I have something that I want to bring
to you that God laid on my heart
for this service this morning, and it's found
in the latter part of the 24th chapter
of the book of Matthew.
In the 30th verse, the 32nd verse, the
34th verse, the 37th verse in the 24th
chapter, and the 41st verse, the 43rd verse,
and the 45th verse, and the 48th verse,
all eight of those verses that I just
read to you in the 24th chapter, every
one of them are the words of Jesus.
And he is there telling some of the
things that are to take place in the
very end time right at his coming.
Now, the whole 24th chapter, all of it
has to do with when shall these things
be, what shall be the sign of thy
coming in the end of the world.
He deals a whole lot with things that
even have been way back there in his
time, but if you'll notice, he earmarks in
the 34th verse, and he says this generation,
earmarking when I'm coming down at the very
end, he said this generation at the end,
all the things that I have told you
that are going to occur in the very
end time, they shall all come to pass
in the same generation.
Now, we find according to the Bible, we
know what a generation is according to the
word, there's 14 generations from Abraham to David,
14 generations from David to Christ, and you
figure that up, it's allowing a little over
50 years for a generation, around 60 years.
And a generation is when one generation of
people leaves the scene and another generation comes
on.
Now, he wasn't forced to say something that
wasn't right, but he said when the end
time comes, there's going to be dramatic changes
all over the world and even in the
heavens, and it will not take place during
the 1900 years, but the very end time,
they will begin to explode and boom, they'll
all come to pass in the same generation.
Now, we don't know when Jesus is coming
the day and hour, but don't nobody say
we don't know the because he said when
these things begin to come as the fig
tree buds and you say the summer's at
hand, you don't say it's here today, you
know the summer is right in hand, the
fig tree is budding, and it's telling you
that summer is at hand.
So when these things begin to come to
pass, then look up for your redemption draweth
nigh, because when they begin to come to
pass, they'll all come to pass and finish
in the same generation.
I live to see it come in.
One of the key things is knowledge will
increase.
And according to Micah, my automobiles will run
down the highways and the chariots will run
without horses and they will run like lightnings.
For 1900 years, that's the way the transportation,
the horse, but we had run across the
field to look at a Ford when it
had stopped in my bullhead days.
The Bible said that he would let men
fly through the air, and that would be
at the end time, and as a dove
to the window, men would fly.
And it said knowledge would increase and then
it said that there would be a time
of rebellion, wickedness.
It would be an adulterous generation.
He went on to describe that the primitive
days would cease and we'd enter into a
new era.
Do you know we didn't have any electric
lights when I was a boy?
There might have been a few just coming
on, but how many clean lamps?
And you had the lamps to read, but
let me see your hand, all over the
place.
But how many cleans lamps now?
Let me see your hand.
All right.
How many remember the time that if you
wanted to go anywhere, you hooked up the
horse and went, put your hand up.
All right, right here now.
But how many hooks up the dolly now
to go, put your hand up?
Nobody.
We have electric lights today.
I could go on and preach an hour
on the thousands and thousands of things electronically
and every medically.
And it said the great last sign there's
going to be after the inventions and everything
began to explode, which year after year, it
began to start and it rolled open and
America began to throw out inventions of every
kind, the telephone, the radio, and the, whoever
heard of a telephone in my boy's day
or, or your child day, uh, when it
first came out to show you how far
we've gone, brother, we've come a long way,
baby.
You'd go along there and you'd walk up
to the thing.
You'd go and then it'd answer.
Then you'd get one, two, three longs and
then pause.
And then one quick and as old sister
Jones and she'd pick up the receiver and
she'd hear click, click, click, click, click, click,
click, click 24 on the line.
And everyone of them listened to see who's
talking to his job.
We've come a long way.
Maybe you've got a private phone now, brother.
God said it'd come to pass in the
same generation.
This thing is closer than you think.
Is everything set today for the bomb to
go off?
Iniquity being brought on the subjection by the
gospel and everybody getting happy and everybody praising
the Lord and everybody quit cussing.
Everybody is uh, not vulgar no more.
They're all decent.
No, I think when you're bounding, how many
believe on liquid is abounding on every side.
Listen, I want you to open your heart
to a fact.
A lot of people is dead asleep right
today.
They're asleep expecting Jesus to come.
Now I told you there were eight separate
individual things and every one of them when
you get home, read them.
I gave them to you 30, 32 verse
34, 37, 41, 43, 45, 48.
Every one of them has to do with
the very end time.
And he tells us here that as it
were in the days of Noah, so let
be when in the coming, when the Lord
comes and we are caught up.
Now that also could refer when he comes
back, set up his reign a thousand years.
But what we're talking about, what has to
happen before he comes back, sets up his
reign.
He's going to come and the trumpets going
to blow.
And we that are alive and remain are
going to what?
Going to be caught up together with them
in the clouds to meet the Lord in
the air.
And so shall we ever be with the
Lord.
You say, Oh, I believe brother Hibbard that
there won't be no rapture.
I believe that's right at the end time
when Jesus comes back.
You do.
How can we be caught up to meet
him when we're up in heaven and we
follow him on white horses?
Another thing, when the Holy Spirit is taken
out of the way, then shall the wicked
one be revealed.
And he has three and a half years
before him.
When the Lord comes, he don't have five
minutes brother.
It's up.
The curtain pulls to the world, the kingdoms
of this world become the kingdoms of our
Lord and his Christ.
You've got to put it where the word
puts it.
There's going to be a taking out.
There's going to be a blast of a
trumpet.
The Lord will come with a shout and
with a voice of the archangel, we put
your alive and remain shall be caught up
together.
And it said there, Jesus said, there's going
to be two in the field.
Working.
And one will be taken.
Don't mean he dies.
He's changed in a moment, twinkling an eye
and he's caught up to meet the Lord.
And the fellows, two in the field.
John, word says go.
John.
Mile out in the field and nobody there.
Just spoke to you a second before.
You look, there's no hot male shoes.
There's old boots and there's old overhauls and
there's old hat bandana handkerchief.
And you reach over there and you think,
well boy, here's his boots and overhauls.
He spoke to me a second ago.
He's gone.
You know, that's going to happen all over
the world.
In your bedroom, the baby's gown will be
there, but the baby won't be there.
Why wake up of a morning?
Your wife's clothes down will be there, but,
but she won't be there.
If she's a Christian.
Oh yeah.
You got to watch that.
Now he said two would be in the
bed.
One will be taken.
The other left two in the field, two
in the bed.
Get up next morning.
What a sight you say, do you reckon
that'll happen?
It's going to happen all over the world
when Jesus comes, if it's nighttime.
And that means there are many Christians, many
Christians.
Now don't get warped.
Black one fella.
He, he, someone told him that and he
got saved and, and he said, honey, and
we're not going to sleep together because said
you're a Christian.
I'm a Christian now and said, God said,
one's going to be taken out of the
left.
He said, now we're going to go sleep
in single bed.
So we'll both go.
But here's what he meant.
He meant there are many cases where the
wife is serving God and the husband's not,
and God's going to take one and he's
going to leave the other.
Meaning this one's ready to go in the
other's not in the field.
One is ready to go in the other.
And it was not, there'll be two women
grinding at the mill.
One will be taken and the other will
be left.
Meaning the two that went to the mill,
half of them went and half of them
stayed.
The two out in the field, half of
them went and half of them stayed.
And the ones in the bed, half of
them went and half of them stayed.
The 10 virgins that went out to meet
the Lord, the kingdom of heaven is lacking
in it.
Half of them went and half of them
stayed.
Four times God is saying among those that
are supposed to be ready, among those that
have associated with religion, under those that rub
elbows, they're at the mill.
One's holding it and the other's grinding it.
They're both plowing in the field.
They're both connected.
They both know about, do you think a
man's ready to go to heaven, keep his
mouth shut, never say anything to the other
fella?
No doubt he was a professing Christian, but
he wasn't ready.
What's he telling us?
It's going to be a split down the
middle.
Half's going, half's going to stay.
You stood while ago and said you want
to go to heaven.
I'm going to talk about the bunch that's
not going to make it.
So he goes on here and said, as
we're in the days of Noah, so shall
also the coming son of man be.
And he comes on down, 43rd verse, it
said here, watch therefore, you know not what
hour the Lord doth come, but know this,
if the good man of the house had
known what hour the thief would have come,
he would have watched and would not have
suffered his house to have been broken up.
What did God tell every one of you
to do?
He told you to watch, spiritual watch.
Listen to this, therefore be also ready.
Don't get ready, but be ready.
For in such an hour as you think
not, behold, son of man cometh.
I'm coming down to something important now.
Who then is a faithful and wise servant,
whom his Lord hath made ruler over his
household, to give unto them their meat in
due season.
Notice, who then is a faithful and wise
servant, whom his Lord hath made ruler over
his household, to give unto them meat in
due season.
He has made every one of us, he's
placed us over a household.
Everyone are responsible to somebody.
How many believe that?
Don't kid yourself.
You have effect upon somebody else, as sure
as God made an apple.
Now, God has given you, delegated you a
responsibility, and it said, blessed and wise is
that man.
Blessed is the servant whom his Lord, when
he cometh, shall find so doing.
Now notice that he said, blessed is that
servant, whom when his Lord cometh, shall find
so doing, giving meat in due season.
You are carrying out your responsibility.
Now notice, and he shall begin to, no,
here we are.
Verily I say unto you, he will make
him, that's the 47th verse.
It said, blessed is the servant whom his
Lord, when he cometh, shall find so doing.
Verily I say unto you, that he will
make him ruler over all that he hath.
Now who's speaking?
Jesus is speaking.
When's he speaking?
He's speaking of a condition.
He has just got through mentioning seven of
not almost in time, but seven in time
experiences, and this one I'm reading now is
the eighth one.
But here he comes in and tells one
of the main reasons why some of them
are not going to make it.
Now that's what I want you to listen
to.
Verily I say unto you, that he will
make him ruler over all that he hath,
but the 48th verse.
But, and if that evil servant shall say
in his heart, my Lord delayeth his coming.
My Lord delayeth his coming.
Now what has the evil servant said?
The good wise servant.
He said the wise servant, but now this
is the evil, the unwise, you see the
foolish.
It said that he said, and if that
evil servant shall say in his heart, my
Lord delayeth his coming and shall begin to
smite his fellow servant and eat and begin
to drink with the drunken.
Now what's wrong with saying, my Lord delayeth
his coming.
I want to see if you hand your,
your little card to the Lord and let
him grade it and say, Lord, am I
a Christian?
Am I the Christian you want me to
be?
He'd either have to check yes or no.
I'll tell you why.
And if you'd say, Lord, am I doing
everything the way you'd like for me to
do it?
How many believe if he say, you call
me Lord master.
If I do, you're supposed to be my
servant.
You're supposed to act accordingly.
It's not every man that says Lord, Lord,
but he that doeth the, what the will,
the will of my father, which is in
heaven.
You see, then every confidence toward God that
whatever we ask of him, we receive him
because we keep his commandments and we do
those things.
They're pleasing, pleasing in his sight.
Somebody said, I'll go to church when I
want to, I have my program made up.
I go when I want to.
And I know what the book said, but
you see my situation.
And so if it's not to where you
can carry out your life, like God says
to you, you need to get down on
your knees and pray that God will work
it out where you can.
The devil will make it awful easy for
you to get yourself separated from the church
and let everything in the world come in.
But God tells you forsake not.
He didn't say, unless you have a job
or something, he said forsake not the assembling
of yourself together and exhorting one another.
But he said, more so as you see
the day approaching.
Can you see the end time coming and
how many believe we've lived to see the
end time coming?
Then he said forsaking not.
Now let's come right on here and get
this.
That evil servant, he says, my Lord Deliath
is coming and begin to smite his fellow
servant and begin to eat and drink with
the drunken.
And what's wrong with it?
Let's read the rest of it.
The Lord of that servant shall come in
a day when he looketh not for him.
And in an hour when he's not aware,
he comes and catches him.
He has said, my Lord Deliath is coming.
And he has began to smite his fellow
servant.
He's been, you know, kind of buffing them
and hitting them around.
And he's beginning to eat and drink with
the drunken, with the drunken.
Now he said, we're sober.
You know, you can't be sober and drunk
at the same time.
You know what the drunken is?
The drunken are those that are under the
intoxication of liquor, spiritual intoxication.
And he tells us we're the light and
the children of the world of darkness.
But he tells us that we are to
be sober, separate ourselves from drunkenness.
Now eat, drink with the drunken.
The drunken are in a state, they're not
aware of what's going on around them.
Why?
The house could be on fire or every
kind of a danger could be there.
But if he's all soused up and he's
drunk, you know, he is not aware, he
cannot think right.
His thinking faculties are not normal and his
actions are not normal.
Some people want to give away all the
money when they get drunk.
Some want to love everybody and they're mean
as the devil when they're sober.
But when they get drunk, you know, I
got on the elevator the other day and
a fellow goes, how are you?
Well, how's everything coming along?
Just fine, huh?
And I was in there and there's a
lot of other folks and folks like that,
you know, but boy, he's just loving everybody.
I know one fellow named Lee, he'd get
saved.
I mean, when he, when he get, oh,
he needed to get saved.
When he'd get drunk, come in every, every
payday and his wife, she hadn't worked, they'd
starve to death.
He'd take his money and get him a
bunch of dollar bills and he'd go down
the street and he'd say, hey, want a
dollar?
He'd throw it down.
Just, just throw money like that.
Just go down.
And he'd actually do it.
He'd throw his money away.
Tight-fisted as he can be when he
is sober.
It changed his nature, liquor, drunkenness.
It said he began to eat and he
began to drink.
He lost his separation.
He was mixing with the wrong crowd.
He was having his fellowship with the wrong
kind of people.
He began to eat, drink with the drunken
and he began to smite his fellow servant.
Now what'd the, the master do when he
came?
When he came, unaware, said he'll come in
an hour when he's not aware of, and
he'll say, well, what you been doing?
I've been saying you delay your coming.
I've been eating, drinking with the drunken.
Well, nice.
That's good.
No, that's not what he said to the
fellow that was faithful.
He was the opposite.
He was wise, not foolish.
It said, well done.
I'm going to make you ruler of all
I've got.
Is that what he said to him?
Right above this.
But if the evil servants say, I just
got through telling you what happened with the
good servant.
And here's what the master says.
And it says here, the Lord of that
servant will come in a day when he
looketh not for him and the hour when
he's not aware of, and will cut him
asunder and appoint him his portion with the
hypocrites and there shall be weeping and wailing
and gnashing of teeth.
He'll go to hell, not make it to
heaven.
Now I want you to sit in here
on the balcony, young people don't care who
you are.
I want you to look straight for the
hypocrite.
I'm going to tell you something.
You say, what's the next verse say?
Said don't have that's the end of it.
No, it's not.
That's a great mistake they made in fixing,
you know, putting the Bible in chapters.
When Paul, I mean, when Matthew wrote this,
he wrote a letter.
And that 25 has nothing to do with
separating that because I want you to notice
the next verse, what it says.
The next verse says, then shall the kingdom
of heaven be like an unto.
It starts off connecting with what he had
just got through saying.
Had you ever read that that way?
You read it the way God put it
in here.
That 25, just forget it.
Just pull them all together.
When he got through saying the wise servant
was faithful to discharge his duty and the
master came and he was ready and he
said, well done.
And he made him rule over his goods.
But if the evil, the foolish servant shall
go ahead and say, my Lord delayeth his
coming.
Oh, he's coming.
Sure.
The Lord's coming.
We believe that, but we don't believe he'll
come today or tomorrow or the next day.
And you know, we believe it'll be a
little while and begin to smite the fellow
servant.
Your, your Christian brother began to mouth back
at him and begin to eat and drink
with the drunken.
That means to keep yourself separate from the
world.
God said, love, not the world, neither the
things in the world.
Scripture says pure and undefiled religion before God,
the father is this, this fathers and widows
in the time of their affliction and to
keep himself unspotted from the world.
God knows that you're in the world.
You're to try to win the world.
You don't go around saying, I can't talk
to you.
I'm a Christian.
No, no.
It means as far as the spirit of
the world, brother, we are in God's kingdom.
We're redeemed.
We're going to heaven.
We don't talk the language of the world.
You've got to be sanctified.
He said, and then I'm going to wind
up when I ought to be starting, but
I'm going to close here real quick.
He said, then shall the kingdom of heaven
be like an unto when, when like these
two servants, one of them said, my Lord
delays his coming and begin to smite his
fellow servant, eat, drink with the drunken.
And it said, the master will come on
him in a time where he's not looking
for him and appoint his portion with the
hypocrites and there'll be weeping and gnashing your
teeth.
He'll die.
He'll go to hell.
He had a servant, but he wasn't faithful
and he was cut off and God gave
him a portion with the hypocrites.
Then, then shall the kingdom of heaven.
When, when the Lord is coming just at
the time, he says eight different things at
the very end, then shall the kingdom of
heaven be like an unto.
25th chapter gives you the 10 virgins.
What about the 10 virgins?
What about it?
When he started, he said, and then I'm
explaining the one I just got to telling
you.
What was the one just before the wise,
the good and the wise servant, when he
came the good and the wise, it uses
the word wise servant, but the one that
was foolish and unwise, the wicked servant, he
began to say, my Lord, the life is
coming.
Does he explain to us what it means
to be ready in the 10 virgins?
The ones that were ready went in.
How many of the virgins were Christians on
the way to heaven?
10 of them were virgins.
10 of them had lamps.
10 of them had oil in the lamp.
10 of them burned because said our lamps
had gone out.
While the world, by the millions were out
there and they were not connected with this
bunch on the hill, you'd say, what are
they doing?
Expecting the Lord to come said, no, no,
they're out there.
They're not even counted.
But what are that 10 up there?
They are up there.
They left this crowd.
They've separated the self from the world.
They have gone out as virgins with robes
on, with lamps, with oil in them, and
they're burning to meet the Lord.
But five of them got in and five
of them did not.
Then show the kingdom of heaven be like
an unto, just the verse above it.
He tells us the foolish one said, my
Lord delays his coming.
What happened to those five?
All 10 of them, one is just as
ready as the other.
Had the Lord got there a little early.
How many of the gone in?
Be honest now, if it got there a
little early, you know who got in those
that are ready?
How many would have been ready?
All of them would have been ready because
they're all virgins.
All had robes, all had lamps, all had
oil.
All of them had oil in the lamps
and all of them burned.
But while the bridegroom tarried, what did the
verse above it is saying?
It said, when that wicked servant said, my
Lord delayeth his coming, I've got time to
do what I want to do around here.
I'm going to have a good time, smite
the fellow servant.
I'm going to get on a little drunk,
have a little time with my party fixing
out here, eat great with the drunken, you
know, and the master of the Lord will
come in an hour that he thinketh not.
So what happened?
The 10 virgins out there was a delay.
A lot of people for the Lord come
a month ago, then shout and have a
talk in tongues.
You'd have been ready.
I'm not asking whether he's ready 10 months
ago.
I'm asking if you're ready now.
He didn't say get ready.
He said, be ready.
If the Lord had come while I'm preaching
before I wind up, you know who's going?
It's not those that have been ready.
It's those that are ready.
Your sins have got to be under the
blood.
You've got to be separate.
Oh, you say, brother, you don't mean that,
do you?
Keep himself unspotted from the world.
Love not the world, neither the things that
are in it.
But it says the 10 virgins, while the
bridegroom tarried, winding up, they slumbered and slept.
You know what slumbering is?
It's when you don't snore because you're not
quite that deep into it.
Your eyes are a little glassy.
I don't want to see anybody like that.
I'll throw a book at you, maybe.
But you know what?
Well, you almost have to sit down to
show this.
But anyway, when you're slumbering, you're kind of,
you're about half there.
So everybody raise your hand.
And every now and then you'll catch it.
You're not where you can lay down, but
boy, I used to go to sleep on
the streetcar.
About 45 minutes going home, went out and
blast.
Every now and then that guy would say,
gang, gang, gang, gang, cow in the tracks,
something like that.
It'd wake me up, you know.
Or some other thing had happened, you know,
and I'd rouse up.
And I was there.
I wasn't going to go home.
I'd get in the bed and start snoring.
But they slumbered.
A lot of professing Christians today, you know
what, what you're good for when you're slumbering?
Not a thing in the heaven.
Brother, you can't figure a problem.
You can't sing.
You can't help nobody.
You're not fit for nothing.
You're half here and half there.
You're not awake.
You're not asleep.
You're not capable of using the right thinking.
And it said they slumbered.
But at midnight, there was a cry of
aid.
The bridegroom wasn't there, but he was almost
there at midnight.
And there was a cry of aid.
Behold, the bridegroom cometh.
He's a half a mile down the way.
Go up to meet him.
And they rose real quickly.
And they trimmed the lamp.
They had oil in them.
And they got them all ready.
And everything began to get ready.
And the other said, oh, we haven't got
any oil.
Give us some of your oil.
No, we can't do that.
So when they went, they wasn't there when
he come.
But you know when the bride, you know
when the herald went forth?
Let me tell you when he went forth.
In the day of the Lord's preparation, when
he's preparing his bride, the Bible says in
Mayhem that I'm going to let the chariots
go down the broadways.
In the day of the Lord's preparation, the
automobiles will take the place of the horses.
And they'll run like lightning down broadways.
They won't have pig trails or ox trails.
They'll have broadways, super freeways.
You know how many highways we had in
the United States when I was a boy,
paved from one town to the other?
Not one.
Not one is to be definitely proved.
Not one in the United States was the
rich nation.
Why?
The only one that they had that was
near paved was the Appian Way out of
Rome.
They paved it with bricks.
I'm talking about in my boyhood days, there
wasn't a paved highway between any city.
But now, brother, there are paved highways between
every city and they're not called pig trails.
They're called broadways.
And the chariots were racing down them like
lightning.
And it said it'll happen in the day
of the Lord's preparation.
What happened when the automobile came in?
God poured out His Spirit in Uzzu Street
in California, in Georgia, in Los Angeles, in
London, in India.
I could mention two or three more where
God poured out His Spirit and the power
of the Holy Ghost began to move upon
people and people received the Holy Ghost, spoke
in tongues and they began to go out
and everyone began to preach, the Lord's coming,
the Lord's coming, the Lord's coming.
Listen, way back to 30 years ago, see
if this preacher's right.
How many believe in those days the message
was, the Lord's coming, the Lord's coming, get
ready.
People wouldn't even plow.
They figured the Lord's coming before the harvest.
People wouldn't plant trees.
Am I telling you the truth?
Is it true that Pentecost in its early
stage, that was 40 years ago, 50, about
50 years, 50 years.
Listen, is it true?
The main message they had is the Lord
is coming soon.
How many know that to be the truth?
Put your hand up.
The herald went out.
He's right around the corner.
What has happened since God has sent His
servants to awaken and let the bride know
He's coming?
All these last day things have happened.
Are we slumbering?
Are we eating, drinking with the drunken?
Are we smiting our fellow servants?
Never with your mouth, but in your heart
are you saying, my Lord's going to delay
His coming.
He's coming, but He'll delay His coming.
And you act accordingly.
If people in this church, every one of
you, believed that Jesus Christ was as near
the coming as He really is, and if
the Lord could just tell you how real
it was, it would make a tremendous change
in a lot of your habits.
Things that you've neglected and left out, you'd
start doing.
Some things you've been doing, you'd quit.
God's handing you a report card.
Is He satisfied?
How many believe He's coming?
I don't know why did He say half
of them that was ready, they were all
ready.
Two in the field, half went.
Two at the mill, half went.
Two in the bed, half went.
Ten virgins, half went.
That's not talking about all the denominational churches,
they're not even in the going.
Some of them may be saved, but God's
talking about the true believers that are saved
and born again, that's once had an experience
as a falling away.
How many believe if we're not stirred and
alarmed one hundred percent, we ought to be?
Let's stand to our feet together.
It's early, it's only ten after twelve.
We ask God to speak to this congregation.
If I should ask you a question straight
from the shoulder, as far as you know
intelligently, do you feel that your life, as
it stands right now, is ready for the
trumpet to blow?
And if He'd come now, everything would be
ready.
If not, if not, there's no better time
when God is speaking.
I said, God, what would it take to
really stir, to really stir and let the
people see exactly where we're living?
I've told you a dozen times already, because
it's real.
It may not be real to you, but
it is to me.
Nine weeks ago, on a Saturday night, I
was in that room right there where I
prepare for my, used to go in there
and prepare, come right on out to preach.
And in my dream, God came in that
room while I was at the desk.
He's hearing me tell this.
And He came in there and He said,
son, go out and tell them to keep
their lamp trimmed and burning.
And I said, all right, Lord, I'll tell
them.
I was getting my morning message.
And I waited just a moment.
So He said, son, go out and tell
them to keep their lamp trimmed and burning.
My dream.
How many believe God gives dreams?
And while I was delaying a little bit,
the Lord said, son, get up and go
out there now and tell them to keep
their lamps trimmed and burning.
And I awakened.
And that was back there nine weeks ago
when I preached on the 10 virgins.
But since God's give this message to me,
it fits right along with it.
It's not whether your lamps have burned, five
of them had burned, but brother, when He'd
come, they were not burning.
The ones that were ready went in, but
the ones that were not ready didn't go
in.
It's not whether you have been ready.
Are you ready now?
If not, you need to pray.
With your head bowed, how many people here
this morning will say, brother, I'm not absolutely
sure.
I've neglected my prayer life.
I've neglected reading the Word like I should.
And I've made excuses and I haven't come
to the service like I should, because God
requires me to do it and see to
it that my life is adjusted to where
I can do it.
But I've neglected some of the spiritual things.
And I want you to pray for me
this morning that God will help me.
And I want to be awakened out of
the stupor and the slumbering.
And I want to be prepared when the
trumpet blows.
How many will raise your hand right now
and say, brother Hibbard, I'm not absolutely sure.
I want you to pray for me.
I want to be ready.
Put your hand up.
Put it up.
God bless you.
All over the place.
God bless you.
I see it.
There must be a hundred or more.
You don't have to put your hand up.
But my friend, if inwardly your soul is
telling you that you have come short, you
have not qualified for the rapture, you need
to do something about it.
Right now.
Just one more minute.
Is there anyone else?
Put your hand up.
Anyone else?
God bless you, son.
I see it.
I want you to be as serious as
you can.
I want everybody to do what brother Hibbard
tells you.
I want you to reach over and take
someone by the hand.
I don't care who they are.
And I want us to look to God
together and pray for everyone that raised their
hand, that God will acknowledge that lifting that
hand as a signal, I want help and
I want to be ready.
Would you do it?
And I want every God-fearing Christian to
pray with me right now.
Father, as we join hands with children and
as we reached out and laid hold upon
someone's hand, I pray to let the Holy
Spirit move upon those who lifted their hand.
And I pray that you would lay your
hand upon them and God bring a deliverance
spiritually to set them free from anything that
stands in the way.
In Jesus name.
Right now, if they have sins that need
to be forgiven, you said you'd forgive her
sin, you'd blot it out, put it behind
your back, never to be remembered against us
anymore forever.
And that's the only way you forgive sins
is to blot them out.
Never to be remembered.
Right now, let them forgive themselves.
Lord, if they've been unfaithful, if they've been
too busy to pray, then they're entirely too
busy to go to heaven.
Watch and pray always that you might be
accounted worthy to escape.
Let them, my God, adopt a time, a
devotion time to pray and to read God's
word.
In Jesus name.
Thank you, Lord.
Thank you, Jesus.
Believe he's done it.
Believe God's done it.
Sing that chorus together now, everyone.
Well, he's coming soon.
He's coming soon.
With joy we welcome his return.
I want to go with me.
Pray, put your hand up.