 and verses 4 and 5.
00:49:58.21\00:50:02.60
Revelation chapter 20.
00:50:03.56\00:50:05.09
This is, of course,
the millennium chapter.
00:50:05.29\00:50:07.29
Verse 4, "I saw thrones... "
00:50:07.32\00:50:10.80
They, the saints...
The context is quite clear.
00:50:10.81\00:50:13.81
"They," the saints,
"sat upon the thrones.
00:50:13.84\00:50:16.49
A work of judgment
was given unto them.
00:50:16.52\00:50:18.61
And I saw the souls of
those who had been martyred
00:50:18.64\00:50:20.96
for their witness of
Jesus and the word of God
00:50:20.99\00:50:22.71
who refused to worship
the beast or his image. "
00:50:22.74\00:50:24.89
Oh by the way,
there's another sermon.
00:50:24.92\00:50:26.84
Oh, please.
00:50:27.63\00:50:28.86
Well this whole
idea of a secret rapture.
00:50:32.19\00:50:33.79
The saints are going to
be snatched away and then
00:50:33.82\00:50:35.36
tribulation is going
to come for seven years.
00:50:35.39\00:50:37.63
And they'll rebuild the temple
and Jews will be converted.
00:50:37.64\00:50:39.84
If all I had to refute the
idea of a secret rapture is
00:50:39.87\00:50:44.32
this passage, that's enough.
00:50:44.35\00:50:46.42
That's enough.
00:50:46.45\00:50:47.80
For it says that the folks
from the first resurrection,
00:50:47.83\00:50:50.48
the saints of all ages
have already gotten victory over
00:50:50.51\00:50:54.52
the beast and his mark
and the whole ball of wax.
00:50:54.55\00:50:57.31
That's enough, Lord.
00:50:58.22\00:50:59.37
That's clear enough
even for an Idaho boy.
00:50:59.92\00:51:02.13
"The saints sat upon
thrones and the work judgment
00:51:05.87\00:51:08.06
was given to them.
00:51:08.09\00:51:09.06
I saw the souls of
those who had been beheaded
00:51:09.07\00:51:10.98
for the witness of
Jesus and for the word of God
00:51:11.01\00:51:13.68
because they worshipped not the
beast or his image or received
00:51:13.69\00:51:15.86
the mark either in their
foreheads or in their hands.
00:51:15.89\00:51:17.45
And these lived and reigned
with Christ for 1000 years. "
00:51:17.48\00:51:21.72
Now listen carefully.
00:51:21.75\00:51:23.09
"But the rest of the
dead lived not again until the
00:51:23.12\00:51:26.98
1000 years are over. "
00:51:27.01\00:51:28.34
And then the last
half of that verse says,
00:51:29.39\00:51:31.77
"This is the
first resurrection. "
00:51:31.80\00:51:34.38
Now that has caused
some confusion in some minds.
00:51:34.41\00:51:37.12
But I'm going to help
you to lift the confusion.
00:51:37.15\00:51:39.41
I had it for a while
and I did some research.
00:51:39.42\00:51:42.40
And this is what I
found, ladies and gentlemen.
00:51:42.43\00:51:44.35
The first half of
verse 5 of Revelation 20,
00:51:44.38\00:51:50.54
Revelation chapter 20 verse
5, the first half of that verse;
00:51:50.57\00:51:53.83
"the rest of the dead
live not again until the
00:51:53.86\00:51:55.45
1000 years were
over," that is parenthetical.
00:51:55.46\00:51:58.83
Do you know what that means?
00:51:58.87\00:52:00.13
That means it needs to
have brackets around it.
00:52:00.95\00:52:03.40
You know, parentheses.
00:52:03.43\00:52:04.72
It needs to be in parentheses.
00:52:04.75\00:52:07.01
And then the last
of the verse says,
00:52:07.04\00:52:09.16
"These are from the
first resurrection. "
00:52:09.19\00:52:11.24
That is a reference back
to verse 4 where the saints
00:52:11.27\00:52:14.61
are seated upon thrones.
00:52:14.64\00:52:16.04
Does that help you know?
00:52:16.07\00:52:17.35
Alright, let's
say it one more time.
00:52:17.38\00:52:19.30
The first half of the verse of
Revelation chapter 20 verse 5;
00:52:19.33\00:52:24.01
"the rest of the dead
lived not again until the
00:52:24.04\00:52:25.95
1000 years are
over," that is in brackets.
00:52:25.98\00:52:28.42
And then you remove
the brackets and it says,
00:52:28.82\00:52:31.14
"These are from the
first resurrection. "
00:52:31.15\00:52:32.94
That is a reference back to the
saints that sit upon thrones,
00:52:32.97\00:52:36.14
those who have gotten
victory over the beast
00:52:36.15\00:52:38.29
and all of the rest.
00:52:38.32\00:52:39.46
Now, I want to
quickly share with you
00:52:39.49\00:52:42.10
three or four more verses.
00:52:42.13\00:52:43.46
When Jesus comes back
again, when He comes in His
00:52:43.49\00:52:46.66
second coming; and
it's going to be very soon.
00:52:46.67\00:52:48.52
We can be certain of that.
00:52:48.55\00:52:49.52
He must come again.
00:52:49.53\00:52:50.97
When He comes back
again, He's going to find here
00:52:50.98\00:52:54.14
four different
classes of people.
00:52:54.17\00:52:57.71
On this earth there are
going to be four different
00:52:58.24\00:53:00.44
classes of people.
00:53:00.47\00:53:01.72
There are going to
be the righteous dead;
00:53:01.75\00:53:03.42
those that died with
their faith in Jesus.
00:53:03.45\00:53:05.35
There are going to
be the righteous living;
00:53:05.38\00:53:08.00
those of the terminal generation
that are alive and love Him
00:53:08.03\00:53:11.13
and have accepted His grace
and righteousness as their own.
00:53:11.16\00:53:14.36
And then there are also
going to be the wicked dead;
00:53:14.39\00:53:17.86
those who died in
an unsaved condition.
00:53:17.87\00:53:20.62
And there are going
to be the wicked living;
00:53:20.65\00:53:23.84
those that are
alive and unsaved.
00:53:23.85\00:53:26.77
And you don't have to be
a rapist or a murderer to be
00:53:26.80\00:53:28.69
in that category.
00:53:28.72\00:53:29.81
All you need to do is
be indifferent to it all.
00:53:29.84\00:53:32.88
Yeah, someone said the easiest
way in the world to go to hell
00:53:33.73\00:53:35.81
is sit back and do nothing.
00:53:35.84\00:53:36.97
So, there are going
to be these four classes.
00:53:38.10\00:53:41.42
Jesus comes in His second
coming and the righteous dead
00:53:41.45\00:53:45.73
are raised in a moment.
00:53:45.76\00:53:48.45
They hear the voice of Jesus.
00:53:48.48\00:53:50.13
And the righteous that are
alive, that terminal generation,
00:53:50.16\00:53:53.32
look up, "This is our God. "
00:53:53.33\00:53:55.46
And together we're caught
up in that cloud of angels
00:53:55.49\00:53:58.12
to meet Him in the air.
00:53:58.15\00:53:59.32
And the wicked dead sleep on.
00:54:01.32\00:54:05.83
They don't hear the
call of the Lifegiver.
00:54:05.86\00:54:07.49
And the wicked that are
alive are destroyed by the
00:54:07.52\00:54:11.94
brightness of His coming.
00:54:11.97\00:54:13.26
Ah, you folks are great.
00:54:13.30\00:54:14.56
You don't need me.
00:54:14.96\00:54:16.22
I'm sure glad you let me come.
00:54:18.23\00:54:20.05
Yeah.
00:54:20.45\00:54:21.42
That's right, 2 Thessalonians
says they're destroyed
00:54:21.43\00:54:23.93
by the brightness of His coming.
00:54:23.96\00:54:25.03
Chapters 1 and 2, you want
to put the whole thing together.
00:54:25.06\00:54:27.10
And so this earth,
then, during the 1000 years
00:54:27.13\00:54:29.77
becomes a great bottomless pit.
00:54:29.80\00:54:31.91
"Lo, I looked and saw no
man," said the old prophet.
00:54:32.31\00:54:34.92
Now quickly and finally, and my
favorite part of the millennium
00:54:34.95\00:54:40.30
passage and reason; the
purpose for the 1000 years.
00:54:40.33\00:54:44.39
It's not some happy round
figure God pulls out of a hat.
00:54:44.59\00:54:47.33
And it causes me to
love Him more and better
00:54:47.36\00:54:49.33
than I ever did before.
00:54:49.36\00:54:50.62
It says in the last
verses of Revelation chapter 20
00:54:50.65\00:54:53.22
that during this
time, the books are opened.
00:54:53.25\00:54:55.88
"And I saw the dead. "
00:54:56.28\00:54:58.12
Those that were
dead when Jesus came
00:54:58.15\00:55:01.21
and those that were alive and
unsaved and they're now killed
00:55:01.24\00:55:03.65
by the brightness of His coming.
00:55:03.68\00:55:04.65
"I saw the dead
judged out of those books. "
00:55:04.66\00:55:07.34
Can you see it with me
now in your mind's eye?
00:55:07.37\00:55:09.91
It's resurrection
morning, the trumpet is blown.
00:55:09.94\00:55:12.42
"Awake ye who sleep in the
dust. Come forth, come forth. "
00:55:12.45\00:55:15.03
And out of the grave
comes a little mother.
00:55:15.06\00:55:17.26
And she turns and
there's her daughter.
00:55:17.29\00:55:18.94
"Oh, Mary, I knew. And daddy. "
00:55:18.97\00:55:22.29
"John," her son. John.
00:55:22.79\00:55:25.03
But John's grave didn't open.
00:55:25.93\00:55:27.65
"Wake up John. It's
time to be caught up.
00:55:28.40\00:55:30.91
I can't leave you, it
would be heaven without you. "
00:55:30.92\00:55:33.29
And then I see an
angel that has a big book.
00:55:34.57\00:55:37.59
And he comes to
the mother and he says,
00:55:38.64\00:55:39.87
"Sweetheart, sit down
with me. We've got to talk. "
00:55:39.90\00:55:43.19
And he opens that
book and pages over.
00:55:43.22\00:55:45.15
"Do you remember?"
00:55:45.18\00:55:46.15
"Oh, of course.
00:55:46.16\00:55:47.13
He was such a
sweet pink little thing.
00:55:47.14\00:55:48.23
He looked just like his
daddy. Yes, I remember. "
00:55:48.26\00:55:50.21
"Do you remember this?"
00:55:50.24\00:55:51.38
"Yes, I don't
know what happened.
00:55:51.41\00:55:52.95
I don't know what got
into him. He was so mean. "
00:55:52.96\00:55:55.00
"But mama, you
didn't know about this. "
00:55:55.03\00:55:56.96
"Oh, not my boy. "
00:55:56.97\00:55:59.52
"You didn't know this. "
00:56:00.27\00:56:01.40
"Oh. "
00:56:01.95\00:56:03.84
What do you suppose it is that
dries the tears of the saints,
00:56:04.44\00:56:07.49
as you read in
Revelation chapter 21?
00:56:07.50\00:56:09.74
It's not some magical surgery
performed upon tear ducts.
00:56:09.77\00:56:12.70
But rather, God, out of
the kindness of His heart
00:56:12.73\00:56:15.86
sets aside 1000 years for the
saints who sit on the thrones
00:56:15.89\00:56:20.15
to study the record books.
00:56:20.16\00:56:21.63
And after mother has come to
the last page, she's going to
00:56:21.66\00:56:24.64
say to the angel and to
our Savior and our Father God,
00:56:24.67\00:56:27.90
"I understand now.
00:56:27.93\00:56:29.21
My boy would be
so out of place here.
00:56:29.24\00:56:30.99
He would not fit in here.
00:56:31.02\00:56:32.19
I understand. "
00:56:32.22\00:56:33.65
So only after that permission
is given by the saints
00:56:34.70\00:56:38.89
that God calls the unsaved forth
in the second resurrection.
00:56:38.92\00:56:43.67
And there comes
the final punishment.
00:56:44.07\00:56:47.19
Oh, what a Savior.
00:56:49.97\00:56:51.39
The way He respects
we pusillanimous humans.
00:56:52.26\00:56:57.13
Not a speck
hardly in the universe.
00:56:57.63\00:56:59.62
But He loves us so very much.
00:56:59.95\00:57:02.00
My dears, we're going
to be there, you and I,
00:57:03.75\00:57:06.95
at the end of the 1000 years.
00:57:07.44\00:57:09.20
We have no choice about
that. We're going to be there.
00:57:09.23\00:57:11.59
We do have a choice
about where we're going to be.
00:57:11.62\00:57:14.28
Either because we loved our Lord
Jesus and accepted His truths
00:57:15.73\00:57:19.19
and lived His life,
made His life ours by grace.
00:57:19.22\00:57:23.50
We'll be inside the
city under His umbrella,
00:57:24.81\00:57:27.14
under His protective wings.
00:57:27.55\00:57:28.86
Or on the other hand, we'll
be out there with the unsaved
00:57:28.89\00:57:33.73
who march against the
city with the devil who's their
00:57:34.27\00:57:36.71
ultimate commander.
00:57:36.74\00:57:38.01
And the final fire comes down.
00:57:38.04\00:57:40.20
We have no choice
except to be there.
00:57:40.23\00:57:42.15
We have a choice about which
group we're going to be in.
00:57:42.18\00:57:45.24
I dreamed that the great
judgment morning had dawned
00:57:46.63\00:57:51.90
and the trumpet had blown.
00:57:51.93\00:57:54.44
And I dreamed that the nations
had gathered for judgment
00:57:56.30\00:58:00.85
around a white throne.
00:58:01.72\00:58:03.56
By the throne there
stood a bright shining angel.
00:58:04.79\00:58:08.14
Stood on the land and the sea.
00:58:09.23\00:58:11.94
And swore with His
hand raised towards heaven
00:58:12.35\00:58:14.06
that time was no longer to be.
00:58:14.09\00:58:17.39