I've had the privilege under certain strain, I'll
admit, because of a sudden attack which came
upon one or two of us, and I
often find they do come before meetings, I've
had the privilege of presenting some thoughts about
the Lord's set in common.
Last night I brought before you that angelic
announcement concerning his return in a kind of
a nutshell glimpse, and on Sunday morning we
spoke on the Titan picture of Enoch as
a translated people being caught up to meet
the Lord after their walk with God.
Last night we tried in an evangelistic way
to bring the essentiality of a new birth
in the light of the coming of the
blood of Jesus, and while I have no
opportunity and will not have any opportunity to
mention other aspects of the Advent, such as
the manifestation of the saints with Christ, and
then the day of tribulation, and the judgment
seat of Christ, and the marriage supper of
the Lamb, and the reign of peace and
righteousness for a thousand years, and then the
revolt of Satan, and the final heading up
of the day of God.
With no opportunity to touch those things, I
pray to keep the most essential thing before
you in our dispensation, be prepared to meet
thy God.
Be prepared for the sudden coming of the
Lord Jesus Christ as a believer.
And I bring before you in a closing
message our Lord's last precious promise.
You'll find it in the second last verse
of scripture.
We must testify of these things first.
Now here's our text.
Surely I come to you.
Then there's a full stop.
And John the Beloved said Amen.
That's what I want to speak on.
Surely I come to you.
Amen.
Never think of the revelations as the testimony
of John.
It was given to John that he might
give it to the world.
But it is the testimony of Jesus Christ.
The second verse of the first chapter simply
says the testimony of Jesus Christ.
That's why I love the revelations.
In my working bible it's the most annotated
of all the books I think.
I delight in the revelations because it's the
book of the Lamb and it's the glory
of the Lamb and it's the testimony of
the Lamb.
The testimony of Jesus Christ.
Then on the second last verse of the
revelations you've got He which testifieth these things.
That is Christ himself.
Yes.
Surely I come quickly.
When our Lord must have loved the message
of his second coming it was his favourite
farewell message and therefore it's good for me
to bring it as a farewell message this
afternoon.
On the sad betrothal night when the dark
shadows were gathering around him he said to
his disciples if I go away I will
come again and receive you unto myself.
That was his promise.
And then when he instituted the memory feast
of the Lord's supper it was to be
observed till I come.
Then after his resurrection by the tree of
Tiberias a little time before his ascension you'll
remember how he said to Peter concerning John
if I will that he carry till I
come.
What is that to be?
Follow thou me.
And then you'll remember that as soon as
he was taken up into heaven he sent
through his messengers to assure them that his
farewell message would be faithful.
This day Jesus which is taken from you
into heaven shall so come in like manner
as he has been involved into heaven.
And now on the last page of the
inspired word God's holy message to us.
The book of the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Almost on the last line of the testimony.
He which testifieth these things saith shall I
come quickly.
Thou Lord's favourite farewell message.
And it's a very sad thing to my
heart that many of the Lord's preachers will
not touch the second answer.
They'll sidestep it or they'll make passing reference
to it.
But they will not open up the doctrine
of the Lord's second coming.
Some of them are afraid of it.
Some of them are so careful not to
offend people with other views they dare not
present it.
It hasn't been much of a conviction to
them.
Oh beloved our Lord's farewell message.
How is it revel in it?
And to me it's as simple as last
text.
It's a simple five finger exercise.
Surely I come quickly.
Amen.
Now once my mother thought I had some
musical skill.
I don't know what put it into her
heart or her head.
She put me under two or three teachers
and for two years I was filtered down
to baneful discipline.
I had to sit at the piano every
afternoon doing the five finger exercise or struggling
through the scales.
And I had no interest in music really.
And I stumbled on and staggered on.
Got my Mr's pictures by moonlight and by
chance.
The teacher the last teacher I might say
the third one that tackled me.
She said to my mother she's got no
music in him Mrs Woodley.
You're wasting your money.
I was awfully glad because I was allowed
to go free then in a practice in
the five finger exercise.
And I did manage at least to play
the blue bells of Scotland.
Five finger exercise enables one to bring forth
wonderful harmony afterwards.
Later those who have the spirit of music
can produce the harmonies of the great masters.
And if we can only master this final
five finger exercise from our Lord Jesus we'll
bring out heavenly harmony in some way or
other through our lives.
Surely I'm going to strike each note slowly
and definitely.
Surely, surely it's the seal, the seal of
the final promise of our Lord.
All the promises of God are go and
amen.
They are yet and so let it be.
In Christ Jesus to the glory of God
by us who fail, who fail the promises.
But some of the promises and some of
the prospects of our Lord are sealed.
You'll notice this in the scripture some of
them are sealed by a certain seal.
Now for instance when you come to the
precepts of the new birth or conversion the
seal is verily, verily, verily I say unto
thee except a man be born again he
cannot see the kingdom of God.
Verily I say unto thee except he be
converted and becomes little children he shall not
enter into the kingdom of heaven.
As much as to say in most solemn
truth that solemn truth I say to you
except you're born again you've no hope of
the kingdom.
So he feels the precepts they are and
in the sermon on the mount he feels
the precepts by the words I say unto
you.
You'll notice how frequently that comes out.
It's been said in the old times that
I say unto you.
The word of God is speaking to us
the word I pray.
And then when it comes to world evangelization
and you're about to go to the ends
of the earth he says no, no I
am with you always even to the closing
up of the age.
Well the seal there to the promise is
low but when it comes to the second
advent especially in the revelation his seal is
behold, behold, behold I come quickly.
You'll notice how often that comes in and
right at the close he changes the seal.
Soon, soon it means certainly yes, yes, yes,
yes I'll come, I'll come quickly.
You know what minister, what preacher should have
any fear of when the promise has been
sealed by God almighty.
I remember preaching once to a fashionable congregation
in the midwest at a very dignified church
inside.
It wasn't so dignified outside and the people
got chattering outside after an evening service and
as I pumped it out into that great
milling crowd out until a man pushed through
the crowd and gripped my hand and said
thank you Mr. Redleaf for that certain note
in your message we don't get much of
it here.
I don't wonder.
They had a pastor who didn't hear any
certainties.
My young friend if you're going to become
a preacher of any power, of any value,
speak with authority.
You're God's messenger, you're God's advocate, you're God's
ambassador, speak with all authority but be careful
you don't speak with all crowns, you can
speak with all authority and yet be humble.
You know that Dave Gould, the American millionaire,
he often went to hear D.
L.
Moody preach in the days of the revival
and a fellow millionaire said to him once,
Mr. Gould, why do you want to hear
that unlettered Moody preach?
You don't believe what he believes?
No, he said I don't.
But he does, he does.
Can you bother that?
He was so gripped by the certainties of
what Moody said.
He was so seized by the power of
that man that could still a great multitude
until one testified he could hear a pin
drop.
Though he often blundered in his grammar.
Often made mistakes in his utterance.
Dipped right up he'd say.
See Dennis?
And so on.
Well some of your people, they act in
whole trouble.
See there's a sitcom for man like this.
Ah, he had authority, he had power.
He had God.
No means of grace in doing that.
But if a man hasn't had the background,
God can make him a rare blessing without
it.
And here we've got surely, surely.
Surely he cometh and a thousand voices speak
to the saints but to the deaf are
dumb.
Surely he cometh and the church rejoices, glad
in his coming to have sworn, I come.
That brings me to the second of third
notes.
I come.
As Jesus come, I come.
I would call that the substance of the
promise.
Promise.
After all, he is the substance of the
promise.
The one we look for.
The hope of the promise, the health of
the promise is the Lord Jesus himself.
I come.
Why does he say that?
Because he went away.
He went away.
A certain learned professor in a certain denomination
in Sydney who was defending himself many years
ago against charges of modernism said no I
don't want the second coming of Christ because
he never went away.
What a twisting of truth to a wrong
angle.
Banking on that word, I will come unto
you by the Spirit you know.
He was making out there was no second
advent.
But our Lord simply said to his disciples,
it is expedient for you that I go
away.
For if I go not away, the Comforter
will not come to you.
But if I go away, I will send
him unto you.
And again our Lord said on one other
occasion, when the children of the bride shall
take the day come when the bridegroom shall
be taken from them, then they will pass.
And then he told, remember one of those
great stories or parables.
Was it a man taking a journey into
a far country and he gave authority to
his servants and commanded the porter to watch
and then instantly said watch.
Knew also for in such an hour as
he thinks not the Son of Man coming.
Of course he went away.
He was perceived up into heaven.
He was perceived up into glory the word
said.
In another passage he proceeded at the right
hand of the majesty and high.
Of course he went away.
He went away.
He ascended.
But he's coming.
He's coming again.
The same Jesus.
I come.
I will come again.
The Lord himself shall descend from heaven.
Substance of the promise is clear enough to
me.
I'm not going to look for some substitute
tonight.
I'm not going to look for somebody else
to come.
I'm not going to look for a sudden
thrilling joy and blessing.
I'm not going to look for the grave.
Those I know only too well.
If I die my spirit I trust will
be protected and protected.
I remember you know old W.P. Nicholson
he had some strange sayings.
Ever hear W.P. Nicholson preach?
Oh you missed something.
If you didn't hear old W.P. preach
isn't that so Bill?
W.P. Nicholson you know in one place
he was urging the people to come to
a service.
And he said now look here I want
you to come.
I expect you to come.
I know when he promises I hear from
people sometimes.
Oh God bless you Mr. Nicholson.
We can't come but we'll be there in
spirit.
I don't want your ghostly spirits around me
again.
I want you here in front of me.
I'm not looking for some feeling tonight.
Some strange joyous feeling.
What?
Terrific excitement in my soul.
I'm looking for him to come.
I'll come.
That's what I've sent him a promise.
The Lord himself.
Ah what a blessing.
Hope the people will think that we shall
see him as he is.
And we shall delight in him.
Chosen in a moment.
In the twinkling of an eye.
To bear the likeness.
Of the Lord of Glory.
The lost likeness.
The likeness that Adam lost in the garden.
The likeness that was lost to Cain.
Restore him now.
When we see the face that we have
lost.
We shall reflect the likeness of our Lord
forever.
There's a measure.
In which we can reflect that likeness.
In the spirit.
But never in the same way as when
we see him.
That's why revival never satisfies my soul.
I've seen little miniature revivals.
Nothing like the great revivals of Billy Graham.
And others.
But I've seen little movements of the spirit.
In my ministry.
And they send a thrill of joy through
my heart.
They don't really satisfy.
I am an advocate of the advent every
time.
I believe the only thing that satisfies.
The only hope of the church.
And the world.
Is the coming of the King.
And I don't want you in my closing
address.
Dear friends.
To look for Antichrist.
And surmise who he is.
I don't want you to look for the
great tribulation.
And imagine you're passing through it.
I don't ask you.
The rest of the great upheaval signs.
Great as they are.
And I've mentioned some of them.
And they can see you.
But I ask you in my closing message.
You look for the Lord himself.
You look for that one that says.
I'll come.
Look for the substance.
Of the promise.
Go.
Said an ancient king.
As he was dying.
To his pagan officers around him.
But pointing to the poor officer.
At the glorious sword.
And stabbed himself in the ground.
A word from Alpine.
Go.
He says.
Tell the dead in sin.
I'll come.
Go.
Tell the nations.
That may need.
I'll come.
Go tell those that are struggling.
To try and get some unity.
Amongst distressed people.
I'll come.
The Prince of Peace.
The Lord of Righteousness.
Then we strike the cross.
No.
Quickly.
That's the speed of the promise.
Isn't it?
Yes brother you say.
And it's the thing that spikes the promise.
For me too.
It can't be true.
If the Lord Jesus Christ.
In the year 1896.
Could give out that word.
Surely I'll come quickly.
And here we are.
At 1960.
And he hasn't come yet.
Do you call that speed?
That's not my mind of speed.
No it is Christ.
Because you're followed.
And he is infinite.
Because you're reckoning time.
According to your clock.
And God has a clock.
Which may be different to your clock.
And you haven't even adjusted.
Your watch or clock.
To God's time yet.
The uncertainty of his coming.
Is one of the delights of his coming.
It might have been.
Or he might have been as he went.
It might have been.
In the middle ages.
It might have been in the great revivals.
Of the evangelical succession.
When West Westley and Whitfield.
Were in the forefront of the battle.
And it might have been.
But it's always at hand.
Archibald Brown's spurgent great friend.
Once said to people who complained.
About that very word.
Quickly he once said this.
Look here he said.
There are multitudes of little insects.
Born into this world.
They're nurtured through their insect babyhood.
They grow up into maturity.
They stagger into old age.
And they die in 24 hours.
And I expect their life.
To them as long.
As 60 or 70 years to us.
Now he said.
Just you imagine for a moment.
An old age insect.
Tottering in his weakness.
Came to a friend of his.
A little younger.
Did you hear.
What that man said when he went out.
A long time ago to his wife.
Goodbye dear.
I'll be back soon.
I was only a little more than a
baby when he said it.
And he hadn't come yet.
The man couldn't have been through.
Just silly insects.
Said Archibald Brown.
Silly insects.
Measuring time.
By your clone age 24 hours.
If.
Would the Lord.
A day is a thousand years.
A thousand years of the day.
Why it's only about two days.
A day since he said to John.
Sorry.
Two days.
I'll come quickly.
Two days.
Not for that.
If we're right in our phenology.
If we're right in our time keeping.
But if you turn back in your Bibles.
If they're handy.
And you look at certain passages.
The sixth chapter.
Where the inspired prophet is speaking.
Concerning the remnant of Israel.
Who will be restored.
In those great days.
When the Lord brings the restitution.
Of all things.
With his coming.
Come and let us return unto the Lord.
For he hath sworn.
And he will heal us.
He hath smitten.
And he will bind us up.
After two days.
Will he revive us.
In the third day.
He will raise us up.
And we shall live.
In his sight.
Beloved.
If you take a thousand years for the
day.
About two days.
Of almost gone since the time.
The promise was given.
And if the third.
Great millennium.
Is going to be the millennium.
Of God's peace.
You'll find that Israel.
Is going to come back into her own.
As a central spot in the earth.
Where the Lord will reign.
Before his ancients gloriously.
And a remnant of the nations.
Will be saved.
And there a day.
He'll prove his promises.
In the covenant promised to Abraham.
Long before the Lord ever came.
The bones from the dry bones.
And bring the whole army.
Into life again.
Will they seem ready to go.
So are the works.
Of the Lord.
Beyond finding out.
Quickly also means.
I'm coming speedily.
And when I come I'll make quick work
of it.
I'll be like a flash of lightning.
I'll come.
Like the express flash of an eagle.
Down upon his prey.
In a moment.
In the twinkling of an eye.
There'll be no force.
To prepare them.
There'll be no halt.
To adjust them then.
Surely.
I'll come.
The substance of the promise.
Quickly the speed of the promise.
Now the sequence of the promise.
Amen said John.
You seem to have slipped fast.
Into those hilarious times.
Of shouting Amen.
Now the proverbs know.
That as you murmur next to your own
heart.
And not shout it out to disturb.
The woman sitting next to you.
Now I love to hear somebody call out.
With a true fervent heart.
Amen.
As a good word is spoken.
As though they're backing up.
God blessed word.
When I worked.
Over in Melbourne 25 years ago.
Old Harry Dyer used to be my song
leader.
And Harry Dyer had a face.
Like the full moon.
In his joy and beauty.
Big massive man.
Came from Brinton to Vauxhall.
And he'd leave the singing in a grand
style.
And if he saw one responding to the
appeal.
That we'd been praying for Harry.
He'd say keep up, keep up.
And if I'd say something when I was
preaching here.
And I'd say something that seemed to be.
To them conclusive.
Amen, Amen.
With a couple of few voices behind me.
And he's pushing on.
Like an engine at the back of a
train.
There must be a confusion of this kind.
That hearts should be bubbling over with joy.
Have I ever heard any young men.
Even Mr Kudo who calls himself.
An army.
He doesn't seem to burst out with many
amens.
Until he doesn't burst out.
We've all got to be quick when it
comes to.
Amen.
So let it be.
Amen he said.
So let it be.
God loves the Lord.
John couldn't think of a better word.
With which to climax that.
That's it, that's just what I want.
Amen.
Even so.
Come Lord Jesus.
Ah it's a sweet beat with the promise
isn't it.
I wonder if every heart in this gathering.
This afternoon could honestly say.
To the last precious promise of our rhythm
Lord.
Amen, that's what I want.
Amen, so let it be.
Or would there have to be some adjustment
of breath?
Would there have to be some adjustment of
deportment?
Would there have to be some adjustment in
your house?
Would there be something have to be done
quickly to prepare yourself for that meeting?
Is there a nasty undercurrent of resentment to
someone that should long ago have been buried
beneath the blood?
Would there have to hurry to ask forgiveness
for?
Would it not be nice after all if
you claim to be a brother to all
the saints that suddenly at his coming you're
going to carry, or attempt to carry your
bad feeling up into the air?
Or knows the man, the woman who has
separated from his world as much to
come to the cross and die to himself?
And that's not easy.
Not easy.
But at least he's made some effort and
he'll be so happy as Hudson won't sin
against him anymore.
And the thought of his heaven coming to
me is this was his!
And like his!
And at last, I want to praise him
with lips that are full of real love
and a heart that overflows for his wonderful
suffering that I'll bring to be with them
all.
What affinity!
I know the world in a dreadful state
distressed of nations with perplexity the great ones
of the nations lost me in New York
with some disgraceful exhibition with some most earned
efforts that they've made.
I know on every side we've got claims
to claim and claims to win them and
the love of many is lost in cold.
I know that the dark sensations and discoveries
are lighting up the whole place with a
new type of light.
But that doesn't cause us a promise.
The only thing that will satisfy men and
women made in the image and likeness of
God is to be brought back to us
when we see this as a likeness.
And it could be tonight it could be
before you've reached with me a little home
centre pardon me for giving another illustration of
World War I but it was so bigger
to me I remember it more than any
other thing in my life I think.
As I was in hospital I'd been brought
from a terrible battle field and placed in
a hospital at Boulogne, it belonged some call
it no matter much there on the very
shore of France waiting for the ship to
take me to England and I was covered
with bandages round my head and every swallow
was in agony and the doctor came in
the morning after our arrival and looked at
one after another shattered and broken by a
horrific battle looked and felt around a little
and then he flipped to the next bed
and he said something to the nurse as
he moved and I'll never forget in my
restless description of pain and suffering that little
nurse an Australian nurse coming back hoisting us
from the doctor's side, cutting in the clothes
that I was gotten away constantly in the
reluction of the agony of the wound never
mind sonny he said never mind you'll be
in England tonight you'll be in England tonight
it was the softest, sweetest thing the little
Australian lass could think of to whisper to
one in his teens, he shouldn't have been
at war you know, in the ordinary kind
of a thing it was in great agony
you'll be in England tonight no matter how
severe your fight is young Christian you won't
be in glory tomorrow no matter how heavy
the burden my older sister or older brother
and how constant the flame of life in
a moment perhaps by the nightfall or by
the crop growing of the morning you may
be in the land of love and life
the home of the redeemed it'll all happen
so suddenly for the same there'll be in
a moment one one place I'll be loved
in forever and though the judgment of Jesus
Christ may be a very solemn time it
won't destroy the likeness it won't rob you
of your eternal salvation it might rob you
of your reward that you're supposed to have
I don't want nothing I judge not my
own self it's the Lord who will judge
me if the judgement of Christ I know
not that a lot of my ministry I
might have been struck through with selfishness but
if then all your good high-end trouble
is blazed up in the fire of God's
holy face I can have a little gold,
silver, precious stones to do service out of
a surrendered heart then every man shall have
praise of God and that will be glory
did you ever hear these lovely words low
as some ship outworn, overladen cranes for the
harbour where her sails are furled low as
some innocent and eager maiden dreams o'er
the wistful limit of the world dreams of
the glow and glory of the distance wonderful
ruin in the grace of tears dreams with
what eyes and what a sweet insistence lovers
are awaiting in the hidden years sorry than
I that there's a pain more filling sorry
than I that there's a hope more sweet
yearn for the sign O Christ of thy
fulfilling path for the final of thy adventing
O have you got that chanting, that counting,
that yearning that longing, that wisdom the love
that lends to themselves your people what a
sweet voice it would be nice to know
them if it be on a quest their
hearts are touched and softened with you that
it might not speak to someone who's away
from Christ altogether emotion and softening that sense
of being almost in tears with the wonder
of a blessed translation may be alright to
the senses but not always to the soul
I must tell you this and then finish
I was teaching at a little church one
night not far from Sydney and I gave
an appeal for anyone who had not accepted
Christ or resisted that to raise their hands
of prayer and a few hands went up
and right in the centre of the church
a man with a big war-wrapped moustache
fell all over the lips looked up and
lifted his hand like that and we prayed
for them and then had to leave the
church and him and ask them to come
forward and thank God a few of them
walked out immediately but not the man with
that peculiar moustache he didn't see he moved
from one foot to the other and drew
back his pen book and then in the
last verse I made a prayer of praise
and there how my heart leaped with joy
as I saw him put his pen book
down whisper something to the man next to
him stooped down and picked up a bag
and his hat took his way up from
the centre of the street and into the
aisle and come forward and take my hand
passed him to the inquiry room and after
they'd been there the councillor brought him up
to me and he said he'd like to
have a little word with you before he
goes Mr Ridley and I put him by
the hand and I said I'm so thankful
you came out to the Lord tonight did
you come back to Christ or was it
a first decision ah Mr Ridley you said
I came to the Lord many years ago
to salvage an armour you said I put
the uniform on and I worked in the
army for years and then something happened I
got as well I lost the old fire
I slipped badly I disgraced the uniform I
got mixed up with clubs and lodges and
I put them first in the right and
money making and other things and now he
said there are my two boys both of
them far out in the world and so
now I've come back to Jesus tonight he
said oh brother Ridley he said if ever
there was a man in this world needed
prayer, if you wrote your notes let him
know he better know I said I'll pray
for you he said thank God you've come
really you've come right back to Jesus oh
yes I've been about that brother I slipped
you see well I'll pray for you brother
and he went and I didn't think I'd
ever see him again or have perhaps any
contact with him it wasn't a church where
I often preached the following Saturday I got
a phone call and the secretary of that
church said oh Mr Ridley do you remember
the service last Sunday night the church yes
I said indeed do you remember that man
that came out with a big moustache I
do yes I said how is he getting
on oh he's all right for the first
few days he said I'll get it on
Friday what I said so he did yes
Mr Ridley he said it worked but I
said was he suffering did he have heart
trouble not at all, none of us knew
anything nothing was wrong with him just collapsed
and died I just come from his funeral
I thought you'd like to know he just
got in in time it might be more
certain than that with you my brother my
sister not right with God trifling as our
sister gave us a little message trifling with
some little fox that's spoiling the vine holding
back part of the price in a way
conforming to the world to be well thought
of and popular and admired by the world
look out when that sudden coming drops upon
your life and you find yourself lifted to
another realm the only thing that will count
to conquer you I dare to be different
I dare to be a Daniel I dare
to be a true Christ one I didn't
stand up for popular opinion I did try
to live for my Lord and then even
so I'm an unprofitable scorn of them as
we find a moment silent prayer move not
a last call if you have a need
in your heart it might be even only
a little fox that's keeping away at your
spiritual life it might be only a Sabbath
that gets found in you to a world
in its popularity as we vow to be
brave enough to lift that hand up for
prayer that the Lord would touch you in
our final moments and prepare you to be
able to say unto you, Amen even so
come come quickly come now Lord Jesus may
God give us grace to do the right
thing let us vow in prayer I pray
heads bowed, hearts humbled I hope are you
humble enough to ask for prayer where God
has spoken to you just before we close
you may have asked before but something has
seemed to be open over a little fox,
a little failure a little weakness, would you
just lift a hand for a moment and
let me pray I pray unto you that
God would support you through His coming, by
His gracious spirit, are there some that would
do that, just before, God bless you my
sister, the Lord bless your heart God bless
you my brother, God bless you my brother,
God bless you, that's right someone else would
do that say brother, say unto my sister
God bless your heart, say someone else while
they are bowed in God's presence, would you
be humble enough to say brother I must
go to leave this convention fighting with God
I'm not going to leave this convention just
about, a grand welcome from my Lord I
want you to pray for me I'm not
the out and out of thy office I
need the grace of thy Holy Spirit to
touch me this very day, open unto me
will you, someone else just before I speak
to God would you lift that hand up
and the Lord would thank you dear friend
God bless you, I see you right at
the end that's good, someone else would ask
for prayer thank you my sister, that's right
think well think well for the moment we
mustn't hurry when we're dealing with vital holy
things when you ask for prayer will you
lift that hand to heaven as you put
your heart down low before God and He
longs for prayer, remember the original had four
days in which to get right and He
got there by God's mercy you don't know
how long you've got, anyone else just before
I speak to the Lord would you lift
your hand up in God's time for blessing
this afternoon Heavenly Father we commend these dear
friends to do we thank you for their
willingness to ask after many of us during
the convention to ask this afternoon to help,
it is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh
profiteth nothing by thy quickening spirit by thy
ringing and challenging word by thy love fathomless
and wonderful lift them to a new confession
a new dedication a new deliverance we plead
this in the light of that sudden, lightning
-like return of our Lord to the air
and the translation of the glory the Lamb's
right to move Him make a marriage proper