I'm so very happy that tonight I may
speak in this church.
I've never heard of this church before.
I don't know the people.
A group of you have been in the
prayer room, and that was very good, for
I needed prayer.
And I'm going to invite all of you
to work together with me tonight by praying
in the time that you listen.
It's possible you can have the horizontal and
the vertical connection in the same moment.
You can pray and say, pray that the
Lord will give that message that you need
and the people around you.
I don't know anything of you.
The Lord knows.
It is possible that there are people here
who like to go to the church, but
they have never made a decision for the
Lord Jesus.
And the Bible tells us that we have
to be born again.
Now, that is perhaps a difficult word for
some people, but born again, that means that
when you receive the Lord Jesus as your
Savior and ask him to come into your
life, into your heart, then he does in
you that tremendous miracle that you are born
into the very family of God.
And then you may say to God, Father,
my Father, and he says to you, my
child.
Now pray for the people who have never
done that before, that tonight they will see
the great joy of saying yes to Jesus.
But also pray for yourself and for the
other Christians here that the Lord will give
a greater vision than you had before.
When there's no vision, the people perish.
And we all know that we live in
a time now that there is a great
darkness and fog over the whole world.
And the great joy is when we have
the Word of God, we can see the
things as it were from God's point of
view.
Look around and be distressed.
Look within and be depressed.
Look at Jesus and be at rest.
Pray that we all get a new vision,
that we see better the Lord Jesus.
I was some time ago in a meeting
in Holland with Stanley Jones.
He is now with the Lord, you know
that.
And I was the last day of a
conference and he had a whole pile of
papers.
And he said, these papers here are written
down all the problems that you people have
brought me in these days.
I thought, my, that can be late tonight
when he will answer all these problems.
And then he said, he laid his hands
on this pile of papers and he said,
people, all these problems have one answer and
that answer is Jesus Christ.
Now one moment I thought he takes it
easy, but he was right.
He was right.
And having you have a problem here in
your heart, in your life, the answer is
Jesus Christ.
And I pray that the Lord will give
us, that our eyes are opened, that we
see him and that we see that he
is exactly the one who is your answer.
Tonight I will speak about the hiding place.
In Ephesians 1 it is written, God has
allowed us to know the secret of his
plan.
And it is this, he purposes in his
sovereign will that all human history shall be
consummated in Christ, that everything that exists in
heaven and on earth shall find its perfection
and fulfillment in him.
And here is the staggering thing, that in
all which will one day belong to him,
we have been promised a share.
Paul says in Corinthians, we are ambassadors for
Christ, representatives of Jesus Christ.
And when I saw on the TV your
astronauts, I have enjoyed very much to see
that and then I understood, these astronauts are
representatives from the earth on the moon.
And every one of you who believes in
the Lord Jesus Christ is a representative from
heaven to this world.
And that is not easy.
Now, let's be very realistic, how is the
world?
It is almost terrible to read the newspapers,
for it is terrible in the world and
everyone who has brains knows that it is
going down and down.
And now John says, who is it that
overcomes the world?
He that believes that Jesus is the Son
of God.
Do you understand what that means?
Now, you who believe that Jesus is the
Son of God, do you understand that you
are standing on the front line of a
battle so dangerous as never before?
Only because you know that Jesus is the
Son of God.
And that is why you and I need
to see the reality.
And then we have nothing to fear, for
God has not given us a spirit of
fear, but a power of love and a
sound mind.
I'm going to speak about the hiding place.
In some way, I was sorry that we
have none of these books on the book
table, but I'm very happy that I can
just tell you, or Ellen has already told
it, that you can get one when you
write to Billy Graham.
Why should I like you to read that
book?
Because John and Tibby Sherrill have written that
with me together, and you will read my
story, and then you will understand what it
means to go through a very deep and
dangerous way with Jesus.
And I was in a concentration camp where
96,000 women were killed or died, also
my sister.
And there I had a hiding place in
Jesus Christ.
And it is good that you read it,
because it is possible that you are coming
in a dangerous time.
And then you must know that that hiding
place is available, and the hiding place of
Jesus Christ is a fortress.
For when you are with Jesus, then you
stand on victory ground, whatever happens.
This book will be, over some time, a
movie.
Worldwide Pictures is making a movie of it.
And if you would like to pray for
that, I will be very happy.
I did not know what a tremendous job
it is to make a film.
I thought now that is a question of
two months, and then they have a film,
but my, my, my.
We need very much prayer.
The choice who will play my role, the
role of my sister, my father, and people,
we hope that they will be people who
understand the message that that film will bring.
Now I write a paper, The Hiding Place,
that is a letter that I send to
my friends.
If you like to have that, then you
must write to Box 2040 Orange.
And if you have forgotten it, then just
ask Ellen when you pass the, the book
table, and she will tell you that it
is Box 2040.
And why do I tell that?
Because I need prayer voice.
And in that book you will, in that
paper, you will also read about another hiding
place.
You know, when I was arrested and my
family was arrested, I had six Jews, a
few Jews and two underground workers.
And if they had been arrested with us,
they should have been killed.
But we had a secret room, a hiding
place.
And they went into that secret room, and
the Gestapo has not found it.
That was a very blessed hiding place.
And now you Americans are so, such interesting
people who are so interested.
There come many of you to Holland to
see my house.
It is no longer my house, but there's
another watchmaker who has that house, and then
they like to see the hiding place.
Now that is already a long time away.
But now, just to please you Americans, we
have built up the hiding place.
And in my paper you will read everything.
Now you will say, oh, that is such
a center, like the house of Anne Frank
and the other places where you can read,
see all the cruelties and the terrible things
of concentration camps.
No, that place in Haarlem, where I have
lived 53 years of my life, that place
will not show the cruelties, but you will
see there what the Lord has been for
us in the time that we had that
important work of saving Jewish people, several years,
and then we all were brought to prison.
And it will be a house where the
name of the Lord will be glorified.
For instance, when I was arrested, when I
was in prison, I once was brought before
my judge, and that judge had my life
in his hands.
It was wartime, and I had done very
many things that could make that I should
be sentenced to death, and my life was
in the hands of that man.
But in some way the Lord gave me
concern for that man, and also my sister
Betsy, he has talked to him about the
Lord Jesus.
And when we testified to our faith, the
Lord touched the heart of that judge, and
instead of an enemy, he became a friend.
But he had to do his job.
And so it happened that suddenly he showed
me papers found in my house, and to
my horror, I saw names, addresses, and particulars
that could mean not only my death sentence,
but the death sentence of my family and
friends who were in prison.
The judge said, can you explain these papers?
I said, no, I can't.
And I felt terrible, terrible unhappy.
But he knew better than I how dangerous
the papers were, and he turned, he opened
the door of the stove, and threw all
the papers into the flames.
My, how happy I was that moment.
If you had told me that I could
be 100% happy when I was in
a prison in the hands of an enemy,
I should never have believed that.
But when I saw these flames destroy these
horrible papers, it was as if for the
first time I understood Colossians 2.14, where
it's written that Jesus has taken the handwriting
of ordinances that was against us, has taken
them out of the way, and nailed them
at the cross.
There are dangerous papers for you and for
me.
Our sins are written down in heaven.
And if you believe it or not, once
you come for the judgment day of God,
have you rejected Jesus Christ in this life,
it will be terrible.
But if you know Jesus Christ as your
Savior and Lord, then you have nothing to
fear, for Jesus has taken your handwriting that
was against you, and has nailed him at
the cross.
You see, here is a message.
And now in that museum, we have a
photo of that judge and me after the
war, together, and the text of Colossians 2
.14 in English, German, and Dutch.
You know, I have understood that what it
means to be with Jesus, hidden in God.
That's an expression of the Bible.
Do you know what that means?
Now, this is you.
This is Jesus, and this is God.
With Jesus, hidden in God.
That means that the devil has to go
through God and through Jesus before he can
reach you.
Isn't that a joy?
So safe is it when you are hidden
in Jesus Christ, when he is your hiding
place.
In Psalm 91, we read, Lord, through all
the generations you have been our home.
In Psalm 91.1, we live within the
shadow of the Almighty, sheltered by the God
who is above all gods.
This I declare, that he alone is my
refuge, my place of safety.
He is my God, and I am trusting
him.
He orders his angels to protect you wherever
you go.
They will steady you with their hands to
keep you from stumbling.
You can safely meet a lion or step
on poisonous snakes, yes, even trample them beneath
your feet.
For the Lord says, because he loves me,
I will rescue him.
I will make him great because he trusts
in my name.
When he calls on me, I will answer.
I will be with him in trouble and
rescue him and honor him.
He orders his angels to protect you.
I can tell you these angels had a
full-time job when I was in prison.
And I have an idea that tonight they
have also a job.
I don't know full-time, but I'm sure
that here are angels in the church.
I don't see them, but they are there.
You have heard about that little paper about
our defeated enemies, and that is no demonology.
It is just what I tell going over
the world of what I have experienced of
our power over demons.
And when you read it, it is to
show how the Lord Jesus was victor.
Sometimes I give a talk about demons, but
then always I give a longer time to
tell about angels.
So don't forget that there are twice as
many angels as demons.
Only a third of the angels have fallen.
So two-thirds are still angels.
And some of these rascals have been already
sent to hell.
So there are many more angels than demons.
And when you belong to the Lord Jesus,
they are on your side.
And you stand with them on victory ground.
Once I was in Moscow, and I had
a huge red suitcase full of Russian Bibles.
I saw that the custom officer ransacked every
suitcase.
Now, I was scared.
My suitcase was standing at the end.
I thought, my, when he finds my suitcase,
and he opens it, he finds those Bibles
that is forbidden to bring, Russian Bibles into
Russia.
Will he send me to prison?
Will he send me back to Holland?
I was really afraid.
Now, I like to pray with an open
Bible.
You know, not really open always, but always
to say, Lord, this you have said, Father,
now you must do it.
And God likes that.
God likes it when you mean business with
the promises of the Bible, for He means
business.
And He likes it when you stand on
the promises of the Bible.
Now, I said, now, Lord, I cannot open
my Bible, but Lord, in Jeremiah 1 it
is written that God watches over His Word
to perform it.
Lord, these Bibles in my red suitcase, that
is Your Word.
Now, with my hand on Jeremiah 1, I
pray, Lord, watch over Your Word, my Bibles,
to smuggle them.
But that was not written by Jeremiah.
But I have found it doesn't matter at
all.
The Lord not first tells you you must
have a very sound exegesis before you can
show God what is one of His promises.
Oh, no, the Lord sees the heart.
And it doesn't matter when you don't understand
it, He understands it.
And do you know, that same moment I
saw around my red suitcase light beings.
They must have been angels.
The only time in my life that I
have seen angels.
I can't describe them, but the moment that
I saw them, they disappeared.
They didn't disappear, but for my eyes they
disappeared.
But also my fear disappeared.
I knew those who are with me are
more and stronger than those who are against
me.
And at last, when that man came to
my suitcase, he said, Is that your suitcase,
lady?
A heavy one?
Yes, sir.
He said, Oh, I am through with my
work.
I will carry it to the car of
the in-tourist.
And there that man brought that heavy suitcase
to the car.
I almost had shouted hallelujah, but I didn't
do that.
It is so good that you tell me
such thing, and I tell you, because we
must understand that we have nothing to fear,
even when the earth were removed and the
mountains thrown into the hearts of the sea.
Whatever happens, for a child of God, when
the worst happens, the best remains, and the
very best is yet to be.
I read some time ago a text in
the Amplified New Testament, and that was about
from Philippians 3.8. Now Paul has written
that letter when he was in a terrible,
dangerous prison, where his hand was chained at
the hands of two guards.
And he wrote, when he used the Amplified
New Testament, I count everything as loss compared
to the possession of the priceless privilege, the
overwhelming preciousness, the surpassing worth and supreme advantage
of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord, and of
progressively becoming more deeply and intimately acquainted with
Him.
That he wrote, and I have experienced the
same.
I have learned to know Jesus more intimately
than ever before.
And that's why I have a testimony and
can tell you about the reality of Jesus
Christ, and what it meant that I belonged
to Him.
When I was five years old, my mom
brought me to the Lord Jesus.
She told me, Now, Corrie, you may ask
Jesus to come into your heart.
And I did, and Jesus did not say,
You are too young.
He came.
And He has never let me down.
And it's a long time ago that I
was five years.
I'm now 81.
See, father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, that little one.
Have you ever told that little boy, that
little girl, that they could ask Jesus to
come into their heart?
These little ones need the Lord Jesus just
as much as you.
And the great joy is that when this
little one says, Yes, Lord Jesus, come into
my heart, then He comes.
I heard a little girl say, Lord Jesus,
I've been very naughty, but will you come
into my heart and make my heart clean
with your blood?
And Jesus came.
Don't wait till later, but do it tomorrow.
And it's a joy.
And I can tell you, I was in
the hiding place of Jesus Christ since then.
And that has meant something for me.
I remember that every evening when I was
in bed, then father came upstairs and he
took me in.
And then we talked.
That was always the time that I could
talk with him and tell him everything.
And then father laid his big hand on
my little face.
And that feeling of that hand on my
face, that was such a feeling of safety.
And I am so glad that father showed
his love on that way.
And that when you are in the hiding
place of Jesus Christ, that is a far
greater safety and also feeling of safety than
that.
Father laid his hand on my face.
You must understand that the hiding place is
available.
Jesus not only died at the cross for
your sins, but he lives and he's with
us always.
I heard a very interesting little story from
an English officer.
He was in a terrible prison in Germany.
And he saw that there was a great
chance that all these people in that prison
should earlier or later die.
And then the Lord spoke to him.
And the Lord said, Go away.
Walk out of this prison.
And trust Psalm 91.1. We live within
the shadow of the Almighty, sheltered by the
God who is above all gods.
And he was accustomed to obey the Lord.
So he did it.
And he stood up.
When he was there in a corridor, suddenly
he went to the gate.
And the guard said, Where are you going?
He said, I am under the sheltering of
the Most High.
And they thought, Most High?
That must be Adolf Hitler.
And they stood in attention and let him
pass.
He went through another corridor.
And there again were guards waiting.
They said, Hey, where are you going?
He said, I am under the protection of
the Most High.
They stood in attention and let him pass.
That man came home.
He was the only one from that prison
who is still alive.
I like that story.
I thought that was beautiful.
And of course, we have not to have
such an experience, but we have to realize
that we are under the protection of the
Most High.
Because we believe in the Lord Jesus Christ,
who is the way to God.
And when we believe that Jesus is the
Son of God, we are sheltered by the
Most High, but we are standing on the
front line.
And perhaps over some time, it will be
still more dangerous than it is now for
what is going over the world.
I don't know.
But one thing I know, I think most
of you, perhaps all of you understand, that
we live now in the time that we
can read in the newspapers the signs of
the time that Jesus is coming very soon.
When the Lord Jesus describes 1973 in Luke
21, He tells just what is happening now.
Then He says, This generation will not pass
away before all the things happen.
What is that generation?
That is the generation that will be there
when the things happen.
That is your and my generation.
It is your generation.
I don't know if I will live so
long, but I hope that I will be
there when Jesus comes.
But we also read in the Bible that
in the time before Jesus comes, there will
be a very difficult time of persecution and
danger.
And I know that some people say, Oh,
but before the persecution comes, we will be
translated.
Yes.
That was also taught the people in China.
But the tribulation came more than a million
have been tortured to death there.
And I believe that we must gather our
riches in the promises of the Bible that
we may be strong when Jesus comes and
before that time.
I believe in a translation of the church.
I believe that we will meet Him in
the sky.
But the Lord said, In the world you
will have tribulation, but be of good cheer.
I have overcome the world.
I once met Bishop Cao.
He had been 17 years in China a
bishop.
And he said, We have brought the gospel
and I'm glad we have done that.
But we have neglected one thing.
We have not told the people how to
find in the Bible promises and realities how
to be strong in times of tribulation.
Now, we are not there anymore.
Most of the clergy is killed.
I have been sent away.
And the Lord really tells the people about
how to be strong.
But He told us, Use your time to
find in the Bible the text where you
can be strong in times of hardship and
tribulations.
Since that time, I write it always down
when I read something that could help me
in the time when things are difficult.
You know, when my family and I were
arrested, we were together in the police station.
And then after that, we have not seen
each other again.
But I remember that Peter van Woorden, my
nephew, he was 17 years old.
He said, Auntie, what have you in your
shoe?
I said, Romans 8.
What have you?
He said, Ephesians 1.
Do you know what Mom has?
2 Corinthians 4.
Do you know what it meant?
We all knew what it meant to go
into a prison of the Gestapo.
And we all had just a little bit
of the Bible hidden.
My sister had hidden it under her hair.
I believe you and I must do what
Joseph did.
In the times of abundance, Joseph took all
the abundance and put it into the barns.
And when the terrible hunger came, he had
enough for everyone.
I believe our spiritual riches we must gather
in our barns, so that when there could
come a time that we had no Bible
and no preaching of the gospel and no
churches, that we have it in our hearts.
And you know, perhaps you cannot imagine that
that is possible, but I have worked in
many countries where they had no Bible.
And you do not realize that the persecution
and the tribulation over the whole world is
very severe now, in the time that you
are just enjoying your good food and the
good houses and everything.
I asked a missionary from Africa.
I said, say, tell me.
I had worked with her in Burundi.
Is it true that 10,000 people have
been killed?
She said, yes, last year and this year,
100,000.
You don't know that.
That's not in the papers.
In this time, thousands and thousands of people
are killed.
Christians are persecuted.
And you say, oh yes, but it is
not here.
But wait a moment.
You are a part of the body of
Christ.
And what Gemini said, when my feet were
whipped, my hands suffered pain.
And when you, who are the body of
Christ, know that in Russia, and in Africa,
and in China, many, many Christians suffer in
concentration camps and in prisons, then you must
pray for them.
And you must help the people who smuggle
Bibles into these countries.
And you must suffer with them.
What did I write down from the promises
of the Bible?
For instance, the text, we have not a
spirit of fear, but a spirit of power,
of love, and a sound mind.
And, you know, I can find it so
quickly because I was in a time of
tribulation when I was surrounded by people who
had had a training in cruelty.
And the Bible was forbidden.
But we had every day twice a Bible
message in that room where we were together
in a concentration camp with 700 prisoners.
And then the text from the Bible had
helped us so much about future.
Romans 8, 18.
In my opinion, whatever we have to go
through now is nothing compared with the magnificent
future God has planned for us.
We are citizens of heaven, Peter said.
Our outlook goes beyond this world to the
hopeful expectation of the coming of the Lord
Jesus Christ.
One day when He will reveal Himself in
full splendor to man, we will be filled
with the most tremendous joy.
The hairs of our head are numbered, and
God has the whole universe in His hands.
That means that God has a microscopic and
a telescopic interest in you.
Rejoice in as much as you are partakers
of Christ's sufferings, that when His glory shall
be revealed, you may be glad also with
exceeding joy.
You know, when I came for the first
time in America, I had to learn many
English words that I had not learned in
the high school in Holland.
And I remember three words.
I heard a-millennium, pre-millennium, and post
-millennium.
I had never heard of it.
And I remember that I asked Dr. Geffen,
what does that mean, a-pre-post-millennium?
He said, Corrie, that is a preposterous question.
He was right.
I'm not at all interested in what you
are, if you are an a-millenniumist, if
you believe that Jesus comes before the thousand
years, or that you do not believe post
-millennium or pre-millennium.
I don't mind what you think of it.
But do you know what I mind?
And what I'm interested in, and I hope
you are interested in, that when Jesus comes,
you are ready for his coming.
You don't know when Jesus comes.
It can take a time.
It can also be that he comes today.
Are you ready?
The Bible says, because you have a hope
like this before you, I urge you to
make certain that such a day may find
you at peace with God and men, clean
and blameless in his sight.
When he comes today, are you at peace
with God and men?
Are you clean and blameless in his sight?
Perhaps you say, No, I am not.
Then I can tell you something.
Everyone who is in this church can be
ready for Jesus' coming when he should come
tonight.
You can be right with God and men
and you can be at peace with God
and men and clean and blameless in God's
sight.
You say, Oh, but you don't know me.
Some of you think, No, I don't know
you, but I know him.
The great joy that the Bible tells He
who has started in you the good work
will perform it until the moment of his
coming.
And the Lord Jesus is willing to make
you ready for his coming when you surrender
all.
The way to the cross is the way
of repentance.
When you repent of your sins, ask forgiveness.
The Lord will forgive you and not only
that he will forgive you, but he will
cleanse your heart and fill you with the
Holy Spirit.
And the fruit of the Spirit is that
you are clean and blameless in God's sight.
Not by striving and trying hard, but because
of his power.
Some time ago, I talked about the hiding
place and two men came afterwards to me
and one said, My friend here has had
the same experience as you in a concentration
camp.
Twenty-six years he has had a hiding
place of hatred.
He has hid himself into his hatred.
And I saw in that man that he
was very dark.
I said, Man, are you willing to get
rid of that hiding place?
He said, Yes, but I have tried and
I cannot I cannot get rid of my
hatred.
I said, Do you know the Lord Jesus?
He said, Yes, I believe in the Bible.
And then I told that man what I
had experienced.
I had hatred for a man who had
been terrible cruel to my sister Betsy who
died in prison and me.
And some time ago I was in Germany
and there came that man to me and
said, Do you remember me?
I was your one of your guards in
Ravensbrück.
And I must tell you I have found
Jesus Christ as my Savior.
I have brought him all my terrible cruel
sins.
But then I have asked, God, give me
the grace that I can ask one of
my very victims forgiveness.
And now I read that you are speaking
here in this church and that's why I
came here.
Fräulein Ten Boom won't see me as forgiven.
Miss Ten Boom, will you forgive me?
And I must confess you there was hatred
and bitterness in my heart.
I remembered how my dying sister had suffered
through the cruelties of that man.
But I know from the Bible that hatred
means murder in God's eyes.
But I also know that what to do
with my murder when we confess our sins
He is faithful and just to forgive us
and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from
all our sins.
And I said, Oh Father, forgive me in
Jesus' name my hatred.
And the Lord took it away.
And then I claimed Romans 5, 5 The
love of God is yet brought into our
heart through the Holy Spirit who is given
to me, to us.
And I said, Thank you Lord Jesus that
you have brought into my heart God's love
through the Holy Spirit.
Thank you Father that your love in me
is victorious over my hatred.
And that moment my hatred disappeared and I
said, Brother, give me your hand.
I have forgiven you all.
And I can tell you you never touch
so the ocean of God's love that you
forgive your enemy.
I told that this man who had the
terrible hiding place of hatred 26 years and
that man also cashed the check of Romans
5, 5 that man also said after I
had shown him what to do and he
said, Oh Lord Jesus I thank you that
you have brought into my heart God's love
through the Holy Spirit who is given to
me.
And thank you Father that your love in
me is victorious over my hatred.
Amen.
He said, I'm free.
And that man was free.
Absolutely liberated.
And when there is in your heart anything
that you in your life anything you cannot
forgive then do the same.
Don't forget if you do not forgive you
have no forgiveness the Bible says.
Jesus says.
Can you forgive that woman that has stolen
the love of your husband?
Can you forgive that that man that has
stolen the love of your wife?
You can't.
Jesus can.
Be filled with the Holy Spirit give your
heart your life to the Lord.
Surrender all.
Ask the Lord to come into your heart
and then claim Romans 5.5 and say
what I will again repeat because I hope
it will stay in your remembrance when you
need it.
And say, Thank you Lord Jesus that you
have brought into my heart God's love through
the Holy Spirit who is given to me.
And thank you Father that your love in
me is victorious over my resentment and hatred.
And you will experience that you have you
forgive.
And forgiveness makes you so free and it
helps you also to make the people free
that you have forgiven.
The Lord is my hiding place.
This man had a hiding place of hatred.
Some people think that they can have a
hiding place of drugs of smoking of alcohol.
And I hope that when there are people
here tonight who are in the wrong hiding
place that you will understand that Jesus has
said Come unto me all who are happy
laden and I will give you rest.
And when you are in the wrong hiding
place you are happy laden.
And the Lord is willing to make you
free and take you in his hiding place.
And I can tell you that the worst
can happen in your life.
The best remains.
And the very best is yet to be.
Some people have decent hiding places but they
are not the real hiding place.
I met a lady and she was in
a country club and that country club was
her hiding place.
Some have money.
I found a woman who had a hiding
place in her sickness.
Just she had hit herself in sickness.
She was not willing to be healed.
Criticism.
Some people feel a kind of inferiority feeling.
And then they try by criticism to bring
down the people around them.
They are a little bit higher.
I am so glad that in this translation
of Philips in Romans 14 is written don't
criticize somebody else's servant.
Especially when that somebody else is God.
He is able to make him a servant
that is satisfactory.
Yes, there is very much criticism of children
of God among each other.
Let not criticism be your hiding place.
I saw a lady who was not happy
in her home and she found a hiding
place in a prayer meeting and a Bible
study group.
Now that's good but at last she went
almost every evening.
It was just that she did not understand
that her place was at home to obey
the Lord and be a good mother and
wife.
But she tried to find a hiding place
that was very pious but not the right
thing.
For you know when you follow Jesus the
love and obedience you can see in Jesus.
Jesus stood in obedience to God and that's
why he took up his cross for you
and me and we have to be obedient
to God and do what the Lord tells
us to do.
And now it is a question of being
together with the Lord.
It is not some people are going from
battery to battery.
They come to the church to recharge their
battery but that is not that is not
what abiding in him.
I tried to tell someone you must not
be a bus but a trolley.
You know what I mean?
A trolley is always connected with a source
of power but a bus must recharge must
always get gasoline again.
Now I hope that tonight you will so
absolute surrender to the Lord that you become
a trolley.
But that means that you have to surrender
all.
Did you surrender all?
Do you understand that the potter cannot form
the sleigh if it is not totally laid
in his hand also the shelf behind the
door.
Tear it down.
Throw it out.
Don't use it anymore for Jesus because wants
your dwelling from the ceiling to the floor.
He even wants that little shelf you keep
behind the door.
Abide in him.
When you have never done it before then
make at first a seeking for the Lord
Jesus.
Some people think that that's not necessary.
I asked a lady that said, have you
ever received Jesus as your savior?
No, I asked her, are you a child
of God?
She said, sure.
I go every Sunday to the church.
I said, now that's very good but that
is not sufficient.
A mouse born in a biscuit tin is
therefore not yet a biscuit.
You know what it means?
To be in this building does not make
you a child of God.
Jesus loves you.
And I said, but will you ask him
to come into your life?
Oh, she said, he has so often answered
my prayers already.
I love him.
I said, yes, but now listen, there was
a young man who met a young girl
and they loved each other.
And after some time, that boy said, will
you receive me as your fiancée?
And the girl said, oh, we have had
such nice dates and you gave me such
a nice present with Christmas.
The boy said, I will talk about that
another time.
Now I like to have one word of
you.
Will you receive me, yes or no?
And when the girl said, yes, that one
little word made them happy.
And when it is good, they belong together
for their life.
And now you know the Lord Jesus already,
but now the Lord Jesus asked you, will
you receive me as your Savior and Lord?
Then I will be your hiding place.
And when you say, yes, Lord, that is
a decision.
Then from that moment on, they confessed, no,
not always.
A movie star said, when I serve the
devil, he left me with peace, but after
I have, I am served from Jesus, the
sith of God.
war started, I can tell you, when you
are in this time a follower of Jesus
Christ, a soldier of Jesus Christ, when you
even only believe that Jesus is the Son
of God, then you stand on the front
line of the battle, and on the front
line of the battle you fall above.
And that's why it is good to understand
that your hiding place in Jesus is a
very strong, a very strong hiding place.
It is from there on that you can
fight and defend, and that you can do
your duty as child of God, as soldier
of Jesus Christ.
Oh, I wish I had three other evenings
to talk to you, but just see it
in the Bible, and have a talk with
the Lord.
And when you are an unvictorious Christian, then
come totally in the hiding place of Jesus
Christ, and he will make you victorious, for
Jesus is always victorious.
You have only to keep a right relationship
with him, and his victorious life will find
you and go through you and touch other
people, Roy Hessian says.
Those who are with you are more than
those who are against you.
Do you know that you are very precious
in God's eyes?
Do you know when you say the first
time yes to Jesus that the angels rejoiced?
So important are you in God's eyes, and
that's why I am going to invite you
tonight, just to say your yes to Jesus,
as a decision.
But a walk to the cross is through
repentance.
When you come to Jesus, you must come
with your sins, and ask forgiveness, and He
will forgive and cleanse you.
And then take all the promises of the
Bible.
You are no beggar, you are a king's
child.
You are a child, a son of the
king of kings.
And the Lord Himself will make you ready
through His Holy Spirit for the great end
battle that is coming very soon.
And in the meantime He will fill you
and surround you with love, the love of
God that never fails.
And that is what you need, not only
when you are standing in the battle, but
also in your schools, in your kitchen, in
your office, in your hospital, wherever you are
in this world.
Where God has called you, you are a
representative from heaven in this world, in a
time that the world is very needy.
And may the love, mercy, and power of
Jesus Christ be multiplied to you during these
days of titanic spiritual warfare.
The Lord wins and is able to hold
you up and cause you to triumph in
the world, in all situations that you may
face.
Hallelujah.
Amen.
We pray.
Thank you, Lord, for what you have said.
And we know, Lord, that when you have
spoken, we must give an answer.
Now, Lord, some of us have loved you
already a long time.
They have read the Bible.
But tonight you have said to them, Come
unto me.
I will give you rest.
And, Lord, listen who says now, Yes, Jesus,
yes.
I am a sinner.
I bring you, confess you all my sins.
I will repent.
Lord Jesus, come into my heart.
Thank you, Lord, that you came.
Now, Lord, show them that you are their
hiding place.
But, you have spoken to us who know
you already a long time.
And, Lord, I believe that this evening you
will give us the privilege to surrender again.
And I will do it, Lord.
I know that I am standing on the
front line together with all these children of
yours who believe that you, Jesus, are the
Son of God.
And they are standing on the front line.
Now, listen, Lord, who says, Jesus, I surrender
all.
Lock, stock, and bell, everything, hundred percent.
Lord, take my life and let it be
consecrated, Lord, to Thee.
Oh, Lord, what can you do with a
total surrendered child of yours?
Lord, I'm so glad that they can talk
with you and that you are there and
that you have always time to listen.
Lord, show us what sins there are in
our lives.
If there's someone that we have not forgiven,
and I praise and thank you, Lord, that
there is an ocean of your love available
through the Holy Spirit.
Thank you, Lord.
Hallelujah.
Amen.