Participants: Pr. Kenneth Cox
Series Code: TOTE
Program Code: TOTE000016
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00:02 Can you believe it?
00:05 Can you build your faith on it? 00:08 The promises of God's Word are sure! 00:12 They do not fail! 00:17 This book has stood the test of time. 00:47 Hallelujah! 06:34 Father up in heaven, 06:36 this morning as we open Your Word 06:42 we think about this wonderful time that You're coming back. 06:47 Where each one of us will have the privilege of hearing 06:50 wedding music. Lord, we ask that we 06:55 each may have the opportunity 06:59 of being in Your kingdom. 07:01 Not because, Lord, we have done anything 07:05 but because we've accepted You. 07:08 Bless us as we study Your Word now. 07:11 Give us wisdom and understanding we pray 07:14 in Christ's name, Amen. 07:23 This morning we're going to take a look at a text in the 07:26 Bible - a chapter in the Bible - that you'll find 07:31 Bible commentaries just kind of pass it by. 07:35 You don't hear very many sermons on it. 07:37 Books on the Bible don't say much about it 07:40 yet it is an extremely important chapter. 07:43 Talks about an angel that is standing on the earth 07:47 and on the sea. We're going to take a look 07:50 and see what Revelation the 10th chapter has to say 07:53 to us about this angel. 07:55 We'll start with verse 1. Says: 08:39 Now you find that when you're studying God's Word 08:42 that you will in Bible prophecy come across 08:47 angels many places in the scripture. 08:50 When you come across an angel 08:51 like in Revelation the 14th chapter 08:54 there are three angels. Those angels represent 08:57 a message that's to be given to the world. 09:00 And so you have three angels with three distinct messages 09:03 the whole world is to hear. 09:05 When you go to Revelation the 18th chapter 09:08 you have an angel there. And it says the earth was 09:10 lightened with the glory of that angel. 09:12 meaning that that angel had a particular message 09:15 the world is to hear. And when you come to this angel 09:18 here in Revelation the 10th chapter 09:20 that is standing on the earth and on the sea 09:23 that angel has a distinct message that the whole world 09:26 was to hear. That's what he's representing. 09:29 So let's see what the message that this angel 09:32 that has his right foot upon the sea and his left foot 09:35 upon the land and his hand raised to heaven 09:37 let's see what that message 09:39 that he's proclaiming to the world is. 09:43 Revelation 10 verse 5: 10:03 So he has his hand raised to heaven. 10:06 He's shouting out across the whole world 10:08 that there is to be delay no longer. 10:11 Now the scripture that we're reading is the New King James 10:15 version. I like the old King James version 10:18 on this particular text much much better. 10:21 It doesn't say that there shall be "delay no longer. " 10:24 The old King James version says that "time shall be 10:28 no longer. " In other words, he has his hand raised to heaven. 10:33 He's shouting out to the whole world that time 10:36 has run out... that time should be no longer. 10:40 So this angel is dealing with the question of time. 10:44 Watch as it continues: 10:57 So here it says that he is shouting out 11:00 that it's done... that the mystery of God 11:03 is... what? Finished. 11:07 Now if you pick up your Bible and you'll look in it 11:10 you'll find that there are several things 11:11 that are mentioned as mysteries. 11:14 One of the things the Bible refers to as a mystery 11:17 is the mystery of iniquity. 11:19 That's a mystery. 11:22 You see, logically you can't put it together. 11:25 Why would Lucifer rebel against God? Leave heaven 11:29 and everything there? Doesn't make sense. 11:31 And I even run onto people who are trying always 11:34 to make an excuse for sin. 11:36 There is no excuse for sin. You can't... there just isn't. 11:40 That's why it's referred to as the mystery of iniquity. 11:43 But it also refers to the mystery of God. 11:46 You see, it's also a mystery how that the Son of God, 11:50 Jesus Christ, would leave heaven. 11:52 Would leave the side of His Father. 11:54 Would leave the adoration of the angels. 11:55 Come down to this earth to be abused of man. 11:59 That logically does not fit. 12:02 That's the reason it's referred to as the mystery of God. 12:05 It's talking about the gospel. 12:07 And he says: "The mystery of God is finished. " 12:10 That means when the whole plan of salvation is over. 12:13 It's come to an end. So this angel has his hand 12:16 raised to heaven. He's shouting out that time 12:18 should be no longer, 12:20 that the mystery of God has come to an end. 12:24 That's what he's proclaiming. 12:26 Listen as he continues: 12:38 So the prophet John is told to go to this angel, 12:42 take the little book out of the hand of the angel. 12:46 That little book is open please notice in the hand of the angel. 12:51 OK. 13:17 Now evidently there is something... something about 13:21 this message this angel has that time should be no longer, 13:25 something about the mystery of God should be finished, 13:28 something that's contained in that book, 13:30 that the scripture says would be sweet in his mouth 13:34 and bitter in his stomach. 13:36 Now you find that as you read God's Word 13:39 and as you study it the books of Daniel and Revelation 13:44 go together. 13:46 They're kind of like a hand and a glove. 13:48 All the prophecies in the book of Daniel are repeated 13:51 in the book of Revelation. 13:52 And so you find that one complements the other 13:55 as you study them. This little book 13:58 that is open in the hand of the angel 14:02 is also mentioned in Daniel... in Daniel the 12th chapter. 14:06 Notice what it has to say about it: 14:22 So here he's telling Daniel: "Shut up the words; 14:25 seal the book. " Not open. 14:28 "Seal the book unto the time of the end. " 14:33 Now you understand the difference between the time 14:36 of the end and the end of time? 14:38 The Bible uses both those phrases. It talks about 14:41 the time of the end. Talks about the end of time. 14:44 When I was a boy oh, sometime usually 14:48 the month of September my father would go to town 14:52 and he would buy a turkey. 14:55 And he would bring it home and he would put that turkey 14:58 in a cage. And he would give instructions to me 15:01 about taking care of it. 15:03 Make sure it was fed, watered, cared for properly. 15:06 When my father put that turkey in that cage 15:10 that began the time of the end. 15:14 Do you understand what I'm talking about? 15:18 But when Thanksgiving Day rolled around, that was 15:21 the end of time, OK? 15:24 So he said: "Shut up the book; seal it 15:27 unto the time of the end. " 15:30 And when you and I begin to study Bible prophecy 15:32 and we begin to look at the Word of God and see what it's 15:35 talking about, you'll find that when we're looking at prophecy 15:39 concerning the coming of the Lord 15:41 there's one date that comes up over and over in God's Word 15:46 that marks the beginning of the time of the end. 15:48 I don't care whether you're talking about Daniel 7:25, 15:52 Daniel 12:7, or whether you're looking at Revelation 11 15:57 or whether you're looking at Revelation 12 16:00 or Revelation 13... all those chapters give you a time 16:06 and every one of them sets the time of the end 16:10 as that of 1798 AD. 16:13 That begins the time of the end. 16:16 He said: "Shut up the book; seal it 16:19 unto the time of the end. " 16:21 "Many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall be increased. " 16:25 Up until 1798 AD there were a lot of people that tried to 16:30 understand Bible prophecy 16:32 but they just couldn't seem to get through. 16:35 And you can go back and read their writings. 16:38 Great students of Bible prophecy 16:40 and it just seemed that they 16:42 couldn't break through. 16:45 The books of Daniel and Revelation became known 16:48 as closed books. 16:50 Looked on a closed books. Couldn't be understood. 16:53 But in the late 1700's on the scene of action came 16:58 a man by the name of Joseph Wolff. 17:02 Joseph Wolff was a Jew. 17:05 As a boy he gave his heart to the Lord. 17:08 Went to school; studied to be a minister. 17:11 And when he finished the seminary he went to Israel 17:15 and began to preach and teach the Jewish people there. 17:20 But Joseph Wolff had a great great burden on his heart 17:24 to understand Bible prophecy. 17:27 And so he began to read it, understand it. 17:30 And as Joseph Wolff was studying 17:33 particularly the book of Daniel 17:36 and he came to that text that we studied the other night 17:39 in Daniel 8:14 that said "Unto 2,300 days 17:43 then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. " 17:45 And he began to study that and he got over into the 9th chapter 17:49 of Daniel and he came to that text where Gabriel is explaining 17:54 to Daniel and said: "Know therefore and understand 17:56 that from the going forth of the commandment to restore 17:58 and build Jerusalem unto Messiah the Prince 18:00 shall be seven weeks three score and two weeks. " 18:02 And he began to take that prophecy and he began to 18:05 trace it step by step. 18:08 And as he traced it, it brought him to the date of 1843 AD. 18:14 There was a problem. 18:16 All the churches back then - Baptist, Methodist, 18:20 Presbyterian, Episcopalian, all of them - 18:23 believed that that phrase in Daniel 8:14 18:26 that said: "Then shall the sanctuary be cleansed" 18:29 they all believed that that meant the cleansing of 18:32 this earth by fire. 18:34 And so when Joseph Wolff took that prophecy and it 18:38 brought him to 1843 AD 18:40 he said: "Jesus is coming back! " 18:42 And he began to preach all across the Middle East 18:46 that Jesus Christ was coming back. 18:48 And people responded to his message 18:51 saying that Jesus was coming. 18:54 At the same time, folks, 18:57 not connected with Joseph Wolff but living at the same time, 19:01 there's a minister over in England by the name of 19:04 Edward Irving that's been preaching the same prophecy. 19:08 He has taken that same prophecy and studied it 19:11 and it's brought him to the date of 1843 AD. 19:14 And he has preached across England that Jesus is coming. 19:17 He's joined by 500 other Anglican preachers 19:21 and that has swept across the British Isles like wild fire. 19:26 You want to say this is coincidental? 19:28 You want to tell me this just happened? 19:32 At the same time - not connected with Joseph Wolff, 19:35 not connected with Edward Irving - 19:37 but living at the same time - contemporary - 19:39 there's a Catholic priest down in So. America by the name of 19:43 Manuel de Lacunza that's been studying the same prophecy. 19:46 And as he is studying those prophecies 19:49 they too have brought him to the date of 1843 AD. 19:52 And he has written a book called The Coming King 19:55 and it's circulated across South America. 19:57 And thousands and thousands of people have accepted and 20:00 believed that Jesus is coming in 1843 AD. 20:04 At the same time 20:07 not connected to these men but living at the same time 20:11 there's a Baptist minister here in the United States. 20:14 His name is William Miller. 20:17 William Miller has been pouring over those prophecies 20:20 for nine years. 20:22 He has become absolutely convicted 20:25 that Jesus is coming in 1843 AD. 20:28 William Miller was invited by a Congregational church up in 20:33 Boston to come and to present his messages. 20:36 And he went up to this little church 20:38 and there he took his charts and all and he began to 20:41 explain the prophecy. And he brought them all the way 20:44 down through that prophecy coming to 1843 AD. 20:47 And he said that Jesus is coming back. 20:50 When he finished the young pastor of that church 20:54 by the name of Joshua V. Hines 20:56 stood up and said: "Mr. Miller, do you believe 20:58 what you're preaching? " 20:59 And he said: "Well I wouldn't be preaching it if I didn't 21:02 believe it. " And that young preacher said: 21:04 "Then why don't you do something about it? " 21:06 And under the tremendous genius of that young minister 21:09 they began to make one large city after another 21:12 across the United States. 21:13 They would pitch tents. 6,000- 7,000- 8,000 people 21:17 would pour out to those tents. In fact, so many people came 21:20 that the railroad companies would have to run railroad 21:23 tracks out to take care of the people that came just by car. 21:26 Among the people that came to those meetings 21:29 was a young Methodist minister by the name of S. S. Snow. 21:34 He listened to William Miller preach, went home that night 21:37 under great conviction. 21:39 Got his Bible; got every history book he could get his hands on 21:44 and began to study that prophecy in Daniel. 21:48 And he found out that that decree given by King Artaxerxes 21:51 in 457 BC... found out that that was given in the fall of 457 BC. 21:56 And he began to trace it step by step. 21:59 And as he traced it it didn't bring him to 1843 AD. 22:03 It brought him to the fall of 1844 AD. 22:07 And S. S. Snow went to see William Miller. 22:10 And they sat down and they poured over that prophecy 22:13 and William Miller could see that he was right. 22:16 They called a Bible conference. 22:19 People came in from all over... some even from Europe. 22:23 S. S. Snow stood up and presented that paper 22:26 and that Bible conference voted. They voted that Jesus Christ 22:31 was coming back. They called it The Midnight Cry. 22:36 They went out of there electrified. 22:38 They said: "Jesus is coming! " 22:40 They told everybody they met that Jesus was coming. 22:43 They got down on their knees. They confessed their sins. 22:46 It was something they believed with all their hearts. 22:49 It was in their mouths as sweet as honey. 22:55 "Time shall be no longer. " 22:57 "The mystery of God is finished. " 23:03 October 22, 1844, came... the date that they had set 23:08 for the coming of Jesus. 23:10 They went out to meet Him. 23:13 Some went out and stood in fields. 23:15 Some sat in their homes as William Miller did. 23:18 All day long they waited. 23:21 Sun set... Jesus didn't come. 23:24 They encouraged one another and said: "Oh, He'll come 23:27 at midnight. " And on into the night they waited 23:29 and midnight came and passed 23:31 until the sun came up the next morning. 23:34 And that that had been in their mouths as sweet as honey 23:38 became bitter in their stomachs. 23:42 They had longed for it, looked for it, but Jesus hadn't come. 23:47 Now let me tell you something, friends: 23:49 if you're intellectually honest, 23:53 you can take that prophecy in Daniel 8 and 9 23:56 and it'll take you to the Fall of 1844 AD 23:59 every last time. Oh, they were wrong. 24:04 They were wrong because that prophecy's talking about 24:07 Jesus coming before His Father to begin the judgment. 24:12 And they thought it was talking about the second coming, but 24:14 the point I'm trying to make today is it was prophesied in 24:18 God's Word that they would be disappointed. It was prophesied 24:21 that it would be preached. 24:23 That's the point I'm trying to make. 24:25 Yes, it was preached. They misunderstood it 24:29 but God said they would misunderstand it. 24:32 And they were prepared and looking for the coming of Jesus. 24:35 It was in their mouths as sweet as honey. 24:37 There were certain prophecies that had to be preached 24:41 before Jesus could come. 24:43 For instance, those that I mentioned to you. 24:45 But I want you to look at the last verse of the 10th chapter 24:50 of Revelation because I read to you all the verses 24:54 but the 10th one... but the 11th one. 24:57 Let me read it to you: 25:13 Thou must prophesy again about what? 25:18 Huh? About what? 25:22 Time shall be no more? 25:24 The mystery of God should be finished? 25:26 "Thou must prophesy again. " 25:29 Who? Who must prophesy again? 25:35 You. You. You're the ones who are living 25:39 down here at the time of the end. 25:41 You're the one that God has laid that message on. 25:46 You and I are the ones that need to be proclaiming 25:48 that Jesus is coming back. 25:50 "Thou must prophesy again! " 25:53 in preparing the world for the coming of Jesus Christ. 25:58 No, He didn't come because those three angels in Revelation 14 26:02 have a special message the whole world is to hear. 26:14 That's the message. First angel is to tell people that 26:17 salvation is available for every man, every woman, 26:20 every child. 26:27 And you and I talked about that the other night. 26:30 That we're living during the hour of God's judgment. 26:33 It doesn't say: "The hour of God's judgment is coming. " 26:37 It says: "The hour of God's judgment has come. " 26:41 Going on up in heaven right now. 26:44 Secondly, it says: 26:59 And dear friend, we're going to be talking about Babylon. 27:01 We're going to be talking about the fall of Babylon. 27:03 We're going to be finding out what's involved in that second 27:06 angel's message and a third angel. 27:24 And here in a few days we're going to be looking at the beast 27:27 and its image and its mark and we're going to be finding out 27:30 exactly what's involved in that. 27:32 And all that is part - put it down - 27:35 all that is part of getting ready for the coming of 27:38 Jesus Christ. So you need to be here 27:42 as we study those great, great prophecies. 27:44 They're extremely important 27:46 and you and I know what they're talking about. 27:49 The problem is: when you start talking about 27:53 the coming of Jesus, people get edgy and get scared 27:58 and they say: "Oh Bro. Cox, don't you know there's 28:00 a text in the Bible that says 'no one knows the day 28:03 nor the hour. ' " 28:04 Well yes. That's found in Matthew 24:36. 28:07 This is the way it reads: 28:15 Yes, but the problem is that there's another text 28:19 in that same chapter that few people seem to pay 28:22 any attention to. And that text says this: 28:43 Now this morning I don't know the day, 28:46 I don't know the hour of the coming of Jesus Christ. 28:49 I'm not going to try to tell you that, friend. 28:51 But I am going to do everything in my power to help you know 28:54 it's near... even at the door. 28:57 I am going to do that. 28:59 What bothers me is I talk to Christian people, 29:04 people that love the Lord, and they say: 29:07 "Oh, we don't know when Jesus is coming. 29:09 Why He's going to come back as a thief in the night. 29:14 We don't know when Jesus is going to come back. " 29:17 Well, let me tell you something. 29:20 You can write this down in your little book if you want to. 29:23 if Jesus comes back as a thief in the night 29:27 to you, you're lost. 29:31 OK? Just put it down. 29:33 If He comes back as a thief in the night to you, 29:36 you're lost. At least that's what the scripture says. 29:38 Listen: 29:48 Paul said: "I shouldn't have to write to you about this. " 29:56 People say: "See right there? " 29:58 The problem is they quit reading right there. 30:10 Now listen, folks: 30:29 No, dear friend, Jesus is not coming as a thief in the night 30:33 to you or to me or to those that love the Lord. 30:36 He's coming as a thief in the night to the wicked 30:39 but not to the righteous. 30:41 So you and I need to be watching. We need to be waiting 30:44 for the coming of the Lord. 30:45 You see, some people think that God doesn't know 30:48 what he's doing. But as I read the scripture 30:53 God has always done everything according to a plan. 30:56 Everything has gone off perfect. Listen 31:00 concerning the birth of Jesus: 31:09 He was born exactly on time. 31:12 You remember when He turned the water into wine 31:15 there at the wedding at Cana? 31:17 And His mother you remember had asked Him to do something 31:19 about it. You remember His response to her? 31:23 He said... Jesus said to her: 31:31 He said: "You're rushing me. 31:32 You're moving Me ahead of time. " 31:36 His ministry went off like clockwork. 31:38 He died exactly on time. John 19 verse 30: 31:47 And he died exactly on time. 31:50 And you'd better put it down: 31:51 He's coming back exactly on time. 31:57 There's a text in the Bible that I find people read 32:02 that many times they take out of context. 32:04 I'd like for you to look at it with me. 32:06 It's found in Peter... the book of Peter: II Peter the third 32:10 chapter. I'm going to start with verse 3. And it says: 32:28 So they're scoffing about the coming of Jesus. 32:31 This chapter, folks, is talking about the end of time. 32:35 It's talking about the coming of Jesus Christ. 32:51 So he said the earth back then was destroyed by water. 32:55 All right? 32:56 Now listen carefully because Peter's going to come to our 32:59 day, the time in which you and I are living. 33:02 Verse 7: 33:15 I don't have time to go into that this morning, folks. 33:17 But let me ask you something: 33:19 the fuel that we use out here... you know, the gas and the oil... 33:23 what is that called? What kind of fuel is it called? 33:28 It's called fossil fuel. 33:32 Are you with me? 33:33 Put there by the flood. 33:35 The same fuel that will burn the earth at the close. 33:40 Put it down. 33:51 Now Peter is saying "Concerning the coming of Jesus" 34:04 Peter is saying when it comes to the coming of Jesus Christ 34:06 don't forget that one day is as a thousand years, 34:09 a thousand years as a day. 34:10 And people say to me: "Oh that just means that God's 34:13 not concerned with time. " No it doesn't. 34:15 In fact, it means just the opposite. 34:18 Listen to the next verse: 34:31 What is the Lord trying to tell you and tell me? 34:36 Why did he say one day is as a thousand years 34:40 and a thousand years as a day? 34:41 Well let me ask you some questions today. 34:45 How do we go about 34:50 getting a year? How do we establish that? 34:55 How do we get 365 days a year? 34:59 Yeah, we get it from the earth's orbit around the sun. 35:02 How do we establish 30 days in a month? 35:07 The moon... orbit around the earth. 35:09 How do we establish that there are 24 hours in a day? 35:16 Earth's rotation on its axis. 35:18 OK... you tell me. Now you tell me this morning: 35:21 what heavenly body - 35:25 sun, moon, stars, earth - 35:28 what heavenly body gives us the seven-day week? 35:36 What happened? Come on. 35:40 I don't know what the evolutionist does with that. 35:44 Only place you get a 7-day week is right here, friends. 35:47 God gave the seven-day week. 35:50 Now, what does that have to do with what I'm talking about? 35:52 If you pick up the Bible and begin to study it, 35:54 you find in prophecy the number seven is used 35:56 over and over and over. 35:57 God... In Revelation the number seven is used 35:59 over 50 times. God talks about seven seals, 36:03 seven woes, seven spirits, seven plagues, 36:05 seven trumpets. I could go on and on. 36:07 That number seven indicates completeness. 36:11 That's what it stands for. 36:12 All right... now watch carefully: 36:16 the Bible divides time into seven parts. 36:19 How it divides it. 36:21 Genesis 5 says there's 36:24 ten generations from Adam 36:29 to the flood. 36:30 Genesis 11 says there's ten generations 36:33 from the flood to Abraham. 36:37 Matthew 1:17 says there's fourteen generations 36:41 from Abraham to David. 36:44 It continues in Matthew 1:17 and says there's 36:47 fourteen generations from David to the captivity. 36:50 And then it says that there's 36:52 fourteen generations from the captivity to Christ. 36:56 OK... that's 5 periods of time. 36:59 Then the Bible tells us in Revelation 2 and 3 37:02 that you and I are living in 37:03 the time of the Holy Spirit - 37:05 the dispensation of the Holy Spirit. 37:06 That's the 6th period of time. 37:08 And then the Bible talks about 37:10 a seventh period of time in: 37:17 Talks about a thousand years 37:20 that we've studied. OK? 37:21 Studied last night. 37:45 A thousand years. 37:48 Seven periods of time. 37:51 Are you gettin' the picture? 37:54 That seventh period, folks, 37:56 is the 1,000 years of the millennium. 37:59 We have come through 6,000 years of time. 38:03 Now watch carefully because the Bible speaks 38:05 of rest. Pastor Melashenko talked to you about rest. 38:11 Listen carefully what it promises you: 38:26 Every 7th year they had to let the land lie desolate. 38:30 It was to rest. 38:32 OK... follow: 38:43 Let me ask you something: as we studied the millennium 38:45 last night, the land was going to be what? 38:48 Desolate. 38:56 OK, that's a promise that God has given. 38:58 You remember the children of Israel? 39:00 Remember what happened with them? 39:02 This is what it says in II Chronicles 36:21. 39:19 Now you know why the children of Israel were in captivity for 39:22 70 years. Because the land had to lie desolate for 70 years. 39:26 Do you think we have done any better in letting the land 39:29 rest than the Jewish people did? 39:31 Huh? 39:33 Well let me ask you, dear friends: if we haven't 39:36 and we've gone 6,000 years 39:38 then how long would the land have to rest? 39:41 A thousand years. 39:43 Are you with me? That's where it is. 40:17 You see the whole land is absolutely desolate. 40:20 "For thus saith the Lord: 'The whole land shall be 40:23 desolate... yet I'll not make a full end. ' " 40:27 So when it comes to the coming of Jesus Christ 40:30 you can consider this... 40:34 we find it just simply tells us this: 40:36 That from creation to Abraham 40:40 was... You have any idea? 40:46 Why would He pick Abraham? 40:49 Because it's when God took the Jewish people... 40:52 took Abraham and said: "I'm going to make a special 40:54 nation out of you to take the gospel to the world. " 40:57 We're told that it is 41:00 from Abraham to Jesus... 41:04 Have any idea? 41:10 Where do we find ourselves today? 41:13 From Jesus to our day has been 2,000 years. 41:19 And it says "the land is going to keep its Sabbaths. " 41:24 It's going to rest for 1,000 years. 41:28 The Sabbath always takes place, friends, 41:31 on the seventh. Now, are you going to tell me today 41:36 that God's going to pass up His coming... this 7,000th year, 41:42 this millennium... 41:43 and go 6,000 more years into eternity before Jesus comes? 41:49 All I'm trying to get across to you this morning: 41:52 I don't know the day, I don't know the hour 41:55 but let me tell you something, dear friends, 41:57 I know it's near. 41:59 It can't be far off. 42:01 All the prophecies in this book point to it. 42:04 You and I are down to the end 42:07 when Jesus Christ is going to come back. 42:10 Matthew 24... it says: 42:26 That meant they were going on about their business 42:29 not concerned. More concerned with making a living. 42:34 More concerned with life 42:36 than they were about the coming of the Lord. 42:39 What does it say? 42:53 I hope that will not be said of you - 42:55 I hope it will not be said of me - 42:57 that we did not know. 42:59 You and I are to be watching and waiting, 43:03 looking, preparing for the coming of Jesus Christ. 43:08 That you and I should be ready for that day. 43:16 Do you really want Jesus, 43:21 your Lord, to appear? 43:26 Do you long for 43:30 your Savior's return? 43:37 Your lips praise His name... 43:44 does your life 43:46 show the same? 43:52 Do you really 43:56 want Jesus 44:00 to come? 44:10 This morning I would like to invite 44:14 those here this morning, those of you who 44:17 would like to give your heart to Jesus Christ, 44:20 accept Him as your personal Savior, 44:22 I'm going to ask you to step out of where you're seated 44:27 and make your way to the front this morning. 44:29 If you have given your heart to Christ 44:32 and you would like to follow Him in baptism, 44:34 I'd like to invite you also to take that step. 44:38 Come forward this morning. 44:40 Or if you have learned things in God's Word, 44:44 things that you have not understood such as the Sabbath, 44:47 and so forth, and you would like by faith to step out 44:49 and keep those things, I'm going to ask you also 44:52 to come as we pray. 44:54 I'd just like to invite you to step out and make your way 44:57 right to the front this morning. 44:58 Won't you come? 45:41 Men and women are coming today. Won't you make that decision? 45:44 If you need to give your heart to Jesus Christ 45:47 this morning, won't you do that? 45:49 Preparation for His coming. That's the only way 45:51 I know to get ready. 45:52 If you'd like to follow the Lord in baptism, 45:55 make that decision. Come. 45:57 Or if you would like to say: "Listen, I've learned truths 46:00 that I've never known before and I'm going to follow them. " 46:03 Make that decision. Men and women are coming. Won't you? 46:38 I want to take just a moment to let the Holy Spirit 46:41 do its work. 46:43 To those of you who are watching by television 46:45 I would like to just simply invite you also 46:49 at this time to take that step 46:51 and give your heart to Jesus Christ. 46:54 If you've given your heart to Him and you haven't followed 46:56 Him in baptism, won't you make that decision today? 47:00 Or some of these things that we've been learning 47:02 in God's Word in preparation for His coming, 47:05 some of the great truths of God's Word, won't you make 47:07 that decision to follow? To walk in accordance with that? 47:13 We're living in serious times. 47:15 Jesus is coming back. 47:17 We want each of us to be ready to meet Him, 47:22 prepared for His coming. 47:24 We'll take just a moment to let the Holy Spirit speak to each 47:27 heart. As He does, won't you just step out of your seat 47:31 or stand wherever you're seated? 47:34 Give the Holy Spirit an oppor- tunity to speak to your heart. 47:55 Heavenly Father, 47:56 this morning as we have seen that surely we're down to the 48:00 end, the time when Jesus is going to be coming back, 48:05 we ask that each one of us here today 48:09 may make a full surrender of our heart to You. 48:13 That by faith we might reach out and accept 48:18 Your gift of life eternal. 48:22 Lord, we pray that each one of us may have the privilege 48:27 of being among those that will go with You 48:32 and be with You in Your kingdom. |
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