2 Thessalonians chapter number 2 and verse number
1.
2 Thessalonians chapter 2 and verse 1.
Paul is writing, he says, Now we beseech
you, brethren, by the coming of the Lord
Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto
him, that ye be not soon shaken in
mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor
by word, nor by letter, as from us,
as that the day of Christ is at
hand.
Let no man deceive you by any means,
for that day shall not come, except there
come a falling away first, and that man
of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that
is called God, or that is worshipped, so
that he as God sitteth in the temple
of God, showing himself that he is God.
Remember ye not that when I was yet
with you, I told you these things?
Now ye know what withholdeth, that he might
be revealed in his time, for the mystery
of iniquity doth already work.
Only he who now letteth will let, until
he be taken out of the way, and
then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the
Lord shall consume with the spirit of his
mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of
his coming.
Even him whose coming is after the working
of Satan, with all power and signs and
lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness,
and them that perish, because they received not
the love of the truth, that they might
be saved, and for this cause God shall
send them strong delusion that they should believe
a lie, that they all might be damned
who believed not the truth, but had pleasure
in unrighteousness.
I want to preach tonight, and I hope
you'll pardon the English by way of a
title just a little bit, but tonight I
want to preach from 2 Thessalonians 2 on
this subject.
You ain't seen nothing yet.
Thank you very much.
You may be seated.
Let's bow our heads in hearts and pray,
and see what the Lord will do in
our midst tonight.
Father, please help me as I preach the
Bible.
And sure as I'm standing behind this pulpit
tonight, I know this is the text that
you've asked me to preach, and so I
pray that I would be obedient and yielded
to the Spirit of God.
I pray that you would empty me of
myself, you would fill me with the Spirit
of God, you would help me as I
preach, you would help these, my friends, this
congregation as they listen.
And, oh, dear God, if there be one
here tonight who has never been saved by
that glorious love that we heard sung about
tonight, I pray, Father, that you would convict
them desperately.
And even during this sermon, they would be
miserable until they get their heart right before
God.
And, Father, tonight I pray for God's people
that you would stir us, that you would
convict us, and, Lord, that you too also
would change us.
Father, use the Word of God tonight in
a very special way.
We'll thank you for everything that you'll say
and do, for we ask it in Jesus'
name.
Amen.
If you study the writings of the Apostle
Paul, you will find out he was a
man that was consumed with Bible prophecy.
He was a man that was consumed with
talking about the soon coming of the Lord
Jesus Christ.
Now, there's something you must understand whenever a
preacher preaches on the second coming of the
Lord Jesus.
The second coming basically entails everything from the
rapture through the millennial reign.
We're talking about the battle of Armageddon, we're
talking about the marriage of the Lamb, we're
talking about the rapture itself, we're talking about
the judgment seat of Christ.
All of that is included in the second
coming.
I am not necessarily preaching on the format
of the second coming tonight.
Although 2 Thessalonians 2 deals some with that,
but mostly it deals with the rapture of
the church or the return of the Lord
Jesus Christ.
But it doesn't take a rocket scientist and
a brain surgeon to figure out that when
the Apostle Paul writes all of his New
Testament books, 14 of them, if you believe
he wrote the book of Hebrews, and I
do, but if you study his writings, it
will not take you long to figure out
he was consumed with one thing, Jesus Christ
is coming again.
The Bible says in John chapter 14 and
verse number 3, I will come again.
Acts chapter 1 and verse number 11, ye
men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing into
heaven?
This thing Jesus which ye see rising into
heaven shall so come again in like manner
as ye have seen him go.
And then we have the Apostle Paul saying,
let your moderation be known unto all men
for the day of the Lord is at
hand.
And when we get to 1 Thessalonians, there
is five chapters.
When we get to 2 Thessalonians, there are
three chapters.
You put them together, obviously you have eight
chapters, and every one of them have one
theme, the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
There's a few things tonight in 2 Thessalonians
that I would like to share with you
as we kind of digest this chapter and
kind of expositorily, if you will, go through
it together.
Look in your Bibles, if you would, please.
For sake of an outline, write a couple
of things down.
They all begin with the letter R, so
we'll be on the same page.
Verse number 1 and verse number 2 is
what I call the rapture.
The rapture.
Now, please understand, we use the word rapture
reverently, but please understand the word rapture is
never mentioned in your Bible.
Matter of fact, it is a Latin word
that means rapier, to snatch away or to
kidnap.
And thank God one day, like a great
electromagnet, Jesus Christ is going to kidnap me
out of the cesspool of this world.
And so here in 2 Thessalonians, chapter 2,
verses 1 and 2, notice what Paul is
telling these people.
He's writing them.
They were concerned about some things, and so
the apostle Paul, as he did much of
his ministry, he fixed bad doctrines.
He said, now we beseech.
The word means beg, please, pray, urge.
Now, we beseech you, brethren.
Who's he talking to?
He's not talking to wicked people.
He's talking to God's people.
Now, we beseech you, brethren, by the coming
of our Lord Jesus Christ, notice the phrase,
and by our gathering together unto Him.
That is the same phrase that we use
in 1 Thessalonians, the snatching or the calling
away.
So he says, I beseech you by the
coming of the Lord Jesus Christ and by
our gathering together unto Him, that ye be
not too shaken in mind or be troubled,
neither by spirit nor by word nor by
letter as from us, as that the day
of Christ, the day of Christ is a
reference to the tribulation period, as that the
day of Christ is at hand.
Let no man deceive you by notice any
means.
For that day, speaking of the tribulation day,
the day of Christ, for that day shall
not come except there come a falling away
first and that man of sin be revealed,
the son of perdition.
And so, number one, the apostle Paul begins
to doctrinalize with these people, if you will,
about what we refer to reverently as the
rapture or the soon coming of the Lord
Jesus Christ.
Now, please understand something about the rapture.
We as Bible believers have a big fancy
word that we call eminence.
It simply means that there are no signs
that have to be fulfilled for Jesus Christ
to come again.
At any moment, He can split the eastern
sky and before you can blink just like
that, you and me will be out of
here kicking up glory dust on the streets
of gold.
There's not one sign that has to be
fulfilled.
There's not one thing that has to take
place.
All the signs in Matthew chapter number 24
point to His coming back to the earth,
but here, ladies and gentlemen, we're not preaching
in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 about His coming
to the earth.
We're preaching about His coming to the clouds
and our gathering together unto Him.
And so, I believe that any moment, Jesus
Christ could come again.
He may come in 50 years.
I'll be honest.
He may come in 50 days.
He may come in 50 minutes.
Or He may come in 50 seconds.
But the theme of the New Testament is
lift up your head, your redemption draweth nigh,
and at any moment, Jesus Christ may come
again.
You say, well, preacher, you can't prove that
He's coming tonight.
That's right, but you can't prove that He's
not, so you better live like He's going
to.
And so the Apostle Paul wrote these people
and explained to them the rapture, but there
was a problem.
You know what the problem was?
Somebody had written to the church at Thessalonica.
Go to your Bible.
They had written them, and they had signed
the name of the Apostle Paul to that
letter.
They were heretics.
They were liars.
They were false prophets, just like the liars,
heretics, and false prophets we have of the
day.
As a matter of fact, Pastor was saying
a moment ago that when the devil fell
out of heaven, he fell into a choir
loft or on a piano or on an
organ.
Well, I've been in a few churches where
I think he fell in the pool pit.
And I do believe there's some heretics and
some prophets and some false prophets in the
land.
And so here the Bible says that the
Apostle Paul is telling them, do not be
shaken in your mind.
Do not be shaken in your spirit.
He says, neither by word, notice, nor by
letter, as from us.
Somebody wrote them a letter, signed the Apostle
Paul to it, and told them that the
Thessalonians in church had missed the rapture and
that they were then living in the tribulation
period.
So Paul wrote back to them with all
the compassion that he could muster up.
And I'm sure he was a little bit
flustered and his danger was up at those
false prophets.
And he wrote back and said, don't let
them shake you.
Don't let them quake your faith.
You stand firm upon the principles, the standards,
the convictions, and the fundamentals of the word
of God.
He said, because you are not living in
the tribulation period, because God's people will be
delivered from such a terrible time on this
earth.
He said, as a matter of fact, before
that day can ever take place, there must
first come a falling away.
The word falling away is the Greek word
apostasia.
It means a departing or a going or
turning away from the truth.
And certainly we see that in the day
and age in which we live.
I'll just take this one church right here,
for example.
Every church that's represented tonight, we could say
the very same thing.
But did you know, Pastor Reynolds, if you
had every single member that you've ever had
from the inception of the Temple Baptist Church,
you'd have to build an auditorium that would
seat 5,000 people.
But there's been a falling away.
Gradually, people leave church.
Gradually, people quit reading the Bible.
Gradually, people gravitate towards falsehood and wickedness and
depravity.
And certainly, if there was a falling away
in the day of the Apostle Paul, how
much more, ladies and gentlemen, 2,000 years
later, is there a falling away and apostasy
in the day and age in which we
live?
And so the Apostle Paul wrote to encourage
them, to let them know that they were
not in the tribulation period, that Jesus Christ
had not come, and that furthermore, they didn't
even have to worry about the tribulation period
because God's people were going to be delivered
from such an awful time.
Did you know your Bible says in Romans
8 that we've been delivered from the wrath
to come?
Did you know that it's the same word,
wrath, that is translated in Revelation 13?
And God poured out His wrath upon the
earth without measure.
Now, when you men got married, your wife
walked that aisle and she had that long
wedding gown on.
Now, I mean, she was as pretty as
a princess, and your heart was about to
beat out of your chest, and your eyeballs
were bigger than that clock on the back
wall, and your knees were knocking back and
forth.
I mean, it felt like you'd been sucking
on cotton swabs for weeks.
And that woman comes walking down there, and
you thought to yourself, breathe, just breathe, just
breathe.
And everybody's standing there, and they're all nice
and decked out, and you've got the bridesmaids,
or whatever they call them people, and you've
got your best man, and you've got the
ring bearer, and you've got the little flower
girl, and you know, the kids are always
cute.
They never do anything right, but they're cute.
And so, you have that wedding, and man,
you marry that woman, and I mean, you
begin to flutter inside, and he says those
famous words, you may now kiss the bride.
And you rip that thing off her head,
and you lay a great big wet one
right there on her lips, and then everything's
beautiful, and everything's fine.
And you know what?
You're so happy, because she's your bride, and
I mean, she's pure, and she's holy.
What kind of man would you be?
If you took her back to the house,
and as soon as you got back to
the house, you doubled up your fist, and
busted her right in the jaw.
I mean, knocked her right on the ground,
and kicked her in the ribs, and pulled
her hair out of her head, and bloodied
her nose, and bloodied her mouth, and took
one of her high-heeled shoes off, and
just about beat her to death with it.
What kind of man would you be?
I'll tell you what kind of man you'd
be.
If you ever hit your wife, you're lower
than a snake's nail in a wagon track.
I'll tell you that right now.
A man that'll beat his wife, I'll tell
you, he's wicked as a devil.
He's wicked and vile and ungodly, and he
don't have any of God in him.
I don't care how long you've been in
church.
You've beat your wife, you're crazy as a
devil.
And so, let's say you went home and
beat her to death.
You say, preacher, I would never do that.
Okay, then please tell me why you think
Jesus is going to do it to His
bride.
You think He's going to marry His bride
and beat her to death with a high
-heeled shoe?
You think He's going to let the antichrist
bloodier your jaw?
And you think we're going to have 666
on our foreheads?
Hey, before I got saved, I smoked a
lot of dope, but I've never been that
stupid.
I wouldn't believe that crash before I got
saved, and I certainly ain't going to believe
it tonight.
I am not going through the tribulation period.
Now, I've met some fundamental Baptist preachers who
don't agree with me, but I'm not interested
in agreeing with Baptists.
I'm interested in agreeing with the Bible.
I'm not going through one day of the
tribulation.
I'm not going through three seconds of the
tribulation.
And if you think you're going through three
and a half years, don't get your boots
on.
You're going through the last three and a
half years.
I'm not going through any of it.
And Paul said, Thessalonians, don't you worry one
wee little bit.
You ain't going through a bit of it.
Not one single bit of it.
And so he told them about the rapture,
which, by the way, is not a blasted
hope.
The Bible calls it a blessed hope.
Why is it a blessed hope?
Because one day, we're getting out of here.
One day, the trumpet's going to sound.
And I like to hear him play the
trumpet.
And he's trying to teach me, and I
emphasize the word trying, to teach me how
to play the trumpet.
But I'm going to tell you what, as
much as I love to hear Brother Noel
Robertson play that trumpet, one day somebody's going
to play that trumpet, and it's going to
be right on note, right on key, and
buddy, I'm going to hear every bit of
it, and I'm going to be up and
out of here before you can say hallelujah,
amen.
Gone.
One one thousand.
That's crooked.
You can blink your eyes.
You're gone here one moment, gone the next.
You say, you really believe all that fairytale
business?
You better believe, I believe.
Somebody told Dr. Bob Jones, Sr., they said,
we think you live in a dream world.
He said, well, if I'm dreaming, bless God,
don't you pinch my cheek and wake me
up because I'm having the time of my
life.
And if you think I'm living in a
fairytale land, that's fine, brother, but I'll guarantee
you one thing, I will be happy never
after one day.
He encouraged them by preaching to them about
the rapture, the gathering together, the snatching away
of the blood of Christ.
I believe that just as sure as this
pulpit's made out of wood and just as
sure as this section needs to be nailed
down, amen.
I believe that Jesus Christ is coming again
tonight.
And I know it's kind of trite just
to say it, Jesus is coming again, but
guess what?
He is coming again.
I love the simplistic truths of the Word
of God.
Jesus Christ is coming again and it could
be at any moment and that's why I
want to live right.
That's why I want to live holy.
I don't want to be caught dead in
a place I shouldn't be, doing something I
shouldn't be doing with somebody I should not
be with.
Hey, I want to be caught faithful because
Jesus said, when I come back will I
find any faith on the earth.
And He's not talking about defaith, He's talking
about the faithfulness of His people.
I want to be found faithful in the
eyes of my Savior when I stand at
the judgment seat of Christ.
Much more could be said, but we've got
to hurry, look in your Bible please now
at verse number three again.
2 Thessalonians chapter number two and verse number
three.
Number one, we've seen the rapture, but secondly,
please write down what I call the revealing.
The rapture and the revealing, verse three.
Let no man deceive you by any means
for that day shall not come, except there
come a falling away first and that man
of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.
Notice His revealing.
Who opposes and exalteth himself above all that
is called God.
Oh, that is worship.
So that he has God, sitteth in the
temple of God, showing himself that he is
God.
Now by the way, I want to remind
you, the tribulation is not for the church,
it is for the Jewish nation.
The Jews do not believe that Jesus was
the Messiah.
That is why they will believe this man
is God because they will think he is
the Messiah.
So when he sets himself up as God,
they will worship him as God.
Now no doubt, not only is it a
time of Jacob or Israel's trouble, because the
church is not going to be around, not
one bloodlust born again, child of God will
be left behind.
Not one.
And so when God pours out His wrath,
which by the way the Bible says without
mixture, and I believe that speaking of the
mercy of God, there's going to be no
mercy drops mixed in that wrath.
It's just the unadulterated wrath of God being
poured out upon this earth.
It is not only for the Jews, but
it's also for the Gentiles, the Gentile nations,
who have never heard a clear presentation of
the gospel and we will deal with that
tonight at the conclusion of our sermon in
just a few moments.
But the Bible says this man will set
himself up as God and notice what he
does when he does that.
Verse 5, Remember ye not, Paul said, that
when I was yet with you, I told
you these things, and now you know what
withholdeth, that he might be revealed in his
time.
You see, ladies and gentlemen, the simple kindergarten
fact of the matter is that when all
of this takes place, when thousands, yea, millions
of people immediately spontaneously disappear, somebody's going to
have to give an answer for the mess
that's taken place.
And there will be a satanically energized superman
by the name of the Antichrist who steps
on the stage.
Many people come to me and they say,
Brother Lockwood, what do you think about the
seven heads and the ten horns, and what
do you think about the dragon, and what
do you think about the beast, and you
know, what does this represent?
I'll be honest with you, I don't know
who the Antichrist is.
I don't really necessarily know where he's coming
from.
I've got my ideas.
I don't know if he's alive today, but
because I've got good news for you, Temple
Baptist Church, I'm not looking for the Antichrist,
I'm looking for Jesus Christ.
I don't care what he looks like, what
he smells like, and he can wear the
best clothes in all the world that money
can buy, but I'm not going to see
the joker that doesn't make any difference to
me whatsoever.
I'll not be under his reign, I'll be
under the rule and reign of the Lord
Jesus Christ.
But he will be revealed in his time.
And this satanically energized superman comes out of
the Bible in Revelation chapter number 6.
The Bible says he's riding on a white
horse.
Please understand, that is not the same rider
of the white horse as it is in
Revelation chapter 19, that is Jesus Christ.
You say, well, why is he on a
white horse?
Because I want to remind you, he's an
Antichrist.
He's a mimic.
He's a chameleon.
He can fit in with any crowd out
there.
And the Bible says when he steps on
the scene that he has a bow.
Revelation chapter 6 studies sometimes.
He has a bow in his hand.
Why does the Bible say that he comes
forth on a white horse with a bow
in his hand?
I'll tell you why.
Because the bow was a symbolization of how
he's going to conquer the world.
But you'll notice it had no arrow.
Because he's not going to conquer the world
through war.
He's not going to conquer the world by
dropping A-bombs.
He will conquer the world around a conference
table.
He will be an economic, a religious, a
political, a governmental genius.
He will be the Don Juan Suave of
mystery.
And this satanically energized Superman is not coming
on a platform of war.
He is coming on a platform of peace.
And Daniel 9.27 triggers the tribulation period.
I used to read my Bible and I
used to preach when I first started preaching
that immediately when Jesus comes again, the tribulation
starts.
That's not true.
You read Daniel chapter number 9, verses 26,
27, and 28, and you will find out
that the rapture does not trigger the tribulation,
but the Antichrist making a seven-year covenant
with the Jews triggers the tribulation.
And so he tells the Jews, you can
worship God in the temple.
He tells the priests, you can dress the
way you want to, walk the way you
want to, talk the way you want to.
He reinstitutes the sacrifice there.
He rebuilds the temple.
He starts bringing the world together in that
one world global economy.
And they set him up as the high
man, if you will.
He'll be the president, not of the United
States of America.
He'll be the president, the prophet, and the
pope of the world.
The Bible says the nations of the world
will bow down before him.
And for seven years, he will make a
covenant of peace with the Jews.
And you hear every time he comes out
of this preacher's mouth, they've never had peace
in their life.
And that will be false peace.
They will be crying, peace, peace, and sudden
destruction shall come upon them, Psalms chapter number
36.
There will be no peace until the prince
of peace, the king of kings and Lord
of lords, comes back to rule and reign
for a thousand years in Revelation chapter number
19.
And for seven years, this revealed one sets
up a covenant of peace.
Ladies and gentlemen, after the first three and
a half years, he commits what the Bible
calls the abomination of desolation, spoken of by
Jeremiah the prophet.
And he goes into the very temple, the
very place where the Jews consider to be
holy.
And as Antiochus Epiphanes, back years and centuries
ago, offered a vow on the altar for
four hundred years, the temple was enclosed because
it was a disgrace and he had depraved
the very altar.
And so this man will set himself up,
declare himself to be God in the very
temple, commit the abomination of desolation.
And that's when Matthew chapter...
Because after the first three and a half
years, which by the way are bad, water
turns to blood, famine and inflation.
You read Revelation chapter number 6, that whole
chapter, you know what you find out?
You got a white horse, you got a
black horse, you got a red horse, you
got a pale horse, and not one of
them does anything good for this human race.
Inflation and taxes.
You think gas has been fluctuating?
No, you wait for the tribulations here, it'll
cost you $27 a tank, friend, or $27
a gallon.
Bread will probably cost about $12 or $15
a loaf.
I mean, it'll go through the roof.
The Bible says, if we estimate the amount
of people that are living now, that will
be living then, the Bible talks about one
-fourth of the population dropping stone-cold dead.
And that's just the first three and a
half years.
After that three and a half years, the
Bible says that God's wrath will be poured
out without measure, and that man will begin
to slay all of those who will not
take the mark, and you won't be able
to buy, and you won't be able to
sell, you won't be able to go to
Walmart, they'll take your kids away, they'll remove
your social security number, they'll take your house
away, they'll take your car away, they'll take
away everything that you have.
And some smart aleck says, well, I'll tell
you one thing, brother-in-law, I've got
enough sense to know that I won't take
that mark during the tribulation period.
Sometimes we're on the road and we like
to go to a theme park.
And you go to a theme park and
you know you pay $25, $35, $45 to
get to the theme park.
About four, five, six, seven, eight hours of
time, and after about the first two or
three hours, I'm out of that place.
That's all they got is roller coasters.
And bless God, I don't like a one
-up.
I never have.
I like them, drive them, and so on.
They're smiling right now and I don't even
look at them, and I don't like roller
coasters.
But you know what you do when you
go over there to them places?
We used to go to Opryland.
You know, God pity my soul, I've been
to Disney World before, but you know you
go to Disney World or something like that,
Dollywood, guess what they do when you walk
in and tell your mother you stamped your
hand?
You know what that means?
That means when you go out, they better
see that mark and when you come back
in, they better see that mark.
Now you hear me, hear me well.
If you think that you're not gonna be
somebody that doesn't take the mark when you're
starving to death and when you ain't got
a vehicle to drive and when they take
your kids away, hey buddy, if you'll take
a mark for four hours of pleasure in
a theme park, I promise you you'll take
a mark so you can feed your belly.
Oh, I never take the mark.
If you're left behind, you will take the
mark because God will make you take the
mark.
He'll make you believe a lie.
And this wicked one will be set up.
We don't have time to go there, but
if you read Revelation chapter 13, it is
interpreted by Revelation chapter 17.
In Revelation chapter 13, the Bible says that
the beast gives this false anti-Christ, which
by the way, you have God the Father,
God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, the
Holy Trinity, if you will.
Well, in the New Testament, in the book
of the Revelation, you have an unholy Trinity.
And here is this beast, and here is
this false prophet, this wicked, vile, ungodly anti
-Christ.
And the Bible says he has power to
call fire out of heaven.
The Bible says that the beast gives him
this power and that one time he has
a wound in his head, more than likely
he gets shot and tries to be assassinated
and he dies and he lays there on
the street and then by the power of
that satanicness and that ritualism and witchcraft, he's
raised back from the dead and the world
declares that this man truly is God.
Everybody believes the phony, baloney, malarkeyism, if you
will, that he spits out and spews to
the people like a venomous snake in everybody.
But if you read Revelation chapter 17, you
know what your Bible tells us?
It says that around the conference table, if
you will, that the nations of the world
should give him their power.
Now, I'm not going to preach for the
next few minutes to be mean.
God knows my heart.
I don't want to be that way.
I want to be the most spiritual preacher
in the face of God.
I'm against anything in one world.
I'm against one world, everything.
Jesus did not come to unite.
He said he came to bring us toward.
Anything that unites this world back together again
is anti-God.
And you can tell everybody I said that.
You hear me, friends.
There's going to be a one world government
under this man.
That will mean there will be a one
world economy.
There will be a one world currency.
That is why I'm against, you hear me,
a one world army.
I have never been for the UN and,
bless God, I will never be for the
UN.
If I was in the military, I would
drop stone cold dead of a heart attack
before I would ever remove American flag from
my body and put some stinking UN symbol
on me.
I ain't fighting for no UN.
Some of you liberal Democrats that voted for
Bill Clinton, your president, didn't even go to
war so don't put your lips out tonight
while I'm preaching.
I'm against anything and everything that is one
world.
I'm against all of it.
I'm against a one world government.
I'm against a one world political system.
Now you hear me, I am definitely against
a one world religion.
And that will be the main platform of
this man's message.
Now you know, I say this all the
time but I'm not real smart but I'm
not real stupid either.
And I've got enough sense to know that
the stage is already being set for this
one world religion.
It's already coming together.
Now if you're in here tonight and you're
not a Baptist, you're just as welcome in
this building as anybody else.
And I'm not going to heaven because I'm
a Baptist.
Not that whatsoever.
I've told them over at Valley Drive, somebody
accused me and said, well, you think only
Baptists are going to heaven.
I said, you're kidding.
Most of them I preach to are lost.
But I'm going to tell you something, I'm
not going to heaven because I'm a Baptist
but I figure since I am going, I
might as well fly first class.
I'm not preaching Baptist doctrine.
I'm preaching Bible doctrine.
But you hear me, ladies and gentlemen, this
is the honest truth.
If a preacher's ever told you and I
do my dead level best to tell you
with a heart of love, there are two
organizations right now that are pulling together to
bring what will come about as what God
calls the great whore of Revelation chapter 17.
It's the two C's.
It's the Catholic and the charismatic.
I ain't never been an ecumenical preacher and
I never will be.
It's the God's honest truth.
If I've ever told you, I had a
man come to me one night and he
said, Brother Locke, he said, how would you
like to be a nationally known evangelist?
I'm going to tell you something.
I was 23 years old when he asked
me that and I've taken years for a
couple little bit.
I mean, there's a little bit of area
of pride that starts lifting up and he
starts telling me you can fill up football
stadiums and preach to thousands of people rather
than just preaching to some little old church
to a hundred people.
And I said, well, tell me a little
bit more.
And the more he started talking, the more
I realized I didn't want any part of
it.
There is no person that speaks in tongues
that's going to support my belief.
No Roman Catholic is going to give me
a dime of their money.
I don't want it.
I don't care what Jack Vanity says.
I don't want a dime of the Roman
Catholic's money.
I don't want a dime of the tongue
slapper's money.
I don't want a dime of it.
If a person won't line up with what
the Word of God says, I'll preach in
a rescue mission to five people before I
fill up a football stadium and preach to
a bunch of people that don't even believe
the Bible.
Now, I know we get called warmongers and
hard-headed and hard-nosed and mean and
mean-spirited but I'm going to tell you
something.
If you think I'm yolking me up with
this ecumenical movement, you're crazy as a box
of biscuits, friend.
There's no way.
I ain't yolking up with the Pope.
He don't believe what I believe and furthermore,
he don't believe what the Bible believes.
There's only one city on the face of
God's earth that is on seven mountains and
in Revelation chapter 17, it is the city
of Rome.
And the Vatican is the very place where
everything is coming together.
By the way, if you study history, you
will find out that all the Protestants are
going right back to Mama.
All the Protestants are going back to what
they call the Mother Church.
That's all your Methodists.
That's your Presbyterians.
That's your Episcopalians.
Now you hear me.
I didn't wake up one morning and say
I think I'll just be a Baptist for
convenience sake.
I'm a Baptist for conviction sake and if
you can show me anything close to the
Bible, I'll yolk up with it tomorrow morning.
I'll yolk up with it before I'm through
preaching if you can help me.
But I'm going to tell you something, I'm
not a Protestant.
Baptists have never been Protestants.
They never have been.
They never will be.
I ain't never protested nothing.
I ain't never come out of the Roman
Catholic Church and bless God, I ain't never
going back.
Before the first Pope ever put a robe
on, Baptist preachers were having their tongues cut
out for preaching the everlasting gospel of the
Lord Jesus Christ.
Before John Calvin ever wrote his book, there
were Baptist preachers that were running up and
down the land and they were having rags
jumped down their throats and having their innards
ripped out by the Roman Catholic Church and
one of the best books I've ever read
on the face of God's earth is Fox's
Book of Martyrs.
You read that book and buddy, you'll go
on a bear hunt with a swift.
I mean that book will stir you up.
But guess what happened last year?
I was at the Cold City Baptist Church
of Cold City, North Carolina and I went
and bought the new edition.
The first printing of the new edition of
Fox's Book of Martyrs and guess what it's
called?
The Catholic Trinity Edition.
If you're a Catholic here tonight, you're as
welcome as any Baptist in this building.
You're as welcome as any Baptist in this
building and I'm glad you're here.
But you are in a religion that is
anti-God and the anti-Christ is using
the Catholic and the charismatic to bring everybody
together.
And I ain't never been a part of
it and I never want to be a
part of it.
People don't understand why we give Billy Graham
a hard time.
I'm going to tell you something, Billy Graham's
one more soul to Christ and Greg Lott
will ever win.
But it's never right to do wrong in
order to get a chance to do right.
I'm not having Bishop Pike on my meetings
and my platforms when Brother Robertson gets through
singing and getting up and praying to the
Virgin Mary.
You can forget that mass.
I've never done that and by the grace
of God I never will.
And if you ever find that I go
that way and start filling up football stadiums
by the day D, you take a baseball
bat and bash my brain dead.
Because God knows my heart, I don't want
to have any part of anything that the
anti-Christ has a part of.
And all these churches coming together nowadays and
all of them loving and they all have
their little praise and worship choirs and they
don't preach the Bible anymore and they let
their standards down.
Hey, that's why we've got such an argument
over the Bible nowadays.
They're trying to do away with the whole
thing.
You see, if they can change the Bible
enough, they can make you not believe the
Bible is even the Word of God and
the Word of Israel is still the thing
in a trash can like most fabrics have
anyhow and they'll just get rid of it
and say, well, it's not relevant anyhow.
What big deal is doctrine?
That's where you get your promise keepers by
the way.
Your promise keepers say that doctrine is not
important.
It's all to get together for the sake
of love and for the sake of unity.
Hey, I believe in loving people.
I believe the local church ought to unify
but if you think I'm loving and unifying
at the expense of doctrine, no sorry Bob,
that's against the Bible.
This man's going to bring all the armies
together.
He's going to bring all the nations together.
He's going to bring the currency together.
When I was in Africa, you talk about
being in a kind of a European area.
You know, Great Britain and Europe and all
that, they own all of Africa.
When I was over there, you know, when
the Europeans are at the new part of
the year, when they change over their currency,
I'm telling you, Africa went up over that.
I'm telling you, little bit by little bit,
everything's just kind of changing over, starting to
set the stage, starting to set the pace.
Everything's coming right to the time when it's
going to be a new world.
This man's going to ring the bell of
millions of people and they're going to think
he's the best thing since Christ.
They're going to think he is honky-donk.
They're going to think he's the greatest man
that ever walked on the face of God.
By the way, he'll be able to perform
miracles.
People will think this man is God.
They will believe that this man is the
great power of God.
That's why I believe tonight we as Bible
believers need to get our noses out of
the newspaper and put them into the word
of God and we need to keep our
prophecy straight and we need to keep our
preaching straight and we need to keep these
prophets hot and these choir lads hot and
we need to keep them shoes warm, not
just come and be cold and dead and
formalistic.
I believe we're living in the last days
whereby we're going to have to get faithful
and we're going to have to get honest
and we're going to have to get humble
and we're going to have to serve the
Lord because it won't be long we're pulling
out of here and the end of Christ
can have all of it.
He can have all of it.
There's a church I've preached in I don't
know, probably 15 times.
Brother Robinson's been there with me just once
and we'll be back this next month.
It's a little bit of the old church
in Indiana.
They have got about $250,000 in the
bank that's been there for years and the
people won't touch it.
They won't touch it.
So, Preacher Horton came to me and he
said, Oh, he said, Preacher, don't give them
their money.
I preached on Luke 6, 38 and you
got $257,000 in the bank.
You better believe I'll preach on giving in
your church, amen.
Yes, sir, I just bought my travel center
about right then and I said, I'll preach
it all night long.
You owe me, dude.
I preached on Luke 6, 38 giving it
shall be given, amen.
When I was done preaching, I'll never forget
what Brother Horton did.
He got up and he said, Folks, what
Brother Robinson said tonight was the truth.
Never heard that word before.
He said, It was the truth.
He said, You know what's sad about all
that money we got in the bank?
And I didn't act like I knew anything
about it.
I didn't preach it.
He got $257,000 in the bank and
I said, I'll never forget what Brother Robinson
said tonight.
He said, Folks, what Brother Robinson said tonight
was the truth.
He said, We got all this money in
the bank.
He said, We might as well spend it
for God because when we pull out of
here, the Antichrist is going to use every
resource.
And I thought, That's exactly right, brother.
That's exactly right.
He's going to use every resource he has
to pull this world.
And I want to show you something tonight
and I want to get back to your
Bible.
It's in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2.
Please understand something about this sermon tonight.
I've got four points.
I've been through two of them and I'm
not going to preach much longer.
I promise.
Don't look at your watch.
I'll preach 15 minutes longer just for you.
But in other lands, I want you to
understand there could be a thousand points given
tonight.
This preacher up here, he's taught on prophecy
more times than I'll ever even dream of.
I guarantee you.
There's men of God in here.
They know more about prophecy than I'll ever
know my whole head and heart.
There's a lot that could be said tonight.
We're just scratching the surface.
We barely even skim in the water.
But I believe it's important.
But look at your Bible and notice what
it says if you would please now.
2 Thessalonians chapter 2 and verse number 7.
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work.
I'll say it does.
All you got to do is read the
newspaper for that.
Only he who now letteth will let until
notice.
He be taken out of the way.
The word letteth is an old English word.
It literally means only he who now hinders
will hinder until he be taken out of
the way.
The word let is not the idea of
letting you do something but rather he is
restraining.
He is hindering.
He is compressing things together but the Bible
says when he that's the Holy Spirit of
God when he is removed from this earth
then shall that wicked be revealed whom the
Lord shall consume with the brightness and glory
of his coming.
So we have the rapture, we have the
revealing but tonight please understand there's also a
restraining.
There is a restraining for tonight that is
keeping all the minions and devils of hell
from overtaking this country.
I'll tell you something tonight.
I was reading the other day in the
newspaper and this is despicable.
Robertson started doing little things just yesterday and
I think it's a wise thing.
Aaron learned something yesterday in Sunday School about
the thousand year millennial reign.
He came out and said Mama Lang you
never told me that before.
Sometimes we take for granted what kids can
soak up and understand in the preaching.
So they told my wife you're going to
keep him in the service sometimes and let
him hear some of the preaching of Brother
Greg because he's always back there with my
wife and certainly he learns plenty back there
but just get him under some old fashioned
preaching but I told them tonight there's a
couple of things I'm going to say that
I've been reading it's a little bit graphic
and so that's why he's not here tonight.
And I'm going to tell you something friend
we're all adults we can understand this and
we can handle this.
I'm telling you there are some despicable things
going on in America.
I mean some of the most godless things
on the face of God's earth.
I was reading the newspaper just last week
when I was over at Valley Drive and
you know what I read?
In Chicago Illinois there's a 16 year
old girl 72 years old.
She was in a wheelchair.
She couldn't hardly move a leg and she
couldn't speak.
72 years old.
He, his mother and his sister lived there.
Daddy ran out years ago.
While his sister was at school and while
his mother was at work he cut classes
that day, stayed home, beat his 72 year
old crippled grandmother to a bloody pulse and
raped her dead body.
And I read that and I thought that's
the most despicable bunch of garbage that ever
crossed my eye.
Two years ago I was in a meeting
in Tennessee and I'll not even tell you
where it was.
The pastor came to me and he said
there used to be a man in our
church who's now in prison and he'll be
there till the day he dies.
Said he was a drunkard.
Ran around on his wife but he was
a doctor.
Here's a man that probably made $125,000,
$150,000 a year, drove a Rolls Royce,
a Mercedes, lived in a great big house
in a nice richy fancy part of Nashville.
And so he said this guy's in prison
for the rest of his life, he will
never get out but he was a drunkard
and a fornicator although he was a doctor.
One night he was on one of his
little drunken spurts but his wife didn't really
look at him much and didn't smell him
much and didn't look into his eyes and
didn't see that glazed lip.
And some of you fellas that didn't say
that about that crash know what I'm talking
about that glazed lip.
She didn't notice that and she had to
go to the grocery store or Walmart or
something like that and he said blah blah
blah.
He said as sure as I'm standing here
that lady got in her vehicle pulled it
out and left and said that man in
the drunken rampage went back in the bedroom
where their two year old baby girl was,
took her in the living room and set
her down on the couch and put a
teddy bear in her hand and heated up
the hot poker in the fireplace and burned
that little girl's eyes out the back and
I'm telling you that's worse than being a
reprobate.
That's worse than being a sinner, Fred.
Even sinners and lost people don't do that
crap.
I'm telling you that's demonic.
That is wicked.
That is full of the devil.
That is hell itself.
You think the newspapers read that kind of
mess now, you just wait until the Holy
Spirit of God pulls out of you.
You wait until the one that's hindering all
this mess from falling apart and blowing to
pieces, you just wait until the Spirit of
God leaves.
And by the way, when He leaves, by
process of elimination, you can't about the most
unadulterated wickedness you could ever imagine.
You can't even imagine the fornication.
You think we're full of pedophiles now, you
wait until the Holy Spirit pulls out of
you.
You wait until the church pulls out Pentecost
and goes to the kingdom of God.
You've never seen wickedness life you're going to
see in that day if you're left behind.
I'm telling you, the newspapers will be full
of some of the most despicable stuff you've
ever read in your life.
I mean, wicked, foul, ungodly, unreframed.
I mean, we get together and we play
for revival in America because America's in a
mess.
I mean, how many school shootings have we
had in the last month?
Your state has had two of them.
I mean, people are dying everywhere.
Pedophiles are going free.
And the whoremongers, and the harlics, and the
drug addicts, and the crackheads, I mean, they're
killing people and killing themselves.
And the NA clinics, and the AA clinics
are full.
And the dry-out clinics are full.
And every hour and 28 seconds, a teenager
blows their brains out.
I'm telling you, we're living in a wicked
day, friends.
I mean, we're living in a horrible day.
I mean, you pick up the newspaper, and
I mean, you almost blush for embarrassment.
There is no shame.
I mean, you sit around the house and
watch Hale's Box Office, and Send to the
Max, and David Lettermouth, and Oprah Winback, and
the rest of that mess on TV.
It won't take you long to figure out
we're in a mess, friends.
You wait till the Holy Spirit of God
leaves, and He's no longer hindering the devil.
He's not hindering the anti-clients.
He's not hindering these hideous, vile, wicked people
on the street.
He's not hindering depravity and the sinful.
Man left to himself causes shame, and he'll
be left to himself in that day, and
he'll cause a whole lot of rest, the
restraint.
He's going to be pulled out of here.
The antichrist will be revealed.
He'll give all the super-duper answers, and
everybody will believe.
And that brings me to the last and
final point of my message.
Look, if you would, please, in verse number
nine.
Even him, that's the antichrist, who's coming as
after the working of Satan with all power
and signs and lying wonders, and with all
deceivableness of unrighteousness.
In them that, notice the word, perish.
Why are they going to perish?
Why are they perishing?
It's the same word perish that's used in
John 3, 16.
They're not perished, but have everlasting life.
But why are they perishing?
Well, notice what it says.
Because, here's the reason, they receive not the
love of the truth that they might be
saved.
And for this cause, because they receive not
the love of the truth, and for this
cause, God, notice that doesn't say the devil,
it doesn't say the beast, and it doesn't
say the antichrist.
Read your Bible, it says, and for this
cause, God shall send them strong delusions that
they should believe a lie.
Why, pray tell me, dear neighbor, God wants
them to believe this lie?
Well, at 12, as it may sound, look
at verse number 12.
That they all might be damned who believe
not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
The rapture, the revealing, the restraining.
Who is the apostle Paul referring to in
this portion of Scripture?
You compare the word of God with the
word of God.
The best commentator on the Bible's not Matthew,
Henry, it's the Bible itself.
You compare Scripture with Scripture, line upon line,
precept upon precept, hear a little, bear a
little, and guess what you will find out?
Almighty God, the inspiration of the Holy Spirit
of God moved in the apostle Paul, 1
Peter 1.21, holy men of God spake
as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
The Holy Spirit of God laid it upon
the apostle Paul's heart to write that those
who knew the truth but would not listen,
Jesus Christ smashes this church away from him
when the hinderer is no longer hindering, but
the Holy Spirit of God goes back to
heaven and takes the blood-washed bride of
Christ, the church with him.
Those who knew the truth but did not
receive the truth can never be saved by
the grace.
I know those people would disagree with me,
and that's fine.
If there is one thing that I have
studied in my Bible is that very thing,
because God knows my heart, I want to
be right on this more than anything else.
And if I'm wrong, you show me a
verse of Scripture, and bless God, come on,
tonight I'll apologize and preach the Holy Spirit.
But as sure as I'm standing here, I
believe with all of my heart, if you
know the truth of the gospel, the Spirit
of God convicted you, and Jesus comes tonight,
if you're left behind, not only would you
not get saved, you won't even want to
get saved, and even if you did, God
wouldn't let you.
He would not let you.
You say, well, that's not the God of
the New Testament.
I want to remind you, the Holy Spirit
of God leaves this earth for the first
time since he's been here, and God begins
to do things a little bit differently in
the book of the Revelation.
You may not understand it.
You may not know all about it.
I may not understand it and know all
about it and be able to explain it
as a preacher, but I'm going to tell
you something.
If you tonight have never been saved by
the grace of God, if Jesus Christ took
His blood-washed bride home to church tonight,
if He came in the rapture, and you
were left behind, not only would you believe
a lie, but God would make you believe
a lie, no matter how big it is,
and you could never get saved.
You'd hear all the preaching you want to.
You'd scream, holler, rant, and rave, and kick
and swallow, and you can do anything you
want to, but you cannot get saved.
Now, I know there's a lot of people
in here who've been left behind.
Seriously, you know what?
The other day, I picked one up.
I started skimming.
It's a pretty good book.
I've never seen anything in it, for the
most part, that doesn't agree with the Bible,
except one thing that I don't care for,
and I believe they put it there just
because they need to sell the books, and
so I understand that.
It's a novel.
It's not true, and so we can't really
jump on their back too hard about it.
For the most part, Tim LaHaye has one
of the best prophecy Bibles I've ever read
in my life.
You pick it up sometime, and I'm telling
you, it'll stir your soul.
Some of the stuff I'm preaching tonight, I
got out of that prophecy Bible.
If he got out of the Bible itself,
but you understand, I borrowed some information.
Like Pastor said today, milk everybody else's cats,
turn your own butt.
And so, but you know, this Left Behind
series, I've seen the movie about two or
three times, and you know, there wasn't a
whole lot of gospel in the movie.
I understand there's more gospel in the books,
and I know some people that's been saved
who've been reading books, and I praise God
for it.
Hey, you know, say, really, I'm against that
kind of business.
You know, Paul said Christ is preached in
pretense, and some preach him as falsehood.
He said, but nonetheless, thank God Christ is
preached.
People can be saved through reading those books
nonetheless.
They got Bible verses in them, but the
one thing I don't agree with is what
I saw in the movie.
Here's these people that openly rejected the gospel.
Jesus came, and they still got saved.
That doesn't happen to them.
They make me good novels, and you know,
I might sell that at Walmart for $14
.95, and that's all fine and good, and
golly, well, you can read them, and that's
fine, but I'm gonna tell you something.
If you get left behind, you're not gonna
get saved by the grace of God, because
the Bible says, God will make you believe
a lie, and because you did not receive
the level of truth, you will perish, and
you will be damned, according to the word
of God.
Not only can you not be saved, you
will not even have any inclination.
You won't even want to be saved by
the grace of God.
Oh, don't you misunderstand me.
You'll know what happened.
You know those funny, dirty, funny men of
Bible something, that this were right, and it's
not that we were right.
You'll know that God was right, and you
should have listened to what God had to
say, because friend, he's coming to you.
I give you this, and I'm done.
It's two years ago, I was preaching in
Memphis, Tennessee, at the great Baptist Tabernacle.
I've been there, a great Baptist temple, rather,
and I've been there several times, two or
three times.
One time, I was there for a 14
-day revival meeting, had a week in between,
but we went back and had a wonderful
time, 13, 14 people saved in a week
and baptized.
That week, I was preaching.
The second week, on Wednesday night, I preached
on the main event.
I looked at my record just yesterday.
I preached there on Wednesday night, about two
years ago here.
It's on the rapture of the Lord Jesus
Christ, because believe it or not, the next
main event on God's prophetic calendar is the
return of the Lord Jesus Christ, and what
an event on God's calendar that's gonna be,
and I'm looking forward to it.
That's why I preached that way that night.
Gave the invitation, and two or three people
came, nobody was saved, nothing happened, nothing unusual.
Well, you know, I'm not a prophet, nor
a son of a prophet, and I don't
believe in visions, and dreams, and premonitions, and
all that kind of stuff, but you know,
I just felt in my heart that I
need to keep giving invitation.
You know, and Pastor said last night, maybe
somebody needs to come.
God told me to give another birth, and
so, Pastor started coming up, and I said,
Pastor, I think we just need to sing
another verse.
And so, we sang another verse.
Got about down to the end of it,
and there was this dark, complexed little girl.
She was about 14 years old or so.
She was an Indian woman, and she was
sitting there about 14, 15, something like that,
sitting long, long, jet black, too, all the
way down her back, and she had been
every night of the first week, and so
far, every day and night of the second
week.
Now, we're on Wednesday night for the second
week.
So, I preached on the main event, gave
the invitation, felt like God wanted me to
continue giving the invitation, And I was looking
around.
There was only about 45, 50 people there
that night, and she was shaking like a
leaf on a tree, holding her daddy's hand.
His arm was just shaking.
You know, he's kind of looking at her
like this, and maybe he thought she was
sick.
I don't know what was going through his
mind.
I don't know what was going through mine,
and so I said, Lord, please make it
right.
About the time I got that out of
my mouth, that little girl popped out of
that eye, and I'm telling you, she didn't
walk, she didn't strut, she didn't jump, but
it, boom, she sprung right down her back.
She fell right down on her face.
She got on her knees and she started
to cry.
I walked over there, and I knelt down
beside her, and the preacher's wife was there,
and the pastor, and other people, and I
walked down beside her, and I called her
name, it slips me now, but I was
there, and I knew her family then, and
I said, so-and-so, I said, what
in the world is happening to you?
She looked up at me in big old
tears, well up her eyes, and she said,
brother Locke, she said, I was in there
in this invitation holding my daddy's hand.
She said, I love my daddy more than
any man on the face of God, sir.
She said, he's the apple of my eye.
And she said, I knew if what you
preached tonight was true, if Jesus came again,
my daddy would be gone, and I wouldn't
be holding anybody's hand.
But I'd be left.
That was a tragic night.
Oh, and that girl's heart was broken.
She got saved, she got baptized the next
night, but I'm gonna tell you something.
I know something more tragic than that.
You ain't gotta worry about leaving daddy behind.
Because when we pull up 10 states and
leave this place, you've just left salvation behind.
You'll be left behind with no hope whatsoever.
And excuse me, but you ain't said nothing
yet.
Every head bowed, please, every eye closed, thank
you for allowing me to preach my heart
tonight, and I know we've covered a lot,
and a lot more could be covered.
How we desperately need jobs, people to get
their hearts right, realizing that Jesus is coming
again, and we should beat the bushes to
win people to Christ.
And I'm not one of these evangelists that
preach a sermon like this to scare everybody,
but I am one of those evangelists that
preach a sermon like this to prepare everybody,
that He's coming again, dear friend.
Miss Robertson will begin to play in just
a moment.
Little Robertson will begin to sing.
I wanna ask you a question tonight.
Are you here tonight without Christ?
I didn't ask you if you were wicked,
I didn't ask you if you're religious, if
you're a church member or not.
I didn't ask you what your marital status
was.
I didn't ask you what your marital status
was.
Are you saved?
That's the question.
Are you born again?
Have you believed the truth of the gospel
of the Word of God?
Have you turned from your way and by
faith turned to God's way?
Have you been saved tonight?
How many of you would say tonight, preachers,
I know as sure as I'm in this
building, I'm not perfect, but I know tonight
if Jesus were to come in the next
five seconds, I know I'd be going in
the rapture.
I don't have to worry about being left
behind.
I'm a blood-washed child of God.
Right now, I know that right now.
Put your hand up in the air.
High enough so I can see it.
Keep it up a moment, would ya?
Preacher, I know, I know, I know.
Please, if you do not know that, don't
raise your hand.
All right, you may put your hands down.
Several hands were not able to be raised
tonight and I thank God for your honesty.
Maybe some people didn't quite understand.
I understand that.
Maybe you didn't quite hear, but I believe
there's people here tonight who need a touch
from God.
You need to be saved by God's grace.
You honestly, before God, could not raise your
hand and I don't judge you for that.
I thank God that you were honest enough
to admit your need tonight.
That's the first step.
Now, the next step is being willing to
accept the truth that you've heard tonight, to
accept the Lord Jesus, because if you don't,
if Jesus comes, you will accept the lie
of the antichrist.
Maybe you're here tonight as a child of
God and you've not been living right and
if Jesus were to come tonight, you'd be
ashamed of the judgment seat of Christ.
You know you would.
There's things in your home, there's things in
your heart, things down at the house, there's
things in your mind right now that God's
Spirit's convicting you and trying to change you
and work on you.
And He wants you to be a James
122 Christian, not just a hearer, but a
doer also.
And maybe there's some things you need to
repent about, Christian.
Repentance is not just for lost people, it's
for God's people.
Maybe you need to repent of a few
things tonight.
I want everybody in the building under the
sound of my voice to stand to your
feet, if you would, please.
Your heads are bowed, your eyes are closed.
Child of God, I extend this invitation to
you as Brother Robertson begins to sing, you
step out, but dear sinner friend, please hear
me.
If you are not able to raise your
hand and say that I know I'm saved,
pastor is here, I am here.
We'll have a man with a man and
a lady with a lady.
As others begin to pray, you step right
out, you make a beeline and you come
and grab my hand, grab the preacher's hand
and you let us know tonight that you
would like to receive Christ as your Lord
and as your Savior.
If you don't know Him tonight, please get
that settled.
Brother Robertson, would you sing for us as
He does tonight?
Would you come?
What about it, dear sinner friend?
You couldn't honestly raise that hand.
Would you come tonight?
I beg you, please come.
Let us take a Bible and help you
with tonight.
It would be our joy to love you
to the Lord Jesus tonight.
Would you come?
Some are praying tonight.
Want it being dealt with?
Please, set us free.
You've got a different place tonight.
What you've heard tonight is the truth of
the Word of God.
Would you come?