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What we worship like tonight is a foreshadow.
It's God reaching over the threshold and giving
us a drop of what it's going to
be like in heaven.
No more sorrow, no more tears, no more
sighing, no more limitations of our natural physical
body.
As I shared the other day, we'll be
worshiping and wondering, turning to the person next
to us and saying, how long have we
been here?
Has it been a million years?
Has it been two million years?
I've lost track of time.
Acts chapter 26, beginning at verse 22.
The Apostle Paul's in Caesarea on his way
to Jerusalem.
He's presenting his defense of the gospel before
King Agrippa.
Having therefore obtained, verse 22, Acts 26, help
of God, I continue unto this day witnessing
both to small and to great, saying none
other things than those which the prophets and
Moses did say should come.
That Christ should suffer, and that he should
be the first that should rise from the
dead, and should show light unto the people
and to the Gentiles.
And as he thus spake for himself, Festus
said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art
beside thyself.
Much learning doth make thee mad.
But he said, I am not mad, most
noble Festus, but speak forth the words of
truth and soberness.
For the king knoweth of these things, before
whom also I speak freely.
For I am persuaded that none of these
things are hidden from him, for this thing
was not done in a corner.
King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets?
I know that thou believest.
Then Agrippa said unto Paul, almost thou persuadest
me to be a Christian.
One of the things I love the best
in my Christian life and walk and experience
has been being in testimony meetings.
And if we had time tonight, I'm sure
we could have one glorious testimony meeting in
this house.
People have come here from all walks of
life.
We've come from all different backgrounds, and we've
come from all different levels of society.
We've come from different countries, different cultures, different
everything.
But the one thing that we would find
in the testimony meeting tonight is that no
matter where we have come from, all roads
have led us to Calvary and to a
saving relationship with Jesus Christ.
We are baptized into the same baptism tonight.
We are serving the same God.
We have the same Holy Spirit living within
us.
And in Christ, we have become one on
this side of eternity.
And it's an awesome feeling and awesome experience
to be in a testimony meeting.
I've been in some meetings that are funny,
some testimony meetings.
I've attended many, many over the years.
I remember being in one time where this
fella got up on a stage and started
testifying about Christ.
And he had a big, huge garbage bag,
and he started taking out pieces of everything,
pieces of leg braces and neck braces and
nose braces and knee braces.
Any kind of brace that the human doctors
have ever invented, this man had in that
bag.
And he was talking about all the healings
that God had done in his life and
family.
And it was a little bit humorous testimony.
Nevertheless, for him, this is how he had
found God.
And God had been faithful to him, and
he had found a saving relationship with the
Lord.
And I was moved to hear this man's
testimony.
Some are sorrowful testimonies.
Sometimes there are people who find Christ in
tragedy, in places of heartache and sorrow.
But yet still, they find the Lord, and
he pours that healing oil of his presence
into their lives.
It's Moses that this world can so horribly
inflict on the heart, are healed.
Very rich of a living God being poured
within the heart of the believer.
People just going about their business every day.
Some are successful working in business.
And somewhere down the line, they come under
conviction of their sin and find out their
need for God.
And I'm thankful tonight that there are testimonies
from everywhere that are in this house.
And one day I might not get to
hear your testimony here on earth, but I
guarantee you, I'm going to get to hear
it in heaven.
I've got a billion zillion years with nothing
to do, but seek you out.
Hallelujah.
And find your testimony out about Christ.
Hallelujah.
Glory to God.
There are going to be testimony meetings on
earth.
We've been in some.
We're going to be in some of the
future.
Souls will be saved.
And I trust and hope that if you
ever have a chance to know on the
things of the past to the extent of
giving the devil glory, but that you will
dwell on the risen Christ and what he
has done in your life and bring honor
and glory to his name.
There are possibly going to be testimony meetings
in hell.
I suppose if I could have subtitled this
message tonight, I would have called it testimony
time in hell.
We need to understand what hell is.
The best way I can describe hell tonight
is that it's a place that's completely without
the presence of God.
We don't understand that.
You see, we are, there are many people
today who are not saved and the presence
of God may not be in them, but
he is still all around them.
Nature itself is a testimony that God's still
on the throne.
The sun rises every morning at a certain
time, every night, the seasons change from spring
to summer, to fall, to winter.
If you live in Canada, the geese get
up at a certain time of the year.
And I know in Riceville Fox of thousands
and thousands of geese for about a three
to four week period fly over so low
that you could almost hit them with a
stone.
And you wonder sometimes how do these geese
know when it's time to get up?
The weather can still be nice and head
South for the winter.
And how do they know when to get
up and head North for the summertime?
It's simply because God's still in control.
Hallelujah.
Nature is a testimony.
Nature is an absolute testimony that Jesus Christ
is sitting upon the throne and the unsaved
man, the unregenerated person still has God all
around him.
We are created by God.
We're created in the image of God.
We're created to have fellowship with God.
And God's mercy and love surrounds even the
most wicked of sinners in this generation.
He's all around, everywhere.
You've heard testimonies of people who live recklessly,
people who live like there was no tomorrow,
people who live dangerous lives, and they will
stand and say, I don't know how it's
possible that I was spared.
The only thing I can tell you is
that God's hand was upon my life.
God's hand was upon the Apostle Paul's life
when he set out with those letters to
gather and capture more Christians and cause them
to blaspheme the name of Jesus.
But God was all around Paul and knocked
him off of his horse and spoke him
on the ground and changed him and made
him into a new man.
Hell is a place where we are completely,
a person is completely without the presence of
God.
Some of you who are in this building,
you've known what it's like to live in
anguish.
You've known what it's like to have drugs
bring you to the place where there's a
burning in your mind, a burning in your
spirit, an absolute torment in your soul that
wants you to cry out to die and
look for any vestige of hope that there
is left in this world.
But that's nothing.
If you want to understand what hell is
like, magnify that by a million times and
then you're still only scratching the surface of
what hell is going to be like.
It's a place where those that have been
created in the image of God for the
fellowship with God are going to be without
God.
An absolute, an absolute non-presence of God
in hell.
Our human minds cannot fathom what this place
is going to be like.
The scripture says it's a place where the
worm never dies.
The conscience never stops.
You see, it's the exact opposite to heaven.
In heaven, there's going to be no more
sorrow.
There's going to be no more sighing.
There's going to be no more tears.
But in hell, there will be always sorrow,
continual sighing, and as much as is possible,
there will be a non-stop flow of
anguish and tears.
It'll be exactly the opposite, the antithesis of
what it is to be in the presence
of God.
A pathetic sight.
My human vocabulary is so limited, I have
to trust that the Spirit of the Lord
can reveal to you.
There's some sitting in this place tonight, or
maybe some who might hear this message on
tape in the future, and you'll think that
hell is here on earth.
No, it's not.
Hell is a million times worse than this.
Even though you're still in sin, even though
you're not right with God, the presence of
God is all around you.
The presence of God has brought you into
this place tonight.
A pathetic sight is going to be in
hell.
People milling around in this continual darkness with
a fire, that burning, whether it's an outward
burning, which I suppose it is, and an
inward burning that never goes out.
The worm never dies.
The conscience never stops.
And time to time, somebody will rise up
perhaps in that place, and in the midst
of all the blackness, I don't know if
you'll be able to see anybody else's face.
There'll be no nobody to touch.
There'll be no compassion, no consolation.
A minister friend of mine preached a sermon
not long ago to young people.
He said, young people, he said, are not
living for God.
Your mom and dad are saved and you're
not living for God.
He said, it's my personal belief, because in
heaven it says that your mom and dad,
there'll be no sorrow and no sighing.
He says, if they go to heaven and
you don't live for God and you go
to hell, he said, I personally believe that
in hell, you're not even going to have
the comfort of knowing that you ever existed.
God's going to wipe you right out of
their minds.
And you're going to be in hell, not
even knowing that your mom and dad are
up there still thinking about you.
There's no comfort in this place.
It's a place of abject darkness.
And in the midst of it all, one
man stands up and says, I was a
wretched sinner.
I hated God.
I hated the things of God.
I hated God's people.
I deserve to be where I am.
And then he fades into the blackness again,
where the world never dies and the fire
never goes out.
Then another one will rise up and say,
I thought I was a good person.
I didn't know I needed Christ to be
saved.
I thought by doing good deeds and going
once in a while to church and helping
my neighbor, that that would be enough.
That if my good deeds outweighed my bad
deeds, that somehow I'd get into heaven.
I didn't understand that even the smallest sin
in my life violated the law of a
holy God.
And he was justified to send me into
this place.
I didn't know that I needed the blood
of Jesus to be saved.
How I hate this wretched place.
How I loathe this wretched place.
Perhaps this person will shout out, Jesus, have
mercy!
And his voice will echo off into an
eternal blackness, because there's nobody there to answer
his prayer.
It fades off into a thousand eternities, and
it carries through the dungeons of darkness, and
there's nobody to hear.
But the most pathetic of all, the worst
of all, the most torment of all, is
the man or woman or young person that
stands up and says, I was almost persuaded
to be a Christian.
My wife or my husband was saved.
Went to a church somewhere that talked about
being born again and came home and talked
to me, and I laughed and I scorned.
I said, you're foolish to believe all that
nonsense.
Time and again, she pleaded with me.
Time and again, she took me by the
hand and told me, you need to be
saved.
Or I was in a church service somewhere.
The choir began to sing and the choir
leader began to worship, and it was like
heaven fell down in our midst.
It was awesome.
I felt a tingling go all through my
body.
Then this young preacher from somewhere got up
and preached and talked about Jesus and talked
about the saving love of Jesus.
I had a chance.
My heart was beating within my chest.
I felt chills going through my spine as
he talked about hell and talked about heaven.
When it came time for the altar call,
I almost got out of my seat.
Almost.
And the devil will only be too happy
to let this man relive that experience a
million times over.
He'll rerun it in your mind over and
over and over again.
Even go to the extent of setting you
back in the church and making a make
-believe scenario that you're there and you have
another chance again.
And when you get out of your seat
and run, all of a sudden you're back.
Or another man will say, a friend at
work told me about salvation through Christ.
I listened.
His life or her life seemed to so
radiate with what they were trying to tell
me.
I was, I was almost persuaded.
My God, you could be sitting here tonight
and your life is hanging right in the
balance.
Almost.
God sent his son to die a horrible
death on a cross to persuade you that
you need to receive him to go to
heaven.
There's nothing more he could do for you.
He went the whole way.
He did it all.
And then there'd be this pathetic creature that
stands even worse than all the rest.
I knew him.
How it must break the heart of God.
I knew him.
I walked with him for a little while.
I felt his presence.
I was, I was in services where I
felt the glory of God.
It fell.
I sang tears came down my face, but
the cares and concerns of this world choked
me out.
I lost him.
My heart grew cold and I didn't even
realize it was happening.
And before I knew it, I had fraud
and upon that I was stomping all over
that precious blood of Christ.
And it brought disgrace to his name.
And I went right back to where I
came from.
I was almost persuaded to live for him.
The pastor would get up and he would
preach.
He would thunder from heaven and warn me
about the consequences of sin.
I was almost persuaded to live a holy
life.
Almost.
We have to ask ourselves tonight.
What stops men from receiving Christ?
What brings them to the place where they
say almost.
And I think there's some keys in this
passage that we looked at in Acts chapter
26.
Paul is presenting the gospel.
Festus and Agrippa are sitting there, two men
in authority and in power.
And Paul says, he talks about Jesus and
verse 23 says that Christ should suffer and
that he should be the first that should
rise from the dead and should show light
to the people and to the Gentiles.
And as he does speak for himself, Festus
said with a loud voice, Paul, you're beside
yourself.
Paul, your much learning has made you mad.
I know Agrippa is sitting beside Festus and
Agrippa is stirred in his spirit.
Agrippa has done some reading because Paul in
the spirit turns to Agrippa.
He says, King Agrippa, do you believe the
prophets?
And then Paul speaking in the spirit says
to Agrippa, I believe the words that went
right through his inmost being.
I know you believe.
And I think it's with a trembling voice
and not with antagonism or perhaps sarcasm that
Agrippa says to Paul, Paul, you almost persuade
me to be a Christian.
But what stopped him, Festus, perhaps is the
main reason why he stopped at that moment.
Festus had just said to Paul, you're mad.
And Agrippa thought, if I receive this God
that the apostle Paul is talking about, then
Agrippa, then Festus is going to turn to
me, Agrippa thought and said, you're mad.
It's the fear of your peers that stops
many of you from receiving Christ.
I think it's better to be thought a
fool here on this earth than to wind
up in hell and be proven one for
eternity.
Jesus said in Matthew chapter five, blessed are
you when men shall revile you and say
all men are of evil against you falsely
for my name's sake.
Rejoice and be exceeding glad in that day
for great is your reward for so persecuted
they the prophets that were before you.
In other words, if you're living for God,
if you have a testimony of Christ and
all around you're finding scorn, all you want
to be is holy.
All you want to be is devoted and
all you're finding is scorn.
Claim the chair and jump over it and
rejoice that God has counted you worthy to
suffer for his name.
I believe the second thing is the fear
that Paul's belief was just too simple.
You see, the Romans were into learning.
All roads were leading to Rome.
It's just like the Athenians hanging around their
own self-made altars, always looking to learn
some new thing.
They're into learning.
And Paul's belief was just too simple.
Festus says to him, much learning has made
you mad.
It's just too simple.
But remember the words of Jesus, except you
be converted and become like little children, you
shall not, you cannot enter the kingdom of
God.
Look at the book of first Corinthians, please.
Chapter one.
Hallelujah.
First Corinthians chapter one, verse 17.
We know from the books that Paul wrote
that Paul was a theological genius, really.
The things that God revealed to his spirit,
he was able to put down.
Even the apostle Peter said that many people
take his words and twist them and distort
them because some of them are hard to
understand.
First Corinthians chapter one, beginning of verse 17.
The apostle Paul says these words, for Christ
sent me not to baptize, but to preach
the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest
the cross of Christ should be made of
none effect.
For the preaching of the cross is foolishness,
is to them that perish foolishness.
But unto us, which are saved, it is
the power of God.
For it is written, I will destroy the
wisdom of the wise and will bring to
nothing the understanding of the prudent.
Where is the wise?
Where is the scribe?
Where is the disputer of this world?
Has not God made foolish the wisdom of
this world?
Have you noticed lately where the wisdom of
the world has brought us to?
Singers can get together and sing songs about
how nice we are as a people and
government leaders can get together.
Have you noticed the ambassadors of peace are
beginning to weep around the world right now?
The wisdom of the world is foolishness.
It's the preaching of the cross that changes
the hearts of men.
Where is the, for after that in the
wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew
not God.
It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching
to save them that believe.
For the Jews require a sign and the
Greeks seek after wisdom, but we preach Christ
crucified unto the Jews, the stumbling block and
under the Greeks foolishness.
But unto them, which are called both Jews
and Greeks, Christ, the power of God and
the wisdom of God.
Hallelujah.
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than
men and the weakness of God is stronger
than men.
For you see your calling brethren, how not
that not many wise men after the flesh,
not many mighty and not many noble are
called, but God has chosen the foolish things
of the world to confound the wise.
God has chosen the weak things of the
world to confound the things which are mighty
and based things of the world and things
which are despised has God chosen.
Yay.
And things which are not to bring to
not things that are that no flesh should
glory in his presence.
But of Kim, are you in Christ Jesus
who have God is made unto us wisdom
and righteousness and sanctification and redemption that according
as it is written, he that glories, let
him glory in the Lord.
The wisdom of the world is foolishness to
God.
The door that leads to eternal life does
not require the word, the world of wisdom
to get through it.
I believe the sin of pride is going
to send many to testimony meetings in hell.
The gateway to eternal life is open, but
you have to come through it on your
knees.
You have to come through it in a
position of humility.
You can't walk into a crowd like a
peacock.
You've got to humble yourself to come into
the kingdom of God.
The lastly, what stops people from receiving Christ
and most importantly is the erroneous thoughts that's
common to fallen men that we are in
control of God.
Listen to the, listen to the pompous assertion
of pilots in the book of John.
I'll just read it to you.
Chapter 19, verse 10, Jesus is standing before
pilot in an hour of judgment and pilot
says to Jesus, do you not know that
I have the power to crucify you and
the power to release you?
Isn't it absurd this little puny man that
God has created.
And here's the son of God who was
there in the beginning with God.
Nothing was made without him.
All things were made by him.
He became flesh pilots now beholding him.
He's standing before pilot and pilot says, do
you not know that I have the power?
Isn't it absurd?
I have the power to crucify you and
the power to release you.
What did Jesus say to him?
You would have no power over me at
all.
We're not given to you from above.
You see what pilot failed to realize.
And what many people in this generation have
failed to realize is the situation would soon
be turned around the other way.
One day pilot was going to stand before
the throne of the son of God.
This time with his hand extended no longer
in man's temporary and elusive authority, but in
humble submission, begging God for mercy, but it
would be too late for him.
Fallen man says, I have the power to
accept you or reject you.
I have the power to acknowledge you, Jesus,
or ignore you.
I have the power to serve you or
spurn you.
Maybe so maybe you do, but only for
a time.
Then one day you're going to stand before
God.
It is written.
Every knee will bow and every tongue will
confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
Any power you think you have tonight is
just an illusion.
I hear people say in the right context,
there's nothing wrong with it.
I accepted Jesus sort of like I put
him on like an old raincoat when it's
raining and I can take them off when
it's sunny.
You don't, you don't have power over him
right now.
He's holding everyone in this room in his
hand.
The whole city of New York running around.
This is a lust-filled city.
It's a lust-laden city, lust for power,
lust for fame, carnal lust.
Every kind of lust common to man is
found in this city and everybody running around
thinking you have the power over God.
They have power over nothing.
It's the hand of a merciful God that's
holding every soul in it right now, giving
every person a chance.
So foolish for Pilate to say, I have
the power to crucify you and the power
to release you.
People standing around saying, I've got the power
to accept you.
I've got the power to reject you.
You don't have any power at all.
It's just mercy.
You accept them, you go to heaven, you
reject them, you go to hell.
It's just mercy.
You have no power at all.
Understanding this truth should cause you to run
to the altar of God for mercy.
Run to salvation.
Run while it's still time.
The gateway of heaven is open, but the
day is coming when it's going to shut,
it's going to close.
Noah warned the people for over a hundred
years.
Not only did he build an ark, but
the Bible says he was a preacher of
righteousness.
He warned them as they went into the
city and bought and sold and came out.
But one day when the rain started, God
shut the door.
And when God shuts the door, no man
can open it.
But the doorway of mercy is open this
day.
We have no power over God.
Everybody take a deep breath.
Now hold your breath.
You can't take another one unless God allows
you.
Your heart's beating now within your chest.
The average human heart beats maybe 60 beats
a minute.
God counts them all.
They're on a clock.
And if he says, stop, it stops and
it's over.
The books are closed.
And the next thing you appear before the
judgment seat, no going back, no making things
right.
I had to pull a dead boy out
of a car one time, a 17-year
-old boy, when I was a policeman who
made a lot of promises to his mom
and dad.
I'm going to stop drinking.
I'm going to get my life right.
I'm going to do this.
I'm going to do that.
And he just ran his luck a little
too far one night and drove onto a
slippery road and glanced off a hydro pole,
a lamp standard, hardly a mark on the
car, hardly a mark on his body.
But his head hit the door jamb.
He was dead.
When I got there, he's still with his
eyes open, looking out the windshield with his
hands in front of him.
I had to go get his mom and
dad up at three o'clock in the
morning, bring him down to the hospital to
identify their only son.
Boy made a lot of promises.
I preached the message to young people.
And that boy's been about 10 years in
hell now.
What's the first thousand years in hell like?
Every knee will bow.
Every tongue will confess.
Today, for those who are without Christ, his
hand is extended to you.
You're now in the palm of his hand
with love and compassion.
That's the only thing that's kept God from
destroying this whole thing.
He knew that mankind left to himself from
the day that Adam's sin and the knowledge
of evil entered the human race.
He knew that mankind would destroy himself.
It's exactly what we're going to do.
He knew that we would create nuclear weaponry
and eventually unleash it on one another and
bring ourselves to a point that if he
didn't intervene, there'd be nobody left in this
planet.
He knew that.
He's been right in the midst of it
the whole time.
His hand has been extended.
He's held us in the palm of his
hand.
He's encouraged.
He's exhorted.
He's given his blood.
He gave everything he had that you and
I can find a way out of this
world and a way into eternity.
Tonight, his hand is open.
If you will receive his love tonight, confess
your sin, have a willingness in your heart
to repent, which means turn away from it.
Sin is a willful, lawless act of rebellion
against the Holy God.
Repentance is a willful act of turning away
from what we know is wrong and beginning
to do what we know is right.
It's not a one-time thing.
It's every day.
It's every time the Holy Spirit convicts you.
If you'll receive, open your heart.
If you'll acknowledge that Jesus paid the price
for your sin and invite him into your
life.
If you're lost, if you're a backslider, if
you're like that boy that was losing his
love, if you're like any one of these,
you need to be here tonight, because if
you'll come here tonight, you're going to, to
this altar, you're going to go to a
different kind of testimony meeting.
You haven't seen a thing yet.
Nothing.
We're going to stand one day on a
seat that's like glass before a crystal throne.
There are beasts around about that throne with
eyes all around.
They fly around in circles with their wings
up in the air and they say, holy,
holy, holy is the Lord God of hosts.
Heaven and earth are filled with his glory.
Hosanna in the highest.
Hallelujah.
Glory to God.
When the beasts rise up and cry holy
before and for the elders, you talk about
a worship service.
They get off of their thrones and they
come and they cast their crowns at the
feet of Christ and bow down before him.
And the sea of people from all nations,
every kindred, every race, every tribe, every tongue
that have been saved since the day of
Christ are going to be standing there.
They're going to be worshiping, worshiping.
It'll be like crescendos like it was tonight.
It'd be like waves rolling in off an
ocean towards the throne of God.
Waves rolling in, waves rolling in.
And they'll be shouting, the king is here.
The king has come.
Glorious visitations of glorious presence of Christ.
There'll be no night there.
There'll be no sighing.
There'll be no sorrow.
There'll be no sickness.
We will be delivered from the confines of
these human bodies.
There'll be music like you've never heard before.
Standing there all aglow as he is, the
scripture says.
There's nothing to do forever.
Dan should be standing there.
You don't have to go home anymore.
You don't get hungry.
Hallelujah.
A million
faces, a billion faces.
Jesus will stand up and say that one
over there.
And it's you.
I was lost.
I was in a service somewhere in New
York City.
I heard the message of the saving grace
of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
And when the holy call was given, I
ran to the front and I was saved.
Hallelujah.
And all of heaven, all of heaven Amazing
grace, how sweet the sound that saved
a wretch like me.
I was found, was
blind, but now I see.
Hallelujah!
You were there and you were carrying a
baby.
And I don't know if you're here tonight
or not.
But I want to tell you something.
Jesus died for you.
If you're here, you need to know that.
He died for you.
And even if it was only you that
ever would have received him, that ever would
have opened your heart, He still would have
come.
He still would have been whipped.
He still would have bled.
He still would have died.
You're going to have a new body in
heaven.
I saw that your body's got marks on
it here on this earth.
And you were walking the street and you
were carrying a little baby with you.
But you're going to have a new body.
A glorious body that God's going to give
you.
And the shame and the stain of your
sin is going to be gone forever.
You won't even know about it.
God's going to wipe it out.
Hallelujah!
Tonight, if you can hear His voice, harden
not your heart.
If you can hear His voice, realize He's
speaking to you and wants you for His
own.
This altar is open for every sinner that
wants to come to Christ, for every backslider
that wants to come back to God, for
every heart that's cold and in danger of
trampling the blood of Jesus underfoot.
This altar is open for God to touch
you, that you can go to heaven and
attend a testimony meeting for eternity in that
place.
Your life is in the balance, many of
you here.
I see somebody coming and I know there
are others.
In the midst of that testimony meeting, the
Apostle Paul is going to rise up.
And this is Paul's testimony before the throne
of God.
I was a sinner.
I persecuted the church.
But I received mercy because I did it
ignorantly and in unbelief.
I was on the road to Damascus one
day and the glory of God fell upon
me and knocked me off my high horse.
And Jesus began to speak to me and
told me He had a purpose and a
plan and a commission for my life.
God sent a man called Ananias to the
house where I was staying.
He laid His hands on me.
The scales fell off my eyes.
I was filled with the Holy Ghost and
I became a different man.
Hallelujah!
But before this, I was in Caesarea and
I stood before King Agrippa.
I owe no palaties,
no powers, nothing.
Hallelujah!
It will never be the same again.
I saw you.
I was praying today and I saw you
in the Spirit standing before the throne of
God in eternity.
And it was just the radiance of Jesus.
And He felt a special, just a special
love for you.
And you had a new body and all
of the guilt, all the stain, it's gone.
Jesus died and shed His blood.
The Bible says the devil has a list
of the things that we've done that he
accuses us with.
And when Jesus died, His blood came and
dripped off the cross and covered the list.
The Bible says it blotted out the handwriting
of ordinances that was against us.
When you stand before God the Father one
day and He says, why should I let
you into heaven?
You just say, Jesus died for me.
I look for Him.
And when they open the books on your
life, no matter what you've done, now I'm
not telling you that that gives you a
license to live in sin any longer.
You have to go and sin no more.
And God will give you the strength.
But when they open the books, there's going
to be nothing there.
Just the blood of Christ.
Glory to God.
Hallelujah.
Glory to God.
Everybody that's come to this altar, please pray
with me right now.
Lord Jesus, I'm a sinner.
Thank You, Jesus, that You died for me.
You gave Your life for me.
You took a horrible beating and suffered a
horrible death.
Even the wrath of God came upon You.
And You went into the lower parts of
the earth to pay the full price for
my sin.
Now, Jesus, I surrender my life to You.
I'm not my own anymore.
You bought me with a price.
Give me of Your Holy Spirit and give
me the strength to live for You.
Because You died for me, Jesus, I will
live for You now for the rest of
my life.
And like the Apostle Paul, I'm not going
to turn back.
Even though it gets hard, I'm going to
keep on going because I'm going to the
testimony meeting in heaven.